Creepy Unsolved Mysteries - From unsolved murders to unidentified people to unexplained supernatural events, what are some of the creepiest unsolved mysteries you've ever heard of?

[Mall Goth]

On the afternoon of August 23rd, 1989, police in Anchorage, Alaska were flagged down by concerned citizens who had seen a nude man walking down the street and into the parking lot of a McDonald's. The man stopped and stared off into the distance, then approached the restaurant's flagpole and began to climb it. He ignored law enforcement's attempts to communicate with him and continued to climb the pole until he reached the top; according to an officer, he began fidgeting with the flagpole's eagle topper and appeared to be talking to it.

Suddenly the man stretched his arm outwards like a pair of wings, leapt with his feet as if he were trying to fly, and plummeted headfirst onto the pavement below.

Despite immediate attempts to resuscitate him before medics arrived and rushed him to a nearby hospital, the man died from his injuries. His death was ruled a suicide, but it's possible the man was suffering from a mental health crisis and didn't realize he was going to die when he jumped. An autopsy detected no drugs in his system. Police never found his clothing or shoes, and the man had no tattoos or distinctive markings that could be used to identify him. The man was dubbed "Flagpole Doe", and his true name remains a mystery over thirty-five years after his death.

A woman who believed that Flagpole Doe might be her long-lost brother paid to have his remains exhumed and sent to a lab, but unfortunately DNA determined that the Doe was not a match for her missing sibling. Authorities have theorized that the man was a foreigner who traveled to Alaska by ship in order to find work; if that's the case, his family may have had no idea where he ended up and never reported him missing, making it unlikely that he will ever be identified.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

He is a youtuber at the end of the day, which means controlled op/interference. He also left out Robin Grecht and the ripper crew link in his J.W Gacy videos.

He is also young and (over)full of confidence.
You gotta love it. He mentioned Dunning-Kruger effect in one of his vids, while falling prey to it in another.
but, I do like his vids. He reminds me of friends I had in college.

 

[Grub]

Anyone else not a big fan of cryptids? The Loch Ness Monster is fun but I struggle to be interested in any others.

I'm sometimes interested in Sasquatch stuff but only because I've heard some localish stories from some fairly reputable people, one of which was an actual wildlife biologist. I don't believe a lot of sightings and other things like that though. It also seems reasonable to assume they might have existed at some point seeing as natives seem to treat them equally alongside actual real animals in their carvings and totems and shit like that and all their myths and legends pretty much involve just personifying actual living animals and not just making animals the fuck up.

There's also no reason why something like Sasquatch couldn't exist and would make sense from an ecological standpoint that something like that would probably be rare in Pacific forests where food is somewhat limited depending on the time of year and bears would provide fairly stiff competition in what I would imagine would probably be a similar ecological niche. Loss of habitat would explain why credible seeming sightings have declined in the last 80 years or so and generally, if it ever actually existed chances are it either doesn't any more or won't for much longer.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

There's definitely large and vocal animals in the swamps of Louisiana and Florida. You know, if the dinosaurs and giant snakes weren't enough for you. I used to hear them all the time at night when I lived near the Everglades.

 

[Gog & Magog]

I used to hear them all the time at night when I lived near the Everglades.

How you know those weren't crackheads?

 

[Fallow Tallow]

How you know those weren't crackheads?

or just wild niggers or cajuns.

 

[Burd Turglar]

or just wild niggers or cajuns.

You don't need to repeat yourself.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Lets think about it this way, have you ever had those dreams where you fall from a high altitude and wake up just before hitting the ground? Its because you haven't actually experienced that, your mind has zero clue about dying if you dont have near death experiences.
That falling part is something your mind actually can know, for an example you might have seen somebody falling in a movie and experienced similiar feeling in some amusement park ride. Then your mind combines all these things into a weird dream.

Another funny thing is that your dreams can have people you have seen for 3 seconds decades ago, you dont remember any of those random people but here they are living rent free in your dreams. Its all some kind of combination of IRL stuff and media you have consoomed over the years.

Something similar to that:

A common dream involves holding a gun but being unable to pull the trigger. Once you've actually fired, you will then be able to pull the trigger in a dream.

Prazosin can be prescribed off-label for nightmares related to PTSD, just in case anyone reading this has that issue. It seems to work pretty specifically for PTSD-related nightmares, though, rather than generic bad dreams or night terrors. It gets in the way of the brain flying into full fight-or-flight.

It's technically a drug for high blood pressure, so if you have problems with hypotension, then's it's off the prazosin and back to nightmare-ville for you.

On topic: still no updates to the Asha Degree case after the search warrant was executed in September. Several locals have been named as suspects, but there haven't been any updates relating to what was seized in the search. Forensic analysis is a slow process anyway, and Hurricane Helene did affect that area (and North Carolina at large), so that might have slowed things down. That family has been through hell.

I believe the working theory that's been patched together from the documents available is that the (at the time teenaged) daughter of the guy whose property was searched hit Asha the night she disappeared and the dad and some family friends helped get rid of the body and cover it up. Drunk girl hits a little runaway running across the road in the middle of a storm and dad comes to bail her out. Makes sense considering it was the teenaged daughter's DNA found on the backpack, not the father's.

 

[Shartavius]

A dream means that you were asleep.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Re; Amber Hagerman.

There's a very good documentary about this from 2023;

Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert (2023) on Peacock. It shows some footage from the show they were shooting also, which I found fascinating.​

Amber Alerts are pretty useless in regards to the types of kidnappings that inspired them. There hasn't been a single kid recovered due to a stranger abduction amber alert.

