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Without a little mystery, life would be pretty dull. So when we come across something strange or unexplainable, it’s only human to speculate, create wild theories, or even suspect something supernatural might be behind it.
But sometimes, all those mysteries really need is time. That’s what one Reddit thread proved, as users shared baffling cases that finally got their answers. From unexplained disappearances to supposed alien encounters and famous crimes, here are some of the most fascinating ones.
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#1
No one knew how the islanders of Easter Island moved their giant heads from one place to another. When asked how they did it, the islanders said they walked them. This sounded impossible and silly to Europeans so they ignored it. But a team of archeologists and native islanders a few years back made their own Easter Island head, tied 4 big ropes around it, then had a dozen guys on each rope pull the head side to side. It rocked corner to corner causing it to "walk" forward down the road.
So definitely not aliens.
Pyla 1 month ago
PBS Nova showed a whole show on the work done to move these. Pretty fascinating.
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LookASquirrel 1 month ago
Please explain this concept to my husband. It works with giant boxes too.
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Joe Reaves 1 month ago
The amount of s**t we would have known decades or centuries ago if we actually listened to non white people... When they finally found Erebus and Terror they were exactly where locals had been telling us since they vanished. But the locals had also suggested that the expedition may have resorted to eating the dead (evidence has been found of this) and no gentleman would do that so clearly it was rubbish ...
Becky Samuel 1 month ago
Also the amount of stuff that archaeologists were calling 'ritual objects' that have since been identified by showing them to a woman.
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Rich Black 1 month ago
the head they made was not full size. the actual ones are twice a long, and half is underground. they probably rolled them on logs. they are all downhill from where they were chiselled.
Jake Bertz 1 month ago
To be fair, until you've actually seen it, someone telling you they walked a massive stone does sound pretty silly.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
And there's that song and dance number from The Wiz - "Walk on Down, Walk on Down the Road".
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#2
I still don’t know why everyone asks “why don’t we have flying cars yet?”
Think about the average American driver, now give them a pilot’s license.
Jane Doe-Doe 1 month ago
Flying cars is a horrifying concept, if 2 or more cars crashed mid air just think of the carnage on the ground, bodies, thousands of car parts raining down, there would be no survivors of car crashes
Moving Enigma 1 month ago
I think you made a typo as his name is Elon Pus.
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David Paterson 1 month ago
The efficiency increases as the diameter of the rotor increases. Fuel economy. So the long blades of a helicopter means that a helicopter requires much less power for given lift than a flying car.
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
Although, a land car needs surprisingly little lift at all ...
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#3
The Roanoke colony wasn't destroyed by natives or kidnapped by aliens. They joined the local native tribe. We can tell because people in the tribe were born with blonde hair and blue eyes for decades after the colonials went "missing".
Jeremy James 1 month ago
In, "Lies My Teacher Told Me," the author suggests that this was known at the time, but the story was suppressed. Colonists defecting to the tribes was seen as a threat, because it suggested that the Native way of life was in some way preferable to the European.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
It was living as Indians that was found to be preferable to dying as Europeans.
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To be fair if the only evidence is kids with genetic traits that came from white people, that on its own does not prove voluntary joining, or disprove kidnapping. Genetic traits are preserved equally well through voluntary and involuntary conception.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
But it still proves they integrated with the local tribes, voluntarily or not, in order to survive. For all the colonists knew, they had been abandoned by their country and, unless they wanted to die, they had to figure out how to live, because there was no way they could build a seaworthy ship on their own that could make the journey back to England. They were between a rock and a hard place. What would YOU, or any of us, do in that situation? I personally would want to live, even if it meant living a hard life. Because you never know, you might run into another European at some point, and maybe they can be your way back home—-unless your new life has now become your home and you don’t want to leave. Remember, the colonists did have Native American friends who could have taken them in. Too many years passed before the English came back to look for them, and who knows how far away they have migrated by then. DNA testing could possibly answer some questions, but it would be a huge project to identify so many people to test. Not on the British side, because there is identifiable family members there, but on the US side, as many of the eastern tribes dispersed and joined other groups themselves.
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JenC 1 month ago
They even left a note - carved the word Croatan into a tree. The Croatoan were a local tribe they were friendly with.
LizzieBoredom 1 month ago
"What does the sign say?". "It says Croatans. They must be eating a lot of salad".
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Laura Gillette 1 month ago
Also I think they left "Croatoan" carved on a tree, and the nearby tribe they joined lived on an Island called Croatoan, or something like that. Like, they tried to make it really obvious.
Blackmoon The Dragon 1 month ago
The school system still teaches that they went missing. I don't know why they haven't changed it... probably for some interesting reasons. The government doesnt like to say they're wrong a whole lot.
Jenna Kay 1 month ago
Textbooks are expensive. When I was in middle school, the history book was so out of date that our teacher just said to ignore parts of it. When I became a teacher, I was horrified at the cost of a single text book, much less a full class set. I knew my university books were insane to purchase, so I don't know why I was so shocked that the ones for my students were so high, but I had always thought they were making so many it couldn't be as ridiculous. I was SO wrong!
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Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
It was the name of a tribe and the island they lived on, which as since sunk due to rising water levels.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 month ago
how do we know that the tribe suddenly started giving birth to blonde children? and since because dark hair/dark eyes are dominant genes (and blue eyes/blonde are recessive) this would mean none of the kids were the result of interbreeding, if they actually did happen.
Cuppa tea? 1 month ago
Well, it falls onto the premise of first pilgrimage, who were seeking freedom of their religion. Their religion was batsh!t crazy cult, which opposed and denied other religions emerging at the time. They were intolerant bunch of Talibans.
Tom Brincefield 1 month ago
They weren't Puritans and they weren't there for any religious reasons. They were there to establish an English presence & claim in the New World. Maybe learn some history.
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How the pyramids were built.
For some reason, people *still* keep saying we don’t know. Well, we do. It boils down to math + money + grunt work. The core workers and project leaders were professionals, and some slaves (likely not thousands and thousands, as previously assumed) were used for labor. It’s also known that low wage workers were used as well.
That’s it. It’s not magic. And it’s insulting to ancient people to claim that they couldn’t have had any sort of mathematical accuracy or the ability to build with precise lines. Of course they could do that. They had ropes and pulleys and understood leverage and design. They knew what tools to use. They had artisans and engineers.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
No, it was ancient aliens! Didn't you see the rock carving of a cargo helicopter? /j
Michael Largey 1 month ago
There's a lot of things you can get done if you have your whole civilization at your beck and call. To paraphrase Mel Brooks, it's good to be the pharaoh.
