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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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.
Do you have theories on any of these? If so,
please share, We'd love to hear them. Jared Negerze, thirteen

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year old Jared Negrite was a boy scout who was
on his first overnight backpacking trip. He was last seen
on Friday, nineteenth of July nineteen ninety one at about
six pm, when he fell behind his fellow scouts on
a hike to the summit of the eleven five hundred
foot Mount San Gorgonio in the San Bernardino National Forest
southern California. Another group of hikers spotted Jared straggling behind

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and notified the scout troop leader at the mountain summit,
but the leader had experienced hiker said he would pick
up Jared on the way down. When the leader finally
decided to said the mountain, Jared was nowhere to be seen.
As soon as the troop leader realized that Jared had disappeared,
he accompanied his five other scouts back to the base
camp and then hiked about five miles in the dark
to get help, Sam Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies, along with

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search and rescue teams from afar at way As, Sierra Madre,
and San Dimas, began searching one hundred and thirty square
mile area of the San Gorganio Wilderness, a rocky tree
lined terrain. Within three days, their search was focused on
a six square mile area where a footprint to believe
to match one of Jared's high top tennis shoes was found.

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Searchers also discovered beef, jerky and candy wrappers believed to
have been dropped by the scout, and most importantly, his
camera was located. On the film role were twelve pictures.
Most of the photos were landscape scenes, apparently taken before
Jared went missing, but the final picture on the role
of film was a photograph of the scout's eyes and nose,

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taken with the aid of the camera's flash, possible at
night after he disappeared. Family members said it appeared Jared
had pointed the camera at his face and snapped the picture.
It seemed possible that the boy had lost the camera
while sliding down a portion of the mountain side. At
least seventy officers, some of whom were lifted by an

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helicopter into the forest, and horseback riders as well as
helicopters of infrared were deployed. Over the next two weeks,
as many as three thousand people had logged forty five
thousand hours scouring fifty square miles of the San Bernardino
National Forest from Agelus Oaks to Whitewater Canyon. Almost thirty
years later, no other clues to Jared's disappearance of surface,

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and he remains missing. Casey Hathaway and the Bear. Three
year old Casey Hathaway disappeared from his great grandmother's backyard
on January twenty fifth, twenty nineteen. Casey was playing with
two other relatives in his great grandmother's backyard the day

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he went missing. When he didn't come inside when the
others did, his family started searching for him. After forty
five minutes past, his grandmother called nine one one. He
was walking in the woods back there and we can't
find him, his great grandmother told the nine one one dispatcher.
The other ones came through the house but left him there,
and he walked off somewhere and we can't find him.

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Search and rescue teams from across the state immediately came
together to brave the treacherous terrain and low temperatures, hoping
to find a Casey. Three days later, 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

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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, the
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

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that matters is that something was there to come for
Casey during the three days he was missing. Carol van
Hola hereie o Ca van Hola went missing on June
twenty eighth, nineteen fifty nine, in the Dickinson County Picnic
Grounds in Michigan. Vanjula's had four daughters and took them

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to the Dickson County Picnic Grounds at Norway Lake for
an afternoon of outdoor fun. Carol's mother was reading the
group for dinner when she noticed Carrol was missing. After
a quick search, law enforcement was notified. A large scale
search was conducted using five hundred searchers, a helicopter in canines.

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Although the canines picked up on her scent, they would
then lose it. About thirteen hours into the search, the
search and rescue team could a faint cry from a
child in an area heaving laden with swamping underbrush. Authorities
found Carol. The previous September, a four year old boy
had vanished under similar circumstances, but he was found dead

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of exposure four days after he went missing. Carol was
taken to hospital with scratches and signs of exposure. David
Gonzalez David Gonzalez disappeared while camping with his family in Fonskin, California,
on July thirty first, two thousand and four. David asked

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his mother if he could have the truck keys. There
was a box of cookies in the truck and he
wanted a treat. The vehicle was only fifty yards forty
six meters away, and his mother watched him as he
walked to the parking lot near the Big Bear Lake
campsite in northern California San Bernardino National Forest. She turned

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her back for a second, and when she looked around again,
David was gone. David's mother reported that she heard no
sound at all while her back was turned, though she
did see a baige truck speeding out of the campground
around the time that her son went missing. Since there
were no signs of abduction, authorities did not pursue that lead.

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The cookies that David went to get were still in
his family's locked vehicle, so he never made it to
the truck. Rescue teams in San Bernardino County scoured the
woods for David. They found no signs of struggle or
of the boy. The search went on for nine days,
but rescuers never found him alive. In twenty fifteen, hikers

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stumbled upon David's remains about a mile from his family's campsite.
Authorities chalked this up to a mountain lion attack. But
how could a mountain lion have silently dragged a nine
year old boy a mile without leaving any blood or
signs of struggle. Surely David would have screamed and cried out,
but Nobody at the campground, including his mother, reported hearing

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or seeing anything. 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, Ambrose was sitting
in the lounge with her father when he briefly left

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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 in a location
that had been extensively searched the previous day. How the

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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. 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

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her family were camping. Catherine apparently was playing with her
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 Porder Chadwick was part of the

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search party that found Catherine. He told the Pittsburgh Press
that when he found her, she walked stoically 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

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yards from the road. How did Catherine survive in the
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.

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Larry Jeffrey. In nineteen sixty six, a young boy by
the name of Larry Jeffrey disappeared near the peak of
twelve thousand foot Mount Charleston in the Humboldt Toyabi National Forest,
just a short drive from Las Vegas. The search began
immediately after Jeffrey wandered away from his brothers, and within

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days the National Guard and a team of bloodhounds had
joined the search. When Jeffrey disappeared, he was wearing light
clothing and authorities were doubtful that he could survive the
cold temperatures of the desert at night. Searchers found and
lost the trail a few times, and they discovered evidence
that Jeffrey had been eating insects and forged berries along

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the way. Overall, around one thousand people searched for sixteen
days but never found him. One searcher said it was
though Jeffrey had just walked into oblivion. Douglas Leg. On
July tenth, nineteen seventy one, eight year old Douglas Leg

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was on a hike in the Adirondack Forest Santanoni Reserve
when his uncle spotted poison ivy and told Douglas to
put on long pants to protect himself. Douglas quickly headed
back towards the family's cabin, which was a straight and
short distance away, but he never returned. Unlike a lot
of the kids who have gone missing in the National parks,

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Douglas was very familiar with these woods. His family owned
the cabin where they were staying and described Douglas as
a mini woodsman because they all hiked there together so often.
Douglas disappearance sparked one of the Southern Adirondack's largest search
and rescue missions, with more than six hundred people searching
the woods. But like David with Gonzales, Douglas left no trail.

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Unlike in the Gonzales case, though rescuers used dogs in
their search. Some accounts describe dogs following douglas scent over
a thirty mile trail through difficult terrain. How could a
young child, even when experience in the woods, have traveled
alone for such a distance. The family became so desperate

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to find Douglas that they began suspecting each other and
even close friends, of abducting Douglas, but investigators were certain
that Douglas had simply gotten lost. It's been nearly fifty
years and Douglas has never been found. Alfred bill Hearts,

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five year old Alfred bill Hearts is the first accorded
drowning in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, though whether Alfred
actually drowned is controversial. On July nineteen thirty eight, Alfred
had gone on a fishing trip with his parents and
ten older siblings for the Independence Day weekend. Alfred was

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with his family on a trail near Fall River when
he fell behind the rest of them and vanished. A
search began immediately and expanded to more than one hundred
Civilian Conservation Corps members within forty five minutes, but there
was barely any sign of Alfred anywhere. The authorities originally
believed Alfred had fallen into the river. They dammed it

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up and dragged it for six miles, but didn't find
any sign of him. Bloodhounds tract Alfred sent five hundred
feet uphill before they reached a fork in the trail
and lost the scent. A couple hiking in another part
of the park six miles away and twenty five hundred
to three thousand feet higher in elevation than the spot
Alfred disappeared from reported hearing a cry and seeing a

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small boy resembling Alfred on a high ridge in a
treacherous area called the Devil's Nest near the top of
Mount Chaplain. By the time investigators arrived there a day later,
the boy was gone. An extensive ten days search involving
one hundred and fifty volunteers turned up no indication of
the child's whereabouts. Due to the passage of time since

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Alfred's disappearance, this case is no longer being investigated. He
was never found John Doe and his robot Grandma. On
October first, twenty ten, three and a half year old
John Doe, as he's being reported, and his relatives were
camping by a popular fly fishing location near Mount Shasta.

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Around six pm, the child's parents realized their son had
suddenly gone missing. According to mister Doe, his youngster was
there one second and gone the next. They scattered the
area he had last been seen in complete panic. Stricken horror,
hours of feverishly searching, the little boys still had not
turned up. Now desperate, the distraught father decided to call

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local police deputies in the United States for service officers.
Rescue personnel calmed the forest well into the night, yet
there was no sign of the doddler. Five hours after
John had disappeared, authorities found him laid down on the
brush directly next to a trail that had been previously searched.
He appeared to be in a dazed, semi conscious state.

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Mister Missus Dowe attributed this to exhaustion and were simply
grateful that little One returned physically unharmed. Medical staff gave
full clance, so the freshly reunited family were permitted to
return home. Everyone's lives quickly went back to normal. Yet
only a few weeks later, the small boy would share
a disturbing tale about his terriforing ordeal. One day, Little

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John's grandmother, Kathy, who he called Cappy, was playing with him. Suddenly,
he looked towards her and said that he didn't like
the other Grandma Campy. Confused, she asked him what exactly
he meant. Little John explained that while he was lost
in the woods, he'd been taken deep inside a mountainside
cave by woman he thought was Grandma Campy. She led

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him into a cool, dark, spider infested room filled with
motionless humanoid robots. Scattered across the floor were dusty purses, guns,
and other various types of weapons. As John anxiously faced
his grandmother, he noticed an eerie light radiating from her head.
In this moment, he realized she was not as real Granny.

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Grandma Cappy firmly and stroked the boy to defecate on
a piece of paper. When he refused, she became increasingly
agitated and repeatedly requested him to do so. Eventually, the
grandma looked alike, succumbed to frustration and moved on to
a different topic. Allegedly, she informed Little John that he

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had been planted in his mother's womb and was actually
from outer space. Shortly after this extraordinary account, she took
the boy back outside to a thicket and advised him
to wait for help. Upon hearing this disturbing story from
her grandson, an outraged Grandma Kathy called her son and
demanded to know what he was allowing her grandchildren to

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watch on television. Mister Doet lamented that he had heard
an identical recollection only a few days prior. Initially, the
two chalked it up to an overactive imagination. Yet the
more Grandma Cathy thought about it, the more Little John's
story perplexed her. What kind of TV show would feature
some of the ludicrous topics that the boy was describing.

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Even more chilling was the idea that she might have
some kind of doppelganger assuming her identity in order to
abduct innocent victims. With those particular thoughts in mind, Kathy
decided to share a haunting experience of her own. Only
a year before, she had gone on a camping trip
within close proximity toward Little John's Ordela occurred in the morning,

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she awoke face down in the dirt. Somehow she had
been inexplicably removed from the sleeping bag within her tent
and transferred a short distance away. Upon rousing, she felt
an intense pain at the base of her neck. Two
punctured wounds were present, and the surrounding skin was red
and inflamed. Another friend who accompanied her on the excursion,

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suffered a matching affliction. The pair originally attributed these injuries
to a possible spider bite. Both Kathy and her travel
companion became violently ill. In fact, she was so sick
that she could not even muster the strength to pack
her things. Her mind raised as she desperately tried to
recall what happened mere hours ago. Only one thing surfaced,

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glowing red eyes. While she was drifting into slumber, she
remembered seeing several creatures gazing through the darkness. At the time,
she assumed they were produced by a herd of deer.
Following this traumatizing outing, Cathy felt completely drained of her
creativity and emotions. Several months would pass before she felt
like her old self again. Admittedly, Grandma Cappy would have

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dismissed her episode had Little John not come forward with
his first hand encounter. Now, listeners to this channel are
no doubt familiar with the legends of lore pertaining to
Mount Shasta that existed throughout the centuries. We've done a
video about it. The indigenous peoples of the area chronicle
the fallen race of prehistoric giants that were set to
inhabit the region. Others claim beings known as Limerians used

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local caves as entrances to an underground crystalline city called Tellos.
Some allege a large energy vortex as present within the territory.
In modern times, there are many UFO and big Foot
sightings reported each year. Though twenty six thousands flocked to
the Severed Mountain from countries across the globe, there have

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been an alarmingly high number of curious missing person cases
within this picture esque right, my Little John Doe's incident
seems unbelievable. It's important to consider the odd history and
happenings afflicting this area. An open mind may be the
only thing that will finally resolve this age old mystery.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Helicopters flew over the rugged mountains near Lincoln, New Hampshire
for four days, and search and rescue crews went out
looking on foot, but it wasn't until Friday night that
a couple of amateur hikers found seventy year old Chris Staff.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Let's just get discerning to you.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
I got on the wrong side of there was a
washouts and things like that, and uh, I couldn't find.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
The right path.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
I'd see people across the river and you know, tell
them I'm in destroy and one guy told me to
come across, and you know, I thought I had it.
I thought I had somebody who's gonna help me. I
don't know if they were real or not, because across
the river and nobody's there.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Lost in the woods for nearly a month, twenty five
year olds Lisa Faris beat all odds, living off berries
and mushrooms and drinking from creeks to survive.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Back from the dead.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
When I woke up and didn't comprehend what had happened.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Hiker Michael Nepinsky was lifeless when Navy crews found him
in Mount Rainier National Park last weekend, lost overnight in
below freezing conditions.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Just complete wide out.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
The rescue team flew him to Harbor View Medical Center
in Seattle when his pulse stopped, doctors jumping into action,
administering CPR after forty five long minutes, finally jump starting
his heart.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
I'm extremely grateful everybody here at the hospital for not
giving up on me.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
I'm alive and breathing and.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
Well.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
The big question police are asking tonight is still simply
how forty nine year olds Constantino Stanny Philippinus wound up
missing here I'd Whiteface Mountain and turned up alive nearly
three thousand miles away six days later in Sacramento, California.

Speaker 8 (21:28):
Amanda Eller, a physical therapist who was lost on a
hike in Maui, telling her story tonight for the first
time since she was found after going missing for seventeen days.

Speaker 9 (21:37):
I haven't even had time to think their integrator figure
out really what the heck happened? And there that's a
very grounded way to put it, getting like disoriented in
the forest. But there was something bigger at.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
Play, you know.

Speaker 9 (21:52):
So Macoell Fours in particular there's something very tricky there.

Speaker 8 (21:56):
Tonight, rescuers are calling it a miracle, a teenage surviving
eight days alone.

Speaker 10 (22:02):
In the Washington Wilderness on creek water and berries.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
Sons John Koparski and Jonas Irwin feared the worst after
rescue missions by land and sea turned into recovery efforts
for their parents, Carol and Ian family and officials say
it was thanks to the couple's background and the outdoors
that help them survive.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
It's like an herbalist, like a mushroom hunter.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
My dad with his background, I'm on here and they
know how to like find things and eat.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
So they were eating like some part of a front.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
My brother said, you know, I lost a shoe, so
I was walking with one shoe, and then I lost
the know the shoe, and I kept walking in my socks,
and then I got tired of walking my socks, so
then I was walking bare feet for a while.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
And he's seventy seven years old.

Speaker 7 (22:49):
He was laying his body flat into that awful thorny
crap which poison out you name it, so that Carol
could go over him.

Speaker 12 (22:59):
Lis ten year old Madison Papalisio never came home Sunday,
after hiking on Mount Algonquin, more than sixty people set
out to search for the Monday, fighting their way through
deep snow and rough terrain. Thirty six hours after they
went missing, the hikers were airlifted from just below the
five thousand foot summits.

Speaker 13 (23:19):
Tonight, the miraculous rescue of Cheryl Powell finally surrounded by
family again. The sixty year old who went missing in
central California's White Mountains found alive just hours ago, three
days after she vanished in the wilderness.

Speaker 8 (23:39):
A remarkable story of survival. New details tonight about a
mother from the San Fernando Valley who was stranded in
Utah's Zion National Park. I mean she was missing for
nearly two weeks before she was finally rescued.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Now, we're all familiar with cases where people have gone
missing in the forest, having left no trace and are
never seen again. But what are the people who went
missing and have returned. In many instances, these people tend
to be unable to remember what happened during their ordeal. Now,
this is understandable in the case of small children, but

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it's a common situation with adults have gone missing and
returned as well. Oftentimes, though, even those who do remember
are reticent to talk about what happened when they were missing.
Now this may sound odd, but when you hear the
stories of those who are willing to talk about it,
it starts to make more sense. Presented here are thirteen

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stories of those who have disappeared yet lived to return
and share their bizarre tales. Let's begin Robert Singly. Now,
if you ask the locals in Bennington, Vermont, they'll tell
you there's something very wrong, would last the very mountain.
That particular stretch of the Appalachian Trail has caused many

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investigators into the paranormal to come to some pretty ominous
conclusions because of all the people who have gone missing there,
never to be seen again. Some call it the Bennington Triangle,
a reference to the Bermuda Triangle, where not only people,
but planes and ships go mysteriously missing, never to be
seen again with no rhyme, reason or explanation. There are

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also tales told of a Bennington monster which attacks humans
and abducts them, leaving no trace there. Ever, there others
still talk of the Native American stories of rocks that
open up and swallow people. Hole in this place. Because
this is where the four wins meet. None of this
seemed to be of any concern though to twenty seven
year old UBC music teacher Robert Singley, when he decided

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to go for a hike one Sunday afternoon a couple
of years ago. Robert hike the trail often when he
lived in Bennington and never had any strange experiences or problems.
He hiked Harbor Road in Woodford Hollow and had a
pleasant enough time despite the cold temperature. However, while he
made his way back to his car, he suddenly became

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very disoriented. He attempted to make a fire once he
realized he was lost, and because darkness was falling, he
didn't stand much chance of making it back to his
car until daylight came. However, his attempts were futile because
the rain that suddenly started almost immediately upon Robert losing
his way. As his girlfriend at home worried, Robert struggled

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to gain an understanding of what happened why he had
so suddenly become confused and disoriented. Robert stated, I still
think I got sucked through some sort of space time continuum.
He often took these long hikes, but on this day,
fog came out of nowhere and it was instantly dark,
seemingly much before the time of nightfall. Robert couldn't explain

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how he managed to just lose the trail he was
so steadily walking on only seconds before. He spent the
night underneath the tree and somehow made his way out
the following day. He is one of the lucky ones.
This exact spot is where Paula Weldon, but Bennington College
sophomore was last seen alive sixty two years ago. There's
something about random inclement weather in these cases, kind of

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like mother Nature is playing a game. Seems that in
a lot of missing person cases, immediately once a search starts,
while weather comes in. Now, what is causing all these
seemingly healthy and someone experienced hikers to suddenly and for
no apparent reason, become disoriented and start wandering through deep
woods instead of sticking to their trails. That's a question

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we may never have an answer to, but let's move on.
Christopher's Staff. Christopher's Staff, a seventy year old man from Dorchester, Massachusetts,
went hiking alone in New Hampshire's White Mountains. He decided
to embark on the very challenging thirty one mile Pemigewasset
Loop trail with no problems or concerns. It even called

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his wife the following day and told her he would
be home by that evening. He seemed in good spirits
and as though the hike had been going well. Later
that evening, after receiving no further word from Christopher, his
wife called the authorities and reported him missing. A large
scale rescue effort was put in effect, with eighteen teams,
including nearly thirty officers and volunteers, all out scouring the

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trail and surrounding areas looking for any sign of Christopher.
Fear for his life and well being mounted as the
days passed by and no sign was found that Christopher
had even been in these woods or along this trail. However,
the following Friday, five days after Christopher had initially set
out for his high con seemingly disappeared without a trace.

