Mysteries are great for the creative people. Curiosity is a humain trait. Resolving a mystery is answering questions and dispel the unknown. Mysteries fascinate. It can be a driving force: to find what happened, to create a credible scenario, to search for evidences, to recover artifacts, to find the place the mystery happened.
Mysteries push the creative people to offer an explanation. It is the stuff that can inspire the storyteller. Mysteries can be well know or more obscure. It seems to draw people, the mystery being popular or not.
What triggered my reflection was the mystery surrounding the plane called "l'oiseau blanc"/the white bird.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Oiseau_Blanc
Until recently, I didn't knew about this mystery. It have a part of romanticism, being in the beginning of the history of flight. There are other similar mysteries, like Amelia Earhart, Antoine de Saint-Exeupéry, ...
People want to know. It can be morbid but it is curiosity. Knowledge is power. A resolved mystery is dispelling the unknown, to let some light into the dark. If a mystery is unsolved, speculative fiction will do. I like those kind of mysteries. I don't know if I make sense. Mystery can be hard to define. There is that unknown that is attractive. To conquer this is to know. Mysteries aren't always solvable. Some unresolved ones had been solved. Others are to remain unresolved. This aura is attracting.
I know I am rambling. Maybe I should put some order in that and come back on it later on. I think the subject of mysteries was a bit more than I could chew, a bigger piece than I thought.
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