David Paterson 1 month ago
The floated the great stones in by raft along the Nile. Then rollers and ramps to lift them to the top.
FreeTheUnicorn 1 month ago
When archeologista sat they don't know, they mean they aren't sure the precise process - which quarry, or what type of boat was used for transport or where the canal ended and the road began they don't mean they think aliens did it, or that they don't know people stacked rocks . It's the minutiae if the process that they may or may not know. Were the rocks to fit in the quarry or was that closer to the site, who made the decisions Was there more of an assembly line approach or more of a team. What were the preferred tools etc
Laura Gillette 1 month ago
I think there was some guy in like, Pennsylvania or somewhere, who built a scaled-down pyramid by himself in his backyard, using only tech that would have been available at the time, and it was just as mathematically accurate (the sides being straight, the corners being perfect 90 degree angles, the point being perfectly in the center, and the stones being set in place using only earthen ramps and rolling logs)as the actual pyramids, to prove it wasn't such an impossible task for the knowledge and tools available at the time.
Kabuki Kitsune 1 month ago
Fun fact: The idea that slaves built the pyramids originated from the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. Herodotus, due to Greece's extensive use of slaves, simply assumed that the builders them must have been slaves.
#5
The mysterious trails of rocks at Racetrack Playa" in Death Valley National Park, California.
For many years, the cause of these mysterious rock movements was unknown. However, in recent years, scientists have discovered that the rocks move due to a combination of wind and ice. During periods of rain or melting snow, water freezes into thin sheets of ice on the surface of the lake bed. When the ice breaks apart, it can be moved by wind, and as the ice sheets move, they push the rocks along with them, leaving behind the distinctive trails.
Jane Doe-Doe 1 month ago
I remember this ‘mystery’ years ago, it was put down to aliens quite a lot
Dan Holden 1 month ago (edited)
That kind of thinking never fails to amuse me. Aliens travel light years to come to earth, arrive here undetected, and what do they do? Drag some rocks around the desert and then leave. Yes, that definitely sounds like something a highly advanced civilization would do. /s
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
Even Mulder in the X-Files sequel series was depressed about that!
Jonas Fisher 1 month ago
I think we're playing fast and loose with terms like "in recent years." I learned about this when I was in elementary school in one of those "Weird World" books. For reference, I was in elementary in the 1980s.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
In another decade or so we'll finally understand that we're insulting sentient rocks.
CD Mills 1 month ago
Decades ago, I remember reading an article that posited it was due to higher Magnetism in some areas of the Earth and the rocks containing a high iron content. That was one of the only sensible sounding ideas compared to all of the "aliens did it!" claptrap that was being put forward at the time.
#6
Ships and planes never mysteriously vanished in the bemuda triangle, sinks sank because of rough weather, and planes dropped because they hit airborne pockets of methane and the engines stalled.
Thanks to modern navigation, not a single ship or planes sank there in over 20 years.
G A 1 month ago
Statistically, no more boats or planes go missing there than any other part of the oceans of the world.
Moving Enigma 1 month ago
Absolutely! (for the comparative amount of traffic)
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Flickers_and_Sparks 1 month ago
According to the internet, the theory suggests massive methane gas bubbles, trapped under the seafloor, can erupt and rise to the surface. This suddenly reduces the water's density, causing ships to lose buoyancy and sink like a rock. If the methane reaches the air, it could also create an explosive atmosphere, potentially downing planes.
keyboardtek 1 month ago
And statistics has shown the rate of lost ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle were never any greater than any other area with turbulent weather.
geezeronthehill 1 month ago
The north American Great Lakes are far more dangerous to ships than the Bermuda triangle.
#7
The "bloop" sound that was recorded in the Pacific Ocean that baffled scientists was finally found to be an icequake.
David Paterson 1 month ago
Thanks! I didn't know that. Originally we didn't know if it was a whale or an earthquake or a methane bubble release.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Disproving the widely held theory that the sound came from an old Bletty Bloop cartoon.
Stephanie L Thesing 1 month ago
And yet you’ll still able to find this story under “spooky unsolved mysteries” lists..
StrangeOne 1 month ago
I never perceived it as a sound of a whale. It was too much of a uptick and a high pitched wine.
#8
Whether the Titanic sank in one piece or not.
Many discounted those survivors who said they saw her split in two because they had a hard time believing such a mighty ship could rip apart like that.
It wasn’t until Ballard and his crew found her that the truth was revealed.
Laura Gillette 1 month ago
They also didn't believe the survivors' accounts because they were mostly women (because of the "women and children first" policy of access to lifeboats) and believed they were hysterical and must have been hallucinating due to their "heightened emotional state."
Wyrdwoman 1 month ago
It split in 2. When found on the ocean floor the pieces were quite far apart
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Nova Rook 1 month ago
I am old enough to remember thinking we will never find this, and the Bismarck too.
Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
It split apart both at the surface and underwater. It takes a while for a ship to tear. Oh, and BTW, three major pieces,not two.
#9
How to make gold from lead.
Hundreds of years the alchemists tried it unsuccessfully. Today it is possible using a particle accelerator. However, it is far from cost efficient - mining gold is orders of magnitudes cheaper.
David Paterson 1 month ago (edited)
If you don't have room for a particle accelerator, a small nuclear reactor will do it.
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Alchemists succeeded in making silver from lead. Lead ores contain a small but valuable silver percentage. They succeeded in separating this silver from the lead metal produced from lead ores. There is no gold in lead ore, but it was worth a try.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
Well, it's not entirely correct. Particle accelerators blast particles at high speed, so what they did to "convert" lead into gold was to smack some protons out of the lead atoms to make it technically be gold for a minute fraction of a second.
Jaya 1 month ago
Oh, well that makes it a completely different story. Thanks for the info.
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Current price of gold bullion is around $ 4 000 per ounce. Made from particle accelerators etc, we can do it for maybe a quadrillion dollars ...
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago
We even know how gold is formed - it takes two neutron stars to collide for it to form naturally
Ace 1 month ago
Tiny quantities of gold nuclei that only exist for microseconds because they are so unstable .
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
I'm not sure there are any unstable isotopes of gold - or, at least, none that remain.
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this is why i wrote my congressperson to object to any more funding for particle accelerators. they don't make gold efficiently, and they haven't solved the "dark matter" mystery either.
KatWitch57 1 month ago
Step 1; remove lead from assorted roofs, churches are a good source. Step 2; sell lead to unscrupulous scrap dealers. Step 3; count your 'gold'. Simples.
#10
It was old man Jasper all along!
