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.

Right, but that's after the mystery photo/item was deleted. A video takes up loads more space than photos on a camera. So you can have space for say 200 more photos but then record 30 seconds of video (especially if it's high resolution) and suddenly only have space for 4-5 more photos. Easiest to delete the largest file like a video to create much more space. But of course I might be on totally the wrong track! Just going by what I tend to do when I have forgotten to wipe off my memory card before I go out for the day.

One of my friends went missing on a night out in the early 2000s. He had phoned a friend (who he was supposed to be staying with) to say he was lost, but he never arrived. When this first happened the police searched for him but found nothing. There was a number of theories about what had happened to him but nothing to indicate that he had walked out on his life, as he was very happily married.

About eight/nine years later his remains were found close to a flyover. The police had searched there when he first went missing, but they had searched in the wrong area. I'm just pleased (if that is the right word to use) that his wife, child, mum and family now know what happened to him, even if this was the worst news to receive.

Just bumping this thread.
I'd like to get to the bottom of how many people Peter Sutcliffe really killed

I also wonder how many Ted Bundy actually attacked and / or killed, I reckon it was a whole lot more than he was convicted for.

I've just finished my book and would love to read something good quality on this topic. Any book suggestions, rather than websites?

I first heard about the lost girls of Panama on the Gen Why podcast. Those final photos are very unsettling.

Not so much a mystery, more a case of ‘why?’ with some quite unbelievable levels of denial from family members, I watched the documentary, ‘There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane’ the other evening about the Diane Schuler case. It’s also known as the Taconic State Parkway crash. Diane Schuler, described by f&f as ‘the perfect mom’ inexplicably drove the wrong way down a motorway at over 70pmh with her own daughter, son and three nieces in the car, deliberately crashing into an oncoming vehicle which killed 3 men. Only her young son, Bryan survived the crash. Later, toxicology showed she had up to ten alcoholic drinks in her system plus THC in her bloodstream.

Her husband and family refuse to accept the results of the toxicology tests and have since campaigned to clear her name. The documentary is a study in family denial and raises many questions around the mystery of why Diane behaved the way she did.

If you want to read about a case that will send a shiver up your spin google Carl Tanzler.

Which topic are you seeking books on, PenfoldsFive?

Omg, I first heard about the Tanzler story on the ‘Lore’ podcast. It’s quite the most creepy case ever!

Just googled Carl Tanzler, eeeeeek!

I'd like to get to the bottom of how many people Peter Sutcliffe really killed. There are murders in other countries he may have been involved in.

Peter Tobin is the one that makes me wonder just how many he killed. He got away with murders for so long, and if he hadn't murdered Angelika Kluk he'd have continued getting away with it.

There was a tv programme about him, it's on Netflix now I believe, and an investigator tracked another missing girl that he believes Tobin killed. He asked for permission to dig up the garden of the house Tobin lived in at the time and the current house owner said no.

General mysterious shenanigans, OP. Not so much into space/UFOs, but stuff about Big Foot, people jumping out of aeroplanes with loads of money etc would be great.

The JBR story sounds really interesting, if there is a good quality book about that. I've really enjoyed stuff on TV like The Staircase and Making A Murderer.

Penfoldsfive there’s a ‘mammoth book of unsolved mysteries’ which has got cases like Bigfoot in. It’s a bit cheesy 1970s style but a good read if I remember

Sandra Court - murdered in 1986.

Bertold, is this it? The cover looks suitably fabulous.

Apologies the one I’ve got is mammoth book of unexplained phenomena but they are much of a muchness I think ! Bigfoot, Cheshire cats zombie bugs, kensington runestones are some of the mysteries !

OMG. Just read about the Tanzler case. How bizarre! Just read on Wikipedia that he had a wife and she was with him at the end of his life when he had made a replica corpse. Can you even imagine?!

A fairly local lad went missing after being in a night club. Allan Bryant has never been found, despite rumor as to where his remains are.

Such a sad murder, which still has a question mark over it.

Imagine being known as “Orange Socks” forever just because you happened to wear orange socks one time.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Debra_Jackson

That Panama case is very strange. Indications of foul play, but the photos so strange and the fact there were no photos in the intervening period.

Was the 1st emergency call made before rte last happy touristy photo?

Ben Needham who disappeared in Greece.

Such a sad murder, which still has a question mark over it.

Imagine being known as “Orange Socks” forever just because you happened to wear orange socks one time.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Debra_Jackson

There's a really interesting Netflix documentary about Henry Lee Lucas, the man who confessed murdering Debra Jackson.

He confessed to hundreds of murders before it was realised, by one of the families, that he was a fantasist. There was quite a story round him as some law enforcers were not happy at his confessions being put into doubt and took some dubious actions to conceal it.

newtb wasn't Ben solved - I know some of the locals and his family weren't happy about speaking ill of the dead but was it not considered to be the fault of the bulldozer guy Dino who confessed to it pre death, having covered it up for decades? Tragic accident but made a poor woman search and not be able to grieve for years...she had now accepted that was probably what happened - instant death via concussion/suffocating in land fill - too long ago now to find remains.

Ah sorry - mum thinks he was placed after death in an oil barrel hence no dna traces and is still obv needing closure after 28 years

Come to think of it, I'd like a massive book of unexplained phenomena too.

Well I’ve now read a Bigfoot book and watched some documentaries and have gone from thinking it was a load of rubbish to being a total believer.