 Mystery: November 20, 2024 Issue [#12845] |
This week: Unexplained Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Unexplained
World history is full of unsolved mysteries. Some involve natural phenomena that even science can only theorize about. Some mysteries are proof that humans did something, but it's unclear what that could be. Again, scientists can theorize about it, but they can't say for sure why Stonehenge or the Easter Islands have giant rocks in formations.
There are many cases of people disappearing and it has been impossible to find them. All of these would make great fodder for fiction writers to give those stories a satisfying ending. Even if it's all make believe. Since neither historians, the police, or scientists can explain some of those disappearances, they are free to good (writing) home.
Dyatlov Pass
In February 1959, nine hikers died in the Russian mountains. When they were found, they were in various stages of undress. One was missing his tongue. One of the tents had been ripped open from the inside. What could have made nine people evacuate shelters in the middle of winter without clothes on?
The Mary Celeste Ghost Ship
In November 1872, Benjamin Briggs, his wife and two year old daughter, and seven crew members set sail from New York to Genoa, Italy. They were traveling comfortably with supplies to last them six months. They also traveled in style with a piano on board. When the ship was discovered abandoned on the ocean, only the lifeboat was missing. And the people that set sail. Nothing else was out of order, not even the ship's log gave any indication as to why the ship was deserted. None of these people were ever recovered. Why did they leave a perfectly seaworthy and comfortable ship in the middle of the ocean?
The Circleville letters
Starting in 1976 and continuing through the 1980s, Circleville, Ohio was plagued by someone writing mean letters. Those letters first accused the school bus driver Mary and the superintendent to have an affair. Then in 1977, the school bus driver's husband Ron died in an unexplainable one-car crash. Ron's brother in law went to prison for writing the letters, but the letters kept coming, and he got one too! Who wrote the letters?
Tunguska
Russia is full of weird stuff in the forest. On June 30, 1908 it was discovered that the trees in 770 square miles of forest had fallen over. There was no explosion, no impact crater from an asteroid, and no witnesses to anything bizarre. Now, Russia is a giant country. It could be that something exploded and nobody was close enough to hear. But any know cause for an explosion would have left a trace. Were these flattened trees the first even of crop circles?
As you see, both nature and people create plenty of mysteries that you can use to create a compelling story.
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Her forest is diseased, her memories are lost, and her companion is not what he seems.
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Replies to my last Mystery newsletter "The Alignments of Carnac" that asked Were you aware of the many sites where humans set up massive stones?
Cubby  wrote: How fascinating! I've always been intrigued with historical stone sites, though I've never visited one. And I didn't know there were so many! Thanks for sharing. 
There are some in the USA. A simple search for "stone alignments in USA" will yield some of these strewn about several states. Maybe you can check one or more of them out during one of your trips.
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