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Speaker 1: now for five strange disappearances and mysteries from Crater Lake, Oregon.
Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Now on the Crater Lake first, I feel a little
Speaker 1: background in histories in the way. Crater Lake National Park
Speaker 1: was established in nineteen oh two and is located in
Speaker 1: southern Oregon. In total, the park covers one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty three two hundred and twenty four acres, which includes
Speaker 1: Crater Lake and its surrounding hills and forests. Many years ago,
Speaker 1: Mount Mazama collapsed, creating a nearly two thy one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighteen foot deep caldera that partially fills Crater Lake.
Speaker 1: The amount of water in the lake is replaced approximately
Speaker 1: every two hundred and fifty years by rain and snow,
Speaker 1: which offsets the evaporation. This is the deepest lake in
Speaker 1: the United States, measuring some one thousand, nine hundred and
Speaker 1: forty nine feet. For maximum depth, it ranks ninth in
Speaker 1: the world, while for mein slash average depth, it ranks third.
Speaker 1: There are two small islands in Crater Lake, located near
Speaker 1: the lake's western shore. Wizard Island is approximately three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen acres in size, while Phantom Ship, a natural
Speaker 1: rock pillar, is located near its southern shore. Because the
Speaker 1: lake has no inlets or tributaries, its waters are some
Speaker 1: of the purest in the world. Due to the lack
Speaker 1: of pollutants. There are relatively high levels of dissolved salts
Speaker 1: in the lake as well, jud it's high elevation and
Speaker 1: influence from the Pacific. Crater Lake has a subalpine climate.
Speaker 1: Summers are mild and dry, but winters are cold. And snowy,
Speaker 1: with average snowfalls reaching five hundred and five inches per
Speaker 1: year and maximum snow cover of one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: nine inches or three point five to three meters. It
Speaker 1: usually takes until mid July for the snow to melt.
Speaker 1: Even into the summer, hard frosts or possible in the
Speaker 1: Crater Lake area. The surface temperature of the lake ranges
Speaker 1: from thirty three degrees fahrenheit to sixty six degrees In
Speaker 1: the summertime, the lake normally fluctuates between fifteen and sixty
Speaker 1: degrees fahrenheit.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: As a result of the collapse of Mount Mazama, Crater
Speaker 1: Lake had no fish until man named William G. Steele
Speaker 1: decided to stock it in eighteen eighty eight in order
Speaker 1: to allow for fishing. The fish were regularly stocked until
Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, when it became evident that the fish
Speaker 1: could maintain a stable population without assistance from the outside.
Speaker 1: Two fish species have survived from the original stocking, Cochetti
Speaker 1: salmon and rainbow trout, with the salmon being the most abundant.
Speaker 1: As part of its history, Crater Lake is also known
Speaker 1: for the Old Man of the Lake, a full sized
Speaker 1: tree that's been bobbing in the water for over a century.
Speaker 1: As a result of the low temperatures of the lake,
Speaker 1: the decomposition of the wood has been slowed considerably. Crater
Speaker 1: Lake is sacred to the Klamath tribe of Native Americans,
Speaker 1: indigenous to the area. Generations ago, they told of it
Speaker 1: being the crossing point between Skelle, a spirit from above,
Speaker 1: and Lao, a spirit from below. Andrew lank Ford, author
Speaker 1: of Haunted Hikes, Spine Tingling, Tails, and Trails from North
Speaker 1: America's National Parks, rights to this of Crater Lake. Lao
Speaker 1: and Skelle fought gory battles here. Lao rips Skull's heart
Speaker 1: from his chest, and Skull retaliated by dismembering Lao and
Speaker 1: throwing the body parts into the lake. Ideous monsters gobbled
Speaker 1: up everything but Lao's head, but the lake still holds
Speaker 1: Lao's spirit. When stirred, he may brew up storm clouds.
Speaker 1: When angered, he may peer in the form of a
Speaker 1: giant crayfish that climbs up out of the lake, snatches
Speaker 1: people off the rim of the crater that surrounds the
Speaker 1: lake and drags them down into the water. So now
Speaker 1: that we know what Crater Lake is, how it was formed,
Speaker 1: and what it represents to the indigenous tribes of the area.
Speaker 1: Let us look into the first disappearance, that of little
Speaker 1: Sammy Bulky. In the early afternoon of October fourteenth, two
Speaker 1: thousand and six, Sammy Bulky, aged eight, was playing near
Speaker 1: the Cleetwood Cove area in Crater Lake National Park with
Speaker 1: his father, Kenneth Bulky, forty eight. Sammy disappeared into the
Speaker 1: woods after running up a cinder slope. Despite his passion
Speaker 1: for life, Sammy was stubborn at times. Also as a
Speaker 1: result of having a mild form of autism, he was
Speaker 1: terrified of loud noises and bright lights. At the time
Speaker 1: of his disappearance, Sammy stood four feet eleven inches tall,
Speaker 1: weighed eighty five pounds, and had short brown hair and
Speaker 1: brown eyes. The last time he was seen, he was
Speaker 1: wearing a long sleeved black and green T shirt, jeans,
Speaker 1: a blue coat, and red Swede slip on shoes with
Speaker 1: rubber soles. While the little boy did have camping experience,
Speaker 1: he had no formal wilderness survival training given his young age.
Speaker 1: At around four pm that day, the Bulky family had
Speaker 1: pulled over at a pull out five hundred yards east
Speaker 1: of the Cleetwood Cove parking lot area and were walking
Speaker 1: north along Rim Drive. Sammy and his father were playing
Speaker 1: hide and seek on a gravel slope and Sammy saw
Speaker 1: some yellow that he thought might be gold. Sammy stayed
Speaker 1: on the slope, refusing to come down, and as darkness approached,
Speaker 1: his father walked to shortness to their car to return
Speaker 1: to their Diamond Lake cabin.
Speaker 2: Can Eat.
Speaker 1: Bulky chased after Sammy. Sammy stayed at least fifty feet ahead,
Speaker 1: likely considering it a game. I never caught up with him,
Speaker 1: his father said, and at that point he disappeared over
Speaker 1: the top somewhere and I lost him. Within a matter
Speaker 1: of hours. More than two hundred people were combing in
Speaker 1: an area of about six square miles or four thousand acres. Dogs, helicopters,
Speaker 1: and heat cents and cameras were used to search for
Speaker 1: the boy for a week, but he was never found.
Speaker 1: Authority said a helicopter crew spotted some tracks, but they
Speaker 1: turned out to be most likely animal tracks. After that,
Speaker 1: the search continued intermittently despite heavy snowfalls in the area
Speaker 1: seven thousand feet above sea level. The park gets more
Speaker 1: than five hundred inches of snow per year. Although it
Speaker 1: was unlikely Sammy would have fallen into the lake because
Speaker 1: of obstacles on the slope, technical climbing crews searched the
Speaker 1: slopes from the rim of the caldera down to the shoreline,
Speaker 1: participating in the search for sar teams from Jackson, Klamath
Speaker 1: into Shoots Counties. National Park Service searchers and trackers from
Speaker 1: California at Washington and Oregon mount Hood and Mountaineer Rescue
Speaker 1: teams were also involved, as well as volunteers consisting of
Speaker 1: employees from the Bureau of Land Management and the US
Speaker 1: Force Service. It seems more than a little odd that
Speaker 1: a boy of Sammy's age, who was just slightly autistic
Speaker 1: would run off into the woods without any reason at
Speaker 1: all and continued going until he was out of sight
Speaker 1: and hearing range of his father. Because it was cold.
Speaker 1: This first instinct, we would think would be to turn
Speaker 1: around and return to his dad, especially if he was
Speaker 1: calling for him, no matter how long he had been
Speaker 1: hidden from him. Sadly, no trace was ever found and
Speaker 1: Sammy remains missing. Next up, we have a strange disappearance
Speaker 1: of Derek Ingebrutson east of the Cascade Range in south
Speaker 1: central Oregon lies Upper Klamath Lake, a large shallow freshwater lake.
Speaker 1: Helican Butte over three thy eight hundred feet above the
Speaker 1: shore of Crater Lake as a steep sided, dormant volcano
Speaker 1: located twenty eight miles south of the Crater. Sometime in
Speaker 1: the afternoon on December fifth, nineteen ninety eight, Derek Ingebretsen,
Speaker 1: his father Robert, and his grandfather Bob sixty four, set
Speaker 1: out for a densely wooded mountainside above Upper Klamath Lake,
Speaker 1: about thirty miles north of Klamath Falls. They planned to
Speaker 1: find a Christmas tree for the holiday season. Derek was
Speaker 1: lost and never seen again. Because of his love of
Speaker 1: the outdoors, Derek was known as bear boy even at
Speaker 1: the age of eight. A week after he was born,
Speaker 1: his mother carried him on a bear hunt in a pack.
Speaker 1: In his youth, he hunted with his father and picked
Speaker 1: mushrooms with his mother's father. On several of his mushroom
Speaker 1: expedition outings. He had visited Pelcon Butte in the past.
Speaker 1: The Ingebretsen family did not plan to go Christmas tree
Speaker 1: hunting that year in the woods. Although Robert looked forward
Speaker 1: to a family Christmas tree hunt every year. It was
Speaker 1: his wife, Laurie, who convinced him to use an artificial
Speaker 1: tree that year. Laurie wanted to keep the mess to
Speaker 1: a minimum, but when a disabled neighbor asked for a tree,
Speaker 1: Robert decided to go into the woods. Bob remembers tell
Speaker 1: the group that since it was already two pm, it
Speaker 1: would be dark around four pm. Since it was late
Speaker 1: in the year, and he was driving along west Side
Speaker 1: Road in his red Toyota pick up on his way
Speaker 1: to Rocky Point Resort. Bob pulled into a turnout at
Speaker 1: mile post twelve. The three of them climbed up an
Speaker 1: embankment into a pine forest, and Robert helped Derek get
Speaker 1: into his blue snowsuit. Derek walked behind Robert, who told
Speaker 1: him to stay with his grandfather. Derek nagged his grandfather
Speaker 1: that he wanted to catch up with his dad as
Speaker 1: he chopped at small trees with his hatchet. At some point,
Speaker 1: the grandfather relented and the boy headed off in search
Speaker 1: of his father. With the darkness closing in, Robert and
Speaker 1: Bob met back up and ask each other where's Derek.
Speaker 1: Robert recalls asking Grandpa Bob replied, I thought he was
Speaker 1: with you. No, he was with you. Despite the steady
Speaker 1: falling of heavy wet snow, Robert turned on his heels
Speaker 1: and went back up the hill. He called out to Derek,
Speaker 1: but no response came. Robert then flagged down a man
Speaker 1: named Fred Hines, a motorist who was driving along at
Speaker 1: about four thirteen pm, and requested he dialed No One
Speaker 1: One so the authorities could be notified in the resort
Speaker 1: two miles away from the area where Derek vanished. Hines
Speaker 1: made the call. Over the course of two weeks, hundreds
Speaker 1: of people searched through several feet of snow, using snowmobiles
Speaker 1: and dogs to search for Derek. Lurie slept in a
Speaker 1: donated camper van at the turnout, hoping Derek might see
Speaker 1: the bonfire and come to her. Once she thought she
Speaker 1: saw Derek waving and smiling at her. However, it turned
Speaker 1: out she was just delirious from lack of sleep. Derek's
Speaker 1: tracks were found by Robert, who Dad and other members
Speaker 1: of the family in the newly fallen snow in the
Speaker 1: hours immediately following his disappearance. Apparently, Derek had laid down
Speaker 1: in a clearing near the road to make a snow angel.
Speaker 1: When his bootprints were spotted near the spot where Robert
Speaker 1: had last seen him. There had been a snowpile that
Speaker 1: came by, and sadly, the tracks leading away from the
Speaker 1: angel were obliterated. There were no tracks leading towards the
Speaker 1: woods from the snow angel. A small area of trees
Speaker 1: near the road was damaged by Derek's hatchet cuts. His
Speaker 1: father was confident that his son did not.
Speaker 2: Re enter the woods.
