As consumers, we’re kind of obsessed with everything related to true crime. A 2024 reportfoundthat 83% of Americans aged 13+ watch or listen toTrue Crimethrough any medium. Podcasts especially are especially popular: they’re the third most popular genre behind just comedy and society & culture.We here atBored Panda, too, love to play sleuths from time to time. Getting lost in an unsolved mystery case can be similar to solving a big puzzle. So, here we have for you some of the mostbizarreTrue Crime cases in history. We warn you, though: some of them might give you some serious heebie-jeebies.We reached out to Kat and Jethro Gilligan Toth, the hosts of the Box of Oddities podcast. It’s a delightfully bizarre show where the strange, the unexpected, and the downright ridiculous collide—because reality is weirder than you think. We chatted about lesser-known mysteries and internet sleuthing and even got to know which mysteries they would love to solve the most. Read our conversation below!More info:The Box of Oddities|Listen to The Box of Oddities here!This post may includeaffiliate links.
As consumers, we’re kind of obsessed with everything related to true crime. A 2024 reportfoundthat 83% of Americans aged 13+ watch or listen toTrue Crimethrough any medium. Podcasts especially are especially popular: they’re the third most popular genre behind just comedy and society & culture.
We here atBored Panda, too, love to play sleuths from time to time. Getting lost in an unsolved mystery case can be similar to solving a big puzzle. So, here we have for you some of the mostbizarreTrue Crime cases in history. We warn you, though: some of them might give you some serious heebie-jeebies.
We reached out to Kat and Jethro Gilligan Toth, the hosts of the Box of Oddities podcast. It’s a delightfully bizarre show where the strange, the unexpected, and the downright ridiculous collide—because reality is weirder than you think. We chatted about lesser-known mysteries and internet sleuthing and even got to know which mysteries they would love to solve the most. Read our conversation below!
More info:The Box of Oddities|Listen to The Box of Oddities here!
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3 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.Edit: The mustaches have nothing to do with the story at all. I just really liked them.
There are other creepy mysteries you won’t find on this list as they might not be as popular, like the Gurdon Light (not to be confused with legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Gordan Lightfoot!). At least that’s what the co-host of The Box of Oddities, Jethro Gilligan Toth, points to when we ask which lesser-known mysteries he thinks deserve more attention.“This eerie floating light shows up on railroad tracks in Gurdon, Arkansas, around late October,” Jethro begins. “It’s happened since the 1930s, and no one knows what causes it. Theories range from swamp gas to supernatural ghost vibes, which is science-adjacent, right? Either way, it’s weird, glowing, and super spooky—what’s not to love?“For his co-host Kat, it’s The Connecticut River Valley criminal. “This unidentified serial [criminal] is suspected of [taking out] at least seven young women in the Connecticut River Valley area of New England between 1978 and 1988. What’s even more fascinating is the survivor who lived to tell the tale.“Luckily, Kat and Jethro will cover this in an upcomingThe Box of Odditiesepisode, so stay tuned for all the chills!
There are other creepy mysteries you won’t find on this list as they might not be as popular, like the Gurdon Light (not to be confused with legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Gordan Lightfoot!). At least that’s what the co-host of The Box of Oddities, Jethro Gilligan Toth, points to when we ask which lesser-known mysteries he thinks deserve more attention.
“This eerie floating light shows up on railroad tracks in Gurdon, Arkansas, around late October,” Jethro begins. “It’s happened since the 1930s, and no one knows what causes it. Theories range from swamp gas to supernatural ghost vibes, which is science-adjacent, right? Either way, it’s weird, glowing, and super spooky—what’s not to love?”
For his co-host Kat, it’s The Connecticut River Valley criminal. “This unidentified serial [criminal] is suspected of [taking out] at least seven young women in the Connecticut River Valley area of New England between 1978 and 1988. What’s even more fascinating is the survivor who lived to tell the tale.”
Luckily, Kat and Jethro will cover this in an upcomingThe Box of Odditiesepisode, so stay tuned for all the chills!
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The wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige has not been seen in 11 years. The church insists that she’s just too busy to make public appearances, but former member Leah Remini has filed a missing person report for her. Some say she’s straight up dead.
