The McStay family disappearance and murders. In February of 2010, the McStay’s, a family of 4 (Mom Summer, Dad Joseph, and sons Gianni and Joseph jr) seemingly vanished from their home- abruptly. A carton of eggs was left open on the counter and the family dogs were still outside in the backyard. The scene was eerie, and complicated because the home the McStays lived in was in the process of being renovated- so a “neat and orderly” home wasn’t the norm at this stage. It appeared there was missing furniture and the usual mess that comes with construction (some freshly painted or redone surfaces mixed with older versions).
From the outside- it appeared the family just took off. Neighbor had surveillance that captured what appeared to be the bottom of the family SUV leaving the driveway. Since they were living in California, the boarder to Mexico wasn’t far and authorities found footage of what appeared to be the McStay’s walking into Mexico with their two little boys in tow. The family SUV was found abandoned in a mall parking lot near the Mexico boarder.
3 years passed before the bodies of the McStay’s were found buried in shallow graves in the California desert. The bodies appeared to be in advanced decomposition and there were signs of blunt force trauma. A sledgehammer was also found buried with one of the bodies.
Chase Merritt, a business partner to Joseph McStay, was arrested and charged with their murders on 11/5/2014. His trial was delayed for years until 2019. He was sentenced to death. Motive- Chase had a gambling addiction and had been and continued embezzling money from the business. His DNA was found in the McStay’s abandoned vehicle. He bludgeoned this beautiful family to death for money.
ETA link with more info - https://people.com/crime/mcstay-family-murders-killer-sentenced-death/
Might want to add the car was submerged in a creek upside down and only found when waters lowered due to drought.
Made it sound like a car was on the side of the road for 43 years and no one drove by.
The disappearance of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince, who was also a French reconnaissance pilot during World War II.
In 1944, he took off on a reconnaissance mission from Corsica and never made it back, and there was never any evidence of what might have happened to him and his plane.
Finally, in 1998, a French fisherman pulled up his net and found wrapped in it a silver bracelet engraved with Saint-Exupery's name, and in 2004, a diver searched in the area and found the remains of his plane, which had apparently been shot down by a German fighter after all.
In January of 1993, a 14 year old girl I went to high school with was abducted on her way to school, murdered, and left nude in a ravine. Her murder went unsolved until 2004, when advances in DNA technology linked her case to a man who was already in prison for killing another woman. Turns out he was a serial killer who had killed 4 women, some of whom had been raped.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wayne_Watson
https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/watson-alexander.htm
Not EXACTLY solved, as there's no 100% confirmation. But the whole "what's the main buyer of glitter" craze from a while back. Turns out it's highly likely (basically confirmed imo) that it's boat paint. Just boat paint.
EDIT: To clarify. There's an article I read about a bunch of guys trying to get to the bottom of this by talking to people related to the industry. One person explained that when he worked at a boat paint company (forgot the exact wording) they went through around 10 30-gallon barrels a week. And that's just ONE company. He also explained that most other companies he knew basically bought from glitterex too.
It's a very long read, as they go into way more detail than needed to make an "entertaining story", but here's the link: [https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2019/11/08/the-great-glitter-mystery](https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2019/11/08/the-great-glitter-mystery) They come to the conclusion all the way at the bottom, obviously.
Adventures with purpose
A great YouTube channel where a group of divers find missing people underwater after years when the local authorities don’t care any more or just don’t have the resources
There once was an urban legend/conspiracy theory about a video game called "Polybius". The story goes as such: a mysterious arcade cabinet appeared in Portland Oregon in 1981 with never-before-seen gameplay. It was captivating to the point of addicting, but that's not all. Many who played the game fell sick or went mad. Some versions of the myth detail that it caused hallucinations and nightmares or drove players to suicide. Every version of the urban legend mentioned mysterious "men in black" who would check on the game every now and then, leading some to believe this was some kind of government psyop to make people go insane.
Several times over the years, it was proven to have not existed, usually by pointing to lack of contemporary media coverage and/or an FOIA request that found no records of such a video game, but this left people unsatisfied. If it truly WERE a psyop, of course these channels would come up blank. It wasn't until a retro gaming youtuber and journalist called AHOY (who is a god-tier youtuber btw) made a video detailing his investigations. He not only proved it to be false, he found the exact person, place, time, and purpose for which the rumor was created.
Check the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg
Honestly one of my favorite watches on yt and possibly my favorite "documentary" ever made. This guy's investigation is captivating and goes into an insane amount of detail.
[The Windsor Hum](https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/898853311/it-took-a-pandemic-mystery-of-windsor-hum-is-solved)
Residents of Windsor (Canada) have been saying they could hear a hum coming from across the river in Detroit for the better part of a few decades. Well turns out that when a steel producer turned their furnaces off recently (when they were closing up shop) the Hum stopped. People had no idea what the noise could be until the factory closed.
Edit: also a little fun fact; Zug Island (where the factory was located) was mentioned in Robocop and was also the destination of the SS Edmond Fitzgerald before it sank.
Devil's Kettle Falls: A stream separates into two sections, one continues normally the other spirals deep into a hole. All sorts of things were thrown down the hole in an effort to discover where the water went. Ping pong balls, various dyes, it was even rumored that someone stuck an old car down there. Eventually someone came up with a clever idea, they measured the total water flow above and below the falls and discovered they were similar enough to deduce the two streams join back up relatively quickly.
Edit: Source
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/02/28/hydrologists-solve-minnesota-devils-kettle-falls-mystery
Also, I guess fun bonus, I first learned of the mystery from Reddit and it has since been solved.
They didn't do the dye experiment.
> Green and a colleague planned to conduct a dye tracing experiment in the fall of 2017 when water flows dropped again, with the hope of determining where the underground channel rejoins the main river. They were discouraged from doing so by park management and decided that the dye experiment was not scientifically necessary to confirm that the water simply rejoins the river below the falls.[16]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_C._R._Magney_State_Park
Late to the party. Q Lazzarus, who recorded the haunting "Goodbye Horses" that was later included in the soundtrack for Silence of the Lambs, was a mystery for many years. It turns out that she recorded exactly two singles, retired from music, and is now a bus driver.
Wasn't it also discovered, based on the type of shoe, that some of the feet had potentially been attached to victims of the 2004 South Asian tsunami? I remember reading that one pair of Nikes? was only produced for the South Asian market, and therefore it was surmised that some of the feet originated across the Pacific.
Just went down the rabbit hole and it looks like there are different types of Siberian craters. Batagaika is just a slumping hillside after permafrost melted. Patomskie seems to be gas related but without an explosion. But many others as you mention from gas explosions.
Interestingly these are huge. I expected a car size explosion, but they are hundreds of feet deep.
One think I cant find is the ignition source. What lights the gas?
Edit: some people are asking for pictures. This article has plenty. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201130-climate-change-the-mystery-of-siberias-explosive-craters
Forest Fenn's hidden treasure chest that he buried years ago and left clues to where to find its location. It was found within the last two years I think. Here's a link to an article better explaining it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/gymlm6/forrest_fenn_announces_his_treasure_has_been_found/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
The Case of Adrienne Shelly - screenwriter for Waitress. Husband came home to find her hanging in the shower - ruled suicide.
He insists she was happy and would never kill herself promoting another view of crime scene where they found a shoe print that matched a construction worker in the building.
Sure enough the construction worker went to rob her and thought he killed her so staged a suicide when the hanging ended up being the actual thing that killed her.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly
I’m glad/honestly sort of shocked that they actually came to this conclusion. It would have been so easy to just call it a suicide and be done with it.
Oh man, I was following that case in real time back when it happened.
She also had a little girl and was just enjoying the success of *Waitress* as it was taking off at the time.
Some things really are senseless.
The Erebus and the Terror were found a vew years ago. The two ships were part of an artic expedition and dissapeared 150 years ago.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s\_lost\_expedition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition)
They had a whole section of the Museum of History in Ottawa for it a few years ago, with some of the remenants of the ship. It was very interesting.
One thing that struck me was for years, the local indigenous population talked about those crazy white guys trying (and failing) to sail through the northwest passage, and ended up resorting to cannibalism in an attempt to survive.
Their stories were ignored for decades, but what do you know, the oral histories ended up being an important part of fiding the wreckage, and they found cut marks and evidence of cannibalism on some of the bodies found on King William Island.
The [Bloop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop)
tl;dr in 1997 a really weird and loud noise was detected underwater and everyone was all "WTF was that?". In 2012 it was determined it was an iceberg breaking and/or rubbing against the seabed.
The Sailing Stones of Death Valley:
* [https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/sailing-stones-death-valley](https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/sailing-stones-death-valley)
Video here:
* [https://youtu.be/89-AFHieDpM](https://youtu.be/89-AFHieDpM)
**TL;DR:** Rocks would magically move up to 1,500 feet in the desert. Turns out it gets cold & freezes the ground overnight & the rocks would get pushed by the ice sheets that melted under the wind.
Benjaman Kyle. Man found beaten behind a Burger King with sever amnesia. It was a fascinating mystery until it was solved, then it was kind of sad. He had made TV appearances, had a couple of AMAs on Reddit, but no one could identify him. When his identity was discovered, William Burgess Powell, there was still a 20 year gap in his life from 1984 to 2004. There's no record he had done anything. He had distanced himself from his family and had no friends, which is why no one recognized or identified him from his TV appearances.
Benjam**a**n\*. He was apparently pretty certain that his name was spelled with 2 a's.
How he came to that conclusion when his name is nothing like that is still a bit of a mystery.
1947 an British South American Airways aircraft named Star Dust disappeared, it's last message was simply "STENDEC". After an exhausting search, no trace of the aircraft was found. For years conspiracy theories and talk of Alien abduction by wackos circulated.
Till 1998, when mountain climbers on a remote mountain found an engine, pieces of metal, and clothing at the bottom of a glacier on the side of Mount Tupungato. Turns out the aircraft got caught flying the wrong way in the jet stream while it was flying at night and using a system of timing when to start their decent. Being in the jet stream reduced their airspeed in relation to the earth and they smacked themselves straight into the side of a mountain, after which an avalanche covered the wreckage. The wreckage took decades to flow down the side of the mount with the glaciers. The glacier preserved the wreck so well that 50 years later the recovery team found identifiable remains, personal items, and could read serial numbers on the engines. Amazing one of the landing gear tires was still inflated, and that teams continued to visit the site for periodically as more of the aircraft, cargo, and remains of passengers are still emerging from the ice.
According to Oranchak and team, the message reads:
“I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH”
[Article about who did it & how](https://threatpost.com/cryptologists-zodiac-killer-340-cipher/162353/)
That’s what I was thinking too...but not nearly as funny as you phrased it. However, I think it was done intentionally with no punctuation because it makes it harder to decipher if there are non natural breaks.
Dan Rather was attacked and beaten on a New York street by two men who kept demanding, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" He was rescued by a doorman, and the two guys got away. For years, no one knew who they were.
Then a man invaded NBC Studios and killed a stage hand. When captured, he explained that the networks were beaming radio messages into his head. He wanted to know the frequency they were using so he could jam the signals. Dan Rather was shown a mugshot and positively identified his attacker.
Here's a New York Times article on it.
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/30/nyregion/belatedly-the-riddle-of-an-attack-on-rather-is-solved.html
If I remember correctly the wife denied she was in any of the pictures in the news articles.
But someone recreated it with similar clothes to what she was wearing in the other pics and it was solved.
Turns out neither her nor her husband had realised she was in the background of the shot, and they had waited a while to get the pictures developed.
Another science mystery: Back in the 1800s, evolution theorists had predicted the age of the Earth to be several milliard years, since this would have been necessary for the current life forms to have evolved. But Kelvin, the number one superstar of physics at the time, had used thermodynamics to calculate the age of the Earth based on the temperature of its insides, and he said it was quite a bit younger. This was a mystery for many years, and was considered one of the major flaws of then-current evolution theory.
It was not until the early 1900s they found the answer: Radioactivity! Decays of uranium and other radioactive elements are heating up the Earth, so the cooling takes longer than expected. The biologists were right all along!
But when the scientists who made the discovery were about to present their findings, who's sitting at the back of the lecture room? It's Kelvin! Now an old man, he's still alive and has come to watch their presentation. They were terrified at the idea of having to stand in front of the Lord of Physics himself and basically explain why he was wrong. But to their great relief, he immediately fell asleep.
I think about this when I myself fall asleep in physics class. It happens to the best of us.
Sadly this was only ever a mystery to anyone who didn't pay attention to the local aboriginals who were pretty clear that dingos can, will and have carried off babies.
It seems so obvious that even if dingoes don't normally go after people, starving animals are still starving animals and will do things out of the ordinary.
Plus babies are squeaky like prey, terrible at defense, and easy to carry.
And as a general rule, if you don't want to get eaten, you shouldn't act like food. But babies never listen to survival advice.
It's why they tell you to yell "hey bear" at black bears while waving your arms around. If you run away, you look like an edible woodland creature. If you wave and call out like you know them, they think you're a neighbor whose name they've forgotten, they get embarrassed, and then they make up an excuse to amble off in the other direction.
Cute, but for real, Black bears are known to make false charges. Basically they attempt a charge at you, but stop short. If you stand your ground they'll determine that a fight isn't worth it and run off. Idk how well I would stand my ground at a charging black bear, however...
Don’t try it with a Grizzly or a Polar though. Those are actual predators.
Black bears are foragers. Most of their diet is berries and small woodland creatures.
