Sometimes things just seem to lucky to be random chance but are they?
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When Queen Elizabeth I of England died in 1603, the Tudor line of monarchs ended. Though a lot of people have speculated that maybe it didn’t quite… Did Elizabeth I have a child?
Some of Our Research:
Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley-Historical edition
Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley-Daily Mail edition
Dude looks like a lady?
On September 11, 1997, on Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM show, a frantic caller claiming to be a recent employee at Area 51 made some startling revelations. A few minutes into the call, the Coast to Coast AM broadcast is mysteriously disrupted. Seventeen years later, a man calls a different show called Fade to Black, claiming to have made the whole thing up. Was the call really a hoax? And if so, what took out the broadcast?
Some of Our Research:
The original call
17 years later
Area 51 law suit
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In 2009, u/2-6 posted on Reddit that u/ReligionOfPeace had passed away. It was later discovered that u/ReligionOfPeace, aka “Milo” owned the domain for a site called “That Old Guy’s Image Hosting”. But when another Reddit user innocuously checked the source code of the site, it launched one of Reddit’s longest-lived unsolved mysteries.
Some of Our Research:
Dedicated Subreddit
r/RBI Thread
r/UnresolvedMysteries Thread
In 2008, a group of investigators went public with a story they’d been looking into since 1997, involving more than 45 deaths. If true, the theory is that one of the most prolific serial killers ever is currently on the loose, killing athletic college-aged men. But the links between these 45 deaths are thin, at best, and the argument for the Smiley Face Killer might not be as strong as many think.
Some of Our Research:
A recent find
The analysis of Patrick McNeill
Drowning the theory
Frederick Cook claimed to be the first man to climb to the peak of Mt. McKinley in 1906, in 1909 he claimed to have made it to the North Pole in the spring of 1908. Arctic explorer Robert Peary launched a campaign against Cook and soon no one believed he had done it. In the last several decades people retracing their steps have begun wonder if he really did it. Was Cook really successful or was he a great fraud?
Some of Our Research:
All about Cook
The Smithsonian looks again
An outsiders review