Cool 🕶️ Fun mysteries

[Maister]

You should check this fun video out during lunch or after work. It tells several different stories about archeology, that while not apparently directly connected, tend to encourage the viewer to conclude that civilization is far older than we currently believe and that all corners of the globe have been interconnected for longer than we assume.

This reminds me of an old tv show back in the 70s that was hosted by Leonard Nimoy called "In Search Of". Each week, Spock would take audiences through a different mystery. It might be ghosts, the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, missing people, or even aliens, but it was always sensationalistic and lots of fun. Anyone else remember that show?

 

[The Terminator]

Mystery: If they are not friend? Why are large deadly big cats friend shaped?

 

[Wannaplan?]

hosted by Leonard Nimoy called "In Search Of"

I watched In Search Of as a kid. Loved that show. I distinctly remember watching an episode about people who could see auras. Forty years on, I can’t remember the point of that particular episode. I mean, I do hope they interviewed doctors and optical researchers in order to shape that particular piece of journalism into a detailed, fact-based story. Nowadays, I’m a big fan of people who can expose fake mysteries. The Amazing Randi comes to mind, he’s someone to be admired.

 

[michaelskis]

And here I though this thread was going to be about Jimmy Hoffa or D.B. Cooper.

But it sounds more like the Silurian hypothesis.

Personally, I love this kind of stuff because it highlights that we don't know what we don't know, and some of what we think we know, ain't so. Science is not absolute but is a series of discoveries that contradicts past theories.

 

[Planit]

 

[bureaucrat#3]

While not mysteries, we currently are having generational arguments over two conspiracies.

• Birds aren't real. I think they are joking.
• Helen Keller is a fake. They are definitely not joking.