Apart from UFO's, ghosts etc

I don't really care for the military suicide vs murder cases.

The "lost love" segments were never a favorite of mine. Some of the "fraud" segments were ok, but I liked the missing/unexplained death/murder/final appeal type stories.

didn't care for the fraud ones...I liked pretty much everything else.

Let's see:

1) The religious-based mysteries aren't very interesting to me as the way UM presented them was that they were "true" and they were reinforcing that "truth."

2) The UFO mysteries could have been left out. The segments usually rehashed discredited tales and tried to show that a few witnesses believed what they saw. They usually avoided the skeptics and critical examination of the stories.

3) The lost loves, not because some weren't good stories but because if you closely examine the stories most them portrayed the parents that abandoned their kids in far too kind of a light than they should have.

Let's see:

1) The religious-based mysteries aren't very interesting to me as the way UM presented them was that they were "true" and they were reinforcing that "truth."

2) The UFO mysteries could have been left out. The segments usually rehashed discredited tales and tried to show that a few witnesses believed what they saw. They usually avoided the skeptics and critical examination of the stories.

3) The lost loves, not because some weren't good stories but because if you closely examine the stories most them portrayed the parents that abandoned their kids in far too kind of a light than they should have.

The UFO cases were a bit much...

Originally posted by cocytus 1) The religious-based mysteries aren't very interesting to me as the way UM presented them was that they were "true" and they were reinforcing that "truth."

I second that!

I also didn't care for the Sarah Powell case, the stupid "Fertility Statues" case, The Wackers, and especially the segment they did on Chocolate... I mean, what the hell kinda topic is that?!


Now even though I really don't believe in ghosts and not quite convinced that aliens visit the earth - I found a few segments to be really entertaining (i.e. Resurrection Mary, The "Guardian" segment) ... but most of the cases were just downright ********

The "Lost Loves" cases are certainly a big white elephant amongst UM fan as they did a lot of good for people and I always enjoyed watching the reunions, but the stories themselves were kinda dull. Besides, how many of those cases might have been solved in five seconds today with a simple Google search?

Never really cared for the "Lost Heirs" cases either. I always felt bad for the people in the UM Telecentre when those aired because I'm sure putting a bunch of unclaimed money up for grabs meant that a ton of frauds were going to call in.

The only Wanted/Missing Persons case that made me ask "why are they airing this?" was Bo Tanner. The only charge against him was one count of bigamy, and I believe the statute of limitations expired by the time they eventually found him. Sure, he took all his wife's money, but since their bank account was also under his name, he technically didn't do anything illegal. The only reason this case seemed to be on the show was because his wife wanted him back and naively thought they could work things out again. Not that he didn't deserve to be punished, but I'm sure there were hundreds of cases that were more deserving of being on UM than this one.

The "Lost Loves" cases are certainly a big white elephant amongst UM fan as they did a lot of good for people and I always enjoyed watching the reunions, but the stories themselves were kinda dull. Besides, how many of those cases might have been solved in five seconds today with a simple Google search?

Never really cared for the "Lost Heirs" cases either. I always felt bad for the people in the UM Telecentre when those aired because I'm sure putting a bunch of unclaimed money up for grabs meant that a ton of frauds were going to call in.

The only Wanted/Missing Persons case that made me ask "why are they airing this?" was Bo Tanner. The only charge against him was one count of bigamy, and I believe the statute of limitations expired by the time they eventually found him. Sure, he took all his wife's money, but since their bank account was also under his name, he technically didn't do anything illegal. The only reason this case seemed to be on the show was because his wife wanted him back and naively thought they could work things out again. Not that he didn't deserve to be punished, but I'm sure there were hundreds of cases that were more deserving of being on UM than this one.

haha yes they could do a google search now on lost loves and such! Lost heirs was interesting but cases like anestasia, i mean common what are the chances of finding her if the whole family was shot? And the person that said they were anastasia turned out to be an imposter! I saw a news article saying they recently found two more bodies in russia they believe to be alexander and anastasia. dunno....

The Wackers

Jeffrey MacDonald, Glen Cosangra, Tommy Ziegler, and Darlie Routier

Justin Burgwinkel

Conradina Olsen -- the mystery of the unknown murdered woman in Ellis, MO was interesting but the psychic's linking it with Olsen's disappearance was complete BS.

