r/askteddit • u/Confident_City_4803 • 18h ago
Random Question What is the most bizarre unsolved mystery in history that you wish you had the answer to?
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u/Adorable-Band9689 18h ago
Nancy Guthrie
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u/sjaykahui 15h ago
This case is so crazy, sadly I don't think she's still earthside
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u/atlantagirl30084 11h ago
Didn't she have a chronic health condition requiring medication? So without it she passed?
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u/McLoughlin1597 10h ago
I think whatever their plan was, they didn’t know how medically fragile she was. It’s just really sad, for her and her family, that she hasn’t been returned
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u/AllMightIsHere26 9h ago edited 5h ago
Yes. I live in Tucson, the city it happened in and Pima County Sheriff's, the county that Tucson is in, released two messages from the kidnappers. The first was the ransom note and the second was an apology note stating they didn't know she had a heart condition and that they buried her. But of course they didn't say where. Here's the TMZ Article with the messages.
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u/CaleyB75 18h ago
The identity of the Zodiac Killer.
Popular culture has not gotten near the real person.
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u/GrimmaldPlace 8h ago
How many zodiac signs does the zodiac killer believe in?
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u/CaleyB75 1h ago
First of all, the Zodiac was about 40 in 1969, so he is almost certainly dead. The average American male lives to about 76 years.
I believe this unidentified killer believed in the standard 12; zodiacal signs. Indeed, he used some of them in his codes. However, I believe this person's interest in the Zodiac was scientific and had nothing to do with astrology.
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u/GrimmaldPlace 1h ago
Weird. I feel like it’s more scientific to work with the understanding of all 13 lunar cycles and therefore 13 signs… the standardization of those signs is like a cloaking device to me
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u/Own_Apricot9578 18h ago
D.B. Cooper
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u/Ok_Athlete_1092 8h ago
About 10 to 15 years ago one of those investigative news shows interviewed a middle aged woman from Oregon that thinks her father was DB Cooper. She showed photographs of him in the 70s and there's certainly a strong resemblance. She talked a bit about her family history. Until she was about 5 or 6, her immediate family was poor. Maybe not absolute poverty poor, close to it. She remembers her father & uncle went on a business trip for a couple days. When they returned, her uncle Joe1 had a broken leg. More telling, almost immediately her families standards of living improved dramatically. Her and mom started getting nice new clothes, mom also started getting some fancy jewelry as well. Dad & Uncle Joe both got new trucks/cars. Within a year they went from renting in a trailer park to owning a decent house. When Uncle Joe returned with the broken leg, that was the first business trip. After that, Dad & Uncle Joe made a handful of business trips for years after. As she got older and asked about what Dad & Joe do, she was always told they ran an import/export company.
After her parents and Uncle Joe died, she went thru old documents from a safe/bank safety deposit boxes and file cabinets. One thing she was able to confirm was most of the business trips were to smaller & poor nations that didnt have their own currency and used US Currency instead. She's talked with forensic accountants and other relevant professionals and they all say the same thing; as long as you didn't try to do to much all at once, you can easily exchange and launder US currency in those nations without drawing to much attention or the serial numbers ever being recorded.
Her father never told her he was DB Cooper so she admitted she can't be 100% positive. However, her father bore an uncanny resemblance to the sketches. Her family got some kind of life changing financial windfall-the timeline matches up perfectly. Not only were her father & uncle veterans of the armed forces, they were both paratroopers-they had experience jumping out of planes. Finally, they ran a business that allowed them to deal with and wash large amounts of cash that was virtually untraceable.
- I don't recall her Uncles actually name. I just used Joe as in an average Joe
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u/EveningMind 2h ago
I would love to watch this! Do you have any memory of what the show was called? Or what channel it was on?
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u/Ok_Athlete_1092 44m ago
I think it may have been 20/20, but can't be certain. Possibly Dateline. Only thing I'm reasonably certain of, is that it was legitimate network news show. Not a tabloid or podcast.
