2 Hours of VERY STRANGE Disappearances

2 Hours of VERY STRANGE Disappearances

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
RESQ crews are now in the fourth day of searching
for a ninety two year old hiker missing an Allegheny
State park, as news force in the Wiena Shapiro reports,
rescuers hope a new description of where he was last
seen will help their cause.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hamilton got lost in the park on Wednesday while hiking
with his sixty six year old daughter, Rebecca Huffman. When
Hamilton was too weak to continue, his daughter walked to
safety the next morning and called for help. On Sunday,
she came back to the park and handed police this
picture she drew of a mysterious concrete structure. Liise Hamilton
was last seen about one hundred feet from this structure.

(00:39):
But here's the problem. Right now, officials can't find it.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode. This time we
invite you to join us as we discuss some of
the absolute strangest missing person cases that we've ever encountered.
These stories are beyond strange and mysterious, have any rational
or scientific explanation, yet, according to those that experienced them,

(01:05):
they actually happened. So sit back, relax, and let us
know what you think in the comments below. You have
theories on any of these. If so, please share, We'd
love to hear them. Missing ninety two year old and
the mysterious structure nobody can identify. On November tenth, twenty ten,

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sixty six year old retired notice Rebecca Huffman and her
ninety two year old father, Reverend Thomas Hamilton, got lost
while hiking in the Allegheny State Park. They walked for
miles through dark woods, climbed up hills on their hands
and knees, and were freezing cold. The very next day,
Rebecca walked to safety and called for help. She stated

(01:49):
that her father was too weak to continue, so she
told him to stay put and not move. Search and
rescue was immediately deployed to the area, and there was
no sign of her father Thomas. The next day, Rebecca
came back to the park and handed police a picture
She drove up a mysterious concrete structure about six feet
in width and about fifteen to twenty feet wide. It

(02:11):
was a three foot high structure that you can walk
into and be standing on a rock like floor. Thomas
was last seen about one hundred feet from the structure,
but there was a huge problem. Officials were never able
to find this mysterious structure that his daughter Rebecca described.
A massive eight day search conducted by one hundreds of volunteers,

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police officers, firefighters, and K nine units over five thousand
acres of the park turned up nothing. Strangely enough, two
years later, his remains were found five hundred feet from
where the search and rescue crews started their official search.
The mysterious structure has never been located. Linda Artega and

(02:57):
the people Hiding in the Bushes. On September twenty second,
twenty twelve, Linda Artega and her brother Eddie Huff set
out for a day's hiking in the Arkansas Ozarks. During
which they were hiking was an area that they both frequented. However,
during their hike, Eddie suddenly found himself in an unfamiliar area.

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Eddie looked up through the trees, hoping to find some
degree of positioning from the mountains around him, and when
he looked beside him, Linda had simply vanished. When Eddie
eventually returned home, he seemingly had no memory of what
had happened in the park. A search party was sent
into the forest to find Linda, but with winter temperatures

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beginning to set in, and having left with barely any
supplies at all, hope was fading fast. Linda would re
emerge from the forest almost a week later. She appeared
shocked and unnerved by whatever incident had unfolded and led
her here. She would later claim, although the details were
murky at best, that she came out across people, but

(04:01):
when she asked her help, that act like they didn't
hear her. Linda says she remember them looking right at
her and not saying a thing. These people were hiding
in the bushes. She says they were following me, but
would not help me. In addition, Linda stated that dark
figures appeared in the forest at dusk. They were like
silhouettes that moved through the trees, but no matter how

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much she screamed, they couldn't hear her. She said they
constantly watched her, but never acknowledged or cause for help.
Linda said that she was just glad that the forest
had finally released her. Casey Hathaway and the Bear. Three
year old Casey Hathaway disappeared from his great grandmother's backyard

(04:47):
on January twenty fifth, twenty nineteen. Casey was playing with
two other relatives in his great grandmother's backyard the day
he went missing. When he didn't come inside when the
others did, his family started searching for him.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Hm.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
After forty five minutes past, his grandmother called nine one one.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
He was all, man, we lost my two year old
grandson that's walked in the woods back then. We can't
find him. Three year old? Bends he there window her
Paul sister, he's a year old. Yeah, he's three. Okay.

(05:26):
The girls come to the house and left him there
and he's walked off somewhere and we can't find him.
And he was turning on you're not there's the house now,
I had the house here, okay, And how long do
you he brought in there? It's been at least forty
five minutes because we've been looking at all in the
woods board and then behind your home, directly behind your house, yeah,

(05:50):
well on the side yeah, and then a white flight
he was, you know, and he was wearing wow, probably
a black little coat. A black coat.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah, okay, I think you can do this.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Uh do this?

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Where we go he is?

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah he is there?

Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, thanks god, Okay, he said about forty five minutes ago. Yeah, okay,
all right, is it.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
A big area of wood behind your house. Yeah, it's
pretty big. I think he've been out there looking for him. Yeah,
what is it? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Okay, all right, we got it there, but he had
to see you, okay, he said, forty five minutes directly.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Behind your house or a side.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yeah, okay, you see it once that we have some
deft said that way, okay, okay, thank you.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
He was walking in the woods back there, and we
can't find him, his great grandmother told the nine won
one dispatcher. The other ones came through the house but
left him there, and he walked off somewhere, and we
can can't find him. Search and rescue teams from across
the state immediately came together to brave the treacher's terrain
and low temperatures, hoping to find the Casey. Three days later,

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rescuers were still combing the woods when they heard the
missing three old boy call out for his mother. In
the emergency room, Casey started talking about what happened in
the woods. He said he had a friend that was
a bear. The bear took care of him and kept
him warm while he was lost in the woods. Casey
goes on to say that the bear also fed in berries. Now,

(07:35):
the local sheriff stated that there are bears in the
woods of Craven County, North Carolina, but there's no evidence
to prove one was with Casey. He goes on to say,
all that matters is that something was there to comfort
Casey during the three days he was missing. Stephen Kubacki
missing for over a year. One February morning and eighteen

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seventy eight, near Lake Michigan, Stephen Kobaki would venture out
to indulge in several hours of skiing. However, when he
still hadn't returned the following day, a huge search was
put in motion. Strangely and ominously, footprints were discovered in
a location where the student claimed to be heading, and
ONTs more, they stopped right at the frozen water's edge.

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There was no sign of any markings on the frozen
surface of the water and no signs that the ice
had been broken anywhere. Later that day, stephen skis and
backpack were discovered. However, no other sign of Stephen came
to light, and the searches were eventually called off. His family,
while not giving up hope, were prepared for the words. Then,

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over a year later, in early May, nineteen seventy nine,
Stephen would appear out of the blue on his parents' doorstep.
He had very little memory of where he had been.
He had awoken early that day in a field in Pittsfield,
hundreds of miles from where he disappeared and around forty
miles from the family home. Even stranger, he was wearing

(09:10):
clothes that weren't his and had a strange bag of
maps with him that he didn't recognize. Rather than compensate
himself financially with the mini offers from media people for
his story, he instead retreated from the public, refusing to
speak of the incident, of which he claimed he had
no memory, and not wishing to undergo such things as

(09:30):
hypnotic regression as he wasn't experiencing any psychological problems and
wished to keep it that way. Ambrose Smith gone for
twenty four hours. Ambrose Smith normally played happily at home
in Nowago County, Michigan, but on October the eighth, twenty thirteen,

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Ambrose was sitting in the lounge with her father when
he briefly left the room, and upon his return, she
was nowhere to be found. A massive search involving hundreds
of volunteers was immediately activated, covering the entire surrounding area.
It wasn't until the next day that Ambrose was found
a few miles from her home. Strangely, she was discovered

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in a location that had been extensively searched the previous day.
How the little girl had managed to traverse such a
huge distance and invade the search teams who sprang into
action so soon after her disappearance remains a complete mystery.
Zen Wrong vanished while piloting an aircraft. On March fifteenth,

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twenty sixteen. Zen Wrong flew out of Van Arbor in
a nineteen eighty four Cessna one seventy two p owned
by the Michigan Flyers. When it was overdue to return,
authorities were notified and the wreckage was found in a
forested area near manitouaj Ontario, northeast of Munissing over Lake Superior.

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The down testat that he had been flying was found
in a densely world in Ontario. The same day. He
rented the aircraft from a flying group at the ann
Arbor Airport, but Zen was not at the scene of
the crash, and there were no footprints in the snow.
To indicate that Zen was in the aircraft at the
time it crashed landed. All the evidence indicates the aircraft

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was operating normally and crashed because it ran out of fuel.
Authorities have theorized that at some point prior to the crash,
Zen must have exited the aircraft while it was in
the air Searches around the crash site and along the
route that the aircraft was known to have traveled were searched,
and yet nothing was found. Another search was conducted in

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the Potoski area where Zen's cell phone last pained, but
again nothing was found. Zen Wrong was an experienced pilot
who was also a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.
As of this recording in June twenty twenty, his squarebouts
were still unknown and his case remains a mystery. Hello friends.

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In this video, we're going to discuss the strange disappearances
of some of the people you'd most likely unexpect to
go missing. Park rangers. Now, we're using parks as a
broad term in the scope of this video because it
could include lands protected culturally or historically, including national parks,
state parks, and other designated wildlife. Wilderness and recreational areas.

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Different countries use different names for this position. Warden is
the favorite term in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Within the United States, the National Park Service refers to
the position as a park ranger. The US Forest Service
refers to the position as a forest ranger. Other countries
use the term park warden or even game warden to

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describe this occupation. Now, the profession includes a number of
disciplines and specializations, and park rangers are often required to
be proficient in more than one of the following law enforcement,
emergency response, firefighting, dispatch, scientists and scholar, maintenance and administration.

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These individuals, particularly those in administration, are often heavily cross
trained in several of the aforementioned areas in order to
allow for a knowledge of all other areas and duties
under their authority. As a result, when people become lost
or go missing in a park, the park rangers are
usually the first ones on the scene to document the
case and to start search and rescue efforts into motion.

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More than anyone, park rangers are very familiar with the
missing person phenomenon which happens in parks around the world,
and were actually among the first to write about it,
But what happens when one of these rangers themselves go missing?
I invite you to join me now as we explore
five strange cases of missing park rangers. With that set,

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let's begin. Number one ranger, Ralph W. Heath. Ralph W.
Heath was a park ranger at Baxter State Park in Maine,
United States, who allegedly died of exposure while attempting to
rescue a woman who was lost on Mount Cataden in
nineteen sixty three. On Monday, October twenty eighth of that year,

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two women, Helen Mower and Margaret Ibisik, both from Concord, Massachusetts,
took the Cathedral Trail and climbed Baxter Peak on the mountain.
They reached the summit and stopped to have lunch at
around one thirty in the afternoon. When the two friends
decided to start their hike again and head back down,
they had a small argument over the route Margaret wanted

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to take. Helen simply wanted to go back the way
they came, but Margaret wanted to bushwhack, which very simply
put means to leave the established trail or get off
the beaten path as it were. Helen knew how risky
this was. Although Margaret had more hiking experience than she did,
not by much and only three 's total, she thought
it way too dangerous and stormed off to take Dudley Trail,

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which was the original trail they had taken to get
there in the first place, and let her friend make
her own mistakes and go her own way. It was
a decision she would later regret very much. Margaret, on
the other hand, thought she was taking a shortcut and
laughed off her friend's warnings, and they went their separate ways,
agreeing to meet at the Chimney Pond lean to. When

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Helen reached the final destination and saw there was no
sign of Margaret, she decided to wait, but got very
worried very quickly. Though it was a nice and sunny
day out that day, but nor'easter was blowing in and
the weather was about to very quickly take a turn
for the worse. She started calling for Margaret at the headwheell,
near and towards the mountain itself. She was pleasantly surprised

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when she heard her friend respond and started calling back,
despite the fact she was asking for help. Margaret yelled
that she was not hurt, but was stuck in the
treacherous terrain and wouldn't possibly be able to continue or
turn back, and pleaded with Helen to go and get
some help. This is when Helen made her way to
the ranger station and encountered Ranger Ralph Heath having dinner.

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She explained the situation, and Ralph immediately knew how dangerous
that path was and how serious the problem they had.
He was, however, thanking his lucky stars in his mind
at least that there hadn't been any snowfall, at least
not yet, as any other year, for as far back
as he could remember, there would have been snow covering
the mountain for weeks at that point in the year.