He pretended to be the ghost because he wanted to scare all the tourists away, that way he could search for the treasure all by himself!
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Scooby Doo. Cartoon about kids solving " mystery" and it's always some shady dude who pretended to be a ghost or phantom or whatever local lore had on offer to swi
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#11
"Did we just find Noah's Ark?"
No, they did not.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
No, they're the easiest, because you can just manufacture them yourself.
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Aileen Grist 1 month ago
The story of the flood turns up in many ancient literatures of different peoples. It's thought that it was at the end of the last ice age - doesn't mean Noah existed - but the flood did. Though not necessarily covering all the earth.
Fire Singer 1 month ago
I took a mythology class and in most cultures there are similarities in their tales of Earth's creation, a massive flood, and the end of the Earth too. It was quite interesting to see it from that perspective!
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Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
When you're primitive and live in a river valley that no one has ever left, and melting glaciation fills it up, it sure seems like the whole world is flooded.
G A 1 month ago
And they'd be wrong. It was a geological vaguely boat shaped formation. Every few years some religious nutjob mounts an expedition to find something that never existed.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
You don't discount a story whereby God slowly drowned people over the course of 371 days (because that's both efficient and benevolent, right?) apart from a 600 year old man, his family, and 14 of every type of clean animal, and two of every unclean animal, all stuck together on an implausibly large boat constructed in record time? Do you also not discount the possibility of Santa Claus?
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#12
Torosaurus was actually a mature triceratops. Nanotyrannus was a baby T Rex. Stigymoloch and Dracorex are younger Pachycephalosaurus skeletons. Anatotitan was a grown up Edmontosaurus and I think there was a few others just because baby dinosaurs looked drastically different than adults.
Owen 1 month ago
If you think about baby birds, they look vastly different to when they are fully grown.
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
yeah i think these realizations came after the understanding of Dino evolution was more nuanced. if you go into it thinking "this lizard looks different from this one so they must be different" you will think that way. when you go in with "dinos are ancestors to birds, which vary wildly not only from one species to another but from young to old and from male to female, maybe dinos do too" you will think other ways.
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Earonn - 1 month ago
Imagine finding a caterpillar and a butterfly, or a tadpole and a frog. Not *that* drastic for dinosaurs, obvs, but it can be hard if you only have the outer form. BTW, that's nothing "new" or "surprising", palaeontologists knew about that effect all along, it's just hard to prove.
David Paterson 1 month ago
That's definitely correct about the Nanotyrannus. It has more teeth, so it took a while to realise that a growing T rex lost teeth as it got older.
Wyattdafrog 1 month ago
Separate Species or Growth Stages?: A long-standing debate in paleontology is whether Torosaurus is simply the mature form of Triceratops. Some studies suggest that the differences in skull morphology indicate they are separate species, while others propose that Torosaurus represents an adult Triceratops. Recent research has shown that mature specimens of both dinosaurs exist, supporting the idea that they are distinct. Research Findings: A study by Yale University concluded that the anatomical differences between Torosaurus and Triceratops are significant enough to classify them as separate species. This includes differences in skull proportions and the presence of adult specimens of both genera.
Biana Weatherford 1 month ago
OMG! Now I have to go look them up. I love dinosaurs, but I don't recall them all by name. (my favorite is an Ornithomimus, thanks for asking)
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
I've even seen "different than" in one dialect of English ;-)
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Aerodynamicicists understand perfectly well how insects, e.g. bees, fly. It's not the same as aircraft, but the clap-fling mechanism, the vortices they produce, and the resulting thrust and lift have been accurately modeled and match the measurements.
David Paterson 1 month ago
Yes. And they generate lift both on the downstroke and the upstroke of the wings. High speed videos of insects in flight helped with the solution.
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
I'd love to know how they generate lift on the upstroke ?
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nicholas nolan 1 month ago
Ah, a dinner-party allegory for the imprecise data collection tools of the day turned into an enduring myth! You love to see it.
#14
The "Miraculous Staircase" in the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There was even a movie made about it starring Barbara Hershey.
One of the myths is that it stands miraculously without a center support pole and no engineer can figure out how that's possible. The center stringer is tightly wrapped with only 8" diameter. It acts as the center pole.
Nuns said a nine-day novena for a much-needed staircase, a woodworker miraculously showed up from nowhere and built the staircase. It must have been Saint Joseph! The staircase was ordered from France. The manufacturer sent a guy to put it together.
It's made of wood found nowhere in the area, it's a miracle! Because the wood is from France, duh.
And finally the guy who built it stayed in Santa Fe afterward. The local newspaper had his obituary (1896 or 1898) and even said he was the man who built the staircase.
LizzieBoredom 1 month ago
Not the 'Immigrant Song'. It was deported. "We have come from the land of the ICE and snow....".
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Lorraine R 1 month ago
Originally it had no balustrade -- very scary to climb or descend.
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#15
Elisa Lam, the woman found dead in the water tank on top of a hotel in Los Angeles. It wasn't a crime or ghost, she was mentally ill having a bipolar episode.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
I'm still creeped out by all the people who took showers in or were drinking her corpse juice. 😫
SkyBlueandBlack 1 month ago
It was at the Cecil. Trust me, there are worse things there than cadaver water.
Load More Replies... Andrew Keir 1 month ago
I can get into a swimming pool with thousands of tons of water in it, I just jump in. The weight of the tank is irrelevant.
Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 1 month ago
Someone said that the numeric sequence of the buttons she pushed in the elevator had a sort of a meaning in a dea** ritual or summoning ghosts from where she came from (don't remember the Country). Definitely a bad case of mental illness, she had been cured for it.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
"Wrong!" go on then, provide some evidence to the contrary.
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The rediscoveries of lost cities such as:
The rediscovery of the location of Pompei in 1748.
The rediscovery of the location of Herculaneum in 1709.
The discovery of the location of Macchu Picchu in 1911.
David Paterson 1 month ago
And many more. Troy in 1871. Ur circa 1853. The Egyptian Labyrinth described by Herodotus. The ancient Greek city Helike finally identified in 2001. Etc.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
All those myths that have a kernel of truth in them. Reminds me of a Doctor Who episode, where someone called something a myth, and the Doctor said so was Troy, until dear old Schliemann dug it up. Of course he did a lot of damage in the process. Schliemann, not The Doctor.
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#17
How cat(er)pillars become butterflies. When I was 12 I wanted to go university to be the first person to discover how they do it.
(Once catapillars have a cocoon, they secrete an enzyme that turns them into a puddle of stem cell filled goop and then that becomes a butterfly).
