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?

[Mola Ram]

His midgetry even improves it.

Anyone who doubts the authenticity of Pesci's psychotic rage has never met someone with a Napoleon complex.

 

[McMitch]

Anyone who doubts the authenticity of Pesci's psychotic rage has never met someone with a Napoleon complex.

This here is why it’s a miscast: because that’s exactly what it comes across as. The Napoleon Complex is entirely dismissive, rather than a trait to be feared. He’s angry because he’s short and he’s pathetic because it means he has something to prove.

 

[Mola Ram]

This here is why it’s a miscast: because that’s exactly what it comes across as. The Napoleon Complex is entirely dismissive, rather than a trait to be feared. He’s angry because he’s short and he’s pathetic because it means he has something to prove.

I'm going to be kind and assume you only half-watched the movie while surfing Grindr on your smartphone.

 

[McMitch]

I'm going to be kind and assume you only half-watched the movie while surfing Grindr on your smartphone.

I watched the movie then read the book then rewatched the movie. It’s a blatant miscast and I can only assume it’s a psyop that’s convinced people otherwise. There’s nothing about his acting that couldn’t be done by a guy twice as tall and half as old.

He’s still pretty good in Casino, that character fit a lot better.

 

[Dysnomia]

Per Trevor Angell: I remember when that seven-year-old girl was murdered in Primm. There was a national outcry about both the killing, and the (in)actions of the murder's friend David Cash Jr., who witnessed him attack the little girl and haul her into the restroom, but did nothing about it. Cash, who showed all the signs of being a sociopath, became a hated pariah at his university and elsewhere. I wonder where he is today.

I wouldn't be surprised if Cash is also a pedophile:

But Cash walked out of the restroom and left 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson to her fate: sexual molestation and death by strangulation. According to two of Cash's former high school pals, Cash told them he watched the sexual molestation. Cash himself told Nora Zamichow of the Los Angeles Times that, just before he and Strohmeyer joined Cash's father for a car ride back to the young men's homes in Long Beach, Cash asked his friend if Sherrice had been sexually aroused.

"Why would you ask if the little girl was aroused?" said the Times reporter.

"I don't know, it's just the way I think," Cash answered.

 

[C. G. B. Spender]

I think it's unfair to say he was miscast when he managed to turn in one of the most iconic mafioso performances of all time. Goodfellas took a lot of liberties with both casting and facts. Just check out what Paul Vario really looked like some time and compare him to the avuncular Paul Sorvino: the real guy looked like the monster he was. And Billy Batts got whacked for way more reasons than badmouthing Tommy when he got out of prison.

EDIT: Just to keep things on topic, Tommy DeSimone's disappearance is officially unsolved. No one has ever been charged with his murder and his body has never been found. There are theories that he was dumped in one of the so-called "mafia cemeteries" that have been uncovered in the woollier parts of the outer boroughs, but there's no real evidence for it, and he theoretically could be anywhere. Personally, I've always wondered how many mob hits wound up in the Fresh Kills Landfill. That place was so enormous nothing could be found there after just a few weeks of regular garbage dropoffs.

Like they said there's a lot of holes in the desert and lot of problems are buried in those holes. There are so many mobsters and people associated buried out there its crazy. Almost all of them are unsolved and they never will be solved without snitching. Historically speaking police didn't have any issues with well known gangsters disappearing and never showing up again, solving their murders were not a priority.

Btw Joe Pesci was perfection in the role, Casino overall is 5/5 banger of a movie.

Thames Torso Murders/Jack the Ripper(?)

There has been some talk about Jack the Ripper in this thread but i didn't notice anything about Thames Torso Murders (im going to call them TTM in this) that happened exactly the same time as Jack's canonical 5. With a lot of similiarities between the cases like abdominal mutilation of their victims, surgical skills and very similiar female victims from lower classes of society.

Jack's 5 canonical murders happened in 1888-1891 and TTM's canonical 4 happened in 87-89 but there had been similiar murders early as 1873 and late as 1903, i'll write the 1873-74 case as the last one since its not canon.

Rainham Mystery
1887 between may and june multiple body parts of unidentified woman were found (head and upper chest was never found), cause of death could not be determined but investigation concluded that she was not dissected for medical purposes but surgical skills were necessary to do something like it.

Whitehall Mystery
1888 between september 11 and october 17 body parts of another unidentified woman were found from 3 different locations, including the future site of Scotland Yard HQ. Another case where investigation deemed that surgical skills were necessary for something like this.

