- Hello and welcome to another
edition of Buzzfeed Unsolved Postmortem, a show where we answer your most pressing questions about the most recent
episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved, which was the Isdal Woman. All the questions we're answering today came from you guys via our
Buzzfeed Unsolved Facebook page and our Buzzfeed Unsolved Instagram page. - Put that down there. Good ep this week, Ryan. - Yeah, yeah, it was a good one. It was a real barn burner. - We haven't done much
with this horse back here. Horse, what did you think
of this week's episode? - I thought it was good. - This is a dumb bit. - Here's one from Friedchickenequah. I think she was just pretty
hungry and only had pills. I'm gonna disagree with you on that one. - This comes from Luke
Brandner on Facebook. I have a hunch that she
was a vampire hunter. - Luke. - The smell of (laughs).
- This Luke wrote a lot considering he's proposing
she's a vampire hunter. - The smell of garlic
and the traveling across multiple countries could
be due to her being chased by pissed off vampires. In other words, the vampires hunting her. It's like a Blade scenario. Then one day as the ultimate
revenge from the vampires, they turned her. The bruise on her neck may
have been a healing bite mark. She was well-dressed, medium height, and had a strange odor to her that Rortvedt would realize
years later was garlic. A strange bruise on the
right side of her neck was also discovered. - Vampires wouldn't
smell like garlic though. - No, because they are
repelled by garlic, right? - Yeah.
- They're afraid of garlic. - Yeah. - I guess if you wanted
to throw people off the scent of you being a vampire, you'd cover yourself in garlic, you know. You'd be like, oh this
guy can't be a vampire. He smells like garlic. - Do they just not like garlic though, or is it physically,
does it, I mean, they're? - I guess I never really
got the science behind that. - It's because there is none. - [Ryan] Well yeah, that's true. - Next question, back to old Gram city. Victoriah56, did they ever find
her actual name or identity? - No.
- Uh-uh. - Her name is the Isdal Woman, so. - Isdal Woman. Not a birth name. - Ooh, this is a good one. This comes from Lana Menheere. This is from Facebook. I think the woman who'd
stayed in the hotels was a spy and murdered the Isdal Woman to protect her own identity. Someone was getting too
close to finding her and she needed to disappear absolutely. Dressed the Isdal Woman in her clothes and set her on fire to obscure the fact it wasn't really the spy's corpse. The spy also planted
the woman's fingerprint on the glasses she left with the suitcase. She probably forced the
Isdal Woman to swallow handfuls of the pills
so she wouldn't scream during the burning. Maybe she was interrupted and that's why she didn't have the time to put the accessories on the
body before she burned it, or for the pills to finish the job. - I see. - That's thinking outside the box. - I feel like no matter
how you slice it here, there's spies involved, whether it's the Isdal Woman.
- I think so too. - Or just some other Joe
Schmoe spy walking around. - Yeah, I think there were
spies involved in this one, although there are some
questions that we'll get to later that don't think so. - Oh.
- That suggest otherwise. - Okay. Here's one back from the
Instagram from Heyitzemmalyn. I think Bob did it. I am not up to date with
episodes, so I'm really confused. What was the episode? - Yeah, this definitely
reads like a question that Shane picked. What do you think the odds are that this person who has
not watched the episode is then going to watch the
Q and A for the episode, see her question, and then get your advice about what the episode is, and then goes, oh I
think I'll go watch it? - Oh, I don't know. I mean, they're leaving a question, so they probably want to know. - I suppose. Is that what people do? Do people watch the Q and A first, then go to the episode? It's a weird order, I think. - If you do, if you are
one of those people, who do it a little
flipsy-flopsy, topsy-turvy, chime off, let us know. - Yeah, I wouldn't recommend Tarantino-ing any of the Buzzfeed Unsolved content. - No, it would be very confusing. - Actually, you would spoil a lot of it because a lot of the twists and turns are. - You sounded a little like Walken there. You spoil a lot of it.
- It would spoil a lot of it. - Wow, twice.
- A lot of twists and turns. - Wow. - Spoiled.
- Wow. - Yeah.
