W. Mark Felt outed himself as Deep Throat. William Poundstone claims to have identified The Residents. Scientologists believe that we’re haunted by aliens. And there’s this guy named Cecil Adams who’s drawn back his share of curtains.
What are the biggest secrets that remain unrevealed? The formula for Coca-Cola? What exactly happened to Jimmy Hoffa? Whether or not Marilyn Monroe was murdered?
Note: by secret, I mean something that at least a few people out there probably know the answer to. Something that’s unknowable at this point – Judge Crater’s fate, for example, or what happened to the crew of the Marie Celeste – well, those are more mysteries than secrets.
For my money, it’s got to be the Colonel’s 11 herbs and spices. That why anyone seriously bought an N-Gage.
Seriously though there’s Hoffa and Amelia Earhart. I know there are more, but I’m not enough of a mystery buff to be able to think of them off the top of my head.
Mysteries: What was buried at Oak Island? And by who?
Secrets: Who killed JonBenet?
Where did those three fugitives from the AUM Shinrikyo nerve-gas cult go? (Japan has a universal 15-year statute of limitations, so in a few years they’re quite possibly gone for good)
What was on those 18 minutes of tape?
Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?