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50 Of The World’s Greatest Mysteries That Remain Unsolved To This Day
Interview With Expert
In 2019, famed director Martin Scorsese released The Irishman. It was his three-hour epic that touched on the life and influence of Jimmy Hoffa, a labor union leader who suddenly vanished in 1975. Many have speculated the involvement of organized crime in his disappearance, but nothing has ever been proven. He was officially declared deceased seven years later.
What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa is one of the many mysteries that remain unsolved to this day. And for this list, we’re providing you with a few more that you may have likely pondered on in some way or another.
Have you ever wondered what Jesus was doing in the middle of his life or where consciousness comes from? Scroll through and contribute to the discussion!
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#1
Why ANYONE pays attention to “influencers”.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Because they only accept bribes (oh, "collaborations") to endorse the very best products.
Ian Webling 3 months ago
I'm beginning to think influencers might be embryonic politicians practising to one day run for president.
Nova Rook 3 months ago (edited)
I heard of an influencer once who gave his fans a bunch of rules to improve thier lives while making it all about him. He even told them they needed to slice off the tips of thier members. People loved this stuff and he has a billion or more followers to this day. But yeah, some of the more modern ones are silly too.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I've frequently read that actors shouldn't be political despite the fact that they pay taxes, too. Yet influencers, a bunch a nitwit, arrogant no-bodies are religiously followed.
Jaya 3 months ago
Phrasing your opinion as a 'unsolved mystery' is super annoying. This has nothing to do with wanting to understand why, this is purely about wanting to let everybody know that you hate influencers. OP should go post their opinion in a thread about opinions, not in a thread about unsolved mysteries. Stop filling up threads with things that have nothing to do with it.
Scott Rackley 3 months ago
No, it truly is a mystery. Also, p**s off with your dollar store brand of psychology.
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#2
The Trump presidency and his amazing ability to not be in jail.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Due to previous GOP presidents stocking the Supreme Court with unprincipled right wing zealots.
Shane S 3 months ago
Merrick Garland not arresting him during the Biden presidency. I think they thought he was in the past and didn’t want to risk upsetting his base and having another 1/6. But look where we are now.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
ESPECIALLY after calling up Brad Raffensberger (SOS of Georgia) DEMANDING he 'find' another 12k votes to win the state. The very definition of conspiracy to defraud.
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Gunný Petersen 3 months ago (edited)
He's the cancer which is destroying the US from the inside out and at the speed of light. Why anyone takes anything that this abomonation of a pile of garbage says or does with seriousness is beyond my comprehention! If he says anything you can take it to the bank that it's a lie or best case scenario he has no idea that he knows what He's talking about. He's a half a braincell walking around who s***s his pants all day while doing it.
MaryHadaLittleLamb 3 months ago (edited)
With each new headline, i become more terrified of what's happening in my country. He is insane, but what's scary to me is how many people he has around him who are willing to help him perpetrate evil.
Nikole 3 months ago
I live in Chicago. That motherfúcker had better not send the national guard here. Yeah, it’d be illegal, but when has that stopped him? Hopefully he dies soon.
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Peter Bear 3 months ago
This one, I understand completely. It's the pattern of dictators and tyrants throughout history.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Intelligent, decent politicians require an educated populace, but the US public educational system has been on the decline for decades. Stupid people make stupid decisions, esp. when motivated by fear, which the GOP supplies in volumes.
#3
How the h**l have shows like Jersey Shore and The Khardashians are still on the air.
PeepPeep the duck 3 months ago (edited)
There was nothing on one night after work (I hate late night American tv shows) so I watched 1 episode that was on tv of the kardashians, they adopted some homeless man and it was the most demeaning and condescending thing I ever saw. This was like a decade ago, but it was so cringe and i unfortunately remember it.
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Bill Swallow 3 months ago
They make money from mass marketing to millions of morons and they help advance someone's agenda to dumb us down into brain-dead idiots who consume, obey, and do not question. As well as reinforcing the idea that only shallow irrelevancies are worth paying attention to.
Virgil Blue 3 months ago
Far cheaper to produce than actual good series or even quizzes. And a lot of people seemingly love watching the same cheap dribble that is obviously engineered drama.
We got in touch with a couple of experts who named some of the unsolved mysteries that may have gone under many people’s radars. One of them is privacy expert Frank M. Ahearn, who shared with us the 1974 disappearance of British peer and gambler John Bingham, or more commonly known as Lord Lucan.
“He disappeared without a trace, never to be seen again, after he eliminated his housekeeper, mistaking her for his spouse,” Ahearn told Bored Panda. “It is odd that this type of person could vanish so easily.”
#4
Why are we still changing clocks twice a year when everyone agrees its stupid?
Bill Swallow 3 months ago (edited)
Well, some folks define 'everyone' as "Me and most of the folks I deal with directly" - which is *never* a statistically valid sample.
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Ejteh 3 months ago
I don't think it's stupid. It comes in very handy where I live, because we get much more use out of the daylight. I have to say that a lot of my country thinks otherwise.
The Other Guest 3 months ago
I hate it. There's no need for the sun to be up at 8:30 or 9:00 pm (especially at 4th of July & Halloween, where you have to wait for it to be dark for fireworks/trick-or-treating).
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Ace 3 months ago
Because while the original reasons for doing so may not be so relevant any more there are no convincing arguments to change back, and the effort to do so would be huge. Don't forget it's not just within any one country but very much a global thing (apart from China where they just keep the whole country on a single time despite despite sunrise/set being several hours different from one side of the country to the other).).
Peter Bear 3 months ago
Because Congress is too busy destroying the country to care about changing it.
tameson 3 months ago
According to a March 2025 Gallup poll: , "The majority of Americans (54%) say they are ready to do away with the practice. By contrast, 40% of U.S. adults say they are in favor of daylight saving time, while 6% are uncertain." https://news.gallup.com/poll/657584/half-daylight-saving-time-sunsetted.aspx
#5
Why the USB cable is always upside down the first time you try to plug it in.
S Bow 3 months ago
Yes. Then you flip it back over and it mysteriously fits.
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Chewie Baron 3 months ago
I’ve lately been able to put it in the first time. I’m currently on my 10th consecutive right first time.
Science Nerd 3 months ago
https://unitedcurious.com/jokes/what-happened-at-the-funeral-of-the-man-who-invented-the-usb
Jihana 3 months ago
The inventor knew that it would be a problem, but it would have been more expensive to make it so that it could plug in both ways. Electronic components got cheaper, so now they can produce them differently.
Load More Replies... Ace 3 months ago
The ones that were actually called "mini-USB" were fine, actually, as they have a very obvious shape. They were gradually replaced, certainly in phones, by the "micro" ones which are indeed the worst offenders, as their shape is difficult enough to see on the male plug and impossible on the embedded female socket on your device, so it's possible to try and force it in the wrong way and even damage the port.. . . The later, now becoming universal, USB-C standard is completely reversible, so there is no right and wrong way. Sooo much better. Clipboard0...d7e43c.jpg 
#6
The brain. The organ that can understand the universe and manipulate it using advanced technology that was devised based on understanding. But we struggle to figure out how the brain actually functions in real time. We know some things like functions of certain areas and how its failure changes the way we experience life, but we can't explain the collective manifestation of those experiences, the consciousness.
