Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome in, Steve Stockton here with you. Welcome
Speaker 1: to our latest video. This time we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking about three disturbing new disappearances in America's national parks.
Speaker 1: Join me, let's take a walk and see now. There
Speaker 1: are certain names that have become almost synonymous with disappearances
Speaker 1: in America's national parks. People who vanished decades ago, Hikers
Speaker 1: who walked around a bend in a trail and seemingly
Speaker 1: disappeared forever, Cars discovered at isolated trailheads, backpacks abound miles
Speaker 1: from where someone was last seen. But while many of
Speaker 1: those older cases have been examined again and again, people
Speaker 1: are still disappearing in America's wild places today, and sadly,
Speaker 1: some of these newer cases have received surprisingly little attention.
Speaker 1: In this video, we're looking at three relatively recent disappearances
Speaker 1: connected to lands management the national parks. Eers One involves
Speaker 1: a young woman whose rental vehicle was discovered at a
Speaker 1: trail deep inside Olympic National Park. Another involves a man
Speaker 1: whose truck became stranded on a remote North Carolina beach
Speaker 1: while a kayak that had been inside the truck my
Speaker 1: seriously disappeared and The final case begins with the Tesla
Speaker 1: cyber truck sitting alone at one of the Grand Canyon's overlooks.
Speaker 2: Its owner was nowhere to be found. Now these are.
Speaker 1: Three lesser known recent disappearances from America's national parks and
Speaker 1: public lands. And as always, someone out there, somebody watching,
Speaker 1: may know something. Any tip, no matter how insignificant, could
Speaker 1: be the one that salves one of these cases.
Speaker 2: If you see something, say something.
Speaker 1: Case one Angel Alicia Boulia from Olympic National Park in
Speaker 1: November of twenty twenty five. Twenty six year old Alicia Boulia,
Speaker 1: known as Angel, travel thousands of miles from Saint Louis, Missouri,
Speaker 1: to Washington State. Now, exactly what happened after she arrived
Speaker 1: in the Pacific Northwest remains unclear, but investigators were eventually
Speaker 1: able to establish several points in her timeline. Angel was
Speaker 1: seen shopping in Port Angeles, Washington, on November seventeenth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. She was last heard from the following day,
Speaker 1: November eighteenth, and then absolutely nothing. Nine days passed before
Speaker 1: she was officially reported missing on November twenty seven. Three
Speaker 1: days later, investigators discovered something troubling. Angel had rented a
Speaker 1: black twenty twenty five Ford broncosport. On November thirty, that
Speaker 1: vehicle was discovered sitting at the Salduk trailhead inside Olympic
Speaker 1: National Park. Angel wasn't with it, and there was apparently
Speaker 1: no immediate explanation for where she had gone.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Olympic National Park is one of the wildest landscapes in
Speaker 1: the continental United States. Nearly a million acres of mountains,
Speaker 1: temperate rainforest, river valleys, and rugged wilderness stretch across Washington's
Speaker 1: Olympic Mensla and the Sawduk area where Angel's vehicle was
Speaker 1: discovered can become especially unforgiving during late fall and winter,
Speaker 1: so search teams moved in quickly. Crews searched on foot,
Speaker 1: dogs were brought in, drone searched from above, and technical
Speaker 1: rescue teams searched areas requiring ropes. Teams even conducted snorkel
Speaker 1: searches of waterways and examined the Salduk River corridor, but
Speaker 1: the environment bought them almost every step of the way.
Speaker 1: High winds searching at least twenty five miles per hour
Speaker 1: created dangerous conditions from falling trees for six days. These
Speaker 1: conditions prevented search operations in some areas. Meanwhile, elevated water
Speaker 1: levels made searching the Salduk River increasingly hazardous. Yet even
Speaker 1: after an enormous multi agency operation, no sign of Angel
Speaker 1: was located. Searchers eventually covered the trails and areas in
Speaker 1: the Saalduk Valley believed to have been connected to her disappearance.
