Unsolved Mysteries MEGA ICEBERG – Ep. 29 | Dark Truths & Chilling Revelations
- 00:00 December 9th 1965 Around The American Canadian border is where this mystery would first get its start. It happened around the late evening when residents of Six States as well as Ontario Canada would witness a large brilliant Fireball fly through the sky with most of the reports coming from Detroit and Windsor Ontario areas. But this would not be the only thing Witnesses seen because as the fireball blazed through the sky hot metal debris fell to the ground in parts of Michigan and Northern Ohio starting grass fires. Meanwhile Sonic booms were reported in Pittsburgh before finally residence of a small village known as cburg sitting about 30 Mi southeast of Pittsburgh would report seeing whisp of blue smoke vibrations and a thump that might have something to do with some of the witness reports that stated that seen something crashing from the sky into the woods. Soon after this crash the Army ordered the area to be sealed off so the state troopers did just that and then waited on US Army engineers and potentially civilian scientists. Meanwhile Air Force personnel along with the state troopers searched over the forest and reportedly found nothing. This would only be confirmed by the newspaper the next day which had the headline that read Searchers failed to find object and just like that the whole thing was over. Yet. The mystery was just beginning because this led to several rumors about what exactly it was that fa and more specifically was it extraterrestrial at the time authorities tried to look for more plausible explanations such as a plane crash satellite debris. A meteor or perhaps even an errant missile test astronomers in particular were quick to push the meteor Theory while the Department of Defense eventually came out stated it was natural. Phenomenon astronomers however would continue to research the Fireball and soon established a general path that it had taken they stated. The fireball was spotted in Detroit around 4:44 p.m. which was based on 23 reports from pilots who had seen it likewise shock waves were recorded hitting Southwest of Detroit as it passed through the atmosphere. Then it flew on through the area going Northwest to Southeast and ended near the Western area of Lake ER. Although other scientists believed had actually landed on the Northwestern shore of Lake Erie. This would be the basic story for decades although there were a ton of conspiracies around the story that never went completely away and there's probably a good reason for that because in December of 2005 just before the 40th anniversary of what went on to become known as the cburg incident NASA would release a statement which stated experts had examined metal fragments taken from the kbur incident all those years ago and determined it had actually came from a Soviet satellite that entered the atmosphere and broke up. Unfortunately. These findings had been lost sometime in the80s but what they said was quite possible because just 12 hours before the crash at around 3:15 a.m. the US space command claimed the Venus bound Soviet Cosmos 96 probe re-entered the atmosphere and crashed in Canada. So it's possible. A fragment continued on to kbur as you can imagine the people really interested in this story. Especially those that believed it was extraterrestrial did not take this news well. That's when a UFO investigator backed by the Sci-Fi channel Leslie Keane would sue NASA under the Freedom of Information Act. Over the Lost records. He would go to court for a couple of years and NASA would finally agree to search for those records only after being ordered to by the judge. That's when the NASA public liaison officer testified that two boxes of papers from the time of the cburg incident were missing. Although NASA claimed that was not unusual citing the fact that the original tapes from the moon landing were also lost but that's when speculation switched to the thought. The NASA never had these documents in fact the people that investigated the site as you may have heard me mention were later identified as Air Force personnel and for some reason it wasn't unusual for military personnel in civilian clothes to identify them themselves as NASA in the 1960s but does that even matter not really in fact even NASA in recent years has went back on their theory that it was a Soviet satellite. Now stating the trajectory was too steep to have been a man-made craft more or less implying whatever fell was of a natural source. Regardless this hasn't stopped. Decades of speculation about things of a more extraterrestrial nature. In fact in 1990 the TV show Unsolved Mysteries would cover the incident and they suggested that it was a UFO crash. They based this on the accounts of local residents who stated they had found an object in the woods shaped like an acorn about 7t wide and 10 ft long with a bronze color. There were no visible doors windows rivets or seams and on the outside of the craft it had writing which resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics interestingly. The Sci-Fi channel in their documentary would enter interview another Resident who confirmed the story of the vehicle after claiming he had seen it hauled out of the forest on a flatbed truck by men wearing hazmat suits as well as stating the military personnel made civilians and reporters leave the area when they tried to get close. This Acorn shape has also prompted others to speculate that the craft was actually an attempt to create a top secret Nazi weapon known as the glocka or the Bell. This was supposed to be a wonder weapon capable of time travel being worked on in the early 1940s by the Nazis and then research was taken over by the US who kept up the research until the 1960s when this thing crashed however most Scholars State the Nazi Bale is nothing more than a hoax or urban legend. Others though have went along that line of thinking and suggested the whole thing was a secret military experiment that failed spectacularly and then was covered up apparently a local radio reporter John Murphy was one of the first ones to arrive and claimed to have even taken photos of it only to have it confiscated by the military. He would die a few years later and a suspicious hit and run accident today. Most people believe the kbur incident was indeed a Soviet spy satellite and more than likely part of one which crashed and was then collected by the US and studied. It may have even been a film canister from the satellite which broke off and crash landed in cburg. Likewise it may have been a US satellite that crashed or a US satellite which had a part break off and then crash and was covered up out of embarrassment. Of course you will always have those that believe due to its shape. The vehicle was actually extraterrestrial especially because of the so-called hieroglyphic markings which some speculated was extraterrestrial riding.
