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Creepy unsolved/paranormal/strange events thread

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GalacticAE

Member
Post up anything you find creepy or something interesting.

All of mine come from wikipedia :lol

Valentich Disappearance
The Frederick Valentich Disappearance is a mysterious event that occurred on October 21, 1978, in which 20-year-old Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait to King Island, Australia.
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Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident
The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident was a television signal hijacking in Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of November 22, 1987; it is an example of what is known in the television business as broadcast signal intrusion. The intruder was successful in interrupting two television stations within three hours. Neither the hijacker nor his accomplices have ever been found or identified.
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Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqgeM6rWSkw

The Dyatlov Pass incident
The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains. The incident happened on the night of February 2, 1959 on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат Сяхл) (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов).

The mysterious circumstances and subsequent investigations of the hikers' deaths have inspired much speculation. Investigations of the deaths suggest that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow; while the corpses show no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue.[1] According to sources, the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation - though this was likely added at a later date, since no reference is made to it in contemporary documentation and only in later documents.[1] Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths, barring entry to the area for years thereafter.[1] The causes of the accident remain unclear.[2][3]
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The Battle of Los Angeles
The Battle of Los Angeles is the name given by contemporary news agencies to a sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects which took place from late February 24 to early February 25, 1942 in which eyewitness reports of an unknown object or objects over Los Angeles, California, triggered a massive anti-aircraft artillery barrage. The Los Angeles incident occurred less than three months after America's entry into World War II as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Issei Sagawa
(佐川一政, Sagawa Issei?, born 11 June 1949) is a Japanese man who in 1981 murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt. After his release, he has become a minor celebrity in Japan and has made a living through the public interest on his crime.
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Aokigahara Forest
"The perfect place to die" Claimed to be haunted. A place where many people go to take their own lives.
Video from Japanese TV show:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik_QAXGpJsk
Wiki entry:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara
 
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GDGF

Soothsayer
The Issei Sagawa stuff is pretty creepy. I saw a documentary about canabalism or something a few years ago and he was in one of the segements.

He does freaky japanese horror/pornography now.
 
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subzero9285

Banned
-Lizzie_borden.jpg


Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

The day is stiflingly hot, over one hundred degrees, even though it is not yet noon. The elderly man, still in his heavy morning coat, reclines on a mohair-covered sofa, his boots on the floor so as not to soil the upholstery. As he naps in the August heat, his wife is on the floor of the guestroom upstairs, dead for the past hour and a half, killed by the same hand, with the same weapon, that is about to strike him, as he sleeps.

"... one of the most dastardly and diabolical crimes that was ever committed in Massachusetts... Who could have done such an act? In the quiet of the home, in the broad daylight of an August day, on the street of a popular city, with houses within a stone's throw, nay, almost touching, who could have done it?

"Inspection of the victims discloses that Mrs. Borden had been slain by the use of some sharp and terrible instrument, inflicting upon her head eighteen blows, thirteen of them crushing through the skull; and below stairs, lying upon the sofa, was Mr. Borden's dead and mutilated body, with eleven strokes upon the head, four of them crushing the skull."

(From the closing arguments for the defense of Lizzie Borden, made by her principal attorney, George D. Robinson.)
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Did she really commit the Hatchet murders?
 
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Purkake4

Banned
Don't turn this into another shitty UFO thread.

Here's a fun Cracked article about mysteries.

Here and here are the wikipedia categories for mysteries and unexplained disappearances, respectively.
 
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GalacticAE

Member
Purkake4 said:
Don't turn this into another shitty UFO thread.

Here's a fun Cracked article about mysteries.

Here and here are the wikipedia categories for mysteries and unexplained disappearances, respectively.
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Thanks for those links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste
The Mary Celeste (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Marie Celeste) was a brigantine merchant ship famously discovered in early December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, in spite of the fact that the weather was fine and all crew had been experienced and able seamen
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GDGF said:
The Issei Sagawa stuff is pretty creepy. I saw a documentary about canabalism or something a few years ago and he was in one of the segements.

He does freaky japanese horror/pornography now.
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This reminds me of that murder I read about where these teens tortured and murdered this girl in Japan. They did some sick stuff from what I remember, including making her eat roaches, burning her, and sticking things in her Vagina. The crazy thing is there's been a manga published about it and even a live-action movie.
 
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Napoleonthechimp

Member
I find the celebrity around that evil Japanese man to be the most disturbing thing of all. He shot and ate a woman but yet the people love him. Do the Japanese really have that little respect for non-Japanese life? That's the impression I get from brutal crimes involving foreigners in Japan...
 
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KHarvey16

Member
People also do very irrational things when suffering from hypothermia. I don't think finding people wearing almost no clothes in those conditions is very rare.
 
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nyong

Banned
KHarvey16 said:
People also do very irrational things when suffering from hypothermia. I don't think finding people wearing almost no clothes in those conditions is very rare.
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Irrational things like irradiating themselves.

There's probably an explanation. Seriously.
 