MontanaMariner 3 months ago
I've learned over the last few years with my adventures in epilepsy just how unique each brain is.
Agfox 3 months ago
...but we can't explain the collective manifestation of those experiences, the consciousness." It's obvious, given our brain controls & regulates everything we do, it does not want us to know these aspects of it's functioning & thus deliberately withholds the information. Prove me wrong!
Ejteh 3 months ago (edited)
So you say that a brain has a mind of his own 😁
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Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Slight correction (bc I can be a pedantic a-hole), but there is not one human on this planet that understands the universe.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
For me, the greatest unsolved mystery of all time is, indeed, how an incorporeal phenomenon such as 'Consciousness' couple into the gross matter of the human body. There are times when I wonder if consciousness doesn't originate in some other continuum, leaks through to our universe, and is picked up by the neural system acting as an antenna.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
"The organ that ^thinks ^it can understand the universe." After all, who tells us our brain is great? Our brain?
UKGrandad 3 months ago
Depends if you consider bio-electricity to be a material substance.
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Son of Philosoraptor 3 months ago
Oh BS, there is no "consciousness," only "consciousness of" and that resolves the problem. On this advanced meditators and neuroscientists agree!
Ahearn has his theories about the Lord Lucan disappearance, particularly with how the latter managed to vanish without a trace. As he explained, Bingham’s status as a Lord may have helped him gain access to h**h-level individuals to help him escape.
Bingham was eventually declared deceased in 1999, 25 years after he vanished. His death certificate wasn’t issued until 2016.
#7
The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script, produced by the Indus Valley Civilization.
It was a huge civilization in northern India and Pakistan around 3300-1300 BC. It spanned more area than any other civilization at the time.
Despite many attempts, the 'script' has not yet been deciphered, but efforts are ongoing.
Catie D 3 months ago (edited)
This is one of the most fascinating mysteries for sure. The Harappans had an amazing and exceptionally advanced civilization just from what is known-- imagine if we had all the extra information that could be gleaned from their writing. They lived in peace without extreme social stratification, without huge differences between rich and poor, without wars, without patriarchy. And they managed it for 2000 years. It can be done!
Bill Galbreath 3 months ago
Actually they had large walled cities and citadels for defense against attacks, had rulers and slaves, and then declined due to climate change. Its mature form was from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. This is a very special part of the world where many civilizations grew up and flourished, and it also became the major link between China and the west during the Silk road period.
Load More Replies... UKGrandad 3 months ago (edited)
For the benefit of the Army of the Perpetually Offended (Keyboard Division), please be aware that the presence of the swastikas in the top right of the image does not mean that the Harappan people were Nazís and that they did not worship Sydney Sweeney as a goddess. That is all. EDIT: And 20 minutes is all it took for one of their scouts to find this, get offended and downvote me. Have you people got any self-awareness? 🙄
Don't listen to me 3 months ago
The swastika symbol is believed to be between 3,000 to 12,000 years old, with some of the earliest known uses dating back to around 10,000 BCE. It has been used in various cultures as a symbol of good fortune and well-being throughout history. Until the Nazis took it over only ~100 years ago & completely redefined it!
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#8
My real ancestral last name and the real surnames of millions of other descendants of the transatlantic s***e trade of Africans enslaved in the Americas. Most of us don't even know what countries our ancestors came from because babies were so commonly sold away from their mothers.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Next time you do a genealogy search, bear in mind that slaves had no birth certificates, nor any other proof of descendance..sad.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
Geoffrey Scott: consider that the enslaved people shipped from Africa to the Americas had no birth certificates because their cultures didn't have such things. Plenty of cultures had no written records of that sort up until recently - and a few still exist in that state. The Andaman islanders, for example.
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 3 months ago
Ancestral DNA can help narrow down the area from where your ancestors came. It's not the same as having a family tree with actual names but it may help provide some sense of where you came.
keyboardtek 3 months ago (edited)
And today I learned almost 50 million people are enslaved around the world today! In the far East, fishing fleets entice workers onto shrimping vessels and never pay them or let them leave the ship. They are kept imprisoned on the ships working as slave labor for us to enjoy shrimp.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Even with a DNA/ancestry test, many of us will never know our lineage. Records that have been purposely or accidently destroyed have wiped out this information. Poor people of all nationalities/races would have difficulty learning this information.
MsAnnThrope 3 months ago
Same for all those who were and are victims of slavery throughout history and today. Slavery is not unique to Black Africans.
IntombiyoMzulu 3 months ago
No one is saying slavery is unique to African Americans. Just like how Americans are now being told slavery was not bad you ma'am are trying to minimise the atrocities of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. Instead of minimising or denying such atrocities to avoid feeling uncomfortable learn to sit in it and perhaps you will learn a thing or two.
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Who k****d Epstein and all the people involved in his debauchery.
David Paterson 3 months ago
And changing the names on those files as we speak.
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Nova Rook 3 months ago (edited)
The current American president knew this man was harming children and chose to remain friends with him. The American nation elected this man to power, in part for his opposition to minority rights. Values matter.
Tabitha 3 months ago
There was a lawsuit before his first election involving a 13 year old girl Trump r***d (statutorily). Unfortunately, she was so terrified from the campaign of intimidation that was launched against her, that she withdrew. I hope she and the other victims come together and tell ALL their stories, and name ALL the names. That would definitely submarine the republican efforts to hide sections and redact names and rewrite the parts of the files that aren’t flattering to themselves before releasing them piecemeal to Congress.
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michael Chock 3 months ago
If the files were released, we would see Democrat and Republican leaders do agree exploitation and abuse are a "privilege" for the wealthy.
Former US Army intelligence officer and retired NASA Office of Inspector General Senior Special Agent Joseph Gutheinz told us about the missing Prelaunch Assessment and Review (PAR) tapes from NASA and about the Russian Mir Space Station fire and collision in 2001.
#10
Where Shelley miscaviage is, no one knows.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
maybe dead, maybe alive. wife of the head of sciencetology. mystery maybe that he had her killed. lots of information on Google
Robin Roper 3 months ago
I believe she started to not "toe the line" within her husband's leadership so he had her "locked away."
Upstaged75 3 months ago
Absolutely this. There are people who were being kept prisoner by David that have escaped - I'm sure there are others who haven't.
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keyboardtek 3 months ago
Escapees from Scientology have reported there are virtual slave prisons where members who fall out of favor are sent for punishment.
#11
Would be pretty cool to know who Jack the Ripper was, or who k****d the Black Dahlia - or whether the guy writing letters to the police as the Zodiac K****r was actually the one committing the m*****s.
I'm putting my money on Ancient Aliens being the answer to all three.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Jack the Ripper was an incorporeal alien entity capable of possessing people. It fed on fear, terror, and violence. It will be dealt with a few hundred years from now by the crew of the USS Enterprise.
