JIMMY CARTER AND HIS UFO STORY

Jimmy Carter, United States president from 1977 until 1981, reported seeing an unidentified flying object while at Leary, Georgia, in 1969. While serving as governor of Georgia, Carter was asked (on September 14, 1973) by the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City to file a report of the sighting, and he filed a statement on September 18, mailed September 20. Since its writing, the report has been discussed several times by both ufologists and by members of the mainstream media.

One evening in 1969, two years before he became Governor of Georgia, Carter was preparing to give a speech at a Lions Club meeting. He reported that at about 7:15 pm, one of the guests called his attention to a strange bright white object, about as bright as the moon, that was about 30 degrees above the horizon to the west of where they were standing. It moved toward their direction, but stopped beyond a stand of pine trees some distance from them. The object then changed color, first to blue, then to red, then back to white, before appearing to recede into the distance.

Carter felt that the object was self-illuminated, and not solid in nature. Carter's report indicates that it was witnessed by about 10 or 12 other people, and was in view for 10 to 12 minutes before it passed out of sight.

In 1973, Carter reiterated:
"There were about twenty of us standing outside of a little restaurant, I believe, a high school lunch room, and a kind of green light appeared in the western sky. This was right after sundown. It got brighter and brighter. And then it eventually disappeared. It didn't have any solid substance to it, it was just a very peculiar-looking light. None of us could understand what it was."

Speaking in a 2005 interview, Carter said:

"All of a sudden, one of the men looked up and said, 'Look, over in the west!' And there was a bright light in the sky. We all saw it. And then the light, it got closer and closer to us. And then it stopped, I don't know how far away, but it stopped beyond the pine trees. And all of a sudden it changed color to blue, and then it changed to red, then back to white. And we were trying to figure out what in the world it could be, and then it receded into the distance."

The exact date on which the sighting occurred has been called into question by investigators. According to the report that he filed with the International UFO Bureau four years after the incident, Carter saw the UFO in October 1969. However, investigators have cited Lions Club records as evidence that it occurred nine months earlier.

According to a meeting report that he filed with the Lions Club, Carter gave his Leary speech on January 6, 1969, not in October. The setting of his January meeting as described in his report to the Lions Club also matches the setting that he would later describe to the media when speaking about his sighting. His report to the Lions Club made no mention of the sighting itself...

MYSTERIOUS CREATURES: PENNSYLVANIA

Monsters. Creatures. Unexplained animals. People report them in the forest all the time. Though they go by several names, the most all-inclusive one is “cryptids.” The field of discovering them is known as cryptozoology. And for anyone interested in cryptozoology, Pennsylvania is an excellent place. Not only are there a lot of sightings but the sheer variety of creatures is impressive.

No matter what area of the state you’re in, there’s some sort of local cryptid to watch for. They range from the popular to the obscure, all of them on a scale of more-or-less likely to exist, though none of them have yet been proven.

BIGFOOT

Arguably the most well-known cryptid is Bigfoot, who clearly loves the attention, and Pennsylvania is no stranger to Bigfoot sightings. One of the likely areas to spot Bigfoot is near the border of Centre and Clinton Counties.

“I saw something in Beech Creek in February of 2023,” said Sonia Rodriguez, of Clinton County. “It was huge, maybe 10 feet tall.”

While Rodriguez was driving home from work, she spotted the shape of what may have been Bigfoot, thrown into relief by the local streetlights. She described it as very clearly defined, not blurry, and of an impressive size.

“I see this dark silhouette,” she said. “It took two steps, and I was shocked. It was huge! I was like, all panicking.”

Bigfoot has repeatedly been spotted in that area, including multiple sightings in Bald Eagle State Park, because Bigfoot enjoys a recreational campout as much as anyone else.

THE SQUONK

The Squonk is a uniquely Pennsylvania cryptid, first appearing in the 1910 book “Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods.” Described as an ugly pig-like creature living in the hemlock forests, the Squonk cries almost continuously. The Squonk was said to have emigrated from a desert area to Pennsylvania, and avoids people, because it knows how ugly it is. If you happen to see a Squonk while hiking, stop and give the poor thing a hug. It needs one.

GIWOGGLE

Clinton County has an official monster, and its name is the Giwoggle. The Giwoggle was from rural legends told by Belle Confer of Keating Township to her grandchildren. One of them, George Rhone, grew up to write these in “Keystone Folklore Quarterly” in 1956.

A werewolf-like creature, the Giwoggle had the hands of a bird and the feet of a horse, confusing anyone attempting to track it. According to the legends, they could be conjured by the local witches and were seen throughout Clinton and Clearfield Counties.

In July of 2011, the Clinton County Commissioners decreed the Giwoggle to be the official monster of the county. Not that there was a whole lot of competition.

                                  

THE JERSEY DEVIL

The Jersey Devil? But this is an article about Pennsylvania cryptids! What’s a creature from New Jersey doing here?

The Jersey Devil, a flying monster sighted in New Jersey, has been known to travel into Pennsylvania occasionally. In 1909, it was reportedly seen in Williamsport and Lock Haven.

On January 28, 1909, the Clinton Democrat reported that the Jersey Devil had been seen in Williamsport. The article said,”The footprints appear in the snow in the rear yard of a West Fourth Street residence, first on one side of the tennis net and then the other. It is reported that the same mysterious tracks were discovered on the golf links north of the city.”

A few days later, the Lock Haven Express reported that the Jersey Devil had been spotted on the roof of a Grove Street house by resident Charles Poorman, who later propped a ladder up and allowed people to see the tracks in the snow on his roof. The Express reported,”Several persons have again come forward with statements that they saw this strange creature, which has sent terror into the hearts of the timid.” And it just goes to show that even the Jersey Devil prefers Pennsylvania to New Jersey sometimes.

THE POTTER

One of the most obscure cryptids was said to inhabit southern Potter County, according to articles in the “Potter Enterprise” in the spring of 1897. Described as a hairy, bipedal creature about six feet tall, it was said to have tusks that measured six or seven inches long.

“It is also reported that a fisherman was run out of Nelson Run by some kind of animal,” reported the Enterprise on April 12. “The animal stood upon its hind feet and struck its breast with its forepaws, causing a noise like a roll of many drums, and screamed like a panther.”

