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?

[glass_houses]

I've never really thought of walking in steel toes as feeling like barefoot. More like wearing a big chunky armoured boot that makes your foot weigh twice as much.

Yeah, sorry, I'm not an anatomist so I'm not describing it very well. Inside the work boot, your foot is still able to spread and flex. Women's shoes are a lot narrower and more binding. If you were to wrap an exercise bandage around the entirety of your foot, including your toes, it'd give you a good idea of what I'm talking about. Your foot spreads, contracts, flexes as you need it to, and provided your work boots are the right size, your foot is able to do that inside your boot, even though the boot is heavy. Women's shoes are narrower and don't allow your foot to spread at all, meaning that it's harder to adjust to different surfaces and speeds, and you need to take smaller steps with no side swing. Balance is definitely curtailed. You watch a woman first when she's wearing shoes, and then when she's barefoot; the changes in her gait are very noticeable, imho.

 

[Grub]

Yeah, sorry, I'm not an anatomist so I'm not describing it very well. Inside the work boot, your foot is still able to spread and flex. Women's shoes are a lot narrower and more binding. If you were to wrap an exercise bandage around the entirety of your foot, including your toes, it'd give you a good idea of what I'm talking about. Your foot spreads, contracts, flexes as you need it to, and provided your work boots are the right size, your foot is able to do that inside your boot, even though the boot is heavy. Women's shoes are narrower and don't allow your foot to spread at all, meaning that it's harder to adjust to different surfaces and speeds, and you need to take smaller steps with no side swing.

Right. I get what you're saying now. My feet are kinda wide so I tend to avoid the narrower guy's shoes in general just because I hate the feeling of it so I can kind of understand what you mean.

Balance is definitely curtailed. You watch a woman first when she's wearing shoes, and then when she's barefoot; the changes in her gait are very noticeable, imho.

I've never actually noticed that but I guess I was never really looking for it. This sounds like it's going to be one of those things that once you notice it you can't unnotice it.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Inside the work boot, your foot is still able to spread and flex. Women's shoes are a lot narrower and more binding. If you were to wrap an exercise bandage around the entirety of your foot, including your toes, it'd give you a good idea of what I'm talking about. Your foot spreads, contracts, flexes as you need it to, and provided your work boots are the right size, your foot is able to do that inside your boot, even though the boot is heavy.

people look at me like I'm wearing rat shit as a wig when I try to explain why giant steel toe boots are more comfy than than sneakers because this is such a counter-intuitive thing

 

[Average Russian Spy]

There is a pretty creepy unsolved mystery I remember listening about years ago, but a lot of the details I'm iffy on. So I'll just post what I remember and hopefully that will be enough for someone else to identify which story it is.
- Took place in Germany, not sure exact location
-A man in a forested area discovers the corpse of a young boy by a barred-off storm drain
-As he approached the corpse, he noted there was a hand reaching for the boy's corpse from inside the storm drain, but the hand receded back into the shadows when he approached
-The boy was stabbed to death and had pieces of flesh missing, as well as bite marks
-The boy was apparently last seen with a backpack, but that was gone, only to be later found emptied and discarded in another location
-The boy was identified (can't remember the name), but the killer got away

Does this ring a bell for anyone else?

 

[Carnavoyeur]

There is a pretty creepy unsolved mystery I remember listening about years ago, but a lot of the details I'm iffy on. So I'll just post what I remember and hopefully that will be enough for someone else to identify which story it is.
- Took place in Germany, not sure exact location
-A man in a forested area discovers the corpse of a young boy by a barred-off storm drain
-As he approached the corpse, he noted there was a hand reaching for the boy's corpse from inside the storm drain, but the hand receded back into the shadows when he approached
-The boy was stabbed to death and had pieces of flesh missing, as well as bite marks
-The boy was apparently last seen with a backpack, but that was gone, only to be later found emptied and discarded in another location
-The boy was identified (can't remember the name), but the killer got away

Does this ring a bell for anyone else?

Tristan Brubach?

 

[Average Russian Spy]

Tristan Brubach?

Seems to fit all of the horrible details, except for the storm drain and hand reaching for the body. So I am likely mixing the facts up with another unsolved murder. I vividly remember a horror youtuber bringing it up in a long video of unsolved murders, even had a little, stylized "recreation drawing" to go with every mystery.

 

[Sonalee Rashitwar]

Mystery local to where I grew up:

In the mid 2000s, honest to God, my school took in an exchange student. It was a huge thing because she was Kurdish, from Iraq. We used to email until about 2008.

She dropped off the map after 2010 and was eventually in a viral photo of female Kurdish independence soldiers a few years later.No one has seen hide or hair of her since.

I just hope she’s OK.

