WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.680 Hello friends, Steve Stockton here with you. Welcome to our 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:09.640 latest video. In this episode, we'll bringing strange legends, missing persons, 3 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.240 and more from Mount Rainier, which is right there behind me. 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.079 Join us. Mount Rainier National Park. 5 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.960 It's located in the US state of Washington in southeast 6 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:24.399 Pierce County and northeast Lewis County, with the Koma being 7 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:28.760 its nearest city. Mount Raineer National Park was first established 8 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:32.280 on March second, eighteen ninety nine, as the fifth national 9 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.920 park in the US, preserving more than two hundred and 10 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.479 thirty six thousand acres of land, including all of Mount Rainier, 11 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:43.600 which is a stratovolcano. Stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep 12 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:47.960 profile with a summit crater and periodic intervals of explosive eruptions. 13 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:51.079 Wouldn't worry too much, though. Mount Rainier last erupted about 14 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:54.799 one hundred and fifty years ago, rising to fourteen four 15 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:57.640 hundred and ten feet above sea level. The mountain is 16 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.679 the highest point in the Cascade Range and stands as 17 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:05.000 an icon in the Washington landscape. Mount Rainier is the 18 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.879 most glaciated peak in the contiguous US and spawns five 19 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:13.879 major rivers. Subalpine and wildflower meadows surround the icy volcano 20 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:19.760 cliffs and ancient forest cloak Mountaineer's lower slopes. This diverse 21 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:24.439 habitat provides for a large assortment of wildlife. Mountaineer is 22 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.400 a popular peak for mountaineering, with about ten thousand attempts 23 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:31.319 to summon each year and only around fifty percent being successful. 24 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.280 The park provides plenty of outdoor activities and attractions like hiking, camping, 25 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:39.640 bird watching, historical sites. 26 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:39.760 And more. 27 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.319 Over two million people visit the park each year to 28 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:47.799 enjoy these activities. Sometimes, though, things don't always go as 29 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.480 plan for those who venture to Mountaineer National Park. Although 30 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:55.680 not actively publicized for obvious reasons. For all the beauty 31 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:58.799 the park has to offer, bad things happen on Mountaineer 32 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:02.120 and people must seriously go missing from the area every 33 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:05.719 year without so much as a trace left behind. In 34 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:09.199 this episode, we're going to look at mysteries, legends, and 35 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:14.000 strange disappearances from mount Rainier National Park. Let's start off 36 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:19.439 with some mysteries and legends. First up, Bigfoot encounters. Before 37 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.639 we delve totally into this device of topic and uncertain 38 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.680 existence of Bigfoot, Let's put on our thinking caps for 39 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:29.360 a moment and simply consider, is it possible there are 40 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:32.599 as of yet undiscovered animal species in the wild. A 41 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:37.120 resounding yes. Scientists discovered new species all the time. And 42 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.319 do we know everything there is to know about this 43 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:44.080 world we all share, absolutely not. As such, we must 44 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:47.479 at least entertain the idea that there are concepts, events, 45 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:51.560 and yes, living creatures out there that we cannot fully understand. 46 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:54.479 With that in mind, let's. 47 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:57.879 Begin our Mount Rainier National Park journey and cover some 48 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.520 of the reported signings and potential evidence found in the 49 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:04.639 area of the tall, bipedal, hair covered creature most famously 50 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:09.639 known as Bigfoot. Bigfoot, also commonly referred to as sasquatch, 51 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:14.319 has been spotted all over the United States. Washington State, however, 52 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:17.400 is a prime location for sidings of the elusive creature. 