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?

Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum made up their UFO shit. Upon rewatching it a second time, its glaringly obvious that they conned their way to a lawsuit. The quote unquote symptoms they have are.....kinda bullshit. Betty had alopecia, not cancer as she claimed. Seems they got sunburned on purpose to make it appear that they had cancer after all.

There's another interesting UFO case that is not included in the remasters. The Gulf Breeze UFO incident. Ed Walters is a crazy man.
What's the case where the family claimed their son was being haunted and then they interview the son and you could tell he was special needs.?
 
I just watched the segment on Roger Rojas and the Golden Buddha. Basically guy finds treasure. Photo is taken. Ferdinand Marcos steals treasure and tortures Roger, slicing the nerve in his left eye. Ferdinand dies in late 80s.

Roger wants justice. There is to be a hearing. The day of the trial he goes into cardiac arrest and dies.

Was he silenced? Did Imelda Marcos order her goon squad to assassinate him? And where's the damn Buddha?
 
I just watched the segment on Roger Rojas and the Golden Buddha. Basically guy finds treasure. Photo is taken. Ferdinand Marcos steals treasure and tortures Roger, slicing the nerve in his left eye. Ferdinand dies in late 80s.

Roger wants justice. There is to be a hearing. The day of the trial he goes into cardiac arrest and dies.

Was he silenced? Did Imelda Marcos order her goon squad to assassinate him? And where's the damn Buddha?
The gold and treasure was taken by the CIA to fund black projects and to back "fake" bearer bonds. Here's a r/conspiracy thread about it.
 
I just watched the segment on Roger Rojas and the Golden Buddha. Basically guy finds treasure. Photo is taken. Ferdinand Marcos steals treasure and tortures Roger, slicing the nerve in his left eye. Ferdinand dies in late 80s.

Roger wants justice. There is to be a hearing. The day of the trial he goes into cardiac arrest and dies.

Was he silenced? Did Imelda Marcos order her goon squad to assassinate him? And where's the damn Buddha?

I had never heard of this so I went down a rabbit hole just to find some more info.

First, photo of the statue and Roxas. One colorized, one original.
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This was the blurb on the photo, which was done by a user named Kulay.

Rogelio "Roger" Domingo Roxas (died May 25, 1993) was a former Filipino soldier who had worked as a locksmith before allegedly discovered in a cave north of Manila a hidden chamber full of gold bars and a giant golden Buddha statue – which Roxas estimated to weigh one metric ton – on a plot of state-owned land near Baguio General Hospital, in Baguio City on January 24, 1971. Roxas claimed that the Buddha's head was removable and that it concealed a hollowed-out portion within the statue that contained at least two handfuls of uncut diamonds. The cache was alleged to be a portion of the legendary Yamashita treasure.

The rest of the write up under the spoiler since its long....

On April 6, 1971, Roxas claimed that armed men purportedly from the National Bureau of Investigation and the Criminal Investigation Service forcibly confiscated the gold bars and statue from his home in Aurora Hill, Baguio City. On April 19, 1971, the military deposited a Buddha statue at the Baguio City Court; however, Roxas proclaimed that it was not the same statue taken from him. Roxas later claimed that then-President Ferdinand Marcos orchestrated the raid and was in possession of the treasure. Roxas was arrested in Cabanatuan City by three men in civilian clothing on May 18, 1971 and jailed for several years.

In March 1988, a US lawsuit was filed by Rogelio Roxas against former Philippine dictator, Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos. Roxas alleged that he was a treasure hunter who in 1971 was searching for Yamashita's gold. In determining whether there was sufficient evidence to support Roxas' claim, the court considered the following evidence and testimony submitted by Roxas:

