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00:00Unsolved Mysteries Lost Episode
00:02On July 9th, 2024, one Reddit user made an extremely unsettling post on the RBI or the
00:10Reddit Bureau of Investigation subreddit which read,
00:14Help finding a TV episode to possibly solve a murder.
00:18I've spent years and hours through Google trying to locate this and was advised you
00:22guys might be able to help.
00:24Trying to find what rerun episode of Unsolved Mysteries aired on a specific date slash location
00:29that I'm convinced had a story of my ex-husband murdering a couple.
00:34I was at a hotel in Bakersfield, California on August 17, 2000 and at 11pm they had a
00:40rerun of Unsolved Mysteries on the TV.
00:43I have no idea what station would have played it.
00:46I'm watching them talk about a situation where a smooth-talking stranger gets himself
00:50invited into their home, etc.
00:53I jokingly kept thinking to myself, yeah I know someone smooth like that.
00:57This person ended up murdering the couple.
00:59Fast forward to the end and they show a sketch.
01:02I literally sat up in the bed.
01:05It was my ex.
01:06Yes, he would have been capable of that and I believe he would have been driving through
01:10that area around that time, angry that I just left him.
01:13The user also mentioned that they had already contacted the show but hadn't received any
01:17answers from them.
01:19And despite years of looking online, they haven't found any clues.
01:24Now my first assumption when I came across this post was that it was nothing more than a
01:27hoax created by the user.
01:29After all, the idea of someone stumbling upon their ex-husband's involvement in a murder
01:34during a late night rerun of a TV show feels almost too cinematic.
01:38Maybe they had a flair for dramatics or maybe they were just a fan of lost media.
01:43So they crafted their own dark tale with a personal twist that would leave the readers
01:47yearning for an update that would never come.
01:49However, the more I looked into the case, the less plausible this theory seemed.
01:54For starters, I looked through their posts and comment history on reddit and didn't
01:58find a particular interest in lost media, horror, or anything of that nature.
02:03The account was also created back in 2018, so it wasn't created recently to fabricate
02:08this bizarre story.
02:09More importantly, the details given in the post seem a bit too specific to be something
02:13the original poster just made up.
02:16I went through old TV schedule guides from around that time, and sure enough, a rerun
02:21of Unsolved Mysteries did air on the live channel on the 17th of August 2000 at around 8pm.
02:27But if the reddit user is telling the truth, how did an entire episode of such a popular
02:32and well-documented TV show just vanish into thin air?
02:36Especially since the whole show is now available on YouTube, and yet there's no sign of an episode
02:41matching their description.
02:42The closest case I found was from a 1994 episode about the disappearance of Jonathan Francia.
02:49The investigators working on this case were able to create a sketch of the potential suspect,
02:53and it was a man with a long face and a cowboy hat.
02:56This did match the description the reddit user gave in a comment about the sketch they
03:00saw on TV.
03:01However, this is where the similarities ended between the two cases.
03:05To make matters even more puzzling, another person claimed to remember something similar
03:09in a comment reading,
03:10I have a vague recollection of this episode as well.
03:14I'm going to go through the episodes I've watched on Unsolved Mysteries on YouTube and
03:18see if I recognize it.
03:20Unfortunately, despite re-watching all of the available episodes, they didn't find anything
03:24about the mysterious case either.
03:27Though, it's entirely possible that Unsolved Mysteries changed parts of their episode after
03:31it's rerun in August of 2000.
03:33As redditor Rob Frey mentions in their comment,
03:36The reason why it might be so hard to find, and why you can't just watch old episodes
03:41to find it, is the segment may have been changed from what was originally aired.
03:45Unsolved Mysteries used to edit segments as new information came forward, especially after
03:49a case was officially solved.
03:52If they caught the guy who did it, they may have removed a lot of the information from
03:55the case that made you think it was your ex, especially information that was completely
03:59speculative or a red herring.
04:01As an example, I remember they had a really good segment about a murder in a family who
04:05owned a U-Haul, and it went into a lot of the family infighting and drama, and there
04:10was at least an implication that a family member was most likely to blame.
04:14When they caught the guy, and it turned out to be a random breaking and entering, they
04:18cut all of the family drama stuff out of the segment, and added an update that the case
04:22was solved.
04:23The only potential flaw in this theory is that if Unsolved Mysteries changed that episode
04:27because the case was quote-unquote solved, the reddit user would have likely learned about
04:32their ex getting arrested, but that didn't happen.
04:35From what I've seen, the most likely theory is that maybe they saw the sketch on some other
04:39crime show, and are simply misremembering it as a part of the Unsolved Mysteries
04:43episode after so many years.
