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?

@Nicholas II of Russia , I'll try this, my replies in bold...
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:

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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 the most compelling thing, to me, about this case. And the one that makes the most suspicious. You mean to tell me, that of all the things they could have used for speculation, the death of Chris'' wife and son is what they went with?

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.

I don't remember Chavo mentioning this part. Cite?

- 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.

People not in their right minds often say or do things out of character for them, like murder their family.

- 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.

The bolded part seems irrelevant.

- 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.

Never heard this. I had always read that Chris was hanging from the cable.

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

Maybe to make the force applied to his neck greater to ensure death? I don't own a weight machine, nor have I ever tried to hang myself, so I'm a bit out of my depth here.

- 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.

Cite?

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

Seems irrelevant.

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

Probably to alert whomever got the message that Chris could be found at his home address, rather than on the road on the way to wherever he was due to wrestle.

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

Cite? never heard this.

- 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 alcohol could have been consumed before all this began.

- 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.

That might explain why he waited a day to murder his son after murdering his wife then waiting another day to off himself instead of doing it all at once in a fit of rage.

- 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.

never read this. Cite?

- 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.

I seem to remember the reports, at the time, being fairly consistent. Cite?

- 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.

Things can very well go on very normally in life, before disaster happens, even in murder-suicide. There is nothing strange or unusual with this.

- 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.

This is all conspiratard bullshit. marks getting worked by Kevin's Gimmick, lol.

- 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.

If his brain was deteriorating, this might not be so unusual.

- 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.

Chances are this is an exaggeration to drive CTE hype, and/or, slightly soften the blow of a beloved wrestler murdering his family. Even if this were true, brain damage does not affect everyone in the exact same way. His brain could have been a mess, but functioning well enough for Chris to get through life somewhat normally.

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

Maybe, but a great deal of this sounds like typical conspiracy nonsense. I wasn't paying attention to wrestling at the time, but my youngest son was. Raw was on the TV when the news of this was breaking, and there was so much coverage at the time, it fascinated me. I've read up a good bit over the years, and most of what you posted, I haven't heard.
 
I recall some amount of confusion about Daniel Benoit having Fragile X or whatever that made him look like a downy mutant, but tbh I figured it was just because he was Chris' son and Chris had that weird stubby arm downy mutant look in general.

the mysterious Stamford IP is def a thing that's been around for a while

the "people sound like they're hedging about talking up Benoit on the tribute show" iirc he was known to be REALLY fucking weird in the head going back to Pegasus Kid, like not normal carnie "lets plow some rats and do coke and maybe piss on them and throw them out of the motel room" stuff, but like "laughs at nothing until somebody slips and seriously injures himself" weird, so there was immediately speculation backstage that he went nutso and killed them

iirc there's a photo of Benoit that was taken, like the Friday of that weekend from some rando who saw him at a doctor's office or something, it's a very quick cell phone pic of him in a wood-paneled place

has anybody tried stalking up the Dr and looking for leads to follow there?
 
the "people sound like they're hedging about talking up Benoit on the tribute show" iirc he was known to be REALLY fucking weird in the head going back to Pegasus Kid, like not normal carnie "lets plow some rats and do coke and maybe piss on them and throw them out of the motel room" stuff, but like "laughs at nothing until somebody slips and seriously injures himself" weird, so there was immediately speculation backstage that he went nutso and killed them

iirc there's a photo of Benoit that was taken, like the Friday of that weekend from some rando who saw him at a doctor's office or something, it's a very quick cell phone pic of him in a wood-paneled place
I thought the photo was taken at some gas station or the like or at least someone saw him at one. And yeah he was a weird fucker he had the nickname Nessie cause like the namesake he would just contact his friends out of the blue and if you didn't respond then that was it you wouldn't hear from him for months even if you tried calling back.
 
- 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.

Has there ever been any info on why someone might have been following Chris Benoit and wanted him dead?

Editing because I somehow missed the Kevin Sullivan thing. But why would the police keep changing important info about the bodies? Payoffs?
 
