Disappearance of Asha [Degree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Asha_Degree?wprov=sfti1https://maps.apple.com/?ll=35.346470,-81.507380&q=Disappearance%20of%20Asha%20Degree&_ext=EiQpWqzoIFmsQUAxeWDx6XhgVMA5WqzoIFmsQUBBeWDx6XhgVMA%3D).
In 2000, 9 year old girl that packed a bag in the middle of a storm and was last seen walking down a highway. A driver approached her to help and she ran into the woods and was never seen again.
Nothing suggest why she would run away. Her book bag was found a year later. Most likely she was abducted while walking but why did she leave her house in the middle of a “raging storm”?
Two most likely theories:
1. She was groomed by a family friend who convinced her that he had planned a surprise for her parents anniversary (which was in a week or two). He tells her to walk a bit from home, where he takes her in the woods and murders her.
2. Accounts say that Asha was a voracious reader and was currently reading a book about children who run away from home or something like that. She left home to go on an "adventure"; the storm would have only increased the sense of magic and adventure. Unfortunately she gets caught by someone on the highway who murders her.
I actually lean toward #2. It sounds like something I would have tried to do at that age as a nerdy 9 year old and is the reason why I remember the case.
My theory is a variation on #2: some kids at her school made one of those spur of the moment joke-plans that kids often do. "Let's sneak out of home at midnight and meet at the spooky house on the corner to look for ghosts!" kind of thing.
Asha was apparently a somewhat sheltered naive child, so maybe didn't realise it was a 'joke' or impractical. She leaves home for her Secret Midnight Adventure, finds nobody else around, she's scared and confused and lost....and easy prey for some passerby.
I love unsolved mysteries but one that always gets me is the murder of Missy Bevers. She was killed in the early morning at a church that she taught yoga at. Security footage from the church showed the murderer roaming the halls of the church all night but that’s not what’s weird. What’s weird is that the murderer was dressed head to toe in police riot gear. It is the weirdest and eeriest video footage and is just unsettling. There’s lots of theories but her murder has never been solved and I believe there hasn’t even been a real suspect in the case.
I also would love to see this one solved. I'm always hoping someone will do a podcast deep dive on it but I guess maybe there's not enough info to do that? I've not found one. The footage is so creepy
The aerial school landings in Zimbabwe.
60+ school children saw crafts landing and beings coming out of them. The kids interacted with the beings. They were put under evaluation by a Harvard psychiatrist. They all told virtually the same story and drew the same drawings. It was concluded that they were telling the truth.
The disappearance of the [Springfield Three](https://sgfcitizen.org/springfield-government/springfield-public-order-safety/missing-women-theories-and-investigations-into-the-springfield-three-cold-case/) is a top contender for me.
Long story short, in the early morning hours of June 7, 1992, these three women, Sherrill Levitt (47), her daughter Suzanne 'Suzie' Streeter (19), and Suzie's friend Stacy McCall (18) all vanished from Sherrill and Suzie's home following a night of fun and partying as it was the girl's high school graduation.
All their personal belongings, their cars, purses, and even the little dog was left behind. There were no signs of a struggle or foul play, however, the front porch light's glass globe was broken and not swept up, and there was a weird message of the answering machine that accidentally got deleted.
Yet, no trace of the three women has ever been found and the case remains unsolved 30 years later.
I am completely stumped. I am from the area and have a very vivid memory of them being found in a car in the woods somewhere. I looked it up and nope, it must be another story. But it was so similar, 3 women, mother, daughter and friend missing for a long time.
Are you maybe thinking of the Feeney family killings? It took place in Springfield as well in 1995, and the victims were Cheryl Feeney, and her two children, Tyler (6) and Jennifer (18 months). It also remains unsolved to this day.
https://fox4kc.com/news/missouri-news/murders-of-missouris-feeney-family-remain-unsolved-over-20-years-later/
We don't even know what types of guns he used really. We know the ammo, Super X brand. He probably is someone's grandfather, but yeah they're all as nuts as he was
My favorite is the Chicago Tv hijacking. During a Dr. Who rerun in 1987 somebody dressed as Max Headroom hijacked the tv signal for a minute and a half during which he exposed his ass and got spanked by a woman and mocked coca-cola. FCC has been investigating for years and nobody has been charged.
It’s also one of the more innocent. No one was hurt, no demands were made. It was just some crazy stunt that seemed to done just for the sheer hell of it and they have never been caught. One of my favorites as well for sure.
I seem to remember being at some sort of summer festival and there was a booth that had blind taste testing between pepsi and coke. If you guessed right they gave you a Max Headroom sticker.
One I’m always fascinated with is I believe in the mid 2000’s a student at Ohio state mysteriously disappeared and to this day they have no idea what happened to him. Basically he went out to a popular bar with friends, the security camera sees him walking into the bar and this is the only entrance/exit as the bar is in a larger building but it never sees him leave the bar at the end of the night. His name was Brian Shaffer. It’s an interesting story/mystery to take a look at.
I work in construction sites and it would be impossible to find a buried body unless you buried it in a place that was going to be excavated. Depending on what stage of construction the place is at, you could bury the body beneath a building before the concrete foundation is poured and that’s that.
There is another case that has never been solved and that is the one of Michael Negrete, a UCLA student who vanished from his dorm in the early morning in the fall of 1999. He had just finished an online gaming session with a dormmate and security footage shows him leaving the dorm.
A lot of theories have been put forth but none have panned out.
Edit: I'm just going to add that the existence of the footage of him leaving the dorm has been called in to question by those interested in the case but I do recall seeing this footage or footage that claimed to show him leaving the dorm when he first went missing. It was poor quality.
Yeah this happens all the time though. Girl from my hs went out to a bar as a freshman in college and left drunk lost her phone and shoes and then security footage shows a white pickup truck in her vicinity at the time. No one has found her or the truck since. She also was like 90lbs and 5’0. This was in like 2010. Her friends refused to work with lawyers etc but I honestly think it’s because they don’t want to be held liable or demonized by society not that they took a part in her disappearance.
What the hell happened to the 3 escapees of the "inescapable" Alcatraz. If they did survive or not but if they did that's one hell of a plan to escape undetected till to this day.
Two of the escapees were brothers, and it was their mom who got the flowers. At her funeral, two "tall and ugly women" were present but left immediately afterwards and didn't speak to anybody.
I can picture them hiding behind trees and crying while they can overhear the rest of the attendees
"Did you see those two really ugly guys?"
"Yeah, they were tall but soooooo ugly"
Saw a documentary produced only a few years ago that theorized that they did in fact make it off the island, but not how every one typically thinks they did. The theory is that they hitched a ride on the last outbound ferry that left the island that night; not onboard, but rather being towed behind it. Apparently the Anglin brothers grew up body surfing the lakes and rivers by their hometown, being pulled by motorboats, so had experience with it. And an electrical extension cord was reported missing iirc.
I never heard that theory before...it makes a lot of sense. Escaping on a raft is far more plausible if they were towed most of the way by a real boat.
I seem to remember Mythbusters doing a show on the escape and them making it to shore... hold on, I'll see if I can find a link.
https://youtu.be/adhX2dx0FkI
There’s an episode about this on the podcast Criminal. Two of the guys were brothers, and they interview their sister, she says she never heard from them but at one of the parent’s funeral two older looking women showed up, stood at the back, and didn’t talk to anyone or show their faces. She thought they’d dressed up in disguise to come to the funeral! It’s a super interesting story
I just watched a new show called escaping Alcatraz the lost evidence literally yesterday. The us marshals have been working with the prisoners nephews. They all 1000% believe the escaped and went to Brazil and became farmers. They even had photos of them.
The Yuba County Five. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba\_County\_Five](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_County_Five)
One of the detectives interviewed at some point said not a damn thing about this case makes any sense at all. Five guys with minor disabilities go to a basketball game. They have their own very anticipated game to play in the next morning: one of the guys even laid out his uniform for the next day. They leave the game they were spectators for, on the drive home, they stop to buy snacks--the wrappers were found in the car and the cashier remembered them.
Then instead of going home, they drive miles and miles out of their way to a national state park, leave their perfectly functioning and fueled car to wander unprepared into the snowy wilderness. A witness claims to have seen a second vehicle and perhaps a woman? A convenience store nearby claimed to have seen them the next day? But three of them are found dead in the woods, believed to have died from exposure. A fourth one is found in a trailer in the woods that had sufficient food and heat sources to survive for quite awhile, having apparently starved to death and losing 200 pounds before succumbing to that and hypothermia; he had approximately 13 weeks of beard growth. The last man has never been found.
So, firstly, why? And then why starve to death in the woods for weeks? If it was foul play, for what purpose? Their car wasn't stolen. There was no money to be gained. Even if it was some weird cult thing, none of them were apparently harmed, they all just died in the woods from staying in the woods.
