In case you hadn’t heard, the classic TV show Unsolved Mysteries has been rebooted and is now back on Netflix.
And I couldn’t be happier!
That show pretty much defined my childhood and young adulthood. Robert Stack’s voice? Get outta here! That’s the creepiest thing of all time!
To celebrate the show being back on the air, let’s take a look at some unsolved mysteries from real life.
Let’s dive into some creepy stories with folks from AskReddit.
1. Where did it go?
“The lost A-bomb off the coast of America, which the US government said not to worry about in the 50’s and tried to cover up.
Was dumped in the ocean in an aviation accident and it’s still lost to this day.
100x more powerful then what was dropped in Japan.”
2. Very creepy.
“I remember seeing a video about a woman that after getting divorced started getting stalked and assaulted in her own house.
Every time police would arrive no one more than her was at the scene, sometimes she would appear with bruises, once she appeared with a screwdriver through her hand.
This happened so many times that police started ignoring her calls after the investigation on her husband and on the case left no suspects.
Three months later she disappeared just to reappear next to a highway in the middle of the desert, miles away from her house, with her hands tied, dead. Autopsy later confirmed she was beaten to death.
Creepiest sh*t I know.”
3. Terrifying.
“This dude got lost in the Catacombs, and they found camera footage of his journey, but at some point he drops the camera and just starts to run.
As far as I know, nobody has found out wtf happened to him.”
4. “It was ruled a suicide…”
“Colonel Philip Shue’s death:
“On April 16, 2003, 54-year-old Colonel Philip Shue left his Texas home and headed to work. Two hours later, he was found dead in his car, an apparent victim of a car crash. The car was caved in on the driver’s side and Philip suffered major head trauma as a result. He was killed instantly.”
This is where it gets weird:
“Philip had a tear in his T-shirt under his fatigues. There, they could see a 6-inch vertical gash in his chest. Above the entrance to the 6″ gash were at least five scratch marks, which the autopsy report said were consistent with hesitant marks.
Both his nipples had been removed with surgical precision. The fifth digit on his left hand had been amputated and his left ear had been lacerated down to the bone. Duct tape was dangling from both of his wrists and the top of his boots.”
It was ruled a suicide….”
5. Beware of The Blob.
“The Oakville Blob.
In 1994, there was a rainstorm in Oakville, WA. Only the “raindrops” were a strange clear substance that had the consistency of Jello. Lots of people experienced flu-like symptoms after coming into
contact with it, and peoples’ dogs and cats all over the city were dying.”When a local hospital ran a lab test on the substance after one of the patients suggested it, it was found that whatever this mysterious “rain” was, it had human white blood cells in it.
Some time after that, a sample was also sent to the Washington State Health Laboratory, where it was being researched by epidemiologist Mike McDowell. After he determined that it was man-made and speculated that it was some sort of matrix for transporting viruses/bacteria, the samples suddenly went missing from the containment facility and his supervisor told him not to ask any questions.
There are no known samples of the stuff anywhere today, despite being sent to several different facilities by various Oakville residents.
So yeah, I’d personally say that this was clearly some sort of bio-weapon test run, but by whom?
I’d like to give the US Government the benefit of the doubt here and assume it wasn’t us testing something like that on our own citizens, but if it wasn’t, why would it have been covered up like that? And you’d think an event like this would be a lot less obscure.
Also, even if it being a bio-weapon seems super obvious, how the heck did whoever dispersed it manage to make it rain over an entire city for several days??”
6. Weird…
“An unsolved murder of an entire family in Japan which to this day remains unsolved despite DNA evidence indicating the ancestry of the killer.
A sand sample left by the killer which was traced back to the California desert near Edwards AFB, and even sesame seeds in the killer’s stool.”
7. OH MY GOD.
“The ” suicide” of LaVena Johnson a black female US Army private who was found shot to death inside a burning tent with a broken nose, black eyes, broken teeth, r*ped and acid burns on her genitals in July 2005.
US Army ruled her death a suicide.”
8. The lighthouse.
“Three lighthouse workers with impeccable mustaches traveled to a remote island on December 7th, 1900 for a lighthouse shift that should have lasted for two weeks.