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Ralph followed Helen back to Chimney Point and yelled out
of the direction of Margaret and instructed her in a
very calm and clear voice to stay where she was
and not try to move or go anywhere. Help was
on the way. With the wind increasing like it was,
Ralph knew that the situation could go from scary to
deadly in a matter of just seconds. He had to
act fast. He took Helen back to the ranger station

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and radioed his supervisor Helen Taylor, and told him there
was a hiker stranded in the upper basin on the mountain. Now,
a little background on mister Ralph Heath to show what
a brave man he was, indeed, and now he was
definitely not someone to shy away from trouble. He served
in World War Two and was honorably discharged. However, a

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house fire destroyed everything he owned with the clothes on
his back, including his discharge papers. He was redrafted to
serve in the Korean War before anyone could verify he
had already been discharged and had finished his service to
the country. Ralph, however, went without hesitation to serve, only
for his wife to decide she didn't want to deal
with another tour, especially one he shouldn't have had to

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have gone on, and filed for divorce. So this was
a man who was seeking solitude and peace in his
life after all of this tragedy and heartbreak, and he
absolutely loved his job as a ranger and the beauty
of the mountains. Despite the weather outside becoming more and
more perilous and the orders from the supervising ranger that
they had to wait until morning to attempt any kind

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of search and rest. Thank you. Ralph decided the risk
to Margaret was too great leaving her out there all
alone at night. Snow was definitely coming out, a lot
of it. He decided to attempt to rescue himself, despite
it being nightfall and dark outside. The temperature had drastically
dropped as well. He borrowed Helen's backpack and filled it

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with essentials such as food, a sleeping bag, water, a parka,
and extra clothes. He also took eighty feet of rope,
and at eleven pm that same night, headed alone down
Dudley Trail. It wasn't until five hours later, at four
in the morning, that he reported back to Helen. He
told her he had spoken to Margaret about an hour
after heading out and was able to turn her location.

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When he again told her to stay put and assured
her help was on the way, she reiterated she was uninjured,
but very cold. She's probably more than a little scared
as well, I'm sure. He told Helen that Margaret was
near the waterfall and he wouldn't be able to reach
her without more rope and more people. This was an
area that even ice climbers considered treacherous and dangerous. Ralph

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was also extremely concerned because Margaret was refusing to stay
and wait for help to arrive, and was determined to
find a way out herself for fear she would freeze
to death before anyone would be able to rescue her.
After reassuring Helen and telling her what was going on,
he contacted his supervisor, Peel and Taylor, and made him
aware as well. Taylor dispatched the main Force Service, two

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additional park rangers, and a main game warden. By six
in the morning Tuesday, the twenty ninth, an icy rain
began to fall and the wind had picked up drastically.
Ralph heath ate his breakfast and then informed Helen Mayer
of his plans. He was going to send the ravine
from Chimney Pond climbed straight up the head wall and
into the waterfall, where he would provide comfort to Barbara,

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and if he couldn't manage to rescue himself, at least
she wouldn't be scared alone, and he would wait whither
her until the additional resources arrived to get them both out. Now,
he was clearly putting himself at great risk, knowing it
was unlikely he would be able to do anything but
just sit with Margaret and waite. Yep, he did it anyway.
He was truly a hero. While the plan was very reasonable,

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and despite being a chainsmoker, Ralph was in great shape
and a capable hiker and climber. However, he had hiked
Dudley Trail four times in the last twenty four hours,
and it was a very strenuous and hard trail to
get through. He was absolutely exhausted at this point. It
shouldn't have been doing any more hiking or climbing without
getting so much needed rested. This would, after all, be

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a trail less climb he was planning to make. He
wasn't going to leave Margaret, however, so the admonishments and
warnings from his coworkers and even Helen fell on deaf ears.
Ralph reached Barbara just as Hurricane Jenny reached the mountain.
He sat with her for a little while and the
two hunkered down. A ranger sergeant set out on foot

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towards Chimney Pond as well, and stated that by the
time he got to just the basin, the conditions were
white out with gale force winds. By noon, not even
the jeeps could make it to the trailhead. There was
eighteen inches of snow already and more falling fast. He
even reported that only half way up the mountain his

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clothes had frozen solid and literally cracked at the elbows.
Having no visibility in facing merciless winds, not to mention
the condition of his clothing, forced him back down the mountain.
He stated he knew that both Ralph and Margaret were
in some very serious trouble. His help could no longer
get to them, it would be impossible for them to
help themselves as well. The following morning, Wednesday, October thirtieth,

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nineteen sixty three, Warden's supervisor, David Priest, returned to Roaring
Brook and set up what we today call an incident
command center, and had at least thirty five people there
at working at all times. All different avenues of help
were brought in and explored, but nobody could do anything
as the snow was still accumulating and fast. On Friday
morning flashed forward to November first, now been five full

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days since Margaret had gotten herself stuck, and four whole
days since Ralph Heath had joined her to provide comfort
and possible rescue, which we know now he was unable
to do. On Saturday, November second, all teams and persons
involved decided that any rescue attempts were futile, that they
were simply wasting resources. At that point, Mister William Lowell
Putnam third was one of the most experienced mountaineers in

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the country at the time and had been helping with
the rescue efforts since Friday. Finally, on Sunday, November third,
he made the statement that he believed Ralph and Margaret
had most likely died on Tuesday, and reiterated the waste
of resources should they continue on this impossible trick to
try and save them. It was until almost six months later,
in April of nineteen sixty four, that Margaret Iversix's body

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was found and finally able to be brought down the
mountain and sent home. Even at this time, though they
needed chemical salts to melt the ice, was not to
damage the corpse anyone, and the rescue still took an
additional three days. It was found during the autopsy that
Margaret was severely injured and hadn't survived more than a
few hours due to the extreme blood loss. Her official

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cause of death was exaguination in other words, she bled out.
Two weeks later, on May fifteenth, they finally found Ralph's body.
He was found, oddly enough, four hundred feet above where
Margaret was found. They airlifted him out of there, and
his autopsy showed nothing at all. The coroner stated, it

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looks as if he simply sat down and went to sleep,
which is not uncommon when people freeze to death. Now, Folks,
though this was a bit of a long one, I
think it's important we go over a few of the
facts here. First, If Margaret had died very quickly after
getting stuck where she was, how is she yelling to
Ralph hours later? She had severed an artery in her

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leg and would have bled out within just minutes. Still,
she was calling out and answering him hours after she
initially got stuck. How is this even possible? She called
out to Helen as well, even before that, and we
know neither one was under any kind of duress or
sick at all, so they couldn't have been hallucinating. There

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were no other bodies found in the area that time,
and no one else had come forward claiming to have
been the person stuck up there and answering or calling
for help that could have been mistaken for Margaret. This
is very strange, but becoming more and more common. Either
search and rescue workers will hear the calls of people
who are missing, only to never be able to find
the location where the calls are coming from, or the

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person who is stuck or lost will hear search and
rescue but never seem to be able to find them either.
The weather coming on so suddenly and so strong all
at once is another very familiar factor when talking about
the missing in the woods and the mountains. In fact,
there were weeks late for any snow at all, and
the weather started out that d is sunny and warm.

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This is just one of the many parameters we now
look at while investigating the strange deaths and disappearances in
the national parks. How and why did it all come
on so suddenly, almost remarkably so? I guess we'll never know,
but that doesn't stop us from investigating and pondering and
searching for answers in the truth, though, does it? Number

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two Ranger Randy Morgeson. In July of nineteen ninety six,
Ranger Randy Morgeson was working as a backcountry ranger at
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. He was the most
ranger in the High Sierras, having been a backwoods ranger
for twenty eight years at that time. On this particular day,

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July twenty first, nineteen ninety six, Randy loaded his pack
and went on his routine and regular patrol of his station.
He was sixty four years old and then almost perfect health.
Some of his co workers even thought he was invincible
and impervious to the perils that came with a job.
It was just about daybreak when he headed out to
patrol near Bench Lake, taking nothing with him but an

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old ski pole to use as a hiking stick. He
was never seen or heard from again. Now, as is
often the case in these strange disappearances, a sudden rain
started to fall blew up out of nowhere, got rid
of any footprints or other evidence as to where Ranger
Randy could have possibly gone or what could have happened

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to him. Over the following days, there was plenty of
frustration as dogs followed since that seemed to abruptly stop,
and random pieces of gear were found in several different locations,
but none could be positively linked to Randy. A flare
helicopter equipped with an infrared camera picked up a campfire
burning on a hillside, but with no one insight tending it. Eventually,

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the search was called off with no sign of Randy
or a body. Then a letter arrived at Randy and
Judy Morganson's home in Sodona, Arizona. Randy Judy opened the
letter and noted it had been postmarked two days after
his apparent disappearance. Since there is no postal service in
the National Park, Judy didn't understand just how Randy could

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have mailed the letter. That added to the suspicions that
he had simply left the area to start a new
life away from the National Park Service. Thirteen days after
Randy had been reported missing in early August nineteen ninety six,
the official search, which included helicopters, dog teams, and dozens
upon dozens of volunteers, was called off. Not a single

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trace of Randy had been found, not even a footprint. Finally,
in July two thousand and one, five years after the
search was called off for Randy, a nineteen year old
member of a California Conservation Corps trail building crew ventured
off trail and found some remains. The worker found some
new evidence near a creek and a gorge in the

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Widowpeak drainage, very near the outermost borders of the search,
below the pools of a waterfall. Rangers were called in
to search and soon discovered a tattered shirt with Morganson's
badge attached, then a backpack with a buckle fastened, and
a boot. On close examination of the single boot, which
was half submerged in water, it had something white protruding

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from it, a leg bone. The boot and pack seemed
to match the description of gear that Randy reportedly had
been using that day. Teams for both investigation and recovery
were flown in, and shortly after a functioning park issue
radio was discovered, resting on top of the falls, not
at the bottom like the other evidence. It was turned

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to the on position. This discovery confused matters even more.
Although these remains seemed to confirm Randy had been in
the mountains the whole time, investigators weren't certain whether this
is where Randy had died. Rangers had remembered already searching
the goorge and crossing at the exact spot where the
radio was found. Retired Sierra Subdistrict ranger Aldon Nash believes

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Morgeson had fallen through a snowbridge and broken his leg,
and his body had simply been hidden beneath ice throughout
the search. Weirdly, during the rescue attempt in nineteen ninety six,
Randy's wife Judy had dreamed of a dead man floating
in a lake. I don't think it was an accident,
says Eric Blm, author of The Last Season, a book

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about the disappearance of Randy Morgeson, which is well worth
a read. By the way, Blim says, Randy may have
wanted to appear to have died on the job just
to make sure Judy, who was to his wife at
the time, got the benefit from the government, a policy
not honored in the case of taking one's own life.
If he wanted to throw off the dogs or sucker

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people into believing something happened, he did a great job,
Blim says, After so many years with the bones nod,
there's no way to say exactly what happened. The National
Park Service named a peak in memory of the unofficial
Mount Morgeson. So named in his memory is the first
peak west of Mount Russell, a half a mile away

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and just north of Mount Whitney. Mount Morgeson should be
distinguished from the west peak of Mount Russell, the higher
than Russell's twin summits, which are only separated by tenth
of a mile. A summit registered with the name Mount
Randy Morgeson thirteen nine and twenty feet was taken to
the top by two park veterans in two thousand and seven.

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A peak bagger named Richard Petowski found the original register
missing when he climbed Mount Morgeson on June twentieth, two
thousand and eight. He placed a temporary one that day
and made a huge effort to return to the summit
one week later with a weather proof AMMO can and
a replacement journal. Barely a handful of people, if any,
sign it each year. Number three Ranger Brendan Unit, Lara,

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merc County, Colorado, Department of National Resources Ranger Brendan Unit,
twenty seven years old went missing while out searching at
night for a missing boter well. There been nothing reported
about the results of the initial missing person who Brendan
was looking for. It seems a sudden high wind event
caused him to capsize in his boat and die of

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what was officially said to beat fresh water drowning. Now, folks,
I'm no expert, but what I do know about is
the strange weather events and causes of death that just
don't fit the season or the profession the person in
question was in. And I'm not the only one either.
Many people are wondering how professional outdoorsmen could capsize and

(31:36):
drown and what about this so called strange high wind event.
Why does there always seem to be a sudden change
in the weather during one of these missing persons encounters.
These are the things many of us in this community
wonder about after seeing case after case after case the
same thing over and over again, but never with any

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definitive or even sensical answers. Number four ranger Jeff Christensen.
In July of two thousand and five, another seasonal park
ranger died under mysterious circumstances in the same county. Brendan
unit passed away in as well. Jeff Christensen was conducting
a routine backcountry patrol of the Lake Lawn trailhead when

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he allegedly lost his footing and fell from Mummy's Range
in Rocky Mountain National Park in Laramber County, Colorado. The
search for the initially missing ranger lasted a little over
a week, and he was found on August sixth, two
thousand and five by hiker. The official cause of death
was a left temporal skull fracture that led to a

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subdural hematoma. The ranger has been said to have lost
his footing and died of a tragic accidental fall. He'd
only been on the job for four years and was
survived by his parents. Now is it possible for someone
with at least four years experience to die of something
so simple? Could it be that there's something out there
in OURNWA parks and forest hunting these rangers. Perhaps they

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or it wants to take out the people who are
going to be able to help im, possibly even save
the other people this mysterious predator or predators are trying
to take out. We must keep searching for the truth.
We owe it to all the people who die of
something that is seemingly simple and accidental, but could very
well be something much more sinister. Number five Ranger Paul Fugate.

