Your favourite unsolved mystery?

storker · 22-08-2011 12:23am

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

OR!!!!! As some ancient astronaut theorsists believe... ancient carvings of Turtles represent modern day fighter jets!

Funny you should say that...I was at an airshow once, and as I watched an F-16 blast down the flightline at full afterburner I thought..."Wow...it could almost be a real turtle..."

Stork

tallaghtmick · 22-08-2011 12:42am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

The wow signal found in space in the 70s that has never been found since

Monty Burnz · 22-08-2011 1:05am

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

The Portuguese traveller Antonio de Montezinos brought back reports that some of the Lost Tribes were living among the Native Americans of the Andes in South America. In response to this, Menasseh ben Israel, a noted rabbi of Amsterdam, wrote on December 23, 1649:
... I think that the Ten Tribes live not only there ... but also in other lands scattered everywhere; these never did come back to the Second Temple and they keep till this day still the Jewish Religion ...

I think that may help explain the hebrew carving in Rio

Why would Jewish people be making inscriptions about the Phoenicians, and leave not a trace of themselves?

Forgery sounds like a pretty convincing explanation I think.

SdoowSirhc · 22-08-2011 1:07am

storker wrote: »

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

OR!!!!! As some ancient astronaut theorsists believe... ancient carvings of Turtles represent modern day fighter jets!

Funny you should say that...I was at an airshow once, and as I watched an F-16 blast down the flightline at full afterburner I thought..."Wow...it could almost be a real turtle..."

Stork

Yes , one can observe the turtlesque features of fighter jet quite easily

Cill Dara Abu · 22-08-2011 1:08am

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

lol bugs bunny...

SdoowSirhc · 22-08-2011 1:11am

Monty Burnz wrote: »

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

The Portuguese traveller Antonio de Montezinos brought back reports that some of the Lost Tribes were living among the Native Americans of the Andes in South America. In response to this, Menasseh ben Israel, a noted rabbi of Amsterdam, wrote on December 23, 1649:
... I think that the Ten Tribes live not only there ... but also in other lands scattered everywhere; these never did come back to the Second Temple and they keep till this day still the Jewish Religion ...

I think that may help explain the hebrew carving in Rio

Why would Jewish people be making inscriptions about the Phoenicians, and leave not a trace of themselves?

Forgery sounds like a pretty convincing explanation I think.

my only concern is how did the Jews cross the atlantic ... Unless they went northwest from Europe and traveled down north america and arrived in central American or north America like in the book of mormon

Gillington · 22-08-2011 4:27am

Trey Uninterested Conductor wrote: »

The Dyatlov Pass Incident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass

The Lead Mask Case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Masks_Case

The Taman Shud Case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case

The Taman Shud one is baffling

Toots · 22-08-2011 4:50am

The Crawford Family Murder. I read a book about it when I lived in Australia, and always wondered what became of the father.

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

Capt'n Midnight · 22-08-2011 8:43am

Gillington wrote: »

The Taman Shud one is baffling

This was just 3 years after the end of WWII , millions of people displaced, start of cold war, lots of peoples looking for a new ID

Emiko · 22-08-2011 8:59am

The Ummo UFO affair is a weird one, even for an elaborate hoax.

The King of Moo · 22-08-2011 10:24am

The Murder of Isidor Fink

Classic locked-room mystery. Fink was found shot dead but there was no gun in the room, the door was locked from the inside and there was no other way to leave the room.
I always loved using this in my English-language classes to get people discussing it.

Though the murder was never solved, police later came up with an explanation that's generally accepted as what happened, though no-one knows why Fink would have been murdered.

What probably happened...

The murderer knocked on the door, Fink answered and the murderer stayed in the hallway while shooting Fink through the open doorway, then ran away. Then (the least plausible part), the dying Fink managed to lock the door before he died.

smash · 22-08-2011 10:55am

The King of Moo wrote: »

What probably happened...
The murderer knocked on the door, Fink answered and the murderer stayed in the hallway while shooting Fink through the open doorway, then ran away. Then (the least plausible part), the dying Fink managed to lock the door before he died.

