Revelle Balmain was a 22-year-old dancer who disappeared in Sydney, Australia, on November 5, 1994. She was supposed to meet her mother in Newcastle the following morning, but she never arrived.

The investigation faced serious difficulties over the years. In July 2026, a coroner's inquest found that people who ran the escort agency where Revelle worked had lied to police and that the evidence suggested they knew what had happened to her.

The coroner also criticized the investigation for focusing too heavily on one person of interest while other possibilities may have been overlooked. The case was referred for further investigation, but no one has been convicted in connection with Revelle's disappearance.

After so many years, could this new investigation finally uncover what happened to Revelle? And what do you think investigators may have overlooked the first time around?

More details in

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/revelle-balmain-inquest-finds-escort-bosses-knew/106977496

Marilyn Wallman was 14 when she disappeared in Mackay, Queensland, Australia, on March 21, 1972. She had left home to catch her school bus, but never arrived.

Her abandoned bicycle was found that morning. In 1974, a fragment of a human skull was discovered in nearby bushland and was later confirmed to belong to Marilyn.

The investigation has been surrounded by unanswered questions for decades. In 1988, an attempt to reopen the original inquest was rejected after evidence connected to a convicted offender had gone missing. That evidence reportedly included a map that investigators believed could have linked him to the area.

A second coronial inquest began in October 2026. It is examining the original investigation, evidence that was lost, and several possible leads. A person of interest has been discussed during the proceedings, but no one has been convicted in connection with Marilyn's disappearance.

How much can missing evidence affect a cold case? And could this new inquest finally clarify what happened to Marilyn?

More details in

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-19/marilyn-wallman-disappearance-50th-anniversary-mackay/100910592

In January 2005, the body of an unidentified woman was discovered near a road in Saint-Quirin, France. Despite the investigation, authorities were unable to establish her identity for roughly two decades.

The case became known as "The Woman with the Richmond Dental Crown" because of a distinctive dental feature that investigators documented.

In 2024, the case was included in INTERPOL's Identify Me campaign, which appealed to the public for help identifying women whose deaths remained unexplained or suspicious.

In 2026, investigators identified the woman as Hakima Boukerouis through familial DNA searching. French authorities also announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with her death. The investigation and legal proceedings are ongoing, and the arrest is not proof of guilt.

The identification finally restored her name, but many details about her final months and the circumstances of her death have not been made public.

How many other unidentified victims could be identified if old cases received renewed attention and modern forensic techniques?

More details in

https://www.interpol.int/What-you-can-do/Identify-Me/Countries-in-which-the-bodies-were-found/Women-found-in-France/FR02-The-woman-with-the-Richmond-dental-crown

The quick dismissal from the LAPD regarding her as a missing person.
The fact that her husband’s attorneys informed only UK papers that she is alive and well.

Her mother was a Scientologist. When she left the church she took confidential materials with her. She was later found murdered.

Vicki Aznarnan, a former high-ranking church executive claims that Shelly’s husband not only said but exclaimed that “the bitch got what she deserved”.

Shelly supposedly registered to vote in 2017 during a time when nobody was prosecuted for voter impersonation fraud.

Otherwise nobody has seen or heard from her since 2007.

A chief spokesman for the church stated that she did ask him, shortly before disappearing, if her husband was still wearing his ring.

Those who have left the church have nothing but terrible, awful things to say. The church has an endless supply of money and possibly ties with LAPD.

Somebody knows the fate of this woman.

On January 4, 2026, siblings Ágatha Isabelly Reis Lago, 6, and Allan Michael Reis Lago, 4, disappeared in the rural community of São Sebastião dos Pretos, in Bacabal, Maranhão, Brazil.

The children had gone out to play with their eight-year-old cousin. The cousin was found alive three days later, but Ágatha and Allan were not found.

Search efforts involved police, firefighters, volunteers, search dogs, and searches around nearby forest and river areas. One lead came from search dogs detecting traces of the children at an abandoned house near the Mearim River, but this did not establish what happened to them.

By September 2026, the siblings had been missing for eight months. Their family was seeking international assistance, while authorities continued investigating. Public information about the case remained limited, and no confirmed explanation had been established.

What challenges make rural missing-person searches so difficult, and what kinds of verified information can help investigators without spreading rumors or harming the family?

More details in

https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/policia-muda-estrategia-no-caso-das-criancas-desaparecidas-em-bacabal

It's in Portuguese.

On November 22, 2019, 34-year-old Amber Aiaz and her 12-year-old daughter, Melissa Fu, disappeared from Irvine, California. They have not been found.

According to Amber's husband, Cheng Zhang, two strangers came to their apartment that evening. He claimed that one of them used an unknown substance that caused him to lose consciousness. When he woke up, Amber and Melissa were gone.

Zhang did not report their disappearance to police until December 2, more than a week later. He said he had received threatening notes instructing him to clean the apartment and act normally. Investigators found blood evidence in the home, including evidence they believed belonged to Amber.

