Monday Morning MIssing - Disappearances That Will Leave You Speechless

Monday Morning MIssing - Disappearances That Will Leave You Speechless

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Speaker 1: Oh, I've been separated from my group.

Speaker 2: Uh, it's been a couple of hours now I think.

Speaker 3: I'm not sure.

Speaker 2: I was trying to find my way out and I can't.

But I'm gonna stay here. I don't think that I

went too far I am. I'm not sure that I

don't know the name of the cave.

Speaker 3: The last the.

Speaker 2: Last entry point was somewhere near to them, Quantanamo in Mexico.

If someone can notify the police or the authorities, or

someone can help, I'm gonna stay here. I have water

and some food. I'm gonna stay here.

Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Steve Stockton here with you now. For some

a walk in the wilderness can be the perfect getaway

from everyday life and a chance to reconnect with mother Nature.

For others, great outdoors can be a dangerous place and

unfortunately as a place where many people meet their end

or just mysteriously vanish. Here are cases for you to consider.

Randy Rascoe. On November nineteenth, twenty fifteen, park rangers at

the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky noticed that a

car had been sitting in the car park for around

two weeks. This immediately set off warning bells, and after

doing some digging for information, they discovered that the car

belonged to forty year old Randy Rascoe. As the car

had been there for quite some time, the park rangers

set about searching for Randy right away, but when he

couldn't be found in or near the parking area, they

opened an investigation and widened their search. Park rangers and

investigators contacted Randy's family to see if they had spoken

to him, but chillingly, they had been out of contact

for a few months. According to his sister Sherry, up

until May twenty fifteen, everything was normal on a regular basis.

He was doing his normal things, hunting, fishing, and kept

in contact with her brother, who lived close to his

Bowling Green apartment. Then one day, out of the blue,

he packed up his belongings, quit his job, and had

his mail forward it to another address, and just left.

Cherry said they filed a missing person's report after they

found out he had just fled, and were worried as

he had recently gotten divorced. For a month, the Rascoe

family waited for any news, and in June he was

found safe and sound in Washington State. Randy made it

clear that he didn't want to speak to his family

at that time and wanted to be alone. As painful

as it was, his family respected his boundaries and assured

him they would welcome him back with open arms whenever

he was ready. For the next few months, it's believed

that Randy traveled all around the US, all while maintaining

his privacy and secrecy. His family didn't know that anything

was wrong until the Mammoth Cave National Park rangers contacted

them to let them know that his car had been

found abandoned. With this second disappearance, his family hoped that

there would be a positive resolution, but sadly, Randy Rascoe

is still missing. Search crews, volunteers, and even the Civil

Air Patrol all joined the end of the search for Randy,

scaringly over fifty three thousand acres of land of the park.

Despite their best efforts and multiple searches, no sign of

Randy has ever been found, and his car is the

only clue we have in terms of his mysterious disappearance.

Randy Rascoe is described as a white male six foot

two inches taught, with black hair, hazel eyes, and a slim,

athletic build. Anyone with any information is as to please

contact the Mammoth Cave National Park at two seven zero

seven five eight two.

Speaker 3: One eight zero.

Speaker 1: Catherine van Alst, eight year old Van Alst, disappeared from

Devil's Den State Park, near Arkansas's Ozark National Forest when

she and her family were camping. Catherine apparently was playing

with her brothers when she wandered off and got lost.

What makes Catherine's disappearance remarkable is she was found six

days later. When found, she was wandering the woods and

was eerily calm. University of Arkansas student Border Chadwick was

part of the search party that found Catherine. He told

the Pittsburgh Press that when he found her, she walked

starically out of a cave and just said, here I am.

Many other hikers have gotten lost in that part of

the Ozarks and haven't been as lucky as Catherine. A

grown woman was lost there for seventeen days and died

just fifty yards from the road. How did Catherine survive

in the woods for six days? Did someone take her

only to return her six days later? Or as explanation

of this story that we simply can't comprehend. Either way,

someone or something might just be lurking in Devil's Den

Kenny Veach. Forty seven year old Kenny Veach mysteriously disappeared

in the Mohave Desert in Nevada on November fourteenth, twenty fourteen.

Kenny was hiking near Area fifty one and was looking

for cave systems and mine shafts. Kenny has uploaded several

videos to his YouTube channel under the username snake Bitt McGee,

where he describes entering a cave with an M shaped opening.

He wrote in one comment that ain't nothing. I'm a

long distance hiker. One time, during one of my hikes

out by Nellis Air Force Base, I found a hidden cave.

The entrance to the cave was shaped like a perfect

capital M. I always enter every cave I find, but

as I began to enter this particular cave, my whole

body began to vibrate. Suddenly, I became very scared and

I tailed out of there. That was one of the

strangest things that ever happened to me. Now, these videos

gained popularity following his mysterious disappearance, and in these videos

he does indeed talk about how his whole body vibrated

and he felt scared upon entering this mysterious m cave

armed with a gun and a camera. This time, Kenny

headed back out to the m cave on November tenth,

twenty fourteen, hoping to get a better look inside. However,

Kenny never returned home. Although he was a very experienced

hiker and outdoorsman, Kenny rarely took a map or GPS

device with him on his hikes. According to his family,

on the day of his disappearance, he told him that

he would only be gone for a short overnight trip,

but then when he didn't return home, they immediately called

the police. Police volunteers, and search and rescue teams all

scattered the area where Kenny was last known to have been.

On November twenty second, twenty fourteen, volunteers found Kenny's phone.

According to those volunteers, the trail went cold soon after

they located his phone, and there have been no signs

of Kenny ever since. At the time of this episode,

the mysterious disappearance of Kinny Beach is very much alive

in true crime and paranormal circles, but it appears that

we are still no closer to uncovering the truth Devil's

Whole and the tragic disappearance of two teens in nineteen

sixty five. Now, there's just something about a place with

the name devil in its title that pigus the curiosity

of some people. There are countless locations all over the

world which have this particular.

Speaker 3: Word in their name.

Speaker 1: Not only devil, either, there are many other words that

symbolize or mean devil or evil, or some other form

of something not very good or beautiful, given somewhaite ironically

to some of the world's most breathtaking and wondrous places.

Sometimes the location will have got its name innocently enough,

such as because the geology of the place simply looks

foreboding and sinister, especially under the cover of night. Much

of the time, these particular places are said to be cursed, enchanted,

or downright evil, and the spooky and scary landscape only

lends credence to these rumors and legends. So much of

the time, though, these places with this particular word in

the title are associated with not just devils, demon spirits,

and other other worldly phenomena, but with real tragedies, disappearances, deaths,

maybe bizarre sounds and strange lights in the sky. Today, though,

we're going to focus on one place in particular, we're

a mysterious tragedy struck Devil's Hole, which is located in

the aptly named Death Valley National Park in California, United States.

This portion of the Mohave Desert contained in Death Valley

National Park is the driest and hottest place in the

United States. Near bad water in the Long Trench of

the desert, between the Panamint Range on the west and

the Black Mountains on the east, is the lowest dry

land in the Western Hemisphere, an amazing two hundred and

eighty two feet below sea level. A veritable showcase of

desert extremes, Death Valley National Park includes one of the

largest salt pans on Earth, dramatically faulted landscapes, young volcanic craters,

and massive dune fields. Today, we're going all the way

back to the year nineteen sixty five. Death Valley was

very different from the Los Angeles of the time, where

there were uprisings happening all over the place and all

of it being shown live on the evening news. Death Valley, California,

was in one of the least populated parts of the

state at the time, and a whole different world from

the more largely inhabited cities which surrounded it. On June twentieth,

nineteen sixty five, four high school buddies set out to

remote desert location about nine isles northwest of Las Vegas.

Their intent was to joydive into a deep geothermal abyss

called Devil's Hole. Sadly, two of the young men would

never re emerge from this mysterious fossil water portal. Arriving

at their destination, the foursome hiked up a hot barren

hillsite which overlooked a large scale ranching operation that would

nearly erase a much smaller and nearly ancient complex called

ash Meadows within a few short years. A well trampled

trail led to the entrance of a limestone chasm that

had allegedly opened a whopping sixty thousand years ago after

possibly some seismic event caused the roof of the cave

to collapse in on itself. The foursome of boys, which

was made up of Paul gian Conteri, a nineteen year

old cafeteria worker at the nearby Nevada Test site, his

new brother in law, twenty year old David Rose, who

was a Las Vegas Casino parking attendant for with their

other friend, nineteen year old Bill Alter and his younger

brother Jack, Boys scrambled under a fenced enclosure posted with

warning signs, and thinking they were immune to any trouble

these warning signs might be posted about, they proceeded to

descend the thirty or so feet down to a ledge

where the faint but flitting movement of tiny blue gray

pupfish could be observed swimming in the eight by sixty

foot pool, That is, if any of the four young

men had bothered to look just a bit closer at

what they were about to jump into. After suiting up

with scuba tanks, masks, and dive lights, Paul, David, and

Bill dove into the claustrophobic waters. The temperature was nearly

indistinguishable from that of their skin. Upon entering the pool,

the boys most likely disturbed the delicate algae s falling mats,

where the entire population of the exceedingly rare Cyprinodon diabolus

continues to prosper and breed exclusively. Jack was the only

one who hadn't jumped in, as he was delegated the

one who would remain stationed on the ledge in case

anything went wrong. Some time after midnight, Paul failed to resurface,

so David and Bill quickly redove into the waters in

a vain attempt to locate their missing friend. Bill Alter

frantically followed David Rose down to approximately one hundred and

seventy feet until David too disappeared into the darkness. The

bodies of the brothers in law were never recovered. Many

people believed back then and still do believe that these

young men were inspired to go diving at night, despite

the dangers in the specific place, because of a newspaper

article from the year before which detailed a speleological research

expedition of a massive underground lake below Death Valley led

by California based professional diver Jim House, who would ironically

dive numerous times around the clock with military personnel and

other volunteer divers in their attempt to locate the missing

men for thirty cent whole hours until the search was

eventually called off. The only traces left of the two

brother in laws a mask and a snorkel. There was

also a flashlight tied to alledge some hundred feet below.

It seemed to signal and effectively the way out of

the otherworldly underwater cave system. Articles detailing the unsuccessful rescue

effort were published nationwide in the Sarasota Journal date of

June twenty second, eighteen sixty five. Outstated that he had

previously dived in Devil's Hole around three hundred times over

twenty eight trips, further commenting, it's beautiful in there. It

goes straight down one hundred and sixty feet like a pipe,

then opens into a room that is about three hundred

feet long and maybe forty feet wide. The bottom of

the room is about two hundred and sixty feet down.

Then it narrows into another tube. I dived to three

hundred and fifteen feet. Maybe that's a record, I don't know.

But at the end into the tube, it opens again

into something else. We don't know what the next room is,

or if it's a room at all. It's like infinity.

There are some very terrifying legends from the native tribes

of the area about this particular place called Devil's Hole.

The Timbasha told tales of water babies who would surface

and swallow a swimmer or diver hole should they stay

in the pool for too long other legends suggested that

so a Pizi, a legendary malevolent giant who dwelled at

mountain springs and caves, would snatch and devour unwary victims.

Miss was standing. Barbara Durham, an elder of the timbisious Shoshoni,

who shared these stories at a two thousand and two workshop,

admitted that she and her friends enjoyed how the pupfish

tickled their toes when they played in the spring. Keep

in mind here that the Devil's Hole pupfish, as they're

specifically named, are considered by experts to be the rarest

fish found anywhere on the planet. They were even the

first ever species to be classified as endangered. The fish

are not important to the story at all, really, but

it seemed worth mentioning in order to reinforce how very

special and perhaps a bit magical this place actually is.

As far as the two young men who disappeared without

a trace back in this mystical and extremely dangerous underwater

cave system decades ago, well, they've never been found, and

neither have any clues relating to what could it possibly

happen to them. As for one more bit of interesting fact,

that could lend a bit of Creden says something a

bit more sinister being afoot, as the local tribes absolutely

believe that this otherwise serene and tranquil looking water source.

It's said that Charles Manson himself spent several days at

Devil's Hole trying to figure out a way to make

it safely down into the chasm, with some saying he

was convinced he would never have to come back up.

He had an obsession with the place that was convinced

that there was an underwater portal to an alternate dimension,

or more specifically, a portal to the underworld, where he

felt he and his family would be able to safely

wait out the coming apocalypse. He so famously predicted what

happened that never actually did. Charles Manson's problem lie in

figuring out a way to drain the whole, and it

seemed like he may have been given this idea by

an alleged Indian legend that resurfaced during the nineteen twenties,

contending that a subterranean sect of leather clad humanoids lived

down within an early yellow green lid of boat somewhere

in the Mohave Desert could this possibly be true, just

as with the case of these poor young men just

doing what young men do and looking for a night

or perhaps irresponsible but never thought to be deadly fun,

we may never actually know. Hello, friends, there's something so interesting,

albeit a bet macobb about our fascination these days with

death and murder. We see it all over television and

the internet. And who in this community hasn't sat for

hours and watched shows about serial killers I've never been caught,

and movies made about unsolved disappearances and whatnot. Seems like

a bad train wreck where we know we shouldn't look,

but we can't help but do it anyway. On this channel,

we try to respectfully cover as many of those strange

and mysterious missing person cases and murders as we can,

and we try to do it in depth. Sometimes though

there just isn't enough information for us to go fully

in depth or as deep into the cases we would

like to, But we still feel these people and their

situations and stories should be talked about and discussed as

well lest they be forgotten. Sometimes it's not a person

at all, but an entity which has some strangers our

mystery lurking around it, where we just.

Speaker 3: Can't let go and need to know more.

Speaker 1: Here's a collection of some of the most mysterious deaths

or unsolved disappearances that we could find.

Speaker 3: Could you or.

Speaker 1: Someone you know hold the clue to unlock these mysteries?

Number one The Mary Celeste. On December fifth, eighteen seventy two,

the American merchant ship named the Mary Celeste was found

to drift approximately four hundred miles away from the Zorus

Islands of Portugal, located in the eastern part of the

Atlantic Ocean. The Canadian vessel came across the drifting ship,

which was still at partial sale, and stopped the ship

in order to.

Speaker 3: Investigate what the issue was.

Speaker 1: The Marry Celeste was found to be carrying a full

cargo load of cask of industrial alcohol and enough food

and water to last several.

Speaker 3: People a few months.

Speaker 1: While the crew's belongings were all found on and around

their bunks and only one of the lifeboats was found

to be missing, the ship was completely and totally devoided people.

The ship had left New York and was headed to

Italy with ten people aboard. There were seven members of

the crew, the ship's captain, his wife, and their daughter,

who was only two years old at the time. No

sight or a sign of any of them was ever found.

There have been theories and rumors circulating about this case

since the ship was located, but never anything factual to

go by. Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a story

about a ship called Mary Celeste where everyone on board

had been murdered by deranged serial killer. Unfortunately, this spectationous

account by a well known author was sometimes taken to

be what actually happened. The truth of the matter is,

though no one knows what fate really befell the passengers

on this ship. Many researchers speculate those board fled for

fear of the alcohol fumes leaking from the cask causing

a possible explosion. Still, others say they must have fallen

victim to Moroccan pirates who were some unknown and nonsensical reason,

carried off the people but none of the cargo before

whatever fate befell these four ten souls suppor of that

ship that fathful December day. The Mary Celeste was associated

with much death and hardship, and has been subject to

rumor of bad luck and even a curse. While we

may never know the truth. It's said today that perhaps

the crew with a captain who was a devout Christian

and never drank alcohol, clearly and loudly stated he would

never abandon his ship unless it were to be for

saving lives, were all abducted by some sort of extraterrestrials.

It's just a good theory as any others at this point.

What do you think?

Speaker 3: Number two?

Speaker 1: Rodney Marx. On May twelve, two thousand, an Australian astrophysicist

named Rodney Marx was stuck in the middle of a

very dark and extremely frigid Antarctic winter. He was stationed

at the Mundsen Scott Station, which was at the time

an American scientific research base located near the South Pole.