It's not very creepy but I'm utterly fascinated by "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet"


A post-punk/new wave song from the 80s that played on German radio station NDR around 1984. It's been an internet sensation for about 4 years now. There's a dedicated subreddit on finding the origin of the song but so far no leads to the identity of the band. So far they've managed to narrow it down to a German band that was active in at least 1983. People managed to find the brand and model of the synthesizer that was used in the song, a Yamaha DX7 which came out in late 1983.

Unfortunately momentum seems to have slowed down as the subreddit is not all that active anymore. There was a lot of confidence that it would be found 2-3 years ago. Popular YouTuber Whang made a few videos on the subject, the last video being released in 2021.

The song is an absolute banger and the fact that it can't be identified despite having vocals and identifiable equipment is fascinating.
I find that the lostwave community has kind of moved on from this and that this is the new hot thing:
 
As for something not so grizzly, there's the Voynich Manuscript.

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It's a book so mysterious, it's named for a man who bought it in 1912, despite being carbon dated back to the 1400s. The text inside is written in a completely unknown, undeciphered language, and there are plenty of illustrations that give you an idea as to what it could be, but nobody truly knows what it is. The Wikipedia article is pretty comprehensive on the details about how it's been mulled over throughout the ages by cryptographers and historians worldwide.

You can see scans of the entire thing here: https://archive.org/details/voynich
voynich manuscript was partially deciphered by Edith Sherwood. edithsherwood.com
 
Bat Pussy

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In the 90's, some guy discovered ~200 boxes of vintage pornography in the back of a porno theater. One of these films was BAT PUSSY which contains no credits for the cast or filming crew. It's a dreadful, awful porno "spoofing" the 1960's Batman series, perhaps the first porn parody in history. It is very clearly from the early 70's. The "actors" are only known by their in-character names and are clearly from the South based on their thick accents. The guy, who is impotent, has a Arkansas Razorbacks tattoo on his ass. Other than that, the cast of BAT PUSSY is a mystery.

This, for me, is where the creepy factor comes in. If you're from Arkansas, let's say, there's a chance your parent or grandparent might have been in a horrible Batman porn parody in the '70's. Do you know for a fact your grandmother wasn't Dora Dildo? Or your grandfather wasn't Buddy? Live in fear, Razorback fans.

Bit of a shitpost but I'm always curious about re-discovered lost media.
 
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In the 90's, some guy discovered ~200 boxes of vintage pornography in the back of a porno theater. One of these films was BAT PUSSY which contains no credits for the cast or filming crew. It's a dreadful, awful porno "spoofing" the 1960's Batman series, perhaps the first porn parody in history. It is very clearly from the early 70's. The "actors" are only known by their in-character names and are clearly from the South based on their thick accents. The guy, who is impotent, has a Arkansas Razorbacks tattoo on his ass. Other than that, the cast of BAT PUSSY is a mystery.

This, for me, is where the creepy factor comes in. If you're from Arkansas, let's say, there's a chance your parent or grandparent might have been in a horrible Batman porn parody in the '70's. Do you know for a fact your grandmother wasn't Dora Dildo? Or your grandfather wasn't Buddy? Live in fear, Razorback fans.

Bit of a shitpost but I'm always curious about re-discovered lost media.
IIRC Brad Jones did a Cinema Snob on this. Pretty funny one, but yeah. Even for porn, pretty abysmal but then you wonder was it deliberate or were they indeed a bunch of retards with no clue how to do this?
 
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In the 90's, some guy discovered ~200 boxes of vintage pornography in the back of a porno theater. One of these films was BAT PUSSY which contains no credits for the cast or filming crew. It's a dreadful, awful porno "spoofing" the 1960's Batman series, perhaps the first porn parody in history. It is very clearly from the early 70's. The "actors" are only known by their in-character names and are clearly from the South based on their thick accents. The guy, who is impotent, has a Arkansas Razorbacks tattoo on his ass. Other than that, the cast of BAT PUSSY is a mystery.

