Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt, and I'm so excited to tell you today's story, because it's truly one of the most baffling, unsolved mysteries I've ever come across.

I mean, last month on my other show, Supernatural with Ashley Flowers, I told all of you the story of a group of nine Russian hikers who died under very mysterious circumstances back in 1959.

That well-known story is referred to as the Diathlon Pass Incident.

And today's story is not much different. This is the story of five men who set out together to watch a college basketball game in Chico, California back in 1978.

But instead of coming home as planned, they drove 70 miles in the wrong direction, north into snowy mountains, and then vanished.

This is the mysterious case of the Yuba County Five.

Imaging wear woke up with a start at about 5 a.m. on February 25, 1978. She didn't know why, but she just had a bad feeling.

When she'd gone to bed the night before, her son Ted wasn't yet home for the night.

He'd gone to a basketball game in Chico, California with a few friends. It was about an hour away from their home in Yuba City,

but she expected him back from the 50 mile drive around 11. I mean, maybe midnight at the latest if they decided to stop for a bite to eat or whatever on their way home.

She knows the only way to calm her nerves is to make sure that Ted is home and in bed where he should be.

But when she gets to his room, she sees that the bed is empty.

In a low-key panic at this point, she decided to call Anita Sterling, whose son Bill had gone to the same game with Ted the night before.

When Anita tells Imaging that her son didn't come home either and that she's actually been up since two worried sick.

She's already called Jack Madruga's mother Melba, who said the same thing, no sign of her son Jack either.

Imaging hangs up and calls Jackie Shewitt's mother. And Jackie's mom says the same thing, no Jackie.

Imaging sends her daughter-in-law down the street to talk to the stepfather of the last boy, Gary Matthias.

By the time the son was coming up, it was clear that all five boys were missing.

Imaging tries to relax, but relaxing is impossible. She knows in her gut something is very, very wrong.

And she knows that for two reasons.

First, her son, Ted, was scheduled to play in a basketball tournament later that day, Saturday the 25th.

And to say that he was pumped would be a huge understatement. Like he laid out his clothes, washed his shoes, and he'd been talking non-stop about this big game and how winning it was.

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