I was absolutely loved this as a kid, and was terrified of it at the same time. And I admit, I loved when "The Unexplained" flashed up on screen - I just ate that stuff up. A paranormal-exclusive variant, Sightings, was a weekly tune-in as well.
One case that really stuck in my head for a long time was the man who jumped onto a plane just as it was taking off, held on for several minutes, then fell to his death. He was eventually identified years later - horribly tragic stuff.
― Duane Barry, Monday, 31 July 2017 11:29 (six years ago) link
A Season 1 episode!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 July 2017 11:38 (six years ago) link
I always liked the reunited family updates.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 31 July 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
i dunno how he doesn't go OKAY LOOK FUCK THESE IDIOTS with the stupid psychic segments
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, July 30, 2017 1
He does in a Season Five segment set in a haunted northern California hotel. Stack, stopping himself from blowing a raspberry, says, 'Now, we and the crew have been here awhile, and we've seen no evidence of ghosts. However..."
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
Fabulous 90-minute interview w/Robert Stack shot in 1999. His memory is crisp and he doesn't take himself the least bit seriously. Here he tells a story of how Ava Gardner conspired to rob him of the Academy Award in 1957. "She wasn't the most avuncular person..."
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tLswHlf610
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 02:58 (six years ago) link
oooooh thx Alfred :D
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 04:09 (six years ago) link
boy what a great interview, i could listen to him talk forever.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
Veg, have you gotten to Wanda Jean Mays yet? Yeesh.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 August 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
What season is she? I have only just now finished s1
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 August 2017 01:35 (six years ago) link
She's the nurse who disappeared w/out a trace on her way to a bus stop. Then in the late '80s these mysterious notes appeared in shopping malls ostensibly written by the killer in broken English.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 August 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
oooh
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 August 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
I don't think I could watch this now, since the memory of the theme music and framing still freak me out!
There wasn't a specific thing in the show that stands out as scary, but this general feeling that there are malevolent forces out there, not easily identifiable, that might wish you harm. After which you'll never be seen again.
― mh, Thursday, 10 August 2017 02:26 (six years ago) link
also: aliums, buried treasure, guh guh guh ghoooosts
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 August 2017 02:35 (six years ago) link
typo!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 August 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
wrong thread!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 August 2017 02:44 (six years ago) link
did they ever cover the oak island mystery on unsolved mysteries?
a friend told me about some reality tv show on that topic and I nearly died cracking up. I was really into it in fourth grade but within a few years wised up
― mh, Thursday, 10 August 2017 02:54 (six years ago) link
i did a quick google, doesnt look like they covered it
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 August 2017 03:16 (six years ago) link
Oh man, I just saw the Season 2 episode 3 story about sweet Mabel and the horrific dog kennel arson ;_;
I checked online - she died in 2008 and they seemingly still have not caught who did it! unbelievable
I saw ppl speculating online about the assistant but I wondered if it was ppl who wanted the land? idk. horrible either way
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 August 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
perfect NYD watching
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 January 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
There needs to be a thread about binge watching older series like these.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 January 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
hmm maybe i’ll watch some more of these today
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 January 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
Soundtrack's coming out!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
I still remember one episode about ghost children on a boat (or maybe it was a public pool) freaking me out so much that I had trouble sleeping for a few nights.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 May 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
Also, this show ruined my first (and thus far, only) viewing of Written on the Wind. I couldn't take Stack seriously.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 May 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/132B2SrnfBAvks/giphy.gif
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 May 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
Yeah, AIrplane probably contributed not a little but to my reaction as well. I guess it's kind of like seeing Leslie Nielsen in something like The Poseidon Adventure or Prom Night after only knowing him as Dr. "Don't Call Me" Shirley or Lt. Frank Drebin, except its really not. If anything, those other roles that I've seen Nielsen in are high camp enough that watching him play them straight feels like an extension of his comedy work.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
to be fair, Written on the Wind is not an entirely sober and serious affair, particularly due to Stack and Dorothy Malone. i mean that as a compliment to both!
― omar little, Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
Alfred - link for the soundtrack release?