LinkTheHylian 3 months ago
Let me help with this one: Jack the Ripper has been identified by some investigators as a Polish barber named Aaron Kosminski. However, this has yet to be proven with certainty.
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Gregory Garcia 3 months ago
The Zodiac was identified by his son. The man had a Zodiac watch and the circle cross was on the watch. Solved in the 20 naughts
tameson 3 months ago
Nope. At least 3 people have claimed that their father/stepfather was the Zodiac killer. None of those clams held up.
Load More Replies... Matt Blakeley 3 months ago
There isn't even proof there was one ripper. Policing back then was EVEN WORSE than it is today, which is a scary thought.
Brian Droste 3 months ago (edited)
Regards Jack the Ripper I thought I read that they figured out who Jack the Ripper was or has suspicious of one or two people that could have been Jack the Ripper.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Phrases like "suspicious" and "could have been" mean that they don't know.
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MedusaWasBeautiful 3 months ago
Jack the Ripper was a phony. The Whitechapel m******r was the real deal
#12
I love me all things Voynich Manuscript.
Caffeinated Ape 3 months ago
Even if it IS a complete hoax, it's an OLD hoax and has value in and of itself. It's fascinating.
Nova Rook 3 months ago
My assumption is that some rich merchant paid for a bit of sci fi to be made and this is the result. I picture him showing it to guests and everyone having a good chuckle when he reveals the prank.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 3 months ago
Isn't this the one that was recently discovered to be ancient Turkish. It took so long because nobody had shown it to an expert in ancient Turkish before.
liam newton-harding 3 months ago
I believe that solution was debunked this year, as the gentleman could provide no peer proof of their “solution “.
Load More Replies... ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
so far AI can't interpret it cuz they have nothing to compare it to
Kira Okah 3 months ago
It's been run through deep learning algorithms, but it was running a comparison with only seven ancient Indian scripts, so it identified the most similar to a very limited sample size. It gave the nearest similarity to Khojki script, and annoyingly the version of the paper I found was walled, I think that I am going to go hunt that later.
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#13
Alcatraz escape - did they survive?
Linda Roy 3 months ago
IIRC, they weren't murderers, they just escaped from every prison they were sent to
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Mythbusters, basically proved the police were looking in completely the wrong place, and the escape was survivable.
PeepPeep the duck 3 months ago (edited)
There was also a recent interview done with relatives that believe the brothers are dead now but got postcards and photos from where they lived. It did look like them, but we’d never really know. The family seemed adamant though
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Major Harris 3 months ago
a letter and a photo were sent to the families of the two anglin brothers in 1975. it was from brazil. they said that yes, it was them. even the f.b.i. believed that the photo was real and sent agents down there to investigate. 2D68F2BD00...6863c5.jpg 
Upstaged75 3 months ago
Probably not, but that would have been cool if they made it. Mostly likely shark food.
#14
Where *is* Carmen Sandiego?
Bi.Felicia 3 months ago
PBS channel 2 Boston was brought to you by viewers like you.
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Emilu 3 months ago
Actually checked not so long ago and still have the floppies. Unfortunately... don't have anything that reads the floppies. 😆
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Emilu 3 months ago (edited)
Man, this bint made me waste so much of my childhood life. Biatch. (Seriously, though... loved the games. Still wish I could play them properly nowadays. So many others I could add to this list. Microsoft MindMaze, EA 3d Atlas Around the World, Zoombinis... they weren't so much educational "back in my day 😆", they were just fun. Unlike, say, dying to the spikes consistently from Prince of Persia on an ancient Mac a gazillion years ago. Sorry, Prince.)
#15
Aside from the big, existential questions, I'd like to know the whole story of D.B. Cooper.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
..and where all the 401k monies went as well as all the home equity in 2008. POOF! gone! And we are told Social Security needs to be privatized? That event (401k's) alone should tell you that would be an exceedingly bad idea.
Gregory Garcia 3 months ago
A myth busters type show demonstrated that he didnt jump in Oregon, but near Reno. He converted the cash to chips or pretended he won it in a casino and laundered it. Easy peasy
Adreana Julander 3 months ago
From a few discovery channel shows it seems likely to be solved but I guess we can't prove it. A mormon guy from Utah
Matt Blakeley 3 months ago
Some of the money was found in the forest where "DAN Cooper" jumped, so the overwhelming likelihood is he dead. And was dead very soon after jumping.
As Gutheinz explains, the stolen PAR tapes left him angered because he believed it was a ploy to sabotage investigations by the Office of the Inspector General and Congress.
“The OIG was not immediately told of the theft, and neither NASA nor Russia was keen to highlight something that made both look bad,” he explained.
#16
The Vela Incident.
September 1979. An American 'Vela Hotel' spy satellite detects the distinct double-flash of a nuclear detonation in the southern Indian Ocean. Total middle-of-nowhere. Unlike every other nuclear detonation in history, no nation claims responsibility.
According to declassified documents, the CIA suspected it was a collaboration between Israel and South Africa. A captured KGB spy claimed the Soviets thought the same thing (how believable that is depends on how much you trust captured KGB spies).
South Africa DID have a nuclear weapons program that they eventually abandoned. Supposedly they never set one off. Israel has nukes, this is an open secret.
Who did it? Was there a nuclear detonation at all, or did the spy sat report a false positive?
AndyR 3 months ago
I thought it was widely accepted that it was a collaboration between South Africa and Israel?
Matt Blakeley 3 months ago
It is known, but people pretend it isn't the truth because then they have to admit that Israel worked closely with Apartheid South Africa.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
Probably us (South Africa). Well, the apartheid government. A friend of mine says they had nuclear silos under the Kruger Park that you could see when you flew over (his father is a pilot).
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Glad you added "(South Africa)", or I would have assumed a crashed Vulcan observer scout.
Load More Replies... meeeeeeeeeeee 3 months ago
hmmm...who could it be? I also wouldn't have trusted Germany denying things in the 1940s.
Mabelbabel 3 months ago
Similar happened in Australia in the middle 90s. Aum Shinrikyo (a cult responsible for mass ricin poisoning in Japan) purchased land in the Australian outback, and there's some evidence of nuclear activity. Seismic Events in Australia and the Aum Shinrikyo - Astrophysics Data System https://share.google/XvkMLcMrMYOCHGgEl
Ian Webling 3 months ago
I thought this had been established as being done by the South Africans.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Raised during the Cold War, so I have an abiding suspicion of anything Russian. And since I don't support genocide, I don't trust a thing the Israeli government says.
Brian Droste 3 months ago
If it is a open secret, can it be consider secret if everyone knows about it.
#17
Satoshi Nakamoto.
Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin, this person/people invented and implemented it, holds a stash worth billions, and then just... disappeared. None of their bitcoin has moved since (and we would know the moment it does - we know which coins in the blockchain are theirs, and it's watched like a hawk).
It's like something out of a movie but it's 100% real. The current value of his stash is approx 42 billion dollars.
