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There’s nothing better than spending 6 hours binging a riveting true crime documentary that’s full of twists and turns. Truth really is stranger than fiction! But as satisfying as it is to find out that the estranged father did it all along or that the man’s jilted ex actually was innocent, sometimes, we don’t get all the answers. And that can make a story even more fascinating…

Redditors have recently been discussing some of the most famous and puzzling unsolved mysteries of all time, so we’ve compiled a list of the most intriguing cases below. Enjoy reading through and theorizing about what you think actually happened, and be sure to upvote the stories you’d love to see solved!

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained There is a ‘mystery’ that nobody thinks is a mystery. But personally I’m suspicious. There are a lot of missing Native American teenage boys in the area around Yakima Washington. Some of them where high risk but not all of them. At the start of the pandemic boys started going missing at like a 20% higher rate and then it calmed down after the pandemic. Some as young as 12 to as old as 23. The police don’t properly investigate. Just right them off as at risk teens that ran away. As of now they are not considered connected and there are more but you have to dig through Yakima county missing persons. I don’t know, I feel like so many serial killers get away with it because they target Native Americans (look at the center for missing and murdered indigenous women) and police in rural areas are often racist pieces of s**t. I think one day we are going to uncover what’s happening to these boys.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah they don’t properly investigate cases related to indigenous people and it drives me crazy. So many missing people

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained It’s nothing wildly infamous, but when I got my cat, I bought him a catnip cookie toy. He’d play with that thing for hours at a time. One day, it disappeared. We’ve rearranged the rooms multiple times since then and it’s nowhere to be found.

I know, it’s probably not what you’re looking for, but it’s the biggest unsolved mystery I know.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice to have a lighthearted one among all these grim other ones. It’s a nice break

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained How did reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, who was investigating the Kennedy assassination and had interviewed Jack Ruby, end up dead hours after appearing fine on the What’s My Line tv show? She was found sitting up in bed at home, in a room she didn’t normally sleep in, with her makeup still on and her Kennedy case file missing. It was never found and her death was never properly investigated.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well I can imagine it had something to do with Kennedy’s assassination…

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained I grew up in a very small town. 4 people lived there named Reggie, and all of them mysteriously disappeared within 2 years. Never solved, not even a clue. Never heard from any of them again.

9 years go by, someone named Reggie moves to the town. Within 30 days, they disappear, never heard from again. That was 18 years ago, still no one knows what happened.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained The Setagaya family murder, in which the Miyazawa family were murdered in their home in December 2000. The killer was confident, having left fingerprints and DNA evidence, as well as the clothes he was wearing, in the house. Sand was analyzed from the scene, and had sand from Edward's Air Force Base in California. Not only that, only 120 sweaters of the kind the killer was wearing were sold. Somehow, still not solved.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No cameras and cash sale would leave them with nothing. That idea that sales staff remember who they sell stuff to is rubbish. They forget you just as I am sure 80% of the time we forget them.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained Amber Hagerman. She was about my same age and was killed in the city where I grew up. The AMBER alert system in the US was named in her honor and has helped safely recover many abducted children. However, Amber's murderer was never found and the tip hotline for her case remains open. Source.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not American and had no idea it was called after her. I always assumed it was amber for the colour and other colours are for other things like a "green alert" was natural disaster, "red alert" was fire etc

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained The guy who killed a japanese family, stayed hours inside the house with the corpses using their computer and eating their food. he even took a s**t and didn't flush the toilet. he left so much dna in the house and the police haven't found him.

(english isn't my first language so excuse any mistakes).

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained Brandon Swanson - he was on the phone with his father late one night after a car accident, said “Oh s**t!” and was never heard from again.

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My neighbor was beaten to death but he never admitted he was beaten while fighting for his life in the hospital. Even the nurse said it was obvious it wasn't just a fall. The police never started a case. That neighbor was very elderly and a sweetheart. He was murdered and the murderer is still there living free. Nobody cares and I'm disappointed in everyone involved.     .

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Probably a family member. He wanted to protect them that's why he never said he was beaten.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained Jack the Ripper's identity. Victorian London's most famous killer. Inspires countless stories and fascination. Women brutally murdered. Lots of apparent evidence. And despite all this.....noone can say for sure or even largely agree who he is! I work near Whirechapel too.....crazy the history there.

