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Teen Missing Since September Is Thought To Be Sex Trafficking Victim

“She's so sweet and so naive. She didn't know what she was getting herself into.” Corinna Slusser, 19. New reports revealed that a girl that went missing in Queens, N.Y. nearly two months ago filed an assault complaint with the NYPD shortly before she disappeared. The New York Daily News reported that 19-year-old Corinna Slusser filed an assault complaint against a man believed to be her pimp on Aug. 28, just two weeks before she was reported missing.

The Abandoned California Boomtown That Went Bust

Back in the 19th century, Cerro Gordo was a lucrative mining town — that averaged a murder a week. Now, it sits abandoned and possibly haunted. A bird's eye view of Cerro Gordo, which has become an eerie tourist site for its sordid past.David Lofink/Flickr The ghost town of Cerro Gordo is located among the Inyo Mountains of eastern California.Wikimedia Commons The town has a cemetery of miners who died during the height of Cerro Gordo's silver mining production.

The Age-Old Mystery Of The Dragon's Triangle, AKA The Devil's Sea

The sea is basically the Pacific version of the Bermuda Triangle, complete with mysterious disappearances, sea monster sightings, and ship sinkings. MarineInsight.com A map of the Dragon’s Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Sea, south of Japan. Kublai Khan never saw it coming, but two storms in 1281 supposedly protected Japan from being conquered by Mongol hordes. The Japanese legend says that kamikaze, or “divine winds” called upon by the emperor of Japan, sank a fleet of 900 Mongol ships carrying 40,000 soldiers.

The Great Lakes' Eerily Frozen Lighthouses

Evoking the timeless sentiment of isolation, these frozen lighthouses are a perfect symbol for the winter months.There are few sights in nature more surreal than the frozen lighthouses sprinkled about Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. Splashing waves and frigid wintry storms transform lighthouses into accidental ice sculptures on the shores of these Great Lakes. Photographers encounter treacherous conditions in their artistic pursuits. They navigate through thick, icy terrains to capture glacial monuments, frost-covered surfaces and massive, cascading icicles from just the right angles.

The Great Wall Of China Wasn't Built To Stave Off Genghis Khan's Armies

The low height of this portion wall and its orderly layout suggest that it was meant to keep the nomadic population under control. Gideon Shelach-Lavi et al/Hebrew University/Antiquity JournalThe research team used unmanned aerial drones to survey the wall and forts seen here. For the first time in history, experts have mapped all of “Genghis Khan’s Wall,” a 458-mile stretch of China’s world-famous Great Wall in Mongolia. According to Fox News, the subsequent study found this fortification wasn’t built to stave off invading hordes after all — but instead to manage nomadic shepherds.