32 Fascinating and Mysterious Bits of History

Like cold cases at police stations, sometimes an event happens that, even after everyone’s best efforts, remains unexplainable. The world, after all, keeps turning, and you can only look for a missing airplane for so long before countries start bombing each other again and that becomes the focus. This leaves some chestnuts unsolved throughout our timeline, and they’re just as fun to think about as you’d assume.

Read on to find out about the mysterious bits of history that keep Redditors up at night, wondering what, exactly, the hell happened. Whether it’s supernatural or simply mysterious thanks to long-lost records, it’s like an educational version of Unsolved Mysteries, and if that doesn’t sell you? Well then, we’re very different people.