17 'Unsolved' Mysteries (That Have Been Thoroughly Solved)

The actual mystery is, why do people think these haven’t been solved?
17 'Unsolved' Mysteries (That Have Been Thoroughly Solved)

Like The Voynich Manuscript or the Mary Celeste, there are a lot of mysteries out there that continue to baffle the masses. Or like that show with Robert Stack, you know the one where he was all solemn, intoning about Easter Island and the aliens that might have built it because how else? Yep, those were some unsolved mysteries to be sure, so opaque the show was on for 75 years and so mysterious that Robert Stack didn't age a day. Head-scratchers the world over burrowed deep through their craniums to touch the top of their brains over all the intrigue that good old Robert Stack slung.

To be clear, this isn't that. The myths found below are perpetuated by people who simply refuse to do a quick Google search. We are here for such yo-yos. We are always here for such yo-yos. Because we were once such yo-yos. 

For example ...

76 years later, we know what set fire to the Hindenburg: static electricity. After performing experiments with scale models, and reviewing archive foo
We want 1 ll 1 1 to believe 2 that the 1/E2 l UBl signal 3-1 was from the 5 aliens. ww 14 l according l But to 3 a study published in 2017, two 4 come
HE BLOOP was a tremendously loud, ultra-ttino from sound deep within the South Pacific, detected in 1997 by undersea sensors 3.000 miles apart. While
Where do crop circles come from? Since people couldn't possibly produce complex GRAUN designs in one night, was it aliens? We may never know... ...exc

The Mayans

No one really knows what happened to the Mayan civilization. Except for the scientists at Arizona State and Columbia University. Due to rapid deforest
Will we ever find out who Banksy really is? (We probably know.) A recent study using criminal and artist terrorist profiling technology has Robin. nar

The Bear Brook Murders

The culprit in the Bear Brook murders has been identified. When police failed to identify four bodies crammed into metal drums, the case went cold. SH

NASA

For decades, a mysterious force has been slowing down Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 space probes. CRAN Experts at NASA were baffled and suspected that our
The mystery: the paulding Light, a light that mysteriously appears above the tree line on US Highway 45. The locals believe it's the ghost of a railro
Why does Catedral Nueva, a Spanish cathedral built hundreds of years ago, have a carving of an astronaut on it? It's mystified many people but the exp

British Columbia

The mystery: severed Feet repeatedly washed up on British Columbia's beaches. People attributed them to plane crashes or a serial killer. The answer:

Sculptures

BOSHAM CRACKED.GOM THE HEAD The origin of the 375-pound stone head found in a flowerbed was solved after 200 years. British archaeologists used 3D las
Ancient stone structures weren't built with the help oF wizards or aliens Modern scientists have demonstrated that with teamwork and simple machines,
Some claimed hieroglyphs found on the temple of Seti I showed ancient depictions of helicopters, subs, and jets. HH Blogger Hypnogogial discovered the

Yeah, Right

What really crashed in Roswell in 1947? Pictured is a radar target from a balloon. The US Army Air Force was working on a balloon project at the time

Tree pipes, then

The mystery: iron pipes dated to 150,000 years ago were found in Baigong, China. This is puzzling, considering the earliest sign of human activity in
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