Top 30 Cryptic & Disturbing Mysteries from 2021 | Solved & Unsolved Cases Compilation

From the outside looking in ramon souza was living the dream the former pro boxer was doing very well for himself back in 2009 he owned a gym in houston texas was raking in the dough was attending parties with the rich and famous and best of all was about to marry the woman of his dreams lulu dorantes a mexican living in the usa on a visitor's visa family life suited ramon well as all of his friends would tell you the guy was made to be a husband and as ramon himself put it his loyal fiancee lulu

treated him like a king as one family friend said she was great she'd bring him coffee and get up every morning with him and make him breakfast i just thought it was really neat their relationship you know they got along really well everyone thought lulu was the model partner kind generous and loving but there was one person who wasn't so keen on her ramon's daughter mia mia knew that the face that lulu showed the world was really A mask and that beneath that warm exterior was a cold-hearted woman who only cared about two things money

and herself lulu hated ramon spending money on mia or any of his other children for that matter in lulu's mind ramon's free time and money was reserved for her and her children mia would complain about this to her father but her words usually fell on deaf ears rahman had been taken in by lulu's charms long ago and for the most part he sided with his wife all he had ever seen was the good in her the mask that she wore by march of oh nine mir and her father had drifted further and further apart to

the point that when ramon and lulu got married she didn't even attend their wedding but it seems that mia wasn't the only one who knew about lulu's dark side just after the couple exchanged their vows and were legally wed lulu's mother came up to ramon and whispered something in his ear now she's your trouble nonsense thought ramon my wife's no trouble at all i can trust her by 2010 ramon's business was doing so well that he opened up a second gym in houston this time with His wife lulu by his side she worked alongside him

as a personal trainer and also took care of the books it wasn't long before the couple were making twenty thousand dollars a month in profit but despite the sweetness of all that cash this was when their relationship started to sour lulu began telling her friends that ramon was lazy and that she was doing the lion's share of the work whether that was true or not lulu evidently decided she was entitled to a bigger cut of the profits the gym was getting busier ramon was taking on more and more clients but for some reason the gym's

earnings weren't increasing he began to suspect that his once trusted wife was stealing money from the business his suspicions weren't misplaced lulu was skimming extra money and was using it to pay for a divorce attorney she filed for divorce and made baseless claims that ramon was violent and physically aggressive towards her even so the couple continued to live together during their separation albeit on different floors of the house this is where things took a supremely dark and unexpected term The divorcing couple had a mutual friend named mundo while mundo was at their gym he happened

to overhear a conversation that lulu was having with her daughter of all people inside the gym's office lulu was saying that one of her customers knew a hitman a guy from mexico who chops people up for money and saying how they could potentially use him to make ramon disappear that way the two gyms would be hers and hers alone as well as the house all of ramon's assets and the cash from his life insurance policy after hearing that mundo approached lulu in private and said that he himself knew someone who could do the job for

her instead someone reliable professional trustworthy lulu trusted mundo and told him to set things up with the assassin but much like rahman shouldn't have trusted lulu lulu shouldn't have trusted mundo not about to let his friend be murdered mundo left the gym and called ramon hey man lulu wants to kill you he said before explaining the entire situation Ramon was in disbelief he knew his wife had fallen out of love with him sure but he didn't think she'd take things that far in his mind hiring a contract killer to take out your spouse was something

that only happened in hollywood movies not in real life not to him ramon went straight to the police and asked them to help him but there was very little they could do without any evidence so mundo and ramon decided to hatch their own sting operation using disposable phones the two of them would message one another about the fake hit mundo playing himself ramon playing his own killer mundo then showed these messages to lulu who in turn became more confident that this contract killer was legit it also made it less likely that she'd go ahead and

hire a real killer in the meantime though that of course didn't stop ramon from looking over his shoulder during those days he lived in constant terror that someone was already out to get him and even slept with a pistol under his pillow just in case and remember during this time lulu Was still living in the same house as him all he could do was play dumb and hope for the best the real turning point in nesting was when mundo secretly recorded this conversation with lulu now with lulu on the hook and with recorded evidence that

she genuinely wanted to kill her husband the authorities were finally able to get involved they set up a meeting between lulu and a hitman a hitman played by an undercover detective on the night of july 20th 2015 lulu drove to an empty parking lot bringing with her 500 dollars as a down payment for the hit as well as roman's own watches and jewelry in a sense she was making ramon pay for his own execution lulu met the undercover agent paid him and drove off into the night with cash exchanged the cops could now prove intent

but to really give them an airtight case there was one last thing they had to do they had to watch makeup tutorials on youtube i'm not even joking from those makeup videos the detectives learned how to apply some realistic looking makeup onto ramon's face and make it look like he was a dead body they had him lay in a Shallow grave with a fake hole in his head and took a photo of him pretending to be dead then had him lay low for three days so lulu would think he really was taken care of nobody

knew where i was even my family said ramon everybody was looking for me i was very very upset rage and sadness all the emotions came through me on july 23rd a final meeting was set up between lulu and the undercover agent posing as ramon's assassin this time they were going to film the entire thing lulu arrived just as planned and stepped into the undercover agent's car it's done said the agent we got him today and this morning lulu paid him a thousand more dollars and after receiving it the agent took out his phone and showed

her the photo of ramon dead in a ditch the dumbass fought said the agent he fought replied lulu she then laughed at the thought of it there was no sense of remorse or regret or even shock as she stared blankly at the picture of her husband she was ice cold the agent recounted ramon's final moments and how he had pleaded for his life well he won't wake up anymore lulu said before laughing psychotically again she promised To get the killer the three thousand dollars she still owed him then exited the vehicle and drove off once

more the following morning officers went to the gym and asked lulu if they could talk to her in private for a few minutes they acted as if they were doing a wellness check on ramon and asked lulu as she knew where he was lulu acted coolly feigning ignorance as if she hadn't just tried to have ramon killed finally the cops ended their charade and told lulu she was under arrest as they led her to the cruiser outside it finally dawned on her she'd been duped with so much evidence against her lulu took a 20-year plea

deal she also had to give her share of the gym and house to her still very much alive husband ramon the detectives determined that rahman hadn't physically hurt lulu like she had claimed and didn't pursue any charges related to those baseless assertions the former pro-boxer had just survived the biggest fight of his life and with his now ex-wife's plot boiled and her true nature exposed he was able to start repairing the damage to his own reputation As well as his relationship with his daughter mia the one thing he'll likely never be able to fix however

is his ability to trust any romantic partners ever again now how could you resist a smile like that this interesting looking gentleman is satoshi uematsu a young man who recently became infamous throughout japan for all the wrong reasons fresh out of college satoshi began working as a teacher at an elementary school but quickly decided that kids were much too stressful to deal with they had too much energy we're too hard to control as such at the young age of 23 he left the school to take on his new role as a carer at yamaurien a

residential care center for people with intellectual and physical disabilities set in almost eight acres of beautiful woodland in sagamihara kanigawa the center was home to 149 residents their ages ranging from 19 to 75. all of their conditions varied wildly some of them able to exercise and enjoy the stunning surroundings others completely unable to get out of bed it was the latter that satoshi took an interest in in february 2016 after working At the facility for three years satoshi suddenly resigned without any explanation his colleagues were surprised the now 26 year old was considered a diligent

hard-working considerate and friendly young man and his resignation seemingly came out of nowhere and was perceived as strangely out of character and rude others were sad to see him go but weren't surprised satoshi's attitude and entire personality had started changing in the past few months sure that could have been down to job dissatisfaction but they sensed it was something more something deeper the same month he left the care home satoshi traveled to tokyo and attempted to deliver a handwritten letter to japan's speaker of the house of representatives taramori oshima he went directly to oshima's house

to do so but was intercepted by security guards and turned away the next day he tried and failed again and so left his letter with oshima security oshima eventually got around to reading it it was a horrifying read the letter talked about how it should be legal for disabled people to be killed at the request Of their guardians and how satoshi needed oshima's help to deliver the message to japan's then prime minister shinzo abe in the first half of the letter satoshi wrote i envision a world where a person with multiple disabilities can be euthanized

with an agreement from their guardians of course when it's difficult for that person to carry out household and social activities these slayings he said would be for the sake of japan and world peace bizarrely or more bizarrely i should say the letter detailed how these deaths would benefit the global economy and quote unquote prevent world war iii the second half of the letter was much more disturbing than the first however in that second half he detailed his plan to break into two facilities and said that he planned to kill 460 people he said that he'd

tie up the staff and wouldn't hurt them and would slay all the patients quickly and painlessly as not to make them suffer too much there was nothing to worry about however he promised to turn himself in after all the carnage was over at the bottom of the letter satoshi left his name contact information and home address needless to Say oshima didn't deliver the message to prime minister abe and instead gave it to the police satoshi was apprehended and committed to a mental hospital for 12 days after which he was deemed not to be a threat

and released the decision to release him would have dire consequences on july 26 2016 at 2 10 am satoshi took a trip to his old workplace the sakui yamaurien care center using a hammer he broke in through a glass window on the bottom floor he tied up one of the only staff members on duty and took their keys he then made his way down the hallway going from room to room stabbing each sleeping patient in the neck with a sharp blade that he had brought with him at 2 30 am a full 20 minutes after

he had broken in other staff members finally called the authorities and reported what was happening due to the facility's remote location it was going to take them some time to get there at 2 50 am satoshi was caught on camera leaving the building 10 minutes after that the police finally arrived and found no trace of him anywhere in the surrounding area 29 ambulances also arrived at the scene and saved as many residents as they could in total 19 patients died from their neck wounds 10 female 9 male the youngest deceased victim was only 19 years

old a further 26 were injured 13 of them critically while satoshi stayed true to his promise and two hours after his massacre he turned himself into the authorities bringing with him a bag full of sharp and bloody blades the incident was immediately recognized as one of the worst attacks committed on japanese soil in modern history all of satoshi's former co-workers were in disbelief when they heard the news some of them knew that he had become slightly unhinged but they never suspected he'd do something like this satoshi's defense lawyers argued that the young man wasn't mentally

fit to stand trial according to them the young killer often partook in let's call it the devil's lettuce now culturally speaking the japanese don't view the green herb the same way we do in the west and the defense team tried to suggest that puffing the magic dragon had made satoshi crazed a murderous As such he was examined and it was determined that he was competent and able to stand trial that didn't stop satoshi from trying to act as crazy as possible during his time in court however and at one point he even tried to bite

his own finger off in front of the judges his antics were all in vain on march 16th 2020 nearly four years after taking 19 lives satoshi was sentenced to death by hanging though he said he wouldn't appeal and that he accepted the sentence the remorseless satoshi was convinced he didn't deserve it claiming that people unable to communicate and care for themselves quote unquote create unhappiness in society and that they have no heart since there's still a big stigma surrounding people with disabilities in japan satoshi was genuinely surprised that his actions didn't receive more support as

of making this video the date of satoshi uematsu's execution is yet to be said thirty-year-old stannis lavrashetnikov was a youtuber from russia who gained a small fanbase with his video game related content which he uploaded to his channel staz reflay When he wasn't making gaming videos you could usually find stats live streaming on the site or more accurately trash streaming trash streams are pretty much bottom of the barrel entertainment where viewers pay the streamer money to do embarrassing things on camera as you can imagine depending on the sordidness of the audience and the brazenness of

the streamer these types of live shows can go south pretty quickly with the internet being what it is that happens quite often and happened regularly on the stass replay channel stass had a reputation for being cruel to his quote quote-unquote co-stars during the live streams doing things like pepper spraying his girlfriend multiple times forcing another man to drink oil or for the sake of donations even still nobody expected things to go as far as they did during the russians final live stream on december 2nd of last year stass and his girlfriend valentina were streaming live

alongside their mutual friend marina to begin with they stream themselves eating drinking and just hanging out things eventually took a turn for the worse however when a viewer suddenly paid stats One thousand dollars this payment came with a request i want you to beat valentina and lock her outside in the freezing cold this is when the stream became uncomfortable viewing seeing how much the guy had paid stass wanted to honour the request the couple began screaming and arguing with each other and things escalated to the point where valentina grabbed a blade from the kitchen and

held it out in front of her for protection undeterred stass tore a full of valentina's clothes poured cold water all over her and began dragging her towards the balcony she desperately tried to grab a jacket but stass refused to let her he tossed her outside without anything to keep her warm and locked the balcony doors this being moscow in the wintertime the temperature outside was sub-zero around minus eight degrees celsius the stream continued with just us and marina though all the while valentina could be heard banging on the door outside begging to be let back

in the marina appeared concerned stass was apathetic to her please and he left valentina outside on The veranda for over two hours he wanted his anonymous benefactor to get his money's worth time went by and marina left leaving stass alone in the apartment when he finally went to let valentina back inside he found her unconscious her skin a whitish blue with the camera still rolling he dragged her back inside for all his viewers to see finally realizing what had happened he began trying to wake valentino up and could be heard saying things on stream like

valya are you alive my bunny what's wrong with you bunny come on tell me something i'm worrying damn i can't feel a heartbeat he continued to try and revive her feebly giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but by that point it was far too late valentina had perished in the cold she was just 28 years old she was in the early stages of pregnancy it was later confirmed that a blow to the head from stass may have contributed to her demise in the final stages of the livestream stars picked up his lifeless girlfriend and placed her on

the sofa behind him before sitting back down in his gamer chair to address his viewers directly Guys no pulse she's pale she's not breathing he then finally decided to call an ambulance he continued to stream while he waited for help to arrive playing music and zooming the camera in on valentina's face he was still streaming when the medics arrived to pronounce valentina they asked us to stop streaming while they worked but he didn't he streamed the whole thing by this point he had over 1500 viewers still tuned in and continued to receive donations from people

telling him not to end the stream he obliged them and continued streaming for an additional two hours after the medics left with valentina the authorities later came to pick him up as this all happened so recently the case against das is still ongoing and is currently being held by the authorities unfortunately due to russia's lacks laws if it's deemed in court that his actions led to valentino's passing he only faces up to two years in prison he still maintains that he didn't do anything wrong unfortunately though the stats replay channel's now gone there are still

many other channels like His that continue to make this type of horrific content especially in russia as long as there's a market for life torment these types of trash streamers will continue to exist it's unsettling to think how many ordinary people there are who get a kick out of watching this type of stream nobody will ever admit it i guarantee that it's far more people than you'd like to believe on the first of may 2014 88 year old world war ii veteran russell dermond was going about his business in the small georgia town of edenton

it was two days before kentucky derby day a widely celebrated calendar date among a certain section of older folks follow the mason-dixon line and every year the german's neighbours threw a party to celebrate having grown up in central new jersey russell had volunteered for the u.s navy during world war ii and had served with distinction in america's atlantic fleet he met his wife shirley around christmas time of 1950 and the couple went on to have four children together the couple were still very much in love in 2014 so when shirley asked him to pop into

town and Pick up a few bits and pieces for the party russell was every part the dutiful husband yet little did the townsfolk and store clerks know that this was the last time anyone would see russell alive the day of the party the neighbors quickly noted that russell and shirley weren't there they'd never missed a year yet but although their failure to attend was worrying their friends and neighbors told themselves that there must have been an innocent rational explanation it wasn't until almost a week after russell was last seen that someone thought to head over

to the dermond household and see if they were okay after getting no reply from ringing the front doorbell the concerned neighbor happened to try the doorknob and found the door to be completely unlocked at first the house seemed empty and it took quite a while to properly explore the 3 200 square foot 1 million property it was only when neighbors entered the house's spacious garage that they discovered anything of note and the discovery was a horrifying one russell durman's headless corpse was lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the two-car Garage his

severed head was nowhere to be seen terrified by this the neighbor rushed back home to call the police and soon their quiet rural community was practically overrun with uniformed officers they closed off the house and began combing it for evidence 87 year old shirley dermond was nowhere to be found and neither was a russell durman's severed head it soon became apparent that his killer must have taken it possibly as some kind of trophy nothing had been stolen there didn't appear to be any forced entry nothing to give police an idea of motive investigators made every

effort to track shirley down but couldn't find a single trace of her it was initially suspected that she had been taken by her husband's killer however just one week later her body was discovered floating in a nearby lake by a group of horrified fishermen her killer or killers had attempted to weigh her down with concrete blocks but her bloated corpse had broken free from its bonds before drifting to the surface forensic examiners determined that she had been killed by strikes from a blunt object And that she hadn't been killed in the dermond family home to

this day russell durman's head has never been found taking his head might have been an act of practicality rather than perversity you see it's possible that russell durman's killer actually murdered him by shooting him in the head and if the bullet was of a low enough caliber there's a chance it didn't actually exit his skull if that's the case an intelligent killer may have considered the ballistic evidence in which case they were faced with a very gristly prospect indeed saw off the man's head and take it with them or leave behind the evidence given the

presence of gunshot residue found in the dermond home there's enough conclusive proof that a gunshot was the cause of death but the frightening reality is that it's actually more likely the killer removed russell's head as a trophy as surely they'd dig around for the bullet pull it out then dispose of the butchered head to distance themselves from the murder yet despite countless searches russell durman's severed head has never been recovered Detectives began to intensively question the german's friends and family they also scoured the couple's financial records for anything that might put them on the killer's

trail russell a king golfer had owned several outlets of the chain restaurant hardy's in atlanta georgia and had gotten rather wealthy in the process it was purported that russell may have made himself a few enemies along the way but not a single person close to him could think of who that might be shirley dermond had been a housewife she had enjoyed gardening playing bridge and doing crossware puzzles they lived a quiet life they were adored by almost everyone who knew them so why were they targeted in such a brutal attack in 2016 the couple's son

