WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.480 Oh, I've been separated from my group. 2 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:12.119 Uh, it's been a couple of hours now I think. 3 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:13.000 I'm not sure. 4 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:15.080 I was trying to find my way out and I can't. 5 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:17.839 But I'm gonna stay here. I don't think that I 6 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:23.760 went too far I am. I'm not sure that I 7 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:24.760 don't know the name of the cave. 8 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:29.760 The last the. 9 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:38.119 Last entry point was somewhere near to them, Quantanamo in Mexico. 10 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.280 If someone can notify the police or the authorities, or 11 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:45.359 someone can help, I'm gonna stay here. I have water 12 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:50.840 and some food. I'm gonna stay here. 13 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:59.119 Hello, friends, Steve Stockton here with you now. For some 14 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:01.840 a walk in the wilderness can be the perfect getaway 15 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:05.200 from everyday life and a chance to reconnect with mother Nature. 16 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:08.319 For others, great outdoors can be a dangerous place and 17 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.280 unfortunately as a place where many people meet their end 18 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.000 or just mysteriously vanish. Here are cases for you to consider. 19 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:22.959 Randy Rascoe. On November nineteenth, twenty fifteen, park rangers at 20 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.920 the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky noticed that a 21 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.120 car had been sitting in the car park for around 22 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:32.799 two weeks. This immediately set off warning bells, and after 23 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.959 doing some digging for information, they discovered that the car 24 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:39.480 belonged to forty year old Randy Rascoe. As the car 25 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:41.840 had been there for quite some time, the park rangers 26 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.799 set about searching for Randy right away, but when he 27 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:47.359 couldn't be found in or near the parking area, they 28 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:51.760 opened an investigation and widened their search. Park rangers and 29 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:55.000 investigators contacted Randy's family to see if they had spoken 30 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:58.359 to him, but chillingly, they had been out of contact 31 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:03.079 for a few months. According to his sister Sherry, up 32 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:07.400 until May twenty fifteen, everything was normal on a regular basis. 33 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:11.120 He was doing his normal things, hunting, fishing, and kept 34 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:13.360 in contact with her brother, who lived close to his 35 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:16.520 Bowling Green apartment. Then one day, out of the blue, 36 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.240 he packed up his belongings, quit his job, and had 37 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:21.960 his mail forward it to another address, and just left. 38 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.680 Cherry said they filed a missing person's report after they 39 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.199 found out he had just fled, and were worried as 40 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.240 he had recently gotten divorced. For a month, the Rascoe 41 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.240 family waited for any news, and in June he was 42 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.759 found safe and sound in Washington State. Randy made it 43 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:40.639 clear that he didn't want to speak to his family 44 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:44.199 at that time and wanted to be alone. As painful 45 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:47.159 as it was, his family respected his boundaries and assured 46 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:49.439 him they would welcome him back with open arms whenever 47 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.599 he was ready. For the next few months, it's believed 48 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.960 that Randy traveled all around the US, all while maintaining 49 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.680 his privacy and secrecy. His family didn't know that anything 50 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:04.319 was wrong until the Mammoth Cave National Park rangers contacted 51 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:05.960 them to let them know that his car had been 52 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:10.639 found abandoned. With this second disappearance, his family hoped that 53 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.240 there would be a positive resolution, but sadly, Randy Rascoe 54 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:19.240 is still missing. Search crews, volunteers, and even the Civil 55 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.000 Air Patrol all joined the end of the search for Randy, 56 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.599 scaringly over fifty three thousand acres of land of the park. 57 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:30.080 Despite their best efforts and multiple searches, no sign of 58 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.879 Randy has ever been found, and his car is the 59 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:35.599 only clue we have in terms of his mysterious disappearance. 60 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:39.560 Randy Rascoe is described as a white male six foot 61 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:43.240 two inches taught, with black hair, hazel eyes, and a slim, 62 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:47.639 athletic build. Anyone with any information is as to please 63 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:51.400 contact the Mammoth Cave National Park at two seven zero 64 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:53.360 seven five eight two. 65 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:54.400 One eight zero. 66 00:03:56.439 --> 00:04:01.840 Catherine van Alst, eight year old Van Alst, disappeared from 67 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:07.199 Devil's Den State Park, near Arkansas's Ozark National Forest when 68 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:11.360 she and her family were camping. Catherine apparently was playing 69 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:13.800 with her brothers when she wandered off and got lost. 70 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:18.959 What makes Catherine's disappearance remarkable is she was found six 71 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:22.959 days later. When found, she was wandering the woods and 72 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:28.199 was eerily calm. University of Arkansas student Border Chadwick was 73 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:31.839 part of the search party that found Catherine. He told 74 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.800 the Pittsburgh Press that when he found her, she walked 75 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:37.319 starically out of a cave and just said, here I am. 76 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:41.319 Many other hikers have gotten lost in that part of 77 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.879 the Ozarks and haven't been as lucky as Catherine. A 78 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:48.480 grown woman was lost there for seventeen days and died 79 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:52.959 just fifty yards from the road. How did Catherine survive 80 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.920 in the woods for six days? Did someone take her 81 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.759 only to return her six days later? Or as explanation 82 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:05.199 of this story that we simply can't comprehend. Either way, 83 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:09.959 someone or something might just be lurking in Devil's Den 84 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:16.720 Kenny Veach. Forty seven year old Kenny Veach mysteriously disappeared 85 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:20.600 in the Mohave Desert in Nevada on November fourteenth, twenty fourteen. 86 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:24.199 Kenny was hiking near Area fifty one and was looking 87 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:28.240 for cave systems and mine shafts. Kenny has uploaded several 88 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.800 videos to his YouTube channel under the username snake Bitt McGee, 89 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.000 where he describes entering a cave with an M shaped opening. 90 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:38.639 He wrote in one comment that ain't nothing. I'm a 91 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:41.720 long distance hiker. One time, during one of my hikes 92 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.600 out by Nellis Air Force Base, I found a hidden cave. 93 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:47.600 The entrance to the cave was shaped like a perfect 94 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:51.480 capital M. I always enter every cave I find, but 95 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:54.040 as I began to enter this particular cave, my whole 96 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:58.199 body began to vibrate. Suddenly, I became very scared and 97 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:00.480 I tailed out of there. That was one of the 98 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:03.759 strangest things that ever happened to me. Now, these videos 99 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:07.480 gained popularity following his mysterious disappearance, and in these videos 100 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.560 he does indeed talk about how his whole body vibrated 101 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:13.439 and he felt scared upon entering this mysterious m cave 102 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:16.680 armed with a gun and a camera. This time, Kenny 103 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.439 headed back out to the m cave on November tenth, 104 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.399 twenty fourteen, hoping to get a better look inside. However, 105 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.519 Kenny never returned home. Although he was a very experienced 106 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.439 hiker and outdoorsman, Kenny rarely took a map or GPS 107 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:33.480 device with him on his hikes. According to his family, 108 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:35.399 on the day of his disappearance, he told him that 109 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.639 he would only be gone for a short overnight trip, 110 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.839 but then when he didn't return home, they immediately called 111 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.720 the police. Police volunteers, and search and rescue teams all 112 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:46.920 scattered the area where Kenny was last known to have been. 113 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:51.600 On November twenty second, twenty fourteen, volunteers found Kenny's phone. 114 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:55.759 According to those volunteers, the trail went cold soon after 115 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.399 they located his phone, and there have been no signs 116 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.519 of Kenny ever since. At the time of this episode, 117 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:05.000 the mysterious disappearance of Kinny Beach is very much alive 118 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:08.079 in true crime and paranormal circles, but it appears that 119 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:13.199 we are still no closer to uncovering the truth Devil's 120 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:16.800 Whole and the tragic disappearance of two teens in nineteen 121 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:20.920 sixty five. Now, there's just something about a place with 122 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.839 the name devil in its title that pigus the curiosity 123 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.800 of some people. There are countless locations all over the 124 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.439 world which have this particular. 125 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:32.040 Word in their name. 126 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.600 Not only devil, either, there are many other words that 127 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.439 symbolize or mean devil or evil, or some other form 128 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.240 of something not very good or beautiful, given somewhaite ironically 129 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.319 to some of the world's most breathtaking and wondrous places. 130 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:51.800 Sometimes the location will have got its name innocently enough, 131 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:55.480 such as because the geology of the place simply looks 132 00:07:55.519 --> 00:08:00.480 foreboding and sinister, especially under the cover of night. Much 133 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:05.199 of the time, these particular places are said to be cursed, enchanted, 134 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.360 or downright evil, and the spooky and scary landscape only 135 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.920 lends credence to these rumors and legends. So much of 136 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.680 the time, though, these places with this particular word in 137 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:21.040 the title are associated with not just devils, demon spirits, 138 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:28.800 and other other worldly phenomena, but with real tragedies, disappearances, deaths, 139 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.879 maybe bizarre sounds and strange lights in the sky. Today, though, 140 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:37.600 we're going to focus on one place in particular, we're 141 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:42.480 a mysterious tragedy struck Devil's Hole, which is located in 142 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:46.600 the aptly named Death Valley National Park in California, United States. 143 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:50.639 This portion of the Mohave Desert contained in Death Valley 144 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.919 National Park is the driest and hottest place in the 145 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:58.080 United States. Near bad water in the Long Trench of 146 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:00.639 the desert, between the Panamint Range on the west and 147 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.360 the Black Mountains on the east, is the lowest dry 148 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:07.519 land in the Western Hemisphere, an amazing two hundred and 149 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:12.080 eighty two feet below sea level. A veritable showcase of 150 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:16.200 desert extremes, Death Valley National Park includes one of the 151 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:23.480 largest salt pans on Earth, dramatically faulted landscapes, young volcanic craters, 152 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.919 and massive dune fields. Today, we're going all the way 153 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:31.919 back to the year nineteen sixty five. Death Valley was 154 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.879 very different from the Los Angeles of the time, where 155 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:37.960 there were uprisings happening all over the place and all 156 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:42.919 of it being shown live on the evening news. Death Valley, California, 157 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:45.600 was in one of the least populated parts of the 158 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:49.080 state at the time, and a whole different world from 159 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:53.879 the more largely inhabited cities which surrounded it. On June twentieth, 160 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:57.679 nineteen sixty five, four high school buddies set out to 161 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:02.200 remote desert location about nine isles northwest of Las Vegas. 162 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:06.799 Their intent was to joydive into a deep geothermal abyss 163 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:11.279 called Devil's Hole. Sadly, two of the young men would 164 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.840 never re emerge from this mysterious fossil water portal. Arriving 165 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.279 at their destination, the foursome hiked up a hot barren 166 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:24.480 hillsite which overlooked a large scale ranching operation that would 167 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.440 nearly erase a much smaller and nearly ancient complex called 168 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.080 ash Meadows within a few short years. A well trampled 169 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:36.320 trail led to the entrance of a limestone chasm that 170 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:40.200 had allegedly opened a whopping sixty thousand years ago after 171 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:43.440 possibly some seismic event caused the roof of the cave 172 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:47.039 to collapse in on itself. The foursome of boys, which 173 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:50.159 was made up of Paul gian Conteri, a nineteen year 174 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:54.240 old cafeteria worker at the nearby Nevada Test site, his 175 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.399 new brother in law, twenty year old David Rose, who 176 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.960 was a Las Vegas Casino parking attendant for with their 177 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.559 other friend, nineteen year old Bill Alter and his younger 178 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:08.960 brother Jack, Boys scrambled under a fenced enclosure posted with 179 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:12.519 warning signs, and thinking they were immune to any trouble 180 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:16.080 these warning signs might be posted about, they proceeded to 181 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.559 descend the thirty or so feet down to a ledge 182 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:21.759 where the faint but flitting movement of tiny blue gray 183 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:24.840 pupfish could be observed swimming in the eight by sixty 184 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.840 foot pool, That is, if any of the four young 185 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:30.120 men had bothered to look just a bit closer at 186 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.960 what they were about to jump into. After suiting up 187 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:38.440 with scuba tanks, masks, and dive lights, Paul, David, and 188 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:43.639 Bill dove into the claustrophobic waters. The temperature was nearly 189 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:48.279 indistinguishable from that of their skin. Upon entering the pool, 190 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.759 the boys most likely disturbed the delicate algae s falling mats, 191 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:56.600 where the entire population of the exceedingly rare Cyprinodon diabolus 192 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:01.200 continues to prosper and breed exclusively. Jack was the only 193 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:03.320 one who hadn't jumped in, as he was delegated the 194 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:06.000 one who would remain stationed on the ledge in case 195 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:11.919 anything went wrong. Some time after midnight, Paul failed to resurface, 196 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:14.559 so David and Bill quickly redove into the waters in 197 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:18.080 a vain attempt to locate their missing friend. Bill Alter 198 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.000 frantically followed David Rose down to approximately one hundred and 199 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:25.600 seventy feet until David too disappeared into the darkness. The 200 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:29.720 bodies of the brothers in law were never recovered. Many 201 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.919 people believed back then and still do believe that these 202 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:35.399 young men were inspired to go diving at night, despite 203 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:38.480 the dangers in the specific place, because of a newspaper 204 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:43.320 article from the year before which detailed a speleological research 205 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:47.519 expedition of a massive underground lake below Death Valley led 206 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:52.360 by California based professional diver Jim House, who would ironically 207 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:55.720 dive numerous times around the clock with military personnel and 208 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.960 other volunteer divers in their attempt to locate the missing 209 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:02.200 men for thirty cent whole hours until the search was 210 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:05.759 eventually called off. The only traces left of the two 211 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:10.240 brother in laws a mask and a snorkel. There was 212 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:13.440 also a flashlight tied to alledge some hundred feet below. 213 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:17.159 It seemed to signal and effectively the way out of 214 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:22.679 the otherworldly underwater cave system. Articles detailing the unsuccessful rescue 215 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:26.919 effort were published nationwide in the Sarasota Journal date of 216 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:30.360 June twenty second, eighteen sixty five. Outstated that he had 217 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:33.519 previously dived in Devil's Hole around three hundred times over 218 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:38.600 twenty eight trips, further commenting, it's beautiful in there. It 219 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:42.159 goes straight down one hundred and sixty feet like a pipe, 220 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:44.759 then opens into a room that is about three hundred 221 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.799 feet long and maybe forty feet wide. The bottom of 222 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.000 the room is about two hundred and sixty feet down. 223 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:55.240 Then it narrows into another tube. I dived to three 224 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:58.639 hundred and fifteen feet. Maybe that's a record, I don't know. 225 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:01.480 But at the end into the tube, it opens again 226 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:05.759 into something else. We don't know what the next room is, 227 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.840 or if it's a room at all. It's like infinity. 228 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.240 There are some very terrifying legends from the native tribes 229 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.919 of the area about this particular place called Devil's Hole. 230 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.759 The Timbasha told tales of water babies who would surface 231 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:24.519 and swallow a swimmer or diver hole should they stay 232 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.120 in the pool for too long other legends suggested that 233 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:32.000 so a Pizi, a legendary malevolent giant who dwelled at 234 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.759 mountain springs and caves, would snatch and devour unwary victims. 235 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:42.320 Miss was standing. Barbara Durham, an elder of the timbisious Shoshoni, 236 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:45.080 who shared these stories at a two thousand and two workshop, 237 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.919 admitted that she and her friends enjoyed how the pupfish 238 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:53.159 tickled their toes when they played in the spring. Keep 239 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.799 in mind here that the Devil's Hole pupfish, as they're 240 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:59.519 specifically named, are considered by experts to be the rarest 241 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:02.960 fish found anywhere on the planet. They were even the 242 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.440 first ever species to be classified as endangered. The fish 243 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:09.320 are not important to the story at all, really, but 244 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:12.200 it seemed worth mentioning in order to reinforce how very 245 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:16.320 special and perhaps a bit magical this place actually is. 246 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:19.960 As far as the two young men who disappeared without 247 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:23.000 a trace back in this mystical and extremely dangerous underwater 248 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:27.559 cave system decades ago, well, they've never been found, and 249 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.320 neither have any clues relating to what could it possibly 250 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:34.519 happen to them. As for one more bit of interesting fact, 251 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:36.600 that could lend a bit of Creden says something a 252 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:40.519 bit more sinister being afoot, as the local tribes absolutely 253 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:44.039 believe that this otherwise serene and tranquil looking water source. 254 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:49.559 It's said that Charles Manson himself spent several days at 255 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:52.519 Devil's Hole trying to figure out a way to make 256 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.879 it safely down into the chasm, with some saying he 257 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:58.200 was convinced he would never have to come back up. 258 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.559 He had an obsession with the place that was convinced 259 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:06.440 that there was an underwater portal to an alternate dimension, 260 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.360 or more specifically, a portal to the underworld, where he 261 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.279 felt he and his family would be able to safely 262 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:17.360 wait out the coming apocalypse. He so famously predicted what 263 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:22.720 happened that never actually did. Charles Manson's problem lie in 264 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:25.759 figuring out a way to drain the whole, and it 265 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:28.120 seemed like he may have been given this idea by 266 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:31.480 an alleged Indian legend that resurfaced during the nineteen twenties, 267 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.720 contending that a subterranean sect of leather clad humanoids lived 268 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:39.919 down within an early yellow green lid of boat somewhere 269 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:44.519 in the Mohave Desert could this possibly be true, just 270 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:46.679 as with the case of these poor young men just 271 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:49.320 doing what young men do and looking for a night 272 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.240 or perhaps irresponsible but never thought to be deadly fun, 273 00:16:53.720 --> 00:17:04.119 we may never actually know. Hello, friends, there's something so interesting, 274 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:07.720 albeit a bet macobb about our fascination these days with 275 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:11.119 death and murder. We see it all over television and 276 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.200 the internet. And who in this community hasn't sat for 277 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.839 hours and watched shows about serial killers I've never been caught, 278 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:23.440 and movies made about unsolved disappearances and whatnot. Seems like 279 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.519 a bad train wreck where we know we shouldn't look, 280 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:28.799 but we can't help but do it anyway. On this channel, 281 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:31.079 we try to respectfully cover as many of those strange 282 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.720 and mysterious missing person cases and murders as we can, 283 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.599 and we try to do it in depth. Sometimes though 284 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:40.640 there just isn't enough information for us to go fully 285 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:43.079 in depth or as deep into the cases we would 286 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:45.759 like to, But we still feel these people and their 287 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:49.440 situations and stories should be talked about and discussed as 288 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:53.720 well lest they be forgotten. Sometimes it's not a person 289 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.440 at all, but an entity which has some strangers our 290 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:58.559 mystery lurking around it, where we just. 291 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:00.440 Can't let go and need to know more. 292 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:05.559 Here's a collection of some of the most mysterious deaths 293 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:07.839 or unsolved disappearances that we could find. 294 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:09.079 Could you or. 295 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:11.759 Someone you know hold the clue to unlock these mysteries? 296 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:17.920 Number one The Mary Celeste. On December fifth, eighteen seventy two, 297 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.279 the American merchant ship named the Mary Celeste was found 298 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:24.680 to drift approximately four hundred miles away from the Zorus 299 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:27.880 Islands of Portugal, located in the eastern part of the 300 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:32.119 Atlantic Ocean. The Canadian vessel came across the drifting ship, 301 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.079 which was still at partial sale, and stopped the ship 302 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:35.720 in order to. 303 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:37.279 Investigate what the issue was. 304 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:40.400 The Marry Celeste was found to be carrying a full 305 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.880 cargo load of cask of industrial alcohol and enough food 306 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:45.279 and water to last several. 