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Truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to unsolved mysteries. After all, there’s something about the untold, unanswered, and all sorts of unexplainable happenings around the world that deeply captivates us. We binge-watch tantalizing TV shows and documentaries, devour numerous books and podcasts, indulge in research and go down rabbit holes all because of our morbid fascination with the unknown.
History buffs and true crime aficionados love the thrill that comes with exploring the perplexities of these events. So when Redditor PitifulWay6371 reached out to 'Ask Reddit' and wondered, "What is the strangest unsolved mystery?", they immediately jumped to the comment section to share their discoveries with fellow members of the community.
From spine-chilling disappearances to unthinkable crimes, Bored Panda has gathered some of the best stories that may make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. Continue scrolling to read through these responses, but be warned — the eeriness-level in some of them is off the charts. Upvote your favorite examples, and if you know of any other unsolved cases that keep you up at night, be sure to share them with us in the comments.
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#1
The disappearance of Brandon Swanson.
He was driving home from a party and drove into a ditch. He called his parents and was on the phone with them as he was unsure of his exact location. He told his parents he was outside of a town and they drove over to pick him up. They were on the phone with him as they were driving, but were unable to locate him. He went silent after saying “Oh s**t” and was never to be seen again.
Don't you wish you knew 3 years ago
Whoa this one got me. I couldn't imagine how devastating for his parents.
LesAnimaux 3 years ago (edited)
I highly recommend you listen to the episode that 'Morbid: a true crime podcast' did about this case. (Episode 293: where is Brandon Swanson?) (edit: omg so many weirdo's hey everyone!)
B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 3 years ago
Yes, but he wasn’t in it. IIRC he left his glasses in there too, which is weird as heck.
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JJ(they/them) 3 years ago
this is one of the most facinating(and tragic) true crime trails to go down on Wiki. Theorys range from being accidently run over by a cornharvester-esque farm equitment, to alternare realities.
tragicaltales 3 years ago
My phone turned dark right after I read the “oh sh*t” part and I am terrified now
ispeak catanese 3 years ago
This might be a case for Adventures with Purpose. They're a dive team that find missing bodies in cars that have driven into water.
LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 3 years ago
They found the car and he wasn't close to a body of water
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Trisha Howson 3 years ago
That most been awful I'm so sorry for the parents I hope they find out what happened. I can not imagine. I am so sorry.
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#2
Asha Degree.. lived in my town :( In 2000, she walked out of her home willingly at age 9 in the middle of the night on Valentines Day during a massive storm. She was sighted multiple times walking down an extremely rural and desolate highway by herself in the pouring rain and then was never seen again. Her book bag was discovered miles away buried in a trash bag a year later. How was a 9 year old convinced to leave her home alone in the middle of the night, in a storm, to walk down a deserted highway? How has there been no substantive leads at all since 2001?
Lee 3 years ago
If you see s 9 year old walking down the street in those conditions you stop. Or at the VERY least you call the cops.
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Stacey Rae 3 years ago
If I remember correctly, someone did try to help her but she ran into the woods to get away
Nash Nopper 3 years ago
for me the question is - why did nobody asked the girl to come in or what she is doing out there! She was obviously seen by several people. Why didn't anyone help her?
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Speaking as a farm kid who grew up somewhere more rural than that ---- a two-lane blacktop road with line son it is *not* desolate or deserted. Route 18 in North Carolina is blacktop, two lanes, lines on it. So .... my guess is, she was running away from home, picked a storm b/c nobody'd think she'd go out in it, and was either hit (and subsequently removed to who knows where) or picked up and... Well, it's not good. And it's not that desolate if she's seen multiple times.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Maybe she was running away. You never know what goes in people’s homes. Still, no one even at least called the cops to report that a child was walking around in the middle of the night, in a storm, with her book bag in hand?
BadCat 3 years ago
If people witnessed a child walking alone down a highway in the middle of nowhere in a storm, why didn't they offer her help?
Anne Reid 3 years ago
Truckers did stop, but b/c they were going highway speed, it took them a bit to actually stop. She ran from at least one. Also, cell phones weren’t really a thing then, so people had to go find pay phones to call for help.
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lib 3 years ago
maybe it was a home problem? like abuse or she felt uncomfortable by her parents so much that she left?
Admiralshallbethejudgeofthat 10 months ago
There were zero problems at home.
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Sofie Carmine 3 years ago
I......I SHOULDN'T BE READING THESE BEFORE BED BUT HEY, WHOS GONNA STOP ME
#3
There's a star called "Przybylski’s Star" that's full of plutonium, an element that should not exist anymore in nature as it would have all decayed into other elements.
Even if you assume aliens, where did they get so much plutonium? And why would they use it to change the composition of an entire star?
Nothing makes sense about it.
SealOfDisapproval 3 years ago
It is a peculiar star all right, but not "full of plutonium". It is not certain if it has any plutonium at all. It does have a low amount of iron group elements and high amount of lanthanides. The short lived elements/isotopes, plutonium included, have not been observed directly. Another peculiarity of the star is that it rotates extremely slowly, 180 years for a rotation, if memory serves.
C Ronz 3 years ago
There are clouds of beer in space big enough for ever body on earth to have 1000 pints a day for a billion years, zombie stars that are the perfect temp to cook baked spaghetti, it rains diamonds on some planets and Jupiter shoots out cell phone signals. S**t, time doesn't even act normal in space, so a star made of plutonium doesn't seem all that odd to me for space.
Jyri Hakola 3 years ago
considering the amount of the stars we do know compared to stars we do not know anything about, this could still be just a common type of stars in the universe...
Ray Heap 3 years ago
That’s not the only strange thing about Pryz, Przy.... Cat ran over the keyboard star.
Randy Volz 3 years ago
For those wondering, the name is commonly pronounced sha-BIL-skee. (I grew up next door to a huge family of Przybylskis)
Bored Panda got in touch with Redditor PitifulWay6371 who was kind enough to have a chat about this thread and their curiosity about unsolved mysteries in general. When asked about what originally sparked this conversation, they told us the idea came to them simply because they were bored. "[I] needed new content to consume," the user said. "There was no big thought behind that."
But the way their post reached thousands of people who wasted no time in sharing stories with fellow members of 'Ask Reddit' caught them by surprise. "I'm a bit overwhelmed because I didn't do a big thing. I just asked the 'right question at the right time'. It feels weird when people like an anonymous question you anonymously asked on Reddit. I didn't do anything great, this isn't about me because they don't know me. I'm just another stranger on the internet," PitifulWay6371 told us.
#4
On December 4, 1872, a British-American ship called “the Mary Celeste” was found empty and drifting in the Atlantic. It was found to be seaworthy and with its cargo intact, except for a lifeboat, which it appeared had been boarded in an orderly fashion.
No one knows what happened to the crew or why they left the ship.
Chrissie Anit 3 years ago
I remeber that one theory claimed that they ate something that started hallucinations, like ergot.
Danielle Edwards 3 years ago
'its like the Mary Celeste in here': my dad, upon entering any room which is a bit quiet.
Gin. No tonic 3 years ago
Ah, yes, the British-American ship called "Nadezhda" from Vladivostok ⚓
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
BP just grabbing stock photos as usual. Super difficult to just go to google. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
Some sort of gas leak and they were worried about an explosion, and then were not able to get back to the ship? easy.
similarly 3 years ago
Apparently, a lot of the wilder stories about the Marie Celeste were written by Ambrose Bierce as a kind of practical joke.
Nicole Tomme 3 years ago
Do you have a link to anything? I am very interested if he did write something in this topic.
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Lenka Smetanová 3 years ago
the ship was actually damaget and sinked a bit because of that. The crew most likely left the boat in fear of it sinking... The boat did not sink in the end and remained on surface. Unfortunatelly, the crew probably died on that lifeboat as they've never been found.
PBRStreetGang 1 year ago
They also found a long line attached to the stern. Some of the cargo was giving off noxious fumes and the captain ordered the crew into a life boat that would trail along behind the ship until they reached nearer to land. But the line became untied and the ship sailed away, leaving them in their lifeboat in the middle of the ocean.
#5
I always thought the mysterious green children from Woolpit was interesting. The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen. The children, brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in an unknown language and would eat only raw broad beans. Eventually, they learned to eat other food and lost their green colour, but the boy was sickly and died soon after his sister was baptized. The girl adjusted to her new life, but she was considered to be "rather loose and wanton in her conduct".[2] After she learned to speak English, the girl explained that she and her brother had come from a land where the sun never shone. According to one version of the story, she said that everything there was green; according to another, she said it was called Saint Martin's Land.