Since the hosts of The Box of Oddities podcast cover true crime often, we were curious what they thought about social media keeping interest alive in cold cases. Kat sees mostly positives: internet sleuths can help move otherwise forgotten cases along and bring closure to families. “It’s like the Wild West, but with hashtags,” she says.“Social media has absolutely changed the game when it comes to unsolved crimes. It spreads information fast, gets more people talking, and sometimes even helps crack cases. Online communities have uncovered new leads, spotted overlooked details, and pushed for cold cases to be reopened. People love a puzzle! Fresh eyes on a case can make all the difference and give victims' families a louder voice in the search for justice.“Jethro, on the other hand, considers the downsides of people online playing detectives. “I worry about the other side of the coin—like when people handle potential evidence like it’s their personal science project,” he says. “That can lead to some serious problems. Let’s not turn every Redditor into Matty Matlock, okay?”
Since the hosts of The Box of Oddities podcast cover true crime often, we were curious what they thought about social media keeping interest alive in cold cases. Kat sees mostly positives: internet sleuths can help move otherwise forgotten cases along and bring closure to families. “It’s like the Wild West, but with hashtags,” she says.
“Social media has absolutely changed the game when it comes to unsolved crimes. It spreads information fast, gets more people talking, and sometimes even helps crack cases. Online communities have uncovered new leads, spotted overlooked details, and pushed for cold cases to be reopened. People love a puzzle! Fresh eyes on a case can make all the difference and give victims' families a louder voice in the search for justice.”
Jethro, on the other hand, considers the downsides of people online playing detectives. “I worry about the other side of the coin—like when people handle potential evidence like it’s their personal science project,” he says. “That can lead to some serious problems. Let’s not turn every Redditor into Matty Matlock, okay?”
What ever happened to that missing Malaysian flight? It just took a couple of crazy turns and then completely disappeared from the radar.
On the evening of March 31, 1922, six people from a small farmstead in Bavaria, located around 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of Munich, were found deceased under mysterious circumstances. The victims included Andreas Gruber (63), his wife Cäzilia Gruber (72), their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel (35), Viktoria’s two children, Cazilia (7) and Josef (2), and their maid, Maria Baumgartner (44). They had all been fatally struck with a mattock. Strangely, the person or people responsible seemed to remain at the house for several days afterward, eating food, caring for the animals, and even starting fires in the fireplace. The case remains one of the most perplexing and unsettling unsolved crimes in German history.
The Voynich Manuscript. Nobody knows if it’s legit or just an elaborate joke.
Since the pair have covered hundreds of interesting cases on their podcast, they both have the one they’d like to be solved someday. Kat says that for her, it’s Roanoke. “An entire colony vanishing without a trace in 1590? That’s next-level ghosting. I need to know what happened—aliens, relocation, a failed group camping trip?” The suspense of that one is frustrating.For Jethro, it’s the Sacsayhuamán citadel in Peru. “Those massive stone blocks weigh 100 tons each, and they’re carved so precisely that you can’t even slip a piece of paper between them. No mortar, no cranes, just…how? Ancient engineering or alien handypersons? I need answers, and I need them now.”
Since the pair have covered hundreds of interesting cases on their podcast, they both have the one they’d like to be solved someday. Kat says that for her, it’s Roanoke. “An entire colony vanishing without a trace in 1590? That’s next-level ghosting. I need to know what happened—aliens, relocation, a failed group camping trip?” The suspense of that one is frustrating.
For Jethro, it’s the Sacsayhuamán citadel in Peru. “Those massive stone blocks weigh 100 tons each, and they’re carved so precisely that you can’t even slip a piece of paper between them. No mortar, no cranes, just…how? Ancient engineering or alien handypersons? I need answers, and I need them now.”
The Mary Celeste. The merchant ship found abandoned and adrift in 1872. The crew’s belongings had not been disturbed. There were ample provisions for the sail. The cargo was not disturbed. However, the life boat was gone. The crew just… disappeared.
Roopkund lake. A small lake up in some mountains in India with a lot of human skeletons in it. Not only that, but the skeletons seems to have come from at least two different incidents hundreds of years apart.
What Pope Leo said to Attila the Hun. Attila was taking over the world and made it to Rome and the Vatican. Leo rode out alone and spoke to Attila and convinced Attila to not destroy Rome and the Vatican. What was said, only the archives of the Vatican has any idea.
