There’s a lot of unsolved mysteries, but only a few can chill you to the bone. Here’s a collection of some of the world’s creepiest unsolved mysteries that are going to give you real chills!
1 | The Faces of Belmez
The appearance of strange human faces in Belmez began on August 23, 1971, when Maria Gomez Camara ― wife of Juan Pereira and a housemaker ― complained that a human face was formed on her concrete kitchen floor. Her husband destroyed the picture with a pickaxe only to have it reappear on the floor. The mayor of Belmez prohibited the destruction of the image and instead the concrete floor was cut and taken for study.
For the next 30 years, the Pereira family claimed that faces continued to appear of both male and female and of different shapes and sizes. Later, when the floor of the house was dug, it was found to contain the remains of humans. It was speculated that a graveyard existed underneath the house. Read More
2 | La Mancha Negra
“La Mancha Negra” or “The Black Stain” is a mysterious black substance that has oozed from roads in Caracas, Venezuela. It first appeared in 1986. Since then, this mysterious black goo has caused more than 1,800 people to die in road accidents. After conducting two decades of research and spending millions of dollars to identify the substance and its origin, there’s no definitive explanation for this mysterious black stain.
3 | The Pollock Twins
In 1957, two sisters, Joanna, 11, and Jacqueline, 6, Pollock were killed in a tragic car accident. A year later, their mother gave birth to twins, Jennifer and Gillian. Then it gets weird. Jennifer, the younger twin, had scars and birthmarks on her body that were identical to Jacqueline’s, the younger deceased sister. The twins began to ask for toys that had belonged to the deceased girl’s toys they had no knowledge of!
They stated one day that they wanted to go to a park they’d never been to before (but Joanna and Jacqueline had). In one instance, their mother watched them play a game in which Jennifer laid on the floor with her head in Gillian’s lap, pretending that she was dying. Her sister said, “The blood’s coming out of your eyes. That’s where the car hit you.” But their parents hadn’t discussed the accident with the girls ever.
This led psychologist Dr. Ian Stevenson to conclude that it was likely the twins were reincarnations of their sisters. Apparently, at age 5, the odd behaviour stopped along with any sign that they were connected to their departed sisters and Jennifer and Gillian grew up as normal, happy kids. Read More
4 | The Rain Man
For one week in 1983, a young man named Don Decker was the centre of a series of strange phenomena, which developed after the death of his grandfather. He was said to have acquired control over the surrounding-weather to make rains whenever he wanted or wherever he wanted. Even it rained inside a house, a restaurant and a prison cell. The strange ability makes him famous all over the world with the name of “The Rain Man.” Read More
5 | The doll that aged!
When dolls age they tend to look quite creepy: hair falls out, colour fades, cracks appear and, at times, the eyes go missing. It’s a natural process that comes with time and neglect. But this doll is different. A couple, who had children, one birthday or Christmas they bought their young daughter a doll. Although the doll had been well played with it was still in a rather good condition when it was placed in an attic and forgotten about. Eleven years later, the family was having a cleanout of the attic when they stumbled across this rather odd-looking doll. The doll was wrinkled and aged like a person does, though much more rapidly. Therefore it has led many to believe it to be a haunted living doll.
6 | Devil’s Footprints
The Devil’s Footprints were a phenomenon that occurred during February 1855 around the Exe Estuary in East and South Devon, England. After a heavy snowfall, trails of hoof-like marks appeared overnight in the snow covering. These footprints, most of which measured about 4 inches long, 3 inches across, between 8 and 16 inches apart and mostly in a single file, were reported from more than thirty locations across Devon and Dorset. It was spread up to a total distance of some 160km through the houses, rivers, haystacks, snow-covered roofs, high walls and various sewage pipes. Some people believed that the footprints were the tracks of satan. Many theories have been put forth but none of them has ever been able to explain this phenomenon. Read More
7 | The phantom girl
During the digitization of a series of photographs that dated back to the early 1900s, the authority of Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum in Siberia found this mystical tiny girl in around 20 different images and in four glass negatives. The startling thing was that the little girl is always dressed in white, standing in the same position with the same expression on her face, and always she occupies a discreet position in the photographs. Her dress and boots change but her demeanour is always the same. Although she is suspected to be related to the photographer, no one has yet come forward to identify the mysterious young girl.
