It’s like our grandpas telling us stories as kids, Makes you feel like you’re on a floor by a fire safely wrapped in blankets listening to an old war vet. We love you Robert Stack!
One of my favorite memories of my mom when she was alive. Well it was a tradition for the both of us to watch Unsolved Mysteries every Wednesday night and it was the only show I got to stay up late to watch with my mom. So whenever I watch the show I think of my mom
I could have written your exact same comment!!! I am so glad we have those memories!!! Listening to episodes is like instantly being back 30 years with my mom!!! Even though it can be so creepy, it is also so comforting.
It’s so sad that Mary Ann Perez had truly died the night of her disappearance. Her remains were positively identified in 2018 after 42 years as a former Jane Doe. My heart goes out to her loved ones.
i think it was what we all suspected. the better question is why some a-hole would make that call? or was it the family themselves trying to get the case back in the news? Poor Mary- Anne :('( The serial killers/spree killers just new too many details it seemed like to just be a happenstance and from what the reports were they were not the type to just make up killings to add to their kill count as some killers do. i.e the ice man killer
As a child the combination of Robert Stack's haunting voice and the on-point creepy music terrified me in the most comforting way... Now as an adult, I fall asleep to it. Still comforting' just nostalgic now. 💜
Omg that ghost was the scariest thing to me for YEARS. I hadn't even seen this episode , just his burned face when they decided to put him in the opening credits later in the season. Now I laugh - he's kinda cute! I guess the 90's spooky special effects were a lot more...special then. Fun fact: he's supposed to be the ghost of johnnie lambert, Mary Lambert's (wife of owner Henri) son, who died in a hotel accident when he was 2. One source said it was a fryer accident which would explain the burns.
@@blondie7389 Makes you wonder about the competency of the investigators. Of course, the trouble is, even with a show like UM, we the audience, aren't granted a lot of detail. Perhaps if they dedicated the whole hour to the matter, delving into his background, the reason behind his divorce, any business dealings he might have engaged in that sort of thing.
@@tr4480 Indeed. He clearly had a separate, criminal-esq life during his first marriage which can only explain why he up and left his wife and kids. I'm sure thats what got him killed.
Freaking same here. i live 40 minutes from the Hotel... went there a Year ago and just now recently got back into unsolved mysteries watching from a friend
I watched this episode when it first aired as a 9 year old. The child ghost w the blue face frightened me as a child. Great time to grow up. I never would have believed that 30 years later I’d be able to watch it on demand on a hand held device.
I used to work in a building that was haunted. The ghosts were not the reason I left. Far from it. At times, I preferred their company to that of my coworker. She's the reason I left.
I cracked up 😂 But honestly, that man is the most believable ghost witness I have seen so far. That is the only reasonable reaction to an actual sighting imo. A big fat NOPE.
So this guy tell his wife he loves her, he has some problems so he's got to leave for awhile, but he'll be back. But he never comes back. A year and a half later he's remarried. I fell like a lot was left out of that year and a half...😕
Tawny C. He pretty much left his wife and kids for a new bitch that he was already fuckin’ with while married. Maybe his ex wife Rita had him killed. 🤷🏾♂️
@@ashleyroberts5659 what other possible motives could there have been? He leaves her and their 4 children to be with a younger woman. They move to Clermont in Central Florida where he owns his own business. Unless there was some dispute between him and a business associate, there is no other plausible motive than the jilted wife seeking revenge.
Mary Ann Perez's skeleton was found in another state 8 months after she went missing, but nobody made the connection back then. It took more than 40 years until the body was positively identified as hers
I know what you mean, can't help thinking in many of the cases, "Yeah, but the victim is still dead" Also gives you the feeling of "time", how it's all relative but it makes me feel old!
Unsolved Mysteries thank you for uploading these episodes. I watched this show religiously growing up and Robert Stack was a national treasure in my opinion.
The shows theme song terrified me as a kid! And the ghosts episodes scared me and those damn terrifying sketches of people and things scared me...ahh hell the whole show scared me!!
I remember this episode, all right! Years ago as a kid I was watching this in our living room and at the time our floor lamp had a timer that turned the light out at a certain time, I think maybe at 12 midnight or something like that. Anyway, I'm watching this, getting more freaked out and all of a sudden sometime around the segment with the family in the haunted house the light went out and I just about had a heart attack!!!! Then I remembered the timer, but it still didn't make watching Unsolved Mysteries in the dark any easier. Even now, I always watch it with the lights turned on.
They called that John Harden guy nurturing? If he was that nurturing why did he leave his 4 kids behind and lived on as if he never had four kids. Strange story.
There's obviously more to this story. I do believe that he was murdered by the jilted ex wife via a hitman or a relative of hers. There were no other suspects established.
My brother and I watched this as kids too. So cool to see again after 25 years!! I NEVER forgot the scene where the boat moved by itself. Thanks so much for posting these episodes!
St. James Hotel Music Cues 2:51 Open/Old House Stills 4:25 Chandelier 6:25 Room 17/Kitchen/Bar 8:14 Room 18 9:37 Psychic Hall 10:07 Poker Game/Exit Night Hotel 11:27 Hotel Register/Closing Montage
I saw this episode back when I was in kindergarten. I don’t remember much, if anything, from when I was young but the visual of that ghost spinning a glass on the table scared me so bad it burned into my brain. I’m 33 now and I finally found it. I didn’t remember anything else from this episode but that scene is exactly how I remembered it, the dude coming back with the trash bags looking up and seeing that ghost. Watching it now it’s not scary at all, but that ghost will always be in the burned into the back of my mind.
@@toffeenut1336, I’m glad I’m not the only one! It’s literally burned into my mind it freaked me out so bad. I vividly remember bed time that night too. I had Batman pajamas with a cape that Velcro’d to the shoulders, I wore those to bed that night and even those didn’t help make me feel brave. so I did the move where I wanted to sleep with my mom and dad in their bed but I was too embarrassed to wake them up so I crept into their room and just stood there in the darkness staring at my mom while she slept. she was sleeping on her side facing out so I was literally like two inches from her face willing her to wake up. She must have sensed me cause her eyes just all of a sudden shot open and that scared me, the look of terror in her eyes and the jumbled thing she yelled it was like she was trying to say, “who, what, ahhh! All at the same time, followed by Tristan what are you doin?! That’s when I hit her with the famous, I had a bad dream can I sleep in your bed”. Thinking back on it I hope i scared her! That’s what she gets letting me watch unsolved mysteries and rescue 9-1-1…I still love those creepy shows and freaking myself out to this day
This show was the best in about 1990-1991. It still had the best music, it got better after the 1st few seasons. Memories of being a kid in my neighborhood! Rock music from the 70s, Heavy Metal, Hairbands, Rap, Big fat TVs. Payphones. Nintendo. Halfball.
