There are a number of things most of us learned about growing up that, as it turns out, were not nearly as mysterious as they sounded. Take, for example, the Bermuda Triangle, which, as it turns out, isn’t nearly as dangerous as sensationalists love to make it out to be. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t things out there that are still unknown to this day.
Someone asked “if you could know the truth behind one unexplainable mystery, which one would you choose?” and people described what they would love to know. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the ones you also find engaging and be sure to share your own examples in the comments below.
#22
DB Cooper. Without a doubt. What happened to him? Who was he? How the f**k did he fare after jumping out of the plane in a cold November night?
32points
#23
If language evolved once before humans spread out, or if it evolved many times in different areas.
I really want to know if Proto-World existed.
I really want to know if Proto-World existed.
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31points
#24
What happens inside a black hole's event horizon? Is there a sigularity or is there a yet unknown pressure that prevents complete collapse or does matter and energy take on a new exotic form with new properties that prevents it? If it is a singularity, how does quantum effects work there?
In virtually all other contexts, when you calculate a signularity it is due to the theory being an approximation that breaks down there. Like, you can construct a theoretical circuit to get infinite voltage or infinite current somewhere, but when you try it in real life you just fry the electronics and never actually get to infinity. I imagine the inside of a black hole will do something that prevents a singularity, but what is it?
In virtually all other contexts, when you calculate a signularity it is due to the theory being an approximation that breaks down there. Like, you can construct a theoretical circuit to get infinite voltage or infinite current somewhere, but when you try it in real life you just fry the electronics and never actually get to infinity. I imagine the inside of a black hole will do something that prevents a singularity, but what is it?
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31points
#25
What happened to the Beaumont children. Missing since 1966.
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102240420.
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102240420.
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31points
#29
Amber Tuccaro, in Nisku, Alberta, Canada. The police released some audio that definitely sounds like her talking to her killer while he's driving her to the killing site. Pretty tough to hear. I used to work up there in the oil field when she went missing and there was basically nothing about her at the time. Stumbled on to the story later in life and it always kinda bothered me. I could have been driving the road she was on at the time and probably drove around the site in the same time period.
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#30
If this counts, what alien life/civilization is actually like. not whether or not it exists, but what it is like given it exists. I want to know about CULTURE, man. alien anthropology and sociology.
but if that doesn't count and it has to be a more straightforward mystery...well, does "unexplainable" mean literally nobody on earth knows? or just for most of we can only rely on theories. because then I want to say "info about aliens from area 51" or "what's in area 51" but if that's still breaking the rules because obviously the higher ups can explain that...
then i'll finally say "What really started the universe, the actual origin point" and blow my mind trying to comprehend infinity. or find out there actually is some kind of deity.
but if that doesn't count and it has to be a more straightforward mystery...well, does "unexplainable" mean literally nobody on earth knows? or just for most of we can only rely on theories. because then I want to say "info about aliens from area 51" or "what's in area 51" but if that's still breaking the rules because obviously the higher ups can explain that...
then i'll finally say "What really started the universe, the actual origin point" and blow my mind trying to comprehend infinity. or find out there actually is some kind of deity.
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