Oh you’re actually lucky. You get to watch all these episodes for the first time. Lol. I love this show. I’m 34. I remember being so impatient waiting for episodes each week. In fact. Fast forward to 2007-2008ish when I got my first iPhone. I found a website that had every episode. I started watching them on my phone if I was out waiting somewhere. And now I do it on CZcams.
The Spooky/cool music with the once in a lifetime great voice of Robert Stack carried this show. Some episodes were really boring but Robert Stack made some of them more interesting with his voice narration and the actual episodes that were amazing he just brought them over the top !
You felt more for her in the 6- or- 7- minute segment of that program than Alex felt for her all his miserable life. In my 64 years, I have never seen of a more selfish and self-centered man than Alex Cooper.
@@grungekid1539 I wonder how much of a toll and anxiety that Alex Cooper's disappearance caused her that perhaps shortened her life. Alex Cooper was an ass- hole.
@@antonioacevedo5200 Ugh, I know! I had originally thought he had to be a prison escapee to have made decisions like that. Turns out he was just a moron.
Totally agree, personally it's up there with the MLK investigation as my favorite segment ever. It's just a masterpiece, and one I've watched maybe a hundred times on the Legends dvd.
The filmmaking and acting in those parts is super impressive for this kind of show, especially when they get the real people in re-enactments and they actually pretty decent actors. One wonders how much time/money went into these moments and what the directors had to do to get decent performances out of people who one would assume have never acted before.
YTe man has a long history of describing anyone and ki//=ng them for a crime they didn't commit. ALL FOR SPORT! To them, it's not about justice. it's about showING OFF in front of others. EGO ETCHING OUT GOD. THIS doesn't surprise me at all
The John Wilkes Booth segment is the first one I watched on the Legends dvd set when I bought it, in 2007. It instantly got me hooked on the case and on historical conspiracies. Personally, it's very very high on my list of favorite segments. Top 3 for sure, it's just perfect. 👌
Same here! It's been one of my Top 5 forever. The music is also incredible. As are the photos, recreations, and it's all so top-notch! This segment got me to buy Finis Bates' book a few years ago and I sped through it and enjoyed it a lot. I love this conspiracy and this segment was my gateway towards research. Thanks, UM!
Booth didn't die in that barn. Even the Encyclopedia Britannica refuses to accept that. Too many things say it wasn't him. That one old man refusing to discuss it is one of those real "History is a myth men agree to believe" types who doesn't want to explore the gray of some parts of history for what they are. Booth didn't act alone either, and they know it. ".. in a written statement 36 hours after his arrest..." Yeah.. just long enough to be browbeat into saying stuff that wasn't true.. but James O. Hall, old codger he was, refused to even think on that...
Jonathan Turbide well then u should know the story is true. Booth didn’t die in that barn that day. I’m not gonna say how I know and I also know I’m just a random person on the Internet, but I’m not lying. The government totally botched getting Lincoln’s killer. They killed the wrong man and then did their best to cover it up. To this day they keep the truth unknown. It’s a 150 year old government coverup still active to this day. The government won’t allow the booth family to exhume the body. I assure u the story is true. U will just have to trust me.
@@spezkay81 I definitely trust and believe you my friend, thanks for sharing your insider knowledge with us! The fact alone they didn't took pictures of the body is solid proof that they didn’t kill Booth, if they would have shot him these pics would have been all over the newspapers and plastered on the walls. They needed a body at all cost to calm the population and restore peace, so they killed the first jabroni they saw in that barn and used his body as a double for Booth's. Always fun to talk about it with knowledgeable people! 😊👍
It's kind of weird, I've never met Jim or known about this story until this moment and when they showed the update that he had passed away, which at this point was probably 25-30 years ago, I still kind of felt a blow to the gut myself. I'm so sorry he never got to to meet his brother. I'm happy he found out and met his sister though.
What I don’t get is why didn’t they try contacting ppl from that company softball game, I’m sure they’d known the company they we’re playing against that day. Really Wish he would’ve met his brother
There was a post in reddit or somewhere online, apparently the person who posted said he knew ppl who was associate with Jim's and apparently his twin brother wanted nothing to do with him. I do have reason to believe it is true, they live in same state and same or similar area. Yet he still couldn't locate or find him. Many ppl who confused him with Jim, his twin just ignored them and never ask questions like who the hell is Jim or why are ppl confusing me as Jim.
💔 I sat here waiting for Happy Ending. I need happy at this point. My husband died in November this past year, I love the reunion stories. Glad he found his sister, crushed he not find his twin.
That man HAD to be his twin. Some people are just that introverted or anti social. To be misidentified a couple of times, would picque my curiosity. But to be down right acting like that is like he wanted nothing to do with anyone.
@@mcvcalviIt's true the twin didn't want to have nothing to do with Jim, he knew associates of Jim also someone was saying this on Reddit.. Rockford or a small city so everyone pretty much knows everyone💯 49:41
if you were adopted like he was there's nothing "mysterious" really about something like people you don't know mistaken you from some for someone else, I mean anything could be possible if you don't know about your biological past. Coincidentally his birthday is the same day as mine, March the 29th- 13 years before I was born, and also coincidentally I didn't know who my father was till I was 13 years old. I grew up with a made-up last name on my birth certificate, people didn't have children out of wedlock as openly as they do now then, it was condemned and stigmatized.
Jim's twin didn't want to be found, that's the only thing I can figure. Maybe he believed something untrue about the family. Otherwise, he would have come forward eventually.
When Alex Cooper was found, I had mixed feelings. Glad he was ok but thinking to myself "nothing is worth abandoning your family and having them worried sick"...
YTe man has a long history of describing anyone and ki//=ng them for a crime they didn't commit. ALL FOR SPORT! To them, it's not about justice. it's about showING OFF in front of others. EGO ETCHING OUT GOD. THIS doesn't surprise me at all
I dont understand why it was so hard to find Jims brother when everyone kept seeing the guy.. He was in the same store about a half hour apart from each other.. Dont make sense
Sorry I'm late to the party, just subscribed. I thought that too but it's not impossible that they simply never crossed paths. It wasn't everyone who saw what may have been the brother; it was a few people. There's also the fact that Facebook and cell phones weren't around then. I live in a tiny town and my entire extended family lives here but you'd be surprised how rarely I see them out and about. There's also the possibility that the brother didn't exist or if he did, may not want to be found. 🤷
Twas this show, waaaaaay back in the late 1980's, that began my love affair and twisted fascination with all things weird, pseudo, alternate and fringe. I STILL love it.
The Alex Cooper case was quite a story. Its refreshing to see a man who did the wrong thing by abandoning his family get on TV and have the stones to admit he was wrong. We all make mistakes, but if we repent there is always forgiveness. Its an inspiration.
Since the story was corroborated by two other soldiers as well as the ladie's husband, it stands to reason that those other military people lied to satisfy the masses. I believe that young man, Harold, was pressured into changing his story.
damn that alex cooper guy kind of went off the deep end i'd say. before he ran off like that he could have just consulted a attorney to find out what his options were and im sure the statute of limitations on robbery is a lot less than 35 years
@@ljuben5738 Back before the 50s so many people were born out of the hospital and records were kept locally, and unless someone with a lot of money or interest was looking for you, you could often just move to a new town and sign an affidavit to get a drivers license or an ID card and it would get filed away. Plus back then so few things required ID. Many drivers licenses didn’t even have pictures until the late 70s
william D Ayers you usually never meet them personally tho. Its someone else that tells you they saw you on the other side of the country, where you've never been, where they trying calling for, but you never answer.lol Its hysterical sometimes.
I went to a party where I didn't know anyone except my friend who brought me along. When I walked in everyone was looking at me in a strange way. As the night went on, I was told that I looked like a guy who was a friend of theirs who had died. It was a bit disturbing for both them and me.As people had a few drinks and loosened up one guy said I had a similar personality. That's when I felt the most uneasy. Very strange night..
Brian Griffin so wait, the friend of yours that brought you along, did he know this other person they were speaking of? If so, he didn't give you a heads up on what you might be walking into?
Brian Griffin I saw mine. I had switched jobs from concrete to package delivery. I kept getting calls from concrete people asking if my new job didn’t work out. On delivery one day I saw her. Same white t-shirt jeans and blonde hair in a French braid. Exactly how I looked when working construction. Creepy for sure.
@@albakreuk5830 I don't think he did. I think he only knew the host and a couple of others. But he didn't know the person who had died or probably even was aware of it.
The guy who played the doctor was the spitting image of Booth! Why didnt they use him as Booth? It's a mystery, one that will doubtless remain unsolved . . .