It was really good from season 3 1990-1991 up to season 7 1994-1995. You can tell in later seasons Robert Stack's voice changed a bit. You could tell he was getting older.
The Travel channel did a better take on St. James Hotel and more extensive. One traveler if I'm not mistaken supposedly encountered the ghost of Wyatt Earp. UM did OK but I guess they had to keep it brief.
The second segment reminds of an episode of 'Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction?' - 'Dream House'. This woman is looking for her dream house and she keeps dreaming of being in this house, and she happens to drive by and recognise the house, which is for sale. When she meets the home owner, they immediately recognise her as the ghost who has been haunting the house.
Second story = put’s a whole new meaning to the term “dream home.” That boat was just obviously not balanced properly on the saw horse. I like how little musical boxes = the permanent diegetic noise of haunted houses. lol@“my husband was absolutely terrified.” For such a loving man, he just abandoned his wife and kids casually.
1968 - June has the recurring dreams. 1974 - June visits the house. 1975 - John Hardin dies outside the house. 1978 - June moves her family into the house. Anybody notice any inconsistencies?
That Mary Ann Perez case is so strange. Who was the mysterious caller and why did she say Mary Ann wasn't allowed to call? Very haunting, real shame there's no update on this one.
Update Maryanne Perez's Remains Were Found In Rural Alabama In Late 1976 She Had Been Murdered She Was Finally Identified In November 2018 David Courtney Confessed To Her Murder But Wasn't Charged In The Case His Wife Died In 1990
@@jonathanturbide2232A Very Tragic Ending To The Maryanne Perez Case I Believe David Courtney Killed Maryanne And Dumped Her Remains In The Area Why Hasn't He Been Charged In The Case Tho Do Not Understand
The story about the house was one of my favorites growing up. 😊 It didn't really scare me, it was just interesting to have a ghost like John Hardin living in it. I wonder if it's still haunted today. 👻
Yes, it really stands out, especially coming from his ex-wife that he left. I can understand that she wouldn't want to show her anger in the interview, but why agree to do the segment at all? There doesn't seem to be any info. on his second wife Victoria or her ex (if any) at all. so that just adds to the mystery.
@@tinataylor3758 Agreed. This episode rather fails to provide any other details. Sounds like the Hardin situation was worthy of a whole hour of the program dedicated to it.
I have the whole DVD collection as well, I bought it back in 2007 for like $120. I was pissed because I really wanted the whole entire 10 year season run of all the episodes.
Keep in mind that the segment about John Hardin was centered on the ghostly encounter with the new residents of the property and not so much on the murder. Yet I agree that they should have covered that more extensively.
Even as a kid, I never cared or got scared with ghost and haunted spirit episodes but the unexplained death ones are the ones I find most scary and disturbing.....like a missing person, yet the house eerily undisturbed other than a water faucet running in the bathtub, and a mysterious voice in the answering machine that never got identified and those sketches of possible suspects. Just like this Maryanne Perez case with that mysterious call always got to me.
Hardin case...I don't know how the police say there's no motive. A guy leaves his first wife and marries anoher woman. Possibly this is a pattern so there's 2 women right there who may have motive. Maybe his second wife was getting the feeling like he was about to leave or he was being unfaithful. Interestingly enough when unsolved mysteries replayed this story years later they leave out the abandonment of his first wife.
Terrible. Obvious we dont have all the details of their investigation but based on what the seemingly inept chief was saying, they didn't have a clue. However, Clermont in the 70s was a very small town outside of Orlando. Very country. They probably didn't have cases like Hardin's fall into their lap nor the detectives who could establish suspects and ultimately get a conviction. After all these years you'd think they would have solved it.
Haunted Dream House ghost John Hardin’s ex-wife is a good person, you can tell she loves him still. Despite what she said, he had a dark side …. secrets…that nobody else knew. That new wife & lifestyle sure brought him bad luck. No mention of how he earned a living, but he had to be pulling in the $$$$ to buy that old mansion. I’d say the new wife & lifestyle played a big role in his death.
I'll put my money on Rita being involved. He leaves her inexplicably to raise 4 children while he starts another family? That's screams of motive all day long and what's so surprising is that the Clermont Police Department never established a suspect. I imagine that Rita has to be on their list of suspects.
Nope!! I don't stick around when it comes to paranormal stuff. I'm not curious or anything. The ghost can have the place. I'll sleep in my car. I don't understand how you can stick around for something that can potentially hurt you and there's nothing you can do about it. Spirits that usually stick around didn't have the best passing
Mary Ann Perez : In May 2018, investigators have noted that this case is practically "solved". They discovered that Mary Ann had been in a car accident shortly before her disappearance, and had a partial dental plate on her upper front teeth. This matched the one found on the Jane Doe. Also, there was evidence that she had been in a car accident. Investigators were able to track down the body to a warehouse in Oklahoma. They compared DNA samples from it to one from Mary Ann's daughter, Donna. In November 2018, the DNA tests positively identified it as belonging to Mary Ann. Alabama investigators have forwarded the information to Alabama and Louisiana prosecutors in hopes of having charges filed against David for her murder. Really strange u guys didn't post this update.
Yeah, I definitely wondered that. So I’m guessing throughout it’s whole original broadcasting none of the ghost stories had updates or solved endings. I guess it would be all based on the cheeky ghosts being filmed or validly proven which most likely never happened and even if it did would be disproven or too much disagreement to verify.
After a little digging, apparently Michael John Sabo has turned his life around. Fitting that he works as a car salesman. lol! Although in 2010, he reported to Timesunion that he wants to fight crime now and be able to teach people how to spot a con man. He's likely in his mid 70s now.
