Speaker 1: Resc crews are now in the fourth day of searching
Speaker 1: for a ninety two year old hiker missing an Allegheny
Speaker 1: State park, as news force in the Wiena Shapiro reports,
Speaker 1: rescuers hope a new description of where he was last
Speaker 1: seen will help their cause.
Speaker 2: Hamilton got lost in the park on Wednesday while hiking
Speaker 2: with his sixty six year old daughter, Rebecca Huffman. When
Speaker 2: Hamilton was too weak to continue, his daughter walked to
Speaker 2: safety the next morning and called for help. On Sunday,
Speaker 2: she came back to the park and handed police this
Speaker 2: picture she drew of a mysterious concrete structure. Liise Hamilton
Speaker 2: was last seen about one hundred feet from this structure.
Speaker 2: But here's the problem. Right now, officials can't find it.
Speaker 3: Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode. This time we
Speaker 3: invite you to join us as we discuss some of
Speaker 3: the absolute strangest missing person cases.
Speaker 4: That we've ever encountered.
Speaker 3: These stories are beyond strange and mysterious, have any rational
Speaker 3: or scientific explanation, yet, according to those that experienced them,
Speaker 3: they actually happened. So sit back, relax, and let us
Speaker 3: know what you think in the comments below. You have
Speaker 3: theories on any of these. If so, please share, We'd
Speaker 3: love to hear them. Missing ninety two year old and
Speaker 3: the mysterious structure nobody can identify. On November tenth, twenty ten,
Speaker 3: sixty six year old retired notice Rebecca Huffman and her
Speaker 3: ninety two year old father, Reverend Thomas Hamilton, got lost
Speaker 3: while hiking in the Allegheny State Park. They walked for
Speaker 3: miles through dark woods, climbed up hills on their hands
Speaker 3: and knees, and were freezing cold. The very next day,
Speaker 3: Rebecca walked to safety and called for help. She stated
Speaker 3: that her father was too weak to continue, so she
Speaker 3: told him to stay put and not move. Search and
Speaker 3: rescue was immediately deployed to the area, and there was
Speaker 3: no sign of her father Thomas. The next day, Rebecca
Speaker 3: came back to the park and handed police a picture
Speaker 3: She drove up a mysterious concrete structure about six feet
Speaker 3: in width and about fifteen to twenty feet wide. It
Speaker 3: was a three foot high structure that you can walk
Speaker 3: into and be standing on a rock like floor. Thomas
Speaker 3: was last seen about one hundred feet from the structure,
Speaker 3: but there was a huge problem. Officials were never able
Speaker 3: to find this mysterious structure that his daughter Rebecca described.
Speaker 3: A massive eight day search conducted by one hundreds of volunteers,
Speaker 3: police officers, firefighters, and K nine units over five thousand
Speaker 3: acres of the park turned up nothing. Strangely enough, two
Speaker 3: years later, his remains were found five hundred feet from
Speaker 3: where the search and rescue crews started their official search.
Speaker 3: The mysterious structure has never been located. Linda Artega and
Speaker 3: the people Hiding in the Bushes. On September twenty second,
Speaker 3: twenty twelve, Linda Artega and her brother Eddie Huff set
Speaker 3: out for a day's hiking in the Arkansas Ozarks. During
Speaker 3: which they were hiking was an area that they both frequented. However,
Speaker 3: during their hike, Eddie suddenly found himself in an unfamiliar area.
Speaker 3: Eddie looked up through the trees, hoping to find some
Speaker 3: degree of positioning from the mountains around him, and when
Speaker 3: he looked beside him, Linda had simply vanished. When Eddie
Speaker 3: eventually returned home, he seemingly had no memory of what
Speaker 3: had happened in the park. A search party was sent
Speaker 3: into the forest to find Linda, but with winter temperatures
Speaker 3: beginning to set in, and having left with barely any
Speaker 3: supplies at all, hope was fading fast. Linda would re
Speaker 3: emerge from the forest almost a week later. She appeared
Speaker 3: shocked and unnerved by whatever incident had unfolded and led
Speaker 3: her here. She would later claim, although the details were
Speaker 3: murky at best, that she came out across people, but
Speaker 3: when she asked her help, that act like they didn't
Speaker 3: hear her. Linda says she remember them looking right at
Speaker 3: her and not saying a thing. These people were hiding
Speaker 3: in the bushes. She says they were following me, but
Speaker 3: would not help me. In addition, Linda stated that dark
Speaker 3: figures appeared in the forest at dusk. They were like
Speaker 3: silhouettes that moved through the trees, but no matter how
Speaker 3: much she screamed, they couldn't hear her. She said they
Speaker 3: constantly watched her, but never acknowledged or cause for help.
Speaker 3: Linda said that she was just glad that the forest
Speaker 3: had finally released her. Casey Hathaway and the Bear.
Speaker 4: Three year old.
Speaker 3: Casey Hathaway disappeared from his great grandmother's backyard on January
Speaker 3: twenty fifth, twenty nineteen. Casey was playing with two other
Speaker 3: relatives in his great grandmother's backyard the day he went missing.
Speaker 3: When he didn't come inside when the others did, his
Speaker 3: family started searching for him.
Speaker 1: Hm.
Speaker 3: After forty five minutes past, his grandmother called nine one one.
Speaker 5: He was all, man, we lost my two year old
Speaker 5: grandson that's walked in the woods.
Speaker 6: Back then.
Speaker 5: We can't find him. Three year old gansl he there
Speaker 5: window her Paul sister. He's a every year old. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's three. Okay. The girls come to the house and
Speaker 5: left him there, and he's walked off somewhere and we
Speaker 5: can't find him. And he was turning on you're not
Speaker 5: there's the house now, I had the house here, okay,
Speaker 5: And how long do you he brought in there? It's
Speaker 5: been at least forty five minutes because we've been looking
Speaker 5: at all in the woods board and then find your
Speaker 5: directly behind your hound. Yeah, well on the side, yeah.
Speaker 6: And then a white flight he was, you know, and
Speaker 6: he was wearing wow.
Speaker 5: Probably a black little coat. A black coat. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: I think you can do this.
Speaker 3: You do this.
Speaker 5: Where we go he is, yeah, he is there?
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks god, Okay, he said about forty five minutes ago. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: all right, is it.
Speaker 5: A big area of wood behind your house. Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: pretty big. I think he've been out there looking for him. Yeah,
Speaker 5: what is it? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, we got it there, but he had
Speaker 6: to see you, okay, he said, forty five minutes directly
Speaker 6: behind your house or a side. Yeah, okay, you see
Speaker 6: it once that we have some deft said it that way, okay, okay,
Speaker 6: thank you.
Speaker 3: He was walking in the woods back there, and we
Speaker 3: can't find him, his great grandmother told the nine won
Speaker 3: one dispatcher.
Speaker 4: The other ones came through.
Speaker 3: The house but left him there, and he walked off
Speaker 3: somewhere and we can can't find him. Search and rescue
Speaker 3: teams from across the state immediately came together to brave
Speaker 3: the treacher's terrain and low temperatures, hoping to find the Casey.
Speaker 3: Three days later, rescuers were still combing the woods when
Speaker 3: they heard the missing three old boy call out for
Speaker 3: his mother. In the emergency room, Casey started talking about
Speaker 3: what happened in the woods. He said he had a
Speaker 3: friend that was a bear. The bear took care of
Speaker 3: him and kept him warm while he was lost in
Speaker 3: the woods. Casey goes on to say that the bear
Speaker 3: also fed in berries. Now, the local sheriff stated that
Speaker 3: there are bears in the woods of Craven County, North Carolina,
Speaker 3: but there's no evidence to prove one was with Casey.
Speaker 3: He goes on to say, all that matters is that
Speaker 3: something was there to comfort Casey during the three days
Speaker 3: he was missing. Stephen Kubacki missing for over a year.
Speaker 3: One February morning and eighteen seventy eight, near Lake Michigan,
Speaker 3: Stephen Kobaki would venture out to indulge in several hours
Speaker 3: of skiing. However, when he still hadn't returned the following day,
Speaker 3: a huge search was put in motion. Strangely and ominously,
Speaker 3: footprints were discovered in a location where the student claimed
Speaker 3: to be heading, and ONTs more, they stopped right at
Speaker 3: the frozen water's edge. There was no sign of any
Speaker 3: markings on the frozen surface of the water and no
Speaker 3: signs that the ice had been broken anywhere. Later that day,
Speaker 3: stephen skis and backpack were discovered. However, no other sign
Speaker 3: of Stephen came to light, and the searches were eventually
Speaker 3: called off. His family, while not giving up hope, were
Speaker 3: prepared for the words. Then over a year later, in
Speaker 3: early May nineteen seventy nine, Stephen would appear out of
Speaker 3: the blue on his parents' doorstep. He had very little
Speaker 3: memory of where he had been. He had awoken early
Speaker 3: that day in a field in Pittsfield, hundreds of miles
Speaker 3: from where he disappeared and around forty miles from the
Speaker 3: family home. Even stranger, he was wearing clothes that weren't
Speaker 3: his and had a strange bag of maps with.
Speaker 4: Him that he didn't recognize.
Speaker 3: Rather than compensate himself financially with the mini offers from
Speaker 3: media people for his story, he instead retreated from the public,
Speaker 3: refusing to speak of the incident, of which he claimed
Speaker 3: he had no memory, and not wishing to undergo such
Speaker 3: things as hypnotic regression as he wasn't experiencing any psychological
Speaker 3: problems and wished.
Speaker 4: To keep it that way.
Speaker 3: Ambrose Smith gone for twenty four hours. Ambrose Smith normally
Speaker 3: played happily at home in Nowago County, Michigan, but on
Speaker 3: October the eighth, twenty thirteen, Ambrose was sitting in the
Speaker 3: lounge with her father when he briefly left the room,
Speaker 3: and upon his return, she was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 3: A massive search involving hundreds of volunteers was immediately activated,
Speaker 3: covering the entire surrounding area. It wasn't until the next
Speaker 3: day that Ambrose was found a few miles from her home. Strangely,
Speaker 3: she was discovered in a location that had been extensively
Speaker 3: searched the previous day. How the little girl had managed
Speaker 3: to traverse such a huge distance and invade the search
Speaker 3: teams who sprang into action so soon after her disappearance
Speaker 3: remains a complete mystery. Zen Wrong vanished while piloting an aircraft.
Speaker 3: On March fifteenth, twenty sixteen. Zen Wrong flew out of
Speaker 3: Van Arbor in a nineteen eighty four Cessna one seventy
Speaker 3: two p owned by the Michigan Flyers. When it was
Speaker 3: overdue to return, authorities were notified and the wreckage was
Speaker 3: found in a forested area near Manituaj, Ontario, northeast of
Speaker 3: Munissing over Lake Superior. The down testat that he had
Speaker 3: been flying was found in a densely world in Ontario.
Speaker 4: The same day.
Speaker 3: He rented the aircraft from a flying group at the
Speaker 3: ann Arbor Airport, but Zen was not at the scene
Speaker 3: of the crash and there were no footprints in the
Speaker 3: snow to indicate that Zen was in the aircraft at
Speaker 3: the time it crashed landed. All the evidence indicates the
Speaker 3: aircraft was operating normally and crashed because it ran out
Speaker 3: of fuel. Authorities have theorized that at some point prior
Speaker 3: to the crash, Zen must have eggsted the aircraft while
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 4: In the air.
Speaker 3: Searches around the crash site and along the route that
Speaker 3: the aircraft was known to have traveled were searched, and
Speaker 3: yet nothing was found. Another search was conducted in the
Speaker 3: Potoski area where zen cell phone last pained, but again
Speaker 3: nothing was found. Zen Wrong was an experienced pilot who
Speaker 3: was also a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.
Speaker 4: As of this.
Speaker 3: Recording in June twenty twenty, his squarebouts were still unknown
Speaker 3: and his case remains a mystery.
Speaker 4: Hello friends.
Speaker 3: In this video, we're going to discuss the strange disappearances
Speaker 3: of some of the people you'd most likely unexpect to
Speaker 3: go missing. Park rangers. Now, we're using parks as a
Speaker 3: broad term in the scope of this video because it
Speaker 3: could include lands protected culturally or historically, including national parks,
Speaker 3: state parks, and other designated wildlife. Wilderness and recreational areas.
Speaker 3: Different countries use different names for this position. Warden is
Speaker 3: the favorite term in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Speaker 3: Within the United States, the National Park Service refers to
Speaker 3: the position as a park ranger. The US Forest Service
Speaker 3: refers to the position as a forest ranger. Other countries
Speaker 3: use the term park warden or even game warden to
Speaker 3: describe this occupation. Now, the profession includes a number of
Speaker 3: disciplines and specializations, and park rangers are often required to
Speaker 3: be proficient in more than one of the following law enforcement,
Speaker 3: emergency response, firefighting, dispatch, scientists and scholar, maintenance and administration.
Speaker 3: These individuals, particularly those in administration, are often heavily cross
Speaker 3: trained in several of the aforementioned areas in order to
Speaker 3: allow for a knowledge of all other areas and duties
Speaker 3: under their authority. As a result, when people become lost
Speaker 3: or go missing in a park, the park rangers are
Speaker 3: usually the first ones on the scene to document the
Speaker 3: case and to start search and rescue efforts into motion.
Speaker 3: More than anyone, park rangers are very familiar with the
Speaker 3: missing person phenomenon which happens in parks around the world,
Speaker 3: and were actually among the first to write about it,
Speaker 3: But what happens when one of these rangers themselves go missing?
Speaker 3: I invite you to join me now as we explore
Speaker 3: five strange cases of missing park rangers. With that set,
Speaker 3: let's begin.
Speaker 4: Number one ranger, Ralph W. Heath. Ralph W.
Speaker 3: Heath was a park ranger at Baxter State Park in Maine,
Speaker 3: United States, who allegedly died of exposure while attempting to
Speaker 3: rescue a woman who was lost on Mount Cataden in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty three. On Monday, October twenty eighth of that year,
Speaker 3: two women, Helen Mower and Margaret Ibsik, both from Concord, Massachusetts,
Speaker 3: took the Cathedral Trail and climbed Baxter Peak on the mountain.
Speaker 3: They reached the summit and stopped to have lunch at
Speaker 3: around one thirty in the afternoon. When the two friends
Speaker 3: decided to start their hike again and head back down,
Speaker 3: they had a small argument over the route Margaret wanted
Speaker 3: to take. Helen simply wanted to go back the way
Speaker 3: they came, but Margaret wanted to bushwhack, which very simply
Speaker 3: put means to leave the established trail or get off
Speaker 3: the beaten path as it were. Helen knew how risky
Speaker 3: this was. Although Margaret had more hiking experience than she did,
Speaker 3: not by much and only three years total. She thought
Speaker 3: it way too dangerous and stormed off to take Dudley Trail,
Speaker 3: which was the original trail they had taken to get
Speaker 3: there in the first place, and let her friend make
Speaker 3: her own mistakes.
Speaker 4: And go her own way.
Speaker 3: It was a decision she would later regret very much. Margaret,
Speaker 3: on the other hand, thought she was taking a shortcut
Speaker 3: and laughed off her friend's warnings, and they went their
Speaker 3: separate ways, agreeing to meet at the Chimney Pond lean to.
Speaker 3: When Helen reached the final destination and saw there was
Speaker 3: no sign of Margaret, she decided to wait, but got
Speaker 3: very worried very quickly. Though it was a nice and
Speaker 3: sunny day out that day, but nor'easter was blowing in
Speaker 3: and the weather was about to very quickly take a
Speaker 3: turn for the worse. She started calling for Margaret at
Speaker 3: the headwheel near and towards the mountain itself. She was
Speaker 3: pleasantly surprised when she heard her friend respond and started
Speaker 3: calling back, despite the fact she was asking for help.
Speaker 3: Margaret yelled that she was not hurt, but was stuck
Speaker 3: in the treacherous terrain and wouldn't possibly be able to
Speaker 3: continue or turn back, and pleaded with Helen to go
Speaker 3: and get some help. This is when Helen made her
Speaker 3: way to the ranger station and encountered Ranger Ralph Heath
Speaker 3: having dinner. She explained the situation, and Ralph immediately knew
Speaker 3: how dangerous that path was and how serious the problem
Speaker 3: they had. He was, however, thanking his lucky stars in
Speaker 3: his mind at least that there hadn't been any snowfall,
Speaker 3: at least not yet, as any other year, for as
Speaker 3: far back as he could remember, there would have been
Speaker 3: snow covering the mountain.
Speaker 4: For weeks at that point in the year.
Speaker 3: Ralph followed Helen back to Chimney Point and yelled out
Speaker 3: of the direction of Margaret and instructed her in a
Speaker 3: very calm and clear voice to stay where she was
Speaker 3: and not try to move.
Speaker 4: Or go anywhere. Help was on the way.
Speaker 3: With the wind increasing like it was, Ralph knew that
Speaker 3: the situation could go from scary to deadly in a
Speaker 3: matter of just seconds.
Speaker 4: He had to act fast.
