When he's not writing for Cracked, Robin Warder is also the host of a true crime podcast about unsolved mysteries called The Trail Went Cold at http://trailwentcold.com. His celebrity doppelganger is Matt Damon in "The Informant".
Horror stories are great and all, but around Halloween, we like to focus on the real stuff. You know, the monsters that could in fact be outside your house right now.
Lots of you are too old and jaded to be kept awake at night by ghost stories and implausible urban legends. No, this time of year, you need something a little more real.
Modern technology makes it pretty difficult for a person to drop off the face of the Earth. But back when that was more common, missing persons cases used to get super weird.
Plenty of famous movies have unresolved plot points that will inevitably come back to bite the protagonist in the ass, either because the writers forgot about them or because they thought no one would notice.
Thousands of people go missing every year. But as sad as that is, most of those cases have perfectly logical explanations. Some don't, but that's not even the creepiest part ...
Movie characters always manage to succeed at something despite incredible odds ... especially when those 'odds' are logic, reason, and basic common sense.
