30 Most Frightening Unsolved Mysteries Episodes

for every mystery there is someone somewhere who knows the truth perhaps it's you welcome to watch Mojo and today we're looking at chilling episodes of Unsolved Mysteries from the original run all the way through the Netflix Revival many of the case files and much of the physical evidence has been misplaced or long since discarded number 30 dreamy disappearance few events are more perplexing than a mysterious unexplained disappearance what makes legal secretary Cindy Anderson's case even more bizarre are the events that led up to her 1981 disappearance beginning the year before Cindy started having nightmares of her own abduction where you [Music] taking then shortly after the unsettling dreams began someone graffitied a message addressed to Cindy on the wall of the shopping center where she worked it was signed GW but Cindy couldn't think of anyone she knew with those initials when the message was painted over it reappeared in even larger lettering within week the same message reappeared this time it was even larger the morning she vanished began like any other with Cindy working alone in the office by the time her co-workers arrived Cindy's car was still out front but she was gone were Cindy's dreams premonitions of a terrible fate or were they just a coincidence number 29 body in bags this disturbing Unsolved Mysteries episode will have you scanning the faces of strangers everywhere you go after failing to show up for work for 3 Days David Carter's co-workers knew something was wrong when his family checked his apartment they were shocked to find an apparent bullet hole in the wall and a dark splotch on the floor I walked around there was a hole in the bottom left hand cor the closet door David had recently started dating a woman named Tammy Williams but there were signs of trouble in Paradise and in the days after David vanished Tammy seemed off and she showed no concern um as to me telling her that he was missing when David's remains were located police questioned Tammy but she went on the run before an arrest warrant could be issued it's thought by some that Tammy could have connections helping her evade authorities I have faith that somehow some way somebody's going to see Tammy and she's going to be caught number 28 Queen Mary Ghost Ship what's more eerie than a haunted ship once a luxury transatlantic ocean liner the Queen Mary is now retired and permanently docked in California on her decks and in her corridors people have seen and heard things they can't explain but accounts of apparitions ghosts and spooky encounters on the ship date back to our Glory Days crew members and guests have heard strange sounds particularly deep within the boat and near the engine room and the first class pool I heard giggling uh sound of a little girl or a child playing in the area at one time the Queen Mary was the grandest ship on the sea hosting famous Hollywood stars and royalty however she also has a more storied history full of economic setbacks and tragic accidents during World War II the ship was even commissioned as a troop ship and dubbed grey ghost with such a history is it any wonder some guests report feeling uneasy on board whatever the explanation the Queen Mary seems to be inhabited by something ethereal that has been seen and heard but not explained number 27 missing witness this unsolved mystery episode delves into some truly Twisted family Dynamics when Lena chapen vanished in 2006 leaving her possessions and young son behind her mother insisted Lena simply moved to Florida her sisters were not so sure it just seemed crazy she had taken any of her clothes Lena didn't take any of her photo albums Lena had recently made a shocking Revelation about their mother Sandy climp Lena's childhood was troubled Sandy frequently jumped from one relationship to another and relocated the family often when she married Gary AA her daughters hoped for stability unfortunately the marriage fell apart after Sandy started yet another affair to add insult to injury Gary discovered Sandy had also forged checks in his name then suddenly Gary was gone and then next thing I knew of was that Gary went missing a few years later Lena confessed on tape that Sandy murdered him did Lena meet the same fate who killed Gary number 26 lady in the lake on a cold snowy evening after attending a church prayer service Joanne Roma walked across the street navigated a rocky embankment and disappeared into Lake St Clair at least that's what police say happened the footprints and the buttprints were seen it was confirmed immediately by all three officers on the scene they sincerely beli there was a person in the water in the days following her disappearance there were no visible signs of Joanne in the half frozen lake which was shallow and despite several Coast Guard searches her body was not recovered for Joann's children there was more to the story she's not going anywhere near water that she could possibly slip and fall into that's not her before she went missing Joanne had been locked in a contentious 30-year-long inheritance dispute with her family did the long running Feud take a deadly turn some two months later Joanne's