Thanks For Another Great Episode Of Unsolved Mysteries With Robert Stack It's Back Maryanne Perez's Remains Were Found In Rural Alabama In Late 1976 She Had Been Murdered But She Wasn't Identified Until November 2018 David Courtney Confessed To Killing Her But Wasn't Charged In The Case His Wife Died In 1990 Very Sad Case
@@joannerutledge1377 I'm Thinking Maybe David Courtney Dumped Her In Rural Alabama Where She Was Found But Why Hasn't He Been Charged In The Case Tho Can't Understand Why
yeah,i don't understand that,or maybe by the time they found out the remains was maryannes I bet dave Courtney is old and never getting out,so they felt they was going to use time and money on it.sad isn't it ; [
I think it was a case of passion maybe the second wife's husband wasn't too happy with the fact of john harden living there at the house I believe he set fire to his truck waited for john to arrive outside to put out the flames then he shot and killed him on the scene that's my theory
@Jewel Clark via a process of elimination and no further knowledge of Hardin's life while living in Clermont, it's the most plausible theory. He wasn't engaged in criminal activity nor did it appear that he had any known enemies. Rita Hardin is the #1 suspect in my mind unless any other evidence is made public. She died in 2011.
It is really a intrieging phenomena when it comes to paranormal investigations I have been investigating paranormal events here in Australia for forty years on and off and never expected the incredible things I have seen and heard especially at Gettysburg in the u.s in 1988 which was absolutely incredible for the phenomena was at the time visiteing friends in America who organised a private twighlite investigation thier and Vicksburg in missippi I personally met edd and lorraine Warren here in Sydney in the early 1980s they were here appearing on the don lane show in Melbourne they actually stayed at the Warren hotel in Sydney and I met them , and they encouraged me and gave me so much advice that sticks in my mind still today they became very good friends and gave me a private tour of thier scary museum in Connecticut and as also being Catholic they showed me some good ideas in investigating parranormal phenomena we prayed together and unfortunately i never seen them again and i was so broken hearted to hear when they died , extremely wonderful people very talented and sorely missed , r.i.p . Edd and lorraine Warren cheers from Australia.
i don't know if maryann's case has been update on the unsolved mysteries but i found this In December 2017, police and Mary Ann's family announced that they believed her body has been located. In November 1976, eight months after she vanished, skeletal remains were found in a cornfield in Alabama, just over the Mississippi border. They matched her physical description and had jewelry and clothes similar to what she was wearing when she vanished.
Ok so question for anyone out there. Would you buy a house that is perfect for you in every way with a unheard of 50$ a month mortgage but a murder has taken place there you can’t find the details and the past owners moved out after 3 months. Would you buy it?
Her body was dumped at the Mississippi/Alabama border, nit at the Louisiana/Mississippi border as Courtney 'confessed.' That's why it took so long (not until 2018) to identify her remains.
It wasn't, something that I was very disappointed about because that was one I remembered very fondly. That's why I sought it out when I learned the full episodes were available.
The way the guy in the kitchen turned an looked at the floating glass he was just like "yep there it is again" hes not even surprised by the activity anymore
St James hotel. I believe with every fibre of my being that there are spirits at this hotel. I am convinced of this because I have lived in a house with the spirit of the previous owner. I was 21 years old and newly married I had never ever had thoughts of the supernatural. But throughout my two year ownership I went through things and actually saw things that were supernatural. It transpired that the owner had actually died in the bed we were sleeping in. The things that happened in that room were so scarey I wouldn’t go in there on my own. We had bought the house fully furnished and being newly married money was tight. The local priest came to see if he could help but we put the house on the market for sale. My nerves were wired so tight I was near to a nervous breakdown. So I am a firm believer in spirits and the supernatural. No one could disprove what I was experienced because one by one members of my family came and experienced the same things. It was frustrating because no one believed me at first. But they did in the end. True story
@GaunletofDestruction that's plausible too. My suspicion leans towards the 1st wife. She had the motive to do it, for he left her to be with another woman.
@@Omo21000 That was my first thought too, that he was running from a legal problem. He didn't change his name, and didn't go far enough away, in my opinion. I think an angry ex, or possibly client, is more likely. Also, since he remarried, at some point his first wife had to be served divorce papers. So it's not like he just left and that was it. It does seem likely to me that he was having an affair and that's why he left. Of course they didn't get into a lot of things on the UM segment. I read some things on another page. Like earlier on the night of his murder, a client called him and he. along with his wife and child left the home. It was then that the killer (s) cut the phone lines. Also, a few other small details were different.
@@tinataylor3758 I would love to see what evidence and suspects were compiled by the Clermont Police Department. Rita has to be high on that list. Harden was an A/C technician so I don't believe his death was the result of any business dealings, but of course as you stated, the segment didn't reveal a lot of information.
Yeah that was cold. And revenge is a dish best served cold. Rita is my #1 suspect. Jilted woman left to raise four children while he leaves her for another woman. No other suspects emerged.
@@Booth1667 I don't think the police there had a fricking clue how to investigate anything. Frankly I don't think they did any actual indepth investigation at all.
Lady with the dream, reminds me of another show, where another woman haunts the hallways of another home which she claims is her dream home, & somehow emanates a ghostly figure of herself in said house while she's sleeping, in which it scares the family enough to sell. 1 day her & her husband out on a Sunday drive pass this particular house while its up for sale. They pull up to get a tour of the house, & the owner of the house points then says, that's her, then I believe she faints.
Is it just me or does anyone else put unsolved mysteries on while falling asleep?
I do
@OneManArmy l lol Ive seen in other unsolved mysteries video where so many people have said they do aswell,guess I'm not the only one
And City Confidential! That voice....
Me too. Mr. Stack has this fatherly voice that tells you bedtime stories. Once he says "once upon a time....", I'm out like a light :-)
That or mash does the trick
It’s like our grandpas telling us stories as kids, Makes you feel like you’re on a floor by a fire safely wrapped in blankets listening to an old war vet. We love you Robert Stack!
Vida Hasselburg yes! So true
Yeah man
Agreed. Stack is the man. Hope he realized how much people loved him.
❤👌
Good analogy.