307 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:46.519 People a few months. 308 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:49.799 While the crew's belongings were all found on and around 309 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:52.319 their bunks and only one of the lifeboats was found 310 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.759 to be missing, the ship was completely and totally devoided people. 311 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:58.559 The ship had left New York and was headed to 312 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:02.000 Italy with ten people aboard. There were seven members of 313 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:05.680 the crew, the ship's captain, his wife, and their daughter, 314 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:08.680 who was only two years old at the time. No 315 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:10.880 sight or a sign of any of them was ever found. 316 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:14.599 There have been theories and rumors circulating about this case 317 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:17.839 since the ship was located, but never anything factual to 318 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:21.400 go by. Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a story 319 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:24.599 about a ship called Mary Celeste where everyone on board 320 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:29.000 had been murdered by deranged serial killer. Unfortunately, this spectationous 321 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:31.519 account by a well known author was sometimes taken to 322 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:34.920 be what actually happened. The truth of the matter is, 323 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:38.680 though no one knows what fate really befell the passengers 324 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:42.680 on this ship. Many researchers speculate those board fled for 325 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:45.599 fear of the alcohol fumes leaking from the cask causing 326 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:49.119 a possible explosion. Still, others say they must have fallen 327 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:53.319 victim to Moroccan pirates who were some unknown and nonsensical reason, 328 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:57.440 carried off the people but none of the cargo before 329 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:00.279 whatever fate befell these four ten souls suppor of that 330 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:03.920 ship that fathful December day. The Mary Celeste was associated 331 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:06.920 with much death and hardship, and has been subject to 332 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:10.400 rumor of bad luck and even a curse. While we 333 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:13.599 may never know the truth. It's said today that perhaps 334 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:16.240 the crew with a captain who was a devout Christian 335 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:19.720 and never drank alcohol, clearly and loudly stated he would 336 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.359 never abandon his ship unless it were to be for 337 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.359 saving lives, were all abducted by some sort of extraterrestrials. 338 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:29.160 It's just a good theory as any others at this point. 339 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:30.720 What do you think? 340 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:33.519 Number two? 341 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:38.839 Rodney Marx. On May twelve, two thousand, an Australian astrophysicist 342 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:40.960 named Rodney Marx was stuck in the middle of a 343 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.039 very dark and extremely frigid Antarctic winter. He was stationed 344 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.119 at the Mundsen Scott Station, which was at the time 345 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:51.519 an American scientific research base located near the South Pole. 346 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:54.880 There were only forty nine other people there with Rodney, 347 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:57.680 and they were all basically trapped there at that location 348 00:20:58.119 --> 00:20:58.880 until the spring. 349 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:01.359 There are no winter. 350 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.960 Flights too or from the South Pole because they're extremely 351 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:07.759 dangerous and far too risky. These people were working and 352 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:09.720 for the most part is said have all gotten along 353 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:13.559 with one another fairly well. Rodney Marx died on that 354 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:16.119 twelfth of May, and what happened to him and who 355 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:20.200 was involved remains a mystery. Because his body had to 356 00:21:20.200 --> 00:21:22.519 be frozen and kept at the base until spring, when 357 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.920 flights started again. The only thing anyone knew was that 358 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:29.480 he had died of some type of mysterious illness. Once 359 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:31.880 his body was flown back to New Zealand had thought out, 360 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:35.640 it was discovered he had been murdered poisoned by methanol, 361 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:38.279 and all the other forty nine people there with him 362 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:42.799 were suspects Rodney had most likely consumed the toxic substance 363 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:46.440 without even knowing it. The authorities eventually ruled out that 364 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:48.920 he had taken his own life, and also thought it 365 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:53.079 highly unlikely he had drunk the substance accidentally. All the 366 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:55.599 others there with him for the winter were interviewed, but 367 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:57.960 of course nothing ever came from any of it, and 368 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:00.640 eventually foul play was ruled out of the factor in 369 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:04.720 his untimely demise. The case is sometimes called the first 370 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:07.559 murder committed at the South Pole, and the events that 371 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:10.559 surrounded his poisoning are said to have never been determined. 372 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:14.759 So what happened to Rodney? How does someone die from 373 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.839 methanol poisoning without being murdered, without it having been an accident, 374 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:21.799 and without them having done it their self to take 375 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:24.960 their own life. This is one we also may never 376 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:31.160 find the answers to What's your opinion? Number three The 377 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:36.680 Impossible Murder. In nineteen thirty one, in Liverpool there lived 378 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:39.599 a lovely husband and wife named Julia and William Wallace. 379 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:43.319 The couple seem normal enough until one day in January 380 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:47.279 that same year, when something happened that is so bizarre, mysterious, 381 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:49.880 and which is still unsolved to this day that has 382 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:53.920 since come to be known as the Impossible Murder. William 383 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.640 Wallace was an insurance salesman who'd received a message one 384 00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:58.839 eating from someone asking him to meet him at an 385 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:03.000 address on Love Gardens East so they could discuss policies. 386 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:06.759 William was hesitant and normally wouldn't have even entertained doing 387 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:09.559 business in such a way, but there was a depression 388 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:11.240 at the time and he figured he would take what 389 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:15.279 he could get as far as sales. On January twenty first, 390 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.359 nineteen thirty one, William left his home and headed to 391 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:21.200 his appointment with a mysterious man who had requested his presence, 392 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:24.759 Assuming that it was a lead on a sale, William 393 00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:26.960 tried to find the address, but after a while of 394 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:30.359 searching and some other strange circumstances found the address he 395 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:33.640 had been called to simply didn't exist, and he had 396 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.759 it home frustrated and had bit confused. William claimed that 397 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:41.440 upon returning home, he found his wife murdered, plunging to 398 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:41.920 death in. 399 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:43.039 The living room. 400 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:46.599 William was eventually convicted of his wife's murder, but then 401 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:52.079 it was overturned on appeal. There trust wasn't enough evidence. Actually, 402 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:55.359 there wasn't any evidence, not really, and the cases continued 403 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:59.519 to fascinate both armchair detectives researchers and web slutes alike. 404 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:03.880 Historical researchers have since speculated that the murder was committed 405 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:06.440 by a co worker of Wallace's, which he had fired 406 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:10.240 and accused him investment from the company. In twenty thirteen, 407 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:13.200 a British crime writer named P. D. James said she 408 00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:16.279 believes that Wallace did in fact kill his wife Julia, 409 00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:19.119 and just happened to be helped along by a coincidental 410 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:22.400 prank call to men Love Gardens East that very same night. 411 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:24.880 So what do you think? 412 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:27.839 This is just a quick synopsis of this one, and 413 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:30.799 there's so many mysterious twists and bizarre turns in between. 414 00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:33.799 It's enough to make your head spin. There are literally 415 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:40.160 entire books written about this one case, number four Toman Should, 416 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:44.759 Australia's most mysterious death, is known as the toman Should case. 417 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:48.000 This title comes from a Persian word that was printed 418 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:50.079 on a small scrap of paper found in the dead 419 00:24:50.119 --> 00:24:53.359 man's pocket. The man was found dead on the beach 420 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:57.279 south of Adelaide in December of nineteen forty eight. The 421 00:24:57.319 --> 00:24:59.799 only things found on the body were a train ticket, 422 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.599 a few cigarettes, a comb, and that tiny scrap of 423 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:07.240 paper with the Persian word. There was no identification either. 424 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:12.240 Taman should translates to the end from Persian to English, 425 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:16.119 which really was the clue in and of itself. However, 426 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:17.920 this piece of paper was found to be from a 427 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:21.160 very rare edition of a book of poetry called the 428 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:24.759 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, and the last two words from 429 00:25:24.759 --> 00:25:30.200 that book are the words taman should. Even more mysterious, wouldn't. 430 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:33.480 The pathologist who performed the autopsy said that he suspected 431 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.480 that the unnamed man had died from poisoning somehow, and 432 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:40.400 this too, how it came about as shrouded a mystery 433 00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:43.599 as well. The police appealed to the public and located 434 00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:45.599 what seemed to be the book. The scrap of paper 435 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:49.480 came from which was found on the man. Inside the book, 436 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:52.400 which they came across by some unknown and unnamed means, 437 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.079 also contained a phone number. This number led them to 438 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:58.319 an Australian woman who claims she didn't know and had 439 00:25:58.359 --> 00:26:01.000 never meant the deceased man found on the beach, and 440 00:26:01.319 --> 00:26:03.480 further claim that while she had once owned a copy 441 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:06.640 of the book, she had lent it to someone. Again, 442 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:09.079 no specific person was named to lead to who it 443 00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:12.400 was she allegedly led the book to. There was also 444 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:14.960 some handwritten code throughout the book, which seemed to be 445 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.079 a series of letters, but the code was never cracked 446 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:20.680 and it's still unknown what it all said and meant. 447 00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:24.039 In two thousand and nine, an author by the name 448 00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:26.279 of Derek Abbott, who was also a professor at the 449 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:29.759 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Adelaide, came forth 450 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:32.039 with a theory of his own and proposed the coded 451 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:35.920 letters were traces of a manual encryption or decryption of 452 00:26:35.960 --> 00:26:39.279 a message using a one time pad. This is said 453 00:26:39.319 --> 00:26:41.559 to be an espionage technique that can be based on 454 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:46.000 texts from a specific book. In this case, most likely 455 00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:48.440 it was from the same rare edition of the original 456 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:52.599 book in question. Some people believe this gives way to 457 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:54.599 the theory that there was some sort of spir ring 458 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:57.319 operating in Australia at the time, and that the taman 459 00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:01.400 Should case had something to do with that. This is 460 00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:04.160 another case where there are just no answers at all, 461 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:06.759 and the full story is one like you'll never find 462 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:10.720 again or heard before. Who was this mysterious man, What 463 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:14.000 connection did he have, if any, to the equally mysterious woman. 464 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.960 Was he murdered or did he take his own life? 465 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:19.920 What in the world did all this have to do 466 00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:24.279 with that rare edition of the book of Poetry. Sometimes 467 00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:27.160 cases come along where there just are no definitive answers. 468 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:30.160 Usually we can live with that because when we follow 469 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.559 the facts and evidence, it leads to some sort of 470 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:36.640 reasonable conclusion. Then there are cases like the ones above, 471 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:39.880 where there are not only any rational answers or any 472 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:43.559 factual evidence, there are also no reasonable conclusions that could 473 00:27:43.559 --> 00:27:46.279 be drawn, and we are all left frustrated and scratching 474 00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:50.160 our heads until we move on to the next one. 475 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:55.119 He slat Out told us moms, she's dead. She needs 476 00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:57.920 our house. And that's when I got the goosebumps, and 477 00:27:57.960 --> 00:28:00.759 I was like, oh my gosh. He was just in 478 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:03.240 our car and he was pointing out to a certain 479 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:04.160 spot in the meadow. 480 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:07.440 While Victoria Gorba and her family stopped for lunch, her 481 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:09.799 son Kayden began talking to someone. 482 00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:11.480 And my husband and I kind of looked at each 483 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:14.519 other like what, and he goes, yeah, there's a lady 484 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:19.359 over in the meadow in a black shirt, and I 485 00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:22.960 got goosebucks. He says, she needs our help. But she's 486 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:27.680 dead and she's laying face down with her legs up 487 00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:31.640 and she can't talk to me. But she's over there. 488 00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:32.839 We need to go help her. 489 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:35.920 Jake and Victoria checked out the meadow but saw nothing. 490 00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:39.000 He kept saying, trust me, trust me, mom, and I 491 00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:41.400 was like, I trust you, Bud. You know, I believe 492 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:42.519 you one hundred percent. 493 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:45.559 Spooked, the couple decided to end the trip early and 494 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:46.440 head home. 495 00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:49.079 And we put it on Facebook seeing if anybody knew 496 00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:52.960 anything about the area, and come to find out that 497 00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:56.079 there was a lady missing with the description that he 498 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:59.359 described to us was in a five mile radius of 499 00:28:59.400 --> 00:28:59.960 where we were. 500 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:03.359 Sandra Hughes had gone missing in July of twenty twenty. 501 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:06.640 Cayden had described her in detail and recognized her in 502 00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:08.279 three of four photos. 503 00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:12.039 He was very adamant that we needed to help her, 504 00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:17.599 and he describes down to blue hair. He said, she 505 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:20.200 has a black shirt, blue jeans, and blue hair. 506 00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:20.480 Mom. 507 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:25.240 That's the exact description of her when she went missing. 508 00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:32.400 Hello, friends, We recently learned of what may be one 509 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:35.960 of the strangest updates to a missing person case that 510 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:39.960 we've ever brought forth. Now, sometimes in these missing person 511 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:43.160 cases that we cover, there will be a little bit 512 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:47.079 of a paranormal or supernatural element. It's usually something small 513 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:50.960 and not very significant to the overall case, but sometimes 514 00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:53.519 it seems that the unknown can play a larger part 515 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:58.519 in these cases, stories of UFOs, the Fae, Bigfoot, or 516 00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:03.480 rather Cryptid's portal, translucent entities, et cetera. But is it 517 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:07.240 possible that the ghost of a missing woman may be 518 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:10.319 trying to help solve her disappearance, or at least help 519 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:13.960 locate her remains. We ask that you keep an open 520 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:18.359 mind and consider it the following case. Back in episode 521 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.000 number seven of our ten Unsolved National Park Disappearances series, 522 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:26.279 we brought you the story of Sandra Hughes to recap. 523 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:31.079 Fifty four year old Sandra Johnson Hughes of California was 524 00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:35.039 last heard from on June twenty six, twenty twenty. Sandra 525 00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:37.599 had embarked on a solo camping trip in the Sierra 526 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:42.039 south of Yosemite to escape from the current pandemic. Sandra 527 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:45.400 had recently moved from Maui, Hawaii, to California in June 528 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.200 of twenty twenty. She had trained to be a park 529 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.799 ranger in college and was experiencing the outdoors. On July 530 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.400 fifth of that year, the Madera County Sheriff's Office asked 531 00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:59.400 for the public's help in locating Sandra after they found 532 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.400 her campsite near the Johnson's Meadow section of the forest 533 00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:06.680 in disarray. On that same day, the authorities located Hughes 534 00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:09.839 Silver Sob and Shequido Creek to the north of the 535 00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:12.480 camp site. They said it appeared to have crashed into 536 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:14.480 a tree at a speed of less than twenty miles 537 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:18.920 per hour before it rolling into the ravine. Hikers reported 538 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.000 Saint Sandra on July fourth, twenty twenty, and said she 539 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:25.119 was barefoot and had a bruise on her face. They 540 00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:29.519 offered to help her, but she declined. Medical assistance officers 541 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:31.880 and volunteer search and rescue teams from more than half 542 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:35.160 a dozen other sheriff's departments, together with dog teams, the 543 00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:39.279 California Highway Patrol and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, 544 00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:42.880 combed the forest on foot, while helicopters from California Air 545 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:46.680 National Guard did an aerial search. The search focused around 546 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:48.799 the area where her car was found, but there was 547 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:53.400 no sign of Sandra. Then, on August ninth, twenty twenty two, 548 00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:56.279 hunters saw a woman leaning against a tree along Road 549 00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.799 five S zero one near Biesore Road. She did not 550 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:03.599 wave them down, attempt contact, or appear to be in 551 00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:08.079 any distress. Upon returning, they recognized her from a missing 552 00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:11.920 persons fire and contacted park rangers. The hunter said that 553 00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:14.480 she appears to be visibly thinner than her last known 554 00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:19.039 photos at the time of her disappearance. Sandra was a 555 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.480 fifty four year old white female with blue shoulder lenked hair. 556 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.920 Her natural color is brown. She has brown eyes, is 557 00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:28.759 approximately five foot three inches tall, and weighs about one 558 00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:32.279 hundred and fifty pounds. The search for Sandra was ongoing 559 00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:37.880 but limited. Now flashed forward to almost exactly one year later. 560 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:41.240 This strange update to the case comes from the Madair 561 00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:45.680 County Sheriff's Office in Madeir, California. It seems that a 562 00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:50.200 family from nearby Course Gold, California, experienced a bizarre broad 563 00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:53.799 daylight ghost sighting in the Madeir County Mountains on Wednesday, 564 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.720 July twenty first, twenty twenty one. The event was so 565 00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:02.359 strange and disturbing that the Madair County Sheriff's Office felt 566 00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:06.000 the need to further investigate. It seems that a man 567 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:10.160 named Jake Gorba, his wife Victoria, and their three children 568 00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:12.200 decided to take their four wheeler up to the shut 569 00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:16.319 Eye Peak on that faithful Wednesday. While on this family outing, 570 00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:18.799 they stopped to have something to eat beside the trail, 571 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:23.200 and that's when things started to get strange. The couple's 572 00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:27.119 three year old son, Caden, suddenly began animatedly talking to 573 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:31.200 someone nearby. He was just in our four wheeler and 574 00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:33.440 he was pointing out to a certain spot in the meadow, 575 00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:38.119 said his mom Victoria. The normally reserved and somewhat quiet 576 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:41.200 Caden excitedly told his parents that they're in the meadow 577 00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:43.720 by where the family was having lunch was a woman 578 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:48.240 lying face down with her legs straight up in the air. Furthermore, 579 00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:50.759 Caden stated that the woman was unable to speak or 580 00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:54.200 move and needed help. He began pleading with his parents 581 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:58.240 to help this poor woman. He flat out told us, Mom, 582 00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:02.559 she's already dead, but she needs our help. And that's 583 00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:04.920 when I got the goose bumps. I was like, oh 584 00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:09.360 my gosh, Victoria said. He goes, yeah, there's a lady 585 00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:12.119 over in the meadow in a black shirt, blue jeans, 586 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:15.920 and blue hair, and I got goose bumps, said Victoria. 