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There are a number of things most of us learned about growing up that, as it turns out, were not nearly as mysterious as they sounded. Take, for example, the Bermuda Triangle, which, as it turns out, isn’t nearly as dangerous as sensationalists love to make it out to be. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t things out there that are still unknown to this day.
Someone asked “if you could know the truth behind one unexplainable mystery, which one would you choose?” and people described what they would love to know. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the ones you also find engaging and be sure to share your own examples in the comments below.
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#1
Where all the missing Indigenous women, girls, 2Spirit folks are, and what happened to them so their families can have some closure.
Lowrider 56 1 year ago
I think the RCMP could do better investigating this. They've been criticized for lack of caring because all the missing are Indigenous women.
liz MacClain 1 year ago
Trafficking in HUMANS is a real thing. Murdering those happens all the time. SAVE OUR INDIGENOUS WOMEN
the one dude who likes cheese 1 year ago
I actually havent heard of this. Can someone explain?
Gabby M 1 year ago
https://www.bia.gov/service/mmu/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people-crisis US, Canada, Alaska. Not to mention historically .... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-indigenous-archaeologists-journey-to-find-the-lost-children/
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JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
Who are the number one suspects when women and girls go missing, or are murdered? The answer, unfortunately, is staring you in the face.
The Cute Cat 1 year ago
Which one do you means? The one from American Indian tribe, or Native Canada Tribe, or Aborigin
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#2
All the human history of civilization before “recorded history”…
Most of human history is lost to time.
similarly 1 year ago
In addition to recorded history, we also have archaeology. Archaeology is the science of things remaining from the past. It is based on evidence. Sometimes, in fact, most of the time, we don't have all the evidence, so we have to make guesses with the evidence we have. Frequently, as more evidence becomes available, we have to reassess our ideas about the evidence. This is how science works.
Atomic Muppet 1 year ago
And there are people that believe the commonly accepted archeological time line is wrong.
Grenelda Thurber 1 year ago
It probably is wrong, there's way more stuff we don't know about human history than we do know. I doubt any non-creationist archeologist would disagree.
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Charles Kormos 1 year ago
Most of human history was spent walking around and looking for something to eat and drink. Not a big story there.
Kerry Fletcher 1 year ago
Before recorded history is about 2900 bce with the invention of writing history by the Sumerians.
Barbara Turner 1 year ago
The archeological time line is fine. Over 2,000 years ago, somebody wound up on the beach of St. Helena island. They made a driftwood fire and had fish. That's all. We'll never know who that was.
#3
Everything that was lost in the library of Alexandria.
Kurt Ramsey 1 year ago
Not much. At the time of ita burning, the library had lost much of its inventory to other libraries ans was no longer the center of learning it once was.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
The Aztec codices being destroyed was the real loss of recorded knowledge - we don’t have copies of those like we do most things that were in the library in Alexandria
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Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
It wasn't the only place in known realms to hold information. Copies of works were on another libraries
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Yes and it would be cool to know, what the Vatican and a lot of palaces in Europe and Middle East have stashed away too
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#4
I would use my 'wish' to solve the 8-years-unsolved murder of a friend's father. The victim wasn't famous, but was well loved and those that survive him live with such distress over just having no idea why their person was snatched away from them 💛.
Kombatbunni 1 year ago
That’s a really good reason to use a wish. I hope one day you get an answer
#5
I would go for what exactly is autism. What parts of the brain does it affect? What causes it? Is something missing? Deformed? Overproduced? That way you could show why everything happens and what exactly causes it. I’ve always wondered why my mind is so different ((diagnosed autistic here)) so knowing what is different in my brain literally would help.
Chloe 1 year ago
There are physical brain differences in some autistic people, but not all. Sometimes there are differences of brain growth rate but not always. It's very hard to put your finger on a single brain difference that causes autism when not all autistics have it.
The Cute Cat 1 year ago
Agree.. May be someday we can categorize autism to some branch..
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Red PANda (any pronouns) 1 year ago
It’s a different way the brain is wired. It causes them to have different strengths and weaknesses than neurotypical people. I would guess it originated and natural selection kept it around because it offers some diversity in the way of thinking, so we find out-of-the-box answers.
pep Ito 1 year ago
The brain is the most complex organ of the human being and of course its functioning is not 100% known. It is known the case of a person with half a brain that acts normally because the remaining brain has taken over the functions of the missing part of the brain.
KittyMommy 1 year ago
We don't know what causes headaches as the brain has no nerves. For that matter we don't know exactly how aspirin works either
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The Mediterranean Fruit 1 year ago
I would like to know what caused my epilepsy. There are causes for SOME cases of epilepsy (usually a head injury) but for most cases(including mine) the cause is unknown and it will never go away.
