Many mysteries are stated to be difficult to solve, but many people are unaware why. I believe that mysteries can be difficult to solve due to the geographical standpoint, the many theories of the mystery, and lastly the evidence and facts that each mystery has. The Loch Ness Monster, Lost Colony of Roanoke, Sailing Stones of Death Valley, Bermuda Triangle, Mary Celeste, and many other mysteries can be used to help support the main reasons why mysteries can be difficult to solve. To begin with, mysteries are difficult to solve due to the geographical standpoint of where the event is happening. First, the Sailing Stones of Death Valley has no witnesses to the rocks moving. The location of where the rocks are located is one of the main reasons …show more content…
In addition to that, mysteries are difficult to solve due to the evidence and facts or lack of said evidence and facts we have about the certain event. As an example, we have the Loch Ness Monster mystery. There was fake evidence, and unproved facts. Correspondingly, that means that the information we have about this mystery is all over the place. We cannot simply infer if this mystery was just a hoax or if it was real with just that information. There isn’t enough facts to prove that this mysterious animal is an actual being- or just a spark in someone’s imagination. If you want to research on something, you’re going to need proven facts, hard evidence, and witnesses to help prove your argument. Without any of that, it’s going to be hard to prove if the something like the Loch Ness Monster is real or not. That’s why it’s hard to solve mysteries. By the same token, the Lost Colony has a great amount of facts, but they do not connect. There were the stones, the word “Croatoan” carved in the tree, and the maps. Likewise, we’re loaded with facts, but they do not go together. This evidence is extremely helpful in many ways but we cannot use it to help solve this mystery without more. People say that “we’re missing a puzzle piece to this mystery.” When John White returned to Roanoke Island the article stated, “... he finally returned to the new colony he found… nothing.” He couldn’t help himself find out where anyone was because there was no evidence that he had. The whole colony had nothing there, everything was gone, such as the animals and the settlers. To justify, the Bermuda Triangle has many conspiracies as to why things disappear when something goes across the area. Due to those conspiracies, nobody has the motive to find evidence over towards the area. An article I read stated that, “In 1946, a training squad of five torpedo bombers flew into
What is scaly, creepy, 50 feet long, and swims in the world's most notorious lake? If you said The Loch Ness Monster, then you’re correct! The Loch Ness Monster, mostly known as the creature Nessie, is a huge, “mythical” creature that has been scaring the people of Ireland for centuries, but this monster is actually real.
...e morphed it into the quartzite that is seen surrounding the butte (4). Rocks that undergo this process are called metamorphic rock, which is the same as the rock seen years ago by dinosaurs and other extinct creatures. The quartzite rocks were formerly seafloor sediment that was forced upwards, and then surrounded by lava basalt flows. Once erupted through fissures and floods through out most of the area, lava flow eventually created enough basalt to form a thickness of about 1.8 kilometers (1). All of this basalt flow eventually led to the covering of most mountains, leaving the buttes uncovered. The igneous lava flows and loess is reasons that the Palouse consists of such sprawling hills, and rich soil for farming (2). In result of the lava flows, the Precambrian rock Quartzite was formed. And lastly covered by the glacial loess, which were carried by the wind.
This rock type could prove dangerous, being soft and with little solidness in its structure. Therefore placing the protection over the rock cliffs was a very well thought and planned engineering
They gave up after some time in which many others came flocking to the area to continue digging. Supposedly, this was towards the end of the pirate era and many believe that Captain Kidd must have left his treasure on that island. There were a few “mysterious” objects that were unearthed; wooden planks, discovered the hole was a shaft, chains, and a stone of inscriptions which was supposedly translated to, “Forty feet below two million pounds are buried.” This is a red flag for several reasons: 1. The stone was translated in the late 1800’s which has been discovered in class to be a very problematic year for gaining any valid information on anything. 2. The stone was anonymously translated so no mention of who the expert was other than that it was a Halifax professor. 3. After it had been translated, the stone “mysteriously” disappears and no one sees or hears of it again. So far, the series are turning out to be quite the
Quartzite is a non-foliated metamorphic rock. This rock is intrusive and forms when exposed to extreme amounts of heat and pressure. Over a billion years ago, there was an ocean where Kamiak Butte is. This ocean floor was made of sand, as time went on oceans receded and the exposed sand underwent processes that turned it into sandstone – or as we learned in class the process of lithification. Years later, this sandstone would morph into the quartzite that is present now.2
A reestablishment of the colony was attempted. It was decided that John White would be the governor. Unfortunately, Indians attacked the colonists numerous times and all their supplies ran out. They decided to send White to obtain supplies in England. He left behind his daughter and his granddaughter, Virginia Dare who was the first child of European decent born in America. When John White arrived in England, the country was involved with a war between Spain and themselves. When White finally was able to come back, 2 years later, there was no one to greet them on the shores of Roanoke Island. There was only an eerie silence. The entire colony was abandoned. As the ship's crew inspected the city they had called Raleigh, one man found "CROA" carved on a tree. To this day the whereabouts of this colony is a mystery.
