From the Tomb with Cadoom: Triangle Files Finale: Cadoomed Triangle, Exploring The Tomb

The Triangle Files Finale continues.

Throughout this series, we investigated missing persons cases, forgotten communities, ghost towns, cryptid legends, local folklore, and the stories hidden throughout Michigan.

Now it's time to step back and examine the larger picture.

In Finale Part II: Exploring the Tomb, we revisit the three corridors that ultimately formed the Cadoomed Triangle:

The Tomb of Echoes – stories whose impact continues to be felt long after the headlines fade.

The Tomb of Whispers – legends, folklore, cryptids, and mysteries passed from generation to generation.

The Tomb of Memories – communities, places, and histories that may have vanished from the map but remain preserved through memory.

From the Skelton Brothers and Dee Warner to Pere Cheney, Singapore, Pierport, Aral, and the forgotten stories scattered across Michigan, this episode explores how these seemingly unrelated investigations revealed a larger pattern.

The Tomb remembers.

And next week, the journey continues.

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For months the Triangle Files has taken us across the globe, but multiple times we've returned to one place the state of Michigan my home state through disappearances, through legends, abandoned places. At first these stories seemed unrelated, different locations, different decades, different mysteries, but eventually a question emerged. What if these stories weren't random? What if they were forming a pattern? I think I found that pattern, and it's came to its fruition in my own triangle. Tonight we explore how the Kadum Triangle came to be. Good Wednesday evening everybody and welcome back to From the Tomb with Kadum. I am your host Kadum and this is the Triangle Files Finale The Kadoom Triangle Part two Exploring The Tomb. Today we talk about the actual Kadumed Triangle, the geographical location. My home state, the state of Michigan. We've got three nodes. We've got the Northern Node, the Southern Node, and the Western Node for you today. We are going to talk about the Tomb of Echoes, the Tomb of Whispers, and the Tomb of Memories. Three different nodes forming a triangle over the whole state of Michigan. And first we focus on the Tomb of Echoes, my home area of Michigan, my own Tri-County area, Jackson, Hillsdale, and Lenaway counties. These came about because I see these cases often, and they go unnoticed. Two we talk about today got very popular and I'm so happy that they did. I wish the outcomes would have been better, but today we make sure those cases never get forgotten. Today we talk about the Skelton Boys out of Marensi and D Warner. Because no area is safe from the darkness. Everyone has their own tomb, and we can all escape them. But some don't choose to do it positively. No, this isn't the tomb of echoes like some may think. This isn't because of paranormal activity. This isn't because of folklore. This is because of unsolved human mysteries. Our minds can't let questions go unanswered. But sometimes the circumstances don't give us answers. Those cases in our area of the world get forgotten easily. This node is about making sure these kind of cases never get forgotten. The first case down the human corridor that leads to the tomb of Echoes being the southern node of the Kadomed Triangle, the Skelton Brothers. Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner, aged nine, seven, and five respectively disappeared from Marincy, Michigan on Thanksgiving Day in twenty ten. Their father, John Skelton, claimed he gave them to an underground group. Then, following a lengthy prison sentence, Skelton was charged with their murders, and the case continues in the court system. Initially, there was a custody battle. Divorce filing? Tanya Zuvers filed for divorce in September of twenty ten, requesting custody of the couple's three young sons. At some point shortly after the filing, John Skelton contested custody. He temporarily took two of the boys and fled to Florida. By October of twenty ten, a Lenaway County judge had worked out an agreement allowing John to share visitation time with the boys. This led to the Thanksgiving 2010 disappearance. It started as a holiday visit. The three boys went to spend Thanksgiving with their father at his home in Marinse. Tanya, the mother, was scheduled to pick the boys up after the holiday, but John failed to return them and stopped communicating. Before attempting self offing, John Skelton falsely claimed that he had handed his sons over to a woman he had met online, but police concluded this woman had never existed. The initial search efforts were massive. It was a multi state operation. Federal, state, and local law enforcement, including the Michigan State Police and the FBI, conducted exhaustive land and air searches across parts of Michigan and Ohio. They started using cell phone tracking. Investigators tracked Skelton's cell phone, leaving his home in Marensi and traveling about twenty five miles southwest to Holiday City, Ohio, before returning to Morensi the morning the boys vanished. The community got involved, hundreds of local volunteers, search and rescue teams, and dog units combed wooded areas, fields, and waterways. Despite these massive efforts, the boys were never located. So how did it really go down? We don't know. But the timeline of the disappearance and