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He was found just sitting on a log, covered in scratches, blisters,
and bug bites, and was only able to walk to
the rescue vehicles with assistants. When questioned about what happened,
and Christopher stated, I'm still trying to sort it all out.
Christopher was an experienced hiker of more than forty years
and thought he had been well prepared for most anything

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that would come up while he completed the hike of
a lifetime after turning seventy years old, Christopher was less
than five miles from the end of the thirty one
mile loop when something went very wrong. He says, he
suddenly became disoriented on the path and couldn't find the
right way to go. He had lost his backpack, which
contained water, and had to resort to drinking from the river.

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Now this may or may not have had to do
with him then spending the next three to four days hallucinating.
I didn't know where I was, he says. I thought
I came home. I thought I came to get my
wife's car. All kinds of crazy things. Christopher lost twenty
five pounds and was found less than five miles away
from the road where his car was left. He just

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couldn't move anymore. Even mentioned hallucinating while at the river
that he saw and heard searchers coming to get him
and looking for him. When he would blink, they would
be gone. I just kept reliving it. Christopher says he
knew Friday would be his last day if help hadn't
arrived by then. He was seemingly traumatized from the event

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and hasn't really recovered. Now, how does someone end up
hallucinating like this suddenly and now the clear blue sky?
Christopher had just turned seventy years old, but was in
great shape and healthy. So what caused him to simply
give up and sit on a rock when he was
so close to help the whole time? After all the
wondering he had done was five miles? Really that far

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for him to traverse to get to the main road?
Was whatever made him sick and disoriented somehow stopping him
from going on? What could have possibly caused such vivid hallucinations?
Story after story, it's the same thing, point of separation
or going out alone and becoming disoriented and hallucinating. Here's

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another one. Michael Saint Laurent, forty five year old construction
safety worker and experienced hiker. Michael Saint Laurent went missing
for nine days in the wilderness of the North Vancouver Backwoods.
He scribbled pertinent information about himself onto his arm. His birthday,
name and social insurance number were slopily scrawled there just

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in case he didn't make it out of the woods alive.
This all started on November thirteenth, twenty eleven, near the
Grass Mountain Skyride, where while hiking a trail, he suddenly,
without warning, became confused and disoriented, not knowing where he was,
where he's going, and what was and was not even real.
Michael's accountants somewhat confusing and even contradictory, as he states

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he was hallucinating so badly for most of the time
it was hard for him to call most of what
had occurred during his nine days or hell in the woods.
Michael had planned to hike a roughly eight hour round
trip trail. However, he was somehow held up and forced
to spend the night in the deep wilderness. Fortunately for him,
he happened to have not only a dry change of clothes,
but a tarp with him. He managed to stay at

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least partially dry and semi warm in the frigid Vancouver
winter cold. Michael Leham prepared for a two day trip,
though he expected only stay one, assuming he would be
fine and I had the game in case anything unforeseen
came up. Unfortunately for him, something did. It lasted much
longer than the two days. Though. Michael's mind was so

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foggy and muddled, however, that after becoming lost and bearing
off the main trail, he couldn't even manage to find
any kindling there in the woods, despite the ability to
make a fire by hand. For the next seven days,
he wandered aimlessly around the woods, dehydrated, hypothermic, and vividly
hallucinating NonStop. He said his hallucinations included being at work,

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driving home, and even sitting down for a meal in
his favorite restaurant. After just three days, he thought it
had been three weeks. Although there were numerous hikers who
passed through the area within view few of him, Michael
was seemingly totally unable to communicate with him in any way,
not for lack of trying, though, as he says, he
called out for help and did everything he could to

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get their attention, but to no avail. It was almost
like he was invisible to anyone and everyone who passed
him by. The only thing the searchers believe saved him
was his somehow remarkable ability to remember to cover himself
at night with the tar. At times he had even
had to crawl as he developed a condition from wearing
soaked footwear called trench foot. When speaking to the media

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after being rescued, Michael told them he had seen and
heard the searchers looking for him, but was unable to
communicate with them and gain their attention, and somehow he
claimed they had been able to see or hear him
at all. The search and rescue teams deny ever being
anywhere near the area, and Michael stated he saw and
heard them. What prompted Michael to write down his personal
information on his arm just in case? He said himself.

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It was a regular day and he had the entire
height planned out. Is it just coincidence that this is
yet another semi experienced hiker who, for one reason or another,
was separated from his group and ended up lost in
the woods. What is prompting these people to put themselves
in harm's way like this? Lisa Therais twenty five year

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old Alabama resident and radiology student. Lisa Theis had a
couple of strikes against her already as far as anyone
finding her, when she became lost in the woods in Midway,
Alabama for an entire month in July twenty seventeen. She
had severe bipolar disorder, and because of the crowd she
was recently hanging out with. Most of knew her thought
she was just trying to get away for a while.

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After not being able to reach her it all in
five days, her father eventually called the police and reported
her missing. After searching the most obvious places and coming
up with no sign of her, The police then caught
up with the last two people known to have been
in her company, who were also wanted in connection with
the robbery of a hunting lodge. When the authority finally
did catch up with these two men, one of them

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claimed the other killed Lisa and had disposed of her body.
This led investigators to bring dogs into the woods behind
a local walmart, where she may or may not have
last been seen and where the two men said they
had last seen her. The other man said she was
not murdered, but had jumped out of the truck and
ran into the woods for no apparent reason the last
night they had been with her. Because of the conflicting

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stories given by the two men and their shading and
criminal reputations, Lise decided to go ahead with the cadaver
dog search of the woods. After all, Lisa had been
missing an entire month, in the likelihood she could survive
out there in the wilderness for that long was slim. Eventually,
Lisa was pronounced dead, even if the police still searched
for her body. Two days after this pronouncement, however, Lisa

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stumbled into the road in front of a random vehicle
that just happened to be driving by at that time,
Lisa had collapsed out of the roadway and an ambulance
was called. She was completely naked, covered in sun burns
and bug bites, and it was said she wouldn't have
lasted another day had she not made her way somehow
to the main road to be found and given medical attention.

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She'd lost fifty pounds and it was considered miraculous that
she had even survived at all. Her condition was barely stable.
When she was finally able to recount her herrowing ordeal,
she gave an extremely strange and seemingly nonsensical story about
what she'd been through. She claims to have survived from
eating wild mushrooms and berries and drinking muddy and munkey

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stream water. When asked how she had come to be
in the woods in the first place, Lisa states she
believed she was drugged and left there for dead. There
is some question, however, as to how Lisa could have
survived based on her claims. Number one, she was legally
blind and didn't have her glasses. Number two, the berries

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she claimed to have beaten didn't grow in that area.
And thirdly, mushrooms are made mostly water and have no
calories at all. Also, she would have gotten terribly if
not dying altogether, from drinking the water she claims to
hydrated herself with What really happened to Lisa? How could
she meet in berries which didn't grow in the particular area.

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Was she making it all up? Or had she possibly
flipped into another dimension or something? Those are questions to
which we may never have the answers. Michael Nepenske Forty
five year old Michael Nepenske of Woodenville, Washington, went on
a hike in Mount Rainier with a friend on November seventh,
twenty twenty. The two decided to separate below the Mirror snowfield,

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with Michael snowshoeing to Paradise and his friend continuing on
skis to Camp Muhr. They were going to meet up
at a designated time down near Paradise, close to where
Michael was heading to. Suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere.
Michael reports the weather turned to extreme white out conditions,
which prohibited him from being able to see even an
inch in front of his face. Obviously, this made it

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impossible for him to go any further. He recalls taking
very small and easy steps to get himself slowly down
the mountain while still seeing nothing but the white out
conditions ahead of him. This is the last thing he
remembers before becoming confused about the next course of events.
He says he thinks he fell, but can't be sure,
as he totally blacked out and has no memory of

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what actually occurred while he was blindly snowshoeing through the
blizzard conditions. Needless to say, Michael didn't make it back
to meet his friend near Paradise that evening and was
reported as missing. Three National Park search teams went out
and conducted full searches of the area throughout the night,
and because the temperatures being sixteen degrees fahrenheit and the
white out causing minimal to know of visibility, the searches

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were called off for the night. Early Sunday morning, however,
the search teams went back out to look for Michael,
though everyone's thoughts were grim and thinking the worst at
this point. Because of the cloudy weather too, the aerial
searches weren't able to be started until late Sunday afternoon,
nearly twenty four hours after Michael had been reported as
missing by his concerned friend. Helicopter searchers finally found Michaels

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in the Nisquali River drainage, and by the time foot
searchers got to him about an hour after he was
first sighted, he was unconscious. He had a pulse, though
weak as it was when he reached the hospital, but
went into cardiac arrest very shortly after arriving. The doctors
began using the most advanced form of artificial life support available,
which included bypassing his heart and lungs miraculously or some

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say coincidentally due the location where he went missing and
all the strangeness surrounding Mountaineer itself. Michael was legally deceased
for forty five minutes, yet was able to be brought
back to life with no long term negative effects. Although
he remained unconscious for two days after his heart started
beating again, Michael did wake up and come back to life,

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suffering some frostbite and bruises and scratches, all which will heal.
Is it just a coincidence that this man, who had
all of the same bizarre and seemingly random symptoms as
so many the other cases we've talked about here, was
miraculously able to return from the dead after forty five minutes.
That's not even supposed to be possible. What is really
going on here? Danny Philippides. On February seventh, twenty eighteen,

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Danny Philippites ventured from his home in Toronto, Canada, to
the Wife Face Mountains of New York for a seemingly
typical ski trip with some coworkers. The forty nine year
old firefighter went missing on the mountain when he separated
from the group to go to his car and re
tree his cell phone, which he had initially forgotten to
bring with him. He went off by himself, figured he
would be right back and go back to having fun

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with his friends and colleagues. However, that isn't what happened
at all, and despite little bits and pieces that have
come out since, we will perhaps never really know what
happened to Danny Philippides. Despite having no memory of what
happened after he started back down the mountain to go
to his car for the phone, he believes he took
a wrong turn on a children's ski slope. The doctors

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would later confirm that he did seem to be suffering
from a head injury, but even that doesn't explain where
Danny ended up after leaving his friends to run the
quick and seemingly harmless erran. Once Danny was reported missing,
a manhunt of epic proportions set out to try and
find him. At least the six government agencies joined the
two local ski patrols and several volunteers in search. Eventually,

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more than one hundred and thirty five volunteers searched the
area he was last seen and the route he should
have taken to his car, which was still parked in
the exact same spot he had left it with a
cell phone inside, for a total of seven thousand hours,
but to no avail. How could they possibly have known
that Danny was at that time in a big rigged
truck hitchhiking across the country to California. Danny also remembers

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being dropped off in Sacramento, still wearing his ski clothes,
and with a brand new cell phone and inexplicably a haircut.
He was eventually found wandering around the Sacramento Airport Rental
car Facilities parking lot. He had absolutely no idea or
a clue as to how he ended up there or
why the authorities found him. Got the surprise of a
lifetime when they learned he was the subject of a

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massive man hunt all the way on the other side
of the country. Obviously, so did Danny upon learn the
same information. What happened in those six days, Where did
Danny get the haircut in the new iPhone? And what
could have possibly led him all the way across a
foreign country like that. More than two years later, and
these questions still haven't been answered. They may never be either,

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as Danny has since chosen to remain quiet about the
ordeal has gone back to work in Toronto as a firefighter. Unfortunately,
so many of these people who go missing and are
found under extraordinary circumstances, she was to remain silent about
what they encountered, even the ones who remember very clearly.
Is this another symptom caused by who or what is
doing this to these people? The inability to express what happened,

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or is it that there are just no words in
their vocabulary to explain what they might have seen or experienced.
Amanda Eller. Amanda Eller is a thirty five year old
physical therapist and yoga instructor who wanted to go and
explore the Macawaw Forest Reserve on the northern side of Maui, Hawaii,
on May ninth, twenty nineteen. So what was supposed to

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be a three mile relaxing hike to help her get
closer to nature ended up turning into a three week
ordeal that had her fighting for her life. Ellen was
reported missing when she never showed back up when she
said she would, and when her car was spotted parked
near a vast forest reserve in Hawaii. It prompted thousands
of volunteers to come out and start immediately searching the
vast jungles and streams in the surrounding areas. On a

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Friday afternoon, seventeen days after she first hit it out
on her hike, in less than an hour after her
family had announced a fifty thousand dollars reward for information
leading to her whereabouts, Miss Eller was found with sunburned scrapes,
a torn ligament in her knee and a broken leg.
She was malnourished, but she was alive. So what happened
to Amanda Ella? How had she become so lost so

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quickly on what was seemingly a simple and easy, relaxing
trail walk through which she had gone many times before
without any problems. Now, it's true the area of the
reserve is two thousand acres and has such thick vegetation
and brush it needs to be hacked with machetes. But
Amanda was on a trail. Here's what she had to say.
Amanda claimed she was just going on the short trail walk,

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which she had done many times before and was really
enjoying it. It was just a typical thing on a
typical day. As she went off the path at one
point to sit and rest, she became disoriented and confused.
She stated a very strange gut instinct was pulling her
into the opposite direction and the one she was familiar
with and knew was right. She decided to go the

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way towards where she thought her car was, figuring if
she just walked towards there, at least she would have
a handle on where she was at it. She ended
up hiking from around ten thirty am that morning until
midnight that night, in a desperate search for her car.
She admits being ready to just give up and stop trying.
Who claims as soon as she did, she would hear
a certain, very loud and strong, insistent voice telling her

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that if she wanted to live, she needed to keep going.
She stated, as soon as I would doubt my intuition
and try to go another way than where it was
telling me, something would stop me. A branch would fall,
I'd stubbed my toe, or I'd tripped. So it seems
the same gut instinct that seemed to initially let her
astray was in fact now leading her back to where
she needed to be, back on the right path. Many

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people have started to believe that Amanda had actually been abducted.
Her cell phone, water bottles, and wallet were all left
behind in her car. On the third day, she'd given
up looking for her car and decided to start looking
for water instead. However, she fell off a twenty foot
cliff and tore the ligament in her knee. While the
very next day she lost her shoes in a flashed flood.

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She was only wearing a tank top and yoga pants
to begin with, and the injury and loss of her
shoes slowed her down considerably. At night, she covered herself
with ferns and branches and leaves. She even spent one
night in a wild boars dead. She survivating almost anything
she could find, things that were identifiable and some that weren't.
She even ate moths that landed on her body. She

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began to crawl instead of walking, and was then confronted
with a seemingly impassable steep drop off. Meanwhile, the volunteer
searchers were going through their own harrowing ordeals, as the
search for Amanda led many of them into fast moving
streams and had them repelling into ravines. Some even killed
aggressive wild boars and searched the dead animals and testines
for Amanda's body parts. At least one searcher was attacked

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by a wild boar, but managed to get away and survive.
Amanda stated later that she had seen and heard multiple helicopters,
but despite trying her best to get their attention, they
never spotted her until eventually one did and sent rescue.
How did this woman survive so many days in the
wilderness with no shoes? And with the injuries and mother
nature seemingly against her at every single turn, could it

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have been the voice she heard, loud and clear, telling
her she must choose between life and death. If so,
who or what was it? Luckily, Amanda chose life. Gia Fuda,
eighteen year old Giovanna Fuda, or Jia as she likes
to be called, decided to go for a drive on
July twenty fourth, twenty twenty. I was headed to about

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seventy miles east of Seattle. The teenagers just wanted to
go and take a short road trip alone to clearhead relax.
For reasons it's still unknown. However, she ventured much farther
than she initially set out to and ended up far
past the city views of Seattle and into the wilderness
and wilds of a remote area of Washington State. By
one am the next morning, when her parents had received

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no response back from their many phone calls and texted Gia,
and when she herself hadn't returned home or even checked in,
he decided to call the authorities and report their daughter
as missing. At around ten am, the morning she had
left her home and started her trip, she was seen
on video camera in a coffee shop near the town
of Index. She bought a big Foot keychain and left.

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Three days after her disappearance, on July twenty seventh, transportation
worker found her car nearby that shop and reported it
to the police. He said he only noticed the car
because of the awkward way in which it was part.
After running the license plate, the authorities found that the
car was gus and it had run out of gas.
All the doors were locked, and her purse and other
personal items were left inside. At this point, the police

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started to think foul play was involved and maybe she
had been forcibly abducted. Search and rescue teams were already
out and looking for her as of July twenty sixth,
but the area made it impossible to track her by
pings because it was a cell phone dead zone. On
August first, some of the searchers found Gea's belongings, such
as her shoes, bible bag, and cell phone. These possessions

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were found near Scenic Creek, and just a little while
later that same day, Gea was found up a steep ravine,
sitting on a rock next to the river. She had
stated she had panicked when her card run out of
gas and decided it would cut some of the walking
distance off for she to cut through the woods to
get to a gas station. She said that she was
frightened and didn't know what to do, so she grabbed

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what she felt was most important that she could carry
and lock the rest of her possessions in her car.
She was found ten miles away from the nearest gas station.
She felt that walking along the high way was too dangerous,
but ended up getting lost and wandering around the forest
for nine days. She thought she was only lost for
three days, however, as she lost her sense of time.

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When she was first found, Gia just kept repeating I
don't know where I am over and over again, as
if in some sort of trance. She was eventually taken
to the hospital, though, and managed to get through the
ordeal with no long term effects. It didn't go unnoticed though,
to many people who investigate her looked further into the
case that Gad purchased a big foot key chain right
before going through this herrowing and terrifying ordeal. Coincidence or not.

