Don't Let 2015 End Without Reading These Stories

In 2015, BuzzFeed News reporters and contributors went everywhere from Nova Scotia to Kazakhstan to China. Here is a selection of their stories, on the injustices, mysteries, phenomena, and fascinations we couldn't miss this year.

"This Is What They Did For Fun": A Modern-Day Lynching In Mississippi — Albert Samaha

A Week In the Mysterious Sleeping Villages Of Kazakhstan — Sarah A. Topol

Who Set Jessica Chambers On Fire? The Internet Is Trying To Find Out — Katie J.M. Baker

A Murder At La Casa Green — Tim Stelloh & Freda Moon

The Untold Story Of The Most Notorious House In Comedy History — David Peisner

The New American Slavery — Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, Jeremy Singer-Vine

Love In The Time Of Deportation — David Noriega

The Strange Saga And Dark Secrets Of Matt DeHart — David Kushner

The Last Days Of Graceland Too, The World's Most Notorious Elvis Shrine — Elise Jordan

The Trials Of Teresa Sheehan — Sandra Allen

Born In Between: When A Newborn's Sex Is In Question, Why Do Doctors Get to Decide? — Azeen Ghorayshi

On The Road With The Teen Social-Media Sensations Of DigiTour — Ellen Cushing

Ghost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools — Azmat Khan

The Abandoned Plan That Could Have Saved America From Drought — Michelle Nijhuis

How To Make Millions of Hoverboards (Almost) Overnight — Joseph Bernstein

These Are The Families Left To Reclaim Garissa's Dead — Jina Moore

An Afternoon With The Women Of New Orleans' Trans Veterans Support Group — Mac McClelland

She Skipped School And Couldn’t Pay Her Fines — So Texas Sent Her To Jail — Kendall Taggart & Alex Campbell

Why Taylor Woolrich Wanted A Gun — Madison Pauly

"That's What Happened Between Me And Clark" — Anne Helen Petersen

Mental Illness Cost Eddie Davison His Freedom —Will It Also Cost Him $2 Million? — Cat Ferguson

Hash Oil Is Weed’s Next Big Thing And No One Knows If It’s Safe — Amanda Chicago Lewis

Gone Girl: An Interview With An American In ISIS — Ellie Hall

The Real Story Behind Canada’s Murder For Lobster — Peter Andrey Smith

If They Build It, Will We Come? Meet The Tech Entrepreneurs Trying To Take Back The Porn Industry — Charlie Warzel

Did The FBI Transform This Teenager Into A Terrorist After Reading His Emails? — Nicolás Medina Mora & Mike Hayes

Behind The Scenes At The Championship Of Gloving, America's Mindbending New $13 Million Sport — Marisa Carroll

His Husband Died In 2013, But Jim Obergefell Is Still Fighting For Their Marriage — Chris Geidner

The Invention That Could End Obesity — Joel Oliphint

The Fight to Resurrect America’s Most Important Black Beach — John Stanton

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