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55 Creepy Unsolved Mysteries That Live Rent-Free In Internet Users’ Heads
Sometimes you feel like there’s nothing new to learn and that everything that matters has long been answered. All it takes is a few minutes online to realize just how wrong that statement is. The world is full of bizarre mysteries that infuriatingly refuse to be solved.
We’re featuring the biggest and creepiest mysteries, from the popular and aptly named ‘Mystery’ community, to give your brain a workout and send chills down your spine. Ready to awaken your inner Sherlock Holmes?
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#1
Five Children Vanished During A House Fire In 1945. Their Parents Spent The Rest Of Their Lives Believing They Survived. What Actually Happened To The Sodder Children?
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 weeks ago
From the various documentaries, it seems like some of the kids wanted to get away, set the fire, and escaped. It's the only thing that explains the various inconsistencies, such as the ladder having been moved, the lack of remains, the postcard sent years later that resembles one of the children, etc.
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#2
Shelly Miscavige, Wife Of Scientology Leader David Miscavige, Was Last Seen In Public In 2007. She Then Vanished Without A Trace
#3
The Disappearance Of Celina Mays: A Pregnant 12-Year-Old Who Vanished Into The Night
#4
A French Tourist Disappeared In Japan In 2018. Her Belongings Were Left Behind, And Her Phone Data Suggests Something Went Wrong Inside Her Hotel
#5
Diego Fernández Lima Disappeared In Buenos Aires 41 Years Ago. His Remains Have Just Been Found
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago
Diego's remains were found in May 2025, by contractors, under the patio at the home a former classmate. Diego was identified through a DNA match with his 87 year old Mother. The former classmate, Cristian Graf, is the primary suspect and had been indicted. Diego's mother, Irma, now has closure, after waiting 4 decades to know what happened to him. His brother, Javier, stated that his parents kept their old landline number connected in case Diego was alive and called. Diego and Javier's Dad, Irma's husband, was kịlled while cycling the streets of Buenos Aires looking for Diego.
#6
On March 31, 2006, Brian Shaffer, 27, Finished His Final Exam And Went Out With Friends For A Bar Crawl In Columbus. Surveillance Caught Him Outside The Ugly Tuna Saloona Talking With Women Then He Vanished
#7
In January 2012, Teachers At A School In Sydney, Australia Discovered 1.5 Litres Of Blood Inside A Children’s Cubby House
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago (edited)
Police know, through DNA testing of the blood, that the victim was a male child or youth. Despite extensive searches of missing person databases, they have not found any matches. All physical searches, including local wetlands, have not turned up a body.
#8
In 1984, Three Siblings Were Abandoned In A Barcelona Train Station — Their Parents Vanished A Year Earlier And Have Never Been Found!
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago
DNA linked the parents to a lot of major criminal activities and are believed to have changed their identities and disappeared.
#9
In March 26 1998, 13-Year-Old Tristan Brübach Left School With A Backache And Was Later Found Unalive In A Frankfurt Tunnel
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago
It was a horrific crime, please don't look it up. The case remains open. Tristan's Mum had passed before he disappeared, and his Dad passed never knowing who had mürdered him.
#10
Can We Agree The Roanoke Colony Mystery Is Completely Ridiculous?
#11
26 Year Old Australian Tourist Sally Contarino Disappeared From Las Vegas, NV On June 20th, 2026. There’s Been No Trace Of Her Since
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago
She mentioned heading out on a hike at Lone Mountain, with search efforts focused there. The Nevada Police K9 Unit tracked her physical scent from where she was last seen. The dogs followed her scent toward the mountains before losing it along a 20km stretch of road, leading family and Police to believe she may have accepted a vehicle ride to the trail.
#12
In 2018, 16-Year-Old Karlie Gusé Went To A Party. However, In The Early Morning Hours, Karlie Disappeared From Her Home And Has Not Been Seen Since
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago
Karlie left her home in the pre-dawn hours without her phone, shoes or any personal belongings. Witnesses later reported seeing a young woman matching her description, walking barefoot and disoriented near US Highway 6 and Sierra View Road. Despite multi day air and ground searches, Karlie has not been found.
#13
In 2001, 17-Year-Old Alissa Turney Vanished After Leaving School Early In Phoenix. Her Phone, Money, And Backpack Were Found At Home, But She Never Returned
Megalodon Meg 2 weeks ago
Not a mystery about who did it if you look at the evidence and listen to her sister. It was her step/adoptive dad. He was an a*****e, disgusting creep.
