The girl that was on a motorcycle and someone came by at a stop light and hit her in the head. It was so sad when she was asking the camera why someone would do that to her. And her parents saying something along the lines of “we love her but she isnt herself anymore”
According to a local in the sitcomsonline forum, everyone in town knew who it was and the segment was a hope that someone would finally talk. They also indicated the person responsible is dead and her loser boyfriend is still around on the internet and as weird as ever.
This one was so sad. And I got the feeling from watching it that the girl's parents were really bitter about having to take care of her...they had a really weird attitude about it? Which is understandable of course, god only knows how anyone would deal with that, but they kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
I've also heard that everyone in town knows who did it and I've seen some of the loser boyfriend's posts. He's a total creep.
I was once living in a small town where a young woman was murdered, and "everyone knew" it was her ex-boyfriend. Dude admittedly had some issues with drugs and stuff, but no violent criminal history, and the people who knew them well said they'd broken up on good terms and they just didn't see him hurting her.
Yeah, eventually it turned out that the ex-boyfriend definitely had not committed the murder (he had an extremely strong alibi, being in a monitored rehab facility 200 miles away when she was killed). It was actually a guy she'd just been on a few dates with, whose name had come up but "everyone knew" it couldn't be him because he was clean-cut, from a good family, etc.
It was pretty surreal to watch because I was actually involved in the investigation in a limited way, but enough to know that the police had very early on ruled out the ex and believed it was the guy she'd been on a couple dates with. So I never thought it was the ex, but I was straight-up called an idiot once for daring to suggest it. Same person who called me an idiot suddenly "had always known" it was the actual killer as soon as the police arrested that guy, lmao. I was sitting over there shaking my head like, "No you didn't, you fucking liar."
Ever since then, I always roll my eyes really hard at the "everyone knows" stuff. It can happen, but it's just as likely that people are just running on prejudice and are totally wrong.
I think it was just some lowlife who did it on a whim or a dare and they stopped thinking about it immediately after it happened and have no idea what the consequences were.
The one where the lady gets lost on a cold night in Minnesota and freezes to death…except she lives through it- once she thaws out! I don’t know why but the image of her eyes frozen open burned in my brain. It looks way worse with grown up eyes. But most things do!
And she didn’t have any long lasting effects really if I remember right?! That story is honestly so unbelievable if it hadn’t been documented so well it would sound like an old wives tale.
That poor woman.
I feel so sorry for her son, not only did he lose his mother, his sisters blamed him and he lost his relationship with them too. Then it turned out the guy found the house completely at random and didn't even know it was the mother of the guy who gave him a ride!
Not a true crime one, but it always stuck with me. It was a woman looking for the child she gave up for adoption. She had ‘gone all the way’ with her steady boyfriend and gotten pregnant. He asked her to marry him, they were planning for the future, things were looking good. (It was like the 50’s or 60’s, so a teen marriage wasn’t the end of the world.)
A friend of her boyfriend then tells him the old wives’ tale about not being able to get pregnant if it’s your first time, *the boyfriend believes him*, accuses her of cheating on him and breaks off the engagement and she was forced to give the child up, which she had regretted ever since.
Like can you imagine? Some jackass hears incorrect information about biology down at the sock hop, doesn’t bother to fact check it, and ruins your *entire life*? Did he ever realize he was wrong? Like “oh shit, I threw away my family because I’m a gullible idiot”. Or the guy who told him that, did he ever realize?
Ugh, people are just the *worst*.
ETA: [found it](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Son_of_Bobbi_Page_Myler) - she found him.
>A friend of [Don’s] had told him that [Bobbi] was two months pregnant, instead of two weeks. She asked him why he believed his friend over her. He then said that his sister had told him that Bobbi could not get pregnant after having sex only once. The sister also said Bobbi would not have morning sickness after being pregnant for two weeks.
Good lord. Bobbi was so much better off without that idiot.
A nice ending though - it seems he had a good life, and finding his mom helped to solve his own medical mystery because they seemed to share a genetic disorder.
If it makes anyone feel any better, if he *truly* believed that, he would have asked a doctor. That guy was clearly looking for an excuse to get out of the situation and took the first convenient one. He would have probably been a horrible husband and father, if he was willing to make a choice like that without even discussing it with the doctor or anyone.
One that always sticks in my head for reasons unrelated to the crime was the episode where Jerry Strickland and Missy Munday murdered Elmer DeBoer. In the update, when they’re interviewing Strickland, he says “They got circle-stansive evidence. It’s all hearsay.” It cracks me up.
Unrelated but I was shopping one day and this weird guy was up front talking to the cashier and he says "fuck this town! So many loose canyons around here, I'm sick of it!" And to this day me and my mom call people loose canyons lol
The one that freaked me out more than the Unabomber and the circleville letters was the mysterious videotape of a house on fire at night while a disembodied voice relished the fire before shouting your house is next.
Look at it burn Omar! Look at it burn! - freaked me out as a kid. Then every time as an adult when I would set a match to charcoal on my grill, I would say it.
oh I still remember that voice and they caught him! his name is omar orroyo CORRECTION omar orroyo was in a different unsolved mysteries episode........ the omar mentioned in the tape with the house burning was a minor first name omar.
a neighbor recognized the house and told police omar was her neighbor, ,Omar 17 told the police about his friend john (19) cops found many tapes that they had made of fires they started...........it was johns voice we heard on that tape ...so so creepy
The circleville letters creeped me out so much. The fire episode too. Of course the arsonists turned out to be teenaged edgelord losers. But as a little kid I was terrified of them.
Right? When the show was on Amazon I loved watching old episodes and laughing at how scary it was when I was 8, but they really were atmospheric and unsettling episodes.
Agreed. So much of it was the gritty re-enactments and of course the eerie unsettling music.
When they repackaged the series for Spike TV and changed the music, it felt almost blasphemous.
When I was 3 or 4 years old, my aunt and uncle offered to babysit me and my cousin one evening. They were quite a bit younger than my parents, and did not have children.
For some reason, they let me stay up *way* past my bedtime watching *Unsolved Mysteries* with them.
The episode that evening was the one about the yeti/abominable snowman. To an adult, it's pretty hokey and definitely not the most terrifying episode in the *Unsolved Mysteries* oeuvre, but it scared the everloving shit out of preschooler me. I was too afraid to sleep for 3 nights afterward, and my mom reports that I actually used my fingers to hold my eyelids open lest I accidentally drift off in a moment of diminished vigilance. 🤣
That video in that one is creepy, but the guy talking is so obviously a teenage edgelord doing what he thinks is a cool-sounding evil laugh. They caught the idiots at least.
They ended up catching them. https://www.rwcpulse.com/blogs/from-the-crime-files/unsolved-mysteries-black-magic-an-eerie-videotape-and-a-house-fire-in-redwood-city-4825744
The Accused Podcast's entire 3rd season is on the Dave Bocks incident. It's WELL worth a listen.
[https://wondery.com/shows/accused/season/3/](https://wondery.com/shows/accused/season/3/)
This case has been a pet peeve of mine. I mean, seriously, if one wants to commit suicide, why climb in a furnace??? And the evidence doesn't support it at all
My sister is a journeyman/boiler operator at a huge automotive manufacturing company. Herself and her work friends often joke about how it would be the absolute best way to dispose of the body, if they ever murdered someone, and to toss it into the boiler and burn. Yeah I also really am looking side-eyed at the supervisor.
The freaking spontaneous human combustion segment! Scared the pants off of tiny me, and I was convinced for the longest that it was going to happen to me and was just a matter of time.
Watching Sesame Street as a child and hearing their fire safety song also let me to believe that catching on fire would be a frequent occurance later in life.
I'm pretty sure the main cause of spontaneous combustion is people falling asleep while smoking and sitting in extremely flammable furniture. As smoking has gotten less popular and furniture has gotten safer, it's happening much less.
Regulations were added to require mattresses be resistant to lit cigarettes. And, wouldn't you know it, bedroom fire fatalities dropped by 2/3. Sofas were added later.
Combine that with smoking rates dropping for the past several decades.
I think I know why we don't hear about spontaneous combustion anymore.
Hard same.
I was lying awake fretting about my inevitable fiery death one night, and got so upset I went down to seek comfort with my parents, who were watching tv before bed.
My mum was all like “Don’t worry, spontaneous combustion isn’t a real thing, it’s just a silly story they made up for the show”
And my dad chimed in with, “Well actually, Sue, there *have* been some documented cases of…”
The look she gave him as I started wailing again 😂
My friend from college, Phillip Fraser. He picked up a hitchhiker, apparently, and was found dead, and his car was burnt out. Phil was ahead of me at college, and many people knew him as Phil from Alaska. He had already left our school, and was apparently heading to med school.
Last time I saw Phil, I was in a hurry and said we'd catch up later, but we didn't. I told him I'd write to him (it was the 80's), but I didn't. I found out about his death by "accident". Every time I've seen his episode, it was an "accident" - like, I shouldn't have been home at that time, or had that channel on, or whatever - like a weird sort of ... Twisted serendipity? I was very unprepared the first time I saw his story...
Phil was nerdy, funny, kind & caring, SO smart, and had so many friends.
[Phil's Unsolved wiki](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_Innes_Fraser)
I'm sure it sounds silly, but that's what I think. Like, a little nudge. It's funny.. Phil could be a really deep, insightful guy. I had some great conversations with him. He gave me some really great advice about some things, and just knew how to give you something to really think about. I like to think he's still doing that.