53 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:21.240 Recorded sightings go back as early as nineteen twelve, when 54 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:23.680 a woman saw a tall ape like creature staring in 55 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.960 the window of her ranch house. Reports continued all throughout 56 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:30.280 the nineteen hundreds, ranging from hunters spotting the creature to 57 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.080 campers being spooked awake by seven foot tall beasts. Some 58 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.000 of the most notable evidence of Bigfoot in the Mountaineer 59 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.800 area consists of several photographs allegedly made in nineteen ninety 60 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.439 five at Wild Creek in the nearby foothills, captured by 61 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:48.560 a forest patrol officer, although numerous red flags are noted, 62 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:52.400 as by Bigfoot authors Janet and Colin Board, who wrote 63 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.000 in two thousand and six, with any event where the 64 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:59.000 subject is known to be elusive, clear photographs are naturally suspect. 65 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:02.400 In this case, we note that Bigfoot seems to not 66 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:06.240 have moved from shot to shot, which seems unlikely, and 67 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:08.919 the photographer must have been a very brave man indeed, 68 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.080 have stayed around long enough to shoot fourteen frames of 69 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:17.519 an unpredictable monster. Now, this skepticism hasn't stopped reported sightings, though, 70 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:20.600 what are considered to be some of the best sasquatch 71 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:24.079 footprints ever cast were found near Mount Rainier. These prints 72 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.439 were found by mushroom pickers near the National Park. Plaster 73 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.959 cast taken or seven inches by fourteen inches and appeared 74 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.000 to belong to a large ape like creature. 75 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:35.120 The mushroom pickers didn't get. 76 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:37.800 Far into their journey when they reported smelling something worse 77 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:41.000 than skunkoder, which is often a telltale sign of the 78 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.639 creatures present. Could Mount Rainier National Park be a hiding 79 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:48.519 place for bigfoot? Being a protected land full of wilderness, 80 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.160 it would be an ideal area for being that wishes 81 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.600 to remain unseen. Is the creature perhaps to blame for 82 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.000 some of these strange disappearances in the park? Or sasquatch 83 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.040 just keeping their distance They meet us no harm. Let 84 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:07.920 us know what you think next up flying saucers. Famously, 85 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:12.079 on June twenty fourth, nineteen forty seven, Kenneth Arnold saw 86 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.839 something near Mount Rainier that changed the public's perception of 87 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:20.000 extraterrestrials forever. At the time, Kenneth Arnold was thirty two 88 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.680 years old, married with two children, and lived in Meridian, Idaho, 89 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.959 where he sold fire extinguishing equipment for a living. He 90 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.680 was also in the Idaho' Search and Rescue and had 91 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:32.720 over four thousand hours of high altitude piloting hours at 92 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.920 the time. Overall, he lived a typical life and was 93 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.639 known to be a sincere and trustworthy person. On that 94 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.000 faithful day June twenty fourth, nineteen forty seven, Kenneth was 95 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.120 flying from Chehalis to Yakama when he decided to spend 96 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.439 an hour or so searching for a downed Sea forty 97 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:52.000 six marine transport which had recently crashed into the southwest 98 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:55.319 side of Mount Rainier. There was a five thousand dollars 99 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.160 ward for finding the downed aircraft, so that most likely 100 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:02.279 was Kenneth's motivating factor. His flight was going well at first, 101 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.480 though there was no sign of the plane wreckage. Kenneth 102 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:08.759 would later recall in an interview. It was a beautiful day, 103 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.720 just as clear as a bell. But then everything suddenly changed. 104 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:16.920 Kenneth remembered it was around three pm, and he says, 105 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.560 with very bright flash lit up the plane in the 106 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.120 sky around me. At first he thought it was just 107 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:24.759 the sun, perhaps reflecting off another plane in the area, 108 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:28.480 but the flash happened again, he said, and that's when 109 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.839 I saw where it was coming from. It came spasmodically 110 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.279 from a chain of nine circular type aircraft way up 111 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:38.600 from the vicinity of Mount Rainier. I could not find 112 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.519 any tails on these things. They didn't leave a jet 113 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.680 trail behind them. I judged their size to be at 114 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.519 least one hundred feet in wingspan. I thought it was 115 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.959 a new type of missile. Kenneth observed the multiple aircraft 116 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:52.920 and tried to make sense of what he was seeing. 