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.
#1
Where all the missing Indigenous women, girls, 2Spirit folks are, and what happened to them so their families can have some closure.
#2
All the human history of civilization before “recorded history”…
Most of human history is lost to time.
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#3
Everything that was lost in the library of Alexandria.
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#4
Where’s Shelley?
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#5
I used to think I would want to know who zodiac or Jack the Ripper was.. Now I think I would want to know who the sea people were.
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#6
Migraines.
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#7
Supposedly the Iliad and odyssey were part of a much larger serried of stories lost to time.
So that, I want the rest of those stories.
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#8
I’d probably go with something that has always fascinated me: the origins of consciousness. Why do we have subjective experiences? Why do we have thoughts, emotions, and self-awareness? It’s one of those ultimate mysteries that cuts across science, philosophy, and even spirituality. Despite all our advancements in neuroscience and psychology, we still don’t fully understand what consciousness actually is, or how it arises from the brain.
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#9
I would use my 'wish' to solve the 8-years-unsolved murder of a friend's father. The victim wasn't famous, but was well loved and those that survive him live with such distress over just having no idea why their person was snatched away from them ?.
#10
Can I say I want a book of what happened in all unsolved missing persons cases ever?
If not that,, Malaysia flight 370.
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#11
I would go for what exactly is autism. What parts of the brain does it affect? What causes it? Is something missing? Deformed? Overproduced? That way you could show why everything happens and what exactly causes it. I’ve always wondered why my mind is so different ((diagnosed autistic here)) so knowing what is different in my brain literally would help.
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#12
Is there anyone 'out there' ?
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#13
Figuring out how to read the Minoan script (Linear A) would be kind of neat. It would certainly help us lean more about the Minoans, and the Bronze Age.
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#14
If there are parallel worlds universes.
#15
What happened to Madeleine McCann. It's quite trivial compared to some of the other questions being raised, but it still intrigues me. Poor girl.
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#16
Where does space come from and where does it begin and end
edit2: if at all (I am not implying there even is an end/beginning)
Edit: and what existed before it or has it always just been
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#17
Who put Bella in the wych elm?
To elaborate:
In 1943, four boys were exploring Hagley Wood in Worcestershire, England, searching for bird nests to raid eggs from for food. One of the boys climbed a large wych elm tree, looked inside and found that it was hollow, and at first he thought what he'd found was sheep skull. He and his friends quickly realised it was human. At first they swore never to speak of it, but one kid soon cracked and told his parents, and law enforcement was alerted.
The recovered skeleton was that of a woman who was speculated to have been there around 18 months. The skull still had a patch of skin and strands of hair. She was fully dressed, although her clothes were badly rotted, and a strip of taffeta was found in her mouth, implying death from suffocation. She still had a wedding ring and one shoe, and one of her hands was found buried under the tree rather than connected to her body. Although police were able to create a depiction of what she would have looked like in life, and contacted local dentists for help with identifying this woman, nobody could tell who she was. Worse still, headlines about her were soon pushed out of the papers by wartime news, and to top things off, her remains have been lost without trace, so modern analysis is impossible.
But at some point in 1944, graffiti began popping up in the area asking "Who Put Bella in The Wych Elm?" implying that *someone* out there wanted this woman's killer to be identified, and suggesting that her name was Bella. To this day, the mystery has remained unsolved, and unless her remains are miraculously found, we will never know who this woman was or, indeed, who put her in the wych elm.
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#18
What happens when you die.
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#19
Why exactly was JFK murdered and who was all involved?
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#20
I want to know if Larry Hillblom (The H in DHL) actually died in that plane crash? Or if he lived on with his facial reconstruction to avoid consequences.
Dude survives a plane crash in 93. Has facial reconstruction. Plane goes down again in 95, his body is never recovered, but his pilot and coworkers are. Multiple underage rape accusations across Asia. Investigators show up to his house and it is found completely scrubbed with acid destroying any traces of DNA. All personal items removed and found buried in the backyard.
Crazy, but I believe it was planned and he lived.
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#21
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?
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#22
What was before the Big Bang.
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#23
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?
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#24
Amelia Earhart's fate.
#25
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.
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#26
Jonbenet Ramsey.
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#27
What happened to the Beaumont children. Missing since 1966.
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102240420.
#28
What was the question to get 42 as the answer.
#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.
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