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Monday, 21 May 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
Soundtrack's coming out![
oh HELL YES
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 May 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
June 22
single LP: $27triple LP (!!!): $48
$27.00This is the single LP version featuring 3 UM theme songs, 29 ghost related cues and the missing/wanted music. This set is curated by Ryan Graveface (me!). Read below for more info. First time the score has been available on any format! Audio pulled from original tapes / remasteredGatefold packaging / full-color inner sleeveChoose your vinyl colorway:180 Gram retail/mailorder color ("Last Light" variant for those keeping track)180 Gram Black as night180 Gram Hand-Poured wax (Terror Vision Subscribers only - join to receive)More info:Immediately after “inking the deal” with John Cosgrove (Unsolved Mysteries creator), I was sent several hundred DAT tapes of all the music for the show. So from February till a few weeks ago I would spend several hours a day making sense of it all. This single LP version features my personal favorite songs from the ghost related segments of Unsolved Mysteries. I also wanted to include some of the themes (you know, because they’re awesome). It should be noted none of the Unsolved Mysteries music has ever had a release of any kind. If you’re a super fan of the show and want ALL of the cues written for the ghost related segments, there’s also a triple LP set you can find here. Thx for your support!THIS IS A PREORDER THAT WILL HIT YOU BY JUNE 22nd!
First time the score has been available on any format!
Audio pulled from original tapes / remastered
Gatefold packaging / full-color inner sleeve
Choose your vinyl colorway:
180 Gram retail/mailorder color ("Last Light" variant for those keeping track)
180 Gram Black as night
180 Gram Hand-Poured wax (Terror Vision Subscribers only - join to receive)
More info:
Immediately after “inking the deal” with John Cosgrove (Unsolved Mysteries creator), I was sent several hundred DAT tapes of all the music for the show. So from February till a few weeks ago I would spend several hours a day making sense of it all. This single LP version features my personal favorite songs from the ghost related segments of Unsolved Mysteries. I also wanted to include some of the themes (you know, because they’re awesome). It should be noted none of the Unsolved Mysteries music has ever had a release of any kind. If you’re a super fan of the show and want ALL of the cues written for the ghost related segments, there’s also a triple LP set you can find here. Thx for your support!
THIS IS A PREORDER THAT WILL HIT YOU BY JUNE 22nd!
http://www.terror-vision.com/store/unsolved-mysteries-ghosts-hauntings-the-unexplained-lphttp://www.terror-vision.com/store/unsolved-mysteries-ghosts-hauntings-the-unexplained-3xlp-version
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 May 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
3xLP version has 120 ghost related cues
this is badass but i'm not going to be able to spend $48 on unsolved mysteries right now. the single LP may be a possibility, though
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 May 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
One of the phone operators has stories.
"During one episode, [a story] was updated with new details, including a gruesome murder. It was pretty senseless, and it happened near a place where one of [Stack's] kids lived. We didn't know that until a few other operators got concerned at how he looked, and one of the crew told us. It was after that episode finished filming and we got out to our cars that we saw Stack sitting in his car looking out at the road. He wasn't sleeping, he was just staring, like he was in thought. I asked a few others if we should say anything, but we were all a little afraid to approach him, so we left."
They actually weren't supposed to talk to Stack (Delilah says he was a little "distant"), but one day, she was on the phone explaining to her son that she couldn't pick him up because work was running late:
"Mr. Stack overheard this, picked up the phone, and asked, 'What's your son's name?' I told him 'Chris,' and he went into his Unsolved Mysteries voice and said, 'Chris, your mother cannot come and get you. Eyewitnesses say that she will need to be here until approximately 11 tonight. But one thing is for certain: She may help us solve a mystery tonight on Unsolved Mysteries,' and gave me back the phone."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 June 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
wow
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
Is anyone else watching the new season on Netflix? I have watched first 2 eps and I am hooked. Please someone join me in my rabbit hole....
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
Who’s the new Robert Stack?
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 July 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
They are now single story episodesNo hostBut interviews are still great quality with sparse, tactfully deployed reenactmentsAnd the theme song is very close to original. So far, I am sated. Hope the series stays current, so many of these ppl’s cases deserve national attention
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
One of the exec producers is the cocreator of the original series. So it has legitimacy
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
I watched the first episode last night and laughed out loud when only 4 minutes in they introduced "Porter Stansbury"...the name was enough but "financial services guy" and "former water-polo teammate"...like, mystery solved!
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
Watched the great barrington ufo one last night. It was great.
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
I like this!