the investigation that we do know is this. The last time the boys are seen, they were playing in the backyard of their father's Marinsi home november twenty fifth, twenty ten. November twenty sixth, twenty ten? Tanya reports the boys missing after Skeleton fails to return them. Skelton attempts self offing and an amber alert is issued. Late twenty ten through twenty eleven, massive multi state searches fail to locate the boys. Skelton gives shifting stories, including giving the boys to a fictional woman in an underground sanctuary. In 2011, Skelton pled no contest to unlawful imprisonment and was sentenced to ten to fifteen years in prison. Then, on march seventh, twenty twenty five, a Lenaway County probate judge officially declared the three Skelton brothers legally deceased. Just weeks before his expected release from prison on November twelfth, twenty twenty five, Skelton was formally charged with three counts of open murder and three counts of tampering with evidence in connection to his son's deaths. Then, from December 2025 until May 2026, Skelton's probable cause conference has taken place with a judge setting an extensive preliminary examination. Now, this case did get quite significant coverage compared to most in our area. And again, like I said before, I'm so glad that that happened. Because usually in this area, these cases go unnoticed. These cases just because not necessarily commonplace, but just part of the history. Sometimes they never get solved, they just go on, and we just accept that. I hate the fact that we do that here. It's a small town, we should always be helping each other. It's a small area for the most part. We have a couple bigger cities, but for the most part, things like this should never happen here. But for this case, for the Scouton Brothers, there were investigative TV specials and documentaries. The local four in Detroit TV station, also known as WDIV TV, extensively covered the tragedy, producing deep dive specials and documentaries exploring the hometown and the FBI's involvement in the search. The case, which spans the Michigan-Ohio border, has been frequently highlighted by networks like Court TV and other national true crime networks, which track developments leading up to their father's scheduled release from prison. Outlets including Detroit's Fox 2 as well as Toledo based stations like 13 ABC and WTOL11 have continuously provided updates, including the 2025 probate court proceedings that legally declared the brothers deceased. Then the local print and digital reporting continues to this day. The Daily Telegram in Adrian, Michigan has chronicled the investigation for a decade and a half, capturing both the initial Amber Alert and subsequent murder charges filed against John Skelton. Then you have sites like Click on Detroit having maintained an ongoing coverage hub detailing the anniversary updates, search efforts, and shifting alibis provided by the father. So this one case thankfully gets covered. But what about the rest? And even with this one, look at how long it took for the developments to actually happen. How long it took for those boys to get their justice. This case still impacts our community here. I still see pictures and amber alert, I still see people talk about it. I still see people asking questions. I live through the echoes this case has left behind, not myself, but I see what other people are experiencing through the lenses of social media, through the lenses of knowing people that were connected to the family. Another thing that happened in relatively the same area that just recently came to a conclusion was the disappearance and finally the discovery of the body of Dee Warner. The disappearance of the Skelton Brothers remains one of the most discussed mysteries in southern Michigan, but this case I witnessed the immediate community uproar. There were yard signs, there were daily Facebook posts by multiple people. The coverage was mostly local as far as news outlets. Places like WTOL and local radio newspapers and magazine coverage. There were multiple social media groups and other online sources dedicated to Dee's case. But it didn't get the national coverage that the Scouton Brothers case did. It didn't cross state lines to gain that coverage like that. And it was in a rural, rural part of Michigan, a farming community. One person said during an investigation with Local Four in 2023. Who would have ever thought that in this little tiny town on this little country road that we'd have to be talking about a murder? So let's go through the timeline. April twenty fifth, twenty twenty one, fifty two year old Dee Warner vanished from her home on Munger Road in Franklin Township after reportedly planning to meet with her husband about a divorce and asset split. Police body camera footage you can find shows Dale Warner being questioned the day after her disappearance. The investigation was slow at first, but then it intensified. August of twenty twenty two Michigan State Police took over the investigation from the Lenaway County Sheriff's Office, being local to the case. There were some clouds and fog around that takeover. We won't cover them here. You can find those on your own. Explore your own tomb about it a little bit. Then in November of twenty twenty three, Dale Warner, Dee's husband, was arrested and charged with open murder despite no body being found. In March of twenty twenty four, a