# Explain the unexplained **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2022, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898 "2022-06-09T00:19:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/1 "2022-06-09T00:19:16Z")
I’ll start. Chupacabra: Dead goats and chickens turned up in Puerto Rico, and then stopped/tapered off. I think it was a sick wino who killed animals for a lark. He snuffed it, and all that was left was the occasional copycat. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/2 "2022-06-09T00:47:59Z")
Bigfoot was a blurry shot of a retired NBA player out hiking in a fur coat. Now it’s a series of pranksters (including our own Beckdawreck). ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/3 "2022-06-09T01:58:13Z")
Crop circles. the best explanation I ever heard was “Crazed Hedgehogs”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/4 "2022-06-09T02:20:28Z")
U.F.Os are actually sentient pie tins that learned how to play dead when found by observing opossums in the wild. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/5 "2022-06-09T02:35:26Z")
The Bermuda Triangle is really just due to spring breakers and drunk pilots out of NAS Pensacola not being able to navigate or listen to weather forecasts. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/6 "2022-06-09T02:44:22Z")
The pyramids are natural formations as a result of erosion. The surrounding sand is what’s left of the original rock. The Sphinx is an oddity of microclimate. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/7 "2022-06-09T03:06:50Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Bigfoot was a blurry shot of a retired NBA player out hiking in a fur coat. OR… ![](https://i.giphy.com/media/1QjzdN6Q3HTrwqmKGH/giphy.webp) ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/8 "2022-06-09T03:58:52Z")
Wait just one dang minute there guy! You can’t be spreading that misinformation out or the woods will be destroyed by scrapers wanting to sell the tin. UFO’s actually are subaquatic objects developed by Cephalopods and are mostly based in the South Pacific. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/9 "2022-06-09T04:08:06Z")
That is not why they are becoming scarce. It turns out that being stuffed with fruit and shoved into ovens is a deadly addiction they just can’t break. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/10 "2022-06-09T04:09:15Z")
Unicorns do exist, but are rare because when they’re sent to the glue factory, it results in a superior grade of adhesive. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/11 "2022-06-09T04:11:02Z")
So naming it “Gorilla Glue” is just to throw us off the scent? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/12 "2022-06-09T04:11:41Z")
Nessie is actually an escaped wooden giraffe from a carousel dumped into Loch Ness as part of a massive carnival insurance fraud scheme. [![](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2019_36/2997396/190905-loch-ness-monster-mc-1159.JPG) ](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2019_36/2997396/190905-loch-ness-monster-mc-1159.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/13 "2022-06-09T04:15:07Z")
Gosh, so much misinformation here. There was a circus in town ([really](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11718476)) and the elephants were taken to the Loch in the evenings to bathe. This is just a badly cropped picture of another Sub Aquatic Object. Don’t look up folks Look Down! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/14 "2022-06-09T04:54:25Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > Crop circles. the best explanation I ever heard was “Crazed Hedgehogs”. Naaah. Crop circles are caused by mechanical water sprinkler systems gone awry. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/15 "2022-06-09T12:53:52Z")
You can park on a driveway and drive on a parkway due to a mixup by a typesetter working on an early edition of Websters. By the time the mistake was realised, too many municipalities and homeowners had simply followed the dictionary’s guidance to bother changing. So everyone just went with it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/16 "2022-06-11T02:58:57Z")
Bigfoot is my neighbor. It’s a quiet place. They will not mow their yard, tho’. I may have to call the county and have him fined. And there’s all those cars on blocks. Gotta go.🤭 The famous Gurdon light is someone else walking the tracks in front of you, looking for the light, with a flash light. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-unexplained/965898/17 "2022-06-11T13:40:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Bigfoot is my neighbor. [Does he eat out of your trash?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-DAWveB_g&t=17s)