Speaker 3: He took Helen back to the ranger station and radioed
Speaker 3: his supervisor Helen Taylor, and told him there was a
Speaker 3: hiker stranded in the upper basin on the mountain. Now,
Speaker 3: a little background on mister Ralph Heath to show what
Speaker 3: a brave man he was, indeed, and now he was
Speaker 3: definitely not someone to shy away from trouble. He served
Speaker 3: in World War Two and was honorably discharged. However, a
Speaker 3: house fire destroyed everything he owned with the clothes on
Speaker 3: his back, including his discharge papers. He was redrafted to
Speaker 3: serve in the Korean War before anyone could verify he
Speaker 3: had already been discharged and had finished his service to
Speaker 3: the country. Ralph, however, went without hesitation to serve, only
Speaker 3: for his wife to decide she didn't want to deal
Speaker 3: with another tour, especially one he shouldn't have had to
Speaker 3: have gone on, and filed for divorce. So this was
Speaker 3: a man who was seeking solitude and peace in his
Speaker 3: life after all of this tragedy and heartbreak, and he
Speaker 3: absolutely loved his job as a ranger and the beauty
Speaker 3: of the mountains. Despite the weather outside becoming more and
Speaker 3: more perilous and the orders from the supervising ranger that
Speaker 3: they had to wait until morning to attempt any kind
Speaker 3: of search and rest.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Ralph decided the risk to Margaret was too great leaving
Speaker 3: her out there all alone at night. Snow was definitely
Speaker 3: coming out, a lot of it. He decided to attempt
Speaker 3: to rescue himself, despite it being nightfall and dark outside.
Speaker 3: The temperature had drastically dropped as well. He borrowed Helen's
Speaker 3: backpack and filled it with essentials such as food, a
Speaker 3: sleeping bag, water, a parka, and extra clothes. He also
Speaker 3: took eighty feet of rope, and at eleven pm that
Speaker 3: same night, headed alone down Dudley Trail. It wasn't until
Speaker 3: five hours later, at four in the morning, that he
Speaker 3: reported back to Helen. He told her he had spoken
Speaker 3: to Margaret about an hour after heading out and was
Speaker 3: able to turn her location. When he again told her
Speaker 3: to stay put and assured her help was on the way,
Speaker 3: she reiterated she was uninjured, but very cold. She's probably
Speaker 3: more than a little scared as well, I'm sure. He
Speaker 3: told Helen that Margaret was near the waterfall and he
Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to reach her without more rope and
Speaker 3: more people. This was an area that even ice climbers
Speaker 3: considered treacherous and dangerous. Ralph was also extremely concerned because
Speaker 3: Margaret was refusing to stay and wait for help to arrive,
Speaker 3: and was determined to find a way out herself for
Speaker 3: fear she would freeze to death before anyone would be
Speaker 3: able to rescue her. After reassuring Helen and telling her
Speaker 3: what was going on, he contacted his supervisor, Peel and Taylor,
Speaker 3: and made him aware as well. Taylor dispatched the main
Speaker 3: Force Service, two additional park rangers, and a main game warden.
Speaker 3: By six in the morning Tuesday, the twenty ninth, an
Speaker 3: icy rain began to fall and the wind had picked
Speaker 3: up drastically. Ralph heath ate his breakfast and then informed
Speaker 3: Helen Mayer of his plans. He was going to send
Speaker 3: the ravine from Chimney Pond climbed straight up the head
Speaker 3: wall and into the waterfall, where he would provide comfort
Speaker 3: to Barbara, and if he couldn't manage to rescue himself,
Speaker 3: at least she wouldn't be scared alone, and he would
Speaker 3: wait whi her until the additional resources arrived to get
Speaker 3: them both out. Now, he was clearly putting himself at
Speaker 3: great risk, knowing it was unlikely he would be able
Speaker 3: to do anything but just sit with Margaret and waite. Yep,
Speaker 3: he did it anyway. He was truly a hero. While
Speaker 3: the plan was very reasonable, and despite being a chainsmoker,
Speaker 3: Ralph was in great shape and a capable hiker and climber. However,
Speaker 3: he had hiked Dudley Trail four times in the last
Speaker 3: twenty four hours, and it was a very strenuous and
Speaker 3: hard trail to get through. He was absolutely exhausted at
Speaker 3: this point. It shouldn't have been doing any more hiking
Speaker 3: or climbing without getting so much needed rested. This would,
Speaker 3: after all, be a trail less climb he was planning
Speaker 3: to make. He wasn't going to leave Margaret, however, so
Speaker 3: the admonishments and warnings from his coworkers and even Helen
Speaker 3: fell on deaf ears. Ralph reached Barbara just as Hurricane Jenny.
Speaker 4: Reached the mountain.
Speaker 3: He sat with her for a little while and the
Speaker 3: two hunkered down. A ranger sergeant set out on foot
Speaker 3: towards Chimney Pond as well, and stated that by the
Speaker 3: time he got to just the basin, the conditions were
Speaker 3: white out with gale force winds. By noon, not even
Speaker 3: the jeeps could make it to the trailhead. There was
Speaker 3: eighteen inches of snow already and more falling fast. He
Speaker 3: even reported that only half way up the mountain his
Speaker 3: clothes had frozen solid and literally cracked at the elbows.
Speaker 3: Having no visibility in facing merciless winds, not to mention
Speaker 3: the condition of his clothing, forced him back down the mountain.
Speaker 3: He stated he knew that both Ralph and Margaret were
Speaker 3: in some very serious trouble. His help could no longer
Speaker 3: get to them, it would be impossible for them to
Speaker 3: help themselves as well. The following morning, Wednesday, October thirtieth,
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty three, Warden's supervisor, David Priest, returned to Roaring
Speaker 3: Brook and set up what we today call an incident
Speaker 3: command center, and had at least thirty five people there
Speaker 3: at working at all times. All different avenues of help
Speaker 3: were brought in and explored, but nobody could do anything
Speaker 3: as the snow was still accumulating and fast. On Friday
Speaker 3: morning flashed forward to November first, now been five full
Speaker 3: days since Margaret had gotten herself stuck, and four whole
Speaker 3: days since Ralph Heath had joined her to provide comfort
Speaker 3: and possible rescue, which we know now he was unable
Speaker 3: to do. On Saturday, November second, all teams and persons
Speaker 3: involved decided that any rescue attempts were futile, that they
Speaker 3: were simply wasting resources. At that point, Mister William Lowell
Speaker 3: Putnam third was one of the most experienced mountaineers in
Speaker 3: the country at the time and had been helping with
Speaker 3: the rescue efforts since Friday. Finally, on Sunday, November third,
Speaker 3: he made the statement that he believed Ralph and Margaret
Speaker 3: had most likely died on Tuesday, and reiterated the waste
Speaker 3: of resources should they continue on this impossible trick to
Speaker 3: try and save them. It was until almost six months later,
Speaker 3: in April of nineteen sixty four, that Margaret Iversix's body
Speaker 3: was found and finally able to be brought down the
Speaker 3: mountain and sent home. Even at this time, though they
Speaker 3: needed chemical salts to melt the ice, was not to
Speaker 3: damage the corpse anyone way, and the rescue still took
Speaker 3: an additional three days. It was found during the autopsy
Speaker 3: that Margaret was severely injured and hadn't survived more than
Speaker 3: a few hours due to the extreme blood loss. Her
Speaker 3: official cause of death was exaguination. In other words, she
Speaker 3: bled out. Two weeks later, on May fifteenth, they finally
Speaker 3: found Ralph's body. He was found, oddly enough, four hundred
Speaker 3: feet above where Margaret was found. They airlifted him out
Speaker 3: of there, and his autopsy showed nothing at all. The
Speaker 3: coroner stated, it looks as if he simply sat down
Speaker 3: and went to sleep, which is not uncommon when people
Speaker 3: freeze to death. Now, Folks, though this was a bit
Speaker 3: of a long one, I think it's important we go
Speaker 3: over a few of the facts here. First, If Margaret
Speaker 3: had died very quickly after getting stuck where she was,
Speaker 3: how is she yelling to Ralph hours later? She had
Speaker 3: severed an artery in her leg and would have bled
Speaker 3: out within just minutes. Still, she was calling out and
Speaker 3: answering him hours after she initially got stuck. How is
Speaker 3: this even possible? She called out to Helen as well,
Speaker 3: even before that, and we know neither one was under
Speaker 3: any kind of duress or sick at all, so they
Speaker 3: couldn't have been hallucinating. There were no other bodies found
Speaker 3: in the area that time, and no one else had
Speaker 3: come forward claiming to have been the person stuck up there,
Speaker 3: and answering or calling for help that could have been
Speaker 3: mistaken for Margaret. This is very strange, but becoming more
Speaker 3: and more common. Either search and rescue workers will hear
Speaker 3: the calls of people who are missing, only to never
Speaker 3: be able to find the location where the calls are
Speaker 3: coming from, or the person who is stuck or lost
Speaker 3: will hear search and rescue but never seem to be
Speaker 3: able to find them either. The weather coming on so
Speaker 3: suddenly and so strong all at once is another very
Speaker 3: familiar factor when talking about the missing in the woods
Speaker 3: and the mountains. In fact, there were weeks late for
Speaker 3: any snow at all, and the weather started out that
Speaker 3: d is sunny and warm. This is just one of
Speaker 3: the many parameters we now look at while investigating the
Speaker 3: strange deaths and disappearances in the national parks. How and
Speaker 3: why did it all come on so suddenly, almost remarkably so?
Speaker 3: I guess we'll never know, But that doesn't stop us
Speaker 3: from investigating and pondering and searching for answers in the truth, though,
Speaker 3: does it? Number two Ranger Randy Morgeson. In July of
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety six, Ranger Randy Morgeson was working as a
Speaker 3: backcountry ranger at Sequoia in Kings Canyon National Parks. He
Speaker 3: was the most ranger in the High Sierras, having been
Speaker 3: a backwoods ranger for twenty eight years at that time.
Speaker 3: On this particular day, July twenty first, nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 3: Randy loaded his pack and went on his routine and
Speaker 3: regular patrol of his station. He was sixty four years
Speaker 3: old and then almost perfect health. Some of his co
Speaker 3: workers even thought he was invincible and impervious to the
Speaker 3: perils that came with a job. It was just about
Speaker 3: daybreak when he headed out to patrol near Bench Lake,
Speaker 3: taking nothing with him but an old ski pole to
Speaker 3: use as a hiking stick. He was never seen or
Speaker 3: heard from again. Now, as is often the case in
Speaker 3: these strange disappearances, a sudden rain started to fall blew
Speaker 3: up out of nowhere, got rid of any footprints or
Speaker 3: other evidence as to where Ranger Randy could have possibly
Speaker 3: gone or what could have happened to him. Over the
Speaker 3: following days, there was plenty of frustration as dogs followed
Speaker 3: since that seemed to abruptly stop, and random pieces of
Speaker 3: gear were found in several different locations, but none could
Speaker 3: be positively linked to Randy. A Flare helicopter equipped with
Speaker 3: an infrared camera picked up a campfire burning on a hillside,
Speaker 3: but with no one insight tending it. Eventually, the search
Speaker 3: was called off with no sign of Randy or a body.
Speaker 3: Then a letter arrived at Randy and Judy Morganson's home
Speaker 3: in Sodona, Arizona. Randy Judy opened the letter and noted
Speaker 3: it had been postmarked two days after his apparent disappearance.
Speaker 3: Since there is no postal service in the National Park
Speaker 3: Judy didn't understand just how Randy could have mailed the letter.
Speaker 3: That added to the suspicions that he had simply left
Speaker 3: the area to start a new life away from the
Speaker 3: National Park Service. Thirteen days after Randy had been reported
Speaker 3: missing in early August nineteen ninety six, the official search,
Speaker 3: which included helicopters, dog teams, and dozens upon dozens of volunteers,
Speaker 3: was called off. Not a single trace of Randy had
Speaker 3: been found, not even a footprint. Finally, in July two
Speaker 3: thousand and one, five years after the search was called
Speaker 3: off for Randy, a nineteen year old member of a
Speaker 3: California Conservation Corps trail building crew ventured off trail and
Speaker 3: found some remains. The worker found some new evidence near
Speaker 3: a creek and a gorge in the Widowpeak drainage, very
Speaker 3: near the outermost borders of the search, below the pools
Speaker 3: of a waterfall. Rangers were called in to search and
Speaker 3: soon discovered a tattered shirt with Morganson's badge attached, then
Speaker 3: a backpack with a buckle fastened, and a boot. On
Speaker 3: close examination of the single boot, which was half submerged
Speaker 3: in water, it had something white protruding from.
Speaker 4: It, a leg bone.
Speaker 3: The boot and pack seemed to match the description of
Speaker 3: gear that Randy reportedly had been using that day. Teams
Speaker 3: for both investigation and recovery were flown in, and shortly
Speaker 3: after a functioning park issue radio was discovered, resting on
Speaker 3: top of the falls, not at the bottom like the
Speaker 3: other evidence. It was turned to the on position. This
Speaker 3: discovery confused matters even more. Although these remains seemed to
Speaker 3: confirm Randy had been in the mountains the whole time,
Speaker 3: investigators weren't certain whether this is where Randy had died.
Speaker 3: Rangers had remembered already searching the goorge and crossing at
Speaker 3: the exact spot where the radio was found. Retired Sierra
Speaker 3: Subdistrict ranger Aldon Nash, believes Morgeson had fallen through a
Speaker 3: snowbridge and broken his leg, and his body had simply
Speaker 3: been hidden beneath ice throughout the search. Weirdly, during the
Speaker 3: rescue attempt in nineteen ninety six, Randy's wife Judy had
Speaker 3: dreamed of a dead man floating in a lake. I
Speaker 3: don't think it was an accident, says Eric Blm, author
Speaker 3: of The Last Season, a book about the disappearance of
Speaker 3: Randy Morgeson, which is well.
Speaker 4: Worth a read.
Speaker 3: By the way, Blim says, Randy may have wanted to
Speaker 3: appear to have died on the job just to make
Speaker 3: sure Judy, who was to his wife at the time,
Speaker 3: got the benefit from the government, a policy not honored
Speaker 3: in the case of taking one's own life. If he
Speaker 3: wanted to throw off the dogs or sucker people into
Speaker 3: believing something happened, he did a great job, Blim says,
Speaker 3: after so many years with the bones nod, there's no
Speaker 3: way to say.
Speaker 4: Exactly what happened.
Speaker 3: The National Park Service named a peak in memory of
Speaker 3: the unofficial Mount Morgeson. So named in his memory is
Speaker 3: the first peak west of Mount Russell, a half a
Speaker 3: mile away and just north of Mount Whitney. Mount Morgeson
Speaker 3: should be distinguished from the west peak of Mount Russell,
Speaker 3: the higher than Russell's twin summits, which are only separated
Speaker 3: by tenth of a mile. A summit registered with the
Speaker 3: name Mount Randy Morgeson thirteen nine and twenty feet was
Speaker 3: taken to the top by two park veterans in two
Speaker 3: thousand and seven. A peak bagger named Richard Petowski found
Speaker 3: the original register missing when he climbed Mount Morgeson on
Speaker 3: June twentieth, two thousand and eight. He placed a temporary
Speaker 3: one that day and made a huge effort to return
Speaker 3: to the summit one week later with a weather proof
Speaker 3: AMMO can and a replacement journal. Barely a handful of people,
Speaker 3: if any, sign it each year. Number three Ranger Brendan Unit, Lara,
Speaker 3: merc County, Colorado, Department of National Resources Ranger Brendan Unit,
Speaker 3: twenty seven years old went missing while out searching at
Speaker 3: night for a missing boter Well. There been nothing reported
Speaker 3: about the results of the initial missing person who Brendan
Speaker 3: was looking for. It seems a sudden high wind event
Speaker 3: caused him to capsize in his boat and die of
Speaker 3: what was officially said to beat fresh water drowning. Now, folks,
Speaker 3: I'm no expert, but what I do know about is
Speaker 3: the strange weather events and causes of death that just
Speaker 3: don't fit the season or the profession the person in
Speaker 3: question was in. And I'm not the only one either.
Speaker 3: Many people are wondering how professional outdoorsmen could capsize and
Speaker 3: drown and what about this so called strange high wind event.
Speaker 3: Why does there always seem to be a sudden change
Speaker 3: in the weather during one of these missing persons encounters.
Speaker 3: These are the things many of us in this community
Speaker 3: wonder about after seeing case after case after case the
Speaker 3: same thing over and over again, but never with any
Speaker 3: definitive or even sensical answers. Number four ranger Jeff Christensen.
Speaker 3: In July of two thousand and five, another seasonal park
Speaker 3: ranger died under mysterious circumstances in the same county. Brendan
Speaker 3: unit passed away in as well. Jeff Christensen was conducting
Speaker 3: a routine backcountry patrol of the Lake Lawn trailhead when
Speaker 3: he allegedly lost his footing and fell from Mummy's Range
Speaker 3: in Rocky Mountain National Park in Laramber County, Colorado. The
Speaker 3: search for the initially missing ranger lasted a little over
Speaker 3: a week, and he was found on August sixth, two
Speaker 3: thousand and five by a hiker. The official cause of
Speaker 3: death was a left temporal skull fracture that led to
Speaker 3: a subdural hematoma. The ranger has been said to have
Speaker 3: lost his footing and died of a tragic accidental fall.
Speaker 3: He'd only been on the job for four years and
Speaker 3: was survived by his parents.
Speaker 4: Now is it.
Speaker 3: Possible for someone with at least four years experience to
Speaker 3: die of something so simple? Could it be that there's
Speaker 3: something out there in Ournwa parks and forest hunting these rangers.
Speaker 3: Perhaps they or it wants to take out the people
Speaker 3: who are going to be able to help and possibly
Speaker 3: even save the other people this mysterious predator or predators
Speaker 3: are trying to take out. We must keep searching for
Speaker 3: the truth. We owe it to all the people who
Speaker 3: die of something that is seemingly simple and accidental, but
Speaker 3: could very well be something much more sinister. Number five
Speaker 3: Ranger Paul Fugate. Here is yet another tragic account of
Speaker 3: a park ranger who vanished mysteriously while doing his job,
Speaker 3: never to be seen or heard from again. Now, Paul
Speaker 3: was known as a rebel and even anti establishment, to
Speaker 3: a point he stayed for weeks at a time in
Speaker 3: a small cobblestone cabin.
