People sometimes talk about that eureka moment when something happens to them and a great discovery is made. And it's called a moment because it seems to happen instantly. But if you've spent years working on something up to that moment, did it really happen instantly? Or did it take years to make that discovery? History is full of examples of discoveries that took an incredibly long time, some might argue too long. In some cases, those discoveries took decades.
10. The Bobby Dunbar Mystery
Bobby Dunbar disappeared in the summer 1912 when he was only four years old. His family went camping in Louisiana and the boy wandered off one night. At first it was assumed that he had drowned in a lake, but later his hat was found much further away. Suddenly the idea came to mind that he had been kidnapped. What began as a tragic story soon became stranger and stranger.
Almost a year later, a drifter was arrested while traveling with a boy in Mississippi. The boy was about the same age as Bobby, and the man's story made no sense. He said he had been traveling with the boy for a year, but his mother, Julia Anderson, gave her permission. Anderson agreed, but said it had only been a few days. The Dunbar family went to visit the boy, and accounts of whether the boy recognized them vary. But Mrs. Dunbar eventually identified the boy as Bobby based on several birthmarks, and the court agreed. The Dunbars took custody of the boy and returned home.
Suspecting that things were going badly, the newspaper paid for Anderson to come to town. She was shown Bobby and four other boys of the same age. She could not identify the one she assumed to be her son, and no one recognized her. The next day she was able to identify him, but by then it was too late. She went home alone.
Bobby Dunbar was raised by his parents, grew up to be a man, had his own family, and died in 1966. Years later, Dunbar and Anderson's granddaughters met to put the story to rest. Through DNA testing, they were able to confirm that Bobby Dunbar on was not actually Bobby Dunbar at all He was indeed Julia Anderson's son, and the real Bobby Dunbar was never found.
9. The missing ring was found after 47 years
Losing a ring is not an uncommon occurrence. People probably lose jewelry all the time, and it must be frustrating in the moment, but you will get over it eventually. Debra McKenna certainly experienced losing her class ring in a Maine department store. back in 1973 when she took it off to wash her hands and mistakenly forgot about it. Since it was just a class ring and not something like an engagement ring, although the man she eventually married gave it to her, she probably never thought about it again until 2020.
The ring showed up at the post office in 2020 after a man named Marko Saarinen found it. However, Saarinen didn't find it at the department store. Nor did he find it in Maine. He used a metal detector in the woods near the city of Kaarina in southwestern Finland.
The man read the "SM" inscription and looked at the alumni association. They found the owner and his wife and returned the ring to its rightful owner.
8. The Greatest Ball Game of All Time
The 1960 World Series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Yankees has been called the greatest World Series ever. of all time The Yankees were considered the dominant team, but the Pirates took them to Game 7 when the Pirates' Bill Mazeroski hit a game-winning home run in the ninth inning to win the series. It was the first time a series had ever been won by a home run; it was an incredible upset, and it was over the top. It was everything sports fans love. And then it was gone.
For many years, there was no recording of this final game. In 1960, VCRs did not exist, so fans did not record it at home. Back in the day, television stations reused the tapes, so all the old games released until the 1970s, were erased. Fortunately, no one took into account how big a baseball fan Bing Crosby was.
Crosby, who co-owned the Pirates, was afraid to watch the game live. He thought it would jinx their chances. Instead, he went to Europe and recorded the game to watch later. He then stored the tape in his wine cellar, where the precise temperature and humidity are perfect kept it until 2010 , when it was discovered again. The game was restored and transferred to DVD, and now fans can watch it again.
7. The Disappearance of the Lord Howe Stick Insect
Species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate, with some estimates suggesting disappears every day some dozens of species . One of the views we have come to terms with in 1983, was the Lord Howe Island stick insect. That's when it was officially declared extinct, even though no one had seen it for about 1920 .
The bugs were discovered in 1918 in a shipwreck on a very tiny, mostly deserted island. It is believed that rats from the ship invaded and eventually wiped out the local insect population, and that, they say, was it.
Despite their apparent extinction, in 2001 Some of the bugs were rediscovered on a tiny volcanic outcrop called Ball's Pyramid, 23km off the coast of the main island. The island has virtually no vegetation, but what there is appears to be beetle habitat. They found only 24 bugs.
One breeding pair was rescued and brought to Australia. From them was collected 13,000 eggs and now a breeding program has been established in zoos around the world.
6. Glass sponge reefs
The world beneath the waves is still a mystery, and every day we discover new creatures that live in the ocean depths. In doing so, we are also losing many species. One thing we thought was long dead is the glass sponge. These sponges are known to build reefs, reaching almost 46 centimeters in height , and the reefs they create become habitats for all kinds of fish and other marine species. They use silica dissolved in seawater to create fine structures that resemble skeletons, hence the name glass.
