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Sleep is overrated anyway... Join us as we count down our picks for the most chilling unexplained events that occurred in recent times. From vanishing aircraft to strange symptoms affecting diplomats, these unsolved cases will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about our modern world. Which mystery keeps you up at night?
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00:00For weeks, questions have circled about Elisa Lam after the Vancouver woman went missing in Los Angeles last month.
00:08Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most chilling, unexplained events that occurred from 2010 to 2025.
00:16Given the sensitive nature of our list, viewer discretion is advised.
00:21Could the plane have soared straight past where they are searching in the ocean, crashing on dry land, or even landing safely?
00:30Number 10, Easter Sunday heist.
00:32We are also following developing news involving a money mystery in the San Fernando Valley.
00:37Authorities are trying to track down the thieves who stole tens of millions of dollars in cash from a business on Easter Sunday.
00:44KTLA Fights, Kareem Winter, live in Sylmar with more on how all this went down.
00:49It's not the fact that $30 million went missing. It's how it happened that'll keep you up at night.
00:54On Easter Sunday 2024, a crew of still unidentified thieves broke into a high-security cash storage facility in Sylmar, California,
01:04and pulled off what's now considered one of the largest cash heists in Los Angeles history.
01:09It's unconfirmed, but this may have been the area those thieves actually walked through to get onto the property.
01:14It's a lot more remote here. It's actually right up next to a mobile home park.
01:19And take a look off into the distance. That's the hole that they entered through.
01:23A short time ago, we saw workers out here patching that spot.
01:27The kicker? No alarms were triggered. No guards were harmed. And no trace was left behind.
01:34In the days leading up to the job, authorities had responded to a series of false alarms at the site,
01:40likely staged to dull their vigilance. Despite weeks of investigation, there have been no arrests,
01:45no leads, and no publicly named suspects. It's not just unsolved, it's clean. Too clean.
01:52Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects accessed the location through the roof of the building.
01:57But it's unclear how they accessed the vault itself inside the building.
02:01There were no obvious signs of entry into the vault.
02:03Now, if that's the case, it could suggest that the vault was either unlocked
02:08or that someone involved in the break-in had the know-how to know how to open the vault.
02:13Number nine, West Fertilizer Company explosion.
02:16I want to show you a few headlines that are coming out this morning.
02:20This is from the Waco Tribune Herald. Fertilizer plant explosion there.
02:24Far rocks, West, injuries, mount. Waco is 20 miles from West. West is a small town.
02:30And Waco, just as much as West right now, is really in the thick of it because this is where all the hospitals are.
02:35In April 2013, a fire broke out at the West Fertilizer Company in Texas.
02:40Minutes later, a massive explosion obliterated the surrounding area,
02:44killing 15 people, mostly first responders, and injuring over 160.
02:49Investigators couldn't initially pin down the cause.
02:52Three years later, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives changed course,
02:58announcing the fire had been intentionally set, but provided no suspects, no motive, and no clear evidence.
03:05We are here today to announce the final ruling as to the cause of the fire.
03:10The fire has been ruled as incendiary.
03:13This means this fire was a criminal act.
03:16To this day, it's still unclear whether this was a tragic accident or a calculated act of arson.
03:22And that lingering uncertainty, combined with the scale of the devastation,
03:26makes this case feel less like a closed file and more like a ticking time bomb that no one saw coming.
03:32Reported by the Dallas Morning News, actually, is the fact that this fertilizer plant, which exploded,
03:38apparently had reported to the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency,
03:41and to the local public safety officials, that it presented, listen to this,
03:46no risk of fire or explosion.
03:48That's according to some of the documents that are available.
03:51Number eight, disappearance of Ben McDaniel.
03:54When we look at the things that have killed cave divers in the past,
03:57or divers in caves, I should say, in the past,
04:01the number one leading cause of fatalities is lack of training,
04:05or going beyond someone's level of training and experience.
04:08He entered the dark heart of an underwater cave and simply vanished.
04:13On August 18, 2010, 30-year-old Ben McDaniel dove into the Vortex Spring Cave System in Florida,
04:20a notoriously treacherous cavern sealed behind a gate that only certified cave divers may pass.
