People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained

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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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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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.

OPMom21 , CBS Television Report

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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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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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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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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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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 4 months ago

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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WindySwede 4 months ago

read something similar with Mahatma Gandhi?

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BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago

Pretty sure it was the Loch Ness Monster. Nessie is an evil bastard.

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Michael Largey 4 months ago

George Chapman was a serial killer, although he poisoned all the victims we know about. The second Ripper victim was named Annie Chapman, but she seems to be no relation to George.

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SkyyCaramba 4 months ago

nah, this one was ted cruz too /hj

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ZuriLovesYou 4 months ago

Interesting.

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Stacy Jones 4 months ago

I like Francis Tumblety and Charles Cross, although I'm open to the idea that they were mostly unrelated/loosely related murders, a series of copycats, etc.

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Bob 4 months ago

My favorite conspiracy theory is the fact Gandhi was a law student in London at the same time

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María Hermida 4 months ago

Of course. As several thousand other people. Where's the evidence? "He was there"?

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The Doom Song 4 months ago

I read somewhere they thought it may be someone from the royal family.....

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Laura Hartman 4 months ago

I thought they figured out it was Lazlo Cravensworth?

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Bryn 4 months ago

There was more than likely one murderer. The "first" letter that was printed was actually made up. See the first chapter in "Murder in Plain English: From Manifestos to Memes - Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers by Michael Arntfield and Marcel Danesi

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Gozer LeGozerian 4 months ago

Still doesn't prove anything

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Bored something 4 months ago

This has puzzled me since I was a kid.

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nottheactualphoto 4 months ago

I thought it turned out to be Mr. Hengist. I could be wrong.

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T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago

I'm still confused about whether Mr Hengist was possessed or did the alien take his form...

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C scanlan 4 months ago

Ever watch the movie Time After Time?

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nottheactualphoto 4 months ago

Yes, and I liked it.

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Sharkfin6 4 months ago

The lead singer for Ghost has a pretty convincing theory about the suspect's identity.

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Hassel Davidhoff 4 months ago

What's the theory?

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Meagan Glaser 4 months ago

I'll always go with the theory from Amazon Women On the Moon....it was Nessie

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Hellcaste's Wife 4 months ago

There's a theory he came to the States and changed identities to H.H. Holmes. Timelines and details fit.

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Gozer LeGozerian 4 months ago

That has been debunked. Not the same

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Savahax 4 months ago

Horrible! And what not. But need this to be unsolved for some dark f****d up reason

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Wolf princess quinn 4 months ago

HH Holmes

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lonelyone 4 months ago

I like the theory that H. H. Holmes would have been Jack the Ripper...

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JammaCoast2Coast 4 months ago

I like the theory that Jack the Ripper was Edgar Degas, but now will have to look into George Chapman

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Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago (edited)

I honestly think Jack the ripper was a women and that's why she has never been found. Just my opinion. There is also a theory it could have been Herman Webster Mudgett (H.H. Holmes), but idk if I believe that one.

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Amy Manzanares 4 months ago

The murders began shortly after Gandhi arrived in London and ended upon his departure back to India. Coincidence?

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T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago

Wasn't it a guy named Sebastian who was found by the Vorlons, who then showed him the terrible depths of his mistake?

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jenjie.newt 4 months ago

There's a theory about Gandhi and his law school years in London

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Samsquatch & Monko 4 months ago

Plot twist: it was secretly a gang of all the suspects

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April Hodakowski 4 months ago

It was a Polish barber.

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April Hodakowski 4 months ago

https://www.science.org/content/article/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper

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Carman Davis 4 months ago

I believe the person that was close relative to the monarch at the time did it hence why it was never solved. They probably put said person in asylum.

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MagicJacket 4 months ago

H.H. Holmes is the killer, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

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سارا ناز 4 months ago

there was apparently a suspect who had extensive medical school training but was from a very wealthy & connected family & the detectives all were sure he was the killer but due to political pressures they couldn't formally charge nor name him right?

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T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago

Montague John Druitt maybe? After he died the murders stopped.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What's a mystery you can't believe is still unsolved?