Sarah Powell

The run off bigamists (the airline pilot and the counterfeiter), just because other missing persons cases could have been profiled instead.

Fertility statues, chocolate, and any case where some moron hands their life savings to either someone they barely know or a witch doctor waving a chickens foot and incense while asking for money. (this coming from the guy that actually enjoys most of the ghost and UFO segments - most not all) not saying any of them are true, but they are interesting to me.

Most notable for me is that segment about the massage therapist or whatever who cured Keiko the whale of his warts. That one didn't do it for me.

I don't like the miracle stories, for the most part, and don't find most of the supernatural type segments to be very entertaining. I fast-forward through the lost heirs bits.

I kind of like some of the ghost ones, actually. They're entertaining in a different way. Haunted bunkbed!

Ugh, how could I have forgotten the fertility statues or chocolate? I don't even like chocolate, why would I watch a segment about it?

Let's see:

1) The religious-based mysteries aren't very interesting to me as the way UM presented them was that they were "true" and they were reinforcing that "truth."

I third that.

I didn't care for the Lost Heirs or UFO ones either. I favor the murder/missing persons segments.

Originally posted by soilentgreen Conradina Olsen -- the mystery of the unknown murdered woman in Ellis, MO was interesting but the psychic's linking it with Olsen's disappearance was complete BS.


Right!! I totally forgot about that one! Make that.. TRYING to forget about that one! And you're totally right it was (kinda) interesting up until the psychic showed up

Originally posted by Guardian any case where some moron hands their life savings to either someone they barely know or a witch doctor waving a chickens foot and incense while asking for money.

:lol: :clap Hear hear!


Originally posted by porcella Most notable for me is that segment about the massage therapist or whatever who cured Keiko the whale of his warts. That one didn't do it for me.

I don't like the miracle stories, for the most part, and don't find most of the supernatural type segments to be very entertaining.

I dunno if I ever saw the whale one -- and if I did I probably stopped watching!

I don't even like chocolate, why would I watch a segment about it?

BWA HA HA HA HA !!! :lol:

You guys are awesome!! Reading these posts made my night!

I never cared for the Lost Loves or Fraud cases. I usually found them boring. I'm surprised a lot of people didn't care for the UFO cases. I thought they were the best along with the ghosts, and the most frightening. I always thought the cases that explored the unknown and unexplainable were the best mysteries.

Fertility statues, chocolate, and any case where some moron hands their life savings to either someone they barely know or a witch doctor waving a chickens foot and incense while asking for money. (this coming from the guy that actually enjoys most of the ghost and UFO segments - most not all) not saying any of them are true, but they are interesting to me.

hahahaha omg yes! When they would show how the person hands over the life savings or they married a guy who took all their money out of the account and did this all over the place with others, omg..I would always think now why would she not be more familiar with the business or his business dealings..? I think there was a segment where a lady who had her retirement taken had to go back to work if im not mistaken..or how about the one where a woman faked her resume and always got jobs dealing with money and would skip out on different companies with the loot! Its so silly...

What? No one mentioned the magic rock???

SCI-MED

I really hated those ones!

Some of the fraud cases were dull but some were great. The one with the fat lady who stole money from the department store she worked at was great but the one with a guy named Cox who stole money from his investors was a boring one.

Bank robberies were awesome though :)

What? No one mentioned the magic rock???

or Rainboy!

that case was just so unbelivable. The case with Tina Reich as well didn't interest me in the slightest.

For some reason, I've always had this indifference to the Boys On The Tracks case.

How about the tiny UFO that cures the lady's cancer?

Another one I hated was the child geniuses one. The kid they interviewed was irritating as hell.

Let's see:
2) The UFO mysteries could have been left out. The segments usually rehashed discredited tales and tried to show that a few witnesses believed what they saw. They usually avoided the skeptics and critical examination of the stories.

3) The lost loves, not because some weren't good stories but because if you closely examine the stories most them portrayed the parents that abandoned their kids in far too kind of a light than they should have.

Yeah, for me the ghosts and flying saucers could have easily been given the deep six!
While I actually liked many of the lost loves cases, I can think of a few where the grown children of very abusive parents seemed resentful of being separated from their parents and siblings by the authorities- but what chance would they have had had they stayed with their abusive parents?

It amuses me a great deal that we all like the murder and missing persons segments, but no one seems to like the "feel-good" human interest ones.

