Here's an odd story with an LA connection which is just hitting the headlines.
The skeleton of Giichi Matsumura, aka. 'Ghost of Manzanar', has just been re-discovered by hikers near Mount Williamson. Matsumura was in a Japanese American internment camp in August 1945 when he and several fellow internees went for a hike. While the rest of the party continued on to do some fishing, Matsumura stopped to paint a watercolor. He died in freak summer snowstorm from which the others were able to find shelter. His body was found a month later and buried by the hikers who found him, but the details of his death were lost over time.
When the Manzanar camp eventually closed in November 1945, the rest the Matsumura family returned to Santa Monica where they had lived until they were forced out of their home three years earlier.
You can read more at:
www.japantimes.co.jp
nypost.com
www.bbc.com