In one of the many documentaries about “Custer’s Last Stand,” narrator Dick Cavett begins by asking: why the undying interest in all those dead soldiers? Why is the Battle of the Little Big Horn one of the most studied, and storied, battles of all time? It held, after all, almost no strategic importance in the […]
The article goes on to describe the technology, “isotope testing,” which we’ve discussed elsewhere at Mind Over Mystery. In simplest terms, surviving body materials may reveal elemental clues that help reconstruct histories of where those tissues have been, geographically. This little fellow had probably started life in the western United States, the science suggested. Examination […]
November, 2017. It’s been over a year now since Sherri Papini, an athletic and beautiful mother of two small children, disappeared like a wisp of California fog on a jogging trail near her home in Mountain View. The photogenic blue-eyed blond made national news–would that have been the case if she had been dark, with […]
Conspiracy, works of art, curves and arcs, global finance and international terrorism. Sounds like a screenplay for a new, modern-outlandish James Bond movie. But if you’ve never heard of Mark Lombardi, you are in for a fascinating ride of intrigue. Imagine just going to the museum to relax and experience some “art” with the family, […]
The series is really called “Turn” but the subtitle that makes clear the focus on Revolutionary War espionage. No one could watch this forty-episode long treatment of US-British intrigue in the 1770’s without being reminded that half of war, or more, is good intelligence. Knowing the enemy’s plans before they know yours. Even changing their […]
Rebecca Mawii Zahau, 32, was discovered dead on July 13, 2011, at the Spreckels Beach House in Coronado, California, owned by her live-in boyfriend Medicis Pharmaceutical CEO Jonah Shacknai. Zahau’s death occurred two days after Shacknai’s 6-year-old son, Max, took a fatal fall from a staircase banister in the same beach house. Zahau was the […]
Intro Famous aviator Charles Lindbergh was a man of rules and discipline. He told his wife Anne… Read More A HOUSEHOLD NAME, LIKE ROCKEFELLER Like Rockefeller, he rose from poverty to wealth, he came out… Read More Intro “The word “psychopath” was coined by a German psychiatrist in… Read More BORN TO RIDE ROCKETS “It’s […]
Other theorists don’t give the Phoenix Islands, TIGHAR researched scenarios a second look mostly because they find other evidence and logic overwhelming: “The Japanese got her.” The post below from 2016 seems to jump around a bit, but it’s more substantial, and factual, than it seems. We offer it because it offers so much apparent […]
Dag Hammarskjöld Those who remember the early days of the United Nations will recall the second Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, of Swiss origins, who guided the organization from 1952 until his death, by plane crash, on September 18, 1961. Investigators wrote off the disaster in then northern Rhodesia, and the numerous deaths, to “pilot error,” […]
James Derham was born a slave in 1762 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At eleven years old, he was sold to Dr. John Kearsley, a physician specializing in throat care. Historians believe he taught Derham to read and write, two very unconventional skills for the common slave. He learned the foundation of pharmaceuticals, prepared medication, and assisted with […]
Shortly after her death, the L.A. County coroner concluded that Murphy died as a result of pneumonia combined with anemia and “multiple drug intoxication” from prescription and over-the-counter medication. “She was really sick with pneumonia, very anemic, and she was taking medication,” Ed Winter of the Coroner’s office said, “and all that combined killed her.” […]
Christopher “Huck” Look was a deputy sheriff who was working that night as a special police officer at the Edgartown regatta dance. At 12:30 a.m., Look left the dance, crossed over to Chappaquiddick in the yacht club’s launch boat, got into his parked car and drove toward his home, which was south of the Dike […]
If you’ve ever seen horror movies with a sadistic doctor performing horrific experiments, that’s a taste of Josef Mengele. He was Hitler’s research and torture doctor in the Third Reich, responsible for some of the worst atrocities known to man. Little is known of this Bavarian-born man’s childhood, though he was greatly influenced in college […]
It seemed more than eerie after a sharp-eyed pilot spotted the universal SOS sign, fashioned from rocks, displayed on a beach in the middle of essentially nowhere. A search of the area yielded nothing, no one, but the message of the rocks left a “creepy” feeling behind and a sense of “mystery” for the searchers. […]