KittyMommy 1 year ago
Not belittling you in the slightest, but my pup has seizures too. For animals they lump seizures of unknown cause under epilepsy. He's 3 and they said that's a typical age for something like that to begin. He's on meds for the rest of his life too
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Daniel Gómez 1 year ago
As a 42-year-old, diagnosed with autosm this year, I'd also love to know the intricacies of this. Also, because I work with some autistic children.
#6
Where’s Shelley?
pfeils wife 1 year ago
"Shelley Miscavige the wife of Scientology dictator David Miscavige has not been seen in over 10 years.. Since her disappearance, she has been the subject of speculation and inquiries regarding her whereabouts and wellbeing."
Sue 1 year ago
It's just disgusting that he hasn't been investigated for this.
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#7
Migraines.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
I have a suspicion that finding the cause of migraines is like finding the cause for cancer: it's likely so many different causes from so many different sources that there can't be just one cure for them 😕
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I went to a physical therapist for chronic neck pain and arm twitches caused by pinched nerves from slouching and bad upper body posture. After two months of daily doing these exercises, I realized I had not had a migraine in all that time. It has been six months since my last migraine, which was before I began the neck exercises.
JK 1 year ago
Then that was a *really* bad headache. Don't get me wrong, really bad headaches are awfully unbearable, but a migraine is completely different, that's why painkillers don't work on them, you need medication from the triptan family of d***s, finding the right one helps, once the pressure is gone, the pain dissipates, then it's just the migraine hangover to deal with. People easily mix up headaches & migraines, which is why you should always see a doctor to confirm which you are suffering from so that you can use the correct method to feel better
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Learner Panda 1 year ago
Yes please. I was told at 16 that I would grow out of them; I am still waiting.
Isabel Galvez 1 year ago
Migraine doesn't disappear just like that. If a neurologist told you that they had no idea. Some women get better after having children. I'm lucky to live in a country where I get an amazing treatment for free and it has changed my life.
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Joe Reaves 1 year ago
If only because I bet we'd be able to come up with much more effective treatments (if not cures) if we knew exactly how they work.
MellonCollie 1 year ago
I used to have migraines. They arrived one day when I was about 17 years old (so my doctor thought it was hormonal), and when I was around 23 years old, a physiotherapy student I knew was writing his master's thesis on migraines and the correlation between migraines and the hyoid bone position and muscle tension (if I recall correctly). He performed a few sessions on me to release muscle pressure around that little bone and to realign it correctly, and I was effectively rid of migraines. And they were migraines for sure. I was further liberated from tension headaches by an osteopath (licensed doctors where I live, before y'all get up in arms) who correctly realigned my atlas - it was misaligned due to a coccyx injury years prior when I fell out of a tree as a kid. Somethinh you may want to look into if you suffer from migraines or tension headache.
Daniel Gómez 1 year ago
I think I found the reason mine happen, and it is not what I thought it was (or any doctor for that matter). I know it's not neorological, but rather because of a more "physical" cause. The only mystery that remains is why the happen every 6-9 months, three weeks in a row and then disappear again.
#8
I used to think I would want to know who zodiac or Jack the Ripper was.. Now I think I would want to know who the sea people were.
Ozymandias73 1 year ago
Ohhh....they were the ones you spent like a buck on from an ad in the back of comic books /jk
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I'd rather know why they invaded, then we can figure out who they were. Something very bad happened for them to sweep in like that.
Linda Roy 11 months ago
Add to that the identity of the Zodiac Killer and what happened to DB Cooper, among others.
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#9
Can I say I want a book of what happened in all unsolved missing persons cases ever?
If not that,, Malaysia flight 370.
Nora12 1 year ago
There is a pretty solid theory here on what happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhkTo9Rk6_4
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 year ago
The pilot deliberately flew away from land, then crashed into the ocean when it ran out of fuel.
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
All unsolved missing person - like worldwide, your country? For what time period? Without specific we are talking about thousands or millions of people
Denise Lewis 11 months ago
i want to know why planes and such are just dropping out of the sky i live over a flight path
Saeyoul Akiyune 1 year ago
I'm with you on the unsolved missing and/or, in general, cold cases
#10
I’d probably go with something that has always fascinated me: the origins of consciousness. Why do we have subjective experiences? Why do we have thoughts, emotions, and self-awareness? It’s one of those ultimate mysteries that cuts across science, philosophy, and even spirituality. Despite all our advancements in neuroscience and psychology, we still don’t fully understand what consciousness actually is, or how it arises from the brain.
Ace 1 year ago
And one should be careful not to limit the "we" in that question to human life only. Consciousness, self-awareness of some level, exists within many other animals as well. I'm more interested in how they "think" without any language as such.
Ozymandias73 1 year ago
Ahh, but then one should be careful as to define "language" as well. Animals communicate in a language all their own. Just b/c we don't understand the various "noises" they make, it could be considered language as they are communicating with one another.