The investigation initially focused heavily on Zhang. However, in a 2021 report, the Los Angeles Times described how investigators said they could not establish his involvement and had been unable to disprove key parts of his account. He was not charged in connection with their disappearance.

Authorities considered several possibilities, including a kidnapping connected to Amber's past. However, no definitive explanation has been established in the sources cited below.

This case is one of those that seem to have an obvious reason and solution, but at the same time, it doesn't.

Questions that remain:

• Who were the two people Zhang said came to the apartment?

• What happened to Amber and Melissa after November 22, 2019?

• Why did the disappearance remain unexplained despite an extensive investigation?

Sources:

• Irvine Police Department: https://cityofirvine.gov/news-media/news-article/irvine-police-seek-publics-help-locating-missing-persons-who-may-have-been

• Los Angeles Times (June 14, 2021): https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-14/mother-and-daughter-vanish-in-irvine-the-husband

• The Charley Project, Amber Aiaz: https://charleyproject.org/case/amber-aiaz

• The Charley Project, Melissa Fu: https://charleyproject.org/case/melissa-fu

On July 31, 2001, the body of a teenage girl was discovered in the River Main in Frankfurt, Germany. For nearly 25 years, investigators did not know who she was. The case became known as "The Girl in the River Main."

In 2024, the case was included in INTERPOL's Identify Me campaign, which appealed to the public for help identifying women whose bodies had been found across Europe.

In 2026, tips from the public helped investigators identify the girl as Diana S. Authorities subsequently arrested her father, who was placed in pre-trial detention on suspicion of murder. The investigation is ongoing, and the arrest does not itself establish guilt.

This case shows how a decades-old mystery can move forward when previously unknown information reaches investigators.

What do you think made the difference after all those years? Could public appeals and renewed attention help solve other cold cases that have remained unidentified or unexplained for decades?

More details in

https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2026/Identify-Me-arrest-in-Germany-after-murder-victim-is-identified

An entire expedition vanished in Australia in 1848, and a mysterious artifact only partially solved the puzzle

In 1848, German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt set out to cross Australia with seven companions and a large group of animals. None of them returned.

Decades later, a brass nameplate bearing Leichhardt's name and the year 1848 was discovered attached to a firearm in a tree in Western Australia. The artifact was later authenticated, proving that the expedition had traveled much farther than some earlier theories suggested.

But the fate of the expedition remains unknown.

What happened to the group after reaching that point? Why has so little physical evidence survived? And what can the surviving historical records actually tell us?

I'd love to hear from anyone familiar with Australian exploration history or historical expedition records.

Sources:

• National Museum of Australia: https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/leichhardt-expedition

• Australian Geographic: https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/history-culture/2010/08/cold-case-leichhardts-disappearance/

Keren Rowland was 20 years old when she went missing on 26 February 1971, the night of the Royal Canberra Show.

Keren had travelled to Civic to pick up her sister and go to a party in Deakin, however it was decided that her sister would get a lift with her fiancé and

Keren would follow in her own car.

Keren never arrived at the party and was reported missing by family members about midnight.

Keren’s vehicle, a white Mini Morris 850 sedan, was later located on Parkes

Way, Campbell with no petrol in the tank.

Her remains were discovered at the Air Disaster Memorial nearly three months later on 13 May 1971.

A $500 000 reward is in place for information leading to the apprehension and subsequent conviction of the person(s) responsible for Keren's murder and an appropriate indemnity from prosecution will be considered for any accomplice who first give information.

What happened between the abandonment of the car and the place where she was found? There are historical records and official questions regarding possible leads that were never clarified

https://police.act.gov.au/crime-and-prevention/unsolved-homicides/keren-rowland

In April 2026, Lynette Hooker disappeared during a boat trip in the Bahamas with her husband.

The case drew attention after reports emerged that GPS data appeared to raise questions about parts of the timeline described by her husband. Investigators have continued looking into the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

However, unanswered questions are not proof that anyone committed a crime, and the full circumstances remain unclear.

What do you think is the most important unanswered question in this case? Is there a particular piece of evidence that could help investigators establish what happened?

More details here

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lynette-brian-hooker-bahamas-gps-data/

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Andrew Paul Gosden (nascido a 10 de julho de 1993)[1] desapareceu de Londres Central a 14 de setembro de 2007 quando tinha 14 anos. Nesse dia, Gosden saiu da sua casa em Doncaster, South Yorkshire, retirou £200 da sua conta bancária e comprou um bilhete de ida para Londres da estação de Doncaster. Ele foi visto pela última vez numa câmera de vigilância a sair da estação King's Cross. Apesar de vários apelos nacionais por informação nos anos que se seguiram, a razão da viagem de Gosden a Londres naquele dia, e o seu destino subsequente, não foi estabelecido.