I would have said the murderer rang the door bell, Fink came to the hall and was shot through the letter box?

foxyboxer · 22-08-2011 11:02am

The Higgs-Boson

Jess16 · 22-08-2011 11:09am

Will whoever's watching Fair City please stop. RTÉ are making more shows because of you

Spear · 22-08-2011 11:12am

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

Maybe not for the squeamish given the main suspect Bevan Spencer von Einems claims.

tfitzgerald · 22-08-2011 11:15am

Flight 19 disappeared in 1945 off the coast of Miami on a clear day and what really gets me is one of the rescue planes sent out to look for them also vanished with out a trace

youcancallmeal · 22-08-2011 11:33am

I always wondered about the Philadelphia Experiment. Definitely sounds like something the US military would of been messing around with during WW2.

Not a mystery but its also mad what they got up to in Project Mkultra

Obelisk · 22-08-2011 11:44am

youcancallmeal wrote: »

Not a mystery but its also mad what they got up to in Project Mkultra

Mad alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kidaUuSt3w

Near 35 years ago. Imagine the technology & techniques that they are using now...

skylight1987 · 22-08-2011 12:06pm

i had never heard of the dyatlov pass incident or the boy in box . the boy in the box is sad and tragic but the dyatlov pass is down right scary

My name is URL · 22-08-2011 12:12pm

UVB-76

UVB-76 (sometimes referred to as UZB-76, but recently MDZhB) is the call sign of a shortwave radio station that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz (AM suppressed lower sideband). It is known among radio listeners by the nickname The Buzzer. It features a short, monotonous buzz tone, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. The station has been observed since around 1982. On rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place. Despite much speculation, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown to the public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YatKCf42TrM

bc dub · 22-08-2011 12:14pm

9/11
The brinks allied robbery
Shells backhanders to Bertie and Ray Burke in the 80's

sunflower27 · 22-08-2011 12:14pm

The Mary Celeste is a good one. Madeleine McCann is another.

JonBenet Ramsay murder...who wrote the ransom note? Was it the mother?

Growing up, the story of the missing Beaumont children always scared me. Probably not heard of so much over here.

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

sunflower27 · 22-08-2011 12:29pm

skylight1987 wrote: »

i had never heard of the dyatlov pass incident or the boy in box . the boy in the box is sad and tragic but the dyatlov pass is down right scary

My sentiments exactly.

I'd not heard of either, but that Dyatlov Pass case is really, really disturbing. Why the hell would they head off out into the cold in their underwear... and the tongue. What the hell? :eek:

Very interesting thread this.

The King of Moo · 22-08-2011 12:35pm

smash wrote: »

I would have said the murderer rang the door bell, Fink came to the hall and was shot through the letter box?

Ooh, that's a good theory. I don't know if the door had a letterbox or not (might have had one of the American-style outdoor ones, but if it did have a letterbox that'd be a good explanation.

sunflower27 · 22-08-2011 12:37pm

Not sure if this youtube link of the Dyatlov Pass case has been posted, but worth a look if anyone is interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ZtkPOBhPE

This is better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pp6POvlER4

Teyla Emmagan · 22-08-2011 12:54pm

Spear wrote: »

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

Maybe not for the squeamish given the main suspect Bevan Spencer von Einems claims.

Awful, specially the death of poor Richard Kelvin (linked article). Poor kid.

Killer Wench · 22-08-2011 12:57pm

smash wrote: »

I would have said the murderer rang the door bell, Fink came to the hall and was shot through the letter box?

Or, the murderer had a key to the room. Was sitting in the room when Fink arrived home, shot him, walked over the body, and locked the door on his way out.

Monty Burnz · 22-08-2011 12:59pm

Killer Wench wrote: »

Or, the murderer had a key to the room. Was sitting in the room when Fink arrived home, shot him, walked over the body, and locked the door on his way out.

Door was locked from the inside though?

Killer Wench · 22-08-2011 1:03pm

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Door was locked from the inside though?

But, what does locked from the inside actually mean? A dead bolt or a chain? You can unchain a door using a long sturdy object. A dead bolt during this time may have easily been opened with a slim instrument sliding between the bolt and the catch. I've managed to unlock a few doors that were technically locked from the inside.

Sooopie · 22-08-2011 1:04pm

Philip Kearns - wonder what ever happened to him, poor kid

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