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Lowrider 56 1 year ago
I would love to know what was before the 'Big Bang' and what caused it!
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
For many years I've figured that it's probably impossible to see beyond the big bang because it's not part of our universe. Fairly recently some mathematical theories have suggested that it might actually be possible. Just the written description of the theory are enough to make my head spin, never mind understanding he actual math. I can't imagine how the universe would spring into existence as a result of the big bang without some predecessor to cause the big bang, but it's still a problem of stacking turtles. Either there's a bottom turtle or it's an infinite stack, and either way it seems inconceivable.
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nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
...by Julian Jaynes. This is a fascinating read; highly recommended. Bear in mind the book was published in 1976. It's still very much worth reading. (For when you do the search, "Origin" is singular. Sorry, Zaach.)
Load More Replies... Susan Stead 1 year ago
Panpsychism postulates the theory that the universe has consciousness. If that were the case, would that make it the scientific discovery of a god-like being? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-consciousness-part-of-the-fabric-of-the-universe1/
Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
I would like to know what happens to that consciousness when our physical body dies.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
Oooh! And how do anesthetics work? Why don’t we know this? This one drives me crazy!
#11
Supposedly the Iliad and odyssey were part of a much larger serried of stories lost to time.
So that, I want the rest of those stories.
Antablack 1 year ago
You never made a spelling mistake or been done dirty by autocorrect?
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Is there anyone 'out there' ?
Kombatbunni 1 year ago
If there is I’d like to think they’re taking the smart option and staying away for now
WindySwede 1 year ago
With 100 - 400 billion stars in our galaxy, they would have a lot of choices!
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago
As Def Leppard would say, “Is anybody out there, anybody there? Does anybody wonder, anybody care?”
Toni Ahlgren 1 year ago
With the universe being about 14 billion years old, there's a high chance that there are civilizations who are thousands of years ahead us, or how about a million? Just like we can observe a worm but the worm has no idea that we exist, they are doing the same.
Campy 1 year ago
People who say conclusively "no" have no idea how massive the universe is. Nobody really does. When experts estimate the number of planets out there and start breaking it down to planets that can support life etc etc, they still come up with billions of civilizations. The odds that we are alone are vanishingly miniscule.
LuisSD stuff 1 year ago
Exactly. These are dangerous times. I'd want space aliens to look from afar.
#13
What happened to Madeleine McCann. It's quite trivial compared to some of the other questions being raised, but it still intrigues me. Poor girl.
Chloe 1 year ago
That case may be somewhat solved. Apparently there is strong evidence that Christian Brueckner, a German citizen who was living in Portugal at the time, was responsible for her abduction and, given his criminal history, the authorities are working on the assumption that he m*rdered her or gave her to someone else to be m*rdered. He's likely to be charged early next year.
Nat Rich 1 year ago
She's a British girl that went missing from a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 when she was 3.
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#14
Figuring out how to read the Minoan script (Linear A) would be kind of neat. It would certainly help us lean more about the Minoans, and the Bronze Age.
Bec 1 year ago
I am loving these! So many fascinated by history and prehistory. It makes me realise that somewhere out there, my tribe exists!
Tricia Neville 11 months ago
It must have been amazing to find the Rosetta Stone, a fragment that contained translations of ancient |Greek and two ancient Egyptian scripts of the same decree. Maybe there will be a similar discovery to decipher Minoan script in the future.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
This would be amazing to find, I follow the archaeology page on FB that does all the Minoan studies, I love seeing the alfresco art and fashions they wore
#15
If there are parallel worlds universes.
#16
Who put Bella in the wych elm?
To elaborate:
In 1943, four boys were exploring Hagley Wood in Worcestershire, England, searching for bird nests to raid eggs from for food. One of the boys climbed a large wych elm tree, looked inside and found that it was hollow, and at first he thought what he'd found was sheep skull. He and his friends quickly realised it was human. At first they swore never to speak of it, but one kid soon cracked and told his parents, and law enforcement was alerted.
The recovered skeleton was that of a woman who was speculated to have been there around 18 months. The skull still had a patch of skin and strands of hair. She was fully dressed, although her clothes were badly rotted, and a strip of taffeta was found in her mouth, implying death from suffocation. She still had a wedding ring and one shoe, and one of her hands was found buried under the tree rather than connected to her body. Although police were able to create a depiction of what she would have looked like in life, and contacted local dentists for help with identifying this woman, nobody could tell who she was. Worse still, headlines about her were soon pushed out of the papers by wartime news, and to top things off, her remains have been lost without trace, so modern analysis is impossible.