587 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:19.840 He says, she needs our help, but she's dead and 588 00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:22.800 she's lying face down with her legs up. She can't 589 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:25.239 talk to me, but she's over there. We need to 590 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:29.480 go help her. So in order to calm young Caden down, 591 00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:32.199 Jake and Victoria walked over and checked out the metal 592 00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:38.119 but saw absolutely nothing. Caden continued to insist. He kept saying, 593 00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:41.039 trust me, trust me, Mom, And I was like, I 594 00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:44.599 trust you, I trust you. I believe you one hundred percent, 595 00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:49.639 said Victoria. Whatever young Caden was experiencing so unnerved and 596 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.239 spoke the rest of the family that the other members 597 00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.320 of the family all unanimously agreed it's time to put 598 00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:57.599 an early end to their day of adventure and make 599 00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.000 the thirty five mile drive back home to Course Calf. 600 00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:04.760 After arriving home, the event still fresh in her mind, 601 00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:08.000 Victoria decided to post about the weird encounter on her 602 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:11.519 Facebook profile. We put it on Facebook to see if 603 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:14.599 anybody knew anything about this area, and come to find out, 604 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:17.840 there was a lady missing with a description that he 605 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:20.880 described to us within a five mile radius of where 606 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:25.440 we were, said Victoria. Now, viewers of this channel No 607 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.440 from our previous episode number seven, Sandra Hughes had gone 608 00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:31.800 missing in that area in June of twenty twenty. The 609 00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:35.519 encounter became even more chilling when, according to Victoria, three 610 00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:38.119 year old Kaden's highly detailed description of the woman he 611 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:41.039 had seen in the meadow was identical to the description 612 00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:45.199 of Sandra Hughes as given by the local authorities. He 613 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:47.960 was very adamant that we needed to help her, and 614 00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:50.719 he described her down to blue hair. He said, she 615 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.239 has a black shirt, blue jeans, and blue hair. 616 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:53.559 Mom. 617 00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:57.000 That's the exact description of her when she went missing, 618 00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:01.960 said Victoria. Then Victoria and searched online for Sandra Hughes 619 00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:04.159 and found some photographs that have been released as a 620 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.519 part of the search effort the year prior. Because I 621 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:10.400 said she got goosebumps when Cayden readily recognized three of 622 00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:13.159 the photos of Sandra, identifying her as the woman he 623 00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:16.440 had seen in the field. As fate would have it, 624 00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:19.840 Madera County Sheriff Corporal Chris Williams just happened to see 625 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:23.480 the Facebook post and found it intriguing, to say the least, 626 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:27.400 so much so that he contacted Cayden's family to further 627 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:32.599 investigate the chilling account. Victoria said the corporal in charge 628 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:34.960 of her case actually reached out to us on Facebook 629 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:37.880 and was like, Hey, we want more information and we 630 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:39.920 want to bring you guys back up there and see 631 00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:42.599 if you could point us in the right direction. Corporal 632 00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:46.039 Williams has been investigating the disappears of Sandra Hughes since 633 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:50.920 the beginning of the investigation. On the following Thursday, two 634 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:53.800 Madera County Sheriff's deputies ventured back up to the meadow 635 00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:57.000 to investigate, with Jake and Caden coming along to point 636 00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.840 them in the right direction. Unfortunately, and the deputies found 637 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:04.079 nothing new by way of evidence, although the case remains open. 638 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:09.079 If she was possibly a ghost looking for some help, 639 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:11.440 I hope that he could have at least helped and 640 00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:14.000 maybe helped the family find her, because it's been a 641 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.840 long time apparently since she's been gone. 642 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:17.159 Victoria said. 643 00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:20.719 The four wheeler that Cayden and his family used while 644 00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:23.039 traveling in the mountains has now been nicknamed the Ghost 645 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:27.440 Runner and incidentally, is also for sale. It's not believed 646 00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:29.239 that the spooking encounter is the reason they put the 647 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:31.519 vehicle up for sale, as the family says they will 648 00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:34.199 continue to go adventuring in the Madeira Mountains, but do 649 00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:36.760 admit there are a few spots now which they aren't 650 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:41.400 anxious to visit again anytime soon, if at all. Local 651 00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:43.599 news reporters in the area reached out to the Madera 652 00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:46.559 County Sheriff's Office, who did confirm that they received the 653 00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:49.320 report of a possible sighting of some sort and they 654 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:51.079 did go out to the location to search for any 655 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:52.440 additional leads or information. 656 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:54.679 For now, the. 657 00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:57.400 Case remains open and hopes that this latest update regarding 658 00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:02.039 the spooking encounter may produce some new leads. Now as 659 00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:05.199 strange as this new development is, it's not the first 660 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:09.000 time that possibly a ghost helped solve the missing person's case. 661 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:14.199 Back on February twenty first, nineteen ninety seven, the TV 662 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:18.199 show Unsolved Mysteries aired to segment regarding a missing person's 663 00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:22.400 case from almost three years prior. This report told the 664 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.599 story of twenty three year old Christine Scuubage and her 665 00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:28.840 three year old son Nick. They were driving along Highway 666 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:32.000 fifty in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California when 667 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:35.519 they vanished without a trace on June sixth, nineteen ninety four. 668 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:40.360 Christine was a single mother and it recently completed parallegal training. 669 00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:42.960 She had plans of going to work for a prestigious 670 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.199 law firm, and she helped to make enough money so 671 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:49.480 that she and her child's father could be married. Christine 672 00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:52.599 left her stepparents home near Sacramento on June fifth, nineteen 673 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:56.760 ninety four, on her way to Carson City, Nevada. After 674 00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:59.320 failing to make contact with her family after three days, 675 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:03.400 her step father, Dave Stossenbach, reported her and her son 676 00:39:03.480 --> 00:39:07.079 missing on June eighth. The police took the missing person's report, 677 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:09.679 but there were no initial leads in the case. 678 00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:12.920 Five days after. 679 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:16.440 Christine and Nick disappeared, however, a woman named Debraah Hoyt 680 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:19.000 and her husband were driving along the Highway fifty. 681 00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:20.400 Around three am. 682 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:22.840 The pair were on along overnight drive and had been 683 00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:25.280 joking and singing in order to keep each other away. 684 00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:29.760 Suddenly never saw what appeared to be a completely naked 685 00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:33.079 woman lying on the side of the road. The naked 686 00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:35.320 woman's face was turned toward the road and she was 687 00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:38.199 laying on her side with her knees slightly bent. She 688 00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:40.559 had one arm placed beneath her head and the other 689 00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:44.719 arm held over her head. The Holtz were shocked beyond belief. 690 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:47.159 They thought it must have been some sort of sick 691 00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:50.280 practical joke, or perhaps he would employ the carjack them 692 00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:54.320 had they stopped. Deborah floored the accelerator instead and sped 693 00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:57.440 down Highway fifty, not stopping until she arrived at the 694 00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:59.960 nearest phone booth, where she proceeded to call the foe. 695 00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:02.880 In just minutes. 696 00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:05.440 Two Sharf's cards with the scene were deborn seeing the 697 00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:09.800 naked woman's body. However, unable to pinpoint the exact location, 698 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:14.079 the deputies reported that they saw and found nothing. The 699 00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:17.840 next morning, though, speculations began that the sighting had something 700 00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:20.119 to do with the disappearance of Christine and Nick, who 701 00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:23.920 were the most recently missing people from that area. Due 702 00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:28.119 to the insistence from the family, deputy Rich Strasser decided 703 00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:31.079 to go back and have a closer look. Strasser figured 704 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:32.800 that it might be easier to spot anything out of 705 00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:36.760 the ordinary in the daylight. Deborah had indicated that a 706 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:40.079 particularly dangerous stretch of Highway fifty, known as Bullion Bend, 707 00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:44.400 was where the incident took place. As Strasser patrolled the area, 708 00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:46.920 he spotted a new looking child's tennis shoe on the 709 00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:50.440 side of the road. Immediately next to that spot and 710 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:54.639 the shoulder of the road was a steep embankment. Strasser 711 00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:57.000 pulled over his cruiser to search the area more thoroughly, 712 00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:00.239 and sure enough, at the bottom of the embankment he 713 00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:04.880 spotted the twisted remains of Christine's car. He checked Christine 714 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.559 and observed that she was dead and unfortunately had been 715 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:11.559 that way for quite some time. The deputy then went 716 00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:14.039 around to the other side to check Nick, who was 717 00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:16.840 curled up in a fetal position in the passenger seat. 718 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:20.159 Strasser assumed the worst and was sure that Nick was 719 00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:24.039 also dead. However, when he touched the little boy's neck 720 00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:27.320 to find a pulse, it appeared that Nick took a breath. 721 00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.840 Strasser immediately radioed for an ambulance. Little Nick had been 722 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:34.639 alone in the car for five days, yet he was 723 00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:39.800 somehow still clinging to life. Officials believed that sometime around 724 00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:43.239 two am on June sixth, Christine must have fallen asleep 725 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:46.079 at the wheel. The car veered off the road and 726 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:49.440 plunged to the bottom of the ditch, striking a tree. 727 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:53.000 Due to the embankment being so steep, other drivers drove 728 00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:56.360 right past the accident seen for days, unaware that it 729 00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:59.519 was just over the side of the road. It was 730 00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:02.760 later determined that Christine had been killed instantly on impact 731 00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:05.679 with a tree. Through your old Nick was all alone, 732 00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:07.519 with no way out and no one to talk to. 733 00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:11.480 Christine's mother says that she believes that little Nick spent 734 00:42:11.559 --> 00:42:14.559 the time talking to his mother, unaware that she was dead. 735 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:19.000 Against all odds, he survived five days of intense heat 736 00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:22.280 and four nights of cold, trapped within the twisted remains 737 00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:25.519 of the car. Doctors who examined nickt stated that he 738 00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:27.920 was in such bad shape that he would have most 739 00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:31.039 likely die within a couple of hours had he not 740 00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:35.360 been found when he was. The strange encounter that saved 741 00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:39.559 Nick's life seems to defy any rational explanation. If deb 742 00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:41.559 had not seen the naked woman lying on the side 743 00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:45.440 of the road, Nick would have not survived. Now, it's 744 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:48.599 absolutely impossible for Christine to have been the naked woman. 745 00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:51.280 She was still fully clothed and wearing her seat bolt 746 00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:54.119 when found, and the medical examiner stated that she was 747 00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:58.079 most likely killed on impact. Debah Hoyt is one hundred 748 00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:00.239 percent certain that she saw a naked woman on the 749 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:04.360 side of the road. Both she and Christine's family believe 750 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.840 it was Christine's spirit who saved Nick that day. The 751 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.440 spirit had apparently appeared in the nude in order to 752 00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:15.679 draw attention. Nick years later, as an adult, was interviewed 753 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:19.800 on a television show Paranormal Witness. He remembers seeing a 754 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:24.079 bright light surrounding the car following the accident. To this day, 755 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:26.920 he believes that his mother was watching over him following 756 00:43:26.920 --> 00:43:28.119 the accident. 757 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:29.440 And helped him to be rescued. 758 00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:33.679 The show also revealed that Christine's aunt had several dreams 759 00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:37.039 or premonitions about the accident. Before Christine and Nick were 760 00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.800 even reported missing, she dreamed of seeing them lying in 761 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:43.920 their car in a ditch. She also saw the number 762 00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:46.960 sixteen in the dream, which turned out to be the 763 00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:50.440 number for the mile marker nearest the accident's site. 764 00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:53.000 Well, there you have it. 765 00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:56.440 What do you think about the apparition that little Kayden observed, 766 00:43:56.519 --> 00:43:59.599 which she identified as Sandra Hughes, even down to the 767 00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:02.480 color of her hair, which was dyed blue when she 768 00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:06.840 went missing. Is it possible that Sandra's spirit is attempting 769 00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:10.079 to communicate with a living in a desire that remains 770 00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:12.239 be found and her friend and loved ones have closure. 771 00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:15.920 It certainly appears that way. And what about the two 772 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:18.920 other times she was spotted by high christ Was that 773 00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:21.679 actually her or was that an apparition? 774 00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:24.440 I mean? 775 00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:27.079 Anyway, fall man, we. 776 00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:29.599 Lost my two year old grandson. That's walk be the 777 00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:32.440 ones my dad. We can't find him. Three year old 778 00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:39.760 glands him. Hey there window here, Paul says, are you 779 00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:45.159 there your own? Yeah, he's free. Okay. The girls come 780 00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:47.960 to the house and left him there and he's walked 781 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:51.119 both somewhere and we can't find him. And even then 782 00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:53.480 I know you're not there in the house now, all 783 00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:56.960 that dials hill okay, and how long do you know 784 00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:01.159 he brought in there's voice a minute because we've been 785 00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:02.679 looking at it all in the woods for him. 786 00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:06.199 And then behind your house, directly. 787 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:09.800 Behind your house, yeah, well on the side. Yeah, and 788 00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:13.519 then a white flack he was, you know, and he 789 00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:18.199 was wearing probably a black little coat, a black coat. Yeah. 790 00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:22.679 Okay, you do this, you do this. 791 00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:29.559 Where we go? Yeah, he has there? Yeah, thanks us. 792 00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:34.400 Okay, he said about forty five minutes ago. Yeah, okay, 793 00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:38.119 all right. Is it a big area of wood behind 794 00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:41.159 your house? Yeah, it's pretty big. I think he's been 795 00:45:41.199 --> 00:45:46.079 out there looking for him. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, 796 00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:47.480 we got it there, but he had to see you. Okay. 797 00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:50.480 And you said forty five minutes directly behind your house 798 00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.559 or a side yeah okay, you see said we have 799 00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:57.760 some said it that way. Okay, okay, thank you, thank you. 800 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:03.599 Hello, friends, Steve's talking here with you. In this video. 801 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:06.360 We're going to discuss children who claim to have been 802 00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:11.280 saved by bears in the while. Join me, let's walk 803 00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:14.559 and see. But before we begin, at least take a 804 00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:18.519 moment make sure you're subscribed notification bell is on and 805 00:46:18.679 --> 00:46:21.639 also you click join come a member of the channel 806 00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:26.360 as exclusive members only perks. Now throughout this channel and 807 00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:29.559 across this community, we've seen many strange things that have 808 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:32.679 gone on in the woods all across the world. There 809 00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:35.800 are times, though, when things happen that just can't be 810 00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:40.000 explained rationally or reasonably, despite seeming to be backed up 811 00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:45.199 by documentation and in some cases even factual evidence. We've 812 00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:47.880 discussed everything from ferries in the woods and people who 813 00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:51.480 have gone missing under strange and unusual circumstances, sometimes in 814 00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:54.920 front of witnesses. But every once in a while we 815 00:46:55.079 --> 00:46:58.440 come across something so incredibly strange that it's hard to 816 00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:02.639 imagine and actually have happened at all. However, today we're 817 00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:05.960 going to discuss something unimaginably strange that it is said 818 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:09.039 to have happened not only once, but twice. And while 819 00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:11.280 there are some facts and witness statements to make one 820 00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:14.320 think these things are really happening out there, it's still, 821 00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:16.639 of course up to you to decide what you want 822 00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:20.280 to believe at the end of the day. One day, 823 00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:23.400 way back in June of seventeen eighty three, a four 824 00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:26.199 year old girl from Warren, New Hampshire named Sarah Witcher, 825 00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:28.760 wanted to go with her parents to visit her uncle. 826 00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:32.400 Her uncle lived on a tall hill right behind their house, 827 00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:35.400 and for whatever reason, Sarah's parents didn't want her to 828 00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:38.400 go with them, no matter how much Sarah begged and 829 00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:40.880 pleaded with them, though, they refused to allow her to 830 00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:43.440 go and assured her they would only be gone a 831 00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:46.039 short time and she would be perfectly fine in the 832 00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:50.400 care of her older siblings until their return. However, it 833 00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:52.599 turns out that they were wrong, and due to some 834 00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:56.639 kind of miscommunication. When her parents returned, the older siblings, 835 00:47:56.639 --> 00:47:59.440 who were supposed to be watching little Sarah, ask why 836 00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:03.280 she hadn't turned with them. What came next was something 837 00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:05.960 that would be imprinted in New Hampshire history for centuries, 838 00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:09.039 but also the mystery of what happened to Sarah that 839 00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:11.920 day so long ago would live on forever in the 840 00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:14.480 minds of those of us who study strange things in 841 00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:17.800 the woods. So let's take a look at what allegedly 842 00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:20.760 happened on a sunny day in June many many years ago, 843 00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:24.639 when Sarah's siblings asked where she was and why she 844 00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:27.800 hadn't returned with the parents. Obviously, Sarah's mother and father 845 00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:31.440 were immediately panic. They sorted through the details with their siblings, 846 00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:33.800 and it didn't take long for everyone to realize that 847 00:48:33.960 --> 00:48:36.559 no one was watching Sarah and that she had wandered 848 00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:40.360 off somewhere. An immediate search party, including the family and 849 00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:43.119 their friends and neighbors in the community, quickly turned into 850 00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:46.159 something much larger when dozens of people from all over 851 00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:49.679 the surrounding areas descended upon Warren to help search for 852 00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:52.599 the lost four year old. On the second day of 853 00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:56.079 the search reported back to the Witchers with some frightening news. 854 00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:59.320 Tracts believed to belong to Sarah were found deep in 855 00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:03.079 the wilderness behind the home, but falling directly behind hers 856 00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:07.480 were the tracks of a large bear. This was terrible news, 857 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.039 and the family came to the conclusion in their heads 858 00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:12.519 that it was more than likely their precious little girl 859 00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:16.599 was deceased. Everyone involved was disheartened, but it didn't slow 860 00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:19.320 down the search one bit, as now they were determined 861 00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:23.480 to at least recover Sarah's remains. It was decided among 862 00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:25.719 the community of searchers that if Sarah were to be 863 00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:28.800 found alive, after all, whover found her would fire three 864 00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:32.920 shots from their rifle into the air. The situation was 865 00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:35.840 a grim one, but Sarah's parents and siblings couldn't help 866 00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:37.960 but keep at least some hope that Sarah would be 867 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:41.119 found alive and well, despite how minuscule the odds of 868 00:49:41.159 --> 00:49:45.360 that happening were. Searchers continued in their efforts for days 869 00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:48.039 on end, refusing to leave Sarah to the elements and 870 00:49:48.119 --> 00:49:50.960 wildlife of the dense forest. On the fourth day of 871 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:54.159 the search, an expert wilderness woodsman from nearby Portsmouth, New 872 00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:57.360 Hampshire arrived and joined the now exhausted search parties who 873 00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:00.800 were still out looking for Sarah. Only a few hours 874 00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:04.559 later that the townspeople heard the signal three shots fired 875 00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:07.480 into the air. Sarah had not only been found, but 876 00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:10.639 was apparently alive and well. But what had happened to 877 00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:13.519 her and one of the bear tracks discovered following so 878 00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:17.400 closely behind her most of the way. The expert woodsman 879 00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:19.639 from Plymouth, who was still a stranger to the community 880 00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:22.599 and Sarah's family, was now also a hero, and he 881 00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:25.719 happily returned Sarah directly to her mother's arms, as the 882 00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:28.000 rest of the community looked on with tears of joy. 883 00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:30.360 In their eyes and pairs of thanks on their lips. 884 00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:33.280 Everyone was eager to know what had happened to the 885 00:50:33.320 --> 00:50:36.000 little girl, and she was more than happy to oblige 886 00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:39.920 them with her miraculous and now legendary tale. Sarah began 887 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:41.880 by explaining that when her parents wouldn't allow her to 888 00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:44.559 go with them to visit her uncle, she became bored 889 00:50:44.679 --> 00:50:49.760 and decided to wander around picking wildflowers. Somehow, while walking along, 890 00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:53.480 her feet had been cut and began to bleed. Suddenly, 891 00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:55.920 as Sarah tried to figure out what to do, as 892 00:50:55.960 --> 00:50:58.239 now her feet were injured and hurting and she still 893 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:01.400 needed to get back home, a bit emerged from the woods. 894 00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:05.039 The little girl was immediately scared, but soon realized that 895 00:51:05.119 --> 00:51:08.119 bear seemed more curious than menacing, and so she stood 896 00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:11.760 there and did nothing as the animal approached her. According 897 00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:14.760 to Sarah, the bear walked right up to her, licked 898 00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.360 her in essence giving her a kiss, and then laid 899 00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:20.800 down right there at her feet. Sarah somehow immediately took 900 00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:22.800 this to mean she was to lay down and use 901 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:25.000 the bear as a warm and comfortable bed for the night. 902 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.639 The only other thing Sarah said to have revealed was 903 00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.119 that the bear simply stayed with her, either in that 904 00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:33.800 one spot or in the forest in general, and didn't 905 00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:36.559 leave her side until rescuers finally approached to bring her 906 00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:39.159 back out of the woods and reunite her with her family. 907 00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:42.400 Sarah went on to live a normal life Mary and 908 00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.079 have children of her own. It said she entertained others 909 00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:48.960 with her curious tale for many years after, and, as 910 00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:51.679 with any legend, be it fashion or completely made up, 911 00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:55.480 the miraculous story took on many extra parts throughout the centuries. 912 00:51:56.079 --> 00:51:58.920 Some very common additions are that the stranger who found 913 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:02.000 Sarah had been followed a vision of some kind, and 914 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:04.760 yet in other retellings of the story, the prayers from 915 00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:08.480 the townspeople and Sarah's family were so fervent in earnest 916 00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:11.440 that that's what actually brought Sarah back and let her 917 00:52:11.519 --> 00:52:15.199 being found safe and sound. It's even sometimes said that 918 00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:18.119 Sarah told her parents quote the great black dog had 919 00:52:18.199 --> 00:52:21.400 kept her safe and warm at night end quote. Of course, 920 00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.760 these things can't possibly be proven, but aren't known to 921 00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:27.159 be a part of Sarah's original retelling of the story. 