The Elm's Lower-Left: A Century of Missing Women and One Impossible Photo

Dark Legends & Mysteries · Jul 27, 2026 · 29m

The Elm's Lower-Left: A Century of Missing Women and One Impossible Photo

A photograph printed between 2014 and 2018 shows a woman in a pale yellow cap-sleeved dress standing at the eastern root of a 200-year-old elm on the Westing property - yet the woman it may depict, Denise Boyd, vanished ten months later and was never found. How could a print made before her disappearance show her at the tree where town photographs have recorded a recurring pale figure in the lower-left quadrant for over a century?

In this episode, we lay out the documented timeline and the facts found by neighbors and…