judge legally declared Dee dead, and the community was devastated. Yard signs went up, the groups went active. You couldn't scroll through Facebook without seeing five, ten, fifteen posts about her case every day with hundreds and hundreds of comments. It was amazing to see the community come together, but for the worst possible reasons. Then a critical discovery. August sixteenth, twenty twenty four, investigators made a chilling discovery human remains inside a welded shut anhydrisammonia tank on Dale's property. Anhydrisammonia is a farming fertilizer for anybody that may not know what that is. They spray it on the fields and it helps with the crop growth. Dental records later confirmed that those remains belonged to D. Warner. There have been a lot of issues with the legal proceedings. Early on it was the legal flood, the paperwork, the exclusions of evidence, the evaluations, the motions. In March of 2025, Dale's son Jaron was briefly charged with tampering with evidence and being an accessory, but those charges got dropped in May. Also in May of 2025, the court denied the defense's motion to move the trial out of Lenaway County. Then in January 26, the final pretrial hearing was scheduled for January 14th ahead of the January 27th trial start. Dale was found guilty of killing his wife on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, closing a years-long case. Jurors in Lenaway County convicted Dale Warner, 58 years old, of second degree murder and tampering with evidence. After hearing weeks of testimony about a failing marriage, the couple's business disputes, and an investigation that ultimately led authorities to D. Warner's body. The verdict was returned about seven hours after jurors resumed deliberations. Dale will spend up to seventy years in prison for killing his wife. After he was found guilty, Dale Warner was sentenced to thirty-one and a quarter to sixty years in prison for the murder, and seventeen months to ten years for tampering with evidence. Now while this case affected the community, it also affected the family. The family described Dee as the emotional center, a great grandmother, mother, sister, aunt, and friend. Her absence has left a permanent void, especially for her children and grandchildren. The family members still describe sleepless nights, fears of retaliation, emotional breakdowns, and a long, painful fight for justice. One relative even recounts years of alleged vandalism, arson, and intimidation they believe Dale committed after Dee's disappearance. Luckily, a lot of the family finds closures in spiritual and symbolic ways. Removing bracelets worn during the search. Feeling that Dee's guiding them spiritually. A direct quote from one of the family statements at the trial. There is no visitation for us in heaven. Meaning Dale should not be able to receive the privileges they will never have with Dee again. Some mysteries remain alive because people refuse to stop searching. We got lucky with this one. Dee got lucky with this one. They never stopped searching, and they found her, and they found her justice. But there's so many other cases we could cover. So many other cases, not just in Michigan. This isn't a phenomenon that only happens in rural Michigan. Cases can get forgotten everywhere. This is something that could affect everybody. But I've just noticed it more often here. Because I see it myself. You see, individually, these cases are tragic. But together, they reveal something larger, a concentration of unanswered questions, concentration of unanswered questions, a place where voices continue to echo through the years. This became the first anchor point of the Kadumed Triangle, going down the corridor of humans into the tomb of echoes. But now that we've explored that tomb, we explore the tomb of whispers down the curiosity corridor. This became the second anchor point, not because every story is true, not because every legend can be proven, but because curiosity survives where certainty ends. So let us talk about Piercini. It's widely considered one of Michigan's most famous and allegedly cursed ghost towns, located southeast of Grayling in Crawford County's Beaver Creek Township. The town was completely wiped out by disease and fire over a century ago. Today, absolutely nothing remains of the physical town, except for a secluded, heavily vandalized cemetery tucked deep in the woods. Founded by George Cheney after receiving a land grant from the Michigan Central Railroad Company, Pierre Cheney became the very first established community in Crawford County. It was a logging hub, quickly expanding to boast sawmills, a hotel, a general store, a post office, a peak population of roughly fifteen hundred residents. It even briefly served as the official county seat in 1879. The town began to lose its footing when the county seat was moved to neighboring Grayling. Local lore states that because the decisive vote was held in Grayling, Piercini residents had to walk twelve miles just to cast a ballot, resulting in low turnout and a crushing political loss. Then, in eighteen ninety three, a devastating outbreak of diphtheria, a highly contagious respiratory disease swept through the town, killing a massive portion of the population, particularly children, while trying to rebuild sparks from a nearby lumber mill, ignited massive forest fires that destroyed large sections of the town. In eighteen ninety seven, a second