Mysteries that intrigue you?

[maduggar]

I love reading about unsolved mysteries, they fascinate me!

Here are a few of my faves ...

sommerton man

- this one has noise!

the Beaumont children - imagine 3 of your children going mising :(

What are yours? Stonhenge, UFOs, The Kennedeys ...?

twirlymum, you are very calm - sounds very scary to me [hgrin] (sorry - just wanted th excuse to do hallowe'en emoticoon [hgrin]

My Mum had something really scary happen to her when i was a new born baby..

She was cooking dinner and i was in my cot upstairs asleep, she thought she could smell burning coming from the front of the house so she went to investigate.

She got to the bottom of the stairs and she said the smell of burning was really intense and she could see an orange glow from upstairs and the pattern of flames reflecting on the stairwell, she said it was also boiling hot on the bottom landing and she could hear a crackling coming from upstairs...

She legged it upstairs screaming and shouting because she thought i was in danger and there was a fire but there was literally nothing there when she got upstairs, i was still asleep in my cot and everything was as normal.

It freaked her out for years.

Maybe your ghost is trying to wash their small, sticky hands? [hhmm]

What'sthatduck, yes, if only it would do the housework too...
It doesn't scare me really, dd used to say all sorts of odd things when she was younger though.This scared me:

I was driving to the coast one day with dd, my sister, and my parents. As we apssed under a bridge, dd (3 at the time) said 'watch out for the lorry mummy, it's crashed, all the windows are broken'. There was no lorry there.

But many hours later, on the way home, there was. In that exact same place. It was a huge artic on it's side.
We were all silent for the rest of the journey....

{shock] Shiney that is scary.

Shrine sorry .

I did something very similar twirly . I was driving up to Scotland with my (then) DH and was asleep in the passenger seat. I woke up and said 'Move out into the fast lane' . He did, and as we went round the bend there was a car broken down in the inside lane. We would have smashed straight into it otherwise

I love this thread. I'm going to read all the links tonight.

JonBenet's brother is being interviewed because he definitely (allegedly) knew something about what happened. The parents said that he was asleep throughout everything but on the 911 call his voice can be heard clearly in the background. Also, when the police went in there he was supposedly still in bed but when he woke up to all the commotion he never asked a single question and didn't seem at all curious to know what had gone on.

He sounds like a maniac, shriney! The girl guides were probably out potholing hence why they vanished.

twirlymum - any of the guards work at Highpoint?

NoMoreChocBiscuits - i want to hear more about your affectionate ghost!

I recently read a book, The Cruel Mother: A Family Ghost Laid to Rest, by Sian Busby about her great-grandmother who drowned her newborn twins in the bath. It was morbid and heartbreaking at the same time, the author did try to piece together what would have gone through her mind but I wish it was possible to know for sure.

Oh Shiney! I like the real-life spooky stories! Have you ever asked yoru mum what she meant?

Oh Shiney you just reminded me of a sleepover at my friends when I was younger, I think it was her 11th birthday, we saw a bonfire in the field behind her house and people dancing round it was very scary, but the next day when we went into the feild there was no sign of a fire at all.

It was one of those things I thought I imagined so I asked her about it a few years ago and she can remember it clearly too, very strange

A lot of "mysteries" aren't mysteries at all but people want them to be. Princess Diana was glamourous and beautiful and people can't accept that she died the same awful death as quite a lot of young women every year - on the way home from a Saturday night out with her boyfriend, driven by someone she didn't really know who turned out to be pissed and driving like a lunatic. As I think Paul Merton pointed out - if she had really feared she was going to die in a contrived car accident she'd have worn her seat belt.

I was astounded that recent news reports about David Kelly cited his saying that he'd be "found dead in a wood somewhere" as evidence that he didn't actually kill himself. Surely if the victim actually predicts where their dead body is going to be found it makes it more likely that they were responsible for their own death, not less likely?

I went to the Gallerys of Justice here in Nottingham a few weeks back. Its an old prison and quite sad and scary.
While we were left to wander the womens prison I felt a strange tickling on my uncovered shoulders when I turned round there was nothing there.
Later after we left my DH asked if I had been scratching my shoulders, When I replied No he got his mum to look at it too.
Across the top of my uncovered shoulders were 9 marks which looked a lot like lashes from a whip (The women in the prison were regularly whipped) where given to me.
They stayed on my back for about 12 hours before disapeering completely. I have a photo of them and a lot of people do agree it looks especially like whip marks.

Oak Island. Lots of myths of Knights Templar and Spanish Pirates. Good old boys own stuff.

I would love to see Mary Kings Close

Oh Oak Island, I think Lincoln Preston's book 'Riptide' is based on that.

I was just reading about Oak Island! Not sure if I think its a sinkhole or proper buried treasure.

Not Highpoint, maduggar, The Bracton Centre, in Kent. ian Huntley was there for a while. Some work at Belmarsh too, but they move around a bit.

Katya there is a room in Mary King's Close which is apparently haunted by an 8 year old girl. When I was in this room I got a chill from my chest down. It felt like someone coming in to give me a hug, pull away slightly then give me a full hug again.
There was no one near enough to touch me and I would have noticed them anyway as the 'hug' came from the front.

I say I don't think I believe in ghosts because that wasn't my first encounter.