Mary Ann Perez body was found in November 1976 as a jane doe in Rural Alabama. The body was identified through DNA in November 2018
Thanks for telling me. I had a feeling that Ms. Perez was dead. So sad.
😢
You would think they would update it then.
One of my favorite memories of my mom when she was alive. Well it was a tradition for the both of us to watch Unsolved Mysteries every Wednesday night and it was the only show I got to stay up late to watch with my mom. So whenever I watch the show I think of my mom
"you people" are only 8-bits living in duh past lmfao?
Used to love yourself especially when Robert stack was on it
I could have written your exact same comment!!! I am so glad we have those memories!!! Listening to episodes is like instantly being back 30 years with my mom!!! Even though it can be so creepy, it is also so comforting.
i'm sorry about your loss but though i'm not a parent there is no doubt she felt the same way about the show i have no doubt
I love Robert Stack Voice!!
Me too.
He was creepy but soothing. Yet as a kid it was only creepy
👍
robert the best host voice EVER !!!
They couldn't have chose a better host for the show, robert stack had a awesome voice! I miss this show and him.
Anybody who dislikes these videos are pure trolls. I grew up to these. This program put so many murderers behind bars.
Michael Pennington trolls! Lol! I love you 🤣🤣
The Haunted Library They are probably the offenders. Lol
Exactly
Their utterly ridiculous ghosts and UFOs episodes are fast-forward material.
@bauTom No!
It’s so sad that Mary Ann Perez had truly died the night of her disappearance. Her remains were positively identified in 2018 after 42 years as a former Jane Doe. My heart goes out to her loved ones.
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Parasect, how do u know about that?
@BallinNQnz I Google the information it's true. Ugh no update because it was solved not too long ago
so sad I just could not imagine never knowing what happen to my loved one. this is so sad that it took 42yrs
i think it was what we all suspected. the better question is why some a-hole would make that call? or was it the family themselves trying to get the case back in the news? Poor Mary- Anne :('( The serial killers/spree killers just new too many details it seemed like to just be a happenstance and from what the reports were they were not the type to just make up killings to add to their kill count as some killers do. i.e the ice man killer
Imagine being a kid on Halloween, and one of the houses you knock on is answered by Robert Stack in a trench coat.
That would be so awesome though lol
Great costume idea!
LMAO that would scare me shitless as a kid or man. Rip. Robert Stack.
My existence would be complete
Omg that's hilarious
As a child the combination of Robert Stack's haunting voice and the on-point creepy music terrified me in the most comforting way...
Now as an adult, I fall asleep to it. Still comforting' just nostalgic now. 💜
I fall asleep to it to even though some episodes like this one are scary lol.
That ghost kid turning around ruined more than one nights sleep for me as a child.
Kristoffer Bakken i was paralyzed in fear for days in bed lol
Me too! My dad called me a pansy ass over it. I'm like dad I know I'm not the only kid haunted by that little asshole!
That little demon was spooky as hell! I laughed when the former employee said he didn't want to work there anymore though 😂 I don't blame him
same!!
Omg that ghost was the scariest thing to me for YEARS. I hadn't even seen this episode , just his burned face when they decided to put him in the opening credits later in the season. Now I laugh - he's kinda cute! I guess the 90's spooky special effects were a lot more...special then.
Fun fact: he's supposed to be the ghost of johnnie lambert, Mary Lambert's (wife of owner Henri) son, who died in a hotel accident when he was 2. One source said it was a fryer accident which would explain the burns.
That’s fckd up that John Hardin just left his wife one day without explanation and married another woman a year later.
Right I think that led to his murder too😢
He could have eaten ch1ldr3n would that have been better??
@@blondie7389 Makes you wonder about the competency of the investigators. Of course, the trouble is, even with a show like UM, we the audience, aren't granted a lot of detail. Perhaps if they dedicated the whole hour to the matter, delving into his background, the reason behind his divorce, any business dealings he might have engaged in that sort of thing.
@@tr4480 Indeed. He clearly had a separate, criminal-esq life during his first marriage which can only explain why he up and left his wife and kids. I'm sure thats what got him killed.
I was thinking the same they just glossed over it like nothing lol
Dr Anderson, 'notable for his girth' - got to love Robert Stack!
They meant notable for his fat tail!!😅😅😊😊
I’m 34 years old and I’ve always remembered the little ghost boy jumping behind the bar. It sacred the hell out of me as a child.
Freaking same here. i live 40 minutes from the Hotel... went there a Year ago and just now recently got back into unsolved mysteries watching from a friend
@@adamduran6132 does it look the same?
Yes! It was terrifying
That's why I found this episode lol, that ghost kid freaked a lot of us out, that is a really chilling scene even today.
Still freaks me TF out lol
I love this show. I remember watching this show with my mom and the music always freaked me out
Alicia Master hell yes it does still does the new ones were crap no scary music or creepy Stack voice it’s amazing how spooky they made it back then
Alicia Master Wednesday nites were scary cause at 7 I knew that music and voice was coming
The music is scary, and leaving a wanted poster on the screen for too long used to freak me out.
WATCHED IT EITH MY MOM TOO💗💗💗💗
Same here
I watched this episode when it first aired as a 9 year old. The child ghost w the blue face frightened me as a child. Great time to grow up. I never would have believed that 30 years later I’d be able to watch it on demand on a hand held device.
I always found it so funny how when they interviewe the employees of the haunted hotels, it says 'former employee' 😂😂😂 I don't blame them! Lol!
S.King's pointed it out, that hotels host loneliness and had that sordid aura he detests.
LOL they got tf out of there
I have always wanted to work in a hotel place.
I used to work in a building that was haunted. The ghosts were not the reason I left. Far from it. At times, I preferred their company to that of my coworker. She's the reason I left.
,,,😂😂😂
I loved watching unsloved mysteries my favorite episodes were ghosts & paranormal ones
GHOST and the UFOs
Unsloved lol 😂
Ghosts And Unexplained Deaths Mine
my fav are the robberies, wanted and fraud cases
That man said: “I quit that morning” Lmaooo
I cracked up 😂 But honestly, that man is the most believable ghost witness I have seen so far. That is the only reasonable reaction to an actual sighting imo. A big fat NOPE.
