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The possibility to let your characters witness or even participate in events that actually happened, is probably one of the most appealing aspects of Historical Fiction, Flashbacks, Time Travel stories and the like. But sometimes it can be quite hard to shoehorn your characters in, if you don't want to sacrifice too much of historical accuracy. Especially if your character doesn't quite fit into the historical setting, because he is a Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot. The solution: Take a famous historical event that is shrouded in mystery, an event of which not many details are publicly known. Then fill the gap of historical records with whatever you want, this way "revealing" what actually happened. This adds the bonus that everyone likes a good mystery (and its eventual solution). Depending on the tone and genre of your work, your "explanation" can range from mundane, over humorous, to absolutely fantastic. The Been There, Shaped History person likes to cause these events. Of course Historical Domain Characters as well as fictional Public Domain Characters may be involved too. Perhaps they did even use a Public Domain Artifact. Anyway, in the end you can proudly claim that your story is Very Loosely Based on a True Story. Closely related to Historical In-Joke. Can also overlap with Beethoven Was an Alien Spy, when the focus lies on specific historical individuals. Often happens at, and tightly involves, a Landmark of Lore through Alternate Landmark History. Also, at least one of this events is a must-have for any Conspiracy Kitchen Sink story worth its salt. Note that sometimes mysteries get solved, or even debunked as not having been that mysterious in the first place. In this case the work either was written in a time before the solution/debunking, or the writer didn't get the memo, or they're just using Artistic License. For obvious reasons, solutions that are perceived as "boring" are the most likely to be disregarded by writers. |
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Sapphire and Steel referred to the Mary Celeste affair as a past assignment, in Assignment 1. Sapphire, Steel, and Lead were apparently involved. | |
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Dirty Harry was heavily inspired by the Zodiac Killer; its murderer is named Scorpio (and is never explicitly identified), and shares the real-life Zodiac's penchant for mailing newspapers and even copies some of his threats (eg., hijacking a school bus). Of course, the movie has a happier ending than real life. | |
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In Koudelka and the Shadow Hearts trilogy, the Voynich Manuscript is actually a rework of a partially deciphered translation of the Émigré Manuscript, created by John Dee and Edward Kelley. | |
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The Far Side had two sculptors on the head of the Sphinx, with one of them berating the other: "'That's fine,' I said. 'Good nose,' I said. But NO, you had to go and hit the chisel one more time!" | |
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Seven Psychopaths reveal that three serial killers who were never caught (the Zodiac Killer, the Phantom Killer and the Cleveland Torso Murderer) were in fact killed by a couple of Serial Killer Killers (one of whom is Tom Waits). | |
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Cloak & Dagger (2018) named an episode after the phenomenon, using it as a metaphor for the possible destruction of New Orleans during the episode. | |
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In The Adventures of Pete & Pete, when Little Pete is tunneling under his house to escape from being grounded, he finds a wallet, looks at it and exclaims, "Hoffa!" | |
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Part of the backstory of RASL. | |
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In The Simpsons, Jebediah Springfield is responsible for damaging the portrait. | |
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In Kevin & Kell (which takes place in a Funny Animal parallel dimension to the human world), D.B. Cooper is the true identity of Douglas Squirrel, Dorothy's now husband. While for years he evaded being connected to the hijacking due to losing the money as he escaped (which was found by LD and used to create Herd Thinners), he was eventually discovered by a journalist. Douglas promptly sent his manuscript to every publisher in New York. By the time they caught him, the statute of limitations passed for most of the charges, so he only served a short time in prison (with Dorothy's ex-husband as a cellmate, to boot!). | |
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Cinema Purgatorio #11 is a Musical Episode that goes over the media circus around Short's death and the badly, conspicuously mishandled LAPD investigation. The theory is put forth that Short was pregnant with the child of LA Times publisher Norman Chandler, who had her killed via his mob associate Benny "Bugsy" Siegel. Discussed at length is the idea that Siegel made such an example out of her as a message to west Los Angeles rival Jack Dragna; the letter D was carved into her body, which was found just 300 yards from Dragna's home. | |
