Random Creepiest Unexplained Stories In America (19 items)

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  (#2) The Cleveland Torso Murders

  In 1934, Cleveland (and the surrounding Ohio area) was besieged with a series of vicious murders identified only by the body parts left behind in their wake: torsos. Beginning with the torso of a woman that washed up on the shore of Lake Erie, a four-year wave of fear and body parts spread over the city, centralized in Kingsbury Run, a poor neighborhood where families with nowhere to live set up shantytowns.

  After the Lady of the Lake was discovered, two castrated men were found, followed by the remains of a woman tucked inside two baskets, and the body of a tattooed man who had been drained of all his blood. In 1938, the police burned Kingsbury Run to the ground in order to flush out the killer, and although they arrested a bricklayer named Frank Dolezal (who was later found hanging in a jail cell), he was exonerated in 2010 by new evidence released by Cuyahoga Community College. The murders stopped after the violent police raid, but the killer was never caught.
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  (#6) The Axeman Of New Orleans

  From 1918-1919, everyone in New Orleans was gripped in fear that they would be the next victim of The Axeman. In a little over a year, the mysterious Axeman killed at least six people and injured six more.

  Many sleuths have tried to nail down the identity of The Axeman, with the most prevailing theory being that the murders were mob-related due to each victim being Italian. But a letter from The Axeman written in 1919 states otherwise. It reads:

  They have never caught me and they never will. They have never seen me, for I am invisible, even as the ether that surrounds your earth. I am not a human being, but a spirit and a demon from the hottest hell. I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police call the Axeman.  Now, to be exact, at 12:15 (earthly time) on next Tuesday night, I am going to pass over New Orleans. In my infinite mercy, I am going to make a little proposition to you people. Here it is:

  I am very fond of jazz music, and I swear by all the devils in the nether regions that every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in full swing at the time I have just mentioned. If everyone has a jazz band going, well, then, so much the better for you people. One thing is certain and that is that some of your people who do not jazz it on Tuesday night (if there be any) will get the axe.
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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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  (#7) The Doodler

  From 1974 to 1975, a serial killer dubbed "The Doodler" (for his penchant for sketching his victims prior to their murder) stalked the gay nightclubs of San Francisco. Police are still unsure of his total victim count, but believe it could be as high as 14. Despite closing in on a suspect, the few survivors of The Doodler's attacks refused to testify for fear of outing themselves as being gay.

  Little is known about the perpetrator of the Doodler murders, likely because of the stigma placed on homosexuality in the early '70s and because most of the people who survived that horrific time in San Francisco would just like to forget that the murders ever happened. 
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  (#8) The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders

  Over the course of seven violent years, one unknown killer murdered at least seven women and dumped their naked bodies in a creek bed.

  The murders began when Maureen Sterling and Yvonne Weber, two twelve-year-old middle school students, went missing after visiting the Redwood Empire Ice Arena in February 1972. Their skeletal remains were discovered ten months later off a remote road north of Santa Rosa. There are theories that Ted Bundy may have been responsible for the killings, but the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker murders have also been tied to the Zodiac Killer and The Hillside Stranglers. 
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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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