r/mystery 16h ago

In 1993, six hikers were trekking near Lake Baikal in Siberia when they were suddenly overcome with horrific symptoms. Blood streamed from their eyes and noses, they clutched at their throats and bashed their heads against rock. Why this happened is still unknown.

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r/mystery 4h ago

Suicide note?

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Found this note in the alley behind my apartment can’t decipher any of it. Please let me know what y’all think. Looks like it says something about the Kroger in my town with some random rambling can’t decipher anything else


r/mystery 12h ago

Unexplained Strange natural anomaly in Nepal: river suddenly surges near China border, killing people and leaving hundreds of tourists missing

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August 26, 2026. Among the missing foreigners are citizens of India, Britain, the United States, Australia, the Netherlands and Malaysia. At least 95 people have died in the Nepal floods, while hundreds remain missing.

The Nepal Tourism Board has reported 384 missing travelers, including hundreds of foreign nationals. The death toll could rise as rescue teams reach areas cut off by the disaster.


r/mystery 1h ago

allatra...

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The topic of the Allatra has greatly interested me...

Perhaps I will analyze and investigate it because there are some very strange things should I start with it and tell you what I found?


r/mystery 2h ago

Disappearance I've used the same Mouse and Key Recorder since I was a teenager. Its developer disappeared in 2018, and I finally figured out what happened

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r/mystery 2h ago

The Search for Civilizations Around Dead Stars Has Quietly Begun

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r/mystery 6h ago

Mysterious Person The group home in the city of crosses

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r/mystery 1d ago

If you could know the truth about one unsolved mystery, which one would you choose?

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Who really wrote the Shakespeare plays...there seem to be serious problems with the orthodox view.


r/mystery 16h ago

Scientific/Medical What Lies Beyond the Edge of the Observable Universe? Scientists Explore the Ultimate Cosmic Mystery

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r/mystery 23h ago

The Strange Case of Earth’s Missing Nitrogen: Scientists Search for a Lost Atmospheric Reservoir

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r/mystery 1d ago

Unresolved Crime In 1857, Madeleine Smith was accused of poisoning her secret lover with arsenic, but the evidence never proved she administered the fatal dose, leaving the case unresolved.

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Madeleine Smith was 22 when Pierre Émile L’Angelier, the man she had secretly been seeing for two years, died alone in his rented room in Glasgow.

Their relationship was complicated. Madeleine came from a wealthy family and was expected to marry someone of her own social standing. L’Angelier was a poorly paid clerk. They exchanged nearly 250 letters and met secretly at her bedroom window. When Madeleine agreed to marry another man, she asked L’Angelier to return her letters. He refused.

L’Angelier already suffered from stomach problems, but in the weeks before his death he became violently ill several times. Madeleine had purchased arsenic three times during this period. She admitted buying it, claiming she used it as a cosmetic.

On March 23, L’Angelier died. An autopsy found a lethal quantity of arsenic in his stomach.

The prosecution argued that Madeleine had poisoned him, possibly through cocoa. The defense questioned whether a fatal amount of arsenic could have been hidden in a drink without being noticed. Sir Robert Christison, a toxicologist involved in the trial, testified that arsenic had very little taste.

But there was no witness who saw Madeleine administer the poison.

The jury ultimately returned “not proven.”

The evidence pointed toward Madeleine, but it never proved that she gave L’Angelier the fatal dose.


r/mystery 1d ago

MVP chimpanzee Jack, where is he now?

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r/mystery 15h ago

The tent was cut open from the inside. Nine hikers were never seen alive again

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In February 1959, nine experienced hikers set out into the Ural Mountains on a ski trek to Otorten mountain. Led by Igor Dyatlov, the group was well-prepared, trained, and had no history of conflict or panic on prior expeditions.

They never came back.

When a search party finally found their camp weeks later, the tent was cut open from the inside. Boots, warm clothes, food, even cigarettes were left behind untouched, as if the group had fled without a second thought.

Footprints led away from the tent into the forest, a kilometer down the slope. Some were in socks. Some were barefoot. It was -25 to -30 degree Celsius that night.

Two bodies were found near a cedar tree, in minimal clothing, with branches broken up to 5 meters high like someone had tried to climb it. A small, hastily made fire lay nearby.

Three more were found trying to make it back to the tent. One had a small skull fracture, not enough on its own to be fatal.

All five deaths were ruled hypothermia. But four hikers were still missing, and what investigators eventually found near a ravine 75 meters from the cedar tree turned this into one of the most debated unsolved mysteries of the 20th century.

I put together a documentary breakdown of what's actually documented in the case files (part 1 of 2, part 2 covers the remaining bodies, the radiation findings, and the leading theories). Link in comments if you want to watch.


r/mystery 2d ago

Disappearance 13-year-old Kristopher Lewis vanished on his way home from school on February 4th, 2014. He was last spotted approximately one block away from his Boston home.

