In September 2013, two friends, Dr. Jo Elliott-Blakeslee and Amy Linkert, set out for a short hike in Idaho’s Craters of the Moon National Monument and never returned. Their truck was found locked at the trailhead, their dogs alive inside, and their phones left behind.

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https://www.kboi.com/news/local/body-found-in-craters-of-the-moon-confirmed-to-be-jo-elliott-blakeslee/

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https://www.nps.gov/crmo/learn/news/body-of-missing-woman-found.htm

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December 1992, Lake Andes, South Dakota. A Chevy Monte Carlo skids on black ice and flips into a frozen ditch. Inside, 17-year-old Tracy Dion is trapped upside down, while Ruby Bruguier scrambles out into the darkness. Arnold Archambeau, the driver, is already gone. When rescuers arrive minutes later, Arnold and Ruby have vanished without a trace. Three months later, their bodies reappear in the same ditch, under circumstances so strange that investigators insist they couldn’t have been there all along.

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https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-strange-deaths-of-ruby-bruguier-and.html

https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/area-sheriff-leaves-office-after-28-years

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In June 1986, a tanker truck crashed on Spain’s treacherous Somosierra Pass. Inside the wreckage, rescue crews found the bodies of a husband and wife burned by the spilled acid cargo. But their 10-year-old son, Juan Pedro, who had been traveling with them, was gone.

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https://citytowner.com/the-disappearance-of-juan-pedro-martinez-gomez

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In 1657, young Richard Jones of Shepton Mallet fell victim to bizarre fits after meeting an elderly woman. Accused of witchcraft, Jane Brooks was tried and executed, leaving behind one of Somerset’s most infamous witchcraft cases.

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In 1768, Owen Parfitt, a paralyzed man in Shepton Mallet, vanished from his chair outside his sister’s cottage without a trace. Was it abduction, escape, or something supernatural? His disappearance remains one of England’s strangest unsolved cases.

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In May 1932, police forced open the door to a small apartment in Stockholm’s Atlas district. Inside lay the body of 32-year-old Lilly Lindeström, a sex worker last seen on Walpurgis Night. She had been bludgeoned to death during a sexual encounter, but the scene held something far stranger: her body had been drained of blood, and a gravy ladle smeared with it lay nearby. Newspapers dubbed the unknown killer the “Atlas Vampire,” and though police interviewed every client and acquaintance they could find, no one was ever charged. Nearly a century later, Lilly’s murder remains Sweden’s most bizarre unsolved case.

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On Christmas Eve 1945, the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, went up in flames. George and Jennie Sodder escaped with four of their children, but five more were trapped inside. By morning, the house was reduced to ash — yet no trace of the missing children was ever found. Were they consumed by fire, or taken under the cover of smoke? From vanished bones to cut phone lines, strange late-night calls, and decades of sightings, this case blurs the line between accident and abduction. The Sodder parents never stopped searching, their grief and determination immortalized on a billboard that stood for over 40 years.

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In the 1930s, reports began to circulate across Europe of a song so mournful it was said to drive listeners to suicide. From Budapest to London, victims were found with sheet music in their hands, gramophones still spinning the tune, or notes quoting its lyrics. The song was Szomorú Vasárnap – “Gloomy Sunday” – written by struggling Hungarian pianist Rezső Seress after a heartbreak.

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