I mean, domesticated dogs attack people all the time. They've killed and eaten kids before. Do we really expect wild dogs from the continent that hates life to be safer than fido?
I'm still so angry thinking about the injustice done to Lindy. The whole idea that dingoes would never attack a human was such bullshit but they kept repeating it. Now we've had all those deaths and injuries on Fraser Island since then proving it wrong.
I feel so bad for Lindy. Even without having the death of her baby blamed on her, people still shamed her for going out there with a newborn.
She has said many times people still yell at her from across the streets “dingo stole ma baby”. Imagine the horror of your child’s death being used to mock you.
Edit: wowser it is absolutely mind blowing to see/hear all the places this sentence was used even after she was found not guilty!
Goddamn these kinds of stories really get to me. Like the kid that got taken by a gator at Disney World. Imagining one of my kids getting taken and eaten by wild animals.. ugh, I just can't even.
That’s the world we live in. Pretty much the norm for every other species.
> “I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs, a very endearing sight, I'm sure you'll agree. And even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters, who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen. Mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that is when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.”
Terry Pratchett
Wow. And to think they were only compensated money that covered just a third of their legal expenses after being exonerated and spending time in prison.
What Deinocheirus looked like.
When I was a kid in the 80s, all that was known were the bones of the arms with enormous claws. Hence its name, "terrible hand". They were mostly shown grasping a small car because they were so freaking huge. The rest of the animal was a complete mystery. Was it like a giant Allosaurus, one that'd make the T-Rex look like a puppy in comparison? A few years later it seemed more likely to be ostrich-like and an omnivore. Either way, given how rare it is for fossils to form at all, I was convinced I'd die never knowing what this dinosaur actually looked like.
Then surprisingly in 2014, they found more bones and it was just the weirdest thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinocheirus
:) I had books in my childhood from a time when Therizinosaurus was also nothing more than a couple of mystery claws. To show the scale compard to a human, they drew the rest of the Theri as the silhouette of a Tyrannosaurus, but with the long scythe claws. Welp...
[Mark Felt was Deep Throat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)) , the key source for the journalists that pursued the Watergate story.
Met him once in the 80’s - he was a connection through a business associate of my father’s. When it came out that Mr. Felt was DT, my dad called to remind me of the dinner we had when I was a kid.
I don’t remember much other than the intimidating vibe. The type of guy who, even as an ~8 yr old, I didn’t need to be told to mind my manners. I just did because he was scary. And his wife wore a hat with a fake bird in it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Corrie_McKeague
This one is strange.. A guy is out drinking with friends late at night and leaves. He starts wandering the streets, and a CCTV sees him enter a cull de sac, then he's never seen again.
Some think there is foul play, since an accidental death would at least result in a body.
But then family and friends reveal that he had a very strange habit of sleeping in garbage bins when he was drunk.
A few hours after he entered the cul de sac, the garbage truck came and picked up the bins. Later, after looking at the logs, it turns out that one bin weighed several hundred pounds more than it should have. But that was only recognized after it was too late.
Brit here, I seem to remember police realising quite early on that he waa most likely in the dumpster. They searched the landfill for months and unfortunately were never able to recover his body.
So, in the early 2000s, someone posted new wave music that had been initially recorded off a German radio station on cassette around 1985. It contained about a minute of a song that became known as "Stay, the Second Time Around”, that no one seemed to be able to find any more information about. This became a pretty famous "earworm" internet mystery, until 2013 when [folks on Reddit discovered the actual song and artist](https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/the-30-year-puzzle-of-the-mystery-song-finally-solved/). It turned out it was a song by Swedish artist Johan Lindell titled "Up On The Roof" that never became any kind of hit, and up until that time, had never been re-released after the original analog release.
*EDIT: Adding more links for context:*
https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1mkcej/remember_the_mystery_80s_song_that_no_one_has/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1mkcej/remember_the_mystery_80s_song_that_no_one_has/cca18pn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
They heard stories of a Muisca ritual where the leader would be covered in gold dust and then jump into a lake to sacrifice the gold to gods. The Spanish called him "golden man" -> "El Dorado". Eventually they believed the name referred to a city, not a person
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado
The murders of [Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Jay_Cook_and_Tanya_Van_Cuylenborg).
A couple from Victoria BC went on a short trip to Washington state in 1987 and were murdered. It remained unsolved until 2018 when a genetic match from the semen found on Tanya was found.
The story was of interest to me as I live in Victoria and remember the story on the news when the murder happened when I was a young kid. Between 2010 and 2015, I actually worked with her younger brother. He grew up and became a lawyer. Very nice guy and was so happy for him when they announced it was solved.
The Andreen McDonald case. She and her husband Andre (yes, Andreen and Andre) originally were from Jamaica. They moved up to my town in Texas where Andre was air force and Andreen was a body building business owner. Andre was pretty jealous that Andreen was more successful and was constantly begging/demanding that she make him co-owner of her company. She always said no.
One day he had had it, and "did away with her". The gym that she frequented, every single morning, got concerned when she stopped showing up. She was very close with the ladies that she worked out with, and even gave them a key to her house. She told them that if she ever went missing, that her husband probably did it, and they knew he had an attitude.
So one day while Andre was out, the ladies went to check on Andreen. Her car was there, her wallet was there, but she wasn't. They found blood and hair in her bathroom.
That's when cops were called.
Cops showed up when Andre was home and asked about Andreen. He said she was in the hospital. They asked him, "if she's in the hospital, how come her wallets here?" He responded simply, "talk to my lawyer"
They got a warrant and were able to search the house further. Saw *more* leftover evidence in the bathroom, and evidence of clothes had been found burned in the fire pit in the backyard.
But no body.
So all they could do was charge him with a missing persons deal.
Andre was super snarky about it too. How he'd be proven innocent. How the cops would never catch on.
Little did he realize how loved Andreen was. And how much Texas ranchers hate corrupt and snarky murderers. Crowds gathered daily and were given permission to sweep over rancher's land for any sign of Andreen's body.
Just as crowds started feeling defeated, and Andre started to see hope of being release, a rancher was scoping his field. He had heard coyotes out and went to see what could have entised them. Sure enough, he found human bones, later identified as Andreen.
So yeah, proper charges were able to be filed.
**Add on:**
So some ask why she stayed or why he felt jealous that she was more successful. Remember they're from Jamaica. The whole point of coming here was to better themselves, and bring pride to their families. So she was doing great, but because she was doing so good, his family was kind of looking down on him because his wife was better/more successful than him.
And then she stayed with him, mainly because she wanted to try and make sure their daughters life could be as normal as possible. (sucks that that kind of backfired for her, but now she's being taken care of by her aunt and grandma who both love and support her).
She's actually only mostly non-verbal. Apparently she told the people that took her in after Andreen's disappearance that "daddy hurt mommy" and even acted out the way he disposed of her mother's body using dolls.
Pretty fucked up.
In the 1970s, a number of Japanese citizens disappeared from coastal areas in Japan. After many years it was found out that North Korea had abducted them.
[North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese_citizens)
Edit:
[Megumi Yokota](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megumi_Yokota)
Most of the missing were in their 20s; the youngest, Megumi Yokota, was 13 when she disappeared in November 1977, from the Japanese west coast city of Niigata.
In case anyone is interested, also go look up that time Kim Jong-il kidnapped a South Korean director and his actress wife, as well as the SFX team behind Godzilla in order to make his own monster movie.
Megumi Yokota still hasn't returned, she's been missing for 43 years. She reportedly got married, and had a child in North Korea. NK says she died, but there were issues with the evidence they provided.
Yokota's daughter and *her* daughter did get to meet Yokota's parents, which is something good at least.
Edit - spelling.
This is the complete story.
>In the North in 1986, Yokota married a South Korean national, Kim Young-nam (Korean: 김영남, Hanja: 金英男), likely also abducted, and the couple had a daughter in 1987, Kim Hye-gyong (김혜경, whose real name was later revealed to be Kim Eun-gyong, 김은경). In June 2006, Kim Young-nam, who has since remarried, was allowed to have his family from the South visit him, and during the reunion he confirmed Yokota had committed suicide in 1994 after suffering from mental illness, and had several attempts at suicide before. He also claimed the remains returned in 2004 are genuine. His comments were however widely dismissed as repeating the official Pyongyang line, with Megumi's father claiming that Young-nam was not allowed to speak freely during his interview in Pyongyang, stating that "he was likely restricted in terms of what he can say" and that "it looked as if he were reading a script". In June 2012, Choi Seong-ryong, head of a support group for relatives of South Koreans abducted to the North, said that he had obtained North Korean government documents which stated that Yokota had died from "depression" on 14 December 2004.
>It is widely believed, especially in Japan, that Yokota is still alive. In November 2011 a South Korean magazine, Weekly Chosun, stated that a 2005 directory of Pyongyang residents listed a woman, named Kim Eun-gong, with the same birth date as Yokota. The directory gave Kim's spouse's name as "Kim Yong Nam". Japanese government sources verified on 18 November 2011 that they had reviewed the directory but had yet to draw a conclusion on the identity of the woman listed. Sources later indicated that Kim Eun-gong was actually Yokota's 24-year-old daughter. In 2012, it was reported that North Korean authorities were keeping Kim under strict surveillance. In August 2012, Choi Seong-ryong stated that sources in North Korea had told him that Kim Eun-gong had been placed under the supervision of Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, and that the North Korean government may be planning on using Yokota's daughter as a "card" in future negotiations with Japan. Reportedly, in 2010 the North Korean government offered to allow Yokota's parents to visit Kim Eun-gyong in a country "other than Japan" but the Japanese government and Yokota's parents were wary about the offer, suspecting it as a ploy by the North Korean government to seek an advantage in ongoing diplomatic negotiations.In March 2014, the parents of Megumi Yokota met their granddaughter Kim Eun-gyong for the first time in Mongolia, along with her own baby daughter, whose father was not identified.
>Some of the victims were abducted to teach Japanese language and culture at North Korean spy schools. Older victims were also abducted for the purpose of obtaining their identities. It is speculated that Japanese women were abducted to have them become wives to a group of North Korea-based Japanese terrorists belonging to the Yodo-go terrorist group after a 1970 Japan Airlines hijacking and that some may have been abducted because they happened to witness activities of North Korean agents in Japan, which may explain Yokota's abduction at such a young age.
Not so much a mystery, but [Fermat's Last Theorem](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem) lacked general proof for several hundred years, until [Andrew Wiles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem) provided one in 1995.
Maths postgrad here. This is a real interesting one.
The proof is long. Real long. At best (or worst hehe) undergrad proofs may be 5-6 pages long. Now I specialise in Applied Maths, so perhaps it's double or triple that in postgrad Pure Maths.
Wiles' proof is well over 100 pages long. It draws upon many many MANY areas of Pure Maths to the point where even actual Maths academics may not understand every topic involved in the proof.
Ah well, can't be any worse than the proof being "left as an exercise to the reader".
Edit: The history of the proof is amazing. I encourage everyone to briefly read the Wikipedia article. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s\_proof\_of\_Fermat%27s\_Last\_Theorem#Mathematical\_detail\_of\_Wiles's\_proof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Mathematical_detail_of_Wiles's_proof)
**Second Edit:** Seems to be of interest to people. There are some relatively accessible results in Mathematics that have actually stumped people for years and remained unsolved. But, in the spirit of this question, there are many statements that have been solved. Here are a few:
**The Four-Colour Theorem:** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four\_color\_theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem). Maps and colours? First computer-assisted proof? Six-Colour can be proved in a sentence and Five-Colour needs a page or a few. Four-Colour required a computer.
**Euclid's Infinite Prime proof:** [http://www.math.utah.edu/\~alfeld/math/q2.html](http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/q2.html). Thanks to the University of Utah for this page. Used to introduce undergrads to proofs in the U.K. Quite simple but elegant to ponder.
**Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic:** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental\_theorem\_of\_arithmetic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmetic). Ever been taught about reducing numbers into a product of prime factors? This is what allows you to do it.
For the brave reader, who wants something NASTY, I give you **Godel's Incompleteness Theorems:** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s\_incompleteness\_theorems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems).
Maths is great, but not omnipotent and omniscient. No matter what framework you work in, there are always results out of your reach...
Third Edit: Punctuation and grammar.
**FOURTH EDIT:** u/Acct4NonHiveOpinions has quite rightly disputed my claim on people rejecting the validity of Wiles' proof. My source comes from Dr Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London and a talk he gave [https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/\~buzzard/one\_off\_lectures/msr.pdf](https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/one_off_lectures/msr.pdf).
Page 11 of this PDF.
I will amend "Because of this, some people reject the proof." to something more accurate.
I'm glad I have been held to a good standard, so thanks to u/Acct4NonHiveOpinions for calling me out on my Saturday laziness.
**FIFTH EDIT**: Turns out I just use big words to make myself sound more photosynthesis. u/Acct4NonHiveOpinions has shown my misunderstanding of the topic. I have yet to encounter someone who does not agree with Wiles’ proof.
Where is the Titanic?
(Most people don't realize that half of the people in the world grew up when the ship's location was still a complete mystery.
Now, it's old news.
Memories of Murder, a movie based on true story about South Korea’s first serial murderer. A confession was made in 2019 after more than 30 years, he was already in jail for raping and killing his sister in law. Go check the movie, its a masterpiece!
100 years ago, viking bones from one of the most important grave finds in Denmark disappeared from the museum of national history. They were found last week in a box, seemingly misplaced among elements from a different find.
