Brian Shaffer

Exploring the Cryptic UNSOLVED Mystery of Brian Shaffer [Documentary]

Brain Shaffer was seen on a security camera entering a bar on the night of
March 31, 2006, in Columbus, Ohio, never left the club on camera, and was
never seen again. Strangely, there was no easily accessible entrance/exit to
the bar other than that which the camera faced. If/how he got out and where
we went is a mystery.

Shaffer is seen on the camera talking to two women outside the bar around 2
am, reentering the bar, and never leaving again. The camera shows that
every single person who entered the bar that night also left, except for
Shaffer. Suspiciously, Brian’s friend William Florence- who was with Shaffer
the night of his disappearance- refused to take a police lie detector test about
that night. Most intriguingly, for months after Shaffer’s disappearance, his
girlfriend called his phone every night before going to bed. Every night it went
straight to voicemail… except for one night in September, when it rang three
times before hanging up.

6Daylenn “Moke” Pua

Disappeared While Hiking An Illegal Trail | The Unsolved Case of Daylenn Pua

Daylenn Pua, known as Moke, was a native of the Big Island, Hawaii, who
visited his grandmother in Oahu when he went missing. The young man had
decided, against his grandmother’s wishes, to hike Oahu’s famed ‘Stairway to
Heaven’ trail, which at the time was in a state of disrepair and illegal to hike.

Moke texted his family pictures of the trail as he hiked, showing off the
beautiful views and lush flora. When Moke was declared missing, the pictures
were pored over by his family. Hidden in the background of the very last photo
Moke sent before his disappearance, they noticed something interesting. An
adult man can be seen, just off the trail, partially crouched behind some
vegetation. Naturally, his presence in Moke’s last ever photo raised
suspicions, but no answer to Moke’s whereabouts or how we went missing
have ever been found.
5The Sodder Children
The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Sodder Children

On Christmas Eve of 1945, the home of the Sodder family- George, Jennie,
and nine of their ten children- burned down to ash and timbers. George and
Jennie escaped with four of their children and assumed the remaining five had
died in the blaze. However, when firefighters finally arrived and searched the
house’s remnants, they found no trace of the five missing children- no bones,
teeth, or any remnant.

There were many curious findings about the Sodder home. Their phone line,
thought burned in the fire, was determined to have been cut first. Both of their
trucks failed to start in the following days. Officials suspected that someone
had tampered with it. A ladder from the home had gone missing and was later
found at the bottom of a nearby embankment. And experts believe that the fire
was not nearly hot enough to completely incinerate bone. All of this suggests
premeditation and possibly kidnapping. The Sodder’s surviving children have
always maintained that the five missing kids were indeed kidnapped and are
still out there.

4Brandon Lawson
The Mysterious Disappearance of Brandon Lawson

On the night of August 8, 2013, Brandon Lawson argued with his girlfriend
Ladessa, left their home in San Angelo, Texas, and phoned his father that he
was coming to visit him in Crowley, Texas, a few hours away. Lawson never
arrived and was never seen again.

He was heard from, though. In the middle of his trip, Lawson phoned his
brother Kyle to say that three people were “chasing me out of town” and that
he had run out of gas. More calls followed. One was to 911, in which Lawson
said in part that he was “in the middle of a field” and “there’s one car here.
The guy’s chasing (inaudible) to the woods. Please hurry!” Some claim
gunshots can be heard in the audio background. Chillingly, both Kyle and a
sheriff’s deputy arrived at the scene of Lawson’s abandoned truck and
received a call from Lawson saying, “I can see you; I’m right here” though
neither man could see Lawson and he would never be seen or heard from
again.

3Jennifer Kesse
UNSOLVED: Orlando’s Jennifer Kesse cold-case disappearance

Jennifer Kesse vanished on January 24, 2006. Her home was undisturbed,
and her clothing and toiletries suggested that she had gotten ready for work
that morning as usual and left uneventfully. Her car was not in her driveway
but was found at an apartment complex a mile away. Luckily, security
cameras at the complex caught video of the man who dropped her car off
there, presumably involved in her disappearance.

But unluckily for detectives, the video did not show the man’s face. This was
because the security camera worked by snapping photos every three
seconds. The man shown is walking behind the complex’s fence, and every
shot of his face just happens to be behind a different fencepost. Chances of
him just happening to have the perfect pace to accidentally hide his face
behind a series of posts in exact three-second intervals is low. One reporter
called him “the luckiest person of interest ever.” Kesse has never been found.

2Croatoan Island
The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony

The lost colony of Roanoke is one of America’s oldest mysteries and involved
the disappearance of an entire colony of 115 people. In its first year, the
colony struggled with starvation, causing settlement leader John White to sail
back to England to retrieve supplies. When he arrived back at Roanoke three
years later, he found the colony deserted.

A cryptic piece of evidence at the scene was the word “Croatoan” carved into
a tree. White took this note to mean that the colony had relocated to nearby
Croatoan Island, though nobody ever found settlers there. Numerous
expeditions searched for the settlers over the following decades, all to varying
degrees of failure. Numerous theories have been proposed involving
massacres by natives, relocation to an unknown location, and (probably most
commonly) intermingling with native settlements. In the early 1700s, English
explorer John Lawson visited Croatoan Island (now known as Hatteras Island)
and reported that the natives there claimed to have white ancestors, a claim
supported by the fact that several of the natives had grey eyes- a uniquely
European feature.

1Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

Probably the most famous disappearance of this century is that of Malaysia

Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared somewhere between Kuala Lumpur
and Beijing, China. On board the flight were 227 passengers and 12 crew
members. Although search teams found some debris in the Indian Ocean, no
one has ever found the bulk of the large aircraft, including all 239 people on
board.

Conflicting initial reports and a lack of concrete evidence have led to a ton of
theories as to what happened to the plane. These include hijacking, crew
suicide, being shot down by world governments who then covered it up, and
even a meteor strike. And of course, the usual UFO abduction theory persists.
At one point, it was even suggested that a mini black hole had swallowed the
plane.
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