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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jun 13, 2010 2:14:11 GMT -5
As much as we know about the past, there still are a lot of intresting events that do not have an explnation. Or if there is explantions they are not concreate enough to be full on fact.
What are some that you guys find interesting?
One that I have liked for a few years is the mysterious white man in Oregon. When Lewis and Clark were going across the mountains they started to hear stories of a lone white man that was living on the coast for about a year. That he came out of no where, and was gone in about a year. The Indians closer to coast did not see a ship where he could have come from nor did they see one pick the man up. The only white man that had been anywhere near there was Vancouver, and that was much further north, and he was not alone.
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Post by Orange on Jun 13, 2010 2:17:29 GMT -5
Stonehenge for me, I've heard a million different theories, but nothing seems set in stone at least not from what I've heard.
Also the Bermuda Triangle fascinates me to this day, such a weird place down there.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Jun 13, 2010 3:28:18 GMT -5
The vanishing Roanoke colony. One of my favorite mysteries to this day, as it always provides great fodder for any crazy ass conspiracy theory you want.
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Post by PaperStreetBrigade on Jun 13, 2010 3:53:56 GMT -5
I thought this topic was "Historical Myspaces"
Was hoping to see a tripped out Ben Franklin Myspace. I am disappointed.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jun 13, 2010 4:46:46 GMT -5
My first choice would be Tunguska, but the missing Roanoke colony is a good one.
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Post by mattperiolat on Jun 13, 2010 5:13:34 GMT -5
I have to go with a personal choice: The Kensington Runestone in Minnesota. Real or not? And if it is real, just how much of the US did the vikings see?
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jun 13, 2010 6:21:59 GMT -5
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Post by FrankGotch on Jun 13, 2010 7:34:33 GMT -5
As much as we know about the past, there still are a lot of intresting events that do not have an explnation. Or if there is explantions they are not concreate enough to be full on fact. What are some that you guys find interesting? One that I have liked for a few years is the mysterious white man in Oregon. When Lewis and Clark were going across the mountains they started to hear stories of a lone white man that was living on the coast for about a year. That he came out of no where, and was gone in about a year. The Indians closer to coast did not see a ship where he could have come from nor did they see one pick the man up. The only white man that had been anywhere near there was Vancouver, and that was much further north, and he was not alone. At the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition there were already many European hunters and trappers who were already well established in the area. In fact there was a small "town" of about 8 houses or so not too far from the coast. Lewis and Clark were not even close to being the first white people on the coast. So the story of the lone white man sounds pretty fishy. Of course their expedition was still important because they were the first guys making detailed maps, and recording the flora and fauna they found along the way.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jun 13, 2010 9:46:40 GMT -5
Yeah, Lewis and Clark were exploring about 300 years after America was rediscovered, there must have been quite a few expeditions in that time, people just going off and exploring, making new lives. It's not that bizzare.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jun 13, 2010 9:53:18 GMT -5
I've just always wanted to why the Nazca Lines are what they are.
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Post by chac on Jun 13, 2010 14:23:36 GMT -5
The Mary Celeste mystery always interested me.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 13, 2010 15:18:42 GMT -5
And number 1 too. Especially number 1. Seriously, this Bermuda Triangle thing (which is looking more and more like a square than a triangle but whatever) isn't even slightly interesting. Gotta agree with the Nazca lines and Mary-Celeste stories though. And I'd like to add to the mix: _The Voynich manuscript. It is apparently some sort of encyclopedia-like work, dated as being from the 15th century. The thing is, to this day, even the best codebreakers in the world remained unable to understand a single word written in it, to the point many people (including historians) believe it to be a joke. But who the Hell would make a book just to pull a prank in a time when books were immensely difficult and expensive to make? _The Antikythera mechanism. A simple piece of machinery from 100 BC found in a shipwreck. What's so special about it? It includes gears and structures that weren't invented before a millenium; _The second Jehanne of Arc. A few years after Jehanne was burned, a woman appeared and claimed to be her. The thing is, she knew personnal informations about her that would have been pretty much impossible for her to know if she wasn't Jehanne, and even her family recognized her. Did I mention that over 800 soldiers surrounded Jehanne and the fire, making it hard for the crowd to actually see her, and that her head was covered with a cloth the entire time, from the jail she was kept all the way to the pyre?
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Post by oldad5518 on Jun 13, 2010 15:24:47 GMT -5
The vanishing Roanoke colony. One of my favorite mysteries to this day, as it always provides great fodder for any crazy ass conspiracy theory you want. Love going to Nags Head and visiting Roanoke Island. But yeah they bred with the Indians, and just left to colonize other islands. Really easy to see that
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Post by eagerbeaver on Jun 13, 2010 15:27:58 GMT -5
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 13, 2010 15:55:29 GMT -5
Oh! I almost forgot. it's not really "historical," but the Toynbee Tiles deserve a mention. They are tiles appearing in many places all over America, always in the same style and always containing a variation of the following message: The first ones appeared during the 80s but new ones keep popping up every now and then. Nobody knows who made them, if it's only one person or several of them, why they made them and if those messages are even supposed to have any meaning at all. Keep in mind that those are indeed tiles and they were embedded in the ground, not just drawings that could have been done by any random passer-by. Here's a wikipedia entry on those tiles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tilesAnd a website recording the impressive list of tiles found, with some pictures: web.archive.org/web/20070501110310/http://www.toynbee.net/
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Post by Beav on Jun 13, 2010 17:55:45 GMT -5
The Voynich Manuscript for me. Also... Groom Lake, NV.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Jun 13, 2010 19:38:56 GMT -5
The lost works of St. Papias.
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Post by Beav on Jun 13, 2010 20:07:41 GMT -5
The lost works of St. Papias. What are these? If it crosses some religious rule on the forums just PM them to me.
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Post by ani on Jun 13, 2010 20:09:32 GMT -5
Thomas Lynch Jr. Signer of the Declaration and one of the first of them to die. Lost at sea and oddly enough, made a will JUST before he sailed out.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Jun 13, 2010 21:34:58 GMT -5
The lost works of St. Papias. What are these? If it crosses some religious rule on the forums just PM them to me. The short answer is, a five book commentary on the Sayings of Jesus written in Asia Minor during the early second century. Only a few scraps survived. He would have had access to the oral history of the the early church, which was lost by 150 A.D.
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