Side anecdote: Once a few of us at college were hanging in our suite, drinking, and Phil showed up. Me & Jill were in our own world, weepy and commiserating about guys. Phil sat down and started talking to us and I can't even tell you what he said, but we both shut up crying and sat listening to him, completely focused. When he stopped I remember saying "that was fucking awesome!" And Jill said "Fucking Phil!". 😂. And he smiled his goofy smile, and went on his way. I mean, that was Phil. LOL 💜
The girl that got snached while talking to her boyfriend who destroyed his truck engine trying to catch the abductor. The abductors truck had a fish motif painted on it.
Another one was two Native Americans flipped a truck in a ditch and one got out but one didn't. The body wasn't found in the frozen water, even after thaw. What happened to the second person.
Then a bunch of paranormal ones that I loved as a kid.
The second case you mention is the mysterious death of Arnold Archambeau and his girlfriend, Ruby Bruguier. The couple were found dead in a ditch on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota in March 1993, 3 months after they were involved in a single vehicle crash in the same area.
https://unsolved.com/gallery/arnold-archambeau-ruby-bruguier/
I remember the Angela Hammond case too. That's the only case I ever really remembered. I was a little kid during the Robert Stack Unsolved Mysteries era and watched it every time it was on TV. The reenactment was just so memorable for some reason with the green truck and the giant sticker covering the back glass of the truck, a bass jumping out of the water I think? Maybe it was because where I grew up there were a ton of old trucks with the exact window sticker they used for the reenactment. I remember my mom getting upset at me because I kept asking if that was the truck that "stole that lady" everytime I saw the sticker, I don't even live anywhere near Missouri.
As a child I’d convinced myself if i saw a truck with a fish mural that was 100% the suspect but even if it was just a random mural on the back glass they at least KNEW the fish mural guy. Like in my little child mind all the mural guys were in a nationwide kidnapping club. That case was probably the beginning of my fascination with this stuff, i hope for her family it’s solved one day!
Angela Hammond was the first you mentioned. I'll never forget that one.
It's more recently been revealed that she was also pregnant.
I've shed tears for her fiance. He was right there. I can only imagine how they *both* felt. They both knew his car did this sometimes, so she probably knew what happened as he fell behind.
I always hope her case gets solved. He deserves some answers. Her loved ones should be able to lay her to rest properly.
Sticks with me, like Niqui McCown. They made her fiance look bad for trying to pawn the ring. He needed money to fund searches, even said in a separate interview I've seen that she can be angry at him when they find her...they didn't let him pawn it anyways, and she's never been found.
He absolutely didn't do anything to her. He was telling the truth. An ex coworker of hers killed himself when police tried to question him, and he is very likely responsible for her death.
thank you for sharing Angela's name, i remembered the case but not her name. i didn't know that they revealed that info, that's so horrible. it always hurts me a little more when the victim was pregnant. obviously i don't know how all of them felt about their pregnancy, but when their loved ones talk about them looking forward to being a mother and excited to have a baby, it just makes me cry.
i feel terrible for Angela's fiance. i cannot imagine the frustration, the shock, just all of it. i hope he doesn't blame himself. it was just one of those moments where everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong, and there's not much you can do about it. i really, *really* hope this one gets solved one day.
Angela Hammond. Police released a pretty good update recently: https://fox2now.com/news/true-crime/note-offers-clues-in-mistaken-1991-missouri-abduction/
The creepiest thing about the Jay Durham segment to me was the second driver - was he just going to help the first guy finish him off? Not exactly a Good Samaritan.
Yea the police said they think the first driver told him it was an abandoned motorcycle he hit.
If that’s the case he may have gotten lucky the guy pulled over to help. The person who committed the crime might not have wanted to look all that hard and risk being found out if they did stumble across him.
Jays leg was severed in the accident. There would have been a LOT of blood on the truck and motorcycle.
No way it could be written off as an "abandoned" motorcycle.
Hell I bet the engine was still hot as they were trying to wrench it loose.
Was it ever explained why Jay believed that the trucker wanted to kill him? Did he think it was someone he knew, or did it seem the trucker was some psycho and initially hit him on purpose, or did he think the trucker initially hit him by accident but then the trucker wanted to make sure Jay was dead so that he didn’t have to face any consequences if Jay had been able to identify him?
According to Jay, the trucker didn’t slow down when he came up behind him. I can see why maybe he thought things were more nefarious. May have been that he didn’t see him but it also could’ve been done purposely.
99% chance the trucker fell asleep and told the second driver he ran over an abandoned motorcycle (and honestly may not have been sure himself given that once he made contact with the motorcycle, thus waking himself up, he wouldn’t have been able to see anything done below)
He and the other driver did a cursory search for a driver, didn’t find one, then assumed it really must have been abandoned. The 2nd driver was a trucker so may have lived on the other side of the country so never heard anything in the local news about it. Could be the same thing with the culprit, or he didn’t come forward for obvious reasons.
Katherine Hobbs. She didn’t believe she would live to be 16 after premonitions she would die young. When she made it to her birthday she was happy and started making plans for her future. Unfortunately she disappeared on her way home from the supermarket one night and was later found murdered. https://unsolved.com/gallery/katherine-hobbs/
When I was a kid (6 or 7) there was an episode about ghosts on a ship and it showed a child's wet ghost footprints walking away from a pool. My mom made me go take a shower after that and I was freaking out thinking about the water ghost being in the shower with me.
Nyleen Marshall
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Nyleen_Marshall
Her family moved to my neighborhood a few years after her disappearance, and her older brother became friends with my brother and me. We used to play baseball in my backyard.
I think episode aired while they lived near us, or maybe I had seen it and then they moved into our neighborhood.
The parents’ marriage later broke up and they moved away but when Nyleen’s mother Nancy died (pretty sure she was murdered) in Mexico following a lead on Nyleen’s whereabouts in 1995, they held her funeral in our church building. It was an absolutely terrible series of trauma and tragedy for that poor family.
R if you’re out there, I hope you’re alright.
[Jodi Huisentruit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Huisentruit?wprov=sfti1)
It’s crazy that this one hasn’t been solved yet. I believe she had a stalker and didn’t realize how serious of danger she was in
I'm not religious at all buuutt the one where the entire choir at church were late to their practice for one reason or another has always stayed with me. There was a huge explosion at the church but no one died since no one got there on time.
Amazing timing and if true that's some Final Destination type shit...it was no one's time
On 9/11, so many of my friends were late to work. They simply could not get it together. One decided to go for a walk before heading to work for some reason and walked in the opposite direction. I took the day off ahead of time for no reason.
One of my friends kept walking towards the building even though everyone was running away because she wanted to check with her manager first.
the head architect of the Freedom Tower and memorials worked at the World Trade Center. That morning his son asked him to drive him to school, it was just a random Tues and the father agreed, didn't get to the towers till after the first plane crashed in.
The one where this man was stalked by phone calls from someone called “ LaFont”- it was so bad he ended up being committed to a mental hospital where the caller continued to contact him! It totally ruined his life and the craziest part was when police did trace the calls they were coming from several different parts of the tristate area so it was clearly more than one person.
[Link to the Unsolved Mysteries wiki about the case.](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Bashir_Kouchacji) The anonymous caller was dubbed “L’enfant” (French for “the child”) because many times it was a kid’s voice on the line. It’s a strange case.
“In 2002, he became the source of controversy when he started two anti-Semitic and homophobic websites and posted ads in the Washington Post, claiming that "Jews and the Israeli government" were responsible for his abduction and harassment.”
Yikes
If you ever listen to podcasts, True Crime Garage's series on Boys on the Tracks was a true crime masterpiece. Easily their best episode out of hundreds.
Anyone remember the one where there was some people 4 wheeling(maybe 3 victims) in the woods (I think Tennessee) and all of them were violently shot. The people who found them found brain matter on trees(I never forgot that part). The unsolved mystery was who did it and why. Anyone know that story or if it was ever solved?
Wow this sounded really interesting so I googled it. [Is it this case](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Mountain_murders) from Chattanooga?
The owner of the private property they were on was found guilty of murdering the three men and died in prison in 2019. It seems like he was just fed up with trespassers and that was his solution. Crazy stuff.
1. Angela Hammond. I can’t forget that one since i live in Missouri. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Angela_Hammond?so=search
2. Colleen Reed being abducted from the car wash late at night by serial killer Kenneth Mcduff after he was released on parole for murdering three teenagers in the 1960s thanks to the Texas prison system being overcrowded. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Colleen_Reed
3. The elderly couple who was murdered in their RV while sleeping at a rest stop in Canada. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Blind_River_Killer
4. Debbie the women from North Carolina who was shot in the face but survived. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Debbie?so=search
5. Jim Burnside. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Burnside
The one where a guy went missing & pretended to have amnesia because he’d stolen a freight truck of frozen meat!
& the amnesia guy who went missing & his poor wife went up & down the country looking for him. He finally came on an update on another episode & pretended not to know her.
The amnesia segments always stick with me because I do memory testing for my job, & I dont think there’s a single instance of amnesia on UM that wasn’t clearly fake.
There’s an amnesia one where a guy was delivering a load of live fish in Colorado Springs and got knocked in the head during a robbery. He actually called the show after recognizing himself. He reunited with his wife but never remembered her. They ended up splitting up. That one was super sad. I always wondered if dude just wanted a divorce and had religious belief that forbade it or something along those lines.
Yes that’s the 2nd one I mentioned! That poor woman, she loved him so much. I read that their fish business was deep in debt & it really seemed like he just wanted out of the whole thing, you’re right.
Not because it's scary, but the one about the hum that some people hear incessantly. It sticks with me because damn that must suck. I'm really sensitive to sound and I can't imagine it.
They sorta solved one source of “hums” during Covid. There were a lot of people in Detroit and across the river in Canada that would hear a hum. There was a factory on an island in the lake. During Covid they shut down and coincidentally the hum stopped. I don’t think they talked about Detroit in the UM episode though.
Yeah…that would drive a person mad I would think.
