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The Quiet File

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S1 · E75
Yesterday · 3 min
The Quiet File — The Men in the Lead Masks
On August twentieth, 1966, two boys climbing a hillside in Niterói, Brazil, found two men lying side by side on the grass, dressed in suits and raincoats, each wearing a strange lead mask over his eyes. Both men were dead. Neither had a mark on him.
S1 · E74
Tuesday · 3 min
The Quiet File — The Man on Sligo Beach
On the morning of June twelfth, 2009, a dog walker found a man's body on Rosses Point beach, near Sligo, Ireland. He was neatly dressed, lying as if he had settled down to sleep. Nearby were his bag and a few careful piles of belongings. Nothing in them said who he was.
S1 · E73
Monday · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Missing Girl of Rome
Forty days before a Vatican citizen's teenage daughter vanished from the streets of Rome in a case that would make international headlines, another fifteen-year-old girl from the same city disappeared just as completely, and just as quietly. Her name rarely comes up without the other girl's name beside it, but her case was never solved either.
S1 · E72
Sunday · 3 min
The Quiet File — The Run Into the Forest
Airport security cameras caught the whole thing: a young man sprinting out of the terminal, across the parking lot, over a perimeter fence, and straight into the trees beyond. He left his passport, his wallet, and his luggage behind at the gate. No one has confirmed seeing him since.
S1 · E71
Saturday · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Letters to the Villemin Family
For three years before a four-year-old boy died, his family had been receiving anonymous letters and phone calls from someone who called himself "the crow," promising revenge for some unnamed offense. The day after the boy's body was found, one more letter arrived. It said simply: I have taken vengeance.
S1 · E70
Friday · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Road Near Chevaline
On a September afternoon in the French Alps, a family stopped their car in a quiet mountain lay-by, the kind of spot hikers and cyclists use to rest. A local cyclist happened to be passing at the same moment. Within minutes, four people were dead, and two young girls were left to survive what came next entirely on their own.
S1 · E69
October 15 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Seewen Weekend House
On a Saturday evening in June 1976, five members of one family gathered at their weekend house in the Swiss countryside, the way they had many times before. By the time anyone found them, all five were dead, shot with the same rifle, and no one has ever been charged.
S1 · E68
October 14 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Stockholm Street Corner
On a cold February night in 1986, the Prime Minister of Sweden walked home from the movies with his wife, no bodyguards, through the middle of Stockholm, the way he often did. A stranger stepped out of a doorway, fired two shots, and disappeared into the dark. It remains the most famous unsolved murder in Swedish history.
S1 · E67
October 13 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Lake Bodom Shore
On a June night in 1960, two teenagers pitched a tent on the shore of a small lake outside Espoo, Finland, for what should have been an ordinary night of camping before summer break. By morning, they were both dead, and a third teenager nearby was badly injured, with no memory of what happened to him.
S1 · E66
October 12 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Northern Highway
Along a stretch of highway in northern British Columbia, hitchhiking used to be an ordinary way to get around — for decades, in towns with no bus service and long distances between them, it was simply how people, especially young Indigenous women, got to work, to school, to see family. Then, one after another, some of them stopped arriving.
#65
October 11 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Family From Prince George
On the first night of August, 1989, a man walked into a pub in Prince George, British Columbia, offering a family down on their luck a job at a logging camp. By morning, all four of them were gone.
#64
October 10 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Empty Brigantine
On December fourth, 1872, a sailing ship crossing the Atlantic came upon another vessel drifting strangely under half-set sail, with no one at the wheel and no one answering their calls.
#63
October 9 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Last Transmission From Bass Strait
On a clear night over the Bass Strait in October 1978, a twenty-year-old pilot radioed air traffic control to describe a strange aircraft following him. Six minutes later, his voice was gone from the airwaves entirely.
#62
October 8 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Missing Airliner
At 1:19 in the morning on March eighth, 2014, a Boeing 777 carrying two hundred thirty-nine people said goodnight to Malaysian air traffic control. Two minutes later, its transponder went dark.
#61
October 7 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Navy Flight
At two in the afternoon on December fifth, 1945, five Navy training planes took off from Fort Lauderdale into clear Florida skies. By early evening, none of them were coming back.
S1 · E65
October 6 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Family From Prince George
On the first night of August, 1989, a man walked into a pub in Prince George, British Columbia, offering a family down on their luck a job at a logging camp. By morning, all four of them were gone.
S1 · E64
October 5 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Empty Brigantine
On December fourth, 1872, a sailing ship crossing the Atlantic came upon another vessel drifting strangely under half-set sail, with no one at the wheel and no one answering their calls.
S1 · E63
October 4 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Last Transmission From Bass Strait
On a clear night over the Bass Strait in October 1978, a twenty-year-old pilot radioed air traffic control to describe a strange aircraft following him. Six minutes later, his voice was gone from the airwaves entirely.
S1 · E62
October 3 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Missing Airliner
At 1:19 in the morning on March eighth, 2014, a Boeing 777 carrying two hundred thirty-nine people said goodnight to Malaysian air traffic control. Two minutes later, its transponder went dark.
S1 · E61
October 2 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Navy Flight
At two in the afternoon on December fifth, 1945, five Navy training planes took off from Fort Lauderdale into clear Florida skies. By early evening, none of them were coming back.

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