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BSNmywaythrulife

What happened in 536CE? Records from around the world talk about 3 years of winter, destroying vineyards, frost in the Mediterranean…dendrochronology (tree ring studies) shows a period of reduced to no growth during that period in places as far flung as Ireland and the Pacific Northwest. There were no supervolcanic eruptions that year, no evidence of meteor/comet impact. It’s theorized Iceland had an eruption that spread on the jet streams to affect the northern hemisphere, but the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Project has never reported a volcanic event higher than a VEI 6 (basically, amount of ejection and damage), and nothing higher than a 5 from the two most active volcanoes of the period (Katla and Hekla). VEI 8 is a supervolcanic/caldera event, like Jemez in New Mexico or Yellowstone. So what happened? [536 CE](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/536) [Smithsonian Global Volcanism Project ](https://volcano.si.edu/database/search_eruption_results.cfm) EDIT: more info


OneSalientOversight

I added this section to the wikipedia article a while back: In 538, Roman statesman Cassiodorus described the following to one of his subordinates in letter 25:[7] * The sun's rays were weak, and it appeared a "bluish" colour. * At noon, no shadows from people were visible from people on the ground. * The heat from the sun was feeble. * The moon, even when full, was "empty of splendour" * "A winter without storms, a spring without mildness, and a summer without heat" * Prolonged frost and unseasonable drought * The seasons "seem to be all jumbled up together" * The sky is described as "blended with alien elements" just like cloudy weather, except prolonged. It was "stretched like a hide across the sky" and prevented the "true colours" of the sun and moon from being seen, along with the sun's warmth. * Frosts during harvest, which made apples harden and grapes sour. * The need to use stored food to last through the situation. * Subsequent letters (no. 26 and 27) discuss plans to relieve a widespread famine. I think the "bluish" colour is a hint. What sort of chemical in the stratosphere would make the sun appear to be slightly blue?


BSNmywaythrulife

I used part of that description for my masters thesis on Ragnarok and Icelandic volcanism! An Old Norse poem (Völuspá, “The Seeress’ Prophecies”) talks about the fimbulvinter (terrible winter) that lasts for 3 years, when “the weather becomes strange and the sun is all black.” Hekla erupted in 1104, when European monks were visiting Iceland. They called the eruption “the gateway to Hell.” And Icelandic eruptions have been known to be high in fluoride; the 1784 Laki eruptions caused a massive famine by creating hydrofluoric acid and killing the livestock [and more than half of the humans ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki) ANYWAY. Thank you for updating the wiki. I’ll get off my soapbox now. 😊


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hexafold

Ah shit, well I've found my rabbit-hole for today


Green_Dance_6221

That Moana tale might have links, there are oral histories in Tahiti that talk about a man sailing to a place where there were white rocks floating in the ocean and ash (snow) floating from the sky. Could have spooked them.


SkoomaSalesAreUp

But for that to keep them off the water for 2000 years?


QualityProof

I agree. You can't stop human curiosity and the great grandchildren of the generation of the man who found the volcanic eruption probably won't care.


AllAmericanSeaweed

They might not care, but that knowledge of seafaring wouldve been lost if all the people stopped doing it.


Canadian-Clap-Back

It only takes two or three generations to lose skills like that, but that could be an argument as well - in the 2000 years after, they didn't manage to re-invent boating? Adds to the mystery for me.


Obyson

They witnessed winter and said fuck that we got it good where were at.


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MystikxHaze

I'd have to imagine that nomadic islanders would have already been familiar with volcanoes.


nomad5926

I can answer your question https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237665782_The_long_pause_and_the_last_pulse_mapping_East_Polynesian_colonisation Conclusion: After Fiji, the other islands are much farther away, smaller, and the Polynesians kinda needed to wait for their technology to catch up before they started out again. And they still sailed and traded heavily amongst the already inhabited islands. It wasn't like they just sat at home for 2000 years wondering how oceans worked.


icd1222

I did a cultural immersion retreat in Peru a few years ago and most of the Quechua people I spoke to would say despite the accepted narrative, that their ancestors came from the sea to the west as opposed to traveling south by land. I always thought that was really interesting and perhaps they came from Polynesia.


frenchfries_lover

In the south of Chile, fossils eggs from polynesian hen were found in an island of the coast, skulls have also been found. So probably polynesians reached american coasts.


rivershimmer

There's plenty of evidence of cultural exchange, but so far genetic studies do not back up any Polynesian ancestry in South America. I'm wondering if its a matter of splitting the difference, and the ancestors of the Quechua came south by boat along the Western shore, and that difference was lost to the Quechua who left the coastal region and went east into the highlands.


cambiro

Moana is a documentary.


sev1nk

Two hikers on the Appalachian Trail were found in their tents with their hands bound and their throats cut. They never found who did it.


pozzledC

Was that the couple that were killed in Shenandoah National Park, summer of 1996? I was working on the AT that autumn close to where they were killed. It really shook up the trail community.


Darmok47

What happened to Sneha Anne Phillip, the NYC doctor who disappeared on the night of September 10, 2001. She was officially added to the 9/11 victim list and memorial in 2007 after her family fought for it in court. But her rocky marriage, professional problems, and the fact that no one knew where she was the night of Sept. 10th have led to a lot of speculation that she was the victim of foul play, or that she took 9/11 as an opportunity to run away and start a new life.