922 00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:30.360 A man named William Little went out and researched the 923 00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:33.559 story and using only accounts that were allegedly eyewitnesses to 924 00:52:33.639 --> 00:52:37.079 the event, wrote the book History of Warren, a hamlet 925 00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:40.199 located along the White Hills of New Hampshire. This is 926 00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:42.480 one of, if not the only, book that's said to 927 00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:44.679 tell the true story in the words of those who 928 00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:47.800 were there that day. In its entirety, well, there's not 929 00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:50.960 much to this story. It's still pretty miraculous and some 930 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:55.079 would say unbelievable. Knowing what we know, and considering everything 931 00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:57.760 we've learned about the missing in the woods and things 932 00:52:57.880 --> 00:53:00.880 many have alleged to have experienced while out there, this 933 00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:04.679 could very well have happened. After all, Sarah is not 934 00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:07.920 the only child to allege a bear or otherwild animal 935 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:10.000 help protect them and keep them safe while they were 936 00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:12.360 scared and lost in the wilderness for days on end. 937 00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:16.280 House would these small children have survived, and why or 938 00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:18.599 how would they even come up with such strange tales 939 00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:21.280 if they weren't at least partially true to begin with. 940 00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:24.840 Maybe Sarah's story is a bit too old for some 941 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:27.079 to believe it is anything more than a local myth 942 00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:30.760 or urban legend. If that's the case, however, it's completely 943 00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:33.760 understandable because these things do have a way of taking 944 00:53:33.800 --> 00:53:36.239 on a life of their own after some time. It 945 00:53:36.280 --> 00:53:40.000 seems to still be happening to this day. We've discussed 946 00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:42.719 some more recent cases, like two year old I had 947 00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:45.639 to make Curtis, who in nineteen fifty five went missing 948 00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:48.159 in Montana's coot and Eye for Us. She was lost 949 00:53:48.239 --> 00:53:50.519 for two whole days, and the entire time the weather 950 00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:53.440 had been pouring rain, but she was found safe and sound, 951 00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:56.639 no worse for the wear. She adamantly insisted that it 952 00:53:56.719 --> 00:53:58.320 was a big bear that he kept her safe and 953 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:00.840 that cared so well for her during the entire time 954 00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:05.519 she'd been gone. In even more recent years, in twenty nineteen, 955 00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:08.199 a three year old named Casey Hathaway went missing in 956 00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:11.199 the wilderness near his grandmother's home in North Carolina, and 957 00:54:11.320 --> 00:54:14.360 told a very similar story when he was rescued. Here's 958 00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:17.079 his story, which some say is similar to the others 959 00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:19.599 in that it is very nonspecific as to what he 960 00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:22.480 and his companion did for days in the woods together, 961 00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:25.119 and only get his mentions to the fact that an animal, 962 00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:28.480 in this case also a bear, miraculously went against its 963 00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:31.159 very nature in order to protect and perhaps save a 964 00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:36.400 human child on January twenty third, twenty nineteen, Little Casey 965 00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:38.360 hathaway and was playing with a couple of his older 966 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:41.639 cousins and his great grandmother's backyard, but when the others 967 00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:45.079 came inside, Casey wasn't with them. His family searched for 968 00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:48.119 him for approximately forty five minutes, hoping to find him 969 00:54:48.119 --> 00:54:50.320 on their own, but when they had no luck, they 970 00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:53.519 called the Craven County Sheriff's Department on the phone with 971 00:54:53.559 --> 00:54:56.559 a nine to one one dispatcher. His grandmother reported, he 972 00:54:56.760 --> 00:54:59.159 was walking in the woods back there and we can't 973 00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:01.679 find him. The other ones come through the house but 974 00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:04.320 left him there, and he walked off somewhere and we 975 00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:07.159 can't find him. The next two nights were filled with 976 00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:10.280 freezing cold temperatures, pouring rain, and having winds, with the 977 00:55:10.320 --> 00:55:12.840 search and rescue teams and volunteers, along with. 978 00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:14.559 Casey's family never gave up. 979 00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:19.400 Both the FBI, US Marine Corps, dozens of volunteers, plus 980 00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:22.280 search and rescue teams from across the state came together 981 00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:25.519 to help find the missing toddler. Three days after he 982 00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:28.000 had last been seen in the backyard, the neighbor of 983 00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:30.199 his grandmother was out walking her dog and heard a 984 00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:33.880 loud cry coming from some nearby bushes, approximately forty yards 985 00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:36.639 from the road. When the neighbor went over to investigate, 986 00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:41.119 she found little Casey Hathaway alive and seemingly well, except 987 00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:43.639 that he was crying and tangled up in some thorn bushes. 988 00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:48.079 The authorities and Casey's family were immediately notified and he 989 00:55:48.199 --> 00:55:50.320 was rushed to the hospital, where he was described as 990 00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:54.480 being in surprisingly good condition. So Casey didn't have much 991 00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:56.199 to say about what he had done and where he 992 00:55:56.239 --> 00:56:00.800 had been. According to David McFadden of the Craven County 993 00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:03.760 Sheriff's Office, who told CNN and other news outlets who 994 00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:07.320 were seeking information, quote, he made a comment about having 995 00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:09.440 a friend while he was in the wood. His friend 996 00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:12.800 was a bear. In the emergency room, he started talking 997 00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:15.239 about what happened in the woods, and he said he 998 00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:17.360 had a friend that was a bear with him while 999 00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:18.280 he was in the woods. 1000 00:56:18.599 --> 00:56:19.079 End quote. 1001 00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:22.199 While Major and McFadden admitted there were bears in the 1002 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:24.360 woods in the county, he said there was no way 1003 00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:26.039 to prove one way or the other that one had 1004 00:56:26.119 --> 00:56:28.559 been with Casey during the time he was missing. He 1005 00:56:28.639 --> 00:56:30.440 went on to say that all that battered was that 1006 00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:32.920 there was something there to comfort the little boy throughout 1007 00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:36.679 the ordeal. Major McFadden was also quoted as saying, we 1008 00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:39.760 are very pleased he had that type of comfort. There 1009 00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:43.000 were very brutal conditions out there. The first night had 1010 00:56:43.079 --> 00:56:45.960 dropped down to twenty degrees. The second night we had 1011 00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:49.320 two inches of rain. Casey requested and is said to 1012 00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.519 have absolutely devoured some of his favorite foods while at 1013 00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:56.800 the hospital, including Cheetos and chicken McNuggets. Aside from a 1014 00:56:56.840 --> 00:57:00.000 few bruises, cuts and scrapes, Casey was in good condiction 1015 00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:03.519 and was happy to be reunited with his family. While 1016 00:57:03.599 --> 00:57:05.960 we may never really know what happened to any of 1017 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:07.880 these children and at least a handful of others that 1018 00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:09.719 have claimed to have been protected and cared for by 1019 00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:13.079 some unusual wildlife out in the woods, it definitely makes 1020 00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:15.039 for much more than just an interesting story. 1021 00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:16.559 In this community. 1022 00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:19.760 Sometimes it's hard to take things that face value, but 1023 00:57:19.880 --> 00:57:22.679 there are some who believe cases like these and others, 1024 00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:25.280 especially when it comes to small children who have no 1025 00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:27.880 reason or incentive to lie about such things, that we 1026 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:31.320 need to read between the lines. Could it be that 1027 00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:33.599 actually bears came out of the woods and went against 1028 00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:36.079 their very nature in order to protect and rescue at 1029 00:57:36.119 --> 00:57:38.920 times even to care for these little and otherwise helpless 1030 00:57:39.079 --> 00:57:41.800 human children for days on end. Could it be there's 1031 00:57:41.800 --> 00:57:44.880 something else at play here, and if so, what is it, 1032 00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:48.159 What could it possibly be and what interest does it 1033 00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:51.400 have in human children? Some people believe that perhaps whatever 1034 00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:54.000 the entities are, they simply appear to small children in 1035 00:57:54.039 --> 00:57:55.880 the form of a bear, due to the fact that 1036 00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:58.639 there's so many bear in popular children's story books and 1037 00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:02.320 fairy tales. This is all, of course speculation, and we 1038 00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:05.159 most likely will never know the real answers, but it 1039 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:07.360 is certainly something for us to consider. 1040 00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:07.679 And think about. 1041 00:58:08.239 --> 00:58:10.639 One more interesting thing to be added about Sarah Witcher 1042 00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:13.159 and her incredible tale of rescue survival in the woods. 1043 00:58:13.679 --> 00:58:17.239 The New Hampshire Historical Society has recently added, mainly due 1044 00:58:17.239 --> 00:58:19.679 to requests made by First and Second Greatest at Dublin 1045 00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:22.840 Christian Academy. There are two hundred and seventy fifth historical 1046 00:58:22.920 --> 00:58:25.119 highway marker in honor of the little girl who was 1047 00:58:25.159 --> 00:58:27.440 said to be saved by a bear all those years ago. 1048 00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:30.599 The markers, in accordance with the tale as told by 1049 00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:33.920 Elizabeth Yates and reads in part quote, the local man 1050 00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:36.760 joined the search after dreaming three times that Sarah would 1051 00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:40.039 be found under a pine limb near Barrybrook, guarded by 1052 00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:42.920 a bear. His dream proved to be true. Sarah was 1053 00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:46.079 found as he stated, and she told rescuers that a 1054 00:58:46.199 --> 00:58:48.559 great black dog had kept her each night. 1055 00:58:48.880 --> 00:58:49.400 End quote. 1056 00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:52.800 Yet more elements added to the long and ever evolving 1057 00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:55.840 story of three year old Sarah Witcher and her bear. 1058 00:58:57.760 --> 00:59:02.599 Hello friends, Steve Stalkton here with you. Welcome to a 1059 00:59:02.760 --> 00:59:08.199 brand new episode twenty twenty four. In this video, we'll 1060 00:59:08.239 --> 00:59:12.079 take a look at hitchhikers who went missing. Join me, 1061 00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:13.760 let's walk and see. 1062 00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:16.440 Now. 1063 00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:19.679 They say the road less traveled holds the greatest mysteries, 1064 00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:23.320 and out there on the roughly four point two million 1065 00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:27.119 miles of roads and highways throughout the USA, that couldn't 1066 00:59:27.159 --> 00:59:31.320 be more true. Every night, as the world sleeps, the 1067 00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:35.360 highway becomes a stage for vanishing acts. It's as if 1068 00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:39.880 the darkness itself has an appetite, devouring hitchhikers without a trace. 1069 00:59:41.239 --> 00:59:44.920 Let's discuss some cases in which the following individuals were 1070 00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:48.639 offered a ride to their destination, never to be seen again. 1071 00:59:49.519 --> 00:59:50.079 Vocal up. 1072 00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:53.519 This is going to be a strange one. First up, 1073 00:59:53.639 --> 00:59:58.960 we have Mitch Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit. Mitchell Weisser, age sixteen, 1074 00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:02.440 also known as Mitch, and his fourteen year old girlfriend, 1075 01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:07.159 Benita Mara Bickwitt, also known as Bonnie, reported missing after 1076 01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:10.559 being seen hitchhiking along a highway in Narrowsburg, New York. 1077 01:00:11.679 --> 01:00:14.800 They were heading northwest towards a town called Watkins Glen, 1078 01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:18.679 one hundred and seven miles away. The date was Friday, 1079 01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:22.239 July twenty seventh, nineteen seventy three, and the couple were 1080 01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:25.400 desperately attempting to hitchhike their way to the Watkins Glenn 1081 01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:30.280 Summer Jam Concert. The concert was a huge affair, posting 1082 01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:34.320 performances by The Almond Brothers, The Grateful Dead, The Band, 1083 01:00:34.679 --> 01:00:38.559 and many other popular artists of the time. Approximately six 1084 01:00:38.719 --> 01:00:42.480 hundred thousand individuals were in attendance of the concert, earning 1085 01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:44.559 it a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. 1086 01:00:46.519 --> 01:00:49.119 Out of the massive crowd that numbered well over half 1087 01:00:49.119 --> 01:00:53.599 a million, only two individuals managed without a trace, Bonnie 1088 01:00:53.639 --> 01:00:57.039 Bickwit and Mitch Weisser. No one has seen or heard 1089 01:00:57.119 --> 01:00:59.840 from them since they attended and participated in the event. 1090 01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:04.039 Mitch was a resident of the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, 1091 01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:06.679 New York, and had initially intended to go to the 1092 01:01:06.760 --> 01:01:10.920 concert with his friend Larry Marion. However, due to Larry's 1093 01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:14.519 mother's restrictions, Mitch asked Bonnie to join him instead. 1094 01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:16.639 Bonnie and Mitch had. 1095 01:01:16.599 --> 01:01:19.079 Been together for about a year when he decided to 1096 01:01:19.119 --> 01:01:21.920 take time off from his summer internship at a photography 1097 01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:25.719 studio in Coney Island to attend the event. He was 1098 01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:29.760 determined not to miss it. He was overjoyed when Bonnie, 1099 01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:32.719 who had been a parents' helper at Camp Wilmot during 1100 01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:35.599 the summer in the Catskill Mountains, decided to join him. 1101 01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:38.960 She had attended the camp as a child and cherished 1102 01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:42.599 her time there. However, when her boss would approve her 1103 01:01:42.639 --> 01:01:44.800 time off to go to the concert with Mitch, she 1104 01:01:44.960 --> 01:01:47.320 quit on the spot and told him she would be 1105 01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:50.280 back after the concert to collect her personal belongings and 1106 01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:55.599 final paycheck. With worried expressions, Mitch's mother, Shirley and his 1107 01:01:55.719 --> 01:01:59.320 sister Susan pleaded with him to reconsider attending the concert. 1108 01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:02.400 Both of them strongly believed it was a poor decision, 1109 01:02:03.519 --> 01:02:06.400 yet he refused to change his mind and was determined 1110 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:09.559 to go. Charley stepped in and offered him some money 1111 01:02:09.639 --> 01:02:13.920 to cover his travel expenses there and back. At that moment, 1112 01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:17.119 Mitch was already making his way out the door. It's 1113 01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:19.960 unclear if he didn't hear or if he was purposely ignored. Heer, 1114 01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:23.280 but with only twenty five dollars in his pocket, he 1115 01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:26.840 left without a second glance and never returned. He would 1116 01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:31.480 never step foot inside his home again. Mitch rode a 1117 01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:33.880 bus to Nearrisburg and then hopped on another one to 1118 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:37.320 Camp Well Met, where he arrived around midnight on Thursday. 1119 01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:41.960 By this point, he was almost completely broke. He made 1120 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:43.840 sure to call his mother and sister to let them 1121 01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:46.400 know it he arrived safely, but also that he had 1122 01:02:46.519 --> 01:02:50.360 very little money left. His mother and sister were understandably 1123 01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:53.239 worried and tried once again to convince him not to go, 1124 01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:56.480 but Mitch assured him that he would be fined and 1125 01:02:56.599 --> 01:02:58.840 promised to see them when he returned home. On Sunday 1126 01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:02.880 was a hitchhike one hundred and fifty miles northwest, but 1127 01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.159 he could attend the outdoor concert with Bonnie. After spending 1128 01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:10.119 the night at their campsite. They had breakfast on Friday 1129 01:03:10.199 --> 01:03:12.679 morning before embarking on what they thought would be an 1130 01:03:12.719 --> 01:03:16.679 exciting adventure. A caneman in a pickup truck offered them 1131 01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:20.159 a ride back to Narrisburg, and they gratefully accepted before 1132 01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:23.920 making their way to Highway ninety seven. Using a homemade 1133 01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:26.960 cardboard sign, they hitchhiked and asked for a ride to 1134 01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:30.960 the concert. When the truck driver glanced back one last time, 1135 01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:33.519 little did he know that it would be the final 1136 01:03:33.639 --> 01:03:37.400 confirmed sighting of the two teenagers. As Sunday night passed 1137 01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:40.119 without a call or appearance from Mitch as he promised, 1138 01:03:40.480 --> 01:03:44.280 his family grew increasingly concerned of the next day. They 1139 01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:46.719 were filled with worry and dialed camp Well met to 1140 01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:50.280 speak with Bonnie. With their dismay, they discovered that Bonnie 1141 01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:52.840 also did not return on Sunday and no one had 1142 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:57.159 heard from her either. Susan and Sidney Wiser, Mitch's sister, 1143 01:03:57.239 --> 01:04:00.159 and father, drove all the way to Watkins Glen the 1144 01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:03.840 search for the two teenagers, while Mitch's mother surely waited 1145 01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:08.920 anxiously at home. Meanwhile, Donnie's parents, Theodore and Ray, were 1146 01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:11.920 unaware of their daughter's disappearance, since they were vacationing in 1147 01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:16.480 Cape god Upon hearing the devastating news, they rushed to 1148 01:04:16.559 --> 01:04:20.519 Camp well Met. Without hesitation, they reported their daughter's missing, 1149 01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:24.559 hoping for assistance and finding her. However, their hopes were 1150 01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:27.480 quickly dashed as the police brushed off their concerns and 1151 01:04:27.639 --> 01:04:29.920 chalked it up to another pair of teenagers who'd run 1152 01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:34.239 away after attending a concert. Just three days before her disappearance, 1153 01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:37.519 Donnie had sent a letter to her parents. In it, 1154 01:04:37.719 --> 01:04:40.360 she expressed her happiness at Camp well Met and how 1155 01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:43.480 much she valued the freedom she had there. She also 1156 01:04:43.599 --> 01:04:46.360 mentioned that when she returned home, she hoped her parents 1157 01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:49.360 would give her more space to grow and travel. This 1158 01:04:49.559 --> 01:04:52.320 last part gave them hope that perhaps she had gone 1159 01:04:52.360 --> 01:04:56.199 on a trip and would contact them soon. After the 1160 01:04:56.280 --> 01:04:59.800 authorities refused to help with any investigation into their missing children, 1161 01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:03.280 both Bonnie and Mitch's parents decided to let them explore 1162 01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:06.679 their freedom for a while. They waited patiently for school 1163 01:05:06.719 --> 01:05:09.559 to start again, hoping their kids were just traveling on 1164 01:05:09.679 --> 01:05:12.760 their own. However, when neither of them showed up for 1165 01:05:12.840 --> 01:05:15.800 the first day of school, all the parents feared the worst. 1166 01:05:16.920 --> 01:05:19.480 Described as a sweet boy with shouldered, linked hair pulled 1167 01:05:19.519 --> 01:05:23.639 back into ponytail, tortoise show glasses, and hazel eyes. Mitch 1168 01:05:23.800 --> 01:05:27.760 was known for his love of baseball, his girlfriend, Bonnie, photography, 1169 01:05:28.159 --> 01:05:32.159 and The Grateful Dead. Even named his dog Casey Jones 1170 01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:36.280 after one of the band's classic songs. His friends admired 1171 01:05:36.360 --> 01:05:41.280 him for being courageous and rebellious. According to his sister Susan, 1172 01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:44.599 he was a talented and gifted individual. She kept a 1173 01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:47.480 box filled with her brother's belongings as a memento for 1174 01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:49.079 the brother she loved dearly but. 1175 01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:49.960 Lost too soon. 1176 01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:53.119 Among the items in the box are his old tortoise 1177 01:05:53.159 --> 01:05:57.360 show glasses, his poetry ticket stubs from the nineteen sixty 1178 01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:01.239 nine Mets World Series, trading card from the nineteen sixty 1179 01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:04.159 four and sixty five New York World's Fair, and a 1180 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:07.840 large birthday card made by Mitch's friends on his fifteenth birthday. 1181 01:06:09.599 --> 01:06:12.239 At just four feet and eleven inches, Bonnie was a 1182 01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:15.519 petite young girl, weighing around ninety pounds. She had a 1183 01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:19.079 face full of freckles and long brown hair. Her close 1184 01:06:19.159 --> 01:06:21.760 friends often referred to her as a free spirited individual 1185 01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:27.079 with a sweet disposition, sharp intellect, strong determination, and fearlessness. 1186 01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:31.119 Music was one of her passions, and she particularly adored 1187 01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:35.960 the Almond Brothers band. Bonnie was a student in gifted classes, 1188 01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:39.400 and instead of going to traditional high school, she chose 1189 01:06:39.400 --> 01:06:41.159 to attend the experimental John. 1190 01:06:41.000 --> 01:06:41.880 Dewey High School. 1191 01:06:42.719 --> 01:06:45.719 That's where Mitch and Bonnie first crossed paths and bonded 1192 01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:51.159 over their shared academic successes. With impressive GPAs and ambitious 1193 01:06:51.199 --> 01:06:54.039 plans for the future, it seemed unlikely that they would 1194 01:06:54.079 --> 01:06:58.079 simply vanish without a trace. To make matters more suspicious, 1195 01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:01.800 they had secretly exchanged wedding, leading the police to believe 1196 01:07:01.840 --> 01:07:06.280 that they may have deliberately disappeared together. Even after six 1197 01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:09.880 weeks of no contact, the police remained doubtful and dismissed 1198 01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:14.039 the disappearance of the simple teenager runaways. Frustrated by their 1199 01:07:14.119 --> 01:07:17.280 lack of action, the parents of both missing teenagers took 1200 01:07:17.320 --> 01:07:21.639 matters into their own hands and launched independent investigations, regardlessly 1201 01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:25.760 working to bring attention to the case. In nineteen seventy three, 1202 01:07:26.079 --> 01:07:30.039 despite the passionate police for these two disressed families, investigators 1203 01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:32.679 from three different counties in New York chose to ignore 1204 01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:36.280 their crist for help and refused to launch an official investigation. 1205 01:07:37.199 --> 01:07:40.239 Despite assurances from the NYPD that they would inform other 1206 01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:43.960 agencies nationwide about the missing teens, they failed to do so. 1207 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:48.760 As a result, the Slovan County Sheriff's Office also neglected 1208 01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:52.800 to help investigation on the case. On the twenty fifth 1209 01:07:52.840 --> 01:07:57.320 anniversary of the disappearance of the teenagers, Bonnie's sister, Sheryl Kagan, 1210 01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:01.159 decided to launch an investigation to find uncovered the truth 1211 01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:05.159 behind her sister and Mitch's fate. Her dis May, she 1212 01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:09.920 discovered that the original case files, notes from investigators, dental records, 1213 01:08:10.239 --> 01:08:13.039 and a list of potential witnesses had all been lost 1214 01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:16.520 by both the Sylvan County Sheriff's Office and the NYPD's 1215 01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:21.079 Missing Persons Squad. As a result, crucial information was not 1216 01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:25.279 entered into the FBI's National Crime Information Center. A former 1217 01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:28.840 detective from Sullivan County named Anthony Suarez confessed that he 1218 01:08:28.880 --> 01:08:31.039 had been assigned to the case in nineteen ninety four, 1219 01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:35.000 but never attempted to contact the original investigator or make 1220 01:08:35.119 --> 01:08:38.720 any effort to solve the mystery of Bonnie and Mitch's disappearance. 1221 01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:45.119 Anthony Suarez passed away in May of twenty twenty. Now, 1222 01:08:45.319 --> 01:08:47.960 in the year two thousand, a man came forward with 1223 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:51.920 a remarkable tale. Unfortunately, it was never confirmed and the 1224 01:08:52.039 --> 01:08:55.760 man has since passed away. In summary, he claimed to 1225 01:08:55.760 --> 01:08:58.319 have hitchhiked with Bonnie and Mitch, who were desperately trying 1226 01:08:58.359 --> 01:09:01.159 to get home from a concert that couldn't reach. They 1227 01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:04.279 were supposedly picked up by an orangeb W bus, but 1228 01:09:04.439 --> 01:09:07.880 the driver pulled over when things got too intense. The 1229 01:09:07.960 --> 01:09:11.720 group stopped at the Susquehanna River for a swim, but unfortunately, 1230 01:09:12.119 --> 01:09:14.760 both Mitch and Bonny were swept away by the strong current. 1231 01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:18.960 The driver left, but promised to contact the police, so 1232 01:09:19.119 --> 01:09:23.119 the other hitchhikers saw no need to do so himself. Eventually, 1233 01:09:23.359 --> 01:09:26.119 he did meet with investigators at his own expense, and 1234 01:09:26.239 --> 01:09:28.560 now the police believe his story is the most likely 1235 01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:34.039 explanation for what happened to the missing teens. Nevertheless, the 1236 01:09:34.159 --> 01:09:36.800 families remained doubtful and are waiting to hear from the 1237 01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:41.479 driver or any other potential witnesses. However, despite their efforts, 1238 01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:45.039 no one has stepped forward with any information about the incident. 1239 01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:52.199 This case remains unsolved. Next up, we have the case 1240 01:09:52.279 --> 01:09:57.479 of Jojo Delard On November ninth, nineteen ninety five, twenty 1241 01:09:57.520 --> 01:10:00.960 one year old Jojo Delard left her home in Callen County, 1242 01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:03.800 Kilkenny to take a bus to Dublin, where she was 1243 01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:07.359 supposed to meet up with friends. After spending the afternoon 1244 01:10:07.399 --> 01:10:10.479 at Brooksville's Pub on Grafton Street, she planned to take 1245 01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:15.000 the bus back home around ten pm. However, she missed 1246 01:10:15.039 --> 01:10:17.159 the last bus of the night and had to board 1247 01:10:17.199 --> 01:10:19.359 a different one that would take her somewhat close to 1248 01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:24.479 her find her destination in nas County kill Dare. With 1249 01:10:24.600 --> 01:10:26.920 no other plans for the evening, she hopped off that 1250 01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:30.479 bus and began hitchhiking. This was a common occurrence at 1251 01:10:30.520 --> 01:10:34.760 the time. After hitch hiking her first ride to Moon, 1252 01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:38.840 Jojo called a friend from a fai phunt. She promised 1253 01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:41.000 to be home soon as someone had just pulled over 1254 01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:43.079 and offered her a ride while she was making the call. 1255 01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:46.920 As soon as she hung up, she presumably got into 1256 01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:49.239 the car and was never seen or heard from again. 