04:26Then, he never came back.
04:28What followed was a full-scale search, yet no trace of Ben was ever found.
04:33The theories that emerged only make it more haunting.
04:36Did he drown and get wedged beyond recovery?
04:38Was foul play involved?
04:40Or, did he stage his own disappearance to escape a painful past?
04:44His family rejects that last theory.
04:46But with no body, no clues, and no closure, the question remains wide open.
04:52Ben McDaniel wasn't a certified cave diver.
04:54Now, we don't know whether he died inside Vortex Spring or not,
04:57but we do know that he was in over his head.
05:00Number seven, Ezra Miller's Farm.
05:03I claim my Ninth Amendment rights to not be unlawfully persecuted for a crime of no designation.
05:11Disorderly conduct being something I am unguilty of.
05:14Police say Miller became agitated while patrons began singing,
05:18and they began to yell obscenities, grabbing the microphone out of a woman's hand,
05:22and later, lunging at a man playing darts.
05:25A Hollywood star or a caretaker gonna skew?
05:28In 2022, Rolling Stone reported that actor Ezra Miller housed a 25-year-old mother
05:33and her three young children, aged 1 to 5, on their sprawling Vermont farm.
05:39Inside, sources say, assault rifles, handguns, and loose bullets lay scattered,
05:44and most disturbingly of all, easily accessible to the children.
05:48Separately, and later that spring, Miller was arrested for second-degree assault,
05:52refusing to leave a party when asked, throwing a chair, and striking a woman on the head,
05:58according to police, who say that investigation is still active.
06:02The mother called the farm a healing haven away from her abusive ex,
06:06but authorities were not convinced.
06:08Vermont's Department for Children and Families and state police
06:11tried and failed to serve an emergency order removing the kids.
06:16Miller claimed the family had left months earlier,
06:18a statement contradicted by the mother's social media posts.
06:21Was it a misguided rescue or something deeply suspect?
06:25Actor Ezra Miller has pleaded guilty after being accused of breaking into a Vermont home
06:29and stealing alcohol last year.
06:32The Justice League star agreed to a $500 fine and probation conditions,
06:37that will include mental health treatment.
06:39Number six, Lars Mittank's final destination.
06:42Wo ist Lars Mittank?
06:44Der mittlerweile 30-Jährige ist seit dem 8. Juli 2014 verschwunden.
06:49Seine Familie und Freunde haben die Suche nie aufgegeben.
06:53Besonders Mama Sandra kämpft jeden Tag darum, endlich eine Spur von ihrem Sohn zu bekommen.
06:58Wir vermissen ihn sehr.
06:59A vacation turned nightmare, captured in chilling security footage.
07:04In July 2014, 28-year-old German tourist Lars Mittank vanished without a trace from Varna Airport in Bulgaria.
07:12What began as a routine holiday spiraled into one of Europe's most perplexing disappearances.
07:18Auf dem Weg vom McDonald's zum Hotel wurde er von zwei, mindestens zwei Leuten angegriffen und aufs Ohr geschlagen,
07:28wo er dann einen Trommelfellriss erlitt, der später bei einem Allgemeinarzt am Montag festgestellt wurde,
07:36worauf er dann Flugverbot erhielt und eine Einweisung ins Krankenhaus.
07:39After a bar altercation led to a ruptured eardrum, Mittank's behavior became increasingly erratic.
07:46Despite no documented history of mental illness, he called his mother,
07:50whispering that people were trying to harm him and that she should cancel his credit cards.
07:55In diesem Hotel hat er mich dann in der Nacht angerufen, hat mir die Situation erklärt
08:01und hat dann aber gesagt, dass er Verdacht hat, dass da irgendwas mit der Kreditkarte nicht in Ordnung war,
08:09dass die irgendwas mit der Kreditkarte gemacht haben und ich sollte ihm seine Kreditkarte sperren.
08:13Und auch die Behausung kam Lars nicht ganz koscher vor.
08:16Und er verließ in der Nacht noch das Hotel.
