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Your favourite unsolved mystery?

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    #1952
    megabantz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭megabantz


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    I had to check your profile to ensure I don't actually know you as I also use DuckDuckGo and I also have big issues with Google!


    in fairness anyone who uses duckduckgo has issues with google etc etc


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    #1953
    Dohnjoe
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    J Mysterio wrote: »
    I had to check your profile to ensure I don't actually know you as I also use DuckDuckGo and I also have big issues with Google!

    Why, what do you realistically think is going to happen?


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    #1954
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    Why, what do you realistically think is going to happen?

    Well, nothing really. I just dont want to feed the beast and allow it to harvest my data without any effort.


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    #1955
    Dohnjoe
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    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Well, nothing really. I just dont want to feed the beast and allow it to harvest my data without any effort.

    Fair enough, I'm just too lazy to mildly inconvenience myself to stick it to the man


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    #1956
    MadDog76
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    Ricky McCormick's notes, strange one .........

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_McCormick%27s_encrypted_notes


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    #1957
    MadDog76
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    The Brabant Killers ......... the mad thing about this case is if they aren't caught by 10th November 2015 (12 days from now) then they're free forever.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers


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    #1958
    IvaBigWun
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    This documentary on the death of Ptincess Di was intended for a cinema release but was then banned in the UK.

    Thankfully the full thing is now on Youtube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-c1ouaehwg


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    #1959
    Carlo Ancelotti
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    I guess the most obvious one is Jack the Ripper


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    #1960
    IvaBigWun
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    Carlo Ancelotti wrote: »
    I guess the most obvious one is Jack the Ripper

    Mentioned numerous times already.

    Could we ask that if you're new to this thread that you take a cursory read through it first. Or at least the first few pages of it where many of the most well known ones popped up.


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    #1961
    Maximus Alexander
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    I reckon Shergar, Jill Dando and the Lochness Monster.


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    #1962
    MadDog76
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    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    I reckon Shergar, Jill Dando and the Lochness Monster.

    Fairly sure they've all been mentioned ......... numerous times.


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    #1963
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Fairly sure they've all been mentioned ......... numerous times.

    I read the whole thread and didn't see any of them mentioned.


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    #1964
    MadDog76
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    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    I read the whole thread and didn't see any of them mentioned.

    :D I get ya, very good!!! :D


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    #1965
    kylith
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    The thread title isn't 'unique mysteries' it's 'your favourite unsolved mystery', so I really don't see the problem with them being repeated.


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    #1966
    MadDog76
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    kylith wrote: »
    The thread title isn't 'unique mysteries' it's 'your favourite unsolved mystery', so I really don't see the problem with them being repeated.

    Good point well put!


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    #1967
    dubstarr
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    kylith wrote: »
    The thread title isn't 'unique mysteries' it's 'your favourite unsolved mystery', so I really don't see the problem with them being repeated.

    Plus the thread has been going for 4 years you are going to get repeats.


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    #1968
    Tarzana2
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    dubstarr wrote: »
    Plus the thread has been going for 4 years you are going to get repeats.

    It's easy to do a search though. I don't have much problem with repeats but there a way to check if yours has been mentioned before. This thread is interesting and so very readable so the fact that it is four years old doesn't really matter.


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    #1969
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm sure it's been mentioned before, and probably by me, but I'll say it again...the Charles Walton murder was one story that always stayed with me. Maybe cos I was about 10 when I first read of it, and it was during a phase when I was pretty receptive of any good chill about ghosts, witchcraft, UFOs, spontaneous human combustion etc.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Walton_(murder_victim)


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    #1970
    HugsiePie
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    I always find this one a bit peculiar....

    https://vimeo.com/78337126 (The last days of Peter Bergman)


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    #1971
    Bongalongherb
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    An unsolved mystery from Nevada US regarding this hiker in video below looking for a strange cave he found on his previous hike.

    He done this trek a few times before, but his last trek was the last time he was ever seen alive. The search and rescue folks only found his mobile phone but his body was never found even though he was armed with a hand gun.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdrY-2sROQ



    My favourite one of all time is the 'Dyatlov Pass incident'.


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    #1972
    Valentina
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    Bongalongherb wrote: »
    An unsolved mystery from Nevada US regarding this hiker in video below looking for a strange cave he found on his previous hike.

    He done this trek a few times before, but his last trek was the last time he was ever seen alive. The search and rescue folks only found his mobile phone but his body was never found even though he was armed with a hand gun.