One of the Rathbun, Rathburn, Rathbone interconnected clan was picked up near Canadian border on the count that he was suspected of being Booth. William Palmer Rathbone and his newly married wife were said to be on a honeymoon excursion to Niagra Falls. Another member was Henry Reed Rathburn was inside the Presidential booth as guests of Lincoln, with his date, and step sister through marriage, Clara Harris, daughter of NY senator Ira Harris. Today, a Lois Rathbun is brother Edwin's closest living descendant, his great -great granddaughter who married into the Rathbun family. One off the hotels in Elmira, NY which had a connection tot he Lincoln killing, Mary Surratt's son , John stayed there at the Brainard House at the request of Confed gen. it was later named the Rathbun hotel. The families of Rathburn, Rathbun, and Rathbone are all interconnected., and in more modern times, a member was actor Basil Rathbone, who famously played Sherlock Holmes. Apparently Lincoln himself grew up with some of the clan in Illinois, perhaps this is why he asked Henry Reed Rathburn and his stepsister the play. The Rathburn-Rathbun-Rathbone connection. Most of this info came from the families shared newsletter which I managed to track down a couple key issues, some of it has been used by the old Suratt society newsletter, and also from a Historian Jon Willen in a C-span special which can be viewed here. www.c-span.org/video/?460076-1/lincoln-assassination-attending-doctors -
The strangest thing to me about the twin case is how the dude just walks away. He isn’t curious at all, doesn’t say “sorry but I’m not who you think I am”, or anything like that. He just...walks away? That is what is so bizarre to me, it’s not like it’s the strangest thing to be mistaken for someone else
@Ben72 there's a guy that lives in my area I have never seen him but apparently he looks so identical to me that my own sister saw him in the store once and walked right up to him and was talking to him thinking it was me and then she later saw him out in the parking lot and he got into a pickup truck that was identical to mine pretty bizarre!
Apparently there is a woman that looks just like me in the small town I live in. One day whilst out walking a car full of people honked and waved at me but I just looked at them. They holler we see how you are. Not a clue as to any those people were. I’ve heard from family and friends that they’d seen me somewhere and it wasn’t me. I’m not adopted and am an only child.
When I was at school,there was a teacher who everyone thought was related to me...I use to have other students ask me if that particular teacher was my father/brother.
If the Booth family was for the exhumation, I don't understand why the judge would deny permission to exhume the body. That makes everything even more suspicious.
A court ruled in the mid 1990s that it would hard to get to the remains and that testing would be difficult on the body. It’s a very interesting case and Google has lots of links about it.
@@OrganicAct the late Dr. James Starrs, a very established forensic pathologist, helped with the Booth case back in the 90s. He generally thought it unlikely Booths physical remains would yield viable DNA...Booth was reburied at his current location in 1869, his family plot, which is at the base of a fairly steep hill; water runoff creates pools around the Booth gravesite. Dr. Starrs pointed out this condition would make it unlikely the bones would be in decent condition, nor would enough viable dna be present to work with, at least as far as science allowed in 1997.
But this is true and if anyone likes to think the government doesn’t tell lies to cover up shit go look at the jfk assassination. Definitely similar in a way. The shooter in that wasn’t Oswald
Jim's story shows just how special and precious chance encounters are. Unfortunately, in Jim's case, he came really close by 15 minutes, but that magical moment never came to pass.
I remember watching this because I wanted to see the John Wilkes Booth part. He was wrong in shooting Abraham Lincoln. I love Abraham Lincoln. That guy said the real John Wilkes Booth died in Enid, Oklahoma in 1903. I'm from and watching from Gore, Oklahoma right now.💚 11:28 p.m. Sun, Jan 3rd.
I believe the Boothe story, there were alot of people still mad about freeing the slaves, so when Boothe killed Lincoln he was kind of considered a hero
Basically Lincoln's freeing the slaves would be like a modern president confiscating all of the tractors, combines and cotton harvesters in the US from the farmers who had bought and paid for them with no compensation and telling them to figure out how to farm without them. At the time agriculture was not mechanized so farms used slave labor rather than machines. In most cases the slaves were the plantation owner's second most valuable asset, second only to the land and without them the land was worthless because he couldn't plow all those fields and pick all that cotton without them.
More revisionist nonsense. Lincoln did not "want the cotton". And Lincoln "did not invade the south". Traitors and cowards illegally and against majority of the public's support broke from the union before Lincoln was even president of the United States. They did so under false pretenses then, as they do now. The cotton industry could have been revamped and pressed twice as much cotton out West, as there was the land and ability with half the crew. As you can see though, cotton wasn't a 'priority" When you get your education from South Carolina and Mississippi or other southern states, of course you're misinformed and ignorant. That's because to this very day, school text books are "approved" by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), who has spent their entire history with daddy issues and trying to restore the south's image and their father's honor. Racist to the core as they were, reconstruction era proved EXACTLY what and who these people were and are. No wonder South Carolina and Mississippi fight each year for the bottom in education in the nation, and Southern states round out the bottom ten. Actually looking at it, they round out the bottom ten when it comes to everything- healthcare, education, poverty, drug abuse and deaths and violence in the rural South exceeded metropolitan areas. South Carolina leads the country in murders per Capita. Yes, you are at greater risk getting murdered in South Carolina than Chicago. The South left the Union because they wanted to keep slaves. It had nothing to do with economics or "state rights". Goldwater is who popularized the "state rights" angle to win over the racist southern states who felt their freedom was endangered because they might have to drink out a water fountain a black person did or their ass might touch a toilet seat a black person's did. Yes that was supposed be such a "tough" and "great" generation. Back to reality. All you have to do is read the Constitution of the Confederacy. It is clear and compelling. Letters between southern philosophers- those who pushed for succession for years, generals and even Jefferson Davis' cabinet before, after and during the war. They are not trying to make some moral state rights statement. They were not concerned about the general welfare or population of the South. They were concerned and one of their biggest fears was the inability to "own black people". In the reconstruction era, they began to panic and we're afraid black people would retaliate and treat them as they were treated. Revisionist history especially about something as nonsensical as the "south" has no place in America. It was a quick four years when some good men corrected something that was far worse than murder and war crimes-- slavery. State rights were not in the vocabulary of the traitors. What the southern pride racists fail to understand is that yes, the sole purpose and motivation of treason by the south, was that they felt black people needed to by owned and needed to work for them, the south aristocrat apparatus. Which they enlisted uneducated, poor people trying to survive day to day just so they can enjoy their plantation. Even PragerU republican voters only consistent education establishment, that can be debunked faster than the bizarre unfounded claims they make, gets one or two right here and there.. Prager and Rand Paul (before Trump took over the party with his uneducated racist Stephen Miller brand of white nationalism) as attempted to show that the GOP "stopped being racist recently", so they fought long and hard, campaigned several episodes on PragerU to put an end to the "myths" of the Civil War. No lost cause, or Northern Aggression. Just like with radical Trumpists, when Lincoln won the election, Southerners biggest fear is that blacks would be freed and they'd be arrested and executed by black freemen. Even though paid labor is cheaper than slavery, they knew they couldn't easily rape, beat and molest a laborer as easy as a slave. Before Lincoln was sworn into office, like Trumpists... the South began to leave the union. It is well established that all Lincoln would not have just freed the slaves, the south had no reason to believe that. They knew his administration would end the sale and black child birth after the date would be free. But the south was even afraid of the ban and sales and abuses. It just shows how ignorant they were then, but now there is just no excuse. Time to stop romanticizing the Antebellum south. It did not exist in that manner. It was much more cruel and disgusting than it already was. We just have to look at journals or slave owners.
@@trevorn9381 Exactly. To them Lincoln basically took away their property. Their way of farming life. I agree with you 100% Btw I have a cousin in the Navy named Trevor
love this show,robert stacks clear diction of the stories keeps you interested.the writing and period recreations of the stories are done with care and the cinematography give the stories the feeling of that era whatever year the stories take place.
Regarding the Alex Cooper case: I can not help but see a striking similarity to the known sketches of the so-called DB Cooper who hijacked a commercial jet back in 1971, for ransom...and parachuted out the rear mid-flight. I actually had started to think of that case very soon after the segment started.
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 I’ve always thought he was Canadian due to the wording of the note, demanding “negotiable US currency”. Americans definitely don’t say negotiable US currency. They say dollars or money or bucks, or, really, anything else. Plus it was a border area, a popular Canadian comic, and the FBI likely didn’t check out any/many Canadian citizens.
I remember being around 6 or so the earliest I can think of and it was before my father died, but I remember hearing the intro running and grabbing my blanket and turning all the lights in the house off sitting down with my mother and father. I miss that man so much it’s been 22 years and not a day has went by that I don’t think of him.
I always liked this show, and never missed an episode when new. It was very interesting. Robert Stack had the perfect voice to host this show. Thanks much to whoever uploaded it! I haven't seen this since it was canceled.