8 | The disappearance of Anjikuni village
In 1932, a Canadian fur trapper went to a village near Anjikuni Lake in Canada. He knew this establishment very well as he would often go there to trade his fur and spend his leisure time. On this trip, when he arrived at the village he sensed something was wrong there. He found the place to be completely empty and silent even though there were signs that there were people in the village a while ago. He then found that a fire was left burning, with stew still cooking on it. He saw the doors were open and foods out waiting to be prepared, it seemed that hundreds of Anjikuni villagers had simply vanished into the thin air. To this day, there’s no proper explanation for this mass disappearance of the Anjikuni village. Read More
9 | The Dyatlov Pass incident
Nine experienced hikers died on the slopes of the Ural Mountains in Russia, in 1959. Their bodies were found under mysterious circumstances, the hikers’ tents were torn from the inside, their bones were broken, shattered and crushed. They aged rapidly and tongues were removed. No other footprints or animal prints other than their own barefooted footprints were found in the snow, trailing off into the woods. Two of their corpses were found only in their undergarments. A massive investigation was conducted but the investigators still have no idea what happened to them. Read More
10 | Severed feet keep washing up on British Columbia shores
It is not uncommon for bodies to wash up on beaches but for one beach in British Columbia severed feet have consistently been floating ashore for the past several years causing numerous theories, from serial killings to shark attacks to human trafficking, to be put forth. But nobody knows exactly why this happens.
11 | The Screaming Mummy
A mummy, whose face is full of agony, was discovered in 1886. His expression isn’t the only odd thing about him. The mummy has all of its organs intact, which wasn’t a common mummification process. Some think it was murder, poisoning, or even a case of being buried alive! Once National Geographic investigated the possibility that the mummy is of Prince Pentawer, the son of Pharoah Ramesses III, who was thought to have planned his father’s murder. This is conjecture though, and the story of the screaming mummy remains a mystery to date.
12 | The strange case of Walter Summerford
A man named Walter Summerford was struck by lightning three times in his life. After his death, his gravestone was also struck! Is this just a coincidence?
13 | SS Ourang Medan
“All officers including captain are dead lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.” This message was followed by indecipherable Morse code then one final grisly message. “I die!” These chilling words were heard in a distress call picked up by a number of ships near Indonesia, from the Dutch freighter SS Ourang Medan in February 1948. When a rescuer ship arrived at the location, the sea seemed to be very calm and silent. Right then, the Ourang Medan exploded and sank to be never found again. To this day, no one knows what happened to the ill-fated ship SS Ourang Medan. Read More
In 1942, a Navy blimp called the L-8 took off from Treasure Island in the Bay Area on a submarine-spotting mission. It flew with a two-man crew. A few hours later, it came back to land and collided into a house in Daly City. Everything on board was in its proper place; no emergency gear had been used. But the crew?? The crew was gone! They were never found! Read More
15 | The Crying Boy
In the decade of 80s, a series of bizarre fires broke out and destroyed many homes and businesses in England. All cases were linked with a collection of paintings, known as “The Crying Boy.” After the devastation of each fire, only the paintings would survive mysteriously. And soon, they were labelled as “The Cursed Paintings of Crying Boys.” Read More
16 | The existence of the human soul
In 1901, a doctor named Duncan MacDougall tried to prove the existence of the human soul. To do this, he measured the weight of terminally ill patients before and at the moment of their deaths. He had 6 patients, who all experienced weight loss at the moment of their death, with the average loss of weight being 21 grams! Is this the weight of a human soul??
17 | Disappearance of David Lang
On 23rd September of 1880, David Lang, a farmer, disappeared in front of his family and friends. He was walking across a field towards them waving ‘hello’. Suddenly, he was gone! The area was searched for months but nothing was found. The family was very frightened. Though it was a great tragedy for the family, Mrs. Lang refused to move her family away until her husband was found.
Seven months later, while their daughter was playing she heard her father crying for help. She found nothing but a circle of dead grass in the place where he was seen for the last time. She screamed for her mother and Mrs. Lang ran to her daughter. She could still see the circle of dead grass, but she now couldn’t hear her husband. This event really frightened her, and she finally moved her family to another town.