04:45This would explain why no one was able to find a hint, despite scouring every episode
04:50of the show from its conception.
04:52However, if this turns out to be true, it would also make searching for what they saw
04:55on TV that night exponentially more difficult.
04:59Unfortunately, unless someone finds concrete evidence, we have no way of confirming or disproving
05:03any of these theories.
05:05That being said, if this lost media is ever uncovered by people on the internet, it could
05:10help authorities solve a decades-old crime and catch the suspect.
05:16Easily Available Explosive
05:18During the 2016 Silicon Valley Comic Con, one of the hosts of Mythbusters, Adam Savage,
05:25was doing a panel answering questions from fans of the show.
05:28Near the end of the panel, someone asked him about the biggest disaster he's experienced
05:32on Mythbusters.
05:33What is the biggest disaster that you've ever had behind the scenes filming Mythbusters?
05:40Now, this fan was likely expecting something tame, like a crew member spilling something,
05:44or one of the devices they built breaking before they could film the episode, something of
05:48that nature.
05:49However, no one could have anticipated the answer Adam gave for this simple question.
05:54The material they discovered was so explosive and dangerous that they had to report it to
06:21DARPA, which is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense.
06:26Adam also quickly moved on to the next question, likely in an effort to avoid giving any hints
06:31about what this dangerous material could be.
06:34Following that panel, he refused to utter a single word about the last episode or the
06:38material that made them destroy the footage.
06:40That silence was held until the 20th of November, 2023, when he uploaded a Q&A video on his YouTube
06:46channel titled, These Mythbusters Stories Got Scrapped Due to Danger.
06:51The first question in this video was someone asking about footage that was destroyed outside
06:55of Adam's control.
06:56At first, he gave a predictable answer, explaining how network decisions, like cutting scenes to
07:01make room for advertisements, had led to some lost content.
07:04By the way, before moving on to the next question, he brought up the commonly available explosive
07:08again.
07:09And while he was careful not to drop any hints about what the material could be, he did go
07:13into more detail about why they decided to erase the footage from existence.
07:17We were looking at the explosive, the purported explosive power of a commonly available material.
07:25And what we found was something so energetic when we executed it that we agreed to not talk
07:33about what we learned.
07:35Mm-hmm.
07:35Yeah.
07:36Yeah.
07:37It was common enough, easy enough to implement, easy enough to execute that we were like,
07:41the world will not benefit from this knowledge.
07:44This is the reason you never saw a silencer episode from Mythbusters.
07:48Is a potato a good silencer?
07:50A pillow?
07:50A two-liter bottle of soda?
07:52These are all really interesting questions.
07:55And silencers are fascinating technologically.
07:58But silenced rounds are not a benefit to humanity.
08:04This makes total sense, considering Mythbusters had tens of millions of viewers from around the
08:08world.
08:08The show built its reputation on demystifying myths and delivering facts, no matter how surprising
08:14or dangerous they might be.
08:16By withholding the episode, it may seem like they went against their own character.
08:20Some might even argue they had a responsibility to release the episode, both for the sake of
08:24scientific transparency and to educate the public about potential risks.
08:29Educating people about the potential dangers of a common material could have sparked important
08:33conversations about safety and regulation, potentially preventing accidents born out of ignorance.
08:37But here's the other side that's hard to ignore.
08:41Mythbusters wasn't just a science show, it was also entertainment.
08:45Publishing a step-by-step guide on how to weaponize an easily available material would
08:50have been, at best, irresponsible and, at worst, catastrophic.
08:54The world isn't short on people who might misuse such information, and the stakes were simply
08:59too high to ignore.
09:01So, the team's decision to shelve the episode was the responsible thing to do.
09:05That said, I did some digging online, and speculation about what this mysterious explosive
09:10could be is all over the place.
09:13Some claim that it's simply flour.
09:14For those who don't know, non-compacted flour is extremely flammable, and can easily create
09:20a sizable explosion upon combustion.
09:23Another chemical that came up in multiple theories was tannerite.
09:26It's a binary explosive that is commonly used for long-range weapons practice.
09:32It's helpful for marking targets since it detonates visibly on impact.
09:35More importantly, it's widely available online.
09:39Someone can easily buy tannerite online for relatively cheap without any permit or verification.
09:43However, here's the problem with both of these theories.
09:47Neither material creates an explosive dangerous enough to justify the drastic steps the Mythbusters
09:52team took.
