Scariest UM Moments

[panman]

What are some of the freakiest stories from this show? Im kinda nervous to hear your replies, cause this show freaks me out sometimes. Yet, I don't know why, cause I've seen every horror movie possible. You should see my collection.

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[enfuegoy2j]

The Gary Grant one.

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[unsolvedfan19]

Well the freakiest unsolved episode for me was the crib haunting one. You know where the family buys this old crib and all this poltergist activity starts. Then the father see's a vision of their house burning down. That episode just stuck in my memory. It's strange to think that physical objects can hold memories or rather bring evil to one. Makes you wonder.

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[theinsaneone@cableinet.co]

I have a few freaky ones.

1) The Editon about the unexplained death of Gary Grant JR, The son of a law enforcement officer, who was killed then, all sorts of signs started appearing around his father, IE on his police car "I killed Gary Grant JR" when he was out on calls, and sometimes on pavements, conveninetly appearing where his father went! Which freaks me out, due to the fact that the killer is so near, and is following this guy, but aint been caught. (-- I saw this episode while on holiday in the USA)

2) There was this one with a UFO once, and the way the story was told, was AWESOMELY scary, mainly due to the fact, afterwords, i hadda walk back home to a friends house, in the dark past a field.. heh. ( AAAAGES ago, when the show was actually shown in the UK)

3) There was this one, when I was on holiday, that it was an unexplained killing/shooting in an underground car park, and, I had to go to an underground car park, in our apartment block, and it was just so freakily quiet it spooked me.

4) LOADS OF THINGS! There has been times I have had to shut the thing off, because, some times, it gets far to scary.

5) The DAMN THEME TUNE! THat thing is freaky. Turn out all your lights, sit in the dark and listen...


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[ncviewer]

Tell me more about this Gary Grant episode. Where did this officer live and when did this happen? My husband is a LEO and stories about criminals coming after cops' families REALLY get my attention!

[dazzmiller]

Direct from e-mail corrrespondance with UM :
Other than what you viewed, there is no additional info. Our show indicated
on January 12, 1984, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 7 year-old Gary Grant
Jr. disappeared but was later found dead. His friend "Boo" was initially
charged with the murder but later charges were dropped. It is thought the
murder could be retribution for an arrest his father, a law enforcement
officer, made.

You see. Boo was a retarded friend of the young man in question, and there was some sort of clue leading up to him, but he was later dropped.

The thing was tho. After the killing, and even through the time Boo was getting accused, Graffitti in the streets, places The law enforcement officer went, and even onto his cop car during a stop read something to the extent.

"I killed Gary Grant JR ..<DATE> .. You next" Something like that, sometimes, it said things like revenge, and I en
joyed it and stuff.. really freaky.

[Bluestone]

1. The first episode I saw was about a house with a family of four. Strange things started happening in that house and the family believed it was haunted.

2. Another scary one was with a man who went out to the ATM and disappeared. A bank camera picked up a brief shot of a strange man at his shoulder, and it was one of the CREEPIEST moments I've ever seen on television!

3. There was another one about a killer that was just scary to me because it happened in the city where I live!

[Amute]

hey did you ever here about the one were this girl posts this message online and this peron read her message, found her home and killed her...


if you never heard about it...


i bet you soon will...


i promise

[callmetootie]

It's this one about a guy who was a special surgeon that used a special method to cure diseases. It turns out that he was taking everyones money away, and the police took him to jail. He came back to the town where he did the surgery and tormented the patients, by calling them over and over again.

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[Sean Snow]

Originally posted by Amute:

hey did you ever here about the one were this girl posts this message online and this peron read her message, found her home and killed her...


if you never heard about it...


i bet you soon will...


i promise

Now that was a little weird!

[Kane]

I think one of the scariest moments on UM was a segment about two abductions during the late '80s. Each of them occured one year apart (a nine-year-old boy in 1988 and an older girl in 1989). At first, they appeared to be separate incidents--until someone discovered a picture of the two kidnapping victims together!

I know it aired during the 1989-90 season. But no matter how often I have watched the UM reruns on Lifetime, I never saw that particular story aired on that channel. It would be nice if Lifetime aired that segment so that we could find out whether or not the case has ever been solved. (But hey, Lifetime finally started showing the Kurt Cobain segment recently, so anything's possible.)

[grbush82]

The one that still freaks me out is the case with this guy who abducted his own son from his school. The boy was never found,and his mother died in a suspicous car accdient a few years ago. They did an interview with the guy..and he didn't want to tell anyone where the boy was. But the strange thing is that he had actually either abducted or adopted the boy's mother when she was a child. And then when she grew up,she had a baby with him. But she died. And they still haven't found the boy. So that still freaks me out.

And then there's the case with a husband who wife had dissapeared. No one had a clue where she was,but the police suspected that the husband had something to do with her disapearance because he had hired a private investigator to follow his wife a couple of months before her dissapearance. No one ever found out what happened to her,but lifetime updated the case,saying 7 years after her dissapearance,the husband found out his new girlfriend was cheating on him. She shot and killed her lover,shot the girlfriend,then drove to a remote area and shot himself. I mean that just scared the hell out of me,that all along he was really the one who killed her.

~Michelle

[Kane]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kane:
[B]I think one of the scariest moments on UM was a segment about two abductions during the late '80s. Each of them occured one year apart (a nine-year-old boy in 1988 and an older girl in 1989).

Actually, both kidnappings took place in 1988. The boy was kidnapped in April of that year, followed by the abduction of teenage girl five months later. Please excuse my initial mistake.

Although both kids were abducted in New Mexico, the photo was dicovered at a parking lot in Florida in 1989.

[TJ]

Originally posted by Kane:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kane:
[B]I think one of the scariest moments on UM was a segment about two abductions during the late '80s. Each of them occured one year apart (a nine-year-old boy in 1988 and an older girl in 1989).

Actually, both kidnappings took place in 1988. The boy was kidnapped in April of that year, followed by the abduction of teenage girl five months later. Please excuse my initial mistake.

Although both kids were abducted in New Mexico, the photo was dicovered at a parking lot in Florida in 1989.


You are correct on the details, I'm amazed you can remember that. The episode aired September 20, 1989 - I have it taped from NBC.

Do you have notes on the episodes that you can e-mail me for the episode guide?

[Kane]

Do you have notes on the episodes that you can e-mail me for the episode guide?[/B][/QUOTE]

I'm sorry to say that there's not too much that I could email you. As for the dates in which a given segment first aired, there are some specific dates that I remember, and there are other dates that I don't remember too well.

One example of the former: the segment with Jon Bon Jovi (the one about the mysterious death of his friend/manager's little girl) originally aired on CBS on May 22, 1998.

An example of the latter: A segment in which a Pennsylvania factory worker who (along with some platinum) disappeared in 1987. I'm sure that segment aired sometime early in the 1989-90 season (during the fall, if I'm not mistaken), but I can't remember the specific date in which that episode first aired.

Hope this helps.

[grbush82]

Originally posted by TJ:
You are correct on the details, I'm amazed you can remember that. The episode aired September 20, 1989 - I have it taped from NBC.

Do you have notes on the episodes that you can e-mail me for the episode guide?

I don't even remember ever watching that epidsode. Did it air on Lifetime or on just on NBC?How many UM episodes do you have on tape?I wanna see this segment!lol

~Michelle

[grbush82]

>>One example of the former: the segment with Jon Bon Jovi (the one about the mysterious death of his friend/manager's little girl) originally aired on CBS on May 22, 1998.>>

I've never seen that one. Actually I didn't know they aired UM on CBS untill they canceled it and ran a few reruns. Does anyone have it on tape?

~Michelle

[Kane]

Actually I didn't know they aired UM on CBS untill they canceled it and ran a few reruns. Does anyone have it on tape?

~Michelle[/B]

CBS aired new Unsolved Mysteries episodes only during midseason in the spring of 1998 and the spring of 1999. The network did hoever air an UM special on November 13,1997 (the installment included a segment on whether or not Elvis Presley committed suicide, as well as a story on the unsolved 1994 of two women at a Kentucky massage parlor).

I have taped countless episodes of UM, but I generally do so only whem I'm not able to watch it at the time (especially in a situation where I'm not going to be home in time to watch it). And after seeing them on tape, I usually record them over. Sorry.

[unsolved_mystery]

I have a few moments when UM scared the crap out of me:

1. The case where this little 4 year old girl went out to play and then the next day she was found dead in a box. The thing that scared me was that criminal sketch. He just looks so morbid... ugh.....

2. I agree that with one of the people who posted a reply about the guy drawing money from a bank and then dissapering. And then the face... oh god the face..... I had nightmares after that face......

3. More faces!!!!! When they showed that face on Mars...

4. When that family buys a bunk bed and strange and scary things start happening...

5. The segment about Linda Sherman's skull being found and then that strange note that says "THE POLICE HAVE L. SHERMAN'S SKULL" or something like that. Now that was the only new segment that has made me scared

6. The music!!!! I never was bothered too much by the 1988-1996 theme song, nethier the 1996-1999 theme song, but one musical cue has always scared me.......................

THE UPDATE THEME!!!!!!
Ermm well actually I can't explain how it sounds but it can be heard on the update for
(look up there at my list) number 1. And then when they were showing this one story about children that got took away from thier grandparents there was REALLY scary music on that one...

That's my list...

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[Kane]

Here are a couple more segments tht I consider spooky to one degree or another (both of the following segments aired during the late '80s):

1) An Indiana man who was supposedly found dead in two separate fires that occured ten years apart, 1970 and 1980. His "widow" died in the 1980 fire. There was speculation that the man might have staged his death in the first fire to get out of a financial slump. The majority of those who were interviewed for the story doubt that he died in the first fire. They believe he either died in the second fire or might still be alive!

2) There was the 1989 segment about a Pennsylvania factory worker who disappeared in 1987, along with some platinum.. Surveilance cameras recorded him with a masked intruder. Apparently, the man was being coerced by the masked thief, but there's the theory that the coercion might have been a ruse to make it seem like he was an unwilling participant. I thought it was kind of freaky that the factory worker looked up at the camera. Whether or not he was a willing participant, looking at the camera was obviously the man's nonverbal way of saying something. It might have been either a secret call for help or a way of showing off.

[MelissaLynn]

I just watched the episode tonight, Sept 10th, and it had the scariest segment I've seen. It was the one about the excorsism. I saw The Excorsist, and it has to be the scariest movie I've ever seen. That kind of stuff scares me. Anyway, the part in the segment that scared me the most was the part where the girl was looking in the mirror and her eyes were all black. OH MY GOD!!

Another segment that scared the poop (hee hee... poop... ha ha ha...) out of me was the one about the haunted area in, I believe it is the Arizona desert. The parts that showed the "ghosts" were SCARY!! Of course am I quite a sissy, so... yeah..

[mapinator]

The spookiest Ep. to me was, and forgive me if I don't remember all the facts, Is the one where the woman saw her brother at a gas station, at a park, and on the highway when he was supposed to have died in the military. Map

[danzin01_1983]

Ok I am a huge Jon Bon Jovi fan so could someone please post details about the segment that he was on, because i never heard about it.

[Kane]

Originally posted by danzin01_1983:
Ok I am a huge Jon Bon Jovi fan so could someone please post details about the segment that he was on, because i never heard about it.

The segment that Jon Bon Jovi was in was about the death of Katherine Korzilius, the daughter of his friend/manager Paul Korzilius. The little girl was found unconscious on the street near her home in the summer of 1996, and died shortly afterwards. She was only six years old. There are some theories about the mysterious circumstances of her death: One theory is that she was a victim of a hit-and-run driver; and another is that someone may have murdered the girl in a vain attempt to kidnap her.

Jon Bon Jovi made a short appearance on the segment (which originally aired on CBS on May 22, 1998).

Hope this helps. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

[boechsner]

Some of the scariest mysteries are:

The one where a woman is attacked at a wayside and left for dead. She gets back in her car and drives and finds herself driving right behind her attacker.

The one about the family who bought the bunk bed and the house becomes haunted. By the way, that house is located in Horicon, WI, only 15 minutes from my house. I've driven past that house many times.

The one where the woman has that dream about being in a house and then later in life buys the house in her dream, which is being haunted by the ghost of a man who was killed in his backyard by an unknown assailant.

The one where a wealthy woman is killed after someone put poison in her cold medicine.

The one where that woman who picks up stray dogs, her kennel is torched.

[Mcfly]

There's so many that I'll try and be brief:

The three men killed on Signal Mountain while riding 3 wheelers;

Cindy Anderson case where the secretary disappeared after her name was spray painted on a wall by a supposed stalker, only to find out she was killed by her law firm cuz she knew of their drug deals;

"Judy Himes is alive, and she lives in Omaha". That mystery call still creeps me out;

The lonely single mother who disappeared, only to be found dead of suicide in a hotel;

And probly number one, the Dan Short case, of the bank president abducted and chained to a chair and thrown off a bridge into water. So glad to see the update of the suspects capture, which was surprisingly either on one of A&Es or Discovery Channel's real-life cold case shows.

And to that earlier poster: Yes, that update theme with the "zoooom" noise and constant "duh duh duh duh" music is spooky.

[Kane]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mcfly:

And probly number one, the Dan Short case, of the bank president abducted and chained to a chair and thrown off a bridge into water. So glad to see the update of the suspects capture, which was surprisingly either on one of A&Es or Discovery Channel's real-life cold case shows.

I remember that segment; it's one of the many UM stories that stand out in my mind. I'm aware that the Discovery Channel series "The FBI Files" did a story on that as well.

[Mijada]

Any stories that had to do with UFOs or alien abductions really freaked me out. The one where the 4 guys went camping and claim to have been abducted in particular. The whole Roswell story and the "missing time" stories were scary. The one where the young guy was abducted at the Atm machine and the one about the little boy and the older girl that dissapeared was really eerie too. Also the very first episode I remember seeing in 1988 before the show was seen regularly about this psychic woman who had visions of a little boy falling into a river and drowning hours before it happened. She knew in detail what the boy was wearing even that his shoes were on the wrong feet. That was really strange

[Joyce DeWitt]

Was that one with the girl posting the message true, or a joke to freak us out?
~joyce

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[Mcfly]

Oh, and I forgot about "The Gurden Light" one or the "Resurrection Mary" one. I've always wondered if I found myself in Chicago if I'd have the guts to check out Resurrection Cemetary at night. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/redface.gif

[SicilianGecco]

I'm familiar with most of the segments already mentioned, and they affected me, too.

Another one that frightened me was about an elderly couple that parked their Winnebago at a rest stop. In the middle of the night, a man came in with a shotgun and killed the woman almost immediately. Fortunately, her husband was able to jump out and roll under the vehicle. The killer then stepped outside and shot another motorist at point blank range. The story itself is scary, and the actor who played the killer was very effective at striking fear in my heart! I've seen the segment recently, but I've never seen an update.

