Certain mysteries are mysteries no more. Thanks to scientific tools that perhaps didn’t exist at the time of the occurrences, investigators have been able to figure out the solutions to many earlier puzzles. Sometimes the researchers simply get lucky, thanks to a deathbed confession or stumbling across a clue that everyone else missed.
Yet, in some cases, people don’t believe the proof, particularly if it is a disappointingly simple explanation, lacking a dash of exotica.
Books and TV shows may still look for clues to a “mystery” that really isn’t there. But you don’t have to always fall for them: Here are 10 former unsolved mysteries for which we now have a solution. You’re welcome.
There was once a time when there were no security or identity checks on domestic flights in the United States. There were no security checks on luggage, and there were no frisks or cavity searches before boarding.
The security hurdles air travelers face today present quite a juxtaposition from what they were 44 years ago, which is why nobody thought anything was out of the ordinary on November 24, 1971, when a man in Portland, Oregon, bought a seat on Northwest Flight 305 bound for Seattle, Washington.
