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<p>Small town America is known for being quaint, friendly and polite. But for every warm apple pie cooling on a windowsill, there&#39;s a pretty underfunded police department that might leave some of the weirdest crimes un-solved.</p><p>A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ou0tos/small_town_redditors_whats_the_weirdest_unsolved/">recent Reddit thread</a> asked, &quot;Small Town Redditors: Whats the weirdest unsolved crime in your town, old or new?&quot; The answers prove big cities have nothing on small towns when it comes to weird mysteries.</p><h2>1. At least they&#39;re consistent.</h2><blockquote> <p>My hometown&rsquo;s biggest mystery is who keeps s******* in the holes at the golf course.</p> <p>Person has been doing it for more than 20 years. Every 2-3 months, there&rsquo;s a hole that&rsquo;s been shat in. - Fight-the-bastds</p> </blockquote><h2>2. Just a random guy in the cement.</h2><blockquote> <p>Where I grew up they found a dude who was buried under the cement in a building, no history or information about him. It&#39;s clear that he got into some deep trouble with someone. - KGhaleon</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. Uhhh dude... sounds like your grandma did it.</h2><blockquote> <p>I found out my grandma played cards with the mob in a liquor store basement. I was reading a news article on a cold case from the former owner disappearing for an English assignment and my grandma kinda just frowned, told me she used to play cards with him and never payed his debts. - 1spicytunaroll</p> </blockquote><h2>4. This is so incredibly messed up.</h2><blockquote> <p>100 feet from the house i lived in at the time a little boy was hit by a car in broad daylight. Killed him instantly.</p> <p>The town rallied and tried to find the person that did it for months. Was all over facebook, newspapers. Had a 500k reward for information.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Whole town knows who it was. Not even a question. Still set as an unsolved crime even though the person responsible had their truck washed and cleaned professionally, and fixed by the local body shop.</p> <p>For the record. He is a judge. So yea. - Wdrusell1</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. This is spooky.</h2><blockquote> <p>Man got kicked out of a bar 3 years ago this December and went missing. Nobody has come forward with tips at all. He went missing from a fairly busy part of town too. - RolyPoly1320</p> </blockquote><h2>6. What the...</h2><blockquote> <p>In my hometown there was a rich family who were rumored to have gotten their gains during WWII by working with the Japanese forces.</p> <p>They had large estates, mansions, and were just ridiculously rich.</p> <p>One day the entire family disappeared and their houses and most of their properties were either burned down, destroyed, or missing.</p> <p>No one knows where they went or if they are even alive.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>The most like explanation was that they lost a lot favors and money, so they either run away or killed themselves deep in the mountains.</p> <p>They also left large amounts of land which were then given to either their previous ownersor new owners.</p> <p>No other family member has returned and this was about 30 years ago when it happened.</p> <p>A family of about 20 and they just disappeared overnight. - illogicalfuturity</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. This is terrible.</h2><blockquote> <p>The crime was solved, but why it happened is still unknown. I live down the road from a small store. A guy walked in there, shot the girl behind the counter, and then himself. They were complete strangers to each other. It&rsquo;s been 4 years, and still no one knows why he did it. The road was renamed after her. - DemonWolf118</p> </blockquote><h2>8. Wow, people must&#39;ve really hated him to not look into this.</h2><blockquote> <p>Story from my grandpa, small farm town Nebraska is in the 60&rsquo;s, a guy was found burnt alive in his car, hands wire tied to the steering wheel, it ruled as a suicide. Most of the town assumed that the guy owed gambling debts to some mob in Chicago or the like, and the guy wasn&rsquo;t exactly loved in the small town, so there was no real looking into it. - Matchanu</p> </blockquote><h2>9. You&#39;ll never look at leather the same way again...</h2><blockquote> <p>Police officer in 1930s responded to a call around midnight on Christmas day. The wife woke up and he told her he&#39;d be back. Only that he had disappeared entirely and did not come home. The car was found abandoned with no indication of his whereabouts.</p> <p>The local theory is that he was murdered and his body was disposed of in the leather tanning factory. - B0m0ri</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. Remind me never to go searching for snails.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m in a village so it&#39;s even smaller. I live right next to a river, and one day after rain my grandpa went searching for snails, but he found a head still with some flesh, a neighbor had also found an arm around the same time.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>the police were called, they found the body and a few dogs chewing on it, but it was in a bag hanging from a tree above the river.</p> <p>at first it was assumed it was from the big city thrown into the river but no, it&#39;s hanging from the damn tree.</p> <p>The weirdest thing is that the woman was not from the village itself. - DerpyZeDerp</p> </blockquote><h2>11. This wouldn&#39;t be a list of weird mysteries without some sort of cult activity.