What real-life mystery would you like to solve?

[Tom_Foolery]

I'd like to know who really kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.

[Fenris]

1. Who was Jack the Ripper?

That's what I'd like to solve.

[ForrestGump]

12. Horatio Winningham III

[LosinIt]

2. 9/11 and Kennedy(s) and MLK assassination

probably all point back to the same place

[ForrestGump]

13. Bohemian Grove

[peacefreak]

3. Did Lizzie Borden

really give her father 40 whacks?

[ForrestGump]

14. She stopped at 39, when the axe handle broke. Hyperbole, again.

[Interrobang]

42. That one's been solved.

No, she didn't. She was found innocent in court, by reason of being tranquilized with laudanum (opium mixed with alcohol) at the time, for nerves, and was judged incapable of doing it.

I'd really like to figure out exactly what the Voynich Manuscript really is -- cyphertext, elaborate hoax, or someone's transliteration of a foreign language, or what?

[Bunny]

4. Jimmy Hoffa.

Jack the Ripper
Judge Crater

[ForrestGump]

15. All buried in the desert outside Las Vegas

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. Looks like Hoffa may be solved soon...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-05-28-hoffa_x.htm

I keep meaning to get the book. Too bad it's Fox News taking the credit.

[HEyHEY]

36. Area 51

[Red State Rebel]

72. Hoffa may already be solved....

I saw a promo on Faux that one of the main suspects gave a deathbed confession and they went to the place, found blood traces where the guy said it had happened and are doing DNA or something or another.

The guys family agree that he probably did do it and Hoffa's daughter seems to think it's on the up and up.

Could be all solved...

[Fenris]

5. And where the fuck is Jimmy Hoffa?

[ForrestGump]

16. Buried in the desert, like Wayne Newton's career

[jpgray]

71. I read that as "Wayne Newton's cancer" at this early am

Givin me a surreal little jolt this morning. :D

[name not needed]

28. Under Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ

[kiahzero]

32. Mythbusters actually looked there

They didn't find him.

[name not needed]

35. They were not checking everywhere

They checked 3 sections. Plus, they assumed his body was intact, rather than chopped up and strewn throughout different locations.

[rock]

6. The OJ Simpson case

Think you know? You might have a pretty good guess. But, I'll bet you don't have proof. After the shenigans that the media and LA police made out the case, I have serious doubts.

[ForrestGump]

17. He did it. In the conservatory. With a golf club.

[davsand]

7. I have several--but one really huge one.

What happened to Amelia Earhart? I'd add that to the list of mysteries I'd like to see solved. Along with Hoffa's whereabouts and the Lindburgh kidnapping. Who was Jack the Ripper is another good one, along with the Bermuda Triangle.



But, you know what REALLY huge mystery I'd love to see solved?

What REALLY happened with Christ?


Laura

[ForrestGump]

18. Christ went home, Amelia's compass went awry, and there is no Bermuda

Triangle.

[screwfacecapone]

8. tupac and biggie

it's about time we found out weather this was the result of the infamous west-coast east coast rap rivalry, or something more sinister.

[ForrestGump]

19. It was probably something Bill Clinton did

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. What really happened on 9-11, and what was the military told to do

Since someone else pegged JFK's and MLK's assassinations (which were my first thought), I'll take the 9-11 stuff.

I'm very curious just as to who knew what beforehand, on the day of, and what our administration really did while it was happening, and what the military (i.e., fighter jets) were told to do and/or NOT to do that day.

[ForrestGump]

20. IHOP

[nuxvomica]

49. And who bought all the airline "put" options just before 9/11?

And where exactly is Barbara Olsen? Did anhyone check the phone records to see if her husband's story was true?

[seaglass]

10. Deep Throat. Always wanted to know who he was. n/t

[ForrestGump]

21. John Holmes

[seaglass]

43. Who is he? Was he the guy that was having an affair with

Mitchells' wife - Martha?

[robertpaulsen]

34. It wasn't a "he". It was Linda Lovelace.

[seaglass]

41. Who's Linda Lovelace? Was she that redhead in the

State Department that supposedly Colson was having an affair with?

[ForrestGump]

11. All of these plus

i) where do socks go when laundered?

ii) where do pens go, for that matter?

iii) where's that certain irreplaceable audiotape of mine been hiding since 1983?

iv) women (alternatively, though not for me: men)

[ForrestGump]

22. Check sock drawer for all of these

Not MY sock drawer, though...the sock drawer of Bill Clinton's male apparatus.

[Bluebear]

24. Jon-Benet

To punish who did it, and if it was not the parents, to give them peace and quiet once and for all.

[traco]

33. Jon-Benet

is my choice too.

[Lestat]

25. The Bermuda Triangle or Atlantis...

or even maybe something out of the Bible.

[Canuckistanian]

26. Michael Rockefeller

Son of Nelson Rockefeller, lost in New Guinea in 1961

[Cheswick2.0]

27. the JFK assasination

I want to know what really happened.

[Senior citizen]

29. The Control of Candy Jones

and who shot and framed Mumia Abu Jamal.