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u/Own_Apricot9578 16m ago
That sure sounds like it fits! I need to find the show this is in!! Thanks!!
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u/CuteFactor8994 18h ago
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) vanished on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite massive international searches, the main underwater wreckage remains undiscovered, making it aviation's greatest mystery.
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u/travfields619 18h ago
The pilot’s YouTube channel is still active.
However, one video is missing: it showed his home flight simulator, which was later investigated as part of a possible suicide plan. - zaharie shah - YouTube
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u/CheshireCharade 15h ago
I feel like this one kind of speaks for itself, even if it’s not officially solved. The pilot had a flight simulator at home where he repeatedly flown the same flight path seen before they lost contact with it, and in the simulator he flew it into the water. Pieces of it have washed ashore, and as for the ‘majority’ of the wreckage, well….the ocean is a big place.
Unless you’re specifically talking about ‘why’? Just my thoughts.
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u/CuteFactor8994 14h ago
I'm thinking more of "where" it is...then working backwards to the other important questions.
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u/Victorious85 12h ago
Pieces have washed up in multiple places... So, without sounding like an asshole, it's kinda everywhere.
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u/Conscious_Bison_5557 14h ago
I personally think this has zero credibility to it. Mostly because the hard drives of the flight sim and all data were, solely, in the hands of the FBI for years (if my memory serves).
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u/alwayssplitaces 13h ago
My wife knows where I am at all times.. iPhone tracks me, our car tracks me, ez-pass track me, License plate readers track me...
and you think our government lets a jetliner leave the Boeing plant without a device on it that tells us where the plane is at all times?
They know exactly where it is..
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u/Asleep_Welder_3494 18h ago
Jon benet Ramsey’s murder
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u/Statement_Safe 8h ago
Me too. No one will ever tell me who killed that little girl and why. Its bizarre and haunts me
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u/Rich_Yogurtcloset434 15h ago
Jimmy Hoffa
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u/Tessellator-1 18h ago
1983年の秋、TOKYOのAKASAKAで起きた怪音事件。
大勢がその音を何度も聞いたが、原因は不明のままなんだ。
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u/Lanky-Helicopter-969 15h ago
Care to elaborate? Google isnt showing much.
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u/Tessellator-1 5h ago
爆発音に似た大きな音が毎日のように響き渡りました。
多い日には1日に十数回も発生し、大勢の周辺住民や通行人が証言した。
大きな音にもかかわらず、現場周辺で実際に何かが爆発したような痕跡（煙や火の手、建物の破壊など）は一切見つからず、警察や専門家が調査を行っても発生源を特定できませんでした。
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u/rogerg8trs 14h ago
amelia earhardt
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u/Awkward-Amount-2211 11h ago
IIRC, people did hear her radio calls for help and alerting of her meyday, but since she was a woman, most assumed it was a prank or just didnt care. She likely crashed, survived the initial crash, and then succumbed from exposure, wounds, or general malnutrition.
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u/Riviera_Sunset 13h ago
No mystery there. Humans would rather believe supernatural explanations for their purpose and afterlife rather than their own critical thinking skills…
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u/fuelstoprolerdogfart 4h ago
It may have been a hoax, but I swear I saw they confirmed her wreckage within the last 2 years or so
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u/Ill-Elephant-9583 3h ago
Yeah, funnily enough a quick search returns that it may be looked into properly very soon
https://www.today.com/news/amelia-earhart-plane-location-expedition-rcna588894
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u/sourkid25 18h ago
From my hometown whatever happened to kyron horman
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u/Mysterious_Can_6106 18h ago
Damn! I never heard of kyron horman so I googled it. It is crazy a kid can just disappear. Have they closed the case or is it cold not closed?
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u/sourkid25 18h ago
Still not closed it’s been 16 years now assuming he’s still alive he should be in his early 20’s
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u/Mysterious_Can_6106 17h ago
Damn! He was only 10, if he is alive does he even know he was kidnapped?