wave of diphtheria returned to finish what the first outbreak had started. By 1901, the population had plummeted to just twenty five people. In nineteen seventeen, with only about eighteen residents left, the land was officially sold off at a public auction and the town was completely abandoned to nature. The sheer volume of sudden deaths, particularly among children, naturally turned Piercini into a paranormal hotspot. Today, it's frequently cited on travel blogs as one of the most haunted locations in Michigan, the most famous legend claiming that a local woman was accused of witchcraft by the deeply religious townspeople before being banished or executed. She allegedly placed a hex on Piercini, swearing it to be erased from the earth. Locals blamed the subsequent diphtheria outbreaks directly on her curse. Some variations claim she was buried in the cemetery under a red tombstone that used to glow at night. Another popular regional myth asserts that the ground where the town once stood is so cursed that nothing will grow there except for moss. In reality, nature has heavily reclaimed the area with standard northern Michigan pines and brush. Then visitors to the isolated Piercini cemetery report hearing disembodied sounds of children laughing and playing in the trees. Others claim to see phantom glowing lights, or return to their parked cars to find small, muddy handprints pressed against the windows. If you travel to the area today, there are no houses, stores, or foundations left to see, only indentations in the dirt where cellars once sat. The cemetery is located down a series of rough, unpaved sand trails. Over the decades it has suffered terrible damage from vandals who smashed or stole almost all of the original historical headstones. But local volunteers now aggressively monitor and protect the site, and signs strictly warn visitors that trespassing after dark is forbidden. But not only do we have a cursed town, we have a couple cryptids from up north. We have the mishipeshew, also known as the Great Lynx or the Water Panther. Deeply rooted in the indigenous Ojibwi oral traditions of the upper peninsula and Lake Superior, Mishipisu is a powerful water cryptid native to the northernmost boundaries of the state. It's said to be a massive reptilian cat covered in copper scales, featuring a feline head with daggers for teeth, bison horns, and long spiked dinosaur like tail. Mishapisu is said to guard the deep waters and hidden copper veins of Lake Superior, particularly around Isle Royale and Mishipoten Island. The creature is blamed for sudden violent storms, freak waves, and the mysterious drownings of lake travelers. Centuries old pictographs of Mishupiciu can still be seen carved or painted into rocks by indigenous peoples along the Great Lake, most notably at the Agawa Rock pictographs just across the water border. And we also have the Prasau, or the UP swamp monster. Less famous globally, but deeply feared in the interior swamp of the central upper peninsula, around Delta and Menominee counties. The Prasau is a uniquely regional bog dweller, a low slung, heavily muscled creature described as a cross between an oversized wolverine, a bear, and a wild boar, possessing a dark matted hide caked in swamp mud. Unlike Bigfoot, which is usually curious or passive, the presao is characterized as highly aggressive and predatory. It allegedly stakes out territory in the cedar swamps, stalking hunters and loggers from the thick brush. Locals blame it for missing hunting dogs and strange heavy scratch marks left deep into the bark of swamp trees. The deeper we traveled into northern Michigan, the more one thing became clear. Mystery thrives where certainty fades, stories survive, legends evolve, but questions linger. That's why this needed to be the second anchor point of the Kadoomed Triangle down the curiosity corridor into the tomb of whispers. But again we have explored a tomb, and that leads us to another, the tomb of memories, the Western Node, the Legacy Corridor. Western Michigan became the final anchor point, not because people disappeared, but because places have entire communities, entire histories, entire chapters of Michigan's codex. We start heading down the legacy corridor to the tomb of memories with Singapore, Michigan, another of the state's most famous ghost town, famously nicknamed Michigan's Pompeii. It's located at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River near Saugatuck. In the nineteenth century, it was a booming lumber port, but its rapid rise and total disappearance beneath massive shifting sand dunes provides a dramatic, cautionary tale of environmental collapse driven by human greed. Singapore was born out of the speculative land booms of the early eighteen hundreds. In eighteen thirty six, a New York land speculator named O'Shea Wilder established the town. Initially, he intentionally picked a strategic spot where the Kalamazoo River meets Lake Michigan, hoping to build a massive port city to directly rival Chicago and Milwaukee. While Wilder's initial financial dreams faltered during the economic panic of eighteen thirty seven, the town found its true calling in the mid-1840s as a lumber town. It sat at the perfect bottleneck to intercept the massive rafts of white pine logs floated downriver from Michigan's interior. At its peak in the late 1860s, Singapore was a rowdy, thriving frontier town. It boasted three