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In Dance in the Vampire Bund he turns up as a vampire, although the circumstances of his transformation and how he became a confidant of Mina Tepes remains unknown. | |
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Ra's Al Ghul claims credit for the London fire on behalf of the League of Shadows in Batman Begins. The British Empire was getting too big for its britches, you see. Which is bizarre, since the British Empire had barely started in 1666. | |
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In the ninth episode of American Horror Story: Murder House, Elizabeth Short is shown to be one of several victims of the "Murder House". | |
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In one Dilbert comic, Dogbert claims to have Cooper's remains. "He learned that you should never get your parachutes from the same people you're robbing."note The FBI actually did consider sabotaging the parachutes, but Cooper seemed to have anticipated this as it's believed he specified four parachutes (two back and two front) in the ransom to make them think he planned to take a hostage, which made them backpedal over the risk. Indeed, Cooper would only use two of them (a back and front set) and leave the other set in the plane, with it believed he used the front reserve parachute to secure the money when he made the jump. | |
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In the Animaniacs short "Space Probed", Yakko, while on an alien cruiser, stumbles on a room containing Elvis Presley, Amelia Earhart, Bigfoot, and Jimmy Hoffa. | |
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SCP Foundation has a ton of Historical Domain Characters and Public Domain Artifacts in storage, including Cain, Abel, and the suitcase that ate D.B. Cooper. Others can't be kept in storage, such as the fire giant Surtr buried underneath Pennsylvania or the noisy marine arthropod somewhere between 2,000 and 8,000 kilometers long. | |
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In the '90s adventure game Black Dahlia, it turned out to be part of an ancient magical ritual carried out by Nazis. | |
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The In Search of... television series hosted by Leonard Nimoy deals with most if not all of the mysteries on this page. | |
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The Discworld novel Pyramids has a list of things that Nature abhors and therefore makes disappear which includes "ships called the Marie Celeste". | |
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The first Big Fat Quiz of Everything had the schoolchildren of Mitchell Brook Primary School act out the Great Fire of London for a question. Mass destruction never looked so adorable. | |
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In the Elementary episode "Absconded", a symposium on CCD is used as part of a really convoluted plot to kidnap a member of a royal family from the United Arab Emirates and ramsom him. | |
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Appears in American Horror Story: Coven. The night he threatened to murder anyone who wasn't playing jazz music in their home, he attacked a witch coven and was killed for his troubles. | |
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The Zodiac Killer appears twice in American Horror Story. First in American Horror Story: Hotel where the ghost of the killer attends Devil's Night with the ghosts of several other infamous serial killers. Then in American Horror Story: Cult the murders are revealed as the work of Valerie Solanas and her radical feminist cult SCUM. Strangely the two contradict despite the stories supposedly taking place in a shared universe. | |
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There are pages from this document in the archives of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, but interestingly does NOT state outright that they are of Precursor origin. | |
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Injustice 2 posits that it was due to the Flash traveling back in time to smash an opponent's face into the Sphinx's nose, shattering it. Granted, he also goes back in time to slap a tyrannosaurus across the face with his opponent, so take the possibility with a considerable volume of salt. | |
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Spitting Image has a puppet of Lord Lucan (whom some viewers confused with Freddie Mercury) have a cameo in almost every episode as a Running Gag. | |
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In Irregular Webcomic!, the Reichstag fire was neither set by the Communists, nor the Nazis in order to frame said Communists, but instead by an Italian who merely wanted to sabotage the electric lighting, and grossly overestimated his electrotechnical competence. | |
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In The Missing series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, it turns out that future entrepreneurs went back in time to take many of the most famous missing children of history, such as Princess Anastasia, the Lindbergh baby, or Virginia Dare. | |
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DuckTales (1987) the nose is knocked off by the time-traveling ducks...only for the builder to decide it looks better that way. | |