body was found in the Detroit River a full 30 m Downstream from where she supposedly entered the water I Justice for Joan that's the bottom line number 25 Up in Smoke anyone who grew up terrified of spontaneous human combustion can probably blame Unsolved Mysteries the infamous Up and Smoke episode convinced an entire generation they could burst into flames at any given moment Kendall was confronted by a ghastly sight fire had reduced his father to a scattering of Ashes while other episodes had you losing sleep over mysterious disappearances or Grizzly unsolved homicides this one fueled nightmares of a different kind kind according to One Survivor Kay Fletcher as she prepared coffee one morning smoke began billowing from her back Mike the Fletchers say that smoke suddenly began to Billow from Kay's body although she and her husband searched they could not determine what could have started the fire while Kay lived to tell her tale George Mt and Irving Bentley were less fortunate both perished in intense unexplained house fires is there a more rational explanation or were these actual cases of spont anous human combustion when I got to the bottom of the steps there was a pile of ashes on the floor number 24 miraculous Escape in 1978 a string of murders began in the Connecticut River Valley area near the New Hampshire and Connecticut border Bernice cordar sets offer her boyfriend's house she has never heard from again the creepiest part about this unsolved mystery segment is that it first aired in 1991 but to this day no one has ever been arrested in connection to the killings while a few promising suspects have emerged over time no one has been identified as The elusive Connecticut River Valley killer with no Witnesses and little physical evidence investigators weree a standstill one woman is believed to have narrowly escaped his clutches in the summer of 1988 Jane barosi stopped at a convenience store around midnight to buy a soft drink from a vending machine suddenly she was under attack despite suffering several injuries Jane survived the harrowing ordeal he just looked at me and just kept driving number 23 ready teller robbery this episode will have you thinking twice before using an ATM at night Matthew Chase set out to deposit his paycheck at a nearby ATM around midnight he never returned 5 months later his friends and family are still searching for him by tracking the activity on his bank card investigators learned of several attempts to withdraw money throughout the evening and early morning after Matthew disappeared most alarmingly they also recovered some grainy security footage of Matthew at the ATM another man is clearly visible in these chilling images peering over Matthew's shoulder according to these surveillance cameras at the branch the person standing next to Matt was somewhat shorter somewhat stockier police speculate the other man abducted Matthew when he deposited his paycheck eventually $400 was successfully taken from Matthew's account sadly Matthew's remains were later discovered in a ravine authorities believe he was robbed and killed by a gang member named David number 22 dial a for Abduction the 1991 abduction and near Rescue of Angela Hammond is possibly the most heartbreaking Unsolved Mysteries episode of all time just past 11:00 p.m. Angela called her fiance Rob from a pay phone as they talked a man in an old green truck circled the block several times before parking and using the phone beside Angela although she wasn't overly worried she described the man and the truck to Rob suddenly she screamed talked about other thing we weren't too worried about it and that's what I heard her scream on the phone Rob jumped in his car and rushed for the pay phone on the way he saw the truck Angela had described he threw his car into reverse and pursued the truck tragically he severely damaged his car's Transmission in the process and it eventually gave out the truck sped off into the night the beginning is the hardest because you know you were close enough to get him but she just didn't get the job done number 21 getaway photo nothing was unusual about the morning of September 20th 1988 when Tara Calico left her New Mexico home for her regular bike ride she never returned eyewitnesses saw a truck following close behind Tara as she traveled her typical route but otherwise there were few clues in the case she was being followed by a 1954 light colored Ford pickup truck with a camper attached almost a year later someone discovered an unsettling photo in a Florida gas station parking lot the now notorious picture has divided experts and amateur sleuths for decades with some claiming it shows Tara Calico and another missing person Michael Henley in the back of a van it appeared to have been taken inside a white van the woman took the picture to the police others claim it's fake there were no significant developments in Tara's case until 2023 when authorities announced they had enough evidence to pursue charges no further details were released we as the investigator believes we have an answer we believe we know what occurred number 20 a salon owner goes missing in 13 minutes some fans are split on the 2020 Netflix reboot of