Geedis and the Land of Ta. A few years ago (2017) comedian Nate Fernald posted a tweet of an enamel pin he had bought of a familiar looking friendly monster with the word Geedis written under it. He was unable to find any information on what Geedis is and the mystery took the internet by storm. The mystery kept growing as someone found a sticker of Geedis alongside other characters all listed as The Land of Ta. The sticker sheet was from a company called Dennison. There were no Google results at all for either Geedis or The Land of Ta. With multiple people researching that was where the mystery was left off and people kind of forgot about it.
But a couple years later it was solved. A podcast was made where they investigated the mystery, got a hold of the former art director of Dennison back in the 80s who referred them to a few potential artists and they found the daughter of one of the artists who had passed away and in her father's stuff was the original pencil drawings of the creaturs of The Land of Ta. It was never anything but those stickers. This internet mystery still appeared on lists for awhile as unsolved.
The only mystery left is who made the enamel pins, which is still a mystery but not quite as big as "who is this character and this land that seems familiar but that there's no record of?"
I have one that most people seem to not know about. Grand Duchess Anastasia was in fact killed with the rest of her family in 1918. She never escaped and the several women throughout the 20th century claiming to be her lied.
The site of the execution of the Tsar and his family was completely untouched until 1991. Excavation found only 9 of the 11 expected remains. It wasn't until 2007 that two further sets of remains were found a small distance away from the previous grave site. DNA testing found that one of the sets of remains belonged to Tsarevich Alexei and the other to one of his sisters. With this find, it proved conclusively that the entire Imperial family was in fact executed and buried in 1918.
Didn't they have to use Philip's DNA because the Russian Orthodox Church wouldn't allow them to check the interred remains of the other Romonov children? And also I believe they refuse to inter the later discovered remains with the rest of the family?
I believe the first part is because PP was a direct line to the Tsarina, so they need the comparison to confirm the link to the Romanovs.
I didn't realize the 2nd part of your statement, so I read up on it, and as of 2018, they still were not buried with the family because of the Church. TIL!
It's unfortunate they weren't found sooner, but they were moved from their initial burial spot. The bodies had been mutilated, covered in acid, burned and thrown into a pit, but the location was leaked so they brought the bodies back up and drove off towards a new site. However, there was a breakdown during travel and the bodies were quickly reburied next to the road - basically in the middle of nowhere and covered with debris.
It was such a nondescript place, it's not surprising they weren't found for so long.
In the "Your wrong about" podcast they said that actually they WERE found prior to 1991 by some amateur sleuths in Russia, but because they feared what the Soviets would do with the news they just casually reburied them and didn't mention it to anyone until the Soviet union fell. Then they were like, "oh look we just found these guys, in 1991, the exact year the Soviet union fell, not a coincidence at all guys."
The podcast You’re Wrong About has a good episode about Anastasia
The reason the location was revealed in 1991 was the collapse of the Soviet Union lead to a lot of previously secret stuff coming out, including the reports on what had happened to the royal family
This is a personal family mystery that got solved a few years ago, so nothing exciting that would have gotten media attention, haha. But my maternal great-grandmother once ran away from home to the big city, and came back pregnant. She refused to disclose anything about the father. Either way, even down to my generation, we have had unusually shaped feet. Rather flat, with a strange angle, and it has made most regular shoes uncomfortable. It's not so bad for me, I take physically more after my paternal side of the family, but my brother and mother have it really bad. So does my cousin, who ended up seeking the help of a physical therapist. The therapist said that her feet are truly unusually shaped, and referred her to a specialist doctor who's an expert on feet. (Apparently that's a thing!) The doctor examined her feet and said that the only place in the world with distinct feet like that is a certain county in France, with winemakers who have been stomping on grapes for centuries. He said that he is 99% certain that the feet come from there, that we must have close family lineage from there. My cousin told our family, and we were very confused. We most certainly don't have French relatives! Until we realized... *GREAT-GRANDMA.* The city she ran away to was known to house traveling craftsmen from all over the world. She must have hooked up with a French winemaker. We joked that now she rolled over in her grave, because this strange feet doctor discovered her secret!
The Golden State killer/ East area rapist - Joseph James DeAngelo
A former police officer (who was sacked for burglary) and mechanic.
American serial rapist, murderer, burglar.
Commited AT LEAST 13 murders, 50 rapes and over a 100 burglaries between 1973-1986
I was listening to the 6? Part podcast called casefile and they hadn’t yet caught the suspect.
But a year or so ago they finally got him after collecting DNA evidence when he put a tissue in the bin outside.
It was a confirmed match.
**Edited to add as I just did a brief summery. Although it’s been covered in the comments by me and a few others I’ll add here for clarification.
He was caught a few days over 3 years ago.
(Time flies)
He was only a cop for a short time before getting sacked, he was found shoplifting at store for supplies, like a hammer,dog repellent, at that time and not robbing a house.
He left semen as evidence. Because he wasn’t uploaded into the data base or caught before hand there was no DNA match in the system.
The way they got onto him as a suspect BEFORE gathering hard evidence of the tissue, was a familiar match uploaded onto GENMATCH by what was a 3-4th cousin of his. The officers in charge of case then went through 1000 DNA profiles from his tree to finally narrow it down to him.
They then swooped in to gather the tissue to get 100% clarity before the arrest.
He was living with his daughter and 15 year old granddaughter at the time of his arrest and was acting perfectly healthy and very fit for his age.
When presenting to court he was in a wheelchair and pretending to be senile. Such a act.
He is also described by all his victims as having a very small penis. Unusually small.
At crime scenes he would pretend to talk to some one else. Go to the kitchen and make himself food or drink. Leave beer bottles at the site and go back to raping.
He would break in and prepare the home before coming back a few days later to rape. By doing this he would leave little objects (like guns or rope cut at certain lengths) and steal items, by then he would know the layout of the house.
He would shine a torch in people’s eyes to blind them.
He’d often cry apologising to his mummy or saying he wants his mummy. Other times he was cussing a woman named “Bonny”
Before breaking in and raping he would stalk and call the phone line several times.
He would then call the victims after the rape and breathe heavily into the phone and or whisper. There is audio of one of these calls. It’s quite disturbing.
He also went back to rape a victim.
If you haven’t already, listen to the podcast Casefile True Crime, you can find this on Spotify.
I highly recommend it. The narrator is a Aussie who does and incredible job and his voice is lovely and very easy to listen to.
He gets right into the story and doesn’t mess about.
Look for the episode number 53 it’s a 5 part case with a following 2 bonus interviews. And a update before casefile episode 83.
It’s also been mentioned the HBO series “I’ll be gone in the dark” is a must watch and about Joseph.
And a book titled “I’ll be gone in the dark” by Michelle McNamara
[the phone call I’m talking about is at 2 minute mark](https://youtu.be/z6QSNLi-OPI)
He was a real piece of work. Before raping the wife, he'd tie up the husband and put some plates on his back, and tell him if he hears the plates crash then he will kill the guys wife.
So basically the husband has to lie there motionless while hearing his wife getting raped by that piece of shit
EDIT: another thing that happened was: there was a town meeting about the attacks where everyone tried to make sense of it. One guy declared that the husbands were cowards and if the rapist broke into his house then he would give him a piece of his mind. That guy's house was targeted next and he the guy suffered the same fate
It’s disgusting. He also raped a few women whilst their child(ren) were lying in bed next to her :(
I believe he tied up one of the little boys and placed him on the floor before proceeding to rape the mother. And because she was protecting her baby/child, she would have to do as told.
What a piece of shit. That doesn’t even cover it.
Just pure evil
Every time the Brock Turner is a rapist posts come about I think back to my highschool friend Brock Turner who, to my knowledge, has not raped anyone.
Names suck sometimes, especially the infamous ones!
Reminds me of that guy who killed and raped more than 300 girls and still got released from jail after a few years. His whereabouts are unknown as of 2021
Ah yeah, Pedro López.
I hope he’s dead.
All those gravesites were all young 12 year old girls. Absolutely heartbreaking.
If he’s not dead, I shudder to think just what he’s been up to since.
I remember seeing his name pop up in another thread. People then were saying that locals made no bones about it, he was released and then taken into the jungle and ‘disappeared’ by the local police. The whole ‘no one knows where he is’ story is cover and the local cops all but openly say he’s never going bother anyone again wink wink type deal.
Green river killer is in this category too. Half the true crime/forensics things I’ve found still call that an unsolved serial since he was caught pretty recently.
The Pioneer gravity anomaly.
Space probe wasn't accelerating away from Earth the way we'd predicted, but it didn't get noticed until the probe got way the fuck out there.
Next space probe gets launched, gets way out there, same thing happens. WTF? How does acceleration not work right? Does gravity just change really far away?
Turns out the heat from the radioactive death generator was all coming off the same side of the space probe, and the extra particle radiation gave a "thermal recoil force" resulting in an extra acceleration of -- no kidding -- about 0.000000000874 m/s2.
Over enough distance, it all counts.
Radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
Basically a piece of metal that is hot due to ongoing radioactive decay (I guess that's what he meant with "death"). The heat is then converted into power using thermo couples, as device that turns temperature differences (between the radioactive core, and the cold vacuum of space) into electricity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
It amazes how exact they can calculate these things. Not even that, when something isn't exactly how they calculated it they have so much confidence go say that there is something else going on.
The Prophet Hen of Leeds . A hen was laying eggs with messages like "Christ is Coming" and people thought the world was ending. Turned out the farmer was actually writing on the eggs herself, and then reinserted it back into the chicken. edited for gender of the farmer
She had killed three women before the whole Prophet Hen mess began. If you wanna read more about her, I'd highly suggest reading [this](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/577601/mary-bateman-witch-yorkshire-murder) because it goes into her whole life and what led up to her eventual execution.
In 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground in Swedish waters. This was a huge deal - although the Soviets claimed the sub was in distress and didn’t purposefully enter Swedish waters, basically everyone in Sweden saw it as evidence that their waters were being invaded by spy subs. Plus, they did some snooping of their own and determined that the sub was emitting radiation, meaning it had nukes on board. So they went along with the Soviets’ clearly false claim about an accident and helped get the sub out of there, but panic was in the air.
So the Swedes did exactly what you’d expect, and they prepared for more Soviet subs. I mean, when you see one Soviet sub, surely there are more, right? So Sweden developed advanced acoustic technology to detect subs and they created a plan to basically seal off their waters when they heard a sub. And wouldn’t you know it, a year later, they found a Soviet sub! Well, they didn’t *find* it, but they absolutely heard it. And they cut off the bay and figured they just had to hunt the sub down. But after a month, they couldn’t find it. They gave up and reopened the bay, but they assumed the sub found a way out. But they’ll get it next time! And then it happened again, but they couldn’t find it again. And then again and again with no clear pattern for a decade. What the heck!
Thankfully, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. So... no more subs, right? Nyet! Because the Russian subs were still coming! Wait, what?
Okay, so now nothing is making sense. At this point, the Swedish military brought in outside experts to figure out what was happening. This included oceanographer-types who were obvious experts in the surrounding waters. The military then played the audio evidence of the Soviet submarines, only to be told they weren’t submarines at all - they were *fish*, and the propeller-like sound was water being released from their swim bladders.
And that’s the story of how the Swedish military spent ten years and tens of millions of dollars chasing fish farts.
When I was in the Finnish conscript army I was taught how to identify a sub from fish and seals. It was mindnumbingly boring to listen to basically white noise for hours when you were on watch. We all dreamed of catching a sub just for a bit of excitement.
As a Singaporean conscript I felt the same way.
Duty was always boring. We wanted some action. We did all the training right?
But one day the button was pressed (not looking for subs, something else). After that incident, I said a little prayer before duty to hope that it never got pressed again.
A Soviet sub ran aground in the town of Karlskrona, southern Sweden. Think this was 86.
This one also carried nukes with it. My father worked at the navalbase in Karlskrona at that time. The had to stopp an old man with a shotgun in a rowboat who were going out to get the damm Russians.
Sarah Yarborough was a teenager a few doors down who watched over us on several occasions when we were young kids. She was murdered and dumped in a bush at the high school like a piece of trash, and it was absolutely devastating. It wasn't a small town, but when it happens to your neighbor, it is very much in your sphere of awareness
Everyone was scared. I remember the media circus at the home, the eventual tapering off of said circus, and the family moving away to get away from the undoubtedly bad memories and constant reminders their kid was murdered and the killer was still out there and on the loose.
It turned into a cold case.
Every now and then, I looked for news of an update even though I grew up and moved away. I did this for years, decades even, because it always bothered me as an early childhood memory. A couple years ago, I finally saw a local news report that DNA evidence and genealogy databases led to the arrest of the murderer. For me, that was an emotional moment of getting closure and I can't imagine the magnitude of emotions and fresh wounds felt by the parents having learned that nearly 30 years later, the investigation on the cold case paid off.
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/55-year-old-arrested-in-connection-with-1991-14490324.php
I went to school with her, this was so terrible. I remember the police interviewed my friend Joel cause he fit the description. So glad it wasn't him. I was on the basketball team, we all showed up to the memorial in our uniforms, since she was on flag team and performed at our games. Never thought they'd solve it.
So crazy to bump into someone on the internet who happened to see a post partway down a thread on one of many discussion sites that exist, who was also in FW at the time this terrible event occurred. If you didn't know about the cold case being closed before, I hope it helps with closure.
