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number 15. “please recycle”: on september 22nd, 2012,canadian student garrett elsey sent a text message to his parents letting them know hehad made it to the united kingdom without a problem. by the next day, the 22-year-old was foundcrushed to death in the back of a garbage truck. investigators pieced together the events ofthe night before and learned that garrett had gone out drinking with an old friend. at some point during a night of drunken barhopping, garrett was kicked out by bouncers

while his friend was using the restroom. this was the last time anyone saw garrettagain. according to police officials, garrett mostlikely wandered around the streets for a while in a drunken haze. he then came across a large metal bin andclimbed inside to avoid the harsh cold of the autumn night. when he woke up two hours later, he was beingslowly crushed to death. all of the injuries suggest that garrett wasstill alive as the walls of the trash compactor slowly closed in on him.

a neighbor with his window open heard thescreams, but he was used to hearing rowdy students so he did nothing about it. still, nobody can say for sure exactly whathappened to garrett after he was thrown out of the bar that night. could garrett have angered someone at thebar enough to follow him, knock him out and toss him in one of the disposal bins? garrett was not robbed. his passport was on still him and his walletcontained all of his money, so if anybody did hurt him, it had to have been out of anger.

the workers at the recycling plant have caughtthree other people sleeping in their containers before, and they say nobody has ever chosenthe large steel bin that garrett was found in. instead, they always preferred to sleep inthe plastic ones because they were softer. this isn’t enough to prove police wrong,but it certainly does raise some suspicions. number 14. “don’t open the trunk”: in 1986, a mannamed newell sessions was living in thermopolis , wyoming when he decided to finally openan old trunk that was laying around in his shed.

his friend had left the trunk with him a fullsix years ago and he had since grown tired of waiting for him to come back for it. when newell pried open the lock, a full skeletongrinned back at him. newell immediately called his friend to askwhere he got the thing from, but his friend couldn’t remember. a garage sale was his best guess. the police disagreed and found this storyincredibly suspicious. who would buy a large and heavy trunk at agarage sale and not open it for years? when they x-rayed the skeleton, they founda bullet in its head.

the angle of the bullet suggested the personhad been murdered as opposed to committing suicide. all signs pointed towards newell’s friendas the murderer. later, when they found out the bullet wasfired from a gun made in 1908 – well before the murder suspect was even born – thenthey knew it was not him. his name has since been withheld by policeto protect his innocence. still, no matter how hard authorities pressedhim, newell’s friend could not recall exactly when or where he bought the trunk. he said he could have bought it in one ofas many as three different states, and maybe

as early as 1973. police think that he knows more than he isletting on, but even though he probably knows who originally killed the man, they can’tpin anything on him. the case remains unresolved to this day. number 13. “dead and rotting”: in 2006, london housingofficials conducted a sweep on a shady apartment building where almost all of the tenants owedrent money. the building was also a haven for drug useand all sorts of other types of local crime. just the other week, for example, someonewas found dead in the elevator still holding

onto a bag of alcohol. they housing officials came across one apartmentin particular that the residents said had been abandoned for years. when they took the door off the hinges andstepped inside for a look, they were surprised to find a skeleton rotting on the couch. all of the food and medication in the apartmenthad expired in 2003, meaning the person had been dead for around three years. some stuff didn’t make sense though, likehow their television and electricity were still running, why they hadn’t been evictedfor not paying rent in years, and why they

were surrounded by unwrapped christmas presents. the corpse was eventually identified by dentalrecords as joyce carol vincent, a loner who drifted in and out of people’s lives foryears at a time. as such, nobody noticed when she went missingand nobody reported her. since the government paid for half of herhousing, it looked like she was still making partial rent payments, and her electricitystayed on due to automatic payments and a debt forgiveness system aimed at helping thepoor. neighbors thought the constant rotting smellwas coming from two nearby dumpsters outside, and nobody investigated any further untilthey noticed that she owed thousands in back

