Speaker 1: Welcome to Missing Persons case files. A place where they're gone?
Are not the forgotten? What's happening in the forest of
North America? How are so many people disappearing only to
have the remains found much later, or, in many cases
not at all. Are the predators to blame, giant hair
covered beasts or even more terrifying us as humans? Maybe
it's both, Maybe it's neither. These are just a few
of the questions we'll look to uncover here on the
Missing Persons case Files.
Speaker 2: Keith Parkins, a two year old boy from Rare, Oregon,
went missing in the afternoon hours on April tenth of
nineteen fifty two. The family was visiting the grandparents as
the new calf had been born, and Keith and his
brothers wanted to see it. They were at the barn
his brothers, Michael was five and Terry was six. They
were all playing and looking at the calf when their
mom came out and caught him for lunch. His two
brothers ran ahead of him, and their mom noticed that
Keith wasn't with them. They went back to look and
Keith was nowhere to be found, and the brothers said
that he went out the barn door and around the
long side of the barn. So they went and looked
around there, but he wasn't anywhere. So then the search
began looking for little Keith Parkins. One hundred and fifty
people all lined up with distance between them, but still
to where they could hear each other speak. That evening.
Now you gotta think when the mom called the boys
in for lunch it was noon, so that evening, about
three miles from the barn, they found a few of
his footprints in with some other cows before they disappeared.
The search continued throughout the night. Now listen to this,
this is crazy. There are so many things about this
case that will make you scratch your head because you
have to keep in mind the topography in the nineteen fifties.
This area is going to be completely different today as
it was in the fifties. It's not going to be
the same at all. So the searchers crossed at least
one icy creek. They had to go through barbuar fences
and like two mountain ranges. Okay, how can a two
year old go over in icy creek through barguar fences
and like two mountain ranges? And this point, it would
have been dark. Even with the full moon, there wouldn't
have been enough light for this little boy to see.
They found him nineteen hours later, around seven in the morning,
and it stated that he went nine miles as the
crow flots, well nine miles as the crowth lites is
a straight line. You're not going to go in a
straight line from the barn that he left from to
where he was found, and all actuality, it is twelve
miles from his grandsparents' house. So when he was located,
he was face down. He had his coat and his
hat laying beside him. So it was another searcher who
had found him and called the dad over, and the
dad came running and snatched him up, as any parent would,
thankful to see them, but he really thought that he
had passed away by this time because his body was stiff,
he was cold, he had his eyes closed.
Speaker 3: But then he.
Speaker 2: Found out that little Keith Parkins, at two years old,
had made this massive journey and he was still alive,
so he rushed him back. The state police officer met
them with a private plane. They took him to the
hospital and after being there for a few hours, he
did regain consciousness and the only injury that this little
boy had. I mean, this could have been this could
have ended tragically because it's subfreezing temperatures at this point.
April tenth is right around Easter, so it's still cold.
There's still snow on the ground where they were. It
could have ended tragically. But the only injuries that this
little boy sustained were scratches on his face. His clothes
were torn and ripped, no doubt from the barbar fences
that he had to climb through. This is a resilient
little boy. So when they asked him what happened, his
only the only thing he could say was or remember
was that a cat scratched him. He didn't remember anything
that happened. And in doing the research in this case,
I'd actually run across a podcast, well, there were several
podcasts that had done this case, but this this one
in particular, had said that an interview was done with
him when he was in his sixties, and I wish
I could find it. He had his clothes that he
had on that day and it was a light jacket
with a hat that had the little ear muffs that
were attached to the hat that just came over your ears,
and that's really the only thing he had on to
keep him warm. I mean, it wasn't anything substantial to
keep him alive in subfreezing temperatures. But he couldn't remember
even to the time that they did that interview what happened.
He had no recollection of any of it. So when
you look at all the pieces of this case, he
goes missing in the afternoon, he has treked this long way,
then it's nighttime and it gets colder and colder. I
mean no doubt he could have, you know, started suffering
symptoms of exposure. You know, when you're hypothermic, you start
to take off your clothes because you feel like you're
too hot. Was that the case. I'm not one hundred
percent sure. I'm not too naive to jump on the
big foot bandwagon at this point in the case, because
when I was looking over it, there's different things that
could have happened. We can't automatically assume that a bigfoot
had taken him off. For many reasons. There were no
footprints outside of his found three miles from the barn,
but after that it was nothing. There were no footprints.
There were no animal tracks either, so I looked into
a couple of the theories, thinking it was one of
the deputies who had said that a bird had to
have carried him. Comical, Yes, it's comical, but is it plausible?
It absolutely is. So I started looking into birds that
would be in that area of rit Or, Oregon in
the nineteen fifties. There were several, but only one made
sense and out of course, or says the bad eagle.
