What mysteries would you like to see finally solved someday?

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Anonymous wrote:What causes autism

Probably genetics most of the time.

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Anonymous wrote:The disappearance of the Stodder children

The Sodder children? That is a good mystery.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_disappearance

Wow how sad!

I look forward to Ancestry.com et al solving many mysteries like this one. If the kids are alive, someone, a grandkid, whatever will do 23 and Me....

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I think we found out what happened to M. McCann - they identified a German pedophile as the one who likely took her.

And Jon Benet, I believe the most recent theory which includes her brother hitting her on the head and her parents covering for him.

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Do people truly think that the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman is some sort of cold case? I have a bridge to sell you

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Anonymous wrote:9-11, the real story

just curious - can you elaborate? I feel like there is a lot we don't know about what happened in the months leading up to and after the attacks. As long as you aren't a truther, I'm happy to hear you out.

The truthers make me want to throatpunch them - especially the ones who think a missile hit the pentagon. You're just going to ignore all evidence to the contrary, huh? All the people who saw the plane hit the building mean nothing to you? Severe case of the stupids.

I am not the pp who wants the "real story" and I do believe that 9/11 happened and was not a result of our govt or anything but one thing I do want is to read or hear eye witness accounts from those sitting in traffic right in front of the Pentagon that morning or approaching the pentagon and what they saw.

Did they see the whole plane come down on them? Did they hear it? I have sat in traffic right next to the Pentagon where the plane hit and have heard and seen low flying plans so it's loud and you can hear them coming. How come there was not a massive traffic accident? When you are coming off 395 exit and you pass under the under pass, people are driving fast. Within a few feet traffic would have been stopped because they would have just seen a plane hit or worse their cars hit by debris. It's just weird to me that nothing like this was ever reported in the news. No eye witness accounts or anything.

Possibly everyone- news crews, police, etc- was focused on THE AIRPLANE HITTING THE PENTAGON and not the fender bender on 395.

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^^here, a 2 second google search solved this conspiracy theory/mystery. There was gridlocked traffic at that time. And yes, it seems everyone jumped out of their cars screaming and panicking.

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/remembering-9-11-vcu-professor-watched-plane-crash-into-pentagon

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A coworker of mine was in traffic and saw the plane overhead that morning. Who are you crackpots who believe it’s some kind of conspiracy?

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker of mine was in traffic and saw the plane overhead that morning. Who are you crackpots who believe it’s some kind of conspiracy?

What direction was it flying in?

A PP states it was following the river and passed her office in Rosslyn. That's the usual pattern. Others are saying it came from a different direction. Someone told me they saw it coming from a different direction. So would like to hear what your coworker said.

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I want to know what happened to me from the day I was born to the day I was adopted four months later. And I specifically want to know what experiments, if any, I was subjected to.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know what happened to me from the day I was born to the day I was adopted four months later. And I specifically want to know what experiments, if any, I was subjected to.

what makes you think you were subjected to experiments?? how awful. i certainly hope not. i have a friend who was adopted around 2 months old and she was in the care of a catholic charity in DC. she has some photos of herself with a nun.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know what happened to me from the day I was born to the day I was adopted four months later. And I specifically want to know what experiments, if any, I was subjected to.

what makes you think you were subjected to experiments?? how awful. i certainly hope not. i have a friend who was adopted around 2 months old and she was in the care of a catholic charity in DC. she has some photos of herself with a nun.

Journalist Gabrielle Glaser published a book this year (American Baby - one of the NYT's Best Books of 2021) that documented some of the really shady stuff that happened/happens in American adoption. In the period that I was adopted there was a lot of concern about ensuring that adoptees were developmentally "normal." Some researchers - legitimate ones - experimented on newborn adoptees to see if it was possible to evaluate us for qualities like intelligence. The state of NY allowed some particularly heinous experiments, including snapping rubber bands at the feet of minutes-old newborns to see how much they cried in response to pain stimulus. Supposedly, the theory was that infants who cried a lot and quickly were likely to be smarter. (!)

I was not adopted in NY (thank God), but I have reason to believe I was evaluated for intelligence and other disabilities. I am lucky to have been born in a state where I am allowed to ask for records. There are some notes in my file about various evaluations, but no specific information about what those evaluations entailed.

I am sorry to tell you that Catholic Charities has a pretty atrocious human rights record when it comes to adoptions and adoptees.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know what happened to me from the day I was born to the day I was adopted four months later. And I specifically want to know what experiments, if any, I was subjected to.

what makes you think you were subjected to experiments?? how awful. i certainly hope not. i have a friend who was adopted around 2 months old and she was in the care of a catholic charity in DC. she has some photos of herself with a nun.

Journalist Gabrielle Glaser published a book this year (American Baby - one of the NYT's Best Books of 2021) that documented some of the really shady stuff that happened/happens in American adoption. In the period that I was adopted there was a lot of concern about ensuring that adoptees were developmentally "normal." Some researchers - legitimate ones - experimented on newborn adoptees to see if it was possible to evaluate us for qualities like intelligence. The state of NY allowed some particularly heinous experiments, including snapping rubber bands at the feet of minutes-old newborns to see how much they cried in response to pain stimulus. Supposedly, the theory was that infants who cried a lot and quickly were likely to be smarter. (!)