It's really not the end of the world from a biological standpoint. If you think about it there's only so many people in a given community, plenty of incest goes on over the generations. Even if everyone on Earth were to mix completely regularly (far from reality), within 30 generations you're back to incest.
I had an experience with my doppelganger on my birthday. I was at the pharmacy picking up a prescription and exited the building and came face to face with a guy who looked exactly like me! He was even driving the same make, model and colour of car. He seemed not to notice. I drove up the road a bit and stopped at a local fruit stand to buy some peaches, and guess who also pulls up. He got out and I said to him "Ok, one of us is the clone. I saw an episode of Star Trek like this and it did NOT end well!" The guy stares at me like I have three heads or something! Anyways, i got out of there before it led to the destruction of the known universe.
I wish we could see what really happened with all of these conspiracy cases and theories for all of these events that happened over the years. Starting with this, then Billy the Kid...did he get away or was he killed, the JFK assassination, Kurt Cobains suicide/possible murder, 9/11, the Jeff Epstein murder, did Hitler get away to Argentina at the end of WW2 or was he killed in the bunker, etc. I'm sure many were straightforward but a few had to be different than what history tells us and I tend to believe things that happened centuries ago were more likely to be conspiracies since police work was sloppier back then and less media and technology. Stuff was just way harder to prove.
@@antonioacevedo5200 Some are but some are not. I don't know who is making any sort of big money off of the Lincoln conspiracy. Most books and films written about the Lincoln Assassination go with the official narrative of what happened.
@@STONESGAM The last presidential conspiracy was that of Zackary Taylor actually being murdered with arsenic. He was exhumed and his hair tested. It was all bullshit.
@@antonioacevedo5200 We aren't talking about that though. That doesn't mean this one is BS because that one was. I mean it very well could be but I'd personally like to see them do a DNA test. Can't hurt.
@@STONESGAM I agree with you about a DNA test, but for the wrong reasons. I would like to see pictures of Booth's remains to see history come alive. If there was any doubt about the body buried not being Booth's, there would have been an exhumation decades ago.
Wow. This episode kicked total ass -- compelling from the first minute to the last. The series really hit its stride here. The Booth segment looks like a small fortune was spent on it, like a medium budget motion picture. The Twins segment was great. Loved it when the daughter shouted across the raging creek and her cry of "Dad" just echoes across; so evocative. The last segment was heartbreaking -- the guy made a dumb mistake and made a huge leap simply from pure guilt. Notice how all the experts, including the police, couldn't imagine any of it to come up with a credible theory. The best writers of fiction couldn't make this stuff up. Human dilemmas drive the true mysteries of the human heart and motivations. Superb.
Awww I really wanted to see the twins side by side Sounds like Alex had a few secrets .💔his poor wife . Thank goodness it was something like that and not another family which is what I thought it was .
Requests for precisely that, a DNA test, have already been declined. The family of Booth's brother offered to do such a test in 2010, even claiming they had permission from the cemetery where Edwin Booth was buried. But the cemetery denied this, and the Museum that hold's JW Booth's remains formally denied the request in 2013.
@@detroitforever5352 Worse still is the argument the dissenting state court made. It was so piss weak as to barely warrant serious attention. I'd of said Familial rights override court rulings on a matter of considerable import, and would further challenge the courts denial of exhumation stating that the impact of exhumation and verification would have no impact either the sanctity or the reputation of the court and is within the prerogative of the family to resolve the matter once and for all.
@@TheSaneHatter Well, then, I'd think that whoever has legal jurisdiction of the body already knows the truth through their own DNA test, which, the result, probably isn't on their side.
Growing up, my favorite segments were always the paranormal segments. Now that I am older, the other cases are every bit as intriguing. I'm going to do a free trial over the holidays so I can watch the reboot which by all accounts is pretty good.
I remember the Lincoln episode as a teenager because it caused me to question what I read in my history book. It introduced me to conspiracy theories by learning they have value since it permits one to challenge established ideas.
For the record, there's a movie/ documentary that tells what really happened to John Wilkes Booth, it will surprise you! On CZcams, look up " The Lincoln Conspiracy ", from 1976.
@@thomasharrison3126 I have seen the Lincoln Conspiracy 2-3 times. Booth's death is debatable rather I think it is better to focus on what Lincoln wanted to do if he had lived.
I had a history teacher in the 10th grade, who told us that " off the record, What's told in History books & What Actually happened, are Often 2 different things". Never forgot that!
Can you get into Season 8 & beyond I'm in the middle of Season 4 with Robert Stack catching up. There was 1 in season 8 that I saw once long ago forgot what happened & been wanting to see it again it was in Season 8.
Angelica Maria Longoria, my daughter was reported missing! In November of 1985, from El Monte, California she hasn’t been seen or heard of since then! Will you please help me find her!
Thanks For Another Great Episode Of Unsolved Mysteries With Robert Stack It's Back After This Story Aired Jim Was Reunited With His Sister Judy Sullivan But Sadly He Passed Away Before He Could Find His Twin Brother Very Sad Case
The woman falling down the stairs in the opening and the girl being abducted in the opening of an earlier season used to scare the shit out of me as a kid 😬
@@clopez4280 yeah... I highly doubt his wife or his children would ever accept a apology from him. All over a birth certificate. Five years is a big gap for a trip out of the house. Alex Cooper story is extremely bizarre and werid. His story doesn't make any sense at all.
Things happened for a reason, there where moments Jim was so close running into his twin brother but didn't. I read in Reddit that apparently Billy didn't want nothing to do with Jim if that true meeting may give him closure but it would leave him a sour taste in his mouth. Some things in this world are better off unanswered. I guess what Reddit said was true, Jim quickly reunited with his sister but not his brother who would be easy to locate esp since they are twins, he has shown to be hanging around the same area, as well people have confused Jim as Billy. Plus people who have confused Jim as Billy has reported that Billy straight up ignored them like he wants to avoid conflict as for Jim he responded very confused or goes with the flow. I mean I would have been happy if I found out if I have a twin but other ppl don't, we don't know the lifestyle Billy grow up to not want nothing to do with his twin brother.
I wonder if the twin could have been deaf. That could explain why he never responded and just looked puzzled or walked away. Yeah, the basketball kids expected "Billy" to hear them and answer, but he may have gone deaf later on, either through accident or illness. Measles and some of the other childhood diseases of that era were known to cause blindness and deafness. Most mothers would isolate their measly kids in a dark, quiet room, as noises and bright lights were thought to cause the measles to "settle" in the ears and eyes.
The Cooper guy in this episode might be the infamous "Dan Cooper" (also known as D.B. Cooper) who hijacked the plane in 1971 and parachuted out with $200,000! The guy looks just like the FBI composite sketch from 1972 accounting for age (38:45). It's uncanny. The mystery man here used two other "Cooper" aliases too, one of the names also starting with a "D". Episode says he started a business in 1974, which might have been around the time he could have started laundering the money from the hijack. He's a fisherman and knows the outdoors, so he could have survived parachuting into deep woods. He became a traveling salesman, which is a good cover for someone on the run. If you're secretly D.B. Cooper and a stranger figures you out, your only choice is to vanish and not even tell your family because the FBI could use them to find you, or accuse them of aiding and abetting. If they're the ones filing the missing persons report, they're probably not complicit.
I don't know what it is but I have a nagging suspicion "Alex Cooper" was not telling the whole story. My first thought was perhaps he was a German who escaped to North America after the war...if you catch my drift. Whatever the case, The reason he gave for abandoning his family seems pretty weak to me.
Just like Jim who has a doppelganger, I have doppelgangers myself. People swear they've seen me in places where I haven't been. My rare craniofacial disorder, Treacher Collins syndrome, makes people who have it look eerily similar.
I am so glad Alex Cooper reunited with his family. His wife and daughter looked truly sad when he took off not knowing anything and plus the secret that came out. Can't imagine what the wife must have been going through all the years he was away.
Omg! Part of this was hard to focus on. As much as I tried, I couldn't avoid looking at that lady's mustache, and her voice just droned on and on. You'd think the shows makeup department would have bleached or shaved it.
The gub'mint lies! Lol. Fascinating theory about Booth. I believe it! I also wonder, can the family just do a DNA test on the remains anyways without government involvement? Hmmm.....
the John Wilkes Booth story is interesting but no matter if he died when history said or he lived to a ripe old age....then died............ short of a real life time machine we will never know what happen after he killed Lincoln.
YTe man has a long history of grabbing anyone and ki//=ng them for a crime they didn't commit. ALL FOR SPORT! To them, it's not about justice. it's about showING OFF in front of others. EGO ETCHING OUT GOD. THIS doesn't surprise me at all
The Jim Bumgarten case was just bizarre. Look like his twin would have wondered sooner or later why people kept calling him Jim and asked someone, or at least told them his real name. Unless Jim's twin didn't want to be found for some reason.