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George Chapman, in my opinion. He fits best. Also, when he went to New York, the murders in London ended. Murders of street women in New York went up.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained Zodiac killer, mfer went around in a costume and wrote letters taunting the police and all sorts and they still aren’t sure for certain who dunnit.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently the FBI had a lead suspect for a long time, connected through partial DNA match, weapon possession, match with composite portrait and even multiple confessions to relatives and friends who testified to investigators but the lead was not followed. After a whistleblower contacted a group of "internet detectives" about the evidence laying dormant, the case was brought to media attention and reopened in 2023. The suspect -who died in 2018 not before dispersing his conspicuous gun and assorted weapons collection- is named Gary Francis Poste, a former army technician involved in multiple suspicious deaths (a car crash and the homicide of his wife in a domestic violence incident).

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained The disappearance of the five Sodder children. Five of the family’s ten children vanished in a house fire on Christmas Eve, 1945. Their parents and siblings escaped, but no remains of the other five children were ever found. The fire did not burn that long or that hot; remains should have easily been found of at least some of the five children. The fire itself seemed suspicious, and the family believed the children were kidnapped.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Years later there was also a photo sent to the parents which looked like it could have been one of the children. They never gave up hope.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained The Missy Bevers murder should have been solved a long time ago. Tons of video footage of the killer and their car, iirc.

ZeldaHylia: I can’t believe it hasn’t been solved. The killer is on video. I was always confused by why they said the killer looked female by the way they walked. Such a weird story. It had to be someone who knew her. You’d think someone in her life would recognize the person in the video.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The video of the person wandering around the church before she got there is chilling.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained When I was a kid, over the course of like 10 years, a bunch of severed feet washed up upon the shores of Vancouver Island.

It was almost always one foot, in a shoe, like 3-5 years apart.

Super odd

Edit: since Aug 2007, 20 different feet have been recovered in the Salish sea region alone.

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This is seen in a lot of places actually, usually near bridges and almost always in running and sport shoes. The most common theory is that they’re suicide victims who have jumped from bridges and as their bodies decompose their feet are protected by the shoes.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained A bit off the cuff, but the Cocolitzli epidemics. This illness broke in Central America after Europeans made contact in the 16th century....and it destroyed entire villages; one epidemic killed 10-12 million people, even more than smallpox in the area. Absolute desolation.

No one knows what illness it was. Was it a hantavirus? Smallpox? Salmonella? Viral hemorrhagic fever? Why did it always appear after a drought? Where did it go? We will probably never know.

My favorite podcast, *This Podcast Will Kill You*, did an episode on Cocolitzli, going into detail about Contact and colonization and how & why there isn't much historical record on this.

For those who don't like to sleep at night

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Latest studies basically confirm it was two different agents. First, Salmonella enterica; the bacteria DNA was found in the teeth of 31 skeletons throug MALT (metagenomic analysis), and it is known to cause paratyphoid fever, an illness that still kills about 30k people each year in places that have limited access to vaccine or antibiotics, or have abysmal health standards. It raged in the central american populations in 1545 in an higly viral form. Second, a proto-form of the smallpox virus (VARV). It is suspected to be one of many variants (among them, the common measles and smallpox) of the RPV, the bovine pest, that was endemic in Asia and Europe at the time. That specific strain does not exist anymore and has since been replaced by the form that evolved two centuries ago and spread worldwide before being eradicated by vaccines, but at the time for an unprotected population living in close quarters with debatable hygiene it spread quickly, sweeping through 1520s Mexico.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained The Black Dahlia
It just seems so suspicious to me. It’s not everyday that a body just shows up cut in half, but there’s no blood in sight. If you read the page about the case from the FBI, something just doesn’t seem right.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s terrifying, especially knowing the condition of the corpse…(don’t try to look up any pictures of it if you don’t want nightmares, please please trust me on this…look up a description if you want to satisfy your curiosity)

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained In MA there was a young girl named Molly Bish that disappeared from her post as a lifeguard. Her body was found 3 years later. 24 years later and her killer has never been found.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained Bible John. It's insane that everyone who knew him covered for him. That's the only way he could've remained undetected.

For people who don't know, Bible John was a serial killer in 60s Scotland who had an extremely unique appearance, and it's pretty insane he was never caught.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained The Dyatlov Pass Incident.

Im aware of the new theory that recently has been presented, as a slab avalanche. But there are still questions that I don’t know.

Why was there high levels of radiation on the Hikers?

Why did they not die from impact from the slab avalanche? Most victims of such an avalanche are typically killed. Instead they cut the tent from the inside, and ran away. Also, wouldnt a slab avalanche push the tent? They are characterized by hard blocky material (had to google this)

I don’t fully accept the idea, but I’m open to having my mind changed.

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The radiation has been explained. The victims lived downwind of the radioactive plume released by the Mayak plutonium plant explosion, two years before. One of them was involved in the cleanup efforts. Others lived in towns that sourced water from the Techa river, that in a spectacularly Russian fashion was used both to dump radioactive material and as a drinking water source.