#14
A 4 Year Old Boy Vanished From A Remote Australian Sheep Station After Being Left Alone For About 30 Minutes. Months Later Police Say Someone Who Lived There May Be Responsible
#15
In 1994, A Body Was Pulled From The North Sea. He Was 6'5", Wearing British Shoes And A French Suit. His Bones Say He Grew Up In Australia. 31 Years Later, Nobody Has Ever Reported Him Missing
#16
19 Month Old Shane Walker & 2 Year Old Christopher Dansby Disappeared From The Same Play Park Beside The Martin Luther King Jr. Towers Housing Project In The Space Of 3 Months
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago
Police strongly believe the boys were taken by black market baby sellers, abducted "on demand" to be sold to people wanting a child.
#17
The Last Known Images Of Peter Bergmann Were Captured On Cctv — His Real Identity Has Never Been Found
#18
A Humboldt University Student Plans To Go Camping With Some Friends, When They Arrive They Find The Campsite Set Up But No Trace Of Madden Or His Dog
cecilia kilian 2 weeks ago
Matilda came back 4 days later, but was too dehydrated to help the search.
#19
On 5 May 2017, A Man Jogging Pushed A Woman Onto The Road On Putney Bridge In London. The Woman Was Almost Hit By An Oncoming Bus
#20
On January 24, 2006, 24-Year-Old Jennifer Kesse Disappeared From Her Orlando Condo Days Later, Her Car Was Found And Surveillance Captured An Unidentified Person
#21
On March 22, 2011, Disney Cruise Crewmate Rebecca Coriam Disappeared From The MS Disney Wonder, Having Last Been Seen Making A Distressed Phone Call At 5:45am
KitchenToto 1 week ago
And did the person that saw and heard her distress immediately called for help?
#22
In 1876, 14-Year-Old Karolina Olsson Went To Bed In Her Home In The Village Of Oknö, Sweden, To Remain Asleep For 32 Years, Baffling Doctors And Fascinating The Public
shg stewart 2 weeks ago
There was a disease probably caused by pandemic influenza called Encephalitis lethargica where people really did fall asleep and stay asleep for decades. Oliver Sacks wrote about them in Awakenings.
G A 2 weeks ago
Probably faked. How did she eat and use the toilet while 'asleep'? There were lots of these 'medical marvels' from that time that made people a fortune from mundane feats.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
Hate to break it to you, G A, but my dad was able to "use the toilet" while he was in a coma for 6 months - he just píssed and shít himself where he lay, and we had to clean him up. It's entirely possible for a person to go to the toilet while "asleep" as well (otherwise no children would ever wet the bed.) If Olsson was in some sort of coma-like state, her swallow reflex may have been present to some extent, especially if her brainstem had not been affected, and it would have been possible to slowly force-feed her liquids and other soft foods.
Load More Replies... The Redhead 2 weeks ago
Just weak...? Has to be fake. Having spent 3 weeks in a medically induced coma weak didn't cover it ( I was healthy & strong at 35). I couldn't hold my phone higher than an inch or two, couldn't raise my head for long periods of time, walking was out of question. The first "major" physically therapy I did was sitting up in a chair for 30 minutes; seriously everyone acted like that was a huge deal. I had to use a walker for a few weeks when I was finally back at home. I've fully recovered, although I've permanently some strength, & I get fatigued extremely easy now.
#23
On The Afternoon Of Halloween 1969, Two Teenagers: Patricia "Patty" Spencer And Pamela "Pam" Hobley, Left Their High School Together And Vanished. No Trace Of Either Girl Has Ever Been Found
#24
Something’s Just Not Quite Right In Virginia…
#25
Natalie Wood Lived Her Life Afraid Of Dark Water. She Disappeared Off Her Yacht In 1981. No One Can Explain How She Got In The Water
#26
The Tromp Family Case – 5 People Flee Their Home With No Phones Or Money In A Real-Life Mystery That Still Makes No Sense (Australia, 2016)
#27
Strange Package In The Mail
#28
13-Year-Old Scott And 8-Year-Old Amy Fandel Vanished From Their Alaska Cabin On The Night Of September 4th, 1978
#29
On July 16, 1996, Freelance Journalist Susan Walsh Left Her New Jersey Apartment To Make A Phone Call. She Was Never Seen Again.