Unsolved Mysteries a much more serious-minded and True Crime Focus take on the classic spooky Series this case seems to Garner Universal interest from viewers specifically the death of Georgia salon owner Patrice Andres when the uh police took me to brother's salon there was uh detectives and you know crime scening investigators and they were going in and out and then they said yeah she's missing police claimed there was only a 13-minute window within which Andres could have been abducted from her business and her killer has never been found even though remains were found relatively close to the salon more than a year later the kicker here is how guilty her husband Rob comes across in the episode and how much of an outlier it is compared to the stoic nature of The Season's presentation on the whole I have no comment for people who think that I kill Patrice because I don't talk to those people because I know I didn't Patrice knows I didn't and it's physically impossible TimeWise for me to have been involved in it number 19 Stockton arsonist there's just something creepy about finding some lost obscure footage on an old VHS tape this is made doubly disturbing when it's also an actual unsolved mystery the Stockton arsonist episode of the series followed a family whose car broke down on the side of the road during which which time the young son found an abandoned jacket with a tape inside the pocket wrapped in the jacket were a video tape with no label and several audio cassets of heavy metal music on the tape is what appears to be an intentionally set home arson which is bad enough but the voice speaking on the tape makes mention of Satanism while a search of the site later by police turned up ritualistic paraphernalia beautiful look at that do you see what I could do later to the same I know updates in later episodes revealed that two underage suspects were ultimately tried but it's the satanic implications including the discovery of a ceramic skull that are hard to forget I've never run across anything as Eerie as this tape um it was it frightened me as a matter of fact uh I thought about it that night when I went to bed number 18 the tman house ghost stories and creepy reenactments are absolutely essential aspects of a classic Unsolved Mysteries episode and this one certainly delivers the goods it all started with a secondhand bunk bed for the tman family A seemingly innocuous purchase that would turn their lives upside down for it was soon after bringing the bed into their home that the Tans experienced all sorts of unexplained paranormal phenomena from disembodied voices calling out in the home to household items operating strangely and dangerously as well as unexplained fires in the garage the reenactment clicks all the boxes for a classic Unsolved Mysteries fan guaranteeing unsettled dreams and a questioning over what might lie Beyond I started to see this um fog starting to appear on the floor and a voice came out of it and it says you're dead number 17 the Lizzy bordon house the tried andrue murder mystery always makes for creepy nighttime viewing when it comes to Die Hard fans of Unsolved Mysteries and what better True Crime tale than the infamous case of Lizzy bordon Lizzy bord took this episode not only detailed facts about the horrible double murder from New England but also goes into the present day history of the Fall River home that Lizzy shared alongside her father stepmother and living maid they claim that Lizzy Abby and Andrew still walk these halls and haunt these rooms chained forever to this place by the horrific events of over a century ago the house may be a popular bed and breakfast for the Brave and the Bold but there are also plenty of late night ghost stories that keep us awake wondering whether or not Lizzy still prows the hallways acts steadily in hand and after a long day of sightseeing you can drift off to sleep in the same bedroom where Abby boron's pummeled body was discovered lifeless on the floor number 16 the vampire cult murders while we admit there's something comfortingly nostalgic about the early internet footage present within this episode of Unsolved Mysteries there's nothing remotely funny about the actual case generally speaking we're looking at kids who are usually intelligent children and want to belong want to be a part of something want to participate and so this comes along and reaches out to them and says there are no rules Richard and Naoma wendorf were the victims of a local gang who were obsessed with vampirism to the point where one of the men arrested for the murders was actually convinced he was Immortal the wendorf's daughter Heather was supposedly involved with the group but any charges against her were eventually dropped the episode itself points out the vampire's cultural significance over the years as a media symbol while also doing a good job of presenting the real life creepiness of those real life fans who take their Obsession too far is vampire make believe inherently evil and dangerous probably not does it create an atmosphere where aberant behavior is promoted there's no way to know number 15 the Tatum house okay so it isn't as if Unsolved Mysteries needed an excuse to be