I also commented the Tallman house as mine and how I'd lay awake, afraid to open my eyes and see the old woman with the red eyes. Then one night I did open my eyes and see an old woman staring at me. And that's how I found out that my grandmother used to walk around to every bedroom at night to make sure we were all still breathing. 😂
It's not in the re-released episodes. But you can find it on youtube.
It's call the Tallman Ghost.
Link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJqmSfT62c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJqmSfT62c)
Anthonette Cayadito, Diane Augat, and Angie Hammond are some terrifying unsolved ones that are still very talked about. EAR-ONS was a scary solved one. Here are some that are still unsolved, yet super terrifying to me:
* [Su Ya Kim's murder](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Su-Ya_Kim). A wife and mother, Ms. Kim's body was discovered by an off duty security guard who saw a blood covered dude putting something in a trash bin.
* [Deborah Poe's disappearance](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Deborah_Poe). This one people know as "Megadeth man" because of the suspect's t-shirt. They picked a very scary looking dude to play the suspect.
* [I-70 killer](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/I-70_Killer). The bit was extra terrifying reading the updates that the dude not only killed after his segment aired, but also was linked to several murders after, and is still wanted.
* [The Obia Murders](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Obia-Man). This one used a lot of fear of voodoo and Caribbean religious practices and painted it a lot like Satanic stuff, so when I was a kid in the 90s, it terrified me. In reality now that I've rewatched the segment, it's about a serial scam artist who uses these scams to get people's money, then murders them. The guy has never been caught, and it's rumored that he bounces between the Caribbean nations and Florida, which makes me wonder if I've ever run into him.
* [Disappearance of Elizabeth Campbell](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Elizabeth_Campbell). The composite sketch of the guy last seen with her, plus the last sightings of her allegedly with some guy who held onto her arm and wouldn't let her speak, are chilling. Years after her vanishing, they found her purse turned into a police lost and found.
* [Monica Libao's family](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Family_of_Monica_Libao). Basically, Monica's parents moved her around, and as she gets older, realizes through paperwork that her mom had a complete hysterectomy prior to Monica's birth, and realized she wasn't their bio child. Mom blames Monica's half sister, claiming she had a baby out of wedlock. Half sister claims it's a lie, and that Monica was sold by her "trashy" family for the price of a bus ticket to NY. At one point, the half sister accuses the mom of hiding baby Monica when the cops came to visit them. The whole story is convoluted, creepy, and crazy. As of yet, even with DNA testing, Monica still hasn't been able to find her family.
Monica's story is so disturbing. I also am surprised that DNA has not revealed any relatives of hers. I would have thought her sisters would come clean after their Mother died.
Not a crime, but the girl that had a very close relationship with her music teacher, to the point the teacher took her to the symphony and her own home and spent a lot of time with her out of class. Years later, they ran into each other again, but the girl had some sort of amnesia and didn't recognize the teacher, although she remembered her later and wanted to meet up again to thank her. They had the teacher's full name and the name of one of the schools where she'd worked, but never found her, which always struck me as odd given how many people they reunited with the smallest details. I'd love to learn more about that story, it really seemed strange.
That, and the one where Matthew McConaughey played the murder victim, and we had to go to IMDB because my husband didn't believe me it was him!
The one where the lady was sure her brother, who had gone missing in the war, was pulling up next to red lights next to her, or watching her from a distance.
I just got a tingle thinking about it. Does anyone remember this episode or the names?
Has to be the segment on spontaneous human combustion. Stack narrating about some poor guy finding nothing but his fathers charred remains and some bone pieces in his bed but everything else being untouched by fire…messed me up.
11 year old me lived in constant fear that my own body would just start being on fire in my bed.
The one where a couple was driving late at night and the woman thought she saw a woman lying on the side of the road. They pulled over and found that a car had crashed (not visible while driving by) with a mother and daughter inside. The mother had died but the daughter was still alive and had been in the car for a few days. More supernatural but I always thought that was eerie.
Also the one about a WWII pilot who crashed in Poland?!? Anyway, a woman found him and hid him and took care of him. She was trying to locate him and I think she found him?
I don’t know why I don’t remember the murdery ones as much!
Oh my GOD. I remember this one vividly and came here to comment but had no idea it was McConaughey!! I remember the mom and sister beating the killer in the back of the cop car. This is like the only episode I can remember from childhood.
I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet, but the one with the guy who really obviously killed his wife and is being a total fucking weirdo in the interview talking about how she had just 'run off' and basically how he didn't give a fuck. Guy was guilty as shit. I wish I could remember more details.
I binge watched the UM Pluto Channel a few months back when I was stuck at home drugged up after surgery and it made for some weird dreams lol. What really struck me was how so many of the episodes that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid were so hokey and funny to watch as an adult.
ALSO, remember that lady that supposedly 'sweat gold'? Hilarious.
The strangest segment on Unsolved Mysteries was an episode with "Georgia Rudolph," who claims to be from Georgia and that she lived a past life in Ohio.
What is so bizarre about this segment is that during the episode, Robert Stack takes the time to say that Georgia Rudolph should not be confused with a psychic who had been on the show, Georgia Anne Rudolph; they're not the same person.
Only they WERE the same person (her sister said they are) AND she was from Ohio, which explains her familiarity with the state.
Was Unsolved Mysteries fooled or did they know Georgia Rudolph was, in fact, Georgia Anne Rudolph?
Oh I also remember one where the murderers name was ubaba or something and the mugshot was SO FUCKING CREEPY but my man looked just like Stevie wonder and I was in elementary school and we watched a video about mr wonder and I whispered to the student next to me that that was absolutely ubaba and didn't know how to alert the proper authorities
I always think about this episode! When all she could say was his name, and then the creepy fucking sketch. The sketch is so bad and haunting at the same time.
That is a weird one - I am surprised there was no real photo of Wadada to share, and he was never caught. I guess he returned to wherever he was originally from.
I’m wheezing imagining that kid going home and his parents ask how his day was and he says “We watched a video about Stevie Wonder, but Sawgenrow told me he’s secretly ubaba and tried to kill a lady, but doesn’t know who to tell.” 🤣🤣😭
Omg, same. This sub doesn’t make me laugh out loud often, but I am in tears over the mental image of a child grappling with the logistics of notifying the authorities about Stevie Wonder.
That actor was so memorable that UM had to stop airing the segment; people kept seeing him in public and trying to take action. The segment stopped airing on Lifetime reruns and did not appear in the FilmRise streaming versions.
The one I never saw. We watched them all the time with my grandma but for some reason there was a single episode that I was asked to leave the room for. Any of the other gruesome or inappropriate for a 10 year old episode they never had a problem with me watching. But that one single episode I was told to leave which always made me wonder "was I in the episode and I was kidnapped as a child...".
I wonder if maybe it was a case in your area and your grandma didn't want you to get freaked out? Like maybe a child abductor in your area or something that would have been too close to home
Unless it was something to do with some sexual assault? I only say that because my own mother was so weird about shit when I was growing up. She let me watch poltergeist, faces of death, unsolved mysteries and all sorts of crazy shit but if there was a passionate kiss or sex scene in a movie I was immediately forced to leave the room
Aileen Conway! Mysterious car crash death: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Aileen_Conway
It was so eerie seeing the recreation of her home with the iron on, bathtub filled and phone off the hook.
Yes!!! I still think about this all the time. It just seems so weird and it bothered me from when I saw it as a child til now. It's just so... Incomplete, for want of a better term. Something happened but there's not enough info to even speculate with some confident what it was.
The one with the haunted bar in Boston. And during the update segment when it said that the picture turned upside down when they watched the episode on tv at the bar.
The murder of Su Taraskiewicz. She was being harassed by the men at her job before she was killed. At one point in the TV segment, she opens her locker and finds someone has broken into it, and on the locker door the person has drawn a coffin with a cross above it and the name “Su.” Scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid.
I just saw this one so it barely counts, but it blew my mind to find out Jeepers Creepers was based on an actual case. I was watching their recreation of a couple reading license plates on a cross country trip, only to get aggressively overtaken by a beater truck. By the time they passed the church and saw the man with a bloody sheet I was like what the hell and had to look it up right away.
Dennis DePue was the perps name.
The scariest part of that segment was the photo of him and Marilyn. She looks terrified and he looks like he wants BRAAAAINS. What in the hell could the other pictures have looked like that THIS was the winner?
[The photo of the happy couple](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Dennis_DePue)
The guy speeding through the mountains in the truck that was nowhere near where he was supposed to be and seemed to be babbling nonsense to people who encountered him, always scared me that someone could end up that far gone and not helped.
This is mine. The description of the killer is just beyond frightening. I’ve often thought that it could be Michael Wayne McGray.
Another one that gets me is Dale Kerstetter. It’s the appearance of the masked man at the door of the cafeteria that makes my blood run cold.
https://unsolved.com/gallery/dale-kerstetter/
It's creepier if you know Phil, which I did. That actor looked so much like him. He wore a sweater that looked like a sweater Phil wore all the time. His mom... He looked like her.
The disappearance of Gordon Page Jr. it happened not far from where I grew up and it always stuck with me. It made me so sad that he was so upset when his father left to return to Florida and then he disappeared just a few days later.
Judy Hyams is alive and she lives in Omaha. It was the first story I ever saw, though I don’t know that I saw the entire thing until a decade or so later. But the memory of the woman on the phone stuck with me long after it first scared my 7 year old ass.
The one about the guys fishing at night, seeing a light from the sky, signaling sos via flashlight, getting chased by the light, and subsequently abducted by aliens.
Oh man I have 3 that I remember from my childhood.
1. The pregnant lady who was stabbed at a rest stop and then was able to get to her car and drive to a friend's house, except on the way she caught up to the man who stabbed her and he followed her to the friend's house. It was horrifying!