But at some point in 1944, graffiti began popping up in the area asking "Who Put Bella in The Wych Elm?" implying that *someone* out there wanted this woman's killer to be identified, and suggesting that her name was Bella. To this day, the mystery has remained unsolved, and unless her remains are miraculously found, we will never know who this woman was or, indeed, who put her in the wych elm.
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
It's so hard to solve a crime when the victim's identity is unknown. I bet those remains are either buried in an unmarked grave or in some archive somewhere so there's always a chance they'll be found again. If we could use genealogy to identify her, I bet the killer is someone who was known to her.
#17
Why exactly was JFK murdered and who was all involved?
Pyla 1 year ago
I am interested in all the peripheral murders around him: Dorothy Kilgallen, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Marilyn Monroe.
Katie Allen 1 year ago
Dorothy Kilgallen died from alcohol poisoning and was probably not murdered
Load More Replies... Mental Liberals 1 year ago
The corrupt CIA murdered him. There's a lot in information why the government murdered him
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
He wanted to end the war in Vietnam. The military-industrial complex got him.
Spittnimage 1 year ago
The Mafia. They spent a lot of money to get JFK elected then when his brother, RFK, was appointed US attorney general he worked at putting them in prison. They weren't about to fuggedaboudit.
Denise Lewis 11 months ago
cia they didn't like what he wanted to do give people civil rights is one
Katie Allen 1 year ago
there would be a lot less conspiracy theories about JFK if Oswald had lived long enough for there to be some sort of trial
#18
Where does space come from and where does it begin and end
edit2: if at all (I am not implying there even is an end/beginning)
Edit: and what existed before it or has it always just been
pep Ito 1 year ago
The most widely accepted and proven theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang Theory. According to this theory, the universe began approximately 13.8 billion years ago from an extremely dense and hot state. Since then, the universe has been constantly expanding. This theory has been confirmed by numerous observations and experiments, and although there are still open questions and areas of research, it provides the most coherent and complete explanation for the origin and evolution of the universe to date.
Charles Kormos 1 year ago
There is either something (matter/energy) or there is nothing (space). If something exists then it always existed because something cannot come from nothing. If there is nothing there will never be something, same reason. Easy to say, impossible to grok.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
And a massive United Galaxies police force that wont let you go there.
Load More Replies... Tricia Neville 11 months ago
We have evolved on a planet that conforms to strict rules of time and space. Maybe if we manage to leave this planet and travel the Universe in the future, we will evolve further to have a greater perception that our present brains have no capacity to understand..
Linda Graber 1 year ago
It's always blown my mind that there is not a "brick wall" out there that's the end of the universe. I cannot wrap my mind around that the universe is never ending. And I'm sad I'm in my sixties and will probably never know the answer.
Rich Black 1 year ago
Every origin story of the world has been disproved by later generations of scientists. Just like the smallest particles are no longer atoms or quarks. It's an endlessly recursive puzzle with no inherent guidance for mankind.
#19
I want to know if Larry Hillblom (The H in DHL) actually died in that plane crash? Or if he lived on with his facial reconstruction to avoid consequences.
Dude survives a plane crash in 93. Has facial reconstruction. Plane goes down again in 95, his body is never recovered, but his pilot and coworkers are. Multiple underage rape accusations across Asia. Investigators show up to his house and it is found completely scrubbed with acid destroying any traces of DNA. All personal items removed and found buried in the backyard.
Crazy, but I believe it was planned and he lived.
Russell Bowman 1 year ago
That is a US Navy C-117 that ran out of fuel and landed on a beach in Iceland in 1973 ... field stripped and full of post crash bullet holes. Still on the veach
Whitey Black 1 year ago
Yeah he didn't leave a trace of DNA and there were dozens of women claiming he fathered their child. Nobody in his family would give a DNA sample, because he was a billionaire and were heirs, but the lawyers were smart. They tested dozens of kids who's parents claimed he was the father and cross referenced their DNA against each other. I think like 10 kids matched and members of Hillblom's family were then ordered by the courts to submit DNA samples. Each child received an inheritance in the hundreds of millions.
#20
What happens when you die.
Nikole 1 year ago
Yup, after the brain dies, and with it our consciousnesses.
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Doodles1983 1 year ago
There's the physical, which we know about. The heart stops. Circulation stops. Breathing stops. The brain stops. Brain activity usually goes beyond the heart stopping so, imo, brain death is death. Not when the heart stops. And that can go on for a while. Then. Entropy and decay. The metaphysical, once the brain and our definition of awareness /consciousness... is a wholly different question.
nuberiffic 1 year ago
Is it though? The metaphysical has never been demonstrated to exist. It's just wishful thinking
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It really isn't. This question was solved a long time ago
Load More Replies... Charles Kormos 1 year ago
All life is interconnected beyond time and space. Each living thing, from birth to death, adds another story. While living, you create your story. While not living, before you were born and after living, you are forever.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
Most of the people who have ever lived know the answer to this question
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
None of the people who have ever lived know the answer to this question.
