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?

[Pitbull Victim]

One crazy event I'm surprised isn't talked about more or been adapted into a movie or TV show is the Brabant killers. Robbing dozens of locations including a fucking Gendarme barracks, murders and executions and committing multiple mass shootings and escaping via shootouts. Absolutely bonkers.

https://unresolved.me/brabant

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

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What's especially interesting is that the gang were clearly sophisticated criminals based on their ability to strip and modify cars, win multiple firefights with the police without suffering any casualties, and successfully pull-off high speed escapes, yet they did nonsensical shit like show their faces, rob low-value targets, and commit extreme, unnecessary violence.

It's no wonder there's a bunch of conspiracy theories about what their actual endgame was - the BBC even had a program arguing they were part of Operation Gladio:

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

What's especially interesting is that the gang were clearly sophisticated criminals based on their ability to strip and modify cars, win multiple firefights with the police without suffering any casualties, and successfully pull-off high speed escapes, yet they did nonsensical shit like show their faces, rob low-value targets, and commit extreme, unnecessary violence.

It's no wonder there's a bunch of conspiracy theories about what their actual endgame was - the BBC even had a program arguing they were part of Operation Gladio:

There's not other explanation really. Walking up to a group of children in front of one of the stores and blasting one in the face is not something robbers do. Even ultraviolent robbers like the West Hollywood guys had no intention of shooting at anyone beyond the police. The fact that evidence such as fingerprints and cigarette butts went missing also points to having some sort of access to the police. I think the right wing paramilitary explanation is the best and I think the police do as well because they had the Thai police arrest the partner of Madani Bouhouche again to fish for evidence. They think Bouhouche and Beijer were/are the Killer and the Giant.

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/cri...er-robert-beijer-arrested-in-pattaya-thailand

 

[Dysnomia]

I know I'm responding to an ancient post, but does anyone else get the distinct impression that the person in that video is female? The build and the way that person is moving just screams woman to me.

Also, the hype around Elisa Lam never made sense to me. In the video it always seemed pretty obvious the woman was having some sort of psychotic break and climbing into something like a water tank and drowning makes much more sense than ghosts or someone putting her in there while avoiding showing up on camera. Same with that piss drunk woman that managed to get herself locked in a hotel walk in freezer.

The problem is that people want it to be supernatural and won't let it go. The explanation itself is just too simple. And people don't like that. Some irresponsible employee must have left the door to the roof unlocked. The lid to the water tank was either loose or broken. Elisa wasn't possessed or seeing ghosts or whatever. She had a history of mental illness.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

The problem is that people want it to be supernatural and won't let it go. The explanation itself is just too simple. And people don't like that. Some irresponsible employee must have left the door to the roof unlocked. The lid to the water tank was either loose or broken. Elisa wasn't possessed or seeing ghosts or whatever. She had a history of mental illness.

The boring explanation is almost always the correct one.

Look at Tamam Shud. Ended up just being a depressed electrician with severe family problems and an obsession with death and the numbers just turned out to be for the horse races.

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

The problem is that people want it to be supernatural and won't let it go. The explanation itself is just too simple. And people don't like that. Some irresponsible employee must have left the door to the roof unlocked. The lid to the water tank was either loose or broken. Elisa wasn't possessed or seeing ghosts or whatever. She had a history of mental illness.

I've read somewhere that the elevator footage we have seen is incomplete. It is strongly suspected that a person comes into view and the cops have been withholding that bit as evidence. The interpretation of the scene is that she was playing a game with this man. As part of their interaction, they went up on the roof, which BTW is easily accessible. There is footage on yt of people doing it. On the roof it is suspected they had sex, she was then put into a chokehold and placed into the water tank where she semi-drowned, her lungs not working properly due to the chokehold. It's brutal and disturbing, especially considering this sort of behaviour is something you'd expect from a seasoned killer, but it's not supernatural. What's unusual is that the killer remains unidentified.