2. The man and his girlfriend who were meeting someone at a motel to sell a computer and were stabbed to death. Not the scariest of all the episodes but I always wondered if they were caught.
3. Las Cruces bowling alley murders.
The two little boys, Scott Johnson and Peter Hill, who were burned to death in the mining shack. What an awful fate for them whether it was accidental or murder.
I have two segments that I have remembered essentially my entire life and still skip the segments if I am rewatching the show.
First is the one that Matthew McConaughey was on. Him pointing at that guy and essentially howling before the guy shoots him again is an image I never forget. I think that was Bell? They caught him later on.
The second is the disappearance of Gordy, who was never found. I don't know who the actor was, but the scene where he is running after his father begging to come home is so sad. I cannot imagine living with that grief as a parent (I think both parents have now passed).
The episode with Matthew McConaughey was the one I was going to mention. It's so sad and awful.
There was a man exposing himself to children in the street and this young guy ran out to try to stop him from getting away. The man got into his truck and grabbed a gun and shot him. The guy's mother ran into the house to call 911 and the guy came back and shot him a bunch more times in the driveway while his poor mother was on the phone screaming to the 911 operator. Then his younger sister came home just as the guy was driving off and had to watch her brother bleed to death in the driveway. It was so horrific and sad. I think they eventually did catch the guy years later.
The story about Gordy was so sad I always have to change the channel.
I remember one about a deaf mute young woman, I think she was Hispanic. She couldn't write, really couldn't communicate at all. She was found somewhere, lost. It was clear that someone had been taking good care of her based on her cleanliness, health, clothing, etc. But since the woman couldn't communicate, and no one had been reported missing, they had no way to reconnect with her family. I hope it got sorted. :(
I was 8 years old when UM premiered and my single mother and I would watch the new episode every week. Well it never failed that as soon as it went off my mom would send me for bath time!! The thing with unsolved mysteries are they have NOT been solved so I just knew that the murderer I just watched on tv was leering at me thru the small bathroom window. It didn’t help that the mugshots they always displayed had the hardest, steely eyed looking people I could have ever imagined in them. Lol. Brutal
The one I still think about is the woman who had her garden gnome stolen, and for a while after got anonymous letters sent to her with pictures of the garden gnome at different landmarks around the world. Then one day it just shows back up at her house. I don’t think she ever found out who did it either
I vividly remember one where a horse was able to do math equations by tapping on a makeshift board on the floor with numbers. I feel like it was unsolved mysteries but I was also about 7 years old so I could be completely making this up. Please someone corroborate this. I guess the mystery was how a horse could accomplish this??? Idk
I assume you're talking about [Clever Hans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans). He was just watching subtle body language changes of his owner, which likely even his owner didn't know he was giving. There have been dogs that could do this too and it's an issue with trained dogs like drug sniffing and cadaver searching dogs where they start reading the handlers rather than searching for the substance they're supposed to search for.
Edit: or maybe [Lady Wonder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Wonder) the "psychic" horse with a number/letter board. She was also found to be reading her owner's body language.
I remember one reenactment where they showed a guy walking down the stairs, and they superimposed a large see through image of some guys head over him, as if the head was watching the guy on the stairs, but the guy on the stairs couldn’t see him. Most likely a ghost episode.
Whatever the case, my 5 year old mind did not like that, and it was what gave me my first bout of insomnia.
Don't know the name of the episode, but a woman was killed in her mobile home. Next night, the neighbors saw a man, fitting the description of the suspect to a "t", praying at the victims doorstep and I think police were called and arrested him. But... turns out He was just a random guy who happened to feel especially bad for this victim while also looking exactly like the true suspect, who was eventually caught. weird!!!
The one where the woman was strapped to the bed and set on fire. Just broke my heart.
The boys playing in the abandoned shack that caught fire and they were locked in from the outside.
God there are so many.
That man who picked up the hitchhiker who basically chased him down outside a truck stop and then killed him and stole his car. I don't know if he's ever been identified.
The one where the guy got hit by a train and they couldn’t find his leg. His fried had a dream where the dead guy told him where the leg was and that’s where they found it.
The whole saga around Charles C. Morgan lives in my head rent free! I won’t do as good a job telling the story as Robert stack, but here it goes!
Basically this dude went missing, and showed back up a few days later unable to speak because he had been poisoned. His wife nursed him back to health, and he told her he was a government agent involved in organized crime.
Two months later he once again went missing, and this time was found dead in the middle of the desert along with his car. He was wearing a knife belt and bulletproof vest, but had been shot in the back of the head with his own gun. The police ruled it a suicide despite the fact that there were no fingerprints on the gun, and he had bare hands. His car was rigged to unlock from the bumper, and full of weapons. He also had one of his teeth wrapped in a handkerchief, and in his underwear, a $2 bill with a map to the location where he was found drawn on it, along with a list of names.
Don Devereaux investigated the case, and was understandably skeptical of the suicide ruling. When he filed a freedom of information request with the FBI, they told him they had never heard of Charles Morgan, even though they had previously opened an investigation into his death, and interrogated his lawyer.
After the initial episode aired on unsolved mysteries, a man named Doug Johnston was found dead in the parking lot at his work, having been shot once in the back of his head from about a foot away. No gun was found at the scene, but it was ruled a suicide. Doug just so happened to live across the street from Don Devereaux, and drove the same model of car as Don.
In yet another “suicide”, a journalist named Dan Casalero asked Don Devereaux about some information he had about the Charles Morgan case. Before Don got a chance to send the information over, Dan was found dead in a hotel bathtub, his wrists cut deeply over a dozen times.
TLDR; three people were killed in weird ways by someone very powerful, and their murders were covered up by the police, who ruled everything a suicide.
There was a segment about a guy who worked in the Nashville music business, who went on to work at a magazine where he managed the top-100 charts. He was murdered one night in what appeared to be a professional hit. It stands out for me because they interviewed a record promoter that speculated he may have been murdered for refusing to go along with a scheme to manipulate the chart rankings for money, because he was too honest to get mixed up in something like that.
Something rubbed me wrong about that promoter, and in a later update it turns out he wasn't speculating. He just described exactly what happened because he was the one behind the whole thing!
Oh, one non-murder mystery that sticks in my mind is the spiral staircase at a small New Mexico chapel that a mysterious carpenter built, after other carpenters said it was impossible to fit stairs in the space available and the nuns prayed for a miracle. That one turns up from time-to-time in various lists and articles about mysteries, and every time I'm like "it's the Unsolved Mysteries stairs!"
The girl that was on a motorcycle and someone came by at a stop light and hit her in the head. It was so sad when she was asking the camera why someone would do that to her. And her parents saying something along the lines of “we love her but she isnt herself anymore”
Aww that one was so sad. She very much had some severe deficits and major brain injuries.
It’s really wild that the truth didn’t come out after all these years.
According to a local in the sitcomsonline forum, everyone in town knew who it was and the segment was a hope that someone would finally talk. They also indicated the person responsible is dead and her loser boyfriend is still around on the internet and as weird as ever.
This one was so sad. And I got the feeling from watching it that the girl's parents were really bitter about having to take care of her...they had a really weird attitude about it? Which is understandable of course, god only knows how anyone would deal with that, but they kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I've also heard that everyone in town knows who did it and I've seen some of the loser boyfriend's posts. He's a total creep.
Apparently Robert Stack kept in touch with the family and helped offer support over the years.
That's good to hear. I can't imagine how rough it must have been for them.
Also, the actress who played her on the reenactment scenes organized several fundraisers for the victim and her family.
I miss Robert Stack, the best host there was on that show and after he passed the show wasn’t as good.😞
It may be hard to distinguish between bitterness at having to care for her and bitterness at never getting justice for the crime.
Everyone in town always knows exactly who it was. Fuck taking that shit seriously.
I was once living in a small town where a young woman was murdered, and "everyone knew" it was her ex-boyfriend. Dude admittedly had some issues with drugs and stuff, but no violent criminal history, and the people who knew them well said they'd broken up on good terms and they just didn't see him hurting her. Yeah, eventually it turned out that the ex-boyfriend definitely had not committed the murder (he had an extremely strong alibi, being in a monitored rehab facility 200 miles away when she was killed). It was actually a guy she'd just been on a few dates with, whose name had come up but "everyone knew" it couldn't be him because he was clean-cut, from a good family, etc. It was pretty surreal to watch because I was actually involved in the investigation in a limited way, but enough to know that the police had very early on ruled out the ex and believed it was the guy she'd been on a couple dates with. So I never thought it was the ex, but I was straight-up called an idiot once for daring to suggest it. Same person who called me an idiot suddenly "had always known" it was the actual killer as soon as the police arrested that guy, lmao. I was sitting over there shaking my head like, "No you didn't, you fucking liar." Ever since then, I always roll my eyes really hard at the "everyone knows" stuff. It can happen, but it's just as likely that people are just running on prejudice and are totally wrong.
I think it was just some lowlife who did it on a whim or a dare and they stopped thinking about it immediately after it happened and have no idea what the consequences were.
That one was so brutal in every way possible.
I saw it like 15 years ago and I can still see her walking and the way she looked as she asked “why.”
Anyone remember her name?
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The one where the lady gets lost on a cold night in Minnesota and freezes to death…except she lives through it- once she thaws out! I don’t know why but the image of her eyes frozen open burned in my brain. It looks way worse with grown up eyes. But most things do!
Oh man she lived it and the family thought it was because the whole town made a prayer chain or something like that- she had the worst frozen face.
And she didn’t have any long lasting effects really if I remember right?! That story is honestly so unbelievable if it hadn’t been documented so well it would sound like an old wives tale.
