Unsolved mysteries and True Crimes

[DavidFerrie]

That's pretty rad. "I was a killer before you were born and I will be a killer after you're dead." Got any links about the "Raymond Huffman as Zodiac Killer" theory?

Here's one.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

(okay my post was deleted because I had completely forgotten their fucking names, someone help me out)

I don't remember their name but there was a dedicated office worker who disappeared, his car was parked in the usual spot but there wasn't any evidence of him leaving the building let alone walking anywhere near the exits. The story still creeps me out.

I am deeply sorry for having a shit memory about this one case.

EDIT:

the Amy Lynn Bradley case, some woman goes on a cruise, acquaints herself with shady individuals... She was, allegedly, last seen in an unrecognizable state, possibly malnourished and put into sex slavery. Nobody could confirm that was her true identity though, but the tattoos this individual had is telling.

 

[Cosmos]

(okay my post was deleted because I had completely forgotten their fucking names, someone help me out)

I don't remember their name but there was a dedicated office worker who disappeared, his car was parked in the usual spot but there wasn't any evidence of him leaving the building let alone walking anywhere near the exits. The story still creeps me out.

I am deeply sorry for having a shit memory about this one case.

EDIT:

the Amy Lynn Bradley case, some woman goes on a cruise, acquaints herself with shady individuals... She was, allegedly, last seen in an unrecognizable state, possibly malnourished and put into sex slavery. Nobody could confirm that was her true identity though, but the tattoos this individual had is telling.

I was actually going to mention the Amy Lynn Bradley case! I saw her segment on Unsolved Mysteries and it really messed me up. Even worse, seven years after her disappearance, Amy’s parents were emailed a photograph from an adult escort website featuring a woman who resembled her. It's very likely that the poor woman was sold into sexual slavery.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

There was also a guy who travelled to Germany, got into a bar fight, went to get medication and afterwards was seen dashing out of an Airport never to be seen again. At least until he became disheveled in the woods, still lost to the world.

 

[TheImportantFart]

I've always found the Black Dahlia murder pretty fascinating. The manner in which Elizabeth Short was killed (she was found cut in half with a Glasgow smile) is pretty interesting - whoever did it is one sick puppy.

 

[Flamesoul the Diabolical]

Aw man I have always had a morbid curiosity about these kinds of things, it's absolutely chilling to read about the disturbed individuals who commit these awful crimes...

Anyone have any supernatural stories to share? Or, allegedly supernatural at the very least?

 

[MrTroll]

I'm not a UFO believer but here are two alleged UFO encounters that can't immediately be dismissed as an obvious hoax that have creeped me out for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly–Hopkinsville_encounter

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

 

[DavidFerrie]

Here's a genuinely weird one: the disappearance of Cadet Richard Cox from West Point -- one of the most closely guarded sites in the United States. A book , Oblivion, was written about the case, but its theory failed to satisfy most of the people who've studied this enigmatic incident, including Cox' family and Yours Truly.

 

[DavidFerrie]

BTW, the site that hosts the Cadet Cox mystery, Strange Company, reprints and links tales of all sorts of similarly weird enigmas. Should be a good way to kill a rainy/snowy/otherwise-dull long weekend.

 

[DavidFerrie]

Yet another weird real-life mystery, courtesy of Strange Company: The Wizard of Ladysmith.

 

[plasticine]

I'm really interested in cruise ship diasters . Maybe it's from watching titanic one too many times, but i've always found them fascinating.

 

[Randall Fragg]

Aw, I love stuff like this. It creeps me out but it's so cool.
One interesting story: The Bloody Benders. The real life version of The Hills Have Eyes.
EDIT: "Le Loyon" was also pretty weird. A strange figure in a gasmask and boiler suit wanders around in a forest in Switzerland.
Okay, the Max Headroom signal intrusion is just fucking insane. It's basically 80s Random Access Humor.

 

[AN/ALR56]

There is some really really interesting cases here,I will post then when I have time.
But my favorite one is Peter Bergmann,a old man who apparently destroyed all his documents and killed himself.
No one knows his real name and who he was.

 

[DavidFerrie]

There is some really really interesting cases here,I will post then when I have time.
But my favorite one is Peter Bergmann,a old man who apparently destroyed all his documents and killed himself.
No one knows his real name and who he was.

The guy in Sligo, Ireland? Yes, that is a strange case indeed.

 

[AN/ALR56]

The guy in Sligo, Ireland? Yes, that is a strange case indeed.

Ever since I found out his case and the short movie they made,I can't stop thinking about it.
There is something about a old man that apparently calmly destroyed all evidence of his existence and tried to make his own body vanish in the sea.
What thought made him do that?,why?
He simply dissapeared,no one knows who he really was and I doubt it will ever be found out.

 

[DavidFerrie]

Ever since I found out his case and the short movie they made,I can't stop thinking about it.
There is something about a old man that apparently calmly destroyed all evidence of his existence and tried to make his own body vanish in the sea.
What thought made him do that?,why?
He simply dissapeared,no one knows who he really was and I doubt it will ever be found out.

It's almost as if he wanted to erase himself from existence completely. Without a name, government identification, or any family or friends who can identify us, what are we?

 

[Ravenor]

I'm really interested in cruise ship diasters . Maybe it's from watching titanic one too many times, but i've always found them fascinating.

This bunch of podcast's should be right up your ally then.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Dyatlov Pass Incident. Russian mountain climbing team that was trekking around the northern Ural mountains sometime in the fifties. Pretty much the entire team ended up getting slaughtered by some...thing. Nobody's quite sure. The condition of both the bodies and the team's tents and equipment suggests it was something non human. A few of the corpses allegedly looked irradiated though I can't remember if that had ever been verified. From what I can recall there was never actually a conclusion from the official investigation, so obviously you have your pickings from yeti attacks to alien abductions to Soviet sludge-man experimentation conspiracies. Pretty interesting read either way.

Sorry to burst the bubble on this one....

It was later realized that a lot of the "attack" was post-mortem. People enjoy revisiting this mystery because it's so interesting, but the sad reality is they were not very experienced and lost a chunk of their equipment due to an avalanche. Without shelter they later succumbed to Hypothermia and stripped off their clothes before succumbing to the cold. Scavenger birds and animals would later eat the soft tissues, the eyes tongue and genitalia, leaving the bodies seemingly molested and what was left of their camp trashed or turned over by the animals looking for extra food.

This followed by their bodies being bright red or other "unusual colours" is largely ascribed to Hypothermia, where your skin will blister and turn bright red.

 

[AnOminous]

Without shelter they later succumbed to Hypothermia and stripped off their clothes before succumbing to the cold.

This doesn't make much sense unless you understand that one of the physiological effects of core temperature dropping is blood uselessly rushes to the surface skin, causing a burning sensation. You're also mentally out of it at this point, hence the paradoxical response of stripping while you are freezing to death.

 

[The Knife]

Lizzie Borden is always interesting.

I'm a bit of a Lizzie Borden nut. I've visited the house a couple times and the tour guide who plays Andrew Borden has his own theory: he legit thinks Lizzie hired a hitman, possibly a disgruntled former employee of Andrew's. This would explain some reports of a mysterious man in the neighborhood and the unknown carriage in front of the house the morning of the murders. Lizzie didn't actually wield the hatchet, but that she stood lookout while the murders were committed. Tour Guide is a little uncertain whether or not Lizzie's sister Emma knew what was happening, but he thinks that she did and that Lizzie, out of loyalty, might have sent her sister out of town just to make sure that she had an airtight alibi.