Creepy Unsolved Mysteries - From unsolved murders to unidentified people to unexplained supernatural events, what are some of the creepiest unsolved mysteries you've ever heard of?

[FedPostalService]

The West Memphis Three. What really happened and was there really a satanic sex cult operating in the town and tangentially involved. Who was this Lucy Lucifer character? What about the others named as attendees of these gatherings? What about the weird King David, the twinky attendant to a Pentecostal pastor. While not involved in the murders, what the fuck was that all about and what is their church up to nowadays?

For the record, I believe evidence points to Jason and Damien having done did it, but managed to get out because HBO tried (and succeed) to present black as white. Damien's then girlfriend Domini, may have also been present or in the area. Morbidly fascinating & deserving of its own thread.

A bunch of dumb teenagers listened to Metallica during the satanic panic and were railroaded into a conviction for a crime they didn’t commit because retards fell for a moral panic about nonexistent cult and actually child murderers got away Scott free.

There’s no mystery to it other than the stupidity of the people in charge.

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

A bunch of dumb teenagers listened to Metallica during the satanic panic and were railroaded into a conviction for a crime they didn’t commit because retards fell for a moral panic about nonexistent cult and actually child murderers got away Scott free.

There’s no mystery to it other than the stupidity of the people in charge.

Damien wasn't a Metallica fan, from the looks of it, Jason was. Damien had Pink Floyd and Doors lyrics written out in his notebooks. He was also cavorting with 14-year old girls in the years prior to the events. I know it's the south, but I'm sure it wasn't legal or moral even back then, so there is a child molestation angle to this.

Look at Damian now - he's covered in demon sigyl tattoos and his artwork is more of the same. Not a satanist. OK, what's with the symbology?

More to the point, why do you think this was part of the Satanic Panic, which dates back to the late 80's? Is the HBO series the only source of your information on this?

Also, the Lucy Lucifer and King David characters. Are you aware of those?

 

[Pitbull Victim]

Damien Echols had serious mental illness, which was downplayed by the HBO crew, but the most likely killer is Terry Hobbs, step-father of victim Steven Branch:

* DNA testing identified a hair fragment found tied into the knots used to bind victim Michael Moore to be consistent with Hobbs.

* Hobbs' alibi was he with his buddy David Jacoby when the murders happened. A hair consistent with Jacoby was also recovered from the murder scene.

* Hobbs was an abusive violent asshole - He did jail time for shooting his brother-in-law after the brother-in-law accused him of the murders; multiple people have come forward to accuse him of physically and sexually assaulting his children; and a neighbor accused him of sexually assaulting her.

* He fits John Douglas's offender profile


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[Ignatius von Cistern]

the most likely killer is Terry Hobbs, step-father of victim Steven Branch

Terry Hobbs was at home at least part of the time the boys were missing and called the police independently of others. While it's surmised that he may had had time to kill the boys, Jesse Miskelly's confession ruled that out.

Look, OK, Hobbs had violent tendencies and one shady sexual incident back in the early 80's, but. They boys were beaten to death, castrated, bitten and sodomised, which is far and beyond getting a smackdown for being in the woods instead of at home for dinner.

The DNA evidence is explained by the boys having been friends and visiting each-others houses often, including the day of their disappearance. And when we're talking about hair evidence, didn't they also find a hair died black, similar to Damien's?

And before you say Miskelly was a halfwit coerced into confessing by the cops, I'll have to point out that Damien bragged about killing the boys which is why the cops were talking to these guys, including Miskelly, in the first place. Miskelly's motivation for confessing is remorse, which is very plausible.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Look, OK, Hobbs had violent tendencies and one shady sexual incident back in the early 80's, but. They boys were beaten to death, castrated, bitten and sodomised, which is far and beyond getting a smackdown for being in the woods instead of at home for dinner.

Listen man, we get it. You're a good person. You go to church, work hard, and save money to provide for your family. You do all the things that show you're a good person so people know you're a good person.

You think this teen satanic sex cult angle needs to be investigated to the fullest extent because the alternative is that a normal-looking guy, father and stepfather, regular man, just like you, committed a monstrous crime against those children. And if that's true, then people might think you could do something like that. But you wouldn't! And you didn't!

So there's no danger that you'll end up in prison or "the chair" if ever a murder is committed and all the suspects are exonerated. We know that smacking your stepson for being late to Sunday dinner is different from raping, murdering, and mutilating him. If Terry Hobbs is guilty, it's not going to set the precedent you think it will.