Jeremy James 3 months ago
I like the theory that Satoshi Nakamoto was an AI tasked with destroying humanity. It invented Bitcoin to trick us into building it a massive network of data processing centers.
Eppe 3 months ago (edited)
I'm hearing this theory for the first time, and I definitely don't like it.
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Strahd Ivarius 3 months ago
How long before Donald "very small p***s" Trump says he is the one who invented Bitcoin?
winterwidow87 3 months ago
My money's on Elon. He has a record of claiming he invented things when he didn't.
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David Paterson 3 months ago
The two main possibilities are that either he is dead or he never existed in the first place. Given that Bitcoin started as a way to launder funds for criminals, both are possible.
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Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Don't care. Don't understand Bitcoin. Don't plan to learn about at this late stage of life.
#18
Where is Genghis Khan buried.
Another Panda 3 months ago
LOL, I haven’t thought of that old joke in decades.
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What about you, dear readers? Which unsolved mystery continues to boggle your mind to this day? What about it has kept you wondering about answers? We’d love to hear your insights, too!
#19
Probably not "the greatest" - but the Isabella Gardner Museum art heist has always been a fascinating story. Lots of theories, but no leads on where the art went or why the individual pieces were chosen.
Personal unsolved mystery: Who burned down my friend's horse barn in 1983.
michael Chock 3 months ago (edited)
Democracy was stored in that guy's friend's horse barn?
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Hinterkaifeck M*****s, 1922 Germany, as far as unsolved crimes go.
tameson 3 months ago
I like that line of thinking, but Trump's grandfather came to the US in 1885.
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#22
Not the world's greatest perhaps, but I'd really like to know who shot Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1984.
Paula Smith 3 months ago
I was told he took a plane that was logged out to Winston Churchill but Churchill had to go to an emergency meeting so Glenn Miller used his plane.
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Joe Reaves 3 months ago
Didn't they recently decide that one of the 'witnesses' was actually Palme's m******r? I just googled - in 2020 the chief investigator named Stig Folke Wilhelm Engström to be the prime suspect. The evidence was not strong enough to take him to trial and he has since died, but he had a motive and he placed himself at the scene, claiming to be the first witness on the scene. Other witnesses however do not mention him except by describing a man of his appearance fleeing the scene after the shooting (none have conclusively identified him as the fleeing man, but he matched the description and otherwise they do not mention him at all)
#23
Tylenol k****r who poisoned some random people.
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
And was the reason behind the unopenable-without-a-struggle safety caps on bottles.
Matt Blakeley 3 months ago
I swear I remember hearing it was a woman who m******d her husband and put several doctored bottles in a store to k**l random other people to cover it up. But I never hear that any more. Makes me wonder if I slipped universes.
Joe Reaves 3 months ago
No that was a second case, inspired by the tylenol killings. They caught her because she used the same grinder as she had used on some stuff that went in her fishtank and traces of it ended up in the poisoned capsules. Her husband's death had been classed as natural causes at first, so she could absolutely have got away with murder. But his life insurance policy paid extra for a non natural death so she pressed for them to reopen the investigation. Her name was Stella Nickell and she poisoned Excedrin capsules.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 3 months ago
DNA testing has shown a 0% match with any DNA recovered from the bottles containing the poisoned pills.
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Polynesian Expansion.
Moana is based on this mystery. Humans spread from Taiwan to Hawaii and every spit of land in between via dead reckoning then all of us a sudden these separate societies that had no means of communicating just _stopped_ for a thousand years AND THEN started back up at the same time.
We have no idea why they ever sailed over the horizon with no plan OR why they stopped exploring in unison for so long. OR WHY THEY RESTARTED AT THE SAME TIME.
Michael Largey 3 months ago (edited)
Yes, a thousand years. It was supposed to be just a three-hour tour, but ...
Agfox 3 months ago
...that person up the back wouldn't stop asking the Tour Guide questions
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JB 3 months ago (edited)
As someone who studies how tech affects culture, it is likely they all restarted because of rediscovery or refinement of tech that they started exchanging and improving on. It's not like it all started on the exact same day - it likely ramped up over several-to-100 years. A lot can be copied and improved upon in that time.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
The Polynesians couldn't navigate by dead reckoning. That requires accurate charts and all sorts of things they didn't have. They navigated by the stars, the sun, and by the wind and the sea. The idea that they sailed off over the horizon with no plan seems incredible to me. One person might do that - but enough to form a viable population on arriving somewhere? No. https://hokulea.com/polynesian-wayfinding/
#25
Where do dads go when they go get milk.
Lotekguy 3 months ago
Jimmy Carr would be proud of you for that response.
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michael Chock 3 months ago
I sit in the car and read in silence. Sometimes grab something from DQ and eat in peace. Other times sit in the park, under a tree, undisturbed.
Nova Rook 3 months ago
I drink milk more than I drink beer and my house has never been without milk in the fridge while I sometimes run out of beer.
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What happened to Madeline McCann.
Paul C. 3 months ago
My wife has always said, I don't leave my handbag unattended, let alone a small child!
Nova Rook 3 months ago
As a gen x kid to young parents I was left unattended all the time. One time had a stranger approach me as I looked scared and alone just as my parents came back - I mostly think he was a good guy checking on a kid looking distressed, but sometimes I wonder. (My parents left me in the car while they went into a bar - I was too young to know how to tell time but they must have been in there more than an hour at least)
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#27
Where consciousness comes from.
Plentyofoomph 3 months ago
It doesn't "come from" anywhere. Ita an emergent property of the brain. This is like asking where hunger comes from.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
No-one's got a good definition of "consciousness" in the first place, so it seems a bit premature to talk about where it comes from. 😉
Bill Swallow 3 months ago (edited)
Repeated from another comment in this thread: "For me, the greatest unsolved mystery of all time is, indeed, how an incorporeal phenomenon such as 'Consciousness' couples into the gross matter of the human body. There are times when I wonder if consciousness doesn't originate in some other continuum, leaks through to our universe, and is picked up by the neural system acting as an antenna." Personally, I do not believe that it is possible to test this unlikely idea.
#28
The Strasbourg Dancing Plague in 1518.
500 people danced for weeks until they died and there is simply no explanation.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago
I thought this was down to ergot? A fungus that grows on wheat and can send people insane?
Catlady6000 3 months ago
That's one of the most reasonable and likely explanations. Still no way to prove it, especially since it's never been replicated. A mutant, one-off strain of ergot, maybe?
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#29
Malaysia Airline Flight MH370.
Nova Rook 3 months ago (edited)
The Atlantic did a big write up on this. Catie B is correct, it is solved. Downvote us as at will, but if you want a deep read then you know what to do.
FranSinclair 3 months ago
I thought you said Cardi B. Im thinking "apparently they haven't heard about her cousins balls or whatever"
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Ron Man 3 months ago
First, "the definitive article" on the Atlantic is behind a paywall. Second, it may be a thorough article, but it provides absolutely ZERO proof. If you want to say that's what happened, then good for you. It's as accurate as any other idea about it. Just because you read it online....
Bill Galbreath 3 months ago
Did you pay to read the article to know it has no proof?