Later, resident William Butler had come forward with information. The newspaper said, “Though under the circumstances his eyes might have magnified a little, he thinks the animal was fully six feet high when standing on its hind legs. It was quite hairy about the head and had tusks from six to seven inches long, which the animal seemed proud to show, and another such mouth was never seen.”

The newspaper gave the creature its name, stating, “Bill looked at the Potter County Nondescript fully a minute or more.”

MORBIT TIDBITS: FAMILY FEUD MURDER

During an episode of Family Feud in 2020, contestant Tim Bliefnick joked that his biggest regret in life was marrying his wife. Three years later, in February of 2023, he sh*t and k*lled her, firing a total of 14 times...

In May, Timothy Bliefnick was convicted of first-degree murder and home invasion in the Feb. 23 attack in Quincy. In August of 2024, Judge Robert Adrian sentenced the defendant to spend his life behind bars, essentially the state's toughest punishment.

“Mr. Bliefnick, you researched this murder, you planned this murder, you practiced this murder," the circuit court judge said. "You broke into her house and you shot her one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 times."

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF THOMAS INCE

The mystery surrounding the death of silent-era film producer Thomas Ince revolves around the conflicting reports and rumors surrounding his death in November 1924, after falling ill on a yacht owned by William Randolph Hearst. While the official cause of death was heart failure, the circumstances, including the presence of Hearst's mistress Marion Davies and Charlie Chaplin, led to speculation that Ince was accidentally shot by a jealous Hearst or died from foul play, though no official charges were ever filed.

Ince revolutionized the motion picture industry by creating the first major Hollywood studio facility and invented movie production by introducing the "assembly line" system of filmmaking. He was the first mogul to build his own film studio, dubbed "Inceville" in Palisades Highlands. Ince was also instrumental in developing the role of the producer in motion pictures. Three of his films, The Italian (1915), for which he wrote the screenplay, Hell's Hinges (1916) and Civilization (1916), which he directed, were selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. He later entered into a partnership with D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett to form the Triangle Motion Picture Company, whose studios are the present-day site of Sony Pictures.

 Ince became ill on November 19, 1924, while aboard Hearst's yacht, the Oneida, during a trip intended to celebrate Ince's 42nd birthday. Guests on the yacht included Hearst's mistress, actress Marion Davies, and her close friend Charlie Chaplin. Ince became violently ill, was taken off the yacht in San Diego, and died three days later. The official report stated Ince died from heart failure, possibly related to acute indigestion. Media reports initially circulated that Ince had been shot.

A prominent theory suggested that a jealous William Randolph Hearst, concerned about his mistress Marion Davies' relationship with Charlie Chaplin, attempted to shoot Chaplin but accidentally shot Ince instead. Confusion surrounding the events and a lack of communication from those on board fueled speculation about a cover-up. The District Attorney of San Diego, Chester C. Kempley, investigated the death and publicly stated that Ince died of heart failure caused by indigestion.  Despite the extensive rumors of murder, no charges were ever filed.

Years later, Hearst spoke to a journalist about the rumor that he had murdered Ince. "Not only am I innocent of this Ince murder," he said, "So is everybody else." Nell herself was increasingly frustrated over the rumors surrounding her husband's death and remarked: "Do you think I would have done nothing if I even suspected that my husband had been victim of foul play on anyone's part?" Still, the myth of Ince's death overshadowed his reputation as a pioneering filmmaker and his role in the growth of the film industry. His studio was sold soon after he died. His final film, Enticement, a romance set in the French Alps, was released posthumously in 1925.

The true story of Ince's final days remains a subject of debate and mystery, inspiring books and films like the 2002 movie The Cat's Meow. Ince's untimely death at the height of his career marked a significant shift in the industry, accelerating the decline of independent producers as the studio system consolidated power...

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JENNIFER KESSE

On 24 January 2006, the life of 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse took a mysterious and tragic turn in Central Florida. Jennifer was a vibrant young woman with a promising career, a loving family, and a steady relationship. On the evening of 23 January, she left work around 6:00 pm and later spoke with both her father and her boyfriend before going to bed. By all accounts, nothing seemed unusual. However, the next morning she failed to show up for work, which was completely out of character for her. Concerned, her family rushed to her Orlando apartment and found everything seemingly normal—her belongings neatly in place, with no signs of struggle. The only thing missing was Jennifer herself and her car.

A few days later, investigators located her car abandoned about a mile away from her apartment. Security cameras from the area captured footage of an unknown individual parking the vehicle and walking away. Frustratingly, the images were obscured by a fence post, leaving the figure unidentifiable. This grainy video became one of the most haunting elements of the case, as it suggested someone else had been behind the wheel, yet their identity has remained a mystery.

Despite extensive searches, interviews, and media appeals, no clear answers have emerged. Friends, family, and investigators have combed through every lead, yet Jennifer’s fate remains unresolved nearly two decades later. Her disappearance has drawn national attention and sparked conversations about personal safety, missing persons investigations, and the anguish of families left without closure.
The case of Jennifer Kesse is a chilling reminder of how someone can vanish without explanation in the middle of an ordinary day. For her loved ones, the hope for answers endures, as they continue to seek justice and keep her memory alive in the absence of truth...

UNSOLVED FLASHBACK: JANUARY 14, 1982

On January 14, 1982, 11-year-old Jon Michael Dabkowski and 10-year-old Gabriel Minarcin disappeared while walking the short distance between their homes in Tarentum, Pennsylvania. Jon(11) and Gabriel(10) were school friends, and they lived 3 houses away from each other. The boys were at Jon's house for dinner. When they were done eating, they decided to take the short walk to Gabriel's house to play around 5:30pm.

Jon's mother became worried when Jon did not return around 8:30pm. Assuming her son was still at his friend's house, she called the Minarcin home to discover that neither of the boys had made it to Gabriel's house at all that night.

It was reported that a neighbor had seen them walking across the ice of the Allegheny River earlier that night. When police investigated, they determined that all sets of footprints on the ice returned to the shore safely (except Jon's page on Charleyproject claims that no footprints were found leading away from the river bank)

Regardless, divers and police searched the river just to turn up nothing. Weeks, months, years went by. 42 years later, and no evidence has ever been found of either boys. (Minus a man that had stolen Jon's identity in 1998, who coincidentally had the same handwriting as Jon).