Ball lightning is accepted as a real phenomenon, but is largely a mystery.I first became fascinated with “ball lighting” as a kid after my grandpa freaked out when a ball of light came in through our back door and followed him to the living room then disappeared. He told that story again and again until he passed. I was a big fan of the Little House on the Prairie series at the time and his description sounded similar to what I read.A few years later, my mom was taking a meteorology class and that reignited my interest in the weather, especially lightning. I loved having her teach me all the stuff she was learning and we’d watch her required documentaries together.Fast forward to middle school when we finally got a computer, and my interest flared back up. That was about the first time I ran into the concept of ball lightning and it reminded me of when I was a kid. My mom confirmed my memory of my grandpa’s story and even how eager I was to read him the passages from the book.I check in time to time to see what new breakthroughs have been made in the area, but it’s still really sparse even today.
So it’s this Australian family who owned a Berry farm. Somehow Mr and Mrs Tromp and their three grown kids developed the belief that they weren’t safe and they needed to flee their farm without cell phones or anything traceable (credit cards, etc). It sounds like the oldest son wasn’t sold on whatever it was that led them to flee. He brought his phone, but eventually it got tossed from the car. He ended up bailing first and taking a train home. From there the rest of the family slowly separated and suffered various degrees of emotional breaks. The two girls stole a car. Somehow they got separated and one made it home, but the other was found on the floor in the backseat of some guys car in a catatonic state. (he spotted her after he started down the road). Eventually the parents were found wandering around aimlessly. Fortunately they were all ok physically but wtf happened? Was someone actually after them? Were they delusional? As far as I know the family hasn’t released any updates.
Yet when we talk about why women like true crime shows, podcasts, and documentaries so much, the numbers are a bit different. In fact, women are 2.5 times more likely to consume true crime content to prepare for unsafe situations. In some cases, it probably works, as one in three respondents who have been victims of a crime said watching the content helped them react better to the situation.
El Fausto.Disappeared THREE TIMES during a trip that should have only taken hours and was missing for months. People talked to the crew when it reappeared before it vanished again. And when it was found for the last time, the crew was dead, one practically mummified. He kept a journal that didn’t make much sense either. Amazing to read.
The U.S.S. Cyclops. A coal ship. Disappeared with 306 men. The largest U.S. Navy loss of life that didn’t involve combat.
Some psychologists say that we’re so fascinated with true crime because it gives us an adrenaline rush when we know we’re safe. “Whether it’s good or bad, we need something that creates an element of excitement,” lecturer of psychology Dean Fidotold Better Help. “When we mix this desire with insight and solving a puzzle, it can give us a short, sharp shock of adrenaline, but in a relatively safe environment.”
The Isdal Woman refers to an unidentified woman found deceased in Isdalen (“The Ice Valley”) in Bergen, Norway, on November 29, 1970.While authorities at the time concluded that the death was likely self-inflicted, the unusual circumstances of the case sparked continued speculation and investigation over the years. Even after more than fifty years, it remains one of Norway’s most perplexing unsolved cases.
The identity of and what happened to D.B Cooper. A man on a plane called himself D.B Cooper and claimed to have a b**b in use suitcase. He took the flight crew hostage and when he got the money he asked for he had the flight crew start flying again. Eventually he jumped out of the plane with a couple of parachutes and the money. No one knows where he went or if he even survived.
Whether or not we’re alone in the universe. I think everyone is onboard with knowing for sure that we’re not, but there’s still no public proof.
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.
On the afternoon of 17 December 1967, Prime Minister Harold Holt entered the surf at Cheviot Beach in Victoria. He was never seen again.Despite an exhaustive search, no body or other evidence was found. In their place rose allegations, rumours and conspiracy theories that continue to this day.
People on this side of the argument say that producers, directors, film studios, and even Internet media creators sensationalize family tragedies for their personal gain. In some cases, the public reacts to these criminal cases in weird ways too. Like when social media usersurgedthe Hillsborough County judge to reduce the sentence for Cameron Herrin because he’s “too cute to go to jail.”
