[Lizzy11268]

What real life mysteries have intrigued and baffled you?

There are several that spring to mind.

1) The Bermuda Triangle - real or myth? Is it just coincidence that so many ships and planes disappear??

2) Jack the Ripper. Many theories have come up over the years, none of which I am convinced by, although I reckon Patricia Cornwell had a point!

3) Madeleine Mccann and Ben Needham, where did they go? - what really happened? Still hoping for an outcome to those in the future.

4) Where exactly did Lord Lucan go?


Anyone have any more? Any theories on any of the above?

I find it all intriguing.....

[bmillam]

how the hell Tony Blair ever got elected

[DGSx]

Roland Carnaby the man who may, or may not have been a CIA Officer who was shot dead by police in Dallas Texas a few years ago.

Also, the actual existance of Sherlock Homes and Dr Watson.

[rick182]

The countryside beast

[U96]

I think about all the UFO files.All the reported sightings(by airline pilots and their First Officers/Navigators amongst the general public).They run into millions.They can't all be rubbish can they?.

How Gordon Brown is still in power.

[Kinda]

Originally Posted by Lizzy11268

What real life mysteries have intrigued and baffled you?

There are several that spring to mind.

1) The Bermuda Triangle - real or myth? Is it just coincidence that so many ships and planes disappear??

2) Jack the Ripper. Many theories have come up over the years, none of which I am convinced by, although I reckon Patricia Cornwell had a point!

3) Madeleine Mccann and Ben Needham, where did they go? - what really happened? Still hoping for an outcome to those in the future.

4) Where exactly did Lord Lucan go?


Anyone have any more? Any theories on any of the above?

I find it all intriguing.....

Re the Bermuda Triangle, I watched a very interesting documentary, which explained the myth or coincidences very convincingly...so no questions left there

Jack the Ripper - too many suspects, too many theories! I'll go with the Count (or whatever denomination he was) did it, theory

Maddie McCann still intrigues me, maybe because I read all about it and in detail, being in London then. It's one of those which has clues pointing strongly to the parents and clues pointing strongly away...similar to an unsolved case we have here - the Jon Benet Ramsey case

Who or what is Lord Lucan? An actual case or a character

[Dan Fortesque]

Whether D B Cooper survived or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

The Philadelpia Experiment

[Turquoise]

Does anyone remember that old 'Channel 6' back from when we only had terrestrial TV? You know, that extra channel that seemed to keep running despite the fact that nobody anywhere could recieve it properly? Crackly and fuzzy at the best of times, black n'white dotted lines at the worst?

Yeah...

What the hell was with that?

[Hogzilla]

Originally Posted by Lizzy11268

What real life mysteries have intrigued and baffled you?

There are several that spring to mind.

1) The Bermuda Triangle - real or myth? Is it just coincidence that so many ships and planes disappear??

2) Jack the Ripper. Many theories have come up over the years, none of which I am convinced by, although I reckon Patricia Cornwell had a point!

3) Madeleine Mccann and Ben Needham, where did they go? - what really happened? Still hoping for an outcome to those in the future.

4) Where exactly did Lord Lucan go?


Anyone have any more? Any theories on any of the above?

I find it all intriguing.....

1. Utter myth. Keeps the cheapo cable chanels in business though.

2. Apparently the 2 coppers in charge both felt it was Kosminsky, who was committed to an asylum and they felt it wasn't politic to push for an arrest so long as he was banged away... but I also favour the yank psycopathic quack 'dr', Tumblety.

3) I don't think Madeleine was abducted. But I don't think she was murdered, either. I think she has gone. Ben Needham I feel was abducted and may even still be alive somewhere. I always felt this, right from when it happened.

4. I've read a few books and came to the conclusion he was alive when he left these shores and that there were several people who knew where he was, or where he was heading. Somewhere in Africa (that narrows it down).

Other ones:

Peter Sutcliffe.. How many alibis was he initially given and why/how were they retracted?

[U96]

Originally Posted by FluffyEgg

How Gordon Brown is still in power.

If they win the election in May i will give up on voting forever.I mean that,i really do.

[magnetictiger]

I think about Hillsborough a lot, don't think that counts as a mystery, but I wonder about the specific chain if events.

[chebby]

The Kennedy assassination always got to me.Never really explained.( Magic bullet crap)
Why kids kill others.
Yorkshire Ripper . Sutcliffe. Someone told me he wore a V neck jumper upside down ,legs in the arms and V at the crutch so his knees didn't get rubbed and , I suppose for easier exposure of his bits. God knows if that was really true. But if it was , how doe's anybody think of that sort of thing..

[Dan Fortesque]

Originally Posted by Hogzilla

4. I've read a few books and came to the conclusion he was alive when he left these shores and that there were several people who knew where he was, or where he was heading. Somewhere in Africa (that narrows it down).

I don't believe he killed himself either and I think some people helped him to escape. Morally reprehensible if true.

[Lizzy11268]

Originally Posted by bmillam

how the hell Tony Blair ever got elected

I voted for him

(Not sure that alone was enough to get him elected though! )

Originally Posted by DGSx

Roland Carnaby the man who may, or may not have been a CIA Officer who was shot dead by police in Dallas Texas a few years ago.

Also, the actual existance of Sherlock Homes and Dr Watson.

I didnt know they DID supposedly exist
Ooh...intriguing.

Originally Posted by rick182

The countryside beast

Any particular one? The beast of bodmin moor springs to mind but I think they solved that!

Originally Posted by U96

I think about all the UFO files.All the reported sightings(by airline pilots and their First Officers/Navigators amongst the general public).They run into millions.They can't all be rubbish can they?.

