Unexplainable Mysteries

RyanGoggs

Just for a bit of fun out on your detective hats and try to come up with a reasonable assumption for these happening.

Roswell

Roswell is perhaps the most famous unexplained event of all. According to the US military, the debris recovered from a crash site near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 was just the wreckage of a high altitude surveillance balloon.

But thousands of people, including military personnel, refuse to accept that explanation. Why? In the days after the incident, the military first said they'd found a 'flying disk' on the site before quickly changing the story to say that it was balloon debris.

Other witnesses have even suggested alien autopsies were carried out at Roswell.

Aflockalypse now

On January 1 2011 the residents of the quiet town of Beebe, Arkansas woke to find their streets strewn with dead birds. Conspiracy theorists were quick to point the finger at Satan, aliens or secret Government experiments.

Experts took a more boring view. Some suggested the birds were victims of New Year celebrations, flying low to avoid firework explosions and crashing into telegraph polls and buildings. But other scientists admit the incident is hard to explain. "Science is struggling to explain these things," conceded a spokesman for the UN Environment Program.

Buddhist Monks

In 1985 a team from Harvard University witnessed a group of Tibetan monks sleeping in the open air. The odd thing was that this was 15,000 feet up in the Himalayas, on a freezing February night - and the monks slept peacefully without huddling or shivering, wearing only thin shawls.

How did they do it? We simply don't know. But we do know that the monks practiced a kind of deep meditation called g Tum-mo. Other practitioners have been witnessed raising the temperatures of their fingers by as much as 17 degrees.

Bigfoot

Lots of people think there's no such thing as Bigfoot, the great hairy human ape-cross that is said to roam the forests of North America. But the sightings just keep coming.

And even the most sceptical scientists have trouble dismissing them all as hoaxes (though some clearly are). The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organisation has been set up for exactly that reason.

Missing man

Plenty of people have disappeared without trace, their bodies never found. But deep mystery surrounds the fate of a man calling himself D.B. Cooper, who in 1971 carried out one of the most daredevil skyjackings in history. After hijacking Northwest Airlines flight 305 with threats of a bomb, Cooper pocketed $200,000 and parachuted into the night somewhere over the Pacific coast.

Cooper has never been found - alive or dead - despite a huge manhunt. In 2007, the FBI released sketches of what Cooper might look like today in a futile attempt to finally crack the case.

Atlantis

The gleaming city of Atlantis is one of the most sought after 'lost cities' of all time.

But did it ever exist? Ancient Greek philosopher Plato, for one, mentioned the city in his works.

Others believe Atlantis is purely mythological. But that hasn't stopped hundreds of expeditions combing the Earth in an attempt to find it - with a number claiming (unsubstantiated) success.

Bermuda Triangle

The loss of a large number of planes and ships in a triangle-shaped portion of the western Atlantic Ocean has become an enduring mystery.

Notable losses in the include the USS Cyclops, the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy in peacetime, and Flight 19, a training flight of aircraft that were all lost without trace in 1945.

Stonehenge

The giant stone ring near Aylesbury in Wiltshire has been the subject of intense speculation for centuries. We are still not certain how it was made or what it was for.

In the past, many authors questioned the ability of ancient Britons to move and erect such enormous stones, leading to speculation about a demonic or extraterrestrial origin. Recent experiments have shown that contemporary human technology made Stonehenge just about viable.

But why go to all that trouble? Theories about the purpose of Stonehenge include an astronomical observatory, a religious site and a place of healing. But experts still debate the issue.

The 2012 prophesy

Lots of people are getting pretty fidgety at the moment, because according to one interpretation of an ancient Mayan calendar the world is due to end in December 2012.

And will it? There have been plenty of unfulfilled doomsday prophecies before, so why has this one caught the public imagination?

Partly it's because a Mayan calendar does exist, and appears to end this December. But experts say that the Mayans created calendars to track time, not to predict the future. How much of a mystery this prophecy turns out to be....well, we'll find out soon enough.

Mary Celeste

The Mary Celeste was an American sailing vessel bound for Italy that was discovered abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872. The crew were never found.

Mystery surrounds the doomed ship because the weather was fine, there was no sign of a struggle on board and the crew were all experienced seamen.

There seemed no reason to abandon the seaworthy ship, and cargo and valuables were untouched, ruling out pirates. To this day, nobody knows what happened to the crew and passengers of the Mary Celeste.

http://extras.uk.msn.com/advertorial...mysteries.aspx

Some of this is pretty difficult to come up with rational explanations for although others are likely to be scams. Feel free to add your own.

Sir Matt

Birds flying into telegraph poles? In 2011? Even in Arkansas that's unlikely.

EdWeatherall

How gambit has managed to maintain an erection for Hamsik after all this time?
How can baz afford so many Kenwood juicers?

That'sHernandez

Too much Ancient Aliens for you.

Rado_N

D.B Cooper is dead, he was killed trying to escape from prison.

cinc

How is KingEric not in this thread already?

Pexbo

No explanation? More like no explanation commonly agreed. There's explanations for every one of them they just haven't been proven.

I thought it was fairly well known about Roswell that it was a military base of secret or above status and they encouraged the conspiracys to deflect attention and give a ridiculous excuse to the military base?