(33:29):
Here is yet another tragic account of a park ranger
who vanished mysteriously while doing his job, never to be
seen or heard from again now. Paul was known as
a rebel and even anti establishment to a point he
stayed for weeks at a time in a small cobblestone
cabin on side of the monument. He was a nationalist

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who did small tasks such as answering the visitors questions
and putting together trail guides. Originally, Paul worked at the
Navajo Monument in Arizona, but it was transferred soon after
being disciplined by one of his bosses about his laziness
and slovenly appearance. Apparently, this supervisor admitted in a later
report that he was annoyed he couldn't technically fire Paul,

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and also that he hated the hippies coming in to
work for the monument. Paul was charged with stealing government
equipment when he took some hay home for his wife's horse.
He was in an openly open relationship with his wife
and sleeping with multiple women who were co workers. While
all of this may seem irrelevant, we must look at

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every aspect we can of a person's life when they
go missing under such strange circumstances, especially when people in
their profession are seemingly doing so At an alarming rate
and have been for a while. Before he left his
post that fateful day, he left instructions with the only
other staff member there that if he wasn't back by
a certain time, for them to close up without him.

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He then walked out and down towards the area of
land the park was about to acquire, one which was
shrouded in problems, as there had been much conflict about
the four hundred acre purchase with the local Apache tribe. Again,
he was never seen or heard from, and nobody has
ever been found.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
Oh, I've been separated from my group. It's been a
couple of hours now.

Speaker 7 (35:22):
I think.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
I was trying to find my way out and I can't,
but I'm gonna stay here. I don't think that I
went too far. I am. I'm not sure that I
don't know the name of the cave. The last the
last entry point was somewhere near to them, Guantanamo, Mexico.

(35:49):
If someone can notify the police or the authorities, or
someone can help, I'm gonna stay here. I have water
and some food. I'm going to see here.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Actually, hello, friends, Steve's talkton here with you now for
some A walk in the wilderness can be the perfect
getaway from everyday life and a chance to reconnect with
mother Nature. For others, great outdoors can be a dangerous place,
and unfortunately there's a place where many people meet their

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end or just mysteriously vanish. Heircases for you to consider.
Randy Rascoe. On November nineteenth, twenty fifteen, park rangers at
the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky noticed that a
car had been sitting in the car park for around
two weeks. This immediately set off warning bells, and after

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doing some digging for information, they discovered that the car
belonged to forty year old Randy Rascoe. As the car
had been there for quite some time, the park rangers
set about searching for Randy right away, but when he
couldn't be found in or near the parking area, they
opened an investigation and widened their search. Park rangers and
investigators contacted Randy's family to see if they had spoken

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to him, but chillingly, they had been out of contact
for a few months. According to his sister Sherry, up
until May twenty fifteen, everything was normal on a regular basis.
He was doing his normal things, hunting, fishing and kept
in contact with her brother, who lived close to his
Bowling Green apartment. Then, one day, out of the blue,

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he packed up his belongings, quit his job, and had
his mail forward it to another address, and just left.
Cherry said. They filed a missing person's report after they
found out he had just fled and were worried as
he had recently gotten divorced. For a month, the Rascoe
family waited for any news, and in June he was
found safe and sound in Washington State. Randy made it

(37:49):
clear that he didn't want to speak to his family
at that time and wanted to be alone. As painful
as it was, his family respected his boundaries and assured
him they would welcome him back with open arms whenever
he was ready. For the next few months, it's believed
that Randy traveled all around the US while maintaining his
privacy and secrecy. His family didn't know that anything was

(38:11):
wrong until the Mammoth Cave National Park rangers contacted them
to let them know that his car had been found abandoned.
With this second disappearance, his family hoped that there would
be a positive resolution, but sadly, Randy Rascoe is still missing.
Search crews, volunteers, and even the Civil Air Patrol all
joined the end of the search for Randy, scaringly over

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fifty three thousand acres of land of the park. Despite
their best efforts and multiple searches, no sign of Randy
has ever been found, and his car is the only
clue we have in terms of his mysterious disappearance. Randy
Rascoe is described as a white male six foot two
inches taught with black hair, hazel eyes, and a slim,
athletic build. Anyone with any information is as to please

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contact the Mammoth Cave National Park at two seven zero
seven five eighty two to one eight zero. Catherine van Alst,
eight year old Katherine van Alst, disappeared from Devil's Den
State Park near Arkansas's Ozark National Forest when she and
her family were camping. Catherine apparently was playing with her

(39:22):
brothers when she wandered off and got lost. What makes
Catherine's disappearance remarkable is she was found six days later.
When found she was wandering the woods and was eerily calm.
University of Arkansas student Border Chadwick was part of the
search party that found Catherine. He told the Pittsburgh Press

(39:43):
that when he found her, she walked starically out of
a cave and just said, here I am. Many other
hikers have gotten lost in that part of the Ozarks
and haven't been as lucky as Catherine. A grown woman
was lost there for seventeen days and died just fifty
yards from the road. How did Catherine survive in the

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woods for six days? Did someone take her only to
return her six days later, or is there an explanation
of this story that we simply can't comprehend. Either way,
someone or something might just be lurking in Devil's den.
Kenny Veach Forty seven year old Kenny Veach mysteriously disappeared

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in the Mohave Desert in Nevada on November fourteenth, twenty fourteen.
Kenny was hiking near Area fifty one and was looking
for cave systems and mine shafts. Kenny has uploaded several
videos to his YouTube channel under the username snake Bitt McGee,
where he describes entering a cave with an M shaped opening.
He wrote in one comment that ain't nothing. I'm a

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long distance hiker. One time, during one of my hikes
out by Nellis Air Force Base, I found a hidden cave.
The entrance to the cave was shaped like a perfect
capital M. I always enter every cave I find, but
as I began to enter this particular cave, my whole
body began to vibrate. Suddenly, I became very scared and
I tailed out of there. That was one of the

(41:11):
strangest things that ever happened to me. Now, these videos
gained popularity following his mysterious disappearance, and in these videos
he does indeed talk about how his whole body vibrated
and he felt scared upon entering this mysterious M cave.
Armed with a gun and a camera. This time, Kenny
headed back out to the M cave on November tenth,
twenty fourteen, hoping to get a better look inside. However,

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Kenny never returned home. Although he was a very experienced
hiker and outdoorsman, Kenny rarely took a map or GPS
device with him on his hikes. According to his family,
on the day of his disappearance, he told him that
he would only be gone for a short overnight trip.
Then when he didn't return home, they immediately called the police,
police volunteers, and search and rescue teams. All scattered the

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area where Kenny was last known to have been. On
November twenty fourteen, volunteers found Kenny's phone. According to those volunteers,
the trail went cold soon after they located his phone,
and there have been no signs of Kenny ever since.
At the time of this episode, the mysterious disappearance of
Kenny Beach is very much alive in true crime and

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paranormal circles, but it appears that we are still no
closer to uncovering the truth Devil's Whole and the tragic
disappearance of two teens in nineteen sixty five. Now, there's
just something about a place with the name devil in
its title that pigs the curiosity of some people. There

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are countless locations all over the world which have this
particular word in their name. Not only devil, either, there
are many other words that symbolize or mean devil or evil,
or some other form of something not very good or beautiful,
given somewhate ironically to some of the world's most breathtaking
and wondrous places. Times, the location will have got its

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name innocently enough, such as because the geology of the
place simply looks foreboding and sinister, especially under the cover
of night. Much of the time, these particular places are
said to be cursed, enchanted, or downright evil, and the
spooky and scary landscape only lends credence to these rumors

(43:22):
and legends. So much of the time, though, these places
with this particular word in the title are associated with
not just devils, demon spirits, and other other worldly phenomena,
but with real tragedies, disappearances, deaths, maybe bizarre sounds and
strange lights in the sky. Today, though, we're going to

(43:45):
focus on one place in particular. We're a mysterious tragedy
struck Devil's Hole, which is located in the aptly named
Death Valley National Park in California, United States. This portion
of the Mahabi Desert contained in Death Valley National Park
is the driest and hottest place in the United States.

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Near bad Water in the long Trench of the desert,
between the Panamint Range on the west and the Black
Mountains on the east, is the lowest dry land in
the Western Hemisphere, an amazing two hundred and eighty two
feet below sea level. A veritable showcase of desert extremes,
Death Valley National Park includes one of the largest salt

(44:28):
pans on Earth, dramatically faulted landscapes, young volcanic craters, and
massive dune fields. Today, we're going all the way back
to the year nineteen sixty five. Death Valley was very
different from the Los Angeles of the time, where there
were uprisings happening all over the place and all of

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it being shown live on the evening news. Death Valley, California,
was in one of the least populated parts of the
state at the time, and a whole different world the
more largely inhabited cities which surrounded it. On June twentieth,
nineteen sixty five, four high school buddies set out to
remote desert location about ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas.

(45:13):
Their intent was to joydive into a deep geothermal abyss
called Devil's Hole. Sadly, two the young men would never
re emerge from this mysterious fossil water portal. Arriving at
their destination, the foursome hiked up a hot barren hillsite,
which overlooked a large scale ranching operation that would nearly

(45:35):
erase a much smaller and nearly ancient complex called ash meadows.
Within a few short years. A well trampled trail led
to the entrance of a limestone chasm that had allegedly
opened a whopping sixty thousand years ago after possibly some
seismic event caused the roof of the cave to collapse
in on itself. The Foursome of Boys, which was made

(45:58):
up of Paul gian Kant's, a nineteen year old cafeteria
worker at the nearby Nevada Test site, his new brother
in law, twenty year old David Rose, who was a
Las Vegas casino parking attendant, were with their other friend,
nineteen year old Bill Alter, and his younger brother Jack.
Boys scrambled under a fenced enclosure posted with warning signs,

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and thinking they were immune to any trouble these warning
signs might be posted about, they proceeded to descend the
thirty or so feet down to a ledge where the
faint but flitting movement of tiny blue gray pupfish could
be observed swimming in the eight by sixty foot pool.
That is, if any of the four young men had
bothered to look just a bit closer at what they

(46:41):
were about to jump into. After suiting up with scuba tanks, masks,
and dive lights. Paul, David, and Bill dove into the
claustrophobic waters. The temperature was nearly indistinguishable from that of
their skin. Upon entering the pool, The boys most likely
disturbed the delicate algae s falling mats, where the entire

(47:03):
population of the exceedingly rare Cyprinodon diabolus continues to prosper
and breed exclusively. Jack was the only one who hadn't
jumped in, as he was delegated the one who would
remain stationed on the ledge in case anything went wrong.
Some time after midnight, Paul failed to resurface, so David
and Bill quickly redove into the waters in a vain

(47:26):
attempt to locate their missing friend. Bill Alter frantically followed
David Rose down to approximately one hundred and seventy feet
until David two disappeared into the darkness. The bodies of
the brothers in law were never recovered. Many people believed
back then and still do believe that these young men
were inspired to go diving at night despite the dangers

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in the specific place, because of a newspaper article from
the year before which detailed a speleological research expedition of
a massive underground lake below Death Valley, led by a
California based professional diver, Jim House, who would ironically dive
numerous times around the clock with military personnel and other

(48:07):
volunteer divers in their attempt to locate the missing men
for thirty six whole hours until the search was eventually
called off. The only traces left of the two brother
in laws a mask and a snorkel. There was also
a flashlight tied to allege some hundred feet below. It
seemed to signal and effectively the way out of the

(48:28):
otherworldly underwater cave system. Articles detailing the unsuccessful rescue effort
were published nationwide in the Sarasota Journal date of June
twenty second, eighteen sixty five. Outstated that he had previously
dived in Devil's Hole around three hundred times over twenty
eight trips, further commenting, it's beautiful in there. It goes

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straight down one hundred and sixty feet like a pipe,
then opens into a room that is about three hundred
feet long and maybe forty feet wide. The bottom of
the room is about two hundred and sixty feet down.
Then it narrows into another tube I dive to three
hundred and fifteen feet. Maybe that's a record, I don't know.

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But at the end of the tube it opens again
into something else. We don't know what the next room is,
or if it's a room at all. It's like infinity.
There are some very terrifying legends from the native tribes
of the area about this particular place called Devil's Hole.
The Timbasha told tales of water babies who would surface

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and swallow a swimmer or dive or hole should they
stay in the pool for too long. Other legends suggested
that so a Pizi, a legendary malevolent giant who dwelled
at mountain springs and caves, would snatch and devour unwary victims.
Miss was standing. Barbara Durham, an elder of the Tembisious Shoshone,

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who shared these stories at a two thousand and two workshop,
admitted that she and her friends enjoyed how the pupfish
tickled their toes when they played in the spring. Keep
in mind here that the Devil's Whole pupfish, as they're
specifically named, are considered by experts to be the rarest
fish found anywhere on the planet. They were even the

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first ever species to be classified as endangered. The fish
are not important to the story at all, really, but
it seemed worth mentioning in order to reinforce how very
special and perhaps a bit magical this place actually is.
As far as the two young men who disappeared without
a trace back in this mystical and extremely dangerous underwater

(50:34):
cave system decades ago, well, they've never been found and
neither have any clues relating to what could it possibly
happen to them. As for one more bit of interesting
fact that could lend a bit of creden says something
a bit more sinister being afoot, as the local tribes
absolutely believe that this otherwise serene and tranquil looking water source.

