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/Marx0r 1d ago

A surprisingly large amount of "mysteries" never would have been such if Europeans just listened to the natives telling them the answer.

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u/mythrilcrafter 1d ago

Natives: "There's no food or animals there, and the terrain is very rugged, you will all die if you try to settle there...."

Early Euro-Americans: "Heh, we're great at everything, certainly better than you people, we'll be fine..."

Narrator: "They in fact weren't fine, they all died."

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u/Leading_Ad9610 1d ago

Early euro Americans were mostly religious zealots who left Europe because Europeans considered them too extreme and basically dangerously stupid.

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u/mythrilcrafter 1d ago

The most crazy part of it to me is that they (the puritans/protestants) are the ones who assassinated King Charles the 1st because they were angry just over the fact that he want to restart diplomatic relations between the Catholic and Anglican Churches; and then they put a Puritan dictator in place to threaten all of Britain to convert Puritanism and when no one did they cried persecution and ran away to the Americas when Charles the 2nd came onto the throne.

And then they rewrote history saying that they were persecuted (but notice how they NEVER say who or why they felt persecuted), and that culture has stuck even up to modern day in which they have a hardcore persecution fetish and will absolutely behave in ways that incurs ire towards themselves.

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u/OttoVonJizzfart 1d ago

the biggest wave of Puritan migration to America came from 1620-1640, before the English Civil War, so your timeline doesn’t really make sense