Ep. 46 - Vanished In The Woods: The Yuba County Five

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Sylas Dean and Stew

True Crime

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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On February 24, 1978, five young men from Yuba City, California, attended a college basketball game at California State University, Chico. Following the game around 10 PM, they drove home in a Mercury Montego, but they never made it back. Just days later, the car was found abandoned in a remote area of the Plumas National Forest. Four of the men's bodies were later found in the forest, some more than 20 miles from the car. But the fifth man, Gary Mathias, has never been found even to this day.

The cause of the men's deaths is not fully known. Some theories include an accidental death in the forest, a carjacking, or even a homicide. The case remains unsolved, and is considered to be one of the most baffling in California history. Leaving everyone with the same question, what really happened in those woods?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to creep time the podcast I just wanted to get on really quick just to address something
0:06.4	So stew and I wanted to be really transparent and up front with you guys because we kind of hit like a technical difficulty while we were recording.
0:15.8	So we were kind of improvising and you know like thinking on our feet.
0:18.5	We're like what can we do? How can we still record the episode? So we ended up doing the entire case. We did a full case for you guys. It's a great
0:26.0	episode. It's just going to sound a little bit different, maybe more like a phone call
0:30.1	and not like the audio quality that you're used to.
0:32.8	So thank you so much for bearing with us.
0:35.2	We love you guys for listening.
0:37.1	We really want you to enjoy the episode
0:38.7	and we promise next week we are going to be back
0:41.6	with the normal audio quality that you're used to. So enjoy.
0:44.9	I have to tell you I don't know what we're doing. I've completely forgotten what comes after on your list that you sent me.
0:51.2	Well, I hope you're ready to feel freaked out because this story is seriously
0:57.0	going to be one of the most unnerving that we've covered on this podcast. We've, I'm being dead-ass. So we've covered a lot of cases on this podcast concerning
1:04.9	disappearances there are very few very few that have detailed the
1:09.9	disappearance of a group of people except for one,
1:14.0	which is why this case is commonly referred to
1:16.0	as the Diatlov Pass of the US.
1:18.6	Does that give you a clue?
1:20.3	Oh my God, and you know I the Diyat Love Pass episode.
1:24.0	Yeah that really freaks me out. It's so freaky.
1:27.0	Well for this I thought it would be good if we covered the unsolved story of what happened to the Yuba County Five.
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