UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
The Best of Unsolved Mysteries
A 4-Disc Collection Featuring:
The Best Of Unsolved Mysteries and Bonus Treasures & Ghosts Disc
FEATURING ONE OF TELEVISION’S MOST RESPECTED AND ADMIRED PERSONALITIES: EMMY ® AWARD WINNING, ROBERT STACK.
Includes new stories never before available on DVD
(Plus new Ghost Stories—First time on DVD)
Audio Commentary for select Eisodes by Series Producers/Creators/Directors ● Motion Menus ●5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound ● Original 4:3 Full Screen Format ● A special tribute to Robert Stack ● Behind the Scenes-The 200th Solve
The Best Of Collection includes:
3 DISCS WITH 23 OF THE BEST SEGMENTS, INCLUDING :
4 Ghost Stories (Available on DVD for the FIRST TIME) plus Ghost Boy, Elvis’s Last Night, Roswell, Frightened Family, Mexico UFO, Sleepwalking, Texas Most Wanted, After Death Visits, and Campus Murder Expose & Update, and more!
Plus
BONUS TREASURES & GHOSTS DISC INCLUDES:
5 more Ghost segments
Ghost-Fighters, Haunting on 37th Street, Direct Contact, Mummy’s Curse
and Haunted Mansion
and 5 more Treasures segments
Dutch Schultz Treasure, Marcos’ Buddha, Lost Dutchman’s Mine,
Nazi War Treasure and Plummer’s Booty
Disc #1
ALLAGASH ABDUCTIONS (19:18) – Four men camping in the Allagash Wilderness are some of the hundreds who believe they were abducted by aliens. While boating on a wilderness lake all four saw an immense blue-white light about them. Their next memory is being back on shore, several hours later, with no idea what had happened. Elaborate hoax? They swear it’s true, and all four passed polygraph exams.
LUCKY SCHOOL (11:43) – David Young and his wife, Doris nearly wiped out an entire generation in Cokeville, Wyoming by setting off a bomb in the local school. Miraculously, all of the children survived. A few were adamant about seeing what they called “a presence” hovering about their heads in the classroom just before the explosion.
LIFE AFTER LIGHTNING (13:32) – Best selling author Dannion Brinkley was struck by lightning, was declared dead and had a vivid near-death experience which profoundly changed his life. The experience transformed him from a self-confessed bully into a Good Samaritan who volunteers at hospices. He was also imbued with startling psychic powers that have allowed him to predict 117 future occurrences.
ELVIS’ LAST NIGHT (12:48) – On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley’s life came to an end. Some say he died of a heart attack. However, his friends reveal that at the end Elvis was taking three sets of uppers and downers every day. On the day he died, he disappeared into his bathroom at 9:30pm and, it was discovered later, took three sets of he drugs at the same time, including large dosages of codeine and Demerol. Elvis’ stepbrother believes he committed suicide.
FRITZ AND THE SOLDIERS (13:59) – During WWII a young boy and his mother living in an isolated cabin take in soldiers from the U.S. and Germany on Christmas Eve. The war was nearly over and Fritz’s mother insisted that the men come together for the meal. Fritz now lives in the U.S. and is looking for the soldiers. UPDATE: Ralph Blank was found in Frederick, Maryland after the chaplain of his nursing home heard him talk about the same story as the chaplain had seen on UM.
GHOST BOY (11:08) – Denice Jones was cleaning the kitchen one night when she heard a scream in her youngest son’s bedroom. Alarmed, Denice ran upstairs to find five year old son Michael curled up in the corner of his room. He explained that a “crayon color white man” had come to his room and tried to touch his shoulder. He was sent to warn Michael to stay away “from the bad ghosts.” But the warning would prove futile. Soon, Michael and his family say they were plagued by spirits in their home: glowing balls of light, levitating furniture, and demons that would physically leave their mark on Michael until he bled. Medical tests would reveal that Michael had no mental or physical problems to explain this phenomenon.