When a boat arrived to pick them up, they were gone. No trace of the bodies, and the lighthouse was strangely locked. Not only was the setting normal (meal ready to be served), but there was no fire in the fireplace, and the clock stopped.
One of the men kept a log in a diary, and he said that the seas were rough one day, but when monitored, it was actually calm. No one knows what happened to them.”
9. This is sad.
“The Overtoun Bridge.
It’s a bridge in Scotland where dogs always unexplainably jump off. It’s very strange and nobody knows for certain why they do this. Dogs who survived reportedly walked back up and jumped off again. They even had to put up a warning sign to keep your dog on a leash and to watch them. A lot of theories say maybe it’s because of certain scents or animals down below, but most people have disagreed with this theory. It’s f*ckin weird.
edit: In reality, I’ve done more research thanks to some comments, and it seems like people have romanticized this to make it creepier than it actually is. I don’t know exactly what to believe since there’s so much misinformation out there, but I’ll just believe the articles who’ve done the most research for now. They say it was most likely not hundreds of dogs, because they can’t find reports of that many jumping off like the “legend” says. It was only around 6. So it’s likely that I was misinformed like so many other people were and it’s not actually a huge phenomenon lol. But it’s still sad and a bit weird that 6 dogs jumped off.”
10. Strange times in New Orleans.
“The Mad Axeman of New Orleans ran rampant in 1918 and 1919. He murdered six people (usually those of Italian descent) with axes or straight razors. In March of 1919, he sent a lengthy letter from “Hottest Hell” that was pretty nonsensical. But the most relevant paragraphs read:
“Now, to be exact, at 12:15 (earthly time) on next Tuesday night, I am going to pass over New Orleans. In my infinite mercy, I am going to make a little proposition to you people. Here it is:
I am very fond of jazz music, and I swear by all the devils in the nether regions that every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in full swing at the time I have just mentioned. If everyone has a jazz band going, well, then, so much the better for you people.
One thing is certain and that is that some of your people who do not jazz it out on that specific Tuesday night (if there be any) will get the axe.”
There were no murders that night because every dance hall in NOLA was filled to capacity.”
11. Disappeared.
“Where is Kimberly Langwell?
She disappeared in 1999 in Beaumont, Texas. Her car was found in the parking lot of an Eckerd’s Drug Store, but her purse and keys were missing. Her cell phone was inside.
We all know she wouldn’t have left her daughter, Tiffani, just like that. She loved her and loved life and those who surrounded her. Everyone who knew Kimberly loved her. She was the shining star on a dark night.
If you have seen her alive, please call the police. I have posted her case below.”
12. Nazi mystery.
“The whereabouts of the last Gestapo Chief Heinrich Mueller.
The last verified sighting of him was in Berlin roughly 3 days before it fell, he had stated he knew full well what the Russians did to prisoners and he had no intentions of being captured. As chief of the Gestapo he more than likely had access to foreign documents as well as ways to replicate them.
Both the CIA and the KGB spent time looking for him but no trace has ever been found.”
13. A strange one…
“The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on the Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia.
The case is named after the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning “ended” or “finished,” which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man’s trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, authored by 12th-century poet Omar Khayyám.
Tamám was misspelt as Tamán in many early reports, and this error has often been repeated, leading to confusion about the name in the media.”
14. Never heard of this one.
“This is my favorite weird and barely known one:
Back in 2013 an unknown group assaulted a power substation in California. By all appearances it was pretty sophisticated: scouted firing positions, all casings wiped of prints, they targeted transformers so they’d take time to overheat before triggering any alarms, also knew exactly when the police would arrive.
No suspect or motive to this day, they also cut some fiber optic cables in a vault nearby. Conspiracy types think it was a dry run by Russia or possibly China to see how effective an attack like that might be.”
15. This is scary.
“Asha Degree.
Girl leaves her house in the middle of the night during a storm and disappeared. The only problem is that she was terrified of thunder and lightning and had no motive for leaving because her home life was fine.
Then her clothes and backpack were found a year later in an abandoned construction site.”
Now we want to hear from you.
Are there any unsolved mysteries out there that you can’t seem to get out of your head?
If so, please share them with us in the comments!
