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Shawouin

This article is interesting, but at least half of these mysteries are solved, or explainable.

Bimini road have nothing mysterious, it's a rare geological occurence, and as the sea bed is mostly unexplored, we can find thing like this some place else.

The Mary Celeste could have been attacked by pirates.

Valentich could have crash at a great speed in a lake, exploding his plane on the impact, sinking instanteneously.

Richard

Shawouin, the Valentich mystery isn’t so much what happened to him and his cesna, but the moments leading up to his disappearance. It’s more the unidentified object he describes to air traffic officers prior to his disappearance. His last words: “It is hovering and it’s not an aircraft” and what he was actually seeing will forever remain unexplained.

Brett

Just because there are possible explanations does not mean that it has been explained. Pirates would not leave valuables on a ship, that's the whole reason why they are pirates. Saying Bimini Road is a rare geological occurrence is a little bit of an understatement…it's one of a kind. And yes, that plane could have crashed into a million pieces and sank instantaneously, but it is hard to believe they would have found no wreckage at all and that the homing beacon would not have worked. And none of these mysteries are “solved” as you say.
Brett

Just because there are possible explanations does not mean that it has been explained. Pirates would not leave valuables on a ship, that's the whole reason why they are pirates. Saying Bimini Road is a rare geological occurrence is a little bit of an understatement…it's one of a kind. And yes, that plane could have crashed into a million pieces and sank instantaneously, but it is hard to believe they would have found no wreckage at all and that the homing beacon would not have worked. And none of these mysteries are “solved” as you say.
ringwilson99

Wow, totally bizarre indeed. Really makes you wonder.

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stephen a smiths

what's with all these websites trying to copy the style of cracked articles? another poorly written knock-off of cracked right here… learn some funnier jokes next time
jubbs

I have read a possible explanation for the Bimini road in a book called 1421 which states that it was a method of launching enormous Chinese junks after they were washed ashore. Doesnt sound so ridiculous if you read the book.
captainMarvelous

because cracked is awesome and successful and they don't have so many f***ing ads. And yes the jokes were not as good and spread too thin. The editors at cracked do their jobs very well.
euphoriajoca

So u two are so convinced that this article is not cool as some random article at cracked? Maybe you should ask yourself twice. If u check author of this article, u will see one thing – same author write for cracked.
ncielife

I think the color is mostly due to refraction. The magnetic field would have a negligible effect. just a guess…my boyfriend thinks the same with me ,i just met him via a g e g a p s i n g l e s . c o m ,a nice place for ageless love and friend ship , lol we love it,like how he chose to label photosynthesis as a “fad”, interesting word choice buddy
http://twitter.com/RobRWhitley Rob Whitley

“Mind bottling”
smartass230

There's a 7th mystery. Why is there a PAGE 3 when you knew on PAGE 2, you were done? Ooooh, MYSTERY!

Nerissa

-_- To display the sources of information, retard.

Mickey

To gain more advertising revenue, idiot.

smartass230

Don't be a dick next time.
Name

The cargo of Mary Celeste, heavily refined alcohol, was well known to be very dangerous. The alcohol escapes the casks as a vapor and when the cargo hold is not well ventilated (as happens when the ship is battened down going through a storm, just like mary celeste did) there is a very large risk of it blowing up. These high alcohol concentrations also result in weirdly colored flames spouting from holes in the cargo hold, the first sign to abandon ship.

The hypothesis is that the crew saw the flames coming out of the hold and knew an explosion was very likely. They evacuated in haste into the life boat with a rope attached to the mary celeste (to get back when it didn't blow up) but the rope broke / a knot loosened.
ryanstevis

Dear writers who aren't funny,

Please stop trying to be funny.
http://www.electroniccigarettesinc.com e cigarette

The moving stones in the desert is still creepy to me.
Scott

There are only hard and easy answers. There are hardly any new answers. It doesn't take me back to twelve years of life when this stuff titillated my imagination.
shawouin

Gavin Menzies, author of 1421, doesn't have a solid argument from which to elaborate his thesis. More exlanation about him in the PBS Documentary, “1421: When China Discovered the World”. He is wrong on so many level I can't list them all here…

We know less about the bottom of the sea then we know about stars thousands of light years away, so if we found only one example of geological phenomenon, it's far from meaning it's unique! That way it's absolutly not man-made, as the article said.

