Every state has its stories.

Places you're not supposed to go after dark.

Things somebody's grandfather swears he saw. A road everyone drove in high school because somebody said something weird happened there.

Most of those stories stay local.

But Utah… Utah seems to collect them differently. Maybe it's the landscape. We have red rock that looks like it belongs on another planet. Basins so empty...and so quiet...you can hear your own pulse.

Mountains that can hide entire communities from one another.

Lakes so blue they don't look real.

And stretches of desert where you can drive for miles...

without seeing another person.

Maybe when you put people in a landscape like that… stories are inevitable.

Because when there's this much silence around you...

eventually...your mind starts filling in the rest.

But here's the thing about the stories we're opening tonight.

Every one of them has something real underneath it.

HIGH DESERT VAULT

Vault Entry 007

The Dybbuk Box

The Spirit That Wouldn't Stay Sealed

Classification: Haunted Object

Subject: The centuries-old Jewish folklore of the dybbuk, and the 2003 eBay listing that turned a wine cabinet into modern legend.

Primary Locations: Eastern Europe (16th–17th century) • Portland, OR • Missouri • Las Vegas, NV

Time Span: 1500s to present

Question Before the Vault:

What happens to a ghost story once the person who invented it admits he made it up?

Vault Entry 006

Missing 411

The People Who Never Came Home

Classification: Missing Persons

Subject: Unexplained disappearances in North American wilderness.

Time Span: 1969–2015

Question Before the Vault:

Why do some missing person cases refuse to make sense?