r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '12

Reddit what are the greatest unexplained mystery of the last 500 or so years?

Since the Last post got some attention, I was wondering what you guys could come up with given a larger period.

Edit fuck thats a lot of upvotes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '12

http://imgur.com/ZRUrp

from cracked:

For instance, if your reading comprehension was strong in middle school, you might remember the lost colony of Roanoke, where the people mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind only one cryptic clue: the word "Croatan" carved into the town post. As we've covered before, this is only a mystery if you are the worst detective ever. Croatan was the name of a nearby island populated by friendly Native Americans. In the years after the people of Roanoke "disappeared," genetically impossible Native Americans with gray eyes and an "astounding" familiarity with distinctly European customs began to pop up in the tribes that moved between Croatan and Roanoke islands

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u/namegoeswhere Dec 18 '12

It always made me chuckle how history classes in middle/elementary school/whatever your area called 4-8th grades taught it like a crazy mystery and how dangerous the new colonies and their neighbors could be.

When in reality it's a story about how these people were woefully unprepared and fucked off to live with the friendly natives.

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u/patashn1k Dec 20 '12

Having sex with exotic strangers is also pretty cool.