- 07:23 September 30th 1982 Sugar Bush Township Minnesota 3-year-old Kevin J aot was playing with some toys in the upstairs of the family home while his older brother Terry was making the bed he would be about 15 minutes before 5 when his mother Joanne walked upstairs to check on the boys before she stepped outside for a brief minute and returned and it's then she would make a terrifying Discovery because as she walked back in to check on the kids. Terry was still there but little Kevin had simply vanished not only had he disappeared but the family dog a six-month old. Puppy was missing as well and this had happened just within a minute or two of Joanne stepping outside and Terry had no explanation for it. His mother couldn't believe that the little boy had gotten very far and there was a good reason for that they lived out in a very isolated spot surrounded by a thick forest and a bog. Because of this she did not call the police right away and instead focused on finding Kevin herself along with the help of Terry but after searching for nearly 2 hours she eventually called the police who arrived on scene and also began a search before quickly coming to the conclusion that he along with the puppy had simply wandered off. The search went on into the late night going through the woods. A swamp and Creek using just flashlights and praying to find him before the temperature dropped down into the 30s but that would be a Monumental task because this was many many acres of land in fact just behind. The family's property was Forest and thickets that went on for about 5 square miles as the night wore on with no clues. Many of the original Searchers went home to rest while numerous volunteers and other officers would pick up the search when daylight broke yet. Not one clue was discovered. Shock began to turn to sadness as the Searchers pretty. Much stated there was no way he could have survived the low temperatures or the harsh terrain. But by the second day of the search new theories began to emerge what if Kevin had not wandered off at all what if instead he was somehow abducted from the home without being spotted or was it possible he could have had an accident and then was hidden by someone maybe someone in the family. Actually these theories began to gain traction as the search progressed and people familiar with the area started to doubt. Kevin was ever here journalists would begin to question Terry the older brother who was the last to see Kevin and he would relay his story of what transpired that evening. He recalled. They had gotten home from school about 4:30 p.m. and around 4:45 p.m. he began to make his bed his mom Joanne who was downstairs would go outside to wash the kitchen windows. It was about this time that t walked into his mom's room to see if Kevin had went there with some of his toys. But he did not see him so he went downstairs to ask their mother where was Kevin but she did not know either so they started searching around the home and and then when there was no sign of him. They searched the yard before long. The cops were called. Terry would take them to a spot where it was easy to enter the forest but he was not done because eily he would take them to a bridge about a mile from their home that he claimed Kevin had wandered off to a few times before. However this led to nothing either the search continued on for days but hope was running out that's when a break came in the case. On the sixth day the puppy returned home. He was carefully looked over as well as having gavette pump his stomach all in an effort to find a clue. The stomach revealed he had not eaten anything in days aside from Swamp grass. Police then got the idea to put a tracking color on the dog and let it go again hoping. He would lead them back to Kevin but the pup just kept going back home. The search carried on for 9 days and again found nothing no shoes or diapers which Kevin had a habit of discarding. Although there was no evidence this had occurred. Investigators did classify it as a non-family abduction but they admitted it could have just as easily been that he wandered away and died from exposure and was never found but if he was abducted they couldn't even say if he had been abducted from the home or was taken after he snuck out and started wandering around after the search was ended and the case went cold for decades something strange would happen. In 2011. Investigators began looking for leads again and ran his name through a database which revealed Kevin was now living in Michigan and strangely enough. His parents who had moved decades ago were also living in the same area as him. However when they arrived to interview this man they soon realized he had simply stolen Kevin's identity for financial purposes and Kevin's parents living in the area was pure coincidence so what are the theories. This one is pretty much straightforward more than likely he simp wandered off and succumbed to the swampy terrain and his remains were never found. The dog coming back supports this as well as Kevin having a tendency to wander off plus. There was just no sign that anyone had abducted him. Of course. There is the issue that there also wasn't one piece of evidence that supported he had wandered off. The second theory was that someone abducted him from the home or abducted him when he had wandered off. This would explain why a diaper and shoes were not found nor any other clue but it would have been awful risky to snatch Kevin from his home which means he would have most likely been taken from that bridge but again that seems unlikely as well. Finally he may have wandered off and was attacked by a predator like a bear or a wolf but again remains should have been found July 2012 in the city of kagali Rwanda which is the capital a nightmare story would start to unfold.
- 13:28 When in this short little time span three murdered sex workers were found in the streets. The women had been strangled and detectives first assumed the crimes were not related and probably disputes over money. However this would change very quickly because the following month an additional 12 sex workers would also be found dead. The investigators by this point clearly knew they were dealing with a serial killer and set up a task force to pursue leads while the regular police increased patrols throughout the city in an effort to try come the population. This proved to be ineffectual though because by the end of the month another woman the only one I can find a name for Clementine when babaz was found deceased in her home and this is where things get creepy. According to Witnesses a message was carved into her chest and stomach which read I will stop once. I have killed 400 prostitutes. Now. What's weird about this one is the police denied such a thing ever occurred. They stated that there wasn't any message carved into any of the victims and attributed it to rumors. However police did admit that on August 28th the killer had brazenly killed three times during the middle of the day with one of these victims being disposed of because she was a witness. The murders would continue into the following month of September and law enforcement was really feeling the heat. They would eventually arrest two suspects but soon released them when it became clear they were not involved. The biggest issue with this investigation was how many of these murders were from a serial killer and how many of them were isolated incidents. They began to look at