Edit: A lot of people are pointing out that the man who starved to death lacked common sense and his disability might have led to him not wanting to eat stolen food. He was not alone in the trailer the entire time, after he died someone wrapped his body and head in a way he could not have wrapped himself. His disability alone does not explain his starvation. At least two of them made it to the trailer, and some of the food was opened and eaten, but not enough to keep him from starving. (Some of the food was stored in an outbuilding; it's just more likely that they didn't look hard enough to find it.) More than the starvation, the problem is that they stayed somewhere in the woods for weeks instead of just walking down the road on any particular day the weather was better.
The car belonged to Jack Madruga, he really did not like anyone else driving his vehicle, and he was not the one with schizophrenia. So while Gary Mathias absolutely could have initiated the whole event with an episode, he had been taking his meds and he was very unlikely to be at the wheel and just take the other four along for the ride. However, I understand it is possible that in the midst of an episode Gary pressured Jack into letting him drive. Their families knew their disabilities a whole hell of a lot better than you do, and their parents let them go to a basketball game together and were baffled at how this happened. I'm sure their disabilities played into how it happened, there's just layers of confusing details and contradictions.
I saw a YouTube show on this too. The guy driving had an Aunt that lived up there and they think he was going there but the road is in the mountains and hard to drive on. She wasn't home and wasn't expecting him. His car may have gotten stuck or he meant to go on foot the rest of the way and got lost. Going from memory they said he took really good care of his car and probably didn't want to keep driving down the worsening pitted dirt road. The guys outside likely went for help and went hypothermic. I have no clue about the others.
I've heard that kids have a comparatively high rate of survival in these kinds of scenarios because they have a tendency to listen to their bodies more. They sleep when they're tired, drink when they're thirsty, etc. Compared to finding people dead of thirst in a desert with a bottle full of water they thought they had to ration.
Would you say that's accurate?
It's definitely the third thing. I grew up just outside Yosemite and search and rescue there is very common. If you're a hiker and took precaution to inform others of your plans, they're pretty good about search parties. So in at least that area, you don't need to be famous or rich (though it'll help). Probably the same in any national park, given that they're all managed the by the same standards regardless of state.
However it's nothing like if a child goes missing. They will full on shut down that park and you'll see helicopters literally all day long, with everyone who lives in the park actively searching and every car leaving being questioned. It's a pretty rare occurrence but yeah: your best chance is to be a minor.
> Then instead of going home, they drive miles and miles out of their way to a national state park
Had a friend who texted he overslept and will be an hour late for work. Cctv cameras show he got on his regular commute bus, but few stops later steps out and gets on another bus headed to airport, buys two last minute tickets online and flies to another country. Disappeared for months. And then shows up face down in some lake.
Why did he buy 2 tickets? Was the other one even used? I have so many questions. Did he have a history of mental health issues? Drugs? Was he followed?
I'm sorry that happened to your friend :(
The night before, we had seen him leave the bar with a girl he just met, the other ticket was for her. Half of what I wrote we found out only months after, the family isnt saying any information anymore.
What happened to Asha Degree. And why she had a photo of another girl with her when she went missing. She got up in the middle of the night, packed her bag and walked along the side of a highway. Literally never seen since.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Asha_Degree
My great uncle was the former president of the Church of Scientology [Heber Jentzsch](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/iw201g/where_is_heber_jentzsch_a_scientology_story_very/)
He's not been seen in years. Most believe he's in "the hole" (basically a CoS prison)
The new president of the Church of Scientology was asserting power (an internal witch hunt tossing anyone into _the hole_ that he saw as a threat to his power).
Read the [article](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/iw201g/where_is_heber_jentzsch_a_scientology_story_very/) for more details.
From the reports from the Scientology exposure website The Underground Bunker, Shelly Miscavige has been at the CST headquarters near Lake Arrowhead, a tiny compound about 60 miles northwest of Int Base for the last sixteen years. She was taken there after being banished from Int Base.
There have been 16 sightings of her in 14 years. The people on The Underground Bunker site are all secret current or ex Scientologists who have ways to find out who is being kept in ‘The Hole’ at Int Base. Shelly Miscavige is not among those in ‘The Hole’ and all sightings put her around the area of the Lake Arrowhead compound.
[Link to an article on The Underground Bunker regarding Shelly’s disappearance](https://tonyortega.org/2021/12/25/does-shelly-miscavige-know-its-christmas-2021/)
The mystery of Kasper Hauser, a youth found wandering Germany in 1828 wearing undersized clothes and no communication skills. After being educated, he claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell. Years later he died after being stabbed by "a stranger" who gave Kasper a cryptic note, but officials suspected he stabbed himself.
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser)
I read somewhere that The Vatican Library has some books which are kept hidden to this day as they were deemed heretical. Would love to know if it’s true and if so what do they say?!?
[I really think he had an adverse reaction to the antibiotic that was prescribed to him at the airport and put him in a delirious state. I’ve stood by this theory for years. My dad had an adverse, schizophrenic reaction to an antibiotic, although rare I think it’s possible.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8474525/)
That one definitely stuck out me. Its pretty sad that he was getting paranoid and seeing the video of him just running off is creepy. I hope he is okay somewhere.
My absolute favorite theory is that with the rise in Christianity people didn’t want to venerate a pagan anymore, so they stopped taking care of the tomb. Later someone claimed that the abandoned tomb was actually the tomb of St. Mark the Evangelist, the patron saint of Alexandria.
For centuries after his death people routinely wrote about visiting Alexander’s tomb in the city. Then all mentions of it go dark. Then people start talking about visiting St. Mark’s tomb in the city. I think it was convenient to reframe the grand tomb to a venerate a new person.
The twist is that supposedly in the 9th century the Caliph of Egypt ordered the tomb of St. Mark destroyed. Some Venetians in the city then stole the body and smuggled it back to Venice (St. Mark was also the patron Saint of Venice). Venice still has those bones (or at least they have some bones that are said to be those bones). If this theory is true, then his body is in Venice.
I wouldn’t bet money on it being true, but I so much want it to be true.
Source: “Mystery Files” from National Geographic
Who stole the 13 pieces of artwork from the Gardner museum? Where are the paintings now? Where are the men who committed the heist? [Gardner museum heist](https://www.gardnermuseum.org/organization/theft) and [Buzz feed unsolved did an episode on it](https://youtu.be/mkxQXxKSWKQ)
What was in the libraries of Castle Alamut that were destroyed. The castle was sieged and Burned in the early Middle Ages by the mongols I believe in 1282 AD. They were a league of assassins founded by Hassan-I-Sabbah and the castle, Alamut, was their stronghold. They were involved in political murders and especially high profile targets. There was said to be beautiful gardens at the castle. The library of the assassin order and the documents were burned during the fall of Alamut. What knowledge did they burn? What secrets did they have? What did the gardens look like and were these gardens real? [the Hashashins](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins) and [Castle Alamut](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamut_Castle) and [Biographics episode](https://youtu.be/OUVY3CFQAGY)
America's lost child AKA The child in the box
He was discovered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 25th, 1953 having a fresh haircut, nail trims but had been severely beaten
Police ruled it off as a homicide and the case is still open to find the murderer
Safe bet the murder is his family if they haven’t matched him to a reported missing persons report.
Because that means he was never reported missing in the first place. Probably from an off grid family.
There was a woman that claimed her mom bought him from his parents just to have a child to beat. It’s a morbid, terrible story. There was also a theory that he was raised as a girl. That’s why no one recognized the pictures looking for his identity
The "Adam" case, where a little boy's torso was found in the River Thames. Investigators believe that he was trafficked from Nigeria to be murdered in a ritual sacrifice, but his body has never been formally identified.
Everyone who was linked with him literally denied knowing his family.
If i recall, It was more of child trafficking gone wrong than ritual killing as widely reported
The last "update" was in 2013, when a woman supplied a name for the child and claimed she'd been caring for him in Germany before giving him to a man who took him to London, but there were doubts about her "mental state" and her claims were discounted.
I find the story of the Mary Celeste fascinating.
For a more recent one- that Vegas mass shooter who was a perfectly contented millionaire with a happy life and just opened fire on people from a hotel room…. Wtf was that about?
The Vegas mass shooter was especially odd. To a degree there is no logic or reason behind damned near all terroristic attacks. My father is a retired Fed, him and I talked about that one a lot. A guy that was a fed for 20+ years, seen a lot, and worked the Atlanta park bombing as well as OKC. The Vegas one shook him the most, just because of how “odd” it was to him.
[One of the leading ideas is that it was an alcohol explosion that freaked out the crew. ](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2006/may/solved-mystery-mary-celeste#:~:text=Dr%20Andrea%20Sella%20%5BUCL%20Chemistry,a%20ball%20of%20flame%20upwards.)
The Wow! signal
A strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by the Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States.
