Conspiracy Theories That Still Secretly Haunt Society

On November 24, 1971, a man using the name Dan Cooper boarded a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle. He hijacked the plane, demanded $200,000 and parachutes, then jumped from the aircraft somewhere over the Pacific Northwest. After that, he vanished. Theories about D.B. Cooper’s survival have lasted because the ending is almost too clean for real life. Nobody was found, no confirmed identity was established, and only some of the ransom money later turned up along the Columbia River in 1980.