Obviously, this is good for the ecosystem, and sponges are a species worth protecting. This is ironic, of course, because until recently they were thought to be extinct. And not just slightly extinct. They were thought to have been extinct for about 100 million years ago Their remains, called mummies, are well known, and a 2,900-kilometre reef of ancient glass sponges stretches from Spain to Romania.
In 1987, new reefs of living glass sponges were discovered off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, proving that the ancient species had not disappeared as previously thought, but were simply deeper than anyone expected.
5. Randy Bachman's Missing Guitar
Randy Bachman is best known for his work in the 1970s rock bands Bachman Turner Overdrive and The Guess Who. His most famous songs include " Taking Care of Business» And " American Woman " He wrote the latter on a 1957 Gretsch guitar he bought as a teenager and which became his signature instrument. He learned to play guitar using it and played it all the time. Before 1977 when someone stole it from his hotel room.
Bachman said he loved the instrument so much that he slept with it and chained it to a hotel closet so no one could steal it. But the day his road manager took it, long enough to check out of the hotel and then pick up the band, someone managed to steal it for real.
For decades, Bachman mourned the loss and hoped to one day find it again. In 2020, a fan named William Long, who heard about the loss from a YouTube video, decided he could help with his investigative skills. Remarkably, after examining the guitar inside and out and searching images online, Long found the guitar in Japan, where a musician named Takeshi had bought it in 2016. He had no idea it had been stolen, but agreed to trade Bachman for another.
In summer 2022 At the Canadian Embassy in Japan, Bachman met with Takeshi and exchanged another guitar for the stolen one. He tried his best to find a nearly identical guitar, in fact made the same week and with nearly the same serial number.
4. Car discovered after 20 years
Imagine how angry and frustrated you would be if you found out that someone had stolen your car. This happened in 1997 to a man in Frankfurt, Germany. He parked in a garage, went out to do some business, and returned to find that his car was gone. It's past twenty years , and then the garage was assembled under demolition , but the owners had one small snag - there was still a car in it. It was that man's car.
It turned out that the man had forgotten where he had parked. His car had not moved for 20 years, so he found it exactly where he had left it many years ago. By then, it was rusted and motionless, but definitely not stolen.
3. Glowing wounds of Civil War soldiers
A lot of crazy things can happen in war, but you rarely expect to hear about wounds glowing blue and healing faster than normal, at least not outside of science fiction. But it happened during the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh, and it remained a mystery for years.
In a large-scale battle opposed the Union 40,000 Confederate soldiers , losing up to 16,000 people. As the wounded waited for treatment in the mud for up to two days, some began to glow blue at night. It was noted that those who glowed had a better survival rate.
It wasn't until 2001 that a non-supernatural explanation was discovered. A bioluminescent bacterium called Photorhabdus luminescens A soil-dwelling bacteria that inhibits the growth of pathogens by secreting an antibiotic compound could be growing in wounds and inadvertently saving soldiers' lives.
2. Twins accidentally swapped at birth
Near 1 in 250 natural pregnancies results in the birth of twins. Fraternal twins are more common than identical twins, and about two thirds pregnant with twins will have fraternal twins. So don't be shocked if you have twins and they don't look alike. Of course, in 1974 in the Canary Islands, when were born twinsBegona and Delia , their mother would not have suspected anything.
It took 28 years before anyone realized there was a third baby in the hospital that day. A girl named Beatrice was accidentally replaced to Delia, and the two sisters, who were identical, were now considered simply fraternal, since, of course, Beatrice did not look like her sister.
The women only found out when a friend of one of the twins met the other, became confused, and arranged to meet. A DNA test soon followed, and the twins realized the truth about what had happened. Despite this, they did not want to share the news. Their biological mother found out first, but the mother who raised Delia was not told anything for almost nine years. She did not take it well.
1. Moving Bouvet Island
You may have heard that buying land is a good investment because no one else does it. That's mostly true, but that doesn't mean you can still discover land every now and then. Sometimes it just gets lost and needs to be found again, like what happened with Bouvet Island.
Bouvet Island is the most remote place in the world, located 1750 kilometers from Antarctica , its closest neighbor, and an island that no one would or should visit. It was discovered in 1739 and is made up of rocks, ice and handfuls of penguins . Besides, it is here events took place "Alien vs. Predator" . Explorer Jean-Baptiste Bouvet de Lozier discovered it during a research mission in Antarctica, and then immediately mismarked it on a map, so it went missing again for another 69 years because no one knew how to find it.
When it was finally rediscovered, it was hundreds of miles from where Bouvet had recorded it, so no one was even sure it was the same place. It wasn't until 1898 that it finally got a fixed location on maps.
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