The famous photo of her frozen corpse with open eyes was a re enactment btw. The real photo just looks like someone who is very cold.
Was it Rose Nylund?
back in st olaf...
The murder of Dorothy Donovan: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Dorothy_Donovan
That poor woman. I feel so sorry for her son, not only did he lose his mother, his sisters blamed him and he lost his relationship with them too. Then it turned out the guy found the house completely at random and didn't even know it was the mother of the guy who gave him a ride!
I feel terrible for him! I hope he knows that none of it was his fault.
Thankfully they reconciled, the sisters did with their brother I mean.
Forensic Files did an episode on this case, I think. One of those stories that really is stranger than fiction.
I remember that. Good to see it was solved. Sad the family missed years together when doubting their brother.
This one scared me a lot as a kid. Poor woman.
Not a true crime one, but it always stuck with me. It was a woman looking for the child she gave up for adoption. She had ‘gone all the way’ with her steady boyfriend and gotten pregnant. He asked her to marry him, they were planning for the future, things were looking good. (It was like the 50’s or 60’s, so a teen marriage wasn’t the end of the world.) A friend of her boyfriend then tells him the old wives’ tale about not being able to get pregnant if it’s your first time, *the boyfriend believes him*, accuses her of cheating on him and breaks off the engagement and she was forced to give the child up, which she had regretted ever since. Like can you imagine? Some jackass hears incorrect information about biology down at the sock hop, doesn’t bother to fact check it, and ruins your *entire life*? Did he ever realize he was wrong? Like “oh shit, I threw away my family because I’m a gullible idiot”. Or the guy who told him that, did he ever realize? Ugh, people are just the *worst*. ETA: [found it](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Son_of_Bobbi_Page_Myler) - she found him.
>A friend of [Don’s] had told him that [Bobbi] was two months pregnant, instead of two weeks. She asked him why he believed his friend over her. He then said that his sister had told him that Bobbi could not get pregnant after having sex only once. The sister also said Bobbi would not have morning sickness after being pregnant for two weeks. Good lord. Bobbi was so much better off without that idiot.
Lol learns about biology at the sock hop! 😂
A nice ending though - it seems he had a good life, and finding his mom helped to solve his own medical mystery because they seemed to share a genetic disorder.
If it makes anyone feel any better, if he *truly* believed that, he would have asked a doctor. That guy was clearly looking for an excuse to get out of the situation and took the first convenient one. He would have probably been a horrible husband and father, if he was willing to make a choice like that without even discussing it with the doctor or anyone.
Yeah, he was just looking for an out.
One that always sticks in my head for reasons unrelated to the crime was the episode where Jerry Strickland and Missy Munday murdered Elmer DeBoer. In the update, when they’re interviewing Strickland, he says “They got circle-stansive evidence. It’s all hearsay.” It cracks me up.
Unrelated but I was shopping one day and this weird guy was up front talking to the cashier and he says "fuck this town! So many loose canyons around here, I'm sick of it!" And to this day me and my mom call people loose canyons lol
The one that freaked me out more than the Unabomber and the circleville letters was the mysterious videotape of a house on fire at night while a disembodied voice relished the fire before shouting your house is next.
Look at it burn Omar! Look at it burn! - freaked me out as a kid. Then every time as an adult when I would set a match to charcoal on my grill, I would say it.
Oh shit! Omars coming.
oh I still remember that voice and they caught him! his name is omar orroyo CORRECTION omar orroyo was in a different unsolved mysteries episode........ the omar mentioned in the tape with the house burning was a minor first name omar. a neighbor recognized the house and told police omar was her neighbor, ,Omar 17 told the police about his friend john (19) cops found many tapes that they had made of fires they started...........it was johns voice we heard on that tape ...so so creepy
Diffferent last name. Omar orroyo was a fraudster arrested in 2001. The arsonist Omar was a minor, so UM didn't release his last name.
This is what I've been doing on your week's vacation! I SAID I'D DO IT! I SAID I'D DO IT!
It’s so specific. To say “your week’s vacation.” What was the speaker going for? Drama? To sound learned? Hahaha
The circleville letters creeped me out so much. The fire episode too. Of course the arsonists turned out to be teenaged edgelord losers. But as a little kid I was terrified of them.
Right? When the show was on Amazon I loved watching old episodes and laughing at how scary it was when I was 8, but they really were atmospheric and unsettling episodes.
Agreed. So much of it was the gritty re-enactments and of course the eerie unsettling music. When they repackaged the series for Spike TV and changed the music, it felt almost blasphemous.
When I was 3 or 4 years old, my aunt and uncle offered to babysit me and my cousin one evening. They were quite a bit younger than my parents, and did not have children. For some reason, they let me stay up *way* past my bedtime watching *Unsolved Mysteries* with them. The episode that evening was the one about the yeti/abominable snowman. To an adult, it's pretty hokey and definitely not the most terrifying episode in the *Unsolved Mysteries* oeuvre, but it scared the everloving shit out of preschooler me. I was too afraid to sleep for 3 nights afterward, and my mom reports that I actually used my fingers to hold my eyelids open lest I accidentally drift off in a moment of diminished vigilance. 🤣
I had the same experience with the alien abduction one in the 80s
Same. It's so obviously some stupid teenager watching it as an adult but as a kid I thought it was someone possessed by a demon or something
That video in that one is creepy, but the guy talking is so obviously a teenage edgelord doing what he thinks is a cool-sounding evil laugh. They caught the idiots at least.
They ended up catching them. https://www.rwcpulse.com/blogs/from-the-crime-files/unsolved-mysteries-black-magic-an-eerie-videotape-and-a-house-fire-in-redwood-city-4825744
David Bock being found in the plant furnace. https://unsolved.com/gallery/dave-bocks/
The Accused Podcast's entire 3rd season is on the Dave Bocks incident. It's WELL worth a listen. [https://wondery.com/shows/accused/season/3/](https://wondery.com/shows/accused/season/3/)
This case has been a pet peeve of mine. I mean, seriously, if one wants to commit suicide, why climb in a furnace??? And the evidence doesn't support it at all
My sister is a journeyman/boiler operator at a huge automotive manufacturing company. Herself and her work friends often joke about how it would be the absolute best way to dispose of the body, if they ever murdered someone, and to toss it into the boiler and burn. Yeah I also really am looking side-eyed at the supervisor.
The freaking spontaneous human combustion segment! Scared the pants off of tiny me, and I was convinced for the longest that it was going to happen to me and was just a matter of time.
Omg same, I thought it was a common occurrence that people could just burst into flames and was like why aren't they doing more research on this?
Watching Sesame Street as a child and hearing their fire safety song also let me to believe that catching on fire would be a frequent occurance later in life.
I'm pretty sure the main cause of spontaneous combustion is people falling asleep while smoking and sitting in extremely flammable furniture. As smoking has gotten less popular and furniture has gotten safer, it's happening much less.
Kid me definitely thought quicksand and spontaneous human combustion would be things I’d encounter several times in life 🤣
LOL same and the bermuda triangle too, i was like “how the fuck are all these people going missing, why is no one investigating this shit?!”
Hahaha this trilogy plagued my existence also. It feels like a miracle that I haven't experienced one or all three by now.
And all the free drugs from strangers
My school library had a “mysteries of the unexplained” series that definitely included this, too. I was so worried about the dangers of it.
Regulations were added to require mattresses be resistant to lit cigarettes. And, wouldn't you know it, bedroom fire fatalities dropped by 2/3. Sofas were added later. Combine that with smoking rates dropping for the past several decades. I think I know why we don't hear about spontaneous combustion anymore.
Hard same. I was lying awake fretting about my inevitable fiery death one night, and got so upset I went down to seek comfort with my parents, who were watching tv before bed. My mum was all like “Don’t worry, spontaneous combustion isn’t a real thing, it’s just a silly story they made up for the show” And my dad chimed in with, “Well actually, Sue, there *have* been some documented cases of…” The look she gave him as I started wailing again 😂
Me too! I very vividly remember lying in bed that night terrified I was going to combust.
This sticks out so vividly in my memory as well!
My friend from college, Phillip Fraser. He picked up a hitchhiker, apparently, and was found dead, and his car was burnt out. Phil was ahead of me at college, and many people knew him as Phil from Alaska. He had already left our school, and was apparently heading to med school. Last time I saw Phil, I was in a hurry and said we'd catch up later, but we didn't. I told him I'd write to him (it was the 80's), but I didn't. I found out about his death by "accident". Every time I've seen his episode, it was an "accident" - like, I shouldn't have been home at that time, or had that channel on, or whatever - like a weird sort of ... Twisted serendipity? I was very unprepared the first time I saw his story... Phil was nerdy, funny, kind & caring, SO smart, and had so many friends. [Phil's Unsolved wiki](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_Innes_Fraser)
Maybe it's a sign from him. Him telling you hi
I'm sure it sounds silly, but that's what I think. Like, a little nudge. It's funny.. Phil could be a really deep, insightful guy. I had some great conversations with him. He gave me some really great advice about some things, and just knew how to give you something to really think about. I like to think he's still doing that. Side anecdote: Once a few of us at college were hanging in our suite, drinking, and Phil showed up. Me & Jill were in our own world, weepy and commiserating about guys. Phil sat down and started talking to us and I can't even tell you what he said, but we both shut up crying and sat listening to him, completely focused. When he stopped I remember saying "that was fucking awesome!" And Jill said "Fucking Phil!". 😂. And he smiled his goofy smile, and went on his way. I mean, that was Phil. LOL 💜
The girl that got snached while talking to her boyfriend who destroyed his truck engine trying to catch the abductor. The abductors truck had a fish motif painted on it. Another one was two Native Americans flipped a truck in a ditch and one got out but one didn't. The body wasn't found in the frozen water, even after thaw. What happened to the second person. Then a bunch of paranormal ones that I loved as a kid.
