Lets have some fun

[Reeder]

If you could solve one of history's "usolved mysteries"
which would you choose?

I think I'd like to be the one to find out what weas really behind the Nazca figures. Way to large for any use terrestrial. But no way for them to be seen from the air. At least that we know of.

What would be yours?

[Reeder]

Mods..

Forgive me for misclicking...please..I grovel..please move this to mspisms where it belongs.

Bad Reeder..Bad!

[DaveRaver]

We still don't know how the pyramids were built. That would be interesting to find out.

[Phelan]

I would wanna find out how they get the caramel into a CARAMILK bar, or how did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

[DRY]

--The Little Princes in the Tower of London, circa 1480 A.D., would be my first choice.

--What really happened to Amelia Earhart

--What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa

--Who was Jack the Ripper (I know, I know...insert JDT joke here)

(I would have said the "Anna Anderson mystery", but I believe that one has been put to bed.)

[Arden Ranger]

1. How the pyrimads were built. Even though I have my own theories, it would be cool to actually see it done.

2. What the sphinx looked like the day it was finished.

3. Actually, you can put me down for any Egyptian mystery. (lost tombs, erecting obelisksI'm sure that's spelt wrong, but I'm tired, etc..)

4. How Stonehenge was erected.

5. Who the devil carved that creepy crystal skull and why! (Have you seen that thing? ::shiver::)

6. Where did the legend of Atlantis spring from. Really. Was it Plato? Was it an older story? Was in really the Minonian civilization?

7. What really good drugs was Nostradomus taking?

[blur]

How and why they built the huge stone statues on Easter Island.

[Rilchiam]

Who built Stonehenge and why.

What OJ said to Rosie Grier.

If fire was first made by a man or a woman.

[UncleBill]

The Mayan culture, toys with wheels but no work wheels? Pyramids and precise stellar calendars?

Jesus, from year three to thirty, then the days after Golgatha (sp?)

Babylon.

Ancient Greece.

Where my socks go when they are stolen from the dryer?

[Arden Ranger]

After some thought, I would like to change my answer.

Other folks are covering Stonehenge and the pyrimads and while I wouls really like the other questions resolved sometime in my lifetime, what I really want to know is

What happened to the Amber Room (http://shop.yantar.ru/amberoomstory1.shtml). I would, of course, also like to find the rest of it.

[Sengkelat]

Oak Island. What exactly was so valuable as to warrant that much effort to protect it, and how did they ever expect to get it out? And who were "they", anyway? So far the buried treasure has resisted all efforts to retrieve it.

[Paul The Younger]

When is Anthracite's Horror at Cecil Cove, Part Three going to be ready?

And will I get a part?

[Tommy the Cat]

Originally posted by blur
How and why they built the huge stone statues on Easter Island.

I just watched a NOVA on that very subject two weeks ago. They covered how they (they're called mo-i, that's phonetic) were built and how they were moved. Although, I don't recall them saying why.


I'm with UncleBill on the socks thing.

[Beadalin]

How giant squids behave in the wild, and whether or not one can be tamed enough to let me ride around on its back.

Whether or not there is, or ever has been, a Loch Ness Monster. Ditto Sasquatch, Skunk Ape, Jersey Pine Devil, alien abductions. I'd be happy solving any of those.

The details of what became of Anastasia.

Where any and all Nazi gold is buried.

The details of what became of Amelia Earhardt.

If the cross-cultural Flood myths have any basis in an actual event.

Lots of other stuff, but those spring to mind.

[Wartime Consigliori]

1) What happened to D.B. Cooper?
2) Who really killed JFK?
3) How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
4) Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
5) Who, really, is Cecil?

[Spritle]

I'm going for the Beall Treasure.



Anna Anderson?

[Tygr]

A (fairly) local one: The Lost Colony

or the Tunguska Blast

[Una Persson]

Originally posted by Paul The Younger
When is Anthracite's Horror at Cecil Cove, Part Three going to be ready?

And will I get a part?

1) Soon. I worked on it today, as a matter of fact, killing off another character. I posted before that Part 3 is about twice as long as Part 2. It could be longer. It will have (does have, actually) some action, death, more intrigue, some revelations, and wild lesbian sex.1

2) Sorry, but probably not. This late in the game I am reluctant to introduce new characters. Or, that is, new characters other than the ones I already planned to.



1) OK, maybe not.

[Scotticher]

Well, those of you who know me well know that I am firmly convinced that Richard III was a hero, rather than a villian.

So....am I right? Am I wrong? (I don't THINK so)

My head hurts.

[andygirl]

Una, the teeming millions demand lesbian sex.

Or at least my character deserves it. ;)

I would like to know what happened at Roanoke.

[Rilchiam]

DNA tests proved, to general satisfaction, that Anna Anderson was not Anastasia.

What was the Tunguska Blast?

