On February 24th, 1978, five men from Yuba County, California, left a college basketball game and took a mysterious detour. According to Boing Boing, their car was later discovered abandoned in a remote area of Plumas National Forest—miles from the route home. The men, each facing intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions, vanished without a trace, leaving behind one of California's enduring cold case mysteries.

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