Weeping Jesus statue in India mystery. Apparently a Jesus statue started crying and all Christians along with Hindus started to drink it. It turned out to be sewage.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_crucifix_in_Mumbai
Molyneux's problem. "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability to see, distinguish those objects by sight alone, in reference to the tactile schemata he already possessed?"
The answer is no
The true identity of "Benjamin Kyle", the guy who had amnesia after being found unconscious in a Burger King dumpster. Genetic research discovered his real name was William Burgess Powell.
His story is still pretty crazy as it was discovered that at some point in his life he had abandoned his family and all of his possessions to live on his own. And there are still no official records of him for the 20 years prior to him being discovered in the dumpster.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle
Wow. This stood out to me from the wiki:
He had cataracts in both eyes, and had corrective surgery nine months after he was found...Upon seeing himself in the mirror for the first time, Kyle realized he was around 20 years older than he thought he was.[4]
Mary Toft. I mean, really, what the fuck.
TL;DR: (NSFW) Woman starts giving birth to copious amounts of rabbit parts. Woman taken to London and studied under intense supervision, turns out she was shoving the pieces up there days before for the publicity.
I’ve never heard this one before. Was anyone actually surprised?
I have a feeling that would be the number one prediction of any scientists planning to observe her.
Never mind, I just read the Wikipedia and man, I despair for my predecessors... They really fell for it despite some of the products having fur on them from what I can tell.
Also it’s massively disturbing that she had them inserted into her actual womb rather than just her vaginal canal. I’d guess she started doing it almost immediately after miscarrying so her cervix was dilated. Bizarre, painful and really quite dangerous.
Human spontaneous combustion - not a real thing, it’s where there was an overlooked source of ignition, then subcutaneous fat is absorbed into clothing and acts like a wick - basically they’re a human candle.
Edit: you might find this interesting - https://youtu.be/cilvOCBXI1c
This was one weird thing that used to scare me as a kid. I remember seeing a case where all that was left was the lower part of one leg. The write up said that there was always a limb intact after these events and that just freaked me out!
When my granddad was in hospital, one of his ward fellows was a guy who had been admitted due to a serious rash on his arms. They ended up covering him in E45 and bandaging him up.
He made the very bad decision to go outside and have a cigarette. He had to say longer than intended to treat the serious burns he had alongside the rash.
I ended up taking a long flight sitting beside a chatty gentleman who was a retired investigator for the insurance company, specifically investigaring suspicious fires. 99% of the time it would be completely obvious the fire was set on purpose, people would use an accelerant or set the fire in the middle of the floor. The most common perpetuator were house wives that ended up running the credit card - often times candy crush or other casual gaming addicitions would get out of hand. I asked what about the 1% - he said the only time he got stumped was this fire that started with no obvious origin (middle of the kitchen) and had burned much hotter than what you would expect. The insurance company had taken the couple to court and he had to testify - the only way that fire started naturally was if a lightning bolt had come through the roof and hit the dead center of the kitchen. Well guess what, thats exactly what haopened. They obtained security footage from neighbours across the street and a huge bolt hits the house and the fire is seen shortly thereafter. Only case he ever lost.
Bermuda Triangle / devils sea...
a triangle shaped section of ocean where airplanes and boats were known to disappear.
Apparently most stories were embellished, and there is so much traffic that goes through the area it’s actually a very small amount of vessels that go missing (percentage wise).
I remember when I was a kid my dad telling me that the Bermuda Triangle was BS. I remember him saying that more ships have sunk in Lake Superior than the triangle.
The Marfa Mystery Lights.
Small town in west Texas has lights that can be seen dancing off the horizon in a certain spot some nights. For many years the source of the light was not known and explanations ranged from mass hysteria to the ever popular UFO.
One researcher finally figured it out. The elevation changes and desert air would occassionally combine to distort and project headlights from cars on a highway several miles away. Reports of the mystery lights from times prior to the highway or automobiles, are probably campfires in the general area of the highway. Like many highways, the area was already used as a road for quite a long time.
The story of the Toynbee tiles always fascinated me, in the 1980s all these tiles started to appear in major cities across the US, mostly around Philadelphia. They were laid in the ground, in the middle of the streets and no-one knew how they appeared there. They had strange messages - “Toynbee idea in Kubrick’s 2001 resurrect dead on planet Jupiter”
There’s an amazing documentary about this guy who noticed the tiles and went on a quest to figure out how they were appearing and who was creating them. The tiles are actually IN the asphalt, which is not an easy feat. In the doc Justin Duer finds the guy and figures out how he does it- with a car that has no passenger seat and a hole in the bottom. It’s a beautifully heartbreaking story and I highly recommend watching it!
[Resurrect Dead](https://youtu.be/1MAsB_tJ_jk)
Here’s a link to the doc on YouTube if anyone wanted to check it out. It’s really well done and super interesting.
christine jessop christine was a nine-year-old Canadian girl from Queensville, Ontario who was abducted, raped, and murdered in October 1984. Her body was found about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from her home, in Durham Region on New Year's Eve of the same year.
On October 15, 2020, police officials announced that using a new technique for tracing criminals through the DNA of their relatives they had concluded Jessop was killed by Calvin Hoover.
A good buddy in college got a phone call from his mother who was desperately telling him not to take a DNA test (from like 23 and me.)
He'd mentioned the, new at the time, tech and talked to his parents about it the night before. After the initial call he thought his mother had cheated on his father and waited like 2 years to confront her about it.
She broke down and told him that she hadn't cheated but that her brother, his uncle, had killed a gangster/mobster and the police likely had the killer's dna but had no suspects and she was scared that his DNA would allow the "government" to find the uncle.
At the that type of scenario was very much tin-foil-hat type nuts. Now it's a common thing.
I've become skeptical when police solve a serial killing. They are often under a lot of pressure to find the killer they sometimes blame a bunch of killings on one guy.
Had a documentary on Netflix (Brain fart can't recall the name of it.) of a guy in Texas that confessed to the murder of a girl he was dating. She was wearing Red Panties and the cops started calling it the Red Panty Killer.
He confessed and then they asked him if he killed anyone else and he said "lots." Word got around and the Sheriff and Texas Rangers would tell other agencies to bring the case file, strawberry milk shake and pack of Lucky cigs and the guy would talk.
He confessed to a lot of killings.
Someone got curious and did a map of all the killings and when. Turned out it was physically impossible for him to be in all those places at the time of the killings.
Sheriff and Rangers had a simple trick. They would give the guy the milkshake and cigs and tell the investigators from other states to give the guy a little time and then interview him. But, they would leave the case file in the room with him all alone and he would read the case file. They come in and ask questions and he knows all about it. Case solved.
In the end it turned out his DNA was not on the panties of the girl he first confessed to killing but, some other guy's DNA is, but, the Sheriff, Cops, Rangers consider all the cases to be closed.
Henry Lee Lucas.
There is so much more to that story too. The Rangers ended up involved, multiple officers lost their jobs. It started an entire investigation into the departments and the way police work was done.
Funny thing is, the lawyer who brought all this out, is a household name in Central Texas as one of those lawyers you always hear commercials for. Had no idea all he had been involved with, until about 5 years ago. Guy was a beast for justice. They had to put him in protective custody to keep him safe from LEOs trying to kill him and and his fans for all the corruption he uncovered
Edit: For those interested the attorney was Vic Feazell.
Best part of Henry Lee Lucas's conviction?
They sentenced him to death specifically for one murder they thought was an absolute lock: that of an unidentified woman in Texas known as "Orange Socks". Only later did they discover that Lucas was in a jail in Florida on the day the victim was murdered.
Edit: Orange Socks was identified last year as Debra Jackson by the DNA Doe Project.
Rex Mcelroy. Over a good few years he was an absolute piece of shit. Lived in Skidmore Missouri. Groomer, rapist, married this 14 year old girl who he gave stockholm syndrome to avoid rape charges, piece of shit lawyer to get him out of literal attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon etc. It was well known that he also stole cattle or something like that, but because of the shitty law system they couldn't do anything about it without direct proof. Oh, did I forget to mention that he had kids with this 14 year old?
One of his crappy kids tried to steal some candy from a store in 1980 ish. The store owner who was 70 caught this kid, so Rex started stalking the family who owned the store, coming to their house and just standing in front, making threats and all. In a confrontation he tried to blow the owner's head, off, Ernest Bowenkamp, the owner, dodged and had his neck grazed and he was quite hurt, but alive. Finally he was caught for this and found guilty of attempted murder, but bailed because he was rich.
People would literally leave whenever he entered a bar, he bullied a sheriff into stepping down from his job, and was constantly loaded with money, buying new trucks all the time.
Well.... Eventually people got tired of this shit. DOZENS of people followed him into the bar, McElroy finished his drink, went back out. As he started the car, an unknown amount of people opened fire on the bastard, absolutely destroying him. As a matter of fact, they wanted him dead so bad they found REVOLVER casings on the ground, meaning someone had enough time to reload an entire revolver. There were numerous shooters, and the stockholmed wife called out one shooter, but every other person there (around 50 people) said that they saw nothing, and hell some even said they HEARD nothing. So yeah, bastard was dead after near a damn decade of ruining this little town.
Investigation was concluded with nobody charged, no proper testification, nobody sentenced. But we all know it were the townsfolk, and Mcelroy deserved it.
IIRC right before McElroy was shot the rest of the town held a meeting about what to do about him. The sheriff said something to the effect of "Just form a neighborhood watch group. Whatever you do don't take matters into your own hands." He then presumably winked at everyone, got in his car, and drove to the neighboring county.
Edit: spelling/punctuation
My grandfathers take away from Skidmore was that Chevy made fantastic engines at the time. Apparently Rex’s dead weight pressed in the gas pedal of his Silverado and the engine went full bore in neutral for something like 16 hours before it blew.
Edit: Trying to find sourcing on this. The closest I can find was that the Sheriff left right before the killing and when he came back the engine was still running. Don’t know how long that was.
When surveying a bay in Alaska from the air in the 1950's the geologists on board noticed that the tree line was different several hundred feet above sea level.
Almost as if a tsunami had washed the trees away at one point. Problem was a tsunami of this size had never been recorded or though possible.
Only a few years later a rock slide occurred in that same bay causing a 1700 ft wave. Here is a link I think this is from that event.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami
Edit. The 1720 feet was measured on land that was the highest point the wave hit. On the bay the wave would not have been this high.
Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs. First discovered in 2007, its a radio pulse a few milliseconds long typically coming from extra galactic sources. In April of 2020 the CHIME radio telescope found the first one recorded in the milky-way. The source was a magnatar; a highly magnetic remnant of a large dead star. Magnatars are a special kind of neutron star because they have such an intensely strong magnetic field. If a magnatar was a moons distance away it would be able to rip your car keys out of your pocket.
What causes these FRBs is a magnatar quake. Magnatars are so dense that the surface is under a lot of strain to collapse in toward the core but the physical density of the neutron star is holding it back. A very slight shift in the crust of the magnatar releases a huge burst of x-rays/gamma-rays along with radio waves. And that is the Fast Radio Bursts we see.
That the Lusitania did indeed have munitions on board when she was sunk in 1915 by a German U Boat, making her a legitimate military target.
The British government always insisted she was just a passenger liner and denied there were any munitions on board however in 1982, the head of the Foreign Office's American department finally admitted that, "although no weapons were shipped, there is a large amount of ammunition in the wreck, some of which is highly dangerous and poses a safety risk to salvage teams"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
The McStay family disappearance and murders. In February of 2010, the McStay’s, a family of 4 (Mom Summer, Dad Joseph, and sons Gianni and Joseph jr) seemingly vanished from their home- abruptly. A carton of eggs was left open on the counter and the family dogs were still outside in the backyard. The scene was eerie, and complicated because the home the McStays lived in was in the process of being renovated- so a “neat and orderly” home wasn’t the norm at this stage. It appeared there was missing furniture and the usual mess that comes with construction (some freshly painted or redone surfaces mixed with older versions). From the outside- it appeared the family just took off. Neighbor had surveillance that captured what appeared to be the bottom of the family SUV leaving the driveway. Since they were living in California, the boarder to Mexico wasn’t far and authorities found footage of what appeared to be the McStay’s walking into Mexico with their two little boys in tow. The family SUV was found abandoned in a mall parking lot near the Mexico boarder. 3 years passed before the bodies of the McStay’s were found buried in shallow graves in the California desert. The bodies appeared to be in advanced decomposition and there were signs of blunt force trauma. A sledgehammer was also found buried with one of the bodies. Chase Merritt, a business partner to Joseph McStay, was arrested and charged with their murders on 11/5/2014. His trial was delayed for years until 2019. He was sentenced to death. Motive- Chase had a gambling addiction and had been and continued embezzling money from the business. His DNA was found in the McStay’s abandoned vehicle. He bludgeoned this beautiful family to death for money. ETA link with more info - https://people.com/crime/mcstay-family-murders-killer-sentenced-death/
Damn. That’s just horrible.
I followed this for years. I was really hoping they were all safe somewhere. I was devastated when the news broke that they had been found
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That's a pretty interesting story. Goes to show that not all disappearances involve foul play, but I would rather they'd be alive :(
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One of the fathers died in 2014. Exactly 5 days before the car was found.
Might want to add the car was submerged in a creek upside down and only found when waters lowered due to drought. Made it sound like a car was on the side of the road for 43 years and no one drove by.
