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Chapter 1: What happened to the Martin family in December 1958?
On the afternoon of December 7, 1958, a family of five climbed into a cream and red Ford station wagon in Portland, Oregon, and told their neighbors they'd be back before dark.
Chapter 2: What is the mystery behind DB Cooper's hijacking?
They were going to cut some Christmas greenery in the Columbia River Gorge.
Chapter 3: How did Leah Roberts disappear after her road trip in 2000?
Sixty miles up the river, they bought five gallons of gas.
Chapter 4: What strange events occurred during the 1924 Ape Canyon incident?
And then every single one of them disappeared.
Chapter 5: What evidence was found in the case of the unidentified man in Amanda Park?
The search that followed was the largest in the history of the state of Oregon, and it would take 67 years before anyone could say where that family went.
Chapter 6: How did modern technology help solve the mystery of Lyle Stevik?
Thirteen years after that, on the night before Thanksgiving, a man in a dark suit and a black tie sat in row 18 of a Boeing 727.
Chapter 7: What are the connections between all five mysteries discussed?
ordered a bourbon and soda, and handed a flight attendant a note.
Chapter 8: What lessons can we learn from the secrets of the Pacific Northwest?
A few hours later, that man stepped off the back of the airplane, 10,000 feet above the Washington wilderness, in the rain, in the dark, with $200,000 strapped to his body. He has never been seen again. Not once. Not by anyone. And his case remains the only unsolved act of air piracy in the history of American commercial aviation.
In the spring of 2000, a 23-year-old woman drove a white Jeep across the entire country, bought a single movie ticket in Bellingham, Washington, and then vanished so completely that when investigators finally found her Jeep, wrecked at the bottom of an embankment below Mount Baker, they realized something that still hasn't been explained.
There was a very good chance no one had been inside that Jeep when it crashed. In 1924, five gold miners ran out of the foothills of Mount St. Helens and told authorities that something had attacked their cabin in the night. Not someone. Something. And to this day, the place where it happened carries the name they gave it.
And in September of 2001, three days after the worst attack in American history, a quiet young man with no luggage stepped off a bus at the edge of the Olympic rainforest, checked into a small motel under a name he had taken from a novel, and died there alone. For 17 years, nobody on this planet could say who he was. His headstone, and I'm not exaggerating, his actual headstone read, unknown.
Five cases, one region. The Pacific Northwest of the United States, a stretch of country where the forests run so deep, the rivers run so cold, and the fog sits so heavy that people don't just go missing here. They disappear in ways that defy explanation. Tonight, I'm going to walk you through all five of these true stories, in detail, from beginning to end.
And I want you to pay attention as we go, because here's the thing about the Pacific Northwest that most people don't know. And it's the thing that ties every one of these cases together. Secrets in this region stay hidden for a very, very long time. But they don't stay hidden forever. But before we get into it, if you like scary stories, then you're in the right place.
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Our first story begins on Wednesday, November 24th, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving. It's mid-afternoon at Portland International Airport in Oregon, and the terminal is packed with holiday travelers. And somewhere in that crowd is a man who, by every account, is the single most forgettable person in the building. He's somewhere in his mid-forties.
Medium height, medium build, dark suit, white shirt, thin black tie. He's carrying a briefcase and a paper bag. If you passed him in the terminal, you wouldn't look twice. He looked exactly how every other businessman flying home for Thanksgiving looked that day.
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