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31 Unsolved Mysteries and Enigmatic Figures to Cook Your Noodle

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31 Unsolved Mysteries and Enigmatic Figures to Cook Your Noodle

February 18, 2024

You ever try to solve a Rubik's cube? This whole D.B. Cooper thing is at least twice as hard as that.

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Who buried the Saddle Ridge Hoard? While walking their dog, a California couple found in their property over 1,400 19th- century gold coins, worth a grand total of $10 million. Most of the coins were never circulated, and are in mint condition. It's the largest buried treasure ever discovered in the U.S. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Who killed Lizzie Borden's parents? The name Lizzie Borden is synonymous with murderous maniac - people often glossing over the fact that she was acquitted. No one else was ever charged for the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden. Well over 100 years later, the case is officially unsolved. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Who killed Mark Ruffalo's brother? When Scott Ruffalo died in 2008, police said he had been playing Russian roulette-until they found out that someone else had shot him. Two people were with him at the time, one of them a rich Saudi heiress. But if anyone knew anything, they kept their mouths well shut. — Source

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Where did FLouil Bermeja Island go? 16th-and 17th- century maps consistently placed the tiny island northwest of Yucatán, Mexico- e Mexiq but a survey in 1997 failed to find it. It's possible the island was made up by map makers, but those aren't around to ask them-so we'll have to assume it just V skipped to an alternate universe. Veracruz Yucating tabasco Sala mane butheralat Q Redro CRACKED.COM wile — Source

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RGO What the Hell is the Tamam Shud LIA Mystery all about? BIM All the Australian police could ever learn about the man they found was that he was dead. A piece of paper in a secret pocket read tamám shud (Persian for ended or finished). It was torn from a book where some /AB kind of code was scribbled. 70 years later, we still have no idea what any of this means. Tamám Shud CRACKED.COM — Source

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Who was Kaspar Hauser? The boy was found wandering in Nuremberg, Germany in 1828, uneducated and acting strangely-but amazingly soon learned to read and write. Не claimed he had grown up locked up in a room. Is he some secret royal heir? everyone wondered. His mystery grew even bigger when he was murdered in 1833. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Who is creating the Toynbee Tiles? TOYNBEE IDEA IN Kubrick's 2001 RESURRECTORAS ONPLANETO JUPTER you MUSTMAKE + GLUE Someone who is apparently very much into Stanley Kubrick and historian Arnold Toynbee has been embedding these messages in asphalt since the 1980s. It can't be just one person, as they pop up all across the U.S and South America. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Where is D.B. Cooper (and his money)? In 1971, a guy using the name Dan Cooper took an airliner hostage, and demanded $200,000 and four parachutes. After getting what he asked for, he ordered a course for Mexico-but then he parachuted off the goddamn plane, and disappeared forever.

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CRACKED.COM Where is Lord Lucan? Is he even alive? Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, was a British playboy-also, a convicted murderer. Не was declared guilty of killing his children's nanny in 1974-but by the time of the trial, he had long disappeared. Не has been spotted over 70 times since, like some aristocratic Bigfoot. — Source

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How did the men in the lead masks die? Two Brazilian engineers were found dead in 1966. They had a notebook which mentioned swallowing capsules, but it's not clear that they took any poison, or they intended to. Even weirder, they were wearing lead masks, of a kind used against radiation. No one could ever solve the crime-if it was a crime. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM What happened at the Dyatlov Pass? In 1959, nine Russian students went on a ski trip. While camping in a remote spot, they all fled their tent in their underwear-and died. Some of them were later found with their skulls broken. Were they attacked? Many theories were put forward, but there are no answers. — Source

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CRACKED.COM What happened to Representative Hale Boggs? Boggs was the House majority leader in 1972, when he and fellow Representative Nick Begich took off from Anchorage, Alaska. Their Cessna was bound for Juneau, but it never arrived. A massive search failed to turn out anything (except for tons of conspiracy theory fodder). — Source

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CRACKED.COM Did UFOs kill Zigmund Adamski? In 1980, Adamski was missing for five days before appearing on top of a coal pile, 20 miles from home. There weren't any footprints around, and Adamski had unexplained burns. Was it aliens? Well, probably not- but then this story gets even weirder, doesn't it? — Source