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JonBenét Ramsey

12345_PIZZA: The ransom note, to me, makes it so the only suspects are family members. That thing is just so long, so filled with movie like details, and so specific with John’s bonus. Plus it looks like Patsy’s handwriting.

Even so, I can’t think of any theory that makes total sense. If Burke did it on accident, why’d they send him to the neighbors since he could’ve let something slip? If John did it, would Patsy really help him cover it up? And if Patsy did it, how’d John seem to know right where the body was?

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m quite convinced by the theory that the brother did it, especially as it was known he had a very violent side to him.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained Carlene Tengelsen. In 1972 she disappeared after stopping by Westgate Mall here in Macon, Georgia. Carlene’s mom got a phone call from her youngest daughter, who was at a day camp. She called because Carlene hadn’t picked her up. Mr. Tengelsen found the car later that night. It was parked across the street from the mall at a doughnut shop. At the time, the police didn’t take her disappearance seriously, and assumed she ran away. Years later the police department issued a formal apology and admitted they dropped the ball. When Carlene’s parents moved away a year later, they asked a neighbor if they could keep a phone with Tengelsen’s telephone number at their house in case she ever called. Carlene never called.

Carlene Tengelsen’s Disappearance 52 years later.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained The escaped prisoners of Alcatraz.

Themonsterkiddo: They most likely drowned. I’ve visited Alcatraz many times and that bay is treacherous. They used a makeshift raft at nighttime. The water in the bay is extremely cold, very choppy with strong currents, and San Francisco commonly has fog from night until morning. They probably got knocked over by a wave and died of hypothermia. If it was foggy they may not have even been able to see which direction the shore was and the darkness would only add to the confusion. It’s a super cool story but they most likely died in the ocean.

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Mythbusters proved that this was survivable. The FBI were REALLY focused on Angel Island, but the Mythbusters asked: why not aim for the Marin Headland, and use the current to get us there? And they did it. Plus, once escaped, it would be much easier to adopt a completely new identity, in that era.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained The murder of Elizabeth Barraza.

It was caught on camera and the getaway vehicle was clearly seen. The murderer was speculated as being a woman or man in a wig. Truly bizarre.

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A woman or man - they really narrowed the field down with that lil nugget of deducting.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained As a native of the Portland Oregon metro area, it's really sad that Kyron Horman's disappearance is still unsolved. He will be 21 this year. Disappeared at 7.

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The top unsolved mystery I think about is the disappearance of the three Beaumont children who went missing from an Adelaide suburban beach (in the state of South Australia). That was in January 1966. Nothing since. There's been theories of who took them and what happened, but no definitive answer and the case is still open. Their parents were left with no children and divorced in the following years. My heart ached that they never knew what happened, and for so many years up to their deaths, at 92 (mother in 2019) and 97 (father in 2023). Another mystery, though most Australians can surmise what happened, was the Australian Prime Minister (Harold Holt) going missing after swimming in rough ocean waters in December 1967. He was officially declared dead by drowning, though conspiracy theories abound.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained Sneha Philip, the doctor who was last seen shopping at a store near her Lower Manhattan apartment the evening of Sept 10, 2001, but never returned home that night. Obviously, we all know what happened the next morning.

Her husband and family hired a private detective and fought to have a review of her case done for several years before she was officially named a 9/11 victim, even though there is no solid evidence to prove she was at or in the WTC at the time either plane struck or when the towers collapsed. BUT there's also no solid evidence to prove she WASN'T at the WTC either. It's so crazy. In a nutshell, there are about 4 or 5 theories on what happened to her and all of them are evenly plausible.

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Michele Harris went missing September 11, 2001 from near Binghamton NY USA and has never been heard from or seen again. Many people think her husband used the chaos of the day to dispose of her. Possibly with the help of a good friend who owned many scrap and waste recycling yards.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained 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.

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They found it in 2001 with modern hydrographic methods. It's firmly buried below 15 feet of silt at 70 feet deep, possibly leaking radiation. There is still one other missing airplane A-bomb laying in the Philippine Sea, east of Okinawa -where a fully armed US A4 Skyhawk fell off the carrier USS Ticonderoga while maneuvering for departure- and two atomic torpedoes laying with the USS Scorpion south-west of the Azores.

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Brian Shaffer's disappearance. He was in a bar and afterwards disappeared. Surveillance photos never show him exiting, but a search never found him. I don't remember the in depth details though.

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It reminds me of this one (restaurant?) worker who disappeared on shift and wasn’t see. Leaving on any of the cameras and then, iirc, they were found crushed and decomposed behind one of the fridges or something. Excuse the lack of clarity, just going off memory!