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Arthur Waite 1 year ago
There was a quotation, listed in one of Asimov's essays, that went: "At last, the Great Experiment begins." He attributed it to Lavoisier, the French chemist who discovered Oxygen. I've always taken that to be the purest scientific attitude.
#21
Amelia Earhart's fate.
Marissa D 1 year ago
We'd all like to hope that she was found and lived a quiet life, but yeah, coconut crabs probably got to her. That sounds like a horrific way to go.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
They did find remains on one of the islands back in the '40s. Why nobody thought it was her when it was in the right vicinity is anybody's guess.
PeriMeNope 1 year ago
Didn't they recently discover her plane...or one very similar underwater along the flight path? Like, within the past couple of months? Some guy used some infrared type scan or something similar to what was used to find that sub that imploded near the Titanic.
Vesuvius 1 year ago
They thought they did. It ended up being a rock formation and not a plane.
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nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I think she was lost at sea while flying back from Japan to watch her boyfriend play football.
#22
DB Cooper. Without a doubt. What happened to him? Who was he? How the f**k did he fare after jumping out of the plane in a cold November night?
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
I just read a story about this: the family of Richard Floyd McCoy, the hijacker suspected to be Cooper discovered the parachute he used in his heist. Google it.
Dave In MD 1 year ago
He didn't give his name as D.B Cooper, he said his name was Dan Cooper. "In a rush to meet a deadline, reporter James Long recorded the name "Dan Cooper" as "D. B. Cooper"
Pyla 1 year ago
That is some thick forest where he jumped. The Washougal river dumped some stuff into the Columbia, which tells me he either died of exposure (wet, cold PNW forest), or splatted somewhere. His leftovers from animals disturbing the corpse would be a Christmas miracle if found, considering the regular deposit of biomass onto the ground from the trees and other flora.....I truly believe until some hunter sees a white skull peeking through something, it will remain an mystery.
#23
If language evolved once before humans spread out, or if it evolved many times in different areas.
I really want to know if Proto-World existed.
Rich Black 1 year ago
All languages evolved from a proto language used in what we today call indua.
Pyla 1 year ago
Humans NOW need to remember that humans THEN did lead fairly isolated lives in small groups and didn't travel over great distances. That's how we got specific isolated languages, genetic expression, and separate cultures. ...I mean, sure the pyramid was fcckin viral, but as one anthropologist put it: how else in those days were you going to build something high off the ground?....more people need to realize that language changes and in the slow rolling pre-historical world, it had lots of time to change into completely different things. never mind that there were multiple species of humans floating around.
#24
What happens inside a black hole's event horizon? Is there a sigularity or is there a yet unknown pressure that prevents complete collapse or does matter and energy take on a new exotic form with new properties that prevents it? If it is a singularity, how does quantum effects work there?
In virtually all other contexts, when you calculate a signularity it is due to the theory being an approximation that breaks down there. Like, you can construct a theoretical circuit to get infinite voltage or infinite current somewhere, but when you try it in real life you just fry the electronics and never actually get to infinity. I imagine the inside of a black hole will do something that prevents a singularity, but what is it?
Ace 1 year ago
I think this person understands a lot less about black holes (and phsics in general) than they think they do.
Ron Man 1 year ago
Maybe that makes the mystery just that more deeper for him
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What happened to the Beaumont children. Missing since 1966.
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102240420.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
This is the one my sister always mentions when this sort of question comes up, but I would like to know too. So sad for the family. I think one of the family members or friends was on an episode of You Can't Ask That about people who knew missing people.
#26
Jonbenet Ramsey.
pfeils wife 1 year ago
The unidentified DNA at the scene. They need to use new technology on that DNA: I-Familia, Forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) or Rapid DNA sequencing. I'm sure this will lead them right to the responsible person.
Robin Roper 1 year ago
For a few years, I've wondered why genealogy DNA hasn't been used in this case.
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Nanny to 3 rescue Greyhounds 1 year ago
Couldn't have been Burke, they recovered DNA that ruled the family out. Great documentary on Netflix
Ashlie Benson 1 year ago
I have always been a bit obsessed with this case and the new Netflix special really blew the door off the police missteps.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I hadn't heard of the case until I saw a documentary on it recently but it would be good to have an answer.
tana 1 year ago
okay, so after reading this, I did like 10 minutes of research and found this:The detective, Steve Thomas, who resigned from the police department in mid-1998, writes that he concluded that Mrs. Ramsey strangled her daughter in a panic on Christmas night 1996 after accidentally causing a serious wound to the little girl's head.
Ashlie Benson 1 year ago
You think a 9 year old was able to smash a skull open and leave a divot and then tie a complicated garrot and strangle with it, both of which happened near simultaneously?