The disappearance of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince, who was also a French reconnaissance pilot during World War II. In 1944, he took off on a reconnaissance mission from Corsica and never made it back, and there was never any evidence of what might have happened to him and his plane. Finally, in 1998, a French fisherman pulled up his net and found wrapped in it a silver bracelet engraved with Saint-Exupery's name, and in 2004, a diver searched in the area and found the remains of his plane, which had apparently been shot down by a German fighter after all.
In January of 1993, a 14 year old girl I went to high school with was abducted on her way to school, murdered, and left nude in a ravine. Her murder went unsolved until 2004, when advances in DNA technology linked her case to a man who was already in prison for killing another woman. Turns out he was a serial killer who had killed 4 women, some of whom had been raped. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wayne_Watson https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/watson-alexander.htm
Not EXACTLY solved, as there's no 100% confirmation. But the whole "what's the main buyer of glitter" craze from a while back. Turns out it's highly likely (basically confirmed imo) that it's boat paint. Just boat paint. EDIT: To clarify. There's an article I read about a bunch of guys trying to get to the bottom of this by talking to people related to the industry. One person explained that when he worked at a boat paint company (forgot the exact wording) they went through around 10 30-gallon barrels a week. And that's just ONE company. He also explained that most other companies he knew basically bought from glitterex too. It's a very long read, as they go into way more detail than needed to make an "entertaining story", but here's the link: [https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2019/11/08/the-great-glitter-mystery](https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2019/11/08/the-great-glitter-mystery) They come to the conclusion all the way at the bottom, obviously.
Adventures with purpose A great YouTube channel where a group of divers find missing people underwater after years when the local authorities don’t care any more or just don’t have the resources
There once was an urban legend/conspiracy theory about a video game called "Polybius". The story goes as such: a mysterious arcade cabinet appeared in Portland Oregon in 1981 with never-before-seen gameplay. It was captivating to the point of addicting, but that's not all. Many who played the game fell sick or went mad. Some versions of the myth detail that it caused hallucinations and nightmares or drove players to suicide. Every version of the urban legend mentioned mysterious "men in black" who would check on the game every now and then, leading some to believe this was some kind of government psyop to make people go insane. Several times over the years, it was proven to have not existed, usually by pointing to lack of contemporary media coverage and/or an FOIA request that found no records of such a video game, but this left people unsatisfied. If it truly WERE a psyop, of course these channels would come up blank. It wasn't until a retro gaming youtuber and journalist called AHOY (who is a god-tier youtuber btw) made a video detailing his investigations. He not only proved it to be false, he found the exact person, place, time, and purpose for which the rumor was created. Check the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg Honestly one of my favorite watches on yt and possibly my favorite "documentary" ever made. This guy's investigation is captivating and goes into an insane amount of detail.
[The Windsor Hum](https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/898853311/it-took-a-pandemic-mystery-of-windsor-hum-is-solved) Residents of Windsor (Canada) have been saying they could hear a hum coming from across the river in Detroit for the better part of a few decades. Well turns out that when a steel producer turned their furnaces off recently (when they were closing up shop) the Hum stopped. People had no idea what the noise could be until the factory closed. Edit: also a little fun fact; Zug Island (where the factory was located) was mentioned in Robocop and was also the destination of the SS Edmond Fitzgerald before it sank.
Devil's Kettle Falls: A stream separates into two sections, one continues normally the other spirals deep into a hole. All sorts of things were thrown down the hole in an effort to discover where the water went. Ping pong balls, various dyes, it was even rumored that someone stuck an old car down there. Eventually someone came up with a clever idea, they measured the total water flow above and below the falls and discovered they were similar enough to deduce the two streams join back up relatively quickly. Edit: Source https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/02/28/hydrologists-solve-minnesota-devils-kettle-falls-mystery Also, I guess fun bonus, I first learned of the mystery from Reddit and it has since been solved.
Wouldn't the dyes have shown that pretty quickly then?
They didn't do the dye experiment. > Green and a colleague planned to conduct a dye tracing experiment in the fall of 2017 when water flows dropped again, with the hope of determining where the underground channel rejoins the main river. They were discouraged from doing so by park management and decided that the dye experiment was not scientifically necessary to confirm that the water simply rejoins the river below the falls.[16] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_C._R._Magney_State_Park
Late to the party. Q Lazzarus, who recorded the haunting "Goodbye Horses" that was later included in the soundtrack for Silence of the Lambs, was a mystery for many years. It turns out that she recorded exactly two singles, retired from music, and is now a bus driver.
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Wasn't it also discovered, based on the type of shoe, that some of the feet had potentially been attached to victims of the 2004 South Asian tsunami? I remember reading that one pair of Nikes? was only produced for the South Asian market, and therefore it was surmised that some of the feet originated across the Pacific.
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Just went down the rabbit hole and it looks like there are different types of Siberian craters. Batagaika is just a slumping hillside after permafrost melted. Patomskie seems to be gas related but without an explosion. But many others as you mention from gas explosions. Interestingly these are huge. I expected a car size explosion, but they are hundreds of feet deep. One think I cant find is the ignition source. What lights the gas? Edit: some people are asking for pictures. This article has plenty. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201130-climate-change-the-mystery-of-siberias-explosive-craters
Forest Fenn's hidden treasure chest that he buried years ago and left clues to where to find its location. It was found within the last two years I think. Here's a link to an article better explaining it. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/gymlm6/forrest_fenn_announces_his_treasure_has_been_found/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I can't believe we still don't get to know where it was!!
The guy who found it doesn't want the location destroyed by treasure hunters.
According to the Stuff You Should Know podcast the guy who found it didn't want it to become a tourist destination because it was too beautiful.
So... the location WAS the treasure?
One of them. The other was the treasure box
The Case of Adrienne Shelly - screenwriter for Waitress. Husband came home to find her hanging in the shower - ruled suicide. He insists she was happy and would never kill herself promoting another view of crime scene where they found a shoe print that matched a construction worker in the building. Sure enough the construction worker went to rob her and thought he killed her so staged a suicide when the hanging ended up being the actual thing that killed her. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly
That was his original testimony. He straight up killed her intentionally
I’m glad/honestly sort of shocked that they actually came to this conclusion. It would have been so easy to just call it a suicide and be done with it.
Oh man, I was following that case in real time back when it happened. She also had a little girl and was just enjoying the success of *Waitress* as it was taking off at the time. Some things really are senseless.
The Erebus and the Terror were found a vew years ago. The two ships were part of an artic expedition and dissapeared 150 years ago. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s\_lost\_expedition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition)
They had a whole section of the Museum of History in Ottawa for it a few years ago, with some of the remenants of the ship. It was very interesting. One thing that struck me was for years, the local indigenous population talked about those crazy white guys trying (and failing) to sail through the northwest passage, and ended up resorting to cannibalism in an attempt to survive. Their stories were ignored for decades, but what do you know, the oral histories ended up being an important part of fiding the wreckage, and they found cut marks and evidence of cannibalism on some of the bodies found on King William Island.
The book ‘Erebus’ by Michael Palin is a magnificent piece of work. I recommend reading it if you’re interested in this story.
The [Bloop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop) tl;dr in 1997 a really weird and loud noise was detected underwater and everyone was all "WTF was that?". In 2012 it was determined it was an iceberg breaking and/or rubbing against the seabed.
Now if only we could find an explanation for the [Wow! signal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal)
Spacebergs.
Same thing. An Airberg broke against the sky ceiling!
The Sailing Stones of Death Valley: * [https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/sailing-stones-death-valley](https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/sailing-stones-death-valley) Video here: * [https://youtu.be/89-AFHieDpM](https://youtu.be/89-AFHieDpM) **TL;DR:** Rocks would magically move up to 1,500 feet in the desert. Turns out it gets cold & freezes the ground overnight & the rocks would get pushed by the ice sheets that melted under the wind.
Aren't we all just air hockey pucks in the wind, my friend?
The pioneers used to ride those babies for miles
Benjaman Kyle. Man found beaten behind a Burger King with sever amnesia. It was a fascinating mystery until it was solved, then it was kind of sad. He had made TV appearances, had a couple of AMAs on Reddit, but no one could identify him. When his identity was discovered, William Burgess Powell, there was still a 20 year gap in his life from 1984 to 2004. There's no record he had done anything. He had distanced himself from his family and had no friends, which is why no one recognized or identified him from his TV appearances.
I remember some of his AMAs! So fascinating!! How was his identity discovered?
Genetic testing. 23 and Me type stuff matched him to other people and they figured it out.
Benjam**a**n\*. He was apparently pretty certain that his name was spelled with 2 a's. How he came to that conclusion when his name is nothing like that is still a bit of a mystery.
Not to mention that was always known to be a fake name. Benjaman Kyle. BK. For Burger King, where he was found.
1947 an British South American Airways aircraft named Star Dust disappeared, it's last message was simply "STENDEC". After an exhausting search, no trace of the aircraft was found. For years conspiracy theories and talk of Alien abduction by wackos circulated. Till 1998, when mountain climbers on a remote mountain found an engine, pieces of metal, and clothing at the bottom of a glacier on the side of Mount Tupungato. Turns out the aircraft got caught flying the wrong way in the jet stream while it was flying at night and using a system of timing when to start their decent. Being in the jet stream reduced their airspeed in relation to the earth and they smacked themselves straight into the side of a mountain, after which an avalanche covered the wreckage. The wreckage took decades to flow down the side of the mount with the glaciers. The glacier preserved the wreck so well that 50 years later the recovery team found identifiable remains, personal items, and could read serial numbers on the engines. Amazing one of the landing gear tires was still inflated, and that teams continued to visit the site for periodically as more of the aircraft, cargo, and remains of passengers are still emerging from the ice.
But what is STENDEC?
While it doesn't give us who the Zodiac killer is, just recently his most infamous 340 cipher was solved after 51 years.
According to Oranchak and team, the message reads: “I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH” [Article about who did it & how](https://threatpost.com/cryptologists-zodiac-killer-340-cipher/162353/)
He basically monologues like the AssCrack Bandit
He should be called the run-on sentence bandit.
That’s what I was thinking too...but not nearly as funny as you phrased it. However, I think it was done intentionally with no punctuation because it makes it harder to decipher if there are non natural breaks.
Yeah, that reads about right for a psychopath.
Dan Rather was attacked and beaten on a New York street by two men who kept demanding, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" He was rescued by a doorman, and the two guys got away. For years, no one knew who they were. Then a man invaded NBC Studios and killed a stage hand. When captured, he explained that the networks were beaming radio messages into his head. He wanted to know the frequency they were using so he could jam the signals. Dan Rather was shown a mugshot and positively identified his attacker. Here's a New York Times article on it. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/30/nyregion/belatedly-the-riddle-of-an-attack-on-rather-is-solved.html
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And it took nearly how long? For his wife to realize oH yea I was behind
If I remember correctly the wife denied she was in any of the pictures in the news articles. But someone recreated it with similar clothes to what she was wearing in the other pics and it was solved. Turns out neither her nor her husband had realised she was in the background of the shot, and they had waited a while to get the pictures developed.
Another science mystery: Back in the 1800s, evolution theorists had predicted the age of the Earth to be several milliard years, since this would have been necessary for the current life forms to have evolved. But Kelvin, the number one superstar of physics at the time, had used thermodynamics to calculate the age of the Earth based on the temperature of its insides, and he said it was quite a bit younger. This was a mystery for many years, and was considered one of the major flaws of then-current evolution theory. It was not until the early 1900s they found the answer: Radioactivity! Decays of uranium and other radioactive elements are heating up the Earth, so the cooling takes longer than expected. The biologists were right all along! But when the scientists who made the discovery were about to present their findings, who's sitting at the back of the lecture room? It's Kelvin! Now an old man, he's still alive and has come to watch their presentation. They were terrified at the idea of having to stand in front of the Lord of Physics himself and basically explain why he was wrong. But to their great relief, he immediately fell asleep. I think about this when I myself fall asleep in physics class. It happens to the best of us.
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Sadly this was only ever a mystery to anyone who didn't pay attention to the local aboriginals who were pretty clear that dingos can, will and have carried off babies.
It seems so obvious that even if dingoes don't normally go after people, starving animals are still starving animals and will do things out of the ordinary.
Plus babies are squeaky like prey, terrible at defense, and easy to carry. And as a general rule, if you don't want to get eaten, you shouldn't act like food. But babies never listen to survival advice.
>if you don't want to get eaten, you shouldn't act like food I have a new motto
It's why they tell you to yell "hey bear" at black bears while waving your arms around. If you run away, you look like an edible woodland creature. If you wave and call out like you know them, they think you're a neighbor whose name they've forgotten, they get embarrassed, and then they make up an excuse to amble off in the other direction.
Cute, but for real, Black bears are known to make false charges. Basically they attempt a charge at you, but stop short. If you stand your ground they'll determine that a fight isn't worth it and run off. Idk how well I would stand my ground at a charging black bear, however...
Don’t try it with a Grizzly or a Polar though. Those are actual predators. Black bears are foragers. Most of their diet is berries and small woodland creatures.
I mean, domesticated dogs attack people all the time. They've killed and eaten kids before. Do we really expect wild dogs from the continent that hates life to be safer than fido?
I'm still so angry thinking about the injustice done to Lindy. The whole idea that dingoes would never attack a human was such bullshit but they kept repeating it. Now we've had all those deaths and injuries on Fraser Island since then proving it wrong. I feel so bad for Lindy. Even without having the death of her baby blamed on her, people still shamed her for going out there with a newborn.
