Has anyone on this board had Unsolved Mysteries do a segment about something in your area? (Disappearances,Homicides,UFOs,Ghosts,etc)
Could you share your story with us?

Yeah I can think of 4 off hand at the moment.

Dick Hanson, the guy who was mudred in front of his date in April of 1991. His date had a guy who she did not recognize follower on the freeway. He exited when they did and when Dick confronted the stalker, he motioned to the license plate, got Dick angry, than shot him. The stalking began in downtown San Jose and ended with the shooting in Sunnyvale.

The woman who moved from Maryland to a job in SJ in 1992, seeing one her cats run away on the long drive over. She had a pictre of the cat at her workplace that she would often look at and before long, the cat showed up right there.

Matt Flores. He worked at a place in Santa Clara and was gunned down in the parking lot in March of 1994. I recall hearing about it in the local paper shortly after the UM broadcast.

A woman who was reunited with a relative in around the end of 1996. The person she sought lived in the same town as me.

I grew up near Okanagan Lake in Canada. Here is a link for anybody not familiar with this creature. I think he's friendly. He must be because according to my uncle his boat broke down in the 60's and the Ogopogo towed him in. I'm scepticle myself.
http://members.axion.net/~a1b00267/ultranet/Ogopogo.htm

The Brook Baker case happened very near where I live. I don't really have any additional info about it I can share because I don't know anything. They did cover it extensively on our local news. Of course the man responsible has already been convicted and sentenced.

Also not really too significant but did happen nearby was the story about the cop who pulled over a guy and he was shot and killed. The cop was able to give a description of the vehicle before he died. The car was eventually found in a town very near me called Effingham (I remember because RS pronounced it wrong) and although it had been burned they were able to match it because of the bullet holes in the door when the cop had shot back in self defense.

Hey MetalHybrid, I'm about 15 miles north of you! We've actually had ALOT of UM stories filmed here in the Bay Area. Besides the 4 you mentioned:

1) Gus Hoffmann - motorcyclist possibly killed by Hell's Angels in San Jose
2) Gretchen Burford - kidnapped and killed at ATM in Palo Alto
3) Gilbert Ortiz - Poisoned by wife at Toys R Us in Redwood City
4) The Arsonist Video "Look Omar" originated in Redwood City
5) The Two Swedish hitchhikers last seen alive in Redwood City
6) The Blue Lady - Ghost in Half Moon Bay
7) The Zodiac Killer of San Francisco and Vallejo
8) Kurt McFall - pushed or fell from Land's End in SF
9) The Maples were last seen with Bobby & Kristy Baskin in Santa Clara
10) Kevin Poulson - computer hacker in Silicon Valley
11) Jackie Dragon of Daly City searched for sisters born to jail-bird mom
12) The Ghost Blimp landed in Daly City
13) Arthur Karopoulos searchs for missing son taken by ex-wife in SF
14) I can't remember the names but there was a man accused of foul play in the disappearance of his wife who lived in Menlo Park (newer episode)

going across the bay and further north:

Vallejo: Rapper Latham Williams' son kidnapped
Brinks Armoured car robbery where 3 guards killed
Special Alert Pizza Robberies
Oakland: 3 generations of Santos family killed by rare disease
Police officer Jim Fontes searches for his missing sons
Hayward: Michaela Garecht (not to mention all the other young girls kidnapped in the area, possible taken by Timothy Brown)
Walnut Creek: Lester Garnier - off-duty cop killed in his Corvette
Emeryville: Motorcyclist Michael Hunter shot and killed for no reason

I'm sure there's more, but you all must be bored stiff by now.
I think I need to get a life... :crazy:

Wow, mortytbusybody. Lot's of things happened in your area.

You ever call the hotline and help solve a mystery? ;)

we had 2 local cases that were profiled.
One was about Judge Fairbanks,A local judge who swindled people .He fled the area and UM did a story about him.He committed sucide in Las Vegas when he recognized a cop from our area that was In Las Vegas attending a conference.Apparently,Fairbanks thought authorites were closing in on him and committed sucide .
The other story is really interesting.A series of unsolved murders in the 80's that were very similar lead police to think that serial killer was in the area.UM did a story about it and a book was later written about the case ("The Shadow Of Death' by Phillip E Ginsburg).The case still remains an Unsolved Mystery

"The Boys on the Tracks" happened in my town.

What is the consensus on who killed the boys on the tracks in your town?

Most people think they stumbled upon or sought out some local drug dealers and were killed. They don't believe the whole "conspiracy" that was in the media and on UM.

Decided to bump, since I thought it was a pretty cool thread.

The Tracy Kirkpatrick murder happened in my town, and a the lost love segment "Fritz And The Soldiers" sort of occured in my town-Fritz was reunited with one of the soldiers that was living here. And my family has several ties to Frank Olsen's family, as he lived and worked here, although his death occured on a trip in New York.

I've had a couple...first off I always seem to catch every red light in town as well as how cops always seem to be around when I decide to speed.

Other than that, my friends and I were outside of my house one time at night this past October when we saw this flash in the night sky. We looked up and saw what looked like a fireball-shaped golden glow go accross the sky and then dissappear. It caught us off-guard and when I researched it a bit more, things such as this were being seen all accross the California coast at the time within the past week or so. Still don't know what it was but it didn't look like a meteorite and was too big to be a falling star.

My hometown, Petaluma, California, is (was) host to one of the most haunted places in the world, Haystack Landing. Just look it up online and see the creepy history. There was even a movie made.

I used to live close to where the Bordello Murders happened, and yes, I believe the madame 110%. The cop did it.

I do have my own personal ghost story.

But I'll save that for another time.

The Michael Rosenblum case happened in Pittsburgh. And the one with the plant employee from Bradford, PA was also not far away. Oh, and I think Manny Marino was captured here too.:D

The Kari Lynn Nixon abduction and murder happened about 30 minutes from me, and the Lee Carter, Jr. car bomb murder happened about two miles from where I now live. I remember when that happened...it was pretty f'd up. My mother was actually pretty good friends with him. Also...I seem to remember a ghost story from a segment that happened about an hour's drive from here...but I remember absolutely no specifics. I think there may have been another...but I can't remember.

I do have my own personal ghost story.

But I'll save that for another time.

Aw, come on man! Now I'm curious about it.

Yeah! What Hambone said!

C'mon, cough it up Mysterio! ;)

Ok.

When i was in college, I was out at night drinking (hence the possible rational explanation). It was late and I decided to stay at a friends house that he was watching for the summer.

It was a nice, fairly modern house in a wooded enclave. Nothing creepy or out of the ordinary. So I slept pretty normally on a bed.

That night, I had the most graphic and frightening dream I have ever had. I've never had a dreams before or after. It was that i was running in this subway station and this evil person with an angry face and coal black eyes was trying to stab me with a knife. Occasionally he would and I would feel a sharp pain. Everywhere I ran or did that man was there.

I didn;t wake up right away but gradually came awake.

I didn;t tell anyone about the dream when we went for breakfast. But I overheard my friend talking about his time in the house and he started telling about these bad dreams he would have. How he was glad to be gone from the house because he always heard sounds in the house. He told about bizarre experience about being alone and objects appearing where they shouldn't.

During this conversation I never once mentioned my dream nor did I even ask any questions about my friends experience.

Arguments in favor of a ghostly experience.
1. I had never been in the house before, nor had I heard the story or told anybody about the dream. It was a hell of a coincidence.

2. Even though I was drinking, I was never really drunk. (believe me I know when I'm sloshed. :D )

3. I've never had a dream like that for. That descriptive and that real.

Cons
1. I had been drinking, so maybe the alcohol affected the dream a little. I was drinking Sangria at the time, if that matters. Also at pizza before.

2. The night we left was Halloween and we had gone to a haunted house. The problem there was that the haunted house wasn;t really scary and nothing in the house was analogous to my dream.

3. I really didn;t see an apparition, so it really wasn;t a ghost per say.

Now, I could probably rationalize that too much sangria, a little slice of pizza and a whole lot of coincidence lead to what was just a bad dream.

But still.... It;s one of those things were you have to experience.:(

I can swear that the Todd Kelly segment was filmed near my friend's town.