Yeah he was out of there!
So this guy tell his wife he loves her, he has some problems so he's got to leave for awhile, but he'll be back. But he never comes back.
A year and a half later he's remarried.
I fell like a lot was left out of that year and a half...😕
Tawny C. He pretty much left his wife and kids for a new bitch that he was already fuckin’ with while married. Maybe his ex wife Rita had him killed. 🤷🏾♂️
SacTownVet she definitely didn’t...
@@ashleyroberts5659 what other possible motives could there have been? He leaves her and their 4 children to be with a younger woman. They move to Clermont in Central Florida where he owns his own business. Unless there was some dispute between him and a business associate, there is no other plausible motive than the jilted wife seeking revenge.
@@DAB901 That thought crossed my mind too. I'm thinking she had a hitman take him out. If it wasn't her, he pissed off some one quite a bit.
SacTownVet that must happened leaving them without an explanation 😤😤😤 that would it pissed anybody imagine her wife
Mary Ann Perez's skeleton was found in another state 8 months after she went missing, but nobody made the connection back then. It took more than 40 years until the body was positively identified as hers
It's always so disappointing when updates end with "served their time and have been released".
Check out the Resolved Mysteries podcast if you want good in-depth updates. It’s really good.
I know what you mean, can't help thinking in many of the cases, "Yeah, but the victim is still dead" Also gives you the feeling of "time", how it's all relative but it makes me feel old!
Unsolved Mysteries thank you for uploading these episodes. I watched this show religiously growing up and Robert Stack was a national treasure in my opinion.
The shows theme song terrified me as a kid! And the ghosts episodes scared me and those damn terrifying sketches of people and things scared me...ahh hell the whole show scared me!!
Robert Stack's voice is like a warm blanket as I go to sleep.
I remember this episode, all right! Years ago as a kid I was watching this in our living room and at the time our floor lamp had a timer that turned the light out at a certain time, I think maybe at 12 midnight or something like that. Anyway, I'm watching this, getting more freaked out and all of a sudden sometime around the segment with the family in the haunted house the light went out and I just about had a heart attack!!!! Then I remembered the timer, but it still didn't make watching Unsolved Mysteries in the dark any easier. Even now, I always watch it with the lights turned on.
Lol. Same!!!! Even in the day time it scares me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Yes scary 👌 n interesting 👍
@COONHUNTER #1 Says you, lol.
The episode where the family’s find dead bodies buried in their back yard. I think was a burial ground. That one always scares me at night.
Binge watching and I can't stop. Please help solve this mystery. ;)
OMG me too!!!
no, leave it unsolved
Update: Too late, you’ll watch them all.
They called that John Harden guy nurturing? If he was that nurturing why did he leave his 4 kids behind and lived on as if he never had four kids. Strange story.
Ikr... I was gonna say that!
There's obviously more to this story. I do believe that he was murdered by the jilted ex wife via a hitman or a relative of hers. There were no other suspects established.
I think it's odd that they focused on the ghost story but hardly said anything about the murder.
@@bethmc95 I think the theme of this episode was solely on ghosts; however, the Hardin murder deserved more attention.
Agree.
My brother and I watched this as kids too. So cool to see again after 25 years!! I NEVER forgot the scene where the boat moved by itself. Thanks so much for posting these episodes!
St. James Hotel Music Cues
2:51 Open/Old House Stills
4:25 Chandelier
6:25 Room 17/Kitchen/Bar
8:14 Room 18
9:37 Psychic Hall
10:07 Poker Game/Exit Night Hotel
11:27 Hotel Register/Closing Montage
My favorite part was Psychic Hall....creepy!
If you are an 80s baby I think we can all remember watching this with our moms as a kid. Lol..
i watched it alone. my mom didn't have the guts lol.
Absolutely
Most definitely 💪🏾
I watched it with my grandma when I would spend the night at her house 😢 I miss those days
Think about all the 70's baby's we got all the UM seasons and episodes when we were kids
I will. Join him next time for another addition of unsolved mysteries!
My favorite show to fall asleep to...love unsolved mysteries his voice is so soothing💤💤💤😴
I saw this episode back when I was in kindergarten. I don’t remember much, if anything, from when I was young but the visual of that ghost spinning a glass on the table scared me so bad it burned into my brain. I’m 33 now and I finally found it. I didn’t remember anything else from this episode but that scene is exactly how I remembered it, the dude coming back with the trash bags looking up and seeing that ghost. Watching it now it’s not scary at all, but that ghost will always be in the burned into the back of my mind.
That’s exactly my experience
@@toffeenut1336, I’m glad I’m not the only one! It’s literally burned into my mind it freaked me out so bad. I vividly remember bed time that night too. I had Batman pajamas with a cape that Velcro’d to the shoulders, I wore those to bed that night and even those didn’t help make me feel brave. so I did the move where I wanted to sleep with my mom and dad in their bed but I was too embarrassed to wake them up so I crept into their room and just stood there in the darkness staring at my mom while she slept. she was sleeping on her side facing out so I was literally like two inches from her face willing her to wake up. She must have sensed me cause her eyes just all of a sudden shot open and that scared me, the look of terror in her eyes and the jumbled thing she yelled it was like she was trying to say, “who, what, ahhh! All at the same time, followed by Tristan what are you doin?! That’s when I hit her with the famous, I had a bad dream can I sleep in your bed”. Thinking back on it I hope i scared her! That’s what she gets letting me watch unsolved mysteries and rescue 9-1-1…I still love those creepy shows and freaking myself out to this day
I didn’t sleep for weeks after seeing that
If only that actor knew the trauma he caused us all these yrs! LOL
@@whoisajones1 jonesisWeird!🤭😅
This show was the best in about 1990-1991. It still had the best music, it got better after the 1st few seasons. Memories of being a kid in my neighborhood! Rock music from the 70s, Heavy Metal, Hairbands, Rap, Big fat TVs. Payphones. Nintendo. Halfball.
It was really good from season 3 1990-1991 up to season 7 1994-1995. You can tell in later seasons Robert Stack's voice changed a bit. You could tell he was getting older.
I used to watch this show when I was teenager. And I still watch today. Its my favorite show. ❤
I REMEMBER LOVING THE SAINT JAMES HOTEL EPISODE AS A KID,BUT IT FREAKED ME OUT AND THE MARYANNE PEREZ.