1257 01:10:50.439 --> 01:10:53.600 Even though her family continuously asked for updates and assistance, 1258 01:10:54.079 --> 01:10:57.640 the police initially refused to provide any help. They believed 1259 01:10:57.720 --> 01:11:01.680 Jojo voluntarily disappeared and would reappear on her own. Eventually, 1260 01:11:03.399 --> 01:11:07.319 during the evening when Jojo Delard disappeared, a truck driver 1261 01:11:07.520 --> 01:11:10.159 claimed he saw a young woman running naked through Moon. 1262 01:11:11.159 --> 01:11:13.319 The driver and his boss were traveling through the area 1263 01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:16.279 at the time and spotted the visibly distressed woman, but 1264 01:11:16.399 --> 01:11:19.600 they did not stop to offer assistance. They did, however, 1265 01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:22.760 call the police and were promised that someone would immediately 1266 01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:26.159 go to the location and investigate. The driver claimed that 1267 01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:29.159 he later learned the woman was not Jojo, and authorities 1268 01:11:29.199 --> 01:11:31.640 confirmed that it was actually from one else. 1269 01:11:33.079 --> 01:11:33.199 Now. 1270 01:11:33.359 --> 01:11:36.640 The murder of Jojo was only recently declared by authorities, 1271 01:11:37.119 --> 01:11:39.640 and now the police are searching for any traces of 1272 01:11:39.720 --> 01:11:43.079 her mains. The case was reopened a few years ago 1273 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:46.359 and the Police Service of Ireland issued a statement to 1274 01:11:46.439 --> 01:11:49.720 the public. In JoJo's family they now believed she was 1275 01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:52.479 a victim of homicide and that her cause of death 1276 01:11:52.680 --> 01:11:56.520 was most likely due to violent means. This case is 1277 01:11:56.640 --> 01:12:00.399 filled with an extraordinary amount of information, largely to the 1278 01:12:00.439 --> 01:12:05.600 relentless effort of JoJo's family, particularly her devoted sister. They've 1279 01:12:05.640 --> 01:12:09.159 taken upon themselves to investigate the case. Feeling let down 1280 01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:12.960 by the authorities from the get go, hiring investigators and 1281 01:12:13.159 --> 01:12:17.800 following leeds has become their own responsibility. Despite all their efforts, 1282 01:12:18.159 --> 01:12:22.439 the truth behind Jojo Delarde's disappearance remains elusive and sadly, 1283 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:25.359 she is not the only young woman to go missing 1284 01:12:25.399 --> 01:12:29.880 in that area. Next, we have Jamie Herdman at only 1285 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:33.359 twenty six years old. Jamie Herdman was a skills chef 1286 01:12:33.720 --> 01:12:36.880 from Facatone, New Zealand. He had failed to work at 1287 01:12:36.920 --> 01:12:40.760 a furniture removal company in Broome, Western Australia when he disappeared. 1288 01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:45.119 During his free time, Jamie poured his passion into renovating 1289 01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:47.640 a Nissan utility van that he dreamed of taking for 1290 01:12:47.720 --> 01:12:52.199 a cross country trip across Australia. After completing his project 1291 01:12:52.279 --> 01:12:55.439 and waiting for the perfect moment, Jamie finally set off 1292 01:12:55.520 --> 01:12:59.640 on his long awaited road trip. Jamie's family reported missing 1293 01:12:59.680 --> 01:13:02.840 on December five, two thousand and six, when they couldn't 1294 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:06.279 reach him during his trip. An investigation was launched and 1295 01:13:06.399 --> 01:13:10.079 authorities discovered that Jamie was last seen hitchhiking at Dally Waters, 1296 01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:13.760 approximately three hundred and seventeen miles from Darwin, where his 1297 01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:17.199 family believed he was headed. His van, which had a 1298 01:13:17.319 --> 01:13:21.159 history of overheating was quickly located abandoned near a roadhouse 1299 01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:27.119 on Stuart Highway. Inside the unlocked van, authorities found Jamie's clothes, phone, 1300 01:13:27.399 --> 01:13:31.439 credit cards, toothbrush, and some cash. However, his keys were missing. 1301 01:13:32.359 --> 01:13:35.119 In November of two thousand and six, Jamie made the 1302 01:13:35.239 --> 01:13:38.000 unusual decision to travel through the center of Australia on 1303 01:13:38.119 --> 01:13:41.159 his way to Dally Waters. His brother Karl, described this 1304 01:13:41.399 --> 01:13:45.760 as bizarre. Jamie was an avid fisherman, leading his family 1305 01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:47.800 to believe that he would have more likely chosen route 1306 01:13:47.840 --> 01:13:51.960 along the coast. However, Carl reported that Jamie had left 1307 01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:56.039 Broom suddenly and without informing anyone, not friends, family, or 1308 01:13:56.119 --> 01:14:00.520 even his employer. The family suspected that Jamie may received 1309 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:03.159 a warning from a friend about someone who was after 1310 01:14:03.279 --> 01:14:07.479 him or planning to harm him in some way. Everyone 1311 01:14:07.560 --> 01:14:09.920 held on to the hope that Jamie was simply unaware 1312 01:14:09.920 --> 01:14:11.960 of the search efforts to find him, and that he 1313 01:14:12.119 --> 01:14:15.760 was out there somewhere continue his journey and still safe. 1314 01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:19.520 There was also the possibility that he had become stranded 1315 01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:22.600 in a remote Aboriginal community, cut off from the rest 1316 01:14:22.680 --> 01:14:26.760 of civilization due to severe flooding, but as more time 1317 01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:31.319 passed without any word from Jamie, it became increasingly unlikely 1318 01:14:31.479 --> 01:14:35.159 that he would be found alive. Despite extensive search efforts 1319 01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:37.680 on land and in the air, no trace of Jamie 1320 01:14:37.800 --> 01:14:40.760 or any clothes I saw his whereabouts have ever been discovered. 1321 01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:44.399 He remains missing to this day, along with many others 1322 01:14:44.439 --> 01:14:47.439 who have traveled through the isolated Australian outback and never 1323 01:14:47.600 --> 01:14:55.680 returned home. And finally, Joshua Jones. Joshua Jones, a twenty 1324 01:14:55.760 --> 01:14:59.239 nine year old man from Hurst Rise in matt Locke, Derbyshire, England, 1325 01:14:59.479 --> 01:15:03.000 left his home on December twelfth, twenty twenty at approximately 1326 01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:06.000 eleven thirty. He told his wife Talia that he was 1327 01:15:06.039 --> 01:15:09.640 going to the pharmacy and would be back soon. Before leaving, 1328 01:15:09.760 --> 01:15:11.800 he kissed his two year old son and wife goodbye, 1329 01:15:12.279 --> 01:15:17.039 but never return. At around noon, CCTV footage captured Joshua 1330 01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:20.000 at a department store and then later at a nearby 1331 01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:25.039 Sainsbury grocery store. Witnesses supported seeing him hitchhiking on the 1332 01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:28.520 A six thirty two towards Chesterfield at around four pm. 1333 01:15:29.199 --> 01:15:32.399 Prior to his disappearance, Joshua had texted his wife saying 1334 01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:36.000 I love you to the moon and back. This mysterious 1335 01:15:36.119 --> 01:15:39.520 vanishing led to both reports to the police about potential 1336 01:15:39.640 --> 01:15:42.720 sightings of Joshua. However, no one has been able to 1337 01:15:42.800 --> 01:15:46.720 locate him since. When he disappeared, he'd been wearing a 1338 01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:50.439 gray super dry jacket and blue jeans. The sleeves of 1339 01:15:50.479 --> 01:15:52.920 the coat were light colored and the inside was green. 1340 01:15:53.960 --> 01:15:57.479 Other identifying features include a Japanese inspired tattoo on his 1341 01:15:57.640 --> 01:16:00.920 right arm featuring a dragon, a koi f and a crane. 1342 01:16:01.399 --> 01:16:03.840 On his left wrist, there was a tattoo in Tallia's 1343 01:16:03.880 --> 01:16:06.319 handwriting that read to the Moon and Back with a 1344 01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:10.680 red rocket and runes surrounding a moon inside. Despite the 1345 01:16:10.760 --> 01:16:14.680 efforts of authorities, including drone searches, mountain rescue teams, and 1346 01:16:14.800 --> 01:16:18.520 a helicopter, Joshua Jones could not be found, nor any 1347 01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:22.279 information about his disappearance. There are no leeds or evidence 1348 01:16:22.359 --> 01:16:25.359 in this case. His wife claimed that she wasn't surprised 1349 01:16:25.359 --> 01:16:28.199 that he couldn't be seen on CCTV footage because there 1350 01:16:28.239 --> 01:16:32.239 were only cameras in Central Matlock. Dahlia also mentioned that 1351 01:16:32.399 --> 01:16:35.880 her and Joshua had often talked about leaving society behind him, 1352 01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:39.439 building a treehouse to live in during the pandemic and lockdowns. 1353 01:16:39.880 --> 01:16:43.520 Joshua struggled with feeling trapped and anxious. He refused to 1354 01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:48.319 seek medical help, believing time would heal his wounds. Eliat 1355 01:16:48.359 --> 01:16:51.039 remains hopeful that her husband is still alive and possibly 1356 01:16:51.119 --> 01:16:53.560 living in the wilderness, as he was skilled in survival 1357 01:16:53.720 --> 01:16:57.119 and loved the outdoors. Now, there is no record explaining 1358 01:16:57.239 --> 01:16:59.640 the reason that he would have had to possibly leave 1359 01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:03.159 his wife and sun behind intentionally. However, the day before 1360 01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:05.479 he vanished, his card broken down, and both he and 1361 01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:08.279 Italian were concerned about the expenses of getting it fixed 1362 01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:11.359 and how that would affect plans to purchase Christmas gifts. 1363 01:17:12.520 --> 01:17:15.079 On top of that, rent was due and they had 1364 01:17:15.159 --> 01:17:18.760 yet to shop for their holiday meal. Tellia speculates that 1365 01:17:18.840 --> 01:17:21.159 the stress of their life together may have pushed him 1366 01:17:21.159 --> 01:17:25.199 to flee. Unfortunately, there is no further information on this case, 1367 01:17:25.760 --> 01:17:31.640 and Joshua Jones remains missing. The strange disappearance of Eric Sears. 1368 01:17:33.119 --> 01:17:36.479 On July fourteenth, two thousand and four, friends and recent 1369 01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:40.520 graduates of Carlsbad High School in California, seventeen year olds 1370 01:17:40.800 --> 01:17:43.600 Eric Sears and Ben Fogelstrom, decided to go on a 1371 01:17:43.640 --> 01:17:47.600 camping trip together in Joshua Tree National Park. The two 1372 01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:50.000 of them showed up to their campsite in jumbo rocks 1373 01:17:50.039 --> 01:17:52.720 and we're just having a good time. They were turned 1374 01:17:52.720 --> 01:17:56.920 away from the Sanya Sinto due to wildfires. Around noon 1375 01:17:57.119 --> 01:18:01.199 is when investigators believe the two boys became separated. Teams 1376 01:18:01.239 --> 01:18:04.079 of searchers were told that Eric became dehydrated and Ben 1377 01:18:04.159 --> 01:18:08.079 went to go and find some water. Erk stayed behind 1378 01:18:08.119 --> 01:18:10.279 and curled up underneath a picnic bench to try and 1379 01:18:10.319 --> 01:18:14.399 rest in the shade until Ben returned. When Ben came back, 1380 01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:18.279 he couldn't find Eric anywhere and became panicked. Some other 1381 01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:21.800 campers came across him hiw is still unclear, and brought 1382 01:18:21.880 --> 01:18:24.119 him into the park office to report the disappearance of 1383 01:18:24.239 --> 01:18:26.319 Eric at around four to forty the next afternoon. 1384 01:18:27.479 --> 01:18:28.039 The search of a. 1385 01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:30.239 Twenty square mile area of the park began at six 1386 01:18:30.319 --> 01:18:33.600 pm that evening. There's an intensive search and rescue operation. 1387 01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:37.560 Parks SAAR teams scattered the area with help from various 1388 01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:40.439 law enforcement teams, and as of Sunday, there were one 1389 01:18:40.520 --> 01:18:43.800 hundred and seventy searchers in total, but by Monday the 1390 01:18:43.920 --> 01:18:46.760 number of searchers had dropped to forty because the volunteers 1391 01:18:46.840 --> 01:18:47.800 had to return to work. 1392 01:18:49.640 --> 01:18:51.279 The search included tracking. 1393 01:18:51.039 --> 01:18:54.840 Dogs, horses, a helicopter, fixed wing planes, and climbers who 1394 01:18:54.880 --> 01:18:58.960 looked in rock crevices where he could have fallen. Robert Fonda, 1395 01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:01.720 one of the parks lead trackers, said the search was 1396 01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:04.359 difficult because it had taken place in one hundred plus 1397 01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:07.760 degree heat every day, because the terrain varied from really 1398 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:12.359 flat to boulder outcroppings where the footing is perilous. He stated, 1399 01:19:12.760 --> 01:19:14.840 we've been working a lot in the back areas and 1400 01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:17.720 making sure that some teams didn't miss anything. You can't 1401 01:19:17.720 --> 01:19:21.239 speculate about what may have happened, You just have to search. 1402 01:19:22.560 --> 01:19:25.000 Searchers did find some of Eric's shoe prints, and the 1403 01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:27.439 dogs were able to pick up his scent, but none 1404 01:19:27.479 --> 01:19:29.640 of it enabled them to determine where he was going. 1405 01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:34.159 Eric was described as in top physical condition. He ran 1406 01:19:34.279 --> 01:19:37.119 cross country for four years in high school and even 1407 01:19:37.159 --> 01:19:40.079 traveled to Australia two years earlier with other state runners. 1408 01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:43.920 As an adult, he also participated in a twenty four 1409 01:19:43.960 --> 01:19:47.000 hour relay race between Carlsbad and El Camino High Schools 1410 01:19:47.279 --> 01:19:50.399 at Carlsbad July tenth and eleventh to promote the sport 1411 01:19:50.479 --> 01:19:54.800 and help raise money. Unfortunately, all would not end well. 1412 01:19:55.800 --> 01:19:59.600 Eric's body was found on July twenty third. Because of 1413 01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:02.840 death couldn't be determined by autopsy because that time it 1414 01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:06.960 was too badly decomposed. There was no obvious trauma found 1415 01:20:07.000 --> 01:20:10.479 anywhere on the body. This is when the investigators turned 1416 01:20:10.479 --> 01:20:12.199 to the only person who was with him that night 1417 01:20:12.279 --> 01:20:15.359 for answers. The rest of the story was told by 1418 01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:18.399 Ben to the authorities. It's strange, to say the least. 1419 01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:22.039 Here's what Ben said had happened leading up to the disappearance. 1420 01:20:22.399 --> 01:20:25.000 Though he admitted to authorities during this statement, but he 1421 01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:28.640 was having trouble distinguishing what actually happened from hallucinations he 1422 01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:30.760 was certain he was having due to his and Eric's 1423 01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:34.520 partaking in a wildly grown, illicit but not illegal in 1424 01:20:34.600 --> 01:20:39.439 the state of California substance the night before. His report 1425 01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:42.800 was oftentimes conflicting and all over the place. He told 1426 01:20:42.840 --> 01:20:45.359 authorities both he and Eric had drank a tea made 1427 01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:48.960 from a certain weed. He claimed he remembered speaking to 1428 01:20:49.039 --> 01:20:53.079 a bush an Indian, and possibly to Eric. He said 1429 01:20:53.079 --> 01:20:55.079 he was pretty sure his friend was deceased because he 1430 01:20:55.119 --> 01:20:58.840 thought he remembered disposing of his body. He also couldn't 1431 01:20:58.880 --> 01:21:01.479 tell authorities exactly see how Eric had gone missing or 1432 01:21:01.600 --> 01:21:04.840 ended up deceased, depending on which story Ben was recounting 1433 01:21:04.840 --> 01:21:09.520 at the time. However, two chemicals toxins found in this 1434 01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:14.000 plant were found in Eric's brain tissue. One way or another, 1435 01:21:14.159 --> 01:21:16.159 the use of this plant by Ben and Eric was 1436 01:21:16.199 --> 01:21:20.600 a major contributing factor in Eric's death. The plant known 1437 01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:24.279 as gemsen weed, local weed, stink weed, mad apple, thorn 1438 01:21:24.359 --> 01:21:27.479 apple are among the street names for the foul smelling Datura. 1439 01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:30.920 Stramonium plant is one of a group of plants known 1440 01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:35.199 as belladonnas notarius. Tremonium is a common weed found along 1441 01:21:35.359 --> 01:21:40.119 roadsides in cornfields, pastures, and waste areas. It's been reported 1442 01:21:40.159 --> 01:21:42.560 to grow widely in all but two states, by only 1443 01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:46.079 in Alaska. Although it's not popular on the street, it 1444 01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:49.479 is usually used by teenagers curious about the plants hallucinogenic 1445 01:21:49.560 --> 01:21:54.399 and euphoric effects. Although something adolescents might use with their peers, 1446 01:21:54.920 --> 01:21:57.279 all parts of the plant are toxic and usage can 1447 01:21:57.359 --> 01:22:01.039 result in serious illness or death. It can take up 1448 01:22:01.079 --> 01:22:03.720 to hours for someone to feel the plant's effects, so 1449 01:22:03.880 --> 01:22:08.279 people often consume excessive amounts, believing it's not working since 1450 01:22:08.319 --> 01:22:12.119 it's growing wild. The ponency is impossible to predict. The 1451 01:22:12.239 --> 01:22:15.800 toxicity even varies by year, between plants, parts of the plant, 1452 01:22:16.119 --> 01:22:19.520 and even among different leaves on the same plant. Even 1453 01:22:19.600 --> 01:22:22.600 just a small amount of it ingested can cause nausea, headache, 1454 01:22:22.680 --> 01:22:29.640 severe agitation, hallucinations, behavioral changes, and or delirium. Annually, poison 1455 01:22:29.680 --> 01:22:32.960 control centers deal with approximately one thousand cases of poisoning 1456 01:22:33.039 --> 01:22:37.840 by these plants. Usage increases between May and September, when 1457 01:22:37.880 --> 01:22:42.359 the plants are mature and plentiful. The overwhelming majority of 1458 01:22:42.560 --> 01:22:45.920 users report that their experience was very unpleasant, physically dangerous, 1459 01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:50.640 and sometimes terrifying. Few people ever use it twice. Even 1460 01:22:50.680 --> 01:22:53.560 a one time usage can have tragic effects, such as 1461 01:22:53.640 --> 01:22:57.439 in this case. With all that being said, one may 1462 01:22:57.520 --> 01:22:59.560 ask what is the lure to experiment with the plant 1463 01:22:59.560 --> 01:23:03.359 which seems have no pleasant effects whatsoever. The effects have 1464 01:23:03.439 --> 01:23:05.319 been described as being in a living dream and can 1465 01:23:05.439 --> 01:23:13.920 last for days. It has extremely powerful psychoactive effects, including hallucinations, delusions, disorientation, confusion, 1466 01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:18.399 and panic. Doesn't sound like my idea of fun. Users 1467 01:23:18.479 --> 01:23:21.000 have no concept that anything they are talking to seeing 1468 01:23:21.079 --> 01:23:24.399 or running from isn't actually there. That's how intense these 1469 01:23:24.439 --> 01:23:28.880 hallucinations can be, where it's impossible to distinguish them from reality. 1470 01:23:30.359 --> 01:23:32.880 Oddly enough, some of the hallucinations are reported to have 1471 01:23:33.039 --> 01:23:38.000 recurrent themes, such as insects, cigarettes, people, or objects appearing 1472 01:23:38.039 --> 01:23:43.239 and disappearing, including demons and monsters. Smoking a phantom cigarette 1473 01:23:43.359 --> 01:23:45.760 is one of the most common hallucinations, even if the 1474 01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:50.520 individual has never smoked before. Talking to inanimate objects, plants, 1475 01:23:50.600 --> 01:23:53.479 and friends who are not present is also frequently reported. 1476 01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:57.800 Individuals lose their ability to identify their friends and may 1477 01:23:57.880 --> 01:24:02.359 not even recognize their own reflection in a mists. Individual 1478 01:24:02.439 --> 01:24:06.239 may also try to interact with these hallucinations. Most users 1479 01:24:06.279 --> 01:24:09.479 don't even realize that they're hallucinating until its effects were off. 1480 01:24:11.239 --> 01:24:14.880 Amnesia is also frequently reported, with users having no memory 1481 01:24:14.920 --> 01:24:17.319 of what they were doing for several hours, or they 1482 01:24:17.399 --> 01:24:21.239 may unconsciously replace fact with fantasy. They can fall in 1483 01:24:21.319 --> 01:24:24.960 and out of conscience, slip into delirium. It's believed that 1484 01:24:25.079 --> 01:24:26.640 this is what happened with There can be in while 1485 01:24:26.640 --> 01:24:29.239 they were out being typical teenagers that night in Joshua 1486 01:24:29.359 --> 01:24:32.359 Tree did they get in over their heads and one 1487 01:24:32.399 --> 01:24:36.039 thing lead to another. Did Eric dive an overdose? I'm 1488 01:24:36.079 --> 01:24:39.000 taking too much thinking the initial doses weren't effective or 1489 01:24:39.159 --> 01:24:44.399 not working for him? Or was it something else all together? Unfortunately, 1490 01:24:44.800 --> 01:24:47.239 gyms and weeds related deaths are often a result of 1491 01:24:47.279 --> 01:24:50.840 impair judgment that leads to risk taking activities such as 1492 01:24:50.920 --> 01:24:53.119 believing you can fly and jumping off a cliff, or 1493 01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:56.520 chasing a mermaid in a lake even though you can't swim. 1494 01:24:58.159 --> 01:25:00.720 Are the above listed or nowhere near all the dangerous 1495 01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:03.439 effects this particular belladonna could have on the human brain 1496 01:25:03.520 --> 01:25:08.359 and psyche. So what happened to Eric Serius that faithful 1497 01:25:08.439 --> 01:25:10.520 night in two thousand and four when he had his 1498 01:25:10.600 --> 01:25:12.359 whole life ahead of him and was just looking to 1499 01:25:12.399 --> 01:25:14.479 have some fun with his friend in a beautiful place 1500 01:25:15.239 --> 01:25:18.920 the celebration of the Huge Life milestone and graduating high school. 1501 01:25:20.880 --> 01:25:23.800 Eric was described by his peers as popular and friendly, and, 1502 01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:26.279 as mentioned before, was a member of the cross country team. 1503 01:25:27.079 --> 01:25:29.439 He had been accepted in the engineering program at San 1504 01:25:29.479 --> 01:25:32.720 Diego State University that was to begin classes that fall. 1505 01:25:34.159 --> 01:25:37.960 His death affected the whole community, According to an affidavit 1506 01:25:38.079 --> 01:25:41.640 file and super record in Indio. He provided several stories 1507 01:25:41.680 --> 01:25:44.960 of hallucinating during the night, with he being Ben Fogustrom. 1508 01:25:46.159 --> 01:25:49.000 The community was heartbroken with the discovery of Eric's body 1509 01:25:49.359 --> 01:25:51.640 and with the seeming senselessness of it. On top of 1510 01:25:51.720 --> 01:25:55.479 it all, on the porch of the series' home, signs 1511 01:25:55.520 --> 01:25:57.880 with messages of hope, flowers and red and white and 1512 01:25:57.920 --> 01:25:59.760 blue candles formed what was to be a welcome for 1513 01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:04.119 the family when they returned. Parents Tom and Wendy Sears 1514 01:26:04.199 --> 01:26:06.880 have remained at the desert campground since shortly after their 1515 01:26:06.920 --> 01:26:11.119 son was reported missing. Officials said the Seers family was 1516 01:26:11.159 --> 01:26:14.520 in seclusion Friday night in nearby twenty nine Palms, and 1517 01:26:14.640 --> 01:26:17.560 that their daughter, Stephanie, aged nineteen, was en route to 1518 01:26:17.680 --> 01:26:20.960 join them. Many were expected to return later in the 1519 01:26:21.039 --> 01:26:23.760 evening to share prayers and light candles against the darkness 1520 01:26:23.800 --> 01:26:26.800 at the Seers home, something they have done not after 1521 01:26:26.920 --> 01:26:30.560 night this week. Neighbors and friends said the mutual support 1522 01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:33.800 provided by the small, close community has at times been 1523 01:26:33.840 --> 01:26:35.560 the only thing that carried them through more than a 1524 01:26:35.600 --> 01:26:39.439 week of waiting. Groups of neighbors who traveled daily to 1525 01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:42.880 Joshua Tree to help support the family. There was a 1526 01:26:42.920 --> 01:26:45.640 search warrant issued for Ben's home in hopes of uncovering 1527 01:26:45.680 --> 01:26:50.039 more information. According to this affidavit, investigators did give him 1528 01:26:50.039 --> 01:26:51.920 a lie detect your test, but we know that these 1529 01:26:51.960 --> 01:26:55.920 are faulty and not admissible in most courts. This was 1530 01:26:55.960 --> 01:26:58.359 while searchers were so looking for Eric in the Jostuh 1531 01:26:58.399 --> 01:27:02.520 Tree Park. According to the affidavit, Ben Tearrifory admitted during 1532 01:27:02.560 --> 01:27:05.239 an interview with detectives that he found Eric dead inside 1533 01:27:05.279 --> 01:27:08.479 his tent. He said that happened the day he reported 1534 01:27:08.479 --> 01:27:11.880 his friend as missing. This is also where he admitted 1535 01:27:11.920 --> 01:27:14.239 to disposing of Eric's body by putting an inside an 1536 01:27:14.279 --> 01:27:18.479 outhouse toilet at their campsite, but according to the affidavit, 1537 01:27:18.640 --> 01:27:21.079 that's when he wanted to stop talking to investigators and 1538 01:27:21.159 --> 01:27:25.479 then change the story altogether. Investigators say he later denied 1539 01:27:25.560 --> 01:27:28.479 dumping Eric's body in an outhouse and said that's not 1540 01:27:28.680 --> 01:27:32.800 where I put him. Investigators did indeed check several park toilets, 1541 01:27:33.159 --> 01:27:35.960 but searchers eventually found Eric's body lying in the middle 1542 01:27:36.000 --> 01:27:39.359 of the desert, about three miles from the Jumbo Rocks campground. 1543 01:27:40.279 --> 01:27:43.199 Sheriff's investigators tried hard to corroborate what Ben told them 1544 01:27:43.239 --> 01:27:46.000 about what happened while they were at the campsite before, during, 1545 01:27:46.039 --> 01:27:49.880 and after they had consumed the plan. Whatever information was 1546 01:27:49.960 --> 01:27:52.920 given to us in the affidavit, investigators are looking into 1547 01:27:53.000 --> 01:27:55.680 it and looking at every scenario in the affidavit, they said. 1548 01:27:56.840 --> 01:28:00.479 But despite statements ben apparently made in this Affidavid, the 1549 01:28:00.560 --> 01:28:03.560 Sheriff's department said he was not a suspect in the death. 1550 01:28:04.199 --> 01:28:06.000 They did say that he is still a focus of 1551 01:28:06.039 --> 01:28:09.119 their investigation as they tried to figure out exactly how 1552 01:28:09.159 --> 01:28:11.640 the seventeen year old ended up dead in the desert 1553 01:28:11.680 --> 01:28:15.600 at Joshua Tree. No one was ever charged of anything 1554 01:28:15.640 --> 01:28:18.079 in relation to the death of Eric Sears, and so 1555 01:28:18.199 --> 01:28:21.439 much of what happened remains a mystery. To make matters 1556 01:28:21.479 --> 01:28:25.199 worse and even more sad, two San Bernardino County Sheriffs 1557 01:28:25.199 --> 01:28:27.439 Search and Rescue volunteers on their way to help search 1558 01:28:27.520 --> 01:28:30.000 for Eric, A thirty five year old man named Joseph 1559 01:28:30.039 --> 01:28:33.359 Tidwell from Wonder Valley who was allegedly under the influence 1560 01:28:33.399 --> 01:28:37.520 of several narcotic substances, lost consciousness due to his intoxication, 1561 01:28:37.760 --> 01:28:40.399 causing his truck to drift across the roadway directly into 1562 01:28:40.399 --> 01:28:44.600 the path of the Sheriff's man, Scott Johnson, thirty of Redlands, 1563 01:28:44.720 --> 01:28:48.439 died at the scene. Philip Calvert, fifty eight, of Mentone, 1564 01:28:48.720 --> 01:28:51.880 was transported to Desert Regional Medical Center with major injuries 1565 01:28:52.119 --> 01:28:56.520 and sadly died early the next morning. Although this harmful 1566 01:28:56.560 --> 01:29:02.079 plant isn't scheduled under the Controlled Substances Act, three states, Connecticut, 1567 01:29:02.439 --> 01:29:06.119 New Jersey, and Tennessee at this time have passed legislation 1568 01:29:06.239 --> 01:29:09.439 to control it. In addition, the FDA has asserted that 1569 01:29:09.560 --> 01:29:12.520 the beladonna alkaloids in this plant are neither safe nor 1570 01:29:12.560 --> 01:29:16.039 effective in over the counter or other cough and cold inhalos, 1571 01:29:17.439 --> 01:29:27.680 So be careful what you put into your body. Hello, friends, 1572 01:29:28.760 --> 01:29:31.359 In this video, going to take a look at Devil's 1573 01:29:31.399 --> 01:29:34.960 Hole and the tragic disappearance of two teens in nineteen 1574 01:29:35.000 --> 01:29:39.079 sixty five. Now, there's just something about a place with 1575 01:29:39.199 --> 01:29:43.000 the name devil in its title that pigs the curiosity 1576 01:29:43.039 --> 01:29:46.920 of some people. There are countless locations all over the 1577 01:29:47.000 --> 01:29:51.840 world which have this particular word in their name. Not 1578 01:29:52.079 --> 01:29:55.479 only devil, either, there are many other words that symbolize 1579 01:29:55.600 --> 01:29:58.680 or mean devil or evil, or some other form of 1580 01:29:58.760 --> 01:30:02.560 something not very good or beautiful, given somewhat ironically to 1581 01:30:02.760 --> 01:30:07.399 some of the world's most breathtaking and wondrous places. Sometimes 1582 01:30:07.600 --> 01:30:11.079 the location will have got its name innocantly enough, such 1583 01:30:11.119 --> 01:30:14.159 as because the geology of the place simply looks foreboding 1584 01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:18.720 and sinister, especially under the cover of night. Much of 1585 01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:23.319 the time, these particular places are said to be cursed, enchanted, 1586 01:30:23.520 --> 01:30:27.479 or downright evil, and the spooky and scary landscape only 1587 01:30:27.640 --> 01:30:32.039 lends credence to these rumors and legends. So much of 1588 01:30:32.119 --> 01:30:34.840 the time, though, these places with this particular word in 1589 01:30:34.920 --> 01:30:39.159 the title are associated with not just devils, demon spirits, 1590 01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:46.079 and other other worldly phenomena, but with real tragedies, disappearances, deaths, 1591 01:30:47.000 --> 01:30:51.960 maybe bizarre sounds and strange lights in the sky. Today, though, 1592 01:30:52.319 --> 01:30:55.720 we're going to focus on one place in particular. We're 1593 01:30:55.800 --> 01:31:00.600 a mysterious tragedy struck Devil's Whole, which is located in 1594 01:31:00.680 --> 01:31:04.720 the aptly named Death Valley National Park in California, United States. 1595 01:31:06.000 --> 01:31:08.800 This portion of the Mojave Desert contained in Death Valley 1596 01:31:08.920 --> 01:31:12.039 National Park is the driest and hottest place in the 1597 01:31:12.199 --> 01:31:16.239 United States. Near bad Water in the long trench of 1598 01:31:16.279 --> 01:31:18.680 the desert between the Panamint Range on the west and 1599 01:31:18.880 --> 01:31:21.479 the Black Mountains on the east, is the lowest dry 1600 01:31:21.600 --> 01:31:26.199 land in the Western Hemisphere, an amazing two hundred and eighty. 1601 01:31:26.039 --> 01:31:27.399 Two feet below sea level. 