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It's said that Charles Manson himself days at Devil's Hole
trying to figure out a way to make it safely
down into the chasm, with some saying he was convinced
he would never have to come back up. Allegedly, he
had an obsession with the place that was convinced that
there was an underwater portal to an alternate dimension, or

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more specifically, a portal to the underworld, where he felt
he and his family would be able to safely wait
out the coming apocalypse he so famously predicted what happened
that never actually did. Charles Manson's problem lie in figuring
out a way to drain the hole, and it seemed
like he may have been given this idea by an

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alleged Indian legend that resurfaced during the nineteen twenties, contending
that a subterranean sect of leather clad humanoids lived down
within an early yellow green lid of boat somewhere in
the Mahabi Desert. Could this possibly be true, just as
with the case of these poor young men just doing
what young men do and looking for a night or

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perhaps irresponsible but never thought to be deadly fun, we
may never actually know. So if you do visit Death
Valley in the Mohabi Desert just outside Las Vegas, don't
venture into Devil's Hall.

Speaker 8 (52:20):
He slat out told us, Mom, she's dead. She needs
our help. And that's when I got the goosebumps, and
I was like, oh my gosh. He was just in
our car and he was pointing out to a certain
spot in the meadow.

Speaker 7 (52:32):
While Victoria Gorba and her family stopped for lunch, her
son Kayden began talking to someone.

Speaker 8 (52:37):
And my husband and I kind of looked at each other,
like what, and he goes, yeah, there's a lady over
in the meadow in a black shirt, and I got goosebumps.
He says, she needs our help, but she's dead and
she's laying face down with her legs up and she

(52:57):
can't talk to me. But she's over there. We need
to go help her.

Speaker 7 (53:01):
Jake and Victoria checked out the meadow but saw nothing.

Speaker 8 (53:04):
He kept saying, trust me, trust me, Mom, And I
was like, I trust you, Bud. You know, I believe
you one hundred percent.

Speaker 7 (53:10):
Spooked, the couple decided to end the trip early and
head home.

Speaker 8 (53:14):
And we put it on Facebook seeing if anybody knew
anything about the area, and come to find out that
there was a lady missing with the description that he
described to us was in a five mile radius of
where we were.

Speaker 7 (53:28):
Sandra Hughes had gone missing in July of twenty twenty.
Cayden had described her in detail and recognized her in
three of four photos.

Speaker 8 (53:36):
He was very adamant that we needed to help her,
and he described down to blue hair. He said, she
has a black shirt, blue jeans, and blue hair. Mom
that's the exact description of her when she went missing.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Hello friends, We recently learned of what may be one
of the strangest updates to a missing person case that
we've ever brought forth. Now, sometimes in these missing person
cases that we cover, there will be a little bit
of a paranormal or supernatural element. It's usually something small
and not very significant to the overall case, but sometimes

(54:18):
it seems that the unknown can play a larger part
in these cases, stories of UFOs, the fae, Bigfoot, or
rather cryptids, portals, translucent entities, etc. But is it possible
that the ghost of a missing woman may be trying
to help solve her disappearance, or at least help locate
or remains. We ask that you keep an open mind

(54:42):
and consider it the following case. Back in episode number
seven of our ten Unsolved National Park Disappearances series, we
brought you the story of Sandra Hughes. To recap. Fifty
four year old Sandra Johnson Hughes of California was last
heard from on June twenty sixth, twenty twenty. Sandra had

(55:03):
embarked on a solo camping trip in the Sierra south
of Yosemite to escape from the current pandemic. Sandra had
recently moved from Maui, Hawaii, to California in June of
twenty twenty. She had trained to be a park ranger
in college and was experiencing the outdoors. On July fifth
of that year, the Madera County Sheriff's Office asked for

(55:24):
the public's help in locating Sandra after they found her
campsite near the Johnson's Meadow section of the forest in disarray.
On that same day, the authorities located Hughes Silver sob
and Shequido Creek to the north of the campsite. They
said it appeared to have crashed into a tree at
a speed of less than twenty miles per hour before
rolling into the ravine. Aikers reported Saint Sandra on July fourth,

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twenty twenty, and said she was barefoot and had a
bruise on her face. They offered to help her, but
she declined. Medical assistance officers and volunteers, search and rescue
teams for more than half a dour and other sheriff's departments,
together with dog teams, the California Highway Patrol, and the
Governor's Office of Emergency Services combed the forest on foot

(56:08):
while helicopters from California Air National Guard did an aerial search.
The search focused around the area where her car was found,
but there was no sign of Sandra. Then, on August ninth,
twenty twenty two, hundreds saw a woman leaning against a
tree along Road five S zero one near Beiesolor Road.
She did not wave them down, attempt contact, or appear

(56:31):
to be in any distress. Upon returning, they recognizer from
a missing persons fire and contacted park rangers. The hunter
said that she appears to be visibly thinner than her
last known photos. At the time of her disappearance, Sandra
was a fifty four year old white female with blue
shoulder lenked hair. Her natural color is brown. She has

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brown eyes, is approximately five foot three inches tall, and
weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds. The search for
Sandra was on going but limited. Now flashed forward to
almost exactly one year later. This strange update to the
case comes from the Madeare County Sheriff's Office in Madea, California.
It seems that a family from nearby Course Gold, California,

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experienced a bizarre broad daylight ghost sighting in the Madeir
County Mountains on Wednesday, July twenty first, twenty twenty one.
The event was so strange and disturbing that the Madea
County Sheriff's Office felt the need to further investigate. It
seems that a man named Jake Gorba, his wife Victoria,

(57:37):
and their three children decided to take their four wheeler
up to the shut Eye Peak on that faithful Wednesday.
While on this family outing, they stopped to have something
to eat beside the trail, and that's when things started
to get strange. The couple's three year old son, Caden,
suddenly began animatedly talking to someone nearby. He was just

(57:57):
in our four wheeler and he was pointing out to
certain spot in the meadow, said his mom Victoria. The
normally reserved and somewhat quiet Caden excitedly told his parents
that they're in the meadow. By where the family was
having lunch was a woman lying face down with her
legs straight up in the air. Furthermore, Caden stated that
the woman was unable to speak or move and needed help.

(58:20):
He began pleading with his parents to help this poor
a woman. He flat out told us, Mom, she's already dead,
but she needs our help. And that's when I got
the goose bumps. I was like, oh my gosh, Victoria said.
He goes, yeah, there's a lady over in the meadow
in a black shirt, blue jeans, and blue hair, and

(58:41):
I got goose bumps, said Victoria. He says, she needs
our help, but she's dead and she's lying face down
with her legs up. She can't talk to me, but
she's over there. We need to go help her. So,
in order to calm young Caden down, Jake and Victoria
walked over and checked out the meadow but saw absolutely nothing.

(59:03):
Caden continued to insist. He kept saying, trust me, trust me, Mom,
And I was like, I trust you, I trust you.
I believe you one hundred percent, said Victoria. Whatever young
Cat was experiencing so unnerved and spoke the rest of
the family that the other members of the family all
unanimously agreed time to put an early end to their

(59:24):
day of adventure and make the thirty five mile drive
back home to Course Call. After arriving home, the event
still fresh in her mind, Victoria decided to post about
the weird encounter on her Facebook profile. We put it
on Facebook to see if anybody knew anything about this area,
and come to find out there was a lady missing

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with a description that he described to us within a
five mile radius of where we were, said Victoria. Now
viewers of this channel know from our previous episode number seven,
Sandra Hughes had gone missing in that area in June
of twenty twenty. When it became even more chilling when,
according to Victoria, three year old Caden's highly detailed description

(01:00:05):
of the woman he had seen in the meadow was
identical to the description of Sandra Hughes as given by
the local authorities. He was very adamant that we needed
to help her, and he described her down to blue hair.
He said, she has a black shirt, blue jeans, and
blue hair. Mom. That's the exact description of her when
she went missing, said Victoria. Then Victoria went and searched

(01:00:28):
online for Sandra Hughes and found some photographs that have
been released as a part of the search effort a
year prior. Victory said she got goosebumps when Cayden readily
recognized three of the photos of Sandra, identifying her as
the woman he had seen in the field. As frait
would have it. Madera County Sheriff Corporal Chris Williams just
happened to see the Facebook post and found it intriguing,

(01:00:50):
to say the least, so much so that he contacted
Cayden's family to further investigate the chilling account. Victoria said
the corporal in charge of her case actually reached out
to us on Facebook and was like, Hey, we want
more information and we want to bring you guys back
up there and see if you could point us in
the right direction. Corporal Williams has been investigating the disappears

(01:01:12):
of Sander Hughes since the beginning of the investigation. On
the following Thursday, two Madera County Sheriff's deputies ventured back
up to the meadow to investigate, with Jake and Caden
coming along to point them in the right direction. Unfortunately,
the deputies found nothing new by way of evidence, although
the case remains open. If she was possibly a ghost

(01:01:36):
looking for some help, I hope that he could have
at least helped and maybe helped the family find her,
because it's been a long time apparently since she's been gone.
Victoria said. The four wheeler that Cayden and his family
used while traveling in the mountains, has now been nicknamed
the Ghost Runner and incidentally, is also for sale. It's
not believed that the spooky encounter is the reason they

(01:01:56):
put the vehicle up for sale, as the family says
they will continue to go adventuring in the Madeira Mountains,
but do admit there are a few spots now which
they aren't anxious to visit again anytime soon, if at all.
Local news reporters in the area reached out to the
Madera County Sheriff's office, who did confirm that they received
a report of a possible sighting of some sort and

(01:02:17):
they did go out to the location to search for
any additional leads information. For now, the case remains open
in hopes that this latest update regarding the spooking encounter
may produce some new leads. Now. As strange as this
new development is, it's not the first time that possibly
a ghost helped solve the missing person's case. Back on

(01:02:38):
February twenty first, nineteen ninety seven, the TV show Unsolved
Mysteries air to segment regarding a missing person's case from
almost three years prior. This report told the story of
twenty three year old Christine Scoubage and her three year
old son Nick. They were driving along Highway fifty in
the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California when they vanished

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without a trace on June sixth, nineteen ninety four. Christine
was a single mother and had recently completed paralegal training.
She had plans of going to work for a prestigious
law firm, and she helped to make enough money so
that she and her child's father could be married. Christine
left her stepparents home near Sacramento on June fifth, nineteen

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ninety four, on her way to Carson City, Nevada. After
failing to make contact with her family after three days,
her stepfather, Dave Stotsenbach, reported her and her son missing
on June eighth. The police took the missing person's report,
but there were no initial leads in the case. Five
days after Christine and Nick disappeared, however, a woman named

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Deborah Hoyt and her husband were driving along the Highway
fifty around three am. The pair were on along overnight
drive and had been joking and singing in order to
keep each other away. Suddenly never saw what appeared to
be a completely naked woman lying on the side of
the road. The naked woman's face was turned toward the
road and she was laying on her side with her

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knees slightly bent. She had one arm placed beneath her
head and the other arm held over her head. The
Hoitz were shocked beyond belief. They thought it must have
been some sort of sick practical joke, or perhaps he
would employed to carjack them had they stopped. Deborah floored
the accelerator instead and sped down Highway fifty, not stopping
until she arrived at the nearest phone booth, where she

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proceeded to call the police. In just minutes. Two Sharf's
cards with the scene were deboren seeing the naked woman's body, However,
unable to pinpoint the exact location, the deputies reported that
they saw and found nothing. The next morning, though speculations
began that the sighting had something to do with the
disappearance of Christine and Nick, who were the most recently

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missing people from that area. Due to the insistence from
the family, deputy Rich Strasser decided to go back and
have a closer look. Strasser figured that it might be
easier to spot got anything out of the ordinary in
the daylight. Debra had indicated that a particularly dangerous stretch
of Highway fifty, known as Bullyon Bend, was where the
incident took place. As Strasser patrolled the area, he spotted

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a new looking child's tennis shoe on the side of
the road. Immediately next to that spot and the shoulder
of the road was a steep embankment. Strasser pulled over
his cruiser to search the area more thoroughly, and sure enough,
at the bottom of the embankment he spotted the twisted
remains of Christine's car. He checked Christine and observed that

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she was dead and unfortunately had been that way for
quite some time. The deputy then went around to the
other side to check Nick, who was curled up in
a fetal position in the passenger seat. Strasser assumed the
worst and was sure that Nick was also dead. However,
when he touched the little boy's neck to find a pulse,
it appeared that Nick took a breath. Strasser immediately radioed

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for an ambulance. Little Nick had been alone in the
car for five days, yet he was somehow still clinging
to life. Officials believed that sometime around two am on
June sixth, Christine must have fallen asleep at the wheel.
The car veered off the road and plunged to the
bottom of the ditch, striking a tree. Due to the

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embankment being so steep, other drivers drove right past the accident,
seen for days, unaware that it was just over the
side of the road. It was later determined that Christine
had been killed instantly on impact with the tree. To
your old Nick was all along with no way out
and no one to talk to. Christine's mother says that
she believes that little Nick spent the time talking to

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his mother, unaware that she was dead. Against all odds,
he survived five days of intense heat and four nights
of cold, trapped within the twisted remains of the car.
Doctors who examined nickt stated that he was in such
bad shape that he would have most likely die within
a couple of hours had he not been found when
he won. The strange encounter that saved Nick's life seems

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to defy any rational explanation. If Debora had not seen
the naked woman lying on the side of the road,
Nick would have not survived. Now it's absolutely impossible for
Christine to have been the naked woman. She was still
fully clothed and wearing her seatbelt when found, and the
medical examiner stated that she was most likely killed on impact.