Sometime in 1970, Roxas's group began digging on state lands near the Baguio General Hospital. After approximately seven months of searching and digging "24 hours a day," the group broke into a system of underground tunnels. Inside the tunnels, the group found wiring, radios, bayonets, rifles, and a human skeleton wearing a Japanese army uniform. After several weeks spent digging and exploring within the tunnels, Roxas's group discovered a ten-foot thick concrete enclosure on the floor of the tunnel. On January 24, 1971, the group broke through the enclosure. Inside, Roxas discovered a gold-colored Buddha statue, which he estimated to be about three feet in height. The statue was extremely heavy; it required ten men to transport it to the surface using a chain block hoist, ropes, and rolling logs. Although he never weighed the statue Roxas estimated its weight to be 1 tonne. Roxas directed his laborers to transport the statue to his home and place it in a closet. Roxas also found a large pile of boxes underneath the concrete enclosure, approximately fifty feet from where the buddha statue had been discovered. He returned the next day and opened one small box, which contained twenty-four one-inch by two-and-one-half-inch bars of gold. Roxas estimated that the boxes were, on average, approximately the size of a case of beer and that they were stacked five or six feet high, over an area six feet wide and thirty feet long. Roxas did not open any of the other boxes. Several weeks later, Roxas returned to blast the tunnel closed, planning to sell the buddha statue in order to obtain funds for an operation to remove the remaining treasure. Before blasting the tunnel closed, Roxas removed the twenty-four bars of gold, as well as some samurai swords, bayonets, and other artifacts. Roxas twice attempted to report his find to Judge Marcos but was unsuccessful in contacting him. During the following weeks, Roxas sold seven of the gold bars and sought a buyer for the golden buddha. Roxas testified that Kenneth Cheatham, the representative of one prospective buyer, drilled a small hole under the arm of the buddha and assayed the metal. The test revealed the statue to be solid twenty-two-carat gold. Roxas also testified that a second prospective buyer, Luis Mendoza, also tested the metal of the statue using nitric acid and concluded that it was "more than 20 carats."

Roxas went on to allege that after he discovered the treasure, he was arrested by Marcos, the treasure was seized, and he was tortured. After his release, Roxas died under suspicious circumstances, creating the impression that he might have been murdered. The lawsuit was asserted by his estate and The Golden Budha [sic] Corporation, a company formed for the purpose of asserting Roxas' rights to the treasure. In 1996, a jury in Honolulu awarded $22 billion in compensatory damages that after the jury verdict increased with interest to over $40 billion. The jury did not award punitive damages. On November 17, 1998, the Hawaii Supreme Court reversed the $41 billion judgment against Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. A justice department statistical bulletin on civil verdicts claims that the court found insufficient evidence that Roxas had actually discovered the gold bullion while treasure hunting north of Manila in 1971. However, the actual judicial decision of the court only cites insufficient evidence to establish the quantity and quality of the gold bullion found and left in the concrete chamber: "...there was insufficient evidence to support an award of damages for such gold bullion as may have been contained in the unopened boxes allegedly found by Roxas, inasmuch as the record was speculative regarding the gold's quantity and purity..."

Furthermore, the Court sustained the portion of the verdict that found that Marcos had stolen the golden buddha and 17 bars of gold (the 24 bars Roxas took out of the chamber minus the seven that he sold). With respect to this claim, the Hawaii Supreme Court specifically found as follows: 1) "There was sufficient evidence to support the jury's special finding that Ferdinand converted the treasure that Roxas found"; and 2) "There was sufficient evidence to support the jury's determination that Roxas 'found' the treasure pursuant to Philippine law." The case was remanded to the trial court for a new trial on the value of the converted golden buddha statue and gold bars.

On February 28, 2000, the trial court conducted a hearing to determine the value of the golden buddha and the 17 bars of gold. Currently, Felix Dacanay, as the personal representative of Roxas' estate, has a judgment against Imelda Marcos in her personal capacity to the extent of her interest in the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos in the principal amount of $6 million for the human rights claims concerning Roxas' arrest and torture, and the Golden Budha Corp. has a judgment against Imelda Marcos in her personal capacity to the extent of her interest in the Marcos estate in the principal amount of $13,275,848.37 on the claim of the converted treasure. That judgment was ordered affirmed by the Hawaii Supreme Court on November 25, 2005. In a related legal proceeding in 2006, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal while describing the findings of the Roxas v. Marcos litigation stated: "The Yamashita Treasure was discovered by Roxas and stolen from Roxas by Marcos’s men."

