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Most interesting real life mysteries

Weckum said:
Tamad Shud is a good one, but East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker is a good one as well:


https://www.reddit.com/r/Unresolved...the_original_night_stalker_aka_the_east_area/

Audio of the dude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdElYnd-xMo

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Night_Stalker
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fucking shit why did I click on that audio link. the fucking image and loud breathing caught me off guard

Megasoum said:
Jesus... Why the fuck did I click on that youtube link?
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you and me both buddy :(
 
PayOffWizard said:
The Double-slit experiment is by far the most interesting mystery around. Quantum mechanics is mind bending stuff.

Here's a pretty simplified explanation but nobody really understands anyway.

2011-03-07-Slits.jpg
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Collapsing the wave function is the universe's built in failsafe to prevent us from reaching godhood. :P
 
Liljagare said:
I love natural mysteries, my favourite used to be the USS Stein monster squid attack. A squid 150 ft long? :O

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stein_(FF-1065)
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This is impressive. I love the idea that there are these mysterious and large creatures hiding in the oceans that we haven't discovered yet. I seem to recall someone saying we know more about space than we do the ocean.

Tangled Up in Blue said:
The Lost Colony
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This is less impressive. Everyone makes it out to be a mystery, but:

a.) There was a historic drought at the time
b.) They didn't disappear overnight, the guy came reported them missing was gone for like a decade before returning
c.) Croatoan isn't some mysterious word, it's the name of a nearby island that had Native Americans on it
d.) There are many accounts later on of people encountering Native Americans in the area who had European features, who even claimed to have been part of the colony

So basically you had a bunch of colonists who couldn't handle the conditions, and were friendly with the native population who decided to pick up stakes and move in with them in order to survive. That's not so mysterious.
 
Patryn said:
This is less impressive. Everyone makes it out to be a mystery, but:

a.) There was a historic drought at the time
b.) They didn't disappear overnight, the guy came reported them missing was gone for like a decade before returning
c.) Croatoan isn't some mysterious word, it's the name of a nearby island that had Native Americans on it
d.) There are many accounts later on of people encountering Native Americans in the area who had European features, who even claimed to have been part of the colony

So basically you had a bunch of colonists who couldn't handle the conditions, and were friendly with the native population who decided to pick up stakes and move in with them in order to survive. That's not so mysterious.
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That's why I never mention this one. On the surface it sounds super creepy and mysterious, but just a little research and it all falls apart.

I will say though no matter meaning mundane or otherwise Croatoan is just a badass sounding word and it being carved is the best part of the story both before and after researching the "missing" colony.
 
Premium Quality said:
Sorry, but I skimmed through most of this topic.
I wish I could remember the name of the story, but it was about a plane that was lost on radar.
It then came back on radar (I think around Florida).
The thing was the pilot could not recognize where they were. The pilot said they were over the airport, but there was nothing but trees and there was no sign of civilization (or something like that).
Help me GAF.
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This sounds very much like the Drem Airbase case in Scotland, which I thought you meant, but noticed there was one in Florida too.

Goddard - the pilot - was quite high up in the air force, so his story held quite a lot of clout.

Full write-up.
 
Dulce Base

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roadtrippers/that-time-subterranean-al_b_5182945.html

Philip Schneider, an explosive engineer who worked for the U.S. government, with high-level security clearance, claimed that in 1979 he participated in the building of a “secret underground base,” in Dulce, New Mexico. It was here that a horrific battle played out leaving 60 humans dead and countless subterranean aliens fighting for their life.
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It's obviously preposterous, but still fun to read about.
 
CheDominik said:
I always thought the Jimmy Hoffa case is fascinating. There have to be multiple people knowing what happened and nobody talked.

Far more interesting though: Who steals my fucking socks out of the dryer?
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C'mon, anyone in Michigan can tell ya what happened to Hoffa. He's probably swimming with the fish, and stands as a lesson as to why you don't get in bed with the Mafia.
 
I see Taman Shud but did anyone mention the Isdal Woman yet?

Police eventually found out that the woman had travelled around Norway and Europe with nine different identities: Jenevive Lancia, Claudia Tjelt, Vera Schlosseneck, Claudia Nielsen, Alexia Zarna-Merchez, Vera Jarle, Finella Lorck and Elizabeth Leen Hoywfer. All of these identities were false.
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geardo said:
Dulce Base

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roadtrippers/that-time-subterranean-al_b_5182945.html



It's obviously preposterous, but still fun to read about.
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The problem is that the Dulce mythos is fully an invention of the US government through Richard Doty and Bill Moore.

