There’s nothing better than spending 6 hours binging a rivetingtrue crimedocumentary that’s full of twists and turns. Truth really is stranger than fiction! But as satisfying as it is to find out that the estrangedfatherdid it all along or that the man’s jilted ex actually was innocent, sometimes, we don’t get all the answers. And that can make a story even more fascinating…Redditors have recently beendiscussingsome of the most famous and puzzling unsolvedmysteriesof all time, so we’ve compiled a list of the most intriguing cases below. Enjoy reading through and theorizing about what you think actually happened, and be sure to upvote the stories you’d love to seesolved!This post may includeaffiliate links.
There’s nothing better than spending 6 hours binging a rivetingtrue crimedocumentary that’s full of twists and turns. Truth really is stranger than fiction! But as satisfying as it is to find out that the estrangedfatherdid it all along or that the man’s jilted ex actually was innocent, sometimes, we don’t get all the answers. And that can make a story even more fascinating…
Redditors have recently beendiscussingsome of the most famous and puzzling unsolvedmysteriesof all time, so we’ve compiled a list of the most intriguing cases below. Enjoy reading through and theorizing about what you think actually happened, and be sure to upvote the stories you’d love to seesolved!
This post may includeaffiliate links.
There is a ‘mystery’ that nobody thinks is a mystery. But personally I’m suspicious. There are a lot of missing Native American teenage boys in the area around Yakima Washington. Some of them where high risk but not all of them. At the start of the pandemic boys started going missing at like a 20% higher rate and then it calmed down after the pandemic. Some as young as 12 to as old as 23. The police don’t properly investigate. Just right them off as at risk teens that ran away.As of now they are not considered connectedand there are more but you have to dig through Yakima county missing persons. I don’t know, I feel like so many serial killers get away with it because they target Native Americans (look at the center for missing and murdered indigenous women) and police in rural areas are often racist pieces of s**t. I think one day we are going to uncover what’s happening to these boys.
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It’s nothing wildly infamous, but when I got my cat, I bought him a catnip cookie toy. He’d play with that thing for hours at a time. One day, it disappeared. We’ve rearranged the rooms multiple times since then and it’s nowhere to be found.I know, it’s probably not what you’re looking for, but it’s the biggest unsolved mystery I know.
The Setagaya family murder, in which the Miyazawa family were murdered in their home in December 2000. The killer was confident, having left fingerprints and DNA evidence, as well as the clothes he was wearing, in the house. Sand was analyzed from the scene, and had sand from Edward’s Air Force Base in California. Not only that, only 120 sweaters of the kind the killer was wearing were sold. Somehow, still not solved.
Amber Hagerman. She was about my same age and was killed in the city where I grew up. The AMBER alert system in the US was named in her honor and has helped safely recover many abducted children. However, Amber’s murderer was never found and the tip hotline for her case remains open.Source.
The guy who killed a japanese family, stayed hours inside the house with the corpses using their computer and eating their food. he even took a s**t and didn’t flush the toilet. he left so much dna in the house and the police haven’t found him.(english isn’t my first language so excuse any mistakes).
Brandon Swanson - he was on the phone with his father late one night after a car accident, said “Oh s**t!” and was never heard from again.
My neighbor was beaten to death but he never admitted he was beaten while fighting for his life in the hospital. Even the nurse said it was obvious it wasn’t just a fall. The police never started a case. That neighbor was very elderly and a sweetheart. He was murdered and the murderer is still there living free. Nobody cares and I’m disappointed in everyone involved. .
Jack the Ripper’s identity. Victorian London’s most famous killer. Inspires countless stories and fascination. Women brutally murdered. Lots of apparent evidence. And despite all this…..noone can say for sure or even largely agree who he is! I work near Whirechapel too…..crazy the history there.
Zodiac killer, mfer went around in a costume and wrote letters taunting the police and all sorts and they still aren’t sure for certain who dunnit.
