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Post by buzzbomb on Mar 10, 2020 16:28:30 GMT
If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise If you go down in the woods today, you'd better go in disguise For every bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain because Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic
If you go down in the woods today, you'd better not go alone It's lovely down in the woods today, but safer to stay at home For every bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain because Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic --Henry Hall, Teddy Bears Picnic, 1932
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Post by SysConfig on Mar 10, 2020 17:33:12 GMT
Reminds me of a favorite Buzz The woods are lovely dark and deep..but I have miles to go before I sleep..miles to go before I sleep ~ Robert Frost
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Post by buzzbomb on Mar 13, 2020 1:30:10 GMT
Very weird case here: Back in 1997, 50-year-old mother-of-two, Judy Smith, had married an attorney, Jeffrey Smith, and was living in Newton, Massachusetts. On April 10th, she and Jeffrey flew to Philadelphia where he had a conference. While he was in attendance at the conference, Judy went out to see the sights of Philadelphia. When Jeffrey returned to the hotel later that day, Judy was gone. When she did not return by the morning, Jeffrey called the police. Not until September 7th was Judy found--600 miles away in North Carolina! Even stranger, her body had been discovered by hikers on a mountain in a remote area. There was no apparent cause of death but her body appeared to be lying is a kind of shallow grave and so cops suspected that she was the victim of foul play. The problem was, the remains were discovered with $167 so robbery was ruled out. Also, she normally carried her things in a red backpack but was found with a bluepack instead. Still, it would appear that Judy was abducted, kidnapped and murdered albeit under a very unusual set of circumstances. Further investigation, however, calls this theory into doubt. Police located several witnesses who had seen Judy earlier walking around by herself in the nearby city of Asheville and was in a jovial mood. This mysterious woman had mentioned to one of the witnesses that her husband was an attorney. There seemed to be nothing out-of-ordinary about the woman other than no one being familiar with her. She was never seen in the company of any other person. So we have several questions: why did she leave Philadelphia for North Carolina without telling her husband? What happened to her red backpack? How did she end up dead on a mountain that almost certainly would not have been known to her? Did she go there to meet somebody? Since this was in 1997, there is virtually no chance that she was meeting a person she met online. The internet in 1997 was very primitive and not really conducive to that kind of thing. If she decided to meet someone she knew, why would she go to Philadelphia with her husband instead of staying home, waiting for him to leave for Philly and then catch a plane to North Carolina? If she wasn't in that state to meet someone then why was she there? The cops have listed her case as a homicide but there is little to go on. Judy Smith and her red backpack. Devin Williams was a truck driver from Lyon County, Kansas who was married and a father of three. He left Kansas in May 1995 to deliver a shipment to California. Upon arriving there, he unloaded his cargo and picked up a shipment to take back to Kansas. On May 28, campers in the Tonto National Forest near Kingman, Arizona were nearly run over by a speeding 18-wheeler driving erratically. The truck drove a distance into the forest and stopped in the middle of the road, Witnesses saw Devin Williams emerge walking around aimlessly and seemingly dazed. When they approached him and tried to talk to him, Devin would respond with strange statements as "I'm going to jail" and "They made me do it." The police were called but by the time they arrived, Devin Williams had run off. Williams did not use drugs and had no history of mental illness. Despite a lengthy search, no trace of him was found. When police checked his route, he was a good 50 miles off-course. His normal return route from California would not have taken him anywhere near Tonto National Forest. Two years later, May of 1997, Devin's skull was located by hikers only a half-mile from where he had left his truck. Why didn't searchers from two years earlier find him if he was that close? Did he return to the area and die? Return from where and when? How did he die? No one has been able to answer these questions. Devin Williams and family.
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Post by buzzbomb on Mar 21, 2020 20:31:04 GMT
abcnews.go.com/International/hampshire-man-vanishes-swim-guatemalan-lake/story?id=52379447Jan 16, 2018--Justin Booska, 27, from New Hampshire, an expert swimmer, was swimming across Laguna de la Ayarza in Guatemala--a calm lake with no predators. About halfway across, some of his friends took a boat and tracked him down to see if he was in any need but he told them he was fine so they went back to shore. He has not been seen since. First, a fire brigade went out to investigate and then a search team of locals was organized. Soon after, the police, military as well as the Guatemalan and US embassies got involved in the search. The military used foot searchers, drones, helicopters and dive teams but to no avail. The US State Dept and a local congresswoman also got involved. At least 8 days after Booska was reported missing on January 9th, a volunteer firefighter unit was still out looking for him. He wouldn't be in the lake as his body would have bloated with gases and floated to the surface after a few days. The surrounding area of the lake is pretty feral. As far as I have been able to check, Justin Booska has not been found.
