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True Scary Stories
Read true scary stories and first-person accounts of frightening encounters, unexplained events and real moments that still resist an ordinary explanation.
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Muir Snowfield Whiteout: Two Hikers Started Down, One Returned
A call reached rangers from high on Mount Rainier. By afternoon, one hiker was being helped down while her companion remained somewhere…
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Muir Wall Rescue: Stranded Below El Capitan’s Snowy Summit
The summit was about 250 feet away. After a storm arrived, the remaining distance became too much for a cold, exhausted climber…
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Washington Column: The Hiker Who Stopped When Darkness Fell
The next step became impossible to judge after sunset. Three rescuers reached the stranded hiker and spent the night beside him.
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Inspiration Point: They Could See Help but Couldn’t Reach It
Emergency lights were visible below them. Steep ground, rain and approaching darkness still kept a mother and daughter from reaching safety.
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Night Stalker Murders: The 1985 Manhunt That Gripped California
Read the Night Stalker murders through survivor testimony, fingerprints, the 1985 search for Richard Ramirez and the verdicts preserved in court records.
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Harold Shipman: The Doctor Whose Patients Were Not Safe
Examine Harold Shipman’s crimes through Kathleen Grundy’s forged will, an earlier warning, 15 convictions and the inquiry into deaths hidden by medical…