rent. joyce’s exact cause of death is unresolved. her remains were too decomposed to tell forsure. theories range from asthma to a stomach ulcer,but other people are convinced of murder. she was 38 when she died, and 41 when shewas discovered. number 12. “6 feet ‘down under’”: there was anaustralian physicist named dr. gilbert bogle who worked for the government doing researchon lasers. on new year’s eve of 1962, gilbert and hiswife, margaret, snuck out on a nearby riverbank

together to have a little late-night fun. it was the last time they would ever be ableto enjoy each other’s company again. the next day, both of them were found halfnaked and dead, covered in vomit and feces. at first it looked like they may have sufferedfrom a poisoning, but an autopsy revealed no signs of foul play. in fact, they couldn’t determine a causeof death at all. the scene made absolutely no sense at allto investigators. the best they could come up with is an invisiblegas bubble came out of the polluted river and choked them to death.

still, this riverbank was a popular make-outspot. why would these two be the only people todie? since he was a researcher, many people thinkthat the doctor was murdered due to his government connections. the laser that he was working on was reportedlylater used to guide smart bombs in vietnam. both of their deaths remain completely unsolved. number 11. “don’t shoot the messenger”: in 1999,a woman driving along a stretch of missouri [“miz-zor-ree” (say “zor” like thefirst syllable of “zorro”) highway spotted

a dead body frying under the hot june sun. using fingerprints, police found out the rottenbody belonged to ricky mccormick , a 41-year-old man who lived about 15 miles from where hewas found. finding a body by the side of the road usuallymeans foul play, and ricky’s case seemed no different. for one, this forgotten mile had long beena popular spot to dispose of murder victims in the past. two, his throat appeared to be slashed. what separates this from most murders, however,was what they found in his pocket.

ricky died with couple sheets of paper ofhim. these mysterious papers had over 30 linesof letters and numbers arranged in some sort of code. for whatever reason, ricky’s handwrittendocuments have sparked the interest of the fbi ever since. yet try as they may, even their best men havebeen unable to crack the code. investigators didn’t have to look hard tofind a motive. there were plenty of reasons for the localpopulation to want to kill ricky. the man had been convicted for raping a minor,but he had only served less than a year in

prison. still, why would the fbi continue to careabout the letters for so many years after his death? what important information could ricky andhis message be hiding, if anything at all? the fbi has since asked public’s help withcracking the code. if you think you can solve it, you can visitthis address and fill out a form with your best guess: https://forms.fbi.gov/code. number 10. “another encrypted demise”: ricky mccormickwas not the only man to die with a mysterious

message on him. in december of 1948, a dead body washed ashoreon the south australian beach of somerton , and his bizarre message has made him famousever since. the unknown man was first seen by a jewelernamed john bain lyons and his wife as they were going for a romantic walk. they noticed him laying against the sea wall,hardly moving. he was dressed nicely and seemed to be ofno harm, so they decided not disturb him. it was not until the next day when john returnedand saw the body still there that he knew something was wrong.

investigators found no identification on thebody and fingerprints turned up nothing. stranger still, the man’s clothing tagshad been carefully cut away. it was as if someone really didn’t wanthis identity to be discovered. they eventually tracked down his suitcaseby searching every nearby hotel and laundromat, but it had no stickers on it and the labelhad been torn off. the only way they were able to determine thatit had belonged to him in the first place was by matching a spool of orange thread foundin the suitcase with an identical piece of orange thread that he had used to sew hispants. the clothing inside of the suitcase had somelabels on it – somebody with the first initial

of “t” and a last name of “keane”. police would later determine that there was nobody by this name. the fake labels had been deliberately putthere to throw them off track. then they found a hidden pocket in the trousersthat the man was wearing. inside this pocket was a scrap of paper tornfrom an extremely rare collection of persian poems. somebody had ripped two foreign words fromthe pages which roughly translated into a phrase meaning, “it is ended”. sometime later, a person comes forward witha copy of the extremely rare persian book.

