The case we want to talk about today occurred in 1978, Yuba City in California, the United States, known as the American version of the Diatrov incident, several teenagers in the night before the camping strange disappearance, after the investigation only to find the details of many strange places, the bizarre disappearance of the teenager let many reasoners think about it, Yuba City people are panicked, for more than forty years, every blood, this is the most terrifying legend shrouded in this city, this is the disappearance of the five teenagers in Yuba City.
At 5:00 a.m. on February 25, 1978, a middle-aged woman with sleepy eyes dragged her slow pace to a door, he knocked on the door, no one responded, was it her son still sleeping? She quietly pushed open the door and found the room quiet, no sound of sleeping snoring, not even breathing. A wave of doubt welled up in his mind, and he went into the house, and sure enough, it was empty. Strange, where did my son go? He searched all over the house, but was surprised to find that there was no trace of his son at all, was it because he went out to watch the game last night and did not come home?
If the son is a normal youth, he will not have any worries at all, but when he thinks of his son's special situation, he cannot stop the anxiety. I sat in the living room first, anxiously waiting for the return of my son Ted, who had no idea what he had expected, but what was waiting for him was bad news. At 8:00 a.m., the crisp phone rang, and Ted's mother hurried to pick up the phone, expecting her son to be safe, but on the other end of the phone was another woman's panicked voice. It turned out that a teenager who was in the same stream as Ted that night had not returned home for a night, and he still did not know where he was. The teenager's name was Theodoch, and at the same time, there was another teenager, William Sterling, who was still missing, and this time it was like an explosion, and after the mothers contacted each other, they found that a total of five teenagers had mysteriously disappeared that night.
These five teenagers are the protagonists of the story, called teenagers, not because they are young, in fact, their age is between 24 and 32 years old, which is considered to be the industry of youth. However, because they all have more or less problems in their mental aspects, they have always been treated as teenagers who do not do more. With the exception of marias, who is 25 years old at home, the other four all suffer from mild learning disabilities. In the United States, the definition of learning disability is different from that in China, they define it as an individual with a known level of intelligence, whose learning ability is not up to the ability of his or her intelligence level, which is simply that the learning ability does not reach the normal level of intelligence, but the mild learning disability does not greatly affect their normal life. Compared with several other teenagers, the defects in the family are mainly in the spirit, he once served in the U.S. Army, and even participated in the Vietnam War, but in 1973 because of mental problems was dissuaded by the troops, he suffered from schizophrenic qualities, but also accompanied by a strong mania, with the treatment of the condition has long improved, but people need to take medicine every day, just like this, five teenagers because of similar diseases, while participating in a rehabilitation organization of You80%, since then know each other, become inseparable good friends, They have the same hobbies, playing basketball and watching ball games. At 10 p.m. on Feb. 24, at California State University, Chico, a couple of teenagers had just finished watching a hearty basketball game, walking shoulder to shoulder and shoulder to shoulder to shoulder, happily discussing the victory of the away team they had just supported, but then hunger gradually rose, and they simply drove to a small supermarket three blocks off campus. After buying some snacks, Jack Hudt drove home in his sky-blue sedan and four other teenagers. The night shrouded the car, and their way home suddenly became long. The next day, the mothers found that the teenagers had not returned overnight. At 8 p.m. on the 25th, after a long period of fruitless contact for the mother, she finally chose to call the police, and this bizarre case immediately attracted the attention of the police. Liu Bashen has always been a place with beautiful scenery and good security, so the case of the collective disappearance of five people is the first time. The mother of the family knows her son very well, and the son has always been very well-behaved, never going home at night, and more importantly, a week before his disappearance, his son was whispering about the game in his ear. On February 25, the son's basketball team had an important basketball game, and the five teenagers all valued that they would never miss the game, and the family once had a very serious schizophrenia, although it has improved a lot, but in case of any extreme situation, who can guarantee that the son's condition will not recur? The mother at home could hardly accept such an outcome, and she tried to contact her son every day, but to no avail. At this moment, the police gave feedback on new information, is it the son who has news?