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CRACKED.COM How did Flight 653 crash? The Malaysian Airlines plane was hijacked mid-flight in 1977, and both pilots were killed (along with the hijacker). Then the autopilot was somehow turned off, crashing the plane. Did one of the passengers try to be a hero? What was the explosion reported by witnesses? — Source

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Who made the Traub motorcycle? This bike was found in 1968, after tearing down a wall in Chicago. It had been hiding there for 50 years. It's the only bike of its kind, more advanced than other motorcycles of its time-and it still runs today. It's not known how it got there, or who built it. Traut CRACKED.COM — Source

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Banksy CRACKED.COM No one's been able to track down (or squeal on) the perpetrator of the most intricate wheatpaste metaphors the world has ever known. — Source

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Monsieur Chouchani M RE CRACKED.COM Не was a brilliant, disheveled educator who taught an inordinate amount of incredibly successful people. One of his pupils, author Elie Wiesel, once said he looked like a hobo turned clown, or a clown playing hobo. Wiesel also payed for his tombstone, which reads The wise Rabbi Chouchani of blessed memory. His birth and his life are sealed in enigma. — Source

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The Unknown Woman of the Seine CRACKED.COM Once an anonymous body found in France's River Seine in the 1880's, she was promoted to public spectacle when someone made a plaster mask of her face. Among many other works of art, her death mask inspired Resusci Annie, a widely-used CPR doll. — Source

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Pussy Riot CRACKED.COM A small handful of this feminist punk rock collective are public-facing, but most of the 30-ish members remain anonymous to avoid the wrath of Putin. — Source

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Green Boots CRACKED.COM He's one of many morbid trailmarkers along the approach to the summit of Mount Everest. His signature bright green boots have led to his probable identification, but the extreme conditions make it nearly impossible to retrieve the body. — Source

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The Man in the Iron Mask

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Max Headroom CRACKED.COM The true Max Headroom was an extremely 80's artificially intelligent TV host created in 1985. But in 1987, some mysterious merry prankster twice hijacked a Chicago TV station in a bizarre tribute to the character. — Source

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Babushka Lady CRACKED.COM This woman shows up in the Zapruder film, snapping pictures that would confirm whether there was a shooter on the grassy knoll. We even have clear shots of her face, but no one's been able to track her down. — Source

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D.B. Cooper CRACKED.COM Some dapper gentleman in 1971 calmly (and by all accounts, coolly) introduced himself as Dan Cooper, then hijacked a plane. Не arranged to get a briefcase full of cash and a parachute, then disappeared somewhere over Nevada. — Source

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Tank Man CRACKED.COM This lone dude stood his ground when the Chinese government sent a fleet of tanks to respond, extremely violently, to protests in Tiananmen Square. — Source

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Thomas Pynchon ? THOMAS PYNCHON'S HOUSE CRACKED.COM COME ON The reclusive author, whose work has been turned into famous films like Inherent Vice, actually made this cameo on the Simpsons to poke fun at his own famous elusiveness. — Source

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The Residents CRACKED.COM They're a freaky little art collective (read: goofus pranksters) who have played surrealist, avant-garde music while wearing eyeball helmets for over 4 decades. — Source

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Jack the Ripper CRACKED.COM This was a real guy who killed real London prostitutes in 1888. Не was bad at butchering (hence ripper), but the police were worse at policing: they haphazardly destroyed the plethora of clues he left that might have identified him. — Source

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The Stig CRACKED.COM Top Gear is actually on their third Stig, since the first two were publicly outed. The Stig is a not-definitely-human entity in a racing suit that sets lap times for car tests. — Source

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The Swedish Assassin CRACKED.COM In 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot after leaving a movie with his wife. As of press time, the shooter hasn't been identified, nor did his son turn into Batman. — Source

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The Smooching Couple GRACKED COM These two strangers shared a kiss in Times Square on Victory over Japan Day in 1945. People generally agree that the nurse is Edith Shain, but tons of dudes have claimed to be the sailor who bravely went tonsil-deep in an essential worker's mouth. — Source

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