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A rock taken from a ritual site while at summer camp finds its way home… even after being thrown into the ocean. A smiling man in a suit beckons two girls hiking toward a dark treeline. And a voice outside a tent whispers, “Are you inside, girls?” Kaelyn and Sylas read your creepiest true campfire stories: haunted camps, mimics, time slips, and the things waiting in the woods that none of you have been able to explain since.
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Today we’re exploring the term that has been circulating online for the last few months, Alpine Divorce, and two cases where these “divorces” of sorts were life-threatening. In 2012, Toni Henthorn fell from an off-trail ledge in Rocky Mountain National Park. Her husband Harold said she slipped, but a ranger found a map that indicated otherwise. Thirteen years later, Arielle Konig was attacked by her husband, Gerhardt, on a cliffside trail in Hawaii on her birthday, but against all odds, she made it out alive.
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A newlywed couple boarded a Mediterranean cruise for their honeymoon. Five days later, a teenager photographed blood splattered across a lifeboat canopy — and the groom, George Smith, was gone. His bride claimed she blacked out. Four men were the last to see him alive. What happened aboard that ship became one of the most disturbing mysteries in modern cruise history.
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Across Appalachia, thousands of people report seeing the same thing: a massive black cat in the woods that screams like a woman being murdered. The government insists it doesn’t exist — there are no official reports of big black cats in the region.
But the Cherokee had a name for what lives in those mountains, and its story is far older, and far more wicked, than a misidentified panther.
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On April 18th, 2014, a 14,000-tonne block of ice broke free above the Khumbu Icefall and killed sixteen Sherpa guides. It was the deadliest single disaster in Mount Everest’s history. What followed wasn’t just a rescue. It was a reckoning: a fight over $400 funeral payments, a historic strike, and the first time in ninety years that the world’s most famous mountain went silent.
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They call it the golden age of DNA testing, and this year, two cases that police thought would never be solved finally cracked open. But the answers were nothing anyone expected.
August 1990, Houston. A white Honda Civic sits abandoned at the end of a cul-de-sac on the city’s edge. The keys are in the ignition, a woman’s purse is on the floorboard, and blood is smeared down both doors. What detectives find in the woods beyond that car would become known as the Lovers’ Lane murders, and the case would go cold for over three decades, broken only by a DNA hit decades later.
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In 1970, a man with no clinical training opened a “therapeutic boarding school” in the Maine woods. For forty-one years, students inside were subjected to organized beatings, forced fight rings, and psychological torture while journalists, state investigators, and even Congress failed to shut it down.
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Before Helle Crafts disappeared, she told four different people the exact same thing: “If anything happens to me, do not believe it is an accident.” On November 18th, 1986, the 39-year-old Pan Am flight attendant and mother of three walked into her Newtown, Connecticut home after a transatlantic flight… and was never seen again. Her husband Richard said she’d gone to Denmark for a family emergency. Then he said she’d run off with another man. Police compared her to a stray dog who’d come home when she got tired. It took her friends, a private investigator, a landfill dig, and a utility worker who remembered a woodchipper on a riverbank at 4 AM to crack the case open.
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In July 2022, 18-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove her car into a brick wall at nearly 100 miles per hour, killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and his best friend Davion Flanagan. What looked like a drug-fueled accident unraveled fast, and the Netflix documentary only tells part of the story. This week, we go deeper: the details left on the cutting room floor, the recorded prison call that changed everything, and the question that still doesn’t have a straight answer.
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In 2003, 19-year-old Sonya Ivanoff was walking home from a friend’s house in Nome, Alaska when a witness saw her get into a vehicle marked ‘Nome Police Department.’ Her body was found the next day. But Sonya’s murder is just one piece of a much larger pattern. Since 1960, at least 25 people have gone missing or died under suspicious circumstances in this isolated town of fewer than 4,000 people, and the community has been fighting for answers that local authorities seem determined not to give.
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In September 1991, a young mother in Arlington, Texas — Cynthia Gonzalez — left for a late‑night appointment and never came home. Her car was found 40 miles away, and the investigation that followed consumed a legendary detective’s entire career, winding through serial killer suspects, failed polygraphs, and confessions that led nowhere.
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A college student gets into what she thinks is her rideshare. A speech therapist spends years pretending to be someone’s mother. And a backpacker in Singapore accepts a stranger’s offer to split a hotel room…then never calls home. Three stories about the people who slipped through the cracks. By the time anyone realized something was wrong, it was already too late.
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In March 2000, 23‑year‑old Leah Roberts left a note for her roommate and took off on a solo cross‑country trip. Nine days later, her wrecked Jeep was discovered at the bottom of a ravine in Washington — and Leah was nowhere to be found. What first appeared to be an accident quickly grew darker as investigators uncovered troubling inconsistencies and unanswered questions. More than 25 years later, the mystery only deepens.
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