14 'Unsolved' Mysteries (That Have Been Easily Solved)
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Science is super neat. We love smartphones, airplanes and antibiotics. The fact is though that science can't explain the world's foremost mysteries. That seems to have to be one of the reasons they're still really popular. As humans, we are continuously observing and seeking to make an understanding of our surroundings. It's what we do best. However, anytime we come across anything we don't understand, we compensate by creating stories to explain it. Shockingly, we're pretty good at it.
Why would many planes and ships go lost near Bermuda in that mysterious triangle? Alien, obviously. Throughout the years, such widely accepted "explanations" have sufficed. On the other hand, research advances along with us, and it is continually providing actual proof on themes that are so vital to us. The issue is that we don't always listen.
A 12-episode podcast isn't required for every mystery. The solution is sometimes self-evident: people are horny, the weather is unpredictable, and everyone farts. Scroll down for some more unsolved mysteries…
![The mysterious old-timey selfie man... CRACKED.COM ...was a photo booth owner. Multiple photo historians independently unearthed over 8,000 pictures of the same dude, dated between 1930 and 1970. The nephew of late photo booth owner Franklyn Swantek eventually noticed his uncle's mug on the internet, and set the record straight.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/0/792900.jpg)
Source: 5 Creepy Mysteries With Simple Solutions No One Saw Coming
![The Bermuda Triangle... CRACKED.CO ...is not statisticaly significant. That triangle includes some of the busiest trade routes on the planet, and the percent of ships lost in storms or simply not marked arrived after being marked late is pretty consistent with any other randomly selected portion of the ocean.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/1/792901.jpg)
Source: 6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)
![The Cryptic YouTube channel... fly slide 0007 CRACKED.COM ...was a test page they forgot to set to private. In 2013, everyone from the BBC to the Washington Post was reporting on this potential spycraft, or maybe alien communication? It turned out to be an automated test of video upload quality out of Google's Zurich headquarters.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/4/792894.jpg)
Source: 5 Creepy Mysteries With Simple Solutions No One Saw Coming
![The Starchild Skull... CRACKED.co ...belonged to a regular baby who died of hydrocephalus. A small, malformed skull found in a mine tunnel in 1930 has been held up as proof that aliens seeded human life long ago. Instead of, y'know, remnants of a malformed baby who passed shortly after birth.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/3/792893.jpg)
Source: 6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)
![The mythical Sea Ape... CRACKED.COM ...was the caricature of that one boss everyone hated. Steller's Sea Ape was a 6-foot sunburned COW with a huge mustache and the head of a dog. That also happens to describe Captain Vitus Bering, Steller's boss.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/5/792905.jpg)
Source: 5 Historical Mysteries That Had Painfully Dumb Explanations
![The Mad Gasser of Mattoon... CRACKED.COM ...was just pollution. In the 1930's, there was a slew of reports from the Illinois industrial hub of a gas maniac noisily pumping gas into homes in the middle of the night, and then scurrying away. In all likelihood, residents simply heard a noise, opened the window, and hallucinated a sinister being after huffing the polluted air.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/7/792897.jpg)
Source: 6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)
![The case of the Hopkinsville Goblin... CRACKEDG ...was a great horned owl. A bunch of drunk Kentuckians mass hallucinated a goblin after spotting a creature with an oversized head, big, floppy, pointed ears, glowing eyes, and hands with talons.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/2/792902.jpg)
Source: 6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)
![The highest recorded temperature in history... C CRACKED .COM ...was the result of user error. According to Guinness, Libya recorded a temperature of 136.4 F in 1922. Decades later, a meteorologist figured out the truth: a new hire had just read their fancy thermometer wrong.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/9/792899.jpg)
Source: 5 Historical Mysteries That Had Painfully Dumb Explanations
![Unsolvable Viking riddles... FFRO+X O 3PEPA FED CRACKED.COM ...were just horny graffiti. In 2014, an archaeologist finally cracked the code of jotunvillur-- essentially, ancient message boards full of rude boasts and sexy fantasies.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/8/792898.jpg)
Source: 5 Historical Mysteries That Had Painfully Dumb Explanations
![The lost Roanoke colony... CROATOA CRACKED. ...just noped out of an inhospitable environment. A group of colonists disappeared ...after being abandoned for three years. A whole line of blue-eyed, pale-complexioned natives indicates that they... deeply befriended a nearby group of natives on Croatan Island.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/2/792892.jpg)
Source: 6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)
![The mysterious sound that almost caused WWIII... CRACKED.COM ...was fish farts. In 1994, the Swedish navy noticed a hissing sound that closely resembled Russian submarine activity. After a diplomatic shoving match with Boris Yeltsin, Sweden discovered that its equipment was picking up the farts of Herrings.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/5/792895.jpg)
Source: 5 Historical Mysteries That Had Painfully Dumb Explanations
![The Dyatlov Pass hikers... CRACKED.COM ...were victims of an avalanche. A group of hikers were found dead in a Russian mountain range in 1959. Some were naked, oddly tanned, and missing soft tissue. These are all easily explained by an avalanche, which caused hypothermia and paradoxical undressing, followed by sun exposure and scavenging animals.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/6/792896.jpg)
Source: 6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)
![se The Papyrus... 1. CRACKED.COM ...was a questionable women's health guide. In 2010, archaeologists realized this intricate text was actually four pages stuck together. When they peeled them apart (gross), they discovered Grecian physician Galen detailing how a uterus must be adequately lubricated, lest it suffocate.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/3/792903.jpg)
Source: 5 Historical Mysteries That Had Painfully Dumb Explanations
![The Goat Man of Utah... CRACKED.co COM ...was an extremely dedicated goat hunter. People started spotting a bizarre man-sized goat stalking the cliffs near Salt Lake City. It turned out to be a California man practicing for an upcoming goat hunt in Cananda.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/4/792904.jpg)
Source: 5 Creepy Mysteries With Simple Solutions No One Saw Coming