Most INSANE Unsolved Supernatural Mysteries Explained in 25 Minutes

Vampires. Reincarnation. Alien children. These are the most insane unsolved supernatural mysteries… 10. On November 12th, 1945, Middie Rivers, an experienced outdoorsman, set off to his usual hunting grounds on the Long Trail near Bennington, Vermont. In the distance was Glastenbury Mountain - a cursed place according to Native Americans. Locals whispered about “wild man” sightings, an 8 foot (2. 4 meter) beast that wandered the trails. They talked about UFOs. Paranormal activity. Because something out there in that remote expanse was taking people from their loved ones. And Middie was one of them. 500 people went looking for the 74-year-old… and all they found was a handkerchief. Middie knew those trails like the back of his hand. And even if he’d found himself in trouble, he was experienced enough to know what to do. Just over a year later, in the thick of winter, 18-year-old college student Paula Jean Welden, was the next to go missing. She’d last been seen rambling close to the place where Middie was suspected to have vanished. There was talk of a possible kidnapper, a hunter of humans… but where was the blood trail, where were the clothes? Three years later, WWI veteran James Tedford became the next to disappear. He was last seen on a bus near Bennington. Reports at the time say there were 15 people on that bus, including him, but when it stopped at the next town, 14 got off. Tedford’s belongings were still stuffed into the rack above his seat. And the strangest part? He’d vanished on the exact same day as Paula went missing. Close to a year later, 8 year old Paul “Buddy” Jepson was the next to disappear. He’d been with his mother in Bennington town, where the family kept pigs. I’ll just be a few minutes, she told him, leaving him in the car. And when she returned, he was gone. Bloodhounds picked up his scent right near where Paula was thought to have last been seen. But that was it. The scent trail ended. For locals, this was getting too weird. They started talking about the Bennington Triangle, and then just 16 days later, there was another disappearance - this time, 53-year-old Frieda Langer. Skilled in all aspects of outdoor survival, she was hiking with her cousin when she slipped and fell into a stream. She told them she’d go back for some dry clothes and meet up with him later. She was never seen again. Hundreds of people went in search. Helicopters circled above the trees. Every trail was explored, all the nearby woods, but like the others, she’d seemingly just vanished into thin air. This time, the body was finally discovered. Six months had passed, leaving it almost unrecognizable. To make matters worse, she was far from the place where she had last been seen walking. How or why had she gotten so far? There was speculation. She sometimes suffered from seizures. Maybe she had one that day, and in her confusion, wandered off, getting lost in the woods. But the theory didn’t hold much weight. People generally don’t walk off into the wilderness after seizures. It didn’t make sense. So what is causing the disappearances? UFOs? Bigfoot? Ghosts? Or maybe a killer - one that's an animal, or human. The people of Bennington hope to find out… before it’s too late. When people are faced with the unexplained, their imaginations fill the gaps. Centuries before Bennington, across the Atlantic, Europe confronted its own mysterious epidemic. 9. In 18th-century Europe, vampire sightings were so widespread that historians call it the Vampire Panic. Of course, there was skepticism. Such claims had to be investigated at the highest level. In the small Serbian settlement of Medveđa, where vampires were said to have killed 16 people, experts were dispatched. At the time, the region was under Austrian Habsburg control, and the authorities sent their best military surgeons, physicians, and legal officials. If vampires were real, these men would find them. They went in with disbelief - but what they discovered proved far stranger than anyone imagined. They discovered that a man named Arnold Paole had once claimed to have been attacked by a vampire in the forest. He’d told his friends the only reason he hadn’t been turned into a vampire himself is he’d eaten the soil around the offending vampire’s grave and covered himself in its blood. But when Paole broke his neck in 1725, falling from a wagon, panic ensued. People started saying that Paole, now a vampire, visited them in the night. Fear struck first. Sickness followed. Within days, they were dead. The Austrian investigators recorded it all. The villagers said what any rational person would do - they dug up Paole’s grave to see for themselves. And there he was in all his glory: nice hair, good complexion, smooth skin, long nails, his blood still flowing through his veins. The Austrian investigation stated that, quote, “fresh blood had flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. ” The record also said there was blood over his shirt and coffin. In other words, Paole looked as good as new. Death had taken years off him. So, the villagers followed vampire protocol, driving a stake through his heart. They said he’d reacted with a shriek, then groaned, then at last, he’d settled into a natural death. And they were taking no chances, so they decapitated him and burned his body. They did the same thing to the people he’d supposedly killed and infected. End of story?