08:18Ich möchte mit diesem Video bezwecken, dass ganz, ganz viele Leute sich das zu Herzen nehmen,
08:40sich umschauen, mit offenen Augen, mit wachen Augen durch die Gegend laufen
08:43und vielleicht schauen, ob das mein Sohn sein könnte.
08:46Und dass sich viele Leute dafür interessieren.
08:50Es könnte auch von ihnen selber, wenn sie der eigene Sohn oder jemand ein geliebter Mensch wäre.
08:57Number 5. Death of Elisa Lam.
08:59She hasn't been heard from for a week.
09:01Something her family says is unlike the UBC student.
09:0521-year-old Elisa Lam never checked out of her L.A. hotel and she was traveling alone.
09:10Today the police called on the public for help.
09:12The CBC's Lindsay Duncombe has more from Los Angeles.
09:15In February 2013, 21-year-old Canadian blogger Elisa Lam,
09:20a student at the University of British Columbia,
09:23was found in a rooftop water tank at Los Angeles' Cecil Hotel.
09:27Her disappearance was preceded by unsettling elevator footage
09:30showing her behaving strangely, raising questions about her state of mind.
09:35This is what it looks like at the Cecil Hotel in L.A.
09:38You can see officials surrounding a water tank.
09:40This morning, someone complained about the water pressure at the hotel.
09:44When a worker went to investigate, he found the body inside.
09:47Despite extensive investigations, no signs of foul play were found,
09:51and her death was ruled an accidental drowning, attributed to Lam's bipolar disorder.
09:56However, what remains particularly eerie is the absence of her phone.
10:00It was never recovered, neither with her body nor among her belongings.
10:03The unexplained disappearance of the device adds a layer of mystery to an already tragic case.
10:09The investigators have to be flummoxed at this because if it is foul play, you know, why did she act so odd?
10:16The last footage of her in the hotel elevator is perplexing.
10:19Why did she press all the buttons?
10:20Was she talking to someone?
10:22Was she trying to hide?
10:23Our first case is that of actually an entire missing family.
10:30This has baffled authorities in Oklahoma, where Madison Jameson was last seen nearly four months ago.
10:36She was with her parents on October 8th when they all left their home in Eufaula.
10:40No one has seen any of them since, but the truck they were driving was found 30 miles away two weeks later in a very rural area.
10:48In 2014, the Oklahoma Medical Examiner positively identified the skeletal remains found the previous year
10:54as those of Bobby, Sherilyn, and their young daughter Madison Jameson, closing a chapter but opening a haunting mystery.
11:02Their story began in 2009 when the family vanished from their remote Oklahoma home.
11:07Days later, their abandoned truck was discovered, locked, miles away, with their dog inside,
11:12and their wallets, phones, and an unexplained $32,000 in cash left behind.
11:18Do authorities believe that the family abandoned the car, though, intentionally?
11:22No, that's part of what makes this whole event so puzzling.
11:26Obviously, they wouldn't have left the dog in the car if they had planned to be away from the car for very long,
11:31and they had also left a number of personal belongings in the car in plain view,
11:35which, since it's in such a remote area, there was no reason to be concerned about theft.
11:40Security footage captured the parents packing their belongings in a trance-like state,
11:44adding a surreal edge to their disappearance.
11:47The eerie gaps in their timeline and the strange circumstances continue to baffle investigators,
11:53leading to outlandish theories that ranged from familial disputes to demonic possession.
11:58It's been so hard being able to sleep at night.
12:02For the last four years, Starlet Jameson has worried and wondered.
12:06Bobby was one of these people that was always helping people.
12:11Her son, Bobby Jameson, has been missing, along with his wife, Sherilyn, and their six-year-old daughter, Madison.
12:17Number three, Barry and Honey Sherman's fate.
12:21Both Honey and Barry Sherman were, in fact, targeted.
12:25But targeted by whom? He had a long list of business enemies.
12:30He said, they're out to get me. I'm surprised they haven't knocked me off already.
12:35In December 2017, billionaire pharmaceutical mogul Barry Sherman and his wife Honey were found dead in their Toronto mansion,
12:43posed side by side, fully clothed, with belts around their necks, near their indoor pool.
12:49What followed was a botched and baffling investigation.
