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grinch · 04-01-2005, 01:17 AM

Has anyone on this board had Unsolved Mysteries do a segment about something in your area? (Disappearances,Homicides,UFOs,Ghosts,etc)
Could you share your story with us?

MetalHybrid · 04-01-2005, 02:22 AM

Yeah I can think of 4 off hand at the moment.

Dick Hanson, the guy who was mudred in front of his date in April of 1991. His date had a guy who she did not recognize follower on the freeway. He exited when they did and when Dick confronted the stalker, he motioned to the license plate, got Dick angry, than shot him. The stalking began in downtown San Jose and ended with the shooting in Sunnyvale.

The woman who moved from Maryland to a job in SJ in 1992, seeing one her cats run away on the long drive over. She had a pictre of the cat at her workplace that she would often look at and before long, the cat showed up right there.

Matt Flores. He worked at a place in Santa Clara and was gunned down in the parking lot in March of 1994. I recall hearing about it in the local paper shortly after the UM broadcast.

A woman who was reunited with a relative in around the end of 1996. The person she sought lived in the same town as me.

Koala · 04-01-2005, 02:33 AM

I grew up near Okanagan Lake in Canada. Here is a link for anybody not familiar with this creature. I think he's friendly. He must be because according to my uncle his boat broke down in the 60's and the Ogopogo towed him in. I'm scepticle myself.
http://members.axion.net/~a1b00267/ultranet/Ogopogo.htm

crystaldawn · 04-01-2005, 10:19 AM

The Brook Baker case happened very near where I live. I don't really have any additional info about it I can share because I don't know anything. They did cover it extensively on our local news. Of course the man responsible has already been convicted and sentenced.

Also not really too significant but did happen nearby was the story about the cop who pulled over a guy and he was shot and killed. The cop was able to give a description of the vehicle before he died. The car was eventually found in a town very near me called Effingham (I remember because RS pronounced it wrong) and although it had been burned they were able to match it because of the bullet holes in the door when the cop had shot back in self defense.

mortytbusybody · 04-02-2005, 04:20 AM

Hey MetalHybrid, I'm about 15 miles north of you! We've actually had ALOT of UM stories filmed here in the Bay Area. Besides the 4 you mentioned:

1) Gus Hoffmann - motorcyclist possibly killed by Hell's Angels in San Jose
2) Gretchen Burford - kidnapped and killed at ATM in Palo Alto
3) Gilbert Ortiz - Poisoned by wife at Toys R Us in Redwood City
4) The Arsonist Video "Look Omar" originated in Redwood City
5) The Two Swedish hitchhikers last seen alive in Redwood City
6) The Blue Lady - Ghost in Half Moon Bay
7) The Zodiac Killer of San Francisco and Vallejo
8) Kurt McFall - pushed or fell from Land's End in SF
9) The Maples were last seen with Bobby & Kristy Baskin in Santa Clara
10) Kevin Poulson - computer hacker in Silicon Valley
11) Jackie Dragon of Daly City searched for sisters born to jail-bird mom
12) The Ghost Blimp landed in Daly City
13) Arthur Karopoulos searchs for missing son taken by ex-wife in SF
14) I can't remember the names but there was a man accused of foul play in the disappearance of his wife who lived in Menlo Park (newer episode)

going across the bay and further north:

Vallejo: Rapper Latham Williams' son kidnapped
Brinks Armoured car robbery where 3 guards killed
Special Alert Pizza Robberies
Oakland: 3 generations of Santos family killed by rare disease
Police officer Jim Fontes searches for his missing sons
Hayward: Michaela Garecht (not to mention all the other young girls kidnapped in the area, possible taken by Timothy Brown)
Walnut Creek: Lester Garnier - off-duty cop killed in his Corvette
Emeryville: Motorcyclist Michael Hunter shot and killed for no reason

I'm sure there's more, but you all must be bored stiff by now.
I think I need to get a life...

dynoguy88 · 04-03-2005, 12:31 AM

Wow, mortytbusybody. Lot's of things happened in your area.

You ever call the hotline and help solve a mystery?

grinch · 04-07-2005, 09:19 PM

we had 2 local cases that were profiled.
One was about Judge Fairbanks,A local judge who swindled people .He fled the area and UM did a story about him.He committed sucide in Las Vegas when he recognized a cop from our area that was In Las Vegas attending a conference.Apparently,Fairbanks thought authorites were closing in on him and committed sucide .
The other story is really interesting.A series of unsolved murders in the 80's that were very similar lead police to think that serial killer was in the area.UM did a story about it and a book was later written about the case ("The Shadow Of Death' by Phillip E Ginsburg).The case still remains an Unsolved Mystery

LGraves65 · 04-13-2005, 03:36 PM

"The Boys on the Tracks" happened in my town.