On February 28, 1978, the police found some very strange clues, Jack's sky blue car was found, but unfortunately, the voices of five teenagers were not found in the car, and the car was empty, only some empty snack bags and half a chocolate bar. However, something even stranger happened, the final location of the car made all the police officers present confused, and the location was found 112 km east of Chico, missing on a mountain road northeast of the National Forest Park in the northeast of the eight cities. The weather was very cold that day, the snow on the side of the road was as thick as 28 cm, and what was even more difficult to understand was that the mountain road was very rough, and the way home for the teenagers was completely opposite directions. What's going on here? You know, if you go home from the Qi River, there is only one mountain road, so unless you do it intentionally, it is difficult for teenagers to take the wrong road, why should they go in this strange direction? What happened to them that night? The next series of discoveries did not answer this question, but instead brought more mysteries. In response to the problem that the five teenagers were not in the car, at first the police suspected that the car was out of gas or there was some malfunction, so several teenagers chose to leave the car, but after inspection, it was found that 1/4 of the fuel of the car was enough to support them to go home. And it is difficult to explain that the condition of the car is surprisingly good, not only is there no fault, driving on such a rough mountain road, the chassis of the car is not a little worn, but according to the teenager's family, so none of them have ever come to this road. In other words, Jack, who is driving, is not familiar with this road, so how can he ensure that the chassis of the car is unharmed in such a bad weather and rugged mountain road? Wasn't the driver that night Jack? According to the scene, the car keys were pulled out and were not in the car. If it was another person driving that night, it would not make sense, because it was learned from the people around him that Jack cherished his car very much and would never allow others to touch it, except when forced or unconscious. What seemed to support this speculation was that another clue was discovered, and the window of the car's back seat had been rolled down by half. It was a very cold night, and none of the five teenagers were wearing cold suits, so why would the good guy roll down the window of the car and let the snow pear mixed with the cold wind pour into the car?
All this made the officers even more suspicious that something tricky must have happened to them that night. In order to explore this series of doubts, the police dispatched a large number of search and rescue teams, launched search and rescue dog helicopters, and searched near the vehicle to find the traces of the teenagers. But to everyone's dismay, during the search and rescue operation, the weather conditions were very bad and showed no signs of easing. A blizzard swept through the area, much evidence may have been buried, and bad weather threatened the lives of many search and rescue workers. In this case, it is difficult to find the traces of a few teenagers.
In this way, the search and rescue operation was forced to be delayed, and the vigorous disappearance of 85% of the teenagers was thus silenced, and the families of the teenagers were difficult to accept this fact. They never gave up on the search for the children, and the aimless search was fruitless. Disappointment and exhaustion gradually swept through the families, thinking that they might never hear from their children again in their lifetime, until one day, a new discovery returned, and the hopes of these families shocked every resident of Yuba City.
As time went on, the weather improved, the snow slowly melted, and after a long spring, john and his motorcycle team set off on June 4, 1978, ready for a bike tour. Eighty percent of the scenery is unconsciously riding into the depths of the woods. They came to an abandoned trailer campground, and John and his teammates got out of the car and walked together toward the abandoned trailer, which was 20 meters long. However, as they walked in, a strong strange smell came over their noses, and john the experienced John vaguely judged that it was the smell of oneness. Could it be that a small animal died? John looked through the shattered glass window into a net, and then saw a scene that made him unable to believe his eyes, and he broke out in a cold sweat and slid down on the ground, it was a naked human horn, the siren broke the silence of the woods, the door of the trailer was pried open by the police, and here people finally found the traces of the missing five teenagers. On the bed of the trailer lay one of the teenagers, Ted's body, frozen hard, wrapped in eight blankets inside and out, leaving only a pair of bare feet that had been swollen purple with excitement, full of frostbite, and the whole person was extremely miserable. So where did the other teenagers go? Was he killed like Taylor? Evidence was later found, confirming this unfortunate speculation, and the remains of two teenagers were found 4.5km south of the trailer. Two days later, in the northeast direction of the trailer, the remains of another teenager were also found. Except for the other four teenagers in the family, all of whom have been confirmed to have died, and the whereabouts of the family are still unknown. This bad news swept through the residents of the town, and the real cause of the death of several teenagers, and what really happened that night, is still an untold mystery. It's just that the deaths of these teenagers have some inexplicable doubts. First of all, a strange substance was found in the abandoned trailer, a gold watch passed by others who did not belong to any teenager, this extra misdiagnosis, and too many relics at the time, will this strange gold watch be the fuse for the teenagers to be killed? Second, there was plenty of food in the trailer, and five people knew they had eaten for a whole year, but Ted's body was found 200 pounds hungry to 100 pounds, and the complete packaging proved that the food had not been unopened. If Ted's mild intellectual disability prevented him from discovering the food, how could he not be reminded of it from a home with normal military intelligence? The military cans on the side only had traces of being unsealed, which also proved that among the five teenagers, someone had found that the trailer containing the food had the family's shoes, while Ted was frozen alive barefoot.
All this seems to point to the family, with unexplainable puzzles, but because the evidence of the case is too little, there are too many doubts, and the special mental situation of the victim cannot be analyzed by the logical thinking of normal people, this case has become an unsolved case that is still difficult to explain. Many people have put forward speculations about the case, but so far there is no one guess that can perfectly explain all the doubts, and can only look forward to the day when the truth of the case will be revealed with the advancement of science and technology.