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In 1978, five friends from Yuba County, California vanished after a basketball game. Their abandoned vehicle was found deep in the snowy mountains, miles away from their intended route. Why the men went there and what happened next remains one of America’s strangest unsolved mysteries.

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On a rainy morning in October 2023, a police officer in a small Arkansas town approached a parked SUV to check on a family inside.

In the passenger seat, a tired mother in a red T-shirt smiled politely as she folded baby clothes. Her toddler climbed between the seats. A baby cried in the back. Her boyfriend was in the driver's seat.

She told the officer they were just passing through - trying to get back to Wyoming.

That officer would become the last confirmed person to ever see Katheryn “Katie” Ferguson alive.

Days later, her boyfriend would continue the trip without her.

And when investigators finally searched the vehicle they had been traveling in, they found something chilling — blood, bullet holes, and a missing passenger seat.

Katie Ferguson has never been seen again.

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In February 2026, Tawnia McGeehan (34) and her daughter Addi Smith (11) traveled from their home in Utah to Las Vegas to attend a cheer competition.

When they did not show up for the competition as scheduled, Addi’s father Brad called 911 and requested a welfare check.

Authorities would eventually enter their room at the Rio Hotel and find the bodies of the mother and daughter. Tawnia allegedly shot Addi before taking her own life.

Tawnia and Brad had been going through a contentious custody battle for years. There are also rumors of bullying amongst Addi’s cheer community members.

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