The Travel channel did a better take on St. James Hotel and more extensive. One traveler if I'm not mistaken supposedly encountered the ghost of Wyatt Earp. UM did OK but I guess they had to keep it brief.
Me too!! This episode in general freaked me out between the St. James Hotel, the family being haunted in their new house and Mary Ann Perez.
@@killerfrank8974 what about the blind river rest stop murders ; o
@@joannerutledge1377 Yep, that one too.
@@killerfrank8974 do you want to sub each other ; ]
The womans dream about the house she moved in was a warning.
The second segment reminds of an episode of 'Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction?' - 'Dream House'. This woman is looking for her dream house and she keeps dreaming of being in this house, and she happens to drive by and recognise the house, which is for sale. When she meets the home owner, they immediately recognise her as the ghost who has been haunting the house.
I remember this episode
I love beyond belief!
I remember this one too!!
I remember it scared me at first
Robert Stack can read a nursery rhyme and make it sound scary.
Picture his voice doing twinkle twinkle little star 😂
@@lexluthor1744 Or hear him reading Mary had a Little Lamb
Second story = put’s a whole new meaning to the term “dream home.” That boat was just obviously not balanced properly on the saw horse. I like how little musical boxes = the permanent diegetic noise of haunted houses. lol@“my husband was absolutely terrified.” For such a loving man, he just abandoned his wife and kids casually.
1968 - June has the recurring dreams.
1974 - June visits the house.
1975 - John Hardin dies outside the house.
1978 - June moves her family into the house.
Anybody notice any inconsistencies?
Its all bs
Yes,the years 😒
UM probably should have covered the murder solely and not intertwine it with John Hardin's ghost.
That Mary Ann Perez case is so strange. Who was the mysterious caller and why did she say Mary Ann wasn't allowed to call? Very haunting, real shame there's no update on this one.
Update Maryanne Perez's Remains Were Found In Rural Alabama In Late 1976 She Had Been Murdered She Was Finally Identified In November 2018 David Courtney Confessed To Her Murder But Wasn't Charged In The Case His Wife Died In 1990
@@reneebrown1362 Big thanks for the update Renée, tragic ending to the story but at least the family finally know what happened to her.
@@jonathanturbide2232A Very Tragic Ending To The Maryanne Perez Case I Believe David Courtney Killed Maryanne And Dumped Her Remains In The Area Why Hasn't He Been Charged In The Case Tho Do Not Understand
Some suspect the mysterious caller was actually Donna Courtney.
@@reneebrown1362 authorities in Louisiana and Alabama are preparing to charge him.
His voice......is the voice, of all voices..... RIP Robert Stack!
2:22 St. James' Ghost
12:46 Ghostly Attraction
27:32 Where Is She Now?
38:40 DR. Fraud
You’re the real MVP
Omg! His voice was sooo creepy and soothing at the same time!
Wordd
It makes you wet and put a restraining order out all at once aye
@@bradleyfrance8176 lmaooooo
Yup...I couldn’t watch the show back in the day because my kid would get all geeked out...fun to watch now!
I used to watch unsolved mysteries I really like the ghosts stories parts. In 1990's Robert stack is one cool man.
He is cool in ANY era
The story about the house was one of my favorites growing up. 😊 It didn't really scare me, it was just interesting to have a ghost like John Hardin living in it. I wonder if it's still haunted today. 👻
I never would have moved. His ghost seems nice and protective.
The woman who bought the house. If I remember correctly Beyond Belief did an episode about her having the dream about the house.
How can John Harden be called a good man by his first wife after he abandoned her and his four children?
Yes, it really stands out, especially coming from his ex-wife that he left. I can understand that she wouldn't want to show her anger in the interview, but why agree to do the segment at all? There doesn't seem to be any info. on his second wife Victoria or her ex (if any) at all. so that just adds to the mystery.
I really do wonder if it’s possible that the ex-wife murdered him. She would have a motive since his abandonment would have devastated her.
@@unknownunknowns
I believe she put hit on her ex husband.
@@tinataylor3758 Agreed. This episode rather fails to provide any other details. Sounds like the Hardin situation was worthy of a whole hour of the program dedicated to it.
The kid at the bar part scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
So you let a guy walk out of a room with $30,000 in gold coins without getting payment first.
Sounds smart.
I always thought the story of the woman who kept having the same dream about the house was one of the more intriguing ghost stories they ever did.
What episode?
Episode?
@@justincase3868 The one you're watching....
Ikr!!!! Def one of my fave segments
Didnt Beyond Belief also do an episode about her?
I have The Ghost DVD collection but it doesn't have the St. James Hotel. I would of been happy to have this episode on my DVD collection.
Go to RUclips to mp4 and download it to your computer.
I have the whole DVD collection as well, I bought it back in 2007 for like $120. I was pissed because I really wanted the whole entire 10 year season run of all the episodes.
didn't divorce first wife, remarries a year and a half later.......i love how they gloss over the bigamy.
@Jewel Clark could have been the 2nd wife who killed him. She found out he was still married and offed him/had him killed.
Keep in mind that the segment about John Hardin was centered on the ghostly encounter with the new residents of the property and not so much on the murder. Yet I agree that they should have covered that more extensively.
Even as a kid, I never cared or got scared with ghost and haunted spirit episodes but the unexplained death ones are the ones I find most scary and disturbing.....like a missing person, yet the house eerily undisturbed other than a water faucet running in the bathtub, and a mysterious voice in the answering machine that never got identified and those sketches of possible suspects. Just like this Maryanne Perez case with that mysterious call always got to me.
Some of these murder stories really make one aware that pure evil is out there. As much as I love this show, I wish it didnt remind me of this fact. 😥
Hardin case...I don't know how the police say there's no motive. A guy leaves his first wife and marries anoher woman. Possibly this is a pattern so there's 2 women right there who may have motive. Maybe his second wife was getting the feeling like he was about to leave or he was being unfaithful. Interestingly enough when unsolved mysteries replayed this story years later they leave out the abandonment of his first wife.
