41 Of The Most Famous 'Unsolved' Mysteries That Actually Have Explanations

Any of the people that ‘mysteriously’ fell out of windows in russia.

Roanoke - the missing Pilgrim settlement where everyone “disappeared”


They just abandoned it and went to the place that they wrote on the sign, but everyone acts like it was some supernatural/plague thing.

Oak Island. THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING THERE. No treasure, no curse, just scattered random junk.

Yet they successfully milked it into a 230-episode, 13-year-long series. P.T. Barnum was right.

Shelly Miscavige - her husband David Miscavinge was 100% involved in "making her disappear" but there is no way she is still alive.

Not a m****r but a "mysterious" d***h, the Elisa Lam case is not the spooky mystery everyone on the Internet thinks it is or tries to market it as. She was simply bipolar and was prone to psychosis when she was off her meds. She had been hospitalized multiple times for both issues.

A HUGE symptom of bipolar is the person going off their meds when they are feeling good. Anyone who deals with people that are or is bipolar will tell you this. Extremely common symptoms of psychosis are paranoia and hallucinations. The hand gestures and her behavior is completely in line with someone experiencing psychosis. We know that she had been off of her meds and had been behaving erratically for days because she had been kicked out of the room share program.

It's nowhere near as difficult to get in the roof or access the water tank as is assumed by everyone. This was not some swanky high end hotel. This was a weekly/monthly rent place where people went to do d***s, p********e, ghost hunt, and because they couldn't afford an apartment. They were literally hooking people up with roommates in a standard hotel room. As long as people were not actively k*****g each other in front of them the staff they couldn't possibly care less what anyone was doing.

There have been multiple YouTubers/TikTokers that have stayed at the hotel since that were able to find multiple ways to access the roof, get to, and open the water tank in minutes. One found 4 separate ways in around 20 minutes.

The elevator footage looked extra weird because it had been sped up for the news and a lot of people don't know what active psychosis looks like.

She was just a mentally ill person off of their medication in a foreign country where she didn't have anyone looking out for her and she drowned in the water tank because she treaded water for so long she either couldn't get out or in the throws of psychosis wouldn't get out and her body just exhausted itself.

The M****r of Ken McElroy. 46 people witnessed it in broad daylight. The police asked who did it and 46 people collectively went, “Did what? I was looking at a very interesting bird.

Don Bolles, investigative newspaper reporter assassination by car b**b in downtown Phoenix. He had been investigating the Mob and knew stuff.

His d***h, and his fellow reporters pushing, is the reason we have the freedom of information act today

Nobody was ever prosecuted because - Mob.

No amount of police backflipping and Netflix propaganda can convince me the Ramseys aren't behind Jonbenet's d***h. Could it have been an accident? Yes. But the immediate lawyering and tainting of the crime scene says everything.

The simplest explanation is *not* the one where an intruder gets in, spends several minutes writing a theatric ransom note that looks suspiciously like *Patsy's handwriting, only to not take Jonbenet at all for reasons no one can explain. The family did it. Poor little girl.

My friend Leigh Occhi was abducted and disappeared in 1992. Blood and hair everywhere. Her body has never been found. No arrests or anything, but we all know it was her step-dad and maybe help from her mom. No one can prove it, but we know.

Jean-Francois Gariepy. I had never really heard about him until after this incident and he came on to a podcast i listened to. I guess he's some kind of far-right podcaster.

This was pretty recent (a couple years ago.) His wife had some sort of cognitive disability, and he called her the "potato."

Anyway, he says that she was a free spirit. She wanted to "be free" so he took her in the car and dropped her off somewhere in the woods. He says she left, that this was a normal thing that she did, and that she wasn't someone who liked to be tied down. She had kids and stuff with him too.

He then immediately deep cleaned his house and talked about it on various podcasts and stuff. His wife is still missing, and just from hearing him speak on it is so creepy.

Trenny Gibson, this is one of those mysteries which has been used as an example of Woo-Woo happening in the Appalachians. But the truth is probably yet another sad case of violence against women.

When she was dropped off at school that morning by her Mother, they weren't entirely sure if the school trip was going ahead. Trenny went in to find out and when she came back out she was with a friend of her elder brother, Robert Simpson Junior. She confirmed that she would be going on the trip and Simpson had lent her his distinctive coat. Her Mother, who is still alive confirms she saw Trinny wearing this coat.

After her disapperence Simpson acted oddly, becoming very involved in the search and saying weird things to Trenny's siblings. The family became suspicious of him and asked the police to investigate him, but Simpson Snr was an influential lawyer and nothing came of it.

However Michael Bouchard recently discovered a picture in a newspaper showing the search for Trenny. It had a picture of Simpson wearing his distinctive coat. The only way he could have had it, if he had contact with Trenny after her last confirmed sighting. For Trenny's family and those people who try to combat misinformation around mysteries, most people believe that Simpson and possibly an accomplice s******y a****d, m******d and buried Trenny out in the woods.

But Simpson is d**d, as is the person who was a possible accomplice. They have taken any knowledge of where her body is buried to the grave.

All 5000+ lynchings done in the US were done by "unknown men" but everyone knew everyone at the lynchings (some crowds over 10,000 people attended), the newspapers were there, photographers were making postcards to sell, and the lynching was announced in advance in newspapers and churches.

I was telling my coworkers about this missing child's case from the 90s that made national headlines. My mom actually knew the boy's mother when it happened. I looked into this and found a pretty detailed article that explains why the case went cold. Apparently the cops, his family, and neighborhood kids all knew who his abducter was they just weren't able to prove it. They even found things that a kidnapper would use like duct tape yet nothing about his living situation or profession (he was a limo driver) required any of that. He told them he uses the duct tape to remove cat hair from his clothing. The guy also had a history of being inappropriate around children, but most damning of all, he had the same distinct dog breed the abducter was seen with on the day of the disappearance. Apparently it's a mix with very unique features and no one else owned a dog like that in the neighborhood. He was even IDed by some other kid. I'm 100% certain this is the man responsible.

The FBI still has his picture up and it's been 30 years since. His name was Jose De La Cruz from Lynn, MA in case you're wondering.

Kristin Smart, the Cal Poly student who went missing in 1996. Her k****r, Paul Flores, was FINALLY brought to justice (after he had s****************d likely dozens of other women) about 3 years ago. But his dad, Ruben Flores, who was obviously involved in hiding her body; was found not-guilty. And those a*****e creeps have NEVER told the poor Smart family where Kristin is so they can bring her home. I live about 15 miles from where it all took place, and people here are really angry about it. Cal poly university police made a hot mess with the initial investigation (basically ignored it all together), and it wasn’t until the podcast Your Own Backyard came out in about 2020 that they were able to gather enough info to try Paul and Ruben. The only satisfaction I feel is that the ENTIRE AREA utterly abuses Susan Flores (Paul’s mother, who was also involved and is a POS human in so many ways, taunting the Smart family for example) and she can’t really do much where the public doesn’t basically spit in her face. Evil, disgusting people. Makes me hope there really is a Hell.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The pilot did it.

Ivana Trump. "Fell down the stairs." I mean, *come on.*.

Prince’s in the tower. We all know it was Richard III. He had means, motive and had previously m******d others to get what he wanted. But because we can’t prove 100% it was him we can only say it’s probably him but we will never know.

Patti Adkins - Marysville, Ohio. Missing since 2001. Loaned her married (coworker) boyfriend over $90,000.

She bragged to friends that she was going on a secret vacation with him to Canada. She hid in the back of his truck while he drove a coworker home. She was never seen again. Zero evidence. Boyfriend denied everything. She left her young daughter with her sister.

Boyfriend had a week to hide/clean everything before anyone started asking "Where is Patti?".

Karen Reed

Someone at the sheriff's house k****d John Okeefe, probably the cousin that ran out the back door, and everyone there knows what happened but they tried to frame Reed instead, unsuccessfully. Everyone in the house called each other later to get the story straight but on the stand, each one claimed it was a b**t dial. There were 34 calls.

34 b**t dials.

The Missing Postman. Near where I live here in Ireland back in 1929, a local postman in the village of Stradbally disappeared on Christmas day.

As the story goes, he went to a pub after he rounds delivering mail. An altercation happened and he was k****d. It was covered up to hide the fact the pub was illegally selling alcohol on Christmas day. His body was never found and by all accounts, all of the village at the time knew exactly what happened but nobody said anything.