Grimly

In April of 1989, Patricia Meehan was involved in a car accident on a rural Montana highway nearly 400 miles from her home. After silently staring at the other driver, she climbed over a fence, walked into a dark field, and vanished.

What followed were thousands of reported sightings across multiple states, theories involving amnesia, dissociative fugue, and foul play, and one haunting question that remains unanswered: what was happening to Patricia before she ever reached that highway?

In March of 1918, the USS Cyclops vanished while sailing through the Atlantic with over 300 people on board. There was no distress call, no confirmed wreckage, and no definitive explanation for what happened. More than a century later, the disappearance remains one of the greatest mysteries in U.S. naval history. This week, we’re diving into the final voyage of the USS Cyclops, the strange circumstances surrounding its disappearance, and the theories that have tried to explain how such a massive ship could simply vanish.

In July 2006, Mary Cooper and her daughter Susanna Stodden set out for a hike along Washington’s Pinnacle Lake Trail. Hours later, both women were found murdered in the wilderness they loved. Nearly two decades later, no one has been charged, no clear motive has been established, and the person responsible has never been identified. This week, we’re looking at the unsolved murders of Mary Cooper and Susanna Stodden, the investigation that followed, and the questions that still linger along the trail.

When six year old Brooke Sutton survived the attack that killed her grandmother, Judy Johnson, she told police the man looked like her Uncle Clarence. But “looked like” became “it was him,” and Clarence Elkins was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.

This episode covers the wrongful conviction of Clarence Elkins, the years-long fight by his wife Melinda to prove his innocence, and the DNA evidence that finally exposed the truth hiding right next door.

In 1992, Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier were involved in a car crash on a rural South Dakota road. One passenger survived, but Arnold and Ruby vanished from the scene before help arrived. Months later, their bodies were found in a ditch near the crash site a place investigators, the family of Arnold and Ruby, volunteers had already searched.

Their deaths were eventually ruled accidental, but the case left behind questions that have never been fully answered. Where were Arnold and Ruby during the months they were missing? How did they end up back near the crash site? And why is the official explanation not telling the whole story?

In this episode, we cover the strange deaths of Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier, the investigation that followed, the Unsolved Mysteries coverage, and the lingering mystery of a case that still feels impossible to fully explain.