Terrible. Obvious we dont have all the details of their investigation but based on what the seemingly inept chief was saying, they didn't have a clue. However, Clermont in the 70s was a very small town outside of Orlando. Very country. They probably didn't have cases like Hardin's fall into their lap nor the detectives who could establish suspects and ultimately get a conviction. After all these years you'd think they would have solved it.
The first wife did pretty much say he said he needed some time goin away and never came back ended up marrying another woman a year and a half later 😢
I got chills when that kid turned around at the bar
All these people are smiling cause they have ghosts in the house wtf
Anyone binge watching on Halloween night 2020? 😉 Imagine watching episodes at night in a cemetery
I remember the woman having dreams with the staircase. that staircase has been in my mind for years.
Haunted Dream House ghost John Hardin’s ex-wife is a good person, you can tell she loves him still. Despite what she said, he had a dark side …. secrets…that nobody else knew. That new wife & lifestyle sure brought him bad luck. No mention of how he earned a living, but he had to be pulling in the $$$$ to buy that old mansion. I’d say the new wife & lifestyle played a big role in his death.
I'll put my money on Rita being involved. He leaves her inexplicably to raise 4 children while he starts another family? That's screams of motive all day long and what's so surprising is that the Clermont Police Department never established a suspect. I imagine that Rita has to be on their list of suspects.
I think his ex wife shot his cheating, lying self.
Nope!! I don't stick around when it comes to paranormal stuff. I'm not curious or anything. The ghost can have the place. I'll sleep in my car. I don't understand how you can stick around for something that can potentially hurt you and there's nothing you can do about it. Spirits that usually stick around didn't have the best passing
Ikr scary asf
Mary Ann Perez : In May 2018, investigators have noted that this case is practically "solved". They discovered that Mary Ann had been in a car accident shortly before her disappearance, and had a partial dental plate on her upper front teeth. This matched the one found on the Jane Doe. Also, there was evidence that she had been in a car accident.
Investigators were able to track down the body to a warehouse in Oklahoma. They compared DNA samples from it to one from Mary Ann's daughter, Donna. In November 2018, the DNA tests positively identified it as belonging to Mary Ann. Alabama investigators have forwarded the information to Alabama and Louisiana prosecutors in hopes of having charges filed against David for her murder.
Really strange u guys didn't post this update.
I saw the Harden House segment in 1991 when I was 7 and I basically slept under the covers for the rest of the 90’s.
Dr Fraud...Lol He took his Coins and Left Dude Just Sitting in some Doctors Storage room..I Laugh every time I watch this segment😭
Lol!!! Right
Suckerrrrrr!!!!!!
Stack seemingly loved to refer to him as a man known for his girth. 🤣
Dr Fraud walked around the hospital so chilled like he owned the joint
"A surgeon and amateur ghost hunter" -- guess he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
LMAO you win
I could watch these all day lol
I wish Unsolved Mysteries could solve just once ghost story segment.
Yeah, I definitely wondered that. So I’m guessing throughout it’s whole original broadcasting none of the ghost stories had updates or solved endings. I guess it would be all based on the cheeky ghosts being filmed or validly proven which most likely never happened and even if it did would be disproven or too much disagreement to verify.
If they’re truly ghosts, they’re not solvable in our limited human minds. Once we’re deceased, we’ll understand....
No surveillance video ever captured any of these ghost sightings?
😂 thatd be the best update
Yes, randi've paid them the million dollar he offers to any proven paranormal activity
I go to sleep to unsolved mysteries. Been watching for 30+ yrs
I would NOT be surprise the first wife got something to do with his murder
You know she shot him. She first set his beloved truck on fire then waited for the rat to come out and bam!
@@pegs1659I don’t think she did it. Be too much work for woman to do something like that.
Hi my dad and I use to binge watch this show all the time ,thanks for bringing back this brilliant show ,
I have a crush on Mr. Stack 😉Anyone else?
Twisted Lime ~ Me too! Glad someone else besides me always thought that Mr. Stack was so handsome, and for his age too!!!
Me too. I always thought for an older gentleman, he was quite handsome. Love his voice too.
Definitely!! Although if he was still alive, he’d be almost 100!!
Yup lol! There's just something about him!
After a little digging, apparently Michael John Sabo has turned his life around. Fitting that he works as a car salesman. lol! Although in 2010, he reported to Timesunion that he wants to fight crime now and be able to teach people how to spot a con man. He's likely in his mid 70s now.
The Mary Ann Perez case has been solved
And sadly, Mary Ann's daughter is deceased now too :-(
That’s my grandma
@@beezo4pf873 Mary Ann was your grandma?
Notable for his gerth 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Casey Anderson He stuffs thousands of dollars of stolen gold coins in his pockets!!! 😂😂
Girth*
Typo girth
Thanks For Another Great Episode Of Unsolved Mysteries With Robert Stack It's Back Maryanne Perez's Remains Were Found In Rural Alabama In Late 1976 She Had Been Murdered But She Wasn't Identified Until November 2018 David Courtney Confessed To Killing Her But Wasn't Charged In The Case His Wife Died In 1990 Very Sad Case
REALLY I NEVER KNEW SHE WAS FOUND,BUT THEY LOOKED AND MARYANNE WASNT WHERE COURTNEY SAID HER BODY WAS.
@@joannerutledge1377 I'm Thinking Maybe David Courtney Dumped Her In Rural Alabama Where She Was Found But Why Hasn't He Been Charged In The Case Tho Can't Understand Why
yeah,i don't understand that,or maybe by the time they found out the remains was maryannes I bet dave Courtney is old and never getting out,so they felt they was going to use time and money on it.sad isn't it ; [
My God!! It’s like watching two children yell at one another. How do you guys get through life writing like 7-year-old kids?
he second wife may have had something to do with it
I think it was a case of passion maybe the second wife's husband wasn't too happy with the fact of john harden living there at the house I believe he set fire to his truck waited for john to arrive outside to put out the flames then he shot and killed him on the scene that's my theory
@@reneebrown1362 is it known whether or not the 2nd wife was previously married?? Seemingly, the ex wife had every reason to take him out?
