♪ (haunting intro) ♪
- (FBE) We recently showed our reactors some unsolved mysteries,
and in the comments, we saw a ton of suggestions
of more to cover. - Yes! I saw that first episode,
and I was seriously like, "I should've been there."
♪ That should be me ♪ - (FBE) It's time to get
your detective cap on as we get into some more unsolved mysteries.
- Okay. I'm super excited. I love stuff like this.
- Yes! Ah, I'm so excited! I was on CSI, [censored].
This is up my alley. - (anchor) Zodiac, a symbol
that now stands for terror in San Francisco.
- The Zodiac Killer. So spooky.
- So interesting to watch old TV. It makes me feel like
it's a Twilight Zone episode. - (anchor) In Zodiac's latest letter
last week, he threatened to make a busload of school children
his next victims. - That's creepy. Ugh.
- That's so cruel. - (anchor) ...the people
of San Francisco heard a man who claimed to be Zodiac
talking on the air. - Isn't interesting that there are
so many killers in California? And it might just be
because the population density in California is so high,
but there's so many in California.
- (man) I'm gonna kill... got to kill...
[inaudible]
- It's like super villain status.
- (voice-over) ...of a man who called himself the Zodiac Killer.
He's talking to attorney Melvin Belli by phone
on a television conversation show. - (Dunbar) Just tell us
what's going on inside you right now please.
- (caller) I have headaches. - (Dunbar) Right.
- (Belli) How long have you had those headaches?
- Oh. Ooft. - (caller) Since I killed a kid.
- (Belli) If it all boils down to the question of
you're giving yourself up if you could be assured
that you wouldn't get capital punishment.
For myself-- - (caller) Don't wanna give myself up.
- (Belli) I'm-- - (caller) I wanna kill those kids.
(caller hangs up) - Oh. I just-- oh my god.
That's so chilling to hear it. That's so scary!
- It's still a little bit scary to think that someone
could do these things and just get away with it.
- (FBE) This is the Zodiac Killer, which is the self-given nickname
of the unidentified serial killer who operated in northern California
from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.
The name "Zodiac" came about in a series of messages
that he sent to the San Francisco Bay Area Press,
including four messages of which only one has been solved.
- That's scary. Ah, that's creepy. - Yikes. He's at home watching
this video, looking at me like, "Look at that delicious young skin."
- It's interesting also to think about what the media's role plays in this.
He's leaving clues for the press specifically,
and they're kind of taking the bait and trying to figure it out and stuff.
- The fact that it could be anyone, like it could be someone's husband...
There is someone out there that has done these things. So scary!
- (narrator) How many creepy stories about the disappearing of airplanes
and ships in the Bermuda Triangle have you heard?
We guess a whole bunch. - That's a good one.
- (narrator) It is a large area in the Atlantic Ocean between Florida,
Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. - Hmm. My daughter is very obsessed
with the whole Bermuda Triangle. If we're planning a vacation,
"It's not gonna be near the Bermuda Triangle, is it?
We're not gonna have to fly"-- and I'm like, "No, we should be fine."
- (narrator) This region is notorious for its mysterious phenomena.
- Ahhh. - (voice-over) Huge amounts of ships
and planes have disappeared here.
- Yeah, but why? - (narrator) Its second name
is the Devil's Triangle. - Yikes.
Why did they use an image of a gorilla in the background
for the devil? What? - (narrator) All those mythical
vanishings happened under unknown and unexplained circumstances.
- I wonder if that's still a thing, you know,
with all the technology we have today.
- (narrator) ...happened under unknown and unexplained...
- So weird. - (narrator) Some of the planes
and ships have never been found. - I mean, the ocean is pretty deep.
- (narrator) ...about why it all occurs in that area,
starting from water spouts to aliens and even sea monsters.
But those were only theories.
Reports go back to 1945, when five American torpedo bombers
and a plane that was sent out to find them all vanished
without a trace. - So spooky!
- (narrator) ...all vanished without a trace.
- Absolutely yikes. - (voice-over) Another 75 aircraft
and several hundred ships have been lost.
- What?! Yeah, that's just spooky to me.
- Imagine being on a cruise ship and just being like, "Oh,"
looking at the map, "where are we now?"
and see you're about to go in. You're like, "Wait, what?!"
