# What are the biggest secrets that remain unrevealed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 21, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540 "2006-07-21T21:27:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/1 "2006-07-21T21:27:23Z")
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. What’s left to uncover? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/2 "2006-07-21T22:33:03Z")
I’d say Jimmy Hoffa, but I’m from Detroit so that’s a given. My Dad and I used to drive by the [Machus Red Fox](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machus_Red_Fox) restaurant all the time and my Dad would always point out it was the final place Hoffa was seen. I assume of course he was killed in thrown in a river of chopped up or something else. You know, like all good crooks are. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/3 "2006-07-21T23:24:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/4 "2006-07-21T23:29:08Z")
Who was Dan (D. B.) Cooper, and what happened to him after his jump? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/5 "2006-07-21T23:55:22Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] Who was Dan (D. B.) Cooper, and what happened to him after his jump? [/QUOTE] Him? Oh, he went to prison under a different name and for a different crime. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/6 "2006-07-22T00:09:48Z")
I would think the murder of JFK would be in the Top Ten. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/7 "2006-07-22T00:39:32Z")
Did the dingo _really_ take the baby? [Azaria Chamberlain mystery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azaria_Chamberlain) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/8 "2006-07-22T00:47:40Z")
[QUOTE=DooWahDiddy] I would think the murder of JFK would be in the Top Ten. [/QUOTE] There’s no secret there. Everyone knows who did it. ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/9 "2006-07-22T01:01:32Z")
Did N. Tesla really invent a death ray in the 1920’s? ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/10 "2006-07-22T04:11:31Z")
[QUOTE=SpectBrain] Did N. Tesla really invent a death ray in the 1920’s? [/QUOTE] No. It was invented c. 1945, but given a distinct retro style so that it became simply a “1920’s style” death-ray. Mayo ---
**Author:** ![Bertie\_Wooster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@Bertie\_Wooster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bertie_Wooster)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/11 "2006-07-22T04:43:38Z")
If I knew what it was, it wouldn’t be much of a secret, would it? There have probably been a few very good forgeries that have so far fooled everyone. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/12 "2006-07-22T04:43:49Z")
Who put the bop in the bop shu bop shu bop? Similarly, who put the ram in the ram a lama ding dong? ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/13 "2006-07-22T04:46:50Z")
Who let the dogs out!! ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/14 "2006-07-22T05:29:32Z")
[QUOTE=DooWahDiddy] I would think the murder of JFK would be in the Top Ten. [/QUOTE] There’s ample evidence that Lee Oswald did it, and without help. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/15 "2006-07-22T05:30:57Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] I assume of course he was killed in thrown in a river of chopped up or something else. [/QUOTE] Er, what? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/16 "2006-07-22T05:46:09Z")
Dead sea scrolls? What the US’s Iraq intelligence \*really \* said? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/17 "2006-07-22T05:48:45Z")
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been published. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/18 "2006-07-22T06:15:51Z")
What ever happened to the second volume of the poetics of Aristotle? Tris ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/19 "2006-07-22T08:45:22Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540/20 "2006-07-22T08:59:34Z")
Actually, I know what the biggest secret is, but I’m not going to tell you. It’s a _secret_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-biggest-secrets-that-remain-unrevealed/365540.md?page=2)