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Karl Koparski and Ian Erwin married couple. Carol Koparski and
Ian Erwin, aged seventy seven and seventy two, respectively, were
staying in a cottage while on vacation in the Sea
Haven Inverness, California area in February of twenty twenty, when
on their checkout date, which was the fifteenth, came and
went without the couple ever returning home or being seen leaving.

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They went missing on the fourteenth and left belongings, including
their wallets and cell phones in their room, and their
car was also still parked where it had been the
last time they were seen. Little did they know their
careers would come in handy while trying to survive eight
days lost in the wilderness. Carol was an nervalist and
mushroom hunter, while Ian had a background in mountaineering. When

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the couple were reported missing, searchers scared the area by air,
boat and land for days, but to no avail. Finally,
on February twentieth, officials said their search efforts were now
transitioning to a recovery effort. Now usually this means they
assumed the couple were deceased and the searchers were looking
to recover their bodies. Then, eight days after they were

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last seen, but twenty second the couple were miraculously found
alive and mostly well in the dense terrain, with only
light hypothermia to recover from. Carol and Iann told authorities
that they decided to go for a simple and romantic
hike for Valentine's Day, but got lost in the dark.
They couldn't find their way back, and survive by drinking
muddy puddle water. Using to remain silent about their ordeal,

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and said they may eventually be able to tell how
they survived a terrifying seven nights in the Inverness Wilderness.
All we do know is that one point is a
bit strange. Carol willingly took her shoes off, which caused
Ians have to lay down in thick thorns so she
could use his body as a kind of bridge to
walk across. One can only imagine what they each could
have been thinking during all this, but it just doesn't

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seem to make much sense. Why not just keep her
shoes on and walk across? Also, how does someone get
so lost, even in the dark, on such a simple
hiking trail that they end up in such an extremely
dangerous and dense crossy area. Until the couple decide to
recount their harrowing ordeal, we probably won't know the answers
to this one either. Maddie Popalisio and Blake Alois. Maddie

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Popalisio and her boyfriend Blake Elois had just reached the
top of the second highest mountain in New York State,
the Algonquin, when what they planned to be just a
quick day hike very quickly went all wrong. According to
nineteen year old Maddie, everything was fine around noon that day,
The weather was beautiful, and the couple didn't foresee any
trouble at all and thought it was going to be
a regular hike through the beautiful scenery of the area.

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They couldn't have been more wrong. All of a sudden,
and seemingly out of nowhere, a fog so intense, thense
and thick came over the entire mountain, leaving the two
completely blind. They couldn't see an inch in front of them.
Does that sound familiar, Only this case it's fog, had
not the sudden white out of snow from a previous disappearance.

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Maddie stated, as soon as we got to the top,
a massive fog came over the entire summit. It was
so intense I could not see my hand in front
of my face. If I wasn't latched onto Blake, I
would have completely lost him. Then, when a sudden snowstorm
hit at the summit, the couple decided immediately that their
best course of action will be to climb back down
the mountain. However, white out conditions from the fog and

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snow premitted them from seeing the trail that they had
followed up. They linked arms and decided then to walk
towards of clearing they thought might lead to a trail
back down. Unfortunately, as soon as their feet lifted off
the rock they were standing on at the summit, they
plummeted down one hundred feet. This unfortunate turn of events
landed them on the opposite side of the summit from
which they had originally climbed up. Luckily, the couple landed

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on bent, snow covered trees and with their snowshoes tried
to climb back up the side of the mountain to
get back up to the summit and reassess the situation.
This didn't seem to be working, however, despite wearing the
snow shoes, the couple were called, even with the snow shoes,
we were just falling through massive amounts of snow, terrified
to with nowhere to go, the couple returned to the

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more secure spot they had fallen to on top of
the trees. Then they built a wall of snow to
try and block the wind and light ends back back
on fire with a fire starting kit they had with them.
The intense winds and heavy snow prevented any fire heat
from being made or generated, though, and the couple feared
they weren't going to make it out of this situation alive.
Their phones had no power or service, and they spent

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the first day screaming at the top of their lungs
for help, assuming they would be rescued by nightfall. However,
that wasn't the case. They spent two more days this way,
huddled together, keeping each other as warm as they could
with body heat, and each trying to keep the others sane.
When they were finally rescued, they were located about two
hundred and sixty five feet southeast of the mountain summit.

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Round crews eventually came upon them, still on top of
the bent and snow covered trees. The couple told of
how on the first night, Mattie couldn't feel her toes
because the freezing cold snow, and in an attempt to
keep her warm, Blake emptied out his backpack and zipped
it up around her feet and legs. Within minutes, she
regained feeling in her toes, but useful supplies such as
their knife, rechargeable crank light, and ninety percent of their

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food were lost forever in the deep snow. There were
multiple times where Mattie had fallen into snow which covered
over the top of her head, and Blake lost his
gloves pulling her out to save her life. Luckily, the
couple didn't sustain any long term injuries or effects from
their strange and terrifying ordeal. Why is it that blinding
weather always comes along in the blink of an eye
and makes hikers unable to see and therefore puts them

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at risk for major injury and incapacitation. It's the same
thing over and over again and completely defies any logical explanation.
Some may say Mother Nature is just a fickle woman
and changes her mind on a whim. But there are
others those of us that don't believe in so much coincidence.
Who wonder is there something else at play here? Cheryl Powell,

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sixty year old Cheryl Powell from Huntington Beach, California, went
missing for four days in the remote wilderness of the
White Mountains near the Nevada border. She claims the knife
wielding maniac chased her into the back country. Cheryl reported
that as her husband set up their campsite, she decided
to take their dog for a short walk. This is
when she says the man accosted her. All of a sudden,

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some guy pops out from behind a tree or something.
She said, as she described the incidents which led to
her disappearance, it was scary. I was really nervous about
the fact he was threatening to do my dog harm.
Though she admittedly bolted right away, Cheryl says she didn't
feel safe that she was alone in the woods until
at least a full twenty four hours later. Her disappearance
kicked off an intense four day search by the Inno

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County Sheriff's Department. They interviewed other campers in the area,
Cheryl's husband, of course, and they even used a loudspeaker
to call out to the couple's dog. Miley. Search and
Rescue also combed the area, searching on foot with dogs
and conducting arrow searches as well, put all to no avail.
The strange part is though, that, aside from not finding
any evidence of Cheryl or her dog being anywhere in

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the area, there were also no reports of a suspicious
person or vehicle either. Where had this man described by
Cheryl as big, burly, bald and tanned come from? Where'd
he gone? Cheryl's family very quickly started urging the authorities
to start working under the assumption that she had been abducted. Eventually,
it was mildly the dog's marking that allured the authorities

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to Cheryl's whereabouts. Aside from being very scared and extremely
exhaust Cheryl was found alive and save as for the
knife wielding attacker who initially chased Cheryl into the woods,
there have been no reports at all besides her initial
description of any suspicious person's vehicles or activities that day.
Who or what was it that chased Cheryl? Could this

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beget another reason for some of the many disappearances across
the country and even the world. Why had there been
no other reports at all about suspicious looking man? Was
Cheryl somehow the only one who could see him? Even
if so, what did he want? And why hadn't he
given chase when Cheryl initially took off? Very odd? Indeed,
did he just let her run off and didn't give chase?

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Could he have been trying to lure her into the
woods for another reason, perhaps for someone or something other
than himself. For now, we just don't have any answers.
Alma Tolman Alma Toleman, was an eagle scout and experienced
camper when he seemed to have vanished into thin air
w out of camping outing on Antelope Island. Antelope Island,
with an area of forty two square miles, is the

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largest of ten islands located within the Great Salt Lake Utah.
Alma was dropped off on the island on Tuesday, April
twenty ninth, nineteen ninety eight, and was scheduled to be
picked up by his brother that Friday, May first. When
his brother returned to pick him up, he waited several
hours as Alma's canteen and backpack were missing. His brother
assumed he had gone on a hike. Eventually, though, when

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his brother hadn't returned, Alma's brother became very concerned he'd
gotten lost or possibly edjured while out hiking. Searches of
the island and surrounding waters were done by boat, helicopter,
and ground cruise of up to fifty people. Logs were
also deployed to search, but no trace of Alma was found.
There were reports of him cashing a check in a
local walmart after he had been reported missing, and also

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surveillance footage of someone matching his description at a seven
to eleven in Syracuse. However, neither of these sightings could
be definitively confirmed as Alma, and so the investigation went on.
The strangeness of this case, however, has a total human
element to it, with it later coming out to Alma
actually did disappear on purpose to get out of moving
to Italy that June and getting married. Seems Alma had

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a case of the wedding jitters and cold feet, which
is kind of an extreme measure to disappear yourself for
those reasons. Needless to say, Alma was found alive and
well a few days later, and eventually admitting it had
all been an elaborate rous to get out of the
move and the marriage. Holly Courtier thirty eight year old
California mom Holly Courtier went missing in one of America's

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most beloved and most treacherous frontiers for two whole weeks
without being found, despite the media frenzy her disappearance eventually caused.
Nobody is really sure how Holly ended up where she did.
At speculated she was having some sort of mental breakdown
as she left her house in the middle of the
night without telling anyone where she was going. She later
stated she was seeking a total disconnect from the world

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and wanted to be completely alone by herself for a while. However,
Holly seemed to have gotten more than she bargained for,
as while she certainly got some time alone, the injuries
she ended up so there were strange enough, but her
story doesn't make much sense either. Here was what we
know about what happened to Holly Cordier at Zion State
Park and what she said when she was found on
October eighteenth, twenty twenty. She was visibly exhausted, bamished, dehydrated,

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had lost fifteen pounds, and was found to have a concussion.
What was supposed to be a brief spiritual pilgrimage turned
into a fight for her life. Her disappearance is different
because the widespread panic on the internet and the massive
amounts of police for help in finding Holly and police
from her family turned into conspiracies and hate messages so
many that the family had to cancel all social media

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accounts and even change their phone numbers. So what caused
all this vitriol towards a woman who simply wanted to
disconnect for a little while and raise her spiritual vibration.
What caused Holly to seemingly out of nowhere, get up
and sneak off like a thief of the night to
simply go for a hike. According to her family, Holly
is an experienced hiker who knows Zion National Park very

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well and is capable of surviving the extreme rigged conditions.
Holly hit her head on the sharp edge of a
tree she'd had her hammock tied to, and this happened
very shortly after arriving and starting up the first trail.
This knock on the head caused extreme disorientation. After this
blow to the head, she didn't have the energy to
move around anymore. Despite being close to a river, Holly

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refused to drink the water because of concerns about toxicity.
When found two weeks later, Holly was so dehydrated, she
couldn't open her mouth. Luckily, Holly was found alive and
didn't have any long term injuries. Their kidneys were barely functioning,
and she had an extreme like a potassium She did
make a full recovery. One unanswered question looms though, in

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both skeptics and believers of Holly's story alike. Why when
she could hear the searchers close and calling her name
when she called back to them, they never heard her. Sorry,
there everyone within feet of Holly. She was too weak
to approach them, and they never noticed her yells nor
her person sitting literally praying she would make it out
of this ordeal alive. Hello friends, and welcome to another episode.

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In this video, we invite you to join us for
a trip down the strange, strange rabbit hole that some
refer to as the Bennington Triangle. The area known as
the Bennington Triangle, which surrounds Glastonbury Mountain in the New
England state of Vermont, as a long strange history of
bizarre occurrences. This includes UFO sightings, big Foot encounters, eerie

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lights and sounds, and the triangle also happens to be
the location of several unsolved disappearances during the nineteen forties
and nineteen fifties. If that isn't odd enough, According to
Native American lore, the area's heavily cursed. The Native American
tribes of New England have always known something was off

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for the area intend to steer clear of it at
all costs. One two particularly chilling legend from the Algonquin
tribe cautions of the existence of what are described as
evil rocks in the mountains, which have the ability to
spring open and devour those unfortunate enough to step upon them. Now,
this is rather interesting, considering how people have vanished without

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a trace from within the triangle. New England author Joseph A.
Citro is the person considered to have coined the term
Bennington Triangle in nineteen ninety two while doing a radio
broadcast about paranormal and other unusual activity in the area.
According to Citro's findings, he states that the area has

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similar characteristics with the equally strange Bridgewater Triangle in the
bordering state of Massachusetts, which has been written about extensively
by cryptozoologist Lauren Coleman. The Bennington Triangle is centered around
the heavily wooded forest of Glastonbury Mountain and also includes

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the small towns of Bennington, Woodford, and Shaftesbury, and also
the abandoned or ghost towns of Somerset and Glastonbury. Over
the last two hundred years, there have been many encounters
with and sightings of a big foot like crypton in
the area surrounding Glastonbury Mountain. The locals, as well as

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paranormal and cryptosological investigators, refer to this unknown creature as
the Bennington Monster. The earliest recorded sightings of the beast
occurred in the early eighteen hundreds when a stagecoach loaded
with passengers was forced to stop its journey due to
a heavily washed out section of the stage road. The

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driver the stagecoach observed that there were very large footprints
in the mud which were way too large to belong
to any human. While the perplexed driver was pondering these prints,
the stage coach was suddenly attacked by a large creature.
It was strong enough to flip the stagecoach over onto
its side. The terrified passengers stated that they observed a

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frightening pair of large eyes peering into the overturned coach
at them before whatever the creature was screamed and then
ran off to disappear in the surrounding woods. The passengers
would later describe the monster as a large, hairy, black
creature well over six feet in height. The area has

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long been rife with tales of people suddenly going missing
within the area of the triangle. One of the oddest
disappearances was that of a man named Carol Herrick in
nineteen forty three. Eric disappeared while on a hunting trip
just a few miles northeast of the abandoned town of Glastonbury.
Although his body was found three days later, it was

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observed to be surrounded by dozens of footprints too large
for a normal person. It was also determined that Carol
appeared to have been squeezed to death. Then, beginning in
nineteen forty five and continuing for the next five years,
people began to go mysteriously missing from the area with

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an alarming regularity. A man named Middy Rivers, a seventy
four year old hunting guide very familiar with the area,
went missing on November twelfth, nineteen forty five. Rivers, who
had led many hunting parties in the area over decades,
was taking a group of four hunters to the oddly
named Hell Hollow area, which is located within the southwest

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forest of Blastombery. While leading the hunting party back to camp,
he somehow got ahead of the other four and for
reasons unknown, never returned to the camp site. At first,
the other hunters were not overly concerned, as they knew
Middy to be an expert woodsman and knowledgeable guide. When

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Rivers still had failed returned the next day, the authorities
were contacted and an extensive search was held, comprising as
many as three hundred worried locals as well as a
number of U. S. Army soldiers who had been dispatched
from nearby Fort Devons in Massachusetts. They searched through the
deep woods for eight straight days, but the only possible

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evidence found was an AMMO cartridge for the same type
rifle that Rivers was known to be carrying. The cartridge
was found in a shallow stream, and there was no
evidence of any foul play or animal attack nearby. Although
they had no luck with the extensive search effort, many
of Mitty's friends and those local to the area were sure,

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with the man's knowledge of the woods and survival skills,
he would eventually return. However, this never came to be,
and no trace of the missing guide has ever been found.
The area from which Rivers vanished is near a Long
Trail Road and Vermont State Route nine. The very next year,

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on Sunday, December one, nineteen forty six, an eighteen year
old college student named Paula Weldon went missing while hiking
in the same area around Long Trail Road, easily remembered
because she was wearing a bright red jacket. Several people
were called seeing her that day, including a shop clerk

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in Bennington who had provided her with directions, and also
a couple of elderly hikers who had been approximately three
hundred feet behind her on the trail for part of
their hike. The alarm was sounded when the college sophomore
didn't show up the next morning for her classes at
Bennington College. An extensive search was launched by local authorities

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and included more than one thousand volunteer searchers. There were
also searches conducted from the air and with the assistance
of the FBI, and a five thousand dollars reward was
off when interviewed. The elderly couple who had observed Paula,
hiking just ahead of them on the trail, stated that

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after they watched her turn a corner on the trail,
she seemed to have just vanished. Despite the extensive searches
and the offer of the five thousand dollars reward, no
trace of paul and Weldon has ever been found, and
her fate remains unknown. Exactly three years to the day

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of the disappearance of Paula Weldon, a man named James
Tedford suddenly vanished from a bus on December one, nineteen
forty nine. A military veteran and resident of the local
Bennington Soldiers' Home, Tedford was returning by a bus from
Saint Albans, where he had been visiting relatives when he vanished.

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Based on eyewitness accounts, Tedford and thirteen other passengers were
on the bus at the previous stop before the bus
at arrived in Bennington. When the bus pulled into the station,
he had somehow disappeared. His bags were still on the
luggage track, and a bus schedule was found lying open
on his now empty seat. The other passengers stated that

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they didn't see Teedford get off the bus at any
of the previous stops, and he wasn't on the bus
when it pulled into Bennington. Authorities investigated the disappearance and
were convinced that no one had seen anything and there
were no suspicious incidents which had occurred during the bus trip.
One strange and interesting fact, it should be noted that

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Tedford's wife, Pearl, had also vanished under mysterious circumstances a
couple of years prior. Now. There aren't many details about
his early life, but in nineteen forty Tadford was listed
as a resident in Franklin, Vermont, with his wife, Pearl,
who was much younger, her age being twenty eight while
he was fifty six. The strangeness began following Teedford's return

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to Vermont after the end of his second round of
military service near the end of World War II. Upon
his return, he found that Pearl had vanished, no trace
of her to be found, and the house the couple
had rented in Franklin, Vermont was found and being left abandoned.
Tedford's family claimed no knowledge as to the whereabouts of

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the missing wife and stated the last time they had
seen her was as she was on her way to
the Amco gas station in Franklin, there was speculation among
the locals that rather than having met with foul play,
she had understandably grown tired of waiting for a much
older husband to return from war and had simply taken off.

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Whatever the cause, she was never to be seen or
heard from again. Teedford was crushed and moved into the
local home for soldiers, where he still lived when he
vanished the next year. On October twelveth, nineteen fifty an
eight year old boy named Paul Jepson was the next
in the area to go missing. Jepson was last seen

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in the cab of his mother's pickup truck in Bennington,
where she had left him to play while she briefly
tended to her pigs. When the mother returned, she found
that the boy was gone. She quickly looked for him
in the nearby immediate area with no luck, after which
she reported him missing, and soon hundreds of volunteers had

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assembled to help search for the missing boy. Tracking dogs
were brought in to aid in the search for the
missing boy. The dogs were able to pick up his
scent and followed it towards Glastonbury Mountain. However, when the
scent was lost at a nearby crossroads. It was thought
that perhaps the boy had either been abducted by a
stranger or otherwise accepted a ride in a passing automobile.