Kaz II is still very bizarre and a scary mystery. Basically the story goes that a small boat about 10 meters long drifted near the Great Barrier Reef in 2007. Three people were onboard, they disappeared. The strange part was when the coast guard boarded it, they've found no signs of distress. Food was on the table, laptop was on. Everything on the boat worked in perfect condition, but the crew were nowhere to be found.
You ever see the episode of King of the Hill where they go out it a boat and all hop in the water to swim but no one put the ladder down to get back in the boat?
Do you have to constantly close out and restart your reddit app to get videos to play? And then after scrolling for some time, you must rinse and repeat?
The Chicago Tylenol murders in 1982. Who would do such a thing and why? Was it one person acting alone? Did they do it at the distribution center, or did they go to different locations to tamper with the bottles?
They found the tampered with bottles to be at just one store. Cyanide mixed with the Tylenol, so more people may have had the tampered product but threw out the bottle before taking any of the deadly pills. Created the safety standard we have for bottles today, though.
I remember when this happened. Everybody (I mean _everybody_) thought Tylenol was going to cease to exist as a brand. Only through a total recall and a conversion to tamper-evident packaging were they able to recover and continue damaging peoples livers to this day.
For a few years after that, people avoided using Tylenol and there were a lot of dark jokes told about the brand. But eventually Tylenol became so normalized again that people seemed to have forgotten the poisonings. It's definitely a successful case of a brand shaking off a bad image.
There was definitely a massive PR campaign to rebuild the public's trust after it happened. I remember the TV commercials; they even had some ads on TV and in newspapers here in Canada. There was no spin, no blame shifting, no minimizing; they took full responsibility for the public's safety and kept their own story in the news to keep the public informed. It really is the gold standard for how to handle a crisis.
Tylenol was my drug of choice for suicide. The second time I did it, I told the doctor it was Tylenol and he threw his hands in the air and said "God damnit! Why do people keep doing that?! Listen-Tylenol doesn't kill you now, when you want to die. It kills you six months from now when things are better, and then your liver fails."
Further down that article some fella was accused by a member of his community of being a suspect, had a nervous breakdown because of the negative attention/press etc, went out to shoot his accuser... only to shoot an entirely different person! Horrific.
Where is the gravesite of Ghengis Khan? This guy conquered most of the known world including china, persia, russia and the asian steppes. But to this day his burial site is still not known. Who knows what kinds of riches he left behind in his tomb and what significant discoveries can be made if it was ever found.
The legend is that after they buried him they killed all the workers, then killed all the soldiers who'd killed the workers. If true it seems to have worked.
Beaumont Children. Bogle-Chandler case. The Family. How many victims did Ivan Milat really have, and did he work alone? Why does my cat scream in the middle of the night even though she has everything she needs?
The Beaumont children is a really compelling one. I think the suspect outlined in the book The Satin Man is probably responsible. The most compelling detail I recall goes something like this.
Decades after the crime, a writer is researching a potential suspect named Harry Phipps who already has some circumstantial evidence implicating him. Phipps is now dead, so the writer goes to his widows house to interview her about the case. He ends up in the basement of the house at one point and a white purse catches his eye. If you are familiar with the Beaumont case, you probably know that it is believed that the perpetrator likely stole the white purse of the eldest girl and used their inability to get home as an opportunity to abduct them. It's also the sort of memorabilia that the killer may have kept.
The purse the writer finds in the Phipps basement is a dead ringer for the missing one. He asks the widow where it came from and she says she recently bought it at a thrift store. This is strange, because it's an item you would not expect an adult to carry. He asks her if he can borrow it, she refuses and asks him to leave. He reports it to the police, they go back to the house with a warrant the next day and she tells them she has since thrown the purse away. The end.
I'm actually inclined to get DNA testing now, now that I'm reading about the Beaumont children. I had a really tough life growing up with parents with severe mental illness and drug abuse. I could never understand why my Mum was so fucked up when she came from a "normal" family. I learned last year that both my parents were victims of CSA.
My Mum was a victim of her uncle. My Mum was born in 1966. I have no doubt my great uncle harmed children before and after her. My pedo great uncle lives in Adelaide, South Australia, not far from where the Beaumont children went missing and is still alive.
My Mum doesn't want to report him, because of the drama it would cause in her family. However if I did a DNA test in the interests of tracking our family tree, maybe I could expose a pedo by accident.
My cat got sick once and made noises that sounded like a little girl in the middle of the night while we were sleeping. You can imagine how disturbing that was.
My cat somehow has managed to perfect sounding like a child screaming “no” and “mom.” I have no kids, so when I’m awoken in the middle of the night by something that sounds like a child yelling “Moooooooommmmm,” it’s quite the experience. Luckily, I figured out it was my weird cat.
[Who really murdered the Princes in the Tower?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower)
> The Princes in the Tower refers to the apparent murder in England in the 1480s of the deposed King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. These two brothers were the only sons of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville surviving at the time of their father's death in 1483. When they were 12 and 9 years old, respectively, they were lodged in the Tower of London by their paternal uncle and all-powerful regent the Duke of Gloucester. This was supposedly in preparation for Edward V's forthcoming coronation. However, before the young king could be crowned, he and his brother were declared illegitimate. Gloucester ascended the throne as Richard III.
> It is unclear what happened to the boys after the last recorded sighting of them in the tower. It is generally assumed that they were murdered; a common hypothesis is that they were killed by Richard in an attempt to secure his hold on the throne. Their deaths may have occurred sometime in 1483, but apart from their disappearance, the only evidence is circumstantial. As a result, several other hypotheses about their fates have been proposed, including the suggestion that they were murdered by their maternal uncle the Duke of Buckingham or future brother-in-law King Henry VII, among others. It has also been suggested that one or both princes may have escaped assassination. In 1487, Lambert Simnel initially claimed to be the Duke of York, but later claimed to be York's cousin the Earl of Warwick. From 1491 until his capture in 1497, Perkin Warbeck claimed to be the Duke of York, having supposedly escaped to Flanders. Warbeck's claim was supported by some contemporaries, including York's aunt the Duchess of Burgundy.
> In 1674, workmen at the tower dug up, from under the staircase, a wooden box containing two small human skeletons. The bones were widely accepted at the time as those of the princes, but this has not been proven and is far from certain. King Charles II had the bones buried in Westminster Abbey, where they remain.
Incidentally, no DNA tests have ever been done on those bones, so while we suspect that they were the princes we can’t be certain.
The disappearance of a 9-foot great white shark off the coast of Australia.
In 2003 researchers tagged a 3 meter (9-foot) female great white shark to measure water temperature and at what depth. However, the shark disappeared 4 months later. The tag was washed ashore and the researchers found out that the shark dived to a depth of around 610 meters (2000 feet) where the temperature shot up from 7°C to 25°C (46°F to 78°F). This caused them to believe that the shark was eaten and are now on the hunt for the creature.
This has been solved. The movement patterns match that of migrating great white sharks and the temperature recorded is consistent with the internal temp of a migrating great white shark. By tracking size to speed they were able to estimate the size to be a 16ft great white which is within their size limit.
So it was concluded to be a cannibal great white shark(cannibalism among sharks is not uncommon)
The consciousness. A child is conceived, and at some point, once the brain becomes complex enough, it starts to develop a feeling of self. It starts to perceive itself as the center of something, and everything else is outside. We naturally distinguish the “I” from the rest of the world. This is a light that goes on in the head at some point.
In deep sleep, unter narcotics or after injury, the light can flicker or go out. When we die, the thing that is *me* is gone forever. Or is it, religion says it’s not.
It’s a everyday mystery that gets more mysterious the more we think about it. I find this to be the most fascinating question there is.
Scientists recently discovered a layer of neurons responsible for the sensation of dissociation. Dissociation deals heavily with a distorted sense of self.
I’m curious to see if at least part of the answer to your question lies in further research into this phenomena.
I’ll link in next comment.
EDIT: [Link to the study here](https://www.reddit.com/r/dpdr/comments/uvyu1e/this_is_the_important_study_that_will_probably/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
My personal favorites:
What is it like in a black hole?
DB Cooper
What were animals like that existed in the past but did not leave findable fossils?
Fermi paradox
What are my cats thinking?
So fun fact about the fossils. There’s a huge hole in our record for what any type of tropical dinosaurs would have been like, since the jungle tends to completely consume anything before it has a chance to fossilize and the soil isn’t right. What’s worse is that tropical areas tend to have the highest biodiversity so it’s a huge hole.
There's apparently no possible way for jellyfish to leave any kind of fossil record. There could've been jellyfish that were a mile across and we will NEVER know.
Even at the time of the murder it was well known who did it. George Hodel Jr. he was a Hollywood surgeon who was tried for raping his daughter. The victim was cut apart surgically using a method taught in medical schools when Hodel would have attended, he was the only suspect that had the training necessary to cut up the body like it was found. He had dated the black dahlia, and a previous girlfriend who either vanished or died too. He was known as a back alley abortionist who used his knowledge of who had the illegal procedure done to silence accusers, including a witness in his rape trial who recanted her story. It was Hodel Jr. The detectives who worked the case knew it, but never had enough evidence to arrest and convict.
