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?

[Silence of the Troons]

The unsolved murder of Debanhi Escobar from General Escobedo, Mexico, is a very disturbing case I learned about recently.


Debanhi went to a party with two other women who she'd gotten to know recently. During the party, she started acting erratically and got involved in an altercation (some people speculate that she probably had her drink spiked), so her "friends" called a taxi so that she could be sent home and they could continue partying.

At one point, the driver asked for her address, but she wouldn't provide it and instead she started hitting the driver. Shortly after that, she got out of the taxi. The driver waited for several minutes and messaged her friend, asking what to do, but since she wouldn't get into the vehicle, he ended up leaving. The (now infamous) photo he took of her is the last time she was seen alive. CCTV footage later showed her walking in the middle of the road, until she ended up in the garden of the Nueva Castilla Motel. Two weeks later, she was found dead in one of the motel's two water cisterns.

Sounds like a simple case of her falling into the water cistern and hitting her head, right? That's what the government officials who conducted the first autopsy claimed. That is, until a team of independent forensics commissioned by the family conducted a second autopsy, and it was revealed that someone had struck her hard in the head multiple times and then raped her shortly before her death. The water cistern was also located in a place that wasn't easily accessible to visitors, and some of her things were inexplicably found in the other cistern.

Spoiler: Lazy Masquerade's video about the case

I believe that someone who either worked at the motel or was there as a visitor murdered her.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

Peaches, suspected victim of the Long Island Serial Killer and her child have been identified.

https://abc7.com/post/gilgo-beach-murders-nassau-county-police-reveal-id-victim-peaches-toddler-tanya-tatiana/16230830/

https://archive.ph/8zeMq

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Has this one been mentioned? The cctv of the killer is creepy as hell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Missy_Bevers

Have you ever been in one of those big churches when they're empty and all the lights are off? It's spooky during the daytime. Now imagine it at 4 am in the morning during stormy weather and you walk into some lunatic in full SWAT larp gear with a hammer. Fucking terrifying.

I still say the way the suspect hugs the wall is distinctly feminine.

That or a male on the spectrum. My first thought watching the footage was "that looks like a woman" as well.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

I had an episode of sleep paralysis the other night. Woke up, lifted my head, saw a bunch of disembodied hands a la the Addams family scurrying around. Then two of them clamped down on my wrists and two on my ankles. Then one grabbed my throat and I went away mentally for a little while. When I came to again everything was fine. I kept thinking of that Clive Barker short story where hands rebel against people.

 

[McMitch]

I had an episode of sleep paralysis the other night. Woke up, lifted my head, saw a bunch of disembodied hands a la the Addams family scurrying around. Then two of them clamped down on my wrists and two on my ankles. Then one grabbed my throat and I went away mentally for a little while. When I came to again everything was fine. I kept thinking of that Clive Barker short story where hands rebel against people.

Clive Barker’s writing always came across in comparison to Stephen King’s what Stephen King’s writing compared to other writers.

I’ve been at least semi conscious during sleep paralysis a handful of times, but one of the two times I’ve been fully conscious I understood what it was and tried riding it out until the far off children’s laughter started happening in which I decided to try waking up further.

 

[FedPostalService]

I had an episode of sleep paralysis the other night. Woke up, lifted my head, saw a bunch of disembodied hands a la the Addams family scurrying around. Then two of them clamped down on my wrists and two on my ankles. Then one grabbed my throat and I went away mentally for a little while. When I came to again everything was fine. I kept thinking of that Clive Barker short story where hands rebel against people.

My mum used to get them. It would be a wizened old woman she would dream would be trying to drag her out of bed. It sounds terrifying. She said when it happens she would be convinced that she would die if she was dragged out.

 

[AnOminous]

My mum used to get them. It would be a wizened old woman she would dream would be trying to drag her out of bed. It sounds terrifying. She said when it happens she would be convinced that she would die if she was dragged out.

I just instantly wake up. Practice lucid dreaming. You can instantly wake up if you choose it. Or just choose to go on with the dream.

 

[EpicGamerMoment]

The unsolved murder of Debanhi Escobar from General Escobedo, Mexico, is a very disturbing case I learned about recently.
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Debanhi went to a party with two other women who she'd gotten to know recently. During the party, she started acting erratically and got involved in an altercation (some people speculate that she probably had her drink spiked), so her "friends" called a taxi so that she could be sent home and they could continue partying.

At one point, the driver asked for her address, but she wouldn't provide it and instead she started hitting the driver. Shortly after that, she got out of the taxi. The driver waited for several minutes and messaged her friend, asking what to do, but since she wouldn't get into the vehicle, he ended up leaving. The (now infamous) photo he took of her is the last time she was seen alive. CCTV footage later showed her walking in the middle of the road, until she ended up in the garden of the Nueva Castilla Motel. Two weeks later, she was found dead in one of the motel's two water cisterns.