    Interesting story. Does M cave even exist, I wonder?

    Someone put an annotated map up here showing where Kenny was hiking. (if you can't see the notes, refresh the map.)


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    #1973
    Bongalongherb
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    A bit of a mystery for sure as the search and rescue folks searched every inch of that mining shaft and nothing. You would think that seeing that his phone was found there that he would have been found there or around the near location area. Don't forget he was armed as well so it's a mystery where this guy is now.


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    #1974
    Mountainsandh
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    Could he have just staged everything ? It seems odd that he would drop his phone at all. Was everything recorded on the phone (since we have the recording) ? Can phones record that much footage ? 21 min I think. Was the phone on the tripod maybe ?
    He did mention mountain lions, and he could have fainted or fallen asleep from exhaustion, so he's probably in the confines of one of these caves, but it still seems unlikely that a mountain lion could have dragged his body some distance without leaving a trail for rescuers to find (and wildlife specialists are mentioned in an article too).


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    #1975
    Mountainsandh
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    I was reading this week about mysterious markings in Kazakhstan, similar to the nazca lines. Their exact purpose is a mystery, but those studying them seem to think that they were not intended to be seen from above, and that they were probably related to some astronomical function.
    http://qz.com/537812/even-nasa-is-perplexed-by-these-otherworldly-8000-year-old-formations-in-kazakhstan/


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    #1976
    Bongalongherb
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    Mountainsandh wrote: »
    Could he have just staged everything ? It seems odd that he would drop his phone at all. Was everything recorded on the phone (since we have the recording) ? Can phones record that much footage ? 21 min I think. Was the phone on the tripod maybe ?
    He did mention mountain lions, and he could have fainted or fallen asleep from exhaustion, so he's probably in the confines of one of these caves, but it still seems unlikely that a mountain lion could have dragged his body some distance without leaving a trail for rescuers to find (and wildlife specialists are mentioned in an article too).

    That's the mystery about this guy Kenny. I reckon he was using a camcorder because the zoom seemed too powerful to be from a smart-phone. If he was bit by a rattlesnake or tarantula spider I'd doubt very much he would have made it far from where his phone was found as experienced hikers will always make it a priority to lock-down their equipment especially a communications device.

    There's no knowing what happened the poor lad, but the main communication device to be the only thing found could connect to foul play, maybe. Or the phone did slip from his person and that he probably found the cave and never came out, wherever that cave was.

    PS: That video recording was not the time he vanished, it was the next hike he took 1 month later that was when he went missing on the same trek.


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    #1977
    Maximus Alexander
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    Mountainsandh wrote: »
    Could he have just staged everything ? It seems odd that he would drop his phone at all. Was everything recorded on the phone (since we have the recording) ? Can phones record that much footage ? 21 min I think. Was the phone on the tripod maybe ?
    He did mention mountain lions, and he could have fainted or fallen asleep from exhaustion, so he's probably in the confines of one of these caves, but it still seems unlikely that a mountain lion could have dragged his body some distance without leaving a trail for rescuers to find (and wildlife specialists are mentioned in an article too).

    That video is recorded on a camera, not a phone, and is not from the day he disappeared. He went home and posted that to YouTube, them some time later (weeks, months) he went back for another attempt to find the cave and was never seen again.


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    #1978
    alb
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    7 years ago to the day the bitcoin whitepaper was announced and the software a couple of months later. Today it's still chugging along with a total value of $4.8 billion. The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains an unsolved mystery.


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    #1979
    Mountainsandh
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    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    That video is recorded on a camera, not a phone, and is not from the day he disappeared. He went home and posted that to YouTube, them some time later (weeks, months) he went back for another attempt to find the cave and was never seen again.

    Ahhh ok, thanks, I hadn't got that !


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    #1980
    Maximus Alexander
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    Mountainsandh wrote: »
    Ahhh ok, thanks, I hadn't got that !

    Yeah I had to dig around to find more information but it's pretty thin on the ground, which makes me wonder about its authenticity.


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    #1981
    Bongalongherb
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    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    That video is recorded on a camera, not a phone, and is not from the day he disappeared. He went home and posted that to YouTube, them some time later (weeks, months) he went back for another attempt to find the cave and was never seen again.

    I thought I read before that it was 2 days later he went back looking for the cave. There is some confusing information out there regarding the days after that video above.


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