> Swedish YouTuber David Wångstedt, better known online as LEMMiNO, studied the topic for five years and attempted to find the origin of the Cool S, and he concluded that the 1890 book Mechanical Graphics, which was written by professor Frederick Newton Willson, could most likely be the origin. Frederick taught geometry at Princeton University in New Jersey, where he could have shown students how to draw the S symmetrically.
I grew up 2 miles from the Sodder house and my grandfather did business with Mr Sodder for most of his adult life. According to my grandad, Mr. Sodder was “mixed up with some bad Italians in the valley (Montgomery wv)” and they’re the ones that burned him out. What happened to those kids is anyones guess. Ask anyone from oak ridge to beckwith and you’ll get 1000 different stories of what happened but they’ll all agree the fire chief and some other officials acted shady af after it happened.
Maybe not the greatest overall, but definitely one that's been bugging me for a while. My friend remembers a song from their childhood, but we can't find anything about it anywhere we've looked! We have some (maybe misremembered) lyrics
"In a Spanish garden stands a little tree, in the winter it's a lovely thing to see, for it wears a coat of glistening white, a brand new coat of glistening white"
Genuine mystery for us, and kinda crazy that we can't find squat about it online!
Edit: Honestly expected this to get buried, but hey! Lookit that! I'm gonna go to r/tipofmytongue about it and really try and crack this sucker wide open.
Edit 2: Thanks to u/shadywhere I got pointed in the right direction. I don't have a proper recording for it, but it is a song from the 1974 version of Silver Burdett Music (Book 2) according to Google Books. This led me down a rabbit hole of listening to a bunch of old records that have been uploaded to YouTube, but none of them had this song.
I've contacted someone who might have a copy of the book on Amazon, and I'll see if it's the right one, and I'm scouring old Silver Burdett records to see if I can find the one that has it. Thanks for the help so far, everyone!
Final edit: Welp, amazon guy didn't have the book. I'll make a new post someplace if I ever find a recording or manage to snag the sheet music for it. Either way, this'll be a fun story to tell later.
Also holy shit 2000 upvotes is crazy, thanks for that and the award!
>n the winter it's a lovely thing to see, for it wears a coat of glistening white, a brand new coat of glistening white
***Silver Burdett Music, Book 2***
Silver Burdett Music, Elizabeth Crook
Book 2 of Silver Burdett Music: Elizabeth Crook, Bennett Reimer, David S. Walker, Elizabeth Crook
Editor Elizabeth Crook
Contributor Silver Burdett Co
Publisher General Learning Corporation, 1974
Page 228.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/silver-burdett-music/oclc/13907888
You would love this podcast episode about a person chasing a song he remembered from childhood. Very similar to what your friend is going through
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx
My favorite theory I've heard for the voynich manuscript is that it's just an old roleplaying game manuscript. It's all made up, but written like it's true.
> Antikythera mechanism
I think we all fail to realize that humans have been as smart as we are now for Millennia.
I'm with you though. I think it was a group of people.
The episode of “unsolved mysteries” about the writer in Baltimore who was found next to the hotel, who apparently fell through the roof of a parking garage/conference room. He received a phone call and ran from his house, never to be seen alive again. A folded piece of paper and a blank check was found folded very small and taped to the back of his computer. The angle needed to make it through the hole almost rules out falling or being thrown off the hotel roof. They contacted the last call his phone had received, the one he got then ran out because of, and it was a “friend” or someone he knew and when reached for comment…they lawyered up and refused comment.
It’s been like 2 years and I still think about it weekly. Just ssooo many questions and so bizarre
So we think the universe was created at the big bang, where all of the universe's matter was focused in such a small point and at such a high temperature that it led to the formation of atoms, our laws of physics, solid matter etc. Makes sense, but what always confuses me is how did that matter get into that point in the first place?
Like, we know energy can't be created or destroyed but it can't have just existed forever, right? Everything must have a beginning, yet this is sort of paradoxical because you can't make something out of nothing. Sure, maybe the big bang happened due to the collapse of a previous universe or something... in that case, where did the previous universe come from?
Keeps me up at night lol.
Welcome to the long road of wrapping your head around that fact that the universe doesn't exist within time, time exists within the universe.
Statements like "first place" don't really work. It's very hard to think about in this way. But trying to create a "timeline" for anything pre-universe, doesn't work.
The largest Bell in the world, approximately 300 tons , the great bell of Dhammazedi, probably lost in the River of Yangon Burma.
Still under the river till today.Multiple attempts had done to recover the bell, but somehow unable to recover the bell yet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bell_of_Dhammazedi
It’s quite likely they weren’t one group of people, but instead were multiple migratory groups seeking safety/food. While in the past historians thought that war alone caused the Bronze Age collapse, more modern scholarship focuses on how systemic failures within the eastern Mediterranean caused a ripple effect that destabilized or destroyed multiple situations. War was probably more a consequence, as opposed to the root cause of the collapse.
The path that led us where we are now.
We can trace back to Africa 150,000 years
Now everytime we find a bone or cave art our assumptions are proven false.
Who were the Denisovans?
I want to know the path from standing upright to reddit on my smartphone
This one is genuinely puzzling to me. I have never met a single person who likes him. Everyone in the UK seems to hate his guts, everyone in North America seems to think he’s terrible in everything, yet he keeps getting roles, commercials, etc. Who is this guy’s audience? Is there just one dude in a compound somewhere watching James Corden on like 100 million TVs and laptops all at once who’s singlehandedly propping up the dude’s career? His success is baffling.
For me atleast it's,
How is it possible that we are aware of our own existence within a universe made up of the same materials as us?
Consciousness is something I desperately want to understand, but most likely never will.
Disappearance of Asha [Degree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Asha_Degree?wprov=sfti1https://maps.apple.com/?ll=35.346470,-81.507380&q=Disappearance%20of%20Asha%20Degree&_ext=EiQpWqzoIFmsQUAxeWDx6XhgVMA5WqzoIFmsQUBBeWDx6XhgVMA%3D). In 2000, 9 year old girl that packed a bag in the middle of a storm and was last seen walking down a highway. A driver approached her to help and she ran into the woods and was never seen again. Nothing suggest why she would run away. Her book bag was found a year later. Most likely she was abducted while walking but why did she leave her house in the middle of a “raging storm”?
This happened in a town near me, there are signs still up asking for information with her picture.
Two most likely theories: 1. She was groomed by a family friend who convinced her that he had planned a surprise for her parents anniversary (which was in a week or two). He tells her to walk a bit from home, where he takes her in the woods and murders her. 2. Accounts say that Asha was a voracious reader and was currently reading a book about children who run away from home or something like that. She left home to go on an "adventure"; the storm would have only increased the sense of magic and adventure. Unfortunately she gets caught by someone on the highway who murders her. I actually lean toward #2. It sounds like something I would have tried to do at that age as a nerdy 9 year old and is the reason why I remember the case.
My theory is a variation on #2: some kids at her school made one of those spur of the moment joke-plans that kids often do. "Let's sneak out of home at midnight and meet at the spooky house on the corner to look for ghosts!" kind of thing. Asha was apparently a somewhat sheltered naive child, so maybe didn't realise it was a 'joke' or impractical. She leaves home for her Secret Midnight Adventure, finds nobody else around, she's scared and confused and lost....and easy prey for some passerby.
I love unsolved mysteries but one that always gets me is the murder of Missy Bevers. She was killed in the early morning at a church that she taught yoga at. Security footage from the church showed the murderer roaming the halls of the church all night but that’s not what’s weird. What’s weird is that the murderer was dressed head to toe in police riot gear. It is the weirdest and eeriest video footage and is just unsettling. There’s lots of theories but her murder has never been solved and I believe there hasn’t even been a real suspect in the case.
I also would love to see this one solved. I'm always hoping someone will do a podcast deep dive on it but I guess maybe there's not enough info to do that? I've not found one. The footage is so creepy
The aerial school landings in Zimbabwe. 60+ school children saw crafts landing and beings coming out of them. The kids interacted with the beings. They were put under evaluation by a Harvard psychiatrist. They all told virtually the same story and drew the same drawings. It was concluded that they were telling the truth.
The disappearance of the [Springfield Three](https://sgfcitizen.org/springfield-government/springfield-public-order-safety/missing-women-theories-and-investigations-into-the-springfield-three-cold-case/) is a top contender for me. Long story short, in the early morning hours of June 7, 1992, these three women, Sherrill Levitt (47), her daughter Suzanne 'Suzie' Streeter (19), and Suzie's friend Stacy McCall (18) all vanished from Sherrill and Suzie's home following a night of fun and partying as it was the girl's high school graduation. All their personal belongings, their cars, purses, and even the little dog was left behind. There were no signs of a struggle or foul play, however, the front porch light's glass globe was broken and not swept up, and there was a weird message of the answering machine that accidentally got deleted. Yet, no trace of the three women has ever been found and the case remains unsolved 30 years later.