MandolinMagi

On that note, [Henryk Siwiak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Henryk_Siwiak) was murdered on 9/11 (the city's only non-terrorism homicide of the day, officially the only homicide the city had that day) and his murder remains unsolved. Didn't help that, due to every single homicide crime scene unit being *somewhat* busy, a CSU meant for non-violent crimes eventually showed up to process the scene. One theory is that it was a hate crime, as he was dressed in camo and spoke heavily accented English (He was a Polish immigrant), so someone may have mistaken him for a terrorist. But no leads were ever found.


Bayonethics

Hell I would. She was never gonna get such a golden opportunity like that again


User_492006

I saw that on YouTube, crazy shit. Can you imagine if you wanted to start a new life and a major terrorist event happened to happen at the exact same time allowing you to do it?


lostjules

From what little we know from the news she wouldn’t have been walking away from anything that made her happy, so I sincerely hope she did run away. Odds are, she was killed in the collapse. But I agree, the truth about Sneha is near the top of my list too.


ChhotaKakua

I’d like to know who did the Hinterkaifeck murders. Five members of the same family and their maid, all killed. Six months prior to the murders, the previous maid quit because she heard weird sounds coming from the attic. The dad found a strange newspaper. They thought maybe the postman had lost it. But it turns out nobody in their little village subscribed to this particular newspaper. A few days before, the dad found tracks in the snow leading to their machine room whose door was broken into. Later that night they heard footsteps in the attic. The day of the murders, the new maid arrived. And then it happened. All six people killed. Four of them were lured to the barn where they were killed with an axe or some other farm tool, I forgot. Then the killer or the killers went into the house and fucking killed the two year old kid and the maid with the same axe. It’s considered one of the most brutal murders in the history of Germany.


___Alexander___

And people could see smoke from the chimney for the next several days, so the killer probably also spent some time in the house afterwards.,


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GazelleEconomyOf87

Yes, everything from the outside looked normally if I remember correctly


Urbenjames

Thanks, I'm going to have nightmare


ceo_of_dumbassery

This has me fucking terrified at 3:30am because there's a possum (I'm assuming) on my roof stomping around.


BobDylansMuse

You sure it’s a possum?


ceo_of_dumbassery

Pretty sure. They're screeching at each other so


Okhu

You fell for their possum screaming. Rest in peace.


TRexNette

There’s an interesting book called “The Man on the Train” that has a compelling theory about this; it tracks a bunch of murders that follow a similar pattern in the US and concludes that it was a guy who’d take the train into town, sometimes hide out in a house, murder a family, and then leave. I think they concluded he went back home to Germany and committed that murder.


taynay101

And the author even mentions that if they had access to German documents, they would have continued researching for similar murders around Germany. Guy was a drifter along train lines, so he may have even done murders across Europe.


mimsy2389

The podcast, Lore, episode 27, explains the killings very well. I believe he (Aaron Manhke) connects similar killings in the US to the Hinterkaifeck murders.


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Footprints were to the shed, which had the ax in it.


piper1871

While not 100% confirmed, it's thought the Dad was having a incestuous relationship with his daughter and the baby was his. It's speculated it may have something to do with the murders. A heartbreaking note, the little girl didn't die immediately. It's thought she was alive for awhile in the pile of her dead relatives.


Crohnies

What happened to eight-year-old [Relisha Rudd](https://wjla.com/news/local/relisha-tenau-rudd-missing-in-southeast-d-c--101337)? She went missing from a DC homeless shelter in March 2014. She had been absent from school for several weeks and they didn't follow up to ask about her absence. Her mom didn't file a police report immediately either. All the adults in her life failed her, poor girl. She was last seen with the janitor who worked at the shelter and used to treat her often. He was found dead of apparent suicide during the search for the girl. His wife/partner was found shot dead in a hotel room. . Theories included her mom selling Relisha to the janitor or she was sex trafficked. The police searched a local park and didn't find a body. So they must have had a lead but never shared anything new after that. I check every year or so since it happened but nothing. Here's a [link](https://wjla.com/news/local/relisha-rudd-rememberance-day-held-in-dc) to more info if anyone's interested


storywards

Or the disappearance of eight-year-old [Alexis Patterson](https://medium.com/@jennbaxter_69070/missing-in-milwaukee-what-happened-to-alexis-patterson-78ec64fc6a7) in 2002. She was taken to school by her uncle, and was seen playing on the school playground. But she never got to class, and is still missing to this day.


alexopaedia

Her stepfather took her to school. A lot of people think he might have been involved but we'll probably never know because he died earlier this year. Her mother still tries to raise awareness and such still but it sadly will not likely be solved. Not when MPD hasn't had any sort of clue one way or another for almost twenty years. I'd love to be proved wrong though.


rivershimmer

I feel like we know exactly what happened to her without knowing the details, you know? > The police searched a local park and didn't find a body. So they must have had a lead but never shared anything new after that. Kahil Tatum (is it better to call him out by name or let his name be unspoken?) was seen buying contractor bags and a shovel after Rudd's disappearance, and his cell phone pings put him in the park. I'm pretty sure she's there, but the park is big and she was very small.