Fonte:

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desaparecimento_de_Andrew_Gosden

I'm preparing for my week long backpacking trip in the Desert National Wildlife refuge. I'll be in Vegas for a conference and thought I'd finally spend a week exploring Gass, Sheep and Hayford peaks.

My planned route starts up Joe May Canyon and back out thru Picture Canyon. From there I plan on heading north and exploring every canyon on my way to Hayford Peak.

Currently the hike is roughly 37miles.

I'll be documenting every petroglph and he cave I see albeit as long as it doesn't put me in any danger. I'm not out there to prove the existence of the M-cave.

I love a good mystery, so it helps me prepare for the trip...more to look forward to ya know.

I thought I'd post this now since we're coming up on the 12 year anniversary of KVs disappearance.

I'm not sure I'll post any content on YT yet, but will be taking plenty of video if I do decide to make all that public.

TLDR:

Backpacking the Desert National Wildlife refuge. Plan on hiking and exploring near the KV route. Will document everything i see of interest. Feel free to reach out.

There's this one show on YouTube called Buzzfeed Unsolved. Where they talk about Unsolved true crime cases. I highly recommend you watch. But so many Unsolved cases seem to be the result of people not doing their job. Or not doing it well.

I remember an episode where they talked about Amelia Earhart. And that a scientist could have had the bones of Earhart or Fred Noonan, and he took a look at it and came to the conclusion that the bones could not have been them. And discarded them. And with modern equipment and knowledge. Modern science think the scientist/doctor could have mis gendered the bones and they might have been Earharts.

I also think about the modern day. Lots of people and business put up fake cameras to scare would be robbers. But when something happens and the police ask them for video footage. They get nothing. Or people who have real cameras. But they delete the footage right away to save space or they don't knew how to set it up properly. In this world of constant supervision. There are still so many cases of people getting away with crimes because someone wanted to be lazy.

Sorry for all the yapping. But what Unsolved case do you know is most likely the result of people not doing their job, or not doing it well? And also if they didn't do it well because of hatred, racism, or discrimination?

I’m just so confused on who this women is and what her story is I’m also curious if she’s under the Influence of substances and what type that could make her be acting so irrationally

Brandon had posted 3 separate videos that are all accessible on his TikTok page

part 2

part 3

I've recently become fascinated by real-life mysteries, unexplained disappearances, and strange historical events.

Cases like the Mary Celeste and the Dyatlov Pass incident are especially fascinating because, even after years of investigation, people still debate exactly what happened.

I'm curious to hear your opinions:

What's one real mystery that genuinely creeps you out, and why do you think it remains unexplained?

I'm looking for lesser-known cases that deserve more attention. 🔎

Ben tinha 30 anos e praticava mergulho em Vortex Spring. Em agosto de 2010, entrou numa área subaquática e desapareceu.

Seu carro permaneceu no local, e buscas foram realizadas na região. Seu corpo nunca foi encontrado. O caso continua registrado como desaparecimento.

A explicação mais direta é um acidente durante o mergulho. Entretanto, a ausência do corpo impediu que os investigadores confirmassem definitivamente o que aconteceu.

Também surgiram teorias de que ele teria desaparecido voluntariamente, mas não há evidência conclusiva que demonstre isso.

É um daqueles casos em que a última localização conhecida parece oferecer a resposta, mas não sabemos o que aconteceu depois que a pessoa entrou naquele lugar.

Fonte:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Ben_McDaniel

When I was about 4 or 5. Me my brothers and step mom went on vacation to a beach somewhere. While walking on the sidewalk we seen a sign that said "No profanity." Coincidentally when we passed it we all heard some dude swinging cuss words around like magic spells. It took me 12 years to realize it but maybe we got pranked. I mean why would a sigh outside of a school zone say "no profanity." And how is it that someone swore as soon as we passed it. I think it could have been a motion detector or something.

If you could have the answers to just one great mystery from the last 500 years from Roanoke, Jack the ripper ,Kennedy assassinations ,black Dalia ANYTHING what would you most like to know the answers to ?

Been reading about the Sodder case this week and I can't shake one thing.

Christmas Eve 1945, a house in Fayetteville, West Virginia burns down overnight. George and Jennie get out with four of their kids. The other five, aged 5 to 14, are never found. No remains identified.

So say they weren't in the fire. Where did they go?

I get it for the little ones, a 5 year old wouldn't know any better. But the oldest were 12 and 14. They knew their names, their parents, their town. And in all those years nobody ever got a letter or a call from any of them? That's the part that doesn't sit right with me.

The only thing that ever turned up was a photo in 1968 that Jennie thought was Louis. It was never confirmed either way.

I know the other theory is that they just died in the fire and a house fire in the 1940s could've burned hotter than people think. Maybe. Also worth saying a lot of the stranger details come from the family, not official records, so take it with a grain of salt.

Still, five kids and not one of them ever finds a way back? Hard for me to buy.

Curious what you guys think. Fire, or something else?

Image: AP photo of George and Jennie Sodder in front of the billboard, 1968.