Pirates could have kidnapped people, having not enough place on their small ship.

In my mind, mysteries are something we don't have any logical explanation, not something we don't know the answer for sure, there's a big difference between the two, at least to me.
martin

That second pic of Bimini road is actually Yonaguni Jima outside japan.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/X5QEKGIKIOLBXHELGMPFEDK7WE USNSPARKS

“103 feet from bow to stern (sailor talk!).”

REAL sailors would say 'from stem to stern'. gggg
http://www.fencetoronto.com Jay in Toronto

Just one missing … the mystery of how the belly button lint appears. That's more mysterious than Bimini .
Jack Mendoza

I get this all the time, whenever I write something for another site a bunch of people scream that I sound too much like someone on Cracked. In fact a lot of cracked writers get that…Yes cracked is awesome, but there are many other sites on the internet and some of us write for multiple places…sorry we have a specific voice
MostlyHarmless

Killjoy
Archaeologyknits

I agree with this all the way. The anthropologist who talks about the Bimini road being man made does it in a book on Atlantis. You can't call yourself credible and write about Atlantis as fact. It is just a natural formation. As for it being one of a kind, I believe there are similar formations off the coast of Asia, so it really isn't.

As for Cooper, we don't know who he was exactly, but it isn't that great of a mystery, unsolved crimes happen every day. It is just really famous.
Aurell

thats from your underwear and other dirt collecting in there.
BeeCharmer1972

CaptainMarvelous –

The reason Cracked articles routinely attract half a million or more “hits” – funny and informative. The accurate reporting of facts coupled with wickedly funny jabs is not easy to accomplish and is to be admired by those who have that gift. Thank God for cracked.com.
More than anything, they are teaching me that practically everything I learned in high school history was a big fat lie. Disappointing at first, but ultimately very satisfying and a lot more fun! Who knew a bunch of JournoGeeks could re-educate us so well?
BeeCharmer1972

Some writers amuse themselves, but should stick to the facts if they expect to be taken seriously by their readers. The internet has lots of great list sites. Quality of information and the presentation of data should be mastered before humor is attempted.
Just a thought.
Ben

150 hours does not constitute an “experienced pilot.” Just so you know.
Me

LOL…the ONLY one that is any mystery at all is the Mary Celeste…the others are fakes or pretty well nailed.
James

Mate, if the Mary Celeste was attacked by pirates, why was everything still on bored, apart from the crew?

sakura

yeah actually that’ what I’m going to say. If Mary Celeste was attacked by pirates why would they left untouched the valuables which were in the first place the pirate’ reason why they are attacking ships
sakura

yeah actually that’ what I’m going to say. If Mary Celeste was attacked by pirates why would they left untouched the valuables which were in the first place the pirate’ reason why they are attacking ships

Skye_hook

And maybe they didn't even tie a rope to it, or decided to NOT use a rope, as a ship full of flammable alcohol about to blow up isn't something you really want to be tied to either. lol No matter HOW long that rope is.
Skye_hook

If you look through a Google search, you'll find that the stones that move on the desert floor of Death Valley has a good explanation too. It's extremely windy in that area, with winds up to and over 90 mph frequently, & the desert floor there is very hard, even when wet. They figure that the stones move when it's very windy, & if it's wet & windy or icy & windy, the stones may move even further. It looks like the stones race (a few feet at a time) because the wind hitting them is from the same direction at that time. The stones actually change directions when the wind shifts, probably at a different time than the direction it was going before. People HAVE actually witnessed it happening. At those times there was very strong wind.
Skye_hook

