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Few cases will haunt you, like that of Canadian student, Elisa Lam. Miss Lam had disappeared while on a trip to Los Angeles, only to be found almost three weeks later in the water tank atop the Cecil Hotel, after hotel guests had complained about “tainted” water.
Late January, 1959, a group of 10 skiers set out on an expedition across the northern Urals in Sverdlovsk Oblast, in what was the Soviet Union, now Russia. One member turned back partway through the trip due to illness. The remaining 9 continued forth, but what happened next remains to be understood. This is the mystery of Dyatlov Pass.
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Each year there are approximately 800,000 missing children reported in America; that’s more than 2,000 every day. That would be the equivalent of the entire population of San Francisco, California, just disappearing.
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Late February, 1957, a young man, checking his muskrat traps in the woods off Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, found an old cardboard box. Upon further investigation, he found the body of a dead boy. He left the box and the body there and returned home, afraid the police would confiscate his traps. A few days later, college student Frederic Benosis, was in the woods, spying on girls at the Good Shepherd School when he, too, came upon the box. Afraid to tell the police why he was in the woods, he chose to not report it, until the next day, February 26, 1957.
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May 1, 1981, an ad was placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat newspaper, a paper produced by students at the University of Arizona. This ad was cryptic, a cipher of sorts, but so simple and plain, that no one really paid it any attention. Ads continued to be published in the Daily Wildcat, every year on May 1 (or nearest weekday as the paper did not run on weekends), and a few random times throughout the year.
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At first glance, the Winchester Mansion just looks like any other architectural wonder, combining both Victorian and Queen Anne architectural styles. In its time, the mansion was a modern marvel, with indoor plumbing, central heating, and multiple elevators. The mansion spans 24,000 square feet of living space, on 6 acres of land, and if that wasn’t impressive enough, it boasts 161 rooms (one previously unknown room was just discovered in the attic of the house. In it contained a pump organ, a dress form, a sewing machine, a Victorian sofa, and several paintings), 40 bedrooms, 47 staircases, 10,000 windows, 2 basements and 2,000 doors.
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In 1971, a group of Soviet geologists went to the Karakum Desert, in central Turkmenistan, in search of oil fields. They found, what they believed to be a substantial oil field and began to drill. The ground was unsteady, and before they could get their equipment to safety, the the site collapsed. Their equipment was gone.
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You’re working as a customs officer in the Haneda Airport, also known as Tokyo International Airport. A caucasian man with a beard arrives, and while there’s nothing particularly suspicious about him, you sense something is “off.” You ask to see his passport, and he provides it, but something is wrong. It lists his home country as “Taured.” There is no such place.
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June 13, 1994, in San Antonio, Texas, thirteen year old Nicholas Barclay disappeared. He was out, playing basketball with his friends. He called home, wanting his mother to come pick him up, but his older brother answered the phone. He said their mother was asleep and refused to wake her. Nicholas would have to walk home, but he never made it.
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Sonny Graham was a resident of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. He had lived there for 40 years, and had been happily married to his wife, Elaine, for 35 of those years. He and Elaine had two wonderful children, Gray and Michelle. Sonny was the director of the Heritage Golf Tournament from 1979 to 1983, and volunteered at the event every year thereafter.
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