The golf ball search that turned deadly Around 9:45 p.m. on December 3, 2014, 29-year-old Jacques Van Der Sandt walked onto the Skukuza Golf Club with a friend. They were not there to play golf. The course was closed for…
Ed Parry Disappears From His Home At about 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 21, 2025, Amy Parry returned to her family home in Whitstable, a coastal town in England. She had just dropped her 18-year-old son at a friend’s house.…
In April 1951, a German soldier named Karl reportedly woke up inside a dark underground bunker in northern Poland. He could not see anything. The bunker had been completely dark for years. Karl had no candles left, and there was…
The 1877 Cincinnati Grave Robbery Shortly after midnight on a summer night in 1877, a middle-aged man named Howard Dormer entered a cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was not there to mourn the dead. Dormer was a grave robber. His…
In 2012, police in Garanhuns, Pernambuco, uncovered a disturbing murder case involving three people, missing women, cannibalism and empadas allegedly made with human flesh. But one detail made the case even more disturbing. A five-year-old girl was living in the…
Introduction Strongsville, Ohio, was known as a quiet suburb. But for one local family, a series of strange incidents turned their home into a place of fear. Starting in 2016, unknown people appeared in the family’s backyard. Someone appeared to…
A Strange Gift From a Neighbor One afternoon in April 2019, Mary was preparing vegetables in her kitchen in northern Spain when someone knocked on her door. It was her neighbor, 61-year-old Carmen Marino. Carmen was carrying two things: a…
On the morning of June 11, 2021, David Klene left the house he shared with 67-year-old Deborah Chong in northwest London. Deborah was more than his landlord. She had allowed David to live in her home without paying rent after…
In the late 1970s, a medical student in Chicago needed a ride home after class. He did not want to pay for a taxi, so he decided to hitchhike. At the time, hitchhiking was more socially accepted than it is…
One winter afternoon in Italy, a man dressed entirely in black walked into a furniture store with an unusual request. He wanted a custom bed. There was nothing strange about ordering furniture. But this bed was not meant for an…