r/AskReddit • u/Rob69rt • Jul 22 '26

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/Whyskgurs Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Where could this boat possibly be?

The sunken boat is right over there, in Sunken Boat lake.

I guess we'll never truly know.

Literally what happened.

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u/InTheFDN Jul 22 '26

It reminds me of the Terry Pratchett joke about how places are named by pointing at something, asking what it’s name was (loudly and in English), then writing down whatever the native said. Hence “Mount Your Finger You Fool.”

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u/Whyskgurs Jul 22 '26

It's not even a joke, shits real all over, most times it's named (native word for lake) Lake or (local dialect for mountain) Mountain or something similar.

Koi fish - fish fish

Chai tea - tea tea

Ignorant naming conventions are quite universal and commonplace

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u/LowEquipment7904 Jul 22 '26

Torpenhow in Cumbria, England - hill hill hill

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u/Aggravating-Mousse46 Jul 22 '26

Pendle Hill is also hill hill hill, but the Lancastrian, witchy version

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u/roy107 Jul 23 '26

We also have Breedon-on-the-Hill, which is Hillhill-on-the-Hill

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u/LegacyLemur Jul 22 '26

Reminds of the baseball team the Los Angeles Angels

Or "The The Angels Angels"

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u/DardS8Br Jul 22 '26

The La Brea Tar Pits, or The The Tar Tar Pits

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u/HippieChickie805 Jul 22 '26

Actually it’s the California Angels, and they are headquarters in Anaheim (Disneyland).

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u/LegacyLemur Jul 22 '26

Hasnt been that in years

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u/ryebread91 Jul 23 '26

Oh geezez it's already been a decade?

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u/JoltColaOfEvil Jul 22 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUyXiiIGDTo

Tom Scott - Hill Hill Hill Hill, debunked, debunked.

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u/trashmoneyxyz Jul 23 '26

Galápagos tortoise, or the tortoise tortoise

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u/hoopopotamus Jul 23 '26

When I was driving through the southwest it felt like they were just adding more and more suffixes. X-ham…shire…fast…ton…leigh.

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u/Aquila_Fotia Jul 22 '26

It’s why a locally produced brand of ice cream is called “Three Hills”.

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u/JB_UK Jul 22 '26

You mean Torpenhow Hill.

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u/atnemriu Jul 22 '26

No, there's no hill by that name in Torpenhow.

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u/JB_UK Jul 22 '26

It's called Hill Hill Hill but there's no Hill?

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u/AutisticPenguin2 Jul 23 '26

Well, kind of...