The disappearance of the five Sodder children. Five of the family’s ten children vanished in a house fire on Christmas Eve, 1945. Their parents and siblings escaped, but no remains of the other five children were ever found. The fire did not burn that long or that hot; remains should have easily been found of at least some of the five children. The fire itself seemed suspicious, and the family believed the children were kidnapped.
When I was a kid, over the course of like 10 years, a bunch of severed feet washed up upon the shores of Vancouver Island.It was almost always one foot, in a shoe, like 3-5 years apart.Super oddEdit: since Aug 2007, 20 different feet have been recovered in the Salish sea region alone.
A bit off the cuff, but the Cocolitzli epidemics. This illness broke in Central America after Europeans made contact in the 16th century….and it destroyed entire villages; one epidemic killed 10-12 million people, even more than smallpox in the area. Absolute desolation.No one knows what illness it was. Was it a hantavirus? Smallpox? Salmonella? Viral hemorrhagic fever? Why did it always appear after a drought? Where did it go? We will probably never know.My favorite podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, did an episode on Cocolitzli, going into detail about Contact and colonization and how & why there isn’t much historical record on this.For those who don’t like to sleep atnight
The Black DahliaIt just seems so suspicious to me. It’s not everyday that a body just shows up cut in half, but there’s no blood in sight. If you read the page about the case from the FBI, something just doesn’t seem right.
In MA there was a young girl named Molly Bish that disappeared from her post as a lifeguard. Her body was found 3 years later. 24 years later and her killer has never been found.
Bible John. It’s insane that everyone who knew him covered for him. That’s the only way he could’ve remained undetected.For people who don’t know, Bible John was a serial killer in 60s Scotland who had an extremely unique appearance, and it’s pretty insane he was never caught.
JonBenét Ramsey12345_PIZZA: The ransom note, to me, makes it so the only suspects are family members. That thing is just so long, so filled with movie like details, and so specific with John’s bonus. Plus it looks like Patsy’s handwriting.Even so, I can’t think of any theory that makes total sense. If Burke did it on accident, why’d they send him to the neighbors since he could’ve let something slip? If John did it, would Patsy really help him cover it up? And if Patsy did it, how’d John seem to know right where the body was?
The murder of Elizabeth Barraza.It was caught on camera and the getaway vehicle was clearly seen. The murderer was speculated as being a woman or man in a wig. Truly bizarre.
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.
Sneha Philip, the doctor who was last seen shopping at a store near her Lower Manhattan apartment the evening of Sept 10, 2001, but never returned home that night. Obviously, we all know what happened the next morning.Her husband and family hired a private detective and fought to have a review of her case done for several years before she was officially named a 9/11 victim, even though there is no solid evidence to prove she was at or in the WTC at the time either plane struck or when the towers collapsed. BUT there’s also no solid evidence to prove she WASN’T at the WTC either. It’s so crazy. In a nutshell, there are about 4 or 5 theories on what happened to her and all of them are evenly plausible.
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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.
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.
I was cycling home from work one day, I was 18 or 19. (This is in Ireland in the early 1980s). I thought I saw my first cousin walking along the path on the far side of the road. (He was living & working in a town about 25 miles away). So I went over to say hello.It wasn’t my cousin. It wasn’t even anyone I knew. It wasn’t anyone I had ever seen before. But he knew me, knew my name, knew where I was from, called me “Mr [Loneswimmer]".I got utterly flustered and confused and embarassed and pretended I knew who he was and that I’d come over to say hello. So then I couldn’t admit I had no idea who he was and I left after a brief exchange.That was 40 years ago. I still have no idea who that was. I never saw him again. I could remember his face & voice for many years afterwards, I would even dream of him, but I’ve forgotten those now, except a vague sense.