- (FBE) The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle,
is an area in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean,
where many aircrafts and ships are believed to have disappeared
with little or sometimes no trace. Some say the unknown
and mysterious forces like aliens or the Lost City of Atlantis
are the reasons behind these unexplained disappearances
while others think there's more of a natural explanation,
including oceanic flatulence and disruption in geomagnetic
lines of flux. - I'd love for it to be Atlantis
but my belief probably lies with the latter.
- I think that's interesting enough that it doesn't have to be aliens.
I'm sorry if it might not be aliens, but what it maybe actually is
is still pretty cool. - We don't know what's out there.
And I think I've heard it said that we know more about the moon
than we know about the deepest point in the ocean
or something like that. It could be anything out there.
Not aliens, though. - Are we sacrificing all those planes
and boats to a creature down there so that they won't come up
and Godzilla us? But honestly, I feel like Godzilla
would be really cute and nice.
- (narrator) It's a heartbreaking case that still puzzles
investigators around the world. What happened to Madeleine McCann?
- Oh. I don't know if I know this one. - Not children.
I hate it when it's children. Oh, man. - Oh my god.
I remember watching this documentary.
- (narrator) Before the 10th anniversary
of her disappearance, the McCanns reflected
on the time they have lost with Madeleine.
- Aww, yeah. - (Kate) It some ways, it feels
like it was only a few weeks ago, and other times,
it's felt really long. But it's a hard marker of time.
- Oh, this makes you wanna cry. - (narrator) ...alive somewhere
and won't stop searching for her.
- (Gerry) No parent's gonna give up on their child unless they know
for certain the child's dead. And we just don't have any evidence.
- (narrator) Madeleine was last seen sleeping in her bed
near her twin siblings at this resort
in Praia da Luz, Portugal. - Ugh.
- Aw. - (narrator) Kate and Gerry
had put the children to bed and were dining at the resort's
tapas restaurant about 50 yards from their room.
- So close. 50 yards. - (narrator) ...took turns checking
on the sleeping children. Gerry was the last to see Madeleine
when he checked on her around 9 PM.
When Kate went to check on the kids an hour later, Madeleine was gone.
- Horrible, man. - (narrator) And so began the search
for a little girl who seemed to vanish into thin air.
- That story's so sad. I could literally see my daughter
in that situation getting up from the bed in a foreign place
looking for me and then going to find me.
That's probably what happened. She probably got up and went looking
for her parents, someone scooped her up.
- (FBE) Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3rd, 2007
from her bed in a resort apartment in Portugal while her parents
and family friends were out at a restaurant close by.
When her mother came in to check on the kids,
she noticed that Madeleine was nowhere to be found
and a window in her room was wide open.
- Absolutely terrifying. - (FBE) Her whereabouts remain unknown
and German prosecutors in 2020 have stated
that they assume that she has passed away.
But her parents have stated that they refuse to believe
that she's dead until a body has been found.
- I see why investigators would push a case to a cold case,
but I'm with her family. There's not enough about this case
that I'd be like, "Oh, it's likely that she has passed."
I would hold out hope too. - That is just-- I mean,
there wasn't one security camera? Oh! It's just so frickin' sad.
- This happens on a daily basis, unfortunately.
All you can do is just, you know, pray for the best
and just wish these people get caught and justice is served.
- (FBE) Those are all of the unsolved mysteries
that we have for you today. Why do you think that so many people
are intrigued by these stories? - A lot of people invest a lot of time
and energy into all of these different cases and other cases,
so when we do get an answer, if they're right,
it's gonna be like, "Yeah, I knew it," you know, "I knew it all along."
- The brain is very interested in solving things, so when things
are unsolved, it's just like, you can't stop thinking about it.
- So, when we hear stories like this, it kind of makes you step back
and realize that you are very fortunate to be safe
and healthy and, you know, not be in the same situation
as these people. They need to have that justice
for their existence. And overall, I think it's just
that big question mark.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Adults React.
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- Hey, everybody. Lauren, producer here on the React Channel.
Thank you guys so much for watching this video.
Do you have any theories behind some of these mysteries?
Let us know down in the comments what you think. Bye, everyone.