Jordan Grier, Disappeared October 9, 2018, Remains Found April 2019, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota. In October 2018, 29-year-old Jordan Grider headed out to spend the Winter in northern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as part of his normal off-grid lifestyle. Grider had just spent the last few months with his parents and five brothers in New Mexico through his birthday at the end of September 2018. A white truck packed with black bags had been parked in front of a private gate off the Sioux Hustler Trail, preventing entry, so the authorities were notified t ..read more

Gary Dale Mathias, Jack Madruga, JacK Huett, Ted Weiher and Bill Sterling, disappeared February 24, 1978, Oroville, Plumas National Forest, California. Bodies found June 4, 1978 (Except Gary Mathias). Revised and expanded March 2024 The Yuba County Five Case (Mathias Group) Background On February 24, 1978, a group of friends from Yuba City in California, Gary Mathias, Jack Madruga, Jackie Huett, Ted Weiher, and William Sterling, set out on a trip to watch a basketball game in Chico. They left after it finished and were never seen alive again. A few days later, the car they were in was fou ..read more

Rebecca Vance, second left, and Christine Vance, second from right Rebecca Vance, Christine Vance and TALON VANCE, REMAINS found July 9, 2023, close to Gold Creek Campground, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado. In 2022, the Vance family attempted to live “off-grid” in the Colorado wilderness using YouTube videos to prepare for their new life “away from everything”. Unfortunately for them, the extreme winter weather in the area, poor preparation, illness and misfortune led their remains to be discovered months after they died in a state of partial mummification about 150 feet from the Gold Cre ..read more

Stocksbridge Bypass, near Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, UK The A616 Stocksbridge bypass in South Yorkshire in the North of England is believed to be the U.K.’s most haunted road. Ghostly apparitions, including monks and children, have been reported, and over 25 people have been killed in car accidents since it opened. Some have said the deaths are just bad driving at high speed, others that something or someone has distracted drivers, causing head-on collisions late at night. To read the full story become a member or log in here. StrangeOutdoors Exclusive Members Only Area $15.99 One time Exc ..read more

2024 Jan 18, 2024 StrangeOutdoors Mysterious Stories Blog Articles Jan 18, 2024 Jan 14, 2024 The strange mystery of the Australian Button Man and the Victorian Alpine Park disappearances Jan 14, 2024 Jan 8, 2024 The strange death of Elisa Lam in the LA Cecil Hotel Jan 8, 2024 Jan 7, 2024 The mysterious disappearance of Carl Landers from Mount Shasta Jan 7, 2024 Jan 2, 2024 The Scottish Highlands’ most haunted hiking stopover - Luibeilt Bothy Jan 2, 2024 Jan 2, 2024 The mysterious disappearance and death of Zigmund Adamski and the Todmorden UFO Jan 2, 2024 Jan 1, 2024 The mysterious Observat ..read more

CARL HERBERT LANDERS, DISAPPEARED MAY 25, 1999, LAKE HELEN, MOUNT SHASTA, CALIFORNIA. Updated and expanded December 2023 69-year-old Carl Herbert Landers, who lived in Orinda, California, headed to Mount Shasta, north of Sacramento, to attempt to climb to the summit on May 25, 1999. He went on the trip with two friends, Milton Gaines, aged 64, and Barry Gillmore, aged 60, whom he had met through a local running club. Carl was an experienced outdoorsman, but he vanished despite a vast search of every inch of Shasta by professional mountain rescue teams, including a veteran of more than 20 ..read more

On December 25, Christmas Day, 2021, the BBC aired a podcast written and hosted by Danny Robins called “Uncanny: Don't Sleep in This House”. This was followed by another episode named “The Curse of Luibeilt”. The two shows featured a Christmas hiking and climbing trip during December 1973, where two men, Phil MacNeill and Jimmy Dunn experienced a frightening series of events in a remote mountain bothy in the isolated Scottish Highlands. A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge and they are found in remote mountainous areas of Scotland, N ..read more

Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, Disappeared April 1, 2014, ContinentaL Divide in the rainforests near Boquete, Panama. Partial Remains found June 19, 2014. Revised December 2023 Introduction to the disappearance of Lisanne and Kris in 2014 Two Dutch women, Kris Kremers, 21, and Lisanne Froon, 22, went on a 5-6 hour hike near Boquete, close to the Continental Divide of Panama, on April 1, 2014. Kris and Lisanne had come to Panama to study Spanish and volunteer to work with children in the community. Their remains were found two months later in mysterious circumstances, with the authorities clai ..read more

Samuel Savage Becker Boehlke, Disappeared October 14, 2006, Cleetwood Cove, CrAter Lake National Park, Oregon. Revised and expanded October 2023 Sammy Boehlke, an 8-year-old boy, was with his father, Kenneth, 48, on October 14, 2006, near the Cleetwood Cove area at Crater Lake National Park. At around 4 pm, the young boy ran up a cinder slope into the woods and vanished, never to be seen again. Despite an extensive search, no trace of Sam or his remains has ever been found at this spot in Oregon that has been synonymous with many strange events over the years. What is and where is Crater ..read more

Kenny LEE Veach, disappeared November 10, 2014, Sheep Mountains, near Las Vegas, Nevada Revised October 2023 On November 10, 2014, Kenny Lee Veach set out to re-discover a strange cave called the “M Cave”, as it was in the shape of an M, that he had found on a desert hike a few months before. The cave was in the Sheep Mountains, 40 miles north of Las Vegas and south of the infamous Area 51 military base. Despite warnings not to go back to locate the cave by a poster on an online forum, he headed out on his third trip to try and find the mysterious place. On his first encounter with the ca ..read more