Post by mecano04 on Aug 23, 2017 18:56:49 GMT
1. The impossible "suicide" of Capt. George M. Colvocoresses in Bridgeport, CT, in 1872.
2. The murder of Carl Gros in Maspeth, NY, in 1891. The bullet penetrated his body but left no holes in his clothing.
3. The disappearance of a 4 ton wrecking ball from a construction site (Dowling Construction Company, Indianapolis, IN) in 1974.
4. The mutilation of a horse called Skippy in 1967; the horse had been mutilated in a muddy field, but without any footprints around him!
5. The impossible suicide/SHC of Glen B. Denney in Algiers, LA, in 1952. A spontaneous human combustion case just as fascinating as Mary Reeser, let me note!
connecticuthistory.org/murder-on-the-map-the-mysterious-death-of-captain-george-m-colvocoresses/
Sure it remains unsolved (hence the mystery) but to me it seems like a "typical" robbery gone wrong or they simply didn't want him alive at all . According to this calculator ( www.in2013dollars.com/1872-dollars-in-2016?amount=8000 ) 8 000$ in 1872 makes 151 707$ today. He was carrying a big fortune around. If it became known that he had that much money on him, it was done.
I found this on an obscure site
" An Impossible Suicide?- In 1872 Capt. George M. Colvocoresses body was found shot to death on a well-frequented street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A pistol and a satchel lay besides the body, and the police at first assumed they had a clear case of murder. When they examined the body more closely, however they discovered that no bullet hole was to be found in his jacket or vest, while the hole and powder burn in his shirt indicated that the pistol had been inserted beneath the outer garments before being fired. No one could explain why this might have happened. The next conclusion was that he killed himself. Yet there was also no reasonable explanation of why he would do that, and in such the manner that he died. Besides that there are some difficulties he would have faced while killing himself also. First of all why would he have carefully placed his hand under his own jacket and vest to kill himself? Not to mention the fact it was early in the evening on a street many people frequently walked on (how ever it doesn't mention any witnesses) Also since his autopsy concluded that he died almost instantly because he shot himself in the heart, how did he have enough time to remove his hand out from jacket and vest to place the gun and satchel beside him. It most likely would have been in his hand or nearer to him. Plus if he really did kill himself the question arises of why he would want to do it in such a way."
It's strange but not inexplicable. I mean, his vest/jacket/whatever might have moved if he struggled with the killer or if the killer was at an angle with him. Otherwise the killer could have been just a feet away and held him closely. We don't have a picture of the vest so we don't know how open or closed it is at the front, once buttoned and when it's open.
2- There doesn't seem to be much known or said about this case. Problem is we don't know what clothes he wore at the time and the angle he was shot from. Still, it wouldn't be mysterious and strange if it could be easily explained so we can only assume he was shot from the front (or back) and it was at the upper body. Interesting but really not enough info to take a definitive stance on it.
3- The Reddit thread about it does raise some good question while raising some interesting questions :
"The date is listed as Thursday, July 19th, 1973. All other sources I've seen listed 1974. Was this because the Reader's Digest interviewer got the date wrong? Or maybe the owner of the company misremembered? Just for reference, the publish date on Mysteries of the Unexplained is 1982.
Some details were different though. The owner said the wrecking ball was 5-tons instead of the book's reported 2 1/2 tons. Could someone just goofed on the conversion (2.5 tons is ~ 5,500 pounds)?"
The thread link : www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4awaox/a_heavy_question/
Some news paper links: news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19730719&id=Z-RdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BV8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=3573,3107811&hl=en
www.newspapers.com/newspage/106384078/
It would be surprising considering the size but not impossible to pull off. I mean, at a place I used to work (it closed, I'm not the culprit), someone found a way to steal a 40'' cathodic TV that hanged at 7' high from the 12' ceiling. It was in a room in the middle of the building with no fire exit nearby and it happened in the middle of the day without anyone noticing something suspicious. You can't hide that in the back pocket of your jeans...
4- It would seem "Lady" is the actual name of the horse but that's just a detail.
This clip gives some info on the story and testimonies:
I don't have any take on this. It goes into the Aliens subject pretty quickly but one thing is sure, that horse met someone or a group that was up to no good (to put it that way).
5- I found the same link that raise questions. I read your post on page 4. At least the state records office confirms the person existed but it doesn't proves much otherwise.
Fate magazine is a real thing ( www.fatemag.com/ ) even if it's not my kind of publication. On the Internet Archives (fascinating site if you like old stuff) I found some 1973 issues of the magazine but not those of 1953 ( archive.org/search.php?query=Fate%20magazine ). There is also the Pulp mags section : (archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive?&sort=-downloads&page=2 ) from which you get this kind of stuff (archive.org/details/ScreenlandOct.1923 ) in which they talk about Gloria Swanson ( Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, 1950). You can also find movies, radio recordings, pictures, scanned books, etc. archive.org/
Back to the subject, I have never believed in spontaneous combustion but similar stories have been reported many times over the years so I'm open to it but not a firm believer.