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Paul's father stated that oddly enough, the boy had talked
about visit the mountain almost NonStop for the last week
or so. The area around Glastonbury Mountain was searched extensively
for the next several days, but sadly, no trace of
Paul has ever been found. Then, sixteen days after Paul

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Jepson's mysterious disappearance, a woman named Frida Langer disappeared. On
October twenty eighth, nineteen fifty Frida was camping with several
other family members in the forest near Glastonbury Mountain. Langer,
then aged fifty three, along with her cousin Herbert Elsner,
had ventured away from the family's woodland campsite to go

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on a hike near the Somerset Reservoir. They had managed
to hike just a few hundred yards from their campsite
when Frida lost her footing and fell into a mountain stream,
completely soaking her shoes and clothing. Due to the chili
fall temperature in the mountains. Frita told her cousin to
wait while she ran back to their campsite to change

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into some dry close. Her cousin stated that he waited
for what seemed like a sufficient amount of time, and
when Freda still hadn't returned, he decided to go back
to the camp to see if she was okay. However,
upon his return, he was shocked to learn that Freda
hadn't returned to the campsite at all. She had instead

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apparently vanished in broad daylight in the distance of a
few hundred yards. Brita was reported missing, and over the
next several weeks, search parties with as many as four
hundred people, including concerned volunteers, law enforcement, firefighters, and military,
as well as some aircraft, searched for her and came

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up empty handed. Sadly, the search was eventually abandoned. Seven
months later. However, on May twelfth, nineteen fifty one, Frita's
body was discovered near Somerset Reservoir, strangely enough, in an
area that had been extensive we searched many times. Previously.

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Advanced decomposition of her remains meant that no cause of
death could be determined, and her case is still unsolved
and then, just as strangely and suddenly as they had begun,
the string of disappearances stopped. Freedom Langer was the last
person to vanish mysteriously during this timeframe and the only

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missing persons whose remains were found. Other than the geographic
locations and time frame, no other connection has been discovered
that tie these cases to one another. Although some have
speculated that a serial killer may be responsible for these
strange disappearances, some blame the Native American curse or simply

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claim that the paranormalists to blame, as there appears to
be an active portal here into the unexplained. There's also
the theory that the area is very unstable due to
the unusually care chaotic and confusing wind and weather patterns
on the mountain, which can cause people to easily become
disoriented and then lost as a result. Regardless of what

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is to be believed, the Bennington Triangle is known to
be home to strange and mysterious paranormal phenomena. As well
as the aforementioned big Foot encounters and the stirring of
mysterious disappearances. There are many many reports of strange broading
orbs of light sightings of other bizarre forest creatures, and
even the occasional UFO siding. Well, there you have it,

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a small glipse into the unknown courtesy of the enigma
known as the Bennington Triangle. Hello friends. In this episode
of Unsolved Disappearances, we're discussing something a little different. While
the majority of missing person cases we cover involve our

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national parks or forests or wiess recreation areas, we offer
these following cases as proof that people can and do
go missing anywhere at any time, and this is nothing new.
It's been happening for decades. Join us as we discuss
missing farmers. Charles Ashmore lived in the town of Troy

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in New York State, United States, with his wife, mother
and minors, son who was sixteen years old, and his
two adult daughters. Now, the family was very wealthy and
respectable members of their community, depending on who you ask,
Either in the year eighteen seventy one or eighteen seventy two,
the Ashmore's moved from Troy, New York to Richmond, Indiana,

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and two years later Charles bought a farm in nearby Quincy,
which he and his family settled on. Right next to
their farmhouse, there was a creek which brought the family
their fresh coal spring water, no matter what the season.
Around nine o'clock on this particularly evening, the night of
November ninth, eighteen seventy eight, while the family all sat

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by the fire after supper, either conversing or possibly reading
a book as a family, or some type of entertainment
that happened in the late eighteen hundreds, Charles Ashmore Junior
got up from the fire and for the family he
was going to fetch himself a bit of water from
the creek. He grabbed a clean tin can from the
kitchen and walked out of the house. After waiting a

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very long time for the younger Charles to return from
the stream, the elder Charles, his father, took the oldest daughter,
Martha with him little lantern, and went off in search
of the young man. It was early November and a
light snow had fallen outside, and though it lent greatly
to the terrible cold, both Martha and Charles Senior felt
right down to their very bones. It didn't deter them.

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It seemed the snow was a blessing in disguise, however,
as in its light dusting all along the ground it
formed a path a path, which he showed the footprints
of sixteen year old Charles Ashmore Junior. Father and daughter
team dutifully followed the path the entire time, calling out
the young man's name, called to novail as there was
no returned response, and the tracks led to nowhere. Literally

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they led nowhere. The footprints of the young Charles Ashmore
Junior stopped in the middle of the way from the
house to the stream snow was undisturbed. After they had
walked about seventy five feet halfway from their front door
to the creek where they got their water. Now, as
this came to the father's attention, he silenced his daughter

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and calmly held out his lantern. Into the darkness of
the night, they decided to walk around the last few
footprints in order, if nothing else, to preserve them further investigation.
They could only imagine the stars shining as bright as
they can only laid at night on a farm out
in the middle of nowhere, full of fresh air, the
sky as dark as an abyss made their way around

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these footprints and then onto the creek. Now as they
approached the creek, it said that all the strength was
immediately drained from young Martha Ashmore, and the same can
be said for the air in her father's lungs when
they chanced upon what they saw next. The creek was
frozen over and had been for some time. It was
covered even by the fresh snow that was falling from

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the frigid coal skies above. There was no sign that
the younger Ashmore male had been there. There was no
evidence that anyone had been there, in fact, at least
not since the creek had frozen and the snow had
started to fall. The next morning brought with it not
only the warmth of the sun, but also more heartbreak
to an already devastated mother and confused family. There had

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still been no sign or word from the family's only
some hours later. It's like he was here one minute,
he went to get water, and then poof gone. Four
days passed and nothing had changed except the melting of
the snow. Miss Ashmore, Charles Junior's mother had went to
the creek to fetch herself some water. No one was
around at that time to get it, for as they

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had been previously, she had been hesitant to leave the
house and go near where her son had gone missing. Today,
though it was unavoidable if she wanted to drink. But
the closer she got to the creek, the faster her
heart began to beat. About halfway there, in fact, right
around the same area where the last footprints of her

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son were seen, even though they had been washed away
by the elements of the melting snow, she began to
hear Charles Junior's voice calling for help. Oh, as sure
as a mother could be, not just of what she
was hearing, but of what she was feeling as well.
Her mother's intuition, you might call it. She was sure

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of it. Her son was right there near the creek,
and though she couldn't yet see him, she could hear
him very well calling out for help. Oh me. However,
that the closest she got to the creek, the stranger
things became, and she called out to her son again
and again, and then silenced herself to listen from which
directions cries were coming from. It suddenly seemed like they

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were coming from everywhere, all at once, but somehow also
from nowhere, as she still couldn't see him, not a
single sign of him. Finally, the woman ran home as
fasts her legs could carry her to wait for her
husband to get home so she could tell him what
she'd heard. She was obviously very confused and nervous. After all,

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she had just heard the voice of her son calling
to her for help. It couldn't figure out where the
voice was coming from. Actually, was he calling for help?
Was he there at all? One question later on about
what she'd heard and experienced, all of which was chalked
up to a delirious woman. Unfortunately a common diagnosis at
the time. This was a mother who was so heartbroken

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over the loss of her only son and youngest child
that she had gone momentarily mad, hallucinating that she had
heard him calling to her. Now, this opinion was further
backed up, at least by some, as when she was
asked what she heard, she exclaimed that she wasn't sure
of what her son was actually saying, other than that
he was actually calling for She had stated that his

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words were entirely clear, she heard them as though he
were standing right next to her, Yet she also remembered
not understanding what those words were. Strangely, was something supernatural
going on here? Now? In the next few months, with
no discernible pattern, other members of the family would at

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random times hear the voice of young Charles Ashmore Junior
calling out for help. Though the voice always seemed to
be coming near the creek where he had seemingly disappeared,
the closer they got to the voice, the farther way
it seemed to move, until, by all appearances it blinked
right out of existence. Again, this fell in line with

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what the mother claimed of experience. One thing each person
in the family who heard the voice knew for absolute certain, however,
is that the voice they were hearing was definitely that
of the younger Ashmore. And again no one was ever
able to repeat what he had said, for though they
claim his voice was so clear it was as if

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he were standing right there at the same time, it'd
still been too far away for them to understand the words.
Even if he had been giving directions to his family,
his family wasn't able to comprehend them. No, this sounds strange.
Sounds of help calling from the creek went on intermittently
through the rest of the winter and spring, and would

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seemingly pick a family member at random to experience this
and hear these words. Come summer, though the calling voice
seemed to come at further and further intervals, until finally,
at the point of around about a year later, it
stopped altogether. Charles Ashmore Junior was never seen or heard

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from again, and no one was ever able to say
exactly what had happened to him. No one even had
a reasonable idea as to who or what the culper
could have been, so there was no choice but for
the family to move on with a devastating loss, not
only to their family unit, but to their very hearts

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and souls. Now in the magazine Fate in June of
nineteen fifty three, a very similar disappearance story was published.
Depending on who you ask, you'll hear people swear to
the truth of the legend, and still others will attest
the story has been thoroughly debunked. Whatever you choose to

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believe about what happened to David Lang and his family,
whether it be a well written story which originated in
the late eighteen hundreds, or a true account of something
that really happened to a man in the same time period,
I hope we can all certainly agree we are hearing
more and more true stories just like this in modern times.
In Fate magazine, the article was called how my Father

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disappeared and was allegedly taken straight from an interview with
the daughter of the man who was said to have
vanished into thin air. She was a witness to the
strange happenings that day and the days to come. Her
name was Sarah Lang, and the story of her father
disappearing midstep, right in front of her very eyes, is
one of legend, Whether true or not, this is what

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she allegedly told the journalists interviewing her. On September twenty third,
eighteen eighty, a farmer named David Lang was walking through
a field not far from his house. His two young children,
George and the aforementioned Sarah, layed in the courtyard between
where their mother his wife stood on the porch and
where he their father was walking in the field. Right

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at this moment in time, two men, a lawyer named
Judge August Beck and his brother in law whose name
has since been lost in the midst of diamond retelling,
were approaching the house in a horse drawn vehicle all
at once. David Lang's wife dropped twice she had in
her hands and screamed, while the two men in the
buggy stopped, open mouthed and astonished. At what they'd just seen.

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Children also frozen shock and terror. Right before no fewer
than five sets of eyes which were almost exclusively on him,
David Lang disappeared into thin air in midstep, right off
the face of the earth. Despite their hanging up very
intense search, no trace of him was ever found. There

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were no holes, no wells, no place that a man
could have disappeared. However, it said, for years after this
unexplained and terrifying incident, the family, the children in particular,
would hear the voice of their father calling out for help.
Though his words seemed to be clear, they were indiscernible,
and the children, nor anyone else who heard these intermittent

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christ make out exactly what David was trying to say.
A few years later, a circle with a diameter of
about fifteen feet appeared seemingly out of nowhere, on the
exact same spot where David is said to take his
last steps here on earth as we know it. He
was never seen again, and just as quickly as the
voices started manifesting, they abruptly stopped, and he was never

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heard from again either. Some people believe that the inability
to corroborate any details in the Lying story is the
reason so many still considered to be just a retelling
of an old fiction story written by popular author Ambrose
Bears back in the day. All the story itself is unreliable,
with no record even of a David Lying or a

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Judge Pack anywhere in the County of Sumner. The similarities
in the above cases is undeniable, however, and the ashmorees
did exist, and young Christian did go missing. It's a
matter of historical record as far as the details, though
who knows? So can each of them? These men have crossed,
perhaps into an alternate dimension? Is this why their voices

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were seemingly heard right in front of multiple witnesses as
clear as day at first, until they finally couldn't be
heard anymore or understood. It's hard to disassemble facts and
evidence in cases which took place so long ago. Any
witnesses have long since perished, and records had a way
of being destroyed throughout history, purposely or not. Example, in

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the Finst County where my father's from the courthouse was
burned during the Civil War, with lots of marriage and
death records and tax records and deeds perishing with the fire.
So in those cases, there's nothing left for posterity before
the Civil War. As bizarre as it is for someone
to seemingly vanish without a trace, it's even more strange

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and even somewhat terrifying, especially to those of us in
the paranormal community or some haught aware and think we
may have some answers or at least theories as to
what's happening in some of these cases. For this to
happen to someone in clear and full view of other people,
not only does it seem in most of these cases
that the person couldn't have possibly gotten far, but it's

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absolutely impossible for them to have gone anywhere without someone
else seeing where they went. As we on this channel
know and have come to understand, this seems to happen
a lot. Many cases have been sprouting up in recent
years as well, leading us to try and come up
with our own conclusions, hypothesis, and even just our own
opinions as to what in the world is happening not

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only here but other places in the world. If it's
in fact in this world and not some sort of
alternate reality, where are these people going to like to
close now, One of the earliest and most well known
accounts of what I like to call unconscious extinction. In
the late seventeen sixties, in a small English town named

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Captain Mallett, there lived a man in his late seventies who,
by all accounts, was crippled with an unknown disease. He
was a retired farmer and his name was Owen Parfitt.
Owen was completely unable to get around without help, and
usually this help was given to him by his elderly sister,
who was also his primary caregiver. Now, this unnamed sister

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apparently was a very good caregiver and seemed to all
who knew her to love her brother very much and
who took much joy in caring for him.

Speaker 9 (01:31:30):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
Because of his disability and inability to do anything on
his own, Owen spent most of his day's bed ridden,
but some were actually spent with him enjoying one of
his favorite pastimes. He simply loved to sit outside by
the doorway of his home, which he shared with his sister.
One very chilly and possibly rainy day, Owen was sitting
with a light jacket draped over him in his usual

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spot by the door outside of his house, while his sister,
Slash caregiver was keeping a sporadic eye on him while
also trying to get some short around the house accomplished.
Owen's sister went outside to bring him inside for lunch,
but what she found was an empty chair with the
jacket draped over it. At first, Owen's sister thought perhaps

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a neighbor had happened by and saw On who maybe
asked to be brought in, and maybe shean't heard him
calling her. You see, Owen was entirely unable to move
around on his own, so it would never have occurred
to her that that's what he did. She searched the
entire house, all the surrounding property, and then asked the neighbors,
but to no avail, Owen was nowhere to be found

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and no one had seen him. The neighbors did confirm
that they had seen no one sitting in his usual
spot with the door in front of the house all
day long, just as his sister had said, they had
seen the light jacket draped over him as well. Although
an investigation was conducted by the authorities of the time,
this day, no trace of Evan Parfitt has ever been found.

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Where did this man go? He wasn't able to move
on his own. People observed him sitting on his porch
with a jacket on, and then in the Tinklovin eye
jackets there Evan's gone, never to be seen again. Hello friends,
Today we'll be talking about unbelievable tragedies in national parks.

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On this channel, we talk a lot about the missing
people all over the world, and especially here in our
national parks in the United States. What many people don't
realize is that there are so many other tragedies that
happen on an almost daily basis that hardly anyone ever
hears about. Now, these aren't always fatality, Sometimes it's minor

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accidents and injuries. What we are presenting to you in
this video, though, are those tragedies that end in a
person or person's being deceased. What could have been done
to prevent these disasters? Well, in each case there's something different,
and maybe in some even there was nothing that could
have helped to prevent such atrocious acts of nature being

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brought about. Are these things being brought on by unseen forces?
Are there other things at play here than just terrible
accidents of nature. Let's begin in Arches National Park in
twenty twenty in the state of Utah, United States. A
woman named Esther Nakajigo known as Essie, and her new husband,

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Ludavig Michaud known as Ludo, had left their campsite and
gone to get some ice cream. What a simple act,
having a hankering for something sweet while out and about
exploring the wilderness. The fact these two were newly weds
just makes the story all the more tragic and bittersweet.
It was a Saturday, and the weather forecast called for

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a high of ninety five at a low seventy degrees fahrenheit.
Right sunny skies, just driving along, eating their ice cream
and enjoying each other's company like only a newly married
couple can. All of a sudden, though, a strong wind
blew in and an unsecured gate sliced through the car
like a knife through hot butter. According to an administrative

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claim that was filed in October the same year, the
gate missed Ludo by only an inch or less. But unfortunately,
dear sweet ass, he was not as lucky, and internationally
recognized women's rights activists originally from Uganda, the gate decapitated
her in just an instant. In a split second, she
lost her life, and her husband, originally from Paris but

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now living in Denver, Colorado, is now a widower. What
makes this tragedy even more unbelievable is the fact that
but for the price of a dollar store padlock as
He's life could have been saved. At the age of
just seventeen, she was rising to fame after being named
the ambassador of women and Girls in her home country.