117 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:56.240 His plane had a big sweep twenty four hour clock 118 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.000 on the instrument panel, and by his measurements, the objects 119 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.040 had covered the distance between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams 120 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:05.079 in one minute and forty two seconds. He was stunned 121 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:08.839 by this realization. Kenneth said that figured out to something 122 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.399 like one thy, seven hundred and sixty miles an hour, 123 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:13.079 which I could hardly believe. 124 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:15.439 I knew that figure couldn't. 125 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.399 Be entirely accurate, but I'd say it was within a 126 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:20.319 couple of hundred miles of accurate. He didn't know what 127 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:22.759 to make of this at first, so he continued on 128 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:26.639 from Yakima to an air show in Pendleton, Oregon. Then 129 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:29.720 the next day, June twenty fifth, Kenneth stopped by the 130 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.839 local newspaper called The East Oregonian. He asked reporter Bill 131 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:36.560 Begett if the military was testing any secret warplanes in 132 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:41.160 the area. Bill shrugged, not thinking anything of it. Kenneth 133 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.519 didn't explain that he was flying his small plane near 134 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.319 Mount Rainier when he saw those nine bright objects shaped 135 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.120 like the heel of a floor from shoe flying in formation, 136 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:52.439 and that he had timed them at more than twice 137 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:56.120 the speed of the world's then fastest airplane. Bill, the reporter, 138 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.839 still didn't think much of this news, but he typed 139 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.319 out about four paragraphs to run in the paper. Then 140 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:03.680 he left for lunch and Kenneth went on his way. 141 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:08.279 When Bill returned from lunch, he realized he had underestimated 142 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.480 the public's interest in the flying saucers story. Where have 143 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:15.000 you been their Sepstance asked, They've been calling from everywhere, 144 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:19.680 New York, Portland, Montreal. They want more, She said, more 145 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.839 on the saucers. Bill hadn't thought the story was that 146 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.120 big of a deal at first, but after running a 147 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:27.720 longer story on Kenneth's encounter, he said it was like 148 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.399 throwing a lighted match into a field of wheatgrass. The 149 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:33.960 story blew up further from there. We would call it 150 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:38.480 going viral. Even the vocabulary regarding UFO sightings changed after 151 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:42.480 Kenneth's bazarre encounter. The term flying saucers wasn't really around 152 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.960 before Kenneth's report, but after word got out there was 153 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.639 a wave of people who came forward to back his story. 154 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:52.080 The Seattle Daily Times reported that a lady named Elma 155 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:55.399 Shingler had seen strange and shiny, platter like objects on 156 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:58.480 two different occasions that were moving at a terrible speed. 157 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:02.200 Elma further stated that this was in the last ten days. 158 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:06.279 Once Kenneth's encounter came to light, and this was only 159 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:10.840 the beginning, the debate about extraterrestrial visits grew rapidly and 160 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:14.759 the nation was divided. During the next half century, thousands 161 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:18.399 of Americans, including Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who would later 162 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.679 become president, observed UFOs. Why would all this fuss have 163 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:24.679 come about if it were just a hoax, as some 164 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.440 people claim, none of it made any sense. Within two 165 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.639 weeks of Kenneth's story about his encounter near Mountaineer, people 166 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:34.000 in twenty eight states and from as far abroad as 167 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:39.360 Australia and Afghanistan reported seeing flying saucers. Something was definitely 168 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.919 going on, something had changed. One publisher offered a bounty 169 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:45.840 to anyone who could bring one of the crafts down. 170 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:49.080 The Oregon National Guard even launched a fighter squadron to 171 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:52.360 have a look about. Many people believe that, rather than 172 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:57.200 extraterrestrial in nature, the flying saucers or experimental military aircraft 173 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:00.840 being tested by the United States, which wasn't so far fetched. 