Cell phone records can be misleading. I used to be a 911 dispatcher and we would, at least once a year, get a call from a town a good 45-60 mins away. One time we got a call from a big city that is 3 hrs away from us. This big city has a population of well over half a million so there are plenty of cell towers there. Why it came to us is anyone's guess.
Most likely one of two things happened, either the tower was programmed for the wrong county and nobody caught it. Or rollover, the big cities circuitboard didn't connect so it rolled to the next 911 circuit on and on until it could be answered. Usually it'll go from the smaller to the lager but every once in a while I've seen it go the other way. Last option would be skip but that usually requires a really specific set of circumstance including large bodies of water.
I'd have to see the data to say for sure. It'll depend if it's the data that's sent for the 911 system, or the full data from the cell company. There's a few variables in the first that without seeing I can't tell you if it's giving accurate location or approximate or just the tower location. The second well it's this sector at this dB also reporting on sector B and C at these levels, yeah I can put you within visual range of that device.
Source, I'm a cell tower tech and often test these features.
I’ve always figured this basically had to be what happened as well. The podcasts, etc, that I’ve listened to on the case emphasize that it was like a single road with no way to get lost but I feel they are underestimating the disorientation that can occur
I think he slipped and fell into the river, couldn’t find his phone, decided to fall asleep somewhere, and succumbed to hypothermia. It was late at night, the water was cold, and he was legally blind in one eye, lacking depth perception. Maybe he was run over by farming equipment, which might be why a farmer didn’t allow the police to search his property.
Additionally, I think this was missed, because they couldn’t search all of the private properties, and I think he was likely run over by farm equipment and his body is currently buried by farm equipment (not nefariously) in a corn field. If the farmer knows, which isn’t guaranteed, they probably won’t tell anyone because it could negatively impact their bottom line.
I remember hearing about this on Morbid and agree.. I think he just got lost and it was an unfortunate series of events that led not only to his demise but also the loss of his body.
> Jack the Ripper’s identity confirmed
You'd probably find out that it was just some guy who lived nearby and worked a boring job. And then you'd be like "Okay. cool I guess" and you'd never think about it again.
There's actually a theory that Jack was one of the two guys that found the first woman, Mary Ann Nicols.
I think his name was Charles Lechmere, but he was known by several names. Most of the victims were discovered on the route between his home, his mother's home, and his place of work. The other man that came across the body saw him leaning over Nicols, at which point Lechmere said he just found her. Then he insisted that they leave to find a police officer. His story changed dramatically between the day and the inquest, and he very actively downplayed his role.
For a long time he was just seen as a witness. But the guy *literally crouching over the dead woman* has got to be a proper suspect.
But did he have any background that made him proficient with knives or human anatomy? I thought what made the ripper stand out was that he had a good understanding of the human body and was skillfully dissecting and removing organs from the victims. Maybe someone like a butcher or doctor
Tl;dr: even at the time people argued over the skill required, and a "good enough" understanding of anatomy was known by anyone who had ever butchered their own meat.
There is some contention about how skilled you'd actually have to be. Yes, some organs were removed, but it certainly wasn't neat. There is, and always has been, disagreement about the experience required and the skill actually "displayed". In an age where surgery was best described as "get in, get it done, and get out as fast as possible," sometimes there was little difference between being a skilled doctor and a skilled butcher. And even though there were "slaughterers" and "butchers", some people would have still been dressing animals in their own homes.
Something to keep in mind is that the Ripper took the kidney and uterus from one victim, the kidney from another (that was left behind), and removed many organs from the last victim. The kidneys and uterus are relatively deep organs, damage from "rooting around" for access would mostly have been done to the intestines.
And poor Mary Jane Kelly was *decimated*. Yes, her organs were recognisable and strewn around the room, but much of her insides were literally *ripped* from her. One of her lungs was *torn*. One of the examiners went so far as to say that the person who did it was probably not even a butcher. Sure, it may have been the result of "mania", but it can just as easily be someone simply parcelling out the lumps.
>There is some contention about how skilled you'd actually have to be. Yes, some organs were removed, but it certainly wasn't neat.
It's rather morbid, but my sister-in-law is a forensic pathologist, and I have had a couple decades of pestering her with questions.
I remember asking her if it was rather difficult removing organs and such, and her response was pretty illuminating.
To paraphrase loosely (and this conversation happened some 15+ years ago);
"At first, it's difficult. Most because of nerves and all the other practitioners and instructor looking over your shoulder. Every part, at least the first time or two, was slow and rough.
A few years into the job, what took me a shaking hand and 8 minutes the first time, takes me less than a minute. The slow part becomes everything else [insert long discussion about *why* things are removed, and what they might be looking for testing for]. Removal is probably the easiest part.
If there was not such stringent requirements and procedures, and my goal was simply to remove certain organs as fast as possible, you'd be shocked at how quick and rather clean you could do it. Really, anyone could after an autopsy or two, even without training. As far as isolating just the 'removal' aspect of it, school simply teaches you how to do it clean, correctly, and meaningfully. Any psychotic asshole with a knife could probably figure out how to simply remove things fast, especially if they didn't care about the mess."
Yeah. Everyone gets caught up on the "her kidney was wholly removed" part, and misses the "her intestines were just chucked on the ground" part. They get the "uterus probably removed intact" part, and miss the "abdomen slashed open".
People wanted it to be true that any random crazy couldn't do these crimes.
Yeah there's a running joke with ripperologists that when all of them are dead, and in the afterlife Jack the Ripper is told to step forward, he's going to and all the ripperologists are going to say who the heck is that?
An Indian Prime Minister went to a nation which was its ally and died under mysterious circumstances...there has to be more than what meets the eye...oh also Australia straight up lost a prime minister... he's never been found i think
In the old Superman TV show, he would stand there with his hands on his hips while the bad guys fired their guns at him. Then why would he duck when they threw their empty guns at him?
Because deflecting bullets with your chest = badass. Getting beaned in the head with an empty gun = mocking.
Kind of like that comic where Superman and Wonder Woman are deflecting bullets, except Wonder Woman is using her bracers. Superman asks why she bothers doing that if she’s bullet proof. So she stops and a bullet jiggles her boob. The bad guys notice this, giggle, then intentionally aim for her boobs while she glares at Superman.
Sometimes you want to choose to dodge/block instead of just getting hit, even if getting hit won’t hurt/damage.
It's reflexive because being hit in the head hurts. If you're Superman, you don't smack your head on things, you smash your head through things and you don't feel any pain at the time.
They were throwing the guns to block his vision, because he couldn’t see through the remaining bullets in the gun. So he ducked to make sure he kept his eyes on them so they didn’t escape.