Police do not agree on what happened to them. It is most likely believed the boys drowned in the river, or that they were abducted by someone.

Jon's father, Johnathan Dabkowski, died in 2012. Jon's mother still hasn't given up hope, but all I saw on the Minarcin family is that they moved to a remote location in California years ago. The Minarcin home in Tarentum was torn down. They declined to participate in a DNA sample update in recent years. Seems like they just want to move on. I don't have the impression that they are guilty of anything, but I could be wrong. There's limited info...

MYSTERIOUS ORBS AT MILITARY BASES

Pentagon baffled by 8,000 mysterious UFO orbs hovering over US military bases. An invasion of small metallic orbs has been spotted hovering over the US in recent years, leaving the Pentagon scrambling to identify these mysterious UFOs.

A new report from the crowdsourced platform Enigma, which allows people to report sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), reveals more than 8,000 sightings across the US between December 2022 and June 2025.

Among these, 422 reports specifically describe metallic orbs, with the majority observed between 1am and 4am near military installations in New York, California, and Arizona.

Eyewitnesses, including civilians, pilots, and military personnel, reported seeing the spheres hover silently before moving at extreme speeds, leaving no trace of their departure. Some of the sightings have been captured on video or radar, though many remain unexplained.

'I was walking into work when I looked up and saw two metallic liquid-like objects hovering for about two minutes,' said one witness over Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton in June 2024.

Another in California described seeing a metallic orb above Los Angeles shortly after a squadron of planes flew by.

The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has been charged with investigating claims of UFOs and has dismissed many as natural phenomena like flocks of birds, conventional aircraft, drones, balloons, or other explainable objects. However, some cases have remained unsolved, reportedly due to a lack of data. Of the 757 UFO cases between May 2023 and June 2024 released in AARO's annual report, 21 cases were classified as unresolved sightings.

Although the Pentagon and civilian groups like the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) have also been cataloging these incidents, many have continued to baffle military officials, who have no way of explaining what was seen. While the new report focused on the thousands of sightings in the US over the last three years, strange orbs have been documented all over the world, from Puerto Rico to the Middle East. Moreover, these tiny craft have apparently been visiting our skies for decades, with pilots during World War II reporting similar orbs over the skies of Europe.

Enigma revealed that more than 360 'metallic orb' reports took place within a few miles of military bases here on US soil. In three of those cases, witnesses revealed that the orbs got within five miles of Fort Hamilton in New York, Papago Military Reserve in Arizona, and Los Angeles Air Force Base on multiple occasions. These mystery orb sightings include one shocking encounter revealed by Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of AARO, which was captured on a MQ-9 Reaper drone's camera in the Middle East in 2022.

Kirkpatrick warned that if these videos didn't prove that aliens exist, then they're evidence that a rival foreign power could be 'doing stuff in our backyard.'

URBAN LEGEND: THE STORY OF BLOODY MARY

Remember that annoying little story of Bloody Mary? You know ... that light a candle in your bathroom with the lights out late at night, look in the mirror and say her name three time in a row “Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary” and hope you won’t be found dead with your eyes scratched out? Or with claw marks all over your body? Or the possibility that you will be forever trapped behind the glass of the mirror for all eternity?

There are hundreds of backstories on how Bloody Mary came to be. But one of the most reasonable (as reasonable as it can get when a reflection kills you) is the tale of her demise.

In the 1800s there lived a young girl named Mary. An illiness washed over the place where they lived, making people drop dead after a short period of time. When physicians couldn’t find a pulse or when they put a mirror under the nose of the seemingly dead, there might not always be condensation on it from their breaths. So the fallen would be easily assumed to be dead. But were they?

Cases of people who were pronounced dead - but weren't - happened often. So when one would die, people would put a small hole in the coffin, and put a piece of string through the hole that was attached to a bell. The bell would hang on a stick by the homes of the deceased, and if they woke up they would simply pull the string, ring the bell and would be dug up.

Of course, when Mary was to bedridden and slowly died, she was laid in a coffin in her grave. She wasn’t to be buried under just yet it would be easier to un nail the coffin she was put away in, the string and the bell was of course on hand. Days past then up to a week. Her parents never left the house wishing with their very being that their sweet Mary would awaken again.
Friends of the parents claimed that if she had not awoken yet then she never would. That day the parents left the house with their friends at their behalf.

When her parents had gone a neighbor came and began to fill her grave (string and all.) Just in case she would wake up if she was still alive and if so before she suffocated. The neighbor had said his remorse and walked to his home.

Not soon after Mary awoken from her slumber. She pulled the string. The string to the bell that wouldn’t be heard from her parents who were out and the neighbor who was too far away. She pulled and pulled the string until the bell fell and so did the stick. She began clawing and scratching at her wooden prison until her fingers bled then she cut scratching till she breathed her last breath.

When the parents arrived home the father soon realized that the bell as yards away from it originally was and soon called for his wife to come and help him dig up their daughter. When dug threw they unlatched the coffin and found mary in a Petrified state her hands like claws covered in blood same with her white dress she was buried in. They put a mirror under her nose to see if her breaths would show. Condensation was shown on the mirror but even so she was dead. Her spirit is said to have attach to the mirror. And now whenever one says calls “Bloody Mary” three times she come and claws at the unknowing victim.

This is just one of the said stories to be about her demise. There are plenty and their might not even be fact behind the year. But still It’s a gory story that can still kids and you still have your heart beat up every time you say her name...

BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS IN WEST VIRGINA

Many West Virginians believe the woods and mountains are home to cryptids such as Mothman or the Flatwoods Monster. So, it is no surprise that Mountain State residents have also reported possible Bigfoot sightings over the years.

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization documents reported sightings in each state. According to the data, the three West Virginia counties with the most Bigfoot sightings are Pendleton, Randolph and Pocahontas.

In Pendleton County, there are 14 Bigfoot sightings reported. The first was in November 1994 when cave explorers had bizarre experiences while camping in the Seneca Creek backcountry. The most recent was in November 2012 when hunters said they possibly heard voices and saw a large head peaking behind boulders near Franklin.

