I thought this might make an interesting thread:

As we all know - Unsolved Mysteries is a very serious show that deals with some pretty serious issues. But at times there are little moments of comic relief the one that comes to mind is during the segment dealing with I believe ghosts as "The Comedy Store" in Los Angeles at the end of the segment when Robert Stack is giving his closing monologue a chair starts moving around behind him. Stack then turns around and looks at it and almost gives a wink and a grin as the segment fades out.

Can anyone think of any others?

Later.

Hmmm...good topic. I can't think of anything off the top of my head. However, a couple of us did have a discussion a while back about how we love the cheeky mysterious-yet-comical background music that they use during these segments. They used it in the Comedy Store segment as well as the segment where the couple finds money that fell from the sky into their backyard. It's just a few simple piano chords..da-ding da-ding-ding....

The ONLY comic relief I can think of was during that 'Exploding Church's Choir Miraculously Saved Through Everyone Being Late' episode.
Long-short is that the choir director expected every single member to show up for practice ontime- no excuses and every other time everyone did but this one time when they would have been practicing every single person (including the director herself) was late via stupid mishaps and misunderstandings. Exactly when the church explosion itself was depicted (and could be heard all over town)- a toddler being cared for by one of the choir members was depicted as saying 'Uh-OH!' like she herself had made a mess! That's about the ONLY deliberately humorous thing they put in a story!

The lighthearted segment where a kid threw the bottle into a lake and it apparently ended up in the San Diego area had some humorous aspects. They showed a map depicting the bottle's possible meandering course from the New York area throughout the world before beaching in California, but then the expert said something like, "Frankly, I think it went there in somebody's pocket." The couple who responded to the boy's note in the bottle displayed a good sense of humor, referring to a song tune and adding, "Where the heck is Ovid?"

I dont want to offend any Trekkies or alien fans out there but whenever they show sketches of aliens people have "seen" I cant stay serious. They always look like Sleestacks from Land of the Lost. :D