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Title: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: Valiss on October 09, 2009, 11:23:08 PM
I listened to a podcast a while ago about Numbers Stations and it was really interesting stuff. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station - But bascially there are radio stations that are on 24/7 around the world that read off "random" numbers, repeating them over and over. No one knows where many of they come from or what the numbers mean and some of them have been going for years. You can google around and hear audio clips that people have recorded of the Numbers Station being read. It actually reminds me of LOST season 1 when they heard the message and numbers on the hand radio. Anyway, a cool mystery I thought.

You can listen to some that have been posted to YouTube. Here's a sample:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lC4JRXsWkk&feature=youtube_gdata

So, what strange things facinate you?
Title: Re: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: renren on October 10, 2009, 12:03:52 AM
Ghosts!
Never acually seen one,and hearing so many people talk about it!
Title: Re: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: Welsh Wench on October 10, 2009, 06:58:07 AM
There are so many....In Search Of was such a great TV show.

I would have to say the lost colony of Roanoke.
Did they starve? Were they massacred by Indians? Did they assimilate into their society?

The only clue was the word "Croatoan" carved into a post of the fort and "Cro" carved into a nearby tree.
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Post by: Marietta Graziella on October 10, 2009, 07:45:14 AM
I loved "In Search Of"!  Always a great story that make you get the chills. 
Title: Re: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: Noble Dreg on October 10, 2009, 08:17:49 AM
Don't buy aliens coming all the way to earth only to bugger cows but I do find some "classic" mysteries fascinating...Amelia Earhart and flight 19 are two I'm curious about.  That, and why can't I find that bottle of Sandyman port I know I had before the move...
Title: Re: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: RumbaRue on October 12, 2009, 01:49:16 PM
Somewhere between the ancient drawings on the ground in Peru, the Bermuda Triangle and crop circles, have always been an interesting subjects.

Has anyone caught the show, 'Destination Truth' on the Travel Channel?
I do truly wish they would further their investigations instead of leaving you hanging wondering why they didn't.
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Post by: bellevivre on October 12, 2009, 02:08:14 PM
I'm very strange in that i cant watch 'horror' movies nbut i am utterly fascinated by the paranormal.


number one on my list, though, is the Winchester Mystery House- i have recurring dreams about it and it is said to be potent with spirits- i really want to go there, but I dont know if i am brave enough to go inside.

i firmly believe in ghosts- our 'spirit', that which makes us alive and animate, is the result of elecrical impulse- and science tells us energy cannot be created or destroyed- so logically, our 'lifeforce' has to go SOMEWHERE!
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Post by: Lady Christina de Pond on October 12, 2009, 02:09:11 PM
Huaca Pucllana in Peru swear thats a lot of adobe bricks
Title: Re: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: Invy on October 12, 2009, 03:15:45 PM
Where do all those darn socks disappear too..

I am going to send a expedition of gnomes into my dryer to figure that one out.
Title: Re: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: Xanthenes The Unbalanced on October 12, 2009, 07:28:52 PM
I'm going with the Phoenix Lights in 1997.  When public officials, even the mayor, say something is rotten in Denmark, my curiosity is piqued.

Title: Re: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: Seamus Ex Machina on October 12, 2009, 10:20:10 PM
Quote from: Xanthenes The Unbalanced on October 12, 2009, 07:28:52 PM
I'm going with the Phoenix Lights in 1997.  When public officials, even the mayor, say something is rotten in Denmark, my curiosity is piqued.




If this is the same phenomenon I saw and remember on TV, this is an easy one.....it was skydivers with flares.    As I remember it, it was a string of 6 or 7 lights slowly descending over a city.  It was prolly a SpecOps drop that no one wanted to verify....(am I stirring the pot.....?)


I wanna know how to get rid of all the ghosts at my place, Rogue Manor...it's really bad when the guests start to complain.... ::)
Title: Re: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: Rani Zemirah on October 12, 2009, 10:21:27 PM
Well, Stonehenge, of course... but also all of the other standing stone circles around the globe, and how they all seem to be placed along intersections of ley lines, and can have fairly straight lines drawn between them that follow these ley lines...
Title: Re: What unsolved mystery / unexplained phenomenon captures your interest the most?
Post by: Xanthenes The Unbalanced on October 12, 2009, 11:20:02 PM
Quote from: Seamus Ex Machina on October 12, 2009, 10:20:10 PM
Quote from: Xanthenes The Unbalanced on October 12, 2009, 07:28:52 PM
I'm going with the Phoenix Lights in 1997.  When public officials, even the mayor, say something is rotten in Denmark, my curiosity is piqued.


If this is the same phenomenon I saw and remember on TV, this is an easy one.....it was skydivers with flares.    As I remember it, it was a string of 6 or 7 lights slowly descending over a city.  It was prolly a SpecOps drop that no one wanted to verify....(am I stirring the pot.....?)


Spoil sport!   :)