Speaker 1: Early in the evening, five to eight inches of snow
Speaker 1: had fallen on the point the candy wrapper was found,
Speaker 1: and a makeshift lean to shelter was found made out
Speaker 1: of branches. It was unclear whether the candy rapper or
Speaker 1: the lean su with the handiwork of Dereck. Derek's family
Speaker 1: believed that he had made his way to the road
Speaker 1: and was probably picked up by a stranger, although this
Speaker 1: explanation was for some reason dismissed by the sheriff. Bob
Speaker 1: discovered a whole in the ice and a child's footprint
Speaker 1: on the bank during the search. The next day, however,
Speaker 1: divers searched this area and additional searches were carried out
Speaker 1: during the spring thaw. However, nothing was found. Laurie and
Speaker 1: Robert were informed sadly by the Klamath County authorities that
Speaker 1: their son was most likely deceased eight days after he disappeared.
Speaker 1: During the next seven days, Robert Laurie at about one
Speaker 1: hundred volunteers stayed on the mountain. Speculation intensified that Derek
Speaker 1: had been kidnapped. When sub zero temperatures forced the Ingabretzens
Speaker 1: to end their search on December eighteenth, nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Robert drove straight from his graveyard shift at work to
Speaker 1: the mountain.
Speaker 2: To meet Lourie.
Speaker 1: Every weekend for the next two years, these search areas
Speaker 1: were marked on a map of the couple. It was
Speaker 1: widely believed that the authorities were too slow to arrive
Speaker 1: at the scene the night Derek disappeared, which led to
Speaker 1: criticism for the search and rescue effort. The search did
Speaker 1: not begin in earnest until nearly five hours after the
Speaker 1: first night on one call because the coordinator was reluctant
Speaker 1: to interrupt a Christmas dinner at Molly's Restaurant for the
Speaker 1: annual award dinner of the Klamath County Search and Rescue
Speaker 1: Team before he was certain a rescue was needed. Despite
Speaker 1: passing polygraphs, Robert and Grandpa Bob remained suspect in Derek's case.
Speaker 1: They at least thought to have been negligent in some way,
Speaker 1: despite the grandfather's insistence Robert no longer spoke to him.
Speaker 1: The blame for not finding Derek did indeed go to
Speaker 1: the father, but the father felt the blame for losing
Speaker 1: him went to Grandpa Bob Ingerbretsen was too overwhelmed with
Speaker 1: guilt to even think of talking about it. Robert took
Speaker 1: leave of work for several weeks, and Derek's family spent
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars looking for him. They even paid for
Speaker 1: psychics and a boat to search Klamath Lake. They eventually
Speaker 1: went bankrupt due to these efforts. The authorities claimed that
Speaker 1: Derek had simply wandered off into the woods and died,
Speaker 1: as remains had been scattered by animals. However, they Gingiabrets
Speaker 1: and family never really believed that, especially since no remains,
Speaker 1: torn clothing nothing was ever found. There was even a
Speaker 1: witness who said he had seen a man and a
Speaker 1: boy struggling on a highway nearby. Then in nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: strange graffiti was found scrawled on a rest area bathroom
Speaker 1: near Burns, stating that Derek had been killed and buried.
Speaker 1: It was later ruled a cruel hoax by the FBI.
Speaker 1: The boy named Derek was found in Texas under unusual circumstances,
Speaker 1: and he looked a lot like the Ingebrets and son,
Speaker 1: but was actually a different person. Then later on in
Speaker 1: two thousand, after several days of waiting for confirmation, a
Speaker 1: bone discovered in Pelican Butte was identified as being from
Speaker 1: a deer. In two thousand and one, the family mailbox
Speaker 1: received a handwritten letter. The letter read, I know who
Speaker 1: took your son. On July eleventh, two thousand, Frank J. Milligan,
Speaker 1: thirty one year old State Youth Authority worker, a ten
Speaker 1: year old boy at a Dallas park and offered him
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars to Moway's lawn. In Milligan's car, the
Speaker 1: man asked the boy do you want to live or die?
Speaker 1: Milligan bound the boy's hands with duct tape and then
Speaker 1: forced him to walk down a dirt road where he
Speaker 1: assaulted him. After this vicious assault, Miller left the boy
Speaker 1: for dead. Despite the odds, the boy woke up covered
Speaker 1: in his own blood and got to a road to
Speaker 1: where a passing motors stopped to help him. In this
Speaker 1: letter to the police and the Ingabretsans admitted that Milligan
Speaker 1: had confessed to doing away with Derry. The letter arrived
Speaker 1: at the Ingabretson home in late two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: In another letter that arrived at the home in two
Speaker 1: thousand and one, Milligan's cell mate claimed that Milligan had
Speaker 1: admitted to him that he had been the one that
Speaker 1: ended young Dereck's life. A detective from the Oregon State
Speaker 1: Police who investigated the Dallas case confronted Milligan. Milligan reportedly
Speaker 1: confessed to the crime and agreed to lead investigators to
Speaker 1: the body. The FBI used ground penetrating radar to scams
Speaker 1: for bones at Silverfalls State Park southeast of Salem Morgan,
Speaker 1: where Lourie and Robert drove for five hours. There were
Speaker 1: no results. After several days of searching, an assistant district
Speaker 1: attorney told the Incabretsen that Milligan had agreed to plead
Speaker 1: guilty to killing the young boy if they spared him
Speaker 1: the death penalty. However, after Milligan was presented with the
Speaker 1: paperwork a few days later, he refused to sign the confession.
Speaker 1: Was Derek Ingebretsen abducted by Frank Milligan or someone else,
Speaker 1: as the police believed, or did he simply die from
Speaker 1: the cold or maybe even an animal tack. This mysterious
Speaker 1: case remains unsolved. Next up, Charles mccullor, the melting Man
Speaker 1: of Crater Lake. January seventh, nineteen seventy five. Eighteen year
Speaker 1: oldest spiring photographer. Charles mccullor was a free spirit at heart.
Speaker 1: He was living in Virginia when he decided there was
Speaker 1: so much to explore in national parks across the United States.
Speaker 1: Charles was said to be very reliable and kept in
Speaker 1: close contact with his family, even on the long trips
Speaker 1: that he liked to take. Deciding to put more effort
Speaker 1: into his photography and wanting to visit a friend in Oregon,
Speaker 1: Charles packed a small backpack and left everything else behind,
Speaker 1: even his beloved Volkswagen bus. He would make his way
Speaker 1: across the country with the occasional bus ride, but mostly
Speaker 1: by hitchhiking. He wanted to see all the national parks
Speaker 1: in the United States, and one of those parks in
Speaker 1: particular caught his attention, Creater Lake National Park in Oregon.
Speaker 1: It was a convenient place from the start, as his
Speaker 1: friend lived nearby. Very little facts surrounded this case and
Speaker 1: Charles passed, so why he decided to leave at the
Speaker 1: very moment he did is still unclear. What was clear, however,
Speaker 1: by conversation he has with his father, was that Charles
Speaker 1: wanted something different and he was going to start his
Speaker 1: search at Crater Lake National Oregon. Charles mccullor would leave
Speaker 1: Virginia the very next day. Sadly, this would be the
Speaker 1: last time his family would ever see him. January eighth,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. Mostly hitchhiking across the United States, Charles's
Speaker 1: first significant stop was in Yuma, Arizona. Between January sixteenth
Speaker 1: and the twenty second of that year, he had regular
Speaker 1: contact with his parents, calling often to check in and
Speaker 1: update them on his progress and future plans. On January
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, Charles placed one more call to his parents
Speaker 1: to let them know he had made it to Eugene,
Speaker 1: Oregon and was staying with his friend. This was the
Speaker 1: last call the mccullors would receive from their son. He
Speaker 1: told his friends that he would be staying at Greater
Speaker 1: Lake for two days because he wanted to photograph the
Speaker 1: area's winter landscape, and that if he wasn't back by
Speaker 1: February first, to send help. This was the last contact
Speaker 1: Charles's friends ever had with him. It was reported during
Speaker 1: the search several people saw Charles around the Diamond Lake
Speaker 1: area on the twenty ninth, and a man that was
Speaker 1: cutting trees close to the park had picked Charles up
Speaker 1: and dropped him off near the park entrance. Not being
Speaker 1: from the area, Charles wasn't well versed with the terrain
Speaker 1: he planned a photograph. The winter months the Crater Lake
Speaker 1: could be very and unexpectedly harsh for the ill prepared.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's not rare for the area to see
Speaker 1: several feet of snow from one storm, and at the
Speaker 1: time of charles disappearance, the weather report for Crater Lake
Speaker 1: stated there was twenty four to ninety inches on the
Speaker 1: ground the snow drifts of over twenty feet. Temperatures at
Speaker 1: that time were well below freezing, dipping down into the
Speaker 1: teens at night and just over freezing during the day.
Speaker 1: Wind gusts themselves hampered search and rescue efforts, which were
Speaker 1: compounded and made worse with a blowing snow Ebruay first
Speaker 1: had came and went, and there was no word from Charles.
Speaker 1: He was reported missing by his friends that day. The
Speaker 1: search for Charles mccullor was underway at a rapid pace.
Speaker 1: The teams knew they had to make haste as the
Speaker 1: weather was already bad and was getting worse and wouldn't
Speaker 1: hold for very long as there was a storm forecast
Speaker 1: that night which called for more heavy snow and gale
Speaker 1: force winds up to sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 2: Round and aerial.
Speaker 1: Searches lasted for that day and into the night and
Speaker 1: early morning hours of February second. Search was called off
Speaker 1: around two am due to worsening weather conditions. The search
Speaker 1: continued intermittently over the next several days, although with a
Speaker 1: scaled down number of searchers, again due to the weather conditions.
Speaker 1: Local police didn't contact them of Colors until February tenth
Speaker 1: to notify them about their son's disappearance. Also notified at
Speaker 1: the same time was the FBI. Both Charles's parents and
Speaker 1: the FBI made their way to the park and joined
Speaker 1: in the search efforts. The efforts were still slow, though,
Speaker 1: as the snow dressed in the latest storm were twelve
Speaker 1: feet deeper more, making it almost impossible to even find
Speaker 1: where Charles Camp may have been located. The initial search
Speaker 1: lasted for months without any sign of him being found whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Charles's father stayed at Crater Lake, camping by the shore
Speaker 1: line throughout that spring and summer tiressly looking for his son. Sadly,
Speaker 1: he never found anything. A full year and a half later,
Speaker 1: two hikers that were on the Pacific Crest trail made
Speaker 1: a long turn and ended up twelve miles into remote
Speaker 1: and boggy area of the park, where they came upon
Speaker 1: a threadbare and backpack that contained, among other things, a
Speaker 1: Volkswagen key. The hikers marked the area with a piece
Speaker 1: of clothing, then made their way to the ranger station
Speaker 1: and informed them of what they had found, showing them
Speaker 1: the area of where to go on a map the mark.
Speaker 1: While going through the contents of the bag, the hikers
Speaker 1: made a remark about the strange shaped key that had
Speaker 1: been found. A part time park ranger that had been
Speaker 1: part of the initial search for Charles named Mary and Jack,
Speaker 1: happened to be at the ranger station that day and
Speaker 1: overheard the conversation. His curiosity aroused, he walked up to
Speaker 1: the man and looked at the key. You remember the
Speaker 1: flyers that were made when Charles went missing, and one
Speaker 1: of the photos on the flier was of the key.
Speaker 1: It turned out to be an important piece of evidence,
Speaker 1: one they could link to Charles mccullor. A new search
Speaker 1: party was formed and from the information given by the hikers,
Speaker 1: they trekked into Sphagnum box in there that was a
Speaker 1: full twelve miles off trail of where Charles was supposed
Speaker 1: to have been. The key that was found was later
Speaker 1: matched to the one Charles owned. Further searches would turn
Speaker 1: up a mysterious scene. Indeed, charles remains were found in
Speaker 1: a state of undress and only his lower half was left.
Speaker 1: His jeans were un button and his belt undone. His
Speaker 1: legs were broken at the shin bones and they were
Speaker 1: sticking straight up. His socks contained the sweet bones. The
Speaker 1: only other part of the body that was found was
Speaker 1: the crown of his skull, and it was over ten
Speaker 1: feet away from the other parts of his body. It
Speaker 1: was as if his upper body simply melted away. His
Speaker 1: camera equipment, along with his money, boots, coat, and shirt
Speaker 1: were all missing, just as was the rest of him.