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained I was cycling home from work one day, I was 18 or 19. (This is in Ireland in the early 1980s). I thought I saw my first cousin walking along the path on the far side of the road. (He was living & working in a town about 25 miles away). So I went over to say hello.

It wasn't my cousin. It wasn't even anyone I knew. It wasn't anyone I had ever seen before. But he knew me, knew my name, knew where I was from, called me "*Mr [Loneswimmer]*".

I got utterly flustered and confused and embarassed and pretended I knew who he was and that I'd come over to say hello. So then I couldn't admit I had no idea who he was and I left after a brief exchange.

That was 40 years ago. I still have no idea who that was. I never saw him again. I could remember his face & voice for many years afterwards, I would even dream of him, but I've forgotten those now, except a vague sense.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is quite easily explainable, I too know many young people just because I know their parents, but I guess many of these young people do not know me. Especially nowadays when people publish photos all over net it is quite easy to recognise some youngster and call him by his name. Back in the day, it was harder, but not impossible.

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained Where Josh Powell put Susan Powell’s body.

FunnyMiss: POS family is an understatement. It was truly insane what he did to her before and after her death. The poor social worker on the phone with another POS acting like she was overreacting and not taking the appropriate fast action.

I know 911 dispatchers are heroes 99 out of 100 times. The one time he wasn’t? A poor woman doing a job very few would ever want watched her charges die at the hands of their dad. I cannot imagine the anguish I’d feel after that.

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Josh Powell will go down in my book as one of the biggest POS's to ever live.

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Sea people. An entire civilization who destroyed a couple of empires and very little is known about them. It’s still not even known if it was on specific group. There’s theories, but nothing really confirmed. Who they were, where they came from, their motivations, daily life, religion, etc. Just an entire group of people who brought down the lives of thousands, destroyed established, seasoned societies and armies, and we know very little facts about them. They are literally considered a possible huge figure in the late Bronze Age collapse and there’s just nothing known for sure.


EDIT: I meant there isn’t a lot we know for sure. Lots of theories and speculation using a lot of random puzzle pieces, but not much definitive conclusions. Don’t know too much about it so I’m inspired to look more now lol.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is no comprehensive explanation, but some historically proven facts give a very good lead on the whole story. Let's follow the facts 1) In the late bronze age populations moved from Greece to current Palestine after a string of earthquakes destroyed Thebes, Mycenae, Pylos and several other major cities. 2) A couple centuries later, as documented by archaeological findings, droughts pushed several populations to move, among them said Greeks "expats", populations from northern Africa, Lybians and Nubians and other minor ethnic groups such as Teresh (prototurkish), Pelesets and Shardans. 3) The Sea People used wear Tereshi fashion, used African iconography, had greekish military practices, wore Peleset headwear and used Shardan blades. It's like the term "Sea People" relates to a loose cultural aggregation of such populations.

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Justin Richardson. He was in my class and went missing in 2001. It was the summer before 8th grade. The story I heard back then was just he went out to a woods party with some older friends and disappeared and he might have runaway to live with a supposed girlfriend he has in Chicago. It was a small town with not many families so it wasn’t uncommon to have friends older or younger so I didn’t think too much of it. Years later I got curious and read some of the news stories and it just seemed so much worse than I originally thought. The story doesn’t make any sense, three 18-21 year olds doing meth with a 13 year old. Two get separated so Justin and the remaining guy start searching for them covering well over 10 miles just walking back to town and then back to the forest to search more. Then they search the rest of the night and when the guy comes down off the meth he passes out for like 12 hours and when he wakes up Justin is gone. The original guys are found 15 miles south along the train tracks the next day. Then the theory somehow is Justin while his friend was sleeping decided to runaway to Chicago after being on [substances] all night walking around the forest? My guess is they murdered him and hid the body somewhere out in the forest which I think now is one of the leading theories.

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Ray Gricar. A journalist came close to solving it and was threatened by a very powerful man and dropped her investigation. What was he digging into and what happened.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was the DA in Centre County, PA. There is also some speculation that his disappearance had to do with his investigation of reported child molestation by coaches at Penn State University. This was several years before the Jerry Sandusky scandal came to light.

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If you are a Long Island serial killer fan, the whole Shannon Gilbert story is pretty strange. She was found dead in a field around Gilgo Beach after running around a neighborhood naked. She called 911 and said some weird stuff like they are going to kill me but investigators think she just had a psychotic episode, ran into the marsh land and died of the cold. Her death and body helped identify there was a serial killer in Gilgo Beach. He was eventually was caught last year and is now suspected as being one of the most prolific SKs in American history.

