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?

[BullDogsLipBrandClamjuice]

maybe not as interesting as what everyone else posted, but hwat are Foo Fighters? not the band, the Orbs or balls of light allied bomber crews would see following them around the skies over Europe and Japan. If I'm not mistaken some German pilots may have seen them too. I've read varying reports that the orbs would follow planes, some times disable engine gremlin style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter

They could've been some Wunder Waffe or hell maybe Himmler found some ancient dark magic/ technology some where haha..

I've been thinking a lot about the big UFO craze after the war too.
I'm thinking a few could be written off as aircraft we got from Germany or things those crazy Kraut scientists we brought back under Operation Paper Clip.
I'm not saying that had alien craft but some things we know they had sure look like it.
to someone used to biplanes and bombers the flying wing sure looks out of this world.

Horten Ho 229 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

looks a lot like our stealth bomber from the 1st gulf war.
Die Glocke is some thing to look into as well, but it might be one of those things hyped up in the last 70 plus years..
the early abduction cases from the late 40s- early 60s are interesting too. May have been some early MKultra type shit.
Take the Betty and Barney Hill case for example- The couple are driving along, see a light, stop the car when a craft come down, the aliens diddle them and have a chat- one shoots some goo on her dress and drop them back like catch and release. Betty later draws one of the beings as wearing a hat, so what right? Who the fuck has ever seen an alien with a hat? I'm thinking some gov spooks may have been fucking with them. I'm really stretching but thats my idea.

Spoiler: might just be from the Outer Limits episode...

I'm going full retard right now- my favorite expalnation for the Roswell incident is a nazi craft Stalin packed with deformed mongoloid children Dr Mengela experimented on to scare the United States

Roswell alien was sub-human creation of Auschwitz Nazi Josef Mengele claim

THE Roswell UFO incident of 1947 was not ALIEN visitors but actually a Soviet spy plane sent to spook the US at the beginning of the Cold War, according to extensive research carried out on the subject.

www.express.co.uk

 

[NyQuilninja]

maybe not as interesting as what everyone else posted, but hwat are Foo Fighters? not the band, the Orbs or balls of light allied bomber crews would see following them around the skies over Europe and Japan. If I'm not mistaken some German pilots may have seen them too. I've read varying reports that the orbs would follow planes, some times disable engine gremlin style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter

They could've been some Wunder Waffe or hell maybe Himmler found some ancient dark magic/ technology some where haha..

I've been thinking a lot about the big UFO craze after the war too.
I'm thinking a few could be written off as aircraft we got from Germany or things those crazy Kraut scientists we brought back under Operation Paper Clip.
I'm not saying that had alien craft but some things we know they had sure look like it.
to someone used to biplanes and bombers the flying wing sure looks out of this world.

Horten Ho 229 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

looks a lot like our stealth bomber from the 1st gulf war.
Die Glocke is some thing to look into as well, but it might be one of those things hyped up in the last 70 plus years..
the early abduction cases from the late 40s- early 60s are interesting too. May have been some early MKultra type shit.
Take the Betty and Barney Hill case for example- The couple are driving along, see a light, stop the car when a craft come down, the aliens diddle them and have a chat- one shoots some goo on her dress and drop them back like catch and release. Betty later draws one of the beings as wearing a hat, so what right? Who the fuck has ever seen an alien with a hat? I'm thinking some gov spooks may have been fucking with them. I'm really stretching but thats my idea.

Spoiler: might just be from the Outer Limits episode...

