His body was almost mummified because of the lack of sun, air and moisture.
I can’t imagine what the smell was like.
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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
Ask Reddithas some horrifying stories for you.
Simon Buchou
1.A young girl went missing, I think she was around 5 years old.
Young enough to still be using training wheels at least.
She was last seen riding her bike in her backyard.
He said the guy wasted no time at bragging at what he did, smiling the entire time.
But the most messed up part?
He admitted that he rode with the father, helping this terrified man search for his missing baby girl.
Found them all still strapped into the car at the bottom.
Husband was engaged again and his fiancee pregnant within a year.
3.I did my undergrad at a college in Vermont.
In the winter we would quite literally be snowed under.
Over Christmas break, a sophomore went missing.
He wasnt a close friend, but we had couple of classes together.
Campus got real scary for a few months.
There was police everywhere, helicopters overhead, students marching through the snow in lines looking for a body.
Finally when the snow and ice thawed they found his body in the creek.
This one still haunts me.
4.My stepdad worked a case.
She had been cut up into pieces.
5.Skylar Neese went missing.
Skylars best friend since childhood and a new friend made in high school plotted Skylars kidnapping and murder.
Her friends drove her to Pennsylvania, took her to the woods, and stabbed her over 50 times.
They then covered Skylars body with rocks, mud and sticks.
They were found guilty of murder and kidnapping.
One was given 30 years and the other a life sentence.
6.The disappearance of Cherrie Mahan has never been solved.
She disappeared on Feb. 22, 1985 not far from where I grew up.
Police sought a van with a painting of a skier on the side.
Pretty unique so no problem, right?
No one has ever reported seeing that van again either.
7.Not a cop but I track missing persons accounts for a bank in coordination with the police.
The last transactions I could trace since she disappeared was at one of our branches.
I pulled the footage and the trafficker was pulling a bunch of money from her account.
I received an alert the next day from the account stating that a purchase was made.
The purchase was from a hardware store.
Shortly after, the next purchase was for a carpet cleaner rental.
Felt like I had witnessed a murder through simple financial transactions.
No one at the scene when officers responded.
Brandon calls his brother and says hes bleeding and is 10 minutes away from his truck.
That was the last anyone ever heard from him and searches of the area turned up empty.
11.Not a policeman, but my Grandad was.
Hes in his 80s now, and was in the Met Police (UK) for years.
(Hes fucking brilliant, so many interesting/sad/crazy stories).
What was it for?
He didnt think to mention this story for 15 years.
12.Not a cop but had a pretty fucked up disappearance happen about a mile away from where I live.
A girl went missing, she was 12.
The whole town, state police, and I believe possibly the FBI all got involved.
Search parties in the woods and through the streets for about 2 or 3 days.
Turns out the kids (brothers, one 15 and the other 17) planned on stealing it.
Well, she put up a struggle and the one brother wound up strangling her in his basement.
13.My grandfather was a policeman and a fireman at different points in his life.
His spooky disappearance story actually came from his time as a fireman.
Its late at night, the fire is reported by a local who was walking home.
The thing is, they dont find a soul.
They flush the whole place out, stop the fire, effectively make the building safe.
As far as anyone knew, the couple who lived there had been at home.
Relatives had no idea where they might have gone that night.
My grandad and his colleagues have a funny feeling, so they get local police properly involved.
They never figured out were the screams from inside the building were coming from, though.
14.Not a police officer but my grandad was.
He was a part of the police force in the 60s till the early 80s.
Him and his partner spent months on the case fighting for it to stay open.
One day they went and searched the missing persons home again.
God knows why his bins werent searched before unless it was just missed.
He even gave them the name of the town he said the garages were in.
The went to the town and got search warrants for every single rentable garage.
Even though they had no evidence he had ever rented one.
After a couple of days they found the car with the guy inside it.
Apparently… His body was almost mummified because of the lack of sun, air and moisture.
I cant imagine what the smell was like.
But they think he accidentally killed himself while trying to do some work on the car.
It was stored in a rough neighbourhood where the garages were cheap to rent.
He also paid cash in hand so he never had any receipts.
