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?

[glass_houses]

It must be the heavy industry, that draws or used to draw various kinds of characters. I'm not saying industry workers are bad in general, but if the place pretty much anywhere in the world in any given country has mines, ironworks, steelworks, other heavy industry, lot of construction work being done and in the worst cases a port, it has the sketchiest people around and most shameful things and weirdest crime happen there.

Heavy metal poisoning affecting brain function. Shit like Minimata Disease, you don't even have to be a factory employee to suffer from pollutants and contaminants. A lot of people who're against environmental protection laws think it's all tree hugging and koala patting bullshit, but a lot of it has roots in protecting lower income people who can't afford to just up and move away to another area where there's water in the taps instead of liquid cadmium. Even when heavy industry moved on years ago, people who grow up in heavily polluted areas are often "off".

 

[The Taco Santo!]

A prominent theory as to why New Orleans niggers tend to be stupid violent criminals is that public housing units in New Orleans all used to have lead paint. I dunno, though. All that housing's been demolished now and the younguns aren't notably better behaved. I have a dear friend who used to teach art classes at public school. She gave it up because she got sick of 8 and 9 y/o niggers threatening to find her after school and raping her.

 

[FedPostalService]

A prominent theory as to why New Orleans niggers tend to be stupid violent criminals is that public housing units in New Orleans all used to have lead paint. I dunno, though. All that housing's been demolished now and the younguns aren't notably better behaved. I have a dear friend who used to teach art classes at public school. She gave it up because she got sick of 8 and 9 y/o niggers threatening to find her after school and raping her.

Reddit used to be full of teachers like this, those who watched Dangerous Minds and though they could turn the hoodrats around with the power of Shakespeare and empathy. I miss those days of it being tranny free and people being able to be honest on there. I'm guessing all those stories have been memory holed now.

 

[bromanhoser]

I have an irl buddy who's big into weird sports disasters like that stadium in England with the collapse all those people died at, and he's also big into leaf things, I'll try to bounce this off him.

That sounds good make sure to tell him that a bunch of stuff including structural items Mysteriously disappeared after the 2000 season leaving only concrete foundations that they to eventually got rid of, as well as the fact that they basically scrubbed the game from the CFL website after 2003

edit: I have found a A play-by-play from the game from the official CFL website from November 9th 2000

https://web.archive.org/web/20001109145800/http://www.cfl.ca/00Games/oct29_cal_mtl-st.html

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

That sounds good make sure to tell him that a bunch of stuff including structural items Mysteriously disappeared after the 2000 season leaving only concrete foundations that they to eventually got rid of, as well as the fact that they basically scrubbed the game from the CFL website after 2003

edit: I have found a A play-by-play from the game from the official CFL website from November 9th 2000

https://web.archive.org/web/20001109145800/http://www.cfl.ca/00Games/oct29_cal_mtl-st.html

he recalls the teams existing and this sort of attendance record, but not any manner of weird events
he agrees the missing stuff is weird

 

[everybody in Portugal]

Heavy metal poisoning affecting brain function. Shit like Minimata Disease, you don't even have to be a factory employee to suffer from pollutants and contaminants. A lot of people who're against environmental protection laws think it's all tree hugging and koala patting bullshit, but a lot of it has roots in protecting lower income people who can't afford to just up and move away to another area where there's water in the taps instead of liquid cadmium. Even when heavy industry moved on years ago, people who grow up in heavily polluted areas are often "off".

There's a book about this, specifically heavy industry in the PNW and the possibility that it led to an increase in serial killings in the area in the '70s and '80s. Attached the epub version if anyone wants something to read. I'm not sure I 100% agree with the author, been a few months since I read it but it's an interesting theory and a decent enough read.

 

[the_real_debbil]

A prominent theory as to why New Orleans niggers tend to be stupid violent criminals is that public housing units in New Orleans all used to have lead paint. I dunno, though. All that housing's been demolished now and the younguns aren't notably better behaved. I have a dear friend who used to teach art classes at public school. She gave it up because she got sick of 8 and 9 y/o niggers threatening to find her after school and raping her.

Tulane has done studies of the playground soil composition in NOLA and found (less surprisingly) the lead contamination rates to be astronomical. Lead wasn't (isn't) just in the paint but is also the primary water and sewer pipe metal alongside cast iron. The high water table doesn't help either. The lead in the drinking water supply, soil, and in leaded gasoline (before unleaded became mandatory in the 70's and 80's) has absolutely affected impulse control and low intelligence levels for literal centuries in that city at this point. Add literal dirt-eating pica bullshittery and it's a perfect storm of overall nignog violence.

NOLA is a beautiful city in many ways, but visit expecting both crazy and violence and behave accordingly.