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I'm going full retard right now- my favorite expalnation for the Roswell incident is a nazi craft Stalin packed with deformed mongoloid children Dr Mengela experimented on to scare the United States

Roswell alien was sub-human creation of Auschwitz Nazi Josef Mengele claim

THE Roswell UFO incident of 1947 was not ALIEN visitors but actually a Soviet spy plane sent to spook the US at the beginning of the Cold War, according to extensive research carried out on the subject.

www.express.co.uk

I'm too lazy to find it but many years ago on the Yahoo clubs section there was a conspiracy theory floating about Alien abductions were government experiments on people using mind altering substances. It kind of makes sense in some ways

 

[BullDogsLipBrandClamjuice]

I'm too lazy to find it but many years ago on the Yahoo clubs section there was a conspiracy theory floating about Alien abductions were government experiments on people using mind altering substances. It kind of makes sense in some ways

I'd be interested in reading that if anyone finds it.
I wouldnt doubt it. Back in the 50s you could order lsd through mail order catalogs, so it was pretty easy to get. Shrinks used to use it to experience pyschosis to get a better understanding of their patients. I've read stories of CIA agents dosing their coworker's drinks with it for fun, so it would not surprise me some "cowboys" went around fucking with civilians for kicks.
Hell give someone enough acid, take them to some blacksite on an operating table and maybe some halloween masks/ surgical masks with glasses covering the agent's face boom you got some bug eyed monsters with no nose and a slit mouth probing you in a bright room. Never know, some sick fucks might have done it to an ex's new boyfriend or it was just the thing to do after hours on friday nights. That would make a good movie.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Oh man, I love this stuff. Some of my favorites have already been posted but here are a couple more.

The Lead Masks Case - Two guys were found dead in business suits and lead masks, with a weird note on them. The note said to be at a certain location, take pills, and wait to receive some kind of signal (maybe, the note itself is rather unclear). No injuries or signs of struggle. Cause of death was never definitively determined. Best guess is that they were crazies trying to get abducted by aliens or something, but to this day, nobody really knows.

Elisa Lam - Hotel guests complain of a strange taste in the water. Maintenance looks into it and finds a dead body in the water tank, naked, with the clothes floating separately. Security footage was checked, and they found a strange video of the dead woman using the elevator. She was behaving oddly, appearing agitated, getting off and on, pressing all kinds of different buttons, etc.

The doors to the roof were locked (although investigators found it plausible she might have gotten up to it using the fire escape). The tank she died in would have been very difficult to access, and was closed when they found her, which would have been nearly impossible to do from the inside.

The video is public, but appears to have been altered, with some segments missing in the time stamps. This may have been done to protect the privacy of others in the video, but it's not certain.

No drugs were detected in her system, aside from a legitimate prescription and OTC meds. No signs of injury or struggle. She did have bipolar disorder, but I feel like that's pretty far from a complete explanation.

The official cause of death was accidental drowning due to a bipolar episode. Which might be true, I suppose, but the whole thing is fucking bizarre.

 

[DavidFerrie]

Want a really creepy unsolved disappearance, Kiwis? Check out the 1949 case of housewife Dorothy Forstein, who was abducted from her Philadelphia home in sinister circumstances, by persons unknown, for reasons God only knows. Apparently recent attempts to publicize the case have been met with cease-and-desist letters from family attorneys, which just add to the mystery.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Want a really creepy unsolved disappearance, Kiwis? Check out the 1949 case of housewife Dorothy Forstein, who was abducted from her Philadelphia home in sinister circumstances, by persons unknown, for reasons God only knows. Apparently recent attempts to publicize the case have been met with cease-and-desist letters from family attorneys, which just add to the mystery.

I can't wait for the DMCA request.

 

[DavidFerrie]

What was done to Junko Furuta was obviously vile and similarly, not "unsolved" but the torturers, rapists and murderers got off almost entirely scot-free.

Here's another one that's not "unsolved," but rivals the Furuta and Likens cases in terms of the sheer, subhuman cruelty involved. Funny that this incident, which occurred in 1962 California, is so obscure. And check out the wrist-slapping the murderer got from the court!

Back to unsolved cases: the disappearance of Ohio State medical student Brian Shaeffer in the midst of a crowded bar under the surveillance of security cameras, is a weird one.