It amuses me a great deal that we all like the murder and missing persons segments, but no one seems to like the "feel-good" human interest ones.

Yeah I know but evil doings are like a hook aren't they?

I guess it's like a train wreck. You know it's bad but you can't look away.

It amuses me a great deal that we all like the murder and missing persons segments, but no one seems to like the "feel-good" human interest ones.

I don't watch UM to feel good. I watch UM to be creeped out of my mind. :crazy:

I do like some of the lost loves (I can relate a little better if they're slightly more recent) and want to see an update and what the people look like now, but I think it's just human nature to be more curious about "what went wrong" (murder, unexplained death, missing, wanted) instead of "what went right" (lost love updates, sci-med), per say.

The part of the "Dangerous Minds" special segment touching evil world leaders like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler always stir a yawn from me.

The part of the "Dangerous Minds" special segment touching evil world leaders like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler always stir a yawn from me.

Yep...those segments were padding,weren't they?

The part of the "Dangerous Minds" special segment touching evil world leaders like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler always stir a yawn from me.

Why this segment made it to the "Bizarre Murders" DVD is beyond me, unless the just needed something to fill a few minutes of disc space. When viewed out of the context of the "Dangerous Minds" special, you wonder what this segment was doing on UM in the first place.

Why this segment made it to the "Bizarre Murders" DVD is beyond me, unless the just needed something to fill a few minutes of disc space. When viewed out of the context of the "Dangerous Minds" special, you wonder what this segment was doing on UM in the first place.

Even in the segment itself, that part was useless. Okey, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Saddam Hussein were evil rulers in public and bad, bad, bad men in private (except Hitler, in private he was rather homely and inoffensive before the drugs got a hold of him). However, by the criteria set by the segment a significant portion of all non-democratically elected world leaders in the history of the world, from Alexander the Great to Sargon of Akkad, from Tamerlane to Napoleon Bonaparte, would fit the same model of psychopathic goal-driven world leader.

Another one I hated was the child geniuses one. The kid they interviewed was irritating as hell.

Does anyone remember that kid's name? You figure he must be in his 30s by now; I'd be curious to see what, if anything, he's accomplished.

That segment was terrible though.

I never liked the Sci-Med ones; I liked the UFO/Ghost/Psychic ones when I was a kid and didn't know any better, but think they're terrible now.

I'm in the minority, I suppose, in that I liked most of the lost heir/lost loves segments - although I just don't see how most of them aren't solvable with a little genealogical digging (which is something I enjoy, which is likely why I like the segments).

Murder/Missing persons are def. my favs, though.

I don't watch UM to feel good. I watch UM to be creeped out of my mind. :crazy:

Amen to that! Lol. I did like most of the Lost Love segments, but always leaned towards the creepy ones. I've always been a True Crime buff, that's why I'm going back to school to study Criminal Justice :)

or Rainboy!

Are you doubting Rainboy's credibility!? You monster!!!



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Are you doubting Rainboy's credibility!? You monster!!!



:lol:

"It's raining all over the world..."

Does anyone remember that kid's name? You figure he must be in his 30s by now; I'd be curious to see what, if anything, he's accomplished.

Not sure if the info is accurate, but yesterday I was reading through old threads here and someone stated the kid's name (pauli or something was the last name), looked him up, and said he was on staff at a college or university at the time the post was made.

I guess I would second boy genius Philip Pauli, the fertility statues, the Cokeville bombing (don't get me wrong, I'm glad the kids survived, but how they did so is really neither unsolved nor mysterious), and generally any of the cheesy Inside Edition/Hard Copy-esque filler segments that were played to death on Lifetime (which is where I did the majority of my UM viewing before the advent of the website that must not be named).

There are a lot of cases that come to mind, but I will only list a couple.

1.Cokeville School Bombing-The first time I saw this case, I did like it. It had some drama to it,with the mentally unstable bomber,wondering whether the bomb would detonate successfully,etc. What soured me on this case was two things, the first being that Lifetime showed this case about 1000 times in the span of a few weeks,and the second being that more of an emphasis seemed to be placed on the possibility of a "miracle" rather than simple logic(the bomb itself was manufactured poorly and did not detonate with the force planned).