I am assuming the kids suffered from some sort of nutritional deficiency but the story is interesting either way
Monday 3 years ago
A land where the sun never shone could easily just be underground. They could have lived in a cave system and been exposed to something that coloured their skin. We already know copper can turn our skin green.
Strawberry Pizza 3 years ago
Ooh, that sounds cool. That raises the question of a whole community of cave people, since they spoke a strange language...
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
I had to look it up b/c I knew I'd heard of it but coudln't remember it: Hyperbiliverdinemia. Rare, genetic, green skin, and in taht day and age, she and her brother could well have bene kept "away" from the world by family out of fear. Also called "green jaundice", which is way easier ot say and type.
Annabeth Chase 3 years ago
According to Horrid Histories, the children were from another country, that's why they didn't speak English, they had gotten lost but their parents dyed clothes for a living, and their skin was green from the dye
BadCat 3 years ago
I've heard explanations about them having a deficiency in vitamins and too much of one green food, as they only wanted to eat green beans. The boy died after they were both baptized and told their story. It wasn't that the sun never rose on the land they lived on, it sounds as though they lived way further north, where during winter months it could be night all the time. They still knew what the sun was.
Gin. No tonic 3 years ago
Have you ever seen a golden retriever that's rolled in fresh cut grass? It became green retriever. Maybe something similar here?
#6
The gelatinous blobs that rained from the sky in Oakville Washington 6 times over a span of three weeks.
Not only did no one know where they came from or what they were, they discovered the blobs shared similar DNA with humans and multiple people in the town that had close contact with the blobs reported feeling ill a couple hours afterwards.
The Washington State Department took all known samples and somehow misplaced them.
edit: the blobs contained similar white blood cells as humans not similar DNA
MonkeyInTheMiddle 3 years ago
As a Washingtonian, I can confirm our state has some wacky sh*t that happens sometimes
Daffodil 3 years ago
Yeah, but normal when we say wacky weather we mean going through all 4 seasons twice in one day, not blobby human imitators raining from the sky
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Bioweapon testing is my guess. Also, these blobs did NOT contain cell nuclei, so no, not white blood cells or DNA or etc. This phenomenon has happened various places over the centuries worldwide, however, so.... Just this instance, it being the 1990s, I'm guessing bioweapons testing.
Ruby 3 years ago
Makes sense, and since they didn't work/citizen got suspicious they "misplaced them" maybe,?
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Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
Just like the old Weather Girls song. "It's raining blobs! Halleluuujah!"
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
They did not have human cells of any kind. There were 2 species of bacteria found.
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The user mentioned that they are drawn to these stories because it’s entertaining. "Going down a rabbit hole is consuming and I don't have to think about my life. I believe there are more people out there like me." Guessing from the number of comments their post has received, the user seems to have a point.
#7
The disappearance of the Anasazi. It’s still baffling how an entire tribe can just completely vanish from the face of the world and only some traces have been found since.
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
Smithsonian Magazine mentions a couple of theories. One is that a drought forced people to leave their homes. The other is that warfare broke out, and many people died. However, the tribe didn't completely disappear. According to professor Dean Saitta, the survivors' descendants live on as members of the Rio Grande Pueblo, Hopi and Zuni tribes.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Simplest explanations. When your own population dwindles to a handful, for whatever reason, the smartest and safest thing to do is move in with friendly neighbors and become part of their population.
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The late 1200s saw a devastating drought in the western US. Not as bad as the ninth century, but... bad enough to get a name of its own. ("The Great Drought". Very original.) This corresponds roughly with the perido of the Anasazi no longer building new constructions. My bet is they gave up, scattered, and either were absorbed, conquered, or conquered, since everyone else in tthe region was suffering, too. Lot of disruption. Source: Brittanica
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
There was no mysterious disappearance. They suffered a cultural collapse, or rather a series of population declines starting about 900 years ago and continuing for about 400 years due to climate change and environmental stress. Many towns and villages were abandoned. the people survived in the large pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona. Some of these are known today as Taos, Jemez, Cochiti, Zuni, Acoma, Oraibi, and several others. The genetics show they are the same people. The oral histories confirm it. No people who study this have any doubts at all. Most people who study the “Anasazi” today call them “Ancestral Puebloans”. These people were not a “tribe” but a group of culturally related people in a area. It is not a “mystery” except in urban mythology and poplar fiction.
mulk 3 years ago (edited)
Thanks! and : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasazi_(The_X-Files) ^^
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Sunshine Daydream 3 years ago
Drought makes sense. It could have been an El Nino or La Nina year or two, wrecking the weather same as 2022
#8
Tim Molnar. Sends chills down my spine. Young kid from Florida, family oriented and in college, all the good stuff. One day (in 1984), instead of taking his usual route to school, he decides to drive 50 miles in the opposite direction. He stopped to get gas, and continued on. Four months after he had disappeared, his folks received a letter from an auto impound company in Atlanta, Georgia which said that he had left his car in a parking lot six days after he had initially vanished. They also discovered that he had pretty much emptied his bank account just before he left. On January 31, 1996, a show about unsolved mysteries aired, and Tim Molnar was on it. A guy named Steven Cull who had seen it called and told them that he recognized Tim's clothes as the ones he had found on a body frozen in an ice block lot in Neosho, Wisconsin 10 years earlier. Through DNA testing, the body was confirmed to be Tim’s. So tell me: how does this 24 year old kid who was incredibly close with his family end up 1,300 miles away from his home frozen in an ice block in bumf**k Wisconsin?
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
If I were 24 years old again, the main thing that could get me to drive 1,300 miles would be the chance to meet up with my romantic partner in Wisconsin and start a new life. Who knows, though? Poor guy.
Asta453 3 years ago
Wouldn't you have stayed in touch with your family though? As a family oriented person, I would not want to sever ties with my family. I would at least tell them where I'm going and try to contact them when I can.
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Aboredpanda 3 years ago
Something dramatic happened that he didn't tell his family about, but just made him leave. He might not have wanted them to know what it was. Or how he felt inside.
Judes 3 years ago
I have a friend who disappeared when we were about the same age, also around the mid-90s. His life was going pretty well, and then he vanished and no one ever saw him again (and no body). His parents found his diary and passed it onto a psychologist who said he was most likely bipolar.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
He left home on purpose. So, obviously, not that close to his family ----- he had some serious secrets. We all do.
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
As someone said above, major psychotic illnesses tend to show up late teens/early 20s.
Mistiekim 3 years ago
It’s like a much bigger ice cube. Since they are so much bigger there is room to put a person in, cover with water, and let freeze. Since we are talking Wisconsin, it might mean the body was out in the open before it got really icy\ cold and he was just frozen in that ice.
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Queen Z 3 years ago
This is what I think happened too. All his money gone & then he’s dead.
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Keerthi Vardhan 3 years ago
Love makes people do crazy things..maybe a secret love which ended very badly.
#9
The disappearance of an extra from Scarface. There's a scene in the movie where Tony and others are upstairs in an apartment while Manny is supposed to keep watch from his car. Manny gets distracted by a blonde girl in a bikini and starts hitting on her. It's a disturbing scene, but there's also an even more disturbing backstory behind something seemingly innocuous: the blonde girl, who was Tami Lynn Leppert.
Tami was a Florida beauty queen and model who, near the time of shooting the movie, went to a party and didn't come back the same person. It's like she changed over night. She became paranoid, began isolating herself, and was convinced someone was trying to kill her.
On the fourth day of filming, a character in the movie was shot, and she saw the blood packet get activated. She had a breakdown on set and began to hysterically cry. Tami eventually quit the film, and went back home. According to Unsolved Mysteries, her mother claimed there were good and bad days with Tami, but eventually, she snapped and began smashing the windows in their home and attacking family members, fearing they were trying to poison her.
Tami went in for a psych eval and showed no signs of drug or alcohol use. The following day, she and her friend went for a drive to the beach, and Tami never came home. The friend told the police they'd gotten into an argument, and Tami wanted to get out of the car, and he let her. She was left near Cocoa Beach, five miles from her home, with no shoes and her purse. She was never seen again.
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago (edited)
Tragic. She was only 18 when she died. Was it schizophrenia, which can show up at that age? Were drugs a factor? (There's no record of the doctor doing an actual toxicology screen to check her blood for chemicals.) You can't help but feel bad for her and her family.
Aboredpanda 3 years ago
Bit early to call it shizophrenia at that point, but a paranoid psychosis sounds accurate to me.