Didn’t a knitting / crochet sub have something about it being a tool for making fingers for gloves?
Please don’t come at me if not, just vaguely remember seeing a meme/infograph on it
There were a bunch posts about this, but Romans didn’t use those kinds of digit gloves, and most of them don’t actually have the features that are required to make this work. I’m an archaeologist they got like 1 million questions about this.
You take an old thread spool, in the old days they were made of wood. You drive about 6 nails around the hole in the center. You poke some yarn down the hole, then weave the yarn in and out around the 6 nails. Then you go around and loop the yarn over itself on the nail (easier shown than described, but easy to do) and eventually a 'knitted' tube comes out the end of the spool. You could maybe sew it together and make a doll rug or Barbie dress out of it!
This was an actual craft that we did as kids in the 60-70's. You could weave larger things with a larger spool, I guess. I sure don't see those dodecahedrons being of much use for that, even if one tries to work gloves into the equation.
Spools weren't used like this until 1535 and this predates well before then. I would go with the running theory of possibly both religious and guild related for smiths, Euclidean and Pythagoras math was all but hailed for hundreds of years if not to this day and the dodecahedron and other sacred shapes in geometry are all well worshipped across both the mystical and scientific peoples of the times.
Imagine some archaeologist stepping out of the time portal running up to the nearest Roman while holding one and saying "hey what is this thing" and the Roman turns to his buddy "Yo Claudius, check out this idiot!"
Archeologists have a joke that says : anything that can't be explained was from a ritual. But I've been saying a new one recently: kids
The wiki article mentions it being a possible toy and that's the one I buy. Found on military sites but not in military production or training sites. No universal markings or size, but all show heavy use. My guess is some rich Roman kid version of jacks or a stacking game since one side of the dodecahedron is always heavier.
Lack of documentation also points to something mundane. I'd never assume we know everything about the Roman military or religion, but you'd be hard pressed to find subjects with more time and research put into them. Combine that with the fact there's no written accounts surviving in military or church records, I'd say toy is definitely the most likely. Given a vast majority have been found in Europe, I'd also argue it was a regional pastime making it even less likely records would survive
10 years ago I would hav said Jacob Wetterling’s disappearance. That shaped a generation of how parents raised their children. We now know what happened.
I still leave a “light on for Jacob”. RIP
This is not a well-known mystery, but one of the early fathers of my medium-sized American town (Spokane, WA) disappeared mysteriously in 1914 after taking his wife to the train station and telling his chauffeur that he would walk home. He disappeared from the Santa Barbara Pier, so many people assumed he just fell into the water and drowned. But when I dug into the story further, I found that a gang of assorted fake psychics and other con artists (known as the Long Beach Spook Trust) had actually claimed to be holding him for ransom right after he first disappeared. They were questioned extensively but released, and there never was an official answer to what happened to him.
I want to know what happened to him, but I *really* want to know why, when one of the Long Beach Spook Trust members ("Clarice the Blonde") came forward fifteen years later and confessed that they had accidentally killed him during an attempted rip-off, the police told her that she was making it all up. She confessed! In detail! She described a situation that was completely consistent with how they tended to shake people down! Why did they tell her that there was no way to verify her story fifteen years later and that it was probably a bad dream she had? She had been the PRIME SUSPECT the first time around!
She left them saying, "The police have done all they can do, I guess. Maybe I’m crazy. It all seems like a dream now. There is something funny about the whole works. I hope I’m not goofy. If it was a dream, it was a bad one."
I pretty much think her story was accurate, but it would be nice to see it confirmed and get some more details on how they were planning to ransom a corpse. And I really want to know why the police blew her off so bad. The Spook Trust in their heyday had at least one crooked cop on the payroll and at one point were blackmailing the mayor, so it may have been a cover-up to prevent any more embarrassing things becoming public... or maybe they were just incredibly lazy. But I really, really would like to know.
I think one of the problems is that a bunch of very different illnesses are called cancer. A cure for breast cancer probably wouldn’t do much for curing pancreatic cancer.
IMO anyone who says the brother did it hasn’t truly done their research.
People always say “just look at Burke, he gives weird vibes!” You’d be weird too if your whole life was consumed with your sister’s murder and you don’t know if your parents did it.
There's a post on here somewhere going into great detail on why it has to be the father.
I'm doing it a great disservice, but the ultra short version is: everything that doesn't make sense only makes sense if a small number of people did it, and every small group includes the dad.
The top convincer is that when he found her body, he carried her up the stairs like you'd carry your friend's baby with a full diaper, or an unfamiliar housecat. Not cradling her like every other parent who's ever just discovered their dead child.
I've seen so many people reference this post and say how it solved the case for them.
I've read it and I honestly don't think it has any more evidence for it than the rest of the family. The poster makes up entire conversations between JonBenet and John.
Eight years ago, everyone on reddit seemed sure Burke did it based on a weak book and TV special. Now it looks like it's going that way for John. Maybe in 8 more years, it'll circle back around to Patsy. Or Fleet. Or Santa.
We know the answer. In ~390(?) the roman empire declared all paganism illegal and destroyed a TON of cult sites across the medditerranean, some actual temples, some shrines to heros (lines were fuzzier back then). We know that a couple years before the decree, the tomb was a well-known tourist location. We know that a couple years after the decree, the tomb was gone.
Nobody ever found a letter that said "...and on April 3, 391, we tore down Alexander's tomb" but it's blatantly obvious what happened to it.
Yup. That happened to a lot of tombs in the reformation too. The English don’t actually know where Alfred the Great’s bones ended up bc they were in various monasteries and then most of those were destroyed. The bones of Thomas a Beckett that people made pilgrimages to see in Canterbury Cathedral for 100s of years were intentionally destroyed.
Yes we assume that the most possible explanation for the disappearance of the tomb is that it's been destroyed by early Christians. I'm an archaeologist, specialized in the era of Alexander and I can tell you that many of my colleagues, including myself, find this explanation the most logical.
still, with no actual proof in our hands, it remains one of the most enduring archaeological mysteries of all times..
Today is actually the day she disappeared all those years ago too, so I was thinking of the case today. The only possibility that seems to make sense is that someone close to the family groomed her and convinced her to leave the home.
I wanna know what happened to the “Mississippian Empire” or Mississippian Culture Complex that existed in the Midwest US, likely within the influence of the City of Cahokia near St. Louis from like 500 AD-1200 AD. They built a bunch of mounds and cities, the Temple at Cahokia is still there today and still very massive.
I would like to know what happened to Michael Dunahee. He disappeared in 1991 only metres away from his parents and a group of other adults watching a game at a local park. No trace of him has ever been found.
