DB Cooper

It’s a basic human mentality that we carve even more, to know about the things which we possibly can’t find answer for. Scientists believe that this is the reason why we have evolved so much and rose above all other species. We stop at nothing and keep looking for answers which seems beyond our reach. But apparently, eventually we get the answers too. In the 14^th and 15^th century many of the curious renaissance scientists must have look up in the sky and asked questions, answers to which has lead us to know all about universe. We just need to think from a broad perspective and ask ourselves all sorts of questions. Isaac Newton was not just looking up in the sky, but he was looking into the vast universe with billions and billions of stars and planet, when he saw an apple falling from a tree. He wondered, out of whole universe why this apple came back to the earth and generalized theory of gravitation. So why do we restrict ourselves. Why do we keep looking through the window when we can open the whole damn door and get outside? 

Again, there are so many interesting and unexplored mysteries to talk about. Is there life on any other planet in the universe? Is time travel possible?......If you say no, Albert Einstein would like to disagree...Anyway, all this sounds too big. Let me share with you one interesting popular mystery I read the other day about, on the internet. “Mystery about DB Cooper” is one of the biggest mysteries of all time and the only unsolved plane Hijack incident ever in the History. This guy alone hijacked an American Boeing 727 in 1971. He asked for $200,000 in ransom in the form of $20 bills and four parachutes. Money provided to him was marked so that whenever he makes any transaction with this money, he will get caught. After getting this stuff, Cooper than ordered pilot to fly towards Mexico. Immediately two fighter jets started following this plane. Just 20 minutes after the take off, he jumped out of the plane with two parachutes and bag full of money.

This incident is then followed by world’s most expensive and long manhunt. But till date nobody could ever find DB Cooper, neither any traces of the parachutes he jumped with. No transaction was also made with that money. Nine years after this incident, an eight year old kid found a bundle of money near Columbia River around the area where DB Cooper had jumped. That money was confirmed to be the part of one provide as ransom to DB Cooper. Since then many conjectures have been put forth by FBI and other agencies about what could have happened to DB Cooper but none was proved true. Surviving after jumping from such a great height, with huge weight on the back seems unlikely to many. But then where is rest of the money and parachutes? Also many have claimed to know DB Cooper long after the incident. For instance, wife of Duane Weber, told FBI that three days before the death of her husband, he told her that he is DB cooper. She also told that, her husband took her to a picnic near Columbia River sometime in 1979, around the same time when that kid found a pack of ransom money near the river. Duane Weber also suffers through a knee injury which possibly could be due to the jump from an airplane. This is just one of the many claims made. Internet is inundated with DB Cooper.

Interesting isn’t it? So let’s unravel another one of the mystery. To begin with, why don’t we start with ourselves? There is so much we do not know about ourselves. Like what we want out of life, what we really want to achieve, what kind of person we are and what kind of person we want to be with. I am sure you will figure out something new about yourself if you ask these questions. A new thought will pop up in your head and you will realize that this is something you never knew. But we are so complicated and fickle minded that this exercise could take a while. However this long pursuit to find yourself and the bits which we learn in the process to do that is much more interesting than the final result. Nobody would have been interested in the story about DB Cooper if he would have been found.....So hop on and start exploring. Finding yourself is no different than finding DB Cooper, except that DB Cooper might never be found.