officially your name is nicholas patrick
barclay that you're born this on the
31st 1980.
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
documentaries about creepy mysteries
that image forced a lot of people to say
that is the killer that is that man is
not right
look at him there drooling steve had 22
witnesses
at least and there was one of them right
there and every one of us were called
fabricators
liars for this list we'll be looking at
documentaries that examine unsettling or
unsolved enigmas that send shivers down
your spine
we will only be looking at films for
this list so docuseries like making a
murderer
won't be included what's the creepiest
documentary you've seen
let us know in the comments below
number 10 killing jimmy hoffa i'm trying
to help you jim i know you
but nobody threatens often years before
martin score says he made the irishman a
film that dramatized the final days of
jimmy hoffa
this documentary explored the union
leader's mysterious disappearance
at 2 30 hoffa called his wife said hey
you know nobody showed up here i'm
waiting have you heard from anybody
and she replied the negative and that
was the last time she heard from me
killing jimmy hoffa delves into the many
questions surrounding the still
officially unsolved case
they tried to have a meeting in miami to
mend
fences and at that meeting tony pro
threatened to kidnap
jimmy's granddaughter it also provides
an insight into the character of the man
himself through a number of different
interviews
a poll of the major truck driver
magazine in those days at least
showed that 83 percent of the
respondents would vote for jimmy hoffa
immediately if he were able to run for
the presidency
while some people praise hafa others
demonize him jimmy hoffa's dream was to
consolidate the trucking industry he
wanted to control
everything on wheels which he managed to
do to a great extent
the documentary ties everything together
by presenting a number of conspiracies
that draw on both his connections to the
mafia as well as his dispute with the
kennedy family
people who hold responsible positions in
your union come before this committee
and take the fifth amendment because an
honest answer might tend to incriminate
them
number nine the life and death of marsha
p johnson i don't bite my tongue for
nobody i tell him i don't want to be
bothered
marcia p johnson was a hero for lgbtq
plus causes
marsha johnson
forever when her body was found in the
hudson river in 1992
plenty of suspicions were raised the
autopsy results suggested that she took
her own life
however many of johnson's friends and
loved ones were incredibly skeptical of
this ruling and believed it was foul
play
at 4 00 a.m in the morning on 22nd
street
he said that marsha was kind of
terrified and was being followed by two
guys going west
to the river and was that reported to
the police academy award-nominated
director david france decided to tackle
this mystery
by following activist victoria cruz's
attempts to sleuth out the truth
she relentlessly went after any new
details about the case she could find
then that would tie in about randy
taking on the mob
the call that you got of marsha being
followed and her death
well those pieces certainly fit together
no matter what kind of opposition she
faced crews kept moving forward
number eight there's something wrong
with aunt diane
was diane schuler a perfect suburban
mother or a reckless addict
this documentary follows her family's
attempts to answer that question
their children are on their way home
from a camping trip with their aunt
they just called my friend's house
distressed saying that the ant is
driving erratically throughout the film
they try to uncover the truth behind why
she drove the wrong way down the highway
until she had a fatal crash
the toxicology from that autopsy shows
that diane schuler had a blood alcohol
content
of 0.19 percent was the tragedy that led
to her passing and the loss of several
other lives a result of addiction
negligent behavior or was it something
more mysterious
danny doesn't want the other families to
think that a drunk driver
killed their families that's why we are
out to prove that she
tried to prove that she wasn't drunk
diane's husband and sister-in-law set
out to uncover more information about
what led up to the fatal crash
by hiring a private investigator as soon
as we paid him
he disappeared but one question remains
throughout
are they on to something or just
desperate to explain the motive
behind their sister's tragic actions
diane schuler
drives against traffic for 1.7 miles
in the fast lane never veers
seems to have a serene almost oblivious
look on her face
number seven the fear of thirteen a good
story is made even better by a good
storyteller
in the blink of an eye you can look and
ten years are gone
after watching fear of 13 we can
confidently say that nick yaris is one
of the best we've ever seen
you just been put here the door was just
still ringing in your ears cause of the
slam and you're just
left there and you're like the way he
delivers the tail is as compelling as
someone telling an urban legend around a
campfire
yaris spends the hour and a half of the
documentary recounting a story of lost
lives
false accusations and redemption i can't
believe i had the key to myself
in my hands because i know i didn't kill
that woman i know none of my biological
materials
anywhere near her but unlike a tall tale
fear of 13
is the story of his own life yaris tells
us how he spent 22 years in prison after
he was accused of a crime he didn't
commit
it took me from 1993 to 1997
to finally get court approval for the
foremost
authority of dna in america to do the
dna testing
hallelujah all the while the mystery of
who committed the act he was proven
innocent of hangs over the grim story
if you're gonna take everything from me
okay then instead
i think i'll give myself everything
number six
missing mom filmmaker rob mccallum
invites viewers into his quest to solve
the highly personal mystery of what
happened to his mother
i never believed the word she said she
could tell me anything i wouldn't
believe it
so basically the less we saw her the
better it was 25 years after she
disappeared
he and his brother decide to try and
find out where she went and why she left
the film addresses the feelings of
abandonment that the brothers felt when
they were left to be raised by their
grandparents
i always wish i knew what happened to
her because she she was important
to me i really don't think she wants to
be found
the brothers navigate through false
leads and sudden turns to piece together
what really happened
was the reason for her sudden and
unexplained departure something sinister
or just sad family drama you'll have to
watch the film to find out
hi lee i think you're my mom
number five out of thin air the thing
that makes the crime featured in this
documentary so creepy
isn't just the fact that two men
disappeared
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what really makes this case unsettling
is how and why police
manipulated six people into believing
they had committed the crime
most of them had been in prison for a
petty crime
thievery they were violent
icelandic police were pressured to solve
the cases of germander anderson
and gerfiner anderson who both vanished
in
out of thin air chronicles how the
police pulled this off despite a lack of
physical evidence
or
the officers used barbaric methods to
get six people to confess to the
disappearances
he had been interrogated 180 times
for 340 hours
this documentary ultimately examines how
corrupt authorities can abuse power and
create whatever narrative they want
while making us doubt what we believe to
be true number 4.
