Eight years after the 2004 disappearance of UMass student Maura Murray, a series of creepy videos hit the Internet. In one, an old man cackles into the camera before the screen goes black and the phrase “Happy Anniversary” appears. They were posted by a user called Mr112dirtbag. The true identity behind the user has yet to be uncovered.

On February 9, 2004, Murray’s wrecked car was discovered on Route 112 in New Hampshire. She was never found. Naturally, when the videos surfaced, people who saw them said the uploader likely had something to do with Murray’s disappearance. The user's name, a seeming reference to the New Hampshire roadway where the car was discovered, added fuel to the theory. Maura Murray's family dismissed the videos as “cruel and hideous.” After investigators watched the videos, they said there was nothing in them that could be used as evidence.

Most of the Mr112dirtbag videos are no longer available on YouTube. Yet viewers still believe there may have been something in the clips that investigators missed. They are undoubtedly mysterious and cryptic, showing simple drawings of a stick girl with a black eye, a man’s cartoon face beside a lopsided clock, a man playing the electric keyboard, and others. The videos also make references to two other missing persons cases: Molly Bish, 16, whose body was found in rural Massachusetts, and Patric McCarthy, 10, who vanished in 2003 from the White Mountains of New Hampshire and was found dead five years later. Whether the cases are connected or not, authorities never had enough evidence to open an investigation.

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