The Disappearance of Barbara Rocky

• 📝 In March 1974, Barbara Rocky, a 22-year-old BYU student, planned to leave campus due to feeling alienated from her religious roommates and the school's strict culture.
• 💎 She wrote a goodbye letter to her roommates and intended to pawn a valuable turquoise necklace in Salt Lake City to fund her departure.
• 🚗 Her best friend, Jerry Hicker, dropped off her car, later found it with the letter, and reported Barbara missing after she failed to meet him.

A Psychic Suspect and a Cold Trail

• 🔍 Barbara's body was discovered in Big Cottonwood Canyon, shot multiple times, with her clothes neatly folded nearby, suggesting a personal connection to the killer.
• 📞 The investigation focused on Richard Finder, a self-proclaimed psychic and Barbara's "boyfriend," who called police offering help and owned a .357 gun, the same caliber used in the murder.
• ❌ Despite Richard's suspicious behavior and a weak alibi, ballistics tests on his gun did not match the murder weapon, causing the case to go cold for decades.

DNA Solves a Decades-Old Mystery

• 🔬 In 2005, Detective Todd Park reopened the case, leveraging advancements in DNA technology to re-examine evidence, including a rape kit and dirt from under Barbara's body.
• 🧬 Traces of DNA found in the dirt sample matched Jerry Hicker, Barbara's supposed best friend, who had been an early suspect but was initially dismissed.
• ⚠️ Reconstruction revealed Jerry, who had stolen Barbara's gun, drove her to the canyon, attempted a romantic advance, and shot her when she resisted, leaving the goodbye note to mislead police.
• ⚖️ Jerry confessed in 2007 while dying of cancer, serving 5 years for Barbara's murder.

The Sacred Mountain's Wrath

• 🏔️ In 1991, a team led by Juri Song attempted to summit Kawa Gabawa, a sacred Chinese mountain, despite villagers' warnings of a punishing "mountain god."
• 🌨️ During an unexpected blizzard, climbers experienced unsettling events: a sick woman's premonitions, a man's frantic scribbling, and strange drum-like sounds, before the entire team vanished.
• ⏳ Seven years later, their bodies and a diary were found, confirming the villagers' belief that the mountain god had imprisoned them, leading China to ban climbing in the range.

An Encounter with the Abominable Snowman

• 👨‍⚕️ In 1953 Nepal, Dr. George Moore was warned by villagers to avoid the "House of the Gods" due to a column of smoke.
• 🌲 Lost in a thick monsoon fog, George and a team member stumbled into the forbidden area, encountering large, grey-skinned creatures with yellow eyes and sharp teeth.
• 🔫 George fired his gun, scaring the creatures away, and later published his account, identifying them as Yetis (Abominable Snowmen), a highly credible cryptid sighting.