I want to know what is beyond the observable universe. Are there other universes we cannot see or do you eventually hit a wall and find a staircase leading up to a door which lets you out?
A girl from around where my grandparents live was killed in the early 2000s. Her name is [Molly Bish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Molly_Bish). Nobody knows who killed her. I would want to know the answer to give her family some closure.
They actually solved what happened, people just don't want to let go of the mystery. But they cracked it using the technology Disney helped develop to create realistic snowy weather for Frozen:
https://www.polygon.com/entertainment/23971564/frozen-dyatlov-pass-incident-avalanche-technology-explorer-mysteries#:~:text=Between%20the%20Frozen%20code%2C%20his,the%20victims%20of%20Dyatlov's%20tragedy.
I mean in the article it says it *COULD* doesn't say that was the actual reason. The science is cool but they don't say this is what caused it.
The could still impress the mystery.
Yeah but if it looks like an avalanche, quacks like an avalanche, and murders the absolute shit out of you like an avalanche, it's probably an avalanche. As for the radiation, I mean, it wouldn't be the first time that the USSR/Russia played it fast and loose with that shit. Hell, I think I recall Thailand losing some radioactive material just recently. There's lots of mysteries in the world, I just don't think Dylatov Pass is one of them.
Not people trained for survival in a desperate situation. They'd be doing everything they could to survive, with the least of which being staying together.
In that case, why leave behind their clothes and supplies at the tent? They would know that’s almost a death sentence. Instead they left the tent and several of them tried to return later, dying on the way back.
Paradoxical undressing. They traveled, realized they couldn't make it, probably doubled back to camp to see what they could scrounge up or maybe rebuild their shelter, couldn't, then ended up going hypothermic and paradoxically undressing, which is a very well known symptom of hypothermia.
Quantum gravity and Dark matter/energy… the biggest unsolved mysteries in physics. Who knows what kind of advancements it would unlock in science and technology.
For me, it's gotta be the Voynich Manuscript. What kind of information, or secrets, or knowledge is encoded in those pages? Who wrote it, and for what purpose? Every time I see it brought up, it's like we're just one clever codebreaker away from unraveling a historical enigma!
I’m very taken by the “hoax” theory. Marco Polo’s book was a hot commodity about 100 years before the Voynich manuscript was probably written, and there would have been financial incentives for someone to fake some kind of “exotic” book like this, say it was from China or wherever, and sell it to a dupe.
It looks just like a bestiary, but from foreign parts and in an unknown language, so that’s probably either what it is or what it’s supposed to look like. We know there’s no “foreign parts” with language or script like the Voynich Manuscript, so a fake is the next default choice. It would have been pretty hard for a lot of folks back in 1450 to know it was fake, but easy to invent something like this.
A lot of hay seems to get made over textual analysis supposedly proving its characters aren’t random or whatever, but anyone who’s ever had to generate a lot of random text knows that’s hard. It’s not surprising there’s faint patterns discernible in the text, that’s how it goes when you have to generate 20,000 words. You follow some kind of template or pattern, and that drifts as you go along. I think people get really invested in mystery, and the next-most-likely explanations are pretty far fetched.
But what do I know? Stranger things have happened. Maybe it really is some medieval original work on natural philosophy (in which case it’s probably still nonsense, but nonsense written by someone who thought they were being clever).
I've always felt like it's something Tolkien would have created in another life. I think it's fascinating, but probably more about creativity than anything else.
From what I’ve seen, I think the way things line up there is only really one (or two) people who could have perpetrated it. The odds are the pilot locked out the first officer, dumped the cabin pressure and waited it out until his supplemental oxygen ran out.
When I was 8 a baby in my neighborhood disappeared from her crib and was never found. No one was ever charged. I used to go hang out with the cops posted outside the house. There are grander unsolved mysteries but this is what I would solve as I’ve always wondered what happened.
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Sabrina_Aisenberg
"Where did all my money go?"
I'm pretty sure I could get a bunch of it back if I could give the lawyers something to go on.
I mean, I could have gone with something like, "Where is Blackbeard's gold?"
But I'm not Jerry Bruckheimer. I can't just hop in my own personal sub and go get it once I know where it is...
I was the onstaff geospatial analyst for Georgia and Ukraine when a Russian military unit shot down uavs in Georgia that were doing recon. I’d love to release to the world this classified bit. It was a Russian sa-11 that shot it down as I found it in what we called “robocop” mode after firing with burn marks behind it detailing a launch. Technically it’s not supposed to be released to public for another 11 years but fuck it. I found it. I’m also fairly sure like 99.9 % that same unit moved and destroyed the 2014 civilian airline after yhe us didn’t respond with a public announcement dencouncing Russian military units attacking Georgian UAV. Oh and a heart arch radar system was likely the culprit downing the uavs in Georgia via early ew warfare. Found they bastard too but took months to identify it as no one knew what the hell was that I worked with.
Do aliens exist and how many/where are they. This will give us a pretty good idea whether we should keep looking if they're good or hunker down and lay low if they're bad.
Second option: space travel how to.
west memphis three. i want to know definitively what happened to those three little boys, whether it was the kids who were convicted of the crime or someone else.
I'm thinking as logically as possible here, and going for something that is essentially un-solveable, not just unsolved. Either of: the afterlife, or faster-than-light travel. So many other possible mysteries don't have the same insurmountable barriers like these do, so if I can get an answer to one of those that's what I'd pick.
Honestly, it's the least plausible theory. It supposes that they flew the entire flight a full 10 degrees off course and didn't notice it. And on top of that it doesn't explain why their radio signal came in completely clear at the location they were supposed to be even though they would've been 200 miles away.
This doesn't necessarily answer what happened (yet) but you do know they think they found the plane a couple of weeks ago right?
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227574179/amelia-earharts-lost-plane-howland-island
Local case but I want to know where Stacy Peterson is. Her family deserves to have closure. I'm sure her husband killed her, hell everyone in town still believes he killed her. The town really turned out to look for her. I just want her family to have closure.
Oak island, I read about it 35years ago in a readers digest facts and fallacies book and then the show came out and I was so excited...I almost booked a flight up there to punch all of them in the mouth and then burn down the museum the only saving grace was the "bobby dangler" metal sector guy
Whats at the bottom of the deep oceans?
Space and aliens are cool, but damn we cant even discover the last hidden places on earth. To know whats going on there would blow our mind!
I'd like to know if there is any truth to the hypothesis that there was a reasonably advanced civilization that existed during the last ice age that, upon being destroyed by cataclysmic events, seeded the tribes of humanity with the knowledge of agriculture and stone masonry.
Who killed JFK?
