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?

[sorrycharlie]

I didn't mention it, but I wasn't able to move as it happened, I don't think.

Sorry I wasn’t more clear, I know you said “sleep paralysis” specifically which implies you were really paralyzed. I was differentiating between your & other users’ posts. I don’t think what anyone else described was full-on sleep paralysis, as they all described turning their heads or attempting to touch the hallucinations.

 

[MexicanJumpingBeans]

The death of Charles Morgan has always been a creepy rabbit hole in my opinion. Don Deveraux of the show Unsolved Mysteries in 1990 looked into several leads on the murder and a man with a similar vehicle who worked near Don was shot dead shortly thereafter. If you know who Danny Casolaro is it gets even weirder. Danny was an OG conspiracy theorist who I remember going hard after the Clinton's corruption. He told Don he had information on Charles Morgan's death and was later found dead himself before they could meet. Both deaths were labeled suicides btw.

Edit: Here is the episode of Unsolved Mysteries

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Come back a different way as in different entrance or different route home? Either you've read too much House of Leaves, have brain damage (a small lesion), or more likely your brain is heavily primed by topographical markers around you which you subconsciously use to navigate, and missing some of them changes your expectations/processing, if that makes sense.

A different route home.

Never read House of Leaves, don't think I have brain damage, (though some may disagree with that) so the last option sounds the best.
Thanks for the help. I thought I would outgrow it as I got older, but I'm an old fart now and still do it.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

OT, and not the right place;
I've been doing this since I was a baby brie, but if I leave the house to shop, visit friends, anything else, and I come back a different way, the house seems slightly...off-kilter, for lack of a better word.

Not in a bad way, just different, even though nothing has changed in the house. And the feeling persists for the rest of the day.

I have no idea what this sensation is, others have described it as well.
Any psychological reason for this?

I've had that my whole life. I don't think it is strange. Even driving at a different time of day will throw me off.

I think it is what Harbinger said - Heavy reliance on topographical markers and/or cues. Every non-visual cues.
But once I get an area 'dialed in', I can navigate with my eyes closed.

Do you have a bad sense of direction, like me?
Just had it yesterday actually.

Update on my spoopys:
My SO does not believe or care about the clock: "It's a little busted".
however,
She believes strongly that she heard our dog-ghost sneeze at the back door.

I'm not religious, she is deeply. Snapshot of mindsets.

The death of Charles Morgan has always been a creepy rabbit hole in my opinion. Don Deveraux of the show Unsolved Mysteries in 1990 looked into several leads on the murder and a man with a similar vehicle who worked near Don was shot dead shortly thereafter. If you know who Danny Casolaro is it gets even weirder. Danny was an OG conspiracy theorist who I remember going hard after the Clinton's corruption. He told Don he had information on Charles Morgan's death and was later found dead himself before they could meet. Both deaths were labeled suicides btw.

Edit: Here is the episode of Unsolved Mysteries

Awesome find. Was it the Mob? Was it the US Treasury? Both? Other alphabets/glowies?

Spoiler: All spoilers

The $2 bill and the mexican names and map? Definitely mob connections.
Disappearing FBI case? Unannounced 'search' of the house?

Suicide? In the back of the head? With a vest? Nope.
Here is the bible verse referenced that led to nothing. I thought it was a code.

Ecc 12: 1-8 KJV
12 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

The passage is a warning about the fleeting of youth and warnings about how old-age will overtake you.
Items of note: references
grinders/millers millstone (milling)
daughters (his 4 daughters?)
Silver (cord) and Gold(en bowl).
almond tree and grasshopper
(biblical references to how your hair will turn silver, and your gait will be an unsteady, hopping walk like a grasshopper, but slow)

IMHO: he was killed by the mob, attempting to launder money starting with land deals, expanding into bullion (as mnetioned in the episode). Plot Twist - Maybe it was treasury agents doing the same, or working with the mob?

Don and Danny? Yeah, def glowies involved.
The Clinton Suicide (tm) should be patented by now, but these were early days.

The feds were involved.