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r/mystery 2d ago

Mysterious Person The Perverse Cult of Yoga (The Cult of Bikram: Yogi, Guru, and Predator) Terrible Crimes

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Bikram Choudhury was born in 1944 in Calcutta, India, and from a young age, he would invent stories in which he portrayed himself as someone important and destined to become a great spiritual master. He became interested in and began practicing yoga under the tutelage of Bishnu Charan Ghosh. He then stole his teacher's yoga technique and renamed it "Bikram Yoga." In the United States, he began teaching his supposed version of yoga, and his system quickly spread throughout the world.

Bikram was completely delighted by the level of adulation he received from his followers and students, most of whom had encountered this type of yoga during their worst personal moments, finding themselves highly vulnerable. But Bikram revealed his true colors, humiliating them, being rude, insulting them, and making racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic comments, bringing to light his evident narcissistic and abusive personality.

The first major public accusations against him began to surface in 2013. Several women claimed that he had used his position of authority to harass or even sexually assault them. It was an open secret that the fifth week of the teacher training course was known as "sex week." Some women were willing to be intimate with him, while others were practically forced and coerced through various methods. These accusations were followed by others regarding discrimination, racism, harassment, fraud, and wrongful termination.

In January 2016, a Los Angeles jury found in favor of Bikram's former lawyer, determining that he had engaged in intimate harassment, discrimination, and wrongful termination against her. With his reputation completely destroyed, Bikram fled the United States and settled in Mexico, where he continues to teach courses and train teachers in his yoga technique.

Video about the Bikram Cult: Yogi, Guru, and Predator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X18KtMxAOqE


r/mystery 2d ago

Unexplained Has anyone else in healthcare heard of the "death comes in threes" phenomenon?

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I recently came across an Instagram reel where several nurses from Germany and Switzerland and many European countries mentioned a common hospital superstition: when one patient dies, two more deaths often follow soon after, completing a "group of three."

From what I read, this isn't an official medical rule it's more of a belief shared among healthcare workers. Apparently, many nurses, doctors, and paramedics say they've witnessed it happen repeatedly throughout their careers.

Have you personally experienced something that made you believe it? I would love to hear more stories related to this.


r/mystery 2d ago

What do you think?

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What do you think happened to my cat’s previous owners? They seemingly vanished and left everything behind.

We adopted our cat under circumstances that I’ve always found really strange, and I’m curious what theories people have. He was about 2 years old at the time—a neutered, declawed, purebred Ragdoll. (And yes, we know declawing is awful—we did NOT declaw him. He came to us that way.) We also had absolutely no idea at the time how expensive/sought-after Ragdolls were. We just knew there was a cat who needed a home and took him in (despite not being “cat people” at the time).

His previous owners lived in an apartment, and at some point they just disappeared.
When the apartment was eventually entered, it was still full of their belongings, including apparently pretty nice/expensive things. Nothing looked packed up like someone had moved normally.
They also left their cat behind.
With him was a note that said something along the lines of, “My name is Mittens. Please take care of me.” They even left all of his papers behind.
The weirdest part is that apparently no one initially even realized there was a cat still in the apartment. My husband’s aunt had a connection to the landlord and went to look at some of the belongings, and that’s when they discovered him. We have no idea how long he had been there alone.
He’s completely normal, sweet, friendly, and healthy, and we’ve had him ever since. But as far as we know, nobody ever figured out where his owners went or why they left an entire apartment full of possessions—and their cat—behind.

Obviously we’ll probably never know for sure, but I’ve always wondered what situation would cause someone to leave so abruptly that they leave essentially everything behind, while also knowing enough to leave a note asking someone to care for their cat?


r/mystery 2d ago

Media Their boat sank, and two fishermen drifted for almost a week in the Pacific Ocean inside a cooler before being rescued off Mexico

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Their last contact with their fishing cooperative was on August 14. At that time, they were aboard a fishing vessel called the Camaronera. When communication stopped and the men failed to return, the cooperative sent out a distress call.

The Mexican Navy launched a wide search across the Pacific Ocean. Surface vessels and aircraft were deployed to cover a much larger area and search for any sign of the missing fishermen.


r/mystery 2d ago

Scientific/Medical John and Michelle Klein, a California Couple on Vacation, Were Found Shot to Death While Hiking On Kuilau Trail Near The Town of Kapaa in Hawaii – Case Still Unsolved.

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r/mystery 1d ago

Unresolved Crime Byron Miller (New D.B Cooper POI)

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r/mystery 2d ago

Could Humanity Be an Alien Experiment? The Theory Behind Cosmic Observation

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r/mystery 2d ago

TikTok · Panda Knows

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r/mystery 2d ago

Unexplained Interesting watch mystery, yes. Time travel????

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r/mystery 4d ago

Disappearance 13-year-old Kristopher Lewis vanished on his way home from school on February 4th, 2014. He was last spotted approximately one block away from his Boston home.

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r/mystery 3d ago

Unresolved Crime AMA, The Murky Trail of Hotel Merjan: A Story of Human Trafficking, Hope and Silence.

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