missing from the book are the exact same twowords that were found in the man’s pocket. on the reverse side of the page is a codedmessage. the case has taken a number of different twistssince then, but ultimately nobody has been able to figure out the code means, who theman was or even how exactly he died. number 9. “the house visit”: in december of 1966,don gosnell was a meterman living in coudersport, pennsylvania. he let himself into the basement of an elderlyman named john irving bentley to read his electric meter like usual.

number 15. “please recycle”: on september22nd, 2012, canadian student garrett elsey sent a text message to his parents lettingthem know he had made it to the united kingdom without a problem. by the next day, the 22-year-oldwas found crushed to death in the back of a garbage truck. had gone out drinking with an old friend.at some point during a night of drunken bar hopping, garrett was kicked out by bouncerswhile his friend was using the restroom. this was the last time anyone saw garrett again. in a drunken haze. he then came across a largemetal bin and climbed inside to avoid the harsh cold of the autumn night. when he wokeup two hours later, he was being slowly crushed

to death. slowly closed in on him. a neighbor with hiswindow open heard the screams, but he was used to hearing rowdy students so he did nothingabout it. of the bar that night. could garrett haveangered someone at the bar enough to follow him, knock him out and toss him in one ofthe disposal bins? garrett was not robbed. his passport was onstill him and his wallet contained all of his money, so if anybody did hurt him, ithad to have been out of anger. the workers at the recycling plant have caught three otherpeople sleeping in their containers before, and they say nobody has ever chosen the largesteel bin that garrett was found in. instead,

they always preferred to sleep in the plasticones because they were softer. this isn’t enough to prove police wrong, but it certainlydoes raise some suspicions. number 14. “don’t open the trunk”: in1986, a man named newell sessions was living in thermopolis , wyoming when he decided tofinally open an old trunk that was laying around in his shed. his friend had left thetrunk with him a full six years ago and he had since grown tired of waiting for him tocome back for it. when newell pried open the lock, a full skeleton grinned back at him. couldn’t remember. a garage sale was hisbest guess. the police disagreed and found this story incredibly suspicious. who wouldbuy a large and heavy trunk at a garage sale

and not open it for years? when they x-rayed the skeleton, they founda bullet in its head. the angle of the bullet suggested the person had been murdered asopposed to committing suicide. all signs pointed towards newell’s friend as the murderer. the murder suspect was even born – thenthey knew it was not him. his name has since been withheld by police to protect his innocence. when or where he bought the trunk. he saidhe could have bought it in one of as many as three different states, and maybe as earlyas 1973. police think that he knows more than he is letting on, but even though he probablyknows who originally killed the man, they

can’t pin anything on him. the case remainsunresolved to this day. number 13. “dead and rotting”: in 2006,london housing officials conducted a sweep on a shady apartment building where almostall of the tenants owed rent money. the building was also a haven for drug use and all sortsof other types of local crime. just the other week, for example, someone was found deadin the elevator still holding onto a bag of alcohol. been abandoned for years. when they took thedoor off the hinges and stepped inside for a look, they were surprised to find a skeletonrotting on the couch. been dead for around three years. some stuffdidn’t make sense though, like how their

television and electricity were still running,why they hadn’t been evicted for not paying rent in years, and why they were surroundedby unwrapped christmas presents. drifted in and out of people’s lives foryears at a time. as such, nobody noticed when she went missing and nobody reported her.since the government paid for half of her housing, it looked like she was still makingpartial rent payments, and her electricity stayed on due to automatic payments and adebt forgiveness system aimed at helping the poor. neighbors thought the constant rottingsmell was coming from two nearby dumpsters outside, and nobody investigated any furtheruntil they noticed that she owed thousands in back rent.