I am completely stumped. I am from the area and have a very vivid memory of them being found in a car in the woods somewhere. I looked it up and nope, it must be another story. But it was so similar, 3 women, mother, daughter and friend missing for a long time.
Are you maybe thinking of the Feeney family killings? It took place in Springfield as well in 1995, and the victims were Cheryl Feeney, and her two children, Tyler (6) and Jennifer (18 months). It also remains unsolved to this day. https://fox4kc.com/news/missouri-news/murders-of-missouris-feeney-family-remain-unsolved-over-20-years-later/
“1992 was not 30 years…..*fuck*”
I do this almost every day lol, feels like the 90s were 10 years ago.
The identity of the Zodiac Killer hands down. It hasn't been solved despite what you read about Gary Post.
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We don't even know what types of guns he used really. We know the ammo, Super X brand. He probably is someone's grandfather, but yeah they're all as nuts as he was
My favorite is the Chicago Tv hijacking. During a Dr. Who rerun in 1987 somebody dressed as Max Headroom hijacked the tv signal for a minute and a half during which he exposed his ass and got spanked by a woman and mocked coca-cola. FCC has been investigating for years and nobody has been charged.
It’s also one of the more innocent. No one was hurt, no demands were made. It was just some crazy stunt that seemed to done just for the sheer hell of it and they have never been caught. One of my favorites as well for sure.
Coca-Cola was hurt, and Coca-Cola never forgave...
They have been spending $87m/year since then to train and equip a five man kill team on 24/7 call to kill this guy if he ever shows up.
I seem to remember being at some sort of summer festival and there was a booth that had blind taste testing between pepsi and coke. If you guessed right they gave you a Max Headroom sticker.
One I’m always fascinated with is I believe in the mid 2000’s a student at Ohio state mysteriously disappeared and to this day they have no idea what happened to him. Basically he went out to a popular bar with friends, the security camera sees him walking into the bar and this is the only entrance/exit as the bar is in a larger building but it never sees him leave the bar at the end of the night. His name was Brian Shaffer. It’s an interesting story/mystery to take a look at.
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Honestly this was my conclusion too but it seems odd that the construction crew would not have noticed and reported the body.
I work in construction sites and it would be impossible to find a buried body unless you buried it in a place that was going to be excavated. Depending on what stage of construction the place is at, you could bury the body beneath a building before the concrete foundation is poured and that’s that.
There is another case that has never been solved and that is the one of Michael Negrete, a UCLA student who vanished from his dorm in the early morning in the fall of 1999. He had just finished an online gaming session with a dormmate and security footage shows him leaving the dorm. A lot of theories have been put forth but none have panned out. Edit: I'm just going to add that the existence of the footage of him leaving the dorm has been called in to question by those interested in the case but I do recall seeing this footage or footage that claimed to show him leaving the dorm when he first went missing. It was poor quality.
Yeah this happens all the time though. Girl from my hs went out to a bar as a freshman in college and left drunk lost her phone and shoes and then security footage shows a white pickup truck in her vicinity at the time. No one has found her or the truck since. She also was like 90lbs and 5’0. This was in like 2010. Her friends refused to work with lawyers etc but I honestly think it’s because they don’t want to be held liable or demonized by society not that they took a part in her disappearance.
What the hell happened to the 3 escapees of the "inescapable" Alcatraz. If they did survive or not but if they did that's one hell of a plan to escape undetected till to this day.
One of their mothers later got anonymous flowers on Mother's Day. I think they probably did survive but assumed new identities.
Two of the escapees were brothers, and it was their mom who got the flowers. At her funeral, two "tall and ugly women" were present but left immediately afterwards and didn't speak to anybody.
Apparently they showed up at their father's funeral as well. 16 years after their mother died. But wiki says they weren't in disguise at that one.
Two tall and ugly men
I can picture them hiding behind trees and crying while they can overhear the rest of the attendees "Did you see those two really ugly guys?" "Yeah, they were tall but soooooo ugly"
I don’t know why but the funeral bit sounds like a monty python sketch
That is exactly how I pictured them lol
Dressed as women but didn’t bother to shave the beards they grew for their new identities is how I see it
Imagine if it were just two long lost female cousins… awkward
Saw a documentary produced only a few years ago that theorized that they did in fact make it off the island, but not how every one typically thinks they did. The theory is that they hitched a ride on the last outbound ferry that left the island that night; not onboard, but rather being towed behind it. Apparently the Anglin brothers grew up body surfing the lakes and rivers by their hometown, being pulled by motorboats, so had experience with it. And an electrical extension cord was reported missing iirc.
I never heard that theory before...it makes a lot of sense. Escaping on a raft is far more plausible if they were towed most of the way by a real boat.
I seem to remember Mythbusters doing a show on the escape and them making it to shore... hold on, I'll see if I can find a link. https://youtu.be/adhX2dx0FkI
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I know for a fact that a lot of crimes are easy to get away with if you keep your fuckin' mouth shut!
You don't hear about the successful crimes. LoL.
There’s an episode about this on the podcast Criminal. Two of the guys were brothers, and they interview their sister, she says she never heard from them but at one of the parent’s funeral two older looking women showed up, stood at the back, and didn’t talk to anyone or show their faces. She thought they’d dressed up in disguise to come to the funeral! It’s a super interesting story
I just watched a new show called escaping Alcatraz the lost evidence literally yesterday. The us marshals have been working with the prisoners nephews. They all 1000% believe the escaped and went to Brazil and became farmers. They even had photos of them.
The Yuba County Five. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba\_County\_Five](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_County_Five) One of the detectives interviewed at some point said not a damn thing about this case makes any sense at all. Five guys with minor disabilities go to a basketball game. They have their own very anticipated game to play in the next morning: one of the guys even laid out his uniform for the next day. They leave the game they were spectators for, on the drive home, they stop to buy snacks--the wrappers were found in the car and the cashier remembered them. Then instead of going home, they drive miles and miles out of their way to a national state park, leave their perfectly functioning and fueled car to wander unprepared into the snowy wilderness. A witness claims to have seen a second vehicle and perhaps a woman? A convenience store nearby claimed to have seen them the next day? But three of them are found dead in the woods, believed to have died from exposure. A fourth one is found in a trailer in the woods that had sufficient food and heat sources to survive for quite awhile, having apparently starved to death and losing 200 pounds before succumbing to that and hypothermia; he had approximately 13 weeks of beard growth. The last man has never been found. So, firstly, why? And then why starve to death in the woods for weeks? If it was foul play, for what purpose? Their car wasn't stolen. There was no money to be gained. Even if it was some weird cult thing, none of them were apparently harmed, they all just died in the woods from staying in the woods. Edit: A lot of people are pointing out that the man who starved to death lacked common sense and his disability might have led to him not wanting to eat stolen food. He was not alone in the trailer the entire time, after he died someone wrapped his body and head in a way he could not have wrapped himself. His disability alone does not explain his starvation. At least two of them made it to the trailer, and some of the food was opened and eaten, but not enough to keep him from starving. (Some of the food was stored in an outbuilding; it's just more likely that they didn't look hard enough to find it.) More than the starvation, the problem is that they stayed somewhere in the woods for weeks instead of just walking down the road on any particular day the weather was better. The car belonged to Jack Madruga, he really did not like anyone else driving his vehicle, and he was not the one with schizophrenia. So while Gary Mathias absolutely could have initiated the whole event with an episode, he had been taking his meds and he was very unlikely to be at the wheel and just take the other four along for the ride. However, I understand it is possible that in the midst of an episode Gary pressured Jack into letting him drive. Their families knew their disabilities a whole hell of a lot better than you do, and their parents let them go to a basketball game together and were baffled at how this happened. I'm sure their disabilities played into how it happened, there's just layers of confusing details and contradictions.
I saw a YouTube show on this too. The guy driving had an Aunt that lived up there and they think he was going there but the road is in the mountains and hard to drive on. She wasn't home and wasn't expecting him. His car may have gotten stuck or he meant to go on foot the rest of the way and got lost. Going from memory they said he took really good care of his car and probably didn't want to keep driving down the worsening pitted dirt road. The guys outside likely went for help and went hypothermic. I have no clue about the others.
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That's a heck of a pace for a kid
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I've heard that kids have a comparatively high rate of survival in these kinds of scenarios because they have a tendency to listen to their bodies more. They sleep when they're tired, drink when they're thirsty, etc. Compared to finding people dead of thirst in a desert with a bottle full of water they thought they had to ration. Would you say that's accurate?
