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

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June and Jennifer Gibbons were the daughters of Caribbean immigrants Gloria and Aubrey Gibbons. Gloria was a housewife and Aubrey worked as a technician for the Air Force. Shortly after their birth in Barbados, their family moved to Haverfordwest, Wales. The twin sisters were inseparable and their particular high-speed patois made it difficult for people to understand them.

As the only black children in the community, they were ostracised at school.[1] This proved traumatic for the twins, eventually causing their school administrators to dismiss them early each day so that they might avoid bullying. Their language became even more idiosyncratic at this time. Soon it was unintelligible to others. Their language, or idioglossia, qualified as an example of cryptophasia, exemplified by the twins' simultaneous actions, which often mirrored each other. Eventually the twins spoke to no one except each other and their younger sister Rose.[2]


When the twins turned 14, a succession of therapists tried unsuccessfully to get them to communicate with others. They were sent to separate boarding schools in an attempt to break their isolation, but the pair became catatonic and entirely withdrawn when parted.[2]


Creative expression
When they were reunited, the two spent a couple of years isolating themselves in their bedroom, engaged in elaborate play with dolls. They created many plays and stories in a sort of soap opera style, reading some of them aloud on tape as gifts for their sister. Inspired by a pair of gift diaries at Christmas 1979, they began their writing careers. They sent away for a mail order course in creative writing, and each wrote several novels. Set primarily in the United States and particularly in Malibu, California, an excitingly exotic locale to romantic girls trapped in a sleepy Welsh town, the stories involve young men and women who exhibit strange and often criminal behaviour.[2]

In Jennifer's Pepsi-Cola Addict, the high-school hero was seduced by a teacher, then sent away to a reformatory where a homosexual guard makes a play for him. In Jennifer's The Pugilist, a physician is so eager to save his child's life that he kills the family dog to obtain its heart for a transplant. The dog's spirit lives on in the child and ultimately has its revenge against the father. Jennifer also wrote Discomania, the story of a young woman who discovers that the atmosphere of a local disco incites patrons to insane violence. She followed up with The Taxi-Driver's Son, a radio play called Postman and Postwoman, and several short stories. They wrote in a unique personal style, often with unwittingly amusing word choices.[2]

Crime and hospitalisation
Their novels were published by a self-publishing press called New Horizons, and they made many attempts to sell short stories to magazines, but were unsuccessful. A brief fling with some American boys, the sons of a US Navy serviceman, led nowhere. The girls committed a number of crimes including arson, which led to their being committed to Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security mental health hospital. There they remained for 14 years. Placed on high doses of antipsychotic medications, they found themselves unable to concentrate; Jennifer apparently developed tardive dyskinesia (a neurological disorder resulting in involuntary, repetitive movements). Their medications were apparently adjusted sufficiently to allow them to continue the copious diaries they had begun in 1980, and they were able to join the hospital choir, but they lost most of their interest in creative writing.[2]

The case achieved some notice due to newspaper coverage by The Sunday Times journalist Marjorie Wallace. The British tabloid The Sun gave a brief but accurate account of their story, headlined "Genius Twins Won't Speak" (an apparent reference to their having tested above average intelligence when being considered for Broadmoor Hospital).

Jennifer's death
According to Wallace, the girls had a longstanding agreement that if one died, the other must begin to speak and live a normal life. During their stay in the hospital, they began to believe that it was necessary for one twin to die, and after much discussion, Jennifer agreed to be the sacrifice.[3] In March 1993, the twins were transferred from Broadmoor to the more open Caswell Clinic in Bridgend, Wales; on arrival Jennifer could not be roused.[4] She was taken to the hospital where she died soon after of acute myocarditis, a sudden inflammation of the heart.[4] There was no evidence of drugs or poison in her system, and her death remains a mystery.[5][6] On a visit a few days later, Wallace recounted that June "was in a strange mood." She said, "I'm free at last, liberated, and at last Jennifer has given up her life for me."[4]

After Jennifer's death, June gave interviews with Harper's Bazaar and The Guardian.[7] By 2008, she was living quietly and independently, near her parents in west Wales.[6] She is no longer followed by psychiatry services; accepted by her community, she seeks to put the past behind her.[4]
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Surprised no one has posted about Asha Degree
What creeps me out is her being seen by 2 different people that night and running off into the woods when one of the people circled around
Asha's Story: A Summary of Circumstances
Asha's Disappearance; the Timeline

This is insane. I was reading about a ton of things like this a month or 2 ago. Another one that creeped me out was the where the boy's parents were involved in an accident and he disappeared from the scene and was never seen again.

