Thought this would make a cool thread - Lets all participate - I'll start us off

1) You rent "Spring Break" just to catch Tammy Leppert's scene

keep it rolling...

...you follow the guy in the supermarket because he looks just like the composite sketch of the Chicago rapist shown on an old episode...and you live in Boston!!

jeeps

After trying to call your friend, you call the Unsolved Mysteries "Telecenter" and ask if they know any more details of thier location...

You hate horror movies but sit through the beginning scene of "Jeepers Creepers" just to see how similar it is to the Marilyn DePue story. :)

Everytime you call someone and they answer, you have to force yourself NOT to say, "Judy Himes is alive... and she lives in Omaha... Judy Himes is alive... and she lives in Omaha..."

...when you watch Cold Case Files, AMW, and all those other reality mystery shows, but lament that UM did it better.

You hate horror movies but sit through the beginning scene of "Jeepers Creepers" just to see how similar it is to the Marilyn DePue story. :)

LOL!!!! :lol: :rotflmao: I just did that 2 weeks ago.

But back to the topic - you consider visiting the actual location of a mystery featured. (Or considering taking a $500 bet to go to the Blind River Rest stop.) ;)

You truly support law enforcement agencies, and truly understand the importance of bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists.

1. Look for the Lost Dutchman or Babe Noss Mines in New York state.
2. See if you're an inheritant to any of the "Lost Heirs" segments.
3. See if you're related to any of the "Lost Loves" people.
4. When riding something as unexciting as a ferry, you expect a bearded man wearing coveralls to be standing beside you on the steps.
5. You're afraid of bringing a bunk bed into your house.
6. You're afraid of seeing a man, with a mustache, on one of your photos that you get developed.

You go around with the deepest voice saying "WWHHOOOOO AND WHHYYYYYY??"

...can recite the opening disclaimer by heart.

....you go around the house humming or whistling the opening theme, or the 'coming up next' theme, or any of the cues that you particularly like.

...you compare its theme songs/background tracks to the keyboard playing of various symphonic death metal and black metal bands(great way to describe the music to those who've never heard it, and spark some interest), and if you compare UM's footage of forest scenes with certain metal bands' album artwork.

...when you watch Cold Case Files, AMW, and all those other reality mystery shows, but lament that UM did it better.

Oh heck yes!!!!

One more...

...you watch shows like Cold Case, Law & Order, etc. and think to yourself (or better yet, tell someone), "Hey, I know that case. It was profiled on UM!"...

Thought this would make a cool thread - Lets all participate - I'll start us off

1) You rent "Spring Break" just to catch Tammy Leppert's scene

keep it rolling...

if the Cokeville School Bombing and Resurrection Mary are your favorite stories....

You own a trenchcoat just to look like Robert Stack. :)

-Makoto_4

You have seen each case profiled on the show at least once, some way more than that. ;)

Your small children can recite the beginning disclaimer by memory. :lol:

Your small children can recite the beginning disclaimer by memory. :lol:

:lol: :lol:

if the theme music is in your MP3 collection and you find yourself listening to it often...

Lol, I was just thinking about bumping this up...one of my favorite threads ever!

If the ringtone on your cellphone is the UM theme.

You know you are a UM fan if:

You downloaded the UM theme song of the Net and burnt it on CD and listen to it in your car while delivering pizzas.

You like to quote RS as saying, "Perhaps it's you" at parties

On halloween you dress up as the 'Zodiac Killer' one year

You head to the Post Office to send out a Money Order for one of the Box Sets when your rent is due.

You say "look at it burn Omar" every time you light the barbecue.

If you recognize the name Tony Ballesteros

If you recognize the name Tony Ballesteros

HA! HA! That name is from the David Stone segment, Tony's business card was found in the desert, so I must be a fan :lol: :lol:

If when a friend asks you "what's that number again?" you tell them "1-800-876-5353" and smile when they fall for it.

"You make favorites tapes of all the segments you either taped or have on DVD"

You've taught your children the phrase "Judy Himes is alive and she lives in Omaha." :)

you've never heard a certain actor until someone mentions Larry Dickens,you say oh that guy!

you were a pall bearer(and requested the theme song to be played) at robert stacks funeral.

If you call people kooks.

If you call people kooks.

:rofl: That's a good one.

:rofl: That's a good one.

:D

...if you stuck around thru the final commercial break just so you
could hear Robert Stack say "join me next time, you may be able to help solve a mystery" like he did every friggin' week!

..when you want your friends/significant other to come with you to do something, and you implore them to, "Join me."

...if you need not give your name....

You meet Matthew McConaughey and tell him "I love your work...in the Donald Webb segment!"

Edward Howard Bell, not Donald Webb. ;)

Speaking of Matthew McConaughay:

If you watch interviews with him just in hopes of someone asking about his scene in UM.

If "you know what I'm saying" has become part of your vocabulary.
If you tune in to Lifetime when UM used to be on....just hoping it will inexplicably find its way back on the schedule.
If you stopped using ATMs at night (after watching the Matthew Chase segment).

Speaking of Matthew McConaughay:

If you watch interviews with him just in hopes of someone asking about his scene in UM.

OK, I'm sure this certifies me, but who the heck is that guy? I've seen the name for years here and pretended to go along with the gag. I take it he was in a UM segment then became a prominent actor.

If someone put a gun to my head and told me to identify the UM segment or describe him or name any movie/TV show he has done, well I would move my head.:lol:

OK, I'm sure this certifies me, but who the heck is that guy? I've seen the name for years here and pretended to go along with the gag. I take it he was in a UM segment then became a prominent actor.

If someone put a gun to my head and told me to identify the UM segment or describe him or name any movie/TV show he has done, well I would move my head.:lol:

Well you've apparently been living under a rock the last 10 years so I'll enlighten you. Yes he is a famous actor and has been in a lot of well known movies. Here's a picture:

http://www.celebopedia.com/matthew-mcconaughey/images/matthew-mcconaughey.jpg

Maybe that will jog your memory. He played Larry Dickens on the Harold Eugene Bell segment apparently before he was "discovered". I actually thought his acting job in the UM segment was terrible and no doubt he would rather forget that UM gave him his start. :lol:

In case you don't remember the Dickens segment. Bell was out in the road near where children were playing exposing himself and Larry Dickens confronted him and tried to stop him. Bell took a gun out of his truck and proceeded to shoot him several times while his mother watched in horror. Unfortunately Dickens died at the scene but thankfully Bell was eventually apprehended.

OK, I'm sure this certifies me, but who the heck is that guy? I've seen the name for years here and pretended to go along with the gag. I take it he was in a UM segment then became a prominent actor.

If someone put a gun to my head and told me to identify the UM segment or describe him or name any movie/TV show he has done, well I would move my head.:lol:

Ummm...where have you been for the last 13 years? ;) Matthew was declared the "Sexiest Man Alive" this year by People magazine. His first big breakout role was in "A Time to Kill" with Samuel L. Jackson. He also achieved cult hero status for his scene-stealing role as "Wooderson" in "Dazed and Confused." Matthew is also a proud Texas alum (as am I. Go Horns!! :) ) and was once arrested while playing the bongo drums naked and high at his Austin home.

ETA: Looks like you got to it just before me, Crystaldawn!

If you miss your daily Unsolved Mysteries fix and think Lifetime is out of its damn mind taking it off the air!!!!!

Ummm...where have you been for the last 13 years? ;) Matthew was declared the "Sexiest Man Alive" this year by People magazine. His first big breakout role was in "A Time to Kill" with Samuel L. Jackson. He also achieved cult hero status for his scene-stealing role as "Wooderson" in "Dazed and Confused." Matthew is also a proud Texas alum (as am I. Go Horns!! :) ) and was once arrested while playing the bongo drums naked and high at his Austin home.

ETA: Looks like you got to it just before me, Crystaldawn!

Come on, you guys are making this up. Not only didn't I recognize the picture from crystaldawn's post, I've never heard of those so-called movies. Samuel L. Jackson is a name I know. He plays on the celebrity golf circuit. :lol:

Of course, I've been to perhaps 5 movies since Forrest Gump. Sorry, but Hollywood completely lost me when they defaulted to asinine action movies with no threat of competent plot or dialogue. Having something blow up in every quadrant of the screen for two or three hours is not talent, or even mildly interesting.

Correction, now that I think about it actually I have been to a few more movies than that, one per night on an Alaskan cruise in May 2005. They were the only price I would consider: free. And it confirmed my handicapping of the current caliber. Five of them were worthless action movies and only one was thoughtful and impressive and not based on absurd crashes and burns, called The Notebook with James Garner.

Absolutely I remember that scene from UM. The actor was ridiculously frantic and overdid everything, but maybe that's the way it happened in real life. Besides, he had a cheerleader huddled over him in his final moments, even if it was his own sister.

But thanks for the details, nohwheregirl. I rooted for your Horns yesterday. They seem to fare better when I pull against them, like last January against my alma mater, USC. No, that doesn't still smart. SiberianKiss is a big USC fan also.

BTW, crystaldawn suggested I change my avatar, tired of looking at the orange backside, so I complied. :D

BTW, crystaldawn suggested I change my avatar, tired of looking at the orange backside, so I complied. :D

How did you get that picture - they promised me when I posed for it that it would never be published! :lol:

How did you get that picture - they promised me when I posed for it that it would never be published! :lol:

Now I'm genuinely confused. I've used this avatar elsewhere and one poster on a sports message board insisted it was her.

Well, if there's ongoing dispute I can always substitute another USC avatar, one focused on the other side, believe it or not. A blonde in a white USC sweater. Her best letters are the U and the C. :D

- For the rest of your life you will pronounce the word as "CO-WEEYIN-SAH-DEEYINCE"...


- You have any idea who the hell Keeley Shaye Smith is...


- You get physically ill if you catch an episode without hearing, "UPDATE"...


- You can name at least 3 segments from 3 different episodes that used the cut away to Robert Stack where he's wearing the same wardrobe...

-You say "I'm Michael Jordan. I used to play basketball for the Chicago Bulls."

You read this message board obsessively instead of studying for your preliminary Ph.D. in English exam, which is next week.

You read this message board obsessively instead of studying for your Remedies class, in which the assignment is due in less than 12 hours.... :blush:

^ Tell em you were held captive in Samuel L. Jackson's house and were unable to complete the assignment.

- You get physically ill if you catch an episode without hearing, "UPDATE"...

Or, you bring your right arm in with a fist to your chest and yell "YES!" when you do see an UPDATE......

^ Tell em you were held captive in Samuel L. Jackson's house and were unable to complete the assignment.

:rofl: That's awesome! I actually saw Black Snake Moan this weekend. I'd like to forget that I wasted two hours of my life on that piece of crap. Timberlake was surprisingly good, though. :) I bet the law professors haven't heard the old "I had a chain around my waist and was bound to the radiator" story before.

Now you've got me wondering....

- You can name at least 3 segments from 3 different episodes that used the cut away to Robert Stack where he's wearing the same wardrobe...
:D We always kept track of which tie he was wearing. I think he only had about six different ties that he rotated between segments in the late 80s/early 90s.

:D We always kept track of which tie he was wearing. I think he only had about six different ties that he rotated between segments in the late 80s/early 90s.


HA!

I know of about 5 different segments that end and come back to the Stackmeister wearing this tan jacket over this red/orange plaid shirt, standing under a tree by a country road presumably somewhere in Los Angeles. Each time he's standing by the tree, does that trademark Robert Stack stroll towards his mark, and stares dead straight into the camera and utters his lines. After seeing him in that same spot after about the 3rd or 4th time I wondered to myself, "Damn...how many times did he have to walk out from under that tree?" His hushpuppies must have been barking that day.

You say "look at it burn Omar" every time you light the barbecue.

LMFAO :rotflmao:

I was watching a little bit of Match Game 75 or whatever year it was, and the clue for the big money supermatch was "blank Gilbert" and I thought "Perman!" :lol:

The #1 answer turned out to be Melissa, which I should have thought of as I'm a also a huge Little House fan.

If someone says they love Matthew Mcconaughey and you say "I bet you never knew he was in an episode of UM where he got shot in the head multiple times by a pedofile."

If when you hear the word "amnesia" the first thing that comes to mind is a man walking aimlessly through the desert not knowing his own name, having no fingerprint records, only to find out that he actually was an expert in avionics and probably worked for the government.

If you are watching the "Twilight Zone" and think that many stories on UM are stranger than fiction.

If you are watching City Confidential and just keep waiting for Bill Curtis to say "If John Doe didn't do it, then who did, and why?"

Speaking of Bill Curtis, I just thought of something. If UM is ever revived, he should be the first one they call for the narration and hosting job. IMO, his voice is 2nd only to Stack's for this kind of stuff. I love the way he says "baaaaah-deeeeee" really slow and drawn out. I never knew "body" had so many syllables. ;)

You know that if Bob Bean and Sammy (or Danny, whichever one's still alive) Wheeler had their own show, it would be funnier than most of the so-called sitcoms out there nowadays.

I got a good, 5 minute-laugh out of this one today, one of the lesser mentioned ones: Bean: "the situation was really not what was in the best interest of my children. I had approached pat to please stop this living arrangment here, ok. (pause) ....we won't get into responses." :lol: :lol: :lol: His facial expressions during the pause are hysterical.

Seriously these two need their own show.

You watch UM episodes right before bed even though you know you can't handle it and then beg your husband to go to the bathroom with you in the middle of the night to protect you from that same person who was in that composite sketch from the last episode you watched!

- You freak out every time you see a windowless van, knowing there's someone inside waiting to kidnap you.

- You're afraid you will be murdered and then set on fire in your bed.

- You want to call 1-800-876-5353 SOOOO badly.

- You love foggy landscapes and Phrygian melodies.

- You don't like the newer UM episodes because the picture isn't fuzzy enough.

- You're afraid that your mother is poisoning you with arsenic.

- You are paranoid that a new friend has taken out an unusually large life insurance policy on you.

- You think Jesse James Hollywood is a punk who needs to die.

- You have a plan of where you will go to hide when you hear someone breaking into your house.

- You have a morbid fascination with wanting to see the mysterious 2nd and 3rd Tara Calico polaroids.

- You wish that UM was still on the air, but know that it would never be the same without Robert Stack, and bemoan the day that Keely Shaye Smith joined the call center staff.

- You wish that UM was still on the air, but know that it would never be the same without Robert Stack, and bemoan the day that Keely Shaye Smith joined the call center staff.


Ohh.... amen to that!

- You don't like the newer UM episodes because the picture isn't fuzzy enough.



Good one....:lol:

Welcome to the board btw! :wave:

thank u, good to be here. i have pondered joining this board for a while and finally did it. couldn't resist!

Well, your avatar certainly fits in with the crowd here. Nice work. :)

...you compare its theme songs/background tracks to the keyboard playing of various symphonic death metal and black metal bands(great way to describe the music to those who've never heard it, and spark some interest), and if you compare UM's footage of forest scenes with certain metal bands' album artwork.

which bands are these???

You had a radio show and the UM theme was your background music.
You sit through Basketball just to see Robert Stack do the UM bit.

...your favorite work Matthew McCaunahey has been in was his re-inactment on UM.

the panel on your dream episode of Match Game would be Bob Bean, Danny Wheeler, Perman Gilbert, Liz Carmichael and her investor, and of course Robert Stack.

on...bob.....bean....kick.....must......get....off.....it :)

You actually call 1-800-876-5353 just to make UM feel "real" again. It brings it all back...........:crazy:



Oh and you get an invoice in at work and while you are entering it, you notice the company's contact name is Mafuz, and you briefly ponder if it's Todd Kelly's killer.

if the Cokeville School Bombing and Resurrection Mary are your favorite stories....

I've been wanting to bump this thread because I think its hilarious. Anyway concerning the Cokeville School Bombing I recently learned a little more about the incident. I haven't watched it in a long time (and I always changed it when UM showed it anyway, lol) so I'm not sure how much of this was mentioned in the segment. It said that the husband and wife handed out pamphlets and the husband insisted on meeting with Ronald Reagan. The "ransom" demand was in the millions. When his demands weren't being met he shot himself and his wife detonated the bomb. They said a teacher was also shot. They also said that approx. 74 students were injured in the blast. Truly a miracle that none of the teachers or students were killed.

I got one in keeping with the theme of this thread - If you're counting down the days until the new UM airs on Spike TV. :)

you get butterflies in your stomach when you see a car with a fish decor in the window. this has happened to me...

...if you freak out when a friend starts reading Christina Rossetti poetry to you.

...if you keep an eye out for "crazies from Detroit."

...if you've got to get back to the fishes.

...if the thought of standing at an ATM machine for any length of time terrorizes you, especially around midnight.

...if you get nervous when someone invites you to go "spotlighting."

...if you receive a piece of mail with no return address you get halfway worried it might be from the Circleville Writer.

...if you insist that you "ain't no whore."

...if you steer clear of steamer trunks at any and all cost.

im a bonafide metal head, and whenever I hear someone mention megadeth i almost always think of "megadeth guy"

im a bonafide metal head, and whenever I hear someone mention megadeth i almost always think of "megadeth guy"

"You really shouldn't smoke, you know." :p

When the Unsolved Mysteries logo (the REAL ONE, not that frou frou updated one) is your background on your laptop. (GUILTY!)

Or you subscribe to all the channels on the website that won't be mentioned that have UM segments.

"You really shouldn't smoke, you know." :p


best avatar ever

You hear Robert Stack's voice in your head commenting on what you are/were doing: "She was last seen as she entered her apartment at 1:03 a.m...." :D

You take a high interest on the cases profiled on UM, even if you live accross the ocean.

If you're annoyed with your family/roommate/s, you call out: "I'm living with a bunch of flakes!"

You run around your apartment/house, exclaiming: "That's it. Tell Isabella I've had it...! The bells the noises, the smells the voices..."

:crazy:

You don't go to an ATM at night. I don't ever since I saw UM.

Everytime you call someone and they answer, you have to force yourself NOT to say, "Judy Himes is alive... and she lives in Omaha... Judy Himes is alive... and she lives in Omaha..."


good one ! :lol:

instead of naming your fantasy football team after tony romo or the dallas cowboys......you name it: Unsolved Mysteries Freak

- You subscribe to cable you can't afford just so you can watch Spike TV in October.

- You hope you live long enough to see what happened to the Baskin kids.

- You subscribe to cable you can't afford just so you can watch Spike TV in October.

- You hope you live long enough to see what happened to the Baskin kids.

I moved back downstate in time to mooch off my mom's & bf's cable. Oct. 13has been circled on my calender for a while now. Counting down the days.

party:

you hunt high and low for the lost segments.

you work memorable quotes from UM into conversations you have with people throughout the day.

- You freak out every time you see a windowless van, knowing there's someone inside waiting to kidnap you.

- You're afraid you will be murdered and then set on fire in your bed.

- You want to call 1-800-876-5353 SOOOO badly.

- You love foggy landscapes and Phrygian melodies.

- You don't like the newer UM episodes because the picture isn't fuzzy enough.

- You're afraid that your mother is poisoning you with arsenic.

- You are paranoid that a new friend has taken out an unusually large life insurance policy on you.

- You think Jesse James Hollywood is a punk who needs to die.

- You have a plan of where you will go to hide when you hear someone breaking into your house.
- You have a morbid fascination with wanting to see the mysterious 2nd and 3rd Tara Calico polaroids.

- You wish that UM was still on the air, but know that it would never be the same without Robert Stack, and bemoan the day that Keely Shaye Smith joined the call center staff.


Oh dear, you took every single thing that came to my mind.

btw...what was it with Keely Shaye Smith that was so f-ing annoying? She was just...annoying as hell and I have no way to explain it.

Great list though.

btw...what was it with Keely Shaye Smith that was so f-ing annoying? She was just...annoying as hell and I have no way to explain it.


You know, it can be debated as to when exactly UM jumped the shark (if ever - I believe that it did), but Keely Shay Smith certainly did have that Cousin Oliver/Poochie/Scrappy-Doo quality about her. She never really did bring anything to the table, except perhaps the idea that it was okay to call Robert Stack "Bob."

lol the fact that i was robert stack for halloween and am going to be again this year...haha

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/JHarvoth/cap005-1.jpg

oh and i also recorded an mp3 of the update theme :)

You memorize Robert Stack lines, work the words into your everyday life and imitate his pacing.

"Perhaps you, can solve a mystery."

You know, it can be debated as to when exactly UM jumped the shark (if ever - I believe that it did), but Keely Shay Smith certainly did have that Cousin Oliver/Poochie/Scrappy-Doo quality about her. She never really did bring anything to the table, except perhaps the idea that it was okay to call Robert Stack "Bob."


THAT MADE ME LAUGH SOOO HARD..

- You start plotting your weekly schedule for the next year around SpikeTV, so you can record every single episode, so that when round 2 of UM inevitably gets cancelled, you won't have to go on a sitcom message board (for a show that isn't even a sitcom) 10 years later to ask people where they can find a certain segment.

lol the fact that i was robert stack for halloween and am going to be again this year...haha

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/JHarvoth/cap005-1.jpg

awesome kid! Brilliant look!
I envy the scowl!

and dont worry...I have the theme on my ipods...its one of the most listened to tracks.

You know, it can be debated as to when exactly UM jumped the shark (if ever - I believe that it did), but Keely Shay Smith certainly did have that Cousin Oliver/Poochie/Scrappy-Doo quality about her. She never really did bring anything to the table, except perhaps the idea that it was okay to call Robert Stack "Bob."

roftl...I think I wet my khakis!

Good riddance to her...and cudos to Pierce Brosnan for taking her! :wave:

haha thanks LaToyaBoy! What's really funny is I work for a sports media company and we cover HS Football on Friday Nights. Everytime we have a score update in a big game we use the um update music for the music bed while the reporter is giving the update. I'll never let UM die! :)

lol the fact that i was robert stack for halloween and am going to be again this year...haha

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/JHarvoth/cap005-1.jpg

That's golden. :lol:

...if you install extra dead-bolts in your apartment after an evening of beer and UM clips

lol thanks for the comments! for my college final project, i actually took the real facts for the Chad Mauer case and created my own segment, doing the Stack voiceovers and on-cameras :)

oh yeah, and this on-camera was shot in downtown chicago in an alleyway :) unfortunately, i have more of an upbeat radio voice and a far cry from the spooky stack voice :(

...if you think "Hank Queen" is the most laughable phony name ever

oh yeah, and this on-camera was shot in downtown chicago in an alleyway :) unfortunately, i have more of an upbeat radio voice and a far cry from the spooky stack voice :(


lol...you are a true UM fan...if there ever was one. Anyone that can work UM into college work deserves an award. That being said...I am seriously considering doing my graduate thesis on UM....not totally sure how to angle it but its a serious possibility.

man u so should. so many thoughts in my head on what u could say haha

...if you think "Hank Queen" is the most laughable phony name ever

Whenever I see that photo of Marilyn & Dennis DePue, I get chills. That guy was sooooo scary looking. Marilyn looked so chipper in that picture and he had this "I'm gonna kill you" look on his face. :eek:

man u so should. so many thoughts in my head on what u could say haha

lol...I might have to seriously consider it. It would be extremly fun...thats for sure. Not sure what my advisor would say. :crazy:

You rented White Sands solely because Justin Burgwinkel mentioned it.

You Googled names of criminals profiled in the past just to see what their current status is (for example, the last time I checked Kevin Paulsen and Joseph Prushinowski were released).

You Googled the Orlando Juice baseball team, hoping to find some reference to Phillip Breen.

You jokingly ended sentences with “attall” (is it just me, or did Stack seem to run “at” and “all” together?)

You drove out to places just because they were mentioned on UM. I used to live in north-central Oregon, not far from Wishram, Washington, a childhood home of a missing man (the one who kept talking about fish while traveling on a train- a couple of punks kept harassing him- I think he was found). I actually drove around Wishram wondering if he had any family or neighbors in town who might remember him.

..when you think to yourself how cool it would be if one day you disappeared off the face of the earth and it was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries......

You get overly excited when you find out that the person you're romatically interested in is also a fan;

You stay up past midnight discussing why, exactly, you think Cindy Anderson is alive and well;

You download the UM theme ringtone to your phone even though you can't USE it as a ringtone (stupid Razr).

You are in love with your compost box.

You meet Matthew McConaughey and tell him "I love your work...in the Donald Webb segment!"
Wow, I never knew he appeared on UM. :lol: I must have missed that episode.

When....

...1. Your suspicious of your wife and her best friend hanging around too much, for fear they might pull a "Mark Groezinger" on you.

2. When your at a rest stop you ask every trucker you meet whether their handle is "Dr. No" or "Stargazer"

3. You fully embrace paronia and go by the automatic assumption that your spouse, family,members, friends, business partners and neighbors are all pyschopathic, fraud artists, plotting to rob, kill or throw you into a nuclear reactor kiln. You also have this bizarre habit of asking business partners "are you a man?"

4. You open every package you receive slightly askew to your body for fear of zip guns or pipe bombs.

5. When you light your fireplace or set your bbq for some bizzare reason your compelled to start saying "I SAID I'D DO IT OMAR!!! I SAID I'D DO IT" HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"

6. You get this "feeling of pure evil" at the sight of all businees men that wear dark suits and glasses and do a double take just to make sure your not being trailed by MIB.

When....
5. When you light your fireplace or set your bbq for some bizzare reason your compelled to start saying "I SAID I'D DO IT OMAR!!! I SAID I'D DO IT" HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"



Or, when you light the barbeque grill, you call your spouse over and say "Look at it burn, Omar, look at it burn!"

4. You open every package you receive slightly askew to your body for fear of zip guns or pipe bombs.


Yeah, that gave me some mild paranoia when it comes to packages.

You think the best part of the movie Airplane! was Robert Stack beating up all the Moonies at the airport. :rofl:

You plan to use the original UM theme in the next haunted house.

A need to get the same Grey trench coat as the Stack is wearing.

If you cautious about those older style vans.

You plan to visit some of the communities mentioned on the show during your next vacation.

You enter a sketch class and your first work looks like the I-70 Killer.

You think the best part of the movie Airplane! was Robert Stack beating up all the Moonies at the airport. :rofl:

Thinking more of his role as Agent Flemming in "Beavis and Butthead Do America".

You know you are a UM fan if:

You downloaded the UM theme song of the Net and burnt it on CD and listen to it in your car while delivering pizzas.

You like to quote RS as saying, "Perhaps it's you" at parties

On halloween you dress up as the 'Zodiac Killer' one year

You head to the Post Office to send out a Money Order for one of the Box Sets when your rent is due.
yes!!! perhaps it's you. my fave!!!

when you dance to the 'update' music, lol

When you watch Forensic Files just so you can pick out the differences between how they present a case and compare it to UM's airing of the same case.

When you watch Forensic Files just so you can pick out the differences between how they present a case and compare it to UM's airing of the same case.

when you dance to the 'update' music, lol
:dance: :jig: ;)

I never get tired of this thread...

You know you are a UM fan if you think that an unjust and illegally issued speeding citation you received would make a compelling "Final Appeal" segment.

You guys are as crazy as I am.

Here's me: When you stretch out a winter time cold as long as possible so you can sit around in your jammies and watch the whole UM marathon for days on end, in the morning, then the watch same eppies repeated in the afternoon, while simultaniously looking up all the details on the laptop for updates and more info, and neglecting your household chores and forcing your family to fetch you some hot tea for your poor old "sore throat".

You think you may be in love with Robert Stack.

You guys are as crazy as I am.

Here's me: When you stretch out a winter time cold as long as possible so you can sit around in your jammies and watch the whole UM marathon for days on end, in the morning, then the watch same eppies repeated in the afternoon, while simultaniously looking up all the details on the laptop for updates and more info, and neglecting your household chores and forcing your family to fetch you some hot tea for your poor old "sore throat".

OMG!!! TracyLynnS you just decribed my whole last week! Except there were a couple of nights of insomnia where I was able to catch the afternoon eppies airing again after midnight too. Hmmm...were we separated at birth? :)

You have vivid nightmares of alien abduction.

>>>were we separated at birth?<<<

cmyweb, actually, there is a good possibility of something very much like that being true in my case. Maybe we'll make it onto a future segment of UM's "lost loves, separated at birth"!:crazy:

You spend an amble amount of time thinking of questions for the “UM Trivia Question” thread on this board.

You spend an amble amount of time thinking of questions for the “UM Trivia Question” thread on this board.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Guilty! :crazy:

You get very cutious about those "its too good to be true" business deals.

For a scary movie night, you decide to show UM segments instead.

For a scary movie night, you decide to show UM segments instead.

Me too, me too!!!! No scary movie can beat UM, especially the episodes from the mid-to-late 80's. They all have that creepy haze effect to them, and Robert Stack's voice is extra creepy, he speaks in almost a whisper.

you hear a noise you don't recognize and begin to wonder if you can hear "the hum"

you wonder if Harold Eugene Bell "got the book thrown at him" like Larry's mom requested...........


I love the part when she says that.

You think you see a fugitive in a grocery line, so you tackle them and call "Security!"

When your friends ask you what you should do for dinner, you say, "Well, we could go to my house for some spaghetti."

You are suspicious of anyone with the initials G.W.

You steal your little brother's yellow Big Wheel to see if you can make your own prototype of the Dale.

When your friends ask you what you should do for dinner, you say, "Well, we could go to my house for some spaghetti."

:rofl:

I had COMPLETELY forgotten about that one! I read your post about the "spaghetti line" on the quotes thread and wasn't sure what you meant...totally clicked with me when I read it just now. Truly an underappreciated UM quote...

It was quite possibly one of the best line readings on UM. It didn't sound forced at ALL. :lol:

:rofl:

I had COMPLETELY forgotten about that one! I read your post about the "spaghetti line" on the quotes thread and wasn't sure what you meant...totally clicked with me when I read it just now. Truly an underappreciated UM quote...

What story was that line from? It sounds familiar but I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I can't quite place it.

It's from the Colleen Reed segment. One of the guys says it right before they hear the scream from the car wash.

I didn't remember it either Justin, don't feel bad. Lol! Now that you mentioned it MissFit29 I do remember one of the guys saying that when they were standing on the porch. :)

One I've been thinking about lately:

You really want to read Keith Reinhard's novel.

When you own the Unsolved Mysteries collection and you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait to see if they will ever release any others on DVD.

When you play the DVD episodes with the TV screen off and the headphones on as you fall asleep.

When you understand that the Ghost Blimp really isn't a ghost...but your OK with it being in the Ghost section of the DVD's.

When you question...where in the hell is the rest of Bryan Nisenfeld?

When you believe deep in your heart that Mary Norris's husband is behind her death and the other one as well.

When you are mad that the Black Dahlia story did not make it onto the DVD's.

When you know who Don Dixon, Erik Tamiyatzu (sp?) and Sheriff Wolper are...and you know that Don Dixon did it.

When you know that Cam was once Camilla.

When you think...I could be Georgia Rudolph's friend

When you know you don't want to be Marie Hilley's friend.

When you miss Robert Stack.

When Robert Stack passed away you thought to yourself, "Oh...no...No more Unsolved Mysteries Updates!"

When you spend the years from 2003-2007 taping every episode of UM on lifetime, filling 27 tapes just to make sure you get every story they air. (guilty)

When you spend the years from 2003-2007 taping every episode of UM on lifetime, filling 27 tapes just to make sure you get every story they air. (guilty)

Oh, Apostapler, can I be your friend? :roller:

When you wonder what the Wheeler and Bob Bean are up to. Gosh, I miss them.

When you wonder what the Wheeler and Bob Bean are up to. Gosh, I miss them.

I was wondering that too...

just by coincidence.

I am sure the Wheelers and Bob Bean have all moved on to more white trashy activities......"She was not that good lookin' of a woman!" Is that how the quote went? Feel free to correct me if I am off a few words.

Haha, yeah, you know you are fan when.....

the CEO of your new company is named Robert Stack. And you photocopy your first paycheck signed by him to keep forever.....

For real, I was screaming like a school girl when I opened it :)

1.When your driving in your car with your family and you see a bird following your car,for some reason you freak out and say "Honey, it's the Mothman, he's after us, now!! We've got to speed up"

2. Whenever you drop your kids off with their grandma, you first check her house and video rack, just to make sure their aren;t any satanic videos she might have lying around.

3. For some reason the Judy Groezinger segment has become a better turn on for you than viagra. :D

4. For some reason the Debra Poe segment has become a turn on for your wife. :lol:

5. You are instantly worried when it always seems to rain when your with your teenage son.

6. Every spring you become convinced your a victim of MISSING TIME, despite the protests of your family that it's just daylight savings time.

7. Most people when flying on airplanes are suspicious of middle eastern looking people. But for some reason your more suspicious of southern speaking gentlemen with glasses and harvard ties and briefcases.

You know you are an UM fan if....


Your buddies are giving you a hard time and you holler "You el sickos will pay!"
You've ever "ding-dong-ditched" a friend and left a note saying "Get the message?"
You have a Megadeth T-shirt.
Your young kid's friend calls and for a split second you think it's L'Enfant.
Someone asks you how your day is going and you yell "Update."

you hear a noise you don't recognize and begin to wonder if you can hear "the hum"

You listen to the song "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police and realize that the beginning few seconds of the song contains "The Hum." :lol:

..when you think to yourself how cool it would be if one day you disappeared off the face of the earth and it was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries......

I TOTALLY have these moments! If I'm at work on the weekends, at night, all alone in the building, and go out for a cigarette, I can hear RS's voice. "When Eric's co-worker showed up for her shift at midnight, she found Eric's truck in the parking lot. But there was no sign of Eric. There were no signs of a struggle, and his belongings were still inside the office. It was as though he'd simply vanished..."

Glad to know I'm not totally crazy. Well...at least that I'm not the only one.:crazy:

If you've ever creeped yourself out watching UM on Lifetime at 2 in the morning to the point where you could not go to sleep...so you stayed up until sunrise watching your UM DVDs :)

You've used the phrase "Tiny gobs of gelatinous goo" in normal conversation...and did your best Robert Stack when saying it.

When you've been at work, and a co-worker asks for the number to a transport or whatnot, and you inexplicably blurt out "1-800-876-5353," then let her dial the first few numbers before stopping her. :lol:

You live in upstate New York (ACTUAL upstate New York...North of Albany. Yes, that's still part of the United States and not Canada) and you get annoyed when they talk about the Dutch Schultz treasure being buried in "upstate New York." Then you start planning with some friends to go locate it.

You've considered learning the UM theme for a band, then playing the UM theme at bars and such while the vocalist goes to the bathroom or gets a drink, as filler music.

You just read all 11 pages of this thread and had experienced 95%+ of it. :D

1. You have a fear of a little alien being in the corner of your room and you not being able to make a sound when it comes over to examine your chest.

2. You see a payphone in the middle of nowhere and immediately think of Angela Hammond.

3. You swear off working graveyard shift alone EVER.

4.You quote funny moments and wonder how Robert Stack ever managed not to laugh.

5. When at a stoplight, you worry someone like Jean Marie Gagnon will try to get in, so you keep your doors locked.

6. You worry about symptons to ailments that people on UM have had.

7. You don't want to park in a dark secluded area to talk for fear someone will either come out with a gun or Mothman will be waiting.

8. You decide when/if you have children never to let them play alone in the front yard until they are pretty much old enough to take care of themselves (and then still worry even when they are).

9. Worry your mother-in-law might someday call your spouse 14 times a day.

10. Check to see if people you're eating hamburgers with have a gleeful smile on their face when first holding it (like Paul Pollis' kid)

11. Imitate the Bad Chief's terrible lying "No-oooo" and how the music goes Da da da dum!

12. When you see lights in the sky and wonder if you will ever see a UFO (or if you would want to)

13. Deciding never to say "hi" to people in the woods after seeing the Mulet segment.

14. Know the pigeon drop scam by heart and already have a wicked action plan ready to tell off anyone who attempts to pull it on you.

15. The "DA DA!" update music comes to mind at times when you are alone and you get scared.

16. You swear off hitchhiking/ ATM visits

17. You think twice before joining a prison letter support group :D

18. You wonder actually think about gelatinous goo when a storm is starting to hit, or the segments where people have been struck by lightning

19. You ask if your friend has a hostile family before joining them for dinner

20. You are openly suspicious of people who try to pick you up in bars, especially when they demand your lost wallet should be returned to them

21. You love all the retro moments on UM and wish the 80s/90s are back

22. Mentions of people working in plants or driving by them makes you fear for people being thrown in or whatnot.

23. You tip taxidrivers/pizzamen more at night because of the potential danger they put themselves in to serve you

24. You get FURIOUS when you see the opening of the Fisher segment in the pet shop and want to beat the tar out of the guy

25. You see people who look like interviewees/ actors on UM and spend a good deal of time wondering if it is them. For me, this happened my freshmen year of college. One professor looked like "Tom Johnson" and the other, Bob Bean!

-You are wary of anybody wearing cufflinks emblazoned with an "HK" monogram.

-You think that your local fish peddler is A.J. Breaux.

-You refer to any burning construction site as "my Hell", leading to the next point:

-Your best friend's name is Omar.

-You own more than 32 pairs of sweat socks and eat bacon and eggs three times a day.

-You're supposed to be looking for your wife, but decide to stop for cigars and an ice cream cone instead.

-You wear oversized glasses, or possibly have a mustache or mullet.

-Your license plates are affixed to your car with a set of hooks, allowing you to switch between British Columbia and Washington plates.

You can hear Robert Stack narrating your activities in your head, especially late at night:

Meghan set out for a routine trip to her local convenience store...

-Inexplicably, you're simultaneously antiquing with your 100 year-old mother in Kansas, and buried in your own compost heap. Aplologies in advance.:p

You accidentally say "circumstantive"

A drunken stupor causes you to confess to crimes

You are convinced your neighbor is Son of Sam since he leered at you when walking your dog

You refuse to go to lovers' lanes unless they are well populated

You go to the Allegash and flash SOS with a flashlight ( ;P)

Basement laundry rooms terrify you

You never make walking trips to the local convenience store at night

You boycott the KROQ DJs and desire to phone in and swear at them incessantly yet hold off just because you are satisfied with RS' flaming of them already.

The word "ATV" makes you think of the case

You imagine what the DALE car would be like to drive

When someone writes down "ding dong" "da da" or "doo de doo de doo doo doo doo" you immediately know what update music they are talking about

When you drive really slow in the dark out in the country, not to watch for deer, but just in case Bigfoot walks across the road...

When the hair is always standing up on the back of your neck.

(Seriously, was there a more overused phrase in UM interviews than that one? :lol: )

You sell a trench coat on eBay with the description be just like Robert Stack!



Or


You hate to shower home alone out of fear that afterwards Alma Reed is waiting to ask about her music.

You've considered learning the UM theme for a band, then playing the UM theme at bars and such while the vocalist goes to the bathroom or gets a drink, as filler music.

Worry your mother-in-law might someday call your spouse 14 times a day.

Good ones!

You tune up your vehicle before you drive long distances.

You're exhausted, and there's no nearby towns to stop in, so you drive into an isolated rest area...and then a dark colored, rusted up van pulls up nearby.

You're somewhat worried when your girlfriend goes hiking alone in a state or national park.

You inexplicably say, "Cheaper, but will do," to friends.

You're a little cautious about any duffel bag or suitcase you notice on the side of a road.

Sometimes you get hinky feelings about small caves.

You go digging through old videotapes in your closet at your parents' house to see if you might have any episodes of UM taped from years ago. You then take a pile of tapes back to your house to scan through each one to see what might be there. When you find a tape that MAY still have an episode, your old dvd/vhs combo is not communicating properly with your fancy new television and you decide to buy a new blu-ray player so the old dvd/vhs combo can be hooked up to an older, more compatible tv and you can find out if you indeed have an NBC episode taped.

This concludes the synopsis of my Saturday.

You go digging through old videotapes in your closet at your parents' house to see if you might have any episodes of UM taped from years ago. You then take a pile of tapes back to your house to scan through each one to see what might be there. When you find a tape that MAY still have an episode, your old dvd/vhs combo is not communicating properly with your fancy new television and you decide to buy a new blu-ray player so the old dvd/vhs combo can be hooked up to an older, more compatible tv and you can find out if you indeed have an NBC episode taped.

This concludes the synopsis of my Saturday.


Glorious. :)

Glorious. :)

I still can't get it to work, so I'm bringing the tape into school to see if I can view it there.

I am 99% sure I have two episodes. One is labels "Aliens" and could be from the mid 1990s and the other looks to be a 1988 or 1989. I can't WAIT to find out what is on those tapes!

You go digging through old videotapes in your closet at your parents' house to see if you might have any episodes of UM taped from years ago. You then take a pile of tapes back to your house to scan through each one to see what might be there.


:eek: Yikes! You're scaring me! lol

Reminds me of the "look at it omar" tape that the family discovered and brought home to watch, not knowing what they would find....

:eek: Yikes! You're scaring me! lol

Reminds me of the "look at it omar" tape that the family discovered and brought home to watch, not knowing what they would find....

HA! Well, if I find an episode and I'm in front of the TV going "LOOK AT IT OMAR", then you KNOW I'm in trouble!

Actually, I used to tape a lot of figure skating on television in the late 80s to the mid 90s, and some of the early tapes have a mismash of stuff on them. I think I've got an episode on a tape that part of the 88 Olympics are on. I'm really curious to see what is on that tape, because it would be an NBC broadcast from 1988 - 1989.

You're seriously considering getting a Robert Stack tattoo on your ankle. (I really am, just playing around with pics in photoshop right now...)

You're seriously considering getting a Robert Stack tattoo on your ankle. (I really am, just playing around with pics in photoshop right now...)

I LOVE it. If you decide to do it, you know you're going to have to post a photo. :cool:

I LOVE it. If you decide to do it, you know you're going to have to post a photo. :cool:
If you're serious, please try to get the artist to perfectly capture RS' facial expression as he's saying "...and why?"!:)

You can hear Robert Stack narrating your activities in your head, especially late at night:

Meghan set out for a routine trip to her local convenience store...

...and was never seen again. Police suspect foul play, but Meghan's friends and family have reason to believe otherwise. They believe Meghan orchestrated her disappearance to be a subject on a national TV show dealing with mysteries that are currently unsolved. Was it a hoax...or something more sinister? Join me for another episode of Unsolved Mysteries...

:)

You buy some auto parts on ebay, only to see they are being shipped from Circleville Ohio and wonder if there is a chance that it could be from the Circleville Writer.

...and was never seen again. Police suspect foul play, but Meghan's friends and family have reason to believe otherwise. They believe Meghan orchestrated her disappearance to be a subject on a national TV show dealing with mysteries that are currently unsolved. Was it a hoax...or something more sinister? Join me for another episode of Unsolved Mysteries...

:)

;)

You're afraid of going out on the lake at night because of THE ALIENS!!!

Okay guys, which one do you like better:

This one:
http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn461/puma_rumor/stackattack3copy.jpg

Or this one:
http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn461/puma_rumor/stackattack3-2.jpg

number two

Yep, I vote for two. Are you gonna share a pic of the tat when you get it done? I'd love to see the finished work. :O)

In my family, only my dad (who got a tat at 16 years old back in 1956) and my daughter have tattoos. My dad's was actually professionally done, but looks homemade. All the color has faded out of it and it looks like an outline of a blue blob.

My daughter secretly got her tat as soon as she was legal. She looked up all the local artists to make sure she'd have good results. The tat is simple and looks fine, but the child should have consulted with her momma!

Her tat is a simple phrase written in cursive, just above her hipbone, slightly around the side, and sort of below the waist so jeans cover it, but a bikini doesn't. The problem is, silly teenager wasn't considering the fact that she wants a few kids after she gets married next year. That cursive tat is gonna look like one heck of a deformed millipede by the time her currently flat tummy carries around a couple of 9lb babies.

After I saw it, I told her that she's gonna need a back up plan. Maybe turn the cursive into a vine and have some leaves and flowers added to it. idk, but it was funny when she finally realized that I was right. lol

Anyway, if I were to get a tat (never gonna happen tho) I would actually have Gir, the cartoon in my avie pic, inked. I never get tired of him. :)

Anyway, if I were to get a tat (never gonna happen tho) I would actually have Gir, the cartoon in my avie pic, inked. I never get tired of him. :)

Funny you should say that. My best friend's dad (who is almost 50 and looks like a biker, complete with beard and multiple tats) has a rather large one of Gir. It's because of him that I even found out who Gir is. LOL

Okay, I was thinking #2 as well, so that settles that. Now I just have to get the courage to get it. Not because I'm afraid to get a tattoo (I have 4 already), but because my husband hates the idea of me having a face on my body, it freaks him out, lol!

Oh and Tracy, the "deformed millipede" made me LOL

Funny you should say that. My best friend's dad (who is almost 50 and looks like a biker, complete with beard and multiple tats) has a rather large one of Gir. It's because of him that I even found out who Gir is. LOL

Now that's a cool dude. :cool:

Okay, I was thinking #2 as well, so that settles that. Now I just have to get the courage to get it. Not because I'm afraid to get a tattoo (I have 4 already), but because my husband hates the idea of me having a face on my body, it freaks him out, lol!

Oh and Tracy, the "deformed millipede" made me LOL

Yeah, I like the 2nd picture too...if you do go through with it, that'd be pretty cool to have a Robert Stack tat.

It's funny but I almost had the opposite scenario as you. I don't have any (I'm a wussy with that kind of pain, lol), but I'd been casually considering one because my ex likes them.


BTW, can't believe I never responded to this thread before. I've had alot of the ones people already mentioned, even to this day when I have to go to an ATM I always look around me and think about segments like Matthew Chase.

Even just a couple years after I started watching UM (in early 1995 when I was 13-14) and would be home alone after school, one of the townhouses I lived in at the time used to creak a little. I'd either think it was a ghost or a burglar - a few times I even went creeping around the house with a metal baseball bat, lmao.

I also love Google Earth and other sites where you can find older satellite pictures (they're usually not in color until 1999-2002), especially so I can see towns featured in certain segments. I like seeing what was there when the cases took place (or at least not too long afterwards) and even thinking about malls or places they may have gone on a regular basis. Comparing it to today is really neat too.

I like Street View too, I wish they had a historical version of that (impossible since they only started doing it a couple years ago, but THAT would rock if they did). :)

#2

Apostapler, you are a true fan.

Actually, I have to agree with the freakishness of first seeing a tattoo of a face on somebody else's body. A young lady from my past was a big Jim Morrison fan in her adolescence. She had a sizable tattoo of Mr. Mojo Risin' on her back. Frankly, it was rather disturbing. Let's just say I had a hard time lighting my fire. :p

I think a small RS tattoo wouldn't be as objectionable. :)

-When addressing an envelope,you repeatedly catch yourself writing "P.O.Box 11449,Burbank CA,91510-1449
can't remember your spouses birthdate,but can recite UM's address.

-When you officially find no one on earth attractive,except Robert Stack,and have actually put that as a "must" in your profile on a dating website.

-When you start thinking that Robert Stack is actually talking to you,through the television.

-When you had to take a day off from work when you learned Robert Stack had died

-When while visiting Hollywood,you spent 4 hours looking for Robert Stack's star on the walk of fame,and then proceeded to lye on the ground,and stroke your cheek against it,and accomplish the nearly impossible,which is to stand out at the ultimate weirdo freak,in town where nearly everyone is a weirdo freak.

-When every,single Jew you meet,you ask them if they they ever went to school at a yeshiva in NYC,and call your son Charlie,by the name Chaim

-When you spend over 70% of your day,watching UM,EVERYDAY,even though you've seen them all a thousand times

-When you've had at least 6 pets named "Robert,Bobert,Stack,Stacks,Unsolved,and Anthonette Cayadito.

-When every time you look at the stove,you see and old time bartenders head,just sitting on the burner.

- when all your friends have stopped asking you go anywhere,or do anything with them,and when you ask why,they all reply "Because you can't watch Unsolved Mysteries at the bar,so we figured you wouldn't go".

-When your now 7 year old child not only knows who Marie Hilley is,but also frequently uses the term "Due to prolonged exposure to the cold",and has been using the term since he was 4.

- When your one and only lifelong dream and goal,is to "help solve a mystery"

-When you have at least 5 different 8 by 10's of Tammi Leppert, and post her image on your facebook at least once a week,just to make sure that all your friends are still on the lookout for her. AND every single night,when you say your prayers,you always include asking God if you can be the one to find her alive and well.

-When you refuse to read anything written by a Canadian reporter,simply because you know they are too stupid to contribute anything of value,because people don't hog-tie themselves,and magically ingest enough Morphine to die.

-When you're the only person working your local hospital,including the doctors that not only knows what methylmalonic acidemia is,but have also used it to make a cheery little song out of.

- Every single time you wake up from having a grand mal seizure,upon coming to,and being told what just happened,you immediately,and always assume you've been burglarized,and hit on the head with the blunt end of a gun,and think you mom works for the post office (even though she never has).

- When you think about dying,you really hope that in the end,your unidentified remains will be found in a sewer duct of a dog breeding kennel.

-And,when you do die,already have it clearly laid out that the UM theme WILL be played at your funeral.

-When you don't have a college fund for your child,but do have over $4,000 saved in your "Unsolved Mysteries account",in the hopes that someday,you'll find someone who nerdishly has a copy of every single UM ever made,and would also give your left kidney to that person if they would give all the copies to me (I'm partial to my right one,for whatever reason).

-And,last but not least,you got married to someone who had a good job,and could fully support you,just because you refuse to EVER return to the work force,because then you couldn't watch UM every friggin' day of your life.

Well,I don't know about you,but that pretty sums up my pathetic life...I can only hope that no one ever has me committed to the psych ward of our local hospital because of my UM obsession......because I can only assume that sneaking in old episodes of the show,would probably be considered "a step back" in my recovery.......

props: props: props: props: props:

We're not worthy! You've gotta be, easily, in the top 5 all time superfans.


When while visiting Hollywood,you spent 4 hours looking for Robert Stack's star on the walk of fame,and then proceeded to lye on the ground,and stroke your cheek against it,and accomplish the nearly impossible,which is to stand out at the ultimate weirdo freak,in town where nearly everyone is a weirdo freak.

I got a visual on this one, and I'm still laffin.

I got a visual on this one, and I'm still laffin.

So are the security guards that made me leave.....

I've even looked for Roberts distant relatives,to see if I could marry one (and if it were a chick, I'd go lesbian,no problem).

When a co-worker doesn't show up for work, you immediately hear the creepy bg music in your head and suspect that they were murdered/missing.

When you watch UM all through your childhood and then while in your apartment as an adult you turn it on while you are alone, just to get those goosebumps.

When your roommate turns on the new UM in the living room, you retreat into your own room to watch the real thing on Youtube.

You know that if Bob Bean and Sammy (or Danny, whichever one's still alive) Wheeler had their own show, it would be funnier than most of the so-called sitcoms out there nowadays.

I got a good, 5 minute-laugh out of this one today, one of the lesser mentioned ones: Bean: "the situation was really not what was in the best interest of my children. I had approached pat to please stop this living arrangment here, ok. (pause) ....we won't get into responses." :lol: :lol: :lol: His facial expressions during the pause are hysterical.

Seriously these two need their own show.


I say they should do Bob Bean in his National Guard outfit and Sammy Wheeler in his Michael Jordan jersey in Celebrity Death Match.

...you've read Meg's Judy Himes date/rant story and wished more dates would turn out that way!:crazy: Come on...you all thought the same!

Wow, you are as obsessed as I am. Never lay down and humped Robert Stacks Hollywood star before.

I do have the theme song along with various segments on my ipod though...

And, my ultimate goal in life is to sovled and unsolved mystery.

I could have sworn that about 5,6, maybe even 7 years ago back when I was like 10, that I saw Monica Rizzo in my local coffee shop in Mass. I thought it looked exactly like her, but she was much to young to really be her.

I remember believing I saw a missing person in traffic next to me when I was 7 or 8 only to find out years later his remains were found in a canyon years beforehand. But I always wondered.

When you here the word "incest", you immediately laugh because of the Sammy Wheeler segment.

If somebody mentions the name "Mike Riemer" and you know who and what they are talking about.

you got married to someone who had a good job,and could fully support you,just because you refuse to EVER return to the work force,because then you couldn't watch UM every friggin' day of your life. No kidding! I wish I didn't have to work outside the home so I coul just stay home and watch this show all day, every day.

How about:

You buy two cats and name them Bob Bean and Sammy Wheeler.

1)If you watch the "newer" episodes on Spike and Lifetime and know things these newer episodes have left out (i.e.the suspects that Robert Stack told us were caught at the Tenneessee Titans stadium construction site; by the time Dennis Farina et al got involved, it was just a construction site.

2) You know (and miss) the background music that was used on the Robert Stack episodes that is not used in the Dennis Farina version. There are many examples of this, but the one that comes most readily to mind is the music heard when Dottie Caylor, the agoraphobic, is on the BART platform before she disappears.

If you are down on your luck and decide to go out in the woods looking for strange rocks, you might be a UM fan.

If you had an "aliens" club when you were a kid, and supplemented it with information from all the UFO segments of UM.
(yep, guilty)

You know you're a UM fan if you're planning a future garden and notice a plant that takes on a slightly different meaning for you than most:

http://www.schreinersgardens.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SIGO&Product_Code=TOMJ&Category_Code=SU

You know you're a UM fan if you're planning a future garden and notice a plant that takes on a slightly different meaning for you than most:

http://www.schreinersgardens.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SIGO&Product_Code=TOMJ&Category_Code=SU
EEK! Don't sell that flower any computer equipment!

You know you're a UM fan if you don't EVER let your wife fix you chocolate shakes to "beef you up".

You know you are an UM fan if you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about when I ask, "Damn, was that a real hamburger?"

You know you're a UM fan if while you are watching a segment and towards the end of it when the drum roll starts building, you get visibly upset because instead of hearing "UP-DATE" you hear "this man is 5 foot 11...."

...if you're watching The Social Network with your brother and sister-in-law, and they get to the scene where Mark Zuckerberg and the Napster guy are talking to the hedge fund managers, and you say to yourself, "Hey! It's Tony the creepy homeless guy!"

(You might even go to imdb.com immediately after watching the movie to confirm this.)

....you anxiously wait for a record company to release a UM soundtrack CD with all the creepy UM loops and music they aired during segments.

....you wake up at 7:30 AM just in time for Wal-Mart to open on the anticipated release day of a UM boxed set, are one of the first customers in the store and snatch the new boxed set out of the cart before they even put it on the shelf....and buy it, go home and go back to bed!

True story.

...a co-worker asks you to open a new storage lot for a client named "John Anderson" and you begin to wonder if just perhaps the lot's contents will consist of stolen telephone company equipment, among other items, some bearing the name "Kevin Poulsen".

True story.

When you're watching UM at 4am and your boyfriend rolls over in bed and says "UPDATE!!"

When you realize that you are cranky because you have gone too long without watching UM.

You know you are an UM fan if you visit Omaha and expect to see Judith Himes

If every time you are at the ATM at night you hear the creepy UM music and think of Matthew Chase. (I really does this.)

...you've ever driven home from work with the original closing credits music stuck in your head.

if you have spent your childhood terrorized and now your afternoons....nights.....mornings... watching "one of your favorites" for the 263rd time, interspersed with trying to engage in conversation with wondrous ferver about your favorite show only to have the person say.... "what?"

If you work retail and when a new female employee is hired, you mentally compare her to the photo of Bonnie Wilder!

A maid service in Ontario now offers gift certificates, which, like many other gift cards nowadays, can be purchased from stands inside grocery or convenience stores. Theirs reads "Everybody likes to come home to a clean house." My first instinct was Paul Pollis had headed up marketing.

A maid service in Ontario now offers gift certificates, which, like many other gift cards nowadays, can be purchased from stands inside grocery or convenience stores. Theirs reads "Everybody likes to come home to a clean house." My first instinct was Paul Pollis had headed up marketing.

The first image that popped in my head after reading this was Paul Pollis in a french maid outfit.

The first image that popped in my head after reading this was Paul Pollis in a french maid outfit.

:eek:

You go to do something alone and think to yourself "This is how every missing persons segment of Unsolved Mysteries starts"...

When someone says, "I'll pay you right back" you either giggle or look at them suspiciously.

When gas prices come up in conversation and the desire for an efficient way to use it, the DALE comes to mind.

You are on a bus on the way home from work and you pass a sign that says " L'enfant lofts coming soon" and snickering to yourself

When you giggle like a schoolgirl after finding more UM segments and spend your Friday night watching intently because you've had several months without them

You know you're a UM fan if your outstanding U.S. geography skills are solely the result of research on featured cases.

You know you are a UM fan if you stand in your kitchen and say, ''Well, I can go for some spaghetti...'' and then start cracking up.

Literally did this the other night.

For the sheer fun of it, you picture what it would be like if you became the subject of a UM case, to include imagining Robert Stack narrating your profile, identifying marks, hobbies, etc.

For the sheer fun of it, you picture what it would be like if you became the subject of a UM case, to include imagining Robert Stack narrating your profile, identifying marks, hobbies, etc.

It would definitely be interesting to hear RS mention that any one of us is "a fan of the Unsolved Mysteries television show."

- When discussing a case, you end a sentence with "...or was there something more sinister afoot?"

- You remember the UM segment featured in the movie BASEketball, and were amused that Robert Stack was swearing

Robert Stack: The police have pieced together numerous theories on Coop's whereabouts.
Douglas "Swish" Reemer: I have no ****ing clue where the hell he is. For all I care he could be hanging by his neck in his ****ing closet!
Robert Stack: Scenario One: He's hanging by his neck in his ****ing closet.
Jenna Reed: You want to know where Coop is? Just look for the most heinous, vile, and horrible exploitation of children on the planet.
Robert Stack: Scenario Two: Coop went to Disney World.

- When discussing a case, you end a sentence with "...or was there something more sinister afoot?"

- You remember the UM segment featured in the movie BASEketball, and were amused that Robert Stack was swearing

Robert Stack: The police have pieced together numerous theories on Coop's whereabouts.
Douglas "Swish" Reemer: I have no ****ing clue where the hell he is. For all I care he could be hanging by his neck in his ****ing closet!
Robert Stack: Scenario One: He's hanging by his neck in his ****ing closet.
Jenna Reed: You want to know where Coop is? Just look for the most heinous, vile, and horrible exploitation of children on the planet.
Robert Stack: Scenario Two: Coop went to Disney World.

OMG! I almost forgot about this! TOO funny! I also like how when they show RS in the tele-center, all the computer screens have the game solitaire up LOL!

OMG! I almost forgot about this! TOO funny! I also like how when they show RS in the tele-center, all the computer screens have the game solitaire up LOL!

:lol: That was one of the best segments ever, and it wasn't even a real one.

You know you're a UM fan if every time you see a yellow Volkswagon Bug, you think of the Son of Sam case and look at the license plate to see if it contains the letter GUR or GVR.

You know you're a UM fan if every time you see a yellow Volkswagon Bug, you think of the Son of Sam case and look at the license plate to see if it contains the letter GUR or GVR.

Every time I look at a yellow Volkswagon Bug, I throw up.

Every time I look at a yellow Volkswagon Bug, I throw up.
Same goes for when I see a tan VW beetle *coughBUNDYcough*

You know you are a UM fan if:

* Someone says, ''It's just a coincidence'' and you start cracking up.

* You open all packages facing away from you and at an angle

* You make sure your phone is charged to full battery in case of car trouble so you don't have to pull over and walk to a call box/pay phone/ rest area

* You know that if anyone gestures to you that something's wrong with your vehicle, you will not pull over unless there are many people around.

* Hitchhikers will never get a ride from you

* You are reluctant to try anything your strange coworker touts as ''extra spicy'' or let him purchase drinks/food for you

* You keep a notepad and pen in the glove compartment in case you need to write down a suspicious person's license plate number

*When being audited, you hope that the IRS agents are actually just Men in Black agents instead so you don't have to go through the pain of an audit

For the sheer fun of it, you picture what it would be like if you became the subject of a UM case, to include imagining Robert Stack narrating your profile, identifying marks, hobbies, etc.

I've done that since 1993.:lol: Obviously I wouldn't have wanted to be featured on it because of a horrible crime or anything bad happening to any of my relatives/close friends, but part of me always imagined what Stack might've said about me or what it'd be like to be interviewed for a segment.

-I also very rarely visit ATMs at night alone, and if I do, I'm extremely careful. I think of Matt Chase especially and always have.

You will never name your child "Jonathan" because you know that if someone said, "That man has Jonathan" you would laugh your butt off before being concerned.

You open a wedding gift envelope from a relative, discover the gift is entirely in two-dollar bills, and immediately think of Chuck Morgan. I admit I paused about a minute or so to sort of thumb through the bills for a "crude map", or numbers next to the Declaration signers.

When walking your dog during a downpour at night you throw on your tan trench coat and play the theme song on your iPhone. Yup, did that the other night.

-You look around when you drive thru an ATM at night to make sure no one's waiting to rob or abduct you.

-You know someone named Kurt and are afraid that something really bad is going to happen to them.

-Everytime you take a trip to Florida, you entertain the idea that a sex ghost could possess you.

When you sprinkle stuff around your yard you're careful not to sacrifice any snails...

I saw a yellow Volkswagen Beetle this morning on my way to work and IMMEDIATELY heard RS like, "G-V-R...or G-U-R..."

Your keeping an eye out for Dale Kerstetter in Australia.

While having UM on in the background, you get excited and immediately pay attention when you hear the Bonnie Wilder opening music and dialogue.

While having UM on in the background, you get excited and immediately pay attention when you hear the Bonnie Wilder opening music and dialogue.

Haha Bonnie!

I love those moments though! You got your UM going on in the background and one of your favorite segments comes on. :)

Sometimes I actually study by UM, and that's caused some strange mental associations. I may forever link the Jeffrey Digman segment with the heart's electrical conduction system.

Haha Bonnie!

I love those moments though! You got your UM going on in the background and one of your favorite segments comes on. :)

Sometimes I actually study by UM, and that's caused some strange mental associations. I may forever link the Jeffrey Digman segment with the heart's electrical conduction system.
Nice! I used to study by UM when I was in university. I have fond memories of dozing on the couch after cramming for a test and hooking my laptop to the TV so I could listen to UM on the forbidden site. But one time, the uploader added an update of his own at top volume (compared to the low volume segment!) and I nearly jumped five feet in the air. I think of that whenever I watch the Dale Kerstetter segment now. :lol:

I still love to have it on when working!

If you're like me, you hear Robert Stack's voice narrating your movements whenever you're stressed or freaked out.

She went to the local Walmart where she purchased...chocolates.

Hearing "the gate" makes you shudder because instead of thinking of a regular gate, you think of the ATV murders.

You wish they'd release a UM 'creepy music' tracks soundtrack. All the synths, I mean.

I was reading something at work and the words "companion piece" were used. So naturally (LOL) I thought of when that reporter, I believe it was Don Devereaux, used the same terminology to describe that $2 bill found on Chuck Morgan.

You know you're a fan when you find yourself pulling up the UM website every single time you're online, regardless of why you logged on in the first place.

I also find that whenever I'm watching any other true crime show, I half expect to hear Robert Stack's voice break in with, “UPDATE!" at the end of the episode.

If you had an episode playing on the hospital TV while you gave birth to your first child! lol GUILTY!:lol: