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?

[Mr. Racewar1488]

You want to know what The Mothman really was? It was a snowy owl that got lost and migrated too far south and group psychosis. A local shot it thinking it was Mothman and the sightings stopped. And no, I'm not going to post a source because I'm too lazy to look up the article I read years ago about this. Cryptids in America are always either bears (sasqautch), owls, or hoaxes.

 

[Pedophobe]

Cryptids in America are always either bears (sasqautch), owls, or hoaxes.

Except Ogopogo of course.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

The Honey Island Swamp Monster. Skunk Ape or lost brown bear?

 

[Dr. Butt]

The Honey Island Swamp Monster. Skunk Ape or lost brown bear?

Really, REALLY big owl.

 

[FedPostalService]

Really, REALLY big owl.

Snow owls are pretty big and humans in groups get pretty retarded.

EDIT: I’m a retard who can’t read. I thought you were commenting on The Mothman and not something entirely different. Sorry!

 

[Patrick Not-Star]

 

[glass_houses]

I love cryptozoology... from a biologist's perspective and from a folklore and historical perspective. I don't believe in yowies or bunyips exactly, but I do believe that known animals can do some really weird shit, some animals do indeed turn up where they shouldn't, that old folk tales of strange animals in areas that had only newly been settled should not be dismissed completely... and most importantly, that the human desire to fuck with one another is the basis for some of the best yarns in the entirety of human history.

That said, any lingering interest I had in the Loch Ness Monster died forever a few years back, when I read a news article stating that the loch system that Ness is part of had been determined to only be something like ten thousand years old. Nessy is some combination of hoax, hallucination, and fuckhuge fish/eels.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Nessy is some combination of hoax, hallucination, and fuckhuge fish/eels.

Sturgeons are very big and fairly scary looking, and can look even bigger if you've had a few buckies.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

That said, any lingering interest I had in the Loch Ness Monster died forever a few years back, when I read a news article stating that the loch system that Ness is part of had been determined to only be something like ten thousand years old. Nessy is some combination of hoax, hallucination, and fuckhuge fish/eels.

Earliest reported account/description of the Loch Ness Monster was something like this:


(Boy you have to filter through a lot of bullshit to get to the actual drawing and description of the encounter)

The nondescript blob shape with no discernable head is similar to other ocean cryptids that ended up being whale or shark carcasses. But I don't believe that's what it is. I think some of the earliest accounts of Nessie, the ones that mention seeing it being on land, are misidentified seals. Apparently it's not that uncommon for seals to be found in the river or occasionally make their way to the loch.

 

[NoReturn]

One cryptid I do believe in is the black mat/black carpet. It's supposed to me some kind of ocean creature, possibly a colony-species like a hydrozoan or some kind of large biofilm.
The stories of it being a thousand feet long might be exaggerated, but I've heard stories from divers who've seen things that look like blankets sitting on the seafloor or floating around.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I believe in Mongolian death crawlers

 

[DavidFerrie]

Earliest reported account/description of the Loch Ness Monster was something like this:

I always thought the first recorded sighting was when St. Columba encountered it in the sixth century.

(And personally, I suspect Nessie is a species of giant eel or sturgeon.)

 

[draggs]

Except Ogopogo of course.

Ogopogo is a plesiosaur. A FUCKING PLESIOSAUR

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Ogopogo is a plesiosaur. A FUCKING PLESIOSAUR

that's stupid
how would a plesiosaur still be alive
it's the GHOST of a plesiosaur, that's how it can appear in all those different lakes

 

[McMitch]

that's stupid
how would a plesiosaur still be alive

Because it was put there by aliens.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

Brandon Lawson's family have announced that remains found in 2022 near the area of his disappearance have been confirmed as him.

 

[draggs]

that's stupid
how would a plesiosaur still be alive
it's the GHOST of a plesiosaur, that's how it can appear in all those different lakes

That's stupid

Ghosts are supernatural and not real

Ayyymaos seeding various lakes globally with plesiosaurs is totally natural

Because it was put there by aliens.

See? This guy Knows

 

[McMitch]

Ayyymaos seeding various lakes globally with plesiosaurs is totally natural

They do it as a hobby.

 

[Fëanor Curufinwë]

Brandon Lawson's family have announced that remains found in 2022 near the area of his disappearance have been confirmed as him.

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Why did it take so long?

 

[DavidFerrie]

Oakey "Al" Kite -- a mild-mannered, 50-something engineering manager in Colorado who was stalked, tortured, and murdered for no apparent reason. This one has always chilled me.