Unsolved Mysteries... what are the creepiest unsolved cases you've heard of

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

The Charley Project

Site with thousands of missing people listed. Gives info for most of the individuals and the backstory too

I just be browsing thru this.

 

[N*E*R*D]

Such a cool thread...nothing really to add case wise just wanted to bump it.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

The Charley Project

Site with thousands of missing people listed. Gives info for most of the individuals and the backstory too

I just be browsing thru this.

Outside of places like Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona etc. it’s amazing how people just disappear in 2020

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Outside of places like Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona etc. it’s amazing how people just disappear in 2020

Right.

 

[Child_Of_God]

Outside of places like Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona etc. it’s amazing how people just disappear in 2020

A lot of those people are unfortunately being trafficked or they have been killed.

The world is a very evil place.

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

Another fukked up thing about kidnappings/abductions is that if it happened a some time ago the suspect may be dead their damn self.

Ending up with no updates unless they told someone who wants to clear their conscience.

 

[Solomon Caine]

Casefile Presents on Youtube is a good channel.


https://www.youtube.com/c/CasefileTrueCrimePodcast/videos

I've been listening to this Podcast since it came out, stopped in the last year. All his cases are feminine as fukk. I guess its tailored towards a female audience.

But I've been wondering how do people cope with his accent and the way he speaks. Now I live in Australia and am used to hearing the accent, but this guy takes it to a whole new level. Its kinda annoying. With that being said, there have been some gem episodes, like the Silk Road one. His accent is just

 

[Skooby]

I've been listening to this Podcast since it came out, stopped in the last year. All his cases are feminine as fukk. I guess its tailored towards a female audience.

But I've been wondering how do people cope with his accent and the way he speaks. Now I live in Australia and am used to hearing the accent, but this guy takes it to a whole new level. Its kinda annoying. With that being said, there have been some gem episodes, like the Silk Road one. His accent is just

Where in Australia do you live?

 

[Solomon Caine]

If we're in Australia do you live?

Melbourne fam. You from AUS?

 

[cobra]

Outside of places like Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona etc. it’s amazing how people just disappear in 2020

most murders, even in developed countries go unsolved
there is only a certain level effort the state will put into your case, unless you are a politician or celebrity

 

[Paper Boi]

i posted this in the spooky shyt thread earlier this week:

Bizarre case of 'Unknown Person' keeps its secrets as immigration board blocks public's access

The man, designated as 'the Unknown Person' by the courts, has been behind bars in Canada for more than six years because he refuses to reveal his true identity

A Toronto police detective during a 2013 news conference regarding Herman Fankem, on screen, after he was arrested in a large fraud case. After years of investigation, Fankem’s identity is still in question.

“I believe that the presence and involvement of the media at this stage in the process would prejudice the detained person’s interests, given that he may disclose information that would be harmful to his own case and interests,” wrote the representative, Julie Lassonde.

Lassonde and Sekhar said Fankem has only recently begun to trust them and again participate in the process.

McCabe denied the Post’s request.

“It seems logical to me that the presence of the media may cause him to return to his previous practice of refusing all contact. Some accommodation to address this potential concern is reasonable,” he wrote in his decision.

He said the length of time Fankem has been detained and may continue to be detained was a factor.

“While it is clear that the length of his detention is largely due to his lack of co-operation, his liberty rights have nevertheless been affected for over almost six years,” McCabe wrote.

According to the Law Society of Ontario records, Sekhar was representing Fankem while suspended administratively from practising law.

Sekhar said her suspension has been rectified but the law society did not confirm that.

“Our records indicate that Ms. Sekhar was suspended for administrative reasons, effective since April 9, 2019. A lawyer who is suspended for administrative reasons, such as failing to pay fees or file forms on time, is not permitted to practise law and/or provide legal services,” said Gelek Badheytsang, a spokesman for the law society on Monday.

The presence of the media may cause him to return to his previous practice of refusing all contact


When asked about the suspension, Sekhar told the Post it was because she did not file an annual report on time.

“And it has been filed now,” she said. She declined to say when it was filed or to provide other information on the situation.

“I don’t have any reason to tell you any of that information so that’s the end of this conversation,” she said.