Speaker 1: By December seventeen, the operation moved into what the National
Speaker 1: the Dark Service calls a clue responsive limited continuous phase.
Speaker 1: In other words, teams would no longer continuously search the wilderness,
Speaker 1: but if new evidence appeared, investigators were prepared to return,
Speaker 1: and that leaves several important questions. Friends why did Angel
Speaker 1: travel to Olympic National Park? Was she planning to hike?
Speaker 1: Did she leave the vehicle voluntarily? If she entered the wilderness,
Speaker 1: what equipment did she have with her? And, perhaps most importantly,
Speaker 1: what happened during the nearly two week period between the
Speaker 1: last known contact with Angel and the discovery of her
Speaker 1: rental vehicle. Now the National Park Service stated that the
Speaker 1: investigation remained active and its page was still updated as
Speaker 1: recently as February ninth, twenty twenty six. For now, Angel's
Speaker 1: rental Bronco remains one of the most important pieces of
Speaker 1: evidence in the case.
Speaker 2: A vehicle left.
Speaker 1: At a trailhead, a massive wilderness surrounding it, and a
Speaker 1: twenty six year old woman who seemingly vanished. That brings
Speaker 1: us to case two. Christopher Lee Palmer, Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Speaker 1: Now our second disappearance happened less than two months later,
Speaker 1: and this one contains a detail that makes the story
Speaker 1: especially unusual, a missing kayak. Christopher Lee Palmer was thirty
Speaker 1: nine years old and living in Arkansas. On January nine,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, Palmer had his final known contact with
Speaker 1: family members, but investigators later determined that by that same afternoon,
Speaker 1: Palmer's read twenty seventeen forur F two fifty was already
Speaker 1: more than one thousand miles away in Dare County, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Traffic cameras captured the truck and sitting in the back
Speaker 1: with something investigators would later realize was extremely important.
Speaker 2: A blue and white kayak.
Speaker 1: The following evening, January ten, Palmer's cell phoned registered in
Speaker 1: the vicinity of Avon, North Carolina. Then on January eleven,
Speaker 1: the phone registered near Cape Point in Buxton. That place
Speaker 1: is Palmer somewhere along North Carolina's outer banks, close to
Speaker 1: Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and then investigators discovered this truck.
Speaker 1: National Park Service law enforcement rangers found Palmer's foured F
Speaker 1: two fifty on January twelve. The truck was stuck on
Speaker 1: the beach at Cape Patteris National Seashore. Visitors later told
Speaker 1: investigators that the truck had apparently been stuck there the
Speaker 1: previous day, but Palmer wasn't there, and now there was
Speaker 1: the kayak. The blue and white kayak, clearly visible in
Speaker 1: traffic camera footage from January nine, had disappeared. As of
Speaker 1: the National Park Service January twenty two update, investigators said
Speaker 1: the kayak had not been found. That raises an obvious possibility.
Speaker 1: Did Palmer take the kayak into the water?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Cape Patteras sits along a narrow chain of Barrier islands
Speaker 1: where the Atlantic Ocean meets enormous stretches of sounds, inlets
Speaker 1: and shifting sand. Conditions can change very quickly, and Falmer
Speaker 1: launched the kayak somewhere around Cape Point or the surrounding shoreline,
Speaker 1: Investigators would suddenly be dealing with a search area far
Speaker 1: larger than the beach where his truck was discovered. But
Speaker 1: there's another important piece of this case. Palmer may not
Speaker 1: have been alone. Oh No authorities believed he was traveling
Speaker 1: with his German shepherd. The National Park Service specifically included
Speaker 1: the dog when asking the public for assistance locating him.
Speaker 1: So now there are potentially two missing subjects, Balmber and
Speaker 1: his dog, and one missing piece of equipment, the kayak. Now,
Speaker 1: all this creates several possibilities. Palmer could have launched the
Speaker 1: kayak intentionally, The kayak could have been removed by someone else,
Speaker 1: It could have drifted away, or Palmer's disappearance could have
Speaker 1: begun before anyone realized his truck had become stranded. But
Speaker 1: the timeline gives investigators at least a few anchors. January nine,
Speaker 1: Palmer's truck was captured in Darek County with the kayak
Speaker 1: inside on camera. January ten, his cell phoned ping near
Speaker 1: Avon January eleven, his cell phone ping near Cape Point.