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She was using the money she earned from this position
to put herself through college and fund a nonprofit community
health facility for women in the poor third world country.
In the blink of an eye, her young and meaningful
life was taken away, and her family is absolutely devastated,
even going as far as the file a multi million
dollar lawsuit against the Parks and Recreation Services. It makes

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us wonder if going missing isn't the only way the
unknown forces we speak of so often that are lurking
in our woods, forests and national parks can take such
a meaningful and precious young life. It seems like there's
something out there that just doesn't want us, or certain
people anyway in the woods. Also in June, but a

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few years earlier twenty sixteen, a man named Colin Nathaniel
Scott from Portland, Oregon, slipped and fell into a hot
spring in Yellowstone National Park. Now. Yellowstone is the country's
first ever national park. It spans almost thirty five hundred
miles and is mainly located in the state of Wyoming,
but even runs into parts of Montana and Idaho. The

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park is beautiful with guys are shooting water over one
hundred feet in the air, mud spots and waterfalls that
will take your breath away. These are surely some of
the things that drew Colin's Yellowstone in the first place.
He had no idea these very things, these beautiful and
breath taking creations of nature, would end his life. That
hot day in June twenty sixteen, Colin's sister was recording

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him with her cell phone when he attempted to do
something which is actually not legal in the park. He
straight off the designated boardwalk in the North Geyser basin
that bright and sunny Tuesday morning. Now waters there can
reach as high as two hundred degrees fahrenheit ninety three celsius.
Colin was literally boiled alive. He slipped and fell in

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accidentally while attempting to hot pot or soak in one
of the park's thermal pools. According to the deputy Chief ranger,
the whole area is geotheremically active. There's a closure in
place to protect people from doing that for their own safety.
It's a very unforgiving environment, the that being soaking in

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the hotspots as Colin was allegedly attempting to do that.
Same ranger, mister Lauren Veris, alleges that Colin and his
sister were purposely ignoring the many posted warning signs, despite
the obvious potential for real danger. His sister recorded Colin
as he reached down to test the water with his finger,
and he slipped and fell in, being boiled alive, as

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she watched on in horror, completely helpless to do anything
but screamed for help. Thankfully, his death was almost instantaneous
once he fell in. He didn't suffer, but there was
never any hope of rescue an unforgiving environment. Indeed, rescue
teams located his body later on that day. However, due

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to approaching inclement weather which we see often in missing
parison's cases, mainly a lightning storm, they were unable to
retrieve his body without risking very significant danger to their
own safety and even to their very lives. So unfortunately,
the recovery effort was held off until the next day.
But by the following day, however, search and rescue were

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unable to find any significant remains of the unfortunate young
man who just wanted to have an adventure in one
of the most beautiful and scenic places in all the
United States. Mister Veris said, Unfortunately, there was a very
significant amount of dissolving. He truly was boiled alive. Next,

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we have sixty three year old Robert Boardman, who was
hiking with his wife and a friend in Olympic National
Park in Washington State. He had to be rushed with
a coastguard in a helicopter to a hospital in Port Angeles,
where he was pronounced dead on arrival after being gored
in the leg by a wild mountain goat. Mountain goats
are not natives, but were introduced into this area in

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the nineteen twenties and could actually become quite tolerant of
the close approach of humans. The problem is, once this happened,
they become habituated and lose their natural fear of us,
and then they're apt to try and start asserting dominance
over us, which could lead to an attack just like this,
Although normally not aggressive, it is recommended that you stay

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at least fifty feet away from them at all times
and never ever urinate on a trail where there's potential
for mountain goats. Also, people who are sweating, as I'm
sure one would do during a hike on a hot
spring or sunny day, will also accidentally lure the goat
to them, as these particular goats crave salt which are
found in our urine and sweat. This particular goat, however,

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is said to have been known for its aggressive behavior,
but it was only killed after it had already attacked
Gordon killed Robert Bordenan. According to a park spokesman named
Barb Mainz, rangers had previously tried hazing the goat, which
means they tried to induce it to be frightened by
human beings again by shooting it with bean bags and
throwing rocks at it. She claimed that though they knew

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the goat had been aggressive before this incident, she also
stated that there were no incidents which warranted putting it
down until Robert's unfortunate incident. Witness has said that Robert,
his wife, and their mutual friend were having lunch on
Klahani Ridge when the goat started to approach them. It
had gone unnoticed up to this point. Robert tried simply

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showing away the animal, but it attacked him. Instead of fleeing.
After goring him in the leg, which ruptured an artery,
the goat simply stood over him, so no one else
was able to approach him until the ranger hit it
with a few rocks and it turned to finally flee.
Olympic Mountain goats are only found in North America, and
there are approximately three hundred of them in this particular

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national park. The usual hide and way from one of
these beautiful yet possibly deadly creatures is standing around three
feet tall and weighing up to three hundred pounds. Next
on Monday, May third, twenty twenty one, Mason Stansfield, a
twenty eight year old from Urey, Colorado, lost his life

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after falling into a crevis A glacier into Nawli National
Park and Preserve in Alaska. Mountaineering grangers received a report
from a satellite communication device ed a skier had fallen
into a Crevis. Mason who was an experienced skier, mountaineer
and also a mountain guide, was king with his partner,
who reported she could not see or communicate with him

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once he had fallen in, but alerted the authorities as
quickly as she possibly could to try and get rescue
out there before he passed away. Rescue was able to
reach the scene and respond within just a half hour
of the call for help going out, but unfortunately, Mason
died upon impact after falling and being found one hundred
feet below the glacier's surface. Mason's partner wasn't injured, thankfully,

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but she was taken to a nearby hospital just as
a precaution. His remains were located that same day. A
spokesman for the park stated that the accident had happened
on a tributary glacier that flows into the main Elderge Glacier.
Mason had even done some mountain guide work on this
same mountain in the Knowli before. He was a certified

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rock guide through the American Mountain Guide Association and had
spent the last six years of his life working as
a mountain guide out of Colorado's San Juan Range, as
well as in other parts of Alaska. This just goes
to show you that accidents can happen to anyone regardless
of their skill level, and you have to be not
only experienced, but extremely careful and cautious whenever you're out

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in a place where you could end up being up
against Mother Nature. In November of two thousand, in Hawaii,
Volcanos National Park rangers made a horrific discovery when they
came across the bodies of an unidentified man and woman
who were deceased and in an advanced state of decomposition.
The pair were found near a spot where lava from

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the Kilauea volcanic eruption flows out into the sea. When
this happens, plumes of steaming white sea foam erupted into
the air in a glorious show of nature. The area,
which is aptly named eruption site, is scattered with a
glassy volcanic rock called tempra. Tempra are formed and then
ejected into the air quite violently when the more than

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thirty six hundred degree fahrenheit two thousand celsius degree lava
is sated by the sea water. The bodies were located
approximately three hundred and thirty feet inland from the eruption
site and showed no visible signs of trauma. It was
first assumed that they had been struck and killed by
the flying tempra, but later on during autopsy this was

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determined not to be the case. The final autopsy report
was released two days later and showed the cause of
death was actually pulmonary endema or swelling of the lungs.
This was apparently due to them inhaling the hydrochloric acid
fumes that come off the lava. The autopsy also showed
that the advance decomposition was due to acid rain. As

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the skin was either exposed to air or only covered
by a single layer of clothing, it began to break down,
but this was not due to the natural currents of
post mortem decay. All manner of toxic gases are released
by the lava itself. These gases can include carbon dioxide,
hydrofluoric acid, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide, and with the

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lava which releases these interacts with the sea water, which
we know is what puts it out As it flows
into the waves. A bunch of other gases are produced.
The highly corrosive hydrochloric acid big one of them. In
the ten years between nineteen ninety two and two thousand
and two, there were forty five serious injuries and forty
five fatalities reported within Hawaii Volcano's National Park, and this

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doesn't even include the minor injuries also reported any those
years from seemingly simple and somewhat common culprits and also
from some extremely strange and bizarre means as well. In
two thousand and two, stricter safety guidelines were implemented and
efforts to better educate tourists about safety when visiting the
islands and the volcanoes were put into effect. Unfortunately, this

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was too little, too late for this deceased fair who
still have no name to date. Next, the body of
Patrick Madura, a forty three year old man from Elgin, Illinois,
was found de ceased and being eaten by a black
bear in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Patrick had
been camping alone, but it is yet undetermined whether or

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not the bear had mauled and killed him, or he
had died of some other cause that the bear just
happened to stumble across his remains. Patrick had a back
country camping reservation for multi night trip and was scheduled
to stay alone in the Hazel Creek area until September eighth,
twenty twenty. Three days after he was supposed to vacated
Site number eighty two, backpackers came across the empty tent

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and discovered a bear not too far away scavenging his remains.
The bear was found to be very healthy and weighing
about two hundred and thirty one pounds. Now, the Great
Smoky Mountains are home to approximately fifteen hundred bears, most
of which are not known to behave aggressively toward humans.
On the rare occasion, a bear does show up propensity
for aggression and shows a high risk or a threat

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to visit or safety, it's euthanized by park services. The
Great Smoky Mountains National Park had visited by approximately eleven
million people per year, and the park implements a verse
of conditioning techniques for the bears, are working hard to
ensure that they don't become food conditioned or habituated to
high use aias. This tragedy took place in September of

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twenty twenty, and as yet, there have been no autopsy
results publicly released concluding whether or not the bear was
the cause of mister Madua's tragic death. The bear in
this case was put down by park range and Israeli
teenager tragically died just two months past his eighteenth birthday
in Yosemite National Park in California. On September fourth, twenty eighteen,

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Mass student Tomer Frankfurter from Jerusalem was on another adventure
as the outgoing team headed to America before starting his
compulsory service in the Israeli Army. Tomore joined a group
of other tourists who were headed to the Mist Trail.
This is a rigorous five point four mile hiking route
which takes travelers to the cliffs directly above the Nevada Falls,

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which is five hundred and ninety four feet high. After
finishing the hike to the top and stopping to take
in the breathtaking scenery and views from there, the group
had lunch and decided to head back. This is when
Tomer took off his backpack and handed it to another hiker,
saying he wanted to pose for a memorable photograph before
they left. He then proceeded to climb over the cliff's

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edge in order to take the ultimate selfie. Other hikers
in the group were terrified and began shouting for Tomar
not to do it and to come back away from
the edge. In the blink of an eye, everything changed.
Within just seconds, he was dangling hundreds of feet above
the jagget and deadly rocks below. Before the others in

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the group could even realize something was wrong, Tomar started
shouting for help. Everyone ran to his aid and tried
to pull him up and back over the edge. They
pulled him by his arms and wrists with all their might. However,
he was unfortunately sweating profusely and slipped right out of
their grasp. The group of tourists watching horror as the young,

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intelligent man with his whole entire life ahead of him,
felt hundreds of feet to his death. Tomar had graduated
early from high school, and at the time his death,
had already completed two years of college at Hebrew University
in Jerusalem. He was in the United States only a
visit for a few weeks, and was staying with a
friend who lived in Fresno, California. He had gone to

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the park that day with a friend he was staying with,
but had somehow become I'm separated. When Tomer met up
with another group of students from Israel, Germany and a
few other countries on the shuttle bus in the park.
The large group of students that all decided to hike
the mis trail together. Tomar had explained to these other
kids that he was waiting for the perfect opportunity to
duplicate a photo taken by tourists in Brazil when they

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commonly taken a place there called Telegraph Rock near Rio
dejan Arrow. Visitors there hang from an outcropping, making it
appear as though there are thousands of feet above the ground.
In reality, though these photos are taken only approximately three
feet above a trail. It's a trick of the camera
and it's unknown whether or not Tomer was aware of
this when he risked his life to duplicate the photo

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and take the ultimate selfie. Unfortunately, there was nothing that
anyone could do. Young man had died on impact. In
six years between twenty eleven and twenty seventeen, approximately two
hundred and fifty nine people all around the world have
died while attempting to take selfie. Their average age was
twenty three, and three quarters of them were male. According

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to a study published in the Journal of Family medicine
and primary care. The most common cause of death for
these people was drowning, with most being swept into the
ocean by large waves. The second was transportation accidents, like
being hit by a bus or train, and the third
largest cause of selfie deaths was falling from extremely high heights.

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It was suggested by a Vietnam vet and platoon sergeant
who is also an expert in hiking and a tour
guide among wilderness trails in areas as diverse as Rwanda
and the Grand Canyon, named Michael Giglieri, that Yosemite and
other national parks update their cautions of danger with today's
youth and technology in mind, perhaps even mentioning taking care

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and maybe even thinking twice before taking selfie photographs. The
Yosemite Park Service declined to comment on Tomer's death or
any part of the incident, except to say they will
not be taken Giglieri's advice anytime in the near future
and will not be updating their safety signs in warnings. Finally,

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in April of twenty nineteen, a sixty nine year old
woman plunged two hundred feet to her death in Grand
Canyon National Park. Rangers responded to a call for help
on the Grand Canyon Rim. However, the rescuers just couldn't
get to the woman in time. Her body was found
below a rocky point near Pipe Creek Vista on the
South Rim. A group of approximately fifteen rescuers used the

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park helicopter to recover her remains. Cynthia Aclee lived in
the Phoenix suburb of Peoria and Arizona, United States. Cynthia's
was just one of the many deaths that take place
due to accidental falls in not just Grand Canyon National Park,
but in parks all over the country. In Cynthia's case,

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a rare weather event caused by warm and cold masses
combining caused a total cloud inversion which filled the entire
Grand Canyon the clouds in a short amount of time,
and this is what is believed to be the reason
she fell so quickly and without any warning. Well there
you have it, folks, What do you make of these sad,

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strange deaths? If you do go to the national parks
this summer, be careful, don't take risks. Obey those signs.
They're there for a reason. We want you to go
and enjoy yourself. International parks for us in wilderness areas,
but live to tell the tale.

Speaker 9 (01:53:31):
We begin with a long and worrisome night for some
valley mothers and their sons after their sons failed to
return from a camping.

Speaker 14 (01:53:38):
Trip South Carolina this morning. The search continues in the
Upstate for a missing boy scout in Greenville County. Authority
say the boy was separated from his troop during a
hike at Caesar's Head State Park. Sheriff deputies and helicopters
have joined in on the search.

Speaker 1 (01:53:53):
Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode. In this video,
we're going to discuss not only tragedy of kids who
have seemingly vanished into thin air, never to be seen
or heard from again, but boy Scouts, children who are
taught to survive any and all allegedly of Mother nature,
snares and traps. Every case is different, and all of
them were completely tragic in their own way and as

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a whole. Here is folks boy Scouts who vanished while
out in the wilderness. Some were found alive and unharmed,
and others weren't so lucky. But all these cases begged
the question what could have happened to have made them
seemingly forget their training and lose track of either their
course or their sense of whatever it was. Why does
this keep happening? Let's begin with the disappearance of Garrett Bardsley.

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In August of two thousand and four, a twelve year
old boy named Garrett Bardsley from Elkridge, Utah, was on
a scouting camping excursion with approximately eighteen other boy scouts
and six or seven adult chaperones when he went missing
and seemed to have just vanished into thin air. The
group was spending time in the rugged Uenta Mountains. The
scouts and chaperones had gotten the campsite on a Thursday

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and had originally planned to leave after staying two nights
on Saturday morning. On Friday night, at around eight pm, however,
Garrett had gotten his pants and shoes wet while fishing
in a nearby pond. Because of this, his father, who
was one of the chaperones, sent him back to camp
alone to grab himself a dry change of clothes. The
campsite was a quarter of a mile from the water

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and was a distance of no more than fifty paces
from the fishing spot. The trail from the water to
the campsite was well traveled, well established, and very easy
to navigate. Garrett's father and the other adults involved were
not worried at all about the twelve year old's ability
to make it to the camp and back without any trouble.
This young man was a boy scout, after all, and
had been trained on and prepared for almost anything that

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would come his way in the wilderness, or so everyone thought.
Garrett himself was confident he would be right back, and
went on his way to go and grab dry socks
and pants, and nobody thought anything more of it. When
he hadn't returned. After a little while, however, else became
concerned and started to look for him, wondering if perhaps
he'd gotten hurd or turned around somehow along the trail,

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either to or on the way back from the camp.
His father, Kevin, walked the short trail back to the
campsite to see what was taking his son so long
to return and make sure everything was okay. He didn't
see his son or any sign of him, but he
did report thinking he heard his son calling for him.
He was calling Dad, but Kevin never located the source
of the yelling. He continued on his way as he

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wasn't sure at this point if his son was missing
or not yet. More than two hundred searchers and volunteers
would eventually scare the area well into the night and
early morning hours of the following Monday, and still found
no sign whatsoever that Garrett had ever been there, let
alone made it back to the campsite the following Wednesday, though,
approximately five days after he had gone missing, they did

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find a tiny piece of evidence. A single sock Nike
brand was found in a boulder field approximately a mere
half of a mile from where his father had last
scene ambishing with a group. Sock appears that it was
taken off of a wet foot wadded up, very consistent
with what we know about Garrett, Summit County Sheriff Dave
Edmund said, given the area where the sock was found,

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Sheriff Edmund said, it lent credence to the assumption most
people were making that Garrett must have sought shelter from
the frigid overnight temperatures after getting lost or turned around
on the trail. They believed he had perhaps gone into
a boulder field or some similar type of semi protected area.
Says not to be exposed to the alments, assuming he
still had on wet pants and socks. Sheriff Edmund said

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when the sock was initially found that the boy at
that point was presumed deceased, that they would continue their
efforts mainly in and around that specific boulder field, to
try and recover either some more clues or hopefully at
least his body. Garrett was last scene wearing tennis shoes,
a black hoodie, a T shirt underneath, and a pair
of sweatpants. Because the distance he was meant to travel

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was supposed to be such a short and simple, the
twelve year old took no backpack or provisions to get
him through any length of time lost out in the wilderness.
The search effort was diminished within the week and scaled
back to fifty professional search and rescue personnel. They searched
both by horseback and on foot. The authorities reported that
they believed Garrett had become somehow and for some unknown reason,

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disoriented on his way back to the camp, and with
temperatures reaching a low of eighteen degrees fahrenheit that night,
he sought shelter somewhere like a crevice or boulder field.
Since bow hunting season in Utah started, the hunters have
been told to be on the lookout for the boy
or his body, and authorities will have hung missing posters
near the trailheads. Posters were also given out to local

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businesses in the area in the hopes that someone will
eventually come across something that will lead to the recovery
of this young boy who went missing so quickly while
running a fairly easy and seemingly innocent errand while out
with his father and friends on a scout camping trip.
Although the official search was pretty much over after the
first week, Sheriff Edmunds stated, we're never going to stop looking.

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Even after the official searches were called off, Garrett's family
had not given up hope, and his parents, brother, and
sister appeared on The Oprah Show in November of two
thousand and four to talk about Garrett and his strange
and sudden disappearance. Garrett was always the kid who had
the most fun. He was the one that made us laugh,
said Garrett's father, Kevin Bardsley. His mother, Heidi stated, it's

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been very hard every day. It was hard to have
nightfall to know it was one more day that we
didn't find Garrett. We would have grown men that would
come back to camp just in tears and say I'm
sorry we didn't find him today. Since two thousand and four,
there hasn't been a single sighting or additional shred of
evidence as to the whereabouts of Garrett Bardsley. His father

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leaves room for the slight possibility that a mountain lion
or other predator animal had gotten a hold of his
son and killed him, but there are others who believe
he crawled into a cave or something similar seeking shelter
from the cold weather overnight in that area. Despite it
being summer, temperatures dropped significantly once the sun went down.
There have been many different theories put forth as to

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what could have happened to this young boy. Everyone involved
or an agreement about one thing. Nobody believes he is
still alive or even that he was from very shortly
after he went missing. Whatever happened to him, it's believed
by most that had happened by the end of the
following day after he vanished. Garrett's parents told Oprah that
there's never been any evidence at all that he had

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been abducted. They believed that it would have been nearly
impossible for an abduction to have taken place. His father stated,
we were in two and a half almost three miles
back into rugged area. I don't blame myself so much
as I wish I would have called out. I've also
realized that I can't do that. It's not productive to
do that to find my son. If I spent all

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the time doing that, I wouldn't get anything done in
order to find Garrett. Searchers were off in the winter
due to the inclement weather, but the family and authorities
are still hopeful because of the hunters that roam about
in the area regardless of any inclement weather that may
stop searchers in their tracks. Garrett's disappearance prompted several educational
appearances about the perils of the wilderness and how quickly

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what happened to Garrett can happen to anyone, and what
to do in case of an emergency out of the
woods in several elementary schools in Summit County, the area
in which all this took place. Garrett's family had a
tradition of traveling to do was described as humanitarian work
over the Christmas holiday, and his parents stated that they
were still going to honor that tradition in Garrett's name.

