Lead Masks Case

The Lead Masks Case (Portuguese: O Caso das Máscaras de Chumbo) was a series of events which led to the death of two Brazilian electronic technicians: Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel José Viana. Their bodies were discovered on August 20, 1966.

Miguel José Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz

 

On the afternoon of August 20, 1966, a young man was flying a kite on the Morro do Vintém (Vintém Hill) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he came upon the bodies of two deceased males and reported them to the authorities. The Morro do Vintém had difficult terrain, and the police were unable to reach the bodies until the next day. When a small team of police and firefighters arrived on scene, they noted the bodies' odd conditions: The two males were lying next to each other, slightly covered by grass. Each wore a formal suit, a lead eye mask, and a waterproof coat.

 

Murders in Southern California (Goleta, Ventura, Dana Point, and Irvine, California) were not initially thought to be connected. One Sacramento detective strongly believed the East Area Rapist was responsible for the Goleta attacks, but at first the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department attributed them to a local career criminal who had himself subsequently been murdered. Investigating the crimes that did not occur in Goleta caused local police to follow false leads related to men who had been close to the female victims. One suspect, later acknowledged to be innocent, was charged with two murders. Linking all of the cases together was achieved almost entirely by DNA testing, which was not done until many years later.

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Original Night Stalker

The Original Night Stalker is the name given to an unidentified serial killer and rapist who murdered at least ten people in Southern California from 1979 through 1986.
The crimes initially centered on East Sacramento where at least fifty women were sexually assaulted between June 18, 1976, and July 5, 1979.
The perpetrator was dubbed The East Area Rapist. In 2001, the Northern California rapes were linked by DNA to murders in Southern California.

The Original Night Stalker/East Area Rapist was never apprehended; several suspects have been cleared through DNA, alibi, or other investigative means and methods.

Police sketch of the suspect

 

California law enforcement authorities estimate fifty rapes in Sacramento County and Contra Costa County were committed by the Original Night Stalker. DNA evidence links him to ten murders in Goleta, Ventura, Dana Point, and Irvine, California. investigators suspect at least three other murders were committed by the Original Night Stalker.

More can be readed here.

Black Dahlia

"The Black Dahlia" was a nickname given to Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – c. January 15, 1947), an American woman who was the victim of a much-publicized murder in 1947. Short acquired the moniker posthumously from newspapers in the habit of nicknaming crimes they found particularly lurid. It may have been derived from a film noir murder mystery, the title of which alluded to a Dahlia of a different color, The Blue Dahlia, released several months before, in April, 1946.

 

 

On the morning of January 15, 1947, the nude body of Elizabeth Short was found in two pieces on a vacant lot on the west side of South Norton Avenue midway between Coliseum Street and West 39th Street (at 34.0164°N 118.333°W) in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. Local resident Betty Bersinger discovered the body about 10:00 am, as she was walking with her three-year-old daughter; Bersinger at first thought it was a discarded store mannequin.
When she realized it was a corpse, however, she rushed to a nearby house and telephoned the police.

An autopsy stated that Short was 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) tall, weighed 115 pounds (52 kg), and had light blue eyes, brown hair, and badly decayed teeth. There were ligature marks on her ankles, wrists, and neck. The skull was not fractured, but Short had bruises on the front and right side of her scalp, with a small amount of bleeding in the subarachnoid space on the right side, consistent with blows to the head.^[1] The cause of death was determined to be hemorrhaging from the lacerations to her face and shock from blows on the head and face.

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The Keddie Murders

The Cabin 28 Keddie Murders. 

Contains a lack of known motive, and full of loose-ends, conspiracy, and questions.

Police sketch of intruders. Wikimedia Commons

The Cabin 28 Keddie Murders. Contains a lack of known motive, and full of loose-ends, conspiracy, and questions.

“On the night of April 11-12, 1981, Glenna Sue Sharp and her kids, Tina and John, and John’s friend, Dana Wingate, were brutally murdered inside Cabin 28 in Keddie, California. Surrounded by drug traffickers and sexual predators, dozens peripherally involved in the case had motive, if not opportunity. Law enforcement immediately zeroed in on prime suspects. Yet, this hot case was intentionally made to quickly grow cold.”