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago
I know right? So many people who think they are so smart that they know the truth after looking into something for a couple of hours. If it was that easy, the police would have already solved it. But it's easy to "solve" cases if you don't need to have actual reliable evidence, or can just ignore counter evidence. People should really ask themselves: What's more likely, that the case is complex and/or there isn't enough reliable evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, or that you are the only person in the world smart enough to figure it out?
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whineygingercat 1 year ago
Most popular, and probable, answer: her brother Burke did it and the parents covered it up
G R 1 year ago
You really Burke was the one serially sexually abusing her?
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#27
What was before the Big Bang.
Campy 1 year ago
I'm not sure why you got downvoted. That's certainly one of the leading theories.
Load More Replies... Cas P 1 year ago
Scientists now believe they have a partial solution. They have decripted a sound from just before the bang. Apparently it sounds like the word, "Ooops"
nuberiffic 1 year ago
There was no "before" the big bang. The big bang is when time started, there was no time before that. Asking what was before the big bang is like asking what's north of the north pole
Mike Price 1 year ago
This is kind of a non-answer. "Time began with the Big Bang." Sorry, but I'm calling BS on this. "Time" is a human construct, a measure of duration with UNITS ALL DERIVED FROM THE MOTIONS OF OUR OWN PLANET. And since no-one was actually "there", no-one really knows what happened. The Big Bang is somewhat of an Event Horizon; we simply don't know, and will probably never know, what happened before, but it's almost a certainty that SOMETHING did,
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#28
What was the question to get 42 as the answer.
Robert Millar 1 year ago
"What is the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything?" *Wait for 7.5 million years.* Deep Thought replies: "Forty Two."
Skara Brae 1 year ago (edited)
"What's 6 x 7?" Actually, Douglas Adams, the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had a favorite tea: Earl Grey No. 42. That was his answer to the ultimate question.
Adam Belaire 1 year ago
The ascii character for 42 is * which is a wildcard.
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James Blanken 1 year ago
Rumor has it that Adams was big into computer coding. In ASCII, the number 42 represents an asterisk. An asterisk is used as a place holder, or it can mean anything you want it to. So I read it as the answer to life, the universe, everything being whatever you want it to be.
#29
Amber Tuccaro, in Nisku, Alberta, Canada. The police released some audio that definitely sounds like her talking to her killer while he's driving her to the killing site. Pretty tough to hear. I used to work up there in the oil field when she went missing and there was basically nothing about her at the time. Stumbled on to the story later in life and it always kinda bothered me. I could have been driving the road she was on at the time and probably drove around the site in the same time period.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
That’s always a horrid feeling, in South Australia years ago, there was a suitcase we allllll drove past for ages (I was going too and from Perth and Queensland) and no one thought much of it, and i don’t think I would alone in feeling guilty for not checking it out. But the contents turned out to be a poor little toddler girl who was murdereḏ. Luckily (silver lining ) the mystery was solved very fast and the couple who did it were jailed. https://www.smh.com.au/national/girl-in-suitcase-dead-mothers-identity-used-to-rake-in-90000-20151027-gkjpxi.html
#30
If this counts, what alien life/civilization is actually like. not whether or not it exists, but what it is like given it exists. I want to know about CULTURE, man. alien anthropology and sociology.
but if that doesn't count and it has to be a more straightforward mystery...well, does "unexplainable" mean literally nobody on earth knows? or just for most of we can only rely on theories. because then I want to say "info about aliens from area 51" or "what's in area 51" but if that's still breaking the rules because obviously the higher ups can explain that...
then i'll finally say "What really started the universe, the actual origin point" and blow my mind trying to comprehend infinity. or find out there actually is some kind of deity.
pep Ito 1 year ago
It is impossible to have such knowledge about an extraterrestrial civilization of beings that most likely have no relation or resemblance to us.
eMpTy 1 year ago
...and would likely want nothing to do with a bunch of monkeys bent on destroying themselves and their own planet.
Load More Replies... Red PANda (any pronouns) 1 year ago
I wanna know if they can perceive music the way that we do
Linda Graber 1 year ago
Being in my sixties it makes me sad that I will probably not be around when we find out.
Daniel Gómez 1 year ago
If it's "alien" society then it's "alienthology" or "xenothology", not anthropology. I'll see myself out...
Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
The odds of us experiencing any form of alien life from Out There are very slim based on the amount of time required to travel through the universe. Even at light speed the time is measured in light years and when you think we are just now looking at stars from 13 BILLION light years ago/away , the possibility of someone developing a form of travel faster than light seems rather slim.
#31
Why does everything I do feel like I'm going in the wrong direction.