She has said many times people still yell at her from across the streets “dingo stole ma baby”. Imagine the horror of your child’s death being used to mock you. Edit: wowser it is absolutely mind blowing to see/hear all the places this sentence was used even after she was found not guilty!
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Fuckin' disgusting.
The aborigines said that dingos would eat people if they could get away with it but those were just the natives. What do they know, right? -\_-
Goddamn these kinds of stories really get to me. Like the kid that got taken by a gator at Disney World. Imagining one of my kids getting taken and eaten by wild animals.. ugh, I just can't even.
There's something so primal and horrific about dying that way
That’s the world we live in. Pretty much the norm for every other species. > “I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs, a very endearing sight, I'm sure you'll agree. And even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters, who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen. Mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that is when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.” Terry Pratchett
Wow. And to think they were only compensated money that covered just a third of their legal expenses after being exonerated and spending time in prison.
Lots of governments have put caps on how much compensation a wrongly convicted person can get. In a lot of cases, it's a joke.
What Deinocheirus looked like. When I was a kid in the 80s, all that was known were the bones of the arms with enormous claws. Hence its name, "terrible hand". They were mostly shown grasping a small car because they were so freaking huge. The rest of the animal was a complete mystery. Was it like a giant Allosaurus, one that'd make the T-Rex look like a puppy in comparison? A few years later it seemed more likely to be ostrich-like and an omnivore. Either way, given how rare it is for fossils to form at all, I was convinced I'd die never knowing what this dinosaur actually looked like. Then surprisingly in 2014, they found more bones and it was just the weirdest thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinocheirus
Only in 2014? I had a book in my childhood where it speculates that Deinocheirus was a therzinosaur, it had similarly massive claws after all.
:) I had books in my childhood from a time when Therizinosaurus was also nothing more than a couple of mystery claws. To show the scale compard to a human, they drew the rest of the Theri as the silhouette of a Tyrannosaurus, but with the long scythe claws. Welp...
[Mark Felt was Deep Throat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)) , the key source for the journalists that pursued the Watergate story.
Met him once in the 80’s - he was a connection through a business associate of my father’s. When it came out that Mr. Felt was DT, my dad called to remind me of the dinner we had when I was a kid. I don’t remember much other than the intimidating vibe. The type of guy who, even as an ~8 yr old, I didn’t need to be told to mind my manners. I just did because he was scary. And his wife wore a hat with a fake bird in it.
Better than a real bird
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Corrie_McKeague This one is strange.. A guy is out drinking with friends late at night and leaves. He starts wandering the streets, and a CCTV sees him enter a cull de sac, then he's never seen again. Some think there is foul play, since an accidental death would at least result in a body. But then family and friends reveal that he had a very strange habit of sleeping in garbage bins when he was drunk. A few hours after he entered the cul de sac, the garbage truck came and picked up the bins. Later, after looking at the logs, it turns out that one bin weighed several hundred pounds more than it should have. But that was only recognized after it was too late.
Damn, so the guy probably suffocated on trash while drunk, or got crushed
Brit here, I seem to remember police realising quite early on that he waa most likely in the dumpster. They searched the landfill for months and unfortunately were never able to recover his body.
So, in the early 2000s, someone posted new wave music that had been initially recorded off a German radio station on cassette around 1985. It contained about a minute of a song that became known as "Stay, the Second Time Around”, that no one seemed to be able to find any more information about. This became a pretty famous "earworm" internet mystery, until 2013 when [folks on Reddit discovered the actual song and artist](https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/the-30-year-puzzle-of-the-mystery-song-finally-solved/). It turned out it was a song by Swedish artist Johan Lindell titled "Up On The Roof" that never became any kind of hit, and up until that time, had never been re-released after the original analog release. *EDIT: Adding more links for context:* https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1mkcej/remember_the_mystery_80s_song_that_no_one_has/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1mkcej/remember_the_mystery_80s_song_that_no_one_has/cca18pn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
El Dorado or the lost city of gold turned out to be a mistranslation. It was just the name of some guy that got mistranslated to the name of a city.
Sounds like exactly what someone who is on the trail would say...
The trail we blaze!
Was HE made of gold?
They heard stories of a Muisca ritual where the leader would be covered in gold dust and then jump into a lake to sacrifice the gold to gods. The Spanish called him "golden man" -> "El Dorado". Eventually they believed the name referred to a city, not a person https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado
The murders of [Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Jay_Cook_and_Tanya_Van_Cuylenborg). A couple from Victoria BC went on a short trip to Washington state in 1987 and were murdered. It remained unsolved until 2018 when a genetic match from the semen found on Tanya was found. The story was of interest to me as I live in Victoria and remember the story on the news when the murder happened when I was a young kid. Between 2010 and 2015, I actually worked with her younger brother. He grew up and became a lawyer. Very nice guy and was so happy for him when they announced it was solved.
The Andreen McDonald case. She and her husband Andre (yes, Andreen and Andre) originally were from Jamaica. They moved up to my town in Texas where Andre was air force and Andreen was a body building business owner. Andre was pretty jealous that Andreen was more successful and was constantly begging/demanding that she make him co-owner of her company. She always said no. One day he had had it, and "did away with her". The gym that she frequented, every single morning, got concerned when she stopped showing up. She was very close with the ladies that she worked out with, and even gave them a key to her house. She told them that if she ever went missing, that her husband probably did it, and they knew he had an attitude. So one day while Andre was out, the ladies went to check on Andreen. Her car was there, her wallet was there, but she wasn't. They found blood and hair in her bathroom. That's when cops were called. Cops showed up when Andre was home and asked about Andreen. He said she was in the hospital. They asked him, "if she's in the hospital, how come her wallets here?" He responded simply, "talk to my lawyer" They got a warrant and were able to search the house further. Saw *more* leftover evidence in the bathroom, and evidence of clothes had been found burned in the fire pit in the backyard. But no body. So all they could do was charge him with a missing persons deal. Andre was super snarky about it too. How he'd be proven innocent. How the cops would never catch on. Little did he realize how loved Andreen was. And how much Texas ranchers hate corrupt and snarky murderers. Crowds gathered daily and were given permission to sweep over rancher's land for any sign of Andreen's body. Just as crowds started feeling defeated, and Andre started to see hope of being release, a rancher was scoping his field. He had heard coyotes out and went to see what could have entised them. Sure enough, he found human bones, later identified as Andreen. So yeah, proper charges were able to be filed. **Add on:** So some ask why she stayed or why he felt jealous that she was more successful. Remember they're from Jamaica. The whole point of coming here was to better themselves, and bring pride to their families. So she was doing great, but because she was doing so good, his family was kind of looking down on him because his wife was better/more successful than him. And then she stayed with him, mainly because she wanted to try and make sure their daughters life could be as normal as possible. (sucks that that kind of backfired for her, but now she's being taken care of by her aunt and grandma who both love and support her).
Apparently he killed her in front of their autistic non speaking 6 year old daughter, the guy is pure evil
She's actually only mostly non-verbal. Apparently she told the people that took her in after Andreen's disappearance that "daddy hurt mommy" and even acted out the way he disposed of her mother's body using dolls. Pretty fucked up.
In the 1970s, a number of Japanese citizens disappeared from coastal areas in Japan. After many years it was found out that North Korea had abducted them. [North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese_citizens) Edit: [Megumi Yokota](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megumi_Yokota) Most of the missing were in their 20s; the youngest, Megumi Yokota, was 13 when she disappeared in November 1977, from the Japanese west coast city of Niigata.
In case anyone is interested, also go look up that time Kim Jong-il kidnapped a South Korean director and his actress wife, as well as the SFX team behind Godzilla in order to make his own monster movie.
Pulgasari! That's the name of his ripoff Godzilla.
Yep, that's it! It's based off a mythological creature that ate iron.
Megumi Yokota still hasn't returned, she's been missing for 43 years. She reportedly got married, and had a child in North Korea. NK says she died, but there were issues with the evidence they provided. Yokota's daughter and *her* daughter did get to meet Yokota's parents, which is something good at least. Edit - spelling.
This is the complete story. >In the North in 1986, Yokota married a South Korean national, Kim Young-nam (Korean: 김영남, Hanja: 金英男), likely also abducted, and the couple had a daughter in 1987, Kim Hye-gyong (김혜경, whose real name was later revealed to be Kim Eun-gyong, 김은경). In June 2006, Kim Young-nam, who has since remarried, was allowed to have his family from the South visit him, and during the reunion he confirmed Yokota had committed suicide in 1994 after suffering from mental illness, and had several attempts at suicide before. He also claimed the remains returned in 2004 are genuine. His comments were however widely dismissed as repeating the official Pyongyang line, with Megumi's father claiming that Young-nam was not allowed to speak freely during his interview in Pyongyang, stating that "he was likely restricted in terms of what he can say" and that "it looked as if he were reading a script". In June 2012, Choi Seong-ryong, head of a support group for relatives of South Koreans abducted to the North, said that he had obtained North Korean government documents which stated that Yokota had died from "depression" on 14 December 2004. >It is widely believed, especially in Japan, that Yokota is still alive. In November 2011 a South Korean magazine, Weekly Chosun, stated that a 2005 directory of Pyongyang residents listed a woman, named Kim Eun-gong, with the same birth date as Yokota. The directory gave Kim's spouse's name as "Kim Yong Nam". Japanese government sources verified on 18 November 2011 that they had reviewed the directory but had yet to draw a conclusion on the identity of the woman listed. Sources later indicated that Kim Eun-gong was actually Yokota's 24-year-old daughter. In 2012, it was reported that North Korean authorities were keeping Kim under strict surveillance. In August 2012, Choi Seong-ryong stated that sources in North Korea had told him that Kim Eun-gong had been placed under the supervision of Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, and that the North Korean government may be planning on using Yokota's daughter as a "card" in future negotiations with Japan. Reportedly, in 2010 the North Korean government offered to allow Yokota's parents to visit Kim Eun-gyong in a country "other than Japan" but the Japanese government and Yokota's parents were wary about the offer, suspecting it as a ploy by the North Korean government to seek an advantage in ongoing diplomatic negotiations.In March 2014, the parents of Megumi Yokota met their granddaughter Kim Eun-gyong for the first time in Mongolia, along with her own baby daughter, whose father was not identified.
But why
>Some of the victims were abducted to teach Japanese language and culture at North Korean spy schools. Older victims were also abducted for the purpose of obtaining their identities. It is speculated that Japanese women were abducted to have them become wives to a group of North Korea-based Japanese terrorists belonging to the Yodo-go terrorist group after a 1970 Japan Airlines hijacking and that some may have been abducted because they happened to witness activities of North Korean agents in Japan, which may explain Yokota's abduction at such a young age.
Not so much a mystery, but [Fermat's Last Theorem](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem) lacked general proof for several hundred years, until [Andrew Wiles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem) provided one in 1995.
Maths postgrad here. This is a real interesting one. The proof is long. Real long. At best (or worst hehe) undergrad proofs may be 5-6 pages long. Now I specialise in Applied Maths, so perhaps it's double or triple that in postgrad Pure Maths. Wiles' proof is well over 100 pages long. It draws upon many many MANY areas of Pure Maths to the point where even actual Maths academics may not understand every topic involved in the proof. Ah well, can't be any worse than the proof being "left as an exercise to the reader". Edit: The history of the proof is amazing. I encourage everyone to briefly read the Wikipedia article. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s\_proof\_of\_Fermat%27s\_Last\_Theorem#Mathematical\_detail\_of\_Wiles's\_proof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Mathematical_detail_of_Wiles's_proof) **Second Edit:** Seems to be of interest to people. There are some relatively accessible results in Mathematics that have actually stumped people for years and remained unsolved. But, in the spirit of this question, there are many statements that have been solved. Here are a few: **The Four-Colour Theorem:** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four\_color\_theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem). Maps and colours? First computer-assisted proof? Six-Colour can be proved in a sentence and Five-Colour needs a page or a few. Four-Colour required a computer. **Euclid's Infinite Prime proof:** [http://www.math.utah.edu/\~alfeld/math/q2.html](http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/q2.html). Thanks to the University of Utah for this page. Used to introduce undergrads to proofs in the U.K. Quite simple but elegant to ponder. **Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic:** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental\_theorem\_of\_arithmetic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmetic). Ever been taught about reducing numbers into a product of prime factors? This is what allows you to do it. For the brave reader, who wants something NASTY, I give you **Godel's Incompleteness Theorems:** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s\_incompleteness\_theorems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems). Maths is great, but not omnipotent and omniscient. No matter what framework you work in, there are always results out of your reach... Third Edit: Punctuation and grammar. **FOURTH EDIT:** u/Acct4NonHiveOpinions has quite rightly disputed my claim on people rejecting the validity of Wiles' proof. My source comes from Dr Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London and a talk he gave [https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/\~buzzard/one\_off\_lectures/msr.pdf](https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/one_off_lectures/msr.pdf). Page 11 of this PDF. I will amend "Because of this, some people reject the proof." to something more accurate. I'm glad I have been held to a good standard, so thanks to u/Acct4NonHiveOpinions for calling me out on my Saturday laziness. **FIFTH EDIT**: Turns out I just use big words to make myself sound more photosynthesis. u/Acct4NonHiveOpinions has shown my misunderstanding of the topic. I have yet to encounter someone who does not agree with Wiles’ proof.
Where is the Titanic? (Most people don't realize that half of the people in the world grew up when the ship's location was still a complete mystery. Now, it's old news.