The severed foot I found in the woods

I already posted a pretty good one but I have something more chilling and relevant to my actual life. At my cousins house in…I think it was 2009 Dagsbouro Delaware sometime mid summer. We like to hunt bullfrogs to eat so we were scoping out some good water holes during they day, well my cousin she found a severed foot. Still bloody and pretty fresh looking. I even inspected it because i didn’t believe it was real OH IT WAS REAL!

Even had a bit of toe cheese. Where did the footless man go? Was it self inflicted? Assault? Was he murdered? If so who did it? Why did we hear nothing we had been outside all day and this was only about 200 meters into the woods. Could the rest of the mans body be somewhere in that woods? When the cops arrived they just put tape around where we found it and put the foot in an orange biohazard bag thing and left.

The woodlands and swamps of Sussex county DE are no place to stroll through without atleast a revolver or if you’re decent with a bow. The swamps are known for body dumping and meth cooking and the woods are full of wild dog packs. The rural areas around here are basically un-policed so it’s kind of just you know… Learn how to hide and shoot at some point. We still fried up frog legs that night.

The disappeared lighthouse keepers

There was once an isolated island off the cost of Scotland where 3 lighthouse keepers lived and were responsible for keeping the building intact. One day, when their monthly supply ship dropped by, the island was silent. No response from the lighthouse keepers.

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There was once an isolated island off the cost of Scotland where 3 lighthouse keepers lived and were responsible for keeping the building intact. One day, when their monthly supply ship dropped by, the island was silent. No response from the lighthouse keepers. Eventually the captain and some crew members went to investigate and found a disturbingly empty lighthouse. 2 of the 3 waterproof coats were missing from their hangers and the kitchen was left in a state as if people had left in a hurry.

The lighthouse log only added more mystery to the situation. The log described how one of the keepers wouldn’t talk, and the other continuously cried for hours.  All of this pain and fear seemed to be coming from a “powerful storm, looming in the distance”. However this begs the question, why where they so scared of a simple storm?

They should have been safe in the brand new lighthouse right? The log goes on to talk about how they all stat close together and prayed for the storm to be over.
The final log states: “The storm has passed, the skies are calm, god is over all”.
Their bodies were never found and the cause of their death is still a mystery to this day. 
The most accepted theory is that they somehow got swept out to sea during the storm, never to be seen again.
But one final detail remains, one that scared the captain and his crew to the bone.
The powerful storm described in the log didn’t exist, there were no storms reported in the area.
In fact the skies were calm all day.

Sky Trumpets

Sky Trumpets – This weird phenomena has been reported all around the world and no-one has been able to fully explain it, only theories.
It sounds like a brass trumpet being played extremely loudly in the sky and can last for a couple of minutes with no apparent origin of sound.

Theories include tectonic plates grinding, atmospheric pressure and even the biblical event “Seven Trumpets of Heaven”. (Video/sound examples in link)

The M Cave Hiker

The M Cave Hiker.
Do a quick google search.
This well experienced hiker in Nevada found a cave he described as the ‘M Cave’ as it was opened in the shape of an M. he claimed he heard very unusual noises from the cave and found it suspicious as it was located around 6 miles south of a top secret air base.
He later went back to where he found the cave and has not been seen since.
I’m sure he dissapeared last year but the found his phone in a very odd place (an abandoned mine entrance) in January but found no body or evidence that he had gone down into the mine (which was sealed anyway).

he posted this video about the cave the day he went missing

Ghost ship

Ghost ships have always fascinated me. They’re not necessarily that unsettling if you consider people might just have left the ships. Taken hostage by pirates or something.
But this is the story of the DutchSS Ourang Medan

Ships of the coast of Malaysia received some S.O.S messages from SS Ourang Medan.
“All officers including captain are dead lying in chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.”
Before anyone could get to the ship, another S.O.S message was sent from the ship:
“I die”
The American merchant ship Silver Star was first on scene, quickly boarding the now drifting ship. They found the whole crew dead, eye’s wide open with terrified expression on their faces and arms stretching out in front of them as to shield themselves from something.
The radio operator was found dead siting by the Morse sending key, eye’s wide open as well. No one on the ship looked physically hurt.

As the Silver Star tried to tow the ship back to port, the SS Ourang Medan caught started smoldering and sunk short thereafter.

What makes this scary to me is the actual S.O.S message. It sounds like somebody just woke up and noticed everyone’s dead. The S.O.S messages have lots of Morse mistakes. Dots and dashes that didn’t mean anything which could indicate that he wasn’t used to sending Morse messages.

Stumbling upon a ghost ship with dead crew would be a bit scary. But waking up finding your friends that you’ve spent the whole cruise with dead, frozen solid in what looks like the moment somebody stabs them, to the realize YOU are next?

Nope!

Nope!

Bardstown

There is a small town in Kentucky called Bardstown. Last year a police officer (Officer Jason Ellis) was driving back home after his shift ended and noticed a bunch of sticks blocking the ramp.
He got out of his car to pick up the sticks and was shot and killed ambush style.
No leads and nobody knows who did it.
Probably 6 months later a mother and her 13 year old daughter were bludgeoned and shot to death.
Same with that.
No evidence or suspects.

Who took the photos?

The death of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers.

Both girls went on a study abroad trip to Panama where they went missing on a hike. After several weeks, some of their remains were found miles up the river from where they began their hike, along with a backpack that contained their belongings.

The creepy part of it was that a camera in their backpack started out with pictures they took of each other hiking and then suddenly goes into 100-something pictures of what appeared to be nighttime shots of rocks near a river bed, the back of someone’s head, and just pure blackness. The dark pictures appeared to be taken many days after they had been missing.

There are a lot of theories as to why they went missing, what finally ended their lives, and why they were taking pictures, but it gives me chills thinking about the possibilities.
Apparently, according to their cell phone use records, they (or one of them) had been alive in the forest for days after they got lost, trying to get a signal from their phones to call emergency help.

The attempted murderer that looks like Colin Farrell

The post about how Colin Farrell was a suspect in a attempted murder case, which is still unsolved till this day.

Farrell himself said the writers sketch looked exactly liked him.

The only thing that got him off the hook was his friends journal which stated that he and his friend where doing ecstasy on the other side of town.

The murder remains unsolved till this day.

Death of Kendrick Johnson

The death of  Kendrick Johnson is pretty creepy.
He was found rolled up in wrestling mats in his high school and his death was ruled an accident.
The official story is that he was reaching into the rolled up wresting mats to get his shoe and got stuck and died.

An independent autopsy has shown that he died from blunt force trauma and there is blood in many of the crime scene photos.

It seems like a conspiracy between the school and police is keeping a lot of information from the family. Video footage from the gym during the time of his death is missing. Not sure if that qualifies as spooky, but it’s definitely creepy.

Wikipedia article here.

The Villisca Axe Murders

My favourite: The Villisca Axe Murders.
For those who don’t know the story, here it is.



8 people were murdered in their house in Villisca, Iowa, a small town where everybody probably knew everybody. It was June 10, 1912 and while everyone was sleeping in the tiny house, someone came in and killed them all with an axe.
There was no sign of break in and just before everyone went to bed to be killed, the family had been at church.
It is thought the killer had climbed into the attic and waited for them to come home and go to bed. 6 of those killed were children aged 5-11 and only 4 were from the family, 2 killed were friends sleeping over.

What is especially weird is how nobody woke up after the person next to them was smashed in the face by the axe.

At least everyone in the house was sharing a bed. But even stranger than that, all the mirrors in the house were covered by sheets. Over the past 100 years, nobody has solved the murder although one suspect is Reverend George Kelly who admitted to the murders but there was a lack of evidence to this.

Wikipedia article here.

What happened to the crew of the Sara Jo?

I saw this one on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries.

There was a group of five guys who went out in their small whaling boat in Hawaii to fish in 1979.
There was a storm, and they never came back.
Ten years later, their boat was found on the shore of a small island in the Marshall Islands with a shallow grave that someone made.
The grave had some bones from one of the fishermen.
However, scientists estimate it would have only taken 3 months for the boat to drift all that way, and a government survey of the small island was conducted six years prior and the boat and grave was not there. Nobody knows what happened to the rest of the men and nobody knows who laid the grave,
no one knows how the boat was in the four years prior to the island’s survey.

