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Post by mecano04 on Aug 4, 2017 22:33:32 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Aug 4, 2017 23:42:57 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Aug 4, 2017 23:44:23 GMT
Actually several strange cases like that there was the man at the airport who vanished, the lady in texas wjo died under an assumed identity as well.
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Post by mecano04 on Aug 5, 2017 0:49:20 GMT
Actually several strange cases like that there was the man at the airport who vanished, the lady in texas wjo died under an assumed identity as well. I'm no expert nor claim to know every case but just like that, those 2 don't ring any bell. They might be just as interesting so I'll try to look them up.
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Post by hi224 on Aug 5, 2017 1:00:00 GMT
Actually several strange cases like that there was the man at the airport who vanished, the lady in texas wjo died under an assumed identity as well. I'm no expert nor claim to know every case but just like that, those 2 don't ring any bell. They might be just as interesting so I'll try to look them up. No you were correct i was just saying.
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 7, 2017 22:44:54 GMT
Actually several strange cases like that there was the man at the airport who vanished, the lady in texas wjo died under an assumed identity as well. "The man in the airport who vanished"? A few of those: Lars Mittank in 2014 and the old "man from Taured" story. Did you mean one of those? I never heard of the woman in Texas. Do you have any more information?
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 7, 2017 22:47:38 GMT
Even though--like "the man from Taured"--the story of Rudolph Fentz is probably a hoax, it is definitely one of my favorite supposedly real-life unsolved mysteries...
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 7, 2017 22:48:06 GMT
It's a great one, isn't it?
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Post by mecano04 on Aug 8, 2017 1:26:02 GMT
It's a great one, isn't it? It is and I doubt we will ever know the identity of the man but I read about the case a few years ago and still remember a few things about it. Now, my memory has been proven somewhat faulty already in this thread... but I'll try my best. The text I read was taken from a book written by one of the investigator who kept digging for clues even years after the case was put aside. I wanted to get the book but at the time (and maybe to this day too) it was only available in Australia and there was like 80$ just for the shipping to Canada, so I dropped the project. Anyway, the conclusion about the man was that he was a Soviet agent (spy or whatever) and that he was one of the victims of someone(or a group) who was sent to Australia to "clean up" the area. That conclusion was based on a few things. First, the man wasn't from Australia. Everything from the stuff in his suitcase to his look "screamed" he wasn't from the area. Also, a physical characteristic about him supported this certitude: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case#/media/File:SomertonManEars.jpg which was said to be typical, or at least seen more than usual, in Ural or another typical Soviet region (I don't remember the exact info). The second thing was some other suspicious deaths/murders weren't link at first but seemed to be linked if you consider how they happened and the book connection (from the wiki) : What the text I read said about Gwenneth Dorothy Graham is that she testified about the possible origin of the books, the (possible) identity of those who had them and their whereabouts. Still, it may be a coincidence, but she's another person (like in other famous cases) who apparently decided to end her life after helping investigators. I'm not saying it's impossible that people who read the same book suffer from suspicious deaths but what are the chances, in this case, that two persons who have the same (rare) edition of the Rubaiyat suffer similar fate? Another highlight from the article I read was that Jessica Ellen "Jo" Thomson was related to the man pass the phone number at the back of the book. When the police asked her to come and try to identify the body, the investigators noted that when she saw him she gasped then she wouldn't look at him at all. Her reaction gave the impression that she knew him but she denied it when asked. Now from the wiki and basically from what I read a while back: Coincidence? They could have been millionaire with those odds on their side. I know it's a wall of text not to add much but that's what I got to back my take. The site on which I found the article was a personal blog like this : tamamshud.blogspot.ca/2016/06/somerton-man-book-collection.htmlnot a journal or magazine site.
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Post by mecano04 on Aug 8, 2017 2:10:22 GMT
I also remember one but I can't seem to get the proper key words in google to find him but it's also getting late.
Anyway, it's in the 60's or 70's.
A Navy (if I remember correctly) officer apparently committed suicide in his office, during the lunch break. From what I remember he had some relation to the JFK assassination investigation or report.
Anyway, here is what tells another story, depending on whom you're inclined to trust the most:
- His family relations were great. By all accounts (wife, kids, friends, coworkers, you name it) his marriage was great and doing well. Same for his relation with his children.
- Same for the relations with his friends and coworkers. No troublesome relationship in sight or known.
- He was retiring soon after a happy career. Everyone said he enjoyed his military career.