Load More Replies... Ace 3 months ago
Err no it has not been solved. That's just one of a number of theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
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#30
What happened at Roanoke.
RamiRudolph 3 months ago
They moved to a different island called Croatoan, which is coincidentally also the word they scratched into the tree. Not really a mystery.
Tabitha 3 months ago
Then they shared with, and they or their children eventually married into, the local tribe who sheltered them. Bet you anything there are descendants of that tribe who also have DNA from the Dare and White families, as well as other Roanoke colonists’ families.
Load More Replies... liam newton-harding 3 months ago
I hate this. It NEVER was a “mystery” no matter the number of times Discovery, and the History Channel try to make it one. It was a failed colony that relocated to a nearby island, which was discovered the very day their resupply ship turned up.
Ron Man 3 months ago
Yeah, but not at all. They may have relocated somewhere, but there was no island at the time called Croatoan and they were never discovered. And they left their belongings behind, which is odd if they did relocate, right?
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Russell Bowman 3 months ago
I thought Stephen King explained it in his story "Storm of the Century"
Heir of Durin 3 months ago
It’s mentioned in The Last American Vampire too!
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Cosmically speaking, what is the point of it all?
Phill Healey 3 months ago
That's just the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.
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Ronja Oksanen 3 months ago
To eat cheese as much as possible. And give love and treats to cats.
Ace 3 months ago
It's a mystery to me why anyone would ask such a question. Why do you think there has to be a "point" to it all?
Plentyofoomph 3 months ago
There isn't one. Why would existence have to have an inherent meaning or purpose? It just is.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
The point? As in what's the meaning of it all? None. Absolutely no meaning to the universe or our petty, little, short lives.
Matt Blakeley 3 months ago
There is none. It's like Minecraft. It has no purpose unless you make one.
Silberwolf 3 months ago
We will probably never know. Best we can do is give ourselves a meaning.
#32
Where did the Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloans) come from and where did they go?
tameson 3 months ago
The question answers itself. They were Ancestral Puebloans and they didn't go anywhere. Their descendants are members of the Pueblos in the Four Corners region of the US. The pueblo people kept telling anthropologists this but they just weren't believed. It is an established scientific truth now. As for where they came from, their ancestors came from Asia via the Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska during the Ice Age
#33
Bronze age collapse.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
JB, it's very complicated and more evidence is needed to be sure about much. Apparently current thinking is that the process was "sudden" - as far as such processes ever are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 3 months ago
Yes but what set the Sea Peoples in motion is the real question.
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#34
F*****g magnets, how do they work?
Ian Webling 3 months ago
Magnetism is understood. Unfortunately, one needs an understanding of quantum physics to understand it. Even more unfortunately, no one understands quantum physics. I hope you understand the confusion now.
Ge Po 3 months ago
It's like: we know that light is both a wave and a particle. We just don't know how. Or why.
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michael reid 3 months ago
The electrons orbits in the atoms are all lined up whereas normally they'd be random and cancel each other out. If the material was exposed to a magnetic field while molten, or had a very strong electric current through it, this is usually what causes materials to become magnetic as all the electrons line up and add their own tiny fields together in the same direction.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
micheal reid: it's the electon spin magnetic moments that line up, not the actual orbits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(physics)#Spin_magnetic_moment and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetism#Sources. A more accessible explanation is here: https://www.explainthatstuff.com/magnetism.html#cays
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General Anaesthesia 3 months ago (edited)
Allow me to compensate the idiotic downvote. On topic, I think you have to water them first. Let me quote a modest expert: “Think of it, magnets. Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.” - - DJ "I know more about science than anyone" Trump.
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Phil Green 3 months ago
They're very attractive, but, according to one very stable genius, don't work under water!
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
Magnets work due to the alignment of tiny atomic magnets within a material. Electrons, spinning around the nucleus of an atom, create a magnetic field. In most materials, these fields point in random directions, canceling each other out. Google it to learn more.
natasha.betteridge 3 months ago
You said “magnets work due to the alignment of tiny magnets.”…. What are THOSE magnets made of or is it just an eternal loop?
Load More Replies... michael Chock 3 months ago (edited)
The fabric of spacetime is an oscillating field (scalar field). The rate of oscillation creates time and syncronized change. Matter dampens this, creating gravity/relativity. When matter adds a twist to the suppression, that is magnetism. The field wants to restore itself, so when two opposite twists cancel the field is able to restore itself, creating a tension free zone between the two objects that allows them to snap together. (Oscillogenic Theory)
#35
Not the biggest obviously, but who k****d JonBenet Ramsey.
There’s a theory that her brother accidentally k****r her, and the parents covered it up.
Kira Okah 3 months ago
Agree. All current evidence supports an unknown intruder, none supports family, no investigation or evidence has ever supported the brother theory.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 3 months ago
How many more times are they going to pimp this poor child out for 'clicks'?
Bookworm 3 months ago
A lot of people blame the parents. Mainly because they didn't act like grieving parents "should". I think they knew more than they said, but don't think it extends to actually being the m******r(s). I wonder if it was someone known to the parents and they never revealed their identity for some reason.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
That sounds a lot like when Azaria Chamberline went missing 9dingo sole my baby). Her mum Lindy was jailed partly because she didn't show grief the media thought she should. Turns out she was innocent after all. There was a similar case in Australia that just had it's conviction overturned too, a woman (I forget her name) who was jailed for killing multiple of her infant children (on separate occasions) . She was suspected because of something she wrote in her diary after one died that apparently 'wasn't right' for a grieving mother. At least two of the children were shown to have had a heart condition that wasn't known about at the time.
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
They've heard the mother talking to the brother (who they said was asleep at the time) on the 911 call. It couldn't be heard in the '90s but when they digitized it you can hear the mom say, "We're not talking to you." Definitely puts suspicion on the brother (yes, he was a kid - kids do k**l sometimes.)
Nova Rook 3 months ago
Why would the momma fake evidence and then rush to call the cops before more could be cleaned. Father is unaccounted for during the night and the note gave him the means to remove the body while keeping the secret from the cops. The wife ruins that by calling the cops asap.
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#36
What happens after death or exactly what Willis was talking about.
Plentyofoomph 3 months ago
We know what happens after death. Your conciousness ends and your body decomposes. This is solved science. There is no mystery here.
Kim Kermes 3 months ago
As a strong believer in science, I don't think science can disprove the existence of some kind of spirit. We have a long way to go before science can prove or disprove many things, though recent advances in particle physics are amazing to my limited abilities understanding. They split a photon!