joyce’s exact cause of death is unresolved.her remains were too decomposed to tell for sure. theories range from asthma to a stomachulcer, but other people are convinced of murder. number 12. “6 feet ‘down under’”:there was an australian physicist named dr. gilbert bogle who worked for the governmentdoing research on lasers. on new year’s eve of 1962, gilbert and his wife, margaret,snuck out on a nearby riverbank together to have a little late-night fun. it was the lasttime they would ever be able to enjoy each other’s company again. no signs of foul play. in fact, they couldn’tdetermine a cause of death at all. the scene made absolutely no sense at allto investigators. the best they could come

up with is an invisible gas bubble came outof the polluted river and choked them to death. still, this riverbank was a popular make-outspot. why would these two be the only people to die? connections. the laser that he was workingon was reportedly later used to guide smart bombs in vietnam. both of their deaths remaincompletely unsolved. number 11. “don’t shoot the messenger”:in 1999, a woman driving along a stretch of missouri [“miz-zor-ree” (say “zor”like the first syllable of “zorro”) highway spotted a dead body frying under the hot junesun. using fingerprints, police found out the rotten body belonged to ricky mccormick, a 41-year-old man who lived about 15 miles

from where he was found. no different. for one, this forgotten milehad long been a popular spot to dispose of murder victims in the past. two, his throatappeared to be slashed. what separates this from most murders, however, was what theyfound in his pocket. ricky died with couple sheets of paper ofhim. these mysterious papers had over 30 lines of letters and numbers arranged in some sortof code. for whatever reason, ricky’s handwritten documents have sparked the interest of thefbi ever since. yet try as they may, even their best men have been unable to crack thecode. investigators didn’t have to look hard tofind a motive. there were plenty of reasons

for the local population to want to kill ricky.the man had been convicted for raping a minor, but he had only served less than a year inprison. still, why would the fbi continue to care about the letters for so many yearsafter his death? what important information could ricky and his message be hiding, ifanything at all? the fbi has since asked public’s help withcracking the code. if you think you can solve it, you can visit this address and fill outa form with your best guess: https://forms.fbi.gov/code. number 10. “another encrypted demise”:ricky mccormick was not the only man to die with a mysterious message on him. in decemberof 1948, a dead body washed ashore on the south australian beach of somerton , and hisbizarre message has made him famous ever since.

were going for a romantic walk. they noticedhim laying against the sea wall, hardly moving. investigators found no identification on thebody and fingerprints turned up nothing. stranger still, the man’s clothing tags had beencarefully cut away. it was as if someone really didn’t want his identity to be discovered. but it had no stickers on it and the labelhad been torn off. the only way they were able to determine that it had belonged tohim in the first place was by matching a spool of orange thread found in the suitcase withan identical piece of orange thread that he had used to sew his pants. was nobody by this name. the fake labels hadbeen deliberately put there to throw them

off track. then they found a hidden pocket in the trousersthat the man was wearing. inside this pocket was a scrap of paper torn from an extremelyrare collection of persian poems. somebody had ripped two foreign words from the pageswhich roughly translated into a phrase meaning, “it is ended”. on the reverse side of the page is a codedmessage. the case has taken a number of different twists since then, but ultimately nobody hasbeen able to figure out the code means, who the man was or even how exactly he died. number 9. “the house visit”: in decemberof 1966, don gosnell was a meterman living

in coudersport, pennsylvania. he let himselfinto the basement of an elderly man named john irving bentley to read his electric meterlike usual. j. r. bentley had been a family doctor for25 years, but now he was a 92-year-old man who lived entirely on his own. he didn’tleave the house much ever since a hip replacement left him with problems moving around. as soonas don let walked into the basement, he knew something was not right. there a giant holein the ceiling and the edges were still glowing red with heat. smoke was everywhere. somethinghad blown up recently. the air smelled strangely sweet. as bentley went through the house to investigate,he came across the good doctor’s remains

in the bathroom. all that was left was a burnedlower leg next to 2-by-4-foot hole in the floor. the doctor’s foot was still insideof his slipper, his burnt bathrobe was still partially there, and his walker had fallenagainst the tub. the rest of him was completely missing. when the fire marshal investigated, he didn’tknow what to think. he knew that it would take 2,500 degrees of heat and several hoursto disintegrate a body like that. so why then was the bathtub hardly burned, why were therubber tips of the walker not melted, and why was the rest of the house completely fine?nobody knows. many people believe this was a case of spontaneous combustion , which iswhere a person literally blows up for no reason

at all. number 8. “the unluckiest irishman”: dr.john irving bentley may be an early case of spontaneous combustion, but he is far fromthe last. in 2010, michael faherty made irish history by similarly blowing the heck up forno reason at all. michael was 76 years old when he was founddead at his house. according to investigators, he was lying on his back with his head nextto an open fireplace. the fireplace was roaring with a fire that was determined to have somehowstarted from michael’s body. his corpse was completely burnt and the ceiling and floorwere burnt as well, which meant that at one point there was a huge flash of heat. everythingelse in the home was fine.

