Author: Loren Smith

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More

We bought a few acres outside Lubbock because we wanted somewhere quiet to raise our little boy. The property wasn’t much. A small house. A weathered barn. A few mesquite …

I climbed into an old dry well on our Texas property expecting to find bottles and junk. Instead, 15 feet underground, I discovered a bundle deliberately hidden in the stone wall—and a mystery that had remained unsolved for nearly four decades. Read More