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If you could solve one unsolved mystery

384 replies

shessocool · 02/03/2025 00:02

Which one would it be? Missing persons, unsolved murders or even random unexplained events.

OP posts:
Miaowzabella · 02/03/2025 09:12

The Nazca lines in Peru.

SwingLifeAway · 02/03/2025 09:12

Ben McDaniel - I don’t know what even might have happened.

Pandakoala8 · 02/03/2025 09:26

SwingLifeAway · 02/03/2025 09:12

Ben McDaniel - I don’t know what even might have happened.

I’m so interested in this case too, did you watch the Disappeared episode some years ago? What’s your theory?

ReginaPhalange92 · 02/03/2025 09:36

JonBenet Ramsey
Maddie
Maura Murray
Jennifer Kesse
Amy Bradley

theboffinsarecoming · 02/03/2025 09:42

Where the heck is my vegetable knife? It disappeared last summer and I miss it like crazy. I used it every day for the best part of 40 years, and I just can't find another knife the same size that does the job anywhere near as well.

DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe · 02/03/2025 09:44

Many of these already mentioned... although an awful lot of people don't seem to know that Stonehenge has only been in its current state (having been restored/revamped several times) since the 1900s - including being secured in with concrete!

Of course, it still has ancient origins, but it hasn't been like it is now uninterrupted since forever without recent human intervention.

I'd like to solve the mystery of the Georgia Guidestones. Who put them there, why did they put them there, and what plans did they have for making their radical proclamations reality - including getting rid of the vast majority of the world's population - or was it just a utopian dream that some psychopath person had?

Also, why were the authorities so keen on monitoring and protecting them for so long?

MrsMoastyToasty · 02/03/2025 09:47

Genette Tate, who went missing while doing her paper round.

ScottBakula · 02/03/2025 09:50

Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 02/03/2025 00:21

Richie Edwards from the manic street preachers

lord Lucan

Maddie

The sodder children

Joseph Force Crater

This may interest you it's about lord lucan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m0024bft?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

SwingLifeAway · 02/03/2025 09:50

Pandakoala8 · 02/03/2025 09:26

I’m so interested in this case too, did you watch the Disappeared episode some years ago? What’s your theory?

I don’t have one! I listen to a lot of missing people podcasts and this one has stayed with me as a genuinely do not know what happened. If I had to bet, I think he got out and left of his own accord, but I also don’t think that happened! Do you have a theory?

2dogsandabudgie · 02/03/2025 09:54

Abandoned houses where everything is left even personal photos. Surely there must be a relative some where. I just find it sad that it's all just left to rot.

MadeForThis · 02/03/2025 09:57

Noah Donogue in Belfast.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 02/03/2025 09:58

D B Cooper
The Beaumont kids
Amelia Earhart

Sorry OP I know you only wanted one but I couldn't choose.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 02/03/2025 09:59

I want to know what happened on the Mary Celeste

Cattery · 02/03/2025 10:00

Lee Boxell
Suzy Lamplugh
MH370

Kaminari · 02/03/2025 10:01

bifurCAT · 02/03/2025 06:48

The Voynich Manuscript

Same here. Even if the answer was "it's just a load of bollocks with no real meaning". I am desperate to know!

Cattery · 02/03/2025 10:02

theboffinsarecoming · 02/03/2025 09:42

Where the heck is my vegetable knife? It disappeared last summer and I miss it like crazy. I used it every day for the best part of 40 years, and I just can't find another knife the same size that does the job anywhere near as well.

Snap. We were together man and boy. No idea where it’s gone. Baffling

Iamacatslave · 02/03/2025 10:04

Noah Donohoe.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 02/03/2025 10:05

@WatchOutMissMarpleIsAbout Jill Dando think there was a program recently that linked her death to a Serbian hit.

Was it because she'd done an appeal film for Kosovo refugees? That was the theory that was bouncing around in the 90s but I always found it a bit of a stretch to think that could be the motive.

sprigatito · 02/03/2025 10:05

MermaidMummy06 · 02/03/2025 02:21

I'm in Australia so only Australians would know about the Beaumont children.

Three siblings taken at once, in the 60's, South Australia. Every time it comes back into the news, my parents, who were locals at the time, talk about how the crime caused people to start dead locking their doors & keep kids inside. They're still looking, although have a pretty good idea who took them.

Isn't there a consensus now that it was Harry Phipps? This case is so heartbreaking, I think about those lovely children often.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 02/03/2025 10:07

Patrick Warren and David Spencer.

LuluBlakey1 · 02/03/2025 10:09

I think the police know what happened and who was involved in the Claudia Lawrence case- they just can not get enough evidence to prosecute.

Andrew Gosden is the one I would want to see solved. I think he is dead but the not knowing must be terrible for his parents . The police were so slow to act in terms of CCTV and lots of CCTV evidence was lost in that time.

PoltergeistsStartLowKey · 02/03/2025 10:10

Zenana · 02/03/2025 00:29

Ben Needham.

This was pretty well solved wasn't it?

A digger driver confessed on his deathbed to having accidently killing him with a backhoe. Further investigation found the kids shoe, his toy car and ground that had evidence of high humus as a result of a decomposing body.

Lorrymum · 02/03/2025 10:11

Jack The Ripper
Princes In The Tower

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 02/03/2025 10:12

www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48736937.amp

This is an interesting read for those into this sort of thing.

For a long time, mine would have been the Delphi Murders, but it was solved. That case really stuck with me.

As someone who believes it wasn't the family, I'd love to see the JonBenet case solved.

whatnooow · 02/03/2025 10:15

I don't believe Stephen Avery killed Theresa Halbach. I think that's still unsolved.