No. About 5 years later in the same village, 13 people fell ill suddenly. Within three days, they were dead. The Austrian report stated that infants, men, and women went from good health to having pains in the chest. Then came limb spasms, fever, and death. More importantly, after getting sick, they said they’d been visited by a vampire. The main investigator wrote that the precautions the people had taken years back with Paole obviously hadn’t worked. But he wasn’t totally sold on the vampire theory - he thought malnutrition might have killed those people. The villagers disagreed, threatening to abandon their village if he didn’t take their claim seriously. So, he did. He exhumed the dead. And he couldn’t believe what he saw. Some bodies were decomposed. Others weren’t. The investigator requested help. The Austrian authorities sent in a commission with its best military surgeons. One report said 12 of the exhumed bodies were carefully studied for anatomical abnormalities. The commission reported “fresh blood” in some of the dead people’s organs. Skin “red and livid. ” They looked fresh, what they called a “vampiric condition. ” And these were some of the best minds in the empire, not superstitious farmers. The diagnosis was vampirism. The solution? Decapitation and burning of the bodies. That’s how it was left. Whether it’s true, well, that’s another story, but let’s now move on to a gruesome case of mass murder. 8. In March 1922, six people were found brutally hacked to death with a pickaxe in an isolated farmhouse in Bavaria, Germany. The victims were Andreas Gruber (63), his wife Cäzilia (72), their daughter Viktoria (35), and her two young children, aged 7 and 2. The sixth body was the family’s maid, Maria, 44. It had been Maria’s first day on the job. The old maid had recently quit, claiming she heard strange noises from the empty attic and that the house was haunted. And strange things had been taking place. One day, a Munich newspaper was found in one of the rooms, yet no one subscribed or had gone to town to buy it. Andreas had been on edge. He’d told his neighbor that he’d found footprints in the snow. They’d come from the edge of the forest, yet none led back. They just stopped at a door where the farm’s machinery was stored. The family said they’d heard people walking around the house at night, especially in the attic - but when Andreas went in there to check, it was empty. The new maid arrived on March 31st, dropped off by her sister. The sister stayed a while and witnessed nothing out of the ordinary. The next day, coffee sellers appeared at the farm to take their usual order, but no one answered the door. Then the oldest child didn’t turn up at school. When Sunday came around, the family didn’t attend the church service. It wasn’t until April 4th that a concerned neighbor sent his sons around to check. Andreas, his wife, and Viktoria, along with her young children, had somehow ended up in the barn - where one by one, they were hacked to death with a pickaxe. Maria had been killed in her bed. It wasn’t about money - police found a significant sum hidden in one of the rooms. It wasn’t about machinery. It had been left untouched. The killer had made himself at home. He stayed for days, eating the family’s bread and meat from the pantry. He even fed the cattle. Over the years, there were plenty of suspects. The neighbor, who had sent his sons to investigate, also fell under suspicion - but was soon ruled out. Was the first maid right? Was the house being stalked by a supernatural being? Maybe not, but the case was never solved, just like this next one. 7. England in the 12th century was in chaos. King Stephen’s reign had plunged the country into a period known as the “Anarchy. ” The last thing anyone needed was an alien invasion- but that’s exactly what seemed to have occurred in the quiet Suffolk village of Woolpit. Woolpit, meaning “wolf pit,” was named for the traps used to catch wolves. Then, in 1150, someone passing one of these pits came across two young children - both speaking a language no one had ever heard. But it wasn’t so much the strange words that bothered the villagers. It was the fact they both had green skin. The village folk took them in. They tried to feed them, but all the kids would eat were raw broad beans. It took months to get them on meat and other vegetables. The more they ate, the less green they became, but the boy was in poor health and died. With just the girl alive, and now able to speak basic English, she explained where they’d come from. Not England, she said. In fact, it didn’t sound like anywhere on Earth. She said the sun never shone in her homeland. It was twilight 24/7. What’s more, everything was green, just like her. It sounds like fantasy, but according to English chroniclers, the details came from “trustworthy sources. ” Those sources said the girl claimed she and her brother had been in their green world, tending their father’s cattle, when they heard a loud bang. After that, they were standing at the wolf pit in another world. There are many theories. Maybe the adults exaggerated a story about runaways from another country who spoke an unknown language. Maybe the children had been drugged and kidnapped. As for being green, they might have been suffering from a disease like severe iron-deficiency anemia - that’s why their skin went back to its normal color after they’d been properly fed. Alternatively, they came from another planet.

