22 Mysteries That Keep People Up at Night

‘The murders of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman’
22 Mysteries That Keep People Up at Night

If there’s anything you can say about Cracked readers, it’s that they’re sexually attractive, great smelling and curious. They know better than anyone what it’s like to lie awake attempting to solve some puzzle and then googling and finding out there’s no answer key at all. Like, why do we dream? Why do people walking toward each other always veer in the same direction first? What’s with all those Oreo flavors? And who is buying them?

For one Redditor, it’s the so-called “call of the deep,” when humans get the urge to disappear into the ocean. “I once heard of a 40-meter mark, where people allegedly turn insane,” they told r/AskReddit. “In German it's called ‘Tiefenrausch.’ Unfortunately, I couldn't find a proper translation.”

They then asked, “What is the strangest unsolved mystery?,” inspiring all of the answers below.

Capguy71 . 3y ago Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett
Buster899 . 3y ago Somehow most of my kitchen containers are square and most of the lids are round.
KnittingTrekkie . 3y ago In 1997, someone speared a massive pumpkin on the spire atop of Cornell's McGraw Tower ... 173 feet in the air. No one knew who. No one knew why. And no one knew how.
batmannibal e 3y ago The Great Attractor. There is a big gravitional anomaly that is far more larger than Milky Way pulling us to its way and we can not see it.
wolfeyes555 . 3y ago Who put Bella in the Wich Elm? This case in particular just makes me sad because we don't even know who she was. 'Bella' was a name some prankster came up with.
1401238754 . 3y ago The case of Branson perry in 2001 he was cleaning out a house and he told a friend he was going to return a pair a jumper cables to the shed and he never was seen again.
TrabantDeLuxe 3y ago Who was Kaspar Hauser. A feral child found in 1820's germany, who dies a violent death after revealing that he had spent his youth in a darkened cellar.
Flake44 . 3y ago Susan Powell.... Where is the body and what actually happened. Good podcast called Cold that has a ton of interesting stuff in it, and creepy stuff from the husband and father-in-law. Just no answer as to what actually happened.
soulsista12 . Зу ago Brian Schaffer, a medical student who disappeared from a Columbus он bar without a trace. There is absolutely no footage of him leaving the bar on the cameras and he has never been heard of since. It seems as if he fell off the face of the earth. Crazy case
littledude724 3y ago The Springfield Three. A mother, her daughter, and her daughters friend all disappeared from their home in the middle of the night, leaving no evidence behind. It's believed that they were kidnapped, but no one really knows anything.
zoenin_out - . 3y ago the guy who killed a japanese family, stayed hours inside the house with the corpses using their computer and eating their food. he even took a shit and didn't flush the toilet. he left so much dna in the house and the police haven't found him.
FoxSafe4 . 3y ago The lost A-bomb off the coast of America, which the US government said not to worry about in the 50's and tried to cover up. Was dumped in the ocean in an aviation accident and it's still lost to this day. 100x more powerful then what was dropped in Japan.
NiamhHA 3y ago Edited Зу ago The Catman of Greenock. He's a peculiar, non-verbal man who crawls around on his stomach, is covered in dirt and survives through eating rats. There was reported sightings in the 70's and 80's. There was no hard evidence of his existence until someone recorded him on their phone during 2007. There's lots of mixed opinions on him. Some swear that they encountered him. Others are certain that the whole thing is just a myth. But, a fair amount of people think that there might have been an original one and the guy who was
. 3y ago What happened to Ireland's most beloved racehorse Shergar? It's widely believed the IRA kidnapped him for ransom and ended up shooting him to death as he got too much to deal with. However, even long after ending their campaign the IRA has been admitting to the kidnappings and killings of several people, especially in relation to The Disappeared, but haven't mentioned Shergar once. Surely they would've come out and claimed responsibility by now if they were behind it?
QuintusNonus 3y ago The disappearance of the 9th Roman Legion. One hypothesis put forth was that these mfers just up and left the Roman Empire and moved to China and is responsible for a region in China where a lot of people have blue eyes. Just to show you how crazy the theories can be.
thataryanguy . 3y ago To me, the disappearance of an extra from Scarface. Tammy Lynn Leppert went missing after a few days of shooting a scene for the film (I think she was the girl Manny flirts with before he shoots up the motel to save Tony) but apparently she was behaving really erratically at home. She left her mother's house on the morning of July 6th '83, likely to keep shooting, and was never seen again. She was 18 when she disappeared.
mamamaia_ 3y ago Tim Molnar. Sends chills down my spine. Young kid from Florida, family oriented and in college, all the good stuff. One day (in 1984), instead of taking his usual route to school, he decides to drive 50 miles in the opposite direction. Не stopped to get gas, and continued on. Four months after he had disappeared, his folks received a letter from an auto impound company in Atlanta, Georgia which said that he had left his car in a parking lot six days after he had initially vanished. They also discovered that he had pretty much emptied
CopperWhopper69 3y ago Edited 3y ago Probably Terrence Woods Jr. Не was a 26 year old production assistant on scene in rural Idaho with his crew filming a documentary about an abandoned mine in late 2018. The project was slated for completion in mid November but he texted his father early morning on Oct 5th 2018 telling him that he would be heading home on the 10th of October, cutting his stay short by weeks. Later that day when filming concluded for the day he was seen speaking to one of the miners who used to operate the mine when
Kickkit 3y ago The murders of billionaires Barry & Honey Sherman found dead in their mansion in Toronto by their realtor. They were found with their necks tied, fully clothed on their pool deck with no signs of a break in. Well known philanthropists, Barry was in the pharmaceutical industry and they donated millions annually to multiple charities. The police originally believed it was a murder suicide and didn't pursue other leads. The family launched a private investigation that found the evidence didn't support that theory and thus proved police incompetence. As the public became more interested, it was discovered
draiman 3y ago The 169th victim of the Oklahoma City bombing. They found an additional leg in the rubble. DNA tests showed it belonged to another victim who had already been buried but with the wrong leg. The wrong leg had already been embalmed, so they could not get DNA at the time. So who did this leg belong to? All other legs had been accounted for in other victims. They found no other body parts, and nobody else had been reported missing. It was only until 2015 they could get DNA from the leg, but it's still classified as
Fickle_Particular_83 3y ago I always thought the mysterious green children from Woolpit was interesting. The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen. The children, brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in an unknown language and would eat only raw broad beans. Eventually, they learned to eat other food and lost their green colour, but the boy was sickly
NiamhHA 9 3y ago . Edited 3y ago Did the Serbian farmer, Dorde Martinovic, get injured from a bottle up his arse in a failed masturbation attempt or from an interrogation by two Albanian men? During May 1985, he was treated for injuries caused by the insertion of a bottle up his anus. Initially, he claimed that he was attacked by Albanians. While being interrogated, he stated that it was actually caused by him masturbating. The bizarre situation caused widespread controversy and contributed to worsening tensions between Kosovo's Serbs and Albanians. Не eventually reverted back to his original story, that

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

VIRAL ON CRACKED

A WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER OF
JOKES + TRIVIA

Forgot Password?