Case Files

Cases I keep going back to

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FILE 008

The Woman with No Name

SUBJECT: Unidentified female, known as the Isdal Woman
LOCATION: Isdalen, near Bergen, Norway
STATUS: UNIDENTIFIED. UNDETERMINED

Somebody cut the labels out of her clothes before she burned. Fifty years on, nobody has been able to say who she was.

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FILE 007

The Black Monk

SUBJECT: The Pritchard family, 30 East Drive
LOCATION: Chequerfield Estate, Pontefract, England
STATUS: UNEXPLAINED

An ordinary council house, a family who named the thing in it, and a daughter dragged up the stairs in front of witnesses. You can rent it by the night.

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FILE 006

Four Hundred Miles

SUBJECT: JAL Cargo Flight 1628, Boeing 747-200F
LOCATION: Eastern Alaska, inbound to Anchorage
STATUS: EXPLAINED. DISPUTED

Everyone argues about whether he saw a spacecraft. The harder question is what you do when a reliable man tells you something you can't believe.

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FILE 005

Cut From the Inside

SUBJECT: Nine hikers, Ural Polytechnic Institute
LOCATION: Kholat Syakhl, northern Ural Mountains, USSR
STATUS: OFFICIALLY CLOSED. STILL DISPUTED

I didn't want this one solved. Then Russia reopened it, and two Swiss physicists published a model that mostly works.

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FILE 004

Ten by Eighteen

SUBJECT: John Edward Jones, age 26
LOCATION: Nutty Putty Cave, Utah County, Utah
STATUS: NOT RECOVERED. CAVE SEALED

There's a cave in Utah filled with concrete, and a plaque on the hillside above it. We know exactly where he is, down to the inch.

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