Turns out you can have mini avalanches on shallower slopes than previously thought. They cut a snow platform for their tent, the snow "slammed shut" on it, they spilled out into the terrible weather, injured and underclothed, tried to make it to shelter and died
there's always someone. that newspaper article that claimed there was radioactivity found on and around their remains really fucked it up for everyone after
omg, Rennes le Chateau is just the best of all these nonsense mysteries. I went on a tour there once with a guide who believed she was a reincarnation of a murdered cathar. absolutely fabulous
I’ve a memory of you and I discussing the Bermuda Triangle on Twitter years back about that doc that proved if you take 3 points in the ocean one an island and one onland they all feature roughly the same amount of sinkings and disappearances
exactly, i love the Bermuda Triangle as an expression of "ooh the sea's a bit weird innit", it serves as a really good way to warn people how dangerous it is out there but with ye olde here be monsters as an additive
Here’s one I like. Not exactly a mystery but was always noted giraffes are silent they don’t make specific noises then some research turned up they do it’s just far too low for humans to hear
that reminds me of another animal solved mystery; scientists *two years ago* tracked European eels to their breeding grounds for the first time ever, and have only been able to figure out how they actually breed over the last year.
If its a show, lets have it hosted by someone like Steve Burns. Someone who understands us and can convey to us with all his gentle voice that we don't need to be anxious or in flight or fight mode all the time when discovering new information to explain how things occurred.
I stopped practicing as a Catholic many years ago because too many answers to my questions were "that's one of the mysteries of the church." I called BS and kept it moving.
Louis Pasteur was once asked by his daughter: "Does frogs get e fever daddy?" He discovered hot and cold blooded animals. It made him realise that the questions are more important than the answers. Answers is the end of a journey, the questions raised are the beginning of new adventures.
The Iron Keep can be above the Poison Windmill area in Dark Souls 2, because the world isn't shaped by naturalistic ideas, but shaped and layered like a dream.
It's a more metaphorical world, whoch you literally plunge into by losing yourself into an abyss.
The Dyatlov Pass Incident was solved recently when someone modelled the slopes and found that it was steep enough to have an avalanche, which people hadn't believed before
Watched Caitlin Doughty’s video on this the other day. One of the researchers watched ‘Frozen’ and realised it had realistic snow models, so he asked Disney Animation for help. That’s how they worked out the avalanche theory was likely correct.
Scooby Doo but the episode is about 2 minutes long & starts with Thelma asking the question “who would stand to benefit from this unfortunate situation?”
The Sailing Stones of Racetrack Playa wasn't solved until about a decade ago when advancing technology allowed scientists to - finally - catch them at it
it's sheet ice, blown over a shallow pond, piling up behind the stones and pushing
Large stones or rocks which appear to move across the surface of a dry lakebed leaving behind a trail of where they have been. A combination of ice and wind enable these rocks to move during the night with nothing left in the morning other than the tracks on the surface. https://youtu.be/cmWc200yMoQ
YES god that makes me laugh. these super remote villages in the caucasian mountains somehow have people living to 130? oh yes i'm sure it's nothing to do with record keeping going slightly awry either
Moving to Euboia in the hopes of living to 145 because of the magic figs or whatever, only to find it’s just the usual Greek creativity with form-filling
With a bit of help from 20th century Greece just being chaotic with the number of violent changes of government resulting in buildings with records in them burning
The earth is a bloated human corpse it will turn to dust someday. We will fall down into it still being within its atmosphere we will become smaller each generation because less oxygen and pressure. For a time we will fly on farts alone. People will die and become new planets for smaller people. ♾️
One local to me: strange lights and sounds of a "plane/UFO crash" for which no physical evidence was ever found. After many years of questioning, turned out it was the RAF fannying about with (illegal) supersonic flights.
In 1997 hydrophones or extremely sensitive underwater microphones detected an ultra low frequency high amplitude sound near the Antarctic west of Chile which came to be known as the bloop as at the time the source for the noise was unknown, speculation continued until 2005. https://youtu.be/1LaWbbIWRvs
The Pioneer anomaly (Pioneers 10 and 11 were traveling slower than NASA thought they should) was solved. Turns out that Pu-238 radioisotope generators can apply a small force over many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly
The “Solway Spaceman” was probably the photographer’s wife inadvertently photobombing a picture and the photgrapher didn’t trealise because of the limited vision through his viewfinder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway_Firth_Spaceman
When they were writing the script for The Big Sleep, the writers asked Chandler to sum up for them who killed whom and why, to which he replied "Damned if I know".
