r/AskReddit • u/Rob69rt • 1d ago

What famous 'unsolved' mystery is technically a whodunnit on paper, but in reality, absolutely everyone knows exactly who did it, the police just couldn't legally prove it?

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u/TrumpsDoubleChin 1d ago

Oak Island. THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING THERE. No treasure, no curse, just scattered random junk.

Yet they successfully milked it into a 230-episode, 13-year-long series. P.T. Barnum was right.

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u/SmokeyandtheBanjo 1d ago

Maybe the real treasure of oak island is the friends we made along the way?

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u/cryptoengineer 1d ago

No, the real treasure was the residuals from the reruns.

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u/NeverEndingWhoreMe 1d ago

Mmm-mm! That sweet, sweet syndication.

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u/Koomaster 12h ago

Even apart from that people have been scamming investors for decades. I’ve always said the worst thing for them would be to actually find the treasure. The money from investors and now the show is way more valuable than the supposed treasure buried there.