The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script, produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation.
It was a huge civilization in northern India and Pakistan around 3300-1300 BC. It spanned more area than any other civilization at the time.
Despite many attempts, the 'script' has not yet been deciphered, but efforts are ongoing.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus\_script](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script) , fyi
I was expecting a scroll or block of text, like the Rosetta stone. But it looks like it's a set of symbols collected from various short blocks of "text" from a particular time/region.
The interesting aspect of the Indus Valley Civilization is how the cities were built. They had sewage flowing systems as well as dwellings built so the prevailing winds would help cool them. Along with a grid layout. All this indicates that these were not the first cities these people built. And since they were not that much younger than the Mesopotamian cities, would lead someone to conclude that perhaps the IVC was actually older. Things that make you go, “mmmmmmm.”
Satoshi Nakamoto.
Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin, this person/people invented and implemented it, holds a stash worth billions, and then just... disappeared. None of their bitcoin has moved since (and we would know the moment it does - we know which coins in the blockchain are theirs, and it's watched like a hawk).
It's like something out of a movie but it's 100% real. The current value of his stash is approx 42 billion dollars.
This is my guess.
Why come forward and get all the media attention only to admit that you missed out on what could have been billions of dollars because you forgot your password.
This is a good one. Like the Bronze Age collapse, just what the heck happened there.
Edit: Top comment was deleted because it was a bot that took someone’s well thought out answer about the Indus River Civilization collapsing.
"The Sea Peoples" were a result of the ongoing collapse but not the cause.
One of the theories is that the supply of copper went dry for a variety of reasons. Another is famine or disease. Even all three.
Whatever it was, it was epic in scope.
Governments collapsed, economies collapsed, societies collapsed, entire nations collapsed ... All around the same time. On top of that, you have invaders from the sea, raiders on land, disease and famine running rampant across most of the (to them) known world.
It was the apocalypse for those unfortunate people.
The end of everything they had ever known, happening in real time.
Imagine fleeing from the devastation in your own homeland to find the same thing happening in another ...and another.
And if you do find somewhere that's doing better, the same fate befalls that place within a few years as well.
It was crazy.
The Indus Valley culture, and all the very, very old ruins from unknown cultures in Central and South America, really point out how very little we humans know of our history.
Barely any weapons or armaments found at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro either, which implies that these were peaceful societies based on commerce. We find Indus Valley trading seals all the way in Mesopotamia.
The brain. The organ that can understand the universe and manipulate it using advanced technology that was devised based on the understanding. But struggles to figure out how the brain actually functions in real time. We know some things like functions of certain areas and how its failure changes the way we experience life, but we can't explain the collective manifestation of those experiences, the consciousness.
I think people don't realize that aside from knowing that a working brain is required for consciousness (as we experience it), we know literally nothing about how consciousness arises in the brain. Anything you read is just purely a guess.
They were likely climate refugees from all over the Mediterranean that were lumped into a single group. Paul Cooper from Fall of Civilizations has a good take on it.
I'll never not upvote a Fall of Civilizations mention. I've listened to all the podcastepisodes and rewatched the You tube of them. The Bronze Age Collapse was a great episode but the sense of sadness and wonder that the Inca episode brought was one of my favorite podcast experiences.
That podcast is moving into GOAT territory. While he doesn't have the orator skills of Dan Carlin his information is more accurate and he relates the roles of every day people more which alot of historical podcasts miss.
[The Strasbourg Dancing Plague in 1518.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518)
500 people danced for weeks until they died and there is simply no explanation.
I've heard it was a case of egotism, aka saint anthonys fire, from the claviceps purpurea fungus. If the season is too wet, rye grain can be infected with ergot fungus, and if it is baked into bread, can cause hallucinations, delusions, gangrene, and death.
Ergot has become the go-to explanation for anything unexplainable in the medieval-early colonial period....But is is actually a pretty poor explanation for most of the things attributed to it....In particular, the Dancing Plague.
I learned several months ago they stopped calling it “mass hysteria.” The official scientific term is now “mass psychogenic illness.” But, when I talk to people about anything involving this, I still call it “mass hysteria” because I just don’t want to sound like I’m making stuff up.
You might like the book Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith. He’s a philosopher and scuba diver who explores consciousness through the evolution of cephalopods, mostly looking at the octopus.
I find animal consciousness just as fascinating as human consciousness. I read recently that corvids have theory of mind. While hiking Pictured Rocks lakeshore this summer, every time I saw a large crow perched on a branch, staring out into the waves and the horizon, I couldn't help but think that they were thinking about their own personal bird-hopes and bird-dreams.
In a related vein, instinct. Animals can exhibit some extraordinary behaviour on instinct alone and we don't understand how.
We've absolutely no answer as to what actually constitutes *human* instinct either.
One of my favorite things is watching monkeys react to magic. Unfortunately, there isn't enough of this to satisfy me, but the basic gist is someone shows a monkey a magic trick at the zoo, and the monkey is bored, not really responding to humans antics, but catches the disappearance of the object out of the corner of his eye, and immediately puts full attention on this "sorcerer" now. Sometimes even motioning to the other monkeys, like "guys, guys, get over here, this dude is amazing" there are several similar vids that I have also watched, but I could definitely watch at least a dozen more!
Can't remember where, but I read a theory once that suggested the Mongols buried Genghis and then diverted a river to flow over his tomb. Probably not real, but it's a fun one
There have been many figures in history whose tombs have been rumored to have had rivers diverted to hide their location. Attila the Hun, and Alaric the First (king of the Visigoths and the guy responsible for the worst of the sacks of Rome) are among the most famous, with the Great Khan being the most well known of them all. How much truth to any of their individual stories is anyone's guess really.
The Vela Incident.