</h2><blockquote> <p>My family is from the small town where a prominent cult founder was born, a town of about 1000. Back 25-30 years ago, my uncle was on city council when the cult came to town and offered boatloads of money to build a shrine and improve infrastructure. They didn&rsquo;t have the bad reputation at that point quite yet that they do now.</p> <p>The majority of city council was drooling over the cash, but my uncle 12 Angry Men-ed the situation, seeing the writing on the wall that this was a step off a cliff to becoming overrun. One of the people he never convinced was the sheriff, but he still got his numbers.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Unfortunately, he would receive harassing phone calls every night and would frequently have cars parked outside his house at odd hours. Everyone knows everyone (population 1000, remember), and these were not locals.</p> <p>It came to a head when his house got broken into and letters were left threatening my aunt and cousins, who were young children at the time. Staties got involved, and the behavior immediately stopped. A few days later the cultists packed up and left.</p> <p>Officially, the threats and break-in were never solved, though every once in a while they would still get odd phone calls and blank letters in the mail (yay anthrax scare).</p> <p>Unofficially, everyone knows. A few years later my uncle and family moved out into the country, and all the harassment stopped. - ProfessorBeer</p> </blockquote><h2>12. Clearly the house was a portal to hell.</h2><blockquote> <p>There was a house that burned down 3 times in the span of a decade. I remember hearing lots of rumors about divorces and revenge, gang activity, being cursed. Not sure if it was ever solved - MrsKetchup</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. Uhhh... what!?</h2><blockquote> <p>Many years ago, a house up the street from us burnt down. By the time firefighters got there, it was completely engulfed and a new home would have to end up being built.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>The man who lived there set it ablaze on purpose not long before going upstairs and shooting himself. Although his house was in complete destruction, with the fire yet to be put out, nobody expected him to be alive. This turned out to be true but what they weren&#39;t expecting was that his body wasn&#39;t burned at all. The flames had avoided his body completely.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>It&#39;s unsolved because no one really knows why he killed himself or what the purpose was of burning down his house in the process. It&#39;s also a mystery as to how the fire didn&#39;t reach him. - SpicySlushi</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. Honestly... kind of a genius idea.</h2><blockquote> <p>my small town used to host a large bike race. Literally hundreds of cyclists riding around the parks&#39; 3/4 mile loop track (maybe some road racing as well, can&#39;t remember). Anyway, the large gathering required all the police force to be on hand, and with the jam of cars, bicycles, and people it was really hard to get in or out. A bank robber dressed in full cyclist gear came into a bank just a block away from the park, robbed them blind, and then hoped on his getaway bicycle and rode into the crowd at the park. By the time the police could respond be was in the mix of people and to this day no one has ever been charged... Perfect crime. - ThorPagan</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 people share the weirdest mystery that went unsolved in their small town.

Small town America is known for being quaint, friendly and polite. But for every warm apple pie cooling on a windowsill, there&#39;s a pretty underfunded police department that might leave some of the weirdest crimes un-solved.A recent Reddit thread asked, &quot;Small Town Redditors: Whats the weirdest unsolved crime in your town, old or new?&quot; The answers prove big cities have nothing on small towns when it comes to weird mysteries.1. At least they&#39;re consistent. My hometown&rsquo;s biggest mystery is who keeps s******* in the holes at the golf course. Person has been doing it for more than 20 years. Every 2-3 months, there&rsquo;s a hole that&rsquo;s been shat in. - Fight-the-bastds 2. Just a random guy in the cement. Where I grew up they found a dude who was buried under the cement in a building, no history or information about him. It&#39;s clear that he got into some deep trouble with someone. - KGhaleon 3. Uhhh dude... sounds like your grandma did it. I found out my grandma played cards with the mob in a liquor store basement. I was reading a news article on a cold case from the former owner disappearing for an English assignment and my grandma kinda just frowned, told me she used to play cards with him and never payed his debts. - 1spicytunaroll 4. This is so incredibly messed up. 100 feet from the house i lived in at the time a little boy was hit by a car in broad daylight. Killed him instantly. The town rallied and tried to find the person that did it for months. Was all over facebook, newspapers. Had a 500k reward for information.   Whole town knows who it was. Not even a question. Still set as an unsolved crime even though the person responsible had their truck washed and cleaned professionally, and fixed by the local body shop. For the record. He is a judge. So yea. - Wdrusell1 5. This is spooky. Man got kicked out of a bar 3 years ago this December and went missing. Nobody has come forward with tips at all. He went missing from a fairly busy part of town too. - RolyPoly1320 6. What the... In my hometown there was a rich family who were rumored to have gotten their gains during WWII by working with the Japanese forces. They had large estates, mansions, and were just ridiculously rich. One day the entire family disappeared and their houses and most of their properties were either burned down, destroyed, or missing. No one knows where they went or if they are even alive.   