*edit to fix a typo

 

[Well Intentioned]

This was near the end of the season. It had an attendance of 45,000 which is pretty impressive considering how McMahon stadium only has a maximum capacity of 35,000 which can be expanded it has been expanded up to 60,000 during the 1988 Winter Olympics.
this was a very big deal of a game if that was the case then here are some questions:

The Stampeders have had big attendance records like that, including some in the early 90s when Doug Flutie was QB and the team was winning.

I’ve heard some people say that a explosion had occurred that apparently caused mass fatalities

You or the people you're talking to may be conflating it with the Hub Oil explosion that happened in 1999 which was a pretty significant event locally. IIRC, there were only a few workers at the facility who were killed, but it was a very memorable event if you lived in the city around that time.

So tell me guys, what do you think of this?

I think this is a nothingburger.

Calgary was hosting the Grey Cup in 2000, so the stadium would've been expanded to accommodate seating.

There are photographs of the game here: https://www.cpimages.ca/archive/STAMPEDERS-ALOUETTES-2RLPN4X03U5H.html

Mark Stephen, who was the radio voice for the Stampeders, recalled the game in a Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/markonfoot...on-the-verge-of-becoming-th/3254210574825639/

The other thing that might be getting conflated in people's heads were the talk about renovating/updating Foothills Stadium, a baseball stadium right next to McMahon Stadium that ultimately led to the minor league baseball team leaving around that time period.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

NOLA is a beautiful city in many ways, but visit expecting both crazy and violence and behave accordingly.

Everyone should know this.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Spooky item - I stumbled on this video. Last week, an abandoned house started flashing a
... --- ...
signal from a porch light in Plainfield, IL..
Apparently, the cops won't enter.
If you search - you can find a local fox channel explaining that it is just a solar light that has a failing battery.
Personally, I have never seen a failing device flash SOS. I see them blink/beep/chirp intermittently, but never in that pattern.

I'm not gonna say that there is a problem in that house - but I think the cops should do a 'wellness check'.
I believe the battery story about 85%. 15% chance there is some shady shit.

 

[Uncle_Teds_Cabin25]

It must be the heavy industry, that draws or used to draw various kinds of characters. I'm not saying industry workers are bad in general, but if the place pretty much anywhere in the world in any given country has mines, ironworks, steelworks, other heavy industry, lot of construction work being done and in the worst cases a port, it has the sketchiest people around and most shameful things and weirdest crime happen there.

Jesus, this just unlocked a memory. Can't remember what site it was, or when, but it was an article(?) eyewitness account(?) of a young girl (like less than 10) running naked and screaming at a mining town in the midwest. It freaked me out.

 

[AnOminous]

Damn, it's more than a theory. The FBI even looked into that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/us/20tylenol.html

I'm not really buying it. As bizarre as his choices of targets in his bombings were, they were all at least somehow connected to his general philosophy. He was a terrorist, but I don't see him just killing totally random people.

 

[bromanhoser]

The Stampeders have had big attendance records like that, including some in the early 90s when Doug Flutie was QB and the team was winning.

You or the people you're talking to may be conflating it with the Hub Oil explosion that happened in 1999 which was a pretty significant event locally. IIRC, there were only a few workers at the facility who were killed, but it was a very memorable event if you lived in the city around that time.

I think this is a nothingburger.

Calgary was hosting the Grey Cup in 2000, so the stadium would've been expanded to accommodate seating.

There are photographs of the game here: https://www.cpimages.ca/archive/STAMPEDERS-ALOUETTES-2RLPN4X03U5H.html

Mark Stephen, who was the radio voice for the Stampeders, recalled the game in a Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/markonfoot...on-the-verge-of-becoming-th/3254210574825639/

The other thing that might be getting conflated in people's heads were the talk about renovating/updating Foothills Stadium, a baseball stadium right next to McMahon Stadium that ultimately led to the minor league baseball team leaving around that time period.

Thank you so much for the information. I just thought that it was really strange that it was such a big deal due to the large crowd. It is nice to see some photos although it would’ve been really cool to see what the crowd would’ve looked like.

this is just like the 2006 volleyball incident I hear people talking about that’s some government assassination that was failed, and it was then covered up I probably got this from my father. He’s not a conspiracy guy but when you know something’s weird, he really pays attention to it.

 

[TokiBun]

Spooky item - I stumbled on this video. Last week, an abandoned house started flashing a
... --- ...
signal from a porch light in Plainfield, IL..
Apparently, the cops won't enter.
If you search - you can find a local fox channel explaining that it is just a solar light that has a failing battery.
Personally, I have never seen a failing device flash SOS. I see them blink/beep/chirp intermittently, but never in that pattern.

I'm not gonna say that there is a problem in that house - but I think the cops should do a 'wellness check'.
I believe the battery story about 85%. 15% chance there is some shady shit.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=291aNSXe3Sc

Reminds me of a building I'd walk by on a college campus that had a weird flickering pink light in the top most window. People claimed some chick fell and died years ago and haunted the building. Maybe it is a dying battery but still that's pretty spooky.