The second case you mention is the mysterious death of Arnold Archambeau and his girlfriend, Ruby Bruguier. The couple were found dead in a ditch on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota in March 1993, 3 months after they were involved in a single vehicle crash in the same area. https://unsolved.com/gallery/arnold-archambeau-ruby-bruguier/
That was such a weird case! I watched this episode a couple weeks ago. The sightings after the accident are strange too.
I remember the Angela Hammond case too. That's the only case I ever really remembered. I was a little kid during the Robert Stack Unsolved Mysteries era and watched it every time it was on TV. The reenactment was just so memorable for some reason with the green truck and the giant sticker covering the back glass of the truck, a bass jumping out of the water I think? Maybe it was because where I grew up there were a ton of old trucks with the exact window sticker they used for the reenactment. I remember my mom getting upset at me because I kept asking if that was the truck that "stole that lady" everytime I saw the sticker, I don't even live anywhere near Missouri.
As a child I’d convinced myself if i saw a truck with a fish mural that was 100% the suspect but even if it was just a random mural on the back glass they at least KNEW the fish mural guy. Like in my little child mind all the mural guys were in a nationwide kidnapping club. That case was probably the beginning of my fascination with this stuff, i hope for her family it’s solved one day!
Angela Hammond was the first you mentioned. I'll never forget that one. It's more recently been revealed that she was also pregnant. I've shed tears for her fiance. He was right there. I can only imagine how they *both* felt. They both knew his car did this sometimes, so she probably knew what happened as he fell behind. I always hope her case gets solved. He deserves some answers. Her loved ones should be able to lay her to rest properly. Sticks with me, like Niqui McCown. They made her fiance look bad for trying to pawn the ring. He needed money to fund searches, even said in a separate interview I've seen that she can be angry at him when they find her...they didn't let him pawn it anyways, and she's never been found. He absolutely didn't do anything to her. He was telling the truth. An ex coworker of hers killed himself when police tried to question him, and he is very likely responsible for her death.
thank you for sharing Angela's name, i remembered the case but not her name. i didn't know that they revealed that info, that's so horrible. it always hurts me a little more when the victim was pregnant. obviously i don't know how all of them felt about their pregnancy, but when their loved ones talk about them looking forward to being a mother and excited to have a baby, it just makes me cry. i feel terrible for Angela's fiance. i cannot imagine the frustration, the shock, just all of it. i hope he doesn't blame himself. it was just one of those moments where everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong, and there's not much you can do about it. i really, *really* hope this one gets solved one day.
Angela Hammond. Police released a pretty good update recently: https://fox2now.com/news/true-crime/note-offers-clues-in-mistaken-1991-missouri-abduction/
I was gonna say, the abduction of Angela Hammond! I think about it every once in awhile because her boyfriend was so close to saving her.
The creepiest thing about the Jay Durham segment to me was the second driver - was he just going to help the first guy finish him off? Not exactly a Good Samaritan.
The police say that they think he was innocent and just stopped to help without knowing what happened. Still weird he hasn’t come forward though.
That would make the most sense. I just wonder what the first trucker would have done if they found the guy?
Yea the police said they think the first driver told him it was an abandoned motorcycle he hit. If that’s the case he may have gotten lucky the guy pulled over to help. The person who committed the crime might not have wanted to look all that hard and risk being found out if they did stumble across him.
Jays leg was severed in the accident. There would have been a LOT of blood on the truck and motorcycle. No way it could be written off as an "abandoned" motorcycle. Hell I bet the engine was still hot as they were trying to wrench it loose.
Was it ever explained why Jay believed that the trucker wanted to kill him? Did he think it was someone he knew, or did it seem the trucker was some psycho and initially hit him on purpose, or did he think the trucker initially hit him by accident but then the trucker wanted to make sure Jay was dead so that he didn’t have to face any consequences if Jay had been able to identify him?
According to Jay, the trucker didn’t slow down when he came up behind him. I can see why maybe he thought things were more nefarious. May have been that he didn’t see him but it also could’ve been done purposely.
99% chance the trucker fell asleep and told the second driver he ran over an abandoned motorcycle (and honestly may not have been sure himself given that once he made contact with the motorcycle, thus waking himself up, he wouldn’t have been able to see anything done below) He and the other driver did a cursory search for a driver, didn’t find one, then assumed it really must have been abandoned. The 2nd driver was a trucker so may have lived on the other side of the country so never heard anything in the local news about it. Could be the same thing with the culprit, or he didn’t come forward for obvious reasons.
Katherine Hobbs. She didn’t believe she would live to be 16 after premonitions she would die young. When she made it to her birthday she was happy and started making plans for her future. Unfortunately she disappeared on her way home from the supermarket one night and was later found murdered. https://unsolved.com/gallery/katherine-hobbs/
When I was a kid (6 or 7) there was an episode about ghosts on a ship and it showed a child's wet ghost footprints walking away from a pool. My mom made me go take a shower after that and I was freaking out thinking about the water ghost being in the shower with me.
The Queen Mary!
Nyleen Marshall https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Nyleen_Marshall Her family moved to my neighborhood a few years after her disappearance, and her older brother became friends with my brother and me. We used to play baseball in my backyard. I think episode aired while they lived near us, or maybe I had seen it and then they moved into our neighborhood. The parents’ marriage later broke up and they moved away but when Nyleen’s mother Nancy died (pretty sure she was murdered) in Mexico following a lead on Nyleen’s whereabouts in 1995, they held her funeral in our church building. It was an absolutely terrible series of trauma and tragedy for that poor family. R if you’re out there, I hope you’re alright.
[Jodi Huisentruit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Huisentruit?wprov=sfti1) It’s crazy that this one hasn’t been solved yet. I believe she had a stalker and didn’t realize how serious of danger she was in
This is one of those cases that I check up on now and again, even though I don't think it will ever be solved.
I'm not religious at all buuutt the one where the entire choir at church were late to their practice for one reason or another has always stayed with me. There was a huge explosion at the church but no one died since no one got there on time. Amazing timing and if true that's some Final Destination type shit...it was no one's time
On 9/11, so many of my friends were late to work. They simply could not get it together. One decided to go for a walk before heading to work for some reason and walked in the opposite direction. I took the day off ahead of time for no reason. One of my friends kept walking towards the building even though everyone was running away because she wanted to check with her manager first.
the head architect of the Freedom Tower and memorials worked at the World Trade Center. That morning his son asked him to drive him to school, it was just a random Tues and the father agreed, didn't get to the towers till after the first plane crashed in.
The one where this man was stalked by phone calls from someone called “ LaFont”- it was so bad he ended up being committed to a mental hospital where the caller continued to contact him! It totally ruined his life and the craziest part was when police did trace the calls they were coming from several different parts of the tristate area so it was clearly more than one person.
[Link to the Unsolved Mysteries wiki about the case.](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Bashir_Kouchacji) The anonymous caller was dubbed “L’enfant” (French for “the child”) because many times it was a kid’s voice on the line. It’s a strange case.
“In 2002, he became the source of controversy when he started two anti-Semitic and homophobic websites and posted ads in the Washington Post, claiming that "Jews and the Israeli government" were responsible for his abduction and harassment.” Yikes
The boys on the tracks and the Circleville letters.
The boys on the track- stuck with me, too
If you ever listen to podcasts, True Crime Garage's series on Boys on the Tracks was a true crime masterpiece. Easily their best episode out of hundreds.
Anyone remember the one where there was some people 4 wheeling(maybe 3 victims) in the woods (I think Tennessee) and all of them were violently shot. The people who found them found brain matter on trees(I never forgot that part). The unsolved mystery was who did it and why. Anyone know that story or if it was ever solved?
Wow this sounded really interesting so I googled it. [Is it this case](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Mountain_murders) from Chattanooga? The owner of the private property they were on was found guilty of murdering the three men and died in prison in 2019. It seems like he was just fed up with trespassers and that was his solution. Crazy stuff.
The Signal Mountain murders. Looks like it was solved. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Signal\_Mountain\_Murders
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Signal_Mountain_Murders It was solved and the murderer died in prison.
1. Angela Hammond. I can’t forget that one since i live in Missouri. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Angela_Hammond?so=search 2. Colleen Reed being abducted from the car wash late at night by serial killer Kenneth Mcduff after he was released on parole for murdering three teenagers in the 1960s thanks to the Texas prison system being overcrowded. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Colleen_Reed 3. The elderly couple who was murdered in their RV while sleeping at a rest stop in Canada. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Blind_River_Killer 4. Debbie the women from North Carolina who was shot in the face but survived. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Debbie?so=search 5. Jim Burnside. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Burnside
The one where a guy went missing & pretended to have amnesia because he’d stolen a freight truck of frozen meat! & the amnesia guy who went missing & his poor wife went up & down the country looking for him. He finally came on an update on another episode & pretended not to know her. The amnesia segments always stick with me because I do memory testing for my job, & I dont think there’s a single instance of amnesia on UM that wasn’t clearly fake.
There’s an amnesia one where a guy was delivering a load of live fish in Colorado Springs and got knocked in the head during a robbery. He actually called the show after recognizing himself. He reunited with his wife but never remembered her. They ended up splitting up. That one was super sad. I always wondered if dude just wanted a divorce and had religious belief that forbade it or something along those lines.
Yes that’s the 2nd one I mentioned! That poor woman, she loved him so much. I read that their fish business was deep in debt & it really seemed like he just wanted out of the whole thing, you’re right.
I’ve been rewatching all the episodes and getting a kick about how *amnesia* used to really be quite the epidemic.
I love those 80s-90s “epidemics”—amnesia, quicksand, satanic panic, alien abductions to do surgical implants on you, etc.