Elizabeth Jackson
Only identified victim of TTM who was found june 4th 1889 and weeks that followed, also the part where media started going ape shit as they usually did in cases like this at the time. Media reported about the findings of her like this "Tuesday, left leg and thigh off Battersea, lower part of the abdomen at Horsleydown; Thursday, the liver near Nine Elms, upper part of the body in Battersea Park, neck and shoulders off Battersea; Friday, right foot and part of leg at Wandsworth, left leg and foot at Limehouse; Saturday, left arm and hand at Bankside, buttocks and pelvis off Battersea, right thigh at Chelsea Embankement, yesterday, right arm and hand at Bankside." At the inquest held by coroner Hicks june 17th, he had this to say "the division of the parts showed skill and design: not, however, the anatomical skill of a surgeon, but the practical knowledge of a butcher or a knacker. There was a great similarity between the condition, as regarded cutting up, of the remains and that of those found at Rainham, and at the new police building on the Thames Embankment." Elizabeth Jackson was a homeless prostitute from Chelsea and 8 months pregnant at the time of death.

Pinchin Street Torso Murder
Unidentified torso found in Jack the Ripper's turf Whitechapel under a railway arc, september 10th 1889. Bruising around her body showed that she was beaten to death and her abdominal area was mutilated Jack the Ripper style. She was most likely killed somewhere else and brought to Pinchin Street at a later point.

Earliest case connected to TTM from 1873-1874, murder of 2 unidentified women known as the Battersea Mystery showed alot of those surgical skills often mentioned, it was said at the time that "Contrary to the popular opinion, the body had not been hacked, but dexterously cut up; the joints have been opened, and the bones neatly disarticulated, even the complicated joints at the ankle and the elbow, and it is only at the articulations of the hip-joint and shoulder that the bones have been sawn through."

Sorry for mobilefaggin' and formatting probelms it might have caused, still a very interesting case that often gets forgotten.

 

[Dysnomia]

How likely is it that those Ripper-like murders were merely copycats? I wonder if it's the same guy or maybe they were working together for some unknown reason.

 

[Grug]

Thames Torso Murders/Jack the Ripper(?)

Two separate, never identified guys, committing the same exact kind of heinous crime at roughly the same time in the same general area - what are the odds? Having only known about this for a few hours I feel confident in saying obviously they were the same person.

 

[AnOminous]

How likely is it that those Ripper-like murders were merely copycats? I wonder if it's the same guy or maybe they were working together for some unknown reason.

I've always thought TTM/Ripper were probably the same, but the outliers afterwards may have been copycats.

I think Jack was dead well before 1903 and quite possibly from tertiary syphilis, which had caused him to resent prostitutes specifically. That's kind of a milquetoast theory.

(I don't think it was Sickert, even if the guy was a sicko. The actual evidence is weak and almost purely inferential.)

 

[Bunny Tracks]

How likely is it that those Ripper-like murders were merely copycats?

I will say this. If they're not from a copycat, then we almost certainly know the Ripper's true identity: Charles Allen Lechmere.

Massive tl;dr: Lechmere was a van driver who in the last few decades has become a highly popular candidate for the Ripper's real identity. This is for several reasons, and while almost all of them are circumstantial, all of them being purely coincidental would require him to be one of the unluckiest people ever, especially if he's also not the Thanes Torso Killer.

 

[FedPostalService]

I've always thought TTM/Ripper were probably the same, but the outliers afterwards may have been copycats.

I think Jack was dead well before 1903 and quite possibly from tertiary syphilis, which had caused him to resent prostitutes specifically. That's kind of a milquetoast theory.

(I don't think it was Sickert, even if the guy was a sicko. The actual evidence is weak and almost purely inferential.)

The only reason serial killers stop is usually they get locked up for something else or they die. It was very easy to end up dead and for no one to care in London at that time.

 

[C. G. B. Spender]

Two separate, never identified guys, committing the same exact kind of heinous crime at roughly the same time in the same general area - what are the odds? Having only known about this for a few hours I feel confident in saying obviously they were the same person.

Odds are impossible, if we look at it by the numbers there is no way. Modern USA has a population of ~300 million and there's 25-50 serial killers on the loose at any given time. Late 1800s London had a population of 5-6 million and for a comparison my entire country has 5-6m people with just 1 active (not caught) serial killer that i know of.

Out of those 25-50 what would be the odds there for 2 having extensive surgical skills? Or any kind of higher education for that matter.

How likely is it that those Ripper-like murders were merely copycats? I wonder if it's the same guy or maybe they were working together for some unknown reason.

