8 Terrifying Unsolved Halloween Mysteries

2. The Curious Drowning Of Chris Jenkins

On Halloween night in 2002, Chris Jenkins and some friends visited a keg party before heading to a place called The Lone Tree Bar & Grill to celebrate the festivities. The bar was in downtown Minneapolis where Chris was attending school at the University of Minnesota. The group arrived at approximately 10:30 PM and around an hour and a half later Jenkins was removed from the establishment by security and banned from returning.

This left Chris literally out in the cold - it was 20 degrees that night - wearing only his costume of Native American attire and without his wallet, cell phone or keys. He was never seen again. The area around The Lone Tree was riddled with crime and not an ideal place to be roaming around at night alone and intoxicated. A private investigator was hired by the family, who was told by witnesses that on that same night a large group of men attacked a lone person - possibly as a gang initiation - just across the street from the bar where Chris was last seen.

Two different scent-tracking dogs on separate days picked up Chris' trail on the sidewalk where the attack was alleged to have taken place and followed it to the same spot inside the parking garage next door, where a few drops of blood and a single red feather were found. The feather may have been from Jenkins' costume but the trail came to a halt in that spot. Chris Jenkins was found four months later floating in the Mississippi River, a victim of what was originally believed to be either a suicide or an accidental drowning.

But further investigation caused investigators to rethink that position and the medical examiner changed the official cause of death from accidental drowning to homicide. Just like in the previous case, an inmate would come forward and claim that he had knowledge of the case, stating that he had been present when an acquaintance robbed Jenkins and threw him off the bridge, but there were many details of that story that proved problematic. Here we are thirteen years later and very little progress has been made.