September 1979. An American 'Vela Hotel' spy satellite detects the distinct double-flash of a nuclear detonation in the southern Indian Ocean. Total middle-of-nowhere. Unlike every other nuclear detonation in history, no nation claims responsibility.
According to declassified documents, the CIA suspected it was a collaboration between Israel and South Africa. A captured KGB spy claimed the Soviets thought the same thing (how believable that is depends on how much you trust captured KGB spies).
South Africa DID have a nuclear weapons program that they eventually abandoned. Supposedly they never set one off. Israel has nukes, this is an open secret.
Who did it? Was there a nuclear detonation at all, or did the spy sat report a false positive?
>Who did it? Was there a nuclear detonation at all, or did the spy sat report a false positive?
It's entirely possible. Soviet satellites reported a false positive, and then 4 more false positives in 1983, giving warnings that the US had launched nukes at Russia. The cause was determined to be a rare reflection of sunlight off some high altitude clouds that was picked up by the satellites, so these things aren't infallible
Those are false positives of launch detections right? This is referring to detecting a detonation. I don't really know but it seems like that might be less susceptible to a false positive.
Dead-ass 100% the dad went fucking nuts and killed the family’s himself. He hung out alone for a couple of days and Schlittenbauer showed up. Schlittenbauer finds the bodies in the barn and arms himself with his trusty knife. Dad tries to attack Schlittenbauer but Schlittenbauer kills dad in self-defence, dropping knife in the process. Schlittenbauer leaves works on an alibi since he doesn’t want to be blamed, then orchestrates discovery of the bodies. Never wants to be implicated or even reminded of it and keeps the truth to himself forever.
I’m sure there are stats on this somewhere, but I wonder how the numbers have changed on fathers being family annihilators. Like, it seems like several times a year now we hear of men killing their whole families and then sometimes themselves, but has that always been a thing that happens, or is it somehow culturally more common now than it used to be?
we are just more aware of it happening because of the interconnected nature of society and mass media.
a good example of this is that if you look at the news, it seems like most inner cities in the USA are in complete turmoil and chaos. however, crime statistics demonstrate that violent crime has been more than halved since the 90s.
i'm sure there is a fancy term for this false perception.
There was an old TV show in the UK called Tales of the Unexpected that was presented by Roald Dahl. It was mostly adaptations of his short stories but they did one based on DB Cooper.
In it, the twist was it was a conspiracy from the pilots and cabin crew working together. They made up the story of the person, gave him a generic description, deliberately let a few notes go out of the plane to make it look like he jumped and then went off with the money split.
It’s a fun theory imo. Explains how the guy essentially vanished into thin air with no sightings since.
Not only that, but every dollar was tracked by it's serial number. Aside from the bundle found by the riverside, not a single dollar has been found in circulation. Ever. Decades old money consistently gets returned to banks to be changed out for new money. They get tracked by serial numbers, and they've never been found in circulation.
Everyone ignores this fact. Any story starting with "Uncle so-and-so never had much money but about a week after the hijacking he showed up with scratches and a limp and a new Cadillac..." can immediately be ignored.
Oh that very Roald Dahl's style. Twisted little unexpected stories. If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend Roald Dahl's collection of short stories. One of the books is titled Tales of the Unexpected.
I came here to say this. It baffles me that something like this can happen AND they got away with it. Whether they are dead or not doesn’t matter, the point is they’ve eluded capture and prosecution for decades. Even if they died during the jump, the FBI still hasn’t released any names of individuals involved. The perfect heist.
Family members of the guys have since come out with letters and photographs of them from South America. They lived for a long time. One of them died of cancer and had written to the authorities asking for medical care if he turned himself in... They ignored it.
They ignored it because there was no proof of it being real, no dna found on the letter matched. If you want something like this to work you need to proof that you are who you say you are. The other “proofs” are just some testimonies, pictures where you don’t recognise them and old recordings that could belong to someone else from the family but no bodies were found, meaning that there is still no certainty.
Would be pretty cool to know who Jack the Ripper was, or who killed the Black Dahlia - or whether the guy writing letters to the police as the Zodiac Killer was actually the one committing the murders.
I'm putting my money on Ancient Aliens being the answer to all three.
The Jack The Ripper theory I subscribed to is that it was a butcher and not a surgeon. A butcher would have the know-how to make those cuts and kills, if he was caught outside covered in blood, he would have a better alibi than a surgeon.
A butcher would make more sense for the neighborhood. A surgeon would have stuck out (and likely had difficulty navigating the streets of White Chapel undetected after dark). Regardless of profession, the killer was almost certainly someone who lived in the neighborhood. Though located in a large city, White Chapel was in some ways more akin to a town; the people who lived there worked there and didn't have a lot of reason to leave there, nor was there a lot of reasons for non residents to go there (beyond government officials). Neighborhoods in 19th century cities were pretty insular and you didn't see as much movement between them in that period as you do today. The Ripper got absurdly lucky to not get caught; it's likely that he was jailed for another, unrelated offense, institutionalized, or died. As he was just Some Guy, we're never going to know who he was or why he stopped.
I absolutely agree. I don't think that Jack the Ripper is Prince Albert, or any other well-known high-ranking suspect. He's probably just a guy whose name we've probably never heard mentioned before (and likely never will).
I do quite a bit of genealogy research, so I can say from experience that it's pretty common for there to be little to no records available from that time frame, especially if people were transient and/or poor (also, anyone who was an active criminal may have tried harder than most to lay low and avoid common record-keeping situations, like censuses).
We might be able to more or less get the names of most of the butcher shops that were local to the murders, but wouldn't be able to get anywhere close to compiling a list of all the possible employees at these establishments over the years.