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Deborah Hoyt is one hundred percent certain that she saw
a naked woman on the side of the road. Both
she and Christine's family believe it was Christine's spirit who
saved Nick that day. The spirit had apparently appeared in
the nude in order to draw attention. Nick years later,
as an adult, was interviewed on a television show Paranormal Witness.

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He remembers seeing a bright light surrounding the car following
the accident. To this day, he believes that his mother
was watching over him following the accident and helped him
to be rescued. The show also revealed that Christine's aunt
had several dreams or premonitions about the accident before Christine
and Nick were even reported missing. She dreamed of seeing

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them lying in their car in a ditch. She also
saw the number sixteen in the dream, which turned out
to be the number for the mile marker nearest the
accident's site. Well, there you have it. What do you
think about the apparition? That little Kayden observed, which she
identified as Sandra Hughes, even down to the color of
her hair, which was dyed blue when she went missing.

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Is it possible that Sandra's spirit is attempting to communicate
with a living in a desire that remains be found
and her friend and loved ones have closure. It certainly
appears that way. And what about the two other times
she was spotted by High Christ Was that actually her?
Or was that an apparition? Hello? Friends, Today we'll be

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discussing three very strange wildernesses appearances. Now too of these
cases remain unsolved, and one of these cases is a
very remarkable story of a young man who survived for
over seventy days lost in a forest. So sit back
and relax. Have a listen. This is going to be
a wild one. First up, Stephen van Pelt, the missing

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climber who vanished after he fell. Now, Mountain Jefferson is
the second tallest mountain in Oregon and the only major
volcanic center in the United States portion of the Cascade
Range that hasn't erupted in the past ten thousand years.
It stands at a majestic four hundred and ninety five
feet tall and is part of the Cascade Range. According

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to climbing Officionados, the mountain summit pinnacle requires Class four
scrambling on very steep, usually ice encrusted rock. It is
considered by some to be the most difficult of the
higher volcanoes. It is indeed a mountain to climb, and
visitors are warned mountain to climb indeed, and visitors are

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warned numerous times not to try and complete the summit
unless they are very experienced climbers. In this community, we've
seen many types of accidents happen and mysteries begin in
places like Mount Jefferson. Mother nature can be a cruel mistress,
and when there are no answers to seemingly obvious questions,
it can be downright frustrating. Such is the mystery of

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what happened to Stephen van Pelt. If a person falls
off a mountain, it would make sense that they would
be found right at the bottom, somewhere near at least
from where they fell. Yes, that would make sense. It
would almost make too much sense for this community that
deals in mysteries just like this all the time. Stephen

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van Pelt seems to have fallen off the mountain and
right off the face of the earth. Let's dealve a
little deeper into the mysterious fall and the equally mysterious
banishing of Stephen Van Pelt. On Friday July twenty third,
twenty twenty one, at around eleven forty five in the morning,
a thirty three year old Salem Moregon resident named Stephen

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Van Pelt was descending Mount Jefferson when he suddenly fell
off the mountain and disappeared from the view of as
climbing partner. The Marion County Sheriff's Office received the initial
report and responded along with Lynn County deputies and the
Lynn County Search and Rescue Team. Officials reported that this
particular area of the mountain where Stephen had his fall

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is extremely dangerous and would require technical mountaineers to travel
the mountainside in their search efforts. Initially, it was reported
that Stephen hadn't been found right away because of terrain,
which included snow and large boulders. There were also deep cliffs, crevices, rocks,
and scree now. For this example, screen is defined as

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a mass of loose stones that form or cover a
slope of a mountain, so basically, his recovery was going
to take some time. The deputies called in several other
agencies to assist him in the search for Stephen, and
these included Corvallis Mountain Rescue, Eugene Mountain Rescue, The Shoots
Mountain Rescue, and Portland Mountain Rescue. Stephen Van Pelt worked

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at Salem's Morning Star Community Church as a program director.
After his fall from the mountain, his sister posted on
social media that is believed Stephen ended up in a
ravine that is inaccessible. However, it's also been stated that
Stephen was not seen in or around this ravine when
it was looked over. The search was eventually suspended and

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it was determined that Stephen would not be able to
be recovered. He was never found. A statement written on
behalf of his family said there is no more appropriate
tombstone for Steve than Mount Jefferson. His wife, Caitlin, said
that it's a huge comfort knowing her husband had come
to Mount Jefferson and said he would have been thrilled

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to call this mountain his headstone. Obviously, Stephen van Pelt
loved the mountains and mountain climbing. His sister's social media
post explains that he and his climbing partner had an
incredible day together and Steve was on cloud nine after
they summited the ten thy four hundred and ninety five
foot pinnacle of Mount Jefferson. As they descended back down

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the mountain, Stephen's climbing partner watched him slip and fall
hundreds of feet from what Stephen's climbing partner later said,
we knew his end was immediate. Caitlin also stated how
her husband loved the outdoors and how Mendocino County was
a perfect place for an outdoorsman like Stephen. Before the
search was officially called off, Lynn County Sheriff's Office, Lieutenant

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Brandon Fountain explained that the conditions of the terrain was
becoming a hazard to all the searchers. Lieutenant Fountain continued
that there is a specific drainage on Mount Jefferson for
searchers believe he may have come to rest. First responders
conducted a significant search of this drainage while rock and
mud from above fell on the rescuers who were bound

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together by rope. Stephen's sister posted, my brother is and
always has been a part of this mountain. He is
and always has been a part of this rugged landscape.
He is and has always been a part of this wilderness.
Manicured grounds could never hold him now. The Minister here

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lies in the fact that despite all of these agencies
working tirelessly together and literally exhausting themselves in their effort
to find Stephen, he has never been found. There were
even multiple flyoworks conducted by Life Flight and the United
States Army National Guard also joined in during the subsequent
days of the search. Many people have begged the question,

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if Stephen fell from a specific place on the mountain,
and someone watched him do it and pointed authorities to
that exact spot, then why wasn't Stephen there at the bottom?
Is he really there? These questions may never be answered,
and while we respect the authorities and families belief that
Stephen has simply fallen into an area where it is

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impossible for him to be recovered, we have to wonder
if he is actually there. As always, we hope someday
the family is able to know for sure that Stephen
is indeed resting at the bottom of his beloved mountain somewhere,
and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and
loved ones next up Fola Marie Miranda Rosa. On December

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thirty one, twenty one, the search for missing thirty one
year old Folo Marie Miranda Rosa resumed at Wikieva River
in Wikipa Springs Park, an area north of Orlando, Florida.
Sources say two hikers in the area took footage and
photos of the missing woman on December nineteenth, twenty twenty one,
which was the day after her family reported her missing.

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Her family positively identified her in the footage. Un Named
hikers said they observed the woman swimming in the river
and took a couple of pictures because it was so
unusual to see someone swimming there. Miranda Rosa has been
missing since then. Her family had reported her missing the
day after they last saw her on Friday, December seventeenth,

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twenty twenty one, a day spent visiting with family and
having lunch together. Folo was said to have been in
good spirits and nothing appeared to be wrong. No one
heard from her after she left the family home that day,
and she was reported missing that Sunday. On Monday, her
family made flyers to put up around the parks and
businesses in the area surrounding it. She never used to

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go out and leave her dogs alone at her house.
She left with the purpose of returning to her home.
We do not know what happened that she didn't return.
She did not go back to her home. Von Rose
Folo's mother, Totelamundo thirty one. In a phone interview, Miss
Rosa went on to say that her daughter's past mental
health problems could have been a part of her getting

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confused and becoming lost. It remains unclear if it's a
factor in her disappearance. She also stated that her daughter
may need help finding her way back home. We immediately
felt something was wrong. It's just not normal, miss Rosa,
continued in the Tilmundo interview. Now, Folo has battles schizophrenia

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in the past and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Pile play isn't suspected at this time, the Oceila County
Sheriff's Department says. Prior to the official search, the Sheriff's
office released the statement saying they planned to search four
and a half miles of the river around the area
where Folo was last seen, using special underwater camera equipment
that has the capability to see it hard to reach

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areas that can't be explored by standard scuba equipment on
searching the wooded areas on both sides of the river
as well. Just days later, they began a three day search.
One hundred and fifty law enforcement officers searched the park
with scuba divers, boats, drones, volunteers, and bloodhounds. They were

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even volunteers on horseback, which helped pace the search. On
December twenty first, twenty twenty one, Bullo's car was found
at the park, along with her wallet, purse, phone, and
other personal items, and the keys were in the unlocked car,
which is yet another strange circumstance in Fulo's disappearance. Her

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family spent the holiday season without Folo for the first
time ever. Her sister andrew At Miranda told Fox Needs
thirty five, it's hard to even focused on the fact
that it's the holiday season. I don't even know what
day it is right now. We see Christmas lights all
around us. We see that, but your tunnel vision on
the mission of finding her. Of course, it hurts this holiday.

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We want to have her with us, but we have
to do what we have to do. Bulla's father also
gave the media the interview in which she stated, we
love you. We are waiting for you. Everyone, family, your friends,
and people who don't even know you. We are not
giving up. We don't want anybody to give up. We
want you to know that Fola was extremely loved. She

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loved us. Bulla is described as four foot ten inches
tall and weighs one hundred and forty five pounds. She
has brown eyes and reddish violet hair. She was wearing
blue jean shorts and a white green shirt at the
time she was last seen. Some people have suggested that
she may have been attacked by an alligator. State Wildlife

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officials Glarida said attacks do happen, but are rare. Six
years prior to Fola's disappearance and in the same part,
a woman was attacked by an alligator but survived. Two
other men have also been attacked in earlier years survived
as well. It was also reported that Fola was being
pushed into a car, although this hasn't been verified and

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the police haven't asked area businesses for video footage they
may have. The family is asking that any business in
that area with a camera to please turn over any
footage from that day. The police send Sheriff's Office of
asking anyone that may have information on Fola Marie Miranda
Rose's disappearance or if you saw her after she was
reported missing, to please not be afraid to share the information,

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even if it's wrong, say it turns out to be
someone else. If you do have any information or tips
you asked to police, call the Ostiola County Sheriff's Department
at four zero seven three four eight two two two
and reference Fola Miranda Rosa. Her sister Andrew had finished
the interview with Fola, we love you and we want

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you home. Next up, Kevin Bear Henry. On February seventh,
twenty twenty one, family and friends gathered a host of
vigil for their friend and loved one that went missing
in the wilands of a Canadian mountain. They solebrated the
amazing life accomplishments for their bear, believing they were gone

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forever lost for seventy four days in the Canadian wilderness,
thirty seven year old Kevin Bear Henry screams for help
went unheard. A two spirit indigenous person and environmental demonstrator,
Henry was last seen by family members on November twenty seventh,
twenty twenty one, before embarking upon a journey into the
wilds of Fairy Creek, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The weather

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took a turn and it started to rain further, making
the situation worse. It began to get dark. Henry, having
thought they had driven too far, tried to backtrack, but
it was too late. They weren't found until February ninth,
twenty twenty two. Driving their van through the beautiful and
lush woods, headed to an old growth area of the
forest to support a protest against logging. Heindy was taking

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middle note of how bad the road was getting. The
ruts and potholes were starting to take a toll on
the old van. As they proceeded down the dirt road,
the van was listing from side to side every few feet.
The road was becoming impassable until hitting one last big
pothole caused the van's engine to completely quit. Eventually, Henry

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was able to get the engine started again and only
a little farther down the mountain road before becoming stuck
in mud cause with a treacherous rain. Thankfully, they had
a sleeper van and had at least shelter, but only
had provisions for a few days because they had only
planned on being there for two to three days. Tired
from the day's events, Henry climbed in the sleeper and

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rested for the night. Henry had been paralyzed for four
years in their twenties after being stabbed. This makes walking
for any substantial length almost impossible, and they were taught
to stay where they were should they become lost. The
first few days were spent with the van, where Henry
had food and shelter. Hadn't told anyone where they were going,

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but can hear helicopters overhead, presumably searching for them. No
one could hear me scream, Henry said. A massive search
had been launched for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, community members,
search and rescue teams, and even TikTokers had joined together
in an effort to find the demonstrator. The family had
reported them missing until December eleventh, which was a full

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two weeks after Henry had become stuck on that road.
They had also started a Facebook page dedicated to finding Bear,
called Bring Kevin Bear Henry Home. The page name has
since been changed to Bear Has Returned Because of the
hostile environment that was created between demonstrators and the RCMP
over logging, there was a delay in the search. Worsening

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weather conditions also hampered the search efforts. A few times
they were able to search. There were a few clues
found that pointed to Henry being in the area, but
there was never anything found that succinctly pointed to where
they may be. Surviving on any thing they could get
their hands on. Their diet consists of tomatoes, dry rice
soaked in water, tomato sauce, and beans. Henry even resorted

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to eating cat food at one point, and even snow.
In late December, as food supplies dwindled and days turned
into weeks, Henry decided they would have to walk to help.
Having walked for fifteen hours over a two day span
to the top of the road where the logging was happening,
they finally stumbled into two loggers getting ready to leave
the area. Loggers from Gemini followers saw Henry stumble onto

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their location. They were supposed to be leaving earlier that
day and almost missed Henry standing in the area. We
thought you were a tree man, one of the loggers
told him, are you bear The other man asked, how
do you know who I am? Henry asked, They are
missing person posters of you everywhere in Lake Cawachan and Duncan.
The men said to Bear they didn't know what day

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or even month it was. I've been missing for three months.
Henry said to his rescuers, where would you like to go?
The men asked, he read where they could take them
Tim Hortons. Henry replied, wanting a hot cup of coffee
and some food. The loggers dropped Henry out of tim
Hortons in Lake koa Chan and gave them twenty dollars.