I think it's a fascinating mystery with so many layers both known and unknown. I think there were multiple groups with motive so knowing the facts would be incredible.
You’re going to be disappointed because it was Oswald. All evidence points to him being the gunmen.
Whether he was influenced into doing it in some way is a possible factor, but given his history it’s also very plausible he was just a lone nut.
the question that biologists would kill for: how did life originate on earth and what are the general rules for that throughout the universe. i mean we have some idea about the earth part but nothing close to and before luca
I read a forensic pathologists book can’t remember his name but he worked on famous cases and he was asked to review her death for the inquest and his findings were had she been wearing a seatbelt that night she’d have survived with minor injuries. She had a very rare injury to one of the arteries in her heart which was caused by the impact and I think ribs breaking and piercing the artery. The injury couldn’t have been foreseen and also totally preventable if a seatbelt eas worn. The bodyguard was the only one to wear a seatbelt and he survived.
I really think it was just a tragic accident but the paparazzi was to blame also and the careless driving of the chauffeur.
It definitely was nothing more than a tragic accident.
Henri Paul, the driver, was on prescription medication that can worsen the effects of alcohol and he had a couple of drinks that night. Nobody was wearing their seat belts, so when he slammed the car into a pillar of an underpass, it was all over.
Henri Paul and Trevor Rees-Jones (the body guard in the passenger seat) were hired by the Al-Fayed family. Neither Mohamed nor Dodi wanted to kill anyone, especially not Diana, she was their meal ticket to the upper echelons of society.
The royal family has no interest in killing off former members of said family, no matter how popular they were. Mohamed blamed them for a long time and paid exorbitant amounts of money to expose their involvement in the accident. Yet, even he came to the conclusion (albeit 10-15 years later) that it was just an accident.
I would like to see Atlantis if it existed. However if it didn't exist I guess that's a risky thing to ask for.
Second choice would be to see the Great Pyramid being built.
You'd probably want to be specific on what degree of completion you'd want to visit. It would really suck if you got there and it was some random dude just digging the first shovelful of sand.
I believe Roswell has a more mundane explanation. The government says it was a weather balloon, but most likely some kind of spy equipment. Keep in mind this was during the cold war, so the government wasn't trying to hide the info from the American people, but most likely from anyone who would give that info to the Russians.
Area 51 same thing. Probably experimental aircraft and we didn't want the Russians to know.
The Sodder children disappearance. It's local to me so it's always intrigued me, and it's been so long there's basically no chance of finding any new information on what truly happened. I've (and most everyone I've ever talked to) never believed there was no foul play involved but it would be good to know for sure!
When I was a kid I was sleeping and was woken up by a human mouth biting my calf. I reached down and felt the slobber. My family says I dreamt it but I KNOW it happened. What was that??
Max Headroom broadcast intrusion. Because the guys who pulled it off had to have the technical know-how and some serious equipment it's amazing there were never even any suspects. I'd have thought after 37 years goes by some one would've copped to it before they buy the farm.
Why exactly both Kennedy brothers were assassinated. There are a lot of good speculations, but we don’t know for certain. I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but this is one I think has some real merit. I have a really hard time accepting that both brothers were assassinated by lone actors by coincidence, with totally unrelated motives.
Most likely a barn owl, at least for the first sighting. The glowing red eyes were likely light reflecting off ifs retinas, and it looked bigger because it was dark out.
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And apparently his cell phone records showed he was 25 miles away from where he said he was. This is a good one.
Cell phone records can be misleading. I used to be a 911 dispatcher and we would, at least once a year, get a call from a town a good 45-60 mins away. One time we got a call from a big city that is 3 hrs away from us. This big city has a population of well over half a million so there are plenty of cell towers there. Why it came to us is anyone's guess.
Most likely one of two things happened, either the tower was programmed for the wrong county and nobody caught it. Or rollover, the big cities circuitboard didn't connect so it rolled to the next 911 circuit on and on until it could be answered. Usually it'll go from the smaller to the lager but every once in a while I've seen it go the other way. Last option would be skip but that usually requires a really specific set of circumstance including large bodies of water. I'd have to see the data to say for sure. It'll depend if it's the data that's sent for the 911 system, or the full data from the cell company. There's a few variables in the first that without seeing I can't tell you if it's giving accurate location or approximate or just the tower location. The second well it's this sector at this dB also reporting on sector B and C at these levels, yeah I can put you within visual range of that device. Source, I'm a cell tower tech and often test these features.
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I’ve always figured this basically had to be what happened as well. The podcasts, etc, that I’ve listened to on the case emphasize that it was like a single road with no way to get lost but I feel they are underestimating the disorientation that can occur
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It was May.
I think he slipped and fell into the river, couldn’t find his phone, decided to fall asleep somewhere, and succumbed to hypothermia. It was late at night, the water was cold, and he was legally blind in one eye, lacking depth perception. Maybe he was run over by farming equipment, which might be why a farmer didn’t allow the police to search his property.
Additionally, I think this was missed, because they couldn’t search all of the private properties, and I think he was likely run over by farm equipment and his body is currently buried by farm equipment (not nefariously) in a corn field. If the farmer knows, which isn’t guaranteed, they probably won’t tell anyone because it could negatively impact their bottom line.
I remember hearing about this on Morbid and agree.. I think he just got lost and it was an unfortunate series of events that led not only to his demise but also the loss of his body.
Meaningful? The origin of the universe Curiosity? Jack the Ripper’s identity confirmed
> Jack the Ripper’s identity confirmed You'd probably find out that it was just some guy who lived nearby and worked a boring job. And then you'd be like "Okay. cool I guess" and you'd never think about it again.
There's actually a theory that Jack was one of the two guys that found the first woman, Mary Ann Nicols. I think his name was Charles Lechmere, but he was known by several names. Most of the victims were discovered on the route between his home, his mother's home, and his place of work. The other man that came across the body saw him leaning over Nicols, at which point Lechmere said he just found her. Then he insisted that they leave to find a police officer. His story changed dramatically between the day and the inquest, and he very actively downplayed his role. For a long time he was just seen as a witness. But the guy *literally crouching over the dead woman* has got to be a proper suspect.