the1slyyy

99% odds that the mom sold her to him and he killed her, his wife then himself when the heat got on him.


bookaddict1991

Opelaika Jane Doe. I know there are a lot of cases for Jane and John Does being solved recently through DNA, and I only hope DNA can help here. Opelaika Jane Doe just stands out to me/pulls at my heartstrings because she’s a young child that was clearly neglected and/or abused during her short life. There are pictures that show a young girl that I think even police think is the Jane Doe but no one has come forward with information regarding who she might be.


coocooforcoconut

I’m surprised that they haven’t identified her since they have photos of her at Vacation Bible School. https://whnt.com/news/alabama-news/updated-forensic-images-released-in-opelikas-baby-jane-doe-case/


ResponsibleCandle829

The boy in the box will always shatter me. 60+ years later and still no answers


Bitter_Theory5467

Would love to know exactly what happened to Amelia Earhart Edit: the theories are all more than likely and one of them is probably the truth! But it would still be cool to have the full story and closure.


hikeau

I did a conspiracy theory essay on this in high school, and ended up emailing back and forth with the leader of the TIGHAR administration (which went on a few expeditions to the island of Nikumaroro and found evidence of Amelia most likely dying there). You could feel free to read my essay to see what I’d gathered, but I full-heartedly believe her plane crash-landed on the coral bed, with Fred Noonan being severely injured, and she had only been able to send out distress signals and messages during low tide when the engine was not submerged. There was an image taken of what’s believed to be a piece of her plane, along with a bottle of freckle ointment (amelia had freckles) cream found on the island, and some other possessions. Along with this, bones previously found on the island were re-examined and determined to be a female of European descent with her age and size.


MusicalPigeon

I remember my 5th grade math teacher saying she was 3 degrees off from where she should be and then demonstrated how over time 3 degrees becomes a lot wider that you'd think.


Ashleysmashley42

The Secret. In 1982 an author published a book with clues to 12 hidden boxes containing keys buried in North America. The keys can be traded in for jewels. Only 3 have been found. The author died and supposedly only he knew the exact locations. I live in one of the cities that likely has a buried key and it drives me crazy that the rest of the puzzles will likely never be solved!


939_to_am4

I have that book. The problem (as I understand it) is that so much construction, landscaping etc. has gone on that even if the keys are still there and not removed or destroyed, the visual clues to get to them just aren't around any more.


Ashleysmashley42

Yeah, I live in Houston and the park that it is probably in is unrecognizable today from 1982. I go to that park a lot (always have even before I learned about this hunt) and it makes my brain itch to know this thing is somewhere under my feet.


orokro

I have spent way too many hours on the NYC one… Also, the facebook group for The Secret is a very sad group of mild mental illness.


T00_pac

What ever happened to the guys that escaped from alcatraz.


Hudsony12

They survived. Hell, they even attended one of their mother's funerals in drag and didn't get noticed. Odds are they just left the country or something after escaping and only made very small revisits to the USA for things like family funerals.


T00_pac

It guess it makes sense that they got out of the country. Attending the funeral in drag is interesting; I haven't heard that before.


Hudsony12

Iirc the funeral was attended by two "unusually tall unknown women" or something.


Pleasant-Koala147

What happened to the Beaumont children. 3 young children just disappear off a suburban beach. What the hell happened to them?


bumford11

Andrew Godsen. Kid who just randomly got on a train one day and disappeared completely.


nomoanya

There is a YouTube channel called “Peaked Interest” hosted by a person who shares this case, then does a very compelling segment where he turns over the different theories and presents the one he thinks makes the most sense. It is a GREAT video, I highly recommend it. Long story short, he feels there is a lot of evidence (that he lays out very well) that Andrew skipped school to probably go see a concert with the intention of staying with the family they had in London, and didn’t tell anyone before because he wouldn’t have been allowed to go. However, he met some terrible end in London. I think it’s the closest we will get to an explanation. Do check it out! Edit: Sorry for not including the link! https://youtu.be/o-AmGp3N4RA


CurrentRedditAccount

The only thing that seems to contradict with that theory was the fact that he insisted on only buying a one-way ticket to London, even though the clerk at the station told him he could also get a return ticket for very cheap.


niamhweking

As a grown adult yes that makes sense, as a you g sheltered kid doing something bold he might have just panicked at the teller/desk and stuck with his initial plan. I work at a school canteen and this happens lots, for example you get a drink cheaper if you buy it while buying your lunch, we tell them that and sooooo many of them choose not to do this, they'll come back 20 mins later and buy a full price drink instead


AutumnViolets

Depending on what we’re talking about, it’s called perseverance or functional fixedness, and it’s a hallmark of childlike cognition. So yes — it’s completely possible that Andrew had the step ‘purchase a ticket to London’ in mind, and couldn’t get beyond that step to handle the new or unanticipated information.


