They Found a Buried School Bus in the Forest. What Was Missing Inside Is the Real Mystery (3 of 3)

Not everyone has given up hope.

Dr. Marianne Roth, a forensic anthropologist brought in to examine the site, believes the absence of remains might suggest something even stranger.

“There are almost no signs of decomposition—organic or otherwise. It’s as if the bus was a shell. Like the people inside it were never there… or left before it was buried.”

The FBI has now joined the investigation. Rumors swirl—some as wild as UFO abductions, others pointing to cold-case kidnappings and cult theories that were once dismissed as conspiracy.

But one thing is certain: something happened to that bus. And someone buried it, hoping it would never be found.

Now, 39 years later, Brookhaven is asking the same question it asked in 1986—only louder, angrier, and more desperate:

Where did the children go?