You don’t have to be a disagreeable person for someone to want to hurt you. There’s plenty of cases where the victim didn’t have any or many issues with others
My father was a corrections officer at Eastern State Penitentiary from 1967 until it closed down in 1971. I grew up across the street from it in the late 70's and throughout the 80's it was overgrown with weeds infested with rats pigeons and stray cats and truly left derelict untill the 90's after I was grown and moved out of the neighborhood. I remember as a kid some weird things happening on it's grounds
I live in Delaware, and have been to the eastern state penitentiary multiple times. The weirdest experience was doing the self guided tour with my brother, at 5pm on a dark rainy day. No one else was in the place and you tour the whole penitentiary by yourself. Very weird feeling
Also, always curious how they can tell whether the door was locked from the inside or not. A locked door is a locked door, unless the key is still in the lock on the inside and it can be ascertained that the lock definitely cant be operated from the outside in such circumstances. It would be easy in early police work for the first person on the scene to assume the door was locked from the inside and that just becomes the assumption
In the first one I always wondered if there was a trap door under a carpet or the bed. A false cabinet or wardrobe back or something. I don't know how carefully they searched the room though. If there was a false wall door or something. I mention because we had a "Winchester room" in the house I grew up in. My dad had a secret door in a wall to the attic where we kept our fake Christmas tree and holiday junk...it looked like a plain wall but had a heavy magnetic spring you pushed and it popped open. He loved those things, and every cupboard in the house had an (annoying) magnetic door.
@@jennj2049 yeah I had to Google it too.... it was a hidden room in that crazy Mansion , the Winchester Mansion where they just kept building on and building on and building on and it had nine kitchens and all these different rooms.. the place was built by the wealthy wife and Widow of the guy that created Winchester guns and she just kept building and building more . She said it was for the ghosts of people killed by the Winchester guns .
@@gardensofthegods We lived in Palo Alto, California, which about 10 minutes away from San Jose, where the Winchester house is. We went there several times, and we jokingly called my dad "Mr. Winchester" because once started renovating our house, he never stopped until they sold it and moved away. He was always coming up with weird plans and ideas. I think that place really did inspire him. This was in the 60s and 70s, before Palo Alto turned from a beautiful college town into a billionaire tech town. It always breaks my heart. There was a beautiful, beautiful horse ranch near our house, and on Saturdays you could go riding over these golden hills and through giant fields of wildflowers. Now, it's just nothing but buildings as far as the eye can see, ugly....I can never understand how they could have used all their money to just destroy everything. This experience made me against having too much of anything. Too much crap in your house, too much money, too much fame, too much success, whatever it is, it takes over and blinds people to anything else. Too little is just as damaging, I'm not against being comfortable, I've just been really happy with my decision. I moved to Texas, married a Texan and we have a little place in a very old neighborhood, dogs, a truck, the whole stereotype, kind of, but I'm glad I'm not in The Bay Area, especially now, as it turns out.
I've stayed at the St. James. Even the "new" tin ceiling above the bar and restaurant has several dozen bullet holes that are easily noticeable. T.J.Wright's room (#18) is definitely still locked and not rented. Though I never had anything unusual happen to me while I was there, it is easy finding staff who has had at least a few unusual experiences. One server told me she's had a jukebox go off when it was unplugged, that many people have seen the reflection of a cowboy in a mirror only for him to not be there when they turn around, and that Mary Lambert's room will suddenly smell like rose perfume--her favorite--for no particular reason. I know it's changed owners since I was last there, but it is still worth a visit. While the little town of Cimarron doesn't offer much, it's near Cimarron Canyon State Park and is only about an hour from Taos.
Hugh ross knocks me out in leas.than minutes...or the guy in.sentinal apologetics channel...he.really knocks me out..i have no idea what they have said...and i use to have a horrible time sleeping.
Actually that is the correct way to say it. "Bogeys" were English goblins that played malicious pranks upon humans, and became a general term for both spirits and humans that enjoyed seemingly supernatural luck.
Simon... your voice, look, and delivery is perfect in every way. I hope and pray for your continued success in this field. In my opinion, Leonard Nimoy held the torch for decades with those three traits, and I hope you pick it up and proudly carry it for the next three or four decades to come at least. Great job!!!
The locked-room mystery: it would seem to me the only suspects would be either the boy who opened the door for the police or the landlord who stated Isidor Fink was quiet and never associated with dubious characters.
@Tabitha Fallstead Yes. People often survive and get to safety before they succumb to blood loss or shock as the adrenaline dump drains out. Here in South Africa a lawyer were murdered is home. They shot him three times and missed twice, but he still succeeded in chasing his attackers of by smashing a couple of chairs over them - thus saving his young family
The first one, the property is sealed up in seemingly every way, but the lack of a gun shows that can't be the case. The landlord was quick to blame another person, when he himself isn't an obvious suspect. If the building has a trick to it, and the landlord is acting fishy, look closely at that landlord.