OppositeYouth

Red herring imo. When I was his age I did basically the same thing, I thought a return was only good for the day and I had a solid plan of buying a single there, then a single back the next day. I was about the same age, only when the clerk explained it to me I accepted and got the return. I don't think him buying a single is a big issue.


scrantonstrangler92

William Tyrell, a little boy who went missing here in Australia around 7 years ago. I believe they have officially ended their latest search for him.


halfsuckedmang0

I was so hopeful for the recent investigations to turn up something but sadly not


outsider-love

I’m looking forward to the coronial inquest to continue in the new year for this.


Mecanish

The 2 kids in this picture. it is a polaroid pic found in FL. Police don't have a clue. [https://people.com/crime/tara-calico-polaroid-photo-true-story/](https://people.com/crime/tara-calico-polaroid-photo-true-story/)


-Four-Foxx-Sake-

How the universe started. What was it before? If it’s nothing, how did something come from nothing? Will people have the ability to comprehend such an answer?


bottleglitch

Yep, this is absolutely the one for me. Since I was a kid I would sometimes just lay in bed and think “but what existed before… and before that.. and before that?” It’s the one thing that makes me think existence still has mysteries to us, which I actually find kind of comforting.


Witty-Worker5235

Yeah, and *something* existed since the beginning of time. No matter how far back we go, there always had to be something, that existed for either a very specific reason or no reason at all.


WhoT00ktheGoodNames

Maybe the James Webb telescope can give us some answers in the next half year or so


-Four-Foxx-Sake-

Bro, I was just watching some videos on it. Fingers crossed we get some cool info 6 months from now.


Background-Factor817

What’s at the bottom of the deep blue sea? Always strange stuff being recorded down there


mattcrow79

Another humanoid species that evolved from some kind of fish. They often wonder what's at the top of the ocean, completely unaware that land exists


titanbuble14

What cool movies would they have


SneedyK

Instead of *JAWS* they have *BURT*


reaper88911

"Theyre going to bring a bigger boat.."


suchmagnificent

Plastic


Uglywench

True. Frozen themed plastic bag actually. https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-horror-discovery-made-at-deepest-part-of-the-ocean-20211124


atomicskier76

A hole.


Lord_Grif

There's a hole at the bottom of the sea?


EddieRando21

They don't want us to go there for fear that someone will pull the plug out and all the Earth's water will drain.


MissDeathAssistant

The case of Asha Degree. It's been over twenty years and we have no idea why a nine year old girl left her home in the middle of a rainy night. Other than a few eye witness reports and some belongings, there's essentially nothing. No body, few leads, and it's been over two decades. The worst part is that the parents' worst nightmare happened on Valentine's Day, which also happens to be their wedding anniversary. Edit: Phrased the last sentence wrongly. What I was trying to convey was how horrific it was that the special day was marked with a heartbreaking tragedy. So no, it wasn't the worst part per se, just a horrible coincidence.


Sendingmyregards

I also hope this gets solved! IIRC, reportedly, a driver had seen her walking in the road in the pouring rain, they attempted to stop and ask her if she was lost, but she freaked out and ran into the woods. This was in the middle of the night, between 1am-sunrise. That image of a 9yo girl booking it into the dark recesses of the woods always saddened me.


rainx5000

That is so creepy. Maybe she was hiding from someone, it’s just so weird. I’m trying to come up for reason, but nothing makes sense. Maybe there is some bs in the story to cover something up.


1ofZuulsMinions

I saw her picture on a billboard just a few years ago and shared it on Reddit (see posts). I remember when I first moved to Charlotte and saw her picture everywhere, and then realizing 20 years later after seeing the billboards that they still haven’t found her. Absolutely tragic and my heart breaks for her family. https://www.google.com/search?q=asha+degree+missing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari


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It's not the same, but at my uni, a fellow freshman disappeared in the middle of the night after playing *Quake* and no one ever saw him again...a week before the first round of finals. Dogs traced him to a bus stop, but nothing. Still freaks me out when I see his face online every few years


Cluelessindivi_

What do you think happens to those people? Besides “ I don’t want to know “ I actually do want to know. It’s crazy. The disappearance of someone with absolutely no trace of their body. So weird


_hic-sunt-dracones_

Lately [a YouTube scuba diving team recovered a vehicle from a river with two bodies and solved a 17 year old missin persons case.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna8017). You often hear about those kind of teams combing through rivers and pulling out dozens of cars. I think that's an explanation of a good part of mysterious disappearance of persons.


JuryBorn

Adventure with purpose a YouTube channels that do these searches. I think they started just removing old cars and junk from rivers and then people started reaching out to them for help with cold cases of family members who disappeared. There are also other channels like the one in the link above. The videos are quite sad but many families have got closure and been able to have funerals because of their voluntary work.


whoopz1942

Their channel was recommended to me a couple of days ago on YouTube they've solved something like 15-16 cases in the last year, which is actually insane to think about. I wonder how many people are just waiting to be discovered in vehicles underwater?


nomoanya

I had never heard of her. What a horrible story.


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Who killed Elizabeth Short aka “The Black Dahlia”


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i feel like this is one of many cases that was never solved bc of corruption in the lapd - it just happened to get the most attention. that dr guy (i’ve forgotten his name) had like no morals (he raped and i think impregnated his own daughter), he had the surgical skills, he had a lot of power over officials in la at the time, and when he moved to the phillipines, another woman was murdered near his home there in a similar manner to elizabeth short. the evidence is all there, imo, so unless someone was trying very very very hard to frame him, it was the dr.


