Mysterious 'Hum' Drives English Village Mad

From murder mysteries to murky maladies

(NEWSER) - A lot of big news happened in 2011 ... and some of it only half-happened. The Atlantic Wire took a look at the most frustrating unanswered questions of the year, and keeps its fingers crossed that 2012 will bring new details. Highlights from its list of the year's 10 most nagging mysteries:

• What's the deal with the Long Island serial killer/killers? In the course of searching for Shannan Gilbert, police ultimately found 10 bodies. Gilbert's body, recently found, was No. 11—except she died accidentally . And authorities can't even agree whether one or two killers are responsible for the deaths. Are police anywhere near catching this guy(s)?

Police mystified by cleanly cut limb

(NEWSER) - A family visiting St. Petersburg, Florida, got a nasty surprise yesterday, when they stumbled upon a severed human leg that had washed ashore on a small beach tucked behind a waterfront neighborhood. The leg was pale, white, and shaven, bent at the knee and cut with eerie cleanness at the thigh and foot. “We don’t know the cause and manner of death,” the city’s top detective tells the Tampa Bay Times . “But obviously someone went to great lengths to dismember the body.” More»

How old is Catherine Zeta-Jones for real?

(NEWSER) - E! is blowing out 20 candles on its birthday cake this year, and it has one wish: To learn the answers to the top 20 nagging celebrity mysteries.

1. How old is Catherine Zeta-Jones really? (And Beyoncé, for that matter.)
2. Murder mystery No. 1: Did OJ kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman?

Speculation afoot around washed up body parts

(NEWSER) - Police are struggling to explain a string of washed up human feet found on beaches along one 125-mile stretch of British Columbia. So far five of the grisly, sneaker-clad appendages have been found, and all are right feet. “It’s a mystery,” said one Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. “We’ve certainly heard lots of theories - from the media mostly.” More»

German vet tells archaeologist, 'I shot down Saint-Exupéry'

(NEWSER) - One of aviation’s great mysteries has been solved: What happened to Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, the French pilot and author of The Little Prince, who disappeared in 1944. A bracelet turned up in the Mediterranean a decade ago, then a sunken aircraft. An archeologist diver, not satisfied to stop there, contacted hundreds of veterans before hearing, “You can stop searching. I shot down Saint-Exupéry.” More»