Which Real Life Mystery Do You Find Most Fascinating?

[LifeIsBrutal]

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.

The Taured man baffles me. I'd love to know all about that. Is there a good documentary on that??
Taman Shud is another one. Although they think they may have traced who he was now..there was a film/doc made about it fairly recently.
Claudia Lawrence I always assumed one if her hook ups she was involved with was dodgy and she came to a tragic end somehow related to that. Where her body is though only gone person will know I guess.

I wonder whether Andrew Gosden went missing of his own accord.

It has to be Madeleine McCann, largely because have a child of the same age. I don't find it "fascinating" as such but it's the mystery I would most like to see solved.

www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/people/police-narrow-down-leah-crouchers-disappearance-single-square-mile-milton-keynes-1643904

Leah Croucher seemingly disappeared into thin air, and wonder what happened to her.

It was in the news at the time, but it was around the same time as the Libby Squire case which seemed to take up the news so wasn't so well known.

Very tragic since Leah's brother then died suddenly in hospital about a year after she went missing. How heartbreaking for the family. Hope they can find out what happened to her.

Not one about human beings but I have always been fascinated by the
“ beast of Bodmin” stories and other so called sightings of large wild cats on the moors or in woods etc.
My grandad used to always tell me he knew of several people who owned big cats, then released them into the wild when the dangerous wild animal licence act was introduced in 1976 (I think).
As a youngster I totally believed him and would always look out for them when we went on holidays to Devon/ Cornwall etc.🤣

@M0chaJoes yes, I read that last year, I don't think he looks like the same man but it was 50 years ago, I never told anyone as I wasn't really where I was supposed to be and I only cycled off because I was late home, I actually wanted to get in his car and see his horses!

Samtsirch - my daughter actually saw a 'Big Cat' whilst driving home from work one night. To this day she refuses to talk about it!

A fascinating read about MH370 for those who are interested in its disappearance: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/590653/

Agree with others about Andrew Gosden. Seemingly there was no evidence of him speaking to anybody via chat rooms or on the phone, which makes it so much more of a mystery. It would be lovely to hear good news about him one day.

One that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Lars Mittank. A very strange case.

The Princes in the Tower. I would love to know the truth of that.

You should all watch buzzfeed unsolved! It's just come up on my amazon prime and I've binged watched it the past couple of weeks.

Just found there's more on YouTube so I'll be watching those too!

m.youtube.com/channel/UCKijjvu6bN1c-ZHVwR7-5WA/videos

I always thought Andrew Gosden left of his own accord. I believe his parents said that he wasn't being bullied but just before his disappearance there were a few occasions where he chose to walk the 4 miles home rather than catch the school bus, which could suggest he was being bullied on the bus.

loutypips I watched a ton of those when dd was obsessed with them!

I've heard that about the big cats released in the 70s as well. Isn't too far fetched imo. People did used to have exotic pets and presumably not that many zoos etc would have had capacity to just randomly take animals in, and some people wouldn't have bothered trying to rehome them responsibly anyway if it involved any effort. Would have been easier to turn them loose. Then the theory goes that since there have been small numbers of these kinds of animals living in the wild in the UK, they may have bred etc.

However I suppose nowadays there are much more in the way of wildlife cameras and drones etc, so if there are any big cats living wild in Britain you'd expect them to have been caught by one of those by now.

'The lost girls of Panama' - Lisanne Froom and Kris Kremer, dur=tch tourists who disappeared on a hike around 2013/2014 - belongings were found and partial bone fragments months later the photos left on their camera are so eerie.

Asha Degree - 9 year old who went missing in strange circumstances in 2000

And as someone else mentioned Dyatlov Pass

Madeline McCann and Elisa Lam

There’s a subreddit on Reddit all about missing people. It seems in America a huge amount of people just disappear

And Jonbenet Ramsey

Brian Schaffer. Went on a night out. CCTV saw him going into a bar in Ohio... never came out. No other exit. Nobody ever saw him again.

Oh and his girlfriend phoned his cell phone every night after he went missing, it would go to voicemail and she would listen to his voice. Then one night after six months... it rang... but nobody answered 😲

@Zaphodsotherhead
Oh wow, this has made my day!
Which area was this, if you don’t mind saying?

@BertieBotts
Yes I have always thought that too, about the wildlife cameras etc, but part of me still likes to think my grandad was telling the truth.
I would love to catch a glimpse of one myself ( though I’d probably have heart failure)!

Samtsirch North Yorkshire. I can't quite remember whereabouts she was driving, whether it was on the Castle Howard estate or between Terrington and Hovingham (she had two jobs and I can't remember which one she was coming home from at the time). She's not at all keen on 'woo' and has no interest in Big Cat stories, so when she came home, very shaken, and told us what she'd seen, we knew she was telling the truth.

She won't talk about it now though!

I believe it's totally plausible that there are big cats out there.

Thank you Zaph.
I think it’s very plausible too.
It’s perhaps a good thing that there’s not strong evidence though, they’d probably be hunted etc.