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mistagee · 08-05-2005, 07:50 PM

These segments make me go to bed with a hammer under my pillow.

1. The radio personality who was shot by some guy who had a limp who chases him down and shoots him. If you watch a reinactment, theres a dude just sitting in his car and the killer runs right next to his car and he quickly ducks over to the passenger side... I wonder why he didnt shoot him. Jeez it scared me

2. That 1-70 murder makes me shake, especially when the witness tells him
"I cant go in the back with you," and gets away. He looked death in the eye, and the sketch is enough to make you never go out again.

3. The camper murder with the Canadian couple and the innocent bystander getting killed also. Terrified me.

4. The bowling alley murders also were horrific. How people could be so cold to murder children. Those two men are in Mexico or Central America by now. I cant believe no one has been able to identify them.

5. The Skiba disappearances. They thought he kidnapped his daughter and now they found the moving van he and his partner used and its full of blood and bullet holes. Inside job by business associate if you ask me.

6. The Son of Sam cases. Especially when the couple walks past the park bathroom and theres a guy lurking in the shadows. I lived in NYC during all of that and I can tell you that NYC was paralyzed with fear.

7. The ATM episode where the dude goes to the ATM, never comes back and you see the absolutely most VILE person standing next to him. I dont understand how someone would go to an ATM that late, especially in Californina which has an inordinate amount of KOOKS. (Sorry no offense to posters here). I wonder if the picture led to an arrest or naming of suspect.

This is why I lost so much sleep in the 90s.

Fletch · 08-05-2005, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by mistagee

This is why I lost so much sleep in the 90s.

I truly believe that UM is one the reasons I'm so paranoid....I'm not even kidding.

U.M. Fanatic · 08-05-2005, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by mistagee

These segments make me go to bed with a hammer under my pillow.

2. That 1-70 murder makes me shake, especially when the witness tells him
"I cant go in the back with you," and gets away. He looked death in the eye, and the sketch is enough to make you never go out again.

3. The camper murder with the Canadian couple and the innocent bystander getting killed also. Terrified me.

7. The ATM episode where the dude goes to the ATM, never comes back and you see the absolutely most VILE person standing next to him. I dont understand how someone would go to an ATM that late, especially in Californina which has an inordinate amount of KOOKS. (Sorry no offense to posters here). I wonder if the picture led to an arrest or naming of suspect.

This is why I lost so much sleep in the 90s.

These 3 are the segments that creep me out the most. All featured scary composite sketches and probably the most chilling music I have ever heard on this show.

The guy they got to play the killer in the rest stop murders, was terrifying

, you felt like running for cover when he said he was going to rob them and then kill them. Scary, scary, scary!

The face that was captured on the ATM was like looking at something that wasnt quite human. This gave me nightmares for weeks, when I was younger.

And last but not least....

My all time favorite scary segment is the I-70 serial killer. As I have mentioned before, this has got to have the scariest music I have ever heard on Unsolved Mysteries. I will not watch this segment at night, especially because of the composite sketch of the killer at the end. Its just too gruesome!

STUD · 08-06-2005, 01:00 AM

I don't remember all of the scariest segments, but the one that I still have fresh in my mind is the one about Resurrection Mary - the scene where she's standing on the side of the road and the couple passes her, they look back, and she has....................................................................................................
NO FACE! Not only that, but the music that played the moment you saw she had no face -

Anybody remember that? One of the scariest moments I've ever seen on TV!

I remember the Son of Sam segments quite well, too. They were scary. I also agree that the sketches they made of criminals were eerie, and even regular pictures they showed - sometimes their facial expressions would give me chills. It's like they took those pictures purposely and showed them just to scare you. It was just a weird show sometimes, and when I was younger, I had some sleepless nights because of it.

But hey, that's what made it a great show, right?

jcjh20 · 08-06-2005, 04:50 PM

They pretty much all scare the crap out of me. Well, at least the ones about murders or life threatening crimes of the like. Obviously the later episodes were more fluffed up though, and you kinda forget that these are real people they're talking about because everythings so polished, but you still are perturbed about the fact that such evil things were done to people.

SitcomsAreTheWay · 08-07-2005, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Fletch

I truly believe that UM is one the reasons I'm so paranoid....I'm not even kidding.

I watch America's Most Wanted as well and it doesn't scare me even half as much as UM does.

SitcomsAreTheWay · 08-07-2005, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mistagee

6. The Son of Sam cases. Especially when the couple walks past the park bathroom and theres a guy lurking in the shadows. I lived in NYC during all of that and I can tell you that NYC was paralyzed with fear.

Yeah, that case is very scary.

Come to think of it, my father mentioned to me one day that as he and my mother were exiting a Manhattan movie theater one night, reports were circulating that the killer had struck again.