Jihana 1 month ago
Also butterflies retain memories from before they became goop, which is even more weird.
Pferdchen 1 month ago
Like how to get to the home that their family hasn't been to for generations!
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#18
Can you sail from Europe to Asia (and back to Europe) by going west?
Yes, BECAUSE THE EARTH IS ROUND AND NOT FLAT.
S Bow 1 month ago
I'm wearing a t-shirt with that exact image right now. It's my favorite, after the one that says "Bad spellers of the world Untie!" 😆
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Giulia Fortunati 1 month ago (edited)
When Columbus set sail to reach Asia from the west, nobody believed that the Earth was flat! They just belived tha Eath was too big to succeed.
Andy Frobig 1 month ago
I saw a documentary that rebuts this. Columbus told King Ferdinand, "the earth, She's-a round, like-a my head!" And Ferdinand hit Columbus on the head with a mallet and said, "Ees flat, like your head." Luckily Bugs Bunny sorted it all out with a baseball
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They knew the earth was round, it was common scientific consensus for nearly a thousand years at that point. they just didnt know if it was empty on the back side or not, though they assumed it was since nobody had ever been there or met anyone from there. they assumed you could just sail that way and end up in asia becasue it was just a big ocean. when columbus saw cuba he assumed it was japan.
Kabuki Kitsune 1 month ago
To be fair, what was generally believed at the time, was there was a MASSIVE ocean between Europe and Asia, and any sailing vessel which tried to traverse the distance, wouldn't survive the voyage due to not being able to carry enough food, or potable water for the voyage. Keep in mind, it took Columbus just over two months to cross the distance, and by the time he arrived in the new world, they were running very low on rations. To the point that in his captain's diary, one of the things he repeats quite often is that he fears his crew will mutiny.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
Well, there are continents in the way. You'd have to use the Strait of Magellan, the Panama Canal or the Northwest Passage.
#19
Spontaneous generation. People used to think flies would spontaneously appear from rotten meat, as every time they had it, flies somehow would appear even though flies were no where close when the meat was okay. After observation and experiments, we understood flies landed in the meat, left their eggs, and then more flies would be born and then stay to eat the meat.
David Paterson 1 month ago
It's fascinating to watch a speeded up video of this.
Load More Replies... CP 1 month ago
There are strange things people still believe to this day in spite of science. I am surprised this one hasn't been co-opted by some crazy internet corner.
Moving Enigma 1 month ago
You can add spontaneous combustion as well (albeit drunk people+naked flames being the cause).
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
Yeah, whatever you do, do not put a piece of pork in coca cola to see what comes out of it...
Rich Black 1 month ago
i believe this was discovered about 500 years ago. but some people aren't avid readers.
Skara Brae 1 month ago
I've always wondered why this doesn't bother anybody at chinese markets, where raw meat is hanging exposed everywhere. I guess they like the extra crunchy bits.
#20
The mystery of the Mary Toft: In 1726, a woman in England claimed to have given birth to rabbits. While it was believed to be a medical mystery at the time, it was later discovered that the rabbits had been inserted into her womb by a local surgeon.
Owen 1 month ago
Sometimes the truth is worse than the fiction. Can we please go back to believing she just gave birth to rabbits?
G A 1 month ago (edited)
No more than she would give birth to a dil do shoved all the way in
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A man in Florida fooled people for years into believing there was a giant penguin walking the beaches, the haox began in 1958 and was only revealed to be a hoax in 1988.
#22
Just last year the identity of the Somerton Man was discovered.
“The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The case is also known after the Persian phrase tamám shud (Persian: تمام شد),[note 1] meaning "is over" or "is finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, authored by 12th-century poet Omar Khayyám.”
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
Would have been nice if OP had included that info.
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The Solway Firth Spaceman became popular in ufology as it supposedly showed a mysterious figure in the background. For 50 years no one quite knew what it really was till someone analysed the photo and concluded it was actually the mother who accidentally walked into the photo. The reason she looked like a spaceman was because of overexposure.
G A 1 month ago
Yep. If you look at the way the arm is held, it is clearly from behind, as nobody holds their arm in that pose from the front.
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Huddo's sister 4 weeks ago
First time I've heard of it, but the image on google is pretty obviously a woman facing away from the camera.
nottheactualphoto 1 month ago
I wanted to be a spaceman. That's what I wanted to be. But now that I am a spaceman, nobody cares about me.
#24
The mystery of how the far side of the Moon actually looks:
"Until the late 1950s, little was known about the far side of the Moon. Librations periodically allowed limited glimpses of features near the lunar limb on the far side, but only up to 59% of the total surface of the Moon.[14]"
"Before space exploration began, astronomers did not expect that the far side would be different from the side visible to Earth. On 7 October 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photographs of the lunar far side, eighteen of them resolvable, covering one-third of the surface invisible from the Earth."
Janissary35680 1 month ago
That album is about the Dark Side of Moon. That's not the same as the far side, which is not at all the same as Gary Larson's one-panels, which are frequently quite dark.
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Rick Murray 1 month ago
Throw in the additional mysteries of how the size is pretty much exactly the same relative size as the sun when seen from earth allowing incredible views of the sun's corona *and* how it rotates at exactly the right speed that we always see the exact same part, there's no drift. Plenty of interesting mysteries around the lump orbiting our planet.
Janissary35680 1 month ago
All sorts of interesting mysteries, such as Earth's diurnal rotation wouldn't be as stable as it is and we wouldn't have tides without the Moon so that even if life did somehow get started, it probably would never have made it out of the sea onto land.
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The Mandela effect doesn’t exist, you just suck at remembering.
Glix Drap 1 month ago
To those that don't know what the Mandela effect is (like me, or maybe I just don't remember it). The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember an event or detail differently than how it actually occurred, often leading to collective false memories. It was named after Nelson Mandela, as many people mistakenly believed he died in prison during the 1980s, despite him actually passing away in 2013.
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
Oh, people remember but like anything else, it's the details that escape them
Lila Allen 1 month ago
It's less that people suck at remembering and more people's memories are easily influenced by other people. So one person talks about remembering something a specific way and the people he's talking to start to remember it that way and it just spreads.
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
No, it is the Mandela Effect, so named because some people remember Mandela dying in prison, and some remember him being freed and becoming president of South Africa.
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Plentyofoomph 1 month ago
Oh come on, this is obviously a joke. Why downvote it?
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“The Easter islanders disappeared”, including theories that they cut down all the trees to make rollers for the Moai.