 

[NyQuilninja]

I'd be interested in reading that if anyone finds it.
I wouldnt doubt it. Back in the 50s you could order lsd through mail order catalogs, so it was pretty easy to get. Shrinks used to use it to experience pyschosis to get a better understanding of their patients. I've read stories of CIA agents dosing their coworker's drinks with it for fun, so it would not surprise me some "cowboys" went around fucking with civilians for kicks.
Hell give someone enough acid, take them to some blacksite on an operating table and maybe some halloween masks/ surgical masks with glasses covering the agent's face boom you got some bug eyed monsters with no nose and a slit mouth probing you in a bright room. Never know, some sick fucks might have done it to an ex's new boyfriend or it was just the thing to do after hours on friday nights. That would make a good movie.

Amazon.com: MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction (9781881532187): Lammer Ph.D., Helmut, Lammer, Marion: Books

Amazon.com: MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction (9781881532187): Lammer Ph.D., Helmut, Lammer, Marion: Books

www.amazon.com

Heres a book on it I'll have to dig around more

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

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This is like something straight out of Info Wars.

 

[GeorgiaGuidestones]

Want a really creepy unsolved disappearance, Kiwis? Check out the 1949 case of housewife Dorothy Forstein, who was abducted from her Philadelphia home in sinister circumstances, by persons unknown, for reasons God only knows. Apparently recent attempts to publicize the case have been met with cease-and-desist letters from family attorneys, which just add to the mystery.

That’s just bizarre. What does the family know and what are they covering up after all these years? Most families would do anything for exposure to such an old case but this family wants their privacy? Something is not right there.

 

[DavidFerrie]

Here's what might be the single strangest missing-persons story I've ever heard. It involves a 13 YO "runaway" who was never reported missing by her parents, and just gets weirder from there. (You can either view it as a news story, or read the transcript on the page.)
Courtesy of the woman who runs the fascinating Strange Company blog!

 

[Carnavoyeur]

Here's what might be the single strangest missing-persons story I've ever heard. It involves a 13 YO "runaway" who was never reported missing by her parents, and just gets weirder from there. (You can either view it as a news story, or read the transcript on the page.)
Courtesy of the woman who runs the fascinating Strange Company blog!

Never heard of that case before. What a wild ride.

 

[General Disarray]

Wanted to update the thread to tell you all that there's a new Netflix doc about the Cecil Hotel. This is the hotel where Elisa Lam and her famous elevator video happened. They'll be looking into not only that incident, but many others that have occurred over the years. Sounds interesting!

 

[Bunny Tracks]

The Ever-Growing Dangerous Filth That Couldn't Be Washed Away; La Mancha Negra: Starting in 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela, a strange, slippery, gummy, greasy, oily, black substance starting oozing up from the roads.

Originally appearing as just a black smear around 50-yards-long, nothing much was thought of it until it began to grow bigger, and bigger, and soon encompassed eight miles of the highway. The strange material appeared to shrink when the weather was cold, and dry, but grow when the weather was hot, and humid. The substance also seemed to preferred sheltered environments like tunnels, or inclines like the uphill slopes near the airports.

Due to the texture of the slime, the roads it covered became death traps as they came exceeding unsafe to drive on, being described the locals a being "slick as ice". By 1992, over 1,800 deaths had allegedly been attributed to the ooze, due to the extremely unsafe conditions it created, although this number is admittedly extremely high and unlikely as it would mean that at least on person would be dying per day on that road.

Efforts to get rid of the substance failed. Originally believing the muck to just be a mixture of dust, and oil, it was initially believed that the rain would just wash it away. When that failed, pressurized hoses were used with no avail. Industrial strength detergents, and solvents were used, but those too also failed. Workers even tried to scrape away the mess, and parts of the road it was on only to watch helplessly as La Mancha Negra just grew back, and continued to expand.

Eventually, tons of powdered limestone was dumped all over the stain in an attempt to dry it out, and while that worked for a while, the resulting dust made the roads still incredibly unsafe, and the air nearly unbreathable.

The filth was thought to have finally been destroyed in 1996 when specialized cleaning equipment was brought in from Germany only for it to return less than a decade later in 2001.

