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This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsAmerican football tight end Aaron Hernandez In 2013, Hernandez was charged with Lloyd’s murder—a semi-pro player dating his fiancée’s sister. The Patriots released him immediately. Convicted in 2015, he received life without parole. While imprisoned, he was tried and acquitted for a 2012 double homicide. Five days later, he was found dead in his cell, ruled a suicide. His murder conviction was briefly vacated posthumously but later reinstated. A posthumous diagnosis of CTE fueled debate about its role in his actions.

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsIn the summer of 2023, a 13-year-old Wisconsin boy disappeared after expressing a desire to try living “off-grid” in the wilderness. Despite extensive searches and the discovery of multiple improvised campsites, James remains missing.

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsAztalan State Park, located in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, protects a 172-acre stretch of land along the Crawfish River. Created in 1952, it earned National Historic Landmark status in 1964 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The park preserves the remains of an ancient Mississippian settlement that thrived from roughly the 10th through the 13th centuries. Its inhabitants built impressive earthwork mounds for ceremonies, political gatherings, and burial rites. Aztalan was one among many key Mississippian centers dotting the Mississippi Valley; its people took part in a vast trade network extending from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast and the southeastern United States.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsThe Bennington Triangle  Bennington Triangle is a term coined by author Joseph A. Citro to describe a region in southwestern Vermont where several people vanished between 1945 and 1950. Citro explored these cases— and the local folklore—in books such as Shadow Child, drawing parallels to Massachusetts’s Bridgewater Triangle. Tales of odd occurrences around Glastenbury and its environs had circulated for decades, the most famous involving the 1946 disappearance of college student Paula Jean Welden

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsOn 8 December 2000, 22-year-old Trevor Deely vanished in Dublin after walking home at about 4 a.m. from his work Christmas party. Earlier that night he had stopped by his office to fetch an umbrella and prepare for his shift the next day. Security cameras recorded him entering and leaving the building, including a brief conversation with an unidentified man dressed all in black. Deely was next seen on CCTV outside an AIB bank on Haddington Road as he continued on foot toward his apartment in Ballsbridge— this remains his last known image. Despite extensive Garda investigations, no trace of him has ever been found.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsThe Oakland County KillingsThe Oakland County Child Killer (OCCK) is the name given to the individual or individuals responsible for at least four child murders in Oakland County, Michigan, between 1976 and 1977. All confirmed victims—a pair of 12-year-old girls and two boys aged 11 and 12— were last seen with a man described as a young to middle-aged white male, with a defined jawline, prominent nose, long dark hair, and a demeanor that made children feel safe. Each child was abducted, held captive, then either strangled or shot before his or her body was left in a publicly visible spot near roadways. At the time, the ensuing murder investigation became the largest in U.S. history, drawing round-the-clock coverage from Detroit’ s newspapers, radio, and television stations. In 1977, a WXYT radio documentary titled “ Winter’ s Fear: The Children, the Killer, the Search” won a Peabody Award for its reporting on the case

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsFae Gardens, circles and other spooky itemsA fairy— also called a fay or faerie— is a mythical, often anthropomorphic being found in the folklore of various European cultures (

