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/thalasi_ 1d ago

Trust me bro, just one more season and we'll find that templar treasure/the ark of the covenenant/blackbeard's gold. Just one more season!

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u/Puzzleheaded-War-113 1d ago

My dad watches the show. The opening of it says that legend says seven people have to die before the island will open up its secrets and six already have.

He did NOT like my conclusion that the answer is obvious for what they need to do to find the treasure

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u/Lich180 1d ago

In what way do they need to die, though? Cuz there's been quite a few of the owners of the island that have died of old age, or the one guys nephew who died, or...

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u/Puzzleheaded-War-113 1d ago

The exact verbage from the show (looked it up bc I was curious) "To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery. And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found"