motives too for the ones that were related to this serial killer. It was thought he was probably doing this out of Revenge after getting HIV from one of the women as at least one study estimates that 46% of sex workers in Rwanda are HIV positive. By now the man had the moniker the kagali Ripper or in some sources African Jack the Ripper. The killings continued but in November of 2012 police made a puzzling announcement. They arrested eight different suspects and at least one of them had confessed to the murders. After this they would not release any of the names. There was supposed to be a trial take place in early 2013 but it never happened and Police Stopped providing updates so more than likely the confession only came about after being coer by the police and those eight suspects were never involved. In fact the only real lead police ever had was that of a Slender Man about 30 years old who was spotted more than once near the crime scenes before and after the murders of course with a description so vague. There's little police could do even modern well-funded police forces which brings us to the key problem with this one outside of South Africa. Most police forces in subsaharan Africa are simply not equipped or trained to hunt down a serial killer. DNA is a noggo and most of them don't even even have a way to run fingerprints which brings us back to the scary part. This killer is most likely still operating according to authorities surrounding the case. The victim total was 15 in 2012 2 in 2013 and 1 in 2014 so 18 alog together. Although at least one sources stated that two additional murders in 2011 might be connected some think he eventually quit or was arrested for something else but the much darker possib ability is the Press simply quit reporting the murders either because people stopped carrying maybe because they were sex workers or because police quit telling the Press due to embarrassment or maybe just trying to keep everyone calm in fact. Kagali puts a huge focus on being a tourist City so it's quite possible. They have simply swept the killings under the carpet so Western Travelers are not hesitant to visit March 20th 1990. Kosovo Serbia at a local high school students would set down for their classes like any other day but some would notice something strange on their desk was a white powder of some kind perplexed. Some of the children began to touch it to see if they could identify what it was and it didn't take long to realize that was a mistake because these children quickly began to foam around the mouth which was followed by cramping and then ultimately fainting but it wasn't just this one school. Many from around Kosovo began to report the same thing and it only increased 2 Days. Later a panic took over the city as around 200 students and residents also contracted the same illness and were driven to a hospital to receive first aid or retreated ons side of the school or home. This would go on for a couple of months before it abruptly stopped now as you may probably know. At this time there was a lot of. Tension between the serbs and albanians living in the area. However they agreed to have a joint research group of doctors made up of albanians and serbs. They would jointly announce that it was an epidemic disease but refused to release any other details citing. They wanted to wait on blood and urine analysis first. However these samples explain nothing either although 3 days later they would site the samples did not contain poison. However one odd thing with this was it typically took Labs at least 6 weeks to make the same analysis than other parts of the world world. Yet. This lab in Kosovo did it in 3 days which of course added some doubt to the whole thing but it would get stranger. The Serbian doctors then came out and stated that the Albanian doctors were just participating in Mass hysteria. However the albanians denied this which the authorities did not like soon. The Albanian doctors were sent to jail for a few days. One was even sentenced to prison for months and was only released due to International pressure. The doctor's phones were also searched and they were threatened so obviously. Something was up. Because of this. The International Community got involved and soon a French doctor claimed that he had secretly entered the hospital and had obtained 150 blood samples and sent them back to labs in Paris which found they had been poisoned. France quickly put a stop to the research though in an attempt to preserve relations with Serbia now conversely a doctor from svenia claimed his research pointed to Masseria. This was confirmed shortly later by two British doctors who also researched the case but another International Group would take on the mystery and although they didn't look at blood samples they would go in and interview the children parents and medical staffs. One thing they kept hearing was that the students noticed something that smelled like vinegar. This led to the theory that the children had been targeted by some kind of nerve gas of of course. The Serbian authorities did not appreciate these findings and soon the media began praising the local law enforcement giving thanks to them for not falling for the Masseria created by the Albanian separatist. They also stopped Albanian patients from seeking Medical Care and they would even take away the licenses from ambulance drivers. They would also interrogate some of the doctors and rough them up a bit but it gets crazier because next a pharmaceutical scientist franel. Pavik was supposed to speak at a symposium about his findings where he claimed he had managed to isolate a chemical substance from the blood and urine but just before he was going to show his findings he vanished then. After this all the blood analysis disappeared and by the mid90s Serbia remained insistent that the whole thing was mass hysteria with one researcher zoron. Rodonovan a professor in Kuwait pointing out just days before the mass hysteria. A gym full of 2,000 students spread a respiratory cold and just a few days later more students got sick but the respiratory illness has started to get worse and cause many to faint or vomit. About that same time the virus would spread to other parts of the city and that this was all that it was he pointed out that with the 2,000 students none of them were seriously ill just an eye inflammation and red puffy cheeks. Although he conveniently left out that many of the patients died now what really makes this one super suspicious was right before this happened the Serbian government passed a law to enforce segregation between Albanian students and Serbian students. Serbs went to class in the morning and albanians went in the evening meaning these attacks. If that's what it really was seemed to be conveniently happening only when the albanians were at school so no serbs would ever get hurt in total. 8,000 plus albanians were hit with the illness usually just inflamed eyes and and facial flushing but sometimes vomiting and violent convulsions. I cannot find an estimated number on the dead. To this day the theories haven't really changed much one side. The serbs still claim the whole thing was mass hysteria while albanians claimed they were intentionally poisoned by a tear gas or nerve agent. There is one group in the middle however to speculate the whole thing was caused by accidental gas exposure or maybe even lead pesticides War Factory emissions citing kosovo's heavy industrial background.