There are 10 reported Bigfoot sightings in Randolph County. In November 1989, two people first reported seeing the creature while they were hunting in treestands near Elkwater. Most recently in the county, a fisherman said he saw Bigfoot about six miles from Elkins in July 2017.

Eight Bigfoot sightings have been reported in Pocahontas County. The first was a daylight sighting reported by a person deer hunting near the Greenbrier River in November 1969. The most recent was a September 2016 report from motorists traveling near the Cranberry Mountain Nature Center.

There are two sightings reported in Kanawha County, which is home to the capital city of Charleston. The first was a Summer 1990 report from a man who said he saw a large, hairy creature near a Marmet cemetery. The second report was from a deer hunter who believed he saw Bigfoot near Cabin Creek in November 2009.

People have also reported possible sightings in many other areas of West Virginia. Sightings and evidence, including footprints and casts, are reported statewide, with a concentration in Braxton County, particularly near Sutton Lake. The state's mountain regions are rich with local legends, such as the "old man of the mountain" and the 1919 Flatwoods Monster sighting, further contributing to its reputation as a Bigfoot hotspot...

URBAN LEGENDS: THE CHIEF AND THE MYSTERIOUS CAVE

This one is is a spooky one so don't read it if it's night time, you have been warned. There is a rumor surrounding some of the caves found in Utah, some people belive that they were the caves ancient Ute Shamen used to preformed dark magic and worship the devil, these men would gain the powers of the devil and become skinwalkers, those guys were tame compared to the true honors that sleep in those caves.

It is said that the son of a chief when into the cave to go mining as he traveled deeper into the cave he lit a fire and took a torch. Soon he was encompassed in the earth's bosom. Suddenly a powerful draft nearly extinguished his torch leaving him in the cold, damp, dark. Quickly he grabbed his flint and tried to strike a spark before the torch lost all its light from the glowing embers. He successfully lit his torch, but it was too late. He had been in the dark, he couldn't see his surroundings, and it only took a moment for what lay lurking in the dark to claim its victim. Suddenly the cave was filled with ecos of screams and shouts of horor and pure terror. The sounds of his cries for help were distorted by the caves echos and when they finaly reached the enterance of the cave it was just an unitelegable mess of screaming and noise. This spooked his horse and the horse ran back to the tribe, back to its stable, back to safety, safety that was far away from that young man. 

The Chief, upon seeing his son's horse without his son was immediately worried, perhaps a cave in had spooked the horse, or a skinwalker or enemy tribe killed his son, maybe even the wendigo was to blame. As soon as he could he and 2 other tribesmen set off for the cave his son should have been, it was about a days ride away so when they got to the most of the cave 4 days had passed, no sounds could be heard from the mouth of the cave, but his sons pack and rations were laid out infront of it. The horses the men rode were nervous, something clearly wasn't right. The chief had one man stay out and watch their horses while he and his friend went in. Night was coming so they didn't have much time to look around but in the fading sunlight they saw the remains of a campfire deep in the cave, the cheif decided that exploring the cave exhausted wouldn't be productive so they exited and set up camp for the night. 

That night the chief had a dream he saw his son as a ghost, and was warned not to go in the cave, there is great danger in there. The cheif sad to see his son dead expressed that he wanted to retrieve his sons body so that he can give him a proper funeral and burial, the son agreed but warned his father, "you cannot let your light go out or you will meat the same fate as me" after promising his son this he awoke, the first light of dawn peaking over the Utah Mountians. 

The chief and his friend entered the cave and light a fire both men grabbed grabbed torch amd began their treck deeper into the cave, a few minutes of walking and searching later they found a burned out torch, covered in dried blood. Suddenly the other man stepped into something sticky and foul smelling upon closer inspection it was a pool of rotting blood Suddenly a powerful draft blew through threatening to extinguish their torches. In a moment of panic the other man ran to the chief, and the chief remembering his son's warning put his torch against his friends strengthening the flame, when the draft was gon e the were able to inspect the remains of the cheifs son. Having to berry your own Chile is one of the hardest thing a parent can go through, so think for a moment how hard it must have been to be the chief picking up the peices of what's left of your child. It paints a very sad and gruesome picture.

As the chieff fount bits of his son's clothing to his arm and his torso witch lay in a pool of rotting blood, there is enough blood for the cheif to realize that his son suffered and likely bread out befor having his neck redused to a bloody stump. A little deeper they could see his sons head placed on an outcropping in the rock, they could also hear a deep growling laughter from farther within the cave, it seemed as if it were taunting the chief, asking him what he was gonna do about his son's death. After collecting his head the cheif instructed his friend to walk backwards out of the cave and the chief would guide him, as they exited the other man saw something, lurking just outside the circle of light cast by his torch was something big, it wore a necklace of skulls strung with dried intestine. Its clothing seemed to be made out of bones or covered in them. The beast was short but wide, it had pointed teeth and beady small pure blak eyes, black as obsidian. As the pair walked into the sunlight the creature that was following them faded into the darkness. As the chief and the man he left outside were preparing to leave the last man had an idea, he made a plan so that the creature would never get out and kill anyone else or to prevent anyone else from wandering in. Using the heat from a bondfire he and the other men cracked the stone roof of the cave, after beating at it the cave began to collapse. After all was said and done they headed home to mourn the loss of their son amd tribesman...

NEWS BREAK: CHERRIE MAHAN UPDATE

The search for Cherrie Mahan is back in the spotlight as local police and members of the FBI started digging in Armstrong County.

Crews were out excavating a small plot near a home in South Buffalo on Tuesday afternoon.

Members of Cherrie’s Angels told us that the search was in reference to the 40-year-old case.

The group was not sure if any clues were located.

On Friday, February 22, 1985, in Winfield Township, Pennsylvania, 8-year-old Cherrie Mahan looked forward to attending her friend Jennifer’s 10th birthday party after school. The final bell rang for her third-grade class, and Cherrie headed to her school bus to get home and get ready for the party. At about 4:10 pm, Cherrie and three of her classmates get off the bus at their regular stop on Cornplanter Road, just around the corner from Cherrie’s home. All her friends make it home, but not Cherrie.

