Egyptian Artifacts Found in the Grand Canyon in 1909
I have been interested in this story for years....tell me what your theories are.



G.E. Kinkaid's Discovery

P.S. I have always been able to picture this in a Cussler novel

What about Oak Island, thats a great mystery

I've a personal intrest in Oak Island, as it's only about two hundred kilometers from my home. Intrest in the island's mystery comes and goes in the public eye, but it always comes back as soon as someone has a new theory or a new expedition is mounted.
And as for unsolved mysteries, how about the Bermuda Triangle? (another fascination of mine.)

By the way what is the Story at Oak Island?

Oak Island has always been a fascination of mine as well, and being as close as it is to Maine, it would make a great adventure..(Foss Gly this may be an idea for a future meeting??) There have been many documentaries on the History Channel and the Discovery Channel about this mystery and I can see how it has sucked so many people in over the years. Here is a good link that tells the tale but take a moment to do a search on the net....there is tons of info available.

Oak Islands Official Website

Oak Island Mystery

Oak Island site #3

Take care
Mike

Foss Gly, my favorite is the Bermuda Triangle. Here are some facts I would like you to add to..

The Bermuda Triangle is one of the greatest mysteries. This triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean is between Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto. Modern legend suggests that people, planes, and ships have mysteriously disappeared in this area. However, there are skeptics that argue that there is no mystery at all. Given the size of the Atlantic, many planes and ships that have disappeared were not in the Bermuda Triangle at all.

Here is the USS Cyclops 1918 that the Bermuda swallowed.

1942 TBF Avenger Disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle

Grumman F9F-2 Panther Disappeared in The Bermuda Triangle

Don't ask me how I forgot that Clive had featured the USS Cyclops. Though I do remember that he kept the refrences to the Triangle to a minimum.
The list of vessels and airplanes lost in the Triangle is quite staggering. For anyone interested in the mysteries of the Triangle, I reccommend Charles Berlitz's The Bermuda Triangle or it's follow-up, Without A Trace. Both excellent reads.

Concerning Egyptian artifacts in Arizona....the link shows the newspaper article as have been written in 1909. My personal guess is that one of the more common attitudes of the era prevailed in the writing of that article........that Native Americans did not possess the skills or intelligence necessary to create such things. Another theory of earlier (and unenlightened, in my opinion) times was that Native Americans were the lost tribes of Israel....I think most of us in this day and age realize that archeology has come a long way since then. I wonder what will be thought of our civilization 10,000 years from now?

Some other mysteries to consider:

Loch Ness Monster, Ogo Pogo (I think that is the name of it in Canada), and other "sea serpents" seen around the world.......

Big Foot..........did you know that there is actually a Big Foot trap at Applegate Lake in Oregon? Check out the link below:

http://www.trailmonkey.com/orbike1.htm#ROG...TIONAL%20FOREST

The lines of Nazca

The Great Serpent Mound, see link below:

http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/serpent/

The giant squid

Heres one that is a bit bitty, I don't have all the facts and someone else may be able to correct me however:

The month April the year 1912 The largest of her time Titanic was a fantastic Liner built for speed and luxury, she boasts 3 huge props two 23ft long and the centre 16ft with a capasity to carry 3000+ passengers on a vessel 882ft long.
Other facts She carried 4 Stacks (Funnels) Although one was a dummy.
Although designed to carry 48 life boats only 20 were carried as it looked to cluttered to carry more, at the time laws state vessels over 10,000 tons should carry 16 lifeboats, they didn't invisage a boat the size of titanics 46,000 tons.
29 boilers.

Now it gets alittle more interesting!!
Belive it or not but 50 years previous and no I can't remember his name but a gentleman in England desided to write a book about the sinking of a great ocean going Liner on its maiden voyage to America on stricking a berg it sank with great loss of life. Ship Stats were along these lines:
862 Ft long
4 Props each 18ft
4 stacks
20 Life boats although once again it could have carried more.
Tonnage being 44,000
28 Boilers
As she sank only a meer 850 people survived out of over 2000, the titanic saved 705 from 2228
As if these facts wern't close enough the ship had been christened "Titan"
How about that for a weird coincedent the Stats are alittle guess work but you get the idea , True story with refrences found in book called "mysterys of the unexplained."

Way freaky teaser i'll have to search for the book it is probably too much to think that it's still in print. T :o

Teaser, I also have a copy of `Mysteries of the Unexplained`. Morgan Robertson published his book `The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility`, in 1898.The similarities between the Titan and Titanic are uncanny.

the mystery i have been obsessed about is the story of thomas jefferson beale writing an unbroken cipher that tells the location of a buried treasure in virginia. the cipher was based upon one of thomas jefferson's writings. apparently both the CIA and NSA have not been able to break this multiple substitution cipher. the treasure is supposed to be buried in bedford county, virginia. i forget where i learned about this. i came across this story back in the late 1970s but i am sure theres information on the internet about this mystery.

There are some web sites on this one has the Beal papers where tell where the treasure is and how munch it is only one paet has been deocded and that is how munch treasure there is

What I got here is kinda conspiracy stuff rather than mystery, but riveting nonetheless.

First and foremost, the JFK assassination.
Why are the results of the investigation classified for 70 years??? What's so earth-shattering that has to be kept away from the public for so long?

Next is my personal fav: The KAL Flight 007 mystery.
As you all know, it's the Korean passenger plane that was downed by a Soviet Air Force interceptor after KAL 007 intruded Soviet airspace. NOT A SINGLE BODY, OR EVEN PIECE OF DEBRIS was recovered!!! Wheres the wreckage? What really happened?

The Bob Lazar mystery (Sometimes I think the Discovery Channel is more about science FICTION than science) -- Does the US Gov't covertly test-pilot recovered extraterrestrial flying vehicles (Okay, you can call 'em UFOs), and if not, why are they so afraid of Bob Lazar's testimony that they've actually destroyed all of his college and job records?