the official cause of death was spontaneouscombustion, the first verified case in the country’s long history. a lot of peoplehave trouble believing this verdict, but they can offer no other explanation as to why michael’swould be completely burned, yet the surrounding areas of his house still relatively intact. even though michael’s death has an official-soundingname, the actual mechanisms behind spontaneous combustion are so little understood that atthis point it’s little more than a working theory for now. a true case of instance ofspontaneous combustion has never been witnessed or recorded in real time. until then, allscientists have to work with is the grisly aftermath.

number 7. “bewitched”: in 1991, a womanliving in fayetteville , north carolina got a disturbing phone call from her old friendin washington, a man named christopher case. christopher was 35 years old and had recentlymoved to seattle, but it didn’t sound like the move was going very well at all. in fact,he sounded to be on the verge of panic. chris explained how, of all the things thatcould have gone wrong, a witch had actually managed to put a curse on him. the witch hadfallen in love with chris at first, but he had refused her advances, so she put a curseon him instead. when chris hung up the phone, his friend feltworried for him, so she called seattle police and told them to check on his residence. whenthey got there, what they found was beyond

strange. chris had crammed his house with candles andcrucifixes everywhere. he had also poured salt all around the perimeter of his apartmentwalls. he was found dead with all of his clothes on in a bathtub that had no water in it. theofficial ruling of his death was heart failure, but nobody could tell exactly why. the supposedwitch who cursed him has never been found. number 6. “nevermore”: edgar allen poedied as mysteriously as any character did in his poems or short stories. he himselfwas found in the gutters of 1849 baltimore, maryland by a journalist named joseph walker.poe told him to write to a magazine editor friend named joseph snodgrass because he hadmedical training and could help.

while they waited for a response, poe rantedand raved for days as his health got worse. he was hallucinating and kept calling outfor somebody named “reynolds”. four days later, he was dead. medical examiners saidthe cause was brain swelling, and theories of his death range from alcohol abuse to abeating – even rabies. nobody but poe will ever know what truly happened. number 5. “hoffa nice day”: when somethingis lost forever, an older person might say that they “put it next to the body of jimmyhoffa”. but who exactly is this person, and why is their disappearance famous enoughto get its very own euphemism? jimmy hoffa was in charge of the internationalbrotherhood of teamsters, which was the largest

workers’ union in the united states. in1975, federal authorities learned that millions of dollars had gone missing from the teamsters’pension. two weeks later, hoffa went missing with it. jimmy hoffa had a lot of enemies during hislifetime, including the entire kennedy family. they had been going at it since the 1960s,ever since robert kennedy held monthly committee meetings to grill hoffa on his union activities.when his brother, jfk, was assassinated, jimmy hoffa stood on a chair and clapped. eventually, the many lawsuits against hoffagot the best of him. he was found guilty by way of jury tampering and pension fraud. hewas eventually pardoned by richard nixon in

1971 for helping him win the election earlier.nixon told him that he could not participate in any more union business, but hoffa decidedto assume his former position as head of the union anyway. he went to the parking lot ofa restaurant one day to hold a meeting and never returned. to this day, absolutely nobodyknows what happened to him. number 4. “the secret base of death”:at first glance, the small town of fernald , ohio looks safe and unassuming, especiallyback in the early 1980s. most of the town at that time worked at the feed materialsproduction center, a nearby dog food processing plant that they thought was owned by the purinachow company. little did they know, however, that the plant was involved in something muchmore dangerous than just making dog food.