Speaker 1: The creepiest part was his genes were found in a
Speaker 1: sitting position on a falling low. It was as if
Speaker 1: he had just been sitting staring at the lake when
Speaker 1: the unthinkable happen. Some have speculated that Charles mccollor was
Speaker 1: suffering from hypothermia, which caused a condition known as paradoxical undressing.
Speaker 1: This condition happens when the core body temperature drops below
Speaker 1: ninety four degrees and because of the heat loss, victims
Speaker 1: begin to think they're too hot. They start removing their
Speaker 1: clothing to alleviate the heat, when reality they are freezing
Speaker 1: to death all the more faster. This theory would explain
Speaker 1: his missing clothes, But what about the money and the
Speaker 1: camera equipment, and what happened to the other half of
Speaker 1: his remains? How did he get a full twelve miles
Speaker 1: into this bog in snow that was over one hundred
Speaker 1: inches deep? And why was the FBI called into search
Speaker 1: for Charles. In twenty sixteen, Stephen mccullar wrote an article
Speaker 1: on his brother's case. It reads quote, if only those
Speaker 1: broken shinbones could have talked to us, what do you
Speaker 1: think they would say? I bet they'd say something like this.
Speaker 1: I hitched to ride with this creepy guy who stole
Speaker 1: my camera equipment and money and then took my life. Then,
Speaker 1: on a clear day of the dead of winter, he
Speaker 1: hauled my body into the remotest part of Crater Lake,
Speaker 1: took my shirt and boots off, and set me up
Speaker 1: on a log, and left, figuring the animals would destroy
Speaker 1: the evidence by spring. And hey, I guess it worked
Speaker 1: because the cops ruled the death to be from natural causes.
Speaker 1: My dad doesn't buy it though, end quote. At the
Speaker 1: time of this recording, there have been no new developments
Speaker 1: in the sad case of Charles mccullor. Next up, a
Speaker 1: seventy year old mystery in Crater Lake National Park. On
Speaker 1: July twenty first, nineteen fifty two, while searching for missing
Speaker 1: United Service Motors executive, it was on a beautiful sunny
Speaker 1: summer's day at Crater Lake National Park a group of
Speaker 1: part time park workers found the bodies of the two
Speaker 1: men who'd been murdered execution style. Their neck ties have
Speaker 1: been used as gags and remained in their mouths because
Speaker 1: this case had been solved seventy years ago. First, let's
Speaker 1: take a look at who they were. The men found
Speaker 1: on the trail that day were fifty three year old
Speaker 1: Charles Patrick Cohaney of Detroit, Michigan and fifty six year
Speaker 1: old Albert Marston Jones of San Francisco, California. Both men
Speaker 1: were United Service Motor Executives and ancillary company of General Motors.
Speaker 2: The men were at.
Speaker 1: Greater Lake National Park to do some sight seeing and
Speaker 1: have a relaxing day. They'd been in town attending meetings
Speaker 1: in Klamath Falls for the company. Both men wanted to
Speaker 1: do some fishing at the Union Creek area and had
Speaker 1: made plans to meet up with business associates John Vaughn,
Speaker 1: Frank Everlyn, and Evelyn's thirteen year old son. The fishing
Speaker 1: trip would be later in the day as well, as
Speaker 1: Evelyn had to work half day before they could closed
Speaker 1: the shop. As the local men made their way to
Speaker 1: the fishing spot, they passed the South Park entrance around
Speaker 1: three pm and saw Albert Jones car, a nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: one green Pontiac, sitting on the side of the road
Speaker 1: on Highway sixty two. This was near the Anti Creek
Speaker 1: Canyon area. Jones and Kohaney weren't in the car nor
Speaker 1: around the area, as Vaughn and Evelin pulled up alongside
Speaker 1: the car. They could see the passenger door ajar, which
Speaker 1: seemed to be off to them. Exiting their vehicle, they
Speaker 1: called out for Jones and Kohaney, but never got an answer.
Speaker 1: Luggage could be seen from the window, as well as
Speaker 1: a camera sitting on the seat, and the car keys
Speaker 1: still hung from the ignition. Bon touched the hoo of
Speaker 1: the car and found it to still be warm. The
Speaker 1: three men stood around talking for a bit, waiting for
Speaker 1: the others to possibly return. Around an hour later, and
Speaker 1: having searched a little in themedate area, two of the
Speaker 1: three men left to go call for help, while the
Speaker 1: third remained with the car just in case they returned.
Speaker 1: While the two men were gone, who was waiting at
Speaker 1: the car heard another car approaching.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 1: One car came through, crunching gravel, didn't really took off fast.
Speaker 1: I didn't think much about it at the time, but
Speaker 1: now I wonder if that was them, and they were
Speaker 1: returning to the car and saw someone inside it and adios,
Speaker 1: let's get out of here. Once alerted, rangers started to
Speaker 1: search that day for the missing men. One of the
Speaker 1: searchers that day was a man named Rex Ash, and
Speaker 1: he was the one who found the bodies. We were
Speaker 1: working west from the highway, all spread out about twenty
Speaker 1: feet apart. He recalls, I thought, old, lordy, there they are.
Speaker 1: It was a really hot summer day and they had
Speaker 1: started to bloat. I'd never seen a dead body before.
Speaker 1: Ash alerted the other searchers to the fight, and they
Speaker 1: all came rushing over.
Speaker 2: It was a bunch of.
Speaker 1: Kids and everyone was gathering around to see what was happening.
Speaker 1: Ash went on to say, we might have accidentally destroyed
Speaker 1: some of the evidence. We didn't touch anything, but we
Speaker 1: tore up the terrain quite a bit. One member of
Speaker 1: the search crew took his camera out and started taking pictures.
Speaker 1: He stepped over Jones and Coheney and around them and
Speaker 1: practically got in their faces. He had plans to sell
Speaker 1: these to True Crime magazine and make a fortune, but
Speaker 1: fortunately the FBI took them away. Recalled John Owens, another
Speaker 1: one of the searchers. Owings and Ash were tasked with
Speaker 1: staying with the bodies until officials could arrive. We were
Speaker 1: sitting there, scared to death, wondering which one of us
Speaker 1: was going to be next. Owings recounted it was one
Speaker 1: of the worst nights of my life. Ash and Owens
Speaker 1: finished out the summer at the park and returned to
Speaker 1: their respective homes. On Monday, July twenty first, nineteen fifty two,
Speaker 1: at three twenty seven pm, an FBI agent and Oregon
Speaker 1: State Police Private LW. Heron arrived at the murder scene
Speaker 1: and took over the investigation. Col Haney was the first
Speaker 1: to be processed. He was laying on his back, legs
Speaker 1: out and right arm across his chest. His dentures were
Speaker 1: in his shirt pocket. He had been shot once in
Speaker 1: the back of his head. In addition to the gunshot wound,
Speaker 1: the growing area was bruised. Jones's fate was similar. He
Speaker 1: was also on his back, feet towards Koheney, arms by
Speaker 1: his side, Bruce groin and a single gunshot wound to
Speaker 1: the back of his head. But set jones injuries apart
Speaker 1: from Kohney was the skull was fractured. Both men were shoeless,
Speaker 1: but their socked feet were clean. Their ties had been
Speaker 1: used as gags. Also, both men had been robbed, as
Speaker 1: their watches and money was missing, and one man's pair
Speaker 1: of shoes were nowhere to be found a few other
Speaker 1: clues were found at the scene. Stay true for Heron,
Speaker 1: who has since passed away, was quote fascinated by the
Speaker 1: case and worked on it initially until the FBI took over.
Speaker 1: He talked about it and looked into it for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. Quote Now that's according to his wife,
Speaker 1: Ruth Heron, now seventy seven and still living in Klamath Falls.
Speaker 1: Aaron had suspected the killers were a couple of men
Speaker 1: named John Wesley Cole and Kenneth Moore, both of Chiliquin.
Speaker 1: A few years before the Jones koll Haney murders, Moore
Speaker 1: had been convicted of tying up and robbing two trappers
Speaker 1: in the woods.
Speaker 2: A woman came forward with.
Speaker 1: A story saying that Moore had confessed to the murders
Speaker 1: and had told her late husband this was according to
Speaker 1: osp reports, justice would come swift and harsh to Colin
Speaker 1: Moore if they were in fact guilty of the murders.
Speaker 1: They were both found frozen to death in Klamouth County
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty two. However, Aaron had suspected the two
Speaker 1: men because they were outlaws around that are at the
Speaker 1: time that the Kolhenyan Jones murders occurred. Days after the murders,
Speaker 1: the police talked over two hundred park employees and took
Speaker 1: statements from several people that had been in the area.
Speaker 1: One of those people was Lincoln Lenz. His initial report
Speaker 1: read he Lynz was driving canned goods to the lodge
Speaker 1: that he drove a truck for on July nineteen, nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty two. He says he saw two men wearing work
Speaker 1: clothes with two other men that were described as white
Speaker 1: collar types. The member being led into the woods for
Speaker 1: the executives, who were later found dead. As he continued
Speaker 1: down the road towards the lodge, he heard what he
Speaker 1: described as two firecracker type bangs.
Speaker 2: Later that day, Linz was.
Speaker 1: Followed and harassed by two scruffy looking men who also
Speaker 1: followed him the next day. This is what made him
Speaker 1: surmise they were the killers. Linz gave a description of
Speaker 1: the men. The old one was the most distinctive. He
Speaker 1: wore a beaded belt that appeared to spell out Ralph,
Speaker 1: He had a tattoo of bikini clad female on his
Speaker 1: right forearm, and he was missing a finger. Linz said
Speaker 1: the FBI has missed the story and called him a
Speaker 1: smart ellie. If the FBI had come back to me,
Speaker 1: I could have showed them even where the killer's car
Speaker 1: had been parked and beer cans that might have had
Speaker 1: their fingerprints. He recounted he was able to remember more
Speaker 1: details after the initial interview. After the lodge had closed
Speaker 1: in the fall and I returned to the University of Oregon.
Speaker 1: I tried to contact the agents several more times. They
Speaker 1: never returned my calls, possibly because they thought it was
Speaker 1: impossible for me to see them walking those guys into
Speaker 1: the forest and hearing the gunshots, even though the area
Speaker 1: was a quarter of a mile off the highway. Two
Speaker 1: days after the murders, a man that gave a fake
Speaker 1: identification J. D. Harney, that supposedly lived at five point
Speaker 1: thirty six Plum Street in Medford Organ, made a long
Speaker 1: distance call from a payphone at the Southern Pacific Railroad
Speaker 1: depot at one fifteen pm. He asked theator put the
Speaker 1: call through the garage, the only one in Fort Klamath,
Speaker 1: a small community near Crater Lake. The operator contacted the
Speaker 1: FBI after hearing of the murders to let them know
Speaker 1: about the strange phone call and the even stranger request
Speaker 1: made by the caller. She recounted that the man seemed
Speaker 1: rather angry, like he wanted to take my head off.
Speaker 1: Because she wasn't able to put the call through until
Speaker 1: one forty five later that afternoon, the business called Wilmer
Speaker 1: Garage was closed until then. When he finally got through
Speaker 1: the garage, she told the owners that a friend of
Speaker 1: his name Jones, was in the hospital and needed his
Speaker 1: car picked up from the park and stored at their
Speaker 1: garage until he got out. He said the keys were
Speaker 1: in the ignition. The police quickly descended on the area
Speaker 1: where the call was placed from, but no one was there. However,
Speaker 1: a trained deeper worker was able to give a description
Speaker 1: of the caller. He was around five to seven, sandy
Speaker 1: colored hair, slender, and was wearing a brightly colored shirt
Speaker 1: that was yellow and red with short sleeves. The police
Speaker 1: checked out to name an address the collar gave, but
Speaker 1: both were fake. Fingerprints were taken from the receiver and
Speaker 1: the coins inside the phone. However, no one was ever identified.
Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety four, the granddaughter one of the murdered
Speaker 1: men had a different take on what happened. While going
Speaker 1: through her late mother's belongings. She discovered two letters that
Speaker 1: were written but unsent. One stated that she, the daughter,
Speaker 1: thought it was an organized hit. The letter read, I
Speaker 1: think they the Santos gang, saw the fancy car and
Speaker 1: it was a case of robbery. Even though people say
Speaker 1: there is more to it than that, I just don't
Speaker 1: think so. I think it was Jack Santo, EMMITTT. Perkins,
Speaker 1: and Barbara Graham and their gang. Their method of operation
Speaker 1: fits and their motive was always robbery. This particular game
Speaker 1: was executed in nineteen fifty five. For other murders. Retired
Speaker 1: met For police officer Bob Allen said the FBI swooped
Speaker 1: in and took over the case because it happened in
Speaker 1: a national park. All they could do was speculate about
Speaker 1: why and who had committed such a crime. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like anyone from around here. Allan said. The
Speaker 1: town's worst crime up to that point were safe roppers
Speaker 1: and bad check writers. Last spring, Cheryl housey, forty seven,
Speaker 1: was taking class at Road Community College when she heard
Speaker 1: about the Greater Lake murders and decided to write a
Speaker 1: paper on them. She spent over three months investigating the deaths.
Speaker 1: Her extensive report is now part of the files at
Speaker 1: the Southern Oregon Historical Society. Claydy was a big muckety
Speaker 1: muck with the company and there were problems.
Speaker 2: With the union. Back then it was a hit.
Speaker 1: She gave the presentation on the murders at the Klamath
Speaker 1: County Museum. A little over thirty seniors showed up. The
Speaker 1: last man to walk in was what was described as
Speaker 1: a suspicious looking man in a long shirt. She said,
Speaker 1: Hou'sey's thread noticed the man because the way he studied
Speaker 1: the names in the guest book so intensely, and he
Speaker 1: was missing a finger. As of this recording, the Crater
Speaker 1: Lake murders remained unsolved. Last up, we have the legend
Speaker 1: of the Missing Prospector, the story of the lost Cabin Mine.
Speaker 1: The cabin and a prospector known as set him Up
Speaker 1: is a legend about an area of land not too
Speaker 1: far from Crater Lake. But it was said that the
Speaker 1: man named set him Up has successful prospects of the
Speaker 1: gold rush that was hitting the area. The legend, as
Speaker 1: recited by a group of California prospectors from days gone by,
Speaker 1: was told like this, The argument over the first white
Speaker 1: man to discover Crater Lake has been disputed for years.
Speaker 1: In the eighteen forties, it was said to have been
Speaker 1: discovered by John Steve Fremont, while others claim it wasn't
Speaker 1: until eighteen fifty three. At that time, Oregon's first major
Speaker 1: gold rush to hit the area, and prospectors came from
Speaker 1: all around chomping at the bit to find their Having
Speaker 1: already found the Jackson Creek area, two prospectors pushed further
Speaker 1: into the wilderness looking for a rumored lost cabin mine
Speaker 1: that was said to be chok full of gold. A
Speaker 1: group of men from California owned a plot of land
Speaker 1: and said to have a small cabin and a gold
Speaker 1: mine that produced a lot of gold on it. One day,
Speaker 1: the oregon men that owned the land came under attack
Speaker 1: by local natives, and to protect their gold, buried a
Speaker 1: horde of it to keep the natives from taking it.
Speaker 1: Three of the four men were killed. The lone survivor
Speaker 1: was said to have divulged certain landmarks to set them up,
Speaker 1: leading to where the cabin and buried treasure were. Soon
Speaker 1: after the man gave the information out, he disappeared as well.
Speaker 1: Either man has ever been found, and the cabin in
Speaker 1: mines whereabouts are still a mystery to this day. Years later,
Speaker 1: a group of prospectors, also from California, were relaxing in
Speaker 1: a local saloon one night, telling stories of their successes
Speaker 1: and drinking their fill of whiskey. One of the men,
Speaker 1: having had consumed more than needed to loose his lips,
Speaker 1: was telling his group about the legends the lost miner,
Speaker 1: the cabin and the gold mine, and the riches contained
Speaker 1: at the mine. As well as the cabin, the miner
Speaker 1: was said to return to town with pockets full of
Speaker 1: gold from prospecting the area. The miner only notice set
Speaker 1: them up because that was how he always greeted people
Speaker 1: when he came into the local saloon. Was rumored to
Speaker 1: have a cabin with maps of the missing mine and
Speaker 1: a loot.
Speaker 2: Of gold within.
Speaker 1: When the old miner would need something, he would come
Speaker 1: to town with pockets full of gold nuggets from his
Speaker 1: secret mind. The man also spoke about set them up.
Speaker 1: Having gone missing under strange circumstances, he was headed off
Speaker 1: into the woods with a couple of shady characters from
Speaker 1: Jacksonville that were known thieves. Sitting not too far from
Speaker 1: the California men, a local prospecting group overheard the man's
Speaker 1: tail and took notice, glancing at each other from around
Speaker 1: the table as they tossed back a strong shot of whiskey.
Speaker 1: The men leaned into each other and quietly started to
Speaker 1: devise their plan. They would follow the Californians to the mine,
Speaker 1: and hey, if they found the old man along the way,
Speaker 1: even better, they would be town heroes, and maybe he
Speaker 1: would tell them where the mine was, for their troubles
Speaker 1: were searching for.
Speaker 2: This search for the.
Speaker 1: Lost mine and cabin would lead to the discovery of
Speaker 1: Crater Lake, but for now, both groups of men had
Speaker 1: gold in their sites. They would look for the missing
Speaker 1: prospector and his rumored loot, but little did they know
Speaker 1: the journey they were about to embark upon would almost
Speaker 1: caused them to become missing as well. Now, the lost
Speaker 1: cabin mine wasn't exactly said to be specifically in the
Speaker 1: Crater Lake area. Other sources said it was actually in California,
Speaker 1: and the missing miner would return home to Jacksonville with
Speaker 1: his goal to throw off any would be thieves or
Speaker 1: snoopy men looking to find his secret mine. But big
Speaker 1: as a California group had prospected all over that state
Speaker 1: and found nothing that resembled the landscape said didn't have
Speaker 1: it the lost cabin nor mine. They were convinced it
Speaker 1: was an Oregon and specifically just a few miles from
Speaker 1: where they sat. It said that as soon as the
Speaker 1: California group left for their search, the organ group collected
Speaker 1: provisions and said hot on their trail to share, and
Speaker 1: they imagined well. The Orgon party had eleven men and
Speaker 1: the California party had four. Not long after both parties
Speaker 1: set out, they discovered each other and it became a
Speaker 1: game of cat and mouse. The California group would cut
Speaker 1: through the thick brush, spread out from each other, and
Speaker 1: then double back to confuse the organ group. The now
Speaker 1: large group of men had been searching for the cabin
Speaker 1: and gold for days. Their provisions began to dwindle, so
Speaker 1: a truce was called and the men joined each other
Speaker 1: in order to survive. Realizing they had wanted off their objective,
Speaker 1: but failing to realize just how far they were passed
Speaker 1: where they were wanted to be, they were getting dangerously
Speaker 1: closed to the rogue river.
Speaker 2: It was to side.
Speaker 1: At this point, the healthier, stronger men in the group
Speaker 1: would forge ahead while the others turned back with the
Speaker 1: men that were continuing left the camp. They had no
Speaker 1: way of knowing just how close one of them would
Speaker 1: come to death that day, and would watch another man die.
Speaker 1: While riding on a small trail on a sloping mountain,
Speaker 1: one of the men soon came upon a rim of
Speaker 1: a lake thought to be Klamath Lake, it was actually
Speaker 1: Crater Lake. He was within feet of falling off the
Speaker 1: edge before his mule stopped. I was convinced that had
Speaker 1: I been on a blind meal, I would have ridden
Speaker 1: right over the edge to my death, Hilman stated. Each
Speaker 1: man looked on him wonder at the lake and stated
Speaker 1: how beautiful it was, before making their way back into
Speaker 1: the forest. The men returned to camp and contemplated what
Speaker 1: to call the lake they had just found. Two names
Speaker 1: were chosen, the Sterious Lake and Deep Blue Lake. For
Speaker 1: the last of the two names chosen as a final name,
Speaker 1: The men documented their fine by writing each of their
Speaker 1: names on a piece of paper and fixing the paper
Speaker 1: to a stick at the rim of the lake. It
Speaker 1: was decided they would return to Jacksonville as they hadn't
Speaker 1: found the lost miner in the cabin nor the gold.
Speaker 1: The men returned to Jacksonville the next day. Some were
Speaker 1: excited over the fine of the lake, and others just
Speaker 1: didn't seem to care. By the time they had made
Speaker 1: it back, most of the men were so exhausted and
Speaker 1: famished they couldn't even call the direction of the lake.
Speaker 1: The other men just didn't care. A few years later,
Speaker 1: Hillman would return to the area where the lake had
Speaker 1: been discovered. He'd agreed to take a group of people
Speaker 1: to see it, as word has spread by then and
Speaker 1: people have become curious. Legend has it that as Hillman
Speaker 1: approached the edge of Crater Lake this time, his horse
Speaker 1: lost its balance and fell over the side. Hilman and
Speaker 1: the horse died at the scene. The lake had tried
Speaker 1: to claim him the first time he had come, and
Speaker 1: was successful this time. A local Native American medicine man
Speaker 1: was quoted as saying, if that lake wants you, it
Speaker 1: will find a way to take you. It's cursed. Well, friends,
Speaker 1: there you have it. What do you think of these
Speaker 1: strange true stories from Crater Lake? I look forward to
Speaker 1: your comments, but please keep it friendly and respectful. In
Speaker 1: the meanwhile, be good to yourselves and each other, and
Speaker 1: I'll see you just a little further down the trail.
Speaker 1: I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: Mount Saint Helen's National Volcanic Monument of the prestigious ranks
Speaker 1: of national parks. In August of nineteen eighty two, President
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan understood the importance of preserving one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten thousand acre area. Mount Saint Helens is a national park,
Speaker 1: but unlike most other national parks, it's maintained by the
Speaker 1: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Preservation of the
Speaker 1: area was deemed necessary to protect the geologic, ecologic, and
Speaker 1: cultural resources of the monument, allowing geologic forces and ecological
Speaker 1: secession to continue substantially unimpeded, as per the USBA Forestry Service.
Speaker 1: Two years prior to the area being protected, the one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty year dormant volcano erupted, sending a blast
Speaker 1: wave that traveled over three hundred miles per hour. Saint
Speaker 1: Helen's north face was destroyed, along with two hundred square
Speaker 1: miles of forest. Fifty seven people lost their lives. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: life slowly began to return to the area, the first
Speaker 1: thing being spiders and beatles. Just weeks after the blast. However,
Speaker 1: another live form may have escaped the crater in the
Speaker 1: form of a cryptid called batsquatch. Yes, you heard correctly, batsquatch.
Speaker 1: Soon there would be sightings of the creature, and it
Speaker 1: would beg the question where did this.
Speaker 2: Thing come from?
Speaker 1: Batsquatch, which is a cross between a bat and sasquatch,
Speaker 1: that said to reside in or on Mount Saint Helens,
Speaker 1: using the thick forest as cover in shelter, described as
Speaker 1: being six to eight feet tall, having a wolf like snout,
Speaker 1: blue fur, blowing yellower, red eyes, sharp serrated teeth, herd
Speaker 1: like feet, and bat like wings spanning up to fifty feet.