Load More Replies... Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
If you think about it, we shed cells all the time. The molecules break down and are absorbed into the air, the ground, everything. Eventually they go through different phases of renewal—-kind of like recycling—-and become part of new organisms. This is how I think of reincarnation. The reassembled molecules that become us have some memory of what they were before. In some people, that could manifest in knowledge of such tiny details of another life that we, in our present lives, couldn’t know about—-especially since so many children are aware of other lives they lived, at least until they either shrug off the belief after being told it’s weird or bad, or the memory cells d*****f. That’s just me following a train of thought about it, and actual “knowledge” of the whys and wherefores of reincarnation. I don’t know why some children clearly remember past lives, or why we as individuals are naturally drawn very strongly toward certain things, or why we have specific talents that aren’t evident in our families. Maybe it’s memories or abilities locked in our molecular makeup that we inherited from who we were before. Or maybe it’s all b******t and we are who we are and who we become, all by ourselves.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
If there is an afterlife (not saying there is, but) it can't be too bad. Humans are annoying but clever little clowns so if it is a terrible place someone would have figured out a way back by now.
UKGrandad 3 months ago
But if it were a good place then equally someone would have figured a way back to reassure their loved ones. Yet of the approximately 100,000,000,000 people who have ever lived, there is no convincing evidence that even one of them has returned from beyond.
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The voynich manuskript - a book with drawings an text in letters and laguage no one can decipher despite huge efforts. Is it real? If yes what does it mean? Is it a hoax? Who did it? There are a lot of theoried but not mucj evidence on anything.
Barbara Turner 3 months ago
Do the branches of the plants all spiral neatly like plants are supposed to? If not, it's fantasy.
Nova Rook 3 months ago
Very elaborate scribbling. If I remember correctly it mimics the pattern of language perhaps too well to be mere blocks of random text or some person just trying emulate a language.
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#38
What exactly was the WOW! signal?
David Paterson 3 months ago
There have been a lot more similar signals since, stronger ones showed up in SETI @ home.
#39
Why r/AskReddit repeats the same questions every week.
marianne eliza 3 months ago
I want to know why BP allows more than one entry about the exact same thing in so many lists.
michael Chock 3 months ago
Because alternate realities are found in the mundane. Reddit is one such reality that has it's on laws of reality, languages, evolution and cultures. It creates the expectation of those questions, much like humanity created the expectation of written languages in isolation.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 3 months ago
Yet every time I try to search a question before posting, to make sure it's not a repeat, like I'm supposed to, there is no match found. So I type out the perfect question and post it. 5 seconds later I get a message saying it's been removed because it's already been asked!!!
#40
Where are Juan Peron's hands?
In 1987, the hands of deceased Argentine president Juan Peron were cut off of his body and stolen from his tomb along with his cap and sword. Members of his political party received a ransom note requesting money for their return. Six men were arrested and five arraigned, but no charges were made against anyone. His hands are still lost and no person has still been charged.
Chewie Baron 3 months ago
Also, the truth about what happened to his wife’s body after her death. That’s a mystery I’d like to uncover.
Tropical Tarot 3 months ago
His first wife or second wife. His first wife, Evita, was embalmed and had dinner with him and his second wife every night.
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#41
Kodinhi small town in kerala state of India the town is known for having an unusually high number of twins. It has around 2,000 families, there are something around 250 sets of twins legally recorded there. And , there could be a lot more While the national average of twin births is not more than 9 in 1000 births, in Kodinhi, the number is as high as 45 in 1000 births.
Leekier 3 months ago
I’ve a vague memory that a woman’s likelihood of having fraternal twins is related to her female relatives having fraternal twins. The likelihood of Identical twins is more evenly distributed. It’s several decades since I read this so their could well have been more research by now!
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#42
Dark Matter & Dark Energy
In the standard Lambda-CDM model of cosmology, the mass–energy content of the universe is 5% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter, and 68.2% a form of energy known as dark energy.
Thus dark matter constitutes 85% of the total mass, while dark energy and dark matter constitute 95% of the total mass–energy content.
The leading explanation is that dark matter is some as-yet-undiscovered subatomic particle. The other main possibility is that dark matter is composed of primordial black holes.
StrangeOne 3 months ago
NASA is starting to go back to the drawing table on this, as they're now questioning if dark matter exists at all.
JB 3 months ago
The usual answer to questions like this is "we don't know s**t" and there's some fundamental rethinking that needs to happen. See: heliocentric model, "Great debate," theory of relativity, Hubble Deep Field, et al.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
Some think that the dark matter hypothesis is Just Plain Wrong and we just need to rethink the way gravity works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics. Dark energy is even more speculative - at least with dark matter, the idea is simple enough: it's matter that we can't spot yet because it interacts too weakly with almost everything. Dark energy is proposed to be "the thing that explains observed cosmic expansion" with no-one having any real clue what the nature of that "thing" might be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
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Where is Jimmy Hoffa buried?
Just me... 3 months ago
My SIL always carried a huge purse full of every imaginable thing. I often teased her that Jimmy Hoffa was buried in the bottom of her purse.
Joe Reaves 3 months ago
I have a handbag like that lol. I always joke that if anyone ever tries to steal it I can just use it to club them into giving up.
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Sue Mullen Andersen 3 months ago
Growing up in Detroit, my family believed he is buried under the Renaissance Center buildings.
Philly Bob 3 months ago
He's also supposed to be in the cement foundation of the stadium in North Jersey. (Whatever the hell they call it now!) We in Philly always called it the "Swamp" or the Meadowlands.
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What Jesus was doing in the middle of his life.
Shane S 3 months ago (edited)
Rumspringa. But for real, no one knows because no one that actually wrote the Bible was witness to his deeds. Scholars agree it was written after his death from second hand accounts.
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
That there was an actual person named Jesus, I have no problem with. The rest, meh.
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CD King 3 months ago
Probably being married and having kids…. That’s what young men did at the time.
JB 3 months ago
The Bible never shies away from saying if people are married. In fact, there are some prominent stories where not saying they were married caused shenanigans. This idea has been around since the Gnostics, but came back in force in the whole New Age spiritualism in the 60s and 70s. Is it so unbelievable that a guy didn't have s*x or didn't want to get married?
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QuincyForrest 3 months ago
And why with him allegedly breaking the laws of physics by performing mind-boggling miracles, his story never made it out of his local region at the time and it took over seventy years following his death for anyone to write it up. IF he even ever actually existed, which I strongly doubt. Regardless, he would have been just an ordinary human being. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MAGIC.
Beef Brisket 3 months ago
Ever considered that if people from that time period could see us now in 2025--with computers, cars, space travel, AI, and medical procedures that appear to literally bring people back from death--that they would consider us to be "gods" performing "magic"? Surely you don't believe we earthlings are the most advanced civilization in the universe, so it's quite possible that Jesus was in fact half human and half superior being--able to perform feats that were considered miracles at the time, but were simply the modern technology and discoveries of His race.
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What actually happened during the Dyetlov Pass incident? I know they officially said it was a landslide fairly recently, but the events surrounding it are way too bizarre for that to explain everything.
S Bow 3 months ago
Agreed, avalanches aren't generally known to remove peoples eyes and tongues.
liam newton-harding 3 months ago
But Crows, and other fauna do. They always go for the soft tissues first.
