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17 Unsolved Mysteries That Might Make You Sleep With The Lights On

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4. This totally inexplicable disappearance:

So I have a personal experience, sort of. My father had a co-worker who was a great guy. Good at his work, fun to talk to, nobody had any complaints about him. He lived in an apartment right next to work so the night watchman at the workplace would see him whenever he went out.

So one night, he went out in his pajamas, talking on his cell phone, nodded at the watchman. The watchman didn’t think much of it, after all, it’s not all that weird to take a walk even though it was quite late. He didn’t think much of it. The watchman didn’t see him come back, but he figured he missed him when he went on his bathroom break probably.

But the guy didn’t show up at work the next day. Someone from work went to check up and he wasn’t there. Nothing was disturbed, he was just gone. Everyone thought he had dropped dead – killed by thugs or an accident or some medical condition. The workplace filed a police report. Here’s when it gets weird. It turns out, the guy had created a fake identity. Any credentials he had given were fake. The references he had given had never heard of him. The family address he’d given didn’t exist. The police didn’t find anything illegal in the apartment, but they didn’t find anything that would give a clue as to who he was either.

We moved away a few years ago, but I don’t think the case was ever solved. It’s definitely the best unexplained mystery that I’ve personally come across.

5. This hilariously weird mystery:

In Australia, in 2011, someone broke into a TV station and spent four hours flushing $100,000 down the toilet.

It is mindboggling. Why?

6. This chilling car crash:

The disappearance of Maura Murray. Disappeared after crashing her car into a snowbank in the middle of the night in the Kancamagus region of NH. Some witnesses saw the crash and even spoke to her, but by the time the police arrived minutes later, she was gone, her personal effects strewn around the car and a rag stuffed in the tailpipe. K9s were used to track her scent but it ended a few yards away from where she crashed. It’s presumed that’s where she was picked up or abducted by someone. Later that year a man approached her parents and claimed his brother had kidnapped and killed her, but it was never proven.

7. This creepy bar visit:

The disappearance of Brian Shaffer. He was a 27-year-old medical student caught on camera entering but never leaving a bar in Columbus, Ohio.

8. The notorious, baffling manuscript:

The Voynich Manuscript. A long, detailed, and elaborate ‘field guide’ describing plants and animals that don’t exist in a language or code nobody can crack. Other than an insanely elaborate hoax, I have no explanation…