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsTrigger Warning as this episode contains the death of a minor  Rebekah BaptisteRebekah Baptiste was a ten-year-old American girl who died on July 30, 2025, three days after being found unresponsive and gravely injured in a remote area of Holbrook, Arizona. Her father, Richard Baptiste, and his fiancée, Anicia Woods, have been charged with her murder, kidnapping, and child abuse.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsTrigger Warning as this episode contains the death of a minorAnna KepnerThe killing of eighteen-year-old Anna Marie Kepner unfolded in chilling contrast to the carefree setting aboard the Carnival Horizon. On November 2, 2025, Anna had stepped onto the gleaming white deck in Miami, Florida, with her family—her father Christopher Kepner, her spirited stepmother Shauntel Hudson, doting grandparents, a lively sixteen-year-old stepbrother, and a curious nine-year-old stepsister. Their six-night voyage promised sun-drenched days in George Town, Grand Cayman; Ocho Rios, Jamaica; and Cozumel, Mexico. Anna, a proud cheerleader at Temple Christian School in Titusville, Florida, laughed easily as she unpacked her bright swimsuits and face-paint kits, sharing a cabin with her stepbrother as they had always been so close, her grandparents often reminded anyone who’d listen.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsThe body of Rey Rivera was discovered on May 24, 2006, inside the historic Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood. Although the Baltimore Police Department ultimately labeled his death a probable suicide, the strange circumstances and conflicting evidence have left many questions unanswered.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsOn the morning of February 3, 2003, American actress Lana Clarkson was discovered dead inside the Pyrenees Castle—record producer Phil Spector’s mansion in Alhambra, California. Earlier that night, Clarkson had met Spector while working at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, and the two had departed together in his limousine. They arrived at the estate, entered while Spector’s driver waited outside, and never left.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Gris Gris Box Gris‐ Gris Box is one of Saar’s so-called ancestral boxes, an assemblage grounded in African American ritual tradition. At its heart sits a doll evoking an African American woman, encircled by ceremonial objects— feathers, beads and small spheres that stand in for the planets. Strands of hair dangle beneath the box’s base, a nod to hoodoo and other healing customs. Along the top rim three carved eyes appear, recalling the “ third eye” of inner vision in many spiritual systems. Its title points directly to African American ritual practice and the ways memory, lineage and spirituality inform artistic creation.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsCountess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed (Hungarian: Báthori Erzsébet; Slovak: Alžbeta Bátoriová; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a Hungarian noblewoman from the powerful House of Báthory who held extensive estates in the Kingdom of Hungary (modern-day Slovakia). Between roughly 1590 and 1610 she and four of her servants were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and young women. Ultimately, Bathory and her servants faced eighty counts of murder. While her servants were executed after conviction, Elizabeth herself was confined to Csejte Castle (now Čachtice, Slovakia), where she remained imprisoned until her death in 1614.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsOn January 11, 1902, fifteen-year-old Nora Fuller vanished after leaving her San Francisco home. She’d told her widowed mother that she’d answered a local newspaper ad for a nanny and was meeting the advertiser. She neither returned that night nor the next, and a city-wide search began. One month later, Nora’s nude body was discovered in a vacant apartment.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsThe Devil’ s Tramping Ground, also called the Devil’ s Stomping Ground, is a camping site hidden in the woods near Harper’ s Crossroads in Bear Creek, North Carolina. For generations it’s been wrapped in local lore: a perfect circle roughly 40 feet across where nothing will grow and anything left inside overnight vanishes. Legend says the Devil himself “tramps” this barren ring, pacing in endless circles as he plots new ways to unleash evil.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsRobert Christian Boes Hansen (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), nicknamed the “ Butcher Baker,” was an American serial killer who preyed on women in Anchorage, Alaska, from about 1972 until his arrest in 1983. Over that period he abducted, raped and murdered at least seventeen women, releasing many into the Alaskan wilderness only to hunt them down with a Ruger Mini-14 rifle and hunting knives. Convicted in 1983, he received a 461-year sentence without parole and died of natural causes in custody at age 75.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsIn 2010, Matthew Hoffman broke into Tina Herrmann’s home intending to commit a burglary but instead killed Herrmann, her friend Stephanie Sprang, and Herrmann’s 11-year-old son Kody Maynard. He concealed their dismembered bodies inside a hollow, 60-foot-tall tree. During the same crime spree, he abducted Herrmann’s 13-year-old daughter, Sarah Maynard, who ultimately survived and later recounted the horrors she endured.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsBrianna Zunino Denison (March 29, 1988 – January 20, 2008) was an American college student who vanished from a friend’ s house in Reno, Nevada, in the early hours of January 20, 2008. Her body was recovered on February 15, 2008, in a field near a Reno business park; the medical examiner determined she had been raped and murdered. In 2010, James Michael Biela was convicted of her abduction, sexual assault, and murder and received a death sentence.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsGold glinted in the Sierra foothills in 1859 when four prospectors struck a promising vein on the Eastern slope. Sworn to secrecy until winter passed, they plotted their return in Spring while other fortune hunters scoured the opposite side of the mountains. W.S. Bodey volunteered for the dangerous journey back to Monoville for provisions, but nature had other plans. A sudden blizzard descended, claiming his life before he could reap the rewards of discovery. When his companions later established a camp in his memory, a sign painter's error transformed " Bodey" into "Bodie" – an accidental rechristening that endured through the decades that followed.

