Welcome to Oaktober Fest, The Dark Oak’s celebration of the spooky month of October! Every week this month, we will bring you a case that is sure to get you in the creepy mood. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ While the rest of the world was feeling the chaos of the Covid 19 global pandemic,…

Welcome to Oaktober Fest, The Dark Oak’s celebration of the spooky month of October! Every week this month, we will bring you a case that is sure to get you in the creepy mood. This week Stefanie shares the tales of two spectral dogs, steeped in history, active to this day, and sure to haunt…

32-year-old Robert Eric Wone could never have imagined that spending the night at an old college friend’s house would result in his bizarre murder, yet that is exactly what happened on August 2, 2006. A little over an hour after arriving at the DC home that Joe Price’s shares with two other men, Robert was…

An up-and-coming Hollywood actor best known for his role in “The Masked Marvel,” crashed his sports car in a bean field in Los Angeles, California. The actor, christened David Bacon by the famous Hollywood film producer Howard Hughes exited the vehicle and stumble only a few feet before collapsing. In his back was a single…

16-year-old Cathy Moulton was reported missing on September 24, 1971. She was last seen in downtown Portland, Maine wearing a navy-blue coat and carrying a brown leather bag. Police immediately decided that she was a runaway and her case remained uninvestigated, that is, until nearly thirty years later, a determined detective Kevin Cady devoted his…

30-year-old, Ebonee Spears was last seen on Jan. 14, 2016. The week and days before her disappearance were plagued with strange occurrences and troubling moments that have left her family wondering what could have become of Ebonee. On the evening of her disappearance, she attempted to make a phone call at the Wilmington Police Department…

When a 12-year-old dies suddenly, law enforcement focuses their attention on one man almost exclusively. Surveillance footage seems to contradict the person of interest’s alibi. In this episode we have a soccer coach, a Sheriff’s deputy and a small town torn apart by the devastating loss of Garrett Phillips. Sources: Who Killed Garrett Phillips. (n.d.)….

According to the website Maritime Injury Report approximately 400 people have gone missing from cruise ships in the past 20 years. And according to Cruise Lines International Association of the 212 listed as having gone overboard between the years of 2009 and 2019, only 48 people were rescued.  While these numbers aren’t insignificant, it is important to…

When 16-year-old Olivia “Janie” Ward died after a fall at a teen party in the woods, her family began a decades long search to find out what really happened to her on that night.   With conflicting autopsies, “misplaced” records, and eyewitness statements that create more questions than answers, Janie’s death sadly remains as much…

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the disappearance of four-year-old Marjorie West remains “the great unsolved mystery of the missing” and the second oldest unsolved child abduction case recorded in American history. At the time of Marjorie’s 1938 disappearance, the search for her was one of the largest for a child…