SCARED TO DEATH (12:20) – Cindy James was found dead from a heroin overdose, with her hands and feet bound tightly behind her and a nylon stocking tied around her neck. A police psychiatrist said she suffered from multiple personalities and one of them killed her. Her father and others disagree.
Disc #2
GOLDIES GIRL (15:32)– In 1964 pregnant Deliea Fazzani was banished by her parents to stay at the Loret Convent outside London, and force to give up her child to an American couple. UPDATE: Shortly after the East Coast broadcast, Deliea Fazzani’s long lost daughter called the Unsolved Mysteries telecenter. Now named Laura Powell Franklin, she is married with two children and lives near Utica, NY. Laura and Delia talked for three hours over the phone.
BRANDON LEE (12:39) – The son of Bruce Lee died in a shooting accident on the set of a movie. Was Brandon a victim of the Lee family curse or just bad luck?
MEXICO UFO (10:50) – Since the last total solar eclipse in July of 1991, there have been thousands of UFO sighting s throughout Mexico. Many people claimed to have seen a silver metallic disc with a dark underside, three shining lights and an undulating dome.
BLACK HOPE CURSE (22:13)- Families flee a new Texas subdivision after a series of horrifying paranormal events precede the grisly discovery that their homes are built over an old slave burial ground. The movie, “Poltergeist” was based in part on this true story.
TWINS (22:13) – Study of the amazing personality similarities and possible psychic abilities shared by twins. Even when they are raised in separate environments, they still manifest common traits. Medical science can’t explain these phenomena.
FERTILITY STATUES (6:33) – Two statues, five feet tall, ebony, from West Africa seem to have an affect of fertility of women who work at the Ripley’s Museum in Orlando, Florida. According to the Baoule Tribe, the statues-a man and a woman-have an incredible power, the spirit of fertility. So far 143 pregnancies, many of them by women trying unsuccessfully to conceive, have been reported by people who have touched the two statues.
LUCKY CHOIR (7:13)– In 1951 the Beatrice, Nebraska West Side Baptist Church was completely destroyed in a blast caused by a gas leak. But because of a series of unrelated circumstances and delays all twelve members of the choir who were regularly scheduled to rehearse at that time, were late and were therefore spared from the blast. They still believe their live were saved by an act of God.
COLORADO COP KILLERS (8:15) – On May 29, 1998, a hail of bullets killed Police Officer Dale Claxton as he sat in his police cruiser in Cortez, Colorado. Officer Claxton had just pulled over a stolen truck but as he was checking the license plates, three suspects from inside the truck brandished automatic weapons and began firing, killing the officer instantly. UPDATE: On 11/22/99 UM received a call from viewer stating that a body found in the desert was identified as one of suspects.
Disc #3
SLEEPWALKING (9:02) – One man was killed while sleepwalking in the street; another woman is injured because of walking through a plate glass window while sleepwalking. Find out about strange and mysterious incidences of sleepwalking.
TEXAS MOST WANTED (13:57) – Edward Harold Bell regularly exposed himself to children and shot to death Larry Dickens, the man who tried to stop him. While released on bail, he sold all his belongings and fled. UPDATE: A UM viewer identified him as a businessman in Panama. He was convicted and received a 70-year sentence.
AFTER DEATH VISITS (11:14) – According to a noted medical researcher, 7 out of 10 widows say their spouses have come back to visit them after death. Two astonishing cases are profiled which suggest these visitations are not merely hallucinations.
KC BLAST (14:29) – In Kansas City, six fire fighters were killed due to an explosion set off by arson. UPDATE: Indictments were handed down charging 5 defendants with arson, resulting in deaths. Prosecutors said the fires were deliberately set during an attempt to steal equipment and dynamite from the construction site. Each of the defendants now faces up to life in prison.
TERRORIZED TEEN (14:31) – Home alone…sick from school, 14 year old Sarah Powell is the victim of a break–in so traumatic, it sends her into a state of temporary amnesia. Months later, her memory starts to return, so do the horrific details of her attack.