Earlier this year, a private investigator from Iowa put up a $100,000 reward for information that leads to her discovery.

“I don’t know if surprised is the best word but I was very happy,” Bailey Gizienski told Channel 11. She is a friend of Cherrie Mahan’s mother Janice McKinney and runs a group dedicated to finding Cherrie.

“She [Janice] did say to me this morning, ‘my heart is beating so fast. Cherrie wants to come home,’” she said.

Steve Ridge is a private investigator working on the Cherrie Mahan case.

“I knew a dig was imminent. I was not surprised but in terms of the specific location, I did not have that location pinpointed. I definitely had areas on both sides of the Allegheny right in that area,” he said.

It’s not clear what investigators uncovered in the dig, if anything. Gizienski says they told Cherrie’s mother that they plan to return...

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SARAH STERN

I recently watched an old episode of Dateline NBC, and I was drawn to the story of Sarah Stern. I had to do more research on this sad disappearance.  The disappearance of 19-year-old Sarah Stern in December 2016 was a murder case that shocked her community in New Jersey. Her childhood friend, Liam McAtasney, was convicted of her murder, which authorities say was committed during a robbery.

On December 3, 2016, Stern's car was found abandoned on the Route 35 Bridge in Belmar, New Jersey, with the keys in the ignition. Initial speculation suggested suicide, but police soon suspected foul play.
The motive: Prosecutors stated that McAtasney, along with his roommate and Stern's former prom date, Preston Taylor, planned to rob Stern of cash she had inherited from her mother. The money had been left in a lockbox after her mother's death from cancer in 2013.

The case broke open after another friend, Anthony Curry, went to the police. Curry had secretly recorded a conversation with McAtasney in which he allegedly confessed to strangling Stern for a half-hour and robbing her. The horrifying recording was used as key evidence in the trial.

Following McAtasney's confession being revealed, Preston Taylor confessed to helping McAtasney dispose of Stern's body. As part of a plea deal, Taylor testified against McAtasney, describing how they threw her body from the bridge into the Shark River.

Despite extensive searches, including using Taylor's testimony, Stern's body has never been recovered. An ocean engineer testified that her remains were likely swept out to sea.

 
In February 2019, a jury found Liam McAtasney guilty of all charges against him, including first-degree murder, robbery, and desecrating human remains. In June 2019, McAtasney was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Preston Taylor received 18 years in prison for his role in the robbery and disposing of the body.

Sarah Stern deserved a lot better than this. A promising life was ended shortly by greed and violence...

URBAN LEGENDS: THE SCARED BABYSITTER

There was this story a friend of mine told me back in middle school. He told me it happened to his baby sitter but I highly doubt it. One night during a snowy winter his babysitter was looking after some kids while the parents went out. It was getting late so the babysitter put the kids off to bed. Soon as the kids were asleep she went to the living room to kick back on the lazyboy and pass the time watching TV.

While watching TV she noticed something. She looks over to the slide door that leads to the backyard and sees what looks to be the top half of a person. She's tries to keep calm and reaches for her phone. She pretends to be having a conversation with a friend but actually she's talking to the police. The cops get there and they have a look around the back yard. They find no signs that anyone was there. There were no footprints in the snow or anything. They tell her to keep the doors locked and to call back if anything happens.

An hour goes by and she convinces herself she was just tired and seeing things that weren't there. She glances back at the slide door and sees the same thing again. It's a person but only their top half. She quickly runs upstairs to the kids room and locks herself up there with them. She calls the cops yet again and yet again the cops find no signs of any intruder. The cops leave and she decides to stay locked up in the kids room till the parents come back.

Several months later she gets a call from the parents letting her know they're moving and if she would be interested in a few things to lighten their load for the move. She said sure of course and went right over to the house. As she went through the living room she noticed the lazy boy she had sat in many times. She asked if they were taking it with them. They said it's hers if she wants it. She starts moving it and while moving it she notices something. On the back of the lazy boy someone had written with marker or something and it said "I was behind you".

THE MYSTERIOUS SIDE OF BING CROSBY

Bing Crosby died on this day 48 years ago. His life, unlike fellow crooner Frank Sinatra was not too eventful. Sure rumors came out after Bing's death, but for the most part his life was quiet.

THERE may have been more to the bigger-than-life friendship between Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra than just broads and tossin’ back the booze. Like Sinatra, Crosby had a thing for mobsters.

He combined high-profile glittering nights with pals like Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope and Mel Torme with illicit payoffs and gambling tours after dark. Considered America’s most cherished entertainer for his rendition of “White Christmas” and turn as a kindly priest in “The Bells of St. Mary’s” — Crosby was also the target of numerous death threats.

In the late ’50s, the FBI learned that Crosby was hobnobbing with mobsters, including mob frontman Moe Dalitz, who he invited to go deer hunting.

His passion for golf also led him into troublesome company. Crosby biographer J. Roger Osterholm said one of Crosby’s golf partners was Jack “Machine Gun” McGurn, an alleged gunman in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

“Crosby just loved golf; he didn’t care who he played with. I stress that it was just very innocent — it was just to play golf,” Osterholm said.

Partly, it seems Crosby was just a victim of the time and the place. One 1930s memo written by FBI agent Clyde Tolson says “an extremely serious situation exists in Hollywood … with all types and kinds of racketeers preying upon prominent persons in the motion picture industry.”

Tolson never speculated on who the racketeers were — but Bugsy Siegel, the mobster who built Las Vegas, and Frank Nitti, a henchman of Al Capone are mentioned.

Tolson revealed that Crosby had once coughed up $10,000 because of a threat hanging over him. Crosby was so fond of gambling, he would eagerly track down illegal games to blow his millions.

Reports says one memo detailing a 1947 raid on a Burbank, Calif., gambling joint noted that “approximately 100 patrons, among them being Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, were permitted to leave the place.”

It reprints a letter from a man who claimed to have gone on an all-night gambling binge in Nevada with Crosby and his first wife, Dixie Lee. “An argument broke out,” the man wrote.

“Two men held … Crosby with guns and four men walked me out, put me in a black Cadillac limousine, handcuffed me and took me for a real fast ride and beat me up in route … “

FBI reports show that one death threat Crosby received warned: “Crosby, I want you to send me $6,000 wright (sic) away. I hate your guts you Bastard. Your (sic) not going to make a fool out of me.

