Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • Internet Rabbit Holes Edition

In December 2002, multiple drivers reported a reckless car on the A3 highway that crashed down an embankment. Police found a car and a skeletonized body, later identified as Christopher Brian Chandler, who had been missing for five months. The paradox is that witnesses reported a recent crash, yet the evidence indicated the wreck occurred much earlier, suggesting an inexplicable temporal anomaly.

On December 11, 2002, Surrey police received frantic calls about a reckless driver on the A3. Callers reported seeing the car veer off the embankment and crash. Officers found a heavily rusted car and a mostly skeletonized body, later identified as Christopher Brian Chandler, who disappeared in July 2002. His body's decomposition indicated he died around the time of his disappearance, not on the night of the calls.

New forensic analysis of bones found on Nikumaroro Island in 1940 strongly suggests they belonged to Amelia Earhart. The leading theory for her death, given the island's unique inhabitants, is that she survived a crash landing but was eventually consumed by thousands of giant coconut crabs.

Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared in July 1937. In 1940, an incomplete skeleton was found on uninhabited Nikumaroro Island, 350 miles from their destination. Initial analysis dismissed them as Earhart's. In 2017, a forensic anthropologist re-examined bone measurements, finding they 'match Amelia Earhart almost exactly.' Researchers also found 1930s-era bottles, including freckle cream, which Earhart was known to use. Nikumaroro is home to 3-foot-long coconut crabs, known to swarm and dismember animals.

Ricky McCormick, an illiterate man with mental health issues, was found murdered in 1999 with two complex, undeciphered notes in his pockets. The FBI believes these ciphers contain critical information about his death and connections to a St. Louis drug dealer, but despite public appeals and decades of effort, the code remains unbroken.

Ricky McCormick's badly decomposed body was found in a cornfield 20 miles north of St. Louis in June 1999. He was last seen alive three days prior, but his decomposition suggested a longer period, possibly accelerated by being kept indoors. In his pockets were two documents with 30 lines each of complex symbols and letters, a cipher. Ricky was functionally illiterate, making his possession of such a code highly unusual. The FBI's cryptanalysis unit has been unable to crack it, and they've made a public appeal for help.

Retired geography teacher Xie Tianyong vanished during a day hike on Mount Miaofeng, but his trail of newspaper markers was found on a different mountain, Tia Toua Mountain, along with a strange, grammatically awkward note in his handwriting. This mountain has a history of other unidentified bodies and disturbing encounters reported by hikers, raising questions about what truly happened to Xie and others.

Xie Tianyong left for a day hike on Mount Miaofeng on September 30, 2008, promising to return by midnight. His habit was to mark trails with newspaper pages. His phone last pinged near Mount Miaofeng at 07:20:00. A villager reported seeing Xie, who then abruptly changed plans to seek walnuts on Tia Toua Mountain. Searchers found Xie's newspaper markers and a campsite on Tia Toua Mountain. A note in Xie's handwriting found there stated he got lost and camped, but was written in the third person and ended with an 'awkward' Chinese phrase, 'Love to everyone who passes by,' interpreted as a distress signal. In the vicinity, 10 other sets of human remains were found, and other hikers reported encounters with an 'axeman' asking 'Are you alone?' and groups of motionless strangers staring from the treeline.

First responders attempting to rescue occupants from a submerged SUV heard a woman screaming for help from inside the vehicle. However, it was later discovered that the mother in the driver's seat had been killed on impact 14 hours earlier, leaving only her baby alive. The source of the voice remains unexplained, but it provided crucial motivation for the rescuers.

On March 7, 2015, an upturned SUV was found partially submerged in the Spanish Fork River. First responders, including Officer Tyler Beddoes, heard a woman screaming 'Hey, we're in here. Come over here. Help.' from inside. They worked to flip the car and found a baby alive in a car seat, but the mother, Jennifer Gorsbeck, had been killed on impact 14 hours prior when the car crashed at 10:30 p.m. the previous night. The voice's origin is unknown, but it spurred the rescuers to save the baby.