[m-jean03]

30. What happened to my favorite black wool socks.

They disappeared in the washing machine room when I was in college. :cry:

[Champ]

37. I'm sorry

I'll never do it again, promise ;)

[m-jean03]

38. BASTARD!!

:grr:

[Champ]

40. Uh-oh

I never seen sweet m-jean like this before :scared:

[Magrittes Pipe]

45. By the way, Champ:

Thanks for sending me one of m-jean's socks. That was very nice of you! :yourock:

[m-jean03]

47. LOL!

At least they found good homes. . .

[Magrittes Pipe]

48. It is so soft...

...and it smells NICE! :loveya:

[m-jean03]

55. You're a sweetie

:loveya:

[Magrittes Pipe]

57. No, dear.

I'm just a filthy perv.

[maggrwaggr]

31. what exactly are ghosts?

I have had the literally hair-raising experience of encountering them.

I have no idea what they are.

[stavka]

56. Hve you ever heard the theory about electro-magnetic ressonance?

[PartyPooper]

39. What really happened to Paul Wellstone?

Was it just a horrible and tragic plane crash?

[x-g.o.p.er]

44. The curse of the Minnesota Vikings

Just one Super Bowl victory before I die, is that too much to ask?

[Magrittes Pipe]

46. Who was the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run?

I mean, everyone assumes it was Frank Sweeney.

But did he really do it, or did he just enjoy taunting Director Ness?

[mitchum]

50. Who Slew Auntie Roo?

[NightTrain]

51. The enduring popularity of Britney Spears.

By rights, her music career should've lasted a year or two and died out, like the hundreds of midget "teen idol" talents who preceded her. So why the fuck is she still making hits and headlines after five goddamned years???

[neverborn]

52. Who was the BTK killer?

Killer around 1986 -- this March just mailed photos to police proving he's still out there.

[pink-o]

53. The big one...

why are we here, what is our purpose, and how did we get here? Is anyone else out there...?

Okay, I guess that's more than one...:tinfoilhat:

[Kellanved]

I'd love to clear up the Nazi and assumed name mystery about Roland Koch

A German conservative xenophobic politician; currently Governor of Hesse.

[Kellanved]

54. Dupe post; ignore please

A German conservative xenophobic politician; currently Governor of Hesse.

[warrior1]

58. hmm

Since I all ready don't believe in ghosts, monsters, devil(s) ie Satan or Lucifer, god(s), angels, on the fence with UFO's, et al., what's left is either what was before the big bang, how did life evolve and what's at the end of the universe.

Oh, and has this happened before.

The Universe repeating itself over and over again. Like this isn't the first time a Universe was here. Hard to explain that one.

[Spider Jerusalem]

59. What's buried on Oak Island, Nova Scotia?

Hordes of treasure hunters have been trying to answer that one for two centuries now.

[wyldwolf]

61. fascinated me since I was a kid!

Used to say I was going there to find out!

[Cuban_Liberal]

60. Who murdered the Dardeen family?

Husband, wife, 3 year-old son and full-term baby (born during the muder of the wife) were brutally murdered in 1988 in rural Ina, IL. The case remains unsolved to this day...

[davsand]

63. Have you seen this?

About the Dardeen murders?

http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=1884559&nav=4nHWNIba

When I saw your post I thought I remembered seeing something about it. A drifter named Tommy Sells has admitted to the crime while on death row in Texas. The Dardeen family is convinced the guy did it based on info he provided to police.

Illinois has yet to follow up on it.

Laura

[Endangered Specie]

62. Was there ever water on Mars...

so NASA would move on to more interesting topics, forget Mars.

[Finbar]

64. what makes the teflon stick to the pan?

Why is abbreviated such a long word?
what would happen if an astronaut sneezed inside the space mask?

[Gildor Inglorion]

65. The disappearance of Richard Halliburton

and who built the mysterious "fort" atop Fort Mountain in Georgia, and why?

[Spirochete]

66. Who put the bomp

in the bomp-de-bomp-de-bomp?

[flamingyouth]

67. Who killed Sara Lundquist in Seattle in July 1978

She was my best friend's older sister and her murder was never solved. Not the most famous cold case, but a personal one for me.

[SarahB]

68. Men?

:shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

69. What happened to the "Lost" Roanoke Colony?

Always wondered...

[Awsi Dooger]

70. Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the Zodiac case, and D.B. Cooper

I'm convinced the Fatal Vision "killer" is 100% innocent, that a band of drug crazed hippies indeed broke into his home and murdered his wife and children. In fact, I would bet my own life on that certainty minus a touch of trepidation.

Zodiac is intriguing because of his ciphers and the radian angle/Mt. Diablo aspect. I seriously doubt Zodiac's true name has ever surfaced in public discussion.

Richard Floyd McCoy was D.B. Cooper. I would just like to see it confirmed so this non-mystery can be put to rest.

[dryan]

73. My list

Lindbergh Baby - Hauptman didn't do it folks
Jimmy Hoffa
JonBenet Ramsey
Why when men have wrinkles they look sexy but when women have wrinkles they look old!

[dryan]

74. My list

Lindbergh Baby - Hauptman didn't do it folks
Jimmy Hoffa
JonBenet Ramsey
Why when men have wrinkles they look sexy but when women have wrinkles they look old!

[Beware the Beast Man]

75. Why do men have nipples?

One of life's little mysteries.

[Bertha Venation]

76. What (exactly) happened to Amelia Earhart? n/t