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 ...?

Woah that is really strange! Not helped by the fact that I only understood words like 'radar', 'and', 'the' etc in the emails published.

Would love a translation into non-tech speak if anyone knows what they are talking about.

and also

lizzie borden

This is my favourite thread ever!

This one is just odd ...

Max Headroom Hijack

Lizzie Borden, with an axe
Gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty one

We used to sing this when we were kids!

The weddding photos scared me half to death, Re Suzy Lamplugh they think this guy is responsible!!

What did happen to my mobile phone that I lost on Friday.. it just vanished?

Nomorebiscuits: I had a similar thing in Mary Kings Close, in that room (the house was owned by a wealthy merchant or something, and no one else wanted to live in that are because of the whole dead plague victims thing, IIRC). Anyway, I was on a ghost tour and they took us into that room, told us about the girl and then said walk around, see if you feel anything. I was standing next to the fire place on my own, but felt like there was someone standing next to me. Didn't say anything to anyone. Afterwards, the tour guide said that the little girl's presence is often felt next to the fire place - it's where she likes to hang out. I was quite spooked.

Just marking my place so I can sit and read all of these tonight!

This one has always bothered me

The baby dingo case

Ive only ever heard of that becauseof Buffy (the band called "dingoes ate my baby") but have never read the actual story ... off for a gander now!

The Black Dahlia

Some of theese mysteries can sometimes be debunked as Urban myths, which is a fascinating topic in itself. try Snopes.com for more of these.

Which ones have been debunked on Snopes?

I didn't think the baby taken by a dingo was a mystery - just a terrible miscarriage of justice which was finally put right.

The family were Seventh Day Adventists - a deeply religious Christian sect, and Lindy Chamberlain was always grumpy and co-operative with the media. The press soon had people believing that they were complete nutters who had sacrificed their baby because, well, they were a bit odd, they didn't drink alcohol, or tea or coffee, and they were really religious, I mean how weird is that?. (It was reported that Azaria means "sacrifice in the bloody wilderness." It doesn't.) People thought Lindy MUST have done it because she wouldn't give interviews weeping and wailing. She was basically punished for not behaving in the way a bereaved mother was "supposed to behave" according to a patriarchal society.

Lindy Chamberlain had to give birth to her fourth child in prison then have her taken away - luckily her husband was "allowed" to bring her up.

The "blood traces" found in their car were copper dust. The family came from Mt Isa, basically a big copper mine.

I could go on but won't . . .

Id just read that the blood traces were fetus blood or some such - it was just copper then? I do think, after reading just a small bit about them, that I believe the dingo thery more than the parent murder!

This thread is so interesting....... its a pity its in Chat as it will disappear ! If only it was any of the others, it will be on MN for ever more.

Pity as this kind of thread never gets boring and I think it would be a point of great intrest for posters who haven't yet seen it, present and future, there would always be someone to add to it.

Thats very true iLike, I didnt think it would get much interest either! Goes to show we all love a good mystery! Im still reading further on soem of teh subjects mentioned here, as they have intrigued me so much.

Maybe we should ask for it to be moved to Classics or Other Stuff.

According to Lindy's book IIRC copper dust could give the same results using the forensic techniques of the day; perhaps this is another reason why they want the case re-opened.

It's a good case for feminist analysis. It can certainly be argued that if Lindy Chamberlain had been more attractive, less frumpy, less intelligent; had she smiled a bit, co-operated with the press, not been so silly as to get so unreasonably offended that she was accused of cutting her own baby's head off with nail scissors for some evil ritualistic purpose still unspecified - despite being a devout Christian - she probably wouldn't have been convicted. As it was, the public took a dislike to her and . . . you know the rest.

Quite sad, isnt it BS. If youy dont fit the shape the media want, then you are guilty :( Was the father ever accused of the actual murder?

Shame that book is so expensive.

I wonder how the lawyers involved in concocting that ridiculous case against Lindy Chamberlain sleep at night.

He was convicted of being an accessory. He was supposed to have driven the car so she could get rid of the body. He was allowed not to go to prison so that he could look after the children.

I was in Australia during the final trial, when an 8 months pregnant Lindy was convicted. I remember thinking how stroppy and disagreeable she always looked (I was nineteen and childless, I had no real understanding of how she must have been feeling) but what got to me was: Why would she have done that? What for? The only reason given seemed to be that she was plain evil. And the photos in the papers made that seem plausible. But I still couldn't believe it.

If you google it there are loads of sites including her own one.

The pictures of the baby's jumpsuit make me want to cry.