- 23:04 In 1898 a Swedish immigrant named Olaf Omen would go out and start clearing his field of trees and stumps. It was here our next Mystery Begins in the small town of Solem. About 1 mile from Kensington Minnesota Olaf would discover a stone entangled in some roots of a popular tree. It was near the crest of a small hill above the wetlands lying face down at about a depth of 6 in the precise date. This happened on is unknown but it was most likely in August. The stone is about 31 in by 16x 6 and weighs. About 200 lb. One side has an inscription consisting of nine lines of runes while one side has three more lines of runes and of note. Here the trees in the area would be cut later on and their Rings were examined and they were discovered to be 30 to 40 years old. Meaning the stone had been in the ground before for 1880. It's also here we get our first clue that it might have been a hoax. Olaf would claim when he first found the runes he thought it was some kind of Indian Almanac. However Omen own books with counts of runes used by Scandinavians. He should have recognized these but in his defense it is worth noting. He never tried to make any money off of this discovery regardless. By 1899 newspapers would start to publish stories on this Stone as far as the text goes. It says eight Goths and 22 northmen on an exploration Journey from Vinland to the West. We had Camp by two scares which is a small rocky Island one Day's Journey North. From this Stone we were out to fish one day after we came home. We found 10 men red of blood and dead hell. Mary save us from evil we have 10 men by the sea to look after our ships. 14 days travel from this island in the year 13 1962. If this stone is genuine he would be one of the biggest discoveries in American history as the stone basically says that the Goths who were just swedes and northmen who were just Norwegians riched Minnesota far from Vinland 100 years before Columbus even attempted his voyage just a couple of months later. In January 1899 a copy of the inscription would be sent to the University of Minnesota Professor olis J Brea. A professor of Scandinavian languages who would declare the stone of forgery. He would then forward the inscription to other linguists and historians who all agreed that it was an obvious fraud. He was soon deemed as no interest to Scholars and was sent back to Omen. By that March. He is said to have used it as a stepping stone. He was largely forgotten about until 8 years later when a historian named Yar Holland would obtain the Stone from Omen in August of 1907. It would be his effort that would bring the Kensington Stone back into the Limelight. By 1909 the Minnesota historical society would begin its own investigation into the stone. The man that led it was a geologist named Newton Winchell who would get a written statement by Omen himself about his account of finding the stone. He also spent time interviewing locals and investigating the actual site. He also contacted more experts in Scandinavian languages who all declared it a fraud. One of the key issues found early on was the weathering of the description or should I say the lack of weathering. The inscription was sharp and easy to read which is crazy for a stone that just slid out in the mud for 500 years to make things even more. Sketchy was the time period that the stone was found which came about during a renewed interest in the vikon exploration of America. Scholars had been looking closer at Leaf Ericson's expedition to Vinland and it was heavily discussed in the Scandinavian community so the odds that this Stone could just change the course of history being discovered. During this time. Frame is almost too perfect. Another issue is the language of the inscription which was deemed to be more modern than that of 14 Century. Nordic language should have been but even at this point both Winchell and holand were too far in. They believe fully that the stone was legit. Holand would take the stone to Europe to have it studied by more runology. They too said it was a fraud but holand stuck to his theory and he could also explain what the Vikings were doing in Minnesota. He believed that the king of Sweden in Norway had sent out an expedition to find out what happened to the colonies in Greenland and Vinland and when they couldn't find them in Vinland. They followed a trail looking for the Vikings that led to Minnesota. He also believed he knew the path they had taken. He theorized the Vikings s around the north of Labrador entered Hudson Bay and traveled along the Nelson River leaving 10 men at the mouth of the river. They then reached Lake Winnipeg and entered the Red River. These men would then make their way to Kensington before 10 of them were killed. The survivors then etched the stone and were killed shortly later and the 10 waiting on them at the mouth of the river either went back to Vinland or were killed as well. Holland would even take the same hypothetical route from Hudson Bay to Minnesota looking for evidence and a nson river and Red River. He would come across two stones with drilled holes. In them he believed had been used by the Vikings to tie their boats. There is also one more little bit of possible proof for the stones that is the story of maca wasan a Dakota woman who lived on Prairie Island in Minnesota at the age of 90. In 1935. She would tell Anthropologist Ruth L that many centuries ago the Dakota seen a sailboat appear on the lake. One early spring. She stated it had masked heads of carved snakes and a great figure head with scaly body horns and wings. Top by a hores head aft was carved a monster with a beak. The boat had three sails and was robed with long ore. On each side were strung 10 shields and there were cabins above and below 38. Sailors of Warriors manned the boat. Their clothes had scales painted on them and they wore horned headpieces. They Carried Spears knives and axes on Poes. She went on to state that the strangers gave the Dakota Gifts of iron tools and weapons and showed them how to use them. The natives in turn taught them how to use bows and arrows and canoes. They also had no alcohol and did not have sexual relations with the women.
- 29:32 They stayed until the next spring and left and never came back but as far as the stone goes. The general consensus has always been that the whole thing was a hoax with some people claiming Omen was behind it but considering that he pretty much ignored the stone after they said it was fake and considering he didn't try to profit off of it. It's not likely he seemed pretty indifferent to it altogether. So did someone else oax it. It's possible. It is odd that the only man who really pushed for its cuse was Yar Holland and even though most Scholars doubt its veracity over a hundred years later there's still a good proportion of people who believe this stone is legit. September 1st 1983. Napor New Zealand 14-year-old kersa Jensen would walk out of her home around 2:45 p.m. to go for a ride on her horse to a local Beach something not uncommon to the teen. She had actually planned to go with her friend who at the last minute canceled but as time drifted later into the evening. Ksa's parents began to worry as she usually did not stay gone too long and around 5:45 p.m. about 3 hours after she had left home. Her parents decided enough was enough and they began to search for her but not before calling the police to report she was missing and it didn't take very long to find ca's horse which had been tied up near a bridge about 4 miles away from her home. But Cura that was another story. There was not one sign of her. It was then that her family and police knew something was very wrong. Soon a huge number of volunteers joined the police to help search for the teenager but they didn't have much luck. They even turned to local rivers and other waterways but nothing 5 days later a $5,000 reward or almost 16,000 in today's money was offered by a local newspaper for any information leading to the recovery of kersa and although this didn't lead to the finding of her. Some some substantial tips did come in because the most important piece of information to come out was someone who noticed a girl that resembled kersa. Although he wasn't sure but whoever it was. He did see her standing next to an Old World War II gun imp placement at the mouth of a river. The girl was being held at arms length by a white man about 5'9 tall and 45 to 50 years old. The same witness noted a white utility vehicle with brown sides parked nearby and this did not end up being bad information because right after that another witness called in and stated that they had actually stopped at the gun in placement to talk to kersa who had a blooded face when he asked her what had happened. She claimed she had fell from her horse. Kersa then told the Good Samaritan that someone had gone to get her parents and they should be here anytime. This was followed by a third witness who told police around 4:30 just an hour and a half. After kersa left there was a white utility vehicle coming off the bridge. This time the description