2.The Woman who supposedly "sweated gold"- With 99 percent of the cases that have been featured on UM, I try to keep an open mind and stay interested for the entire segment. But with this one, from minute one, I wasn't buying it. I see this segment as an obvious hoax, and I'm willing to bet that the people who produced/wrote this segment, including the "gold woman" herself, are all sitting around somewhere laughing their asses off.

I have a lot of.

1) UFOs. I loved the ghost segments but never really cared for the UFO ones. Not my thing although I liked the Men in Black segment in theory not execution.

2) Lost loves. I did like the updates to it especially the one about the old guy who cried a lot and who got tricked into a car ride when he was a kid and separated from his sister or the kid who was in foster care and who got reunited with his family plus also got to meet his long lost brother and go fishing with him. But the cases themselves were boring as there was nothing mysterious at all about the case. So although they made me happy to be solved, I didn't care for them from a storytelling point of view.

3) Sci-med. These maybe the ones I care for the least.

4) Most frauds. Although some of them were interesting, it was mostly just ripping people off. Unless it was a real characther like the lady who went thru department store after department store or something with faking death, they just bored me.

5) The Astrological- evil gene- that one was really pointless.

6) The later lame production values ones- cases like the deadly chair or Mothman could have been interesting but the lousy production values totally ruined them and make them hard to care about.

Aw, come on, guys. Don't you want to hear about Charlie's 18-hour workdays grinding him down and the rigorous, spicy night with his girlfriend after a bowl of aphrodisiacs?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I like the Cokeville bombing segment. Two stupid criminals tied themselves
to a crudely made and half inoperable bomb.

Then, to keep their hostages from annoying them, they placed the children
in a safer area while the idiot woman continues to keep herself tied to the bomb.

She soon triggers the darn thing accidentally and kills herself because she's
working on her candidacy for a Darwin award.

The husband quickly follows her lead and no one else is seriously harmed.
The instant justice is morbidly satisfying.

I like the Cokeville bombing segment. Two stupid criminals tied themselves
to a crudely made and half inoperable bomb.

Then, to keep their hostages from annoying them, they placed the children
in a safer area while the idiot woman continues to keep herself tied to the bomb.

She soon triggers the darn thing accidentally and kills herself because she's
working on her candidacy for a Darwin award.

The husband quickly follows her lead and no one else is seriously harmed.
The instant justice is morbidly satisfying.

Yes, Cokeville gets a bad rap due to its overexposure on Lifetime and because the divine miracle element is ridiculously overplayed, but as a standalone segment, I've always enjoyed it and unlike many UM cases, there is a satisfying ending for everyone involved.

Besides, you get to see one of my favourite horror movie actors, Bill Moseley ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2", "House of 1000 Corpses", "The Devil's Rejects") play David Young. I kept expecting to see Sid Haig in his clown makeup come bursting into the classroom at any moment :lol: .

Besides, you get to see one of my favourite horror movie actors, Bill Moseley ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2", "House of 1000 Corpses", "The Devil's Rejects") play David Young. I kept expecting to see Sid Haig in his clown makeup come bursting into the classroom at any moment :lol: .

Oh my God! I can't believe I never realized that was him!

And as for Haig...that would've made the segment.:lol:

There are a lot of cases that come to mind, but I will only list a couple.

1.Cokeville School Bombing-The first time I saw this case, I did like it. It had some drama to it,with the mentally unstable bomber,wondering whether the bomb would detonate successfully,etc. What soured me on this case was two things, the first being that Lifetime showed this case about 1000 times in the span of a few weeks,and the second being that more of an emphasis seemed to be placed on the possibility of a "miracle" rather than simple logic(the bomb itself was manufactured poorly and did not detonate with the force planned).

2.The Woman who supposedly "sweated gold"- With 99 percent of the cases that have been featured on UM, I try to keep an open mind and stay interested for the entire segment. But with this one, from minute one, I wasn't buying it. I see this segment as an obvious hoax, and I'm willing to bet that the people who produced/wrote this segment, including the "gold woman" herself, are all sitting around somewhere laughing their asses off.

Yes ahhaha the woman who sweated gold..yess, that was unbelievalbe and i do imagine they are all laughing it up and thinking about how many viewers they would get with this one! I dont know why but some of the segments reminded me of the national enquirer...Oddly enough i remember it being in high circulation during the old episodes of UM..lol..

It amuses me a great deal that we all like the murder and missing persons segments, but no one seems to like the "feel-good" human interest ones.