creepy but this Halloween episode delivered the supernatural Goods with a host of frightening Tales at first I thought it was my husband and I went into the bedroom and there my husband was in the bed the Tatum house segment dealt with Poltergeist activity in a home owned by a retired married couple who reported continued unexplained noises in the house the reenactments foro cheesy theatrics and overacting and instead describe the Tatum's experiences with a basic matter OFA delivery that makes it all the more real I I knew very well that something was happening because K was very levelheaded and uh she was truly frightened as a result we can identify much more with how the couple must have felt particularly Jim Tatum who becomes increasingly upset as he described what happened to the camera I told Kay then I says no more Bell I'm not going to answer that Bell anymore and that Bell has not rung since I never seeing him like that before number 14 the Allagash abductions and I remember thinking that we're not going to outrun this thing there's just no way it was coming too quickly okay we admit it sometimes the Recreations on Unsolved Mysteries and other similar shows are more well humorous than frightening thankfully this is not the case with our next entry a harrowing tale of an alleged contact with the Extraterrestrial the Allagash abductions doesn't play it light or for laughs but instead presents the four subjects as men who definitely seem to be shaken by a collective experience all four said they were taken aboard the craft as a result we can put ourselves in their shoes and imagine how we might feel if we felt we were abducted by visitors from outer space it's here that Unsolved Mysteries has always shined and an example of why this episode continues to give us the creeps they're right there their FA is right in my face I don't know why number 13 the Blind River Killer we sometimes take solace in the fact that many notorious Killers have been caught by police and brought to justice but what about the ones who get away sadly there was no justice during the lifetime of Gordon mallister who passed away in 2012 without discovering the identity of the Blind River Killer this unidentified man accosted and robbed mallister and his wife Jackie while they were parked for the night in their RV at a rest stop the reenactment in this episode really drove home the tragedy of when McAllister's wife as well as a good samaritan the rest stop were shot and killed by the gunman and we can't help but wish things could have turned out differently and I was laying there just praying I just praying to God that he keep on running and he did number 12 prison mystery speaking of reenactments the updated version of Unsolved Mysteries hosted by Dennis finina featured increased production values when it came to staging these sequences as a result this episode from the iteration second season has aged pretty well all things considered the murder mystery which serves as the centerpiece to this episode deals with Judge James Michael Frankie who was hired by the Oregon state prison system to try and increase inmate capacity Michael knew he was juggling political dynamite and that it could blow up in his face at any moment the reenactments do a great job of stressing how Frankie was murdered outside of his office in an apparent robbery gone wrong while also lending Credence to the theories that he might have been the victim of an inside hit by corrupt government officials either way it's truly chilling stuff some believe that Michael was the victim of a premeditated murder and that it was carried out by several men and possibly instigated by high-ranking officials who are afraid that they would be named in his investigation number 11 Edward Bell and Larry Dickens many A-list actors come from Humble Origins and Matthew mccon is no exception with one of his first onscreen roles being here reenacting a terrible 1978 murder case mccon plays Larry Dickens who was the tragic victim of what can only be described as a senseless Rampage by one Edward bell bell who was thankfully captured years later thanks to viewer tips attacked the Dickens family with no apparent motive and seemed to be a career criminal with offenses dating back years before the incident what's troubling about this episode isn't only the reenactment but the fact that Bell was out on bail only two months after his arrest thus allowing him to slip through the system for far too long before he was brought to Justice he quietly liquidated his assets and with more than $140,000 in his pocket disappeared number 10 Resurrection Mary the unwitting cab driver had just met Chicago's most famous ghost Resurrection Mary there's a tinge of sadness to the next entry on our list the tale of Resurrection Mary it's a ghost story about a young life taken too soon and the people who swear they've seen her spirit prowling the streets near Resurrection Cemetery in Illinois Richard Crow learned the ghost was believed to be the Restless Spirit of a young woman named Mary Bovi Mary had been killed in a traffic accident one Saturday night in 1934 Mary Bovi was her name and she was a girl who said to have died in a car accident