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?

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

The killing of Henryik Siwaik.

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

He is notable for being the only homicide on 9/11 that was not part of the attack (NYPD don't the attack as one).
It is suspected that he got killed because of his poor english and that he was wearing camo, which made people suspected he was a terrorist.
It has never been solved as all personal were needed at the twins towers and in the chaos that followed, it became a cold case.

Catching up, this reminds me of another 9/11 case, Sneha Anne Philip.

I've linked to the Wikipedia article but I'll summarize:

Philip was a doctor last seen on September 10th, on her day off. She and her husband, Ron Lieberman (also a doctor), lived in lower Manhattan, not that far from the World Trade Center. She was seen shopping, and talked to her mother about visiting the Windows on the World restaurants in the WTC. Her husband reported that she didn't come home that night, and had a party habit so this wasn't unusual, more on this later. Later, investigators found that someone tried calling the husband's cell phone at 4am, though he claims not to remember it.

After the attacks, Lieberman gets past the security perimeter and found dust in the apartment from the collapse, but his wife wasn't there. Her disappearance was reported to police, the family placed fliers, but she hasn't been seen again.

There are a few theories as to what happened to Philip. One is that she died when the towers fell, having gone in as a doctor to render aid, or gone in to visit the restaurants she was talking about the day before. The problem is that nobody saw her near the towers that day, there's no footage of her, and no body or DNA.

Another theory is that Philip intentionally vanished. Remember the party habit? According to the NYPD investigation, Philip had earlier in the year been fired from her employer, Cabini Medical, for tardiness and alcohol-related offenses (showing up to work drunk?) She took this news by going out again with coworkers, ending up in jail. She then started spending her nights in gay and lesbian bars, sometimes leaving with women. Eventually she got another job at St. Vincent's, but began having the same problems at work and was suspended again, this time for missing a meeting with a substance abuse counselor. On the morning of September 10, she was arraigned on a criminal charge and pleaded not guilty, resulting in a fight with her husband about her drinking problems and nights out. She walked off.

She also could have died the night before; perhaps an angry husband, or she went home with the wrong lesbian.

As a result, the NYPD took her off the list of victims.

Philip's family has disputed the NYPD investigation, claiming she was fired from Cabrini for being a whistleblower on sexism and racism issues. Lieberman also says that his wife never slept with the women she went home with, and drinking was just a phase and she was totally growing out of it, bro. Eventually the family petitioned the court and eventually added her to the official list of victims.

 

[AnOminous]

Philip's family has disputed the NYPD investigation, claiming she was fired from Cabrini for being a whistleblower on sexism and racism issues. Lieberman also says that his wife never slept with the women she went home with, and drinking was just a phase and she was totally growing out of it, bro.

Sounds like cope to me.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

The problem I have with the government doing it, either in this case or all the various indiscriminate poisonings out there that have yet to be solved, is why would they use a lethal chemical when they could use something non-lethal but severe enough that the victims will be hospitalized, ensuring accurate statistics gathering?

Late, and not to sound like a conspiratard, but in light of all the recent food recalls happening right now, I think I might know why they would choose something so dangerous, and why they chose Tylenol specifically.

Theoretically, if it was just something like salmonella, or listeria, and they just chose something like meat, vegetables, or even candy to put it in, it wouldn't be so out of the ordinary since stuff like that happens all the time.

Furthermore, if they did choose to contaminate Tylenol with those, while it would be extremely questionable as to just how they of all things would've ended up in it, there would be at least a somewhat justifiable, and mundane answer as to how it happened. Lastly, while those illnesses are very dangerous, they aren't an automatic death sentence.

However, none of that would be true with cyanide, and at the time, Tylenol would've been the perfect vessel to do it with.

Back then, Tylenol bottles had no protective seals on them, and their pills could easily be broken open, have their contents replaced, be put back together again, and no one would be any the wiser. The medicine inside the pills was also a white powder that cyanide looks exactly like, so even if the off chance of a pill somehow breaking open and spilling its contents all over the rest of the pills inside bottle happened, no one would suspect anything.

On top of all that, Tylenol is used by basically everyone, can be bought by anyone, is cheap, and easily accessible, has virtually no diets that restrict, or disallow it, and given how it's consumed, no one would even taste it, so there'd be even less chance of someone suspecting something was wrong until it was too late.

