In February 1978, five friends from Yuba City, California, vanished on their way home from a basketball game. Months later, four bodies were found deep in the mountains of Plumas National Forest—miles from where their car had been abandoned. One man, Gary Mathias, was never seen again.Known as the Yuba County Five or the American Dyatlov Pass, this case has puzzled investigators for decades. Why did they drive so far off course? What happened inside that remote cabin? And how did four of them die in freezing conditions when help was so close?In this episode, we unravel the haunting mystery of the Yuba County Five—examining the timeline, known facts, and the people behind one of the most bizarre cold cases in U.S. history.
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1. Yuba County Five, podcast by Shannon McGarvey. Available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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