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Against the odds

Who tried to kill Bob Marley?

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In 1976 three gunmen came onto Bob Marley’s estate at 56 Hope Road in Kingston Jamaica and opened fire. No one was killed but who sent them and why?

Some of Our Research:
Longform version
The CIA threat?
The Shower Posse connection

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Against the odds

Josh Gibson’s Yankee Stadium Home Run

Josh Gibson

Josh Gibson is remembered as one of the best and strongest hitters in the National Negro League. The stories say he hit one out of Yankee Stadium in 1930 or 1934. Is it possible to do that and if so did he really do it?

Some of Our Research:
About Gibson
Yankee Stadium
Mantle’s attempts

Against the odds

Who Finked on the Franks

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For two years Anne Frank & her family, and four other people, lived in hiding in rooms behind a business in Amsterdam–until one day in August 1944 when German and Dutch police showed up and arrested them. Who was the rat?

Some of Our Research:
The wiki
From Miep
A proposed culprit

Against the odds

Lost Cosmonauts

lost cosmonauts

According to lore the Soviet Union launched people into space who never made it back to earth alive. Not wanting to lose face in the space race the existence of these cosmonauts was covered up. Did the Soviet Union really send people into space never to return or is this all a flight of fancy?

Some of Our Research:
Strong support for the theory
A look from both sides
Against the theory

Against the odds

The Sodder Children

Sodder Children

On Christmas Eve 1945 the Sodder family home caught fire, only 4 of the 9 children made it out. After the fire was extinguished no bodies were found leading the family to believe that the children had been taken before the fire started. Were they or was this just the wishful thinking of grieving parents?

Some of Our Research:
The Smithsonian article
The NPR story
What was left out of the story

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