If you want a creepy story, look at how the government intentionally drove Paul Bennewitz insane. They would break into his house and rearrange his furniture and do all sorts of things to make him think he was going crazy.
 
Dagobert Duck said:
I remember something from some old thread on GAF i think, here are the links:

http://de.scribd.com/doc/403303/The-Revelations-of-an-Elite-Family-Insider-2005

https://de.scribd.com/document/13165990/Dialogue-With-Hidden-Hand-Self-Proclaimed-Illuminati-Insider

https://de.scribd.com/document/23088792/Illuminator13-Opportunity-Knocks-Again-v1-0-2009-Eng-PDF
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I love shit like this. It's basically creepypasta but fun to read. I think I've read the first one before but haven't seen the other 2. Excited to read them.
 
Boem said:
This. This is the kind of stuff that scares the hell out of me for some reason. Ghost recordings, alien abduction stories, all that stuff does nothing to me. It's all obviously nonsense.

But quantum mechanics always messes with my mind in a bad way. The deeper you go, the weirder it becomes. I'll never be ready to accept that the theory that we're already living in a simulation is, in fact, one of the more logical explanations for all that stuff. Freaks me out.
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Wasnt one of the explanations that because we are directly observing the electrons, we are influencing it in some physical way? (Like shining light on it).
 
SpeedWeed said:
I can't believe I've never seen this before. My mind is totally blown and can't stop racing, holy shit! I honestly don't know what to think anymore.
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I just want to make sure, since everyone seems to be having their mind blown by this, and rightly so, but I hope it's regarding wave-particle duality of things and not how that video ends off making it seem like the universe is consciously aware of being watched, a conclusion many people reach after seeing it. It's a strange phenomena but it's not that strange
 
Could someone explain the double slit expirment, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. I'm not quite sure I understand the ramifications for the way particles react under observation, is that creedance to the possibility of this reality being a simulation? I'm so lost
 
MikeDown said:
Could someone explain the double slit expirment, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. I'm not quite sure I understand the ramifications for the way particles react under observation, is that creedance to the possibility of this reality being a simulation? I'm so lost
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Until information about an object is known, i.e. a measurement is made, either by a person, a machine, whatever, anything that can determine something about the object, then it exists as a wave, a superposition of all possible states it can be in. When the measurement is made, for example the particles position is determined somehow, it can't at that point exist as a superposition of all possible states, that's what they mean by collapsing the wave function. It goes from "it's possibly anywhere" to "it's specifically here, right now" and as a result it behaves like a single, discrete object, not a range of possible states.

The double slit experiment just demonstrates this, the superposition means it's possible the object goes through both slits at the same time, because nothing is known about the object to determine that it can't be doing that. Imagine that to go through either left or right slit is 50% each, if you checked at a any given time. Since no one can say which for sure all possibilities are being expressed, so it's effectively going through both at the same time, as a result you get an interference pattern. You check and find it goes through the either left or right, 100% sure because that's where you find it, at that point it's then 0% possible to go through the other slit, it can't be somewhere it's defined not to be. The pattern you see reflects this change in behaviour, 2 bands, the only 2 possibilities that exist for informationally known particles to reach the screen.

It's got nothing to do with the universe being a simulation or anything like that. The craziest thing from it all is that at the quantum level everything exists as a state of probabilities, the concept of solid matter doesn't exist because even things that were thought to be solid, like electrons, exhibit wave like properties. But all that is counter intuitive because at our life scale that's not how it behaves, in other words, the wave functions at our scale are collapsed quite sufficiently to say our reality is real enough.

Hope this helps a bit but it is somewhat tough to explain.
 
Yeah, after reading about it in the last thread anything related to Albert Fish, especially that letter, is at the very bottom of things I want to look over again.
 
MikeDown said:
Could someone explain the double slit expirment, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. I'm not quite sure I understand the ramifications for the way particles react under observation, is that creedance to the possibility of this reality being a simulation? I'm so lost
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I wrapped my head around it by thinking about it like a timeline. The future is a collection of possibilities until it solidifies by becoming the present and then the past. Observing the electron effectively turns the possible future into the measurable present.
 
As a true crime junkie I love the story of Albert Fish , that and a few of the other most recent posts do not really belong here.

The thread topic is real life mysteries, fish and that dead girl in london are not, there is no mystery just a fucked up serial killer and a recluse that died alone.
 
Matty77 said:
As a true crime junkie I love the story of Albert Fish , that and a few of the other most recent posts do not really belong here.

The thread topic is real life mysteries, fish and that dead girl in london are not, there is no mystery just a fucked up serial killer and a recluse that died alone.
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It's alright to be scared.
 
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