Most disturbing episode of “Unsolved Mysteries”

Personally or otherwise?

The original Allagash Abduction episode -1988 or '89- with its combination of the guy in hypnosis and terrifying illustrations scared the fuck of me.

The woman who claimed to have been stalked for years and then was found dead. They had recordings of the alleged stalker calls, and the voice may or may not have belonged to her.

Someone must remember ... I think she was Canadian?

This one always gets me for how close she was to being rescued.

Cindy James r2 though I don't recall an Unsolved episode about that. Will have to look it up.

This is an episode about it from my favourite true crime podcast.

That's it, r4. Thanks!

Cindy did it to herself. She was a sad wackjob. She had a history of lying and making up relationships that didn’t exist.

The infamous lesbian killer, aka Elaine Parent, aka the Chameleon Killer still gives people nightmares.

Skip to 27:30.

Angela Hammond’s fiance totally did it. She was seven blocks away in a small town and was calling him from a pay phone for 30 minutes. No way he’d have gotten away with it today.

As a child, the episode about Tina Resch and her psychokinetic abilities scared me the most. My gut was right as she is now serving a life sentence for murder.

Rainboy

I'm fairly certain Cindy James stalked herself, but I'm not convinced she killed herself.

The story is all kinds of weird.

Thanks r5, will be checking that out tonight!

R12 she died of a drug o/d. However the drugs she took didn't take effect right away, morphine and something else, so she had time to tie herself up. The knots were also recreated in 3 minutes, morphine takes 15 min to take effect.

She did it.

Cindy James was being harassed by her ex who happened to be a psychiatrist. He knew all the right buttons to push.

Angela Hammond 's boyfriend was ruled out pretty quickly. There were witnesses to his phone call with Angela.

This show scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

Honestly, the scariest thing was the theme music.

Yeah me too r16. Even now when I hear the intro and Robert Stack's voice i get chills.

Season 1, episode 1. Great theme, Robert Stack in trench coat.

You're welcome.

Season 5, episode 12 titled "Texas Most Wanted", features Matthew McConaughey in his first credited acting role. It was also a bonkers story thay remained with me for some time.

They had the freakiest ghost stories.

It's not disturbing, but that poor son "Pistol Black" was so hot.

The one where a woman went missing and years later some anonymous calls from a payphone said something like "so-and-so is alive, and she lives in Omaha" and hung up. For some reason that one always gave me the creeps.

r23 the thought of living in Omaha would give me to creeps too

The Allagash Abduction episode scared the fuck out of me when it was featured on UM.

Another show that featured it was that now forgotten show Sightings which covered a lot of UFO and alien stories.

The Lady In Black creeped me the fuck out when I was a kid.

The Zip Gun Bomber story- booby trapped packages with bullets were sent to people and went people opened the bullets would be fired. One woman died as a result and five other people were injured.

R26 oh my when she started speaking in tongues blahblllahbmywahhbluwbbukah hee hee!

Angela Hammond was a case of mistaken identity. There were many witnesses to her abduction.

Whoa, r10!

They covered the cause of The Octopus Murders. Netflix has a great documentary about that.

Was I the only one who was terrified of this show as a kid? I still watched even though I knew it would give me nightmares. Even the theme song was frightening.

The girl that went missing from the Scarface movie. They still never found her.

R23 is referring to the Judith Hyams case. It's near 100% certain that she died during an illegal abortion. The mystery is who and why someone made the phone call. Judy disappeared from Coral Gables and had no connection to Omaha.

I never watched it. I thought it was hokey with Stack in his trench coat. But these are pretty interesting stories. The alien abductions sound like they’re carried out with the help of MK-Ultra.

There are so many. The Angela Hammond one always stuck with me; also Kristi Krebs.

The segment about the murder of Heather Uffelman by a man named "Tom Johnson" also really freaked me out for some reason. She and her boyfriend were two college students who were lured to a motel via a newspaper ad where they were going to sell an Apple computer. The strange man ended up forcing the two to wrap themselves in bedsheets before brutalizing them with a clawhammer. Her boyfriend survived it, but she died, and they never were able to identify the killer.

