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Website idea 10: Unsolved mysteries blog

It seems there are no decent blogs concentrated on unsolved mysteries. Sure, there are blogs about paranormal stuff but I'm afraid Average Joe doesn't find it very interesting. What I'm talking about are real mysteries: something curious has happened without doubt and we have only vague idea of it.

Try to search "unsolved mysteries blog" with Google and you find nothing relevant. However, I managed to find two unsolved mysteries articles from Listverse: here and here. Typically these kind of articles receive only handful of comments by readers. Just take a quick look of the comment count of these two and you start to realise why I'm writing about this topic. You can also compare the popularity of a query "unsolved mysteries" to a query "blogging" (the latter being without doubt very popular).

So, to me it starts to look like you could make a small fortune with the unsolved mysteries blog. You could use all the mysteries listed on those two mentioned Listverse articles. Additionally, I recommend at least these mysteries:

Wow! signal
Unindentified sound "Bloop"
Who really founded "the New World"
Foo fighter phenomena during WWII
What is hidden inside the mausoleum of the first Chinese emperor
Where is the Amber Room
Valentich disappearance
What happened to the Ark of the Covenant

Website idea 8: Photos of toddlers dressed as cute animals blog

OK, I promised to write about niches that young male geeks seldom take advantage, and therefore have less competition. Here is one: an overly cute blog where people can send photos of their babies dressed as animals. Although this excessively sugared idea almost makes me puke, never forget what we learned from Lolcats: you can make a HUGE amount of money with cute site. Does it really matter if you have to "pray to the porcelain god" a couple of times?

As far as I can see, there isn't a site / blog like the one I just described - at least I couldn't find one. To make this one really successful, I suggest you would make adding the images as easy as possible. Let a PHP resize the pictures, adoring mothers doesn't necessarily know how to do it. It would be also a good idea to write a script that enables people to drag and drop speech balloons over the picture they just uploaded.

The ads could / should be similar than ones on Lolcats. Maybe not the most valuable ones on Internet, but not bad either.