Where is Tera Smith? She disappeared from her Northern California hometown when she was a teenager in the late 1990s. I lived in Redding and was just a couple years younger than Tera at the time of her disappearance, so her disappearance has always stuck with me.
The boy in the box. A deceased little boy, found beaten, recently shaved of his hair and abandoned in the box for a bassinet that he was way too old for. The photos and reconstructions of him released to the public in the desperate hope of identifying him are haunting.
I vote for the Zodiac Killer. He left multiple cryptic messages, some of which never got decoded, but they never identified him. There’s much debate as to what happened to him, and even how extensive the scope of his killings. I believe the FBI still has a reward on information leading to his arrest, but nobody has heard anything in decades.
There have been other instances when people on TikTok or Twitter falsely accuse innocent people. The passing of four students in Moscow, Idaho became an example of this when TikTok sleuths identified Jack Showalter as ‘hoodie guy’ and insisted he was guilty. Although a completely different man was later found guilty and charged with the crime, Showalter’s familycondemnedthe threats and harassment they received from internet sleuths.
The Bronze Age collapse. Where’d they all go? All my homies :(
On June 7, 1992, the Springfield, Missouri Police Department was notified of the disappearance of three women from a residence in central Springfield.The parents of Stacy McCall, one of the missing women, contacted the police department in reference to their daughter’s disappearance from the home of Sherrill Levitt and Suzanne Streeter, the other two missing women. Upon officers' arrival, the house bore no signs of a struggle, but rather the appearance of the missing women being abducted. All personal property was left behind including purses, money, clothing, cars, keys, cigarettes, and the family dog.
Roanoke Colony, early Virginia. Somewhere between 110 and 120 people disappeared without a trace between 1585 and 1590. It’s been suggested that they left and joined with the Croatian tribe on their island, but no proof of any of the many theories has ever been found.
Can true crime content, then, be ethical at all? Some believe it can. The creators of the podcast L.A. Not So Confidential, psychologists in the criminal field Dr. Scott and Dr. Shiloh, say it’s important to have some experts weighing in. “I think it certainly lends to a good crime documentary to have some experts in there who aren’t affiliated with the case,” Dr. Shilohexplained to Vice.
The West Memphis Three case. All of the Satanic Panic mess obscured so much that will probably go unanswered now. A bloody man covered in mud stumbled into a Bojangles the night those little boys went missing. Cops barely investigated that incident and lost the blood evidence they did collect regarding it. WHAT was going on with John Mark Byers and Terry Hobbs, two dads of two of those kids, both turning up with evidence and acting at different points like they may have been involved?
On March 13, 1997 thousands of Arizona residents witnessed a large unidentified flying objects moving across the night sky. High profile witnesses to the phoenix lights include actor Kurt Russell who was flying a plane and reported the object to the FAA, and the governor of Arizona, Fife Symington.
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The Yuba County Five were a group of young men from Yuba County, California, United States, each with mild intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions, who were reported missing after attending a college basketball game at California State University, Chico (also known as Chico State), on the night of February 24, 1978. Four of them - Bill Sterling, 29; Jack Huett, 24; Ted Weiher, 32; and Jack Madruga, 30 - were later found dead; the fifth, Gary Mathias, 25, has never been found.
The disappearance of Patti Krieger. Not very well known outside of Washington state. Hiking with her fiance’s family when on the way down she allegedly went down the wrong trail and didn’t hear them yelling at her and no one followed her, they just assumed the trails would meet back up, but she was never seen again. The search dogs were able to follow her scent down the the parking lot, but never found her, they did find her Rottweiler that was with her weeks later severely emaciated. Her fiance’s family was seen driving her car after the disapearance. Her family has said they think her fiance is to blame but no charges have ever been filed against anyone.
The Chicago Tylenol MurdersIt gripped the nation suddenly in the 1980s. Police were driving around with loudspeakers telling people to throw out their Tylenol. Seven people died And AFAIK thyy never even came up with a suspect.