There were only forty nine other people there with Rodney,

and they were all basically trapped there at that location

until the spring.

Speaker 3: There are no winter.

Speaker 1: Flights too or from the South Pole because they're extremely

dangerous and far too risky. These people were working and

for the most part is said have all gotten along

with one another fairly well. Rodney Marx died on that

twelfth of May, and what happened to him and who

was involved remains a mystery. Because his body had to

be frozen and kept at the base until spring, when

flights started again. The only thing anyone knew was that

he had died of some type of mysterious illness. Once

his body was flown back to New Zealand had thought out,

it was discovered he had been murdered poisoned by methanol,

and all the other forty nine people there with him

were suspects Rodney had most likely consumed the toxic substance

without even knowing it. The authorities eventually ruled out that

he had taken his own life, and also thought it

highly unlikely he had drunk the substance accidentally. All the

others there with him for the winter were interviewed, but

of course nothing ever came from any of it, and

eventually foul play was ruled out of the factor in

his untimely demise. The case is sometimes called the first

murder committed at the South Pole, and the events that

surrounded his poisoning are said to have never been determined.

So what happened to Rodney? How does someone die from

methanol poisoning without being murdered, without it having been an accident,

and without them having done it their self to take

their own life. This is one we also may never

find the answers to What's your opinion? Number three The

Impossible Murder. In nineteen thirty one, in Liverpool there lived

a lovely husband and wife named Julia and William Wallace.

The couple seem normal enough until one day in January

that same year, when something happened that is so bizarre, mysterious,

and which is still unsolved to this day that has

since come to be known as the Impossible Murder. William

Wallace was an insurance salesman who'd received a message one

eating from someone asking him to meet him at an

address on Love Gardens East so they could discuss policies.

William was hesitant and normally wouldn't have even entertained doing

business in such a way, but there was a depression

at the time and he figured he would take what

he could get as far as sales. On January twenty first,

nineteen thirty one, William left his home and headed to

his appointment with a mysterious man who had requested his presence,

Assuming that it was a lead on a sale, William

tried to find the address, but after a while of

searching and some other strange circumstances found the address he

had been called to simply didn't exist, and he had

it home frustrated and had bit confused. William claimed that

upon returning home, he found his wife murdered, plunging to

death in.

Speaker 3: The living room.

Speaker 1: William was eventually convicted of his wife's murder, but then

it was overturned on appeal. There trust wasn't enough evidence. Actually,

there wasn't any evidence, not really, and the cases continued

to fascinate both armchair detectives researchers and web slutes alike.

Historical researchers have since speculated that the murder was committed

by a co worker of Wallace's, which he had fired

and accused him investment from the company. In twenty thirteen,

a British crime writer named P. D. James said she

believes that Wallace did in fact kill his wife Julia,

and just happened to be helped along by a coincidental

prank call to men Love Gardens East that very same night.

Speaker 3: So what do you think?

Speaker 1: This is just a quick synopsis of this one, and

there's so many mysterious twists and bizarre turns in between.

It's enough to make your head spin. There are literally

entire books written about this one case, number four Toman Should,

Australia's most mysterious death, is known as the toman Should case.

This title comes from a Persian word that was printed

on a small scrap of paper found in the dead

man's pocket. The man was found dead on the beach

south of Adelaide in December of nineteen forty eight. The

only things found on the body were a train ticket,

a few cigarettes, a comb, and that tiny scrap of

paper with the Persian word. There was no identification either.

Taman should translates to the end from Persian to English,

which really was the clue in and of itself. However,

this piece of paper was found to be from a

very rare edition of a book of poetry called the

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, and the last two words from

that book are the words taman should. Even more mysterious, wouldn't.

The pathologist who performed the autopsy said that he suspected

that the unnamed man had died from poisoning somehow, and

this too, how it came about as shrouded a mystery

as well. The police appealed to the public and located

what seemed to be the book. The scrap of paper

came from which was found on the man. Inside the book,

which they came across by some unknown and unnamed means,

also contained a phone number. This number led them to

an Australian woman who claims she didn't know and had

never meant the deceased man found on the beach, and

further claim that while she had once owned a copy

of the book, she had lent it to someone. Again,

no specific person was named to lead to who it

was she allegedly led the book to. There was also

some handwritten code throughout the book, which seemed to be

a series of letters, but the code was never cracked

and it's still unknown what it all said and meant.

In two thousand and nine, an author by the name

of Derek Abbott, who was also a professor at the

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Adelaide, came forth

with a theory of his own and proposed the coded

letters were traces of a manual encryption or decryption of

a message using a one time pad. This is said

to be an espionage technique that can be based on

texts from a specific book. In this case, most likely

it was from the same rare edition of the original

book in question. Some people believe this gives way to

the theory that there was some sort of spir ring

operating in Australia at the time, and that the taman

Should case had something to do with that. This is

another case where there are just no answers at all,

and the full story is one like you'll never find

again or heard before. Who was this mysterious man, What

connection did he have, if any, to the equally mysterious woman.

Was he murdered or did he take his own life?

What in the world did all this have to do

with that rare edition of the book of Poetry. Sometimes

cases come along where there just are no definitive answers.

Usually we can live with that because when we follow

the facts and evidence, it leads to some sort of

reasonable conclusion. Then there are cases like the ones above,

where there are not only any rational answers or any

factual evidence, there are also no reasonable conclusions that could

be drawn, and we are all left frustrated and scratching

our heads until we move on to the next one.

Speaker 4: He slat Out told us moms, she's dead. She needs

our house. And that's when I got the goosebumps, and

I was like, oh my gosh. He was just in

our car and he was pointing out to a certain

spot in the meadow.

Speaker 5: While Victoria Gorba and her family stopped for lunch, her

son Kayden began talking to someone.

Speaker 4: And my husband and I kind of looked at each

other like what, and he goes, yeah, there's a lady

over in the meadow in a black shirt, and I

got goosebucks. He says, she needs our help. But she's

dead and she's laying face down with her legs up

and she can't talk to me. But she's over there.

We need to go help her.

Speaker 5: Jake and Victoria checked out the meadow but saw nothing.

Speaker 4: He kept saying, trust me, trust me, mom, and I

was like, I trust you, Bud. You know, I believe

you one hundred percent.

Speaker 5: Spooked, the couple decided to end the trip early and

head home.

Speaker 4: And we put it on Facebook seeing if anybody knew

anything about the area, and come to find out that

there was a lady missing with the description that he

described to us was in a five mile radius of

where we were.

Speaker 5: Sandra Hughes had gone missing in July of twenty twenty.

Cayden had described her in detail and recognized her in

three of four photos.

Speaker 4: He was very adamant that we needed to help her,

and he describes down to blue hair. He said, she

has a black shirt, blue jeans, and blue hair.

Speaker 2: Mom.

Speaker 4: That's the exact description of her when she went missing.

Speaker 1: Hello, friends, We recently learned of what may be one

of the strangest updates to a missing person case that

we've ever brought forth. Now, sometimes in these missing person

cases that we cover, there will be a little bit

of a paranormal or supernatural element. It's usually something small

and not very significant to the overall case, but sometimes

it seems that the unknown can play a larger part

in these cases, stories of UFOs, the Fae, Bigfoot, or

rather Cryptid's portal, translucent entities, et cetera. But is it

possible that the ghost of a missing woman may be

trying to help solve her disappearance, or at least help

locate her remains. We ask that you keep an open

mind and consider it the following case. Back in episode

number seven of our ten Unsolved National Park Disappearances series,

we brought you the story of Sandra Hughes to recap.

Fifty four year old Sandra Johnson Hughes of California was

last heard from on June twenty six, twenty twenty. Sandra

had embarked on a solo camping trip in the Sierra

south of Yosemite to escape from the current pandemic. Sandra

had recently moved from Maui, Hawaii, to California in June

of twenty twenty. She had trained to be a park

ranger in college and was experiencing the outdoors. On July

fifth of that year, the Madera County Sheriff's Office asked

for the public's help in locating Sandra after they found

her campsite near the Johnson's Meadow section of the forest

in disarray. On that same day, the authorities located Hughes

Silver Sob and Shequido Creek to the north of the

camp site. They said it appeared to have crashed into

a tree at a speed of less than twenty miles

per hour before it rolling into the ravine. Hikers reported

Saint Sandra on July fourth, twenty twenty, and said she

was barefoot and had a bruise on her face. They

offered to help her, but she declined. Medical assistance officers

and volunteer search and rescue teams from more than half

a dozen other sheriff's departments, together with dog teams, the

California Highway Patrol and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services,

combed the forest on foot, while helicopters from California Air

National Guard did an aerial search. The search focused around

the area where her car was found, but there was

no sign of Sandra. Then, on August ninth, twenty twenty two,

hunters saw a woman leaning against a tree along Road

five S zero one near Biesore Road. She did not

wave them down, attempt contact, or appear to be in

any distress. Upon returning, they recognized her from a missing

persons fire and contacted park rangers. The hunter said that

she appears to be visibly thinner than her last known

photos at the time of her disappearance. Sandra was a

fifty four year old white female with blue shoulder lenked hair.

Her natural color is brown. She has brown eyes, is

approximately five foot three inches tall, and weighs about one

hundred and fifty pounds. The search for Sandra was ongoing

but limited. Now flashed forward to almost exactly one year later.

This strange update to the case comes from the Madair

County Sheriff's Office in Madeir, California. It seems that a

family from nearby Course Gold, California, experienced a bizarre broad

daylight ghost sighting in the Madeir County Mountains on Wednesday,

July twenty first, twenty twenty one. The event was so

strange and disturbing that the Madair County Sheriff's Office felt

the need to further investigate. It seems that a man

named Jake Gorba, his wife Victoria, and their three children

decided to take their four wheeler up to the shut

Eye Peak on that faithful Wednesday. While on this family outing,

they stopped to have something to eat beside the trail,

and that's when things started to get strange. The couple's

three year old son, Caden, suddenly began animatedly talking to

someone nearby. He was just in our four wheeler and

he was pointing out to a certain spot in the meadow,

said his mom Victoria. The normally reserved and somewhat quiet

Caden excitedly told his parents that they're in the meadow

by where the family was having lunch was a woman

lying face down with her legs straight up in the air. Furthermore,

Caden stated that the woman was unable to speak or

move and needed help. He began pleading with his parents

to help this poor woman. He flat out told us, Mom,

she's already dead, but she needs our help. And that's

when I got the goose bumps. I was like, oh

my gosh, Victoria said. He goes, yeah, there's a lady

over in the meadow in a black shirt, blue jeans,

and blue hair, and I got goose bumps, said Victoria.

He says, she needs our help, but she's dead and

she's lying face down with her legs up. She can't

talk to me, but she's over there. We need to

go help her. So in order to calm young Caden down,

Jake and Victoria walked over and checked out the metal

but saw absolutely nothing. Caden continued to insist. He kept saying,

trust me, trust me, Mom, And I was like, I

trust you, I trust you. I believe you one hundred percent,

said Victoria. Whatever young Caden was experiencing so unnerved and

spoke the rest of the family that the other members

of the family all unanimously agreed it's time to put

an early end to their day of adventure and make

the thirty five mile drive back home to Course Calf.

After arriving home, the event still fresh in her mind,

Victoria decided to post about the weird encounter on her

Facebook profile. We put it on Facebook to see if

anybody knew anything about this area, and come to find out,

there was a lady missing with a description that he

described to us within a five mile radius of where

we were, said Victoria. Now, viewers of this channel No

from our previous episode number seven, Sandra Hughes had gone

missing in that area in June of twenty twenty. The

encounter became even more chilling when, according to Victoria, three

year old Kaden's highly detailed description of the woman he

had seen in the meadow was identical to the description

of Sandra Hughes as given by the local authorities. He

was very adamant that we needed to help her, and

he described her down to blue hair. He said, she

has a black shirt, blue jeans, and blue hair.

Speaker 3: Mom.

Speaker 1: That's the exact description of her when she went missing,

said Victoria. Then Victoria and searched online for Sandra Hughes

and found some photographs that have been released as a

part of the search effort the year prior. Because I

said she got goosebumps when Cayden readily recognized three of

the photos of Sandra, identifying her as the woman he

had seen in the field. As fate would have it,

Madera County Sheriff Corporal Chris Williams just happened to see

the Facebook post and found it intriguing, to say the least,

so much so that he contacted Cayden's family to further

investigate the chilling account. Victoria said the corporal in charge

of her case actually reached out to us on Facebook

and was like, Hey, we want more information and we

want to bring you guys back up there and see

if you could point us in the right direction. Corporal

Williams has been investigating the disappears of Sandra Hughes since

the beginning of the investigation. On the following Thursday, two

Madera County Sheriff's deputies ventured back up to the meadow

to investigate, with Jake and Caden coming along to point

them in the right direction. Unfortunately, and the deputies found

nothing new by way of evidence, although the case remains open.

If she was possibly a ghost looking for some help,

I hope that he could have at least helped and

maybe helped the family find her, because it's been a

long time apparently since she's been gone.

Speaker 3: Victoria said.

Speaker 1: The four wheeler that Cayden and his family used while

traveling in the mountains has now been nicknamed the Ghost

Runner and incidentally, is also for sale. It's not believed

that the spooking encounter is the reason they put the

vehicle up for sale, as the family says they will

continue to go adventuring in the Madeira Mountains, but do

admit there are a few spots now which they aren't

anxious to visit again anytime soon, if at all. Local

news reporters in the area reached out to the Madera

County Sheriff's Office, who did confirm that they received the

report of a possible sighting of some sort and they

did go out to the location to search for any

additional leads or information.

Speaker 3: For now, the.

Speaker 1: Case remains open and hopes that this latest update regarding

the spooking encounter may produce some new leads. Now as

strange as this new development is, it's not the first

time that possibly a ghost helped solve the missing person's case.

Back on February twenty first, nineteen ninety seven, the TV

show Unsolved Mysteries aired to segment regarding a missing person's

case from almost three years prior. This report told the

story of twenty three year old Christine Scuubage and her

three year old son Nick. They were driving along Highway

fifty in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California when

they vanished without a trace on June sixth, nineteen ninety four.

Christine was a single mother and it recently completed parallegal training.

She had plans of going to work for a prestigious

law firm, and she helped to make enough money so

that she and her child's father could be married. Christine

left her stepparents home near Sacramento on June fifth, nineteen

ninety four, on her way to Carson City, Nevada. After

failing to make contact with her family after three days,

her step father, Dave Stossenbach, reported her and her son

missing on June eighth. The police took the missing person's report,

but there were no initial leads in the case.

Speaker 3: Five days after.

Speaker 1: Christine and Nick disappeared, however, a woman named Debraah Hoyt

and her husband were driving along the Highway fifty.

Speaker 3: Around three am.

Speaker 1: The pair were on along overnight drive and had been

joking and singing in order to keep each other away.

Suddenly never saw what appeared to be a completely naked

woman lying on the side of the road. The naked

woman's face was turned toward the road and she was

laying on her side with her knees slightly bent. She

had one arm placed beneath her head and the other

arm held over her head. The Holtz were shocked beyond belief.

They thought it must have been some sort of sick

practical joke, or perhaps he would employ the carjack them

had they stopped. Deborah floored the accelerator instead and sped

down Highway fifty, not stopping until she arrived at the

nearest phone booth, where she proceeded to call the foe.

Speaker 3: In just minutes.

