What is your favorite unsolved mystery?
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No Jimmy Hoffa?
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/08/767283820/not-one-drop-of-blood-cattle-mysteriously-mutilated-in-oregon
You boys never heard of the chupacabra?
He's baaaaaack
You boys never heard of the chupacabra?
He's baaaaaack
A friend of mine graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy and was a junior officer on a freighter or container ship out of LA. One of the other officers kept on him that he was wanting to retire from his 'other job' and thought my friend was the perfect candidate to replace him. Guy was a contract killer. Ship hits port and the crew leaves while it's being unloaded. Guy takes care of his other business and is back on the ship when it sails several days later. Easy way to leave the country and leave no evidence behind.IDAGG said:
Rumors are the killers left the country within a day or two of the murder.
Obviously a professional hit.
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That wiki article on the sodder children is a tough read.
Oswald was the lone assassin. Anything else is bullcrap.Texmid said:
I would like to know the whole story behind the assassination of JFK.
The Amber Room disappearance during WWII
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I agree, but if you read the interviews from the Warren report, the amount of crazy stuff, including CIA work, going on around some of the main players is a matter of record and it's interesting reading.
I'd like to know the purpose of the Nazca lines, the whole reason behind the JFK assassination, and what causes the strange things that happen in the Bermuda Triangle.
It's not really a mystery what happened to Amelia Earhart, but I would like to know how it played out. Lots of rumors and some thin evidence that she may have survived a forced landing. Odds are, she simply crashed in the ocean and sank. But folks allegedly heard radio calls from her in the days after.
I think about it randomly all the time. Wonder if something will come up from a 23andme someday.
oragator said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum_theft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt
I fully believe they made it to freedom from Alcatraz.
The ark is in Ethiopia
One more....Maybe a mystery or maybe not,
But most folks don't know that the copy of the Declaration of Independence that was agreed to on July 4 1776 was lost to history. The one in the archives is the one signed when everyone got back in August.
It's called the fair copy, and one of three things happened to it - destroyed so the British couldn't have it, destroyed in the printing of the Dunlap broadsides (200 copies were published to be sent to the colonies, of which 26 exist - last one sold for 8 million), or maybe, just maybe it will turn up one day at a flea market, an estate sale, or some other completely unexpected place. Would be amazing.
But most folks don't know that the copy of the Declaration of Independence that was agreed to on July 4 1776 was lost to history. The one in the archives is the one signed when everyone got back in August.
It's called the fair copy, and one of three things happened to it - destroyed so the British couldn't have it, destroyed in the printing of the Dunlap broadsides (200 copies were published to be sent to the colonies, of which 26 exist - last one sold for 8 million), or maybe, just maybe it will turn up one day at a flea market, an estate sale, or some other completely unexpected place. Would be amazing.
On the local front, the OB needs to focus on the death of Missy Bevers, the work-out chic killed in a church in Midlothian by someone dressed in SWAT gear. They have the killer on video.
Gotta believe the husband & FIL are involved.
Gotta believe the husband & FIL are involved.
Agreed but I'd sure like to know why Oswald was killed.CanyonAg77 said:Oswald was the lone assassin. Anything else is bullcrap.Texmid said:
I would like to know the whole story behind the assassination of JFK.
I think Ruby was a mental midget who thought he'd be a hero for killing Oswald.jenn96 said:Agreed but I'd sure like to know why Oswald was killed.CanyonAg77 said:Oswald was the lone assassin. Anything else is bullcrap.Texmid said:
I would like to know the whole story behind the assassination of JFK.
Burkentine spanish shipwreck of 1822-ish near Refugio would be a really cool myster/legend to solve.
Jean Lafitte supposedly had several treasure hordes along the Texas coast - from Clear Creek to Lost Lake near Wallisville down to San Jose Iland near Aransas Pass. Odds are that there is, and never was, any actual treasure...but the legends live on today.
Just how many kids were killed by The Candy Man in the 70's in Houston. It is still an absolute affront to justice how the HPD essentially quit working on the case after nearly 30 victims were identified and some found. Bodies supposedly buried on Bolivar Island, among other places.
Raccoon Bend murders.
Jean Lafitte supposedly had several treasure hordes along the Texas coast - from Clear Creek to Lost Lake near Wallisville down to San Jose Iland near Aransas Pass. Odds are that there is, and never was, any actual treasure...but the legends live on today.