I know! Isn't that funny? Murder! Kidnapping! Yes!

Reunited loved ones? NO!

The lady who bled gold.....blech. Go away. And I can't watch the ones where any woman gets swindled by a smooth talking man. "Can you loan me money until my inheritance comes in?" AND THEY BELIEVE THEM!

I do not care for the reincarnation episodes but I gotta admit: Love Resurrection Mary!

How about the tiny UFO that cures the lady's cancer?

Another one I hated was the child geniuses one. The kid they interviewed was irritating as hell.


I found him on facebook not too long ago. Looks like a normal early 20 something. Of course looks can be deceiving.

Lost Love segment were in the middle for me. They weren't my favorite...(I was all about the murders and missing people with you folks) but I didn't really hate them either. Sometimes they felt like a good balance. As a little kid, you watch a story like the Jeanne Tovrea case where you see the killer slowly walk through her house to her bedroom and shoot her through the head in the middle of the night. Sheesh! You needed to see a story right after that will make you go to bed with just a little less terror. (You were still going to be up all night but a good Lost Love case would help soften the blow.)

I liked the concept of family members and friends reuniting. It was nice to see something so heartwarming right after being scared to death.

The cases at the bottom of my list are the miracles, UFO's and missing heirs.

As a little kid, the history segments were a snooze (Anastasia Romanov, Huey Long, Robert Kennedy, John Wilkes Booth, etc). No kid wants to learn history outside of school. But as an adult, I obviously have much more appreciation for them now.

As a little kid, the history segments were a snooze (Anastasia Romanov, Huey Long, Robert Kennedy, John Wilkes Booth, etc). No kid wants to learn history outside of school.

Speak for yourself. The Anastasia segment was my favorite and I saw it when I was a kid and it dayviewed.

I liked the history themed ones but then again I like history. Some (not all) of the lost loves ones are so sad - like the British lady looking for her baby girl who was adopted by an American couple? Her dad was portrayed as so cold. I really felt for her.

But since this is a thread for people/stories you don't care about - the stupid fertility statue needs to GO. Two million rub the damn thing and six sexually active women get pregnant? Big mystery there.....

I loved the Lost Heirs. Lost Loves segments were also welcomed. I don't know why so many people are down on these cases.

The theraputic touch segment was ridiculous, among others.

3) The lost loves, not because some weren't good stories but because if you closely examine the stories most them portrayed the parents that abandoned their kids in far too kind of a light than they should have.


This is a good point that is rarely focused on. Furthermore, it does not seem to be considered that many of these adopted children may not want to be found.

Regardless, I love a good Lost Loves segment. Don't get me wrong, Unexplained Death is still my favorite genre, but the LLs deserve more credit than they get. I still tear up (almost, anyway) at the segment about the elderly Jewish man who wanted to find the GI from years ago. It was very moving, hearing him break up himself when he discussed the soldier's kindness. I was also moved by the Zalinksy segment as well as many others, and the updates were always welcome.

I've never been fond of the UFO segments. Now, they were interesting, but the skeptic in me says that these things are just too easy to fake. Plus, any "footage" that is ever obtained seems to come from a turn-of-the-century (18th century) camera. Finally, while the Allagash story was pretty creepy (at least the alien sketches), hearing the producers dance around the fact that these guys were molested by green men is not exactly DVR material.

Lost Heirs was kind of boring, too, with the exception of Curly Green. And I join the Sci-Med = boring crowd, too, even though I am glad that it was able to help some folks (like the Pacific family with the heart condition). Final Appeal was usually a drag, but I enjoyed the ending to the story about the woman falsely accused of poisoning her son (I would have loved to have heard her tell that prosecutor "kiss my ass," though).

Basically, the following items = WIN

Composite sketches
Anachronisms (at least by today's standards)
Creepy stories
Awesome names (Riggs Gay, Ingrid Yakacki)
Dated grooming (various moustaches, sideburned big brother in a LL segment)
The music
Robert Stack

The lost loves, not because some weren't good stories but because if you closely examine the stories most them portrayed the parents that abandoned their kids in far too kind of a light than they should have. Very true!

I liked a lot of the lost loves ones. The one with the young German boy whose mom had German soldiers and Amercican soldiers in her house on Christmas Eve is very touching. And he got to find one of the American soldiers - it was very sweet.