 

[AnOminous]

If you know who Danny Casolaro is it gets even weirder.

Haven't heard that name in years. I don't think we'll ever know what really happened there. Other than that Danny Casolaro did not kill himself.

 

[MexicanJumpingBeans]

Haven't heard that name in years. I don't think we'll ever know what really happened there. Other than that Danny Casolaro did not kill himself.

Tbh I 100% believe that Casolaro’s death had more to do with the INSLAW case than his information on the Morgan cold case. That being said given that a hit was likely put out on Deveraux and botched, it may be up for debate. Danny essentially coined the Clinton kill list meme decades before it became a mainstream thing. It’s all very curious.

 

[AnOminous]

Tbh I 100% believe that Casolaro’s death had more to do with the INSLAW case than his information on the Morgan cold case.

And I never understood why they were so hell-bent on stealing that software instead of just paying the guy. Because they planned on using it for illegal shit? Even that doesn't make sense.

 

[MadStan]

I was once at a nightclub and this guy was stalking me. He ghosted me for about 10 mins. I walked across the room; and from the other side he would too. I sat down at a table and every time I looked up I saw him on the other side of the bar sitting down giving me the eye. I finally thought “man just let it go, walk back to the other side and don’t look at him again” but I couldn’t help it .so I decided to just stare him down and he did the same thing. Finally I thought “fuck it, punch this bastard out” so I made a bee line right for the guy. He came straight the fuxk at me so I knew I was in for a big fight.

When he was about 5 feet away I discovered the whole time it was my reflection from a wall of mirrors on the other side of the club.

Too much bloody Jagermeister…

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I was once at a nightclub and this guy was stalking me. He ghosted me for about 10 mins. I walked across the room; and from the other side he would too. I sat down at a table and every time I looked up I saw him on the other side of the bar sitting down giving me the eye. I finally thought “man just let it go, walk back to the other side and don’t look at him again” but I couldn’t help it .so I decided to just stare him down and he did the same thing. Finally I thought “fuck it, punch this bastard out” so I made a bee line right for the guy. He came straight the fuxk at me so I knew I was in for a big fight.

When he was about 5 feet away I discovered the whole time it was my reflection from a wall of mirrors on the other side of the club.

Too much bloody Jagermeister…

So who won?

 

[glass_houses]

I've experienced auditory hallucinations while falling asleep. I think it's called exploding head syndrome or something like that. I would have just fallen asleep when I suddenly heard a very loud sound like an explosion or yelling and jolt awake, but as soon as I did I realized the sound was not real.

I sometimes hear people arguing just as I'm about to fall asleep, but they sound like they are very far away and I can't make out any words, just that they are angry. It's annoying, if I have to listen to people fight, I should at least know what they're fighting about.

I haven't had this in a long time, but in the weirdest one, I was asleep in a room with an open door to the kitchen, and noticed a cat I didn't recognize on top of a shelf that wasn't really possible to get to. It was faced toward the wall, but then turned its head 180 degrees to look straight at me and had the head of an owl.

I fully woke up and it instantly popped out of existence.

I had this a few other times but usually more mundane stuff like just an ordinary cat.

The best one I remember having was an incredibly vivid preying mantis landing on my bed. It was absolutely perfect except that it was the size of a large cat. I fucking love mantids and I got so excited in my dream that I woke up. No mantis, not even a normal sized one. I was so pissed off.

 

[JanuaryViolet]

I sometimes hear people arguing just as I'm about to fall asleep, but they sound like they are very far away and I can't make out any words, just that they are angry. It's annoying, if I have to listen to people fight, I should at least know what they're fighting about.

I have had similar experiences, but not 'hearing' arguments. Sometimes it's the sort of cadence, intonation and delivery you would normally hear from a broadcast newsreader - but I can't make out the words. Other times it's sounded like a muffled conversation a couple of rooms away. I've actually asked a neuropsych (casually) about this. In their opinion, it's just some excess electrical activity of your brain, and your brain tries to resolve it into something you can recognize. I think it may be related to auditory pariedolia, which I've defiinety experienced. Having an explataion of this phenomena does not make it in the least less interesting.