Speaker 4: On side of the monument.
Speaker 3: He was a nationalist who did small tasks such as
Speaker 3: answering the visitors questions and putting together trail guides. Originally,
Speaker 3: Paul worked at the Navajo Monument in Arizona, but it
Speaker 3: was transferred soon after being disciplined by one of his
Speaker 3: bosses about his laziness and slovenly appearance. Apparently, this supervisor
Speaker 3: admitted in a later report that he was annoyed he
Speaker 3: couldn't technically fire Paul, and also that he hated the
Speaker 3: hippies coming in to work for the monument. Paul was
Speaker 3: charged with stealing government equipment when he took some hay
Speaker 3: home for his wife's horse. He was in an openly
Speaker 3: open relationship with his wife and sleeping with multiple women
Speaker 3: who were co workers. While all of this may seem irrelevant,
Speaker 3: we must look at every aspect we can of a
Speaker 3: person's life when they go missing under such strange circumstances,
Speaker 3: especially when people in their profession are seemingly doing so.
Speaker 4: At an alarming rate, and have been for a while.
Speaker 3: Before he left his post that fateful day, he left
Speaker 3: instructions with the only other staff member there that if
Speaker 3: he wasn't back by a certain time, for them to
Speaker 3: close up without him. He then walked out and down
Speaker 3: towards the area of land the park was about to acquire,
Speaker 3: one which was shrouded in problems, as there had been
Speaker 3: much conflict about the four hundred acre purchase with the
Speaker 3: local Apache tribe. Again, he was never seen or heard from,
Speaker 3: and nobody has ever been found.
Speaker 7: Oh, I've been separated from my group. It's been a
Speaker 7: couple of hours now.
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 7: I was trying to find my way out and I can't,
Speaker 7: but I'm gonna stay here. I don't think that I
Speaker 7: went too far. I am. I'm not sure that I
Speaker 7: don't know the name of the cave. The last the
Speaker 7: last entry point was somewhere near to them, Guantanamo, Mexico.
Speaker 7: If someone can notify the police or the authorities, or
Speaker 7: someone can help, I'm gonna stay here. I have water
Speaker 7: and some food. I'm going to see here.
Speaker 3: Actually, Hello, friends, Steve's talkton here with you.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: For some, a walk in the wilderness can be the
Speaker 3: perfect getaway from everyday life and a chance to reconnect
Speaker 3: with mother Nature. For others, great outdoors can be a
Speaker 3: dangerous place, and unfortunately there's a place where many people
Speaker 3: meet their end or just mysteriously vanish. Heircases for you
Speaker 3: to consider. Randy Rascoe. On November nineteenth, twenty fifteen, park
Speaker 3: rangers at the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky noticed
Speaker 3: that a car had been sitting in the car park
Speaker 3: for around two weeks. This immediately set off warning bells,
Speaker 3: and after doing some digging for information, they discovered that
Speaker 3: the car belonged to forty year old Randy Rascoe. As
Speaker 3: the car had been there for quite some time, the
Speaker 3: park rangers set about searching for Randy right away. When
Speaker 3: he couldn't be found in or near the parking area,
Speaker 3: they opened an investigation and widened their search. Park rangers
Speaker 3: and investigators contacted Randy's family to see if they had
Speaker 3: spoken to him, but chillingly, they had been out of
Speaker 3: contact for a few months. According to his sister Sherry,
Speaker 3: up until May twenty fifteen, everything was normal on a
Speaker 3: regular basis. He was doing his normal things, hunting, fishing,
Speaker 3: and kept in contact with her brother who lived close
Speaker 3: to his.
Speaker 4: Bowling Green apartment.
Speaker 3: Then, one day, out of the blue, he packed up
Speaker 3: his belongings, quit his job, and had his mail forward
Speaker 3: it to another address, and just left. Cherry said they
Speaker 3: filed a missing person's report after they found out he
Speaker 3: had just fled and were worried as he had recently
Speaker 3: gotten divorced. For a month, the Rascoe family waited for
Speaker 3: any news, and in June he was found safe and
Speaker 3: sound in Washington State. Randy made it clear that he
Speaker 3: didn't want to speak to his family at that time
Speaker 3: and wanted to be alone. As painful as it was,
Speaker 3: his family respected his boundaries and assured him they would
Speaker 3: welcome him back with open arms whenever he was ready.
Speaker 3: For the next few months, it's believed that Randy traveled
Speaker 3: all around the US a while maintaining his privacy and secrecy.
Speaker 3: His family didn't know that anything was wrong until the
Speaker 3: Mammoth Cave National Park rangers contacted them to let them
Speaker 3: know that his car had been found abandoned. With this
Speaker 3: second disappearance, his family hoped that there would be a
Speaker 3: positive resolution, but sadly, Randy Rascoe is still missing. Search crews, volunteers,
Speaker 3: and even the Civil Air Patrol all joined the end
Speaker 3: of the search for Randy, scarringly over fifty three thousand
Speaker 3: acres of land of the park. Despite their best efforts
Speaker 3: and multiple searches, no sign of Randy has ever been found,
Speaker 3: and his car is the only clue we have in
Speaker 3: terms of his mysterious disappearance. Randy Rascoe is described as
Speaker 3: a white male six foot two inches taught with black hair,
Speaker 3: hazel eyes, and a slim, athletic build. Anyone with any
Speaker 3: information is as to please contact the Mammoth Cave National
Speaker 3: Park at two seven zero seven five eighty two to
Speaker 3: one eight zero. Catherine van Alst, eight year old Katherine
Speaker 3: van Alst, disappeared from Devil's Den State Park near Arkansas's
Speaker 3: Ozark National Forest when she and her family were camping.
Speaker 3: Catherine apparently was playing with her brothers when she wandered
Speaker 3: off and got lost. What makes Catherine's disappearance remarkable is
Speaker 3: she was found six days later. When found she was
Speaker 3: wandering the woods and was eerily calm. University of Arkansas
Speaker 3: student Border Chadwick was part of the search party that
Speaker 3: found Catherine. He told the Pittsburgh Press that when he
Speaker 3: found her, she walked starically out of a cave and
Speaker 3: just said, here I am. Many other hikers have gotten
Speaker 3: lost in that part of the Ozarks and haven't been
Speaker 3: as lucky as Catherine. A grown woman was lost there
Speaker 3: for seventeen days and died just fifty yards from the road.
Speaker 3: How did Catherine survive in the woods for six days?
Speaker 3: Did someone take her only to return her six days later?
Speaker 3: Or is there an explanation of this story that we
Speaker 3: simply can't comprehend. Either way, someone or something might just
Speaker 3: be lurking in Devil's den. Kenny Veach Forty seven year
Speaker 3: old Kenny Veach mysteriously disappeared in the Mohave Desert in
Speaker 3: Nevada on November fourteenth, twenty fourteen. Kenny was hiking near
Speaker 3: Area fifty one and was looking for cave systems and
Speaker 3: mine shafts. Kenny has uploaded several videos to his YouTube
Speaker 3: channel under the username snake Bitt McGee, where he describes
Speaker 3: entering a cave with an M shaped opening. He wrote
Speaker 3: in one comment that ain't nothing. I'm a long distance hiker.
Speaker 3: One time, during one of my hikes out by Nellis
Speaker 3: Air Force Base. I found a hidden cave. The entrance
Speaker 3: to the cave was shaped like a perfect capital M.
Speaker 3: I always enter every cave I find, but as I
Speaker 3: began to enter this particular cave, my whole body began
Speaker 3: to vibrate. Suddenly, I became very scared and I tailed
Speaker 3: out of there. That was one of the strangest things
Speaker 3: that ever happened to me. Now, these videos gained popularity
Speaker 3: following his mysterious disappearance, and in these videos he does
Speaker 3: indeed talk about how his whole body vibrated and he
Speaker 3: felt scared upon entering this mysterious M cave armed with
Speaker 3: a gun and a camera. This time, Kenny headed back
Speaker 3: out to the M cave on November tenth, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 3: hoping to get a better look inside. However, Kenny never
Speaker 3: returned home. Although he was a very experienced hiker and outdoorsman,
Speaker 3: Kenny rarely took a map or GPS device with him
Speaker 3: on his hikes. According to his family, on the day
Speaker 3: of his disappearance, he told him that he would only
Speaker 3: be gone for a short overnight trip. Then when he
Speaker 3: didn't return home, they immediately called the police, police volunteers,
Speaker 3: and search and rescue teams all scattered the area where
Speaker 3: Kenny was last known to have been. On November twenty fourteen,
Speaker 3: volunteers found Kenny's phone. According to those volunteers, the trail
Speaker 3: went cold soon after they located his phone, and there
Speaker 3: have been no signs of Kenny ever since. At the
Speaker 3: time of this episode, the mysterious disappearance of Kenny Beach
Speaker 3: is very much alive in true crime and paranormal circles,
Speaker 3: but it appears that we are still no closer to uncovering.
Speaker 4: The truth.
Speaker 3: Devil's Whole and the tragic disappearance of two teens in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five. Now, there's just something about a place
Speaker 3: with the name devil in its title that pigs the
Speaker 3: curiosity of some people. There are countless locations all over
Speaker 3: the world which have this particular.
Speaker 4: Word in their name.
Speaker 3: Not only devil, either, there are many other words that
Speaker 3: symbolize or mean devil or evil, or some other form
Speaker 3: of something not very good or beautiful, given somewhate ironically
Speaker 3: to some of the world's most breathtaking and wondrous places. Times,
Speaker 3: the location will have got its name innocently enough, such
Speaker 3: as because the geology of the place simply looks foreboding
Speaker 3: and sinister, especially under the cover of night. Much of
Speaker 3: the time, these particular places are said to be cursed, enchanted,
Speaker 3: or downright evil, and the spooky and scary landscape only
Speaker 3: lends credence to these rumors and legends. So much of
Speaker 3: the time, though, these places with this particular word in
Speaker 3: the title are associated with not just devils, demon spirits,
Speaker 3: and other other worldly phenomenon, but with real tragedies, disappearances, deaths,
Speaker 3: maybe bizarre sounds and strange lights in the sky. Today, though,
Speaker 3: we're going to focus on one place in particular, where
Speaker 3: a mysterious tragedy struck Devil's Hole, which is located in
Speaker 3: the aptly named Death Valley National Park in California, United States.
Speaker 3: This portion of the Mahabi Desert contained in Death Valley
Speaker 3: National Park is the driest and hottest place in the
Speaker 3: United States. Near bad Water in the Long Trench of
Speaker 3: the desert, between the Panamint Range on the west and
Speaker 3: the Black Mountains on the east, is the lowest dry
Speaker 3: land in the Western Hemisphere, an amazing two hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty two feet below sea level, A veritable showcase of
Speaker 3: desert extremes. Death Valley National Park includes one of the
Speaker 3: largest salt pans on Earth, dramatically faulted landscapes, young volcanic craters,
Speaker 3: and massive dune fields. Today, we're going all the way
Speaker 3: back to the year nineteen sixty five. Death Valley was
Speaker 3: very different from the Los Angeles of the time, where
Speaker 3: there were uprisings happening all over the place and all
Speaker 3: of it being shown live on the evening news. Death Valley, California,
Speaker 3: was in one of the least populated parts of the
Speaker 3: state at the time, and a whole different world the
Speaker 3: more largely inhabited cities which surrounded it. On June twentieth,
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five, four high school buddies set out to
Speaker 3: remote desert location about ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: Their intent was to joydive into a deep geothermal abyss
Speaker 3: called Devil's Hole. Sadly, two the young men would never
Speaker 3: re emerge from this mysterious fossil water portal. Arriving at
Speaker 3: their destination, the foursome hiked up a hot barren hillsite
Speaker 3: which overlooked a large scale ranching operation that would nearly
Speaker 3: erase a much smaller and nearly ancient complex called ash Meadows.
Speaker 3: Within a few short years, a well traveled trail led
Speaker 3: to the entrance of a limestone chasm that had allegedly
Speaker 3: opened a whopping sixty thousand years ago after possibly some
Speaker 3: seismic event caused the roof of the cave to collapse
Speaker 3: in on itself. The Foursome of Boys, which was made
Speaker 3: up of Paul gian Kant's, a nineteen year old cafeteria
Speaker 3: worker at the nearby Nevada Test site, his new brother
Speaker 3: in law, twenty year old David Rose, who was a
Speaker 3: Las Vegas casino parking attendant, were with their other friend,
Speaker 3: nineteen year old Bill Alter, and his younger brother Jack.
Speaker 3: Boys scrambled under a fenced enclosure posted with warning signs,
Speaker 3: and thinking they were immune to any trouble these warning
Speaker 3: signs might be posted about, they proceeded to descend the
Speaker 3: thirty or so feet down to a ledge where the
Speaker 3: faint but flitting movement of tiny blue gray pupfish could
Speaker 3: be observed swimming.
Speaker 4: In the eight by sixty foot pool.
Speaker 3: That is, if any of the four young men had
Speaker 3: bothered to look just a bit closer at what they
Speaker 3: were about to jump into. After Suiting up with scuba tanks, masks,
Speaker 3: and dive lights, Paul, David, and Bill dove into the
Speaker 3: claustrophobic waters. The temperature was nearly indistinguishable from that of
Speaker 3: their skin.
Speaker 4: Upon entering the.
Speaker 3: Pool, The boys most likely disturbed the delicate algae spalling mats,
Speaker 3: where the entire population of the exceedingly rare Cyprinodon diabolus
Speaker 3: continues to prosper and breed exclusively. Jack was the only
Speaker 3: one who hadn't jumped in, as he was delegated the
Speaker 3: one who would remain stationed on the ledge in case
Speaker 3: anything went wrong. Some time after midnight, Paul failed to resurface,
Speaker 3: so David and Bill quickly redove into the waters in
Speaker 3: a vain attempt to locate their missing friend. Bill Alter
Speaker 3: frantically followed David Rose down to approximately one hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy feet until David two disappeared into the darkness. The
Speaker 3: bodies of the brothers in law were never recovered. Many
Speaker 3: people believed back then and still do believe that these
Speaker 3: young men were inspired to go diving at night despite
Speaker 3: the dangers in the specific place, because of a newspaper
Speaker 3: article from the year before which detailed a speleological research
Speaker 3: expedition of a massive underground lake below Death Valley led
Speaker 3: by a California base professional diver, Jim House, who would
Speaker 3: ironically dive numerous times around the clock with military personnel
Speaker 3: and other volunteer divers in their attempt to locate the
Speaker 3: missing men for thirty six whole hours until the search
Speaker 3: was eventually called off. The only traces left of the
Speaker 3: two brother in laws a mask and a snorkel. There
Speaker 3: was also a flashlight tied to allege some hundred feet below.
Speaker 3: It seemed to signal and effectively the way out of
Speaker 3: the otherworldly underwater cave system. Articles detailing the unsuccessful rescue
Speaker 3: effort were published nationwide in the Sarasota Journal, date of
Speaker 3: June twenty second, eighteen sixty five. Outstated that he had
Speaker 3: previously dived in Devil's Hole around three hundred times over
Speaker 3: twenty eight trips, further commenting, it's beautiful in there. It
Speaker 3: goes straight down one hundred and sixty feet like a pipe,
Speaker 3: then opens into a room that is about three hundred
Speaker 3: feet long and maybe forty feet wide. The bottom of
Speaker 3: the room is about two hundred and sixty feet down.
Speaker 3: Then it narrows into another tube. I dive to three
Speaker 3: hundred and fifteen feet. Maybe that's a record, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the tube it opens again
Speaker 3: into something else. We don't know what the next room is,
Speaker 3: or if it's a room at all. It's like infinity.
Speaker 3: There are some very terrifying legends from the native tribes
Speaker 3: of the area about this particular place called Devil's Hole.
Speaker 3: The Timbasha told tales of water babies who would surface
Speaker 3: and swallow a swimmer or dive or hole should they
Speaker 3: stay in the pool for too long. Other legends suggested
Speaker 3: that so a Pizi, a legendary malevolent giant who dwelled
Speaker 3: at mountain springs and caves, would snatch and devour unwary victims.
Speaker 3: Miss was standing. Barbara Durham, an elder of the Tembisious Shoshone,
Speaker 3: who shared these stories at a two thousand and two workshop,
Speaker 3: admitted that she and her friends enjoyed how the pupfish
Speaker 3: tickled their toes when they played in the spring. Keep
Speaker 3: in mind here that the Devil's Whole pupfish, as they're
Speaker 3: specifically named, are considered by experts to be the rarest
Speaker 3: fish found anywhere on the planet. They were even the
Speaker 3: first ever species to be classified as endangered. The fish
Speaker 3: are not important to the story at all, really, but
Speaker 3: it seemed worth mentioning in order to reinforce how very
Speaker 3: special and perhaps a bit magical this place actually is.
Speaker 3: As far as the two young men who disappeared without
Speaker 3: a trace back in this mystical and extremely dangerous underwater
Speaker 3: cave system decades ago, well, they've never been found, and
Speaker 3: neither have any clues relating to what could it possibly
Speaker 3: happen to them. As for one more bit of interesting
Speaker 3: fact that could lend a bit of creden says something
Speaker 3: a bit more sinister being afoot, as the local tribes
Speaker 3: absolutely believe that this otherwise serene and tranquil looking water source.
