OT: Talking Unsolved Legends/Events Wednesday. D.B Cooper
Hi everyone, last week I had the Bigfoot thread and it seemed to draw a lot of interest and a couple users suggested something similar to talking cars Tuesday. So this will be my attempt at it. I was super busy at the office today so I couldn’t get time to do it earlier. Moderators if this is not ok please let me know, but it seems this time of year is fair game for these types of things.
For those that don’t know, the D.B Cooper mystery is the only unsolved Plane Highjacking in U.S History. He successfully Hijacked a Boeing 727 in November of 1971, collected ransom and parachutes and then jumped out of the Airplane while 10,000 feet above rural Washington in the dark during a rainstorm. He has never been identified and only a small portion of the ransom money has been found and no other physical evidence. Many suspects have surfaced over the years and new ones arise, but still no idea about who he was, his motive or what happened to him.
What do you guys think happened to him and what is behind this very interesting mystery?
Have a great evening everyone.
Well... you did say its off topic, at least!
Hes living happily in Bolivia with half of mgoblog
....and let me tell you, the inhabitants of MGoBolivia are MUCH happier now that we know what is blocking that sewer main and that we can indeed fix it. The parts are only available at a small supply house in the Outer Hebrides though.
I think the Sasquatch (that doesn’t exist) got him...or maybe another creature that doesn’t exist, like a Yeti, Chupacabra, 5 star Michigan basketball commit...
i believe he didn't survive the jump
Do we know for sure he jumped?
Yes they know he jumped.
I am in the camp that he didn’t survive the jump, but it’s odd that almost zero physical evidence has been found, despite the area he dropped in being thoroughly investigated.
I thought that some of the taken money had been found as circulated?
No. The only money found was found on a river bed 9 years later. None of the ransom money has ever been spent. Maybe he planned to pay off a mobster with it or spend in a country that was not going to be able to catch on.
i don't know much about jumping, but doing it in the dark from 10,000 ft seems to be fraught with hazards that only the best, i.e., 82nd airborne, would attempt.
I’ve read speculation that he was infact a professional skydiver and taught the airborne rangers how to jump
Yes the FBI has investigated several suspects that were either military veterans or people with jumping experience.
Must have teleported
The theory I believe is he faked a jump in that spot by bouncing up and down at the back of the plane, maybe dropped some money. Then, at a different location that was more flat and open, he actually did jump and survived.
I think I saw that claim on expedition unknown.
I didn’t think of that, but man that might have worked.
There was a D.B. Cooper's Saloon right downtown in Daytona Beach (back in my Annual 10 Consecutive Years of Spring Breaks) and I think it was D.B. Cooper's that invented the original KAHLUA & TOMATO JUICE (shaken not stirred) drink Xtramelanin sometimes mentions in his posts....
In 1985 (you can look this up) the owner whose (real?) name was BRAGG was bragging too much around town about paying a drug smuggler/pilot $38,000 to fly in 2500 pounds of weed from Colombia.
He was arrested
Some say he was just a big talker and the plot never hatched.
The police disagreed and found him guilty.
The plane was actually reported to have crashed in Tennessee or Kentucky....
Or--did the pilot jump out first?
He and my cousin Jimmy Hoffa Live in the same lakefront apartment in Cleveland.
I thought Hoffa was turned into hot dogs. It's good to know he's still alive.
However, if you live in Cleveland, are you really alive? ?
And Don's second wife Megan is Sharon Tate!
He ended up in Fox River State Penitentiary with Michael Schofield.
D.B. Cooper was gravely injured in the fall and crawled into a hidden cave, where he discovered an ancient stone that saved his life when he touched it but cursed him to forever walk the earth as Bigfoot.
You should write fantasy books.
You should rewrite season 7 and 8 of GOT
Stone circle and is with Jamie and Claire?
It was Ray Finkel.
And Finkel is ???
Einhorn!
There was a version of events that concluded that DB Cooper had been a former paratrooper who was originally from Michigan.
https://patch.com/michigan/rochester/d-b-cooper-was-former-military-paratrooper-michigan-report
A solid interview which examined the arguments laid out in the story above.
http://midnightinthedesert.com/joe-koeng/
*sorry, requires membership for archived interview*
What I find interesting is a year after the heist someone contacted him with “blackmail” to work overseas. Sounds like cia knew who did the kijacking but used him to do intelligence over seas
https://www.scribd.com/document/379510849/Timeline-of-Walter-Reca-s-Life#from_embed
Dyatlov Pass incident.
Zodiac killer.
Elisa Lam.
The man from Taured.
If you're taking requests.
The man from Taured is a great tale. But I don’t think there was ever any corroborating evidence that it ever happened. Allegedly he was detained yet no records of this have turned up?
This story is kind of a Mandela Effect. Care to go down that rabbit hole? BerenstEin!!!
I will try to look into one each Wednesday. If I miss a day, feel free to start the thread and maybe use one of these.
If you ever have an hour or maybe a thousand, look into Mandela Effects if you haven’t already. You’ll find a lot of what you thought was, now isn’t, or never ever was. Serious mind F of the millennia. I had to stop reading about it months ago. Some will dismiss as misremembering, but why do so many around the world "misremember" the same events, logos, movie scenes, lines, lyrics, names in the same exact ways. Some of the now reality doesn’t even make sense.
Voynich Manuscript and MH370
Did you bring up Dyaltov in the Bigfoot thread? Because a Bigfoot attack is probably the simplest explanation for that.
I already told you - Dallas was a mob hit
Go BLUES!
Great first period.
(Edit: wrong thread--- but right thought)
I'm a longtime member of a serious group who have tried to crack it. Then I quit last year because of what I learned.
I'll save you some time....it will never be "solved".... at the time the CIA was given carte blanche to make certain that central america didn't go communist... Think, Nixon's boys shenanigans, or...think the contra affair, which was to prevent nicaragua going red. Cooper was CIA who had to get funds immediately and was taking it south. This is why it's been stonewalled so many times. You open this can of worms and the technically illegal stuff we were doing to keep the americas unred, would be a books mile long, but...mission accomplished...
I’m a little confused by what you wrote. Are you saying he never jumped?
This is what I believe
Are you saying instead of the CIA just giving him a bunch of money, he had to rob a plane and jump out in terrible conditions to fund his own CIA mission?
I don't buy that because so much has come out about what the CIA was doing in central America to the point there are movies about it. Also the CIA was dumping millions into fighting communism and he stole $200k. There are easier ways for them to get money. And if they admit to selling to cocaine, why wouldn't they admit to making a guy hijack a plane and jump out.
and, a link to Michigan:
A (fiction) book by Elwood Reid is about DB Cooper:
https://www.amazon.com/D-B-Novel-Elwood-Reid/dp/0385497393
Elwood Reid, UM grad and former football player, of course, wrote one of the best accounts (also fictional) of Michigan football:
https://www.amazon.com/If-I-Dont-Six-Novel/dp/0385491204
The latter is an exceptional read, imho.
Agree on "If I Don't Six".
Reveals the allure and pain of football.
Not sure on Cooper but Bigfoot does not exist. Having lived in the Pac NW there is a lot of wild land but not enough for an undiscovered species. It's too well combed over.
Great. Where were you a week ago. Been out in these fucking northwest woods for days looking. Smell like pechule and bad cheese.
Stuff You Should Know did a great podcast on D. B. Cooper—it’s what first got me listening to the podcast. Worth a listen if that’s your thing: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stuff-you-should-know/id278981407?i=1000393655160
Cool, thanks. Just subscribed.
You beat me to it. I have listened to these guys for years.