Opinions: Worst, most lame UM segment ever???

[truthbtold]

In your opinion what is the worst, most lame wast of a UM segment? One that, whenever it comes on, you think "damn, I HATE this one!". I have to say for me it's the one with the dogs that can detect seizures. While I do find it interesting that dogs can detect seizures for these people and I am happy for them, I just don't think it belongs on Unsolved Mysteries.

[DarkDante]

Really any of the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" crap they started coming up with in the mid nineties. There were the fertility statues, aphrodisiacs, bees that could cure paralysis and some woman who got her kicks by massaging the necks of animals.

That is some great television right there

[starmushrooms]

I use to look forward to UM every week when I was younger, but my night would be shot when they replayed the Alcatraz episode. I found it interesting the first time, but after that it was always, "Damn it!"

The Ripley's episode bored me along with most UFO episodes, Big Foot and the Locheness Monster.

[xxxxmattxxxx69]

Any recycled footage on Spike that was solved in the Lifetime or NBC days( Richard Church, Reggie Depalma, Dave Davis, or Greg Webb who was released before Robert Stack died). Seeing the lucky school over and over again gets to me too

[Jediknight1823]

Cokeville will always be my answer to this. Lifetime showed that smurfing case enough in 3 weeks to last a lifetime.

There's also the story about the minor league baseball player, and money falling from the sky.

[DarkDante]

Originally Posted by xxxxmattxxxx69

Dave Davis

Aw the Shannon Mohr case is a classic and I believe there is still some questions surrounding Dave's guilt or innocence to this day. I'm sure kadrmas15 can make the case for Dave Davis' innocence much better than I can so over to you kadrmas15.

[xxxxmattxxxx69]

Originally Posted by DarkDante

Aw the Shannon Mohr case is a classic and I believe there is still some questions surrounding Dave's guilt or innocence to this day. I'm sure kadrmas15 can make the case for Dave Davis' innocence much better than I can so over to you kadrmas15.

It is a classic but hearing Farina go on a previous broadcast we brought you this story when it was solved 20 years ago. I wish the Robert Stack UM were still around in syndication

[egswanso]

Personally, I think every UFO, Cryptozoogical and Paranormal case are wastes of tape, but I know some people like that junk.

Showing solved cases after they've been solved is also kind-of pointless.

[burbqueen]

the ones with the medical miracles bore me to death!!

[mozartpc27]

Originally Posted by egswanso

Personally, I think every UFO, Cryptozoogical and Paranormal case are wastes of tape, but I know some people like that junk.

Showing solved cases after they've been solved is also kind-of pointless.

Yup, but I can deal when it is harmless fun; as I've said many times on forum in response to this sort of question, the WORST segment UM ever aired was the ghost segment about slave ghosts who come back from the dead to, apparently, steal shoes and murder white women, at least according to the family that made up this bull-**** story. Here was a white family that had no REAL blacks living in the neighborhood to blame crime and violence on, so they conjured up some ghost black people instead. Compare what these ghosts of black people supposedly do to what the ghosts of white people supposedly do: usually, it's have a little harmless fun, at worst, or watch lovingly over children, at best.

Awful, evil - yes, I said evil - segment that allowed a bunch of racist hicks to exploit the worst kind of prejudice and the most shameful chapter in this country's history all to gain themselves a little notoriety and make a little bit of money for the show. Should never have been aired.

[truthbtold]

Mozart, was that the family in texas?

Also, what about that segment about the "mystery" spiral staircase that they think might have been the work of a saint?

[mozartpc27]

Originally Posted by truthbtold

Mozart, was that the family in texas?

Also, what about that segment about the "mystery" spiral staircase that they think might have been the work of a saint?

I forget their names, but the segment was included on the Ghosts boxed set, look at the segment list and you can get it from there.

The spiral staircase case is pretty dumb, though the staircase is beautiful. If I recall correctly, the whole segment is based on the premise that this total stranger dropped from nowhere and built this amazingly complex staircase, and the nuns he built it for think he must have come from heaven... or, it might just be possible that the man was a German carpenter who had built a staircase nearly identical to this one in Europe a few years earlier, emigrated to America, and then moved to the town just down the road from where this other staircase was built.

Yeah, I wonder who it could have been?

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

Suggestions should be culled from the several threads on this subject and made into a poll.

[Arnold_OldSchool]

Wow I have the Ghost DVD and I'm blanking on the Slave Ghost segment....and I am a Paranormal LOVER!

[truthbtold]

I think the slave ghost one just re-aired this week on spike