#32
Jack the Ripper and The Black Dahlia. OK, that's 2 things... I'd like answers to both, but I'll accept either one.
Chloe 1 year ago
I personally believe the theory that Dr George Hodel k*lled the Black Dahlia. He was bugged by the police and recorded saying "Supposin' I did k*ll the Black Dahlia. They can't prove it now. They can't talk to my secretary anymore because she's d*ad. They thought there was something fishy. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. K*lled her. Maybe I did k*ll my secretary." There were 8 witnesses who attested to him having a relationship with Elizabeth Short. C*daver dogs indicated at his home. He was suspected of other m*rders too. Both his son and his daughter accused him of being the m*rderer. For me, that's pretty cut and dried.
#33
When I come back from the laundromat I keep finding strangers socks in my clothes, even though it’s happened enough times that now I thoroughly check the washers and dryers before I load them up. So where the hell are the strange socks coming from?!
PhaseWitFact 1 year ago (edited)
I've found weird socks in my dryer. Like baby socks when there hasn't been a baby in the house for years. Huge socks that are way too big for anyone living here and socks in styles that we don't wear. WTF???
Janissary35680 1 year ago
According to one theory, socks spontaneously come into existence and disappear in dryers. According to another, dryers are connected by wormholes through which socks migrate from one machine to another.
#34
Everything surrounding the Sodder children.
Yes, the most likely answer was the fire, but there were a lot of odd happenings around that whole thing and it'd be fascinating to just... know for sure.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
From what I've read and seen on the case, my guess is that some of the children wanted to leave the family, so they set the fire on purpose and went out on the ladder that had been moved. Since they've never found bones, it's the only thing that makes sense.
#35
The Wow! signal. Basically, if you wanted to send a message that says "I am here" and you obviously don't know anything at all about any potential alien language, what do you do?
You send something unambiguous, like just the number 1 to show it's not a natural signal. But how do you send the number 1?
Well, hydrogen is the same everywhere in the universe, one proton, so you send a modulated signal in the emission band of hydrogen, basically just saying "1". This was predicted long before we ever detected it, and science isn't about explaining s**t after the fact, but making predictions beforehand and having to wait to see if you ever find evidence.
I'll never live to see it, but I want to know who or what created the Wow! Signal. It's scarier to me than almost any space discovery ever.
Papa 1 year ago
It was very long ago, so I don't remember the source, but I recall an option for reaching out to alien civilizations with a message of just prime numbers. Since mathematics is universal (as far as we know), the signal would be recognized by a civilization that was advanced far enough to recognize it for what it was.
#36
Where did cotton eyed Joe come from and where did he go.
Lost Panda 1 year ago
Wait a minute... I just looked it up... I have been wrong all these years... Joe is not the woman... Joe is the man who took the woman from the narrator! I guess I still have a lot to learn...
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#37
Where is the real Ark of the Covenant?
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Warehouse 4, Aisle G7, Section Red, Row 12, Shelf 3, Bay A, Level 5.
#38
UFOs.
pep Ito 1 year ago
UFOs are currently called UAPs Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and there are different types with different possible origins and explanations.
Ace 1 year ago
No. UFOs are, by definition, not aliens. That would make them _Identified_ Flying Objects.
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#39
Who the F**K built Teotihuacán.
#41
Deep Underground Military Bases (DUMBs).
How many are there and how many people are there in them? How deep do they go? What is their real purpose if they exist at all?
#44
How much ancient structures, artifacts, and pictographs/petroglyphs did we lose forever when Lake Powell was filled? Yes I know they did surveys as the dam was being built but it was basically a mad scramble to document things, and there’s so so much out there in canyons nearby, so there’s no way the archaeologists saw it all, especially without modern gps and being in the absolute middle of nowhere in those days. How many pots and baskets and textiles and beautiful structures and intricate barrier canyon style pictographs were drowned?
How much of human history will we never know because our ancestors lived in areas now completely submerged by 100+ft of seawater? Maybe we get lucky and find some more sites like Doggerland that preserved enough material to be studied, maybe we find some more underwater cave entrances that lead to stunning cave paintings, but what if we always have that gap in prehistory because the ice age ended and flooded everything .
#45
Who the f**k was the Zodiac killer?!
#46
It’s not necessarily unexplainable, because there are people who do know the answers, just very few of them, and one singular person probably doesn’t know all of it.
I want to know the ins and outs of all the federal government and military’s safety and security processes. I want all the details about the hidden tunnels underneath Washington DC, any government bunkers that are hidden around the country for potential nuclear fallout, all of the inner workings of the Secret Service, how federal buildings operate behind the scenes, all the little nooks and crannies of the White House and Camp David, and anything else that they won’t tell us.
P1 No-Name 1 year ago
I think its better if 'we' don't know. Because if 'we' know, 'they' will know too. Its called National Security for a reason, and curiosity isn't a good enough reason to give away information. Just my feeling.
