JumpinJesus

You are given the power to see the solution to an unsolved historical mystery. However, you can only choose one mystery.

What mystery would you uncover?

Me? I'd want to know if Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and if not, who were the other shooters.

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ngdawg

I would want to know unequivocably if Jesus was real and what was the basis for the obviously exagerated stories regarding his life.

spectre

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Charlatan

That wily bastard... How does he do it? It's a miracle!

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jorgelito

We don't know for a fact if the stories were exaggerated. I don't think it's obvious.

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inBOIL

I'd like to know what Proto Indo-European sounded like.

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Martian

The one that's always bugged me Oak Island. What the hell is that place?

So I'd want to know that. Yeah.

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Charlatan

I'd like to know if what host suggests about the Powers That Be is true or not.

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Frosstbyte

Are rule clarifications ok? If so, does the mystery have to relate to the human historical period or can we find out what happened to the dinosaurs or how life started or something of that nature?

sadistikdreams

I'd like to know who Jack the Ripper was.

I know it sure wasn't Bilbo.

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hearts, by d.a.

PonyPotato

Atlantis.

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ratbastid

What happened to The Lost Colony.

little_tippler

I like your merleniau.

I'd like to know how they built the pyramids too.

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We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

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QuasiMondo

I'd find out where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

just kidding.

But it would be nice to know what happened to Amelia Earhart.

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ShaniFaye

If Lizzy Borden really killed her father and step mother

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ratbastid

I didn't know there was a question about that. But I only really know the story from the rhyme.

I'd also go see if Ms. O'Leary's cow really started the Chicago fire.

Grasshopper Green

Only one?

I want to know what really happened at Roswell.

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mixedmedia

I would like to know what happened to Michael Rockefeller.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rockefeller

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QuasiMondo

Actually scratch that. I wanna know what was on that 18-minute gap.

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-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator

fresnelly

Another vote for Oak Island.

What's sad about that story is that whatever was buried or constructed there, it's likely been ruined or destroyed by years of ham fisted recovery efforts.

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thingstodo

You just saved me from writing the same thing.

And Kennedy

And Atlantis

And Roswell

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JumpinJesus

I'd say that we could uncover any mystery that's out there with this power, but yeah, only one.

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shesus

That's the first thing that came to my mind too.

I'm still thinking, I don't want to make sure I choose the right event.

My top 3 right now are:

Lost colony
Area 51
Amelia Earhart


Did you ever see the Alfred Hitchcock episode about this story? It was in the first season. It was very good and answered it for me.

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ngdawg

Didn't you see the tv movie with Elizabeth Montgomery? lol (pretty good one, but from the 70's so I don't know where it could be found)

highthief

I'd like to know who King Arthur really was.

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MexicanOnABike

Atlantis. for sure. lets see how advanced they were!

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shesus

Another mystery I thought of today is:

What is the mystery behind the Masons?

Where I grew up, there is a huge mansion on a hill. You can only see it in the winter when the leaves are off the tree. It's a Masonic Temple. It is gated now, but used to have a secret entrance. What the hell do they do up there?

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ShaniFaye

Of course I saw it...pisses me off they never put it on DVD cause Dave wants to see it and I cant find it on VHS anywhere

And the rhyme is wrong (and you have to remember she was found innocent of the crime)

Gosh am I the only person here that actually follows all the case evidence on this lol

I for one think she did it, but I'd love to know all the specifics

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Psycho Dad

Can't have a thread like this without wondering about D. B. Cooper. So yeah... that's what I want to know the whole poop on.

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shesus

Good one. That is a strange case.

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Willravel

I would like, very much, to see the moment that abiogenesis takes place. That moment that inorganic matter becomes organic matter. I'd want irrefutable proof that it occurred, whether here on Earth or elsewhere. I know it happened, and I think I know how, but to know for sure would be a hell of a treat.

ring

I am fairly convinced Giant Hamburger is God,
but it would be nice to know for certain.

levite

Since people have been good enough to mention Kennedy, Roswell, Area 51, and Atlantis, I'm going to have to go with: how did Rasputin really die? Did he drown after surviving being poisoned, shot, and stabbed? Or did he survive the drowning also, and die at an altogether different place and time?

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Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
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FuriousAvatar

Willravel, I had thought to ask the same, but you beat me to it.

So, I'd love to know-how exactly did the Americas become originally populated by humans, and who exactly was it that crossed over?

BadNick

As long as you guys share what you find out about all your chosen mysteries above, that would let me find out if OJ really murdered Nicole.

Atreides88

I would love to watch the Big Bang. I'd love to know what was around before it, and watch the whole thing unfurl before me.

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ItWasMe

Hmmm...I already figured out how the M&M's keep ending up in the toilet, so...

I'll go with the BigFoot mystery. Is there one, what is it, does it stink, will it eat me, can I housetrain one?

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JumpinJesus

How on earth (get it?) could you survive outside the singularity in order to witness it?

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ngdawg

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There's a drive to get the movie released.
Petition to Paramount to release THE LEGEND OF LIZZIE BORDEN onto DVD - Signatures
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ratbastid

Well he's obviously not going to survive INSIDE the singularity, silly!