Wait a minute, there were a whole slew of murders in central park at that time. It has been theorized that a serial killer was at work there at that time but the victims were all anonymous because of how thoroughly they were butchered. Thanos isnt the only one cursed with knowledge
Glad Central Park is now safe! Oh, wait... Seriously, being from NYC, I never heard anything about a serial killer at that time. Any other details? Thanks. 😊
@@alittlebitofkat6529 nah and i looked for it. Might be way older than im thinking or im just flat out misremembering. Hell, it couldve been from some bs history channel in the early days of,"aliens did it!" being their only explanation. I was hoping somebody else would remember but i gotta be misremembering some part of it. My bad, feel free to jog at night lol dont do that, for gods sake
Roanoke really isn't much of a mystery, while never truly confirmed it's pretty much understood they joined up with the locals. It's just a lot of details tend to get left out to make it more mysterious like a lot of "mysterys" that get passed around
The kid took the gun. The cops got a kid to climb into the sealed crime scene to let them in and I doubt they frisked him after. He probably pocketed it.
@deekat3279 Why wouldn't a kid take a gun? Even nowadays a kid in that situation would probably take the gun, let alone back then. Kids think they're cool, and at the very least, it'd be money.
I love how here in the US we have a 300-year-old mystery about some petroglyphs, and we go "Woah, that mystery is pretty old, right?!" ...but in Wales, stands Raglan Castle, built in the late 1430's making it almost 500 years old; In Warwickshire, England, stands the almost 1000-year-old Warwickshire castle; In Cochem, Germany, stands the 1020-year-old Reichsburg Cochem; In Aleppo, Syria stands the _FIVE THOUSAND_ -year-old Citadel of Aleppo, built in the year 3000 BCE... There's some truly OLD stuff out there. It always reminds me of exactly how young my home country really is. The US really is kind of the greater world's "teenage child" in more ways than one lol. Edit: there's lots of older stuff, I just went with castles because I think they're so cool and I wish we had cool castles here in the US. I'm jelly.
Nick C I’m picking-up what you’re putting down. We have boring buildings and dirt. But I think the Pueblo Indians left the most amazing dwellings on earth, they are also old then thought. I’m jelly of all the history on most the other continents.
The Zodiac Killer always really creeped me out man. I’d love for his identity to be revealed in my lifetime. That’s going to be a case that’ll never close I’m afraid.
yeah although I thought the Golden state killer wouldn't be solved but DNA proved who did it, and with one of Zodiacs cyphers recently being solved maybe there's still hope
My sister's murder had never been solved, 1988 age 7 it was like the ground swallowed her up and then a search party found her 3 days later, no clues to who it was, in 32 years no arrest.
@thisguy Sounds interesting, Ill check it out. I wont however have an opinion concerning the nature or facts concerning his disappearance tho, because unless his body is found, or other demonstrable evidence is brought to surface that proves the theory for what happened to him, I will not side with any conspiracy theory. I will check it out and watch it tho.
My opinion is that Mr. Hoffa is in one of the concrete supports that make up the foundation of a large public building that the union *and mafia* were building nearby at the time.
@@muninrob It could be possible. A hypothesis of thisnature is near uninvestigatable since it cannot be falsified unless the building is demolished, or something near that.
How have I not heard of the Rock Island train derailment? Lincoln, NE is my hometown. I've heard of the Rock Island Railroad and one of the main Bike trails is called the Rock Island trail. Took a British man to tell me about my own town's history. Go figure. Lmao.
First off awesome episode I enjoyed all the haunted old stories especially the one of the St James hotel . I live not far from there and go there quite a bit. I haven’t seen a ghost yet but I’ve had a spooky feeling once or twice in the hotel. One time years ago I had just got a new phone and took pictures of the outside. The next day it crashed and lost all photos and it never worked again. Don’t know if it was evil spirits or not but I haven’t taken anymore photos of the place since lol thanks again
Isidor Fink was killed by a time traveler, mystery solved. Solid barriers like locked doors don't matter much when you have a 4th dimension to move through.
The attacker just locked the door on his way out. I don't know the type of lock, but with some ingenuity and a few strings, you could probably do it. Isn't this plausible?
A neighbor heard the screams and summoned a policeman......"cut to neighbor in a black hooded robe, candle lit room chanting an ancient incantatio in pig latin "
You missed one: 59-year-old Ray Gricar was the top prosecutor in Centre County Pennsylvania for 20 years until his disappearance on April 15, 2005. He was never seen again. Investigators eventually found Ray’s laptop, with its hard drive conspicuously removed, in the river near the Route 192 bridge in Lewisburg. A few months later, the hard drive was found upstream under an abandoned railroad trestle. Much more info available. Check it out. Very weird.
