What is the most fascinating mystery or myth you have ever heard?

Question

Like the one about rocks moving through the desert or the yeti or bigfoot or the way pyrimids can sharpen blades and prolong the decomposition process! That sort of stuff...

Answer 1

I've always been intrigued by the stories I have heard about the lochness monster(Nessie).

Answer 2

Cattle mutilations. They are well documented and investigated and they give me the creeps, what is it all about? For various reasons I don't buy the alien/UFO theory, but something is happening to these animals involving surgical techniques that are very advanced (apparently). Most other myths and mysteries I have ever come across have explanations - crop circles (natural but not very well understood vortexes), UFO's (electromagnetism affecting the brain, no time to go into here but a very plausible theory that seems to explain most cases), Loch Ness monster etc - there is nothing in Loch Ness of that nature - proven beyond doubt using sophisticated sonar technology.

That leaves ghosts/poltergeist phenomenon which is also well documented and I think a very real phenomenon. Big Foot - well there is some interesting footage in existence but that could be fraudulent - jury is out on that one! The mystery of the crystal skulls is quite interesting - but I don't know enough to say any more.

Answer 3

Too many to list fully without boring everyone to death!

But some of my favourites are so-called "urban legends" - especially the phantom hitchhiker, because because a friend of ours used to know someone - a confirmed sceptic - who claimed that this had actually happened to him but that he "didn't believe it"! She says he was forever trying to find a logical explanation for his experience.

I'm also fascinated by ancient legends and folklore and by investigating the possible origins of them. Where I live in West Yorkshire we have strong links with the Robin Hood stories. There are so many theories surrounding the origins of these that it is extremely difficult to tease out anything that could possibly be a grain of truth regarding their origin.

Finally, I have dim memories of a wonderful book that belonged to my maternal grandfather which was a compilation of "strange but supposedly true" stories. There are two that stick in my mind. One is the Devil's hoofprints, which apparently appeared one very snowy night in Cornwall in the early nineteenth century. Another is about a vault in - I think - Barbados (I may have misremembered the location) where every time it was opened up for a new interment all the coffins were found in disarray, at odd angles to each other, upended etc.

Anyone fallen asleep yet.....?!

Answer 4

I read a story about rocks appearing over night in central oklahoma. The land was flat and the next day rocks were covering the land some were huge. My favorite is the spring heeled jack. I'm 32 I read about jack in the 1st grade tonight is the first time I've ran into people who have even heard of him 9-03-06 Oh yea the chupacabra is a bunch of crap.

Answer 5

All the stuff you hear about the Bermuda Triangle. In vietnam we call it the infernal triangle - or the triangle of hell (however you would translate it into English). It is said to be the place where ships and aeroplanes never come back from when they reach the triangle. So, be careful of the Bermuda Triangle when you go on holiday by a ship or by a flight. Maybe you will never see your home again.

Answer 6

That the cow jumped over the moon and the little dog laughed to see such fun and the dish ran away with the spoon. Now that is what you call a fascinating mystery... strange but true. It must be true I read it in a book when I was a child, and I have seen pictures of it happening. But's it's a mystery how the dog laughed I thought dogs barked.

Answer 7

I recently read that "One of Christianity's best-kept secrets was that the Mother of All Living was the Creatress who chastised God." (The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets) Now, that's a fascinating mystery: Why would Christianity keep secrets from its worshipers?

Answer 8

There is a book called POLTERGEISTS...which uses a photo of an 8 year old boy who was killed in an auto accident.At the moment he was killed,he showed up in 3 different poses in an instant polaroid photo taken at a beach 4 miles away.According to Kodak,it is IMPOSSIBLE to triple expose polaroid film.

Answer 9

Bogs can also prevent decomposition, natural bogs, not the down-stairs Loo!
Urban legends R plentiful, I can't just pick 1.
Sorry.
:)
& I agree with Kev above,
Must have been a double bagger.
ha ha ha

Answer 10

That gender is biological. lol!

No, really.. for something that not only changes over time, but also changes depending on your location as far as numbers (of genders) and implications of genders, including concepts of masculinity and femininity (which also changes over time and place) I think its rather intriguing that, at least western culture, saturates itself with the notion that gender is biological.

The same bafflement applies to cultures that perpetuate the notion that there are only two sexes (males xy chromosomes and females xx chromosomes) when there are clearly over 30 chromosomal sexes.

For more info or discussion regaurding sex (chromosomes) and/or genders, please visit links posted below. ^_^

Answer 11

when i was a kid there was a local old man supposedly cursed by a gypsy so that no woman would find him attractive. he was so deformed he only came out at night his face hidden with a scarf. a few times when i was out at night this old man would say hello to me as he passed me on his bike, then one night he came cycling towards me no scarf on, he had a benign tumour on his face just shows how cruel some people can be making up stories about an old man who went of his way to be pleasant to people.