"Missing Boy of Somosierra" - The Strangest Vanishing in Europe • /r/UnresolvedMysteries
 

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Didn't read the whole thread.....this may have been posted already


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June and Jennifer Gibbons were the daughters of Caribbean immigrants Gloria and Aubrey Gibbons. Gloria was a housewife and Aubrey worked as a technician for the Air Force. Shortly after their birth in Barbados, their family moved to Haverfordwest, Wales. The twin sisters were inseparable and their particular high-speed patois made it difficult for people to understand them.

As the only black children in the community, they were ostracised at school.[1] This proved traumatic for the twins, eventually causing their school administrators to dismiss them early each day so that they might avoid bullying. Their language became even more idiosyncratic at this time. Soon it was unintelligible to others. Their language, or idioglossia, qualified as an example of cryptophasia, exemplified by the twins' simultaneous actions, which often mirrored each other. Eventually the twins spoke to no one except each other and their younger sister Rose.[2]


When the twins turned 14, a succession of therapists tried unsuccessfully to get them to communicate with others. They were sent to separate boarding schools in an attempt to break their isolation, but the pair became catatonic and entirely withdrawn when parted.[2]


Creative expression
When they were reunited, the two spent a couple of years isolating themselves in their bedroom, engaged in elaborate play with dolls. They created many plays and stories in a sort of soap opera style, reading some of them aloud on tape as gifts for their sister. Inspired by a pair of gift diaries at Christmas 1979, they began their writing careers. They sent away for a mail order course in creative writing, and each wrote several novels. Set primarily in the United States and particularly in Malibu, California, an excitingly exotic locale to romantic girls trapped in a sleepy Welsh town, the stories involve young men and women who exhibit strange and often criminal behaviour.[2]

In Jennifer's Pepsi-Cola Addict, the high-school hero was seduced by a teacher, then sent away to a reformatory where a homosexual guard makes a play for him. In Jennifer's The Pugilist, a physician is so eager to save his child's life that he kills the family dog to obtain its heart for a transplant. The dog's spirit lives on in the child and ultimately has its revenge against the father. Jennifer also wrote Discomania, the story of a young woman who discovers that the atmosphere of a local disco incites patrons to insane violence. She followed up with The Taxi-Driver's Son, a radio play called Postman and Postwoman, and several short stories. They wrote in a unique personal style, often with unwittingly amusing word choices.[2]

Crime and hospitalisation
Their novels were published by a self-publishing press called New Horizons, and they made many attempts to sell short stories to magazines, but were unsuccessful. A brief fling with some American boys, the sons of a US Navy serviceman, led nowhere. The girls committed a number of crimes including arson, which led to their being committed to Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security mental health hospital. There they remained for 14 years. Placed on high doses of antipsychotic medications, they found themselves unable to concentrate; Jennifer apparently developed tardive dyskinesia (a neurological disorder resulting in involuntary, repetitive movements). Their medications were apparently adjusted sufficiently to allow them to continue the copious diaries they had begun in 1980, and they were able to join the hospital choir, but they lost most of their interest in creative writing.[2]

The case achieved some notice due to newspaper coverage by The Sunday Times journalist Marjorie Wallace. The British tabloid The Sun gave a brief but accurate account of their story, headlined "Genius Twins Won't Speak" (an apparent reference to their having tested above average intelligence when being considered for Broadmoor Hospital).

Jennifer's death
According to Wallace, the girls had a longstanding agreement that if one died, the other must begin to speak and live a normal life. During their stay in the hospital, they began to believe that it was necessary for one twin to die, and after much discussion, Jennifer agreed to be the sacrifice.[3] In March 1993, the twins were transferred from Broadmoor to the more open Caswell Clinic in Bridgend, Wales; on arrival Jennifer could not be roused.[4] She was taken to the hospital where she died soon after of acute myocarditis, a sudden inflammation of the heart.[4] There was no evidence of drugs or poison in her system, and her death remains a mystery.[5][6] On a visit a few days later, Wallace recounted that June "was in a strange mood." She said, "I'm free at last, liberated, and at last Jennifer has given up her life for me."[4]

After Jennifer's death, June gave interviews with Harper's Bazaar and The Guardian.[7] By 2008, she was living quietly and independently, near her parents in west Wales.[6] She is no longer followed by psychiatry services; accepted by her community, she seeks to put the past behind her.[4]
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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 :whoa: but that makes sense when you consider they were found weeks later.

The missing tongue is what makes me think it was something more sinister than an avalanche and what about the severe internal injuries with no exterior wounds

They did them nikkas dirty.

Dyatlov pass is bugged out


That's the most interesting one to me too, but I think the explanation is pretty normal.

The whole crew was in a tent when they heard an avalanche, or thought they heard an avalanche. They thought the tent was going to get swept away and bugged out - someone sliced the side open (probably one of those old-school multiple-zipper openings that was too complicated to mess with or got stuck in the emergency) and they just beat it from their tent as fast as they could.

That explains the condition of the tent, the clothing they were wearing, and the footprints leading from the tent.