Why would anyone just assume that it was European? Probably the Natives most certainly. Thats cool though. Hope that rock is doing well...... Stay up yo
Native Americans most likely. Im just waiting to see if we ever find out that some of this "mysterious images" are really just some ancient guy getting bored and doodling on a rock or wall...
JEEWIZ You think they would've thought about that. One would think there would be blood on the porch, or maybe on the doorhandle. Huh so weird they didn't investigate that...
The fact that Dorothy Arnold's love interest participated in the search for his lady does not clear him of involvement in the disappearance. Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper, is just one perpetrator who joined the search for his victims.
Fink was shot 3 times, but Fink's neighbor did not hear gunshots. either the neighbor lied about not hearing gunshots or it took place elsewhere and the body was transported back to the room and then the locked room scenario happened.
My great great grandfather died in Eastern State Penitentiary. Hung himself while serving time there for shooting his son in law during an argument. He had loaned the son in law enough to buy a farm and the son inlaw was refusing to pay him back
#10 wouldn't it make sense that the person was already in the house, shot him, and found another way out or even took a key and let himself out and lock the door behind him?
The old city hospital in st louis missouri. Site of the exorcism the movie exorcist is based on. Less than a mile from there is the Lemp mansion and brewery. Legend has it that the lemp family helped fund the hospital and a nearby church. Both had extensive underground caverns for natural body storage: early morgues. The lemp family was infamous for the tunnels that connected to nearby natural caverns and linked up with the sewer system to lead to the hospital, church and other private tunnels between the hilltop mansion and the brewery in the old french landing. Why is that important? That exact land was an old native american trade post appropriated by french settlers. This area is also home to the last few royal tombs of the ancient Mississippi river valley culture. They built the hill the mansion is built on. The tunnels and caverns this city links into? An ancient tomb city complex, the whole south of the city. Look it up, a hill mound near the mansion was recently bought by a native tribe for cultural preservation. All the others were leveled and the french quarter built on top of it. Anheuser busch has similar issues, though they have kept it quieter thanks to generosity with free beer in the south side of st louis and overly generous retirements. To be clear, i have seen and travelled these caverns under st louis and found very old places. Lost and hidden, forgotten places still seeming to howl with fading screams of withering souls. It is a fell place, and the lemp mansion is now a tourist attraction due to how haunted it is presumed to be. As a local i can confirm only that i have seen strange things i could not explain to my own satisfaction and relay the dozens of accounts i have gathered over the years. The history is almost too stereotypically perfect, and you can google old photos taken of the kings burial mounds the day they were destroyed. The only known photo of them. Some old sketches exist, from old german immigrant surveyors that loved the hills and meadows, but they are stored in and around st louis in historical sites and attached museums. Most have online presences but few people go looking for them so they are not widely known. This is a long comment already but i want to make clear my old family farm in Springfield Missouri also had a mound and cavern along with a butial site of 13 cairns arranged in a circle. We had many offers to log out the forest or to mine out the lead in our land. We refused and made many excuses but our oral history is that we knew we were simply holding the land in trust, entrusted with it, until the real owners returned to the bones of their fathers. This is a sacred thing to native peoples of the americas. We claim we did this at the instruction of a matriarch of our french trader patrilineal line. She was a native woman that married a french man and they built a farm. And many generations of my family was, frankly, conceived in beautiful caverns glittering with reflected starlight and painted symbols of holy import to the people of the land. The caverns, i have seen them, are truly wonderous and my first thought was to bring a girl there. My grandfather grinned at me and said,"yes boy, i had the same idea. With a woman named velma." Velma is my grandmother. So maybe, just maybe, im not AS cursed as all the friends i took into the most sacred tombs of a very small number of my presumed ancestors. Those are my "knowing native caves and tombs when i see them" bona fides, if you think me a fool. Check out the lemp mansion and work your way down from there. Literally. Where history and mystery meet, deep underground.
If the TV & books have taught me anything about locked room mysteries, the killer was still in the room when the cops came in & escaped later that night.
I feel like the Fink case could be explained by Isidor opening the door partially, only for the person to end up holding a gun (it’s a laundry business, but that could be a lot more during the prohibition era.) He holds his arm out to push the offender away, getting shot in the hand/wrist. The offender shoots him twice in the abdomen before Isidor is able to close the door (the thud?) and lock it. Isidor Fink stumbles back and collapses, bleeding out. The only person inside the apartment during the crime would be Fink. No blood would be found outside of the apartment. As for trying to figure out motives, cops in the day were usually aware of and even a part of bootlegging. It’s completely possible they had ideas of who would do it, but would be self incriminating if they pursued it.
Locked door murder mysteries often end with an unlocked door. Check out Tv show Death in Paradise for all scenarios in a few seasons. 😝 One of those surely will fit.
