Your favourite unsolved mystery?

roboshatner

Well sky stopped showing it I presumed it was canceled but it went on.

I seen your man farina in it and it wasn't the same at all.

The website for the show is still up and running solving mysteries of real life cases.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I watched an old episode with Denis Farina presenting on one of the Sky documentary channels the other night. I think it was ID.

Joeseph Balls

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I watched an old episode with Denis Farina presenting on one of the Sky documentary channels the other night. I think it was ID.

Its on CBS Reality and Drama almost nightly. With Farina

sadie06

The disappearance of Philip Cairns really captivated everyone in my area at the time. I lived within a couple of miles of his locality, and I was roughly the same age as him when it happened, so that may have something to do with it. Every other day there were rumoured sightings, and people we knew were involved in the search.

It's hard to separate fact from rumour when it comes to that case.

chopper6

This island has been the subject of adecades-long treasure hunt based on pretty flimsy evidence.

Wonder will anybody ever find anything...

tfitzgerald

This is worth a look

http://unexplained-mysteries.tumblr.com

Billy86

tfitzgerald wrote: »

This is worth a look

http://unexplained-mysteries.tumblr.com

Brilliant!

Whipping Tom was a mysterious man who wandered the streets of London in 1680. He shocked 17th-century society by lunging at women, lifting their dresses, and spanking their bums while shouting “Spanko!” before escaping capture. At one point, things got so bad that armed men would patrol the streets dressed as women in the hopes of drawing him out.Almost 200 years before Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London, there was a much more hilarious monster terrifying society. He was given the name of Whipping Tom because this monster’s modus operandi was the spanking of young women’s bums. He would allegedly attack without warning, spanking ladies on the bottom while shouting “Spanko!” and then elude all attempts to capture him. He was so quick and slippery that some people even claimed he used supernatural powers in his escape. It was this sort of behavior that earned him the title “The enemy of milk wenches’ bums everywhere.”

You know, when you've been Spankoed!

force eleven

The 1977 'Wow!' Signal.

Extraterrestrial or no?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

roboshatner

2.2-gigawatt

Great Scot........

Gokei

roboshatner wrote: »

2.2-gigawatt

Great Scot........

2.21

The Shame, The SHAME!!!!!! I'm off mow to donate my collectors editions to charity!
I'm not worthy

youcancallmeal

Gokei wrote: »

2.21

1.21 Giga Watts!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCRUvX2D0E

Gokei

youcancallmeal wrote: »

1.21 Giga Watts!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCRUvX2D0E

Great Scott!

Stojkovic

How does the man who drives the snow plough, get to work in the morning ?

tomwaterford

parks the snow plow at home???

fortwilliam

The Ata Alien

Very bizarre skeleton of tiny humanoid figure, scientists have not been able to determine what the feck it is.

force eleven

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannan_Isles

Probably posted earlier, but here it is again. Echoes of the Mary Celeste, but I like the giant waves theory.

leddpipe

Billy86 wrote: »

Debunked: http://www.cracked.com/article_18718_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-that-have-totally-been-solved.html?wa_user1=1&wa_user2=Science&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=companion
- Anastasia, The Pyramids, Stonehenge, Tunguska Explosion, Atlantis, Amelia Earhart... and the Mary Celeste.

Also debunked: http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html
- Dyatlov Pass, Lost Roanoke Colony, The Hopskinsville Goblin, Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Starchild Skull... and the Bermuda Triangle.

...and six new mysteries to mess with your heads: http://www.cracked.com/article_16871_6-insane-discoveries-that-science-cant-explain.html

possible answers aren't definitive ones! you cant just label them debunked because Cracked proffered some potential series of events! Regardless, possible update re: Roanoke http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131208-roanoke-lost-colony-discovery-history-raleigh/

mrsdewinter

I just finished watching an ITV drama retelling the story of Lord Lucan... It's becoming more and more clear that he simply took his own life after his plan of laying claim to his children came to nothing. What a vile little man

dd972

Why being born in Ireland is supposed to somehow make you wittier, earthier and more authentic than someone born in the UK. ( or anywhere else for that matter ).

FouxDaFaFa

dd972 wrote: »

Why being born in Ireland is supposed to somehow make you wittier, earthier and more authentic than someone born in the UK. ( or anywhere else for that matter ).

Red Kev

Stojkovic wrote: »

How does the man who drives the snow plough, get to work in the morning ?

tomwaterford wrote: »

parks the snow plow at home???

Nope, he drives a VW Beetle.

Definitely one mystery here that I can safely say is DEBUNKED!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcckOTVqao

KKkitty

mrsdewinter wrote: »

I just finished watching an ITV drama retelling the story of Lord Lucan... It's becoming more and more clear that he simply took his own life after his plan of laying claim to his children came to nothing. What a vile little man

Watched it myself and I'm of the notion that his friends in aristocratic circles may have helped him lay low. Despite his plan to regain full custody of his children going seriously awry I don't think if he was as egocentric as he's depicted in this drama that he could have killed himself.

Galwayguy35

Kind of a real life mystery for me, wouldn't call it a favourite but ofton think of ths guy, and what happened to him.

I used to work with this guy years ago, he moved up to Dublin and went for the easy cash by getting into the drugs scene.

Apparently he tried to rip them off and high tail it to Britain and was never heard of again.

His mother died a few years ago not knowing what happened to him.

IvaBigWun

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.

Im not sure how someone like this has their silence bought but 95% of me is convinced that this man is an actor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWgCRBR5qE

Gokei

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.

People handle grief/addressing the world differently. Doesn't look like acting, more like a very nervous guy trying to get through the worst time of his life.