YTe man has a long history of describing anyone and ki//=ng them for a crime they didn't commit. ALL FOR SPORT! To them, it's not about justice. it's about showING OFF in front of others. EGO ETCHING OUT GOD. THIS doesn't surprise me at all
I was kind of on the fence about the John Wilkes Booth story during the segment but listen closely to what Robert Stack says from 21:14-21:35 I was mind blown
I got triples, I was shown the photo of my double by a local mechanic in my area, then a cousin of mine showed me a postcard of the area where the picture was taken on that beach, my triple was caught in the picture taken, I was shocked. I swear on my life about this one!
I experienced that myself the Jim episode, back in the late 80s I use to get mistaken for a guy named Clover Baker, in 1989' a young lady mistaken me 3-different times of being Clover and each time I had to remind her that I was not Clover once when she gave me a big hug and I said I appreciate the hug but like I told you before I'm not Clover my name is Eric Gilyard ( because that was my name at the time ) she said Awww I did it again I'm sorry sir I said no problem. In 2002' a guy came up to me in Kash & Karry Grocery here in Tampa Florida and said to me hey Clover do you remember we use to work at Singleton together I said to him I'm sorry I know the guy Clover but I'm not him he looked at me and said What! he said man y'all could go for Twins, i actually met Clover Baker in 1989' where we both agreed that people told both of us that it was someone walking around Tampa that looked like us, we both agreed to that face to face in 1989'
Singleton was a Shrimp place near 50th.& Broadway here in Tampa back in the day... Lol every body that worked their wore white and when they got on the city bus every body already knew where they worked at Lol because of the smell of them dam shrimps Lol.
A guy here in Tampa named Eddie Lee Upshaw who has a big brother name Zebedee Highsmith, Eddie Lee Upshaw was my sister's class mate many years ago, he came up to me that same year 1989' and said hey Eric I got this running partner that I hangout with his name Clover he said do you know him ? I said yep and he said man y'all look just A-Like y'all could go for Twins i said I already know people have been telling me that, I said we even met face to face too and he said the same thing that I said, that people had been telling him that its some guy named Eric Gilyard walking around here that look just like him, Eddie Lee Upshaw said but y'all do Eric, I said did you tell him that he said yeah I told him about you too and we just laughed and I said well yeah I can see the resemblance, I further said my dad said the same thing you said when he seen him
Discovering this show as a 23 year old and am HOOKED! Wish it was still on the air 🥺
There are Netflix s new episodes!
I'm 37 and will never forget how creepy this music was as a small child.
@@jamessaibot5681 yup. I'm 38 and the music alone was so creepy but the voice of Robert stack really made me terrified. I still watched it tho😆
@@claudiacontrerasgutierrez7724 The Netflix show is trash. This show is a masterpiece
Oh you’re actually lucky. You get to watch all these episodes for the first time. Lol. I love this show. I’m 34. I remember being so impatient waiting for episodes each week. In fact. Fast forward to 2007-2008ish when I got my first iPhone. I found a website that had every episode. I started watching them on my phone if I was out waiting somewhere. And now I do it on CZcams.
It's sad that Jim never got to meet his twin, Billy. I am glad he did meet Judy though.
The twin wanted nothing to do with that family. For some reason we don’t know. The children did talk to him.
I know it broke my heart to see Jim died. As you said, at least he met his sister ❤️
R.I.P Jim
@@BrianSmith-yq7ys dry aquarium
@@BrianSmith-yq7ys dry aquarium
I remember watching this with my grandmother ❤ good old memories this was our show...
I watched this and Rescue 911with my Grandma. Good times back then.
So sweet 🥰
Same, use to watch it with my grandmother all the time.
Aww I watch this show with my mama all the time.
Hey same is watch with my grandmother when I'd stay the summer with them.
The Spooky/cool music with the once in a lifetime great voice of Robert Stack carried this show. Some episodes were really boring but Robert Stack made some of them more interesting with his voice narration and the actual episodes that were amazing he just brought them over the top !
My heart just breaks for Margaret Cooper. Just hearing her talk about that car and the emotion in her voice, just tears me up inside
She unfortunately passed away not long after she got to reunite with Alex. Alex died in 2007. This year, he would have been 97.
You felt more for her in the 6- or- 7- minute segment of that program than Alex felt for her all his miserable life. In my 64 years, I have never seen of a more selfish and self-centered man than Alex Cooper.
@@grungekid1539 I wonder how much of a toll and anxiety that Alex Cooper's disappearance caused her that perhaps shortened her life. Alex Cooper was an ass- hole.
@@antonioacevedo5200 Ugh, I know! I had originally thought he had to be a prison escapee to have made decisions like that.
Turns out he was just a moron.
John Wilkes Booth one was fascinating.
Totally agree, personally it's up there with the MLK investigation as my favorite segment ever. It's just a masterpiece, and one I've watched maybe a hundred times on the Legends dvd.
The government killed Lincoln just like MLK case closed
@@kinglord318 The government killed me, too...
@Jeffrey Dohnger ohh Jeffrey...
I still think Booth made it. There's as much evidence for him as against him.
Robert Stack is the coolest celebrity of all time.
I'm always impressed by the production value of the reenactments, especially the historical ones.
Right?! They went to extreme measures with the locations, costumes, props, etc. You always feel like you are watching the real thing.
The filmmaking and acting in those parts is super impressive for this kind of show, especially when they get the real people in re-enactments and they actually pretty decent actors. One wonders how much time/money went into these moments and what the directors had to do to get decent performances out of people who one would assume have never acted before.
The not-Booth actor played dead very well
YTe man has a long history of describing anyone and ki//=ng them for a crime they didn't commit. ALL FOR SPORT! To them, it's not about justice. it's about showING OFF in front of others. EGO ETCHING OUT GOD. THIS doesn't surprise me at all
Except for when they towed the car backwards
It's sad how he never met his mother and twin.
The John Wilkes Booth segment is the first one I watched on the Legends dvd set when I bought it, in 2007. It instantly got me hooked on the case and on historical conspiracies. Personally, it's very very high on my list of favorite segments. Top 3 for sure, it's just perfect. 👌
Same here! It's been one of my Top 5 forever. The music is also incredible. As are the photos, recreations, and it's all so top-notch! This segment got me to buy Finis Bates' book a few years ago and I sped through it and enjoyed it a lot. I love this conspiracy and this segment was my gateway towards research. Thanks, UM!
Booth didn't die in that barn. Even the Encyclopedia Britannica refuses to accept that. Too many things say it wasn't him. That one old man refusing to discuss it is one of those real "History is a myth men agree to believe" types who doesn't want to explore the gray of some parts of history for what they are. Booth didn't act alone either, and they know it.
".. in a written statement 36 hours after his arrest..." Yeah.. just long enough to be browbeat into saying stuff that wasn't true.. but James O. Hall, old codger he was, refused to even think on that...
D.B. Cooper.
Jonathan Turbide well then u should know the story is true. Booth didn’t die in that barn that day. I’m not gonna say how I know and I also know I’m just a random person on the Internet, but I’m not lying. The government totally botched getting Lincoln’s killer. They killed the wrong man and then did their best to cover it up. To this day they keep the truth unknown. It’s a 150 year old government coverup still active to this day. The government won’t allow the booth family to exhume the body. I assure u the story is true. U will just have to trust me.
@@spezkay81 I definitely trust and believe you my friend, thanks for sharing your insider knowledge with us! The fact alone they didn't took pictures of the body is solid proof that they didn’t kill Booth, if they would have shot him these pics would have been all over the newspapers and plastered on the walls. They needed a body at all cost to calm the population and restore peace, so they killed the first jabroni they saw in that barn and used his body as a double for Booth's. Always fun to talk about it with knowledgeable people! 😊👍
It’s weird that the guy’s twin just ignored everyone instead of saying “I’m not this guy.” That Alex Cooper story was crazy.
The mummified body of John St. Helen is the stuff of nightmares
She had a nice mustache
@@kevinboswell1891 this made me laugh 😆
Neither can i; while house sitting recently, I watched a marathon of UM with Robert Stack, for 7 days, & enjoyed it!!!!!
Those aren’t even the worst ones, the ones from the inquest in Ohio are pure nightmare fuel (the remains had aged even worse)
nightmares? it is hilarious
The government is always only interested in quickly closing a case while countless people are wrongly judged or intimidated into pleaing.
And criminals do not serve enough time especially in murder case's and rape pedophilia
It's kind of weird, I've never met Jim or known about this story until this moment and when they showed the update that he had passed away, which at this point was probably 25-30 years ago, I still kind of felt a blow to the gut myself. I'm so sorry he never got to to meet his brother. I'm happy he found out and met his sister though.
