While he was stationed in West Germany as part of his United States Army service in the early 1970s, Gary Mathias, a resident of Marysville, California, developed drug … See more

Police in Butte and Yuba counties began searching along the route the men took to Chico. They found no sign of them, but a few days later, a Plumas National Forest ranger told … See more

Even knowing that four of the five men had died in the Sierras, investigators still could not completely explain what had led to their deaths. They … See more

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• Dyatlov Pass incident, 1959 incident in Russia in which nine hikers died under mysterious circumstances; the case of the Yuba County Five is often referred to as the "American Dyatlov Pass"
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On February 25, the Gators were due to play their first game in a weeklong tournament sponsored by the Special Olympics for which the winners would get a free week in See more

With the evidence not pointing to any clear conclusion about what happened the night the five men disappeared, police and the families were not ruling out the possibility that they had met with See more

The story of the Yuba County Five, was the subject of a 2022 episode of Motor Trend and Discovery Channel's Auto/Biography: Cold … See more