The most like explanation was that they lost a lot favors and money, so they either run away or killed themselves deep in the mountains. They also left large amounts of land which were then given to either their previous ownersor new owners. No other family member has returned and this was about 30 years ago when it happened. A family of about 20 and they just disappeared overnight. - illogicalfuturity 7. This is terrible. The crime was solved, but why it happened is still unknown. I live down the road from a small store. A guy walked in there, shot the girl behind the counter, and then himself. They were complete strangers to each other. It&rsquo;s been 4 years, and still no one knows why he did it. The road was renamed after her. - DemonWolf118 8. Wow, people must&#39;ve really hated him to not look into this. Story from my grandpa, small farm town Nebraska is in the 60&rsquo;s, a guy was found burnt alive in his car, hands wire tied to the steering wheel, it ruled as a suicide. Most of the town assumed that the guy owed gambling debts to some mob in Chicago or the like, and the guy wasn&rsquo;t exactly loved in the small town, so there was no real looking into it. - Matchanu 9. You&#39;ll never look at leather the same way again... Police officer in 1930s responded to a call around midnight on Christmas day. The wife woke up and he told her he&#39;d be back. Only that he had disappeared entirely and did not come home. The car was found abandoned with no indication of his whereabouts. The local theory is that he was murdered and his body was disposed of in the leather tanning factory. - B0m0ri 10. Remind me never to go searching for snails. I&#39;m in a village so it&#39;s even smaller. I live right next to a river, and one day after rain my grandpa went searching for snails, but he found a head still with some flesh, a neighbor had also found an arm around the same time.   the police were called, they found the body and a few dogs chewing on it, but it was in a bag hanging from a tree above the river. at first it was assumed it was from the big city thrown into the river but no, it&#39;s hanging from the damn tree. The weirdest thing is that the woman was not from the village itself. - DerpyZeDerp 11. This wouldn&#39;t be a list of weird mysteries without some sort of cult activity. My family is from the small town where a prominent cult founder was born, a town of about 1000. Back 25-30 years ago, my uncle was on city council when the cult came to town and offered boatloads of money to build a shrine and improve infrastructure. They didn&rsquo;t have the bad reputation at that point quite yet that they do now. The majority of city council was drooling over the cash, but my uncle 12 Angry Men-ed the situation, seeing the writing on the wall that this was a step off a cliff to becoming overrun. One of the people he never convinced was the sheriff, but he still got his numbers.   Unfortunately, he would receive harassing phone calls every night and would frequently have cars parked outside his house at odd hours. Everyone knows everyone (population 1000, remember), and these were not locals. It came to a head when his house got broken into and letters were left threatening my aunt and cousins, who were young children at the time. Staties got involved, and the behavior immediately stopped. A few days later the cultists packed up and left. Officially, the threats and break-in were never solved, though every once in a while they would still get odd phone calls and blank letters in the mail (yay anthrax scare). Unofficially, everyone knows. A few years later my uncle and family moved out into the country, and all the harassment stopped. - ProfessorBeer 12. Clearly the house was a portal to hell. There was a house that burned down 3 times in the span of a decade. I remember hearing lots of rumors about divorces and revenge, gang activity, being cursed. Not sure if it was ever solved - MrsKetchup 13. Uhhh... what!? Many years ago, a house up the street from us burnt down. By the time firefighters got there, it was completely engulfed and a new home would have to end up being built.   The man who lived there set it ablaze on purpose not long before going upstairs and shooting himself. Although his house was in complete destruction, with the fire yet to be put out, nobody expected him to be alive. This turned out to be true but what they weren&#39;t expecting was that his body wasn&#39;t burned at all. The flames had avoided his body completely.   It&#39;s unsolved because no one really knows why he killed himself or what the purpose was of burning down his house in the process. It&#39;s also a mystery as to how the fire didn&#39;t reach him. - SpicySlushi 14. Honestly... kind of a genius idea. my small town used to host a large bike race. Literally hundreds of cyclists riding around the parks&#39; 3/4 mile loop track (maybe some road racing as well, can&#39;t remember). Anyway, the large gathering required all the police force to be on hand, and with the jam of cars, bicycles, and people it was really hard to get in or out. A bank robber dressed in full cyclist gear came into a bank just a block away from the park, robbed them blind, and then hoped on his getaway bicycle and rode into the crowd at the park. By the time the police could respond be was in the mix of people and to this day no one has ever been charged... Perfect crime. - ThorPagan 

Small town America is known for being quaint, friendly and polite. But for every warm apple pie cooling on a windowsill, there&#39;s a pretty underfunded police department that might leave some of the weirdest crimes un-solved.  A recent...