Strange & Unexplained

#41 The ZoOoONnEe of Silence

Just 25 miles outside of Ceballos Mexico, lies an area of 1500 square miles of inhospitable desert, it boasts temperatures that reach 120*f during the day and drop to freezing at night.  The area is surrounded to the east by a large mountain range, its known for the unusual amount of meteor activity, and odd floating orbs of light.  It also shares the 27th parallel with its equally eerie comrades the Bermuda Triangle and the great Egyptian Pyramids.  Naturally its a hotbed of supernatural occurrences and unexplained phenomena, hence why I chose this topic...duh. :)

 

Just 25 miles outside of Ceballos Mexico, lies an area of 1500 square miles of inhospitable desert, it boasts temperatures that reach 120*f during the day and drop to freezing at night.  The area is surrounded to the east by a large mountain range, its known for the unusual amount of meteor activity, and odd floating orbs of light. It also shares the 27th parallel with its equally eerie comrades the Bermuda Triangle and the great Egyptian Pyramids. Naturally its a hotbed of supernatural occurrences and unexplained phenomena, hence why I chose this topic...duh.

 

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Sources:

https://www.historicmysteries.com/zone-of-silence-mexico/

https://www.gaia.com/article/the-zone-of-silence-an-ancient-mystery-of-old-mexico Gaia TV

https://youtu.be/UjvqMmw-QD4 best video

https://youtu.be/ZSg5HmLLzf0

https://youtu.be/Htf15gXDkYw

 

 

 

 

#40 Magdalena Zuk's Trip To Egypt

In both Poland and Egypt the same beautiful blond haired, blue eyed girl appears again and again in Television, Newspaper and online, but the headlines connected to those articles read very differently depending on which country you're in. On Tuesday April 25, 2017 Magdalena Zuk  surprised her partner Markus on his birthday with a week's holiday stay in an all inclusive resort in Egypt. She had revealed the surprise just seven hours before the flight was scheduled to take off, but instead of a nice surprise they were met with the first major disappointment of this story...

 

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Sources:

https://youtu.be/dBv6Kott8i0

https://tvn24.pl/raporty/magdalena-zuk-nie-zyje-smierc-polki-w-egipcie-rr1179-2589735 entire timeline

https://youtu.be/9qk-7g9p1rE that chapter

https://youtu.be/EvVxjR8NqJI

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39886642

https://youtu.be/kvdFgxNHL2c full phone call

https://tvn24.pl/wroclaw/polecial-po-magdalene-zuk-nie-zdazyl-sprowadzic-jej-do-polki-ra739208-2481502?fbclid=IwAR3RGbYndns9rQhdmMumx1YOGkpBpujE-dmg-EM3cDK3pFjR_T2vo7P8If8

#39 The Murder of Jill Dando

Jill Dando was shot in the head on her front door step in the middle of the day and her murder still remains one of the UK’s most high-profile unsolved murder cases... 20 years later.

 

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Sources

The Murder of Jill Dando- Documentery 4/19

https://youtu.be/4SC1vf1h5dc that chapter

https://youtu.be/Pp1w1DbwbqQ  reconstruction by crimewatch

https://youtu.be/knXpWD8OEYU  news announcement of Jills murder

https://youtu.be/iszAt1RMrnU investigation crime watch 29:09

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-47779606

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47798970

https://youtu.be/4hJiJAWhCaw a episode of holiday

https://youtu.be/dVSe3rx2Ew0 Time stamp of jill- 4:25-9:06,9:58,12:45

https://youtu.be/sjRmysQCUBc 1:30 newcast

#38 Order of The Solar Temple

The Order of the Solar Temple also known as the International Order of Chivalry Solar Traditions was a New Age Religious Movement that has roots in the Knights Templar. The Knights Templar  was a Catholic led religious/military order formed during the 12th century among the years of the French Revolution. Originally formed with the intent of protecting Christian pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land during the time of the Crusades, the group was disbanded by King Philip the 4th of France. However the Order of the Solar Temple is drastically different from its previous ordained intentions, the Solar Temple was preparing for the worlds apocalypse set to happen in the 1990's. However years and years of failed prophecies led to a weakening of the groups faith and eventually between 1994-97, 74 members joined a “higher spiritual plane”. But did the participants willingly drink the kool-aid or did something far darker and more sinister happen inside those temple walls?