Here's another: there's a house in my town for which I have a strange affection, and I'm a huge Perry Mason fan, so imagine my delight -- and my goosebumps -- when I saw this house on UM, and learned it had a Perry Mason connection. It's now called Black Swan Inn, but it was the former home of Park & Jolene Street. Park Street was an attorney in the 30's and, at one point, had a promising career in politics. Erle Stanley Gardner visited the Streets at their home, and even wrote there; it's believed by some (myself included) that ESG's character was based largely on Park Street. Jolene died in her early 30's of cancer. Park hung himself or was murdered; a possible motive for his murder could have been a treasure that was rumored to be hidden somewhere in the house. The house seems to change hands on a regular basis, but it has usually been (somewhat) open to the public as a B&B or event hall. Past owners tell stories of Jolene and Park appearing in the house and on the grounds.

[Kane]

Originally posted by SicilianGecco
I'm familiar with most of the segments already mentioned, and they affected me, too.

Another one that frightened me was about an elderly couple that parked their Winnebago at a rest stop. In the middle of the night, a man came in with a shotgun and killed the woman almost immediately. Fortunately, her husband was able to jump out and roll under the vehicle. The killer then stepped outside and shot another motorist at point blank range. The story itself is scary, and the actor who played the killer was very effective at striking fear in my heart! I've seen the segment recently, but I've never seen an update.



I remember that case very well. You're not the only one who has never seen an update on the case. And that's because, regrettably, there hasn't been one. :(

[luciedesifam]

Originally posted by Amute

hey did you ever here about the one were this girl posts this message online and this peron read her message, found her home and killed her...


if you never heard about it...


i bet you soon will...


i promise

Is this true? Or did you just post it to freak us out?

and what did you mean by

"if you never heard about it...


i bet you soon will...


i promise"

That kind of freaked me out!

[Kane]

Originally posted by luciedesifam

Is this true? Or did you just post it to freak us out?

and what did you mean by

"if you never heard about it...


i bet you soon will...


i promise"

That kind of freaked me out!

You're probably thinking of Trisha Ann Autry. The story was featured on Unsolved Mysteries this past summer (one of the show's first new stories to be exclusively featured on Lifetime).

Trisha Ann Autry disappeared from her home in Utah in June of 2000, and there was speculation that she may have been abducted from someone she met on-line. The case was solved before the segment aired. Tragically, she was murdered, and her remains were found. A suspect was arrested soon afterwards.

[cellomaster]

Hmmm..my UM scary moments over the years:

1) Anything related to aliens. The special report on Roswell was the season debut of 1989 (I think?? I could be wrong). I was FREAKED when I watched it, to the point I was hiding under a blanket when they showed the crashsite with the "alien bodies".

2) Remember the case of Little Miss Panasoffkee (sorry about the spelling, I am sure it's wrong)? It was another early case about the badly decomposed body of a young woman that was found in a swamp in the southern US. They never did identify her, but a police sketch artist actually used pictures of this dead girl's skull to recreate her face (a sketch of what it might have looked like, at ages 6, 12, and adult). That case, for some reason, scared the HECK out of me. BTW this case itself, I think, is around 30 years old now. It was an old one.

3) I got goosebumps like crazy in the early 90s (93 maybe) during a case about two young girls that were kidnapped and smothered to death. One girl's body was left at a truck stop. It was very creepy.

[dynoguy88]

There have been a TON of scary cases shown. Probably the scariest one in my book would have to be the 1982 Breckinridge Colorado murder women. Remember that one? That's the case where two women dissapeared on the same night, shot by the same kind of gun... and the connection were the 2 orange socks? Since so many people hitch hiked at the time, both ladies (at different times) hitch hiked home with some man in a big van, he drove her out of town down a dead end road in the woods, she tried to escape and he shot her. Then he picked up the other woman, drove her out to the woods, she tried to escape too, but he shot her. When their bodies were found, each woman had one of the orange socks on or near their dead body. VERY SCARY stuff. I don't think any case has scared me as much as that one.

[dynoguy88]

Another UM case that scared me was the Cindy James Case. That was the one about the woman who lived in Vancouver, Canada and she was terrorized for several years with harrasing phone calls, notes left on her front porch like "I see you" "Soon Cindy" and several times was attacked herself. Every time she was attacked, a nylon stocking was tied tightly around her neck. Her basement was lit on fire one night, her phone lines were usually cut, several times her porch lights were smashed and at night she heard prowlers outside in her yard. The police watched her for years and she got a PI, but still continued to get harrassed and a suspect was never caught.

In June of 1989, 2 weeks after she dissapeared, her dead body was found in the back yard of an abandoned house. Her hands and feet were bounded together behind her back, once again the nylon stocking was tied tightly around her neck, and she had been injected with many morphine drugs.

Many of the police officers thought her death was a suicide. But how on earth can a woman inject herself with that amount of drugs, and actually bound her feet and hands together behind her back? Impossible. The last several years of this womans life was nothing but a horrid nightmare. Definately scary movie material. This case intrigued me so much that I actually bought a book about it. And it gives so many other details that the UM segment left out.

[Kane]

[i]

In June of 1989, 2 weeks after she dissapeared, her dead body was found in the back yard of an abandoned house. Her hands and feet were bounded together behind her back, once again the nylon stocking was tied tightly around her neck, and she had been injected with many morphine drugs.

Many of the police officers thought her death was a suicide. But how on earth can a woman inject herself with that amount of drugs, and actually bound her feet and hands together behind her back? Impossible. The last several years of this womans life was nothing but a horrid nightmare. [/B]

I'd say that either the cops are lying to cover something up or they're just brainless enough to think it was a suicide (despite evidence to the contrary).

[CryptoInvestigator]

The segment that's disturbed me the greatest was about this 17 inch "adult" that was discovered mummified, sitting in Budda pose inside a sealed cave in Wyoming. Prospecters came upon it while blasting for gold back in the 1930s. It was toured about as a carnival side-show until the '60s when a doctor decided to medically examine the body to properly diagnose this strange figure. The original assumption was that it was the remains of deformed infant, but x-rays revealed it was infact an adult, with a full set of teeth and fully developed bones. Yet it did not appear to be a 'dwarf' by the modern medical sense.

Contributing to the paradox was a tradition amongst the local tribes that there once were a 'little people' in the area, of incredibly small stature but bearing extraordinary strength. Of course, no medical professional was going to dare put his credibility on the line by suggesting the mummy was actual physical proof of an "indian myth". Thus the finding was greatly downplayed, suggesting it was an extreme case of mutation (which still didn't explain how it got in a sealed cave) and not too surprisingly the specimen became lost eventually.

Talk about freaky though, traditions of 'little people' exist in various parts of North America and occasionally modern sightings occur. Did we once have complete proof of their existence?! It's quite possible that a pygmy race did once inhabit the continent and maybe still does. There's also an update on this case, kinda... Doing a web-search I've read that a university is positive on the mutation theory because they've found ANOTHER body! Unfortunately they didn't offer any details.

Now if I can just find someone whose seen that 'mummified dinosaur' episode....that's rather disturbing aswell.

Nick

[cellomaster]

<<The segment that's disturbed me the greatest was about this 17 inch "adult" that was discovered mummified, sitting in Budda pose inside a sealed cave in Wyoming.>>

I remember that one! I think his name was Pedro or Pietro? I found a story about him in one of my books on the unexplained.

[redbird77]

Wow, and I thought I was the only one who hid under the covers during the UM theme song.

Anyway the scariest bit occured during that story that someone mentioned about the guy who broke into the older couple's winnebago at a Canda rest stop and proceeded to murder the wife and try the same on the husband.

It wasn't just the story, but the CRIMINAL SKETCH! Creeeeepppy! Not just a sketch but a kind a 3-d looking model of one sinister looking guy - nightmare inducing stuff.

Also, a poster named dynoguy88 said they bought a book about the Cindy James case. Where did you find it? Online?

[dynoguy88]

Originally posted by redbird77

Also, a poster named dynoguy88 said they bought a book about the Cindy James case. Where did you find it? Online? [/B]

Yes, I found it online. Sometimes I look online for any articles about any cases I find interesting from Unsolved Mysteries...yes, I am a fanatic.... and at this time, I just typed key words about the Cindy James case and found a couple links that stated there was some books written about it.

I ordered a book, "Deaths of Cindy James" which was written by Neal Hall (an "interviewie" from the Unsolved Mysteries segment) and it was VERY interesting. It gave ALOT more details that UM left out, and other attacks that were not mentioned. The book was only a couple dollars as well.

I think I ordered it from http://crimemagazine.com/CrimeBooks/crimebooks.htm but there were other links I found as well. It all depends on which key words you use in your search.

[Or So It Seems]

My three scariest from a longtime fan:

1) The Signal Mountain Murders - 3 ATV riders brutally shotgunned in rural TN. The killer, Frank Casteel, is fortunately locked up.

2) The murder of the elderly woman in the Winnebago, pulled over in the middle of the night in Canada. Still unsolved.

3) The mother and her 2 daughters who were raped and drowned in Tampa Bay by Ober Chandler, now on death row.

[BLAIROCKS]

The freakiest episode that I saw was te one when a little girl said that she knew a man that always played with her and her mother did not believe her and the girl was able to pick out who he was in some pictures and it was a man that died a long time ago. Did anyone see that episode?

[Pitooey]

Originally posted by cellomaster
Hmmm..my UM scary moments over the years:


2) Remember the case of Little Miss Panasoffkee (sorry about the spelling, I am sure it's wrong)? It was another early case about the badly decomposed body of a young woman that was found in a swamp in the southern US. They never did identify her, but a police sketch artist actually used pictures of this dead girl's skull to recreate her face (a sketch of what it might have looked like, at ages 6, 12, and adult). That case, for some reason, scared the HECK out of me. BTW this case itself, I think, is around 30 years old now. It was an old one.



OMGoodness :eek: That case scared me too. ( Little Miss Panasoffkee) I have to admit this but, there were times I couldn't sleep seeing Unsolved Mysteries...... :eek:

Another case that scared me was where this lady was living by herself after her husband died and she would be in her house and his ghost would appear. At one point she left a room in ther house and would go to another room and she would find herself with her husbands coffin, and he would be inside it. That scared me BIG TIME :eek:.

Another one was where these cars would be driving next to a cemetary and the people would see the ghost of a young lady walking the street. She would appear and the drivers would see her and she would run in front of their car and the driver would hit the ghost. It happened to a couple of people. The girl looked like Carrie (From the movie) Freaky!!! :eek:

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

Hello, I'm a regular viewer of Unsolved Mysteries and I absolutely love the show.

I just wanted to know if any one is familiar with the following "UM" cases: One night a man is standing in front of either a club or a bowling alley.He asks a few people to give him a lift and they decline until a man finally agrees to give him one. All of a sudden, the guy starts acting crazy and forces him(driver) to stop at a rest stop.They get out of the vehicle and walk towards a phone in front of a store at the rest stop.Out of nowhere,the guy(suspect) pulls out a knife and threatens to hurt him if he didn't give him some money.They both then walk back to the driver's vehicle and proceed to get back in it.The driver was the first one to get back into the vehicle while the suspect hadn't gotten back in the vehicle yet and was just approaching the passenger side.The driver saw this as an opportunity to get away from him and suddenly sped off leaving the him behind. After this,the driver seemed so surprised as if he couldn't believe what had just happened. He had an "Oh my god, what in the heck just happened?" look on his face while breathing hard obviously relieved that he had gotten away from him. The driver all of a sudden looked in his rear view mirror and saw the same guy walking back toward the direction of his(driver's) house. After the driver realized this, he drove back in the direction of his house and saw that the window of the front door had been shattered.He immediately got back into his vehicle and approached a police officer. He and the officer then drove back to his house and went in. They went upstairs and found his 80-year-old mother stabbed to death in her bed. His mother was stabbed by the same guy whom he had given a lift earlier that night.

This story freaks me out to this day and it must've been a nightmare for that guy(driver).

Do you know of this story?


Also,the other case I would like to know if you know of is the case concerning the death of a young college student by the name of Keith Warren. He was found hanging from a tree one day by the police.

[Or So It Seems]

Those are some haunting cases. The first almost seems too unbelieveable to have really happened.

There have never been any updates on either case. If you can get me some names of the people I can do a Lexis-Nexus search.

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

Originally posted by Or So It Seems
Those are some haunting cases. The first almost seems too unbelieveable to have really happened.

There have never been any updates on either case. If you can get me some names of the people I can do a Lexis-Nexus search.

I agree, it is unbelieveable. It was too much of a coincidence that it was the driver's house the suspect was walking toward. It was said that he was high on cocaine at the time.

And the Keith Warren case is strange. I continuously wonder why the police seem to shun away from his family as if they have something to hide.

I'm sorry but I don't know any names other than Keith Warren's. The next time the episodes air, I'll be sure to write down the names or better yet, I'll tape the episodes.

[Or So It Seems]

Someone was kind enough to post an update to Dorothy Donovan's murder (the woman killed in her home by the hitchiker her son picked up). Check it out.

[Jed]

The Beverly McGowan Case was the one that really scared me. I remember seeing it back during its original broadcast, when I was 9 years old. The guy in the cleopatra wig has played host to many of my nightmares through the years. It was just such a bizarre and pointless murder. Back then I remember thinking, "this will never be solved." Now we know who was responsible for Beverly's death, but will we ever know "Why?"

I also remember a case about an elderly woman who returned home from a trip to find that her husband had been murdered and that his truck had been stolen. Some time later, two young men entered a supermarket with a mangy looking man, who wore his hair in dread-locks. The boys told the store clerk, while the man with the dread-locks talked on a pay phone, that they were hitchhikers and that this man had picked them up. They said that the man was crazy and had bragged to them about robbing and murdering an old man. It's been a very long time since I've seen this segment, so I may have gotten some of the details wrong. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or know if there's been any updates to this case?

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

Originally posted by Jed
The Beverly McGowan Case was the one that really scared me. I remember seeing it back during its original broadcast, when I was 8 years old. The guy in the cleopatra wig has played host to many of my nightmares through the years. It was just such a bizarre and pointless murder. Back then I remember thinking, "this will never be solved." Now we know who was responsible for Beverly's death, but will we ever know "Why?"

I also remember a case about an elderly woman who returned home from a trip to find that her husband had been murdered and that his truck had been stolen. Some time later, two young men entered a supermarket with a mangy looking man, who wore his hair in dread-locks. The boys told the store clerk, while the man with the dread-locks talked on a pay phone, that they were hitchhikers and that this man had picked them up. They said that the man was crazy and had bragged to them about robbing and murdering an old man. It's been a very long time since I've seen this segment, so I may have gotten some of the details wrong. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or know if there's been any updates to this case?