The colonists of Roanoke disappeared mysteriously around 1590. All the colonists were gone without a trace and without any exact way of letting anyone know what happened to them. When the governor of Roanoke, John White, arrived to Roanoke in 1590,there was only one clue about the disappearance that remained. The letters ''CRO''were written on a tree nearby. No one had knowledge of what happened to the colonists or where they might have gone. The question that is still being asked is,'' What happened in the time between when White left and returned?'' and , '' How did the events leading up to and after Roanoke affect the later colonies?'' There were eleven children, seventeen women, and ninety men that were supposed to be in Roanoke , but no remained. It is a mystery that hasn't been solved up to this day.
Another theory is that they tried to go back to England but were attacked by pirates, got lost at sea, or sank in a storm. This theory is not that viable because they were colonists who wanted to find a new land so why go back to England.
White, to be the governor of the Roanoke colony. Among the settlers was Eleanor, daughter of White, who gave birth to Virginia Dare. Because of some kind of problem White had to return to England for an emergency. He returned to the Roanoke Colony three years later and just found the word “Croatoan” carved on the trunk of a tree, but never found the Roanoke settlers or his family.
Some people think that the colonists left on the ships that remained. according to records from John White, the vessels left were not seaworthy. The vessels were also rather small and would not be large enough to accommodate the materials missing from the fort along with all of the settlers. That would also be improbable because that would provide no explanation for the word Croatoan carved in the palisade. The Natives did not know how to write in English so they are not responsible for this.
Mary Rowlandson was captive under King Phillips’s wife’s sister, and varying other Algonquian masters from February 20, 1676 through May 2, 1676. She recorded her narrative “as the war was slipping away from the Indians” (Calloway 93) and published it with popular acclaim. In the context of this tumultuous time, “it would be a grave mistake to ignore the clear indications that this narrative was intended primarily as a record of the author’s spiritual practices and to assume a specific existential and moral stance in the world” (Ebersole 20). Rowlandson’s intentions for the narrative no doubt “served religious and political aim...
For centuries, the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island has been a controversial issue. Many theories exist that explain the disappearance of the colony. Some theories suggest that the colonists left the island to live with friendly neighboring Indians. Others suggest that a hurricane wiped out the colony or that a savage Indian tribe massacred them. The possibility of disease destroying them is also a debated topic. However, evidence indicates that the men and women left behind on Roanoke Island did not die because of massacre, disease, or starvation but went to live with the Croatoan Indians.
Raleigh had given up hope for settlement, but in 1591 he had his hopes high again. He sent another expedition to America but it had failed. In 1595 he decided to go for himself. He ended up on Guiana instead of Virginia. 15 years later he tried once again and failed. He tried again in 1603. This time he sent Bartholomen Gilbert. He and his crew were killed by Indians.
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. However, even after centuries later, little is truly known of the mysterious voyage and findings of the new world.1 By examining “Letter from Columbus to Luis Santangel”, one can further contextualize the events of Columbus' exploration of the New World. The letter uncovers Columbus' subtle hints of his true intentions and exposes his exaggerated tone that catered to his lavish demands with Spain. Likewise, The Columbian Voyage Map read in accordance with the letter helps the reader track Columbus' first, second, third, and fourth voyage to the New World carefully and conveniently. Thus, the letter and map's rarity and description render invaluable insight into Columbus' intentionality of the New World and its indigenous inhabitants.
Based on the clues left behind at the British colony, investigators also thought that Spaniards may have marched up from Florida and either killed or captured the new settlers for the greed of land, resources, or wealth. The Spaniards, at the time known for their bravery in capturing lands, may have hinted on what they planned next. As the governor of the new colony, John White left and sailed to England to gather more supplies for the colonists, but once he arrived in England, a major war broke out between England and Spain (What Happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke, History.com). This war also slowed down the progress of his return to the colony, where he left his family and the other colonists, but as soon as John White had come back, no trace of the settlers got found, except a wooden post that had a name carved into it, but this has gotten discussed as part of an alternate theory. Due to the increase of a race in colonizing lands at the time, the Spanish may have felt harmed by the British settling in a colony in the New World. Many different reasons for why the Spaniards could have taken the new colonists or even why this all even took place, rather related to the Spaniards or not. Even with several proven facts, researchers still stumble upon other opinions