Speaker 3: It's said that Charles Manson himself days at Devil's Hole
Speaker 3: trying to figure out a way to make it safely
Speaker 3: down into the chasm, with some saying he was convinced
Speaker 3: he would never have to come back up. Allegedly, he
Speaker 3: had an obsession with the place that was convinced that
Speaker 3: there was an underwater portal to an alternate dimension, or
Speaker 3: more specifically, a portal to the underworld where he felt
Speaker 3: he and his family would be able to safely wait
Speaker 3: out the coming apocalypse he so famously predicted what happened
Speaker 3: that never actually did. Charles Manson's problem lie in figuring
Speaker 3: out a way to drain the hole, and it seemed
Speaker 3: like he may have been given this idea by an
Speaker 3: alleged Indian legend that resurfaced during the nineteen twenties, contending
Speaker 3: that a subterranean sect of leather clad humanoids lived down
Speaker 3: within an early yellow green lid of boat somewhere in
Speaker 3: the Mahabi Desert. Could this possibly be true, just as
Speaker 3: with the case of these poor young men just doing
Speaker 3: what young men do and looking for a night or
Speaker 3: perhaps irresponsible but never thought to be deadly fun, we
Speaker 3: may never actually know. So if you do visit Death
Speaker 3: Valley in the Mohabi Desert just outside Las Vegas, don't
Speaker 3: venture into Devil's Hall.
Speaker 9: He slat out told us, Mom, she's dead. She needs
Speaker 9: our help. And that's when I got the goosebumps, and
Speaker 9: I was like, oh my gosh. He was just in
Speaker 9: our car and he was pointing out to a certain
Speaker 9: spot in the meadow.
Speaker 8: While Victoria Gorba and her family stopped for lunch, her
Speaker 8: son Kayden, began talking to someone.
Speaker 9: And my husband and I kind of looked at each
Speaker 9: other like what, and he goes, yeah, there's a lady
Speaker 9: over in the meadow in a black shirt, and I
Speaker 9: got goosebumps. He says, she needs our help. But she's
Speaker 9: dead and she's laying face down with her legs up
Speaker 9: and she can't talk to me. But she's over there.
Speaker 9: We need to go help her.
Speaker 8: Jake and Victoria checked out the middle but saw nothing.
Speaker 9: He kept saying, trust me, trust me, mom, And I
Speaker 9: was like, I trust you, Bud. You know, I believe
Speaker 9: you one hundred percent.
Speaker 8: Spooked, the couple decided to end the trip early and
Speaker 8: head home, and.
Speaker 9: We put it on Facebook seeing if anybody knew anything
Speaker 9: about the area, and come to find out that there
Speaker 9: was a lady missing with the description that he described
Speaker 9: to us was in a five mile radius of where
Speaker 9: we were.
Speaker 8: Sandra Hughes had gone missing in July of twenty twenty.
Speaker 8: Cayden had described her in detail and recognized her in
Speaker 8: three of four photos.
Speaker 9: He was very adamant that we needed to help her,
Speaker 9: and he described down to blue hair. He said, she
Speaker 9: has a black shirt, blue jeans and blue hair.
Speaker 7: Mom.
Speaker 9: That's the exact description of her when she went missing.
Speaker 3: Hello, friends, We recently learned of what may be one
Speaker 3: of the strangest updates to a missing person case that
Speaker 3: we've ever brought forth. Now, sometimes in these missing person
Speaker 3: cases that we cover, there will be a little bit
Speaker 3: of a paranormal or supernatural element. It's usually something small
Speaker 3: and not very significant to the overall case, but sometimes
Speaker 3: it seems that the unknown can play a larger part
Speaker 3: in these cases, stories of UFOs, the fae, bigfoot, or
Speaker 3: rather cryptids, portals, translucent entities, etc. But is it possible
Speaker 3: that the ghost of a missing woman may be trying
Speaker 3: to help solve her disappearance, or at least help locate
Speaker 3: or remains. We ask that you keep an open mind
Speaker 3: and consider it the following case. Back in episode number
Speaker 3: seven of our ten Unsolved National Park Disappearances series, we
Speaker 3: brought you the story of Sandra Hughes.
Speaker 4: To recap.
Speaker 3: Fifty four year old Sandra Johnson Hughes of California was
Speaker 3: last heard from on June twenty sixth, twenty twenty. Sandra
Speaker 3: had embarked on a solo camping trip in the Sierra
Speaker 3: South of Yosemite to escape from the current pandemic. Sandra
Speaker 3: had recently moved from Maui, Hawaii, to California in June
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty. She had trained to be a park
Speaker 3: ranger in college and was experiencing the outdoors. On July
Speaker 3: fifth of that year, the Madera County Sheriff's Office asked
Speaker 3: for the public's help in locating Sandra after they found
Speaker 3: her campsite near the Johnson's Meadow section of the forest
Speaker 3: in disarray. On that same day, the authorities located Hughes
Speaker 3: Silver sob and Shequido Creek to the north of the campsite.
Speaker 3: They said it appeared to have crashed into a tree
Speaker 3: at a speed of less than twenty miles per hour
Speaker 3: before rolling into the ravine. Aikers reported sat Sandra on
Speaker 3: July fourth, twenty twenty, and said she was barefoot and
Speaker 3: had a bruise on her face. They offered to help her,
Speaker 3: but she declined. Medical assistance officers and volunteers. Search and
Speaker 3: rescue teams for more than half a dour and other
Speaker 3: sheriff's departments, together with dog teams, the California Highway Patrol,
Speaker 3: and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services combed the forest
Speaker 3: on foot, while helicopters from California Air National Guard did
Speaker 3: an aerial search. The search focused around the area where
Speaker 3: her car was found, but there was no sign of Sandra. Then,
Speaker 3: on August ninth, twenty twenty two, hundreds saw a woman
Speaker 3: leaning against a tree along Road five S zero one
Speaker 3: near Beieslor Road. She did not wave them down, attempt contact,
Speaker 3: or appear to be in any distress. Upon returning, they
Speaker 3: recognizer from a missing persons fire and contacted park rangers.
Speaker 3: The hunter said that she appears to be visibly thinner
Speaker 3: than her last known photos. At the time of her disappearance,
Speaker 3: Sandra was a fifty four year old white female with
Speaker 3: blue shoulder lenked hair. Her natural color is brown. She
Speaker 3: has brown eyes, is approximately five foot three inches tall,
Speaker 3: and weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds. The search
Speaker 3: for Sandra was on going but limited. Now flashed forward
Speaker 3: to almost exactly one year later. This strange update to
Speaker 3: the case comes from the Madeare County Sheriff's Office in Madeira, California.
Speaker 3: It seems that a family from nearby Course Gold, California,
Speaker 3: experienced a bizarre broad daylight ghost sighting in the Madeir
Speaker 3: County Mountains on Wednesday, July twenty first, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: The event was so strange and disturbing that the Madera
Speaker 3: County Sheriff's Office felt the need to further investigate. It
Speaker 3: seems that a man named Jake Gorba, his wife Victoria,
Speaker 3: and their three children decided to take their four wheeler
Speaker 3: up to the shut Eye Peak on that faithful Wednesday.
Speaker 3: While on this family outing, they stopped to have something
Speaker 3: to eat beside the trail, and that's when things started
Speaker 3: to get strange. The couple's three year old son, Caden,
Speaker 3: suddenly began animatedly talking to someone nearby. He was just
Speaker 3: in our four wheeler and he was pointing out to
Speaker 3: a certain spot in the meadow, said his mom Victoria.
Speaker 3: The normally reserved and somewhat quiet Caden excitedly told his
Speaker 3: parents that they're in the meadow. By where the family
Speaker 3: was having lunch was a woman lying face down with
Speaker 3: her legs straight up in the air. Furthermore, Caden stated
Speaker 3: that the woman was unable to speak or move and
Speaker 3: needed help. He began pleading with his parents to help
Speaker 3: this poor a woman. He flat out told us, Mom,
Speaker 3: she's already dead, but she needs our help. And that's
Speaker 3: when I got the goose bumps. I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, Victoria said. He goes, yeah, there's a lady
Speaker 3: over in the meadow in a black shirt, blue jeans,
Speaker 3: and blue hair, and I got goose bumps, said Victoria.
Speaker 3: He says she needs our help, but she's dead and
Speaker 3: she's lying face down with her legs up. She can't
Speaker 3: talk to me, but she's over there. We need to
Speaker 3: go help her. So, in order to calm young Caden down,
Speaker 3: Jake and Victoria walked over and checked out the meadow
Speaker 3: but saw absolutely nothing. Caden continued to insist. He kept saying,
Speaker 3: trust me, trust me, Mom, And I was like, I
Speaker 3: trust you, I trust you. I believe you one hundred percent,
Speaker 3: said Victoria. Whatever young cat was experiencing so unnerved and
Speaker 3: spoke the rest of the family that the other members
Speaker 3: of the family all unanimously agreed time to put an
Speaker 3: early end to their day of adventure and make the
Speaker 3: thirty five mile drive back home to Course Call. After
Speaker 3: arriving home, the event still fresh in her mind, Victoria
Speaker 3: decided to post about the weird encounter on her Facebook profile.
Speaker 3: We put it on Facebook to see if anybody knew
Speaker 3: anything about this area, and come to find out there
Speaker 3: was a lady missing with a description that he described
Speaker 3: to us, within a five mile radius of where we were,
Speaker 3: said Victoria. Now viewers of this channel know from our
Speaker 3: previous episode number seven, Sandra Hughes had gone missing in
Speaker 3: that area in June of twenty twenty. When it became
Speaker 3: even more chilling when, according to Victoria, three year old
Speaker 3: Caden's highly detailed description of the woman he had seen
Speaker 3: in the meadow was identical to the description of Sandra
Speaker 3: Hughes as given by the local authorities. He was very
Speaker 3: adamant that we needed to help her, and he described
Speaker 3: her down to blue hair. He said, she has a
Speaker 3: black shirt, blue jeans, and blue hair.
Speaker 4: Mom.
Speaker 3: That's the exact description of her when she went missing,
Speaker 3: said Victoria. Then Victoria went and searched online for Sandra
Speaker 3: Hughes and found some photographs that have been released as
Speaker 3: a part of the search effort a year prior. Victory
Speaker 3: said she got goosebumps when Cayden readily recognized three of
Speaker 3: the photos of Sandra, identifying her as the woman he
Speaker 3: had seen in the field. As frait would have it,
Speaker 3: Madera County Sheriff Corporal Chris Williams just happened to see
Speaker 3: the Facebook post and found it intriguing, to say the least,
Speaker 3: so much so that he contacted Cayden's family to further
Speaker 3: investigate the chilling account. Victoria said the corporal in charge
Speaker 3: of her case actually reached out to us on Facebook
Speaker 3: and was like, Hey, we want more information and we
Speaker 3: want to bring you guys back up there and see
Speaker 3: if you could point us in the right direction. Corporal
Speaker 3: Williams has been investigating the disappears of Sander Hughes since
Speaker 3: the beginning of the investigation. On the following Thursday, two
Speaker 3: Madera County Sheriff's deputies ventured back up to the meadow
Speaker 3: to investigate, with Jake and Caden coming along to point
Speaker 3: them in the right direction. Unfortunately, the deputies found nothing
Speaker 3: new by way of evidence, although the case remains open.
Speaker 3: If she was possibly a ghost looking for some help,
Speaker 3: I hope that he could have at least helped and
Speaker 3: maybe helped the family find her, because it's been a
Speaker 3: long time apparently since she's been gone. Victoria said. The
Speaker 3: four wheeler that Cayden and his family used while traveling
Speaker 3: in the mountains has now been nicknamed the Ghost Runner,
Speaker 3: and incidentally, is also for sale. It's not believed that
Speaker 3: the spooky encounter is the reason they put the vehicle
Speaker 3: up for sale, as the family says they will continue
Speaker 3: to go adventuring in the Madeira Mountains, but do admit
Speaker 3: there are a few spots now which they aren't anxious
Speaker 3: to visit again anytime soon, if at all. Local news
Speaker 3: reporters in the area reached out to the Madera County
Speaker 3: Sheriff's office, who did confirm that they received a report
Speaker 3: of a possible sighting of some sort and they did
Speaker 3: go out to the location to search for any additional
Speaker 3: leads information. For now, the case remains open in hopes
Speaker 3: that this latest update regarding the spooking encounter may produce
Speaker 3: some new leads.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: As strange as this new development is, it's not the
Speaker 3: first time that possibly a ghost helped solve the missing
Speaker 3: person's case. Back on February twenty first, nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 3: the TV show Unsolved Mysteries air to segment regarding a
Speaker 3: missing person's case from almost three years prior. This report
Speaker 3: told the story of twenty three year old Christine Scoubage
Speaker 3: and her three year old son Nick. They were driving
Speaker 3: along Highway fifty in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in
Speaker 3: California when they vanished without a trace on June sixth,
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety four. Christine was a single mother and had
Speaker 3: recently completed paralegal training. She had plans of going to
Speaker 3: work for a prestigious law firm, and she helped to
Speaker 3: make enough money so that she and her child's father
Speaker 3: could be married. Christine left her stepparents home near Sacramento
Speaker 3: on June fifth, nineteen ninety four, on her way to
Speaker 3: Carson City, Nevada. After failing to make contact with her family.
Speaker 3: After three days, her stepfather, Dave Stotsenbach, reported her and
Speaker 3: her son missing on June eighth. The police took the
Speaker 3: missing person's report, but there were no initial leads.
Speaker 4: In the case.
Speaker 3: Five days after Christine and Nick disappeared, however, a woman
Speaker 3: named Deborah Hoyt and her husband were driving along the
Speaker 3: Highway fifty around three am.
Speaker 4: The pair were on.
Speaker 3: Along overnight drive and had been joking and singing in
Speaker 3: order to keep each other away. Suddenly never saw what
Speaker 3: appeared to be a completely naked woman lying on the
Speaker 3: side of the road. The naked woman's face was turned
Speaker 3: toward the road and she was laying on her side
Speaker 3: with her knees slightly bent. She had one arm placed
Speaker 3: beneath her head and the other arm held over her head.
Speaker 3: The Hoitz were shocked beyond belief. They thought it must
Speaker 3: have been some sort of sick practical joke, or perhaps
Speaker 3: he would employed to carjack them had they stopped. Deborah
Speaker 3: floored the accelerator instead and sped down Highway fifty, not
Speaker 3: stopping until she arrived at the nearest phone booth, where
Speaker 3: she proceeded to call the police.
Speaker 4: In just minutes.
Speaker 3: Two Sharf's cards with the scene were deboren seeing the
Speaker 3: naked woman's body, however, unable to pinpoint the exact location,
Speaker 3: The deputies reported that they saw and found nothing. The
Speaker 3: next morning, though speculations began that the sighting had something
Speaker 3: to do with the disappearance of Christine and Nick, who
Speaker 3: were the most recently missing people from that area. Due
Speaker 3: to the insistence from the family, deputy Rich Strasser decided
Speaker 3: to go back and have a closer look. Strasser figured
Speaker 3: that it might be easier to spot got anything out
Speaker 3: of the ordinary In the daylight, Debra had indicated that
Speaker 3: a particularly dangerous stretch of Highway fifty, known as Bullyon Bend,
Speaker 3: was where the incident took place. As Strasser patrolled the area,
Speaker 3: he spotted a new looking child's tennis shoe on the side.
Speaker 4: Of the road.
Speaker 3: Immediately next to that spot and the shoulder of the
Speaker 3: road was a steep embankment. Strasser pulled over his cruiser
Speaker 3: to search the area more thoroughly, and sure enough, at
Speaker 3: the bottom of the embankment he spotted the twisted remains
Speaker 3: of Christine's car. He checked Christine and observed that she
Speaker 3: was dead and unfortunately had been that way for quite
Speaker 3: some time. The deputy then went around to the other
Speaker 3: side to check Nick, who was curled up in a
Speaker 3: fetal position in the passenger seat. Strasser assumed the worst
Speaker 3: and was sure that Nick was also dead. However, when
Speaker 3: he touched the little boy's neck to find a pulse,
Speaker 3: it appeared that Nick took a breath. Strasser immediately radioed
Speaker 3: for an ambulance. Little Nick had been alone in the
Speaker 3: car for five days, yet he was somehow still clinging
Speaker 3: to life. Officials believed that sometime around two am on
Speaker 3: June sixth, Christine must have fallen asleep at the wheel.
Speaker 3: The car veered off the road and plunged to the
Speaker 3: bottom of the ditch, striking a tree. Due to the
Speaker 3: embankment being so steep, other drivers drove right past the accident,
Speaker 3: seen for days, unaware that it was just over the
Speaker 3: side of the road. It was later determined that Christine
Speaker 3: had been killed instantly on impact with a tree. Through
Speaker 3: your old Nick was all along with no way out
Speaker 3: and no one to talk to. Christine's mother says that
Speaker 3: she believes that little Nick spent the time talking to
Speaker 3: his mother, unaware that she was dead. Against all odds,
Speaker 3: he survived five days of intense heat and four nights
Speaker 3: of cold, trapped within the twisted remains of the car.
Speaker 3: Doctors who examined nickt stated that he was in such
Speaker 3: bad shape that he would have most likely die within
Speaker 3: a couple of hours had he not been found when
Speaker 3: he won. The strange encounter that saved Nick's life seems
Speaker 3: to defy any rational explanation. If Debora had not seen
Speaker 3: the naked woman lying on the side of the road,
Speaker 3: Nick would have not survived. Now it's absolutely impossible for
Speaker 3: Christine to have been the naked woman. She was still
Speaker 3: fully clothed and wearing her seatbelt when found, and the
Speaker 3: medical examiner stated that she was most likely killed on impact.
