Segments that have not aged well...

[TheCars1986]

Originally Posted by MegtheEgg86

It was fashionable for a while for women with blue eyes to use navy eyeliner and mascara. I remember coming of age and beginning to wear makeup, and piling on navy mascara, not knowing "the rules" about eye makeup and eye color (my eyes are brown). The effect was..interesting.

I seem to remember Rae Ann's hairstyle in her senior class photo being pretty indicative of the era as well.

There was a black woman that used to frequent a store I used to work at that used the navy colores mascara. Everyone got a good laugh everytime she came in because she dressed weird, too.

[cordwainer1453]

What was the segment (it was a newer one) where a man and a woman disappeared in a jeep and they thought they found the guy's hat. The show went on and on about all kinds of thories about what might have happened to them. "They ran off together" "They were kiddnapped by drug dealers", etc. Then they had an update and it turned out they had just driven into a pond and weren't discovered until later. That one was pretty silly. I wonder if that was even that guy's hat.

[Steve W.]

Originally Posted by cordwainer1453

What was the segment (it was a newer one) where a man and a woman disappeared in a jeep and they thought they found the guy's hat. The show went on and on about all kinds of thories about what might have happened to them. "They ran off together" "They were kiddnapped by drug dealers", etc. Then they had an update and it turned out they had just driven into a pond and weren't discovered until later. That one was pretty silly. I wonder if that was even that guy's hat.

That was the story of Bill Rundle and Traci Kenley: http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/w...nd_Bill_Rundle

Did they drown or did they die from the impact of going into the pond?

[egswanso]

Originally Posted by cordwainer1453

Funny thing is with Nostradamus, that NONE of these TV shows that like to "quote" him actually use things that he wrote. They just say he said these things without showing you where he said them. Much like the recent Decmeber 21, 2012 Mayan calendar crap. TONS of websites claimed that Nostradamus predicted doom and gloom on that day, but zero actually provided a relevant verse stating it.

Unless the so-called experts can actually read middle French, they (or the viewers) don't really know what he saying, regardless.

And the Mayan doomsayers irked me as a former archaeologist - one cycle of the Mayan long count (the 13th b'ak'tun) did end on 12-21-12, however, that just means it cycles over to the next, that is the 14th b'ak'tun. The Maya never predicted anything bad would happen and given the fact we've found Mayan dates counting billions of years into the future, they certainly didn't think the world was going to end.

[flytrapp]

Egswanso, your picture is freaking me out just a little bit!

I've noticed with some of the episodes that many of the people just looked OLD! I guess it was the styles at the time, or maybe once these people became parents they thought they'd better look like "parents", but my GOD, some of the people interviewed are 30 and look 50! I can think of tons of segments where I am watching the people and thinking "OMG, at the time, that person was younger than ME??? They look old enough to be my father/mother!".

[CanadianUMFan]

Originally Posted by flytrapp

Egswanso, your picture is freaking me out just a little bit!

I've noticed with some of the episodes that many of the people just looked OLD! I guess it was the styles at the time, or maybe once these people became parents they thought they'd better look like "parents", but my GOD, some of the people interviewed are 30 and look 50! I can think of tons of segments where I am watching the people and thinking "OMG, at the time, that person was younger than ME??? They look old enough to be my father/mother!".

LOL! I have often thought myself that people did look older 20 or 30 years ago.

[egswanso]

Ain't it grand? "Sam" from the Beverly McGowan segment

[flytrapp]

Originally Posted by egswanso

Ain't it grand? "Sam" from the Beverly McGowan segment

Yeah, it's grand....if I have the lights on! Major spooky-ass sketch!
The first time I saw the McGowan segment the composite of Sam scared me super bad.....and it's still pretty freaky to this day!

[DanCart]

Originally Posted by RobinW

There's one laughable segment where UM not only missed the boat with what they were saying, but missed the entire friggin' harbour!

One of UM's more obscure segments and with good reason.

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[DanCart]

Originally Posted by MegtheEgg86

It was fashionable for a while for women with blue eyes to use navy eyeliner and mascara. I remember coming of age and beginning to wear makeup, and piling on navy mascara, not knowing "the rules" about eye makeup and eye color (my eyes are brown). The effect was..interesting.

I seem to remember Rae Ann's hairstyle in her senior class photo being pretty indicative of the era as well.

Funny you mention that style, I loved it when girls had that look those were the days .....

[unsolved1981]

The cell phone shop police front sting feels the most dated to me (what case was this? Cant remember who).

[TracyLynnS]

Originally Posted by unsolved1981

The cell phone shop police front sting feels the most dated to me (what case was this? Cant remember who).

Was it Pedro Nyego, Pablo Rodriguez, Blas Canedo, Julio Cruz and Jesus Penalver, the drug smugglers from Colombia?

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/w...lio_Marco_Cruz

[WishfulDreamer]

Any segment where there's a reunion in an airport and people are gathering as soon as they step off the plane into the terminal. Definitely not allowed anymore.

[isotope]

The one with that horrific attack on that guy and his girlfiriend who were selling a high end computer for $10K or something like that. The idea of a desktop computer costing thousands and thousands of dollars these days is seriously dated.

Any crime in a mall or 7-11 where they don't have camera footage of the perp. Never happen these days.

[MegtheEgg86]

Originally Posted by isotope

The one with that horrific attack on that guy and his girlfiriend who were selling a high end computer for $10K or something like that. The idea of a desktop computer costing thousands and thousands of dollars these days is seriously dated.

A few years ago after watching the 'Tom Johnson' segment again, I searched around and found that a used Mac Quadra 950 usually went for well under 50 USD. Of course a machine is never worth a human life regardless of price, but it certainly made Heather Uffelman's murder seem all the more outrageously senseless.