Speaker 1: Two Sharf's cards with the scene were deborn seeing the

naked woman's body. However, unable to pinpoint the exact location,

the deputies reported that they saw and found nothing. The

next morning, though, speculations began that the sighting had something

to do with the disappearance of Christine and Nick, who

were the most recently missing people from that area. Due

to the insistence from the family, deputy Rich Strasser decided

to go back and have a closer look. Strasser figured

that it might be easier to spot anything out of

the ordinary in the daylight. Deborah had indicated that a

particularly dangerous stretch of Highway fifty, known as Bullion Bend,

was where the incident took place. As Strasser patrolled the area,

he spotted a new looking child's tennis shoe on the

side of the road. Immediately next to that spot and

the shoulder of the road was a steep embankment. Strasser

pulled over his cruiser to search the area more thoroughly,

and sure enough, at the bottom of the embankment he

spotted the twisted remains of Christine's car. He checked Christine

and observed that she was dead and unfortunately had been

that way for quite some time. The deputy then went

around to the other side to check Nick, who was

curled up in a fetal position in the passenger seat.

Strasser assumed the worst and was sure that Nick was

also dead. However, when he touched the little boy's neck

to find a pulse, it appeared that Nick took a breath.

Strasser immediately radioed for an ambulance. Little Nick had been

alone in the car for five days, yet he was

somehow still clinging to life. Officials believed that sometime around

two am on June sixth, Christine must have fallen asleep

at the wheel. The car veered off the road and

plunged to the bottom of the ditch, striking a tree.

Due to the embankment being so steep, other drivers drove

right past the accident seen for days, unaware that it

was just over the side of the road. It was

later determined that Christine had been killed instantly on impact

with a tree. Through your old Nick was all alone,

with no way out and no one to talk to.

Christine's mother says that she believes that little Nick spent

the time talking to his mother, unaware that she was dead.

Against all odds, he survived five days of intense heat

and four nights of cold, trapped within the twisted remains

of the car. Doctors who examined nickt stated that he

was in such bad shape that he would have most

likely die within a couple of hours had he not

been found when he was. The strange encounter that saved

Nick's life seems to defy any rational explanation. If deb

had not seen the naked woman lying on the side

of the road, Nick would have not survived. Now, it's

absolutely impossible for Christine to have been the naked woman.

She was still fully clothed and wearing her seat bolt

when found, and the medical examiner stated that she was

most likely killed on impact. Debah Hoyt is one hundred

percent certain that she saw a naked woman on the

side of the road. Both she and Christine's family believe

it was Christine's spirit who saved Nick that day. The

spirit had apparently appeared in the nude in order to

draw attention. Nick years later, as an adult, was interviewed

on a television show Paranormal Witness. He remembers seeing a

bright light surrounding the car following the accident. To this day,

he believes that his mother was watching over him following

the accident.

Speaker 3: And helped him to be rescued.

Speaker 1: The show also revealed that Christine's aunt had several dreams

or premonitions about the accident. Before Christine and Nick were

even reported missing, she dreamed of seeing them lying in

their car in a ditch. She also saw the number

sixteen in the dream, which turned out to be the

number for the mile marker nearest the accident's site.

Speaker 3: Well, there you have it.

Speaker 1: What do you think about the apparition that little Kayden observed,

which she identified as Sandra Hughes, even down to the

color of her hair, which was dyed blue when she

went missing. Is it possible that Sandra's spirit is attempting

to communicate with a living in a desire that remains

be found and her friend and loved ones have closure.

It certainly appears that way. And what about the two

other times she was spotted by high christ Was that

actually her or was that an apparition?

Speaker 3: I mean?

Speaker 6: Anyway, fall man, we.

Speaker 7: Lost my two year old grandson. That's walk be the

ones my dad. We can't find him. Three year old

glands him. Hey there window here, Paul says, are you

there your own? Yeah, he's free. Okay. The girls come

to the house and left him there and he's walked

both somewhere and we can't find him. And even then

I know you're not there in the house now, all

that dials hill okay, and how long do you know

he brought in there's voice a minute because we've been

looking at it all in the woods for him.

Speaker 6: And then behind your house, directly.

Speaker 7: Behind your house, yeah, well on the side. Yeah, and

then a white flack he was, you know, and he

was wearing probably a black little coat, a black coat. Yeah.

Speaker 6: Okay, you do this, you do this.

Speaker 7: Where we go? Yeah, he has there? Yeah, thanks us.

Speaker 6: Okay, he said about forty five minutes ago. Yeah, okay,

all right. Is it a big area of wood behind

your house? Yeah, it's pretty big. I think he's been

out there looking for him. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right,

we got it there, but he had to see you. Okay.

And you said forty five minutes directly behind your house

or a side yeah okay, you see said we have

some said it that way. Okay, okay, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3: Hello, friends, Steve's talking here with you. In this video.

Speaker 1: We're going to discuss children who claim to have been

saved by bears in the while. Join me, let's walk

and see. But before we begin, at least take a

moment make sure you're subscribed notification bell is on and

also you click join come a member of the channel

as exclusive members only perks. Now throughout this channel and

across this community, we've seen many strange things that have

gone on in the woods all across the world. There

are times, though, when things happen that just can't be

explained rationally or reasonably, despite seeming to be backed up

by documentation and in some cases even factual evidence. We've

discussed everything from ferries in the woods and people who

have gone missing under strange and unusual circumstances, sometimes in

front of witnesses. But every once in a while we

come across something so incredibly strange that it's hard to

imagine and actually have happened at all. However, today we're

going to discuss something unimaginably strange that it is said

to have happened not only once, but twice. And while

there are some facts and witness statements to make one

think these things are really happening out there, it's still,

of course up to you to decide what you want

to believe at the end of the day. One day,

way back in June of seventeen eighty three, a four

year old girl from Warren, New Hampshire named Sarah Witcher,

wanted to go with her parents to visit her uncle.

Her uncle lived on a tall hill right behind their house,

and for whatever reason, Sarah's parents didn't want her to

go with them, no matter how much Sarah begged and

pleaded with them, though, they refused to allow her to

go and assured her they would only be gone a

short time and she would be perfectly fine in the

care of her older siblings until their return. However, it

turns out that they were wrong, and due to some

kind of miscommunication. When her parents returned, the older siblings,

who were supposed to be watching little Sarah, ask why

she hadn't turned with them. What came next was something

that would be imprinted in New Hampshire history for centuries,

but also the mystery of what happened to Sarah that

day so long ago would live on forever in the

minds of those of us who study strange things in

the woods. So let's take a look at what allegedly

happened on a sunny day in June many many years ago,

when Sarah's siblings asked where she was and why she

hadn't returned with the parents. Obviously, Sarah's mother and father

were immediately panic. They sorted through the details with their siblings,

and it didn't take long for everyone to realize that

no one was watching Sarah and that she had wandered

off somewhere. An immediate search party, including the family and

their friends and neighbors in the community, quickly turned into

something much larger when dozens of people from all over

the surrounding areas descended upon Warren to help search for

the lost four year old. On the second day of

the search reported back to the Witchers with some frightening news.

Tracts believed to belong to Sarah were found deep in

the wilderness behind the home, but falling directly behind hers

were the tracks of a large bear. This was terrible news,

and the family came to the conclusion in their heads

that it was more than likely their precious little girl

was deceased. Everyone involved was disheartened, but it didn't slow

down the search one bit, as now they were determined

to at least recover Sarah's remains. It was decided among

the community of searchers that if Sarah were to be

found alive, after all, whover found her would fire three

shots from their rifle into the air. The situation was

a grim one, but Sarah's parents and siblings couldn't help

but keep at least some hope that Sarah would be

found alive and well, despite how minuscule the odds of

that happening were. Searchers continued in their efforts for days

on end, refusing to leave Sarah to the elements and

wildlife of the dense forest. On the fourth day of

the search, an expert wilderness woodsman from nearby Portsmouth, New

Hampshire arrived and joined the now exhausted search parties who

were still out looking for Sarah. Only a few hours

later that the townspeople heard the signal three shots fired

into the air. Sarah had not only been found, but

was apparently alive and well. But what had happened to

her and one of the bear tracks discovered following so

closely behind her most of the way. The expert woodsman

from Plymouth, who was still a stranger to the community

and Sarah's family, was now also a hero, and he

happily returned Sarah directly to her mother's arms, as the

rest of the community looked on with tears of joy.

In their eyes and pairs of thanks on their lips.

Everyone was eager to know what had happened to the

little girl, and she was more than happy to oblige

them with her miraculous and now legendary tale. Sarah began

by explaining that when her parents wouldn't allow her to

go with them to visit her uncle, she became bored

and decided to wander around picking wildflowers. Somehow, while walking along,

her feet had been cut and began to bleed. Suddenly,

as Sarah tried to figure out what to do, as

now her feet were injured and hurting and she still

needed to get back home, a bit emerged from the woods.

The little girl was immediately scared, but soon realized that

bear seemed more curious than menacing, and so she stood

there and did nothing as the animal approached her. According

to Sarah, the bear walked right up to her, licked

her in essence giving her a kiss, and then laid

down right there at her feet. Sarah somehow immediately took

this to mean she was to lay down and use

the bear as a warm and comfortable bed for the night.

The only other thing Sarah said to have revealed was

that the bear simply stayed with her, either in that

one spot or in the forest in general, and didn't

leave her side until rescuers finally approached to bring her

back out of the woods and reunite her with her family.

Sarah went on to live a normal life Mary and

have children of her own. It said she entertained others

with her curious tale for many years after, and, as

with any legend, be it fashion or completely made up,

the miraculous story took on many extra parts throughout the centuries.

Some very common additions are that the stranger who found

Sarah had been followed a vision of some kind, and

yet in other retellings of the story, the prayers from

the townspeople and Sarah's family were so fervent in earnest

that that's what actually brought Sarah back and let her

being found safe and sound. It's even sometimes said that

Sarah told her parents quote the great black dog had

kept her safe and warm at night end quote. Of course,

these things can't possibly be proven, but aren't known to

be a part of Sarah's original retelling of the story.

A man named William Little went out and researched the

story and using only accounts that were allegedly eyewitnesses to

the event, wrote the book History of Warren, a hamlet

located along the White Hills of New Hampshire. This is

one of, if not the only, book that's said to

tell the true story in the words of those who

were there that day. In its entirety, well, there's not

much to this story. It's still pretty miraculous and some

would say unbelievable. Knowing what we know, and considering everything

we've learned about the missing in the woods and things

many have alleged to have experienced while out there, this

could very well have happened. After all, Sarah is not

the only child to allege a bear or otherwild animal

help protect them and keep them safe while they were

scared and lost in the wilderness for days on end.

House would these small children have survived, and why or

how would they even come up with such strange tales

if they weren't at least partially true to begin with.

Maybe Sarah's story is a bit too old for some

to believe it is anything more than a local myth

or urban legend. If that's the case, however, it's completely

understandable because these things do have a way of taking

on a life of their own after some time. It

seems to still be happening to this day. We've discussed

some more recent cases, like two year old I had

to make Curtis, who in nineteen fifty five went missing

in Montana's coot and Eye for Us. She was lost

for two whole days, and the entire time the weather

had been pouring rain, but she was found safe and sound,

no worse for the wear. She adamantly insisted that it

was a big bear that he kept her safe and

that cared so well for her during the entire time

she'd been gone. In even more recent years, in twenty nineteen,

a three year old named Casey Hathaway went missing in

the wilderness near his grandmother's home in North Carolina, and

told a very similar story when he was rescued. Here's

his story, which some say is similar to the others

in that it is very nonspecific as to what he

and his companion did for days in the woods together,

and only get his mentions to the fact that an animal,

in this case also a bear, miraculously went against its

very nature in order to protect and perhaps save a

human child on January twenty third, twenty nineteen, Little Casey

hathaway and was playing with a couple of his older

cousins and his great grandmother's backyard, but when the others

came inside, Casey wasn't with them. His family searched for

him for approximately forty five minutes, hoping to find him

on their own, but when they had no luck, they

called the Craven County Sheriff's Department on the phone with

a nine to one one dispatcher. His grandmother reported, he

was walking in the woods back there and we can't

find him. The other ones come through the house but

left him there, and he walked off somewhere and we

can't find him. The next two nights were filled with

freezing cold temperatures, pouring rain, and having winds, with the

search and rescue teams and volunteers, along with.

Speaker 3: Casey's family never gave up.

Speaker 1: Both the FBI, US Marine Corps, dozens of volunteers, plus

search and rescue teams from across the state came together

to help find the missing toddler. Three days after he

had last been seen in the backyard, the neighbor of

his grandmother was out walking her dog and heard a

loud cry coming from some nearby bushes, approximately forty yards

from the road. When the neighbor went over to investigate,

she found little Casey Hathaway alive and seemingly well, except

that he was crying and tangled up in some thorn bushes.

The authorities and Casey's family were immediately notified and he

was rushed to the hospital, where he was described as

being in surprisingly good condition. So Casey didn't have much

to say about what he had done and where he

had been. According to David McFadden of the Craven County

Sheriff's Office, who told CNN and other news outlets who

were seeking information, quote, he made a comment about having

a friend while he was in the wood. His friend

was a bear. In the emergency room, he started talking

about what happened in the woods, and he said he

had a friend that was a bear with him while

he was in the woods.

Speaker 3: End quote.

Speaker 1: While Major and McFadden admitted there were bears in the

woods in the county, he said there was no way

to prove one way or the other that one had

been with Casey during the time he was missing. He

went on to say that all that battered was that

there was something there to comfort the little boy throughout

the ordeal. Major McFadden was also quoted as saying, we

are very pleased he had that type of comfort. There

were very brutal conditions out there. The first night had

dropped down to twenty degrees. The second night we had

two inches of rain. Casey requested and is said to

have absolutely devoured some of his favorite foods while at

the hospital, including Cheetos and chicken McNuggets. Aside from a

few bruises, cuts and scrapes, Casey was in good condiction

and was happy to be reunited with his family. While

we may never really know what happened to any of

these children and at least a handful of others that

have claimed to have been protected and cared for by

some unusual wildlife out in the woods, it definitely makes

for much more than just an interesting story.

Speaker 3: In this community.

Speaker 1: Sometimes it's hard to take things that face value, but

there are some who believe cases like these and others,

especially when it comes to small children who have no

reason or incentive to lie about such things, that we

need to read between the lines. Could it be that

actually bears came out of the woods and went against

their very nature in order to protect and rescue at

times even to care for these little and otherwise helpless

human children for days on end. Could it be there's

something else at play here, and if so, what is it,

What could it possibly be and what interest does it

have in human children? Some people believe that perhaps whatever

the entities are, they simply appear to small children in

the form of a bear, due to the fact that

there's so many bear in popular children's story books and

fairy tales. This is all, of course speculation, and we

most likely will never know the real answers, but it

is certainly something for us to consider.

Speaker 3: And think about.

Speaker 1: One more interesting thing to be added about Sarah Witcher

and her incredible tale of rescue survival in the woods.

The New Hampshire Historical Society has recently added, mainly due

to requests made by First and Second Greatest at Dublin

Christian Academy. There are two hundred and seventy fifth historical

highway marker in honor of the little girl who was

said to be saved by a bear all those years ago.

The markers, in accordance with the tale as told by

Elizabeth Yates and reads in part quote, the local man

joined the search after dreaming three times that Sarah would

be found under a pine limb near Barrybrook, guarded by

a bear. His dream proved to be true. Sarah was

found as he stated, and she told rescuers that a

great black dog had kept her each night.

Speaker 3: End quote.

Speaker 1: Yet more elements added to the long and ever evolving

story of three year old Sarah Witcher and her bear.

Hello friends, Steve Stalkton here with you. Welcome to a

brand new episode twenty twenty four. In this video, we'll

take a look at hitchhikers who went missing. Join me,

let's walk and see.

Speaker 7: Now.

Speaker 1: They say the road less traveled holds the greatest mysteries,

and out there on the roughly four point two million

miles of roads and highways throughout the USA, that couldn't

be more true. Every night, as the world sleeps, the

highway becomes a stage for vanishing acts. It's as if

the darkness itself has an appetite, devouring hitchhikers without a trace.

Let's discuss some cases in which the following individuals were

offered a ride to their destination, never to be seen again.

Speaker 3: Vocal up.

