Terrifying Unsolved Halloween Mysteries

By Editorial Staff in Holidays On 4th October 2016

Halloween is the one night of the year where being scared is supposed to be good fun. However, amid all the harmless activities like trick-or-treating, sometimes genuinely frightening and disturbing things can happen. October 31 has been the date of some horrific murders and unexplained disappearances which are far more terrifying than any ghouls, goblins, or witches. Because they happened to take place on Halloween, the following mysteries have an extra aura of creepiness to them, and they remain unsolved to this day.

#1 The Unsolved Murder Of Chelsea Bruck

Chelsea Bruck went to a gala costume ball Halloween night in 2014 at a rural farmhouse in Monroe County, Michigan, that had over 700 guests dressed for the occasion. She wore a shimmering green flapper costume and was seen leaving the party with a strange man whom police have never been able to identify. Police and family believed Chelsea was still alive until six months later when an anonymous tip came in, they found the costume Chelsea was wearing in an abandoned industrial field. Then three weeks later, her body was located just 10 miles from the location of the party. More than a year later, the police haven't made any breakthroughs in solving her murder though police have received numerous possible names of suspects, all stating the man she left with was wearing thick black glasses.

#2 The Rape And Murder Of A Nun

On Halloween night in Amarillo, Texas, 1981, and elderly Catholic nun was walking back to the convent from the nearby church when she was viciously raped and murdered. Johnny Frank Garrett. 17, who lived directly across from the convent, and suffered from mental illness, was charged by local police with the gruesome crime. However, the investigation was botched, and police claim that Garrett had confessed, which he later denied. Vital evidence was thrown away, none of the hairs found at the crime scene were Johnny's and they had a few fingerprints from the convent, which is also where Johnny worked. Despite this, he was convicted and executed in 1992, though the locals and the church believe the case is yet to be properly solved.

#3 The Tragic Murder Of Tony Bagley

Tony Bagley, just 7-years-old, was trick-or-treating with his mother, aunt, and cousins on Halloween night 1994 in Las Vega,Nevada when he was shot down in cold blood. As they were walking to the next house, a hooded figure ran up to the family and opened fire on them, before taking off in a waiting car. Little Tony died instantly from a shot to the head. His mother received gunshot wounds to the chest and his aunt in the leg and his another child was hit in the abdomen. Police believe the crime was somehow gang related, but some 20 years later the senseless shooting is unsolved.

#4 The Mysterious Disappearance Of Veronica Safranski

Veronica Safranski certainly caught someone's eye dressed as Pocahontas while at a local bar for a Halloween costume event in Minnesota, 1996. She was seen leaving a bar with a man named Kevin Skjerven but was never seen or heard from again. Police found portions of her tattered costume along the highway just a few miles from the local bar, but nothing else was ever found even after an extensive community search. Police learned that Mr. Skjerven had a very long rap sheet, mostly for sexual assault and abuse, but could never pin him to the disappearance of Veronica. Friends and locals in the community believe the police covered up the crime and did a poor job investigating it, and the case remains unsolved, while Skjerven has been arrested in other locations for sexual misconduct on at least five other occasions.

#5 The Creepy Case Of Chaim Weiss

On November 1st, 1986, police were called to a Jewish orthodox school on Long Island. The body of 16-year-old Chaim Weiss was discovered in his dorm room with a spinal column that had been severed in his sleep the night before. Detectives believe that the killer was familiar with Orthodox Judaism because a number of their customs were observed. The window was slightly open, which in Judaism is to allow the soul of the deceased to leave. In an odd turn of events, a rabbi from the church was allowed to leave a burning candle in the murdered student's room, which was then guarded by an officer until an investigation could follow. However, when police returned to the room, a second burning candle had been left in the room. After questioning and polygraphing the entire school, no one was ever charged in the murder and it remains a mystery.

#6 The Disappearance Of Kristi Lynn Vorak

Living in a foster home in Tacoma, Washington, and the last place she had been seen, 13-year-old Kristi Lynn Vorak disappeared on Halloween 1982 after taking an evening walk around the block to look at other children in their costumes. Her family members believe she may still be alive,and simply ran away from the home, but after 30 years most find that hard to fathom. In 1993 Kristi's name was added to a list of probable victims of the Green River serial killer Gary Ridgway. Ridgway was active in the area she disappeared in the early 80s and he targeted runaways and prostitutes but as Kristi was neither there are many people that dispute this conclusion.

#7 The Identity Of ‘Orange Socks’

The unidentified body of a young woman was found in a concrete rain ditch near Interstate 35, just outside of Georgetown, Texas on Halloween night, 1979. The victim appeared to be in her early twenties, was sexually assaulted and strangled to death. The woman was completely nude except for a pair of orange socks, which prompted newspapers to call the victim "Orange Socks" in their reporting of the event. Many years after the crime went unsolved, Henry Lee Lucas confessed to the murder of "Orange Socks," and even admitted to having sex with the dead body after he killed her. However, investigations revealed that Lucas was in Florida on the day of the murder. Lucas was notorious for frequently confessing to murders he never committed, and no one is sure how many people he actually did kill, if any. Henry Lee Lucas died in prison in 2001.

#8 The Mystery Killer Of Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Platzman

In the early hours of Halloween morning 1981, a couple was brutally slain in their home and the place was ransacked. The couple, Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Platzman, had been beaten to near death before being shot execution style. To make the heinous crime even worse, the murder was predicted by Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz in one of his prison diary entries. A fellow inmate came forward months before the murder of the couple to inform the warden that Berkowitz had told him about the upcoming crime. Believing that the inmate was simply trying to avoid prosecution for drug charges, the charges were dismissed. After the grisly murders, Berkowitz refused to answer any questions from police but it furthered the belief that Son Of Sam had not been working alone.

#9 The Masked Murderer Of Marvin Brandland

On Halloween night, 1982, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, 69-year-old Marvin Brandland and his wife were handing out candy to children who were trick-or-treating at their home. They were surprised when they answered the door and an adult, wearing a mask from the popular movie 'Halloween' was standing on the other side. The masked man said, "hand over your money or I'll shoot." But the couple believed it was a friend playing a prank and refused to do as he insisted. Still believing it was a family friend because they man insisted they go to the basement and get the money from their safe, something only friends knew about, Marvin grabbed for the gun but wound up being shot to death. Upset of the traumatic event, Ethel died just a few months later and the crime still remains unsolved.