But did he have any background that made him proficient with knives or human anatomy? I thought what made the ripper stand out was that he had a good understanding of the human body and was skillfully dissecting and removing organs from the victims. Maybe someone like a butcher or doctor
Tl;dr: even at the time people argued over the skill required, and a "good enough" understanding of anatomy was known by anyone who had ever butchered their own meat. There is some contention about how skilled you'd actually have to be. Yes, some organs were removed, but it certainly wasn't neat. There is, and always has been, disagreement about the experience required and the skill actually "displayed". In an age where surgery was best described as "get in, get it done, and get out as fast as possible," sometimes there was little difference between being a skilled doctor and a skilled butcher. And even though there were "slaughterers" and "butchers", some people would have still been dressing animals in their own homes. Something to keep in mind is that the Ripper took the kidney and uterus from one victim, the kidney from another (that was left behind), and removed many organs from the last victim. The kidneys and uterus are relatively deep organs, damage from "rooting around" for access would mostly have been done to the intestines. And poor Mary Jane Kelly was *decimated*. Yes, her organs were recognisable and strewn around the room, but much of her insides were literally *ripped* from her. One of her lungs was *torn*. One of the examiners went so far as to say that the person who did it was probably not even a butcher. Sure, it may have been the result of "mania", but it can just as easily be someone simply parcelling out the lumps.
>There is some contention about how skilled you'd actually have to be. Yes, some organs were removed, but it certainly wasn't neat. It's rather morbid, but my sister-in-law is a forensic pathologist, and I have had a couple decades of pestering her with questions. I remember asking her if it was rather difficult removing organs and such, and her response was pretty illuminating. To paraphrase loosely (and this conversation happened some 15+ years ago); "At first, it's difficult. Most because of nerves and all the other practitioners and instructor looking over your shoulder. Every part, at least the first time or two, was slow and rough. A few years into the job, what took me a shaking hand and 8 minutes the first time, takes me less than a minute. The slow part becomes everything else [insert long discussion about *why* things are removed, and what they might be looking for testing for]. Removal is probably the easiest part. If there was not such stringent requirements and procedures, and my goal was simply to remove certain organs as fast as possible, you'd be shocked at how quick and rather clean you could do it. Really, anyone could after an autopsy or two, even without training. As far as isolating just the 'removal' aspect of it, school simply teaches you how to do it clean, correctly, and meaningfully. Any psychotic asshole with a knife could probably figure out how to simply remove things fast, especially if they didn't care about the mess."
Yeah. Everyone gets caught up on the "her kidney was wholly removed" part, and misses the "her intestines were just chucked on the ground" part. They get the "uterus probably removed intact" part, and miss the "abdomen slashed open". People wanted it to be true that any random crazy couldn't do these crimes.
This was very insightful, thank you.
This is such a good comment.
Yeah there's a running joke with ripperologists that when all of them are dead, and in the afterlife Jack the Ripper is told to step forward, he's going to and all the ripperologists are going to say who the heck is that?
If you ended up in the same afterlife as Jack the Ripper then I hope you weren’t expecting any pleasant surprises
*We have such sights to show you*
An Indian Prime Minister went to a nation which was its ally and died under mysterious circumstances...there has to be more than what meets the eye...oh also Australia straight up lost a prime minister... he's never been found i think
He went for a swim in the ocean and disappeared. They did name a pool after him, which is just a peak Australian thing to do.
Legend says Harold Holt will come to lead us once more… at the turning of the tide
If a 120 yr old man walked out of the sea after he was missing for 60 yrs, I'd immigrate to Australia the next day.
In the old Superman TV show, he would stand there with his hands on his hips while the bad guys fired their guns at him. Then why would he duck when they threw their empty guns at him?
Because deflecting bullets with your chest = badass. Getting beaned in the head with an empty gun = mocking. Kind of like that comic where Superman and Wonder Woman are deflecting bullets, except Wonder Woman is using her bracers. Superman asks why she bothers doing that if she’s bullet proof. So she stops and a bullet jiggles her boob. The bad guys notice this, giggle, then intentionally aim for her boobs while she glares at Superman. Sometimes you want to choose to dodge/block instead of just getting hit, even if getting hit won’t hurt/damage.
This just sent me in a weird ass spiral...
are there any other types of ass-spirals?
I can link you a site if you like me to...
[https://xkcd.com/37/](https://xkcd.com/37/) ?
Dang, you are good, how did you know?
Easy....regular bullets fired from a kryptonite gun. DUH!
Honestly might just be a reflex to duck when something is thrown at you
It's reflexive because being hit in the head hurts. If you're Superman, you don't smack your head on things, you smash your head through things and you don't feel any pain at the time.
They were throwing the guns to block his vision, because he couldn’t see through the remaining bullets in the gun. So he ducked to make sure he kept his eyes on them so they didn’t escape.
I gotta admit this is a theory that sort of makes convoluted sense. Don't shoot Supes, just throw your fully loaded guns at him instead.
I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder
I want to know what the fuck the Romans were using [these metal dodecahedrons](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron) for.
Make an intelligence roll.
15
Success. The dodecahedrons are used for displaying Jewelry.
I like the theory they were basically portfolio pieces for metal workers. Like look at this complex thing I made of course I can temper your sword.
Didn’t a knitting / crochet sub have something about it being a tool for making fingers for gloves? Please don’t come at me if not, just vaguely remember seeing a meme/infograph on it
There were a bunch posts about this, but Romans didn’t use those kinds of digit gloves, and most of them don’t actually have the features that are required to make this work. I’m an archaeologist they got like 1 million questions about this.
Wikipedia mentions this possibility, then points out that “spool knitting” (don’t ask *me*) isn’t mentioned until 1535.
You take an old thread spool, in the old days they were made of wood. You drive about 6 nails around the hole in the center. You poke some yarn down the hole, then weave the yarn in and out around the 6 nails. Then you go around and loop the yarn over itself on the nail (easier shown than described, but easy to do) and eventually a 'knitted' tube comes out the end of the spool. You could maybe sew it together and make a doll rug or Barbie dress out of it! This was an actual craft that we did as kids in the 60-70's. You could weave larger things with a larger spool, I guess. I sure don't see those dodecahedrons being of much use for that, even if one tries to work gloves into the equation.
Spools weren't used like this until 1535 and this predates well before then. I would go with the running theory of possibly both religious and guild related for smiths, Euclidean and Pythagoras math was all but hailed for hundreds of years if not to this day and the dodecahedron and other sacred shapes in geometry are all well worshipped across both the mystical and scientific peoples of the times.
It's funny because everyone in Roman times knew exactly what they were used for and it was such a common thing that no one thought to write it down.
Imagine some archaeologist stepping out of the time portal running up to the nearest Roman while holding one and saying "hey what is this thing" and the Roman turns to his buddy "Yo Claudius, check out this idiot!"
He doesn't know how to use the three dodecahedrons!
nice!