“You will have to send me all of your money for what you did to me and what you tried to do.”

The writer never explained how Crosby had allegedly wronged him.

Despite these FBI reports of Bing's gambling dealings, he left behind a sizeable estate. And when he left us on the golf course in Spain on October 14, 1977 he left behind countless records, movies, and maybe even a little mystery...

ALIEN BASES AND THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

There might be an ancient alien city lies on the dark side of the moon. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has made its most important discovery till date by spotting Giant alien lunar base on Google moon app, claimed UFO hunter.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) which has been surveying desolate lunar surface since 2009, proved itself invaluable in identifying sites with high scientific worth and areas ideal for future lunar missions. Now with surprising claim Scott Waring, a self-proclaimed UFO expert evidenced Giant alien city on the moon surface, speculated Google moon map anomaly through his blog etdatabase.com.

He said: “I have found an alien structure over 9 miles (15km) long on the Moon’s De Moraes Crater.”
The video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboard. He zoomed into the Moon anomaly to focus on its grainy indistinct details. He said: “You can see there is a structure here and it this does appear to be a solid object.”

“The object must be huge, and it looks like part of the object is a circular tube.

"Look at all of these right angles on this thing – they don’t look like pixilation at all.

“It looks like the side of an alien building from up-close – and this is just mind-blowing guys, it really is.”
NASA images seem to show squared shaped blocks, which conspiracy theorists claim is proof there was an ancient alien civilization (Image: NASA)

Waring continued: “It almost looks like a crater itself, but it’s not there in other photos.

“If we try to look at this in other photos, it just disappears."

The alien life conspiracy theorist examined the image using two different filters supplied by the Google Moon app and found that mystery object vanishes when both Visible Imagery and Colourised Terrain are applied.

Waring, who has expressed doubts about NASA’s achievement believes this is further proof of cover-up by the US Space Agency.

He said: “The Lunar Orbiter mosaic is the older of the Google Moon images.

“What NASA did is edited this object out and put a fake crater in the location.”

Waring continues by speculating that ghostly straight lines in the image, almost certainly created by stitching the composite together, are evidence of a NASA conspiracy.

YouTube user George Mair commented: “Hi Scott it could be a huge ventilation system for an underground city to vent out fumes of some kind?”

And user The UFO Experience added: “My impression is it might be some kind of mobile drilling machine.”

As always, the photos and images are open for wild interpretations...

SICKENING NOISES IN CUBA

In December 2016, a CIA officer checked in to the American Embassy’s health office in Havana suffering from nausea, headache and dizziness. Days later, two more CIA officers reported similar ailments. By late 2018, the number grew to 26 Americans and 14 Canadian diplomats with roughly the same weird symptoms, ranging from hearing loss to nosebleeds. All the victims said that the symptoms were related to a strange noise they’d heard at their homes or hotel rooms. One noted that the noise was high-pitched. Another described “a beam of sound, pointed into their rooms.” Some said that the noise resembled marbles rolling inside a large funnel.

While the cause of these reported brain injuries was still a mystery, the fallout was clear. In October 2017, the Americans removed 60% of their diplomats from Cuba and expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from Washington, D.C. The illnesses confounded medical experts. Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania who examined some of the victims diagnosed concussion-like symptoms but didn’t find signs of concussions. You might be thinking: The Cuban government was up to something, right? The Cubans vehemently denied they were responsible. Many American investigators believed them.

Recordings of the sounds only added to the confusion. Two scientists believed the recordings were of lovelorn male crickets. One of the experts, Alex­ander Stubbs of the University of California, Berkeley, said the insects are incredibly loud. “You can hear them from inside a diesel truck going 40 miles an hour on the highway.” Still, scientists had no idea how these sounds could lead to human illness, and they couldn’t explain why other people who lived near the diplomats weren’t affected.

Maybe it was just nerves. “Cuba is a high-threat, high-stress post,” a former embassy official told propublica.org. Diplomats are warned that “there will be surveillance. There will be listening devices in your house, probably in your car. For some people, that puts them in a high-stress mentality, in a threat-anticipation mode.”

True—but then how to explain what happened in China? In May 2018, an American posted in the consulate in Guangzhou was diagnosed with the very same mystery illness. Ultimately, 15 Americans were evacuated.

In 2020, a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine concluded that the most probable cause was “radiofrequency energy, a type of radiation that includes microwaves.” Meanwhile, a 2023 intelligence community assessment found that the injuries were likely “tied to previous injuries, stress, environmental concerns and factors such as group psychology, in which illness symptoms reported by one individual in a community can spread serially among its members.”

And in 2024, two studies by the National Institutes of Health compared more than 80 affected people with a healthy comparison group. The results, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed “no clinical signs or brain image indications to explain those widely varied symptoms.” Yet attorney Mark Zaid, who represents current and past federal officials and their family members seeking continued medical treatment for Havana syndrome, believes that “the government is knowingly weaponizing the lack of science that exists in this area and intentionally hiding behind the classification wall where much of the evidence that contradicts the results exists.”

The mysterious sounds may well be the opening shots in a new kind of cold war...

ALIEN BASE IN CHILE

Google Maps users have made a peculiar discovery that has sparked the imagination of many. This time, the find comes from the remote mountains of Chile, where a face-shaped formation on a mountain top has left viewers baffled. The sighting has led some to wonder if the formation could be evidence of an alien presence or even an ancient, unknown base. However, experts are providing a more down-to-earth explanation.

According to Daily Mail, the mysterious face appears on a remote island located in the southern part of Chile. Its unusual shape caught the eye of Scott C. Waring, a self-proclaimed UFO hunter who is known for sharing his findings online. Waring, who shared the coordinates 55°32’35” S, 69°15’56” W, posted a video revealing the formation on YouTube.

The video quickly gained attention, especially from those interested in extraterrestrial phenomena. Some commentators were quick to speculate that the formation could be part of an “alien base,” and Waring himself suggested, “The oldest aliens in our universe might be seen as angels or demons with such powers…or even god or gods.”