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The X-Files: Fight the Future uses the bees as an integral part of the Government Conspiracy's Evil Plan (to spread the deadly alien virus), about a decade before the CCD was first reported. However, the feral bee population across the world has been rapidly diminishing since 1972... and incidentally, said Government Conspiracy was founded in 1973. | |
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xkcd had a strip dedicated to this trope, referencing Amelia Earhart, the Roanoke Colony, Franklin's lost expedition, and Jimmy Hoffa. Both of the ships from Franklin's expedition were eventually located, one in September 2014, the other two years later. |
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In Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, one of the characters deciphers the Voynich manuscript and promptly gets killed, since it contains the key to waking the Sleeping Dragon. | |
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In Book 4 of Dreamfall Chapters, the Voynich alphabet makes an appearance in notes and books that belong to one of the secondary characters. Said character lives in the world of magic parallel to "our" world, world of science, so the implication may be that the manuscript somehow got across the divide. | |
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The X-Files, being an epic Conspiracy Kitchen Sink and all. | |
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In Vampyr (2018), the fire was started by vampire champion William Marshall who was fighting the witch responsible for the Black Death from the previous year. He was forced to lock her inside St. Paul's Cathedral and set it ablaze to make sure she was dead. | |
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Codex Seraphinianus, created by Luigi Serafini in the 1970s, was inspired by the Voynich manuscript. Written in an indecipherable script, it appears to be an encyclopedia of an alien world. It was created in order to inspire in its readers the feeling of impenetrable mystery. | |
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The Venture Brothers: Storm is in the possession of the Wicked Cultured supervillain Phantom Limb, along with several of the other stolen paintings. Limb is attempting to sell it to a mafioso, who wants The Mona Lisa instead, causing Limb to lament the man's Small Reference Pools. | |
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David Fincher's film Zodiac strongly suggests that a real suspect in the officially unsolved Zodiac Killings was the guilty party. | |
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One of the legends investigated in the "Heists" episode of White Rabbit Project. | |
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In Nothing but Trouble, it is discovered that Hoffa ended up in the town of Valkenvania, a likely victim of the rather cruel, unusual, and deadly punishments meted out by the local justice system there. | |
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Iron Fist (2017): Storm hangs on the wall of sinister businessman Harold Meachum's penthouse. | |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind had many mysterious disappearances including Flight 19 and the SS Cotopaxi explained by alien abductions. | |
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Referenced in Twin Peaks, where the hero's name is Dale Bartholomew Cooper. Unsolved mysteries were a theme of that show; in one scene, for example, Cooper idly wonders "who really pulled the trigger on JFK". | |
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Referenced in Spider-Man: Far From Home: MJ was fascinated by the Black Dahlia case, and Peter Parker purchased a black glass flower necklace to give her. | |
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Sabaton's song "Long Live the King", which is about Charles's last battle, references the mystery surrounding his death with the lines: | |
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In Red River (1995), the bust of Nefertiti only has one eye because the eye was made out of a piece of jewelry that had sentimental value to Nefertiti, and there was only enough material for one eye. When the sculptor points this out, Nefertiti replies "Who cares? It's just a bust, it's not like it's very valuable anyway." | |
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The various Star Trek incarnations did a few, be it Jack the Ripper (TOS, "Wolf in the Fold"), Roswell (DS9, "Little Green Men") or Amelia Earhart (VOY, "The 37's"). | |
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Is a major part of the plot in L.A. Noire. (It turns out that the killer was the half-brother of a very highly-placed politician, so after you find and kill him, the whole matter is sealed up and quieted down.) | |
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In the Black Mirror episode "Hated in the Nation", robotic bees who are exact duplicates of real bees are used after the general decrease in population of natural bees, which becomes a problem when someone is able to hack their system. | |
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Jokingly referenced in the movie Highway to Hell, with a Bad Guy Bar in Hell called Hoffa's. Someone calls to ask for Jimmy, but is told that he "ain't here". | |