I was not adopted in NY (thank God), but I have reason to believe I was evaluated for intelligence and other disabilities. I am lucky to have been born in a state where I am allowed to ask for records. There are some notes in my file about various evaluations, but no specific information about what those evaluations entailed.

I am sorry to tell you that Catholic Charities has a pretty atrocious human rights record when it comes to adoptions and adoptees.

Ugh, how awful to hear. And yeah, I do know that catholicism isn't historically wonderful for kids. FWIW, my friend was adopted into a family that utilized a fair amount of corporal punishment, so, clearly they weren't vetted all that wonderfully, although corporal punishment among religious families in the 80s was pretty common I'm sure.

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Anonymous wrote:What causes autism

Probably genetics most of the time.

I think it is a combo of genetics and environmental factors (pollutants etc) but I also wonder if putting babies to sleep on their backs contributes. It makes them sleep less soundly, which could theoretically impact brain development. And likely no one will ever study this to find out because how could you given risk of SIDS.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know what happened to me from the day I was born to the day I was adopted four months later. And I specifically want to know what experiments, if any, I was subjected to.

what makes you think you were subjected to experiments?? how awful. i certainly hope not. i have a friend who was adopted around 2 months old and she was in the care of a catholic charity in DC. she has some photos of herself with a nun.

Journalist Gabrielle Glaser published a book this year (American Baby - one of the NYT's Best Books of 2021) that documented some of the really shady stuff that happened/happens in American adoption. In the period that I was adopted there was a lot of concern about ensuring that adoptees were developmentally "normal." Some researchers - legitimate ones - experimented on newborn adoptees to see if it was possible to evaluate us for qualities like intelligence. The state of NY allowed some particularly heinous experiments, including snapping rubber bands at the feet of minutes-old newborns to see how much they cried in response to pain stimulus. Supposedly, the theory was that infants who cried a lot and quickly were likely to be smarter. (!)

I was not adopted in NY (thank God), but I have reason to believe I was evaluated for intelligence and other disabilities. I am lucky to have been born in a state where I am allowed to ask for records. There are some notes in my file about various evaluations, but no specific information about what those evaluations entailed.

I am sorry to tell you that Catholic Charities has a pretty atrocious human rights record when it comes to adoptions and adoptees.

Ugh, how awful to hear. And yeah, I do know that catholicism isn't historically wonderful for kids. FWIW, my friend was adopted into a family that utilized a fair amount of corporal punishment, so, clearly they weren't vetted all that wonderfully, although corporal punishment among religious families in the 80s was pretty common I'm sure.

My parents weren't especially well vetted either and my agency was the state government in the state where I was born. For a long time being rich and white - or, if working with a religious agency, a member of the same religion - was sufficient. Some adoption critics believe not much has changed on this count.

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Anonymous wrote:9-11, the real story

just curious - can you elaborate? I feel like there is a lot we don't know about what happened in the months leading up to and after the attacks. As long as you aren't a truther, I'm happy to hear you out.

The truthers make me want to throatpunch them - especially the ones who think a missile hit the pentagon. You're just going to ignore all evidence to the contrary, huh? All the people who saw the plane hit the building mean nothing to you? Severe case of the stupids.

I am not the pp who wants the "real story" and I do believe that 9/11 happened and was not a result of our govt or anything but one thing I do want is to read or hear eye witness accounts from those sitting in traffic right in front of the Pentagon that morning or approaching the pentagon and what they saw.

Did they see the whole plane come down on them? Did they hear it? I have sat in traffic right next to the Pentagon where the plane hit and have heard and seen low flying plans so it's loud and you can hear them coming. How come there was not a massive traffic accident? When you are coming off 395 exit and you pass under the under pass, people are driving fast. Within a few feet traffic would have been stopped because they would have just seen a plane hit or worse their cars hit by debris. It's just weird to me that nothing like this was ever reported in the news. No eye witness accounts or anything.

If you are in rush hour traffic near the Pentagon, you will know that it is nearly at a standstill especially in the morning. I did not see the plane go into the Pentagon, but I heard it from my house. If it had been 2 o'clock in the afternoon, traffic would have been moving at a faster pace and there could have been more accidents caused by the distracting noise of the impact. I also have a friend whose friend was the co-pilot of the flight that went into the Pentagon. At the family's request, he listened to the flight recorder from the cockpit. It was horrendous.

But not that morning. I know that because I passed there that morning sometime after 9 and was amazed that traffic had already cleared on that section. So traffic was moving.

I do recall at the time media stories reporting that the gas station across from the Pentagon at the Navy Annex had surveillance tape as well as a hotel in Crystal City but they were seized. Not sure if either were ever released.

My coworker saw the plan come way too close overhead and then heard the crash. It was a plane. Enough conspiracy theories.

What I'd like to know is what went down with the plane in PA.

The PA plane was shot down. There no freaking was the passengers overtook it out of patriotism.