1602 01:31:28.720 --> 01:31:33.239 A veritable showcase of desert extremes, Death Valley National Park 1603 01:31:33.520 --> 01:31:37.680 includes one of the largest salt pans on Earth, dramatically 1604 01:31:37.840 --> 01:31:44.960 faulted landscapes, young volcanic craters, and massive dune fields. Today, 1605 01:31:45.159 --> 01:31:47.640 we're going all the way back to the year nineteen 1606 01:31:47.720 --> 01:31:51.359 sixty five. Death Valley was very different from the Los 1607 01:31:51.399 --> 01:31:54.800 Angeles of the time, where there were uprisings happening all 1608 01:31:54.880 --> 01:31:57.279 over the place and all of it being shown live 1609 01:31:57.359 --> 01:32:02.319 on the evening news. Valley, California, was in one of 1610 01:32:02.319 --> 01:32:04.600 the least populated parts of the state at the time, 1611 01:32:05.279 --> 01:32:08.520 and a whole different world from the more largely inhabited 1612 01:32:08.560 --> 01:32:13.199 cities which surrounded it. On June twentieth, nineteen sixty five, 1613 01:32:14.159 --> 01:32:17.119 four high school buddies set out to remote desert location 1614 01:32:17.399 --> 01:32:22.000 about ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas. Their intent was 1615 01:32:22.079 --> 01:32:27.840 to joydive into a deep geothermal abyss called Devil's Hole. Sadly, 1616 01:32:28.239 --> 01:32:31.279 two the young men would never re emerge from this 1617 01:32:31.439 --> 01:32:37.079 mysterious fossil water portal. Arriving at their destination, the foursome 1618 01:32:37.159 --> 01:32:40.560 high cup of hot Barren hillsite, which overlooked a large 1619 01:32:40.560 --> 01:32:44.359 scale ranching operation that would nearly erase a much smaller 1620 01:32:44.520 --> 01:32:48.239 and nearly ancient complex called ash Meadows. Within a few 1621 01:32:48.279 --> 01:32:52.520 short years, A well trampled trail led to the entrance 1622 01:32:52.520 --> 01:32:56.239 of a limestone chasm that had allegedly opened a whopping 1623 01:32:56.359 --> 01:33:00.760 sixty thousand years ago after possibly some seismic and caused 1624 01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:02.920 the roof of the cave to collapse in on itself. 1625 01:33:03.840 --> 01:33:06.239 The Foursome of Boys, which was made up of Paul 1626 01:33:06.479 --> 01:33:09.720 gian Contery, a nineteen year old cafeteria worker at the 1627 01:33:09.840 --> 01:33:14.279 nearby Nevada Test Site, his new brother in law, twenty 1628 01:33:14.359 --> 01:33:16.880 year old David Rose, who was a Las Vegas casino 1629 01:33:17.000 --> 01:33:21.119 parking attendant, or with their other friend, nineteen year old 1630 01:33:21.159 --> 01:33:25.560 Bill Alter, and his younger brother Jack, Boys scrambled under 1631 01:33:25.560 --> 01:33:29.319 a fenced enclosure posted with warning signs, and thinking they 1632 01:33:29.359 --> 01:33:32.199 were immune to any trouble these warning signs might be 1633 01:33:32.279 --> 01:33:35.359 posted about, they proceeded to descend the thirty or so 1634 01:33:35.520 --> 01:33:38.399 feet down to a ledge where the faint but flitting 1635 01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:42.119 movement of tiny blue gray pupfish could be observed swimming. 1636 01:33:42.000 --> 01:33:45.239 In the eight by sixty foot pool, that is, if. 1637 01:33:45.199 --> 01:33:47.119 Any of the four young men had bothered to look 1638 01:33:47.279 --> 01:33:49.079 just a bit closer at what they were about to 1639 01:33:49.159 --> 01:33:54.119 jump into. After suiting up with scuba tanks, masks, and 1640 01:33:54.319 --> 01:33:58.920 dive lights, Paul, David, and Bill dove into the claustrophobic waters. 1641 01:34:00.479 --> 01:34:03.880 The temperature was nearly indistinguishable from that of their skin. 1642 01:34:05.439 --> 01:34:08.239 Upon entering the pool, The boys most likely disturbed the 1643 01:34:08.279 --> 01:34:11.600 delicate algae's falling mats, where the entire population of the 1644 01:34:11.720 --> 01:34:17.279 exceedingly rare Cyprinodon diabolus continues to prosper and breed exclusively. 1645 01:34:18.720 --> 01:34:20.640 Jack was the only one who hadn't jumped in, as 1646 01:34:20.720 --> 01:34:22.920 he was delegated the one who would remain stationed on 1647 01:34:23.039 --> 01:34:27.920 the ledge in case anything went wrong. Some time after midnight, 1648 01:34:28.600 --> 01:34:31.880 Paul failed to resurface, so David and Bill quickly redove 1649 01:34:31.920 --> 01:34:34.199 into the waters in a vain attempt to locate their 1650 01:34:34.239 --> 01:34:38.159 missing friend. Bill Alter frantically followed David Rose down to 1651 01:34:38.199 --> 01:34:41.800 approximately one hundred and seventy feet until David too disappeared 1652 01:34:41.840 --> 01:34:45.239 into the darkness. The bodies of the brothers in law 1653 01:34:45.359 --> 01:34:49.600 were never recovered. Many people believed back then and still 1654 01:34:49.640 --> 01:34:52.199 do believe that these young men were inspired to go 1655 01:34:52.319 --> 01:34:55.319 diving at night, despite the dangers in the specific place, 1656 01:34:55.520 --> 01:34:58.920 because of a newspaper article from the year before, which 1657 01:34:59.039 --> 01:35:03.960 detailed spe leological research expedition of a massive underground lake 1658 01:35:04.199 --> 01:35:08.720 below Death Valley led by California based professional diver Jim Houns, 1659 01:35:09.439 --> 01:35:12.600 who would ironically dive numerous times around the clock with 1660 01:35:12.720 --> 01:35:16.159 military personnel and other volunteer divers in their attempt to 1661 01:35:16.279 --> 01:35:19.800 locate the missing men for thirty six whole hours until 1662 01:35:19.840 --> 01:35:23.479 the search was eventually called off. The only traces left 1663 01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:26.560 of the two brother in laws a mask and a snorkel. 1664 01:35:28.159 --> 01:35:30.880 There was also a flashlight tied to allege some hundred 1665 01:35:30.920 --> 01:35:34.800 feet below. It seemed to signal and effectively the way 1666 01:35:34.960 --> 01:35:39.640 out of the otherworldly underwater cave system. Articles detailing the 1667 01:35:39.760 --> 01:35:44.640 unsuccessful rescue effort were published nationwide in the Sarasota Journal 1668 01:35:44.880 --> 01:35:48.159 date of June twenty second, eighteen sixty five. Out stated 1669 01:35:48.199 --> 01:35:50.520 that he had previously dived in Devil's Hole around three 1670 01:35:50.600 --> 01:35:55.520 hundred times over twenty eight trips, further commenting it's beautiful 1671 01:35:55.600 --> 01:35:58.439 in there. It goes straight down one hundred and sixty 1672 01:35:58.479 --> 01:36:01.960 feet like a pipe, then opens into a room that 1673 01:36:02.079 --> 01:36:05.199 is about three hundred feet long and maybe forty feet wide. 1674 01:36:06.439 --> 01:36:08.279 The bottom of the room is about two hundred and 1675 01:36:08.319 --> 01:36:12.680 sixty feet down. Then it narrows into another tube. I 1676 01:36:12.840 --> 01:36:16.119 dive to three hundred and fifteen feet Maybe that's a record, 1677 01:36:16.239 --> 01:36:18.840 I don't know. But at the end of the tube 1678 01:36:18.840 --> 01:36:22.760 it opens again into something else. We don't know what 1679 01:36:23.000 --> 01:36:25.600 the next room is, or if it's a room at all. 1680 01:36:26.600 --> 01:36:31.600 It's like infinity. There are some very terrifying legends from 1681 01:36:31.640 --> 01:36:34.079 the native tribes of the area about this particular place 1682 01:36:34.159 --> 01:36:38.600 called Devil's Hole. The Timbasha told tales of water babies 1683 01:36:39.199 --> 01:36:41.920 who'd surface and swallow a swimmer or dive or hole 1684 01:36:42.079 --> 01:36:44.960 should they stay in the pool for too long. Other 1685 01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:49.479 legends suggested that so a Pizi, a legendary malevolent giant 1686 01:36:49.520 --> 01:36:52.600 who dwelled at mountain springs and caves, would snatch into 1687 01:36:52.720 --> 01:36:59.000 our unwary victims. Myths was standing. Barbara Durham, an elder 1688 01:36:59.000 --> 01:37:02.119 of the Tumbious who shared these stories at a two 1689 01:37:02.119 --> 01:37:05.520 thousand and two workshop, admitted that she and her friends 1690 01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:09.039 enjoyed how the pupfish tickled their toes when they played 1691 01:37:09.079 --> 01:37:13.359 in the spring. Keep in mind here that the Devil's Whole. Pupfish, 1692 01:37:13.600 --> 01:37:17.119 as they're specifically named, are considered by experts to be 1693 01:37:17.159 --> 01:37:20.800 the rarest fish found anywhere on the planet. They were 1694 01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:24.039 even the first ever species to be classified as endangered. 1695 01:37:25.159 --> 01:37:27.319 The fish are not important to the story at all, really, 1696 01:37:27.439 --> 01:37:30.039 but it seemed worth mentioning in order to reinforce how 1697 01:37:30.199 --> 01:37:34.399 very special and perhaps a bit magical this place actually is. 1698 01:37:36.039 --> 01:37:38.159 As far as the two young men who disappeared without 1699 01:37:38.159 --> 01:37:41.159 a trace back in this mystical and extremely dangerous underwater 1700 01:37:41.239 --> 01:37:45.680 cave system decades ago, well, they've never been found, and 1701 01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:48.479 neither have any clues relating to what could it possibly 1702 01:37:48.520 --> 01:37:52.319 happen to them. As for one more bit of interesting 1703 01:37:52.439 --> 01:37:54.640 fact that could lend a bit of credence as something 1704 01:37:54.680 --> 01:37:58.039 a bit more sinister being afoot, as the local tribes 1705 01:37:58.119 --> 01:38:02.199 absolutely believe that this other serene and tranquil looking water source. 1706 01:38:03.560 --> 01:38:07.720 It said that Charles Manson himself spent several days at 1707 01:38:07.760 --> 01:38:10.680 Devil's Hole trying to figure out a way to make 1708 01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:13.960 it safely down into the chasm, with some saying he 1709 01:38:14.119 --> 01:38:15.119 was convinced. 1710 01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:16.279 He would never have to come back up. 1711 01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:21.119 Allegedly, he had an obsession with the place and was 1712 01:38:21.199 --> 01:38:24.560 convinced that there was an underwater portal to an alternate dimension, 1713 01:38:25.359 --> 01:38:29.479 or more specifically, a portal to the underworld, where he 1714 01:38:29.560 --> 01:38:32.399 felt he and his family would be able to safely 1715 01:38:32.479 --> 01:38:35.479 wait out the coming apocalypse. He so famously predicted what 1716 01:38:35.680 --> 01:38:40.840 happened that never actually did. Charles Manson's problem lie in 1717 01:38:41.039 --> 01:38:43.880 figuring out a way to drain the hole, and it 1718 01:38:43.960 --> 01:38:46.279 seemed like he may have been given this idea by 1719 01:38:46.279 --> 01:38:49.640 an alleged Indian legend that resurfaced during the nineteen twenties, 1720 01:38:51.159 --> 01:38:54.920 contending that a subterranean sect of leather clad humanoids lived 1721 01:38:54.960 --> 01:38:58.079 down within an early yellow green lid a boat somewhere 1722 01:38:58.119 --> 01:38:59.119 in the Mohave Desert. 1723 01:39:01.079 --> 01:39:04.079 Says Bill, planned on leaving the park before dark, and 1724 01:39:04.199 --> 01:39:06.960 when she still hadn't heard from him by Friday morning, 1725 01:39:07.119 --> 01:39:10.199 she called rangers, who launched a search effort that's. 1726 01:39:10.119 --> 01:39:13.960 Grown an incredible story of survival. The hiker survived five 1727 01:39:14.119 --> 01:39:15.760 days alone out in Joshua Tree. 1728 01:39:18.159 --> 01:39:20.800 It all started on the last week of December in 1729 01:39:20.920 --> 01:39:23.840 twenty twelve. My mother and I were relaxing after work 1730 01:39:24.079 --> 01:39:26.479 watching TV when out of the corner of my eye, 1731 01:39:27.119 --> 01:39:30.319 I noticed movement in our hallway. When I turned to look, 1732 01:39:30.880 --> 01:39:33.479 I noticed two shadowy like figures that appeared on our 1733 01:39:33.520 --> 01:39:36.880 hallway wall. In disbelief of what I was saying, I 1734 01:39:37.000 --> 01:39:39.039 turned my head over towards my mother, and right as 1735 01:39:39.079 --> 01:39:41.600 I did, she made eye contact with me and simply said, 1736 01:39:41.960 --> 01:39:42.880 you see them, don't you? 1737 01:39:43.399 --> 01:39:44.000 I said yes. 1738 01:39:45.000 --> 01:39:47.039 She told me not to acknowledge them, because they are 1739 01:39:47.159 --> 01:39:51.039 entities that consens fear. But in disbelief, I looked back 1740 01:39:51.119 --> 01:39:54.840 over the hallway wall and they were gone. A few 1741 01:39:54.920 --> 01:39:56.840 days had gone by, and my mother told me she 1742 01:39:56.960 --> 01:39:59.640 felt a sense of dread and said someone in our 1743 01:39:59.680 --> 01:40:01.800 family is going to pass away before the end of 1744 01:40:01.840 --> 01:40:06.600 the year. Well, on New Year's Eve twenty twelve, my 1745 01:40:06.720 --> 01:40:09.680 mother and I celebrated at home. We watched the movie 1746 01:40:09.760 --> 01:40:11.640 Tron and had a pizza delivered to ring in the 1747 01:40:11.720 --> 01:40:14.560 new year. I've always been a real mama's boy, so 1748 01:40:14.720 --> 01:40:16.520 this was an ideal way for me to spend my 1749 01:40:16.600 --> 01:40:20.439 New Year's Eve. Around eleven pm that night, we saw 1750 01:40:20.479 --> 01:40:24.239 the two figures again. This time we both experienced an 1751 01:40:24.279 --> 01:40:29.119 overwhelming quietness and sense of urgency and dread. We both 1752 01:40:29.159 --> 01:40:31.800 did our best ignored and eventually the shadowy figures, And 1753 01:40:31.960 --> 01:40:35.199 since this went away, we discussed the experience, and again 1754 01:40:35.279 --> 01:40:38.399 my mother told me to never acknowledge them, and before 1755 01:40:38.439 --> 01:40:41.119 I could press her for more details, my mother started 1756 01:40:41.119 --> 01:40:43.039 telling me how much I meant to her and that 1757 01:40:43.119 --> 01:40:44.840 I would go on to do great things. 1758 01:40:44.640 --> 01:40:47.359 In my life. She loved me, et cetera. 1759 01:40:48.520 --> 01:40:51.520 She then got up and walked towards the kitchen, turned 1760 01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:55.199 around and said I love you, then fell to the ground. 1761 01:40:56.479 --> 01:40:59.279 I had previous EMT training and am certified in CPR, 1762 01:40:59.479 --> 01:41:01.319 so I dialed nine to one one and explained to 1763 01:41:01.399 --> 01:41:03.920 them my mother is in cardiac arrest and I needed 1764 01:41:04.000 --> 01:41:07.800 medical assistance asap. I was doing CPR on my mother 1765 01:41:08.279 --> 01:41:11.439 for nearly twenty minutes, and for anyone who's ever done CPR, 1766 01:41:11.800 --> 01:41:15.560 it's not easy. The MTS arrived at eleven thirty eight 1767 01:41:15.640 --> 01:41:18.600 pm and my mother was taken to the emergency room. 1768 01:41:20.039 --> 01:41:22.279 By this time, our neighbor and friend, Bonnie, had rushed 1769 01:41:22.319 --> 01:41:24.279 over to my house and drove me to the hospital. 1770 01:41:25.479 --> 01:41:27.680 When I checked in at the front desk, I was 1771 01:41:27.760 --> 01:41:31.560 taken to a small private room and the physician told 1772 01:41:31.600 --> 01:41:35.039 me that my mother had passed away. The autopsy showed 1773 01:41:35.119 --> 01:41:38.159 my mother suffered from a fatal heart attack and her 1774 01:41:38.199 --> 01:41:41.760 time of death was eleven fifty nine pm on December 1775 01:41:41.800 --> 01:41:44.920 thirty first, twenty twelve, when I was taken in to 1776 01:41:45.000 --> 01:41:47.760 see her one last time. Her lips were blue. She 1777 01:41:47.960 --> 01:41:51.159 was cool to the touch, but she was still my mom, 1778 01:41:52.359 --> 01:41:54.079 so I just hugged her and couldn't let go for 1779 01:41:54.199 --> 01:41:58.079 nearly thirty minutes. Thankfully, my neighbor Bonnie was there and 1780 01:41:58.119 --> 01:42:00.119 gave me plenty of support and encouragement to leave eve 1781 01:42:00.159 --> 01:42:03.920 as my mother would want me to stay strong. Fast 1782 01:42:04.000 --> 01:42:07.359 forward about six months after my mother died, I'd quit 1783 01:42:07.479 --> 01:42:10.479 my job and had become a recluse. I would only 1784 01:42:10.560 --> 01:42:14.880 leave my house to purchase groceries. I quickly realized how 1785 01:42:14.960 --> 01:42:17.079 severely depressed I was and decided it was time to 1786 01:42:17.119 --> 01:42:21.199 get away. I ended up traveling to Joshua Tree National 1787 01:42:21.279 --> 01:42:23.600 Park and decided it would be my getaway to find 1788 01:42:23.640 --> 01:42:27.720 some peace and closure. I notified my neighbor Bonny not 1789 01:42:27.880 --> 01:42:29.840 to worry that I'm just going on a day's hike 1790 01:42:29.920 --> 01:42:33.560 and would be back by midnight. When I arrived at 1791 01:42:33.640 --> 01:42:36.039 Joshua Tree, I parked my jeep and entered the Lost 1792 01:42:36.119 --> 01:42:40.479 Palms Oasis Trail. After a few hours of walking and hiking, 1793 01:42:41.000 --> 01:42:44.319 I stopped to take a break and eat. As I 1794 01:42:44.399 --> 01:42:48.279 finished up and looked around, nothing looked familiar, and I, 1795 01:42:48.399 --> 01:42:52.119 in fact was not on any trail. I was not 1796 01:42:52.239 --> 01:42:54.800 too worried and felt confident I would find my way back. 1797 01:42:55.880 --> 01:42:57.960 But as I made my way through the desert landscape 1798 01:42:58.039 --> 01:43:01.279 that I did not recall ever passing, I started feeling 1799 01:43:01.359 --> 01:43:05.880 like I was being watched. I started to panic. Then 1800 01:43:06.239 --> 01:43:10.000 I started hearing strange growling noises, but could not determine 1801 01:43:10.039 --> 01:43:13.159 from what direction they were coming from. It almost seemed 1802 01:43:13.199 --> 01:43:16.239 like they were all around me. So I stood in 1803 01:43:16.319 --> 01:43:18.920 one spot and made a three hundred and sixty degree rotation. 1804 01:43:19.880 --> 01:43:22.680 As I came to stop, I saw something transparent, no 1805 01:43:22.800 --> 01:43:25.840 defining shape, just to blur directly in front of me 1806 01:43:25.880 --> 01:43:28.239 that was coming closer and closer to where I was standing. 1807 01:43:29.159 --> 01:43:31.800 I quickly turned around and started walking faster and faster 1808 01:43:31.880 --> 01:43:35.439 in the opposite direction, and then experienced the same overwhelming 1809 01:43:35.600 --> 01:43:38.079 quietness and sense of urgency and dread I had experienced 1810 01:43:38.199 --> 01:43:40.960 with my mother just six months prior. Then, all of 1811 01:43:41.000 --> 01:43:44.039 a sudden, almost like a snap of a finger, daytime 1812 01:43:44.119 --> 01:43:46.920 turned into night. I wasn't sure what was going on, 1813 01:43:47.039 --> 01:43:50.520 but knew something wasn't right. After walking around in the dark. 1814 01:43:51.079 --> 01:43:53.760 I found myself by a large rock about as big 1815 01:43:53.840 --> 01:43:58.199 as a large suv and felt safest there. I put 1816 01:43:58.239 --> 01:43:59.880 my back against the rock. This way, I felt no 1817 01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:02.840 otherhing would sneak up behind me. I used the knight 1818 01:44:02.920 --> 01:44:05.880 to hydrate and eat some snacks I brought. I remember 1819 01:44:06.039 --> 01:44:07.960 trying to make sense out of what I was experiencing, 1820 01:44:08.640 --> 01:44:10.680 but knew that my mother and I had already experienced 1821 01:44:10.720 --> 01:44:13.600 something within our own home. But at least when I 1822 01:44:13.720 --> 01:44:17.359 was home, I felt safe here, I was vulnerable and alone. 1823 01:44:18.239 --> 01:44:20.720 As I tried to rest that night, I started seeing 1824 01:44:20.800 --> 01:44:23.680 a number of shadowy entities walking around in the desert, 1825 01:44:24.199 --> 01:44:27.560 almost as if they were wandering around aimlessly. It freaked 1826 01:44:27.600 --> 01:44:31.119 me out, and the more I acknowledged them, the closer 1827 01:44:31.199 --> 01:44:34.239 they got to me. At one time during the night, 1828 01:44:34.479 --> 01:44:38.279 I remember feeling something breathing down my neck. Remember my 1829 01:44:38.399 --> 01:44:41.319 back was against a huge rock. I just closed my 1830 01:44:41.359 --> 01:44:44.199 eyes and did my best to keep them shut. The 1831 01:44:44.279 --> 01:44:46.319 last thing I remember about that night was opening my 1832 01:44:46.399 --> 01:44:50.079 eyes and seeing three shadowy figures, one at each side 1833 01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:53.119 and one directly in front of me. Then once again, 1834 01:44:53.199 --> 01:44:56.359 in a snap, it was morning. I would experience the 1835 01:44:56.479 --> 01:44:59.720 same weirdness for two more days until the last day. 1836 01:45:01.039 --> 01:45:03.439 On the last day of me roaming around Joshua Tree, 1837 01:45:04.319 --> 01:45:06.439 I hadn't had any food or water since the initial 1838 01:45:06.479 --> 01:45:11.000 first night. I was scared and dehydrated. I came upon 1839 01:45:11.079 --> 01:45:13.960 another large rock and remembered in my MT training that 1840 01:45:14.119 --> 01:45:16.039 digging a hole near a rock in the desert will 1841 01:45:16.079 --> 01:45:18.640 keep you cool and less likely to get severe sunburn. 1842 01:45:19.359 --> 01:45:22.359 I did just that and thought to myself, I'm literally 1843 01:45:22.439 --> 01:45:25.520 digging my own grave. By the time I laid down 1844 01:45:25.560 --> 01:45:27.399 in the two foot arch hole I had made and 1845 01:45:27.520 --> 01:45:30.239 covered my chest and legs up of dirt, I blacked out. 1846 01:45:31.279 --> 01:45:33.720 I don't remember anything for the rest of that day 1847 01:45:34.079 --> 01:45:37.079 or night. The next morning, I was woken by an 1848 01:45:37.119 --> 01:45:39.920 off duty search and rescue employee who was literally making 1849 01:45:40.000 --> 01:45:43.560 me choke on water. I remember him saying, there are 1850 01:45:43.560 --> 01:45:45.520 a whole lot of people out looking for you, buddy. 1851 01:45:46.239 --> 01:45:48.920 I was picked up by helicopter and taken a regional 1852 01:45:48.960 --> 01:45:53.000 medical center in Palm Springs, California. In the days during 1853 01:45:53.039 --> 01:45:56.920 my recovery, I saw two detectives, a number of psychiatrists, 1854 01:45:57.279 --> 01:45:59.479 and my neighbor Bonnie, who was there at the hospital 1855 01:45:59.520 --> 01:46:02.720 by my side one hundred percent away. The detectives wanted 1856 01:46:02.760 --> 01:46:05.399 to close the missing person's report. My neighbor Bonnie made 1857 01:46:05.439 --> 01:46:07.439 the second day I was missing, but they asked me 1858 01:46:07.479 --> 01:46:09.840 strange questions like was I using a. 1859 01:46:09.840 --> 01:46:10.960 Flare gun in the area? 1860 01:46:11.680 --> 01:46:11.720 No? 1861 01:46:12.640 --> 01:46:15.199 And why had I purchased a large amount of camping 1862 01:46:15.279 --> 01:46:18.920 gear and survival materials prior to my hike. I'm going 1863 01:46:19.000 --> 01:46:22.840 for a hike. Strange questions to ask someone, or maybe 1864 01:46:22.880 --> 01:46:25.720 it's just me. The physician stated he thought I was 1865 01:46:25.760 --> 01:46:27.800 planning to myself due to the loss of my mother, 1866 01:46:28.479 --> 01:46:32.479 but honestly, that never crossed my mind. The psychiatrist told 1867 01:46:32.520 --> 01:46:36.039 me I didn't experience anything but hallucinations due to the 1868 01:46:36.159 --> 01:46:39.640 lack of food and water and effects of dehydration. My 1869 01:46:39.720 --> 01:46:42.840 neighbor Bonnie overheard my story and later confided in me 1870 01:46:42.960 --> 01:46:46.760 that she too experienced similar shadowy figures when she hiked 1871 01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:50.159 in Joshua Tree. When I arrived back home, she used 1872 01:46:50.159 --> 01:46:52.640 sage and other New Age methods to rid my house 1873 01:46:52.680 --> 01:46:56.079 of whatever darkness was there. However, it continued all the 1874 01:46:56.119 --> 01:46:58.880 way up until I moved to Tennessee in twenty fourteen. 1875 01:47:00.399 --> 01:47:03.439 The most aggressive was the transparent entities that were in 1876 01:47:03.560 --> 01:47:06.960 Joshua Tree. I felt like everything was about to end 1877 01:47:07.039 --> 01:47:10.680 when I encountered them. I've always wondered if my mother 1878 01:47:10.840 --> 01:47:14.119 experienced more than what happened that night. I'm not sure 1879 01:47:14.199 --> 01:47:16.520 what the hell happened those few days in Joshua Tree 1880 01:47:16.640 --> 01:47:19.680 National Park, but from what I can remember, during the 1881 01:47:19.760 --> 01:47:23.039 moments when daytime would turn into night and snap, I 1882 01:47:23.119 --> 01:47:25.800 felt like I was falling down or being suspended in 1883 01:47:25.920 --> 01:47:29.680 mid air before completely realizing what was going on. I 1884 01:47:29.760 --> 01:47:32.600 also remember a strong urge to go to Joshua Tree. 1885 01:47:33.319 --> 01:47:35.760 I would think about going all the time, and when 1886 01:47:35.760 --> 01:47:38.840 I finally went, almost felt like I was being called 1887 01:47:38.880 --> 01:47:42.319 there by something my sister often talks about my first 1888 01:47:42.399 --> 01:47:45.680 week living in Tennessee. She said that she felt like 1889 01:47:45.760 --> 01:47:48.600 a demon was attached to me. One night as I 1890 01:47:48.640 --> 01:47:51.119 slept on her couch. I woke up with her putting 1891 01:47:51.159 --> 01:47:53.520 holy water on my head and saying a prayer over me. 1892 01:47:54.279 --> 01:47:56.199 But I don't believe in all that I used to. 1893 01:47:57.039 --> 01:47:59.479 But nowadays I have an easier time believing in alien 1894 01:47:59.520 --> 01:48:02.439 abduction and portals rather than being followed around by demon. 1895 01:48:03.279 --> 01:48:04.560 But then again, who knows? 1896 01:48:04.760 --> 01:48:04.920 Right. 1897 01:48:06.119 --> 01:48:08.760 Finally, I can tell you, with one d percent honesty, 1898 01:48:09.319 --> 01:48:13.119 I experienced all the above. I can't explain what it 1899 01:48:13.359 --> 01:48:16.319 or what they were, but I can tell you I 1900 01:48:16.399 --> 01:48:19.000 feel like my life was spared for some strange reason. 1901 01:48:20.079 --> 01:48:22.359 Perhaps I didn't meet the requirements for whatever it is 1902 01:48:22.640 --> 01:48:27.000 they need. Looking back now, I would never have gone 1903 01:48:27.079 --> 01:48:31.880 hiking alone. But again, I remember this irresistible urge to 1904 01:48:31.920 --> 01:48:35.880 go to Joshua Tree and would frequently feel like I 1905 01:48:36.079 --> 01:48:37.119 was being called. 1906 01:48:36.920 --> 01:48:41.279 There hiking transitting on one of her most popular mountain peaks. 1907 01:48:41.439 --> 01:48:43.640 A woman from out of state dying after trying to 1908 01:48:43.760 --> 01:48:47.119 hike Camelback Mountain. Fire official say she became overheated on 1909 01:48:47.159 --> 01:48:50.199 the Echo Canyon trail, but instead of waiting for rescue crews, 1910 01:48:50.279 --> 01:48:53.960 she went to find help herself. Then a deadly discovery. 1911 01:48:54.119 --> 01:48:57.119 Her body later found near the mountain, right outside a home. 1912 01:48:57.439 --> 01:49:00.399 A woman found dead near Camelback Mountain was thanking with 1913 01:49:00.560 --> 01:49:03.199 a Phoenix cop, and tonight we know the woman's name 1914 01:49:03.359 --> 01:49:06.640 is Angela Tremonte, a thirty one year old visiting from Boston. 1915 01:49:06.840 --> 01:49:09.880 She was found dead Friday after separating from that cop 1916 01:49:09.960 --> 01:49:12.199 to turn back down the mountain in the summer heat. 1917 01:49:12.600 --> 01:49:15.479 And she thought, because he was a police officer, she 1918 01:49:15.680 --> 01:49:18.760 was sick and she wasn't. And I sent him the 1919 01:49:19.039 --> 01:49:23.159 address where it was. It took them three hours to 1920 01:49:23.399 --> 01:49:26.520 find her. And when I talked to Dario that night 1921 01:49:26.680 --> 01:49:29.279 and asked him, when was the last time you saw 1922 01:49:29.399 --> 01:49:33.159 my daughter, she said six hours ago? So not you 1923 01:49:33.279 --> 01:49:36.720 why the police may not be investigating this, but I 1924 01:49:36.880 --> 01:49:40.279 won't stop. I will not stop. There is something missing 1925 01:49:40.399 --> 01:49:43.560 that I, as a mother, did not put my finger on. 1926 01:49:48.279 --> 01:49:51.920 Hello friends, today we're going to bring in a strange 1927 01:49:52.000 --> 01:49:55.319 story about a first date hike that resulted in a 1928 01:49:55.399 --> 01:49:59.359 young woman's death. Thirty one year old Angela Tremonte was 1929 01:49:59.399 --> 01:50:02.359 visiting Phoenie, Arizona for the first time when she and 1930 01:50:02.439 --> 01:50:06.039 a local police officer named Dario Dizdar decided to go 1931 01:50:06.159 --> 01:50:09.680 on a hike for their first date. The couple went 1932 01:50:09.720 --> 01:50:14.439 to Echo Canyon Trail near Scottsdale, Arizona. Echo Canyon Trail 1933 01:50:14.520 --> 01:50:16.960 is a two point five mile heavily trafficked out and 1934 01:50:17.039 --> 01:50:21.560 back trail that offers scenic views and beautiful landscapes. The 1935 01:50:21.640 --> 01:50:25.399 trail is rated as difficult, but Angela and Dario weren't concerned, 1936 01:50:25.439 --> 01:50:28.319 as it was later reported that Dario was extremely familiar 1937 01:50:28.359 --> 01:50:32.000 with the mountain and hiked that exact trail often. According 1938 01:50:32.039 --> 01:50:35.039 to reports, they started hiking together around ten am with 1939 01:50:35.199 --> 01:50:38.840 no water, but split up. Dario, an off duty police officer, 1940 01:50:38.960 --> 01:50:40.880 stated that he was a local and did this hike 1941 01:50:40.920 --> 01:50:42.720 all the time, and that she was going to go 1942 01:50:42.840 --> 01:50:44.920 as far as she could and turn around, according to 1943 01:50:45.000 --> 01:50:48.640 an incident report followed by an unnamed park ranger. Now, 1944 01:50:48.760 --> 01:50:51.359 according to what Dario told the authorities, he and Angela 1945 01:50:51.399 --> 01:50:53.359 were going for a day hike together for their first 1946 01:50:53.439 --> 01:50:57.199 date on July thirtieth. He reported that she became overheated 1947 01:50:57.199 --> 01:50:59.479 when they were about halfway up the trail and told 1948 01:50:59.520 --> 01:51:01.319 them she was wanted to head back down to the car. 1949 01:51:02.319 --> 01:51:03.239 Dario wanted had. 1950 01:51:03.159 --> 01:51:05.279 To finish the hike, assuming he would just meet her 1951 01:51:05.359 --> 01:51:09.039 back at the vehicle when he was done. Angela wanted 1952 01:51:09.079 --> 01:51:10.800 him to take pictures of the view from the top 1953 01:51:10.840 --> 01:51:12.520 of the mountain so she could share them on her 1954 01:51:12.560 --> 01:51:16.600 social media camps. He finished his hike, but when he 1955 01:51:16.680 --> 01:51:19.079 got back down to the car, Angela wasn't there and 1956 01:51:19.319 --> 01:51:23.479 wasn't anywhere in sight. Her belongings were still in the car, however, 1957 01:51:24.039 --> 01:51:27.000 and this is when Dario's police officer instincts kicked in 1958 01:51:27.439 --> 01:51:29.560 and he decided to report it to the authorities that 1959 01:51:29.640 --> 01:51:32.800 his date was missing. Mark Ranger spoke with him on 1960 01:51:32.920 --> 01:51:36.640 the mountain and the search commenced. Immediately, search teams arrived 1961 01:51:36.680 --> 01:51:39.000 and began looking around common areas on the mountain where 1962 01:51:39.039 --> 01:51:41.960 people can get off the trail and get lost. More 1963 01:51:42.000 --> 01:51:44.960 than thirty fire personnel and a police helicopter scoured the 1964 01:51:45.039 --> 01:51:49.840 region looking for the missing woman. Initially, authorities were suspicious 1965 01:51:49.880 --> 01:51:52.640 of Dario because they thought his initial statement was changing 1966 01:51:52.760 --> 01:51:53.840 the more he retold what. 1967 01:51:53.960 --> 01:51:54.720 Happened that day. 1968 01:51:56.000 --> 01:51:58.880 However, it was later realized that he had been misquoted 1969 01:51:58.920 --> 01:52:03.640 by local news media and therefore misunderstood. A Phoenix police 1970 01:52:03.640 --> 01:52:07.399 spokesperson stated that the police department was not informed as 1971 01:52:07.439 --> 01:52:10.039 to what the park rangers and officials had already asked 1972 01:52:10.119 --> 01:52:14.600 Dario about the incident. Angela Tremonte was originally from the 1973 01:52:14.640 --> 01:52:16.960 Boston area and was visiting Phoenix for the first time, 1974 01:52:17.039 --> 01:52:19.680 specifically to meet and go on a date with Daria. 1975 01:52:21.319 --> 01:52:24.359 They had met and been chatting online, mainly by Instagram. 1976 01:52:25.680 --> 01:52:28.119 It was less than twenty four hours from her arrival 1977 01:52:28.399 --> 01:52:32.479 that Angela went missing and was then found deceased. Around 1978 01:52:32.520 --> 01:52:36.760 four Bruce found Tremonte unconscious near home along the side 1979 01:52:36.760 --> 01:52:39.960 of the mountain. She was pronounced dead at the scene. 1980 01:52:41.399 --> 01:52:44.079 Police say no traumatic injuries were observed during the initial 1981 01:52:44.159 --> 01:52:48.880 investigation or during the autopsy. Police say Tremante had her 1982 01:52:48.920 --> 01:52:52.359 cell phone with her when she was found. Fire officials 1983 01:52:52.479 --> 01:52:55.000 involved in the search stated they believe she was trying 1984 01:52:55.000 --> 01:52:57.199 to signal to someone in the homes there near the 1985 01:52:57.239 --> 01:53:00.079 mountain to get some help. She must have known she 1986 01:53:00.239 --> 01:53:03.039 was in trouble, but most likely had no cell service 1987 01:53:03.119 --> 01:53:06.159 to call anyone for help or self. At this time, 1988 01:53:06.239 --> 01:53:08.880 there is no evidence to indicate foul play is suspected 1989 01:53:08.920 --> 01:53:13.600 in connection with her tragic death. Police say Dario Disdar 1990 01:53:13.720 --> 01:53:16.199 has been granted personal time off and has been offered 1991 01:53:16.239 --> 01:53:17.359 resources to deal. 1992 01:53:17.199 --> 01:53:18.000 With this tragedy. 1993 01:53:19.319 --> 01:53:23.319 According to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's website, Angela died 1994 01:53:23.359 --> 01:53:27.199 of environmental heat exposure. Her death was ruled accidental by 1995 01:53:27.279 --> 01:53:31.319 local and park authorities. Angela Tremante's friends set up a 1996 01:53:31.359 --> 01:53:33.800 gofund me account to bring her body back to the 1997 01:53:33.840 --> 01:53:39.199 Boston area. Angela's mother, however, isn't satisfied with the medical 1998 01:53:39.279 --> 01:53:43.359 Examiner's findings. She's looking for answers after her daughter's cause 1999 01:53:43.399 --> 01:53:46.079 of death was ruled to be from accidental heat exposure. 