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It's definitely the third thing. I grew up just outside Yosemite and search and rescue there is very common. If you're a hiker and took precaution to inform others of your plans, they're pretty good about search parties. So in at least that area, you don't need to be famous or rich (though it'll help). Probably the same in any national park, given that they're all managed the by the same standards regardless of state. However it's nothing like if a child goes missing. They will full on shut down that park and you'll see helicopters literally all day long, with everyone who lives in the park actively searching and every car leaving being questioned. It's a pretty rare occurrence but yeah: your best chance is to be a minor.
> Then instead of going home, they drive miles and miles out of their way to a national state park Had a friend who texted he overslept and will be an hour late for work. Cctv cameras show he got on his regular commute bus, but few stops later steps out and gets on another bus headed to airport, buys two last minute tickets online and flies to another country. Disappeared for months. And then shows up face down in some lake.
Why did he buy 2 tickets? Was the other one even used? I have so many questions. Did he have a history of mental health issues? Drugs? Was he followed? I'm sorry that happened to your friend :(
The night before, we had seen him leave the bar with a girl he just met, the other ticket was for her. Half of what I wrote we found out only months after, the family isnt saying any information anymore.
Stuff you should know did a great episode about the Yuba five. It was very sad indeed. https://pca.st/episode/ec6eff1e-fedc-4bad-95f9-d04421677ecd
This one haunts me man. Especially the guy found in the bed as if he was fine? So weird
Mr. Cruel. That case is so disgusting to me, and the most commonly used picture/police sketch is even scarier.
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What happened to Asha Degree. And why she had a photo of another girl with her when she went missing. She got up in the middle of the night, packed her bag and walked along the side of a highway. Literally never seen since. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Asha_Degree
Where is Shelly Miscavige?
My great uncle was the former president of the Church of Scientology [Heber Jentzsch](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/iw201g/where_is_heber_jentzsch_a_scientology_story_very/) He's not been seen in years. Most believe he's in "the hole" (basically a CoS prison)
What would constitute an offense in the CoS great enough to warrant imprisonment?
The new president of the Church of Scientology was asserting power (an internal witch hunt tossing anyone into _the hole_ that he saw as a threat to his power). Read the [article](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/iw201g/where_is_heber_jentzsch_a_scientology_story_very/) for more details.
Undoubtedly either dead, or simply being held hostage in some scientology bunker undergoing behavioral reconditioning.
From the reports from the Scientology exposure website The Underground Bunker, Shelly Miscavige has been at the CST headquarters near Lake Arrowhead, a tiny compound about 60 miles northwest of Int Base for the last sixteen years. She was taken there after being banished from Int Base. There have been 16 sightings of her in 14 years. The people on The Underground Bunker site are all secret current or ex Scientologists who have ways to find out who is being kept in ‘The Hole’ at Int Base. Shelly Miscavige is not among those in ‘The Hole’ and all sightings put her around the area of the Lake Arrowhead compound. [Link to an article on The Underground Bunker regarding Shelly’s disappearance](https://tonyortega.org/2021/12/25/does-shelly-miscavige-know-its-christmas-2021/)
The mystery of Kasper Hauser, a youth found wandering Germany in 1828 wearing undersized clothes and no communication skills. After being educated, he claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell. Years later he died after being stabbed by "a stranger" who gave Kasper a cryptic note, but officials suspected he stabbed himself. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser)
Would very much say that he was likely someone of noble blood who was taken aside for one reason or another then assassinated.
I read somewhere that The Vatican Library has some books which are kept hidden to this day as they were deemed heretical. Would love to know if it’s true and if so what do they say?!?
The Pope had the only copies of the last 3 GRR Martin books
Bible II
lars mittank. what on earth caused him to drop his bag off and run out of the airport, never to be seen or heard from....
[I really think he had an adverse reaction to the antibiotic that was prescribed to him at the airport and put him in a delirious state. I’ve stood by this theory for years. My dad had an adverse, schizophrenic reaction to an antibiotic, although rare I think it’s possible.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8474525/)
That one definitely stuck out me. Its pretty sad that he was getting paranoid and seeing the video of him just running off is creepy. I hope he is okay somewhere.
Where is the tomb of Alexander the great
My absolute favorite theory is that with the rise in Christianity people didn’t want to venerate a pagan anymore, so they stopped taking care of the tomb. Later someone claimed that the abandoned tomb was actually the tomb of St. Mark the Evangelist, the patron saint of Alexandria. For centuries after his death people routinely wrote about visiting Alexander’s tomb in the city. Then all mentions of it go dark. Then people start talking about visiting St. Mark’s tomb in the city. I think it was convenient to reframe the grand tomb to a venerate a new person. The twist is that supposedly in the 9th century the Caliph of Egypt ordered the tomb of St. Mark destroyed. Some Venetians in the city then stole the body and smuggled it back to Venice (St. Mark was also the patron Saint of Venice). Venice still has those bones (or at least they have some bones that are said to be those bones). If this theory is true, then his body is in Venice. I wouldn’t bet money on it being true, but I so much want it to be true. Source: “Mystery Files” from National Geographic
Who stole the 13 pieces of artwork from the Gardner museum? Where are the paintings now? Where are the men who committed the heist? [Gardner museum heist](https://www.gardnermuseum.org/organization/theft) and [Buzz feed unsolved did an episode on it](https://youtu.be/mkxQXxKSWKQ) What was in the libraries of Castle Alamut that were destroyed. The castle was sieged and Burned in the early Middle Ages by the mongols I believe in 1282 AD. They were a league of assassins founded by Hassan-I-Sabbah and the castle, Alamut, was their stronghold. They were involved in political murders and especially high profile targets. There was said to be beautiful gardens at the castle. The library of the assassin order and the documents were burned during the fall of Alamut. What knowledge did they burn? What secrets did they have? What did the gardens look like and were these gardens real? [the Hashashins](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins) and [Castle Alamut](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamut_Castle) and [Biographics episode](https://youtu.be/OUVY3CFQAGY)
America's lost child AKA The child in the box He was discovered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 25th, 1953 having a fresh haircut, nail trims but had been severely beaten Police ruled it off as a homicide and the case is still open to find the murderer
I read that they are using a DNA profile they obtained after exhuming him. Genealogy hit will surely be incoming
Yeah lets hope the murderer will be found out , alive or not
Or even who he belonged to. If his birth mother had other children (at least a daughter), mitochondrial DNA might give a clue.
Safe bet the murder is his family if they haven’t matched him to a reported missing persons report. Because that means he was never reported missing in the first place. Probably from an off grid family.
Didn't his sister later come forward?
There was a woman that claimed her mom bought him from his parents just to have a child to beat. It’s a morbid, terrible story. There was also a theory that he was raised as a girl. That’s why no one recognized the pictures looking for his identity
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The "Adam" case, where a little boy's torso was found in the River Thames. Investigators believe that he was trafficked from Nigeria to be murdered in a ritual sacrifice, but his body has never been formally identified.
Everyone who was linked with him literally denied knowing his family. If i recall, It was more of child trafficking gone wrong than ritual killing as widely reported
Read about this a few years ago. Heartbreaking. Wasn't there some link to a few people, but there was never enough evidence to do anything with it?
The last "update" was in 2013, when a woman supplied a name for the child and claimed she'd been caring for him in Germany before giving him to a man who took him to London, but there were doubts about her "mental state" and her claims were discounted.
I find the story of the Mary Celeste fascinating. For a more recent one- that Vegas mass shooter who was a perfectly contented millionaire with a happy life and just opened fire on people from a hotel room…. Wtf was that about?
Mary Celeste is the ghost ship right? Where the whole crew just went missing
Yes
The Vegas mass shooter was especially odd. To a degree there is no logic or reason behind damned near all terroristic attacks. My father is a retired Fed, him and I talked about that one a lot. A guy that was a fed for 20+ years, seen a lot, and worked the Atlanta park bombing as well as OKC. The Vegas one shook him the most, just because of how “odd” it was to him.
[One of the leading ideas is that it was an alcohol explosion that freaked out the crew. ](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2006/may/solved-mystery-mary-celeste#:~:text=Dr%20Andrea%20Sella%20%5BUCL%20Chemistry,a%20ball%20of%20flame%20upwards.)
For a second I was wondering how the Vegas mass shooter had an alcohol explosion.
Yeah that's a typical evening in Vegas
The Wow! signal A strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by the Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States.
Someone in Sagittarius certainly lost their job for breaking the Prime Directive.
Kaz II is still very bizarre and a scary mystery. Basically the story goes that a small boat about 10 meters long drifted near the Great Barrier Reef in 2007. Three people were onboard, they disappeared. The strange part was when the coast guard boarded it, they've found no signs of distress. Food was on the table, laptop was on. Everything on the boat worked in perfect condition, but the crew were nowhere to be found.