Normal people don't think "greasy arsehole goth kid retard = Bad Person & Criminal, well-behaved tradesman family man in normal shirt and trousers = Good Person", and the release of the West Memphis Three isn't going to make them believe the opposite. Just carry on being a good guy who doesn't rape and murder children, and you'll be fine.

ETA - if there really was an evil sex cult operating in that area, don't you think they'd have used their nefarious powers to explicitly frame someone for the crime? If they did try to do so, they did a pretty shit job of it, so you can rest assured that you're safe from that too.

 

[PhoBingas]

The real mystery is that if the year (1984/1985) we have it down at is correct, is how this band got access to a DX7 so soon without being known or leaving a trace. No doubt it is some presumably local band that never went anywhere, the vast majority of music from that time period is lost because nobody cared about it. Almost certainly it was a demo.

Maybe the band got their brand new synth on a five-finger discount? If they were just a couple of nobodies doing demos and small shows before the internet, it wouldn't shock me that there probably isn't much if anything to find. Hell, you'd probably have better luck going to Germany and asking people who were in the scene back in the day than looking online.

So who won?

Alcoholism won.

Reminds me of the Tylenol poisoning that happened in the Chicagoland suburbs in 1982. Some fuckass poisoned a ton of Tylenol with cyanide and a bunch of random people all over the burbs ended up dying as a result, and nobody's totally sure who did it or why. Was there just an underground poisoning ring going on in the 80s or what??

my 200 IQ schizo take is that it was reps from Motrin trying to fuck with the Tylenol brand.

Anthrax would probably be "better" for this purpose as it goes on for a while, enough to enhance the terror aspect, and also has the added "bonus" of area denial, since cleanup is costly and time-consuming, and operations of whatever entity gets hit are going to be disrupted completely in the interim. Funny thing, we had a very suspicious series of those that ended in "yeah it was totally that dead guy who dunnit."

Nobody but lab nerds and metalheads knew what the fuck Anthrax was in the 80s, and if you asked the metal niggas they'd probably tell you it's a band.

To make this even more weirder is that the IP of the poster who did the edit was from Stamford, Connecticut, the same place where the WWE Headquarters are. Which led to believe that the entire company knew about the murders 14 hours before it happened, some even believe that this was caused by someone within the company. And for some strange reason, this entire coincidence was entirely dismissed by the Fayette County police, no reason given why.

Shit, I totally forgot about the totally suspect wiki edits regarding Benoit. I don't think it was a frame job, but somebody at the WWE knows more than they're letting on.

The West Memphis Three.

Come on, we all know who REALLY did it.

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best I can do for local spook is an unsolved murder-mystery from my neck of the woods. Article with more info. I know it's CBC, but its not too political

14-year-old Marcia LeBlanc and 17-year-old Marcel Cormier were murdered on a back road in the Saint-Antoine area on November 14, 1993. Investigators are very interested in speaking with Roger LeBlanc who is presently listed as missing and was 34-years-old at the time. Roger LeBlanc is a person of interest to investigators as he was known to frequent an after hours bar not far from the murder scene and went missing the day after being interviewed by investigators on November 21, 1993, regarding the murders of Marcia LeBlanc and Marcel Cormier. Initially, it was believed Roger LeBlanc was a lost hunter, however, it quickly came to light that Roger LeBlanc was in fact in the woods by choice. Some items belonging to Roger LeBlanc were found in the Canaan River. An extensive search of the area by police and volunteer search and rescue personnel met with negative results. It is believed Roger LeBlanc may be deceased. He was known to spend a lot of his time hunting in the Downey Siding area. Investigators are asking the public to pay attention during the hunting season for anything which appears unusual as Roger LeBlanc's remains could be discovered, if in fact he is deceased.

Yeah, fuck all happens in the Maritimes. We did have that recent mass shooter in 2020 I think that made Justo go all gun-grabby. The guy that did it was an RCMP informant, but it almost never gets mentioned.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Maybe the band got their brand new synth on a five-finger discount? If they were just a couple of nobodies doing demos and small shows before the internet, it wouldn't shock me that there probably isn't much if anything to find. Hell, you'd probably have better luck going to Germany and asking people who were in the scene back in the day than looking online.

iirc a lot of the origins of hiphop/rap etc is rooted in the NYC looting during the blackouts
even if the dudes using the shit didn't gank it themselves it got into circulation from the outages and then into the hands of musicians

 

[PhoBingas]

iirc a lot of the origins of hiphop/rap etc is rooted in the NYC looting during the blackouts
even if the dudes using the shit didn't gank it themselves it got into circulation from the outages and then into the hands of musicians

