Discovery Board

Mysteries

Questions nobody has fully answered, plus a few solved ones we learn from.

All Not checked yet 13Looking good 2Half solved 16Solved 10Ruled out 3
Do myths remember meteorite impacts? 3 clues · 1 hunch Not checked yet Can old chronicles of a dim or red Sun find eruptions the ice missed? 1 clue · 1 hunch Not checked yet 1190 BC When and why did the Late Bronze Age cities fall (about 1200 to 1180 BC)? 2 clues · 2 hunches Not checked yet AD 1098 A great aurora in September 1098, seen in Europe, and perhaps in Kyoto? 4 clues · 3 hunches Not checked yet AD 1268 1268 carbon-14 candidate 4 clues · 1 hunch Not checked yet AD 1279 1279 carbon-14 candidate 8 clues · 1 hunch Not checked yet AD 1286 1286 eruption: a big sulfur signal that left the Moon bright 3 clues · 1 hunch Not checked yet AD 1453 The mystery eruption of 1452/53 and the omens at the fall of Constantinople 13 clues · 6 hunches Not checked yet AD 1485 English sweating sickness: what was it? 5 clues · 2 hunches Not checked yet AD 1518 What caused the dancing plagues (1374, 1518 and others)? 5 clues · 4 hunches Not checked yet AD 1576 What caused the cocoliztli epidemics that killed most of Mexico's people (1545, 1576 and later)? 4 clues · 4 hunches Not checked yet AD 1808 1808 mystery eruption 7 clues · 4 hunches Not checked yet AD 1920 What caused encephalitis lethargica, the 'sleepy sickness' of 1917 to 1928? 3 clues · 5 hunches Not checked yet