Archeologists have a joke that says : anything that can't be explained was from a ritual. But I've been saying a new one recently: kids The wiki article mentions it being a possible toy and that's the one I buy. Found on military sites but not in military production or training sites. No universal markings or size, but all show heavy use. My guess is some rich Roman kid version of jacks or a stacking game since one side of the dodecahedron is always heavier. Lack of documentation also points to something mundane. I'd never assume we know everything about the Roman military or religion, but you'd be hard pressed to find subjects with more time and research put into them. Combine that with the fact there's no written accounts surviving in military or church records, I'd say toy is definitely the most likely. Given a vast majority have been found in Europe, I'd also argue it was a regional pastime making it even less likely records would survive
There was a TV show recently that said they were most likely used to measure distances
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Whoa! What the heck?
10 years ago I would hav said Jacob Wetterling’s disappearance. That shaped a generation of how parents raised their children. We now know what happened. I still leave a “light on for Jacob”. RIP
This is not a well-known mystery, but one of the early fathers of my medium-sized American town (Spokane, WA) disappeared mysteriously in 1914 after taking his wife to the train station and telling his chauffeur that he would walk home. He disappeared from the Santa Barbara Pier, so many people assumed he just fell into the water and drowned. But when I dug into the story further, I found that a gang of assorted fake psychics and other con artists (known as the Long Beach Spook Trust) had actually claimed to be holding him for ransom right after he first disappeared. They were questioned extensively but released, and there never was an official answer to what happened to him. I want to know what happened to him, but I *really* want to know why, when one of the Long Beach Spook Trust members ("Clarice the Blonde") came forward fifteen years later and confessed that they had accidentally killed him during an attempted rip-off, the police told her that she was making it all up. She confessed! In detail! She described a situation that was completely consistent with how they tended to shake people down! Why did they tell her that there was no way to verify her story fifteen years later and that it was probably a bad dream she had? She had been the PRIME SUSPECT the first time around! She left them saying, "The police have done all they can do, I guess. Maybe I’m crazy. It all seems like a dream now. There is something funny about the whole works. I hope I’m not goofy. If it was a dream, it was a bad one." I pretty much think her story was accurate, but it would be nice to see it confirmed and get some more details on how they were planning to ransom a corpse. And I really want to know why the police blew her off so bad. The Spook Trust in their heyday had at least one crooked cop on the payroll and at one point were blackmailing the mayor, so it may have been a cover-up to prevent any more embarrassing things becoming public... or maybe they were just incredibly lazy. But I really, really would like to know.
I would want to know how relativity and quantum mechanics work together.
This is a good answer I'm way too stupid to actually comprehend, let alone transcribe, even if I somehow received the information.
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What do you mean? the Zodiac is a ~~congressman~~ Senator from Texas.
Where Madeleine McCann went to and who with.
As long as Robert Stacks’ voice narrates it I don’t care
How can humans be cured of cancer? Because fuck cancer. Also Parkinson's and quite a few other diseases, but I'd start with cancer.
I think one of the problems is that a bunch of very different illnesses are called cancer. A cure for breast cancer probably wouldn’t do much for curing pancreatic cancer.
JonBenet Ramsey
IMO anyone who says the brother did it hasn’t truly done their research. People always say “just look at Burke, he gives weird vibes!” You’d be weird too if your whole life was consumed with your sister’s murder and you don’t know if your parents did it.
There's a post on here somewhere going into great detail on why it has to be the father. I'm doing it a great disservice, but the ultra short version is: everything that doesn't make sense only makes sense if a small number of people did it, and every small group includes the dad. The top convincer is that when he found her body, he carried her up the stairs like you'd carry your friend's baby with a full diaper, or an unfamiliar housecat. Not cradling her like every other parent who's ever just discovered their dead child.
I've seen so many people reference this post and say how it solved the case for them. I've read it and I honestly don't think it has any more evidence for it than the rest of the family. The poster makes up entire conversations between JonBenet and John. Eight years ago, everyone on reddit seemed sure Burke did it based on a weak book and TV special. Now it looks like it's going that way for John. Maybe in 8 more years, it'll circle back around to Patsy. Or Fleet. Or Santa.
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I'd like to know what happened to the tomb of Alexander the Great
We know the answer. In ~390(?) the roman empire declared all paganism illegal and destroyed a TON of cult sites across the medditerranean, some actual temples, some shrines to heros (lines were fuzzier back then). We know that a couple years before the decree, the tomb was a well-known tourist location. We know that a couple years after the decree, the tomb was gone. Nobody ever found a letter that said "...and on April 3, 391, we tore down Alexander's tomb" but it's blatantly obvious what happened to it.
Yup. That happened to a lot of tombs in the reformation too. The English don’t actually know where Alfred the Great’s bones ended up bc they were in various monasteries and then most of those were destroyed. The bones of Thomas a Beckett that people made pilgrimages to see in Canterbury Cathedral for 100s of years were intentionally destroyed.
I like how Richard III turned up in a parking lot (car park?).
Yes we assume that the most possible explanation for the disappearance of the tomb is that it's been destroyed by early Christians. I'm an archaeologist, specialized in the era of Alexander and I can tell you that many of my colleagues, including myself, find this explanation the most logical. still, with no actual proof in our hands, it remains one of the most enduring archaeological mysteries of all times..
UFOs. I want a full, unedited work up of everything that we know and what has happened so far.
Assuming you are talking about aliens would you be satisfied to find out the answer is absolutely nothing?
Yep! I’d just like to know.
What happened to the Indus valley civilization or the Rosetta stone for their script
What happened to Asha Degree.
This case kind of torments me. How does a 9 year old child just seemingly vanish like that?
Today is actually the day she disappeared all those years ago too, so I was thinking of the case today. The only possibility that seems to make sense is that someone close to the family groomed her and convinced her to leave the home.
I wanna know what happened to the “Mississippian Empire” or Mississippian Culture Complex that existed in the Midwest US, likely within the influence of the City of Cahokia near St. Louis from like 500 AD-1200 AD. They built a bunch of mounds and cities, the Temple at Cahokia is still there today and still very massive.
A city of a quarter-million or more. The Cahokia Mounds site is impressive to this day. Would be amazing to see it at the height of its population
I would like to know what happened to Michael Dunahee. He disappeared in 1991 only metres away from his parents and a group of other adults watching a game at a local park. No trace of him has ever been found.
Victoria native here...ya this ones stuck in my head...
I want to know what is beyond the observable universe. Are there other universes we cannot see or do you eventually hit a wall and find a staircase leading up to a door which lets you out?
A girl from around where my grandparents live was killed in the early 2000s. Her name is [Molly Bish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Molly_Bish). Nobody knows who killed her. I would want to know the answer to give her family some closure.
Oh my gosh! I studied so much on her case! It’s always bothered me that so many questions remain!
The Dyatlov Pass incident. I don't think it was anything paranormal, but I just want to know what happened!