Speaker 1: It said those who have had the misfortune of encountering
Speaker 1: the beast were so frightened by the sighting some refused
Speaker 1: to return to the area where they saw it. People
Speaker 1: who've had encounters of the strange creature equate the May
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty eruption of Mount Saint Helens to the
Speaker 1: release of batsquatch from the Earth's core, along with the
Speaker 1: molten rock that caused devastation to much of the park
Speaker 1: and left that same devastation for hundreds of miles even
Speaker 1: here in Saint Helen's, Oregon, where I live so named
Speaker 1: because you can see Mount Saint Helens, which is across
Speaker 1: the river in Washington State. I've talked to some people
Speaker 1: that were living here at the time, and they told
Speaker 1: of how they didn't see the sun for weeks and
Speaker 1: a fine ash covered everything.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: One of the first sightings of this batsquatch creature was
Speaker 1: reported by Brian Canfield in the foothills of Mount Rainier,
Speaker 1: north of Mount Saint Helens in April of nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1: Brian Canfield was driving through Pierce County, Washington, when suddenly
Speaker 1: his truck died. While Canfield sat in his truck scratching
Speaker 1: his head and figured out how to get it started again,
Speaker 1: he recalled looking up and seeing a large creature land
Speaker 1: right in front of him. It was standing there, staring
Speaker 1: at me like it was resting, like it didn't know
Speaker 1: what to think. I was scared. It raised the hair
Speaker 1: on me. I didn't feel threatened, I just felt out
Speaker 1: of place, canfielder counted. He continues, after a few moments,
Speaker 1: the creature's fingers twitched, the wings began to unfold, wings
Speaker 1: that were as white as the whole road, and.
Speaker 2: It took off in the direction of Mount Raineer.
Speaker 1: The wings were so massive and when from the turbulence
Speaker 1: shook Canfield's truck. After a few moments, Canfield tried to
Speaker 1: start his truck up again and it roared to life
Speaker 1: as if there had never been an issue. Brian Canfield
Speaker 1: continued on his way home and for the remainder of
Speaker 1: his trip never even stopped for traffic seedings.
Speaker 2: Arriving home, Brian.
Speaker 1: Quickly grabbed a piece of paper and attempted to draw
Speaker 1: from memory what he could remember the creature. All the
Speaker 1: noise he was making woke his sleeping parents and they
Speaker 1: inquired as to why he was so wound up, and
Speaker 1: that's when he told him what happened and what he saw.
Speaker 1: They insisted on Brian taking them to the area to
Speaker 1: look for clues as to what the thing could be,
Speaker 1: and a neighbor even agreed to take the family back
Speaker 1: to the area using directions from Brian. When they arrived,
Speaker 1: though there was no trace of bathsquash. Interviews conducted by C. R. Roberts,
Speaker 1: the reporter that took the initial counsel, Brian Canfield, stated
Speaker 1: he Canfield was just an average normal kid. Brian Camfield
Speaker 1: was eighteen years old at the time of encounter and
Speaker 1: not known to give into flights to fancy Roberts vouched
Speaker 1: for him after listening to the story, and Brian Camfield
Speaker 1: has what might be the best documented encounter with batsquatch. However,
Speaker 1: there was a handful of other reported sightings. Nineteen ninety eight,
Speaker 1: an unnamed man reported seeing two similar looking creatures, one
Speaker 1: of which was injured after being struck by a logging
Speaker 1: truck on a trail in Mount Saint Helens.
Speaker 2: In two thousand and.
Speaker 1: Nine, a group of hikers near Mount Shasta, California, reported
Speaker 1: seeing a winged creature with a fifty foot wingspan fly
Speaker 1: from a crevasse in the mountain. In twenty eleven, a
Speaker 1: man out for a walk with his dog reported seeing
Speaker 1: a blue furred animal flying in the sky around where
Speaker 1: he was and watched as it flew from sight and
Speaker 1: perhaps the last known sighting, in twenty fourteen, Archbishop Hoban
Speaker 1: High School in Akron, Ohio reported an entire class seeing
Speaker 1: a giant black mass whipped past their window with incredible speed.
Speaker 1: Since twenty fourteen, it seems as though there hadn't been
Speaker 1: many sightings of the blue furd monster perhaps it did
Speaker 1: escape the depths of the ill fated Mount Saint Helens
Speaker 1: when she erupted, giving a chosen few the chance to
Speaker 1: see into a realm. Few will ever have the privilege shoot,
Speaker 1: or possibly Batsquatch simply reveals itself to those it chooses.
Speaker 1: Whatever set of circumstances that brought the winged creature trial forest,
Speaker 1: one thing is for certain. Those that have seen Batsquatch
Speaker 1: will not soon forget the encounter. Another strange area on
Speaker 1: Mount Saint Helens is Ape Canyon. This area was deeply
Speaker 1: affected by the eruption. It's located on the north face
Speaker 1: of the mountain, and Ape Canyon is popular with mountain
Speaker 1: bikers and hikers alike. Decades after the heavily scarred ground
Speaker 1: was able to host visitors, people began flocking to the
Speaker 1: area to enjoy the miles of trails Mount Saint Helens
Speaker 1: has to offer. However, before the eruption it would disrupt
Speaker 1: visits Tape Canyon once more for a while. There was
Speaker 1: an encounter between miners and ape men that caused people
Speaker 1: to question what really happened. On July sixteenth, nineteen twenty four,
Speaker 1: a group of miners Gabe La Fever fred Beck, John Peterson,
Speaker 1: Marion Smith, and his son Roy Smith reported that they
Speaker 1: came under attack by a group of what they described.
Speaker 2: As ape men.
Speaker 1: The miners told authorities that they came under siege by
Speaker 1: the creatures as they were attacked with stones being tossed
Speaker 1: at them from atop the mountain down into the gorge
Speaker 1: where they were taking shelter in an old prospecting cabin.
Speaker 1: The men described the ape men as having long, thick,
Speaker 1: black fur, elongated ears that stuck straight up, four short
Speaker 1: stubby toes, and walked upright like humans, weighing an estimated
Speaker 1: four hundred pounds plus.
Speaker 2: Known in the.
Speaker 1: Bigfoot community as the Ape Canyon Attack, the five miners
Speaker 1: included a man, as we mentioned, named Fred Beck. They'd
Speaker 1: gone to Ape Canyon to do some prospecting for gold.
Speaker 1: Working from sun up to sundown. The men were forced
Speaker 1: to collect water from a nearby spring as it was
Speaker 1: the only water source. They also used the same spring
Speaker 1: for cleaning up and washing their clothing. One hot evening,
Speaker 1: the men returned to their cabin and kneading water, one
Speaker 1: of them headed to the spring to collect it. Having
Speaker 1: arrived at the spring, the man noticed a rather large
Speaker 1: footprint that at first was thought to be a human footprint,
Speaker 1: but upon closer inspection, the man saw just how large
Speaker 1: the print was. He measured nineteen inches, much too.
Speaker 2: Large to be that of any human.
Speaker 1: With that, the man made his way back to the
Speaker 1: cabin and informed the other men as to what he
Speaker 1: had discovered at their only water source. Now the other
Speaker 1: men were a little upset at the blatant disrespect of
Speaker 1: someone walking through their water hole. They thought that well,
Speaker 1: maybe their friend was tired he'd gotten the measurement of
Speaker 1: the footprint wrong. Driven by anger at the encroachment, the
Speaker 1: men approached the spring, only to find the nineteen inch
Speaker 1: footprint in the sand, just as their friend had reported.
Speaker 1: The men started to talk about other word circumstances they
Speaker 1: had noticed over the last few days and just hadn't mentioned.
Speaker 1: Strange noises came from the mountain above the cabin. The
Speaker 1: men thought it must be the sounds of animals, but
Speaker 1: now the miners were convinced.
Speaker 2: They were being sought by something.
Speaker 1: The footprint that brought all the other clues over the
Speaker 1: past few days together was a single print, as if
Speaker 1: whatever had left it had dropped from the sky and
Speaker 1: went back up one miner recounted to the local newspaper.
Speaker 1: Then came the thumping sounds, as if something was beating
Speaker 1: on its chest that the men began to hear. This
Speaker 1: really set the miners on edge. After the thumping noises
Speaker 1: would come what was described as a shrill whistling that seemed.
Speaker 2: To come from everywhere.
Speaker 1: By this point, they were too scared to fetch water alone.
Speaker 1: The miners would go in pairs to venture to the spring.
Speaker 1: On one occasion, Fred Beck was asked by Hank, one
Speaker 1: of the other miners, to accompany him to the watering hole.
Speaker 1: Rifle in hand, the two men made their way to
Speaker 1: the water and started to quickly fill canteens. As Hank
Speaker 1: stood guard, he noticed a dark figure behind a pine tree.
Speaker 1: This allegedly hairy bipedal beast darted off behind a tree
Speaker 1: before Hank could get a shot off, but soon after
Speaker 1: he saw the first creature, a second one was sighted.
Speaker 1: This time, Hank raised his weapon, aimed and fired. Fred
Speaker 1: watched Bart fly from the tree his Hank almost hit
Speaker 1: his mark. The hairy ape like beasts quickly slipped back
Speaker 1: into the cover of the forest within seconds before the
Speaker 1: men had another chance to fire.
Speaker 2: Upon them.
Speaker 1: The men took note of how fast the creatures were running,
Speaker 1: far too fast to be human. Making haste back to
Speaker 1: the cabin, The men convened and decided to pack it
Speaker 1: in and head home. It was too late in the
Speaker 1: evening for them to leave that night, so it was
Speaker 1: decided they would wait until morning. The camp consisted of
Speaker 1: a few tents and a log cabin that had just
Speaker 1: been erected a few months prior to the men living
Speaker 1: semi permanently at the camp. There wasn't much to their shelter,
Speaker 1: but it was not meant to be an indefinite living situation.
Speaker 1: The main structure the cabin, was a small, one room
Speaker 1: shelter where the men could stay dry should inclement weather hit.
Speaker 1: As the men discussed the final details of their return trip,
Speaker 1: smoking their pipes and maybe sipping some whiskey, it was
Speaker 1: agreed they would leave it first light. With the details
Speaker 1: planned out, the weary miners turned in for the night
Speaker 1: and fell fast asleep. That didn't last long, however, The
Speaker 1: men all woke with a start of something large lum
Speaker 1: the side of their cabin. The cabin was under attack.
Speaker 1: The first hit caused the chinking between two logs to
Speaker 1: fall onto the floor. This created a hole in the
Speaker 1: wall where they could look out and see what was happening.
Speaker 1: Hank was able to see three creatures that looked like
Speaker 1: the one he'd taken a shot at in the forest,
Speaker 1: and they were circling around the structure. Another hit. This
Speaker 1: time Hank was able to see what was striking the cabin.
Speaker 1: The epe men were using boulders to slam into the walls,
Speaker 1: dislodging the chinking in several more places. Hank and Fred
Speaker 1: grabbed the only thing they had his protection and took aim.
Speaker 1: Shots rang out through the darkness, and all fell quiet,
Speaker 1: but for a few moments. Another rock hit the roof.
Speaker 1: The creatures were trying to drive the men out of
Speaker 1: the shelter and were doing a good job of scaring
Speaker 1: them in the process. The two men in charge of
Speaker 1: firing only did so when rocks hit the cabin. Their
Speaker 1: thoughts were that if they only fired when under active attack,
Speaker 1: the ape men would stop the attack and lead them alone.
Speaker 1: The attacks continued, though, on the roof of the cabin
Speaker 1: and from all side. The miners were doing all they
Speaker 1: could to hold off these attackers while making an escape plan.
Speaker 1: The door began to rattle. This was their last line
Speaker 1: of defense. They knew the door was the weak spot
Speaker 1: and wouldn't hold much longer. Another shot rang out and
Speaker 1: a whole rip to the door, and then all fell silent.
Speaker 1: The men used this time to try and reinforce the door,
Speaker 1: and as they tried to decide their next move, all
Speaker 1: heads turned and washed us. One of the creatures reached
Speaker 1: through a hole in the cabin wall and grabbed an axe.
Speaker 1: Bred grabbed the axe and turned the head so that
Speaker 1: it wouldn't fit through the hole, then used his weapon
Speaker 1: to fire at the ape man. This was the last
Speaker 1: bold attempt from the would be intruders to gain access
Speaker 1: to the cabin, although the attack wasn't over. As the
Speaker 1: night wore on, the attacks were further apart and shorter,
Speaker 1: but they continued. A few more rocks were thrown and
Speaker 1: chest thumping along with growls, followed by the shrill whistles.