It’s a totally fabricated theory by Jared Diamond, as the Easter islands never cut down every trees (in fact they didn’t even use rollers to transport the statues), and they never died out. Their descendants are alive today, with some of them hired as tour guides on the island itself.
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
Jared Diamond's books are generally worth reading, though - especially "Guns, Germs and Steel". And "Collapse" if you can stomach it ...
Becky Samuel 1 month ago
Just remember that, no matter how plausible his theories, they are just nice sounding theories and a large proportion of them have been disproven.
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Dave Baxter 1 month ago
If current Easter Islanders are direct descendants of those who carved the moai, it's a great shame that nobody remembers how to translate their "lost language", as evidenced by examples carved on the wooden plaques which originally hung around the necks of the moai (which are now only found in museums)
#27
The two ships of the lost Franklin expedition of 1845 were both found in the last decade sunk in the "Northwest Passage" (northern Canada). The mystery of what happened to the crew (126 men I think) has been speculated upon with plenty of solid theories but very few remains have been found. The ships are still being examined and may contain more clues.
Nova Rook 1 month ago
Franklin was a horrible leader and so the ships got locked into the ice for a few years and he was unable to get his crews to safety. We've long known what happened as the locals had all kinds of stories about silly white men trying to cross the arctic loaded with all kinds of useless goods and slowly starving and cannibalizing. This would be the second failed trip by Franklin that had cannibalism, this time with no survivors though.
Ben 1 month ago
I thought they were k****d by a supernatural entity. I watched a documentary about it called The Terror.
Nova Rook 1 month ago
They were in the Canadian north and many tried to trek overland to an outpost. None made it.
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#28
Most dinosaurs would likely have made some variation of a honk/bark. Jurassic Park got it p close with the sound of their raptors. Also the moai heads have bodies, and they just look like normal guys.
RamiRudolph 1 month ago
Even so, there's hardly anything cooler than the Tyrannosaurus roaring in JP.
Jude Corrigan 1 month ago (edited)
Did you know it was a mix of a high pitched scream of a baby elephant, a deep gurgle of an alligator, the snarl of a tiger and, apparently, a bark of a Jack Russell terrier called Buster?
Load More Replies... G A 1 month ago
It amazes me the amount of people who think Jurassic Park is in any way true to life.
Nova Rook 1 month ago
I got fooled once - I used to watch disaster videos. So one day a new one pops up about a zoo where exotic animals broke free and k****d people. I could not believe I had never heard of this so started watching the video. A rich guy buys an island - and then they showed the rich guy from Jurassic park - April fools day.
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Slmd 1 month ago
Apparently for the bigger predators it would've been more an earthquake-esque rumble, but idk how true that is (I only saw one video on it). But it does sound pretty awesome regardless.
Load More Replies... KatWitch57 1 month ago
Some of the JP raptor calls are very close to the sounds made by irate seagulls in the mating season.
KatWitch57 1 month ago
Upvote because they did have some form of headwear, before early explorers mad off with them
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
"P close"? I've seen pictures of the moai people, I wouldn't exactly call them normal guys.
Andrew Keir 1 month ago (edited)
Nobody looks normal when they're stónéd ...
Load More Replies... Plentyofoomph 1 month ago
I dont know what kind of normal guys you've been hanging out with...
#29
The luminiferous ether. It was thought to be the medium through which light would travel. Since light could behave like a wave, and waves needed a medium, it was assumed there needed to be a medium for light that was both transparent (because we couldn’t see it) and infinitely rigid (because the ‘stiffness’ of the medium corresponds to wave speed). Turns out, light is an electromagnetic wave that can travel through a vacuum.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
I thought light could behave as a wave or a particle. Or am I remembering something else?
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
It can be *understood* as a wave or a particle, depending on which of its properties you want to study. But nothing is ever *quite* 'like' anything else, so most analogies are potentially misleading if followed blindly. I worked on a fire-crew led by the local vicar - he was a vicar unless he was at a fire, when he was a firefighter. It depended on the circumstances.
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Alex Kennedy 1 month ago
This is true, but I think people fail to understand how incredibly odd and mind-blowing it is that light behaves (in some ways) as a wave, notwithstanding that it’s not “waving” anything.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
Visible light is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum, like FM radio and microwaves. with wavelengths around 400 to 700 nanometres (around 450~750 terahertz). "White light" is a mish-mash of all sorts of light, while LEDs and laser diodes emit specific frequencies. How do we know light is a "wave"? Easy - polarisation. Polarising filters, like your sunglasses, only allow light waves at one polarity (say, vertical waves like sunglasses) to pass through, while blocking light at other polarities (horizontal, diagonal, etc, like glare and reflections). What's odd are the times when light is not a wave. Odder yet, we have complex apparatus in our heads to sense what we call light. And why is light light? It sits between microwaves and X-rays, both of which are dangerous to be around, but not only is most light fine (though light can carry energy too - photosynthesis), it is fundamental to our reality.
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michael Chock 1 month ago
Waves need a medium to travel, otherwise they would not be waves (need both kenetic and stored states). It is just not the "ether"
Mike Price 1 month ago
And now we have Dark Matter and Dark Energy ; just the old Luminiferous Ether come back to haunt us . . . .
nottheactualphoto 1 month ago
I have an old electronics textbook that teaches the existence of ether.
#30
They recently found out who the Somerton man was. I hope one day they find the Beaumont children.
Drop Bear from Hell 1 month ago
Jane Nartare Beaumont (born 10 September 1956), Arnna Kathleen Beaumont (born 11 November 1958) and Grant Ellis Beaumont (born 12 July 1961), collectively referred to as the Beaumont children, were three Australian siblings who disappeared from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia, on 26 January 1966 (Australia Day) in a suspected abduction and m****r.[1] Police investigations revealed that, on the day of their disappearance, several witnesses had seen the three children on and near Glenelg Beach in the company of a tall man with fairish to light-brown hair and a thin face with a sun-tanned complexion and medium build, in his mid-thirties. Confirmed sightings of the children occurred at the Colley Reserve and at Wenzel's cake shop on Moseley Street, Glenelg. Despite numerous searches, neither the children nor their suspected companion were located.
Chewie Baron 1 month ago (edited)
It’s also worth noting that the man seen with the Beaumont children also matches the description of a man who took two girls from the Adelaide Oval around 20 years later.
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The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The case is also known by the Persian phrase tamám shud (تمام شد),[note 1] meaning "It is over" or "It is finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, a poetry book. Following a public appeal by police, the book from which the page had been torn was located. On the inside back cover, detectives could read indentations left from previous handwriting: a local telephone number, another unidentified number, and text that resembled a coded message. The text has not been deciphered or interpreted in a way that satisfies authorities on the case. Since the early stages of the police investigation, the case has been considered "one of Australia's most profound mysteries".