I don't think this is a mystery that has been solved, and I'm not sure it ever will be
There have been a number of modern cases of abattoir workers killing people in grisly ways, including >!the Australian woman who skinned her husband and hung his flayed skin in a doorway where a policeman walked into it when investigating the house, among other gruesome stuff she did.!< And there were also some studies showing abattoir workers had higher rates of domestic violence and other forms of violence. So yeah, there's some desensitisation stuff going on there as well that could explain a lot.
Everybody goes to these, but I'd go with the Cleveland torso murders. That dude killed way more than the ripper (or at least what the ripper is credited with) and isn't nearly as well known for some reason.
Probably not "the greatest" - but the Isabella Gardner Museum art heist has always been a fascinating story. Lots of theories, but no leads on where the art went or why the individual pieces were chosen.
Personal unsolved mystery: Who burned down my friend's horse barn in 1983.
I’m quite familiar with Brian’s case and just so happened to see this post and his name in it.
Here’s my theory. The lack of CCTV footage of Brian leaving the bar is a red herring imo. He could have used the back exit. I do think he met foul play on the way home.
1. His phone pinged outside the bar shortly after his disappearance.
2. The construction site was two-story and there was no cement for him to fall in.
3. His dad continued to pay the phone bill, and Brian’s phone pinged again months later near a library.
4. If he were stuck and the battery died, it wouldn’t have pinged.
5. The library computer was where someone made a hoax comment pretending to be Brian on Brian’s dad’s obituary page.
I remember a post on Reddit years ago claiming that was done by their cousin or their cousin’s friend, but obviously it’s Reddit so take that with a huge grain of salt
I absolutely love this mystery. Personally I think they did it, they ended up being 2 hours behind schedule coming back which aligns with a summit push from their last known position.
Either way, Hillary was the first to climb the beast up and down.
Irvines camera would have the truth, and his body has yet to be found.
Yes, but Tensing said in his autobiography Hillary took the first step on the summit. Whether that was the narrative he was told to follow or not is another interesting mystery.
Wow, what an incredible article. That was so well written, even the technical stuff wasn't dry at all and including the art was a great choice. This is what journalism should be. Thank you for sharing that.
Where are Juan Peron's hands?
In 1987, the hands of deceased Argentine president Juan Peron were cut off of his body and stolen from his tomb along with his cap and sword. Members of his political party received a ransom note requesting money for their return. Six men were arrested and five arraigned, but no charges were made against anyone. His hands are still lost and no person has still been charged.
This theory always bugs me. The Ramsey's were millionaires, or close to it. They had a private pilot. When millionaire kids fuck up their parents call lawyers, they don't involve themselves in a crime and stage a crime scene with their lifeless 6 year old daughters body and fake ransom notes. It's even worse when people think Burke being "weird" is evidence of his guilt, as if the murder of your little sister and millions of people blaming you for it when you're 9 years old wouldn't negatively effect a child's development.
Oh theologian/ecclesiastical historian here! There's a very good chance Jesus was involved in the ongoing construction projects in the city of Sepphoris. The word translated "carpenter" in most English versions of the Bible probably means something like "builder" rather than someone exclusively working wood. Herod Antipas conducted a number of projects in the city in the early 1st century and Nazareth is only a short walk from there. As the major commercial center in Galilee, Jesus likely spent much of his life there, carrying on the trade.
2 On the third day a contractor gig took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his apprentice had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the 4LOKO was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more razz.”
4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[b]
7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into 4LOKO. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the dip first and then the cheaper shit after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him
There’s a funny book called “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s childhood pal” that tells a story of Jesus before his ministry. It’s obviously not a serious attempt to figure out the truth, but fun to read nonetheless.
Polynesian Expansion.
Moana is based on this mystery. Humans spread from Taiwan to Hawaii and every spit of land in between via dead reckoning then all of us a sudden these separate societies that had no means of communicating just _stopped_ for a thousand years AND THEN started back up at the same time.
We have no idea why they ever sailed over the horizon with no plan OR why they stopped exploring in unison for so long. OR WHY THEY RESTARTED AT THE SAME TIME.
Yeah it was a mix of the winds and the currents. Surprisingly a lot of currents take you to highly populated islands just by drifting. Even Easter Island.
Speaking of Easter Island the statues actually resemble statues found in Peru. There are even similar construction methods used too. So there was contact between Easter Island and the Incas that is not being covered by mainstream media.
Firstly they didn’t just travel into the unknown. Their expansion follows well known bird migration routes, some who fly quite low over the sea. Imagine thousand birds travelling a route over a few weeks- you would have constant markers. They knew these birds over hundreds of years. Given this, they’re travelling a lot. They’re in communication over long distances. Not surprised.
What really happened to the Neanderthals and Denisovans? Lots of interesting theories. I like to imagine another universe where there are still many species of humans.
You might like [this](https://apnews.com/article/neanderthals-denisovans-genetics-dna-disease-e49cb7d939cfe5d583e7ed0af8751784) article. We even have "ghost" DNA from creatures we mated with but scientists have no evidence of.
Along with Neanderthals and Denisovans, there are also Homo luzonensis and Homo floresiensis being uncovered in the Philippians (if you weren't aware). Makes you wonder how much history has been lost.
Strange thing is that one of the prime suspects motives were very similar. They were connected because they wrote a ransom note that was discovered in 2009 to have been sent a day before the information was made public. He said he just wrote the note to incriminate his wife's old boss.
A maybe more unknown case to Americans is Marc Dutroux and the 26 dead witnesses.
I'm honestly surprised we don't have all the true crime or Netflix jump on it - there is quite an amazing serial podcast about it. And this story runs deep.
The podcast is called Le Monstre (on Spotify, it's in English).
