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?

[Lesbian Grandma]

I've read before that autistic children are at higher risk of drowning, and that when they elope, they often beeline for water. I wonder why that is? A quick search didn't turn up anything beyond some fluffy 'water is very sensory', which I guess is an explanation, but I wish there was some more concrete research about it.

Water being a sensory experience is the most likely reasoning. Autistic people enjoy high sensory stimulation and being in the water acts on multiple senses continuously - touch, visual, auditory, and even smell. They actively seek out sensory input and if they are understimulated they will make their own (rocking, hand flapping, spinning, etc.). Kids in general also just fucking love playing in water, the enjoyment is just exponentially higher for autistic kids.

 

[Dick The Birthday Boy]

You should ALWAYS refuse a polygraph. It's bullshit that's about as accurate as aura reading or tarot cards used by cops to convince retarded criminals to confess. There's a reason they haven't been admissible in court for over 20 years.

The only people who need a good lawyer more than the guilty are the innocent. Also, polygraphs are complete bullshit, including the newer ones that claim to detect lies through your voice. They're just another interrogation tactic designed to make you nervous when they say things like, “Hmm, you had a reaction there." or saying you failed certain parts so they can continue press you on whatever they want.
Don't pull that Sovereign Citizen garbage but unless it's your name, don't say anything without a lawyer.

 

[AnOminous]

The only people who need a good lawyer more than the guilty are the innocent. Also, polygraphs are complete bullshit, including the newer ones that claim to detect lies through your voice.

fMRI based lie detectors are probably less voodoo than what is mostly currently in use. They actually operate based on what's going on in the brain. Different centers light up when you're accessing memory and when you're making shit up.

They're novel enough I don't think there's much information on how accurate they are currently, but it's almost certainly possible to build a lie detector that actually does work to some degree.

Also if you want to be a glowie or have a security clearance or work certain jobs, you pretty much have to take a lie detector. I almost think glowies use them because they want psychopathic liars who don't trip a lie detector.

 

[Dick The Birthday Boy]

fMRI based lie detectors are probably less voodoo than what is mostly currently in use. They actually operate based on what's going on in the brain. Different centers light up when you're accessing memory and when you're making shit up.

They're novel enough I don't think there's much information on how accurate they are currently, but it's almost certainly possible to build a lie detector that actually does work to some degree.

Also if you want to be a glowie or have a security clearance or work certain jobs, you pretty much have to take a lie detector. I almost think glowies use them because they want psychopathic liars who don't trip a lie detector.

I'm going to avoid power-leveling, but anything can trigger a reaction or a "lie" on the test.. Clenching your asshole (I'm not kidding) , stomach noises, even the test administrator's infamous gut feeling. And 99% of the time, you'll hear the same line: "The test shows you had a reaction."

In the context of a job interview, or really, any time, it's a placebo. It's like when you're a kid and a parent or teacher says, "I already know who did it; I just want you to be honest." They didn't know. But under pressure, you cracked—so now they do know , but only because you told them. Again, power leveling and whatnot, even with the new voice tests, it is a more of a pressure test than a lie detector, with the pressure coming from the mental scrutiny of the magical scientific bullshit junk you're attached to. The voice test has the added benefits for the administrator because it's new and shiny.

I'm not going to knock anyone for taking them when they have to for a job, but yeah, it's all theater.

 

[SITHRAK!]

What are everyone's theories about what happened to her?

Parents couldn’t find a babysitter so they sedated her to go out to dinner. She suffocated sleeping face down or choked on aspirated vomit. They disarticulated her, stuffed her in a suitcase, got rid of the body parts and made up the kidnaping story as a cover.

On a similar topic, I don’t know if the Lindy ‘a dingo took my baby’ Chamberlain case has been brought up ITT but Australian friends have suggested that the child was murdered by a jealous sibling, the parents disposed of the body far from the campsite, and blamed it on a dingo. The absence of blood trails, paw prints or drag marks that would have made tracking the animal extremely easy with a flashlight, even in the dark, seems to be a lingering question that Chamberlain’s defenders don’t like to talk about.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Kids in general also just fucking love playing in water, the enjoyment is just exponentially higher for autistic kids.

This would be my guess, too.