Speaker 1: Exhausted but refusing to give into the incursion, the men
Speaker 1: held the beasts soft until daybreak. As the sun he
Speaker 1: peeked over the mountains, the attack stopped altogether. The sun
Speaker 1: was all the way up before they felt safe enough
Speaker 1: to venture outside. The cabin and went outside to see
Speaker 1: that rocks littered the ground all around it. The cabin
Speaker 1: held together, but just barely. Holes littered the walls and roof.
Speaker 1: It looked like a war zone where the rocks had
Speaker 1: knocked so many holes in it. There was no sign
Speaker 1: of the ape men, but Fred and Hank knew what
Speaker 1: they had observed earlier the day before. These creatures knew
Speaker 1: how to blend into the forest very well. Knowing this,
Speaker 1: Fred looked upon the mountain and spotted an ape man
Speaker 1: skulking around the tree line about one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yards away. Fred pocked up his weapon and fired several
Speaker 1: times and apparently hit the target.
Speaker 2: He saw the.
Speaker 1: Beast drop roll and fall into the canyon below, taking
Speaker 1: only what they had in their hands at the moment.
Speaker 1: The men made haste and ran for it. Luckily, they
Speaker 1: made their way to Hank's poored vehicle and back home
Speaker 1: to Kelso Washington. Left shaken and confused about what happened
Speaker 1: to them, The men reported everything that it occurred. People
Speaker 1: were shocked at the story and glad the men were
Speaker 1: able to escape, and as many stories where events are unexplainable,
Speaker 1: the men were heavily scrutinized by citizens and the media.
Speaker 1: When news outlets from Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon came
Speaker 1: to interview the miners and get details of the story,
Speaker 1: the men agreed to take the reporters to the area
Speaker 1: where they'd encountered the ape men. Upon arrival, they were
Speaker 1: able to find visible footprints, and these were photographed as evidence.
Speaker 1: These helped make the miner's story more credible. They searched
Speaker 1: a good while for the body of the ape man
Speaker 1: Fred and shot, but there was no remnants or anything
Speaker 1: in the gorge called Mountain Devils. In the story, the
Speaker 1: newspapers ran the miners accounts of the events they endured
Speaker 1: that night. Many people saw the story as credible now
Speaker 1: that photographic evidence was taken by reputable source. The story
Speaker 1: of the ape men of Mount Saint Helens and the
Speaker 1: miners that came under attack by them still had its skeptics,
Speaker 1: but there were also people that believed in it. The
Speaker 1: men never returned to prospecting ape now. As a side note,
Speaker 1: there is a story about a group of Boy Scouts
Speaker 1: that were supposed to camping on Mount Saint Helens at
Speaker 1: the time. Many people believe these boy Scouts were the
Speaker 1: source of the attack. However, that wouldn't account for the
Speaker 1: hairy arm that reached through and grabbed the axe, or
Speaker 1: the large figures of the beasts that the men observed
Speaker 1: through the cracks of the walls. Nineteen seventy eight, Fred
Speaker 1: Beck penned a book called I Fought the Eight Men
Speaker 1: of Mount Saint Helens. The book was short, just five
Speaker 1: chapters long, but it was almost a word for word
Speaker 1: what the miners had reported back in nineteen twenty four.
Speaker 1: Beck was at that point seventy eight years old and
Speaker 1: with not a care in the world about skeptics, and
Speaker 1: he told the story in his own words. In an interview,
Speaker 1: Beck also explained that he was a Clairvorian since childhood
Speaker 1: and as an adult, had a premonition about prospecting Mount
Speaker 1: Saint Helens. In his vision, they were able to find
Speaker 1: the mine as they were led by Native American spirit
Speaker 1: and told who to blast a hole for the entrance.
Speaker 1: The spirit told Beck that they were to follow a
Speaker 1: white arrow and it would show the men exactly where
Speaker 1: to go. In the book, Beck claimed that all the
Speaker 1: men saw this vision and stated that the spirit told them,
Speaker 1: because you have cursed the spirit leading you you will
Speaker 1: be shown where the gold is, but it is not
Speaker 1: given to you. Beck goes on to explain that the
Speaker 1: men felt like the mind would let them take some gold,
Speaker 1: but not all of it, and that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: Beck stated, there is a pocket of gold in that cliff,
Speaker 1: if someone is fortunate enough to find it. We gave
Speaker 1: up looking for it. But asked why only certain people
Speaker 1: can see other worldly beings. Beck had this to say,
Speaker 1: when the condition and vibration is at a certain frequency,
Speaker 1: they the beings can easily, for a time, appear in
Speaker 1: a very solid body. They are not animal spirits, but
Speaker 1: also like the intelligence of a human consciousness. They simply
Speaker 1: exist on a different plane than most humans, and some
Speaker 1: of us are more sensitive to those vibrations they exist on.
Speaker 1: Next up have the story of ape Cave, which is
Speaker 1: nearer ape Canyan. Nineteen forty seven, a logger by the
Speaker 1: name of Lawrence Johnson was driving along in his vehicle
Speaker 1: when a sinkhole swallowed his truck. Thus Ape Cave was discovered. However,
Speaker 1: the cave wouldn't be explored until three years later by
Speaker 1: a boy scout troop made up by lava flow. The
Speaker 1: cave had never been explored by anyone before. The troops
Speaker 1: stepped inside after being lowered over a seventeen foot overhang.
Speaker 1: One by one, the Boy Scouts would explore the very
Speaker 1: fragile inner workings of the cave system that is about
Speaker 1: two miles long, and eventually named it after their sponsor
Speaker 1: of the exploration and troop. The Saint Helen's apes towards
Speaker 1: the cave are available to the public. But before Warren,
Speaker 1: rumor has it that if you spend overnight in the
Speaker 1: cave that you will lose your mind. And now let's
Speaker 1: look at some of the missing person cases on Mount
Speaker 1: Saint Helens. In May of nineteen fifty, a man named
Speaker 1: Jim Carter, along with a climbing party of twenty people,
Speaker 1: started the day on Mount Saint Helens at Ape Canyon,
Speaker 1: ready to climb, ski and have a day of fun.
Speaker 1: On the descent, Carter left the party at the Dogshead
Speaker 1: area to take a picture of the larger group as
Speaker 1: they skied past him. Being an experienced skiered mountain climber,
Speaker 1: the others were in agreement that he would be the
Speaker 1: best person to ski ahead of the group.
Speaker 2: Moments later, the.
Speaker 1: Larger group witnessed Carter skiing at a high rate of speed,
Speaker 1: jumping crevasses and taking chances that were deemed reckless. They
Speaker 1: said that he Carter was going like the devil down
Speaker 1: the slope, seemingly frightened of something. Witness stated it wasn't
Speaker 1: long before he was out of sight of the others.
Speaker 1: Despite the group looking for Carter, he was nowhere to
Speaker 1: be found. Carter was reported missing later that day. The
Speaker 1: search for thirty year old Jim Carter lasted for weeks.
Speaker 1: Authorities discovered a discarded film box for roll of camera film,
Speaker 1: but nothing else was ever found. A playing trace Carter's
Speaker 1: route as he'd skied right down canyon walls where rangers
Speaker 1: and search teams couldn't reach. The search party thought they
Speaker 1: would find the man at the bottom of the canyon,
Speaker 1: but his tracks went from the walls across Ranger Creek
Speaker 1: and the Ranger station and into the thick of the forest.
Speaker 1: Bob Lee, an experienced mountaineer and a member of Seattle
Speaker 1: Mountain Search and Rescue, stated, every time I got cut
Speaker 1: off from the rest of the search team and was alone,
Speaker 1: I felt like something was watching me. There was something
Speaker 1: strange on the high slopes of the mountain. It was
Speaker 1: the most eerie experience I've ever had. I could feel
Speaker 1: the hair on my neck standing up. It was eerie.
Speaker 1: I was unarmed except for my ice ACKs, and believe me,
Speaker 1: I never let go of that. We combed the canyon
Speaker 1: one into the other for five days. Sometimes there were
Speaker 1: as many as seventy five persons in the search party,
Speaker 1: but no sign of Carter Wars equipment was ever found.
Speaker 1: After two weeks, the search will scaled back and then
Speaker 1: called off. Over seventy years as passed as Jim Carter
Speaker 1: went missing under baffling circumstances in nineteen fifty, no sign
Speaker 1: of him or his equipment has ever been found. If
Speaker 1: you'll recall, this disappearance was in the same area as
Speaker 1: the tack on the Miners in nineteen twenty four, and
Speaker 1: one of the theories put forth was that he was
Speaker 1: possibly being chased by a Sasquatch that caused him to
Speaker 1: take such a reckless ski run down the mountain. On Saturday,
Speaker 1: August eleventh, twenty eighteen, a Great Subaru was found in
Speaker 1: the parking area of Blue Lake Trail by search and
Speaker 1: rescue teams after forty year old Matthew Methanie asked to
Speaker 1: borrow the car from his friend to go for a
Speaker 1: hike at Mount Saint Helens. After the man didn't return,
Speaker 1: he was reported missing. A group of some forty volunteers
Speaker 1: scoured the mountain looking for the Ohio man. On the
Speaker 1: sixth day Matthony was missing, he was spotted on a
Speaker 1: ledge and rescued. In an interview with authorities, he stated
Speaker 1: amazingly that he had survived by eating berries and bees.
Speaker 1: It was reported that Mathony had been a boy scout
Speaker 1: when he was younger and used his training to help
Speaker 1: himself while lost. He was in surprisingly good condition and
Speaker 1: was released from the hospital the next day. The Sheriff's
Speaker 1: department utilized tracking dogs, drones, and a helicopter in the search.
Speaker 1: On July twenty first, twenty twenty one, twenty five year
Speaker 1: old Army First Lieutenant Brian Yang, who had been missing
Speaker 1: on Mount Saint Helens, was found deceeised. You'd only been
Speaker 1: missing for a couple of days. The last time Yang
Speaker 1: was seen was on the Cold Water trailhead. Previous Sunday
Speaker 1: reports state that the twenty five year old fell down
Speaker 1: a steep embankment to his demise. No further information is
Speaker 1: available in this case and then arguably the most memorable
Speaker 1: incident ever to happen on Mount Saint Helens. On May eighteenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty fifty seven people lost their lives after Mount
Speaker 1: Saint Helens erupted earlier that day, people were evacuated and
Speaker 1: others were warned to leave the area. One of the victims,
Speaker 1: eighty three year old Harry Randall Truman, refused to leave
Speaker 1: his home of over fifty years, seen as a hero
Speaker 1: in a folk legend due to his bravery for staying
Speaker 1: and trying to defend his property from the monster, this
Speaker 1: time the volcano about to engulf his home. Truman gave
Speaker 1: an interview to National Geographic just days before the volcano erupted,
Speaker 1: where he stated that I'm going to stay right here
Speaker 1: because I'll tell you why my home and my expletive
Speaker 1: life's here. My wife and I we both allowed years
Speaker 1: and years ago that we'd never leave Spirit Lake. We
Speaker 1: loved it. It's a part of me, and I'm a
Speaker 1: part of that expletive mountain. Truman resided at the lodge
Speaker 1: with his late wife that he lost just a few
Speaker 1: years before the eruption and their sixteen rescue cats. Sadly,
Speaker 1: Truman and all his cats perished in the eruption.
Speaker 2: No remains wherever found.
Speaker 1: Also on the mountain on that ill fated day back
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty was thirty year old volcanologist David A.
Speaker 2: Johnston.
Speaker 1: Johnson was on the mountain monitoring the activity at the
Speaker 1: Cold Water two station that was thought to be a
Speaker 1: safe area and away from the destruction path should an
Speaker 1: eruption happen. Tragically, this was not the case, and Johnston
Speaker 1: perished in the eruption.
Speaker 2: David A.
Speaker 1: Johnson was in FLA through the United States Geological Survey
Speaker 1: the USGS. The last transmission from the Cold Water two
Speaker 1: station was from Johnston, who spoke into the microphone Vancouver, Vancouver,
Speaker 1: this is it. His remains were never found. An observatory
Speaker 1: was erected in the area where Cold Water two once
Speaker 1: stood in remembrance of Johnston. He was credited with saving
Speaker 1: thousands of lives after warning the Forestry Service of the
Speaker 1: dangers going on within the volcano weeks before the eruption occurred.