Earlier in the interview, she said she thought the IRB made the right decision to make Fankem’s case private. She declined to discuss Fankem or his mental state.

“I don’t have consent of my client to talk about any of this and so I really can’t talk to anyone until I have that. If that changes, I’m happy to talk to the media if that’s what he wants.”

The IRB was not aware of Sekhar’s suspension and is reviewing the situation to determine if there is any impact, said Anna Pape, an IRB spokeswoman.

“Now that it has been brought to our attention, we are working to ensure that further representation before the Division is in accordance with section 91 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,” Pape said.

The man known as Fankem was arrested in Toronto in 2013 after a fraud that swindled a man out of $450,000, police said at the time.

All charges were dropped to allow for his quick deportation. His removal was halted, however, when his bogus identity was revealed.

He has been in prison since, while Canada Border Services Agency tries to identify him. The CBSA, which is a party in Fankem’s case at the IRB, did not support the request to make the case private.

Fankem has been belligerent and unco-operative and refused to attend 51 monthly detention review hearings.

Police in other countries have told CBSA his fingerprints match two different citizens of Cameroon, a citizen of Haiti, and a man of unknown citizenship.




after days of thinking about it, i just think wherever his family is, they only kept alive as long as he don't say shyt, that's the only thing i can come up with.

because if it's something like he'd be treated worse in prison in his own country or something, then i'd think that someone would have outed his identity by now to get him back and torture him themselves.

 

[Skooby]

Melbourne fam. You from AUS?

I meant to say Where in...

But nah. Just curious. Always wanted to visit.

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Can add tonights results to this

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Been fascinated by that Dyatlov Pass thing for years, real shady/creepy. Wonder what actually happened.

I'm fairly sure it was a avalanche. I mean don't get me wrong the girl who was missing her tongue is but that makes sense when you consider they were found weeks later.

Dyatlov pass is bugged out

when your hiking in that type of area you actually get down to your pajamas? i would sleep with my gear on just in case theres a emergency because if your out there without your gear your dead

just my 2 cents

Bingo. first explanation is it.

There were no reports or signs of an avalanche.... Neighboring camps didn't report one either..

This is getting good

A Russian-born Swiss researcher has been tackling this and may have figured out the main details with more specificity than ever before. I'll try to quote the most important sections:

Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?

The shallow slope argument against an avalanche was tackled early on: It turned out not to be all that shallow after all. The undulating topography on Kholat Saykhl, covered by snowfall, made the slope appear mild, but it was actually closer to 30 degrees, the rule-of-thumb minimum requirement for many avalanches. Reports dating back to the site’s initial investigation also describe an underlying snow layer on the mountain that didn’t clump together, providing a weak, slippery base that a lot of overlying snow could easily slide over.

“The local topography played a trick on them,” says Puzrin.

Then there was the question of the snow mass: The cut the team made in the snow to pitch their tent destabilized the slope, but additional snow had to have collected before any avalanche could happen. While weather reports record no snow that fateful night, the Dyatalov group’s diary entries note there were very strong winds. These were likely to be katabatic winds—heavy clumps of frigid air that brought large amounts of snow from higher up down toward the campsite, increasing the load on an already precarious slope and explaining the nine-hour delay between the snow cut and the avalanche.

The researchers’ computer simulations show the avalanche on Kholat Saykhl wouldn’t have been huge, perhaps involving a block of icy matter a mere 16 feet long—about the size of an SUV. The small size explains why no evidence for an avalanche was found during the initial investigation; it would have infilled the cut-out campsite before being quickly buried by fresh snowfall. But how could such a small collapse have caused such traumatic injuries?

“We discovered that, in the 70s, General Motors (GM) took 100 cadavers and broke their ribs,” says Puzrin, “hitting them with different weights at different velocities” to see what would happen during a car crash.

Some of the cadavers used in the GM tests were braced with rigid supports while others weren’t, a variable which ended up being serendipitous for Puzrin and Gaume. Back on the slopes of Kholat Saykhl, the team members had placed their bedding atop their skis. This meant that the avalanche, which hit them as they slept, struck an unusually rigid target—and that the GM cadaver experiments from the 1970s could be used to calibrate their impact models with remarkable precision.