As for her mental illness. She was on anti-depressants. Like a lot of kids. Nothing unusual and certainly nothing that rendered her dysfunctional. She was on this trip alone, not something her parents would allow, had she had a history of serious mental illness.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

In December 2018 I worked at a Walmart supercenter I worked 2-10pm I lived alone in a small one bedroom apartment
I came home from work one day (I needed to poop really bad) I got home and proceeded to use the restroom..... My toilet seat was already warm...... To this day this has been an unsolved mystery that keeps me up at night

Maintenance. At shitty apartments I've been at, they're fucking terrible about actually notifying you when they had to enter to check something. Multiple times I've found equipment they left behind.

 

[Devious Dave]

Maintenance. At shitty apartments I've been at, they're fucking terrible about actually notifying you when they had to enter to check something. Multiple times I've found equipment they left behind.

Thanks. This has been keeping me awake at night for 6 years

 

[Dr. Butt]

The problem is that people want it to be supernatural and won't let it go.

Fuck, seriously? Is that actually the root of the obsession with it? I thought it was fat girls who like podcasts insisting there was someone just out of frame in the surveillance video, and that person killed Elisa. Is all the "there's more to this" about fucking ghosts instead? Anyone trying to use that poor girl's horrible accident as part of their fat bitch with bangs and a ouija board "spiritual practice" should be drowned in a water tank.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Here's a recent one: Three Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead. Was it an overdose, manslaughter, or murder?

They all had massive amounts of fent in their systems. I think they went outside to do some fent laced coke, passed out, and froze to death.

https://www.wfla.com/news/toxicology-report-provides-insight-after-3-chiefs-fans-found-frozen-to-death-sources/

Friendship Island

My dude obviously found Hitler and his family chilling on the outskirts of Hyperborea

 

[Jason Wynn]

About 15 years ago here in Portland, a kid named Kyron Horman disappeared from his school and not a trace of him or any kind of clue to his whereabouts has been uncovered in all that time. It is strongly suspected his stepmother had something to do with his disappearance, she and his father had been having marital issues but nothing was ever really pinned down on her. She moved to California a few years after Kyron disappeared and legally changed her name, which only fuels further suspicion.

I still check in on this case every now and then. Creepy how in 15 years absolutely nothing has been found that could provide closure to his dad and biological mom, it’s like he just disappeared off the face of the earth.

There are a couple retired cops I’ve spoken with in the area who have told me that “they know exactly what happened to him and who is responsible but they don’t have enough conclusive evidence to formally charge the person” take that like I did with a grain of salt but it just adds to the mystery involving what happened to this kid.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

There are a couple retired cops I’ve spoken with in the area who have told me that “they know exactly what happened to him and who is responsible but they don’t have enough conclusive evidence to formally charge the person” take that like I did with a grain of salt but it just adds to the mystery involving what happened to this kid.

Makes you wonder how many retired and deceased cops know about unsolved crimes. I always had a gut feeling Amber Hagerman, the namesake for Amber Alert, know who abducted and killed her but haven't reveled it publicly yet.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

About 15 years ago here in Portland, a kid named Kyron Horman disappeared from his school and not a trace of him or any kind of clue to his whereabouts has been uncovered in all that time. It is strongly suspected his stepmother had something to do with his disappearance, she and his father had been having marital issues but nothing was ever really pinned down on her. She moved to California a few years after Kyron disappeared and legally changed her name, which only fuels further suspicion.

I still check in on this case every now and then. Creepy how in 15 years absolutely nothing has been found that could provide closure to his dad and biological mom, it’s like he just disappeared off the face of the earth.

There are a couple retired cops I’ve spoken with in the area who have told me that “they know exactly what happened to him and who is responsible but they don’t have enough conclusive evidence to formally charge the person” take that like I did with a grain of salt but it just adds to the mystery involving what happened to this kid.

I thought the stepmother had something to do with his disappearance as well.
Poor little guy.

 

[glass_houses]

Makes you wonder how many retired and deceased cops know about unsolved crimes. I always had a gut feeling Amber Hagerman, the namesake for Amber Alert, know who abducted and killed her but haven't reveled it publicly yet.

Sometimes they do. I have a relative was involved with multiple police investigations in a specialist capacity, and in many cases they were quite certain that a particular local grub was involved, but there was nothing that would remotely hold up in court if they'd try to bring charges. He was in the area at the right time, he had the right kind of car, the victim was the exact type that he'd been creepy and inappropriate to before, he had access to an area where a body could be hidden forever, his acquaintances snitched that he'd shown intense interest in the case but nothing he'd said was particularly damming... it happens.

