Posts Tagged mystery

Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys Precocious Mystery Solvers, Meddlers

Posted by mistergroonk in Holiday, Television, Video on October 1, 2009

October 1st is here and what was once Ghost My Senses* becomes simply The Halloween Edition. All this month we’ll feature a post per day, every day. Each bit shall explore the monstrous, frightening, nostalgic, violent, Halloween-y or just plain creepifying corners of Internet life. At least they will be when we’re done with them.

Let’s begin, yes?:

The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries TV Show Opening Theme

As a young groonk, we partook of mystery novels. Encyclopedia Brown was the favorite. EB was also the only series available in the public elementary school library the law forced us to attend. This did not detract from Brown’s awesome in our young eyes.

Then came afternoon mystery TV. The Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys mysteries were one step above your basic Saturday morning Scooby Doo adventures. Three guesses whose ass was plopped on the living room floor in the middle of the day.
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The Case of Raoul Wallenberg Continues to Baffle

Posted by mistergroonk in Uncategorized on June 3, 2008

Raoul Wallenberg was the diplomat who would appear like a phantom in Budapest, handing out the Swedish passports that saved some 15,000 Hungarian Jews from being murdered by the Nazis. But Wallenberg had no such help himself on January 17, 1945, when he was taken into custody by the Soviet forces that had liberated Budapest. The Swedish diplomat was never heard from again, and Moscow would later report that Wallenberg had died in Lubyanka Prison in 1947.

But in the 63 years since his arrest, the Wallenberg family and generations of researchers have relentlessly pursued the possibility that the Swedish diplomat survived long after 1947, as a secret prisoner in the Soviet gulag system. “There are plenty of indications that he may have survived past 1947, and these deserve thorough examination,” says Susanne Berger, a German-born researcher who has spent 15 years exploring Wallenberg’s fate.

(via yahoo news, time.com )

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