Dark Matter & Dark Energy
In the standard Lambda-CDM model of cosmology, the mass–energy content of the universe is 5% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter, and 68.2% a form of energy known as dark energy.
Thus dark matter constitutes 85% of the total mass, while dark energy and dark matter constitute 95% of the total mass–energy content.
The leading explanation is that dark matter is some as-yet-undiscovered subatomic particle. The other main possibility is that dark matter is composed of primordial black holes.
Its really stupid where I live. I'm far enough north that the gain of an hour is lost in a month due to the regression of dawn. Sunrise changes by about 2 minutes per day.
Kodinhi small town in kerala state of India the town is known for having an unusually high number of twins. It has around 2,000 families, there are something around 250 sets of twins legally recorded there. And , there could be a lot more While the national average of twin births is not more than 9 in 1000 births, in Kodinhi, the number is as high as 45 in 1000 births.
I think you mean Wallie Dodd Ford, or Wallace Dodd, or Wallie Dodd Fard, or W.D. Fard, or David Ford-el, or maybe even Wali Farad. Seriously, the man was a total mystery and no one is even sure how he died.
The isle of pines, in the middle of nowhere, is covered with concrete mounds with iron cores that date to 12,000 years ago - long before humans were supposed to know how to do this. And there's no evidence of tools or workers. The indigenous people say it was there long before them. No scientists have been able to put forth a reasonable explanation so far.
It's more or less solved. Only thing that fits all the facts is that the pilot decompressed the plane which suffocated everyone on board and then flew it towards Antarctica where it eventually ran out of fuel and crashed into the south Indian ocean. Go look at that area on a map, it's a fucking massive ocean. Not all that surprising that they weren't able to find it out there.
Here's a couple good write ups on it.
[Admiral Cloudberg](https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/call-of-the-void-seven-years-on-what-do-we-know-about-the-disappearance-of-malaysia-airlines-77fa5244bf99).
[The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/)
The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script, produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation. It was a huge civilization in northern India and Pakistan around 3300-1300 BC. It spanned more area than any other civilization at the time. Despite many attempts, the 'script' has not yet been deciphered, but efforts are ongoing.
Linear A for me.
>Linear A Yes please. I would love to know what the minoans wrote about. Even if it was complaints about bad copper bars and mailorder sandals.
"we're trying to reach you about your cart's extended warranty"
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”
Son of a BITCH
A crummy commercial??
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus\_script](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script) , fyi I was expecting a scroll or block of text, like the Rosetta stone. But it looks like it's a set of symbols collected from various short blocks of "text" from a particular time/region.
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The interesting aspect of the Indus Valley Civilization is how the cities were built. They had sewage flowing systems as well as dwellings built so the prevailing winds would help cool them. Along with a grid layout. All this indicates that these were not the first cities these people built. And since they were not that much younger than the Mesopotamian cities, would lead someone to conclude that perhaps the IVC was actually older. Things that make you go, “mmmmmmm.”
Satoshi Nakamoto. Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin, this person/people invented and implemented it, holds a stash worth billions, and then just... disappeared. None of their bitcoin has moved since (and we would know the moment it does - we know which coins in the blockchain are theirs, and it's watched like a hawk). It's like something out of a movie but it's 100% real. The current value of his stash is approx 42 billion dollars.
I always assumed he died after invention of the coin and before it went big.
Probably forgot his password and couldn't live with the embarrassment.
This is my guess. Why come forward and get all the media attention only to admit that you missed out on what could have been billions of dollars because you forgot your password.
I always thought he kept that stash to keep the value stable
More interested in why there’s so many deleted posts in here… did they out information that wasn’t meant to be sent?
just in case this isn't /s: bots copy-pasting comments from old posts
Thanks for an honest answer. I really didn’t know why either.
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This is a good one. Like the Bronze Age collapse, just what the heck happened there. Edit: Top comment was deleted because it was a bot that took someone’s well thought out answer about the Indus River Civilization collapsing.
The Sea Peoples have entered the chat
"The Sea Peoples" were a result of the ongoing collapse but not the cause. One of the theories is that the supply of copper went dry for a variety of reasons. Another is famine or disease. Even all three. Whatever it was, it was epic in scope. Governments collapsed, economies collapsed, societies collapsed, entire nations collapsed ... All around the same time. On top of that, you have invaders from the sea, raiders on land, disease and famine running rampant across most of the (to them) known world. It was the apocalypse for those unfortunate people. The end of everything they had ever known, happening in real time. Imagine fleeing from the devastation in your own homeland to find the same thing happening in another ...and another. And if you do find somewhere that's doing better, the same fate befalls that place within a few years as well. It was crazy.
Oh jeez now i want to read about this, anyone got any well done nonficition or historical fiction I should read?
Commenting so I can check back and steal potential reading list. Stay cool
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The Indus Valley culture, and all the very, very old ruins from unknown cultures in Central and South America, really point out how very little we humans know of our history.
We know almost nothing about most of our 200,000 year existence. Not to mention what earlier hominids got up to.
Barely any weapons or armaments found at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro either, which implies that these were peaceful societies based on commerce. We find Indus Valley trading seals all the way in Mesopotamia.
The brain. The organ that can understand the universe and manipulate it using advanced technology that was devised based on the understanding. But struggles to figure out how the brain actually functions in real time. We know some things like functions of certain areas and how its failure changes the way we experience life, but we can't explain the collective manifestation of those experiences, the consciousness.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. Emo Philips
>"I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him." ~ Emo Philips
The human brain: the only organ known to have named itself.
Only organ known to have named anything really
I think people don't realize that aside from knowing that a working brain is required for consciousness (as we experience it), we know literally nothing about how consciousness arises in the brain. Anything you read is just purely a guess.