PointLe55

chopper6 wrote: »

This island has been the subject of adecades-long treasure hunt based on pretty flimsy evidence.

Wonder will anybody ever find anything...

remember reading about that in X-Factor, back when X-Factor was a weird/ cool magazine about mysteries, UFO's and unexplained phenonema

IvaBigWun

Gokei wrote: »

People handle grief/addressing the world differently. Doesn't look like acting, more like a very nervous guy trying to get through the worst time of his life.

Ive read that and, with respect, I think its nonsense. There were 9/11 TV witnesses that were borderline fakes but - for me - its clear that this man is acting

Gokei

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Ive read that and, with respect, I think its nonsense. There were 9/11 TV witnesses that were borderline fakes but - for me - its clear that this man is acting

Well at least I've helped you with the last 5%

chopper6

fortwilliam wrote: »

The Ata Alien

Very bizarre skeleton of tiny humanoid figure, scientists have not been able to determine what the feck it is.

In fairness it's hardly baffling to anybody...it's a human baby at some earlyy stage of it's development and before teeth had formed.

The shape of the body is due to pressure of some sort,probably the child was wrapped in something before being buried...maybe it lay squashed against something else.

fortwilliam

chopper6 wrote: »

In fairness it's hardly baffling to anybody....

Except for, amongst others, Immunologist Garry Nolan, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Proteomics Center for Systems Immunology at Stanford in California,

Pediatric radiologist Ralph Lachman, co-director of the International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California,

However some agree with you;
Below are some of the more common theories as to what Ata may be.

• ET/Human Hybrid - UFO and ET theorists point to the appearance and 9% unknown DNA as possible evidence of a human/ET hybrid creature. Some have dismissed the 9% DNA figure.
• Fetus Theory - Many have speculated that the remains may merely be those of a fetus. Both Greer and Nolan, however, flatly reject this claim. You can see x-ray comparisons of a fetus with Ata here.
• Deformity/Mutation – Some have suggested this represents the remains of a human afflicted with a deformity unknown to modern medicine. Dr. Nolan’s paper on the subject states, “ The specimen was concluded by the medical specialist to be a human child with an apparently severe form of dwarfism and other anomalies.” He later writes, “As the current list of human disorders is far from complete and many human disorders are polygenic, there might remain to be found a combination of mutations working in concert that lead to the observed defect(s).”
• Hoax – Some commenters around the internet have joked that this is nothing more than a plastic doll and the entire film is a hoax designed to make money. Greer points to the CAT scan as evidence: “There is absolutely no doubt that the specimen is an actual organism and that it is not a hoax of any kind.” Though this would certainly be the reaction of most people, it is hard to believe that Stanford professor would sacrifice his reputation with such a statement.
• Shrunken Remains – It has been suggested that these are indeed human remains, but they have been shrunken in some way similar to shrunken heads. We have not found evidence that bones can be shrunken in this manner, and traditional shrunken heads are created without the skull.

Billy86

leddpipe wrote: »

possible answers aren't definitive ones! you cant just label them debunked because Cracked proffered some potential series of events! Regardless, possible update re: Roanoke http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131208-roanoke-lost-colony-discovery-history-raleigh/

True, but I often reckon people want something to be unsolved here even when there are pretty obvious answers right in front of them. Might not be the case for all of these, but With regards to Roanoke Island...

What he probably didn't expect was for the colony to just vanish. When new settlers finally arrived, none of the original colony remained at the settlement (except for the old skeleton of one guy) and the mysterious word "Croatan" was carved into a tree

...

That second group of settlers didn't really get the chance to investigate what happened to the original bunch, because a few years later an even bigger mysterious phenomena occurred: Blue-eyed, pale-complexioned Indians began showing up on nearby Croatan Island.

So what to make of these mysterious children, who looked like they might have been the descendants of white/Indian mixed race parents? On CROATAN island?

It's almost as if, we don't know, a certain group of settlers realized their colony sucked, and went and found some natives nearby who seemed to know how to live off the land. And that they then left their shi**y colony forever to go live happily ever after on Croatan Island, and to have impressive amounts of sex with the natives.

...and as commented by someone in the link you put in:

There is evidence that they were assimilated into the native populations:

"John Lawson was an early English explorer who left a permanent record of his travels among the tribes of the Carolinas. He commenced his journey on December 28th, 1700. Lawson's History of North Carolina is regarded as the standard authority for the period it covers, and he says that there was a band of Indians in the eastern part of North Carolina known as Hatteras Indians, that had lived on Roanoke Island and that these told him that many of their ancestors were white people and could "talk in a book." That many of these Indians had grey eyes that were found among no other Indians, that they were friendly to the English and were ready to do all friendly services.

He says it is probable that White's Colony miscarried for want of timely supplies from England, or through the treachery of the natives, for we may reasonably suppose that the English were forced to cohabit with them and that in process of time, they conformed themselves to the manners of their Indian relations....

"Just when the colonists and Indians, with whom they amalgamated, removed to the interior is not certainly known, but it is believed to have been as early as 1650. At the coming of the first white settlers to what is now known as Robeson County, there was found located on the banks of the Lumber River a large tribe of Indians, speaking the English language, tilling the soil, owning slaves, and practicing many of the arts of civilized life. And what is of greater significance, a very large number of the names appearing among the Lost Colony are to be found among the Croatan Indians, a fact inexplicable upon any other hypothesis than that the Lost Colony amalgamated with the Indians.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/butler/butler.html

I love mysteries but to me, the Roanoke mystery is a mountain made out of a mole-hill by people eager for mystery rather than looking to the obvious.