Thinman · 04-13-2005, 03:41 PM

What is the consensus on who killed the boys on the tracks in your town?

LGraves65 · 04-13-2005, 03:58 PM

Most people think they stumbled upon or sought out some local drug dealers and were killed. They don't believe the whole "conspiracy" that was in the media and on UM.

Titan826 · 07-24-2007, 04:32 PM

Decided to bump, since I thought it was a pretty cool thread.

The Tracy Kirkpatrick murder happened in my town, and a the lost love segment "Fritz And The Soldiers" sort of occured in my town-Fritz was reunited with one of the soldiers that was living here. And my family has several ties to Frank Olsen's family, as he lived and worked here, although his death occured on a trip in New York.

mastamatt · 07-24-2007, 07:55 PM

I've had a couple...first off I always seem to catch every red light in town as well as how cops always seem to be around when I decide to speed.

Other than that, my friends and I were outside of my house one time at night this past October when we saw this flash in the night sky. We looked up and saw what looked like a fireball-shaped golden glow go accross the sky and then dissappear. It caught us off-guard and when I researched it a bit more, things such as this were being seen all accross the California coast at the time within the past week or so. Still don't know what it was but it didn't look like a meteorite and was too big to be a falling star.

My hometown, Petaluma, California, is (was) host to one of the most haunted places in the world, Haystack Landing. Just look it up online and see the creepy history. There was even a movie made.

SageSlowdive · 05-02-2010, 11:41 AM

I used to live close to where the Bordello Murders happened, and yes, I believe the madame 110%. The cop did it.

Mastermind · 05-02-2010, 11:58 AM

I do have my own personal ghost story.

But I'll save that for another time.

alfiechat · 05-02-2010, 04:33 PM

The Michael Rosenblum case happened in Pittsburgh. And the one with the plant employee from Bradford, PA was also not far away. Oh, and I think Manny Marino was captured here too.

04-01-2005, 01:17 AM	#1
grinch Grinch Occasional Poster Join Date: Feb 25, 2005 Location: Claremont,NH Posts: 31	Sharing your Real Life Unsolved Mystery Has anyone on this board had Unsolved Mysteries do a segment about something in your area? (Disappearances,Homicides,UFOs,Ghosts,etc) Could you share your story with us?

04-01-2005, 02:33 AM	#3
Koala Retired - no longer a member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 20, 2003 Posts: 180	yes. Ogopogo I grew up near Okanagan Lake in Canada. Here is a link for anybody not familiar with this creature. I think he's friendly. He must be because according to my uncle his boat broke down in the 60's and the Ogopogo towed him in. I'm scepticle myself. http://members.axion.net/~a1b00267/ultranet/Ogopogo.htm

04-03-2005, 12:31 AM	#6
dynoguy88 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 01, 2000 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 3,675	reply Wow, mortytbusybody. Lot's of things happened in your area. You ever call the hotline and help solve a mystery?

04-01-2005, 02:22 AM	#2
MetalHybrid Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Mar 10, 2005 Location: Campbell(near San Jose), CA Posts: 141	Yeah I can think of 4 off hand at the moment. Dick Hanson, the guy who was mudred in front of his date in April of 1991. His date had a guy who she did not recognize follower on the freeway. He exited when they did and when Dick confronted the stalker, he motioned to the license plate, got Dick angry, than shot him. The stalking began in downtown San Jose and ended with the shooting in Sunnyvale. The woman who moved from Maryland to a job in SJ in 1992, seeing one her cats run away on the long drive over. She had a pictre of the cat at her workplace that she would often look at and before long, the cat showed up right there. Matt Flores. He worked at a place in Santa Clara and was gunned down in the parking lot in March of 1994. I recall hearing about it in the local paper shortly after the UM broadcast. A woman who was reunited with a relative in around the end of 1996. The person she sought lived in the same town as me.

04-01-2005, 10:19 AM	#4
crystaldawn Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 17, 2002 Location: Illinois Posts: 4,261	The Brook Baker case happened very near where I live. I don't really have any additional info about it I can share because I don't know anything. They did cover it extensively on our local news. Of course the man responsible has already been convicted and sentenced. Also not really too significant but did happen nearby was the story about the cop who pulled over a guy and he was shot and killed. The cop was able to give a description of the vehicle before he died. The car was eventually found in a town very near me called Effingham (I remember because RS pronounced it wrong) and although it had been burned they were able to match it because of the bullet holes in the door when the cop had shot back in self defense.

