24 Truths People Want to Uncover About Historical Events

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24 Truths People Want to Uncover About Historical Events

History is like a bar trivia answer: No one believes you if you didn’t write it down. Thanks to less-than-stellar records, or unfortunate fires, some historical events will forever be shrouded in mystery. Without a working time machine or Ouija board, there’s no way for us to observe what happened or ask the people who were there if they’d mind filling in the gaps.

If you did have the opportunity to get the skinny on a single historical mystery, what would you choose? In case you’re not particularly up on world history — and afraid you’re just going to waste it on O.J. Simpson or the Mothman — Redditors have you covered, as they offered their personal choice on particularly cloudy bits of the past they’d love to have cleared up.

mythrilcrafter 4y ago The Romans flooding the Colosseum to have naval battle shows. I'd love to see the enormity of what setting that up actually looks like and what a spectacle those naval battle shows were. 2.7K ...
Komi_San . 4y ago The Trojan War. It definitely won't be as interesting as what Homer said happened but I need to know. 2.1K ...
 4y ago On March 18, 1990, 13 works of art worth $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in the early hours. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call, and the thieves tied the guards up and looted the museum over the next hour. No arrests have been made and no works have been recovered. If I discovered the whole truth about this event, I'd love to see the art returned and to collect the $10 million reward for information leading to the art's recovery - the largest bounty ever
wtfyingg 4y ago Seriously, jack the ripper 1.5K ...
Shishi432234 4y ago The sinking of the Lusitania. I really want to know what that second explosion was, along with all the lies and twists and turns that the story took as various governments scrambled to make themselves look good. I think it could be a good possibility that she was carrying some dangerous cargo, but the Munitions theory falls apart when you realize that the torpedo missed her cargo holds entirely and hit her boiler room. So what exploded? Why did she sink so fast? 176 ...
snowymelon594 4y ago I'd like to know what happened to D.B Cooper after he jumped off the plane. 1.3K ...
hitwallinfashion-13- 4y ago All the societies/empires/tribes that have emerged during a period of human existence completely devoid of any recordings. Just a huge chunk of human existence lost to the dust of time. 519 ...
Odin_Allfathir . 4y ago The plastic surgery and transportation of nazi officers from Fuerteventura to Argentine 568 ...
PunkHooligan 4y ago I'm not even US citizen, but gosh... Kennedy. Idk why but I'd like to know. 1.1K ...
fdshfg 4y ago Edited 4y ago The sea peoples. A group of people showed up out of nowhere, attacked the Mediterranean, then disappeared completely afterwards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea Peoples 336 ...
ricewinechicken 4y ago The Mary Celeste, a ship abandoned in 1872 for no known reason despite being full of cargo and ample supplies. Read about it as a kiddo and I'm still wondering. 114 ...
LazerWolfe53 4y ago What the Pope said to Atilla The Hun. 221 ...
MesaCityRansom 4y ago The murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's never been solved* even though it's the largest criminal investigation in Swedish history. *The investigation was sort of concluded last year when police said We think it was this guy but we don't really have any evidence and unfortunately he died 20 years ago so we can't ask him. Oh well case closed, but no one is taking it seriously and apparently they're thinking about opening it up again.
StorkyStorky . 4y ago The building of the sphinx. The whole truth would reveal so much. 94 ...
AussieJC17 4y ago I'd love to know what happened to the Nazi gold train. 88 ...
samiratmidnight 4y ago The domestication of dogs. I saw a study once that tested the problem solving behaviors of human-raised wolves vs dogs, and found that when they encountered an obstacle, the wolves would just keep trying whereas the dogs would turn the puppy eyes on the nearest human to get some help. So the conjecture is that rather than humans being the ones to seek out and domesticate wolves, dogs are descended from the wolves who looked at humans and went hey you, with the opposable thumbs, guess what we're friends now. I'd love to know exactly how that
rogerofdale 4y ago Jesus actual birthday and Death. 880 ...
Serylt 4y ago The Wow!-Signal. Most likely it has a possible, worldly, explanation but I'd sure damn love to know the whole and absolute truth about this one. Maybe it was aliens, most likely it wasn't. But will we ever know? 63 ...
FLAR RON Legend_Eyes 4y ago The library of Alexandria. What did we lose? 126 ...
Recurringg . 4y ago The battles of Lexington and Concord. AKA The shot heard round the world. Who fired that first shot??? 56 ...
Edrina . 4y ago I'd like to see what dinosaurs really looked/sounded like. 110 ...
PM_ME_LASAGNA_ 4y ago What happened on the Dyatlov Pass Really creepy stuff in here. 343 ...
jcw10489 4y ago The Max Headroom Incident. PLEASE 204 ...
ratinacage062 4y ago What happened on the Malaysian flight that disappeared. The most likely theory is that the pilot de-oxygenated the plane and then flew around with the dead bodies for around 6 hours until he lost oxygen and died too in a suicide. It's just a very fascinating mystery that probably will never have a conclusive ending. 1.1K ...

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