2000 01:53:47.479 --> 01:53:52.079 I'm frustrated, said Nancy Tremonte, Angela's mother. My daughter was 2001 01:53:52.159 --> 01:53:56.680 an Instagram person. She posted everything, thousands of photos per day, 2002 01:53:57.239 --> 01:54:00.159 and she was always in the picture. And there's not 2003 01:54:00.319 --> 01:54:02.840 one picture of her going up the mountain or even 2004 01:54:02.880 --> 01:54:07.640 in Arizona. She said, none of it makes sense. But 2005 01:54:07.880 --> 01:54:11.600 as we said, Americopa County Medical Examiner's office did recently 2006 01:54:11.680 --> 01:54:14.920 list Tremante's death as accidental and as a result of 2007 01:54:14.960 --> 01:54:19.680 heat exposure. Phoenix police had previously stated investigators didn't find 2008 01:54:19.720 --> 01:54:24.520 anything suspicious about Tremonte's death. However, Tremante's family and friends 2009 01:54:24.560 --> 01:54:28.000 have had suspicions about the circumstances surrounding her death all along, 2010 01:54:28.520 --> 01:54:31.000 especially since the off Deedy police officer claimed he and 2011 01:54:31.079 --> 01:54:33.359 Tremante didn't bring any water with him on a hike 2012 01:54:33.439 --> 01:54:37.359 in the middle of the summer. Angela's cousin doesn't believe it. 2013 01:54:38.239 --> 01:54:41.199 It's difficult because we are all mourning her, but we 2014 01:54:41.279 --> 01:54:44.439 can't fall back and be sad about the situation. We 2015 01:54:44.560 --> 01:54:50.159 all have to fight, said Gabrielle Pletuccio, Angela's cousin. Angela 2016 01:54:50.279 --> 01:54:53.880 was found deceased in a backyard off the trail. Investigators 2017 01:54:53.960 --> 01:54:57.840 believe she's in a desperate search for water. Speaking about 2018 01:54:57.880 --> 01:55:00.920 travel to Arizona to meet the officer, she was excited 2019 01:55:01.000 --> 01:55:04.399 but nervous, said her cousin. She also made it a 2020 01:55:04.479 --> 01:55:06.600 point to drink a whole gallon of water every day, 2021 01:55:07.159 --> 01:55:08.920 so it's very hard to believe that she would go 2022 01:55:09.000 --> 01:55:11.119 on a hike in Arizona where it was one hundred 2023 01:55:11.119 --> 01:55:16.279 and four degrees and not take any water. Autopsy reports 2024 01:55:16.359 --> 01:55:19.439 recently released by the County Medical Examiner's office showed no 2025 01:55:19.600 --> 01:55:22.960 major regularities that were uncovered that would indicate Tremante's death 2026 01:55:23.000 --> 01:55:27.039 could be tied to something other than heat exhaustion. A 2027 01:55:27.159 --> 01:55:31.279 toxicology report did show that Tremante had traces of amphetamine 2028 01:55:31.279 --> 01:55:34.520 in her system, although her family told twelve News she 2029 01:55:34.600 --> 01:55:37.760 had a prescription for adderall, which can produce high levels 2030 01:55:37.800 --> 01:55:41.960 of amphetamine in the blood. Ramonte had three hundred and 2031 01:55:42.000 --> 01:55:45.119 fifty nanograms per mile leader of amphetamine in her system 2032 01:55:45.119 --> 01:55:48.800 at the time for death. According to the report, adults 2033 01:55:48.840 --> 01:55:52.760 who fatally overdose on amphetamine have on average nine thousand 2034 01:55:52.920 --> 01:55:57.640 nanograms per mole leader in their system. Autopsy report additionally 2035 01:55:57.720 --> 01:56:01.760 turned up irregular linear dried red abrasions on Tremonte's body 2036 01:56:01.840 --> 01:56:05.880 that ranged in size between four and ten centimeters. An 2037 01:56:05.920 --> 01:56:10.119 examination of her head neck revealed no detectable abnormalities, according 2038 01:56:10.159 --> 01:56:14.479 to the report. The report also stated that Tremonte's bone, framework, 2039 01:56:14.560 --> 01:56:19.119 and soft tissues also appeared normal. Phoenix Police had previously 2040 01:56:19.159 --> 01:56:23.800 said investigators didn't find anything suspicious about Tremonte's death. They 2041 01:56:23.920 --> 01:56:27.439 further indicated no disciplinary measures will be taken against Dario 2042 01:56:27.840 --> 01:56:40.000 because no prime has been found. Hello, friends, Today we're 2043 01:56:40.039 --> 01:56:43.359 going to take a look at legends, disappearances, and stories 2044 01:56:43.399 --> 01:56:49.119 of survival in Joshua Treat National Park, California. Joshua Treat 2045 01:56:49.239 --> 01:56:51.960 National Park is home to a vast and protected land 2046 01:56:52.439 --> 01:56:56.720 located in southern California. The area was first designated as 2047 01:56:56.760 --> 01:56:59.920 a National monument in nineteen thirty six a President Franklin 2048 01:57:00.119 --> 01:57:03.800 Delano Roosevelt, and was later given national park status in 2049 01:57:03.920 --> 01:57:06.720 nineteen ninety four when the United States Congress passed the 2050 01:57:06.760 --> 01:57:10.960 California Desert Protection Act. The park spans more than seven 2051 01:57:11.079 --> 01:57:14.399 hundred and ninety thousand acres, and over half is reserved 2052 01:57:14.439 --> 01:57:17.880 as wilderness. The park is well known for the tree 2053 01:57:17.920 --> 01:57:22.399 that inspired its name, the Joshua Tree. Scientifically, it's known 2054 01:57:22.399 --> 01:57:25.399 as the Yuckup brevifolio and as a member of the 2055 01:57:25.479 --> 01:57:29.560 agave family. Joshua trees grow in a wide variety of formations, 2056 01:57:30.000 --> 01:57:32.880 from then a sparsely place to thick and crowded forests. 2057 01:57:33.600 --> 01:57:36.960 According to the National Park Service, of the mid nineteenth century, 2058 01:57:37.279 --> 01:57:40.119 Mormon immigrants had made their way across the Colorado River 2059 01:57:40.560 --> 01:57:42.720 and into the area that is now the National park. 2060 01:57:43.600 --> 01:57:46.279 Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after 2061 01:57:46.399 --> 01:57:49.560 the biblical figure Joshua. Seeing the limbs of the tree 2062 01:57:49.720 --> 01:57:56.039 has outstretched its supplication, guiding the travelers westward. Joshua Tree 2063 01:57:56.199 --> 01:57:58.520 National Park is a meeting ground between the low lying 2064 01:57:58.560 --> 01:58:00.680 western reach of the Sonor and De Lizzard and the 2065 01:58:00.800 --> 01:58:04.840 more vegetated Hi Bahabi Desert. The merging deserts give the 2066 01:58:04.880 --> 01:58:08.359 park a unique landscape with an abrupt transition between the 2067 01:58:08.439 --> 01:58:13.279 Sonoran and Mahabi ecosystems. Joshua Tree offers visitors a variety 2068 01:58:13.279 --> 01:58:17.640 of outdoor activities, including the typical hiking, biking, camping, and 2069 01:58:17.760 --> 01:58:21.199 horseback riding. There are large boulders throughout the park that 2070 01:58:21.399 --> 01:58:24.520 make it a well known rock climbing destination, and the 2071 01:58:24.680 --> 01:58:29.119 night skies provide crystal clear stargazing. The natural beauty of 2072 01:58:29.159 --> 01:58:32.560 the park is a key factor in its popularity. But 2073 01:58:32.720 --> 01:58:36.399 despite all the beauty found in Joshua Tree, inexplicable things 2074 01:58:36.439 --> 01:58:39.039 have been known to happen here, some of which are 2075 01:58:39.159 --> 01:58:44.840 truly horrifying. Let's look at local legends, disappearances as survival 2076 01:58:44.880 --> 01:58:50.640 stories from Joshua Tree National Park. First up, Desert Dungeon. 2077 01:58:51.600 --> 01:58:54.319 In the depths of Joshua Tree National Park, there's a 2078 01:58:54.359 --> 01:58:58.079 strange cave, which is actually an enclosure constructed around a 2079 01:58:58.159 --> 01:59:01.880 large boulder and sealed with an iron door. There long 2080 01:59:02.000 --> 01:59:05.880 enduring legends attached to this cave. Some people think perhaps 2081 01:59:05.960 --> 01:59:09.760 it was where local farm restored dynamite. Others theorized it 2082 01:59:09.880 --> 01:59:13.319 was where rustlers or gold thieves kept their loot. The 2083 01:59:13.520 --> 01:59:19.960 energy it radiates, however, is much more sinister, darker, more disturbing. 2084 01:59:20.079 --> 01:59:24.520 Legends exist, probably rooted in truth about the cave being 2085 01:59:24.640 --> 01:59:28.720 used to hold people captive. One story with many versions, 2086 01:59:28.800 --> 01:59:31.880 maintains that a local family and born a horribly disfigured 2087 01:59:31.920 --> 01:59:35.279 and mentally impaired son who was huge and monstrous. The 2088 01:59:35.399 --> 01:59:38.439 family hid him away from society, locking him up in 2089 01:59:38.520 --> 01:59:42.159 this rocket iron desert dungeon. The father would bring him food, 2090 01:59:42.399 --> 01:59:44.880 but the poor soul spent his days and nights of prisoner. 2091 01:59:45.960 --> 01:59:49.720 Growing tired of this miserable existence, the disfigured man broke 2092 01:59:49.760 --> 01:59:52.479 out of his prison and fled, leaving the iron door 2093 01:59:52.479 --> 01:59:56.520 ajar for his father to find. Upon his return. Searching 2094 01:59:56.640 --> 02:00:00.840 far and wide, the father couldn't find his son. Reports 2095 02:00:00.920 --> 02:00:04.119 and rumors began to surface about random brutal attacks on 2096 02:00:04.279 --> 02:00:08.359 travelers who sustained injuries like they were surrogants being punished 2097 02:00:08.479 --> 02:00:12.600 for someone else's horrible misgivings. The legend holds that the 2098 02:00:12.680 --> 02:00:15.840 tortured man was never caught, and he, or whatever's left 2099 02:00:15.880 --> 02:00:19.479 of him, could still be out there today roaming Joshua Tree, 2100 02:00:20.039 --> 02:00:23.399 looking for unsuspecting travelers to make them atone for his 2101 02:00:23.520 --> 02:00:30.000 father's sins. Next up, we have the Yuckaman. The first 2102 02:00:30.039 --> 02:00:33.199 reported sighting of the Yucker Man happened in nineteen seventy one, 2103 02:00:34.039 --> 02:00:36.760 provided by a source not normally keen on believing in 2104 02:00:36.800 --> 02:00:40.399 the other worldly. A United States marine was on guard 2105 02:00:40.479 --> 02:00:43.279 duty at the base in Joshua Tree's twenty nine Palms. 2106 02:00:43.800 --> 02:00:47.239 Well into his overnight shift. The marine was keeping posts 2107 02:00:47.399 --> 02:00:51.119 duty required when a huge and seemingly human man came 2108 02:00:51.199 --> 02:00:54.880 out of darkness toward him. As the burly being drew closer, 2109 02:00:55.319 --> 02:00:57.840 the marine caught sight of the man's successive hair growth 2110 02:00:58.039 --> 02:01:01.399 as abnormally long arms, which hung well below the knees. 2111 02:01:02.199 --> 02:01:04.880 The marine lifted his rifle and gave an order to halt, 2112 02:01:05.319 --> 02:01:07.960 but then the strange man lunged forward and snatched the 2113 02:01:08.079 --> 02:01:11.640 rifle away, surprising the marine and knocking him off stands. 2114 02:01:12.079 --> 02:01:15.479 He was startled, but caught himself and watched as the 2115 02:01:15.560 --> 02:01:18.439 wild man bent the metal rifle barrel in half with 2116 02:01:18.560 --> 02:01:21.960 his bare hands. The broad shouldered beast of a man 2117 02:01:22.079 --> 02:01:25.359 gave a grunt and then knocked the marine unconscious, perhaps 2118 02:01:25.439 --> 02:01:28.760 with the butt of his own weapon. When he came to, 2119 02:01:29.239 --> 02:01:32.560 the giant man was gone, but his disfigured gun lay 2120 02:01:32.640 --> 02:01:37.159 next to him. Even so the marine couldn't move. The 2121 02:01:37.239 --> 02:01:40.159 blow he sustained had caused a lot of damage. He 2122 02:01:40.279 --> 02:01:43.079 lay there half conscious until the next morning, when he 2123 02:01:43.159 --> 02:01:47.720 was found by the relief guard. Reportedly, both the CIA 2124 02:01:48.039 --> 02:01:51.119 and the FBI were brought in to investigate, as this 2125 02:01:51.439 --> 02:01:54.319 wasn't the only incident to be reported. There were at 2126 02:01:54.399 --> 02:01:58.760 least two other sightings that same night. Wonderport described the 2127 02:01:58.800 --> 02:02:01.960 man as being nearly two feet tall, but with a smaller, 2128 02:02:02.199 --> 02:02:06.520 unknown figure by its side. Several people also reported that 2129 02:02:06.600 --> 02:02:10.760 their dogs had barked and acted strangely that evening. In 2130 02:02:10.840 --> 02:02:13.800 the same year, there were reports from employees at Joshua 2131 02:02:13.880 --> 02:02:16.680 Tree stating they had also seen the large hairy figure. 2132 02:02:17.720 --> 02:02:20.560 In nineteen seventy nine, a couple on a trip to 2133 02:02:20.640 --> 02:02:22.960 Joshua Tree said they were forced to slam on the 2134 02:02:23.039 --> 02:02:25.680 brakes in their car one night when what they described 2135 02:02:25.720 --> 02:02:28.119 as a large hairy man stood in the middle of 2136 02:02:28.159 --> 02:02:32.560 the road near their condominium in Desert Hot Springs. They 2137 02:02:32.640 --> 02:02:34.960 recalled that he just stepped from behind a yucca bush 2138 02:02:35.039 --> 02:02:37.600 and stood in front of the car, refused to move. 2139 02:02:39.000 --> 02:02:41.640 The couple claimed the creature's hairy chest was the size 2140 02:02:41.680 --> 02:02:45.680 of a refrigerator and its arms were abnormally long. Sounds familiar. 2141 02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:49.359 It had lengthy tan hair that swished back and forth 2142 02:02:49.399 --> 02:02:52.000 as it walked away and disappeared into the night, but 2143 02:02:52.159 --> 02:02:56.239 only after frightening them. Senseless evidence was left behind it. 2144 02:02:56.399 --> 02:03:00.720 Yet more Yukaman's sightings in nineteen seventy nine in him It, California. 2145 02:03:01.439 --> 02:03:05.319 This beast seen on two separate occasions. This being left 2146 02:03:05.359 --> 02:03:08.479 behind seventeen footprints that were said to be a foot 2147 02:03:08.560 --> 02:03:12.439 and a half long, spanning six feet apart. Two prominent 2148 02:03:12.520 --> 02:03:16.199 bigfoot researchers worked the area looking for further information, but 2149 02:03:16.399 --> 02:03:17.760 nothing more has surfaced. 2150 02:03:19.279 --> 02:03:20.119 Skin Walkers. 2151 02:03:21.800 --> 02:03:24.720 Toys of skinned walkers inhabiting the Joshua Tree area date 2152 02:03:24.840 --> 02:03:29.439 back many centuries. The Native American Navajo tribe first experienced 2153 02:03:29.479 --> 02:03:33.840 these beings several hundred years ago, calling them ey Nagloshi, 2154 02:03:34.720 --> 02:03:36.399 meaning he who walks. 2155 02:03:36.199 --> 02:03:37.000 On all fours. 2156 02:03:37.640 --> 02:03:39.960 The legend of the skin walkers hold forth that they 2157 02:03:40.000 --> 02:03:43.319 are actually human shape shifters that were once shamans of 2158 02:03:43.359 --> 02:03:46.720 the Navajo tribe. The shamans, who used their gifts for 2159 02:03:46.840 --> 02:03:50.439 evil like herding or cursing people, were turned into skin walkers, 2160 02:03:51.039 --> 02:03:53.880 able to take the form of various animals like fox, 2161 02:03:54.199 --> 02:03:57.680 birds of coyotes. The Navajo people tried to keep their 2162 02:03:57.720 --> 02:04:00.920 existence from becoming known to the outside world, but over 2163 02:04:01.000 --> 02:04:04.640 a century ago, weird and often terrifying things began happening 2164 02:04:04.680 --> 02:04:09.000 to outsiders in Joshua Tree, so terrifying, in fact, that 2165 02:04:09.159 --> 02:04:11.960 some Navajo people refuse to this date to speak of 2166 02:04:12.000 --> 02:04:16.560 the skinwalkers for fear of drawing them to them. Campers, visitors, 2167 02:04:16.600 --> 02:04:19.640 and other travelers are reported being attacked and often taunted 2168 02:04:19.680 --> 02:04:22.720 by these beings. Some campers have claimed that when a 2169 02:04:22.760 --> 02:04:25.600 skin walker is near, it's like they're being drawn toward 2170 02:04:26.000 --> 02:04:31.159 whatever the creature is mimicking. Skinwalker attacks are sometimes even deadly, 2171 02:04:31.680 --> 02:04:34.479 with evil beings sinking their teeth into human flesh and 2172 02:04:34.600 --> 02:04:38.000 ripping people apart. Those who live to tell the tale 2173 02:04:38.000 --> 02:04:40.680 of a skinwalker attack are never the same, and they 2174 02:04:40.760 --> 02:04:47.520 always carry scars, both of the physical and psychological varieties. Next, 2175 02:04:47.920 --> 02:04:51.840 let's look at some strange disappearances from Joshua Tree National Park. 2176 02:04:53.560 --> 02:04:57.960 Paul Miller, fifty one years old, disappeared on July thirteenth, 2177 02:04:58.039 --> 02:05:01.720 twenty eighteen, in Joshua Tree National Park. He was on 2178 02:05:01.880 --> 02:05:04.920 vacation with his wife, Stephanie at the time of his disappearance. 2179 02:05:05.920 --> 02:05:09.199 They were traveling in celebration of their twenty sixth wedding anniversary. 2180 02:05:10.159 --> 02:05:14.439 Backwoods camping, hiking, and kayaking were typical pastimes for the couple. 2181 02:05:15.239 --> 02:05:18.680 They were in great shape and loved the outdoors. Paul 2182 02:05:18.800 --> 02:05:20.439 last spoke with his wife when he told her that 2183 02:05:20.479 --> 02:05:22.520 he was going out from one last hike in the park. 2184 02:05:23.479 --> 02:05:26.720 He planned on hiking the popular forty nine Palms Oasis 2185 02:05:26.800 --> 02:05:30.399 Trail before they were to begin their journey back to Ontario, Canada. 2186 02:05:30.920 --> 02:05:33.239 He left their hotel room around nine am that morning 2187 02:05:33.359 --> 02:05:36.920 and drove to the trailhead. When Paul didn't return by 2188 02:05:36.960 --> 02:05:41.439 the hotel checkout time, Stephanie became worried. Around noon, she 2189 02:05:41.600 --> 02:05:45.079 contacted park officials and a search and rescue mission was launched. 2190 02:05:45.760 --> 02:05:48.359 Paul's rental car was found where he parked at the trailhead, 2191 02:05:48.720 --> 02:05:52.039 but he wasn't with it. Rangers hiked the trail looking 2192 02:05:52.119 --> 02:05:55.279 for him, but to no avail. Paul also didn't have 2193 02:05:55.319 --> 02:05:57.640 a cell phone on him, but this was not out 2194 02:05:57.680 --> 02:06:00.800 of the ordinary. The search for paulk continued for five 2195 02:06:00.960 --> 02:06:03.279 days with not so much as a trace of evidence 2196 02:06:03.319 --> 02:06:07.159 servicing aside from his rental car. The search included over 2197 02:06:07.239 --> 02:06:11.640 six hundred volunteers, multiple agencies, k nines, high tech equipment, 2198 02:06:12.079 --> 02:06:16.359 and lots of hope, but nothing was found. Park superintendent 2199 02:06:16.439 --> 02:06:19.039 David Smith said, we have a witness who saw Paul 2200 02:06:19.119 --> 02:06:23.000 at the trailhead that morning, but that's all. Another visitor 2201 02:06:23.079 --> 02:06:25.479 from England that was at the park that morning reported 2202 02:06:25.520 --> 02:06:28.920 seeing Paul at around nine am walking quickly and with purpose. 2203 02:06:29.039 --> 02:06:34.079 About halfway down the trail. No other sightings were reported. However, 2204 02:06:34.319 --> 02:06:38.159 on December twenty first, twenty nineteen, in PS authorities and 2205 02:06:38.239 --> 02:06:41.520 San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department reported that human remains had 2206 02:06:41.560 --> 02:06:44.199 been found in a remote and rocky part of Joshua Tree. 2207 02:06:45.079 --> 02:06:48.319 Official state of the discovery came about through photographs taken 2208 02:06:48.399 --> 02:06:51.239 by a drone fly over the area in November. On 2209 02:06:51.399 --> 02:06:54.560 December twenty, park ranger's height to the area where they 2210 02:06:54.760 --> 02:06:59.119 found human skeletal remains. In personal longings, there was no 2211 02:06:59.279 --> 02:07:01.840 identification with the remains, which appeared to have been there 2212 02:07:01.920 --> 02:07:05.439 for quite some time. Upon the discovery of these remains, 2213 02:07:05.520 --> 02:07:08.520 the Miller family prepared themselves for the likelihood that those 2214 02:07:08.680 --> 02:07:13.520 belonged to Paul. It's been a tough journey, waiting, waiting, waiting. 2215 02:07:14.359 --> 02:07:16.720 Then you hear he's been found, It doesn't make it 2216 02:07:16.800 --> 02:07:21.239 any easier. Stephanie Miller said in a phone interview. Speculation 2217 02:07:21.479 --> 02:07:24.319 is that whatever happened that caused his death happened quickly, 2218 02:07:24.439 --> 02:07:28.920 she said, possibly a heart attack or heat stroke. He 2219 02:07:29.119 --> 02:07:31.720 was found in a shaded area and still had water 2220 02:07:31.840 --> 02:07:34.439 and food. It appeared he had made the heike to 2221 02:07:34.520 --> 02:07:37.720 forty nine Palms Oasis, but was coming back from trail 2222 02:07:37.840 --> 02:07:41.359 the wrong way. Early in the search for Paul, teams 2223 02:07:41.359 --> 02:07:43.520 had gotten close enough to where the remains were found 2224 02:07:43.560 --> 02:07:45.439 that he would have heard and responded when they called 2225 02:07:45.479 --> 02:07:48.279 out his name, She said, adding there is comfort knowing 2226 02:07:48.359 --> 02:07:51.079 he didn't suffer long. I hated to think he was suffering, 2227 02:07:51.399 --> 02:07:55.600 and we couldn't find him. As of January nineteenth, twenty 2228 02:07:55.720 --> 02:07:59.520 twenty two time of recording, Paul Miller's case has no 2229 02:07:59.600 --> 02:08:06.359 further updates. Another disappearance in Joshua Tree was that of 2230 02:08:06.479 --> 02:08:11.359 William Michael Euasco. Sixty five year old William Michael Ouasco, 2231 02:08:11.600 --> 02:08:15.159 known as Bill, disappeared on June twenty fourth, twenty ten, 2232 02:08:15.560 --> 02:08:18.000 from Joshua Tree National Park while on a day Hi. 2233 02:08:19.119 --> 02:08:22.880 Bill lived in Marietta, Georgia, along with his freance Mary Winston. 2234 02:08:23.680 --> 02:08:26.279 Bill was a strong hiker with experience in the wilderness, 2235 02:08:26.319 --> 02:08:28.439 and he had loved Joshua Tree for a long time 2236 02:08:28.880 --> 02:08:32.199 and visited the park almost yearly. He was an Army 2237 02:08:32.279 --> 02:08:35.079 veteran who had served in Vietnam and he loved to 2238 02:08:35.159 --> 02:08:39.039 be outdoors. It was on a Wednesday, June twenty third, 2239 02:08:39.159 --> 02:08:43.039 twenty ten, When Bill arrived at Lax from Georgia, he 2240 02:08:43.159 --> 02:08:47.039 rented a white Chrystler Seabring and drove to Rancho Mirage, California. 2241 02:08:47.880 --> 02:08:50.279 Bill was staying at a friend's vacant condo on this 2242 02:08:50.399 --> 02:08:54.359 particular trip. On Thursday, the twenty fourth of June, he 2243 02:08:54.439 --> 02:08:57.479 headed for Joshua Tree, making a couple of calls along 2244 02:08:57.560 --> 02:09:00.560 the way. Bill told his beon s Mary that he 2245 02:09:00.640 --> 02:09:03.119 planned on leaving the park by five pm and was 2246 02:09:03.159 --> 02:09:05.399 going to have dinner that evening at the Pioneer Town 2247 02:09:05.479 --> 02:09:09.640 restaurant Pappy in Harriet's. Mary believed that Bill was planning 2248 02:09:09.680 --> 02:09:12.399 the hike too a place called Carry's Castle, which was 2249 02:09:12.479 --> 02:09:14.800 the first item on the planet a tenerary he'd left 2250 02:09:14.840 --> 02:09:17.520 with her. That would have been an ambitious hike for 2251 02:09:17.600 --> 02:09:20.039 the time of year, though due to the high temperatures 2252 02:09:20.079 --> 02:09:24.079 in the lower portion of Joshua Tree. Mary was uncomfortable 2253 02:09:24.159 --> 02:09:27.039 with the destination choice due to its remoteness and had 2254 02:09:27.119 --> 02:09:30.239 asked him to reconsider. Bill just laughed it off and 2255 02:09:30.399 --> 02:09:33.720 gave no indication he was changing his mind. When Bill 2256 02:09:33.800 --> 02:09:36.720 failed to call Mary that evening, she grew concerned and 2257 02:09:36.800 --> 02:09:41.359 began making calls early the next day. Friday, June twenty five, 2258 02:09:41.600 --> 02:09:44.720 Joshua Tree officials had been notified of the incident and 2259 02:09:44.800 --> 02:09:48.159 were given a description of Bill's vehicle along with his itinerary. 2260 02:09:49.319 --> 02:09:52.600 By mid morning, rangers to check the trailhead for Carry's Castle, 2261 02:09:52.880 --> 02:09:56.840 but found no vehicles. They began checking other areas of 2262 02:09:56.880 --> 02:09:59.880 the park, but it wasn't until four fifty six pm 2263 02:10:00.079 --> 02:10:03.319 on Saturday, June twenty sixth at the California Highway Patrol 2264 02:10:03.399 --> 02:10:06.960 copter spotted Bill's vehicle park at the Juniper Flats trailhead, 2265 02:10:07.319 --> 02:10:10.359 which is a regular starting point for visitors wanting to 2266 02:10:10.399 --> 02:10:13.520 hike to the top of Quail Mountain, a destination also 2267 02:10:13.600 --> 02:10:18.720 listed on Bill's itinerary. Ranger stayed with Bill's car overnight 2268 02:10:18.880 --> 02:10:20.880 just in case he came back, but he never showed. 2269 02:10:21.479 --> 02:10:24.560 There was one known visitor to Jennifer Flats trailhead on 2270 02:10:24.640 --> 02:10:29.199 the day Bill disappeared, a hiker named Greg Mendoza. At 2271 02:10:29.239 --> 02:10:31.840 the time of his arrival around ten twenty am, there 2272 02:10:31.920 --> 02:10:34.520 was no one else at the trailhead, but upon his 2273 02:10:34.640 --> 02:10:37.359 return between five point thirty and six pm, he saw 2274 02:10:37.439 --> 02:10:40.640 Bill's car. He also saw a single line of fresh 2275 02:10:40.680 --> 02:10:43.800 boot tracks going up the old Jennifer Flats Road. This 2276 02:10:44.000 --> 02:10:46.439 means that Bill's car had arrived at the parking lot 2277 02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:50.239 no earlier than ten twenty am, leaving at minimum a 2278 02:10:50.359 --> 02:10:52.159 near two and a half hour gap from his last 2279 02:10:52.199 --> 02:10:55.600 phone call. It should have only taken Bill about half 2280 02:10:55.680 --> 02:10:58.760 that time to reach Juniper Flats trailhead, so it's unknown 2281 02:10:58.960 --> 02:11:02.479 where Bill was for the extra hour or so. By 2282 02:11:02.560 --> 02:11:06.439 this point, an official search and rescue operation began, focusing 2283 02:11:06.600 --> 02:11:09.840 mainly on Quail Mountain, but also involving other areas that 2284 02:11:09.920 --> 02:11:12.920 he could have accessed from the Jenniper Flat's trailhead. The 2285 02:11:13.000 --> 02:11:17.119 official search continued until July fifth, twenty ten, eleven days 2286 02:11:17.159 --> 02:11:20.880 after Bill's disappearance, and involved hundreds of search and rescue 2287 02:11:20.880 --> 02:11:24.920 personnel Included in these search and rescue teams from all 2288 02:11:24.960 --> 02:11:30.880 over southern California, where canine units, horseback riders, civilian volunteers, helicopters, 2289 02:11:30.960 --> 02:11:34.680 and a fixed wing aircraft. In total, about seven hundred 2290 02:11:34.720 --> 02:11:37.800 and seventy miles of GPS tracks from ground searchers were logged. 2291 02:11:38.760 --> 02:11:41.439 Only a red bandana believed to belong to Bill, was 2292 02:11:41.479 --> 02:11:44.760 found on the ridge near Quayll Mountain. Throughout all these efforts, 2293 02:11:45.960 --> 02:11:49.039 the unofficial search continued on despite the lack of evidence, 2294 02:11:50.279 --> 02:11:53.640 even with many people being involved after the official search ended. 2295 02:11:54.520 --> 02:11:57.239 As of this recording in January of twenty twenty two, 2296 02:11:57.800 --> 02:12:02.119 bill Owasco remains missing and there have been no further updates. 2297 02:12:04.159 --> 02:12:09.359 Lauren Choe Lauren Ell Choe disappeared on June twenty eighth, 2298 02:12:09.439 --> 02:12:12.399 twenty twenty one, from the area between Marongo and Yucca 2299 02:12:12.520 --> 02:12:16.680 Valleys in California. Lauren grew up in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 2300 02:12:16.920 --> 02:12:20.960 and with mother nicknamed Elle. She studied music education at 2301 02:12:21.039 --> 02:12:25.760 Westminster Choir College and became a high school music teacher. However, 2302 02:12:26.359 --> 02:12:28.920 Elle quit her teaching job in the winter of twenty twenty. 2303 02:12:29.520 --> 02:12:32.199 She then joined her friend Cody Orrel on a road 2304 02:12:32.239 --> 02:12:35.720 trip cross country. She joined this trip with the intention 2305 02:12:35.800 --> 02:12:37.800 of running a food truck once they arrived at their 2306 02:12:37.840 --> 02:12:42.640 final destination, Bombay Beach, California. By June twenty twenty one, 2307 02:12:43.279 --> 02:12:45.640 Elle was working as the private chef for an Airbnb 2308 02:12:45.800 --> 02:12:50.279 property called The Whole, owned by Tao Ruspoli. The property 2309 02:12:50.359 --> 02:12:53.680 is located between Yucca and Morongo Valleys outside of Joshua 2310 02:12:53.720 --> 02:12:57.800 Tree National Park. On June twenty eighth, twenty twenty one, 2311 02:12:58.359 --> 02:13:00.560 Elle took off on her own after he had argument 2312 02:13:00.640 --> 02:13:04.840 ensued between she and her friend, Cody. The housekeeper at 2313 02:13:04.840 --> 02:13:07.359 the Airbnb property claimed that both Ell and Cody had 2314 02:13:07.399 --> 02:13:10.000 been drinking since early in the day and l had 2315 02:13:10.079 --> 02:13:13.039 become aggravated when Cody refused to let her drive away, 2316 02:13:13.359 --> 02:13:15.920 so she took off on foot, leaving her phone and 2317 02:13:16.199 --> 02:13:18.920 taking no food or water. This was around three in 2318 02:13:19.000 --> 02:13:22.960 the afternoon. Cody called the Sheriff's office around five thirteen 2319 02:13:23.039 --> 02:13:26.119 PM when his initial search rail which included some of 2320 02:13:26.199 --> 02:13:30.119 their other friends, came up empty. They didn't find so 2321 02:13:30.279 --> 02:13:33.800 much as a single footprint. Elle was last seen wearing 2322 02:13:33.800 --> 02:13:35.840 a yellow T shirt and blue jeans shorts when she 2323 02:13:35.960 --> 02:13:39.119 walked away from where she was staying. Cody thought she 2324 02:13:39.239 --> 02:13:41.800 might have gotten into a vehicle with someone, considering there 2325 02:13:41.840 --> 02:13:45.399 were no tracks and Elle was supposedly planning on meeting 2326 02:13:45.439 --> 02:13:48.600 an unknown individual later in the day anyway, although this 2327 02:13:48.840 --> 02:13:52.960 theory was never confirmed. Law enforcement officials, as well as 2328 02:13:52.960 --> 02:13:55.479 search and rescue teams come to the area on foot, 2329 02:13:55.960 --> 02:13:58.840 and included K nine rescue teams and a fixed wing 2330 02:13:58.920 --> 02:14:02.680 aircraft which was used conduct aeri of searches. The Morongo 2331 02:14:02.800 --> 02:14:06.279 Basin Sheriff Station told reporters that their helicopter, along with 2332 02:14:06.399 --> 02:14:08.560 members of the Search and Rescue unit, had been searching 2333 02:14:08.640 --> 02:14:12.520 for L since her disappearance. However, they believe that L 2334 02:14:12.680 --> 02:14:15.479 was voluntarily missing due to no evidence of foul play. 2335 02:14:16.199 --> 02:14:20.039 The Specialized Investigation Divisions of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's 2336 02:14:20.039 --> 02:14:23.159 Department began assisting in the search rail in September of 2337 02:14:23.239 --> 02:14:26.600 twenty twenty one. However, this was a good three months 2338 02:14:26.640 --> 02:14:31.319 after her disappearance. Despite these efforts, no evidence of her 2339 02:14:31.319 --> 02:14:34.720 whereabouts came to light. Cody and some of L's other 2340 02:14:34.800 --> 02:14:38.239 friends tried bringing awareness to her disappearance by using social 2341 02:14:38.359 --> 02:14:42.399 media platforms. They also posted flyers all around the Bombay 2342 02:14:42.479 --> 02:14:46.279 Beach area, but nothing came of it. No one came 2343 02:14:46.359 --> 02:14:50.159 forward claiming to have seen L. The search continued until 2344 02:14:50.159 --> 02:14:54.319 October ninth, twenty twenty one, when investigators found human remains 2345 02:14:54.359 --> 02:14:57.560 in the rugged terrain of Yaco Valley. On October twenty 2346 02:14:57.600 --> 02:15:00.319 eighth of twenty twenty one, it was confirmed that the 2347 02:15:00.399 --> 02:15:04.720 remains found did indeed belong to L. Because in manter 2348 02:15:04.760 --> 02:15:08.199 of for passing have not been released as of this recording. 2349 02:15:08.279 --> 02:15:11.840 In January of twenty twenty two, large show's case has 2350 02:15:11.920 --> 02:15:16.439 no further updates. Next it brings us to the disappearance 2351 02:15:16.800 --> 02:15:20.680 of Patrick Lynn Wells. Thirty eight year old Patrick Wells 2352 02:15:20.760 --> 02:15:23.800 disappeared on June five, twenty twenty one, from Joshua Tree 2353 02:15:23.880 --> 02:15:28.319 National Park. Park spokesperson Jenny Albrink stated that Patrick was 2354 02:15:28.439 --> 02:15:30.800 last seen on June fifth, when he left to drive 2355 02:15:30.880 --> 02:15:34.680 to his dad's house. Patrick was from twenty nine Palms 2356 02:15:34.760 --> 02:15:37.760 and he was heading your Riverside. He never made it 2357 02:15:37.840 --> 02:15:41.199 to his destination and was officially reported missing on June ten. 2358 02:15:42.119 --> 02:15:45.319 He's described as a Caucasian male five feet ten inches tall, 2359 02:15:45.800 --> 02:15:48.800 playing about one hundred and ninety seven pounds. He has 2360 02:15:48.920 --> 02:15:51.680 brown hair and brown eyes, as well as a dragon 2361 02:15:51.800 --> 02:15:53.720 and a United States Marine Corps. 2362 02:15:53.479 --> 02:15:55.239 Insignia tattoo on his arms. 2363 02:15:56.319 --> 02:15:58.560 Is believed he was wearing a white T shirt, blue jeans, 2364 02:15:58.600 --> 02:16:00.880 and either tennis shoes or black work boots at the 2365 02:16:00.920 --> 02:16:05.119 time of his disappearance. Park officials found Patrick's truck in 2366 02:16:05.159 --> 02:16:07.840 the Indian Cove parking lot of the Rattlesnake Canyon area 2367 02:16:08.159 --> 02:16:12.239 on the day was reported missing. Joshua Tree National Park 2368 02:16:12.319 --> 02:16:16.760 began investigating and organized a search. The efforts continued until 2369 02:16:16.760 --> 02:16:19.239 The search was hauled at June twelfth, twenty twenty one, 2370 02:16:19.840 --> 02:16:22.479 on discovery of human remains in a hiking area of 2371 02:16:22.560 --> 02:16:26.680 Joshua Tree. Soon after, the coroner confirmed the remains belonged 2372 02:16:26.720 --> 02:16:29.800 to Patrick, though no cause of his passing was listed. 2373 02:16:31.159 --> 02:16:33.840 As of January nineteenth, twenty twenty one, the date of 2374 02:16:33.920 --> 02:16:37.280 this recording, there have been no further updates on the 2375 02:16:37.360 --> 02:16:44.559 Patrick Wells case. Next, we have Erica Ashley Lloyd. Thirty 2376 02:16:44.639 --> 02:16:47.719 seven year old Erica Lloyd was last seen on June fourteenth, 2377 02:16:47.799 --> 02:16:52.440 twenty twenty, at her home in Walnut Creek, San Bernardino County, California. 2378 02:16:53.440 --> 02:16:55.440 She told her family she was going on a camping 2379 02:16:55.520 --> 02:16:59.799 trip to Joshua Tree National Park. Erica's mob ruth since 2380 02:16:59.840 --> 02:17:01.879 she he was just trying to make ends meet like 2381 02:17:02.000 --> 02:17:06.200 so many others during the pandemic. Erica owned a salon 2382 02:17:06.360 --> 02:17:10.959 called Bloom in Alamo, California, but when the mandatory closures 2383 02:17:11.000 --> 02:17:13.920 and other restrictions came about due to the pandemic, Erica's 2384 02:17:13.959 --> 02:17:15.920 salon closed down and didn't reopen. 2385 02:17:17.200 --> 02:17:17.680 The trip to. 2386 02:17:17.719 --> 02:17:19.479 Joshua Tree was to be a chance for her to 2387 02:17:19.520 --> 02:17:21.799 get away from all the negativity for a little while. 2388 02:17:23.239 --> 02:17:25.920 Erica's described as five foot three inches tall, one hundred 2389 02:17:25.920 --> 02:17:28.840 and twenty five pounds, and house brown hair and blue eyes. 2390 02:17:29.840 --> 02:17:32.319 According to Erica's roommate, she said she was planning to 2391 02:17:32.360 --> 02:17:35.600 meet other people at Joshua Tree. However, the identities of 2392 02:17:35.639 --> 02:17:37.959 those people she was supposedly planning to meet are still 2393 02:17:38.000 --> 02:17:41.280 a mystery, and it's unclear if she did indeed meet. 2394 02:17:41.120 --> 02:17:42.879 Up with anyone. After leaving home. 2395 02:17:42.959 --> 02:17:47.079 On June fourteen, when Erica didn't return and couldn't be reached, 2396 02:17:47.719 --> 02:17:51.920 her family reported her missing. On June seventeen, authorities found 2397 02:17:52.040 --> 02:17:54.479 Erica's car, a black two thousand and six, on to 2398 02:17:54.600 --> 02:17:57.840 a cord, abandoned on Shelton Road north of State Route 2399 02:17:57.920 --> 02:18:02.040 sixty two, just east of the Nine Palms area. Both 2400 02:18:02.120 --> 02:18:04.840 the front and rear windshiels were broken, and the car 2401 02:18:05.000 --> 02:18:08.600 appeared to be involved in a sandburm accident which mangled 2402 02:18:08.639 --> 02:18:11.040 the k frame of the car and deployed the airbag. 2403 02:18:12.239 --> 02:18:16.920 Even so, California Highway Patrol Officer Casey Simmons said investigators 2404 02:18:16.959 --> 02:18:20.280 found no evidence on the roadway consistent with the traffic accident. 