#47
I’d like to know the real truth behind how religions came to be. like the real story of their creations.
🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 1 year ago
Storytelling and fear. Just like now. It's baffling to me how in these days people still believe the stories and fight around who believes in the "right" way.
Ace 1 year ago
Yes, the bigger mystery is not how they came into existence, but how so many people still believe in them to this day.
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Susan Stead 1 year ago
As a means of explaining a chaotic universe and to give ourselves a sense of being able to affect change by praying, like there's a manager and I can ask him to fix this thing for me.
pep Ito 1 year ago
The reasons for the origin of religions in history Explanation of the Unknown: Need for Meaning and Purpose Social Cohesion and Community Social and Moral Control Spiritual and Mystical Experiences Influence of Leaders and Prophets Cultural Evolution And then there are the American preachers who do it for the money.
Rinso The Red 1 year ago
As I understand it - Dreams lead to belief in spirits (animism). Belief in spirits leads to demi-urges. They evolve into a pantheon (polytheism), which can move towards a belief in multiple gods, but only one is worthy of worship (monolatry), which can then move towards monotheism.
#48
The Fermi Paradox.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
That one is easy. Why would any logical spacefaring civilization want to visit?
What do you think ?
Kevin Hickey 1 year ago
Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
Orwell 1 year ago
Does anyone else think it's more likely that people would ask something deeply personal? Something about themselves, their relationships, their family?
Chich 1 year ago
TBH this would not cross my mind. I would want big picture questions answered.
Load More Replies... Ariom Dahl 1 year ago (edited)
What happened to the sons of Edward lV? (the Princes in the Tower)
the sixthgirl 1 year ago
It's so weird they won't allow DNA testing on the bones found in 1674. I really do think those are the princes, BUT--per your post--we don't really know.
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
What's hidden under the Vatican, where was Hannibal Barca buried and where are his remains today, where is MH370, why are so many people blind to the fact - or don't want to admit- that there is overwhelming scientific, architectural, and engineering evidence that points to 9/11 being an inside job.
Major Harris 1 year ago
former radar operator here for the u.s. navy. all a pilot needs to do, if in trouble, is to flip a switch and the plane lights up like a christmas tree on th2e3radar screen if hijacked. 4 pilots and no flipped switch? also, f.a.a. regulations were not followed on that day. pro golfer payne stewart was flying in his personal jet in 1999. a few minutes after the plane reached cruising altitude, control lost audio with the pilot, but plane was still on radar. a few minutes later, control called the air force, as per regulations and informed them of the situation. the air force sent two jets to find out what was going on. the plane had become depressurized and every one was dead. air force followed till it ran out of fuel but had orders to shoot it down if it posed a danger to the ground. why, on 9-11 were there no fighter jets scrambled for 4 jumbo airliners that had lost radio contact with pilot and yet were still on the radar and had changed course?
Load More Replies... Gozer LeGozerian 1 year ago
Why do people storm the capitol when they lost an election?
Load More Replies... Kevin Hickey 1 year ago
Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
Orwell 1 year ago
Does anyone else think it's more likely that people would ask something deeply personal? Something about themselves, their relationships, their family?
Chich 1 year ago
TBH this would not cross my mind. I would want big picture questions answered.
Load More Replies... Ariom Dahl 1 year ago (edited)
What happened to the sons of Edward lV? (the Princes in the Tower)
the sixthgirl 1 year ago
It's so weird they won't allow DNA testing on the bones found in 1674. I really do think those are the princes, BUT--per your post--we don't really know.
Load More Replies... Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
What's hidden under the Vatican, where was Hannibal Barca buried and where are his remains today, where is MH370, why are so many people blind to the fact - or don't want to admit- that there is overwhelming scientific, architectural, and engineering evidence that points to 9/11 being an inside job.
Major Harris 1 year ago
former radar operator here for the u.s. navy. all a pilot needs to do, if in trouble, is to flip a switch and the plane lights up like a christmas tree on th2e3radar screen if hijacked. 4 pilots and no flipped switch? also, f.a.a. regulations were not followed on that day. pro golfer payne stewart was flying in his personal jet in 1999. a few minutes after the plane reached cruising altitude, control lost audio with the pilot, but plane was still on radar. a few minutes later, control called the air force, as per regulations and informed them of the situation. the air force sent two jets to find out what was going on. the plane had become depressurized and every one was dead. air force followed till it ran out of fuel but had orders to shoot it down if it posed a danger to the ground. why, on 9-11 were there no fighter jets scrambled for 4 jumbo airliners that had lost radio contact with pilot and yet were still on the radar and had changed course?
Load More Replies... Gozer LeGozerian 1 year ago
Why do people storm the capitol when they lost an election?
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