[exchicagoan]

I see we all pretty much wonder about the same stuff. Only one to add----


The BLACK DAHLIA case. Who killed Elizabeth Short in 1947? Reams of things written about it; but no one has a clue.

[Sir Rhosis]

Originally posted by Reeder
Mods..

Forgive me for misclicking...please..I grovel..please move this to mspisms where it belongs.

Bad Reeder..Bad!

Reeder, I'm having one of those days. To wit, why are you asking forgiveness for misc. licking? (Forgive me for that one)

Excellent question. I would like for the mystery of Little Miss 1565 to be totally solved. In 1993, IIRC, a fire marshall in Hartford, after years of research "solved" the mystery of the unidentified girl killed in the 1944 circus fire. But recently I have read that the only problem with this is that the deceased girl's dental records (taken at her autopsy) do not match the records of the girl he identified her as. FTR, I believe he did solve the case, and that the dental records are wrong, misplaced, etc.

I would love for conclusive evidence to be found (musty old papers stashed away in a trunk in someone's attic is usually the way these things go) to prove either way if William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon wrote the plays attributed to his name or if (YOUR CHOICE OF CANDIDATES) actually was the literary genius "for all time." Also, I would like to know who he left his "first best bed" to.

Sir Rhosis

[malkavia]

Actually.. they had a good idea on who killed The Black Dahlia, but unfortunately his house blew up before he could stand trial. *oops*

1. Does Roland ever find The Dark Tower?

2. Who blew up Mount Carmel in Waco. (Though I know the answer, I just wanna hear the ATF admit it, those jackasses)

3. How Gore got to be a Democrat.

4. What happened to my Boys for Pele cd.

5. Who wins when Ghienna hits? (Caine? the Anti-Deluvians? The 14th generation vamps?)

6. Which, if any, religion is right?

7. What posseses fuckos to IM me in the middle of the night looking for a good time when my profile says "Do not message me."?

8. Why am I still awake?

[Gyrate]

What -- no one wants to know who shot JFK?

[Tygr]

Tunguska: Location of a mysterious, extremely powerful explosion that flattened a part of Siberia in 1908.

http://www.psi.edu/projects/siberia/siberia.html

from "Ghostbusters"
Ray: You've been a part of the biggest inter-dimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska Blast of 1909.

Lewis: It felt great....

I own one of those deep, highly scientific books that gets sent to you when you subscribe to Reader's Digest. The book offers exhaustively researched theories about some of the world's great mysteries. One section explores the possibility that the Tunguska explosion might have been caused by a black hole entering earth's atmosphere.

There are several links from Yahoo. The above link is the only site that is CERTAIN it was a meteorite that exploded in the air.

[Spritle]

Mebbe the whole Lizzie Borden thing, too.

[moi]

Originally posted by DRY
--The Little Princes in the Tower of London, circa 1480 A.D., would be my first choice.
DRY and Scotticher: Just read The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684803860/o/qid=991407668/sr=2-1/102-4936482-1388933) and would highly recommend it if this mystery interests you. :)

[Scotticher]

moi,

That is one of my favorite books! And I think reading it was my introduction to the subject.

Scotti

[lno]

I'd want to find out what Scipio said to Hannibal prior to Zama. Did they try to avert the battle? Was it a bunch of macho posturing and boasting? Did they swap recipes from their wives?

Then I'd want to find out what Leo I said to Attila the Hun to convince him not to sack Rome. A simple explanation is that he called down the wrath of God, but what would Attila, with his disregard for Christianity, care if some random god had a shitfit? Or maybe Leo bribed him to take a hike, but one would think that Attila would deduce "If he gives me this much to go away, imagine how much I'd get if I pillaged". Or maybe Attila had a bad case of diarrhea in a precursor to Napoleon's downfall at Waterloo?

[Jet Jaguar]

If I could only pick one, it would be to find out what really happened to D.B. Cooper. Since the money was never spent, I doubt he made it, but it would be nice to know for sure, and know who he really was.

But since that one was mentioned already, how about who was the man in the iron mask?

[DRY]

Originally posted by Rilchiam
DNA tests proved, to general satisfaction, that Anna Anderson was not Anastasia.
Yep, that's why I felt that this particular mystery was put to bed.

One weakness in the Anderson case was that her explanation of how she survived was pretty far fetched.

moi,

I've also read (and own) the "Daughter of Time". And "The Sunne in Splendor" which I recommend to any Richard III fan.

Actually, I've probably read at least forty (yes, I'm serious) books about Richard III and the related period. While I personally am a "fan" of Richard III (I have a poster of him in my room), I think that he very well could have killed the princes, though he was far from the epitome of evil he's made out to be. If he killed them, he thought it was politically necessary (keeping around pretenders to the throne is politically foolish).

I also believe Henry Tudor or the Duke of Buckingham could have done it.