For sheer hard-as-nails disturbing, though, it's the episode of the elderly man whose body was found stuffed in a steamer trunk at a state park in West Virginia. I saw this episode on a stormy afternoon while I was home sick with the flu. I think I was in sixth grade at the time. UM rarely showed actual crime scene photos, but in an attempt to identify the man, they showed a close-up image of his face on the morgue table, prefaced by a warning that the image "may disturb some viewers." I remember there being blood around his mouth and the expression on his face was horrifying. I immediately threw a blanket over my face until I could safely discern the image was off the screen, but it scarred me for fucking life. They did eventually identify him, and the story was very sad. He was killed by his female caretaker who stole all his money.

The Dennis Depue story that inspired the opening scene of the original Jeepers Creepers. Even if he weren’t a killer that guy is terrifying looking. First story at link

The episode on spontaneous human combustion was probably the worst thing you could've shown me as a kid with a still-undiagnosed anxiety disorder. I grew up thinking I could start smoking and combust at any moment.

The haunted castle in NJ was a good one.

Patricia Meehan case scared me as a kid just for how creepy I found the reenactment of her stood behind the fence watching the crash, and that last picture of her. That said looking back the actual case seems to have been over sensationalised given she was a lone women likely with brain damage walking round the Montana countryside in the dark I doubt she lived long enough to be an amnesiac hobo.

Here's the episode of Unsolved Mysteries with future Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey. He's kind of hammy but damn he was pretty

Starts about 36:30 if it doesn't cue. McBongo doesn't appear right away so don't give up

Matthew Chase. He was a twink in L.A. who vanished after going to an ATM one night. The ATM surveillance footage showed him depositing his check, then returning 30 minutes later, attempting to make a withdrawal. In a chilling moment, a man appears right directly behind him. A few months later, his body was found in a ravine. He had died from a gunshot wound.

Mary Morris and Mary Morris. Two women in Houston named Mary Morris, no relation, who were murdered in their cars three days apart.

I'm in Houston R43 and that one freaked everyone out when it happened. Despite the authorities saying no connection, everyone thinks it was related.

[quote]Mary Morris and Mary Morris. Two women in Houston named Mary Morris, no relation, who were murdered in their cars three days apart.

Sounds like Julie Teeger.

The daughter of Natalie on Monk, R45?

Yes, r46.

The Chinese ghost named Teresita Basa who solved her own murder

In the episode the ghost says MY NAME IS TERESITA BASAAAA in a loud whisper. I would mimic it as a kid until my mom told Teresita (me) to STFU

Teresita at 30:25 un the video below

Robert Stack was the perfect host of this show, his tone of voice and vocal inflections really added to the creepy factor.

Agreed, r49. Dennis Farina was a strange and disappointing choice to replace him

Man, Dennis Farina hosted UM? Must have been long after I watched. Didn't the producers stand up big fat Raymond Burr for some UM episodes too?

That theme music reminds me of the music from Halloween.

Never 'go with' someone- even if they have a gun to your side. So many of these victims are led away from someplace never to return.

Lay down and make them drag you. They're going to kill you anyway.

The Danny Casolaro/Octopus Conspiracy is quite the rabbit hole

This story (Diana Robertson and Mike Reimer) is a lesser-known one that always creeped me out.

Also, there was a segment on the show in its second-ever episode, before it became regularly syndicated. Karl Malden hosted the segment. It was about a woman named Wanda Jean Mays who vanished from her parents' home in Alabama. She had smashed her way through a bedroom window and her bloodied nightgown was found on the dock of the lake on her family's property. It was a bizarre story, and they believed she was having a psychotic episode. They later found her bones in 2008 at the foot of a cliff. I believe her death was ruled an accident. The segment itself was extremely creepy.

The Jenny Pratt case. She was 16 and dating a drug dealer. She was riding on a motorcycle with her boyfriend when a truck drove by and someone riding in the truck bed hit her in the back of the head with a 2x4. The boyfriend Curtis Croft knows who did it but will never say who. He was something of an internet celebrity years back for his video blogs and his brain was totally fried.

Jenny Pratt survived but was left with permanent brain damage.

R10 I cannot find that episode anywhere. I wonder if it was pulled at the request of law enforcement.

Wadada the creepy rapist who beat his victim with a hammer. How is it they were never able to find him? He had a deformed right hand, a withered arm, and burn scars.