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Minath 3 years ago
She could have taken LSD and had a really bad trip, it would have been out of her system by the time she was taken to the doctors. If her drink had been spiked with it she wouldn't have been able to tell anyone that she had ingested it.
Mistiekim 3 years ago (edited)
Since the blood packet is what really set her off, something at that party traumatized her. Maybe she saw a murder or something even worse. As far as her disappearance, I would think the body would be recovered if she drowned. I think she took off and is still out there.
Na Schi 3 years ago
Simple explanation: she had to endure a night with a male date, who shattered her self esteem and threatened her if she ever would tell ONE SINGLE WORD. so she didn't. But got more and more agitated... till the point she was considered to be paranoid. But well, she payed the roll of of never being threatened so well, that folks thought she must have developed an mental illness. Making it even easier for her former assaultant to play her how ge liked... eventually taking her to a trip she never returned from. NOTICE: women are more than likely dying by a males hand they are close to, while men die by people they dont know. (Those might got a little watered down in the 2022 US, where its pretty likely to accidentally die by gun violence... however, this statistic stays still true for Europe!)
Inki 3 years ago
If by 'enduring a night with a male date' you mean brutally raped and abused, then yes. I agree. It makes a lot of sense.
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Ladytron 3 years ago
I would guess she had some type of drug (or trauma) at the party that triggered something else. They said she didn't but depending what drug and when she was tested it could have disappeared from her system by then. I know nothing of the story so I could be wrong but its not too uncommon for mental disorders/episodes to be triggered by drugs (or trauma).
Monday 3 years ago
It's a rather late onset for PANS, but it could be possible.
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Moreover, many devour stories about mysteries and evil because it lets them see the uneasy side of the human experience from the comfort of their own homes. Whether their life is too bland or they aim to be prepared for the worst, threads like these allow people to consume terrifying tales while staying completely secure. And PitifulWay6371 agrees with this line of thinking. "These mysteries (not urban legends) are a confrontation with the dark and uncomfortable things but in a safe space," they added.
But this does beg the question, though, why do strange unsolved mysteries grab our attention and don’t let it go? "We just learn that we have no control over the things that are happening and that the world can be a dark place," the user told us. "It's eerie to think about it but that's the truth. Anything can happen anytime and we need to deal with it."
#10
There was a girl in the 19th century who was murdered after a party. She went to a friends to get dressed, then they went to the party. It was on a particular holiday I don’t remember. She met a man named Thornton at the party and left with him. She was found the next day in a park, she had been r*ped and strangled. Thornton was put on trial but acquitted due to lack of evidence and it was never solved. The weirdest thing was that in the 1970’s it happened again, and both crimes were nearly identical. It was the same holiday, the same town, the girl went to a friend’s to get dressed and they then went to the party. She met a man named Thornton and left with him, and was found the next day r*ped and strangled in the same park, very close to where the first girl was found. Again, Thornton was put on trial but acquitted due to lack of evidence. That story is just weird. Also, both girls had the same birthday.
Admiralshallbethejudgeofthat 10 months ago
…I don’t curse, but that is right. Same bday? That’s just creepy.
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None of these are freaky coincidences. Females are treated as disposable and are the first to get r*ped and killed. Finding them at a party makes them an "easy target" and the assailant thinks it shows what a "loose" woman she is therefore the "type" to get hurt like this. Traditionally people go out to party on their birthday and Thorton is not a rare name.
Ivo H 3 years ago
She wasn’t alone at the party. She probably introduced him to her friend(s) and then left with him.
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Jason Leaf 3 years ago
Nothing there about the second (alleged 1970s) case, so I assume that part is an apocryphal embellishment.
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ThatOnePerson 3 years ago
Just get rid of Thornton already or put up some cameras on this place!
karen snyder 3 years ago
There seems to be a 100 year gap between these murders. It is not the same person. Most likely a copycat.
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Lillukka79 3 years ago
His name has a clue in to what he did, he didn't rape or strangel.
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Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
Time warp. Mirror reality universe. Multiple reincarnation. Super Voodoo Deja Vu.
#11
The 'Dog S*icide' bridge, also known as Overtoun Bridge in Scotland. According to VICE, approximately 50 dogs have died by leaping to their death off the 50-foot bridge since the 1950s, and 600 have jumped but survived. Some dogs are even reported to have survived the jump, returned to the bridge, and attempted to jump again.
There are tons of theories as to what lures dogs to do this, from the scientific to the paranormal. Some believe the bridge is haunted due to a man throwing his baby off the bridge, believing he was the antichrist. Others think a specific scent is drawing dogs over the edge, such as the smell of mink or squirrels who live under the bridge.
Admiralshallbethejudgeofthat 10 months ago
Yeah. Never going to Scotland. We’ll, unless it’s Hogwarts, that’s a different story
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Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
According to a local pastor, dogs hop up on the wall to better sniff the prey animals below, but the wall is tapered, so they fall off. It's always a good idea to leash your dog. Or not taper your walls.
I' Gomez & Morticia's kid 3 years ago
The answer is a tree makes this illusion which seems less distance than an actual height and many rodents and squirrels are found down there hence why poor dogs jump
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This is a nyth but if it was going on you'd think someone would fence up around the top or a net below.
#12
The lost A-bomb off the coast of America, which the US government said not to worry about in the 50's and tried to cover up. Was dumped in the ocean in an aviation accident and it's still lost to this day.
100x more powerful then what was dropped in Japan.
similarly 3 years ago
I have a theory. I remember when this was reported in the news. They mentioned the bomb being lost (true story), and then mentioned they found it (possibly true), and according to the news article, had left it there. It could be found (according to the article) because it was emitting radiation. The article came out before 9/11 when there was a lot of discussion about the possibility that terrorists might be trying to get hold of a nuclear weapon. My theory is that the article was a fake, a "hook" designed to entice potential terrorists to look for the bomb. Just leave a satellite in orbit above and use cameras etc to track who comes looking, then follow them and see where they go. Around the same time, there were articles about Russian military selling "suitcase" nukes to gangsters, only they didn't have the nuclear triggers. I figured it was the same deal. Offer triggers on the black market and see who nibbles.
Nimitz 3 years ago
They say not to worry about it because it wasn't an "A-bomb," it was a thermonuclear bomb. It takes about 6 years for enough tritium to decay for the weapon to become a dud.
Rost it 3 years ago
The high explosives are still dangerous as is the payload. If it goes off, it'll be a huge dirty bomb.
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CaptainDinosaur 3 years ago
Off the Atlantic, near Charleston, SC. But we've lost others too!
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One thing, however, that can explain this fascination with the unknown is our curiosity. As human beings, we constantly seek to explore and observe our surroundings to make sense of the world. We especially pay attention to the abnormal side of life. As Dr. Jesse Matthews, a licensed clinical psychologist based in Chester Springs, PA, explained in our earlier interview, we are simply drawn to the dark and mysterious.
"We find human nature to be fascinating, particularly things we don’t understand like organized crime, cults, or conspiracies. And of course, this applies to things other than humans, like Bigfoot, aliens, ghosts, demon possession, or the Bermuda Triangle," he told Bored Panda.
#13
Probably Terrence Woods Jr.
He was a 26 year old production assistant on scene in rural Idaho with his crew filming a documentary about an abandoned mine in late 2018. The project was slated for completion in mid November but he texted his father early morning on Oct 5th 2018 telling him that he would be heading home on the 10th of October, cutting his stay short by weeks. Later that day when filming concluded for the day he was seen speaking to one of the miners who used to operate the mine when Terrence said he was going to go into the foliage to relieve himself. The Prod Manager thought this was strange because apparently he had been acting odd all day, so the Prod Manager when to check on him. When he did, he noticed that Terrence's radio was on the ground and suddenly noticed Terrence break into a full on sprint into the woods down small ledge. The manager tried to chase him but lost him in the woods shortly after trying. He returned to his crew and alerted the authorities, who launched a full scale SAR mission that's turned up no clues. The authorities noted how odd it was that he was able to run in such thick foliage. He has never been seen nor heard from again.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
A black man vanishes in Idaho while filming for a production company noted for treating people poorly. Yeah, I think Raw TV lied their a**es off about that day.