Speaker 1: The Forestry Service took heed and evacuated the park. Hello friends,
Speaker 1: this video we're going to bring you the story of
Speaker 1: a Canby man, his daughter, and dog were all rescued
Speaker 1: after forty eight hours being lost. Now we're so used
Speaker 1: to hearing stories and accounts of people who go missing
Speaker 1: in the wilderness somewhere in the world and they're never
Speaker 1: seen or heard from again. It's almost like it's a
Speaker 1: common occurrence because basic it is. Now, this happens so much,
Speaker 1: and many people don't even realize what's going on.
Speaker 2: How is this possible?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because of the lack of the reporting, whether
Speaker 1: by authorities in charge, the news media or perhaps even
Speaker 1: government entities. We're trying to figure out what's going on
Speaker 1: behind the scenes so as not to cause a global panic.
Speaker 1: Whatever the reason, it seems we in this community are
Speaker 1: still consumed by these occurrences. We've been bringing to your
Speaker 1: attention these cases and so much more, and will always
Speaker 1: continue to do so. Today though we have one of
Speaker 1: our less common occurrences. We'll be talking about a case
Speaker 1: of a man, his daughter, and their dog who are
Speaker 1: missing but then rescued alive. Needless to say, it's always
Speaker 1: a great day when we can bring in a story
Speaker 1: like this, as it happens far less often than when
Speaker 1: someone goes missing. It never comes back or is found
Speaker 1: unfortunately deceased. So here it is a can Bey man
Speaker 1: and his family rescued after being lost for a harrowing
Speaker 1: forty eight hours in the wilderness. Thirty seven year old
Speaker 1: Peter William Monroe, his seven year old daughter Laila, and
Speaker 1: their dog Buck were hiking in Oregon's Mount Hood National
Speaker 1: Forest and we're going to make a family trip of it.
Speaker 1: Peter's wife, Camille, was planning on joining her husband and
Speaker 1: daughter on this trip. The day after they left, Camille
Speaker 1: said she'd arrived at the family's Kinsle Lake campsite to
Speaker 1: join them on a camping trip. When she got there,
Speaker 1: they would nowhere to be found. She assumed they had
Speaker 1: gone on a hike, but when they never returned, she
Speaker 1: said off the next morning to search for them. Camille
Speaker 1: had no luck and called police after she found Peter's
Speaker 1: truck at the Devil's Peak trailhead with his keys and
Speaker 1: Laylah's stuffed animals still inside. I just want to point
Speaker 1: out here that once again the name Devil is involved
Speaker 1: with the place where people have gone missing in the wilderness.
Speaker 1: It was around two thirty in the afternoon on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: September second, twenty twenty, when Camille Monroe called nine to
Speaker 1: one one from the Devil's Peak trailhead report that her
Speaker 1: husband Peter, their daughter Layla, and their dog Buck had
Speaker 1: been missing for at least twenty four hours. Clackham's County
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue coordinators activated a rescue mission
Speaker 1: immediately that same afternoon. The search area featured challenging terrain
Speaker 1: and the mission would soon involve volunteers from the CCSOSAAR
Speaker 1: Trail Running Rescue Team, Search Canines, rope teams, and ground teams.
Speaker 1: This included support from Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue Arms,
Speaker 1: Reach and Treats Team, Mountain Wave Emergency Communications, Portland Mountain Rescue,
Speaker 1: Morgan Office of Emergency Management, three hundred and fourth Rescue Squadron,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty fifth Special Tactics Squadron, Special Forces
Speaker 1: Unit of the one hundred and forty second Fighter Wing
Speaker 1: of the United States Air National Guard, and the Hood
Speaker 1: River Sheriff's Office Air Unit. Over fifty searchers ended up
Speaker 1: participating in the mission. Most of these vaulnteers sprung into
Speaker 1: action immediately upon being called and were eager and willing
Speaker 1: to help out in any way they could. Searchers worked
Speaker 1: through the night with additional resources from the three hundred
Speaker 1: and fourth Rescue Squadron and one hundred and twenty fifth
Speaker 1: Special Tactics Squadron, deflowing to the field at about two
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning to assist the tired crews who
Speaker 1: had worked through the night. At approximately six am on Thursday,
Speaker 1: September third, searchers from the three hundred and fourth Rescue
Speaker 1: Squadron were able to make voice contact with Peter. It's
Speaker 1: at least another hour for them to reach the trio,
Speaker 1: though due to the harsh and difficult terrain. Peter, Layla,
Speaker 1: and Buck were found northwest of the Knsa Lake trailhead,
Speaker 1: in a ravine that was located about one point twenty
Speaker 1: five miles and approximately twelve hundred feet below where they
Speaker 1: had first set out for their hike on Tuesday. Peter
Speaker 1: was injured and unable to walk. Lyla and Buck were
Speaker 1: in good spirits but needed assistance. Crews quickly began to
Speaker 1: assess and provide. First day, they learned Peter had become
Speaker 1: lost and had been moving downhill to where he thought
Speaker 1: the trail was located, injuring himself in the process. After
Speaker 1: stabilizing Peter, Cruise began the exhausting process of carrying him
Speaker 1: out of this remote location through the difficult terrain. They
Speaker 1: reached awaiting medical crew on Still Creek Road, about seven
Speaker 1: miles from Highway twenty six near Rhododendron at about twelve
Speaker 1: thirty in the afternoon on Thursday, September third. Peter, Layla,
Speaker 1: and Buck were lost and stuck in the wilderness for
Speaker 1: over forty eight hours without supplies. This means no water
Speaker 1: and no food. It's an absolute miracle. They survived relatively unharmed.
Speaker 1: Peter was transported to an area hospital for his injuries.
Speaker 1: Buck and Layla were reunited with the rest of the
Speaker 1: family and were getting some much needed rest. After his
Speaker 1: rescue and hospitalization, Peter spoke to reporters from the Backward
Speaker 1: ambulance and made this statement, I just want to thank
Speaker 1: all the first responders and everybody else that helped get
Speaker 1: me out of that hole. I don't think I would
Speaker 1: have made it out, especially without any other adults, So I.
Speaker 2: Owe you guys my life. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Search crews want to offer special thanks to a nearby
Speaker 1: construction crew working on the Still Creek Bridge repair project.
Speaker 1: The construction crew sped up the rescue operation by using
Speaker 1: a crane to hoist the Special Forces vehicles over the river.
Speaker 1: Authorities mentioned that without this help, it would have taken
Speaker 1: an estimated additional four hours to take the longer route
Speaker 1: to reach the location. This was definitely a dramatic and
Speaker 1: dangerous rescue operation, and the crews and volunteers who participated
Speaker 1: our true heroes. We're glad to report that Peter, Leila,
Speaker 1: and even Buck are all fine and have suffered no
Speaker 1: long term injuries or lasting effects from this terrifying ordeal.
Speaker 1: They endured went out for a simple family hike. It
Speaker 1: just goes to show you please be careful out there,
Speaker 1: whether a loan, or with a group, or even with
Speaker 1: your pet. No one is immune to the rough and
Speaker 1: tumble ways of mother and needs nature. Always be prepared.
Speaker 1: Peter and his family were extremely lucky or survived and
Speaker 1: been rescued. Well, friends, there you have it. What do
Speaker 1: you think about this amazing story? Please be careful out there.
Speaker 1: I look forward to your comments, but please keep it
Speaker 1: friendly and respectful. In the meantime, be good to yourselves
Speaker 1: and each other, and I'll see you just a little
Speaker 1: farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll
Speaker 1: talk to you next time. Hello, friends, welcome to our
Speaker 1: latest video. Today we bring you the strange tale of
Speaker 1: the mysterious Skeletons of Crater Lake.
Speaker 2: Join Us.
Speaker 1: Crater Lake is the only National park in the state
Speaker 1: of Oregon. Just like all the other National parks throughout
Speaker 1: the United States, this one is known worldwide for its
Speaker 1: breathtaking landscape and stunning scenic views. This is certainly a
Speaker 1: well deserved reputation, as if you've ever been there, you
Speaker 1: would know how absolutely gorgeous the park is as a whole.
Speaker 1: It's a humbling experience when you're out there in nature,
Speaker 1: and it's so incredibly awe inspiring yet eerie all at
Speaker 1: the same time. Crater Lake is special. Stands out from
Speaker 1: other parks for a few reasons. The one we're going
Speaker 1: to discuss today is perhaps the most bizarre. This interesting
Speaker 1: characteristic isn't widely known. It has mostly gone undiscovered by
Speaker 1: the millions of people who flock there from all over
Speaker 1: the world every single year. Park officials and whoever's in
Speaker 1: charge definitely wants it to stay a secret as well,
Speaker 1: because well, it's a lethal secret. Quite literally, most of
Speaker 1: us in this community know it's not unheard of for
Speaker 1: people visiting national parks to accidentally take a deadly plunge
Speaker 1: off of a cliff, or get stuck and possibly freeze
Speaker 1: to death in the common blizzard conditions depending on the season,
Speaker 1: of course, or even to crash their cars into revene.
Speaker 1: Besides airplanes and helicopters falling out of the skies, well,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, there have even been far more
Speaker 1: homicides than one could possibly imagine out there under the
Speaker 1: clear blue skies and beautiful story nights. Well, many of
Speaker 1: those wonderful topics would make interesting discussion in one of
Speaker 1: our videos, and perhaps may come very soon. Today, we're
Speaker 1: going to discuss the tragedies that have left some things behind,
Speaker 1: and it seems to be happening in the Craterlke far
Speaker 1: more often than anywhere else. Today we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about the skeletons of Crater Lake Park. Let's start with
Speaker 1: what's known as the case of the fandom Flyer. In
Speaker 1: the summer of nineteen seventy, Dave Panabaker took a job
Speaker 1: as a seasonal ranger and Craterlake National Park During that
Speaker 1: first summer there. They've kept hearing talk about a lesser
Speaker 1: known side of the park, one that interested him greatly. Apparently,
Speaker 1: there was a dark blue Grumman F six F Hellcat
Speaker 1: fighter that had crashed a month or two after World
Speaker 1: War Two and in the park as it was unable
Speaker 1: to be recovered and moved out. The hell Cat took
Speaker 1: a fast and hard landing with only a short hike's
Speaker 1: distance to cover in order to be able to see it.
Speaker 1: Dave decided he just had to go out there and
Speaker 1: check it out. One of its machine guns was even
Speaker 1: embedded in a cliff face, and the blue wing with
Speaker 1: its white star insignia, was clearly visible through the underbrush.
Speaker 1: Everyone simply assumed that the pilot had perished immediately upon
Speaker 1: impact or perhaps even while pair shooting out. Either way,
Speaker 1: Dave decided to go for the hike on his day
Speaker 1: off to the cliff where this aircraft was supposedly located. However,
Speaker 1: it wasn't long before the seasonal ranger found himself lost
Speaker 1: while trying to locate the wreckage. Now we see this
Speaker 1: all the time. Someone goes out on a hike in
Speaker 1: the deep wilderness, even during the day, and once they
Speaker 1: get turned around, they continue on and just hope for
Speaker 1: the best. Dave Panabaker, however, was no fool, and it
Speaker 1: heard too many horror stories to keep on going. Before
Speaker 1: he got his bearings on where exactly he was and
Speaker 1: where he was going. He remembered some advice given to
Speaker 1: him on his first day and decided to follow it
Speaker 1: lest he become another victim of the park itself and
Speaker 1: perhaps end up a subject in one of our videos.