18 | A strange accident
In 2002, a car was reported running off the road in Surrey, England by multiple witnesses. Police arrived at the spot and found no signs of a crash. After a careful search the car and the driver, Christopher Chandler, were finally found but it was revealed that the accident occurred 5 months earlier! So, was this a residual haunting? Or it was a mass hysteria??
19 | Mysterious dust veil
In 526 AD, there was a world-wide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a full year, resulting in widespread famine and diseases. More than 80% of Scandinavia and parts of China starved to death, 30% of Europe died in epidemics, and empires fell. The exact reason behind the “dust veil” remains unknown. Read More
20 | Stolen Boeing 727
In 2003, a Boeing 727 was stolen from an Angola airport. It took off without clearance and flew out over the Atlantic with its lights and transponder switched off and was never seen again! Read More
21 | Dancing Plague
In 1518, a “dancing plague” struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. Why this happened it remains unexplained till to this day.
22 | The mysterious handprint
For twenty years a mysterious handprint was visible on a Chicago fire station’s window. It could not be cleaned off, buffed off or scraped off. Many believed it belonged to Francis Leavy, a firefighter who was cleaning that very window when he predicted his own imminent death in 1924. Read More
23 | The beast of Gévaudan
In the mid-18th-century women and children were found torn apart, dismembered, or decapitated in the quiet French province of Gévaudan. These were the first of nearly a hundred attacks perpetrated by a mysterious animal dubbed as the “Beast of Gévaudan.” Read More
24 | Flight 19
On 5th December of 1945, the ‘Flight 19’ – the five TBF Avengers – was lost with 14 airmen, and before losing radio contact off the coast of southern Florida, the flight leader was reportedly heard saying: “Everything looks strange, even the ocean… We are entering white water, nothing seems right.” To make things even stranger, ‘PBM Mariner BuNo 59225’ had also lost with 13 airmen on the same day while searching for ‘Flight 19’, and they all have never been found again. Read More
25 | Kuldhara village vanished overnight
There’s a village named Kuldhara in Rajasthan, India that dates back to the 13th-century, but no one has lived there since 1825 when all its residents seemingly vanished overnight. No one knows how or why this happened, though there are a few eerie theories. Read More
26 | The USS Stein Monster
In 1978, the U.S Navy ship USS Stein was apparently attacked by an unknown species of giant squid. Almost all cuts on the SONAR dome contained remains of the sharp, curved claws that are found on the rims of the suction cups of some squid tentacles. Scientists found these claws were much larger than those of any discovered squid species. Read More
27 | Cicada 3301
For over two years, amateur cryptographers have struggled with Cicada 3301, a kind of Internet scavenger hunt that relies on advanced code-breaking — and a working knowledge of things like obscure medieval literature and Mayan numerology — to unlock progressive clues. Who’s behind the puzzle is unclear, although many enthusiasts believe it’s a large, well-funded and shadowy organization trying to recruit into its membership. What is behind the mystery we may never know.
28 | The Villisca Axe Murders
On the night of June 10, 1912, in the quiet town of Villisca, Iowa, the Moore family returned from a night at church. The two parents and their four children, plus two girls from a neighbouring family who were sleeping over, settled down to sleep.
The next morning, the neighbours found all eight of them hacked to death with an axe. There was no sign of forced entry, and only one child was found out of bed. It’s believed that the murderer had climbed into the attic while they were at church and waited for everyone to fall asleep before coming downstairs to commit the crime. One of the only clues was a pile of cigarette butts in the attic.
Though there have been several suspects over the years – a bitter business partner, a suspected lover, a travelling preacher (who confessed but didn’t know any details of the crime scene), and more than one drifter – the case has never been solved. The house is supposedly haunted by both the family and the man who committed the crimes!
29 | The missing lighthouse keepers
On a remote island off the coast of Scotland, three lighthouse keepers lived and worked in a peaceful environment. On December 26, 1900, a supply ship arrived and found the island eerily deserted. From a diary found inside the abandoned lighthouse, they began to piece together a strange and still unsolved mystery.
Two of the three waterproof coats were missing. Dinner was left, half-eaten, on the table. The log described a great and terrible storm, one that had terrified one of the keepers into muteness and reduced another to inconsolable tears. They sat together while the storm raged. The thought is that the three of them were swept out to sea during the storm, never to be seen or heard from again.