I have to agree on the UFO segments. Although slightly interesting to me as a kid, these segments are so dated now. They were pretty sad back then for that matter. Unfortunately, those bits paved the way for shows
like "Sightings" and other such 1990's drivel.

I've posted about Fritz Vincken in another thread. I remember receiving a postcard from Fritz when he finally found the one American soldier. The man (I think his first name was Ralph) was on his deathbed and Fritz immediately flew to visit him in the hospital. He passed away only weeks later.

I have to agree on the UFO segments. Although slightly interesting to me as a kid, these segments are so dated now. They were pretty sad back then for that matter. Unfortunately, those bits paved the way for shows
like "Sightings" and other such 1990's drivel.

I've posted about Fritz Vincken in another thread. I remember receiving a postcard from Fritz when he finally found the one American soldier. The man (I think his first name was Ralph) was on his deathbed and Fritz immediately flew to visit him in the hospital. He passed away only weeks later.


He found that guy? You've just made my weekend (and I'm not exaggerating, I was always bummed when I saw no update).

Yes, he found him in 1995, I think. An update actually was filmed and aired on UM.

The UFO stories, and the psychics. And that stupid fertility statue.

The only UFO story I liked was the one where the 2 older ladies were out for the evening with one of the ladies' grandson. They believed they came in contact with a UFo and the government hushed it up. They all 3 got sick with what they believed was radiation sickness. The ladies have probably already passed, but I have always wondered about an update on that one and the grandson's take on it as he got older.

-Well I must agree with the resounding consensus of the thread that the fertility statues are an absolute snoozer for me. What are the odds that a bunch of women in there 20's and 30's would end up getting pregnant when having sex? -SARCASM

-The "mystery" spiral staircase made by the "angel" mystery man at that church in Texas. I mean, COME ON, that can't be that great of a mystery. And they really stretch it out to be some kind of "miracle."

-I also really don't like the segments about psychic/healing animals. Don't get me wrong, I like animals and I also find the possibility of psychic power mildly interesting...However, these topics are not what I have in mind when I sit down to watch "UNSOLVED MYSTERIES."

- I actually really enjoy the story of the Whackers. Then again, I think the whole thing was just a group of very creative teenagers amusing themselves by terrorizing old people.

I enjoy the Lost Loves and Lost Heirs cases as well, especially right after some terrible scary Missing Persons or Unexplained Death segment. Of course I also agree nowadays much of the "searching" process would be dramatically simplified, but they're still nice to watch sometimes. I especially enjoyed the Charlie Scheel and Laharriet Wade stories.

I also LOVED the Fraud segments. There are so many great ones! Gertrude Pruitt, Joseph Prushinowski, Eric Kessler, the New York coin scam, the "swoop and squat" scheme. Wasn't Judge John Fairbanks a Fraud segment as well? That's one of my favorites!

And actually, I happen to like some of the UFO segments, specifically 'Missing Time', the Allagash Abductions, and Frederick Valentich.

The only Sci-Med segment I recall enjoying was the one about the Guamanian family with the mysterious heart fatal heart disease that affected multiple members. I wonder if they ever really found out what was going on.



Segments I generally skipped completely were any of the "treasure" ones. Just didn't hold my interest.

I enjoy the Lost Loves and Lost Heirs cases as well, especially right after some terrible scary Missing Persons or Unexplained Death segment. Of course I also agree nowadays much of the "searching" process would be dramatically simplified, but they're still nice to watch sometimes. I especially enjoyed the Charlie Scheel and Laharriet Wade stories.

I also LOVED the Fraud segments. There are so many great ones! Gertrude Pruitt, Joseph Prushinowski, Eric Kessler, the New York coin scam, the "swoop and squat" scheme. Wasn't Judge John Fairbanks a Fraud segment as well? That's one of my favorites!

And actually, I happen to like some of the UFO segments, specifically 'Missing Time', the Allagash Abductions, and Frederick Valentich.

The only Sci-Med segment I recall enjoying was the one about the Guamanian family with the mysterious heart fatal heart disease that affected multiple members. I wonder if they ever really found out what was going on.



Segments I generally skipped completely were any of the "treasure" ones. Just didn't hold my interest.

The fraud segments were great! There aren't many that I didn't enjoy as a kid (although even then I was bewildered as to the seemingly endless gullibility of the victims). Prushinowski is one of my all-time favorites. In fact, once I found this site, I immediately sent CD a PM in an effort to get a hold of a copy of the segment! "But I am only asking for $750,000!":rolleyes:

The Sci-Med clips were a near-total waste of time.