Speaker 1: This is going to be a strange one. First up,

we have Mitch Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit. Mitchell Weisser, age sixteen,

also known as Mitch, and his fourteen year old girlfriend,

Benita Mara Bickwitt, also known as Bonnie, reported missing after

being seen hitchhiking along a highway in Narrowsburg, New York.

They were heading northwest towards a town called Watkins Glen,

one hundred and seven miles away. The date was Friday,

July twenty seventh, nineteen seventy three, and the couple were

desperately attempting to hitchhike their way to the Watkins Glenn

Summer Jam Concert. The concert was a huge affair, posting

performances by The Almond Brothers, The Grateful Dead, The Band,

and many other popular artists of the time. Approximately six

hundred thousand individuals were in attendance of the concert, earning

it a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Out of the massive crowd that numbered well over half

a million, only two individuals managed without a trace, Bonnie

Bickwit and Mitch Weisser. No one has seen or heard

from them since they attended and participated in the event.

Mitch was a resident of the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn,

New York, and had initially intended to go to the

concert with his friend Larry Marion. However, due to Larry's

mother's restrictions, Mitch asked Bonnie to join him instead.

Speaker 3: Bonnie and Mitch had.

Speaker 1: Been together for about a year when he decided to

take time off from his summer internship at a photography

studio in Coney Island to attend the event. He was

determined not to miss it. He was overjoyed when Bonnie,

who had been a parents' helper at Camp Wilmot during

the summer in the Catskill Mountains, decided to join him.

She had attended the camp as a child and cherished

her time there. However, when her boss would approve her

time off to go to the concert with Mitch, she

quit on the spot and told him she would be

back after the concert to collect her personal belongings and

final paycheck. With worried expressions, Mitch's mother, Shirley and his

sister Susan pleaded with him to reconsider attending the concert.

Both of them strongly believed it was a poor decision,

yet he refused to change his mind and was determined

to go. Charley stepped in and offered him some money

to cover his travel expenses there and back. At that moment,

Mitch was already making his way out the door. It's

unclear if he didn't hear or if he was purposely ignored. Heer,

but with only twenty five dollars in his pocket, he

left without a second glance and never returned. He would

never step foot inside his home again. Mitch rode a

bus to Nearrisburg and then hopped on another one to

Camp Well Met, where he arrived around midnight on Thursday.

By this point, he was almost completely broke. He made

sure to call his mother and sister to let them

know it he arrived safely, but also that he had

very little money left. His mother and sister were understandably

worried and tried once again to convince him not to go,

but Mitch assured him that he would be fined and

promised to see them when he returned home. On Sunday

was a hitchhike one hundred and fifty miles northwest, but

he could attend the outdoor concert with Bonnie. After spending

the night at their campsite. They had breakfast on Friday

morning before embarking on what they thought would be an

exciting adventure. A caneman in a pickup truck offered them

a ride back to Narrisburg, and they gratefully accepted before

making their way to Highway ninety seven. Using a homemade

cardboard sign, they hitchhiked and asked for a ride to

the concert. When the truck driver glanced back one last time,

little did he know that it would be the final

confirmed sighting of the two teenagers. As Sunday night passed

without a call or appearance from Mitch as he promised,

his family grew increasingly concerned of the next day. They

were filled with worry and dialed camp Well met to

speak with Bonnie. With their dismay, they discovered that Bonnie

also did not return on Sunday and no one had

heard from her either. Susan and Sidney Wiser, Mitch's sister,

and father, drove all the way to Watkins Glen the

search for the two teenagers, while Mitch's mother surely waited

anxiously at home. Meanwhile, Donnie's parents, Theodore and Ray, were

unaware of their daughter's disappearance, since they were vacationing in

Cape god Upon hearing the devastating news, they rushed to

Camp well Met. Without hesitation, they reported their daughter's missing,

hoping for assistance and finding her. However, their hopes were

quickly dashed as the police brushed off their concerns and

chalked it up to another pair of teenagers who'd run

away after attending a concert. Just three days before her disappearance,

Donnie had sent a letter to her parents. In it,

she expressed her happiness at Camp well Met and how

much she valued the freedom she had there. She also

mentioned that when she returned home, she hoped her parents

would give her more space to grow and travel. This

last part gave them hope that perhaps she had gone

on a trip and would contact them soon. After the

authorities refused to help with any investigation into their missing children,

both Bonnie and Mitch's parents decided to let them explore

their freedom for a while. They waited patiently for school

to start again, hoping their kids were just traveling on

their own. However, when neither of them showed up for

the first day of school, all the parents feared the worst.

Described as a sweet boy with shouldered, linked hair pulled

back into ponytail, tortoise show glasses, and hazel eyes. Mitch

was known for his love of baseball, his girlfriend, Bonnie, photography,

and The Grateful Dead. Even named his dog Casey Jones

after one of the band's classic songs. His friends admired

him for being courageous and rebellious. According to his sister Susan,

he was a talented and gifted individual. She kept a

box filled with her brother's belongings as a memento for

the brother she loved dearly but.

Speaker 3: Lost too soon.

Speaker 1: Among the items in the box are his old tortoise

show glasses, his poetry ticket stubs from the nineteen sixty

nine Mets World Series, trading card from the nineteen sixty

four and sixty five New York World's Fair, and a

large birthday card made by Mitch's friends on his fifteenth birthday.

At just four feet and eleven inches, Bonnie was a

petite young girl, weighing around ninety pounds. She had a

face full of freckles and long brown hair. Her close

friends often referred to her as a free spirited individual

with a sweet disposition, sharp intellect, strong determination, and fearlessness.

Music was one of her passions, and she particularly adored

the Almond Brothers band. Bonnie was a student in gifted classes,

and instead of going to traditional high school, she chose

to attend the experimental John.

Speaker 3: Dewey High School.

Speaker 1: That's where Mitch and Bonnie first crossed paths and bonded

over their shared academic successes. With impressive GPAs and ambitious

plans for the future, it seemed unlikely that they would

simply vanish without a trace. To make matters more suspicious,

they had secretly exchanged wedding, leading the police to believe

that they may have deliberately disappeared together. Even after six

weeks of no contact, the police remained doubtful and dismissed

the disappearance of the simple teenager runaways. Frustrated by their

lack of action, the parents of both missing teenagers took

matters into their own hands and launched independent investigations, regardlessly

working to bring attention to the case. In nineteen seventy three,

despite the passionate police for these two disressed families, investigators

from three different counties in New York chose to ignore

their crist for help and refused to launch an official investigation.

Despite assurances from the NYPD that they would inform other

agencies nationwide about the missing teens, they failed to do so.

As a result, the Slovan County Sheriff's Office also neglected

to help investigation on the case. On the twenty fifth

anniversary of the disappearance of the teenagers, Bonnie's sister, Sheryl Kagan,

decided to launch an investigation to find uncovered the truth

behind her sister and Mitch's fate. Her dis May, she

discovered that the original case files, notes from investigators, dental records,

and a list of potential witnesses had all been lost

by both the Sylvan County Sheriff's Office and the NYPD's

Missing Persons Squad. As a result, crucial information was not

entered into the FBI's National Crime Information Center. A former

detective from Sullivan County named Anthony Suarez confessed that he

had been assigned to the case in nineteen ninety four,

but never attempted to contact the original investigator or make

any effort to solve the mystery of Bonnie and Mitch's disappearance.

Anthony Suarez passed away in May of twenty twenty. Now,

in the year two thousand, a man came forward with

a remarkable tale. Unfortunately, it was never confirmed and the

man has since passed away. In summary, he claimed to

have hitchhiked with Bonnie and Mitch, who were desperately trying

to get home from a concert that couldn't reach. They

were supposedly picked up by an orangeb W bus, but

the driver pulled over when things got too intense. The

group stopped at the Susquehanna River for a swim, but unfortunately,

both Mitch and Bonny were swept away by the strong current.

The driver left, but promised to contact the police, so

the other hitchhikers saw no need to do so himself. Eventually,

he did meet with investigators at his own expense, and

now the police believe his story is the most likely

explanation for what happened to the missing teens. Nevertheless, the

families remained doubtful and are waiting to hear from the

driver or any other potential witnesses. However, despite their efforts,

no one has stepped forward with any information about the incident.

This case remains unsolved. Next up, we have the case

of Jojo Delard On November ninth, nineteen ninety five, twenty

one year old Jojo Delard left her home in Callen County,

Kilkenny to take a bus to Dublin, where she was

supposed to meet up with friends. After spending the afternoon

at Brooksville's Pub on Grafton Street, she planned to take

the bus back home around ten pm. However, she missed

the last bus of the night and had to board

a different one that would take her somewhat close to

her find her destination in nas County kill Dare. With

no other plans for the evening, she hopped off that

bus and began hitchhiking. This was a common occurrence at

the time. After hitch hiking her first ride to Moon,

Jojo called a friend from a fai phunt. She promised

to be home soon as someone had just pulled over

and offered her a ride while she was making the call.

As soon as she hung up, she presumably got into

the car and was never seen or heard from again.

Even though her family continuously asked for updates and assistance,

the police initially refused to provide any help. They believed

Jojo voluntarily disappeared and would reappear on her own. Eventually,

during the evening when Jojo Delard disappeared, a truck driver

claimed he saw a young woman running naked through Moon.

The driver and his boss were traveling through the area

at the time and spotted the visibly distressed woman, but

they did not stop to offer assistance. They did, however,

call the police and were promised that someone would immediately

go to the location and investigate. The driver claimed that

he later learned the woman was not Jojo, and authorities

confirmed that it was actually from one else.

Speaker 7: Now.

Speaker 1: The murder of Jojo was only recently declared by authorities,

and now the police are searching for any traces of

her mains. The case was reopened a few years ago

and the Police Service of Ireland issued a statement to

the public. In JoJo's family they now believed she was

a victim of homicide and that her cause of death

was most likely due to violent means. This case is

filled with an extraordinary amount of information, largely to the

relentless effort of JoJo's family, particularly her devoted sister. They've

taken upon themselves to investigate the case. Feeling let down

by the authorities from the get go, hiring investigators and

following leeds has become their own responsibility. Despite all their efforts,

the truth behind Jojo Delarde's disappearance remains elusive and sadly,

she is not the only young woman to go missing

in that area. Next, we have Jamie Herdman at only

twenty six years old. Jamie Herdman was a skills chef

from Facatone, New Zealand. He had failed to work at

a furniture removal company in Broome, Western Australia when he disappeared.

During his free time, Jamie poured his passion into renovating

a Nissan utility van that he dreamed of taking for

a cross country trip across Australia. After completing his project

and waiting for the perfect moment, Jamie finally set off

on his long awaited road trip. Jamie's family reported missing

on December five, two thousand and six, when they couldn't

reach him during his trip. An investigation was launched and

authorities discovered that Jamie was last seen hitchhiking at Dally Waters,

approximately three hundred and seventeen miles from Darwin, where his

family believed he was headed. His van, which had a

history of overheating was quickly located abandoned near a roadhouse

on Stuart Highway. Inside the unlocked van, authorities found Jamie's clothes, phone,

credit cards, toothbrush, and some cash. However, his keys were missing.

In November of two thousand and six, Jamie made the

unusual decision to travel through the center of Australia on

his way to Dally Waters. His brother Karl, described this

as bizarre. Jamie was an avid fisherman, leading his family

to believe that he would have more likely chosen route

along the coast. However, Carl reported that Jamie had left

Broom suddenly and without informing anyone, not friends, family, or

even his employer. The family suspected that Jamie may received

a warning from a friend about someone who was after

him or planning to harm him in some way. Everyone

held on to the hope that Jamie was simply unaware

of the search efforts to find him, and that he

was out there somewhere continue his journey and still safe.

There was also the possibility that he had become stranded

in a remote Aboriginal community, cut off from the rest

of civilization due to severe flooding, but as more time

passed without any word from Jamie, it became increasingly unlikely

that he would be found alive. Despite extensive search efforts

on land and in the air, no trace of Jamie

or any clothes I saw his whereabouts have ever been discovered.

He remains missing to this day, along with many others

who have traveled through the isolated Australian outback and never

returned home. And finally, Joshua Jones. Joshua Jones, a twenty

nine year old man from Hurst Rise in matt Locke, Derbyshire, England,

left his home on December twelfth, twenty twenty at approximately

eleven thirty. He told his wife Talia that he was

going to the pharmacy and would be back soon. Before leaving,

he kissed his two year old son and wife goodbye,

but never return. At around noon, CCTV footage captured Joshua

at a department store and then later at a nearby

Sainsbury grocery store. Witnesses supported seeing him hitchhiking on the

A six thirty two towards Chesterfield at around four pm.

Prior to his disappearance, Joshua had texted his wife saying

I love you to the moon and back. This mysterious

vanishing led to both reports to the police about potential

sightings of Joshua. However, no one has been able to

locate him since. When he disappeared, he'd been wearing a

gray super dry jacket and blue jeans. The sleeves of

the coat were light colored and the inside was green.

Other identifying features include a Japanese inspired tattoo on his

right arm featuring a dragon, a koi f and a crane.

On his left wrist, there was a tattoo in Tallia's

handwriting that read to the Moon and Back with a

red rocket and runes surrounding a moon inside. Despite the

efforts of authorities, including drone searches, mountain rescue teams, and

a helicopter, Joshua Jones could not be found, nor any

information about his disappearance. There are no leeds or evidence

in this case. His wife claimed that she wasn't surprised

that he couldn't be seen on CCTV footage because there

were only cameras in Central Matlock. Dahlia also mentioned that

her and Joshua had often talked about leaving society behind him,

building a treehouse to live in during the pandemic and lockdowns.

Joshua struggled with feeling trapped and anxious. He refused to

seek medical help, believing time would heal his wounds. Eliat

remains hopeful that her husband is still alive and possibly

living in the wilderness, as he was skilled in survival

and loved the outdoors. Now, there is no record explaining

the reason that he would have had to possibly leave

his wife and sun behind intentionally. However, the day before

he vanished, his card broken down, and both he and

Italian were concerned about the expenses of getting it fixed

and how that would affect plans to purchase Christmas gifts.

On top of that, rent was due and they had

yet to shop for their holiday meal. Tellia speculates that

the stress of their life together may have pushed him

to flee. Unfortunately, there is no further information on this case,

and Joshua Jones remains missing. The strange disappearance of Eric Sears.

On July fourteenth, two thousand and four, friends and recent

graduates of Carlsbad High School in California, seventeen year olds

Eric Sears and Ben Fogelstrom, decided to go on a

camping trip together in Joshua Tree National Park. The two

of them showed up to their campsite in jumbo rocks

and we're just having a good time. They were turned

away from the Sanya Sinto due to wildfires. Around noon

is when investigators believe the two boys became separated. Teams

of searchers were told that Eric became dehydrated and Ben

went to go and find some water. Erk stayed behind

and curled up underneath a picnic bench to try and

rest in the shade until Ben returned. When Ben came back,

he couldn't find Eric anywhere and became panicked. Some other

campers came across him hiw is still unclear, and brought

him into the park office to report the disappearance of

Eric at around four to forty the next afternoon.

Speaker 3: The search of a.

Speaker 1: Twenty square mile area of the park began at six

pm that evening. There's an intensive search and rescue operation.

Parks SAAR teams scattered the area with help from various

law enforcement teams, and as of Sunday, there were one

hundred and seventy searchers in total, but by Monday the

number of searchers had dropped to forty because the volunteers

had to return to work.

Speaker 3: The search included tracking.

Speaker 1: Dogs, horses, a helicopter, fixed wing planes, and climbers who

looked in rock crevices where he could have fallen. Robert Fonda,

one of the parks lead trackers, said the search was

difficult because it had taken place in one hundred plus

degree heat every day, because the terrain varied from really

flat to boulder outcroppings where the footing is perilous. He stated,

we've been working a lot in the back areas and

making sure that some teams didn't miss anything. You can't

speculate about what may have happened, You just have to search.