 

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Sources:

https://youtu.be/w2KrCctV8V0 documentary

https://youtu.be/TK6DFwcME2Y

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/di-mambro-joseph-1924-1994#:~:text=Joseph%20Di%20Mambro%2C%20was%20cofounder,born%20in%20rural%20southern%20France.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Order-of-the-Solar-Temple

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/20/world/quebec-police-say-baby-was-target-of-cult.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/24/world/cult-suspected-in-deaths-of-5-in-canada.html

#37 Jordan Marie Simms

On December 26, 2019 an inmate, while in the custody of the Graham County Sheriff's office in Safford AZ, died after allegedly jumping out of the back of the officer's SUV. She suffered traumatic injury and was transported to the hospital in Tucson where she was pronounced brain dead and removed from life support just two days later. So at just 28-years old the tragic life of Jordan Marie Simms was over...but was this just an accident? Because just a few days before the incident Jordan accused to officers of sexual assault...

 

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Sources:

https://youtu.be/-yZPkPJLK_E  Jordans voice

https://youtu.be/flRZVUfdGr8 News report

https://youtu.be/cnt7QwmFDiM sexual assault report

https://youtu.be/BG8Ueo_82q8 news report

https://youtu.be/bnknRvtnja4

https://www.azcentral.com/videos/news/local/arizona/2020/08/02/jorden-simms-video/5548893002/  Simms interview

https://www.eacourier.com/news/new-evidence-surfaces-in-jorden-simms-case/article_a0e2b9f6-7074-11ea-af68-dfbdc5c7acf4.html

https://gilaherald.com/no-charges-to-be-filed-against-officers-in-the-case-of-jorden-marie-simms/

https://kvoa.com/news/2020/11/03/no-officers-will-be-charged-related-to-womans-death-in-police-custody/  no officers charged

#36 Maria Marta

The gated community of Carmel, near Buenos Aires Argentina, was more than just a neighborhood; it was a safe haven for the wealthy in a time of economic unrest.  The country had just experienced some of the worst economic times since the 1980’s and were just starting to recover in the late months of 2002.  At the same time Maria Marta Garcia Belsunce and her family were living in the Carmel ‘compound’ and working with an Argentinian foundation that helped find missing children.  Until it was Marta that came up missing!....but then they found her…..in her bathroom, where upon first glance(witnesses say) she appeared to have slipped, hit her head and drowned in the bath tub.

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Sources:

Netflix: Carmel-Who Killed Maria Marta?

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-54947929&prev=search&pto=auetranslated news article

https://youtu.be/Kg3Btg94F7w youtube breakdown of Netflix special

https://economics.rabobank.com/publications/2013/august/the-argentine-crisis-20012002-/  argentina’s economic crisis explained

https://www.1news.info/celebrity-news/the-family-are-a-major-part-in-carmel-who-killed-maria-marta-find-out-who-s-who-806333 who’s who Maria’s family

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#35 Mary Ellan's Monster

In the spring of 1965 in a small Ohio town named Mansfield, was a young girl named Mary Ellen Deneer, her sister described her as a typical ‘giggly girl’. But the local media headlines described her as ‘murdered’, leaving the family of Mary Ellen shook, and police scrambling to catch a killer, and it didn't take long….a repeat offender named Lester Eubanks was arrested, but I wouldn't say justice was served.

 

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Sources:

 

Abc News Podcast: Have You Seen This Man?

Unsolved Mysteries- “Death Row Fugitive”

https://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/eubanks/eubanks-new.htm

https://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/eubanks/photos.htm

#34 The Disappearance Of Susan Powell

So basically the wife disappears while the husband is gone on an “impromptu” camping trip with his 4 and 2 year old boys...in the middle of the night...in the desert of Utah...during a blizzard.

The story of Susan Powell is a complex, disturbing and tragically short one, her life was one filled with more demons than any one person should have to face….