keith said that he hadn't given up hope of catching his parents killer but a statement he gave to the media had a distinctly fatalistic tone to it it's very hard to catch somebody when you don't even know their motive you have no clue as to what you're looking for i always thought that you know maybe it was some kind of Serial killer kind of thing just because of the weird things the guy did but a lot of the times serial killers are very hard to catch they know what they're doing keith added that his last

best hope is the police linking his parents murder to another but so far nothing has come up as a match it's been seven years since russell and shirley dermond were murdered seven long years of grieving wandering and begging for justice and in that time a person has been free to roam the state of georgia with the memory of beheading a pensioner locked away in their mind maura murray was a 21 year old nursing student at the university of massachusetts amherst on february 9 2004 she disappeared from the face of the earth after getting into a

car accident on route 112. the events leading up to her vanishing are both cryptic and suspicious to say the least and transform this from an ordinary missing person's case to a truly intriguing albeit bone-chilling mystery just before leaving her university campus that fateful afternoon maura emailed her professors informing them that she was taking a week off school due to a loss In the family that was a lie nobody in maura's family had passed on this got people thinking that maybe maura was running from something or someone even before that day maura had been acting unusually

three months before she went missing maura had been caught using a stolen credit card to pay for meals at restaurants four days prior to vanishing a university supervisor noticed that maura had broken down in tears when they approached her they said that maura was just completely zoned out no reaction at all totally unresponsive two days prior maura accidentally smashed her father's car into a guard rail after possibly consuming a few drinks a few hours before the incident maura withdrew 280 from an atm for unknown reasons sometime between 4 and 5 pm on the day of

her disappearance she set off in her car she made no calls to tell anyone about her planned destination it was some time after 7 pm that maura crashed her vehicle into a snowbank the authorities arrived at the scene her car's windshield was cracked the airbags were deployed but there was no sign of maura murray anywhere Expensive items such as diamond jewelry were found inside the car along with empty bottles maura's triple a card and a book called not without peril a guide to climbing in the white mountains since that collision maura's whereabouts and well-being remain

unknown she simply disappeared from the face of the earth never to be seen or heard from again some believe personal problems got the better of her and she went missing on her own accord others believe that something more nefarious happened to her that she was chased down by some obsessive stalker or that she caught a ride with the wrong guy for the longest time there were no developments in the case then exactly eight years after maura vanished this video titled happy anniversary was uploaded to youtube oh hahahaha that's the whole video this old guy just

stares into the camera laughing then gives a knowing wink the words happy anniversary are then plastered over the screen This happy anniversary video was uploaded on the 8th anniversary of maura murray's disappearance it was uploaded by a user named 112 dirtbag maura had vanished on route 112 and her father had famously used the word dirtbags to describe whoever had taken her this was no coincidence this old man wasn't just making an anniversary video for his wife and then suddenly remembered something really funny this was intentional it didn't take long before other users started making these

connections words started spreading that 112 dirtbag was responsible for whatever happened to maura murray and this video was uploaded to torment her family laughing at the fact that he'd gotten away with what he'd done this was brought to the attention of the authorities and an investigation began despite taking the video off the site the guy behind the channel a man named alden olsen also from massachusetts was tracked down and questioned people thought this was going to be a huge break in the case in actuality the whole thing was a hoax he was just some old

codger who'd become Enthralled by morris disappearance and wanted to insert himself into it in some way it was all just a joke a big funny joke good one olden to this day we still don't know what happened to maura i'm inclined to believe that the loss in her family she was talking about was in reference to herself she then either started a new life somewhere else or ended the one she already had still even though this dirtbag wasn't responsible for her disappearance it's completely possible another dirtbag was we don't have any answers so all we

can do is speculate and hope for the best a big shout out to reddit user hey lurker here for making one of the only english write-ups of this next mysterious incident there's something about the open ocean that's inherently unsettling to a lot of people we all know that the sea can be a cruel mistress and that in her dark deaths she also harbors a lot of equally dark secrets well here's one of them the year was 1968 the place la palma island in the canaries more specifically tatacorte a small town which many transport ships and

fishing vessels called home one such ship at the time was el fausto a ship large enough Sturdy enough and fast enough that it was used for both fishing and transport purposes on july 20th of that year she set sail to el hierro another island only 50 miles south of la palma bringing with her a cargo of agricultural explosives three experienced sailors were on board two brothers ramon and aliberto hernandez and their cousin miguel acosta all of them in their forties the men were familiar with el fausto having crewed her many times in the past after

a seven hour long journey alfasto finally reached its destination and unloaded its delivery while there the three-man crew and a man named julio garcia a fellow native of la palma julio had just gotten word that his daughter back home was extremely sick and he needed to get back to la palma as soon as possible he approached the crew of el pasto and told them about his predicament since the next liner back to alabama wouldn't depart for another two days the three sailors agreed to let julio come back with them free of charge on july 21st

at 2 30 a.m el alfausto and the four men set off on another seven hour voyage back To datacorte well though seven hours passed and alfausto still hadn't arrived back home that wasn't too unusual they could have been delayed for a number of reasons but as the hours passed with no sign of the ship or the four men aboard her the sailors family started to become worried alfausto's owner rafael acosta relative of the three-man crew sent another ship out along the exact same route to search for them surely this boat would come across the el

faster on its way right wrong the waters on the way to el hierro were clear and there was no sign of el fausto sailing back to la palma that didn't make any sense ramon alberto and miguel had made that same journey countless times in much harsher conditions in fact from sailing conditions that day were almost perfect the sea was calm and visibility clear there was only one explanation alfausto must have gone off route for some reason but why elfausto and her crew were immediately reported missing and all other vessels in the area were asked to

keep an eye out for the ship planes were sent to scout the ocean from above It was only a matter of time before el faster was found everyone thought that prediction turned out to be overly optimistic despite it being a clear day neither the planes nor any of the other boats in the area found any sign of elfausto it was like it had vanished into thin air a horrible thought occurred to everyone back on la palma el fausto must have sunk four days passed with no updates just as everyone was starting to come to terms

with the loss of all four souls aboard el fausto the search and rescue team received some amazing news a british ship had reportedly just spotted al fausto floating 120 miles west of la palma how it wound up so far of course was anyone's guess but the british reported that all four men on board were still alive though obviously a little worse for wear and said that they'd be happy to tow them back home to tatacorte for some bizarre reason the crew on el fausto said no thank you the british were confused of course and asked

what sort of mechanical problems the ship had suffered nothing replied el fasto's crew the boat was fine their communications were fine nothing was wrong All four men appeared to be of sound mind and weren't delirious or confused about the situation they once again rejected the british offer to be towed back home and instead simply asked for enough fuel to make it back home on their own the british gave them enough fuel food and water to sustain them for 18 more hours more than enough to make the journey back home when news of this broke back

in tatacorte the locals all began to celebrate their fall lost sons would be home by sunset everyone gathered at the port to welcome back the lost men including of course all their family members there was drinking and music and dancing and a lot of confusion when the sun finally did said and there was still no sign of el fausto the crew's families waited on the dock all night by morning it became clear that the ship was now missing for a second time planes and ships were sent from the spanish mainland all with one clear objective

find the el fausto the government spent over two million dollars on the rescue effort But just like before the elusive hunk of metal had vanished without a trace after two weeks of searching they gave up the hunt it wouldn't be until october 9th two and a half months after the ship had first gone missing that an italian vessel actually came across al fausto floating in the middle of the north atlantic ocean nobody was on board not ramon not alberto not miguel not julio the ship was in perfect working condition there were no signs of fighting

or damage no records or logbooks no indication about what had happened whatsoever not on the top deck at least one of the italian crew members climbed down into el fausto's engine room what he found inside almost made him throw up on the floor in front of him was the unclothed partially mummified body of a man a radio and notebook were found resting next to him many pages in this notebook have been torn out but one remaining page in particular stood out spanish writing covered the page and whatever it said it appeared to be the end

page of a much Longer message the italians told the spanish they would tow alfausto to venezuela and from there would send them all the evidence they had here's where another strange twist occurred in the case two days later the spanish authorities received a telegram from the italian ship according to them while on route to venezuela el fausto suddenly and inexplicably sunk the ship had been lost to the sea taking with it the half mummified body on board and most of the evidence well that didn't make any sense the ship was reportedly in perfect condition how

had this happened nobody seemed to know the remaining evidence that was found on el fausto eventually arrived in la palma julio garcia's wife recognized the notebook immediately and confirmed that the message had been written in her husband's handwriting indicating that the body most likely belonged to julio he had scrawled a goodbye message to his wife in the notebook though it was clear that the beginning pages had been removed the message ended with the cryptic words don't ever tell our children about what happened to me you know that god wanted this vape for me Love you

it's clear from those words that julio knew he was about to lose his life though since his remains are now somewhere at the bottom of the atlantic we'll never know how it came to end for sure why were the beginning pages of his message missing what did they say did they contain an explanation about what had happened where were ramon aliberto and miguel why had el fasto been found so far of course why did the men reject the help of the british ship that found them why did alfas to itself suddenly sink without any further

explanation from the italians why does none of this seem to make any sense to this day nobody knows the answers to any of those questions many theories have been thrown around none of them particularly convincing no matter how you look at it the mystery of el fausto doesn't make any sense with the alfausto now at the bottom of the sea the truth about what happened on board will probably never serve us china has more than its fair share of wild and disturbing cases so that's for sure but here's one that really takes the cake shenzhen

yin and shen chang ping were two brothers Who despite being born eight years apart were both extremely close they did everything together work relax kill women and eat their livers travel the shens are infamous in their native homeland but their antics are basically unheard of in the west so let's start from the beginning it all began in 1999 at the time chang yin was 23 and chang ping 15. they started an auto business together in lanjar city a venture that failed spectacularly the shen brothers had lost all of their money and quickly decided that an

honest day's work wasn't worth their time or energy so rather than getting other jobs to recoup their losses the brothers took to robbing other local businesses instead it was in september of 99 when changin the eldeshem brother took things a step too far and ended up killing a man during a holdup this being china changing knew that if he was caught he'd quickly be meeting with the firing squad as such he took his victims money told his brother what had just happened and the pair of them fled to the city of hanan for a time

they laid low and stayed out of trouble but that Turned out merely to be the calm before the real storm in 2003 the brothers returned to lanjar city while there they met a woman offering her services on the street we'll call her woman number one they paid this woman to come back to their apartment with them once inside the brothers tied her up took her credit and debit cards and forced her to give them the pin numbers if she didn't do what they said they would kill her of course she told them it didn't matter

the brothers killed her all the same by squeezing her neck till all the life in her was snuffed out they then dismembered her body and disposed of her somewhere in the city it's unclear whether this was the first time the brothers had pulled such a stunt but it certainly wasn't the last five months later the shem brothers employed the service of another girl on the street woman number two lee chun ling just like before they paid lee to come back to their apartment for a fun and profitable night she entered and was immediately tied up

and ordered to give them her pin numbers lee Knew that if she complied she was as good as dead instead of begging for her life however she made a deal with the shens if they let her go she promised to return with more victims for them for some reason the brothers were convinced by her words they untied her and let her go telling her to come back soon with some gullible fresh meat you're probably thinking she must have been a good actress to talk her way out of that situation thing is she wasn't acting a

few days later lee really did return to the brother's apartment with a new victim woman number three while he actually did this remains a mystery the shem brothers had tricked her into their clutches and were going to take her life but when she was released and physically apart from them for some bizarre reason she didn't run to the police even more bizarrely she was actually now helping them woman number three was bound and her guards taken the shem brothers then ordered lee to kill her lee obliged once number three was dead the shenz cut out

one of her kidneys buried it outside And then dissolved her body in acid until they could successfully flush her down the toilet from here on out lee decided to team up with the shem brothers the reason for this is unclear perhaps they had made a deal with her offering her a cut of the money they took from each of their victims perhaps they had some dirt on her and were blackmailing her into compliance perhaps she was just scared whatever the case the duo were now a trio and even though lee was free to leave the

apartment by herself and hunt for new victims she never once tried to contact the authorities or simply run away and go into hiding it's not like the brothers would have been able to find her still she played her part and over the next five months the three musketeers or more fittingly mutilators robbed and killed three more women the exact details of these slayings haven't been reported on but it's safe to assume they were all similar to the previous ones now here's where things get really messed up lee and the shen brothers left lanshaw city and

moved into an apartment together in taiyuan a different city over 600 miles away Maybe things were getting too hot in lan chao and they needed a new base of operations while there they hired yet another woman to come to their home woman number seven zhao mei ying when she arrived lee and the brothers forced her to call another woman to come over a sort of take-out service worker this worker woman number eight promptly arrived big mistake she was quickly tied up and zhao was given a blade and told that she had to slay her colleague

and it was either that or be slain herself she chose the former option and the takeout worker was taken out after woman number eight had been slashed to pieces xiao was told to dispose of her in a meat processor that's right their latest victim was turned into human sausages which were subsequently flushed down the toilet just like lee zhao joined up with the shenz helping them slaughter their way from ranks to riches together the four of them moved from city to city claiming lives and credit cards as they went with each new kill they moved

to a new city in a different prefecture Making it extremely difficult for the authorities to link all of the cases together during this time both lee and zhao were given a lot of autonomy and were free to go off on their own and do whatever they pleased with their down time it was clear that they weren't being held captive so why did they decide to stay with the brothers after slaying three more women the gang ended up in the city of xixon and got themselves a new apartment this is where things started to unravel while

they were there something made zhao snap either she had enough of her part in all this chaos or the shem brothers had pushed things too far or she was denied a cut of the money or she suddenly developed a conscience we don't know but she did finally decide to go to the police she told them everything that had happened including the part that she had played the cops quickly paid a visit to the shen's apartment they found lee inside she was arrested and eventually confessed to everything as well the shen brothers however were nowhere to

be seen Despite the authorities actively looking for them shenzhen yin and shen chang ping remained in the city of xi jiaozhuang and even managed to get themselves two more female henchmen dusu wrong 23 and an unnamed female only 16. after receiving an anonymous tip in august 2004 the cops raided the apartment where the shem brothers were now living inside they found the pair of them along with dussuron and their unnamed accomplice they were in the middle of dissolving another victim literally caught in the act the stolen bank cards of 11 known victims were found during

a search of their apartment the shem brothers confessed to everything the robberies the murders the disposals heck they even took things a step further and confessed to eating the livers of most of their victims they said that their motive for doing all of this wasn't money it was simply because they were quote unquote evil yeah not exactly building a strong defense case for themselves unsurprisingly they were found guilty they all were in fact lee zhao do and the unnamed youngster The four female accomplices got 20 years apiece the shem brothers were sentenced to death they

faced the firing squad in 2005 and in navali the shem brothers reign of terror finally came to an end they were 29 and 21 respectively although this case has officially been solved there are still so many answered questions that just baffle me most obviously why did all of their accomplices join forces with the self-described evil brothers i know they must have been scared but they were all allowed to roam freely and they always returned to the shens rather than running away and calling for help perhaps they all feared the repercussions of their actions and were

bound to the brothers that way maybe the brothers have filmed them when they forced them to kill their victims giving them leverage over them this being china there isn't much documentation on their side of the story meaning we're all left to speculate about why they didn't all make a run for it when they had the chance another thing we just don't know is how many victims the shens actually had Sure all the accomplices have confessed to the slayings that they were a part of but the shens may have been active well before coming into contact

with any of them they may have had other accomplices before them as well or maybe even killed other people when their accomplices weren't around the answers to all of these questions and many others pertaining to this case remain unknown to the general public and are likely to remain unknown forevermore on the 3rd of january 2006 dana dostal was making her way home after finishing work as a bank teller in nearby lake isabella california she and her 34 year old boyfriend dale hay lived with his young son in the small valley town of weldon a peaceful

community of less than 3000 residents weldon is often teeming with fishermen during the day but is relatively quiet during twilight hours and has an extremely low crime rate it's this low crime rate that made the events of january 3rd so shocking events that would change dana's life forever because as she drove down a particularly isolated stretch of kelso creek road dana noticed the driver of a strange pickup Truck behaving suspiciously while at the dana later described the vehicle as a light-colored full-size pickup truck with a camper shell that was a shade lighter than the chassis

so i just remember the blaring bright lights you know behind me and i got to a part in the road where i was just like this guy has to go around me i couldn't see so i slowed down real real slow and the truck went around me and kind of like slammed on his brakes in front of me it seemed kind of like a cat and mouse if i sped up a little bit he was right on my tail and i slowed down and he didn't pass it just stayed you know behind me naturally the

strange driver's behavior made dana extremely anxious and the last thing she wanted to do was lead them back to her house in response she began to perform some impromptu evasive driving maneuvers fainting turns turning back on herself or speeding up around some dangerous blind bends in order to put some distance between her and the faceless stalker it was a risky move but it paid off and soon she couldn't see any pursuing headlights in her rearview mirror Satisfied that she had escaped the truck driver dana returned to her home shaken by the encounter but glad she

had avoided any potential danger yet as she pulled into her driveway dana saw a pair of headlights appear at the entrance to her street no she thought it can't be but it was and as the truck got closer she realized it was the exact same vehicle that had been following her stricken with panic dana parked her vehicle scrambled out of the driver's side door and bolted towards her house having heard dana's arrival dale's nine-year-old son ran to the front door to greet her and according to him the strange track drove off as soon as the

driver laid eyes on him by this point dana was inconsolable and wept openly as she described the harrowing ordeal to her boyfriend dale was her rock he had never failed her before and he didn't fail her then he assured dana that he'd protect her no matter what despite being profoundly frightened by the incident dale's reassurance seemed to have worked because the couple then resumed their evening chores the way dana remembers it she got on with doing the laundry while dale cooked dinner A kind of uneasy peace had descended on the household but it was one

that was shattered by the word of dale's young son dad there's someone outside the house the couple walked into the front room of their home and saw a large truck that had parked facing the house it was flashing its lights through the window it was a sight that must have made dana's blood run cold she thought she was rid of this truck driver who had been following her but now they were back and they were taunting her dale was of course furious he'd promised to protect dana and he meant every word of it he stormed