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The yogurt shop murders in Austin, Texas back in 1991. “The 1991 Austin yogurt shop killings are an unsolved quadruple homicide which took place at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States on Friday, December 6, 1991. The victims were four teenage girls: 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, and Jennifer's 15-year-old sister Sarah. Jennifer and Eliza were the shop employees, while Sarah and her friend Amy were in the shop to get a ride home with Jennifer after it closed at 11:00 pm. Approximately one hour before closing time, a man who had tried to hustle customers in his queue was permitted to use the toilet in the back, which took a very long time and may have jammed a rear door open. A couple who left the shop just before 11:00 pm, when Jennifer locked the front door to prevent more customers from entering, reported seeing two men at a table acting furtively.”.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went to high school with the three older girls. It's very sad. My then room mate (I was a few years older than the girls) and I were at Denny's that night drinking coffee and acting cool, and drove by I Can't Believe it's Not Yogurt, on the way home. There was a TON of police, ambulances and fire personnel there. I remember my roommate and I trying to figure out what had happened. It was a safe area of town and I had been to that shop dozens and dozens of times, as well as the mall and the pizza place. There's still many people in Austin who want answers.

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The death of Cindy James. She was harassed multiple times through phone calls, house fires, phone lines being cut, and dead animals being left outside her apartment. Even though she moved apartments multiple times, she was continually harassed, and police and private investigator couldn’t figure out who harassed her. Cindy suddenly died, even though she was happy the morning of her death and showed no signs of depression.

Here’s a great podcast episode about it.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being happy doesn’t mean you’re not depressed. She could have been happy cuz she knew it was all gonna be over soon.

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A red panda went missing from the Norfolk, VA zoo...never found a trace of it.

Also, Jon Bennet Ramsey murder.

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This dude got lost in the catacombs, and they found camera footage of his journey, but at some point he drops the camera and just starts to run.
As far as I know, nobody has found out wtf happened to him.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP could have been more vague by replacing "catacombs" with "somewhere" and "camera" with "thingy".

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Johnny Gosch paper boy who went missing during his route in west des moines iowa. he was seen talking to a police officer under the bleachers at a game and asked to go on his route alone. he was told no but went anyways. he was seen giving directions to someone and his dog was found attached to the wagon he used for the papers. no one knows where he is but it's suspected he was sold into trafficking and is in hiding now. his mother noreen has claimed to have seen him as an adult. it's so eerie. he was also one of the first milk carton kids i believe.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Etan Patz (1985) Etan Patz, first missing kid on a milk carton . New York New York State United States, 1985.

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IMO it's a tie between Jimmy Hoffa & DB Cooper. Hoffa's body was allegedly buried by the mafia (some say underneath either old Yankee Stadium or NY Giants field). Cooper hijacked a plane, jumping out with thousands of $$$'s. And all have to go on is a sketch of his face.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

come on we all know DB Cooper was Loki and he just went back to Asgard

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained The girl I knew who disappeared without a trace in 1989, when we were 12/13 years old. She was a good kid, not the type to run away or anything; most likely was abducted and murdered, by the same couple who killed a few other girls in the area around that time. She was walking home from school, and her keys were found later near a wooded area - then her backpack was found in a nearby creek.

FBI page here

And speculative theories here

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Jody huisentruit. She was a local news anchor who was kidnapped and presumed dead. There's a lot of stories from folks back then about police involvement and her owing a d**g debt. She was well liked so that story is seen as kind of s******g on her memory, but I've personally heard stories from several people that all kind of say the same thing.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember when this happened and I have thought of her from time to time over the years. Really sad it's not been solved.

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One that really messed me up when I read it was this old case of the Mattoon, IL, gasser. Someone was spraying some sort of noxious gas into people’s windows at night. It turned into mass hysteria. It f****d me up when I learned about it because one, it’s super creepy, and two, it violates your sense of feeling safe, just sleeping at night with your windows open trying to get some fresh air in a time before AC, only to be gassed by some creep.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It didn't turn into mass hysteria. It was a textbook case of mass hysteria form the very beginning. Someone starts claiming a wild theory, other people link unrelated events to said theory and create a reinforcing feedback loop. In no time the wild theory becomes a "fact" and more people connect their experience to the theory, losing view of the most obvious explanation. It's the way most conspiracy theories form.

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My friend was killed in a home burglary. She was a photographer and she had cameras in her house. They never caught the people who did it and the police haven ever said s**t about it.
Absolutely not one update since her murder and it’s been a while.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like I said before, unless you have a copshop with a cold case group and a fire under their buns, they won't do c**p.

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