♪ (haunting intro) ♪
- (narrator) On Wednesday, November 24th, 1971,
an unidentified man would commit one of the most infamous aviation...
- Oh, is this the guy who jumped out of the plane,
and they never found him afterwards? - (narrator) His name was
Dan Cooper... - He looks scary!
- (narrator) That's the alias that... - Well, he looks terrifying.
I'd tell you that. - That'd be D.B. Cooper
when he robs the bank and jumps out of the airplane.
- (narrator) The mid-air heist was clearly something Cooper
had preempted, because the chaos began when he handed
a flight attendant a handwritten note and whispered calmly,
"Miss, you'd better look at that note. I have a bomb."
The flight attendant took a seat... - Oh my god.
- (narrator) ...glanced into his briefcase and quickly realized
that the threat was very real. - Wow.
- (narrator) What exactly did Cooper want?
Three things. First, $200,000.
- Well, damn. - Oh, I think he should ask
for more money than that, though. I mean, if you're asking for money,
what'd you stop at $200,000 for? That's all I'm saying.
- (narrator) Eventually, close to three hours after departure
on what was supposed to be a 30-minute flight, the plane landed.
Cooper received his demands,
released the 36 other passengers safely,
and then instructed the crew to take off en route to Mexico...
- That's insane to me. They just gave him $200,000.
- (narrator) After the plane took off a second time,
Cooper parachuted out into the abyss somewhere
over the Pacific Northwest, unseen by any of the crew on board.
It wasn't until the plane landed for a refuel at Reno Airport in Nevada
that police realized that Cooper was gone.
- They didn't even know he was missing?! Oh!
(laughs) That did not-- I knew that he jumped out
and dipped with the money, and they never found him.
- That's crazy. Somebody helped him do it,
though, more than likely, to just disappear,
because they were watching him ever since seeing-- "You got a bomb.
Now you gonna just let me walk through the plane
like (hums) doo, doo, doo, doo?" No! I think that
that little airline stewardess might've had something to do with it.
How sad of me. But somebody did!
- (FBE) So today, we have brought you guys all in to go over
some unsolved mysteries and hear your thoughts.
So, we're starting out with the infamous D.B. Cooper.
- Mm-hmm. All right! - (FBE) D.B. Cooper was an alias
used by a man who's known for one of the most infamous plane hijackings
of all time. So, he was able to get
a $200,000 ransom, which would be close to $1,260,000 today...
- Oh. Wow. Okay, yeah. I guess that is a lot of money.
- (FBE) ...and then parachuted into the unknown somewhere between
Seattle and Reno. - Pfft! That's a lot
of ground to cover. - (FBE) Despite an extensive manhunt
and an FBI investigation looking for his whereabouts,
he's never been identified or located.
But in 1980, nine years after the hijacking,
an eight-year-old boy was digging near the Columbia River
in Washington and uncovered three packets of ransom cash,
which were confirmed to be from D.B. Cooper.
But to date, none of the other 9,700 remaining bills
have ever turned up anywhere in the world.
- You're kidding me. That is the strangest thing
I've ever heard. - There's so many possibilities.
I would like to think that maybe he got stuck
up in a tree somewhere. But why would the three grand
be missing? - I know the theory is
that he probably died. But if someone is doing it
just to see if they can get away with it,
that's pure ego-driven. And I think there would've been
some type of confession. There's zero chance that someone
with that much ego is just gonna fly under the radar
and not be like, "It was me." - (narrator) A half century ago,
two former rodeo men went into the woods
with a 16-millimeter camera and stumbled on...
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ ...Bigfoot.
- Oh, I've seen this. Okay, yeah. - Oh, is this the Bigfoot?
- (narrator) And looks at the camera. Frame 352. That's become...
- Come on. - (narrator) ...the Bigfoot icon
for our culture. - The Big Foot icon.
I love her! Yes, icon! Go! - (narrator) For Bigfooters
around the world, the Patterson–Gimlin film
is not only real... - (amused) He's among us!
- (narrator) ...pieces of evidence of the existence of an undiscovered,
giant walking ape on the planet. - Really? They only have one picture,
one grainy video? - (narrator) The footage of Patty
was a clear track of footprints. - (grunts)
- (man) ...showed a very distinctive pressurage,
a push-off that comes about as a result of the very flexible midfoot.
- (narrator) This distinct characteristic is...
- That is weird. That is weird, the foot.
- (narrator) ...foot samples across decades and continents.
- Wow. - (narrator) Both Jeff and Cliff
admit that until there's a body, then the film and all the research
will be up for debate. - I mean, it was walking too much
like a human and not that much like an ape.