This all means that the testing size would be almost limitless, and given just how quickly cyanide kills people, the results would come in very fast, too.

If that wasn't bad enough, if you really wanna think about the psychological aspect of this all, a cyanide pill is something that already has a sinister aura to it, and people would know that, and be familiar with it via pop culture, and history meaning fear, and panic would just spark even more.

And finally, it wouldn't be the first time the government has knowingly poisoned the public, and gotten people killed because of it. From the Tuskegee STD horrorshow to the time the CIA sprayed what was supposed to be a "harmless" bacteria over the San Francisco Bay Area that ended up killing at least one person to them spiking a bunch of people's drinks with LSD just to see what would happen, the government has done shit like this before so them doing it again, at least in a limited area, and capacity, is by no means out of the question.

Tl;dr: If the government was truly trying to see how the public would react to an attack like this, cyanide would cause more mass panic given the circumstances, Tylenol at the time would've been the best way to distribute it while providing the most results, and they've already done things like this before, and would totally do it again.

 

[AnOminous]

Tl;dr: If the government was truly trying to see how the public would react to an attack like this, cyanide would cause more mass panic given the circumstances, Tylenol at the time would've been the best way to distribute it while providing the most results, and they've already done things like this before, and would totally do it again.

Anthrax would probably be "better" for this purpose as it goes on for a while, enough to enhance the terror aspect, and also has the added "bonus" of area denial, since cleanup is costly and time-consuming, and operations of whatever entity gets hit are going to be disrupted completely in the interim. Funny thing, we had a very suspicious series of those that ended in "yeah it was totally that dead guy who dunnit."

 

[DavidFerrie]

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

 

[The Taco Santo!]

just drunks falling asleep in the snow.

 

[Maricón de Mierda]

Friendship Island (link)(Spanish Wikipedia)

Friendship Island is probably the most well-known Chilean extraterrestrial "encounter" although nobody involved seems to actually claim there were aliens. In the 80's several amateur radio enthusiasts in Chile started to get transmissions from a group of people from a place called Friendship Island, in the southern archipelago of Chile. There is no island with that name. Over the radio, they'd chat together often, for hours at a time. They had some kind of accent and based on their religious ideals, the Chileans thought they were Mormons or European priests who had settled there. Supposedly, Friendship Island contained a good deal of rare metals and the inhabitants exported them via their lone yacht to support their religious community. They lived entirely alone.

After repeated invitations, a Chilean decided to visit them and eventually lived on Friendship Island for a time, working for the inhabitants. He described them as tall, blond, and tanned but clearly European. He said the island had a surprising amount of amenities, like a greenhouse and satellite TV, as well as many computers in a time when they were not common, but seemed to have no need for a clinic or hospital. Most notably, the people possessed the ability to predict the future and accurately predicted various natural disasters and the Challenger explosion.

When the Chilean returned to his country, he spread the word about Friendship Island and it immediately got some media buzz. A television station tried to locate the island twice, once even with the assistance of the Chilean Navy, but no such island was ever discovered and the radio transmissions seemed to cease. The man who had visited there was put under hypnosis and repeated his story. He also spoke in a strange language and wrote some symbols that were later determined to be competent Hebrew.

Why is Friendship Island associated with aliens? Well, I guess that's the "easy" answer to explain this weird happening. The inhabitants do closely match descriptions of Nordic aliens, which are rarely discussed in America but much more common abroad. Certainly their ability to see the future is unexplainable beyond "aliens did it."

Friendship Island is considered a hoax today, but it seems to me that it's two separate hoaxes, the first from the so-called inhabitants of Friendship Island and then the second from the Chilean who claims to have visited there. That someone was transmitting and claiming to be on an island in the south of Chile is corroborated by several ham radio users. But as far as I'm aware, the guy who visited the island has no proof beyond "trust dude me."

Last year, a documentary about Friendship Island was released. A Japanese guy also made a short film about it.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Everybody remember the Chris Benoit double homicide-suicide case that shocked the entire wrestling world and gave a great impact to the business in general. When Chris did the horrible crime of killing his family and then killing himself in a three day lapse. However, when someone looks the time to see all of the details about the murder and especially how the investigation was handled that makes the entire situation very creepy and even suspicious. There are a lot of weird details about the case that are talked about and other that are not so talked about but are still very weird.