Hiram's Friend 1 month ago
Again it would have been nice if the info was included in the OP
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#31
The legends of Troy. Thought to be complete fiction. Only for the actual city to be found. So the stories of the Trojan war are based in fact. Although I don’t know if they have ever been able to find proof to back up any of the details of the Trojan wars depicted in the great epics. Been a while since I tried researching it.
meow point1 1 month ago
Yeah, I mean New York is real but that doesn't mean Ghostbusters is based on a true story.
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#32
So many causes for cancer were once a mystery.
Chich the witch 1 month ago
And causes of death. I've been looking up family records going way back. Some of the diseases/causes of death listed translate to "^%@$" if I know?!"
KatWitch57 1 month ago
I used to work at the General Register Office and if you go back far enough nearly 50% of cause of death was "act of god".
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Sue User 1 month ago
I keep wondering if micoplastics are causing auto immune cases.
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The location of Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada. Missing since 2009, his remains were found in a former No Frills Supermarket in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He apparently had fallen in a 18-inch gap between shelves and coolers, and no one heard his screams.
Drop Bear from Hell 1 month ago
I don't understand why they didn't smell him as he decomposed.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
Perhaps they did, but just ignored it or discounted it as being the result of something else.
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Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
That rather suggests that the cleaners and health inspectors weren't terribly diligent.
nottheactualphoto 1 month ago
I had a client who said to me, "What? The inspector's come and gone! Do whatever you want." (We were installing a system that involved low voltage wiring in the walls and ceiling.)
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#34
Atlantis
It was made up by Plato in a writing talking about this great power that Athens fought off in a pretty clear propaganda piece.
The similarities to the Greco Persian wars and the Peloponnesian wars are astounding. He also claims that the story is passed through his family and no one else is supposed to know it which is why he’s the only person who knows about Atlantis. It’s likely even the Ancient Greeks laughed at the idea it was real.
Wyrdwoman 1 month ago
Having just come back from Santorini, the thought is the island played a large part in the myth, as it was a round island until about 6000(?) years ago. Then its volcano went bang and a lot of the island was swamped by a tsunami. The outcome of the eruption caused the demise of the Minoan culture and possibly explains the parting of the Red Sea myth.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
Santorini does fit all the clues Plato gives in his story.
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Alex Martin 1 month ago
It's generally believed he is referring to the lost Minoan civilization that was devastated by a massive volcanic eruption on the island of Thera around 1600 BCE. The Minoans hung on for a few more centuries but were ultimately absorbed into the Mycean Greek civilization. The Mycean Greeks used a version of the Minoan alphabet. We know little of the Minoans in part because we can't translate their writing. The Myceans went into decline due to the mysterious "sea peoples" and there was a long period of stagnation in the Mediterranean. By the time Plato shows up it's been over a thousand years and it's all legends and stories.
Stray Doggy 1 month ago
The story about Atlantis was not made up by Plato. He learned the story from Critias the Younger. But the story goes further back than that. Solon was allegedly told about it by Egyptian priests in Sais. This is how Plato himself explains the background of the story. But, of course, it was just a story.
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
PLato isn't currently known for his sense of humour ...
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#35
The "Disappearance of MH370"
1) Bits of the plane have washed up along Indian Ocean shores in a manner that would be expected from drift from the projected crash location;
2) One of the two pilots was almost certainly responsible, and of the two pilots, one profiles as much more likely to be responsible, because they kept a private flight simulator that showed MH370's path in the disappearance.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
But the wreckage was burnt in spots; this means it was likely a fire and the pilots set out to sea, climbed to try to starve the fire of oxygen, and then died either in the fire or when the oxygen ran out. This would mean the pilot was NOT su!cidal. You cannot have it both ways. (A lot of people think that because so little wreckage was found, that it's some kind of conspiracy and that the plane actually went north-west and got face tattoos, I mean, landed in Kazakhstan after being h!jacked. There actually were three Russians on the plane.)
#36
The location of King Tut's tomb which was finally found in 1922.
Kirsten Kerkhof 1 month ago
That was not exactly a mystery that got solved. Tutankhamen was such an insignificant pharaoh that until his tomb was found, he was almost entirely unknown. And he is only famous now because his tomb was mostly intact.
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
yes this exactly. they werent exactly searching for king Tuts tomb, they were just looking for tombs in general and happened to find one of a rather inconsequential pharoah that had been missed by grave robbers over the centuries. in all reality if the tomb had not been found he probably would be no more than a footnote in the egypt chapter of the elementary school world history book.
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#37
While not objectively solved, I can say this with almost certainty.
But yeah, D.B. Cooper died of hypothermia either on the way down or in the wilderness. The dude jumped out into -7 degree weather with lord knows what the windchill was like going from a plane WHILE IT WAS RAINING. The man had no protection from the elements and landed miles away from civilization. He'd have died within 45 minutes.
As for his body? Most likely eaten by animals.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 1 month ago
It was the Leverage crew, you can't fool me.
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Jacob B. 1 month ago
The back hatch was opened, but did he jump then? We don't know and could have been a ruse, had to know that would be the first area to search. He could have waited until he got closer to Reno. Then finding a small portion of the money in an area the plane had already traversed and before the hatch was opened, as if it was planted. He's probably dead by now, but I think he got away with it.
Chich the witch 1 month ago
I believe a kid found some of the money on a river bank years later. IIRC the serial # matched up so kind of point towards hypothermia, if he survived the jump at all.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Ok the rain and windchill are complicating factors, but depending on how prepped he was for the jump and how close he was to his intended landing point... he could have had supplies etc waiting.
John Vandyke 1 month ago
The fact that none of the money was ever spent is a good sign that he died.
#38
The Dyatlov Pass incident was (ed: probably) caused by an avalanche.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
There was an avalanche, they freaked, cut open the tent, ran in different directions. Two of them actually fell into a river beneath the ice. Some did "paradoxical undressing" (where in the advanced stages of hypothermia you feel hot and take your clothes off). At some point the bodies were predated by animals. There was also a Soviet base of some sort nearby, which accounts for traces of radiation on the bodies. (History's Greatest Mysteries again.)
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Group of hikers disappears. When found several are naked they are all found in other locations like they ran in various directions to escape something. Lots of rumors about prototype sound weapons, monsters, etc abound. But it was most likely an avalanche and paradoxical undressing
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
I really wish people would include more information! "Nine Soviet hikers died in the Dyatlov Pass in 1959 under mysterious circumstances. Their tent was cut open from inside, their bodies showed strange i…"
Saber4 1 month ago
Exactly. Most of these listings are people speculating. A number of great books have been written with interesting information.