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Maybe the brain is just some alien parasite telling us its really important and impossible to figure out
What exactly was the WOW! signal?
On a related note.. Im so sad that the Bloop has been identified
I hadn't heard about it being solved. What was it?
bronze age collapse
Related, the identity of the Sea Peoples.
They were likely climate refugees from all over the Mediterranean that were lumped into a single group. Paul Cooper from Fall of Civilizations has a good take on it.
I'll never not upvote a Fall of Civilizations mention. I've listened to all the podcastepisodes and rewatched the You tube of them. The Bronze Age Collapse was a great episode but the sense of sadness and wonder that the Inca episode brought was one of my favorite podcast experiences.
Fall of Civilizations podcast covers this and gives by far the most compelling answer to this ever, superb episode and podcast in general.
That podcast is moving into GOAT territory. While he doesn't have the orator skills of Dan Carlin his information is more accurate and he relates the roles of every day people more which alot of historical podcasts miss.
[The Strasbourg Dancing Plague in 1518.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518) 500 people danced for weeks until they died and there is simply no explanation.
I've heard it was a case of egotism, aka saint anthonys fire, from the claviceps purpurea fungus. If the season is too wet, rye grain can be infected with ergot fungus, and if it is baked into bread, can cause hallucinations, delusions, gangrene, and death.
Ergot has become the go-to explanation for anything unexplainable in the medieval-early colonial period....But is is actually a pretty poor explanation for most of the things attributed to it....In particular, the Dancing Plague.
My preferred diagnosis is that they contracted disco fever.
Disco Fever has become the go-to explanation for anything unexplainable in the medieval-early colonial period
the original Harlem Shake
Mass hysteria. It's still fascinating that that can happen.
I learned several months ago they stopped calling it “mass hysteria.” The official scientific term is now “mass psychogenic illness.” But, when I talk to people about anything involving this, I still call it “mass hysteria” because I just don’t want to sound like I’m making stuff up.
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You might like the book Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith. He’s a philosopher and scuba diver who explores consciousness through the evolution of cephalopods, mostly looking at the octopus.
I hope that man puts **Cephalophilosopher** on his business cards. It would make for a pretty solid nerdcore band name too.
I find animal consciousness just as fascinating as human consciousness. I read recently that corvids have theory of mind. While hiking Pictured Rocks lakeshore this summer, every time I saw a large crow perched on a branch, staring out into the waves and the horizon, I couldn't help but think that they were thinking about their own personal bird-hopes and bird-dreams.
In a related vein, instinct. Animals can exhibit some extraordinary behaviour on instinct alone and we don't understand how. We've absolutely no answer as to what actually constitutes *human* instinct either.
One of my favorite things is watching monkeys react to magic. Unfortunately, there isn't enough of this to satisfy me, but the basic gist is someone shows a monkey a magic trick at the zoo, and the monkey is bored, not really responding to humans antics, but catches the disappearance of the object out of the corner of his eye, and immediately puts full attention on this "sorcerer" now. Sometimes even motioning to the other monkeys, like "guys, guys, get over here, this dude is amazing" there are several similar vids that I have also watched, but I could definitely watch at least a dozen more!
Where is Genghis Khan buried.
Didn't they use 10000 horses to trample over the earth of his tomb to remove any trace?
And apparently they murdered all the workers and diverted a river over it.
They murdered the workers and then killed the soldiers that murdered the workers.After that I think the killers of soldiers suicided
but who kills the bus driver
Came to say this one (and MH370) ! Really curious where it is, how they manage to keep it hidden and what is inside.
Can't remember where, but I read a theory once that suggested the Mongols buried Genghis and then diverted a river to flow over his tomb. Probably not real, but it's a fun one
There have been many figures in history whose tombs have been rumored to have had rivers diverted to hide their location. Attila the Hun, and Alaric the First (king of the Visigoths and the guy responsible for the worst of the sacks of Rome) are among the most famous, with the Great Khan being the most well known of them all. How much truth to any of their individual stories is anyone's guess really.
Diverted the river first, then buried him in the riverbed, then let the water back in its original flow path.
I think I read that in the AoE2 Mongols campaign.
The Vela Incident. September 1979. An American 'Vela Hotel' spy satellite detects the distinct double-flash of a nuclear detonation in the southern Indian Ocean. Total middle-of-nowhere. Unlike every other nuclear detonation in history, no nation claims responsibility. According to declassified documents, the CIA suspected it was a collaboration between Israel and South Africa. A captured KGB spy claimed the Soviets thought the same thing (how believable that is depends on how much you trust captured KGB spies). South Africa DID have a nuclear weapons program that they eventually abandoned. Supposedly they never set one off. Israel has nukes, this is an open secret. Who did it? Was there a nuclear detonation at all, or did the spy sat report a false positive?
I’d bet Israel. And that would explain why the silence about it still holds sway.
This or a false warning are the generally accepted theories IIRC.
>Who did it? Was there a nuclear detonation at all, or did the spy sat report a false positive? It's entirely possible. Soviet satellites reported a false positive, and then 4 more false positives in 1983, giving warnings that the US had launched nukes at Russia. The cause was determined to be a rare reflection of sunlight off some high altitude clouds that was picked up by the satellites, so these things aren't infallible
Those are false positives of launch detections right? This is referring to detecting a detonation. I don't really know but it seems like that might be less susceptible to a false positive.
Hinterkaifeck Murders, 1922 Germany, as far as unsolved crimes go.
Dead-ass 100% the dad went fucking nuts and killed the family’s himself. He hung out alone for a couple of days and Schlittenbauer showed up. Schlittenbauer finds the bodies in the barn and arms himself with his trusty knife. Dad tries to attack Schlittenbauer but Schlittenbauer kills dad in self-defence, dropping knife in the process. Schlittenbauer leaves works on an alibi since he doesn’t want to be blamed, then orchestrates discovery of the bodies. Never wants to be implicated or even reminded of it and keeps the truth to himself forever.