@Jewel Clark via a process of elimination and no further knowledge of Hardin's life while living in Clermont, it's the most plausible theory. He wasn't engaged in criminal activity nor did it appear that he had any known enemies. Rita Hardin is the #1 suspect in my mind unless any other evidence is made public. She died in 2011.
i jog past the Harden house sometimes and have yet to see anything...maybe the ghost only come out at night
It is really a intrieging phenomena when it comes to paranormal investigations I have been investigating paranormal events here in Australia for forty years on and off and never expected the incredible things I have seen and heard especially at Gettysburg in the u.s in 1988 which was absolutely incredible for the phenomena was at the time visiteing friends in America who organised a private twighlite investigation thier and Vicksburg in missippi I personally met edd and lorraine Warren here in Sydney in the early 1980s they were here appearing on the don lane show in Melbourne they actually stayed at the Warren hotel in Sydney and I met them , and they encouraged me and gave me so much advice that sticks in my mind still today they became very good friends and gave me a private tour of thier scary museum in Connecticut and as also being Catholic they showed me some good ideas in investigating parranormal phenomena we prayed together and unfortunately i never seen them again and i was so broken hearted to hear when they died , extremely wonderful people very talented and sorely missed , r.i.p . Edd and lorraine Warren cheers from Australia.
I like that they kept calling the scam artist a DOCTOR
😂😂
i don't know if maryann's case has been update on the unsolved mysteries but i found this
In December 2017, police and Mary Ann's family announced that they believed her body has been located. In November 1976, eight months after she vanished, skeletal remains were found in a cornfield in Alabama, just over the Mississippi border. They matched her physical description and had jewelry and clothes similar to what she was wearing when she vanished.
I wonder if they ever discovered who the mysterious Dorothy was.
@@TheGamecock366 that’s why it’s on unsolved mysteries no one knows
@@TheGamecock366 Probably someone playing a sick joke.
This show gave me nightmares as a kid... Still does actually.
Ok so question for anyone out there. Would you buy a house that is perfect for you in every way with a unheard of 50$ a month mortgage but a murder has taken place there you can’t find the details and the past owners moved out after 3 months. Would you buy it?
Nope. But ppl back then we're very naive
I live in a house that someone died in before we moved in now and weird shit happens all the time so yeh i would...it is unsettling tho ngl!!!!
Her body was dumped at the Mississippi/Alabama border, nit at the Louisiana/Mississippi border as Courtney 'confessed.' That's why it took so long (not until 2018) to identify her remains.
I can't believe the St. James hotel wasn't on the ghost DVD box set.
It wasn't, something that I was very disappointed about because that was one I remembered very fondly. That's why I sought it out when I learned the full episodes were available.
it is on the set, i think it's the greatest of. i have it
"Notable for his girth." Should have been easy to find 😂😂
Like Bonnie Wilder, right? 😂
The way the guy in the kitchen turned an looked at the floating glass he was just like "yep there it is again" hes not even surprised by the activity anymore
The 2020 unsolved mysteries stinks on Netflix
Sad to read that Jackie Littlejohn passed away in 2002.
She was full of shit
she was a remarkable woman. I was blessed to know her.
I need to know more about her.
Maryanne Perez skeletal remains were found later that year in 1976. DNA testing confirmed in 2018 it was her.
St James hotel. I believe with every fibre of my being that there are spirits at this hotel. I am convinced of this because I have lived in a house with the spirit of the previous owner. I was 21 years old and newly married I had never ever had thoughts of the supernatural. But throughout my two year ownership I went through things and actually saw things that were supernatural. It transpired that the owner had actually died in the bed we were sleeping in. The things that happened in that room were so scarey I wouldn’t go in there on my own. We had bought the house fully furnished and being newly married money was tight. The local priest came to see if he could help but we put the house on the market for sale. My nerves were wired so tight I was near to a nervous breakdown. So I am a firm believer in spirits and the supernatural. No one could disprove what I was experienced because one by one members of my family came and experienced the same things. It was frustrating because no one believed me at first. But they did in the end. True story
John Hardins murder, deadly love triangle. Jealously and hatred.
@GaunletofDestruction was the new wife formerly married to someone else???
@GaunletofDestruction that's plausible too. My suspicion leans towards the 1st wife. She had the motive to do it, for he left her to be with another woman.
Yeah definitely triangle or he was running from problem illegal? And it caught up with him
@@Omo21000 That was my first thought too, that he was running from a legal problem. He didn't change his name, and didn't go far enough away, in my opinion. I think an angry ex, or possibly client, is more likely. Also, since he remarried, at some point his first wife had to be served divorce papers. So it's not like he just left and that was it. It does seem likely to me that he was having an affair and that's why he left. Of course they didn't get into a lot of things on the UM segment. I read some things on another page. Like earlier on the night of his murder, a client called him and he. along with his wife and child left the home. It was then that the killer (s) cut the phone lines. Also, a few other small details were different.
@@tinataylor3758 I would love to see what evidence and suspects were compiled by the Clermont Police Department. Rita has to be high on that list. Harden was an A/C technician so I don't believe his death was the result of any business dealings, but of course as you stated, the segment didn't reveal a lot of information.
The greatest show ever!
I can't binge watch or I ll dream about this stuff. Some of this stuff gets to ya.
Clever and Corpulent Con Man♥️love you, Robert Stack!!!
The haunted house is located at 486 Osceola Ave in Clermont, Florida. Nice try obscuring the address though. John's a jerk for cheating on his wife.
Yeah that was cold. And revenge is a dish best served cold. Rita is my #1 suspect. Jilted woman left to raise four children while he leaves her for another woman. No other suspects emerged.
@@Booth1667 I don't think the police there had a fricking clue how to investigate anything. Frankly I don't think they did any actual indepth investigation at all.
@@tr4480 I agree 1000%.
Lady with the dream, reminds me of another show, where another woman haunts the hallways of another home which she claims is her dream home, & somehow emanates a ghostly figure of herself in said house while she's sleeping, in which it scares the family enough to sell. 1 day her & her husband out on a Sunday drive pass this particular house while its up for sale. They pull up to get a tour of the house, & the owner of the house points then says, that's her, then I believe she faints.
Beyond belief. Yes. I watched that episode a couple of months ago.
Unsolved Mysteries is where owners of hotels go to make up ghost stories to stir up business
miss robert he was the best host for this show.