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The Elisa Lam mystery is one of the most haunting unsolved mystery cases in modern true crime history—and it all leads back to a hotel with a past as dark as the story itself. In 2013, Elisa Lam vanished inside the infamous Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, leaving behind an eerie elevator video that still confuses investigators and viewers to this day.

Joseph Force Crater’s disappearance remains one of the most baffling unsolved mysteries in American history. In 1930, a sitting New York Supreme Court judge stepped into a taxi in Manhattan and was never seen again.

In January 1998, one of the worst ice storms in North American history brought St. Lawrence County, New York to a complete standstill. For days, freezing rain coated trees, power lines, and roads with inches of solid ice, causing widespread power outages, collapsed infrastructure, and a humanitarian emergency across the North Country.

In 1932, one man did the impossible. He survived alone in the Yukon wilderness at $-40$ degrees, outran the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for weeks, and stood his ground against dynamite and an army of trackers.In this episode of the Yore Town Podcast, Matt (Beard Laws) and Meg dive into the chilling mystery of The Mad Trapper of Rat River. Who was Albert Johnson? How did he move faster than dog teams in waist-deep snow?

In this episode of the Yore Town Podcast, we travel back to the late 19th century in the Adirondacks. Tupper Lake was a boomtown built for loggers, mill workers, and railroad laborers. It was fast, practical, and constructed almost entirely of wood. But it had one fatal flaw: No fire department.

In this episode of Yore Town, we uncover the chilling story of Charlie Lawson, the tobacco farmer who took his family into town for new clothes and a portrait just days before systematically ending their lives on Christmas morning. It remains one of the most haunting unsolved mysteries in North Carolina history.

A Christmas Eve fire, five missing children, and a chilling mystery that has lasted nearly 80 years. INVESTIGATE the Sodder case with us.

This episode of Yore Town Podcast plunges you into the truly chilling narrative of the 1986 Pepperell home invasion by a young Daniel LaPlante, who hid for over a year inside the walls of the Bowen family home. The atmosphere is thick with suspense as we detail the unsettling sights and sounds that led to the family's gruesome revelation and the subsequent manhunt.