What’s the scariest unsolved mystery you know?

[Mimmy352]

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

Oh goodness, that’s terrible for you and your DCs. Sometimes the not knowing is worse than anything. A family friend went through something similar, but the person missing popped up after about 12 years. Unfortunately the person had passed (naturally) but finally knowing where she had gone, and that she had chosen to leave, was some comfort.

I hope you and your DC find answers someday, and I do hope they’re positive answers if possible

I'm not familiar with the case at all so I have no idea - I was responding to the suggestion that if he was hit by farm machinery his body would end up in meat products. It would be crop harvesting machines not meat grinding machines. I can't think of any kind of meat processing that would involve a) deliberately reducing carcasses to nothing b) would be done by moving around fields.

Thank you for this info! I was always skeptical about it, but it just seemed so odd and creepy. As a child (not now) I always had images of someone just going about their lives and then just horribly burning. At least the people this phenomenon happens to are already deceased and unaware.

That’s absolutely heartbreaking. His father passed never knowing, and his mother cannot do anything more than she already has. To think, they probably thought he was set up for a better life away from their hometown. Just awful.

I’ve not seen the docs but I’ve heard some of the stories covered by MrBallen on YouTube.

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This one always affected me. I stumbled upon the photo of him online when I was quite young. The website had no warnings or safety precautions in place for hiding such an awful image. It broke my heart to see how badly that poor little baby had been treated.

When they finally identified him, I cried for him. I went around for weeks just thinking of little Joseph, and talking about the case. I’m not sure why I kept talking about it, but it was like I wanted people to know who he was. He had been so casually discarded in his life that I guess I wanted to tell people he was important?? I don’t know.

I really hope the angel meadows case is solved I used to walk past where she was found on my way to work. She was found with carpet from a ford cortina I know one elderly man thought she was a barmaid he met in a Manchester pub. He said she had bruises and that she had no family in the country if it was the same lady.

Missing 411 is fascinating as is the follow up documentary, ‘Missing 411 - The Hunted’.

The Jamison Family Deaths is another mysterious case from the US. The Jamison family was Bobby Dale, his wife Sherilynn, and their daughter Madyson. The Jamisons were planning to look at a 40-acre plot of land in Oklahoma that they were considering purchasing to build a new home and start a new life.

The family's truck was found abandoned, with the family's dog inside almost starved to death, along with their phones, IDs, and a large amount of cash. The family was nowhere to be found and a massive search was deployed to find the family.

In November 2013, a group of hunters stumbled upon the skeletal remains of the Jamison family. The remains were near where the truck had been found. The bodies were severely decomposed and the cause of death was impossible to determine. Investigators did find a hole in Bobby Dale's skull, which could have been caused by a bullet.

There have been many theories but the deaths still remain a mystery.

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

The toddler who stayed in the street two down from ours, Sandy Davidson - just 3 years old when he disappeared from his garden in the 1970s and has never been found.

I was around 8 when it happened, we had not long moved into the new build council estate and still remember the searches and parents talking about it, our dad used to go out with our dog along the river/fields. I don't think there were ever any leads to where he might have gone, just theories.

All of them have been mentioned so far but all of the children ones play on my mind a lot. Some of them could perhaps been avoided but a lot of them were really awful.

The Sodder children...2 not accounted for. The ladder missing, the water button empty, the car engines not working (I think that's right) It seems as dodgy as anything and why were no remains found? Didn't the police try and pass off a cow heart as a human? If so, why? A cover up, laziness?

The Beaumont children. One child going missing is understandable, 3 all together not so much. Did they all go somewhere together willingly? If so, why did none of them think it wasn't a good idea? I kind of stick to the safety in numbers and think if my 2 are together they fare better than a single child. One of them would surely raise the alarm if something didn't seem right.

In terms of Madeline Mccan? Was this the first night the kids were unattended? How did someone know the doors were unlocked? Luck? Scoping the place out?

Andrew Godsen I feel got an offer to meet someone in London and from there either met a grisly end or changed identity.

Asha Degree I feel like was meeting someone or running away from an awful home life. I can't imagine many content kids choosing to leave the house in the middle of the night (in a storm?) for no reason.

Nothing Donaghue was definitely some kind of cover up. Wasn't he found naked in a storm drain? How did he get there? Why was he naked? Suicide? I just don't think many young teenagers commit suicide.

There was a case like this in Dubai where the door was locked from the inside. The murder/assasination was carried out by Israeli security. Once the Emiratis had solved the crime they explained how they Israelis had managed to lock the bedroom door on the inside, whilst they were on the outside.

I am so sorry about your father. What a horrible thing to happen, for both of you. I hope you find some closure, whatever that might look like 💐

I always put money in a hidey hole in the garden wall so my children could always get a taxi home at the end of an evening. Just in case.

At 15, it would have been my thought too. Ah the innocence of youth.

I hope wherever she is, she’s happy and healthy. I hope that it was her posting on those threads, as it would be a sign of life at least. Very interesting case, I’d never heard of it before

An ancestor of mine was murdered. I found a report of the inquest in newspaper records, but I don't know whether they ever found out whodunnit.

One case that has always disturbed me is the disappearance and death of 24 year old Mitrice Richardson. She disappeared in 2009 after being arrested for being unable to pay a restaurant bill and despite her obvious mental health issues and the fact that her mother begged the police not to release her because her mental health issues made her vulnerable, they released her just after midnight, though she had no belongings and no means of calling for assistance. She was never seen alive again and almost a year later her remains were found, naked and mummified in a creek bed in Malibu Canyon, adjacent to an estate where pornography was produced. A most baffling and disturbing case.

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

We have a mystery in our family that will never be solved officially, but we think we know what happened.

When my Grandad went to register the death of a relative in their 80s we were told that was impossible as that person had died when they were 5.

The fact that the fire department took hours to arrive, the detective on the case disappeared and an insurance salesman was heard shouting (to paraphrase) “Your house will go up in smoke and your children will die” makes me think the salesman did it, and had friends in high places. Or someone else, probably an authority figure, did it knowing the finger would be pointed at the salesman and they could fob it off

Oh wow. There’s so many things this could be. Poor organization, mistaken identity, identity theft. It was quite common for people to take the names of dead people and assume their identity when fleeing their own lives. Back then, moving to a new town and introducing yourself as someone else wasn’t exactly investigated. Identity and background checks weren’t really a thing

Oh things like that happen in my house too! I just think the Bermuda Triangle has nothing on my floors 😂😂😂

There is an interesting book I’m reading at the moment called The Real Life Murder Clubs which is about ordinary people helping to solve true crimes. Often it’s the ordinary people, not the police , who join the dots & find the answers.

Documentary on the disappearance of Ruth Wilson for anyone interested:

We’re about 90% sure she was the illegitimate child of a relative of the couple who brought her up.

There were two babies born within a few days and both had the same first name (called after another relative). We have a feeling the couple looked after both babies (they unofficially adopted three other illegitimate babies in the family as well) and then when their child died they used that identify to save the child any stigma.

The illegitimate baby’s young mother emigrated to the USA a few months after her baby was born and snippets she told her descendants are why we think it wasn’t her child that died.

That’s Noah Donahue , his family & friends are battling for justice and you can help by supporting them in here & Facebook.