 

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Sources:

 

Cold Podcast

https://youtu.be/cwTi_WDSkmo susan video

https://youtu.be/ti4WhaElvNY 4 year old charlie powell interview

https://youtu.be/pTnt89UhxEU that chapter

https://youtu.be/ElBY_mHsYjg abc special

https://youtu.be/XIyfp0u2R-Y josh on abc news sayin he did kill susan

https://youtu.be/qrfqCGeDXXE social worker 911 call

https://youtu.be/GEw-Ai31Rws state pays $98 million to Powell family

https://youtu.be/AU6Wpm8dafE susans dad and FIL argue

https://youtu.be/UTGviw0Y0lc Powell boys suffered injuries before death

https://youtu.be/6D4GdKZci-0 Steve Powell died

https://youtu.be/bgqK_Tq1yH8 murder weapon theory podcast Cold

#33 The "Suicide": Part 2

In the early morning hours of April 15, 2016 a sound rang out that shattered the nights silence like glass. Then again another loud pop rang out followed by a deafening silence, broken again this time by the scream of a frightened baby boy in his crib. In the master bedroom, a locked closet and inside that closet the little boy's mother lay lifeless with blood pooling around her head as it lay on a blood soaked pillow.

Jessica Boynton had been shot in the head, and now her husband, a Griffin GA police officer was throwing all traffic laws out the window in an effort to rush home. He had received a text from his wife telling him she had been having suicidal thoughts and instructing him to look after their two boys.

Last week we looked at the story through Matthew's account of the events,  this week we will look at the case from the perspective of the evidence and the lack of.

 

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Sources:

The Officer’s Wife Podcast-VAULT & 11Alive

https://youtu.be/ndxX_Lm7svM  Crime Watch Daily

https://youtu.be/iD7yqQFIlNs  That Chapter

https://youtu.be/NPPtOMSsVDo Raw bodycam footage from that night

https://soundcloud.com/user-569425045/911-call Boynton 911 call

https://youtu.be/tT1l64De3eI M. Boyton interrogation night of shooting

https://youtu.be/EmxTxQSXNwY M. Boynton bag interrogation

https://the-grip.net/2017/07/31/matthew-boynton-the-evidence-and-investigation-that-led-to-his-arrest/

https://the-grip.net/tag/matthew-boynton/ Grip removed from press list

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/the-reveal/jessica-boynton-shooting-matthew-boynton-wife/85-8ab82530-da07-492b-9a3c-c20d5e7f50b3

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/investigations/jessica-boynton-says-shes-free-as-a-bird/85-429202915#longform_chapter_2

#32 The "Suicide": Part 1

Jessica Lester and Matthew Boynton had a typical southern Georgia upbringing, they were high school sweethearts who, just a year after dating, found out they were pregnant. The two took this matter seriously and although still very young moved into an apartment together, Matthew became an officer with Griffin police department. Jessica quickly settled into her new life as a mom and within a year the family had grown from a family of 3 to a family of 4 with the birth of a second son. Matthew and Jessica got married after their second son's birth but no one knew what Jessica was struggling with at this time. And the honeymoon phase quickly came to an end, when both Jessica and Matthew had uncovered each other's secret affairs. Then suddenly and unexpectedly Jessica does the unthinkable…..or does she?

 

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The Officer’s Wife Podcast-VAULT & 11Alive

https://youtu.be/ndxX_Lm7svM  Crime Watch Daily

https://youtu.be/iD7yqQFIlNs  That Chapter

https://youtu.be/NPPtOMSsVDo Raw bodycam footage from that night

https://soundcloud.com/user-569425045/911-call Boynton 911 call

https://youtu.be/tT1l64De3eI M. Boyton interrogation night of shooting

https://youtu.be/EmxTxQSXNwY M. Boynton bag interrogation

https://the-grip.net/2017/07/31/matthew-boynton-the-evidence-and-investigation-that-led-to-his-arrest/

https://the-grip.net/tag/matthew-boynton/ Grip removed from press list

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/the-reveal/jessica-boynton-shooting-matthew-boynton-wife/85-8ab82530-da07-492b-9a3c-c20d5e7f50b3

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/investigations/jessica-boynton-says-shes-free-as-a-bird/85-429202915#longform_chapter_2