Searchers did find some of Eric's shoe prints, and the

dogs were able to pick up his scent, but none

of it enabled them to determine where he was going.

Eric was described as in top physical condition. He ran

cross country for four years in high school and even

traveled to Australia two years earlier with other state runners.

As an adult, he also participated in a twenty four

hour relay race between Carlsbad and El Camino High Schools

at Carlsbad July tenth and eleventh to promote the sport

and help raise money. Unfortunately, all would not end well.

Eric's body was found on July twenty third. Because of

death couldn't be determined by autopsy because that time it

was too badly decomposed. There was no obvious trauma found

anywhere on the body. This is when the investigators turned

to the only person who was with him that night

for answers. The rest of the story was told by

Ben to the authorities. It's strange, to say the least.

Here's what Ben said had happened leading up to the disappearance.

Though he admitted to authorities during this statement, but he

was having trouble distinguishing what actually happened from hallucinations he

was certain he was having due to his and Eric's

partaking in a wildly grown, illicit but not illegal in

the state of California substance the night before. His report

was oftentimes conflicting and all over the place. He told

authorities both he and Eric had drank a tea made

from a certain weed. He claimed he remembered speaking to

a bush an Indian, and possibly to Eric. He said

he was pretty sure his friend was deceased because he

thought he remembered disposing of his body. He also couldn't

tell authorities exactly see how Eric had gone missing or

ended up deceased, depending on which story Ben was recounting

at the time. However, two chemicals toxins found in this

plant were found in Eric's brain tissue. One way or another,

the use of this plant by Ben and Eric was

a major contributing factor in Eric's death. The plant known

as gemsen weed, local weed, stink weed, mad apple, thorn

apple are among the street names for the foul smelling Datura.

Stramonium plant is one of a group of plants known

as belladonnas notarius. Tremonium is a common weed found along

roadsides in cornfields, pastures, and waste areas. It's been reported

to grow widely in all but two states, by only

in Alaska. Although it's not popular on the street, it

is usually used by teenagers curious about the plants hallucinogenic

and euphoric effects. Although something adolescents might use with their peers,

all parts of the plant are toxic and usage can

result in serious illness or death. It can take up

to hours for someone to feel the plant's effects, so

people often consume excessive amounts, believing it's not working since

it's growing wild. The ponency is impossible to predict. The

toxicity even varies by year, between plants, parts of the plant,

and even among different leaves on the same plant. Even

just a small amount of it ingested can cause nausea, headache,

severe agitation, hallucinations, behavioral changes, and or delirium. Annually, poison

control centers deal with approximately one thousand cases of poisoning

by these plants. Usage increases between May and September, when

the plants are mature and plentiful. The overwhelming majority of

users report that their experience was very unpleasant, physically dangerous,

and sometimes terrifying. Few people ever use it twice. Even

a one time usage can have tragic effects, such as

in this case. With all that being said, one may

ask what is the lure to experiment with the plant

which seems have no pleasant effects whatsoever. The effects have

been described as being in a living dream and can

last for days. It has extremely powerful psychoactive effects, including hallucinations, delusions, disorientation, confusion,

and panic. Doesn't sound like my idea of fun. Users

have no concept that anything they are talking to seeing

or running from isn't actually there. That's how intense these

hallucinations can be, where it's impossible to distinguish them from reality.

Oddly enough, some of the hallucinations are reported to have

recurrent themes, such as insects, cigarettes, people, or objects appearing

and disappearing, including demons and monsters. Smoking a phantom cigarette

is one of the most common hallucinations, even if the

individual has never smoked before. Talking to inanimate objects, plants,

and friends who are not present is also frequently reported.

Individuals lose their ability to identify their friends and may

not even recognize their own reflection in a mists. Individual

may also try to interact with these hallucinations. Most users

don't even realize that they're hallucinating until its effects were off.

Amnesia is also frequently reported, with users having no memory

of what they were doing for several hours, or they

may unconsciously replace fact with fantasy. They can fall in

and out of conscience, slip into delirium. It's believed that

this is what happened with There can be in while

they were out being typical teenagers that night in Joshua

Tree did they get in over their heads and one

thing lead to another. Did Eric dive an overdose? I'm

taking too much thinking the initial doses weren't effective or

not working for him? Or was it something else all together? Unfortunately,

gyms and weeds related deaths are often a result of

impair judgment that leads to risk taking activities such as

believing you can fly and jumping off a cliff, or

chasing a mermaid in a lake even though you can't swim.

Are the above listed or nowhere near all the dangerous

effects this particular belladonna could have on the human brain

and psyche. So what happened to Eric Serius that faithful

night in two thousand and four when he had his

whole life ahead of him and was just looking to

have some fun with his friend in a beautiful place

the celebration of the Huge Life milestone and graduating high school.

Eric was described by his peers as popular and friendly, and,

as mentioned before, was a member of the cross country team.

He had been accepted in the engineering program at San

Diego State University that was to begin classes that fall.

His death affected the whole community, According to an affidavit

file and super record in Indio. He provided several stories

of hallucinating during the night, with he being Ben Fogustrom.

The community was heartbroken with the discovery of Eric's body

and with the seeming senselessness of it. On top of

it all, on the porch of the series' home, signs

with messages of hope, flowers and red and white and

blue candles formed what was to be a welcome for

the family when they returned. Parents Tom and Wendy Sears

have remained at the desert campground since shortly after their

son was reported missing. Officials said the Seers family was

in seclusion Friday night in nearby twenty nine Palms, and

that their daughter, Stephanie, aged nineteen, was en route to

join them. Many were expected to return later in the

evening to share prayers and light candles against the darkness

at the Seers home, something they have done not after

night this week. Neighbors and friends said the mutual support

provided by the small, close community has at times been

the only thing that carried them through more than a

week of waiting. Groups of neighbors who traveled daily to

Joshua Tree to help support the family. There was a

search warrant issued for Ben's home in hopes of uncovering

more information. According to this affidavit, investigators did give him

a lie detect your test, but we know that these

are faulty and not admissible in most courts. This was

while searchers were so looking for Eric in the Jostuh

Tree Park. According to the affidavit, Ben Tearrifory admitted during

an interview with detectives that he found Eric dead inside

his tent. He said that happened the day he reported

his friend as missing. This is also where he admitted

to disposing of Eric's body by putting an inside an

outhouse toilet at their campsite, but according to the affidavit,

that's when he wanted to stop talking to investigators and

then change the story altogether. Investigators say he later denied

dumping Eric's body in an outhouse and said that's not

where I put him. Investigators did indeed check several park toilets,

but searchers eventually found Eric's body lying in the middle

of the desert, about three miles from the Jumbo Rocks campground.

Sheriff's investigators tried hard to corroborate what Ben told them

about what happened while they were at the campsite before, during,

and after they had consumed the plan. Whatever information was

given to us in the affidavit, investigators are looking into

it and looking at every scenario in the affidavit, they said.

But despite statements ben apparently made in this Affidavid, the

Sheriff's department said he was not a suspect in the death.

They did say that he is still a focus of

their investigation as they tried to figure out exactly how

the seventeen year old ended up dead in the desert

at Joshua Tree. No one was ever charged of anything

in relation to the death of Eric Sears, and so

much of what happened remains a mystery. To make matters

worse and even more sad, two San Bernardino County Sheriffs

Search and Rescue volunteers on their way to help search

for Eric, A thirty five year old man named Joseph

Tidwell from Wonder Valley who was allegedly under the influence

of several narcotic substances, lost consciousness due to his intoxication,

causing his truck to drift across the roadway directly into

the path of the Sheriff's man, Scott Johnson, thirty of Redlands,

died at the scene. Philip Calvert, fifty eight, of Mentone,

was transported to Desert Regional Medical Center with major injuries

and sadly died early the next morning. Although this harmful

plant isn't scheduled under the Controlled Substances Act, three states, Connecticut,

New Jersey, and Tennessee at this time have passed legislation

to control it. In addition, the FDA has asserted that

the beladonna alkaloids in this plant are neither safe nor

effective in over the counter or other cough and cold inhalos,

So be careful what you put into your body. Hello, friends,

In this video, going to take a look at Devil's

Hole and the tragic disappearance of two teens in nineteen

sixty five. Now, there's just something about a place with

the name devil in its title that pigs the curiosity

of some people. There are countless locations all over the

world which have this particular word in their name. Not

only devil, either, there are many other words that symbolize

or mean devil or evil, or some other form of

something not very good or beautiful, given somewhat ironically to

some of the world's most breathtaking and wondrous places. Sometimes

the location will have got its name innocantly enough, such

as because the geology of the place simply looks foreboding

and sinister, especially under the cover of night. Much of

the time, these particular places are said to be cursed, enchanted,

or downright evil, and the spooky and scary landscape only

lends credence to these rumors and legends. So much of

the time, though, these places with this particular word in

the title are associated with not just devils, demon spirits,

and other other worldly phenomena, but with real tragedies, disappearances, deaths,

maybe bizarre sounds and strange lights in the sky. Today, though,

we're going to focus on one place in particular. We're

a mysterious tragedy struck Devil's Whole, which is located in

the aptly named Death Valley National Park in California, United States.

This portion of the Mojave Desert contained in Death Valley

National Park is the driest and hottest place in the

United States. Near bad Water in the long trench of

the desert between the Panamint Range on the west and

the Black Mountains on the east, is the lowest dry

land in the Western Hemisphere, an amazing two hundred and eighty.

Speaker 3: Two feet below sea level.

Speaker 1: A veritable showcase of desert extremes, Death Valley National Park

includes one of the largest salt pans on Earth, dramatically

faulted landscapes, young volcanic craters, and massive dune fields. Today,

we're going all the way back to the year nineteen

sixty five. Death Valley was very different from the Los

Angeles of the time, where there were uprisings happening all

over the place and all of it being shown live

on the evening news. Valley, California, was in one of

the least populated parts of the state at the time,

and a whole different world from the more largely inhabited

cities which surrounded it. On June twentieth, nineteen sixty five,

four high school buddies set out to remote desert location

about ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas. Their intent was

to joydive into a deep geothermal abyss called Devil's Hole. Sadly,

two the young men would never re emerge from this

mysterious fossil water portal. Arriving at their destination, the foursome

high cup of hot Barren hillsite, which overlooked a large

scale ranching operation that would nearly erase a much smaller

and nearly ancient complex called ash Meadows. Within a few

short years, A well trampled trail led to the entrance

of a limestone chasm that had allegedly opened a whopping

sixty thousand years ago after possibly some seismic and caused

the roof of the cave to collapse in on itself.

The Foursome of Boys, which was made up of Paul

gian Contery, a nineteen year old cafeteria worker at the

nearby Nevada Test Site, his new brother in law, twenty

year old David Rose, who was a Las Vegas casino

parking attendant, or with their other friend, nineteen year old

Bill Alter, and his younger brother Jack, Boys scrambled under

a fenced enclosure posted with warning signs, and thinking they

were immune to any trouble these warning signs might be

posted about, they proceeded to descend the thirty or so

feet down to a ledge where the faint but flitting

movement of tiny blue gray pupfish could be observed swimming.

Speaker 3: In the eight by sixty foot pool, that is, if.

Speaker 1: Any of the four young men had bothered to look

just a bit closer at what they were about to

jump into. After suiting up with scuba tanks, masks, and

dive lights, Paul, David, and Bill dove into the claustrophobic waters.

The temperature was nearly indistinguishable from that of their skin.

Upon entering the pool, The boys most likely disturbed the

delicate algae's falling mats, where the entire population of the

exceedingly rare Cyprinodon diabolus continues to prosper and breed exclusively.

Jack was the only one who hadn't jumped in, as

he was delegated the one who would remain stationed on

the ledge in case anything went wrong. Some time after midnight,

Paul failed to resurface, so David and Bill quickly redove

into the waters in a vain attempt to locate their

missing friend. Bill Alter frantically followed David Rose down to

approximately one hundred and seventy feet until David too disappeared

into the darkness. The bodies of the brothers in law

were never recovered. Many people believed back then and still

do believe that these young men were inspired to go

diving at night, despite the dangers in the specific place,

because of a newspaper article from the year before, which

detailed spe leological research expedition of a massive underground lake

below Death Valley led by California based professional diver Jim Houns,

who would ironically dive numerous times around the clock with

military personnel and other volunteer divers in their attempt to

locate the missing men for thirty six whole hours until

the search was eventually called off. The only traces left

of the two brother in laws a mask and a snorkel.

There was also a flashlight tied to allege some hundred

feet below. It seemed to signal and effectively the way

out of the otherworldly underwater cave system. Articles detailing the

unsuccessful rescue effort were published nationwide in the Sarasota Journal

date of June twenty second, eighteen sixty five. Out stated

that he had previously dived in Devil's Hole around three

hundred times over twenty eight trips, further commenting it's beautiful

in there. It goes straight down one hundred and sixty

feet like a pipe, then opens into a room that

is about three hundred feet long and maybe forty feet wide.

The bottom of the room is about two hundred and

sixty feet down. Then it narrows into another tube. I

dive to three hundred and fifteen feet Maybe that's a record,

I don't know. But at the end of the tube

it opens again into something else. We don't know what

the next room is, or if it's a room at all.

It's like infinity. There are some very terrifying legends from

the native tribes of the area about this particular place

called Devil's Hole. The Timbasha told tales of water babies

who'd surface and swallow a swimmer or dive or hole

should they stay in the pool for too long. Other

legends suggested that so a Pizi, a legendary malevolent giant

who dwelled at mountain springs and caves, would snatch into

our unwary victims. Myths was standing. Barbara Durham, an elder

of the Tumbious who shared these stories at a two

thousand and two workshop, admitted that she and her friends

enjoyed how the pupfish tickled their toes when they played

in the spring. Keep in mind here that the Devil's Whole. Pupfish,

as they're specifically named, are considered by experts to be

the rarest fish found anywhere on the planet. They were

even the first ever species to be classified as endangered.

The fish are not important to the story at all, really,

but it seemed worth mentioning in order to reinforce how

very special and perhaps a bit magical this place actually is.

As far as the two young men who disappeared without

a trace back in this mystical and extremely dangerous underwater

cave system decades ago, well, they've never been found, and

neither have any clues relating to what could it possibly

happen to them. As for one more bit of interesting

fact that could lend a bit of credence as something

a bit more sinister being afoot, as the local tribes

absolutely believe that this other serene and tranquil looking water source.

It said that Charles Manson himself spent several days at

Devil's Hole trying to figure out a way to make

it safely down into the chasm, with some saying he

was convinced.

Speaker 3: He would never have to come back up.

Speaker 1: Allegedly, he had an obsession with the place and was

convinced that there was an underwater portal to an alternate dimension,

or more specifically, a portal to the underworld, where he

felt he and his family would be able to safely

wait out the coming apocalypse. He so famously predicted what

happened that never actually did. Charles Manson's problem lie in

figuring out a way to drain the hole, and it

seemed like he may have been given this idea by

an alleged Indian legend that resurfaced during the nineteen twenties,

contending that a subterranean sect of leather clad humanoids lived

down within an early yellow green lid a boat somewhere

in the Mohave Desert.

Speaker 5: Says Bill, planned on leaving the park before dark, and

when she still hadn't heard from him by Friday morning,

she called rangers, who launched a search effort that's.

Speaker 8: Grown an incredible story of survival. The hiker survived five

days alone out in Joshua Tree.

Speaker 1: It all started on the last week of December in

twenty twelve. My mother and I were relaxing after work

watching TV when out of the corner of my eye,

I noticed movement in our hallway. When I turned to look,

I noticed two shadowy like figures that appeared on our

hallway wall. In disbelief of what I was saying, I

turned my head over towards my mother, and right as

I did, she made eye contact with me and simply said,

you see them, don't you?

Speaker 3: I said yes.

