Which Unsolved Mysteries Do You Find Most Intriguing?

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For me it would be, "Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm".

Not just crimes - oddities of history, unexplained events etc.

Lesser known the better.

Love these threads!

Hopefully more will post.

Off to google cattle mutilations...

Did Mallory / Irving make it to the top of Everest

Lord Lucan.

Not necessarily a crime (so far as we know) but one of aviation's greatest mysteries.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; a Boeing 777 vanished on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 passengers and crew on board.

Spontaneous combustion.

The guy who dug a load of holes in Hackney.

What makes yeti footprints.

What is in Alan Partridge's secret drawer.

I watched a thing on Netflix about this, it was very strange. Those poor guys. I'd love to know what happened.

Asha Degree disappearance

Amy Bradley who disappeared from the cruise ship

Came to say this. Followed the case for years. The supposed photo of her more recently is chilling.

JFK and Bobby Kennedy

Madeleine McCann

JonBenet Ramsey (although I'm 100% convinced it was one of the family but which one of the 3 and why)

This case was unbelievably strange.

Also Andrew Gosden.

FWIW the main mystery with that one is were the Malaysian authorities completely open with the rest of investigating team and if not why not?

I think most of the aviation world has an idea of the most possible reason for the dissapearance but have never been able to establish exactly who or why.

It's technically still a mystery but not on the scale of something like Lord Lucan.

You've probably read it, but Mike Dash's paper on this is excellent. The 'Unexplained' podcast episode on it is good, too.

Why anyone finds Mrs Brown's Boys funny.

Of the cold crime cases, who was really Jack the Ripper.

This really sticks with me. I'm ex cabin crew so follow a lot of the airline crashes etc but it's just so odd. It vanished around the time my dad was dying too and I think the conversations with him stick in my memory too.

I think they did find bits of the aircraft.

Is it pilot suicide or am I thinking of a different disaster?

You might be thinking about Germanwings - sadly no doubt about that one.

I think many suspect very strongly that due to the sequence of events on the night of it's disppearance the Malaysian event was possibly the same.

FWIW I think it's generally reckoned the absolute grand daddy/grandmother of aviation mysteries is the loss of Amelia Earhart.

Thank you for replying, I think i'll be googling it now before the England match starts.

I used to find it oddly comforting when in CRM discussing accidents and changes to safety and policy were implemented because they knew similar outcomes could be changed in future incidents. I'm not sure there is much that can be added or changed to guard against these type of incidents. Luckily they are few and fair between.

This article on MH370 was excellent:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

Me too. I’ve watched so many documentaries/ podcasts on her.

every time I change my mind on what happened !

DB Cooper

Also the Alcatraz escape baffles me

They changed the policy after Germanwings I believe - two people have to be in the cockpit at all times.

I've seen documentaries on the Malaysia Air disappearance and I don't believe it was the pilot. There were so many odd circumstances with this.

However, on aviation disasters - LOCKERBIE is still a mystery to me because I believe Jim Swire's theory that the bomb was placed at Heathrow, not in Malta.

Dr. Sneha Anne Philip. Now officially a 9/11 victim, but actually last seen on 10th September 2001. Every theory on where she went has massive holes in it.

What about the MI6 Spy in a bag . How did if ever get in there and zip the bag up without help . Supposedly.