Hi. I am new to this forum and I love unsolved mysteries (especially on ghosts, hehe)

I first started watching it in 2005 or 2006. The episodes I remember is a single mother who went on a date with a strange guy and never returned. Her son is now a writer on crime novels.

I also remember the segment on Bugsy Seagels.

But the one which kept me up all night was on ghosts. There was an elderly couple who had strange things happening in their house. The part when their whole house was full of smoke for no reason scared me. I was really young.

Recently I started searching for segments on the net and eventually found this page. Too bad I can't watch full episodes anywhere these days :(

Hi. I am new to this forum and I love unsolved mysteries (especially on ghosts, hehe)

I first started watching it in 2005 or 2006. The episodes I remember is a single mother who went on a date with a strange guy and never returned. Her son is now a writer on crime novels.

I also remember the segment on Bugsy Seagels.

But the one which kept me up all night was on ghosts. There was an elderly couple who had strange things happening in their house. The part when their whole house was full of smoke for no reason scared me. I was really young.

Recently I started searching for segments on the net and eventually found this page. Too bad I can't watch full episodes anywhere these days :(

The first one you mentioned is Jean Ellroy. She went on a date with an unknown man who later raped, beat and murdered her. He has never been identified or found. Her son, James Ellroy, who is a crime novelist, wrote the book "My Dark Places" about his mother's murder. I'm not sure about the second one you mentioned.

I think my first was the story about "Missing Time" in '88.

9 years old: watched the Becky Wood home invasion and spontaneous human combustion segments. Scared the crap out of me. I spent the night fearing I or my dad would catch on fire randomly (because the guy's dad caught fire and he only found a burned bed!) or that intruders were in my closet!

Funny enough, my parents always watched in the 80s with my brothers, but I wasn't born yet.

Anyway, after that night I watched again and thought the hat in my closet had Resurrection Mary's face under in the dark because there was only blackness! I also remember getting scared about one with the Eliot Ness music! It starts upbeat and then comes a steady ominous beat that grows more and more ominous like something is coming to get you!

I know I watched UM a lot at sleepovers when I was younger, but the first case I really remember vividly was Kurt Sova's. That is such a baffling case, and I've been happily hooked ever since:)

I think it was the one with the truck driver vanishing and the ripped up photos and whatnot. I think his name is/was Dale.

The Unibomber Episode hosted by Karl Malden - It aired in Australia in 1988. Scared the you know what out of me. Remember that scene where he looks up at the Witness through the blinds whilst placing one of his devices?

I was 8 years old and it was the Ghost special that included segments on the Queen Mary, Tallman Ghost, the General Wayne Inn, and a nice ghost.

Yeah, my first introduction to Unsolved featured the scariest ghost story (Tallman), and Queen Mary (at 8 the ghost of the old lady by the pool freaked me out).

I was 8 years old and it was the Ghost special that included segments on the Queen Mary, Tallman Ghost, the General Wayne Inn, and a nice ghost.

Yeah, my first introduction to Unsolved featured the scariest ghost story (Tallman), and Queen Mary (at 8 the ghost of the old lady by the pool freaked me out).


The same ones as me! The music they used for the Queen Mary is scary.. Ressurection Mary, Annette Burnside and the UFO Abduction(I dont remember the name it was 4 men, two of them were twins) are the ones I remember the first. I remember in the UFO segment, one of the men seemed upset and said something along the lines of "If you dont believe me, I DONT CARE.. I DONT CARE"...

UM will always be one of my all time favorite shows!

I know I watched UM a lot at sleepovers when I was younger, but the first case I really remember vividly was Kurt Sova's. That is such a baffling case, and I've been happily hooked ever since:)

same here! scared the crap out of me first time I saw it 'cuz I was too young to understand what might have really happened to him so my mind was boggled with all sorts of ideas of how he might have died and "what if something like that happened to me"

His case, Debra Poe's, and Chaim Weiss' (on the actual airing; other two I first saw on Lifetime re-runs in the early '90's) are the first three segments that I vividly remembered seeing.

Swedish Hitchhikers

Amy Bechtel:
She went missing during a planned hike. Her husband Steve was the only person the police looked at for her possible murder, but charges were never laid as the timeline didn't fully match up, and (on advice from his lawyer) he refused to take a lie detector test.

