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What’s the scariest unsolved mystery you know?

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Mimmy352 · 02/09/2023 18:17

Whether it’s personal or well known, which unsolved case makes your brain sound like dial up?

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YetMoreNewBeginnings · 02/09/2023 23:12

Peter Falconio’s body being found would likely clear up so many rumours about his girlfriend. Even though there’s been a conviction she’s still the subject of gossip

FromEden · 02/09/2023 23:13

jellytotsparkles · 02/09/2023 23:00

Yes! I had almost forgotten this one. The fact her death was ruled a suicide & they claimed she was suffering from psychosis/paranoia etc is absolutely absurd. Poor poor woman.

Her death wasn't ruled a suicide. They couldn't come to a definite conclusion about what happened so it was ruled undetermined

Lifeomars · 02/09/2023 23:15

YukoandHiro · 02/09/2023 19:33

I think about Claudia Lawrence a lot. I was a single woman living alone at the time she disappeared and it felt very close to home.

There have to be people/a person who knows what happened to her. How they live with themselves I do not know

Georgeandzippyzoo · 02/09/2023 23:15

HeartshapedFox · 02/09/2023 22:40

Claudia Lawrence. I saw her father on BBC news years ago talking about her, and he spoke with such dignity although you could see his heart was breaking.

I always felt so sorry for him and his wife, especially when people started rumours saying he was involved. It was so sad when he died without knowing what happened to his daughter. X

Whattheduck · 02/09/2023 23:16

Vishal the young boy who went missing on the day Charles and Diana married
Bella the body found in the tree
The young boy found washed up in Ireland 51 years ago there’s a podcast about it called The Cruelty
Luke Durbin
Andrew Gosden
Lee Boxell
Claudia Lawrence
Madeline McCann ( lived in the next village to myself ) hope there’s an answer one day and for all the other mysteries
Theres a great podcast called The Missing which is worth a listen

Loopylooni · 02/09/2023 23:16

Claudia Lawrence. If posters know what happened, why hasn't anyone said anything. Something about her case hits close to home, like the media critiquing her love life somehow. Somebody knows something.

Sitchervice · 02/09/2023 23:18

MansfieldLark · 02/09/2023 19:05

Jonbenet Ramsey. Poor poor child. 😢

I'm convinced her brother killed her out of Jealousy.

EmiliaRuusuvuori · 02/09/2023 23:18

Rico Harris who went missing from California in 2014 .
Natalie Pearman who was found dead in 1992, not far from me in Norwich.
The torso of a young boy found in the Thames in 2001 and named Adam by Police officers who believed he had been used for a sacrifice.

Lifeomars · 02/09/2023 23:19

WhereHaveAllTheMooncupsGone · 02/09/2023 22:10

Oooh that one gave me chills when I first started reading about it. How does someone stop showing up for work and to normal daily appointments and no one try to see what was going on? It didn't add up. She wasn't a hermit with no friends.

That was so haunting, and the film Dreams of a life (think that was the title) was one of the saddest things I have watched

WhereHaveAllTheMooncupsGone · 02/09/2023 23:21

@tenyearshavegotbehindyou I'm so sorry, I can't imagine what that must be like. Flowers

LibbyL92 · 02/09/2023 23:22

Razberryberet · 02/09/2023 22:59

I know one of the men in the room that night he's a drug user and the rest of the group are too I think things turned nasty and she was scared I think she may have had too much to drink or may have taken drugs herself and ended up falling trying to escape its awful!

Oh wow, they got realised without charge didn’t they?

she was sound asleep.. god knows how she ended up there. It was a room upstairs as well.

so so strange and so sad!

tenyearshavegotbehindyou · 02/09/2023 23:23

Childhoodmemories · 02/09/2023 21:31

Ben Needham
The boy in America whose body was found in the 50s and he's never been given back his name

The boy in the box? If so, He was identified finally! His name was Joseph Augustus Zarelli.

justasking111 · 02/09/2023 23:23

Sitchervice · 02/09/2023 23:18

I'm convinced her brother killed her out of Jealousy.

