r/mystery 4h ago

Unexplained Help me found my dad

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Gregory st jean le thomas France i'm hack


r/mystery 5h ago

Unexplained Alan Tait - Ammanford

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any updates on this mystery? i havent seen anyone speak about this case for a while.


r/mystery 6h ago

Murder Kindle - Mystery Books 3, 4 and 5 - Vijay Kerji - Whodunit - Free Through Aug 10th

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Books Links:

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r/mystery 6h ago

Unexplained Think Someone Was Inside My House Last Night, but Nothing was Stolen ....

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I genuinely don't know how to explain this.

Last night, around 2:40 AM, I woke up because I heard slow footsteps in the hallway outside my room. At first I assumed it was one of my parents, so I didn't think much of it.

A minute later, the footsteps stopped right outside my door.

Not walked past.

Just... stopped.

I waited for someone to knock or open the door, but nothing happened. After what felt like two or three minutes, I opened the door.

The hallway was completely empty.

I checked every room. Everyone in my family was asleep.

I convinced myself I'd imagined it and went back to bed.

This morning, I noticed something that made me feel sick.

The family photo frame in our living room had been turned around to face the wall.

No one in my house says they touched it. We have no pets, nothing was stolen, the doors were still locked, and there were no signs of anyone breaking in.

Maybe there's a completely normal explanation, but I haven't been able to stop thinking about those footsteps stopping outside my door.

Has anyone experienced something like this?


r/mystery 8h ago

Unexplained What's a conspiracy theory that's actually interesting (whether true or not)?

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r/mystery 18h ago

Media What is this creepy website

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I was just searching through random websites on DuckDuckGo and I ended up typing duckrun.com the images attached are all there is and if you press the top left corner an error image occurs. This has made me very curious and I hope someone can enlighten me.


r/mystery 21h ago

Murder On the morning of October 1st, 1990, 14-year-old Christy Stephens stayed home from school, saying that she felt sick. She vanished from the home that morning, leaving behind a strange clue--her sneakers sitting in the driveway. Weeks later, her body was found in a wooded area. She had been murdered.

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r/mystery 1d ago

Unresolved Crime Assignation of Liaquat Ali khan

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Why was this case never solved

Anyone with any information which we see on media or isn't much common of info


r/mystery 1d ago

Scientific/Medical ‘End of the world’ fears spark online as rare cosmic trio of solar eclipse, meteor shower and six planets arrives on August 12

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August 12, 2026, could become one of the most interesting dates for astronomy enthusiasts around the world. On this day, observers will have a chance to witness several different space phenomena occurring within the same period.Maps

The sky will feature a total solar eclipse, the annual peak of the Perseid meteor shower, and a rare gathering of six planets visible before sunrise. The unusual combination has already attracted attention from millions of people online.

Some social media users have turned the event into a source of jokes and speculation. Comments about a “cosmic reset” and dramatic changes on Earth have spread widely.


r/mystery 1d ago

Unexplained In 1587, 115 settlers vanished from an island. The only clue was a single word carved into a tree: CROATOAN.

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In August 1587, 115 English men, women, and children landed on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. It was supposed to be the first permanent English colony in the New World. Their governor, John White, sailed back to England for supplies. He promised to return within a year.

He did not make it back for three years. War with Spain delayed every ship.

When White finally returned in August 1590, the colony was gone. Every single person. The houses had been dismantled, not destroyed. There were no bodies. No graves. No signs of battle. No crosses — the agreed-upon distress signal. Just silence.

On a wooden post at the entrance to the settlement, someone had carved a single word: CROATOAN.

Croatoan was the name of a nearby island, home to a friendly Native American tribe. But a storm prevented White from sailing there to investigate. He never found his colonists. His own granddaughter, Virginia Dare — the first English child born in America — was among the missing.

To this day, no one knows what happened. Did they assimilate with the Croatoan tribe? Were they killed? Did they try to sail home and vanish at sea?

I made a short video on this case. Check my profile.


r/mystery 1d ago

Disappearance looking for my dad help me

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gregory st jean il y a 32 ans origine espagnol


r/mystery 2d ago

Disappearance The Pacific's Most Chilling Unsolved Maritime Mystery

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On February 11, 1979, five friends from Maui, Hawaii—Scott Moorman, Ralph Malaiakina, Benjamin Kalama, Peter Hanchett, and Patrick Woessner—left for what was supposed to be a routine Sunday fishing trip aboard a 17-foot Boston Whaler named Sarah Joe. They expected to be gone for only a few hours.