- Wow. - It would spoil it for you. Why did Walken sneak into this? Riley Gulotta, Q and A. This is somewhat speculative, but it seems as though
the gas found at the site is pretty incriminating
towards it being a murder. I think it's somewhat easy
to confidently conclude that she worked in espionage, but I think her burning was used as a way to burn off
distinguishable features that could be used to identify her. Now here's the interesting bit. - I'm ready. - Sip your coffee. Wax your ears, let's go. Assuming that's why she was burned, any sort of enemies she
had in the espionage world wouldn't really have any interest in hiding her true identity. So is it possible that in the interest
of covering themselves, she was killed by people
from her own agency? - She got burned. - Yeah, if she was a spy, it's very likely that maybe she went rogue or there was a burn notice out for her. They had to get rid of her. - Is that what that show's about? - Burn Notice?
- Yeah. - I think so, yeah. I mean, I'm gonna assume
that's what Burn Notice means. - I assumed it's like
people roasting each other. - You want to stick with that one? - Yeah. - I thought it was good. - Instagram, from Elina. Elinanjalin.
- Just answer. - How long does it take
to make an episode, from idea to final product? - About a month. I'd say a month and a
week, a month and change. A month, a week, maybe even two, if it's a bigger one. Jack the Ripper took quite a bit. - He was a busy guy. There was a lot going on with him. - That was just me sitting
in an office with a dim lamp, just zoning in. - We don't like to approach Ryan when he's working on his
scripts and his research. - I go to a dark place. I have to. - It's taking a toll on him. There's an emptiness
there, and it is growing. - This comes from Owen Derham. I'd say it still could have been suicide. I mean, if she were a spy, what better way to conceal
your identity after death than to burn yourself to the
point of being unrecognizable? And maybe the pills were supposed to help numb the pain of the burning? That to me means she had to be a spy. It couldn't have been normal
person commits suicide. The spy would have a reason
to make their identity not known. - Even if I were a very good spy, a very tough, little strong spy, I'd want to be fast asleep slash dead by the time the flames
started to consume my flesh. Here's one from Definitelyaili. I'm surprised that Ryan didn't bring up anything alien related. - Yeah, me too, well said. I'm not gonna just
shoehorn an alien in there. I thought there was too many
credible theories for this one for me to put aliens in there. And I do realize I have
posited aliens for Roanoke, but I actually thought
it was warranted there. - You also posited. - Okay, the zombies one
was obviously a joke. We have our fifth theory that the lost colony
of Roanoke disappeared due to a zombie plague. (Ryan laughs) Here's the thing. If I'm gonna shoehorn something in, I'm gonna make it obvious
I'm making a joke. There was no point in that where I was, I had crazed
eyes and I was pointing to graphs and figures.
- You had some pretty crazed eyes. - Saying that zombies were a real thing. - Can we play the footage of Ryan saying zombies are a real thing? - [Ryan] What if this is the
only case of zombies ever and because it was on an island, it was contained, so therefore
it would never happen again? - [Shane] What if it's not? - I didn't say that. The only time zombies have ever been even close to a real thing to me was when I watched Scooby
Doo on Zombie Island when I was younger and
I thought, holy shit, that's an island full of zombies, seems really scary, I
hope Scooby doesn't die. This comes from wackyloony. I don't think she was
a spy for two reasons. One, she wouldn't have
dressed provocatively or done anything to draw
unnecessary attention to herself, which she clearly did 'cause
people seemed to remember her. Let's unpack the first
part of that question. I don't think she was
dressed provocatively. All accounts say that
she was dressed nicely, in very fancy clothes. - Just celebrity boots. - And she was also a lovely
woman by accounts as well, so maybe that's why people remembered her. - Also, I don't mean to always bring this back to
Mission Impossible, but, you know, they wear some nice,
nice clothes in those films. - James Bond, I don't know
if you've heard of him, he's a spy. He wears a tuxedo. Let's go to the second part there. If a spy is killing another spy and going to the lengths of burning them to hide their identity, wouldn't fingerprints be
the first thing they burn? Isn't that like Spy 101? My theory is she was on the run, abusive relationship, mob connections, something that would justify the overkill, pills, bruise, burning. Oh also, not suicide
because that amount of pills is going to act really quickly
in some way or another. Not enough time for her to set
herself on fire and whatnot. Would love to know what you guys think. That's a good point. You would think fingerprints would be the first thing you would burn off. - I'm gonna guess it's not easy. - Yeah, I'm gonna guess
that's gonna hurt a lot. - The only way I've seen
that done effectively is there's this machine where
you can place your hands on. - You're talking about MIB right now. - Yeah, I'm talking about MIB. - Also, the third part of that question. I've actually seen this posited as well, that she was maybe a runaway bride, that she was in an abusive relationship, or that she was in fact
maybe a criminal herself. All those are possible. I will say for a runaway bride, I gotta imagine it's very hard to obtain multiple passports
that are legitimate. - But could they even tell back then? It was probably hard, right? They didn't have those cool
holograms on money or anything. - Yeah, it's fucking easy
when you're showing it to a hungover lazy TSA person. - Oh, but when you say, when
they're investigating it after the fact, they'll probably
look at it a little closer. - They'll go, wait a
second, that's Elmer's glue under this picture.
