Creeps, perms, synths & Robert Stack: the Unsolved Mysteries thread

nomar: I remember reading an article about the Ritters in Sassy.

Can we discuss how effective Robert Stack is? At one point he breaks the fourth wall and addresses poor, probably dead Patricia Meehan: "Patricia, you're not in trouble. Your family misses you. Come home." And his lack of affect is devastating.

rosemary, no kidding, i've gotta find that somewhere.

Yeah when they did tbe update on poor Gail he gave very heartfelt condolences to the family to camera

I love Robert Stack - he brings the right level of professional gravitas. It may as well BE elliott ness hosting; that's the seriousness he brings

i dunno how he doesn't go OKAY LOOK FUCK THESE IDIOTS with the stupid psychic segments

I have noticed in S1 that Stack looks even more handsome when he wears dark colored suits

He brings a disturbing blend of (affectlessness and inner turmoil breaking through/pulled back into the white eyes, for a while) to Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind and Tarnished Angels, teamed with Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone in both.

So disturbia he still messes up my punctuation, but I'll prob try this show, thanks. What do yall think of John Walsh and America's Most Wanted? I've rarely seen it.

Matter of fact I think the only way I've seen it is as clips in the Mia Zapata/Gits documentary (DVD is amazing).

Walsh channelling his personal tragedy into the show is prob the most interesting aspect for me. Hard for me to view it on the same level as Unsolved Mysteries tho.

plus AMW is hard to watch a lot of; it's depressingly un-varied, unlike unsolved mysteries

america's most wanted is strictly on the escaped criminals tip, Walsh's backstory makes him a more intense figure and justifiably so. Stack brings this Rod Serling like quality to his hosting.

man this show scared the hell out of me as a kid, just hearing the theme still gives me the cold chills. would prob love it now.

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.

A Season 1 episode!

I always liked the reunited family updates.

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..."

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..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tLswHlf610

oooooh thx Alfred :D

boy what a great interview, i could listen to him talk forever.

Veg, have you gotten to Wanda Jean Mays yet? Yeesh.

What season is she? I have only just now finished s1

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.

oooh

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.

also: aliums, buried treasure, guh guh guh ghoooosts

typo!

wrong thread!

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

i did a quick google, doesnt look like they covered it

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

perfect NYD watching

There needs to be a thread about binge watching older series like these.

hmm maybe i’ll watch some more of these today

Soundtrack's coming out!

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.

Also, this show ruined my first (and thus far, only) viewing of Written on the Wind. I couldn't take Stack seriously.

https://media.giphy.com/media/132B2SrnfBAvks/giphy.gif

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.

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!

Alfred - link for the soundtrack release?

Soundtrack's coming out![

oh HELL YES

June 22

single LP: $27
triple LP (!!!): $48

$27.00
This 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 / 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-lp
http://www.terror-vision.com/store/unsolved-mysteries-ghosts-hauntings-the-unexplained-3xlp-version

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

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."

wow

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....

Who’s the new Robert Stack?

They are now single story episodes
No host
But interviews are still great quality with sparse, tactfully deployed reenactments

And 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

One of the exec producers is the cocreator of the original series. So it has legitimacy

also i watched an eye-rollingly boring section on the wooden crucified jesus in a philadelphia church that may or may have closed its eyes (it as not declared an official miracle)

reminds me of the icon that is supposedly hanging on the wall of a church somewhere without any actual physical means of support. of course you can't actually look behind it.

the truth is back there

actor playing rudolf hess wearing immense stick-on black bushy eyebrows

My intro to the dude.

i guess the story is abt doubles so maybe this is realism and the guy pretending to be rudolf hess also wore fake eyebrows

section on crop circles lol

"circle investigator/dowser" uh-huh

(i was interrupted watching this bit yesterday)

"you just can't believe it"

you're a dowser!!

strand on reincarnation:

"i don't buy the reincarnation but she has some kind of power, some power of knowing what happened in the past. i don't know what the power would be but she has it"

"under ordinary circumstances we would not film a recreation of the murder of a united states senator"

ok so this lady's "supernatural power" is sticking gold foil to her face

who am i to scoff

"here we have something which is a medical marvel"

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

john wilkes booth yet lives

the actor playing the corpse has a very fake mustache

Just watched that one a couple of weeks ago, ha

alamo edn, but it's abt buried treasure in an old well and whether or not davey crockett (= king of the wild frontier) surrendered

update: there was no buried treasure

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.

*Mary Ann Perez