Welcome backThis is SurvivedWith Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story in college and now bringing you guys moreJaleayah Davis, a 20-year-old woman from Marietta, Ohio, went out on the evening of Friday, November 18, 2011, with friends Kristin Bechtold, Jordan Campbell, Freddie Scott, and Katy Nelson, according to police reports never to be seen alive again.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsThe last confirmed sighting of 22-year-old Todd Geib occurred at a party on Sunday, June 12, 2005. The gathering—attended by roughly 100 people—took place behind an apple orchard near Casnovia, Michigan, in a marshy stretch ofland with six miles of tall grass.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics An unsolved disappearance of Sherrill Elizabeth Levitt, her daughter Suzanne Elizabeth “ Suzie” Streeter, and Suzie’s friend Stacy Kathleen McCall. On June 7, 1992, the three vanished from Levitt’ s home at 1717 East Delmar Street in Springfield, Missouri. Their cars, purses, and other personal items remained inside; the only sign of disturbance was a shattered porch- light globe. An answering-machine message that investigators later deemed potentially important was accidentally erased after being played once.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics King Arthur stands as Britain's most enduring legendary monarch. His tales form the cornerstone of the medieval literary corpus called the Matter of Britain.Welsh chronicles portray Arthur leading post-Roman British forces against Anglo-Saxon invaders around the late 5th and early 6th centuries. Though mentioned in the Annales Cambriae and Historia Brittonum, these accounts emerged three centuries after his purported lifetime, leading most period historians to question his historical existence. Early Welsh poetry like Y Gododdin also references him. Through Welsh mythological evolution, Arthur emerged either as Britain's stalwart defender against mortal and supernatural threats or as a mystical folkloric figure, sometimes connected to Annwn, the Welsh otherworld.

Welcome backThis is survivedWith Sophie & LexiWe started telling our survived story and now moving on to bring you guys moreOn December 9, 2001, Kathleen and Michael are enjoying their evening together having a couple glasses of wine, talking about the upcoming christmas festivities, work, the kids. Kathleen goes inside the house while Michael stays out to enjoy the rest of the evening sitting by their pool. When he decides to go inside, he finds Kathleen at the bottom of the stairs and calls 911. Michael Peterson called 911 at 2:40 a.m. to report that his wife had fallen down 15-20 steps.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Kayla Mae Berg was born on a late summer day, August 29, 1994, in Wausau, Wisconsin, and spent her childhood roaming the gentle rolling hills of central Wisconsin. By August 11, 2009, the air in Antigo held a hot, muggy hush as the sun dipped toward the horizon. Fifteen-year- old Kayla climbed into a friend’ s car just after dusk, hoping to see her on-again, off-again boyfriend. She never came home. That evening, after a brief stop at the McDonald’ s on 5th Avenue— where the golden glow of the menu board reflected in her curious eyes— Kayla was driven to a vacant, half-renovated house in Wausau. No one saw her leave, and no trace of her has been found since. Fourteen years— and counting—of tireless searches, interviews, and dead ends have left her family and investigators without answers. The case remains open, the mystery unsolved.

The early summer dawn at Lake Bodom was deceptively tranquil: mist curled above the dark water, frogs croaked in the reeds, and pale birch trunks gleamed silver in the pre-sunshine haze. Yet in the small clearing near Espoo’s Oittaa Manor, the placid surface concealed a horror that would haunt Finland for decades. On the night of 4 June 1960, Maila Irmeli Björklund, fifteen, and her friend Anja Tuulikki Mäki, also fifteen, pitched a small canvas tent beside the lake’ s pebbled shore. Joining them were their boyfriends, eighteen-year-olds  Seppo Boisman and Nils Gustafsson, laughing and passing around cigarettes as they settled down to sleep under a vault of sparkling stars.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Ellen Rae Greenberg (June 23, 1983 – January 26, 2011) was a gentle-voiced first-grade teacher whose life ended in a haunting blur of blood, bruises, and unanswered questions. On that frigid January evening, her body was discovered bearing twenty jagged stab wounds—ten driven deep into her back and neck—and eleven dark bruises across her arm, abdomen, and leg. Despite the brutality of her injuries and the whisper of foul play that trailed through Philadelphia’ s corridors, her death was officially declared a suicide, igniting a firestorm of debate, legal battles, and worldwide media scrutiny.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Hogmanay (Scots pronunciation HOG-mə-nay or HOG-mə-NAY) is the Scots word for the last day of the old year and the celebration of the New Year in Scotland. Officially observed from 31 December through 2 January (with 1 and 2 January designated bank holidays), Hogmanay often spills over into  January’s first morning or even 2 January. In some contexts, “ Hogmanay” denotes the entire festive stretch from the final days of December into the opening days of January, as seen in Edinburgh’ s multi-day celebrations.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics This week we will be pivoting from our case coverage since this episode is coming out on a holiday week. We will be talking about the legend of the Yule Cat. The Yule Cat (Jólakötturinn) is a terrifying, giant feline from Icelandic folklore that prowls the countryside at Christmas, eating people who haven't received new clothes before Christmas Eve, serving as a spooky incentive for hard work and finishing knitting. Linked to the mischievous Yule Lads and their ogress mother, Grýla, the Cat ensures diligence in wool production and charity, with wealthier families giving extra socks to protect the poor from its hungry claws. `

