In your opinion, who on UM (besides Bob Bean and the Wackers) has the best name?

At the moment, I'm going to vote for Sheriff Lorance Lumpkin from the Norman Ladner segment.

PS - "Bob Bean and the Wackers" would make a pretty good band name.

Dub Wackerhagen is pretty memorable.

The Freedon. Misspelling, or was someone named Don in prison?

The Freedon. Misspelling, or was someone named Don in prison?

If you believe the white slavery theory, the name of the ship seems kind of sinister.

Wallace Thrasher

If you believe the white slavery theory, the name of the ship seems kind of sinister.

Very ironic. Like Kurt Mcfall.

Dub Wackerhagen is pretty memorable.

Any odd chance he might bear a relation to the Wackers? :lol:

Gonna have to go with the Deputy in my avatar.

Jack Weiner takes the cake for me. My ex and I still laugh about that to this day...

Pretty sure there is another thread about this but I always thought Riggs Gay was the best.

Dub Wackerhagen is pretty memorable.

Of the Thornville Wackerhagen's, of course. Yea, that's an "interesting" last name.

My pick would be Ozzie Kaban.

The names where the last name is already "unique", shall we say, and then they have a matching first name (or nickname) that almost eclipses the oddity of the last name. Those make an impression, for sure.

:crazy:

Gonna have to go with the Deputy in my avatar.

:lol:

Can't beat that

Even though it was an alias Liz Carmichael had a certain ring to it! :lol:

Lisette Nukida obviously. Just the way it rolls off the tongue.

Freakbook your comment about free don just reminds me of Free Brad from The Real World

Al Catraz

Teresita Basa

Not so much a specific name, but I have found it odd of the random connections from one UM segment to the other...people will have the same last names. for instance, in one episode there was a "kirkpatrick" interviewed and then of course Tracy Kirkpatrick, and so on. This has happened many times from what I've watched.

Also, I had a fondness for the name "Kurt" as it is the name of a few of my favorite segments: McFall, Sova and Cobain. Wanted to name my son that, but my wife objected...I guess I shouldn't have told her the reason I wanted to name him that, ha!

Candy Belt, D.C. Cole and Elmo Florence.

Second page of the thread and not one vote for Stryder Starfire yet?!

Missy Munday

Otto Hack

Rusty Corvette!

chupacabras

Christy nichol

Wing Flanagan

Apparently he's some sort of director now or he creates videos

https://vimeo.com/user12166711

Fumbles

Jet Taylor (sweet 80s hair, too)

jet taylor was one of my favorites
i mean cmon who names their kid jet?
either way, i dont wanna get involved

i also liked sheri ysit i thought that was a unique last name

alex graham was the most ostensible name (gregory barker) seeing as he worked at a phone company at time of arrest

I gotta go with Wadada

i also liked sheri ysit i thought that was a unique last name

i found sheri ysit on FB and sent her a message! havent heard back yet

speaking of names, i always laughed at Rickie Ray, colleen campbell's boyfriend
what a redneck 101 level name

also Oneida Drawdy (sp*) from the Casie Nicole segment

Kurt McFall, due to the irony.

How about Midge and Tiger Freehling, the mother and son witnesses in the Donald Eugene Webb segment.

Recently saw the segment about Wally Spencer and the underground river. Loved that they interviewed an engineer named R. Michael Turnipseed.

This guy...

Sorry it's immature, but Agnes Woodcock is a pretty hilarious name.

Gail Loving Barnes.

Jet Taylor couldn't possibly have been the guy's real name. It had to have been the work of a movie agent changing their client's name to something a lot zippier, like how Leroy Scherer became Rock Hudson. (Jet DID live in Hollywood, after all!)

Guy Gypsum

Hank Queen
Steven Starbucks

Is that REALLY the best alias they could come up with?

Very ironic. Like Kurt Mcfall.

This was always a favorite of mine...because of the way he died.

Also, Dwayne McCorkin.

Steven Starbucks



Whose alias was this?

Whose alias was this?

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

he deserves a place here

Riggs Gay is still my favorite. Wallace Thrasher for the enthusiasm of it.

Mary Gillespie (of Circleville fame) is a name that pops up in my head every now and again.

he deserves a place here

Is this the guy who was chased by a Bigfoot?

Wing Flanagan

Smiles Zepeda, the Las Vegas store owner who sells Liza Montgomery two rings.

I just read the whole thread and I say Richard Holder is the winner.

J.D. Method. I don't know why I think it's so funny, but it's just like it sounds appropriate for both a slick car-lot-frequenting telephone dating service patron and a '90s smooth R&B artist.

My favorite used to be Wallace Thrasher. However I think my favorite now would be Riggs Gay from the Deborah Poe segment.

she also deserves a place here

Jet Taylor couldn't possibly have been the guy's real name. It had to have been the work of a movie agent changing their client's name to something a lot zippier, like how Leroy Scherer became Rock Hudson. (Jet DID live in Hollywood, after all!)

You know, maybe his name really is J-O-H-N, but he changed it to J-O-N for show business. Well, you know, J-O-N is a lot zippier. :lol:

The stage name for rapper Lathan Williams - “Young Lay”. Cracked me up. He’s infamous for repeating “you know what I’m Saying” after each thought.

I like the Raymond "Beaver" Tempest name

Tyger Hogue

Craig Williamson and The Cokeville Elementary School , Oh just sir names ? ok, Craig Williamson AND Mary Morris and Mary Morris. ( wink wink)

Allen Finegold, because he was Jewish (stereotype) and worked for a bank.

Allen Finegold, because he was Jewish (stereotype) and worked for a bank.

Could that name BE more of a stereotype? :D

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-168d06a4632ec40d1b24cfbcbb9c6467.webp

Guy Gypsum. I don't mean to trample on someone else's writing, but I just feel like it's such a stereotypically hokey name for someone in the "great American novel." It always bothered me.

But no, for favorites? Kurt McFall (irony) and Teresita Basa (Teresita is just a pretty name to me) are the first ones I can think of.

Rusty Corvette. How do you take that name seriously? :lol:

Rusty Corvette. How do you take that name seriously? :lol:

Wait, I don't remember that one! Which segment was that? :lol:

Wait, I don't remember that one! Which segment was that? :lol:

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Sam_Wodke

;) Hearing Robert Stack say the name is pretty funny. You can find this one on Prime/YouTube.