I was just thinking exactly the same thing!!!
What I don’t get is why didn’t they try contacting ppl from that company softball game, I’m sure they’d known the company they we’re playing against that day. Really Wish he would’ve met his brother
There was a post in reddit or somewhere online, apparently the person who posted said he knew ppl who was associate with Jim's and apparently his twin brother wanted nothing to do with him.
I do have reason to believe it is true, they live in same state and same or similar area. Yet he still couldn't locate or find him. Many ppl who confused him with Jim, his twin just ignored them and never ask questions like who the hell is Jim or why are ppl confusing me as Jim.
The show was 1992 and he died in 94 only a couple years later. Looked very old for his age (45) which makes me wonder if he had health issues
💔 I sat here waiting for Happy Ending. I need happy at this point. My husband died in November this past year, I love the reunion stories. Glad he found his sister, crushed he not find his twin.
Jim Boumgarten was only 44 and looked 70. Sadly he died just a couple years later in 1994. I wonder if he had health issues
Probably stress. Poor man
Alex, David, DB, Bill.....Cooper seems to be a surname of mystery
Yes. Very good observation Steven
Maybe Alex Cooper wasn't his real name.
I wonder if he ever got his pension?
First thing I thought was DB cooper
Spooky Coopers.
I feel sad for Jim missing out on is Brother and surprised Unsolved Mysteries didn't get a response.
That man HAD to be his twin. Some people are just that introverted or anti social. To be misidentified a couple of times, would picque my curiosity. But to be down right acting like that is like he wanted nothing to do with anyone.
@@mcvcalviIt's true the twin didn't want to have nothing to do with Jim, he knew associates of Jim also someone was saying this on Reddit.. Rockford or a small city so everyone pretty much knows everyone💯 49:41
I wanted Jim to meet his twin so bad. They lived so close to each other and I was certain there would be a better Update than that.
if you were adopted like he was there's nothing "mysterious" really about something like people you don't know mistaken you from some for someone else, I mean anything could be possible if you don't know about your biological past.
Coincidentally his birthday is the same day as mine, March the 29th- 13 years before I was born, and also coincidentally I didn't know who my father was till I was 13 years old.
I grew up with a made-up last name on my birth certificate, people didn't have children out of wedlock as openly as they do now then, it was condemned and stigmatized.
Jim's twin didn't want to be found, that's the only thing I can figure. Maybe he believed something untrue about the family. Otherwise, he would have come forward eventually.
Yeah, why did the twin just say I'm not Jim, I'm so and so, you're mistaken? Something about this story never added up.
When Alex Cooper was found, I had mixed feelings. Glad he was ok but thinking to myself "nothing is worth abandoning your family and having them worried sick"...
YTe man has a long history of describing anyone and ki//=ng them for a crime they didn't commit. ALL FOR SPORT! To them, it's not about justice. it's about showING OFF in front of others. EGO ETCHING OUT GOD. THIS doesn't surprise me at all
I dont understand why it was so hard to find Jims brother when everyone kept seeing the guy.. He was in the same store about a half hour apart from each other.. Dont make sense
Yeah, Or ask the guy on the softball team
Right
It sounds like Jim was playing a prank on people.
Agree, it´s like they lived in the same neighbourhood. Very weird.
Sorry I'm late to the party, just subscribed. I thought that too but it's not impossible that they simply never crossed paths. It wasn't everyone who saw what may have been the brother; it was a few people. There's also the fact that Facebook and cell phones weren't around then. I live in a tiny town and my entire extended family lives here but you'd be surprised how rarely I see them out and about. There's also the possibility that the brother didn't exist or if he did, may not want to be found. 🤷
My wife and I just loved this program! The production of this program was first rate! Robert Stack's narration of the material was just great!!
Twas this show, waaaaaay back in the late 1980's, that began my love affair and twisted fascination with all things weird, pseudo, alternate and fringe. I STILL love it.
And nothing wrong with that😃
I think this show began in like 1991 ..I was around 11
@@gic8849 Nah its first season was 1987.
The Alex Cooper case was quite a story. Its refreshing to see a man who did the wrong thing by abandoning his family get on TV and have the stones to admit he was wrong. We all make mistakes, but if we repent there is always forgiveness. Its an inspiration.
It was not an honest mistake. Don't defend him.
@@MIKECNW I'm not defending his actions, I'm just commending the repentance.
@@joshlight6892 What other choice did he have? He got caught. Self-centered people like Alex always repent when they are caught.
can be the famous DB Coopper?
You know what though, the whole family will be much happier if they'll just forgive, forget and live.
Feel sad for Jim and his family that he passed only a year after meeting his sister. He didn't look well probably had failing health.
Since the story was corroborated by two other soldiers as well as the ladie's husband, it stands to reason that those other military people lied to satisfy the masses. I believe that young man, Harold, was pressured into changing his story.
damn that alex cooper guy kind of went off the deep end i'd say. before he ran off like that he could have just consulted a attorney to find out what his options were and im sure the statute of limitations on robbery is a lot less than 35 years
Im confused how did he just change identity over night, as in how did he get his new name on all his ID and passport and documents etc?
@@ljuben5738 Forging documents would likely have been a lot easier back then.
When someone confess a crime... it's usually to cover up a bigger guilt...a guilt than does not have a statute of limitations....murder maybe...🙄
Ljuben There have been several people wanted for murder on this show who somehow managed to get on flights out of the country. Almost impossible now.
@@ljuben5738
Back before the 50s so many people were born out of the hospital and records were kept locally, and unless someone with a lot of money or interest was looking for you, you could often just move to a new town and sign an affidavit to get a drivers license or an ID card and it would get filed away. Plus back then so few things required ID. Many drivers licenses didn’t even have pictures until the late 70s
I enjoyed the Alex Cooper story.
Certainly one of the stranger mysteries, but at least his family gave him a second chance and it ended on a happy note.
Absolutely the best part of this prgm.
Crazy story.
Crazy to think the death of the 14-yr old Louis Hieronimus helped Jim to find some biological family so many years later.
Idk why we don't have TV shows like this anymore
LIBS
I wasn't sure I'd enjoy the first story, but it was really good.
Yup, I thought it was going to be just like the “old west outlaw actually lived to be an old man” stories. But it was really great.
This was my favorite show growing up. RIP Robert Stack.
They say we have a twin out there
william D Ayers you usually never meet them personally tho. Its someone else that tells you they saw you on the other side of the country, where you've never been, where they trying calling for, but you never answer.lol Its hysterical sometimes.
I went to a party where I didn't know anyone except my friend who brought me along. When I walked in everyone was looking at me in a strange way. As the night went on, I was told that I looked like a guy who was a friend of theirs who had died. It was a bit disturbing for both them and me.As people had a few drinks and loosened up one guy said I had a similar personality. That's when I felt the most uneasy. Very strange night..
Brian Griffin so wait, the friend of yours that brought you along, did he know this other person they were speaking of? If so, he didn't give you a heads up on what you might be walking into?
Brian Griffin I saw mine. I had switched jobs from concrete to package delivery. I kept getting calls from concrete people asking if my new job didn’t work out.
On delivery one day I saw her. Same white t-shirt jeans and blonde hair in a French braid. Exactly how I looked when working construction. Creepy for sure.
@@albakreuk5830 I don't think he did. I think he only knew the host and a couple of others. But he didn't know the person who had died or probably even was aware of it.
I love Unsolved Mysteries!!! Thank You.
Soy 100% PRO AMLO no you u do it
The guy who played the doctor was the spitting image of Booth! Why didnt they use him as Booth? It's a mystery, one that will doubtless remain unsolved . . .
Somewhere, somebody knows the truth behind why he wasn't used to play booth ... perhaps that person is watching... perhaps...it's you.
Because producers of TV shows are not the sharpest tacks in the box.
Funny
One of the Rathbun, Rathburn, Rathbone interconnected clan was picked up near Canadian border on the count that he was suspected of being Booth. William Palmer Rathbone and his newly married wife were said to be on a honeymoon excursion to Niagra Falls. Another member was Henry Reed Rathburn was inside the Presidential booth as guests of Lincoln, with his date, and step sister through marriage, Clara Harris, daughter of NY senator Ira Harris. Today, a Lois Rathbun is brother Edwin's closest living descendant, his great -great granddaughter who married into the Rathbun family. One off the hotels in Elmira, NY which had a connection tot he Lincoln killing, Mary Surratt's son , John stayed there at the Brainard House at the request of Confed gen. it was later named the Rathbun hotel. The families of Rathburn, Rathbun, and Rathbone are all interconnected., and in more modern times, a member was actor Basil Rathbone, who famously played Sherlock Holmes. Apparently Lincoln himself grew up with some of the clan in Illinois, perhaps this is why he asked Henry Reed Rathburn and his stepsister the play. The Rathburn-Rathbun-Rathbone connection.