outside of the house with such ferocity that the truck driver sped off as soon as he emerged yet just a short while later they again returned still apoplectic with rage dale marched right out into the front yard and as the truck driver tried to escape again dale began to follow them in his jeep dale's young son willie was getting more and more frightened by the minute and with his father now gone it was getting increasingly difficult to calm him down as a distraction dana put on a movie for her and willie to watch This worked

for a while but as more and more time went by dana became increasingly worried for her boyfriend's well-being when the movie had ended and dale still hadn't returned home dana and willie climbed into her car and went out searching for the boy's father barely driven a mile from the property when she discovered his jeep crashed into a farmer's fence dale was slumped over in the driver's seat with a single gunshot wound to his head he was rushed to the hospital but was sadly pronounced dead on arrival given the circumstances investigating officers quickly concluded that dale

had been murdered by the truck driving stalker he had been chasing off but discovering exactly who that person was would prove to be nigh impossible by all accounts dale was a kind patient and well-liked man in the community he and dana led peaceful quiet lives and she couldn't think of a single person who might harbor violent intent for them yet at the same time their hometown of weldon is an incredibly isolated place with the nearest city being almost 50 miles away as dana put said everybody knows everybody You can't rob a bank there because you're

gonna get caught that's the kind of mindset i had there's no escaping from the valley because you're surrounded by mountains and got nowhere to go so why would you commit a crime here the residents of weldon tried to comfort themselves with the idea that it was some malevolent stranger that had killed dale but in reality it was probably someone they knew someone terrifyingly close to them maybe even one of their own neighbors sadly investigators were unable to uncover any significant leads in the case and it essentially turned cold in the years following 2006 when the

last known tip was called into the police as the years go by it seems less and less likely that dale's killer will ever be brought to justice a person so entitled that they felt they could stalk a young woman down a dark country road before murdering a loved one when he dared attempt to defend her the fact that such a morally hideous person is free to walk the streets is enough to make your blood boil but let it serve as a reminder that we must remain steadfastly vigilant in the face of such predatory evil The

year was in 1976 the place otterbein a small rural town in benton county indiana it was home to the skoogs a farming family who earned 40 acres of corn along benton county road 200 south that evening the family son curtis skoog was outside mowing the lawn when he saw his father norman and his grandfather everett pull up in the driveway in the eldest man's pickup truck in the bed of the pickup was a white cardboard box which had been sealed shat with furnace tape and tied tightly with clothesline while out harvesting in a remote area

about a mile and a half away from the family home norman had come across the mysterious box which somebody had left deep within the cornfield strange the box was blocking the path of his combine so he hopped out to move it he quickly realized that the box was far too heavy for one man to lift alone that's when he called his father-in-law everett and together they loaded it into everett's pickup and brought it back to the house to open it up they untied the line cut open the tape and together the three generations of men

made one horrifying discovery Inside the box wrapped in layers of plastic was what appeared to be something in the shape of a human there was a broken vial of perfume resting on top of it immediately they all knew that something wasn't right sheriff donald steely came to inspect the strange package he peeled back the layers of heavy plastic and all at once a disgusting odor hit all of their nostrils it was the smell of death wrapped up like a morbid christmas present was the body of a woman in the fetal position rope bound her body

together her head was wrapped in paper towels and trash can liners she was partially decomposed and the perfume had clearly been used to mask the odors they estimated she'd been dead for between seven and ten days this was a grisly discovery for sure and the first order of business was to figure out who this woman was that shouldn't take too long thought the officers although the woman had no idea on her she was clearly around 50 or 60 years old and surely she had some family out there looking for her it was only a matter

of time before they matched her with a missing persons report and somebody Came to identify her well that's the thing no one came forward to claim her remains meaning that the woman remained unidentified whoever she was it was clear nobody was missing her this made the authority's jobs much harder and gave them very little to work with the perps in most murder cases are a spouse a close relative or a friend of the victim but without knowing who she was investigators were left scratching their heads as to who to question if the strange nature in

which this woman was disposed of didn't give it away it was now glaringly obvious to the authorities that this wasn't going to be their typical case they named her the box lady of benton county a sketch of the benton county doe's face was drawn up and was made public along with a description of the scene and a number of specific details about her she had brownish gray hair and brown eyes was five foot two inches tall weighed around 160 pounds and was wearing light green trousers and a light green shirt which were in good condition

she wasn't wearing any shoes jewelry or makeup Her distinguishing facial features included an upturned nose as well as abnormally large ears for her small face a scar ran from her sternum to her stomach her hands were covered in calluses she was fingerprinted but didn't match with anyone on the police's database meaning that she had never been arrested and that she was born in the usa still that didn't help narrow things down much after an autopsy it was determined that somebody had shot the dough in the back of the head with a shotgun detectives started to

theorize why somebody would do that to the poor woman and then so heartlessly pack her into a box and dump her in a farmer's cornfield the calluses on her hands suggested that she may have been a cleaning lady if that's the case then perhaps she saw something or heard something that she wasn't supposed to at a client's house and was subsequently silenced they started to wonder if this could be mob related even with the police actively appealing for leads the woman's remains went unclaimed and her identity remained a mystery as such they buried her in

an unmarked grave and turned their Focus to the only other piece of evidence they had the box itself they came to the conclusion that the box had been manufactured in chicago and believe that's where the woman must have been from so they figured they knew where the box had come from now the question was how did it come to be in a cornfield in benton county the spot where the box was discovered was far away from any roads and there was no evidence of broken corn stems leading up to its location suggesting that nobody had

dragged it into the field despite it raining the evening prior the box itself was completely dry meaning that it had been dumped there very recently as strange as it sounds the main theory is that it was dropped there via helicopter none of the other farmers in the area reported seeing or hearing any cars in the lead-up to the box's discovery and given how rural this area is that's the sort of thing these busy outdoorsmen tend to notice there were reports of a helicopter in the area however according to three different witnesses they saw a chopper

hovering near the ground around the area where the box was later discovered there Was also a circular imprint at the scene which could have easily been made by a chopper's updraft if that's the case i'd say it definitely supports the theory that some rich and powerful individuals are responsible for what happened to the box lady pretty crazy to think about in an effort to give the woman back her name benton county does remains were dug up in 2019 and her dna was collected no matches were found as of right now it's been 45 years and

we don't even know the box lady's identity let alone the identity of the person or persons who took her life who was she who were they and why did they do what they did it's sad to think that nobody was out looking for our dough no family no friends surely somebody out there knows who this lady was perhaps one day they'll come forward with information until that day she'll remain the box lady of benton county buried without a name or headstone alive in people's memories not for who she was in life but for how her

life ended hi walter i got a new girlfriend today is referring to a video on youtube originally Uploaded in 2009 by 2150 studios the re-upload is currently sitting at 1.5 million views the video starts out normal enough with a young man sitting alone in a room talking to the camera but he's not addressing his entire audience he's specifically talking to someone called walter as if this video was uploaded just for him the man explains how he had just met the most amazing girl at the mall that day and describes how he went shopping with her

at jc penney's and a jewelry shop with a voice that's struggling to hold back excitement the man says that he brought this goal back to his place i know she hates cameras walter but i'm gonna show you her anyways you ready the video suddenly cuts to a different area of the house we're now in some dingy basement the man opens a door to reveal a tied up woman cowering in the corner of a small bathroom crying and desperately begging for help the man enters the room and slams the door behind him the woman screams and

the video ends abruptly this upload got a lot of people talking a young woman named kayla berg had gone missing at the Time the video went live and some viewers noticed that the girl in the bathroom looked a lot like her fearing that this was more than just a joke several viewers actually contacted the police about the video and the owners of the youtube channel were investigated kayla's own mother even watched the video and said quote it sounded like her looked like her it gave me chills it appeared as if there had just been a

massive development in the case the video started being reported on by the media and the comment section of the video was now filled with outrage this prompted the owners of the channel to leave this comment on one of their other videos we apologize for any emotional harm caused by highwalter i got a new girlfriend today produced back in 2009 there was no intention of it resembling any real person or event the actors involved wished to extend their sympathies to the mother of kayla berg and sincere apologies for the emotional turmoil it caused so as it

turns out this whole video was just an art piece designed to drum up interest in their youtube channel It had nothing to do with kayla berg and it was just a coincidence that the actress resembled her but imagine seeing this before it was confirmed to be a hoax i mean the guy's actually a pretty good actor he sells the part and makes you believe that he really is some unhinged nerdy guy who just snapped one day the fact that he's addressing some guy called walter makes the video appear more personal as well like this was

some sort of revenge video but although this video did turn out to be fake and the creators obviously didn't intend to cause any harm a lot of people really thought this was real back in the day and it's extremely unfortunate that kayla berg's mother was amongst them the year was 2016. narumi kurozaki was a 21 year old who had just been accepted as an exchange student at the university of france besan france adventurous girl she'd always wanted to study overseas and experience living in other cultures her dream was about to come true in september of

that year she arrived in france and began Her studies it was set to be an exciting experience a new chapter in her life unfortunately it was also said to be its final chapter only two months after arriving in bezon narumi's professors started to become concerned when she stopped showing up to her classes her housemates were equally perplexed they hadn't seen narumi since december 4th they assumed that she was staying with someone else or had taken a trip without telling anyone they tried to contact her but to no avail not sure what else to do they

reported narumi missing an investigation into her vanishing began immediately and from the beginning things looked bleak nurimi hadn't used her mobile phone or bank cards since december 4th the last night anyone had seen her alive detectives questioned naomi's housemates hoping they might be able to offer some insight into what happened to the young japanese national one fellow student who lived on the ground floor alongside naremi reported that she heard a scream of terror and a struggle in the middle of the night on december 4th but said that when she Looked out of her door down

the hallway she saw nobody assuming it was just college students being college students and making a lot of noise she thought nothing more of it and went back to bed investigators combed norimi's room for evidence just outside they found a red splattering on a fire escape door it couldn't be determined whether this was blood or not but they immediately suspected the worst on december 26 despite nobody ever being found the authorities were confident enough to declare that narumi kurasaki had been murdered and what's more they had a prime suspect nicolas cepeda contreras a then 26

year old from chile nicholas was narumi's ex-boyfriend the pair had actually met in japan when nicholas was an assistant teacher but had broken up before nurumi went to study in france nicholas himself had gone back to chile and it's unclear exactly why the pair split so nicholas lived in chile and narumi died in france explain lazy gladly Shortly before nurimi went missing nicholas had flown out to bes on song the pair had apparently reconnected they were caught on a restaurant's cctv camera eating dinner together later that evening they were both again caught on camera entering

nurumi's apartment building some time later nicholas was captured leaving the complex alone soon after he caught a plane back to chile it's assumed that he dragged narumi's remains through the building's fire exit an exit which wasn't monitored by cameras he then threw her into the back of his rented car which was later returned covered in mud and went and buried her in a local forest he then fled the country and from his computer in chile sent messages to narumi's friends trying to explain her absence away an international arrest warrant for nicholas was issued but due

to extradition difficulties and the fact that the young man was from a very wealthy very influential family in chile getting him arrested and brought back to france was very difficult as such two french investigators flew out to chile themselves to question him this sadly proved to be A waste of everyone's time since the guy refused to answer any of the 95 questions posed to him the only thing nicholas declared publicly was that he was innocent and that he believed narumi was still alive yeah nicholas that made a lot of sense seeing how nobody had seen

or heard from her since december 4th 2016 not even her family and that you just so happened to be in france with her on the night she disappeared but let's give nicholas the benefit of the doubt let's just for a minute assume that he really did fly halfway around the world to meet his ex-girlfriend have one final goodbye dinner you know for old time's sake and that the fact she hasn't been seen since entering her accommodation building with him is purely coincidental even assuming all that there's still one huge damning piece of evidence that was

uncovered on youtube of all places back in september 2016 around the time nurimi had flown to france nicholas had uploaded a video onto youtube in which he addressed narumi directly in the video he gave nurumi until september 21st to comply with a set of conditions which were designed to quote unquote save their relationship She cannot be making such mistakes with someone who loves her he said in the video some conditions concern her stay in france others apply forever it's unclear what he meant exactly but whatever the case after narumi disappeared in december he quickly took

the video down it later resurfaced after being reuploaded by a japanese user who took an interest in the case so there's our possible motive jealousy if nicholas couldn't have her nobody could since an extradition request can only be made once the french authorities had to take their time collecting evidence and making as strong a case as possible so that they could get nicholas brought back to france in july 2020 he was finally extradited his trial is set to begin this autumn and if found guilty he faces life in a french prison october 3rd 2005 east

of seminole alabama just off highway 90 a group of highway workers made a grisly discovery in a remote wooded area they came across a toolbox two by three feet in size abandoned in the forest they were curious about what could be inside this supposed treasure chest After all it's not exactly the kind of thing you come across every day naturally they all gathered around and opened the thing up the smell hit them before they could look upon their find in the toolbox was a decaying red mass of flesh they all thought it was an animal

carcass at first then they noticed it was wearing pants a belt and a shirt stuffed inside this small box was a fully grown man a wallet was found inside the sticky decaying remains an id card within identified the corpse as kenneth clay pierce a 44 year old from kentucky judging from how decomposed he was forensics estimated that he must have been dead for at least a month countless cars had driven past the woods during that time the drivers and passengers completely unaware that guinness remains were right there discarded on the side of the road like

a piece of trash it was determined that the 5 foot 8 160 pound kenneth was killed before he was stuffed into the box a fracture on his skull suggested that he'd been killed by a blow to the head a strike likely made by a baseball bat like so many others before and after him nobody came forward To claim kenneth's body no friends no family and seemed like the guy was nothing to no one if there hadn't been any id in his wallet then it'd probably still be a john doe not only would his life have

been taken but also his entire identity he still had that at least and that gave detectives a lot to work with they started by examining who kenneth clay pierce actually was for the past 13 years the 44 year old had been living in pensacola florida living what appeared to be a nomadic life the guy had no fixed job and no fixed address he seemed to just wander from place to place sometimes living in a house sometimes on the streets his last known job had been clearing debris after hurricane ivan he had no family to speak

of and no other assets to help the authorities piece together his backstory flyers were put up all around the city appealing for people to come forward with information about who kenneth was about how he came to meet such a gruesome fate nobody came forward from what investigators could gather kenneth didn't keep the best Of company the guy hung out with some bad people and was known to be a heavy drinker he was also known to regularly hit up clubs and bars in pensacola as well as the local shelter after learning about his life the authorities

came to the conclusion that kenneth must have been slain in pensacola for whatever reason and then driven out to seminole where he was dumped that brings us to the toolbox in which kenneth was found with no other physical evidence to speak of this toolbox proved to be the most vital lead of all the thing was homemade crafted from corrugated plastic and not just any old plastic detectives were able to pinpoint exactly where the material had come from the top of a commercial dumpster the kind you see outside of businesses close to the shelter where kenneth

used to sometimes stay investigators found another toolbox inside the back of a pickup truck belonging to a local resident the top of this toolbox was also homemade and apart from its color it was identical in every way to the one that kenneth was discovered in This was a big break the owner of the truck was tracked down and questioned the cops hopeful that they had found their burp unfortunately they were unable to come up with any evidence proving that this man was responsible for kenneth's demise or even that the two had previously met it seems

likely that if this guy had the same style homemade toolbox he either made it himself or knew who sold it to him still this break didn't lead anywhere and it's possible that the toolbox in which kenneth was found was stolen that might explain why no connection could be made either way the police had hit a dead end and unfortunately no new leads have presented themselves since the case is no closer to being cracked now than it was 15 years ago the only thing the cops are sure of is that more than one person is responsible

for taking kenneth's life it certainly shocks the conscience a little bit to think that there are people out there who have beat someone to death put them in a box and literally thrown them out on the side of the road said andre reid with the baldwin county sheriff's office and that's why I say it's important that we make an arrest in this case because what kind of people are those kenneth clay pierce was buried in baldwin county while five strangers attended his service just another forgotten man well that forgotten man remains in the minds of

strangers all around the world who have heard his case and have delved into its rabbit hole who killed kenneth pierce and what were their motives all we know for certain is that somebody out there knows the truth who knows maybe they're watching a much more grounded mystery with a spacey context for this one founded by a man called edward mielnik back in 1990 and travis was a polish cult that held some very strange beliefs to say the least according to mjelnik 8 billion years ago earth was visited by two spaceships one of them containing the

slavic peoples who originally come from the planet atlanta like many other cultists the followers of antravis wholeheartedly believe that the world was soon about to end and that the only way to survive the apocalypse was by escaping in their slavic spaceship In their minds the aliens would return in their ship just before the earth's destruction save the dedicated antrvis members from certain death and take them to the planet marinda thing is the alien spaceship needed to be powered somehow and the only fuel source was the energy found within the people of central europe apparently world

war ii was some sort of plot to kill as many central europeans as possible so that the guy with the chaplain mustache no the other one could escape earth with all his friends pretty crazy stuff anyway it was the early 90s antravis was certain the end was nigh and that their alien spacecraft would soon arrive they needed to get their hands on some of that sweet sweet spaceship power quickly or else they'd all be doomed how did they plan to harvest that power by giving up their body parts many members started to mutilate themselves in

order to help power the ship many male members cut off the parts of themselves that contain the most powerful energy namely their family jewels oh it hurts to even say it what they actually did with these chopped off bits remains unclear Now from an outsider's perspective looking in this could all seem darkly comical but here's where things turn from darkly comical to darkly tragic in their quest to harvest as much energy as possible it seems antravis may have turned to murder in august of 1993 andre cialecki 18 vanished on his way to school never to