Speaker 1: She told me not to acknowledge them, because they are

entities that consens fear. But in disbelief, I looked back

over the hallway wall and they were gone. A few

days had gone by, and my mother told me she

felt a sense of dread and said someone in our

family is going to pass away before the end of

the year. Well, on New Year's Eve twenty twelve, my

mother and I celebrated at home. We watched the movie

Tron and had a pizza delivered to ring in the

new year. I've always been a real mama's boy, so

this was an ideal way for me to spend my

New Year's Eve. Around eleven pm that night, we saw

the two figures again. This time we both experienced an

overwhelming quietness and sense of urgency and dread. We both

did our best ignored and eventually the shadowy figures, And

since this went away, we discussed the experience, and again

my mother told me to never acknowledge them, and before

I could press her for more details, my mother started

telling me how much I meant to her and that

I would go on to do great things.

Speaker 3: In my life. She loved me, et cetera.

Speaker 1: She then got up and walked towards the kitchen, turned

around and said I love you, then fell to the ground.

I had previous EMT training and am certified in CPR,

so I dialed nine to one one and explained to

them my mother is in cardiac arrest and I needed

medical assistance asap. I was doing CPR on my mother

for nearly twenty minutes, and for anyone who's ever done CPR,

it's not easy. The MTS arrived at eleven thirty eight

pm and my mother was taken to the emergency room.

By this time, our neighbor and friend, Bonnie, had rushed

over to my house and drove me to the hospital.

When I checked in at the front desk, I was

taken to a small private room and the physician told

me that my mother had passed away. The autopsy showed

my mother suffered from a fatal heart attack and her

time of death was eleven fifty nine pm on December

thirty first, twenty twelve, when I was taken in to

see her one last time. Her lips were blue. She

was cool to the touch, but she was still my mom,

so I just hugged her and couldn't let go for

nearly thirty minutes. Thankfully, my neighbor Bonnie was there and

gave me plenty of support and encouragement to leave eve

as my mother would want me to stay strong. Fast

forward about six months after my mother died, I'd quit

my job and had become a recluse. I would only

leave my house to purchase groceries. I quickly realized how

severely depressed I was and decided it was time to

get away. I ended up traveling to Joshua Tree National

Park and decided it would be my getaway to find

some peace and closure. I notified my neighbor Bonny not

to worry that I'm just going on a day's hike

and would be back by midnight. When I arrived at

Joshua Tree, I parked my jeep and entered the Lost

Palms Oasis Trail. After a few hours of walking and hiking,

I stopped to take a break and eat. As I

finished up and looked around, nothing looked familiar, and I,

in fact was not on any trail. I was not

too worried and felt confident I would find my way back.

But as I made my way through the desert landscape

that I did not recall ever passing, I started feeling

like I was being watched. I started to panic. Then

I started hearing strange growling noises, but could not determine

from what direction they were coming from. It almost seemed

like they were all around me. So I stood in

one spot and made a three hundred and sixty degree rotation.

As I came to stop, I saw something transparent, no

defining shape, just to blur directly in front of me

that was coming closer and closer to where I was standing.

I quickly turned around and started walking faster and faster

in the opposite direction, and then experienced the same overwhelming

quietness and sense of urgency and dread I had experienced

with my mother just six months prior. Then, all of

a sudden, almost like a snap of a finger, daytime

turned into night. I wasn't sure what was going on,

but knew something wasn't right. After walking around in the dark.

I found myself by a large rock about as big

as a large suv and felt safest there. I put

my back against the rock. This way, I felt no

otherhing would sneak up behind me. I used the knight

to hydrate and eat some snacks I brought. I remember

trying to make sense out of what I was experiencing,

but knew that my mother and I had already experienced

something within our own home. But at least when I

was home, I felt safe here, I was vulnerable and alone.

As I tried to rest that night, I started seeing

a number of shadowy entities walking around in the desert,

almost as if they were wandering around aimlessly. It freaked

me out, and the more I acknowledged them, the closer

they got to me. At one time during the night,

I remember feeling something breathing down my neck. Remember my

back was against a huge rock. I just closed my

eyes and did my best to keep them shut. The

last thing I remember about that night was opening my

eyes and seeing three shadowy figures, one at each side

and one directly in front of me. Then once again,

in a snap, it was morning. I would experience the

same weirdness for two more days until the last day.

On the last day of me roaming around Joshua Tree,

I hadn't had any food or water since the initial

first night. I was scared and dehydrated. I came upon

another large rock and remembered in my MT training that

digging a hole near a rock in the desert will

keep you cool and less likely to get severe sunburn.

I did just that and thought to myself, I'm literally

digging my own grave. By the time I laid down

in the two foot arch hole I had made and

covered my chest and legs up of dirt, I blacked out.

I don't remember anything for the rest of that day

or night. The next morning, I was woken by an

off duty search and rescue employee who was literally making

me choke on water. I remember him saying, there are

a whole lot of people out looking for you, buddy.

I was picked up by helicopter and taken a regional

medical center in Palm Springs, California. In the days during

my recovery, I saw two detectives, a number of psychiatrists,

and my neighbor Bonnie, who was there at the hospital

by my side one hundred percent away. The detectives wanted

to close the missing person's report. My neighbor Bonnie made

the second day I was missing, but they asked me

strange questions like was I using a.

Speaker 3: Flare gun in the area?

Speaker 9: No?

Speaker 1: And why had I purchased a large amount of camping

gear and survival materials prior to my hike. I'm going

for a hike. Strange questions to ask someone, or maybe

it's just me. The physician stated he thought I was

planning to myself due to the loss of my mother,

but honestly, that never crossed my mind. The psychiatrist told

me I didn't experience anything but hallucinations due to the

lack of food and water and effects of dehydration. My

neighbor Bonnie overheard my story and later confided in me

that she too experienced similar shadowy figures when she hiked

in Joshua Tree. When I arrived back home, she used

sage and other New Age methods to rid my house

of whatever darkness was there. However, it continued all the

way up until I moved to Tennessee in twenty fourteen.

The most aggressive was the transparent entities that were in

Joshua Tree. I felt like everything was about to end

when I encountered them. I've always wondered if my mother

experienced more than what happened that night. I'm not sure

what the hell happened those few days in Joshua Tree

National Park, but from what I can remember, during the

moments when daytime would turn into night and snap, I

felt like I was falling down or being suspended in

mid air before completely realizing what was going on. I

also remember a strong urge to go to Joshua Tree.

I would think about going all the time, and when

I finally went, almost felt like I was being called

there by something my sister often talks about my first

week living in Tennessee. She said that she felt like

a demon was attached to me. One night as I

slept on her couch. I woke up with her putting

holy water on my head and saying a prayer over me.

But I don't believe in all that I used to.

But nowadays I have an easier time believing in alien

abduction and portals rather than being followed around by demon.

But then again, who knows?

Speaker 7: Right.

Speaker 1: Finally, I can tell you, with one d percent honesty,

I experienced all the above. I can't explain what it

or what they were, but I can tell you I

feel like my life was spared for some strange reason.

Perhaps I didn't meet the requirements for whatever it is

they need. Looking back now, I would never have gone

hiking alone. But again, I remember this irresistible urge to

go to Joshua Tree and would frequently feel like I

was being called.

Speaker 8: There hiking transitting on one of her most popular mountain peaks.

Speaker 9: A woman from out of state dying after trying to

hike Camelback Mountain. Fire official say she became overheated on

the Echo Canyon trail, but instead of waiting for rescue crews,

she went to find help herself. Then a deadly discovery.

Her body later found near the mountain, right outside a home.

Speaker 8: A woman found dead near Camelback Mountain was thanking with

a Phoenix cop, and tonight we know the woman's name

is Angela Tremonte, a thirty one year old visiting from Boston.

She was found dead Friday after separating from that cop

to turn back down the mountain in the summer heat.

Speaker 10: And she thought, because he was a police officer, she

was sick and she wasn't. And I sent him the

address where it was. It took them three hours to

find her. And when I talked to Dario that night

and asked him, when was the last time you saw

my daughter, she said six hours ago? So not you

why the police may not be investigating this, but I

won't stop. I will not stop. There is something missing

that I, as a mother, did not put my finger on.

Speaker 1: Hello friends, today we're going to bring in a strange

story about a first date hike that resulted in a

young woman's death. Thirty one year old Angela Tremonte was

visiting Phoenie, Arizona for the first time when she and

a local police officer named Dario Dizdar decided to go

on a hike for their first date. The couple went

to Echo Canyon Trail near Scottsdale, Arizona. Echo Canyon Trail

is a two point five mile heavily trafficked out and

back trail that offers scenic views and beautiful landscapes. The

trail is rated as difficult, but Angela and Dario weren't concerned,

as it was later reported that Dario was extremely familiar

with the mountain and hiked that exact trail often. According

to reports, they started hiking together around ten am with

no water, but split up. Dario, an off duty police officer,

stated that he was a local and did this hike

all the time, and that she was going to go

as far as she could and turn around, according to

an incident report followed by an unnamed park ranger. Now,

according to what Dario told the authorities, he and Angela

were going for a day hike together for their first

date on July thirtieth. He reported that she became overheated

when they were about halfway up the trail and told

them she was wanted to head back down to the car.

Speaker 3: Dario wanted had.

Speaker 1: To finish the hike, assuming he would just meet her

back at the vehicle when he was done. Angela wanted

him to take pictures of the view from the top

of the mountain so she could share them on her

social media camps. He finished his hike, but when he

got back down to the car, Angela wasn't there and

wasn't anywhere in sight. Her belongings were still in the car, however,

and this is when Dario's police officer instincts kicked in

and he decided to report it to the authorities that

his date was missing. Mark Ranger spoke with him on

the mountain and the search commenced. Immediately, search teams arrived

and began looking around common areas on the mountain where

people can get off the trail and get lost. More

than thirty fire personnel and a police helicopter scoured the

region looking for the missing woman. Initially, authorities were suspicious

of Dario because they thought his initial statement was changing

the more he retold what.

Speaker 3: Happened that day.

Speaker 1: However, it was later realized that he had been misquoted

by local news media and therefore misunderstood. A Phoenix police

spokesperson stated that the police department was not informed as

to what the park rangers and officials had already asked

Dario about the incident. Angela Tremonte was originally from the

Boston area and was visiting Phoenix for the first time,

specifically to meet and go on a date with Daria.

They had met and been chatting online, mainly by Instagram.

It was less than twenty four hours from her arrival

that Angela went missing and was then found deceased. Around

four Bruce found Tremonte unconscious near home along the side

of the mountain. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say no traumatic injuries were observed during the initial

investigation or during the autopsy. Police say Tremante had her

cell phone with her when she was found. Fire officials

involved in the search stated they believe she was trying

to signal to someone in the homes there near the

mountain to get some help. She must have known she

was in trouble, but most likely had no cell service

to call anyone for help or self. At this time,

there is no evidence to indicate foul play is suspected

in connection with her tragic death. Police say Dario Disdar

has been granted personal time off and has been offered

resources to deal.

Speaker 3: With this tragedy.

Speaker 1: According to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's website, Angela died

of environmental heat exposure. Her death was ruled accidental by

local and park authorities. Angela Tremante's friends set up a

gofund me account to bring her body back to the

Boston area. Angela's mother, however, isn't satisfied with the medical

Examiner's findings. She's looking for answers after her daughter's cause

of death was ruled to be from accidental heat exposure.

I'm frustrated, said Nancy Tremonte, Angela's mother. My daughter was

an Instagram person. She posted everything, thousands of photos per day,

and she was always in the picture. And there's not

one picture of her going up the mountain or even

in Arizona. She said, none of it makes sense. But

as we said, Americopa County Medical Examiner's office did recently

list Tremante's death as accidental and as a result of

heat exposure. Phoenix police had previously stated investigators didn't find

anything suspicious about Tremonte's death. However, Tremante's family and friends

have had suspicions about the circumstances surrounding her death all along,

especially since the off Deedy police officer claimed he and

Tremante didn't bring any water with him on a hike

in the middle of the summer. Angela's cousin doesn't believe it.

It's difficult because we are all mourning her, but we

can't fall back and be sad about the situation. We

all have to fight, said Gabrielle Pletuccio, Angela's cousin. Angela

was found deceased in a backyard off the trail. Investigators

believe she's in a desperate search for water. Speaking about

travel to Arizona to meet the officer, she was excited

but nervous, said her cousin. She also made it a

point to drink a whole gallon of water every day,

so it's very hard to believe that she would go

on a hike in Arizona where it was one hundred

and four degrees and not take any water. Autopsy reports

recently released by the County Medical Examiner's office showed no

major regularities that were uncovered that would indicate Tremante's death

could be tied to something other than heat exhaustion. A

toxicology report did show that Tremante had traces of amphetamine

in her system, although her family told twelve News she

had a prescription for adderall, which can produce high levels

of amphetamine in the blood. Ramonte had three hundred and

fifty nanograms per mile leader of amphetamine in her system

at the time for death. According to the report, adults

who fatally overdose on amphetamine have on average nine thousand

nanograms per mole leader in their system. Autopsy report additionally

turned up irregular linear dried red abrasions on Tremonte's body

that ranged in size between four and ten centimeters. An

examination of her head neck revealed no detectable abnormalities, according

to the report. The report also stated that Tremonte's bone, framework,

and soft tissues also appeared normal. Phoenix Police had previously

said investigators didn't find anything suspicious about Tremonte's death. They

further indicated no disciplinary measures will be taken against Dario

because no prime has been found. Hello, friends, Today we're

going to take a look at legends, disappearances, and stories

of survival in Joshua Treat National Park, California. Joshua Treat

National Park is home to a vast and protected land

located in southern California. The area was first designated as

a National monument in nineteen thirty six a President Franklin

Delano Roosevelt, and was later given national park status in

nineteen ninety four when the United States Congress passed the

California Desert Protection Act. The park spans more than seven

hundred and ninety thousand acres, and over half is reserved

as wilderness. The park is well known for the tree

that inspired its name, the Joshua Tree. Scientifically, it's known

as the Yuckup brevifolio and as a member of the

agave family. Joshua trees grow in a wide variety of formations,

from then a sparsely place to thick and crowded forests.

According to the National Park Service, of the mid nineteenth century,

Mormon immigrants had made their way across the Colorado River

and into the area that is now the National park.

Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after

the biblical figure Joshua. Seeing the limbs of the tree

has outstretched its supplication, guiding the travelers westward. Joshua Tree

National Park is a meeting ground between the low lying

western reach of the Sonor and De Lizzard and the

more vegetated Hi Bahabi Desert. The merging deserts give the

park a unique landscape with an abrupt transition between the

Sonoran and Mahabi ecosystems. Joshua Tree offers visitors a variety

of outdoor activities, including the typical hiking, biking, camping, and

horseback riding. There are large boulders throughout the park that

make it a well known rock climbing destination, and the

night skies provide crystal clear stargazing. The natural beauty of

the park is a key factor in its popularity. But

despite all the beauty found in Joshua Tree, inexplicable things

have been known to happen here, some of which are

truly horrifying. Let's look at local legends, disappearances as survival

stories from Joshua Tree National Park. First up, Desert Dungeon.

In the depths of Joshua Tree National Park, there's a

strange cave, which is actually an enclosure constructed around a

large boulder and sealed with an iron door. There long

enduring legends attached to this cave. Some people think perhaps

it was where local farm restored dynamite. Others theorized it

was where rustlers or gold thieves kept their loot. The

energy it radiates, however, is much more sinister, darker, more disturbing.

Legends exist, probably rooted in truth about the cave being

used to hold people captive. One story with many versions,

maintains that a local family and born a horribly disfigured

and mentally impaired son who was huge and monstrous. The

family hid him away from society, locking him up in

this rocket iron desert dungeon. The father would bring him food,

but the poor soul spent his days and nights of prisoner.

