Top 50 Creepiest Mysteries of the Century (So Far)

20 years later and still no answers in the death of Jonathan Luna welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our piics for the creepiest Mysteries of the 21st century it is one of our Region's longest running and best known Mysteries The Disappearance of former Center County district attorney Ray grear number 50 the Pentagon UFO videos I recently asked uh the former director of the advanced aerial threat identification program at the Pentagon point blank are those the only videos that the government has he said no those were probably the least compelling videos not to say that aliens haven't always been hot but the 2010s saw a huge Resurgence in UFO popularity that is due in large part to the Pentagon videos which for many added a strong sense of credibility to the concept of alien spacecraft the videos were officially released to the public in 2020 and date back to 2004 with all being taken by the United States Navy in every video a mysterious object can be seen flying through the sky and often defying aerodynamic principles all the usual excuses are here drones misidentified aircraft camera glitches you name it but at the end of the day no one truly knows what these are or where they come from and by the way think about every person who thinks they've seen something up in the sky these are these are just the military confirmed ones I don't like it I'd like to go back just like thinking that this isn't real number 49 Jonathan Luna and two decades later no one has been charged and there are still many lingering questions this 38-year-old was working as an attorney when he was found dead on the morning of December 4th 2003 Luna left his Baltimore office late the prior day and drove all morning to Southeast Pennsylvania at 5:30 a. m. on the morning of the 4th his body was found in a Denver Creek next to his partially submerged car it was soon found that Luna had been stabbed 36 times with his own pocket knife but the official cause of death was ruled as drowning a toll ticket taken from his car was stained with blood suggesting that he was already bleeding while driving to Denver despite an extensive investigation by the FBI and local authorities his death remains unsolved and a criminal investigation is ongoing I just think it's odd that this is a federal prosecutor uh who's who died under very unusual circumstances and 20 years later nobody wants to talk about the case number 48 Ray Rivera I kept saying there is something bigger there is something more going on I think he turned over some rock and he shouldn't have turned it over the body of Baltimore Rider Ray Rivera was found in a conference room of the city's badier Hotel on May 24th 2006 a small hole was found in the roof of the hotel's South wing and under this hole was the conference room in which Rivera's body was ultimately discovered people naturally assumed that Rivera had jumped from the main structure but a number of things did not add up for instance the distance between the hole and the jumping off point of the main roof was too vast for a man running barefoot foot the police department ruled that Rivera took his own life but the medical examiner marked the manner of death as undetermined and many people remain unconvinced of the official explanation immediately nothing about the evidence at that point felt good to me the rooftop location of the hole I didn't believe it where he went off that top of the roof number 47 Ursula and Saina Ericson they were trying to cross the Bravo so as we approached they did they hadn't seen this moment the red one got knocked down by the red car over there I've got an ambulance on route for it seems all right but I'm aded this strange Saga began in May 2008 when the Swedish twins boarded a bus in Liverpool however they were acting erratically and the driver kicked them off the twins began walking along the central reservation of the m6 and when they were confronted they ran onto the road and were hit by Vehicles while Ursula was hospitalized Saina was taken into custody and held for 20 24 hours shortly after release she befriended Glenn Holland head a kind-hearted man who offered her shelter the next evening Sabina stabbed Glenn to death and fled the scene she was later captured and spent 3 years in prison the twin's Behavior was attributed to a rare psychiatric condition called f ad but this is just a working Theory yeah she's also fighting ambulance Crews having to be restrained she appears to have a compound fracture to a leg uh they were both hit at a good speed number 46 Rebecca corium luxury