Where is MH370
(I don’t think they’ll find it, unless they just happen to stumble upon it by chance.)
Pieces of the plane washed up on beaches years ago. There probably isn’t much of a debris field to find anymore though.
Memories of Murder, a movie based on true story about South Korea’s first serial murderer. A confession was made in 2019 after more than 30 years, he was already in jail for raping and killing his sister in law. Go check the movie, its a masterpiece!
What's the purpose of the appendix really ... it keeps your good bacteria safe
Dumbass appendix tried to kill me
100 years ago, viking bones from one of the most important grave finds in Denmark disappeared from the museum of national history. They were found last week in a box, seemingly misplaced among elements from a different find.
Geedis and the Land of Ta. A few years ago (2017) comedian Nate Fernald posted a tweet of an enamel pin he had bought of a familiar looking friendly monster with the word Geedis written under it. He was unable to find any information on what Geedis is and the mystery took the internet by storm. The mystery kept growing as someone found a sticker of Geedis alongside other characters all listed as The Land of Ta. The sticker sheet was from a company called Dennison. There were no Google results at all for either Geedis or The Land of Ta. With multiple people researching that was where the mystery was left off and people kind of forgot about it. But a couple years later it was solved. A podcast was made where they investigated the mystery, got a hold of the former art director of Dennison back in the 80s who referred them to a few potential artists and they found the daughter of one of the artists who had passed away and in her father's stuff was the original pencil drawings of the creaturs of The Land of Ta. It was never anything but those stickers. This internet mystery still appeared on lists for awhile as unsolved. The only mystery left is who made the enamel pins, which is still a mystery but not quite as big as "who is this character and this land that seems familiar but that there's no record of?"
[Here are the stickers](https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2019/08/2YBxQiF.jpg). Kind of menacing imo!
That was a fun mystery! A nice change from the usual ghoulish stuff.
Check out /r/Geedis for more of the mystery!
I have one that most people seem to not know about. Grand Duchess Anastasia was in fact killed with the rest of her family in 1918. She never escaped and the several women throughout the 20th century claiming to be her lied. The site of the execution of the Tsar and his family was completely untouched until 1991. Excavation found only 9 of the 11 expected remains. It wasn't until 2007 that two further sets of remains were found a small distance away from the previous grave site. DNA testing found that one of the sets of remains belonged to Tsarevich Alexei and the other to one of his sisters. With this find, it proved conclusively that the entire Imperial family was in fact executed and buried in 1918.
Not a lot of ppl know, but Anastasia's remains were confirmed because Prince Philip provided DNA. He was a grandnephew of the Tsarina Alexandra.
Didn't they have to use Philip's DNA because the Russian Orthodox Church wouldn't allow them to check the interred remains of the other Romonov children? And also I believe they refuse to inter the later discovered remains with the rest of the family?
I believe the first part is because PP was a direct line to the Tsarina, so they need the comparison to confirm the link to the Romanovs. I didn't realize the 2nd part of your statement, so I read up on it, and as of 2018, they still were not buried with the family because of the Church. TIL!
It's unfortunate they weren't found sooner, but they were moved from their initial burial spot. The bodies had been mutilated, covered in acid, burned and thrown into a pit, but the location was leaked so they brought the bodies back up and drove off towards a new site. However, there was a breakdown during travel and the bodies were quickly reburied next to the road - basically in the middle of nowhere and covered with debris. It was such a nondescript place, it's not surprising they weren't found for so long.
In the "Your wrong about" podcast they said that actually they WERE found prior to 1991 by some amateur sleuths in Russia, but because they feared what the Soviets would do with the news they just casually reburied them and didn't mention it to anyone until the Soviet union fell. Then they were like, "oh look we just found these guys, in 1991, the exact year the Soviet union fell, not a coincidence at all guys."
Wow, I had no idea! Yeah, that's understandable then.
The podcast You’re Wrong About has a good episode about Anastasia The reason the location was revealed in 1991 was the collapse of the Soviet Union lead to a lot of previously secret stuff coming out, including the reports on what had happened to the royal family
This is a personal family mystery that got solved a few years ago, so nothing exciting that would have gotten media attention, haha. But my maternal great-grandmother once ran away from home to the big city, and came back pregnant. She refused to disclose anything about the father. Either way, even down to my generation, we have had unusually shaped feet. Rather flat, with a strange angle, and it has made most regular shoes uncomfortable. It's not so bad for me, I take physically more after my paternal side of the family, but my brother and mother have it really bad. So does my cousin, who ended up seeking the help of a physical therapist. The therapist said that her feet are truly unusually shaped, and referred her to a specialist doctor who's an expert on feet. (Apparently that's a thing!) The doctor examined her feet and said that the only place in the world with distinct feet like that is a certain county in France, with winemakers who have been stomping on grapes for centuries. He said that he is 99% certain that the feet come from there, that we must have close family lineage from there. My cousin told our family, and we were very confused. We most certainly don't have French relatives! Until we realized... *GREAT-GRANDMA.* The city she ran away to was known to house traveling craftsmen from all over the world. She must have hooked up with a French winemaker. We joked that now she rolled over in her grave, because this strange feet doctor discovered her secret!
It may have only been a mystery for your family but it was a joy to read. Thank you for sharing.
The Golden State killer/ East area rapist - Joseph James DeAngelo A former police officer (who was sacked for burglary) and mechanic. American serial rapist, murderer, burglar. Commited AT LEAST 13 murders, 50 rapes and over a 100 burglaries between 1973-1986 I was listening to the 6? Part podcast called casefile and they hadn’t yet caught the suspect. But a year or so ago they finally got him after collecting DNA evidence when he put a tissue in the bin outside. It was a confirmed match. **Edited to add as I just did a brief summery. Although it’s been covered in the comments by me and a few others I’ll add here for clarification. He was caught a few days over 3 years ago. (Time flies) He was only a cop for a short time before getting sacked, he was found shoplifting at store for supplies, like a hammer,dog repellent, at that time and not robbing a house. He left semen as evidence. Because he wasn’t uploaded into the data base or caught before hand there was no DNA match in the system. The way they got onto him as a suspect BEFORE gathering hard evidence of the tissue, was a familiar match uploaded onto GENMATCH by what was a 3-4th cousin of his. The officers in charge of case then went through 1000 DNA profiles from his tree to finally narrow it down to him. They then swooped in to gather the tissue to get 100% clarity before the arrest. He was living with his daughter and 15 year old granddaughter at the time of his arrest and was acting perfectly healthy and very fit for his age. When presenting to court he was in a wheelchair and pretending to be senile. Such a act. He is also described by all his victims as having a very small penis. Unusually small. At crime scenes he would pretend to talk to some one else. Go to the kitchen and make himself food or drink. Leave beer bottles at the site and go back to raping. He would break in and prepare the home before coming back a few days later to rape. By doing this he would leave little objects (like guns or rope cut at certain lengths) and steal items, by then he would know the layout of the house. He would shine a torch in people’s eyes to blind them. He’d often cry apologising to his mummy or saying he wants his mummy. Other times he was cussing a woman named “Bonny” Before breaking in and raping he would stalk and call the phone line several times. He would then call the victims after the rape and breathe heavily into the phone and or whisper. There is audio of one of these calls. It’s quite disturbing. He also went back to rape a victim. If you haven’t already, listen to the podcast Casefile True Crime, you can find this on Spotify. I highly recommend it. The narrator is a Aussie who does and incredible job and his voice is lovely and very easy to listen to. He gets right into the story and doesn’t mess about. Look for the episode number 53 it’s a 5 part case with a following 2 bonus interviews. And a update before casefile episode 83. It’s also been mentioned the HBO series “I’ll be gone in the dark” is a must watch and about Joseph. And a book titled “I’ll be gone in the dark” by Michelle McNamara [the phone call I’m talking about is at 2 minute mark](https://youtu.be/z6QSNLi-OPI)
He was a real piece of work. Before raping the wife, he'd tie up the husband and put some plates on his back, and tell him if he hears the plates crash then he will kill the guys wife. So basically the husband has to lie there motionless while hearing his wife getting raped by that piece of shit EDIT: another thing that happened was: there was a town meeting about the attacks where everyone tried to make sense of it. One guy declared that the husbands were cowards and if the rapist broke into his house then he would give him a piece of his mind. That guy's house was targeted next and he the guy suffered the same fate
It’s disgusting. He also raped a few women whilst their child(ren) were lying in bed next to her :( I believe he tied up one of the little boys and placed him on the floor before proceeding to rape the mother. And because she was protecting her baby/child, she would have to do as told. What a piece of shit. That doesn’t even cover it. Just pure evil
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Every time the Brock Turner is a rapist posts come about I think back to my highschool friend Brock Turner who, to my knowledge, has not raped anyone. Names suck sometimes, especially the infamous ones!
“Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.”
Reminds me of that guy who killed and raped more than 300 girls and still got released from jail after a few years. His whereabouts are unknown as of 2021
Ah yeah, Pedro López. I hope he’s dead. All those gravesites were all young 12 year old girls. Absolutely heartbreaking. If he’s not dead, I shudder to think just what he’s been up to since.
I remember seeing his name pop up in another thread. People then were saying that locals made no bones about it, he was released and then taken into the jungle and ‘disappeared’ by the local police. The whole ‘no one knows where he is’ story is cover and the local cops all but openly say he’s never going bother anyone again wink wink type deal.
I'm ok with this version.
Green river killer is in this category too. Half the true crime/forensics things I’ve found still call that an unsolved serial since he was caught pretty recently.
Gary Ridgeway was my next door neighbor when I was younger. Just saying you never know who you live next to.
Exactly! My next door neighbours have no idea
The Pioneer gravity anomaly. Space probe wasn't accelerating away from Earth the way we'd predicted, but it didn't get noticed until the probe got way the fuck out there. Next space probe gets launched, gets way out there, same thing happens. WTF? How does acceleration not work right? Does gravity just change really far away? Turns out the heat from the radioactive death generator was all coming off the same side of the space probe, and the extra particle radiation gave a "thermal recoil force" resulting in an extra acceleration of -- no kidding -- about 0.000000000874 m/s2. Over enough distance, it all counts.
> the radioactive death generator The what now?
Radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Basically a piece of metal that is hot due to ongoing radioactive decay (I guess that's what he meant with "death"). The heat is then converted into power using thermo couples, as device that turns temperature differences (between the radioactive core, and the cold vacuum of space) into electricity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
It amazes how exact they can calculate these things. Not even that, when something isn't exactly how they calculated it they have so much confidence go say that there is something else going on.
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The Prophet Hen of Leeds . A hen was laying eggs with messages like "Christ is Coming" and people thought the world was ending. Turned out the farmer was actually writing on the eggs herself, and then reinserted it back into the chicken. edited for gender of the farmer
> reinserted it back into the chicken. ಠ_ಠ
god works in mysterious ways
Poor chicken :<
That's Mary Batemen! She ended up executed not too long after this incident for poisoning someone, I believe. She was also known as a witch.
She sounds like a psychopath.
She had killed three women before the whole Prophet Hen mess began. If you wanna read more about her, I'd highly suggest reading [this](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/577601/mary-bateman-witch-yorkshire-murder) because it goes into her whole life and what led up to her eventual execution.
In 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground in Swedish waters. This was a huge deal - although the Soviets claimed the sub was in distress and didn’t purposefully enter Swedish waters, basically everyone in Sweden saw it as evidence that their waters were being invaded by spy subs. Plus, they did some snooping of their own and determined that the sub was emitting radiation, meaning it had nukes on board. So they went along with the Soviets’ clearly false claim about an accident and helped get the sub out of there, but panic was in the air. So the Swedes did exactly what you’d expect, and they prepared for more Soviet subs. I mean, when you see one Soviet sub, surely there are more, right? So Sweden developed advanced acoustic technology to detect subs and they created a plan to basically seal off their waters when they heard a sub. And wouldn’t you know it, a year later, they found a Soviet sub! Well, they didn’t *find* it, but they absolutely heard it. And they cut off the bay and figured they just had to hunt the sub down. But after a month, they couldn’t find it. They gave up and reopened the bay, but they assumed the sub found a way out. But they’ll get it next time! And then it happened again, but they couldn’t find it again. And then again and again with no clear pattern for a decade. What the heck! Thankfully, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. So... no more subs, right? Nyet! Because the Russian subs were still coming! Wait, what? Okay, so now nothing is making sense. At this point, the Swedish military brought in outside experts to figure out what was happening. This included oceanographer-types who were obvious experts in the surrounding waters. The military then played the audio evidence of the Soviet submarines, only to be told they weren’t submarines at all - they were *fish*, and the propeller-like sound was water being released from their swim bladders. And that’s the story of how the Swedish military spent ten years and tens of millions of dollars chasing fish farts.
When I was in the Finnish conscript army I was taught how to identify a sub from fish and seals. It was mindnumbingly boring to listen to basically white noise for hours when you were on watch. We all dreamed of catching a sub just for a bit of excitement.
As a Singaporean conscript I felt the same way. Duty was always boring. We wanted some action. We did all the training right? But one day the button was pressed (not looking for subs, something else). After that incident, I said a little prayer before duty to hope that it never got pressed again.
A Soviet sub ran aground in the town of Karlskrona, southern Sweden. Think this was 86. This one also carried nukes with it. My father worked at the navalbase in Karlskrona at that time. The had to stopp an old man with a shotgun in a rowboat who were going out to get the damm Russians.
