What kind of person are you?

Are you someone who feels at peace, surrounded by endless wilderness, or does the thought

of standing alone in a forest, miles from civilization, make your stomach drop? We know that nature

can be breathtaking, peaceful, grounding, but it can also be unforgiving.

Some people walk into the woods and never walk back out.

Because once you step beyond the trail, once the sun begins to set,

the same beauty that draws you in can quickly turn isolating, disorienting.

I ask you what kind of person you are, because, depending on the answer, this episode may

really creep you out.

Tonight we're covering two mysteries, two separate cases, no connection between them, except

for one chilling detail.

Both vanished in the forest of California.

First, we're diving into the baffling case of the Yuba County Five, five men who left a

basketball game one night and somehow ended up deep in the mountains, where what happened

next still doesn't make sense decades later.

And after that, the strange disappearance of Sandra Hughes,

a haunting mystery with a ghostly encounter.

Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Avery After Dark.

As always, I'm your host, Avery Ross.

Before we start, I have to say this episode is going to be unsettling.

I've always been one of those people who gets nervous in the woods at night.

During the day, great.

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