Who was the Colonial Parkway Killer?

Virginia’s Colonial Parkway killers from 1986 to 1989.
4 couples killed in their cars while parked in Williamsburg/Newport News area.

Never solved.

The Colonial Parkway Killer was an apparent serial killer believed to have murdered at least eight people along the Colonial Parkway of the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia (or nearby) between 1986 and 1989. During that time, three couples were murdered and one couple is missing and presumed to be dead.

Victims

First couple

The first two known victims were Cathleen Thomas, 27, and Rebecca Ann Dowski, 21. On October 12, 1986, their bodies were found inside Thomas' Honda Civic. An autopsy found rope burns on their necks and wrists, signs of strangulation, and their throats had been slashed. Their purses and money were found inside the car. It appears that Thomas may have struggled with her attacker. A clump of the suspect's hair was later captured by her fingers. Both women were fully clothed and there was no evidence of sexual assault.

Second couple

On September 22, 1987, David Knobling, 20, and Robin Edwards, 14, were found murdered in the Ragged Island Wildlife Refuge, on the south shore of the James River in Isle of Wight County, near Smithfield, Virginia. Knobling's truck was found at the refuge three days before the bodies were discovered by his father.

Third couple

On April 9, 1988, Cassandra Lee Hailey and Richard Keith Call were reported missing after attending a party in the University Square area in Newport News during their first date together. Call's vehicle was found, unoccupied, on the Colonial Parkway the next day. Neither body has been found, but both are presumed dead.

Fourth couple

On October 19, 1989, the bodies of Annamaria Phelps, 18, and Daniel Lauer, 21, were found in New Kent County by hunters in the woods near a rest area on Interstate 64 between Williamsburg and Richmond. They had been missing since September 5 when they vanished on route to Virginia Beach. The hunters discovered the bodies on a logging road about a quarter-of-a-mile from Courthouse Road,

a location about a mile from the I-64 New Kent rest stop.

More can be red here.

The creepiest mysteries are the ones that happen in real life

We drove up to my friend’s grandmother’s house in the mountains of New Mexico for a skiing trip.
On one of the first nights we were all just hanging around the house and my friends went upstairs to play a drinking game; I stayed downstairs to watch tv in the living room.
It was probably 11pm and I was just about to doze off when I heard a BANG — the back door swung in and slammed into the wall.
I yelled “What the fuck?!” And my friends ran to the stairs asking what happened.
We turned on the outside lights and didn’t see anybody but…
There was a trail of heavy footprints that went from the trees to the big window – whoever was out there had been staring at me on the couch because there were no blinds or curtains – and then the trail went to the door, and then disappeared around the corner of the house.

Needless to say, I didn’t sleep that night.

The District Attorney who disappeared

There was a District Attorney who had the opportunity to charge Sandusky’s ass long before he got arrested. They later found his car abandoned and laptop in the Susquehanna river. 

And to just make things more confusing he had his
(personal or work laptop? I read conflicting things) with him and that was found without its hard drive (later obtained and completely destroyed) in the Susquehanna River.
When investigators searched his home they were able to obtain some information regarding his internet searches, basically indicating that he wanted to learn how to destroy a hard drive.

Wikipedia article.

The Sodder Children Mystery

1 A.M. – Parents wake up, house is on fire. Parents help get 5 out of their 10 kids out of the house.

Dad tries to reach the other children (upstairs) with a ladder that was outside,
ladder is missing. 
Dad tries to pull his two big trucks up to the window to climb the trucks and get kids out, both trucks will not start up. 
Dad tries to get water from rain barrel – rain barrel is frozen solid. 
He tries to call the fire department, and there is no response. 
He tells a neighbor to call, also no response. 

Finally someone in town sees the fire and goes to the fire department – the fire trucks don’t arrive until  8 A.M., 7 hours after the start of the fire. 
Fire department investigates the house and finds no bones for the 5 kids, 
say that the bones were burnt to ashes. 

They say it was a wiring problem, but light bulbs were still working. 
People think that it was a cover up by law enforcement.

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