8 of the Most Mysterious People of All Time

5. D.B. Cooper

Ever heard of anyone who got away with the perfect crime? Sure you have. That’s D.B. Cooper. The only man in the history of US aviation that successfully hijacked a plane and got away with it. He hijacked a Boeing 727 en-route from Washington to Oregon in 1971 under the alias “D.B. Cooper”. He demanded for $200,000 (which is more than a million dollars today) and threatened to blow off the explosives in his briefcase if his demand was called a bluff.

Immediately the US government met to his demands and he then simply parachuted out of the plane, but was never seen again. The FBI spent years trying to find this man but to no avail, so his true identity still remains a mystery.