of the man was quite different. He was said to be brown haired and 20 to 30 years old. In the passenger seat was a girl and the man had his arm around her shoulders and he was driving with one hand. Now was this the same man that was thought to be 45 to 50 years old seen at the gun. In placement. The description was quite different but it probably was the same man. Police did believe that she had been there for sure though this was almost certainly confirmed when they found the horse's Bridal and hoof prints near the gun in placement as well as a part of a rope that was believed to have tethered the horse before it broke free. But more importantly there was blood but it was a bit odd in the fact that it had been recovered in droplets suggesting a minor injury possibly from coughing or flicking blood from a hand and that it had not came from a severe wound decades later. In August of 2024. Blood blood that had been recovered near the gun in placement was finally tested and confirmed to be that of kersa. Although the case did get off to a slow start. Detectives would eventually find out who this man was or at least who they thought it was and that man's name was John Russell a man who had already been convicted previously for sexual assault and this wasn't just detectives taking the easy way out and pining the crime on a previously convicted felon of a similar crime because when police interviewed Russell he straight up told them. He was the man who had been seen with cersa next to the gun in placement. He is who the witness has seen but he stopped short of a confession and other than him being around the Imp placement when she disappeared. Police didn't have much but Russell tried to help detectives. He claimed he had seen CA with a bald middle-aged man near the beach police however were unconvinced and they thoroughly searched Russell's home and truck and they did come up with a little find two hairs in his vehicle that were said to be a strong match for cersa. But it wasn't conclusive and Russell suggested he came about via accidental hair transfer and he admitted he had talked to her and police had to concede that Russell was right. He could have just gotten there accidentally but detectives would catch what they thought was another break when John Russell in 1985 2 years after curs of vanished confessed to murdering her so why is this a mystery well see that's where it gets interesting. Sometime after Russell confessed. He retracted his confession citing his mental illness which will come into play later leaving police again back at step one. The case would go cold and would stay that way for another 7 years when something would happen that brought the case back to the Forefront. In 1992 John Russell would delete himself in Hastings some 25 minutes away from ner sorry folks I got warned about using the other word. He did not leave a note nor did anyone know why he decided to take his own life. But it was soon discovered that he had just left a psychiatric facility where he had been getting help for his mental health condition. In fact his mental health had been deteriorating ever since cersa disappeared. He even went to visit her father at church and his home and his thought he may have tried to delete himself prior to this in a sketchy automobile accident and while police initially wondered if maybe. He did this because he felt guilt over cersa or more than likely the pressure of getting caught was just getting to be too much. They eventually started to change this line of. Thinking and by 2009 the lead co-case detective in charge of looking into csa's disappearance stated there was now more evidence. The suggested Russell was not involved versus evidence that he was involved and basically that's it other than another man who came forward to falsely confess in 1999 that there have been no Persons of Interest at least none publicly and it's not even 100% confirmed that there was Foul Play and I guess.
- 36:37 I should note here that Napier is a town that actually sits near the ocean and because of that some think the see may actually have the answer. Now. I don't know why this would have played out or why some people speculate it. But there seems to be somewhat of a popular theory that cersa after falling off her horse. If you believe that one witness walked down to the ocean to sit and wait on her parents and then accidentally fell in maybe. She was even concussed from the fall and was dizzy taken that line of thinking some wonder if she was confused after the fall and wandered into a cave or fell into a mine or something like that. But what if it was Foul Play well police now believe that it most likely wasn't John Russell although they haven't completely ruled him out so that brings up one huge problem with this entire case. If it was not John Russell what are the odds that another pervert just happened to be driving by anden kersa. If you believe his account that he was there to add to this one of the odds she had just fell off her horse and was waiting to be picked up by her parents who had not been contacted by anyone and while this was going on a convicted pervert that had already served time for such an offense. John Russell was just standing there nearby watching this whole thing play out the there's also the strangeness of all those other witness sightings like was that really her riding in the white utility vehicle. If so I'm going to guess. Russell's vehicle was not wiped which probably helped police eventually move past him but it still leaves. The question was that even her in the vehicle and if so did this stranger say he would take her back to her parents and she jumped in with him and what about the witness who said he was keeping her at arms length or the witness who said he had his arm around her shoulders as they drove off. Likewise there were two very different suspect descriptions one in his 20s with brown hair and another much older man around 50 and bald. This is one of those cases that just had too much going on to ever sort the truth out but hopefully the families do get some closure. Eventually May 16th 1937 Paris France the Paris Metro line 8 would pull up at its stop at 6:27 p.m. it's here a young lady would enter the train and then it pulled up a little bit further 1 minute later at its next stop at 6:28 p.m. to pick up six more passengers when the doors opened up and the passengers stepped in. They were stunned to see this young lady slump forward with a dagger in her neck. In that one minute time frame she had been murdered however that was only one odd thing about this little known case because as investigator started searching into the background of this woman a 30-y Ro Leticia Toro they found some very weird things. During the daytime. She worked at a local Glue Factory but she was also an Italian Widow who went to some of the seedier clubs in town and had an assortment of boyfriends. But it was also at these clubs that she began to work in surveillance and as a messenger for a private detective agency. This in turn led her to becoming a paid informant with the police but it's one of her affairs with a man named Gabriel jent that really makes this one intriguing because he was a prominent right-wing journalist and was also smuggling weapons in for a terrorist group known as the secret committee for revolutionary action. It had actually been funded by some of the city's Elite who wanted to use a campaign of Terror to break up unions. So these companies could pay less the story ow his time they were actually involved in at least seven murders and two bombings and they had even built an underground prison. Because of all this they were under surveillance by law enforcement which brings us back to Leticia after her murder. A couple of men inside this terrorist group were interrogated and they claimed their Chief assassin Jean filo was behind it because they had figured out she was spying on them. However one of these men soon changed her story claiming that they had only said that because the police had beaten them into a false confession then the case went cold for 2 years and with World War II heating up. He was basically forgotten about like I said there's not much on this one. The original detectives had first thought she had been murdered by a jealous lover but after they realized she was employed as a spy they ruled that out. However it would be 25 years later in 1962 that the police commissioner would receive an anonymous letter which held the key maybe. The writer claimed to have met Leticia in a dance hall in 1936 and fell in love with her. He would have a date with her on the day of her murder but she cancelled and mentioned another man and he became enraged followed. Her to the train stabbed her and calmly walked away. But of course he never identified himself. Police did keep this letter but they could never verify the details and to this day the main theories are she was assassinated by the terrorist group. Once they discovered she was a spy or the letter writer in the 60s was actually telling the truth and he was behind it did.