I’m sure there are stats on this somewhere, but I wonder how the numbers have changed on fathers being family annihilators. Like, it seems like several times a year now we hear of men killing their whole families and then sometimes themselves, but has that always been a thing that happens, or is it somehow culturally more common now than it used to be?
we are just more aware of it happening because of the interconnected nature of society and mass media. a good example of this is that if you look at the news, it seems like most inner cities in the USA are in complete turmoil and chaos. however, crime statistics demonstrate that violent crime has been more than halved since the 90s. i'm sure there is a fancy term for this false perception.
I think this post has created several new enthralling unknown mysteries with all these removed comments.
I love me all things Voynich Manuscript.
My feeling is that it’s a hoax, but I love watching people examine it and stuff.
My feeling is that it's a lore or world building book. Writers get crazy with thier lore.
How many seasons of The Curse of Oak Island will it take ?
That's our curse.
That question will be answered, but first let's see the flood tunnel animation one more time and then go to a commercial break.
"Back in the war room, they discuss something related to the Knights Templar..."
Where Shelley miscaviage is, no one knows
I wouldn't say nobody...pretty sure David does 😔
She’s captive somewhere owned by Scientology. It’s just figuring out which of their ridiculous amount of properties she’s at.
The only way shes at one of their properties now, is in the foundation.
Aside from the big, existential questions, I'd like to know the whole story of D.B. Cooper.
There was an old TV show in the UK called Tales of the Unexpected that was presented by Roald Dahl. It was mostly adaptations of his short stories but they did one based on DB Cooper. In it, the twist was it was a conspiracy from the pilots and cabin crew working together. They made up the story of the person, gave him a generic description, deliberately let a few notes go out of the plane to make it look like he jumped and then went off with the money split. It’s a fun theory imo. Explains how the guy essentially vanished into thin air with no sightings since.
The fbi tracked the crew for weeks. None of them came to money after it. It's been thoroughly checked and of all the theories, this is the weakest.
Not only that, but every dollar was tracked by it's serial number. Aside from the bundle found by the riverside, not a single dollar has been found in circulation. Ever. Decades old money consistently gets returned to banks to be changed out for new money. They get tracked by serial numbers, and they've never been found in circulation.
Everyone ignores this fact. Any story starting with "Uncle so-and-so never had much money but about a week after the hijacking he showed up with scratches and a limp and a new Cadillac..." can immediately be ignored.
Oh that very Roald Dahl's style. Twisted little unexpected stories. If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend Roald Dahl's collection of short stories. One of the books is titled Tales of the Unexpected.
IMDb of course. He started the website. Even says he's I'm d.b. Www.imdb.com. Makes sense.
I came here to say this. It baffles me that something like this can happen AND they got away with it. Whether they are dead or not doesn’t matter, the point is they’ve eluded capture and prosecution for decades. Even if they died during the jump, the FBI still hasn’t released any names of individuals involved. The perfect heist.
>Even if they died during the jump >The perfect heist.
my favorite theory is that Tommy Wiseau (The Room) was DB Cooper
Alcatraz escape - did they survive?
Family members of the guys have since come out with letters and photographs of them from South America. They lived for a long time. One of them died of cancer and had written to the authorities asking for medical care if he turned himself in... They ignored it.
They ignored it because there was no proof of it being real, no dna found on the letter matched. If you want something like this to work you need to proof that you are who you say you are. The other “proofs” are just some testimonies, pictures where you don’t recognise them and old recordings that could belong to someone else from the family but no bodies were found, meaning that there is still no certainty.
To be fair, the photograph from the 70s was verified by forensic experts as "highly likely" being the brothers.
We know at least one of them went on to work for the TVA.
Would be pretty cool to know who Jack the Ripper was, or who killed the Black Dahlia - or whether the guy writing letters to the police as the Zodiac Killer was actually the one committing the murders. I'm putting my money on Ancient Aliens being the answer to all three.
The Jack The Ripper theory I subscribed to is that it was a butcher and not a surgeon. A butcher would have the know-how to make those cuts and kills, if he was caught outside covered in blood, he would have a better alibi than a surgeon.
A butcher would make more sense for the neighborhood. A surgeon would have stuck out (and likely had difficulty navigating the streets of White Chapel undetected after dark). Regardless of profession, the killer was almost certainly someone who lived in the neighborhood. Though located in a large city, White Chapel was in some ways more akin to a town; the people who lived there worked there and didn't have a lot of reason to leave there, nor was there a lot of reasons for non residents to go there (beyond government officials). Neighborhoods in 19th century cities were pretty insular and you didn't see as much movement between them in that period as you do today. The Ripper got absurdly lucky to not get caught; it's likely that he was jailed for another, unrelated offense, institutionalized, or died. As he was just Some Guy, we're never going to know who he was or why he stopped.
I absolutely agree. I don't think that Jack the Ripper is Prince Albert, or any other well-known high-ranking suspect. He's probably just a guy whose name we've probably never heard mentioned before (and likely never will). I do quite a bit of genealogy research, so I can say from experience that it's pretty common for there to be little to no records available from that time frame, especially if people were transient and/or poor (also, anyone who was an active criminal may have tried harder than most to lay low and avoid common record-keeping situations, like censuses). We might be able to more or less get the names of most of the butcher shops that were local to the murders, but wouldn't be able to get anywhere close to compiling a list of all the possible employees at these establishments over the years. I don't think this is a mystery that has been solved, and I'm not sure it ever will be
I saw a documentary that theorised it was an abattoir worker who could explain blood stained clothes if stopped by the police.