I remember this case very vaguely also.The name Beverly McGowan does sound familiar to me though. :confused:

I'm trying very hard to remember the second case, I don't think I've ever seen it. Well maybe I have but I just don't remember. Sometimes UM takes awhile to show certain cases again. You wish to see them but they just take so long to air them. :(

[GeorgiaboyJeff!]

Stuff about UFO's & Alien Abductions really get to me..Sometimes I believe these people are telling the truth & sometimes I am not scared..I absolutely hate watching those abduction stories late at night.... I get all paranoid & I am afraid to go to sleep because I think Aliens are going to go in my room & abduct me LOL

[ziggy4500]

actually just reading these posts at 1 am in the morning by myself is scary enough

[justins5256]

For me, the scariest episode was one "special alert" about the abduction and murder of a 2 year old girl named Rachel Runyan(sp?). Her killer etched a threatning message in a bathroom stall that said something to the effect of "I killed the little Runyan girl. I am still alive! Beware!". It was signed with an upside-down cross and "666".
Never solved to my knowledge.

[TKramer15]

The alien abduction stories are tough for me to watch, but there really haven't been many of those at all on Unsolved Mysteries. I love watching the ghost stories. They really interest me. I thought the scariest was the one with the family in Wisconsin. I believe some people have already mentioned that one. There were some really eerie scenes like where a ghost appears right above the guy's face while he's sleeping. My favorite stories are the Resurrection Mary, the Gurdon Light, and the one with the guy who makes it rain inside. I think my friends and I are gonna make trips to Chicago and to Gurdon, Arkansas in hopes of seeing some ghostly activity.

[rubber1234]

in response to that story about the woman and boy who were kidnapped in new mexico . i agree that was easily the scariest story. just the sight of that photo freaks me out! incidently, there are a number of sites about that case. you'll find the links in that unofficial UM website episode guide.

[rerungirl]

There are plenty of cases that were really unsettling but these are probably at the top of my list:

1. Creepy guy lurking near the atm (Matthew Chase case)

2. Judy Kirby is alive and living in Omaha

3. Unidentified young woman who was found at the bottom of a cliff in California. A cab driver let her out in that area the night before because she didn't have full cab fare.

4. Disappearance of a factory worker the same night platinum was stolen from the building. Security cameras caught him on tape...but was he was he part of the robbery or just an innocent victim?

5. The murder of a priest and the disappearance of another one under very similar circumstances.

6. The murder of a man who left his home in Canada because he said someone was trying to kill him. His body was discovered several days later in the parking lot of a hotel in Tennessee. There were many bizarre twists to this story and I don't believe the murder has ever been solved.

[EyesoftheNile]

Dude, I think that there have been at least ten different episodes that really freaked me out- and Im unfreakable!!!! LOL

Ok- the Minnesota ICE man was scary.

That segment on that Australian Pilot vanishing over Tasmania was scary too.

And lots mo'.


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[LEWISN2]

Originally posted by SicilianGecco
I'm familiar with most of the segments already mentioned, and they affected me, too.

Another one that frightened me was about an elderly couple that parked their Winnebago at a rest stop. In the middle of the night, a man came in with a shotgun and killed the woman almost immediately. Fortunately, her husband was able to jump out and roll under the vehicle. The killer then stepped outside and shot another motorist at point blank range. The story itself is scary, and the actor who played the killer was very effective at striking fear in my heart! I've seen the segment recently, but I've never seen an update.


I saw this episode. It freaked me out. The music when they showed the computerized drawing of the man who broke in was really freaky also. I wish I could see it again. I had recorded it but it was erased. If someone could give some info on this it would help me alot. Thanks.

[Sir Rhosis]

I agree with those who posted that the "Update" music is scary, that and the way that Stack fairly shouts, "UPDATE!"

This despite the fact that I was well into my twenties before the show even premiered, unlike many who were scared by it as children.

The one that most freaked me out is the one (later solved) where the young man videotapes his arsons and you can hear his hoarse voice whispering somehing like, "Loooook at it! Beautifil," etc.

Sir Rhosis

[Allierain]

"Myyyyy preeccccccccccccccccciiiiioussssssssss...."

Ooops...wrong tape.

[rubber1234]

another creepy segment was one about a man who went into the forest near his house, with his dog, and shot himself AND his pet. Later another guy moves into the deseased fellows house. then, he walks into the forest and is never seen again. just to deepen the mystery the second man had been writing a book. while investigators were looking through his drafts they found that last sentence he'd written was about a guy walking into a forest....

[Beetlejuice69]

I'm fascinated by this Matthew Chase story, but who is he and what was the significance of his UM story; what was it about?

[Mijada]

Originally posted by Beetlejuice69
I'm fascinated by this Matthew Chase story, but who is he and what was the significance of his UM story; what was it about?
That case took place in the summer of 1988 I believe. Matthew Chase was a young man in his early twenties who had recently moved to LA with two friends. One night he went to withdraw some cash from an ATM machine and never returned home. A surveillance camera revealed pictures of him at the ATM machine along with another man. Authorities believe that this other man abducted Matthew and forced him to withdraw money from other ATMs in the area. There was an update not long after the story originally aired stating that Matthew Chases body had been found and that he had been shot to death. The identity of the other guy who was pictured with him at the ATM is still not known. It was hard to tell what he looked like by the survellance pic so an artist drew a composite sketch of what they think he might look like. The composite was pretty scary looking.

[Beetlejuice69]

What a sad story. Hope they catch the bastard.

[Allierain]

Originally posted by Mijada

The composite was pretty scary looking.


Hehe! That seems to be a regular thing on UM! Those artists have such a way of making those guys looks creepy. But maybe they do that on purpose.

[FanfromES]

I agree with Allierain, sometimes even the victims sketches or age progression photos are scary too (Mary Ann Perez (sp?) for example).

[AnnBellflower]

The Teresita Basa episode -- which told of the murder of a young woman, a Filipino hospital technician in Chicago, by a co-worker in the mid-to-late 1970's. She supposedly returned from the grave to identify her killer through a couple of trances an acquaintance of hers unwittingly experienced shortly after the murder. The acquaintance didn't remember the trances she herself had experienced but had spoken to her own husband during each one, relaying important information to him which correctly identified her killer and the whereabouts of evidence, which eventually incriminated the killer and led to his confession.

The Patience Worth episode was pretty creepy, too. A 17th century spirit which communicated with a St . Louis woman in the early 20th century for about 25 years, relaying hundreds of poems, novels, and other works which were said to be accurate in all details.

[Silver Dark]

EDIT: The arsonist "beautifulllll....." episode...

And by far the most disturbing unsolved mystery I've ever known of, which until recently I'd been unaware they'd put on UM, the Zodiac Killer.

[unsolvedviewer]

the updates are really freaky especially the music. the scariest are when they find the location of the bodies.....such as the Susan Hurley Harrison case and another UM case about a murder in the seattle area..i dont remember exact details but it was an older couple and the man had killed his wife and buried her with some compost in his yard....he was wanted for the murder but the update said his body had been located.....really freaky stuff

[SJP1313]

To tell the truth, I think the entire show is scary. I started watching unsolved mysteries when it first came on tv. I was hooked on it. Then I moved to an apartment alone, and couldnt watch it for a long time, Id just get freaked out by the music... At 8:00 Id skip over LIFETIME network just so I didnt have to see Robert Stack (who I think is wonderful but scary) OR hear that terrible, scary music.
There are to many scary stories to name. JUST FREAKY!!

:) SJP

[SJP1313]

ANYONE KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS? IM INTRIGUED.



"another creepy segment was one about a man who went into the forest near his house, with his dog, and shot himself AND his
pet. Later another guy moves into the deseased fellows house. then, he walks into the forest and is never seen again. just to deepen the mystery the second man had been writing a book. while investigators were looking through his drafts they found that last sentence he'd written was about a guy walking into a forest" -RUBBER1234: :eek2:

[Composite Sketch]

Hey. Glad to finally find a fan board of one of my favourite shows of all time, the show that terrified and trilled me as a kid and still does to an extent. ;) Now, onto the scariest cases:

-As noted several times, the highway rest-stop killer. My username is inspired by my absolute TERROR of the black and white composite sketches. When I was young, I could not sleep because of them! But I recall the one of this murderer because, as stated before, his sketch was in 3-D made by computer which was cutting-edge at the time. The murder was also so senseless and made me sad because the husband was so devastated, and it's remained unsolved. I also remember it because it happened in Canada and I'm Canadian, although it was in Ontario and I'm in BC. I don't think I can pass by an old guy with long white-silver hair without glancing twice again.

-With the recent arrest of Derrick Lee for several New Orleans murders and his suspicions of other murders, I was reminded of another serial murderer profiled on Unsolved Mysteries back in 1992 or 1993. I'm positive it was based in Lousiana because I recall Mardi Gras in the introduction. All the victims were black women, and only one survived. I recall that most, if not all, died of strangulation, and one (the fourth one) remained unidentified. But at the end of the case I recall doing something I have never done before or since - I covered my face so I couldn't see the sketch. And I remember my mom exclaiming "HE LOOKS LIKE THE DEVIL!" so I was glad I did back then, but I sometimes wish I could see the case again. Can anyone give me some conformation? Was it the "the search for a New Orleans serial killer who preys on prostitutes" that aired on October 21, 1992? (source - website episode guide)

-There are also the odd episode with a scary sketch ending them. One was from a Lifetime rerun I saw in 1997 of a guy (I think from upstate NY?) who would rob retail stores and rape an employee each time. That was an ep that I desperately wanted to end with an update but it never happened. Another was when a little girl who was kidnapped and murdered in the early 80s (can't recall which state it was but I want to say New Mexico or Utah), and her killer scrawled a message for the police in a bathroom stall. Does anyone recall those two cases or when they aired? Finally, the New York rapist case that aired on July 1996. I distinctly remember having a nightmare about the sketch (in fact, that case had three sketches shown).

-And last, but not least, something me and my brother still talk about - THE HAUNTED HOUSE! This aired when we were quite young, so it was probably before 1990. It might be the 'crib haunting' one mentioned by unsolvedfan19 on the first page - because I too remember the father seeing the house burning down. I also recall the radio dial moving by itself, the kids getting sick and seeing witches in their room at night. I don't recall a crib, rather a bunk bed, mentioned by boechsner on the second page. I remember the house ended up being torn down but that may be my fuzzy memory. What was the airdate for that ep?

[Allierain]

Originally posted by Composite Sketch

-With the recent arrest of Derrick Lee for several New Orleans murders and his suspicions of other murders, I was reminded of another serial murderer profiled on Unsolved Mysteries back in 1992 or 1993. I'm positive it was based in Lousiana because I recall Mardi Gras in the introduction. All the victims were black women, and only one survived. I recall that most, if not all, died of strangulation, and one (the fourth one) remained unidentified. But at the end of the case I recall doing something I have never done before or since - I covered my face so I couldn't see the sketch. And I remember my mom exclaiming "HE LOOKS LIKE THE DEVIL!" so I was glad I did back then, but I sometimes wish I could see the case again. Can anyone give me some conformation? Was it the "the search for a New Orleans serial killer who preys on prostitutes" that aired on October 21, 1992? (source - website episode guide)

-There are also the odd episode with a scary sketch ending them. One was from a Lifetime rerun I saw in 1997 of a guy (I think from upstate NY?) who would rob retail stores and rape an employee each time. That was an ep that I desperately wanted to end with an update but it never happened. Another was when a little girl who was kidnapped and murdered in the early 80s (can't recall which state it was but I want to say New Mexico or Utah), and her killer scrawled a message for the police in a bathroom stall. Does anyone recall those two cases or when they aired? Finally, the New York rapist case that aired on July 1996. I distinctly remember having a nightmare about the sketch (in fact, that case had three sketches shown).

-And last, but not least, something me and my brother still talk about - THE HAUNTED HOUSE! This aired when we were quite young, so it was probably before 1990. It might be the 'crib haunting' one mentioned by unsolvedfan19 on the first page - because I too remember the father seeing the house burning down. I also recall the radio dial moving by itself, the kids getting sick and seeing witches in their room at night. I don't recall a crib, rather a bunk bed, mentioned by boechsner on the second page. I remember the house ended up being torn down but that may be my fuzzy memory. What was the airdate for that ep?

I have the episode with the New Orleans serial killer on tape. I agree, the composite sketch was absolutely scary...as was the sketch of the unidentified victim. When I get my working digital camera, I'll take a picture of the killer...hehehe.

The bunk bed haunting is a popular segment, but I don't think the house iteself was torn down. They just got rid of the bunk beds and had them destroyed at a landfill. After that, the family reported no further incidents.

[Composite Sketch]

Hahaha, do that. I want to see what I missed. And there will be no creepy music accompanying it. :)

I always thought the house was torn down because I remembered some sort of rubble at the end of the case, but I guess it was the family throwing the bunk beds in the dump. I was only 7 when I saw the case, and I haven't seen it since. I'm pleasantly surprised to see how well-known the case is. It ended up helping to clear up the holes in my memory.

Those and now the Matthew Chase case which I have never seen are three shows that I now itch to see.

[Composite Sketch]

Originally posted by justins5256
For me, the scariest episode was one "special alert" about the abduction and murder of a 2 year old girl named Rachel Runyan(sp?). Her killer etched a threatning message in a bathroom stall that said something to the effect of "I killed the little Runyan girl. I am still alive! Beware!". It was signed with an upside-down cross and "666".
Never solved to my knowledge.

That's the one I mentioned last night! I can't believe I missed reading this. Yeah, I recalled that it was a 'special alert' case shown at the end of one episode, but didn't mention that. I also recall how investigators thought the child might have been forced into doing pornographic film before she was killed and they were hoping to get some help from the pedophiles. Completely forgot about the cross and the 666 but now I remember it. Sad, the case must be at least 20 years old now. Where did it take place?

[Mr. Roboto]

Composte Sketch, love your name! :lol:

I know one of the cases that you speak of. The one where the little girl was killed and the killer etched a message in a bathroom stall. The girl's name was Rachel Runyan. As far as I can remember, the killer wrote "Beware! I killed the Runyan girl!" and signed it with a bloody pentagram and three 6's. Scary, nightmare stuff. :( I think it was aired during the early 80's because I remember seeing it quite a few times back then.

In the "bunk bed" case, the bunk bed was torn down, not the house. That was a creepy story also.

I've got the update to the Matthew Chase story on tape. The sketch, which is a right side of the man's faces seen in the ATM, is very scary-looking.

