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In July 2014, Lars Mittank stayed behind in Bulgaria after missing his return flight. Cameras recorded him leaving Varna Airport quickly, and his whereabouts remain unknown. This dossier sets the footage alongside a police notice, his mother’s account, and the limits of later theories.
922 km · Pripyat
In the early hours of 26 April 1986, a test at Chernobyl’s Reactor Four ended in explosions and a release of radioactive material. This dossier follows the technical sequence, delayed public warning, emergency work, measured health effects and uncertain projections, through to the continuing challenges of confinement.
987 km · Čachtice
In present-day Slovakia, a medieval fortress became the place of Countess Erzsébet Báthory’s confinement. This dossier follows her estate management, the 1610-1611 inquiry, the fate of servants, her will and the much later emergence of the blood-bathing story.
1,097 km · Kuřim
A baby monitor accidentally captured a scene inside a neighboring house in the Czech Republic. The ensuing investigation exposed prolonged abuse of two brothers, an adult posing as a child, and failures of protection that persisted beyond the discovery.