Sounds like a simple case of her falling into the water cistern and hitting her head, right? That's what the government officials who conducted the first autopsy claimed. That is, until a team of independent forensics commissioned by the family conducted a second autopsy, and it was revealed that someone had struck her hard in the head multiple times and then raped her shortly before her death. The water cistern was also located in a place that wasn't easily accessible to visitors, and some of her things were inexplicably found in the other cistern.

Spoiler: Lazy Masquerade's video about the case

I believe that someone who either worked at the motel or was there as a visitor murdered her.

That picture is fucking chilling. It’s %100 an employee or guest of the motel.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Maybe. The general consensus is that at some point in the process, she was shot. The authorities have deliberately (and perhaps for good reason) confuzzled that particular aspect.

This case is so old, though, that if they really wanted to solve it, it seems it would be time for open disclosure. It's not like it would obstruct the (utterly nonexistent) progress the case has seen.

I mean unless the murderer was actually a cop. That might explain a few things.

Apparently there's like several amounts of footage that they still haven't released including of Missy herself getting things out of her car (?) and of her inside the church. I think they said there is additional suspect footage too?

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

The unsolved murder of Debanhi Escobar from General Escobedo, Mexico, is a very disturbing case

Looks like she had a psychotic break, walked alone at night after the Taxi left and then was attacked by a rapist & murderer. It's sad and terrible but I wouldn't call it disturbing. It's obvious what happened.

 

[glass_houses]

Looks like she had a psychotic break, walked alone at night after the Taxi left and then was attacked by a rapist & murderer. It's sad and terrible but I wouldn't call it disturbing. It's obvious what happened.

Psychotic break possibly, although the description of her behaviour at the party and the sudden onset of it inclines me much more towards someone tampering with her beverage. Otherwise, you are correct. Mexico is... well, Mexico. What's the rape and murder of one lone woman in a country where a new mass grave of drug cartel victims is found every other week?

The oft repeated refrain is that, "Not all psychopaths are violent" and that's certainly true in a peaceful country with a relatively functional legal system and limited opportunities to indulge in such crimes. In a place where horrific violence is almost normal, the 1% is not going to hold back on the other 99%. Which is to say, there's so many possible suspects that figuring out who didn't do it is the hard part.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I was watching an old Unsolved Mysteries segment about a man named David Stone who went on what has been termed a 'vision quest' of some sort. Its based on native stuff. Anyway, he went in the desert and disappeared. His remains were eventually found. But he had been acting very strangely before. His parents found a note with strange writings on it too. It said They think the WORD is in the safe. Six knives in Rob's room. Yous buys your tea and yous take your chances Halloween.

I confess I don't quite get the idea behind vision quests. Is it a Chris McCandless situation where they are so self centered and arrogant that they decide to go off, society be damned and all?

 

[Disastrously Dumb]

Anyone here mentioned the Mayumi Arashi case?
and how years later when interviewing her dad, there was a note hanging in the back in japanese that says "Dont Trust Yoko's Story"

and makes it all the more... intriguing.

 

[The Hardest R]

I was watching an old Unsolved Mysteries segment about a man named David Stone who went on what has been termed a 'vision quest' of some sort. Its based on native stuff. Anyway, he went in the desert and disappeared. His remains were eventually found. But he had been acting very strangely before. His parents found a note with strange writings on it too. It said They think the WORD is in the safe. Six knives in Rob's room. Yous buys your tea and yous take your chances Halloween.

I confess I don't quite get the idea behind vision quests. Is it a Chris McCandless situation where they are so self centered and arrogant that they decide to go off, society be damned and all?

Yes. Because of how easy our lives often are, people who run off into nature can quickly and easily find themselves on the wrong side of it, especially a stock analyst who believes in new age stuff.

 

[McMitch]

Yes. Because of how easy our lives often are, people who run off into nature can quickly and easily find themselves on the wrong side of it, especially a stock analyst who believes in new age stuff.

Germans are categorically bugmen for this reason: if there isn’t an explicit rule telling them to not wander into the desert to their deaths, they will just up and wander into the desert to their deaths.

 

[FedPostalService]

Germans are categorically bugmen for this reason: if there isn’t an explicit rule telling them to not wander into the desert to their deaths, they will just up and wander into the desert to their deaths.

In the words of "Mad" Jack Churchill, "that's why they make such damn good soldiers."

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

How about.....Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible?
Girls hang out, big fire at house, one girl's parents both found dead, shot to death
People claim they know who did it. But all turn out to be null and void.

 

[The Hardest R]

How about.....Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible?
Girls hang out, big fire at house, one girl's parents both found dead, shot to death
People claim they know who did it. But all turn out to be null and void.

According to the Wikipedia, it’s been solved and the one guy left alive went to prison and got an early release. Is there something I’m missing?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

According to the Wikipedia, it’s been solved and the one guy left alive went to prison and got an early release. Is there something I’m missing?

The girls were never found.

 

[Dr. Butt]

The girls were never found.

Sounds like they were brought to the guy's rape...area, then disposed of, and he's just not telling the pigs where the bodies are. SOP for that sort of shitbag.

Anyone here mentioned the Mayumi Arashi case?

Wasn't this one fake? Like a War of the Worlds/Ghostwatch thing?