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?

I'm from MK too - wtf, the Coachway? What a weird place to drop him?

This one, hands down.

There was a BBC Scotland documentary about this recently, was interesting. She did seem to make up stories to her friends & family back home, about dating a famous rugby player for example who it was then shown had been in NZ for years before. Very mysterious, worth a watch.

His dad was a convicted paedophile but wasn’t under suspicion of being involved in his disappearance. It’s still an open unsolved case, the local police were appealing for witnesses earlier in the year around the 20th anniversary, 3rd May. The same day Madeleine McCann disappeared four years later, it makes me sad that not many people have even heard of this little boys name.

Hi all! I reached out to HQ, and was advised that if enough people wanted this to become a topic on the site, to post so on The Site Stuff thread so it goes for review. I’ve created a thread for the creation of this new topic, so if you’re interested, pop on and say so!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/4887097-new-topic-idea-unsolved-mysteries

Yes that’s it, his bike was found leaning up against the river wall. It was 20 years ago this year.

That’s such an interesting insight into a major cultural difference between the UK/Europe and the USA.

Kris Kremers and Lisa Froon.

One thing that always puzzled me about this case is that neither girl wrote or sent a text to anyone. Sometimes my phone will not dial out but will send a text. In their situation it was worth a try.
Probably means nothing but it seems odd.

Ben Needham’s remains , and a shoe if I recall correctly, were found 30+ years after he went missing. A digger driver had knocked him over and killed him ( accidentally) The man buried Ben on the site he was preparing for house building and told someone ( friend is relative) on his deathbed nearly 30 years later. The friend waited quite awhile before going to the police.
His poor parents spent most of their lives searching for answers when they could have known on the day he wandered into the lane outside his gran’s house.

Oh my goodness this is absolutely horrific. I don't know how this crime escaped me. Have just gone down a rabbit hole and David Morris unfortunately died in prison fairly recently. Looks like he had nothing to do with it!

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54590367

@Andthereyougo no trace of Ben Needham has ever been found. What you are describing is an unsubstantiated theory.

The Joshua Maddux case is bewildering.

Jerome Thomas went missing aged 15 on New Years Day 2001. He went for a walk and never came back. A weird detail is that the clothes he’d last been seen by his mum were found in the wash basket the next day. The case featured on Lorraine Kelly’s missing kids programme. The only place the clothes are mentioned is on the programme, it’s not in any other reports.

There were sightings of him hitchhiking and one in Portugal. It’s also been said he tried to contact his aunt in Crawley.

Kevin Hicks is another one. Went missing after going to the shop to buy eggs for a school cookery lesson. It wasn’t far from where Lee Boxell went missing. I believe there’s been evidence of grooming as he had a set of expensive stereo speakers that his parents hadn’t bought.

That was a tragedy but where's the mystery? The poor woman left the trail, got lost and died of starvation. She even left a diary explaining what had happened.

And the people who believe this are apparently adults and eligible to vote, now that is scary!

Marion Barter.
among others.

The Guards messed up on some of these cases.

For example, it was never proved that Annie McCarrick went on a bus to go hiking in the Wicklow Mountains. A witness said they thought they saw her and this moved the direction of the investigation in a particular direction. There was talk of Johnnie Foxes pub, etc.

But she had been in a difficult relationship - she had contacted friends in America to say she was unhappy and that he had been abusive towards her... These friends contacted the Guards after she went missing but their statements were never considered important.

She had been grocery shopping that morning - the shopping wasn't put away. It was a wet, drizzly day - not ideal for hiking? There are things about the case that are odd.

According to reports a small piece of a sandal and the toy digger he was playing with were found on a subsequent search of the site behind the house where he vanished from. U.K. police investigating believe he was killed and buried there as the informer despite not finding remains. Obviously unproven. But seems most likely

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
This is the first thing l thought of, when l saw this thread. That's beyond weird.

I live in the town where Marion was last seen/heard from so periodically her daughter posts in local Fb groups and its heartwrenching.

She had bipolar disorder and had stopped taking her medication. She was having an episode, hence the erratic behaviour seen in the lift and which, sadly, led to her getting into the tank.

This has been mentioned several times in this thread but I am always baffled when Elisa Lam is brought up in threads like these. It’s clear to me when watching the alleged ‘creepy’ video of her in the elevator that she is manic. Which makes sense considering she had stopped taking her meds.

Isn’t the most logical explanation that she simply had a mental health episode and jumped in the tank herself?

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/sutton-ashfield-human-remains-not-8466868?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
This is a horrible case which began with the murder of Marian Bates who was shot while at work in the family jewellery shop, It involved a fair few of the criminals in Nottingham and triggered more violence . Somebody must know the fate and the whereabouts of James Brodie, the rumour was that after he was killed he was fed to pigs.

To OP! Yes I would absolutely like to see this become a topic. I’ve reposted my quote from my original post back on page 14 suggesting it.

That is my understanding of what happened to her, I've worked in mental health for years and have seen a fair few people in states of utter terror brought about by being extremely unwell.