Strings 3 years ago
That's one of the problems: we rely on witness testimony, which is notoriously unreliable
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Henry Shane 3 years ago
He went to relieve himself , yet was followed. He was running but authorities were surprised he could run in such thick foliage. Why was anyone going to look for him when he went pee, if he went and ran right away that much mean he was check on right after he left, not after a decent amount of time...so why was he being checked on that fast, if he was going to take off why did he wait until being seen, and not go right away....not like he actually went for a pee so was not reason for him to still be there..if a decent amount of time had been waited before checking on him..remember he only went for a pee which is normal no matter how he has been acting. the whole story sounds fishy and the guys was obviously killed by the guys who said he seen him run as seriously how did he see him..did he go to watch the other guy p**s? Because if it was a wellness check then it would not have been right away and he would not have seen him running as the guy would not have been waiting around.
#14
Who was Kaspar Hauser. A feral child found in 1820's germany, who dies a violent death after revealing that he had spent his youth in a darkened cellar.
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
Such a weird, haunting case. Some authors think he stabbed himself so that a wealthy friend would think he was unsafe in Bavaria and take him to England, but the plan backfired when he stabbed himself too deeply. I guess we'll never know.
Admiralshallbethejudgeofthat 10 months ago
Woah. Both were short and TERRIFYING. The posts, I mean.
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Lollipop Girl 3 years ago
I love Ashley Flowers!! She's awesome narrating
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RadiatorAnkleSpider 3 years ago
Did he have green skin and only eat broad beans. If so, mystery solved.
Makajha Banjjjak 3 years ago (edited)
I'm pretty sure I watched a movie about his life in enclosure. It was around 25 years ago, so don't remember the details, just that he was horribly mistreated
Gossameringue 3 years ago
Suzanne Vega's song "Wooden Horse" was my first exposure to this story
#15
Brian Schaffer, a medical student who disappeared from a Columbus OH bar without a trace. There is absolutely no footage of him leaving the bar on the cameras and he has never been heard of since. It seems as if he fell off the face of the earth. Crazy case
Debbie Barnes 3 years ago
I remember watching a TV show about this. There was film footage of him entering the bar, but never leaving. I can only think that something happened in the bar and it's been covered up by those responsible.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Or maybe he wanted to “disappear” and start a new life elsewhere. He could also have gotten extremely drunk and fallen somewhere no one noticed him or the smell. Maybe he died of alcohol poisoning inside the bar because they didn’t cut him off, and the owners covered it up. You never know.
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Shoe 3 years ago
I'm from the area. His fiancee called him for months with no response (as if the phone were turned off), then suddenly the phone became active for a few calls. Fascinating stuff.
Mistiekim 3 years ago
I wonder if someone just randomly found the phone and turned it on to make sure it worked, and stole it.
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PBRStreetGang 1 year ago
There was a similar case where a restaurant employee disappeared without a trace and they eventually discovered he had fallen into a hole and became wedged between the walls. Brian's remains may be discovered yet.
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
If he did not come out he was murderer in the bar. And was took out a deferent way or drugged and took out a different way. Because if he went in he should of came out.
According to Dr. Matthews, anything that challenges our understanding captures our interest. "This certainly explains the popularity of the true crime genre of TV, books, podcasts, and movies. This is a great outlet for many people to look at the darker side of life or to think about things we don’t easily understand," he added.
#16
The 169th victim of the Oklahoma City bombing. They found an additional leg in the rubble. DNA tests showed it belonged to another victim who had already been buried but with the wrong leg. The wrong leg had already been embalmed, so they could not get DNA at the time. So who did this leg belong to? All other legs had been accounted for in other victims. They found no other body parts, and nobody else had been reported missing. It was only until 2015 they could get DNA from the leg, but it's still classified as a John Doe. A few conspiracy theories had popup like maybe a second bomber that got caught in the blast but it's still unknown.
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
They know who the final leg belongs to, but the owner was buried with the mystery leg. So it's not a case of missing leg, it's a missing body.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Could’ve been someone at ground zero. Warning: Graphic Description Following! The person was in the exact spot where the bomb was when it went off. Their body took the full brunt of the blast, which could’ve detached their leg the knee joint, and the force blew it away from the rest of their body, which disintegrated (commonly referred to as “pink mist”). Sorry for the gross description, but that’s how similar stuff has been described.
María Hermida 3 years ago
Reality is gross, unfortunately. There's no way to explain these situations in a nicer way.
Load More Replies... Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago (edited)
An absolutely heinous crime. At the bomber's trial, prosecutors argued that the embalmed leg belonged to one of the other eight victims who were buried without left legs. The defense argued that it belonged to another bomber. There are so many DNA databases now that I'm hoping this will be solved in a few years. The family deserves answers.
#17
The "Wow!" Signal.
Astronomers have speculated for years that, if intelligent alien life were real, they would have similar or better understandings of physical sciences as we do. One thing that is universal in chemistry and physical sciences is frequencies emitted by certain atomic elements. Therefore, intelligent alien life would most likely have an understanding of these frequencies as we do. So, if intelligent life wanted to communicate in a way which was universal between planets (i.e. not a special language or numeric system), then emitting a signal at a certain requency would be an excellent way of doing that. As hydrogen is the building block of all other elements -- due to its simplicity and integral nature -- astronomers speculate that, if intelligent life wanted to communicate through frequencies, they would do so in the hydrogen frequency.
In the 70's, radio telescopes in the US were pointed up towards the sky collecting any radio data that came in. Most of the data collected are seemingly nothing, just random radio noise. However, in the early morning of August 15, 1977, one of these radio telescope centers began to get a TON of data. And, it was all at or near the frequency of hydrogen. And, the signal was strong and fairly consistent, meaning that it would be incredibly unlikely it was random radio noise or passing radiation.
Technicians monitoring the data were dumbfounded by the signal, and had no explanation for why it was coming or how it was so consistent. So, they just wrote "Wow!" on the data sheet.
We still don't know how such a powerful signal could have even penetrated our atmosphere and remain consistently transmitted for as long as it did. Some people believe it could have been military testing nearby, but, again, it would be incredibly unlikely such a consistent message could be transmitted through simple interference (plus, no military testing was reported in the surrounding area).
The same or similar data has not been reported since, leading many to believe that the single could have been an "S.O.S." signal from a dying planet, or just a passing coincidence that we may never see again.
Jan Ahlmann 3 years ago
“One thing that is universal in chemistry and physical sciences is frequencies emitted by certain atomic elements. Therefore, intelligent alien life would most likely have an understanding of these frequencies as we do.” Why do we presume that these “universal “ things truly are universal. We have no way of knowing for certain.
Lonely Leafeon 3 years ago
Exactly! Scientists are always looking for water so they can find life. But how do we know that there's not other life that doesn't need water? Like those aliens on Star Trek made of silicon (I'm a Trekkie and I'm ashamed I can't remember the name of their species) TBH I REALLY want space whales to exist.... One can dream...
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Chicken Nugget 3 years ago
Honestly, I’m inclined to think that it was actually another civilization. Radio waves have a relatively tight beam and if a civilization fired random beams of radio waves out, like what we did at one point in time, this is exactly what we’d see.
Marla 3 years ago
Alderaan '77 was an inside job. Artificial moon lasers are fake science. Just watch my 9 hours long YouTube video. Do your own research.
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DamnBecky 3 years ago (edited)
No, that was a research lab in New South Wales. https://bit.ly/3zr99ID The "Wow" signal is still of unknown origin.
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Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
www.earthsky.org " Astronomer Antonio Paris and his team have new evidence suggesting that the well-known Wow! signal from 1977 – long thought by some to be a sign of extraterrestrial life – is in fact a natural phenomenon and was generated by a comet."
#18
The case of the Somerton Man. This man was found dead on an Australian beach in 1948, and to this day, no one knows who he was or how he died. The case has baffled investigators for over 70 years, and it remains one of the world's most mysterious unsolved cases.
Nash Nopper 3 years ago
the case is closed! https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/27/somerton-man-mystery-identity-solved-identified-australia
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
Talk about "hot off the presses!" Looks like they just figured the case out last week. Thanks, Nash.
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Ellie McGrath 3 years ago
Been closed. They know who he is, what he was maybe in town for and probably why he died where and how he did
Anne McKinney 3 years ago
I feel like there are probably thousands of cases around the world with the exact same circumstances.
Amanda Short 3 years ago
Its not old news, it literally was only discovered who he was less than a month ago
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"This explains anxiety, though, which relates to us worrying about potential threats or perceiving things as threatening that may not be. Not everyone has an issue with anxiety, of course, but we all pay attention to our surroundings and make some effort to make sense of them. This may also apply to things we find to be mysterious, as we have an innate desire to want to understand." Dr. Matthews added that when it comes to less common things in life, our interest can jump to a whole new level.