cruising is supposed to be the ultimate getaway where you leave all your cares behind but what's not widely known is that the industry also has a very dub record of mysterious disappearances this Disney Wonder crew member was the first person to go missing on the Disney Cruise Line with the incident occurring on March 21st 2011 off the coast of Mexico corium was last seen on CCTV talking on the phone in the crew area and looked distressed when corium did report for her shift the crew conducted an extensive search of the ship but found no trace of her Disney suggested Corum may have been swept overboard by a rogue wave although no conclusive evidence supports this Theory and many people have been critical of Disney's poor investigative effort and lack of transparency others speculate that Cora may have taken her own life as evidenced by her distressed behavior during the phone call whatever happened to Rebecca on the Disney Wonder remains a mystery whether she slipped and fell jumped or was pushed into the ocean wasn't properly investigated and the truth may never be known number 45 the death of Gareth Williams known as a spy in the bad case some of the theories surrounding the death of MI6 agent Gareth Williams could have come from the pages of an Espionage Thriller this man was a codebreaker for the UK's government Communications Headquarters and at the time of his death was on S condent to the secret intelligence service on August 23rd 2010 Williams body was found inside had a sports bag in the bathroom of his London flat the bag was padlocked from the outside and the keys were inside the bag underneath his body there were no signs of forced entry and no drugs or alcohol were found in a system in 2013 the Metropolitan Police concluded that Williams accidentally locked himself in the bag in some kind of Kink gone wrong despite previous testimony deeming this virtually impossible many others believe that he was the victim of a hit owing to his secretive work with the government former Leb MMP Norman bacer who had studied the case said the key question for the Met is why when they coroner believe there was Foul Play the police decided the opposite and are still sticking to the same story he added do they think the public are idiots why would anyone believe that number 44 the killing of Shandra Levy her name is Shandra an Levy she is 24 years old and hasn't been seen since April 30th 24-year-old Shandra Levy vanished on May 1st 2001 and investigators focused on Congressman Gary condet with whom Levy was allegedly having an affair his reluctance to disclose the full nature of his relationship with Levy led to intense speculation and media scrutiny and police focused much of their effort on nailing condet he was eventually cleared of involvement and many people believe that the police wasted valuable time and resources on investigating him on May 22nd 2002 Levy's skeletal remains were found in Washington DC's Rock Creek Park inar gu who was known for attacking women in the area was convicted of killing Levy but this was later overturned and the charges against guay were dropped in 2016 Levy's death remains unsolved we still don't know what brought Shandra up to rock Greek Park that day we still are not sure what led to her death and it's quite possible we may never know exactly what happened number 43 the Trump family road trip without warning on August 29th 2016 the entire Trump family left their farm and business behind they left their phones credit cards and passports fearing they were being tracked or targeted why they thought that remains unclear by September 3rd the family was scattered across Australia as various family members bailed on the trip at different points Mitchell and ell Trump returned home to Victoria Rihanna was found catatonic in a stranger's truck jacoba was retrieved disoriented in Yas and Mark was located in wangara acting delusional after reuniting the family apologized for the chaos but never fully explained their actions Mark later described it as a quote buildup of pressure on the family while experts theorize that they experienced a shared delusion number 42 the O'Hare incident I don't even start so fly you're seen flying discs well that's what the pilot and the ramp guys are telling us the C7 they saw some flying disc above them we can't see above you didn't see it right hey you guys been celebrating a holidays already there or what you having a Christmas party today many UFO sightings occur in rural locations resulting in a lack of eyewitnesses and lots of skepticism but what about right above O'Hare at approximately 4:15 p.