 

[Fëanor Curufinwë]

Seems to fit all of the horrible details, except for the storm drain and hand reaching for the body. So I am likely mixing the facts up with another unsolved murder. I vividly remember a horror youtuber bringing it up in a long video of unsolved murders, even had a little, stylized "recreation drawing" to go with every mystery.

I don't know which case it was but I remember this detail too.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

Seems to fit all of the horrible details, except for the storm drain and hand reaching for the body. So I am likely mixing the facts up with another unsolved murder. I vividly remember a horror youtuber bringing it up in a long video of unsolved murders, even had a little, stylized "recreation drawing" to go with every mystery.

The only other case i found is this. But no mentions of wounds like you described or a hand. As a last resort I even tried asking the Bing AI and no results.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/noah-donohoe

 

[glass_houses]

So, this came up on FB, which flicked me to one of those ranking sites:



Thoughts?

 

[cypocryphy]

Two of my favorite alleged paranormal events are the Poltergeist cases from Long Island NY in the 50's and Bridgeport CT in the 70's. Each had multiple independent witnesses to objects moving and being thrown around on their own. They almost certainly weren't the families hoaxing for money, if anything it could have been mass hysteria or some undetermined natural explanation.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Good lord Chase's wiki is a fucking freakshow in itself. That guys an MK ultra patient.

Fun Fact: One time during an interview with an FBI agent, he pulled literal fistfuls of macaroni out of his pockets, and tried to give it to the guy for testing because he thought the prison was in league with the Nazis, and trying to poison him.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

So, this came up on FB, which flicked me to one of those ranking sites:

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Thoughts?

The closest I found was Mack Ray Edwards but he didn't kill any kids in a park. Sounds like an urban legend,

 

[lurkin]

Fun Fact: One time during an interview with an FBI agent, he pulled literal fistfuls of macaroni out of his pockets, and tried to give it to the guy for testing because he thought the prison was in league with the Nazis, and trying to poison him.

Man I almost feel bad for him, I cant even imagine how to operate being that mentally ill [compromised]. The guy is a scuffed loony tunes character.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Man I almost feel bad for him, I cant even imagine how to operate being that mentally ill [compromised]. The guy is a scuffed loony tunes character.

Agreed.

He's honestly the most mentally ill person I've ever heard of it, and while he was an utter monster who did unforgivable things, considering he was basically living in his own hell with how bad his delusions were, and how shitty mental health treatments were back then, I almost don't blame him for how things turned out with him.

Almost.

 

[glass_houses]

Agreed.

He's honestly the most mentally ill person I've ever heard of it, and while he was an utter monster who did unforgivable things, considering he was basically living in his own hell with how bad his delusions were, and how shitty mental health treatments were back then, I almost don't blame him for how things turned out with him.

Almost.

The fact that his mother was almost certainly schizophrenic herself, and deliberately took him off his medication is maddening. It's debatable if someone as floridly disturbed as Chase ever had a real chance, especially given the crudity of antipsychotic meds back then (they're still not great even now) but what little hope there was she removed because "mother knows best". Stupid crazy cow.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

The fact that his mother was almost certainly schizophrenic herself, and deliberately took him off his medication is maddening. It's debatable if someone as floridly disturbed as Chase ever had a real chance, especially given the crudity of antipsychotic meds back then (they're still not great even now) but what little hope there was she removed because "mother knows best". Stupid crazy cow.

This is the first time I've heard of his mother also possibly being schizophrenic. His grandmother, yes, but never his mother herself. Where did you hear this?

 

[squidward tentacles]

The fact that his mother was almost certainly schizophrenic herself, and deliberately took him off his medication is maddening. It's debatable if someone as floridly disturbed as Chase ever had a real chance, especially given the crudity of antipsychotic meds back then (they're still not great even now) but what little hope there was she removed because "mother knows best". Stupid crazy cow.

Apparently she blamed one of his victim's dogs for not protecting her during the murder, to the victim's husband, which is truly despicable behavior.

Also, Chase did a lot of drugs, including marijuana, which, knowing what we do now about the relationship between weed and schizophrenia, definitely made a bad situation worse.

I have mixed feelings about the dissolution of the American asylum system, but this is one instance where it might've prevented some tragedy.

 

[glass_houses]

This is the first time I've heard of his mother also possibly being schizophrenic. His grandmother, yes, but never his mother herself. Where did you hear this?

It's summarised pretty succinctly on Wikipaedo. His parents' marriage was ruined by his mother's persistent delusions that his father was drugging her, poisoning her, and having wild affairs with women who somehow turned to vapour an instant before she could catch them.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Here's a great video debunking most of the Missing 411 bullshit.

It's pretty sad when a youtuber does more thorough research than an entire production company.