This show was great but are there any episodes that you werent too crazy about?

For me: Lizzie Bordens House... UM just wasnt as scary in the mid 90s... and without Stack the show is boring to me(no offense Dennis Ferrina fans)

For some reason, the people that were in the army (or military)and have come up missing are the least interesting (to me) of those cases.

Otherwise I don't have a problem with any of the cases...not even the stones that had strange writings on them and made the families lucky. lol

I agree that the Army stories are a little dry, I don't much care for the UFO, ghosts, Legends, The Unexplained, Sci-Med, Lost Heirs cases

The Lost Love Cases are okay, but I like to watch those in tiny doses.

Cokeville and Georgia Rudolph would be mine.

Cokeville is hurt big time by Lifetime's fondness to air it. I didn't hate it the first time I saw it, but I grew to hate it thanks to all the showings.

Georgia Rudolph's case I just found boring.

I found the Dark Dante one boring and the 'extortion' letter one also not interesting. My faves are unexplained death, missing persons and wanted!

I don't like the LOST LOVES and SCI-MED segments.

The money in the backyard one is such a snoozer.

I agree that the Army stories are a little dry, I don't much care for the UFO, ghosts, Legends, The Unexplained, Sci-Med, Lost Heirs cases

The Lost Love Cases are okay, but I like to watch those in tiny doses.
The question is do you even like the show?

For some reason, the people that were in the army (or military)and have come up missing are the least interesting (to me) of those cases.

Otherwise I don't have a problem with any of the cases...not even the stones that had strange writings on them and made the families lucky. lol
Not me those are some of the most touching.


I'd have to say the fertility statues or the chair episode aphrodisiac etc. Some of the legend ones are cool but some reach too far.

How has no one mentioned my homegirl Resurrection Mary?

That segment was awesome. The first 50 times Lifetime played it. :)

Robert Kennedy and Vince Foster come to mind. Those are two straightforward cases but political leanings can cause all kind of absurd twists, particularly with the Foster case, which never should have been done. That was the worst decision Unsolved Mysteries ever made, IMO. The details don't matter in a case like that. Certain people will take it wherever their biases dictate.

Like dinner conversation, Unsolved Mysteries should have stayed away from religion and politics.

Let's see, I haven't seen episodes in a long time but I remember being bored by the fertility statues and the sprinkles psychic, or however you want to describe that one.

Resurrection Mary was indeed awesome. I still want to visit that place at 3 or 4 AM, which is primetime in my world. I should restore my avatar to Resurrection Mary, or maybe the University of Miami orange shorted butt girl. I despise cheese so much I hate to keep advertising it, even in chewy toy fashion.

I should restore my avatar to Resurrection Mary.

You leave the Paul Polis hamburger alone!!

I actually really liked the Vince Foster segment. I find it interesting that his actual cause of death is still being debated today. I actually leaned towards homicide initially, but now think he likely killed himself.

I think if UM had stayed out of politics, we would have missed one of the best segments ever, at least in my opinion: Danny Casolaro.

You leave the Paul Polis hamburger alone!!

I actually really liked the Vince Foster segment. I find it interesting that his actual cause of death is still being debated today. I actually leaned towards homicide initially, but now think he likely killed himself.

I think if UM had stayed out of politics, we would have missed one of the best segments ever, at least in my opinion: Danny Casolaro.

I need to figure out a way to Photoshop out the cheese.

Actually I'm not sure Photoshop is still viable. If that's a '90s reference I'm fine with it. After all, this is an '80s show.

Too many moving parts for me in that Casolaro case, at least the political angles he was apparently investigating. I was never hooked on it because it looked certain to head nowhere if I tried to piece things together. Nothing is an absolute. It's merely competing interpretations, depending on who you choose to read.

I tend to believe it was suicide, and that his friends and relatives trumped up the significance of the research in order to make Casolaro more important than he was. I believe that is the above 50% version. I've seen many similar examples of people rationalizing a death by claiming the CIA or some powerful organization had to be involved, like the screenwriter who drove to his death late at night in a California viaduct a decade or so ago, his fate undiscovered for many months, and then his wife went on camera asserting he was writing something so dangerous that he had to be shut up.

I'm not a conspiracy type. I've mentioned many times that Las Vegas debates can be more logical than the type generally found on the internet. But that's only if we stick to sports. That town is also home to wackos galore. I know guys who can decipher a team or athlete to perfection one minute, and then declare that the government or some powerful agency is out to get them the next minute. Meanwhile, I'd like to bet that agency is group napping. I like my odds above the trembling version.

I need to figure out a way to Photoshop out the cheese.

Actually I'm not sure Photoshop is still viable. If that's a '90s reference I'm fine with it. After all, this is an '80s show.

Too many moving parts for me in that Casolaro case, at least the political angles he was apparently investigating. I was never hooked on it because it looked certain to head nowhere if I tried to piece things together. Nothing is an absolute. It's merely competing interpretations, depending on who you choose to read.

I tend to believe it was suicide, and that his friends and relatives trumped up the significance of the research in order to make Casolaro more important than he was. I believe that is the above 50% version. I've seen many similar examples of people rationalizing a death by claiming the CIA or some powerful organization had to be involved, like the screenwriter who drove to his death late at night in a California viaduct a decade or so ago, his fate undiscovered for many months, and then his wife went on camera asserting he was writing something so dangerous that he had to be shut up.

I'm not a conspiracy type. I've mentioned many times that Las Vegas debates can be more logical than the type generally found on the internet. But that's only if we stick to sports. That town is also home to wackos galore. I know guys who can decipher a team or athlete to perfection one minute, and then declare that the government or some powerful agency is out to get them the next minute. Meanwhile, I'd like to bet that agency is group napping. I like my odds above the trembling version.

good post. I'm not a big conspiracy theorist either. A Hollywood production can make people buy into a lot of it. UM did a good job of bringing alternate theories into famous cases.

The amnesia ones I didn't care too much for.

Many of the psychic episodes annoy me with only a couple of exceptions. John catchings is probably the hardest one to watch. It came on the other day in the new circulation. Given the circumstances I don't know why they wouldn't pull that one.

Might be a controversial selection for this list, but I'm not sure I like the Miriam Parton segment. Even if it was true that the story of her foster parents had a basis in reality, I suspect her therapist may have lead her into creating at least some false memories.

Paul Pollis hamburger?

Paul Pollis hamburger?

If you look at Awsi Dooger's avatar, it's a picture of a kid grinning, holding what looks like a huge hamburger. That's from the Paul Pollis segment. In his story, he states that he took the kids out for lunch during the time frame when Charlotte Pollis disappeared. I want to say the camera then panned to that child, grinning while holding that huge hamburger (which we've later determined to be a plastic-type lunch pail.)

Hence, "Paul Pollis hamburger." :)

Might be a controversial selection for this list, but I'm not sure I like the Miriam Parton segment. Even if it was true that the story of her foster parents had a basis in reality, I suspect her therapist may have lead her into creating at least some false memories.
I can't disagree with you on this one. I've always been skeptical about this segment.