The teen couple Mitchel Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit. 50 years missing, Disappeared after going to a Rock concert in 1973. The only theory that makes sense what happened to them is that they hitchhiked with the wrong person
The young woman passed away under mysterious circumstances two months after marrying Edward Shue. Her death was initially thought to be from natural causes until her spirit appeared in a dream to her mother, Mary, revealing that her husband was responsible for her passing. Mary Heaster claimed her daughter appeared at her bedside (wearing the dress she died in) on four occasions, explaining how Edward had come home from work as a blacksmith and, in a fit of anger, caused her neck to be broken. An examination of the exhumed body confirmed the details from the vision. Edward Shue was convicted and sentenced to the state penitentiary at Moundsville, where he passed away eight years later.
The legend of the Green Children of Woolpit tells of two children with green skin who appeared in the village of Woolpit, England, in the 12th century. The brother and sister spoke an unknown language and only ate raw broad beans. After adapting to local food, they lost their green color, but the boy became sick and died around the time of their baptism. The girl later explained in English that they came from a land where the sun never shone and everything was green, which she called Saint Martin’s Land.
The Sodder children; their house burned down in the middle of the night. Several of the kids were presumed dead, but their bodies were never found in the debris and it never burned hot enough to cremate them. It started to look extremely suspicious and the parents until their deaths believed that they had been taken for some reason. Many years down the line they did receive a photo and cryptic note from someone claiming to be their son but it was never authenticated.
As someone from Chicago who loves /r/UnresolvedMysteries I would say the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion, and I don’t think we will ever find out who was behind it.It’s been over 30 years and we still have no idea who was behind that incredibly bizarre hijack. There was a thread a while ago of someone that thought they had figured it out that seemed very possible, but it was updated and they were ruled out as suspects.
Houska Castle creeps me out.Basically this Bohemian fortress was constructed on top of an ancient Slavo-Germanic pagan ritual site which was a very deep hole. Nothing too weird about that except for the way the castle was built.For one, its built in a useless position and served no strategic purpose so it was not desirable for medieval lords of Bohemia or any invaders to control.Then people realized that the castle was actually inverted! The fortifications were on the inside (arrow slits, turrets, thick fortress walls slanting into the castle etc…) it’s as if they were trying to keep something inside. There’s a legend that a Bohemian king lowered a prisoner into the hole that the castle was built on and he began screaming so they pulled him back up and he had aged 60 years and died.Then during WW2 the Nazis did actually occupy the castle for a time but they reported some strange sounds and when allied forces stormed the castle the Nazis were dead or abandoned the place.For sure there’s some folklore involved with the place but the fact that the castle was built clearly to keep something inside opposed to out and even the Nazis had issues with it, it definitely makes it seem like some ancient horror lies within that hole…TL;DR Houska castle was built on top of an ancient pagan hole with fortifications inside not outside as if to keep something in not out. Nazis tried occupying the castle but ended up dead or abandoned it.
As a native of the Portland Oregon metro area, it’s really sad that Kyron Horman’s disappearance is still unsolved. He will be 21 this year. Disappeared at 7.
Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) is a British missing person, who at the age of 3, disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007. The Daily Telegraph described her disappearance as “the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history”. Madeleine’s whereabouts remain unknown, although German prosecutors believe she is dead.
The case of the Pollock twins is one of the most intriguing instances of possible reincarnation. After the tragic deaths of their older sisters Joanna and Jacqueline, the twins, Gillian and Jennifer, began exhibiting strange behaviors and memories that seemed to mirror their deceased siblings. They recognized toys that once belonged to their sisters, made eerie statements about the accident, and even displayed matching birthmarks. Their close bond, shared interests, and phobias aligned closely with the lives of their older sisters. This unusual case has fascinated researchers and remains one of the most well-documented reincarnation stories to date.
The Oak Island mystery refers to a collection of tales and myths surrounding a hidden treasure and strange artifacts discovered on or around Oak Island in Nova Scotia. As of 2024, the primary treasure remains undiscovered.
Tri-state Crematory. A devastating case of a man called back from his college football career to take over his father’s business when the father fell ill. Over time people started noticing… bodies… and body parts. On the grounds. Just hanging around. When someone finally took the reports seriously they found that he’d been piling bodies up randomly all over the property, often when it would’ve been much easier to cremate them instead of hauling them around to where they were dumped. The guy gave families canisters of cement dust instead of ashes. The mystery on this one is… why. The guy never gave up the answer to what happened there and will only insist that there are no answers. His lawyer theorized he had mercury poisoning from cremating amalgam fillings, but that doesn’t really explain why you would dump a body instead of cremating it when the latter takes less effort.