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Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
You need to quote sources if you're going to say things like this.
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Oumuamua was just an asteroid that was outgassing.
Chich the witch 1 month ago
I don't know why but farting being involed always makes it better :P
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that harvard professor should be fired. this week he's claiming that the comet of the day is an alien spacecraft which darted behind the sun "because it's up to no good"
#40
That stranded cosmonaut recording is 99% likely to be a hoax, Many have discredited if the brother's technology was even capable of picking up the signal of a Cosmonaut who's drifted off course, but the real smoking gun is that the woman in the audio recording is speaking in broken Russian and the two brothers who "picked up the signal" had a sister who was currently learning Russian which would explain the limited vocabulary and pronunciation issues that skeptics have pointed out.
#41
Elisa Lam could have gotten both on the roof and into the watertank by herself and her family does not think any foul play was involved as Elisa had mental health problems and they were used to seeing her act strange when off her medication.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
"I feel so much better! I don't need to take my medication any more!"
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David Paterson 1 month ago
Many other people have died by climbing into a water tank and being unable to get out.
#42
The Mary Celeste was probably abandoned as part of an insurance fraud.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
I'd like to see more documentation on this. I've never heard this particular theory. But if you believe Doctor Who, it was Daleks who scared everyone into jumping overboard.
Dave Baxter 1 month ago
I thought this was another tale of ergot-induced hallucinogenic confusion, panic & hysteria, resulting in the subsequent abandonment of the ship?
Lila Allen 1 month ago
It's cargo was ethanol so it was assumed that vapors from the barrels caused everyone to panic that the ship was on fire and took the lifeboats only to drown
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
It was massively exaggerated and enhanced as a fictional story by none other than a young Arthur Conan Doyle.
Jude Corrigan 1 month ago
The Mary Celeste was a real ship that was found abandoned on 4th December, 1872.
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Need more clarity on this story. Don't know what OP is talking about.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Mary Celeste was a freighter ship found adrift with everything looking like an incredibly hasty evacuation took place. Plates still on the table with food on them etc. They were transporting ethanol and it is assumed that they saw vapors rising from the barrels and thought they were on fire and jumped in the life boats but the lifeboats were swept away. Also the insurance fraud seems incredibly unlikely as the boat was found intact and cargo was fine.
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
They were transporting liquor and there was some kind of combustion, which would have scared everyone into abandoning ship.
Rich Black 1 month ago
the cargo was still on board. including hundreds of bottles of booze. insurance fraud is ;probably not the motive.
Chewie Baron 1 month ago
I read a theory about a certain cheese was on board, and stank to high heaven!
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Um the ship was found unharmed with the cargo intact. How would that be insurance fraud. It didn't sink and both the ship and cargo were fine.
Andy Frobig 1 month ago
It could be a conflation of stories. After the famous abandonment, there was litigation in Gibraltar about the disposition of the ship and the cargo. The ship was sold on, and years later ran aground on a reef in Haiti with junk cargo that had been insured as much more valuable cargo. I believe some people did time for insurance fraud in that case, and the ship was never salvaged from this grounding.
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Not a worldwide mystery but a mystery amongst my Mom’s side of the family, when my mom was little like 8-13 years old, she was so close (until now) with her cousins that they all play together almost everyday in their Grandma’s house and that house is a 2nd story house. So here’s how the mystery started, my mom, her siblings, and her male cousins played with a ball, and the ball went upstairs and into the only room that the stairs went to, but then the door suddenly went open and the ball bounced down the stairs, there was a moment of silence, and then they all ran to their grandma saying that there’s a ghost, so their grandma comforted them and told the maid to check on it, and then she found no one there. A few weeks after that incident, they never went up to that room and then they started to forget about it. Many years later (2 months ago), my whole family went to my mom’s hometown and she spent time with her brothers and female cousin of hers to go the cemetery to visit grandpa, as we were going, my mom remembered that story and started talking about it, then my mom said “We never really knew who threw the ball back haha” and then her cousin said “that was me!” So my mom, her brothers and her cousin all laughed because the mystery was finally solved, sadly her cousin passed away 2 months ago, she revealed the mystery before she died of breast cancer, may she rest in peace.
Day Andie 1 month ago
Biggest mystery to me at age 8 or 9 was being able to go into Grandma's old barn on the ground level, walk through the wooden stalls, open the door to the feed room and hay storage and jump 8 feet down onto a pile of hay. Went back again the summer I was 12 years old and realized that the barn was built up against the side of the hill. Well, duh!
Moving Enigma 1 month ago
That was such an exciting mystery to read that it almost tempted me to post the one about the missing TV remote.
#44
The moving rocks in the desert. Thin layer of ice forms during the night and very strong winds move the rocks. It was finally observed on camera.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
You don't need to keep doing that. We're not stupid and can all see that for ourselves.
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#45
I'm pretty sure Jeremy Wade solved the mystery of loch Ness.
The entire story they put together paints a pretty clear to me picture anyway that it is probably a Greenland shark.
Maya_D 1 month ago
Um, no. Loch Ness is freshwater and sharks live in salt water. And DNA testing in the waters showed no evidence of shark DNA. If there’s anything at all unusual in the loch, the evidence suggests giant eels.
Drop Bear from Hell 1 month ago
Bull sharks can survive in fresh water BUT as far as I know they are not found in that neck of the woods (pun intended).
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Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
What is definitely isn't, and has never been, is a single plesiosaur.
Moving Enigma 1 month ago
Interestingly the Loch Ness monster is often spotted whenever tourist numbers decline...
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Yeah not sure how many tourists there were in 6th century CE
Load More Replies... Marianne 1 month ago
I really don't think that there is a huge whale in a lake in Scotland.
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Grace Sssssss 1 month ago
Crossed waves. Nessie is the wake from a boat hitting both sides of the narrow loch and bouncing back and hitting each other.
#46
Everyone loves a good mystery, but some have good enough theories that I think they have essentially been solved:
Emelia Earhart probably crash landed on Nikumaroro Island
Those hikers on the Dyatlov Pass incident probably died because the stove they brought with them caused a fire in the tent.
Those settlers on Roanoke Island probably left and went to the Croatoans.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
Amelia Earhart. As far as I can recall, there was no evidence of fire in the Dyatlov Pass incident.
