In May of 2008, 18-year-old Joshua Maddox bid his sister farewell and left his house to take a walk.

A keen nature lover and free spirit, this was nothing unusual.

However, when he didn't return, things took a strange twist.

The search for Josh continued for seven long years but remained unfruitful.

In 2015, less than a mile away, Chuck Murphy was demolishing his old wood cabin to make way for property development.

The cabin hadn't been used in years and inside was damp, the stuffy space smelt badly of rock.

As they tore down the chimney they made a grim discovery.

Crammed inside the brickwork lay the mummified body of Joshua Maddox.

This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.

Joshua Maddox lived in Woodland Park, a small city with a population of around 7,500,

nestling amongst the natural beauty of the Pike National Forest in Teller County, Colorado.

Josh was six feet tall, 150 pounds and apparently something of a creative mind and a free spirit.

He had a carefree attitude to life, grew his hair long, loved music.

He played the guitar and spent much of his free time writing. At school he was a bright student and was seemingly

well-like and well known. His mother and father were divorced and Josh lived with his father,

Mike and two sisters Kate and Ruth.

On the 8th of May 2008 he left the house telling his sister Kate that he was going out for

a walk.

He loved nature and often went out hiking alone so his sister thought

little of the farewell, but when he failed to return later that evening, worries had to

within. Having always been such a free spirit, at first the worry was only a small

nagging in the back of their minds. However, as the days passed and Josh had still not returned, his father took the sudden disappearance much more seriously,

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