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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:16 PM Original message |
Do you have an "unsolved mystery" in your family? |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yes! |
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SPKrazy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. you and the OP look a lot alike |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. That is strange... |
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SPKrazy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I was obsessed with your e-coli-ness before |
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Fleshdancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sort of.... |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yes... me! |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. Yes, though the mystery involves a family friend. |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. That's so sad... |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:34 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. I hope so too, Goddess. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
5. My great grandfather was a Mississippi river boat captain who vanished |
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greatauntoftriplets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. My mother had two brothers named John. |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. I do. It's a locally-famous murder mystery too. |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
13. Kind of...My grandmother was married once before she married my grandfather... |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. I have 2 or 3 cousins in Brazil |
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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
15. Quite a mystery, yes. |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 10:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. creepy! |
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u4ic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
17. How about a "nobody would tell" |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 11:56 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. That's creepy! I wonder if she can even remember what it was. |
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u4ic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 12:06 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. She has been asked |
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Nevernose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
18. Isn't that on Oprah on Monday? |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 04:20 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I will watch Oprah, if she has someone on it who I'm interested in. So what. |
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Nevernose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 12:23 AM Response to Reply #23 |
46. It was meant to be humorous |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-04-07 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
19. Yes, it's.... |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 03:54 AM Response to Original message |
22. My grandfather was a twin. (fraternal, boy and girl) |
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Patiod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 09:45 AM Response to Reply #22 |
51. That was only a few years before the big influenza epidemic |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 10:20 AM Response to Reply #51 |
54. No grave for her though. |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 04:38 AM Response to Original message |
24. The one person who could tell has died... |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 04:44 AM Response to Original message |
25. Who stole all of Mom's sissors. |
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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 01:20 PM Response to Reply #25 |
41. Holy shit! We're related! |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 02:50 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Yep -- poor Dad had it rougher. |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 10:13 AM Response to Reply #43 |
53. It was that way at my house. It was just understood that the dog did it. |
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Droopy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 05:52 AM Response to Original message |
26. There is a ghost in mom and step-dad's house |
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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 01:55 AM Response to Reply #26 |
48. Oooh, tell about it! I love ghost stories. |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
27. My grandfather had an illegitimate child with a black woman |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
28. I have a brother I've never met. |
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NewWaveChick1981 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
29. It's more of a family secret, at least to my mom... |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
30. Yep, and it's a doozie! |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 09:00 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. That would be cheap for quality hookers... |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 09:05 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. He lived in a very small southern town. |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 02:55 PM Response to Reply #30 |
44. That's about 266 visits a year. |
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AggieGal (635 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
33. My Mother's Sister |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
34. Do I have a half brother? |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
35. Yes . . . |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
36. Not mystery but a few that I wasn't told about right away |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
37. Kind of |
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Guava Jelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
38. A family tree mystery |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
39. Yes, my great-grandfather's body was lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
40. Not in my family, but a friend's niece disappeared when she was 14. |
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Saphire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
42. Ohhhh! I have one. I was looking at some county records (part of my job) |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-05-07 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
45. Yes. One of my aunts turned up dead from arsenic poisoning |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
47. Yes, my grandpa may have been the real Music Man |
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Patiod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 09:52 AM Response to Reply #47 |
52. That's facinating. |
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judaspriestess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
49. yes |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
50. Yes - how our dumbass, draft-dodging cousin could actually be elected 'president' |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
55. Yes. The oral family history is that my maternal great great |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
56. My great-grandfather disappeared in the USSR. |
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distantearlywarning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
57. Grandmother "had to" get married |
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PRETZEL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
58. when my grandparents passed away many years ago |
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rhiannon55 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
59. My niece Angie disappeared under very suspicious circumstances almost 4 years ago |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
60. My grandfather was Capt of the vessel that came across: The Marie Celeste... |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-06-07 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
61. i have a great uncle that, in the 1920's, was found to have a wife in 2 different small towns |
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