No one knows, so let’s move on to this next case of first-class weirdness. 6. Starting in 2007, feet - always still in shoes or sneakers - began washing up from the Salish Sea. The severed limbs appeared on the coasts of British Columbia and Washington, US, many of them close together. In total, 25 washed up… and then it just stopped. The first case was a size 12 Adidas. The foot and sock were still inside. Newspapers said it “baffled” police, but things were about to get stranger. Six days later, on the coast of a BC island not far from the first discovery, another foot appeared. This one was a size 12 Reebok - shoes like that could have been bought just about anywhere. In both cases, police insisted the feet hadn’t been cut off. They had simply detached from the body and somehow floated out to sea. Next up, foot number 3 washed up on an island. Nike, size 11. The owner was a man who’d gone missing four years earlier. A few months later, the first female foot made it to shore. A blue-and-white New Balance sneaker. Sock still on. Identity unknown. And they just kept on coming. Feet can detach from a corpse during decomposition, but they wouldn’t float unless inside a shoe. And people don’t usually swim and drown with their shoes on. How had the people ended up in the water, and why had their detached feet all followed a similar trajectory? The chance of just two feet washing up in a similar area was about one in a million. 25. That was just insane. Theories went from a serial killer to aliens and malevolent spirits. Scientists had another theory. Maybe the feet followed certain currents, and those currents took them to the Salish Sea. But all those bodies - within just a few years, all missing their feet, all washing up together? No. Something far stranger, and likely far darker, had taken place. Maybe as strange as this next story. 5. On May 23, 1964, Jim Templeton was on a day trip with his wife and 5-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, at a remote beauty spot - a marsh on the Solway Firth. They saw no one else that day, except for two elderly women sitting in a parked car. Jim asked Elizabeth to pose for a photo in her new dress. She smiled. Photos were taken. They went home happy. Until Jim got the photos back from the developer. There was a clear image of a spaceman above his daughter’s head. Then things got stranger. Jim even received a visit from two men who went only by the names 9 and 11, who refused to reveal which government department they represented. The theory is that they came because of something that had occurred just days after Jim took the photograph. The British military had been preparing to launch its secret Blue Streak nuclear missile in Australia - but the test was abruptly canceled at the last moment. Why? The technicians at the firing range reported seeing two men standing nearby - men who had seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Later, when the technicians saw Jim’s spaceman image in the news, they recognized it immediately. It was the same figure they had seen. When ufologists contacted the British Ministry of Defence, they were told that the spaceman image was of no concern to the government. Not everyone believed them. This wasn’t a hoax. The photo was real. Jim took it to his grave, and Elizabeth grew up saying she believed humans weren’t the “only intelligent form of life”. But maybe the lens in Jim’s camera had malfunctioned. Or maybe the “spaceman” was somehow his wife. Maybe the technicians in Australia were simply mistaken. Or… maybe a spaceman from another dimension really did appear that day. And if that’s possible, then maybe the dead can come back to life. 4. In May 1957, 11-year-old Joanna Pollock and her 6-year-old sister, Jacqueline, were walking to church along a quiet road in their small town, not far from Newcastle, England. Moments later, a car came hurtling down the road, striking them both -and also killing their young friend, Anthony. John and Florence, the girls’ parents, were devastated. But sadness turned into hope when Florence fell pregnant the next year. She had twins, Gillian and Jennifer, even though she’d been told she’d only have one. The girls were identical, although one had a birthmark and the other didn’t. This was quite a rarity. It was also coincidental. The birthmark was on the hip, where Jacqueline had a birthmark. The newborn also had a mark on her forehead, right where Jacqueline had a scar from an accident. But that was just the start. The family moved to a town about 3 miles (4. 8 km) away. The twins were still babies. Yet, as they grew older, they could recount precise details about their old town, as if they’d played there all their lives. That wasn’t all. John and Florence had kept all their late daughters’ toys from when they were toddlers. Naturally, when the couple had new twins, they passed the toys on - teddy bears, dolls, and other playthings, all previously named by Joanna and Jacqueline. When Gillian and Jennifer received them, something odd happened: they gave the toys the exact same names. They even divided them between themselves in the same way their older sisters had. Maybe it was a very strange coincidence or the parents had not knowingly mentioned the toys’ previous names. But as the years passed, thoughts of reincarnation started to creep in.