2405 02:18:20.760 --> 02:18:23.360 Some of Erica's items were found in the car, but 2406 02:18:23.520 --> 02:18:26.520 there was no sign of her whereabouts. The police stated 2407 02:18:26.719 --> 02:18:29.639 there was no indication of foul play up until the 2408 02:18:29.680 --> 02:18:33.520 car was found. According to Erica's sister in law, Jenna, 2409 02:18:34.200 --> 02:18:36.879 Erica was very stressed about the pandemic and the quarantine, 2410 02:18:37.040 --> 02:18:39.120 and she was going camping for a few days to 2411 02:18:39.319 --> 02:18:42.040 sort of unplug, despite the fact that she was not 2412 02:18:42.159 --> 02:18:46.159 an experienced camper. The most accurate information about Erica's disappearance 2413 02:18:46.200 --> 02:18:49.120 can be found on the Bring Erica Home Facebook page. 2414 02:18:49.799 --> 02:18:52.000 The following is an excerpt from a comment written by 2415 02:18:52.079 --> 02:18:55.799 Erica's mom on that page. There have been many stories 2416 02:18:55.840 --> 02:18:58.719 of Erica from various podcasts and in the form world, 2417 02:18:58.920 --> 02:19:02.360 which are filled with a lot of opinions, theories, and conjectures. 2418 02:19:03.200 --> 02:19:05.799 The information that they provide almost never comes from the 2419 02:19:05.840 --> 02:19:10.239 police investigators handling Erica's case to verify or corroborate their info. 2420 02:19:11.479 --> 02:19:13.440 We know that Erica was not in a good state 2421 02:19:13.520 --> 02:19:16.159 of mind and decided to take this trip to Joshua 2422 02:19:16.200 --> 02:19:20.040 Tree Park to clear her head. There's been no indication 2423 02:19:20.159 --> 02:19:22.399 of foul play up to winter car was found on 2424 02:19:22.520 --> 02:19:26.600 Shelton Road, broken down, despite what others may say or think. 2425 02:19:27.600 --> 02:19:31.040 We received six sightings of apparently homeless or transient women 2426 02:19:31.159 --> 02:19:34.319 fitting Erica's description in the High Desert area, but none 2427 02:19:34.360 --> 02:19:37.159 of them turned out to be her. Some of what 2428 02:19:37.600 --> 02:19:40.559 was done to find Erica. There were search teams from 2429 02:19:40.559 --> 02:19:43.360 the Sheriff's department that continued to search further and further 2430 02:19:43.440 --> 02:19:46.600 out from the location of her car. Doug Billings, an 2431 02:19:46.680 --> 02:19:50.000 expert at mapping a cave diver, has extensive knowledge of 2432 02:19:50.040 --> 02:19:53.239 minds in the area. He's done numerous searches with the 2433 02:19:53.280 --> 02:19:56.760 help of his friends. Family members, and other groups have 2434 02:19:56.840 --> 02:20:00.440 aided in the searching. Banners and a billboard were placed 2435 02:20:00.479 --> 02:20:03.920 in strategic locations in the Wonder Valley area asking if 2436 02:20:03.959 --> 02:20:05.239 anyone helped Erica. 2437 02:20:05.360 --> 02:20:06.399 On June sixteenth. 2438 02:20:07.200 --> 02:20:10.879 Erica's aunts have sent out hundreds of flyers to homeless shelters, hospitals, 2439 02:20:10.920 --> 02:20:14.879 and food banks areas such as Twenty nine Palms, Joshua Tree, 2440 02:20:15.319 --> 02:20:23.639 Yucca Valley, Palm Springs, Desert Springs, Indio, Coachella Riverside, Morongo Basin, Ontario, 2441 02:20:24.239 --> 02:20:28.879 Los Angeles, San Diego, Venice Beach, and Moore. Erica's mom 2442 02:20:29.000 --> 02:20:32.719 further states We're continuing to look at offbeat communes like 2443 02:20:32.840 --> 02:20:37.360 Slab City and Amboy. Both police investigators from San Bernino 2444 02:20:37.479 --> 02:20:41.000 Sheriff's Department and Walnut Creek Police Department are still actively 2445 02:20:41.079 --> 02:20:45.479 investigating the case. The case remained active after Erica's disappearance 2446 02:20:46.000 --> 02:20:48.959 with no real leads until January of twenty twenty one. 2447 02:20:49.639 --> 02:20:53.200 In February of twenty twenty one, Ericin's brother posted to 2448 02:20:53.319 --> 02:20:56.639 the Facebook page saying, as the brother of Erica Lloyd, 2449 02:20:57.079 --> 02:20:59.079 I would like to address the public on behalf of 2450 02:20:59.159 --> 02:21:04.079 our family. On January thirty first, twenty twenty one, human 2451 02:21:04.159 --> 02:21:07.520 remains were discovered by hikers in the vicinity of Danby 2452 02:21:07.680 --> 02:21:12.440 Road and Amboy Road in Wonder Valley, California. It is 2453 02:21:12.520 --> 02:21:15.000 with a heavy heart announce that these remains have been 2454 02:21:15.000 --> 02:21:20.040 identified by Sam Bernardino County Sheriff's Department as my sister Erica. 2455 02:21:20.840 --> 02:21:22.680 There is no easy way for me to tell you 2456 02:21:22.760 --> 02:21:25.159 all this, and there's no easy way for any of 2457 02:21:25.280 --> 02:21:28.040 us to receive it. My wish is that we can 2458 02:21:28.079 --> 02:21:30.840 all lean in a little closer, hold each other up, 2459 02:21:31.399 --> 02:21:34.040 and remind each other more often that we're here for 2460 02:21:34.159 --> 02:21:37.600 one another with open arms and endless love. It's what 2461 02:21:37.840 --> 02:21:41.040 she would have wanted. It's the spirit of who she was. 2462 02:21:42.120 --> 02:21:45.360 On May twelfth, twenty twenty one, Erica's family shared another 2463 02:21:45.440 --> 02:21:48.959 post on the Bring Erica Home Facebook page, quoting here, 2464 02:21:49.239 --> 02:21:51.719 the family of Erica Lloyd would like to give an update. 2465 02:21:52.520 --> 02:21:55.840 The sam Bernardino County s Sheriff's Department Special Investigative Unit 2466 02:21:55.920 --> 02:21:58.639 has notified us they are no longer handling Erica's case. 2467 02:21:59.319 --> 02:22:03.200 After reviewing the extensive investigation done on Erica's disappearance, they 2468 02:22:03.239 --> 02:22:07.479 have not found any indication of foul play. Thus, Erica's 2469 02:22:07.520 --> 02:22:09.760 case will be turned back over to the Morongo Basin 2470 02:22:09.840 --> 02:22:14.280 Station investigators for any remaining follow up and information. From 2471 02:22:14.319 --> 02:22:17.639 everything the investigators learned and everything we found out from 2472 02:22:17.639 --> 02:22:20.200 our first trip to California in June to our last 2473 02:22:20.239 --> 02:22:24.479 trip in February, all indications appeared Erica suffered a sudden 2474 02:22:24.520 --> 02:22:27.840 mental breakdown starting about a week before she disappeared into 2475 02:22:27.879 --> 02:22:31.600 the desert. During that last week, Erica had communicated with 2476 02:22:31.680 --> 02:22:35.920 various family members, friends, co workers, and some clients. The 2477 02:22:36.000 --> 02:22:38.360 common thread from all of them referring to Erica was 2478 02:22:38.600 --> 02:22:41.360 something was off and out of place, but they couldnot 2479 02:22:41.360 --> 02:22:44.000 put their finger on it. One co worker was so 2480 02:22:44.159 --> 02:22:47.399 concerned about Erica on June tenth, six days before she 2481 02:22:47.520 --> 02:22:50.639 went missing, that she dropped by Erica's apartment to check 2482 02:22:50.719 --> 02:22:52.920 up on her and spent a couple of hours talking 2483 02:22:53.000 --> 02:22:55.799 to her. It was the following day when Erica took 2484 02:22:55.840 --> 02:22:58.479 off on her road trip. It has been hard to 2485 02:22:58.559 --> 02:23:02.319 understand how Erica, who was a free spirit, hardworking and 2486 02:23:02.360 --> 02:23:07.120 an independent loving mom, could suffer a sudden mental psychotic breakdown. 2487 02:23:07.559 --> 02:23:11.680 Psychosis means losing touch with the reality, is often associated 2488 02:23:11.719 --> 02:23:17.040 with various serious mental illnesses. Distress becomes too overwhelming. Anyone 2489 02:23:17.200 --> 02:23:21.600 may experience these symptoms, triggering a breakdown. Erica was dealing 2490 02:23:21.680 --> 02:23:24.680 with the lockdown, learning to take care of her son 2491 02:23:24.879 --> 02:23:27.360 in the new stay and Place world a, forced to 2492 02:23:27.399 --> 02:23:30.879 shut down of her thriving Bloom Hair studio in Almo, California, 2493 02:23:31.760 --> 02:23:35.000 losing personal contact with the clients whose weddings and proms 2494 02:23:35.040 --> 02:23:38.600 were canceled, and trying to make some sense to understand 2495 02:23:38.760 --> 02:23:42.159 where our society was going. This was overwhelming to her 2496 02:23:42.600 --> 02:23:44.680 and pushed her over the edge and into a break. 2497 02:23:45.159 --> 02:23:48.399 Erica was no longer in control and the voices she 2498 02:23:48.520 --> 02:23:52.479 heard had taken over her thoughts. As a family, we 2499 02:23:52.559 --> 02:23:56.319 are heartbroken over losing our Erica. It is difficult to 2500 02:23:56.399 --> 02:23:59.200 understand what struggles her mind was going through the last 2501 02:23:59.280 --> 02:24:02.479 week of her life. We know there were possibly missed 2502 02:24:02.520 --> 02:24:05.959 opportunities to stop and help Erica before she slipped away 2503 02:24:06.000 --> 02:24:09.799 and wandered out into the desert. At this point, it's 2504 02:24:09.920 --> 02:24:12.399 unknown if any person or persons could have made a 2505 02:24:12.440 --> 02:24:16.360 difference in stopping or helping her. We accept what happened 2506 02:24:16.360 --> 02:24:18.639 to Erica and know she was in the storm of 2507 02:24:18.719 --> 02:24:22.879 her life. Joshua Treet National Park has a mystical appeal 2508 02:24:23.319 --> 02:24:26.200 and is said to be located on a powerful energy vortex, 2509 02:24:26.760 --> 02:24:31.440 and Erica was drawn to this place. Unfortunately, as beautiful 2510 02:24:31.440 --> 02:24:34.200 as the desert is, the heat is brutal and harsh 2511 02:24:34.280 --> 02:24:37.680 during the day and cold at night. We know that 2512 02:24:37.920 --> 02:24:40.680 prior and during this time, Erica was seeking the Lord, 2513 02:24:41.280 --> 02:24:45.200 looking for peace and happiness in her life. While working 2514 02:24:45.280 --> 02:24:48.479 with the investigators and searchers early on, we knew there 2515 02:24:48.479 --> 02:24:51.520 were three main possibilities of what could have happened to Erica. 2516 02:24:52.440 --> 02:24:55.879 All were closely looked at, but sadly, on June sixteenth, 2517 02:24:56.120 --> 02:25:01.360 twenty twenty, Erica was running. It was hot, she was scared, dehydrated, 2518 02:25:01.479 --> 02:25:04.520 and not in touch with the reality. She wandered into 2519 02:25:04.559 --> 02:25:08.879 the desert and succumbed to the elements. We know Erica 2520 02:25:09.000 --> 02:25:12.120 is at peace now because of Erica's faith in God. 2521 02:25:12.799 --> 02:25:15.120 He has a bigger plan for her, which gives us comfort. 2522 02:25:15.719 --> 02:25:19.239 This is our hope. The Lord Jesus Christ brought Erica home. 2523 02:25:20.319 --> 02:25:23.840 End to Any updates that the family wished to share 2524 02:25:23.840 --> 02:25:27.200 in the future will be posted on the Facebook page 2525 02:25:27.280 --> 02:25:29.280 titled bring Erica Home. 2526 02:25:34.280 --> 02:25:34.440 Now. 2527 02:25:34.559 --> 02:25:37.760 On a lighter note, not everybody that goes missing in 2528 02:25:37.920 --> 02:25:43.159 Joshua Tree perishes. Here are some amazing true stories of survival. 2529 02:25:45.120 --> 02:25:49.079 Claire Nelson thirty six year old Claire Nelson nearly died 2530 02:25:49.079 --> 02:25:52.399 alone in the desert in May of twenty eighteen. Claire, 2531 02:25:52.680 --> 02:25:55.799 originally from New Zealand, was visiting friends who lived near 2532 02:25:55.959 --> 02:25:58.600 Joshua Tree National Park, where she was to house sit 2533 02:25:58.719 --> 02:26:03.000 for them while they left vacation. During her stay, Claire 2534 02:26:03.040 --> 02:26:05.920 planned on adventuring through the desert and connecting with nature. 2535 02:26:07.000 --> 02:26:09.639 Clara was experiencing the outdoors, and she was a fiercely 2536 02:26:09.719 --> 02:26:13.239 independent person, so much so that she had been pushing 2537 02:26:13.280 --> 02:26:17.239 people away for some time. But she loved exploring and 2538 02:26:17.399 --> 02:26:21.680 also sharing her travel experiences online. She was a freelance 2539 02:26:21.760 --> 02:26:24.360 travel writer at the time of the Joshua Tree visit 2540 02:26:24.559 --> 02:26:28.760 that changed her life forever. After her friends left for 2541 02:26:28.840 --> 02:26:32.520 their journey to Scotland, Claire was on to her own adventures. 2542 02:26:33.520 --> 02:26:36.159 She left for a day hike to Joshua Tree, plaiting 2543 02:26:36.200 --> 02:26:41.200 to explore the Lost Bombs Oasis trail. However, Claire hadn't 2544 02:26:41.239 --> 02:26:44.879 told anybody specifically where she was going, only that she 2545 02:26:45.040 --> 02:26:49.559 planned on exploring inside Joshua Tree. It started out as 2546 02:26:49.600 --> 02:26:52.280 a day like any other. Claire packed the day bag 2547 02:26:52.360 --> 02:26:55.079 with a spare T shirt, several liters of water, and 2548 02:26:55.159 --> 02:26:58.239 a meager lunch a hard boiled egg, a bagel, and 2549 02:26:58.319 --> 02:27:02.399 a chocolate bar. Fussel carried other items that were usually 2550 02:27:02.639 --> 02:27:05.639 not essential for just a few hours outdoors but later 2551 02:27:05.840 --> 02:27:10.639 proved life saving, a plastic bag, a bandanna, a park 2552 02:27:10.719 --> 02:27:15.239 map and sunscreen. With her daypacking place, Claire drove to 2553 02:27:15.360 --> 02:27:18.479 Joshua Tree and parked. It was hot, but Claire was 2554 02:27:18.559 --> 02:27:21.200 confident and enjoying herself in the beauty of the desert. 2555 02:27:22.360 --> 02:27:25.079 She was waised into her heike when she unknowingly wandered 2556 02:27:25.120 --> 02:27:28.600 off the designated trail and began following a dry river bed, 2557 02:27:28.879 --> 02:27:30.360 and there was a boulder she had to climb on 2558 02:27:30.479 --> 02:27:30.799 the path. 2559 02:27:30.879 --> 02:27:31.600 She was traveling. 2560 02:27:32.680 --> 02:27:36.360 She climbed up, then began testing her footing. Everything seemed 2561 02:27:36.399 --> 02:27:39.600 okay until her foot started slipping and she became unsteady. 2562 02:27:40.079 --> 02:27:44.040 She lost her balance completely and went crashing over twenty 2563 02:27:44.120 --> 02:27:46.840 six feet down into a clearing not much bigger than 2564 02:27:46.920 --> 02:27:51.040 she was, shattering her pelvis in the process. The fall 2565 02:27:51.120 --> 02:27:53.319 knocked the breath out of her, and the pain was 2566 02:27:53.399 --> 02:27:59.360 excruciating and unrelenting. Claire recalled, I'd landed amongst these large boulders, 2567 02:27:59.559 --> 02:28:03.040 and I couldn't move. I couldn't sit up, I couldn't 2568 02:28:03.079 --> 02:28:08.360 stand up. It was indescribably painful. Unable to move, Claire 2569 02:28:08.399 --> 02:28:10.959 immediately tried using her cell phone to call for help, 2570 02:28:11.399 --> 02:28:15.159 but she had no service. The predicament she was in 2571 02:28:15.440 --> 02:28:19.120 was life threatening. Indeed, she was all alone in the 2572 02:28:19.159 --> 02:28:22.360 desert with a shattered pelvis, barely enough water for a 2573 02:28:22.440 --> 02:28:25.840 day and a half, and contending with the California desert heat, 2574 02:28:26.200 --> 02:28:30.200 as well as unusually high numbers of coyote, rattlesnakes. 2575 02:28:29.600 --> 02:28:30.440 And other dangers. 2576 02:28:31.520 --> 02:28:34.520 I felt more vulnerable than I could ever have imagined 2577 02:28:34.559 --> 02:28:37.680 being in my life, Claire said of the ordeal. She 2578 02:28:37.760 --> 02:28:42.440 immediately began recording videos of herself messages to friends and family, 2579 02:28:42.559 --> 02:28:46.959 as well as documentation of her situation. Claire occasionally tried 2580 02:28:47.000 --> 02:28:50.239 to move, especially to find shade, but when she tried, 2581 02:28:50.319 --> 02:28:53.719 there was a crunching, clicking sound coming from her pelvic region, 2582 02:28:54.239 --> 02:29:00.280 along with searing, my numbing pain. She couldn't budge to 2583 02:29:00.280 --> 02:29:02.799 admit it, but this hike was not the first time 2584 02:29:03.040 --> 02:29:05.719 she'd left for an adventure without telling someone of her plans. 2585 02:29:06.920 --> 02:29:08.920 I know better, I know the rules. 2586 02:29:09.520 --> 02:29:13.079 Always tell someone where you're going, said Claire, who wrote 2587 02:29:13.079 --> 02:29:16.159 about her experience in her book Things I Learned From Falling. 2588 02:29:16.879 --> 02:29:19.600 The Reality of her situation set in and Claire really 2589 02:29:19.639 --> 02:29:21.920 didn't want to spend the night alone on the desert floor, 2590 02:29:22.440 --> 02:29:25.799 but she had no other option. Nobody knew to check 2591 02:29:25.879 --> 02:29:27.399 in with her or to expect her back at a 2592 02:29:27.479 --> 02:29:30.879 certain time. The fact that she might die out there 2593 02:29:30.920 --> 02:29:34.799 alone was not lost on Claire. She kept recording videos, 2594 02:29:34.920 --> 02:29:37.479 then turning her phone and digital camera off to conserve 2595 02:29:37.559 --> 02:29:40.680 the battery life. She made herself eat the hard boiled 2596 02:29:40.719 --> 02:29:43.559 eggs since it would go bad anyway, and she knew 2597 02:29:43.680 --> 02:29:45.639 she needed the protein if she was going to survive 2598 02:29:45.799 --> 02:29:50.040 this tragedy. Her determination and will live kicked in however, 2599 02:29:50.559 --> 02:29:55.000 and Claire prepared herself for the nighttime. After nightfall, there 2600 02:29:55.040 --> 02:29:57.559 were bats flying around, and Claire hoped they weren't the 2601 02:29:57.600 --> 02:30:01.719 kind that liked to bite people. Imagination went wild, and 2602 02:30:01.879 --> 02:30:04.159 she was sure at times that she was seeing snakes 2603 02:30:04.239 --> 02:30:07.399 coming out of the rocks, though in reality snakes rarely 2604 02:30:07.440 --> 02:30:12.399 come out at night. Thankfully, she survived until morning one 2605 02:30:12.559 --> 02:30:16.319 night in the desert alone and injured. Down only two 2606 02:30:16.360 --> 02:30:20.040 more to go, Claire tried her best to protect herself 2607 02:30:20.079 --> 02:30:23.200 from the elements. She used a stick to rub sunscreen 2608 02:30:23.280 --> 02:30:26.959 on her legs. Sun is unforgiving during the desert summers 2609 02:30:26.959 --> 02:30:29.920 and can quickly do significant damage to her skin as 2610 02:30:29.959 --> 02:30:33.879 well as dehydrate it's even faster. She rationed what was 2611 02:30:33.959 --> 02:30:35.879 left for her food and water as long as she could, 2612 02:30:36.440 --> 02:30:39.920 but neither it lasted very long. The lack of water 2613 02:30:40.159 --> 02:30:44.520 grew unbearable. Dehydration is a god awful business, Claire wrote 2614 02:30:44.559 --> 02:30:47.959 in her book. It starts in the mouth. The initial 2615 02:30:48.040 --> 02:30:51.120 pang of craving quite subtle and easy to ignore, but 2616 02:30:51.280 --> 02:30:55.200 the signals get more insistent over time. Your tongue becomes 2617 02:30:55.280 --> 02:30:59.920 increasingly dry and scratchy, thickening like a woolen mitten sticking again, 2618 02:31:00.159 --> 02:31:03.399 the size of your mouth like velcrow. From there, you 2619 02:31:03.520 --> 02:31:07.440 feel it in your head. A slowly increasing pressure throbs 2620 02:31:07.479 --> 02:31:10.319 inside your skull, as if her brain is shrinking in 2621 02:31:10.479 --> 02:31:14.879 on itself, withering like a piece of dried fruit. She 2622 02:31:15.040 --> 02:31:19.639 fantasized about diet coke and other cold refreshments, even willing 2623 02:31:19.719 --> 02:31:23.440 them to be real. Claire had no choice. Once her 2624 02:31:23.520 --> 02:31:26.440 water ran out, She even urinated in a bottle and 2625 02:31:26.520 --> 02:31:27.600 drank it for hydration. 2626 02:31:28.360 --> 02:31:31.040 While unpleasant, at least it helped keep her alive. 2627 02:31:32.079 --> 02:31:34.559 She used the park map, the bandana, and the plastic 2628 02:31:34.680 --> 02:31:38.079 bag which she attached to a stick to cover herself 2629 02:31:38.120 --> 02:31:43.239 and block out the sun. Claire continued applying sunscreen, recycling 2630 02:31:43.280 --> 02:31:46.440 her urine, and making videos, but there was nothing else 2631 02:31:46.520 --> 02:31:49.120 she could do. She was trapped in the middle of 2632 02:31:49.200 --> 02:31:52.120 the desert, with no way of knowing whether anyone was 2633 02:31:52.159 --> 02:31:56.680 searching for She battled the scorching heat on the second 2634 02:31:56.760 --> 02:32:00.799 day and dreaded nightfall. She didn't want spent another night 2635 02:32:00.879 --> 02:32:05.360 alone in the desert. Naturally, she hadn't slept, and delirium 2636 02:32:05.479 --> 02:32:08.760 was setting in. She made it through the night with 2637 02:32:08.959 --> 02:32:13.520 sheer willpower and determination. Of the third day, Claire's mind 2638 02:32:13.639 --> 02:32:17.959 was really playing tricks on her sought. Sheard helicopters and ambulances, 2639 02:32:18.360 --> 02:32:20.959 but it was all in her head. She could see 2640 02:32:21.120 --> 02:32:24.200 birds of prey circling overhead, waiting for her to die 2641 02:32:24.319 --> 02:32:28.159 so they could grab an easy meal. However, after a 2642 02:32:28.200 --> 02:32:31.559 couple of days of social media silence, the friends Claire 2643 02:32:31.639 --> 02:32:35.200 was house sitting for grew concern. It wasn't like her 2644 02:32:35.280 --> 02:32:38.239 not to post, especially when she was somewhere beautiful like 2645 02:32:38.360 --> 02:32:42.120 Joshua Tree. They contacted friends from the area and had 2646 02:32:42.200 --> 02:32:45.399 them go to the house to check for Claire. When 2647 02:32:45.440 --> 02:32:47.559 they didn't see her car or find her at the home, 2648 02:32:47.959 --> 02:32:52.920 Claire was reported missing. Joshua Treat National Park officials found 2649 02:32:52.959 --> 02:32:55.159 her car, and there were at least two days of 2650 02:32:55.280 --> 02:32:57.479 chalk marks, which were used to tell whether or not 2651 02:32:57.520 --> 02:33:00.680 a vehicle has been moved. It was clear that Claire 2652 02:33:00.680 --> 02:33:02.639 had left the car and not come back for quite 2653 02:33:02.719 --> 02:33:05.840 some time. The search and rescue mission was launched. The 2654 02:33:05.879 --> 02:33:08.680 searchers were starting where her car was found and working outwards. 2655 02:33:09.600 --> 02:33:12.360 They made several rounds in a helicopter near where Claire 2656 02:33:12.360 --> 02:33:16.040 had fallen, but they didn't find her at first. After all, 2657 02:33:16.200 --> 02:33:18.799 she was trapped between large boulders where it was difficult 2658 02:33:18.840 --> 02:33:22.479 to see. They called out over the helicopter's PA system, 2659 02:33:23.079 --> 02:33:25.719 we are looking for a missing hiker. If you can 2660 02:33:25.799 --> 02:33:29.399 hear us, please make movement. The search crew didn't know it, 2661 02:33:29.479 --> 02:33:31.520 but Claire was screaming for help as she heard the 2662 02:33:31.600 --> 02:33:32.600 helicopter and. 2663 02:33:32.719 --> 02:33:33.959 It was real this time. 2664 02:33:34.840 --> 02:33:36.680 She tied the plastic bag on the end of her 2665 02:33:36.760 --> 02:33:39.639 stick with her hair tie and began waving it frantically. 2666 02:33:41.239 --> 02:33:43.559 It wasn't until their last and final sweep of the 2667 02:33:43.639 --> 02:33:47.719 area that they saw tiny and obscure a plastic grocery 2668 02:33:47.760 --> 02:33:51.159 bag waving back and forth. They called out that they 2669 02:33:51.200 --> 02:33:53.200 could see her and told her that help was on 2670 02:33:53.319 --> 02:33:56.760 the way. Due to the terrain, the helicopter could land 2671 02:33:56.799 --> 02:33:59.239 in the area, so rescuers had to hike into where 2672 02:33:59.280 --> 02:34:02.479 she was at the same Claire knew at that point 2673 02:34:02.559 --> 02:34:05.719 that she was going to be okay. After three nights 2674 02:34:05.760 --> 02:34:08.600 and four days alone in the desert, Claire was rushed 2675 02:34:08.600 --> 02:34:13.399 to a hospital where she received emergency surgery. Thankfully, she 2676 02:34:13.559 --> 02:34:16.719 made it through okay and spent the next several months recuperating. 2677 02:34:17.680 --> 02:34:20.520 She had to do extensive rehabilitation and spend some time 2678 02:34:20.559 --> 02:34:22.799 in a wheelchair before she was able to learn to 2679 02:34:22.879 --> 02:34:27.719 walk again. During her time in that awful situation, Claire 2680 02:34:27.799 --> 02:34:30.840 realized that she had been pushing people away, and although 2681 02:34:30.920 --> 02:34:34.000 she was connecting with others in social media, there was 2682 02:34:34.040 --> 02:34:37.280 a lack of true human connection in her life. She 2683 02:34:37.440 --> 02:34:40.000 made the decision that if she lived through this ordeal, 2684 02:34:40.600 --> 02:34:44.000 she was going to do better for herself and for others. 2685 02:34:45.239 --> 02:34:48.040 Claire Triumphully returned to Joshua Tree a year later with 2686 02:34:48.200 --> 02:34:51.360 friends and finally finished the hike she had started that 2687 02:34:51.559 --> 02:34:56.440 almost ended her life. Today, Claire's thankful to be alive, 2688 02:34:56.959 --> 02:34:59.280 and she vowed to never forget what happened to her 2689 02:34:59.719 --> 02:35:03.239 and to use it as motivation. Her book, Things I 2690 02:35:03.399 --> 02:35:08.200 Learned from Falling can be found on Amazon. Next up 2691 02:35:08.280 --> 02:35:14.520 in her survivor's Holly Jocum, Thirty two year old Holly 2692 02:35:14.559 --> 02:35:17.840 Jocum was planning a camping trip on December twenty seventh, 2693 02:35:17.920 --> 02:35:22.280 twenty twenty, to Big Bear Campground in California. She packed 2694 02:35:22.319 --> 02:35:26.200 her things and loaded her two dogs into RV as 2695 02:35:26.280 --> 02:35:28.559 she drove to Big Bear. She was excited for the trip, 2696 02:35:29.120 --> 02:35:31.920 but unfortunately when she arrived, she found the camp site 2697 02:35:32.000 --> 02:35:36.120 was closed. Around four forty five PM that day, she 2698 02:35:36.319 --> 02:35:38.879 contacted family and told them about a change of plans. 2699 02:35:39.639 --> 02:35:41.559 She was going to drive an hour and fifteen minutes 2700 02:35:41.559 --> 02:35:44.319 away and camp in the desert at Joshua Tree instead, 2701 02:35:44.680 --> 02:35:47.479 and said she'd call when she arrived. But by seven 2702 02:35:47.479 --> 02:35:51.399 point thirty that evening, Holly's phone was off or otherwise unreachable, 2703 02:35:51.559 --> 02:35:55.479 and her family hadn't heard from her. They were rightfully concerned. 2704 02:35:55.520 --> 02:35:59.760 In contact to the authorities, they filed a missing person 2705 02:36:00.399 --> 02:36:03.559 and began reaching out on social media for help locating Holly. 2706 02:36:05.280 --> 02:36:08.000 Her sister Laurie made a post asking for anyone who 2707 02:36:08.079 --> 02:36:11.319 might have seen Holly to please come forward. Holly had 2708 02:36:11.399 --> 02:36:14.360 randomly selected the camp site and Joshua Treat from her phone. 2709 02:36:16.239 --> 02:36:19.360 Although she was an experienced camper, the site she chose 2710 02:36:19.520 --> 02:36:22.360 was unfamiliar to her. On the way to the site, 2711 02:36:22.479 --> 02:36:25.000 the terrain had become difficult, and she decided to camp 2712 02:36:25.079 --> 02:36:28.440 out in a secluded area until the next day. The 2713 02:36:28.559 --> 02:36:31.600 night came and went, and the next morning Holly woke 2714 02:36:31.680 --> 02:36:33.879 to find two feet of snow had fallen through the night. 2715 02:36:34.920 --> 02:36:38.440 Holly wrote about the ordeal. By Tuesday, there was nearly 2716 02:36:38.520 --> 02:36:41.639 two feet of very fine fresh powder and I was stuck. 2717 02:36:42.760 --> 02:36:45.159 There was also no cell service where she had parked, 2718 02:36:45.360 --> 02:36:48.200 so she and her two dogs were truly out there alone. 2719 02:36:49.159 --> 02:36:52.200 For three days, Holly and the dogs camped out waiting 2720 02:36:52.280 --> 02:36:55.639 for the snow to melt, but that never happened. Holly 2721 02:36:55.719 --> 02:36:59.319 decided she had to do something. Friday morning, she planned 2722 02:36:59.360 --> 02:37:01.840 on hiking back down the mountain, at least until she 2723 02:37:01.959 --> 02:37:05.200 had cell service. The snow was too deep for dogs, 2724 02:37:05.319 --> 02:37:08.200 so she loaded them into two separate backpacks and began 2725 02:37:08.319 --> 02:37:11.680 the six mile hike back down. Eventually, she reached a 2726 02:37:11.680 --> 02:37:13.680 place that had phone service, and she called in her 2727 02:37:13.719 --> 02:37:17.120 location to her mom and the authorities. Search teams have 2728 02:37:17.239 --> 02:37:19.639 been looking for and news of her safety was caused 2729 02:37:19.680 --> 02:37:22.799 for celebration. Holly met the sheriff at the bottom of 2730 02:37:22.840 --> 02:37:25.600 the mountain, who drove her to Cabazon, where she met 2731 02:37:25.639 --> 02:37:29.239 with her mother. Thankfully, neither Holly nor her dogs were 2732 02:37:29.280 --> 02:37:31.760 harmed during their time stuck on the mountain, and they 2733 02:37:31.799 --> 02:37:34.479 had a happy ending, unlike so many others. 2734 02:37:34.280 --> 02:37:34.959 Who go missing. 2735 02:37:35.559 --> 02:37:38.959 Holly wrote, I'm so thankful for everyone who was involved 2736 02:37:39.000 --> 02:37:41.799 in searching for me, for everyone who shared the missing 2737 02:37:41.840 --> 02:37:45.600 person's post, and mostly for my family who tried with 2738 02:37:45.719 --> 02:37:48.840 every ounce they had to bring me back. The experiences 2739 02:37:48.959 --> 02:37:51.159 sure to remind Holly as well as the rest of us, 2740 02:37:51.600 --> 02:37:54.639 of the dangers of the wilderness and just how quickly 2741 02:37:54.799 --> 02:37:57.319 things can change when you're at the mercy of Mother Nature. 2742 02:37:58.360 --> 02:38:02.879 At our last tailor of survival. Robert Ringo, sixty seven 2743 02:38:02.959 --> 02:38:05.120 year old Robert Ringo was on a day hike one 2744 02:38:05.200 --> 02:38:08.360 Thursday in June of twenty twenty near Quayle Mountain in 2745 02:38:08.479 --> 02:38:12.920 Joshua Tree National Park when tragedy struck. Robert had gotten 2746 02:38:12.959 --> 02:38:15.600 ready that morning with nothing out of the ordinary. He 2747 02:38:15.719 --> 02:38:18.639 drove to Joshua Tree and once parked, shared his location 2748 02:38:18.799 --> 02:38:22.600 with his son, something he always did. He brought along 2749 02:38:22.639 --> 02:38:25.079 two liters of water for the hike, but not much 2750 02:38:25.159 --> 02:38:28.399 more in the way of supplies. The temperatures from the 2751 02:38:28.479 --> 02:38:32.959 high nineties the desert heat was sweltering. Robert is an 2752 02:38:32.959 --> 02:38:36.200 avid hiker and used to these conditions, so he wasn't worried, 2753 02:38:36.680 --> 02:38:39.799 especially since he was only planning a short hike. He 2754 02:38:39.920 --> 02:38:42.959 felt good starting out on his walk put aways into 2755 02:38:43.000 --> 02:38:45.680 the hike while admiring the views and enjoying the outdoors, 2756 02:38:46.079 --> 02:38:48.600 Robert somehow lost his footing and fell to the ground, 2757 02:38:49.000 --> 02:38:52.040 breaking his left Femur. The area he was in had 2758 02:38:52.120 --> 02:38:55.000 no cell service, so he was stranded. After his fall, 2759 02:38:56.079 --> 02:38:58.360 I started trying to at least turn over, and when 2760 02:38:58.399 --> 02:39:02.639 I did, he said, it was just unbelievable pain. Robert 2761 02:39:02.719 --> 02:39:05.239 began recording himself since he had no way of signaling 2762 02:39:05.319 --> 02:39:07.840 for help. His cries for help can be heard in 2763 02:39:07.920 --> 02:39:08.959 the videos shared. 2764 02:39:08.760 --> 02:39:09.479 With news media. 2765 02:39:10.799 --> 02:39:13.479 Robert knew his two leaders of water wouldn't last for long. 2766 02:39:14.040 --> 02:39:16.079 He tried to at least get himself onto his back 2767 02:39:16.200 --> 02:39:20.079 and finally managed after some time lying there. He knew 2768 02:39:20.079 --> 02:39:22.000 he had to eat something to keep his energy up. 2769 02:39:22.639 --> 02:39:25.399 I somehow scooted it up this place, ate some juniper 2770 02:39:25.440 --> 02:39:28.600 berries and saw what I thought might be flowers, but 2771 02:39:28.719 --> 02:39:30.920 they were all dry, so I wasn't going to eat them, 2772 02:39:30.959 --> 02:39:35.120 he said. He continued recording videos and trying to conserve water. 2773 02:39:35.799 --> 02:39:38.440 This is the first time I've experienced no saliva, he 2774 02:39:38.520 --> 02:39:41.079 said in one of the videos he took. He knew 2775 02:39:41.079 --> 02:39:43.319 if he could just hold on long enough, someone would 2776 02:39:43.319 --> 02:39:46.600 be looking for him. He mentions having a confidence and 2777 02:39:46.680 --> 02:39:50.200 a faith that he was going to survive. The Next day, Friday, 2778 02:39:50.719 --> 02:39:54.280 Robert's son Ryan alerted officials of his father's missing status. 2779 02:39:55.319 --> 02:39:57.319 He saw on his phone that his dad's last known 2780 02:39:57.399 --> 02:40:01.479 location was Joshua Tree. The search and rescue efforts began 2781 02:40:01.559 --> 02:40:04.280 searching in earnest for Robert. Knowing the summer heat is 2782 02:40:04.399 --> 02:40:07.600 dangerous to be in with only limited water supply, time 2783 02:40:07.840 --> 02:40:11.319 was of the essence. Rescue teams searched for hours, but 2784 02:40:11.440 --> 02:40:15.200 to no avail. It wasn't until Saturday morning, nearly two 2785 02:40:15.280 --> 02:40:18.079 days after Robert had taken his fall, that he finally 2786 02:40:18.120 --> 02:40:21.879 heard a rescue copter. The Joshua treat Search and Rescue 2787 02:40:21.920 --> 02:40:24.799 team retrieved Robert and brought him to the Desert Regional 2788 02:40:24.879 --> 02:40:29.040 Medical Center. Robert had emergency surgery on his leg and 2789 02:40:29.200 --> 02:40:34.360 later made a full recovery. In closing things, like we've 2790 02:40:34.440 --> 02:40:37.319 covered in this video, they continue to happen daily, with 2791 02:40:37.399 --> 02:40:40.879 their national parks being hotspots for all manner strange occurrences, 2792 02:40:41.760 --> 02:40:44.159 some of them natural, some of them bordering on the 2793 02:40:44.239 --> 02:40:47.840 supernatural and beyond. While there could be any number of 2794 02:40:47.959 --> 02:40:50.600 things or a combination of things to blame for these cases, 2795 02:40:51.040 --> 02:40:54.120 one thing is certain. We can never be sure something 2796 02:40:54.200 --> 02:40:58.040 won't happen to us. It's recommended that everyone who plans 2797 02:40:58.079 --> 02:41:00.600 on being with international parks or out of the wilderness. 2798 02:41:00.639 --> 02:41:03.840 In general, carry a personal locator beacon at all times. 2799 02:41:04.719 --> 02:41:07.719 The speaking transmits a the stress signal with its location 2800 02:41:07.959 --> 02:41:11.399 when activated. So what do you think is happening in 2801 02:41:11.520 --> 02:41:16.040 Joshua Tree? Let us know in the comments section, and 2802 02:41:16.360 --> 02:41:19.520 if we've earned your subscription, we appreciate it. Please hit 2803 02:41:19.559 --> 02:41:22.280 the red button and turn on post notifications so you 2804 02:41:22.360 --> 02:41:25.200 don't miss out on any new content or case updates. 2805 02:41:25.799 --> 02:41:27.680 I look forward to your comments, but ask that you 2806 02:41:27.760 --> 02:41:32.399 please keep them friendly and respectful. Until next time. Take 2807 02:41:32.440 --> 02:41:34.959 care of yourselves and each other, and I'll see you 2808 02:41:35.079 --> 02:41:38.520 just a little farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, 2809 02:41:39.120 --> 02:41:40.479 and I'll talk to you next time.