The unsolved murder of Jane Stanford, wife of Stanford University founder Leland Stanford, is actually pretty interesting yet somehow has been forgotten over time despite being a huge story when it happened,
I've stayed in a haunted hotel in New Mexico. The Hotel La Fonda de Taos is haunted by it's former owner. If you stay in his old room which I was, you will smell his tobacco. When I happen to find his grave in the local cemetery, I made sure to thank him for a pleasant stay.
What haunts me (former city police) is a case my father (former sheriff) was very interested in, The Boy in the Box from Philadelphia.
Former city police here as well. That case has always fascinated me!
What are the details
I'm surprised he wasn't included.
@@jessicacanfield5408 a child's remains were found discarded near a road, his remains were in a box (hence the nickname) his identity is unknown
@@theboyoofoly They could enter his DNA on one of the heritage sites and find out who he was.
You don’t have to be a disagreeable person for someone to want to hurt you. There’s plenty of cases where the victim didn’t have any or many issues with others
The success of "Jersey Shore " wasn't on there?
jessewahwah Or the Kardashians
Made a deal with the devil no big mysteries
@@flee4342 friendship with OJ + Kim's sextape with Ray J
Hahaha!! Thanks I needed that 👍
Wish I could turn 15 minutes of fame into 15 years of fame like the Kardashians 😂
My father was a corrections officer at Eastern State Penitentiary from 1967 until it closed down in 1971. I grew up across the street from it in the late 70's and throughout the 80's it was overgrown with weeds infested with rats pigeons and stray cats and truly left derelict untill the 90's after I was grown and moved out of the neighborhood. I remember as a kid some weird things happening on it's grounds
I live in Delaware, and have been to the eastern state penitentiary multiple times. The weirdest experience was doing the self guided tour with my brother, at 5pm on a dark rainy day. No one else was in the place and you tour the whole penitentiary by yourself. Very weird feeling
Fink was shot outside his apartment, made it inside, locked the door, then died. Possible.
Very likely
Also, always curious how they can tell whether the door was locked from the inside or not. A locked door is a locked door, unless the key is still in the lock on the inside and it can be ascertained that the lock definitely cant be operated from the outside in such circumstances. It would be easy in early police work for the first person on the scene to assume the door was locked from the inside and that just becomes the assumption
He said there were no gaps big enough for a grown adult to squeeze through but anyone could have pointed a gun through a gap.
@@tess7656 now that is genuinely a great point I missed, thank you
There would be blood outside or on the door and blood trailing from the entrance to where he was found
In the first one I always wondered if there was a trap door under a carpet or the bed. A false cabinet or wardrobe back or something. I don't know how carefully they searched the room though. If there was a false wall door or something. I mention because we had a "Winchester room" in the house I grew up in. My dad had a secret door in a wall to the attic where we kept our fake Christmas tree and holiday junk...it looked like a plain wall but had a heavy magnetic spring you pushed and it popped open. He loved those things, and every cupboard in the house had an (annoying) magnetic door.
@Vlad Hazard why do you say he was shot by a kid..... I figured somehow the landlord had a way of getting in
Are you sure that's what he kept up there 😉
I never heard of a Winchester room going to go Google it now 💕
@@jennj2049 yeah I had to Google it too.... it was a hidden room in that crazy Mansion , the Winchester Mansion where they just kept building on and building on and building on and it had nine kitchens and all these different rooms.. the place was built by the wealthy wife and Widow of the guy that created Winchester guns and she just kept building and building more . She said it was for the ghosts of people killed by the Winchester guns .
@@gardensofthegods
We lived in Palo Alto, California, which about 10 minutes away from San Jose, where the Winchester house is. We went there several times, and we jokingly called my dad "Mr. Winchester" because once started renovating our house, he never stopped until they sold it and moved away. He was always coming up with weird plans and ideas. I think that place really did inspire him. This was in the 60s and 70s, before Palo Alto turned from a beautiful college town into a billionaire tech town. It always breaks my heart. There was a beautiful, beautiful horse ranch near our house, and on Saturdays you could go riding over these golden hills and through giant fields of wildflowers. Now, it's just nothing but buildings as far as the eye can see, ugly....I can never understand how they could have used all their money to just destroy everything. This experience made me against having too much of anything. Too much crap in your house, too much money, too much fame, too much success, whatever it is, it takes over and blinds people to anything else. Too little is just as damaging, I'm not against being comfortable, I've just been really happy with my decision. I moved to Texas, married a Texan and we have a little place in a very old neighborhood, dogs, a truck, the whole stereotype, kind of, but I'm glad I'm not in The Bay Area, especially now, as it turns out.
I've stayed at the St. James. Even the "new" tin ceiling above the bar and restaurant has several dozen bullet holes that are easily noticeable. T.J.Wright's room (#18) is definitely still locked and not rented.