For me, UM is a very love-hate show. I love the show because it's intriguing and interesting, but I also hate it because of the constant creepy music and composites. I've had times where it was hard to fall asleep because I could see those composites in my head, staring at me with their creepy blank faces. The "sitcoms online" site which the adminstratior runs has some links to UM cases that feature sketches. Beware!

P.S. I am dying to see the rest stop killer case again because I cannot honestly remember what that composite looked like. All I know is that is disturbed the heck out of me.

[Mr. Roboto]

Oops, guess you figured the Runyan case out! That happens. :wave:

(God, that is a scary case! I don't remember anything about a porno film made with her before her death. She was only like 4 years old, right. Dear lord that is horrifying... :mad: :eek: )

[Composite Sketch]

Yeah, I believe she was closer to 4 than 2. They showed a picture of her wearing a long summer dress saying that's what she wore when she was abducted, and asked if anyone saw a little girl wearing that dress in a pedophelia film. But the bathroom stall message chilled me the most.

EDIT: I was right, it was in Sunset, Utah, on August 26, 1982. The "Rachel Alert" is the precursor of the "Amber Alert". Wow.

http://www.utahchiefs.org/rachel_alert.htm

And this is the picture I remember, her wearing the dress. She was such a pretty girl. BTW, she was three.
http://www.utahchiefs.org/images/Runyan-A.jpg

And here's the sketch of the suspect. (http://www.utap.org/Unsolved/runyons.jpg)

I've got the update to the Matthew Chase story on tape. The sketch, which is a right side of the man's faces seen in the ATM, is very scary-looking.

GAH! I now REALLY want to see this case. I'm such a freak! LOL

I've had times where it was hard to fall asleep because I could see those composites in my head, staring at me with their creepy blank faces.

I hear ya, you'd see them in the dark with the white background. But it's like the accident by the side of the road that you can't look away from.

The "sitcoms online" site which the adminstratior runs has some links to UM cases that feature sketches. Beware!

Oh yeah. I've checked it out. In fact, THIS (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photos/rapist.jpg) was the sketch that I saw back in 1996 that gave me a nightmare. Unbearably, I had that episode on tape for months because I set the VCR for that show.

I am dying to see the rest stop killer case again because I cannot honestly remember what that composite looked like. All I know is that is disturbed the heck out of me.

I remember long silver hair, googly eyes, and a face looking off to the side. They made that picture using a program that was a precursor to the program Faces, used now by AMW (and does THAT one produce some scary mugs).

[The Modfather]

Originally posted by Silver Dark
EDIT: The arsonist "beautifulllll....." episode...

And by far the most disturbing unsolved mystery I've ever known of, which until recently I'd been unaware they'd put on UM, the Zodiac Killer.

Ditto that's one of my fave Case's too!

[Mr. Roboto]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Composite Sketch
[B]Yeah, I believe she was closer to 4 than 2. They showed a picture of her wearing a long summer dress saying that's what she wore when she was abducted, and asked if anyone saw a little girl wearing that dress in a pedophelia film. But the bathroom stall message chilled me the most.

EDIT: I was right, it was in Sunset, Utah, on August 26, 1982. The "Rachel Alert" is the precursor of the "Amber Alert". Wow.

http://www.utahchiefs.org/rachel_alert.htm

And this is the picture I remember, her wearing the dress. She was such a pretty girl. BTW, she was three.
http://www.utahchiefs.org/images/Runyan-A.jpg

And here's the sketch of the suspect. (http://www.utap.org/Unsolved/runyons.jpg)

Thanks for providing us with that information. Such a sad case. :( (And yes, that composite is pretty damn scary!)

I was thinking about the case, and one thing I still don't know about is how for sure they knew that a satanic cult was involved. Unless I can't remember, I don't think there was any real proof that a cult killed her. I thought that the killer etched the message just to probably turn the police away from finding him. I also found it odd that none of the websites mentioned the bathroom message. That could possibly mean that it was a hoax...

Oh well, this is a case I would love to get solved, but I don't know if it ever will.




Off topic, but I would love if Lifetime would tell us which segments were playing so we could see if these cases are being shown, because there are some cases I want to see. Or if Lifetime was nice enough, run a special filled with nothing but these cases!

[MattM91]

I am 20 years old , and I remember watching UM shortly after it started airing , my older sister would turn it on and make me watch it :D , The WHOLE show completely creeped my out , and I am glad to see there are some other people on here that are terified of composite drawings . What is so weird is that I still have this dream where I am watching TV and this really old and scary ep. of UM is about to come on and its like I can't get away fast enough , but I don't know what the ep. is about , but the fear is so intense .

Any way one scary ep. I remember seeing when I was young, which I don't see anyone wrote about and ( please add if you know which one I am talking about ) Is where a woman who lives in a mainly rural area is going to work , I think she was a nurse , or dental assis. , anyway some how this man in a black ford truck gets her off the road and stabs her to death , and they have a scary composite and all ...... If I had to guess it would be from the 89- 90 season.

[cobra_commander]

okay, some people have already touched on the music, but there's ONE song in particular that lifetime doesn't play many reruns of episodes conataining it.

it used to be played when the fbi's current ten most wanted list would be shown, and one case in particular is the son of sam two parter. it kinda starts out like the old old old original theme, but then goes into an eighties-synth type 'psycho' noise or something... still scares the poo out of me.

however, the arson case with the dubbed over video is still insanely creepy to me as well, as is the sketch of the i-70 killer. can anyone help me find a pic of that sketch? i can't seem to find one to link here. anyhoo...

on a side note, what's that recurring sketch artist jeannie (last name forgotten) up to? she did the sketch of that 'jason' guy with the cowboy hat, and of someone else... she would have the witnesses work with clay and stuff during the interview. she seemed really interesting.

[Mr. Roboto]

Originally posted by cobra_commander
it used to be played when the fbi's current ten most wanted list would be shown, and one case in particular is the son of sam two parter. it kinda starts out like the old old old original theme, but then goes into an eighties-synth type 'psycho' noise or something... still scares the poo out of me.

I've got that Son of Sam episode on tape. Can you tell me the point where the "creepy" music comes on? I do remember some very creepy music at the beginning when they showed the reenactments of the murders.

(I still can't believe I haven't erased that case because that is a very disturbing one)

[cobra_commander]

it was also in the case of the two grandparents that abducted their two grand children, but in the son of sam case, i believe it was during the car shooting scene... it showed the two people in the car, and then them getting shot. it was played for a minute or two afterwards.

in part two, i know for sure that it was played during the 'recap' portion, when they summarized the first part, leading into the talk of the satanic cult.


on a side note, there was another song that creeped me out... it started out with an eerie piano, leading in to some synth choir-like voices or something. one case i know they played it for was this case where this gas station attendant lady was abducted and later found dead. someone arrived to find this metal-head guy working the counter, and they believed he was the killer. they played the song for most of the case. eerie, but not as scary as that son of sam song.

[Mr. Roboto]

Thanks for clarifying! Yes, I know what music you are talking about. Not one of the more happier music pieces on UM. :eek:

Heh, I think that Gary Remal Malkin should release a CD full of those UM songs. Great music to sleep to! :p

[MattM91]

Originally posted by cobra_commander


on a side note, there was another song that creeped me out... it started out with an eerie piano, leading in to some synth choir-like voices or something. one case i know they played it for was this case where this gas station attendant lady was abducted and later found dead. someone arrived to find this metal-head guy working the counter, and they believed he was the killer. they played the song for most of the case. eerie, but not as scary as that son of sam song.


Cobra its been over a year since I have seen this one , but I to remember that music :eek: as well as the son of sam , which had some fairly scary composites ..... crap in my pants scary:mooner:

[cobra_commander]

wow... everyone who remembers that song is like "eek. so scary"... i don't think anyone really realizes how screwed up it would make me when i was little. UM was bad enough on its own and give me nightmares for a day or two, but if that song played, i would have nightmares for a week, until the next episode.

i want that song so bad.... and all the others played on UM. they'd be great halloween music!

[Mr. Roboto]

Hey, don't worry. There were a lot of things that screwed me up when I watched UM (I was younger back then). Look at the discussion on Rachael Runyan at the top. I was scared to death by the message written in the bathroom stall.

As for UM music, that is a little hard, because Robert Stack or the people interviewed are talking over it. You can find the full UM theme on the Sitcoms Online UM site. Also, I do know that the creepy update themes with no talking have been used when Lifetime does their half-assed updates (you know, the written updates on the screen with the 1996-era blue backdrop). However, about the rest, including the "Son of Sam" theme, I don't know. However, I do know of a process which might work. If you have one of those recording studio programs on your computer, like Cool Edit, there is a way to put the recording out of phase. Basically, you would hear parts that are buried upfront. However, that may not work, on UM, but it's worth a try. Of course, then again getting the actual recording into the computer would be complicated....

Well, who knows. Maybe when Allierain publishes her book, the first 50,000 copies will have a "UM soundtrack", with all the creepy stuff included.

[Composite Sketch]

I don't know the scary theme you guys are talking about, but the Son of Sam case is on one of the tapes johnnyangel is sending me, so I'll find out soon enough. I probably have heard it before.

Another theme was scary in its simplicity. The only time I can recall it being played was for the segment on William Bradford Bishop, the Maryland man who murdered his entire family in 1976. It was one piano key being hit again and again, maybe once every half second, and the third or fourth key would be twice as loud as the others - sounding like "dun dun DUN dun dun dun DUN". It was played when they showed 'Bishop' shopping for the gasoline can, shovel and the sledgehammer that would be the murder weapon.

Other scary cases that came to mind recently:

-The family whose members are struck down swiftly by some strange and fatal disease. I believe they were of Hawaiian or Polynesian origin. First it was the father back in 1960, then one of his daughters in 1981, then three of his sons in the next 7 or so years (leaving only one surviving at the time of the broadcast), and finally his teenager grandson in 1988 or 1989. I was always curious to know if any other family members died since the broadcast.

-Not as much scary as it is sad - the case of an elderly Tennessee black man who disappeared while on the way to pick up his wife from a bus station. It was discovered that he misinterpreted directions given to him and he was last seen dazed and confused in a convenience store. His car was found abandoned in a forest with no sign of him. His poor wife died just a few years later not knowing what happened to him.

Any of these cases ring a bell?

[Mr. Roboto]

Composite,

The Marvin and Sandra Maple case (kidnapping grandparents) had the "song" much more prominent, than the "Son of Sam" episode. But, let me tell you, there's this little synth part that sounds like someone is screaming, and that's probably what makes it so damn creepy.

Was the guy who did the UM music ever in an industrial music band, cause he sure sounds like he should be in one.

EDIT: here's the All-Music entry. Somehow he's a NEW AGE artist! :eek:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70306272250&sql=Buau06j8771u0

2nd EDIT: here's the guy who co-wrote the theme! What is the deal? (and these guys are the same ones making the UM music; there is a link to the Television's Greatest Themes Vol. 7 which includes the theme!)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70306272250&sql=Bvrcibk09kakn

[Bluejay]

I confess feeling a little strange reading this -- composite drawings just interest me, I used to think I'd like to be a police artist. I like to see how close they get to the real guy when they catch him. And I love the theme songs -- they're catchy. The original theme is best -- with that solid, practical rock beat underlying the oogy melodies and sound effects, it always gave me the impression of a tough, no-nonsense investigator looking into things like hauntings and disappearances, which is exactly what it is! And the "Update!" piece never reminded me of anything but an electronic piano trying to imitate a news teletype. No, what upset me most was the Korzilius murder, and it has to do with the "August 7" song. It's pure death rock.

Somebody knows something about that little girl. Rock and roll can be a very cruel, nasty business -- what goes on behind the scenes. Jon Bon Jovi may have enemies who wanted to strike at him through his publicist's family. I'm still waiting for someone to suggest that.

God, that little girl laid out so perfectly in the street, while Jon's wailing like a lost soul... I can't watch it without being haunted by it all afternoon. I downloaded the song to hear the whole thing, but I can't listen to it.

[cobra_commander]

composite sketch:

that "do do DO do do do DO" song you're speaking of is the one i was trying to describe in the murder of the female convenience store clerk, in an earlier post! rock on!

god i wish someone had mp3's of this stuff... it was so great. and i've mailed lifetime, the unsolved mysteries address, and cosgrove or whatever the production company was, and none of them can help. my last hope is finding gary remal malkin's mailing address for fan mail or something and see if he/they can help. just not finding any luck.

[Mr. Roboto]

Originally posted by Bluejay
And the "Update!" piece never reminded me of anything but an electronic piano trying to imitate a news teletype.

Well, the "old" update theme (which is the one I call the jazz version of the UM theme-one of the synths seem to imitate a saxophone) isn't really that scary. The one used in the 1991-present updates is much more (which I call the wailing Update theme-there is a creepy wailing sound made by the synth).

Commander, I remember the case you talk about, but not the music. Instead I remember the creepy composite of the guy in a Megadeth T-Shirt.

I'm hoping that Lametime decides to show the Rest Stop Killer case sometime, because I really would like to see the sketch again. I remember being terrified of it, but I only saw the case one time. Please don't post any websites or the sketch here! I honestly want Robert Stack narrarting and that horrifying "New Age Artist" Gary Remal Malkin music behind it.





Creepy cases though? Three words. SON OF SAM. :eek:

EDIT: Well my opinion changed, once again. On tonight's episode there was this Special Alert (which are always creepy) about this old lady who was kidnapped from her house. A ransom call was made to her husband demanding money or that her head would be split open into two! Well, they showed an update, which scared the p**s out of me, that the lady had been raped and murdered by her neighbor!:eek2: And the even more sad thing, was that she was buried right down the creep's driveway.

[cobra_commander]

was this the rich older man? with the van spotted in the neighborhood? i think i remember that one. another one that just scared me to death was the torso slayer case. some of the newspaper ads they used, and the music they used just did me in. there was this one newspaper clipping they showed with this horrendous ink-looking drawing of the torso slayer hunched over something... it started out really close to the screen then backed up. that, and they played some very abrasive scary music right when it popped up. scary.

someone who can do it should seriously try to capture some of this music on their puter. i want it all! like i said before, it'd be great for halloween when all the kiddies are getting candy from my roommate and i. *heh heh heh*

[Bluejay]

Originally posted by Mr. Roboto
Well, the "old" update theme (which is the one I call the jazz version of the UM theme-one of the synths seem to imitate a saxophone) isn't really that scary. The one used in the 1991-present updates is much more (which I call the wailing Update theme-there is a creepy wailing sound made by the synth).