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BrunoVI 3 months ago
Not so bizarre. They heard something which made them afraid of an avalanche, they tried to escape, the avalanche happened. Two people were killed by the avalanche, resulting in the chest compression and skull fracture. They were carried by the ice, which flowed to the same place meltwater flows, meaning it would be by a stream. The only thing which seems strange is the one woman getting her face messed up, but it's actually quite normal for scavengers to go for the face and eyes. Why did they flee their campsite so poorly dressed? Maybe they correctly deduced that their campsite was in line for an avalanche.
Kira Okah 3 months ago
There is also paradoxical undressing, a symptom that can occur in hypothermia.
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#46
How sites like gobekli tepe and the pyramids were built with such precision.
Plentyofoomph 3 months ago
Because people are smart and can be dedicated to their work. There's no mystery here.
B Jones 3 months ago
People fail to realize just how talented Leo can be if their whole life is centered on their profession. Living and breathing stone masonry, or laying ot straight lines for foundations when you have been doing that exact thing when you could walk by your parents side doing only that.
Load More Replies... G A 3 months ago (edited)
Cos all the Ancient Alien nuts want you to believe humans were dumb and not capable of the same type of reasoning we have today. They do their own kind a massive disservice.
Linda Roy 3 months ago
Nice to know ETs were willing to fly millions of kms just to help us build sh#t. To AA believers, engineering is a modern science 🙄
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 3 months ago (edited)
Just because a modern urbanite office bod doesn't know how to build a pyramid, doesn't mean no one else does.
liam newton-harding 3 months ago
The Egyptian Civilization is 7000 years old. They weren’t morons. They knew maths, engineering, and a multitude of construction techniques.
Janissary35680 3 months ago
They had a lot of time and a lot of otherwise idle hands outside the planting and harvesting seasons.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Wait till you hear about the "alien technology" they used to level the foundations! (heh heh heh...)
QuincyForrest 3 months ago
Yah, digging troughs in the sandstone, filling them with water, then chiselling it all down to one smooth, perfectly level surface. Man, them Space Aliens sure love working with stone for all their intergalactic travel tech.
Load More Replies... Linda Roy 3 months ago
Our ancient ancestors were a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
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Amelia Earhart.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
they believe that they found some of her bottles that she was traveling with, they match the same time, on a nearby Island. based on where they think she went down. look on Google
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
It's not *much* of a mystery. I mean, she went off on a very long flight over the largest ocean on Earth at a time when doing so was very risky. Something went wrong and - well, she didn't make it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart#Flight_between_Lae_and_Howland_Island
CooperDooper81 3 months ago
I thought they solved this one recently with the discovery of their personal objects and bones on an island.
FlamingZombies 3 months ago
They haven't solved it yet. A team from Purdue University is going this fall to the island where her plane possibly is to do some research.
Load More Replies... Trisec 3 months ago
She was not that good a pilot. She got lost, ran out of fuel, and crashed into the Pacific. The ocean is a pretty big place. Can we stop already?
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago (edited)
Trisec: Amelia Earhart was an excellent pilot as far as I can tell. Piloting and navigation are separate skills; she'd picked Harry Manning as her navigator who was also a good pilot (you can tell she was a sensible woman: she'd made sure she had a man on board, just in case she got scared by a mouse or somesuch 😉). No-one knows what happened to them. It'd be interesting to find out, though - some ideas suggest she might have come down on land, for example. Meanwhile, Trisec, your ignorant comment smells more than a little of misogynist bigotry. 😁 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Manning
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I know it’s my own question but I really want to know if George Mallory was the first person to summit Everest.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
wouldn't you think that a Nepalese person would have made it before they would?
RamiRudolph 3 months ago
Maybe they're smart enough not know that Everest shouldn't be climbed.
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What really happened to the Neanderthals and Denisovans? Lots of interesting theories. I like to imagine another universe where there are still many species of humans.
Ron Man 3 months ago
All the humans eventually interbred. They didn't go anywhere, they became us.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago (edited)
Ron Man: the ancestors of Homo Sapiens were a mix of several different species of Homo long before our ancestors met Neanderthals or Denisovans. Some of those other species we only know about because of the traces they've left in our DNA. All humans derive from interbreeding with other Homo species. That doesn't mean those other species didn't become extinct. Homo Sapiens existed before meeting Neanderthals. We're still here - with a bit of Neanderthal in many of us - but the Neanderthals are gone. Meanwhile: if you've got only African ancestry, you've got no Neanderthal or Denisovan ancestry. That interbreeding isn't what turned archaic humans into modern humans. The Neanderthals died out, they really did - but their existence wasn't a dead end.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
Kim Steffen: that's only true for the "we" that excludes those of purely African descent. "We" also have plenty of Denisovan DNA - if the "we" you're talking about is of the right sort of East Asian descent, which includes native Americans as it happens; e.g., https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-08-21/denisovan-genes
Load More Replies... Ariom Dahl 3 months ago
Robert Sawyer wrote several SF books in which the Neanderthals were the dominant human species.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
Hominids, Humans and Hybrids. Great novels!!!
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Dragons Exist 3 months ago
I read a story on nosleep a few years ago about a couple of humans accidentally going through a portal to an Earth where Homo sapiens were extinct and there were instead a bunch of other species of humans
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
I grew up in mid-Illinois and had an unlikely friendship with a biker gang. "Lou", the leader of the gang was a straight-up, pure, ready-made warrior for Viking movies. All he needed was a helmet with horns. The Vikings didn't disappear, they bred in.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
Viking's didn't have helmets with horns. In any case, Viking's more of an occupation than anything else - although the matter is disputed and since most people seem to use "Viking" to refer to a cultural group these days... 😬 the debates continue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings#Etymology
Load More Replies... Russell Bowman 3 months ago
Then there are people like Sebastien "caveman" Chabal ... a French Rugby player ... there are still some active genes out there
#50
What is the vatican library hiding away that
keeps scholars from studying it's collection.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
qualified scholars can visit the Vatican Library to consult its collections, but it is not open to the public or general tourists. Access requires a formal application process, demonstrating a legitimate academic need, and providing specific qualifications, such as being a university teacher, a graduate student pursuing a doctoral dissertation, or a researcher with relevant publications.
Gianna B D 3 months ago
Adding on to this, the reason only qualified scholars are let in is not because the books are full of secrets, but rather because they tend to be old and/or rare and need to be handled carefully.
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#51
Who the real killers of Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman are. OJ still working on finding them I'm sure.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Well, he's working just as hard in the present moment as he did in the past.
#52
Origins of the myth of Atlantis.
Laugh or not 3 months ago
That one is not a mystery. Plato invented Atlantis in two of his dialogues (Timee and Critias) as a parabole for Athens to critisize the politics of the time.
Nova Rook 3 months ago
Drives me crazy that this isn't an answer everyone knows.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
Multiple origins, I'd guess. I like to think it was actually Santorini, as Santorini once was. A large area of its original landmass is now underwater.
Hugo 1 month ago
I prefer to think the original story was about the destruction of the Minoan civilization on Crete, probably as a result of the tsunami caused by the Santorini eruption and the rain of ashes. Plato heard about it from Solon, and it seems both of them misunderstood some of the details.
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Not necessarily the "greatest mystery" but I would like to know the motivations of the Vegas shooter.