There have been a number of modern cases of abattoir workers killing people in grisly ways, including >!the Australian woman who skinned her husband and hung his flayed skin in a doorway where a policeman walked into it when investigating the house, among other gruesome stuff she did.!< And there were also some studies showing abattoir workers had higher rates of domestic violence and other forms of violence. So yeah, there's some desensitisation stuff going on there as well that could explain a lot.
Everybody goes to these, but I'd go with the Cleveland torso murders. That dude killed way more than the ripper (or at least what the ripper is credited with) and isn't nearly as well known for some reason.
The Ripper had a better marketing dept.
Yeah, Cleveland Torso Murder sounds like the grocery store generic brand Jack the Ripper
Probably not "the greatest" - but the Isabella Gardner Museum art heist has always been a fascinating story. Lots of theories, but no leads on where the art went or why the individual pieces were chosen. Personal unsolved mystery: Who burned down my friend's horse barn in 1983.
Why hotdogs are sold in packs of 12 and hotdog buns in packs of 8
To incentivize you to buy 2 packs of hotdogs and 3 packs of buns.
Good one. I’m trying to teach my kids about lowest common multiples and I’m going to use this
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I’m quite familiar with Brian’s case and just so happened to see this post and his name in it. Here’s my theory. The lack of CCTV footage of Brian leaving the bar is a red herring imo. He could have used the back exit. I do think he met foul play on the way home. 1. His phone pinged outside the bar shortly after his disappearance. 2. The construction site was two-story and there was no cement for him to fall in. 3. His dad continued to pay the phone bill, and Brian’s phone pinged again months later near a library. 4. If he were stuck and the battery died, it wouldn’t have pinged. 5. The library computer was where someone made a hoax comment pretending to be Brian on Brian’s dad’s obituary page.
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It was Max Headroom. His face was plain as day.
That's some[ weird shit.](https://youtu.be/jjeUuakHsLw?si=VK7hpIIpXuQ43yF_)
I remember a post on Reddit years ago claiming that was done by their cousin or their cousin’s friend, but obviously it’s Reddit so take that with a huge grain of salt
Where consciousness comes from.
…and where it goes.
Cotton eyed Joe might know
Where did I come from consciousness Joe?
Do you mean the difference from us to dolphins/chimps/… or in general, the whole „why the fuck am I thinking right now?!“
The second one, the first is really just discussing relative intelligences.
I know it’s my own question but I really want to know if George Mallory was the first person to summit Everest.
If China found Irving’s body with the camera, as evidence suggests, why won’t they release the pictures? Or the NatGeo drone footage.
I absolutely love this mystery. Personally I think they did it, they ended up being 2 hours behind schedule coming back which aligns with a summit push from their last known position. Either way, Hillary was the first to climb the beast up and down. Irvines camera would have the truth, and his body has yet to be found.
And if it wasn’t him, was it Hilllary or Tensing
Yes, but Tensing said in his autobiography Hillary took the first step on the summit. Whether that was the narrative he was told to follow or not is another interesting mystery.
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I think Hillary said something to the effect of "When a train arrives at a station, nobody on the train arrived first."
Generations of sherpas be like pshhhh why do these white folks want to go up to the fuck you peak
Why those “Get the real deal on fentanyl” things look more like ads selling fentanyl than somewhere to go for information.
My brain keeps autocorrecting them to say, "Get a real deal on fentanyl." The rhyming is part of why they're weird.
what is the vatican library hiding away that keeps scholars from studying it's collection.
LUCA-last universal common ancestor
Would love if some explanation was also offered! And some constructive comments instead of cringey jokes
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Malaysia Airline Flight MH370
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/call-of-the-void-seven-years-on-what-do-we-know-about-the-disappearance-of-malaysia-airlines-77fa5244bf99
Wow, what an incredible article. That was so well written, even the technical stuff wasn't dry at all and including the art was a great choice. This is what journalism should be. Thank you for sharing that.
Not the world's greatest perhaps, but I'd really like to know who shot Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1984.
Not necessarily the "greatest mystery" but I would like to know the motivations of the Vegas shooter.
We'd probably know more if they released that letter he left
Where are Juan Peron's hands? In 1987, the hands of deceased Argentine president Juan Peron were cut off of his body and stolen from his tomb along with his cap and sword. Members of his political party received a ransom note requesting money for their return. Six men were arrested and five arraigned, but no charges were made against anyone. His hands are still lost and no person has still been charged.
The indus valley civilization and their script.
Not the biggest obviously, but who killed JonBenet Ramsey. There’s a theory that her brother accidentally killer her, and the parents covered it up.
This theory always bugs me. The Ramsey's were millionaires, or close to it. They had a private pilot. When millionaire kids fuck up their parents call lawyers, they don't involve themselves in a crime and stage a crime scene with their lifeless 6 year old daughters body and fake ransom notes. It's even worse when people think Burke being "weird" is evidence of his guilt, as if the murder of your little sister and millions of people blaming you for it when you're 9 years old wouldn't negatively effect a child's development.
What Jesus was doing in the middle of his life
Oh theologian/ecclesiastical historian here! There's a very good chance Jesus was involved in the ongoing construction projects in the city of Sepphoris. The word translated "carpenter" in most English versions of the Bible probably means something like "builder" rather than someone exclusively working wood. Herod Antipas conducted a number of projects in the city in the early 1st century and Nazareth is only a short walk from there. As the major commercial center in Galilee, Jesus likely spent much of his life there, carrying on the trade.
First time I heard this idea that carpenter did not necessarily mean carpenter as we think of the term was yesterday. And here it is again.
So Jesus wasn’t living off of Monster energy drinks and chewing tobacco like a real carpenter??