Speaker 3: Deborah Hoyt is one hundred percent certain that she saw
Speaker 3: a naked woman on the side of the road. Both
Speaker 3: she and Christine's family believe it was Christine's spirit who
Speaker 3: saved Nick that day. The spirit had apparently appeared in
Speaker 3: the nude in order to draw attention. Nick years later,
Speaker 3: as an adult, was interviewed on a television show Paranormal Witness.
Speaker 3: He remembers seeing a bright light surrounding the car following
Speaker 3: the accident. To this day, he believes that his mother
Speaker 3: was watching over him following the accident and helped him
Speaker 3: to be rescued. The show also revealed that Christine's aunt
Speaker 3: had several dreams or premonitions about the accident before Christine
Speaker 3: and Nick were even reported missing. She dreamed of seeing
Speaker 3: them lying in their car in a ditch. She also
Speaker 3: saw the number sixteen in the dream, which turned out
Speaker 3: to be the number for the mile marker nearest the
Speaker 3: accident's site. Well, there you have it. What do you
Speaker 3: think about the apparition that Little Kayden observed, which she
Speaker 3: identified as Sandra Hughes, even down to the color of
Speaker 3: her hair, which was dyed blue when she went missing.
Speaker 3: Is it possible that Sandra's spirit is attempting to communicate
Speaker 3: with a living in a desire that remains be found
Speaker 3: and her friend and loved ones have closure. It certainly
Speaker 3: appears that way. And what about the two other times
Speaker 3: she was spotted by High Christ.
Speaker 4: Was that actually her or was that an apparition?
Speaker 3: Hello friends, Today we'll be discussing three very strange wildernesses appearances.
Speaker 3: Now too of these cases remain unsolved, and one of
Speaker 3: these cases is a very remarkable story of a young
Speaker 3: man who survived for over seventy days lost in a forest.
Speaker 3: So sit back and relax. Have a listen. This is
Speaker 3: going to be a wild one. First up, Stephen van Pelt,
Speaker 3: the missing climber who vanished after he fell. Now, Mountain
Speaker 3: Jefferson is the second tallest mountain in Oregon and the
Speaker 3: only major volcanic center in the United States portion of
Speaker 3: the Cascade Range that hasn't erupted in the past ten
Speaker 3: thousand years. It stands at a majestic four hundred and
Speaker 3: ninety five feet tall and is part of the Cascade Range.
Speaker 3: According to climbing Officionados, the mountain summit pinnacle requires Class
Speaker 3: four scrambling on very steep, usually ice encrusted rock. It
Speaker 3: is considered by some to be the most difficult of
Speaker 3: the higher volcanoes. It is indeed a mountain to climb,
Speaker 3: and visitors are warned mountain to climb. Indeed, and visitors
Speaker 3: are warned numerous times not to try and complete the
Speaker 3: summit unless they are very experienced climbers. In this community,
Speaker 3: we've seen many types of accidents happen and mysteries begin
Speaker 3: in places like Mount Jefferson. Mother nature can be a
Speaker 3: cruel mistress, and when there are no answers to seemingly
Speaker 3: obvious questions, it can be downright frustrating. Such is the
Speaker 3: mystery of what happened to Stephen van Pelt. If a
Speaker 3: person falls off a mountain, it would make sense that
Speaker 3: they would be found right at the bottom, somewhere near
Speaker 3: at least from where they fell. Yes, that would make sense.
Speaker 3: It would almost make too much sense for this community
Speaker 3: that deals in mysteries just like this all the time.
Speaker 3: Stephen van Pelt seems to have fallen off the mountain
Speaker 3: and right off the face of the earth. Let's dealve
Speaker 3: a little deeper into the mysterious fall and the equally
Speaker 3: mysterious banishing of Stephen van Pelt. On Friday July twenty third,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, at around eleven forty five in the morning,
Speaker 3: a thirty three year old Salem, Moregon resident named Stephen
Speaker 3: Van Pelt was descending Mount Jefferson when he suddenly fell
Speaker 3: off the mountain and disappeared from the view of as
Speaker 3: climbing partner. The Marion County Sheriff's Office received the initial
Speaker 3: report and responded along with Lynn County deputies and the
Speaker 3: Lynn County Search and Rescue Team. Officials reported that this
Speaker 3: particular area of the mountain where Stephen had his fall
Speaker 3: is extremely dangerous and would require technical mountaineers to travel
Speaker 3: the mountainside in their search efforts. Initially, it was reported
Speaker 3: that Stephen hadn't been found right away because of terrain,
Speaker 3: which included snow and large boulders. There were also deep cliffs, crevices, rocks,
Speaker 3: and scree now. For this example, screen is defined as
Speaker 3: a mass of loose stones that form or cover a
Speaker 3: slope of a mountain, so basically his recovery was going
Speaker 3: to take some time. The deputies called in several other
Speaker 3: agencies to assist him in the search for Stephen, and
Speaker 3: these included Corvallis Mountain Rescue, Eugene Mountain Rescue, The Shoots
Speaker 3: Mountain Rescue, and Portland Mountain Rescue. Stephen Van Pelt worked
Speaker 3: at Salem's Morning Star Community Church as a program director.
Speaker 4: After his fall from.
Speaker 3: The mountain, his sister posted on social media that is
Speaker 3: believed Stephen ended up in a ravine that is inaccessible. However,
Speaker 3: it's also been stated that Stephen was not seen in
Speaker 3: or around this ravine when it was looked over. The
Speaker 3: search was eventually suspended and it was determined that Stephen
Speaker 3: would not be able to be recovered. He was never found.
Speaker 3: A statement written on behalf of his family said there
Speaker 3: is no more appropriate tombstone for Steve than Mount Jefferson.
Speaker 3: His wife, Caitlin, said that it's a huge comfort knowing
Speaker 3: her husband had come to re in Mount Jefferson and
Speaker 3: said he would have been thrilled to call this mountain
Speaker 3: his headstone. Obviously, Stephen van Felt loved the mountains and
Speaker 3: mountain climbing. His sister's social media post explains that he
Speaker 3: and his climbing partner had an incredible day together and
Speaker 3: Steve was on cloud nine after they summited the ten
Speaker 3: thy four hundred and ninety five foot pinnacle of Mount Jefferson.
Speaker 3: As they descended back down the mountain, Stephen's climbing partner
Speaker 3: watched him slip and fall hundreds of feet from what
Speaker 3: Stephen's climbing partner later said, we knew his end was immediate.
Speaker 3: Caitlin also stated how her husband loved the outdoors and
Speaker 3: how Mendocino County was a perfect place for an outdoorsman
Speaker 3: like Stephen. Before the search was officially called off, Lynn
Speaker 3: County Sheriff's Office, Lieutenant Brandon Fountain explained that the conditions
Speaker 3: of the terrain was becoming a hazard to all the searchers.
Speaker 3: Lieutenant Fountain continued that there is a specific drainage on
Speaker 3: Mount Jefferson for searchers believe he may have come to rest.
Speaker 3: First responders conducted a significant search of this drainage while
Speaker 3: rock and mud from above fell on the rescuers who
Speaker 3: were bound together by rope. Stephen's sister posted, my brother
Speaker 3: is and always has been a part of this mountain.
Speaker 3: He is and always has been a part of this
Speaker 3: rugged landscape. He is and has always been a part
Speaker 3: of this wilderness. Manicured grounds could never hold him.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: The Minister here lies in the fact that despite all
Speaker 3: of these agencies working tirelessly together and literally exhausting themselves
Speaker 3: in their effort to find Stephen, he has never been found.
Speaker 4: There were even.
Speaker 3: Multiple flyoworks conducted by life Flight and the United States
Speaker 3: Army National Guard also joined in during the subsequent days
Speaker 3: of the search. Many people have begged the question, if
Speaker 3: Stephen fell from a specific place on the mountain, and
Speaker 3: someone watched him do it and pointed authorities to that
Speaker 3: exact spot, then why wasn't Stephen there at the bottom?
Speaker 3: Is he really there? These questions may never be answered,
Speaker 3: and while we respect the authorities and families belief that
Speaker 3: Steven has simply fallen into an area where it is
Speaker 3: impossible for him to be recovered, we have to wonder
Speaker 3: if he is actually there. As always, we hope someday
Speaker 3: the family is able to know for sure that Stephen
Speaker 3: is indeed resting at the bottom of his beloved mountain somewhere,
Speaker 3: and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and
Speaker 3: loved ones. Next up, Fola Marie Miranda Rosa. On December
Speaker 3: thirty one, twenty one, the search for missing thirty one
Speaker 3: year old Folo Marie Miranda Rosa resumed at Wikieva River
Speaker 3: in Wikipa Springs Park, an area north of Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 3: Sources say two hikers in the area took footage and
Speaker 3: photos of the missing woman on December nineteenth, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 3: which was the day after her family reported her missing.
Speaker 3: Her family positively identified her in the footage. Un Named
Speaker 3: hikers said they observed the woman swimming in the river
Speaker 3: and took a couple of pictures because it was so
Speaker 3: unusual to see someone swimming there. Miranda Rosa has been
Speaker 3: missing since then. Her family had reported her missing the
Speaker 3: day after they last saw her on Friday, December seventeenth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, a day spent visiting with family and
Speaker 3: having lunch together. Folo was said to have been in
Speaker 3: good spirits and nothing appeared.
Speaker 4: To be wrong. No one heard from her after.
Speaker 3: She left the family home that day, and she was
Speaker 3: reported missing that Sunday. On Monday, her family made flyers
Speaker 3: to put up around the parks and businesses in the
Speaker 3: area surrounding it. She never used to go out and
Speaker 3: leave her dogs alone at her house. She left with
Speaker 3: the purpose of returning to her home. We do not
Speaker 3: know what happened that she didn't return. She did not
Speaker 3: go back to her home. Von Rose Folo's mother, Totelamundo
Speaker 3: thirty one. In a phone interview, Miss Rosa went on
Speaker 3: to say that her daughter's past mental health problems could
Speaker 3: have been a part of her getting confused and becoming lost.
Speaker 3: It remains unclear if it's a factor in her disappearance.
Speaker 3: She also stated that her daughter may need help finding
Speaker 3: her way back home. We immediately felt something was wrong.
Speaker 3: It's just not normal, Miss Rosa continued in the Tilmundo interview. Now,
Speaker 3: Folo has battles schizophrenia in the past and has been
Speaker 3: diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Pile play isn't suspected at this time,
Speaker 3: the Oceila County Sheriff's Department says. Prior to the official search,
Speaker 3: the Sheriff's office released the statement saying they planned to
Speaker 3: search four and a half miles of the river around
Speaker 3: the area where Folo was last seen using special underwater
Speaker 3: camera equipment that has the capability to see it hard
Speaker 3: to reach areas that can't be explored by standard scuba
Speaker 3: equipment on searching the wooded areas on both sides of
Speaker 3: the river as well. Just days later, they began a
Speaker 3: three day search. One hundred and fifty law enforcement officers
Speaker 3: searched the park with scuba divers, boats, drones, volunteers, and bloodhounds.
Speaker 3: They were even volunteers on horseback, which helped pace the search.
Speaker 3: On December twenty first, twenty twenty one, Bullo's car was
Speaker 3: found at the park along with her wallet, purse, phone,
Speaker 3: and other personal items, and the keys were in the
Speaker 3: unlocked car, which is yet another strange circumstance in Fulo's disappearance.
Speaker 3: Her family spent the holiday season without Folo for the
Speaker 3: first time ever. Her sister andrew At Miranda told Fox
Speaker 3: Needs thirty five, it's hard to even focused on the
Speaker 3: fact that it's the holiday season. I don't even know
Speaker 3: what day it is right now. We see Christmas lights
Speaker 3: all around us. We see that, but your tunnel vision
Speaker 3: on the mission of finding her, of course, it hurts
Speaker 3: this holiday. We want to have her with us, but
Speaker 3: we have to do what we have to do. Bulla's
Speaker 3: father also gave the media the interview in which she stated,
Speaker 3: we love you. We are waiting for you. Everyone, family,
Speaker 3: your friends, and people who don't even know you. We
Speaker 3: are not giving up. We don't want anybody to give up.
Speaker 3: We want you to know that Fola was extremely loved.
Speaker 3: She loved us. Bulla is described as four foot ten
Speaker 3: inches tall and weighs one hundred and forty five pounds.
Speaker 3: She has brown eyes and reddish violet hair. She was
Speaker 3: wearing blue jean shorts and a white green shirt at
Speaker 3: the time she was last seen. Some people have suggested
Speaker 3: that she may have been attacked by an alligator. State
Speaker 3: Wildlife officials Glarida said attacks do happen, but are rare.
Speaker 3: Six years prior to Fola's disappearance and in the same part,
Speaker 3: a woman was attacked by an alligator but survived. Two
Speaker 3: other men have also been attacked in earlier years survived
Speaker 3: as well. It was also reported that Fola was being
Speaker 3: pushed into a car, although this hasn't been verified and
Speaker 3: the police haven't asked area businesses for video footage they
Speaker 3: may have. The family is asking that any business in
Speaker 3: that area with a camera to please turn over any
Speaker 3: footage from that day. The police send Sheriff's Office of
Speaker 3: asking anyone that may have information on Fola Marie Miranda
Speaker 3: Rosa's disappearance or if you saw her after she was
Speaker 3: reported missing, to please not be afraid to share the
Speaker 3: information even if it's wrong, say it turns out to
Speaker 3: be someone else. If you do have any information or
Speaker 3: tips you asked to police, call the Ostiola County Sheriff's
Speaker 3: Department at four zero seven three four eight two two
Speaker 3: two and reference Fola Miranda Rosa. Her sister Andrew had
Speaker 3: finished the interview with Fola, we love you and we
Speaker 3: want you home. Next up, Kevin Bear Henry. On February seventh,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, family and friends gathered a host of
Speaker 3: vigil for their friend and loved one that went missing
Speaker 3: in the wilands of a Canadian mountain. They solebrated the
Speaker 3: amazing life accomplishments for their bear, believing they were gone forever,
Speaker 3: lost for seventy four days in the Canadian wilderness, thirty
Speaker 3: seven year old Kevin Bear Henry screams for help went unheard.
Speaker 3: A two spirit indigenous person and environmental demonstrator Henry was
Speaker 3: last seen by family members on November twenty seventh, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one, before embarking upon a journey into the wilds
Speaker 3: of Fairy Creek, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The weather took
Speaker 3: a turn and it started to rain, further, making the
Speaker 3: situation worse. It began to get dark. Henry, having thought
Speaker 3: they had driven too far, tried to backtrack, but it
Speaker 3: was too late. They weren't found until February ninth, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. Driving their van through the beautiful and lush woods,
Speaker 3: headed to an old growth area of the forest to
Speaker 3: support a protest against Logginghindy was taking middle note of
Speaker 3: how bad the road was getting. The ruts and potholes
Speaker 3: were starting to take a toll on the old van.
Speaker 3: As they proceeded down the dirt road, the van was
Speaker 3: listing from side to side every few feet. The road
Speaker 3: was becoming impassable until hitting one last big pothole caused
Speaker 3: the van's engine to completely quit. Eventually, Henry was able
Speaker 3: to get the engine started again and only a little
Speaker 3: farther down the mountain road before becoming stuck in mud
Speaker 3: because with a treacherous rain. Thankfully, They had a sleeper
Speaker 3: van and had at least shelter, but only had provisions
Speaker 3: for a few days because they had only planned on
Speaker 3: being there for two to three days. Tired from the
Speaker 3: day's events, Henry climbed in the sleeper and rested for
Speaker 3: the night. Henry had been paralyzed for four years in
Speaker 3: their twenties after being stabbed. This makes walking for any
Speaker 3: substantial length almost impossible, and they were taught to stay
Speaker 3: where they were should they become lost. The first few
Speaker 3: days were spent with the van, where Henry had food
Speaker 3: and shelter. Hadn't told anyone where they were going, but
Speaker 3: cand hear helicopters overhead, presumably searching for them. No one
Speaker 3: could hear me scream, Henry said. A massive search had
Speaker 3: been launched for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, community members,
Speaker 3: search and rescue teams, and even TikTokers had joined together
Speaker 3: in an effort to find the demonstrator. The family had
Speaker 3: reported them missing until December eleventh, which was a full
Speaker 3: two weeks after Henry had become stuck on that road.
Speaker 3: They had also started a Facebook page dedicated to finding
Speaker 3: Bear called Bring Kevin Bear Henry Home. The page name
Speaker 3: has since been changed to bear has returned. Because of
Speaker 3: the hostile environment that was created between demonstrators and the
Speaker 3: RCMP over logging, there was a delay in the search.
Speaker 3: Worsening weather conditions also hampered the search efforts. A few
Speaker 3: times they were able to search.
Speaker 4: There were a.
Speaker 3: Few clues found that pointed to Henry being in the area,
Speaker 3: but there was never anything found that succinctly pointed to
Speaker 3: where they may be surviving on any thing they could
Speaker 3: get their hands on. Their diet consists of tomatoes, dry
Speaker 3: rice soaked in water, tomato sauce, and beans. Henry even
Speaker 3: resorted to eating cat food at one point, and even snow.
Speaker 3: In late December, as food supplies dwindled and days turned
Speaker 3: into weeks, Henry decided they would have to walk to help.
