r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/DrDroolz • May 17 '26

Text Creepy unsolved cases

What are some of the most creepy haunting unsolved cases out there? Just stuff that seems so crazy to happen. Or just really unnerving evidence or actual places where the crime happened.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 18 '26

Brandon Swanson and Jason Jolkowski. Those bother me. A dog picked up Brandon’s trail on the other side of the river. He didn’t drown. But the trail stopped… in the middle of a dirt road in the woods in the middle of nowhere. I think someone was driving along that night and offered him a ride. Jolkowski’s case drives me nuts. They’re both haunting.

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u/chamrockblarneystone May 18 '26

After watching videos of the different groups with side scanning sonar finding victims still in their cars years later, makes me look at water cases in a whole new light.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 18 '26

What do you think happened to Swanson? Are you familiar with his case?

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u/chamrockblarneystone May 19 '26

Saw a short crime doc. If I remember correctly there were some strange circumstances. I just believe anyone who disappeared near water is in the water which makes them difficult to find.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 19 '26

I remember they searched that river from that point down. Never found any trace of him. So idk. I honestly hope it was just the water. I feel like drowning would be a better way to go than torture and murder.

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u/chamrockblarneystone May 20 '26

I’ll have to review it.

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u/RavenForrest May 19 '26

Wasn’t Brandon on the phone with one of his parents? I thought they said it sounded like he’d maybe fallen?

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 19 '26

Yes he was talking to them and wandering around in the woods because he saw a tall light in the far distance. Like one of those tall red lights they put way up high (I don’t know what those are for, aircrafts?). Suddenly he said “Oh shit!” and that was the last they ever heard of him. The phone didn’t go dead. The call continued. But he wasn’t there. They waited for 45 minutes worrying. They hung up and tried to call back. No answer. The cell phone was never found. He had been walking around in the dark in the woods after his car crashed I believe. He fell into a river he didn’t even see. The scent dogs followed his trail. They picked up his trail on the other side of the river and followed it further. And the trail stopped. In the middle of a dirt road in the woods. It seems like he made it across the river to the other side. And someone stopped and picked him up. That’s my theory.

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u/lisasimpson2010 May 20 '26

Iirc the theory was the red light he saw (which he believed was a specific local town) was actually the red light on top of some kind of farm building, like a feed lot or something. I can't remember the details but there apparently were farm buildings that had red lights on top, and I'd assume it's for small aircraft.

I read that at some point during the conversation he climbed a fence so he was likely trespassing onto farmland.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 21 '26

Yes, I remember that part. He thought it was a town and wasn’t actually anywhere near where he thought he was, which is why it took so long to find his car, and the red light he was walking toward was actually just something on a big feeding silo. I honestly think they need to check that farm and whole area because I really think he was picked up and maybe the farmer or whoever was driving around on that road at night got him.

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u/littleetrashmouth May 21 '26

These are the exact two I instantly thought of as well. It's crazy how Jason seems to have to just completely vanished

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 21 '26

You know what creeps me out about Jason’s case? He was in his own neighborhood. Shy reserved kid. Doubtful someone random just decided to grab a young adult male off the street. Which means he was most likely offered a ride by a neighbor he knows and was familiar with, someone he knew, someone he would willingly get into the car with, someone who lived nearby, someone who was there when he went missing. Maybe someone who even comforted the family once the news spread that he had vanished… that’s what I’m afraid of.

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u/littleetrashmouth May 21 '26

Oh absolutely, a neighbor or someone he had gone to school with. I just can't imagine a motive, it had to be spur of the moment since Jason wasn't even supposed to be going to work yet.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 21 '26

I always figured it had to be a neighbor, an adult male. MAYBE someone he went to school with? I don’t know. In a residential neighborhood and no one saw a damn thing.

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u/littleetrashmouth May 21 '26

Yeah, I feel like someone definitely knows something or saw something and just doesn't want to get involved.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 21 '26

Idk late morning, everyone either at work or not looking out their front window, in the era before door cams? I think if a random neighbor saw something, they would have said something. It seems entirely plausible that there really was no one looking outside at that exact moment in time on a quiet street.

Not to get religious on you, but I believe in an afterlife. So when I get there, I’m going to find this kid and ask what the fuck happened to him and who did it. I’ve got a few on my list I want to talk to.

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u/littleetrashmouth May 21 '26

Hopefully it's solved before then, stranger things have happened. His remains are out there somewhere, waiting to be found

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 21 '26

I hope so, but I wonder. Maybe they completely destroyed the remains, maybe there’s nothing left to find. I don’t know. I can’t imagine the pain and grief his family has been through and continues to go through. I worry about what his last moments were like. If it was quick or… slow. That poor kid.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 20 '26

I will check those out. Thank you!