#30
The Sullivan Siblings Case (Canada, 2025)
Elladine DesIsles 2 weeks ago
The most likely explanation is that they wandered into the woods outside their home, an area of dense forest and treacherous terrain, and perished in some accidental manner, probably involving flowing water. There are plenty of circumstantial details about the stepfather that make him look suspicious, but it is apparent to anyone familiar with the established timeline of their disappearance that he could not have harmed the children and disposed of remains without the knowledge or participation of their mother, and probably also of his mother. Given that the mother and stepfather separated immediately after, it is hard to believe that neither would have turned on the other or that someone's story wouldn't have changed if there were a guilty secret between them.
#31
Photojournalist Sean Flynn, Son Of Hollywood Actor Errol Flynn, Disappeared In Cambodia In 1970 During The Vietnam War. To This Day, His Body Hasn’t Been Found
#32
Three Babies Abandoned In London
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago
The three children are full siblings. The boys have been adopted and the girl's adoption has been approved. The three families have given a promise that the three children will have regular contact and face to face play dates as they grow. As yet, their biological parents remain unknown.
#33
Found An Envelope From 1937 In An Attic In San Francisco Full Of Mystery Black Powder, What Is The Powder?
#34
Just Got This Message On My Phone... What Is It? I Was Washing Dishes And When I Came Back This Message Was On My Phone
#35
A College Student Spent 13 Hours Sitting In His Car, Told His Parents He Was Fine — Then Vanished Forever
María Hermida 2 weeks ago (edited)
13 hours sitting in his car? Sounds like he had some kind of mental problem or crisis. He may have commited súícídé. Unfortunately, more common than people think.
#36
Today In The Slovak Media There Was A Report About Sounds Coming From A Grave In The Village Of Bijacovce
#37
This Photo Taken By A Western Tourist Shows Hundreds Of People On Top Of A Roller Coaster In North Korea. It's Still Unclear What Exactly They're Doing
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago (edited)
Removing rust and painting it after complaints from Kim Jong Un inspected Pyongyang amusement parks and was unimpressed with the state of the roller-coaster.
#38
Found In An Abandoned Backpack Along A Hiking Trail In California, Along With An Assortment Of Old World Maps From The Early 1900's
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
From a comment on Reddit (and as a Gen Xer, I concur): "This is the answer. I’m Gen X, and in our required typing class in middle school (grade 7 or 8, I forget), for an entire year I used every class period to create formal letters, contracts, pages from an instruction manual, and type out stories, all to prank friends, family, middle school teachers and administrators, and so on. I amused myself by leaving them lying around, having in-jokes with friends, and to record for posterity (I thought) my stories. I even got in trouble for taping an ‘official’ notice from the school board (that was actually quite crude when you read it) on the door of a friend’s locker. 100% this is from a typing class in the 1970s or 1980s and was a joke between friends that they’ve kept all these years. It might be nice to see if you can get it back to them using OSINT or something."
#39
Pvt. Gregory – Missing For Nearly A Year, Army Immediately Labeled Him Awol - Discovered His Remains In A Shallow Grave Just Miles From Base. His Car Was Found Nearby, Abandoned. The Case Remains Unsolved
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago
The case is not unsolved. Two gang bangers have been arrested and charged with first degree mųrder. Both are awaiting trial so information is pretty limited.
#40
There Is An Abandoned Subaru Near The Appalachian Trail In GA With Expired 2024 Maryland Tags And Personal Items Left Inside. The Driver Window Is Cracked
#41
My Gps Randomly Was Set To Guide Me To Arcana Imperii In Miami Beach Yet It Doesn’t Seem To Actually Exist Nor Did I Ever Search This. Googling The Name Only Turns Up A Weird Definition
Rusty’scate 2 weeks ago
Arcana Imperii is a defunct or historical business listing formerly tied to the address 9701 Collins Ave, Bal Harbour, FL 33154
#42
Stone Inside The Head Of A Lobster
Spencers slave no more 2 weeks ago
They are Gastroliths. They are specialised structures made primarily of calcium carbonate and they develop in the stomach walls of decapods. When a crustacean is preparing to molt, it strips calcium from its old exoskeleton to soften it, temporarily packing and storing it in its stomach in these smooth balls. Once the old exoskeleton is discarded, the decapod rapidly re-absorbs the gastroliths into its body, distributing the stored calcium to harden its new, soft armour. The fact that these were found intact in a lobster means it was probably ready to molt.
#43
The Haunting Disappearance Of Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon: A Decade-Old Mystery That Still Chills Me To The Bone
#44
Just Got Back From Egypt And Was Sorting Pictures. Phone Detected A Phone Number In The Hyeroglyphs ?!