I've tried to remember what it sounds like, but I must have completely missed it. Hard to believe... I can think of the update theme where the synthesizer evokes news teletypes and Morse code, and I know what you mean about Bob practically shouting "Update!" -- he sounds so excited, I always expect something amazing. (They never give enough details on those updates. "Motley Flurgle has been found! He was living in Algeria and working in an oil change place. He has been extradited to the United States and will stand trial for his part in the Qwertyuiop Diamond Robbery..." What the hell was he doing in Algeria? They never tell you!)

I'm going to have to listen for that one the next time they have Unsolved Mysteries.. ... if it doesn't get pre-empted for some dumb show about weddings in inflatable chapels! :p

[Mr. Roboto]

Can anyone post the original airdate the Rest Stop Killer segemnt aired on UM?

[Composite Sketch]

*checks the episode guide now conveniently linked at the top of the board*

March 10, 1993

[Mr. Roboto]

Oops. I was looking for it, but gave up around 1992 on the episode guide. Thanks Composite.

Wow. 1993! I could have sworn that was when UM got less creepy...

[cobra_commander]

it was mr.roboto, but there was still time for creepiness! ;)

[Mr. Roboto]

Oooh! Thought of another creepy piece of music. It's been mentioned before, but there was this case where these two guys, one white and one black, kidnapped this old postal worker lady; can't remember her first name, but her last name was Johnson. Thankfully, she survived...

But, let me tell you, when they showed the composites of the kidnappers, there was this horrible synth that went DO DO DUMMMMMMMMMM and just continued on, even as they showed Robert Stack speaking the last lines of the segment. The case is on the episode guide above, under "Postal Crimes", but let me tell you, it's less scarier without the music.

Another scary thing I've been dying to mention, is that sometimes I hear these little analomies. For example, in one episode, when the segment ended, right before they were going to tell what case was next, for a milli-second, I heard this guy's voice, and it scared the crap out of me. I don't know where it came from, but I imagine it was probably bleedthrough from the tapes that UM made. Another example I can think of, is when the UM P. O. Box screen was shown on the Gordon Page, Jr. case, the quiet music ended, and for some reason I could hear the bleedthrough of the UM theme! Creeepy... :D

[Composite Sketch]

Originally posted by Mr. Roboto
Oooh! Thought of another creepy piece of music. It's been mentioned before, but there was this case where these two guys, one white and one black, kidnapped this old postal worker lady; can't remember her first name, but her last name was Johnson. Thankfully, she survived...

At first I read this and thought "oh, another case I missed". Then it just *struck* me. Didn't they take her out of town and lock her in a car trunk? Or am I completely off my rocker?

[cobra_commander]

okay, i know it was a more recent one, but this one scared the poo out of me... this girl was home alone and her house got broken into by two guys and a couple girls... the two guys had these masks on, and it was horrific.

one of the robbers was trying to help the girl as much as he could, but got yelled at or something... i forget. i believe that the cops thought that she was hiding something from them. that one was kinda creepy.

and as i type this, i thought of another one. it was a ghost one... this little girl could see dead people and in one of the scenes this guy just stood behind her... eek!

[Mr. Roboto]

Originally posted by Composite Sketch
At first I read this and thought "oh, another case I missed". Then it just *struck* me. Didn't they take her out of town and lock her in a car trunk? Or am I completely off my rocker?

Yes, you are right Composite, she was taken out of town and put in a trunk. Scary case!

[Composite Sketch]

I wish I could see that case again. I remember that the white kidnapper's sketch was just your typical sketch, weird but not too creepy, but the black guy's sketch.... yikes! Didn't he have dreadlocks?

[Mr. Roboto]

Composite, yes he did. I thought that the white guy was drawn off-balance.

I still haven't seen the 3D composite, but I saw the hand-drawn composite, and that's scary enough (about the Rest Stop killer)!

[Bluejay]

Originally posted by Mr. Roboto Another example I can think of, is when the UM P. O. Box screen was shown on the Gordon Page, Jr. case, the quiet music ended, and for some reason I could hear the bleedthrough of the UM theme! Creeepy... :D [/B]

I've got to haul out my Gordon Page tape and see if I can hear it. I'm a little deaf, but I bet I can hear it if I turn the volume way up. I often hear music softly in the background, but I keep thinking it's supposed to be there.

(As an Asperger's autistic, I have this to say about Gordon Page and the mishandling of his case, particularly the drugs he was put on: AAAAAAARRRRGH. thank you. http://www.autistics.org )

[Composite Sketch]

OK, I earlier talked about the New Orleans serial murderer and how I covered my eyes when his sketch was shown on-screen when it aired.

That case was on one of the tapes johnnyangel sent me so I FFed to it, and watched. WHY I covered my eyes more than 10 years ago I'll never know, because the sketch was NOT as scary as I thought it would be. Or maybe I've developed a tolerance after seeing so many. The sketch of the unidentified victim WAS creepy, though.

But, I'm so glad that after nearly 15 years I watched the bunk bed case again. And I'm going to see the Son of Sam case pretty soon so I can listen to the scary music you guys were mentioning.

[cobra_commander]

composite: it's horrible! really! it'll give you nightmares for weeks!


.......okay, not really, but it did when i was six....:crazy:

[Mr. Roboto]

EEK EEK! EEEK! doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo EEEK EEEK! EEEK EEK! doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!

(In case you didn't know that was the "Son of Sam" song. :D )

[cobra_commander]

mr. roboto:

no, it's more like 'hum......EEK EEK....bum bum bum bo bum BUM bum bum...humm...... EEK EEK'

;)

[Mr. Roboto]

:)

Thanks Cobra. I have no musical scat singing skills whatsoever.

[Composite Sketch]

If the music you two are referring to is the music heard at the very beginning of the Son of Sam case, then I agree 100% with you. :eek:

There was NO meandering like you'd usually see with UM when re-enacting the first few murders. It was like 10 seconds for the scene, 5 seconds to show the victim's picture, then flash the composite done by witnesses of the particular shooting. Repeat 3 times. And with that MUSIC! Aaaahhh!

[Mr. Roboto]

You found it, Composite! Now, if you ever get to see the case of the Maples', you'll hear that the music is featured much more promint in the update to that case. :eek:

[Composite Sketch]

I don't know how it could be even more prominent. I thought it was loud enough. Two women talking at a doorstep, the Son of Sam approaches and draws his gun, the music KICKS IN.. *BANG!*

OK, I have one more nomination for this thread, and it's probably THE most disturbing case I have ever seen on UM, and probably anywhere: the 1989 Tampa Bay, Florida murders of Jo Rogers and her daughters Michelle and Christe who were on vacation from their Ohio farm. The case was on the "diabolical minds" episode from November 1991.

http://www2.sptimes.com/Angels_Demons/default.html
This is a long read, but worth it for anyone who was touched by the story like I was. I just found it tonight. This will be on my mind for a long time, simply because of how callously the three died - bound, stripped from the waist down, weighted with concrete blocks and dumped into the bay STILL ALIVE. Watching the case I had hoped that the killer had the decency to knock them out before dumping them, but he did not. I'm glad they caught and convicted Oba Chandler for doing this, and that they gave him the death penalty - I hope he fries sooner than later.

EDIT: Upon looking through this thread once more I saw that this was mentioned at the end of page 3. My mistake.

[Mr. Roboto]

Thanks for the read Composite. That certainly is a disturbing case (I've got that one on tape)

[U.M. Fanatic]

Good lord, I vote for the I-70 serial killer case. The one where the guy went down a long stretch of I-70 and killed many women and at least one man off the interstate in little shopping centers. Boy, the music, which is among the scariest I've heard off of an Unsolved Mysteries broadcast really sets the mood. :eek:


The composite sketches alone were enough to prompt you to turn all the lights on in your house and make sure all the doors are locked!
:eek2:

[Mr. Fuji]

Good lord, I vote for the I-70 serial killer case. The one where the guy went down a long stretch of I-70 and killed many women and at least one man off the interstate in little shopping centers. Boy, the music, which is among the scariest I've heard off of an Unsolved Mysteries broadcast really sets the mood. :eek:


The composite sketches alone were enough to prompt you to turn all the lights on in your house and make sure all the doors are locked!
:eek2:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=120441&highlight=scared+mind

Mr. Fuji would have to agree with you.

[mastamatt]

Is the I-70 killer case on the bizarre murders set? Also, I heard someone mention the 'bunk bed case'. What is this about? I've never heard about it. And is it on any of the sets?

[Mr. Fuji]

Nope, the I-70 case is not on the Bizarre Murders set. As far as the bunk bed case, I couldn't tell ya. I never heard of it.

[crystaldawn]

Well I have it on tape but actually haven't watched it too many times so feel free to add any more details guys. This couple from Horicon, WI bought a bunkbed and at first stored it in their basement. Then they brought it up in one of their children's rooms and strange things started to happen. I remember the boys clock radio going berzerk and the dad claiming his garage was on fire but when he went out again it wasn't. They did have their pastor come over and "exorcise" their house but eventually the family having had enough left abruptly one night and never returned. They did say the new owners hadn't had any problems. I must admit I'm not a big fan of the ghost stories on UM but this one is pretty good.

[PrettyinPink55]

Okay...I just read all 9 pages of this thread, and I have to say, I'm officially freaked out!!! I'm home alone too!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I am with everyone on here, the music always does it for me!!! And Robert Stack has the perfect voice!!!

The ATM case always creeped me out! OOOh those pictures and that sketch!!!!!!! YIKES!!!

And the elderly couple with the Winnebago! I agree--the actor who played the murderer was creepy! I think they featured him in the introduction/themes song to the show, in the shows' later years, and everytime I saw his face, I freaked! AHH!!

I think the Zodiac killers one is also very creepy

I also get creeped out by the woman who...I'm not sure her name, but every man that she had married or associated with died? I am drawing a blank on this case, but I remember the picture of her, and it freaked me out!

There is this one case of this dad that abused his daughter so badly, and hit her with his belt and just was completely horrible to her! He tried several times to get her back after she was in foster care, and I think once succeeded, but in the end, I remember she is a mother now herself and reflected on her experience. I just thought how her dad kept coming after her was creepy! Anybody know the case name?

Ooh! And how about the case about the geletanious goop (sp?) that kept falling from the sky like rain in a small town that made the whole town sick! That was freaky! They didn't know what it was due to!

There was this one episode where they did an exorcism on a girl, and she kept screaming and yelling and convulsing...that one freaked me out for days!

I always got creeped out by the Don Decker case too.

Gosh, there are so many more that I can't think of at the moment! But someone a few pages back said that the whole show was scary, and I agree, but that's one of the many reasons why I love Unsolved Mysteries!



EEK! Now I am going to hide under the covers!!! lol!!!! :eek:

[Jersey Girl 7]

What about the 1 -70 seriel killer? i just saw that one the other day.
he was shooting people in stores off that highway in the midwest.
anyone see that?

[U.M. Fanatic]

Okay...I just read all 9 pages of this thread, and I have to say, I'm officially freaked out!!! I'm home alone too!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I am with everyone on here, the music always does it for me!!! And Robert Stack has the perfect voice!!!

The ATM case always creeped me out! OOOh those pictures and that sketch!!!!!!! YIKES!!!

And the elderly couple with the Winnebago! I agree--the actor who played the murderer was creepy! I think they featured him in the introduction/themes song to the show, in the shows' later years, and everytime I saw his face, I freaked! AHH!!

I think the Zodiac killers one is also very creepy

I also get creeped out by the woman who...I'm not sure her name, but every man that she had married or associated with died? I am drawing a blank on this case, but I remember the picture of her, and it freaked me out!

There is this one case of this dad that abused his daughter so badly, and hit her with his belt and just was completely horrible to her! He tried several times to get her back after she was in foster care, and I think once succeeded, but in the end, I remember she is a mother now herself and reflected on her experience. I just thought how her dad kept coming after her was creepy! Anybody know the case name?

Ooh! And how about the case about the geletanious goop (sp?) that kept falling from the sky like rain in a small town that made the whole town sick! That was freaky! They didn't know what it was due to!

There was this one episode where they did an exorcism on a girl, and she kept screaming and yelling and convulsing...that one freaked me out for days!

I always got creeped out by the Don Decker case too.

Gosh, there are so many more that I can't think of at the moment! But someone a few pages back said that the whole show was scary, and I agree, but that's one of the many reasons why I love Unsolved Mysteries!



EEK! Now I am going to hide under the covers!!! lol!!!! :eek:



There should be a disclaimer for reading this thread, especially at night. :lol:

[PrettyinPink55]

LOL! You are so right!!! It was night when I was reading this, and I was home alone!! And right before I went to bed, what did I watch? A taped Unsolved Mysteries episode! Perfect way to top off the night!

[PrettyinPink55]

I have to add the recent episode which featured the arsonist who made the tape of his chanting while setting a house on construction on fire! That was creepy!!!! :eek:

[U.M. Fanatic]

I have to add the recent episode which featured the arsonist who made the tape of his chanting while setting a house on construction on fire! That was creepy!!!! :eek:


I saw that one too! Boy, was his voice ever freaky! :eek:

[PrettyinPink55]

I saw that one too! Boy, was his voice ever freaky! :eek:

I know!!! :eek: I was watching it at night too on tape! :eek: :eek:

[U.M. Fanatic]

I know!!! :eek: I was watching it at night too on tape! :eek: :eek:


You're a lot braver then me. When I watch Unsolved Mysteries at night, I find it to be insomnia inducing. :lol:

[PrettyinPink55]

Oh I didn't say I had a good night's sleep afterward?? After I watched it, I immediately put it on a cartoon channel and slept to that! :lol:

[widowmaker75]

yeah the platimum was the dale kerstetter case in bradford pa... still never heard from him and never solved... bon jovi write a song for that girl for the life of me i cant think of it..

[PrettyinPink55]

Bumping this up.

[U.M. Fanatic]

Keeping this thread going, how about the case of Kurt Sova? I know its been talked about before, but I feel like this episode epitomizes what is so great about the earlier years with this show. This one segment was so expertly produced it was like watching a mini-movie. The case itself is creepy enough, but the music they used put this over the top, especially when the father of Kurt starts searching the basement of the duplex for any signs of him. :eek:

[drtom1966]

Sorry for bumping this old thread toward the top of the list, but I couldn't resist adding one of my own favorite (?) scariest UM moments, and one I didn't see cited previously here -- the scene in which the guy riding the ATV happens upon the blonde model out in the middle of the California desert. The woman gives him a blank stare and then, all of a sudden, these three maniacs leap out of the bushes and start pushing his tiny little vehicle around, banging on the hood, rocking it back and forth, and one of the guys (whose long, stringy hair masks his face), keeps saying over and over at the driver's side window, "What are you lookin' at, man? What are you lookin' at, man?" This was like a real-life "Deliverance"...Creeps me out every time I see it!