#19
Idk if this has been posted already or not. 1986 "Missing Boy of Somosierra", Juan Pedro Martínez.
Kid's father is a truck driver. He is tasked with taking a semi carrying a tank of sulfuric acid from Cartagena to Bilbao, and brings his wife and son to make it a little family trip. When they pass through the Somosierra Mountain pass, the truck is reported as driving erratically, and then it crashes. The cabin is destroyed, both parents are killed in the crash, but kid apparently just f*****g *vanishes off the face of the earth*
The "obvious" explanation is he somehow survived the crash and wandered off, but the area was thoroughly searched, and no trace of him was found.
Some have theorized that the sulfuric acid dissolved his body. This wouldn't work either, because it would take longer than that to dissolve a body, and because it would have left traces.
There are a few unexplained and unusual details as well:
* Andrés was apparently a decent driver and in good health, and there was nothing wrong with the truck. Why was he driving so badly, especially through mountains with steep cliffs, with his whole family on board?
* The truck's tachometer recorded a number of unexplained starts and stops that didn't match the traffic patterns. What's that about?
* There were traces of cocaine found, not in the cabin, but inside the tank with the sulfuric acid. Why?
* Unverified reports claim that two people arrived at the scene before emergency services and removed a small package from the cabin. Is this true, and if so, who were they, and what are they doing?
* Almost a year later, in 1987, a boy matching Juan Pedro's description was reported in Madrid. He was accompanying an elderly woman, and they were asking about the location of the US Embassy. Was this Juan Pedro, and if so, who is he with, and why?
Chicken Nugget 3 years ago
I should probably stop reading this post since it’s so terrifyingly but I somehow also don’t wanna stop lol
Rylee Evergreen🦋 3 years ago
Same! If it makes you feel any better I'm legit scared too and I think a bunch of the rest of us are.........we can all regret these life choices later and be terrified together as a bp community lol *sobs*
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María Hermida 3 years ago
According to the police the tachometer records show the truck was either bring chased, or chasing another vehicle. The drug found in the tank was heroine, which suggests the father was, willingly or not, transporting drugs. Due to the accident the acid was spilled on the road but not on the bodies inside the cabin. I think the kid was kidnapped and the father crashed while trying to catch the kidnappers. It's terrifying, and we will probably never know what happened.
The Problem With Censorship Is ******* 3 years ago
What a sweet boy. I'm usually not too fond of children so I normally don't say things like this, but he seems like such genuinely lovely child. Such a tragedy.
Do i have to? 3 years ago
I'm not doubting how lovely he is but what makes you think he is a sweet kid?
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Julie Blaylock 3 years ago
I’m reading this at 11:15 at night, in bed, alone because the hubby is at work, and just had to turn the bedroom light on!
Inki 3 years ago
Drugs. The father stole a brick or two from a cartel and took his family with him to escape and start a new life with the money. The cartel followed him for awhile, found a place to drive him off the road, got their s**t back, but decided they couldn't live with killing the child so they smuggled him out of the country. Easy.
#20
"The Money Pit" on Oak Island in Nova Scotia is a pretty big mystery. In 1795, Daniel McGinnis saw lights coming from the uninhabited Oak Island (named that because, well, it's full of oak trees). He and some friends went to the island and found a large circular depression in the ground. So, they started digging and discovered layers of logs between the dirt at 10-feet intervals. Eventually, they realized they'd need to finance this excavation, so the Onslow company picked up where McGinnis and his friends left off. They reached a depth of 90 feet, finding layers of logs every 10 feet and layers of charcoal, putty, and coconut fibre at 40, 50, and 60 feet. It should be noted that coconuts — and thus their fibers — aren't native to anywhere near Nova Scotia.
At 90 feet, they found a greenish gray slab with strange markings amongst the oak logs. They appeared to be hieroglyphics, perhaps that of an ancient language. When they pulled the slab up, though, it triggered some kind of booby trap, which flooded the shaft with ocean water and made it impossible to dig further down. Many, many people and companies have tried to reach the bottom, but with no success.
Cat Palmer 3 years ago
A quick bit of internet research suggests that there is some doubt whether the pit is man-made - there are similar natural sink holes on nearby islands - and the slab of stone hasn't been seen for around a century and there were doubts that the markings were anything other than natural scratches in the first place. It definitely could be something mysterious, but it could also just be multiple generations of people getting overexcited about nothing much!
Bored Panda 3 years ago
I agree, it sure smacks of "urban legend". I believe that some people where out there digging stuff up and they found a slab, but that they were heiroglyphics, that there was coconut, and that the thing was booby-trapped are all very, very unlikely. Education and information was not nearly as widespread 200+ years ago as it is now. It seems far more likely that the coconut fibers were some sort of fibers the diggers simply didn't recognize, the "booby-trap" was simply a failure of the excavation allowing water in, and the heiroglyphics were simply scratches.
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Gia SDP 3 years ago
I think there is a TV show about Oak Island. I seem to remember watching a few episodes several years ago.
JLN 3 years ago
I know it airs on the history channel in Canada, there have been a few seasons, it was interesting at first, they've found a few 'mysterious artifacts' but largely not much else
Load More Replies... Randi Campos 3 years ago
I watch that show so the time... Part of the legend is 6 or 7 must die before the island releases it's secrets, the island has already had all but one die...
Kelly Kenrick 3 years ago
Watch The Curse of Oak Island. They are finding things, but so far not the Money Put
Dawn Welton 3 years ago
Haha, I live about 20 minutes from Oak Island...I think the entire premise, and that it excites so many, is one hilarious farce.
#21
Houston Tx Lovers Lane Murders.
During the summer of 1990, 22-year-old Cheryl Henry met 21-year-old Andy Atkinson through friends at Yucatan Liquor. Andy was home for the summer from Stephen F. Austin State University and the two started dating. On August 22, 1990, the two, who had been dating now for around two weeks, had planned a double date with Cheryl’s younger sister Shane.
Each couple went their separate ways to continue the night. Shane said she kissed her sister goodnight and told her “I love you” around 11:30 PM. It was what they always did. But when Shane woke up in the morning, Cheryl still wasn’t home. And over at Andy’s house, he also hadn’t returned home. Both families contacted the police.
A search was conducted for the couple and for the car they were in--Andy’s white Honda civic. In the early evening of August 23rd, Houston police located Andy’s car after a guard--who was doing a sweep of an industrial area-- called it in. It was parked in an isolated cul de sac on Enclave Road, an area often used as a Lovers’ Lane.
When police approached the car, it was clear something awful had happened. The windows were rolled down. The key was still in the ignition. The seats were laid back and a cassette was in the dash. On the floorboard of the passenger side was a woman’s shoes and purse. But most chillingly, there were fresh signs of blood in the car.
Just before midnight, the dogs led police to an area roughly 200 yards from Andy’s car. A golf club and three golf balls seemed to have been purposefully placed, pointing to pieces of a rotting cedar fence on the ground. Police looked under the pieces of fence, and found the body of Cheryl. She was face down. Her clothes had been cut off and tossed near her remains. Her hands were bound behind her back with hemp rope. She had been sexually assaulted and her throat was slashed with three gashes. Near her body was also a twenty dollar bill.
The search continued for Andy. The next morning, about 100 yards from Cheryl’s body in the tree line, authorities discovered Andy’s body. He was fully clothed with his back against a tree and his hands bound, like Cheryl’s. And like Cheryl, his throat had also been slashed. But the slash was so deep he was nearly decapitated. His watch and money were still on his person, ruling out the possibility of robbery as the primary motive. After 32 years this mystery is still unsolved
Mistiekim 3 years ago
When did FBI profilers come into use? When did they stop actively investigating and send this to a cold case division? I have many other questions about this one.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
No. The primary motives here were rape and murder. Thrill kill, possibly? Sexual deviants, likely.
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Whether it’s to gather practical information to protect themselves or simply enjoy going through cold cases, people can’t seem to get enough of mysterious stories that baffle them for years to come. Or, as Laura Cavanagh, a psychotherapist and psychology professor at Seneca College in Toronto, previously explained, "people like to get a little freaked out!"
Being drawn to the mysterious and dark elements of life "is really a cross-cultural phenomenon that stands over historical time," she told us. "Some evolutionary psychologists say that sharing horror stories helps to promote the survival of our species: We get to warn people how to avoid or survive danger without them actually having to be in harm’s way. We get to learn how to cope in the face of fear, in the absence of an actual threat to our survival."