12:52A later autopsy confirmed both were murdered.
12:55The couple's bodies showed signs of restraint, yet there were no signs of forced entry.
13:00Former police investigator, now university professor, Mike Arnfield, says it appeared to be a very angry, yet disciplined, crime.
13:08It's a very up-close, intimate, domineering, rage-induced manner of killing someone.
13:17Despite the family hiring private investigators and offering a multi-million dollar reward, no suspects have been named.
13:24The case stands as an open wound in one of Canada's wealthiest families.
13:28Their son Jonathan put into words what many saw as his parents' special partnership.
13:34You were like a lock and a key, each pretty useless on your own.
13:42But together, you unlocked the whole world for yourselves, and for us, and for so many others.
13:50Number two, flight MH370's whereabouts.
13:54The Malaysia Airlines flight, with 239 people on board, including four Americans, has gone missing.
14:01At this hour, a desperate search is underway for MH370, which departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41 a.m. local time,
14:10and was due to land in Beijing at 6.30 a.m.
14:13A plane vanishes mid-flight.
14:15No mayday, no wreckage, no definitive answers.
14:19In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board,
14:28then disappeared from radar less than an hour into its journey to Beijing.
14:32Satellite data later showed the aircraft veered wildly off course before vanishing over the Indian Ocean.
14:38CBS News' Tony Aiello is here with the latest developments.
14:41Tony.
14:41Mary, the United States and 12 other countries are aiding in this search,
14:45with 57 ships and 48 aircraft scouring Southeast Asia for any sign of the missing plane.
14:52CBS News has learned the disappearance of flight MH370 increasingly looks like a deliberate act.
14:59Theories range from the tragic to the terrifying.
15:02Some believe the pilots deliberately crashed the plane.
15:04Others suggest hijacking, cyber interference, or even a cover-up involving military forces.
15:10The most accepted explanation?
15:12A controlled descent into the ocean, likely by someone in the cockpit.
15:16But with no black box, no full wreckage, and no closure,
15:20MH370 remains aviation's greatest and most unsettling mystery.
15:25Two switches were pulled in that cockpit.
15:27And you say were pulled.
15:28Well, that suggests deliberate.
15:30Deliberate.
15:31What kind of deliberate acts?
15:32Well, maybe it was a hijacking.
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15:50Number one.
15:51Havana Syndrome.
15:52The mysterious health scare that disrupted Vice President Harris' diplomatic trip to Southeast Asia.
15:57A possible case of Havana Syndrome hit the U.S. mission in Vietnam, keeping Harris from Hanoi for several hours.
16:03Is it a covert weapon or a case of mass psychogenic illness?
16:07Since 2016, dozens of U.S. diplomats, intelligence officers, and government personnel
16:12have reported sudden symptoms like ear pain, dizziness, memory loss, and a strange sense of directional pressure.
16:20Theories exploded.
16:21Microwave radiation.
16:23Sonic attacks.
16:24Russian surveillance tech.
16:25Even insect-borne illnesses.
16:27In 2022, multiple U.S. intelligence agencies concluded it was very unlikely that a hostile actor was behind the symptoms.
16:36But what or who is causing the symptoms is still unknown.
16:40What's scary about the Havana Syndrome is how little we know about it.
16:43The lingering effects are described as like a long-term concussion.
16:47So debilitating.
16:48And we aren't really sure about how long the effects last.
16:52Whether it's a case of undiagnosed environmental exposure, psychological contagion, or something science hasn't caught up with yet,
16:59the lack of clarity has only deepened the sense of paranoia and unease.
17:04Real or not, the fear it's caused is undeniable.
17:07Several U.S. diplomats are expressing frustration with the Biden administration's response to issues surrounding a mysterious illness known as Havana Syndrome.
17:16They sent a letter to the State Department saying people who suffer from the sickness are simply not getting the care they need.
17:23Which mystery on our list creeped you out the most?
17:26Be sure to let us know in the comments below.
17:28If that plane was in fact traveling for hours from here, would some of the search be shifting in that direction?
17:35Maybe even scouring the land?
17:37That, Diane, is a very big question.
17:40We'll see you next time.
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