- 41:55 The US state of Montana have a town disappear overnight. We have discussed similar cases in the past but this one is a bit different. According to the legend. Langville was a real town in Montana that somehow vanished before the 2000s or sometime. In the early 2000s it was said to be a small raw area to set in the Eastern Plains but the exact location has been lost and actually lots of information about. It had been online before but was all scrubbed away. But we do know a few key things like in the early 1900s. As passion Travelers stopped in town. They found dozens of bodies that had seemingly been turned inside out. After that the town was abandoned and everything fell into disrepair and the only thing that remains are these stories. Some take that narrative further and suggest that the US government is the one behind the erasing of langville because they wanted to hide what happened obviously. This one is most likely an urban legend or a hoax. Although some put forth the theory that this is the product of the Mandela effect and that langville was a real town in an alternate reality or alternate timeline and now people are experiencing false memories of it. This is why some people are convinced it existed despite there being no real records of it. Of course. There are those that really believe that it was covered up by the government perhaps due to Paranormal phenomena September 13th 1978 Dixon Tennessee alone bowan alley would play host to our next mystery because it was on this night that a group of low-risk prisoners about 30 of them were allowed to have a break from their sentence to enjoy an evening knocking down some pins. The group was to be monitored by a few armed guards all in all it shouldn't have been a big deal but it ended up going that way because one of these prisoners was a bright young man known as Larry Chisum. Larry had actually been drafted to go fight in Vietnam just 8 years earlier and was honorably discharged and came back home to attend college where he was to get his law degree unfortunately for Larry. Just a few weeks before graduating. It was discovered that he was not the innocent young man that he portrayed in fact he would end up being arrested for running a drug ring that's right he had hired a bunch of teenagers who were fellow students to smuggle heroin over the Mexican border. It was this as well as armed robbery. They would see him get a 40-year sentence but it's that prison that Larry's unassuming personality would do really well because he sort of became a background character to the more aggressive dangerous prisoners. He became known as a peacemaker for some of the altercations between prisoners and guards and even took on a job as writer of the prison newspaper. The guards for what it's worth didn't necessarily fall for his Ploy and they knew he was trying to get favor with them. But they assumed he was just doing this to get early release probably making the best of a bad situation was brings us to the beginning of this story. Since Larry was such a model inmate. He was one of these prisoners deemed safe enough to go bowling but after some time there Larry walked away to go to the men's room along with another inmate who followed him and they seemed to be holding some suspicious packages under their arms and that caught the attention of one guard see unbeknownst to this guard. Though a former college roommate of Larry's as well as a longtime friend named William Henson had actually been visiting Larry at the prison and earlier this day he went by the bowling alley and left a couple of saw off. Shotguns planted near the men's restroom apparently him and Larry had came up with this plan over the past few months so now Larry and this other inmate had gotten a hold of the weapons and they went in the bathroom and armed themselves. The officer thought all of this was weird and went to investigate and opened the door to see Larry holding the shotgun right at his head thankfully for the guard. Larry had not chambered around yet and the guard quickly backed up slammed the bathroom door against Larry and fell back into the main area of the bowling alley and pulled out his gun but Larry and the other man came out with their shotguns and began firing. One of the guards got hit in the chest where he was luckily wearing a bulletproof vest. Although he did take fire to the arm. The shots put him down but he did fire off at least one shot to hit Larry on the hand potentially blowing his thumb off. He lasted about 30 seconds and a ton of shots had been fired. Larry along with three other inmates took the weapons from the four guards who had either been shot or surrendered. They then fled out of the alley and on their way they would take a female employee hostage leading her out at gunpoint. By this time it was well obvious that Larry was the leader and the brains of this Escape as several witnesses reported. The men took orders from him once they got outside. They carjacked a vehicle belonging to another employee and took off towards the airport.
- 46:57 They then let the girl go and took the owner of this airport who was a pilot himself along with the Pilot's young son and they forced him to prepare his cesna. For takeoff. They told the pilot they wanted to be taken to Arkansas. Unfortunately for Larry. His plan being so rushed caus. Some issues first they were over seating capacity and since this was all unplanned the pilot did not have time to equip for the flight. Nor were they able to take the proper precautions and because of that they ran into some mechanical issues. Soon an emergency landing would have to be taken and they luckily found a dirt road in Mariana Arkansas which was fairly close to where Larry had grown up a farmer whose property they had landed on took off towards the plane in his truck to see if anyone needed help but he was surprised to see four armed inmates get out and they took him captive and stole his truck. Luckily they would release him but they kept the truck. After this the four would split up into pairs and at some point Larry and this man would take an elderly couple hostage and they released him somewhere in a rural area of Kentucky. After this Larry and the other man split up law enforcement by the way had been pursuing Larry the entire time and they were a bit surprised that he had made it more than 200 mi from the bowan alley where they had first started. Meanwhile the other two inmates that had escaped will Larry would be captured within a day or two after splitting up while the third man would be captured a year later in Nevada but the two that had been captured just a day later would tell investigators. Larry was headed to Texas which made them feel a little bit better because they were nervous. If he went back home to Arkansas. He would be hidden by his family so they began to set up roadblocks on the routes. In Texas. They assumed he would take along with doing a lot of searches but they never found Larry and that's because he was in Arkansas. Apparently he had asked a woman in Calico Rock to give him a ride and she recognized him and reported him. Soon. Federal and local law enforcement descended on the area and to make a long story short. The police finally caught him after Larry carjacked another man and led them on a high-speed Pursuit which ended in a crash and in a dumb Mistake by authorities. They left him in a lowrisk jail while he awaited more charges and it's steing this time he began planning to escape again with three more convicts two of whom had escaped with him. The last time. They eventually got a hold of a wrench which they used to open open up a