Brian Shaffer’s disappearance. He was in a bar and afterwards disappeared. Surveillance photos never show him exiting, but a search never found him. I don’t remember the in depth details though.
In 1977 we received a radio signal from outer space that lasted about 72 seconds. To this day, we still do not know where it originated from.
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Hundreds of hackers have tried to solve the Cicada 3301 mystery to no avail
I gotta go with the first ever unsolved mystery that really made me think. Mystery of the Somerton Man. In the 1948 a guy was found dead on a beach in Adelaide, Australia. He was never identified and months after finding his body they found a fake pocket in his pants. It was torn from a copy of the book Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam (I googled that) and had a phrase on it which said “Tamam Shud” which means ended or finished in Persian. They found the book that it came from but the owner denied ever knowing the guy. There was an encrypted message in the book that they found and it still hasn’t been cracked. Apparently there’s been a development recently that might identify him as H.C. Reynolds but it’s not 100% certain. It’s super interestingEdit: thank you to u/Young_old-soul who has informed me that tamam shod actually means it’s over instead of finished or ended
Who created Piltdown Man? In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, researchers became obsessed with finding the “missing link” between humans and apes. In 1912, archaeologist Charles Dawson finds a skull that seems to have an exact mix of human and ape features, right there in England. Its legitimacy was questioned from the start, but many English scientists wanted it so badly for it to be real that they ignored that evidence for a long time. It wasn’t fully exposed as a fake until 41 years later. But who created the fake? Charles Dawson is the obvious suspect, but many believe that other people were in on it, or that someone else did it on their own. Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock) is my favorite of the suspects, though I rather doubt that he did it, ha ha. Still, I want it to be true!
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Heist (1990)
In late January 1921, the crew of the schooner Carroll A. Deering vanished off the North Carolina coast. The ship was spotted on January 31, still in good condition, before running aground on Diamond Shoals. When the Coast Guard boarded, they found the sails set, food prepared but untouched, and everything seemingly in order. However, the lifeboats were missing, and the twelve crew members had disappeared. Theories ranged from pirate attacks to Russian spies, and even the Bermuda Triangle. Despite widespread speculation, the true fate of the crew remains unknown.
What happened to Brian ShafferThis happened in my home town. This med student went to a bar with friends and then fully disappeared off the face of the earth.Edit: The podcast True Crime Garage has an incredible series on this case. The hosts are both from Columbus and around Brian’s age. They talk through the whole case in depth and they also have a few guests that they talk with as well.
Sea people. An entire civilization who destroyed a couple of empires and very little is known about them. It’s still not even known if it was on specific group. There’s theories, but nothing really confirmed. Who they were, where they came from, their motivations, daily life, religion, etc. Just an entire group of people who brought down the lives of thousands, destroyed established, seasoned societies and armies, and we know very little facts about them. They are literally considered a possible huge figure in the late Bronze Age collapse and there’s just nothing known for sure.EDIT: I meant there isn’t a lot we know for sure. Lots of theories and speculation using a lot of random puzzle pieces, but not much definitive conclusions. Don’t know too much about it so I’m inspired to look more now
The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. A German immigrant claimed he discovered the mine in the 19th century. Many have searched for it and have lost their lives. There is supposedly a curse associated with it. It’s never been found again.
The disappearance of Genette Tate is a missing person case in which a 13-year-old girl disappeared while delivering newspapers in Aylesbeare, Devon, England, on 19 August 1978. Despite extensive searches, Tate’s body has not been found and the cause of her disappearance remains unknown.
Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945
The “s*e” of Ellen Greenberg. 27 sb wounds in different areas of the body. Edit: 20 sb wounds, 27 was her age at the time of death. Thanks for correcting u/cmart4165
The “Smiley Face Theory,” which alleges that from 1990–2010, 45 young men found dead in bodies of water across the Midwest did not accidentally drown but were rather victims of a serial k****r. The only known connection is grafiti depicting a “smiley face” found near at least a dozen bodies.