Roxas turned over claims to the treasure to a group of American investors, which filed suit in Hawaii. A jury awarded $22 billion to an American company that claims the late Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos stole a golden Buddha statue filled with gems from a treasure hunter... "As far as I know, it is the largest verdict probably in the history of jurisprudence in the world," said Daniel Cathcart, attorney for the Atlanta-based Golden Buddha Corp. But a Marcos family attorney dismissed the award, which a state jury reached in less than five hours of deliberations... "It's noncollectable. It's Monopoly money," attorney James Paul Linn said. "Everything in the Marcos estate is tied up by the Philippine government... There's no money there."

Judge Antonio Reyes of the Baguio Regional Trial Court had declared in a ruling on May 30, 1996 that the golden Buddha was only a bronze-plated statuette. In fact, it was in the court's custody in Baguio. "The US court's decision implies that the golden Buddha existed. I don't know how the conclusion was arrived," the judge said. The statuette in the court's custody was surrendered by police days after Rogelio complained that his Golden Buddha had been seized by Marcos. Roxas died in 1993. His relatives claimed that the statuette that was returned to his family was a replica. In 1995, Roxas's eldest son Jose petitioned the court to release the statuette to him as a memento of his father's treasure hunting days. Jose also declared in court that his father never found a Golden Buddha.

Link to the court case in Hawaii: http://oaoa.hawaii.gov/jud/opinions/ica/2009/ica28702.htm

Photo showing the removable head:
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Imelda with the Buddha (scraping it to show it was "not" made of gold) from a paywalled Medium article, in which President BongBong is called to return the statue.
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Link to the HOPEFULLY unpaywalled Medium Article: should work just tell it you're not a robot.

And then just a wikipedia article that talks about what the Yamashita Gold is in a little more detail if you need to satisfy that curosity.

NYT Link from 2019 about it.
 
Moral of the story: don't publicly claim any treasure you find. Best case, you get a fraction as a finder's fee. Otherwise someone, likely the government, is going to strong arm the whole lot. Gold was so valued, even in ancient times, because of how workable the stuff is. You don't need a particularly hot fire to melt it down and you won't have major losses to oxidation. A steel muffin tin makes a serviceable ingot mold.
 
Seeing this thread just reminded me of this once case from Brazil near me, the Clarinha case. Links are all in Brazilian Portuguese but you can translate easy.

On 12th June 2000, Clarinha was run over by a car while crossing a street in Vitória, ES. The driver did a hit and run, fled without providing any help. However locals witnessed it and called an ambulance. She was taken to the Saint Lucas Hospital (Hospital São Lucas) and after a year she was moved to the Hospital da Polícia Militar (Military Police Hospital) where she would stay.

Her name, Clarinha, is the diminutive form of Clara which means clear or bright colored. It is not her real name, it was given to her much later on by the doctors due to how pale her skin was. She had no documents or identification. (BTW, my opinion here but she sorta looks like a Pomeranian (German) descendant so this checks out on her being whiter than average)

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What she looked like (Pic slightly photoshopped to compensate for her being in a Coma. Was used in the searches for her.)

She went into a coma, and never woke up.

The doctors took care of her while in this coma, and over the years many times they tried to find info on her. She was not braindead, but her come was very deep coma (around 6 to 8 on the GCS) Every so often they would try and run her against the police data on missing people or ask the public. For a while they suspected she might have been a kid who disappeared in the 1970's but data didn't match up. They were particularly sure they would find someone because she had a cesarean scar on her belly so they were sure she had a child who would be able to identify her.

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Her story got a bit more attention in 2016 when she was the subject of segment in Fantástico (It's a big variety news and documentary program that runs every sunday night on the Globo channel) which showcased her and some other cases of missing and unidentified people around Brazil. There was some hope this would mean she would be found by her family but nothing came of it.

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Clarinha and Doctor Jorge Potratz in the 2016 news report

After almost 24 years however, on March 14th 2024, she passed away. The result of a lung infection caused bronchoaspiration. Doctors estimated she was between 42 to 50 years old.