From pools to creeks to the fucking oceans, kids fucking adore playing in the water. It's just something that they all love to do, and considering kids already don't have great self-preservation skills, and are clumsy af, autistic ones having a higher rate of drowning isn't that unsurprising.

In fact, I'd argue it'd weirder if they didn't.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Parents couldn’t find a babysitter so they sedated her to go out to dinner. She suffocated sleeping face down or choked on aspirated vomit. They disarticulated her, stuffed her in a suitcase, got rid of the body parts and made up the kidnaping story as a cover.

On a similar topic, I don’t know if the Lindy ‘a dingo took my baby’ Chamberlain case has been brought up ITT but Australian friends have suggested that the child was murdered by a jealous sibling, the parents disposed of the body far from the campsite, and blamed it on a dingo. The absence of blood trails, paw prints or drag marks that would have made tracking the animal extremely easy with a flashlight, even in the dark, seems to be a lingering question that Chamberlain’s defenders don’t like to talk about.

Sounds like what I think happened to JonBenet Ramsey. I think her brother killed her accidentally and Patsy helped cover it up. It doesn't help that Patsy is dead and the police completely botched the crime scene by contaminating it.

 

[glass_houses]

On a similar topic, I don’t know if the Lindy ‘a dingo took my baby’ Chamberlain case has been brought up ITT but Australian friends have suggested that the child was murdered by a jealous sibling, the parents disposed of the body far from the campsite, and blamed it on a dingo. The absence of blood trails, paw prints or drag marks that would have made tracking the animal extremely easy with a flashlight, even in the dark, seems to be a lingering question that Chamberlain’s defenders don’t like to talk about.

It was a fucking dingo. Aborigines in the area told the authorities at the time that dingoes had a long history of preying on Aborigine infants. All of the "evidence" in favour of homicide was either wildly misinterpreted or flat out made up. Dingoes are highly intelligent, extremely agile predators and can climb fucking trees. They are more than capable of snatching a sleeping infant from a tent.

Sounds like what I think happened to JonBenet Ramsey. I think her brother killed her accidentally and Patsy helped cover it up. It doesn't help that Patsy is dead and the police completely botched the crime scene by contaminating it.

The father did it, the mother covered it up. JonBenet was doted on by her mother and molested by her father. The brother was being emotionally abused / neglected and was jealous of the attention that JonBenet was getting and acted out. The clue is in the ransom note. The Ramseys were weird fucks, and they took advantage of Burke's behavioural problems in order to subtly throw him under the bus.

 

[barrow greeter]

Operation Highjump of course

 

[Silence of the Troons]

On a similar topic, I don’t know if the Lindy ‘a dingo took my baby’ Chamberlain case has been brought up ITT but Australian friends have suggested that the child was murdered by a jealous sibling, the parents disposed of the body far from the campsite, and blamed it on a dingo. The absence of blood trails, paw prints or drag marks that would have made tracking the animal extremely easy with a flashlight, even in the dark, seems to be a lingering question that Chamberlain’s defenders don’t like to talk about.

There's nothing mysterious about the case. Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo. The "blood" found in the car turned out to be from spilled milk and an industrial overspray. There was a policeman who took photos of large paw prints close to where the baby was taken and found what looked like blood stains outside the tent, but the samples he collected were never tested. The Royal Commission into the case later debunked much of the forensic evidence that was used to convict Lindy Chamberlain in 1982. It's neither the first nor the last time that country bumpkin cops have butchered a case because of their incompetence.

The only reason why Lindy Chamberlain isn't still in jail is because some Britbong tourist became convinced in 1986 that the Chamberlains had sacrificed the baby in some kind of cult ritual. He tried to climb Uluru during the night in order to find evidence, but ended up falling to his death. The police accidentally discovered the baby's buried matinee jacket near a dingo lair while they were looking for the guy's remains. They could have found it earlier if they'd done their job, instead of deciding that the absence of the jacket proved that Lindy had murdered her baby.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

The Trevaline Evans case baffles me. On a Saturday in June 1990, a woman goes about her usual work day at her antique shop. Leaves a note saying she's out for a bit. Goes to buy fruit. Banana found in trash in store. She was seen near her house but all her belongings were still in the store.