09:54For instance, while a tannerite explosion is certainly impressive, it's not nearly dangerous
09:58enough to warrant such a drastic response from the Mythbusters team.
10:02While researching the topic, I came across a chemical known as triacetone triperoxide, which
10:07perfectly fits with what we know about the mystery chemical.
10:10For starters, both of the materials required to make triacetone triperoxide are found in
10:15most homes.
10:17Acetone, which is used as paint thinner and nail polish remover, and peroxide, which is
10:21commonly used as a bleaching agent for white laundry.
10:24More importantly, even tiny amounts of triacetone triperoxide can do unimaginable damage.
10:31Ultimately, unless someone somewhere has a secret copy of that episode and releases it on
10:36the internet, we'll never know for sure.
10:39And given how Adam described the danger of this material, it's just one of those rare
10:43cases where it's honestly better for the video to remain lost media.
10:50Jay Leno Blade Incident
10:51On April 14th, 2022, an anonymous user on 4chan's TV board mentioned a disturbing incident they
10:59remembered from an old episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
11:02They stated,
11:03One time Jay Leno had a magician on his show and he was doing some sort of cut the lady
11:08in half trick.
11:09He starts to cut and the lady starts yelling for him to stop like she was actually getting
11:14cut or about to get cut and they start helping her out.
11:17I have never seen or heard anything since and never been able to find the clip.
11:22The episode in question aired on the 21st of June 2001.
11:25And as the story goes, one of the guests on that episode was Arsenio Hall, who was going
11:30to perform a classic magic trick of cutting a person in half.
11:34However, while he was performing the trick, something went horribly wrong.
11:38He accidentally stabbed the woman who was volunteering for the trick.
11:42A notable thing about this episode was that Leno wanted to show solidarity with the California
11:46power outages.
11:48So, he hosted his show in a set that was only illuminated by scattered candles and handheld
11:53flashlights given to the audience.
11:54Maybe the lack of visibility caused Arsenio to make a mistake and harm the woman.
12:00Unfortunately, a vast majority of old Tonight Show episodes barely exist in archives and
12:05therefore are considered lost media.
12:07The June 21st episode is among those lost to time.
12:11So, there's no way for me to directly verify this incident.
12:14But I did find enough clues to piece together what might have happened and there are three
12:19distinct possibilities.
12:21First, is that such an incident never actually happened and the 4chanes are not going to be
12:24and poster was making it all up.
12:27However, this possibility doesn't hold up because I found old forum posts from 2001 where people
12:32were actively discussing the incident online after watching it.
12:35Like this person named Dan whose post gives more details about what exactly went down.
12:40Did anyone else watch the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Monday night?
12:43It was a repeat, the one where they turned out all the lights in the studio and had a blackout.
12:48Anyways, so Arsenio Hall was the guest and he was going to do a magic trick where he was
12:52going to cut a woman in half.
12:54So, the woman is lying in the box and he's trying to shove the blade through and all of
12:59the sudden the woman starts screaming and yelling, it cut me.
13:02And like immediately they cut to a commercial.
13:05I was like, what?
13:06It has to be a joke.
13:08So then when they came back from commercial, Jay seemed flustered and they didn't mention
13:12anything else about the trick for the rest of the night.
13:15Did anyone else see this?
13:16Does anyone know anything about what happened with this woman?
13:19It was so freaky.
13:21I also found someone on Reddit who also remembers the incident and mentioned it in the comments
13:25of a post discussing the incident, stating,
13:28Holy, I thought I dreamed that episode.
13:31I've been wondering what happened to that lady for 20 years.
13:34So, a woman did get stabbed on the Jay Leno show, or at least that's what it looked like
13:38to the audience.
13:39Which brings us to the second possibility.
13:42The woman did get hurt and the incident was later covered up by the network to avoid
13:45backlash from the public.
13:47However, as much as some people would like to believe this,
13:50this is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.
13:53Because, as it turns out, the Jay Leno show is not live.
13:56It's taped ahead of time.
13:58So, if they wanted to cover it up, they would have edited that whole thing out long before
14:02the episode ever saw the light of day.
14:04Even knowing this, some claim that the showrunners simply forgot to edit this section out and only
14:09realized their mistake when it was too late.
14:11Which is a bit of a stretch.
14:14Think of it this way, Jay Leno's show was getting upwards of 7 million viewers in 2001.
14:18So, even if the network tried to bury the whole thing later, why didn't any of these
14:23millions of viewers cause any backlash?
14:26From what I've seen, the most plausible theory is that the incident did happen, but
14:30it was all part of a skit.