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Clarinha and Jorge Potratz, by now retired, later in the 2020s

The doctors, in particular Lieutenant-Colonel Jorge Potratz who was the guy who was in charge of her (even though he retired a few years before this he kept visiting, he took care to provide her with clothes so they could change her and stuff) really didn't want to have her be burried as a Jane Doe. That would have meant a comunal grave and no chance of ever finding out who she was. They put forward a request to give her a new I.D. when she showed signs she was gonna die, and in a rare Brazilian law W the government agreed.

When she died they put her in the morgue freezer and used the chance to run a bunch of DNA tests against cold cases. There was also some hope news of this might cause someone to come forward but again nothing happened. Sadly no matches were found, so they registered her as Clarinha and this allowed her to be buried in a proper single and marked grave. She was given the epitaph "bright star".

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For some reason this story really saddens and fucks me up. It's possible that she was from the middle of nowhere in one of the tiny immigrant founded towns and her family lost contact. Maybe they were looking at the wrong place, maybe they thought she wanted to leave them. I don't know. I hope they find her real ID someday.
 
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.

If you sleep on your back, try to stop. I used to get sleep paralysis and then someone told me to stop sleeping on my back and now the only time I get it is the rare time I roll onto my back.
 
I just watched the segment on Roger Rojas and the Golden Buddha. Basically guy finds treasure. Photo is taken. Ferdinand Marcos steals treasure and tortures Roger, slicing the nerve in his left eye. Ferdinand dies in late 80s.

Roger wants justice. There is to be a hearing. The day of the trial he goes into cardiac arrest and dies.

Was he silenced? Did Imelda Marcos order her goon squad to assassinate him? And where's the damn Buddha?
I actually have an answer for this one. None of it happened.
 
For some reason this story really saddens and fucks me up. It's possible that she was from the middle of nowhere in one of the tiny immigrant founded towns and her family lost contact. Maybe they were looking at the wrong place, maybe they thought she wanted to leave them. I don't know. I hope they find her real ID someday.
If they can figure out who the Boy in the Box was they can figure out who she was
 
If they can figure out who the Boy in the Box was they can figure out who she was
There's a test that measures isotopes in the teeth and bones, and it tells which rough geographical area someone has lived in over a period of years. It's crude but it would point to a country of origin, if nothing else.

The whole "nameless person struck down in an unsolved hit and run and never identified" has serious human trafficking vibes. I wonder if there's more known about Clarinha than they're willing to publicly release, for good reasons or bad.
 
This is a strange one. Mr. Carne's and his dog vanished in the Nevada desert while driving at night.
His car was found abandoned with no trace of either of them. Oddly this is the same exit where another person vanished.

ETA: this was in 2011.


Patrick F. Carnes and his 100-pound mixed breed dog Lucky vanished without a trace from I-80 in Nevada 20 miles east of Winnemucca Wednesday, April 13. Carnes was traveling from Ohio to his home in Reno. He was scheduled to return home Thursday, April 14. When he failed to arrive family members reported him missing. Police located his dark green Subaru abandoned near exit 205 along I-80. Missing from the vehicle were Carnes and Lucky as well as Carnes’s wallet. His checkbook and luggage remained in the vehicle
There are some good links on this site.
https://patcarnesmissing.wordpress.com/ Archive
 
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I wanted to delve deeper into the speedway [EDIT: Burger chef] murders so I got a documentary from 2023 about it and holy shit, how little reverence the producers have for the victims is egregious. I thought crimetubers were bad but this is a 'professional' production made by a bunch of disgusting Australians. 0/10.
Can anyone link me some good vids on the subject

Lamont At Large Covered It.
I think he did a fair job. Yeah, I'm sick and tired of the True Crime community.
The one that galls me are the makeup chicks and the My Favorite Murder podcast.

I've been reading true crime since I was 12, and I don't have a "favorite murder".
I'd rather they didn't happen at all.
It's appalling how it is now seen as edgy and cool.
Parents of Murdered Children Website.
They've tried to change the attitude that murder isn't entertainment.
 
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