Theories as to what La Mancha Negra is vary. From raw sewage that caused a chemical reaction on the roads that caused them to breakdown, to a mixture of highly corrosive breaker fluid, and engine oil, to the aforementioned mixture of dust, engine oil, and other car fluids that get accidentally sprayed all over the highways by the outdated, broken-down cars a lot of Venezuelans still drive, to the asphalt of the road just simply melting in the intense, humid Venezuelan heat after being improperly applied.

Stranger theories came in in 1992, when former Venezuelan president Carlos Andrés Pérez claimed that people opposed to his rule were purposefully spreading oil on the roads to tarnish his reputation, and that was the actual cause of the mess. In 2001 when the stain appeared again, chavista mayor, Freddy Banal, accused the opposition of hiring homeless people to spread La Mancha Negra, whatever it actually was, back onto the roads.

Whatever it is, the millions of dollars that have allegedly been poured into stopping it have all been in vain. To this day, La Mancha Negra continues to grow, and cause dozens of car accidents a year, and while the filth occasionally does recede back into the ground, and attempts to at least contain, and temporarily get rid of it are partially successful, more than three decades later, no one is still quite sure what it is, why it keeps coming back, why it it grows the way it does, and why it ever appeared in the first place.

Edit: Corrected, and clarified some mistakes, and misinformation. Sorry!

 

[Thumb Butler]

Want a really creepy unsolved disappearance, Kiwis? Check out the 1949 case of housewife Dorothy Forstein, who was abducted from her Philadelphia home in sinister circumstances, by persons unknown, for reasons God only knows. Apparently recent attempts to publicize the case have been met with cease-and-desist letters from family attorneys, which just add to the mystery.

Nothing mysterous here. A classic husband kills wife story.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Wanted to update the thread to tell you all that there's a new Netflix doc about the Cecil Hotel. This is the hotel where Elisa Lam and her famous elevator video happened. They'll be looking into not only that incident, but many others that have occurred over the years. Sounds interesting!

Are they, though? Because it seems all four episodes are just about her case. No offense, but the Elisa Lam case doesn't have nearly enough material to warrant a nearly four-hour-long miniseries.

 

[General Disarray]

Are they, though? Because it seems all four episodes are just about her case. No offense, but the Elisa Lam case doesn't have nearly enough material to warrant a nearly four-hour-long miniseries.

I just saw the previews on the TV, and from what I understood they were going to talk to a former manager and it was going to address multiple incidents. Unfortunately, as you stated, it does seem that they are going to set the scene in the beginning with lore, then devote the rest to the Elisa Lam case. Damn, I was hoping that it would be more of an in-depth history of the hotel itself pre-Lam. Sorry to disappoint everyone.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

I just saw the previews on the TV, and from what I understood they were going to talk to a former manager and it was going to address multiple incidents. Unfortunately, as you stated, it does seem that they are going to set the scene in the beginning with lore, then devote the rest to the Elisa Lam case. Damn, I was hoping that it would be more of an in-depth history of the hotel itself pre-Lam. Sorry to disappoint everyone.

It goes into a bit of the hotel's history during the first, and second episode, but the series is literally just dedicated to Elisa Lam. The former manager they interview basically just says that while hotel does have a dark history, it was not responsible in any way for Lam's death.

Honestly, the thing is just way, way too dragged out, and starts to feel a bit disrespectful after while with just how much it milks, and pads out the poor girl's death.

 

[A-Z0-9]

The Ever-Growing Dangerous Filth That Couldn't Be Washed Away; La Mancha Negra: Starting in 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela, a strange, slippery, gummy, greasy, oily, black substance starting oozing up from the roads.

So wait... This is literally (a variant of) the grey goo event?

I wonder if one can retrieve a sample of this substance and plant it somewhere else...

 

[polonium]

So wait... This is literally (a variant of) the grey goo event?

I wonder if one can retrieve a sample of this substance and plant it somewhere else...

I want to know more about this stuff. Can we grow it?