14:31And the people who thought it was somehow real were simply not paying enough attention
14:35or just didn't realize the dry humor of the scene.
14:38This would explain why there was no uproar from the public.
14:40And as for the episode becoming lost media, that wasn't a deliberate cover-up, just a
14:45side effect of the pre-YouTube era when preserving TV episodes wasn't a priority.
14:50But who knows, if the speculation gains enough momentum, Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, or someone
14:56else from the show's production team might come forward with the truth.
14:59Until then, all we have are educated guesses to piece together the mystery.
15:03Sharon Davis' Unsolved Mysteries Episode
15:09Sharon Eugene Davis was a 51-year-old schoolteacher living in Dallas, Texas.
15:15She lived with her two children, Autumn and Ronnie, and her husband of 21 years, Ron Davis,
15:20who she married back in 1980.
15:23Unfortunately, her relationship with Ron wasn't ideal.
15:25Just five years after their marriage in 1985, Sharon filed for divorce while describing her
15:31husband as controlling and ill-tempered.
15:34She withdrew cash from their mutual account and was planning to move to LA with her two
15:38children.
15:39However, soon after filing for divorce, she mysteriously changed her mind and returned
15:43to living with Ron.
15:45Fast forward to June 11, 2001, Sharon once again found the courage to file for divorce.
15:50And this time, she was prepared to go through with the decision at any cost.
15:53She was planning to move out of her house in the 1900 block of Elderleaf Drive, all while
15:59her attorney was trying to obtain a temporary restraining order against Ron, her husband.
16:04However, just as everything seemed to be falling into place, tragedy struck.
16:08On June 13, 2001, at around 7 a.m., Sharon dropped her daughter at Rapid Transit Park and
16:14Ride Station, two miles from their home, and went on her way.
16:17She was scheduled to attend a training session at Stemmons Elementary, but she never arrived.
16:23Even after her children asked their father to report their mother missing on the evening
16:27of June 13, 2001, he refused to contact the authorities until a day later, starting a citywide
16:33search for Sharon.
16:35And after four days of searching, investigators finally found her car abandoned in a parking
16:39lot near the Southwest Mall in Oak Cliff.
16:42The car had a broken window and was also wiped clean of fingerprints.
16:46And while all of this was highly suspicious, the lack of evidence meant that Sharon's disappearance
16:51was filed as a missing person case.
16:53Ron and her two children were called in for interviews multiple times, but the investigators
16:58weren't able to find any leads from either of them.
17:01Sharon's mysterious disappearance two days after her filing for divorce also made Ron the
17:05prime suspect in many people's eyes.
17:08However, the complete lack of evidence prevented authorities from treating him as the potential
17:12perpetrator.
17:13When asked about it, this is what the lead officer had to say.
17:17We've had a lot of people ask us if he, Ron Davis, is a suspect.
17:21This is a missing person case.
17:23There are no suspects at this time.
17:25We don't have any criminal evidence, although we fear foul play has occurred.
17:29Right now, Mr. Davis is a witness, an uncooperative witness.
17:33And after months without any leads, Sharon's case caught the attention of the producer of
17:37Unsolved Mysteries who wanted to air an episode on her case.
17:40They produced the segment in mid to late 2001, and it was scheduled for broadcast sometime in
17:45spring of 2002.
17:47The last thing they needed was an interview from Ron.
17:49However, when the producers approached him, he denied their request and was quite stern about it.
17:54But when they wanted to air the segment without Ron's interview, he objected again and sent an
17:59accusatory letter to the producers telling them not to air the segment on Sharon.
18:03And that's where the lost media aspect of this story comes into play.
18:07The showrunners complied with Ron's request slash threat and scraped the whole thing.
18:12And as far as I'm aware, the footage has never seen the light of day.
18:15It's entirely possible that a witness could have come forward with critical information
18:19after seeing Sharon's story on TV.
18:22However, Ron's refusal closed the door on any potential leads that could have changed the
18:25course of the investigation.
18:26This obviously put a lot more attention on Ron.
18:30He was even given nicknames like The Most Guilty Non-Guilty Man.
18:34But it's been 22 years without any updates to Sharon's case.
18:41Game in the Sand.
18:43Game in the Sand is the name of a shocking short film by the German director Werner Herzog.
18:48If you've ever heard of him, you'll know he's famous for pushing boundaries, and not always
18:52in a good way.
18:54His sets are very well known for being chaotic, and there have even been injuries and deaths
18:59during his productions.
19:01And apparently, he's been this way since the very beginning.
19:04You see, Game in the Sand was the second film he ever created back in 1964.
