historical mysteries that need solving perhaps?

Jack the Ripper, though that seems very unlikely. 

How Donald Trump was elected POTUS.

If interested, I recommend The Secret Token.

The Ancient Egyptian Treasure "Discovered" in The Grand Canyon in 1909...






Was it real?

Many recent discoveries throughout the world, in just the last couple of decades, have suggested that many ancient cultures were in existence much further back in time, than previously believed, and many of those where in fact traveling throughout the world...

And yes, it is believed that some of them, may have visited North America...


If a discovery of such "magnitude" had been discovered in the Grand Canyon....TODAY... It would probably, just end up being another notation to add to Today's History Books...

But, if this information was made widely known to the world in 1909... Could it have shattered our society at the time?

If the answer is yes, then there probably was a cover up...


IF...it was covered up, I think it is time for the truth to be known!

Small mystery, nothing major, but I wonder if anyone here might be interested in researching it, even if just by way of the ’net. (If so, please let me know.)

I wrote down an old Boston Harbor legend here. I noted, “Unfortunately, while George’s Island in Boston Harbor does have ghost stories and legends (so much so that an early commanding officer had to put out an order that soldiers there couldn’t use ‘ghosts’ as an excuse for leaving their posts), this particular one was made up by local historian Edward Rowe Snow, after many people had asked him if there were a ghost story on George’s Island. Oh well! Great story, though.”

That is indeed what the park rangers now tell you at George’s Island, but I’ve found some interesting pieces of information that suggest the story may be older than Snow’s telling. At the end of his account, Snow writes, “Warrant Officer Richard Kurth composed a group of Black Widow waltzes which were inspired by the ghost of the lady of the black robes.” If you look it up, you’ll see that there was a Warrant Officer Richard Kurth stationed on George’s Island, and he did compose a “Black Widow” waltz—in 1941, three years before Snow published his book.

I don’t know, however, if Kurth indeed wrote them about the ghost-story—that’s what I’d need to research—but if so then it suggests that Snow did not in fact invent the story from whole cloth after all.

One more thing. Ever since I first heard the legend, I’ve been skeptical about the rangers’ assertion that Snow just made it up and passed it off as fact. Snow never did that before or since in his books, and while he told a lot of legends he was always sure to say they were legends, probably untrue (as he did with the lady in black story in The Romance of Boston Bay). I’ve now read a good amount of Snow, and if he were trying to pass a story he’d made up off as fact, it’d be remarkably out-of-character and motiveless. I’m starting to be more and more inclined that the story was in fact based on an older legend, though it’s indisputable that the events that occurred in the story did not actually happen.