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That kind of cares support to do that. That's humanity
right there, Henry said, of the men that rescued them.
Bear contacted a friend and family members straight away. The
family rushed to the tim Hortons to make contact with them.
Although a little skinnier Bear was in good spirits, Henry
would later be taken to an area hospital for an
exam to make sure there were no lasting effects. We

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understand there are questions on how and where the individual survived.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesperson said, if those details
are released, it will have to come from Henry, as
the family has asked for privacy at this time. They're
just happy they're loved one return to them. There have
been several updates and videos posted by Bear since their ordeal,

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addressing people's questions and telling their story. In one of
the videos, they are quoted saying I'm too stubborn to
die when asked by a family member that was thinking
the worst. Not having any experience with outdoor survival. Henry
also said, I definitely learned a lot more about the
environment and how pressure it is to be back there

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to breathe that kind of fresh air, and to be
at the mercy of that kind of weather, and to
be at the mercy of the back country. It teaches
you a lot. Hello, friends, Today we're gonna be talking
about five wilderness disappearances where mysterious disembodied Christ for help

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were heard by search and rescue teams, but the person
couldn't be located. You can imagine how these disembodied Christs
were help would have baffled search and rescue teams when
they couldn't locate the missing person who had vanished in
the wilderness. Likewise, the person calling out would probably wonder
why they couldn't be heard. As we all know, thousands

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of people go missing every single day in the United
States alone, and while some are found safe and sound
and return to their family and loved ones, many are
never seen or heard from again. How devastating that must
be for the people who remain in the dark about
their loved one, wondering always what if and what happened?
Are they alive? Are they deceased? But what about the

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people who went missing and are known to have called
out for help, to have actually been heard screaming or
yelling for someone to rescue them, but were then never found.
How does something like that even happen? Surely you must
be thinking that if someone is close enough to be
within aarshot and heard calling for help, then search and
rescue teams, volunteer teams, or even just a random stranger

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wondering about in the area heard them, then how is
it at all possible for that person to never be
seen or heard from again. Now, while we don't answer
to that specific question today, and we as a society
may never have all of or even part of the
answers to these questions, let's review some of these cases today,

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the ones in which people were so very close to
being rescued or saved, but then that help never came.
What must that have felt like to the person who
was lost, crying out and then hearing people who you
think are coming to your aid for who knows how long,
knowing that you're being heard, and maybe even preparing to
get ready to get back home to your family, and
then nothing. Search and rescue teams or volunteers move on,

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possibly walking right past you to go and continue the
search for you somewhere else. These are just a few
of the many cases we found in which people were
actually heard calling for help but then could not be located.
They were never seen or heard from again after that.
Number five Mitchell Dale Styling. On June nineteenth, twenty thirteen,

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Mitchell Dale Stalling, known to most as Dale, his wife Denen,
and his parents went to Maseverity National Park in Colorado, USA.
The fifty one year old Dale decided to go for
a hike by himself to the Spruce Tree House Ruins.
The Spruce Treehouse Ruins as the third largest cliff dwelling
in Masa Verde and was actually constructed between twelve eleven

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and twelve seventy eight. A d by the ancestors of
some of the Pueblo people of the Southwest. This amazing
dwelling contains about one hundred and thirty rooms and eight kivas,
which are chambers where the ceremonies of the Pueblo people
were held. This dwelling wasn't discovered until eighteen eighty eight,
when two ranchers were trying to find some cattle that
had gone astray and accidentally stumbled upon this beautiful piece

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of history. Dale had decided he wanted to see it
for himself and took off at around four thirty PM
with every intention of returning as soon as he was done.
After all, the trail was less than a quarter of
a mile long, connecting to the Petroglyffe Point Trail, which
is a two and a half mile loop with cliff
exposure that takes off right from the Spruce Tree Trail.

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Several witnesses came forward later and remembered speaking with Dale
on the trail that day, but yet he never returned
back to his family. It wasn't until seven years later
that his remains were found and returned to his still
hopeful and still searching family. On September seventeenth, twenty twenty.
But now let's talk about the mystery surrounding this horrible tragedy.

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Here's a little more about what happened to Dale Stalling
that fateful day. Back in June of twenty thirteen, Dale
and his family left their home in Goliad, Texas, in
a camper trailer and headed west to Colorado, a place
Dale had always wanted to see an explore. He was
an experienced outdoorsman and loved to camp and hike, and
was also a very avid gardener. It was known to

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spend hours alone at home, just spending time intending to
as many plans. He decided a day trip to Maseeverde
National Park was the perfect way not only for his
family to spend some quality time together, but also for
him to make his dream of seeing the sights in
the beautiful Colorado National Park a reality, and so they
were on their way. The trail was known to be

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a bit rough and rugged, so initially the Stallings were
only planning to drive to the lookout point and experience
with the breathtaking scenes from a distance. Dale's parents were elderly,
and it's reported that his wife was overweight, so nobody
but Dale would have been able to hike the trail
very easily once they got there. However, Dale, Beingdale, and
having his great love of nature and the outdoors, decided

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to seize the moment and finally have the opportunity he
had waited for for so long to be there in
Colorado in the Mesa Verdi. He just had to get
a closer look at the spruce tree house ruins twenty
two minutes before Dale took off for his hike. The
weather conditions were not that good. The temperature was somewhere
between nineteen one hundred degrees. The train was in other worries.

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It was rugged, with steep canyons and mesa tops. The
elevation range from six thousand, five hundred to eight thousand
feet like to the top of the trail, Dale estimated
would take about an hour. This was the average length
of time for someone in good health to have made
it through. Dale was reported missing very soon after he
didn't return it. They agreed upon time. His family didn't

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want to leave much room for anything bad to have happened,
got on to finding him right away. The rangers first
thought Dale had just gotten probably a bit off track,
and told his wife to give him a few more
hours if he didn't return by then, to go ahead
then and report him missing. According to a park public
information officer, the park has never had anyone go missing
for more than a couple of hours. Once it had

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indeed been two hours after he was supposed to have
been back. The park initiated a two week long search
and rescue operation, which included around sixty searchers, two dog teams,
helicopter surveillance, and rope teams repelling off the cliffs in
the Chapin Mesa area. This is where the canine teams
had initially shown some interest in the first couple of
days of the search, so this is where they decided

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to begin. The petrockgleft point trail follows a cliff base
before descending to the Mesa in a series of steep
sections of switchbacks, which then had some steps cut into
the rock. Though he didn't have any water with him
on this extremely hot day when he disappeared, Dale did
have his cell phone, but after he was determined to
have disappeared, nobody could get any kind of risk or
an answer from him when they tried to reach out.

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Blone records did show him trying to access his voicemail
at around seven pm that night, or at least the
phone was trying to access the voicemail. We in this
community should make no assumptions that it was Dale at
all who tried to do this. For the sake of fact, though,
let's move on and say it was him. It was
for nothing, though, as a call dropped and never went through.
According to Patrick O'Driscoll of National Parks Media Services, the

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Inner Mountain Region, the majority of Masaveriti, aside from a
few marked trails, is uncharted territory and therefore technically off
limits the hikers. Approximately five to ten people go missing
every year in the Masaveriti National Park, and none of
these cases are officially closed, including Dale's, until that person
or their body is found. Authorities have shared everything from

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actual case files to random tips with the family, but
Dale's wife Denian these things much differently than park officials do.
She says she has pissed off. It feels the search
only really lasted for two days and then Dale just
given up on. She stated, now that it's been a year,
and honestly, the more I reflect on it, I'm just
pissed off. Their attitude was he was there he was

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lost and what are they supposed to do about it?
Artificials say, however, that rangers in the park were still
searching for Dale three months later, though it a bit
more scaled back way. They insist they did this to
keep Dale and his disappearance on their radar so everyone
would continue to be on the lookout for him. In
twenty fourteen, Deneen returned at least fourteen times to the park,

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and it's more convinced than ever that her husband had
gone missing due to misleading markers and signs in the park,
which caused him to accidentally go off trail. She believes
he thought he was following all the signs properly, but
because they were so confusing, he ended up lost. Anyway.
There is a very interesting account written by hiker and
writer named Jody Peterson, however, that was written in twenty thirteen,

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which details and experiences she had while hiking the same
trail on the same day as Dale when he went missing.
She writes, in part, after an hour of walking, I
suddenly heard a weary male voice call I need some help,
I thought of the missing hiker. Perhaps after visiting Spruce Treehouse,
Heat attempted the trail and run into trouble. I called

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out several times, but got no response. I thought about
going off trail to look, but figured then I'd become
a victim number two if I tried to scramble down
those ledges and cliffs. My cell phone had no signal.
I hiked back down the trail as fast as I could,
and when I found the chief ranger, I told him
what I'd heard. Relief washed over his face as another

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staffer said, we thought we heard a call for help
in that area yesterday. They quickly began planning to bring
in dogs and more searchers. I left the ranger station
and stood looking at the opposite side of the canyon
where I'd heard the call for help. I said a
silent prayer. When I got back to my Western Colorado
home the following day, I checked the news, thinking that
i'd read that the hiker had been found. Instead, I

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learned that Mitchell Dale Stalling was still missing, and now
seventy people were looking for him. As I write this,
it's been almost two weeks since Stalin vanished, and the
search has been scaled down. A group of us think
he's still somewhere in the park, said Chiefer Jesse Farias.
We've all heard of planning disappearances, but it doesn't smell

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that way. The odds of him being found alive, though,
are basically zero. Perhaps he fell between big rocks and
a place where searchers can't see him. Perhaps wind shifts
made the dog missus scent. Now the question, though, is this,
If Dale was heard calling for help by several different people,
and searchers were immediately put into place and conducted as

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soon as this was reported, then how did no one
come across him again, even hear him again, or find
any evidence of him at all. If they thought they
heard a call for help in the same area just
the day before, then why weren't they still out searching there?
That makes no sense. What really happened out there? Verde?
Is the park rangers and other staff of this national

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park no more than they're saying this is something to
think about, definitely most likely something we will never find
an answer to. Number four Dayleen mok Pua. On February
twenty seventh, twenty fifteen, a seventeen year old named Dayleen Pua,
known as Moke to his family and friends, decided to

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go for a hike on the Stairway to Heaven. This
is actually the Haiku Stairs in Oahu, Hawaii. These stairs
are basically an extremely steep step structure which used to
provide pedestrian access to former US Navy communication facilities on
the island. This is considered one of Hawaii's most dangerous trails,
and Moch was last seen boarding of us in Wayaani

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to get to the spot which he wanted so badly
to climb and see the historical sites. Dayleen, who lived
on the Big Island, was visiting Wayaani to spend some
time with his grandmother. His grandmother, Martha Behar, stated that
the teen wanted desperately to climb the trail, which is
forbidden on the windward side of O Wahoo. She told

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her grandson she had seen all the news that it
was closed down and he wouldn't be able to access it.
She told him not to waste his time even trying.
Martha said, though, that when Dayleen boarded the bus and
said he was going hiking, she never thought he was
really going there to the Stairway to Heaven trail. She
figured she had already told him that he would get
arrested if he tried to go there and climb, and

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that it was closed down and pedestrian access was being refused.
At around eleven am, Dayleen posted his last ever correspondence
when he texted some friends pictures of himself, stating that
he was finally there on the trail of the Haiku
Stairs and was next planning to climb them. He has
been seen or heard from since. His family studied the

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pictures daily had sent them from the trail right before
he seemingly disappeared into thin air extensively, and there are
some that stand out. These are the ones there desperately
trying to get the public's help in identifying. Unfortunately, the
more you blow up the images of the more glory
and nondiscernible, they become almost impossible to tell what you're
even looking at, though the family is fairly confident at