Just how many kids were killed by The Candy Man in the 70's in Houston. It is still an absolute affront to justice how the HPD essentially quit working on the case after nearly 30 victims were identified and some found. Bodies supposedly buried on Bolivar Island, among other places.
Raccoon Bend murders.
The speculation (who knows how accurate) is that it was Israeli/Russian mobsters. I don't know why other than one of the competitors he crapped on was Teva, a large Israeli Pharmaceutical company.WP69 said:A friend of mine graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy and was a junior officer on a freighter or container ship out of LA. One of the other officers kept on him that he was wanting to retire from his 'other job' and thought my friend was the perfect candidate to replace him. Guy was a contract killer. Ship hits port and the crew leaves while it's being unloaded. Guy takes care of his other business and is back on the ship when it sails several days later. Easy way to leave the country and leave no evidence behind.IDAGG said:
Rumors are the killers left the country within a day or two of the murder.
Obviously a professional hit.
WHAT WAS IN THE KITCHEN?!
Wrong, there were 3 shooters (CIA)
I knew a guy that worked with Oliver North that claimed to know one of the shooters, from his stint with the CIA.
I can't believe anyone could believe Oswald shot 3 times in 5 seconds with that bolt action and hitting Kennedy from two different directions. You need to listen to the Red Duke interview to hear what he saw when they brought Kennedy to the hospital.
I knew a guy that worked with Oliver North that claimed to know one of the shooters, from his stint with the CIA.
I can't believe anyone could believe Oswald shot 3 times in 5 seconds with that bolt action and hitting Kennedy from two different directions. You need to listen to the Red Duke interview to hear what he saw when they brought Kennedy to the hospital.
I have a hard time with people who think Oswalt acted alone and then ruby killed him and it's all as simple as that.
Among a million other bits of evidence, professional snipers couldn't replicate what oswalt did when they tried.
Among a million other bits of evidence, professional snipers couldn't replicate what oswalt did when they tried.
Bill James of baseball fame is a true crime buff and has a book out called Popular Crime. It's basically a collection of what I would call his book reports on the various true crime books he's read. He has a chapter on the JFK books he's read and the one he comes to think may be correct argues that Oswald started the shooting and in the confusion this caused, one of the FBI agents in the car behind JFK accidentally discharged his gun and fired the fatal shot. He gives a brief rundown of the evidence the book has amassed. No idea how credible it is but it convinced Bill James and is an interesting theory that doesn't require some crazy conspiracy for the shooting.
How we pay so much for a football coach and end up where we do.
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I can't believe anyone could believe Oswald shot 3 times in 5 seconds with that bolt action
He had 10-15 seconds to line up a shot from about 50 yards, then shot twice more within 5 seconds. Not that surprising with a scoped rifle, especially when the driver stopped for a second.
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and hitting Kennedy from two different directions.
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professional snipers couldn't replicate what oswalt did when they tried.
Sorry, that's just not true.
Actually, that theory comes from a firearms expert, Howard Donahue, and detailed in a book called Mortal Error, by Bonar Menniger.Quote:
in the confusion this caused, one of the FBI agents in the car behind JFK accidentally discharged his gun and fired the fatal shot.
It is an interesting theory, one that refutes a lot of conspiracy talking points very neatly.
Here's an article that outlines the theory in brief and tells about Donahue, who was one of the marksmen CBS hired, and who actually got three shots off quicker than did Oswald.
https://medium.com/@mokan9997/hidden-in-plain-sight-4761be7b8115
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CanyonAg77 said:Actually, that theory comes from a firearms expert, Howard Donahue, and detailed in a book called Mortal Error, by Bonar Menniger.Quote:
in the confusion this caused, one of the FBI agents in the car behind JFK accidentally discharged his gun and fired the fatal shot.
It is an interesting theory, one that refutes a lot of conspiracy talking points very neatly.
Here's an article that outlines the theory in brief and tells about Donahue, who was one of the marksmen CBS hired, and who actually got three shots off quicker than did Oswald.
https://medium.com/@mokan9997/hidden-in-plain-sight-4761be7b8115
I think that's the book Bill James was talking about, but it's been a while since I read it. Really good and easy read, btw. Everything from Lizzy Borden to OJ.
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