m. several airport employees including pilots and mechanics reported seeing a metallic saucer-shaped object hovering in the sky above the airport after about 5 minutes the object reportedly shot straight up at an extreme speed leaving behind a clear round hole in the cloud cover this hole remained visible for several minutes before closing up after initially refusing to investigate the FAA later said that this was a weather phenomenon known as a hole punch cloud however the weather conditions on that day would not have caused such a phenomenon leaving many skeptical of the official response some of our employees I don't know if you had anything about this number 41 Kathleen Peterson what's wrong my wife had an accident she's still breathing what kind of accident she fell down the stairs she's still breathing please come is she conscious what is she conscious no she's not conscious the death of Kathleen Peterson has been widely circulated throughout the years appearing in the form of podcasts scripted dramas and perhaps most famously the documentary the staircase Peterson was found at the bottom of a staircase by her husband Michael who called 911 and said that she had fallen however authorities quickly became suspicious of Michael's story especially due to the amount of blood at the scene and the nature of Kathleen's injuries Michael was eventually convicted of murdering Kathleen but this conviction was later overturned and he was released on an Alfred plea in 2017 despite years of legal proceedings and media attention the exact circumstances of Kathleen Peterson's death remain a mystery and the case continues to attract theories the judge agreed with Peterson's attorneys releasing him from house arrest doing away with the ankle monitor he ordered the 70-year-old to stay away from his late wife's family Peterson's attorney said the decision was a long time coming number 40 Robert William fiser fire can you see it big fire you bet I can see it some house just exploded and ignited on fire on April 10th 2001 the house belonging to Robert William fiser exploded and the bodies of his wife and two children were found inside Fisher himself was nowhere to be found following an investigation it was discovered that the house had been intentionally demolished and that Fisher's family had been murdered prior to the explosion naturally suspicion immediately fell on fiser himself who was still missing 10 days after the murders on April 20th the car belonging to Fischer's wife was found in a forest near young Arizona about 130 Mi Northeast of the fiser home it's believed that fiser murdered his family dumped the car and fled on foot and his whereabouts remain unknown it's hard to think that he's still alive but we have to look at this and say he's out there number 39 Ray grear now nearly a decade later the debate over what happened to grear continues with questions and not many answers a missing lawyer Ray grear served as the district attorney of Center County Pennsylvania serving for 20 years between 1985 and 2005 unfortunately he disappeared on April 15th of that year after going for a drive his Mini Cooper was found abandoned in a parking lot in Lewisburg Pennsylvania but grear himself was nowhere to be found his laptop and its hard drive were later found in the nearby Susana River but in different locations suggesting the hard drive had been removed making the story even stranger a search of GRE car's home computer revealed searches like how to wreck a hard drive raising the potential of a planned dis appearance unfortunately GRE car's body has never been found and no one knows what happened to him and keep in mind this is still a missing person's case not a criminal investigation but early on even from the start there were questions about was the investigation mishandled that there were some missteps in those early hours when Ray grear went missing in 2005 number 38 the igala mass kidnapping September 26th 2014 43 men were abducted in igu Mexico following an intense shootout all 43 were students at the io chinapa rural Teachers College and they were taken by allegedly crooked police officers unfortunately Mass corruption in Mexico has resulted in a ton of unanswered questions the Mexican Army and federal officials have been uncooperative and investigations into the kidnapping have been continuously hampered several local officials and gang members have been arrested but no one has been convicted and no single person or body has been found responsible as of 2024 the remains of three of the men have been found and identified but no one knows what happened to the other 40 or even why they were taken no matter where the missing might be we the parents are not going to stop until Justice is done Filipe deuz said number 37 Kyle fleshman anything that anybody information that anybody has uh or that they have heard you know talk overheard from someone else talking about it you know please we do ask them please come forward this 24-year-old was a recent graduate of North Carolina's Elon University when he disappeared on November 9th 2007 fleschman was drinking with some friends after attending a comedy show and left the bar around 2 a. m.