Growing tired of this miserable existence, the disfigured man broke

out of his prison and fled, leaving the iron door

ajar for his father to find. Upon his return. Searching

far and wide, the father couldn't find his son. Reports

and rumors began to surface about random brutal attacks on

travelers who sustained injuries like they were surrogants being punished

for someone else's horrible misgivings. The legend holds that the

tortured man was never caught, and he, or whatever's left

of him, could still be out there today roaming Joshua Tree,

looking for unsuspecting travelers to make them atone for his

father's sins. Next up, we have the Yuckaman. The first

reported sighting of the Yucker Man happened in nineteen seventy one,

provided by a source not normally keen on believing in

the other worldly. A United States marine was on guard

duty at the base in Joshua Tree's twenty nine Palms.

Well into his overnight shift. The marine was keeping posts

duty required when a huge and seemingly human man came

out of darkness toward him. As the burly being drew closer,

the marine caught sight of the man's successive hair growth

as abnormally long arms, which hung well below the knees.

The marine lifted his rifle and gave an order to halt,

but then the strange man lunged forward and snatched the

rifle away, surprising the marine and knocking him off stands.

He was startled, but caught himself and watched as the

wild man bent the metal rifle barrel in half with

his bare hands. The broad shouldered beast of a man

gave a grunt and then knocked the marine unconscious, perhaps

with the butt of his own weapon. When he came to,

the giant man was gone, but his disfigured gun lay

next to him. Even so the marine couldn't move. The

blow he sustained had caused a lot of damage. He

lay there half conscious until the next morning, when he

was found by the relief guard. Reportedly, both the CIA

and the FBI were brought in to investigate, as this

wasn't the only incident to be reported. There were at

least two other sightings that same night. Wonderport described the

man as being nearly two feet tall, but with a smaller,

unknown figure by its side. Several people also reported that

their dogs had barked and acted strangely that evening. In

the same year, there were reports from employees at Joshua

Tree stating they had also seen the large hairy figure.

In nineteen seventy nine, a couple on a trip to

Joshua Tree said they were forced to slam on the

brakes in their car one night when what they described

as a large hairy man stood in the middle of

the road near their condominium in Desert Hot Springs. They

recalled that he just stepped from behind a yucca bush

and stood in front of the car, refused to move.

The couple claimed the creature's hairy chest was the size

of a refrigerator and its arms were abnormally long. Sounds familiar.

It had lengthy tan hair that swished back and forth

as it walked away and disappeared into the night, but

only after frightening them. Senseless evidence was left behind it.

Yet more Yukaman's sightings in nineteen seventy nine in him It, California.

This beast seen on two separate occasions. This being left

behind seventeen footprints that were said to be a foot

and a half long, spanning six feet apart. Two prominent

bigfoot researchers worked the area looking for further information, but

nothing more has surfaced.

Speaker 3: Skin Walkers.

Speaker 1: Toys of skinned walkers inhabiting the Joshua Tree area date

back many centuries. The Native American Navajo tribe first experienced

these beings several hundred years ago, calling them ey Nagloshi,

meaning he who walks.

Speaker 3: On all fours.

Speaker 1: The legend of the skin walkers hold forth that they

are actually human shape shifters that were once shamans of

the Navajo tribe. The shamans, who used their gifts for

evil like herding or cursing people, were turned into skin walkers,

able to take the form of various animals like fox,

birds of coyotes. The Navajo people tried to keep their

existence from becoming known to the outside world, but over

a century ago, weird and often terrifying things began happening

to outsiders in Joshua Tree, so terrifying, in fact, that

some Navajo people refuse to this date to speak of

the skinwalkers for fear of drawing them to them. Campers, visitors,

and other travelers are reported being attacked and often taunted

by these beings. Some campers have claimed that when a

skin walker is near, it's like they're being drawn toward

whatever the creature is mimicking. Skinwalker attacks are sometimes even deadly,

with evil beings sinking their teeth into human flesh and

ripping people apart. Those who live to tell the tale

of a skinwalker attack are never the same, and they

always carry scars, both of the physical and psychological varieties. Next,

let's look at some strange disappearances from Joshua Tree National Park.

Paul Miller, fifty one years old, disappeared on July thirteenth,

twenty eighteen, in Joshua Tree National Park. He was on

vacation with his wife, Stephanie at the time of his disappearance.

They were traveling in celebration of their twenty sixth wedding anniversary.

Backwoods camping, hiking, and kayaking were typical pastimes for the couple.

They were in great shape and loved the outdoors. Paul

last spoke with his wife when he told her that

he was going out from one last hike in the park.

He planned on hiking the popular forty nine Palms Oasis

Trail before they were to begin their journey back to Ontario, Canada.

He left their hotel room around nine am that morning

and drove to the trailhead. When Paul didn't return by

the hotel checkout time, Stephanie became worried. Around noon, she

contacted park officials and a search and rescue mission was launched.

Paul's rental car was found where he parked at the trailhead,

but he wasn't with it. Rangers hiked the trail looking

for him, but to no avail. Paul also didn't have

a cell phone on him, but this was not out

of the ordinary. The search for paulk continued for five

days with not so much as a trace of evidence

servicing aside from his rental car. The search included over

six hundred volunteers, multiple agencies, k nines, high tech equipment,

and lots of hope, but nothing was found. Park superintendent

David Smith said, we have a witness who saw Paul

at the trailhead that morning, but that's all. Another visitor

from England that was at the park that morning reported

seeing Paul at around nine am walking quickly and with purpose.

About halfway down the trail. No other sightings were reported. However,

on December twenty first, twenty nineteen, in PS authorities and

San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department reported that human remains had

been found in a remote and rocky part of Joshua Tree.

Official state of the discovery came about through photographs taken

by a drone fly over the area in November. On

December twenty, park ranger's height to the area where they

found human skeletal remains. In personal longings, there was no

identification with the remains, which appeared to have been there

for quite some time. Upon the discovery of these remains,

the Miller family prepared themselves for the likelihood that those

belonged to Paul. It's been a tough journey, waiting, waiting, waiting.

Then you hear he's been found, It doesn't make it

any easier. Stephanie Miller said in a phone interview. Speculation

is that whatever happened that caused his death happened quickly,

she said, possibly a heart attack or heat stroke. He

was found in a shaded area and still had water

and food. It appeared he had made the heike to

forty nine Palms Oasis, but was coming back from trail

the wrong way. Early in the search for Paul, teams

had gotten close enough to where the remains were found

that he would have heard and responded when they called

out his name, She said, adding there is comfort knowing

he didn't suffer long. I hated to think he was suffering,

and we couldn't find him. As of January nineteenth, twenty

twenty two time of recording, Paul Miller's case has no

further updates. Another disappearance in Joshua Tree was that of

William Michael Euasco. Sixty five year old William Michael Ouasco,

known as Bill, disappeared on June twenty fourth, twenty ten,

from Joshua Tree National Park while on a day Hi.

Bill lived in Marietta, Georgia, along with his freance Mary Winston.

Bill was a strong hiker with experience in the wilderness,

and he had loved Joshua Tree for a long time

and visited the park almost yearly. He was an Army

veteran who had served in Vietnam and he loved to

be outdoors. It was on a Wednesday, June twenty third,

twenty ten, When Bill arrived at Lax from Georgia, he

rented a white Chrystler Seabring and drove to Rancho Mirage, California.

Bill was staying at a friend's vacant condo on this

particular trip. On Thursday, the twenty fourth of June, he

headed for Joshua Tree, making a couple of calls along

the way. Bill told his beon s Mary that he

planned on leaving the park by five pm and was

going to have dinner that evening at the Pioneer Town

restaurant Pappy in Harriet's. Mary believed that Bill was planning

the hike too a place called Carry's Castle, which was

the first item on the planet a tenerary he'd left

with her. That would have been an ambitious hike for

the time of year, though due to the high temperatures

in the lower portion of Joshua Tree. Mary was uncomfortable

with the destination choice due to its remoteness and had

asked him to reconsider. Bill just laughed it off and

gave no indication he was changing his mind. When Bill

failed to call Mary that evening, she grew concerned and

began making calls early the next day. Friday, June twenty five,

Joshua Tree officials had been notified of the incident and

were given a description of Bill's vehicle along with his itinerary.

By mid morning, rangers to check the trailhead for Carry's Castle,

but found no vehicles. They began checking other areas of

the park, but it wasn't until four fifty six pm

on Saturday, June twenty sixth at the California Highway Patrol

copter spotted Bill's vehicle park at the Juniper Flats trailhead,

which is a regular starting point for visitors wanting to

hike to the top of Quail Mountain, a destination also

listed on Bill's itinerary. Ranger stayed with Bill's car overnight

just in case he came back, but he never showed.

There was one known visitor to Jennifer Flats trailhead on

the day Bill disappeared, a hiker named Greg Mendoza. At

the time of his arrival around ten twenty am, there

was no one else at the trailhead, but upon his

return between five point thirty and six pm, he saw

Bill's car. He also saw a single line of fresh

boot tracks going up the old Jennifer Flats Road. This

means that Bill's car had arrived at the parking lot

no earlier than ten twenty am, leaving at minimum a

near two and a half hour gap from his last

phone call. It should have only taken Bill about half

that time to reach Juniper Flats trailhead, so it's unknown

where Bill was for the extra hour or so. By

this point, an official search and rescue operation began, focusing

mainly on Quail Mountain, but also involving other areas that

he could have accessed from the Jenniper Flat's trailhead. The

official search continued until July fifth, twenty ten, eleven days

after Bill's disappearance, and involved hundreds of search and rescue

personnel Included in these search and rescue teams from all

over southern California, where canine units, horseback riders, civilian volunteers, helicopters,

and a fixed wing aircraft. In total, about seven hundred

and seventy miles of GPS tracks from ground searchers were logged.

Only a red bandana believed to belong to Bill, was

found on the ridge near Quayll Mountain. Throughout all these efforts,

the unofficial search continued on despite the lack of evidence,

even with many people being involved after the official search ended.

As of this recording in January of twenty twenty two,

bill Owasco remains missing and there have been no further updates.

Lauren Choe Lauren Ell Choe disappeared on June twenty eighth,

twenty twenty one, from the area between Marongo and Yucca

Valleys in California. Lauren grew up in Hunterdon County, New Jersey,

and with mother nicknamed Elle. She studied music education at

Westminster Choir College and became a high school music teacher. However,

Elle quit her teaching job in the winter of twenty twenty.

She then joined her friend Cody Orrel on a road

trip cross country. She joined this trip with the intention

of running a food truck once they arrived at their

final destination, Bombay Beach, California. By June twenty twenty one,

Elle was working as the private chef for an Airbnb

property called The Whole, owned by Tao Ruspoli. The property

is located between Yucca and Morongo Valleys outside of Joshua

Tree National Park. On June twenty eighth, twenty twenty one,

Elle took off on her own after he had argument

ensued between she and her friend, Cody. The housekeeper at

the Airbnb property claimed that both Ell and Cody had

been drinking since early in the day and l had

become aggravated when Cody refused to let her drive away,

so she took off on foot, leaving her phone and

taking no food or water. This was around three in

the afternoon. Cody called the Sheriff's office around five thirteen

PM when his initial search rail which included some of

their other friends, came up empty. They didn't find so

much as a single footprint. Elle was last seen wearing

a yellow T shirt and blue jeans shorts when she

walked away from where she was staying. Cody thought she

might have gotten into a vehicle with someone, considering there

were no tracks and Elle was supposedly planning on meeting

an unknown individual later in the day anyway, although this

theory was never confirmed. Law enforcement officials, as well as

search and rescue teams come to the area on foot,

and included K nine rescue teams and a fixed wing

aircraft which was used conduct aeri of searches. The Morongo

Basin Sheriff Station told reporters that their helicopter, along with

members of the Search and Rescue unit, had been searching

for L since her disappearance. However, they believe that L

was voluntarily missing due to no evidence of foul play.

The Specialized Investigation Divisions of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's

Department began assisting in the search rail in September of

twenty twenty one. However, this was a good three months

after her disappearance. Despite these efforts, no evidence of her

whereabouts came to light. Cody and some of L's other

friends tried bringing awareness to her disappearance by using social

media platforms. They also posted flyers all around the Bombay

Beach area, but nothing came of it. No one came

forward claiming to have seen L. The search continued until

October ninth, twenty twenty one, when investigators found human remains

in the rugged terrain of Yaco Valley. On October twenty

eighth of twenty twenty one, it was confirmed that the

remains found did indeed belong to L. Because in manter

of for passing have not been released as of this recording.

In January of twenty twenty two, large show's case has

no further updates. Next it brings us to the disappearance

of Patrick Lynn Wells. Thirty eight year old Patrick Wells

disappeared on June five, twenty twenty one, from Joshua Tree

National Park. Park spokesperson Jenny Albrink stated that Patrick was

last seen on June fifth, when he left to drive

to his dad's house. Patrick was from twenty nine Palms

and he was heading your Riverside. He never made it

to his destination and was officially reported missing on June ten.

He's described as a Caucasian male five feet ten inches tall,

playing about one hundred and ninety seven pounds. He has

brown hair and brown eyes, as well as a dragon

and a United States Marine Corps.

Speaker 3: Insignia tattoo on his arms.

Speaker 1: Is believed he was wearing a white T shirt, blue jeans,

and either tennis shoes or black work boots at the

time of his disappearance. Park officials found Patrick's truck in

the Indian Cove parking lot of the Rattlesnake Canyon area

on the day was reported missing. Joshua Tree National Park

began investigating and organized a search. The efforts continued until

The search was hauled at June twelfth, twenty twenty one,

on discovery of human remains in a hiking area of

Joshua Tree. Soon after, the coroner confirmed the remains belonged

to Patrick, though no cause of his passing was listed.

As of January nineteenth, twenty twenty one, the date of

this recording, there have been no further updates on the

Patrick Wells case. Next, we have Erica Ashley Lloyd. Thirty

seven year old Erica Lloyd was last seen on June fourteenth,

twenty twenty, at her home in Walnut Creek, San Bernardino County, California.

She told her family she was going on a camping

trip to Joshua Tree National Park. Erica's mob ruth since

she he was just trying to make ends meet like

so many others during the pandemic. Erica owned a salon

called Bloom in Alamo, California, but when the mandatory closures

and other restrictions came about due to the pandemic, Erica's

salon closed down and didn't reopen.

Speaker 3: The trip to.

Speaker 1: Joshua Tree was to be a chance for her to

get away from all the negativity for a little while.

Erica's described as five foot three inches tall, one hundred

and twenty five pounds, and house brown hair and blue eyes.

According to Erica's roommate, she said she was planning to

meet other people at Joshua Tree. However, the identities of

those people she was supposedly planning to meet are still

a mystery, and it's unclear if she did indeed meet.

Speaker 3: Up with anyone. After leaving home.

Speaker 1: On June fourteen, when Erica didn't return and couldn't be reached,

her family reported her missing. On June seventeen, authorities found

Erica's car, a black two thousand and six, on to

a cord, abandoned on Shelton Road north of State Route

sixty two, just east of the Nine Palms area. Both

the front and rear windshiels were broken, and the car

appeared to be involved in a sandburm accident which mangled

the k frame of the car and deployed the airbag.

Even so, California Highway Patrol Officer Casey Simmons said investigators

found no evidence on the roadway consistent with the traffic accident.

Some of Erica's items were found in the car, but

there was no sign of her whereabouts. The police stated

there was no indication of foul play up until the

car was found. According to Erica's sister in law, Jenna,

Erica was very stressed about the pandemic and the quarantine,

and she was going camping for a few days to

sort of unplug, despite the fact that she was not

an experienced camper. The most accurate information about Erica's disappearance

can be found on the Bring Erica Home Facebook page.

The following is an excerpt from a comment written by

Erica's mom on that page. There have been many stories

of Erica from various podcasts and in the form world,

which are filled with a lot of opinions, theories, and conjectures.

The information that they provide almost never comes from the

police investigators handling Erica's case to verify or corroborate their info.