I think that too and the parents covered it up out of guilt or the fact that they couldn't bear to lose two children.

Anonymouslyposting · 02/09/2023 23:24

The Dyatlov pass incident - something caused 9 experienced hikers to cut their way out of their tent in the middle of the night half way up a mountain in temperatures as low as -40. They then WALKED over a mile, some with no shoes. Nothing in the tent was disturbed. All 9 died. Six of hypothermia, one of skull fractures and two from chest injuries. The report at the time concluded they met with “calamity or an unknown compelling force”.

The leading theory is an avalanche though for various reasons that seems unlikely (no evidence of avalanches happening in the area, no damage to the tent etc.) Other theories involve a kgb plot, military exercises, strange winds, nuclear experiments (some of their stuff was radioactive, attack by local people or a yeti - very little actual evidence of anything.

Freaks me out whenever I think of it - what could make 9 people cut out of their only shelter and, in an apparently orderly fashion, walk without clothes into those conditions?

KissyMissy · 02/09/2023 23:27

Allthecatsandcosyblankets · 02/09/2023 18:32

The case of Elisa Lam who was found dead in a water tank on a ship always freaked me out as well, especially the footage of her in the lift running from something 😳 so scary

That footage is scary 😧

excelledyourself · 02/09/2023 23:31

I will not explain this well, but I read something recently about a female body being found, not sure when, possibly in Poland. I think she was thought to have been a spy?

Anyone know the case I mean? Blush

PurpleSneakers · 02/09/2023 23:31

Marion Barter

Trickytreacle · 02/09/2023 23:31

Poppy Worthington. How could her monster of
a father have never been prosecuted and now
living free under witness protection. How???

itsnotmeitsu · 02/09/2023 23:31

@samuelclemens > This young boy has preyed on my mind ever since I found out about him. I haven't heard about any arrests. Years ago I was in Whitby and somebody was wearing a t-shirt featuring his face and asking if you'd seen him, which was the first I knew of him. Much as I hate to think it, I think he probably met his fate at Kings Cross.

VanGoghsDog · 02/09/2023 23:32

Allthecatsandcosyblankets · 02/09/2023 18:32

The case of Elisa Lam who was found dead in a water tank on a ship always freaked me out as well, especially the footage of her in the lift running from something 😳 so scary

It wasn't found in a ship, it was a tank on the roof of her hotel.

wasvca · 02/09/2023 23:32

Simbaiamyourfather · 02/09/2023 22:24

Damien Nettles, none of it makes any sense. There was CCTV footage that was deleted, evidence lost, the same names came up over and over etc... On a very small island where everyone knows everyone how can a teenage boy just vanish after buying a portion of chips.

Came on to say the same. Local to me and still not resolved.

Also Madeline McCann, Suzy Lamplugh, JonBenet Ramsay, Claudia Lawrence which are high profile cases.

A recent one is Liam Graham in Medway, near my DSiS. He was seen walking away from a car crash late at night but not seen since (been 6+ weeks now).

Stressedafff · 02/09/2023 23:35

Andrew Gosden, my mind can’t comprehend how he went to London for apparently no reason, was saw on CCTV once and then disappeared without a trace.

jellytotsparkles · 02/09/2023 23:36

I was responding to the pp who I quoted mentioning suicide. I thought the authorities conclusion had been changed from undetermined to suicide, however now you’ve corrected that I can see that wasn’t the case & is still sadly a closed case with an undetermined verdict. Anyone who could believe the poor woman did that to herself (as some actually do) is clearly very misguided & it saddens me that it’ll probably never be solved.

jellytotsparkles · 02/09/2023 23:38

Sorry my last post was supposed to in reply to you however I forgot to tap the reply arrow . Daft I am!

Wintersgirl · 02/09/2023 23:39

*Cattle mutilations

It's been going on for a very long time and nobody has ever been seen nor caught*

Yes lots of this happening in the New Forest, witchcraft has been suspected...

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