Speaker 1: Also on January eleven, witnesses apparently saw his truck stuck
Speaker 1: on the beach. January twelfth, park rangers officially located the
Speaker 1: abandoned truck, and January sixteen, authorities in Arkansas formerly declared
Speaker 1: Palmer missing. Then comes the heavy silence. The National Park
Speaker 1: Service ask anyone who had been around Cape Point on
Speaker 1: the evening of January eleven, especially boaters or people who
Speaker 1: may have observed Palmer, to contact investigators because someone might
Speaker 1: have seen the detail that explains everything. A man walking
Speaker 1: away from a truck, a German shepherd on the beach,
Speaker 1: someone caring or dragging a kayak or perhaps a small
Speaker 1: kayak heading away from shore. But for now, Christopher Lee
Speaker 1: Palmer's disappearance leaves behind an unusual collection of clues. A
Speaker 1: stranded truck, cell phone, pain, a missing dog, and a
Speaker 1: chyac that was clearly present when Palmer arrived, but gone
Speaker 1: when authorities found his vehicle, and that friends brings us
Speaker 1: to Case three. Thomas Daniel Gibbs and Grand Canyon National Park,
Speaker 1: now our final case Texas to one of the most
Speaker 1: dangerous and spectacular wilderness environments in.
Speaker 2: America, the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 1: On July twenty second, twenty twenty five, thirty five year
Speaker 1: old Thomas Daniel Gibbs, a freehold, New Jersey, was still
Speaker 1: communicating with family or friends, and approximately noon that day
Speaker 1: the communications stopped. Six days passed. On July twenty eight,
Speaker 1: Gibbs was finally reported missing. That same day, authorities found
Speaker 1: his vehicle. Now this wasn't an ordinary vehicle, Oh no,
Speaker 1: it was a Tesla cyber truck and it was sitting
Speaker 1: in the parking lot at Grandview Point on the south
Speaker 1: rim of Grand Canyon National Park. But Thomas Gibbs was gone.
Speaker 1: Investigators leaved Gibbs may have entered the area around the
Speaker 1: Grand View Trail and Horseshoe Mesa on July twenty second,
Speaker 1: the same day he was last heard from, and anyone
Speaker 1: familiar with the Grand Canyon understands why that matters. Standing
Speaker 1: at the rim can create an illusion. From above, Trails
Speaker 1: appear almost manageable, Distances look shorter, the Colorado River seems reachable.
Speaker 1: But once someone begins descending, the scale of the canyon
Speaker 1: changes dramatically. Temperatures climb, elevation changes rapidly, cell coverage becomes
Speaker 1: unreliable or even nonexistent, and returning to the rim requires
Speaker 1: climbing thousands of feet back out. Now, the Grand View
Speaker 1: Trail itself descends into an enormous landscape filled with cliffs,
Speaker 1: side canyons, exposed terrain, and countless places where someone could
Speaker 1: disappear from View. The National Park Service to ask anyone
Speaker 1: who had been on Grand View Trail around July twenty
Speaker 1: second and might have seen Gibbs to police contact investigators.
Speaker 1: But something about this case stands out, friends, There was
Speaker 1: nearly a week between Gibbs's last known communication and the
Speaker 1: discovery of his vehicle. That, friends, is an enormous amount. Well, friends,
Speaker 1: there you have it. What do you think of these
Speaker 1: three unsolved disappearances? As always, I look forward to your
Speaker 1: comments in the chat below, and if you have any
Speaker 1: information regarding any of these cases, the numbers will be
Speaker 1: posted on the screen. As always, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1: Stay safe out there. I'll see you a little further
Speaker 1: on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton. I'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next time, and please tell your animals I said hi.