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Each episode looks at three stories (including encounters with ghosts and aliens as well as reincarnation, demonic possession, unexplained lights, etc.), all of which contain convincing evidence that the story is true.
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CMP aims to tell compelling, true stories that inspire...
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Oct 27, 2023 · “Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy” features original interviews with co-creators Terry Dunn Meurer and John Cosgrove, along with long-time producers, and directors of the show, pulling back the curtain and allowing fans to experience their favorite cases in a whole new light.
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CMP aims to tell compelling, true stories that inspire audiences. CMP was established by John Cosgrove and Terry Meurer in 1987, with the creation of “Unsolved Mysteries.”. The six-time Emmy-nominated series is responsible for over 260 solved cases.
- The Creators Knew What They Were Looking For in An Unsolved Mysteries Story.
- They Used A Newspaper Clipping Service to Find Stories.
- The Call Center Featured in The Show Was Real.
- A Few Cases Never Made It on The Air Because The Show’S Researchers Solved them.
- They Were Duped by Hoaxsters once.
- Someone Sent Their Mother’s Lung to The producers.
- A Fugitive from One of The Cases Was on Set For Filming.
- Sometimes Law Enforcement Asked Them to Omit Details from The segments.
- Selling The Show to Spike TV Meant Making Some Stylistic changes.
- They Became Close with The People Featured on The Show.
Meurer and Cosgrove wrotethat they were looking for “a good mix of stories, murders, missing, wanted, paranormal, etc.” when deciding what to put on the show. Beyond that mix, they wanted mysteries that had more than one suspect or theory. Finally, they wrote, “we focused on stories we thought the show might be able to solve.”
Though the stories featured on the show came from a variety of sources—“we had viewers who sent in cases, law enforcement would contact us with cases, and we had a team of researchers constantly looking as well,” the duo said—they also used a newspaper clipping service with some grim keywords. “When we were producing the show, the internet didn't e...
Unsolved Mysteries filmed host Stack in locations all over Los Angeles, including Griffith Park and the Hollywood Dam. Some shots also featured Stack walking through a call center. “That was a real call center with real people!” Meurer and Cosgrove revealed. “Cases actually did get solved during the broadcast of the show.”
“Sometimes when our researchers would start investigating a story, they would solve the case themselves, especially a lost love type story,” the duo wrote. “So those cases were abandoned before they aired.”
Meurer and Cosgrove wrote that “Our researchers did a great job vetting stories to weed out the ones that seemed suspicious.” But that didn’t mean their process was foolproof; at least one fake story made it past them. “We did a UFO story in which 30 people did drawings that looked like the same UFO, and it was a very convincing argument they made,...
When one Redditor asked for “any funny stories or WTF moments while working on the show,” Meurer and Cosgrove came back with a whopper. “Someone sent their mother's lung to us in the mail. He believed his mother had been murdered, and he wanted us to send the lung out for testing,” they wrote. “On the lighter side, one of our directors was absolute...
When asked about “creepiest thing that ever happened to you over the course of filming a segment,” Meurer and Cosgrove respondedwith a story that will send chills down your spine: “There was a case where the wanted fugitive was on the set while we were filming the reenactment and no one knew initially. No one on the crew had seen his photograph yet...
Featuring active investigations on the show sometimes meant that Meurer and Cosgrove couldn’t reveal everything they knew. “Law enforcement would often ask us to hold back clues in a case that they could use to help identify a suspect's innocence or guilt,” they said. And sometimes, in interviews, Meurer and Cosgrove could tell who was lying: “We c...
Meurer and Cosgrove rebootedUnsolved Mysteries with host Dennis Farina in 2008. The pair explained that because Spike “appealed to a younger, male audience,” the network “requested a version of the show that might better suit their audience. There was an effort made to try to update the show with more contemporary elements.” That meant new music an...
It might seem strange that family members would participate in TV segments about crimes involving their loved ones, but Meurer and Cosgrove pointed outthat “when family members participated, it was a cathartic experience for them. And they felt good about doing something active to help solve the case. That was reason enough.” “We got to know people...
Jul 1, 2020 · Executive producer Terry Meurer says she and fellow co-creator John Cosgrove have wanted to bring “Unsolved Mysteries” back ever since they stopped producing new material in the early 2000s.
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Sitting down with co-creators Terry Dunn Meurer and John Cosgrove, along with long-time actors, producers, and directors of the show, this documentary special pulls back the curtain with behind-the-scenes stories from research and casting to solving mysteries soon after episodes aired.
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Jul 30, 2024 · Meurer co-created Unsolved Mysteries in 1987 with John Cosgrove — and 37 years later, they’re still on a mission to find answers to the most head-scratching cases out there via their production company Cosgrove/Meurer Productions.