Though I never had anything unusual happen to me while I was there, it is easy finding staff who has had at least a few unusual experiences. One server told me she's had a jukebox go off when it was unplugged, that many people have seen the reflection of a cowboy in a mirror only for him to not be there when they turn around, and that Mary Lambert's room will suddenly smell like rose perfume--her favorite--for no particular reason.
I know it's changed owners since I was last there, but it is still worth a visit. While the little town of Cimarron doesn't offer much, it's near Cimarron Canyon State Park and is only about an hour from Taos.
Your voice is the most amazing thing I've ever heard. It's so calming.
Hugh ross knocks me out in leas.than minutes...or the guy in.sentinal apologetics channel...he.really knocks me out..i have no idea what they have said...and i use to have a horrible time sleeping.
As a Brit, find it pretentious. He didn’t sound like this in his earlier videos.
The way you said "Boogie Man" made me for real laugh out loud.
Whenever I think of the "Boogie Man", I always think of the one from "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy." Now THAT was funny.
I bet it was more of a chuckle.
Actually that is the correct way to say it. "Bogeys" were English goblins that played malicious pranks upon humans, and became a general term for both spirits and humans that enjoyed seemingly supernatural luck.
@@Pokey_TAB turn me onnnn
Simon @0:17: *"...They happened a long time ago..."*
Me; *In a galaxy far, far away.*
*Lmao!*
Simon... your voice, look, and delivery is perfect in every way. I hope and pray for your continued success in this field. In my opinion, Leonard Nimoy held the torch for decades with those three traits, and I hope you pick it up and proudly carry it for the next three or four decades to come at least. Great job!!!
Your voice, look and delivery are perfect in every way - ExLax
😂😂😂
great work as usual, love the spooky ones!
@Pretty Princess P P sounds like a plan
Every time Simon brings up a haunting I start giggling to myself bc ik what he’d be saying if this was a BB episode
" A month later they corrected their mistake" lol
At least they got it right eventually. Job done badly, but job done.
The locked-room mystery: it would seem to me the only suspects would be either the boy who opened the door for the police or the landlord who stated Isidor Fink was quiet and never associated with dubious characters.
As someone mentioned in the comments above, it's possible he got shot outside - went in, locked up and then died. It fits.
@@LittleBlueOwl318 yea but would you really lock up while you are dying?
@Tabitha Fallstead Yes. People often survive and get to safety before they succumb to blood loss or shock as the adrenaline dump drains out. Here in South Africa a lawyer were murdered is home. They shot him three times and missed twice, but he still succeeded in chasing his attackers of by smashing a couple of chairs over them - thus saving his young family
Oh my - if I'm reading the map of Chicago correctly, Little Hell persisted, because not too long ago it was called Cabrini-Green.
"Absen-teesha". :) Can't stop watching Simon while we're all waiting to die..
He does read a Hell of a lot of scripts each week. Life is hard for a YT icon.
The first one, the property is sealed up in seemingly every way, but the lack of a gun shows that can't be the case. The landlord was quick to blame another person, when he himself isn't an obvious suspect. If the building has a trick to it, and the landlord is acting fishy, look closely at that landlord.
Gotta love Top Tenz! Keep at it!
Wait a minute, there were a whole slew of murders in central park at that time. It has been theorized that a serial killer was at work there at that time but the victims were all anonymous because of how thoroughly they were butchered.
Thanos isnt the only one cursed with knowledge
Glad Central Park is now safe! Oh, wait...
Seriously, being from NYC, I never heard anything about a serial killer at that time. Any other details? Thanks. 😊
You know the name of that case ?
@@alittlebitofkat6529 nah and i looked for it. Might be way older than im thinking or im just flat out misremembering.
Hell, it couldve been from some bs history channel in the early days of,"aliens did it!" being their only explanation. I was hoping somebody else would remember but i gotta be misremembering some part of it.
My bad, feel free to jog at night lol dont do that, for gods sake
Excellent! I love these stories. Thanks Simon.
#10 The police suspected suicide with three gunshot wounds?
He was a bad shot. @QuietEarth
Clinton's
@@F_And wink wink
Happens all the time. Often to the back of the head.
He had the hiccups.
No Black Dahlia? Roanoke? Feel like you’ve definitely got fodder for a part 2
Roanoke really isn't much of a mystery, while never truly confirmed it's pretty much understood they joined up with the locals. It's just a lot of details tend to get left out to make it more mysterious like a lot of "mysterys" that get passed around
No Jimmy Hoffa or DB Cooper....and Simon's pronunciation of American English is atrocious.
I think toptenz would like us to know other mysterious crimes aside from the popular or notorious ones that were pretty much exploited abd overrated.
John Keller. Be nice! My pronunciation of British English is atrocious.
@@duogemstone hard agree! I think it's pretty obvious they assimilated.
I feel like the Ghoul Boys are watching this and taking notes...
I get all of this!!!
@@WhereWhoWhatisE best comment. Lol. I love how they always type the wheezes in
The kid took the gun. The cops got a kid to climb into the sealed crime scene to let them in and I doubt they frisked him after. He probably pocketed it.