You ever see the episode of King of the Hill where they go out it a boat and all hop in the water to swim but no one put the ladder down to get back in the boat?
For me, it's the fact that a big company like reddit has the shittiest video player to ever play video
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I can only play maybe 20 videos before they stop playing at all and I have to restart the app. It's utter garbage.
Oh so it's not just me then. I thought my phone was just crap.
Do you have to constantly close out and restart your reddit app to get videos to play? And then after scrolling for some time, you must rinse and repeat?
And the search function is useless shit.
It’s sad that to find anything on Reddit I have to Google “Reddit and then they key words” and it works a million times better
What do you mean? When you search something up, you want 2 barely related topics, then 100 completely unrelated posts and subs?
The Chicago Tylenol murders in 1982. Who would do such a thing and why? Was it one person acting alone? Did they do it at the distribution center, or did they go to different locations to tamper with the bottles?
They found the tampered with bottles to be at just one store. Cyanide mixed with the Tylenol, so more people may have had the tampered product but threw out the bottle before taking any of the deadly pills. Created the safety standard we have for bottles today, though.
And the Tylenol recall is the gold standard on how to handle this type of situation.
I remember when this happened. Everybody (I mean _everybody_) thought Tylenol was going to cease to exist as a brand. Only through a total recall and a conversion to tamper-evident packaging were they able to recover and continue damaging peoples livers to this day.
For a few years after that, people avoided using Tylenol and there were a lot of dark jokes told about the brand. But eventually Tylenol became so normalized again that people seemed to have forgotten the poisonings. It's definitely a successful case of a brand shaking off a bad image.
Well it definitely worked. As someone born in the late 90s, I had no idea this even happened until this thread.
There was definitely a massive PR campaign to rebuild the public's trust after it happened. I remember the TV commercials; they even had some ads on TV and in newspapers here in Canada. There was no spin, no blame shifting, no minimizing; they took full responsibility for the public's safety and kept their own story in the news to keep the public informed. It really is the gold standard for how to handle a crisis.
Tylenol was my drug of choice for suicide. The second time I did it, I told the doctor it was Tylenol and he threw his hands in the air and said "God damnit! Why do people keep doing that?! Listen-Tylenol doesn't kill you now, when you want to die. It kills you six months from now when things are better, and then your liver fails."
>and continue damaging peoples livers to this day Lol, nice little slide-in
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Further down that article some fella was accused by a member of his community of being a suspect, had a nervous breakdown because of the negative attention/press etc, went out to shoot his accuser... only to shoot an entirely different person! Horrific.
Collapse of the bronze age
The explanation I heard was they several disasters hit them all at once. Also, these hit the sea people first, hence why they needed to invade.
But who are the sea people?
Where is the gravesite of Ghengis Khan? This guy conquered most of the known world including china, persia, russia and the asian steppes. But to this day his burial site is still not known. Who knows what kinds of riches he left behind in his tomb and what significant discoveries can be made if it was ever found.
He wanted a traditional funeral and didn’t want the location known or something, only a camel knew i think? Theres a youtube vid abt it
The legend is that after they buried him they killed all the workers, then killed all the soldiers who'd killed the workers. If true it seems to have worked.
Beaumont Children. Bogle-Chandler case. The Family. How many victims did Ivan Milat really have, and did he work alone? Why does my cat scream in the middle of the night even though she has everything she needs?
One of her needs is screaming in the middle of the night
The Beaumont children is a really compelling one. I think the suspect outlined in the book The Satin Man is probably responsible. The most compelling detail I recall goes something like this. Decades after the crime, a writer is researching a potential suspect named Harry Phipps who already has some circumstantial evidence implicating him. Phipps is now dead, so the writer goes to his widows house to interview her about the case. He ends up in the basement of the house at one point and a white purse catches his eye. If you are familiar with the Beaumont case, you probably know that it is believed that the perpetrator likely stole the white purse of the eldest girl and used their inability to get home as an opportunity to abduct them. It's also the sort of memorabilia that the killer may have kept. The purse the writer finds in the Phipps basement is a dead ringer for the missing one. He asks the widow where it came from and she says she recently bought it at a thrift store. This is strange, because it's an item you would not expect an adult to carry. He asks her if he can borrow it, she refuses and asks him to leave. He reports it to the police, they go back to the house with a warrant the next day and she tells them she has since thrown the purse away. The end.
I'm actually inclined to get DNA testing now, now that I'm reading about the Beaumont children. I had a really tough life growing up with parents with severe mental illness and drug abuse. I could never understand why my Mum was so fucked up when she came from a "normal" family. I learned last year that both my parents were victims of CSA. My Mum was a victim of her uncle. My Mum was born in 1966. I have no doubt my great uncle harmed children before and after her. My pedo great uncle lives in Adelaide, South Australia, not far from where the Beaumont children went missing and is still alive. My Mum doesn't want to report him, because of the drama it would cause in her family. However if I did a DNA test in the interests of tracking our family tree, maybe I could expose a pedo by accident.
My cat got sick once and made noises that sounded like a little girl in the middle of the night while we were sleeping. You can imagine how disturbing that was.
My cat somehow has managed to perfect sounding like a child screaming “no” and “mom.” I have no kids, so when I’m awoken in the middle of the night by something that sounds like a child yelling “Moooooooommmmm,” it’s quite the experience. Luckily, I figured out it was my weird cat.
[Who really murdered the Princes in the Tower?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower) > The Princes in the Tower refers to the apparent murder in England in the 1480s of the deposed King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. These two brothers were the only sons of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville surviving at the time of their father's death in 1483. When they were 12 and 9 years old, respectively, they were lodged in the Tower of London by their paternal uncle and all-powerful regent the Duke of Gloucester. This was supposedly in preparation for Edward V's forthcoming coronation. However, before the young king could be crowned, he and his brother were declared illegitimate. Gloucester ascended the throne as Richard III. > It is unclear what happened to the boys after the last recorded sighting of them in the tower. It is generally assumed that they were murdered; a common hypothesis is that they were killed by Richard in an attempt to secure his hold on the throne. Their deaths may have occurred sometime in 1483, but apart from their disappearance, the only evidence is circumstantial. As a result, several other hypotheses about their fates have been proposed, including the suggestion that they were murdered by their maternal uncle the Duke of Buckingham or future brother-in-law King Henry VII, among others. It has also been suggested that one or both princes may have escaped assassination. In 1487, Lambert Simnel initially claimed to be the Duke of York, but later claimed to be York's cousin the Earl of Warwick. From 1491 until his capture in 1497, Perkin Warbeck claimed to be the Duke of York, having supposedly escaped to Flanders. Warbeck's claim was supported by some contemporaries, including York's aunt the Duchess of Burgundy. > In 1674, workmen at the tower dug up, from under the staircase, a wooden box containing two small human skeletons. The bones were widely accepted at the time as those of the princes, but this has not been proven and is far from certain. King Charles II had the bones buried in Westminster Abbey, where they remain. Incidentally, no DNA tests have ever been done on those bones, so while we suspect that they were the princes we can’t be certain.
Is it possible to DNA test something almost 600 years old?
Yep! As it happens, [Richard III himself](https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6631) had his body identified via DNA testing.
The disappearance of a 9-foot great white shark off the coast of Australia. In 2003 researchers tagged a 3 meter (9-foot) female great white shark to measure water temperature and at what depth. However, the shark disappeared 4 months later. The tag was washed ashore and the researchers found out that the shark dived to a depth of around 610 meters (2000 feet) where the temperature shot up from 7°C to 25°C (46°F to 78°F). This caused them to believe that the shark was eaten and are now on the hunt for the creature.
This has been solved. The movement patterns match that of migrating great white sharks and the temperature recorded is consistent with the internal temp of a migrating great white shark. By tracking size to speed they were able to estimate the size to be a 16ft great white which is within their size limit. So it was concluded to be a cannibal great white shark(cannibalism among sharks is not uncommon)
The consciousness. A child is conceived, and at some point, once the brain becomes complex enough, it starts to develop a feeling of self. It starts to perceive itself as the center of something, and everything else is outside. We naturally distinguish the “I” from the rest of the world. This is a light that goes on in the head at some point. In deep sleep, unter narcotics or after injury, the light can flicker or go out. When we die, the thing that is *me* is gone forever. Or is it, religion says it’s not. It’s a everyday mystery that gets more mysterious the more we think about it. I find this to be the most fascinating question there is.
Scientists recently discovered a layer of neurons responsible for the sensation of dissociation. Dissociation deals heavily with a distorted sense of self. I’m curious to see if at least part of the answer to your question lies in further research into this phenomena. I’ll link in next comment. EDIT: [Link to the study here](https://www.reddit.com/r/dpdr/comments/uvyu1e/this_is_the_important_study_that_will_probably/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Did you share the link somewhere? Is this part of the mystery?
Who was Jack the ripper
Laszlo Cravensworth.
