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D.B. Cooper
On the night before Thanksgiving 1971, a polite man in a dark suit took $200,000 and a parachute, opened the back of a jet, and stepped out into the rain. He was never found.
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The Voynich Manuscript
A genuine early-15th-century book, written in fluent handwriting nobody can read, illustrated with plants that don't exist and figures bathing in plumbing. Every few years someone solves it. It remains unsolved.
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The Oakville Blobs
For about three weeks in 1994, a logging town of 665 people was rained on six times by translucent jelly that reportedly held human white blood cells. Three labs studied it. Three labs lost it.
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The Georgia Guidestones
A man with a fake name ordered a nineteen-foot granite monument to the end of the world, paid in advance, and was never seen again. It stood for forty-two years. Then someone bombed it, and the county finished the job by dinnertime.
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The Toynbee Tiles
For roughly four decades, someone has been gluing the same message into the asphalt of American intersections: resurrect the dead on the planet Jupiter. Nobody has explained it, and the person most likely responsible shut the door.
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The Watcher
Three days after closing on a six-bedroom Dutch Colonial in Westfield, New Jersey, the Broaddus family received a typed letter signed "The Watcher." They never moved in. The writer has never been identified.