dave bocks was one of the pipefitters whoinspected and repaired various mechanical systems throughout the factory. he was a vitalasset to the plant, so they let him in on a big secret – a secret so big, it mostlikely cost him his life. one morning, a technician noticed that hisfurnace was acting strange and had a foul odor. the plant workers didn’t think muchof it until dave bocks failed to show up for an important meeting later. this was totallyunlike him, so when they checked their logs, they were surprised to find that the plant’score temperature took a dip at around 5 in the morning, something that happens only whensomething large falls into the furnace – like a body. when they searched the furnace, theyfound a set of keys belonging to dave bocks.

it looked like a simple accident to everyone,but this didn’t sit right with a worker named harry easterling. he had watched asdave put his keys on top of his workbox at the beginning of his shift. the keys remainedthere until at least 7 in the morning when harry came back for his next shift the dayafter. so if dave fell in the furnace at 5 in the morning, and the keys were found withhis remains, then how did harry see the same keys on top of the workbox a full two hourslater? unless someone had thrown dave into the furnace at 5am and then chucked his keysin there a couple hours later. but why would someone want to kill dave? well,it turns out that this no dog food processing plant, and dave knew about it. they did happento make some dog food, but that was just a

cover-up for their real purpose. this wasactually a nuclear weapons plant owned not by purina, but rather by the government, andit had been leaking high levels of radiation into the environment ever since the 1950s.dave’s mysterious death occurred only weeks before the scandal became public. many people think that he was murdered beforehe could blow the whistle, but the official ruling is still an accident. weirder stillis that he died in a different area of the plant then he normally works at. what he wasdoing there and how he fell in is unresolved. number 3. “india’s deadliest canal”:there’s a place in india where bodies have been constantly washing up for the past fiveyears. the bhakra canal in india has a steady

supply of dead bodies that get stranded onland and eaten by stray dogs. nobody knows why all of these bodies are showing up, butmany guess that they are farmers who have committed suicide. since the mid-1990s, it has been estimatedthat more than 250 million indian farmers have killed themselves. other explanationsfor the mass deaths could be family homicides and fatal accidents while using industrialfarming equipment. why they choose the bhakra canal as a dumping ground is anyone’s guess.although government officials have pledged to identify as bodies as best as they canand give them a proper burial, nobody will truly know why the bodies are there to beginwith.

number 2. “the jack-and-dive”: in 1971,a man boarded a plane heading for seattle, washington at the portland international airport.once the plane was in the air, he gave the flight crew a note saying that he had a bombin his briefcase, and that he wanted 200 thousand dollars along with some parachutes. his ticketidentified himself as dan cooper, though this name is obviously a fake. somehow, his plan seemed to be working. theplane landed seattle and dan traded most of the hostages with the fbi for the parachutesand the cash. he ordered the plane to take off again, and then he actually used one ofthe parachutes to skydive out of the plane with all of the money.

the fbi decided that he most likely died somewhereover the woods of the state of washington and have written this case off ever since.at one point, they were even sure that they had found his skull. however, nine years later,in 1980, a little boy found $5,800 buried by the columbia river in washington. the serialnumbers of the bills are the same as the money that the fbi gave to the hijacker. apparentlysomebody had found the money and buried it. could it have been dan cooper? number 1. “sliced and crashed”: in 2003,a 54-year-old man named philip michael shue fatally ran his car off of a texas roadwayinto a tree. he had just bought a new home and drank coffee in bed with his wife thatmorning. two hours later, he was dead.

aside from the expected head trauma, examinersfound that his camo fatigues had been ripped wide open. there was a large gash in his abdomenthat was made with a sharp instrument, and his pinky finger along was removed along withboth nipples. none of these missing body parts were ever recovered from the scene. duct tapewas on both of his wrists and on his boots, too. over the course of three years leading upto his death, philip shue had been receiving letters that threatened his life. he alsodecided to update his will only five days before he died. still, the medical examinersdecided to rule this death as a suicide. they offer no explanation as to how philip couldhave gone from calmly drinking coffee with

his wife to mutilating himself and crashinginto a tree on the same day.