during the mid 1930s multiple folks claim to have encountered her over the years some of whom have even attempted to give her rides only for her to disappear the episode itself possesses a dream like a lore and captures well the tragedy of Mary's story this is perhaps in part why the story of Resurrection Mary has survived to this day in any case should you find yourself driving in the city late one night and you spot a wistful young woman in a flowing gown you might think twice about offering her a ride number nine Ray Rivera and the Mystery on the rooftop the case of Ray Rivera is the very first to be covered on Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries reboot Rivera's death seems to be self-inflicted on the surface but forensic evidence and medical examiner data led many to believe that this finance writer was the victim of Foul Play I kept saying there is something bigger there is something more going N I think he turned over some rock and he shouldn't have turned it over but I know that he didn't kill himself a letter found near Rivera's computer complicated matters further with its talk of secret societies and Hollywood bigwigs while Ray's employer placed a gag order that forbade anyone to speak of the case to police every possible person that knew Ry worked with Ray or had any answers for me weren't allowed to legally talk to me according to their company lawyers that's within hours of his body being discovered with all of these Loose Ends involved one might think that there would be a stronger push for the truth but the unsolved nature of this crime and the police is backpedaling into once again calling it self-inflicted leaves us awake at night wanting some closure number eight the circle Ville letters I know where you live I've been observing your house and know you have children this is no joke please take it serious the word chilling doesn't even begin to describe what happened to the residents of Circleville Ohio during the late 1970s small town gossip turned deadly when residents of this otherwise unassuming small town began receiving threatening letters about their personal lives increasing exponentially to the point where the entire Community was turned upside down with paranoia fear and anger his gun had fired one shot and there was never any explanation for when or how at whom that gun could have been and fire the reenactments do a great job of presenting how tense and on edge the whole Affair made the community and the voiceover of the Circleville writer is delivered in an ultra creepy monotone on closer examination Mary realized that it was a crude booby trap designed to fire the gun at her finally it's revealed that even the crew behind Unsolved Mysteries wasn't safe from being harassed as they received a threatening postcard prior to airing the episode the card read forget Circle Ville Ohio do nothing to hurt Sheriff Radcliffe if you come to Ohio you El sios will pay the Circleville Rider number seven friends to the end suddenly Shroyer saw something in his path he couldn't tell what it was as his train Drew closer Yeah couple of bodies he made the horrifying discovery that two boys were lying motionless across the railroad tracks not every unsolved mystery can be resolved during the lifetime of a family member friend or in this case a dedicated prosecutor Richard Garrett was determined to uncover what happened to Kevin Ives and Don Henry two popular teenagers who were tragically run over by a train under mysterious circumstances it took multiple autopsies and the testimony from witnesses as bizarre as former professional wrestler Billy Jack Haynes to discover that the boys were murdered and brought to the tracks not accidentally run over while under the influence of marijuana this doctor concluded that together the boys had smok not 20 but between one and three marijuana cigarettes he also found evidence to indicate that one boy was already dead and one unconscious when the train hit them the episode detailing their demise is a somber and sad Affair a story that haunts us almost as much as it seemed to haunt Garrett who died in 2018 without receiving an answer to his investigation hundreds of times I've been out there day and night just trying to get it my mind of what could have happened or what did happen number six Danny calero a housekeeper at the Sheron hotel opened room 517 for routine cleaning nothing could prepare her for what she found inside we would need a lot more time to fully detail all of the twists in the story of Danny calero because this thing reads like a paranoid Thriller from the 1970s calero's body was found in a West Virginia hotel and his death was considered self-inflicted the thing is calero was a computer industry writer hot on the heels of a story that he felt involved upper level government officials organized crime and lucrative contracts for law enforcement software the papers Cilla had with him in Martinsburg included hundreds of notes and documents from more than a year of Investigation not one has ever been found calero's family felt that his fear of blood made his method of supposed self-inflicted demise unlikely and the local investigation into the case seem skewed