 

[glass_houses]

The Trevaline Evans case baffles me. On a Saturday in June 1990, a woman goes about her usual work day at her antique shop. Leaves a note saying she's out for a bit. Goes to buy fruit. Banana found in trash in store. She was seen near her house but all her belongings were still in the store.

She was abducted from the store, sexually assaulted, the rapist played "nice guy" and released her near her house so she clean up... and then he came back, abducted her again, and this time murdered her.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

She was abducted from the store, sexually assaulted, the rapist played "nice guy" and released her near her house so she clean up... and then he came back, abducted her again, and this time murdered her.

It is troubling she hasn't been found.

 

[glass_houses]

It is troubling she hasn't been found.

It's possible that she has been found, and misidentified. If her body was found skeletonised, she may have ended up in a pathologist's drawer, waiting for a DNA test that will never come because "British Justice System".

I feel so fucking depressed right now.

 

[Le b0wski]

It is troubling she hasn't been found.

People forget how big the world is and how small a person is in comparison. Unless they dredge every river and dig up every bit of land everywhere, and that's before even thinking of stuff like feeding bones to a dog or pigs or something.

Reminded me of Snatch.

 

[often puzzled]

People forget how big the world is and how small a person is in comparison. Unless they dredge every river and dig up every bit of land everywhere, and that's before even thinking of stuff like feeding bones to a dog or pigs or something.

Yes, and one square mile in a downtown area or even along a major road is very, very different from one square mile in a stretch of woods. Even the Gilgo Beach bodies weren't found until there was an active search effort, and that wasn't really a rural area. Nature is even better at hiding things than humans are.

My family and I used to drive through a long, lonely road fairly frequently, several hours of just driving through woods frequented only by wildlife and hunters. I'd sit in the back seat and think of all the bodies that could be hidden out there. I was a morbid child with an active imagination, but I also wasn't exactly wrong.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

How about the young British woman Rebecca Coriam? The crew member who disappeared from the Disney Wonder cruise ship? Allegedly there is a tape of her last moments. The investigation report is sealed. Family just wants to know what happened. Is Disney really that butthurt even though deaths have happened at their parks for decades?
Family asked repeatedly for the report and it was denied each time.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

I would never go on an ocean cruise, they hire 3rd world rapists/thieves almost exclusively.

 

[Tequila Jong]

My family and I used to drive through a long, lonely road fairly frequently, several hours of just driving through woods frequented only by wildlife and hunters. I'd sit in the back seat and think of all the bodies that could be hidden out there. I was a morbid child with an active imagination, but I also wasn't exactly wrong.

I used to live very rurally in the mountains, and I used to have a running joke with my closest friends that they were entitled to one body each for me to dispose of on the family farm. After which I used to often think the same thing as you when driving around, there could be bodies buried here and no-one will ever know. I mean there was just nothing for miles, and no authorities to speak of. I sometimes wonder if some hiker after a particularly bad storm will find some bones or a corpse or something.

It's an old and very famous one, but the Mary Celeste still intrigues me. A crew abandons a ship in perfectly sailable condition in a hurry and are never heard from again, the ship itself turns up ten days East of the last ships' log. It was a long time ago, but I remember reading a theory that the cargo they were hauling included some kind of alcohol or ethanol that ignited, and that whatever it was exploded but with invisible flames. Not hot enough to set fire or scorch the wood, but enough to make a very loud bang. Sailors being a superstitious bunch, probably got incredibly spooked and ran for the lifeboat and got the hell out of there. But the theories are all over the place and no-one really knows what happened to the crew or why they abandoned ship, took a lifeboat, and cut the rope.

 

[glass_houses]

I remember reading a theory that the cargo they were hauling included some kind of alcohol or ethanol that ignited, and that whatever it was exploded but with invisible flames. Not hot enough to set fire or scorch the wood, but enough to make a very loud bang

There was a documentary that examined this theory, and while we'll never know if it's true, it covered everything found/not found on Mary Celeste very neatly. Iirc I still have that documentary on an external hard drive somewhere, I'll see if I can find it. I think it came down to chemistry, flash point, inexperience, and bad weather.

Edit: I can't find it, but research leads me to believe that the documentary was Solved: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste released in 2006 by the UK's Channel 5. If someone else can dig it up, post it here, I wouldn't mind watching it again.