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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "This is a true story, from the files of Unsolved Mysteries."

** "[[Nightmare Fuel|What you are about to see is not a news broadcast]]."

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Robert Stack, and how.

* [[Downer Ending]]: Some mysteries.

* [[Never Suicide]]: Probably the most common type of case during Stack's era involved someone being found dead, with Stack always introducing the segment by saying "the police ruled it a suicide, but the family says...MURDER." In many cases it WAS pretty obviously a suicide and the family was clearly just in denial, but the show would always side with the family.

** And to be fair, some were so obviously not a suicide, complete with multiple types of blood being found at the crime scene, or victims that were bound with packing wire before being dumped into incinerators, that it made you wonder just who the police thought they were fooling.

* [[New Kids on the Block]]: One of the cases featured a missing teenage girl who was supposedly seen in one of their concerts and caught on tape. It also included a brief interview with the Jon and Jordan Knight, in which they asked for any info about her.

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Everyone realized that the truly unexplained paranormal mysteries were never going to be solved. It didn't make their episodes on them any less awesome.

** Some of the more infamous crime based cases the show covered, such as the harassment of Bill and Dorothy Wacker or the Circleville Letter Writer, will likely never be solved since in the former case both of the victims are now dead, and in the latter case the only remotely plausible suspect has already served a prison sentence and still actively denies he had anything to do with it.

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