Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - Unmasking the Fear Real Terrifying Stories of Home Intrusions and Hidden Threats PART2 #61

Episode Date: October 5, 2025

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The trip, the theories, and Jacoby. I still talk to Jacoby every now and then. We're not the kind of friends who call each other every week, but every few months one of US will pop up in the others' messages with something random, usually some bizarre news headline or a photo of something strange one of us saw. Jacobi's one of those guys you never really stopped knowing, no matter how much time passes. And here's the thing, even though I would absolutely never admit it to his face,

maybe, just maybe some of those conspiracy theories he used to ramble about aren't as out there as I once thought. Back in the day, I'd roll my eyes at him like, sure, man, the government's hiding aliens in the basement of a waffle house, but the older I get, the more weird stuff I see, and the more I realize. I can't actually prove him wrong. Maybe the world is stranger than I thought. Story 2 The Summer Off the Grid. Last summer, my girlfriend and I decided to do. do something a little wild, we wanted to disappear. Not in a creepy, change our names and live in the desert, kind of way, but just to cut ourselves completely off from the modern world for a while. No phones. No internet. No news. We were going full hermit mode. We each packed a single knapsack, clothes, food, water, a first aid kit, some basic tools, and one shared tent. That's a

it. We even left our cell phones and credit cards in a little locked box at my mom's house. We kept only our driver's licenses, not because we planned to use them, but, well, in case the worst happened and our bodies needed to be identified. We literally started walking right from my mom's back porch, down the hill behind her house, and straight into the Colorado wilderness. The first week was rough. And by rough, I mean the kind of week where you start wondering if you've made the dumbest decision of your life. It rained almost every single hour of every single day. Everything was wet, our socks, our sleeping bags, our patience. But eventually, we adjusted. We learned to build little rainproof shelters over our cooking fire, to hang our clothes just

right so they dried overnight, and to keep our gear packed tight against the water. And once we settled in, something kind of magical happened. Without screens or schedules, Life slowed down. We found ourselves having these long, meandering conversations that didn't get interrupted by notifications or the temptation to just check something real quick. We'd spend hours just sitting on a log, watching the clouds roll by, stacking rocks into precarious little towers, or climbing trees just because they looked fun. We'd bathe in icy streams, gasping and laughing like kids. After about two weeks, I had a full beard. It wasn't the rugged, movie star kind of beard, more the possibly homeless variety, but my girlfriend swore she liked it. And, honestly, that made it

feel a lot better. The cave, the third week started with an unexpected cold snap. Temperatures dropped way lower than they should have for that time of year. We found this huge cave halfway up a hill and decided it was perfect shelter. We set our tent right inside the mouth of it, made a fire outside, and spent the day wrapped up in blankets, telling each other embarrassing childhood stories. By nightfall, we were playing blackjack inside the tent while the fire crackled just outside. That's when we both froze at the exact same moment. Footsteps. Heavy ones. Crunching around the side of the hill toward the cave. We only had one weapon, a small hatchet for chopping firewood, so my girlfriend snatched it up immediately.

I unzipped the tent and poked my head out, expecting maybe a lost hiker. Nothing. The sound stopped the moment I moved. I called out, hello, silence. I waited a minute, tossed a small rock into the dark just to see if anything reacted. Nothing. Eventually, I went back inside, figuring it was just my imagination. Five minutes later, we heard it again, but this time, it was a sharp clack of stone against stone,

coming from outside the tent. We both jumped to our feet just in time to see, the rock I had thrown earlier roll slowly to a stop in the faint light beyond our fire. Someone, or something, had thrown it back. My girlfriend started cursing, flashlight in one hand, hatchet in the other, yelling for whoever was out there to show themselves. I grabbed our second flashlight and went deep into the cave to make sure nobody was hiding inside with us. That's when I saw it. In the very back of the cave, way beyond where the wind could blow things naturally, was a massive pile of leaves and branches. It was shaped like a bed. We were standing in someone's lair. We didn't leave, my girlfriend refused to walk out into the pitch black night,

so we kept the fire burning and our eyes glued to the darkness. We heard nothing else. By morning, we were packed and gone. We hiked to higher ground, choosing a new campsite at the top of a steep incline between two boulders, harder for anything to sneak up on us. That afternoon, we laughed it off. By dinner, we were feeling silly for being so paranoid. Until we stepped out of the tent and saw it, a charred log, one we'd left in the cave fire pit, now standing upright in the dirt about 20 feet from our new camp. We have no explanation. We have no explanation. for how it got there. Story 3. Tiger Lily's Cave. Back in the early 2000s, I had just graduated high school. To celebrate the start of summer, my two best friends, Heather and Kim, and I decided to go camping on my grandfather's property in Maine. We were all big outdoors people. We loved climbing trees, sleeping under the stars, and waking up with the sun in our eyes. On the second day, we decided to move our tent deeper into the woods, far enough that we couldn't see the house anymore.

It felt more adventurous that way. That afternoon, we played a game of Capture the Flag. Instead of actual flags, we used brightly colored towels. The rules said you had to hide your flag somewhere visible but not obvious, like halfway up a tree or tucked in a bush. But I had a secret plan. There was a little cave nearby I'd nicknamed Tiger Lily's Cave after the character in Peter Pan. I'd been inside plenty of times before. It was narrow, low enough that you had to crouch, and full of cobwebs, perfect for hiding something where no one would dare to look. I took my bright green towel deep inside, set it on the ground where you could barely spot it from the entrance, and turned to leave. That's when I saw it. A flash of something metallic

catching the sunlight. I moved closer. It wasn't a coin. It was a buckle. A buckle attached to a pair of suspenders. And those suspenders were attached to the pants of a man lying face down on the ground. His head was wrapped tightly in a plastic bag. I screamed so loud my own ears rang, bolted out of the cave, and yelled for my friends. When I told them what I'd found, they didn't believe me, until they followed me inside. We all froze. Heather whispered, we need to get out of here now. What if the person who did this comes back? We sprinted back to my grandfather's house, only to find he wasn't home. I called my mom, who told us to hang up and call the police. By the time my mom, my grandfather, and two officers arrived, 40 minutes had passed. We led them back

to the cave. But the body, was gone. One officer went in with a flashlight. He came back out holding my green towel, smeared with blood. There was dried blood on the cave floor, and dragged marks leading out into the woods. They brought in dogs. More cops arrived. For the next 12 hours, the property looked like the set of a crime show. They even grilled food with us on the back deck while taking turns searching.

By the next day, most of them were gone. No reporters came. Nothing was on the news. We never heard another word about it. The police never told us who the man was, or who took him. Years later, after my grandfather died, the property was sold to a family I know. I still take my kids to the cave sometimes, though I never tell them the real story. It's one of those memories that sticks in your bones, the kind that feels like it belongs

in a Stephen King novel. What all three of these stories taught me is this, the world's a lot stranger than we like to believe. Sometimes it's people, sometimes it's nature, and sometimes it's something else entirely. So, yeah, maybe Jacobi's not so crazy after all. The end.