be seen again because of his interest in ufology the young man had gotten heavily involved with antrevus and over time his parents noticed that his behavior was becoming weirder and weirder he'd sit alone in his room for hours meditating ignoring his schoolwork and friends over time he started to show signs of fear and agitation saying that he thought someone was out to get him he stopped sleeping and barely ate any food because he was so worried someone was trying to poison him not long afterwards he went missing though many suspect antravis were responsible no concrete

evidence was ever found linking the group to andre's disappearance around the same sort of time another young man only 16 also vanished he too had links to antravis The group liked to recruit younger more impressionable members much to the behest of the inductee's parents in 1995 a pe teacher and fellow member of antravis also disappeared his remains were actually found in the oddra river his head had been batted in and someone had removed his manhood with surgical precision two surgeons who were members of antravis were questioned but the authorities were unable to link them to

the teacher's demise and the case went cold but all three of these cases are still technically unsolved it's strongly suspected that antravis were responsible for the teacher's death and that the two aforementioned boys suffered the same fate at the hands of its members anthravis has since formally disbanded it's believed that they still unofficially exist in poland in an underground capacity since it's extremely common for cult members to become estranged from their families and friends it's very likely more people were selected for involuntary harvest Their sudden and mysterious disappearances simply never reported question is how many

three orangutans one blender refers to a rare online video that few people have ever seen but those who have watched it say it's one of the most disturbing clips in existence rumors about three orangutans started spreading all the way back in 2008 when youtuber damonico uploaded the first ever reaction video to it in the years that followed many many more reactions to three orangutans were uploaded to youtube in all of them the reactor appears disgusted by what they're seeing the same hip-hop music can be heard in the background of each reaction along with the same

screaming ape noises suggesting that all of these reactors were watching the same video as for what the footage is actually of the most famous account comes from a guy called roberto martinez he made an extremely long post about the contents of the video so i'll just give the spark notes version here three orangutans one blender is a real video that can now be found on the dark web It was published during 2006 but wasn't found until later here's what it is so the music makes it sound like it's okay but the video is horrifying in

the video there are these indian or brazilian army men wearing yellowish greenish camouflage they walk into a building and take beaten damaged caged orangutans and brutally cut them up with machetes then begin pouring bleach and what looks like lemon juice all over them before shoving them into this weird machine that is definitely not a blender it's this big machine that has blades that spin like a blender but it's not the machine has no roof but it has a balcony with rails that circle around the top and two steel platforms on both sides above the machine

going across to the other side like a bridge whatever it is it brutally slices some of the orangutans into a bloodbath of pieces while leaving some still alive screaming in agony and pain while some of the men are laughing then this fat guy in a yellow camouflage ski mask comes inside the machine and uses a chainsaw to Butcher six of them they take the last three male orangutans and walk them into a cabin-like shelter where there are three tigers waiting they have the tigers slowly eat and rip off the private parts of these orangutans they

throw the orangutans on the ground taking turns pouring some lemon juice on them before brutally butchering them while laughing and throwing the pieces of their carcasses back into the machine and slicing it all up the video ends there i think the only reason it's called three orangutans one blender is because only three of them lost at the end the video was so gruesome that it became harder to find on the clarinet you can also see that there are human remains inside the machine with the orangutans there are 97 men and 19 orangutans counted in the

video some of them in a shirtless showing off their tattoos it's so messed up you'll wish those guys were dead also all of the men have a strange symbol on their hats or shoulders the video appears to take place at a camp in the middle of the jungle during the afternoon with trucks sheds and cabins in the background The original video was three hours long and didn't have music but the video you'll find is only one minute and 50 seconds long and has a weird hip-hop beat that covers everything except for the screams of the

orangutans and the sound of the machine even though the video was posted in 2006 it has a 70s 80s or 90s quality i'm guessing the real thing took place decades ago anyways you're welcome but seriously don't watch it okay so that's some extremely disturbing imagery but you'll be happy to hear that no matter how hard you try you'll never actually be able to track this video down that's because three orangutans one blender is a myth just like the baby burger video it's based off no such clip exists all of the reaction videos to it simply

made use of the same beat giving the illusion that the clip actually existed roberto's account of the video was just him playing along with the hoax too in fact there are plenty of accounts about what this video actually contains and they all say something different as dark as some of those fake stories are my personal favorite is that It's just a video of someone preparing a smoothie for three excited orangutans kind of wholesome at around midnight on the evening of the 21st of august 1968 29 year old masonry worker antonio lobianco and 32 year old

barbara lochi were driving through a small town about seven miles west of florence italy asleep in the back seat was barbara's six-year-old son natalino but when a sharp jolt suddenly woke the boy up he opened his eyes to a truly horrifying sight the car he had been sleeping in had crashed and behind a cracked and splintered windshield antonio and his mother barbara lay slumped in their seats both of them riddled with bullets that lead fresh blood onto the upholstery natalino then descended into a state of shock because the way he describes it he just ran

instinctually fleeing the scene to escape the mind-shattering trauma next thing he knew it was almost 2am and he was two kilometers away knocking at the home of a complete stranger this stranger said that he was awoken by the sound of a small boy crying open the door and let me in i'm sleepy and my daddy is sick in bed then you have to drive me home because my mother and my Uncle are dead in their car you see antonio lobianco the man who had been driving the car wasn't natalino's father he was a paramour of

his mother barbara one of her many boyfriends barbara was a married woman but was well known for having multiple love affairs throughout her marriage her husband and natalino's biological father was a man named stefano mele naturally italian homicide detectives suspected stepano of being the murderer with jealousy being his motive but a lack of evidence forced them to turn to some less than savory means to obtain a conviction when natalina knocked on the stranger's door he said that his father was sick in bed on the night of the murder but now he was saying that his

father was present at the scene now it's entirely possible that natalino changed this story on his own but it's believed that the police coached him into saying this stefano himself had a hard time proving this wasn't true and a regional prosecutor made such a strong case to a scandal-hungry jury that in the end stefano was declared guilty and sentenced to 18 years in prison It appeared to be an open and shut case a classic example of a jealous lover's crime of passion but six years into stefano's sentence the murder of another couple would exonerate him

entirely on the night of september 15th 1974 19 year old bartender pasquale gentile corey had driven out to a quiet country lane near the small town of borgo san lorenzo about 12 miles north east of florence he was accompanied by his 18 year old accountant girlfriend stefania pattini by all accounts the two of them were very much in love and often visited a popular discotheque known as teen club friends later said that they were usually jolly and carefree but on the night of september 15th the couple appeared to be extremely tense when they were asked

what was bothering them stefania told her friend that a few days prior a strange man had followed her during a driving lesson she had forgotten about it soon after but it spotted that same man earlier that evening almost as if he was stalking her when asked what the man looked like stefania could only give a vague description but added that there was something about this man that she found terrifying The couple departed the teen club earlier than usual before driving out to a quiet country lane this particular roadway wasn't exactly uninhabited as it was a

stretch of road that was known by the locals as something of a lover's lane a place where young couples could escape to in order to get some privacy and intimacy upon their arrival stefania and pasquale found there were a handful of other cars lining the lane some of these other couples would later report that some strange men had visited the area on foot but whether or not they were responsible for what followed is pure speculation the fact of the matter is that the following morning stefania and pasquale were found shot to death in their car

but it was the condition of stephanie's corpse that people found truly horrifying after being shot stefania had been dragged from the vehicle before being mutilated with almost a hundred separate stab wounds her killer seemed to have become lost in a frenzy plunging the blade into her face neck and chest over and over again before disemboweling her entirely Once she'd been mutilated beyond recognition stephania's killer violated her with a grapevine stalk then left her body on display to be stumbled upon by some unfortunate member of the public forever condemned to be haunted by that harrowing sight

the police quickly discovered that the gun used to execute both stefania and pasquale shared the exact same ballistic patterns as the one used to kill antonio lobianco and barbara lochi thus exonerating stefano mele but one man's answer prayer became another man's problem and to the italian police the prospect of a serial killer was most definitely not a welcome one the killer had proven that he was brutally effective but he also demonstrated a terrifying level of patience and discipline it would be almost seven years before he struck again this time on june 6 1981 30 year

old warehouse worker giovanni voji and his 21 year old fiancee carmela de nuccio would fall victim to the man who came to be known as il monstro de ferenze the monster of florence much like their other murders the killer targeted his victims late at night while They were alone in their car he ambushed them with shots from his signature 22 pistol then just as he had done with the previous female victim he pulled her from the car and began to mutilate her only this time the monster of florence began to experiment with a kind of

calling card a sign off just to let the police know they had a serial killer on their hands he took out a notched knife pulled up carmela de nuccio's skirt then cut out her pelvic region entirely before carrying it away as a terrifying trophy the following morning a man named enzo spalletti apparently started talking about the murders before the bodies had officially been discovered this was all it took for the italian police to seek their second false conviction with enzo being jailed for three months before finally being cleared of suspicion the monster of florence had

waited almost seven long years to kill again but it appears his bloodlust was only growing with age because unlike his previous murders which all seemed to fully sate whatever deprived desire drove him to kill the murders of giovanna fuji and carmela de nuccio didn't seem to quench his Thirst for gore and it took just a matter of months before he once again went on the hunt twenty-six-year-old laborer stefano baldi and his fiancee susanna kambi were due to be married in november of 1981 they never got the chance to exchange their vows though as in october

they were both shot and stabbed in the small tuscan town of kalinsana much like before camby's pelvic region had been severely mutilated and the killer had evidently taken a large section of flesh as a trophy the killer's next attack in june of 1982 perhaps makes him more befitting of the name the tuscan ripper so just like his victorian forebearer he was suddenly interrupted during one of his crimes and as a result was robbed of his chance at carving out another trophy paolo mainadi and antonella migliorini was so inseparable that they were nicknamed vinavil by their

friends after an italian brand of superglue that moniker proved to be entirely prophetic as they spent their final moments on this earth together executed by shots from that same 22 while cuddling up in their Car but because the couple were parked up on a relatively busy stretch of road the killer was interrupted by a good samaritan who stopped to see if the vehicle zona needed some help this prompted the killer to immediately flee the scene despite paramedics finding paolo manadi alive at the scene he sadly passed away while receiving treatment at a florence hospital the

morning after the murder an anonymous person phoned susanna camby's mother and her talk to her about her daughter obviously the slaying of another couple was a harrowing and heartbreaking affair but the mistake showed that the killer was getting sloppy growing impatient it seemed like only a matter of time before he made a mistake that would be his last the monster of florence would go on to murder two vacationing german artists wilhelm frederick horst mayer and jens uveirush as well as a young couple claudio stefanachi and pia gilda rottini rottini had been followed by a strange

man hours before she was killed when investigators arrived they found her pelvic region as well as her left breast had been removed killer's final victims Were proved to be a couple out camping in the woods sean michael kravitzilli and nadine moriat their bodies took so long to find that the killer centered taunting note along with a piece of his victim's flesh to the state prosecutor sylvia delamonica stating that a murder had taken place and challenging local authorities to find their bodies but it seems this cry for attention was a bridge too far for the killer

who realized he was playing a dangerous game with the police and the media the killing of the camping couple in september of 1985 would prove to be his final act of bloodshed and for almost a decade the case of the monster of lawrence remained cold with the advent of more advanced computer technology as well as hundreds of tips from the general public a man named pietro pachiani was put on trial for the murders in 1994. pachiani had previously been convicted of both the carnal assault and murder of his two daughters as well as for the

1951 murder of a man who had been cavorting with a former lover after searching his home police discovered an unfired 22 bullet in his back garden It was the exact same variety used in the monster murders pachyani was found guilty following his trial but was released from prison two years later following an appeal which cited poor police work as well as a lack of solid physical evidence two more men mariovani and giancarlo lottie were eventually convicted of the murders and although they remain in prison to this day their sentences have been widely criticized and it's

commonly believed that both men have been scapegoated for an unsolved crime years later in 2001 the chief prosecutor on the case claimed that the murders were the work of a satanic cult who were allegedly operating in the greater area of tuscany during the 70s and 80s according to him the victim's body parts were being used in an unholy blood ritual this prosecutor had apparently discovered a villa in the area where pachiani had been employed the very same villa was home to a large pyramidal stone one that according to him was highly indicative of high-level cult

activity however many have Dismissed these claims as frankly laughable and insist the stone has no significance whatsoever we've previously touched on how the monster of florence might be more suited to the name of the tuscan ripper but perhaps another nickname is better suited the zodiac killer there are those who purport that the monster of florence and california's um zodiac killer are in fact the very same person okay so i know i'm releasing this video at a bit of a strange time so hear me out just a few days ago a group of cold case investigators

known as the case breakers announced that they had identified the zodiac killer based on several pieces of compelling physical and forensic evidence the zodiac they claim was a man named gary francis post this had a lot of people convinced that the zodiac had finally been unmasked especially since one of the zodiac ciphers was recently decrypted however both the fbi and officials in california have shot down this claim and said that gary frances post isn't a suspect in the zodiac case according to local authorities in san francisco The case breaker's evidence is circumstantial at best and

the case officially remains unsolved so with that in mind what's this alleged connection between the zodiac and the monster of florence well in 2018 a trio of italian news publications introduced the public to a man named joe bevelaqua born in the state of new jersey on december 20th of 1935 bellevacqua spent 20 years in the u.s army before moving to florence in 1974. it was there that he gained work at the florence american cemetery a fitting form of employment for someone who allegedly already dealt with so much death the theory's main proponent francesco amicone claimed

that bevel aqua had made a partial confession to him in september of 1997. he then corroborated the details of this confession and found that the zodiac murders had ceased almost at the exact same time as the monsters began and matched a proposed timeline of bellavacqua leaving the us and emigrating to italy belivacua was incensed by such an accusation and publicly threatened to sue francesco amakone if he didn't retract the allegations yet unbelievably amakone Refused to back down and seemed to challenge bellavacqua on a number of supposed coincidences the main being that bellavacqua would have been

an undercover cid agent assigned to an investigation in san francisco at the time of the zodiac murders in the late 60s and early 70s amekone also alleged that bellavacqua would have had access to the case files of a double murder which occurred near florence in 1968 where bullets and shell casings had been improperly stored he went on to claim that bellavacqua replaced the pieces of evidence with spank cartridges shot by the gun he would use in the monster's homicides thus connecting his future crimes to those murders for which he already had an alibi the accusations

were so thoroughly well presented that italian authorities actually approached balabakwa in late 2020 requesting he provide a dna sample in order to clear his name the results of any dna tests haven't been revealed to the public and that's if any test has taken place at all but it seems a chillingly strong argument can be made to support the idea that The zodiac murders lasted far longer and were more far-reaching than anyone could have anticipated to this day even though two men sit in prison many believe the monster of florence has never been caught it's entirely

possible that the murders could simply be down to a sadistic italian serial killer one who quit while they were ahead having no wider connection to other killers let alone an underground network of devil worshippers but at the same time we can't rule out the possibility that el mostro de ferensei and the zodiac killer were one and the same and that a man was able to brutally murder and mutilate young couples across two different continents with complete and utter impunity scary to think about when we're behind our screens interacting with strangers online it's easy to feel

this sense of anonymity like we can get away with saying whatever we want to whoever we want that really isn't the case though especially on sites like reddit in the past there have been numerous instances of people making posts safe in the belief that there won't be any consequences Time and again however those people have been proven wrong there have been people who have confessed to cheating on their partners only for another user to check out their history connect a few dots and realize that it's actually john who's married to their sister there have been

people who have gotten into arguments with other users said the most vulgar things only for the other person to find out who they are and get them fired from their job even if you use a throwaway account sometimes a group of reddit detectives will come together to uncover your real identity that is if the post you made warrants such drastic action some users have even been tracked down and questioned by the authorities or even jailed for admitting to their unlawful actions despite that thousands of people continue to wear their dirty laundry every day on the

site of course most of these confessions are nothing too serious there are however exceptions to that five years ago on r askreddit user purple gerkins asked this question to those of you who have Accidentally killed someone what went wrong of the more than 10 000 replies most of them were either not personal accounts accidental motor collisions or instances where the user was either defending themselves or otherwise justified in their actions interesting reads sure but nothing nefarious but buried in amongst all the replies was one that was very different one that eventually caught everyone's attention a

response left by user archaeology this still haunts me to this day as kids we had a hideout in this dirk cliff cove kind of thing this is the best approximation i can find on google only three times taller and probably ten times as wide there was a neighborhood kid who in hindsight was probably mentally handicapped in some way but to us he was just the weird creepy kid this was the 80s and we weren't exactly raised pc three of us were headed to our base and found creepy kids sitting at the top in our guard

chair we yelled at him to get out and he said something like make me and started lobbing dirt clods and sticks down at us we all ran around the side to make our way up It gets pretty fuzzy here but all i remember is he fell i still remember the sound when we got back down to check on him he was in a very awkward position with blood coming out of his mouth we all just freaked out and ran home and as far as i know no one has spoken a word of this to anyone

we didn't go back for over a month and never said a word of it between us again this was the 80s so media wasn't like today chances are it got a small article in the newspaper b section missing mentally disabled child found dead after fall or something like that some users sympathized with archaeology's story while others started questioning whether the other kid fell accidentally or if he was pushed again archaeology said that his memory was fuzzy but given the title of the thread many speculated that it was the latter but through his main comment and

various others that he left archaeology had given several key tidbits of identifying information and behind the scenes other editors were doing some sleuthing one of them seemingly worked out who the victim was Was it scott kleesholt he went missing in 1988 in saint charles semo correct that would make you around 10 or 11 at the time you went missing he would have been nine scott was last seen not far from his home in the 330 block of laverne's drive walking near a wooded area known as the trails it was just before a fierce thunderstorm swept