Ooh, now you could start a whole thing with that one! I am unconvinced by UFO's - Weather balloons, all of 'em

Originally Posted by FluffyEgg

How Gordon Brown is still in power.

Nope, sorry, no plausible theories for that one!

Originally Posted by Kinda

Re the Bermuda Triangle, I watched a very interesting documentary, which explained the myth or coincidences very convincingly...so no questions left there

Jack the Ripper - too many suspects, too many theories! I'll go with the Count (or whatever denomination he was) did it, theory

Maddie McCann still intrigues me, maybe because I read all about it and in detail, being in London then. It's one of those which has clues pointing strongly to the parents and clues pointing strongly away...similar to an unsolved case we have here - the Jon Benet Ramsey case

Who or what is Lord Lucan? An actual case or a character

Was that never solved, Jon Benet Ramsay? I followed that quite closely at one time, she was such a pretty little girl but oh my word, I am really not sure what to make of the childrens pageants (No offence!)
I thought the parents had been cleared though?

Lord Lucan - you can read the mystery here!

http://www.lordlucan.com/

Also, do you know if the Bermuda Triangle documentary you watched is available anywhere?

Originally Posted by Dan Fortesque

Whether D B Cooper survived or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

D.B. Cooper was in Warehouse 13 if that helps

It looks like he probably survived, if they never found remains?

Originally Posted by Turquoise

Does anyone remember that old 'Channel 6' back from when we only had terrestrial TV? You know, that extra channel that seemed to keep running despite the fact that nobody anywhere could recieve it properly? Crackly and fuzzy at the best of times, black n'white dotted lines at the worst?

Yeah...

What the hell was with that?

Nope, don't know that one!

[c0lefax]

Originally Posted by DGSx

Roland Carnaby the man who may, or may not have been a CIA Officer who was shot dead by police in Dallas Texas a few years ago.

That is pretty fascinating, only just looked the name up and had a little read and a video or two on YT. I'll have a little look more later on about that, really bizarre case all round.

To a couple of posts above, Lord Lucan fascinates me too. I go with the theory that he was in South Africa or around there, some of his family did fly over that way quite a bit, can't remember the details of it all but it was sus.

[chebby]

Originally Posted by magnetictiger

I think about Hillsborough a lot, don't think that counts as a mystery, but I wonder about the specific chain if events.

Yes that was a hell of a thing to happen , I was watching it on telly , when they said ,"There seems to be trouble in the crowd'
Horrendous.

[magnetictiger]

I watched something about a town full of twins recently, that was interesting.

[Dan Fortesque]

Originally Posted by chebby

The Kennedy assassination always got to me.Never really explained.( Magic bullet crap)
Why kids kill others.
Yorkshire Ripper . Sutcliffe. Someone told me he wore a V neck jumper upside down ,legs in the arms and V at the crutch so his knees didn't get rubbed and , I suppose for easier exposure of his bits. God knows if that was really true. But if it was , how doe's anybody think of that sort of thing..

Also, Sutcliffe was a copy cat killer, according to this. Which I think is nonsense, btw.

[TelevisionUser]

Well, what mystifies my is those occasional reports of showers of frogs and fishes on inland sites. How does that happen? Is it that these creatures are sucked up the many mini-tornados that we have in the UK and are then deposited elsewhere?

[rick182]

Crop Circles

[Lizzy11268]

Originally Posted by Hogzilla

1. Utter myth. Keeps the cheapo cable chanels in business though.

2. Apparently the 2 coppers in charge both felt it was Kosminsky, who was committed to an asylum and they felt it wasn't politic to push for an arrest so long as he was banged away... but I also favour the yank psycopathic quack 'dr', Tumblety.

3) I don't think Madeleine was abducted. But I don't think she was murdered, either. I think she has gone. Ben Needham I feel was abducted and may even still be alive somewhere. I always felt this, right from when it happened.

4. I've read a few books and came to the conclusion he was alive when he left these shores and that there were several people who knew where he was, or where he was heading. Somewhere in Africa (that narrows it down).

Other ones:

Peter Sutcliffe.. How many alibis was he initially given and why/how were they retracted?

Yes indeed. And wasnt he in custody for something else at one stage?

Originally Posted by magnetictiger

I think about Hillsborough a lot, don't think that counts as a mystery, but I wonder about the specific chain if events.

I do too. And that docu drama that has Chris Eccleston in it had me in floods of tears. I had a friend there on the day, who was luckily unhurt, but she cannot remember a thing about it from that day to this. Its some kind of stress amnesia, can't remember the medical term. She remembers getting there and she remembers being outside again but nothing in between.

Originally Posted by chebby

The Kennedy assassination always got to me.Never really explained.( Magic bullet crap)
Why kids kill others.
Yorkshire Ripper . Sutcliffe. Someone told me he wore a V neck jumper upside down ,legs in the arms and V at the crutch so his knees didn't get rubbed and , I suppose for easier exposure of his bits. God knows if that was really true. But if it was , how doe's anybody think of that sort of thing..

You'd be amazed at what people can come up with

Yes, Kennedy is one of those enduring ones isnt it?

[shortyknickers]

I also thought that the parents of Jon Benet Ramsay had been totally exonorated? (Thought her poor mother died before she knew they were cleared). Or have I dreamed it?

UFOs do it for me every time! Fascinating!

I've seen the Bermuda Triangle stuff totally demystified too, long time ago.

[TelevisionUser]

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[Hogzilla]

Originally Posted by chebby

Yes that was a hell of a thing to happen , I was watching it on telly , when they said ,"There seems to be trouble in the crowd'
Horrendous.

I was in a pub and it came on the telly. We were having a drink with an old uni friend of mine, who was now a journalist. He was gutted because it had happened not on his shift.