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 ...?

This thread has drawn me in like no other thread on mumsnet. Even dp has shown an interest which is unheard of for him as he normally rolls his eyes at anything MN related.

I agree.It would be great if this could be moved to mumsnet classics or something. This thread even kept me awake last night!

How the hell would they get a baby's body from Ayers Rock to Melbourne without being detected? And why not just bury it at Ayers Rock?

A lot of people were utterly convinced that Lindy Chamberlain did it. With the most ridiculous evidence. Basically because they didn't like her. They wanted her to be guilty because they thought she was a sour faced bitch. She had a sour face because her beloved baby girl had gone missing and she was being accused of killing her. She was in a no-win situation.

BS, would you say people over there are evenly split or do more believe she actually did it? It totally fascinates me.

sheep - I have freaked myself out with a lot of the links on here!

Love the name Mad

Sadly i think this was also true of MM. People found her parents 'unlikeable' and therefore must be a bit on the dodgy side. I don't mean the judginess over leaving her and her siblings (which one could argue was more understandable). I mean the way they came across in interviews.....it's a strange phenomena.

Did you read the link about the Beaumont children? They were aged 9, 7 and 4 I think, and sent on a bus to the beach on their own, yet the public and media did not bash an eyelid (this was the 50s though). Would get a very different reaction if they went missing today!

bash an eyelid? lol bat

Why DH cannot EVER put dishes in the sink instead of all over our teeny kitchen?

Oh, sorry, wrong sort of mystery...

That American girl Maura that was linked too earlier in the thread freaked me out a bit. I think the people who lived close to the car crash site knew far more than they let on... It was just so odd the way she just vanished

How do save this thread? Or can we have it moved so it doesn't disappear? PLease?

This 1 has always intrigued me...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

even though it is explained.

Also a few years ago I had a book about this sort of thing, which had a story in it about the building of a by-pass which was plagued by weird events which made it seem that a force was trying to stop them building it. However I have lost the book and can't really remember enough to search for it. (which of course is what I am going to do now!)

Ah yes poorbut.....amazing to think it landed in such a remote region. Anywhere densely populated and it would have been absolutely disastrous.

Have we really got to 387 posts without mentioning this or did i miss it?

[hshock] no we forgot Nessie! And the Yeti, havewe mentioned Yetis yet?

No Yetis either! I did post a link to a weird bear/gorilla type thing, but no-one commented on it.

The Maura Murray thing - I think the guy who was sat in a bus in his driveway nearby? knows more than he lets on.

Madugh - the link to youtube didn't work but i managed to google a few seconds of the footage. Looked like a gorilla to me...

I'm loving this!
Will it have to be reported to ask mnhq to move it to classics, or might that backfire and get the whole lot deleted?

I emailed them the other day, to ask them to get Jilly Cooper on webchat. Try that, it's under the contact us bit [hsmile]

This has to be one of my favorite MN threads ever..... keep em coming please! All the ones I found really interesting have already been mentioned!

Portblack - but Nessie isn't a mystery is she? Because every Scot knows she really does exsist, we just made up the whole "is she isn't she real" thing for tourists!

Has anyone mentioned The Hum yet?
I bet some of you have heard it but it is an odd one.

Also, The Voynich Manuscript - I am intrigued by it and nobody has ever figured out what it is supposed to mean.

Does anyone else get the shaking bed thing? It's happened to me about 5 or 6 times, all in adulthood, the last time was 2 nights ago (one time was the earthquake in London though). I woke up, and the bed was vibrating under me. I wasn't scared, but became awake enough to wonder if it was another earthquake. No reports of one the next morning.
Is it just me? I'm not possessed am I

Enfield Poltergeist

Wasnt that programe Ghostwatch based on teh Enfield poltergeist? I watched that when I was about 13, and thought it was real and could not sleep all night as I was alone (parents at a halloween party) :(

spikeycow no, never!