Entombed

In an apartment in Pocheon, South Korea, a gruesome discovery was made in 2014: inside a plastic barrel were two heavily decomposed bodies. Who did the bodies belong to, and where was the apartment’s owner?

33 men set out from the Chinese city of Rongcheng to fish for squid in the waters off Peru and Chile. Only 11 returned. What really happened?

Mikhail Pichugin was on a boating trip with his brother Sergei and his nephew Ilya to watch whales on the Sea of Okhotsk when they met with an accident and were left drifting helplessly. Hope of finding the group had already been abandoned when, after 67 days, an unexpected turn of events occurred.

Many people are familiar with the horror film Ring, which originally comes from Japan. Far fewer, however, know about the real-life individuals who inspired the film. In this slightly different episode, we delve into the stories of these women.

Chen Baolan and Chen Baozhen were sisters in their early twenties who had moved from China to Japan after graduating from high school. In 2017, however, they suddenly disappeared. At first, the police believed they had left voluntarily, but thanks to the persistence of their friend, something far darker was eventually uncovered.

Kang Jeong-suk was a middle-aged wife and mother who suddenly disappeared in 2002. The police believed she had left of her own free will, but her husband, Song Hyeon-seo, did not accept this explanation. It soon became clear that Kang was closer than anyone could have imagined.

In the Japanese city of Suzuka lived a woman named Fujiko Yokoyama. She was 45 years old and married for the fifth time. Each of her husbands had been in his twenties, and the most recent one was a former classmate of her son. This final marriage, however, ended differently from the ones before.

Shao Tong was only 19-year-old university student in the United States when her life ended tragically. Her boyfriend, Li Xiangnan, had just traveled to China, so the case soon became an intercontinental one.