against letting anyone else in on any specifics honestly we suggest doing a deep dive into this case yourself it's compelling stuff number five War of the deuse once a happy couple various issues would later culminate in Dennis Dew assaulting his wife Marilyn while he told his children that he was taking her to the hospital a few days later police would find Marilyn's body off a deserted road we had a feeling that he had really done something terrible it was so brutal and premeditated now here comes the biggest Twist of the episode The Night night that had aired a woman named Mary came to her house to find that her boyfriend Hank was in a hurry to leave the house after he left it wasn't long before she discovered who her boyfriend really was I think that he was deliberately keeping U my uh attention distracted in the kitchen so that I wouldn't see the segment and so that he could leave later that evening police were able to track Dennis down and after a brief standoff he took his own life number four Spirits at the comedy store according to many employees past and present the comedy store's hallowed Halls are haunted sometimes buildings have personalities all their own case in point California's classic standup venue The Comedy Store which possesses a history dating all the way back to the 1940s and 50s The Comedy Store was known as ceros during these days and was a hub for criminal activity for the local Mobsters as a result some people claim to have witnessed Paranormal Activity and other mysterious occurrences such as inanimate object being moved around by an unknown Force given the fact that so much comedy seems to come from Pain we're not entirely ruling out the possibility that The Comedy Store walls have some sort of bad juju lurking deep inside whatever was down there in that basement I just don't like it number three scared to death there's harassment and then there's what reportedly happened to Cindy James the nurse claimed to be the victim of threatening phone calls letters and behavior for over 7 years so much so she told friends that she feared she was going to be quote scared to death I took a look at her and I thought she was dead there was a note that was pinned with a pairing knife through her hand still James's reluctance to reveal specific details about the case has raised suspicion about what exactly happened leading up to her death in 1989 when surveillance was on her house never any any event would happen as soon as surveillance was taken off of course then she'd get another incident that happened the Unsolved Mysteries take on her tale raises more questions than answers about how she was bound hand and foot with a lethal dose of morphine found in her system yet it's the evidence and mystery behind the death of Cindy James that continues to haunt our dreams every time we rewatch The episode number two the Son of Sam the name of this pick is probably a familiar one even if you've never seen an episode of Unsolved Mysteries David burkowitz was known as the Son of Sam when he terrorized New York City during the late '70s stalking and killing young couples who were parked out in cars late at night the city was paralyzed with fear the people in the local neighborhoods particularly in the Bronx were petrified burkowitz who also bore the moniker the 44 caliber killer claimed satanic leanings in letters and confessed that he was driven to commit these heinous acts by a dog owned by his neighbor Sam serial killer stories are always uneasy listening so it just goes to show that this episode of Unsolved Mysteries had us reaching for the NightLight when it was bedtime before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one Shane Stewart Sally McNelly and Satan satanic Panic refers to a period during the 1980s where moral outrage over the occult heavy metal and Dungeons and Dragons spilled over into accusations of Satanic ritual abuse Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly were teenagers whose disappearance and violent deaths were attributed to their involvement in a local cult they did Express fears that that they might be her she and her boyfriend might be in some danger because it's a very secretive type group and they knew the ends they knew the secrets and when they broke away they realized that they they were in some danger although today satanic Panic is largely seen as a reaction to Christian conservatism misinformation and paranoia those involved at the time seem to be searching for something to blame for this tragic loss authorities believe that Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly were murdered by their friends as a direct result of their cult activities a person of interest in the murders didn't emerge until 2017 when a Texas Sheriff's Office named John gilberth as someone who possessed quote biological material associated with the case sometimes reality is much scarier than anything associated with imagination or the devil which unsolved mystery segment Disturbed you to your core let us know in the comments join me next time for another Edition on solve Mysteries

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Length: 31min 49sec (1909 seconds)

Published: Tue May 21 2024