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics The night of June 9 into the early hours of June 10, 1912, placed  in Villisca, Iowa, by an unspeakable brutality. In the modest Moore house,  six members of the well-liked  Moore family—Josiah B. (43), his wife Sarah (39),  and their children Herman (11), Mary Katherine (10), Arthur (7), and Paul (5)—along with their two young guests, Ina Mae Stillinger (8) and Lena Gertrude Stillinger (11), lay dead, each skull shattered by the same heavy  axe. By dawn, investigators would stand in stunned silence before the scene: eight bodies arranged  in their beds,  the killer’s weapon still smeared with blood,  and every mirror in the home draped in cloth as though to ward off prying eyes or restless spirits.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics For seven years, Mike Maddux combed every homeless shelter in Colorado Springs, explored campgrounds throughout Pike National Forest, and watched countless strangers’ faces on the street, all in search of his missing son. Joshua “Josh” Maddux was born March 9, 1990, to Mike and Roberta Maddux in Woodland Park, Colorado, a town of roughly 8,000 set against the Pike National Forest. Its preserved downtown buildings and surrounding hills made it a nature lover’s haven. Josh, the fourth of five children and the family’s youngest son, was homeschooled until his parents divorced. He then attended public school while living with his father and two older sisters, Kate and Ruth, in a house nestled between town and forest. An avid hiker and wildlife watcher, Josh spent every free moment outdoors.

Welcome back this is survived With sophie and lexiWe started teeling our survived story (from college) and we are moving on to bring you guys moreWith many different topicsToday, is survived a ghost! However, this episode is going to be less spooky, more informative/ focusing on some conspiracy theoriesWe will be talking about the history of Ancient Egypt, the history of the Sphinx, Sphinx conspiracy theories, some legends, as well as two god/goddesses that were held high within the Egyptian culture. 

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Sherri Louise Graeff-Papini, a 34-year-old mother of two from Redding, California, vanished on November 2, 2016, while out for a jog about a mile from her home. Three weeks later—on Thanksgiving morning, November 24—she reappeared at 4:30 a.m., still bound, on the side of County Road 17 near Interstate 5 in Yolo County, roughly 150 miles south of her disappearance site.  

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics On 5 September 2012, four people were shot dead on the Route Forestière France, south of Lake Annecy. The victims were Iraqi-born British engineer Saad al-Hilli, 50; his wife Iqbal, 47; her mother Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, who carried a Swedish passport; and 45-year-old French cyclist Sylvain Mollier. The al-Hillis’ two daughters survived: the younger child, four, hid for eight hours under her mother in the rear footwell before forensic teams found her, while the elder, seven-year-old Zainab, suffered a shoulder and head wound and returned to the U.K. on 14 September.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Skylar Annette Neese was a 16-year-old honor student from Star City, West Virginia, who vanished from her home around midnight on July 6, 2012. Six months later her body was discovered just over the state line in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Two of her high school friends, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf, ultimately admitted to luring and murdering her.

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Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Week four of spooky fest and final week The ghost of Abraham Lincoln  Andrew Jackson’s   - Thomas Jefferson   - Dolley Madison’s - John Tyler’s  - William Henry Harrison - Abigail Adams’ l- An unnamed British soldier - David Burnes, - Anna Surratt

Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Week three of spooky fest The mysterious murder (and haunting) of room 636.Seated in the very heart of old San Antonio, the Sheraton Gunter Hotel looms twelve stories high like a time-scarred monarch. Its warm tan brick façade pulses with the patina of a century’s worth of sunrises and moonlit whispers. Every cornice and archway exudes an elegance born of the 1900s—a refinement that only an aged property can carry in its bones.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics True Crime news;It's week Three of spooky fest! On the morning of 6 May 1922, a pale spring light silvery with mist brought news that set the Picard household aflutter with both hope and confusion. Police in Cherbourg—nearly 250 miles (400 km) from the little village of Goas-al-Ludu—had reported finding a child they believed might be their lost Pauline. Newspapers seized upon every whispered detail: Le Matin claimed she’d been abandoned on a narrow lane called rue Coypel, her small frame left in the hush of dusk; two years later L’Ouest-Éclair placed her at a woman’s doorstep on rue Crespel; and as late as 2017 the magazine Ozy spun a haunting tale of a “mysterious woman dressed in rags” who bore the silent child through empty streets. Taken straight to the white-washed wards of Cherbourg’s hospital, the girl lay silent—her lips sealed against speech and tears alike.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics It's week two of the spooky season! Today we have a true crime case that involves the paranormal An engraving in Kirby’s Wonderful and Scientific Museum, published early in 1804, portrays a pale, otherworldly form drifting among the tombstones—the eerie specter at the heart of the Hammersmith Ghost murder case. That year, paranoia and superstition combined in a string of midnight sightings around London’s Hammersmith district, producing one of Britain’s most notorious legal precedents: the principle that a person may be held criminally liable for lethal force even when acting on a wholly mistaken belief in self-defence.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics It's Spooky Season! This week we are starting off with survived a ghost and have an action packed october for you! The Amityville Horror, it was written by Jay Anson and published in September 1977, recounts the alleged paranormal experiences of the Lutz family at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. The book inspired a long-running series of films beginning in 1979 but has sparked ongoing controversy and legal battles over its veracity.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Maura Murray (born May 4, 1982) vanished the evening of February 9, 2004, after her car went off a sharp turn on Route 112 near Woodsville, New Hampshire. A 21-year-old nursing student at UMass Amherst, Murray’s fate remains a mystery.  