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Post by buzzbomb on Mar 21, 2020 20:56:44 GMT
www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017/10/22/charles-mccullar-strange-disappearances-from-us-national-parksVery good article on Crater Lake in Oregon, one of the most beautiful and most sinister spots on earth. I have also already covered the vanishing of a couple of young boys at this place--2 eight-year-old boys placed eight years apart, both cases just bizarre. Here is the even more bizarre case of Charles McCullar, a case discussed often by Paulides but also by other investigators. This article discusses the mysterious fate of one of the first people to photograph Crater Lake back in 1911--B.B. Bakowski. There is also an excellent synopsis of the origins and geological and meteorological properties of the lake. Lastly, a recounting of Indian legends surrounding this area--pretty spooky stuff.
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Post by buzzbomb on Apr 5, 2020 1:54:17 GMT
www.mlive.com/news/2019/06/family-seeks-answers-at-electric-forest-a-year-after-man-went-missing.html29-year-old Kevin Graves disappeared from the Electric Forest campsite in Rothbury, MI on July 1, 2018. A year later, no trace of him has been found "despite considerable efforts to find him that have included ground searches using K-9s and dozens of volunteers, dive teams searching nearby lakes and flyovers." He and his girlfriend set up camp on the grounds where a music festival is held. Somewhere in Electric Forest they quarrelled about something and Kevin walked away back to the campsite but when the girlfriend went back sometime later, Kevin was not there. Another camper said she saw Kevin crying by himself but didn't speak to him. She was the last to see him. Kevin was a party-boy and did drugs, mostly pot, but harder stuff too. Probably not much different than the average Michigan guy--I was a pothead for many years and also dropped a lot of acid, snorted THC, smoked PCP, did mushrooms, downers, mescaline and even smoked opium but I wasn't a drug problem kind of guy. I just liked to party. Never got busted (came close) and did 6 drug-free years in the Navy. As I got older, I stopped doing drugs. I say all this to point out that he likely didn't have a drug problem but wasn't above getting stoned good and hard once in a while. What's interesting is that a woman saw him crying. Why was he crying? He had argued with his girlfriend but that's no reason to cry and he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who gets that emotional about things. But not infrequently in the 411 cases, people are seen crying prior to disappearing. That jumped out at me. No mention of mental health issues. One strange thing: some people supposed he might have joined a cult. Why would people think that? Was he exhibiting some kind of strange behavior prior to vanishing? His family said the girlfriend broke off contact with them a month after the incident. It's inconceivable that she caused his disappearance. If she killed him, for example, where would she hide the body? Besides, the other camper saw him after that crying. It's likely the girlfriend and Kevin's family were simply not getting along. Some witnesses said they saw him two days after he was reported missing at a "local restaurant" but I find this dubious. If he was in town, friends and family would have seen him. The whole town was searched and there was no trace of him. If he was in town, why wouldn't he get in touch with his family? If he ran away, why would he still be in town? I think that was mistaken identity. This area is near Muskegon. I have a good friend there and have been to Muskegon a great many times and have walked the shores of Lake Michigan and fished the lakes and streams out there. Lots of weird things have happened on that side of the state. Weird stuff--UFO sightings, disappearances, bigfoot and dogman sightings and you name it. The forests are lush and beautiful but, it would be kind of hard to get lost out there. You're never far from the Lake. People would be able to find you pretty quick. It's quite strange for no trace of him to be found.
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Post by buzzbomb on Apr 5, 2020 2:43:17 GMT
July 4th, 2012, 66-year-old Michael LeMaitre participated in the annual Mount Marathon race in Alaska where the participants run 3 1/2 miles up Mt. Marathon and back. Three hours later, Michael was seen still struggling up the mountain but he seemed to be fine. After six hours, his party gathered at the finish line awaiting his return, he never turned up. Someone went up the return trail to find him. There was no trace of him. The National Guard came out with a helicopter but did not see any trace of LeMaitre. After weeks of search parties scouring the trail and the mountain in general, no trace of Michael LeMaitre has ever been found.