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He was looking forward to going to Ecuador to work.
His father said, we never thought we're going to be
building a school at that time. He is referencing the
fact that the family was planning on building a school
to honor the boy while in Ecuador that season. Heidi
stated that the building of the school and the work
Garrett was so excited for has been helping the family
heal and focus on other things. She said, it's the

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memories of her son that get her through the most
difficult time. I've learned that I can't choose experiences I
have in my life, but I can choose how I'm
going to handle them. We could have let this tear
family apart, break up our marriage, but we chose to
make something positive out of it. As her voice broke
and tears started to flow down her cheeks, she continued
with I know he knew that I loved him. The

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last time I saw him, he gave me a big hug.
That's what keeps me going through this. I can still
feel him squeeze me to this day. There have been
no additional clues or evidence found as to the whereabouts
of Garrett and his family still hope that he has
found one way or another so they could at least
know and have some closure. Next, we have the disappearance

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of Guy Howard Heckel. Guy Heckel was a member of
Lynn County Boy Scout Troop number one oh one in
early February of nineteen seventy three, and he and his
fellow Scouts were out camping at Kawana's Cabins, which run
along the Cedar River located between Palo and Toddville, for
an overnight retreat the true for playing a game of
Capture the Flowing When eleven year old Guy was last seen,

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it was Saturday the third, at approximately eight pm, when
the boys were running around playing the game and everything
seemed fairly normal. During bed checks later that night, it
was discovered that Little Guy was missing. After an initial
search by fellow troop members and the chaperones, which came
up with nothing and lasted approximately ninety minutes, he was
officially reported missing to the Lynn County Sheriff's Office late

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that same night. Reserve deputies as well as those already
on duty that night, combined with the Marion Police and
volunteers from the Civil Defense searched all night through the
backwater and trails, despite the ice in treacherous weather. Guy
was last seen wearing a light blue nylon quilted parka,
striped multicolored maroon jeans and chuckle boots. The next day, Sunday,

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February fourth, searcher found a blue parka which was later
identified by Guy's mother Nancy, as belonging to him. It
was still zipped at the bottom. In addition to five
hundred people searching by foot that day, there were all
terrained vehicles, horses, a helicopter in a fixed wing aircraft,
all out looking relentlessly for any sign of the young
man or or he could have ended up. Once it

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became dark on the fourth, the search was called off
and resumed at first light the next day. On Monday
the fifth, a bloodhound and a special search and rescue
team all the way from California joined the now two
hundred and fifty others searching in hopes of finding the boy. Initially,
during the trip, the weather was supported as being mild
have her. Very shortly after it was noticed Guy was missing,

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snow started to fall. Investigators initially theorized the boy could
have slipped falled into the river and drowned, but also
said they believed something else could have happened, like foul
play or some sort of human element being involved. Guy
Heckel was considered a good student by his teachers. He
was in the fifth grade at the time his disappearance
and lived with his parents, Nancy and Howard, as well

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as his two older sisters, who were twelve and thirteen
years old at the time. Guy's still zip to Blue
Parka is to this day the only single shred of
evidence ever found. Guy's cousin, Mike Mason, stated that the
the family believe the boy was abducted or than they
believed he drowned, need mainly to the fact that his
body was never recovered. It's alleged that at this time

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in the early nineteen seventies, news reports were consistently coming
out accusing Scout leaders of less than honorible intentions, with
the young boys left alone in their care Now. The
game the boys were playing, Capture the Flag, as defined
by Wikipedia, is a traditional outdoor game where two teams
each have a flag or other type of marker, and
the object is to capture the other team's flag located

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at the team's base and bring it safely back to
your own base. Enemy players can be tagged by players
in their home territory. These players are then, depending on
the agreed rules, out of the game, members of the
opposite team, sent back to their own territory, frozen in
place until freed by a member of their own team,
or in jail. There is a variation of this game
that includes a jail area in addition to the flag

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on each team's territory. It sometimes suggested that the players
wear dark colors even while I'm playing at night, in
order to make it harder for the opposing team members
to catch a player trying to obtained the flag at
the end of the day. Though there's no proof of
what the news reports were saying, at least none specifically
pertinent to this case, and it was only mentioned as
Guy's cousin was alleging this is the way the family

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was viewing the disappearance. There's been no evidence of any
of the troop leaders or anyone on the camping trip
that night had anything at all to do with Guy's disappearance,
and by all accounts, everyone involved helped to search an
investigation to the best of their ability and cooperated to
the fullest. The family's reasoning stood that this game is
dangerous to play while in the dark, wearing dark colors,
and being made to stand alone in a dark place

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where you weren't allowed to move if this type of
predator were in the vicinity. There is no new information
on this case, and to this day, Guy's family still
wonders what could have happened to him all those years
ago during what was considered at the time to be
a completely innocent case of a boy Scout doing what
they all did, having fun with friends and learning how
to stay safe in the wilderness in cases of danger

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or emergency. Next up, Alvin Nelson. In September of nineteen
sixty one, seventeen year old Alvin Nelson was hiking in
the canyons of Zion National Park in Utah with fellow
troop members of his Boy Scouts. While much of what
actually happened at that time is unknown, his younger sister,
Dora Lee, remembers hearing something over the radio which sent

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chills down her spine that she would never forget. She
said she was at home in Salt Lake City, Utah,
in her backyard, watering the plants and listening to the radio.
Suddenly there was a report of a massive flash flood
in the Narrows, which she immediately thought as were her brother,
Alvin and his best friend, Frank Johnson, were on their
scouting trip. Five people were swept away that tragic day,

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but neither the body of her brother nor his best
friend were ever found. Dora Lee went on in an
interview to talk about how Alvin was the man of
the house, their father having left the family when they
were small. It was dor Lee, Alvin, and their mother,
and they were most of the time a happy and
normal family for the time. Unfortunately, their mother passed away
in nineteen ninety six without ever knowing what became of

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her son, who was swept away apparently so long ago.
Dor Lee also talked about the hope she carried with
her all that time, the time up until she finally
found some semblance of an answer as to what had
happened to her brother. She said over the years she
would think things like, maybe something else happened, maybe they
were able to get out, maybe he hit his head
on something. In god amnesia. Without a body, you always hope.

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It takes years and years before you actually believe they've
got to be gone. The pain was always there. Then
fifty one years later, in two thousand and six, she
finally got an answer when authorities matched DNA to a
skull fragment that was found by a man swimming in
the Virginia River. The DNA matched out and her brother,
so at least a small part of him had been found.

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He had in fact been swept and washed away and
was simply never found for all those years. She said
to the NWS. It's kind of a nice birthday present,
but after so many years, it really doesn't bring closure.
It's been a long time. Dor Lee had turned sixty
six right as the news came of the DNA match.
It was only about nine at the time. Her brother
disappeared from her in her mother's life forever. She's married

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now and has children of her own, which she adopted,
but says there still isn't week that does go or
has gone by, or she hasn't thought of her older
brother and how much she has missed and loved. Springdale
Police Chief Kurt Wright grew up in the area near
the canyons, and you tahk with the flood happened that
fateful day, and said, the flood of sixty one is
legendary in that particular area. He went on to state

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that it was something that was always on the periphery
of his mind as well. What happened to those boys?
He said, Where had the bodies gone? He said. When
the man brought the skull piece to the police, his
thoughts immediately went to the missing boy scouts who were
swept away that day. Alvin included, he stated, that's the
only thing that's never really been solved here. We've had

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numerous drownings since then in the narrows, but we've always
recovered the victims. He explained that he and the local
medical examiner had discussed the finding of the skull piece
and what it could mean, what the implications could be
for opening such old wounds. The fragment sat in the
evidence room as the chief was constantly reminded of how
costly DNA testing was, and that for such a small

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piece and no thought of exactly who it could belong to,
it could end up being a waste of time and
money that sat for all those years. He learned a
while later about free DNA testing being done by the
University of Texas to any law enforcement agency who may
be in need of such a favor. This is when
he decided the time was right, and he submitted the
skull fragment for testing. They were going to find out,

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one way or another whether or not this had anything
to do with the missing scouts. He tracked down relatives
of both Alvin and Frank Johnson, and then shipped it
all off to the university. He received word about Frank first,
it wasn't him. Two days after that, he got the
call that the DNA had matched missing boy scout Alvin Nelson,

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and contacted his sister, who had given the DNA sample
in the first place and was most probably waiting with
baited breath for an answer. One way or another. Dor
Lee planned on picking up the remains and bearing them
beneath a headstone purchased by her mother before she died.
In the event something like this should happen, Alvin, or
at least some small part of him, would finally be

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put to rest. Chief Wright said, it's nice to bring
some closure to at least one of the families. It's
a great feeling, but it was hard to deliver the
news to the Johnson family. At least dor Lee can
get some closure now and move on. It's just amazing
they can extract DNA from something that's been underwater for
fifty years and in the sand and mud. It's been

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a fascinating case. Although the state has been discussing further
archaeological digs in the area, most likely in an attempt
to find what has happened to the rest and still
missing and simply vanished, she Fried is doubtful anything else
will turn up. Dor Lee also stated, you'd think after
all these years it would be put to rest, but

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all the stress and the frustration just comes right back.
I find this all very spiritual. This case just goes
to show that it's never too late, and as our
DNA technology becomes more advanced as each year passes, who
knows what other cases we've discussed throughout the community and
on this channel specifically will come to be solved, And

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finally we have the bizarre disappearance of Jared Negreete. July nineteenth,
nineteen ninety one, was a day filled with excitement for
twelve year old Jared Degree. Jared was a member of
the Boy Scouts and was getting ready to embark on
his first overnight backpacking trip into the wilderness. The group's leader,
Dennis Knight, along with the excited group of young boys,

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entered the San Bernardino National Forest on July nineteenth and
headed from Mount San Gregonio. The group's leader, Dennis Knight,
along with the excited group of young boys, entered the
San Bernardino National Forest on July nineteenth and headed from
Mount San Gregonio. Reports indicate that the group were planning
to hike to the summit of the mountain, which happens

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to be the tallest in southern California. Unfortunately, the group
would soon be struck by a tragedy that has left
Jared's family in the dark for over thirty years. At
around six pm, Jared fell behind the pack as they
were hiking the trails and passed towards the summit. At first,
his disappearance wasn't noticed as a sea of bodies walked

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towards the summit. Some outlets report that Jared got tired
during the hike and was instructed to stay behind and
wait for the group. While the truth is murky, the
story of what happened next remains consistent. As the troops
settled down for the night, setting up camp and placing
their tents Jared's absence was noted Dennis Knight immediately some

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of the authorities. According to Night, the plan was to
hike up the eleven five hundred foot mountain the next morning,
with a group making a base camp at a dry
lake just a few miles away from the summit. With
Knight realizing that j Yared was missing, a wide scale
search in the area was conducted, with local law enforcement
and search and rescue agencies quickly joining in on the search.

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According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the search for
Jared spanned over sixteen days, costing around five hundred thousand dollars. ATVs,
dog units, helicopters, local law enforcement, and search and rescue
crews all scoured the land around the camp and where
Jared had gone missing, but failed to find any sign
of the boy. Interestingly, during their search, they did find

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some bizarre items that were later confirmed not to belong
to Jared. They found a microwave, obbin, cannabis plants, a
boy scout shirt, a backpack and a canteen, and a
wallet containing one hundred and thirty dollars. If these items
didn't belong to Jared, who did they belong to and
why were they left abandoned in the wilderness. It seems

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that Jared's case has more questions than answers, even after
thirty years. The two thousand plus volunteers who took time
out of their life to help search for Jared managed
to find a few clues. While searching, they found candy wrappers,
beef jerky wrappers, and footprints made by Jared's shoes as
well as his backpack. Was Jared a victim of foul

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play or perhaps he'd been kidnapped. Kidnapping was later ruled out,
and another mysterious clue would lead some to believe that
something otherworldly was involved with Jared's disappearance. During the search,
Jared's camera was also found, and while most of the
pictures were the local landscape, there's one photo that vividly
sticks out. In the photo, Jared's eyes and nose can

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be seen, and some people believe that something is lurking
in the background of the photo. The police theorized that
Jared had taken the ominous last picture at night and
that the strange background is caused by Jared's camera flash. Unfortunately,
despite logging over forty thousand man hours in the search
for Jared, no sign of him has ever been found.

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His parents still desperately search for the truth of what
happened to their little boy. As with most unsolved disappearances,
there are a plethora of theories. While the most prevailing
theories believe that he either fell down a hill or embankment,
or simply got lost in the park and succumbed to
the elements, there are also those who believe that the
bizarre and unknown forces in the national park have something

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to do with Jared's disappearance, as there are hundreds upon
thousands of people who disappear in our national parks each year.
Jared's parents believe that his body is possibly amongst boulders, rocks,
and dirt, but this theory has never been confirmed. Jared's
family still hold out hope that one day they will
save a phone call that their son will finally be

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reunited with them, one way or the other. Now, the
missing person epidemic not only affects just the US, but
the UK and many other parts of the world. Thankfully,
most missing people are discovered alive and well, but some
cases remain cold and unsolved, whether that be for a
few years or even decades. So take a walk with

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me now as we explore these six change cases. Number
six Craig Freer. Craig Freer was your average seventeen year old.
He was going into his senior year at high school
and was the co captain of the school's football team.
Craig had also picked up a part time job and
was looking ahead to the future, and his future was bright.

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There were a few colleges interested in offering Craig a
scholarship for his sporting abilities, and the world was truly
his oyster. Unfortunately, any chance at a bright future was
taken away from him one fateful day in June two
thousand and four. His sudden disappearance would turn the lives
of his family upside down, and as recently as twenty

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twenty one, the New York State Police are still actively
investigating and chasing down new Leeds. Craig's parents were happy
when they heard he'd picked up a part time job
at the Price Chopper supermarket in Glenville, New York. Craig
picked up a few shifts, which somehow he managed to
fit into his schedule. On Sunday, June twenty seventh, two

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thousand and four, Craig walked out of his home for
what would be the last time as far as his
parents were concerned. He was headed to work. His mother, Veronica,
had seen him carrying his uniform with him to his car,
But when Veronica arrived at the supermarket where Craig worked,
just a few hours after he'd left for his shift,
she was shocked to find no sign of him. She

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was even more shocked to learn that Craig hadn't been
working at the supermarket for quite some time. Whether it
was shame, embarrassment, or something else that made Craig guide
the fact that he got sacked, we'll never know. His
parents were of course very upset that Craig had lied
to them, and they called Craig's girlfriend to see if
she knew who he was. At first, she said she

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had no idea, but after a second call, she caved
in and admitted that he was with her. Veronica gave
Craig a stern talking to, telling him that he needed
to come home right away and that they needed to
have a chat, the sentence that every teenager dreads hearing,
Craig said goodbite his girlfriend and left her apartment located
in Scotia, New York. According to his girlfriend. She watched

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as he walked towards his car, but then at the
last minute darted off in the opposite direction. What had
scared Craig and why did he run away from his car?
Surely if he was in danger, the best thing to
do would be to head to the car and drive
away or go back inside. According to reports, Craig ran
into the nearby woods, and this is the last confirmed

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sighting of him. From here, all we have are alleged
sightings and a few new pieces of evidence that may
finally help his pieces puzzle together. When Craig failed to
return home to have a chat with his parents, they
waited and waited and waited. As the hours ticked by,
It eventually dawned on them that something just wasn't right.

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Craig was in trouble, but it wasn't like him to
run away and leave without telling his parents where he
was going. Some people naturally lean towards the flight side
of the fight or flight feeling, but his parents knew
he would have to come home at some point, But
at some point never came, and by five pm that day,
Veronica had picked up the phone and reported her seventeen

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year old son missing. It appears that the investigators weren't
all too interested at first, as is the case with
most missing young people, after hearing about their disagreement earlier
that day, they believed that Craig just wanted time to
cool off and that he would eventually come back. Unfortunately,
ours turned into days, and when the investigators found that

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he didn't have his phone or wallet with him at
the time of his disappearance, they agreed that something was
wrong and began to further investigate. Those investigators found that
Craig had left his wallet and forty dollars behind in
his house, something he would have needed if he planned
on spending a few days away from his family. His
driver's license was also missing, However, his parents explained that

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it had been lost before his disappearance and he was
in the process of getting a new one. So without money,
ID or driver's license, it was clear that Craig wouldn't
have gotten very far. All he had was his car,
but that had been left abandoned in the parking lot
of his girlfriend's apartment complex. So where was he? Investigators

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hit a big lead when interviewing witnesses from that day.
A group of teenagers came forward to tell the police
that they had seen Craig, or at least someone matching
his description, walking along the railroad tracks behind his girlfriend's
apartment complex, shortly after he was seen entering the woods.
It appears that they tried to engagement in conversation, but
he motioned for them to be quiet and then just

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kept on walking. This event stuck in their mind due
to the strange behavior and the bizarre nature of the incident,
and it wasn't until news of his disappearance was made
public that they connected the dots. Armed with this new lead,
investigators began searching up and down the railway line behind
Craig's girlfriend's apartment, but no sign of him was to
be found. As the days pressed on and the investigation

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began to heat up, officers with dog units and ground
teams were sent to the area where Craig was last seen.
They also sent units to the Mohawk River, wondering whether
he had gotten injured and fallen in but all of
these searches turned up nothing. It seemed as if Craig
had vanished into thin air, as if he were here
one moment and then gone the next. Greig's family and

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friends were all administered polygraph tests, and it appears that
everyone passed, although as we know, polygraph tests are a
debatable technique in and of themselves and are not admissible
in court in most countries. Hundreds of hours of interviews
were conducted, but nothing ever came to fruition. How could
a bright, promising seventeen year old just vanish into the woods.

