- When you think of Halloween,
you probably think of costumes and candy,
but not everything that happens on that night is fun.
Sometimes mysterious events happen that are unexplainable
and some that are even disturbing.
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Here are 10 unsolved Halloween mysteries.
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Number 10 is Veronica Safranski.
In 1996, 40-year-old Veronia "Voni" Safranski
attended a Halloween party in Warren, Minnesota.
Though she attended with a friend,
Safranski left the bar later that night
without telling her that she was leaving.
Witnesses say that she left with Kevin Skjerven,
a man who had been convicted
of sexual assault on multiple occasions
and she was never heard from again.
Skjerven claimed that he had no idea
what happened to Safranski, despite leaving with her.
He was never charged, something that Voni's family claimed
was the result of lazy police work.
Safranski had been dressed
in a Pocahontas Halloween costume,
part of which was discovered months later
at the side of a county road,
over 3/4 of a kilometer south of where she was last seen.
What happened to Voni Safranski
is still unknown to this day.
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Number nine is Chris Jenkins.
On October 31st, 2002, 21-year-old student Chris Jenkins
went to the Lone Tree Bar and Grill
in Minneapolis, Minnesota to celebrate Halloween.
However, he was removed from the bar by security
90 minutes later and was left outside
without his phone, keys, or even his wallet.
That was the last time that anyone saw him alive.
Investigators determined that a fight
had taken place in the street and then Jenkins either walked
or was taken to a parking garage next door
where the trail ended with some drops of blood
and a red feather,
presumably from his Native American costume.
Jenkins' body was discovered
floating in the Mississippi River four months later.
Initially declared a suicide or accident,
the medical examiner changed the cause of death to homicide,
though to this day, nobody knows who killed him or why.
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Number eight is Cindy Song.
On Halloween night in 2001, 21-year-old Cindy Song,
a Pennsylvania State University student, vanished.
Song had been dressed as a Playboy bunny
and was partying with two friends at Players Nightclub
until around 2:00 a.m.,
when they went to a friend's house to play video games.
Around 4:00 a.m., she was dropped off at her home,
but was never seen again.
Investigators found Song's costume eyelashes
and her cellphone in her apartment,
meaning that she'd at least
made it inside before disappearing.
However, her purse and wallet were gone.
The door to the home was locked from the outside,
leading police to speculate that she must have been
abducted while going to a nearby 24 hour market
or left with someone that she knew who had killed her.
Despite an exhaustive search,
to this day, no trace of Cindy Song has ever been found.
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Number seven is Orange Socks.
Orange Socks was the name given
to an unidentified woman whose body was discovered
on October 31st, 1979 just outside of Georgetown, Texas.
Found in a concrete tunnel,
she was naked with the exception of a silver,
oval shaped ring on her finger and orange socks on her feet.
She had been strangled just hours before she was found,
but the only evidence of where she came from
was a matchbook from a Holiday Inn hotel in Henrietta, OK.
This led authorities to conclude that she was a hitchhiker.
In 1982, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas
confessed to the murder,
claiming her name was Judy or Joanne.
However, he recanted that testimony soon after
and multiple reports claim
that he was far from Georgetown when she died.
Unable to be identified, Orange Socks was buried
in a grave marked Unidentified Woman 1979.
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Number six is Kristi Lynn Vorak.
Last seen on October 31st, 1982,
13-year-old Kristi Lynn Vorak
vanished from her home in Tacoma, Washington.
Her foster family, who were the last ones to see her,
said when interviewed that she had no reason to run away
and was a happy girl.
Vorak knew the streets of Tacoma very well,
always going for long walks,
but never getting into any trouble
with drugs or prostitution,
which investigators ruled out as a motive.
One theory surfaced in 1993
that says that she was one of Gary Leon Ridgeway,
better known as The Green River serial killer's victims.
Though her remains were not discovered to prove this.
Although investigators believe
that Vorak is long-since deceased,
her mother holds on to hope,
claiming that even though it's been
35 years since her disappearance, that she knows
that her daughter's alive out there somewhere.