So yeah he died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Its painless and basically you just fall asleep and then you die.
He wouldnt have realised until it was too late.
The guy was missing for five months and he seemed to just disappear for no known reason.
Still kinda freaks me out.
They never came back, searches went on but nothing.
Never found any bodies, they found the boat a few weeks later empty of course.
Its been 8 years and nothing has ever been found.
Its assumed they fell overboard maybe in some rough weather and drowned.
They were both avid fishers and could swim, weird that no bodies were ever found or washed up.
She was never found and to this day, we dont know what happened.
17.Madison Scott disappeared from Hogsback Lake outside of Vanderhoof, British Columbia, May 28, 2011.
Madison had already set up her tent and decided to stay.
Her friends left around midnight, the last people left around 4 am.
And that was the last time anyone saw her.
Her cellphone pinged off a tower at 8 am the next morning and then nothing.
RCMP and countless people from small towns and communities across interior BC held multiple search parties.
She just vanished into thin air.
She then disappeared, her family never heard from her again and she is assumed dead.
The family hired a private detective but she was never found.
19.In 2007 my 5th grade teacher and his younger son were stabbed to death and their house set ablaze.
The oldest son, Charles was found on the lawn with minor stab wounds and burns.
To this day nobody knows what happened, but everyone in town had always suspected that it was Charles.
To this day the case hasnt been solved.
Don was my favorite teacher.
He loved teaching kids about school subjects as well as things about life in general.
20.Back in my home state there was a little girl that went missing on her way to school.
It was huge news because the family was cleared pretty quickly.
Like a week or so later they find part of her body in a field.
This case always stuck with me.
The internet of whole state was blocked for 3 days to stop the mass panic.
22.My friend Jenna married a marine.
They both were druggies that cleaned up.
20 hours later I hear she killed herself.
Hung herself from a shower curtain rod with a belt.
How does a shower curtain rod hold up a body?
Just seeing him on Facebook creeps me out.
Military takes care of their own.
It doesnt look good for the brand of you let all these stories of military husbands killing their wives.
23.My uncle went missing about 25 years ago in New Jersey.
My dad has been so sad about it ever since and this was before i was born.
He had a history or mental illness, but the weird part is he has never been found.
My dad even got Howard Stern one day to say live on air: Kevin Costelloe.
If youre out there and listening to this.
Your brother is looking for you
I remember being a kid and listening to it on the radio.
He just disappeared without a trace.
25.This isnt exactly a disappearance case, but a little.
They ended up tracking down the fingerprints to a man (Well call him Randy.)
Well, Randy was nowhere to be found in his house.
26.Not a cop but the disappearance of Lauren Spierer is still unsolved and creepy to me.
Lauren was drinking with several friends.
Her boyfriend, Jesse Wolff, said he did not go out with Lauren or her friends that evening.
He said he was texting back and forth with Spierer before he went to bed.
According to witnesses she was very intoxicated.
This took place in a college town, Bloomington, IN, and is still unsolved.
If you google her name more on the case will pop up.
He was dead for 2 days, and the cops refused to give his cause of death.
Maybe a mind like mine could ask, though?
Its been almost over 30 years, and hes still unidentified.
It was just the two of them for a while.
Then her dad remarried all the while Zahras kicking cancers butt.
She suffers hearing loss and other issues, but shes going strong.
The community adores this girl and tries to help her family as best as they can.
Then she goes missing.
Its shocking and horrible, this girl can barely do anything herself and shes gone missing?
It takes the media by storm relatively small town so everyone cares.
This area is surrounded by woods so search parties branch out everywhere.
The stepmother is arrested quickly and the investigation wraps up fast.
The find Zahra about a month or two later, and the entire community mourned her for years.
Shes still brought up in the news occasionally.
29.A Northwestern University Medical student goes missing from her dorm.
Everyone figures the boyfriend (a stockbroker) did it but no body, no case.
Parents agree, get his whereabouts to send the money.
CPD are waiting at the gate.
30.In my town, there was a very sad case of a boy who had developmental disabilities.
He had been playing hide and seek with neighborhood friends and family.
He apparently climbed in to hide during the hide and seek game and suffocated.