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In the final series of Julian Simpson's The Lovecraft Investigations (based on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"), the Somerton Man is revealed to be someone with the "Innsmouth look" (based on the post-mortem picture strongly resembling Lovecraft's description of the fishy Innsmouth folk) that was assassinated by The Men in Black. | |
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A throwaway gag in 30 Rock implies that he is Kenneth's father. | |
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In The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School, the Great Fire of London was started by a fire elemental summoned by a mage with a grudge. | |
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Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: Moai Better Blues: Sam and Max run into a number of famous missing persons on Easter Island, including D.B. Cooper, Amelia Earhart, and Glenn Miller... except they've all been turned into babies from drinking too much water from the Fountain of Youth. | |
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Prison Break: It turns out that D.B. Cooper was never found because he was arrested (and sentenced to life) for a different crime shortly afterwards in his real identity, elder Fox River convict Charles Westmoreland. An important sub-plot of the second season was the gang hunting down his buried loot in order to fund their getaway from the country. | |
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In the President's Vampire series, the Axeman is revealed to have been the first host of the entity known as the Boogeyman, whose rampage was brought to an end when Cade tracked him down and killed him in a fight. | |
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The found footage horror film Devil's Pass connects the experiment with the Dyatlov Pass incident, as the cast finds photos relating to the ship's supposed failed teleportations inside a secret bunker found under the pass. | |
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In Red vs. Blue, the fire originated when a time-travelling Caboose taught some cavemen how to make fire, then accidentally stepped on the fire, setting himself alight and running through several time portals in a panic, ending up in the library of Alexandria, London in 1666, and finally the Hindenburg. | |
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In Command & Conquer: Red Alert, the Philadelphia Experiment is revealed in the Allied campaign to be a test run for the Chronosphere project. | |
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The Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Space Mutiny" ends with the crew finally escaping Ancient Rome, with Professor Bobo knocking over a candle while stealing a cheese wheel moments after we're told that "The emperor is ready to give his violin recital." The next episode begins with Mike confirming that the fire burned down the rest of Rome. | |
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The Secret Histories series, as befits its secret agent sorcery-and-superscience setting, has this in spades- the being originally known as Jack the Ripper turns up in several books, while the third book The Spy Who Haunted Me challenges the protagonist to solve six classic unsolved mysteries: the Loch Ness Monster; Bigfoot; a Russian "science city", not far from Tunguska (although The Tunguska Event is covered in another book), in which everyone spontaneously killed each other and/or themselves; the Philadelphia Experiment; and Roswell. | |
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And speaking of Jules Verne: Captain Nemo, a 1975 Soviet TV adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, posited that Nana Saheb became Captain Nemo himself. | |
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The Irishman uses the claim that mob associate Frank Sheeran murdered Hoffa for threatening to reveal secrets about the Mafia. Unlike the more fantastic or conspiratorial stories, Hoffa's body is simply burned in a crematorium so he'll never be found. | |
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In NewsRadio, it is heavily implied that millionaire Jimmy James may be Cooper—it is implied hard enough that a cold-case investigation of the heist forces him to go the run for the better part of a season, endangering the station's finances. Ultimately, Jimmy proves his innocence by identifying and eliciting a confession from the "real" Cooper: Adam West. | |
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My Choices: Twisted Tales Through Time: In-Universe, the disappearance of Blue Star becomes one by the time of the present period — since the Princesses kept her fall into darkness and transformation into Darklight Star tightly secret, everyone else just knows that she vanished on day and was never seen again. As a result, although no-one ever figured out the how or why of it all, a variety of theories have sprung up among both scholars and amateur historians. Twilight's theory is that she got Trapped in the Past trying to warn the Princesses about Darklight Star. | |
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Preacher suggest he ran afoul of a Cannibal Clan. | |