Fletch · 08-07-2005, 10:00 PM

I think that most of the cases that involve an incident (murder, kidnapping) at night are the ones that scare me the most. And there have been a ton of those profiled on UM.

7hurricane · 08-08-2005, 08:58 PM

Some of these cases i don't remember...I'm sure if i saw i clip i would but anyway...I think most of the ones about murders or missing persons scare the crap out of me...I can not watch um if I'm at home alone especially at night.

The most scariest that comes to mind is the Angela Hammond case. That guy was creepy and it just goes to show no matter how quiet or safe you think your town is you should never be out alone at night.

Kemistry · 08-08-2005, 09:14 PM

I watched the Son of Sam segment late one night and those composites were creepy as hell, lol!

Also the Blind River Rest Area segment is one for the books as well. The very first segment I remember seeing was the original airing in '88 of "Boys On The Tracks" and of course that scared the crap outta me (Give me a break I was only 7, lol!) especially when they got to the part about the man in military fatigues.

Cain · 10-11-2005, 05:19 PM

The ATM murder also scared the crapola out of me when I saw that as a kid. BUT....the one that still sends shivers down my spine at times...

Is the segment with the arsonist who set fire to a house and videotaped his work...you can hear his voice, saying things like "Look at it, Omar! Look at it! Look at the flames!" in a raspy, chillingly evil voice.

I understand that the guy was captured (at least that's what I remember, anyway) but that segment still haunts me to this day.

Cain

Awsi Dooger · 10-12-2005, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Fletch

I think that most of the cases that involve an incident (murder, kidnapping) at night are the ones that scare me the most. And there have been a ton of those profiled on UM.

In that regard, the segment that gave me chills was the girl who ran for her life in a graveyard late at night. The very concept of that is pure Hollywood fiction, and to see it actually happened really got to me, more than any other UM segment.

It happened in the early '90s but was profiled late in UM's run, maybe 2001. She even kneeled behind headstones to hide from her pursuers, according to physical evidence at the graveyard, and finally sprinted toward a lit house in the distance before smacking her head on something she couldn't see in the dark. She was murdered there. From previous mention of this case here, I think I remember she was apparently held by the captors and molested in a van before escaping the vehicle and running into the graveyard. A boyfriend was suspected but I don't think anyone was ever charged.

Cain · 10-12-2005, 03:44 AM

Yes, the young woman's name was Jessica Keen. Unfortunately, there have been no arrests made in her murder. The boyfriend was cleared.

soilentgreen · 10-13-2005, 03:32 PM

The Angela Hammond kidnapping was horrible. If it hadn't been for her boyfriend's car breaking down, he may have been able to get the license plate number of the man's truck.

One episode that terrified me was about the Valley Killer (I don't remember if UM called him by that on the show or not.) Six women were found stabbed to death in the Connecticut River Valley area (New Hampshire/Vermont border) in the late 1970's into the 1980's.

A pregnant woman was in the area in 1988 and stabbed by a man at a closed gas station at night. She played dead, he stopped attacking her and drove off, she managed to get back in her car and accidentally followed him down the road! She got to a friend's house, and the friend saw this same vehicle come back up the road, look at the house, and then drive off.

A guy, Gary Schaeffer, was arrested for some of the murders, but the police felt there was another killer in the area as well.

JimmyHendricks · 10-24-2005, 03:43 PM

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A pregnant woman was in the area in 1988 and stabbed by a man at a closed gas station at night. She played dead, he stopped attacking her and drove off, she managed to get back in her car and accidentally followed him down the road! She got to a friend's house, and the friend saw this same vehicle come back up the road, look at the house, and then drive off.

Yeah, that one always got to me. What really scared me was Robert Stack's voiceover at the end:

"We hope that he is incarcirated for some other crime. Our worst hope is that he is still on the loose, SLOWLY KILLING AT RANDOM.

Yeah, I slept well that night.

08-05-2005, 07:50 PM	#1
mistagee Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Aug 02, 2005 Posts: 114	Segments that scared the crap out of me These segments make me go to bed with a hammer under my pillow. 1. The radio personality who was shot by some guy who had a limp who chases him down and shoots him. If you watch a reinactment, theres a dude just sitting in his car and the killer runs right next to his car and he quickly ducks over to the passenger side... I wonder why he didnt shoot him. Jeez it scared me 2. That 1-70 murder makes me shake, especially when the witness tells him "I cant go in the back with you," and gets away. He looked death in the eye, and the sketch is enough to make you never go out again. 3. The camper murder with the Canadian couple and the innocent bystander getting killed also. Terrified me. 4. The bowling alley murders also were horrific. How people could be so cold to murder children. Those two men are in Mexico or Central America by now. I cant believe no one has been able to identify them. 5. The Skiba disappearances. They thought he kidnapped his daughter and now they found the moving van he and his partner used and its full of blood and bullet holes. Inside job by business associate if you ask me. 6. The Son of Sam cases. Especially when the couple walks past the park bathroom and theres a guy lurking in the shadows. I lived in NYC during all of that and I can tell you that NYC was paralyzed with fear. 7. The ATM episode where the dude goes to the ATM, never comes back and you see the absolutely most VILE person standing next to him. I dont understand how someone would go to an ATM that late, especially in Californina which has an inordinate amount of KOOKS. (Sorry no offense to posters here). I wonder if the picture led to an arrest or naming of suspect. This is why I lost so much sleep in the 90s.