But still, I mean picking a child up and carrying
them for that length would be pretty hard on the
bird that I would think. Now, in the nineteen fifties,
the population of bod eagles were incredibly low. So in
the eighteen hundreds there were an estimated four hundred thousand, okay,
but by the nineteen fifties there were less than five
hundred pairs of eagles, So seeing one would be on
the rare side. Plus they have you know, they're dealing
with habitat loss, they're dealing with you know, encroachment, chemicals.
There's just so many things that factor into the eagle
population being low and why it would be considered rare
to see one at that point in the nineteen fifties.
So then with Keith having made mention that a cat
scratched him. It was not indicated what kind of cat.
We can only speculate here in this in this search
of this case. But I did go ahead and look
to see.
Speaker 4: What cats, large cats, wildcats were in Ritter organ in
the nineteen fifties, and I came across, of course, the cougar, bobcats.
Speaker 2: And then the lynx. Now the lynx that I found
in that case, they weren't really they were in Oregon,
but not in that specific area, so I canceled those
out right away. So you have the bobcat, which is
twice the size of a domesticated cat, but in the
eyes of a two year old, it would just be
a really big cat, really big house cat, is how
I would think that they would see that.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more paranormal odyssey.
Speaker 2: The cougar. Would a cougar really pick up a child
and carry it? Of course, you know you have to
factor that in. A cat will pick them up and
carry them off Somewhere. It was theorized that maybe the
cat had picked up the boy and was carrying it
off to its den to eat. Trying to cut down
on the graphic here and the searchers kept pushing the
cat and pushing the cat and pushing the cat, and
so he finally let the boy go, and the boy
went on about his way, lost, dark, scared, no doubt, hungry,
freezing cold. You do have to factor in the large
cat here, but again it stops you because there were
no animal tracks. It is almost like this little boy
made it three miles from the barn where he went missing,
and then all of a sudden he was transported to
where he was found. Because they didn't find any other
prints from what I found in my research, Less Stroud
actually tried to reenact to this whole trek that Keith
would have had to have taken. And you guys know
less Stroud, I mean, he's the survivor man, you know,
out in the woods all the time. He does this
for a living. This is I mean, he teaches people this.
So he takes the same trick that Keith would have
had to have taken. And he struggled doing this. He said,
you know, he's got a short little video if you
look it up online, it's like a minute forty five
seconds of him talking about this case. And he said,
there is no way that a two year old would
be able to do this trek alone in the snow
at night with no light because he was doing this
trek on just normal ground. I mean there was no
snow and at night he had a full moon, but
he didn't have enough light to actually be able to see.
So I don't know, I don't know where I am
as far as this case goes, simply because there were
no track there were no tracks found. I don't really
want to get on a big foot bandwagon, but in
this case, you have to factor everything in. Everything has
to be looked at, every you know, stone has to
be turned over. And the fact that even to this
day or when that interview took place, when he was
in his sixties, and he still had no idea what happened.
Like if you interview a kid at two years old,
like I have a two and a half year old grandson,
if something happened to him the day before and I
asked him about it the day after, he would pretty much,
you know, well not even the whole day. It was
nineteen hours. He would be able to say, you know, Nana,
this happened or whatever. But this little boy had no
recollection whatsoever at all. The only thing that he said,
is a cat scratched him? Now, like I said, the
scratches on his face and his clothes being torn, I mean,
I'm thinking barguar friends there. But if he did happen
to have a run in with a cat, it could
equate too, scratches on his face and his clothes being torn.
But he has no recollection whatsoever, even to this day.
Now this was seventy two years ago, so it will
forever remain a mystery as to what really happened and
what led him to go into the woods in the
first place. And that's when I wrote down, you know,
wind to go. What if he was by the barn
his brothers had went on. You know, he's by himself
at the barn and he hears somebody who sounds familiar
in the woodline. Is it something as complex as something
being in the woods in rit Oregon like a windigo
mimicking the voice of someone familiar to him, maybe his mom.
Maybe he got he just went out, and he got
turned around and thought he was going the right way,
and he had no one to guide him. There's so
many what ifs in this case, and again without knowing
exactly what happened to him and him not remembering what
happened to him. I mean, it was an absolute miracle
straight from the hand of God that this little two
year old boy did not pass away that day from
hypothermia and the elements of the land. And it is
really really fascinating case for a little boy to make
it twelve miles over frozen ponds and two mountain ranges
and crawling through barbara of fences. I mean, that is
a tough kid. If this is you know, truly what happened,
and he had no one with him, he wasn't abducted,
I really don't know where to go with it. I
would really love to hear your opinions on this case,
if you would like to leave them in the comments below.
I would be fascinated to see what others opinions on
this case are so at that we're gonna cut this
off and absolutely leave me what it is that you
think happened, or if you're familiar with this case and
no more than I do about it, please please let
me know, because I am this was really intriguing for
me to research, and I did a lot of research
on this case, and I just I'm at a loss
as to what happened because of the lack of footprints.
It really is like he just walked from that callen
closure three miles away and went through a portal and
ended up where he was found. I mean, I have nothing,
so please let me know your thoughts on this. I
would love, love love to hear them, and until the
next one, we will talk to you later.
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