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Ether_Snake

安安安安安安安安安安安安安安安
Cyan said:
Probably an avalanche. See the cracked article linked a bit earlier in the thread.
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See, there's always a logical explanation:)
 
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GalacticAE

Member
KHarvey16 said:
People also do very irrational things when suffering from hypothermia. I don't think finding people wearing almost no clothes in those conditions is very rare.
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Yea, I've heard of people taking off their clothes in certain stages of hypothermia.
 
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Micromegas

Member
I hung out with David Blaine once. He was doing shit that just plain fucking IMPOSSIBLE in real life. He managed to freak everybody out and then some. And this was just a small social event.
 
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Canova

Banned
This shit freaked the hell out of me when I read it

Emilie Sagée

http://www.mysteries.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/1,1.htm


The French teacher said that she was born in Dijon 32 years before she took up her post at Neuwelcke. She was fair skinned, with chestnut hair and blue eyes, and was fairly tall and slim. The pupils described her as having a sweet and lovable nature. The superintendents at her school were entirely satisfied with her work and were impressed by her gaiety, intelligence and education.

Everything promised well for Mlle Sagee’s career at Neuwelcke - but within a few weeks of her arrival she became the focus of rumour and gossip and the school. It seemed that Emilie could be - literally - in two places at once. If he was reported to be in a particular part of the school someone would contradict, saying, ‘Oh no, she can’t be there; I just passed her on the stairs’ or in some distant corridor. Individual pupils repeated this sort of confusion time and time again, but the teachers dismissed the girls’ stories as silly mistakes.

But naturally the most excitement was caused by the rumours that followed the first appearance of the ‘double’ to a number of witnesses. Mlle Sagee was giving a lesson to Julie von Guldenstubbe and 12 other girls. The subject of the lesson varied slightly with each storyteller: for example, one suggested Emilie was energetically demonstrating a mathematical theorem on the blackboard; Julie said the lesson was French grammar. What was agreed on was that Emilie Sagee was standing with her back to the class. Suddenly, a second ‘Emilie’ materialised at Mlle Sagee’s side. The two were exactly alike and went through the same movements, synchronising perfectly. The only difference was that the real Emilie had chalk in her hand but the fetch had none; it merely mimed the teachers actions as she wrote on the board. This story caused a great sensation at Neuwelcke, particularly as all 13 pupils in the class agreed precisely in their description of what they had seen.

In the following weeks the fetch was seen on a number of occasions. For instance it appeared at dinner, standing behind Mlle Sagee and imitating her movements as she ate. But, as in the classroom, the double’s hands were empty. On these occasions the schoolgirls were not alone in seeing Emilie’s fetch; the servants also reportedly saw the fetch behind the chair.

One of Julie’s school friends was badly frightened by the fetch. Fraulein Antonie von Wrangel was in a group invited to a local rural festivity and she was getting ready in her room. Emilie was helping her to fasten her dress. There was a mirror behind them and Antonie turned to catch a sight of two identical mademoiselles, each doing up her dress. Startled, she fainted clean away.

However, the fetch did not always mirror Emilie Sagee’s actions. Sometimes, Baroness Julie reported, it would behave quite independently. For example, the real Mlle Sagee would rise from her chair - but the double would remain seated. Antonie von Wrangel and a group of friends looked after Emilie when she was feverish with a cold. The girls took turns to read to her as she lay recovering in bed. Antonie was alone with her when she noticed the colour drain away from Mlle Sagee’s face. She was so pale she seemed about to faint, and Antonie asked if she was feeling worse.

Emilie replied with a weak and trembling voice that she was not, but her frightened look alarmed Antonie. A few moments later Antonie looked up to see the fetch walking about the room in excellent health. This time Antonie did not tell Emilie what she had seen, and when she came downstairs she immediately told the others what she had seen. On that time there was only one witness, but on the next occasion the incident was witnessed by the whole school.

This time all 42 pupils were gathered in the school hall to do their sewing and embroidery. Four french windows opened onto a corridor leading to the large garden in front of the house. The weather was fine and the girls had a clear view of the garden, where Mlle Sagee could be seen picking flowers.
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Medalion

Banned
Of all the mysteries I read here, Bunnyman is giving me creeps.

I used to be scared of the Mothman, from the Mothman Prophecies movie.

So yeah. paranormal activities involving animal-like-people iz creepeh.
 
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Jason's Ultimatum

Member
This one's interesting. Berlin, 1939, a flower cart took off by itself and rolled approximately half a kilometer over level ground. Three hundred eyewitnesses.
 