TT murders started earlier than Jack the Ripper but i think the legit ones stopped in early 1890s. Something happened to the suspect that made him stop or move to another country, there have been some american serial killers many thought were Jack the Ripper.

I will say this. If they're not from a copycat, then we almost certainly know the Ripper's true identity: Charles Allen Lechmere.

Massive tl;dr: Lechmere was a van driver who in the last few decades has become a highly popular candidate for the Ripper's real identity. This is for several reasons, and while almost all of them are circumstantial, all of them being purely coincidental would require him to be one of the unluckiest people ever, especially if he's also not the Thanes Torso Killer.

What do you think about Prince Albert Victor being Jack the Ripper?

 

[AnOminous]

What do you think about Prince Albert Victor being Jack the Ripper?

I think it's bullshit and he couldn't even possibly have been there.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

A boy found 65 years ago was identified. He was adopted and then later killed by a Finnish couple.

 

[*Grunts Softly*]

jack the ripper was obviously cutbush lol

 

[BulkForceFive]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Moncla
The UFO angle isn't the mystery here - a CAF cargo plane en route to Winnipeg was the likely radar target - but the section on aircraft parts found in the bush is weird as hell. We know that they existed, they were officially examined by a USAF technician and there's a picture of him doing it. We know that they weren't identified as being any part of an F-89. If they were parts from any of several missing aircraft, why weren't they identified as such? Why didn't any relevant government agency look into evidence of one of several fatal crashes?

(I remember watching the Great Lakes Dive Company hoax unfold in real time, the sonar images were too obviously faked as they showed an almost undamaged jet lying on the bottom and a sterotypical UFO shaped thing near it)

 

[C. G. B. Spender]

I think it's bullshit and he couldn't even possibly have been there.

Yeah its reaching too far imo, but still maybe my favorite theory and would make for a great TV show or something.

Based on everything i have read, Aaron Kosminski is the most likely suspect and legendary FBI criminal profiler John Douglas agrees with that. He concluded that Jack the Ripper was a guy known to police as David Cohen or somebody very similiar to him. That David Cohen name was given to Kosminski by the staff at the looney bin because they could'nt write his real name. There was a lot of confusion about his name and coppers fumbled it pretty badly but still managed to gather some details on him. He was a jewish immigrant from Poland and worked as a barber, at the mental institution they said he had "violently anti-social behavior and destructive tendencies."
Edit. Added picture of him floating out there, not sure if its real or not.

 

[Soup ‘n’ Salad]

A boy found 65 years ago was identified. He was adopted and then later killed by a Finnish couple.

Between this boy and the boy in the box, it sends a shiver up my spine to think how many other children ended up like that before the turn of the last century... Considering how brutal parenting standards were back then, I'd imagine there's AT LEAST another handful of unidentified children who perished from parental abuse and completely slipped through the cracks

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Between this boy and the boy in the box, it sends a shiver up my spine to think how many other children ended up like that before the turn of the last century... Considering how brutal parenting standards were back then, I'd imagine there's AT LEAST another handful of unidentified children who perished from parental abuse and completely slipped through the cracks

On the bright side, the adoptive parents died nearly 40 years ago, so you can put a wooden sign on their plot saying that they killed a child.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I have good one for this thread but apologies beforehand for mobilefaggotry. Also keep in mind before looking this up that its all around very gruesome.

Cleveland Torso Murders/Butcher of Kingsbury Run.

This case involves a main suspect, deranged veteran called Dr. Francis Edward Sweeney, he was in the trenches of the Great War as a medic/surgeon and got grievously injured during a gas attack while working in a unit that does amputations. He had 13 confirmed victims, all of them butchered to pieces but probably killed way more than that.
Legendary Elliot Ness tried capturing him for years but politics got in the way of justice because Sweeney was closely related to Ness's main political rival Congressman Martin L. Sweeney. Officially the killer remains unidentified and case is to this day wide open.

Killings stopped when Ness ordered the tear down of Kingsbury Run shantytown (this killed his career but saved many future victims) and Sweeney was locked up in a mental institution, untill the end Sweeney kept tormenting Ness with insane letters. Many consider Ness himself as the last victim of Cleveland Torso Murderer because he coped with trauma and fallout from this case by slowly drinking himself to death. Below are some of the letters that Ness received and i'll add a very good read on the topic.

https://crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/unsolved/kingsbury/index_1.html

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Wait is this the same Ness that Robert Stack portrayed?!