May 9, 2017 | Unsolved Mysteries
It’s a familiar horror trope that never seems to get old. A young woman is in a strange house alone, babysitting. The phone rings. The caller says malicious, terrifying things. The teenager hangs up, but the caller always phones back. Eventually, he says...
Dec 13, 2016 | Unsolved Mysteries
It’s been almost seventeen years since eighteen-year-old Walmart employee Zebb Quinn went missing in Asheville, North Carolina on January 2, 2000. The events surrounding his disappearance are truly bizarre, and in many ways, a horrifying update in 2015 resulted...
Jul 11, 2016 | Unsolved Mysteries
I’ve been researching and writing about missing people for a long time. From this experience, I’ve learned that two groups of people are most likely to vanish: Children Young women in their teens to early thirties Thelma Krull, however, was a 57-year-old...
Apr 2, 2016 | Unsolved Mysteries
Some cold cases will forever haunt us. There’s the Black Dahlia, Jack the Ripper, and America’s Unknown Child, also known as The Boy in the Box. We don’t know his name. We don’t know how he died. But the people of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Jan 26, 2016 | Unsolved Mysteries
I’ve been thinking about Spain a lot lately. Last year I explored the haunted wonders of Transylvania as part of the Horror Writers’ Workshop. It was a phenomenal experience, and I met so many amazing people. This year, Writers & Publishers...
Dec 8, 2015 | Unsolved Mysteries
By all accounts, Christopher Mittendorf and Kristina Branum were a happy young couple living in Hardin County, Tennessee. On July 27, 2006, twenty-one-year-old Mittendorf went shopping with Branum, his 17-year-old fiancee. Although the couple was living together, they...
