Some mysteries are mysteries of the human psyche, the human animal itself. At times whole communities, or societies, seem to go simply crazy. What’s that all about? And sometimes someone with everything to live for, and lots more to contribute to the world, suddenly ends their live through suicide. That’s not really a mystery, but […]
Not far from the world headquarters of Mind Over Mystery, a man runs for the Arizona State Senate. A routine thing, until it’s revealed that he once shot someone to death–in fact it was his mother! He was eighteen. Whoa! “Bobby Wilson Confesses He Murdered His Mother and Sister Last Thursday,” screamed a 1963 headline […]
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker by cyanide capsule, then shooting himself in the head in Berlin, April 30, 1945. He died with his long-term mistress, Eva Braun, whom he had married a day before, and his dogs. Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces shortly thereafter. At least that’s the way it reads in […]
The case of Amanda Knox offers international intrigue at its finest,” proclaims a brief video on the case available, where else, on YouTube (“Bizarre Things That Never Made Sense About the Amanda Knox Case”). In fact, YouTube offers so many videos on the Knox case, from two minutes to two hours, that you can watch […]
Sometimes sheer statistics, dry numbers, begin a mystery. The numbers are anomalous and observers feel compelled to ask “What’s up with that?” It’s the question that puts mystery on the map. If one teenage girl, or boy, goes missing, that’s deeply agonizing for the family, but it could mean most anything. A victim of random […]
What do iPads, computer hackers, bionic limbs, mass surveillance, and the moons of Mars have in common? Science fiction writers predicted them long before their existence. Published in 1726, literature’s well-known Gulliver’s Travels predicts in a brief passage that Mars will have two small moons orbiting at much greater speeds than Earth’s single moon. Over […]
“Optimist” is a cute, humanizing word, but what’s really happening with these animals? How did a loyalty and persistence get programmed into their brains that surpasses all reason, at least homo sapien reason? Movie buffs will remember “Hachi,” the English language version of the ultimate dog-loyalty tale. The dog waits at the station, literally for […]
Any investigation of an accident or incident conducted by the Safety Board directly or pursuant to the appendix to part 800 of this chapter (except major marine investigations conducted under49 U.S.C. 1131(a)(1)(E)) has priority over all other investigations of such accident or incident conducted by other Federal agencies. The Safety Board shall provide for the […]
Any event which leaves us stunned and asking, “Just what the hell could have happened here?” makes for a mystery, an exploration. The June crash sliced through all the fail-safes for maritime navigation in one swoop. No one scanning the horizon, old style (at least not anyone with good vision). No radar warnings, from the […]
We won’t recount the full saga of the Hernandez conviction and his life sentence, in 2013, for killing Odin Lloyd. Just recently he’d been tried on two other murder counts and acquitted (by the same courtroom performer that won Casey Anthony her freedom in a child abuse trial for the ages). Yet in the wake […]
by Mind Over Mystery | Aug 21, 2023 | Historical | 0 Now here’s a mystery that literally keeps them coming back for more. Read More 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 […]
Often, interviews with and debates between Mystery Masters will enliven our study of mystery. But first, some opening observations. For M.O. Mystery, working full-time in the field of True Mysteries for several years has taught us a lot, and not always what we might have expected. That’s partly because the best mysteries are like nesting […]
Edward Snowden is someone most of us have heard of, but think about little if at all. Name sounds familiar. Isn’t he the guy in hot water with the government, we ask, for exposing lots of classified information? Yes, that’s him. He’s the one who made sure the U.S. American public knew that the post-9/11 […]
If you’re looking for a plot for a good mystery novel, this might be it. First you have the intrigue of why someone might squirrel away a king’s ransom of gold inside a piano. Was the piano owned by their family at the time, and they needed to stash gold that no one else knew […]