The production values are solid, and the lack of a narrator doesn't hiner it.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 July 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
hinder
Exactly! Episode 1: Rey1) I think the hole was already there. No way he falls vertically through that hole and somehow ends up in a classic deadman prone position. 2) GET ME STANSBERRY. 3) also what if the “note” was maybe just a document to store passwords? feels like a red herring. Episode 2: Patrice 1) i will stake money on the theory that the husband already had the body at the house the day he changed the locks. & he brought her to the dump site some time after that (and probably visited the dump site more than once). that’s why he had such connection to the bones & wanted them laid out.2) even if he didn’t kill her at all, he is a diabolical piece of crap for treating his stepson that way. Just awful. Ep 3House of HorrorsLook I dont want to make light of this awful tragedy but only the Count’s super-rich idiot friends would get a letter saying “Dear Blah; Goodbye Forever I am Going To Be an Undercover Drug Spy for the DEA, love The Count” and they all say “Eh. but of course” Like WTF that letter made the Nigerian Prince scam look like “The Remains of the Day”. Whole case is so strange & awful... but the story itself seemed eerily lacking in emotion. Ep4 Alonzo Man this story fucked me up. That poor family, being forced to wonder what his last hours were like, and being manipulated by the perpetrators in such a callous way. That whole town is a closed circle. They know exactly who did it, how, where they kept his body & when to put it where the family would find it. That really is upsetting. Like it’s just so fucked up & cruel, and manipulative.Also: Excuse me “friends”. you take your black friend to a party in a deeply rural area you have never been to and you all just fuckin BOUNCE? His friend Robert was right to be pissed because seriously who the fuck does that.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
Episode 5: Berskshire UFOThis was so good! the number of sightings by so many different people, and ~groups~ of people is really intriguing Honestly, I think more sightings should be handled like this. I’m not even a big UFO nut, but just letting people tell their story without voiceover or experts confirming or denying - just let them talk on camera, let the viewers take these stories as they are, that’s where the power is. Also the lack of newspaper coverage & police reports really made me think about how so many things go undocumented bc the person in charge feels like they are smarter & know better.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
But also:https://images1.houstonpress.com/imager/u/blog/11110182/close_encounters_richard_dreyfuss.jpg
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
Episode 6 Lena This is like a southern Gothic murder novel but that it’s so real is just terrifying to me. Those poor sisters, having such a fucked-up Mom. And it’s not like the surviving girl are any more safe; the more they dig in their heels & stand up to her, the more they put themselves in harm’s way. They know that; going on this show is just pure bravery. All of it is so unbelievable. That a family could be dragged through so many horrors. Having Lena help scatter Gary’s remains...just fucking stunned. Talk about depravity of a parent. Not even parenting at that point, just pure self-preservation. Making her daughter an accomplice & she’s what, 13? My god. And when the other sister told that story of being taken out in the truck & her stepdad pointing the gun at her, I cried. What a total betrayal, as a parent conspiring to do that to her own child. And god only knows what kind of poisonous lies Sandy is feeding to that poor boy now. Killing her own daughter & then for all intents & purposes stealing her child. I cannot even
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Oh and here’s the Salem News investigative story about Lena https://www.thesalemnewsonline.com/news/article_5c50244a-da37-11e5-9200-33fc9d2ba192.html
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
Literally just finished Lena episode one minute ago FucccccckGod dammit
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 4 July 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
Brandi and robin are heroic
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 4 July 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
completely
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 July 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
ok so this lady's "supernatural power" is sticking gold foil to her face
― mark s, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
who am i to scoff
"here we have something which is a medical marvel"
― mark s, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
watching a segment on amelia earhart: typed "was amelia earhart — " into google for an update on whether or not a body was ever found at which point google offered me two completed questions
i: "was amelia earhart a lesbian?" ii: "was amelia earhart eaten by crabs?"
unsolved mysteries answers neither of these qeries
― mark s, Sunday, 7 February 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
john wilkes booth yet lives
― mark s, Sunday, 23 April 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
the actor playing the corpse has a very fake mustache
― mark s, Sunday, 23 April 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
Just watched that one a couple of weeks ago, ha
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 24 April 2023 04:42 (one year ago) link
alamo edn, but it's abt buried treasure in an old well and whether or not davey crockett (= king of the wild frontier) surrendered
― mark s, Saturday, 6 May 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
update: there was no buried treasure
― mark s, Saturday, 6 May 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
The Mary Ellen Perez case gets me: single mom in Carter-era America goes to bar in Louisiana, gets kidnapped by man + wife who both come on to her, probably kill her.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 May 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
*Mary Ann Perez