The girls developed personalities just like the other girls. They each liked the same toys, the same foods, had the same mannerisms, likes, and dislikes. John was sure it was a case of reincarnation. Florence was skeptical at the start, but she changed her mind when she watched the girls as they played. One of the games they enjoyed was a kind of doctors and nurses. They’d pretend there’d been a car accident. Gillian would cradle Jennifer’s head and say things like, “The blood's coming out of your eyes,” and “That's where the car hit you. ” Florence asked them about it. The girls said they were both really scared of cars. They’d often have nightmares of crashes. But after about the age of 5, the nightmares stopped. An American psychiatrist, Professor Ian Stevenson, one of the leading researchers into reincarnation, heard about the Pollock family and made the trip to England. After spending a lot of time with them, he said this was the clearest case of reincarnation he’d ever investigated. Skeptics said John must have fed the girls information. He always denied it. Gillian died young, aged 44. Her grown-up daughters later appeared on an Apple podcast, and to say the least, they didn’t have many nice things to say about grandfather John – violent, manipulative, narcissistic, gaslighting and to top if off, a “pathological narcissistic liar. ” They said he’d “roped” everyone into the big reincarnation lie. But history is shaped by perspective. Because the same podcast tracked down Jennifer when she was 66, and she had a completely different story. She said her dad was gentle and kind, and he had never lied about the reincarnation details, and he’d never pushed it on anyone. As for her and her sister being fed information: no way, she said. They hadn’t been told their sisters had died in a crash until they’d gotten a lot older. And she admitted that both she and Gillian had been very afraid of traffic. So, as for being her reincarnated sister, she said, it’s likely. Strange, but not as strange as this: 3. In 2014, Alice Trevorrow was walking her Springer Spaniel named Cassie over the Overtoun Bridge in the town of Dumbarton, Scotland. Built in the late 19th century, the bridge stands about 165 feet (50 meters) high. Cassie was an obedient dog so was allowed off the leash. But that day, something changed in her personality. She became entranced, staring at something on the bridge, a presence that Alice could not see. She shouted for Cassie to come to her - a command that Cassie would usually respond to. But this time, she didn’t move. Her ears barely even pricked as she jumped right over the edge, landing 50 feet (15 meters) down and dying on impact. Alice later told the media that something “sinister” had happened that day. And she wasn’t the first. In 2004, a man was on the same bridge with his obedient Golden Retriever when it saw something and just flew off the edge. That same year, at least 5 other dogs performed the same death dive. One would have been strange. Two was a lot. But one after the other. That was worth investigating. And what was found was out of this world. There’d been around 300 cases of dogs leaping off that bridge since the 1950s. Some had jumped once, survived, then run back up the banking and launched themselves off again. What was going on? Dog depression? It sounds silly, but dogs can actually suffer from depression. Still, there’s no evidence to suggest they take such drastic actions. And why would these Scottish dogs be more depressed than others? The theory was that something had gotten into those dogs’ minds. One of the locals who lived next to the bridge was a former pastor from the US. He said it could be only one thing: spiritual possession. No one really knows, but the more rational explanation is that the dogs go crazy after smelling the scent of mink. The problem with that theory is there’s no proof of minks or mink scent in the area. And there’s even less proof that mink scent would send 300 dogs over the edge. To this day, no one can explain the bridge of doggie death. Now for one of the darkest stories you’ve ever heard. 2. In January 2013, 21-year-old student Elisa Lam was supposed to check out of the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA. The hotel wasn’t far from Skid Row, a place infamous for overdoses, fights, and the occasional murder. But even for a hotel from hell, what happened to Elisa was beyond belief. She’d been missing for almost 2 weeks when the LAPD released CCTV footage of some of her last known movements. Elisa stepped into the elevator, pressed the buttons for several floors, then stood back. For a few seconds, she stared through the open doors, as if waiting for something to appear. Then, she peered nervously down both sides of the corridor and jumped back into the elevator, as if in fright. Elisa changed position, huddling against the walls like she was hiding from someone. Then came the strangest part. She stood outside the elevator doors for about twenty seconds, then returned, only to step out again, moving her hands in a strange, deliberate pattern. Eisa Lam was never seen alive again. There was no sign she’d left the hotel. Investigators determined she had been traveling from Canada along the West Coast. To save money, she shared a room with others, who reported increasingly erratic behavior. She locked them out and demanded a password