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Searches continued for Craig and have done so over the years,
although they have been majorly scaled back, of course, Craig's
family are still desperately seeking answers, of course, and two
years after he disappear, the New York State Police became
involved in his case. In twenty twenty one, a new
lead was discovered and investigators hope this is the clue

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they need. One of Craig's co workers at the Price
Shopper supermarket told investigators that sometime between June twenty seventh
and July second, two thousand and four, he saw Craig
in the passenger seat of a car traveling north on
Route fifty in Glenville. According to this witness, the car
stopped at the traffic lights on Sheffield Road before turning left,

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and that's when the witness lost sight of the car.
This sighting has not been confirmed as if yet. However,
it is the largest piece of information in regards to
Craig's whereabouts that's turned up lately. Greig's parents have never
given up and are hoping that one day they will
learn the truth about what happened to their son. Craig

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Freer is described as a white male, red hair, brown eyes,
five foot eleven inches tall and weighs approximately one hundred
and ninety pounds. He was last seen going into the
woods behind the Cambridge Manor apartment complex in Scotia, New York,
on June twenty seventh, two thousand and four. When last seen,
he was wearing a white short sleeved T shirt, blue

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jeans or jeene shorts by Adida's tennis shoes with three
black stripes, and a gold chain with the Saint Christopher medallion.
Craig also had all four of his wisdom teeth removed
in April two thousand and four and may wear his
facial hair in a goateea. Anyone with any information is
as to please contact the New York State Police at

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five Poet eight six three zero one seven zero zero
number five Jeremy Alex Twenty eight year old Jeremy Alex
was doing well for himself. He and his girlfriend were
in the process of moving in together in Northport, Maine,
and he was working as a self employed landscape gardener

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in Lincolnville, Maine. When not at work, Jeremy enjoyed skateboarding
and playing the guitar, and spent much of his young
adult life traveling around in the US and had even
gotten involved with the organization Greenpeace at one point. By
all accounts, Jeremy seemed like a fun, loving free spirit
who was great to be around. In April two thousand

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and four, Jeremy turned twenty eight years old and was
a keyp point in his life. Has previously mentioned, he
and his girlfriend were getting ready to move in together
and they were excited to start this new chapter in
their lives. On April twenty third, two thousand and four,
Jeremy's parents drove from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to his home
in Lincolnville, Maine to celebrate his twenty eighth birthday that

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had just passed. They sat down for a meal, spoke
about Jeremy's upcoming move and talked about any possible plans
he had for the future. Sadly, however, his parents' world
would be turned upside down just twenty four hours later.
On April twenty fourth, two thousand and four, the day
after Jeremy's birthday dinner with his parents, Jeremy arrived at

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his girlfriend's house at around eleven am to help her move.
From the moment he arrived, she could tell that something
was off. The once happy, smiling Jeremy had been replaced
with a scared and paranoid person. Jeremy was very frustrated
and blurted out to his girlfriend that quote bad people
were after him. No amount of consoling or comforting could

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change Jeremy's mind, and he decided to leave instead of
staying to help her move. This in itself was incredibly
bizarre and very out of character, and the following events
of that day would bring about even more questions. At
around five twenty pm, a woman saw Jeremy running out
of the woods and into her back garden on Pound
Hill Road, a mile and a half from Jeremy's new

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home that he was in the process of moving into
with his girlfriend now. This woman also happened to be
an old teacher of Jeremy's and she recognized him readily.
She got closer to him, trying to console him and
ask him what was wrong. Again, he rambled off that
bad guys were trying to hurt him, and she reported
that it appeared as if he was hallucinating. The woman

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called for her husband, who ran out into the garden
and kept Jeremy there while she called the police. The
couple noticed that Jeremy was clutching money in his hand.
By the time the woman had gone inside to call
the police, Jeremy had broken free from her husband's grip
and took off, running into the woods once more. Other
witnesses reported seeing a man fitting Jeremy's description on Route one,

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and after this he's never been seen or heard from again.
The police quickly arrived at the scene and took statements
from the husband and wife duo. The next day, Jeremy's
van was found abandoned near Pound Hill Road at the
Waldo County Humane Society. Inside the van where his keys
and phone, but sadly no sign of Jeremy. Searches of

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the woods where Jeremy's car had been found were conducted,
but no sign of him could be found there either.
Investigators then began interviewing his girlfriend and found out that
Jeremy may have fallen into old habits. Jeremy was in
recovery from drug addiction, and according to his girlfriend, in
recent months he had unfortunately relapsed. Jeremy's girlfriend also stated

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that on the day he disappeared, he had been using
illicit substances and that he had been experiencing these paranoid
states for a while, and that she and his friends
were concerned for him. Was Jeremy's disappearance and his ramblings
about the Bad Men substance related psychosis or was someone
really after him? In September of two thousand and four,

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a full five months after Jeremy disappeared, a contractor in
Jackson Mane reported seeing a man fitting Jeremy's description again
coming out of the woods. According to this workman, the
man he saw was acting erradically and strangely and couldn't
seem to understand what was being said to him. Apparently,
this kind stranger offered the man some food, but Jeremy,

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if it was Jeremy, refused. There was also another possible
sighting in October two thousand and four, where someone claimed
to have seen Jeremy in the woods and is Head, Maine.
After that, Jeremy's case went cold for another four years,
and then in April, his case took another bizarre turn.
His driver's license was found to be in the possession

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of a couple living in Northport, Maine, the area that
Jeremy was in the process of moving to with his girlfriend.
According to this couple, they had begun building their house
in May of two thousand and four, and over the years,
random items that belonged to Jeremy began washing up on
the shore near their house. The couple held on to
the driver's license and some money that washed ashore, and

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it wasn't until years later that they connected the dots
to Jeremy's disappearance. What's even more bizarre is that their
newly constructed home is connected to the woods that Jeremy
was last seen running into. Did Jeremy fall off a
cliff while running in the woods or is there something
more nefarious at play. His family believes that he likely
met with foul play, although they did comment that he

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knew how to survive in the wilderness. Jeremy Alex was
last seen on it April twenty fourth, two thousand and four,
running into the woods in Northport, Maine. He is described
as a white male with brown hair, brown eyes, tends
about five foot seven inches tall, and weigh approximately one
hundred and fifty pounds. Investigators have stated that Jeremy did

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indeed appear to be under the influence and confused at
the time of his disappearance. Jeremy was known to smoke
hand roll cigarettes and was last seen wearing an olive
green flannel Timberland sweatshirt, blue jeans or brown Corroy pants,
tennis shoes, and carrying a red backpack. Anyone with any
information regarding Jeremy's disappearance is urged to please contact the

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Main State Police at two zero seven six two four
seven zero seven six, number four. Willie Hodge. Unfortunately, there's
not a lot of information surrounding the disappearance of thirty
nine year old Willie Hodge in January of twenty nineteen,
but here's what we do know. On January twenty third, nineteen,

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Willie was last seen by his family as he was
leaving his home in the eleven hundred block of Island
Drive in Sumter County, South Carolina. According to the Charlie Project,
Willie had an argument or altercation with his mother and
left the house upset. This was the last time he
was seen by his family. Police records indicate that later
that evening, Willie was pulled over at the intersection of

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Pine One Road in Columbia Circle during a traffic stop.
WLTX News notes that Willie was pulled over for a
traffic violation, but what the violation was has never been specified.
The South Carolina arrest database does show that Willy has
been arrested five times previously before his traffic stop in
twenty nineteen, with offenses ranging from burglary, larceny, driving under suspension,

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to possession of narcotics and assault. These arrests may or
may not be linked to his disappearance. However, it may
explain what happened next. As the police pulled him over,
Willie jumped out of his car and ran into the woods.
Did will He have a distrust of the police because
of his previous charges or was he scared of getting
yet another charge. According to officers, they searched the immediate

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area for Willie, but there was no sign of him.
As the days passed, his car remained abandoned, and they
continued in their search for the missing man. Charles Bonner,
a senior investigator with the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, told
News nineteen in February of twenty nineteen, we don't want
to get him in trouble because of that. I just
want to talk to him and make sure he's okay.

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Because he is a missing person. I take these very seriously,
so I want to make sure that he's okay. There
was also another person in the car with him that
night he disappeared. However, this witness has been unable to
provide any further information. Willie's mother, Sadie Hodge, told News nineteen.

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In my heart, I don't feel like he's alive anymore.
It's just kind of a sense of peace that I had.
In a way, it's a good thing, but I still
hold out hope. I just want to know he's okay,
whether it's here, whether he's found eternal peace. I just
want to know he's okay. Willie Hodge was last seen

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running into the woods after being stopped by police at
the intersection of Pinewood Road in Columbia Circle in Sumter County,
South Carolina. Willi is described as a white male with
brown hair and brown eyes, standing five foot eight inches
tall and weighs one hundred and forty pounds. Willie has
letters NTAB tattooed on his knuckles, Street on the back

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of one arm, and dreams on the other. He also
has a thug Life tattooed across his stomach with a
name Sadie over her heart, and a tattoo of a
woman on his calf. Anyone with any information is asked
to please contact the Sumter County Sheriff's Office at eight
zero three four three six two zero zero zero or
crime stoppers at one eight eight eight CC number three.

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Terrence Woods Junior twenty six year old Terrence Woods Junior
was working as a TV production assistant for the UK
production company Raw TV in conjunction with the Discovery Channel
in twenty eighteen and was out on location in Idaho. Unfortunately,
one night while filming, Terrence ran off into the woods
and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Terrence was

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working as part of a twelve person crew who were
tasked with filming gold Rush Dave Terrans lost mine. Filming
and production were going well, with the crew following Dave
Urant around seeing what he could dig up in the
remote parts of the western United States. Then, on the
evening of October fifth, twenty eighteen, everything changed. According to Vice,

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the crew had wrapped up filming for the day in
Penman Mine near Ooral Grande, Idaho County, when Terrence told
two of the other crew members that he had to
go and use the bathroom. Then, just seconds later, the
associate producer Simon, who Terrence worked under, saw Terrece drop
his radio and take off running into the trees. Terrence
apparently ran down a steep cliff into a forest before

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disappearing into the thick woods. Those on set called out
Terrence's name and desperately tried to catch up with him
to see what was the matter, but the area he
had apparently run into was rough and unpredictable. According to
the crew, The crew spent some time searching for Terrence
before realizing that they needed to call it in to
the police. At six forty one pm, Terrece Woods Junior

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was reported missing to the Idaho County Sheriff's Office. Somewhat Disturbingly,
the Sheriff's office didn't arrive at the scene to begin
the search for Terance until the next morning. Their excuse
was that the call was made at a late hour.
This is just one of the disturbing facts surrounding Terrence's case.
When the Idaho County Sheriff's Office finally arrived, they sent

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dog units ATVs helicopters, as well as boots on the
ground to look for any sign of Terrence. The Idaho
County Sheriff's Office found no sign of The dogs failed
to pick up on any scent, and sadly, after six days,
the search was called off. The Idaho County Sheriff's Office
fail to act quickly in Terrence's disappearance, but they are

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not the only ones who acted strangely following his vanishing act.
According to Valerie Woods, Terrence Junior's mother, the first thing
Simon said on the phone and when I met him
in the police department was I had high expectations for
your son, but when I met him, he didn't stand
up to them. Weiss ran an article in twenty twenty

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about Terrence's disappearance and the allegations of the toxic work
culture at raw TV, and included an interesting detail. The
article reads, quoting here the original Idaho County Sheriff's office
report seen by Vice says that Terrence was having a
really hard time emotionally and had a mental breakdown earlier today.
When the nine to one one call was made, the caller,

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who was not part of the Raw TV crew, alleged
that Terrence had been dealing with mental issues route to shoot. However,
when pushed to confirm these statements by Terrence's family in
the week's following his disappearance, they were retracted end quote.
This article also includes information from Terrence's mother, Valerie. She
says he was responsible. He wouldn't run away without good

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reason unless he was scared. The article goes on to
say they believed Terrence felt intimidated or mistreated by his colleagues.
They say that he wanted to return to his home
in Maryland. An ex Raw TV employee also told Weiss
there was a laddie culture at the company. There was
a toxic undercurrent which made me feel very uncomfortable. There

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were conversations where they would make disparage and comments about
people they were looking to hire. It made me feel
quite uncomfortable. With all this information about Raw TV, it
still remains to be seen whether they had anything to
do with Terrence's disappearance. As of twenty twenty, the Idaho
County Sheriff's Office said that Terrence this case is still

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open but not active, in that they are not actively
searching for him. Terence Woods, Junior was last seen running
into the woods near Orogrand in Idaho County, Idaho, on
October fifth, twenty eighteen, after telling two colleagues that he
needed to use the bathroom. Terrence is described as an
African American male with black hair, brown eyes, five foot

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nine inches tall at one hundred and fifty pounds. Terrence
has a tattoo of a black oval on the inside
of his left wrist and was last seen wearing a
light brown jacket and black cargo pants. Anyone with any
information has urged to please contact Lieutenant Jerry Johnson of
the Idaho County Sheriff's Office at two zero eight nine
eighty three one to one zero zero and reference case

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one eight to one zero zero eight one number two
Lars Mittank. The case of Lars Mitank is perhaps one
of the most perplexing disappearances in recent true crime history,
and while there are numerous theories surrounding his mistres disappearance,
we are still no closer to uncovering the truth of
what happened in twenty fourteen. On June thirtieth of that year,

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twenty eight year old Lars Minshank and a group of
his friends traveled from their home in Germany to the
Golden Sands Resort in Varna, Bulgaria. This was the perfect
party destination for twenty eight year old Lars and his friends,
and parts of Bulgaria have picked up a reputation over
the years for being party hotspots for young European tourists.
The sun is blazing, drinks are cheap, and clubs are

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open all night long, making it the perfect place for
young people to go and let their hair down. And
that's exactly what Lars and his friends did. The first
few days of the holiday went by without incident, with
the group soaking up the sun and enjoying everything that
the Golden Sands Resort had to offer. Then, on July sixth,
just a day before they were due to head home,

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something strange happened. While out at a bar, Lars got
into an argument with a rival football fan. Lars was
a Verde Bremen fan, while the other person was a
Baarren Munich fan. In Europe, they take football very seriously
and for some it's more of a religion than a sport,
so it isn't surprising to hear that the argument became

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heated very quickly. The argument was dissipated after harsh words
were thrown around, and Lars left the bar first without
his friends. His friends figured that he was likely heading
back to the hotel and that they would be able
to catch up with him later. It wasn't until the
next morning, however, that Lars returned to the hotel room
with a ruptured ear drum and an injured jaw. According

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to reports, his friends gave investigators differing accounts of what
had happened that night. Some of his friends said that
after Lars left the bar, the men that he had
been arguing with earlier jumped him, causing the injuries, while
others claimed that the men in the bar had paid
a local man to do their dirty work for them.
Either way, Lars was left with a pretty serious injury
that would kick start a bizarre chain of events. His

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friends took him to see a doctor at the airport,
who confirmed that his ear drum had ruptured and he
would not be able to fly until it was healed.
Larres was given five hundred milligrams of SEF Brazil to
help curb infection and was advised to remain in Bulgaria
for a few days. His friends rallied around him, assisting
that they would stay with him until he was cleared
to fly, but oddly, Lars declined their offer. He insisted

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that he would be okay on his own, telling them
to go ahead and fly back to Germany and that
he would see them again very soon. There were no
indications of what was to come, and the events of
the next few days would shock everyone. Lars checked himself
into another hotel and remained there for just one night.
Employees at the hotel reported he was acting very bizarrely

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and seemed as if he was paranoid and scared of
someone or something. During his short stay at the second hotel,
Lars also called his mother in a hushed voice. He
panically told her that four men were after him. His
mother would let her tell investigators that the fear of
his voice was very real and no amount of consoling
would calm him down. After a very restless night's sleep,

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Lars returned to Varna Airport on July eighth, twenty fourteen,
and visited the office of doctor Kosta Kostov. Lars helps
the returning home were dashed, however, when doctor Kustov reiterated that,
given his condition, it would not be in his best
interest to fly, but Lars decided to ignore this recommendation.
He told the doctor that he was willing to accept

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responsibility for whatever happened to him. Just as the appointment
was wrapping up, a construction worker entered the room. Varna
Airport was undergoing a lot of construction and renovation work
at the time, and it's likely that the construction worker
had simply wandered into the wrong room. This situation was
more of an annoyance than anything else, but for Lars
it freaked him out. His whole demeanor change when the

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man entered the room and he exclaimed, I don't want
to die here. I need to get out of here.
With that, Lars ran out of the door of the
doctor's office, leaving behind his luggage and bags, and made
a beeline for the entrance to the airport. This bizarre
escape was captured on CCTV and became the most infamous
piece of evidence we have in Lara's case. The CCTV

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footage shows Lars running almost if he's running for his life,
through the airport into the parking area, and then jumping
over a fence and running near highway as when larres
Filder return home and make contact with his family, he
was reported missing and an investigation was open. His friends
were questioned and the CCTV footage was heavily reviewed. Larius

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had been exhibiting paranoid behavior in the days leading up
to his disappearance, and investigators began to wonder whether this
paranoia was founded upon truth. As previously stated, Lars had
gotten into an argument and been beaten up on July sixth,
twenty fourteen. Was someone really after him or was it
the head injury, possibly combined with the medication that he

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was prescribed, that induced this paranoia. The antibiotic self puzzl
is known to cause hallucinations and paranoia. His family that
he had never exhibited signs of middle illness before his trip,
and when his friends boarded their flight home, they said
he seemed happy. He was in a good mood. Despite
numerous investigations, the disappearance of Lars Mettank remains unsolved. His mother,

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Sandra told Crime and Investigation there's a good chance he'll
come back. He just needs my help. Lars Mettank was
last seen running out of the Varna Airport in Varnet, Bulgaria,
on July eighth, twenty fourteen. Anyone with any information is
asked to police contact the BKA, which is the federal
criminal police office in that country, at four nine one

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five one sixty one three seven eight six seven three,
or as an alternative, you can contact the Varnut police
directly at three five nine five two six one one
five one six number one. Dennis Shephard, forty six year
old Dennis Shepherd was described as an energetic and lively
person who loved his girlfriend and his family. Dennis worked

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a personal assistant in Port Washington, New York, and was
doing well in his career and his private life. That
was until a sudden onset of paranoia sent Dennis down
a dark path. He became convinced that everyone he knew
was working with the FBI to conspire against him. One day,
Dennis's paranoia boiled over. Dennis was witnessed running door to

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door asking neighbors to call the United Nations because he
wanted to report the conspiracy against him. Dennis told those
who opened their doors that his family, neighbors, lawyers, and
others in his life were involved in an FBI conspiracy
to get him and that he needed help. This alarmed neighbors,
who called the police, and Dennis was involuntarily taken into
the Stonybrook University Hospital's psychiatric unit for observation and treatment.