There is also the possibility that she was murdered by serial killer Dale Wayne Eaton. He is the same man that murdered Lisa Marie Kimmel (also an UM case), and Lisa's mother has uncovered evidence that Dale was in the area fishing alone on the day Amy vanished. The biggest coincidence is that Amy's car was found on the exact same road he would've had to take to get to his fishing spot.



Jay Durham:
He was a mechanic/motorcyclist who was on the way to pick up his son when a truck smashed into him from behind. He got caught up in the grating and eventually managed to jump off, severing multiple fingers and his right leg at the knee. The trucker stopped just down the road, and was joined by another trucker. The two men pulled Jay's motorcycle out from under the truck and then (In Jay's opinion) proceeded to search for him. After a few minutes they gave up and left. The two truckers were never found, but Jay did recover, became a tattoo artist, and continues to hunt for the man that rammed him.

Son of Sam (forget which part) but in 1988.

The original airing of the Kevin Hughes segment in 1990.

I really got into watching UM back when it was airing in the afternoons on Lifetime back in '04 during my freshman year of college, though. From those times I clearly remember:

-Dick Hansen
-Circleville Letters
-Kathy Bonderson
-Jill and Julie Hanson
-Chad Langford
-Chaim Weiss

I remember my dad and his father-in-law (my grandfather on my mother's side) watching it when I was 8, but I don't remember actually watching it with them. I do remember watching it when I was 9 - there was a segment that I somewhat recall: A guy in army fatigues and his ex-wife were arguing over their kids. The woman got scared and ran to her neighbour's house. The father chased her over there and killed the two neighbours and the mother. Anyone recall that?

there was a segment that I somewhat recall: A guy in army fatigues and his ex-wife were arguing over their kids. The woman got scared and ran to her neighbour's house. The father chased her over there and killed the two neighbours and the mother. Anyone recall that?

I think that was the Larry George case. The wiki site says that a UM viewer recognized him after seeing the case on a rerun. He was sentenced to death in 1994, but was later released because of some kind of complications with his trial.

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Larry_George

That's the one. Thanks! That's the first vivid memory of UM I have.

The first one I remember was about 17 years ago and it was Darryl and Georgia. My 10 year old self had nightmares for weeks afterwards.
That case still frustrates me as even though there was an update, it was just Darryl meeting Georgia's children from her previous marriage. It gave no indication of why she left them, and, the motorcycle crew and her being referred to as 'Jet' was never explained.

I remember my dad and his father-in-law (my grandfather on my mother's side) watching it when I was 8, but I don't remember actually watching it with them. I do remember watching it when I was 9 - there was a segment that I somewhat recall: A guy in army fatigues and his ex-wife were arguing over their kids. The woman got scared and ran to her neighbour's house. The father chased her over there and killed the two neighbours and the mother. Anyone recall that?

That would be Larry George.

The first one I remember was about 17 years ago and it was Darryl and Georgia. My 10 year old self had nightmares for weeks afterwards.
That case still frustrates me as even though there was an update, it was just Darryl meeting Georgia's children from her previous marriage. It gave no indication of why she left them, and, the motorcycle crew and her being referred to as 'Jet' was never explained.

Yeah, I thought that one was super weird. It really wasn't much of an update at all.

Another first for me was the David Vierra episode.. controlling Portuguese man who married his cousin Alice. I clearly remember thinking why did her bf run to the police station... I get he was scared but y not call the cops from your neighbours... He didn't put up a fight just ran away.

I think my first one may have been 'Missing Time'. I cant remember how I started getting into UM (I was about 7-8 at the time), but I was hooked after seeing it just a few times. It was my favorite show in the late 80s.

First ones I can remember are the General Wayne Inn (the floating head scared the crap out of me) and Edward Bell cases. Later on, I vividly remember the Fish Springs haunted house (didn't know that was what it was called until I got to this forum) because I was pretty much afraid of waking up and seeing a ghost for awhile afterward, haha.

I watched the show with my grandparents when it came back as a regular series with Robert Stack, and these stick out for me, because they scared me half to death when I was young:

Ayleen Conway
Pat Farmer
Cynthia Anderson
Cindy James
Doreen Picard
The Green River Killer
Missing Time
Texas UFO (where the two women and young boy got radiation poisoning)
Tallman's Ghost