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Number five is Johnny Frank Garrett.
Though he was executed on February 11th, 1992,
Johnny Frank Garrett maintained
that he was innocent until the very end
and what's worse is that many others,
possibly even including investigators who arrested him,
knew that he was too.
On Halloween night in 1981, a 76-year-old nun
was murdered in St. Francis Convent in Amarillo, Texas.
That nun was Sister Tadea Benz
and she was a friend of Garrett,
who was 17 years old at the time.
Garrett lived across the street from the church
and often helped the nuns with chores.
Many suspect that the authorities falsified evidence
to calm down locals who were calling
for the murderer to be caught.
Without any suspects, Garrett was the easiest person
to pin the crime on and a confession used to convict him
was found to be inconsistent with the crime scene details.
It would seem that Garrett confessed under duress,
meaning that the actual killer is still out there.
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Number four is Tony Bagley.
In October of 1994, seven year old Tony Bagley
was excited for this same thing
that most kids are at Halloween, trick or treating.
When the day finally came,
he put on his skeleton costume and set out,
but tragically, never came home.
Around 6:15 p.m., Tony ran ahead of his mother,
aunt and sister, and had reached the end of the block
when the unthinkable happened.
A man in a dark colored hoodie ran out in front of him
and opened fire with a handgun, targeting the Bagley family.
All four were hit with bullets,
but while the three women suffered
non-life threatening injuries, Tony was shot in the head
and soon after died in the hospital.
Investigators had few leads,
thinking that the shooting could have been gang-related
or maybe the shooter mistook the family for someone else.
Regardless, whoever the shooter was, was never caught.
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Number three is Chaim Weiss.
On November 1st, 1986, just one day after Halloween,
16-year-old Chaim Weiss was found dead
on the floor of his room at a yeshiva,
a Jewish Orthodox school in Long Island, New York.
Sometime in the night,
he had been struck in the head so hard,
his spinal column had been severed.
Investigators realized that the murderer
was likely familiar with Weiss' faith,
as the body had been moved to the floor,
the lowest and coolest place in the room
and the window had been opened to allow his spirit to leave.
After the preliminary investigation,
a rabbi was permitted to leave a candle burning in the room
and then it was sealed up.
But just two days later,
a second candle mysteriously appeared,
also lit as if it were a memorial, as well.
Students and rabbis were polygraphed,
but no answers came from it.
To this day, Weiss' killer has not been identified.
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Number two is David Stone.
On October 28th, 1988, after a heated argument,
29-year-old California resident David Stone
violently attacked one of his friends.
Deciding he needed to change,
Stone told his family that he'd be back in a few days,
but they never saw him again.
On Halloween morning,
while traveling on foot east of Tucson, Arizona,
Stone told a farmer he was looking for the beast.
His car was found five days later
with a note inside of it which read,
"They think the word is in the safe,
"six knives in Rob's room, youse buys your tea
"and youse take your chances Halloween."
Searchers found his Rolex and two pyramids
that he'd built out of rocks, but failed to find David.
His remains weren't discovered until February of 1992
when two hikers came across him
near Granite Gap, New Mexico.
What happened to David Stone, to this day is still unknown.
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And number one is the Son of Sam cult murders.
On October 31st, 1981,
39-year-old photographer Ronald Sizeman
and 20-year-old Smith College student Elizabeth Platzman
were murdered in Sisman's Chelsea neighborhood apartment
in Manhattan, New York.
Both of them had been savagely beaten and shot in the head.
There was no sign of forced entry,
however, the apartment had been ransacked
leading investigators to believe that the killer,
or killers, were looking for something.
Oddly, weeks before the murders occurred,
a prison inmate predicted that the crime would happen,
saying that he was told by David Berkowitz,
the Son of Sam killer, who allegedly had many followers.
Berkowitz claimed that his cult
would kill someone on Halloween
to stop him from turning over evidence.
Unfortunately, despite the link,
those killers were never found.
Hopefully, this video gives you something to think about
as you go out on Halloween night.
Keep this in mind for each Halloween going forward
because you never know
what's waiting for you in the darkness.