Most of this info came from the families shared newsletter which I managed to track down a couple key issues, some of it has been used by the old Suratt society newsletter, and also from a Historian Jon Willen in a C-span special which can be viewed here. www.c-span.org/video/?460076-1/lincoln-assassination-attending-doctors -
@@turkeyleg1 😜😹😿😋😁😃!!!
The strangest thing to me about the twin case is how the dude just walks away. He isn’t curious at all, doesn’t say “sorry but I’m not who you think I am”, or anything like that. He just...walks away? That is what is so bizarre to me, it’s not like it’s the strangest thing to be mistaken for someone else
I thought it was strange as well, but I now realize that apparently Jim's twin wanted nothing to do with Jim or his family.
So, it's not a mystery after all?
@Ben72 there's a guy that lives in my area I have never seen him but apparently he looks so identical to me that my own sister saw him in the store once and walked right up to him and was talking to him thinking it was me and then she later saw him out in the parking lot and he got into a pickup truck that was identical to mine pretty bizarre!
I wish we could read that journal book that the military found in that barn.
Apparently there is a woman that looks just like me in the small town I live in. One day whilst out walking a car full of people honked and waved at me but I just looked at them. They holler we see how you are. Not a clue as to any those people were. I’ve heard from family and friends that they’d seen me somewhere and it wasn’t me. I’m not adopted and am an only child.
Sounds made up
I saw a person who kinda looked like this other bitch I somewhat knew
@@ryanjavierortega8513 don't call women bitches!!
When I was at school,there was a teacher who everyone thought was related to me...I use to have other students ask me if that particular teacher was my father/brother.
There are people who look like others. Conspiracy Theorists will say it could be a doppelganger or so
If the Booth family was for the exhumation, I don't understand why the judge would deny permission to exhume the body. That makes everything even more suspicious.
Because it would mean that in the off chance it is John Wilkes Booth, that means so much political victories for finding Booth were built on lies.
Way more suspicious, right? Lol
It’s implied the government is hiding it, but you can find articles of booties family being against the exhumation, conspiracy lovers wet dream
A court ruled in the mid 1990s that it would hard to get to the remains and that testing would be difficult on the body. It’s a very interesting case and Google has lots of links about it.
@@OrganicAct the late Dr. James Starrs, a very established forensic pathologist, helped with the Booth case back in the 90s. He generally thought it unlikely Booths physical remains would yield viable DNA...Booth was reburied at his current location in 1869, his family plot, which is at the base of a fairly steep hill; water runoff creates pools around the Booth gravesite.
Dr. Starrs pointed out this condition would make it unlikely the bones would be in decent condition, nor would enough viable dna be present to work with, at least as far as science allowed in 1997.
John Wilkes Booth's story of weather he died or not, sounds a lot like Billy the Kid.
There's a number of stories like that about famous people, espically in older time periods.
It does! I was just watching a few videos of Billy the kid. Ot was really interesting.
The realations of the the stories may be almost accurate!
Anastasia as well. Lots of people claiming to be her.
But this is true and if anyone likes to think the government doesn’t tell lies to cover up shit go look at the jfk assassination. Definitely similar in a way. The shooter in that wasn’t Oswald
Jim's story shows just how special and precious chance encounters are. Unfortunately, in Jim's case, he came really close by 15 minutes, but that magical moment never came to pass.
I can never get enough of stack & unsolved mysteries.
Me either! I love this show! My favorite!
Me too!!
I always liked the Robert Stack Unsolved Mysteries best. Just the way he talked and presented each story, added a certain element of mystery.
I remember watching this because I wanted to see the John Wilkes Booth part. He was wrong in shooting Abraham Lincoln. I love Abraham Lincoln.
That guy said the real John Wilkes Booth died in Enid, Oklahoma in 1903. I'm from and watching from Gore, Oklahoma right now.💚 11:28 p.m. Sun, Jan 3rd.
Robert stack was the best
"Jim knew if we didnt turn around and stop for awhile id sulk all day" the joys of marriage
Lol 🤣😂🤣
I believe the Boothe story, there were alot of people still mad about freeing the slaves, so when Boothe killed Lincoln he was kind of considered a hero
@AmericanRelic2hear you're correct. The North wanted that cotton money. 90% of Americas annual profit of the time
Basically Lincoln's freeing the slaves would be like a modern president confiscating all of the tractors, combines and cotton harvesters in the US from the farmers who had bought and paid for them with no compensation and telling them to figure out how to farm without them.
At the time agriculture was not mechanized so farms used slave labor rather than machines. In most cases the slaves were the plantation owner's second most valuable asset, second only to the land and without them the land was worthless because he couldn't plow all those fields and pick all that cotton without them.
More revisionist nonsense. Lincoln did not "want the cotton". And Lincoln "did not invade the south".
Traitors and cowards illegally and against majority of the public's support broke from the union before Lincoln was even president of the United States. They did so under false pretenses then, as they do now.
The cotton industry could have been revamped and pressed twice as much cotton out West, as there was the land and ability with half the crew. As you can see though, cotton wasn't a 'priority"
When you get your education from South Carolina and Mississippi or other southern states, of course you're misinformed and ignorant. That's because to this very day, school text books are "approved" by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), who has spent their entire history with daddy issues and trying to restore the south's image and their father's honor.
Racist to the core as they were, reconstruction era proved EXACTLY what and who these people were and are.
No wonder South Carolina and Mississippi fight each year for the bottom in education in the nation, and Southern states round out the bottom ten. Actually looking at it, they round out the bottom ten when it comes to everything- healthcare, education, poverty, drug abuse and deaths and violence in the rural South exceeded metropolitan areas. South Carolina leads the country in murders per Capita. Yes, you are at greater risk getting murdered in South Carolina than Chicago.
The South left the Union because they wanted to keep slaves. It had nothing to do with economics or "state rights". Goldwater is who popularized the "state rights" angle to win over the racist southern states who felt their freedom was endangered because they might have to drink out a water fountain a black person did or their ass might touch a toilet seat a black person's did. Yes that was supposed be such a "tough" and "great" generation.
Back to reality.
All you have to do is read the Constitution of the Confederacy. It is clear and compelling.
Letters between southern philosophers- those who pushed for succession for years, generals and even Jefferson Davis' cabinet before, after and during the war.
They are not trying to make some moral state rights statement.
They were not concerned about the general welfare or population of the South.
They were concerned and one of their biggest fears was the inability to "own black people". In the reconstruction era, they began to panic and we're afraid black people would retaliate and treat them as they were treated.
Revisionist history especially about something as nonsensical as the "south" has no place in America. It was a quick four years when some good men corrected something that was far worse than murder and war crimes-- slavery.
State rights were not in the vocabulary of the traitors. What the southern pride racists fail to understand is that yes, the sole purpose and motivation of treason by the south, was that they felt black people needed to by owned and needed to work for them, the south aristocrat apparatus. Which they enlisted uneducated, poor people trying to survive day to day just so they can enjoy their plantation.
Even PragerU republican voters only consistent education establishment, that can be debunked faster than the bizarre unfounded claims they make, gets one or two right here and there..
Prager and Rand Paul (before Trump took over the party with his uneducated racist Stephen Miller brand of white nationalism) as attempted to show that the GOP "stopped being racist recently", so they fought long and hard, campaigned several episodes on PragerU to put an end to the "myths" of the Civil War. No lost cause, or Northern Aggression.
Just like with radical Trumpists, when Lincoln won the election, Southerners biggest fear is that blacks would be freed and they'd be arrested and executed by black freemen. Even though paid labor is cheaper than slavery, they knew they couldn't easily rape, beat and molest a laborer as easy as a slave.
Before Lincoln was sworn into office, like Trumpists... the South began to leave the union.
It is well established that all Lincoln would not have just freed the slaves, the south had no reason to believe that. They knew his administration would end the sale and black child birth after the date would be free.
But the south was even afraid of the ban and sales and abuses.
It just shows how ignorant they were then, but now there is just no excuse.
Time to stop romanticizing the Antebellum south. It did not exist in that manner. It was much more cruel and disgusting than it already was. We just have to look at journals or slave owners.
@@trevorn9381 Exactly. To them Lincoln basically took away their property. Their way of farming life. I agree with you 100%
Btw I have a cousin in the Navy named Trevor
@@trevorn9381 is that why Lincoln met his demise?
love this show,robert stacks clear diction of the stories keeps you interested.the writing and period recreations of the stories are done with care and the cinematography give the stories the feeling of that era whatever year the stories take place.
Regarding the Alex Cooper case: I can not help but see a striking similarity to the known sketches of the so-called DB Cooper who hijacked a commercial jet back in 1971, for ransom...and parachuted out the rear mid-flight. I actually had started to think of that case very soon after the segment started.