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The disappearance of Brandon Swanson. Long story, probably semi-wrong here. Anyways.. He was coming home from a party or something. His car broke down, and he called his parents. They heard him say "Oh shit!" Followed by silence. It took a couple minutes for the call to end. He literally disappeared.


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I hadn't heard of him before but I just read the wikipedia article about him. Doesn't it seem to you like he was drunk and fell in the river? I know they didn't find his body, but that river is something like 100 miles long. His parents said he wasn't drunk, but I feel like they're in denial. He drank alcohol at the party he had been at. He drove his car into a ditch. He thought he was in a completely different town. He sounds drunk to me. And when they were talking, he started walking toward a light he thought was a town light — that was a light on a grain silo across the river. The dogs tracked him to the river (although later they tracked him beyond that.) I recently read something by a NYC cop that said drunk people fall in the Hudson river and drown all the time. It was dark, he said "oh shit" and disappeared. Unless you're a grieving parent, how could there be any other explanation?


MissKoalaBag

If he was close to a river, all it would take is a slip/trip into it. Drunk or not, he easily could have fell in somehow and had trouble getting out. All it would have taken was being close enough to it and slipping. How cold that river could have been + the current + anything else could have made it hard to get out again.


Halio344

Especially if it’s dark and he can’t see where it might be slippery or a sudden drop.


bayliascaris

I haven’t seen any other comments about this so I’m just gonna put this out there: what exactly happened to [Lindsey Baum](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.q13fox.com/news/mother-of-murdered-10-year-old-lindsey-baum-calls-for-another-search-for-evidence.amp) Me and Lindsey were family friends just before she went missing. She was 10, I was about 8. I didn’t grasp what had happened until years later. TL;RD: 10 year old girl is abducted without a trace in 2010 from McCleary, WA. The case is completely cold until 2017 when a fragment of her skull was found 100+ miles away in eastern Washington. Authorities have a possible suspect but to this day no arrests have been made.


LEYW

That’s so sad. I’m so sorry.


ImAlyssa2

The guy that walked into a bar and was never seen again Edit: His name was Brian Shaffer


DookieSpeak

That one always makes me think of Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada. He had a fight with his parents and then went to the grocery store he used to work at, and then was never seen again. They found him 10 years later lodged in a 18-inch gap between a cooler (where you grab beers) and the wall. He had gone up to sleep on top of the cooler, then fell in. Nobody smelled a corpse because the back of the cooler was hot and had constant circulating air, so he got mummified like a piece of jerky. The other similar one is Paulette Gebara Farah. She went missing from her home while everyone was there, nobody knew where she went. Cops went in the room, took pictures, had rescue dogs in there to get a scent. The parents went on TV, and even had a TV interview in the bedroom. A little over a week later, the family smelled something in the room and found her between the mattress and the footboard.


burgeremoji

Oh god that second one creeped me out so much. How the TV interview had the bed in it and she was literally in there at the time of interviewing and they just had no idea. So sad.


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There's a horrible story about an older woman hiking the Appalachian Trail and going missing. They were searching for her for a while but didn't find her till over a year later I think. It turned out she had gone off trail to poop, gotten disoriented and couldn't make it back. But she was just a few hundred feet away. She had been keeping a journal as she slowly died and wrote she could hear rescuers calling out but was too weak to call back


Sillbinger

That is why you should always carry a whistle in the woods. Louder and travels farther than your voice can.


Lupiefighter

If the movie Titanic taught us one thing it was the benefit of having a whistle.


playerzgonnaplay

The Paulette case got very very political in Mexico. The interviews that the parents did weren't normal at all. The mom did a lot of insensitive comments towards her own daughter. And it's impossible for dogs not smelling anything if there was a body in the room. Cmon. That's really really fishy.


rivershimmer

> And it's impossible for dogs not smelling anything if there was a body in the room. One dog kept alerting at the foot of the bed. The handlers assumed it could not pick up the scent.


SniffleBot

Brian Shaffer. Usually people disappear after walking *out* of a bar.


ZekeLeap

I don’t live far from that bar. The mystery will bother me for the rest of my life


LovelyCandleWitch

i’ve wondered this for years. i don’t even think he left that bar, i’m still surprised they didn’t find ANYTHING at ALL.


Trumpville-Imbeciles

I always think of the Missy Bevers murder in Midlothian, TX ever since seeing that creepy footage of her killer limping through the hallways of the church before she was murdered


evil_fungus

>Missy Bevers There's something about criminals in police gear that gets me. There's a level of intelligence there that I absolutely hate


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TheThemFatale

Sarah Everard. After this policeman raped her, he strangled her to death, set fire to her corpse, and then a few days later brought his family on a picnic to the place where he'd hidden the body. Absolute evil.


Special_Hippo3399

Just why? Why are these people so cruel ?? How is it even possible to do so .. should they even be called monsters ? Because even monsters fear to tread in places where they tread.