before allowing them back in. There was no password. When they got back, and she wasn’t there, she’d left them notes: “Go home”, “Go away. ” Elisa was a bright girl who had rarely been in trouble. Yet, during a taping of Conan O’Brien show, she was escorted out by security for behaving strangely. She struggled with mental health issues and had been prescribed a combination of antidepressant and antipsychotic medications. But on the last day anyone saw her, she seemed happy - excited about the trip. She bought gifts to send home to her parents and chatted casually with a bookstore owner about the weight of the books she’d be carrying. By all accounts, she sounded completely normal. Sniffer dogs couldn’t find her trail, yet she hadn’t left the hotel. On February 19th, a hotel worker made a gruesome discovery on the roof. Elisa had apparently climbed up a large water tank and entered through the hole beneath a 20-pound (9 kg) lid, taken off all her clothes, and drowned. Was she hiding from the thing she was waving her hands at outside the elevator? There was no way she could have gotten to the roof without a key and passwords for doors. If she’d somehow broken through, she’d have set off alarms. Unless she’d climbed up the fire escape. It was doable, but unlike anything she’d ever done before. She’d have needed a ladder to get up the tanks, and there wasn’t a ladder in sight. She’d somehow climbed up 8 feet (2. 4 meters) when there was nothing to grab. Maybe she’d had a psychotic “break. ” She’d had some episodes in her life before, but never harmed herself. Still, toxicology tests showed she had likely not taken small amounts of prescribed medication and over the counter painkillers. And she had been absolutely fine that day in the bookstore. So maybe it was murder. Nothing made sense, but her last blog posts online pointed to a depressed state of mind. “I have no control over my emotions. I will be angry for two minutes and then sad again. ” But those last entries were written months before she died. Family and friends said the US trip had cheered her up. Someone did update her Tumblr blog…but only after her death. Either they were automatic updates, or someone had gotten into her accounts. They were all fashion photos and philosophical quotes about life and love…and this one by an author: “In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it. ” And the autopsy. Pathologists couldn’t be certain, but there might have been an assault. Foul play? Maybe. But if you’re inclined to believe in the paranormal, something very dark and wicked might have ended the life of Elisa Lam. And now for one of the most disturbing tales… 1. On February 1st, 1959, nine experienced Russian cross-country skiers disappeared on Kholat Syakhl Mountain in the Urals - a place the local Mansi people call “Dead Mountain”. When the group didn’t return home, a search was launched. What rescuers discovered made no sense at all. The hikers were found scattered across the snow, their tent abandoned, sliced open. They’d gone outside in temperatures close to −30°C (-22 degrees Fahrenheit). Some were barefoot. Others had left their shelter wearing only socks or shoes. On closer inspection, something very, very strange had happened that night. They’d been hypothermic, but that didn’t explain crushed ribs and broken skulls. It was like they’d been in a serious car accident. One of them was missing her eyes, and her tongue was cut out. Some had suffered blunt force trauma, like being hit with a bat. Some had third-degree burns. One had vomited blood all over himself. Another had literally bitten off a large piece of his knuckle. When they found him, he still had flesh in his teeth. It was as if they’d been savaged by a monster. Maybe there was a rational explanation, but what had made them run outside almost naked in conditions they’d have known would cause frostbite in a matter of minutes? It looked as though they’d made a fire. There were snapped branches on the floor. They might have built a small shelter in the snow. But that still didn’t explain what had made them run? Theories talked about the KGB. Two of the hikers had seen the nuclear incident known as the Kyshtym disaster. The Soviets covered it up. And when the bodies were found, some contained traces of radiation. Russian investigators stated in the report that a “compelling natural force” had killed them, but they didn’t explain what. Maybe it was a UFO. Maybe a Yeti. Maybe a drug trip gone disastrously wrong. There’s also the slab avalanche theory. Investigators suggested they’d run from the tent and built a snow den. Perhaps it collapsed on them, causing the injuries. Perhaps animals finished what was left behind. But that wasn’t what the evidence showed. Locals talked about seeing a bright burning object in the sky that night. Was it a Soviet weapon? Had the hikers walked into a top-secret experiment? Even if they had, they wouldn’t have died like they’d been savaged by a beast and just left in the snow. There’ve been about 75 theories and counting, and not one of them is convincing. Now go check out Most INSANE Unsolved Mysteries Explained in 30 Minutes. Or click on this video instead.