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 […]
A wise old psychologist who lived throughout most of the twentieth century noted the psychic thirst to keep thinking about Hitler. “He always comes back. There’s always one more story, one more movie, one more theory. Always, he comes back.” Now comes the latest story regarding something you thought was long settled. Hitler killed himself […]
NASA diapers or no, on February, 5, 2007 Nowak went to the Orlando Airport and waited for about half an hour for Shipman’s plane. Shipman said that after arriving, she became aware of someone following her to an airport satellite parking area. When she got into her car, she heard rapid footsteps and quickly locked […]
Lawrence in British Army uniform, 1918 It seems a collaboration of researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. are now certain that they they know where Lawrence’s Rolls, “requisitioned” after he saw it on the street in Cairo, came from, although not where it ended up. It all drips with history. The original owner of […]
In a case like this, there’s no end to the theories. Jack the Ripper was even claimed to be a woman. Mary Pearcey, a midwife and covert abortionist, was apparently the only female suspect mentioned at the time. She was hanged for murder in 1890, but not for the Ripper’s crimes. “I am not guilty […]
One more sick, serial killer, but the written trail later discovered does add an interesting dimension. Investigators discovered that Kohlhepp had left clues online – posting a five-star review on a folding shovel for sale on Amazon and writing: “Keep in the car for when you have to hide the bodies.” Another post on Amazon […]
Mysterious incidents at sea have it all: a crew that for a time is it’s own closed society, the vagaries of seas and tides and weather, and spice of exotic locations, sometimes unknown and unknowable locations, even sightings of exotic creatures, or lost islands. In lore, and in fact maritime mysteries live on, and not […]
“Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, author Agatha Christie left readers with 80 publications and a mystery not even the Police could solve. An enigma herself, she disappeared without rhyme or reason.” Genevieve Scott, Myjournal.com, 10/21/2021 You might think you know famed mystery writer Agatha Christie from her many novels. Most mystery buffs have […]
Some instinct tells us that this story conceals a few interesting layers, if one started pealing them away. It’s not that unusual, really, for a criminal to get his life so tangled up that suicide starts to look like an option. But this guy had an amazing history. Like others, he was addicted to lying, […]