Lots of missing people end up in bush graves in the middle of nowhere, and are never, ever found.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Sometimes they do. I have a relative was involved with multiple police investigations in a specialist capacity, and in many cases they were quite certain that a particular local grub was involved, but there was nothing that would remotely hold up in court if they'd try to bring charges. He was in the area at the right time, he had the right kind of car, the victim was the exact type that he'd been creepy and inappropriate to before, he had access to an area where a body could be hidden forever, his acquaintances snitched that he'd shown intense interest in the case but nothing he'd said was particularly damming... it happens.

Lots of missing people end up in bush graves in the middle of nowhere, and are never, ever found.

Back in the day cops would "take car of" people they suspected of murders or rapes but didn't have enough evidence to charge them. If you look up missing persons cases up into the 80s you'll find a lot of habitual criminals that go missing and no one bothers looking for them. Then you have the case in the 80s of that guy in Tennessee I think who was the town asshole and one day he was shot while waiting for his wife to finish the grocery shopping. Even though there were literally dozens of witnesses no one saw anything when the cops interviewed them so they didn't bother investigating.

 

[glass_houses]

Back in the day cops would "take car of" people they suspected of murders or rapes but didn't have enough evidence to charge them. If you look up missing persons cases up into the 80s you'll find a lot of habitual criminals that go missing and no one bothers looking for them. Then you have the case in the 80s of that guy in Tennessee I think who was the town asshole and one day he was shot while waiting for his wife to finish the grocery shopping. Even though there were literally dozens of witnesses no one saw anything when the cops interviewed them so they didn't bother investigating.

His name was Ken McElroy, and if you read the book In Broad Daylight you'll see that it wasn't a case of there being no suspects for his euthanasia, there were in fact so many people that wanted him dead that the investigation went nowhere. They did try, but ultimately were stymied. McElroy's child wife did attempt a lawsuit afterwards, but that again went nowhere. Her story was particularly tragic; he started abducting and raping her as a young girl, and by the time he was killed, she was a severely damaged woman.

 

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

I know I'm responding to an ancient post, but does anyone else get the distinct impression that the person in that video is female? The build and the way that person is moving just screams woman to me.

Also, the hype around Elisa Lam never made sense to me. In the video it always seemed pretty obvious the woman was having some sort of psychotic break and climbing into something like a water tank and drowning makes much more sense than ghosts or someone putting her in there while avoiding showing up on camera. Same with that piss drunk woman that managed to get herself locked in a hotel walk in freezer.

I’m pretty sure it’s a dude. Also, Missy was in decent shape. I think she would’ve stood a chance against a fat bitch playing dress up. And most women don’t murder with claw hammers. Or whatever it was that was used.

Screams male to me

 

[Cheesegirl78]

His name was Ken McElroy, and if you read the book In Broad Daylight you'll see that it wasn't a case of there being no suspects for his euthanasia, there were in fact so many people that wanted him dead that the investigation went nowhere. They did try, but ultimately were stymied. McElroy's child wife did attempt a lawsuit afterwards, but that again went nowhere. Her story was particularly tragic; he started abducting and raping her as a young girl, and by the time he was killed, she was a severely damaged woman.

Her house was burned down after she filed the lawsuit. She dropped it and left town after.

 

[AnOminous]

His name was Ken McElroy, and if you read the book In Broad Daylight you'll see that it wasn't a case of there being no suspects for his euthanasia, there were in fact so many people that wanted him dead that the investigation went nowhere.

If there were ever a case for a "he needed killin'" defense, that motherfucker was it. If you put me on the jury and I'd personally witnessed him getting killed by the defendant, I'd still acquit.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

If there were ever a case for a "he needed killin'" defense, that motherfucker was it. If you put me on the jury and I'd personally witnessed him getting killed by the defendant, I'd still acquit.

I saw a documentary about him, and the local police were afraid of the guy.

 

[AnOminous]

I saw a documentary about him, and the local police were afraid of the guy.

The local police were gay pussies. They should have ganked the guy themselves and made sure he'd never be found. Nobody would have complained.