But why wouldn’t they have been safe in the lighthouse? Why would a storm, even a bad one, reduce such seasoned mariners to tears? Why would one of them have left the lighthouse without a coat in December, and why would all three have left their post together?
30 | Sodder children just evaporated
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped. The bodies of the other five children were never found, either alive or dead. In 1967, the Sodders got a photo in the mail, supposedly of their now-adult son Louis but the detective they hired to look into it disappeared himself. The Sodders believed for the rest of their lives that the five missing children survived. Read More
31 | Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
On 21 October 1978, when Frederick Valentich, a 20-year-old Australian pilot, was flying from Melbourne, he disappeared without a trace. He reported that a giant metal circular object was hovering above his plane and Air Traffic Control told him there was no other traffic on that route. Radio cuts out after a loud metal screeching sound and he was never seen again.
The Australian government scrapped the documents of the event and the radio recording after it was accidentally aired on public radio, they told Frederick’s father that they will allow him to see his son’s body on the basis that he never tells anyone about what happened, and the media made up a fake story that the guy was obsessed with aliens thus taking away his credibility for what he reported.
32 | The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion
This television signal hijacking incident is one of the most popular unsolved mysteries you will find on the internet and there’s a reason why there’s a Wikipedia page dedicated to it. On November 22nd of 1987, a Chicago television was airing an episode of “Doctor Who” when its broadcast was hijacked. An unidentified person wearing Max Headroom accessories appeared on the screen for 90 seconds, scaring the viewers who were up late night watching the show. The incident made national headlines but despite mass attention, the hijackers were never identified.
33 | Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
In 1943, in England, four boys found a skeleton in a large wych elm. As gruesome as the discovery was, the investigators found even darker pieces of evidence in the case. The cause of death was suffocation and the body was placed in the elm when it was still warm. But when strange graffiti started appearing in crooks of the town with the question, “Who put Bella in the wych-elm?” the town turned into a living nightmare, making it one of those unsolved mysteries that never got an answer.
34 | The mystery of Carroll A. Deering
January 31, 1921, the ship was sailing around North Carolina when one of the men contacted Captain Jacobson of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse. He said that they have lost all anchors and the crew is acting insane. But due to bad weather, they couldn’t reach the ship that day. When they arrived to check the situation after a couple of days, every crew member was gone and nobody knew how or where. Till today the whereabouts of those people remain an unsolved mystery.
35 | Julia
“Julia” is a sound recorded on March 1, 1999, by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA said the source of the sound was most likely a large Iceberg that had run aground off Antarctica. However, pictures from NASA’s Apollo 33A5 shows a large shadow swaying through the Southwest section of cape cadre at the same time of the recorded sound, although still to be classified, the pictures apparently provide information that this unknown shadow is 2x larger than the Empire State Building. Read More
36 | The case of Elisa Lam
Elisa Lam went missing on January 31, 2013, from Los Angeles. She was last seen in a security camera at the Cecil Hotel, a hotel known to have a very gruesome past. In CCTV footage, she can be seen walking into the elevator, looking like she was trying to hide from somebody. The doors wouldn’t shut and she appeared to be talking to somebody. Then the doors shut and opened again, and she was not there, she walked away.
Weeks later hotel occupants complained that the water had a weird “odour” and tasted odd. Hotel management checked the water tank only to discover Elisa Lam’s rotting body, floating on the tank water. The door to the hotel roof was locked and the tank was sealed shut, there was no way to explain how she ended up in the tank. The strange death of Elisa Lam has been haunting people since 2013. Officially, the case is closed concluding, she was experiencing some kinds of psychotic episodes. But the eerie mysteries surrounding her death still continue. Read More
37 | Who (and where) is DB Cooper?
On November 24th of 1971, DB Cooper (Dan Cooper) hijacked a Boeing 727 and successfully extorted $200,000 in ransom money – worth $1 million today – from the US Government. He drank a whisky, smoked a fag and parachuted from the plane with the negotiated money. He was never seen or heard from again and the ransom money was never used. In 1980, a young boy on vacation with his family in Oregon found several packets of the ransom money (identifiable by serial number), leading to an intense search of the area for Cooper or his remains. Nothing was ever found. Later in 2017, a parachute strap was found at one of Cooper’s possible landing sites. Read More
38 | The Green Children of Woolpit
In the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, some time in the 12th century, two otherworldly looking children, green as leaf appeared one morning and baffled everyone with their odd dressing and behaviors. The boy and girl, neither could inform their rescuers about the place they came from or even tell their names because they did not speak any known language. They refused to eat anything but raw beans.