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Charlotte A. 4 months ago

I wish more of these were written in the assumption that not everyone knows what the OP is talking about. And when BP does compilations like this I wish they'd add info to the unclear ones instead of just copy/paste everything.

27points

Eunice Probert 4 months ago

I agree! They assume that everyone is from the USA and knows about the murders.

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Stacy Jones 4 months ago

I'm kinda glad, I've spent the whole morning researching mysteries I didn't even know about. It's been a really enlightening morning. But I get what you're saying, these short entries don't give you a lot of information.

0points

Bryn 4 months ago

Google is a thing you know...

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Debbie 4 months ago (edited)

Madeleine Mc Cann https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdwijning_van_Madeleine_McCann And Natalee Holloway, although the last one is short of resolved: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/18/us/joran-van-der-sloot-natalee-holloway-plea-wednesday/index.html

13points

Aussiegirl 4 months ago

I thought of Madeleine McCann as well

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Shark Lady 4 months ago

The police/authorities etc often "know" who committed loads of crimes but, certainly in the UK, won't go to trial if they don't think their evidence can get over the 'beyond reasonable doubt' threshold. It sucks and a lot of time the police are blamed, but if the evidence isn't there, what can they do. If a suspect chooses to do a "no comment" interview, which most solicitors advise, it makes it even more difficult.

6points

Dan Flo 4 months ago

The Sandby Borg Massacre in Sweden. 1500 years later, and still no clue what the hel happened: https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/the-sandby-borg-massacre/

6points

Eunice Probert 4 months ago

It is astonishing how many murders have gone unsolved because they police didn't care and made no attempt to work on them.

6points

Moosy Girl 4 months ago

Or sometimes because they did care but got hindered every step of the way by forces out of their control.

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Dumb teenager 4 months ago

Well that was depressing. I’d kind of hoped it would be more about natural phenomena like ball lighting and stuff, but I guess it matched the title

6points

Nils Skirnir 4 months ago

Before DNA testing, CCTV, national databases, etc both the rate of reporting and solving of disappearances/murders was quite low. Under 50% in many places based on recent estimates. Anecdotally most every town I’ve lived in has stories of missing people.

4points

Roland Nijveld 4 months ago (edited)

Eefke Wolf. 25 year old woman who went missing in 1983 in The Netherlands. Was seen walking out of the door at work with her helmet, going towards her moped. Next day she didn't arrive at work and it was discovered her moped was still there untouched. only clue is that she told her parent she would sleep at work and said to co workers she would go home. So might had a secret appointment with someone.

2points

Lucky2BAlive 4 months ago

Cyber Sleuth Alert. One missing is one of the longest unsolved mysteries in the history of NJ. It’s the Judith Kavanaugh murder. Anyone who could be hurt by the conclusion has passed on. But it would be great to solve it. I know how I would feel about it.

2points

RAM31280 4 months ago

No mention of the Lane Bryant murders in Tinley Park, IL. 5 women murdered 2/2/2008, and 1 injured. The lone gunman got away and the case has long since gone cold.

2points

Mavis 4 months ago (edited)

The West Memphis Three. I watched the movie Devils Knot not knowing anything about the case and found it fascinating and awful.

2points

Bored something 4 months ago

Ì have always wondered about the Marie Celeste, the princes in the tower, as a kid I had only ever read that Richard III killed them or had them killed, as an adult I lean towards that he didn't. Also Maura Murray's disappearance, and the Yuba county 5, that's a weird one.

2points

Lorraine R 4 months ago

Lucy Worsley did an excellent hour on the two princes; she doesn't come to any specific conclusion, but I came away with the conclusion that the bones found in the 17th century should be tested for DNA. Also, I read an explanation for the Mary Celeste: she was carrying a volatile cargo, which they thought had become unstable, so the crew and passengers quickly evacuated to a boat they carried onboard, and tied the boat to the ship with a rope at what they hoped was a safe distance if the cargo exploded; they intended to re-board after they were certain the cargo was stable again, but somehow the two vessels became detached and the boat was stranded with no way to get back to the ship.