Speaker 3: Having walked for fifteen hours over a two day span
Speaker 3: to the top of the road where the logging was happening,
Speaker 3: they finally stumbled into two loggers getting ready to leave
Speaker 3: the area. Loggers from Gemini followers saw Henry stumble onto
Speaker 3: their location. They were supposed to be leaving earlier that
Speaker 3: day and almost missed Henry standing in the area. We
Speaker 3: thought you were a tree man. One of the loggers
Speaker 3: told him, are you Bear? The other man asked, how
Speaker 3: do you know who I am? Henry asked, They are
Speaker 3: missing person posters of you everywhere in Lake Cawachan and Duncan.
Speaker 3: The men said to Bear they didn't know what day
Speaker 3: or even month it was. I've been missing for three months.
Speaker 3: Henry said to his rescuers, where would you like to go?
Speaker 3: The men asked hen Read where they could take them
Speaker 3: Tim Hortons. Henry replied, wanting a hot cup of coffee
Speaker 3: and some food. The loggers dropped Henry out of tim
Speaker 3: Hortons in Lake koa Chan and gave them twenty dollars.
Speaker 3: That kind of cares support to do that. That's humanity
Speaker 3: right there, Henry said, of the men that rescued them.
Speaker 3: Bear contacted a friend and family members straight away. The
Speaker 3: family rushed to the tim Hortons to make contact with them.
Speaker 3: Although a little skinnier Bear was in good spirits, Henry
Speaker 3: would later be taken to an area hospital for an
Speaker 3: exam to make sure there were no lasting effects. We
Speaker 3: understand there are questions on how and where the individual survived.
Speaker 3: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesperson said, if those details
Speaker 3: are released. It will have to come from Henry, as
Speaker 3: the family has asked for privacy at this time. They're
Speaker 3: just happy they're loved one return to them. There have
Speaker 3: been several updates and videos posted by Bear since their ordeal,
Speaker 3: addressing people's questions and telling their story. In one of
Speaker 3: the videos, they are quoted saying I'm too stubborn to
Speaker 3: die when asked by a family member that was thinking
Speaker 3: the worst, not having any experience with outdoor survival. Henry
Speaker 3: also said, I definitely learned a lot more about the
Speaker 3: environment and how pressure it is to be back there,
Speaker 3: to breathe that kind of fresh air, and to be
Speaker 3: at the mercy of that kind of weather, and to
Speaker 3: be at the mercy of the back country.
Speaker 4: It teaches you a lot.
Speaker 3: Hello, friends, Today we're gonna be talking about five wilderness
Speaker 3: disappearances where mysterious disembodied christ for help were heard by
Speaker 3: search and rescue teams, but the person couldn't be located.
Speaker 3: You can imagine how these disembodied Christs were help would
Speaker 3: have baffled search and rescue teams when they couldn't locate
Speaker 3: the missing person who had.
Speaker 4: Vanished in the wilderness.
Speaker 3: Likewise, the person calling out would probably wonder why they
Speaker 3: couldn't be heard. As we all know, thousands of people
Speaker 3: go missing every single day in the United States alone,
Speaker 3: and while some are found safe and sound and return
Speaker 3: to their family and loved ones, many are never seen
Speaker 3: or heard from again. How devastating that must be for
Speaker 3: the people who remain in the dark about their loved one,
Speaker 3: wondering always what if and what happened? Are they alive?
Speaker 3: Are they deceased? But what about the people who went
Speaker 3: missing and are known to have called out for help,
Speaker 3: to have actually been heard screaming or yelling for someone
Speaker 3: to rescue them, but were then never found. How does
Speaker 3: something like that even happen? Surely you must be thinking
Speaker 3: that if someone is close enough to be within aarshot
Speaker 3: and heard calling for help, then search and rescue teams,
Speaker 3: volunteer teams, or even just a random stranger wondering about
Speaker 3: in the area heard them, then how is it at
Speaker 3: all possible for that person to never be seen or
Speaker 3: heard from again. Now, while we don't answer to that
Speaker 3: specific question today, and we as a society may never
Speaker 3: have all of or even part of the answers to
Speaker 3: these questions, let's review some of these cases today, the
Speaker 3: ones in which people were so very close to being
Speaker 3: rescued or saved, but then that help never came. What
Speaker 3: must that have felt like to the person who was lost,
Speaker 3: crying out and then hearing people who you think are
Speaker 3: coming to your aid for who knows how long, knowing
Speaker 3: that you're being heard, and maybe even preparing to get
Speaker 3: ready to get back home to your family, and then nothing.
Speaker 3: Search and rescue teams or volunteers move on, possibly walking
Speaker 3: right past you to go and continue the search for
Speaker 3: you somewhere else. These are just a few of the
Speaker 3: many cases we found in which people were actually heard
Speaker 3: calling for help but then could not be located. They
Speaker 3: were never seen or heard from again after that. Number
Speaker 3: five Mitchell Dale Styling. On June nineteenth, twenty thirteen, Mitchell
Speaker 3: Dale Stalling, known to most as Dale, his wife Denen,
Speaker 3: and his parents went to Maseverity National Park in Colorado, USA.
Speaker 3: The fifty one year old Dale decided to go for
Speaker 3: a hike by himself to the Spruce Tree House Ruins.
Speaker 3: The Spruce Treehouse Ruins as the third largest cliff dwelling
Speaker 3: in Masa Verde and was actually constructed between twelve eleven
Speaker 3: and twelve seventy eight, a d by the ancestors of
Speaker 3: some of the Pueblo people of the Southwest. This amazing
Speaker 3: dwelling contains about one hundred and thirty rooms and eight kivas,
Speaker 3: which are chambers where the ceremonies of the Pueblo people
Speaker 3: were held. This dwelling wasn't discovered until eighteen eighty eight,
Speaker 3: when two ranchers were trying to find some cattle that
Speaker 3: had gone astray and accidentally stumbled upon this beautiful piece
Speaker 3: of history. Dale had decided he wanted to see it
Speaker 3: for himself and took off at around four thirty pm
Speaker 3: with every intention of returning as soon as he was done.
Speaker 4: After all, the trail was.
Speaker 3: Less than a quarter of a mile long, connecting to
Speaker 3: the Petroglyffe Point Trail, which is a two and a
Speaker 3: half mile loop with cliff exposure that takes off right
Speaker 3: from the Spruce Tree Trail. Several witnesses came forward later
Speaker 3: and remembered speaking.
Speaker 4: With Dale on the trail that day, but yet he.
Speaker 3: Never returned back to his family. It wasn't until seven
Speaker 3: years later that his remains were found and returned to
Speaker 3: his still hopeful and still searching family On September seventeenth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: But now let's talk.
Speaker 3: About the mystery surrounding this horrible tragedy. Here's a little
Speaker 3: more about what happened to Dale Stalling that fateful day.
Speaker 3: Back in June of twenty thirteen, Dale and his family
Speaker 3: left their home in Goliad, Texas, in a camper trailer
Speaker 3: and headed west to Colorado, a place Dale had always
Speaker 3: wanted to see an explore. He was an experienced outdoorsman
Speaker 3: and loved to camp and hike, and was also a
Speaker 3: very avid gardener. It was known to spend hours alone
Speaker 3: at home, just spending time intending to as many plans.
Speaker 3: He decided a day trip to Maseeverde National Park was
Speaker 3: the perfect way not only for his family to spend
Speaker 3: some quality time together, but also for him to make
Speaker 3: his dream of seeing the sights in the beautiful Colorado
Speaker 3: National Park a reality, and so they were on their way.
Speaker 3: The trail was known to be a bit rough and rugged,
Speaker 3: so initially the Stallings were only planning to drive to
Speaker 3: the lookout point and experience with the breathtaking scenes from
Speaker 3: a distance. Dale's parents were elderly, and it's reported that
Speaker 3: his wife was overweight so nobody but Dale would have
Speaker 3: been able to hike the trail very easily once they
Speaker 3: got there. However, Dale, Beingdale, and having his great love
Speaker 3: of nature and the outdoors, decided to seize the moment
Speaker 3: and finally have the opportunity he had waited for for
Speaker 3: so long to be there in Colorado in the Mesa Verdi.
Speaker 3: He just had to get a closer look at the
Speaker 3: spruce tree house ruins. Twenty two minutes before Dale took
Speaker 3: off for his hike. The weather conditions were not that good.
Speaker 3: The temperature was somewhere between nineteen one hundred degrees. The
Speaker 3: train was in other worries. It was rugged, with steep
Speaker 3: canyons and mesa tops. The elevation range from six thousand,
Speaker 3: five hundred to eight thousand feet like to the top
Speaker 3: of the trail, Dale estimated would take about an hour.
Speaker 3: This was the average length of time for someone in
Speaker 3: good health to have made it through. Dale was reported
Speaker 3: missing very soon after he didn't return it. They agreed
Speaker 3: upon time. His family didn't want to leave much room
Speaker 3: for anything bad to have happened, got on to finding
Speaker 3: him right away. The rangers first thought Dale had just
Speaker 3: gotten probably a bit off track, and told his wife
Speaker 3: to give him a few more hours. If he didn't
Speaker 3: return by then, to go ahead then and report him missing.
Speaker 3: According to a park public information officer, the park has
Speaker 3: never had anyone go missing for more than a couple
Speaker 3: of hours. Once it had indeed been two hours after
Speaker 3: he was supposed to have been back. The park initiated
Speaker 3: a two week long search and rescue operation, which included
Speaker 3: around sixty searchers, two dog teams, helicopter surveillance, and rope
Speaker 3: teams repelling off the cliffs in the Chapin Mesa area.
Speaker 3: This is where the canine teams had initially shown some
Speaker 3: interest in the first couple of days of the search,
Speaker 3: so this is where they decided to begin. The Petrickgleft
Speaker 3: Point trail follows a cliff base before descending to the
Speaker 3: Mesa in a series of steep sections of switchbacks, which
Speaker 3: then had some steps cut into the rock. Though he
Speaker 3: didn't have any water with him on this extremely hot
Speaker 3: day when he disappeared, Dale did have his cell phone,
Speaker 3: but after he was determined to have disappeared, nobody could
Speaker 3: get any kind of risk or an answer from him
Speaker 3: when they tried to reach out. Blone records did show
Speaker 3: him trying to access his voicemail at around seven pm
Speaker 3: that night, or at least the phone was trying to
Speaker 3: access the voicemail. We in this community should make no
Speaker 3: assumptions that it was Dale at all who tried to
Speaker 3: do this. For the sake of fact, though, let's move
Speaker 3: on and say it was him. It was for nothing, though,
Speaker 3: as a call dropped and never went through. According to
Speaker 3: Patrick O'Driscoll of National Parks Media Services, the Inner Mountain Region,
Speaker 3: the majority of Masaveriti, aside from a few mark trails,
Speaker 3: is uncharted territory and therefore technically off limits the hikers.
Speaker 3: Approximately five to ten people go missing every year in
Speaker 3: the Masaveriti National Park, and none of these cases are
Speaker 3: officially closed, including Dale's, until that person or their body
Speaker 3: is found. Authorities have shared everything from actual case files
Speaker 3: to random tips with the family, but Dale's wife Denian
Speaker 3: these things much differently than park officials do. She says
Speaker 3: she has pissed off. It feels the search only really
Speaker 3: lasted for two days and then Dale just given up on.
Speaker 3: She stated, now that it's been a year, and honestly,
Speaker 3: the more I reflect on it, I'm just pissed off.
Speaker 3: Their attitude was he was there, he was lost, and
Speaker 3: what are they supposed to do about it? Artificials say, however,
Speaker 3: that rangers in the park were still searching for Dale
Speaker 3: three months later, though it a bit more scaled back way.
Speaker 3: They insist they did this to keep Dale and his
Speaker 3: disappearance on their radar so everyone would continue.
Speaker 4: To be on the lookout for him.
Speaker 3: In twenty fourteen, Deneen returned at least fourteen times to
Speaker 3: the park, and it's more convinced than ever that her
Speaker 3: husband had gone missing due to misleading markers and signs
Speaker 3: in the park, which caused him to accidentally go off trail.
Speaker 3: She believes he thought he was following all the signs properly,
Speaker 3: but because they were so confusing, he ended up lost.
Speaker 4: Anyway. There is a.
Speaker 3: Very interesting account written by hiker and writer named Jody Peterson, however,
Speaker 3: that was written in twenty thirteen, which details and experiences
Speaker 3: she had while hiking the same trail on the same
Speaker 3: day as Dale when he went missing. She writes, in part,
Speaker 3: after an hour of walking, I suddenly heard a weary
Speaker 3: male voice call I need some help. I thought of
Speaker 3: the missing hiker, perhaps after visiting Spruce treehouse heat attempted
Speaker 3: the trail and run into trouble. I called out several times,
Speaker 3: but got no response. I thought about going off trail
Speaker 3: to look, but figured then I'd become a victim number
Speaker 3: two if I tried to scramble down those ledges and cliffs.
Speaker 3: My cell phone had no signal. I hiked back down
Speaker 3: the trail as fast as I could, and when I
Speaker 3: found the chief ranger, I told him what I'd heard.
Speaker 3: Relief washed over his face as another staffer said, we
Speaker 3: thought we heard a call for help in that area yesterday.
Speaker 3: They quickly began planning to bring in dogs and more searchers.
Speaker 3: I left the ranger station and stood looking at the
Speaker 3: opposite side of the canyon where I'd heard the call
Speaker 3: for help. I said a silent prayer. When I got
Speaker 3: back to my Western Colorado home. The following day, I
Speaker 3: checked the news, thinking that i'd read that the hiker
Speaker 3: had been found. Instead, I learned that Mitchell Dale Stalling
Speaker 3: was still missing, and now seventy people were looking for him.
Speaker 3: As I write this, it's been almost two weeks since
Speaker 3: Stalin vanished, and the search has been scaled down. A
Speaker 3: group of us think he's still somewhere in the park,
Speaker 3: said Chief Ranger Jesse Farias. We've all heard of planning disappearances,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't smell that way. The odds of him
Speaker 3: being found alive, though, are basically zero. Perhaps he fell
Speaker 3: between big rocks and a place where searchers can't see him.
Speaker 3: Perhaps wind shifts made the dog missus scent. Now the question, though,
Speaker 3: is this, If Dale was heard calling for help by
Speaker 3: several different people, and searchers were immediately put into place
Speaker 3: and conducted as soon as this was reported, then how
Speaker 3: did no one come across him again, even hear him again,
Speaker 3: or find any evidence of him at all. If they
Speaker 3: thought they heard a call for help in the same
Speaker 3: area just the day before, then why weren't they still
Speaker 3: out searching there? That makes no sense. What really happened
Speaker 3: out there?
Speaker 4: Verde?
Speaker 3: Is the park rangers and other staff of this national
Speaker 3: park no more than they're saying this is something to
Speaker 3: think about, definitely most likely something we will never find
Speaker 3: an answer to. Number four Dayleen mok Poua. On February
Speaker 3: twenty seventh, twenty fifteen, a seventeen year old named Dayleen Pua,
Speaker 3: known as Moke to his family and friends decided to
Speaker 3: go for a hike on the Stairway to Heaven. This
Speaker 3: is actually the Haiku Stairs in Oahu, Hawaii. These stairs
Speaker 3: are basically an extremely steep step structure which used to
Speaker 3: provide pedestrian access to former US Navy communication facilities on
Speaker 3: the island. This is considered one of Hawaii's most dangerous trails,
Speaker 3: and Moch was last seen boarding of us in Wayaani
Speaker 3: to get to the spot which he wanted so badly
Speaker 3: to climb and see the historical sites. Dayleen, who lived
Speaker 3: on the Big Island, was visiting Wayaani to spend some
Speaker 3: time with his grandmother. His grandmother, Martha Behar, stated that
Speaker 3: the teen wanted desperately to climb the trail, which is
Speaker 3: forbidden on the windward side of O Wahoo. She told
Speaker 3: her grandson she had seen all the news that it
Speaker 3: was closed down and he wouldn't be able to access it.
Speaker 3: She told him not to waste his time even trying.
Speaker 3: Martha said, though, that when Dayleen boarded the bus and
Speaker 3: said he was going hiking, she never thought he was
Speaker 3: really going there to the Stairway to Heaven trail. She
Speaker 3: figured she had already told him that he would get
Speaker 3: arrested if he tried to go there and climb, and
Speaker 3: that it was closed down and pedestrian access was being refused.
Speaker 3: At around eleven am, Dayleen posted his last ever correspondence
Speaker 3: when he texted some friends pictures of himself, stating that
Speaker 3: he was finally there on the trail of the Haiku
Speaker 3: stairs and was next planning to climb them. He has
Speaker 3: been seen or heard from since. His family studied the
Speaker 3: pictures daily had sent them from the trail right before
Speaker 3: he seemingly disappeared into thin air extensively, and there are
Speaker 3: some that stand out. These are the ones there desperately
Speaker 3: trying to get the public's help in identifying. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 3: more you blow up the images of the more glory
Speaker 3: and nondiscernible, they become almost impossible to tell what you're
Speaker 3: even looking at, though the family is fairly confident at
Speaker 3: least one of them is Dayleen. They believed they saw
Speaker 3: a man in the background, far off in the distance
Speaker 3: of at least to one of the other pictures, and
Speaker 3: theorized that this man was for some reason following Daylan
Speaker 3: and could have somehow led to his disappearance and possible demise.
Speaker 3: Search effort included local fire departments, drone operators, community volunteers,
Speaker 3: and even the U. S. Navy conducting a land and
Speaker 3: air search to find the young man, all to no avail.
Speaker 3: A few days after he was last heard from and
Speaker 3: reported as missing, Monday, March second, two hikers reported hearing
Speaker 3: christ for help. This information led the fire department to
Speaker 3: continue their search into Tuesday, March third, twenty fifteen. That
Speaker 3: particular search was suspended the same afternoon, but local volunteers
Speaker 3: continued to look for Daylane, combing through the mountains but finding.
