Police Officers Thought They Found Stolen Cars, But What These Actually Are Is Horrifying

#1 Mysterious Missing Persons Case Resurfaces

In 1969, three people driving a 1950 Chevy were reported missing and were never found. Only twelve months later, three more people went missing, all teens from Elk City, Oklahoma, this time driving in a brand new, blue 1969 Camaro which simply vanished. The case has remained open for close to forty years.

#2 Five Bodies Found In Lake

Highway patrol officers testing their sonar equipment at Foss Lake near Elk City, Oklahoma stumbled upon the rusting 1969 Camaro and a Chevrolet dating back to the 1950s. They later discovered three bodies, those of the teens in the Camaro, and two others.

#3 Brand New 1969 Camaro

Jimmy Williams, Leah Johnson, and Michael Rios went missing while on their way to a football game on November 20, 1970. Over 40 years later, William's Chevy Camaro was found at the bottom of Foss Lake by police divers who were in the middle of a training exercise.

The other bodies were later identified as the remains of 69-year-old John Alva Porter and his friends Nora Duncan and Clebern Hammack. The discovery of two rusting vintage cars containing six bodies has reignited the mystery of how three teenagers and three other people vanished more than four decades ago

#4 Closure To The Mysteries

Their families were relieved to have some closure after all of this time, but many question the circumstances of these deaths. Locals are skeptical that these were simply two isolated accidents and are demanding other areas of the lake be searched as well.

#5 Was It Foul Play

Police can not rule out foul play in the two cases since they both appear to have happened in the same "eerily similar fashion" but at different times. Officers at the scene suggested that they may never know what actually happened so long ago to the cars and the victims, but they plan to investigate thoroughly.

#6 Divers Were Conducting Tests

Initially, divers were sent down to conduct training with a new sonar device when they hit upon the two sunken vehicles in the same location. Police divers were sent back down to investigate the cars before they were pulled out of the lake and the bones were discovered.

#7 Foss Lake Oklahoma

According to Betsy Randolph, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, 'They went back and did a scheduled dive today and were going to recover the cars. When they pulled the cars out of the water, the first one that came out they found bones in the car,' she said. 'There were five teams involved in the recovery, but not cause of death can be determined until we examine the remains in the lab.'

#8 Five Dive Teams Sent Down To Recover The Remains

When they pulled the second car out, another set of bones was discovered. The divers then went back in the water and searched around and found a skull, she said. The remains were turned over to the medical examiner's office who are expected to use DNA from surviving family members to identify the skeletons.

'We thought it was just going to be stolen vehicles and that's not what it turned out to be, obviously,' Randolph said.

Friends of teen Jimmy Williams have identified his Camaro from old photographs of his brand new car and recall that on the day the group went missing they were headed to a football game and then were supposed to go to a hunting camp to spend the evening. One friend reports at the time that there were 'no leads, no nothing. He said it was just like they vanished into thin air.'