Creepy Unsolved Mysteries - From unsolved murders to unidentified people to unexplained supernatural events, what are some of the creepiest unsolved mysteries you've ever heard of?

[Botchy Galoop]

Searches of the property and surrounding area have continued over the last nine years. Nothing has ever been found.

Poke Salad Annie, Gator got your Granny.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

20/20 covered the Jacob Wetterling case. I completely forgot about him but it doesn't help i was mixing him up with Johnny Gosch. Hearing about his final hours was heartbreaking.

Spoiler: details

Guy in his 20s is known to abduct and molest boys. He picks Jacob out of a trio riding bikes. He handcuffs him and puts him in truck. Jacob is asking "what did I do wrong?" He asks to go home. Creep says he isn't going home. They stop near a gravel pit where he makes him strip naked and perform a sex act on the creep. Jacob says he's cold. Starts crying for his mom. Creep makes him get dressed then claims he heard sirens go by. Creep tells him to turn around before shooting him. He shoots him twice. Buries him. Moves his body later on.

I broke. The people interviewed broke. The people watching it in the bar all broke. I can't really explain it but there is pure evil in this world. Normally I do not let these cases get to me emotionally but this was just horrifying.

Is it bad I'd rather live in delusional land like Noreen Gosch at times?

 

[Palmfish]

i can't recall her name but this thread makes me think about this semi-known missing case. (i'm probably misremembering the details since googling about it just brings up facebook posts of parents with missing kids and not this specific kid herself...) i believe she was 11 or 12? little black girl. just up and walked out of her house one morning around 6 am without the family noticing and all she took was a backpack, and the only witness was plausibly this one truck driver who said he saw a similar little black girl walking along the highway but she bolted upon being noticed.
nobody ever found anything about online chatrooms / external people talking to her / someone outside the home convincing her to exit (she shared a bedroom with her brother who was half-awake at the time and said he heard her trying to sneak and be quiet.)

were there ever any developments in this case?? i know the family does an annual walk about her

 

[Cherry Milk]

i can't recall her name but this thread makes me think about this semi-known missing case. (i'm probably misremembering the details since googling about it just brings up facebook posts of parents with missing kids and not this specific kid herself...) i believe she was 11 or 12? little black girl. just up and walked out of her house one morning around 6 am without the family noticing and all she took was a backpack, and the only witness was plausibly this one truck driver who said he saw a similar little black girl walking along the highway but she bolted upon being noticed.
nobody ever found anything about online chatrooms / external people talking to her / someone outside the home convincing her to exit (she shared a bedroom with her brother who was half-awake at the time and said he heard her trying to sneak and be quiet.)

were there ever any developments in this case?? i know the family does an annual walk about her

That's the Asha Degrees case.

I'm not sure if there's been much in the way of updates, but I might be wrong.

 

[The Hardest R]

Poke Salad Annie, Gator got your Granny.

My thought as well. Gators can move very quickly too and if there is a gator in the area that already ate one of her dogs, I’m not surprised that this is likely what happened to her as well.

 

[TokiBun]

20/20 covered the Jacob Wetterling case. I completely forgot about him but it doesn't help i was mixing him up with Johnny Gosch. Hearing about his final hours was heartbreaking.

Spoiler: details

Guy in his 20s is known to abduct and molest boys. He picks Jacob out of a trio riding bikes. He handcuffs him and puts him in truck. Jacob is asking "what did I do wrong?" He asks to go home. Creep says he isn't going home. They stop near a gravel pit where he makes him strip naked and perform a sex act on the creep. Jacob says he's cold. Starts crying for his mom. Creep makes him get dressed then claims he heard sirens go by. Creep tells him to turn around before shooting him. He shoots him twice. Buries him. Moves his body later on.

I broke. The people interviewed broke. The people watching it in the bar all broke. I can't really explain it but there is pure evil in this world. Normally I do not let these cases get to me emotionally but this was just horrifying.

Is it bad I'd rather live in delusional land like Noreen Gosch at times?

