Random Creepiest Unexplained Stories In America (19 items)

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  (#18) The Taos Hum

  Taos, NM, isn't the only place where a mysterious hum has been heard, but usually, only two percent of people in any given "hum" area can actually hear the mysterious sound. After setting up equipment in the homes of those who reportedly heard the sound, researchers found that there were multiple hums on various frequencies.

  Theories about what causes the hum range from extraterrestrials to paranormal activity and possible CIA mind control experiments. Hums have been recorded all over the planet, and most of them are at spots where the earth's polarity gets a little wonky. And at least one person has committed suicide after listening to the hum nonstop. Even though no one has ever recorded the hum, an approximation was created for an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. 
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  (#5) The Texarkana Moonlight Murders

  Modern-day Texarkana lazily stretches across the border of Texas and Arkansas. Both sides of the town are crisscrossed with railway lines, and even during football season, it feels desolate. In 1946, its precarious geography and largely poor population made it the perfect place for a brutal killing spree.

  Over the course of three months, four violent attacks were perpetrated. Three of the slayings happened at a local Lovers' Lane on the Texas side of the town, while the final act occurred in a farmhouse on the Arkansas side. The unseen perpetrator became known as The Phantom Killer, and with just four murders, they gripped an entire town in a fear that still resonates to this day. 
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  (#11) The Jamison Family Disappearance

  In 2009, while looking to purchase a 40-acre plot of land near Red Oak, OK, Bobby Dale, Sherilynn Leighann, and daughter Madyson Stormy Star Jamison mysteriously disappeared. A few days after their disappearance, their abandoned truck was found near Kinta, OK, with their malnourished dog, their IDs, a GPS system, and $32,000 in cash.

  Several theories about their disappearance were floated that involved everything from a drug deal gone bad to the Jamisons faking their death to a cult and even the possibility of the family being driven crazy by ghosts haunting their house. Four years after the discovery of their truck, two hunters found the skeletal remains of the Jamison family less than three miles away from where their vehicle had been parked. No cause of death could be determined due to the decomposed state of their bodies. 
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  (#4) The Long Island Serial Killer

  The Long Island Serial Killer is the name given to an unknown murderer who used the marshes along the remote Ocean Parkway on Long Island, NY, which stretches 15 miles along the coast of Nassau and Suffolk counties, as a dumping ground for his victims. Since 1996, there have been several bodies (and, in some cases, body parts) found that have been linked to the killer. Nearly all of the victims have been female sex workers. Police estimate that there have been at least 11 victims of the Long Island Serial Killer because it has been difficult to conclusively tie all the crimes together.

  The most recent possible victim was the 2013 murder of a 31-year-old woman Natasha Jugo, whose body was spotted floating in the ocean months after her car was discovered near Ocean Parkway. There are many theories about the crimes, including that there are multiple killers, and the local police might be covering up a larger conspiracy. In December 2015, the FBI joined the investigation into the crimes following allegations that the Suffolk County Police Department was improperly handling the case. For now, many questions remain unanswered.
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  (#12) The Hall-Mills Murders

  In 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall and Eleanor Rinehardt Mills, a choir singer and parishioner at the Reverend's church, were found beneath a crab apple tree in Somerset County, NJ. They'd both been shot in the head, and the minister’s dead hand was placed beneath the choir singer’s shoulder and neck. The area around the bodies was strewn with love notes written by the married Mrs. Mills to the also married preacher.

  The only witness to the mysterious murder was Jane Gibson, a woman known locally as the "Pig Woman." Gibson was a pig farmer and her testimony led to the arrest and trial of Hall's wife for the crimes, but she didn't get such a cruel nickname without a reason: people around town thought she was crazy. In particular, she was known to tell tall tales.

  Adding an extra layer of strange to this story is the fact that Gibson was dying of cancer during the proceedings, and every day she would be wheeled into the courtroom on a hospital bed and tell her story while her 76-year-old mother sat in the front row, whispering, "She's a liar." Because of  Gibson's shaky story, the Reverend's wife was cleared of all charges and the murders of Edward Wheeler Hall and Eleanor Mills remain unsolved. 
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  (#16) Robert The Living Doll

  The only thing creepier than a regular doll is a living doll, and Robert the Living Doll might be the creepiest of them all. Robert's first foray into the world of terror was when he allegedly attacked a young boy who was sleeping in his room one night in Key West, FL. But where did Robert get this impetus to frighten and destroy?

  In 1898, a servant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Otto who was well-versed in the art of voodoo grew tired of the constant violent attacks from her bosses, so she infused a straw doll with the pain and anger of an entire household of maligned workers. Supposedly, the family would often hear their son talking to someone upstairs, and when they would check on him it would just be the boy and the doll chatting. 

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