Speaker 4: No sign of him.
Speaker 3: The Hikustairs have been closed to the public since nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty seven, but are still a very popular hike, with
Speaker 3: locals and tourists like willing to risk fines or arrest.
Speaker 3: The stairs are in bad shape after heavy rains and
Speaker 3: powerful storms have damaged them, to the point that they've
Speaker 3: gained a somewhat ominous reputation for being not only treacherous,
Speaker 3: but possibly deadly as well. Some people believe they should
Speaker 3: be fixed, restored, and reopened to the public, while others
Speaker 3: say they should be torn down altogether. The fate of
Speaker 3: Daileen moulk Hua is still unknown to this day, as
Speaker 3: is why he wasn't found despite hikers very clearly hearing
Speaker 3: him calling for help. Was this actually Daileen Poola crying
Speaker 3: out for help again? We will most likely never know.
Speaker 3: Number three Philip Krazik, yet another unfortunate soul who decided
Speaker 3: to go out for what seemed like a pleasant and
Speaker 3: scenic hike and ended up not ever being seen or
Speaker 3: heard from again, even after being heard screaming or yelling
Speaker 3: for help. His thirty year old Philip Krasik from Berkeley, California.
Speaker 3: Philip told his wife he was headed out for a
Speaker 3: run in the hills near the madel Ranch staging area
Speaker 3: in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, California. He called her once
Speaker 3: he reached the trail to in formed her that it
Speaker 3: would take him about an hour and to let her
Speaker 3: know when she'd expect him back that day. He was
Speaker 3: last seen running at around ten forty five am That
Speaker 3: same morning. Philip's wife reported him missing the same afternoon.
Speaker 3: He had headed out for the run when he failed
Speaker 3: to return home and hadn't been in contact with her
Speaker 3: or anyone else.
Speaker 4: To let them know why I wasn't back yet. This
Speaker 4: was very unlike him by all accounts.
Speaker 3: Investigators in Pleasanton stated that they had never come across
Speaker 3: such a as our case. Either he got hurt and
Speaker 3: was only able to call out, or he planned all
Speaker 3: of this and purposely disappeared, leaving his wife and his
Speaker 3: life behind and never looking back. This left his family
Speaker 3: and friends to wonder forever what happened to him and why.
Speaker 3: According to his family, the latter isn't even an option,
Speaker 3: as Philip just wasn't that type of man and loved
Speaker 3: his life and his family. Philip was supposed to meet
Speaker 3: with his wife to attend a family gather against Stockton, California.
Speaker 3: When he didn't show up at the appointed time, his
Speaker 3: wife immediately knew something was wrong and.
Speaker 4: Called the authorities.
Speaker 3: Philps said to have lift his shirt and cell phone
Speaker 3: in his vehicle, and although he was running with a
Speaker 3: smart watch, it was unfortunately not equipped with GPS. With
Speaker 3: temperatures rising above one hundred degrees fahrenheit that day in Pleasanton,
Speaker 3: many were led to immediately and began to speculate that
Speaker 3: the heat had somehow incapacitated Philip on that day, July tenth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. Now this didn't make much sense. His
Speaker 3: family and loved ones though, as Philip was a marathon
Speaker 3: runner and was well adjusted to running under such extreme
Speaker 3: conditions as blaring heat, which might incapacitate most people, his
Speaker 3: cell phone showed that his route was planned out entirely
Speaker 3: along very well maintained in manicured trails.
Speaker 4: Though the park was packed with people that.
Speaker 3: Day, not a single credible sighting of Philip has ever
Speaker 3: been reported. Sergeant Aaron Fountain of the Pleaston Police Department,
Speaker 3: who's handling the investigation, said, I can't even speculate on
Speaker 3: this one. It's very very odd. Now continue. Philip Krasik
Speaker 3: was a family man with two small children, and also
Speaker 3: a graduate of the prestigious Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: He was also listed as a third year student in
Speaker 3: MIT's Urban Mobility Lab. Philip went missing on a Saturday,
Speaker 3: and the following Wednesday, a family hiking in the area
Speaker 3: reported hearing cries in a canyon near the Sunholt Post office.
Speaker 3: After receiving this tip, two people who were involved in
Speaker 3: the search went out to the area and heard for
Speaker 3: themselves a man screaming for help near the canyon. Experienced
Speaker 3: hikers in the search and rescue efforts set out to
Speaker 3: go and see if they could hear the cause and
Speaker 3: perhaps follow them to try and find Philip, who they
Speaker 3: presumed it was, and bring him safely back to his family. However,
Speaker 3: once arriving at the fot where the Christs for help
Speaker 3: were allegedly heard by multiple people at this point, they
Speaker 3: heard nothing and weren't able to locate Philip either. That
Speaker 3: same night, the search efforts were officially called off, and
Speaker 3: Philip hasn't been found as of this video being made
Speaker 3: almost a month later. Theories run wild as to what
Speaker 3: happened to Philip, crazy from demented and murderous drug dealers,
Speaker 3: taking him hostage to large felines, somehow carrying him up
Speaker 3: trees and feasting to him, just walking off and abandoning
Speaker 3: his life which she was said to love so much. However,
Speaker 3: that's just what these are theories, as there hasn't been
Speaker 3: any evidence as to if this was definitely Philip who
Speaker 3: was heard crying from the canyon for help that fateful day. Again,
Speaker 3: why didn't the first two experienced hikers who were sent
Speaker 3: out and did claim to have heard at least someone
Speaker 3: crying for help never find him? This is another case
Speaker 3: as completely and totally baffling and runs along the exact
Speaker 3: vein as the previous to and the cases to follow.
Speaker 4: We'll never know. Surely, if he.
Speaker 3: Was attacked and eaten by wild animals, there would have
Speaker 3: been some sort of trail for either the animal searchers
Speaker 3: or even the human ones to find and follow, at
Speaker 3: least leading to some sort of explanation signs of a struggle, blood,
Speaker 3: torn clothing, etc. We'll just have to wait and see
Speaker 3: on this one.
Speaker 4: Do have an update here.
Speaker 3: While this video was in editing, Philip was found as ceased.
Speaker 3: We'll create a new case update video very soon to
Speaker 3: discuss this with you. Philip, Rest in peace.
Speaker 4: My friend number two.
Speaker 3: Linda Artaga. On September twenty second, twenty twelve, fifty three
Speaker 3: year old Linda Artega left her home in Blackwell, Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: and headed out to the woods in the Arkansas oz
Speaker 3: Arts near Saint Joe. Linda was with her brother and
Speaker 3: they were visiting with her sister when, somewhat ironically, her
Speaker 3: brother offered to take her into the woods and teach
Speaker 3: her some survival skills. She somehow became separated from him
Speaker 3: and ended up lost in the woods for five day.
Speaker 3: The story she told of her experience is strange, to
Speaker 3: say the least. However, in this community, if you clicked
Speaker 3: on this video or you're aware of all the strange
Speaker 3: things happening in the woods, besides all the bizarre deaths
Speaker 3: and disappearances, and if you've been paying attention at all
Speaker 3: and can clearly see something is wrong with not only
Speaker 3: the things mentioned above, but also with the reports and
Speaker 3: stories of encounters and experiences have by the people who
Speaker 3: were lost for however long and whatever part of the
Speaker 3: seven hundred million acres of forest and woodlands in the
Speaker 3: United States alone, then you'll understand why it was absolutely
Speaker 3: necessary that we tell Linda's story here now. As soon
Speaker 3: as she was reported missing, search was mounted in almost
Speaker 3: every single resident of Saint Joe, which was a tiny
Speaker 3: town of not even two hundred people, and various other
Speaker 3: volunteers from throughout the county set out to find the
Speaker 3: missing woman. She was eventually found, relatively unharmed and picked
Speaker 3: up by an all trained vehicle driven by some of
Speaker 3: these volunteers. Linda was lucky enough to have only sustained
Speaker 3: some minor cuts and bruises, but what happened to her
Speaker 3: affected her psychological and it was definitely a strange story
Speaker 3: she had to tell. Chief Deputy Dwayne Pierce stated that
Speaker 3: when she came out of the woods, she wasn't right
Speaker 3: about her head.
Speaker 4: As N's quote.
Speaker 3: Miss Artaga reported that she had survived by eating wild berries, watercress,
Speaker 3: hazel nuts, and anything else she could find which she
Speaker 3: knew was edible. Chulsel drank water from the creek. At night,
Speaker 3: she huddled on the freezing cold ground underneath the trees
Speaker 3: for shelter, praying for someone to come and finally find her.
Speaker 3: Chulso repeatedly thanked her brother and insisted she never would
Speaker 3: have survived without the knowledge he had just been teaching
Speaker 3: her about how to survive in the wild. The strangest
Speaker 3: and scariest part of the entire five day ordeal, though,
Speaker 3: was what Linda said she'd experienced while out there, lost
Speaker 3: and alone, cold and afraid in the unknown woods and trails.
Speaker 3: She claimed that while she was out there, especially at night,
Speaker 3: she would see other people there. They would be walking
Speaker 3: around her along the trails or even right there in
Speaker 3: the thick of the woods. She would ask them for
Speaker 3: help or try to get their attention, maybe even ask
Speaker 3: one of them if they could point her in the
Speaker 3: direction of safety. However, not a single one of these
Speaker 3: people even acknowledged her or looked in her direction. She
Speaker 3: claimed people were even hiding behind the bushes like they
Speaker 3: didn't want her to see them. Now, while in the hospital,
Speaker 3: she did admit that perhaps some of the berries shit
Speaker 3: eat and caused some kind of mind hallucination, she wasn't sure.
Speaker 3: She claimed she'd managed to stay with her brother for
Speaker 3: three days before becoming separated from him, and knew what
Speaker 3: she should and what she should need when trying to survive.
Speaker 3: She's very consistent in her story. Think about the people
Speaker 3: hiding in the bushes. These people definitely weren't part of
Speaker 3: any kind of search party. Why would people trying to
Speaker 3: find a lost woman to hide so she couldn't see them.
Speaker 3: More than that, why would others walk right past her
Speaker 3: and then try and hide as though they were playing
Speaker 3: some kind of strange hide and seek game? Hiding and
Speaker 3: playing sight? Is this, finally the proof that there are
Speaker 3: in fact strange people who live in the woods who
Speaker 3: either don't know how to interact with other people or
Speaker 3: just don't want to actually other people who aren't like
Speaker 3: them or who aren't from where they're from. Is this
Speaker 3: proof of Ferohs wild men. How does this all tie
Speaker 3: in with strange missing person cases and even death we
Speaker 3: see which are becoming so much more common year after
Speaker 3: year in the woods. Is this what we should be
Speaker 3: paying attention to when out searching for the above mentioned
Speaker 3: missing There was a statement made for the doctor Linda
Speaker 3: saw after being taken to the hospital when she was rescued,
Speaker 3: which validates her sanity. She was not insane. How much
Speaker 3: more interesting that she was very picking when she ended
Speaker 3: up being separated from a brother after three days of
Speaker 3: staying right next to him. As we all know, this
Speaker 3: is a very common theme among the missing people in
Speaker 3: the woods, the very picking or berry patches in general.
Speaker 3: But there are those who are found and then those
Speaker 3: who seem to be forever lost. Linda is not the
Speaker 3: first person, or more specifically, the first woman, to report
Speaker 3: things like this while either lost or for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: wandering the woods alone. There are many other reports of
Speaker 3: women being followed or even chased by what they referred
Speaker 3: to as men while being lost in those same woods.
Speaker 3: This is also very common in the East along the
Speaker 3: Appalachian Trail. Tak back to the story of Little Dennis
Speaker 3: Martin and how family out for a hike or camping
Speaker 3: trips what they referred to as a wildman caring something
Speaker 3: which looked like a small child over its shoulder. There
Speaker 3: are also several park rangers in the United States, Dwight
Speaker 3: McCarter among them, who have come forward since retiring and
Speaker 3: tell stories of wild men living and even hunting in
Speaker 3: the woods for national parks in general forested areas of
Speaker 3: her country. Is this only going on here in the
Speaker 3: United States? Though not at all. There's one specific report
Speaker 3: we covered in an early video about wildmen feral humans
Speaker 3: in the woods where at least one park ranger was
Speaker 3: attacked by one of these people. Now, luckily, Linda was
Speaker 3: able to keep her wits about her despite what must
Speaker 3: have been petrifying fear, and she made a full recovery
Speaker 3: after her harrowing ordeal Number one Naomi Lee Widden. On
Speaker 3: November twenty fifth, nineteen ninety four, Dwayne Whidden decided to
Speaker 3: take his son, aged six, and two daughters, ages two
Speaker 3: and three for a hike in the Chattahoochee National Forest.
Speaker 3: He parked the car at the base of a large
Speaker 3: mountain there at the trailhead, unloaded his children, and off
Speaker 3: they went per day of family fund. Together, Dwayne and
Speaker 3: his three kids hiked about a mile and a half
Speaker 3: up an old logging trail and into the deep wilderness
Speaker 3: of the forest. Later on, when recounting the incident of
Speaker 3: what happened and how Naomi had come to be lost
Speaker 3: in the woods, he stated, they, meaning his children, were
Speaker 3: in my full view, my sight and hearing, and then
Speaker 3: she was gone. He stated that they were all looking
Speaker 3: for signs of animals when suddenly Naomi, only two years old,
Speaker 3: just simply vanished. There was never any explanation we could
Speaker 3: find of what actually happened, And how is possible a
Speaker 3: two year old little girl in full view of her
Speaker 3: father no less, disappeared faster than he could finish blinking.
Speaker 3: It's like she blinked right out of existence. Local authorities
Speaker 3: brought in bloodhounds and search teams from the surrounding counties
Speaker 3: to aid in the search of a small girl. Teams
Speaker 3: of volunteers and search and rescue headed out well into
Speaker 3: the middle of the night, looking for Naomi and calling
Speaker 3: her name, but to no avail. She was seemingly nowhere
Speaker 3: at all. Now, approximately twenty five hours after she first disappeared,
Speaker 3: a man named Kip Clayton, was searching the outer fringes
Speaker 3: of the search area he and his team were assigned
Speaker 3: to when he said his intuition, that old gut instinct
Speaker 3: pushed him forth to go and search another two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty yards forward, leaving the official search area he
Speaker 3: was looking in. But that's when he found her. Laying
Speaker 3: next to a large log, face down and unresponsive in mud,
Speaker 3: muck and leaves was two year old Naomi Wind. He
Speaker 3: picked her up and she let out a small moan.
Speaker 3: She was freezing cold, her body at a dangerously low temperature,
Speaker 3: and Kip ran as fast as he could when Naomi
Speaker 3: barely breathing in his arms, the approximate mile back to
Speaker 3: the command post. Naomi was rushed to the nearest hospital
Speaker 3: and she was only semi conscious and in a very
Speaker 3: critical condition, which she arrived now. While eventually she fully
Speaker 3: recovered and managed to survive her ordeal, many questions remain
Speaker 3: about what exactly happened to her. As mentioned before, where
Speaker 3: Naomi was found was only about two hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: yards away from where the searchers would have been screaming
Speaker 3: and yelling her name the night before. All throughout the night.
Speaker 3: Why didn't Naomi respond to them at all? Why didn't
Speaker 3: she alert them in any way as to where she
Speaker 3: was so they could go and help her. It isn't
Speaker 3: possible that she was faced down in the mud the
Speaker 3: entire time, or she couldn't have survived. Surely she would
Speaker 3: have suffocated. So why didn't she respond? Did she not
Speaker 3: hear them? If she couldn't hear them, why not taking
Speaker 3: into account when trying to understand these things, how close
Speaker 3: this disappearance was to the Great Smoky Mountains, and how
Speaker 3: many not only have disappeared there, but we're found face
Speaker 3: down on the ground, usually the ones closest to Naomi's
Speaker 3: as you're found this way, sometimes though it's too late.
Speaker 3: Naomi was very lucky to have survived. Also, why does
Speaker 3: a simple Google search turn up more information about this case?
Speaker 3: Other in one document? There's not any mention of this
Speaker 3: online anywhere. Hello friends, Steve Stockton. Here in this episode,
Speaker 3: we're going to take a look at some bizarre disappearances
Speaker 3: from hospitals. Joined me let's walk and see. First up,
Speaker 3: we have the story of Joan Gay Kroft on April ninth,
Speaker 3: nineteen forty seven, the deadly is tornado every day at
Speaker 3: Oklahoma went raging through parts of the state. A monstrous
Speaker 3: and deadly Class F five was a mouse fream of
Speaker 3: wind and debris, and it ripped through parts of Texas, Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: and Kansas. At some point, it blew a path through
Speaker 3: the town of Woodward, Oklahoma, leaving in its way chaos, destruction, tragedy,
Speaker 3: and death.
Speaker 4: In the end, one hundred and eighty.