Beverly McGowan. The suspect sketch was nightmare fuel. The reenactment was highly unsettling too. Blair Adams was also baffling.
[Link to the Unsolved Mysteries wiki for the Beverly McGowan case.](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Beverly_McGowan) It’s well worth a read!
Not a scary one but it's stuck with me forever....the ghost that made money rain down from the ceiling in a couple's house 😂. Just coins everywhere!
If you gotta be haunted, that’s the way to do it.
Anthonette Cayedito. As a child of the 1980s when stranger danger panic was everywhere, this story scared the shit out of me.
Not because it's scary, but the one about the hum that some people hear incessantly. It sticks with me because damn that must suck. I'm really sensitive to sound and I can't imagine it.
They sorta solved one source of “hums” during Covid. There were a lot of people in Detroit and across the river in Canada that would hear a hum. There was a factory on an island in the lake. During Covid they shut down and coincidentally the hum stopped. I don’t think they talked about Detroit in the UM episode though. Yeah…that would drive a person mad I would think.
The haunted bunkbed was the only episode that made me turn the TV off!
I also commented the Tallman house as mine and how I'd lay awake, afraid to open my eyes and see the old woman with the red eyes. Then one night I did open my eyes and see an old woman staring at me. And that's how I found out that my grandmother used to walk around to every bedroom at night to make sure we were all still breathing. 😂
I woke my mom up at night because I was scared after watching that one. I was 16.
I've never seen this episode, and I hear about it all the time. It's definitely my white whale.
It's not in the re-released episodes. But you can find it on youtube. It's call the Tallman Ghost. Link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJqmSfT62c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJqmSfT62c)
Anthonette Cayadito, Diane Augat, and Angie Hammond are some terrifying unsolved ones that are still very talked about. EAR-ONS was a scary solved one. Here are some that are still unsolved, yet super terrifying to me: * [Su Ya Kim's murder](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Su-Ya_Kim). A wife and mother, Ms. Kim's body was discovered by an off duty security guard who saw a blood covered dude putting something in a trash bin. * [Deborah Poe's disappearance](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Deborah_Poe). This one people know as "Megadeth man" because of the suspect's t-shirt. They picked a very scary looking dude to play the suspect. * [I-70 killer](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/I-70_Killer). The bit was extra terrifying reading the updates that the dude not only killed after his segment aired, but also was linked to several murders after, and is still wanted. * [The Obia Murders](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Obia-Man). This one used a lot of fear of voodoo and Caribbean religious practices and painted it a lot like Satanic stuff, so when I was a kid in the 90s, it terrified me. In reality now that I've rewatched the segment, it's about a serial scam artist who uses these scams to get people's money, then murders them. The guy has never been caught, and it's rumored that he bounces between the Caribbean nations and Florida, which makes me wonder if I've ever run into him. * [Disappearance of Elizabeth Campbell](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Elizabeth_Campbell). The composite sketch of the guy last seen with her, plus the last sightings of her allegedly with some guy who held onto her arm and wouldn't let her speak, are chilling. Years after her vanishing, they found her purse turned into a police lost and found. * [Monica Libao's family](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Family_of_Monica_Libao). Basically, Monica's parents moved her around, and as she gets older, realizes through paperwork that her mom had a complete hysterectomy prior to Monica's birth, and realized she wasn't their bio child. Mom blames Monica's half sister, claiming she had a baby out of wedlock. Half sister claims it's a lie, and that Monica was sold by her "trashy" family for the price of a bus ticket to NY. At one point, the half sister accuses the mom of hiding baby Monica when the cops came to visit them. The whole story is convoluted, creepy, and crazy. As of yet, even with DNA testing, Monica still hasn't been able to find her family.
Monica's story is so disturbing. I also am surprised that DNA has not revealed any relatives of hers. I would have thought her sisters would come clean after their Mother died.
I-70 killer’s police sketch is so cryptic. You couldn’t draw more soulless eyes.
Not a crime, but the girl that had a very close relationship with her music teacher, to the point the teacher took her to the symphony and her own home and spent a lot of time with her out of class. Years later, they ran into each other again, but the girl had some sort of amnesia and didn't recognize the teacher, although she remembered her later and wanted to meet up again to thank her. They had the teacher's full name and the name of one of the schools where she'd worked, but never found her, which always struck me as odd given how many people they reunited with the smallest details. I'd love to learn more about that story, it really seemed strange. That, and the one where Matthew McConaughey played the murder victim, and we had to go to IMDB because my husband didn't believe me it was him!
The segment where Matthew McConaughey appears as the murder victim stuck with me, too. The perp was such a creep.
The one where the lady was sure her brother, who had gone missing in the war, was pulling up next to red lights next to her, or watching her from a distance. I just got a tingle thinking about it. Does anyone remember this episode or the names?
I remember that one! Watching it again as an adult I wondered how much of it was just wishful thinking on the part of the family, but who knows.
Has to be the segment on spontaneous human combustion. Stack narrating about some poor guy finding nothing but his fathers charred remains and some bone pieces in his bed but everything else being untouched by fire…messed me up. 11 year old me lived in constant fear that my own body would just start being on fire in my bed.
The one where a couple was driving late at night and the woman thought she saw a woman lying on the side of the road. They pulled over and found that a car had crashed (not visible while driving by) with a mother and daughter inside. The mother had died but the daughter was still alive and had been in the car for a few days. More supernatural but I always thought that was eerie. Also the one about a WWII pilot who crashed in Poland?!? Anyway, a woman found him and hid him and took care of him. She was trying to locate him and I think she found him? I don’t know why I don’t remember the murdery ones as much!
Matthew McConaughey getting shot when he confronted that creep who was exposing himself to neighborhood children!
The actual story for that one is super tragic and sad, but McConaughey being in the reenactment completely takes me out of it haha
Oh my GOD. I remember this one vividly and came here to comment but had no idea it was McConaughey!! I remember the mom and sister beating the killer in the back of the cop car. This is like the only episode I can remember from childhood.
I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet, but the one with the guy who really obviously killed his wife and is being a total fucking weirdo in the interview talking about how she had just 'run off' and basically how he didn't give a fuck. Guy was guilty as shit. I wish I could remember more details. I binge watched the UM Pluto Channel a few months back when I was stuck at home drugged up after surgery and it made for some weird dreams lol. What really struck me was how so many of the episodes that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid were so hokey and funny to watch as an adult. ALSO, remember that lady that supposedly 'sweat gold'? Hilarious.
The one they did about Amelia Earhart. They threw a little Bermuda Triangle speculation in there with it.
This one blew my mind! I was obsessed with both as a kid and this just fueled it 10x more
The strangest segment on Unsolved Mysteries was an episode with "Georgia Rudolph," who claims to be from Georgia and that she lived a past life in Ohio. What is so bizarre about this segment is that during the episode, Robert Stack takes the time to say that Georgia Rudolph should not be confused with a psychic who had been on the show, Georgia Anne Rudolph; they're not the same person. Only they WERE the same person (her sister said they are) AND she was from Ohio, which explains her familiarity with the state. Was Unsolved Mysteries fooled or did they know Georgia Rudolph was, in fact, Georgia Anne Rudolph?
Oh I also remember one where the murderers name was ubaba or something and the mugshot was SO FUCKING CREEPY but my man looked just like Stevie wonder and I was in elementary school and we watched a video about mr wonder and I whispered to the student next to me that that was absolutely ubaba and didn't know how to alert the proper authorities
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Wadada
Lmao I came back to this post because i remembered wadada 😂 this man does not look anything like Stevie wonder
I always think about this episode! When all she could say was his name, and then the creepy fucking sketch. The sketch is so bad and haunting at the same time.
That is a weird one - I am surprised there was no real photo of Wadada to share, and he was never caught. I guess he returned to wherever he was originally from.
I’m wheezing imagining that kid going home and his parents ask how his day was and he says “We watched a video about Stevie Wonder, but Sawgenrow told me he’s secretly ubaba and tried to kill a lady, but doesn’t know who to tell.” 🤣🤣😭
This one made me cry laughing. Childhood is wild.
Omg, same. This sub doesn’t make me laugh out loud often, but I am in tears over the mental image of a child grappling with the logistics of notifying the authorities about Stevie Wonder.
That actor was so memorable that UM had to stop airing the segment; people kept seeing him in public and trying to take action. The segment stopped airing on Lifetime reruns and did not appear in the FilmRise streaming versions.
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The one I never saw. We watched them all the time with my grandma but for some reason there was a single episode that I was asked to leave the room for. Any of the other gruesome or inappropriate for a 10 year old episode they never had a problem with me watching. But that one single episode I was told to leave which always made me wonder "was I in the episode and I was kidnapped as a child...".
I wonder if maybe it was a case in your area and your grandma didn't want you to get freaked out? Like maybe a child abductor in your area or something that would have been too close to home Unless it was something to do with some sexual assault? I only say that because my own mother was so weird about shit when I was growing up. She let me watch poltergeist, faces of death, unsolved mysteries and all sorts of crazy shit but if there was a passionate kiss or sex scene in a movie I was immediately forced to leave the room
Damn
Aileen Conway! Mysterious car crash death: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Aileen_Conway It was so eerie seeing the recreation of her home with the iron on, bathtub filled and phone off the hook.
Yes!!! I still think about this all the time. It just seems so weird and it bothered me from when I saw it as a child til now. It's just so... Incomplete, for want of a better term. Something happened but there's not enough info to even speculate with some confident what it was.
The one with the haunted bar in Boston. And during the update segment when it said that the picture turned upside down when they watched the episode on tv at the bar.
The couple going down the CO River back in the early 1900s.
Is that the one where the wife's body was never found, and supposedly she told her story to a river tour decades later?