The first and most popular weird detail. The Wikipedia article that was edited hours before his death. It was posted in the midnight of July 23, 2007, the day of his death. The article was edited out in a very detailed way on what happened, giving this description:

• “Chris Benoit was replaced by Johnny Nitro for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy.”
  https://prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/Chris_Benoit

To make this even more weirder is that the IP of the poster who did the edit was from Stamford, Connecticut, the same place where the WWE Headquarters are. Which led to believe that the entire company knew about the murders 14 hours before it happened, some even believe that this was caused by someone within the company. And for some strange reason, this entire coincidence was entirely dismissed by the Fayette County police, no reason given why.

The author of the post said:

“I really just want to put all this behind us. I made a mistake and I’m sorry. I know I’ve said that a million times but today has just been a bad day with this getting all this mainstream coverage even though it was just a huge coincidence.”

The author of the entry explained that he, along with thousands of other wrestling fans, were speculating about what “personal reasons” may have caused Chris Benoit to miss scheduled WWE events on Saturday and Sunday and latched onto a rumor online that Nancy Benoit had died, ultimately deciding to post the rumor as “fact” on Wikipedia.

This is one of the many reasons that were made suspicious about what happened, but it was not enough to prove anything, but like I said, when you read more and more about the incident, the more weird and suspicious it gets. Here's a list of many weird details that happened in the investigation and that supposedly happened during the murders.

- Chavo Guerrero – a close friend of Benoit- told WWE magazine that he talked to Chris for while on Friday night on his house phone. About 45 minutes into the conversation, Chris told him that there was somebody knocking at his door and he was going to see who it was. Shortly after Chris answered the door, there was a “scuffle” and then his house phone line went dead. Chris could only be reached on his cell phone about 3 hours later. This is very significant. This explains why there was no forced entry. Chris apparently knew these people and let them in.

- After Chavo reached Chis on his cell phone, he said that Chris sounded very odd, groggy and tired. He also said that Chris told him “I Love You Chavo” which sounded forced. The WWE also said that when Chris called in and told them that Nancy and Daniel were sick he did not sound like himself. He sounded groggy. Chris then said “I Love You” which they say was out of context because he usually didn’t say this.

- Chris Benoit and Nancy's cellphones were confiscated by the police, and they were never recovered after the investigation. The supposed steroid needles that Benoit used hours before the murders were missing too, they were never recovered and there isn't even evidence that existed.

- Chris was not hanging from the weight machine like the official report said he was, he was laying on the floor underneath the machine. Another officer said that Benoit was “slumped” against the weight machine.

- There was a white cloth wrapped around Chris’ neck. If he was so suicidal why would he care if his neck was bruised?

- The medical examiner says that Chris Benoit died on Saturday. The text messages were sent on Sunday. Chris was already dead so who sent the text messages? It is noted that nobody talked to Chris on Sunday.

- The pills and steroids that were found in Chris' house were not in his body in the autopsy.

- Chris sent Chavo a text message telling him his address. Chavo already knew were Chris lived. He spent the previous weekend with him.

- Chris’ body was badly de- composed, about the same as Nancy’s. This shows he died sooner than Sunday.

- Chavo said that in the weeks before his death, Chris Benoit seemed “worried” about something but he could not get Chris to open up and tell him why he was worried.

- There is a rumour that he was searching in Google something called The Lazarus Ritual, something about reviving corpses after death, presumably after his family's death. This was confirmed as false though.

- There were 10 empty beer cans and an empty body of wine besides Chris’ body. He tested negative for alcohol.

- The toxicology confirmed that Chris had Hydrocodone (pain killer) Xanex (anti-anxiety drug). I have used both of these. These 2 drugs combined will sedate Chris and make him very sleepy. He probably wouldn't be in a murderous rage during the time of the crime.

- The police originally said that Daniel died on Friday because his body was badly de-composing. This supports my belief that all 3 died on Friday night. The police changed the manner of Daniel’s death 3 times. 1st he died from a garbage bag, 2nd he died from a choke hold, 3rd he was smothered by a pillow. This is where the details regarding the police investigation get very sloppy.