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least one of them is Dayleen. They believed they saw
a man in the background, far off in the distance
of at least to one of the other pictures, and
theorized that this man was for some reason following Daylen
and could have somehow led to his disappearance and possible demise.
Search effort included local fire departments, drone operators, community volunteers,
and even the U. S. Navy conducting a land and

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air search to find the young man, all to no avail.
A few days after he was last heard from and
reported as missing, Monday March second, two hikers reported hearing
christ for help. This information led the fire department to
continue their search into Tuesday, March third, twenty fifteen. That
particular search was suspended the same afternoon, but local volunteers

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continued to look for Daylan, combing through the mountains but
finding no sign of him. The Hikustairs have been closed
to the public since nineteen eighty seven, but are still
a very popular hike, with locals and tourists like willing
to risk fines or arrest. The stairs are in bad
shape after heavy rains and powerful storms have damaged them
to the point that they've gained a somewhat ominous reputation

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for being not only treacherous, but possibly deadly as well.
Some people believe they should be fixed, restored, and reopened
to the public, while others say they should be torn
down altogether. The fate of Daileen moulk Hua is still
unknown to this day, as is why he wasn't found
despite hikers very clearly hearing him calling for help. Was

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this actually Daileen Poola crying out for help again? We
will most likely never know. Number three Philip Krazik, yet
another unfortunate soul who decided to go out for what
seemed like a pleasant and scenic hike and ended up
not ever being seen or heard from again, even after

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being heard screaming or yelling for help. His thirty year
old Philip Kraci from Berkeley, California. Philip told his wife
he was headed out for a run in the hills
near the Mallel Ranch staging area in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, California.
He called her once he reached the trail to in
formed her that it would take him about an hour
and to let her know when she'd expect him back
that day. He was last seen running at around ten

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forty five am that same morning. Philip's wife reported him
missing the same afternoon. He had headed out for the
run when he failed to return home and hadn't been
in contact with her or anyone else to let them
know why I wasn't back yet. This was very unlike
him by all accounts. Investigators in Pleasanton stated that they
had never come across such a as our case. Either

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he got hurt and was only able to call out,
or he planned all of this and purposely disappeared, leaving
his wife and his life behind and never looking back.
This left his family and friends to wonder forever what
happened to him and why. According to his family, the
latter isn't even an option, as Philip just wasn't that
type of man and loved his life and his family.

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Philip was supposed to meet with his wife to attend
a family gather against Stockton, California. When he didn't show
up at the appointed time, his wife immediately knew something
was wrong and called the authorities. Philps said to have
lift his shirt and cell phone in his vehicle, and
although he was running with a smart watch, it was
unfortunately not equipped with GPS. With temperatures rising above one

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hundred degrees fahrenheit that day in Pleasanton, many were led
to immediately and began to speculate that the heat had
somehow incapacitated Philip on that day, July tenth, twenty twenty one.
Now this didn't make much sense his family and loved ones, though,
as Philip was a marathon runner and was well adjusted
to running under such extreme conditions as blaring heat, which

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might incapacitate most people. His cell phone showed that his
route was planned out entirely along very well maintained in
manicured trails. Though the park was packed with people that day,
not a single credible sighting of Philip has ever been reported.
Sergeant Aaron Fountain of the Pleaston Police Department, who's handling
the investigation, said, I can't even speculate on this one.

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It's very very odd. Now continue. Philip Krasik was a
family man with two small children, and also a graduate
of the prestigious Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. He was
also listed as a third year student in MIT's Urban
Mobility Lab. Philip went missing on a Saturday, and the
following Wednesday, a family hiking in the area reported hearing

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cries in a canyon near the Sunholt Post office. After
receiving this tip, two people who were involved in the
search went out to the area and heard for themselves
a man screaming for help near the canyon. Experienced hikers
in the search and rescue efforts set out to go
and see if they could hear the cause and perhaps
follow them to try and find Philip, who they presumed

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it was, and bring him safely back to his family. However,
once arriving at the fot where the christ for help
were allegedly heard by multiple people at this point, they
heard nothing and weren't able to locate Philip either. That
same night, the search efforts were officially called off, and
Philip hasn't been found as of this video being made
almost a month later. Theories run wild as to what

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happened to Philip, crazy from demented and murderous drug dealers,
taking him hostage to large felines, somehow carrying him up
trees and feasting to him, just walking off and abandoning
his life which she was said to love so much. However,
that's just what these are theories, as there hasn't been
any evidence as to if this was definitely Philip who

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was heard crying from the canyon for help that fateful day. Again,
why didn't the first two experienced hikers who were sent
out and did claim to have heard at least someone
crying for help never find him? This is another case
as completely and totally baffling and runs along the exact
vein as the previous to and the cases to follow.
We'll never know. Surely, if he was attacked and eaten

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by wild animals, there would have been some sort of
trail for either the animal searchers or even the human
ones to find and follow, at least leading to some
sort of explanation signs of a struggle, blood, torn clothing, etc.
We'll just have to wait and see on this one.
Do have an update here. While this video was in editing,
Philip was found as ceased. We'll create a new case

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update video very soon to discuss this with you. Philip,
Rest in peace, My friend number two. Linda Artaga. On
September twenty second, twenty twelve, fifty three year old Linda
Artega left her home in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and headed out
to the woods in the Arkansas oz Arts near Saint Joe.

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Linda was with her brother and they were visiting with
her sister when, somewhat ironically, her brother offered to take
her into the woods and teach her some survival skills.
She somehow became separated from him and ended up lost
in the woods for five day. The story she told
of her experience is strange, to say the least, However,
in this community, if you clicked on this video or

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you're aware of all the strange things happening in the woods,
besides all the bizarre deaths and disappearances, and if you've
been paying attention at all and can clearly see something
is wrong with not only the things mentioned above, but
also with the reports and stories of encounters and experiences
have by the people who were lost for however long
and whatever part of the seven hundred million acres of
forest and woodlands in the United States alone, then you'll

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understand why it was absolutely necessary that we tell Linda's
story here now. As soon as she was reported missing,
search was mounted in almost every single resident of Saint Joe,
which was a tiny town of not even two hundred people,
and various other volunteers from throughout the county set out
to find the missing woman. She was eventually found, relatively

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unharmed and picked up by an all trained vehicle driven
by some of these volunteers. Linda was lucky enough to
have only sustained some minor cuts and bruises, but what
happened to her affected her psychological and it was definitely
a strange story. She had to tell Chief Deputy Dwayne
Pierce stated that when she came out of the woods,
she wasn't right about her head's quote. Miss Artaga reported

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that she had survived by eating wild berries, watercress, hazel nuts,
and anything else she could find which she knew was edible.
Chulsel drank water from the creek. At night, she huddled
on the freezing cold ground underneath the trees for shelter,
praying for someone to come and finally find her. Chulso
repeatedly thanked her brother and insisted she never would have

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survived without the knowledge he had just been teaching her
about how to survive in the wild. The strangest and
scariest part of the entire five day ordeal, though, was
what Linda said she'd experienced while out there, lost and alone,
cold and afraid in the unknown woods and trails. She
claimed that while she was out there, especially at night,
she would see other people there. They would be walking

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around her along the trails or even right there in
the thick of the woods. She would ask them for
help or try to get their attention, maybe even ask
one of them if they could point her in the
direction of safety. However, not a single one of these
people even acknowledged her or looked in her direction. She
claimed people were even hiding behind the bushes like they
didn't want her to see them. Now, while in the hospital,

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she did admit that perhaps some of the berries shit
eat and caused some kind of mind hallucination, she wasn't sure.
She claimed she'd managed to stay with her brother for
three days before becoming separated from him, and knew what
she should and what she should need when trying to survive.
She's very consistent in her story. Think about the people
hiding in the bushes. These people definitely weren't part of

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any kind of search party. Why would people trying to
find a lost woman to hide so she couldn't see them.
More than that, why would others walk right past her
and then try and hide as though they were playing
some kind of strange hide and seek game? Hiding and
playing sight? Is this, finally, the proof that there are
in fact strange people who live in the woods who
either don't know how to interact with other people or

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just don't want to actually other people who aren't like them,
or who aren't from where they're from. Is this proof
of Ferohs wild men? How does this all tie with
strange missing person cases and even death we see which
are becoming so much more common year after year in
the woods. Is this what we should be paying attention
to when out searching for the above mentioned missing There

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was a statement made for the doctor Linda saw after
being taken to the hospital when she was rescued, which
validates her sanity. She was not insane. How much more
interesting that she was very picking when she ended up
being separated from a brother after three days of staying
right next to him. As we all know, this is
a very common theme among the missing people in the woods,

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the very picking or berry patches in general. But there
are those who are found and then those who seem
to be forever lost. Linda is not the first person,
or more specifically, the first woman, to report things like
this while either lost or for whatever reason, wandering the
woods alone. There are many other reports of women being

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followed or even chased by what they referred to as
men while being lost in those same woods. This is
also very common in the East along the Appalachian Trail.
Tak back to the story of Little Dennis Martin and
how family out for a hike or camping trips what
they referred to as a wildman caring something which looked
like a small child over its shoulder. There are also

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several park rangers in the United States, Dwight McCarter among them,
who have come forward since retiring and tell stories of
wild men living and even hunting in the woods for
national parks in general forested areas of her country. Is
this only going on here in the United States? Though
not at all. There's one specific report we covered in
an early video about wildmen feral humans in the woods

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where at least one park ranger was attacked by one
of these people. Now, luckily, Linda was able to keep
her wits about her despite what must have been petrifying fear,
and she made a full recovery after her harrowing ordeal
Number one Naomi Lee Widden. On November twenty fifth, nineteen

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ninety four, Dwayne Whidden decided to take his son, aged six,
and two daughters, ages two and three for a hike
in the Chattahoochee National Forest. He parked the car at
the base of a large mountain there at the trailhead,
unloaded his children, and off they went. Per day of
family fund together, Dwayne and his three kids hiked about
a mile and a half up an old logging trail

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and into the deep wilderness of the forest. Later on,
when recounting the incident of what happened and how Naomi
had come to be lost in the woods, he stated, they,
meaning his children, were in my full view, my sight
and hearing, and then she was gone. He stated that
they were all looking for signs of animals when suddenly Naomi,
only two years old, just simply vanished. There was never

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any explanation we could find of what actually happened, And
how is possible a two year old little girl in
full view of her father no less, disappeared faster than
he could finish blinking. It's like she blinked right out
of existence. Local authorities brought in bloodhounds and search teams
from the surrounding counties to aid in the search of
a small girl. Teams of volunteers and search and rescue

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headed out well into the middle of the night, looking
for Naomi and calling her name, but to no avail.
She was seemingly nowhere at all. Now, approximately twenty five
hours after she first disappeared, a man named Kip Clayton
was searching the outer fringes of the search area he
and his team were assigned to when he said his intuition,
that old gut instinct pushed him forth to go and

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search another two hundred and fifty yards forward, leaving the
official search area he was looking in. But that's when
he found her. Laying next to a large log, face
down and unresponsive in mud, muck and leaves, was two
year old Naomi Wind. He picked her up and she
let out a small moan. She was freezing cold, her

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body at a dangerously low temperature, and Kip ran as
fast as he could when Naomi barely breathing in his arms,
the approximate mile back to the command post. Naomi was
rushed to the nearest hospital and she was only semi
conscious and in a very critical condition, which she arrived now.
While eventually she fully recovered and managed to survive her ordeal,

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many questions remain about what exactly happened to her. As
mentioned before, where Naomi was found was only about two
hundred and fifty yards away from where the searchers would
have been screaming and yelling her name the night before,
all throughout the night, Why didn't Naomi respond to them?
At all, why didn't she alert them in any way
as to where she was so they could go and
help her. It isn't possible that she was faced down

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in the mud the entire time, or she couldn't have survived.
Surely she would have suffocated. So why didn't she respond?
Did she not hear them? If she couldn't hear them,
why not taking into account when trying to understand these things,
how close this disappearance was to the Great Smoky Mountains,
and how many not only have disappeared there, but we're
found face down on the ground, usually the ones closest

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to Naomi's as you're found this way, sometimes though it's
too late. Naomi was very lucky to have survived. Also,
why does a simple Google search turn up more information
about this case? Other in one document? There's not any
mention of this online anywhere. Hello friends, Steve Stockton. Here

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in this episode, we're going to take a look at
some bizarre disappearances from hospitals. Joined me, let's walk and see.
First up, we have the story of Joan Gay Kroft.
On April ninth, nineteen forty seven, the deadly is Tornado
every day at Oklahoma went raging through parts of the state.