174 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.519 Even so, many people still thought the whole thing was 175 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.639 a hoax, and any official entity which gave validity to 176 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:11.320 Kenneth's story was quickly shot down. Why would the government 177 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.840 want to hide reports of UFOs? Though not only that, 178 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:19.080 newspapers and journals began running stories that intentionally made Kenneth 179 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.519 sound crazy. They would intentionally get the story wrong to 180 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.440 further the theory that he was some kind of kook 181 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:27.559 or a crackpot. It took an emotional toll on Kenneth 182 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:31.440 and his family. Eric Lesidas interviewed Kenneth my phone thirty 183 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.039 years after the incident on June twenty fifth, nineteen seventy seven. 184 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:39.000 Kenneth recalled in that interview this one paper in Mexico 185 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:42.080 said the sighting was June twenty fourth, nineteen seventy four. 186 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:44.840 Then they said that the flying saucers were circling my 187 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:47.879 plane and played hopscotch with me in the Cascade Mountains. 188 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:49.840 That's not what happened. 189 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.360 Kenneth also told his interviewer that writing letters through the 190 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:56.399 editors was useless because then they would just turn around 191 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:59.639 and use that against him as well. He remarked, it's 192 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:02.960 impops possible, I tell you. Kenneth was sixty two at 193 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.879 the time of this phone interview, and his story remained 194 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:09.120 the same. He saw what he saw, and he was 195 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.840 the first report these flying saucers. He was asked if 196 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:15.480 it bothered him that for thirty years many people thought 197 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.840 of him as a coup or crazy. Kenneth responded, I 198 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.000 didn't make my report because I was interested in newspaper 199 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:26.360 publicity or anything else. I can't eat newspaper clippings. I 200 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:28.639 made my report because I thought it was my duty. 201 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:31.759 It was the only proper and American thing to do. 202 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:36.120 I saw what I saw. Other pilots, some of them, 203 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:39.120 wishing to remain anonymous, would call Kenneth over the years 204 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.840 to tell him that they too had encountered flying saucers. 205 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:45.120 Kenneth also stated that he had read somewhere that fifteen 206 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:49.039 million people in the world had seen UFOs. That number 207 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:53.840 has surely grown astronomically by now. Sadly, Kenneth Arnold passed 208 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.799 away in nineteen eighty four at the age of sixty eight, 209 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:01.200 and throughout all those years of worldwide ridicule, Kenneth never 210 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.440 wavered from his story. He saw something that day. The 211 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:09.360 only debate is what exactly they were. Whatever the case 212 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:12.679 may be, Mount Rainier is considered the birthplace of the 213 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:14.000 flying saucer phenomenon. 214 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:16.360 So what do you think Kenneth saw? 215 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:20.799 Was it alien visitors, military weapons the public is unaware of, 216 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:26.080 or something else entirely Next up, let's take a look 217 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:30.919 at some strange disappearances from Mount Rainier National Park. Sam 218 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:34.559 du Ball, thirty three year old Sam de Baull, disappeared 219 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.919 on October ninth, twenty twenty, from Mount Rainier National Park. 220 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:41.679 Sam had earned a medical degree and PhD in medical 221 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:44.919 anthropology by the time he was thirty one. A year later, 222 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:48.279 Sam published his first book. Soon after, he began teaching 223 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:52.120 as an anthropology professor for the University of Washington. Sam 224 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:54.240 was only one month into his new position when he 225 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:57.120 went on a seventeen mile overnight hike at Mount Raineer 226 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:01.440 and seemingly just disappeared. Sam was an avid hiker who 227 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.960 had made trips around the US and even had experience 228 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.360 in the Himalayas. He held no illusions of how dangerous 229 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.000 the wilderness can be. He went prepared, hearing a tent, 230 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.240 a sleeping bag, snow gear, rain gear, a cell phone, 231 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.559 a charger, and of course another food and water for 