suspiciously leaving behind his coat and bank card between 2:30 and 3:30 fleshman made various calls to his roommate sister father and even his own voicemail however none of these calls were answered raising suspicions about a potential Panic or desperation unfortunately answers were never provided as fleshman did not return home his phone last pinged near North Davidson Street in Charlotte and despite extensive search efforts no significant evidence has surfaced regarding his whereabouts well Kyle's father tells us he hasn't heard from cmpd since 2013 and he still has several questions about his son's case number 36 the killing of Missy beavers 5 years ago a North Texas fitness instructor was killed as she was preparing to teach a class in a North Texas Church Church Midlothian police as of tonight have not called her killer but they're not given up hope around 5:00 a. m. on the morning of April 18th 2016 a woman arrived at the Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian Texas to attend a fitness class instead she found the bloody body of her instructor 45-year-old Missy beavers beavers had been murdered by a blunt force weapon with a hammer being found near her body the case received national attention when surveillance footage was released showing an unknown individual dressed in full tactical gear wandering the halls of the Church the suspect was seen casually strolling the Halls while methodically opening doors and breaking glass with a handheld Weapon It's believed that this person is beaver's murderer but no arrests have been made and the suspect has not been identified we've all watched uh those horror movies where you say you got to get out of that house and uh you know and this was the real thing number 35 Timothy pittson we are not done I am not done until I can see Tim standing in front of his dad and then I'll feel complete like the circle is closed this 6-year-old disappeared on May 11th 2011 after his mother Amy fry piton took him out of school for the next few days the pittson embarked on a family road trip traveling to various Resorts and amusement parks throughout Illinois and Wisconsin on May 14th Amy was found dead in an Illinois motel room having taken her own life she left behind a mysterious note claiming that Timothy was quote safe but would quote never be found the note also stated that he was with people who cared for him but these people have never been identified and indeed young Timothy has never been found although many people believe that Amy killed him given her mental health in the cryptic wording of her note you will never see him again had Amy really found someone willing to secretly adopt her son or had she done something to Timothy she didn't want people to know about number 34 Mora I cannot believe that it's been this long um but at the same time it feels like it was just yesterday described as quote the first mystery of the social media age the case of Mora Murray has baffled True Crime enthusiasts and amateur sleuths for decades the nursing student was exhibiting strange behavior before her disappearance and told her professors that she was taking a week off for a family death however Murray's family has denied any deaths or emergencies at around 7:30 p.

m. on February 9 2004 Murray crashed her car on New Hampshire's Route 112 and fled the scene with her phone and wallet also missing was some liquor that Murray purchased earlier in the day neither She nor her belongings have ever been found and no one knows where she was going or why she fled School in such a frenzied State last summer a large-scale grid search was conducted under the Helm of a new lead investigator the latest Push by Mora's family is a billboard campaign and the family says it's already generating new leads number 33 Chris Kramers and lisan fr hi before the break I told you the story about two Dutch women who went missing in Panama in 2014 their disappearance revealed more than 50 cases of missing women and girls in the area these Dutch tourists disappeared in April 2014 while hiking in Panama concern grew when Kramers and fr missed a scheduled tour the following day and an extensive search for the women was launched fr's backpack was found 10 weeks later holding various belongings including both of their phones these phones provide unsettling evidence like numerous emergency calls that failed to connect and dozens of dark photos that had been taken during the night unfortunately the women's remains were later found along the same Riverbank confirming that they had indeed perished however multiple questions still remain like what exactly happened to them and why they were taking pictures in the middle of the night when I heard about the story I just couldn't turn away first of all is the classic tale of young girl gets lost in the woods and the Rumor Mill was saying everything from they were eaten by wild animals to both of them fell off a cliff number 32 Brian Schaefer after the women leave Brian is seen re-entering the bar just before 2: a. m.

