Greatest Mysteries

[Statler Waldorf]

Yeah. I knew about that. It doesn't mean that he died, however. It only means that, if he lived, he lost some of the cash. I like to think he made it.

I was watching an Unsolved History episode last year on DB. Apparently some guy claimed to be him to his wife while he was on his death bed. He claimed he buried the money but when he went back to get it later he could not find it. The guy was a paratrooper in the military at one point and a Las Vegas face recognition software pinned his face out of over 100,000 as a 98 percent match to the composite sketch. The guy also knew that DB signed in with an actual first name (Darrel I think) and the Feds hid that information to prevent people from falsely claiming to be DB Cooper. Not sure if it really was him, but interesting nonetheless.

The Zodiac murders are another pretty interesting mystery.

[Shell B]

The Zodiac murders are another pretty interesting mystery.

If we're going to include unsolved serial murders, this is going to be a long thread. Jack the Ripper is, of course, the most interesting and gruesome of them all.

[Statler Waldorf]

Though the only reason it is a mystery is because people lied to cover their asses, but the Anastasia Romanov story is one that I like to read about. I also enjoy mysterious artifacts, such as the Dropa Stones and the Baghdad Battery.

I had never heard of the battery one, that was really interesting. Thanks.

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The Zodiac murders are another pretty interesting mystery.

If we're going to include unsolved serial murders, this is going to be a long thread. Jack the Ripper is, of course, the most interesting and gruesome of them all.

Yeah Jack is a good one. Zodiac is just interesting because the circumstantial evidence all pointed to Arthur Lee, but none of the forensic evidence really did. I think it could have been two men working together..

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This one is pretty interesting too....

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

[Shell B]

Yeah Jack is a good one. Zodiac is just interesting because the circumstantial evidence all pointed to Arthur Lee, but none of the forensic evidence really did. I think it could have been two men working together..

That's actually quite rare, but not unheard of. For me, it doubles the chances that one would get caught, so I'm not sure I like that guess, but it is not impossible.

[Statler Waldorf]

Yeah Jack is a good one. Zodiac is just interesting because the circumstantial evidence all pointed to Arthur Lee, but none of the forensic evidence really did. I think it could have been two men working together..

That's actually quite rare, but not unheard of. For me, it doubles the chances that one would get caught, so I'm not sure I like that guess, but it is not impossible.

Very true, and if one got caught he could rat the other one out very easily in order to get a more lenient sentence. Although it does make warrants and arrests more difficult because the police have evidence that just doesn't seem to match up. Arthur Lee spelled words funny just like in the Zodiac letters, he had a Zodiac watch that had the same symbol as used in the letters, he wore the same boots that were the same size, he was in the area of all the killings, his favorite book was the book mentioned in the letters, he supposedly told a friend he was going to call himself the Zodiac, and he fit the serial killer profile (white male in his thirties very high IQ) but his handwriting didn't match the letters and his finger prints didn't match the print found at one of the scenes. So he was never arrested for the murders. It’s a good mystery because it doesn’t really add up.

[Shell B]

and he fit the serial killer profile (white male in his thirties very high IQ)

As much as I would like to wish there were a serial killer profile, there really is not. The FBI version of it would have you think so, but we see a lot of white serial killers because, historically, this is a predominantly white country. However, there have been black serial killers in the United States (Paul Durousseau and Andre Crawford come to mind) and plenty abroad. There are also idiotic serial killers, like those Moors murders dipshits. I am pretty sure John Wayne Gacy wasn't a complete moron, but I would be surprised if he had a high IQ. There was also Joseph Paul Franklin, Raye and Faye Copeland, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, Jesse Pomeroy (who was a not so bright child), Fred and Rosemary West and Tommy Lynn Sells. None of them were bright. High profile cases like Ted Bundy and Jack the Ripper lead us to think that serial killers are smart by definition. That is not the case. They are sadistic. Other than that, there is no concrete underlying factor. Child serial killers are uncommon, but not unheard of, such as Jesse Pomeroy (mentioned above) and Mary Bell. Female serial killers? Well, there are already several listed here.

[Anomalocaris]

This one is pretty interesting too....

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

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

Although unexplained disappearances could make this thread hundreds of pages long.

The original inhabitants and the abandonment of teotihuacan : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan

[Shell B]

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

Although unexplained disappearances could make this thread hundreds of pages long.

The original inhabitants and the abandonment of teotihuacan : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan

That one is really interesting. I figure they must have gone off on a life boat, convinced the ship was sinking, but why seasoned sailors would think that is beyond me.

[thesummerqueen]

Mystery at Dyatlov Pass - http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4108

[Shell B]

Geez, I think I have written about nearly every thing we have mentioned in this thread thusfar. I need to work less.