 

[AnOminous]

I think it may be related to auditory pariedolia, which I've defiinety experienced.

Sometimes random background noise will sound like someone saying my name. I can usually tell it isn't real, though. fMRI has shown people's brains light up in different places when they hear their own name than other things, and that names in general have response patterns, so maybe it's just slightly oversensitive.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Sometimes random background noise will sound like someone saying my name. I can usually tell it isn't real, though. fMRI has shown people's brains light up in different places when they hear their own name than other things, and that names in general have response patterns, so maybe it's just slightly oversensitive.

Relevant starting point for reading about this:

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

 

[Day Walker]

I have had similar experiences, but not 'hearing' arguments. Sometimes it's the sort of cadence, intonation and delivery you would normally hear from a broadcast newsreader - but I can't make out the words. Other times it's sounded like a muffled conversation a couple of rooms away. I've actually asked a neuropsych (casually) about this. In their opinion, it's just some excess electrical activity of your brain, and your brain tries to resolve it into something you can recognize. I think it may be related to auditory pariedolia, which I've defiinety experienced. Having an explataion of this phenomena does not make it in the least less interesting.

I had this happen quite a bit when I was a kid. I knew the voices weren’t real and I wasn’t scared. However, when I mentioned it to my mom it freaked her out. She did her best not to show it but, I realized it wasn’t a normal thing so I didn’t talk to anyone about it after that. As I got older it happened less and less. I hadn’t thought about it in years. It’s good to know I’m not the only one and to have an idea of what was happening.

 

[Dysnomia]

I have had similar experiences, but not 'hearing' arguments. Sometimes it's the sort of cadence, intonation and delivery you would normally hear from a broadcast newsreader - but I can't make out the words. Other times it's sounded like a muffled conversation a couple of rooms away. I've actually asked a neuropsych (casually) about this. In their opinion, it's just some excess electrical activity of your brain, and your brain tries to resolve it into something you can recognize. I think it may be related to auditory pariedolia, which I've defiinety experienced. Having an explataion of this phenomena does not make it in the least less interesting.

I sometimes here beeps or my phone's text message tone.

But the first night I spent in this apartment I had some sleep paralysis thing where I heard children laughing, saw a family with blonde little boys playing in the third floor loft I use as a bedroom, a huge argument with people screaming and a woman pounding on the closet door trying to get out. It's not a closet now. It's got the central air unit inside. It's noisy. But the AC wasn't on that night as far as I remember.

I was able to "see" in this dream and the ceiling was red and cracked and the whole room was full of dusty junk. Then I snapped out of it and was so scared. But my cats were up here sound asleep. So I knew that it was just a dream. Cats would be going crazy if the house was haunted. Or so I've heard.

But that was the most terrifying thing I've had happen to me in my sleep besides the sleep paralysis where I was stabbed to death and left to die. This house is over 100 years old so there's probably some weird history I don't even know of. Oddly enough when I had that other dream about 25 years ago I lived across the street in a huge house just as old. A teen girl committed suicide there just before we moved in. I just try not to think about those things as supernatural. Easier that way.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

And I never understood why they were so hell-bent on stealing that software instead of just paying the guy. Because they planned on using it for illegal shit? Even that doesn't make sense.

I did 5 min of wiki-level research. A theory mentioned that software was modified (backdoored) allowing unauthorized access to third parties.
Imagine selling third-party access to cases. You can 'gatekeep' (for cash) access to what the state knows (and doesn't) and what points they are emphasizing on your case. Even what evidence the state plans on using that might not be 100% kosher (heresay, evidence that has compromised chain of custody, single-party recordings, etc..)
That would give a defense team an enormous advantage in court.

 

[AnOminous]

I did 5 min of wiki-level research. A theory mentioned that software was modified (backdoored) allowing unauthorized access to third parties.
Imagine selling third-party access to cases. You can 'gatekeep' (for cash) access to what the state knows (and doesn't) and what points they are emphasizing on your case. Even what evidence the state plans on using that might not be 100% kosher (heresay, evidence that has compromised chain of custody, single-party recordings, etc..)
That would give a defense team an enormous advantage in court.