The researchers’ computer models demonstrated that a 16-foot-long block of hefty snow could, in this unique situation, handily break the ribs and skulls of people sleeping on a rigid bed. These injuries would have been severe, but not fatal—at least not immediately—says Puzrin.

Jordy Hendrikx, the director of the Snow and Avalanche Lab at Montana State University, who was not involved in the current research, has long suspected an avalanche would be the most plausible villain for the Dyatlov Pass incident, but it wasn’t obvious that Kholat Saykhl was avalanche terrain. He says the team’s simulations have now recreated the deadly night with a newfound fidelity.

“[T]he way they’ve shown that empirically in their equations seems perfectly robust,” Hendrikx says. “It’s exciting how new science developments in the avalanche world can shed new light on these historic puzzles.”

It’s a bit surprising that such a small avalanche could cause such violent injuries, says Jim McElwaine, a geohazards expert at Durham University in England who was not involved with the study. He suspects that the block of snow would have needed to be incredibly stiff and moving at some speed to accomplish this.

Freddie Wilkinson, a professional mountain climber and guide not involved with the work, says that it’s entirely reasonable that such innocuous-sounding slabs could cause acute bodily harm. “ome slabs can be quite hard, and it’s very plausible they can result in blunt trauma wounds,” he says.

“I’m absolutely convinced that the tragedy was the result of wind and snow deposition, and the fact that they pitched camp in the lee of a ridge,” Wilkinson adds. “I’ve made this mistake in my mountaineering career more than once.” During an expedition to Antarctica in 2012, tents belonging to Wilkinson’s team were pitched inside a circle of wind-deflecting snow walls they made. Returning to camp after three days, his team found that two tents tucked in the wind-shielded wall were completely buried.

The avalanche that appears to have occurred on February 1, 1959, on Kholat Saykhl was an incredibly rare type of event. But rare events do occur, and this one could have come to pass only at that exact spot, at that exact moment, during that one very wintery night.

The perfect storm

What happened after the avalanche is speculation, but the current thinking is that the team cut themselves out of the smothered tent, fleeing in a panic toward temporary shelter in the treeline a mile or so downslope. Three of them were severely injured, but everyone was found outside of the tent, so it’s likely the more able-bodied survivors dragged the injured out of their smothered shelter in an attempt to rescue them. “This is a story of courage and friendship,” says Puzrin.

Most of the nine who perished on Kholat Saykhl died of hypothermia, while others may have succumbed to their injuries. The state of undress some were found in remains puzzling (paradoxical undressing may be an explanation), as do reports that note some of the bodies had traces of radioactivity (which may be a result of thorium present in camping lanterns). The missing eyes and tongue of some victims may have simply been a result of scavenging animals pecking at the dead, but that too remains an open question.

This new study doesn’t try to explain everything that happened back in 1959, and the Dyatlov Pass case will likely never be fully closed, says Gaume. This study simply offers a reasonable account of the events that ultimately triggered the deaths on Kholat Saykhl.

That matters, not least because the enigmatic tragedy remains heartbreaking for the living relatives of the victims. Some in Russia have voiced the opinion that these hikers had taken stupid or unnecessary risks that ultimately killed them. “This kind of tarnishes their legacy,” says Puzrin, whose study shows that this freak avalanche would have surprised mountaineering experts with a lifetime of experience. The Dyatlov team members, Puzrin says, were very competent people who would never have foreseen the danger of clearing a space for their tent on what looked like a gentle slope.

Gaume nevertheless fears the explanation they presented today is too straightforward for much of the public to accept. “People don’t want it to be an avalanche,” he says. “It’s too normal.” That unyielding skepticism, along with the haunting nature of the Dyatlov Pass incident, will keep conspiracy theories alive well into the future.

“To me, this story is uniquely powerful, profound, poignant, because this was a group of young people going off into the wilderness and they never came back,” says Wilkinson.

“People love to invent implausible scenarios about death in the wilderness, because we will never know 100 percent what happened.”

 

[Ol’Otis]

A Russian-born Swiss researcher has been tackling this and may have figured out the main details with more specificity than ever before. I'll try to quote the most important sections:

Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?

So it was an avalanche?