through the area as long as six weeks after his disappearance police conducted large-scale searches of the area near scott's home the searches involved digging at a labyrinth of caves in the wooded hillside where scott was known to play with other neighborhood children i don't know if it is this kid if it were him and if the story is what you said it seems likely his body would have been found a corpse of a nine-year-old at the bottom of some land formation can get washed away pretty easily in a storm however if it is or isn't

him you need to talk to your local pd this discovery may have hit a nerve because it was at that point that archaeology deleted his original confession post his account has since remained inactive for the past five years And he offered up no further information about the incident as it stands it's unclear what happened to archaeology whether there was more to his story or if he ever brought the matter up with the authorities it's also unknown whether scott clicholt was really the victim in question but this post and thousands like it proved that you never

know what skeletons someone might be hiding in their closet heck maybe you have a few skeletons of your own if you do take my advice don't go posting about them on reddit or you might just end up in a video like this so this next entry actually comes from a facebook post a post about a youtube ad one that supposedly watches you back there's no footage to go along with it just this screenshot but the text itself paints a very clear and very unsettling picture so back in 2019 a facebook user named raul navarrete created

a post that got shared around and gained a lot of attention it revolves around an enuncio intelligente or smartad now i don't speak spanish but two very helpful people in my discord server do so big thanks to isabo and lavender for translating this into english here's raul's story Something super weird just happened i was watching youtube on my smart tv when all of a sudden an ad showed up as is common on youtube i was gonna skip when i noticed this ad was more than five hours long it surprised me and i called my dad

so he could see the length of the video i took a picture while i waited for my dad to get there the girl in the ad kept talking and by the time my dad got there she directed her eyes at him even my dad joked that she was looking at him my dad and i stood in front of the tv the girl went quiet and we felt like she was looking at the both of us we kept thinking that that was impossible that she couldn't look at us since this wasn't a video call it was

an ad on youtube it was simply impossible for her to see us we laughed at how dumb it sounded and the girl kept speaking but all of a sudden she got close to the screen and we started to feel a little uncomfortable and scared my dad wanted to test if she was looking at us so he said changa a couple of times then something incredible happened the asian girl said changa back in that moment we got scared and i look for the remote to skip the ad Between my dad and i we decided we were

really tired it had been a long day but either way we couldn't ignore this fact and we turned off the tv my doubts are what the hell happened the tvs have cameras if this is true then i can see surveillance being possible and finally has youtube been hacked this thing that happened to my dad and i scared us if something similar has happened to you i'd like to know your story this was mine so obviously there isn't any video proof to help legitimize this story and all we have to go off is raoul's word that

this is true in fairness i have seen some crazy ads play on youtube some have legit been over two hours and i have seen ones that are really unsettling too a lot of them aren't even trying to sell you anything so it's pretty obvious to me that youtube doesn't have the strictest requirements when it comes to advertising on their platform that being said unless there was hacking involved or youtube was testing some sort of new ad function i think the goal looking at them was just a pure coincidence That or more likely raul just made

the whole thing up i'm almost 100 sure it's not possible to even livestream a commercial let alone make an ad that's an actual video chat so as interesting and haunting as this story's concept is i think it's just that a story a good one though described as a pillar of his community joseph martinez was an amateur astronomer and youtuber known to his followers as jupiter joe or jj had made headlines in local papers for his work with young astronomy enthusiasts in the bronx helping them see constellations and planets through all of new york's light pollution

using his high quality telescope but until just this week our friend jupiter joe had been harboring a dark secret one he had been keeping for the past 22 years one that will make you see him in a very different light one that'll make you sick to your stomach on february 24th 1999 mini soriano was on her way home from her middle school in the bronx unfortunately she never made it back to her apartment halfway through her journey she was snatched by a then 27 year old jupiter joe who proceeded to do unspeakable things to Her

before strangling her and hiding her body in a dumpster minnie's remains wouldn't be found for another four days she was just 13. for 22 years investigators were left scratching their heads all they had to work with was a small sample of their unknown killer's dna left behind on mini sweater every time they ran the sample through their system it came back with zero matches this was likely the first and only time their man had struck meaning his dna profile wasn't on record for a time the police believed that the person responsible was either mini stepfather

or a handyman that worked at their apartment building but both of them had solid alibis anyone with even a remote connection to minnie or her family were questioned then questioned again there was nothing to link any of them to her demise minnie herself had a sweet and caring disposition and was known as the cinderella of her apartment block nobody held a grudge against her or her family needless to say with no suspects and very little evidence to work with the case quickly went cold now it used to be that if you randomly killed a complete

stranger there'd basically be no Way to link you to the crime provided you didn't have any dna evidence on file well i'm happy to say that's changing new advances in forensic science have made it possible to track down perps who don't have any dna on record and that's exactly how jupiter joe's past misdeed came to light using new and advanced familial dna matching technology forensic experts were able to map their elusive killers family tree this technique doesn't require there to be a 100 identical profile on record but instead identifies partial matches thus linking the suspect

to family members already in the dna database their search came back with a strong match a male whose dna was so similar to the burps that they must have been their biological father from there they just had to find that man's son joseph martinez a.k.a jupiter joe as it turns out joe had lived in the same apartment building as minnie and her family back in 1999 despite having been questioned back when the case was still fresh he was never considered a suspect now with all eyes on him officers took a sample of his dna It

matched perfectly with the sample found at the scene back in 99 on november 30th of this year joe was taken into custody a historic arrest considering it marks the first time the nypd has used partial dna matching to identify a burp though now 49 year old joe has yet to stand trial with so much evidence against him it's safe to say this case has finally been solved for 22 years he believed he had gotten away with murder well i'm glad to say justice finally caught up with him this is 21 year old university of virginia

student otto warmbier in early 2016 otto was scheduled to visit hong kong as a part of a uva study abroad program but otto had his heart set on visiting a very different asian country whilst on root he contacted young pioneer tours a chinese-based adventure tour company who promised destinations your mother would rather you stayed away from such places included the irradiated ruins of pripyat the wild rocky frontiers of afghanistan and also otto's desired travel destination the hermit kingdom of north korea Otto arrived in north korea's capital pyongyang on the 29th of december 2015. his tour

group included 10 other american citizens as well as a liverpudlian named danny gratton danny remembers that the tour group were a like-minded band of mostly young people and despite their risky location there was an overwhelming atmosphere of fun and excitement naturally all tall groups that enter pyongyang are strictly controlled by the north korean government but during the new year tours the kim regime tries to show its guests that it parties just as heartily as the next country implies the tourists with vast amounts of booze dany gratton remembers the group drank very heavily in pyongyang's one

and only hotel for foreign guests however there is one floor of the yanggakdo international hotel that is forbidden to foreigners the so-called secret fifth floor that houses the hotel staff the fifth floor is devoid of any kind of luxury with bare floors and gray painted walls the only color comes from propaganda posters that line the walls foreign knowledge of the floor's existence has given rise to a kind of fifth floor challenge Daring tourists to venture into the forbidden hallways sometimes just a peek sometimes to take a few pictures those who are caught usually just receive

a warning or have their cell phone seized but at exactly 1 57 am on new year's day a man purported to be otto warmbier was caught on camera entering the forbidden floor this figure supposedly tried to steal one of the propaganda posters then left empty-handed just over 24 hours later otto and the rest of the tour group were sitting in the departure lounge of pyongyang airport awaiting their flight back to beijing danny gratton remembers swapping contact details with otto only to see a gang of north korean officials approaching with a look of urgency about them

otto frederick warmbier one of them said please come with us well that's the last time we'll ever see you again danny half joked but otto didn't look scared at all in fact he gave a kind of half smile as he was led away the group briefly awaited his return but when their plane was ordered to take off without him they began to fear the worst although north korea admitted to detaining otto it took Them six weeks to announce their reasons for doing so that reason being subversion according to the group that otto was with he

wasn't even in the hotel that night and the person in the cctv footage didn't even resemble him still the north koreans went ahead with the trial the picture you're looking at is of otto's first public appearance since his arrest one in which he begged kim jong-un's forgiveness it was a complete show trial otto gave a coached confession admitting to trying to take the poster pretty much just reading from a script if he played along he was told he'd be let go with a warning at this point though it does appear that he broke character genuinely

pleading for his life it was widely believed that the u.s state department would secure otto's release before sentencing however the north koreans shocked the world by condemning him to 15 years hard labor the u.s continued to demand otto's release and after a while the north koreans eventually gave in when things started getting heated however when otto was delivered back to america he was Severely brain damaged and in a vegetative state everyone was horrified the north koreans claimed that otto had fallen into a coma after contracting botulism shortly after his trial possibly as a result of

eating rotten food this is doubtful as one doctor put it for somebody who had supposedly been bedridden for more than a year his body was in excellent condition in otto's case there are definitely things the north koreans aren't telling us having lost all hope cynthia and fred warmbier requested that otto's feeding tube be removed he passed away on the 19th of june 2017. his story constitutes a terrifying cautionary tale that speaks to the mercilessness and brutality of the kim regime looking at this photo of otto begging for mercy knowing he wasn't going to get any

it's truly haunting stuff twenty-five-year-old lee hua better known online as chris lee is or perhaps was a chinese journalist and content creator with almost 70 000 youtube subscribers prior to making his videos he worked for cctv china's biggest state-run news channel Now if you know anything about china it's that freedom of expression isn't high on their to-do list and those who either criticize the government or otherwise make it look bad are often silenced when chris became disillusioned by the amount of censorship going on at cctv he of course decided to quit and instead began filming

his own informative videos this time documenting the truth and giving his own honest opinions if you head over to chris's channel you'll see that he only has seven videos the first we'll deal with let's call it the current global situation the big c they were all uploaded between the 12th and 25th of february 2020 so just when the severity of the situation was dawning on us all he filmed these videos at the epicenter of this whole thing ground zero you all know where chris had heard through the grapevine that a prominent lawyer named cheng kyushi

had started vlogging about conditions in the city while reporting there chen had mysteriously disappeared and to this day hasn't been seen or heard from again Believing there was some type of cover-up going on and that chen had been permanently silenced by the state chris traveled into the red zone to uncover the truth with the help of some locals he was able to find an apartment in the city and got himself a vehicle from there he began blogging chris took his camera to the streets conducting interviews visiting hospitals and exposing the failures of his government to

the entire world and showing how they were intentionally concealing what was going on there but he was saying too much showing too much and it wasn't long before the strong hand of the government came knocking you don't have to be able to read mandarin to get the meaning behind chris's first and only youtube short this live video entitled sos is only 30 seconds long and shows a clearly terrified chris as he travels down the motorway he states that moments prior a white suv was driving directly at him down the wrong side of the road apparently

it suddenly swerved in front of his vehicle in an attempt to block his path and the men inside told him to surrender He instead hit the accelerator and the suv was now following him friends i'm on the road right now being pursued and chased by state authorities who are in an unmarked van the only thing i can do right now is make this video i'm in i'm driving very fast and they're chasing me pray for me soon after uploading this chris made it back to his apartment and immediately began live streaming the stream lasted for

nearly four hours the majority of that time the screen remained black as chris sat in the dark lights off not making a sound hoping the men chasing him would think he wasn't home at various points you can hear them outside knocking on his door after hiding in the dark for over three hours a distressed chris turns on the lights and addresses his viewers oh i predicted this would most likely happen but i never knew they'd buy me so quick i'm not gonna try and escape because there's no use now i just think it's funny before

coming to after i resigned from cctv i had a long talk with my producer it feels so unreal before when i turned on the camera to talk it was for others today i can finally speak My own thoughts but these own thoughts will probably become my final speech at the very end of the stream as chris's internet connection gets weaker and more patchy he begins talking to the men outside his apartment explaining why it's important for a journalist to report the truth and appealing to their decency he then opens the door two men entered the

apartment and the video ends abruptly for two months after that chris was missing he didn't make any more videos and his viewers feared the worst then on april 22nd 2020 after two months of silence chris suddenly uploaded a six minute video titled i'm chris here is something about me since february 26th february 26 was the day he disappeared this video seemed completely out of character the style of the video was totally different from all of his other uploads as was his neutral tone and despite being critical of the ccp in the past now he was

singing their braces and announcing himself he said that he was fine and that he had been treated very well the whole thing seemed oddly Scripted like chris was being forced by the state to make this video against his will he just stands in the center of the screen in some blank featureless room robotically delivering his message chris even ended the video with a strange quote from the book of documents the setting the delivery everything about this video makes you wonder who's standing just off screen since that final video chris hasn't uploaded any new content and

hasn't made any posts on his social media accounts either he simply vanished from the internet with china's dodgy human rights track record many have become concerned for chris's safety and well-being myself included many suspect he's been placed in a re-education camp others fear something even worse might have happened to him but what chris did was incredibly important he expressed the truth about the global situation at a time when true reports out of china were hard to come by he was brave enough to speak out and i fear he may have paid dearly for that If

you're looking for some weird videos that give off strong uncanny valley vibes there's a channel on youtube called florescetadreams let's take a scroll down their home page and oh okay some of these thumbnails are a bit strange yeah this channel is a bit of a trip and that's even before watching one of their videos if you decide to go that far then things only get more bizarre it doesn't help that they're all in spanish either still i don't think you need to be bilingual to appreciate just how weird this content is strange images unsettling sounds

a million questions but as much as i and i'm sure you can appreciate the creepiness of all of these weird images and sounds there's actually more going on under the surface in these videos well in one of the videos at least they're most popular a video titled kinetica del patron celine delgado i don't recommend you watch this video late at night by yourself there are some really disturbing images in it that i'm not going to show here but they're certainly not for the faint of heart so stay away if you're not into that but without

a knowledge of spanish or an understanding of the Context it would be easy to write this whole video off as some sort of creepy art project designed to leave a bad taste in your mouth though there's definitely some intentional shock value here this video actually puts forward an interesting hypothesis first some backstory televita is a mexican multimedia company that effectively has a monopoly on the nation's tv industry back in the 90s and into the 2000s they played this segment on channel 5 called serbicio ala communidad a community service broadcast that would play in between shows

throughout the day the whole thing was designed to help find people that had disappeared very similar to an amber alert during each segment the names and faces of missing people would be displayed one by one and the announcer would tell you their last known location the show is still remembered and talked about to this day mostly by those who grew up watching it when they were young in fact the broadcasts were targeted at a younger audience it played during the commercial breaks of cartoons another family-friendly shows and given the Bleak and somber nature of the

announcements it scared a lot of young viewers one minute they'd be immersed in their favorite show not a care in the world then they'd be interrupted by this period as one youtube user noted in the comment section of this broadcast there you were sitting on the couch sipping a glass of choco milk at 8 or 9 am when the shrill sounds of cartoons and ads for toys and junk food were suddenly interrupted by an agonizing ominous silence the voice of the announcer forever recorded in your memories describing unknown persons giving you dates and describing disappearances

can people really get lost for so long all of the while that ominous silence gloomy and empty made your blood run cold as a wave of questions and fears possessed your mind what if that happened to me or to my mum or my dad or some other member of my family no that couldn't happen to me right so that was the whole premise of the segment missing people appeals for information and if you went missing In mexico there was a decent sized chance that your face would pop up in one of these broadcasts the most

famous face to air during sabithikova communidad was undoubtedly salina delgado lopez during its long television run selena featured in almost every iteration of sabithiko ala communidad the weird thing was only this one photo of her was ever used a low quality grainy image set against a white background little information was ever told about her other than the fact that she was 18 and disappeared in mexico city from the beginning a lot of viewers agreed that there was something off about this photo not everyone could quite articulate what it was exactly but there was something unsettling

about cellini and the fact that her face popped up every so often meant that it stuck with them this later sparked several rumors about her including the theory explored in florecita dreams video that selena delgado wasn't a real person the grainy picture combined with her relatively generic facial features led many to speculate that selena's photo was computer generated As these rumors started gaining traction people began digging deeper strangely no public record of any missing person named celine delgado lopez could be found after that got out this theory became a full-blown mexican urban legend and as

the internet became more widespread so too did the theory that selena delgado never existed to help spread the legend further people started posting hooks videos online like this this image was made around the same time celine reportedly disappeared it's actually a composite of derrick todd lee the baton rouge slayer but has since become associated with celine due to the facial proportions of this composite being very similar to that of selena's face some have suggested that this was one of the templates used to digitally generate celine's photo floracy to dreams makes the same claim they supposedly

proved this by using a 3d modeling program demonstrating that celine's space was made from an amalgamation of other images both real people and other composites according to them selena's face is too similar to these images to be real And that her photo was constructed using features from various spaces if that's true then that means the channel 5 broadcasters intentionally chose to include this fake person in their segment selling this picture certainly left a lasting impression on everyone who saw it so it's possible it was included as a sort of warning to all of their young

viewers stay vigilant and safe personally i'm not sure this theory holds up i mean sure selena's face is pretty generic but by definition so are most people's and yeah the camera is pretty terrible but this was the 90s and poor mexican families at the time wouldn't have had access to high quality cameras there was no public record of selena going missing sure but since 1964 a staggering 214 000 people have disappeared in mexico it's possible her records were either lost misplaced or not even filed in the first place the authorities may have simply had too

much else going on to bother with her not to mention with so many missing people in mexico it's not like channel 5 had to resort to making up stories and lying to drum up attention for their channel So as it turns out channel 5's twitter page caused quite a stir last year when for a while they began posting extremely creepy videos at around 3 a.m every night only to delete them a few hours later so that's some really strange content for a professional company's twitter page to be posting but what really caught everyone's attention was

when they posted this captioned celine obviously a reference to celine delgado now clearly this was all a marketing tactic with the creepy videos all being distorted versions of other clips found online some more famous than others channel 5 themselves are clearly aware of the celine mystery and used her name to get on twitter's trending page but what this goes to show is that channel 5 aren't exactly above this type of ploy making it more plausible that they faked the image of celine back in the 90s just like floresceto dreams asserts whatever the truth behind the

