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Which Real Life Mystery Do You Find Most Fascinating?

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LifeIsBrutal · 28/04/2020 10:24

Mine is D. B. Cooper. He hijacked a beong 727, stole $1.25 million in today's money, and parachuted down to earth with it. His identity is unknown and it's unknown if he survived the plunge to earth.

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Hippywannabe · 28/04/2020 10:53

Maura Murray, the other MM that we can't mention, so many disappearances!

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 28/04/2020 11:31

Fight MH370
The man from Taured
Emilie Sagee.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 28/04/2020 11:35

Not a mystery has been solved and scientifically explained. That doesn't mAke it any less fascinating, though.
Lydia Fairchild. The who was technically her children's auntie.

covetingthepreciousthings · 28/04/2020 11:49

A lot of disappearances I find fascinating and tragic, just how someone can seemingly vanish.

The one who I always remember is Andrew Gosden, I just feel so sad for his parents never knowing what happened to him.

I just find it so weird that you could travel to a place like London and there not be any further cctv footage to show your where abouts.

LittleViolets · 28/04/2020 11:54

The Incident at Dyatlov Pass. I watched a doco on it and became fascinated. It's never been solved but has theories about it.

covetingthepreciousthings · 28/04/2020 12:00

I don't know if this counts as a mystery, as it's probably more a conspiracy, but I loved reading about Denver Airport, seems like such a bizarre place with the giant blue horse statue and all the weird artwork inside.

NurseThePurse · 28/04/2020 12:08

So tragic but I’m fascinated by a woman that went missing off of a cruise liner. She was holidaying with her parents and her dad last saw her on the balcony of the cabin in the early hours of the morning. When he woke up she was gone. They reported her missing to the staff but they didn’t take a lot of action and the cruise docked and passengers departed as normal. Later that day a girl matching the description was seen being chased by 2 men on the beach.

She has never been found. There were suspicions she had been kidnapped and sold into the sex trade. Years later in a USA supermarket/department store toiler, a woman was approached by a girl looking desperate who said her name was the name of the missing girl and that she’d been kidnapped. Just then two men barged into the toilets and dragged her away. A few years after that an anonymous person sent photos of a woman who looks just like the missing woman to her parents. She was advertising for a prostitute. The parents tried to find this woman through the escort website but didn’t get anywhere. So so sad. I’ll try to find a link now

Applejaxx · 28/04/2020 12:10

The Man from Taured
Andrew Gosden
Claudia Lawrence
The Beaumont Children

NurseThePurse · 28/04/2020 12:10

Just realised I got some of the details wrong Blush

HermioneWeasley · 28/04/2020 12:11

Whitechapel murders

UserThenLotsOfNumbers · 28/04/2020 12:15

I'm a big fan of Buzzfeed unsolved on YouTube Grin

Pinkarsedfly · 28/04/2020 12:17

A lad I was at school with, called Philip Fudge. He disappeared over 30 years ago, and they’ve never found a body. His poor mum passed away never knowing what happened to him.

Also Claudia Lawrence. I used to live near her house and drink in the pub she went to (long before she did) and I was a student at the Uni she was working at at the time of her disappearance.

It bring it closer to home somehow, when there’s a connection, no matter how tenuous. Makes you realise their lives were like yours, and it could happen to anyone.

BertieBotts · 28/04/2020 12:17

Elisa Lam, the story is so creepy, especially the video footage!

Pinkarsedfly · 28/04/2020 12:18

Sorry, that should say over 20 years ago, not 30.

BarkandCheese · 28/04/2020 12:21

The missing 411 phenomenon. Basically thousands of people who go missing in the wilderness and are either never found or their remains or possessions found in unlikely places. There are lots of odd similarities between the cases despite them happening many miles, sometimes continents, apart .

DrMaryMalone · 28/04/2020 12:22

Renee McRae and her little boy’s disappearance
The murder of Sandy Drummond
The disappearance of Alan Bryant Jr
The murder of Alister Wilson in Nairn

3rdNamechange · 28/04/2020 12:23

Now going to look al these up.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 28/04/2020 12:23

Asda Degree. Why would a young child leave home in the middle of the night on a storm?

Waxonwaxoff0 · 28/04/2020 12:24

Asha. Not Asda. Bloody autocorrect!

RapunzelinQuarantine · 28/04/2020 12:25

Asha Degree, the little girl who apparently voluntarily left her home with a bag in the middle of the night, clear evidence another person was involved, and possibly another little girl. None of the theories completely explain it.

I love these mysteries but some of them are faked (that is the details are faked) to make them mysterious when they’re just sad.

NoAdventureNoTime · 28/04/2020 12:26

Missing RAF man Corrie Mckeague, so many people believe he didn't get in the bin and the changing weights of the bin lorry does make it strange for sure. Many believe that the police didn't do enough to find him.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 28/04/2020 12:26

The Tamam Shud case is really creepy as well.

covetingthepreciousthings · 28/04/2020 12:30

Missing RAF man Corrie Mckeague, so many people believe he didn't get in the bin and the changing weights of the bin lorry does make it strange for sure. Many believe that the police didn't do enough to find him.

Yes! That was fascinating, I wonder if his girlfriend has had the baby now, I'm sure she was due with his baby.

It was a strange case, I'm not sure he got in the bin either. But I don't see what else could have happened.

BarkandCheese · 28/04/2020 12:36

The Elisa Lam case is almost certainly explained by her having a mental breakdown and possibly hallucinating or being very paranoid, she had a history of mental illness. Even the detail about her not being able to get onto the roof or into the water tower by herself has been debunked. It’s very sad but probably not really a mystery.