Throughout the history of mankind, there have been events and circumstances that have caught
our attention that have yet to be explained.
From murders to disappearance to stories that have even been adapted to mainstream television,
there are a whole lot of strange occurrences that some of our most brilliant minds have
been unable to crack.
From iconic serial killers to eerie instances, we’re counting down the top 5 scary unsolved
mysteries today, and be warned, quite a few of them are rather unsettling.
Let’s get to it.
5 The Beaumont Children Starting off our list is a mystery from Australia
back in 1966.
The disappearance of the Beaumont children is a mystery that has left people scratching
their heads for decades now; three siblings aged 9, 7 and 4 years old disappeared from
a beach in South Australia on Australia day.
According to witnesses, the last sighting of the children on the beach had been in the
company of a tall blond, tanned, athletic man with a thin face in his mid-30s.
But the children and this suspect were never found, and bodies were never located.
Since the beach was a short ways away from their home, their parents believed that the
eldest sibling Jane would be capable of looking after her siblings, and the three of them
would return home by noon as they were instructed.
This was a common occurrence for them, and because of the times, parents didn’t worry
back then about their children being harmed or abducted by strangers.
When their father returned home from work at 3pm, the children were still not back,
so he drove down to the beach, but was unable to locate them.
Police quickly organized a search, and everyone had hoped the children had simply lost track
of time.
Within 24 hours of the search, the missing children became known nationwide.
The tall blonde man that the witnesses had described seemed odd to the parents, considering
their children were quite often shy, and reports say that they were quite relaxed with him.
It is suspected that perhaps the suspect had met with the children on the beach on multiple
occasions, gaining their trust.
There were a few other sightings too, with the children reportedly being sighting walking
home alone around 3pm.
To this day, the case has yet to be solved, and in 2016 and 2018, there were leads that
the police explored, although they were dead ends.
This case is often credited with a shift in Australian lifestyles, with parents beginning
to fear that their children were no longer safe when unsupervised in public.
4 Jack the Ripper The Jack the Ripper case is perhaps the biggest
unsolved serial killer case in the world, which over time has often found its way into
contemporary horror stories and media in pop culture.
In case you’re not familiar with who Jack the Ripper is, back in 1888 in the London
district of Whitechapel, a serial killer who became known as Jack the Ripper terrorized
the poverty stricken area.
His victims were typically women working as prostitutes who had their throats cut prior
to receiving abdominal mutilation in which their internal organs were tampered with or
removed.
Because of this last bit of evidence, it was commonly believed that Jack the Ripper had
some sort of knowledge or experience with the human anatomy and surgical practices.
During the course of the killings, media outlets received letters allegedly from the killer,
one of which referred to themselves as Jack the Ripper, which is where the name came from,
despite the belief that most of the letters were a hoax, minus the infamous ‘From Hell’
letter that came alongside half a preserved human kidney reportedly taken from one of
the victims.
There are an unknown number of killings, although 5 specifically found between August 31st and
November 9th of 1888 were considered to be ‘canon’ being linked.
The murders were never solved, and to this day still captivate the public’s interest.
3 The Dyatlov Pass Incident Back in 1959, a group of 10 young hikers went
on a skiing expedition across the northern Urals in the then Soviet Union.
Consisting mainly of students in their early 20s, nine of them were later found dead, and
the cause of their deaths has never been identified.
Based on evidence found, the incident that causes their deaths occurred between February
1st and 2nd.
Here’s what we know thanks to diaries and camera footage.
The group of ten set out on the early hours of January 25th to a village that was the
last inhabited settlement to the North of their destination.
On the 28th, one of their members, the only survivor of the group, was suffering from
health issues pertaining to his heart, so he was forced to stay behind.
The other nine continued, and on the 31st they arrived at the edge of a highland area
where they began to prepare to climb the slopes of Kholat Syakhl.
On the 1st, they had started to move across the pass, with the intention of camping out
on the other side, but the weather worsened, with snowstorms and poor visibility becoming
an issue.