large sawmills, two hotels, including the Astor House, several general stores, a shipyard, and Michigan's very first schoolhouse. Its population grew to several hundred residents, living in twenty five to forty houses. The town was prominent enough to establish the Bank of Singapore, which printed its own currency true to the wildcat banking era. Its practices were highly suspect, legend has it that the bank examiners were fooled by gold reserves that were quickly carted between regional banks just ahead of the inspector's arrival. But the catalyst for Singapore's destruction happened in 1871 in October, when a series of historic fires, including the Great Chicago Fire, the Holland Fire, and the Port Huron Fire, devastated the Midwest. A destroyed Chicago needed an astronomical amount of timber to rebuild, and Singapore's sawmill went into overdrive to meet the demands. The mills exported more than six million feet of lumber to Chicago, driven by immense short term profits. Lumber companies clear cut every single tree surrounding the town in less than a decade. Singapore's builders, however, made a fatal ecological error. They forgot why those trees were there in the first place. The forests of old growth, white pines, had acted as a natural windbreak and anchor, pinning down the massive coastal sand dunes separating the town from Lake Michigan. Once the trees were stripped bare, there was nothing left to hold the sand. Powerful winds off of Lake Michigan began shoving the living dunes inland toward the town. The dunes began advancing at an unstoppable rate of roughly ten feet per year. Sand began piling against the sides of houses, blocking doorways and drifting over roads like snow. Realizing the town was doomed, the saw mills shut down and were dismantled by 1875. Then residents packed their valuables and began to desert the area. Instead of abandoning their structures, residents famously dragged several houses in the old bank building over the frozen Kalamazoo River ice to relocate them to the nearby village of Saugatuk. Then local lore tells of a final family that refused to leave the town's three-story boarding house. As the sand slowly engulfed the building, they simply moved up a floor. They finally fled when they were living on the third floor and sand began pouring down the chimney. By 1894, Singapore was a completely empty ghost town. Today, the entire city remains entombed as an archaeological time capsule beneath the sand just north of the Saugatuck Dunes State Park. Shifting lake winds and currents occasionally explose a brick or a piece of old timber before swallowing it back up. The Singapore Bank Building still survives in downtown Saugatuck, having been repurposed over the years. And the Michigan historical marker stands near the Saugatuck Yacht Club, looking out toward the dunes where the town once thrived. Eventually, nature reclaimed what people built. But Singapore isn't the only ghost town on the western side of Michigan. There's Pierport in Manistee County, located right along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Pierport was settled in 1866 under the name Turner's Port. It quickly evolved into a booming, vital shopping hub for lumber, local fruit, potatoes, and grains. Then we have Arral in Benzi County. Tucked along the northern stretch of West Michigan's coastline, Arral was a thriving lumber town nestled right where Otter Creek empties into Lake Michigan, inside what is now the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lake Shore. Then we had Fern in Mason County, an excellent example of an interior West Michigan lumber in rail town that completely dissolved back into farmland. Those all you can explore your own tombs on as well. Because buildings disappear. Businesses disappear. Communities may disappear. But memory has a way of preserving what history leaves behind. That's why this became the third anchor point of the Kadumed Triangle, going down the legacy corridor to the tomb of memories. So we've explored the three tombs. One mystery can be a coincidence, two mysteries can be pattern seeking. But after months of investigation, three concentrations began to emerge to me across the state of Michigan that lined up with the rest of the causes of the geographical triangle that composed the triangle files, the tomb of echoes, the tomb of whispers, the tomb of memories, three regions, three collections of mysteries, three anchor points. They form the physical geographical Kadumed Triangle. But next week next week we expand Kadomed overall. We talk about it here on From the Tomb. But next week is about the whole brand of Kadomed. Phase two starts here next week. Phase two will continue to roll out over months. There's multiple arms of Kadumed coming. They just need some finishing touches, and they will be ready to present to you. So you can escape your tomb, hopefully with my help. There's an underlying concept to these triangle files that coincide with the philosophy of Kaduned. That is what we expose next week because as this episode was the Triangle Files Finale Part two Exploring the Tomb. Next week is the Triangle Files Finale Part three Escaping Your Tomb So join me next week seven PM Eastern Standard Time Wednesday Triangle File The Kadumed Triangle Part three Escaping the Tomb Just remember, keep it twisted and escape your tomb until we escape mine next week. The tomb remembers. Have a good night.