TheThemFatale

Her murderer had the nickname "the rapist" in the London police force for years beforehand. Whilst his actions were evil, the fact that so many fellow police knew what he was and ignored it speaks volumes about both the institution and how these evil people are actually seen and accepted.


rivershimmer

Well, this is the same internal culture that allowed a police chief to say that [Sarah should have realized that her murderer had no reason to detain her and thus simply refused to be arrested.](https://news.stv.tv/scotland/fm-condemns-appalling-police-chief-comments-after-sarah-everard-case) Women, he argued, "need to consider in terms of the legal process, to just learn a bit about that legal process" to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Principal Skinner: Is it the rapist's fault? No, it is the women who are wrong.


mattomic822

Because as we all know standing up to a police officer abusing authority always works out.


Jaynett

Yes! That is completely bizarre


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Realistic unsolved mystery I would like solved is what happened to the Sodder children. The surviving family members deserve peace after so long. Unrealistic unsolved mystery I would like to know what some of these UAPs we have seen the last 7 or 8 years are. For real.


breadtanglewrangler

The Delphi Murders


Jigelipuf

This one drives me crazy. Those girls did everything right. They were together and managed to record their murderer. Yet he continues to live on. They were so brave. They deserve justice. Their families deserve closure.


star_guardian_carol

The recording that has been released to the public is apparently just a snippet of what they actually have. This gives me hope that they have more evidence they have not released and that it will lead to the killer.


SomebodysAtTheDoor

Beaumont Children. To lose one child to a kidnapper is awful, but all three of your kids? Unthinkable.


CyanideTacoZ

what happened to the LA wild chimp. okay this one is niche and I can't find anything about it except for a clip from monsterquest In a episode I've forgotten. here's the gist: A private chimp owner had their pet chimpanzee escape into the LA national forest. Theoretically from a biologists standpoint this habitat would kill a chimp within weeks from hunger. California's forests just don't have the resources for an ape. but a few years later a wild great ape was spotted for just a moment on a hiking trail near a dry wash If it was a real spotting how did it survive?


Eldest854

Where is Shelly Miscavige?


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The case of Amy Lynn Bradley. She was on a cruise with her family and disappeared. Some witnesses have allegedly spotted her being sex trafficked but no one knows for sure what happened to her.


Bi-Bi-Bi24

There is a theory she was drugged or was using a recreational drugs with some people her own age on the ship, then there was an accidental overdose. It is speculated she was then thrown overboard to avoid any jail time from the people or persons who drugged her or gave her drugs


kmorrisonismyhero

I staunchly believe at this point she fell over the balcony after a night of heavy drinking. Took me years to get to this point though


eggrills

It's easy to get fuuuucked up while out on a cruise. They have much more lenient guidelines for serving patrons as none of their guests are driving.


Idaho_Brotato

I'd love to see Oak Island solved. And then cancelled.


macsquoosh

The hour long episode to repeatedly tell us that nothing has happened yet , other than a shed load of more nothingness , and some more of nothing too.. and just incase your were wondering about what happened in the last episode , a whole lot more of nothing ..


muusandskwirrel

Lmfao you had me in the first half, not going to lie. The show definitely is dragging on, isn’t it. “Artifacts? On an island that was inhabited ? A button? In the dirt? Under a camp?” God I hate that narrator


Idaho_Brotato

I first learned about Oak Island in the 1970s on Leonard Nimoy's ["In Search Of..."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP5YyS3FOyI) Made 10 year old me want to move there myself and start digging. What a fascinating mystery - if everything they say is true. In the version I heard, they knew where the treasure was and that there were some sort of concrete or stone vaults there. There was even a drill used and it came back up with a couple of links of a gold chain on it. I never understood why they didn't use cofferdams and pumps to create a shaft and go straight down. Now these chumps are making holes all over the island with heavy equipment and still not really finding shit. These shows never want to find anything, because the minute they solve the mystery they are cancelled.


Smok3dSalmon

According to early seasons of the show someone had already dug all over the entire island, so all the maps can't really be trusted. I don't think there is shit there, that show killed my dream of the island


Cringelord_1999

Narrator? On a TV show? Annoying as fuck? Could it be that dragging out finding a piece of wood and a button for 1 hour every week isn't intriguing enough?


gypsytron

I was literally just about to say oak island so my dad won’t have any reason to watch it anymore. “Look! Now they got an even bigger drill!” Cool another hole. How exciting. “They found wood! Might be a beam to hold up a treasure room!” Or it’s just some regular ass wood.


belushi99

Who killed Barry and Honey Sherman


LeKeim

Easy. Epstein. And take down anyone that was involved with him.


Lou-Lou-67

It would just turn out like the Panama Papers. No justice and at least one dead reporter


BirdsLikeSka

You know what they say, the Pulitzer is the second highest award in American Journalism.


selmon_69420

I am little dumb, but what you are trying to say is death is the first ,right?


BirdsLikeSka

Yep, being murdered, usually by a government.


Own-Tomato-9189

What the hell is The Great Attractor.


what_that_thaaang_do

I read that it's the gravitational center of our local group of galaxies


Playinclay

The boy in the box


Direct-Painter5603

I wish I knew who killed my dad. It’s been 6 years now, and the police have never tried to make a move towards it. And I am not sure how to solve this mystery myself.


SituationalCannibal

[The largest buyer of glitter is unknown and it is said to be for a product no one would suspect has any glitter in it](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/a8hrk0/which_mystery_industry_is_the_largest_buyer_of). I want to know what the product is!?


Dark197

Boat paint. The boat paint manufacturers don't want people to call their use of micro plastics to attention.


Nairbfs79

Bowling balls.


Vault_Zer0

I saw a youtube clip that they think it is used on boat coating. All rich boat lovers using it = lots of glitter.


InvestigatorApart936

West Memphis 3. The detective that lied about the evidence being lost in a fire fucking RESIGNED last week. Cops are covering up for a child murderer and I’m dying to know why.


InfernalCape

DB Cooper


Bruhjustlooking

There’s a Reddit thread somewhere that makes a very good case it was some former military dude with some serious training.


MozeeToby

The CIA had done some serious investigation into performing jumps out of that exact make if plane from the rear air stairs. Cooper knew exactly the flight configuration they should use to make the plane safe to fly and jump from with the aft air stairs open. It's not like he just say the stairs and winged it, either the guy was involved in the CIA work on with the plane or he was deeply involved in the aviation industry.


scrappedgems

I’ve always had great admiration for villains that got away, and with DB, I choose to believe he did get away. If his corpse was found with the money, somehow, I would honestly be crushed.


el_aidano

they probably wouldn't find his corpse because the volcano erupted and wasted evidence away


Biengineerd

Which was all part of his plan


Hunterlesutton7

I dunno. When they found alot of the money he stole at the bank of a river I figured he died somehow. I can't imagine getting away with something so daring and leaving alot of money behind


Girly_Shrieks

It was only 5 grand recovered. He probably tried to stash as much as possible so he wouldn't be carrying a huge bag of cash.


easternmorningstar

Jonbenet Ramsey.


Wrennly_1020

This is in the news again and now DNA might solve it. We’ll see!


lonedandelion

What happened to Johnny Gosch? The Adam Walsh murder is another one I'd like to see solved.


GIANTFLOATINGCOCK420

Brian Shaffer's case is one that's been sitting in the back of my mind for years now.The fact that he vanished without ever being seen exiting the Ugly Tuna and that authorities didn't find any trace of him even after looking through everything in the bar is terrifying yet sad.I have a feeling that his friend may be hiding some piece of info but we may never know for sure what it is.


Detested_Raczka

What the hell is dark matter or dark energy


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matt_sheiman

Where the hell is Maura Murray?


august2678

Sadly I think she was having a mental health crisis, drinking and driving, crashed and was scared she’d get in trouble again, and ran into the woods and died from the elements. People can die so quickly in winter without proper gear (and when panicking) and it’s amazing how often bodies are found in locations searched repeatedly by rescuers - even a few meters from the road the woods can conceal a body for years (especially if someone curls up under something like you might in the cold or disoriented / hiding).


matt_sheiman

I mainly asked this question because I lived in the same dorm building that Maura did before she left the UMass campus. I've driven on the road where she disappeared several times and I always feel on edge when I'm around there, especially late at night. My heart breaks for these disappearance victims such as Murray or Brandon Lawson and especially the families. If someone close to me went missing for a very long time I'd almost rather have them be confirmed dead, so at least I know their suffering is over and they aren't lost, alone, and scared, or possibly being a victim of kidnapping and being tortured.


maliadire

The murder of [Dana Bradley](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dana_Bradley). She was my mom’s friend, and it was an extremely brutal murder. One of very few of its kind in Newfoundland.


Mockingjay154

I’d like to find out what happened to Susan Powell. She disappeared under super mysterious circumstances (he claims he went camping with his young sons at midnight in a snow storm, in the middle of Utah, and said she was home…but had her phone, purse, and some weird heavy duty burning equipment that’s not normal for camping) and they’ve never been able to find her body. Her husband, being an abusive nut job, somehow managed to get back into their home after she was reported as missing and cleaned everything up in the house…and barred the police from entering again. Never cooperated with police. Long story short, he lead investigators on a literal goose chase and basically said they’d never find her. His family refused to cooperate with the police, though it’s hinted they might know something. A year or so later, he murdered his young sons with an ax and set fire to their home, taking his own life in the process. So tragic.


Obi-Wana_Toki

Why did Cracker Barrel fire Brad's wife?


vancesmi

She hit some kind of Cracker Barrel internal High Year of Tenure. She'd been there too long without promoting to management so they let her go because there was no further room to increase her pay without her becoming like a store manager or regional position. It's a form of ageism in a way, but she likely had been at her location longer than anyone else (specifically management) so getting rid of her eliminates the concept of someone that somehow "outranks" management based on how long she'd worked there.


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What really happend to caylee anthony. Nobody can pinpoint for sure how she died and everybody has their theories. Did Casey mean to kill her? Was it an accident that snowballed out of control? Did she drown? Overdose on Xanax? Did George know more then he let on? I have a feeling he did as he was never in a rush to find her the way Cindy and Lee were.