They actually found out he was D.B Cooper through dna testing.
@@beachaddict7653 nothing I've ever seen nor read says this. What's your source(s)?
Whoa. I was just thinking the same thing. Some of the investigators believed D.B Cooper might be Canadian.
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 I’ve always thought he was Canadian due to the wording of the note, demanding “negotiable US currency”.
Americans definitely don’t say negotiable US currency. They say dollars or money or bucks, or, really, anything else.
Plus it was a border area, a popular Canadian comic, and the FBI likely didn’t check out any/many Canadian citizens.
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 But Alex Cooper doesn’t look anything whatsoever like the sketches of Dan Cooper, in my opinion.
I remember being around 6 or so the earliest I can think of and it was before my father died, but I remember hearing the intro running and grabbing my blanket and turning all the lights in the house off sitting down with my mother and father. I miss that man so much it’s been 22 years and not a day has went by that I don’t think of him.
My childhood! Glad these are uploaded! I'm in my office early and alone and creeped out lol! Just like olden days!
Kenny
Not alone, a ghost sits with you at wor everyday 😊
Kenny it’s a beautiful thing ain’t it? I’m loving it!
puts some clothes on 🤮
Alex Coopers wife Margaret died in 1996, a few years after they were reunited. Alex Cooper died in 2007.
I always liked this show, and never missed an episode when new. It was very interesting. Robert Stack had the perfect voice to host this show. Thanks much to whoever uploaded it! I haven't seen this since it was canceled.
2:13 John Wilkes Booth
22:26 Identical Twin
33:00 Man Who Never Was
The conclusion of Alex Cooper’s story hit me right in the feels.
The sealing of adoption records can be very scary. How many brothers and sisters married each other?
It's really not the end of the world from a biological standpoint. If you think about it there's only so many people in a given community, plenty of incest goes on over the generations. Even if everyone on Earth were to mix completely regularly (far from reality), within 30 generations you're back to incest.
yes, but can you imagine finding that out. 🤪
@@TippyPuddles Personally if I happened to fall in love with my sister I'd rather not know and just enjoy the good life.
I agree, my friend married his mother
@@tommyharris5817 that didnt happen
I had an experience with my doppelganger on my birthday.
I was at the pharmacy picking up a prescription and exited the building and came face to face with a guy who looked exactly like me! He was even driving the same make, model and colour of car. He seemed not to notice.
I drove up the road a bit and stopped at a local fruit stand to buy some peaches, and guess who also pulls up. He got out and I said to him "Ok, one of us is the clone. I saw an episode of Star Trek like this and it did NOT end well!" The guy stares at me like I have three heads or something!
Anyways, i got out of there before it led to the destruction of the known universe.
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That mummified corpse is a thousand times scarier than any of the paranormal segments.
I wish we could see what really happened with all of these conspiracy cases and theories for all of these events that happened over the years. Starting with this, then Billy the Kid...did he get away or was he killed, the JFK assassination, Kurt Cobains suicide/possible murder, 9/11, the Jeff Epstein murder, did Hitler get away to Argentina at the end of WW2 or was he killed in the bunker, etc. I'm sure many were straightforward but a few had to be different than what history tells us and I tend to believe things that happened centuries ago were more likely to be conspiracies since police work was sloppier back then and less media and technology. Stuff was just way harder to prove.
These conspiracies are just a lot of bull-shit to make money.
@@antonioacevedo5200 Some are but some are not. I don't know who is making any sort of big money off of the Lincoln conspiracy. Most books and films written about the Lincoln Assassination go with the official narrative of what happened.
@@STONESGAM The last presidential conspiracy was that of Zackary Taylor actually being murdered with arsenic. He was exhumed and his hair tested. It was all bullshit.
@@antonioacevedo5200 We aren't talking about that though. That doesn't mean this one is BS because that one was.
I mean it very well could be but I'd personally like to see them do a DNA test. Can't hurt.
@@STONESGAM I agree with you about a DNA test, but for the wrong reasons. I would like to see pictures of Booth's remains to see history come alive. If there was any doubt about the body buried not being Booth's, there would have been an exhumation decades ago.
Wow. This episode kicked total ass -- compelling from the first minute to the last. The series really hit its stride here. The Booth segment looks like a small fortune was spent on it, like a medium budget motion picture. The Twins segment was great. Loved it when the daughter shouted across the raging creek and her cry of "Dad" just echoes across; so evocative. The last segment was heartbreaking -- the guy made a dumb mistake and made a huge leap simply from pure guilt. Notice how all the experts, including the police, couldn't imagine any of it to come up with a credible theory. The best writers of fiction couldn't make this stuff up. Human dilemmas drive the true mysteries of the human heart and motivations. Superb.
I agree.
The late Bradford Dillman played Booth in a movie based on the theory that Boothe escaped. I don't remember the title, though.
Hey you seem like a great UM fan. Do you know what episode features the mystery about the girl that dies of unknown reasons while on the telephone?
@@PanfishingJournal Do a google search using "unsolved mysteries girl dies on phone" and some answers may come up that you'll recognize.
Awww I really wanted to see the twins side by side
Sounds like Alex had a few secrets .💔his poor wife . Thank goodness it was something like that and not another family which is what I thought it was .
The doppleganger clip is creepy can you imagine another person coming out of nowhere that looks exactly like you
He isnt his doppelgänger - he is his twin brother. Did you even watch the video?
@@ljuben5738 yes. I think the person knows that jim has a twin! Just commenting how spooky to have an image of yourself
This John Wilkes Booth conspiracy could be solved with a DNA test of that mummified body.
Requests for precisely that, a DNA test, have already been declined. The family of Booth's brother offered to do such a test in 2010, even claiming they had permission from the cemetery where Edwin Booth was buried. But the cemetery denied this, and the Museum that hold's JW Booth's remains formally denied the request in 2013.
@@TheSaneHatter Really? That's so strange. What could you have to lose by doing that test... seriously? Ignorance is bliss for certain people I guess
@@detroitforever5352 Worse still is the argument the dissenting state court made. It was so piss weak as to barely warrant serious attention. I'd of said Familial rights override court rulings on a matter of considerable import, and would further challenge the courts denial of exhumation stating that the impact of exhumation and verification would have no impact either the sanctity or the reputation of the court and is within the prerogative of the family to resolve the matter once and for all.
a lot of conspirators family still
want the truth kept secret
@@TheSaneHatter Well, then, I'd think that whoever has legal jurisdiction of the body already knows the truth through their own DNA test, which, the result, probably isn't on their side.
Growing up, my favorite segments were always the paranormal segments. Now that I am older, the other cases are every bit as intriguing. I'm going to do a free trial over the holidays so I can watch the reboot which by all accounts is pretty good.
I remember the Lincoln episode as a teenager because it caused me to question what I read in my history book. It introduced me to conspiracy theories by learning they have value since it permits one to challenge established ideas.
For the record, there's a movie/ documentary that tells what really happened to John Wilkes Booth, it will surprise you! On CZcams, look up " The Lincoln Conspiracy ", from 1976.
@@thomasharrison3126 I have seen the Lincoln Conspiracy 2-3 times.
Booth's death is debatable rather I think it is better to focus on what Lincoln wanted to do if he had lived.
@@markjohnson9455 Not debatable. Boothe's personal effects were found on the body.
I had a history teacher in the 10th grade, who told us that " off the record, What's told in History books & What Actually happened, are Often 2 different things". Never forgot that!
Conspiracy theories are not rational
Keep them coming thanks I love this show to this day.
Can you get into Season 8 & beyond I'm in the middle of Season 4 with Robert Stack catching up. There was 1 in season 8 that I saw once long ago forgot what happened & been wanting to see it again it was in Season 8.
It seems the Encyclopedia Britannica featured prominently in this season.
Man, so happy I found this show. So good!
Angelica Maria Longoria, my daughter was reported missing! In November of 1985, from El Monte, California she hasn’t been seen or heard of since then! Will you please help me find her!
I am so sorry.
There's a new version of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix, maybe they can help you.
How's Karl?
Thanks For Another Great Episode Of Unsolved Mysteries With Robert Stack It's Back After This Story Aired Jim Was Reunited With His Sister Judy Sullivan But Sadly He Passed Away Before He Could Find His Twin Brother Very Sad Case
Thank you for this update; I was just wondering this myself
The woman falling down the stairs in the opening and the girl being abducted in the opening of an earlier season used to scare the shit out of me as a kid 😬
YES, after watching these shows I was so scared of strangers 🤨
@kscleanup8125 Smh. I'm talking about the opening, along with the music use to scare me
Some say the man killed was James William Boyd (sp?). Same initials . . .
Is it just me or does "Alex Cooper" look like he could have been D.B. Cooper? That would have been a weird cross solved mystery of events.