They chose to camp out on the slope, not wanting to lose the altitude they had already gained.
Prior to their departure, the group’s leader had told their sports club they would send
a telegram upon their return, roughly around February 12th.
The telegram never came.
On February 20th, a rescue operation began, and on the 26th, the groups abandoned tent
was discovered.
According to one of the searchers, “the tent was half torn down and covered in snow.
It was empty, and all the groups belongings and shoes had been left behind.”
Footprints were found, implying that some were barefoot or in socks, and the prints
led down to the nearby woods.
This is where they found the first bodies, who were only dressed in their underwear.
Other bodies were found nearby, and it appeared as if some of them had tried to climb a nearby
tree in a panic.
It gets weirder, too.
According to the journalists reporting on the findings, six members of the group died
of hypothermia while three died of fatal injuries, including skull damage, and chest fractures.
The tent had been ripped from within.
There were no indications of another other people near the pass except for them.
Based on the evidence, the group had left their camp site on their own accord, and the
theory than the indigenous people who lived nearby may have attacked them was debunked
due to the doctors report, which stated that the fatal injuries found on those three members
could not have been from another human, stating, “because the force of the blows had been
too strong and no soft tissue had been damaged.”
The area is now known as the Dyatlov Pass, named after the leader of the expedition in
memorial.
2 Roanoke The name Roanoke might ring a bell to some
horror fans out there; the Roanoke Colony, also known as the lost colony, was the basis
for a season of American Horror Story.
The colony was an English settlement established in 1585 on Roanoke Island, which today, is
Dare County in North Carolina.
When the colony was first established, they ran into issues due to a lack of supplies
and bad relations with local tribes of Native Americans, one of which was the nearby Croatan
tribe on Hatteras Island.
Many of the individuals from the colony left to return back to England a year afterwards
because of this, but left a small group behind.
By the time a second expedition led by the colony’s governor arrived to the colony
in 1587, all of that small detachment had disappeared.
Shortly afterwards that year, the governor left to return to England to ask the government
for assistance, and eventually returned back in August of 1590, only to discover the entire
colony was now missing.
The only clue left behind was the word CROATON carved into a tree.
It’s commonly believed that the settlers were killed off by the Croatan tribe, but
no bodies were ever discovered.
Another theory is that due to bad weather conditions, the settlers were forced to take
shelter with local tribes, but no conclusive evidence can support that theory either.
So where did they go?
What happened to the 90 men, 11 women and 11 children that were settlers there?
We may never know.
1 Elisa Lam They mystery of Elisa Lam is one that just
doesn’t add up.
It’s also an incredibly recent case, occurring in 2013.
Elisa Lam, a student at the University of British Colombia, was discovered inside of
a water tank located above the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA.
She had been reported being missing at the beginning of that month, and had only been
discovered when maintenance workers at the hotel had opened up the tank after hotel guests
complained about problems with the water supply.
It gets weirder.
Footage of Elisa inside the hotel’s elevator revealed strange behavior from the student.
Whenever the door opened, she would look outside of them, and kept herself tucked into one
of the elevator’s corners, as if she was hiding.
She was known to have bipolar disorder.
And the security camera also revealed that the elevator appeared to be suffering from
malfunctions.
Elisa leaving the elevator is the last known sighting of her.
There was no evidence found concerning how exactly she got inside the water tank.
Doors to the roof of the building were locked, with only staff having the passcodes and keys,
and no alarm was ever triggered, although the roof was also accessible by the fire escape.
It’s also questionable how she would have gotten inside the water tank on her own, since
the lids are quite heavy, and required a ladder to access.
There was also no trace of her on the roof afterwards, and she was found naked inside
the tank with most of her clothes and other personal effects floating in the water beside
her.
The most common theory is that she was being pursued by someone, and had tried to hide
in the water tank to escape them, but got trapped within.
Some have noted that the mystery of her death shares similarities with the 2005 horror film
Dark Water, and the film it was a remake of, the 1996 Japanese movie of the same name.
There we have it friends!
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