[Composite Sketch]

Composite, yes he did. I thought that the white guy was drawn off-balance.

I still haven't seen the 3D composite, but I saw the hand-drawn composite, and that's scary enough (about the Rest Stop killer)!

America's Most Wanted recently started up a feature called Cold Case Files. Last week they aired the case about a man named John Gentry. Now, he wasn't featured on UM as far as I know. But during the segment, which clearly came from the early 90s, they interviewed a police officer related to the case. He was in his office and I noticed a wanted poster in the background. It had sketches of two men: the one on the left white, the other black. I almost immediately recognized them as the men suspected in the case of the abducted postal worker, even though it has been over a decade since I've seen the UM segment.

Anyone else see AMW last week and notice that?

[LooksLikeCRicci]

The Jon Bon Jovi song that he wrote in memory of Katherine Korzilius was called August 7. It's on his CD entitled, "Destination Anywhere." You can purchase it on iTunes. It's a very pretty song, if you like Bon Jovi. Everytime I see that segment, I get the song stuck in my head.

"Tell me it was just a dream. August 7, 4:15. God closed his eyes and the world got mean. August 7, 4:15."

Realize this is a late post, but I hope it helps. :)

[Beetlejuice69]

The entire thread is scary. I'm going to need professional help. :crying:

[Deadman31]

The one about the girl who had the nervous breakdown after her car caught on fire, recovered, only to have the same thing happen again really scared me. Was she ever found?

[LooksLikeCRicci]

Ahh... "Stuck in the Mud." That was spooky. I can't imagine the terror that poor girl felt.

Unless Kane or Justin have found an update, I don't think the case has been updated...

[U.M. Fanatic]

The entire thread is scary. I'm going to need professional help. :crying:


Like I've said before, this thread needs a disclaimer before reading.;)

[Kane]

The one about the girl who had the nervous breakdown after her car caught on fire, recovered, only to have the same thing happen again really scared me. Was she ever found?

Here's the woman's Doe Network profile:

http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/808dfca.html

Her name is Kristi Suzanne Krebs. There are some other missing persons web sites that have her profile, which indicates that she has never been found. :(

[Robert Stack, Jr.]

A case that always scared me was that of George Owens. For those of you not familiar with this one, let me recap it for you. George Owens was a 79-year-old black preacher who was married for over 50 years and had a few children. In 1985, he was scheduled to pick up his wife at a Greyhound bus station after she paid a visit to her sister. George went into his car to pick her up, but never arrived. A gas station attendant reported seeing George about 50 miles from his hometown. George reportedly asked directions to his hometown, but the attendant misunderstood him and sent him about 70 miles in the wrong direction to another small town. He was later seen in that town in an ice cream shop where he purchased some cigars. The cashier said he seemed lost and disoriented, and he also asked if anybody had seen his wife. Around dusk that day, George's car was seen driving up a hill in the town and the car was later found at the top. There was no sign of George around, but his cane was mounted up against the car and firewood was found in the trunk, hinting that someone else may have been driving the car. Sadly, 4 years later, George's wife passed, without ever knowing her husband's fate.

Today, George would be 99 years old and is most likely dead. Even though he has probably since passed, I think that if he met with he met with foul play, his murderer should be put to death for killing this gentle old man.

[J-Dogg]

First off, this is my first reply to a thread topic, so bear with me. This forum has a lot of great info on the show, so thanks a lot. The scariest UM moment for me is the red bumper logo that zooms inside the word "mysteries" before introducing a topic (wanted, missing persons, updates, etc.) used on episodes from the series beginning to 1993. When I was younger (I'm only 17), I used to run away from that logo. I still do that sometimes because watching UM on Lifetime, you never know when they come to a part when the logo isn't edited out.

[eteem]

The scariest episode I've ever seen occured in the late 80's. A girl stops to call her boyfriend at a phone booth and is abducted by a strange man. The boyfriend tears out of his house gets in his car and actually catches up with his girlfriend and her abductor. Tragically the boyfriends car fails and he is unable to keep up with them. I've never seen an update.

Or

Just today I watched the one about Wendy Camp, her daughter and her sister in law. All 3 went missing and were never found after a visit with Wendy's ex-husband and her son. Personally my money is riding on the ex.

[eteem]

For years I thought I was the only UM junkie, I'm so glad to know I'm not alone.

[U.M. Fanatic]

Welcome to the forums J-Dogg and eteem! :wave:

By the way eteem, the case you mentioned is Angela Hammond. If you do a search on this forum you can find some earlier discussions about her case. Hope this helps! :D

[nohwheregirl]

creepy door to door child molester http://img316.imageshack.us/img316/5989/childmolester1ht.th.png (http://img316.imageshack.us/my.php?image=childmolester1ht.png)

AAAAHHHH!!!

I'm going to double check all the locks on my doors now.

[katboldt]

the one where they showed video from an exorcism...that freaked me out big time! :eek:

[U.M. Fanatic]

AAAAHHHH!!!

I'm going to double check all the locks on my doors now.


Ditto! :eek:

[LooksLikeCRicci]

The scariest episode I've ever seen occured in the late 80's. A girl stops to call her boyfriend at a phone booth and is abducted by a strange man. The boyfriend tears out of his house gets in his car and actually catches up with his girlfriend and her abductor. Tragically the boyfriends car fails and he is unable to keep up with them. I've never seen an update.

You know, I want to say that I've seen an Internet news article that stated they found some bones and believed that they were the remains of Angela Hammond. I used to have the link, but I've lost it. :(

Maybe Crystaldawn, Kane, or Justin know?? They seem to be the UM research gurus around here. *bowing to the knowledge*

[crystaldawn]

I was in contact a few months ago with the newspaper in that area and they did find some bones a while back but they said they tested them and they weren't Angela's. As of then she hadn't been found they told me. I don't know of any current bones but if you find something further please post.

[LooksLikeCRicci]

Nope, I bet we're talking about the same bones. I read this article about eight or nine months ago, come to think of it. I just didn't see the update. :(

[crystaldawn]

One of the most creepiest UM moments that I was recently thinking about was on the Joe Shepard case. When Joe's mom noticed some dogs digging around in their front yard and she goes to inspect and sees some human hands above the ground. :eek:

[buckeyeblogger]

http://img316.imageshack.us/img316/5989/childmolester1ht.png

Was this guy ever caught? Not the actor that played him (of course! ;) ) I mean the real dude.

[crystaldawn]

Wow, what a sleaze.

His name is Kenneth Robert Stanton. Lifetime updated the segment and yes he was captured.

[buckeyeblogger]

Wow, what a sleaze.

His name is Kenneth Robert Stanton. Lifetime updated the segment and yes he was captured.

No doubt. Thank God for law enforcement.

[CentralCali]

One that really scared me is the one where the lady stops at the secluded store and ends up getting attacked by a guy driving a Jeep Wagoneer. It turns out this guy ends up being a serial killer suspect, and the lady turns out to be his only known survivor. I keep waiting for Lifetime to play it since the details have stuck with me since I was a kid. Anyone remember it?

[crystaldawn]

Yes, I remember it. It was about the New Hampshire serial killer. The lady had stopped at a pop machine I think (she was very pregnant too I might add) and he stabbed her and left her for dead. I believe she was able to make it to a friends house and the serial killer drove by and looked at her as she was approaching the porch. Thankfully her and her unborn child did survive the attack. I don't think he's ever been arrested but someone correct me if I'm wrong. A very chilling reenactment I might add as they show the knife attack and the chase in slow motion and Lifetime does show it occasionally.

[ddelta]

Okay my creepiest ones are: (and i mean i have real issues even watching these to this day)

1. The pregnant woman attacked at that rest station
2. The guy who gives a guy hitchiking a ride, he tries to steal his car and then somehow winds up killing this guys mom in a random act of violence.
3. The rest stop murders in Canda....that sketch....shiver
4. The one of the guy who is a security guard at a plantinum plant where two guys in masks come in and the guy is seen looking at the camera. Not that this particular story was that scary, but when that guy sits down to eat his lunch and the masked intruder is seen in the back by the window...i almost jumped out of my seat.
5. The Angela Hammond case (the phone booth abduction)
6. The Colleen Reed Case and those three guys who heard a scream from the car wash....another shiver.

[buckeyeblogger]

Okay my creepiest ones are:

3. The rest stop murders in Canda....that sketch....shiver

I don't know if I remember this one. It seems like I remember a re-enactment and a guy driving his car in the deep heavily wooded areas of Canada, but I don't remember what happened?

6. The Colleen Reed Case and those three guys who heard a scream from the car wash....another shiver.

Again I vaguely remember a car wash re-enactment but I'm having a blank on what happened.

[TosaTillie]

The rest stop murders in Canada was probably the scariest one for me. It was a real heartbreaker too. I would imagine the gentleman whose wife was killed has probably already passed away. Does anyone have an update on this one or the names of the people involved?

[crystaldawn]

The rest stop murders in Canada was probably the scariest one for me. It was a real heartbreaker too. I would imagine the gentleman whose wife was killed has probably already passed away. Does anyone have an update on this one or the names of the people involved?

The elderly couple involved were Gord and Jackie McAllister. I believe the other victim was Brian Majors. Here is an old thread where someone posted about the suspect in the case.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=36618&highlight=ronald+glenn+west

[nohwheregirl]

Again I vaguely remember a car wash re-enactment but I'm having a blank on what happened.

That was the Kenneth McDuff case, where he and an accomplice abducted Colleen Reed from a car wash in Austin, Texas. There were some people near by who heard her screaming for help.

[RightOnDude]

I was amazed when I watched that the other night, right after the Angela Hammond case, and then thought back to reading on here how McDuff was probably responsible for both. I hope he rots in that special place.

[Kane]

I was amazed when I watched that the other night, right after the Angela Hammond case, and then thought back to reading on here how McDuff was probably responsible for both. I hope he rots in that special place.

Well, there is no hard evidence that McDuff was involved in Angela Hammond's disappearance. In any case, he has been rotting "in that special place" since 1998, when then-Texas governor George W. Bush had the good sense to allow the state give McDuff the needle. When McDuff was executed, the mother of one of his victims said it best: "He's going where he needs to go. He looked like the devil."

Considering the circumstances of his murderous history, Kenneth McDuff became the poster boy for the death penalty.

[ddelta]

That was the Kenneth McDuff case, where he and an accomplice abducted Colleen Reed from a car wash in Austin, Texas. There were some people near by who heard her screaming for help.

Also, those same eyewitnesses had seen 2 guys in a car that were going the wrong way on a one-way street. It later was determined that these guys were the ones who abducted, raped and killed Colleen Reed.

Kenneth McDuff was one of the lowest scums of this earth. He was executed in 1998 for another murder. They think he might of killed a lot more...even Angela Hammond (which i do not believe because he was not in Missouri until 1993 and Angela disappeared in 1991)

[Kane]

Also, those same eyewitnesses had seen 2 guys in a car that were going the wrong way on a one-way street. It later was determined that these guys were the ones who abducted, raped and killed Colleen Reed.

Kenneth McDuff was one of the lowest scums of this earth. He was executed in 1998 for another murder. They think he might of killed a lot more...even Angela Hammond (which i do not believe because he was not in Missouri until 1993 and Angela disappeared in 1991)

Actually, he was caught in 1992, but I don't blame you for the initial mistake. I realized that the UM update had goofed by saying that he was captured in 1993.

Yes, Kenneth McDuff was "one of the lowest scums of this earth." He was a degenerate who should never have been paroled. In fact, it's a well-known fact that he had come close to being executed several times for the 1966 murders of three teenagers, but each time, he got a last-minute reprieve. And the next thing we know, his death sentence was reduced to life in 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily abolished the death penalty, deeming it unconstitutional.

If McDuff had been executed when he should have been, Colleen Reed and his other victims would still be alive. As I commented in another post, the McDuff case is my reason to argue for the death penalty.

[FamilyGuyFan]

I thought the scariest UM moment was when the monk was in the window in "The Devil's Backbone." That really scared me. :eek:

[Eire]

I know it's been mentioned several times already, but the arson case where the guy videoed the burning house scared the bejesus out of me! His voice was just too creepy for words. I haven't seen that one in ages, but I can still hear that voice saying "Look at it, Omar." Yeesh. Didn't somebody find that tape in the woods or something similar? I'm a bit foggy on the details, but the voice stuck with me.

[MegtheEgg86]

I always thought Look-At-It-Omar kid sounded kind of like Filbert the turtle from that Nickelodeon cartoon "Rocko's Modern Life." If he'd had a different voice, that case would've been much scarier for me.

[mphs95]

The segments that scared the crap out of me......where do I begin?

1. The Blind River Rest Stop case. It wasn't the case mind you, but the composite of the killer as the husband remembered him. That thing creeps me out!

2. Matthew Chase case. The ATM photo. Enough said

3. Florida convienience store killings (Debra Poe, etc). The Megadeth dude alone gives me the willies, plus the thought of those women working alone swore me off of working the graveyard shift.

4. "Debbie", the one in SC where the guy abducts her, rapes her, and almost kills her with a shotgun shot to the face. The part where he chases her in the woods......eeehhhhh. I had to turn the light on to watch UM after this segment.

5. NH serial killer. The part with Jane and her killer freaked me out big time.

6. Doreen Picard and Susan Laferte. I still get creeped out sometimes when I do my laundry in the basement even though the door is locked to it.

7. Sacremento Thrill Killings. Six people killed for no reason. The killer was some idiot who killed for no reason. I can't explain why, but this segment really freaked me out.

As much as the show creeps me out sometimes (I still make sure my windows are locked before I watch it at night), I still love it like I did as a kid.

[NuclearMisfit]

3. Florida convienience store killings (Debra Poe, etc). The Megadeth dude alone gives me the willies, plus the thought of those women working alone swore me off of working the graveyard shift.




"You really shouldnt smoke ya know"

http://i31.tinypic.com/2r3fl9c.jpg

[WishfulDreamer]

Again, I'm bumping up an old thread. Hope no one minds!

To me, one of the scariest is when a man comes to a house where another man has killed his wife and stepdaughters (and the other man doesn't know it). I've seen the segment a couple of times, but the last time, even though I knew the killer was going to jump out of nowhere, I screamed anyway. I don't remember the names of the case, but that the other man jumped through a glass door to escape and survived. Freaky case!

[WishfulDreamer]

http://img316.imageshack.us/img316/5989/childmolester1ht.png

Was this guy ever caught? Not the actor that played him (of course! ;) ) I mean the real dude.

Aaaaaaaa! I didn't expect that as I scrolled down. Thank goodness he was caught. I think he was the guy who mentioned that the next day was his birthday, as though that would make a difference. What a scumbag!

[MegtheEgg86]

Again, I'm bumping up an old thread. Hope no one minds!

