Watched a few minutes of History Channel

[Marthe48]

Laurence Fishburne was narrating segments on History's Greatest Mysteries. Saw the last of D.B. Cooper and the beginning of another iteration of The Bermuda Triangle. D.B. Cooper as unsolved history is fairly new in the 'unexplained' stories, but I've been reading about the Bermuda Triangle since I was 10.

Anyway, I was surprised how quickly I was reeled into both stories. There is a lot of high tech additions to the research, such as DNA testing and deep-diving submersibles to search 3 miles down. On the way home, I thought if the old, often rehashed unsolved stories are aired with so much technology, and earnestness that gives pursuing answers to those mysteries legitimacy, I can see how qanon stories can pull people in no matter how outrageous the topic is. If people think old mysteries will be solved, generate new stories.

[Archae]

1. The DB Cooper story I doubt will ever be solved.

It sure looks like from what evidence there is, Cooper parachuted (or didn't quite make it,) and died in those woods.

I remember a kid finding a substancial amount of the money, along a river bank or lakeshore.

As to the "Bermuda Triangle," it's absolute bullshit.

Back in 1976 the PBS program "Nova" did a show about it, and showed the "mystery" writers to be liars pushing fake stories.
The area covered by the "Triangle" is one of the busiest air and water traffic areas in the US.
And with the advent of navigational devices, and cell phones, the "disappearances" have dried up, almost completely.

And every year deep-water ROV's find boats and planes that supposedly "disappeared."

Within my own lifetime, (I'm 63 now,) some ROV operators no doubt will find Flight 19, a couple or even all of the Avenger WW2 torpedo planes, that by all credible accounts, got lost and flew farther and farther out into the Atlantic.

The Hysteria channel has gone off the deep end with the "Ancient Aliens" bullshit, and they no longer can be trusted to give accurate information.

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2. DB Cooper lived and kept the money, invested wisely, ...

... he had enough that he could give $700K to George Santos' campaign. George will pardon DB when he becomes president.

It's still unclear whether DB parachuted successfully, or was plucked from freefall by a space alien. History Channel is working on a special to answer that one.

[Marthe48]

3. You should do this for a living!

lol

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4. Led astray by a trainer

which is so sad.

I wondered today: when people watch these shows, what real stories go untold?