Oh my gosh, you are right
I never thought about it but you’re right lol
I was just about to type this 😂
The last one made me cry I'm so glad the family had there answers about there dad may they all be happy 😄❤️
... it's so strange. It didn't feel like a good ol lost loves reunion. Something was way off about that Alex guy
@@clopez4280 yeah... I highly doubt his wife or his children would ever accept a apology from him. All over a birth certificate. Five years is a big gap for a trip out of the house. Alex Cooper story is extremely bizarre and werid. His story doesn't make any sense at all.
@@clopez4280 Yeah, he was a fucking coward.
I can't stop watching. Help.
Gotta be one of the best episodes of the show.
Things happened for a reason, there where moments Jim was so close running into his twin brother but didn't. I read in Reddit that apparently Billy didn't want nothing to do with Jim if that true meeting may give him closure but it would leave him a sour taste in his mouth. Some things in this world are better off unanswered. I guess what Reddit said was true, Jim quickly reunited with his sister but not his brother who would be easy to locate esp since they are twins, he has shown to be hanging around the same area, as well people have confused Jim as Billy. Plus people who have confused Jim as Billy has reported that Billy straight up ignored them like he wants to avoid conflict as for Jim he responded very confused or goes with the flow. I mean I would have been happy if I found out if I have a twin but other ppl don't, we don't know the lifestyle Billy grow up to not want nothing to do with his twin brother.
well the ppl who ran into Jims twin all said he was kinda a dick. or its possible he was an idiot and didnt know he was even adopted?
I wonder if the twin could have been deaf. That could explain why he never responded and just looked puzzled or walked away. Yeah, the basketball kids expected "Billy" to hear them and answer, but he may have gone deaf later on, either through accident or illness. Measles and some of the other childhood diseases of that era were known to cause blindness and deafness. Most mothers would isolate their measly kids in a dark, quiet room, as noises and bright lights were thought to cause the measles to "settle" in the ears and eyes.
The Cooper guy in this episode might be the infamous "Dan Cooper" (also known as D.B. Cooper) who hijacked the plane in 1971 and parachuted out with $200,000! The guy looks just like the FBI composite sketch from 1972 accounting for age (38:45). It's uncanny. The mystery man here used two other "Cooper" aliases too, one of the names also starting with a "D". Episode says he started a business in 1974, which might have been around the time he could have started laundering the money from the hijack. He's a fisherman and knows the outdoors, so he could have survived parachuting into deep woods. He became a traveling salesman, which is a good cover for someone on the run. If you're secretly D.B. Cooper and a stranger figures you out, your only choice is to vanish and not even tell your family because the FBI could use them to find you, or accuse them of aiding and abetting. If they're the ones filing the missing persons report, they're probably not complicit.
the thought crossed my mind, but the mystery was solved.
That one's such a mystery
I don't know what it is but I have a nagging suspicion "Alex Cooper" was not telling the whole story. My first thought was perhaps he was a German who escaped to North America after the war...if you catch my drift. Whatever the case, The reason he gave for abandoning his family seems pretty weak to me.
With the Alex Cooper case my first thought was "gee he looks a bit like DB Cooper". I know he's not but wouldn't that have been a strange twist?
I remember watching this episode with my cousins and grandma ..sitting in front of the TV. Such good memories ❤️ April 27??2022 Wednesday
It's So Sad High School Education Elementary middle school kids don't care about past or future of our country
But Booth was so famous, wouldn’t he have been recognized?
The Alex Cooper story. Wow
Just like Jim who has a doppelganger, I have doppelgangers myself. People swear they've seen me in places where I haven't been. My rare craniofacial disorder, Treacher Collins syndrome, makes people who have it look eerily similar.
I did see u in the mall u said hi I think it was u 😆😆😆😆
At 14:30 there's a typo. Robert stack says, 'In nineteen hundred and seven', which is 1907, the year comes out to be 1970 in the dialogue.
I am so glad Alex Cooper reunited with his family. His wife and daughter looked truly sad when he took off not knowing anything and plus the secret that came out. Can't imagine what the wife must have been going through all the years he was away.
Omg! Part of this was hard to focus on. As much as I tried, I couldn't avoid looking at that lady's mustache, and her voice just droned on and on. You'd think the shows makeup department would have bleached or shaved it.
Same here.
The gub'mint lies! Lol. Fascinating theory about Booth. I believe it! I also wonder, can the family just do a DNA test on the remains anyways without government involvement? Hmmm.....
Booth was killed in the barn
That's what I wanna see too
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 🐑
The Booth family denied access to the grave.
cant beleive a man can walk out on his familly and live with himself. craaazy
I think his daughter’s mustache scared him away.
Chris W 🤣
I can't believe his family is willing to just take him back.
@11 11 And many more stares. sperm does not a father make
Still, I'm glad to see his family gave him a second chance, otherwise it would've been just another mystery with a sad ending.
I just trippled stacked Robert stacks and binged on 3 episodes in a row
try for a quadstack!
@@earsybun oh snap!
Maybe he's d b cooper?
The cooper story....
From Australia this was a feel-good story in the END, I hope their all doing well. 🙏
the John Wilkes Booth story is interesting but no matter if he died when history said or he lived to a ripe old age....then died............ short of a real life time machine we will never know what happen after he killed Lincoln.
YTe man has a long history of grabbing anyone and ki//=ng them for a crime they didn't commit. ALL FOR SPORT! To them, it's not about justice. it's about showING OFF in front of others. EGO ETCHING OUT GOD. THIS doesn't surprise me at all
I always wondered if Jim ever found his twin. I'm so disappointed they didn't reunite.
The Jim Bumgarten case was just bizarre. Look like his twin would have wondered sooner or later why people kept calling him Jim and asked someone, or at least told them his real name. Unless Jim's twin didn't want to be found for some reason.
Love this show to this day. Lincoln, Huey Long, The Crow, & The Hum have got to be among the most fascinating episodes.
I L❤️VE these HISTORICAL UNSolved Mysteries! 🕵🏻♀️🎖💣👑
YTe man has a long history of describing anyone and ki//=ng them for a crime they didn't commit. ALL FOR SPORT! To them, it's not about justice. it's about showING OFF in front of others. EGO ETCHING OUT GOD. THIS doesn't surprise me at all
I was kind of on the fence about the John Wilkes Booth story during the segment but listen closely to what Robert Stack says from 21:14-21:35 I was mind blown
Very, very impressive evidences indeed.
Honestly, I don't even know why it's up for debate. Several people noted that the dead body did not match Booth physically.
The Booth case has always fascinated me
Booth was a scumbag
I got triples, I was shown the photo of my double by a local mechanic in my area, then a cousin of mine showed me a postcard of the area where the picture was taken on that beach, my triple was caught in the picture taken, I was shocked.
I swear on my life about this one!
Oh, Jim... just a guy minding his own business.
Damn I wish he met his twin :-( How did he die?
I experienced that myself the Jim episode, back in the late 80s I use to get mistaken for a guy named Clover Baker, in 1989' a young lady mistaken me 3-different times of being Clover and each time I had to remind her that I was not Clover once when she gave me a big hug and I said I appreciate the hug but like I told you before I'm not Clover my name is Eric Gilyard ( because that was my name at the time ) she said Awww I did it again I'm sorry sir I said no problem. In 2002' a guy came up to me in Kash & Karry Grocery here in Tampa Florida and said to me hey Clover do you remember we use to work at Singleton together I said to him I'm sorry I know the guy Clover but I'm not him he looked at me and said What! he said man y'all could go for Twins, i actually met Clover Baker in 1989' where we both agreed that people told both of us that it was someone walking around Tampa that looked like us, we both agreed to that face to face in 1989'
Singleton was a Shrimp place near 50th.& Broadway here in Tampa back in the day... Lol every body that worked their wore white and when they got on the city bus every body already knew where they worked at Lol because of the smell of them dam shrimps Lol.
A guy here in Tampa named Eddie Lee Upshaw who has a big brother name Zebedee Highsmith, Eddie Lee Upshaw was my sister's class mate many years ago, he came up to me that same year 1989' and said hey Eric I got this running partner that I hangout with his name Clover he said do you know him ? I said yep and he said man y'all look just A-Like y'all could go for Twins i said I already know people have been telling me that, I said we even met face to face too and he said the same thing that I said, that people had been telling him that its some guy named Eric Gilyard walking around here that look just like him, Eddie Lee Upshaw said but y'all do Eric, I said did you tell him that he said yeah I told him about you too and we just laughed and I said well yeah I can see the resemblance, I further said my dad said the same thing you said when he seen him
I used to watch this show religiously. They need to bring it back.
Robert Stack’s narration always reminds me of Twilight Zone’s narrator Rod Serling.