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?

Scarlett Johansson said:
Originally I had confused this case with the guy in the UK (?) he like was on an island, went with two foreign guys to a house, there's footage of him there, and is missing
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Jay Slater in Tenerife. He does seem to be the same type of party guy with shitty 'friends'. Slater was found dead, he had an accident. He went with those guys to the house for drugs or something like that, but he left on his own and unhindered, then decided to take a route through volcanic landscape and fell into a ravine.
 
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glass_houses said:
He was washed clean of trace evidence before he was dumped, and everyone at the party completely wiped their phones. If it were just a drunken accident they would have been on the hook for under age drinking but I doubt that it wouldn't have been a life ruining event; they could have just said that he took the took the quad bike out by himself, and they were all too drunk to notice/care that he was even gone until the next day and they sobered up and found the wreckage and his body.

Whatever happened, I doubt that it was accidental.
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If they were smart they'd get out of state ppl flown in to investigate. I feel awful for the family. Its the not knowing that is terrifying. There's also something about how somebody picked up his tooth then denied it. Its a damn mess.
 
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AnOminous said:
Shit like this is why I got really paranoid about anything remotely sketchy in the vibe around "party people" and the instant things seemed anything remotely like that, I'd bounce.
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This instinct has saved me becoming an unsolved mystery a bunch of times. Even out my face when I was young I seemed to know when to bolt.
Cheesegirl78 said:
Been there, done that.

I had a couple of "friends" like that, had to cut them out of my life before they dragged me down with them.
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Saddest day of my life was when a former good friend tried to get me involved in his petty dealing.

A criminal charge for drugs would have ended any career place before they even started. Family friends are bouncers and if I’d been caught dealing and just got a kicking from the bouncers my poor parents would have found out.

That he’d try risk all that for me and think I’m that stupid just so he could get a couple of quid of beer money extra still makes me angry twenty odd years later.
 
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glass_houses said:
So a random videya came up on my recommendations, about a young man called Noah Presgrove who was found dead beside the side of the road on September the 4th, 2023. He'd spent the last few days attending a rager with a group of friends in rural Oklahoma, and as with many other occasions involving teenagers and copious amounts of alcohol, at some point something went terribly wrong... but what exactly went wrong is rather mysterious.

Thoughts?
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Easy: a drunken fight gone wrong, his body got dumped by his sh!thead-friends. Presumably one or more of the teens has police connections, so it won't get solved. Oklahoma cops are the worst; they're always getting busted by the feds. For example, this article about an Oklahoma sheriff who was investigated by the fbi for turning a blind eye to a meth ring (as well as turning a blind eye to some disappeared strippers). I think he eventually was charged/took a plea deal for omission to perform a duty (i.e. not solving stripper disappearances or arresting meth dealers).

Heck, last week a bunch of Broken Arrow cops got fired for misconduct.
 
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Regarding Noah Presgrove, the hand/finger injuries combined with the friends saying they took out an ATV to look for him makes me wonder if they transported the body on the back of it with his hands dangling off the back of it on the road.

As someone else already mentioned, it doesn't take long at all for dragging to near-flay a body , so if they loaded him up haphazardly on a low vehicle it's entirely possible that the skin loss came from this. I'd be interested to see the autopsy results and know if these injuries were found to be pre- peri- or post-mortem. If they shoved him off so he hit face-first and peeled out of there fast while dumping him it could an explanation for the broken teeth and facial injuries too, as well as the lack of blood at the scene. I'd also be interested to know if they took the ATV into evidence and if so what (if anything) they found on it.
 
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This is my current case of interest. The Pemberton incident.

Tldr bloke goes missing, his burnt out car is found 14 hours away burnt out in a remote trail head.

Another bloke reported missing was supposedly seen with the guy in a bar on the night and said that a scary guy is going to kill them. RCMP refuse to class it as a criminal case.

One thing I've discovered from my true crime indulgences is that Canadian police are fucking useless.
 
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FedPostalService said:
This instinct has saved me becoming an unsolved mystery a bunch of times. Even out my face when I was young I seemed to know when to bolt.
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Agreed. And once, when I was tending bar/managing a really shitty dive bar, a guy came in that I just had a bad feeling about. I wouldn't serve him because he'd obviously had a few. Anyway, he left and went home and killed his whole family. At trial he claimed to have no memory of that night. It might even have been true.

As far as partying goes, there was some really sketchy shit. One time I fell asleep at a house party and a guy one room over strangled a college girl he'd picked up. One time I left a party because I had a bad feeling, turns out there was a guy there with a hammer looking for me, specifically, over some stupid high school drama I had long forgotten about, but he hadn't.
 
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JustWant2PlayVidya said:

This is my current case of interest. The Pemberton incident.

Tldr bloke goes missing, his burnt out car is found 14 hours away burnt out in a remote trail head.

Another bloke reported missing was supposedly seen with the guy in a bar on the night and said that a scary guy is going to kill them. RCMP refuse to class it as a criminal case.

One thing I've discovered from my true crime indulgences is that Canadian police are fucking useless.
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This case has come up before, first raised by @DavidFerrie and @Cpl. Long Dong Silver Tbh I think that the theory that this young man's disappearance- and the disappearances/murder of other young men in the area- are linked to the drug trade is a good one.
 
