257: The Mysterious Disappearance of Christine Walters | USA
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Evidence Locker True Crime
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
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Summary
In November 2008, 23-year-old Christine Lindsey Walters left her hotel room in Eureka, California, in her pyjamas, to collect identity documents from a nearby copy centre. She was trying to get home to Wisconsin. She never made it.
A junior studying botany and ethnobotany at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Christine had come to Humboldt County for a planned three-week holiday. She stayed, drawn to the area's natural beauty and a spiritual community. One week before she vanished, she participated in an illegal ayahuasca ceremony. Days later, she was found naked and covered in briar scratches on a stranger's doorstep, speaking of demons. She tested negative for drugs, was discharged, and began making plans to fly home. She was last seen on November 14, walking away from a copy centre on I Street, Eureka. Her belongings and untouched bank funds were later recovered. She has never been found.
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| 0:29.6 | On the morning of November 12th, 2008, a couple living on Tompkins Hill Road outside Arcata, California, opened their front door to find a young woman standing on their porch. |
| 0:41.4 | She was naked. |
| 0:42.9 | Her skin was lacerated from head to toe with deep briar scratches. |
| 0:47.4 | She was trembling and could not give a coherent account of where she'd come from or what had happened to her. |
| 0:53.4 | What she could say clearly and repeatedly |
| 0:55.7 | was this. Someone was after her. Demons could hear her. They were going to find her wherever she |
| 1:02.3 | went. The home owners called police. Officers took the young woman to St. Joseph's Hospital in |
| 1:08.2 | Eureka. She was treated, discharged, and driven to a motel. |
| 1:13.2 | She called her mother in Wisconsin, saying she was frightened and ready to come home. |
| 1:18.0 | Two days later, on the afternoon of November 14th, she walked out of a copy center on Ice Street |
| 1:24.2 | in Eureka, wearing pajamas and hospital-issue crocs. |
| 1:28.8 | She was carrying photocopied identification documents her mother had faxed from Wisconsin. |
| 1:34.1 | Witnesses said she looked over her shoulder as she left. |
| 1:37.0 | She then asked for directions to the DMV, roughly one mile away. |
| 1:41.3 | She was never seen again. |
| 1:43.7 | More than 16 years have passed, and she has never been found. |
| 1:47.9 | Her name was Christine Walters. |
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