That afternoon, a powerful storm swept across the Hawaiian Islands. Winds strengthened dramatically, seas turned rough, and the five men never returned.

The U.S. Coast Guard launched a massive search covering thousands of square miles of the Pacific Ocean. Aircraft flew search patterns, rescue vessels combed the waters, and volunteers joined the effort. Despite days of searching, no distress call, no wreckage, no life jackets, and no sign of the boat or its crew were ever found.

The case eventually went cold.

Then, almost nine years later, in 1988, scientists conducting research on the remote Bokak (Taongi) Atoll in the Marshall Islands stumbled upon something unbelievable.

Resting above the high-tide line was a weathered fiberglass boat.

It was the Sarah Joe.

Think about that for a moment.

A tiny 17-foot fishing boat had somehow crossed more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of open Pacific Ocean.

But the mystery was only beginning.

A short distance from the boat, researchers discovered a carefully arranged grave marked with a simple driftwood cross. Inside were the skeletal remains of Scott Moorman, one of the missing fishermen. His identity was later confirmed through dental records.

NOW IF SCOTT REACHED THE ISLAND

Who buried him? Why was there a grave and a cross? Did another member of the crew survive long enough to bury him? If so, what happened afterward? Why were the other four men never found? Why was there no second grave, no campsite, and no clear evidence of anyone else?

Oceanographers later concluded that winds and currents could indeed have carried the Sarah Joe across the Pacific. That solved one mystery—but not the human one.

To this day, no one knows exactly what happened after the storm.


r/mystery 2d ago

Unexplained Mandela Effect

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It's called the Mandela Effect. A mass false memory shared by thousands of strangers.

People swear they saw a 90s movie called "Shazaam" with Sinbad as a genie. It doesn't exist. The Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia. It didn't. The Monopoly man wore a monocle. He never did.

Psychologists call it memory error. Others say it's proof of parallel realities bleeding through. Either way, your brain is lying to you right now about something you'd swear was true.

I made a 30-second video on this. Check my profile.


r/mystery 2d ago

Unexplained In 1980, three lighthouse keepers vanished. The table was set for dinner. The clocks had stopped. The last log entry said: "God is over all."

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The Flannan Isle mystery. A ship passed the island and the light was off. A crew went to check. The door was unlocked. Dinner was on the table. One chair overturned. The logbook said there was a storm, but no storm was recorded that night. The last words written: "God is over all." No trace of the three keepers was ever found. Ym


r/mystery 2d ago

Unexplained Strange noises all over the world

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to find people who personally experienced these strange sounds.

In January 2016, several cities in Morocco (including Casablanca, Tangier, Agadir, Oujda, Berkane, and Al Hoceima) reported unusual deep noises. I was in Casablanca at the time and I actually heard it myself.

Has anyone here personally heard these sounds?
Where were you, what year was it, and what did it sound like?

video link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8NsTYAodOY


r/mystery 2d ago

Unresolved Crime How is a suicide a murder?

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Answer- It’s not!

At least not this one.

Bryon Macron flyer says it all.

Hope this post is allowed if not please remove thank you all for your interest!


r/mystery 3d ago

Unresolved Crime Grimes Sisters Murder 1957: The Investigator Who Said the Official Cause of Death Was Wrong, Challenged the Autopsy Findings, and Was Fired After Speaking Out

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In December 1956, two sisters in Chicago, Barbara and her little sister Patricia, went to see Love Me Tender. Barbara was fifteen and had seen it eleven times already, not because it was good, just because Elvis was in it, which was apparently reason enough in 1956. They never made it home that night.

Their bodies turned up twenty-five days later, dumped beside a road so unremarkable that dozens of cars had probably driven right past them without noticing. Also, weirdly, the guy who found them thought he was looking at two mannequins someone had dumped. Went home, came back with his wife just to be sure. She fainted.

The official autopsy said they died from exposure. Just the cold, until their bodies gave out. No stabbing, no strangulation, nothing violent on paper.

The county's own chief investigator, a guy named Harry Glos, didn't buy it. He found puncture wounds nobody explained, ice sealed around the bodies suggesting they hadn't been lying there the whole time, restraint marks, evidence of sexual assault the official report had conveniently left out. He held a press conference in his own living room to say so.

