June
27
/ 2021
In July of 2016, seventeen-year-old Mike Mansholt, a tourist from Germany, vanished after setting out to explore the catacombs of Rabat on Malta, also known as the “Realm of the Dead”. Mike’s frantic parents raced to the island after Mike failed to arrive home. About a week after Mike’s initial disappearance, his remains were discovered near the highest point of the island under very strange circumstances. The discovery of Mike’s body marked the beginning of a surreal, two-year-long ordeal to return his remains home and to find answers about what happened to him. To this day, the Mansholts are still without those answers, and while there’s no shortage of theories, clues to this tragedy may be found in the ancient