#45
Found This Weird Brick Structure With A Rusted Over Metal Sheet On Top. I Can't Figure Out What Its Used For
#46
The Springfield Three – One Of The Strangest Missing Persons Cases You've Probably Never Heard Of
Megalodon Meg 2 weeks ago
Not if you're into true crime even a little bit. This case is in every "most mysterious disappearances" list out there.
#47
The Lost Boys Of Pickering
Bailey 2 weeks ago
Not much of a mystery. They had been at a party drinking heavily, and were then caught in CCTV breaking into a marina, where a boat was stolen. It was March and the waters in lake were near freezing. It's assumed they took the boat out, and at some point it capsized. Drunk and in the dark with no life jackets, they unfortunately stood little chance.
#48
Kyron Horman - 7 Year Old Missing From Portland, Or Since June 4, 2010. New Statement From His Best Friend May Shed Light On The Mystery
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
"In a new interview from this month, Kyron’s best friend Carson Lopez says Terri [Kyron's mother] came up to them that morning, telling Kyron he had a doctor’s appointment and they needed to leave right away. Kyron expressed confusion, telling Terri his dad hadn’t said anything about an appointment. Terri said it was a last minute thing and they needed to go. Carson says he definitely saw Kyron leave with Terri that morning. This contradicts Terri’s account of last seeing Kyron walking to his classroom. Kyron’s dad says Terri never mentioned a doctor’s appointment to him, but they’d been having issues in their relationship prior to Kyron’s disappearance. Kyron’s friend’s statement doesn’t automatically mean Terri was involved, but it is a firm statement of someone that was there that morning, and claims to have seen Kyron leaving with Terri." Terri has otherwise denied having anything to do with her son's disappearance.
#49
Nine Years On And Still No Answers In The Disappearance Of Elaine Park
#50
Creepy Book Found In Campus Library. The Book With No Ending (Mystery) Hoping This Post Can Help Figure Out What It Is Hoping Everyone Is Okay!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
OP on Reddit says: "So I found this book in my local library, just sitting out in a private room, I use this private room nearly every day. I will attach photos but the book is red with gold lettering, it’s professionally bound, has no author, no editor, no nothing, simply the title “a book with no end”. The majority of the book is blank however the first few pages are filled with red splatters, it looks like blood, but the consistency is more like ink- Which leads me to believe it’s an art project? The next ~ 10 pages are all covered in this red splatter, and there are very cryptic stamped sentences. It talks about sins and a book store, super weird. There are a bunch of ripped up photos of the same girl, they could be from a magazine but it looks more like printed out Instagram photos, the photos are also covered in the red splatter. The rest of the book pages are entirely blank."
#51
On Aug. 27, 1992, 13 Year Old Leigh Occhi Of Tupelo, MS Vanished While Home Alone During Hurricane Andrew
#52
Why Does This Phenomenon Occur? Has Anyone Experienced It Personally?
#53
I Think I Found Mel’s Hole 30 Years Later!
#54
The Mystery Of The Icon Preserving Been
Rusty’scate 2 weeks ago
Bees do not build or continue honeycomb over certain areas in photos—such as smooth, painted, or varnished surfaces like religious icons—due to practical physical and chemical factors rather than supernatural recognition
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AskMeAboutMyPoorJudgment 2 weeks ago
Some of these have interesting info ... IF you follow the link to Reddit, lol. Why are BP "writers" so lazy? Am I missing something here? Are there limitations to what they can copy before there are legal issues? FS, imagine having a job where you copy info from one website to another, and you still s***w it up.
Googoo Gaga 2 weeks ago
We had a young man from Montreal disappear walking up a mountain in Peru a few years ago (not winter mountain climbing) and he disappeared soon after a couple had interacted with him. There was no reason for him to go off the trail. Never found him. After 9 years, his dad is still searching.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 weeks ago
I want to know where the "Van Rooyen Six" are. We know he k!lled them, but no one knows what he did with the bodies.
AskMeAboutMyPoorJudgment 2 weeks ago
Some of these have interesting info ... IF you follow the link to Reddit, lol. Why are BP "writers" so lazy? Am I missing something here? Are there limitations to what they can copy before there are legal issues? FS, imagine having a job where you copy info from one website to another, and you still s***w it up.
Googoo Gaga 2 weeks ago
We had a young man from Montreal disappear walking up a mountain in Peru a few years ago (not winter mountain climbing) and he disappeared soon after a couple had interacted with him. There was no reason for him to go off the trail. Never found him. After 9 years, his dad is still searching.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 weeks ago
I want to know where the "Van Rooyen Six" are. We know he k!lled them, but no one knows what he did with the bodies.
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