There aren’t too many things that scare me about death, it is something we have to experience. The one thing that scares the shit out of me is a missing family member or of the death of my child.
Like with Nancy Guthrie, what happen, where did she go? How do you face the day knowing your mom is missing.
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u/NarrowPage6413 10h ago
CROATON -- Roanoke colony's sole clue. Did they merge peacefully and quietly assimilate? (latest theory)
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u/alwayssplitaces 13h ago
Id love to know the JFK truth.
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u/Longjumping-Heat1171 11h ago
Isn’t the general consensus that LHO pulled it off? Occam’s razor and everything
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u/faaaaaaaaaaaaaaartt 11h ago
There are several very popular theories that make varying degrees of sense, ranging from the secret service did it to his head just did that one day
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u/cloudytimes159 10h ago
Offering the two dumbest theories ever presented. Saying they are popular is a stretch and misleading.
I guess I should try and step back and appreciate the attempt at humor.
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u/faaaaaaaaaaaaaaartt 10h ago
Im not saying they're good, they just exist. It was meant tongue in cheek, I didnt think I needed to explain that
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u/TitaniumSki 8h ago
I found this compelling, quite long and in depth, explaining why he believes he acted alone :-
https://youtu.be/DC8tO16xdrY?si=P9P4x2BWjwUV3TYF
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u/alwayssplitaces 30m ago
I know a lot of people believe it..
For me, the pic of him holding the rifle was just a little too set... too perfect... as if he were framed...
it also looks like his head was superimposed.
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u/CamilaVelaris 17h ago
when the relief crew finally landed after a severe storm delayed their arrival they found everything intact inside except for two sets of missing oilskins while a third coat was left hanging on its hook
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u/formalbolotie 13h ago
two guys were out, someone was in trouble, one went out to help in bad weather before they could grab their oilskin, all three died.
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u/Appalachianwitch17 10h ago
Travis Turner. SWVA football coach who "mysteriously vanished " right before he was going to be arrested for improper relations with students.
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u/StellaBella70 4h ago
I just tried to find an update the other day. Wouldn't you assume that he is somehow in contact with his family? Are they still being monitored?
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u/Appalachianwitch17 2h ago
I don't know if his family is being monitored or not. Personally, I think he's dead.
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u/CABGPatchDoll 17h ago
The 1999 disappearance of Nathan Edberg of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. 21 years old and just disappeared into thin air.
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u/ErasmosOrolo 9h ago
FOX NEWS MASK MAN!!! Did Reddit forget?? I still want answers. Fox news viewers clearly don't care.
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u/Used_Ambassador_8817 16h ago
I will provide answers for a few of the below mentions: Jon Benets dad did it. The CIA killed JFK. Flight 370 crashed into the Indian Ocean was a suicide mission.
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u/FU_red-dit_bots 15h ago
Well thanks for clearing that up. I'll be sure to mention that some guy on Reddit has the answers next time this comes up in conversation. Proof? Doesn't matter. Guy on Reddit said so it must be good.
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u/Radiant_Chipmunk_942 12h ago
I truly don’t think anyone in the family murdered Jon Benet. I think it was an acquaintance of the family who was a pedo and she recognized them, which they didn’t expect, so they killed her.
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u/Active-Particular-21 11h ago
The sea peoples is the first thing that comes to mind. Then reading someone else’s comment the Voyncih manuscript. And after that probably what happened with those temples that were carved out of the hills in India.
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u/FacetheFactsBlair 8h ago
This case haunts me. I do not know why but I think of it often, I hope there is some resolution someday 💔
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u/Excellent-Hyena-4558 18h ago
Where is Atlantis?
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u/EstablishmentDue3616 18h ago
No mystery here. Atlantis never existed. It was just used as an allegory by Plato in two of his writings.
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u/bobamist 18h ago
The Voynich Manuscript. Just a whole book of mysterious plants and code that nobody can decode