Your favourite unsolved mystery?

Up Donegal

How do they get the figs into the fig rolls?

dinorebel

Up Donegal wrote: »

How do they get the figs into the fig rolls?

10/10 for originality :rolleyes:

NoviGlitzko

How do they get the figs into the fig rolls

Trekker09

I'd like to know how my stunning, funny, smart wife know I'm about to write something about her and proceeds to look over my shoulder?

Force Carrier

Trekker09 wrote: »

I'd like to know how my stunning, funny, smart wife know I'm about to write something about her and proceeds to look over my shoulder?

micro tells in your body language or demeanor which she picks up on consciously or subconsciously

fxotoole

razorblunt wrote: »

Why don't they just make airplanes out of the black box material?

Aluminum is easier to get off the ground, weight wise

Steyr 556

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Dyatlov Pass incident. 9 Hikers died in mysterious circumstances hiking in the Ural mountains in the Soviet Union, 1959.

There is a video game based on this called Kholat.

Capt'n Midnight

razorblunt wrote: »

Airplane food, what's up with that?

Cabin pressure would be set to seven or eight thousand feet.

So you loose your appetite and your taste buds go on a work to rule.
The recycled air doesn't help.

And the food is made by the lowest tender.

Gimme A Pound

GoneHome wrote: »

Fascinating report by Rosita Boland in last Saturday's Irish Times about Peter Bergmann, who's body was found washed up on Rosses Point beach ten years ago this week. So many unanswered questions even down to the basic fact that he has never been identified.
Link to the report here:
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/the-unsolved-mystery-of-peter-bergmann-1.3923308

Podcast just released too.

Day Lewin

A really clear account of the Bergmann case.

I'm surprised they haven't matched the DNA yet - or at least partly matched to some kind of family.

There are unsettling similiarities to The Somerton Man. https://allthatsinteresting.com/tamam-shud-somerton-man

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Day Lewin wrote: »

A really clear account of the Bergmann case.

I'm surprised they haven't matched the DNA yet - or at least partly matched to some kind of family.

There are unsettling similiarities to The Somerton Man. https://allthatsinteresting.com/tamam-shud-somerton-man

I think Irish Times or Irish Examiner just carried an article on the Peter Bergmann case. It's quite a mystery, but also quite sad. It's clear the man came to Ireland to die and to die quietly. His cancer or cancers were quite advanced and he would have been in a lot of pain, I think they found only aspirin on him or in his system (that was detectable in the autopsy anyway).

It reminded me of a story I read once about a guy who moved into a rundown part of LA, very cheap, low cost but very poor. In the 1990s it became a haven for gay men to move to and to die cheaply and quietly of AIDS.

There could be more to Bergmann but the methodical approach he had to his own end is not something you see very often.

Somerton man is an amazing read! Especially because something similar happened before his death.

WIKIPEDIA wrote:

In June 1945 – three years before the death of the Somerton Man – a 34-year-old Singaporean named George Marshall (born Joseph Saul Haim Mashal) was found dead in Ashton Park, Mosman, Sydney, with an open copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on his chest.[100] Ashton Park is directly adjacent to Clifton Gardens. His death is believed to be a suicide by poisoning, and occurred two months before Harkness gave Boxall the inscribed copy of the Rubaiyat. Marshall was a brother of David Marshall, who was later to become Singapore's first Chief Minister. An inquest was held on 15 August 1945; Gwenneth Dorothy Graham testified at the inquest and was found dead 13 days later face down, naked, in a bath with her wrists slit.[101][102]

castletownman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers

This one is pretty cool. Never heard tale of it until I read Bill Bryson's book about his travels across Europe.

Essentially in the 80s a troupe of bandits would carry out random armed robberies across Belgium (in the province of Brabant), often with high caliber weapons, but take very little cash. 28 people died as a result of their crime spree and their identities are still unknown. All they had were three suspects: "The Giant", "The Killer" and "The Old Man".

Failure to solve the case led to a reform in the Belgian police. Interesting story all told.

razorblunt

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Cabin pressure would be set to seven or eight thousand feet.

So you loose your appetite and your taste buds go on a work to rule.
The recycled air doesn't help.

And the food is made by the lowest tender.

Ah lads these weren't serious questions like!

But thanks anyway!

odyssey06

razorblunt wrote: »

Ah lads these weren't serious questions like!
But thanks anyway!

You triggered the automatic answering service. It was an involuntary response.

It's like the scene in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps when Mr Memory is asked what the 39 Steps are...

razorblunt

odyssey06 wrote: »

You triggered the automatic answering service. It was an involuntary response.

It's like the scene in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps when Mr Memory is asked what the 39 Steps are...

Eh ...

What are the 39 Steps?

odyssey06

razorblunt wrote: »

Eh ...
What are the 39 Steps?

Seeing as you have asked me what are the 39 Steps... jump to 4:25 of this clip.

WARNING: Contains spoilers for the 1939 and 1959 adaptations of The Thirty Nine Steps (but not the original novel or 1978, 2008 adaptations)

razorblunt

Can't watch that, I've never seen the movie. I'll have to watch the whole thing.

Esho

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

It would be a pretty perfect place to operate....many people seem to assume that it couldn't happen here.

I think so - look at the number of missing people, especially in recent months.

odyssey06

razorblunt wrote: »

Can't watch that, I've never seen the movie. I'll have to watch the whole thing.

You're in for a treat. I wish I could delete my memory of it so I could watch it again fresh.

Gimme A Pound

Don Kemp:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Don_Kemp

Most of it seems pretty non mysterious. It really looks like the guy had a meltdown (reading other information about it) but the weird phone calls...

Hamsterchops

Esho wrote: »

I think so - look at the number of missing people, especially in recent months.

I often wonder about that too, the missing person list is endless, but I wonder how many turn up at some stage?

Jill Dando, who & why?

Gimme A Pound

The disappearance of Leah Roberts:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Leah_Roberts

(Yes I was watching Unsolved Mysteries last night - fecking mad cases).

r93kaey5p2izun

The Emanuela Orlandi case currently in the news again is intriguing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Emanuela_Orlandi

chicorytip

Hamsterchops wrote:

Jill Dando, who & why?

Who? The fellah who was originally convicted (and later acquitted, amazingly). Why? Because he's a raving lunatic.

New Home

Emelia Low Swagger wrote: »

The Emanuela Orlandi case currently in the news again is intriguing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Emanuela_Orlandi

And connected to that, there's this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Mirella_Gregori

jelutong

Who stole the washer off the Mooncoin Pump?

Capt'n Midnight

A reminder of the big one.

What happened to the Neanderthals ?

mikhail

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

A reminder of the big one.

What happened to the Neanderthals ?

We did, cap. We killed 'em all. Probably raped a few of their women too, from the results of genetic studies in recent years.

Poor Uncle Tom

mikhail wrote: »

We did, cap. We killed 'em all. Probably raped a few of their women too, from the results of genetic studies in recent years.

Ah here! a fist of mammoth hair around a hole in a rock would have been a safer bet! Jaysus.....

J Mysterio

Maybe with 20 pints in you?