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SkyyCaramba 4 months ago

spreading awareness about this thing that never got resolved: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/silver-alert-canceled-for-missing-88-year-old-dallas-woman/3581450/ if you see it, please please please make sure to call

1point

Brian Droste 4 months ago

There was the Burger Chef murders that took plac in1978 in Speedway Indiana. 4 young employee were found murdered. I believe there were suspects no actual proof who did it. It is still unsolved to this day.

1point

Bongokittycat 4 months ago

Quite a few of these have featured on Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates, well worth a watch! And for me also, it would be Madeline McCann and Jack the Ripper, I have some sixth sense and have my own theories on both, but won't bore you. Lol.

1point

RageOfAquarius 4 months ago

One of my favorite shows! Totally worth a watch for anyone who likes mysteries or archaeology.

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The Doom Song 4 months ago

The disappearance of Australian prime minister Harold Holt....

1point

Bored something 4 months ago

He was mentioned along with the Beaumont children.

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distant_echo 4 months ago

Elisa Lam

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ronniebeaton00 4 months ago

My favourite unsolved mystery is the that of the Legio IX Hispana - the 9th Spanish Legion. In early 1st century AD, the legion marched from their garrison at Eboracum (present day York) into what is now Scotland and disappeared from the historical record. That's over 5000 men. Vanished into thin air.

0points

BarkingSquirell 4 months ago

I found it difficult to upvotes posts about such horrific events. I'll save them for the cats and nature photos.

0points

Lorraine R 4 months ago

Then there's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Were they really killed in a hail of bullets in South America, or did they make their way back to the States eventually and live in obscurity until they died? There are aguments on both sides.

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Stacy Jones 4 months ago

Some of these are so heartrending, but it is good to remember that new mysteries are being solved every day. We even now know who the Somerton Man was, Charles Webb, for crying out loud. The Boy in the Box, I didn't think that one even could be solved after so long, but he has a name now, Joseph Augustus Zarelli. So I do think these will all eventually be solved.

0points

T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago

I always wondered if they ever found Kobie Hammond, a toddler who went missing at a rest stop in South Africa in the '70s. His parents were unpacking the car or something and he was toddling around. They heard and saw nothing, but when they looked for him he was just gone. They assumed someone had stopped, grabbed him and just driven off. I've never been able to find anything about this case online. I only know about it because I read about the case in a magazine many years ago.

0points

athornedrose 4 months ago

what happened to hakeem pinckney? how were the medical facility, PMPED, and court systems involved? why have we heard so much about the other murdaugh firm clients and so little about what happened to him?

0points

Zephyr343 4 months ago

I was always concerned the Delphi murders would not be solved. Right now though, I want to know what happened to Jacob Yoblonski from Wisconsin. Missing for over a year

0points

Game Guy 4 months ago

Surprised Jodi Huissentruit isn't in there. News anchor for KIMT in Mason City Iowa. On her way in to work one morning, disappeared between her apartment and the station. Found some of her stuff on the ground next to her car, but never found a trace of her.

0points

Flarpel Blarpel 4 months ago

i have a bunch 1. the murder of Jeannette DePalma 2. the disappearance of the Roanoke 3. The alphabet killer

0points

Moosy Girl 4 months ago

My once favourite uncle, who was loved by everyone, spent a few years in Australia, came back, stopped speaking to most of our family, started abusing his parents and then shot himself in the face (he survived). Nobody knows why.

0points

Trisec Tebeakesse 4 months ago

Susan Taraskawicz, Revere MA (1992). She was a year ahead of me at Saugus High School. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mother-still-seeking-answers-30-years-after-daughters-death/2835024/

0points

Jess Smith 4 months ago

When I was a baby, my mom left a credit card out near me, does something for a bit and then the card is gone. Oh, well, it probably went somewhere, right? Doesn't show up. Maybe it's hidden? We moved later, no credit card. It's gone and there is a very slim chance I have a *very* expired credit card in me.

0points

Kat 4 months ago

The Belgian terrorist group 'bende van Nijvel' who robbed and murdered in the 80's ... Strong links to the federal police , never solved

0points

Moosy Girl 4 months ago

Our very own bottomless well of conspiracy theories!