This remote location, far from urban centers, has led to widespread curiosity and theories about the true nature of the discovery. For many, this face-shaped formation seems far too perfect to be a natural geological feature.

Despite the excitement online, scientists have a simpler explanation for the mysterious formation: pareidolia. Pareidolia is the tendency of the human brain to recognize familiar patterns, such as faces, in random objects or images. Dr. Robin Kramer, a face perception expert from the University of Lincoln, explained this phenomenon: “Our face detection system has evolved to be great at detecting faces and it makes more sense to err on the side of caution by occasionally seeing faces where there aren’t any, rather than missing faces where there are.”

This ability to perceive faces in unusual places likely evolved to help our ancestors in identifying friends and foes quickly. From a survival perspective, it would have been better to briefly mistake a tree branch for a person rather than miss an actual threat.

The discovery of faces in strange places is not new. People have often found what they believe to be faces in various geological features or even in objects that appear random at first glance. Waring’s find, along with other similar discoveries, has fueled the belief that these formations might be linked to ancient alien civilizations or secret extraterrestrial activity.

While such theories may capture the imagination, experts caution that pareidolia is a powerful force that can lead to the perception of faces even in the most unlikely of places. The brain’s bias toward recognizing faces can cause us to interpret ordinary geological features as something extraordinary.
A Shared Human Fascination with Faces

Experts also note that some people are more prone to seeing faces in random patterns than others. Professor Kevin Brooks, a psychologist at Macquarie University, added, “We tend to classify anything vaguely face-like as a face until proven otherwise – it’s safer that way.” The tendency to perceive faces is deeply ingrained in human psychology.

Dr. Susan Wardle from the National Institutes of Health mentioned that while pareidolia isn’t typically a sign of any psychological issues, those with strong beliefs in the paranormal might be more likely to see faces in random patterns. As she explained, a 2012 Finnish study found that people with religious or paranormal beliefs were more likely to see faces in unexpected places, further linking this phenomenon to our cultural and psychological predispositions...

NEWS BREAK: HAS AMELIA EARHART'S PLANE BEEN FOUND?

Researchers from Purdue University are set to travel to the South Pacific to determine if a "visual anomaly" on a remote island is the wreck of Amelia Earhart's lost plane, saying there is "very strong" evidence the object is the iconic aviator's aircraft.

Earhart was attempting to become the first female pilot to circle the world when she and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937. Earhart, Noonan and their plane, an Electra 10E, were never found. Recently, President Trump ordered records related to Earhart be declassified.

In 2020, researchers looking at satellite imagery identified a "visual anomaly" known as the Taraia Object in a lagoon on Nikumaroro, a small island in Kiribati about halfway between Australia and Hawaii, according to a news release from Purdue University. Nikumaroro is about 400 miles southeast of Howland Island, Earhart and Noonan's planned destination.

The underwater object has been visible in photos dating back to 1938, the year after Earhart and Noonan disappeared. A team of researchers from Purdue University, the Purdue Research Foundation and the Archaeological Legacy Institute will travel to Nikumaroro to inspect the object in November. The team will first take photos and videos of the site, then use magnetometers and sonar devices to scan the area. Then, the item will be dredged and lifted from the water so researchers can attempt to identify it.

Theories have abounded about Earhart and Noonan's fates since their disappearance. One theory suggests that Earhart landed on Nikumaroro and was marooned on the island before her death. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, a nonprofit organization based in Pennsylvania, has collected evidence it says supports the theory. Richard Pettigrew, the executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute, said that the expedition offers a chance to find "smoking-gun proof" that confirms the theory.

However, Ric Gillespie, executive director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, has expressed skepticism. "We've looked there in that spot, and there's nothing there," he told the press  in July.

Steve Schultz, a Purdue senior vice president and the university's general counsel, will be a field assistant on the expedition. He said that if the object is identified as Earhart's plane, the university hopes it can transport the plane home. Earhart worked at Purdue University for two years in the 1930s, and the Purdue Research Foundation originally paid for the airplane that Earhart flew, the school said. She planned to return the craft to the university after her trip around the world.

"A successful identification would be the first step toward fulfilling Amelia's original plan to return the Electra to West Lafayette after her historic flight," Schultz said in the news release...

THE RED BLUFF DISAPPEARANCE

Police and investigators are asking for the public's help for the mysterious disappearance of a woman seven months ago. Lauren Guillen, a Red Bluff woman, vanished over six months ago, leaving her family and community searching for answers. Her disappearance on February 5, 2025 remains unsolved.

Guillen's car was found by her family at the Econo Lodge parking lot on Antelope Boulevard in Red Bluff, California. The keys were still in the ignition, her phone was inside, and the car doors were unlocked.

Police suspect she may have disappeared in the Sacramento River behind the hotel. Despite extensive searches by volunteers and law enforcement along the river, no trace of her has been found.

Guillen is described as being 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 135 pounds. She has brown hair, brown eyes, and several tattoos, including the word "Leo" on her neck. She also has gauges in her ears and two piercings near both sides of her lower lip.

Lauren's mom Danielle Hunter had this to say: "There is some new leads of where she is and possibly others too,but law enforcement in Red Bluff won't follow up or call in special teams needed to find her and bring her home.time to call action news again and people in this community demand law enforcement help find her and possibly others and bring her home now."

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Red Bluff Police Department at 530-527-3131

THE MYSTERY OF THE FEUGIAN DOG

A strange and mysterious extinct dog breed from far southern South America might not have been a dog at all. The “Fuegian dogs” that lived with the Indigenous peoples of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago were semi-tame culpeos, foxlike animals native to South America, researchers report. The study, published July 14 in the Journal of Zoology, highlights how humans have repeatedly allied with canids.

Fuegian dogs lived alongside the Yámana and Selkʼnam people for probably thousands of years, but the first historical accounts of these creatures came from European visitors to the region in the 18th century. The dogs were described as terrierlike and often a monochromatic grayish-tan with bushy tails.

But the biological identity of these dogs was murky. Following the colonization of the Chilean and Argentinian regions of Tierra del Fuego by Europeans and the systematic decimation of Indigenous communities, the Fuegian dogs vanished by the early 20th century, leaving behind only historical accounts, illustrations and a couple of museum specimens.