That'sHernandez

Yeah, most of the UFO sightings around Area 51 are/were actually B-2 Spirit, stealth bombers and other top top secret aircraft like the Blackbird that were basically built for spying on the USSR during the cold war. This is why you can see the UFO/alien reports changing from flying saucers to more triangular shaped vehicles.

RyanGoggs

Well ok no conclusive evidence has been reached. Still its fun to theorize on explanations. I think Roswell is interested because the US army first said they found a metal disk before changing their story. Also a lot of people claim they are certain they saw something extraterrestrial

solvista

Anything involving Americans is self-explanatory, surely.

RyanGoggs

How about non American like the Shroud of Turin or the Pyramids?

phelans shorts

This kids hair.



I mean, who thought that was a good idea?

.Phil1968

Stonehenge,or rather the building of it,fascinates me.Lugging those huge stones from West Wales across the country,I'm sure I read that one of the bluestones was found in the Bristol Channel which must have caused a certain amount of frustration and the first recorded use of the phrase,'oh for fuck's sake',must have been some task.
As has been said,I'm sure most UFO sightings were test planes like the Stealth which didn't show up on Radar.Loads on that site which can't be explained though.

RyanGoggs

Stone henge is a good one because it just seems impractical and unfeasible but was somehow done. Those stones are massive

prateik

solvista

1. hoax 2. aliens

No fuckin flies on me mate.

PhilipB

2:02:40

It's Chael Sonnen though so I'd guess he's talking complete rubbish.

Snow

Pyramids aren't a mystery. It took a lot of people a long time to built it. There's also a misconception that the people that built them were all slaves (I'm talking Giza, there are of course a few different pyramids).

beacon

The Marie Celeste was probably ergot alkaloid poisoning causing them all to go loopy and jump overboard.

JustAFan

FYI Roswell =/= Area 51 But still no aliens crashed there.

Also I believe it was one army officer who said it was a disc not an official army announcement. And like most "conspiracies" it grows and grows as time goes on and people involved pass away, others step forward to claim the deceased told them this or that about the incident.

JustAFan

Cooper most likely died in the jump (or more correctly the landing) he jumped into a dense forest area, the jet was traveling way too fast for a jump, he died.


BFRO and Bigfoot, one only has to watch Finding Bigfoot to see what a joke they are. Entertaining, but still a joke.

Bermuda Triangle, actually has no greater amount of ship and plane disappearances/problems then any other randomly drawn triangle, drawn over a large body of water.

PhilipB

I haven't read much about it but from what I have read it isn't an impossibility that he survived.

phelans shorts

If I remember correctly, when completely altered to the Julian calendar, rather than partially, the Mayan calendar ended in 1974 or so.

phelans shorts

I don't remember correctly, but it's still bollocks.

forevrared

There was something in the news recently where a woman claimed her deceased uncle was D.B. Cooper. It was on CNN's website and at the time it seemed to have legs. I didn't keep up with it, but it seemed to be the most credible of any such claims to this point.

gooDevil

I'm glad someone finally put UFOs, Bigfoot, Atlantis, the 2012 prophecy, the bermuda triangle and stonehenge all in the same thread, I'm tired of talking about them separately, there's just not enough material written on each to keep a thread going for each one.

ciderman9000000

Yeah the internet's really lacking in material about aliens and shit

I'm glad they've been put into one thread so we know where to avoid if we don't want to get pissed off by a load of fucking idiots.

CassiusClaymore

Atlantis

I posted this thread about a buried city found in Turkey a while ago.

Underground City of Derinkuyu

Could be something like this.

Or perhaps Plato was a WUM.

MichaelS

The monks vastly raising their body temperature with Tummo is legit.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002.../09-tummo.html

Trionz

Flipping of mirror in middle of night with no previous history of flipping, is biggest mystery ever.

niMic

I am not entirely sure what this is supposed to prove. It's very impressive that they didn't shiver, which probably is a benefit of their very strong will, but drying sheets? The temperature isn't really that important, since their body temperature, and the body temperature of any person, would be enough to dry sheets. It doesn't mean they increased their temperature, or anything like that.

They may have anyway, but then this was a really bad way to prove that.

brewlio

You'll probably find that after meeting up with 'you know who' last week that you and the missus are actually crawling with them.

MichaelS

I think the article says the room they were in was 40 degrees fahrenheit

"In a monastery in northern India, thinly clad Tibetan monks sat quietly in a room where the temperature was a chilly 40 degrees Fahrenheit."

I don't know if that makes a difference.

"During visits to remote monasteries in the 1980s, Benson and his team studied monks living in the Himalayan Mountains who could, by g Tum-mo meditation, raise the temperatures of their fingers and toes by as much as 17 degrees. It has yet to be determined how the monks are able to generate such heat. "

niMic

I don't think it makes a difference, since either way the body temperature of the monks (and anyone else) would be high enough to dry it eventually.

JustAFan

There is also some Island in the Med that had a pretty decent civilization until a volcano wiped them out along with most of the Island, some people claim that was the basis for the Atlantis story, with of course a ton of adding embelishments by Plato and others.

PhilipB

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

How has that guy managed to do that?! Seems mental.

KingEric7

Fucking hell!

PhilipB

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ciderman9000000

Hey everybody! KingEric7 is here!

KingEric7

Every post of mine makes your blood boil, doesn't it?

You insane, trampy little bellend.


That guy up there should be world famous, by the way. ^ To be able to stand in ice for 2 hours...well, that's just ridiculous.

Wtf?!