An independent investigation into the disappearance of Maren Calloway and the network she left behind.
BY VERA LIANG
I keep coming back to the same question. Not what happened to Maren Calloway — I don't know if anyone will ever answer that cleanly. But why her? Why did a woman with no institutional backing, no funding, no academic credentials beyond a state college degree, build the most comprehensive catalog of spatial anomalies anyone has ever seen? And why did nobody notice until she was gone?
READ →Jonas finally let me inside the house last week. I'd been asking since November, and he kept putting it off — not out of suspicion, I think, but because he wasn't sure what I'd find that he hadn't already cataloged. He's thorough. More thorough than most people I've worked with in actual newsrooms. But the house isn't a thing you can catalog. You have to stand in it.
READ →I started Unaccounted For three years ago because I was tired of stories that wrapped up clean. Missing persons cases that the papers covered for a week. Unsolved things that everyone agreed to stop asking about. I wanted to sit with the ones that didn't resolve — not to solve them, but to take them seriously. This is a different kind of project. This is the one that found me.
READ →More entries as the investigation continues.