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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
CuriositiesJUL 16, 2024

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained

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There’s nothing better than spending 6 hours binging a riveting true crime documentary that’s full of twists and turns. Truth really is stranger than fiction! But as satisfying as it is to find out that the estranged father did it all along or that the man’s jilted ex actually was innocent, sometimes, we don’t get all the answers. And that can make a story even more fascinating…
Redditors have recently been discussing some of the most famous and puzzling unsolved mysteries of all time, so we’ve compiled a list of the most intriguing cases below. Enjoy reading through and theorizing about what you think actually happened, and be sure to upvote the stories you’d love to see solved!

#1

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
There is a ‘mystery’ that nobody thinks is a mystery. But personally I’m suspicious. There are a lot of missing Native American teenage boys in the area around Yakima Washington. Some of them where high risk but not all of them. At the start of the pandemic boys started going missing at like a 20% higher rate and then it calmed down after the pandemic. Some as young as 12 to as old as 23. The police don’t properly investigate. Just right them off as at risk teens that ran away. As of now they are not considered connected and there are more but you have to dig through Yakima county missing persons. I don’t know, I feel like so many serial killers get away with it because they target Native Americans (look at the center for missing and murdered indigenous women) and police in rural areas are often racist pieces of s**t. I think one day we are going to uncover what’s happening to these boys.
248points

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
It’s nothing wildly infamous, but when I got my cat, I bought him a catnip cookie toy. He’d play with that thing for hours at a time. One day, it disappeared. We’ve rearranged the rooms multiple times since then and it’s nowhere to be found.
I know, it’s probably not what you’re looking for, but it’s the biggest unsolved mystery I know.
198points

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
How did reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, who was investigating the Kennedy assassination and had interviewed Jack Ruby, end up dead hours after appearing fine on the What’s My Line tv show? She was found sitting up in bed at home, in a room she didn’t normally sleep in, with her makeup still on and her Kennedy case file missing. It was never found and her death was never properly investigated.
193points

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
I grew up in a very small town. 4 people lived there named Reggie, and all of them mysteriously disappeared within 2 years. Never solved, not even a clue. Never heard from any of them again.
9 years go by, someone named Reggie moves to the town. Within 30 days, they disappear, never heard from again. That was 18 years ago, still no one knows what happened.
164points

#5

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
The Setagaya family murder, in which the Miyazawa family were murdered in their home in December 2000. The killer was confident, having left fingerprints and DNA evidence, as well as the clothes he was wearing, in the house. Sand was analyzed from the scene, and had sand from Edward's Air Force Base in California. Not only that, only 120 sweaters of the kind the killer was wearing were sold. Somehow, still not solved.
136points

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
Amber Hagerman. She was about my same age and was killed in the city where I grew up. The AMBER alert system in the US was named in her honor and has helped safely recover many abducted children. However, Amber's murderer was never found and the tip hotline for her case remains open. Source.
131points

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People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
The guy who killed a japanese family, stayed hours inside the house with the corpses using their computer and eating their food. he even took a s**t and didn't flush the toilet. he left so much dna in the house and the police haven't found him.
(english isn't my first language so excuse any mistakes).
129points

#8

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
Brandon Swanson - he was on the phone with his father late one night after a car accident, said “Oh s**t!” and was never heard from again.
119points

#9

My neighbor was beaten to death but he never admitted he was beaten while fighting for his life in the hospital. Even the nurse said it was obvious it wasn't just a fall. The police never started a case. That neighbor was very elderly and a sweetheart. He was murdered and the murderer is still there living free. Nobody cares and I'm disappointed in everyone involved.     .
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111points

#10

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
Jack the Ripper's identity. Victorian London's most famous killer. Inspires countless stories and fascination. Women brutally murdered. Lots of apparent evidence. And despite all this.....noone can say for sure or even largely agree who he is! I work near Whirechapel too.....crazy the history there.
105points

#11

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
Zodiac killer, mfer went around in a costume and wrote letters taunting the police and all sorts and they still aren’t sure for certain who dunnit.
101points

#12

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
The disappearance of the five Sodder children. Five of the family’s ten children vanished in a house fire on Christmas Eve, 1945. Their parents and siblings escaped, but no remains of the other five children were ever found. The fire did not burn that long or that hot; remains should have easily been found of at least some of the five children. The fire itself seemed suspicious, and the family believed the children were kidnapped.
97points

#13

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
The Missy Bevers murder should have been solved a long time ago. Tons of video footage of the killer and their car, iirc.

ZeldaHylia: I can’t believe it hasn’t been solved. The killer is on video. I was always confused by why they said the killer looked female by the way they walked. Such a weird story. It had to be someone who knew her. You’d think someone in her life would recognize the person in the video.
92points

#14

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
When I was a kid, over the course of like 10 years, a bunch of severed feet washed up upon the shores of Vancouver Island.
It was almost always one foot, in a shoe, like 3-5 years apart.
Super odd
Edit: since Aug 2007, 20 different feet have been recovered in the Salish sea region alone.
83points

#15

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
A bit off the cuff, but the Cocolitzli epidemics. This illness broke in Central America after Europeans made contact in the 16th century....and it destroyed entire villages; one epidemic killed 10-12 million people, even more than smallpox in the area. Absolute desolation.

No one knows what illness it was. Was it a hantavirus? Smallpox? Salmonella? Viral hemorrhagic fever? Why did it always appear after a drought? Where did it go? We will probably never know.

My favorite podcast, *This Podcast Will Kill You*, did an episode on Cocolitzli, going into detail about Contact and colonization and how & why there isn't much historical record on this.

For those who don't like to sleep at night
80points

#16

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
The Black Dahlia
It just seems so suspicious to me. It’s not everyday that a body just shows up cut in half, but there’s no blood in sight. If you read the page about the case from the FBI, something just doesn’t seem right.
78points

#17

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
In MA there was a young girl named Molly Bish that disappeared from her post as a lifeguard. Her body was found 3 years later. 24 years later and her killer has never been found.
73points

#18

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
Bible John. It's insane that everyone who knew him covered for him. That's the only way he could've remained undetected.
For people who don't know, Bible John was a serial killer in 60s Scotland who had an extremely unique appearance, and it's pretty insane he was never caught.
70points

#19

People Are Pointing Out 30 Mysterious Events That Are Still Unexplained
The Dyatlov Pass Incident.
Im aware of the new theory that recently has been presented, as a slab avalanche. But there are still questions that I don’t know.
Why was there high levels of radiation on the Hikers?
Why did they not die from impact from the slab avalanche? Most victims of such an avalanche are typically killed. Instead they cut the tent from the inside, and ran away. Also, wouldnt a slab avalanche push the tent? They are characterized by hard blocky material (had to google this)
I don’t fully accept the idea, but I’m open to having my mind changed.
68points

#20

JonBenét Ramsey

12345_PIZZA: The ransom note, to me, makes it so the only suspects are family members. That thing is just so long, so filled with movie like details, and so specific with John’s bonus. Plus it looks like Patsy’s handwriting.

Even so, I can’t think of any theory that makes total sense. If Burke did it on accident, why’d they send him to the neighbors since he could’ve let something slip? If John did it, would Patsy really help him cover it up? And if Patsy did it, how’d John seem to know right where the body was?
63points
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