selena delgado mystery her story's been very well known in spanish-speaking internet communities for a long time however a fairly recent Development brought the urban legend to the attention of the rest of the world so if you go onto facebook right now and search the name celina delgado lopez this account pops up the woman in this photo sort of resembles an aged up version of the original grainy photo of celine intrigued users clicked on her profile curious if this might be the real celine was she real after all and if so was she alive to their

horror everyone who clicked on their profile realized they were already friends with her despite never having added her in the first place more bizarrely there was no option to unfriend her people started claiming that she was friends with everyone on facebook and began saying that the profile was haunted or otherwise nefarious the account's profile picture ended up being shared more than 126 000 times by spooch users showing just how far this aruma spread in reality this was obviously all bull this selena delgado was simply an ordinary woman who happened to share the same name as

our subject this celine had simply changed her facebook privacy settings hiding the ad friend button She wasn't everyone's friend on facebook after all it's actually impossible to have more than 5 000 friends on the side after being bombarded with messages this poor woman had to reply to some saying i am not missing nor have i ever been i'm at home with my family and fine to be honest i'm not even sure how this offshoot of the delgado mystery became so popular i guess one day someone just saw that there was no add friend button check

the woman's name and linked it to the popular mexican legend then boom hysteria spread seriously do people not know you can change your settings on facebook since then there have been no new developments and the truth about the original delgado broadcast remained shrouded in mystery was she a real person who sadly vanished without a trace never to be seen again her family left without closure and her memory reduced to a slew of fake urban legends or did she never exist in the first place her face a mixture of several others combined designed to either scare

youngsters into keeping their guards up or to get people talking about channel 5. I doubt we'll ever have any definitive proof one way or the other to be honest i mean personally i suspect the former but hope for the latter the only thing i do know is that uh this image yeah and that's gonna stay in there for a while good night in january of 1983 a group of young boys were playing in a wooded area on hohap mountain near seoul south korea little did they know they were about to make a grisly discovery one

of the youngsters pointed out a mannequin lying in a pile of leaves in the distance an odd thing to be in the middle of the woods as they drew closer they realized it wasn't a mannequin at all it was the corpse of a young woman frozen stiff with rigor mortis whoever she was the anguished expression on her face suggested that she had died in great pain morticians estimated that she'd been dead for at least a month when the boys found her her fingerprints identified her as 24 year old kyonghi kim a barbershop worker from the

city in parts of asia there are certain barber shops that offer more than just haircuts And provide other services to their male clientele let's put it like that well it was at one such barbershop that miss kim worked at she needed the money you see with no external injuries to speak of it was determined that miss kim had died from poisoning it seemed unlikely that she would climb up mount hoh up in the middle of winter just to take her own life and given the nature of her work and the type of customers it attracted

police began their investigation at the barbershop one of kim's most loyal customers was a 42 year old man named dong sikli a plumber by trade lily's true passion however was photography he'd won numerous awards for his work something he couldn't help but bring up in conversation and he often held private photo exhibitions for other enthusiasts detectives surprised mr lee by knocking on his door one evening and asking him about the death of miss kim mr lee said that he didn't know anything about it that he only enjoyed making use of kim's professional services and nothing

more naturally though he couldn't help but bring up the fact that He was an award-winning amateur photographer that admission proved to be his downfall the investigators asked if they could see some of his pictures lee said he didn't have much time but the investigators insisted really capitulated and led them into the room where he kept his photos among all of these hundreds of photos were images of scantily clad women posing as murder victims the investigators questionedly about them to which he replied i have an affection for cadavers well the photos were obviously staged these weren't

pictures of real dead women lee's second wife was also in one of the photos pretending to be dead and in reality she was alive and well clearly lee was just a weird guy who viewed death as art and was playing out his bizarre fantasy with paid models but just as they were finishing up one of the investigators noticed lee stealthily trying to pocket one of the photos he grabbed it from lee's hand before sharing it with his colleagues one by one the detectives examined it and looked up at each other with knowing expressions there Was

no mistaking it it showed what appeared to be a dead miss kim lying on a pile of leaves wearing the same clothes she had been found in they immediately searched lee's basement and found 20 even more disturbing photos they were all of miss kim and they were time-sequenced showing her writhing on the ground clutching at her chest and gasping for air they'd been taken as she lay dying lee was immediately taken into custody of course he maintained that he hadn't taken miss kim's life and that she was just another model posing for the camera he

admitted that he had gone up to hole up mount him with miss kim but that it was just for a photo shoot he said he left the mountain without her and that someone else must have come along after that and taken her life very coincidental well it was obvious to everyone that playing pretend wasn't doing it for mr lee anymore he had taken things a step further and decided to live out his dark twisted fantasy when forensic specialists zoomed in on the photos of miss kim they noticed that the hair on her skin was gradually

drooping more and more in each consecutive picture something that happens As a person perishes that proved that she wasn't just acting as it turns out lee had manipulated miskim during one of his regular sessions at the barber shop he had gone there many times over the course of three weeks and charmed her with stories about the award-winning photos he had taken the amazing exhibitions he put on and the models he had made famous oh by the way miss kim you'd make a great subject yourself i bet i could make you famous too he had told

her after regular visits he had gained miss kim's trust so when he invited her to a private photo shoot up on mount hoap she of course said yes this could be her big break her chance to finally live a decent life on december 14th 1982 the pair walked to that secluded area of the woods for miss kim's first and last portrait session as elise set up his camera he remarked how chilly it was that day and offered him a tablet which he said was called medicine it'll prevent you from getting sick he told her trust

me well she did and gulped down one of the pills but it wasn't called medicine at all the capsule actually contained potassium cyanide it wasn't long before her insides began aching Then burning as she fell down into the leaves lee was ready and waiting with his camera as she begged for help all he did was take her picture again and again the last thing she likely saw was the camera's flash before everything went black four years later mr lee's own world faded to black too when he was executed on may 27 1986 before his sentence

was carried out lee stated the way a human being dies it's art i only took artistic photographs this is the reconstructed face of bitter creek betty also known as rose doe due to the distinctive rose tattoo on her chest on march 1 1992 a track driver in sweetwater wyoming came across what he thought were two trash bags at the bottom of an embankment on the side of the road as he examined them from a distance he realized what he was actually looking at the body of a woman face down in the snow completely clotheless quickly

radioed in his discovery although she'd been dead for between one and five months before being found all the snow meant that Bitter creek betty had stayed well preserved in fact she was so thoroughly frozen that it took a full 24 hours for her remains to thaw out after which the coroners made some gruesome discoveries they determined that the unknown woman had likely been killed with an ice pick which had been thrust up into her left nostril other signs of physical trauma were also present around her neck and face given that betty was found in bitter

creek an area just off the i-80 america's busiest east to west highway investigators theorized that her body had hastily been tossed from a transport truck betty's fingerprints were scanned but no matches were found as such this composite was created to show what betty may have looked like when she was alive a postmortem photo with drawn on eyes was also released but it's quite eerie to look at so i won't show that here regardless believe me when i say that this is one instance where the police sketch is actually very accurate after examining her dna forensics

showed that bitter creek betty was of south american and european descent she was five foot eight weighed around 125 to 130 pounds and was between 24 and 32 years old Though she had no clothes on when she was found she was wearing some jewelry notably a gold necklace and a gold wedding ring on her left ring finger that strongly suggests that our dough had a husband making it stranger that nobody had come forward to claim her remains or even report her missing a caesarean scar on her abdomen indicated that she had also given birth at

least once in her lifetime as previously stated she had a distinctive rose tattoo with chinese lettering on the stem this tattoo was traced to a business in tucson arizona the artist underwent hypnosis to help the detectives with their investigation through this method he was able to remember that ardough had come into the store in june 1991 that she was a hispanic hitchhiker who spoke without an accent and that she'd been wearing a brown dress detailed with the yellow flowers that dress was depicted in her sketch after bitter creep betty's remains were examined her case was

linked to another unidentified murder victim utah's sheridan county jane doe dna found at both scenes suggested that a serial killer with Blood type o was responsible for their slayings that development later proved hugely significant 28 years after betty's body was found in may of 2020 a long-haul track driver named clark perry baldwin was arrested not only for her slaying but also for taking the lives of sheridan county jane doe and a tennessee woman named pamela mccall pamela was pregnant at the time she was slain and as such the 59 year old was charged with four

counts of first degree his trial is still ongoing it's likely that baldwin took the lives of many other women during his active years and a few other jane doe cases similar to bitter creek betty's are now being reinvestigated among them north carolina's new hope jane doe who was also found dumped 15 feet down an embankment along the i-40 her shoes have been taken as some sort of sick souvenir though it seems likely the purp imbiticrete betty's story has been found and will face justice her identity still remains a mystery thus far nine people have been

ruled out as possibilities it's strange to think that some were out there this woman had a husband And a child but her body still remains unclaimed sure they may have become estranged prior to her demise maybe they even passed away before that point too but it just seems like somebody out there must know who she was why haven't they come forward why was she never reported missing on the bright side of all the cases i've covered and will cover in this video betty's is by far the most likely to be solved more than a quarter

of a century has passed since windy point jane doe's body was found in colorado and all these years later her true name still remains unknown back in 1994 her skeletal remains were found scattered above divine road near windy point campground for all anyone knows they could have been left there years prior with nobody ever coming across them in her case foul play was instantly suspected forensic scientists did their best to create this image of what jane doe may have looked like in life yeah unfortunately the technology wasn't quite there at the time i'm getting some

strong uncanny Valley vibes off this one for years this was the best that detectives had to work with and although the reconstruction actually generated a few calls none of them led anywhere without the woman's identity or anything else to work with there was little the investigators could do well that was a long time ago and technology has improved leaps and bounds since then nowadays efits can be generated using familial dna collected from genealogy sites like 23andme or ancestrydna by analyzing the dna of people distantly related to john and jane does far more accurate composites can

be created to show us what the victims may have looked like in life in may of 2019 such an effect was created for windy point jane doe using only the dna collected from her bones as you can see the updated effect is quite different from the original with these new advancements forensic experts were also able to conclude that she was between 35 and 45 years old when she died that she was 5 foot 4 inches tall and that she was caucasian with auburn-coloured hair though this new image is yet to help authorities uncover windypoint's True

identity i've included this one to show just how much better these reconstructions are getting how technology is helping to give new life to the long dead and how even when we can't give a doe back their name we can at least give them back our face in northeast hong kong there's a popular recreational area called sai kung it's famous for its hiking spots beaches and for its inordinate number of disappearances and deaths saikung itself isn't particularly big but the natural beauty of the peninsula has basically remained untouched and it's full of long and winding trails

so it's easier to see how people might get lost there that being said there are signs and markers all along the hiking routes and each signpost has its own unique set of coordinates written on it if you were to get lost somewhere or feel like you were too weak to continue your hike all you'd have to do is call for help state the coordinates on the nearest sign and help would be on the way that makes it all the weirder that so many people have vanished or perished while exploring sai kung Especially when you consider

the mysterious circumstances surrounding each incident in september of 2009 an off-duty police officer was out hiking alone in sai kung he called the emergency services for help and told the operator that he was lost and needed to be rescued thankfully he was right next to one of the mark signposts so he read of its coordinates to the operator strangely the coordinates he provided didn't match with any on record meaning the operator had no idea where the officer actually was the call then ended abruptly and despite an extensive search and rescue effort the lost officer was

never seen or heard from again to this day his whereabouts or more accurately from the whereabouts of his body remain a mystery this incident quickly captured the public's imagination and a movie was even made about the officer's disappearance called missing his mysterious vanishing didn't surprise some locals however it had long been believed that saikung was an ominous place according to cantonese folklore the peninsula was home to some sort of Otherworldly portal or barrier which one should never cross only one month after the officer went missing a male and four females were out hiking in the

same area the male became tired and told the women to go ahead said that he'd catch up he never did the women went back to look for him but found no trace of their missing friend two days later his body showed up next to the trail where they had been searching his cause of death remains unclear to this day this man was a boy scout troop leader and knew his way around nature very well adding to the bizarreness of his demise later that same year a bus driver was out hiking alone in saikung when he

didn't return home that day his family tried calling his phone to check that he was okay to their surprise a fisherman answered it saying that he had found the phone in a river the bus driver was never found in 2011 another man called the emergency services saying that he was lost on a saikon hiking trail Just like the lost officer before him his call suddenly disconnected and he was never seen or heard from again a number of other strange deaths have occurred on the saikon peninsula dating all the way back to 2005 right up to

more recent incidents in 2019 and even 2020 in each of these instances a lone male's body was found resting beside a trail foul play suspected in at least one of these cases but for the most part there's been little evidence to suggest that there's a serial killer loose on sai kung and the majority of these deaths have been attributed to accidental falls but what about the people who have completely disappeared the cycling hiking trails are all clearly marked well maintained and aren't known to be treacherous routes most of the dead and missing were experienced hikers

and were knowledgeable about the area and about navigation and basic survival skills but here's the most interesting part there is an account from a man named chung who became lost in saikun but actually managed to make it out alive according to chung he was out hiking in the area when he suddenly and inexplicably lost consciousness He awoke at 8pm and tried to get back to civilization but in his own words said that when i tried to leave it was weird no matter how far i walked i never got any closer to getting out on his

second day lost in the wilderness he saw two people and shouted out to them they didn't react to him but they both disappeared right in front of his eyes after resting for a while he saw another figure come running right out of the tree line he tried chasing after them hoping they might help him i chased that man all the way down said chong he changed into people i knew and people i didn't know during that chase but when i caught up they all disappeared exhausted chung fell asleep when he awoke on the third day

he noticed that several items he'd been carrying had disappeared he also realized that his surroundings had changed and that he wasn't where he had fallen asleep the previous night he described the area as having the vibe of an old graveyard and during that day he apparently saw many people that all disappeared as he reached out to them On the fourth day he awoke to find his surroundings had changed yet again and that the rocks around him were all making a strange rumbling noise he made his way down the trail in front of him and all

the while the rocks continued to rumble eventually he ran into a young guy from thailand difference was and this guy didn't disappear he was real and he lent chang his cell phone to call for help after four days chang finally emerged from the saikung mountains one strange thing that he and his rescuers noticed was that jung hadn't been bitten by any mosquitoes or other bugs during his whole ordeal this was june and the mountains of saikung were absolutely swarming with the little buggers making his lack of bite marks extremely strange a weird story to say

the least but what do you think did chung and the less fortunate souls before him pass through the so-called saikung barrier and enter some other plane of existence an alternate dimension or can his strange experiences be chalked up to dehydration and exhaustion is there some mysterious portal on the hong kong peninsula or are all of these deaths and Disappearances simply the result of accidents if so whatever happened to the remains of the other experienced hikers who still haven't been found let me know your thoughts in the comments was september 26 2014 a warm day in

iguala mexico at approximately 6 p.m more than 100 students from an all-male teacher training school arrived in the city all of them in their late teens and early 20s they were on their way to the capitol but made a brief stop in iguala to commandeer a couple of buses you see these students weren't traveling to mexico city to do a relaxing spot of sightseeing they were on their way there to protest against the talateel student massacre that took place in 1968. students from their particular teacher training school were known for being politically active and this

commandeering of public buses was a time-honored annual tradition each year they'd take over two or three buses drive north to mexico city and march against the injustices that had taken place in 1968 and in all the years since though quite annoying for anyone hoping to ride those particular buses that day their behavior was generally tolerated By both the public and the police and since they were using the buses for a good cause and always returned the vehicles after each year's march even the bus companies tolerated their annual escapades as such the borrowing of the buses

had always been a relatively smooth and peaceful affair but 2014's protest was set to begin and end very differently just like in all the previous years the students joined together and took control of several public buses they began their drive from iguala to mexico city their spirits high little did they know what was about to hit them while on route to the capital police officers and federal military forces intercepted the buses and tried to force them to pull over according to the authorities it was because the students had stolen the buses strange considering that they

had tolerated their behavior in the past and were quite familiar with this annual event their actual motive for pulling the buses over has been the topic of much debate over the past seven years as have the events that happen next according to The police when they tried to stop the buses the students accelerated and tried to escape as such the police gave chase and began to open fire on the buses to get them to stop killing two students in the process they also shot at another bus which they mistook for one that the students had

taken but which actually carried a local football team the bus driver one of the players and a woman in a nearby taxi were all killed as a result of that mistake the surviving students apparently jumped out of their vehicles at that point and fled into the surrounding hills the following morning one of the students who had tried to run julio cesar mondragon was found lying in the dirt his eyes had been gouged out and the skin on his face had been played to the bare bone this discovery made it obvious that there was something more

sinister than police incompetence at play but here's where the mystery comes in more than 100 students had gotten on those buses that fateful evening in 2014. two of them were gunned down by officers and one of them was found mutilated the next day that much we already know but 43 of the survivors never returned and were Never seen or heard from again after clashing with the law they just vanished into thin air for the past seven years the citizens of mexico have referred to these students as the 43 and have questioned debated and constantly protested

for answers about what actually happened to them 43 young men don't just disappear after all stories from the surviving students that actually did return from the hills contradicted the police's official report they said that when the authorities pulled their buses over they complied when their buses had come to a stop armed officers and soldiers immediately began opening fire on them there was of course panic on board the buses at this point with students dropping to the ground in order to avoid the bullets that's why they fled into the hills well some of them at least

according to eyewitnesses the police boarded the buses and rounded up the remaining students those who had avoided the bullets but were too scared to run they then forced them into police vehicles and drove off with them into the night This convinced the public that the whole attack had been premeditated whatever had happened to the missing 43 students nobody held that much hope that they were still alive especially after bone fragments from two of them were discovered in a river some speculated that the mayor of iguala city jose luisa barca ordered the students to be captured