232 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:20.039 his overnight hike. Sam's described as five feet nine inches 233 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:22.639 tall and one hundred and fifty five pounds, as black 234 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:24.480 hair and a short black beard. At the time he 235 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.080 went missing, was possibly wearing a blue jacket. Sam started 236 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.759 his hike on October ninth, and at least for a while, 237 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:34.799 things went well. Officials reported that Sam was spotted that 238 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:38.360 same day hiking on Mother Mountain Loop trail near Mowitch Lake. 239 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:41.519 Is unknown how much further Sam got into his hike 240 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:45.159 when he didn't return home. Sam's family reported him missing. 241 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:45.519 The next day. 242 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:49.080 His car was found not long after, and several days 243 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:52.360 into the search, his water bottle was found. Mountain Air 244 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:55.600 National Park Service search and rescue teams conducted an intensive 245 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:59.440 search for nine days, with no further clues surfacing. There 246 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:03.440 were park rangers, volunteers, canine teams, and helicopter crews from 247 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:06.279 the National Park Service and the US Air Force searching 248 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:10.240 for Sam. Mark Rangers deployed drones and forward looking infrared 249 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.799 heat detection cameras. Their search area arranged in elevation from 250 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:17.279 two thousand to five thousand feet, with difficult terrain, including 251 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:22.840 dense forests, rocky surfaces, subalpine meadows, and various waterways. On 252 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:26.279 October seventeenth, nearly a week into the search, the weather 253 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:28.919 was good and a fifty person search and rescue teams 254 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.519 scoured the area. But then, as we often see in 255 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:33.919 these cases, the next day, the weather took a turn 256 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:37.279 and the crew was limited to twenty six persons. The 257 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.799 day after, on October nineteenth, there were only six people 258 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.240 able to go out in search due to the weather conditions. 259 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:47.240 October twenty the search crew was back to twenty six members. 260 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:51.200 Then on October twenty one and twenty two, misfortunes struck 261 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.519 again with poor weather which inhibited ground searching, and the 262 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:59.039 search was lessly suspended. Authorities presumed Sam had passed away. 263 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:02.600 By that point, searchers have spent long hours carrying the 264 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:06.120 area and not locating doctor Dubal. It's heavy on our hearts, 265 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:10.039 said Chip Jenkins, Park Superintendent. We continue to be in 266 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.919 close contact with doctor Duball's family and will keep them 267 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.879 updated as new information becomes available. On October twenty third, 268 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:20.360 after the search was suspended, Sam's family started a petition 269 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:23.559 on change dot org asking that rescue teams continue to 270 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:27.039 search for at least another seventy two hours. More than 271 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:31.600 forty six thousand people signed the petition. Sam's sister, Dina 272 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:34.279 Dubal said in a Twitter post, we cannot bear the 273 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:38.960 thought of an abandoned search during this narrowing period of survivability. 274 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.679 The National Park Service announced the teams had resumed the 275 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:44.159 search on the ground after the request from the family. 276 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.759 Despite the Park Service furthering the search efforts for Sam, 277 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:51.320 there were no other traces of his whereabouts. Winter storms 278 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.080 had blanketed much of the area with snow, and temperatures 279 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:57.720 were dropping below freezing even at the lower elevations. The 280 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:00.600 weather had been sporadic from the beginning of the search Jeffers. 281 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:03.639 The day after Sam began his hike, a storm washed 282 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:05.559 out the crossing he would have used to traverse the 283 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.759 Carbon River. The Anthropology Department at UC Berkeley posted on 284 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:12.519 their website, We're hoping that our own Sam de Baull, 285 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:16.440 Medical Anthropology, PhD. Twenty eighteen, has been missing in the 286 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:19.759 Mountaineer National Park for over two weeks, will return. We 287 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:22.120 continue to hope that he will be found and rescued. 