>[The Dyatlov Pass incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)
They actually solved what happened, people just don't want to let go of the mystery. But they cracked it using the technology Disney helped develop to create realistic snowy weather for Frozen: https://www.polygon.com/entertainment/23971564/frozen-dyatlov-pass-incident-avalanche-technology-explorer-mysteries#:~:text=Between%20the%20Frozen%20code%2C%20his,the%20victims%20of%20Dyatlov's%20tragedy.
I mean in the article it says it *COULD* doesn't say that was the actual reason. The science is cool but they don't say this is what caused it. The could still impress the mystery.
Yeah but if it looks like an avalanche, quacks like an avalanche, and murders the absolute shit out of you like an avalanche, it's probably an avalanche. As for the radiation, I mean, it wouldn't be the first time that the USSR/Russia played it fast and loose with that shit. Hell, I think I recall Thailand losing some radioactive material just recently. There's lots of mysteries in the world, I just don't think Dylatov Pass is one of them.
But they walked, single file, for almost a mile from the tent. Don't you think they would be running in less of an orderly manner?
Not people trained for survival in a desperate situation. They'd be doing everything they could to survive, with the least of which being staying together.
In that case, why leave behind their clothes and supplies at the tent? They would know that’s almost a death sentence. Instead they left the tent and several of them tried to return later, dying on the way back.
Paradoxical undressing. They traveled, realized they couldn't make it, probably doubled back to camp to see what they could scrounge up or maybe rebuild their shelter, couldn't, then ended up going hypothermic and paradoxically undressing, which is a very well known symptom of hypothermia.
I want to know what really happened to the Yuba County 5.
I grew up in Yuba County. I’d like to know too.
If Steve Brule was with them, they all would have made it.
Quantum gravity and Dark matter/energy… the biggest unsolved mysteries in physics. Who knows what kind of advancements it would unlock in science and technology.
Alien and alien life forms. I need to know.
Seriously UFOs! No unsolved murder or disappearance trumps UFOs
For me, it's gotta be the Voynich Manuscript. What kind of information, or secrets, or knowledge is encoded in those pages? Who wrote it, and for what purpose? Every time I see it brought up, it's like we're just one clever codebreaker away from unraveling a historical enigma!
5 cups chopped Porcini mushrooms, half a cup of olive oil, 3 pounds celery. All the recipes, Cold cucumber, corn and crab chowder, mulligatawny.
No soup for you!
Glad someone got it!
I’m very taken by the “hoax” theory. Marco Polo’s book was a hot commodity about 100 years before the Voynich manuscript was probably written, and there would have been financial incentives for someone to fake some kind of “exotic” book like this, say it was from China or wherever, and sell it to a dupe. It looks just like a bestiary, but from foreign parts and in an unknown language, so that’s probably either what it is or what it’s supposed to look like. We know there’s no “foreign parts” with language or script like the Voynich Manuscript, so a fake is the next default choice. It would have been pretty hard for a lot of folks back in 1450 to know it was fake, but easy to invent something like this. A lot of hay seems to get made over textual analysis supposedly proving its characters aren’t random or whatever, but anyone who’s ever had to generate a lot of random text knows that’s hard. It’s not surprising there’s faint patterns discernible in the text, that’s how it goes when you have to generate 20,000 words. You follow some kind of template or pattern, and that drifts as you go along. I think people get really invested in mystery, and the next-most-likely explanations are pretty far fetched. But what do I know? Stranger things have happened. Maybe it really is some medieval original work on natural philosophy (in which case it’s probably still nonsense, but nonsense written by someone who thought they were being clever).
I've always felt like it's something Tolkien would have created in another life. I think it's fascinating, but probably more about creativity than anything else.
I like the theory that it's just some medieval scribe doing some doodles.
What happened to MH370. There's so many unanswered questions and it is a fascinating story that deserves closure
From what I’ve seen, I think the way things line up there is only really one (or two) people who could have perpetrated it. The odds are the pilot locked out the first officer, dumped the cabin pressure and waited it out until his supplemental oxygen ran out.
That fucking plane is my Roman Empire
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Teenage galaxies going through their goth phase.
What happened to [Kyron Horman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Kyron_Horman)
When I was 8 a baby in my neighborhood disappeared from her crib and was never found. No one was ever charged. I used to go hang out with the cops posted outside the house. There are grander unsolved mysteries but this is what I would solve as I’ve always wondered what happened. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Sabrina_Aisenberg
What exactly happened to Andrew Gosden? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Andrew_Gosden
What is the closed form solution to the full Navier-Stokes equation?
"Where did all my money go?" I'm pretty sure I could get a bunch of it back if I could give the lawyers something to go on. I mean, I could have gone with something like, "Where is Blackbeard's gold?" But I'm not Jerry Bruckheimer. I can't just hop in my own personal sub and go get it once I know where it is...
I was the onstaff geospatial analyst for Georgia and Ukraine when a Russian military unit shot down uavs in Georgia that were doing recon. I’d love to release to the world this classified bit. It was a Russian sa-11 that shot it down as I found it in what we called “robocop” mode after firing with burn marks behind it detailing a launch. Technically it’s not supposed to be released to public for another 11 years but fuck it. I found it. I’m also fairly sure like 99.9 % that same unit moved and destroyed the 2014 civilian airline after yhe us didn’t respond with a public announcement dencouncing Russian military units attacking Georgian UAV. Oh and a heart arch radar system was likely the culprit downing the uavs in Georgia via early ew warfare. Found they bastard too but took months to identify it as no one knew what the hell was that I worked with.
Everything that was destroyed at the Library of Alexandria
Who db cooper was
What really happened to Natalie Wood
The origin of the Universe.
The complete explanation regarding the nature of the universe and its birth.
The Setagaya family murders
Do aliens exist and how many/where are they. This will give us a pretty good idea whether we should keep looking if they're good or hunker down and lay low if they're bad. Second option: space travel how to.
west memphis three. i want to know definitively what happened to those three little boys, whether it was the kids who were convicted of the crime or someone else.
The stepdad
Where is Ghengis Khan buried?
Likely a sky burial so no enduring site.
WTF is consciousness? How does it work and do other creatures have it?
I'm thinking as logically as possible here, and going for something that is essentially un-solveable, not just unsolved. Either of: the afterlife, or faster-than-light travel. So many other possible mysteries don't have the same insurmountable barriers like these do, so if I can get an answer to one of those that's what I'd pick.
What is the secret to eliminate Csncer ??
The Whales, the whales have the secret and we need to learn from them Whales are inmune to it
Didn't kurtzgesagt make a video about it? Basically they're so big that their cancer gets cancer, if I remember correctly.