The boy died shortly after but the girl grew up to lose her green colour, and learned to speak English. She explained that they came from a land with no sunlight, called St. Martin’s Land. They didn’t know how they got to this “New Land”. However, modern researchers dismissed the mystery of the Green Children by saying it’s just folklore.
39 | The lost colony of Roanoke
In 1587, John White led a group of people from Britain to found an English colony, settling on Roanoke Island, one of a chain of barrier islands now known as the Outer Banks of North Carolina. White left for more supplies, but on his return three years later, he found the colony meticulously abandoned, with all houses and fortifications dismantled with care.
Before he’d left the colony, White had instructed the colonists that if they were taken by force, they were to carve a cross into a nearby tree. But there was no cross. The only clue was the word “Croatoan,” the name of a native tribe allied with the English, which was carved into a post. White took this to mean that the colonists had moved to Croatoan Island which is now known as Hatteras.
Ensuing investigations turned up claims that the colonists had been slaughtered by the Powhatan tribe, but there is no archaeological evidence of this, and a recent re-examination of the primary sources indicates that any massacre that occurred was not of this particular group of colonists, but rather a group of colonists who had arrived earlier. More enduring theories involve integration between the colonists and the Croatoans or other local tribes, but so far, no DNA evidence has positively identified any descendants of the colony. Scientists still can’t explain these enigmatic mysteries.
40 | The case of Bobby Dunbar
In 1912, a four-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing on a family trip, 8 months later he was found and reunited with his family. Nearly 100 years later, his descendants’ DNA proved that the child reunited with the Dunbar family was not Bobby but rather a boy named Charles (Bruce) Anderson who resembled Bobby. Then what happened to the real Bobby Dunbar?
41 | The strange case of “The Silent Twins”
June and Jennifer Gibbons were identical twins born in the month of April of 1963. They became known as “The Silent Twins” as they chose to only speak to each other, even creating a language between themselves so no other person could hear what they were saying. After committing crimes together, which consisted of theft and arson they were committed to a mental health hospital. While being there for 14 years, Jennifer had sudden heart failure and died. Her death still remains a mystery since there was no poison or drugs in her system. Because of this, June actually started to talk to other people, telling them that her sister had sacrificed herself so she could live a normal life. Read More
42 | Disappearance of Jim Sullivan
With an affinity for the open road, 35-year-old musician Jim Sullivan set out on a road trip alone in 1975. Leaving behind his wife and son in Los Angeles, he was en route to Nashville in his Volkswagen Beetle. It’s reported that he checked into La Mesa Hotel in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, but he didn’t sleep there. Then the next day, he was spotted nearly 30 miles away from the motel at a ranch, but was seen walking away from his car that contained his guitar, money, and all his worldly possessions. Sullivan vanished without a trace. Sullivan had previously released his first album titled U.F.O. in 1969, and conspiracy theorists all jumped at the idea that he got abducted by aliens.
43 | Yuki Onishi just vanished into the thin air
On April 29, 2005, Yuki Onishi, a five-year-old Japanese girl, was digging up bamboo shoots to celebrate Greenery Day. After finding her first shoot and showing it to her mother, she ran off to find more. About 20 minutes later, her mother realized she was not with the other diggers and a search began. A police dog was brought in to track the missing girl’s scent. It reached a spot in the nearby forest and then stopped. Four other dogs were brought in, and all led the search party to the same exact spot. No trace of Yuki has ever been found, it’s as if she vanished into the thin air!
44 | The dog suicide bridge
Near the village of Milton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, there exists a bridge known as the Overtoun Bridge that, for some unknown reasons, has been attracting suicidal dogs since the early 60s. According to the reports, more than 600 dogs have jumped off the bridge to their deaths. Even stranger are the accounts of dogs who had survived only to return to the same spot of the bridge for a second attempt!