Listening to the podcast In the Dark about this case--everyone should. It's season 1 of this podcast and it's disgusting how lazy law enforcement was in Jacob's case. It shouldn't have taken that long to find his body and arrest his killer.

 

[AbominableTcho-Tcho]

That's the Asha Degrees case.

I'm not sure if there's been much in the way of updates, but I might be wrong.

There were search warrants executed in February 2025, but no arrests came of it.

 

[General Patton]

20/20 covered the Jacob Wetterling case. I completely forgot about him but it doesn't help i was mixing him up with Johnny Gosch. Hearing about his final hours was heartbreaking.

Spoiler: details

Guy in his 20s is known to abduct and molest boys. He picks Jacob out of a trio riding bikes. He handcuffs him and puts him in truck. Jacob is asking "what did I do wrong?" He asks to go home. Creep says he isn't going home. They stop near a gravel pit where he makes him strip naked and perform a sex act on the creep. Jacob says he's cold. Starts crying for his mom. Creep makes him get dressed then claims he heard sirens go by. Creep tells him to turn around before shooting him. He shoots him twice. Buries him. Moves his body later on.

I broke. The people interviewed broke. The people watching it in the bar all broke. I can't really explain it but there is pure evil in this world. Normally I do not let these cases get to me emotionally but this was just horrifying.

Is it bad I'd rather live in delusional land like Noreen Gosch at times?

Oh, God. Out of all the stories here, this one got to me the most. The poor kid. This is the first one that brought me near tears.

 

[TokiBun]

Oh, God. Out of all the stories here, this one got to me the most. The poor kid. This is the first one that brought me near tears.

Oh same and I tend to listen to these cases with as much emotional detachment as possible. Knowing Jacob cried right before he was shot but after being sexually assaulted is a detail you cannot ever forget. Shame on that police department for their fucking incompetence. Jacob's killer was a known molester in the area with tons of living victims that had to grow up and advocate for themselves to get that POS arrested.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Not to mention the guy was a suspect from the very beginning if I'm not mistaken.

Did the Joshua Guimond case ever get brought up here? He went missing from his college in Minnesota around 2002. I feel like I read that he may have fallen into a river (?)

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Listening to the podcast In the Dark about this case--everyone should. It's season 1 of this podcast and it's disgusting how lazy law enforcement was in Jacob's case. It shouldn't have taken that long to find his body and arrest his killer.

What did they fuck up? I know the guy that did it was a suspect from the beginning but no more than that.

 

[General Patton]

Oh same and I tend to listen to these cases with as much emotional detachment as possible. Knowing Jacob cried right before he was shot but after being sexually assaulted is a detail you cannot ever forget. Shame on that police department for their fucking incompetence. Jacob's killer was a known molester in the area with tons of living victims that had to grow up and advocate for themselves to get that POS arrested.

As good as it is that the public is aware of the crime, this is the first time I regret actually clicking to read it.

This is also the kind of thing that makes me wish they'd just kill these pathetic murderers instead of keeping them alive in prison.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

This conversation reminds me of the Staircase, about the guy who totally didn't murder his wife and try to cover it up and the documentary about his trial. They clearly try to manipulate you into some sort of reasonable doubt, then you find out the guy filming it was fucking the guy on the side and left out a whole bunch of info that shows he absolutely did it.

It really makes me hate documentaries sometimes. So many of them are one-sided bullshit pushing an agenda and everyone takes them at face value and people will argue with you and point to "oh I watched this documentary and they said x is true so it must be!" Bowling for Columbine, An Inconvenient Truth, Paradise Lost, Supersize Me, etc. Then you read more into the subject and learn they manipulate statistics, leave out important information that contradicts them, or flat out lie about things. Supersize Me was a huge red pill moment for me as a kid. I remember everyone was raving about it and calling it eye opening. And when I saw it, I thought "Wow no shit. If you eat massive portions of burgers and fries and soda for every meal, you'll get fat and feel like garbage. Why do you need a documentary to tell you that?"

 

[TokiBun]

What did they fuck up? I know the guy that did it was a suspect from the beginning but no more than that.

