Your favourite unsolved mystery?

Wacker The Attacker · 19-08-2013 01:23PM

I believe that the evidence used to convict Joseph O'Reilly was shabby.

Its not unreasonable to assume that he should have been acquitted as the evidence fails to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he murdered his wife.

I understand that doesn't constitute an unsolved mystery but it is one where the wrong conclusion may have been drawn.

--Kaiser-- · 19-08-2013 02:31PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist’s desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Delhi, Moscow etc.

At the moment there is no ascertained relation or common trait among the people that have dreamed of seeing this man. Moreover, no living man has ever been recognized as resembling the man of the portrait by the people who have seen this man in their dreams.

Ever see this man in your dreams?

http://www.thisman.org/

Hoax. Easily found out if you'd used a magical tool called Google
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-man-ever-dream-this-man

IvaBigWun · 19-08-2013 04:50PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Hoax. Easily found out if you'd used a magical tool called Google
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-man-ever-dream-this-man

Mmm, Google.

Some people began investigating the origin of Thisman.org and identified Italian sociologist and marketing strategist Andrea Natella as the creator of the website. It was also revealed that Natella runs an advertising agency called Guerilla Marketing, which designs subversive hoaxes and creates weird art projects exploring pornography, politics, and advertising.

The site was briefly acquired by horror movie production company Ghost House Pictures, in promotion for an upcoming film titled This Man, written and directed by American filmmaker Bryan Bertino.

Some incredible guerilla marketing right there!

sReq | uTeK · 19-08-2013 05:07PM

coleria wrote: »

This was on the Discovery channel the last day,

One of the guys was fishing on the back of the boat and either slipped or caught a big fish/shark and got pulled into the water, he wasn't a good swimmer so his brother (a good swimmer) jumped in to save him, meanwhile the Helmsman turned the boat around to pick them up, (from the GPS the boat made a sudden turn) and more than likely the sail swung around and knocked him into the water aswell, then the three men floated in the water and watched the boat sail away. horrible way to go

That's a theory and what the coroner reported but for some people it doesn't fit.

They guy they say was hit with a sail was a sailor for 30 years, it would be like forgetting your car has a door.

cometogether · 19-08-2013 08:12PM

Was casually flicking through missing persons reports (as you do), when I came across this, really bizarre I think http://www.missingpersons.ie/missing/view-missing-person.html?mp=37. Really surprised too that I haven't heard of it before!

Mardy Bum · 19-08-2013 08:35PM

cometogether wrote: »

Was casually flicking through missing persons reports (as you do), when I came across this, really bizarre I think http://www.missingpersons.ie/missing/view-missing-person.html?mp=37. Really surprised too that I haven't heard of it before!

Another person went missing without a trace a year before that in the same town. Very strange.

cometogether · 19-08-2013 08:39PM

Mardy Bum wrote: »

Another person went missing without a trace a year before that in the same town. Very strange.

Nuts. Do they reckon they're linked?

Mardy Bum · 19-08-2013 08:42PM

cometogether wrote: »

Nuts. Do they reckon they're linked?

Not too much online about it but I would say that there must be a link because of the nature of the disappearances. No passports taken, homes were left normally and only the cars were taken in both cases and neither car has been found either.

cometogether · 19-08-2013 08:45PM

Mardy Bum wrote: »

Not too much online about it but I would say that there must be a link because of the nature of the disappearances. No passports taken, homes were left normally and only the cars were taken in both cases and neither car has been found either.

The cars not being found seems particularly odd

cml387 · 19-08-2013 09:07PM

cometogether wrote: »

The cars not being found seems particularly odd

Funny you should mention this mystery.

Here you go

Bill Fenessey's car was found in the Blackwater by the local sub aqua last October

cometogether · 19-08-2013 09:13PM

cml387 wrote: »

Funny you should mention this mystery.

Here you go

Bill Fenessey's car was found in the Blackwater by the local sub aqua last October

And was it him in there?

tayto lover · 19-08-2013 09:53PM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I believe that the evidence used to convict Joseph O'Reilly was shabby.

Its not unreasonable to assume that he should have been acquitted as the evidence fails to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he murdered his wife.