#47
The Wilhelm Scream is actually from a movie in which a guy is bitten by an alligator.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
The Wilhelm Scream sound effect was best known for its usage in lots of movies. This was originally a Warner Bros sound effect. Vocal effect of a man yelling, composed of 6 yells. The 4th yell is most often used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, thrown from an explosion, or kicked by some people. Debuted in Distant Drums in 1951. It shouldn't be confused with Voices - Male Assorted Screams. Very Wilhelm Like and Screams Male Various PE975004. Contents 1Info 2Clean, Full Length and Unedited Link to the Sound Effect 3Used In 3.1TV Shows 3.2TV Specials 3.3Movies 3.4Shorts 3.5Video Games 3.6Videos/DVDs 3.7Theme Parks 3.8Bumpers/Interstitials/Station IDs 3.9Commercials 3.10Logos 3.11Promos 3.12Trailers 3.13TV Spots 3.14Music 3.15Musicals 3.16Websites 3.17Radio Programming 3.18Newgrounds Videos 3.19Twitter Videos 3.20YouTube Videos 3.21Other Media 3.22Special Features 3.23Web Originals 3.24Abridged Anime 3.25Anime 4Image Gallery 5Audio Samples 6
Mike F 1 month ago
It's awful to kid. My grandfather was watching an old Tarzan movie while my brother and I were getting ready for school. As I was walking through the living room to the door there was a dude in the movie who fell into a river or whatever, where there were crocodiles and they got him. They used that scream and that stuck with me all day as a little kid.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 month ago (edited)
If you don't know...this scream has been used in dozens, if not hundreds, of movies. It's as common as a gun shot ricochet which sounds the same regardless of the weapon or what it hits; or frogs that all croak the same way, regardless of where they are (the ones used were local to Hollywood).
Vivian McBride 1 month ago
Frog sounds in movies are almost certainly recordings of pacific treefrogs. They are a species of chorus frog found along the west coast of North America. When you get a lot of them together, the "ribbet, ribbit" sounds can be deafening!
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 1 month ago
Not to be confused with the Goofy Holler (YAAAAAAAAH-HOO-HOO-HOO-EEEEE!)
LookASquirrel 1 month ago
Almost every post these days someone in the comments does the legwork. Fingerwork? 🤷🏻♀️ Thanks to you and the others!
Load More Replies... #48
Kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch because it's all sugar.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 month ago
That was the commercial. "Why do kids love cinnamon toast crunch?"
Load More Replies... Nova Rook 1 month ago
"Kids love Kicks for what they've got, Mom's like Kicks for what they have not" I presume they mean sugar.
Andy Frobig 1 month ago
No added colors, Kix doesn't need 'em. No added flavors, kids love to eat 'em. Low in sugar so it's not too sweet, a good Kix breakfast, it's hard to beat
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joann fielding 4 weeks ago
Ok, ok, but we still don't know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a TootisiePop. And no fair crunching after 3 licks!
#49
"We've only explored 10 percent of the ocean, we don't know whats out there!" Yes we do. Water and rocks.
Owen 1 month ago
I call b******t on this one. There is an awful lot we don't know. Dismissing it as water and rocks is just obnoxious.
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
no its mostly water and rocks. sure there are fish and other creatures undiscovered, but the vast vast majority of the ocean is water and rocks. it doesnt matter how hard you search you wont ever find a megalodon or some sort of hidden sea monster. the ocean is mostly water and rocks, space is mostly emptiness, anything else out there floating in the various voids is inconsequential on the grander scale, and almost impossible to find because of the staggering amount of water and rocks, or nothingness, that surrounds it.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
True, Jane. There is s**t down there that has occasionally washed up, but I'm quite sure there are creatures that would make you shudder.
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Janissary35680 1 month ago (edited)
Potentially LOTS of them as it turns out.
Load More Replies... Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 month ago
This has *3k upvotes* on reddit, i get it was a joke but its not *that* funny
WindySwede 1 month ago
though I only saw 1k? but not really funny at all 🤓🤷♂️
Load More Replies... Andy Frobig 1 month ago
DC says there's Aquaman, Marvel says there's Namor. We don't know if it's either or both
What do you think ?
Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
One that hasn't been solved: why idiots think that spamming BP with highly dubious ways of making money will actually attract anyone to their pathetic websites, rather than just annoy the hell out of everyone to no purpose whatsoever.
Otto Katz 1 month ago
I report every one as spam. But does BP do anything about them? That is my honest question.
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David Paterson 1 month ago
I have a few more. La Perouse sailed away from Botany Bay in 1788 and was never seen again. It was recently discovered that were wrecked on Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands. The wreck was discovered in 1964. Jeanne Louise Calment had a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days. It now looks as if she died young and her younger sister took over her identity in order to avoid death duties.
Otto Katz 1 month ago
The French "oldest woman", right? How much younger was her sister? And France has a tax you have to pay when you die? That's funny.
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Danielle 1 month ago
My favourite is 'what happens to the Swallows in the winter?' mystery. Many ideas submitted over the years, Aristotle thought they went into the lakes and hibernated in the mud. No one put together that the swallows they see in Africa in the winter are the same swallows they see in Europe in the summer until the 18th Century.
Roxy222uk 1 month ago
Who were all these people that were in the toe end of Africa in the winter and back in Europe in the summer?
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Jonathan Labelle 1 month ago
The most mysterious song on the internet was call subway of your mind byba band call fex
Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
One that hasn't been solved: why idiots think that spamming BP with highly dubious ways of making money will actually attract anyone to their pathetic websites, rather than just annoy the hell out of everyone to no purpose whatsoever.
Otto Katz 1 month ago
I report every one as spam. But does BP do anything about them? That is my honest question.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 month ago
I have a few more. La Perouse sailed away from Botany Bay in 1788 and was never seen again. It was recently discovered that were wrecked on Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands. The wreck was discovered in 1964. Jeanne Louise Calment had a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days. It now looks as if she died young and her younger sister took over her identity in order to avoid death duties.
Otto Katz 1 month ago
The French "oldest woman", right? How much younger was her sister? And France has a tax you have to pay when you die? That's funny.
Load More Replies... Danielle 1 month ago
My favourite is 'what happens to the Swallows in the winter?' mystery. Many ideas submitted over the years, Aristotle thought they went into the lakes and hibernated in the mud. No one put together that the swallows they see in Africa in the winter are the same swallows they see in Europe in the summer until the 18th Century.
Roxy222uk 1 month ago
Who were all these people that were in the toe end of Africa in the winter and back in Europe in the summer?
Load More Replies... Jonathan Labelle 1 month ago
The most mysterious song on the internet was call subway of your mind byba band call fex
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