Which Real Life Mystery Do You Find Most Fascinating?

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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.

Surely they’d have had handwriting experts examine the suicide notes?

I’d like to know

The obvious one
Ben Needham
Lord Lucan

Some of these are so sad.

MM in Portugal, Lord Lucan, MH370

@AppleJane

Lol

DH has known one Saad Al-Hilli's close friends for longer than he has known me. He had met him a few times over the years, he said he was a really lovely guy and in DH's words not remotely dodgy.

Such a bloody mystery

Kevin Hicks, he went missing in 1986 when he was 16. He popped to the local shop one evening to get eggs for a school class and he was never seen again. He lived two minutes from where I live now.

I spent weeks reading about the Hart family from America as it was first unfolding. Such a sad story with so many missed opportunities to save the six children. The bodies of all but one have since been discovered and I really hope he got away.

Don't want to get into a debate about MM but the parents were there for months and probably only left because of the negative press they seemed to generate. Don't compare them to the Ramseys.

I saw the documentary about JB Ramsay and I think it’s very clear who killed her and why. However I think the person genuinely doesn’t believe they killed her.

The worst bit of the documentary was where they tried to work out what was being said in the background on the 911 call; it drifted into the equivalent of listening to a record backwards to find hidden messages. It was clumsy and silly and risked making the entire documentary seem amateurish and biased.

Ben Needham has been found.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40684276

No he hasn’t.

I think about the Corrie disappearance in the same way as I think about the students who 'mysteriously' vanish, only to be found in the river at a later date. It's very very sad, and beyond awful for the family, but people should never underestimate what others will do when they are very drunk, and what risks they will take.

With a lot of these cases, when you read about the initial investigations it seems like things were badly handled and obvious opportunities missed. Although I guess it’s easy to see these things in hindsight and as an outsider.

I also think with a lot of them we don’t get the whole story, there’s info withheld from the public, or the police know who/what but don’t have enough evidence.

Talking of drowning, there are some very strange cases in the US of young men found drowned. The case of Chris Jenkins is very strange. An ex NYPD cop thinks they are the victims of murder.

www.thedailybeast.com/is-a-serial-killer-gang-murdering-young-men-across-the-us

Nicola Payne's disappearance. She was a second cousin of my best friend and the whole family has never given up hope. I think the police know who did it but can't prove it. There's a couple of men who have been on trial before but it fell through. There have been new searches this year as part of a documentary that is being made but I guess that has stopped now.

I saw the documentary about JB Ramsay and I think it’s very clear who killed her and why. However I think the person genuinely doesn’t believe they killed her.

Who? I haven't seen the documentary.

The strangest thing about the Ramsey’s crime scene was the duvet with Johns older son’s semen And a book of dr Zeus packed in a suitcase in the the basement, I only knew of this recently. It’s just so strange.
JonBenet underwear had traces of bodily fluid , either sweat or saliva, a recent investigation said it’s unlikely that it came from factory workers as the traces were greater than any of the unopened packet of underwear with dna human traces that they tested ,

I didn’t know any of that @queenofarles. Do you have any links?

I used to love the fairy/little people 'photos' and stories when I was little. I kind of knew they were fake but really wanted them to be true!

Me too Lordfrontpaw!

I remember reading a story (except it was presented as a true “this happened to me” type story) in - I think - Readers Digest years ago about a guy who went to stay with a friend in the country and saw a gnome.

Alice it’s heavily discussed on Reddit, the older son had a good alibi , he was in Atlanta that evening, but a friend of John mentioned seeing him at the party the night before the murder. He might not be the killer , but you can’t help but think some thing is not right about the whole thing.

You will find it here

I remember reading a story (except it was presented as a true “this happened to me” type story) in - I think - Readers Digest years ago about a guy who went to stay with a friend in the country and saw a gnome.

I'd love that to have been true

I worked with an Irish woman who told me that when they were skint students they would spin yarns about 'the little people' to american tourists in the pub (they would buy them drinks to hear more of their stories of meeting the little people and speaking to them).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

Flight 370…

Me too @covetingthepreciousthings 😁

Basically he went to stay with a friend who lived in the middle of nowhere and the friend said something like “If you can get up early enough in the morning I’ve got something to show you” and that’s all he’d say. So they duly got up at first light and the friend led him into the woods. They ended up near some trees where the friend indicated to him to be very quiet and they tiptoed and peeped between the trees. And there, on a rock at the edge of a stream sat a little man about a foot high, washing his socks.

That should be true shouldn’t it 😂

Most stories I hear about things like that (and often stories about how someone got a tattoo) start ‘well I was in the pub...’