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The Mystery Files

Stories too strange
to leave alone.

Disappearances with no answer. Hauntings with paperwork behind them. Lights in the sky reported by people with careers to lose. Cases that ought to be solvable now and somehow still aren't.

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The Series

Two volumes to start.
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Gone Without a Trace: They Vanished and Were Never Found, by Audrey Valez
BOOK ONE

Gone Without a Trace

Twenty people who stepped out of an ordinary day and were never seen again. In a world of cameras and card swipes, that should be impossible. It keeps happening anyway.

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Double Lives: True Stories of the Strangers Among Us, by Audrey Valez
BOOK TWO

Double Lives

Nobody warns you about the people you already know. Twenty cases of second families, invented credentials and borrowed names, kept running for years.

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Case files, free to read

A few of the ones I keep circling back to at two in the morning.

FILE 008

The Woman with No Name

SUBJECT: Unidentified female, known as the Isdal Woman
LOCATION: Isdalen, near Bergen, Norway
STATUS: UNIDENTIFIED. UNDETERMINED

Somebody cut the labels out of her clothes before she burned. Fifty years on, nobody has been able to say who she was.

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FILE 007

The Black Monk

SUBJECT: The Pritchard family, 30 East Drive
LOCATION: Chequerfield Estate, Pontefract, England
STATUS: UNEXPLAINED

An ordinary council house, a family who named the thing in it, and a daughter dragged up the stairs in front of witnesses. You can rent it by the night.

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FILE 004

Ten by Eighteen

SUBJECT: John Edward Jones, age 26
LOCATION: Nutty Putty Cave, Utah County, Utah
STATUS: NOT RECOVERED. CAVE SEALED

There's a cave in Utah filled with concrete, and a plaque on the hillside above it. We know exactly where he is, down to the inch.

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Audrey Valez at her desk

Who's writing this?

What keeps me reading is the not-knowing. We have DNA now, and there's a camera over every door. These cases should all be solvable. Some of them just aren't.

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