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 ...?

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Oh I remember doing a poem about the Lighthouse Keeper, very odd. And they've pulled my post already and sent nice message, I'm impressed.

I wrote a long post about someone who's been missing since the early 70's in my family, then my internet went off, so I'm writing a short version.

Basically she "ran away" leaving her six kids. She never spoke to them or anyone else in her family again including her parents. It bugs people in my family but no one talks about it, her youngest daughter was trying to find her in the 90's and was offered a chance to post a notice in a national newspaper but pulled out at the last minute so she didn't upset her dad.

I don't think anyone in the 70's said anything to the police because she was an alcoholic who had a spell in a mental institution. I've tried to find her in marriage and death records, but found nothing.

I know many women do leave their children and lose contact with them and sometimes do the same with the rest of their families, but still it would be nice to know what happened to her.

i saw the fake jack the ripper letters once....they are in the 'black museum' at new scotland yard. a very,very scary museum!

i was perched on the side of a bathtub listening to the curators talk,only to be told it was the very bath where Neilson cut up his victims!!

the trawler Gaul

an ex bf of mine was a journalist who was investigating it. One day he got burgled and all his stuff taken - all his stuff, tapes etc.
He never seemed that suspicious about it but I think it was bloody dodgy.

The black museum sounds like the sort of thing I might make a special trip to London to see

That is indeed the one Deadly!

Thats good SS :)

How sad Okay grrl :(

I like the sound of this black mueseum too!

whatsthatduck its not open to the public i think. sorry about poor typing, am bf.

That's a shame MommyMoo. How do others get to go, do they have to be in the force?

You can go by special arrangement to the Black Museum (now the Crime Museum).

Thanks Scurry

Why was the entire crew AND passengers of the Marie Celeste in the rowing boat? Surely they would have put the dodgy booze in the rowing boat and sent some poor sap out on his own to tip it overboard? Not all pile in and leave the ship.

Or am I missing something?

Reminds me of an advert that I saw. A rescue crew boards a ship, and walk around. Everything's fine, they go into the galley, there's tons of food and they're all "what happened here? It's so bizarre". They then get into the fridge and find an empty bottle of [advertised brand] tomato sauce. The leader turns around and says "poor buggers didn't have a chance".

Very funny (can't find on youtube as youtube's blocked at work).

ah yes,sorry. i was in the MET police at the time. ridiculosly difficult to get a trip to,even for officers. i remember when i eventually got through,i was told i could take 3 other serving officers in with me.....i was popular for a while as everyone wanted to go

ots and lots of eye opening stuuf in there,they should make it for public viewing!

Krays suitcase,very,very graphic pics of hyde park bombings (ok,not for the public viewing) but many other items of interest

Or just chucked it out of a porthole?

Im so spooked reading all these, and just now a big fat candle just leapt off my mantlepice and made me yelp. Im shivering now :( Easily spooked, me!

lol SS, the Marie Celeste has baffled people for years. Im going to read that link now, to refresh my memory.

OK, got it sussed - someone earlier was concerned about dodgy people from Hyde, another person mentioned the caught between heaven and hell - that's it, we're all in Ashes to Ashes and waiting for Gene to fire up the Quattro :)

Today my biggest mystery is why my temperamental teenager with pmt is shouting the odds because I'm refusing to drive her 15 miles to see a friend that she saw just three days ago.

I suspect there's more to this than meets the eye

With the Marie Celeste maybe they thought they didn't have enough time to dump the booze.

I am v sceptical about all conspiracy theories and close encounters but would like to know about REAL unsolved mysteries like why does all the chocolate disappear in my house but not the lettuce?

it was an entire cargo of booze with vapours that had leaked out and filled the hold, not just a couple of barrels you could put in the rowing boat.
I can't remember all the details but it might have been something like, there had already been one explosion which frightened them but didn't leave burn marks - hang on.

wiki link - read the bit under 'explosion'.
1701 barrels, so more than you could quickly unload, 9 found empty.

they did an experiment reproducing the explosion, using paper cubes for barrels, which didn't get scorch marks.