@deekat3279 Why wouldn't a kid take a gun? Even nowadays a kid in that situation would probably take the gun, let alone back then. Kids think they're cool, and at the very least, it'd be money.
@@JohnDoe-wg9sy that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard
@@daisydickey1024 You don't watch much CNN, huh?
I love how here in the US we have a 300-year-old mystery about some petroglyphs, and we go "Woah, that mystery is pretty old, right?!" ...but in Wales, stands Raglan Castle, built in the late 1430's making it almost 500 years old;
In Warwickshire, England, stands the almost 1000-year-old Warwickshire castle;
In Cochem, Germany, stands the 1020-year-old Reichsburg Cochem;
In Aleppo, Syria stands the _FIVE THOUSAND_ -year-old Citadel of Aleppo, built in the year 3000 BCE...
There's some truly OLD stuff out there. It always reminds me of exactly how young my home country really is. The US really is kind of the greater world's "teenage child" in more ways than one lol.
Edit: there's lots of older stuff, I just went with castles because I think they're so cool and I wish we had cool castles here in the US. I'm jelly.
Nick C I’m picking-up what you’re putting down. We have boring buildings and dirt. But I think the Pueblo Indians left the most amazing dwellings on earth, they are also old then thought. I’m jelly of all the history on most the other continents.
You should look into the Villisca Axe House Murders in Iowa, one of the oldest cases in Iowa
That case is also a mystery, should've been on the list
True
was that the one from the man from the train video?
The Zodiac Killer always really creeped me out man. I’d love for his identity to be revealed in my lifetime. That’s going to be a case that’ll never close I’m afraid.
yeah although I thought the Golden state killer wouldn't be solved but DNA proved who did it, and with one of Zodiacs cyphers recently being solved maybe there's still hope
The "Shotgun Man" and "The Black Hand"... wow those are _great_ nicknames, I don't know who came up with that but cheers to you.
Kinda surprised that the Axe-Man of New Orleans wasn't on here.
You could catalog a vast amount of these kind of murder mysteries. Thank you Simon.
My sister's murder had never been solved, 1988 age 7 it was like the ground swallowed her up and then a search party found her 3 days later, no clues to who it was, in 32 years no arrest.
And why r u exclaiming this here
Back in the days when racism was normal if a crime was committed and a culprit couldn't be found the nearest black man would do.
@matthew styles last Tuesday lol
aka still today really huh
@matthew styles what do you mean "whatchu mean"
Still happens. Every damn day.
Well, at least they aren't blaming the natives for massacres anymore... so that's an improvement.
Back in the day...yesterday and tomorrow.
Simon, you're easily my favorite RUclipsr.
5:43 stuff like this makes me wonder if time travelers would have their own equivalent of drunk texting or collage hazing.
I'm surprised Roanoke isn't on this list. Love your work though!
It’s on a separate list with a similar title lol.
Be the loud guy who always causes trouble... being the quiet guy who never stirs up anything just gets you... DEAD!
So did anyone ever bother to check under the boardwalk at Coney Island?
That’s my question lmao
Boogie man 😂 love how he pronounced that 😆
I was waiting for you to mention Jimmy Hoffa. Can't believe he wasn't on this list.
@thisguy No I haven't. Does it give a hypothesis for what may have happened to him?
@thisguy Sounds interesting, Ill check it out. I wont however have an opinion concerning the nature or facts concerning his disappearance tho, because unless his body is found, or other demonstrable evidence is brought to surface that proves the theory for what happened to him, I will not side with any conspiracy theory. I will check it out and watch it tho.
My opinion is that Mr. Hoffa is in one of the concrete supports that make up the foundation of a large public building that the union *and mafia* were building nearby at the time.
@@muninrob It could be possible. A hypothesis of thisnature is near uninvestigatable since it cannot be falsified unless the building is demolished, or something near that.
I thought the Skidmore killing would be brought up, not mysterious enough I suppose
I gotta say you are a better comedian i love watching your business blaze videos because of that
4:54 Bat *Masterson
How have I not heard of the Rock Island train derailment? Lincoln, NE is my hometown. I've heard of the Rock Island Railroad and one of the main Bike trails is called the Rock Island trail. Took a British man to tell me about my own town's history. Go figure. Lmao.
Did you go to to public school? That would explain why.
Well even if you went to public school or not, sometimes they dont tell you these things
SO interesting. Thank you 😊
546...true crime & unsolved stuff is my jam! Exceptional stuff as always guys. Thank you.
First off awesome episode I enjoyed all the haunted old stories especially the one of the St James hotel . I live not far from there and go there quite a bit. I haven’t seen a ghost yet but I’ve had a spooky feeling once or twice in the hotel. One time years ago I had just got a new phone and took pictures of the outside. The next day it crashed and lost all photos and it never worked again. Don’t know if it was evil spirits or not but I haven’t taken anymore photos of the place since lol thanks again
Isidor Fink was killed by a time traveler, mystery solved. Solid barriers like locked doors don't matter much when you have a 4th dimension to move through.
