In 1978, five friends set out for home from a basketball game. The next day, their car was discovered in a lonely mountain road. The next spring, their bodies began to turn up. What happened that night remains a mystery to this day.
# Summary
In this haunting episode of Stuff You Should Know, Josh and Chuck dig into the bizarre and tragic disappearance of five friends known as the Yuba County Five, who vanished during a basketball trip to northern California in February 1978. The hosts explore the strange and inexplicable circumstances surrounding their disappearance—including the mysterious discovery of their abandoned car high on a snowy mountain road miles away from any logical destination, the bizarre findings inside an emergency shelter where one of the boys' decomposed remains were found, and the complete lack of rational explanation for why these five friends with developmental disabilities and predictable, home-centered lives would suddenly venture into the wilderness at night. Despite extensive investigations, strange clues, and desperate leads followed by an obsessed detective, the case remains deeply unsolved, leaving behind only questions about what really happened that tragic night.
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