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In Bruce Almighty, Bruce uses his godlike powers to find the body in order to advance his journalistic career. | |
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During Ted Cruz's unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign, internet users opposed to the Texas senator jokingly accused him of being the Zodiac Killer, based on noted physical similarities between Cruz and a police sketch of the killer; the joke became popular enough to be referenced on the Daily Show and for Larry Wilmore to openly take part in it during the 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Additionally, Donald Trump suggested (in all apparent seriousness) that Cruz' father might have been involved in the Kennedy assassination. NoteRegardless of your opinions on Ted Cruz, note that he is physically unable to be the Zodiac Killer. The killings occurred during the 1960s and early 1970s; Cruz was born in 1970. | |
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Buzz Feed Unsolved hosts Ryan and Brent, the latter since been replaced by Shane, have discuss many of the ones listed in the description as part of the True Crime and Supernatural portions of the show, mainly the facts and their theories surrounding them. | |
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Eerie, Indiana: In "The Lost Hour", Janet Donner tells Marshall that there was a nice man named Mr. Hoffa in the parallel dimension for a while but that he eventually left. In "Tornado Days", Howard Raymer believes that the tornado Old Bob is responsible for the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Marshall recalls that a Lockheed airliner was found in Deadwood Park and suspects that it may be her plane. Simon wonders whether the old lady whom they always see jogging around town is secretly Earhart. |
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The Secret World trailers contain the Arc Words "The Bees Are Returning" (among other things), which is currently believed to have to do with the CCD. | |
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In the first episode of Loki (2021), it turns out that the title character himself was Cooper, who collected the $200,000 due to losing a bet with Thor and used the Bifrost to return to Asgard and pay up. | |
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In an episode of Leverage, appropriately titled "The D.B. Cooper Job", a federal agent hires the team to solve the case. The agent's father, a retired agent himself, is dying of cancer, and the D.B. Cooper case is the only one of his career he was unable to solve. | |
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The third From Dusk Till Dawn film attributes his disappearance to a run-in with vampires. | |
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The movie Hoffa, starring Jack Nicholson, suggests that he was assassinated by one of his mob allies after Hoffa threatened to reveal their connections. | |
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In Mad About You whilst Paul and Ira are making a hole in the ground in Central Park: | |
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Illuminatus! touches on several of these mysteries. Ambrose Bierce is encountered in a strange limbo-space in between worlds, complaining to an equally bemused passer-by that I only walked around the bloody horses! The shape of the Pentagon is explained as a geometric prison for an otherworldly entity which lives on the energies of death and destruction. Pyramids are meant to be flying machines based on principles of paracosmic science, but the secret of levitating them has been lost since the fall of Atlantis. And so on. | |
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In 1990, the Gibraltarian author Sam Benady published Sherlock Holmes in Gibraltar, a set of two short stories set in the pre-Watson days. In the first one, The Abandoned Brigantine, Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery of the Mary Celeste. | |
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Spriggan. In "The Forgotten Kingdom", ARCAM discover the wreck of the Eldridge among other wrecked ships from throughout history on the Island of Ghosts. | |
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The book The Black Dahlia, and the 2006 movie adaptation. | |
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The Prince of Egypt shows the Sphinx getting its nose knocked off. In this case, it's caused when young princes Rameses and Moses hit a scaffolding during a chariot race that happens to be holding the sculptor working on the nose. | |
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Doctor Who is intimately familiar with this trope. For example, the disappearance of Agatha Christie is given a supernatural explanation in "The Unicorn and the Wasp". | |
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Asterix and Cleopatra has Obelix accidentally de-nosing The Sphinx while sightseeing. (In the movies, he goes on to deprive the Venus de Milo of her arms in The Twelve Tasks of Asterix and knock a great big hole in the Colosseum in Asterix Versus Caesar — the latter a particularly impressive feat considering that the Colosseum wasn't built until over a century after Caesar's reign.) | |