JK 3 months ago
With those types of killers, its often because they want to commit s*****e but go out in a blaze of glory. And/or they are psychopaths or have some other mental illness.
Strings 3 months ago
Most mass shooters, yes. The guy in Vegas didn't fit most of the molds...
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What happened to Tank Man? 🐻🍯.
MontanaMariner 3 months ago
He was treated as a hero and statues were made. JK. PRC unalived him or he's breaking rocks by hand under the prison. Images or discussion of it are a crime in China.
Gen.Stal 3 months ago
The famous photo of a man standing in front of four tanks was taken on the morning of June 5, after the square had been cleared and the tanks were attempting to leave. Some people believe the tanks ran the man over, but a video of the event disproves this narrative. In the video, the anonymous man can be seen stopping in front of the first tank in line as he was crossing the street. As the tank attempts to drive around him, the man moves to block it from leaving. The man then climbs onto the turret and seems to start looking for the crew. One of them opens the hatch, and both can be seen talking to each other for a few minutes, but no record of their conversation exists. After talking for a minute, than man climbs back down and, as the tanks start driving away, he steps in front of the line again, cutting them off. A group of civilians then approach him and move him away from the tanks' path before the video ends.
#55
Why those “Get the real deal on f*ntanyl” things look more like ads selling f*ntanyl than somewhere to go for information.
#56
What happened to the Yuba County 5.
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
It would be nice if more of these posts had a brief synopsis instead of just one sentence, especially for the very localized ones.
Linda Roy 3 months ago
Right? Why did they go 70 miles in the opposite direction where they should go then walk 20 miles in the snow?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/f5l0ax/the_mysterious_disappearance_of_the_yuba_county/
#57
The true identity of Master Fard Muhammad….
UKGrandad 3 months ago
He was the founder of the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist organisation. Very little is known about who he really was.
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Would love to know if the voyager shuttles will ever be discovered by other sentient beings.
Plentyofoomph 3 months ago
...yes? As in aliens. What part of that statement are you not understanding?
Load More Replies... Poppy 3 months ago
They do, I saw a documentary with William Shatner, the Voyager probe develops sentience and comes back to earth to discover it's creator.
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Apparently Jesse James left stolen hidden treasure all over the United States in random places. There are people actively looking for it.
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Ariom Dahl 3 months ago
I've wanted for a long time to KNOW what happened to the two sons of Edward lV who disappeared when their uncle Richard lll became king. Many theories but so far no proof of what happened. Who was responsible? Personally my money's on Henry Tudor and/or his mother Margaret Beaufort.
marianne eliza 3 months ago
Until the royal family allows the big urn holding the bones of 2 children's bodies found in a grave at the Tower to be opened and the remains tested, we won't know. But I believe the bones belonged to the two princes.
Load More Replies... ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
these are a lot of really great questions. some of them I just looked up on Google the answers over easily found. some were quite profound. but it's good to know people are out there thinking. outside of the Jersey shore and influencers. those folks aren't thinking. they're taking a break from thinking. also a worthy endeavor. sometimes our brains just need a break/rest
IntombiyoMzulu 3 months ago
I love these not only because they are interesting and am familiar with most of them. I love learning from the comments from fellow pandas! There are some seriously intelligent people in this community! Thank you for sharing your knowledge:)
BrunoVI 3 months ago
What happened to King Arthur, the real person also known as Duke Arthur of Brittany, the rightful heir of King Richard the Lion-hearted who was exiled by John I after all. (Sorry, Kevin Costner; King John won.)? Who was Melchizadek, founder of the Abrahamic faiths, who taught Abraham about there being one God, then handed over his kingdome to Abraham and disappeared into history with but one paragraph known about him?
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
I'd like to know if David really loved Wallis or if, after abdicating, he felt like he had to stay with her to justify it. I'd also like to know what happened to Kobie Hammond. He was a little South African toddler who disappeared in the '70s. His parents stopped at a rest stop and he was toddling around. They walked around the car and when they came back he was gone. Probably taken by passing motorists.
IntombiyoMzulu 3 months ago
I would like to know what happened to my uncle who was picked at our home in Dube Village, Soweto by police men in 1979 or Tsietsi Mashinini or Mbuyisa Makhubu. There are many graves with no remains all throughout South Africa because we were not even granted dignity to bury our loved ones. I was not born when my uncle disappeared and to this day we don't know what happened to him but we know he was picked up by the security branch. At our homestead in KZN we have a grave for him as is our culture but we know his remains are not there.
Load More Replies... Cuppa tea? 3 months ago
The question that puzzles me the most: Why it's called asteroid, when it's outside of the hemisphere, and haemorrhoid when it's outside the a*s.
Ariom Dahl 3 months ago
I've wanted for a long time to KNOW what happened to the two sons of Edward lV who disappeared when their uncle Richard lll became king. Many theories but so far no proof of what happened. Who was responsible? Personally my money's on Henry Tudor and/or his mother Margaret Beaufort.
marianne eliza 3 months ago
Until the royal family allows the big urn holding the bones of 2 children's bodies found in a grave at the Tower to be opened and the remains tested, we won't know. But I believe the bones belonged to the two princes.
Load More Replies... ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
these are a lot of really great questions. some of them I just looked up on Google the answers over easily found. some were quite profound. but it's good to know people are out there thinking. outside of the Jersey shore and influencers. those folks aren't thinking. they're taking a break from thinking. also a worthy endeavor. sometimes our brains just need a break/rest
IntombiyoMzulu 3 months ago
I love these not only because they are interesting and am familiar with most of them. I love learning from the comments from fellow pandas! There are some seriously intelligent people in this community! Thank you for sharing your knowledge:)
BrunoVI 3 months ago
What happened to King Arthur, the real person also known as Duke Arthur of Brittany, the rightful heir of King Richard the Lion-hearted who was exiled by John I after all. (Sorry, Kevin Costner; King John won.)? Who was Melchizadek, founder of the Abrahamic faiths, who taught Abraham about there being one God, then handed over his kingdome to Abraham and disappeared into history with but one paragraph known about him?
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
I'd like to know if David really loved Wallis or if, after abdicating, he felt like he had to stay with her to justify it. I'd also like to know what happened to Kobie Hammond. He was a little South African toddler who disappeared in the '70s. His parents stopped at a rest stop and he was toddling around. They walked around the car and when they came back he was gone. Probably taken by passing motorists.
IntombiyoMzulu 3 months ago
I would like to know what happened to my uncle who was picked at our home in Dube Village, Soweto by police men in 1979 or Tsietsi Mashinini or Mbuyisa Makhubu. There are many graves with no remains all throughout South Africa because we were not even granted dignity to bury our loved ones. I was not born when my uncle disappeared and to this day we don't know what happened to him but we know he was picked up by the security branch. At our homestead in KZN we have a grave for him as is our culture but we know his remains are not there.
Load More Replies... Cuppa tea? 3 months ago
The question that puzzles me the most: Why it's called asteroid, when it's outside of the hemisphere, and haemorrhoid when it's outside the a*s.
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