08-06-2005, 01:00 AM	#4
STUD Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Dec 09, 2004 Location: Missouri Posts: 10	I don't remember all of the scariest segments, but the one that I still have fresh in my mind is the one about Resurrection Mary - the scene where she's standing on the side of the road and the couple passes her, they look back, and she has.................................................................................................... NO FACE! Not only that, but the music that played the moment you saw she had no face - Anybody remember that? One of the scariest moments I've ever seen on TV! I remember the Son of Sam segments quite well, too. They were scary. I also agree that the sketches they made of criminals were eerie, and even regular pictures they showed - sometimes their facial expressions would give me chills. It's like they took those pictures purposely and showed them just to scare you. It was just a weird show sometimes, and when I was younger, I had some sleepless nights because of it. But hey, that's what made it a great show, right?
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08-08-2005, 09:14 PM	#10
Kemistry Mysterious Intrigue Frequent Poster Join Date: Apr 16, 2005 Location: Outside Your Window... Posts: 339	I watched the Son of Sam segment late one night and those composites were creepy as hell, lol! Also the Blind River Rest Area segment is one for the books as well. The very first segment I remember seeing was the original airing in '88 of "Boys On The Tracks" and of course that scared the crap outta me (Give me a break I was only 7, lol!) especially when they got to the part about the man in military fatigues.
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08-06-2005, 04:50 PM	#5
jcjh20 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Aug 01, 2005 Posts: 22	They pretty much all scare the crap out of me. Well, at least the ones about murders or life threatening crimes of the like. Obviously the later episodes were more fluffed up though, and you kinda forget that these are real people they're talking about because everythings so polished, but you still are perturbed about the fact that such evil things were done to people.

08-07-2005, 10:00 PM	#8
Fletch Cabin fever Frequent Poster Join Date: May 10, 2002 Posts: 485	I think that most of the cases that involve an incident (murder, kidnapping) at night are the ones that scare me the most. And there have been a ton of those profiled on UM.

08-08-2005, 08:58 PM	#9
7hurricane Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Aug 08, 2005 Location: NC Posts: 80	Some of these cases i don't remember...I'm sure if i saw i clip i would but anyway...I think most of the ones about murders or missing persons scare the crap out of me...I can not watch um if I'm at home alone especially at night. The most scariest that comes to mind is the Angela Hammond case. That guy was creepy and it just goes to show no matter how quiet or safe you think your town is you should never be out alone at night.

10-11-2005, 05:19 PM	#11
Cain Member Forum Hawk Join Date: Oct 11, 2005 Posts: 3	The ATM murder also scared the crapola out of me when I saw that as a kid. BUT....the one that still sends shivers down my spine at times... Is the segment with the arsonist who set fire to a house and videotaped his work...you can hear his voice, saying things like "Look at it, Omar! Look at it! Look at the flames!" in a raspy, chillingly evil voice. I understand that the guy was captured (at least that's what I remember, anyway) but that segment still haunts me to this day. Cain

10-12-2005, 03:44 AM	#13
Cain Member Forum Hawk Join Date: Oct 11, 2005 Posts: 3	Yes, the young woman's name was Jessica Keen. Unfortunately, there have been no arrests made in her murder. The boyfriend was cleared.

10-13-2005, 03:32 PM	#14
soilentgreen Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 13, 2005 Posts: 622	The Angela Hammond kidnapping was horrible. If it hadn't been for her boyfriend's car breaking down, he may have been able to get the license plate number of the man's truck. One episode that terrified me was about the Valley Killer (I don't remember if UM called him by that on the show or not.) Six women were found stabbed to death in the Connecticut River Valley area (New Hampshire/Vermont border) in the late 1970's into the 1980's. A pregnant woman was in the area in 1988 and stabbed by a man at a closed gas station at night. She played dead, he stopped attacking her and drove off, she managed to get back in her car and accidentally followed him down the road! She got to a friend's house, and the friend saw this same vehicle come back up the road, look at the house, and then drive off. A guy, Gary Schaeffer, was arrested for some of the murders, but the police felt there was another killer in the area as well.