William Franklin, a wildlife ecologist at Iowa State University in Ames, was studying how the wild ancestors of llamas reached Tierra del Fuego when he became fascinated by the archipelago’s enigmatic canines and the little that was known about them.

Franklin delved into historical artwork, written accounts, archaeological and genetic data as well as details on how the region’s Indigenous people talked about the canines.

European accounts from the 1800s usually described the dogs as foxlike: sharp-nosed and lacking the spots and patches common in domesticated dogs.

“There is no [archaeological] evidence to date that there were dogs in the Americas that far south” prior to European colonization, says Erica Hill, an archaeologist at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, who was not involved with the research.

Franklin notes that the most southerly remains belonging to a dog — dated about 870 years ago — are still 1,000 kilometers north of Tierra del Fuego. Artwork from the 19th century may have captured the Fuegian foxes alongside their human partners, like this copper engraving from 1832. The piece appears to depict a Fuegian fox along with a man of the Yapoo Tekeenica people at Portrait Cove, Hoste Island, Tierra del Fuego.Conrad Martens, copper engraving by T. Landseer, published by H. Colburn 1838, W.L. Franklin/Journal of Zoology 2025

Fuegian dogs were characterized by a mercurial temperament: ill-mannered but willing to curl up and rest alongside humans. Those that were shipped to England reportedly had an innate wildness and couldn’t be kept from attacking and killing poultry and piglets. Together, none of this suggests that the animals were typical domesticated dogs, Franklin argues.

Indeed, a 2013 genetic study on a putative Fuegian dog specimen housed in a museum in Tierra del Fuego found it matched the foxlike culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus).

The compiled evidence, Franklin says, suggests a population of culpeos lived with the Yámana and Selkʼnam people. But these were no domesticated foxes either, he says. Rather, they were something like semi-tame allies in a mutually beneficial partnership with humans, who benefitted from them as hunting aids but had a less dependable relationship than dogs. Multiple accounts describe the foxes capturing otters. The foxes were also employed in fishing, where they would corral schools of fish so their human partners could more easily net them.

Hill cautions against thinking of these animals as pets. “A luxury good that lives in your house and eats your food and sits on your lap — that kind of pet is a relatively recent phenomenon.”

Rather, most Indigenous societies in the Americas practiced a partnership model between canids and people, as seen in working animals such as sled dogs. That bond may have helped people survive on Tierra del Fuego, much like human–sled dog relationships have been crucial in the Arctic, Hill says. The cultural importance of the foxes shines in the Yámana oral history and language, the latter of which has about 160 phrases pertaining to the animals.

Later depictions of the Fuegian dogs seemed more and more doglike, suggesting that as European dogs spread in the region, they replaced the foxes.

Fabián Jaksic, an ecologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, says the findings align with his own thoughts on the Fuegian “dogs.” Though he thinks the animals may represent two different species: culpeos brought to the island by Indigenous people who partially tamed them, and true dogs associated with the inhabitants of the southern archipelago.

Human-fox relationships may have developed independently around the world. For instance, in Europe, red foxes have been tagging along with humans for over 40,000 years.

“The fact that such a development also occurred in South America doesn’t come as a surprise to me,” says Chris Baumann, a paleoecologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, who coauthored the red fox study.

Researchers have also discovered red foxes buried in Israel around 16,500 years ago, suggesting they were companion animals there, too.

Hill suggests that a wider range of relationships between humans and canids may have existed in the past, supported by our shared flexibility in habitat and diet.

Franklin says, “This [phenomenon] occurred in cultures that didn’t have wolves in their geography. So, they used foxes.”

WHERE ARE THEY NOW: MICHELLE CARTER

Michelle Carter looks dramatically different in the first photos of her since her release from jail. Carter, 28, was spotted doing yard work outside her Plainville, Massachusetts home.

Carter was released from jail in 2020 for good behavior.

She was charged with manslaughter in the 2014 death of her boyfriend Carter Roy IIICredit: Facebook

The woman was seen with short, bleach blonde hair, black shorts, and a Falmouth University hoodie.

This is the first time Carter has been seen in five years. She was released from jail for good behavior in 2020, only serving 11 months of her 15-month sentence for the 2014 manslaughter of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III.

On July 13, 2014, Roy was found dead in his truck outside a superstore in Massachusetts after he had attached a hose from a generator and filled his truck up with carbon monoxide.

Roy reportedly had a brief change of heart as he had poisoned himself and even got out of the vehicle. Phone records, shown in Carter’s trial, show that she called her boyfriend and told him to get back inside the truck.

At the time, the 18-year-old had been battling anxiety and depression, and Carter, who was 17 years old, encouraged him to end his life through a series of texts that were discovered during the investigation.

Outside of her case, little information is known about Carter's personal life.

In February 2015, Carter was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to her boyfriend's death. During the investigation, authorities found messages on Roy's phone from Carter which read, "You keep pushing it off and say you'll do it but you never do.

"It's always gonna be that way if you don't take action.

"You just need to do it."

Other texts sent from Carter show that she had even suggested different ways Roy could end his life: “Why don’t you just drink bleach? Hang yourself…jump over a building, stab yourself, idk.”

When Roy hesitated, Carter texted, “You better not be bulls****ing me and just pretending. Tonight is the night, it’s now or never,” read court documents.

Carter never called police or Roy’s parents as he died. She later texted his mother, Lynn St Denis, to give her condolences but did not tell her that she had prior knowledge of the teen’s plans to end his life.

Prosecutors said that Carter had told a friend that she could have stopped Roy in the moments before his death.

“His death is my fault. Like, honestly I could have stopped it,” she wrote.

“I was on the phone with him and he got out of the car because [it] was working and he got scared and I f***ing told him to get back in…because I knew that he would do it all over again the next day and I couldn't have him live the way he was living anymore.

“Like, I should have did more and it’s all my fault because I could have stopped him but I f***ing didn’t. And all I had to say was, 'I love you and don’t do this,' one more time and he’d still be here.”

Carter was found guilty during her trial and sentenced to two and a half years in prison but her sentence was later reduced to 15 months.

Carter's story is the subject of multiple documentaries, including the 2019 HBO film, "I Love You, Now Die."