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.

The Malaysia airlines one is intresting, I think the high ups in Malaysian government know what happened, they was also a huge corruption scandal in Malaysia to do with a goverment fund so maybe some things are interlinked there. Also another one of their planes been shot down a few months later, that has to be more than a coincidence. I don't think we will truly find out what happened there.

David Bain was convicted of murdering his family in Dunedin, NZ. And years later his conviction was overturned. The family dynamic was seriously weird and there are still many who continue to believe he is guilty. There's a great podcast on the case by radio NZ called Black Hands. Also the disappearance of the Gaul, a fishing trawler that worked out of Hull and vanished at the height of the Cold War. There are theories that the trawler men were taken by the Soviet government.

Jill Dando's murder has never been solved. 20 years on I wonder about it.

Who put Bella in the wytch elm.

Not me but dp had one earlier........ apparently he was watching Coronation Street (( Monday ))

And was ignoring the urge to poo because Geoff was finally being rumbled. So he did that poo clench thing.

Went to the loo.

Nothing occuring.

The urge had completely gone. And he had his sudoku book ready and everything.

We're now officially into Wednesday and the Monday poo has finally appeared.

All of his has left him rather flummoxed..........and me backing away like this 😳😳😳

And no, I'm not a poo troll. We've also had the what makes soup soup discussion , that teetered into a row and I've hidden the monopoly set because that was on the verge of turning violent.

I'm calling it pandemic pandemonium.

JonBenet Ramsey.

I'm convinced it was an inside job anyone reading the ransom note could figure that out. And likely an accident rather than some plot but I would like to know exactly what happened. If Patsy had lived she probably would've spilled the beans but I don't see John or Burke opening up. Wonder what the older son thinks.

MM here too. Everything right from the initial decision to leave them to the instant overexposure and everything that followed. Nothing makes sense.

@IndiaMay and @CaroleFuckinBaskin - the Al-Hilli murders is the one that fascinates me too.
I have followed the case very closely and SO many things about it don't add up. Like @CarolFuckinBaskin I am sure he must have been a spy - maybe an industrial one.

He worked, or had worked in the nuclear power industry.
The cyclist who died did too.
The cyclist had taken a day off work and said he was going for a long ride. His f-i-l recommended a beautiful route and plotted it on a map for him but he went another way.
Staff at the campsite said the Al-Hilli family hung around the campsite playing all day as you'd expect but Mr A-H went off in a suit somewhere for meetings.
The man who found them just happened to be UK ex-military.
The youngest daughter missed her first ever few days of reception class at school. They could have holidayed at any time throughout the summer. Why choose a week when your daughter is due to start school?

And two weird things lesser known -
Mrs Al Hilli's ex-husband died of a heart attack in USA on the same day they were murdered. DH thinks that's coincidence. I don't.
Their old house, left abandoned for years was finally sold - and the new owners demolished the entire house except for its facade and rebuilt it from scratch. Those are big, solid houses. You'd think if they didn't like the design, they'd choose something else - the area is full of modernised mansions. It made me wonder if the house had to be gutted for some reason.

@willowmelangell - do you think she knew about Jimmy Saville and was planning on going public? I do.

@BlancheDuBlah - what interests me about that case is how very protected and under-investigated the most obvious suspects were. Something extremely underhand there.

The youngest daughter missed her first ever few days of reception class at school. They could have holidayed at any time throughout the summer. Why choose a week when your daughter is due to start school?

You’d be amazed. I taught reception for years. There would be one every year who would start late because they were on holiday.

@FlamingoAndJohn - I agree that's not the most puzzling and compelling clue in the whole thing (Shocks me, though. How sad not to care that your child settles in among the others.)

Here are some podcasts that I have found interesting:

The Doorstep Murder (BBC) - About Alistair Stewart, mentioned upthread

The Strange Death of Innes Ewart (BBC)

Death in Ice Valley(BBC)

The Teacher's Pet (The Australian)

Death on the Staircase

What Happenened to Annie (Storycast)

Yy totally agree Cottonanimals. MN don't tolerate speculation on that subject though so expect deletion.

I thought Jon Benet Ramsay was the jealous brother but protected by the parents so they weren't separated from him.

I mentioned no names @BlancheDuBlah, for that reason.

@NiteFlights and others on Suzy Lamplugh the Andrew Stephen book on her (1988) is interesting. Pre John Cannan being in frame there are some things that were overlooked, unanswered questions & a potential other suspect as it was essentially decided he must be the culprit later on.

the Dyatlov Pass incident certainly mystifies me

Yes. I saw a documentary about that, very strange and difficult to see a rational explanation for it. Also, the Picnic at Hanging Rock, where a school party disappeared in Australia. Someone mentioned the Maura Murray case. The other really strange one is the Springfield Three, a mother, her daughter and daughter's friend who vanished in Springfield Missouri from their home. Horrendous for the families of people who just vanish.

Good idea Cottonanimals.

@BovaryX That is just a film, not a real event (Picnic at Hanging Rock)

@ChampagneCommunist

Ha! For some reason I thought the film was inspired by an actual event?

I loved the book 'Picnic at hanging rock' by Joan Lindsay pilfered from my DGM's shelves and the chance there may be truth in it extends the mystery.

The jury's out so far though:

www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2018/07/11/picnic-hanging-rock-based-true-story-7703583/amp/

The Derby winner Shergar. Kidnapped, £2million ransom demanded but never paid.

Kidnapped by the IRA, or possibly another group, the owners recieved a phone call that said there had been an accident and the horse was dead.

Th DB Cooper case is odd for one more reason, he wasn't the first or the last to do the same thing, or very similar.

I think all these cases prove one thing, there are no real psychics.

Suzy Lamplugh

That was a sad case, and always felt for her family. Though they have created such an amazing legacy with the Suzy Lampugh trust that helps with personal safety for lone workers etc.

I love these threads. Theres a great podcast called unexplained with Richard McLean Smith. It covers lots of mysteries but also all things supernatural. I learnt about the Dyatlov pass incident through that, very weird. The Tamam Shud case is so fascinating. I think the nurse knew more, her daughter believed she knew the mans identity. There was another case on it about reincarnation, and there’s some very weird cases. Carl Eden was a boy from Middlesborough who’s mother claimed from a young age described being A Nazi soldier Who died in a plane crash . He was murdered whilst working on a railways line and they later found a crash wreck of a German war plane near to where Carl was found . A series of odd coincidences? Fabrication of his childhood by his parents after the location of the plane was discovered? I don’t know. You’d have to be pretty unhinged to ‘cash in’ as it were from your own child’s death.