bigian tupac this documentary
investigates the unsolved mystery of how
two of the most famous rappers of the
90s lost their lives
former detective russell poole has filed
suit against the department
poole says he uncovered dirty cops while
investigating the murders
the feature heavily suggests their final
moments were orchestrated by one man
when tupac shakur lost his life in a
drive-by in las vegas
suspicions fell on his rival biggie
smalls pocket's a strong dude yo i know
duke you know what i'm saying
he's real strong so when they was like
he got shot i was just more like again
but just six months later biggie's life
came to an end in an eerily similar way
in a nutshell there was there was a hit
taken out
on notorious b.i.g
the documentary firmly points the finger
at death row records producer
suge knight i mean if you get a guy that
constantly getting in trouble and never
gonna come to prison
that's because he's in a form he's a rat
according to the theory the producer
colluded with the lapd to take out tupac
and then went after biggie to cover up
the first crime another example
of how incomplete the investigation is
and how
they have tried everything or done
everything to avoid the truth in the
matter
while the claims made in the documentary
are debatable the movie definitely makes
for an interesting watch
number three brothers keeper there are
two sides to every story
brother's keeper shows how these two
competing narratives competed in the
twisted story of the ward brothers
but life for delbert ward changed on
june 6th
when his 64 year old brother william
died of suffocation
after one of the four brothers allegedly
took the life of another
the media descended on the small town
the family was portrayed as illiterate
recluses
meanwhile their small community rallied
around the brothers as local heroes
after they had previously ignored them
they minded their own business they were
different
as long as they didn't step on your feet
in one version of the story
delbert ward ended his sickly brother's
life as an act of mercy
another take on this tale has the police
creating a scapegoat out of a man who
couldn't read
a state police officer has the guts to
tell the national television
i know he did it all of a sudden he's
judging jury
by showing all angles of the story the
documentary makes viewers consider whose
side they would take
number two propsy i love my sister
very much it's been 20 years that
they've had to carry
for an incredibly long time and i miss
her so much an urban legend of a
boogeyman-like figure called cropsy once
terrified children in the northeastern
united states
you know we used to walk through here
and you'd find
beds and papers and people who have died
here
so you know it kind of made sense to us
this legend horribly emerged into
reality a homeless man
43 year old andre rand is under arrest
he is charged with the kidnapping
of twelve-year-old jennifer schweiger
after several children disappeared in
the 80s a previously convicted criminal
named andre rand was arrested
that image forced a lot of people to say
that is the killer that is that man is
not right
look at him there drooling but there
were a number of mysteries surrounding
the case
cropsey ultimately asks if the people
who accused rand were simply looking for
someone to be a scapegoat
or not he's got the evidence we just
haven't found it in the woods yet it
also investigates the narratives we
invent to make ourselves feel safe
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number one the imposter changelings who
seemingly become other people
are supposed to be works of fiction
however the imposter describes someone
who did this for real
ain't i beautiful three years after
nicholas barclay vanished from a san
antonio suburb
he apparently reappeared on the other
side of the world she took me
in her horns and she said nicholas oh
and you were afraid i wouldn't recognize
you i would remember that nose
he had different colored eyes a new
accent and was much older than he should
have been
however none of that seemed to matter to
barclay's parents or the media
first thing when you open your eyes is
officially your name is nicholas patrick
barclay that you're born december 31st
1980
and that every family member is calling
me nicholas this documentary tells the
twisted tale of how a serial imposter
managed to trick the world i said this
guy's a faith
it's not him i said the ears don't match
and my comment to him was
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you need to be very careful that you
don't intrude on a federal investigation
by inventing false narratives he preyed
on the hopes of a bereaved family hoping
to solve a tragic mystery
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