I'm too skeptical for this. I know people are like,
"Come on. You're ruining it." But... come on.
That did not look real to me. - Bigfoot is for sure real.
Mermaids are real. Aliens are real.
Bigfoot's real. It's all so out there.
You can't tell me it's not. - I'ma tell you the truth.
I think they already found the thing.
It's sad to say that they usually kill what they can't really conquer.
They kill it. You know, that's sad. I shouldn't say that. Mona!
- (FBE) Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch,
is a famous American-Canadian creature often described as a large, hairy,
giant ape-like animal, roughly six to nine feet tall,
and often spotted in the Pacific Northwest area.
According to some anthropologists, legends of the creature existed
in many tribes even before there was this name for it.
But it wasn't until the 1830s that the nickname Bigfoot was given,
leading this creature to become one of the most popular
pop culture phenomenons. - Oh, for sure.
I'm kind of happy for the species of Bigfoot.
The second someone comes across it and is able to capture it,
they're gonna kill it or they're gonna put it in a zoo
or something like that, and it's so sad.
- When people talk about ocean creatures
and the possibility of these amazing creatures
existing in the ocean, I'm a little bit more open-minded
of that, considering there's so much of the ocean we don't know.
But, I mean, the Pacific Northwest, the forests, we've kind of
figured it out by now. I would think that we've got it
pretty much charted at the moment. - My favorite part of that video,
'cause I've seen it a million times, is if you look at the eyes area,
I mean, it just flat looks like a mask. (laughs)
It's just this furry thing. It's like they literally
just cut this eye hole out of the area, so it's like...
(bell rings) - (narrator) Las Vegas,
September 7th, 1996. - What happened in 1996?
- (narrator) Platinum rap artist Tupac Shakur is there to...
- Uh-oh. - Oh, this is when he got murdered.
- (narrator) Shakur rode with his boss, Suge Knight.
Knight was behind the wheel, Shakur in the front passenger seat,
when witnesses say a white Cadillac pulled up next to them
at the intersection... - Okay.
- (narrator) ...of Flamingo and Koval.
Witnesses then say a gunman in the Cadillac extended his arm
out of the backseat window and fired a semiautomatic pistol
at Shakur from close range. - Ah.
- (narrator) Three hours before the shooting,
this MGM casino surveillance video shows Shakur, Suge Knight,
and their entourage attacking Orlando Anderson...
- I haven't seen that. - (narrator) CNN asked Anderson
about the accusation. - (interviewer) Were you involved
in any way in the death of Tupac Shakur?
- (scoffs) Who's gonna [censored] say it on TV?
- (Orlando) No, I was not involved. - (narrator) Anderson was shot
and killed months later in a gang-related shooting.
- Really? - (narrator) Many believed the murder
was part of an East Coast/West Coast rap war and a dispute between Shakur
and this man, a one-time friend named Christopher Wallace.
- Is that Biggie Smalls? - (narrator) Six months
after Tupac's shooting, Biggie Smalls came to California
to promote an upcoming album. - (snaps) Ayy!
- (narrator) ...interview with San Francisco radio station
KYLD, Smalls denied... - Wasn't he also killed?
- (narrator) ...any involvement in Tupac's death and seemed to want
to put any rap war to rest. - Yeah, I mean,
there's a million allegations with that.
I don't know how that case hasn't been solved at this point.
- (FBE) So, the last mystery that we have for you is the murder
of famous rapper Tupac Shakur, who was killed in a drive-by shooting
in Las Vegas on September 7th, 1996. So, when police first arrived
on the scene, when they asked who shot him, Tupac replied,
"[Censored] you," making those his last words.
- Bye! (laughs) Oh my god. - (FBE) So, there are a few theories
on who killed Tupac, but according to the USA Network documentary,
Unsolved, a Crips gang leader did claim to have been
in the car with Tupac's murderer when shots were fired,
but he wouldn't name the shooter due to street code.
- He's sitting on a bad boy piece of information. (laughs)
- Who knows? I mean, I'd like to think that it wasn't over
the East Coast/West Coast thing. It's just so sad.
And it's just crazy how we just don't know even still.
- It's a little less mysterious than the D.B. Cooper one.
This one is just unfortunate. And it's baffling to me
that on such a big street, someone could get killed,
and you never know who it is. - That's crazy, because it'd make you
think of another theory, like you know who did it.
Or it could've been like, you know, you guys already
know the game, how it goes, you know? You know. Will we ever know
the true answers to anything? Only thing we have to do
is keep living our lives the best that we can.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Adults React.
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- Do you have any theories about these mysteries?
Let us know in the comments. - See you guys.
- Hey, everyone. Lauren, producer here on React.
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