for disrupting his wife's election campaign he then handed them to a group of gangsters who killed them and burned their bodies in a local landfill their bone fragments were then tossed into the nearby river this theory indeed seemed plausible given that that same mayor had previously been accused of murdering an activist who stood against him so many people believed that the mayor and his wife were responsible that they started referring to this version of events as the historical truth despite independent forensic teams stating that it was unlikely but as of october 2021 we can throw

the historical truth away and replace it with a real answer as you might have gathered the police were strongly involved and ironically it appears They were partners in crime with the iguala cartel just a couple of months ago transcripts of text messages between the deputy police chief of aguala and a local crime boss were released to the public messages that proved the authorities had worked alongside the cartel to round up torture and kill the missing students in a cruel twist of fate the buses the students had commandeered that day just so happened to be part

of an operation the cartel was running and were secretly carrying a cargo of heroin this cargo was about to be driven over the border into the u.s before the students inadvertently took control of the buses to be clear the students themselves had no idea what was actually hidden on the vehicles it was just a case of taking the wrong bus at the wrong time after the clash with the cops deputy police chief francisco salgado valedares messaged gildado lopez hasta dio the local leader of the guerrero cartel salgado told the crime lord that he had just

rounded up some boys who had stolen his cargo reading through the texts the fate of the students becomes disturbingly clear deputy salgado told crime boss lopez he had 21 students held on the Bus and 17 more cornered in a cave it's safe to assume that the latter group were among those who tried to run but who weren't able to hide cartel leader lopez replied by saying he wanted them all and that he had beds to terrorize the men they agreed to meet at a place called the wolf's gap to exchange the students and deputy salgado

told lopez to bring enough men to handle the job what exactly happened to the students after that remains a mystery since aside from a few bone fragments none of their bodies have ever been found but from lopez's texts it's clear that they didn't die quickly they had inconvenienced the wrong gangster the people of mexico still have a lot of questions about that horrible night in 2014 how were the students tortured where are their remains if 21 students were captured on the bus and 17 more caught in a cave that only makes 38 what about the

remaining five since the real culprits behind the students vanishing have only just been unmasked we don't have all of the answers just yet but we can now say with confidence that the young Men are dead that both the police and the iguala cartel were behind their massacre and that the previous mexican government were trying to cover up what had happened although not specifically stated in the messages it appears as if the military were also involved in what happened and helped to apprehend the students the cartel's influence runs deep if there's one other thing we can

say with confidence it's that this was a callous and unnecessary waste of human life the massacre of so many young men it's enough to make your blood boil deputy salgado has already been incarcerated for his role in the slayings crime boss lopez on the other hand was taken into custody but was released over a supposed failure of due process he remains a free man as we speak with a population of just under 2 million the north vietnamese province of taibin is one of the country's most unique and well-known regions with its name meaning great peace

taibin is essentially a distinct cultural island separated from its neighbors by the great red river delta yet tai bin is also the home of the tram family Who in 2002 fell victim to a mysterious and terrifying phenomenon the trans were essentially your average rural vietnamese family with four different generations all living under one roof the head of the family 65 year old tran vang rang was the father of eight children two of which had young families of their own they made their living farming rice and business was so good that the family were eventually able

to construct a second house right next to their original one this was a huge point of pride for tram van rang who saw no greater purpose in life than to care for those who needed him to the trans the future seemed bright yet no one could have foreseen the darkness that was about to befall them according to tranquil viet one of the families eldest sons the horror began when his younger brother commenced construction of the new family home days after the work started the family's cattle suddenly became ill not long after that the remaining livestock

seemed to collectively lose their minds Pigs ducks chickens they all went absolutely berserk they fought amongst themselves and ran into solid concrete walls as if they were terrified by some unseen presence among them some noted that the animals appeared to be foaming at the mouth as if afflicted by rabies yet there was simply no way that the rabies virus could spread that quickly between animals that had been sequestered into separate paddocks one by one the creatures fell and within just a matter of hours all except for one of his younger brother's animals had collapsed and

died in this one creature a duck seemed to be the only living thing immune to this mysterious plague within a few days the same horrifying fate befell their parents catalog too it was nothing short of a complete catastrophe as almost all of the family's wealth was tied up in their livestock yet these animal deaths were only the beginning the family's eldest son tran van viet was probably the most successful of the trans siblings he already owned a house of his own had a five-year-old son and was described by all as a healthy young man in

the prime of his life But soon tram vampirt began to suffer from mysterious pains and after they failed to subside he was admitted to hospital frustrated doctors performed test after test but they simply couldn't determine what was wrong with him after a while tran vampirt found he was too weak to work and soon began to display horrifyingly similar symptoms to those suffered by the livestock van began foaming at the mouth and suffering intense seizures but still his doctors failed to offer a logical explanation tragically tram vampirt would pass away in mid-2002 leaving his wife a

widow and his child fatherless his death hit the family hard and when the same bizarre symptoms were spotted in van's surviving relatives the psychological effects were almost as devastating as the physical tram van rang was haunted by his son's death and began drinking heavily yet the more he drank the more his health deteriorated and barely a month after van viet's death van rang would also fall victim to the same violent seizures that took his son now two of the tram family had fallen victim to the same mysterious disease Three months after van rang's death and

in line with vietnamese customs four generations of the tram family traveled out to the cemetery in which their former patriarch was buried with the intention of performing a memorial ceremony among the congregation was tran vanut as well as trambanut's young son who joined him mourning his deceased grandfather suddenly the young boy collapsed and right in front of his grandfather's grave the child began to suffer the same heavy convulsions that killed van rang he turned purple before throttling at the mouth and within just a few minutes of the episode commencing he was dead in the days

that followed three additional members of the tram family would be rushed to hospital the tram mother nguyen tai dao passed away during this period suffering the same horrific symptoms as her departed son and husband tram vernurt soon joined his son in death his grief rendering him physically incapable of biting off whatever terrifying illness had gripped his entire family travernet's wife was completely and Utterly heartbroken and moved away from tybin in an attempt to escape her boundless grief yet when she did she noticed something curious her symptoms suddenly disappeared by that point word of the tram

family's five unexplained deaths had frightened and captivated the vietnamese nation hundreds of medical professionals police officers and scientists descended on the family's farm all hoping to prevent any more unnecessary deaths for four straight weeks the vietnamese investigation team would pour over the site of the farm in hopes of solving the deadly mystery they took water samples air samples samples of the food the family had been eating the team even captured a variety of local wildlife species vivisecting them in hopes of uncovering the phantom disease not even the tram family themselves were above suspicion and on

more than one occasion kwok viet the last surviving trans son noticed he was being followed by police officers in plain clothes the plot thickened even further when farm teeth harm van rang's mother and the eldest member of the family died after being rushed to hospital with the same symptoms as her relatives During the course of her treatment the nurses tending to her began suffering the same symptoms of the phantom disease they complained of aches and pains in almost random places and one nurse even passed out while on duty in the end the authority's official explanation

for the tram family deaths was pesticide poisoning yet it should be noted that there was no trace of any deadly pesticides present in the bodies of the victims nor on any of the land they owned what's more despite the official report blaming a pesticide for the deaths it fails to name the exact substance which killed off the tram family so with the official explanation for the family's sudden mysterious and no doubt painful deaths being viewed as absolute godswollop many vietnamese believe that their government is covering something up this has led to a number of conspiracy

theories the more outlandish revolve around evil snake spirits and other dark presences that supposedly called tai bin home the more grounded center around the idea that the tram family were little more than guinea pigs In a top-secret chemical weapons test many have noted that the family's symptoms seem remarkably similar to some cold war-era nerve agents and while this theory may well hold some credence i think i may have a more feasible alternative if you remember the deaths of the family's livestock occurred almost immediately after the construction of their new home commenced vietnam is a relatively

poor country and although downtown saigon might indulge in the same vapid glamour as la or paris or london in the countryside things are built to last in all likelihood the trans would have wanted their new home to last for generations maybe even centuries therefore it's safe to assume they wanted to lay solid concrete foundations then in the course of digging up the earth maybe even laying a few water pipes it's entirely possible that the trans inadvertently struck a mercury deposit which somehow ended up contaminating their water supply just listen to this list of mercury poisoning

symptoms abdominal pain constipation headaches irritability and tingling in the hands and feet These line up almost to the letter with the tram family's symptoms in severe cases mercury poisoning can cause memory loss anemia seizures coma and even death again the anemia lines up with tram vampire to being too weak to vom and tran vanu's son who suffered a seizure so hard it snuffed out his young life another article on mercury poisoning states that quote unquote it causes almost 10 percent of intellectual disability of otherwise unknown cause and can result in behavioral problems this accounts for

why the tram family were so mystified by their phantom affliction it was messing with their brains so much that they didn't know what to look for or even how to look for it then there are the two nurses who had aches and bouts of fainting just from being in the presence of the elderly fam titan in high enough concentrations mercury can indeed contaminate the surrounding air enough to poison someone as for the vietnamese government why would they lie about pesticides being present at the scene well in the most respectful way possible The vietnamese government haven't

always been the most honest or transparent it certainly wouldn't be the first time a government minister had covered up a cock-up to save their own skin what if many years earlier some government official had been in charge of a gold mine or was responsible for the burning of coal both are activities that release mercury into the environment but no doubt that same official would be responsible for the cleanup too but what if it was quicker and easier to quite literally bury the evidence of negligence so the team could finish whatever project they had early that

would mean a promotion for the team leader maybe even a bonus for the rank and file gold miners so instead they covered it up granted it's pure speculation on my part but little else could explain why the government would lie about such a thing well in january of 2020 the vietnam academy of science and technology released a paper which concluded that quote unquote the concentration of mercury in the coastal sediment of taibin is five times that of other areas such pollution is possibly a result of some misuses of Mercurial fungicides in that region therefore it's

necessary to carry out further studies to fully evaluate the risks of this contamination for example about its effects on the food chain i hope the scientists who produced this paper continued to study tai bin's mercury pollution and i wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to find out that their quest for answers leads them right back to a little farm in the countryside one where six members of the same family tragically lost their lives to the same terrible mysterious affliction in all likelihood someone somewhere up in the chain of command in the vietnamese government has

the blood of the tram family firmly on their hands perhaps the only real mystery is if they'll ever face justice for it brian schaefer was a guy who seemingly had it all a great family an active social life a girlfriend who thought the world of him and a very promising future in medicine then one day in 2006 that promising future disappeared along with brian himself during a night out with a close friend the young academic vanished from the face Of the earth in a manner that's left everyone scratching their heads for the past 15 years

the investigation into his disappearance led detectives down a deep rabbit hole of unanswered questions trust me when i say that this is a strange one so join me as we try to answer this one question what happened to brian schaefer back in 2006 brian was a 27 year old med student in his second year of study at ohio state university it was there that he met his girlfriend fellow second-year med student alexis wagner the pair fell deeply in love and alexis was under the impression that brown was planning to propose to her that very year

most likely in april during a vacation they had planned to miami sadly it was also during that year that tragedy struck the schaefer family in march brian's mother renee passed away from my dysplasia brian and his mom were extremely close and the loss of her hid him like a ton of bricks still on the outside he appeared to be handling things well according to his Friends at least and he continued to speak excitedly about his upcoming trip to miami there was nothing brian enjoyed more than getting away somewhere tropical everyone who knew him would tell

you that brian enjoyed that laid-back lifestyle that such places embodied and that even though he was pursuing a career in medicine of all things his real passion was music he often spoke about his dream of becoming a musician and living the easy life he'd once written on his myspace page this whole doctor thing is really just a job only temporary until i get my band together and put a record out march 31st 2006 was a friday it was also the start of spring break now march had been a particularly hard month for young brian not

only had the poor guy lost his mother but he'd been pulling all nighters cramming for exams even though his trip to florida with alexis was only three days away the dawn of spring break seemed like a course for early celebration that evening brian met up with his father randy for a steak dinner despite being obviously Exhausted brian told this old man that he had plans to meet up with a friend later that night that friend was clint florence he and brown were former roommates and the pair were reportedly close randy suggested that brian take things

easy maybe catch an early night brian objected after the month that he just had he needed a boy's night out at 9 pm brian and klim met up at the ugly tuna soluna a quintessential college bar in the arena district of columbus and yes that is how us brits pronounced tuna no comments down below please brian's girlfriend alexis was in toledo visiting her parents before their big trip to miami he called her at around 10 to wish her good night they exchanged i love yous and hung up according to her he sounded completely normal on

the phone little could alexis have realized that that was the last time she would ever speak to her boyfriend brian and clint went bar hopping all around town that night visiting seven bars in total klimt would later tell detectives that they'd taken a shot at every location before arriving in Columbus's short north it was there that the duo became a trio as they met up with clint's friend meredith reed the three musketeers made their way back to the ugly tuna soluna for one last round they arrived around 1 15 am 45 minutes later when the

bar was closing clinton meredith realized that brian had gone off somewhere they both tried calling him several times but he didn't pick up they waited outside the bathroom and when he didn't come out with the rest of the crowd they assumed he'd already gone home to his apartment just a couple of blocks away but he hadn't brian's girlfriend and father tried calling him constantly during that weekend but he never answered the phone when he missed this flight to miami on monday april 3rd they reported him missing randy was really starting to worry at this point

the guy just lost his wife had he now lost his son too sergeant john hurst her father himself understood randy's worries and he and his team of investigators got to work right away now usually in these types of cases there's at least a clear reason why the person disappeared Or where they might have disappeared to and that wasn't the case with brian the detectives weren't even sure whether he'd gone missing on his own accord or someone else was responsible so they started from the most logical place in the beginning and check the cctv cameras both

inside and outside the gateway film center the building the ugly tuna soluna was located in since that area wasn't the nicest part of town there were surveillance cameras are plenty surprisingly however the footage generated more questions than answers as expected at 1 15 am brian was caught on cctv riding the escalator to the second floor with clinton meredith and entering the bar shortly after both brian and clint were again recorded standing just outside the bar flirting with two women brighton zacco and amber ruik brian even reportedly kissed brighton on the neck at 1 57 am

the cameras again showed him standing just outside the bar again with brighton who put her number into brian's phone she headed back into the bar to use the bathroom when she returned brian was gone the footage Appeared to show him turn and re-enter the bar shortly after brighton went to use the bathroom those are his last known movements you see the cameras never showed brian leaving the bar a few minutes later at 2am when the bar closed the cameras captured the blood of people leaving the tuner heading down the escalators and out of the building

investigators identified everyone who left the bar that night and brian was definitely not amongst them footage from all of the outside street cameras were also checked but there was still no trace of the guy brighton and amber were tracked down and cleared of any involvement dozens of officers searched night and day for brian all of the local hospitals and shelters were checked the sewers were scoured sniffer dogs were brought in to track his scent posters were put up everywhere and a hefty award was announced possible sightings of him in texas michigan even as far as

sweden were investigated and discounted doors were knocked on questions were asked but no one seemed to know anything After he disappeared brian's apartment was burgled this brought fresh hope to the case surely this burglary was connected to brian's vanishing it wasn't and turned out just to be a coincidence brian's favorite music group was pearl jam and front man eddie veda took some time off during a concert to mention the case and appeal for any leads nobody came forward with information desperate for answers bran's father randy paid a psychic to help find his son and was

told that his body was somewhere in the olentangy river randy thoroughly searched that river and almost lost his own life in a whirlpool but ultimately found no trace of his boy brian's girlfriend alexa scrolled his mobile every night but her calls never went through except for one night that is several months after he disappeared when it actually rang a few times before disconnecting brian's phone company later said that it could have been a cellular glitch his phone also pinged in hilliard just 14 miles from where he went missing another glitch were evidence of something more

sinister since bryan disappeared in 2006 his phone Has never been used to make a call and his credit card hasn't been used to make a single purchase as bad a sign as that is to this day his whereabouts and well-being remain unknown we'll start with the obvious theory brian met with foul play either he said the wrong thing to the wrong guy at the ugly tuna saluna or looked at the wrong guy's girlfriend the wrong way or went down the wrong street at the wrong time on his way home sure things like that happen all

the time but none of the other customers that night noticed brian getting into an argument with anyone and the guy didn't exactly have any enemies to speak of so if there was somebody waiting to jump him it was most likely a stranger some people believe that brian's friend clint was somehow responsible for his disappearance or at least know some details about it because even though he told his side of the story to the authorities to this day he still refuses to take a lie detector test personally i don't think that's suspicious contrary to popular belief

lie detector tests are seriously unreliable and are just as Likely to get an innocent man into trouble as they are to take him out of it clint's lawyer likely advised him not to take the test a sound decision and certainly not indicative of him being guilty of brian's possible death that doesn't mean that someone didn't kill him of course but the main problem with this theory are those cctv cameras the areas outside both the bar and the gateway film center building in general were covered and they didn't capture brian leaving the premises where would the

perp have jumped him where would they have hidden his body so if there's no videotape of him leaving the bar then brian's still inside the ugly tuna soluna right as crazy as it sounds some people believe that brian somehow died in the bar that night after all the other customers had left likely in the bathroom terrified of a lawsuit the bar owner and his staff switched off the security cameras both inside and outside the establishment tampered with the footage which had already been recorded and hid brian's body either under the floorboards or within the walls

that would explain why he was never captured on Tape leaving the bar but it completely falls apart when you hear that investigators searched the ugly tuna saloona from top to bottom and didn't find any trace of brine inside whatsoever what about if they switched off the cameras outside the building as well snuck him out and disposed of his remains elsewhere well that theory is still pretty hard to believe not only would the owner have had to convince his underpaid staff to go along with his plan they'd also have to somehow get their hands on the

cctv footage of all of the surrounding businesses though technically not impossible that seems extremely improbable still since there's still no explanation for how young mr schaefer left the building that night while theories like this are bound to crop up speaking of wild one of the darkest and most controversial theories is that brian fell victim to the smiley face killers aka the sfk between the late 1990s and early 2010s a surprisingly large number of young well-educated college-aged men were found dead in bodies of water across several midwestern states We're talking hundreds of men at least 45