To me, one of the scariest is when a man comes to a house where another man has killed his wife and stepdaughters (and the other man doesn't know it). I've seen the segment a couple of times, but the last time, even though I knew the killer was going to jump out of nowhere, I screamed anyway. I don't remember the names of the case, but that the other man jumped through a glass door to escape and survived. Freaky case!

That was the Joe Weldon Smith case. Even though I've seen the segment many, many times, I still jump when Smith flies out from around that corner. Thankfully he was caught not too long after the broadcast.

[wonderfalls]

The Dorothy Donovan case always freaked me out.

Now that the guy was caught (in 2007), has it been explained how he ended up at Dorothy's house? Was it a coincidence?

[rubber4532]

the kurt sova segment when his father was searching the basement. I would've been so creeped out if I was him.

[shanejm]

For me there are two cases that have been very scary. The first case is the Sherry Eyerly case. I know that it's in the DVD sets and that it's focus was the Psychic aspect of it...but honestly it creeped me out. I think the reason why was that when I was a teenager I delivered pizza's and there were times where you showed up at someones door and they just gave me the willy's. And looking for homes in dark neighborhoods where there was not much light was scary too. I just think of how bad it must have been for Sherry Eyerly when she figured out what was going on. It must have been horrible for her to be out searching for an address that didn't even exist way out in the middle of nowhere.

The other case that gives me the eeby-jeeby's is the two Mary killings. The violence and terror that those two women must have endured had to be horrific. Just thinking about it makes me shiver!

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

the in home break in segments have always scared me the most....especially now as an adult. I still get that creepy feeling late at night if I watch them(the old segments not spike). the ghosts segments used to freak me out as a child, but now they are very silly and make me chuckle.

[Hambone2421]

I guess mine would qualify as eerie segments rather than scary. But here they are:

1. Matthew Chase - the photo of him at the ATM with that guy behind him creeps me out to this day. I remember Robert Stack narrating that episode too, very eerie.

2. Justin Burgwinkel - when he told his girlfriend "Have you ever seen the movie White Sands?", the hair on my neck stood up.

3. Angela Hammond - I really feel for her boyfriend. To be so close to trying to save her, only to have your car go out.

4. Oba Chandler - I wrote a 12 page paper on this case for a Criminology class in college and I still find it hard to believe that he didn't have help. He bound, tied, raped and then threw each woman off the boat 1 by 1. The only way that he acted alone was if he had a gun on them the whole time, otherwise, how else could have tied them up without the other two attempting to stop him. The death penalty was made for people like Oba Chandler.

[bryndis]

Well re-watching Unsolved Mysteries episodes and them being a bunch of cases that delt with random murders make me worry about going outside and never coming back home again. :\

I remember watching that segment where that guy gave this man a ride, and threw him out because he had a knife or something, drove around and then saw him walking towards his house where his elderly mother lived. That scared me!

[Corkys-Place]

One of the scariest UM moments I can think of was actually the first Episode I ever saw in 1988. The Unibomber story (He was still at large back then). He was placing a device under a parked car in an office carpark. A Witness in the office was watching him through horizontal blinds. Suddenly the Unibomber looks up at the Witness and pretty much straight at the camera. Freaked me out at an 11 yr old :(

Other scary moments for me:

1: Tara Calico Abduction - Seeing that Polaroid photo of those 2 kids bound and gagged scared the crap out my friend and I as we were roughly the same age as the Boy at the time.

2: Queen Mary Ghosts - Especially the part when the Female worker is travelling up the escalator and suddenly a man is standing right behind her!

3: New Hampshire Serial Killer - The pregnant woman who stopped for a Can of Soda in the middle of nowhere only to be stalked and knifed but miraculously survived. The composite of this Guy was Scary! I believe he has since been identified and is now deceased?

I will post more when I think of them :wave:

[Kane]

3: New Hampshire Serial Killer - The pregnant woman who stopped for a Can of Soda in the middle of nowhere only to be stalked and knifed but miraculously survived. The composite of this Guy was Scary! I believe he has since been identified and is now deceased?

Yes and no. Yes, there is a suspect in the case who is now deceased; no, the case hasn't been solved.

The suspect's name was Michael Nicholaou. He killed himself on December 31, 2005, just after killing his wife Aileen and fatally wounding his stepdaughter Taryn Bowman. To date, there hasn't been enough evidence to prove (or disprove) he was the New Hampshire serial killer.

[MegtheEgg86]

3: New Hampshire Serial Killer - The pregnant woman who stopped for a Can of Soda in the middle of nowhere only to be stalked and knifed but miraculously survived. The composite of this Guy was Scary! I believe he has since been identified and is now deceased?

That one has always scared the CRAP out of me. It's the one I always think of whenever I have to stop anywhere late at night, and my heart always races a little whenever I see a Jeep Wagoneer on the road.

And yes, that is an awful composite. I was in a bookstore once after class in college looking for something to read as there was a break coming up, and while in the "True Crime" section I picked up a selection that looked interesting. I opened it up in the middle, only to be surprised with a GIGANTIC blowup of that very composite. I almost dropped the book.

The attacker has never been officially identified. A PI working the case has made an extremely convincing argument that a man named Michael Nicholau (who is in fact deceased) is the Connecticut River Valley Killer. He closely resembles the composite and was living in the area at the time. There's plenty of discussion about it here on the board if you're interested.


The only other segment that frightened me to the degree this one did was the "Debbie" case, especially that chase-through-the-woods scene. :eek:

[bell83]

A little off topic, but regarding the New Hampshire serial killer...

A friend of mine and I went to Boston, last summer, for a Paul McCartney concert. While driving back, around three in the morning, we had to drive through that area of New Hampshire to get back home (in New York). At one point, we decided it was prudent to stop and get some sleep, as we were both about to fall asleep. So we stopped in a rest area and went to sleep. The next morning, I realized where we were, and told her about the New Hampshire serial killer. She said something like "If you'd have told me that, last night, I would've continued to drive until we reached New York or died after I fell asleep at the wheel...whichever came first."

[Clockworkhigh]

New Hampshire Serial Killer - The pregnant woman who stopped for a Can of Soda in the middle of nowhere only to be stalked and knifed but miraculously survived. The composite of this Guy was Scary! I believe he has since been identified and is now deceased?



All I know is that I was young when I saw that one. Maybe 10 years old tops. For some reason the pictures of all the women he raped and killed frightened me. And not to mention the whole segment was freaky. A woman stops for a drink. A man tries to kill her and leaves her for dead. She gets up and starts driving so fast only to actually accidentally catch up to the man on the road. Right out of a movie.

The Dick Hansen segment freaks me out too. Either an act of random violence, a hitman or the woman in the story isn't telling the truth. Either way the sequence of events is troubling to watch

[Clockworkhigh]

2. Justin Burgwinkel - when he told his girlfriend "Have you ever seen the movie White Sands?", the hair on my neck stood up.



Anyone know a Youtube video or anything with that segment? I have never seen it? Can't find it based on that name either

[sdb4884]

When Patrica Meehan leaned over and looked at the lady she had a head on crash with.


That was scary!

[xxxxmattxxxx69]

I forgot what case this was but a lady was murdered in her beauty salon and a door to door sales woman comes face to face with the killer and she flees and tries to call 911.

[Apostapler]

I forgot what case this was but a lady was murdered in her beauty salon and a door to door sales woman comes face to face with the killer and she flees and tries to call 911.

That was Dana Satterfield.

[starmushrooms]

I just saw this episode the other day and can't remember the guys name, but he was involved in robbing his friends house of rare Indian dolls and antique guns. I think the scariest moment in the whole segment was when the homeowners wife walked in on the robbers and she had this look of terrified horror on her face as they went to slo-mo and blacked it out just as one of them hit her on the back of the head.

That was one of those re-enactments that sticks with you.

[CanadianUMFan]

All I know is that I was young when I saw that one. Maybe 10 years old tops. For some reason the pictures of all the women he raped and killed frightened me. And not to mention the whole segment was freaky. A woman stops for a drink. A man tries to kill her and leaves her for dead. She gets up and starts driving so fast only to actually accidentally catch up to the man on the road. Right out of a movie.

I just watched this on the site that can't be named and it is definitely one of the scariest UM segments IMO. I strongly recommend it to anyone who has yet to see it. BTW, I did a little research tonight on this case and while Mike Nicholaou is an interesting suspect, he seemed to have an alibi of sorts for at least three of the killings. In other words, this is still very much an unsolved mystery.

[starmushrooms]

Just watched the Michael Hughes case with the lights off and at the exact moment the sketch of how he might look today came up my mother called me and I think my scream may have woken up the neighbors. LOL

[Oooga Chucka]

I was also scared by the Matthew Chase ATM guy as well as the Judy Himes phone call. The Mikki Jo West case scared the hell out of me when I was younger - the message was upsetting enough, but the poor grammar and handwriting just made it creepier - "and then he cry."

I've never heard anyone mention this one, but the end of the Chaim Weiss segment, when the jogger is looking over at that kid, for some reason, that gave me the chills.

[Clockworkhigh]

Hmmm, what segment is it where a man comes home from work and right away knows something is amiss? He then walks into different rooms only to find a friend who he was living with attack him. He eventually got away and actually ran through a plate glass window. It was later discovered that this man killed his own wife and kid in the same house, different room. Just a creep factor of a segment

[Oooga Chucka]

I think that was Joe Smith; you're right, that was scary.

[MegtheEgg86]

Hmmm, what segment is it where a man comes home from work and right away knows something is amiss? He then walks into different rooms only to find a friend who he was living with attack him. He eventually got away and actually ran through a plate glass window. It was later discovered that this man killed his own wife and kid in the same house, different room. Just a creep factor of a segment

Joe Weldon Smith--and yes, the attack scene was incredibly creepy. I've seen the segment a million times and still jump when he springs out from that corner.

[MegtheEgg86]

How about the entire Bike Path Rapist segment? I distinctly remember watching the original broadcast as a kid and being utterly terrified. Even though I'm a runner, I never go trail running unless I have someone with me, or can be in plain sight of a lot of people--entirely because of this segment.

[starmushrooms]

The Blind River Rest Stop Murder, while it scares the crap out of me it's one of those things I always hoped would get solved. It also made me wonder if the killer used the shotgun with one hand because I would always think the guy would get knocked over if he tried to hold a shotgun and fire it with one hand.

[Dr Will Hatch]

How about the entire Bike Path Rapist segment? I distinctly remember watching the original broadcast as a kid and being utterly terrified. Even though I'm a runner, I never go trail running unless I have someone with me, or can be in plain sight of a lot of people--entirely because of this segment.
That, and the one who raped women on that college campus in California. It happened during the Keelely Shay era.

[WishfulDreamer]

The music in the convenience store disappearance segments. VERY eerie. The "DUN DUN" update music I know I've probably mentioned before. Also in the convenience store segment when the woman locks up and then is seen pressed up against the wall when headlights shine on her and then she runs around the corner. By not showing what probably happened after that made it all the more creepier!

[conservativejoe]

This little scene made my heart jump
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7460/meehaf.jpg

and this one was real bad imagine being a chrisitan man and discovering your wife in the tool shed chanting and doing this at 2 in the morning

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6301/satb.jpg

[MegtheEgg86]

Yeah, and this one:

156921


:eek:

[conservativejoe]

scary meg you got a much better recording for her than i did.

[zack007attack]

This little scene made my heart jump
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7460/meehaf.jpg

and this one was real bad imagine being a chrisitan man and discovering your wife in the tool shed chanting and doing this at 2 in the morning

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6301/satb.jpg


which cases are these?

[conservativejoe]

which cases are these?

1.patricia meehan
2. charlie sigmund...and his wife ann :eek:

[nicoge21]

The one that scares me the most is the case about the tri state murders. It was about those 2 punk redneck teenagers that go on a killing spree, the scene where the girl and her daughter go into their trailer home and she puts the kid on the couch, it's all quiet....all of a sudden she hears a thumping sound in the kitchen, so she walks slowly in the kitchen, and says "hello? is there someone there?", looks to the left and BAM! they jump out and axe her into pieces. The kid was unharmed.

Incase nobody knows which segment this was, there's a part when they went to some black guys house late at night and told him their car broke down, and he followed them in the woods to take a look at it and the guy says something like "hey there isn't any car out here, is this some kind of joke?" and they shoot him in the head and drive off.

[SageSlowdive]

Blind River Rest Stop.

The only UM I avoid at all costs.

I feel compelled to mention Angela Hammond and Texas Most Wanted (when the woman saw a man in her mirror) but she was a real Texas woman who beat him up and out of her house :)

[Zlatko]

Dennis DePue's face. He looks like Frankenstein. :eek:

The photograph of Patricia Meehan with her holding a camera. She looks zoned out.

I think the one UM moment that freaked me out the most was the East Area Rapist's message to one of his victims. Try listening to that before bed.

[sdb4884]

Yeah, and this one:

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:eek:

yeah thats the scariest one I reckon.

[sdb4884]

Dennis DePue's face. He looks like Frankenstein. :eek:

The photograph of Patricia Meehan with her holding a camera. She looks zoned out.

I think the one UM moment that freaked me out the most was the East Area Rapist's message to one of his victims. Try listening to that before bed.

yeah Zlatko that avatar you have is scary, that was the rest stop murderer wasn't it ?

[Mystery Man]

From the Wendy Long case:
Robert Stewart aka Tommy was arrested on a drug charge. When in custody, he broke down and said he killed Wendy Long and led authorities to her body. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
:eek:

[SageSlowdive]

OMG Zlatko....did you have to pick that one:eek:

[lauracrook]

I always thought that Greg Webb (the policeman who murdered Anna Anton in Lyons Nebraska) was freaky looking- especially when they showed an update and the camera went to Greg in handcuffs the way he lookes at the camera...well you can understand why he was a killer...brrr freaky as!

[Zlatko]

yeah Zlatko that avatar you have is scary, that was the rest stop murderer wasn't it ?Yup, that would be the Blind River killer.

The music that goes with the sketch only makes it that much creepier.

[WishfulDreamer]

When Micki Jo West is shown being followed to work, with the car coming up. Even though the actress portraying her looks very self-assured and supposedly has a hammer on her person, it's still very freaky! :eek:

The killer Dugan (sp?) when he claims he killed three different women and two of them are just small children :mad: The reenactments and everything in that case are so eerie.

"Mommy is in the trees" :eek:

Even though the case is a little silly with all the "professed vampires" Caera O'Connell's letter from the guy she ran away with is so creepy. "Do you want to know about sex? Then I will tell you." Aaaaaaaaaa :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[yellowVWchase]

1: Tara Calico Abduction - Seeing that Polaroid photo of those 2 kids bound and gagged scared the crap out my friend and I as we were roughly the same age as the Boy at the time.




