Mystery # 101 - A boy and his father are injured in a car accident…
The Mystery
A boy and his father are injured in a car accident. Both are taken to a hospital. The father dies at arrival, but the boy lives and is taken to surgery. A grey-haired, bespectacled surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I cannot operate on this boy — he's my son."
Mystery Solved!
#101 The surgeon is the boy's mother.
Mystery # 102 - The glass breaks, and then the man dies.
The Mystery
The glass breaks, and then the man dies.
Mystery Solved!
#102 The man is an avid reader, who worked at a bank. On his lunch break, he wondered off into a vault to read, when nuclear holocaust occurred, leaving him the only man alive on Earth. The prospect of being alone didn't phase him since he had plenty of books to read and food to eat. However, one day, he tripped and broke his reading glasses, so he killed himself because he was unable to read.
Mystery # 103 - A man is running. He sees lights flickering and begins to walk.
The Mystery
A man is running. He sees lights flickering and begins to walk.
Mystery Solved!
#103 The man is running to stop the execution (via electric chair) of a death row inmate since new evidence has cleared his name. But when he sees the lights flicker, he realizes that he's too late.
Mystery # 104 - A woman goes to the doctor. Later that evening she kills herself.
The Mystery
A woman goes to the doctor. Later that evening she kills herself.
Mystery Solved!
#104 The doctor is a psychiatrist, and the woman is seeing him to help her get over her recent divorce. The doctor has been having an affair with another patient, and wants to kill his wife. So, he tells this woman that he needs to hypnotize her to help her get over her ex-husband. But under hypnosis, he convinces her to drive to his house and kill his wife. But the doctor is worried that she might remember at some point, so he calls her that night, entrances her over the phone and tells her to kill herself, which she does.
Mystery # 105 - A man is lying dead in a room. There is a large pile of gold…
The Mystery
A man is lying dead in a room. There is a large pile of gold and jewels on the floor, a chandelier attached to the ceiling, and a large open window.
Mystery Solved!
#105 The room is the ballroom of an ocean liner which sank some time ago. The man ran out of air while diving in the wreck.
Mystery # 106 - A woman buys a new pair of shoes, goes to work, and dies.
The Mystery
A woman buys a new pair of shoes, goes to work, and dies.
Mystery Solved!
#106 The woman is the assistant to a circus knife-thrower, who stands in front of a target as knives are thrown around her. The new shoes have higher heels than she normally wears, causing the thrower to misjudge his aim.
Mystery # 107 - A car without a driver moves; a man dies.
The Mystery
A car without a driver moves; a man dies.
Mystery Solved!
#107 The murderer sets the car on a slope above the hot dog stand where the victim works. He wedges an ice block in the car to keep the brake pedal down, puts the car in neutral, and flies to another city to avoid suspicion. It's a warm day; when the ice melts, the car rolls down the hill and kills the hot dog man.
Mystery # 108 - She grabbed his ring, pulled on it, and dropped it, thereby saving his life.
The Mystery
She grabbed his ring, pulled on it, and dropped it, thereby saving his life.
Mystery Solved!
#108 They were skydiving. He broke his arm as he jumped from the plane by hitting it on the plane door, and he couldn't reach his ripcord with his other arm. She pulled the ripcord for him.
Mystery # 109 - Mr. Browning is glad the car ran out of gas.
The Mystery
Mr. Browning is glad the car ran out of gas.
Mystery Solved!
#109 Mr. and Mrs. Browning had just gotten married. Mrs. Browing was subject to fits of depression. They had their first fight soon after they were married; Mr. Browning stormed out of the house, and Mrs. Browning went into the garage and started up the car, intending to kill herself by filling the garage with car exhaust. But the car ran out of gas quickly, and Mr. Browning, returning home to apologize, found Mrs. Browning in time to summon help and restore her to health.
Mystery # 110 - A man leaves a motel room, goes to his car, honks the horn, and returns.
The Mystery
A man leaves a motel room, goes to his car, honks the horn, and returns.
Mystery Solved!
#110 It's the middle of the night. The man goes outside to get something from his car, but forgets which room he was in. His wife is deaf, so he honks the car horn loudly, waking up everyone else in the motel. The other residents all get up and turn on their lights, and the man returns to the one room that remains dark.
Mystery # 111 - Two dead people sit in their cars on a street.
The Mystery
Two dead people sit in their cars on a street.
Mystery Solved!
#111 Because there was a heavy fog, two people driving in opposite directions on the same road both stuck their heads out of their windows to see the center line better. Their heads hit each other at high speed, killing them both.
Mystery # 112 - A man ran into a fire and lived. A man stayed where there was no fire and died.
The Mystery
A man ran into a fire and lived. A man stayed where there was no fire and died.
Mystery Solved!
#112 The two men were working in a small room protected by a carbon dioxide gas fire extinguisher system, when a fire broke out in an adjoining room. One of the men ran through the fire and escaped with only minor burns. The other one stayed in the room until the fire extinguishers kicked in and died of oxygen starvation.
Mystery # 113 - Three men die. On the pavement are pieces of ice and broken glass.
The Mystery
Three men die. On the pavement are pieces of ice and broken glass.
Mystery Solved!