we seen Brian go back off the camera and unable to locate him leaving the building on March 31st 2006 medical student Brian Schaefer went out with some buddies to celebrate spring break around 2: a. m. Schaefer was seen on camera talking to two women outside the bar he then appeared to re-enter the establishment but was never seen again the case attracted significant attention mostly due to the bizarre mystery of schaer seemingly never leaving the bar he did not exit from the main entrance and while the bar did have a back door it led to a busy construction site at the time some believe that Schaefer may have been intoxicated left through the back door and stumbled to his death in the sight but no body remains or belongings were ever found I always get the question asked you know what do I think happened is Brian alive is he still out there um my answer to that is there is nothing to indicate that he's not out there number 31 the anthrax attacks 5 years after the attack amerithrax investigators are nowhere near an arrest I wouldn't say stuck what I what I would say is it just meant there would be a lot of long days trying to get through all the potential subjects the 21st century did not get off to a good start just one week after 9/11 letters containing Anthrax spores were sent through the US Postal System killing five people and infecting a further 17 the FBI launched a massive investigation named amerithrax leading them to a microbiologist named Bruce Ivans however Ivans took his own life after learning that he was a suspect effectively bringing an end to the story if Ivans was responsible we still don't know what his motive was although some believe he was trying to get funding for anthrax vaccine research however many are not convinced of his guilt including the the National Academy of Sciences which criticized the FBI's investigation and result will likely never know the full truth but if Ivans mailed the letters what possibly could be the motive why terrorize the country number 30 the mysterious shrieks of Forest Grove Forest Grove Oregon is a sleepy 30 minutes west of Portland this small Northwestern Town made a splash in 2016 when residents reported hearing a shrill Supernatural shriek nobody was able to pinpoint the source of the Eerie shrill noise the shrieks seemed to permeate the air coming from anywhere and everywhere all at once it's hard to identify what angle it's coming from because it just kind of encompasses the area some said it sounded like a ghostly train but there are no tracks near Forest Grove the mechanical screeches ceased as abruptly as they began a few weeks later to this day no one has come up with a reasonable explanation now number 29 Kiren horman's disappearance missing but not forgotten I pray to God every single day that Kiren comes through that door The Disappearance of young Kiren hormon from Skyline Elementary in 2010 sparked the largest investigation in Oregon's history kirn's stepmother Terry said she attended the school science fair with him then left as he walked to his class something happened to Kiren because he never made it to class the case attracted national attention and the FBI rolled into town to head the search 1300 people hailing from all three west coast states searched for Kiren but never found a trace of his whereabouts when police questioned Terry she failed two polygraphs and appeared to be wrapped up in a murder For Hire plot against her husband despite that she was never connected to The Disappearance and the investigation remains open his mom drives up to the Portland area at least once a year if not more to work with law enforcement to keep this case active and to bring him home number 28 medieval porpus grave quite a nice uh flat uh base put on the pit certainly some effort was was made uh in uh was taken to sort of cut it out nicely in 2017 British archaeologists were Excavating a medieval site on Chappelle Damu a tiny Channel Island in the English Channel off the French Coast amid the 600-year-old ruins the researchers discovered a small grave when they dug up the grave they were shocked to find the centuries old remains of a porpus theories about why these medieval Islanders buried a porpus abound were they preserving porpus meat by burying it were they showing respect to an animal did they think it was a mermaid without a time machine the purpose of this porpus grave will forever remain a mystery number 27 the murder of Hayman Lee in 1999 Hyman Lee was a high school student in Baltimore Maryland she went missing in January and her body was discovered a month later investigators say her body was partially buried approximately 100 yard off the roadway police are investigating this case as a homicide the subsequent arrest trial and sentencing of her ex-boyfriend Adnan sad were the subject of the hit True Crime podcast serial saad's petition for a new trial was ultimately denied by the Supreme Court in 2019 but thanks to the podcast which criticized the evidence and investigation the case was reopened the da moved to vacate the conviction acknowledging the violation of Sayad civil rights prosecutors in his 1999 trial failed to turn over evidence that could have helped his case in 2023 the verdict was vacated and then reinstated to this day serial and True Crime fans believe that hymon Lee's killer is still out there free number 26 shark brain eating parasite spring of 2017 was a rough time for fish in the San Francisco Bay between February and July hundreds of dead fish washed up onto the shore one senior fish pathologist which really is a thing estimated that around 1,000 leopard sharks and hundreds of bat Rays died along with them were hundreds of other fish and sharks it baffled scientists for months until a researcher discovered brain lesions in a dead shark scientists delved further and discovered evidence of a fairly common fish killing brain parasite with that mystery solved one remained how did parasites native to the Sea of Japan jumped to species in San Francisco while there are many theories there are are no answers number 25 who hijacked the signal Comcast cable TV customers in Southern Arizona are still reeling about this during the late 2000s Comcast was the victim of several hijacked cable signals in 2007 an unknown signal Thief hacked into the Disney Channel feed perhaps inspired by Fight Club he spliced adult-oriented footage into a children show for some viewers in New Jersey [Music] nobody knows that they saw it but they did a similar