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The Foxtrot said:
But were they involved? Or just happened to be in the wrong place, wrong time?
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Going from memory almost certainly involved. If not directly, in a "financial services" type of way. If I'm remembering right he was into crypto or at least believed to be. He had something related to it in the storage locker he was traveling to visit, at the very least there were computers within he was retrieving. His behavior at the storage locker indicates he needed those items right now and not at a time he could have planned better than waiting around for several hours. Multiple phones and IDs were also found at the scene.
 
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parsnip said:
There's a young guy named Caleb Harris missing in Texas right now and the circumstances surrounding it are weird. I google him all the time looking for updates because it doesn't seem at all like the standard drink guy falls in water and drowns disappearance.
He left his house in the middle of the night and just vanished. His wallet, truck and keys were left at home. He had ordered stuff from uber eats to eat the next day that was delivered and his roommates found it on their porch in the morning. He was supposed to have classes on the Monday and then go fishing with his friends. I think he may have met up with someone for a gay hook up and got murdered.
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His remains were found in a wastewater lift station back in June. Unfortunately, his body was so heavily decomposed that an autopsy could not determine a cause of death. His death isn't currently being investigated as a homicide and authorities suspect he may have fallen through an open manhole, but his family does not believe that he died as the result of an accident.
 
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Scarlett Johansson said:
Originally I had confused this case with the guy in the UK (?) he like was on an island, went with two foreign guys to a house, there's footage of him there, and is missing
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Jay Slater? The internet rumor mill went crazy with that. The theory was he and the female friend he went to Tenerife with were running dugs and Jay either sampled too many of the wares or lost the drugs/money and now people were after him. Turns out he fell from a considerable height while attempting to walk back to Los Cristianos from Masca. The terrain is very difficult. You'd have to be insane to attempt walking it.

Literally why did he leave before his bus was due? He was told the bus was coming at 10am. But he left two hours before that. A witness who told him when the bus was coming said he was walking in the wrong direction very quickly. Why didn't he just listen to this lady and wait for the bus? Who attempts an 11 hour walk through rough terrain in the heat instead of waiting for the next bus? I rule this as death from being terminally stupid.

There were a lot of fake GoFundMe's made in Jay Slater's name. Some were scamming by selling access to Jay's funeral via livestream. The amount of trolling and scamming in this case was unreal. It makes me wonder if this guy was actually disliked by some people or if maybe there was more to the story. But either way I do believe he fell because he attempted a crazy hike back to Los Cristianos. Why he attempted it though will likely remain a mystery.
 
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Dysnomia said:
Jay Slater? The internet rumor mill went crazy with that. The theory was he and the female friend he went to Tenerife with were running dugs and Jay either sampled too many of the wares or lost the drugs/money and now people were after him. Turns out he fell from a considerable height while attempting to walk back to Los Cristianos from Masca. The terrain is very difficult. You'd have to be insane to attempt walking it.

Literally why did he leave before his bus was due? He was told the bus was coming at 10am. But he left two hours before that. A witness who told him when the bus was coming said he was walking in the wrong direction very quickly. Why didn't he just listen to this lady and wait for the bus? Who attempts an 11 hour walk through rough terrain in the heat instead of waiting for the next bus? I rule this as death from being terminally stupid.

There were a lot of fake GoFundMe's made in Jay Slater's name. Some were scamming by selling access to Jay's funeral via livestream. The amount of trolling and scamming in this case was unreal. It makes me wonder if this guy was actually disliked by some people or if maybe there was more to the story. But either way I do believe he fell because he attempted a crazy hike back to Los Cristianos. Why he attempted it though will likely remain a mystery.
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Hello Lois Griffin lol.
I guess I had thought it was suspect in that he would have been in serious danger with the guys who's house he went back to. Obviously we know now that it wasn't the case but still. It terrifies me to even imagine falling like that. Scary shit all around. It is a shame he died at his age too.

Of all things, there is development in Asha Degree's disappearance after 24 years. A car has been found that may be traced back to her case.
 
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Scarlett Johansson said:
Of all things, there is development in Asha Degree's disappearance after 24 years. A car has been found that may be traced back to her case.
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Found an article
https://web.archive.org/web/2024091...unty-tied-case-missing-girl-sheriff-confirms/

Found this little connection interesting. I don't think it's necessarily related to what happened, but the last person I expected to be connected at all
As rumors of the connection [between the search and Asha's case] swirled, family members spoke out -- including Degree’s great uncle, Jesse Jackson.
Jackson told WBTV’s Jason Puckett that he was moved by the community’s continued remembrance of his niece.

“Thank God for that,” Jackson said. “I thank God that they still have hope and faith.”

Jackson said the last 24 years have been very hard on the family, and that even the possibility of having more answers gives him hope of some closure for them.


“I hope and pray to God that they find her,” Jackson said. “Dead or alive. Then we can be at rest. And that’s all I can say.”
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I don't recall ever hearing Asha Degree was/is related to Jesse Jackson
 
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