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Brian Randall Shaffer was born on a cold winter morning, February 11, 1979, and grew into a devoted Ohio State University medical student whose calm intelligence and warm smile made him well liked by classmates and professors alike. Yet in the predawn hours of April 1, 2006, Brian vanished without a trace. Security cameras at the South Campus Gateway in downtown Columbus captured his last known moments—two brief, almost casual words exchanged with two women beside the glowing door of a second-floor bar—before he drifted out of view into the chilly spring darkness. Earlier that night, he had laughed with friends over the promise of spring break; when they eventually parted company, they assumed he was headed back home. Since that fleeting moment on camera, no one has seen or heard from him. The mystery of his disappearance, baffling investigators and gripping headlines from Columbus to Washington, still remains unsolved.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics On the evening of 31 March 1922, six people living at Hinterkaifeck—a remote farmstead about 70 km north of Munich—were bludgeoned to death with a mattock by an unknown assailant. The victims were 63-year-old Andreas Gruber; his 72-year-old wife Cäzilia; their 35-year-old widowed daughter, Viktoria Gabriel; Viktoria’s two children, seven-year-old Cäzilia and two-year-old Josef; and their 44-year-old maid, Maria Baumgartner. After the killings, the murderer remained on the property for three days, eating the family’s food, feeding the animals, and lighting fires in the hearth. Four of the bodies were found piled in the barn, apparently lured there one by one. In the months before the massacre, family members and a former maid had heard strange noises from the attic; that maid quit, convinced the place was haunted. To this day, Hinterkaifeck remains one of Germany’s most baffling unsolved crimes.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics The Ouija—pronounced WEE-jə or WEE-jee and often called a spirit board, talking board or witch board—is a flat surface on which the letters A–Z, the numbers 0–9, the words “yes” and “no,” and sometimes “hello,” “goodbye,” and assorted symbols are printed. Users rest their fingers on a small, movable indicator called a planchette . During a séance, participants lightly guide the planchette around the board to spell out messages. Although “Ouija” is a trademark owned by Hasbro , the term is widely used to describe any talking board.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics The Atlas Vampire remains an unidentified killer linked to Stockholm’s notorious “Vampire Murder.” In the first days of May 1932, 31-year-old Lilly Lindeström—a prostitute working out of her tiny apartment in the Atlas district near Sankt Eriksplan—vanished. The last person to see her alive was her downstairs neighbor and fellow sex worker, 35-year-old Minnie Janssen. A few evenings before Lilly’s body was found, she’d knocked on Minnie’s door twice for condoms, returning once around nine o’clock wearing only an overcoat. After that night, Lilly never emerged again.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Jeannette DePalma (August 3, 1956 – c. August 7, 1972) was an American teenager believed to have been brutally murdered on or around August 7, 1972, in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey. A month later her shattered, decomposing body was discovered atop the jagged cliff locals call the “Devil’s Teeth” in Houdaille Quarry. The grotesque scene ignited sensational local coverage rife with rumors of occult rituals.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860–June 1, 1927) was an American woman tried and acquitted for the August 4, 1892 hatchet murders of her father, Andrew, and stepmother, Abby, in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was ever charged, and despite being shunned by much of the town, she remained in Fall River until dying of pneumonia at 66, just days before her sister Emma’s death.

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics Jan Broberg Felt is an American actress, singer, dancer—and a survivor of two kidnappings by a trusted family friend when she was 12 and again at 14.