incident occurred in Arizona 2 years later during NBC's broadcast of Super Bowl 43 30 seconds of adult oriented footage interrupted the Cardinals and the Steelers in that instance the FBI found the culprit a disgruntled Cox Cable employee the perpetrator of the Disney Channel incident however was never found number 24 twin Twisters during this era of extreme weather induced by climate change twin tornadoes are not especially remarkable some powerful systems can even generate three or four funnels at a time normally the funnels are different in both size and strength the two tornadoes that destroyed the town of Pilger Nebraska in 2014 however were unique so this is incredible um you could see even in the Forefront the whole thunderstorm rotating that's what we call supercell first they were almost identical in size and strength one measured at an ef3 and the other an ef4 even more strange both tornadoes rotated in the same direction which almost never happens with multiple tornadoes while similar events do happen they are exceedingly rare this has been a historic outbreak guys there's been numerous violent tornadoes rotating around each other this is going to be one that's probably going to be studied by scientists for many many many many years to come number 23 rainning bird corpses a very bizarre story in Southern New Mexico birds are dropping dead researchers say it's not normal in the middle of the covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 citizens of New Mexico could be forgiven for thinking that the world was about to end in addition to the plague of the Corona virus thousands of migrating birds began to fall from the sky dead hundreds of golden warblers iridescent swallows pale fly catchers and others were found dead all over the state many were emaciated and appeared to have died from starvation and hypothermia some scientists think the smoke from California's wildfires forced the birds to adjust their migration patterns others think the changes were caused by droughts either way it seems as if climate change was the culprit a dark sign for the future of biodiversity on the planet some of these populations are already struggling and to add something like this to it is is devastate number 22 The Disappearance of lar mittank the story of Lars mittank a German tourist in Bulgaria is truly bizarre on vacation in Varna mitton and friends were enjoying life at a beach resort there mitton was involved in a bar fight with fellow German soccer fans during the fight he ruptured an eardrum and hurt his jaw the injuries delayed his return home with his friends the next day he became paranoid miton called his mom claiming that men were out to Rob or murder him CCT TV footage showed him agitated pacing the hotel Halls at the airport the next day mitton was cleared to fly by a doctor but was visibly agitated claiming to fear for his life the tourist abandoned his luggage ran into the forest and vanished forever number 21 void in the Pyramid of kufu the Pyramids of Giza were built over 4,000 years ago but are still making us ask all sorts of questions the scan pyramids project was launched in 2015 to hopefully answer some of these aiming to investigate the pyramid's internal structures using Imaging techniques that won't damage The Monuments but 2 years on an enormous void set to be the size of an airplane was found within the largest pyramid of kufu theories about the void range from it being a way for the pyramid Builders to keep the tunnels from collapsing to it containing an Undiscovered archaeological gold mine at the moment we have no way to go into the void and find out the truth number 20 the Sony hack tonight Federal authorities say the hackers taking aim at a Hollywood giant are doing this for North Korea it's hard to imagine Seth Rogan at the heart of an international incident but that's exactly what happened in the 2014 Sony hack in December Sony discovered that a hacker Collective called the Guardians of peace had infiltrated their systems leaking tons of confidential data in the wake of the hack the collective threatened a terrorist attack at the New York premere of the upcoming comedy the interview if they could do this to Sony who's next on the list it was well known at the time that North Korea was enraged by the film's portrayal of Kim Jong-un North Korean hacker pu Jen yok was eventually charged by the doj and North Korea was sanctioned still many people including Rogan doubt the Rogue nation's involvement some think it was an inside job by angry ex employees number 19 Siberian sinkholes in July 2014 helicopters flying over the yal peninsula in Siberia discovered a vast crater in the wilderness thought to be a recently formed sinkhole later the same month reindeer herders found more of these enormous sinkholes one also in the yal peninsula and another to the east a huge sinkhole on the other side of the country in the chersi range has been dubbed the doorway to the underworld thanks to booms heard inside it's thought that the sink holes form when permafrost melts due to Rapid global warming some theories link this process to explosions of underground natural gas reserves whatever the cause of the strange sink holes is it's definitely not good if such uh cratus uh will take place uh in the industrial region uh it could be quite serious disasters number 18 what did Brandon Swanson see in the early hours of May 14th 2008 Brandon Swanson a college student from Minnesota drove his car into a ditch on his way home from a party the car wouldn't start so he did what anyone would do and called his parents who drove out to get him Brandon stayed on the phone for over 45 minutes but his parents were unable to find him at 2:30 a.

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