Why are so many people fascinated by mysteries? What features might make one mystery more fascinating than another?
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My guess is that being a (mostly) rational and social species, we like stories (as evidenced by out love of books, movies, and TV). A unfinished story or a story that does not make sense (yet) tugs at our desire to have the story wrapped up or understood.
People have a thought process which makes it possible for people to want to solve a mystery. Rationally, people will not consider solving mysteries if they were connecting to it in a way, which also makes people fascinated to solve a mystery. The reasons a mystery is termed a mystery is the fact that it doesnot have a truth to it, as in the point which converts a question into a mystery is that how many clues it has and why should it be solved.
Many people like mystery novels, the reason is that the story really connects with them some way or the other and makes it possible for them to research and also read further to find the answer.
A mystery which talks about crime is more fascinating that a simple mystery like where is my pen? The more the people connected with the story/reason behind the question being a mystery, the more fascinating the mystery becomes