Sorry you didn't like the Treasure segments. Many of these were of great fascination to me back then, and continue to hold my interest today. I'd love to know the truth behind the Vittorio Peak mine, among others.

I don't think we've discussed Unexplained cases such as the Iceman. Or how about the yeti hunters who claimed to have clipped a finger from a yeti hand that was housed in a Himalayan monastery? Very interesting for this inquisitive lad, but they certainly lost their shimmer in short order. The Iceman case still has me hooked. I just wonder if it's a case of somebody using an actual, modern-day human carcass to create the original incarnation of the Iceman. That sneaky promoter is apparently still alive, but has such a common name. He'd be pretty ancient by now, no doubt.

The Sci-Med clips were a near-total waste of time.


Hey now, wasn't "gelatinous goo" a 'Sci-Med' segment? :p ;)

Or maybe it was an 'Unexplained'....? Hmmm.

I didn't like the segments on child genisues, the minor league baseball player who had amnesia or the segments on the fertlity statues. I also didn't care for the segments Sarah Powell and Agatha Christie.

I don't care for 90% of the "Lost Loves" nor for the really silly stuff like the African fertility statue or the "lucky" rock the kid found in the woods (whoop de doo, a rock with markings on it. I can show you a thousand in my area since we've had Indians here for thousands of years). It was obvious some of those people just wanted to make stories up to get on TV.

There was also a segment that was silly but I enjoyed anyway. That was the one where the kid put a message in a bottle and the bottle was "supposedly" found across the world many years later. I could have lived without the segment, but it wasn't as bad as some of the others.

I am generally not a lover of ghost stories, but the way UM did their ghost segments could really make your hair stand up on end. Especially if the ghost story was the last segment and you had to hear the outro music directly afterwards. You wouldn't sleep that night. ;)

But that's what made UM great, you never knew what kind of crazy stuff they were gonna pull out of their hat next. It was sort of AMW/Crime Stoppers/UFO Files/Ripley's Believe it or Not/In Search Of all mixed in one.

I didn't like the segments on child genisues, the minor league baseball player who had amnesia or the segments on the fertlity statues. I also didn't care for the segments Sarah Powell and Agatha Christie.

Yeah, I saw the minor league baseball player segment once. That whole thing just seemed like an excuse for him to show himself shirtless as much as possible so that we could see that he had a hairy chest. Congrats minor leaguer: you might not have ever played Major League Baseball, but you are now a front-runner for the lead in Teen Wolf 3.

I have to ask, why don't people like the military cases like Justin Bergwinkle? I always thought his case was pretty intriguing, although I think was simply a nutjob rather than involved in something top secret.

He found that guy? You've just made my weekend (and I'm not exaggerating, I was always bummed when I saw no update).

Not sure if it's been posted before, but I just did some digging and found out that Fritz Vincken died in 2001, aged 69. He mentioned a battle with prostate cancer in the mid-1990's, but I don't know if that was the cause. I'm just glad that he was able to find at least one of the American soldiers.

Not sure if it's been posted before, but I just did some digging and found out that Fritz Vincken died in 2001, aged 69. He mentioned a battle with prostate cancer in the mid-1990's, but I don't know if that was the cause. I'm just glad that he was able to find at least one of the American soldiers.
I just found out that Fritz was interviewed elsewhere about the story, and he says that he was reunited with another one of the American soldiers, along with Ralph Blank. It doesn't mention the other soldier's name, however.

I just found out that Fritz was interviewed elsewhere about the story, and he says that he was reunited with another one of the American soldiers, along with Ralph Blank. It doesn't mention the other soldier's name, however.

I have a few letters and postcards from Fritz, and believe he did mention the other soldier's name in his last missive. I still have all the correspondence, but wouldn't know where to begin in searching for it!

The irritating kid is in his 20's now. The segment was filmed during the 2001-2002 season if I remember correctly. I forget the kids name but he has a wikipiedia page and a google search will tell you what he did. I searched him awhile ago and I don't think he accomplished much.

I used to like the lost loves (they were a refreshing change from the scary stuff) but after a while they just bored me. And there were so many of them! I remember one night there were like three in a row!

I also hate custodial missing persons cases.