The song came from Germany though, or at least that's what I thought the deeplore was. I don't think they had rolling blackouts and as many basketball Americas as NYC did in the 70s and 80s though.
I did hear about that though, and it doesn't really come as a shock. Look at NYC now, they don't even need blackouts for people to hit stores in mass and just clean them the fuck out.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

The song came from Germany though, or at least that's what I thought the deeplore was. I don't think they had rolling blackouts and as many basketball Americas as NYC did in the 70s and 80s though.

yeah, I get that, I figured it was appropriate to cite similar instances about "thievery = dank beats"

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

Normal people don't think "greasy arsehole goth kid retard = Bad Person & Criminal, well-behaved tradesman family man in normal shirt and trousers = Good Person", and the release of the West Memphis Three isn't going to make them believe the opposite. Just carry on being a good guy who doesn't rape and murder children, and you'll be fine.

West Memphis Three were always presented as "goth/metal kids being railroaded by corrupt pigs in a hick town as part of like the Satanic Panic, man."

Except they were not. There were rumours of a "cult" in the area, where kids would go to sacrifice dogs, chant spells and "cornhole" one another. Witness testimonies are both comical and grotesque in that unique southern charm way. Like this one for example. I don't think they ever got to the bottom of it, because had they had, there was a whole bunch of nasty business involved, including allegedly a rape of a girl. So yes, I think the cops didn't do their job on that properly.

Echols wasn't a nice guy. Having a terrible upbringing is not an excuse for how he conducted himself and how he conducts himself now BTW. Have a look on his Patreon. One hour of face-to-face ritual magick instruction for $800 via Skype in that wonderful drawl of his. Hot-daymn, sign me up. The investigation materials are replete with affidavits from court officials stating is was soooo depressed and mentally ill. Have you seen his interview with Tim Pool? Does he strike you as a crazy person, who's barely aware where he is and what is happening to him? That was just him manipulating these court ladies with a sob story about his mental health...

What I'm saying is that if on top of everything, it turns out he really is a child killer....I'm not asserting he is, I just think the evidence points to it being more likely than not. All these people that enabled him will look really stupid, to put it mildly. And we're talking Vedder, Rollins, Peter Jackson and bunch of other celebrities whose work outside of true crime I and many others enjoy.

ETA - if there really was an evil sex cult operating in that area, don't you think they'd have used their nefarious powers to explicitly frame someone for the crime? If they did try to do so, they did a pretty shit job of it, so you can rest assured that you're safe from that too.

If there was a cult, and references to it regularly pop up in the investigation papers, it was some really homebrew southern hick bullshit, the local creeps put the local kids up to. These people don't have any power other than to leave town and never mention any of it to anyone again, so they don't get a visit from the po-po.

I mean these kids could have done almost anything other than the stupid crap they were doing. LaVey, Crowley, Cardell, Gardner etc. I'm not saying these are somehow better, but they are established writers with their own followings and plenty of sexual kinks that would excite the nipples of small-town Arkansas perverts. I guess the local libraries didn't have this stuff on their shelves or a Usenet connection.

Come on, we all know who REALLY did it.

Yeah I've read recently Ralph lived there for a time. Weird. Also explains a bit about the trajectory his own life is talking. West Memphis is like a cursed swamp and everyone living in it seems to have a foggy memory and skeletons in their closet.

 

[PhoBingas]

Yeah I've read recently Ralph lived there for a time. Weird. Also explains a bit about the trajectory his own life is talking. West Memphis is like a cursed swamp and everyone living in it seems to have a foggy memory and skeletons in their closet.

We just need the autopsy reports. If the dead boy's were licked clean of any trace of fecal matter, Ralph is the culprit.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Listen man, we get it. You're a good person. You go to church, work hard, and save money to provide for your family. You do all the things that show you're a good person so people know you're a good person.

You think this teen satanic sex cult angle needs to be investigated to the fullest extent because the alternative is that a normal-looking guy, father and stepfather, regular man, just like you, committed a monstrous crime against those children. And if that's true, then people might think you could do something like that. But you wouldn't! And you didn't!

So there's no danger that you'll end up in prison or "the chair" if ever a murder is committed and all the suspects are exonerated. We know that smacking your stepson for being late to Sunday dinner is different from raping, murdering, and mutilating him. If Terry Hobbs is guilty, it's not going to set the precedent you think it will.

Normal people don't think "greasy arsehole goth kid retard = Bad Person & Criminal, well-behaved tradesman family man in normal shirt and trousers = Good Person", and the release of the West Memphis Three isn't going to make them believe the opposite. Just carry on being a good guy who doesn't rape and murder children, and you'll be fine.