This, for me, is where the creepy factor comes in. If you're from Arkansas, let's say, there's a chance your parent or grandparent might have been in a horrible Batman porn parody in the '70's. Do you know for a fact your grandmother wasn't Dora Dildo? Or your grandfather wasn't Buddy? Live in fear, Razorback fans.

Bit of a shitpost but I'm always curious about re-discovered lost media.
I know the Farms members are a bunch of Scandinavian prude incels but porn is a growing place for lost media. Some of the old websites have completely disappeared along with a ton of their old videos, pretty much a lot could be gone forever.

Thread tax: The Gareth Williams death is always creepy. Basically a member of GCHQ who was attached to MI6 was found decomposing inside a padlocked sports bag inside his bath.

It‘s somehow been written off as an accident because “gays are weird and do things like that to themselves.”

The press just treated it like an oddity rather than asking why a member of the intelligence services had been clearly murdered and the authorities were covering in up.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
 
I know the Farms members are a bunch of Scandinavian prude incels but porn is a growing place for lost media. Some of the old websites have completely disappeared along with a ton of their old videos, pretty much a lot could be gone forever.

Thread tax: The Gareth Williams death is always creepy. Basically a member of GCHQ who was attached to MI6 was found decomposing inside a padlocked sports bag inside his bath.

It‘s somehow been written off as an accident because “gays are weird and do things like that to themselves.”

The press just treated it like an oddity rather than asking why a member of the intelligence services had been clearly murdered and the authorities were covering in up.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
This one always makes me laugh. That the Met could make a statement that he died alone, in a bag locked from the outside is so bizarre to say the least.
The coroners investigation showed that although they made 400, yes four hundred, tries they couldn't get in the bag without help.
But he totes locked himself up and wiped off his fingerprints from the lock.
 
I know the Farms members are a bunch of Scandinavian prude incels but porn is a growing place for lost media. Some of the old websites have completely disappeared along with a ton of their old videos, pretty much a lot could be gone forever.
This is very true, though with modern pornography, I don't think much is lost in the 125,175th twenty minute scene of a blonde woman getting gangbanged disappearing from the world. But the rate at which pornography becomes lost must be staggering.

Take ancient stag films, for example. It's estimated anywhere from 75%-90% of all silent movies are lost, now imagine what those stats must look like for seedy porn films. And just like with my BAT PUSSY post, God only know who a lot of these people were. Take the credits from A Free Ride (aka A Grass Sandwich):

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We'll simply never know who made or starred in it. And back in ~1915, it took considerable skill to film anything, so whoever made this ancient porno almost certainly had legitimate film training and probably directed normal pictures for good Christian folk.

The Gareth Williams death is always creepy.
I'm honestly shocked there wasn't been a The Thin Blue Line-esque expose on this blatant miscarriage of justice. But I guess it's only been 14 years. And it glows so hard the powers that be would never allow the truth to get out until it's too late to punish anyone responsible.
 
The West Memphis Three. What really happened and was there really a satanic sex cult operating in the town and tangentially involved. Who was this Lucy Lucifer character? What about the others named as attendees of these gatherings? What about the weird King David, the twinky attendant to a Pentecostal pastor. While not involved in the murders, what the fuck was that all about and what is their church up to nowadays?

For the record, I believe evidence points to Jason and Damien having done did it, but managed to get out because HBO tried (and succeed) to present black as white. Damien's then girlfriend Domini, may have also been present or in the area. Morbidly fascinating & deserving of its own thread.
 
Catching up, this reminds me of another 9/11 case, Sneha Anne Philip.
Years ago there was a website where people would mail in "secrets" written on postcards and the website would publish them. This was pre social media era (except maybe livejournal.)

I remember that one of the postcard secrets was from someone claiming to have been in New York during the 9/11 attacks and was supposed to be in one of the buildings, but survived, and simply walked away and never got in contact with family again, letting everyone presume they died in the attacks.

That one stuck with me. Of course it could have been as fake as all our modern reddit stories, but you never know, it could have been someone like this woman.

Edit: here's the secret, but it's apparently a lot newer than I thought. I could have sworn post secret was a lot older.
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