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❓ Mysteries
D.B. Cooper
1971 · Unsolved
On 24 November 1971 a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, took $200,000 in Seattle and jumped from a Boeing 727; he was never found.
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Mary Celeste
1872 · Unsolved
In December 1872 the brigantine Mary Celeste was found under sail near the Azores with cargo intact and no one aboard; Gibraltar’s salvage court never established why ten people had left.
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❓ Mysteries
Amelia Earhart disappearance
1937 · Unsolved
On 2 July 1937 Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished on the Lae-to-Howland leg of an around-the-world flight; no wreck or remains have been identified.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
2014 · Unsolved
On 8 March 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing and vanished; satellite handshakes and later Indian Ocean debris never produced a located wreck or a cause.
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Somerton Man
1948 · Mixed outcome
On 1 December 1948 an unidentified man was found dead on Somerton Park beach; a Rubaiyat scrap reading Tamám Shud defined the case, and a 2022 DNA claim named Carl Webb without settling how he died.
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