Ugh, that photograph still creeps me out...!

[WishfulDreamer]

I know the Rick Church attack has been mentioned numerous time, with him outside the house getting ready to go in, etc. But last night for some reason the part when he makes his way up the stairs and the brother is standing there and he's mostly in shadow when he's about to attack came to mind. Ugh.

The music when they're recording the rest stop after the crime just adds to a freaky segment!

The New Orleans serial killer when he forces the woman on the street into his car- thank goodness she survived, but how terrifying!

[XCalibur]

I know the Rick Church attack has been mentioned numerous time, with him outside the house getting ready to go in, etc. But last night for some reason the part when he makes his way up the stairs and the brother is standing there and he's mostly in shadow when he's about to attack came to mind. Ugh.


this gave me nightmares for years. I think I was ten or eleven when that case aired, you think about getting up for a glass of water and see a shadowy man coming up the stairs like that with a knife. Talk about every kid's worst nightmare :eek:

He survived but I bet he had nightmares and was traumatized for years. :( Especially after finding out his parents were dead.

I can't remember the girlfriend's name, but I hope she and her younger brother are doing ok now. Horrific thing to go through.

Of course its very possible she was playing Rick Church and treated him poorly, in which case its partially her fault. Not that I'm justifying what he did, not at all. But its never good to play with people's emotions. Look what happened to Steve McNair.

[XCalibur]

Several moments come to mind:

1. The Torso slayer segments always freaked me out. A lot because the guy was never caught and at that time you had no idea who the prime supect was, I didn't find out till recently Frank Sweeney was the prime suspect but its still unknown for sure who did that. Either way its not so much now since whoever did it is either dead or in his 90's at least. Apparently there was also a possible connection between him and the Black Dahlia, that clip where they showed that monsterous humanoid that somebody drew up to represent the Torso Slayer, freaked me out completely.

2. That ghost story where those people allegedly found a photograph of their ghost Samuel, even though he was supposed to be a good ghost that photograph totally gave me chills. Especially when they blew up the full TV screen with it.

3. The video with the arsonist talking on the tape of the fire was pretty damn chilling. Luckily they caught that nut.

4. The reinactment of the second attack on Dorothy Wacker was a spine tingler.

5. Discovery of Cindy James' body was spooky with that abandoned house and all.

6. This will seem like a strange one, but remember that guy who researched the UFO sightings over Wytheville, Virginia? They were reinacting the part where he received a call from a former army intelligence officer who was apparently calling to warn him about what they might do to him and his family over his research. Even though it was apparent the guy calling was doing it in his interest, his voice on the phone sounded very ominous and that always got to me. That chilling music they played didn't help either. :lol:
But I suppose it was just a reminder of how dangerous it can be to fool with our own government if you expose any corruption or cover ups. In this case it was UFO's, and people like Danny Cassalero have found that out most likely.

Those are the ones that stand out in my mind the most, there are probably more.

[Mastermind]

1. Those damn composite drawings of the aliens in the Allagash Abduction segment. Seriously, UM was purposely trying to scare the wits out it's audience with the at segment. Watched that segment back when I was young and had a ton of bad dreams.,

2. The revelation that Dave Bochs may have been alive when he was lowered into the kiln. Never did a midwestern accent sound so scary. :eek:

3. The few clips you get of the alien bodies in the Roswell segement. Freaked me out back in the day.

4. That oh, so haunting photograph of Patricia Meeham. Scarier than any ghost photo.

5. The ever popular Omar the Arsonist.

6. That awful satanic note in the Rachel Runyan segment.

7. I don;t know about the rest of you, but did any of you feel a little unnerved when Robert Stack played the approximate recording of the "Mystery Hum".

8. Every single aspect of the Circleville Writer case.

9. The very creepy calmness of Ayleen Conway's home after her death.

10. The pictures of the murder victims of the Ohio Serial Killer.

[MegtheEgg86]

7. I don;t know about the rest of you, but did any of you feel a little unnerved when Robert Stack played the approximate recording of the "Mystery Hum".

Absolutely. I remember seeing that segment as a kid, and have NEVER forgotten that sound. I'm glad someone else found it at least a little creepy.

10. The pictures of the murder victims of the Ohio Serial Killer.

Same thing with the NH Serial Killer for me.

[Alvin Karpis]

1. Those damn composite drawings of the aliens in the Allagash Abduction segment. Seriously, UM was purposely trying to scare the wits out it's audience with the at segment. Watched that segment back when I was young and had a ton of bad dreams.,


:eek:

To this day the hair on my arms still stand up because I remember how scared I was as a kid watching it for the first time

[MissFit29]

The moment when Brad Bishop is slowly walking into his house, just before the murder of his family.

[tsny82]

One case that always freaked me out was the Sarah or Amanda? Beard case. This was the one where she was raped by a Jamaican man named Wadada. The part that freaked me out was when he did that chanting after he raped her. Definitely freaky.

[soilentgreen]

The pictures of the murder victims of the Ohio Serial Killer.

I've stated it before, but I'm absolutely weirded out by the image of the girl with the braids, and the creepy music they play at the ending of the segment.

Another disturbing scene -- the Hilda Rochet segment, when her killer (Gregory Barker) leads her nude into the woods to murder her.

[WishfulDreamer]

The silhouette speakers (especially when their voices are altered) used to and still often do frighten me. Especially when it's more for safety rather than publicity reasons. Eerie!

[Orange_Sody_84]

The silhouette speakers (especially when their voices are altered) used to and still often do frighten me. Especially when it's more for safety rather than publicity reasons. Eerie!

I concur WishfulDreamer. :-) it always catches me offguard and scares me when people are presented in that manner. sounds kinda silly I guess.

The L'efant segments really freaks me out. the fact that it's a bunch of people messing with one dude. (one of them sounds like a kid! not to mentin the freaky sound effects in the calls.) for years on end. even getting to him in the mental institution. it's like something out of a horror movie.

[Charlie99909]

This is morbid as hell, anyone have the picture of the body found in the steamer trunk? I saw it back in '01 and was freaked out. Now I wonder if it is as bad as I remember.

[Hambone2421]

The scariest one to me was when Frederich Valentich was quoted as saying "It is hovering, but its not an aircraft." Then there was radio silence. What a creepy, eerie segment!

[VikingsGal]

The re-enactment of the older lady from Virginia who was killed then tried to a tree in the woods.

CREEPY!

[WishfulDreamer]

The music and entire quick missing person segment. So eerie and very few of those cases have been solved (of the ten). Thinking of the "abducted from the power station where she worked" with that music in the background terrifies me, especially since you know that since it was definitely known to be abduction it's most likely not a good outcome. I've always wanted more info on those cases.

[Oooga Chucka]

The re-enactment of the older lady from Virginia who was killed then tried to a tree in the woods.

CREEPY!


I remember being thoroughly creeped out by this guy's vulgar flash cards.

[MyDenverMint]

This is morbid as hell, anyone have the picture of the body found in the steamer trunk? I saw it back in '01 and was freaked out. Now I wonder if it is as bad as I remember.

I want to see this as well.
I've only heard about it and never actually viewed it.

[crystaldawn]

I don't want the steamer trunk picture posted on the board since it is so gruesome. I do have the picture in my email folder so if anyone wants to see it send me a pm or email with your email address and I'll send it to you.

[WishfulDreamer]

I don't want the steamer trunk picture posted on the board since it is so gruesome. I do have the picture in my email folder so if anyone wants to see it send me a pm or email with your email address and I'll send it to you.

I really appreciate this discretion, thank you. I keep being afraid someone will post it when I really don't want to see it again!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[dynoguy88]

The steamer trunk picture never creeped me out as much as everyone else. Naturally, it's a disturbing image but I find it more sad than scary. The whole segment is incredibly sad when you think how common this problem could be where the elderly just become a liability for some nursing home workers and patients get disposed of like a piece of garbage.

On a lighter note, this thread was started nearly 10 years ago. It's pretty cool that it's still going after all this time.

[Nicole242]

Does anyone remember the story about the young teen named Antionette? (sp?) I dont remember the story too well. But it went something along the lines of it being nightime and the girl was at home asleep with her family, the doorbell rang and she went to answer it, no one was there but when she turned around to go back inside she was grabbed and dragged into a car. Her uncle ran out after he heard her screams but couldnt get to her in time. A few months (maybe years) the abductor and Antionette were at a restaurant and on a napkin she wrote something along the lines of "Help. Call police." There was also a scene where she got ahold of her mother over the phone but only after a few seconds the mom heard screaming and then the line went dead.

I've been trying to see if there has been any updates ever since. I tried searching her name but nothings come up. Anyone know what I'm talking about?


* I think this episode aired between 5-6 years ago.

[Oooga Chucka]

Does anyone remember the story about the young teen named Antionette? (sp?) I dont remember the story too well. But it went something along the lines of it being nightime and the girl was at home asleep with her family, the doorbell rang and she went to answer it, no one was there but when she turned around to go back inside she was grabbed and dragged into a car. Her uncle ran out after he heard her screams but couldnt get to her in time. A few months (maybe years) the abductor and Antionette were at a restaurant and on a napkin she wrote something along the lines of "Help. Call police." There was also a scene where she got ahold of her mother over the phone but only after a few seconds the mom heard screaming and then the line went dead.

I've been trying to see if there has been any updates ever since. I tried searching her name but nothings come up. Anyone know what I'm talking about?


* I think this episode aired between 5-6 years ago.


Yes, that was Anthonette Cayedito. Sadly, there have never been any concrete updates. Here is a page about her disappearance/case.


http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cayedito_anthonette.html

[MegtheEgg86]

The music and entire quick missing person segment. So eerie and very few of those cases have been solved (of the ten). Thinking of the "abducted from the power station where she worked" with that music in the background terrifies me, especially since you know that since it was definitely known to be abduction it's most likely not a good outcome. I've always wanted more info on those cases.

Great to know I'm not the only one totally creeped out by that segment! :clap:


http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=219882&page=3&highlight=shown+lifetime

Post #36.

[MegtheEgg86]

Roxann Jeeves and Kristopher Korper: The notion of being a police officer going into a remote area, feeling a warm car hood, then two warm bodies, and having the feeling the suspect is very, very likely to still be in the area is incredibly disconcerting to me.

The scene shot from a passing car as the suspect is thumbing a ride out of the area really creeps me out, too.

[RobinW]

The steamer trunk picture never creeped me out as much as everyone else. Naturally, it's a disturbing image but I find it more sad than scary. The whole segment is incredibly sad when you think how common this problem could be where the elderly just become a liability for some nursing home workers and patients get disposed of like a piece of garbage.

The whole Jasper Wadkins segment was one of the more tense ones for me simply because I heard so much hype about this photo beforehand and was feeling anxiety throughout the whole thing waiting for it to appear. Of course, once I actually saw it, it didn't bother me as much as I thought it would, but I could certainly how it would traumatize people who didn't know it was coming.

Other moments from UM that scared me:

-any scene in the the "Tallman's Ghost" segment where the family has a terrifying vision. Most of the UM ghost segments provide you with a cheesy special effects of the ghost, but in this one, they don't show or even tell you what the family is seeing except that it scared the ever-loving crap out of them! It's not a pleasant feeling for your imagination to be running wild about what they saw when you're only nine years old and lying in bed alone at night :eek:
-the alien composite sketches in the "Allagash Abductions" segment with the actual audio of the hypnosis sessions playing over them. When I watched this on DVD for the first time in many years and saw the laughable special effects during the UFO sequence, I wondered why in the hell this segment scared so much as a child. Once it got to hypnosis sessions, however, I quickly remembered why this kept me up at night!
-the Blind River Rest Stop Killer composite photo. Nuff said!
-you wouldn't think the Liz Carmichael case would ever make this list, but as silly as it sounds, I was kinda freaked out as a kid by those computer-enhanced age progressions they did of her as both a man and a woman

[TheCars1986]

That one on the DVD about the Ghost Ship was pretty creepy, as well as the Devil's Backbone segment on the same DVD set. Fredrick Valentich's line about "It's hovering...and it's not an aircraft!" always seemed to scare the hell out of me as a kid. The one about the guy who would go to houses posing as a police officer so he could molest the children at home always left me with an uneasy, creepy feeling too and that actor in the re-enactment was one scary bastard.

[Hambone2421]

Also, the composite sketch from the Beverly McGowan murder is one of the scariest, creepiest things I have ever seen. Then add int he music that UM had playing while they showed it and you are guaranteed to need a nightlight.

[MegtheEgg86]

The one about the guy who would go to houses posing as a police officer so he could molest the children at home always left me with an uneasy, creepy feeling too and that actor in the re-enactment was one scary bastard.

The creepiest scene by far in the Kenneth Robert Stanton segment (beside the actor poking his head in the door with those Ambervision sunglasses on) has to be the one in which nothing is shown but the closed door of the home, and then a child's (genuine-sounding) scream is heard.

But it's immediately followed by an unintentional moment of near-comic relief, as the actor goes running out the front door in a huge hurry, as if the child immediately began attacking or some such thing and he was summarily overwhelmed.

[WishfulDreamer]

The creepiest scene by far in the Kenneth Robert Stanton segment (beside the actor poking his head in the door with those Ambervision sunglasses on) has to be the one in which nothing is shown but the closed door of the home, and then a child's (genuine-sounding) scream is heard.

But it's immediately followed by an unintentional moment of near-comic relief, as the actor goes running out the front door in a huge hurry, as if the child immediately began attacking or some such thing and he was summarily overwhelmed.

I feel the same way. The part behind closed doors is scary, but when he's running away he looks silly and as though the child had beaten him up or something. If only that had been the case and it hadn't been that he was more afraid of discovery. Those goofy glasses sure helped him look bumbling and oafish :lol:

[truthbtold]

THE CINDY JAMES VOICE MAILS. That satanic voice creeps me out to NO END. I LITERALLY HAVE THE SHAKES RIGHT NOW AS I TYPE THIS JUST REMEMBERING THOSE TAPES.

[Charlie99909]

THE CINDY JAMES VOICE MAILS. That satanic voice creeps me out to NO END. I LITERALLY HAVE THE SHAKES RIGHT NOW AS I TYPE THIS JUST REMEMBERING THOSE TAPES.


Yeah that was!

The ons/ear voicemail was scary too!

[MegtheEgg86]

The ons/ear voicemail was scary too!

I was watching Cold Case Files very late one night, the one in which the EAR/ONS segment was shown. I heard the very opening of that voice message and had to mute the television until it was over.

[truthbtold]

was the eas/ons ever on unsolved mysteries? I can't seem to find the segment. What would the segment have been titled?