In 2010 the bodies of four prostitutes were found wrapped in burlap and buried in the brush on Oak Island NY. The next year 6 more sets of remains would be found, most of them believed to also have been prostitutes. Is a single serial killer using Oak Island as a dumping ground? Is it multiple serial killers? Or are they all unrelated?

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Information on the victims
More case details
Shannan was strangled?

On January 31, 1921 the schooner Carroll A Deering was sighted hard aground and under full sail on Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras North Carolina. When the Coast Guard was finally able to board the ship several days later, they found that the entire crew had vanished, without leaving so much as a goodbye note.

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The basic wiki version
A different version
The Deering blog

The September 1969 edition of the Drake Times-Delphic contained an article titled “Is Beatle Paul McCartney Dead?” This article may have been the first documented exposure of a very large conspiracy cover-up: the 1966 death of the real Paul McCartney.

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The initial article
Dismissing the story
Another dismissal

On July 1st, 1981, someone entered at 8763 Wonderland Ave and beat all five of the people inside with pipes, four of them to death. Since then a stories revolving around drugs and porn star John Holmes have been circulating. How much of the stories are true and how much is drug-fueled fantasy?

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A great long-form article
The British documentary
An extensive amount of research into the case

In May 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson was driving home when he got his car stuck in a ditch. As he walked toward the lights of a nearby town, speaking with his father on his cell phone, he suddenly said “Oh, s**t” and the line went dead. That was the last anyone’s heard of Brandon.

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Brandon’s story
Reddit discusses
The search continuesThe local story