The Skeleton Key Chronicles

3 hours ago

An unusual case is unfolding in Washington state, where 34-year-old Reilley Holmes has been missing since September 3rd following a 911 call that ended without anyone ever making contact with her.

Reilley was last seen leaving work in the South Hill/Puyallup area that day. Later that evening, apparently she called 911 to report that she had been in a collision. But then, for reasons that remain unclear, Reilley asked that emergency response services be canceled.

Sometime afterward, her vehicle was found abandoned on I-5 at Gravelly Lake Drive in Lakewood. Reilley wasn’t there, but her cell phone was still inside the car.

And for now, that is where the trail seems to end. Authorities haven’t released that 911 call or explained how she came to leave her vehicle behind. Three days later, and Reilley is still missing. If you have any information regarding her whereabouts please contact the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

8 hours ago

Joseph Chaffins was 26 years old when he disappeared from North Webster, Indiana, on October 26, 2022. He had reportedly been dropped off in the area of EMS W23 Lane and Backwater Road. What happened to him after that is still a mystery.

Joseph was originally from Kentucky and moved with his family to Kosciusko County when he was 18. According to his family, he loved to fish and spent a lot of time outdoors.

Interestingly enough, someone had taken a photo of Joseph just three days before he disappeared, later shared by WNDU. The photo shows him walking along the south side of Webster Lake, in the same general area where he would go missing only days later.

In the years since, investigators have followed some pretty serious leads. Cadaver dogs have been brought to six different locations in the search for Joseph, and police have received tips claiming that he had passed away and was buried on various properties. Some of those tips were taken seriously enough that investigators brought in excavation equipment from the county highway department and actually dug, with permission from the property owners. But they didn't find Joseph.

In January 2025, the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office made another public push for information, saying the investigation remained active and they were continuing to follow up on any information that came in.

Then, in August 2025, Joseph's mother and siblings gathered near the Backwater Webster boat launch for a vigil. It had been nearly three years since Joseph disappeared from that same general area, and despite all the searches, tips and places investigators had dug, they were still without answers. This October marks four years since Joseph's disappearance, he would be 30 years old.

If you have any information regarding Joseph’s whereabouts investigators want to speak with you. They've asked anyone who may know something, no matter how small, to come forward.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

20 hours ago

When Sarah Winchester passed away on September 5th, 1922, something else came to an end with her, the decades-long construction of her enormous California home. After 36 years, the house was finally finished. Not because Sarah decided it was complete, but because Sarah was gone.

But to understand why the house was never supposed to be finished, you have to go back to where the story began. Sarah had already endured the loss of her infant daughter when her husband, William Wirt Winchester, heir to the Winchester arms fortune, passed away in 1881.

According to legend, Sarah was grieving and still living in Connecticut when she consulted a medium who told her to move to move out west and keep building, and that she would remain alive for as long as construction continued. Some versions even claim the strange layout was intended to confuse the spirits trying to find her.

Rooms were added onto rooms as the house grew into a sprawling maze of roughly 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, 10,000 windows, 47 fireplaces and 47 stairways. Hallways twisted through the mansion, staircases seemingly led nowhere and doors opened in places you wouldn't expect.

Whether Sarah actually believed any of that is another mystery entirely. She was intensely private, and there is very little evidence connecting her directly to many of the supernatural stories that eventually became inseparable from her name.

What we do know is that Sarah spent decades transforming an ordinary farmhouse into one of the strangest homes in America.

More than a century after her passing, the Winchester Mystery House still stands in San Jose. And if you've ever wanted to see just how bizarre it really is, there's a 360° virtual tour that lets you wander through every level of the mansion and explore rooms normally off-limits on the standard tours. … See MoreSee Less