I understand that doesn't constitute an unsolved mystery but it is one where the wrong conclusion may have been drawn.

1. He disappeared from work and got others to cover for him.
2. He had a secret girlfriend.
3. He sent E-mails to his sister saying how much he hated his wife.
4. His mobile phone was traced at the time of the murder to and from his home back to his workplace.

Good enough for me and the jury.

tallaghtmick · 20-08-2013 08:59AM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I believe that the evidence used to convict Joseph O'Reilly was shabby.

Its not unreasonable to assume that he should have been acquitted as the evidence fails to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he murdered his wife.

I understand that doesn't constitute an unsolved mystery but it is one where the wrong conclusion may have been drawn.

Get off Boards Joe!

Also relevant username is relevant.

downonthefarm · 20-08-2013 03:44PM

Who shot Martin cahill and who started the Stardust fire

IvaBigWun · 20-08-2013 05:35PM

downonthefarm wrote: »

Who shot Martin cahill

The IRA.

No mystery there.

eireannBEAR · 20-08-2013 05:42PM

Richey edwards from the manic street preachers he left a welsh hotel one morning(18 years ago) and was never seen again!

did he jump in to a river? or is he in some fans basement?

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRichey_Edwards&ei=jakTUpqmC8LOhAfDtYCgBg&usg=AFQjCNEPjNtqmpXg82A5EJFmj9FHqLXxGw&sig2=WoRsGwysIu9o-jp6ycjlqw&bvm=bv.50952593,d.ZG4

almighty1 · 20-08-2013 06:38PM

cometogether wrote: »

And was it him in there?

Yep

downonthefarm · 20-08-2013 06:41PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

The IRA.

No mystery there.

i thought they said they did then they said they didnt

Hootanany · 20-08-2013 06:57PM

I thought it was the Gob Stopper that did it.

IvaBigWun · 20-08-2013 07:25PM

downonthefarm wrote: »

i thought they said they did then they said they didnt

A splinter group maybe? I thought it was confirmed to be IRA related.

downonthefarm · 20-08-2013 07:49PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

A splinter group maybe? I thought it was confirmed to be IRA related.

oh yeah maybe!it was massive at the time

Highwayman1888 · 20-08-2013 09:21PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_and_Sabina_Eriksson

This has probably been put up already but anyway it certainly creeped me out...

eireannBEAR · 21-08-2013 09:33AM

Highwayman1888 wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_and_Sabina_Eriksson

This has probably been put up already but anyway it certainly creeped me out...

The only mystery here, is how did she only get 5 years!!

I Heart Internet · 21-08-2013 10:47AM

Highwayman1888 wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_and_Sabina_Eriksson

This has probably been put up already but anyway it certainly creeped me out...

That's very weird. And I note the Irish connection. One of the twins had been living with a partner and kids in Co. Cork before her twin (who was living in the USA) came visiting and they both went to the UK!

TheBegotten · 21-08-2013 05:52PM

Couldn't see this on the first twenty pages, so...

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? nevermind, post #629
Also, why are there so few monotremes in the world?

IvaBigWun · 21-08-2013 06:08PM

More "WTF?" than unsolved mystery

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10254431/DNA-tests-cannot-distinguish-identical-twins-on-rape-charge.html

A pair of identical twins who cannot be told apart by their DNA have both appeared in court charged over the rape of a woman.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-08-2013 06:56PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

More "WTF?" than unsolved mystery

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10254431/DNA-tests-cannot-distinguish-identical-twins-on-rape-charge.html

That has happened here too, IIRC in Sligo

AH answer, Thunderdome "two men enter" etc

Capt'n Midnight · 22-08-2013 07:12PM

Dyatlov Pass incident

It took place in 1959.
In the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.

The after effects of WWII were still being felt.
32,292 Polish people were repatriated from Russia that year, never mind what was going on in the gulags.

Crackle · 22-08-2013 07:49PM

cometogether wrote: »

And was it him in there?

It was http://www.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/news/remains-in-river-confirmed-as-missing-bill-fennessy-29290391.html

Average-Ro · 23-08-2013 11:08AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Dyatlov Pass incident.

Coincidentally, look what I came across this morning.

Your favourite unsolved mystery?

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