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3 Finally, sixty years after the famous photo contributing to this behavior: solving
appeared, a man named Christian Spurling mysteries can help us improve our lives.
confessed that the picture was indeed fake. Over the years, curiosity has helped humans
He and his stepfather had created the “Loch do everything from cure deadly diseases to
Ness monster” by attaching a fake sea develop new sources of energy.
serpent head and neck to a toy submarine,
and the doctor had gone along with their 7 For example, for thousands of years, people
scheme. Despite Spurling’s confession, have puzzled over the mystery of lightning
people still come to Loch Ness in search of and what causes it. Many scientists,
“Nessie.” They want to believe the including Benjamin Franklin and
mysterious Loch Ness monster exists—and Nikola Tesla, have studied it.
that they’ll be the ones to prove it! Much has been learned
A Safe Kind of Danger about lightning that has
had a positive effect on
4 Mysteries are a classic form of our lives, including
entertainment, too. Countless books, movies, ways to protect
and TV shows have centered on Sherlock ourselves from it.
Holmes, a detective who never met a case he But scientists still
couldn’t solve. Holmes’s adventures let us haven’t fully solved
follow along in a state of mounting suspense the puzzle.
until the great detective cleverly solves the Big Challenges
mystery and catches the criminal.
8 Scientists could be called
5 While reading or watching a mystery, professional mystery solvers.
audiences match wits with criminals, They often tackle mysteries that
studying clues and trying to figure out the consume a lifetime. For example,
solution before the story’s detective, police, anthropologists often try to figure out how
or very smart kid next door (who’s not people lived long ago, studying ancient
supposed to be nosing around the case). It’s buildings, old documents, and artifacts, from
a fun game, and mystery fans play it again weapons to clothing and tools, to uncover
and again. the mysteries of ancient life. Learning more
Figuring Things Out about the past helps us better understand
how we got to the present.
6 Most people find mysteries like this
irresistible, partly because we have 9 Mysteries are all around us, from murky
a natural instinct for solving Scottish lakes to the fiction section of your
puzzles and figuring out how local library. Which mystery will you solve?
things work. Here’s one big factor
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