Once “The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” had sent their representatives to investigate the whole matter, but they too were stumped by the cause of that strange behaviour and ended up attempting to jump off the bridge. Somehow they were able to save themselves but the suicidal phenomena of the Overtoun Bridge have remained a big mystery. Read More
Bonus:
The curse of King Tutankhamun
The famous Mummy’s Curse has baffled the best scientific minds since 1923 when Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt. Though no curse had actually been found in the tomb, deaths in succeeding years of various members of Carter’s team and real or supposed visitors to the site kept the story alive, especially in cases of death by violence or in odd circumstances. The curse is said to have claimed more than 9 lives, every time in a unique bizarre way! Is this just a coincidence? Read More
Gloria Ramirez: The Toxic Lady
On February 19, 1994, 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez was admitted to a hospital in Riverside, California with symptoms originally thought to be related to her cervical cancer. Before she died, Ramirez’s body released mysterious toxic fumes that made several hospital employees fatally ill. She is known as the ‘toxic lady’ and scientists still don’t agree on any of the theories as to what could’ve caused this. Her remains are buried in an unmarked grave.
Many concluded the event saying, the medical staff had suffered from mass hysteria or stress. But the medical staff at the hospital were not so convinced with this conclusion and they urged the coroner’s office to take a closer look at the file. Then the assistant deputy director, Pat Grant, made a startling conclusion.
According to Grant, Ramirez covered her skin from head to toe in DMSO, or dimethyl sulfone, as a possible way to cure her late-stage cervical cancer. Though medical science labeled DMSO a toxic substance in 1965, research in the early 1960s led doctors to believe that DMSO could relieve pain and reduce anxiety.
When it is exposed to oxygen, the substance (DMSO) converts to dimethyl sulfate. As a gas, dimethyl sulfate vapors destroy cells in people’s eyes, lungs, and mouth. When this vapor gets into the body, it can cause convulsions, delirium, and paralysis. These types of symptoms were also seen in the sick medical staff.
This theory adds up to the facts of the case. DMSO cream would explain the cream that doctors noted on Ramirez’s skin. It would also explain the fruity or garlicky odour coming from her mouth. However, the family of Gloria Ramirez firmly denied that she had ever used DMSO. And thus the whole event is shrouded in conflict and mystery both.
The Sweating Sickness
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the English sweating sickness epidemics struck England and later continental Europe, killing thousands of people. Then the strange disease apparently vanished. The contagious disease came on suddenly and could kill within hours. The cause and disease itself remains unknown.
The toxic Oakville blobs
“Tiny toxic blobs of goo” rained down in Oakville, Washington multiple times in August 1994. In the aftermath, many residents came down with the same mysterious flu. Under analysis, the “perplexing precipitation” proved to contain human white blood cells, but was otherwise unidentifiable. What’s more, nobody could figure out how it got up in the sky in the first place. Was it human waste expelled from an airliner? The Federal Aviation Administration was able to rule that out. Was it, as many locals believed, a secret military test of some kind?? All these questions are still shrouded in mystery.
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the concept of the combustion of a living or recently deceased human body without an apparent external source of ignition. This phenomenon is still unsolved to modern scientists. There are a few examples of SHC, some of which are given below:
Mary Reeser’s body was found almost totally cremated by police on 2nd July of 1951. While the body was cremated where Reeser sat the apartment was relatively damage-free. Her remains completely burned into ash, with only one leg remaining. Her chair was also destroyed. Detectives found her temperature to be around 3,500°F. Some speculate Reeser spontaneously combusted. However, Reeser’s death is still unsolved.
A similar case took place on 28th March of 1970 when Margaret Hogan, an 89-year-old widow who lived alone in a house on Prussia Street, Dublin, Ireland, was found burned almost to the point of complete destruction. The surroundings were almost untouched. Her two feet, and both legs from below the knees, were undamaged. An inquest, held on 3 April 1970, recorded her death by burning, with the cause of the fire listed as “unknown”.
Another case took place on 15th September of 1982, when Jeannie Saffin eventually wrapped into flames while sitting on a chair. Her father, who was the witness of this incident, says he saw flashlight came out of his eyes corner and hands. Then he saw Jeannie covered into flames and didn’t cry or move even. While the investigation was going on, police found no reason for Jeannie’s combustion. There was no sign of burning in the house except Jeannie’s body. The cause of her death is still unknown. Read More
