One of our favorite pastimes here at Cracked is sucking the mystery out of life like the cream out of a Twinkie, leaving only the bland, dry sponge cake of reality behind. To that end, we've decided to list the often mundane solutions to some of the world's most enduring mysteries, and once again, you're welcome.
Note: As much as we like to act like we have all the answers, the truth is that we're probably even more freaked out by this weird-ass world than you are. After all, we've dedicated a sizeable portion of our site just to pointing out things that no one has been able to figure out yet.
But the weirdest thing that we haven't figured out is, ironically, what we haven't yet figured out. This Cracked Classic is about the misconceptions we have about what's actually mysterious. Are you still with us? What we're saying is that things you think of as simple mundanities are more likely to be mysteries than the things you think of as mysteries. Do you follow? There's nothing strange about Amelia Earhart and Atlantis -- that's our point. -Cracked
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The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is probably the most well-known mystery in the world that doesn't involve Tom Hanks looking for clues in old paintings. In 1936, Earhart planned to reserve herself a page in the record books by flying around the world; a 29,000-mile journey. On the last 7,000-mile leg of her second attempt in 1937, she disappeared after giving her last radio transmission. The transmission was not anything helpful like, "I'm going to try to just fly through this mountain. I saw it in a cartoon once."
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More has been speculated about her disappearance than has probably been written about her life. One of the more epic theories is that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, went down over part of the Japanese Empire and were captured, interrogated as spies and executed. Some assert that she was actually a spy for President Roosevelt, and that she secretly lived to the end of her days in New Jersey. Still others, with less imagination, think that she deliberately flew her plane into the Pacific because fuck it.
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