ROSWELL (23:24) – In 1947, Rancher Mac Brazel claimed to have found a crashed UFO on his land. The strange looking wreckage had mysterious markings resembling Egyptian hieroglyphics. Evidence suggests government/military officials removed evidence and covered up the incident, retracting their press announcement of the findings. Since the 1947 Roswell Incident a new eyewitness account suggest that in 1947 the Army did, in fact recover bodies of alien beings.
CAMPUS MURDER EXPOSE (9:58) – Vincennes University journalism student Broom Baker was murdered after she began working on an expose about a date rape alleged to have occurred at a fraternity. She told police a fraternity member had threatened her. UPDATE: Brian Jones, a former Vincennes University student, was arrested for the death of another Vincennes coed, Erika Norma, in July 1999. Jones was sentenced to 60 years in prison for Erika’s murder as part of a plea agreement in which prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty if Jones was convicted for the death of Brook Baker. He was found guilty of killing Brook and was sentenced to life in prison.
BABY’S BREATH (11:28) – A couple gave birth to a baby born with no vital signs. An emergency medical team tries desperately to revive him, but after 33 minutes, he was officially declared dead. The family gave permission for an autopsy, but first they were given time to say their good-byes. They go the morgue to hold him and, suddenly, he began to breathe. The six doctors and eight nurses believed they witnessed a miracle.
Bonus Treasures and Ghosts Disc
DUTCH SCHULTZ TREASURE (10:53) – When gangster Dutch Schultz was gunned down, he had supposedly hidden away 7 million dollars in upstate New York. Where did it go?
MARCOS’ BUDDHA (18:12) – Roger Roxas, an amateur treasure hunter, claims that he found a 2000 pound solid gold Buddha and countless boxes of gold bars which Ferdinand Marcos later seized. A Swiss court later recognized Roxas’ claim. UPDATE: Pres. Ferdinand Marcos seized the Japanese war booty from Roger Roxas, an impoverished Filipino locksmith, and was ordered to give his family $460 million.
LOST DUTCHMAN’S MINE (11:44) – Treasure hunters have searched for decades for the infamous “Lost Dutchman” mine in Arizona.
NAZI WAR TREASURE (8:15) – Towards the end of WWII, the Nazis allegedly smuggled millions of dollars in gold & jewels out of a concentration camp in Germany. The treasure had been confiscated from victims of the infamous Dachau camp. Treasure hunter D. Edward Greger is convinced the $50 million treasure was buried on the shores of Lake Lunarzee in the Austrian Alps.
PLUMMER’S BOOTY (8:30) – 1863 Montana Sheriff Henry Plummer secretly moonlighted as the leader of notorious bandits called the “Road Agent Gang.” His dual life was later revealed and he was hung for his offenses. But the hidden location of nearly $6 million in gold still remains a mystery.
GHOST-FIGHTERS (13:38) – Ghosts of Julia and Abraham Staab haunt a New Mexico hotel.
HAUNTING ON 37TH STREET (11:05) – In January 1997, the Woods family began witnessing inexplicable occurrences in their 37th St. home. Mary, Ed and their two daughters have come to recognize four ghosts. Are these spirits connected to 1935 and 1974 neighborhood homicides?
DIRECT CONTACT (7:59) – What happens when we die? Is there a life beyond this one? Remarkably 4 out of 10 people say they’ve experienced some form of communication with the dead often through dreams. These “visits” are called “direct contacts”.
MUMMY’S CURSE (10:31) – Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn Herbert discovered a treasure trove of King Tutankhamun’s most prized possessions. Twenty deaths are attributed to the subsequent curse of the mummy.
HAUNTED MANSION (14:10) – In 1931, Bill Beatty died before completing his dream home replica of a 17th Century Normandy castle. Present day occupants believe Beatty still haunts the residence.