Yep! Very correct! Not that same as the Bimini blocks at all! I also read once that there is a road just like it on the edge of Africa, & that if you were to fit the pieces of both areas together, the edges of continents fit together well. Also that there are a few roads on the edge of South America that match up with Africa also. During Ice Ages, the oceans were much lower than now. Geologists/archeologists say there must be many major cities that were covered by water when the last Ice Age was over, as most big cities tend to be near oceans & rivers.
Virul

i saw a documentry about the marie celeste and they explained it thusly……

the ship was carrying industrial grade methanol. a barrel broke allowing teh methanol to seep out and vaporise.
a spark possibly from somthing liek the iron horseshoe they hung in the cargo hold luck falling and hitting an nail on the floor caused a firey explosion, guarenteed to put the shits up a sailor wooden boat.
everyone bailed into the lifeboat which was tied to the ship. the ships sails were still up which strained the rope untill it broke and made it impossible to catch the ship in alifeboat.
as demonstrated in the documentry the methanol explosion wouldnt have been hot enough to burn anything on the ship (in their demonstration it barely singed one of the paper cubes they used to represent the cargothis theory explains the only 2 weird things on the boat, ie. the 2 hatches leading to the cargo deck were open (from the force of the explosion) and the bit of roap left dangeling off teh back of teh ship where the life boat would have been attached.

Walterxharty

You should get some help with your spelling.

http://www.greaternewyorkrealestate.com Heather

UFO sightings was one of the unsolved/unanswered mystery…noone knows when this mystery would be solved…
http://twitter.com/MekhongKurt MekhongKurt

Ot's been a long time I've read about the Mary Celeste, but as I recall, there was a meal on the table in the captain's cabin — the food still warm. So if pirates came aboard, why the haste? That is, pirates aren't known for taking only people but leaving everything else behind.

Pirates can't be discounted, of course; they could have had their own reasons for taking only the people, then themselves, their hostages, and their own boat sank later.

However, as far as I know, most maritime historians put little faith in such an explanation.

As for Bimini “road, there's a comparable formation on a neck of land connecting ATasmania to a large piece of the island off the south coast of Australia — was reading about it just within the hour.
http://twitter.com/MekhongKurt MekhongKurt

Oh, that's easy. It's Native American ancestral spirits trying to scare the pants off white people so they'll LEAVE! LOL
http://twitter.com/MekhongKurt MekhongKurt

I had the same thought, as I know and have known a LOT of pilots during my life, both military and commercial, as well as wealthy hobby pilots. Now, if we're talking about a pilot with 1,500 hours, well, that's a pilot with some decent flying experience. But truly “very experienced” requires another zero — 15,000 hours.
Jim Telly

may i add that 150 hours of airtime is not a very long time….. most pilots nowadays have a few thousand
Orange_alien88

it was stated that there were no signs of a struggle and nothing missing from the mary celeste except the people(and maybe the lifeboat since he mentioned they might have been in that). Doesnt sound like pirates to me. and if valentich did crash with and explosion there would still be a massive amount of wreckage to find and no one found anything even when they began the search almost right away.
Lbpenning

When the alien space craft started taking them on board, some of them said “Screw this.” and headed for the life boat. The least of their worries under those circumstances would be food. Either the life boat was scuttles or they took them aboard too. Don't tell me this doesn't happen. There are eye-witness accounts of this happening to cattle and other people taken aboard with the use of a powerful beam of light. The people used for experimentation and biological research are never seen again, but the cattle are found many times with parts surgically removed as though with a laser, totally drained of blood and left in such a way that no tracks are ever found. Most of the time preditors will not even come close to it. This happened very recently in Montana. I know.
B.R.D.

How could they have possibly found their ship in time to know that the food was still warm? With no communication, no one would begin looking for the ship until a long time had passed and they still hadn't arrived at their destination. Someone came across their ship in the sea and decided to investigate? I doubt it.
http://www.dscomic.com/ Rob

Some interesting mysteries. I’ve wondered about the Mary Celeste…
Jackson Trebor

The captions seem ripped off of Cracked. Just my suspicion from hours of reading the captions on there, so there’s no physical evidence. Still, the captions on these pictures don’t suit the style the article was written.

Interesting stuff, though.

Anonymous

Try reading author name. Same author writes for Cracked Nothing is ripped.

http://always10.blogspot.com jrplaza

I may not believe this but its true that it is still the talked of the town… thanks for posting this top 10 list… I will get some ideas from here on.. for my blog.LOL
Carpet Toronto

This are still unsolved mysteries.