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Wizards vs. Aliens "The Cave of Menla-Gto": Moon mentions that the Great Fire was caused by a dragon who thought that there were actual puddings in Pudding Lane. | |
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In the novel The Astounding, the Amazing and the Unknown by Paul Malmont, Pulp Magazine sci-fi writers are tasked by the US Government in World War II with creating Death Rays and other such miracle weapons. Robert A. Heinlein creates the experiment as an all-done-with-mirrors (and a model) illusion in order to get an Obstructive Bureaucrat off his back. Meanwhile the crew of the real Eldridge gets drunk, leading the bureaucrat to assume from their vomiting and odd behaviour on their return that the experiment has driven them mad. This gives Heinlein's team the excuse to say that further tests will be aborted until they've fixed the problem. | |
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CSI: Entomologist and night shift lab supervisor Gil Grissom studies the phenomenon in season 7. | |
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Without a Paddle involves a group of friends who decide to fulfill their childhood fantasies of locating D.B. Cooper's loot after one of their number dies unexpectedly. | |
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It's a central theme in the Polish videogame Kholat. | |
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In Aladdin, the Sphinx's nose is knocked off when the sculptor applies his chisel too strongly, because he's surprised by Aladdin and Jasmine flying past on their date. | |
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Ancient Aliens. Not a spoiler: everything will be aliens, somehow. | |
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The 4400: In "The Marked", Curtis Peck, who disappeared in 2001, started making films about famous unsolved mysteries and conspiracy theories after he returned. Many of his fans, including Marco and the other NTAC nerds P.J. and Brady, believe that making these films is his ability and that everything that happens in them is true. It turns out that they are correct. His ability manifests itself through his writing and he does not know the whole story until he has finished writing each script. Curtis' films include I Dismembered Jimmy Hoffa, which states that the remains of the former leader of the Teamsters' Union are buried in the Florida Everglades, and Dead. Completely Dead., which asserts that John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a Marine named Robert Shafto. Records indicate that Shafto was in Dallas on November 22, 1963. He also made films about Jack the Ripper and The Lost Colony of Roanoke, a period drama filmed in his backyard. | |
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In "The Gypsies in the Wood", Diogenes Club agent Charles Beauregard tells a junior colleague that the Club has solved the mystery of the Mary Celeste but chose to keep quiet about it because revealing the truth would cause a major international diplomatic incident. | |
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According to screenwriter Robert Wade, one draft of Casino Royale (2006) would've (re-)introduced Bond backpacking in Madagascar, where "he's playing chess with an old drunkard called Two Fingers who may or may not be Lord Lucan." | |
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In the monologue that opens Mystery Show Starlee mentions D.B. Cooper as a mystery that fascinates her, and one she hopes to "work [her] way up to." | |
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Simon Hawke's Time Wars series has a line in passing attributing his disappearance to somebody changing the past out from underneath him. | |
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The Great Fire of London is a plot point in The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. While it isn't exactly presented as something mysterious, one character (the father of Daniel Waterhouse) firmly believes that this is the Apocalypse. He dies in the fire and thus never learns his error. | |
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Used as part of the backstory in Best F(r)iends (2017), where Harvey (played by Tommy Wiseau) is linked to the murder. We gradually learn that he was romantically involved with her before her death, the trauma of which drove him insane, but that he is not the killer. He may have had sex with her dead body though. | |
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In The Goon Show episode "The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved)", Neddy Seagoon investigates in order to claim a reward offered for the solution to the mystery, only for the man offering the reward to mysteriously disappear himself. | |
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In Assassin's Creed, every weird event and person from Adam and Eve to Jesus to King Arthur to Rasputin the Mad Monk to Tunguska are explained by the Precursor technology left behind which inspired all the religions in the world. The exception is the aforementioned Manuscript. | |
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Cobra Kai: Storm is seen hanging on the wall of billionaire antagonist Terry Silver. It is stolen from him by Mike Barnes as compensation for the loss of his furniture store. | |
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