A quiet Anchorage baker spent twelve years abducting young women and releasing them into the Alaskan wilderness so he could hunt them for sport. One teenage girl escaped his plane at the last second and led investigators to a map marked with dozens of X’s. What they found behind that map exposed one of the most chilling serial killers in American history.

In 1970, something strange happened on a quiet road in Virginia that no one has ever been able to fully explain. What began as two brief, terrifying encounters quickly grew into one of America’s most enduring urban legends.

Unlike the True Crime or Missing people these are some ghost reddit stories that I found while looking for a topic for this episode!

Young men across the country walk out of bars and parties and vanish into the night, only to turn up weeks later in rivers and lakes with no clear explanation. Near many of the bodies, investigators keep finding the same strange mark: a painted smiley face. This is the story of the Smiley Face Killers

A peaceful college town. Five innocent students. One sadistic killer who turned their safe homes into nightmares. This is the shocking true story of the Gainesville Ripper, the man who inspired 'Scream'

A 15 year old girl leaves home on her bicycle for an early morning job and vanishes into the darkness. What follows is one of the most haunting cold cases in Dutch history, filled with decades of pain, shocking twists, and a family’s desperate fight for answers.

He looked like the perfect neighbor — a quiet handyman and devoted dad. But Israel Keyes was secretly one of the most methodical serial killers America has ever seen.