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super-heated plasma

Member
Here's a fascinating story from Readers Digest:

A German U-boat drifting aimlessly off Ireland was a target too good to miss in July 1918. The American submarine that spotted her was maneuvering for the attack when a huge explosion seized the U-boat and sent her to the bottom with all hands.
What caused the explosion will never be known, but for the U-65 it was the final blow in a series of disasters.
For she was a jinxed ship. Even before she had left the shipyard at Bruges, Belgium, two years earlier, she had already claimed one life. A shipyard worker was killed when hit by girder that was being lowered into place for the hull. On her first sea trials the engine room filled with fumes, and three men suffocated.
As it was wartime, news of the deaths was kept within the General Admiralty. More trials with a group of sister ships were without incident, at first-until the Captain of the U-65 ordered her first dive.
The captain sent a sailor forward for a routine inspection of the hatches. The sea was calm, and there was very little wind; but instead of making the inspection, inexplicably, he stepped overboard and was swept away in the back wash.
The silent crew gazed nervously at each other as the captain closed hatches to dive. He gave the order to level off at 30 feet, but the U-65 continued down until it struck the seabed, where it refused to budge. For 12 hours it lay there as water seeped in. And for the second time it betgan to fill with battery fumes. Then, once again, for some unexplained reason it lifted from the bottom and rose to the surface.
After an overhaul back in Bruges, the U-65 was passed fit for service, and refueling an arming began. During this operation a torpedo warhead exploded, and brought the death toll to 11. One victim was the second lieutenant.
As the U-65 was towed into dry dock, a hysterical crewman swore he saw the dead second lieutenant standing, arms folded, on the prow of the ship. Before it sailed for duty again, another seaman had deserted after reporting that he, too, had seen the dead officer.
Repaired, the U-65 sailed for the Dover Straights, and during its tour of duty reports of more sightings of the second lieutenant did little to increase morale. The duty officer was found trembling on the bridge after he saw the ghost and watched as it faded from sight.
The members of the crew were all thankful when their ship returned to base, although it was under aerial attack. As the captain walked down the gangplank, he was struck and killed by a splinter from a bomb.
The Imperial Navy took the case so seriously that they had the U-65 exorcised by a priest. But on the next tour of duty, a gunner went mad, the chief engineer broke his leg, and there was a suicide.
On the morning of July 10, 1918, the ship was spotted drifting off the Cape Clear coast of southwest Ireland by an American submarine.
When the submarines captain looked through his periscope, he was puzzled by a lone figure, standing with arms crossed on the prow of the ship. Then came the shattering explosion, which ripped the U-65 from stem to stern.
Loyal even in death, the second lieutenant had stayed with his comrades to the end.

I think that would make an excellent movie, especially since it would be based on supposedly true events.
 
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KHarvey16

Member
super-heated plasma said:
Here's a fascinating story from Readers Digest:

A German U-boat drifting aimlessly off Ireland was a target too good to miss in July 1918. The American submarine that spotted her was maneuvering for the attack when a huge explosion seized the U-boat and sent her to the bottom with all hands.
What caused the explosion will never be known, but for the U-65 it was the final blow in a series of disasters.
For she was a jinxed ship. Even before she had left the shipyard at Bruges, Belgium, two years earlier, she had already claimed one life. A shipyard worker was killed when hit by girder that was being lowered into place for the hull. On her first sea trials the engine room filled with fumes, and three men suffocated.
As it was wartime, news of the deaths was kept within the General Admiralty. More trials with a group of sister ships were without incident, at first-until the Captain of the U-65 ordered her first dive.
The captain sent a sailor forward for a routine inspection of the hatches. The sea was calm, and there was very little wind; but instead of making the inspection, inexplicably, he stepped overboard and was swept away in the back wash.
The silent crew gazed nervously at each other as the captain closed hatches to dive. He gave the order to level off at 30 feet, but the U-65 continued down until it struck the seabed, where it refused to budge. For 12 hours it lay there as water seeped in. And for the second time it betgan to fill with battery fumes. Then, once again, for some unexplained reason it lifted from the bottom and rose to the surface.
After an overhaul back in Bruges, the U-65 was passed fit for service, and refueling an arming began. During this operation a torpedo warhead exploded, and brought the death toll to 11. One victim was the second lieutenant.
As the U-65 was towed into dry dock, a hysterical crewman swore he saw the dead second lieutenant standing, arms folded, on the prow of the ship. Before it sailed for duty again, another seaman had deserted after reporting that he, too, had seen the dead officer.
Repaired, the U-65 sailed for the Dover Straights, and during its tour of duty reports of more sightings of the second lieutenant did little to increase morale. The duty officer was found trembling on the bridge after he saw the ghost and watched as it faded from sight.
The members of the crew were all thankful when their ship returned to base, although it was under aerial attack. As the captain walked down the gangplank, he was struck and killed by a splinter from a bomb.
The Imperial Navy took the case so seriously that they had the U-65 exorcised by a priest. But on the next tour of duty, a gunner went mad, the chief engineer broke his leg, and there was a suicide.
On the morning of July 10, 1918, the ship was spotted drifting off the Cape Clear coast of southwest Ireland by an American submarine.
When the submarines captain looked through his periscope, he was puzzled by a lone figure, standing with arms crossed on the prow of the ship. Then came the shattering explosion, which ripped the U-65 from stem to stern.
Loyal even in death, the second lieutenant had stayed with his comrades to the end.

I think that would make an excellent movie, especially since it would be based on supposedly true events.
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That's a highly dramatized account :). The spotting reported by the American submarine was of just a periscope and an explosion. In 2004 though the actually found the wreck off the coast of Cornwall.
 
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ChiboSempai

Neo Member
There was one case I heard of where the same police detective was killed at the same time in two different locations 30 min apart from each other via car by two different people. I don't know how they would ever solve such a case.
 
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