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A monstrous and deadly Class F five was a mouse
from of wind and debris, and it ripped through parts
of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. At some point it blew
a path through the town of Woodward, Oklahoma, leaving in
its way chaos, destruction, tragedy, and death. In the end,
one hundred and eighty five people were deceased, a thousand

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more were injured, and it was the beginning and one
of the strangest unsolved mysteries in Oklahoma's history. Although many
people tragically lost their lives to the whirling cyclone of death,
there were many many more who were spared. One of
those who was lucky enough to escape death clutches was
a four year old named Joan Gaycroft. Joan's mother had

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been killed in the natural disaster and her stepfather had
been critically injured, but Jone herself had come away from
the brush with death with a non life threatening injury
in the form of a piece of wood that penetrated
her leg. She was found and rushed to the hospital
for treatment, along with her sister, Jerry, who also suffered
non life threatening injuries. There was obviously a huge influx

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of seriously injured people, some on the of death due
to the storm, and so the girls were quickly and
easily treated and then relegated to the basement of the
overcrowded hospital, as had been transformed into a shelter where
many refugees from the tornado were being housed and treated.
They were there for a night, and things were chaotic
and sad, but they got through it together. The next day,

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two men in what were described as Khaki army uniforms
went into the hospital and made their way down to
the basement. They went straight for Joan and tried escorting
her out of the basement in front of everyone else,
which by now was at least a few hundred people.
Despite the little girl's loud protests and screaming, they knew
who she was because when they first entered the basement,

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they'd ask a member the overworked and overtired staff who
she was. Asked for her by name, specifically, and the
staff member pointed her out. They didn't seem to be
interested in anyone but the four year old girl. Joanes
screamed and cried, pleading with the men not to make
her leave it. Sister and the men patiently comforted her,

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telling her that they were friends and that she would
be back there in just a few hours to collect
Jerry so they could be brought to wherever they were
going together. The hospital staff realized what was going on
after seeing the commotion and tried their best to intervene,
and as they did, the men were very calm and composed,
seemingly very professional, and they then explained that they were

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merely taking the girls, Joan first and then Jerry to
another hospital where the girl's relators were waiting for them. Somehow,
the men were allowed to leave with the little girl,
as apparently that explanation was deemed good enough for whoever
was in charge, But no one ever returned with Joan,
and she was never seen or heard from again. Nobody
ever saw the two men again either. Eventually it was

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discovered that Joan had vanished and had more than likely
been abducted, and when that happened, a major manhunt was
launched for but it turned up almost nothing at all.
In fact, her kidnaps have never been identified, and no
trace of them or Joan has ever been found. The
case gained international coverage, which meant it was a big deal.

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To the time. A time when most cases didn't get
much further than the local media and news, and in
the years to come it spawned many anniversary articles asking
what could have happened to the little girl and who
her alleged abductors were. On May nineteen ninety three, the
case was covered on the show Unsolved Mysteries, and it

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featured a full dramatic reenactment of the whole bizarre event.
Interestingly enough, many women have come forward throughout the years
claiming to be the adult Joan Gaycroft, but those leads
have never gone anywhere, and all the women have been
ruled out, either genetically or by some other means. In
nineteen ninety nine, a woman came forward to the editor

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of the newspaper The Oklahoma claiming to be Joaned, but
she then ceased all communication after the initial contact and
failed to show up for the planned meeting with the editor.
This happened again with a woman living in Canada, and
obviously no one knows whether or not either of those
women would have been the long lost little girl. Despite

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dozens of women throughout the decades who claimed to be
the little girl, none of them have ever proven to be,
and that leaves us with nothing but theories to go on.
As Joan Gaycroft is still listed as a missing person,
most people believe she was kidnapped due to obvious reasons,
but that doesn't explain the series of bizarre events that
happened leading up to the alleged abduction. Who were the men,

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how do they know about Joan, who she was and
where she was? Why were they specifically looking for her
out of the dozens of other kids who have been
orphaned or at least stranded in the shelter to the
devastation of the tornado, And why not take her sister too?
They knew her name, and so they must have known
at least of her. But what did they want and
how were they able to publicly take her yet lay

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behind no clues or trace and never be seen again.
For their part, Jones's family believes that some other family
lost their daughter in the disaster and wanted to replace
her with Joan, But just like everything else, there's never
been any proof to that theory. Simply put, no one
knows what happened to Joan Gaycroft, and more than likely

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no one ever will. Next up, we have Jerry Irwin,
another strange vanishing that has more than just a little
bizarre and unexplained element to it is the disappearance of
Private first Class Jerry Irwin. On March to nineteen fifty nine,
Jerry woke up in a hospital in Cedar City, Utah,

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with no memory of how he ended up there in
the first place. He had reportedly been unconscious for twenty
three hours, during which time he had been talking in
his sleep and saying something about the jacket on the brush.
When he came to, he asked the hospital staff if
there were any survivors, but no one knew what he
meant by that survivors of what no one knew, including

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Jerry himself. Finally, though, he became lucid enough to tell
his story, and it seemed like his memory was coming
back to him. He told the staff that he had
just been off on a leave of absence and on
his way home from Napa, Idaho, going to Fort Bliss
in El Paso, Texas, where he was stationed. He said
he was a technician for Nike Air Missiles, and that

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after he had reached Cedar City, he had been driving
along Route fourteen when he looked up and saw what
he described as a strange pulsatic object in the sky.
He pulled over and got out of his car to
try and get a closer look at what he was seeing,
and he thought that at first it was a large
airplane coming in for possible emergency landing. Jerry then wrote

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a note, which he put on his car windshield that said,
have gone to investigate possible plane crash. Please call it
law enforcement officers. He also scrawled the word stop on
the side of his vehicle to try and get who
was passing by to stop and read the note, thereby
calling attention to it and alerting the authorities about it.
He simply scrawled the word stop and shoe polish and

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then walked off to investigate the strange side of the sky.
A fishing game inspector came along and found the note
some time later, and after alerting the Sheriff's office, a
search party was launched, both for Jerry and for the
alleged plane crash he claimed him gone to investigate. When
he was brought to the hospital, no one could understand
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woken up by any of the usual means, and there
also seemed to be nothing physically wrong with him either.
When he did finally wake up, he claimed that his
jacket was missing, but that he otherwise felt perfectly normal,
if not a little tired and confused. He was then
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there he could be observed for four days, and after
that he was put back on duty and into circulation.
Not too long after count his duties, Jerry began suffering
random fainting spells while on duty, and fearing for his health,
his superiors at the base made him go and get
evaluated again at the hospital. He fainted again, and when

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he woke up at the hospital he was said to
have been in a similar state to when he had
first been there a few weeks earlier. He woke up
suddenly panicked, and once again started asking the hospital staff
if there had been any survivors. It seemed like he
was having some sort of flashback, and when he woke
up that time, he thought he'd been waking up originally

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meeting Jerry. Irwin was completely unaware that any time had
passed at all between when he left a note on
his car and woke up. He didn't know he'd been
on duty for all those weeks. Or that he had
been fainting. He had no memory in all the previous weeks,
and in his mind it had only just gone to
investigate a possible playing crash. He was kept at the

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hospital for a full month for observation, and was then
once again released back on base into active duty. The
very next day, he suddenly left base without permission and
got on a bus to al Passo, stopping at Cedar
City and disembarking. He then headed directly to where he
had originally parked his car on the side of the

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road and to the same area where he'd originally been
investigating what he thought was a possible plane crash. He
apparently found his jacket and inside one of the pockets
was a pencil shoved inside of a buttonhole with a
piece of paper entwined around it. Jerry purportedly burned the paper,
but then came out of whatever trance he was seemingly in,
then returned to the road. He was picked up there

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by the local sheriff. The sheriff told Jerry what had
happened to him, but he had no recollection at all
of leaving the base, where as to why he had
traveled back to that very spot. He also had no
idea what was on the paper that he burned, or
why he had burned it in the first place. Jerry
Irwin was subjected to another extensive st psychological evaluation, but

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when no further answers could be found, a deeper analysis
was ordered. He was once again put into Beaumont Hospital
for tests an additional evaluation, but then he was almost
immediately released again. As soon as he was released, he
once again went awall without any warning, and he hasn't
been seen or heard from since. So what happened to

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Jerry Irwin? And why was he seemingly so obsessed with
that particular location on the side of the road. Why
had he gone back there? What happened to him initially
that made it so he was so knocked out that
even the usual methods of waking someone up from a
stupor proved useless when used on him. How and why
had he been so entranced that he had no memory

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returning to that spot, or why he had burned that
piece of paper. If he was tranced or knocked out
or both, then by whom and why? There's so many
questions here, but with no answers, it's impossible to understand
mostly anything about this case and what happened to Jerry
himself after he went missing again. Why was he continuously

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released from the hospital, And if it was really because
nothing could be found to be wrong with him, then
what was going on with him? One of the main
questions is how did he end up that hospital in
the first place, But again, we'll probably never know, and
there's been no new information about this case, though conspiracies
and rumors run rampant around it. Still to this day,

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Jerry Irwin is still listed as a missing person. Next
Benita Chamberlain. On February thirteenth, nineteen seventy eight, a young
mother to be named Benita Chamberlain, who was only twenty
four years old, arrived at the Sacred Heart General Hospital
in Eugene, Oregon, seemingly in labor and ready to give

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birth their baby girl. Benita had gone into labor five
weeks early, and the premature infant was immediately put into
intensive care as she ought for her life for a week.
Beanita dealt with it wonderfully by all accounts, and when
she went back to the hospital to visit her little
girl after having been released herself a few days earlier,
she was told that her daughter was doing great and

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was becoming very strong and healthy. In fact, the baby
girl was doing so well that the hospital surprised Anita
by telling her she would be able to take her
daughter home that afternoon. Benita was incredibly excited and relieved,
and she immediately went and called a friend to tell
them the good news. That was the last time anyone
ever heard from her. When she didn't return home that night,

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she was supported dismissing and the authorities launched a search.
Her car was quickly found and it seemingly had been
abandoned at a nearby bottling factory, and it didn't take
long for them to find her purse, which had been
discarded in the parking lot of the University of Oregon.
The last time anyone saw she was driving out of

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the parking lot of the hospital after being given the
good news about her daughter. Her newborn daughter, and Benita's
two oldest daughters were all left behind with no answers
and without their mother. Authorities thought they saw the mystery
a week later when they made a gruesome discovery. They
found the remains of a murdered woman stuffed into a
plastic bag and then dumped into a garbage bed. However,

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it turned out to be someone different and had nothing
to do with Benita, So what happened to Benita Chamberlain
is still a mystery to this day, and she is
still considered a missing person. Next Tavish Sutton. An equally
strange disappearance happened on March sixth, nineteen ninety three, when

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a one month old baby named Tavish Sutton was admitted
to the Hughes Spaulding Pediatric Unit of Grady Memorial Hospital
in Atlanta, Georgia. Tavish had been admitted in order to
have an abscess removed, and after a routine minor surgery,
he was sent into a semi private room to recuperate
and rest because his mother was being treated for secon

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chiatric problems at a mental institution at the time. Tavish
was released back into the custody of the Department of
Child and Family Services, as he had been living with
a foster family since he was released from the hospital
after being born. His biological mother didn't even know her
new baby was having surgery or that he had been
admitted into the hospital that day. Three days after that surgery,

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Tavish Sutton would vanish without a trace. In the early
morning hours around six forty five am on March sixth,
nineteen ninety three, a nurse checked on him and found
him to be doing well. She returned to the room
fifteen minutes later, and the baby was simply gone. A
thorough search of the hospital in a surrounding area turned
up nothing at all, and the nurse was the only

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one who had entered or left the unit at that time.
Some sources say she's the only one that left the
hospital at all that hour on that day. No suspects
ever turned up, and because his mother hadn't even known
he was there in the first place, and because she'd
been under the care of staff at the institution she
was in with her whereabouts throughout the entire day being
known and verified, she wasn't even considered a suspect, nor

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were any of her or Tavish as other family members.
A lawsuit was filed against the hospital, and it resulted
in a six hundred thousand dollars settlement, but no leads
were ever found as to what became of Tavish Sutton,
who was only one month old at the time of
his disappearance. The main theory in the beginning was that
a woman who would show up at the hospital pretending
to be pregnant all the time had somehow abducted him,

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but this was never proven, and that lady too had
an alibi and wasn't able to be considered a suspect
in this case. How did an almost newborn baby vanish
from such a public place in the matter of a
mere fifteen minutes. Tavish Sutton has never been found, and
there hasn't ever been a single lead or clue as
to what happened to him. Well, friends, there you have it.

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Hospitals are places we go when we're injured to some extent,
and we expect to leave them healed and complete. For
the people we've discussed here today and so many others
throughout the world, hospitals have been their final destination before
passing into the strange world of bizarre and mysterious disappearances.
Where did these people go and what happened to them?

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How could a person so completely disappear so suddenly and
leave behind absolutely no trace at all of what happened
to them or where they ended up. Hospitals are very
public places that are staffed by thousands of people in
some cases, So how does something like this even begin
to happen? Those are all great questions, but unfortunately they

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will most likely forever remain without answers, at least in
the majority of these. I look forward to your comments
on these cases, but please be friendly and respectful until
we meet again. Be good to yourselves and each other,
and I'll see you just a little further on down
the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you

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next time. And please tell your animal I said I