5th
This was a great video
Thank you
My family stayed one night in Cimarron NM - I was 11 and have no recollection of which hotel we stayed out. I also have no recollection of ghosts.
In “ab-sen-tia” (uk) “ab-sen-shia”(us). “Absenteesha” (lmao)
Ab-sen-chia....
The attacker just locked the door on his way out. I don't know the type of lock, but with some ingenuity and a few strings, you could probably do it. Isn't this plausible?
I used to live near the Dighton rock, saw it in person, very cool.
When it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
But it's a chicken.
Too much Minecraft dude.
Binge watching this channel, didn't realise he had so many different channels 🤙🏽
Fink was killed by a time traveler. Duh.
Looper style
That's what I thought, too, when I first read that story several years ago in a little book supermarkets sell at the checkout stand.
Killer was still in the apartment, or he was shot between the boards
No, it was the orangutan of course
@@ninsku3739 The police completely ignored the other murders with orange hair on the floors in the building and didn't question any sailors?
The penitentiary is also made into a live action haunted house around Halloween. If you're in Philly around then, I suggest checking it out!
A neighbor heard the screams and summoned a policeman......"cut to neighbor in a black hooded robe, candle lit room chanting an ancient incantatio in pig latin "
Heh. Pig latin. I see what you did there.
You missed one: 59-year-old Ray Gricar was the top prosecutor in Centre County Pennsylvania for 20 years until his disappearance on April 15, 2005. He was never seen again. Investigators eventually found Ray’s laptop, with its hard drive conspicuously removed, in the river near the Route 192 bridge in Lewisburg. A few months later, the hard drive was found upstream under an abandoned railroad trestle. Much more info available. Check it out. Very weird.
2:25 so is no one gonna talk about how George Washington Davis looks VERY similar to Lamar Jackson?
Just hearing you narrate daily calms my life 😁 @toptenz
I WANT MORE GHOST STORIES TOLD BY SIMON YESSSSSSSSSSSS **snorts coke**
*bumps ket*
@@czypauly07 does it really matter what's playing on your phone when you're in a k hole.
Lmfao bruuuuh
@@BadCookWhoJudgesChefs I was merely skirting the event horizon ;)
fink. obviously someone had a key to his apartment..omg how is that unsolvable?
Wow 🤩 thanks for sharing love it
4:05 "where everybody knows your name" 😉
I live within walking distance of Dighton rock. Having spent hours staring at it before, my guess would be Native Americans.
Everwhere is walking distance of you have the time
Why would anyone just assume that it was European? Probably the Natives most certainly. Thats cool though. Hope that rock is doing well...... Stay up yo
It is the first example of tagging by the first gang in America lol
Native Americans most likely. Im just waiting to see if we ever find out that some of this "mysterious images" are really just some ancient guy getting bored and doodling on a rock or wall...
1: The man had been shot on his porch, stumbled inside and locked it. Damn that was easy.
JEEWIZ You think they would've thought about that. One would think there would be blood on the porch, or maybe on the doorhandle. Huh so weird they didn't investigate that...
Most infamous occurrences throughout history happened on March 9th and also my birthday
I can't hear Simon say "allegedly" without thinking of Casual Criminalists
The fact that Dorothy Arnold's love interest participated in the search for his lady does not clear him of involvement in the disappearance. Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper, is just one perpetrator who joined the search for his victims.
Fink was shot 3 times, but Fink's neighbor did not hear gunshots. either the neighbor lied about not hearing gunshots or it took place elsewhere and the body was transported back to the room and then the locked room scenario happened.
It's like you can not hear a story about a judge or a cop without corruption.
Have you done a video on Skinwalker Ranch...I smell a top ten there
Head scratching, great video!
ive been to eastern state penitentiary many times both at night and during the day and you feel creeped out in the hallways
My great great grandfather died in Eastern State Penitentiary. Hung himself while serving time there for shooting his son in law during an argument. He had loaned the son in law enough to buy a farm and the son inlaw was refusing to pay him back
#10 wouldn't it make sense that the person was already in the house, shot him, and found another way out or even took a key and let himself out and lock the door behind him?
