i have a love-hate relationship with unsolved mysteries
it's a love relationship in the sense i'm obsessed with them and cannot get
enough of them it's a hate relationship because i get
so frustrated when they can't be solved because
obviously nine times out of ten at least one person
knows the answer to the mystery and can solve it with one sentence
but unfortunately that's not always the case or people don't come forward
however when i saw unsolved mysteries vol 1 on netflix
i knew i was in for a treat and i was not wrong
the day i'm recording this is actually the day before volume 2 comes out so i'm
very excited about that and i will definitely talk about that
probably within the next week i'm very much looking forward to that
however today i'm talking about volume one and there are six episodes
there will be spoilers in this video in a moment because i do want to go into
a little bit of depth but i will just give you kind of a brief introduction to
what this is just in case you're not familiar with
it so it has six different episodes each
one looks at a completely different unsolved mystery
for the most part these are criminal mysteries
murder uh missing persons things like that but there is one
ufo based mystery which i have a lot of thoughts about so i'd be
very interested to know what you think of that as well
and i will talk about that in detail in a moment
please try and keep the comments kind of spoiler free
but as i said this is a mostly spoiler video so
i'm happy to discuss these in as much detail as we can
okay so there will be spoilers from now on and i'm just going to go and kind of
give a brief overview of each of the six episodes
and any thoughts that i particularly had about the episodes
to give a review of the actual documentary first of all um
i thought every episode was well presented they had a really good amount
of um kind of recons audio clips were available
um interviews with people involved with each case
they you know was very well presented the editing was very good
at no point that i think the documentaries felt forced or
underdeveloped or like they weren't representing all of the information
one thing i will say which kind of works in the document
documentaries favor for keeping me watching but they had a habit of
withholding information until later into the episode for example
spoilers from now mystery on the rooftop is the first episode
and in this episode um ray rivera disappears and
in the episode he's found there's a hole found in a hotel and his body is found
in there and my first thought was well check the
cctv but they don't mention the cctv until maybe halfway through the episode
so there are a lot of things they kind of don't say they've done
until they get further in so it's like they have done the things you're telling
them to do but they don't necessarily reveal it so
what do i think about mystery on the rooftop
a really good episode first one great starter
i if it wasn't for the fact that that was that weird note hidden in such
an obscure place in the fact that he ran out of the house
in flip flops i would have said suicide why that location i don't know but it's
hard to believe that he and at least one other person could
have gone up there and he could have been pushed off
without anybody noticing so it's very difficult it's very difficult
to ascertain what happened obviously personally i cannot make up my mind and
i'd love to know what theories you may or may not have then we have 13
minutes which wasn't quite as exciting but i think it was a lot more
emotional in this one a woman who owns a beauty
salon is she goes missing within 13 minutes she
has one client and then nobody sees her and then when her next
client arrives she's not there and to this day they don't
know who murdered her once her body was found
and a lot of people are saying that it was the husband i
who was the stepfather of her son to be honest i never felt that
but there are things that kind of make him look suspicious
really enjoyed this episode as i said because we have
interviews with the sun it's quite emotional
but what do i think of it i don't know what to make of that case
and i'd be very very interested to hear what you have to say
number three i really like this one i liked most of them i liked all of them
really this is house of terror where basically this aristocratic
gentleman um suddenly
leaves house and he leaves he sends letters to his neighbors
saying that he and his family are now working for the government
and they had to leave and they can't tell anybody their whereabouts
and of course later on we find out that he's and murders his entire family
including the dog and hidden them under the house
and his whereabouts were never truly ascertained
this one to me really isn't an unsolved mystery as such
kind of why he did it is mysterious i don't for a second think that the
deaths the murder i don't think any of that was a mystery
but perhaps you know want to pin him down and say
what did you do would be very beneficial to everybody number four
is no ride home and in this one alonso uh he's a teenager i can't
remember exactly how old he was maybe 18-ish give or take
he goes to a party in a he he is black and he goes to a party in a
predominantly white neighborhood that's kind of
crucial to a lot of the things mentioned in this and a month
later his body is found he is dead but it's not clear whether or
not he was murdered and if so why was he murdered everything kind of
suggests it was a race crime
but as the unsolved mystery goes there's there's no confidence in that
and yeah this is obviously going to start a lot of conversations
and could be read by a lot of different people in a lot of different ways i
think that what they're suggesting seems very
likely but the frustration of not having
answers or knowing it for a fact is obviously well for me frustrating as
a viewer i can't imagine what it feels like for
the family number number five we'll leave until the
end because that's the one that i think is the most stressful so number six the
last one in the series is missing witness
and as with the previous one i mentioned i don't really think that this is a
an unsolved mystery it may be a cold case it may not be fully solved
officially but i think it's pretty obvious
what happened and this one um a mother murders or is it suggested her mother
murdered her husband gary who was the stepfather to her four five
children and the oldest girl lena witnesses some
of it and is kind of involved in disposing of the body i think she was
13 at the time and then eventually lena
you know grows up has her own own son and
there's a suggestion that she may be able to kind of rat out her mother
and then lena goes missing that aspect is unsolved lina
lina's disappearance is completely unsolved
but the murder of gary i thoroughly believe was the mother so she could move
in with her new boyfriend chris and i just think
it's so frustrating that when lena had given an original
statement years earlier she retracted it and that really
frustrates me and i just you know for me this is like
they could have solved this a long time ago and
it's just very annoying that they didn't it's very interesting episode to watch
and a really good one to end the series on
however i've just noticed the next one of the the previous one
is berkshire ufo and this actually has the lowest rating out
of all of the episodes the highest rating is house of terror with 8.1
berkshire's ufo has 5.9 this is not something i'd heard of but it's actually
a massive event and basically in berkshire county in
massachusetts on the 1st of september 1969 residents
who had nothing to do with each other from all over the county
witnessed this big ufo this blinding life from what
what they assume is a ufo and one of the interviewers or interviewees
sorry in particular tom warner goes into a lot of detail about how he
kind of had this telepathic message to go home and then he started to run but
was running on the spot and then he was abducted
by these aliens i guess and somebody and another woman who
never met him also has this memory of being abducted
um and and they were in a car and then suddenly they were three hours later and
people in the car had swapped positions and nobody had any memory of this
and now i i don't want to say i believe in ufos
but at the same time the universe is exceptionally old
and it would be very narcissistic to think that we are the only life form
out there so i kind of want to believe that it
happened and i'm happy to believe that it
happened of all of them in this episode this is the one where i
well we will never get concrete proof and i wish we had concrete proof
but i know a lot of people will not believe this episode and that's fine you
know you're perfectly entitled to your own opinions about ufos
but it just like how else can you explain that so many people not only
witness this light but remember being abducted and having
periods of time in their memory where they can't remember
how they got somewhere if you have a theory i'd love to hear
i'd love to know kind of what you think of it because as i said i'm
i'm very you know willing to consider that it's a ufo but i'm also
very aware that there could be a reasonable explanation though what that
is i don't know it's out of all those episodes that one
to begin with i thought this is so out of place this doesn't fit in this show
but actually it was so gripping and i loved it i think mystery on the rooftop
was a great way to start it house of terror and 13 minutes were a
little bit they were great but they weren't as good
no ride home was very thought-provoking missing witness
was a fantastic way to end it and archer's ufo was just mind-boggling and
i wonder if anybody's written a book about it i'd love to read that i'm going
to investigate that let me know what you think of unsolved
mysteries volume one it is on netflix tomorrow the 19th of october volume 2 is
out and i cannot wait i would love to know what you think with
these if you have a favorite and most importantly what your theories
are