Unfortunately, the avalanche didn't get the tent, but DID take out four of the crew, knocking them into the ravine where they died. The one girl was face-down in the stream at the bottom of the ravine - her soaked-up face got waterlogged and decomposed differently than the rest of the body.

That explains the injuries and the location of the four bodies with injuries. It also explains the missing parts of her face.

The other five avoided the avalanche, but now were hundreds of yards from the tent, in the dark, in a storm, in -20F weather, without proper clothing. You can't live long in that. Some of them tried to build a fire, but it wasn't enough or the storm put it out. The others tried to make it back to the tent, but died on the way.

That explains the five who died of hypothermia, the position of their bodies, the broken branches, and the one with burns on his hands.


I think that's easily the most likely explanation.

Possible explanation #2: Same as above, but no avalanche, they were just freaked out by something else and left the tent in a hurry. Could have been a strange noise, group hysteria, delusions due to hypothermia, anything. The four in the ravine fell in there while running from the tent and sustained injuries from the fall. Everything else explained the same way.

Possible explanation #3: Military test shyt. Bombs started going off, the group freaked out, some got hit by ordinance and died, others died in the cold. Soviet military covered up additional details that would have pointed to that explanation.


If you've ever seen people acting crazy due to hypothermia, and you've ever seen animal bodies partly decomposed in the water, then a lot of the weirdest details don't seem quite as weird any more.
 

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That's the most interesting one to me too, but I think the explanation is pretty normal.

The whole crew was in a tent when they heard an avalanche, or thought they heard an avalanche. They thought the tent was going to get swept away and bugged out - someone sliced the side open (probably one of those old-school multiple-zipper openings that was too complicated to mess with or got stuck in the emergency) and they just beat it from their tent as fast as they could.

That explains the condition of the tent, the clothing they were wearing, and the footprints leading from the tent.

Unfortunately, the avalanche didn't get the tent, but DID take out four of the crew, knocking them into the ravine where they died. The one girl was face-down in the stream at the bottom of the ravine - her soaked-up face got waterlogged and decomposed differently than the rest of the body.

That explains the injuries and the location of the four bodies with injuries. It also explains the missing parts of her face.

The other five avoided the avalanche, but now were hundreds of yards from the tent, in the dark, in a storm, in -20F weather, without proper clothing. You can't live long in that. Some of them tried to build a fire, but it wasn't enough or the storm put it out. The others tried to make it back to the tent, but died on the way.

That explains the five who died of hypothermia, the position of their bodies, the broken branches, and the one with burns on his hands.


I think that's easily the most likely explanation.

Possible explanation #2: Same as above, but no avalanche, they were just freaked out by something else and left the tent in a hurry. Could have been a strange noise, group hysteria, delusions due to hypothermia, anything. The four in the ravine fell in there while running from the tent and sustained injuries from the fall. Everything else explained the same way.

Possible explanation #3: Military test shyt. Bombs started going off, the group freaked out, some got hit by ordinance and died, others died in the cold. Soviet military covered up additional details that would have pointed to that explanation.


If you've ever seen people acting crazy due to hypothermia, and you've ever seen animal bodies partly decomposed in the water, then a lot of the weirdest details don't seem quite as weird any more.

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

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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

I've never camped/hiked when it was that cold. But if I understand mountain climbers correctly, you bring sleeping gear that will keep you completely warm without your regular gear...you don't play it so close that you need your regular gear to be warm. Plus, your regular gear has snow all over it, and you don't want that shyt soaking into your sleeping bag. Plus, for the health of your feet, you definitely want to get them out of gear when you can. So no, I don't think they would sleep in gear.

An alternative explanation is that even if they slept in gear, people with advanced hypothermia usually start thinking that they're warm and start ripping all their gear off. It's something you have to watch seriously when you're taking care of a hypothermic, because they'll make you think they're okay when they're definitely not okay.



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

Are you reading the same incident? There were no "neighboring camps" close enough to have experienced an avalanche. No one was within miles of the hikers who died, which is why their bodies and camp weren't found until a special effort was made weeks after the incident.

The camp wasn't found until almost a month after the hikers died. The 4 hikers who I think were killed by the avalanche weren't found until 3 months after they died, and they were found buried under 15 feet of snow. It's true that there was no evidence that an avalanche hit the tent, but I don't think an avalanche hit the tent, just those 4 hikers, the ones covered by 15 feet of snow.

In the 1950s, was the mountain technology good enough that they could conclusively detect whether or not an avalanche had occurred months earlier? I doubt it. Alpine climbing was in its complete infancy at that point, and technology was nothing compared to today. The idea that a freak avalanche had occurred which killed 4 of the hikers, but which wasn't obvious anymore 3 months later, doesn't seem unlikely to me at all.
 
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