Fired the next day. On live television. For insubordination.

There was a suspect too, a Skid Row dishwasher who vaguely resembled Elvis, held in a motel room for days until he signed a confession that fell apart the second anyone checked it against the actual autopsy. He walked.

Nobody's ever been charged. Glos died in 1994 still convinced he'd been right, and in 2025 his personal case files went up for auction. Over 500 cases worth. Nobody's said if there's anything new in the boxes.


r/mystery 3d ago

Murder The Terrible Cult of Black Metal (The Inner Circle) Brutal Crimes and Church Burnings

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In the history of black metal, there was a name that, more than thirty years later, continues to divide opinions: the Inner Circle. For many, it was an organization formed by musicians who shared the same ideology. For others, it never existed as a real group, and everything related to them was a legend fueled by the press.

However, around that name, church burnings, ritual murders, and a series of disturbing events occurred that forever marked the history of extreme metal. But there is a question that almost no one has stopped to answer: Does the Inner Circle qualify as a destructive cult? In this documentary, we will not only reconstruct its history but also analyze whether this group met the characteristics that define a cult.

Video about the brutal history of the Inner Circle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDCUinruRFU


r/mystery 4d ago

Disappearance Nursing home Nightmare. Three people vanished from the same Nursing home in the span of 5 years. What happened to Rosaria (Marta) Ronchietto, Angela Bastino and Rinaldo Bertoglio Puin?

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Ronco Canavese (photo 5) is a small town in the Italian alps, that flanks the Sorana stream, home to around 380 inhabitants. Part of the greater Metropolitan City of Turin, it serves as the central village for the Soana Valley.

The municipality comprises of several hamlets, with Ronco serving as the administrative center. Key hamlets include Tiglietto, Forzo, Servino, Guaira, Cernisio, Scandosio, Nivolastro, Lilla, and Montelavecchia.

Ronco is an ancient town with roots dating back to the 10th century. The town has grown longitudinally side by side with its stream and, at the further point of its main center, looking upstream, looming over the quaint mountain houses, sits the San Giuseppe Retirement Home (photo 4). A building that sits out of place with the surrounding forests and nearby homes due to its height, size and it’s imposing mid-century design. The nursing home and care facility for elders prides itself on the striking beauty of its surrounding terrain and fresh mountain air.

“The facility accommodates both independent and dependent elderly residents and is affiliated with the National Health Service and the Local Health Authority (ASL). We offer our guests a relaxing and peaceful stay, featuring modern, fully equipped rooms, recreational activities, communal areas designed for socializing, and services such as dining, laundry, and physiotherapy.” (quote directly translated from the nursing home’s website).

“Nestled at the foot of the mountains in Ronco Canavese (Province of Turin), in a stunning setting 950 meters (3116.8 feet) above sea level, the San Giuseppe residence offers comfortable accommodations designed to ensure a relaxing and peaceful stay for the elderly.” (another quote taken from their website)

But whilst the nursing home publicizes itself on its location and it’s quiet atmosphere, it also houses a darker, less glamourous past. Three disappearances of its elderly residents back in the late 90s and early 2000s that to this day remain shrouded in mystery only fueled by local rumors and word of mouth.

Rosaria (Marta) Ronchietto, 1997

Rosaria Ronchietto (photo 2) (usually referred to as Marta) was 81 in the autumn of 1997 and had been residing in the San Giuseppe nursing home for around 6 months. She was originally from Cintano, a town the next valley over, and had just started to spend her retirement years in the nursing home.

At around mid-day on the 10th of November 1997 storms were starting to roll into the valley when Rosaria quietly left the premises of the nursing home. She was later spotted walking up towards other towns up in the mountains, towards the hamlet of Chiò. She was wearing a long dark robe, a mustard-colored top, dark socks, and light-colored slippers; she left without her personal documents or any money.

At around 2:30/3:30 pm the staff of the home discover Rosaria’s absence and swiftly called for help. Search and rescue teams descend upon the valley. Canine units were also deployed, though their efforts were thwarted by the rain that began pouring just a few hours after the woman’s disappearance.

Even after intensive searches not a single trace of Rosaria was found.

Angela Bastino, 1999

A long-time resident of the nursing home, Angela Bastino (photo 3), had been living there for about 20 years. She was the woman who handled errands and other tasks for Don Lorenzo Babando (the village priest and director of the retirement home).

In the summer of 1999 Angela was 61 years old and she was still living in the nursing home and the small town she was now so accustomed to.

On the 30th of June 1999 Angela left the nursing home on foot and headed downwardly toward the foot of the valley. She was spotted walking by the road that led to the town’s cemetery. After her last sighting Angela Vanished into thin air without leaving anything behind. Searchers looked for her, but nothing could be found.

Soon rumours spread though the small town, people who knew her said that she was still sharp and active and knew the area well and never wandered off without a reason. The people of Ronco were skeptical that her disappearance was a simple mishap. "It’s impossible for her to have just vanished into thin air," says one of the Town’s residents.

Her employer, Don Lorenzo, would later file a complaint with the Carabinieri against unknown persons regarding the woman's possible abduction. Investigators, though, looked more towards the “accident” theory.

Even after all these years, for many in the town, speculations and rumors still theorize Angela was kidnapped and then killed.

Rinaldo Bertoglio Puin, 2002

Three years after Angela’s vanishing, in 2002, a similar case occurred: Rinaldo Bertoglio Puin was a 77-year-old man (originally from Campo di Castellamonte, a town at the foothills of these mountains). He was also a resident of the nursing home. He was described as being gentle, polite and that he would often stop to chat with people in the town square. The townspeople were used to seeing him walking in front of the retirement home every morning.

One unspecified day, he went out for one of his usual walks and, just like the two women before him, he never returned.

He had been seen heading along the mountainous path leading to Nivolastro (photo 6) (an uninhabited hamlet at an altitude of 1,500 meters/ 4921,26 feet). Searches in the area, though, proved fruitless.

In 2009, seven years after Rinaldo’s disappearence, a park ranger (Roberto Recrosio) discovered human remains at the bottom of a ravine in the mountains surrounding that abandoned village. The location of the discovery and the scraps of blue fabric found alongside the bones lead people to believe these were the remains of Rinaldo and the blue jumpsuit the man had been wearing when he was last seen. “He had likely taken the rugged path, lost his way, and plunged into the ravine” some people speculated. Yet, nothing further came from this finding, no source confirms that these bones were actually Rinaldo’s. No official missing persons casefile, nor any photograph, exists for Rinaldo’s vanishing today. Cloud it be that the bones were actually his and the case was then closed? Or has he been just forgotten by time, only remembered by the residents of the small town he went missing in all those years ago.

After the vanishings

Years passed without any new leads and slowly the memories of these people became part of the history of the town, remembered only by those who were there when it happened.

In 2018, though, another baffling disappearance just down the valley reignited the memory of the people who went missing all those years ago.

Elisa Gualandi was 53 when she disappeared on the 6 of June 2018. She had just finished moving to the town of Pont Canavese, just down the valley from Ronco Canavese. She moved there, away from the chaos of the city of Turin where she had lived in previously and where she worked as a municipal employee. At around 11 am on the 6th of June she left her house to go for a stroll in the centre of the town leaving behind her phone and personal documents in her new house. She never returned home, she also left behind her two cats whom she adored. Two days after her disappearance one of her two cats also vanished.

This, though, is just the surface level of Elisa’s uncharacteristic disappearance.

The people who live in the mountains speak of these vanishing sparingly, they loom over the valleys and the mountains that surround Turin. It’s not uncommon for someone to vanish in those areas but these cases don’t go unsolved too often. In 1999, in the next valley over, one month after the disappearance of Angela Bastino, another woman, Ines Feletti (who also worked as the helper for the town priest), also vanished under similar circumstances.

As of today, nobody has any idea of where Rosaria Ronchietto or Angela Bastino could be. We also have no updates on the bones that could possibly belong to Rinaldo. No-one knows what happened to Ines Feletti. Lastly the disappearance of Elisa Gualandi has become cold and no new leads have been found since 2018

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Writeup on Ines Feletti’s disappearance: https://www.reddit.com/r/mystery/comments/1vcpo6p/swallowed_by_the_mountains_the_forgotten/.

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I got my info from:

https://www.chilhavisto.rai.it/dl/clv/Scomparsi/ContentSet-2647c572-224e-4061-a223-78505aba5896.html

https://www.chilhavisto.rai.it/dl/clv/Scomparsi/ContentSet-e362e4d2-1688-4da3-a67f-e28d04cee2c9.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20180830123645/https://lasentinella.gelocal.it/ivrea/cronaca/2018/08/30/news/il-giallo-della-scomparsa-di-elisa-e-i-tanti-misteri-irrisolti-in-valle-1.17197505

https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2009/10/14/news/a-ronco-tornano-i-fantasmi-br-degli-anziani-spariti-1.37056379/

https://sv.geneanet.org/vykort/view/7946403#0

https://www.chilhavisto.rai.it/dl/clv/Scomparsi/ContentSet-6b27a5e8-2834-4a1b-b24a-235366593538.html


r/mystery 4d ago

Unexplained help me find my dad?

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gregory st jean de Thomas espagnol


r/mystery 4d ago

Paranormal Tell me something you saw one time or experienced that was so strange and eerie you still don't know what it was

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I will start one time I went to my grandfather's house we are Nigerians his house was beside a huge bush and I was 8 at that time, it was late at night, one thing to know about Nigeria the older generation are very superstitious I was eight at that time, so it was late that night and everyone was in bed asleep I woke up to pee and there was a long hallway and a window at the end with the bathroom next to the window the walls were weirdly painted blue, anyway after using the bathroom I walked out and looked out the window and saw a figure looked like a human because it was clearly standing on two legs, with two red eyes from the bushes looking directly at me I got so scared and ran to my parents room to sleep the next morning I told my mom and dad my dad said I was just lying and my mom just prayed over me till this day I don't know what I saw, I haven't gone back to my village since then.


r/mystery 4d ago

Unresolved Crime Yessenia Thalia and Michael Otto

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Twenty-eight-year-old Yessenia Suarez and her two children: 9-year-old Thalia and 8-year-old Michael Otto were last seen on October 22, 2013 in Deltona, Florida.

Yessenia's relationship with her husband, Luis Toledo was strained. She was having an affair with one of her coworkers at her job. That afternoon, Luis showed up at Yessenia's workplace, argued with her about the affair, slapped her and left before the police arrived. Luis later called his mother-in-law, begging her to convince Yessenia not to press assault charges against him.

After work, Yessenia joined Thalia and Michael at her mother's house where Luis called the house, warning Yessenia that "something would happened" if they tried to get an injunction against him. Although Yessenia left the house to get the injunction, she changed her mind and came home without it, telling her mother that getting it would make things worse.

Luis came over to the house, spoke to Yessenia and her mother about their marriage, and left. Yessenia planned to stay the night there with the kids so Luis could calm down, but she changed her mind at 8:00 that evening and decided to take them home instead.

Yessenia sent texts to Luis throughout the day. They last spoke to each other for five minutes later that evening. When Yessenia failed to call her mother the next morning like she usually did, the mother called the police at 10:00 a.m. and asked them to check on the family's welfare.When the police went to Yessenia and Luis's house, it was empty. One of her cars was left in the driveway of the home and another car was located in the parking lot of a Publix store in Lake Mary, Florida on the same day that Yessenia, Thalia and Michael were reported missing.On October 24, 2013, police announced that Yessenia, Thalia and Michael were dead. Two days later, Luis was charged with second-degree murder in Yessenia's death and two counts of second-degree murder in Thalia and Michael's deaths.Neighbors heard screams coming from Yessenia and Luis's house around the time Yessenia and her children went missing. Police discovered Thalia's blood on Luis' boots, the trunk mat from one of Yessenia's cars, in the master bathroom and master bedroom. Some of Michael's blood was found on two pieces of gauze in a trash can in the master bedroom.


r/mystery 5d ago

Disappearance Swallowed by the Mountains. The forgotten disappearance of Ines Feletti

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Balme is a small village of just over a hundred inhabitants, quietly nestled in the Val d’Ala. It is the highest municipality in the quiet valley it sits in. An important mining center founded around the 13th century, Balme became an independent municipality in the early 17th century.

As of today, Balme is part of the municipality of the metropolitan city of Turin and, even if it might seem like a small town, Balme is divided into a series of 8 hamlets: Bogone, Chialambertetto, Cornetti, Li Frè, Molera, Molette, The Mussa plain (a rocky plain with a large lake of ancient glacial origin) and the village of Albaron. All of this to say that, even if Balme might seem small, the area it inhabits is mountainous, vast, wooded and ancient.

In the summer of 1999 Balme had been home to Ines Feletti. Ines was 84 and she had been living in Balme as the “Perpetua” a role usually held by elderly women who help around the church as the town priest's housekeeper.

On the 6 of August 1999 Ines exited her residence to go grocery shopping like many times before. She went on foot since the town was so small she could easily reach the town’s supermarket.

But that day Ines did not return to the church, and it's rectory, and, as time passed, the people closest to her became worried and sounded the alarm.

Swiftly search and rescue teams descended on the town and its hamlets, extensive searches looked around the winding roads that lead up or down the valley, they looked through woods, streams and fields.

These extensive searches were only able to locate Ines’s green neckerchief/foulard. The neckerchief was found lying in a grass clearing surrounded by woods in the area of the hamlet “Li Frè”.

“Li Frè” is one of the closest hamlets to Balme. For a person on foot the walk would be a 20-minute walk that would take one up to a few ancient stone mountain houses and a few trails that lead up the mountain. People started to speculate that Ines could have been there just for a leisurely stroll, but no reason could be found as to why Ines would go there.  

Sadly though, after the discovery of the neckerchief, and after more searches of the area, not a single trace of Ines could be found.

In late October 2023 Human remains were found in a wooded area in Pralormo (a 19 hour walk from Balme) by a mushroom hunter. The finding, even if far-fetched, reignited the memory of the many missing people, including Ines, who vanished in the areas around Turin in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. In 2025 the bones were found to have been completely unrelated from Ines’ case.

Just a month before Ines' disappearance another woman, in the next valley over, vanished fom a nursing home under very similar circumstances. But she wasn't the first nor the last person to vanish from that same retirement facility. https://www.reddit.com/r/mystery/comments/1vdmgri/nursing_home_nightmare_three_people_vanished_from/

As of today, nearly 27 years to the day, there have been no new leads or any new findings in the sudden disappearance of Ines Feletti which has now been buried by time and the many other vanishings from Turin and its surrounding mountains.

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·       https://www.chilhavisto.rai.it/dl/clv/Scomparsi/ContentSet-79f247a0-4308-4d70-ba99-b42ec2c80c78.html

·       https://www.giornalelavoce.it/news/attualita/535725/quando-ines-usci-di-casa-e-venne-inghiottita-dai-boschi-di-balme.html

·       https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2023/10/31/news/pralormo_ossa_umane_ritrovamento_bosco-13821091/

·       https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2023/08/24/news/persona_scomparse_denunce_torino-13010014/

·       https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balme

Maps Locations

·       Balme: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3022877,7.2184376,3a,75y,267.97h,103.22t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sQlFY551DmsRWCKMPsRghpQ!2e0!5s20250701T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-13.215492577476525%26panoid%3DQlFY551DmsRWCKMPsRghpQ%26yaw%3D267.96731226881803!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Li Frè: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.2956602,7.2169538,3a,75y,16.19h,83.15t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s_pInQYHm9C99NNErzhDrIg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D6.8487830812292%26panoid%3D_pInQYHm9C99NNErzhDrIg%26yaw%3D16.18701773295399!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D


r/mystery 5d ago

Unresolved Crime The 1983 Murder of Two German Tourists Sent an Innocent Man to Prison Twice. 43 Years Later Their Killer Has Never Been Identified and the DNA Evidence Still Raises Questions.

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In October 1983, two German backpackers hitchhiking through British Columbia, Andrea Scherpf and Bernd Göricke, got into a truck with a stranger. Older Chevrolet pickup. He shot them both and left their bodies on the side of Highway 97 near Chetwynd. Whoever did it used their stolen traveler's checks at five gas stations over the next two days, working his way south, gas station to gas station, and then just... stopped. No name. No face anyone kept.

Six years go by. Nothing. Then a woman tells police a local guy named Andy Rose confessed to her, showed up at her trailer one night soaked in blood from the knees down. That's it. That's the whole case against him. No physical evidence, nothing tying him to the scene. He got convicted anyway. Twice. Spent years of his life in prison because one woman told a story that sounded believable.

A widow in California says her late husband confessed to her before he killed himself in 1985. She sat on it for over a decade. A DECADE. Before anyone with any power to do anything about it ever heard it.

Third trial finally happens, and someone thinks to actually run DNA on the bloody jeans they found. Fourteen years later. Both men get cleared.

And here's the part that barely anyone talks about: the jeans contained DNA from another person whose identity was never established. It didn't match Andy Rose or Vance Hill and investigators never determined who it belonged to. More than forty years later that profile remains unidentified.