According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, a national database for missing people, over 600,000 people go missing in the U.S each year. Most people are found; however it’s estimated that most days there are around 90,000 active missing persons cases. While some people disappear to start new lives and others are…
In April of 1991, Christopher Case, age 35, a music executive from Seattle, Washington was found dead in his apartment. The coroner would immediately determine at the scene that Christopher had died from heart failure. However, as the weeks progresses and more information came to light, and it became apparent something strange had happened to…
In 2014, Las Vegas Resident and long-distance hiker, Kenny Veach was out hiking in the Mojave Desert near Nellis Air Force base. Sometime on his hike, Kenny reached a strange Cave that appeared hidden and was shaped in an almost perfect M. Kenny began to approach the cave but as he did, his whole body began…
Introduction: On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a 21-year-old nursing student at the university of University of Massachusetts Amherst, emailed several of her professors to let them know she would be gone for around a week due to a death in the family. Maura then packed a small bag, withdrew $280 from an ATM and…
Taphophobia is defined as an abnormal fear of being buried alive as a result of being mistakenly pronounced dead. This fear has been around for centuries with famous authors such as Pliny the elder and Edgar Allen Poe writing about the topic. In the 1700s, the safety coffin was invented which used a variety of…
On Nov. 29, 1970, a father and his two young girls were hiking through the Isdalen Valley, or Ice valley, just outside the city of Bergen, Norway, when they discovered a woman, burned beyond recognition. The family would report the body, and as police began investigating the death, little did they know they would be…
For nearly the last 30 years, two retired New York Police Department detectives, Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, believe that a series of coincidental drownings that have occurred throughout the country are the result of a group of organized serial killers. So how do the smiley face killers operate? It is believed that a nationwide…
On the night of March 31, 2006, Brian Shaffer, a medical student at Ohio state university, went out with some friends to celebrate a break from medical school and the beginning of spring break. Around 9 p.m., Shaffer met William “Clint” Florence at the Ugly Tuna Saloona, a bar on the South Campus Gateway complex…