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.

Delphi Bridge Guy: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Abigail_Williams_and_Liberty_German

Surprised nobody mentioned the escape from Alcatraz!

The two brothers at least survived for sure. There is a photo of them that can be found online taken many years later

That's alarming, daysofpearlyspencer. Have you notified the police?

I forgot about flight 370. I suspect foul play by one of the pilots.

The Dyatlov Pass incident certainly mystifies me . Nine fit and healthy young hikers went on a skiing trip in the Ural Mountains. When they failed to return home, searchers found their tent which had apparently been cut open from the inside . All nine people , many wearing only underwear, were found dead in the area around the tent. Some had died of the cold, some from trauma. No answers have ever been found.

MH370.

In the 21st century a Boeing 777, one of the safest Aircraft ever made, with 240 people on board cannot just disappear Into the ocean without explanation. But it did.

There are various theories about what happened and why, but until we locate the wreckage they remain speculation. My own theory, for what it’s worth, is that vital evidence was concealed or destroyed by the highest levels of the Malaysian government, but we just don’t know the truth.

I've seen a documentary in the last couple of years, that basically also suggests that people in the Malaysian government have reasons for hiding some of the truth.

It was also suggested that the captain of the plane wasn't the happy, healthy individual with no reason to do anything drastic as has constantly been claimed. And that this crash was another occasion where suicide is a possibility. Seems there were some deliberate direction changes made by the aircraft that don't tally with the flight plan.

Oh I see what you mean.

I read something the other day which suggested there was a most likely outcome for MH370 now - I think slow decompression of the cabin, something like that - causing the pilots (and all the passengers, hopefully) to simply pass out. And then there was a period where the oxygen levels returned to normal enough for at least one pilot to attempt to correct the course of the aeroplane, but it was futile and simply put them further off course. They know the rough area where it crashed now as well due to parts of it having washed up on beaches.

I've now learned from googling things related to this thread that when a person is close to dying from hypothermia they will tend to experience extreme hot flushes which cause them to take all of their clothing off, and then follows an instinct to bury themselves - people not in a natural type environment try to "burrow" behind furniture instead. It's thought to be a sort of leftover animal instinct relating to hibernation, which is why it doesn't really make sense when people do it, because they're not thinking consciously but acting on instinct.

The Marie Celeste fascinated me. What happened to all those on board? Where did they go?

@daysofpearlyspencer it's widely believed that Robert black was responsible for the disappearance and murder of April fabb, along with Genette Tate and Susan Hogg

@katnissK the men all had learning difficulties so it's plausible that this played a large part in why they didn't stay together/eat the food

@BertieBotts Pretty much all the bits of wreckage found on island beaches has been gathered by an American who is obsessed with the crash, either by himself or by offering money for any pieces found. A deliberate crash was definitly put forward as a theory for this aircraft's disappearance.

Student, listen to the episode about the Mary Celeste on the Stuff You Should Know podcast. They give a lot of background to the whole story and also various theories to chew on.

The Al-Hilli family shot dead in their car in the Alps! Husband, wife and wifes mother all dead in the car on the side of the road. Eldest daughter found outside the car with serious head injury, youngest daughter found alive hiding under her mothers long Muslim dress. A cyclist not known to the family also found shot dead by the car. No reason properly discovered for why. Also, no one knows whether the family or the cyclist were the intended victim and one stumbled accross the others murder and paid the price.

I should go back and revisit the mystery of the Mary Celeste. I've long since had the feeling that the solution is one of those "hidden in plain sight" things, and that if the answer becomes known, we'll all go "so that's why".

A guy I used to know online disappeared 4 years ago. He was hiking up to the Canadian border and has never been found. I know he must be dead and I assume died of hypothermia as a storm came in but he had a tent, food, sleeping bag, etc. It’s just so odd that after 4 years of extensive searching there’s been no sign of him, they know the trail he was on.

@Likethebattle Im obsessed with the Delphi case. Lots of youtubers cover it and there are several fb groups. Ive followed it since it happened in 2017 and its so easy to disappear down the rabbit hole once you start looking into it.

I love these threads because I now get to fill hours googling every single post!

Alistair Wilson in Nairn
Trevor Deely who went missing in Dublin
Lord Lucan

I think Andrew Gosden was interesting and quite sad .He went to London and went missing .Sadly happens to lots of vulnerable kids but he was very high IQ ,and there had been reports of bullying at School as well .Difficult to match up the pieces .Madeleine was so sad and not knowing must be torture for her family .To go on a sunshine break and not come home ,just terrible .

The young girl who was autistic (I think) Norah who went missing in holiday.

Yes, Nora Quoirin, found that a very sad case when it was in the news. Some things didn't add up, doubt they will ever get true answers, and maybe it was just a tragic case of her wandering off.

The Al-Hilli family Blimey, yes! I'd forgotten about that incident. I wonder if its still being investigated.

Someone mentioned Shergar earlier upthread. I thought that one had been solved and a member of the IRA had confessed.

Re : Andrew Gosden, the thing I found strange was, if it was presumed that he had gone to London to meet someone, surely there would have been evidence? Phone records or computer records to trace who he had been talking to? That's what I couldn't get my head round, that there seemed to be no evidence to point to him meeting someone in London.

It's sad that so many people can disappear, even in a small (relatively speaking) place like the UK. But there's a lot of undergrowth and moorland, I suppose, and that goes multiply for the US and Australia. Bodies tend to be discovered by fluke, unless they are left in plain sight. There's the body found on Sutton Bank in N Yorks, a woman who'd given birth more than once, and never reported missing.