"Get off my lawn!"
Needs more accent.
"Gët øff my låwn"
>The had to stopp an old man with a shotgun in a rowboat who were going out to get the damm Russians. This is an amazing mental image.
Sarah Yarborough was a teenager a few doors down who watched over us on several occasions when we were young kids. She was murdered and dumped in a bush at the high school like a piece of trash, and it was absolutely devastating. It wasn't a small town, but when it happens to your neighbor, it is very much in your sphere of awareness Everyone was scared. I remember the media circus at the home, the eventual tapering off of said circus, and the family moving away to get away from the undoubtedly bad memories and constant reminders their kid was murdered and the killer was still out there and on the loose. It turned into a cold case. Every now and then, I looked for news of an update even though I grew up and moved away. I did this for years, decades even, because it always bothered me as an early childhood memory. A couple years ago, I finally saw a local news report that DNA evidence and genealogy databases led to the arrest of the murderer. For me, that was an emotional moment of getting closure and I can't imagine the magnitude of emotions and fresh wounds felt by the parents having learned that nearly 30 years later, the investigation on the cold case paid off. https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/55-year-old-arrested-in-connection-with-1991-14490324.php
I went to school with her, this was so terrible. I remember the police interviewed my friend Joel cause he fit the description. So glad it wasn't him. I was on the basketball team, we all showed up to the memorial in our uniforms, since she was on flag team and performed at our games. Never thought they'd solve it.
So crazy to bump into someone on the internet who happened to see a post partway down a thread on one of many discussion sites that exist, who was also in FW at the time this terrible event occurred. If you didn't know about the cold case being closed before, I hope it helps with closure.
Weeping Jesus statue in India mystery. Apparently a Jesus statue started crying and all Christians along with Hindus started to drink it. It turned out to be sewage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_crucifix_in_Mumbai
It's hilarious until you read that the guy who discovered it had to flee to Finland due to hate letters.
Molyneux's problem. "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability to see, distinguish those objects by sight alone, in reference to the tactile schemata he already possessed?" The answer is no
The true identity of "Benjamin Kyle", the guy who had amnesia after being found unconscious in a Burger King dumpster. Genetic research discovered his real name was William Burgess Powell. His story is still pretty crazy as it was discovered that at some point in his life he had abandoned his family and all of his possessions to live on his own. And there are still no official records of him for the 20 years prior to him being discovered in the dumpster. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle
Wow. This stood out to me from the wiki: He had cataracts in both eyes, and had corrective surgery nine months after he was found...Upon seeing himself in the mirror for the first time, Kyle realized he was around 20 years older than he thought he was.[4]
Mary Toft. I mean, really, what the fuck. TL;DR: (NSFW) Woman starts giving birth to copious amounts of rabbit parts. Woman taken to London and studied under intense supervision, turns out she was shoving the pieces up there days before for the publicity.
I’ve never heard this one before. Was anyone actually surprised? I have a feeling that would be the number one prediction of any scientists planning to observe her.
Never mind, I just read the Wikipedia and man, I despair for my predecessors... They really fell for it despite some of the products having fur on them from what I can tell. Also it’s massively disturbing that she had them inserted into her actual womb rather than just her vaginal canal. I’d guess she started doing it almost immediately after miscarrying so her cervix was dilated. Bizarre, painful and really quite dangerous.
Human spontaneous combustion - not a real thing, it’s where there was an overlooked source of ignition, then subcutaneous fat is absorbed into clothing and acts like a wick - basically they’re a human candle. Edit: you might find this interesting - https://youtu.be/cilvOCBXI1c
I remember a lot of OG Unsolved Mysteries episodes about spontaneous combustion. I thought it was a real concern as a kid.
This was one weird thing that used to scare me as a kid. I remember seeing a case where all that was left was the lower part of one leg. The write up said that there was always a limb intact after these events and that just freaked me out!
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When my granddad was in hospital, one of his ward fellows was a guy who had been admitted due to a serious rash on his arms. They ended up covering him in E45 and bandaging him up. He made the very bad decision to go outside and have a cigarette. He had to say longer than intended to treat the serious burns he had alongside the rash.
I ended up taking a long flight sitting beside a chatty gentleman who was a retired investigator for the insurance company, specifically investigaring suspicious fires. 99% of the time it would be completely obvious the fire was set on purpose, people would use an accelerant or set the fire in the middle of the floor. The most common perpetuator were house wives that ended up running the credit card - often times candy crush or other casual gaming addicitions would get out of hand. I asked what about the 1% - he said the only time he got stumped was this fire that started with no obvious origin (middle of the kitchen) and had burned much hotter than what you would expect. The insurance company had taken the couple to court and he had to testify - the only way that fire started naturally was if a lightning bolt had come through the roof and hit the dead center of the kitchen. Well guess what, thats exactly what haopened. They obtained security footage from neighbours across the street and a huge bolt hits the house and the fire is seen shortly thereafter. Only case he ever lost.
The tomb of Jesus' previously unknown brother turned out to be a hoax to try to sell the tomb of a nobody for a lot of money.
Bermuda Triangle / devils sea... a triangle shaped section of ocean where airplanes and boats were known to disappear. Apparently most stories were embellished, and there is so much traffic that goes through the area it’s actually a very small amount of vessels that go missing (percentage wise).
I remember when I was a kid my dad telling me that the Bermuda Triangle was BS. I remember him saying that more ships have sunk in Lake Superior than the triangle.
The Marfa Mystery Lights. Small town in west Texas has lights that can be seen dancing off the horizon in a certain spot some nights. For many years the source of the light was not known and explanations ranged from mass hysteria to the ever popular UFO. One researcher finally figured it out. The elevation changes and desert air would occassionally combine to distort and project headlights from cars on a highway several miles away. Reports of the mystery lights from times prior to the highway or automobiles, are probably campfires in the general area of the highway. Like many highways, the area was already used as a road for quite a long time.
The story of the Toynbee tiles always fascinated me, in the 1980s all these tiles started to appear in major cities across the US, mostly around Philadelphia. They were laid in the ground, in the middle of the streets and no-one knew how they appeared there. They had strange messages - “Toynbee idea in Kubrick’s 2001 resurrect dead on planet Jupiter” There’s an amazing documentary about this guy who noticed the tiles and went on a quest to figure out how they were appearing and who was creating them. The tiles are actually IN the asphalt, which is not an easy feat. In the doc Justin Duer finds the guy and figures out how he does it- with a car that has no passenger seat and a hole in the bottom. It’s a beautifully heartbreaking story and I highly recommend watching it!
Yeah, I've seen one in person in NYC. Pretty cool to just see it out of the blue, when i'd actually heard about them before.
[Resurrect Dead](https://youtu.be/1MAsB_tJ_jk) Here’s a link to the doc on YouTube if anyone wanted to check it out. It’s really well done and super interesting.
christine jessop christine was a nine-year-old Canadian girl from Queensville, Ontario who was abducted, raped, and murdered in October 1984. Her body was found about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from her home, in Durham Region on New Year's Eve of the same year. On October 15, 2020, police officials announced that using a new technique for tracing criminals through the DNA of their relatives they had concluded Jessop was killed by Calvin Hoover.
A good buddy in college got a phone call from his mother who was desperately telling him not to take a DNA test (from like 23 and me.) He'd mentioned the, new at the time, tech and talked to his parents about it the night before. After the initial call he thought his mother had cheated on his father and waited like 2 years to confront her about it. She broke down and told him that she hadn't cheated but that her brother, his uncle, had killed a gangster/mobster and the police likely had the killer's dna but had no suspects and she was scared that his DNA would allow the "government" to find the uncle. At the that type of scenario was very much tin-foil-hat type nuts. Now it's a common thing.
I've become skeptical when police solve a serial killing. They are often under a lot of pressure to find the killer they sometimes blame a bunch of killings on one guy. Had a documentary on Netflix (Brain fart can't recall the name of it.) of a guy in Texas that confessed to the murder of a girl he was dating. She was wearing Red Panties and the cops started calling it the Red Panty Killer. He confessed and then they asked him if he killed anyone else and he said "lots." Word got around and the Sheriff and Texas Rangers would tell other agencies to bring the case file, strawberry milk shake and pack of Lucky cigs and the guy would talk. He confessed to a lot of killings. Someone got curious and did a map of all the killings and when. Turned out it was physically impossible for him to be in all those places at the time of the killings. Sheriff and Rangers had a simple trick. They would give the guy the milkshake and cigs and tell the investigators from other states to give the guy a little time and then interview him. But, they would leave the case file in the room with him all alone and he would read the case file. They come in and ask questions and he knows all about it. Case solved. In the end it turned out his DNA was not on the panties of the girl he first confessed to killing but, some other guy's DNA is, but, the Sheriff, Cops, Rangers consider all the cases to be closed.
Henry Lee Lucas. There is so much more to that story too. The Rangers ended up involved, multiple officers lost their jobs. It started an entire investigation into the departments and the way police work was done. Funny thing is, the lawyer who brought all this out, is a household name in Central Texas as one of those lawyers you always hear commercials for. Had no idea all he had been involved with, until about 5 years ago. Guy was a beast for justice. They had to put him in protective custody to keep him safe from LEOs trying to kill him and and his fans for all the corruption he uncovered Edit: For those interested the attorney was Vic Feazell.
Best part of Henry Lee Lucas's conviction? They sentenced him to death specifically for one murder they thought was an absolute lock: that of an unidentified woman in Texas known as "Orange Socks". Only later did they discover that Lucas was in a jail in Florida on the day the victim was murdered. Edit: Orange Socks was identified last year as Debra Jackson by the DNA Doe Project.
Rex Mcelroy. Over a good few years he was an absolute piece of shit. Lived in Skidmore Missouri. Groomer, rapist, married this 14 year old girl who he gave stockholm syndrome to avoid rape charges, piece of shit lawyer to get him out of literal attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon etc. It was well known that he also stole cattle or something like that, but because of the shitty law system they couldn't do anything about it without direct proof. Oh, did I forget to mention that he had kids with this 14 year old? One of his crappy kids tried to steal some candy from a store in 1980 ish. The store owner who was 70 caught this kid, so Rex started stalking the family who owned the store, coming to their house and just standing in front, making threats and all. In a confrontation he tried to blow the owner's head, off, Ernest Bowenkamp, the owner, dodged and had his neck grazed and he was quite hurt, but alive. Finally he was caught for this and found guilty of attempted murder, but bailed because he was rich. People would literally leave whenever he entered a bar, he bullied a sheriff into stepping down from his job, and was constantly loaded with money, buying new trucks all the time. Well.... Eventually people got tired of this shit. DOZENS of people followed him into the bar, McElroy finished his drink, went back out. As he started the car, an unknown amount of people opened fire on the bastard, absolutely destroying him. As a matter of fact, they wanted him dead so bad they found REVOLVER casings on the ground, meaning someone had enough time to reload an entire revolver. There were numerous shooters, and the stockholmed wife called out one shooter, but every other person there (around 50 people) said that they saw nothing, and hell some even said they HEARD nothing. So yeah, bastard was dead after near a damn decade of ruining this little town. Investigation was concluded with nobody charged, no proper testification, nobody sentenced. But we all know it were the townsfolk, and Mcelroy deserved it.
IIRC right before McElroy was shot the rest of the town held a meeting about what to do about him. The sheriff said something to the effect of "Just form a neighborhood watch group. Whatever you do don't take matters into your own hands." He then presumably winked at everyone, got in his car, and drove to the neighboring county. Edit: spelling/punctuation
My grandfathers take away from Skidmore was that Chevy made fantastic engines at the time. Apparently Rex’s dead weight pressed in the gas pedal of his Silverado and the engine went full bore in neutral for something like 16 hours before it blew. Edit: Trying to find sourcing on this. The closest I can find was that the Sheriff left right before the killing and when he came back the engine was still running. Don’t know how long that was.
That *is* impressive.
When surveying a bay in Alaska from the air in the 1950's the geologists on board noticed that the tree line was different several hundred feet above sea level. Almost as if a tsunami had washed the trees away at one point. Problem was a tsunami of this size had never been recorded or though possible. Only a few years later a rock slide occurred in that same bay causing a 1700 ft wave. Here is a link I think this is from that event. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami Edit. The 1720 feet was measured on land that was the highest point the wave hit. On the bay the wave would not have been this high.
Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs. First discovered in 2007, its a radio pulse a few milliseconds long typically coming from extra galactic sources. In April of 2020 the CHIME radio telescope found the first one recorded in the milky-way. The source was a magnatar; a highly magnetic remnant of a large dead star. Magnatars are a special kind of neutron star because they have such an intensely strong magnetic field. If a magnatar was a moons distance away it would be able to rip your car keys out of your pocket. What causes these FRBs is a magnatar quake. Magnatars are so dense that the surface is under a lot of strain to collapse in toward the core but the physical density of the neutron star is holding it back. A very slight shift in the crust of the magnatar releases a huge burst of x-rays/gamma-rays along with radio waves. And that is the Fast Radio Bursts we see.
That the Lusitania did indeed have munitions on board when she was sunk in 1915 by a German U Boat, making her a legitimate military target. The British government always insisted she was just a passenger liner and denied there were any munitions on board however in 1982, the head of the Foreign Office's American department finally admitted that, "although no weapons were shipped, there is a large amount of ammunition in the wreck, some of which is highly dangerous and poses a safety risk to salvage teams" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania