These segments make me go to bed with a hammer under my pillow.

1. The radio personality who was shot by some guy who had a limp who chases him down and shoots him. If you watch a reinactment, theres a dude just sitting in his car and the killer runs right next to his car and he quickly ducks over to the passenger side... I wonder why he didnt shoot him. Jeez it scared me

2. That 1-70 murder makes me shake, especially when the witness tells him
"I cant go in the back with you," and gets away. He looked death in the eye, and the sketch is enough to make you never go out again.

3. The camper murder with the Canadian couple and the innocent bystander getting killed also. Terrified me.

4. The bowling alley murders also were horrific. How people could be so cold to murder children. Those two men are in Mexico or Central America by now. I cant believe no one has been able to identify them.

5. The Skiba disappearances. They thought he kidnapped his daughter and now they found the moving van he and his partner used and its full of blood and bullet holes. Inside job by business associate if you ask me.

6. The Son of Sam cases. Especially when the couple walks past the park bathroom and theres a guy lurking in the shadows. I lived in NYC during all of that and I can tell you that NYC was paralyzed with fear.

7. The ATM episode where the dude goes to the ATM, never comes back and you see the absolutely most VILE person standing next to him. I dont understand how someone would go to an ATM that late, especially in Californina which has an inordinate amount of KOOKS. (Sorry no offense to posters here). I wonder if the picture led to an arrest or naming of suspect.

This is why I lost so much sleep in the 90s. :eek: :eek:

This is why I lost so much sleep in the 90s. :eek: :eek:

I truly believe that UM is one the reasons I'm so paranoid....I'm not even kidding.

These segments make me go to bed with a hammer under my pillow.

2. That 1-70 murder makes me shake, especially when the witness tells him
"I cant go in the back with you," and gets away. He looked death in the eye, and the sketch is enough to make you never go out again.

3. The camper murder with the Canadian couple and the innocent bystander getting killed also. Terrified me.

7. The ATM episode where the dude goes to the ATM, never comes back and you see the absolutely most VILE person standing next to him. I dont understand how someone would go to an ATM that late, especially in Californina which has an inordinate amount of KOOKS. (Sorry no offense to posters here). I wonder if the picture led to an arrest or naming of suspect.

This is why I lost so much sleep in the 90s. :eek: :eek:


These 3 are the segments that creep me out the most. All featured scary composite sketches and probably the most chilling music I have ever heard on this show.

The guy they got to play the killer in the rest stop murders, was terrifying :eek: , you felt like running for cover when he said he was going to rob them and then kill them. Scary, scary, scary!

The face that was captured on the ATM was like looking at something that wasnt quite human. This gave me nightmares for weeks, when I was younger.


And last but not least....



My all time favorite scary segment is the I-70 serial killer. As I have mentioned before, this has got to have the scariest music I have ever heard on Unsolved Mysteries. I will not watch this segment at night, especially because of the composite sketch of the killer at the end. Its just too gruesome! :eek:

I don't remember all of the scariest segments, but the one that I still have fresh in my mind is the one about Resurrection Mary - the scene where she's standing on the side of the road and the couple passes her, they look back, and she has....................................................................................................
NO FACE! Not only that, but the music that played the moment you saw she had no face - :eek: Anybody remember that? One of the scariest moments I've ever seen on TV!

I remember the Son of Sam segments quite well, too. They were scary. I also agree that the sketches they made of criminals were eerie, and even regular pictures they showed - sometimes their facial expressions would give me chills. It's like they took those pictures purposely and showed them just to scare you. It was just a weird show sometimes, and when I was younger, I had some sleepless nights because of it.

But hey, that's what made it a great show, right?

They pretty much all scare the crap out of me. Well, at least the ones about murders or life threatening crimes of the like. Obviously the later episodes were more fluffed up though, and you kinda forget that these are real people they're talking about because everythings so polished, but you still are perturbed about the fact that such evil things were done to people.

I truly believe that UM is one the reasons I'm so paranoid....I'm not even kidding.

I watch America's Most Wanted as well and it doesn't scare me even half as much as UM does.

6. The Son of Sam cases. Especially when the couple walks past the park bathroom and theres a guy lurking in the shadows. I lived in NYC during all of that and I can tell you that NYC was paralyzed with fear.

Yeah, that case is very scary.

Come to think of it, my father mentioned to me one day that as he and my mother were exiting a Manhattan movie theater one night, reports were circulating that the killer had struck again.

I think that most of the cases that involve an incident (murder, kidnapping) at night are the ones that scare me the most. And there have been a ton of those profiled on UM.

Some of these cases i don't remember...I'm sure if i saw i clip i would but anyway...I think most of the ones about murders or missing persons scare the crap out of me...I can not watch um if I'm at home alone especially at night.

The most scariest that comes to mind is the Angela Hammond case. That guy was creepy and it just goes to show no matter how quiet or safe you think your town is you should never be out alone at night.

I watched the Son of Sam segment late one night and those composites were creepy as hell, lol!


Also the Blind River Rest Area segment is one for the books as well. The very first segment I remember seeing was the original airing in '88 of "Boys On The Tracks" and of course that scared the crap outta me (Give me a break I was only 7, lol!) especially when they got to the part about the man in military fatigues.

The ATM murder also scared the crapola out of me when I saw that as a kid. BUT....the one that still sends shivers down my spine at times...


Is the segment with the arsonist who set fire to a house and videotaped his work...you can hear his voice, saying things like "Look at it, Omar! Look at it! Look at the flames!" in a raspy, chillingly evil voice.

I understand that the guy was captured (at least that's what I remember, anyway) but that segment still haunts me to this day.

Cain

I think that most of the cases that involve an incident (murder, kidnapping) at night are the ones that scare me the most. And there have been a ton of those profiled on UM.

In that regard, the segment that gave me chills was the girl who ran for her life in a graveyard late at night. The very concept of that is pure Hollywood fiction, and to see it actually happened really got to me, more than any other UM segment.

It happened in the early '90s but was profiled late in UM's run, maybe 2001. She even kneeled behind headstones to hide from her pursuers, according to physical evidence at the graveyard, and finally sprinted toward a lit house in the distance before smacking her head on something she couldn't see in the dark. She was murdered there. From previous mention of this case here, I think I remember she was apparently held by the captors and molested in a van before escaping the vehicle and running into the graveyard. A boyfriend was suspected but I don't think anyone was ever charged.

Yes, the young woman's name was Jessica Keen. Unfortunately, there have been no arrests made in her murder. The boyfriend was cleared.

The Angela Hammond kidnapping was horrible. If it hadn't been for her boyfriend's car breaking down, he may have been able to get the license plate number of the man's truck.

One episode that terrified me was about the Valley Killer (I don't remember if UM called him by that on the show or not.) Six women were found stabbed to death in the Connecticut River Valley area (New Hampshire/Vermont border) in the late 1970's into the 1980's.

A pregnant woman was in the area in 1988 and stabbed by a man at a closed gas station at night. She played dead, he stopped attacking her and drove off, she managed to get back in her car and accidentally followed him down the road! She got to a friend's house, and the friend saw this same vehicle come back up the road, look at the house, and then drive off.

A guy, Gary Schaeffer, was arrested for some of the murders, but the police felt there was another killer in the area as well.

A pregnant woman was in the area in 1988 and stabbed by a man at a closed gas station at night. She played dead, he stopped attacking her and drove off, she managed to get back in her car and accidentally followed him down the road! She got to a friend's house, and the friend saw this same vehicle come back up the road, look at the house, and then drive off.

Yeah, that one always got to me. What really scared me was Robert Stack's voiceover at the end:

"We hope that he is incarcirated for some other crime. Our worst hope is that he is still on the loose, SLOWLY KILLING AT RANDOM.

Yeah, I slept well that night.

The radio personality who was shot by some guy who had a limp who chases him down and shoots him. If you watch a reinactment, theres a dude just sitting in his car and the killer runs right next to his car and he quickly ducks over to the passenger side... I wonder why he didnt shoot him.

I'd say that either the killer was too focused on his target (Kevin Hughes) to notice the person in the car, or the killer was disguised in a way that made him difficult to be identified (thus making it pointless to kill any potential witnesses).

Oh man, I remember that one... and wish I hadn't. Didn't this guy pull into the driveway or stop in front of the house and linger a while?

Thanks to Unsolved Mysteries, I am a paranoid nutcase who sleeps with a sawed-off and ghost-be-gone spray. Hey, what was that noise?!! :roper

There was one segment that freaked me out more than scared me and it has stuck with me for years. The one where the rich woman was dying and she did everything she could to erase all proof of her existence(cutting up pictures ,etc). Does anyone remember what her name was?(every once in awhile I remember it but then it slips my mind again). I know they were looking for an heir, but Im not sure that one was ever found.

I don't remember all of the scariest segments, but the one that I still have fresh in my mind is the one about Resurrection Mary - the scene where she's standing on the side of the road and the couple passes her, they look back, and she has....................................................................................................
NO FACE! Not only that, but the music that played the moment you saw she had no face - :eek: Anybody remember that? One of the scariest moments I've ever seen on TV!


reading that made me laugh soo hard

The CT River Valley episode was frightening and the haunted house in Claremont, Florida episode was scary as well.

The Ethel Kidd case was disturbing as well... body tied to a tree... I bet the person who found her had the shock of his life! The fact that the murder happened somewhat close to where I live also made it creepy.

The Ethel Kidd case WAS creepy! I remember seeing it for the first time when I was about 9 or 10... the image of her tied to the tree has stuck with me since. It really bugged me... but the segment was well done.

Another scary segment for me is the one where some guy kept killing young females in New Orleans. One victim, who lived to tell the story, had her vocal cords permanently damaged as a result of having been nearly strangled to death. And also, the killer would leave piles of garbage on his victims.:eek:

Two segments that really scared me, especially when I was younger were:

1. The arsonsit who taped his own fires and talked while he was taping them....I forget who the guy was but I think it was somewhere out West like California? He was really disturbed and REALLY creeped me out!
"This is hell.....MY hell! hahahahahahaha"

2. A ghost segment about the spirit of a man named Samuel haunting a family and his face showed up in one of their photographs in the TV set.

I had my own bedroom downstairs in our old house and I'd watch UM every Wednesday before I'd go to bed and I couldn't sleep by myself down there for fear the ghosts would get me. I'd sneak upstairs to sleep on the couch almost every night. I was only a child about 8, 9 or 10.

VERY creepy!

greatgarrett2

2. A ghost segment about the spirit of a man named Samuel haunting a family and his face showed up in one of their photographs in the TV set.

I first saw that segment when I was 10 and it scared me BIG time. I couldn't sleep that night. The two scariest part of that segment - 1. When the boy ran out of the house, looked back and saw the ghost staring back at him through the window :eek: and 2. The three actors who played the ghosts... just the looks on their faces was enough to haunt me for a while.

I'll never understand why this segment was never included on ghost DVD collection. It was the scariest haunting segment out of all of them... even worse than the bunk bed segment IMO.

The segment where the guy would try to trick women to pull over on the highway by pointing towards her car and shouting is pretty darn scary because it could happen to many people. Some women would pull over, thinking something was wrong with their car and the guy would harm them. I couldn't remember if he killed anyone or not. Since I commute quite a ways to work and back, this is the perfect ingredient for paranoia! To this day, I refuse to pull over until I get to a gas station or somewhere with people. I've never been pulled over by a cop, but even then, I don't care, I'm not stopping until I'm somewhere where other people are at!

I think that most of the cases that involve an incident (murder, kidnapping) at night are the ones that scare me the most. And there have been a ton of those profiled on UM.

I agree completely. I think that's part of the reason that I wasn't too frightened by the "Debby" segment when I first saw it on Heather's DVD. IIRC, Debby stopped at a bank during her lunch break. Had the case taken place at night, I probably would have found it scarier.

Oh Man, the "Look at it omar" fire segment.I saw that when it first aired.Think I was hallucinating from sleeplessness by the time the next Wednesday's Unsolved rolled around.The big bearded imposing dude in the segment where he kidnapped the girl.He had the fish on his back windshield. "I didn't need to use the phone anyway!" Good Lord that messed with me.Ugh..."Richard's Rampage" was another.He was the guy who flipped out when his girlfriend broke up with him then exacted revenge by killing her family and almost her in the middle of the night.It's on the Bizarre Murders set and it's always one that I skip over.Yes, I am scared of that segment.One last one would be the dirty redneck couple on the highway who toyed with the black dudes in the car subsequently running them off the road and killing most of em.One survived I think.I would run away from just that chilling composite they made of that guy.

"Richard's Rampage" was another.He was the guy who flipped out when his girlfriend broke up with him then exacted revenge by killing her family and almost her in the middle of the night.

That one takes the cake. That story could have easily been made into a horror film.

Thanks to Unsolved Mysteries, I am a paranoid nutcase who sleeps with a sawed-off and ghost-be-gone spray

LOL! :lol:

The steamer trunk corpse segment! Also the hispanic clerk murdered while working the night shift in a store in Los Angeles. The composite was horrifying! Anyone know the name of this victim? The segment itself wasn't too long. I think it was a special alert. There was a picture at the beginning of the victim with his wife and child.

The steamer trunk corpse segment! Also the hispanic clerk murdered while working the night shift in a store in Los Angeles. The composite was horrifying! Anyone know the name of this victim? The segment itself wasn't too long. I think it was a special alert. There was a picture at the beginning of the victim with his wife and child.

Someone should post a picture of the steamer trunk corpse on here for you Zero....:lol:

I'm trying to figure out the segment you're talking about. I do remember seeing a family photo of a Hispanic man and I'm wondering if it might be the convenience store murders in Sacramento. If so I have that one. If I have time I'll watch it today and see if thats the segment and his name.

Posting a picture of the steamer trunk corpse?!? :faint:

Someone should post a picture of the steamer trunk corpse on here for you Zero....:lol:

I'm trying to figure out the segment you're talking about. I do remember seeing a family photo of a Hispanic man and I'm wondering if it might be the convenience store murders in Sacramento. If so I have that one. If I have time I'll watch it today and see if thats the segment and his name.

Please no!

There was a family photo of the clerk at the beginning. It was just him with his wife and baby. The murder was caught on tape. It sickened me because the murder went one of two ways, either the suspect entered the store and shot the man for no reason, or shot him after the clerk handed over all the money. The video shows the suspect turning around and calmly walking out. He was wearing a white t-shirt.

I'm 99% sure that it was in a terrible part of Los Angeles. Somewhere like Compton, Watts, South Central LA. I recognized the areas because I am familiar with them. This happened in the 90's and the segment wasn't too long. Possibly a special alert. If you ever come across it that would be great!

Does anyone know about that case where the man was going to sell a computer to a couple but ended up murdering the wife with a hammer instead? That one seriously creeped me out.

Does anyone know about that case where the man was going to sell a computer to a couple but ended up murdering the wife with a hammer instead? That one seriously creeped me out.
Oh yeah. It's hard to forget that segment where "Tom Johnson" beat that poor lady to death with the hammer for a computer. That was a creepy segment. I wonder if they will ever catch the guy that did it.

I remember that one. The segment that scared me the most was of the small, wiry black hitchhiker who tried to catch a ride with a guy in a pickup. When the guy in the pickup sped off, the would-be hitcher tried to stab him with a screwdriver. When the guy got back to his mother's house, the attacker was walking through his mother's yard. When the guy got home, his mother had been murdered! I always wondered how the killer could have known that was the guy's mother's house. I mean, it was too much to be a coincidence.

Now, when you folks refer to the rest stop killer, you're talking about the stringy-haired blonde guy who shot the older couple, killing the wife, right? That always scared me, and it absolutely broke my heart to see that poor man left without his wife.

Angela Hammond's case also scared me. I felt awful for her boyfriend -- I can't imagine how horrible he must have felt being so close to catching her abductor, only to have his car fail on him.

And that arsonist whispering on the tape!!! Good grief, that was frightening! :eek:

I remember that one. The segment that scared me the most was of the small, wiry black hitchhiker who tried to catch a ride with a guy in a pickup. When the guy in the pickup sped off, the would-be hitcher tried to stab him with a screwdriver. When the guy got back to his mother's house, the attacker was walking through his mother's yard. When the guy got home, his mother had been murdered! I always wondered how the killer could have known that was the guy's mother's house. I mean, it was too much to be a coincidence.

Now, when you folks refer to the rest stop killer, you're talking about the stringy-haired blonde guy who shot the older couple, killing the wife, right? That always scared me, and it absolutely broke my heart to see that poor man left without his wife.

Angela Hammond's case also scared me. I felt awful for her boyfriend -- I can't imagine how horrible he must have felt being so close to catching her abductor, only to have his car fail on him.

And that arsonist whispering on the tape!!! Good grief, that was frightening! :eek:

I agree with all of those and I want to add the Matthew Chase and the I-70 Killer segments. Those two are frightening.

Some segments that scared me were:

1. That guy in New Hampshire who gave that hitchhiker a ride, then kicked him out only to find the hitchhiker walking towards his mom house and killing her. Was this case ever solved?

2. Dennis Depue the guy who killed his wife in Coldwater Michigan.

3. That watchman who was kidnapped or missing from his workplace. Any updates on this case?

4. Anybody rember that case in Carloina, where that lady was chased into the woods and raped and then shot in the face? She survied then she saw her face in a ballon? What was that case? Anybody know where I can see a clip of that? Lots of people say that case was freaky, I want to judge for myself!

1. I'm not sure if they caught the guy yet. Are there any updates on it? That was one of the creepiest ones along with the one where the girl gets raped and murdered in the beauty shop and the rapist/killer jumps out the window and accosts this black lady who saw him. That one was also scary as hell.

2. Dennis DePue? Was that the one where they were in Lake Michigan and their boat wouldn't start and they had the rafts that kept malfunctioning? Or is that something different?

3. That one with the watchman (the name escapes me like most of the names of these cases ever since UM got yanked from Lifetime. I guess I should get all of crystaldawn's DVD volumes to catch up.) is creepy as well. What was kind of weird is that they didn't show the actual footage of the videotape of the robber and the watchman. That is one of those cases where he either was complicit and got double-crossed and was killed and hidden somewhere, or he wasn't and was kidnapped, then killed in an isolated area which may have been pre-determined beforehand.

4. I don't think I know which segment that is. It sounds unfamiliar to me.

Some segments that scared me were:

1. That guy in New Hampshire who gave that hitchhiker a ride, then kicked him out only to find the hitchhiker walking towards his mom house and killing her. Was this case ever solved?

2. Dennis Depue the guy who killed his wife in Coldwater Michigan.

3. That watchman who was kidnapped or missing from his workplace. Any updates on this case?

4. Anybody rember that case in Carloina, where that lady was chased into the woods and raped and then shot in the face? She survied then she saw her face in a ballon? What was that case? Anybody know where I can see a clip of that? Lots of people say that case was freaky, I want to judge for myself!

1. The old lady's name was Dorothy Donovan and yes someone has been convicted of her killing. Search the name and you'll find more info here.

3. Dale Kerstetter and no updates known.

4. Her name was given as "Debby" and it's not the nicest thing to watch let me tell you. It could be on a Crystaldawn favs DVD??


As for scary cases, not sure if someone else has already mentioned them (I haven't been following this thread), I'll add Michael Johnson and Rochelle Robinson and Gregory Barker cases. Wouldn't say they scared the crap outta me as the title suggests but they did make me look over my shoulder.

2. Dennis DePue? Was that the one where they were in Lake Michigan and their boat wouldn't start and they had the rafts that kept malfunctioning? Or is that something different?


I can kind of see your mind working...the DePue case was originally in Michigan (at least I'm pretty sure). The case you're thinking of took place on Lake Superior.

DePue was the one where the married couple was out on a Sunday drive and caught Dennis trying to get rid of some bloody sheets, then ended up seeing him again on the road and they were basically scared out of their minds. After seeing himself on UM, DePue led police on a high speed car chase and ultimately killed himself.

The scene with the bloody sheets/driving was recreated in a teen horror flick (Jeepers Creepers?).

1. The old lady's name was Dorothy Donovan and yes someone has been convicted of her killing. Search the name and you'll find more info here.

3. Dale Kerstetter and no updates known.

4. Her name was given as "Debby" and it's not the nicest thing to watch let me tell you. It could be on a Crystaldawn favs DVD??


As for scary cases, not sure if someone else has already mentioned them (I haven't been following this thread), I'll add Michael Johnson and Rochelle Robinson and Gregory Barker cases. Wouldn't say they scared the crap outta me as the title suggests but they did make me look over my shoulder.

Yes, that first one was the first one I mentioned in my post. A friend and I dubbed him "The Urkel Killer" because he was this small, nerdy looking guy. I think that was part of what made the segment so creepy. He didn't look like your stereotypical big, burly, scruffy "killer" type. I'm glad it has been solved.

I remember the Dale Kerstetter case -- but they did show the surveillance video from the actual incident, if I recall correctly.

What about that last one? Woman sees her face in a balloon?? What does that mean?

To clear up some confusion-

The Dorothy Donovan case happened in Delaware, not New Hampshire.

The case with the malfunctioning boat/liferafts was the Debby & Larry Race segment. They lived in Minnesota.

the Dennis Depue segment did in fact take place in Coldwater, Michigan. It's one of the closest UM cases to where I live, about 45 min to an hour away.

The "Debby" case is on the first volume of CD's Um favorites.

I still can't watch the old opening credits to UM at night. Crystal has the old theme music in volume 1. The music and the scenes shown during the opening is scary. What makes it worst is that I weigh 240 lbs and lift weights 6 days a week.

Dan Shorts case creeped me out. This was the one of the bank president who was tied to a chair and thrown over a bridge. Also the one on the warehouse worker who turned up missing. They eventuall found some of his belongings in an incenterator. I think his name was Dave Bochs.

Yes, that first one was the first one I mentioned in my post. A friend and I dubbed him "The Urkel Killer" because he was this small, nerdy looking guy. I think that was part of what made the segment so creepy. He didn't look like your stereotypical big, burly, scruffy "killer" type. I'm glad it has been solved.

I remember the Dale Kerstetter case -- but they did show the surveillance video from the actual incident, if I recall correctly.

What about that last one? Woman sees her face in a balloon?? What does that mean?

I thought they showed the actual Kerstetter video footage but the last time I saw it, Stack said they had re-enacted what was on the actual tape.

I don't remember all of the scariest segments, but the one that I still have fresh in my mind is the one about Resurrection Mary - the scene where she's standing on the side of the road and the couple passes her, they look back, and she has....................................................................................................
NO FACE! Not only that, but the music that played the moment you saw she had no face - :eek: Anybody remember that? One of the scariest moments I've ever seen on TV!

YES YES YES!! that was SO scary!!

Scariest...

Watching the Dennis Depue segment... Then years later, seeing Jeepers Creepers and having the most horrific case of deja vu.

That show has kept me up at night when I was a teenager. :eek: My brother and I would watch it every week. We would psych each other out and run upstairs during the commercial break just to check if the doors were locked!:crazy:
When I recently discovered that there was a bunch of episodes posted on YouTube, I went into a viewing "binge", watched 4 solid hours of UM and went to bed at 2h00 AM. It took me an hour to fall asleep. My top ten:

10) The Roswell episode. Alien bodies on the stretchers.
9) The cult murders in San Angelo Texas. It all started with a frikkin Ouija board.
8) The door to door child molester with the huge sunglasses. I pity the poor actor who had to take part in this re-enactment. Cree-py.
7) Beverly McGowan. Brilliant montage when "Alice" warns her of a couple that will harm her dissolves onto an overhead shot of the police finding a body in the drainage canal. Oh yeah, and THAT FRIKKIN "SAM" police sketch.
6) Edward Harold Bell. Just that shot of him popping in front of the bathroom mirror while "Sue" is getting ready. SCARY.
5) The Strychnine poisoning. That shot of the black leather gloved hand adding the powder in the cold medicine just sends shivers down my spine. A bit cheezy à la "Murded She Wrote", but still effective.
4) The Tallman/bunkbed episode and Rick Church. Good audio design (for example, use of heart beat cue in the Tallman's ghost) really gave a sense of upcoming dread.
3) Angela Hammond and Colleen Reed. Screams in the night = I crap my pants.
2) Ethel Kidd. The murderer's shopping list.
1) Any kidnapping case really freaked me out. Rachel Runyan. Michaela Garetch. Nyleen Kay Marshall. And that bone chilling polaroid of Tara Calico. It still freaks me out.

2. That 1-70 murder makes me shake, especially when the witness tells him
"I cant go in the back with you," and gets away. He looked death in the eye, and the sketch is enough to make you never go out again.
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Which was the 1-70 murder?

I have no doubt that UM is the reason I'm very paranoid at the age of 25. I check back seats, I check the dark, everything relates back to UM somehow.

I started watching when I was 4 years old and during commercials my dad would have to walk me to the bathroom and wait outside the door for me because I was so scared!!!!

Scariest to me?!? Pretty much all of them, with that music, and my beloved's voice. But the ones that really come to mind is Resurrection Mary, when she has no face, and the Angela Hammond and Jessica Keen ones, very creepy, those right there made me very leery and cautious, or paranoid, you pick

Oh i totally agree with you guys.....for awhile there i was taping UM on VHS tapes (remember those) and watching them during the day so it would not be dark out. It made me paranoid.

You guys all menitoned good ones....mine are:

1. The Rick Church one where he killed his ex's parents. The music playing when he was chasing the girlfriend down the middle of that dark street and when he came up the stairs and stabbed her little brother and friend. :(

2. That same episode had that bunk bed ghost story....scared the crap out of me!

3. No one mentioned the laundry room killings where in RI a daughter let a person in who beat two woman down in the laundry room - killed one and severly wounder the other. When that woman was walking down those dark stairs and started sorting her laundy.....SCARY

4. The Dan Short case but he just answered his door at night. I always freak when my door bell rings at night.

5. AND the Jeremy Bright case....that whole segment was soooo eerie, when they were showing him in a desserted cabin dying by himself. :eek:

I know what you mean by getting freaked out about your doorbell ringing at night. I am so easily scared by things that I don't even want to answer my door in the daytime!

Thanks to cyrstaldawn's volume 9 dvd I was reminded of a post that had scared me half to death as a young teen.

Dammit!! The name of the killer is escaping me right now but its the story of the kid who killed his twin half-sisters in their mobile home with a shotgun, then set it on fire. One of the twins died at the scene, the other survived the shotgun blast, staggered out onto the porch, then she reached down to her stomach and said it felt "like a bunch of Jell-O". She then makes a valiant and odd-defying recovery, AND THEN DIES in a freak accident when an air bubble somehow gets into her IV!!

The brother, who maintains his innocence against all logic and evidence, began to be suspected when was found trying to pull off a 5am break-in of his family's business. He said he just wanted to "feed his dog" but police suspect he was there to get a shotgun and (I think) finish off the rest of the family.

There were a combination of frightening elements about this case:
The girls waking up to a midnight murder
Jell-O belly wounds
The prospect of freak accidents causing you to die a horrible and unneccessary death in the hospital
The suspected killer's voice distortion (Unsolved Mysteries made this as scary as possible)
The kid who played the killer had these really steely, penetrating eyes and did a good job of portraying someone shifty who couldn't be believed
I was frickin 14 and watching it alone at night.


Last night I was frickin 31, watching it with my wife, and I was still scared!!

Thanks to cyrstaldawn's volume 9 dvd I was reminded of a post that had scared me half to death as a young teen.

Dammit!! The name of the killer is escaping me right now but its the story of the kid who killed his twin half-sisters in their mobile home with a shotgun, then set it on fire. One of the twins died at the scene, the other survived the shotgun blast, staggered out onto the porch, then she reached down to her stomach and said it felt "like a bunch of Jell-O". She then makes a valiant and odd-defying recovery, AND THEN DIES in a freak accident when an air bubble somehow gets into her IV!!

The brother, who maintains his innocence against all logic and evidence, began to be suspected when was found trying to pull off a 5am break-in of his family's business. He said he just wanted to "feed his dog" but police suspect he was there to get a shotgun and (I think) finish off the rest of the family.

There were a combination of frightening elements about this case:
The girls waking up to a midnight murder
Jell-O belly wounds
The prospect of freak accidents causing you to die a horrible and unneccessary death in the hospital
The suspected killer's voice distortion (Unsolved Mysteries made this as scary as possible)
The kid who played the killer had these really steely, penetrating eyes and did a good job of portraying someone shifty who couldn't be believed
I was frickin 14 and watching it alone at night.


Last night I was frickin 31, watching it with my wife, and I was still scared!!

Donny Hansen is the name of the "kid". Here is a link to a discussion about this case on this board (one of the posters claimed that his girlfriend is a direct cousin of Donny Hansen, and another that he/she went to school with both Jill & Julie Hansen):


www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=67791&highlight=jill+julie+hanson

The police sketches of suspects always used to keep me up at night...something about the eyes and the "dead" or "zombie-like" stare would stay seered in my mind for hours.

But the Son of Sam segment 1...which I first saw in 1992 at age 13...covered all the "creepy" bases. With multiple sketches, erie music, frightening scenes...and the added realism of archival video and film footage made that one stick with me longer than most.

Ironically, I did not see the 2nd part of the segment until 3 years ago, and it actually scared me even more, but from an adult POV. Just to think, that some of the things that happened in 1976-77 might have still been going on as late as 1988. CREEPY!

How about the one where these young guys are in a dugout at a ballpark late at night, drinking beers, hanging out. And three masked men demand their money. One guy says "Why don't you leave us alone?" and the ski-masked man sort of slowly nods his head, they walk away and then.....

HE turns around and shoots them all!!!

Oh yeah, and that rest stop murder story....yikes! I STILL can't go camping!!


And there was one about a young woman who had moved to DC. She was found dead. She was last seen at a supermarket being approached by a clean-cut looking guy, another witness remembered seeing her car. Anyway, they show her "killer" running away and it just freaks me out.

And there was one about a young woman who had moved to DC. She was found dead. She was last seen at a supermarket being approached by a clean-cut looking guy, another witness remembered seeing her car. Anyway, they show her "killer" running away and it just freaks me out.

I'm pretty sure this is the Veronica Jefferson story. Search the forum and you'll find an update on the status of the case. They found a suspect and tried him, but I *think* the trial ended in a mistrial. In an odd twist of fate, the suspect was also tried for the murder of two other folks featured on UM, Warren Fulton and Rachael Raver.

Like I said, search the forum. :)

The police sketches of suspects always used to keep me up at night...something about the eyes and the "dead" or "zombie-like" stare would stay seered in my mind for hours.

But the Son of Sam segment 1...which I first saw in 1992 at age 13...covered all the "creepy" bases. With multiple sketches, erie music, frightening scenes...and the added realism of archival video and film footage made that one stick with me longer than most.

Ironically, I did not see the 2nd part of the segment until 3 years ago, and it actually scared me even more, but from an adult POV. Just to think, that some of the things that happened in 1976-77 might have still been going on as late as 1988. CREEPY!

BUMP. It's not just a dead stare. It's an evil, devoid of a soul stare.

The case of Charlie Anderson made me (as a 7-8 year old) refuse to enter the house after dark until my parent(s) went in and turned the lights on first. Of course years later we know it was probably the wife in a murder for hire and not a random intruder but at the time you can bet I checked my closets before going to bed!

Somewhat OT but as a teenager I had serious back problems. Long story short if you have a significant back injury you CANNOT run no matter what! The pain is completely debilitating and you can't just "fight through" on adrenaline.

The Ethel Kidd case is one that has stuck with me for years. That recreation of her body tied to a tree in the middle of the woods is so creepy. I can't imagine what the hunter who came across it felt when he first saw it. :eek:

Also, the murder of Tim Good. It is unsettling how Ben Freeman was able to take control of his life and practically made him a slave in his own house. Then he killed him and continued to live there while Tim's body was decomposing in the basement.

I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones that immediately came to mind.

Tim Good definitely scared me, because it could happen to anyone.

"Debbie" still haunts me to this day. RS wisely warns everyone that the segment is disturbing. They never caught the guy but there is a possible suspect. Trail Went Cold delved into it...

I've posted this in other threads. "Carol" and Kevin Hughes. Carol's case remains unsolved and Kevin Hughes murder was a conspiracy by corrupt insiders. 2 of the perpetrators have passed away, but there could have been more.