Incredibly Strange Deaths and Disappearances
 

Some absolute head scratchers on this list...

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1...u-up-at-night/

scott free thread.

No Villisca Axe murders? That should be on there.

How is Sandy Hook not on this?

See? Getting away with murder isn't that hard, now is it?

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OK...

Not sure why I read it all. Hate myself a little now.

Some weird stuff on there, but #1 is downright disturbing.

#14 is awesome.

And yet Alex lives...

This was not a good time for me to be cutting up deer meat scraps for the dogs. Made me feel kinda ooookie after reading all of those.

I don't know what's at that link, but I'm reading a book right now about the hikers at the Dyatlov Pass right now. Pretty weird bunch of deaths.

If 'yall' like weird disappearances and deaths, you should google missing 411.

Wish they hadnt even used that, there are plenty of other weird deals out there to talk about, some mentioned in this thread, without showing that awful freakin thing.

This isn't at all as fantastical as those, but there was an Air Force cadet in Colorado Springs who was found dead in his dorm room three weeks ago. There is an ongoing investigation into his death, and they've reported "injuries," but they currently say the investigation is "not criminal." It's a little odd that they haven't released more information about what happened.

Fast forward 2 weeks, and his mom disappeared. She was found dead in a park this past Saturday.

Weird.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27...-found-is-that

Well, that's pretty damned interesting. If you remember, can you update this thread if they figured out what happened?

Sure, I'll try and keep an eye out for updates about it.

Dorothy Kilgallen.....

That one is actually simple: Avalanche + hypothermia + animal predation.

So why were most of their clothes missing, and what about the one who had his tongue ripped out?

Also the Elisa Lam story ha always been very intriguing to me.

Ahhh you're in my neck of the woods now...yeah still a big mystery around there.

The Skidmore "execution" of the bully always fascinated me.....lots of witnesses...lots of ducking for cover....LMAO

You obviously havent looked into the details, thats not even close.

That should be the #1 puzzle on any list.

Apparently people that suffer from hypothermia have a tendency to take their clothes off shortly before death.

....and pull their tongues out.

The Axe murders in Germany is the most creepy of that list.

Hell, I usually do that when I drink too much tequila.... Or vodka..... Or rum....

I don't get that one. If I'm hearing footsteps in my attic, I think I call the police and exit the house. It seems to me that they did not take any reasonable actions to protect themselves.

The kidnapped woman on the cruise is pretty creepy. I kind of figure that there's some drug lord with a big Amazon estate full of kidnapped harem women.

Have you heard of the Villisca Axe Murders in Iowa?

I don't think so...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders

The crime was never solved. The house is kind of like a tourist trap for ghost hunters now and apparently it's extremely haunted.

Stupid article is stupid. And there is nothing mysterious about any of it.

Then who killed these people?

Damn all that.

How did ancient Egyptians get their hands on cocaine and tobacco?

Mfers were circumnavigating the globe long before Columbus and probably even the Vikings as well.

Gruesome.

Who knew there was actually something interesting about Iowa?

:)

If you like this sort of thing, check out the Unresolved Mysteries Subreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/

The two strangest for me are...

1) the black dude from St. Charles MO, who was only missing for three days yet when found in an open field was in an advanced state of decomposition. Not only that, in his pocket was a page full of cryptography that the top US codebreakers couldnt figure out.

2) all 5 children go missing from a family home that is set on fire, police say it was an electrical fire and the children died in the home, yet...

No human remains were found in the home.
The lights in the home were on while it burned.
Years later the parents receive a letter from, supposedly, one of the sons in Kentucky.
Parents hire a detective to go to KY and look into it, he disappears and is never heard from again.

Now that is some weird X Files shit if I've ever heard it.

Watched a show on this not long ago, I believe they narrowed the suspect down to a traveling preacher who was in town that week and was gone the day after the murders.

I plan to start working on that code this weekend.

And I don't get the significance of the lights being on in the Kentucky case. Would a short in one circuit knock them all out? I wouldn't have thought that would be the case. And I'm curious what was in the letter.

Channel your inner Windtalker.

I'm no electrician, but its seems like a short bad enough to cause a fire has atleast a chance of downing the whole system.

But that aside, it would still be an incredibly strange case, the part about the detective sealed the deal for me... "wtf?"

I know a ghost hunter that has spent several nights there. She posted a video a while back where they set a ball on the floor, and instead of it either staying still or rolling in one direction it would go in curves and circles. Weird as hell, I'd never set foot in that place.

Article is a little old. They cracked the code a while back.

Milk, eggs, bread, hamburger, soda, beer, potatoes.

That's how you make meth?

Holy cow...#12...little boy pot pie

Needs oregano. Everything's better with oregano.

Hmm, could use a little sugar and spice and everything nice. Where can I get that?

great old movie called in broad daylight

I found a dead eagle. Who killed it?

Better yet who cares?

We're all just so thrilled that you have all of the worlds mysteries wrapped up so neatly, Dave... its impressive, damned impressive.

You're a genius, Godlike even... hell lets start a religion based on you!

Thank you. You may be my high priest if you genuflect properly.

Next, he's recruiting for altar boys.

LMAO

Need to add all those Clinton acquaintances that died under mysterious circumstances to the list.

I'm surprised that wasn't on the list.

What about the mysterious disappearance of Val Kilmers acting career??

I think the Fish and Wildlife Service is going to care.

I will offer up a name for it: The Branch Dave-inians.

And he's even a David, perfect! LMAO

You could throw an Enron exec or two on that list too.

Quincy had an episode related to that.

Did Klugman get it figured out?

That is animal predation after death. Soft tissues are eaten first. Ears, nose, tongue, eyes, etc.

Also, later stage hypothermia makes you feel like you are hot so people will take their clothes off.

You need to study up on this case before commenting.

First of all, animal predation doesn't happen with clean, scalpel-like lines... it also doesn't happen to very specific body parts either, its guts and viscera 99.9% of the time.

Also, if it was an avalanche, then why didn't the Russian government use that as a handy excuse? I'll tell you why, its because there was O proof of an avalanche.

The official excuse was an errant missile test... first of all, what are the actual odds of two errant missiles directly impacting two different groups of people huddled together two miles apart?

Second of all, if it was errant missiles... then why wasn't there a single solitary sign of impact craters and/or scorched earth and trees anywhere near the bodies?

Grew up a few miles from Villisca in Iowa. A lot of the kids in school would stay the night in the house for birthday parties and such. I would always politely decline those invitations. They would tell me about the seance things they would do with the host where balls and toy cars would move across the room unexplainably. I wasn't sure if it was just the host putting on a show or if it was actually haunted, but I didn't want to find out. Even the people I know who would go on tours during the day would say they would have feelings of panic and freezing cold, especially in the attic where the murderer supposedly hid.

check the movie In Broad Daylight.. really good

I think you meant, Inexplicably. :)

ROFL:clap:

I think you used, an extraneous comma. :)

Why did you capitalize inexplicably?

That's irregardless

It's UNEXPLAINABLE

No I stay out of religion.

Yup, downright creepy.

nope, a short can start a fire in one part of the house and the electricity will keep going until the panel burns up or the service line to the house melts.

It's part of the hazards a firefighter faces, you know water and electrical and all.

I'll buy that, but its still an extremely weird story... when the private detective goes missing, that's weird.

it seems odd to me that he isn't named. Another article I read said he never contacted them again, not that he disappeared.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...429802/?no-ist