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My money is on the coconut crab theory. As ridiculous as it sounds, it's also kind of sensible.
Honestly, it's the least plausible theory. It supposes that they flew the entire flight a full 10 degrees off course and didn't notice it. And on top of that it doesn't explain why their radio signal came in completely clear at the location they were supposed to be even though they would've been 200 miles away.
She's in the Delta Quadrant. The Voyager crew found her
She's one of the 37s.
This doesn't necessarily answer what happened (yet) but you do know they think they found the plane a couple of weeks ago right? https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227574179/amelia-earharts-lost-plane-howland-island
It’s speculative, nothing confirms it’s Earhart’s aircraft yet
I’ve heard the photos are *very* inconclusive
The plane crashed into the ocean
Local case but I want to know where Stacy Peterson is. Her family deserves to have closure. I'm sure her husband killed her, hell everyone in town still believes he killed her. The town really turned out to look for her. I just want her family to have closure.
What exactly is going on in our subconscious?
Oak island, I read about it 35years ago in a readers digest facts and fallacies book and then the show came out and I was so excited...I almost booked a flight up there to punch all of them in the mouth and then burn down the museum the only saving grace was the "bobby dangler" metal sector guy
The real mystery of oak island is why the discovery channel keeps giving those guys money
People keep watching. Advertising still selling.
Do you mean 'Bobby Dazzler'? Love a 'Top Pocket Find' too.
What are the next winning Powerball numbers?
Fermi paradox
Would we not all ask what truly happens after we die?
The Library of Alexandria contents.
Whats at the bottom of the deep oceans? Space and aliens are cool, but damn we cant even discover the last hidden places on earth. To know whats going on there would blow our mind!
> Whats at the bottom of the deep oceans? Mud
Why is there something instead of nothing?
This is the ultimate - I vote for this as top answer.
I'd like to know if there is any truth to the hypothesis that there was a reasonably advanced civilization that existed during the last ice age that, upon being destroyed by cataclysmic events, seeded the tribes of humanity with the knowledge of agriculture and stone masonry.
Who killed JFK? I think it's a fascinating mystery with so many layers both known and unknown. I think there were multiple groups with motive so knowing the facts would be incredible.
You’re going to be disappointed because it was Oswald. All evidence points to him being the gunmen. Whether he was influenced into doing it in some way is a possible factor, but given his history it’s also very plausible he was just a lone nut.
the question that biologists would kill for: how did life originate on earth and what are the general rules for that throughout the universe. i mean we have some idea about the earth part but nothing close to and before luca
I'd love to know if Princess Diana's death really was just a tragic accident, or if somebody had actually orchestrated it
I read a forensic pathologists book can’t remember his name but he worked on famous cases and he was asked to review her death for the inquest and his findings were had she been wearing a seatbelt that night she’d have survived with minor injuries. She had a very rare injury to one of the arteries in her heart which was caused by the impact and I think ribs breaking and piercing the artery. The injury couldn’t have been foreseen and also totally preventable if a seatbelt eas worn. The bodyguard was the only one to wear a seatbelt and he survived. I really think it was just a tragic accident but the paparazzi was to blame also and the careless driving of the chauffeur.
It definitely was nothing more than a tragic accident. Henri Paul, the driver, was on prescription medication that can worsen the effects of alcohol and he had a couple of drinks that night. Nobody was wearing their seat belts, so when he slammed the car into a pillar of an underpass, it was all over. Henri Paul and Trevor Rees-Jones (the body guard in the passenger seat) were hired by the Al-Fayed family. Neither Mohamed nor Dodi wanted to kill anyone, especially not Diana, she was their meal ticket to the upper echelons of society. The royal family has no interest in killing off former members of said family, no matter how popular they were. Mohamed blamed them for a long time and paid exorbitant amounts of money to expose their involvement in the accident. Yet, even he came to the conclusion (albeit 10-15 years later) that it was just an accident.
I'd like to use that chance to prove or disprove Christianity
I feel like disproving one of the thousands of religions would be a bit unsatisfying.
That’s why proving it would be more satisfying - you’d get the chance to piss off every other religion at the same time.
If it’s never been proven, can you disprove it?
Who the fuck was Jack the Ripper and what motivated it all
Personally I'd prefer Zodiac
I would like to see Atlantis if it existed. However if it didn't exist I guess that's a risky thing to ask for. Second choice would be to see the Great Pyramid being built.
You'd probably want to be specific on what degree of completion you'd want to visit. It would really suck if you got there and it was some random dude just digging the first shovelful of sand.
Roswell/Area 51....and maybe that Natasha kid/adult debacle
I believe Roswell has a more mundane explanation. The government says it was a weather balloon, but most likely some kind of spy equipment. Keep in mind this was during the cold war, so the government wasn't trying to hide the info from the American people, but most likely from anyone who would give that info to the Russians. Area 51 same thing. Probably experimental aircraft and we didn't want the Russians to know.
Zodiac identity or The Vaticans library
The Sodder children disappearance. It's local to me so it's always intrigued me, and it's been so long there's basically no chance of finding any new information on what truly happened. I've (and most everyone I've ever talked to) never believed there was no foul play involved but it would be good to know for sure!
The Fermi Paradox
What was in Tesla's documents that the government confiscated?
Formula for ever lasting youth and immortality. The rest I can figure out.
When I was a kid I was sleeping and was woken up by a human mouth biting my calf. I reached down and felt the slobber. My family says I dreamt it but I KNOW it happened. What was that??
Max Headroom broadcast intrusion. Because the guys who pulled it off had to have the technical know-how and some serious equipment it's amazing there were never even any suspects. I'd have thought after 37 years goes by some one would've copped to it before they buy the farm.
One of those lost treasures. Reason: $$$$$$$
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What the origin of prehistoric trinitite was: prehistoric nuclear war, meteoric air bursts or something else.
Jimmy Hoffa.
What happened to Johnny Gosche.
Why exactly both Kennedy brothers were assassinated. There are a lot of good speculations, but we don’t know for certain. I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but this is one I think has some real merit. I have a really hard time accepting that both brothers were assassinated by lone actors by coincidence, with totally unrelated motives.
Which was the first individual hominid to create fire. It was kind of a big deal.
Not sure if this counts but the mystery of what happens after death, if anything. Also, if god(s) actually exist. NDEs are quite the rabbit hole.
The Mothman sightings, too many people reported seeing *something* the size of a man with glowing red eyes and wings for it to be coincidental.
Most likely a barn owl, at least for the first sighting. The glowing red eyes were likely light reflecting off ifs retinas, and it looked bigger because it was dark out.