The Pine Grove Briar

In April of 2006, Brian Shaffer , a 27-year-old Ohio State medical student, went out for a night in Columbus, Ohio. What should have been an ordinary evening would become one of the most baffling disappearances in...

In February 1959, nine experienced hikers set out into the remote Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union. Led by Igor Dyatlov, the group was well trained and properly equipped for the harsh winter expedition ahead. They...

On February 24, 1978, five young men left a college basketball game in Chico, California. They stopped at a convenience store, bought snacks, and began the drive home. They never made it. Days later, their car was found...

In April 1981, three people were brutally murdered inside Cabin 28 at the Keddie Resort in Northern California. Three children slept in the next room and survived. By morning, a quiet mountain community was shaken — and...

On February 2, 2008, a gunman walked into a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois. He wasn’t wearing a mask. He calmly ordered employees and a customer to the back room, bound them with duct tape, and opened fire...

In June 1992, Suzie Streeter (19), Stacy McCall (18), and Sherrill Levitt (47) vanished from a quiet home in Springfield, Missouri. No forced entry. No signs of a struggle. Three purses left behind. More than three...

On Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia went up in flames. By morning, five children were gone. Officials ruled the case simple: the children perished in the fire. But no remains...

On June 9th, 1912, the Moore family walked home from church in the quiet railroad town of Villisca, Iowa. Nothing seemed unusual. Neighbors waved. Oil lamps flickered. The children were laughing. By morning, eight...

In the early 1920s, during the height of the Coal Wars in the Tug River Valley, a man tied to union activity was found dead near a rail line outside Matewan. The official ruling was simple: accident. He had fallen. The...

In the early decades of the 20th century, a family living deep in Appalachia appeared in public records like anyone else—census rolls, school logs, tax books. Then, without warning, every one of their names stopped...

Deep in the Appalachian mountains, there are places where silence isn’t empty—it’s intentional. Tonight on Pine Grove Briar , we settle in beside the fire and drift into a forgotten hollow where a man vanished without a...

In the winter of 1897, a young woman was found dead at the foot of the stairs in a quiet West Virginia home. The official explanation was simple. Convenient. And wrong. In tonight’s episode of Pine Grove Briar , we...

The Hinterkaifeck Horror In this chilling episode, we travel far from the Appalachian foothills to a secluded farm in Germany, the site of one of the most baffling unsolved true crimes in history: the Hinterkaifeck...

Echoes in November: The Lincoln-Kennedy Curse In this chilling episode of The Pine Grove Briar, we pull back the veil on the uncanny parallels between the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. A century...

In this chilling, immersive episode of The Pine Grove Briar, we journey into one of the most haunting true crime cases in American history—the 1993 murders of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, and the...