- The police kept changing the location of where Nancy’s body was found. 1st she was found in the downstairs family room, 2nd she was found in the upstairs bedroom, 3rd she was found in the house office.

- Chris’ father said that Chris called him on father’s day and told him that he wished he could spend more time with his family but he had to work. One of Nancy’s friend says that Nancy Loved Chris and she had no plans to leave him.

- Kevin Sullivan (Nancy's ex-husband and main suspect) told Chris Benoit that he would kill him. Kevin is currently a high ranking member of a satanic cult. Kevin is also on the WWE Board of Directors. Kevin Sullivan also had motive to kill Daniel Benoit because he was Chris and Nancy’s offspring. Retired wrestler Dusty Rhodes said that “he danced with the devil” when working with Kevin Sullivan who is known as being Cold-hearted and conniving. The Benoit family was murdered on the 10-year anniversary of Nancy’s divorce from Kevin Sullivan.

- Weeks before he died, Chris Benoit’s colleagues said that Chris began taking alternate routes to and from work and back to his house. Chris and Nancy believed that somebody was following them. Chris’ friends dismissed his worries as paranoia.

- In one of the edits from the Wikipedia article about Chris Benoit, there was another very strange prediction about his death, giving the detail that a knife was below the son's bed, there is photos about the case saying that there was in fact a knife below Daniel's bed, althought it is not known if the photos are legit.

- It's been said that Benoit had the brain of an 80 year old with Alzheimers. But it was never even stated how the roster or the company didn't know about this.

When you look more at the details, the case seems more like an entire homicide of a family, instead of a double-murder suicide.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

So neither Epstein or Benoit killed themselves.

 

[Maricón de Mierda]

Bruno Bréguet

Bruno Bréguet has the unique distinction of being the first European to be arrested for Pro-Palestine terrorism. Born in Switzerland, at twenty he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Commie Middle Eastern terrorist organization most famous for pioneering aircraft hijacking for political purposes. He was arrested for trying to bomb a harbor and spent seven years in an Israeli prison before getting an early pardon due to "public advocacy by an international committee of supporters that included Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Noam Chomsky and Alberto Moravia" as well as noted Nazi-lover, Swiss banker François Genoud. Already as a young man, Mr. Bréguet had a interesting and oddly influential list of supporters.

Bréguet then spent the next twenty years engaging in various bombings and other terrorist attempts in France, Germany, and Greece. He became a close associate with Carlos the Jackal, one of the most infamous terrorists of all time, who was backed by the Stasi and KGB. At one point, Bréguet and Carlos were arrested for an attempted bombing of a French nuclear plant, as well as attempted murder when the cops busted them, but because of their insane politic connections, they were given a slap on the wrist. Despite being so close to Carlos both personally and politically, Bréguet is confirmed to have been a CIA informant on both Carlos and various left-wing terrorist groups internationally.

On 12 November 1995, Bruno Bréguet boarded a ferry going from Italy to Greece. He was never seen again. Because of his incredibly complicated political history, it's anyone's guess who did what to him. He could have been killed by virtually dozens of different governments or terrorist groups. Alternatively, he could have defected to dozens of different governments and assumed a new identity. His backing and allegiances went to both sides of the Cold War, legitimate and criminal.

Not very creepy, but I know this thread enjoys international intrigue. I've rarely seen one man glow so hard. The easiest answer is, of course, his criminal pals found he was a rat and vanished him in the sea.

 

[DavidFerrie]

Stumbled onto yet another weird one, this time from Canada: the "Cat Lady Disappearances" in Ontario where four seniors vanished completely while living at a sketchy "retirement home" run by an equally shady extended family. No bodies have ever been recovered, and no murder charges were ever filed against the family.

 

[Maricón de Mierda]

Stumbled onto yet another weird one, this time from Canada: the "Cat Lady Disappearances" in Ontario where four seniors vanished completely while living at a sketchy "retirement home" run by an equally shady extended family. No bodies have ever been recovered, and no murder charges were ever filed against the family.

