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?

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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.
I was thinking about this case the other day, it's one of my top 10 creepiest stories. I didn't see it mentioned in this article, but I remember reading somewhere else that it was thought this might be a professional killer due to the way he tortured Al. I forget what exactly he did (and don't really want to look it up again...) but I remember reading that the way he beat Al was the same way some foreign military intelligence would torture people for information.

This story is what I think about whenever my friends or family talk about meeting a new roommate. I always caution them to never give any information that makes them look like an easy target. Might be paranoid sounding but stories like these make me think it's worth being a little paranoid.
 
What are your thoughts on dreams/nightmares ?

Random neural activity? Dimensional leakage? Astral travel? Trauma processing? Internal therapy?
I've thought about this way too much.
The human brain is still one of the largest mysteries there is, ever. We understand it at a high level but that's pretty much it. There's about 85 billion neurons in the average human brain woven together by 100 trillion pathways. We don't know jack shit about how it works on a physiological level and everything beyond that like qualia, or consciousness is bordering on philosophy rather than science because we as humanity have no way of actually analyzing it.

What fascinates me is how in dreams you are able to maintain consistent structure and how it isn't all a jarbled mess. How is it possible that your brain can generate these narratives and it isn't just random colors or images melting together. How the fuck is that possible?

When I'm awake I can barely do simple arithmetic in my head but when I'm asleep my brain is somehow able to create vivid landscapes or insane lovecraftian hellish nightmares.

Have you ever worked in a software like Blender, or a 3D game engine like Unity? If you haven't before you might not understand this analogy but I'll try to explain it the best I can
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Something pretty standard you'll find in software like that is they use a hierarchy to represent the scene, which is all elements that you visually see. The scene hierarchy keeps track of everything, it's position, content, state, etc.

The brain has to be doing something very similar because how does it maintain things like object permanence or try to replicate physics from the real world? How the fuck does your brain, the same brain that during waking hours can't do simple shit (at least for me) able to make and choreograph the most ridiculous bullshit ever. Why doesn't it just all fall apart. How can it create characters, moving objects, different scenes like in a movie. I've done things in dreams like pick up and throw an object and somehow it conforms to some general laws of physics and gravity. I've had dreams were I've held something like a glass and spilled water from it and the water behaved exactly how it would in real life. HOW. That shit can barely be done with computers. Why does it have this internal engine for doing these things.
 
What are your thoughts on dreams/nightmares ?

Random neural activity? Dimensional leakage? Astral travel? Trauma processing? Internal therapy?
I once dreamed something which became true. Like the actual dream sequence happened a day or two after my dream. Same place, same people who said the same things. It wasn't a special/unusual dream or anything. An item got accidently thrown into a tiny river in front of a house. But still, it happened exactly like in my dream.

But it only happened to me once so it could be just a coincidence I guess.
 
I once dreamed something which became true. Like the actual dream sequence happened a day or two after my dream. Same place, same people who said the same things. It wasn't a special/unusual dream or anything. An item got accidently thrown into a tiny river in front of a house. But still, it happened exactly like in my dream.

But it only happened to me once so it could be just a coincidence I guess.
I have deeply disturbing nightmares that come true.
Death of loved ones - and my fight against the inevitable.

Unfortunately, I have never been able to save them. They die irl within weeks to a couple months.

Chill - there isn't anything too supernatural happening. These are individuals battling disease that I am worried about. And, as expected, the disease takes them.
It is probably my subconscious trying to work out the impending grief.
But, it is extremely terrifying (in the dream) and disturbs me greatly afterwards.

With all the quantum entanglement philosophy being in the zeitgeist lately, and the popularity of multiverse theories...
I am willing to entertain other ideas.

BTW- Benedryl makes me sleep p good (and gives wild dreams). I only need 1/2 to 1 tablet. Doesn't seem to give deep sleep however.
 
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I have deeply disturbing nightmares that come true.
I saw some Kiwifarmers talking about how a dream catcher made their nightmares go away so I bought one a month ago because I often had terrible nightmares and I don't know how and why but this thing works! I haven't had a single nightmare in a month. It's not even a special fancy dream catcher, just one from Amazon and somehow it helped.
 
It’s your brain processing your memories. If you’re worried about it you’ll have bad dreams. There’s nothing deeper to it.
this is the most retarded midwit take there is (with absolutely no real evidence to back it up). i'm convinced if you seriously believe this you aren't a conscious human. why does processing your memories result in your brain creating it's own version of reality
 
I saw some Kiwifarmers talking about how a dream catcher made their nightmares go away so I bought one a month ago because I often had terrible nightmares and I don't know how and why but this thing works! I haven't had a single nightmare in a month. It's not even a special fancy dream catcher, just one from Amazon and somehow it helped.
I think you have much deeper problems that a decoration can’t fix, bro.
 
I saw some Kiwifarmers talking about how a dream catcher made their nightmares go away so I bought one a month ago because I often had terrible nightmares and I don't know how and why but this thing works! I haven't had a single nightmare in a month. It's not even a special fancy dream catcher, just one from Amazon and somehow it helped.
It's the Placebo effect. You got convinced that dreamcatchers can remove your nightmares and because of that belief it does.
 
why does processing your memories result in your brain creating it's own version of reality
Lets think about it this way, have you ever had those dreams where you fall from a high altitude and wake up just before hitting the ground? Its because you haven't actually experienced that, your mind has zero clue about dying if you dont have near death experiences.
That falling part is something your mind actually can know, for an example you might have seen somebody falling in a movie and experienced similiar feeling in some amusement park ride. Then your mind combines all these things into a weird dream.

Another funny thing is that your dreams can have people you have seen for 3 seconds decades ago, you dont remember any of those random people but here they are living rent free in your dreams. Its all some kind of combination of IRL stuff and media you have consoomed over the years. :D
 
It's the Placebo effect. You got convinced that dreamcatchers can remove your nightmares and because of that belief it does.
I'm all for placebos, personally. If sugar pills or woo or prayer does what you need it too, then eat the sugar, hang the dream catcher and pray to whoever/whatever.

There's no medical cure or treatment for night terrors. Believe me, I've looked. If a dream catcher works for @Sinner's Sandwich good for him... and anyone within punching distance of him when he decides to fight monsters in his sleep.
 
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