 

[General Patton]

I'm not really buying it. As bizarre as his choices of targets in his bombings were, they were all at least somehow connected to his general philosophy. He was a terrorist, but I don't see him just killing totally random people.

I don't buy it either. But I had no idea that the FBI actually believed this.

 

[Uncle_Teds_Cabin25]

The colonial Parkway murders have been solved

https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/norfolk/fbi-closes-case-on-colonial-parkway-murders-after-confirming-suspect

Apparently he was connected to two of the murders in 2024 and the police just recently connected him to the rest.

From your link

Blaine Pardoe, author of a book about the Colonial Parkway murders, said Wilmer was actually a suspect in the Call and Hailey disappearance but was cleared when he passed a polygraph test.


I can't believe people put so much faith into polygraph tests. You can pass them even if you are guilty.

 

[Ill]

From your link
Blaine Pardoe, author of a book about the Colonial Parkway murders, said Wilmer was actually a suspect in the Call and Hailey disappearance but was cleared when he passed a polygraph test.
I can't believe people put so much faith into polygraph tests. You can pass them even if you are guilty.

Gary Ridgeway was identified in the 1980s as possibly being the green river killer, he passed the polygraph so they ruled him out until the 2000s when DNA proved it was him, he killed dozens of women in that time.

 

[Average Russian Spy]

The thing that always intrigues me about war stories, especially in World War One, are the amount of soldiers that just went missing during the war, and we'll never know their stories, besides the fact that they are most likely some corpse that is buried somewhere where they died, and their bodies will most likely never be found, or identified.

It's just "missing in action" and always will be. And then there's people like that soldier in France that had to be in an asylum, with many people hoping that he was a missing relative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthelme_Mangin

I take everything the mom says with a grain of salt at this point. Everyone here knows that when a kid is abducted they're usually killed in hours.

One of my favorite WW1 mysteries I've heard is the little known, roaming gangs of "ghost men". Groups of men from both sides of the war who went rogue and decided to take shelter in abandoned bunkers in No-Man's-Land and survive on scavenging during the night. Some soldiers wrote how these people would emerge at night from their bunkers and fan out, collecting what they can off the dead and killing anyone they came across before disappearing back underground before the sun came up. It was also believed these guys survived via cannibalism, which helped explain why bodies would just disappear overnight.

Another thing that always creeped me out was the sheer amount of soldiers who died by sinking into mud. Because of how many shells mulched up the ground and due to the heavy rain, the land was essentially a giant natural death trap. If you were to step off the "safe path", the chances of you sinking into soupy mud that's dozens of feet deep was a serious threat. I read one story of a column of French soldiers marching along a road and the guy writing in the journal noted how he'd see men who stepped off the path and were screaming for help as they slowly sank to their deaths and officers gave strict orders to not even attempt to go out and save them in order to keep others from meeting the same fate. Makes me wonder just how many near-perfectly preserved bodies are hidden beneath the earth, encased in those bog-like conditions.

 

[General Patton]

One of my favorite WW1 mysteries I've heard is the little known, roaming gangs of "ghost men". Groups of men from both sides of the war who went rogue and decided to take shelter in abandoned bunkers in No-Man's-Land and survive on scavenging during the night. Some soldiers wrote how these people would emerge at night from their bunkers and fan out, collecting what they can off the dead and killing anyone they came across before disappearing back underground before the sun came up. It was also believed these guys survived via cannibalism, which helped explain why bodies would just disappear overnight.

I really want to go down an internet rabbit hole of WW1 mysteries (maybe WW2 as well.) because that whole era is fascinating. That's very interesting though, I've never heard that story.

Tbh, I wanted to make a post about soldiers who have gone missing in action, but sadly there isn't enough information about the soldiers that disappeared.

From your link

Blaine Pardoe, author of a book about the Colonial Parkway murders, said Wilmer was actually a suspect in the Call and Hailey disappearance but was cleared when he passed a polygraph test.


I can't believe people put so much faith into polygraph tests. You can pass them even if you are guilty.

I remember they used to say that only sociopaths could pass them.

 

[Average Russian Spy]

I really want to go down an internet rabbit hole of WW1 mysteries (maybe WW2 as well.) because that whole era is fascinating. That's very interesting though, I've never heard that story.

Tbh, I wanted to make a post about soldiers who have gone missing in action, but sadly there isn't enough information about the soldiers that disappeared.

That's what is so crazy about this story. Soldiers from both side openly spoke about these roving gangs, yet it's barely heard of in the modern age. Like one Brit who wrote about overhearing people yelling in both French and Germans in the middle out of the night, way out in no man's land, followed by intense gunfire that lasted for an hour, but when they went out to search the area, they found nothing, not even corpses. Germans referred to these groups as Wild Men.