#113 A large man takes the elevator from the ground floor to the third floor penthouse apartment he shares with his wife. After greeting her, he sees a man's watch on the table and assumes she's been having an affair. Thinking her boyfriend has escaped down the stairs, he rushes to the French windows and sees a good-looking man just leaving the main entrance of the building. Furious, the husband pushes the refrigerator through the window onto the young man below. The young man is killed by the refrigerator. The husband is killed from a heart attack caused by overexertion. The wife's boyfriend, who was hiding inside the refrigerator, is killed from the fall.
Mystery # 114 - Two people in a room alone. One looks around and realizes
The Mystery
Two people in a room alone. One looks around and realizes he's going to die.
Mystery Solved!
#114 The two people are Siamese twins. One wakes up, notices that the other one is dead, and realizes he will die soon, too.
Mystery # 115 A man is alone on an island with no food and no water
The Mystery
A man is alone on an island with no food and no water, yet he does not fear for his life.
Mystery Solved!
#115 The island is a traffic island.
Mystery # 116 - A man walks into a room, shoots, and kills himself
The Mystery
A man walks into a room, shoots, and kills himself.
Mystery Solved!
#116 The man walks into a casino and goes to the craps table. He bets all the money he owns, shoots craps, and loses. Now flat broke, he becomes despondent and commits suicide.
Mystery # 117 - Beulah died in the Appalachians, while Craig died at sea
The Mystery
Beulah died in the Appalachians, while Craig died at sea. Everyone was much happier with Craig's death.
Mystery Solved!
#117 Beulah and Craig were hurricanes.
Mystery # 118 - A man was brought before a tribal chief, who asked him a question
The Mystery
A man was brought before a tribal chief, who asked him a question. If he had known the answer, he probably would have died. He didn't, and lived.
Mystery Solved!
#118 The native chief asked him, "What is the third baseman's name in the Abbott and Costello routine 'Who's on First'?" The man, who had no idea, said "I don't know," the correct answer. However, he was a big smart aleck, so if he had known the answer he would have pointed out that "What" was the second baseman's name. The chief, being quite humorless, would have executed him on the spot.
Mystery # 119 - A writer with an audience of millions insisted that he was never
The Mystery
A writer with an audience of millions insisted that he was never to be interrupted while writing. After the day when he actually was interrupted, he never wrote again.
Mystery Solved!
#119 He was a skywriter whose plane crashed into another plane.
Mystery # 120 - A young woman is whisked away to a far off land, where she kills…
The Mystery
A young woman is whisked away to a far off land, where she kills the first person she meets. Then she teams up with three others to kill again.
Mystery Solved!
#120 The young woman is Dorothy, and the story is The Wizard of Oz.
Mystery # 121 - Three men are dead near a car.
The Mystery
Three men are dead near a car.
Mystery Solved!
#121 The solution is quite complicated: Joe went to his favorite bar for his usual drink, which is made with blue curacao. The bartender, Steve, is out of curacao, so he hands the empty bottle to his trainee, Alan, and tells him to fill it up with some more "blue stuff" from the supply in the back. Alan can't find any "blue stuff" in the supply room, so he assumes the bartender wanted some sort of windex. Since he can't find this either, he goes to a car parked out back and drains its windshield washer fluid into the bottle and hands this to the bartender. Unknowingly, Steve makes Joe his drink with the washer fluid, and Joe drinks it and heads off. When he reaches his car, he begins to feel sick, and decides he'd better get to a hospital. However, it has snowed and his windshield is snow-covered. He reaches to spray his windshield with de-icer wash, but it's empty since it was HIS car from which the trainee drained the washer fluid. But he's too ill to waste time cleaning off the windshield or allowing it to melt, so he pulls out of the space, but immediately runs over the bartender, Steve, who was taking out the trash. Joe gets out of the car to see what he hit, but he collapses immediately and dies, having succumbed to the poison. Steve is critically wounded, but manages to yell out for help. Alan hears his cries and runs out the back door to see what's wrong. But, he slips on a patch of ice, and lands on his head, killing him immediately. Shortly thereafter, Steve dies from his injuries.
Mystery # 122 - A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three…
The Mystery
A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Being an astute observer, he picks one door and lives.
Mystery Solved!
#122 He picks the third door because the reason the lions haven't eaten in 3 years is because they are dead.
Mystery # 123 - A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water…
The Mystery
A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Mystery Solved!
#123 The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
Mystery # 124 - A very rich man hires a poor man to clean one wing of his extravagant
The Mystery
A very rich man hires a poor man to clean one wing of his extravagant domicile. The poor man, wanting to impress his new boss, cleans the entire house. Soon after, the man quits his job.
Mystery Solved!
#124 The poor man is hired by Aladdin to clean his palace. Aladdin only wants the man to clean part of the palace because he does not wish anyone to enter his bedroom, where he keeps the magic lamp. The poor man meticulously scrubs the palace from head to toe, and rubs the magic lamp in the process. The djinn appears; the poor man wishes for riches, and no longer needs the job.
Mystery # 125 - He was killed because of poor eyesight.
The Mystery
He was killed because of poor eyesight.
Mystery Solved!
#125 He was a referee who made a poor call. He was burned to death by fans reflecting sunlight from their slick-covered game programs.
Mystery # 126 - Two men look at each other and start to argue…
The Mystery
Two men look at each other and start to argue. They make a phone call. One man leaves for home and the other begins to dig.
Mystery Solved!
#126 The two men started at opposite ends of the trench, digging toward each other. Instead of meeting up, though, they pass each other, meaning that one man dug at a skewed angle, or started at the wrong place. They call their supervisor, who tells them that one man was right and the other must re-dig his half in the right place.