Speaker 3: Five people were deceased, a thousand more were injured, and
Speaker 3: it was the beginning and one of the strangest unsolved
Speaker 3: mysteries in Oklahoma's history. Although many people tragically lost their
Speaker 3: lives to the whirling cyclone of death, there were many
Speaker 3: many more who were spared. One of those who was
Speaker 3: lucky enough to escape death clutches was a four year
Speaker 3: old named Joan Gaycroft. Joan's mother had been killed in
Speaker 3: the natural disaster and her stepfather had been critically injured,
Speaker 3: but Jone herself had come away from the brush with
Speaker 3: death with a non life threatening injury in the form
Speaker 3: of a piece of wood that penetrated her leg. She
Speaker 3: was found and rushed to the hospital for treatment, along
Speaker 3: with her sister, Jerry, who had also suffered non life
Speaker 3: threatening injuries. There was obviously a huge influx of seriously
Speaker 3: injured people, some on the of death due to the storm,
Speaker 3: and so the girls were quickly and easily treated and
Speaker 3: then relegated to the basement of the overcrowded hospital, as
Speaker 3: had been transformed into a shelter where many refugees from
Speaker 3: the tornado were being housed and treated. They were there
Speaker 3: for a night and things were chaotic and sad, but
Speaker 3: they got through it together. The next day, two men
Speaker 3: in what were described as khaki army uniforms went into
Speaker 3: the hospital and made their way down to the basement.
Speaker 3: They went straight for Joan and tried escorting her out
Speaker 3: of the basement in front of everyone else, which by
Speaker 3: now was at least a few hundred people. Despite the
Speaker 3: little girl's loud protests and screaming, they knew who she
Speaker 3: was because when they first entered the basement, they'd ask
Speaker 3: a member the overworked and overtired staff who she was.
Speaker 3: Asked for her by name, specifically, and the staff member
Speaker 3: pointed her out. They didn't seem to be interested in
Speaker 3: anyone but the four year old girl. Joanes screamed and cried,
Speaker 3: pleading with the men not to make her leave it sister,
Speaker 3: and the men patiently comforted her, telling her that they
Speaker 3: were friends and that she would be back there in
Speaker 3: just a few hours to collect Jerry so they could
Speaker 3: be brought to wherever they were going together. The hospital
Speaker 3: staff realized what was going on after seeing the commotion
Speaker 3: and tried their best to intervene, and as they did,
Speaker 3: the men were very calm and composed, seemingly very professional,
Speaker 3: and they then explained that they were merely taking the girls,
Speaker 3: Joan first and then Jerry, to another hospital where the
Speaker 3: girl's relptors were waiting for them. Somehow, the men were
Speaker 3: allowed to leave with the little girl, as apparently that
Speaker 3: explanation was deemed good enough for whoever was in charge.
Speaker 3: But no one ever returned with Joan, and she was
Speaker 3: never seen or heard from again. Nobody ever saw the
Speaker 3: two men again either. Eventually it was discovered that Joan
Speaker 3: had vanished and had more than likely been abducted, and
Speaker 3: when that happened, a major manhunt was launched for but
Speaker 3: it turned up almost nothing at all. In fact, her
Speaker 3: kidnaps have never been identified, and no trace of them
Speaker 3: or Joan has ever been found. The case gained international coverage,
Speaker 3: which meant it was a big deal to the time,
Speaker 3: a time when most cases didn't get much further than
Speaker 3: the local media and news, and in the years to
Speaker 3: come it spawned many anniversary articles asking what could have
Speaker 3: happened to the little girl and who her alleged abductors were.
Speaker 3: On May nineteen ninety three, the case was covered on
Speaker 3: the show Unsolved Mysteries, and it featured a full dramatic
Speaker 3: reenactment of the whole bizarre event. Interestingly enough, many women
Speaker 3: have come forward throughout the years claiming to be the
Speaker 3: adult Joan Gaycroft, but those leads have never gone anywhere,
Speaker 3: and all the women have been ruled out, either genetically
Speaker 3: or by some other means. In nineteen ninety nine, a
Speaker 3: woman came forward to the editor of the newspaper The
Speaker 3: Oklahoma claiming to be Joaned, but she then ceased all
Speaker 3: communication after the initial contact and failed to show up
Speaker 3: for the planned meeting with the editor. This happened again
Speaker 3: with a woman living in Canada, and obviously no one
Speaker 3: knows whether or not either of those women would have
Speaker 3: been the long lost little girl. Despite dozens of women
Speaker 3: throughout the decades who claimed to be the little girl,
Speaker 3: none of them have ever proven to be, and that
Speaker 3: leaves us with nothing but theories to go on. As
Speaker 3: Joan Gaycroft is still listed as a missing person, most
Speaker 3: people believe she was kidnapped due to obvious reasons, but
Speaker 3: that doesn't explain the series of bizarre events that happened
Speaker 3: leading up to the alleged abduction. Who were the men,
Speaker 3: how do they know about Joan, who she was and
Speaker 3: where she was? Why were they specifically looking for her
Speaker 3: out of the dozens of other kids who have been
Speaker 3: orphaned or at least stranded in the shelter to the
Speaker 3: devastation of the tornado, And why not take her sister too?
Speaker 3: They knew her name, and so they must have known
Speaker 3: at least of her, But what did they want and
Speaker 3: how were they able to publicly take her yet lay
Speaker 3: behind no clues or trace and never be seen again.
Speaker 3: For their part, Jones's family believes that some other family
Speaker 3: lost their daughter in the disaster and wanted to replace
Speaker 3: her with Joan, But just like everything else, there's never
Speaker 3: been any proof to that theory. Simply put, no one
Speaker 3: knows what happened to Joan Gaycroft, and more than likely
Speaker 3: no one ever will next up we have Jerry Irwin.
Speaker 3: Another strange vanishing that has more than just a little
Speaker 3: bizarre and unexplained element to it is the disappearance of
Speaker 3: Private First Class Jerry Irwin. On March to nineteen fifty nine,
Speaker 3: Jerry woke up in a hospital in Cedar City, Utah,
Speaker 3: with no memory of how he ended up there in
Speaker 3: the first place. He had reportedly been unconscious for twenty
Speaker 3: three hours, during which time he had been talking in
Speaker 3: his sleep and saying something about the jacket on the brush.
Speaker 3: When he came to, he asked the hospital staff if
Speaker 3: there were any survivors, but no one knew what he
Speaker 3: meant by that survivors of what no one knew, including
Speaker 3: Jerry himself. Finally, though, he became lucid enough to tell
Speaker 3: his story, and it seemed like his memory was coming
Speaker 3: back to him. He told the staff that he had
Speaker 3: just been off on a leave of absence and on
Speaker 3: his way home from Napa, Idaho, going to Fort Bliss
Speaker 3: in El Paso, Texas, where he was stationed. He said
Speaker 3: he was a technician for Nike Air Missiles and that
Speaker 3: after he had reached Cedar City, he had been driving
Speaker 3: along Route fourteen when he looked up and saw what
Speaker 3: he described as a strange pulsatic object in the sky.
Speaker 3: He pulled over and got out of his car to
Speaker 3: try and get a closer look at what he was seeing,
Speaker 3: and he thought that at first it was a large
Speaker 3: airplane coming in for possible emergency landing. Jerry then wrote
Speaker 3: a note, which he put on his car windshield that said,
Speaker 3: have gone to investigate possible plane crash. Please call it
Speaker 3: law enforcement officers. He also scrawled the word stop on
Speaker 3: the side of his vehicle to try and get who
Speaker 3: was passing by to stop and read the note, thereby
Speaker 3: calling attention to it and alerting the authorities about it.
Speaker 3: He simply scrawled the word stop and shoe polish and
Speaker 3: then walked off to investigate the strange side of the sky.
Speaker 3: A fishing game inspector came along and found the note
Speaker 3: some time later, and after alerting the Sheriff's office, a
Speaker 3: search party was launched both for Jerry and for the
Speaker 3: alleged plane crash he claimed him gone to investigate. When
Speaker 3: he was brought to the hospital, no one could understand
Speaker 3: why he was completely out cold and unable to be
Speaker 3: woken up by any of the usual means, and there
Speaker 3: also seemed to be nothing physically wrong with him either.
Speaker 3: When he did finally wake up, he claimed that his
Speaker 3: jacket was missing, but that he otherwise felt perfectly normal,
Speaker 3: if not a little tired and confused. He was then
Speaker 3: transferred to William Beaumont Hospital at Fort Bliss so that
Speaker 3: there he could be observed for four days, and after
Speaker 3: that he was put back on duty and into circulation.
Speaker 3: Not too long after cond his duties, Jerry began suffering
Speaker 3: random fainting spells while on duty, and fearing for his health,
Speaker 3: his superiors at the base made him go and get
Speaker 3: evaluated again at the hospital. He fainted again, and when
Speaker 3: he woke up at the hospital, he was said to
Speaker 3: have been in a similar state to when he had
Speaker 3: first been there a few weeks earlier. He woke up
Speaker 3: suddenly panicked, and once again started asking the hospital staff
Speaker 3: if there had been any survivors. It seemed like he
Speaker 3: was having some sort of flashback, and when he woke
Speaker 3: up that time, he thought he'd been waking up originally
Speaker 3: meeting Jerry. Irwin was completely unaware that any time had
Speaker 3: passed at all between when he left a note on
Speaker 3: his car and woke up. He didn't know he'd been
Speaker 3: on duty for all those weeks, or that he had
Speaker 3: been fainting. He had no memory in all the previous weeks,
Speaker 3: and in his mind it had only just gone to
Speaker 3: investigate a possible playing crash. He was kept at the
Speaker 3: hospital for a full month for observation, and was then
Speaker 3: once again released back on base into active duty. The
Speaker 3: very next day, he suddenly left base without permission and
Speaker 3: got on a bus to al Passo, stopping at Cedar
Speaker 3: City and disembarking. He then headed directly to where he
Speaker 3: had originally parked his car on the side of the road,
Speaker 3: and to the same area where he'd originally been investigating
Speaker 3: what he thought was a possible plane crash. He apparently
Speaker 3: found his jacket and inside one of the pockets was
Speaker 3: a pencil shoved inside of a buttonhole with a piece
Speaker 3: of paper entwined around it. Jerry purportedly burned the paper,
Speaker 3: but then came out of whatever trance he was seemingly in,
Speaker 3: then returned to the road. He was picked up there
Speaker 3: by the local sheriff. The sheriff told Jerry what had
Speaker 3: happened to him, but he had no recollection at all.
Speaker 3: Of leaving the base, where as to why he had
Speaker 3: traveled back to that very spot. He also had no
Speaker 3: idea what was on the paper that he burned, or
Speaker 3: why he had burned it in the first place. Jerry
Speaker 3: Irwin was subjected to another extensive st psychological evaluation, but
Speaker 3: when no further answers could be found, a deeper analysis
Speaker 3: was ordered. He was once again put into Beaumont Hospital
Speaker 3: for tests an additional evaluation, but then he was almost
Speaker 3: immediately released again. As soon as he was released, he
Speaker 3: once again went awall without any warning, and he hasn't
Speaker 3: been seen or heard from since. So what happened to
Speaker 3: Jerry Irwin? And why was he seemingly so obsessed with
Speaker 3: that particular location on the side of the road. Why
Speaker 3: had he gone back there? What happened to him initially
Speaker 3: that made it so he was so knocked out that
Speaker 3: even the usual methods of waking someone up from a
Speaker 3: stupor proved useless when used on him. How and why
Speaker 3: had he been so entranced that he had no memory
Speaker 3: returning to that spot or why he had burned that.
Speaker 4: Piece of paper.
Speaker 3: If he was tranced or knocked out or both, then
Speaker 3: by whom and why. There's so many questions here, but
Speaker 3: with no answers, it's impossible to understand mostly anything about
Speaker 3: this case and what happened to Jerry himself after he
Speaker 3: went missing again. Why was he continuously released from the hospital,
Speaker 3: And if it was really because nothing could be found
Speaker 3: to be wrong with him, then.
Speaker 4: What was going on with him? One of the main.
Speaker 3: Questions is how did he end up that hospital in
Speaker 3: the first place, But again, we'll probably never know, and
Speaker 3: there's been no new information about this case, though conspiracies
Speaker 3: and rumors run rampant around it. Still to this day,
Speaker 3: Jerry Irwin is still listed as a missing person. Next
Speaker 3: Benita Chamberlain. On February thirteenth, nineteen seventy eight, a young
Speaker 3: mother to be named Benita Chamberlain, who was only twenty
Speaker 3: four years old, arrived at the Sacred Heart General Hospital
Speaker 3: in Eugene, Oregon, seemingly in labor and ready to give
Speaker 3: birth their baby girl. Benita had gone into labor five
Speaker 3: weeks early, and the premature infant was immediately put into
Speaker 3: intensive care as she ought for her life for a week.
Speaker 3: Beanita dealt with it wonderfully by all accounts, and when
Speaker 3: she went back to the hospital to visit her little girl,
Speaker 3: after having been released herself a few days earlier. She
Speaker 3: was told that her daughter was doing great and was
Speaker 3: becoming very strong and healthy. In fact, the baby girl
Speaker 3: was doing so well that the hospital surprised Anita by
Speaker 3: telling her she would be able to take her daughter
Speaker 3: home that afternoon. Benita was incredibly excited and relieved, and
Speaker 3: she immediately went and called a friend to tell them
Speaker 3: the good news. That was the last time anyone ever
Speaker 3: heard from her. When she didn't return home that night,
Speaker 3: she was supported dismissing and the authorities launched a search.
Speaker 3: Her car was quickly found and it seemingly had been
Speaker 3: abandoned at a nearby bottling factory, and it didn't take
Speaker 3: long for them to find her purse, which had been
Speaker 3: discarded in the parking lot of the University of Oregon.
Speaker 3: The last time anyone saw she was driving out of
Speaker 3: the parking lot of the hospital after being given the
Speaker 3: good news about her daughter. Her newborn daughter, and Benita's
Speaker 3: two oldest daughters were all left behind with no answers
Speaker 3: and without their mother. Authorities thought they saw the mystery
Speaker 3: a week later, when they made a gruesome discovery. They
Speaker 3: found the remains of a murdered woman stuffed into a
Speaker 3: plastic bag and then dumped into a garbage bed. However,
Speaker 3: it turned out to be someone different and had nothing
Speaker 3: to do with Benita, So what happened to Benita Chamberlain
Speaker 3: is still a mystery to this day, and she is
Speaker 3: still considered a missing person. Next Tavish Sutton. An equally
Speaker 3: strange disappearance happened on March sixth, nineteen ninety three, when
Speaker 3: a one month old baby named Tavish Sutton was admitted
Speaker 3: to the Hughes Spaulding Pediatric Unit of Grady Memorial Hospital
Speaker 3: in Atlanta, Georgia. Tavish had been admitted in order to
Speaker 3: have an abscess removed, and after a routine minor surgery,
Speaker 3: he was sent into a semi private room to recuperate
Speaker 3: and rest because his mother was being treated for secon
Speaker 3: chiatric problems at a mental institution at the time. Tavish
Speaker 3: was released back into the custody of the Department of
Speaker 3: Child and Family Services, as he had been living with
Speaker 3: a foster family since he was released from the hospital
Speaker 3: after being born. His biological mother didn't even know her
Speaker 3: new baby was having surgery or that he had been
Speaker 3: admitted into the hospital that day. Three days after that surgery,
Speaker 3: Tavish Sutton would vanish without a trace. In the early
Speaker 3: morning hours around six forty five am on March sixth,
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety three, a nurse checked on him and found
Speaker 3: him to be doing well. She returned to the room
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes later, and the baby was simply gone. A
Speaker 3: thorough search of the hospital in a surrounding area turned
Speaker 3: up nothing at all, and the nurse was the only
Speaker 3: one who had entered or left the unit at that time.
Speaker 3: Some sources say she's the only one that left the
Speaker 3: hospital at all that hour on that day. No suspects
Speaker 3: ever turned up. And because his mother hadn't even known
Speaker 3: he was there in the first place, and because she'd
Speaker 3: been under the care of staff at the institution, she
Speaker 3: was in with her whereabouts throughout the entire day, being
Speaker 3: known verified, she wasn't even considered a suspect, nor were
Speaker 3: any of her or Tavish as other family members. A
Speaker 3: lawsuit was filed against the hospital, and it resulted in
Speaker 3: a six hundred thousand dollars settlement, but no leads were
Speaker 3: ever found as to what became of Tavish Sutton, who
Speaker 3: was only one month old at the time of his disappearance.
Speaker 3: The main theory in the beginning was that a woman
Speaker 3: who would show up at the hospital pretending to be
Speaker 3: pregnant all the time had somehow abducted him, but this
Speaker 3: was never proven, and that lady too had an alibi
Speaker 3: and wasn't able to be considered a suspect in this case.
Speaker 3: How did an almost newborn baby vanish from such a
Speaker 3: public place in the matter of a mere fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: Tavish Sutton has never been found, and there hasn't ever
Speaker 3: been a single lead or clue as to what happened
Speaker 3: to him. Well, friends, there you have it. Hospitals are
Speaker 3: places we go when we're injured to some extent, and
Speaker 3: we expect to leave them healed and complete. For the
Speaker 3: people we've discussed here today and so many others throughout
Speaker 3: the world, hospitals have been their final destination before passing
Speaker 3: into the strange world of bizarre and mysterious disappearances. Where
Speaker 3: did these people go and what happened to them? How
Speaker 3: could a person so completely disappear so suddenly and leave
Speaker 3: behind absolutely no trace at all of what happened to them?
Speaker 3: Or where they ended up. Hospitals are very public places
Speaker 3: that are staffed by thousands of people in some cases,
Speaker 3: so how does something like this even begin to happen?
Speaker 3: Those are all great questions, but unfortunately they will most
Speaker 3: likely forever remain without answers, at least in the majority
Speaker 3: of these. I look forward to your comments on these cases,
Speaker 3: but please be friendly and respectful until we meet again.
Speaker 3: Be good to yourselves and each other. And I'll see
Speaker 3: you just a little further on down the trail. I'm
Speaker 3: Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time. And
Speaker 3: please tell your animal I said I