288 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:26.200 Professor Mary Ann firmay is representing our department by joining 289 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:27.360 the voluntary searches. 290 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:28.759 Our hearts go out. 291 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:32.240 To his family, his students, his colleagues, and his friends. 292 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:33.720 In this moment of great fear. 293 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:35.960 We know Sam de Ball to be a strong and 294 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.639 resilient anthropologist as well as a talented doctor. A. Sam 295 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:41.960 returned to his family and to the family of men 296 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.519 and women in anthropology who know him as a dear 297 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:48.600 colleague or as a student or a mentor, wrote the department. 298 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:52.960 Tributes to Sam poured in on social media. Viing A 299 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.440 DeVault tweeted on October twenty nine, I'm struck that everyone 300 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:58.960 who has sent me messages about my brother, whether they 301 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:02.559 know him for years or merely ours, feels and remembers 302 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:07.400 the same thing, his kindness. Vina also wrote, Sam, Our 303 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:11.160 love for you knows no bounds. Not life, death, heaven 304 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:13.720 or earth can keep us from being with you, and 305 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:17.000 you with us. The official search for Sam ended after 306 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:21.400 fifteen days of intense efforts. Sam's sisters tweeted, we carry 307 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:23.599 your prayers, thoughts, and good wishes for Sam de Ball 308 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.559 as we begin to grieve and celebrate his remarkable life 309 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.519 and kind soul. On October twenty sixth, Dina and Vina 310 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:34.039 du Baal tweeted, after a thorough search, the outer limits 311 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.799 of time for survivability have passed. Our deepest gratitude to all, 312 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.720 including the brave searchers and the community. Sam was presumed 313 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:44.240 to have passed away and the grieving process began for 314 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:47.960 many many people. On the one year anniversary of Sam's disappearance, 315 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:51.519 faculty and students from across the University of Washington campus 316 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:56.240 gathered at the school's Drumheller Fountain in commemoration. Assistant Professor 317 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.799 of Anthropology Raphael rabanis colleague a close friend. Sam said 318 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:03.759 he wanted to use the tools of anthropology to address 319 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.519 questions of racism and build an anti racist society and world. 320 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.359 Though he had just started at the UW, he was 321 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:13.920 already having an impact. The University of Washington decided to 322 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.119 honor Sam's vision and what he hoped to accomplish in life. 323 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:20.559 In November of twenty twenty one, the university revealed a 324 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:24.440 new endowed fellowship established by Sam's parents by Rat and 325 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:28.759 Saraj Duball. The family's gift, combined with support for more 326 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:31.960 than four hundred friends, family and community members, established the 327 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.599 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Sam Dubau endowed fellowship 328 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.960 in the Department of Anthropology at UW, which will continue 329 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:41.759 Sam's work and allow his legacy to live on supporting 330 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.559 graduate students focused on racial justice in medicine, health, or 331 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:50.039 social movements. During his studies at Berkeley, Sam co founded 332 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:54.319 Radical Medicine, an inclusive collective that brings together activist scholars 333 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:58.039 and community members, including frontline medical workers, united with the 334 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:03.279 goal of rethinking and revisioning medical and psychiatric practice. For 335 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.640 his doctoral research, Sam conducted intensive fieldwork into the lives 336 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.319 of former child and youth soldiers in Uganda. This research 337 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:15.400 led to a full manuscript. Twenty eighteen, Sam published a 338 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:19.640 book titled Against Humanity Lessons from the Lord's Resistance Army, 339 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:23.119 which drew from his ethnographic research of the LRA in 340 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:27.839 Northern Uganda. Sam's book can be found on Amazon. The 341 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:30.839 life and work of Sam de Ball impacted so many people, 342 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.279 as disappearances left a gaping hole in a family, a 343 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:38.920 group of friends, and an entire community. No other evidence 344 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:41.759 of what happened to Sam has ever been found, and 345 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.799 as of this recording, in June of twenty twenty two. 346 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:52.039 There have been no further case updates. Vincent G. Twenty 347 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:55.720 four year old Vincent G disappeared on June eighteenth, twenty twenty, 348 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:59.359 while hiking in the Longmire area of Mount Rainier National Park. 349 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:02.960 Vincent had described as five foot five inches tall with 350 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:05.440 black hair and brown eyes, and was wearing a blue 351 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.359 and white tied eyed T shirt, black pants, and carrying 352 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:11.519 a dark blue drawstring backpack at the time of his disappearance. 