- Yes, I see. - She's not who she says she is. This is actually Frank Norris's or. - Who's Frank Norris?
- Francesca Norris. - What are you talking about? - Because it would be, she'd
steal someone else's passport. - Who's that? Who's Francesca Norris? - Wouldn't you steal
someone else's passport, paste a picture on top of it? - I don't know. Who's Francesca Norris? - It's a name I just made up. - You just made up that name? - Yeah. - You're like a playwright. - (laughs) No, I'm not. - That was like a, that was incredible. That was like a Sam Shepard moment. - That's one degree of separation
away from Chuck Norris. - Francesca Norris, wow. What a rich mind you have. - Okay. - Well, what a fun round of questions. Ryan, what do we got coming up this week? - This week's episode is
very dark, I'll say that. It's probably darker than any subject we've ever covered before. And it deals with morality in
a way that we haven't really, and ethics, we haven't
really covered those topics. - A little embarrassing considering we only talk about murder. Well, for this one, we thought we'd maybe weigh the moral implications of it. - In all the other
cases, it was very clear murder is bad. In this case. - I don't know.
- I don't know. - I don't know.
- I don't know. I don't know.
- Who can say? - Anyways, that does it for this episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved Postmortem. Make sure you watch
the episode this Friday and send in your questions to the Buzzfeed Unsolved Facebook page and the Buzzfeed Unsolved Instagram page and maybe we'll feature
them on the next Postmortem. - That's true. Keep it short. - Keep it short. And you know what, I'm
not gonna even fight it. - Our weekly Q and A concluded, I now welcome you to the
part of the show we call The Hot Doga, the hot dog saga, commissioned by Ryan. Uh, what's your middle name? - Not gonna tell you.
- Steven. Ryan Steven Bergara.
- That's not my middle name. - Written by me and adored
by every single viewer. In a darkened lair surrounded
by geothermal vents belching putrid air, the
Dark One sits on his throne, waiting. (evil belching noises) That's him. Finally, they arrive, Pam, an evil hot dog witch, and Brandon, a raccoon
possessed by a hot dog child. - Master. - Have you succeeded? - Yes, Master. We threw them into a volcano. They're gone. - All of them? - Most of them, I think. Except a hologram and a French fries. - But then the hot dog,
he was devoured by magma. - Yes, my brother-in-law
was devoured by magma. - Very good. Then the prophecy is complete, and the gauntlet of ultimate
power or GUP is mine. - GUP, GUP, GUP, they cheer. - I will now summon the
gauntlet with the ancient rites. (speaking foreign language) - The ground shakes. A gauntlet appears with a.
- The ground shakes. - Yeah, that's me,
because it's unsteady now. Ryan, react. - You sure you.
- React, Ryan. - No.
- Oh, he's loving it. A gauntlet appears with a flash and falls onto the master's hand. Pam and Brandon watch in horror as the master grows by about 25% and his eyes get more evil, signifying him becoming more evil. - I am the end now. I will grow, grow until I can eat the sun and plunge the Earth into despair. - Wow, hell yeah. Now we can finish off those French fries and that old can of soup. - Soup? - Yeah, Mike Soup. - The soup survived? - Yeah, yeah, who gives a shit? It's not like he's French
fries or that hologram. - You have disappointed me, hot dog witch. - The dark master's eyes burn red as he raises his gauntlet, pointing at his hapless minions. - Hup. - A flash, a sizzling
crack, it rings like a bell. Where Pam once stood, there is nothing but a bun and two eyeballs. Brandon stares in awe. - Holy shit. - Pam's dead. - Do you. - Pam's dead, baby. - Do you ever actually hear the words that are
coming out of your mouth when you're saying these silly little stupid tales? - I do. - I mean, really hear them, I don't. - I do. - You stand by them? - Yeah. I do. - Then that's the saddest
thing I've heard all my life. He doesn't even have coffee in that cup. I can hear it. That was a fake sip.
That ending had me in tears.