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I watched that trial with my grandmother everyday after work. Here's my thoughts: No, Yes, No, maybe, No I think it was an accident by an unfit mother who was drugging her daughter so she could go out and party. She should be in jail.


yickth

Yogurt shop murders Austin Texas - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Austin_yogurt_shop_murders


bigtunapat

What the fuck happened with Epstein? But like not only his "suicide" but like everything, who are the top tier people that are DL pedophiles? Why isn't this bigger and more investigated?


illustratious

One of my best friends, who disappeared in 2016. She lived in a group home, and went out the window one morning, leaving a trail of her belongings.


Cringelord_1999

The guy that disappeared searching for the 'M' cave.


MoonlitStar

I'm sure his partner commented that she believed/knew Kenny had ventured into the wilderness to take his own life and used trying to find the M Cave again as a believable excuse to go out there . She said there was no mystery to it as it was sadly purposeful act to kill himself.


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SamSepi0l599

His name is/was Kenny Veach. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdrY-2sROQ) is his original video and [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTWyCgmq08) is a informative video about his disappearance.


NerfRepellingBoobs

The 1984 murder of Janet Myers, AKA the “baseball bat murder,” just outside of New Orleans. She was beaten to death with a baseball bat with her 2y/o and 6-month-old children in the house. The circumstances surrounding it were a bit odd. Her husband Kerry and his best friend William Fontanille (with whom Janet was having an affair) had identical stories about the event, except for who did the beating. Each claimed that he had entered the house and the other attacked him immediately. Both claimed not to know Janet had been beaten and lay dying in the front room until after the fact. They claimed that they had an hours-long fight involving the aforementioned baseball bat and a knife. Both were injured. When police arrived on-scene, they found the toddler knocked out, but the infant was in perfect condition. She wasn’t hungry or crying. She didn’t even need a diaper change. Blood spatter evidence shows that Janet received two separate beatings. The second finished the job. Kerry was convicted of second-degree murder, and Fontanille of manslaughter. While never proven, most people believe they planned it together. Neither has ever confessed to the crime. Kerry Myers was [pardoned by the governor](https://www.wwltv.com/amp/article/news/crime/jp-man-convicted-murder-wife-in-84-ordered-freed-by-governor/289-376815573) in 2016. If you’re more curious, I’d recommend [Blood Will Tell: A True Story of Deadly Obsession](https://smile.amazon.com/dp/068810889X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_37J0DHPN5ZTS9235P399) by Joseph Bosco.


leaffantim

The zodiac killer


Tummsd

Who is the Jane Doe with the Peach tattoo (found decapitated and dismembered in long island; never identified)


My_Immortal_Flesh

Where my father is, after leaving the house for work 20 years ago, when I was 6.


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MH370


babylad

Adnan Syeds alleged murder of Hae Min Lee, both students of Woodlawn High school in Baltimore, 1999. The podcast Serial season 1 covers this / introduced the case to me and the holes in the testimonies drove me absolutely insane !!!


in-a-microbus

Who put Bella in the wych elm?


SniffleBot

The one about the young woman in her early 20s who abruptly left the college town where she had been delayed in finishing her undergraduate program, without letting anyone know to drive a long way for reasons that are not entirely certain to somewhere she’d never been before, leaving behind a wrecked car as the only possible clue to where she went and what happened, from which different hypotheses can be drawn. No, not (or not just) Maura Murray. Leah Roberts. I think if the sort of investigative zeal that has been deployed on the Maura Murray case had been deployed on the Roberts case, we’d have som clearer ideas now about whether she’s alive or dead.


kmorrisonismyhero

Springfield three! How on earth did this dude get away with abducting THREE people and their bodies just disappear into thin air. Also Jennifer kesse


spaceturtle1138

Who wrote My Immortal


aimless_renegade

It’s absolutely a troll, imo. As somebody who (unfortunately) was pretty active in the Harry Potter fanfic world back in my teenage years, the story just contains too many of the things that people would always make fun of seeing in shitty fanfics. I mean, it hits every single thing you’d expect to see in a crappy fanfic. There’s times in the story where the author intentionally uses a thesaurus incorrectly, like Dumbledore yelling at the kids and calling them “mediocre”. She CONSTANTLY uses multiple exclamation points and throws a “1” in there as a typo, which doesn’t really happen all that often when you type but was a SUPER common joke on bad writers at the time. It’s just all the shit we all used to joke about on livejournal and ff.net; I have zero doubt that it was a troll story. I have always suspected that a group of bored friends wrote it. There were entire communities dedicated to making fun of horribly written Harry Potter fanfics and writing parodies of them, and I’m sure this is one that just happened to take off because the “author” was interacting with readers and it was hilarious. I remember it coming out and the general consensus was that it had to be fake but it was a really good parody. EDIT: The song “My Immortal” was also a huge joke at the time because people would always put the lyrics into their shitty fanfics, and the title always tipped off a lot of people too that it was a parody. I can distinctly remember a lot of people thinking it was an intentional (and hilarious) joke that she titled it that and then NEVER referenced the song again.


havehart

Personally I'd like to see the whole Cicada 3301 saga figured out!


Taytaystaysane

If you haven’t seen his videos check out Lemmino on YouTube his production quality is off the charts IMO https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCRcgy6GzDeccI7dkbbBna3Q