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Post by buzzbomb on Apr 9, 2020 5:47:40 GMT
Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
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Post by buzzbomb on Apr 18, 2020 22:04:41 GMT
www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/police-need-information-on-california-man-found-dead-in-shoal-creek/From May thru December of 2018 in the Austin, TX area, six bodies were found in bodies of water. The latest was Randy Lexvold, 48, who was in town to see his daughter play basketball. He went to a downtown tavern called The Rooftop. He left there and was never seen alive again. His body was found 10 hours later in the waters of Shoal Creek near a bridge that passes over the creek. The problem is the water is only a couple of inches deep. Anyone could have walked across it easily. How could be possibly have drowned in it? Police do not suspect foul play but are looking for anyone who might have seen Lexvold during those 10 hours. Lexvold's death occurred just two weeks after the death of 25-year-old Martin Gutierrez who was out drinking on Rainey Street when he vanished and then was found in Lady Bird lake--the third body to be found there since May.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 18, 2020 23:07:19 GMT
www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/police-need-information-on-california-man-found-dead-in-shoal-creek/From May thru December of 2018 in the Austin, TX area, six bodies were found in bodies of water. The latest was Randy Lexvold, 48, who was in town to see his daughter play basketball. He went to a downtown tavern called The Rooftop. He left there and was never seen alive again. His body was found 10 hours later in the waters of Shoal Creek near a bridge that passes over the creek. The problem is the water is only a couple of inches deep. Anyone could have walked across it easily. How could be possibly have drowned in it? Police do not suspect foul play but are looking for anyone who might have seen Lexvold during those 10 hours. Lexvold's death occurred just two weeks after the death of 25-year-old Martin Gutierrez who was out drinking on Rainey Street when he vanished and then was found in Lady Bird lake--the third body to be found there since May. Hi buzzbomb,
If he was drunk he could drown in that amount of water. He could have passed out in the creek.
Crystal
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Post by buzzbomb on Apr 19, 2020 0:00:02 GMT
Possible but highly improbable. I've been stationed at navy bases all over the world and so drunk I couldn't see where I was going and never fell into the water. Nobody ever fell into the water. If nobody falls into the ocean and drowns what are the odds a guy is going to drown in two inches of water? He'd have to be face down in a couple of inches of water. I mean totally face down. And this isn't an isolated case. I mentioned the Kaitlyn Louder woman who died in water so shallow 5 miles from her home that they don't believe she was carried in the stream because it was too shallow to carry a body that far. And she hadn't been drinking at all. In another case, a man drown at a boat launch in water he could have easily stood up in. He wasn't drinking, he had no boat, nobody there knew him and none of his friends or family had any idea why he was even out there at all. But, sure, maybe this guy drown. Stranger things have happened.
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Post by buzzbomb on May 2, 2020 17:12:59 GMT
www.news9.com/story/5e34d400e0c96e774b353926/ok-man-disappears-after-making-strange-call-for-helpInvestigators said they have little to go on in the search for a missing Oklahoma man. Eugene Williams called the Beckham County Sheriff's Office early on March 2, 2014, saying some of its deputies were chasing him and he crashed while trying to get away. Williams had actually crashed near Bessie in Washita County, but did not realize it. His call to the non-emergency sheriff's line was about six minutes long. Williams is heard telling the Beckham County Sheriff's Office, "I'm trying to talk. I'm not loaded. I'm just super cold. I ran through a fence and parked in this farm yard." The sheriff's office employee asked Williams where he was. "I'm not sure. They chased me. They chased me for quite a while," Williams said. The sheriff's office employee explained to him that no one with the Beckham County Sheriff's Office was chasing him. Williams said he still thought some law enforcement agency was chasing him. He said he was walking in a field with a lot of canyons.
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Post by buzzbomb on May 4, 2020 15:49:28 GMT
The last case is somewhat similar to that of 18-year-old Brandon Swanson of Minnesota who vanished in 2008 after crashing his car into a ditch. He called his parents to pick him up and they went to where he said he was but they could not find him. They had him on their cell phone and asked him where he was and he said he'd flash his headlights but they saw nothing. He told them he saw the lights of the town of Lynd in the distance and he was going to walk there and they should meet him at a certain bar parking lot. The parents drove there but he was not there. They still had him on the phone and he was talking when he cut himself off and said, "Oh, shit." The phone went dead and Brandon Swanson has not been seen since. The police then found his car 25 miles from where he said he was similar to Eugene Williams. www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2018/1/13/douglas-legg-strange-disappearances-from-us-mountainsThe case of 8-year-old Douglas Legg who vanished in July of 1971 in the Adirondacks. He was already an experienced hiker. He left camp with some relatives but his uncle told him to go back to camp and get some long pants on in case they stumbled into poison ivy. The camp was only a short distance away. Douglas left the party for camp and has never been seen since. A huge search party ensued but they were unable to find him. I have at least one other case of someone disappearing while returning to camp a short distance away to change clothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4vnlPbG4b4The strange case of Jacqueline Watts, 33, of Indianapolis. She drove out to Columbus to visit family, was reported missing and then cops found her body on a sandbar in the Flat Rock River. Her car was parked on the side of the road still running with the emergency flashers on. Evidently, she saw something that made her pull over and get out of the car. She must not have planned to be gone long as she had left the car running. How she ended up in the water is unknown. What did she see that was so unusual that she had to pull over and investigate it?
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Post by buzzbomb on May 12, 2020 4:49:33 GMT
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Post by buzzbomb on May 17, 2020 12:01:07 GMT
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