- He secured a job as a consultant after his retirement. According to everyone around him he was just as trilled about his future job as he was about his military career.
- I think financial issues were listed as a problem but it wasn't clear since anything else went against it.
Basically he had no clear motive to end his life but it gets weird when you look at other details.
- The guy shot himself in the right temple. It's not weird by itself unless you take into account the guy was a left handed. Not saying it's impossible but why would he use his right hand now?
- The answer is, his left hand was so busted the doctor in charge of the autopsy couldn't even remove his wedding ring.
- So the only way he could shoot himself was using his right hand.
In short, a man with no motive to end his life decides to do so after bruising his main hand and having no other solution than use his weak one.
Impossible? No but isn't that giving himself a lot of trouble for no reason ?
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Post by hi224 on Aug 8, 2017 2:24:34 GMT
Actually several strange cases like that there was the man at the airport who vanished, the lady in texas wjo died under an assumed identity as well. "The man in the airport who vanished"? A few of those: Lars Mittank in 2014 and the old "man from Taured" story. Did you mean one of those? I never heard of the woman in Texas. Do you have any more information? Ill look it up for you.
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 8, 2017 2:37:01 GMT
mecano04Not Jeremy Booda, correct? His is the name that keeps popping up, but very little "fits." Either way, thanks: some very interesting cases that I've never heard of before!
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Post by mecano04 on Aug 8, 2017 2:41:04 GMT
mecano04 Not Jeremy Booda, correct? His is the name that keeps popping up, but very little "fits." Either way, thanks: some very interesting cases that I've never heard of before! It's not him. I'm willing to go to the 1980's top, but it was in the 1960's or 1970's for sure.
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Post by mecano04 on Aug 8, 2017 2:52:26 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Aug 8, 2017 3:56:08 GMT
Actually several strange cases like that there was the man at the airport who vanished, the lady in texas wjo died under an assumed identity as well. "The man in the airport who vanished"? A few of those: Lars Mittank in 2014 and the old "man from Taured" story. Did you mean one of those? I never heard of the woman in Texas. Do you have any more information? Ah Olivia Mable that one's very strange as well.
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Post by hi224 on Aug 8, 2017 3:58:13 GMT
Actually several strange cases like that there was the man at the airport who vanished, the lady in texas wjo died under an assumed identity as well. "The man in the airport who vanished"? A few of those: Lars Mittank in 2014 and the old "man from Taured" story. Did you mean one of those? I never heard of the woman in Texas. Do you have any more information? the-line-up.com/olivia-mabel/heres a weird story clip regarding the texas lady.
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 8, 2017 12:26:07 GMT
"The man in the airport who vanished"? A few of those: Lars Mittank in 2014 and the old "man from Taured" story. Did you mean one of those? I never heard of the woman in Texas. Do you have any more information? Ah Olivia Mable that one's very strange as well. The Olivia Mabel one is a great story, but unfortunately (for us) it's just that—a story. It's a hoax created by filmmakers to advertise their upcoming movie. None of the people in the story have birth or death certificates, phone numbers, family, neighbors, etc. It's a very creative fake. Still, it is one clever story.
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Post by hi224 on Aug 8, 2017 18:20:14 GMT
Ah Olivia Mable that one's very strange as well. The Olivia Mabel one is a great story, but unfortunately (for us) it's just that—a story. It's a hoax created by filmmakers to advertise their upcoming movie. None of the people in the story have birth or death certificates, phone numbers, family, neighbors, etc. It's a very creative fake. Still, it is one clever story. Welp there goes my credibility.
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 8, 2017 18:37:10 GMT
The Olivia Mabel one is a great story, but unfortunately (for us) it's just that—a story. It's a hoax created by filmmakers to advertise their upcoming movie. None of the people in the story have birth or death certificates, phone numbers, family, neighbors, etc. It's a very creative fake. Still, it is one clever story. Welp there goes my credibility. No worries! I posted the "man from Taured" and "Rudolph Fentz" stories, and those are probably hoaxes as well. We can enjoy the stories even while knowing they aren't actually real.
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Post by hi224 on Aug 8, 2017 23:01:28 GMT
Welp there goes my credibility. No worries! I posted the "man from Taured" and "Rudolph Fentz" stories, and those are probably hoaxes as well. We can enjoy the stories even while knowing they aren't actually real. Yeah for awhile there was that story about the guy who accidentally filmed intruders breaking in, and that turned out to be a hoax.
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