Where Josh Powell put Susan Powell’s body.FunnyMiss: POS family is an understatement. It was truly insane what he did to her before and after her death. The poor social worker on the phone with another POS acting like she was overreacting and not taking the appropriate fast action.I know 911 dispatchers are heroes 99 out of 100 times. The one time he wasn’t? A poor woman doing a job very few would ever want watched her charges die at the hands of their dad. I cannot imagine the anguish I’d feel after that.
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 lol.
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Justin Richardson. He was in my class and went missing in 2001. It was the summer before 8th grade. The story I heard back then was just he went out to a woods party with some older friends and disappeared and he might have runaway to live with a supposed girlfriend he has in Chicago. It was a small town with not many families so it wasn’t uncommon to have friends older or younger so I didn’t think too much of it. Years later I got curious and read some of the news stories and it just seemed so much worse than I originally thought. The story doesn’t make any sense, three 18-21 year olds doing meth with a 13 year old. Two get separated so Justin and the remaining guy start searching for them covering well over 10 miles just walking back to town and then back to the forest to search more. Then they search the rest of the night and when the guy comes down off the meth he passes out for like 12 hours and when he wakes up Justin is gone. The original guys are found 15 miles south along the train tracks the next day. Then the theory somehow is Justin while his friend was sleeping decided to runaway to Chicago after being on [substances] all night walking around the forest? My guess is they murdered him and hid the body somewhere out in the forest which I think now is one of the leading theories.
If you are a Long Island serial killer fan, the whole Shannon Gilbert story is pretty strange. She was found dead in a field around Gilgo Beach after running around a neighborhood naked. She called 911 and said some weird stuff like they are going to kill me but investigators think she just had a psychotic episode, ran into the marsh land and died of the cold. Her death and body helped identify there was a serial killer in Gilgo Beach. He was eventually was caught last year and is now suspected as being one of the most prolific SKs in American history.
The yogurt shop murders in Austin, Texas back in 1991. “The 1991 Austin yogurt shop killings are an unsolved quadruple homicide which took place at an I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States on Friday, December 6, 1991. The victims were four teenage girls: 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, and Jennifer’s 15-year-old sister Sarah. Jennifer and Eliza were the shop employees, while Sarah and her friend Amy were in the shop to get a ride home with Jennifer after it closed at 11:00 pm. Approximately one hour before closing time, a man who had tried to hustle customers in his queue was permitted to use the toilet in the back, which took a very long time and may have jammed a rear door open. A couple who left the shop just before 11:00 pm, when Jennifer locked the front door to prevent more customers from entering, reported seeing two men at a table acting furtively.”.
The death of Cindy James. She was harassed multiple times through phone calls, house fires, phone lines being cut, and dead animals being left outside her apartment. Even though she moved apartments multiple times, she was continually harassed, and police and private investigator couldn’t figure out who harassed her. Cindy suddenly died, even though she was happy the morning of her death and showed no signs of depression.Here’s a great podcast episode about it.
A red panda went missing from the Norfolk, VA zoo…never found a trace of it.Also, Jon Bennet Ramsey murder.
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.
Johnny Gosch paper boy who went missing during his route in west des moines iowa. he was seen talking to a police officer under the bleachers at a game and asked to go on his route alone. he was told no but went anyways. he was seen giving directions to someone and his dog was found attached to the wagon he used for the papers. no one knows where he is but it’s suspected he was sold into trafficking and is in hiding now. his mother noreen has claimed to have seen him as an adult. it’s so eerie. he was also one of the first milk carton kids i believe.
Jody huisentruit. She was a local news anchor who was kidnapped and presumed dead. There’s a lot of stories from folks back then about police involvement and her owing a dg debt. She was well liked so that story is seen as kind of s****g on her memory, but I’ve personally heard stories from several people that all kind of say the same thing.
My friend was killed in a home burglary. She was a photographer and she had cameras in her house. They never caught the people who did it and the police haven ever said s**t about it.Absolutely not one update since her murder and it’s been a while.
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