It still just doesn't make sense. Why not just buy out Inslaw lock stock and barrel and just own it? Why these elaborate conspiracies?

Why an elaborately and obviously fake "suicide" on a guy who was saying before his death that any suicide would be fake? It's seriously on the three shots to the back of the head "suicide" level of fake. The guy killed himself as much as Epstein did.

Maybe it really was just mob shit and they just did a really bad job of faking a suicide. How plausible is that?

That's why I believe there was something way weirder going on.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

But my cats were up here sound asleep.

having two cats is a great way to be able to write off any spoopy occurrences short of ominous body-less laughter or bleeding walls grade shit
only one you're stuck with "oh hahaha that weird noise clearly must have been the ca- oh shit he's in here"

 

[DavidFerrie]

The death of Charles Morgan has always been a creepy rabbit hole in my opinion. Don Deveraux of the show Unsolved Mysteries in 1990 looked into several leads on the murder and a man with a similar vehicle who worked near Don was shot dead shortly thereafter. If you know who Danny Casolaro is it gets even weirder. Danny was an OG conspiracy theorist who I remember going hard after the Clinton's corruption. He told Don he had information on Charles Morgan's death and was later found dead himself before they could meet. Both deaths were labeled suicides btw.

Edit: Here is the episode of Unsolved Mysteries

This is a seriously weird case. The Casolaro connection just makes it even more sinister.

Speaking of poor Danny, that postscript incident to his life, when a still-unidentified high-ranking military officer showed up at his funeral, pinned a medal on his corpse, saluted him, and then left in a limousine, has always intrigued me. I wonder if Casolaro got caught up in some sort of dispute between CIA/NSA glowies and military intelligence, got whacked by the former for digging a little too deeply, and was honored sub rosa by the latter faction for digging up information that aided them?

 

[Maricón de Mierda]

Myojo 56 building fire

On September 1, 2001, there was a structural fire at the Myojo 56 building in Tokyo. It killed 44 people and wounded 3 others. The death toll was exacerbated by negligent safety practices, things like blocked fire escapes. Afterwards, 5 people were charged with criminal negligence. The cause of the fire was determined to be arson but nobody was ever arrested for it. There was a yakuza-run illegal gambling den in the building and it is commonly believed to be involved in the arson. Unfortunately, 9/11 happened a bit later and the public lost interest. It is the fifth deadliest fire in post-war Japanese history.

Paraquat murders

In Japan, in 1985, there was a rash of indiscriminate poisonings using the deadly herbicide, paraquat. The culprit targeted a brand of soda that was having a "buy one, get one free" campaign. They would put a tainted bottle inside the dispenser of a vending machine so when you purchased the drink, you'd think you got the extra soda for free. A total of 35 people were poisoned and 12 died. The poisonings stopped once police and the vending machine companies plastered the soda and machines with warnings to check the tamper seal before drinking. It is completely unknown who did it or why.

El Psicópata (The Psychopath)

The first known Costa Rican serial killer has never been identified but killed 19 people from 1986 to 1996. He would shoot them with an M3 submachine gun that has also never been found. None of the victims (always either women alone or couples) had any commonality or ties to the underworld. He operated in a radius of about 15 km and killed at night. Theories range from him being a psycho Nicaraguan guerrilla to being a member of a powerful family, all with no evidence. Complete mystery and one day the killings just stopped. There's a documentary about it.

The Stoneman

In the late 80's, there was a serial killer targeting homeless people in India. The press dubbed him the "Stoneman" because he always killed his victims with a large stone or piece of concrete. He'd simply target a homeless person who was alone and smash the poor fellow's head in. He killed 12 in Mumbai over the course of two years before suddenly stopping. Then, the following year in Calcutta, he seemed to start back up and 13 more died before disappearing once again. A victim was able to escape from him once, but sadly because of the dark he could provide no clues. It remains unsolved to this day. Two fictional films based off the case have been made in India.