Put On Your Thinking Hats And Dive Into The 35 Creepiest And Oddest Unsolved Mysteries In Recent History

"Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back."

Chelsi

• Published in Weird
• September 9, 2022

Human curiosity is a funny thing. Our innate drive to explore the world we live in and find answers to our questions has led to the advancement of our society — for better or for worse.

When we get answers to our questions, out comes another interesting thing that will capture our attention. The cycle repeats and we learn new things that satisfy our curiosity for the time being.

Despite our motivation to find all of the answers, there are some mysteries that refuse to be discovered. We theorize and imagine plausible scenarios that might fit but there simply isn't enough evidence to support what we think we know.

Unsolved crime mysteries fit into this category. There are thousands and thousands of shows that depict these crimes yet we are no closer to solving them than when the investigation began.

Deep sea and space exploration are as equally confounding as the mysteries we have here on land. The more that we learn, the more questions pop up.

These mysteries are incredibly fascinating and admittedly entertaining to read about. They are not for people who need a neatly tied ending; these mysteries are for people who can live with the knowledge that we may never find the true answers to life's biggest questions.

Here are just a few of the strangest unsolved mysteries as shared by Reddit users:

1. Is it plausible that a second unknown bomber was involved with the Oklahoma City bombing?

2. It was reported that he suffered a head injury from a fight. Could that have affected his rational thinking?

3. Someone saw this girl walking and when they approached, she ran off into the woods. A photograph of an unidentified person was also found inside her backpack.

4. The ghost ship of the Atlantic

Here's a theory about what happened to its missing crew

5. No one still knows what happened to the Super Horse

6. It was said she attended a party during the filming of the movie but she wasn't the same when she got back

7. Anecdotes of people who knew him said he was a pathological liar and his death is suspected to be self inflicted and accidental

8. It's easy to vanish in the middle of the chaos and mayhem of a world war

9. If movies are to be believed (they shouldn't) they disappeared in Scotland

10. Good theories but the real reason is...

... visibility, bad vision, and thick vegetation that created an illusion

11. This is absolutely devastating

I can't even begin to imagine how you can start to make peace with an unresolved tragedy

12. Let us scream into the void

13. There are probably a lot of undetonated "missing" bombs we are not made aware of

14. Do not read the comment below if you have a weak stomach. This is the story of the Setagaya Family.

15. This guy single-handedly ruined diplomacy two territories

16. Could undernourishment cause the skin to turn green?

It's definitely odd

17. Cornell had merch depicting the tower with the pumpkin for several years

18. Despite the several documentaries, we still don't know

It's likely we will never really know

19. Was he abducted? Did he get stuck in the shed?

20. The sudden urge to leap from a great height

Apparently, a lot of people experience it

Have you experienced the call of the void?

21. Some of the wilder theories believe he was a time travelling spy or diplomat

22. His poor parents must have been so heartbroken

Here are more details that the above comment forgot to mention:

23. If the theory is true, it is a horrible way to go

24. This evoked such visceral feelings. Read at your own risk.

Tommy Lynn Sells wasn't ruled out, there wasn't enough evidence to charge him, and he died before the case was closed

25. One theory suggests that her parents overdosed her accidentally before they went out for the night

26. No one knows for sure about what really happened to him

Even the locals are not sure

27. Were they killed by their own family for their fortune?

Did they hire a hitman to kill them?

28. Similar to the call of the void. The call of the deep happens to a lot of people and there's even a German word for it.

29. One of their surviving sons, Ankur, is still appealing to the public to help find his parents' killer

30. Hundreds of people and a huge plane, gone just like that

31. All three kids went missing on the beach with no trace

32. Either option is terrifying

33. It's said that there was a message left in their voicemail but it was accidentally deleted and no one knows the contents

34. Scientists can't document it because our own galaxy is on the way and it will take another hundred million years for our galaxy to swing around to see it

35. Is there such a thing as a sudden group psychosis?

But here's the biggest mystery humanity will never solve:

It's difficult to admit that we may never really know the answers to these mysteries and disappearances. We have to live with the fact that our curiosity, morbid or not, may not be satiated in this lifetime.

We are certainly going down the rabbit hole of true crime documentaries and podcasts that discuss these unsolved crimes and phenomena. Before diving into them, kinda need a break because that's definitely enough internet for today.

Chelsi