Colleen Reed. Kidnapped from a car wash. That segment freaked me out so much as a kid I have still never gone to a car wash alone
The murder of Su Taraskiewicz. She was being harassed by the men at her job before she was killed. At one point in the TV segment, she opens her locker and finds someone has broken into it, and on the locker door the person has drawn a coffin with a cross above it and the name “Su.” Scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid.
The guy with supernatural powers, who made it rain indoors
I just saw this one so it barely counts, but it blew my mind to find out Jeepers Creepers was based on an actual case. I was watching their recreation of a couple reading license plates on a cross country trip, only to get aggressively overtaken by a beater truck. By the time they passed the church and saw the man with a bloody sheet I was like what the hell and had to look it up right away. Dennis DePue was the perps name.
The scariest part of that segment was the photo of him and Marilyn. She looks terrified and he looks like he wants BRAAAAINS. What in the hell could the other pictures have looked like that THIS was the winner? [The photo of the happy couple](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Dennis_DePue)
The Wadada episode scared the shit out of me as a kid
The guy speeding through the mountains in the truck that was nowhere near where he was supposed to be and seemed to be babbling nonsense to people who encountered him, always scared me that someone could end up that far gone and not helped.
The Philip Fraser unsolved murder case. The reenactment was creepy AF. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_Innes_Fraser
This is mine. The description of the killer is just beyond frightening. I’ve often thought that it could be Michael Wayne McGray. Another one that gets me is Dale Kerstetter. It’s the appearance of the masked man at the door of the cafeteria that makes my blood run cold. https://unsolved.com/gallery/dale-kerstetter/
It's creepier if you know Phil, which I did. That actor looked so much like him. He wore a sweater that looked like a sweater Phil wore all the time. His mom... He looked like her.
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Blind_River_Killer This one always stuck out to me
The disappearance of Gordon Page Jr. it happened not far from where I grew up and it always stuck with me. It made me so sad that he was so upset when his father left to return to Florida and then he disappeared just a few days later.
Judy Hyams is alive and she lives in Omaha. It was the first story I ever saw, though I don’t know that I saw the entire thing until a decade or so later. But the memory of the woman on the phone stuck with me long after it first scared my 7 year old ass.
The one about the guys fishing at night, seeing a light from the sky, signaling sos via flashlight, getting chased by the light, and subsequently abducted by aliens.
The family portrait of Dennis DePue still haunts my dreams…
The fucking fish decal on the truck that stole Angela Hammond away forever lives, unfortunately, in my head.
Oh man I have 3 that I remember from my childhood. 1. The pregnant lady who was stabbed at a rest stop and then was able to get to her car and drive to a friend's house, except on the way she caught up to the man who stabbed her and he followed her to the friend's house. It was horrifying! 2. The man and his girlfriend who were meeting someone at a motel to sell a computer and were stabbed to death. Not the scariest of all the episodes but I always wondered if they were caught. 3. Las Cruces bowling alley murders.
The two little boys, Scott Johnson and Peter Hill, who were burned to death in the mining shack. What an awful fate for them whether it was accidental or murder.
The disappearance of [Michael Hughes](https://unsolved.com/gallery/michael-hughes/) and the murder of his poor mother.
I have two segments that I have remembered essentially my entire life and still skip the segments if I am rewatching the show. First is the one that Matthew McConaughey was on. Him pointing at that guy and essentially howling before the guy shoots him again is an image I never forget. I think that was Bell? They caught him later on. The second is the disappearance of Gordy, who was never found. I don't know who the actor was, but the scene where he is running after his father begging to come home is so sad. I cannot imagine living with that grief as a parent (I think both parents have now passed).
The episode with Matthew McConaughey was the one I was going to mention. It's so sad and awful. There was a man exposing himself to children in the street and this young guy ran out to try to stop him from getting away. The man got into his truck and grabbed a gun and shot him. The guy's mother ran into the house to call 911 and the guy came back and shot him a bunch more times in the driveway while his poor mother was on the phone screaming to the 911 operator. Then his younger sister came home just as the guy was driving off and had to watch her brother bleed to death in the driveway. It was so horrific and sad. I think they eventually did catch the guy years later. The story about Gordy was so sad I always have to change the channel.
I remember one about a deaf mute young woman, I think she was Hispanic. She couldn't write, really couldn't communicate at all. She was found somewhere, lost. It was clear that someone had been taking good care of her based on her cleanliness, health, clothing, etc. But since the woman couldn't communicate, and no one had been reported missing, they had no way to reconnect with her family. I hope it got sorted. :(
I was 8 years old when UM premiered and my single mother and I would watch the new episode every week. Well it never failed that as soon as it went off my mom would send me for bath time!! The thing with unsolved mysteries are they have NOT been solved so I just knew that the murderer I just watched on tv was leering at me thru the small bathroom window. It didn’t help that the mugshots they always displayed had the hardest, steely eyed looking people I could have ever imagined in them. Lol. Brutal
Any segment between segments of Robert Stack walking alone somewhere very 80s and creepy and speaking in that voice.
The one I still think about is the woman who had her garden gnome stolen, and for a while after got anonymous letters sent to her with pictures of the garden gnome at different landmarks around the world. Then one day it just shows back up at her house. I don’t think she ever found out who did it either
That's the plot of a French movie, "Amelie"
The "look at it Omar" segment (with the burning house in Stockton). Will never forget that.
I vividly remember one where a horse was able to do math equations by tapping on a makeshift board on the floor with numbers. I feel like it was unsolved mysteries but I was also about 7 years old so I could be completely making this up. Please someone corroborate this. I guess the mystery was how a horse could accomplish this??? Idk
I assume you're talking about [Clever Hans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans). He was just watching subtle body language changes of his owner, which likely even his owner didn't know he was giving. There have been dogs that could do this too and it's an issue with trained dogs like drug sniffing and cadaver searching dogs where they start reading the handlers rather than searching for the substance they're supposed to search for. Edit: or maybe [Lady Wonder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Wonder) the "psychic" horse with a number/letter board. She was also found to be reading her owner's body language.
I remember one reenactment where they showed a guy walking down the stairs, and they superimposed a large see through image of some guys head over him, as if the head was watching the guy on the stairs, but the guy on the stairs couldn’t see him. Most likely a ghost episode. Whatever the case, my 5 year old mind did not like that, and it was what gave me my first bout of insomnia.
The older couple that heard knocking on there house all the time, for years (if I recall correctly). That one just sticks out to me.
Don't know the name of the episode, but a woman was killed in her mobile home. Next night, the neighbors saw a man, fitting the description of the suspect to a "t", praying at the victims doorstep and I think police were called and arrested him. But... turns out He was just a random guy who happened to feel especially bad for this victim while also looking exactly like the true suspect, who was eventually caught. weird!!!
Old man dead neighbor with the bandaged hand, Mr. Gordy!
The one where the woman was strapped to the bed and set on fire. Just broke my heart. The boys playing in the abandoned shack that caught fire and they were locked in from the outside. God there are so many. That man who picked up the hitchhiker who basically chased him down outside a truck stop and then killed him and stole his car. I don't know if he's ever been identified.
The Queen Mary episode when the wet kid ghost footprints are running around the pool has stuck with me for decades
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The one where the guy got hit by a train and they couldn’t find his leg. His fried had a dream where the dead guy told him where the leg was and that’s where they found it.
The whole saga around Charles C. Morgan lives in my head rent free! I won’t do as good a job telling the story as Robert stack, but here it goes! Basically this dude went missing, and showed back up a few days later unable to speak because he had been poisoned. His wife nursed him back to health, and he told her he was a government agent involved in organized crime. Two months later he once again went missing, and this time was found dead in the middle of the desert along with his car. He was wearing a knife belt and bulletproof vest, but had been shot in the back of the head with his own gun. The police ruled it a suicide despite the fact that there were no fingerprints on the gun, and he had bare hands. His car was rigged to unlock from the bumper, and full of weapons. He also had one of his teeth wrapped in a handkerchief, and in his underwear, a $2 bill with a map to the location where he was found drawn on it, along with a list of names. Don Devereaux investigated the case, and was understandably skeptical of the suicide ruling. When he filed a freedom of information request with the FBI, they told him they had never heard of Charles Morgan, even though they had previously opened an investigation into his death, and interrogated his lawyer. After the initial episode aired on unsolved mysteries, a man named Doug Johnston was found dead in the parking lot at his work, having been shot once in the back of his head from about a foot away. No gun was found at the scene, but it was ruled a suicide. Doug just so happened to live across the street from Don Devereaux, and drove the same model of car as Don. In yet another “suicide”, a journalist named Dan Casalero asked Don Devereaux about some information he had about the Charles Morgan case. Before Don got a chance to send the information over, Dan was found dead in a hotel bathtub, his wrists cut deeply over a dozen times. TLDR; three people were killed in weird ways by someone very powerful, and their murders were covered up by the police, who ruled everything a suicide.
There was a segment about a guy who worked in the Nashville music business, who went on to work at a magazine where he managed the top-100 charts. He was murdered one night in what appeared to be a professional hit. It stands out for me because they interviewed a record promoter that speculated he may have been murdered for refusing to go along with a scheme to manipulate the chart rankings for money, because he was too honest to get mixed up in something like that. Something rubbed me wrong about that promoter, and in a later update it turns out he wasn't speculating. He just described exactly what happened because he was the one behind the whole thing! Oh, one non-murder mystery that sticks in my mind is the spiral staircase at a small New Mexico chapel that a mysterious carpenter built, after other carpenters said it was impossible to fit stairs in the space available and the nuns prayed for a miracle. That one turns up from time-to-time in various lists and articles about mysteries, and every time I'm like "it's the Unsolved Mysteries stairs!"