The podcast goes into it more but the TLDR is the police department didn't bother to interview people in the area that saw Jacob and the other two boys the night of the abduction. Multiple residents saw them out but were never interviewed. A NYPD detective is interviewed about the best way to gather intel in a case like this and basically said you interview witnesses over and over. You ask them for details they may not find important but could be paramount to the investigation. Another major fuck up was Jacob's killer had already been identified by a living victim two years prior for molestation. He had identified Jacob's killer in a line up two years before. Instead of keeping the investigation local law enforcement blew the story up nation wide and you know what happens in a pre Internet age by doing that? You're going to get a ton of pointless false leads that waste everyone's time. You're going to get wasted of oxygen like psychics giving a family false hope they're son wasn't shot in the back of the head not even two hours after abduction. The Wetterling case is a frustrating read once you realize how lazy and incompetent Minnesota law enforcement and the FBI acted in a case that should not have taken until 2016 to be solved.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

"Wow no shit. If you eat massive portions of burgers and fries and soda for every meal, you'll get fat and feel like garbage. Why do you need a documentary to tell you that?"

Made even funnier after the guy who made it admitted to being a lifelong alcoholic since basically everything he suffered in that film line up 1:1 with lifelong alcoholism.

 

[AnOminous]

I can answer. Because I think that stepdad was sketchy as hell.

And then there's Bojangles. Tell me there was nothing suspicious about a guy practically drenched in blood to the point he made the bathroom he cleaned up in look like a murder scene itself. And then they just mop it up and don't even examine someone who OBVIOUSLY did SOMETHING that day.

Also, his DNA being found on the crime scene.

This is why my alternate batshit theory is they ALL did it. Byers, the WM3 and whoever the fuck Mr. Bojangles was, and it actually was some kind of organized occult activity like that tarded expert testified to.

We know through this testing that Todd Moore (Michael Moore's father) had his DNA found at the crime scene, but Todd wasn't even in West Memphis the day the murders occurred as he worked as a trucker.

And trucking companies document that stuff pretty meticulously so his alibi was rock solid.

Obviously, even if the hair was Byers's there are reasons two people in the same household would have each other's DNA somewhere on them.

 

[Dr. Butt]

This is why my alternate batshit theory is they ALL did it. Byers, the WM3 and whoever the fuck Mr. Bojangles was, and it actually was some kind of organized occult activity like that tarded expert testified to.

I like this but organized occult activity doesn't exist. Rape apes just make rape clubs, I think the Australians invented it back when they were trying to be more English than the English.

 

[AnOminous]

I remember everyone was raving about it and calling it eye opening. And when I saw it, I thought "Wow no shit. If you eat massive portions of burgers and fries and soda for every meal, you'll get fat and feel like garbage. Why do you need a documentary to tell you that?"

He also neglected to mention he was a massive alcoholic who drank copiously throughout the entire making of the movie. Look at his "symptoms" caused by "McDonald's." They're exactly what heavy alcohol abuse also causes.

I like this but organized occult activity doesn't exist. Rape apes just make rape clubs, I think the Australians invented it back when they were trying to be more English than the English.

Manson's cult was organized occult activity, descended from Aleister Crowley through JPL rocket scientist Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard.

The Wetterling case is a frustrating read once you realize how lazy and incompetent Minnesota law enforcement and the FBI acted in a case that should not have taken until 2016 to be solved.

Oh. Fucking Minnesota. Missed that detail. Makes it make a bit more sense.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

He also neglected to mention he was a massive alcoholic who drank copiously throughout the entire making of the movie. Look at his "symptoms" caused by "McDonald's." They're exactly what heavy alcohol abuse also causes.

Manson's cult was organized occult activity, descended from Aleister Crowley through JPL rocket scientist Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard.

Oh. Fucking Minnesota. Missed that detail. Makes it make a bit more sense.

More The Church of the Final Process, imo. But that grew out of Scientology, so you're right as well. Manson was fascinated by Scientology whn he was in federal jail.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Manson's cult was organized occult activity, descended from Aleister Crowley through JPL rocket scientist Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard.

OK but demons aren't real. It's just organized rape.