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Timed Out
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PostPosted: 07-27-2022 04:12 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Anyone else into unsolved mysteries and unexplained deaths? Not the woo-woo supernatural guff (although that's fun to consider), just in the 'what the fuck could have plausibly happened here?' sense.

News broke today that the Tamam Shud (Somerton Man) mystery might finally be solved, with the man's identity uncovered.

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The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead on 1 December 1948 on the Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The case is named after the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning "is over" or "is finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, authored by 12th century poet Omar Khayyám.


A few other well-known interesting mysteries:

Dyatlov Pass incident
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Nine Soviet trekkers died in the northern Ural Mountains in February 1959, in uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group had established a camp on the eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Overnight, something caused them to cut their way out of their tent and flee the campsite while inadequately dressed for the heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures. Six of them died from hypothermia while the other three had been killed by physical trauma. One victim had major skull damage, two had severe chest trauma, and another had a small crack in his skull.


D. B. Cooper
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an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft operated by Northwest Orient Airlines, in United States airspace on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. The aircraft was flying from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington. The hijacker extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,338,000 in 2021), asked to be flown to Mexico City, then parachuted to an uncertain fate over southwestern Washington part-way through the second flight. A small portion of the ransom was found along the banks of the Columbia River in 1980, which triggered renewed interest but ultimately only deepened the mystery; the great majority of the ransom remains unrecovered.


Know any others?




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PostPosted: 07-27-2022 05:40 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote





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PostPosted: 07-27-2022 07:49 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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PostPosted: 07-27-2022 07:49 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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PostPosted: 07-27-2022 09:37 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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PostPosted: 07-27-2022 09:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


No that was solved, it was a classic case of sudden off-camera death. Stop bringing it up, there's no need for an investigation ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)




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