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?

Completely speculative, but a while ago there was a thread here of people who had ‘left’ their lives and one poster had me convinced it was Ruth Wilson. I would never have the balls to directly ask because she was very clear that she would never ever reveal her identity to anyone in real life, let alone on mn. But I read all her replies carefully …

@UneFoisAuChalet can you link the thread?

They have the killers dna but afaik no match….you’d have thought they’d have run it through Ancestry by now? Maybe they have and no close matches?

The other one that sticks with me (and has recently been a conviction) was the disapearance (and murder) of Margaret Fleming. She was a vulnerable teenager, who ended up orphaned and living with friends of her family who became her carers. There was rumour and supposition that she was being abused and mistreated but this was never substantiated. Then she just vanished and was not seen for many years. Her carers made excuses, stated she'd run away, continued to collect her benefits. No-one checked into this. For nearly 20 years this young woman was missing and no-one looked into it. Eventually - only through changes in the benefit system that caused her carers to reapply for her benefits - SS came looking for her to confirm her disability status and raised concerns with the police. Her carers were charged with her murder, but no body was ever found, no-one knows exactly when she died, or how. Many mysteries surround this tragic case.

I just Googled after I posted to see if there were updates and have just read about that! Amazing, I do hope it's him, it sounds promising anyway. Now they need to figure out how and why he died, incredible to think it may be solved after so many years.

Human combustion doesn't seem to happen anymore. It seems to have declined at the same time as smoking rates. Less people smoke so less have a stroke / heart attack holding a fag.

That case has been solved - here it is https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/27/somerton-man-mystery-identity-solved-identified-australia

Suzy Lamplugh. I remember it on the news at the time and still think about her even now.

And Lee Boxell. 15 year old lad disappeared in London, possibly on his way to a football match, in the 80s.

More interesting than scary -

Who put Bella down the Wych Elm?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhoputtBelladownntheWychh_Elm%3F

@TotalOverhaul It's such a strange and sad case isn't it.

I read that some people think he was expecting to get a lift home with someone because he hadn't really taken any possessions with him which I guess is unusual for a runaway. If he was being bullied though it's definitely a motive for why he might have wanted to leave :(

I was going to say Ruth Wilson but I see someone has beaten me to it. That case haunts me - it’s one of the very rare missing person cases where it feels plausible that she is still alive somewhere.

Stephen Clarke, a disabled man in his 20s who disappeared from a public lavatory on the seafront in Saltburn, on the North Yorkshire coast. No way could even Houdini himself have escaped from a loo like that. Also he couldn't get all far so no way could be have just run away in broad daylight without being noticed. The mothers story about him disappearing while she waited for him outside the loo just doesn't add up.

I think I remember that post. She seemed completely genuine and alluded to having had a different life to that which was portrayed by those reporting her missing. And so odd that the family don't seem to do much to find her.

Elisa Lam isn’t really a mystery. She had a mental health crisis and died in an accidental drowning after climbing into a water tank. It is horribly sad, the circumstances of her body being found is gruesome, and the footage is chilling (but fairly clear that it’s a mental health crisis). There’s a (bit of a sensationalist) documentary on Netflix. I couldn’t sleep after I watched it!

Missy Beavers is terrifying, what the fuck happened there?

I hope Andrew Gosden and Claudia Lawrence’s families get peace and closure. I thought it was terribly sad when her father died without knowing what happened to Claudia. Someone must know something.

Yes, this bastard. Someone must know and be keeping quiet.

Totally scared myself by imagining now - what if one of the murderers posts on this thread anonymously.....

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.

As a PP said Maura Murray, 21 year old woman who went missing within minutes on a cold New Hampshire night in 2004. Many theories but so perplexing.

Bryce Laspisa, very strange circumstances & odd behaviour on the last day he was seen alive. Is still missing now but if you look into the case it’s just extraordinary and chilling as to how he just disappeared into thin air the same as Maura seems to.

Brian Shaffer, seemingly never left the nightclub he attended one night with friends. Every person was accounted for on CCTV upon leaving the building except him, another one with many theories and still missing to this day.

The most chilling has to be the Dyatlov Pass Incident in 1959. A group of 9 hikers found dead in really odd circumstances.

There are many more but these are the ones which haunt me at night & make me question things. I’d love for all to be solved alongside every other case but sadly it doesn’t seem likely.

But what was Elisa so scared off on that landing as she was about to get into the elevator? She was looking at something - or someone, and was clearly desperate to get away. That mystery was never solved...

And it was assumed she climbed into the water tank, (and drowned by accident,) as no other explanation was given or proven. I say 'assumed' as we will never know if she was killed by someone else, or if she took her own life, or if she died by accident. Hence, it's still a mystery.........

Didn't they find him recently, he was killed by accident by a construction worker and the worker panicked and buried him?

Mine are 2,relatives.

My mother had to first female cousins aged 17/18 who went to England from Ireland for work, established jobs. They both had lovely families but were never heard of again, This didn’t happen in their families as there was a network of people in area keeping an eye on the youngsters. I always wondered were they murdered?

Cruise ship missing persons fascinate me. This is a rabbit hole I have fell down before and was utterly shocked at the amount of incidents on cruise ships. There is no centralised database of missing persons and due the lack of jurisdiction on ships and the smoke and mirrors around flags of convenience - it is impossible to say how many people exactly go missing from cruises. But it is thought to be at least 1 per month.

I watched a program featuring this case a few months ago having not heard of it before. Really makes no sense, he can't have just vanished into thin air or come out and left without the mother seeing him if she really was standing outside as she said. Very strange. And likely another case that will never be solved sadly. Although like so many of these stories - there will likely be someone somewhere that knows something.

No 😔 I don’t even think I commented on it. This thread has made me want to find it though. I always believed Ruth wanted to give two fingers to her step mother and father and reading their subsequent interviews reinforced that belief. I like the idea that Ruth went off to live her life happily and would never give them the satisfaction of reappearing.

I’ve followed many missing people cases and she’s the only one that I believe may be alive, as in there was no foul play. Lemme try to find that thread, if it hasn’t been deleted…

@WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps I think Elisa was having a psychotic break. What she was scared of may have felt entirely real to her while not actually existing.