ETA - if there really was an evil sex cult operating in that area, don't you think they'd have used their nefarious powers to explicitly frame someone for the crime? If they did try to do so, they did a pretty shit job of it, so you can rest assured that you're safe from that too.

People really will go out of their way to blame everything on ebil satanic cults instead of the obvious, won't they?

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

People really will go out of their way to blame everything on ebil satanic cults instead of the obvious, won't they?

Echols has a life-long interest in the occult.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Echols has a life-long interest in the occult.

Okay, and? That doesn't prove he, and his friends murdered three children.

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

Okay, and? That doesn't prove he, and his friends murdered three children.

No, but it's one aspect that points to him as a suspect.

Echols was convicted on Jesse's testimony, testimony of witnesses that said he bragged about killing the kids, that he discussed killing more kids and the fact that he has no alibi. The knife suspected to be involved in injuring the boys and that the three were variously seen with was found dumped in the pond at Lakeshore where they lived or frequented.

Jesse later told the cops that he was carrying a whiskey bottle that day, which he broke on the concrete of an underpass on his way home from the scene, which was found and which corroborates that he was there.

The occult aspect provides a motive: thrill-killing with occult overtones. Seeing how unsophisticated the local occult practices might have been based on other witness testimony, the brutality of and the killing itself may have been all there was to this "magic."

So, no-one's blaming "everything on ebil satanic cults," however there is a lot of evidence that the occult has a part to play in this story.

 

[FedPostalService]

No, but it's one aspect that points to him as a suspect.

Echols was convicted on Jesse's testimony, testimony of witnesses that said he bragged about killing the kids, that he discussed killing more kids and the fact that he has no alibi. The knife suspected to be involved in injuring the boys and that the three were variously seen with was found dumped in the pond at Lakeshore where they lived or frequented.

Jesse later told the cops that he was carrying a whiskey bottle that day, which he broke on the concrete of an underpass on his way home from the scene, which was found and which corroborates that he was there.

The occult aspect provides a motive: thrill-killing with occult overtones. Seeing how unsophisticated the local occult practices might have been based on other witness testimony, the brutality of and the killing itself may have been all there was to this "magic."

So, no-one's blaming "everything on ebil satanic cults," however there is a lot of evidence that the occult has a part to play in this story.

How the hell is it [insert current year] and people still think the satanic panic was real?

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

How the hell is it [insert current year] and people still think the satanic panic was real?

It was real as in a real moral panic. Michelle Remembers, PMRC. It seems a distant memory, because the type of fundamentalist Christianity that promoted it, is basically wiped off from mainstream culture. The people that still hold such beliefs have retreated into warehouse churches, they pay their tithes and are happy to be left alone basically.

 

[George Lucas]

The Man in the Iron Mask was a real person and we really have no idea who he was.

Speaking of iron masks, these two Brazilians died under very mysterious circumstances.

Completely normal white dude disappears in broad daylight

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The Wow! signal is one of the few extraterrestrial anomalies that can’t be easily explained.

Mass hysteria led to a proliferation of weirdos dressed as clowns.

The 1982 film The Entity is based off of a true story. The house in question is in my own city of Los Angeles.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Echols wasn't a nice guy. Having a terrible upbringing is not an excuse for how he conducted himself and how he conducts himself now BTW.

Feral hilbilly child acts retarded, spends 18 years on death row, comes out acting weird and dressing poorly. Very suspicious indeed.

Have a look on his Patreon. One hour of face-to-face ritual magick instruction for $800 via Skype in that wonderful drawl of his. Hot-daymn, sign me up.

What the hell else would he even know how to do? Lots of ex-cons make money scamming whatever religion they joined inside.

Echols was convicted on Jesse's testimony, testimony of witnesses that said he bragged about killing the kids, that he discussed killing more kids and the fact that he has no alibi.

Teenager throws creepier teenager under the bus to avoid death sentence, creepier teenager is a stupid edgelord who can't behave and pisses off the police. Didn't he say he was with his family, but was actually out banging some other guy's girlfriend? And phone records showed that he called people during the time of the murders?

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

Feral hilbilly child acts retarded, spends 18 years on death row, comes out acting weird and dressing poorly. Very suspicious indeed.

What the hell else would he even know how to do? Lots of ex-cons make money scamming whatever religion they joined inside.

Teenager throws creepier teenager under the bus to avoid death sentence, creepier teenager is a stupid edgelord who can't behave and pisses off the police. Didn't he say he was with his family, but was actually out banging some other guy's girlfriend? And phone records showed that he called people during the time of the murders?

Look I don't want to address any of this, as I think I've made better points. The bits with the questions marks, you can answer yourself by citing sources. You can start here.