04-02-2005, 04:20 AM	#5
mortytbusybody Mystery Nut Occasional Poster Join Date: Jul 26, 2004 Location: California Posts: 69	Hey MetalHybrid, I'm about 15 miles north of you! We've actually had ALOT of UM stories filmed here in the Bay Area. Besides the 4 you mentioned: 1) Gus Hoffmann - motorcyclist possibly killed by Hell's Angels in San Jose 2) Gretchen Burford - kidnapped and killed at ATM in Palo Alto 3) Gilbert Ortiz - Poisoned by wife at Toys R Us in Redwood City 4) The Arsonist Video "Look Omar" originated in Redwood City 5) The Two Swedish hitchhikers last seen alive in Redwood City 6) The Blue Lady - Ghost in Half Moon Bay 7) The Zodiac Killer of San Francisco and Vallejo 8) Kurt McFall - pushed or fell from Land's End in SF 9) The Maples were last seen with Bobby & Kristy Baskin in Santa Clara 10) Kevin Poulson - computer hacker in Silicon Valley 11) Jackie Dragon of Daly City searched for sisters born to jail-bird mom 12) The Ghost Blimp landed in Daly City 13) Arthur Karopoulos searchs for missing son taken by ex-wife in SF 14) I can't remember the names but there was a man accused of foul play in the disappearance of his wife who lived in Menlo Park (newer episode) going across the bay and further north: Vallejo: Rapper Latham Williams' son kidnapped Brinks Armoured car robbery where 3 guards killed Special Alert Pizza Robberies Oakland: 3 generations of Santos family killed by rare disease Police officer Jim Fontes searches for his missing sons Hayward: Michaela Garecht (not to mention all the other young girls kidnapped in the area, possible taken by Timothy Brown) Walnut Creek: Lester Garnier - off-duty cop killed in his Corvette Emeryville: Motorcyclist Michael Hunter shot and killed for no reason I'm sure there's more, but you all must be bored stiff by now. I think I need to get a life...

04-07-2005, 09:19 PM	#7
grinch Grinch Occasional Poster Join Date: Feb 25, 2005 Location: Claremont,NH Posts: 31	we had 2 local cases that were profiled. One was about Judge Fairbanks,A local judge who swindled people .He fled the area and UM did a story about him.He committed sucide in Las Vegas when he recognized a cop from our area that was In Las Vegas attending a conference.Apparently,Fairbanks thought authorites were closing in on him and committed sucide . The other story is really interesting.A series of unsolved murders in the 80's that were very similar lead police to think that serial killer was in the area.UM did a story about it and a book was later written about the case ("The Shadow Of Death' by Phillip E Ginsburg).The case still remains an Unsolved Mystery

04-13-2005, 03:36 PM	#8
LGraves65 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jul 01, 2004 Posts: 39	"The Boys on the Tracks" happened in my town.

04-13-2005, 03:41 PM	#9
Thinman Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Apr 08, 2005 Posts: 182	What is the consensus on who killed the boys on the tracks in your town?

04-13-2005, 03:58 PM	#10
LGraves65 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jul 01, 2004 Posts: 39	Most people think they stumbled upon or sought out some local drug dealers and were killed. They don't believe the whole "conspiracy" that was in the media and on UM.

07-24-2007, 04:32 PM	#11
Titan826 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: May 25, 2007 Posts: 76	Decided to bump, since I thought it was a pretty cool thread. The Tracy Kirkpatrick murder happened in my town, and a the lost love segment "Fritz And The Soldiers" sort of occured in my town-Fritz was reunited with one of the soldiers that was living here. And my family has several ties to Frank Olsen's family, as he lived and worked here, although his death occured on a trip in New York.

07-24-2007, 07:55 PM	#12
mastamatt Member Occasional Poster Join Date: May 18, 2005 Posts: 40	I've had a couple...first off I always seem to catch every red light in town as well as how cops always seem to be around when I decide to speed. Other than that, my friends and I were outside of my house one time at night this past October when we saw this flash in the night sky. We looked up and saw what looked like a fireball-shaped golden glow go accross the sky and then dissappear. It caught us off-guard and when I researched it a bit more, things such as this were being seen all accross the California coast at the time within the past week or so. Still don't know what it was but it didn't look like a meteorite and was too big to be a falling star. My hometown, Petaluma, California, is (was) host to one of the most haunted places in the world, Haystack Landing. Just look it up online and see the creepy history. There was even a movie made.

05-02-2010, 11:41 AM	#13
SageSlowdive the real hank queen Forum Regular Join Date: Feb 10, 2010 Posts: 659	I used to live close to where the Bordello Murders happened, and yes, I believe the madame 110%. The cop did it.

05-02-2010, 11:58 AM	#14
Mastermind Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 16, 2008 Posts: 1,843	I do have my own personal ghost story. But I'll save that for another time.

05-02-2010, 04:33 PM	#15
alfiechat Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 23, 2007 Location: pittsburgh,PA Posts: 198	The Michael Rosenblum case happened in Pittsburgh. And the one with the plant employee from Bradford, PA was also not far away. Oh, and I think Manny Marino was captured here too.