#22
The case of Branson Perry in 2001 he was cleaning out a house and he told a friend he was going to return a pair a jumper cables to the shed and he never was seen again.
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
The wikipedia page goes into detail about a suspect in Perry's disappearance. The guy is a Boy Scout leader and Presbytarian minister, and he's in jail for some really hideous crimes.
Synsepalum 3 years ago
You are not playing around! I just read about him, and he's an obvious monster
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Debbie Barnes 3 years ago
How do you walk to a shed and disappear? How far was the shed? I have so many questions about this, but however you look it, still really sad.
Her Name Was Lola 3 years ago
There's a whole episode of No One Saw a Thing dedicated to his disappearance. Highly recommend.
#23
I wanna know about Cicada 3301.
Basically in 2012, an image was posted on 4 Chan saying “We are trying to find intelligent individuals for our organization. If you have what it takes the first clue is in this image.” It was an incredibly elaborate puzzle, and solving the puzzle led to another puzzle. And another. And another.
These puzzles ended up leading all around the world, in tons of different forms “including the internet, telephone, original music, bootable Linux CDs, digital images, physical paper signs, and pages of unpublished cryptic books written in runes.”
#24
The Phoenix Lights. On March 13, 1997, thousands of people — including the Governor of Arizona at the time — saw "a v-shaped light formation." The governor was a pilot, and when the government came out with their report claiming they were flairs, the Governor — once out of office, of course — called bulls**t. According to NBC News, he said, "I know just about every machine that flies. ... It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery."
Monday 3 years ago
Uh huh, or a new type of aircraft being tested in that formation. They may have been UFOs but they certainly weren't aliens.
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Elena Doyle 3 years ago
My dad is military, and he had a theory that it was just some young military guys goofing off with large lights, because he sure would have done that to mess with people. I mean, think about it, people see a bunch of lights all aligned in the sky, what are they gonna think it is?
PBRStreetGang 1 year ago
There were many sightings of the same UFO around NYs Hudson Valley in the early to mid 80s. Some ultralight pilots even flew in formation to mimic it but were found out. People said it was the size of a battleship - bigger - and several reported seeing a metallic superstructure if they were close enough. There was a book about this entitled "Night Siege" by J. Allen Hynek - it's well over $100 if you can even find it. Years later people reported the hoax had been uncovered, but the people who saw it especially up close refused to believe the hoax story. It was silent, it floated and was able to hover and turn by rotating in a stationary position.
tragicaltales 3 years ago
There are lots of stories similar to this one on the original unsolved mysteries! As long as you can sit through countless murders, there’s a few very unique and interesting stories like this one.
#25
The Catman of Greenock. He’s a peculiar, non-verbal man who crawls around on his stomach, is covered in dirt and survives through eating rats. There was reported sightings in the 70’s and 80’s. There was no hard evidence of his existence until someone recorded him on their phone during 2007. There’s lots of mixed opinions on him. Some swear that they encountered him. Others are certain that the whole thing is just a myth. But, a fair amount of people think that there might have been an original one and the guy who was spotted more recently is an imposter (or, it was a myth but someone pretended to be him for a laugh).
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
I suspect the origin of this story is beer. Lots and lots of beer.
CultOfBambi 3 years ago
This is about a more recent, but vaguely similar case: https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/13/somerset-gimp-suit-wearing-prowler-spotted-again-in-claverham-15252687/ Not sure about the cat man, but gimp-suit man is definitely doing it for a laugh and may well be fuelled by beer (or something less fattening, looking at his gimp-suit shrouded physique!)
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This one is absolutely true. He was a sailor (Greenock is an international port) who came in from somewhere else (not known) and lived in the area of Scott's Lane. He was homeless and lived on those streets hiding in back alleys. He got the name because of his ability to climb and being seen acting like a cat. He had been seen on many, many occasions and was a fixture in the town. Not a myth, just a homeless mentally ill former sailor..
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago (edited)
Someone should catch him and see if he'd rather be an indoor cat. Or at least clean him up at take him to the vet to get his ear clipped.
I' Gomez & Morticia's kid 3 years ago
Just reading this makes my skin crawl, I don't wanna see the picture. No, thank you.
Mistiekim 3 years ago
A city near me has The 80’s guy. He walks everywhere in 80’s clothes and spikes his hair. His outfits are very elaborate and he just walks around to different places. The Catman is probably trying to create the same kind of fame - being seen sporadically and the rat thing was just thrown in as part of the myth.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
If this is the greenock I'm thinking of then it's likely just a local who's had a bit much if the old Buckfast
RandomFrog(He/They️️) 3 years ago
Alr I gotta stop reading here. I get scared too easily and it is dark out side rn. I’ll finish in the morning.
Battery Pack 3 years ago
nooooOoOOOO now I won’t be able to sleep tonight
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#26
The Max Headroom incident. Basically there was a tv station whose signal was hijacked by a mysterious man wearing a mask and doing crazy stuff. It happened like two separate times and then stopped completely. No one knows who it was.
Tweetysvoice 3 years ago
The video is on YouTube and it's alot more creepy than you'd expect....
DuchessDegu 3 years ago
It's extremely creepy, I watched a few seconds and gave me nightmares for a month!
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Bored Panda 3 years ago
Oh, please! I did not find the video creepy at all. It was somebody wearing a mask and saying some only partially intelligible stuff (I saw something with subtitles, but it was hard to tell what a lot of it *meant*) and then someone spanking his butt. Big deal. The interesting part is, how did they do the hack to get that on air? Again, it's not creepy, it's just stupid.
Eunice Probert 3 years ago
In the UK Max Headroom became a drama series about who had murdered the chap who was behind Max. Later it was just "Max" introducing music acts.
#27
The Dyatlov Pass mystery.
LuckyL 3 years ago
The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: гибель тургруппы Дятлова, transl. "Death of the Dyatlov Group") was an event in which nine Soviet trekkers died in the northern Ural Mountains between 1 and 2 February 1959, in uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by Igor Dyatlov, had established a camp on the eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Overnight, something caused them to cut their way out of their tent and flee the campsite while inadequately dressed for the heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures.
Mark Karol-Chik 3 years ago
Not to mention the victims were all bare foot and there were slash marks on the tents.
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Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
Fascinating and sad. I believe the current theory that these poor hikers were taken out by a slab avalanche. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/world/europe/dyatlov-pass-avalanche-russia.html
Emma Starr 3 years ago
In my opinion none of the current theories explain everything. So much weirdness.
I' Gomez & Morticia's kid 3 years ago
It is kinda solved(?!) https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/engineers-frozen-animation-code-dyatlov-pass-mystery-1234614083/
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
I'm sorry, it's not a mystery. Something freaked them out ----- and it could've been anything ---- and they bolted to the forest without gear. Froze to death. Probably fled tent thinking "avalanche!". Injuries make sense for the circumstances, IMHO. I've read four books, seen two specials, spoken to others who have all kinds of theories, but in the end? Occam's Razor applies. Just no reason to think it was anything but panic leading to stupidity in conditions that kill without those factors.
Sent From The Slytherin House 3 years ago
I don't believe this is correct. Their clothes were found radioactive and some of the bodies were found dismembered. I researched this event a couple years ago, so I don't remember all of the details, abut that is what I do know.
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Music Panda 3 years ago
It gets weirder - some of their clothing was radioactive, the tents had slash marks made from the inside, and many of the bodies were dismembered in various fashions. I researched it for a project a while back.
Harvey Vostrejs 3 years ago
If I remember correctly, they may have solved it. They believe it was an avalanche. And the Disney movie Frozen helped solve it! https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/engineers-frozen-animation-code-dyatlov-pass-mystery-1234614083/
Lenka Smetanová 3 years ago (edited)
one of the possible things was avalanche, but the tent was actually been found standing and there was no sight of avalanche in the near area, just a bit of snow.... Another believable theory is, that wolverine, which lives in nearby forrests, get into their tent. wolverines releaseng stinky gass, and they can be really aggresive. Which can solve the mystery why they left the tent in such hurry.. What happened down the hill is just a big tragedy
Grammarly 3 years ago
There is a theory that the reason they weren't wearing enough clothes for how cold it was is that thing where you're about to freeze to death and suddenly you feel really warm, causing them to take off their clothes. Also, the last pictures taken on one of their cameras is something that looks like a yeti.
#28
The murders of billionaires Barry & Honey Sherman found dead in their mansion in Toronto by their realtor. They were found with their necks tied, fully clothed on their pool deck with no signs of a break in. Well known philanthropists, Barry was in the pharmaceutical industry and they donated millions annually to multiple charities. The police originally believed it was a murder s*icide and didn't pursue other leads.
The family launched a private investigation that found the evidence didn't support that theory and thus proved police incompetence.
As the public became more interested, it was discovered there was a whole family dispute over inherited shares of the apotex company. The Sherman's nieces and nephews had launched lawsuit over their right to inherit shares which they lost and most accepted.
The Sherman's children hired private investigators bc of the inept toronto police. It uncovered an unknown man leaving the property around the time of the murders.
The case is fascinating and is the subject of multiple podcasts, a book, and movie
W Smith 3 years ago
SUICIDE. THE WORD IS SUICIDE. GET OVER IT. YOU'RE NOT A SJW BY TRYING TO CENSOR IT.
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
I hear ya. I think that BP's software is censoring the word. Possibly to make the website more palatable to advertisers, but I don't know.
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Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Why is it murder s*uicide and not m*rder s*icide? At least be consistent.
Barbara Skolly 3 years ago
Police only thought it was a murder suicide for a very short time (like days). OP makes it sound like police closed the file right away. They assumed it was murder suicide at the start but continued their investigation and quickly discovered they were murdered. They were multi billionaires with family fighting for money. He was supposedly also very litigious and would never settle any lawsuit. I have read that he felt if he settled anything out of court it would make him an easy target. Considering he could afford the best lawyers I am sure he made enemies. His business also makes generic drugs and run trials on people so I am sure there were some unhappy customers or testers.
#29
The Yuba City 5. Five men vanished from a car on a snowy mountian road. Several months later the remains of 4 of them were found in the woods between the abandoned car and a Foresty trailer 20 away.
Monday 3 years ago
One was found tucked into bed in a cabin having died of exposure (I can't remember if it was the cold or starvation)...and yet the cabin had ample survival supplies. There was a generator for power and there was plenty of food. It should be noted however that all 5 men had problems ranging from intellectual disabilities to schizophrenia so we can't expect them to have acted logically.
Debbie Barnes 3 years ago
Maybe the car broke down, they became disorientated by an extreme drop in temperature and wondered in the forest. That's the only conclusion you could come to.. (Unless there were injuries on their bodies..).
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
And injries could be sustained as they're wandering around. Where's number 5? That's my question.
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Upstaged75 3 years ago
No, that doesn't fit the facts. The men were all intellectually challenged which is what most likely lead to their demise. But the circumstances are weird. And they never found one of the bodies.
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Ireland’s most beloved, Derby-winning racehorse, Shergar. Shergar was kidnapped by a gang on February 8, 1983. It's widely believed the IRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army) was behind it. They were believed to be seeking ransom money — Shergar was valued at £10 million — and allegedly ended up shooting him to death as he got too much to deal with. According to the BBC, though, little actual evidence was found at the scene, the gang never contacted them for ransom, and no one has ever officially admitted responsibility of the crime.
Raena Celis 3 years ago
This is a really sad story. The fact that his body has never been found is heart breaking. I have a soft spot for animals, they don't deserve being the victim of greed.
Lenka Smetanová 3 years ago
there were some infos about Shergar during that time. They evens end them some pictures. But it seem that those pictures was so low quality that they probably faked him being alive... Based on some people who contacted owners and police, it seems, that Shergar was drugged during the kdnapping but when they arrived at final destinantion he woke up and became agresive, and broken his leg so they shot him to death... The area the police working on is full of swamps all over, so most probably they burried Shergar body in some of those deep swamps...
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J Baker 3 years ago
Murdered for the insurance money? There was an American horse hitman who helped people commit insurance fraud.
Viola Yarrow 3 years ago
No. He was a stallion. They can be vicious. The drugs wore off and they couldn’t control him. He was a prized racehorse and would probably be worth more alive.
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Fabian Bernard 3 years ago
Probably ended up in lasagnas ( check for that meat scandal a few years ago in Europe)
Carolyn Stokes 3 years ago
Shergar went missing 30yrs before the lasagna incident
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Theo Blackwood 3 years ago
Murder Most Irish did a great podcast on the story of Shergar if anyones interested!!!
Admiralshallbethejudgeofthat 10 months ago
This needs to be upvoted so here you go :3
Load More Replies... Lenka Smetanová 3 years ago (edited)
The another reason, why Shergar died was probably because the owner in the end refused to pay the ransom- they did contacted the owner.... It was, because if he did, it would be a huge precedent for other criminals to start kidnappin animals for ransom.... He did not want that and he kinda sacrificed Shergar to protect other highly valued animals.
Donnie Mc00 3 years ago
he was recently found in the trophy room of Hibernian football club along with Lord Lucan.
Carolyn Stokes 3 years ago
Conspiracy theorists say that he was taken and used at stud at another yard
#31
The story of the Ourang Medan always gives me chills for some reason According to the story, at some point of time in or around June 1947, two American vessels navigating the Straits of Malacca, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, among others passing by, picked up several distress messages from the nearby Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan. A radio operator aboard the troubled vessel sent the following message in Morse code: "S.O.S. from Ourang Medan * * * We float. All officers including the captain, dead in chartroom and on the bridge. Probably whole of crew dead * * *." A few confused dots and dashes (of Morse code) later, two words came through clearly. They were "I die." Then, after that chilling message, there was nothing more heard of. When the Silver Star crew eventually located and boarded the apparently-undamaged Ourang Medan in an attempt at a rescue, the ship was found littered with corpses (including the carcass of a dog) everywhere, with the dead bodies found sprawled on their backs, the frozen (and allegedly badly-frightened) faces of the deceased upturned to the sun above with mouths gaping open and eyes staring straight ahead, with the corpses resembling horrible caricatures. No survivors were located and no visible signs of injuries on the dead bodies were observed. Just as the ship was to be prepared for a tow by the Silver Star to a nearby port, a fire then suddenly broke out in the ship's No. 4 cargo-hold, forcing the boarding party to hastily evacuate the doomed Dutch freighter, thus preventing any further investigations to be carried out. Soon after, the Ourang Medan was witnessed exploding before finally sinking.
Monday 3 years ago
This is a fun one, but sadly it is simply a story. There was never a ship named the Ourang Medan and the date when the Silver Star crew found it differs greatly between retellings of the story. This all supposedly happened in 1947...but there was UK newspaper article written about it in 1940 that said the ship "met its end' in 1939. And the source for that first article was an Italian man who "heard the story from an unknown member of an unknown rescue crew". The supposed location of the sinking varies from the Straits to the Indian Ocean to Fiji. It should also be noted that the "Silver Star" in the story here was built in 1942, two years AFTER the first mention of the Ourang Medan and it wasn't even named the Silver Star, it was called Santa Cecilia, she WAS called the "Silver Star" for one year (1946)...in 1947 when this supposed story happened she was named the Santa Juana. How this ghost story got so much notoriety I'm not sure, but it's just a story.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Wow! You know your stuff- good morning and thank you!
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Bodies on deck, facing up and with mouths open, suggests they were gasping for air. Sudden methane bubble from the ocean? Or maybe other big gas leak that suffocated everyone? This could also explain the fire and explosion.
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Man of Medan was inspired by this story. Those games are something else!
#32
The mysterious case of D.B. Cooper ? I mean there are a lot of theories but then there is a fact or two to question the validity of a particular theory. Its interesting but very confusing as to how a person could pull that off and leave no record despite a prompt investigation and intensive steps to mark/recover the cash.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Expedition unknown theorized the person bailed out much later in the flight, and from there? Skip to Mexico while the feds are looking over the Pacific northwest.
Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
"Um, excuse me, Miss? You better read that. I have a bomb." I just hear it in Shane Madej's voice every time.
Don't you wish you knew 3 years ago
There's a good doc on Netflix called DB Cooper Where are you?
Aahzmandus Pervect 3 years ago
If you would like to hear more, listen to the episode of podcast Death by Monsters about Cooper. And listen to other episodes as well, they're great!
#33
Zodiac killer. Kinda...
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
By God, you've cracked it! Crazy Dog Lady, I support you as the BP candidate for Director of the FBI.
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#34
Mohammed Atta (lead hijacker on 9/11 put almost 4 THOUSAND miles on a rental in 4 days right before 9/11. Where did he go and why. Follow up: this is on his Wikipedia page.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
driving around to collect his co-conspirators who were scattered around the country?
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
I've never heard a bout the 4,000 miles, but if people were driving in shifts, you can rack up a lot of mileage.
Greg Jeffcoat 3 years ago
I drove from Ventura, CA to Columbus, Ohio (2290 miles) in 39 hours by myself. So 4000 miles in 96 hours is doable.
FlickeringLight 3 years ago
Sometimes the answer is more ordinary than conspiracy theory. Maybe he knew he was about to die, so he wanted to travel the country? It may sound silly to some, but it's also plausible.
Jason Leaf 3 years ago
Yes, Occam's razor. He likely just wanted to see and experience as much as he could before certain death. You know, in case the 72 virgins promise turned out to be hogwash.
Load More Replies... RadiatorAnkleSpider 3 years ago
Maybe that crazy a*****e had a bucket list he wanted to complete.
PA Frizzell 1 year ago
A rental? And they don't know where he went? And the popo expects the public to swallow this load of bullquachi? Stop It!!!
#35
the location of Heinrich Mueller, the final Gestapo chief.
He was last seen in Berlin, roughly three days before it fell. At the time, he claimed to be fully aware of what the Russians did to POWs and that he had no intention of being taken prisoner. He most likely had access to foreign documents as the Gestapo leader and knew how to duplicate them.
He was sought after by the CIA and the KGB, but nothing of him has ever been discovered.
Bear Hall 3 years ago
The Mossad agent who literally tackled Eichmann on the street when he was kidnapped wrote he also saw Mueller a few years earlier. He followed Mueller's children traveling to South America where they met a man before returning home. The agent claims he got Mueller's picture only a few days later and recognized him.
Jyri Hakola 3 years ago
or direct hit from soviet artillery shell and blown to smithereens if the last sight had been days before fall of Berlin.
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
what is the relevance of this comment? Heinrich was german.
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#36
Carole Baskin's husband.
LuckyL 3 years ago
Jack Donald Lewis (April 30, 1938 – legally d. August 19, 2002) is an American missing person who disappeared on the morning of August 18, 1997, after leaving his home in Tampa, Florida.[2] The investigation into his disappearance has stretched from Lewis's Wildlife on Easy Street sanctuary in Tampa, co-owned with his second wife Carole Baskin, to land owned by Lewis in Costa Rica. No evidence of Lewis being murdered has surfaced, but investigators believe it is unlikely that he disappeared on his own.[3] Lewis left behind over US$5 million in assets. He was declared legally dead in 2002 on the fifth anniversary of his disappearance.
Sigrún Hlín 3 years ago
Wasn’t he known to be smuggling drugs in a small plane? Easy for a small plane flying low to disappear after a crash.
Eriu 3 years ago
people think his wife murdered him, the woman from tiger king
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Mark Fuller 3 years ago
How Donald Trump or Boris Johnson ever got into power. No-one will ever know...
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago (edited)
Idiots love them, and there are more idiots than we like to believe.
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
My cat? Joke! (She is named Black Dahlia, and loves to be talked about, however.) blanketdah...53ac67.jpg 
2x4b523p 3 years ago
A friend of mine disappeared 15 years ago. He had great relationship with his family, left home one day aged 23 never to be seen again. At this point I don’t think we will ever find out what happened to him. We don’t even know if something flipped in his head or if he was victim of a crime/accident. Just gone without trace…
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
it's been over 30 years since we saw a friend of ours from high school & grade school. She went to work, then...nada. No car. No trace. We think a crime, but... Just gone. You're not alone.
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Daniel O'Neal 3 years ago
The Sodder children. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/
Aahzmandus Pervect 3 years ago
If you like this kind of stuff, you should give a Death by Monsters podcast a listen.
Daffodil 3 years ago
I have a story like this from my hometown! (Although not very exciting) I'm too lazy to type it all out (and I don't remember most details) so I'll reply to this with a link.
Daffodil 3 years ago
Nvm no link, but here's a bit of an article about it (I'm putting "|" between paragraphs, apologies for bad formatting as I'm on a mobile device): "Another bartender who created a bit of a stir in the Bellingham community was Ron Genther. On Jan. 16,1960, Genther closed up the Bellingham Yacht Club bar after the Saturday night crowd had gone home. He called the police station to activate the burglar alarm and headed for the door. What happened when he tried to leave is a 50-year-old mystery. | The yacht club janitor came in around 6 a.m. Sunday morning to find Genther’s body on the floor in a pool of blood. Genther was stabbed in the groin and left bleeding to death on the yacht club floor, the result of what there seemed to have been a fight between Genther and his killer. (1/2)
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Back around the time I first started reading bored panda, there was a similar article, which led me down a whole rabbit hole of unsolved disappearances around the world. So much sadness and pain mixed with curiosity as theories are all that could be found. Being Australian, the ones that stuck out to me, that I had heard a little about before were the disappearance of Joanne Ratcliff and Kirstie Gordon from Adelaide Oval and the Beaumont children disappearance, also in Adelaide. If I remember correctly, one of the family members who was at the Adelaide oval with Ratcliff and Gordon appeared on the show You can't ask that, telling about that day and what happened after, and it was pretty chilling.
Megan Romero-Herman 3 years ago
For me Mikelle Biggs kidnapping in 1997 in Mesa Arizona is a big one.. it happened in the neighborhood of my high school and about 1/4 mile from my house and it made everyone super freaked out including myself
-Mellohi- 3 years ago
Susan Powell. My dad used to work at the same Wells Fargo as her. I am 100% certain it was her husband. My dad even told me she would tell coworkers "if anything happens to me, look at my husband." I mean, what kind of alibi is taking two young boys camping at midnight, in the middle of UTAH winter? There have been more findings of the case but sadly the husband killed the sons and then himself.
Mark Fuller 3 years ago
How Donald Trump or Boris Johnson ever got into power. No-one will ever know...
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago (edited)
Idiots love them, and there are more idiots than we like to believe.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
My cat? Joke! (She is named Black Dahlia, and loves to be talked about, however.) blanketdah...53ac67.jpg
2x4b523p 3 years ago
A friend of mine disappeared 15 years ago. He had great relationship with his family, left home one day aged 23 never to be seen again. At this point I don’t think we will ever find out what happened to him. We don’t even know if something flipped in his head or if he was victim of a crime/accident. Just gone without trace…
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
it's been over 30 years since we saw a friend of ours from high school & grade school. She went to work, then...nada. No car. No trace. We think a crime, but... Just gone. You're not alone.
Load More Replies... Daniel O'Neal 3 years ago
The Sodder children. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/
Aahzmandus Pervect 3 years ago
If you like this kind of stuff, you should give a Death by Monsters podcast a listen.
Daffodil 3 years ago
I have a story like this from my hometown! (Although not very exciting) I'm too lazy to type it all out (and I don't remember most details) so I'll reply to this with a link.
Daffodil 3 years ago
Nvm no link, but here's a bit of an article about it (I'm putting "|" between paragraphs, apologies for bad formatting as I'm on a mobile device): "Another bartender who created a bit of a stir in the Bellingham community was Ron Genther. On Jan. 16,1960, Genther closed up the Bellingham Yacht Club bar after the Saturday night crowd had gone home. He called the police station to activate the burglar alarm and headed for the door. What happened when he tried to leave is a 50-year-old mystery. | The yacht club janitor came in around 6 a.m. Sunday morning to find Genther’s body on the floor in a pool of blood. Genther was stabbed in the groin and left bleeding to death on the yacht club floor, the result of what there seemed to have been a fight between Genther and his killer. (1/2)
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Back around the time I first started reading bored panda, there was a similar article, which led me down a whole rabbit hole of unsolved disappearances around the world. So much sadness and pain mixed with curiosity as theories are all that could be found. Being Australian, the ones that stuck out to me, that I had heard a little about before were the disappearance of Joanne Ratcliff and Kirstie Gordon from Adelaide Oval and the Beaumont children disappearance, also in Adelaide. If I remember correctly, one of the family members who was at the Adelaide oval with Ratcliff and Gordon appeared on the show You can't ask that, telling about that day and what happened after, and it was pretty chilling.
Megan Romero-Herman 3 years ago
For me Mikelle Biggs kidnapping in 1997 in Mesa Arizona is a big one.. it happened in the neighborhood of my high school and about 1/4 mile from my house and it made everyone super freaked out including myself
-Mellohi- 3 years ago
Susan Powell. My dad used to work at the same Wells Fargo as her. I am 100% certain it was her husband. My dad even told me she would tell coworkers "if anything happens to me, look at my husband." I mean, what kind of alibi is taking two young boys camping at midnight, in the middle of UTAH winter? There have been more findings of the case but sadly the husband killed the sons and then himself.
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