Do check out his essay The Simple Art of Murder
Someone posted on my village Facebook group the had lost a kitten, I went for my morning walk, found it, brought it home, messaged her, fed it , it played with my mob for a bit and she was over after work to pick it up. Her children were happy.
now this is i think the third solve of the DB Cooper thing? i thought it was established he probably died in the fall as none of the money he got was ever in circulation again, and was in fact found rotting in the woods
I mean he should never have made it to the ground alive jumping into a forest after dark in a storm, but then no body was ever found even if some of the cash was, sooo…?
human remains are easily predated and thus scattered, especially as the cash was found effectively embedded into the bank near a river iirc. not impossible he was swept away.
I saw this article on the latest anniversary, suggests his loot bag might have broken open scattering the money over a huge area, and he was incapacitated by either cold or lack of oxygen before he pulled the cord, so he probably ended up going “SPLAT!” into a mountaintop… https://t.co/SuOFk0p1JD
It would also be a bit odd to commit one of the most audacious getaways in history and then just keep the (presumably easily identifiable and marked) parachute as a souvenir for decades.
i would absolutely go to a mcdonalds with it and was like "hey guess who i am" until an employee called the police and was like "there's this absolute weirdo here"
I was watching the unsolved mysteries channel and thinking the same thing. All of the episodes are old now. There’s still no update 30 years later?!?
I can’t go on this way.
Back when IMDB had a comment section there was a maintained thread that tracked which episodes/cases were solved. There's probably something on reddit somewhere.
Someone’s looking for closure??? Awe honey, Science is never ending. You want religion, they give you definitive answers you can’t question.. or do they mean shouldn’t?🧐🤣
solved a very long time ago, but one of my faves is "where do birds go in the winter?" with hibernating at the bottom of ponds being a popular hypothesis, until someone found a stork flying around with a spear through it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch
there's a tiny bird called a Willow Warbler that migrates here from Southern Africa. We can catch them on the return journey to ring them, and it's incredible to see this 8g bird (smaller than a robin) still with pollen from the Ivory Coast all over its face
The case from the movie Memories of Murder (2003) was solved in 2019. In a strange twist, the killer had already been sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for a different crime.
We were all terrified of Spontaneous Human Combustion in the 70s and 80s but it turned out that the deaths were almost always caused by casual small fires, eg cigarettes, and human fat is capable of burning over a long period of time with little to no sign of smoke. No fat to burn around ankles.
it was even in ghost story books when i was a kid! so weird how it was everywhere. and also it was caused by all the man-made materials in clothing being cheaply produced post-war so it was highly flammable
A bit like how good quality photos of Nessie and Bigfoot haven’t increased dramatically despite millions of people now having high resolution digital cameras 🤔
CSI season 1 - Sara thinks a case could be spontaneous human combustion and Warwick is all “girl, no”
It wasn’t, it was a cigarette and a terrible nighty
I remember ball lightning being the second most popular go-to explanation after aliens for every mystery phenomenon in the 80s and 90s, at least in the stuff I read
That's true. It's also true that a human has 22 more xx and xy chromosomes than the one dominate set that triggered at that point in their gestation to determine the gender.
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World featured a section on the mystery of whether giant squids are real, despite also having a photograph of a giant squid washed up on a beach; that's how they eked out a solved mystery
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Turns out you can have mini avalanches on shallower slopes than previously thought. They cut a snow platform for their tent, the snow "slammed shut" on it, they spilled out into the terrible weather, injured and underclothed, tried to make it to shelter and died
It's a more metaphorical world, whoch you literally plunge into by losing yourself into an abyss.
it's sheet ice, blown over a shallow pond, piling up behind the stones and pushing
Here's the Ig Nobel-winning research itself
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3
https://youtu.be/r6q3s1MI6NE?si=lZAu6PPGR0WE0qt7
You can fit that into most mysteries and it works.
Do check out his essay The Simple Art of Murder
Complete story arc with no mystery or drama.
I can’t go on this way.
Simply think to yourself; "which muppet would do that if they were present?"
Atlantis? You KNOW that was sluts.
At sea. 38 lost in 2022. Something like 26 in 2023.
With satellitw the numbers are declining rapidly
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
It wasn’t, it was a cigarette and a terrible nighty
In the most "dude in his late 30s" moment of my life, it made me think, "there's a podcast in this".
A surprising amount of them just come down to, "made it up, lol"
https://xkcd.com/1235/
https://bsky.app/profile/disappoptimism.bsky.social/post/3l27xze42tc2j