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Mark Karol-Chik 4 months ago

Back in 1983, in the Denver metro area, there were a couple of families who were killed during the night by an intruder with a blunt instrument. This was never solved.

0points

Amy Smith 4 months ago (edited)

I don't think Thelma Todd killed herself. Although like someone like Robin Williams, people often can and do seem fine before hurting themselves in some way, I honestly think there's something else there, it's just that in the 1930s I suppose the technology wasn't there to prove otherwise. Also, Andrew Gosden, kid just vanished into thin air.

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Charlotte A. 4 months ago

27points

Eunice Probert 4 months ago

I agree! They assume that everyone is from the USA and knows about the murders.

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Stacy Jones 4 months ago

0points

Bryn 4 months ago

Google is a thing you know...

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Debbie 4 months ago (edited)

13points

Aussiegirl 4 months ago

I thought of Madeleine McCann as well

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Shark Lady 4 months ago

6points

Dan Flo 4 months ago

The Sandby Borg Massacre in Sweden. 1500 years later, and still no clue what the hel happened: https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/the-sandby-borg-massacre/

6points

Eunice Probert 4 months ago

It is astonishing how many murders have gone unsolved because they police didn't care and made no attempt to work on them.

6points

Moosy Girl 4 months ago

Or sometimes because they did care but got hindered every step of the way by forces out of their control.

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Dumb teenager 4 months ago

Well that was depressing. I’d kind of hoped it would be more about natural phenomena like ball lighting and stuff, but I guess it matched the title

6points

Nils Skirnir 4 months ago

4points

Roland Nijveld 4 months ago (edited)

2points

Lucky2BAlive 4 months ago

2points

RAM31280 4 months ago

No mention of the Lane Bryant murders in Tinley Park, IL. 5 women murdered 2/2/2008, and 1 injured. The lone gunman got away and the case has long since gone cold.

2points

Mavis 4 months ago (edited)

The West Memphis Three. I watched the movie Devils Knot not knowing anything about the case and found it fascinating and awful.

2points

Bored something 4 months ago

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Lorraine R 4 months ago

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SkyyCaramba 4 months ago

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Brian Droste 4 months ago

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Bongokittycat 4 months ago

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RageOfAquarius 4 months ago

One of my favorite shows! Totally worth a watch for anyone who likes mysteries or archaeology.

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The Doom Song 4 months ago

The disappearance of Australian prime minister Harold Holt....

1point

Bored something 4 months ago

He was mentioned along with the Beaumont children.

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distant_echo 4 months ago

Elisa Lam

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ronniebeaton00 4 months ago

0points

BarkingSquirell 4 months ago

I found it difficult to upvotes posts about such horrific events. I'll save them for the cats and nature photos.

0points

Lorraine R 4 months ago

0points

Stacy Jones 4 months ago

0points

T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago

0points

athornedrose 4 months ago

0points

Zephyr343 4 months ago

I was always concerned the Delphi murders would not be solved. Right now though, I want to know what happened to Jacob Yoblonski from Wisconsin. Missing for over a year

0points

Game Guy 4 months ago

0points

Flarpel Blarpel 4 months ago

i have a bunch 1. the murder of Jeannette DePalma 2. the disappearance of the Roanoke 3. The alphabet killer

0points

Moosy Girl 4 months ago

0points

Trisec Tebeakesse 4 months ago

Susan Taraskawicz, Revere MA (1992). She was a year ahead of me at Saugus High School. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mother-still-seeking-answers-30-years-after-daughters-death/2835024/

0points

Jess Smith 4 months ago

0points

Kat 4 months ago

The Belgian terrorist group 'bende van Nijvel' who robbed and murdered in the 80's ... Strong links to the federal police , never solved

0points

Moosy Girl 4 months ago

Our very own bottomless well of conspiracy theories!

1point

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Mark Karol-Chik 4 months ago

Back in 1983, in the Denver metro area, there were a couple of families who were killed during the night by an intruder with a blunt instrument. This was never solved.

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Amy Smith 4 months ago (edited)

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