Speaker 1: He remembered a man named Herman Walk's voice and could
Speaker 1: clearly hear it in his head, saying, when endangered out
Speaker 1: run in circles, scream and shout. So he sat down
Speaker 1: on a nearby log and thought about how he was
Speaker 1: going to get himself out of this predicament. He still
Speaker 1: wanted to see the plane wreckage, but didn't want to
Speaker 1: become another park statistic. He thought long and hard about
Speaker 1: his options and how he could get himself back to civilization,
Speaker 1: perhaps to try another time when he was possibly more
Speaker 1: well prepared. As he sat and thought, though, he suddenly
Speaker 1: felt like he was no longer alone. He got to
Speaker 1: distinct feeling that someone or something was watching him. He
Speaker 1: looked up and immediately locked eyes with the culprit. Rather,
Speaker 1: he locked eye sockets with it, as it was not
Speaker 1: human being, at least not anymore what a skeleton that
Speaker 1: was lying underneath the nearby log and staring straight at him. Now,
Speaker 1: there is no complete description of what the reaction of
Speaker 1: this young and fairly new seasonal ranger was when he
Speaker 1: found what turned out to be the skeletal remains of
Speaker 1: a long lost World War II pilot. I can only
Speaker 1: imagine he was terrified and possibly in shock, even as
Speaker 1: his own mortality kicked into high gear in his mind.
Speaker 1: He was, as previously stated, fairly new to his job
Speaker 1: and might have realized that he was almost in the
Speaker 1: same predicament as his long loss deceased friend there under
Speaker 1: the log staring at him.
Speaker 2: Both were lost and nobody knew who they were.
Speaker 1: Did he panic and realize that if nobody could find
Speaker 1: the pilot, then perhaps nobody could find him either. He
Speaker 1: was already fighting the urge to panic. As it was,
Speaker 1: we can only speculate, but as you would imagine, it
Speaker 1: was most likely quite the dramatic scene. Some time later,
Speaker 1: during an oral history review, David remembered, the chief wasn't
Speaker 1: too happy with me when I talked to him in
Speaker 1: his office and pulled the skull out of my pack
Speaker 1: and put it on his desk. A Whidby Island Naval
Speaker 1: investigative team came to the park a few days later.
Speaker 1: The Navy authorities were able to make a positive idea
Speaker 1: of the skull using dental records. The skeleton belonged to
Speaker 1: Ensign Frank LOOPO from New Jersey. Ensign Loopho had been
Speaker 1: part of a squadron of seven Hellcats lying from Redmond
Speaker 1: to Red Bluff, California, in December of nineteen forty five.
Speaker 1: All seven of them have been struggling with some of
Speaker 1: the weather, and the cloud ceiling was at about six
Speaker 1: thousand feet, less than two thousand feet above the rugged
Speaker 1: terrain they were overflying. The ceiling steadily lowered until the
Speaker 1: planes were at five hundred feet above the tree tops.
Speaker 1: Snow one missed had closed in and the pilots could
Speaker 1: no longer see the ground. They were flying purely on
Speaker 1: instruments now. When they emerged from the fog, however, there
Speaker 1: were only six of them. The Navy returned the skull
Speaker 1: to Frank's mother, who, finally, after waiting twenty five years
Speaker 1: to find out what had happened to her son was
Speaker 1: able to lay him to rest rested in peace in
Speaker 1: Saint Loupho. Then, on February twenty sixth, nineteen seventy five,
Speaker 1: a woman named Jeane Nunn dropped off her husband Dave,
Speaker 1: their daughter and grandchild at the airport now called the
Speaker 1: Crater Lake Klamath Regional Airport, in order for Dave to
Speaker 1: fly them back home to Salem in his private plane.
Speaker 1: It was a Blue Cessna one eighty two. Two seventeen
Speaker 1: year old student pilots named Jim Pryor and Matt Perkins
Speaker 1: were also in the plane so as to get some
Speaker 1: more flight hours to put towards their eventual pilot's license.
Speaker 1: The plane landed in Salem without a hitch, and after
Speaker 1: saying their goodbyes, the passengers got off and Dave and
Speaker 1: the two students trapped back in for their return trip,
Speaker 1: a short flight back to Klamath Falls. Jean wasn't feeling
Speaker 1: well that night and decided to turn into bed early.
Speaker 1: She later said she awoke too early and with a
Speaker 1: bad feet. She was quoted as saying, I woke up
Speaker 1: at nine thirty pm with a sensation of a hand
Speaker 1: on my leg, she recalled in a two thousand interview
Speaker 1: with Lee Beach of the Klamath Falls Heralded News. She continues,
Speaker 1: I looked at the clock, I knew. I called the
Speaker 1: airport and told him the plane had gone down at
Speaker 1: nine to twenty PM, and that he had died at
Speaker 1: nine point thirty. They confirmed that they had lost the
Speaker 1: plane off the radar at nine twenty at eleven thousand feet.
Speaker 1: She knew from the start her husband hadn't made it
Speaker 1: out alive. Now, that creepy yet peaceful feeling of that
Speaker 1: hand on her leg that night didn't stop the search
Speaker 1: parties from.
Speaker 2: Going out and looking for Dave, Matt and Jim.
Speaker 1: It was all in vain though, as indeed, not a
Speaker 1: single shred of evidence as to where the three ended
Speaker 1: up could be found. Most speculated that they had ended
Speaker 1: up in the lake and were far beyond anyone's help anyway.
Speaker 1: It wasn't ntil seven years later that a hiker who
Speaker 1: was traveling us outside of the park's boundary near a
Speaker 1: Huckleberry campground, spotted what looked to be a severely mangled
Speaker 1: small aircraft wreckage. The hiker approached the rag cautiously and
Speaker 1: indeed found three skeletons, slumped over and still inside the cabin.
Speaker 1: Though Jean had been right all along, it was a
Speaker 1: sure relief that her husband and his students were now
Speaker 1: found and could be put to a proper burial. Identification
Speaker 1: of the three skeletons was easy enough. All three had
Speaker 1: their identifications in their wallets, and perhaps the most tragic
Speaker 1: ball was a small folded piece of paper Dave had
Speaker 1: in his wallet and said, lose not thine air speed,
Speaker 1: lest the ground rise up and smite thee. Indeed, decades later,
Speaker 1: Jean published a book about her spiritual journey through the
Speaker 1: trauma of losing her husband. It's titled We Fly Away.
Speaker 1: Yet another strange occurrence in the park. In nineteen seventy four,
Speaker 1: nineteen year old Virginia resident Charles mccullor ordered a bus
Speaker 1: in his home state and this I had to take
Speaker 1: an extended vacation. He would be taking buses and also
Speaker 1: hitch hiking across and throughout the country. He left behind
Speaker 1: his blood Volkswagen, but being a dedicated and very talented
Speaker 1: amateur photographer, he took his camera equipment and set off
Speaker 1: on his adventure. In late January nineteen seventy five, Charles
Speaker 1: was staying with a friend in Eugene, Oregon, but left
Speaker 1: to go on what was only meant to be a
Speaker 1: short excursion, hitch hiking to Crater Lake to take winter photos.
Speaker 1: He told his friend he planned to be back in
Speaker 1: two days, but he never returned and was in fact
Speaker 1: never seen or heard from alive again. Once the friend
Speaker 1: reported him missing, the FBI got involved, and Charles's father
Speaker 1: dropped everything and hopped on a plane took a flight
Speaker 1: to the West Coast. He spent the entire summer at
Speaker 1: Crater Lake searching for his son, to no avail. There
Speaker 1: was no trace of Charles until a full year after
Speaker 1: he'd gone missing. At the end of the season, almost
Speaker 1: exactly one full year later, two hikers just happened to
Speaker 1: have taken a wrong turn. They ended up in a
Speaker 1: little travel canyon where they came upon a dirty, old,
Speaker 1: ripped backpack with a car key in one of the
Speaker 1: side pockets. It was the key to charles blood Volkswagen
Speaker 1: he had left home at the start of his journey west.
Speaker 1: Immediately upon the discovery of the pack being reported, Mark
Speaker 1: rangers started a search effort. A horse patrol took only
Speaker 1: a couple of hours to locate Charles's remains. Now here's
Speaker 1: where this particular story takes a turn for the worst,
Speaker 1: if you can believe that, and a little on the
Speaker 1: sinistern bizarre side too, if we're being honest. Charles's body
Speaker 1: was found twelve miles away from the trailhead, and on
Speaker 1: the day he disappeared, there were one hundred and two yes,
Speaker 1: that's one hundred and two inches of new snow on
Speaker 1: the ground at Crater Lake.
Speaker 2: How did a.
Speaker 1: Nineteen year old kid totally inexperienced in dealing with the
Speaker 1: rough and rugged train of the wilderness, let alone the
Speaker 1: seven and a half feet of fresh snow on the
Speaker 1: ground that those one hundred and two inches equal. It's simple,
Speaker 1: not possible, and that's according to many professionals who claimed
Speaker 1: even they couldn't do it, especially not with the lack
Speaker 1: of skill and gear that Charles had. The condition of
Speaker 1: the skeleton itself is another thing that left everyone scratching
Speaker 1: their heads. While his foot bones were in his socks,
Speaker 1: which is common, his jeans were completely empty of legbones
Speaker 1: except where the broken off ends of his shin bones
Speaker 1: were sticking up. His jeans were unbuttoned, but the rest
Speaker 1: of Charles was completely gone, as if the rest of
Speaker 1: him had simply vanished or melted away. Again, this doesn't
Speaker 1: seem possible. The only other thing ever found was the
Speaker 1: crown of his skull about twelve feet away. For the
Speaker 1: rest of him, his shirt, coat and boots were also
Speaker 1: never found. The empty pair of pants we was sitting
Speaker 1: on a log quite erily with nothing but socks and
Speaker 1: footbones inside. Soma speculated that perhaps he was hypothermic, and
Speaker 1: we have heard about people doing strange things when dealing
Speaker 1: with that particular condition. This made perfect sense, as the
Speaker 1: stripping off of clothing in a disoriented and confused state
Speaker 1: is extremely common. Also, it's the Cascades in the wintertime,
Speaker 1: so most likely more than a few foxes came along
Speaker 1: and helped the feet detached from the body, and probably
Speaker 1: more so what makes this so strange well the location
Speaker 1: of the body, for one, has previously mentioned missing boots
Speaker 1: and socks. Charles had some rather expensive equipment with him
Speaker 1: to take the winter photographs. Well, none of that was
Speaker 1: ever found either. Durating theory is that perhaps Charles hess
Speaker 1: to ride with the wrong person who sawlved this expensive
Speaker 1: camera equipment. Took a chance and did away with him,
Speaker 1: and most likely he stole his money too. This alleged
Speaker 1: killer didn't haul the body to the most remote part
Speaker 1: of Crater Lake and left it sitting on a log,
Speaker 1: figuring between the elements and the animals, there would be
Speaker 1: nothing left of poor Charles for the time spring came
Speaker 1: and most of the hikers and visitors were back around.
Speaker 1: Despite all the evidence pointing to the contrary, the police
Speaker 1: ruled Charles had died of natural causes. His father never
Speaker 1: did believe this, that the cause of his son's death
Speaker 1: was natural, and though he wasn't the only one, and
Speaker 1: so many questions remained, there was never any proof to
Speaker 1: be found one way or the other, and once again,
Speaker 1: the park kept her secrets close early quiet throughout all
Speaker 1: these years.
Speaker 2: Is it so hard to.
Speaker 1: Believe that with all of the millions of acres of
Speaker 1: land across the United States and all over the world
Speaker 1: where people go to to visit for whatever reason or another,
Speaker 1: you would think that there would be more skeletal remains
Speaker 1: left behind from some accident or incident or something. No,
Speaker 1: the murders happen, and do bodies get dumped in precisely
Speaker 1: these types of environments, yes, Will we ever have all
Speaker 1: the answers resoundingly no, But I'm sure at least most
Speaker 1: of us could agree on one thing. Being as we
Speaker 1: only spoke of a few of the old skeletons found
Speaker 1: in this one particular park and area of land, it
Speaker 1: is a bit strange that they were all found in
Speaker 1: this one particular what amounts to a small area in
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, again, considering the vastness of
Speaker 1: the great woods and outdoors across the world. Well, folks,
Speaker 1: there you have it. What do you think of these
Speaker 1: strange cases from Crater Lake. I look forward to your comments,
Speaker 1: but please keep it friendly and respectful. In the meanwhile,
Speaker 1: be good to yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there.
Speaker 2: I don't want to have to make one of these
Speaker 2: videos about you.
Speaker 1: That's for me. I'll see you a little farther on
Speaker 1: down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next time.