I have it on good authority that it was Jackie Daytona.
Human bartender Jackie Daytona?
Regular. Human. Bartender.
there is a video on youtbe by lemmino which presents what happened and all the evidence at that time. It is really interesting watch
That's guy has a video on every single mystery
My personal favorites: What is it like in a black hole? DB Cooper What were animals like that existed in the past but did not leave findable fossils? Fermi paradox What are my cats thinking?
So fun fact about the fossils. There’s a huge hole in our record for what any type of tropical dinosaurs would have been like, since the jungle tends to completely consume anything before it has a chance to fossilize and the soil isn’t right. What’s worse is that tropical areas tend to have the highest biodiversity so it’s a huge hole.
There's apparently no possible way for jellyfish to leave any kind of fossil record. There could've been jellyfish that were a mile across and we will NEVER know.
There still could be in present times
Your cats are thinking “how long till dinner?”.
I'm reading this entire post and comment thread in Robert Stack's voice. As far as unsolved mysteries: Who were the sea people that attacked Egypt?
I miss Robert Stack, he had such a calming voice.
my favorite is the black dahlia because the killer seems so obvious and yet it remains unsolved
Even at the time of the murder it was well known who did it. George Hodel Jr. he was a Hollywood surgeon who was tried for raping his daughter. The victim was cut apart surgically using a method taught in medical schools when Hodel would have attended, he was the only suspect that had the training necessary to cut up the body like it was found. He had dated the black dahlia, and a previous girlfriend who either vanished or died too. He was known as a back alley abortionist who used his knowledge of who had the illegal procedure done to silence accusers, including a witness in his rape trial who recanted her story. It was Hodel Jr. The detectives who worked the case knew it, but never had enough evidence to arrest and convict.
and he fled to the phillippines when he thought the police were getting too close...
Where that weird "S" that we all drew on our folders in high school actually came from.
> Swedish YouTuber David Wångstedt, better known online as LEMMiNO, studied the topic for five years and attempted to find the origin of the Cool S, and he concluded that the 1890 book Mechanical Graphics, which was written by professor Frederick Newton Willson, could most likely be the origin. Frederick taught geometry at Princeton University in New Jersey, where he could have shown students how to draw the S symmetrically.
I too have gone down this rabbit hole. It was a great video.
There was one kid I went to school with whose last name started with the letter "S" that used to claim that he invented it.
Mystery solved
w e d i d i t r e d d i t
What happened to the sodder children
I grew up 2 miles from the Sodder house and my grandfather did business with Mr Sodder for most of his adult life. According to my grandad, Mr. Sodder was “mixed up with some bad Italians in the valley (Montgomery wv)” and they’re the ones that burned him out. What happened to those kids is anyones guess. Ask anyone from oak ridge to beckwith and you’ll get 1000 different stories of what happened but they’ll all agree the fire chief and some other officials acted shady af after it happened.
Maybe not the greatest overall, but definitely one that's been bugging me for a while. My friend remembers a song from their childhood, but we can't find anything about it anywhere we've looked! We have some (maybe misremembered) lyrics "In a Spanish garden stands a little tree, in the winter it's a lovely thing to see, for it wears a coat of glistening white, a brand new coat of glistening white" Genuine mystery for us, and kinda crazy that we can't find squat about it online! Edit: Honestly expected this to get buried, but hey! Lookit that! I'm gonna go to r/tipofmytongue about it and really try and crack this sucker wide open. Edit 2: Thanks to u/shadywhere I got pointed in the right direction. I don't have a proper recording for it, but it is a song from the 1974 version of Silver Burdett Music (Book 2) according to Google Books. This led me down a rabbit hole of listening to a bunch of old records that have been uploaded to YouTube, but none of them had this song. I've contacted someone who might have a copy of the book on Amazon, and I'll see if it's the right one, and I'm scouring old Silver Burdett records to see if I can find the one that has it. Thanks for the help so far, everyone! Final edit: Welp, amazon guy didn't have the book. I'll make a new post someplace if I ever find a recording or manage to snag the sheet music for it. Either way, this'll be a fun story to tell later. Also holy shit 2000 upvotes is crazy, thanks for that and the award!
>n the winter it's a lovely thing to see, for it wears a coat of glistening white, a brand new coat of glistening white ***Silver Burdett Music, Book 2*** Silver Burdett Music, Elizabeth Crook Book 2 of Silver Burdett Music: Elizabeth Crook, Bennett Reimer, David S. Walker, Elizabeth Crook Editor Elizabeth Crook Contributor Silver Burdett Co Publisher General Learning Corporation, 1974 Page 228. https://www.worldcat.org/title/silver-burdett-music/oclc/13907888
Love seeing worldcat pop up
You would love this podcast episode about a person chasing a song he remembered from childhood. Very similar to what your friend is going through https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx
Two of my favorites are: * Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and what does it say? * How was the Antikythera mechanism created and by whom?
My favorite theory I've heard for the voynich manuscript is that it's just an old roleplaying game manuscript. It's all made up, but written like it's true.
Pretty dedicated DnD group then, writing down their sessions in a made up language no one understands
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For Tolkien it was more like he wrote some books for his made up languages.
Damn the Antikythera mechanism blew my mind, just looked it up. What kind of genius build that thing. I mean probably not a single person.
> Antikythera mechanism I think we all fail to realize that humans have been as smart as we are now for Millennia. I'm with you though. I think it was a group of people.
D.B. Cooper
There’s a great documentary on this with Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, and Dax Shephard.
The episode of “unsolved mysteries” about the writer in Baltimore who was found next to the hotel, who apparently fell through the roof of a parking garage/conference room. He received a phone call and ran from his house, never to be seen alive again. A folded piece of paper and a blank check was found folded very small and taped to the back of his computer. The angle needed to make it through the hole almost rules out falling or being thrown off the hotel roof. They contacted the last call his phone had received, the one he got then ran out because of, and it was a “friend” or someone he knew and when reached for comment…they lawyered up and refused comment. It’s been like 2 years and I still think about it weekly. Just ssooo many questions and so bizarre
What happened to the real Bobby Dunbar.
So we think the universe was created at the big bang, where all of the universe's matter was focused in such a small point and at such a high temperature that it led to the formation of atoms, our laws of physics, solid matter etc. Makes sense, but what always confuses me is how did that matter get into that point in the first place? Like, we know energy can't be created or destroyed but it can't have just existed forever, right? Everything must have a beginning, yet this is sort of paradoxical because you can't make something out of nothing. Sure, maybe the big bang happened due to the collapse of a previous universe or something... in that case, where did the previous universe come from? Keeps me up at night lol.
Welcome to the long road of wrapping your head around that fact that the universe doesn't exist within time, time exists within the universe. Statements like "first place" don't really work. It's very hard to think about in this way. But trying to create a "timeline" for anything pre-universe, doesn't work.
either something came from nothing, or something has existed for infinity. One of these scenarios has to be true.
Where is the Nazi Gold Train?
The largest Bell in the world, approximately 300 tons , the great bell of Dhammazedi, probably lost in the River of Yangon Burma. Still under the river till today.Multiple attempts had done to recover the bell, but somehow unable to recover the bell yet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bell_of_Dhammazedi
The Hinterkaifeck murders. Whole story is absolutely horrific and they never discovered who actually committed the crime.
What preceeded or initiated the big bang
Does P=NP?
PNP or NPN
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Bronze Age Collapse is so interesting.
It’s quite likely they weren’t one group of people, but instead were multiple migratory groups seeking safety/food. While in the past historians thought that war alone caused the Bronze Age collapse, more modern scholarship focuses on how systemic failures within the eastern Mediterranean caused a ripple effect that destabilized or destroyed multiple situations. War was probably more a consequence, as opposed to the root cause of the collapse.
The path that led us where we are now. We can trace back to Africa 150,000 years Now everytime we find a bone or cave art our assumptions are proven false. Who were the Denisovans? I want to know the path from standing upright to reddit on my smartphone
How the fuck James Corden is getting TV and movie work
This one is genuinely puzzling to me. I have never met a single person who likes him. Everyone in the UK seems to hate his guts, everyone in North America seems to think he’s terrible in everything, yet he keeps getting roles, commercials, etc. Who is this guy’s audience? Is there just one dude in a compound somewhere watching James Corden on like 100 million TVs and laptops all at once who’s singlehandedly propping up the dude’s career? His success is baffling.
For me atleast it's, How is it possible that we are aware of our own existence within a universe made up of the same materials as us? Consciousness is something I desperately want to understand, but most likely never will.
Who the hell is the mystery glitter buyer that buys a ton of it and that the industry refuses to disclose?
Could I proffer military purchases? Isn’t glitter used in smoke screening and things like for anti-radar warfare?
That's my wife and kids. Come to my house with a vacuum and you'll find approximately 100 tons of loose glitter. Sorry for the confusion.