353 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:14.920 He was an Indonesian student who was living in Seattle 354 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:18.240 at the time. He had recently acquired a master's degree 355 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:21.680 in business administration and was working as a production associate 356 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:25.200 at West Seattle Foods. He was bilingual and spoke both 357 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:28.960 English and Indonesian, with an intermediate understanding of Chinese and 358 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:33.839 conversational Japanese. Vincent hiked the Alta Vista Trail at Paradise 359 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:36.319 on June eighteenth, and he was last seen in the 360 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:40.039 afternoon of Friday, June nineteenth, hiking the Van Trump Trail 361 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:41.160 toward Mildred Point. 362 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:43.480 When he fail to return home. 363 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:46.720 Vincent was reported missing to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office 364 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:50.559 on Monday, June twenty second. A Beyond the Lookout or 365 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:53.799 BOLO notice was issued by the Pierce County Sheriff's Office 366 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:57.359 for his vehicle, which was subsequently found at Longmire within 367 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:02.039 Mount Hineer National Park. Dark began an official search for Vincent. 368 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:04.960 There were three major searches in the park around this 369 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:07.559 time as well, which is a cluster of missing people, 370 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:10.839 something we look out for in the missing person's community. 371 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:14.599 At that time, most park trails were melted by about 372 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:18.079 five thousand feet elevation, with patchy snow on trails and 373 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:22.000 in drainages at lower elevation. The park worked closely with 374 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:25.559 the Indonesian Consulate in San Francisco, California, as well as 375 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:31.880 Vincent's family members. Tacoma Mountain Rescue, Seattle Mountain Rescue, Olympic 376 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:36.839 Mountain Rescue, German Shepherd Search Dog Team, Volcano Rescue Team, 377 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.480 Washington State SAAR Planning Unit, and the Mountaineer National Park 378 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:45.200 Search and Rescue teams all participated in the search. Nothing 379 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:46.119 else was ever. 380 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:50.319 Found after his vehicles recovered on June twenty fifth. 381 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:53.680 Technical rescue teams joined the search to assist in searching steep, 382 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:58.440 hazardous terrain. Alternative aviation assets were also used during the search, 383 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:03.200 but all came up fifty. Vincent's sister Natasha thanked the 384 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:06.039 searchers and Vincent's friend in a Facebook post for their 385 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:10.839 overwhelming love and support. Despite the extensive efforts, there was 386 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:14.680 never any evidence of Vincent's whereabouts. His parents had to 387 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.480 return to Indonesia without knowing what happened to their son. 388 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:22.160 The search forum entered limited continuous mode and as of 389 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:26.000 this recording in June twenty twenty two, Vincent remains missing 390 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:32.279 and there have been no further updates. Eric Lewis fifty 391 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:35.319 seven year old Eric Lewis disappeared on July first, twenty 392 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:39.400 ten while mountain climbing at Mountaineer National Park. Eric was 393 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:41.920 climbing with two companions at the time of his disappearance. 394 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:45.359 According to park officials, the theory had been ascending. The 395 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:48.400 Gibraltar led his route in poor weather conditions with high 396 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:53.000 wind and low visibility. However, the three war experienced climbers 397 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.759 and everything was seemingly going well despite the storm and 398 00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:59.720 wintery conditions. The trio were making their way up the mountain. 399 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:03.359 The lead climber was a man named Don Storm Junior, 400 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:06.720 followed by the second climber on the rope Trevor lane. 401 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:10.240