Sad and unsolved but hardly a mystery. The Laans either killed them or hid their bodies following natural deaths in their horrible deathtrap old folk shanty town. This one paragraph pretty much sums it up:

"There was another peculiar detail: after these three men disappeared, police say their pension cheques were still being cashed. And none of the Laans had ever reported the men missing."

Absolute scumbags preying on helpless old people. I can't believe lack of corpses prevented SOME kind of legal action. Canadian cops doing yet another bang up job. Not remotely surprised Walter later got busted for confining an old woman and talking about her boobs. Nor am I surprised the other two brothers managed to get squeaky clean high position jobs despite their obviously sordid past.

Ron Allen, the uncle, could very well have been the mastermind. Since he lived on the property and was older than the brothers, there's little doubt in my mind he was the "heavy" when it came to the old folk. The cat lady sounded scared of him when alive. And he's the only one who vanished completely afterwards. But the guilt is on all four of them.

My own personal guess is it was simply posthumous pension fraud and not foul play. The farm sounded so neglectful that any medical emergency would result in a corpse.

 

[glass_houses]

My own personal guess is it was simply posthumous pension fraud and not foul play. The farm sounded so neglectful that any medical emergency would result in a corpse.

While it's true that the farm was a slum, the fact that Lawrence preferred to do her ablutions in a fast food restaurant instead of the farm's bathroom was extremely telling, especially with the comment "You just don't know what he was going to do," in regards to Ron Allen, is extremely indicative of an actively dangerous, rather than merely neglectful situation. Lawrence appears to have been a very intelligent, articulate woman, which both maddening on a personal level to abusers, and a massive liability to a professional stand over merchant. I'm quite certain that her murder would have been intentional and extremely violent. Neglect may well have been the cause of death for the other three, but Lawrence, no.

I doubt that their bodies were disposed of on the farm grounds. They were likely driven to the middle of a large patch of bush and buried deep. They will never be found.

 

[Trianon]

Stumbled onto yet another weird one, this time from Canada: the "Cat Lady Disappearances" in Ontario where four seniors vanished completely while living at a sketchy "retirement home" run by an equally shady extended family. No bodies have ever been recovered, and no murder charges were ever filed against the family.

I listened to a whole podcast about this one, on CBC's Uncover. They were basically running a bootleg retirement home and pocketing all the government funds for running it and only providing them with like a three-walled shack for shelter. Just awful. Apparently the law that would have required them to have inspections and things didn't go into effect until 2010, so it was just a free for all.

Lawrence was actually telling police about the missing money, filing proper police reports, so it's very likely the Laans found out about that.

 

[GloryHole Stalker]

@Nicholas II of Russia , couldn't reply directly to your post. I'd actually be willing to believe there was more to the Benoit murder/suicide than meets the eye, as there always seemed to be something sketchy about how this all supposedly went down, but do you have citations for most of your points? I don't remember reading/hearing about most of your points over the years. Do you care to point me in any particular direction to look some of this up? Links?

 

[Fat Gay Riker]

@Nicholas II of Russia , couldn't reply directly to your post. I'd actually be willing to believe there was more to the Benoit murder/suicide than meets the eye, as there always seemed to be something sketchy about how this all supposedly went down, but do you have citations for most of your points? I don't remember reading/hearing about most of your points over the years. Do you care to point me in any particular direction to look some of this up? Links?

If you select a part of a post too long for replies it's brings up a quote/reply option that you can then quote from under the "insert quotes..." button in your reply area, like so.

12 November 1995, Bruno Bréguet boarded a ferry going from Italy to Greece. He was never seen again

I don't know what the length of a post has to go on for until it's quote-only, but hope this helps.

I'd also want more concrete stuff on the Benoit killings, because the first counter on "He had the brain of an 80 year man" is testing is done post-mortem.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

Does anyone know where my goddam lighter is?

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

The Family murders, Adelaide South Australia. Mr. Cruel, Australian Capital Territory. Podcasts available on both, google if you want to vomit.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

Does anyone know where my goddam lighter is?

Is it up your ass/in your pee-hole? If so, it doesn't belong there.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

Is it up your ass/in your pee-hole? If so, it doesn't belong there.

THATS WHY I SHIT FIRE, sheeeeeeeeeit nigga i aint know.