19:10However, after completing the film, Werner was so horrified by the footage that he decided
19:15to never release it to the public.
19:17The only thing we know about the short movie is that it featured two children, a rooster,
19:23and a cardboard box.
19:25It was also filmed in a sandy area, hence the name, and according to Werner, things quote,
19:30got out of hand during shooting.
19:33The premise of the movie is also a complete mystery.
19:36The only thing Werner has talked about is a scene where the rooster was buried in sand
19:40up to its neck.
19:41Everything else we know about the film comes from speculation, and given Werner's reputation,
19:46people online have come up with some pretty wild theories over the years.
19:50Some think the rooster suffocated after being buried, forcing the children to watch it slowly
19:55die.
19:55Others suggest the kids might have killed the rooster in a brutal way, either on their own
20:00or under Werner's instructions.
20:02This could explain why it was buried in the first place.
20:05Some have also speculated the opposite.
20:07Maybe the rooster injured the children with its sharp beak or claws, and Werner captured
20:11that on film.
20:12The problem with these theories, however, is that none of this comes even close to the
20:17stuff that's been released under Werner's other productions.
20:20Like deaths being shown.
20:22What could have gone so wrong during the filming of Game in the Sand that was worse than this?
20:26Of course, there's the possibility that Game in the Sand isn't real at all, just something
20:31Werner made up to add an air of mystery or create hype for his future projects.
20:36Unfortunately, we'll probably never know the truth.
20:38The identities of the children involved were never made public, and the film's composer,
20:42Uwe Brandner, someone who might have been able to shed some light on what really happened,
20:47passed away in 2018.
20:49So, even if the short film is real, I highly doubt Werner would have a change of heart 60
20:53years later and release it to the public.
20:55The Skyway Man
21:00Ormer Locklear was an American daredevil stunt pilot who became popular in the early 20th
21:05century after doing the craziest plane stunt of his time.
21:09After footage of his stunt went viral across the country, Ormer was hired for a role in
21:13a pseudo-documentary film about stunt flights called The Skyway Man in April of 1920.
21:19Put simply, the film was like a collection of the craziest stunts Ormer could successfully
21:24pull off in a plane.
21:25Filming for the movie began on June 11, 1920 in the LA and San Francisco area.
21:31However, the stunts featured in the film were quite tough, including a church steeple being
21:35toppled by Locklear's aircraft and an aircraft-to-train transfer, both of which nearly ended in disaster.
21:41But, despite the many close calls, Ormer and the other stunt pilots remained unharmed.
21:46It was soon time to record the last stunt of the film, which was relatively safe compared
21:50to what Ormer had done before.
21:52It was going to be a simple spin move that was filmed during the day, with special camera
21:56filters to make it look like the whole thing was performed at night.
22:00However, when Ormer learned that the studio wasn't going to extend his contract beyond
22:04one film, he demanded to perform the stunt at night, likely as a desperate attempt to
22:08impress the producers.
22:10Unfortunately, this is where his luck ran out.
22:13On the 2nd of August, 1920, Ormer and his long-time flying partner, Milton Elliott, took flight
22:19at night.
22:20To make the plane visible to the camera in the dark, the production crew illuminated it
22:23with massive arc lights.
22:25However, these lights were a bit too bright, so the crew was going to turn them off after
22:29the stunts just so Ormer wouldn't be blinded and he could land safely.
22:33Maybe it was negligence or simply bad luck, but the crew forgot to turn off the lights.
22:39And, to everyone's horror, the plane crashed into the ground, killing both Ormer and Milton
22:43on impact.
22:45However, unlike today, where such an accident would shut down even the biggest film productions,
22:50at the time, Ormer's death became the selling point of the film.
22:53People flocked to the theater to see the breathtaking stunts, and more importantly, the uncut death
22:59footage of the lead stuntman.
23:01Unfortunately, the film has since been lost to time.
23:04We do have some evidence which proves that it was real, like a memorial for Ormer and Milton
23:08in the November 1920 issue of Screenland Magazine.
23:11I also found a short review for the film from the same magazine issue, which reads,
23:16Ormer Locklear's last picture, directed by James Hogan.
23:20Luis Lovely, now a Fox star, furnishes delightful support.
23:25Full of thrills and mid-air stunts, the best picture we have had.
23:29The Fox company is giving 10% of the profits of this picture to the families of Locklear and
23:33Elliot, who are killed while filming the final scene.
23:36As for the film itself, it's become lost media in the truest sense of the word.
23:40Over the last century, there have been multiple attempts to locate a copy.
23:45All have been unsuccessful.
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