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Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

Horror Harvest: The Machete Murders in Yuba City

Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

Horror Stories

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In Yuba City, California, a farmer reported a trespassing incident on his property. What started as an illegal trash disposal complaint turned out to be a corpse buried between two trees. In the following days, 24 more bodies would be uncovered.

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0:00.0

Goro Kajahiro was walking through his peach orchard like he did every day.

0:06.0

He liked to get in the field and meet the men contracted to work on his farm.

0:11.0

It was a good spring day, not too cold, not hot, not rainy,

0:16.0

and he was waving to the workers coming up to them

0:19.0

when suddenly he spotted something strange.

0:22.3

There was something in between two of his trees, something that didn't belong there.

0:27.9

It was a hole.

0:30.2

He asked the farm workers if they knew why it was there and they just shook their heads.

0:35.2

They had no idea.

0:39.3

And so Goro went on with this day. What he had seen was still on his mind though.

0:42.3

When it came time to go to sleep, instead of getting ready like he normally would,

0:47.3

he decided to go back out to his speech orchard.

0:50.3

He needed to take another look at the patch between the trees. And so he got there, and as he walked up to the two trees, he was surprised.

1:00.0

The hole he had seen earlier had been filled in.

1:06.0

And so he figured someone had trespassed onto his land, dug the hole, and buried some trash.

1:12.1

It was an annoying inconvenience, but it could wait until tomorrow.

1:16.1

He was planning on calling the police.

1:19.7

The next morning, Goro meant the officers at the hole between the trees.

1:23.9

They brushed some dirt aside, and it became clear.

1:27.0

This was not a simple case of trespassing.

1:30.2

There was a man inside.

1:32.6

And as they continued to dig, the body of a skinny white man was revealed.

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