The Beale Ciphers. Basically, a rich cowboy created ciphers which have the location of his buried riches, worth millions today. One cipher was cracked, but the other two remain a mystery. There is debate on whether the ciphers are real, but the first cipher seems to not be made of random characters which would indicate the story being truthful. Many cryptographers have spent years trying to break them.
The Synapse bankruptcy case. Over 95 million dollars went missing from people’s bank accounts and nobody knows where it went.
The “Taos Hum” is a mysterious low-frequency humming noise that has been reported in the town of Taos, New Mexico, and in other locations around the world. The origin of the noise is unknown and has been the subject of much speculation.
Gloria Cecilia Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) was an American woman who became known as the “Toxic Lady” after several hospital staff members fell ill due to exposure to her body and blood. Ramirez had been admitted to the emergency room in the advanced stages of cervical cancer. While she was being treated, three hospital workers fainted, and others reported symptoms like shortness of breath and muscle spasms. Five workers required medical attention, with one needing to stay in intensive care for two weeks. Ramirez passed away shortly after arriving at the hospital due to complications from her cancer.
The Miracle of the Sun, also known as the Miracle of Fatima, refers to a series of miraculous events that took place on October 13, 1917, in Fatima, Portugal. A large crowd had gathered after three shepherd children, Lucia Santos and Francisco and Jacinta Marto, prophesied that the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Fatima) would appear and perform miracles. Witnesses reported seeing unusual solar phenomena, such as the Sun “dancing,” moving toward the Earth, or emitting vibrant, multicolored light. These extraordinary events reportedly lasted for around ten minutes and were widely covered in the media.
That might be related to the Scientologist break ins. When they were working on getting their tax free status for their organization they needed to get Intel and leverage against the government. So they simply ordered a few members to walk right into the FBI headquarters as if they were agents, they took what they wanted, and then left.
Brianna Alexandra Maitland (born October 8, 1986; disappeared March 19, 2004) is an American missing person who disappeared at the age of 17 after leaving her job at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, Vermont. Her car was discovered the following day, backed into the side of an abandoned house about a mile (1.6 km) away from her workplace. Maitland has not been seen or heard from since. Due to a confluence of circumstances, several days passed before Maitland’s friends and family reported her missing.
In a village in Sweden called Rojdn there’s a cross-shaped “hole” in the ground that won’t go away. Over many years people tried to digg it out, fill it up, etc. but it comes back. Nothing grows there, and if you plan something in it it dies.
The Kongka La Pass in Ladakh This region lies in the disputed border of India and China, and is truly the most inaccessible places in the world. In 1962, the armies of both the countries were engaged in a severe conflict. After this, both China and India entered into an agreement according to which none will be allowed to patrol the region, but can keep an eye on it from a distance. After this, a popular belief floated that the Kongka La Pass in Ladakh is a hideous base of UFOs. The area has forever remained a no man’s land due to its territorial limits and is the reason why the UFOs have chosen it as their operational base.Reportedly, many have seen these UFOs and both the Indian and Chinese Governments are aware of these developments. In 2006, Google Maps too baffled the world with some images that looked liked military facilities, but till date the whole issue remains mysterious and unexplainable.
I’m a little late, but I scrolled this whole thread (and got into some discussions) to see if this one was already posted, and after double-checking I don’t think it was. This one is a double whammy: Who kd Ricky McCormick, and what do the encrypted notes found in his pocket mean? Ricky McCormick was an illiterate man who was found dead in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri on June 30, 1999; how he got there is another mystery, as he did not know how to drive and public transportation did not go to that area. At the time of the discovery of his body his death was not considered a homicide, but twelve years later the FBI reclassified the case as a homicide and issued an appeal asking for help decrypting the notes found in his pocket. While his parents claim he did not know how to write anything but his own name and could not have written in code (though they did say he would write “nonsense he called writing”), other members of his family said he had been writing encrypted notes since he was a young child. Who kd him, and what do the notes say?
The Babushka Lady is an unidentified woman present during the 1963 assassination of JFK, who appeared to be taking photos as other witnesses took cover. Her identity, along with her photos, remain unknown.
Are we alone in the universe?
Las Vegas music crowd shooter you can’t go anywhere in Vegas without seeing a camera yet not one picture ever came out.
Have they definitely figured out what causes crop circles? There was a documentary in which they made a round one but they are so complex and nobody takes credit
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