vent and crawled to a room that had weapons and keys. Once they were armed they overpowered a guard and locked him up stole his car and fled this time they were gone for hours before anyone noticed and just like last time. The other three were caught fairly soon but Larry yeah he was never captured although he left quite a trail of fake names behind him some from his drug ring days where he may have gotten a hold of some fake ID cards. It's because of all these fake IDs. He was able ble to move around quite freely and authorities completely lost a trail except for one outlier when a bank in Cincinnati was robbed of $250,000 by a man claiming to be carrying a bomb. He never hurt anyone there and walked out into a nearby crowd and disappeared. This man looked just like Larry and law enforcement believed it was. This was only strengthened by Witnesses who would positively identify him in photos. He would bounce around to New Orleans where he worked as a roofer for a while before going to Alabama where his ex-girlfriend in New Orleans would tip off the FBI but Larry would be tipped off somehow and escaped before they could arrest him but it was in that time in Alabama that he had several girlfriends. One of these was a woman named Linda Hicks who again would be interviewed by the FBI and she told them Larry took painstaking efforts to continually get new identities. She at one time had apparently headed to the East Coast with him but changed her mind and stopped in Mississippi and she went back home and where Larry went. She did not know it's after this he would disappear for a few years before finally reappearing as Charlotte under the name Kenny brookens who was allegedly married to a Deborah brookens. This woman has never been identified and it's just as mysterious as Larry. But her and Larry did have at least one kid together and maybe more and they must have gotten comfortable because Larry picked up a job as a carpet layer and then he began working on homes and lived a pretty normal life even being active in church. But in 1990 when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on him. This led to him and the woman he lived with whoever she was along with their kid to leave the property. Immediately. They took nothing but their clothes. Although Larry did call a coworker and his only friend to tell him he had just been featured on Unsolved Mysteries and they were leaving he would be back in 3 months to pick up his last paycheck. But the coworker was free to have anything. He wanted at his home and he never came back to get the paycheck obviously and after that other than selling his van to someone 11 months later in Atlanta there's never been another clue of him found and that's pretty much the mystery where is Larry well. The most likely scenario is. He ended up somewhere in the South where he was real comfortable and he could work cash jobs all year long possibly Florida Louisiana Alabama Miss Mississippi Arkansas or even Tennessee and with all the fake IDs he had he could easily blend into a small town and no one would ever know of course. It's also possible he used his drug trade connections and fled to Mexico where it would be much easier to hide and there's also a small possibility. He could have forged documents which he then used to enter another English-speaking country like Canada Australia. The UK or even New Zealand that brings us to the end of part 29 of the unsolved mystery Mega Iceberg explained we are now about one half of the way through layer 9 I hope you guys enjoyed goodbye and good night.
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Unsolved Mysteries MEGA ICEBERG – Ep. 29 | Dark Truths & Chilling Revelations
The video explores a series of mysterious incidents and unsolved cases, ranging from UFO theories and historical explorations to disappearances and criminal activities, highlighting the intrigue and speculation surrounding these events.
- 00:00 🛸 A 1965 fireball incident sparked UFO theories, later contradicted by NASA's findings of a Soviet satellite crash, while other mysterious objects fueled speculation of military cover-ups and extraterrestrial involvement.
- On December 9, 1965, a large fireball was witnessed across six states and Ontario, leading to reports of debris, sonic booms, and a mysterious crash, sparking speculation about its origins, including theories of extraterrestrial involvement, despite official claims of it being a natural phenomenon.
- In December 2005, NASA revealed that metal fragments from the Cburg incident were likely from a Soviet satellite crash, contradicting long-held extraterrestrial theories, which upset many believers in the alien narrative.
- A UFO investigator sued NASA for lost records related to a 1960s incident, revealing missing documents and shifting speculation about the event's origins from a Soviet satellite to a natural source.
- In 1990, Unsolved Mysteries reported on a UFO incident involving a mysterious acorn-shaped object found in the woods, described by locals and allegedly removed by military personnel in hazmat suits.
- The Acorn-shaped craft is speculated to be a failed Nazi weapon, the Bell, linked to time travel, which was later researched by the US, but most scholars consider it a hoax, despite claims of military cover-up and confiscated evidence.
- The kbur incident is widely believed to involve a crashed Soviet or US spy satellite, with some speculating it may have been an extraterrestrial vehicle due to its shape and markings.
- 07:23 🕵♂ Three-year-old Kevin J. vanished in Minnesota with no trace found despite extensive searches, leading to theories of abduction or accidental death in harsh terrain.
- Three-year-old Kevin J. vanished from his home in Sugar Bush Township, Minnesota, along with the family puppy, prompting a search that revealed no trace of them despite extensive efforts.
- Search efforts for a missing person in a vast, harsh terrain yielded no clues, leading to despair as survival in the freezing temperatures seemed unlikely.
- Theories emerged about Kevin's disappearance, suggesting he may have been abducted or hidden after an accident, prompting a search that began with his brother and mother looking for him at home.
- After a nine-day search for missing Kevin, a puppy returned home without any clues, leading police to track it, but it only returned home instead of revealing Kevin's whereabouts.
- Investigators initially considered a non-family abduction in Kevin's case, but later discovered a man in Michigan had stolen his identity, leading to theories that Kevin likely wandered off and died in the swampy terrain.
- Kevin's disappearance remains a mystery with no evidence of abduction or wandering, and theories suggest he could have been taken or attacked by a predator, but no remains were found.
- 13:28 🔍 A suspected serial killer remains active in multiple regions, while mysterious illnesses linked to potential poisoning have caused widespread panic and conflict between Albanian and Serbian authorities.
- A serial killer targeting sex workers was identified after multiple murders, with one victim allegedly having a chilling message carved into her body, which police denied despite the escalating violence.
- A series of murders attributed to a suspected serial killer in Rwanda led to multiple arrests and confessions, but the investigation faltered due to inadequate police resources and unclear motives.
- Authorities believe a serial killer responsible for 18 murders between 2011 and 2014 is still active, with speculation that the press may have downplayed the incidents to protect the city's image as a tourist destination.