And finally, the fabled Amber Room that was smuggled by the Nazis from Russia in 1941 -- where is it now?


P.S. An expedition to Mount Ararat is being organized and after U.S. spybirds caught a glimpse of what could be Noah's Ark.....

Champ- The Lake Champlain creature (as mentioned in Shockwave). for 3 years people mapped the bottom of Lake Champlain lookin for basins and shipwrecks from teh war of 1812. But Champy was never seen...BUT....Thousands of accounts have been told about him. People who've never heard of him come to the Lake and see him...go running to tell someone and people just laugh "guess you saw champ".

I think all the secrets of Nikola Tesla can provide great settings for adventures! There are many mysteries surrounding his life and astonishing inventions.

Mary Celeste, The Flying Dutchman??????????????


Regarding Noah's ark

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i2/ararat.asp

Anyone hear of the "PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT?"


In 1943 the U.S. Navy launched operation RAINBOW, a secret plan to make a warship invisible to not only radar, but the naked eye!

The ship chosen was the Destroyer-Escort USS ELDRIDGE. At its berth in the Philadelphia naval yard, the ELDRIDGE was subjected to a huge dose of electro-magnetic energy gerated from power plant based on designs by legendary engineer Nikola Tesla. The power plant was installed in the ELDRIDGE, and activated sometime in the fall of 1943 (No one knows the exact date as of yet).

However, something went wrong...


The ELDRIDGE vanished in a blinding flash of light, re-appeared in the Norfolk navy yard 600km away, and then materialized at its berth in Philadelphia in less than 15 minutes!!!

When rescue workers boarded the hull, they found a shocking sight. The entire crew suffered horrifying sicknesses. Many walked around in circles speaking incoherently, others foamed at the mouth, Legend has it some spontaniously combusted into flames, while others were dissapated and were never seen again. The worst of all, several crewmembers were found embedded into the ELDRIDGE'S steel bulkheads and decks. After this debacle, the navy closed the project down and buried it very, very deep. The surviving crewmembers were discharged from the navy because they were quote: "Mentaly and Physically unfit" For over 60 years the Government has denied the Philadelphia Experiment to the world. Many says it is a hoax but my opinon is that it happened.

w: How about a 3million yr old skeleton of a modern human found in a coal seam in Tuscaroara, PENNSYLVANIA? OOPs!

Several mysteries have always fascinated me-
1) Why did the cliff dwellers of the American Southwest suddenly abandon their villages and where did they go?
2) Who was Jack the Ripper?
3)All the Atlantis theories.

Teaser. That was Titain, by a man named Robertson. Maybe a little bit of ESP?t:

Five Navy fighter planes disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945. They sent up another plane to search for them, and it, too, disappeared. The Navy then had a massive land, air and sea search for the 6 planes. My father was in on that search as a radio-gunner on a B1 Bomber. I think that is so cool. I have also heard that if you draw a line directly through the planet from where the Bermuda Triangle is located, the same type of strange phenomena occurs in the sea on the opposite side, near Japan (?). Interesting!!!

Interesting stuff! :)

Interesting about the Oak Island. Reminds me of the island in the book Riptide. <_< Maybe that's where they got it from. Interesting find, BIG RED. Where did you find it exactly?

searambler, very interesting. I have a book called Ghost Boat about a submarine that came back after thrity years that used the same concept and came up with 10 areas like that. Truth is stranger than fiction w:

Big Red, I read a couple of books back in the '70's that talked about the Philly experiment. They were UFO, stranger than fiction-type books. I'll dig around in my library (well, ok, it's just huge stacks of books in my spare bedroom!) and see if I still have one. You've rekindled my interest in them!

That Oak Island mystery is really fascinating.

Two words people:



FLIGHT 19

There is a good book out called Into The Bermuda Triangle by Gian Quasar it covers Flight 19 and other things that happen in the Triangle

The name of the person who supposedly traveled through time from The Philedelphia Experiment was David Hordegg. I know a man who met him once.

The similiarities of the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations are amazing and mysterious, for instance;
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to the theatre.
Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who warned him not to go Dallas
Both were replaced by men named Johnson who were both Democrats from the south. Lincoln's Johnson was born in 1809, Kennedy's was born in 1909
Both presidents were shot in the head, on a Friday, and both wives were present.
Lincoln's killer was born in 1839, Kennedy's assassin was born in 1939.
Both president's were deeply involved in civil-rights issues, Lincoln's was slavery and Kennedy's was segregation.
Pretty weird huh! <_<

With all of this talk about the Bermuda Triangle I was wondering how many of you have read the article Dr. Cussler wrote for Ladies Home Journal? I don't think Dr. C gives much credence to the mysteries of Bermuda.

well after 7 years of living in and around the Grand Canyon and climbing every square inch of it and exploring every nook and cranny i wonder who sold who a bill of goods here?

i believe sea serpents exist let me give you my reasons why;
1:we know more about our own moon then we do about our oceans new species are being discovered all the time,

2:most sea serpent sightings were during the age of sail,i believe that todays current mode of water transportation scares the poor wee beasties,

3:not every one who has sighted a sea monster could be wrong/lying/or mistaking items.

There are so many mysteries out here Like the triangle /The amber room /atlantis / Lemuria /Mu Ect Ect and everyone has their own idea about it and there are thousands of books on them just pick a mystery and i bet there is a book on it

Some historians think the Amber Room was transported aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff on January 30th 1945. We all know what happened to that ship! :unsure:

Anyway, expert believe the Amber Room, or some parts of it my still be entombed withe the Gustloff and her 9000 passengers and crew. The reports however need to still be substantiated...