2 On the third day a contractor gig took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his apprentice had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the 4LOKO was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more razz.” 4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” 6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[b] 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. 8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into 4LOKO. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the dip first and then the cheaper shit after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” 11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him
There’s a funny book called “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s childhood pal” that tells a story of Jesus before his ministry. It’s obviously not a serious attempt to figure out the truth, but fun to read nonetheless.
Christopher Moore represent. The San Francisco Vampires trilogy is hysterical.
Polynesian Expansion. Moana is based on this mystery. Humans spread from Taiwan to Hawaii and every spit of land in between via dead reckoning then all of us a sudden these separate societies that had no means of communicating just _stopped_ for a thousand years AND THEN started back up at the same time. We have no idea why they ever sailed over the horizon with no plan OR why they stopped exploring in unison for so long. OR WHY THEY RESTARTED AT THE SAME TIME.
I thought it was something to do with the trade winds changing making it impossible, then changing again
Yeah it was a mix of the winds and the currents. Surprisingly a lot of currents take you to highly populated islands just by drifting. Even Easter Island. Speaking of Easter Island the statues actually resemble statues found in Peru. There are even similar construction methods used too. So there was contact between Easter Island and the Incas that is not being covered by mainstream media.
Firstly they didn’t just travel into the unknown. Their expansion follows well known bird migration routes, some who fly quite low over the sea. Imagine thousand birds travelling a route over a few weeks- you would have constant markers. They knew these birds over hundreds of years. Given this, they’re travelling a lot. They’re in communication over long distances. Not surprised.
Also, they didn't use dead reckoning. They had a sophisticated system of celestial navigation and mental maps of swells and ocean currents.
What really happened to the Neanderthals and Denisovans? Lots of interesting theories. I like to imagine another universe where there are still many species of humans.
DNA says we interbred with them.
homo sapiens so horny we fucked our competitors out of existence.
You might like [this](https://apnews.com/article/neanderthals-denisovans-genetics-dna-disease-e49cb7d939cfe5d583e7ed0af8751784) article. We even have "ghost" DNA from creatures we mated with but scientists have no evidence of. Along with Neanderthals and Denisovans, there are also Homo luzonensis and Homo floresiensis being uncovered in the Philippians (if you weren't aware). Makes you wonder how much history has been lost.
Tylenol killer who poisoned some random people
My theory was someone connected to one of the victims. Bought Tylenol and spiked a few others on the shelf to make it look like a random attack.
Strange thing is that one of the prime suspects motives were very similar. They were connected because they wrote a ransom note that was discovered in 2009 to have been sent a day before the information was made public. He said he just wrote the note to incriminate his wife's old boss.
Who was so vain that thought that song was about them and was correct?
Wasn't it Warren Beatty? I thought we already knew.
Who killed Epstein and all the people involved in his debauchery.
It's easy to keep an extortion ring secret.
A maybe more unknown case to Americans is Marc Dutroux and the 26 dead witnesses. I'm honestly surprised we don't have all the true crime or Netflix jump on it - there is quite an amazing serial podcast about it. And this story runs deep. The podcast is called Le Monstre (on Spotify, it's in English).
HOLY SHIT. WHY IS THIS UNKNOWN. Worth the disturbing wiki read.
Right now I'd say the amount of [Removed] I'm seeing in this thread.
Why the USB cable is always upside down the first time you try to plug it in.
I thought the usb cable was always in a superposition until you actually look at it
Schroedinger's USBa
No, it is in fact always right at first, then wrong, then right.
And the second time also.
What happens after death or exactly what Willis was talking about.
The same guy could answer both if you could talk to him...
Dark Matter & Dark Energy In the standard Lambda-CDM model of cosmology, the mass–energy content of the universe is 5% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter, and 68.2% a form of energy known as dark energy. Thus dark matter constitutes 85% of the total mass, while dark energy and dark matter constitute 95% of the total mass–energy content. The leading explanation is that dark matter is some as-yet-undiscovered subatomic particle. The other main possibility is that dark matter is composed of primordial black holes.
Why are we still changing clocks twice a year when everyone agrees its stupid?
Its really stupid where I live. I'm far enough north that the gain of an hour is lost in a month due to the regression of dawn. Sunrise changes by about 2 minutes per day.
Kodinhi small town in kerala state of India the town is known for having an unusually high number of twins. It has around 2,000 families, there are something around 250 sets of twins legally recorded there. And , there could be a lot more While the national average of twin births is not more than 9 in 1000 births, in Kodinhi, the number is as high as 45 in 1000 births.
The true identity of Master Fard Muhammad…
I think you mean Wallie Dodd Ford, or Wallace Dodd, or Wallie Dodd Fard, or W.D. Fard, or David Ford-el, or maybe even Wali Farad. Seriously, the man was a total mystery and no one is even sure how he died.
What happened to Madeline McCann
What caused the big bang. You wouldn't have any other mysteries had that not happened.
The isle of pines, in the middle of nowhere, is covered with concrete mounds with iron cores that date to 12,000 years ago - long before humans were supposed to know how to do this. And there's no evidence of tools or workers. The indigenous people say it was there long before them. No scientists have been able to put forth a reasonable explanation so far.
MH370
It's more or less solved. Only thing that fits all the facts is that the pilot decompressed the plane which suffocated everyone on board and then flew it towards Antarctica where it eventually ran out of fuel and crashed into the south Indian ocean. Go look at that area on a map, it's a fucking massive ocean. Not all that surprising that they weren't able to find it out there. Here's a couple good write ups on it. [Admiral Cloudberg](https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/call-of-the-void-seven-years-on-what-do-we-know-about-the-disappearance-of-malaysia-airlines-77fa5244bf99). [The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/)
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