The old city hospital in st louis missouri. Site of the exorcism the movie exorcist is based on. Less than a mile from there is the Lemp mansion and brewery. Legend has it that the lemp family helped fund the hospital and a nearby church. Both had extensive underground caverns for natural body storage: early morgues. The lemp family was infamous for the tunnels that connected to nearby natural caverns and linked up with the sewer system to lead to the hospital, church and other private tunnels between the hilltop mansion and the brewery in the old french landing. Why is that important? That exact land was an old native american trade post appropriated by french settlers. This area is also home to the last few royal tombs of the ancient Mississippi river valley culture. They built the hill the mansion is built on. The tunnels and caverns this city links into? An ancient tomb city complex, the whole south of the city. Look it up, a hill mound near the mansion was recently bought by a native tribe for cultural preservation. All the others were leveled and the french quarter built on top of it. Anheuser busch has similar issues, though they have kept it quieter thanks to generosity with free beer in the south side of st louis and overly generous retirements. To be clear, i have seen and travelled these caverns under st louis and found very old places. Lost and hidden, forgotten places still seeming to howl with fading screams of withering souls. It is a fell place, and the lemp mansion is now a tourist attraction due to how haunted it is presumed to be. As a local i can confirm only that i have seen strange things i could not explain to my own satisfaction and relay the dozens of accounts i have gathered over the years. The history is almost too stereotypically perfect, and you can google old photos taken of the kings burial mounds the day they were destroyed. The only known photo of them. Some old sketches exist, from old german immigrant surveyors that loved the hills and meadows, but they are stored in and around st louis in historical sites and attached museums. Most have online presences but few people go looking for them so they are not widely known.
This is a long comment already but i want to make clear my old family farm in Springfield Missouri also had a mound and cavern along with a butial site of 13 cairns arranged in a circle. We had many offers to log out the forest or to mine out the lead in our land. We refused and made many excuses but our oral history is that we knew we were simply holding the land in trust, entrusted with it, until the real owners returned to the bones of their fathers. This is a sacred thing to native peoples of the americas. We claim we did this at the instruction of a matriarch of our french trader patrilineal line. She was a native woman that married a french man and they built a farm. And many generations of my family was, frankly, conceived in beautiful caverns glittering with reflected starlight and painted symbols of holy import to the people of the land. The caverns, i have seen them, are truly wonderous and my first thought was to bring a girl there. My grandfather grinned at me and said,"yes boy, i had the same idea. With a woman named velma." Velma is my grandmother. So maybe, just maybe, im not AS cursed as all the friends i took into the most sacred tombs of a very small number of my presumed ancestors. Those are my "knowing native caves and tombs when i see them" bona fides, if you think me a fool. Check out the lemp mansion and work your way down from there. Literally. Where history and mystery meet, deep underground.
If the TV & books have taught me anything about locked room mysteries, the killer was still in the room when the cops came in & escaped later that night.
I feel like the Fink case could be explained by Isidor opening the door partially, only for the person to end up holding a gun (it’s a laundry business, but that could be a lot more during the prohibition era.) He holds his arm out to push the offender away, getting shot in the hand/wrist. The offender shoots him twice in the abdomen before Isidor is able to close the door (the thud?) and lock it. Isidor Fink stumbles back and collapses, bleeding out. The only person inside the apartment during the crime would be Fink. No blood would be found outside of the apartment. As for trying to figure out motives, cops in the day were usually aware of and even a part of bootlegging. It’s completely possible they had ideas of who would do it, but would be self incriminating if they pursued it.
I'm ready for a followup video on American cryptids; Jersey Devil, Mothman, Beast of Bray Road, etc...
consider doing some eurocentric lists like eerie mysteries that haunt the uk?
"Force Crater" sounds like a Marvel character.
No one would ever know of a perfect murder.
But they do
yeah its "Perfect" cuz they got away and didn't leave any clues
#11 Where did all the toilet paper go?
That's what the time traveller came back for. It was a time travel heist gone wrong.
I wish he would have said where Dighton rock was located. I've never heard of it.
7:29
"black hand"
oh come on, they killed lucius and the entire sanctuary, what more do they want
Locked door murder mysteries often end with an unlocked door. Check out Tv show Death in Paradise for all scenarios in a few seasons. 😝 One of those surely will fit.
Love that show 👍
The unsolved murder of Jane Stanford, wife of Stanford University founder Leland Stanford, is actually pretty interesting yet somehow has been forgotten over time despite being a huge story when it happened,
4:56 -- Bat Masterson, not Matteron. 4:23 -- The second syllable in "Cimarron" is stressed, not the first.
Cinnamon is for elves.
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Little does anyone know that George Washington Davis is actually an immortal who lives today as Samuel L. Jackson
The rock was aliens, it's always aliens.
When I’m doubt, aliens.
Hi! Welcome to Tenz! I think Great Britain won't let me come back..
I've stayed in a haunted hotel in New Mexico. The Hotel La Fonda de Taos is haunted by it's former owner. If you stay in his old room which I was, you will smell his tobacco. When I happen to find his grave in the local cemetery, I made sure to thank him for a pleasant stay.
I seriously expected Jimmy Hoffa to be on that list...
1st Mystery: Killer had a key
Some say Fink was alive until the kid opened observed him.
Oh yes, the Coney Island body dump site, infamous.