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During his time in the hospital, Dennis was still convinced
that there was an FBI conspiracy against him, and even
believed that the officers who had taken him in and
the staff who were treating him were in on the
conspiracy and that's why he had been taken in. In reality,
Dennis had been taken in for his own safety and
well being, but his paranoia had grown too much and

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he was unable to make rational decisions. Dennis repeatedly told
the staff at Stonybrook, I want to see how I
do without medications, and that he would not be taking
medications under any circumstances. He did not believe that anything
was wrong, and the hospital was in the process of
filing a court order en sure that Dennis would have
to take his medication and get the therapy and help

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he needed. On May eighteenth of twenty twelve, Dennis was
being transported to the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center for further treatment.
He intended to fight the court order once he arrived
at the psychiatric center, but he would never make it.
According to staff who were traveling with Dennis that day,
he simply jumped out of the car and ran off
into the woods, never to be seen again. Oddly enough,

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his disappearance was not reported by medical staff until several
hours later, and the Suffolk County Police Department were extremely
hesitant to get him. It became clear that the Suffolk
County Police Department did not take Dennis's disappearance seriously, despite
the fact that he had been taken into psychiatric care
and his notes stated that he was suffering from delusions
and possibly schizophrenia. The Suffolk Police rested on the idea

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that Dennis had run away and was hiding from the police,
although he had no real reason to do so. Disturbingly,
no Golden alert, which is for a missing vulnerable adult,
was issued when Dennis disappeared, a fact that has greatly
angered his family. These alerts have been proven to save
lives and have been used in different iterations across countless states.

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Had a Golden Alert been issued, the outcome of Dennis's
story may have been a lot different than the outcome
I'm telling you now the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center. Since across
from the Oak Brush Plains State Reserve, sprawling park of
over eight hundred and thirteen acres, is it possible that
Dennis ran through the woods and made his way into
this reserve. Since his disappearance, progress has been made in

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this case, and his family has since filed a five
million dollar lawsuit against the Stonybrook Institution for allowing Dennis
to escape. In March of twenty twenty one, a Reddit
user named always Sonny and Upstate made a post about
Dennis's disappearance, and the post received an interesting comments. The commenter,
who claimed to be Victoria Shepherd Deness his sister, gave

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some further insight into her brother's case. She wrote, and
I'm quoting here this is Victoria Shepherd. I am his sister.
The police have been of no help at all. He
is still missing his dental records and our mom and
another sister's DNA is on record. They did not even
alert the police until several hours after he went missing.
He was a limo driver and avid bike rid so

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he knows Long Island very well. He lived in Nassau
County when he went missing, and we lived in Suffolk
for many years. He really could be anywhere, but we
know no activity on bank accounts, credit cards, or Social
Security number, so that makes a slew his hope. Hopefully
one day he will be found. His family misses him terribly,

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especially his mom. She's been heartbroken since the day went missing.
End quote. Dennis Shepherd was last seen running into the
woods near the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, New York,
on May eighteenth to twenty twelve. Dennis is described as
a white male with blonde hair and blue eyes. Tends
about six feet tall and weighed approximately one hundred and

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ninety pounds. Dennis may be suffering from schizophrenia, and at
the time of his disappearance he was suffering from paranoid delusions.
He was last seen wearing a black T shirt, tan pants,
and ten tennis shoes. Anyone with information is asked to
contact Detective Steve Gargins of the Suffolk County Police Department
at six three one eight five two sixty one one,

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zero and reference case number twelve three, zero, nine, six
seven eight. Well, friends, there you have it. What do
you think of this half dozen strange cases where people
disappeared after running into the woods? Very strange? Indeed, hello friends,

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Today we're going to be talking about five wilderness disappearances
where mysterious disembodied christ for help were heard by search
and rescue teams, but the person couldn't be located. You
can imagine how these disembodied Christs were helped would have
baffled search and rescue teams when they couldn't locate the
missing person who had vanished in the wilderness. Likewise, the

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person calling out would probably wonder why they couldn't be heard.
As we all know, thousands 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

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in the dark about their loved one, wondering always what
if and what happened? Are they alive? Are they deceased?
But what about the 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

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even happen? Surely you must be thinking that if someone
is close enough to be within a earshot and heard
calling for help, then search and rescue teams, volunteer teams,
or even just a random stranger wondering about in the
area heard them, then how's 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

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we as a society may never have all of or
even part of the answers to these same questions, let's
review some of these cases today, 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

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your aid for who knows how long known 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 and volunteers move on, 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

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for help but then could not be located. They were
never seen or heard from again after that. Number five
Mitchell Dale Starling. On June nineteenth, twenty thirteen, Mitchell Dale Stalling,
known to most as Dale, his wife Denen, and his
parents went to Maseverity National Park in Colorado, USA. The

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fifty one year old Dale decided to go for a
hike by himself to the Spruce Tree House Ruins. The
Spruce Tree House Ruins as the third largest cliff dwelling
in Maysaverite and was actually constructed between twelve eleven 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,

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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
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.

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After all, the trail was less than a quarter of
a mile long, connecting to the Petroglyft Point Trail, which
is a two and a half mile loop with cliff
exposure that takes off right from the Spruce Tree Trail.
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 was until seven years later

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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.
Here's a little more about what happened to Dale stalling
that faithful day. Back in June of twenty thirteen, Dale
and his family left their home in Goliad, Texas, in

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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
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

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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
a bit rough and rugged, so initially the Starlings were
only planning to drive to the lookout point and experience
the breathtaking scenes from a distance. Dale's parents were elderly

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and supported 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 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

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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.
It was rugged, with steep canyons and Mesa tops elevation
range from six thousand, five hundred to eight thousand feet
like to the top of the trail, Dale estimated we'd
take about an hour. This was the average length of

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time for someone in good health to have made it through.
Dale was reported missing very soon after he didn't return it.
He agreed upon time his family didn't want to leave
much room for anything bad to have happened, and 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

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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 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

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and rope teams repelling off the cliffs in the chapin
Mesa area. This is where the CA nine teams had
initially shown some interest in the first couple of days
of the search, so this is where they decided to begin.
The Petroglet 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

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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 response or an answer from him
when they tried to reach out. 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

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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 Inner Mountain region,
the majority of Masaverty, aside from a few mark trails,
is uncharted territory and therefore technically off limits the hikers.

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Approximately five to ten people go missing every year in
the Masaverity 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 actual case files
to random tips with the family, but Dale's wife Denian
these things much differently than park officials do. She says

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she has pissed off. It feels the search only really
lasted for two days and then Dale was 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 lost,
and what are they supposed to do about it. Park
officials say, however, that rangers in the park were still

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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,
and it's more convinced than ever that her husband had
gone missing due to misleading markers and signs in the park,

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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,
which details and experiences she had while hiking the same
trail on the same day as Dale when he went missing.

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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's Bruce Treehouse,
he'd attempted the trail and run into trouble. I called
out several times, but got no response. Ones I thought
about going off trail to look, but figured then I

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had 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 staffer said, we thought we heard a call
for help. In that area yesterday. They quickly began planning

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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 learned that Mitchell Dale Stalling was still missing, and

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now seventy people were looking for him. As I write this,
it's been almost two weeks, said Stalling vanished, and the
search has been scaled down. A group of us think
he's still somewhere in the park, said Chief Ranger Jesse
Farias planned disappearances, but it doesn't smell that way. The
odds of him being found alive, though, are basically zero.

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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 soon
as this was reported, then how did no one come

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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 in
Mason very day? Did the park rangers and other staff
of this National park know more than they're saying. This

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is something to think about. Definitely most likely something we
will never find an answer to. Number four Dayleen molk Oua.
On February twenty seventh, twenty fifteen, a seventeen year old
named Dayleen Pooa, known as Moke to his family and friends,
decided to go for a hike on the Stairway to Heaven.

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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 Mok was last seen boarding of us
in Wayaani to get to the spot which he wanted

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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 team wanted desperately to climb the trail,
which is forbidden on the windward side of Oahu. She
told her grandson she had seen on the news that

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it was closed down and he wouldn't be able to
access it. She told him not to waste his time
even trying, 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
that it was closed down and pedestrian access was being refused.

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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 pictures.
Daily had sent them from the trail right before he
seemingly disappeared into thin air extensively and there are some

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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 least one of
them is Dayleen. They believe they saw a man in
the background, far off in the distance of at least

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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 air search to find the
young man, all to no avail. A few days after

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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 continued to look for Daylan,
pumbing through the mountains but finding no sign of him.

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The high costairs have been closed to the public since
nineteen eighty seven, but are still a very popular hike,
with locals and tourists to 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 somewhat ominous reputation for being not only treacherous,
but possibly deadly as well. Some people believe they should

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be fixed, restored, and reopened to the public, while others
say they should be torn down altogether. The fate of
Dayeen molk Whua is still unknown to this day, as
is why he wasn't found despite hikers very clearly hearing
him calling for help. Was this actually Daileen Poola crying
out for help again? We will most likely never know.

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Number three Philip Crazik, yet another unfortunate soul who decided
to go out for what seemed like a pleasant scenic
hike and ended up not ever being seen or heard
from again, even after being heard screaming or yelling for help,
is thirty year old Philip Cracik from Berkeley, California. Philip
told his wife he was headed out for a run
in the Hills near the Model Ranch staging area in

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Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, California. He called her once he
reached the trail to 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 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

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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 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.

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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.
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 his wife immediately knew

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something was wrong and called the authorities. Bhilp has 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 hundred degrees fahrenheit that day in Pleasanton, many were
led to immediately and began to speculate that the heat
that somehow incapacitated Philip on that day July tenth, twenty

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twenty one. Now this didn't make much sense to 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 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

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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. 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

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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 cries in a canyon
near the Sunhall 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

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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 it was, and bring
him safely back to his family. However, once arriving at
the spot where the christs for help were allegedly heard
by multiple people at this point, they heard nothing and

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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 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,

(03:08:10):
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 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

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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 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

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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 update video very soon to
discuss this with you, Philip, Rest in peace, my friend

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number two. Linda Artega. 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 Ozarts
near Saint Joe. 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

(03:09:37):
some survival skills. She somehow became separated from him and
ended up lost in the woods for five days. The
story she told of her experience is strange, to say
the least. However, in this community, if you clicked on
this video or 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

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clearly see something is wrong, but 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 understand why it was absolutely necessary that we
tell Linda's story here now. As soon as she was

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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 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

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and bruises, but what happened to her affected her psychologically,
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. As
N's quote, Miss Artaga reported that she had survived by
eating wild berries, watercress, hazel nuts, and anything else she
could find which she knew was edible. Shulso drank water

(03:11:03):
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. She also repeatedly thanked
her brother and insisted she never would have 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

(03:11:24):
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 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

(03:11:44):
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,
she did admit that perhaps some of the berries shit
eating caused some kind of mind hallucination, she wasn't sure.

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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
any kind of search party. Why would people trying to
find a lost woman to hide so she couldn't see them?

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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
just don't want to, especially other people who aren't like
them or who aren't from where they're from. Is this

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proof of ferhs wild men? How does this all tie
in 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 was a statement made for the doctor Linda
saw after being taken to the hospital when she was rescued,

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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 the very picking or berry patches in general.

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But there are those who are found and then those
who seem to be forever lost. Lynda 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 followed or even chased by what they referred
to as men while being lost in those same woods.

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This is also very common in the East along the
Appalachian Trail. Tak back to the story of Little us
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 several park rangers in the United States, Dwight
McCarter among them, who have come forward since retiring and

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tell stories of wild men living and even hunting in
the woods of her 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 wildman feral
humans in the woods where at least one park ranger
was attacked by one of these people. Now, luckily, Linda

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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 Whidden.
On November twenty fifth, nineteen ninety four, Dwayne Winden decided

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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 and into the deep wilderness
of the forest. Later on, when recounting the incident of

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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 any explanation we could
find of what actually happened, and how is possible. A

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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 headed out well into
the middle of the night, looking for Naomi and calling

(03:16:04):
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 search another two hundred
and fifty yards forward, leaving the official search area he

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was looking in. But that's when he found her. Laying
next to a large log, face down an 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 body at a dangerously low temperature,
and Kip ran as fast as he could, when Naomi

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barely breathing in his arms. The approximate mile back to
the command post. Naomi was rushed to the nearest hospital
and she was only a semi conscious and in very
critical condition, which she arrived. Now eventually she fully recovered
and managed a surviv her ordeal, many questions remain about
what exactly happened to her. As mentioned before, where Naomi

(03:17:09):
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 in the mud the
entire time, or she couldn't have survived. Surely she would

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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 children not only have disappeared there but were found
face down on the ground. Usually the ones closest to
Naomi's ASI are found this way. Sometimes, though it's too late.

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Naomi was very lucky to have survived. Also, why doesn't
a simple Google search turn up more information about this case?
As in one document there's not any mention of this
online anywhere. So, friends, what do you think of these
strange cases? People that heard calling out couldn't be located,

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or people that couldn't hear the searchers calling for them,
Very very strange.

Speaker 6 (03:18:22):
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 10 (03:18:35):
While Victoria Gorba and her family stopped for lunch, her
son Kayden began talking to.

Speaker 6 (03:18:39):
Someone, 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 can't talk to me, but she's over there.

(03:19:02):
We need to go help her.

Speaker 10 (03:19:03):
Jake and Victoria checked out the meadow but saw nothing.

Speaker 6 (03:19:06):
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 10 (03:19:13):
Spooked, the couple decided to end the trip early and
head home.

Speaker 6 (03:19:17):
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 10 (03:19:30):
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 6 (03:19:39):
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.

Speaker 1 (03:19:50):
Mom.

Speaker 6 (03:19:53):
That's the exact description of her when she went missing.

Speaker 1 (03:19:58):
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

(03:20:21):
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

(03:20:45):
and consider 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 embarked

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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 the public's help

(03:21:27):
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. Akers reported sing Sandra on July fourth, twenty twenty,

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and said she was barefoot and had a bruise on
her face. They offered to help her, but she declined
medical assistance, and volunteer search and rescue teams from more
than half a dozen 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, while helicopters from California Air

(03:22:13):
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,
hunters saw a woman leaning against a tree along Road
five S zero one near Beieslore Road. She did not
wave them down, attempt contact, or appear to be in

(03:22:34):
any distress. Upon returning, they recognized her 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 lengked hair.
Her natural color is brown. She has brown eyes, as

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

(03:23:20):
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 Madera County Sheriff's Office felt
the need to further investigate. It seems that a man
named Jake Gorba, his wife Victoria, and their three children
decided to take their four wheeler up to the shut

(03:23:42):
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. A couple's
three year old son, Cayden, suddenly began animatedly talking to
someone nearby. He was just in our four wheeler and
he was pointing out to a certain spot in the meadow,

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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,
Cayden stated that the woman was unable to speak or
move and needed help. He began pleading with his parents

(03:24:24):
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 goosebumps. 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 I got goosebumps, said Victoria. He says, she needs

(03:24:48):
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 metal but saw absolutely nothing.
Cayden continued to insist. He kept saying, trust me, trust me, Mom,

(03:25:10):
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
day of adventure and make the thirty five mile drive
back home to course call. After arriving home, the event

(03:25:34):
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
with a description that he described to us within a
five mile radius of where we were, said Victoria. Now

(03:25:54):
viewers of this channel know from our previous episode number seven,
Sandra Hughes had gone missing in that area in June
of twenty twenty. The encounter became even more chilling when,
according to Victoria, three year old Caden's highly detailed description
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

(03:26:17):
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
online for Sandra Hughes and found some photographs that had
been released as a part of the search effort a
year prior. Victory said she got goosebumps when Cayden readily

(03:26:40):
recognized three of the photos of Sandra, identifying her as
the woman he had seen in the field. As fate
would have it, Madera County Sheriff Corporal Chris Williams just
happened to see the Facebook post and found it intriguing,
to say the least, so much so that he contacted
Cayden's family to further investigate the chilling account. Victoria said

(03:27:02):
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
of Sander Hughes since the beginning of the investigation. On
the following Thursday, two Madera County Sheriff's deputies ventured back

(03:27:23):
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
looking for some help, I hope that he could have
at least helped and maybe helped the family find her,

(03:27:43):
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
put the vehicle up for sale, as the family says
they will continue to go adventuring in the Madeira Mountains,

(03:28:04):
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
they did go out to the location of search for
any additional leads or information. For now, the case remains

(03:28:25):
open in hopes that this latest update regarding the spooky
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 February twenty first, nineteen ninety seven, the TV show
Unsolved Mysteries air to segment regarding a missing person's case

(03:28:49):
from almost three years prior. This report told the story
of twenty three year old Christine Scubash and her three
year old son Nick. They were driving along Highway fifty
in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California when they
vanished without a trace on June sixth, nineteen ninety four.
Christine was a single mother and had recently completed paralegal training.

(03:29:11):
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
ninety four, on her way to Carson City, Nevada. After
failing to make contact with her family. After three days,
her stepfather, Dave Stossenbach, reported her and her son missing

(03:29:34):
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
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

(03:29:55):
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
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

(03:30:16):
been some sort of sick, practical joke or perhaps he
would employ the 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
proceeded to call the police in just minutes. Two Sharf's
cards with the scene were Debren seeing the naked woman's body. However,

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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
missing people from that area. Due to the insistence from
the family, deputy Rich Strasser decided to go back and

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have a closer look look. Strasser figured that it might
be easier to spot anything out of the ordinary in
the daylight. Debora had indicated that a particularly dangerous stretch
of Highway fifty, known as Bullion Bend, was where the
incident took place. As Strasser patrolled the area, he spotted
a new looking child's tennis shoe on the side of
the road. Immediately next to that spot and the shoulder

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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
she was dead and unfortunately had been that way for
quite some time. The deputy then went around to the

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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 ready
y owed for an ambulance. Little Nick had been a
loan in the car for five days, yet he was

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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 embankment being so steep, other drivers drove
right past the accident seen for days, unaware that it

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was just over the side of the road. It was
later determined that Christine had been killed instantly on impact
with the tree through your old Nick was all long,
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 his mother, unaware that she was dead.
Against all odds, he survived five days of intense heat

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and four nights of cold, trapped within the twisted remains
of the car. Doctors who examined next 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 was. The strange encounter that saved
Nick's life seems to defy any rational explanation. If Deborah

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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. Deborah Hoyt is one hundred percent certain
that she saw a naked woman on the side of

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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. He remembers seeing a bright light
surrounding the car following the accident. To this day, he

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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 them lying in their car in
a ditch. She also saw the number sixteen in the dream,

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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. Is it possible that Sandra's spirit is attempting

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to communicate with a living in a desire that it
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 Hi Christ. Was that
actually her or was that an apparition? Thank you for
listening and we look forward to your comments on this
strange case. As always, we ask that you please remain respectful.

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The victims mentioned their family and friends, and the opinions
of other commenters. Until we meet again, take care of
yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll see
you a little farther on down the road. I'll talk
to you next time.