- In Kosovo, a mysterious white powder caused around 200 students and residents to fall ill with symptoms like foaming at the mouth and cramping, leading to a joint investigation by Albanian and Serbian doctors who declared it an epidemic but provided no clear explanation.
- Albanian doctors faced imprisonment and threats after claiming children were poisoned, while international investigations suggested nerve gas exposure, leading to tensions with Serbian authorities who dismissed the findings and restricted medical care for Albanians.
- A mysterious illness affected over 8,000 Albanians in Serbia, with conflicting claims of mass hysteria versus intentional poisoning, coinciding with government-enforced segregation of students.
- 23:04 🪨 In Minnesota, discoveries of rune-inscribed stones and historical accounts suggest Viking exploration predating Columbus, but many findings have been deemed forgeries or lack authenticity.
- In 1898, Olaf Omen discovered a rune-inscribed stone in Solem, Minnesota, which may have been buried before 1880, raising questions about its authenticity despite Omen's lack of profit motive.
- A stone inscription suggests that Goths and Northmen reached Minnesota in 1196, predating Columbus, but was later deemed a forgery by scholars.
- In 1909, geologist Newton Winchell led an investigation into the Kensington Stone, gathering evidence and expert opinions that ultimately deemed it a fraud due to its lack of weathering.
- The discovery of a well-preserved stone with a modern inscription during a renewed interest in Viking exploration raises questions about its authenticity and potential historical impact.
- Holland theorizes that Vikings traveled from Hudson Bay to Minnesota in search of lost colonies, leaving behind evidence such as stones with drilled holes and a historical account from a Dakota woman.
- In 1935, a Dakota woman recounted a historical encounter with a mysterious sailboat manned by warriors who exchanged iron tools for knowledge of bows and canoes, while maintaining strict social customs.
- 29:32 🕵♂ The mysterious disappearance of 14-year-old Kersa Jensen in New Zealand remains unsolved, with key suspects and confessions complicating the investigation.
- The stone's authenticity remains debated, with many considering it a hoax, yet a significant number still believe in its legitimacy despite scholarly skepticism.
- 14-year-old Kersa Jensen went missing in New Zealand after riding her horse to a local beach, prompting a search that revealed no signs of her despite a reward for information and a reported sighting near a WWII gun emplacement.
- A girl with a bloodied face claimed she fell from her horse while being seen with two different men in a white utility vehicle, one older and one younger, raising suspicions about her situation.
- Blood found near a gun placement was confirmed to belong to Kersa, leading detectives to identify John Russell, a previously convicted sexual offender, as the man seen with her.
- Witness Russell claimed to have seen a woman with a bald man before confessing to her murder, but later retracted his confession due to mental illness, leaving the case unresolved until his suicide in 1992.
- A man who recently left a psychiatric facility took his own life amid speculation about his involvement in a disappearance, but evidence later suggested he was not connected to the case.
- 36:37 🕵♂ Unsolved mysteries include a missing girl possibly lost after a fall, a 1937 murder on the Paris Metro, and the complex case of Leticia Toro, a murdered informant linked to terrorism.
- Some speculate that after falling off her horse, Cersa may have accidentally fallen into the ocean or wandered into a cave or mine while waiting for her parents.
- Police suspect John Russell may not be involved in a case of a missing girl, raising questions about the likelihood of another perpetrator being present and the validity of various witness sightings.
- A young woman was found with a dagger in her neck on the Paris Metro in 1937, amidst conflicting suspect descriptions and a complex case that remains unresolved.
- Leticia Toro, a 30-year-old murdered woman with a complex life as a glue factory worker, club-goer, and police informant, had ties to a right-wing journalist involved in weapon smuggling for a terrorist group.
- Leticia was murdered, possibly by a terrorist group after they discovered she was a spy, or by an anonymous man who claimed to have been jilted, but the case remains unsolved.
- 41:55 🕵♂ A Montana town vanished overnight, while a 1978 prison bowling outing turned into a violent escape orchestrated by inmate Larry Chisum.
- A town named Langville in Montana reportedly vanished overnight in the early 2000s, with its exact location and information now lost.
- In the early 1900s, travelers discovered bodies in an abandoned town, leading to theories of government cover-ups, urban legends, and the Mandela effect regarding its existence.
- On September 13, 1978, a group of low-risk prisoners in Dixon, Tennessee, including Vietnam veteran Larry Chisum, were allowed a supervised break for bowling, which took an unexpected turn.
- Larry, a seemingly innocent student, was arrested for running a drug ring and became a model inmate, but during a bowling outing, he suspiciously walked away with another inmate, raising a guard's suspicion.
- Larry, a prison inmate, orchestrated a violent escape plan involving shotguns, resulting in a hostage situation and a carjacking after overpowering guards at a bowling alley.
- 46:57 🕵♂ A pilot and his son faced an emergency flight, while armed inmates escaped in Arkansas, leading to a notorious criminal, Larry, who evaded capture multiple times using fake identities and ultimately vanished after resurfacing as Kenny Brookens.
- A pilot and his son were forced to prepare a Cessna for an unplanned flight to Arkansas, facing issues with seating capacity.
- Four armed inmates escaped after a plane emergency landing in Arkansas, took a farmer hostage, split up, and while two were quickly recaptured, one remained at large for a year heading towards Texas.
- Larry escaped from custody multiple times, evading capture while leaving behind a trail of fake identities linked to his past criminal activities.
- A man using fake IDs evaded authorities after robbing a bank in Cincinnati, was believed to be Larry based on witness identifications, and later escaped an FBI attempt to arrest him in Alabama.
- Linda Hicks revealed that Larry, who frequently changed identities, disappeared for years before resurfacing as Kenny Brookens, living a seemingly normal life until an Unsolved Mysteries segment prompted him and his family to flee.
- Larry disappeared after leaving his job, likely blending into a small town in the South or fleeing to Mexico, with no clues about his whereabouts since.
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