EIGHT shocking Hungarian mysteries!

Here are eight true stories of unsolved mysteries from Hungary.

Do you like mystery novels and shocking stories? Paul Street on YouTube has collected eight unsolved or shocking cases from Hungarian history just for you.

1 Attila Moczó

November 7, 1997, was a tragic day for the people of Jászberény. Attila Moczó was shot dead on this day, only to be discovered hours later, but by that time, it was way too late to do anything to help.

Attila’s father had reported his son missing a day prior to his body being found by the border. The police told him that if he was missing the following day, they would start a search.

Attila left on his regular trip to his shop in Budapest, where new supplies had arrived. His body was found by his car, on which police found prints of a known car thief from around the shop.

According to the car thief, he leaned on the car to talk to Attila, but after realising he was not going to be able to steal his vehicle, he left. The first time he recreated the encounter for the police, he did not lean on the car, but he had to redo it as the police’s camera had not recorded it the first time. The second time, he did lean on the vehicle, explaining the print. The police decided he was not their man and let him go, but whenever they tried to investigate a new lead, it led to nowhere.

The mystery has never been solved, and the brutality of Attila’s wounds indicate that the murder happened out of rage against the victim. This complicates the case because Attila led a simple and unproblematic life, with no known enemies or conflicts.

Could he have led a double life and perfectly hid his dark side? We will never know…

2 The interruption of the Duck Tales

On December 12, 1993, many, many children were watching the Duck Tales on TV in Hungary, when an unusual interruption occurred.

Every child who watched the show that night later developed a flash memory, which means they have a bizarre memory from childhood which they had not known how to react to at the time, but it is stored in their subconscious forever.

That night, the episode suddenly stopped after Uncle Scrooge complained about a sea monster eating his ice cream. After that, sad piano music started and played for several minutes, before Péter Boros appeared on screen to announce that Prime Minister József Antal had died.

Children did not understand what was happening at the time; all they knew was that everyone seemed to be sad and that there was a man on television instead of their beloved cartoon.

Some people who were watching the cartoon as a child at the time now, as adults, feel like crying whenever they hear the piano music that was playing during the announcement.

3 Brigitta Árvai

One of the biggest mysteries in Hungary to this day is surrounding Brigitta’s death. It all started on October 27, 1995, when she was last seen by her sister.

Brigitta told her sister she would go home to rest because she was tired, but they found her burnt body on the side of a highway three days later.

The investigation revealed that the woman was hit by a car, dragged to the side of the road, and burnt. It is unknown whether it was an accident or the perpetrators intentionally hit her. But who would burn the body if they accidentally hit someone instead of calling an ambulance?

Police even identified the type of car that had hit her based on her injuries, but they never found the one.

Police found a diary that Brigitta had kept, in which she writes about a man named István, with whom she was in love, and she might have been pregnant. Police started looking for men named István in her life. Her boss was one, but he was a married man. However, on the day she was last seen, her boss drove her to her sister’s house. But police found nothing on her boss’s Volkswagen. He refused to participate in questioning with a lie detector.

4 Sándor Petőfi

One of Hungary’s biggest and most well-known historical figures, Sándor Petőfi, was reportedly last seen on July 31, 1849, in the Battle of Segesvár.

The case of his death – or disappearance? – is not the only interesting thing about him, though. He had one of the most iconic artist friendships with János Arany in Hungarian history, as they were both key figures both in literature and the revolution in their time. He also influenced eastern culture so much that there are statues of him in Peking and Shanghai. He also had a son, named Zoltán, who was born not long before his father died, and who died aged 22 because of his wild lifestyle.