Five friends took a wrong turn into California’s snowy wilderness in 1978 — what they left behind still defies every logical explanation.

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Few stories in modern American history crawl beneath the skin like that of the Yuba County Five. It is a tale that reads as the script of a psychological thriller: five young men vanish on a cold February night in 1978, leaving behind a working car, a trail of bewildering decisions, and a series of grisly discoveries that even now defy logic.

To some, it’s a tragic accident.…