of these were determined to be the work of either one or multiple killers and more than 200 others are still being looked into almost all of these slain men were athletic popular and successful college students and almost all of them were targeted on their way home after spending a night on the town it's been theorized that all of these slayings were the work of one well-organized nationwide group called the smiley face killers who targeted quote unquote privileged men in at least a dozen of these cases a smiley face was found graffitied at the spots where

the bodies have been dumped it's said that the sfk communicate through the dark web to select their targets brian was six foot two athletically built highly intelligent and from a privileged background exactly the type of guy that the sfk targeted with that in mind it's easy to see why many internet sleuths link the sfk to brian's disappearance still it's never been conclusively proven that the sfk are a real group smiley faces are a very Common thing for people to graffiti just walk through your city and count how many times you bump into one it's possible

that their presence at all these spots was just a coincidence with no further evidence to prove that the purported sfk was somehow involved in bryan's disappearance or that they even exist this theory lacks weight regardless it's a possibility i had to share so we know that brian wasn't caught on camera leaving the bar we're also sure that he isn't still inside there somewhere and that the staff didn't tamper with the video footage that must mean that he vanished in the small space between the building's exit and the outside area that the cameras covered the so-called

dead zone outside the camera's view well as you can see that dead zone was only a step or two there was nowhere for him to disappear too nowhere that is but down just outside the ugly tuna soluna was a service exit that led to a construction site on that site workers had dug a big hole it would have been extremely difficult for brian to leave via that exit without being detected but crucially Not impossible if he stayed close to the wall he could have snuck past the camera's field of view the whole theory then suggests

that brian for whatever reason stumbled out that exit wandered into the construction site and fell into the hole he either died or was knocked out from the fall or unable to escape and at the end of a heavy night simply fell asleep the next morning the construction workers failed to spot brian inside the hole and covered him in cement perhaps brian's been much closer to home all this time than anyone could have imagined sadly this theory too has its flaws since according to the construction workers at the site if brian had fell into the hall

it would have been impossible for them to have missed him so unless the building team just so happened to all be opportunistic killers we're right back where we started then again people even multiple people can sometimes make mistakes to me this seems like the most plausible theory so far finally with no body and no suspects to speak of is it possible that brian didn't Meet with a grisly fate at all and that he actually went missing on his own accord in my opinion though running away and starting a new life elsewhere explanation rarely turns out

to be realistic i mean people have been searching for brian for the past 15 years and despite having a lot of defining features and his case becoming quite prolific the guy still hasn't been found on top of that setting up a new identity and starting your life from scratch is no easy thing to do especially for a guy in brian's position he wasn't exactly a man with nothing to lose it doesn't make much sense that brown would randomly decide to throw away his relationships and career prospects but what if it wasn't a random decision like

i said at the beginning of this video as intelligent and academically gifted as brian was he always longed for a simple life a relaxed life the life of a musician maybe he'd gotten burned out from his years of study maybe the prospect of becoming a doctor all the long hours intense workload and stress had him dreaming of a way out with his girlfriend expecting a ring and all the responsibilities that come with it The realities of his upcoming future may not have aligned with his expectations i think we all know that feeling to some degree

that our lives are planned out for us way too early and oftentimes that plan isn't plan a sometimes that plan is somebody else's altogether and in our heart of hearts we want nothing to do with it could it be possible that brian was secretly having those kind of thoughts could it be possible that he was planning on escaping the life he was leading without telling a soul it may have just been a fantasy that he was playing within his mind until the loss of his mother which could have pushed him over the edge indeed renee's

death likely affected brian's mental state a lot more than people realized and it's easy to see how that could have been the emotional catalyst that finally made him decide to shed his identity altogether and change the path he was walking down in life his once crazy fantasy may have not seemed so crazy anymore as compelling as that all sounds this theory still fails to answer that one negan question How did brian manage to get out of the building without being caught on cctv some people have pointed out that he could have somehow disguised himself and

kept his head down but neither his friend clint nor anyone that he met that night said that he was carrying a spare change of clothes that's definitely the sort of thing you'd notice and comment on one of the detectives on the case also told the columbus monthly that they were 100 certain brian hadn't left through the main entrance in disguise given that brian had been putting in heaps of effort up until that point cramming for his exams his decision to leave and never come back was likely made in the spur of the moment without thorough

planning it's hard to see how he could have left undetected wouldn't he have just you know left fire the front door with everyone else and walked off into the night and i do mean walk since if he did decide to leave he didn't take his car with him it was found still parked outside this apartment would he have really left something so useful and expensive behind Personally i don't think i buy this one in fact i don't really buy any of these theories that's what makes this case so bizarre nothing really seems to add up

so where does this all leave us unfortunately in a place without any answers even if the truth does one day bubble to the surface though bran's father randy will never get the closure he so desperately craved he died back in 2008 while clearing debris from his yard a sudden windstorm caused a branch to break off a nearby tree it was caught by the wind and hit randy in the head the next morning his neighbors found his body there was an online condolence book where his friends and loved ones left him goodbye messages one of these

messages read to dad love brian u.s virgin islands finally there was a development and brian's brother and last surviving family member derek had renewed hope that his long lost big bro was still alive sadly this message turned out to be a callus hoax posted by some anonymous degenerate from a computer in a public library Shortly after an anonymous tip was made claiming that brian's remains could be found in a field just outside of columbus snifidocs combed all of the fields on the city's outskirts they found nothing just another cruel joke many that were close to

brown are sure that he's dead his body hidden away somewhere in the city they say that if he truly were alive he would have returned home after the loss of his father there's no way he would have allowed his younger brother derek to go through life without a family member by his side derek himself still remains hopeful that his brother is alive somewhere though and believes that bryan's friend clint may know more than he's letting on in derek's words i've always thought clint definitely knows something just won't come forward with it if brian did take

off somewhere if that is the case we just always had a strong feeling that clint would possibly know that brian's former girlfriend alexis also believes that clint might be holding back information though she herself remains certain that brian is no longer alive Saying that he would never abandon her and his family as previously mentioned a lot of suspicion has fallen on clint due to him refusing to take a lie detector test though i don't blame him for that it's entirely possible that he is holding back some information the pair were close and it's possible that

brian confided in them told him about his plan to vanish that very night and made him swear to never tell a soul still that's just speculation then again speculating is all we can really do at this point it's honestly quite remarkable how little evidence there is to work with in this case how one man can so thoroughly disappear from the face of the earth is anyone's guess the biggest question of them all is how he exited the bar without being caught on camera without that first piece of the puzzle to work with it's basically impossible

to fill in the rest of the picture but what do you think is one of the theories i covered correct does clint really know more than he's letting on is brian alive or not in either case where is he now Let me know your thoughts down below and if there are ever any new developments i'll be sure to update you until then the only thing we can be sure of is that someone knows something even if that someone is actually just brian himself in october of 1965 jonathan paul luna was born in new york city

to low-income parents he spent the majority of his childhood in the south bronx's paterson housing project a high-rise post-war public housing development situated near the iconic yankee stadium following its completion in the early 1950s the tenants who flooded into the development were an eclectic mix of african americans hispanics and southeast asians they shared their food their music and their culture and like with all peaceful diverse communities interracial marriages became increasingly common as time went by and this is exactly how jonathan's parents came together his father being filipino and his mother being african-american they were poor

but they adored their son and they supported him both materially and emotionally and their support Paid off by the time jonathan was in middle school his intelligence and industriousness made it clear that he was destined for great things after high school jonathan would attend fordham university in his native new york city before moving down to north carolina to study law at chapel hill upon graduating with distinction he gained a position at the prestigious washington dc law firm arnold and porter eventually using his experience to earn himself a job in baltimore as an assistant united states

attorney in 1999 it was a true rags to riches story a young man from the south bronx was now one of the united states elite civil servants and his paycheck most certainly reflected that jonathan was now able to provide his loving supportive parents with the kinds of luxuries that would have been alien to them during their youth it was a wholesome heartwarming start to a brand new chapter in his life but sadly it was one that would also end in horrible and mysterious circumstances by 2003 jonathan and his obstetrician wife angela had started a small

family and his career was Going from strength to strength it was also around this time that jonathan became involved in a case involving walter poindexter and dion smith two men accused of using their recording studio as a front to deal heroin but it seems he had more on his plate than just a high-profile narcotics case the previous year jonathan had overseen the prosecution of those responsible for a rather lucrative bank robbery some of the evidence in the case included huge boxes of unmarked dollar bills some containing tens of thousands of dollars yet at the end

of the case when all of the money was being accounted for it was discovered that around 36 000 of it had gone missing despite his history of integrity and loyalty jonathan was horrified to discover that he was considered one of the main suspects following the discovery that jonathan was in 25 000 worth of credit card debt and had suddenly come into around ten thousand dollars that he couldn't account for and the case against him became very damning indeed so while december of 2003 saw jonathan focusing on the poindexter smith narcotics case we have to Be

aware that these corruption allegations were very much in the foreground for him on the night of wednesday december 3rd jonathan was working late on some plea deals at the baltimore courthouse he had already been home that evening to grab some dinner with his wife but had returned to the office to finish up the plea deals for the poindexter smith case at some point after 11 pm jonathan received a telephone call it's not clear who the school was from but it was urgent enough for jonathan to leave the office without his glasses technically jonathan needed these

glasses for driving but whatever the phone call concerned it was obviously important enough that he didn't feel the need to return for them even though he was about to make a 200 mile round trip after tracking his electronic footprint we know that jonathan used an i-95 toll booth in delaware then withdrew 200 from an atm at the jfk plaza service center near newark he then used the delaware river toll bridge to access the pennsylvania turnpike then used his Debit card to buy gasoline at the sonoco king of prussia service plaza at around 3 20 am

just after four in the morning his car exited the turnpike at the reading lancaster interchange but instead of using his easy pass jonathan paid cash for a paper ticket then when this ticket was handed back to the corresponding attendant they noticed it had flecks of blood on it blood that was later confirmed to be jonathan's it's not known how he came to be injured in a way that caused him to carelessly leave blood on a toll ticket but it certainly sets a grimm home for what would happen when jonathan parked his car at the rear

of the cincinnati weaver while drilling company headquarters in denver pennsylvania later that morning at approximately 5 am the first of sensenegg and weaver's employees arrived to begin their shift after grabbing some coffee and tucking into their breakfast this employee saw a red light shining out from some trees at the rear of the building thinking it may have been a drunk driver that had greened off the road the employee went to check it out after walking through the Trees for a minute or so this employee came across a car that had been driven into a nearby

stream lying in front of it face down in the water was the lifeless body of an adult male still wearing a suit jacket trousers and dress shoes the sensor negan weaver employee rushed to call 9-1-1 and when police officers arrived on the scene they discovered that the dead man was still wearing an id card around his neck the name on it jonathan luna a forensic examiner discovered a large pool of blood in the back seat of jonathan's car with some of it smeared on the driver's side door as well as the bonnet his autopsy revealed

a head injury bruising to his chest and neck and shockingly more than 30 different stab wounds inflicted by a three-inch pocket knife the official cause of death was determined to be drowning owing to the fact that jonathan was found face down in the stream and had water in his lungs pennsylvania's lancaster county sheriff's office as well as two separate coroners all declared that jonathan's death was an obvious homicide not only had they found a Second blood type at the scene but also a partial print from someone else other than the victim coupled with the grainy

footage from one of the gas stations jonathan had stopped at which appeared to show him in the company of another man the conclusion seemed obvious jonathan was murdered however for some inexplicable reason the fbi essentially took over the investigation before swiftly declaring that jonathan had actually taken his own life the fbi agents explained that one of their reasons for coming to such a conclusion was jonathan's lack of defensive wounds defensive wounds occur when a person tries to defend themselves from a potentially fatal attack and often come in the form of stab wounds slashes and bullet

holes to the hands fingers and forearms but if jonathan was sat close enough to his murderer in the back seat for example and he suddenly began stabbing him up close this might adequately explain the lack of such injuries the fbi also suggested that the shallow stab wounds to his torso were what they called hesitation marks forensic scientists define hesitation marks as any of a series of shallow cuts Made by a person considering ending their own life yet surely these kinds of wounds are just as easily explained by the chaotic nature of a violent struggle the

fbi even put forth a reason for jonathan taking his own life saying it confirmed his guilt in the theft of the 36 000 from the baltimore bank robbery case various other theories floated around for a while some involving online dating sites fake kidnappings and an fbi cover-up but whatever happened to jonathan it seems very very unlikely that he took his own life of all of the methods with which a person might do so death by 36 pen knife cuts followed by a shallow water drowning is far from the quickest or most painless and if jonathan

had planned to kill himself why take out two hundred dollars if he didn't intend to spend it and why drive a hundred miles to a creek in the middle of nowhere in a case like jonathan's the only thing we can truly be certain of is uncertainty there are too many inconsistencies too many unanswered questions so for arguably the most famous law enforcement Agency in the world to come out and definitively declare that jonathan had taken his own life that's very suspicious indeed interest in jonathan's case has been widespread for quite some time and in february

of 2020 the pennsylvania based lmp newspaper requested that a judge unseal coroner's records pertaining to luna's death it took almost a year for judge david ashworth to announce that the documents would remain sealed adding that releasing them would constitute quote unquote a threat of substantially hindering or jeopardizing the open active and ongoing criminal investigation into the death of jonathan luna so it seems this latest development in the lunar case raises a new and much more sinister question just what exactly does the fbi have to hide better known by herself nickname the don juan of kishu

was one of japan's richest and most famous men he made his fortune in real estate but grabbed headlines for his very active love life if his nickname didn't give it away japan's very own don juan spent his fortune wooing a lot of ladies and when i say a lot i mean he'd apparently charm the pants off 4 000 women well perhaps he didn't Charm them off i'm sure the 28 million dollars in his bank account went a long way in helping throughout the land of the rising sun the guy became infamous and even penned a

best-selling autobiography in which he wrote about how he had no interest in money and only worked hard to make it as a means to seduce as many beautiful young women as he could he reportedly spent millions on his romantic pursuits and was quoted as saying i know all this nighttime activity may cause my death but if i can die in the sack and go to heaven then i'm good well you can't say the guy didn't know what he wanted out of life one young lady was able to tame the aging tycoon however in 2018 77

year old don juan married 22 year old fashion model saki sudo she described herself as a fashion model at least in actuality she was a former adult movie star now why might a young woman like her marry an old man like him it probably had something to do with the fact that don juan promised her an allowance of a million yen a month that's around nine thousand dollars not too shabby their marriage had a slight road Bump however when only three months in old don juan suddenly died under mysterious circumstances on may 24 2018 the

couple were eating dinner together at don juan's home in wakayama when he curiously dropped dead an autopsy revealed a huge quantity of stimulants in his system enough to kill a regular man several times over the old mogul wasn't known to take any kind of substances and the sheer amount of stimulants he'd ingested meant this definitely wasn't an accident the prospect of don juan taking his own life was also ruled out that left one possibility homicide news of don juan's death spread like wild bar becoming the main headline in every japanese newspaper it was a real

media frenzy still is the don had spent the last four hours of his life alone with saki his wife and with no other witnesses or leads the authorities quickly determined that she must have poisoned her husband this was likely so she could get our hands on a portion of his estate and business his house in wakiyama alone was worth an estimated 1.3 billion yen Just two months after her husband's death sucky just so happened to make herself president of his business empire and decided she deserved a salary of 1.5 million dollars a year she also

transferred three hundred thousand dollars from the business into her personal account on the same day she announced all this to her shareholders suspicious eyebrows were also raised when she was seen laughing and playing games on her mobile phone during her husband's funeral but why risk killing her 77 year old husband why not just level her generous allowance and wait for time to take care of him instead well as it turns out saki wasn't the kind of wife don juan was hoping for and it came to light that he had served her with divorce papers shortly

before the night of his death divorce in japan works a little differently to the usa and uk and if the pair were to split saki would be left with a pittance of what she could take by force still she didn't admit to taking her husband's life and with no clear evidence that she was responsible saki remained a free woman for a time at least For three years the case saw hardly any new developments in january 2021 however the authorities caught wind that sakisouda was planning to move to dubai permanently plans that had been delayed because

of the global situation detectives were sure that she was the one responsible for don juan's death so despite not having a particularly strong case they decided to act before she left japan for good on april 28th saki was arrested and held without charge for questioning believe it or not in japan the police can actually hold you for up to 23 days without charging you they used all 23 of those days during which time sucky refused to answer any questions and continued to profess her innocence regardless the authorities went ahead and charged her with the slaying

of don juan seeing how this all happened very recently sakisudo's trial is still in its early stages due to the rush nature of the proceedings the prosecutors still don't have much evidence to work with but that doesn't mean they have nothing during their investigation detectives found That saki had been researching stimulants online not long before her husband's death traces of the stimulant that killed don juan were also found on the floor and inside a vacuum cleaner in the house suggesting that saki had tried to cover her tracks before calling for help what's more her phone

records show that she had been in contact with a shady substance salesman a man who the prosecutors alleged sold saki the stimulant forensic tracing proved that she and the dealer were in the same place at the same time shortly before don juan's murder took place the final piece of damning evidence they have and if you're an animal lover you might want to cover your ears here is that mere days before don juan's poisoning sakisudo's dog also mysteriously passed away it's believed that she tested the poison on her dog first just to check that it would

work before trying to kill her husband with it she didn't want don juan surviving and pointing the finger at her now did she well as you can see she actually did a pretty good job of doing that all by herself Now admittedly most of this evidence is circumstantial but it just might be enough to see her go down for don juan's death she had the means she had the motive and from her phone and internet records it appears she had the will the japan times are actually keeping up with this case in english so be

sure to keep an eye out and see what happens the best things happen in the dark