 

[Kiwisee]

The disappearance of Youn-Hee Lee, 29, South Korean

Case details can be found here.

The fact that her hard drive was wiped clean, that the college she went to has an industrial incinerator and that she’s been gone since the mid 2000s is deeply unsettling.

 

[AnOminous]

The disappearance of Youn-Hee Lee, 29, South Korean

Case details can be found here.

The fact that her hard drive was wiped clean, that the college she went to has an industrial incinerator and that she’s been gone since the mid 2000s is deeply unsettling.

This part is so bad.

Authorities have come across pieces of information which could be circumstantial in the case. Couple days before Lee went missing, she allegedly lost her purse to a snatcher, and a certain man had obsessively stalked her.

This is how he got her address, I'd be sure of it.

 

[Stygian Enjoyer]

Dunno if anyone covered this one​

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The Unsolved Disappearance of The Beaumont Children​

In the mid 60s. Three Australian Children were reported missing after a morning trip to the beach.

Witnesses claim they saw the children playing with a tall slim man at the beach not long before the reported disappearance

The children seemed relaxed and to be enjoying themselves around the stranger. Speculating that they knew the man beforehand.

No remains were found. To this day the case remains cold.

Now even for the standards of the time who the fuck let's their three children, the oldest being nine take a morning trip via bus to the beach alone? The early/mid 20th century was open season for rapists and pedos

 

[glass_houses]

Now even for the standards of the time who the fuck let's their three children, the oldest being nine take a morning trip via bus to the beach alone? The early/mid 20th century was open season for rapists and pedos

It was just what was done. I'm not excusing it or condoning it, that was just what people did. There was a lot more of a village mentality back then, and people were much more likely to intervene if dodgy shit was happening. Also kids were raised very similarly to the way Japanese children are now, to be a lot more independent because parents often couldn't afford things like babysitters or after school care.

The Beaumont children's disappearance went a long way towards killing this practice overnight, with the Adelaide Oval abductions in 1973 being another nail in the coffin.

 

[Vernon Dozier]

It was just what was done. I'm not excusing it or condoning it, that was just what people did. There was a lot more of a village mentality back then, and people were much more likely to intervene if dodgy shit was happening. Also kids were raised very similarly to the way Japanese children are now, to be a lot more independent because parents often couldn't afford things like babysitters or after school care.

The Beaumont children's disappearance went a long way towards killing this practice overnight, with the Adelaide Oval abductions in 1973 being another nail in the coffin.

It was an era where pedophiles, and serial killers weren’t discussed much especially in polite society. There were no true crime podcasts, and this was before criminal profiling which didn’t really come about until the 70s when the FBI started to study offenders.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

The disappearance of Youn-Hee Lee, 29, South Korean

Case details can be found here.

The fact that her hard drive was wiped clean, that the college she went to has an industrial incinerator and that she’s been gone since the mid 2000s is deeply unsettling.

I remember watching this video about the case which contains a lot of information not found in the article. It could be an unknown stalker that took her but the friend that walked her home is also pretty suspicious.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

It was just what was done. I'm not excusing it or condoning it, that was just what people did. There was a lot more of a village mentality back then, and people were much more likely to intervene if dodgy shit was happening. Also kids were raised very similarly to the way Japanese children are now, to be a lot more independent because parents often couldn't afford things like babysitters or after school care.

The Beaumont children's disappearance went a long way towards killing this practice overnight, with the Adelaide Oval abductions in 1973 being another nail in the coffin.

I've always wondered if these two were linked like some believe.

Also, if anyone has been following that dad and his kids in Mew Zealand that disappeared into the bush, they were spotted for the first time in years recently.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/10/11/world/new-zealand-tom-phillips-missing-children-intl-hnk-dst

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

I was thinking about this case the other day, it's one of my top 10 creepiest stories. I didn't see it mentioned in this article, but I remember reading somewhere else that it was thought this might be a professional killer due to the way he tortured Al. I forget what exactly he did (and don't really want to look it up again...) but I remember reading that the way he beat Al was the same way some foreign military intelligence would torture people for information.

This story is what I think about whenever my friends or family talk about meeting a new roommate. I always caution them to never give any information that makes them look like an easy target. Might be paranoid sounding but stories like these make me think it's worth being a little paranoid.

They might actually catch this guy. They managed to get a familial match to people in Romania so eventually they'll narrow it down.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Not an unsolved mystery in itself, but I recently discovered a movie that I think might be of interest to readers of this thread: Broadcast Signal Intrusion

It's a fictional horror/mystery movie inspired by real events such as the Max Headroom incident (unsolved to this day), Captain Midnight (definitively solved and not all that creepy, but still interesting), and I Feel Fantastic (mostly solved).

Pretty solid movie, and although the proverbial serial numbers are filed off, it's clear that they did their homework on the source material. It's only marred by an incredibly shitty ending, which does absolutely nothing to resolve all the plot contradictions under the retarded post-modern guise of being "open to interpretation" and "not spoonfeeding the answers".

But if you can live without any real conclusions, it's worth watching once.

 

[lurkin]

It was just what was done. I'm not excusing it or condoning it, that was just what people did. There was a lot more of a village mentality back then, and people were much more likely to intervene if dodgy shit was happening. Also kids were raised very similarly to the way Japanese children are now, to be a lot more independent because parents often couldn't afford things like babysitters or after school care.

The Beaumont children's disappearance went a long way towards killing this practice overnight, with the Adelaide Oval abductions in 1973 being another nail in the coffin.

Man, fuck south australia.