We know that Erica was not in a good state

of mind and decided to take this trip to Joshua

Tree Park to clear her head. There's been no indication

of foul play up to winter car was found on

Shelton Road, broken down, despite what others may say or think.

We received six sightings of apparently homeless or transient women

fitting Erica's description in the High Desert area, but none

of them turned out to be her. Some of what

was done to find Erica. There were search teams from

the Sheriff's department that continued to search further and further

out from the location of her car. Doug Billings, an

expert at mapping a cave diver, has extensive knowledge of

minds in the area. He's done numerous searches with the

help of his friends. Family members, and other groups have

aided in the searching. Banners and a billboard were placed

in strategic locations in the Wonder Valley area asking if

anyone helped Erica.

Speaker 3: On June sixteenth.

Speaker 1: Erica's aunts have sent out hundreds of flyers to homeless shelters, hospitals,

and food banks areas such as Twenty nine Palms, Joshua Tree,

Yucca Valley, Palm Springs, Desert Springs, Indio, Coachella Riverside, Morongo Basin, Ontario,

Los Angeles, San Diego, Venice Beach, and Moore. Erica's mom

further states We're continuing to look at offbeat communes like

Slab City and Amboy. Both police investigators from San Bernino

Sheriff's Department and Walnut Creek Police Department are still actively

investigating the case. The case remained active after Erica's disappearance

with no real leads until January of twenty twenty one.

In February of twenty twenty one, Ericin's brother posted to

the Facebook page saying, as the brother of Erica Lloyd,

I would like to address the public on behalf of

our family. On January thirty first, twenty twenty one, human

remains were discovered by hikers in the vicinity of Danby

Road and Amboy Road in Wonder Valley, California. It is

with a heavy heart announce that these remains have been

identified by Sam Bernardino County Sheriff's Department as my sister Erica.

There is no easy way for me to tell you

all this, and there's no easy way for any of

us to receive it. My wish is that we can

all lean in a little closer, hold each other up,

and remind each other more often that we're here for

one another with open arms and endless love. It's what

she would have wanted. It's the spirit of who she was.

On May twelfth, twenty twenty one, Erica's family shared another

post on the Bring Erica Home Facebook page, quoting here,

the family of Erica Lloyd would like to give an update.

The sam Bernardino County s Sheriff's Department Special Investigative Unit

has notified us they are no longer handling Erica's case.

After reviewing the extensive investigation done on Erica's disappearance, they

have not found any indication of foul play. Thus, Erica's

case will be turned back over to the Morongo Basin

Station investigators for any remaining follow up and information. From

everything the investigators learned and everything we found out from

our first trip to California in June to our last

trip in February, all indications appeared Erica suffered a sudden

mental breakdown starting about a week before she disappeared into

the desert. During that last week, Erica had communicated with

various family members, friends, co workers, and some clients. The

common thread from all of them referring to Erica was

something was off and out of place, but they couldnot

put their finger on it. One co worker was so

concerned about Erica on June tenth, six days before she

went missing, that she dropped by Erica's apartment to check

up on her and spent a couple of hours talking

to her. It was the following day when Erica took

off on her road trip. It has been hard to

understand how Erica, who was a free spirit, hardworking and

an independent loving mom, could suffer a sudden mental psychotic breakdown.

Psychosis means losing touch with the reality, is often associated

with various serious mental illnesses. Distress becomes too overwhelming. Anyone

may experience these symptoms, triggering a breakdown. Erica was dealing

with the lockdown, learning to take care of her son

in the new stay and Place world a, forced to

shut down of her thriving Bloom Hair studio in Almo, California,

losing personal contact with the clients whose weddings and proms

were canceled, and trying to make some sense to understand

where our society was going. This was overwhelming to her

and pushed her over the edge and into a break.

Erica was no longer in control and the voices she

heard had taken over her thoughts. As a family, we

are heartbroken over losing our Erica. It is difficult to

understand what struggles her mind was going through the last

week of her life. We know there were possibly missed

opportunities to stop and help Erica before she slipped away

and wandered out into the desert. At this point, it's

unknown if any person or persons could have made a

difference in stopping or helping her. We accept what happened

to Erica and know she was in the storm of

her life. Joshua Treet National Park has a mystical appeal

and is said to be located on a powerful energy vortex,

and Erica was drawn to this place. Unfortunately, as beautiful

as the desert is, the heat is brutal and harsh

during the day and cold at night. We know that

prior and during this time, Erica was seeking the Lord,

looking for peace and happiness in her life. While working

with the investigators and searchers early on, we knew there

were three main possibilities of what could have happened to Erica.

All were closely looked at, but sadly, on June sixteenth,

twenty twenty, Erica was running. It was hot, she was scared, dehydrated,

and not in touch with the reality. She wandered into

the desert and succumbed to the elements. We know Erica

is at peace now because of Erica's faith in God.

He has a bigger plan for her, which gives us comfort.

This is our hope. The Lord Jesus Christ brought Erica home.

End to Any updates that the family wished to share

in the future will be posted on the Facebook page

titled bring Erica Home.

Speaker 7: Now.

Speaker 1: On a lighter note, not everybody that goes missing in

Joshua Tree perishes. Here are some amazing true stories of survival.

Claire Nelson thirty six year old Claire Nelson nearly died

alone in the desert in May of twenty eighteen. Claire,

originally from New Zealand, was visiting friends who lived near

Joshua Tree National Park, where she was to house sit

for them while they left vacation. During her stay, Claire

planned on adventuring through the desert and connecting with nature.

Clara was experiencing the outdoors, and she was a fiercely

independent person, so much so that she had been pushing

people away for some time. But she loved exploring and

also sharing her travel experiences online. She was a freelance

travel writer at the time of the Joshua Tree visit

that changed her life forever. After her friends left for

their journey to Scotland, Claire was on to her own adventures.

She left for a day hike to Joshua Tree, plaiting

to explore the Lost Bombs Oasis trail. However, Claire hadn't

told anybody specifically where she was going, only that she

planned on exploring inside Joshua Tree. It started out as

a day like any other. Claire packed the day bag

with a spare T shirt, several liters of water, and

a meager lunch a hard boiled egg, a bagel, and

a chocolate bar. Fussel carried other items that were usually

not essential for just a few hours outdoors but later

proved life saving, a plastic bag, a bandanna, a park

map and sunscreen. With her daypacking place, Claire drove to

Joshua Tree and parked. It was hot, but Claire was

confident and enjoying herself in the beauty of the desert.

She was waised into her heike when she unknowingly wandered

off the designated trail and began following a dry river bed,

and there was a boulder she had to climb on

the path.

Speaker 3: She was traveling.

Speaker 1: She climbed up, then began testing her footing. Everything seemed

okay until her foot started slipping and she became unsteady.

She lost her balance completely and went crashing over twenty

six feet down into a clearing not much bigger than

she was, shattering her pelvis in the process. The fall

knocked the breath out of her, and the pain was

excruciating and unrelenting. Claire recalled, I'd landed amongst these large boulders,

and I couldn't move. I couldn't sit up, I couldn't

stand up. It was indescribably painful. Unable to move, Claire

immediately tried using her cell phone to call for help,

but she had no service. The predicament she was in

was life threatening. Indeed, she was all alone in the

desert with a shattered pelvis, barely enough water for a

day and a half, and contending with the California desert heat,

as well as unusually high numbers of coyote, rattlesnakes.

Speaker 3: And other dangers.

Speaker 1: I felt more vulnerable than I could ever have imagined

being in my life, Claire said of the ordeal. She

immediately began recording videos of herself messages to friends and family,

as well as documentation of her situation. Claire occasionally tried

to move, especially to find shade, but when she tried,

there was a crunching, clicking sound coming from her pelvic region,

along with searing, my numbing pain. She couldn't budge to

admit it, but this hike was not the first time

she'd left for an adventure without telling someone of her plans.

Speaker 3: I know better, I know the rules.

Speaker 1: Always tell someone where you're going, said Claire, who wrote

about her experience in her book Things I Learned From Falling.

The Reality of her situation set in and Claire really

didn't want to spend the night alone on the desert floor,

but she had no other option. Nobody knew to check

in with her or to expect her back at a

certain time. The fact that she might die out there

alone was not lost on Claire. She kept recording videos,

then turning her phone and digital camera off to conserve

the battery life. She made herself eat the hard boiled

eggs since it would go bad anyway, and she knew

she needed the protein if she was going to survive

this tragedy. Her determination and will live kicked in however,

and Claire prepared herself for the nighttime. After nightfall, there

were bats flying around, and Claire hoped they weren't the

kind that liked to bite people. Imagination went wild, and

she was sure at times that she was seeing snakes

coming out of the rocks, though in reality snakes rarely

come out at night. Thankfully, she survived until morning one

night in the desert alone and injured. Down only two

more to go, Claire tried her best to protect herself

from the elements. She used a stick to rub sunscreen

on her legs. Sun is unforgiving during the desert summers

and can quickly do significant damage to her skin as

well as dehydrate it's even faster. She rationed what was

left for her food and water as long as she could,

but neither it lasted very long. The lack of water

grew unbearable. Dehydration is a god awful business, Claire wrote

in her book. It starts in the mouth. The initial

pang of craving quite subtle and easy to ignore, but

the signals get more insistent over time. Your tongue becomes

increasingly dry and scratchy, thickening like a woolen mitten sticking again,

the size of your mouth like velcrow. From there, you

feel it in your head. A slowly increasing pressure throbs

inside your skull, as if her brain is shrinking in

on itself, withering like a piece of dried fruit. She

fantasized about diet coke and other cold refreshments, even willing

them to be real. Claire had no choice. Once her

water ran out, She even urinated in a bottle and

drank it for hydration.

Speaker 3: While unpleasant, at least it helped keep her alive.

Speaker 1: She used the park map, the bandana, and the plastic

bag which she attached to a stick to cover herself

and block out the sun. Claire continued applying sunscreen, recycling

her urine, and making videos, but there was nothing else

she could do. She was trapped in the middle of

the desert, with no way of knowing whether anyone was

searching for She battled the scorching heat on the second

day and dreaded nightfall. She didn't want spent another night

alone in the desert. Naturally, she hadn't slept, and delirium

was setting in. She made it through the night with

sheer willpower and determination. Of the third day, Claire's mind

was really playing tricks on her sought. Sheard helicopters and ambulances,

but it was all in her head. She could see

birds of prey circling overhead, waiting for her to die

so they could grab an easy meal. However, after a

couple of days of social media silence, the friends Claire

was house sitting for grew concern. It wasn't like her

not to post, especially when she was somewhere beautiful like

Joshua Tree. They contacted friends from the area and had

them go to the house to check for Claire. When

they didn't see her car or find her at the home,

Claire was reported missing. Joshua Treat National Park officials found

her car, and there were at least two days of

chalk marks, which were used to tell whether or not

a vehicle has been moved. It was clear that Claire

had left the car and not come back for quite

some time. The search and rescue mission was launched. The

searchers were starting where her car was found and working outwards.

They made several rounds in a helicopter near where Claire

had fallen, but they didn't find her at first. After all,

she was trapped between large boulders where it was difficult

to see. They called out over the helicopter's PA system,

we are looking for a missing hiker. If you can

hear us, please make movement. The search crew didn't know it,

but Claire was screaming for help as she heard the

helicopter and.

Speaker 3: It was real this time.

Speaker 1: She tied the plastic bag on the end of her

stick with her hair tie and began waving it frantically.

It wasn't until their last and final sweep of the

area that they saw tiny and obscure a plastic grocery

bag waving back and forth. They called out that they

could see her and told her that help was on

the way. Due to the terrain, the helicopter could land

in the area, so rescuers had to hike into where

she was at the same Claire knew at that point

that she was going to be okay. After three nights

and four days alone in the desert, Claire was rushed

to a hospital where she received emergency surgery. Thankfully, she

made it through okay and spent the next several months recuperating.

She had to do extensive rehabilitation and spend some time

in a wheelchair before she was able to learn to

walk again. During her time in that awful situation, Claire

realized that she had been pushing people away, and although

she was connecting with others in social media, there was

a lack of true human connection in her life. She

made the decision that if she lived through this ordeal,

she was going to do better for herself and for others.

Claire Triumphully returned to Joshua Tree a year later with

friends and finally finished the hike she had started that

almost ended her life. Today, Claire's thankful to be alive,

and she vowed to never forget what happened to her

and to use it as motivation. Her book, Things I

Learned from Falling can be found on Amazon. Next up

in her survivor's Holly Jocum, Thirty two year old Holly

Jocum was planning a camping trip on December twenty seventh,

twenty twenty, to Big Bear Campground in California. She packed

her things and loaded her two dogs into RV as

she drove to Big Bear. She was excited for the trip,

but unfortunately when she arrived, she found the camp site

was closed. Around four forty five PM that day, she

contacted family and told them about a change of plans.

She was going to drive an hour and fifteen minutes

away and camp in the desert at Joshua Tree instead,

and said she'd call when she arrived. But by seven

point thirty that evening, Holly's phone was off or otherwise unreachable,

and her family hadn't heard from her. They were rightfully concerned.

In contact to the authorities, they filed a missing person

and began reaching out on social media for help locating Holly.

Her sister Laurie made a post asking for anyone who

might have seen Holly to please come forward. Holly had

randomly selected the camp site and Joshua Treat from her phone.

Although she was an experienced camper, the site she chose

was unfamiliar to her. On the way to the site,

the terrain had become difficult, and she decided to camp

out in a secluded area until the next day. The

night came and went, and the next morning Holly woke

to find two feet of snow had fallen through the night.

Holly wrote about the ordeal. By Tuesday, there was nearly

two feet of very fine fresh powder and I was stuck.

There was also no cell service where she had parked,

so she and her two dogs were truly out there alone.

For three days, Holly and the dogs camped out waiting

for the snow to melt, but that never happened. Holly

decided she had to do something. Friday morning, she planned

on hiking back down the mountain, at least until she

had cell service. The snow was too deep for dogs,

so she loaded them into two separate backpacks and began

the six mile hike back down. Eventually, she reached a

place that had phone service, and she called in her

location to her mom and the authorities. Search teams have

been looking for and news of her safety was caused

for celebration. Holly met the sheriff at the bottom of

the mountain, who drove her to Cabazon, where she met

with her mother. Thankfully, neither Holly nor her dogs were

harmed during their time stuck on the mountain, and they

had a happy ending, unlike so many others.

Speaker 3: Who go missing.

Speaker 1: Holly wrote, I'm so thankful for everyone who was involved

in searching for me, for everyone who shared the missing

person's post, and mostly for my family who tried with

every ounce they had to bring me back. The experiences

sure to remind Holly as well as the rest of us,

of the dangers of the wilderness and just how quickly

things can change when you're at the mercy of Mother Nature.

At our last tailor of survival. Robert Ringo, sixty seven

year old Robert Ringo was on a day hike one

Thursday in June of twenty twenty near Quayle Mountain in

Joshua Tree National Park when tragedy struck. Robert had gotten

ready that morning with nothing out of the ordinary. He

drove to Joshua Tree and once parked, shared his location

with his son, something he always did. He brought along

two liters of water for the hike, but not much

more in the way of supplies. The temperatures from the

high nineties the desert heat was sweltering. Robert is an

avid hiker and used to these conditions, so he wasn't worried,

especially since he was only planning a short hike. He

felt good starting out on his walk put aways into

the hike while admiring the views and enjoying the outdoors,

Robert somehow lost his footing and fell to the ground,

breaking his left Femur. The area he was in had

no cell service, so he was stranded. After his fall,

I started trying to at least turn over, and when

I did, he said, it was just unbelievable pain. Robert

began recording himself since he had no way of signaling

for help. His cries for help can be heard in

the videos shared.

Speaker 3: With news media.

Speaker 1: Robert knew his two leaders of water wouldn't last for long.

He tried to at least get himself onto his back

and finally managed after some time lying there. He knew

he had to eat something to keep his energy up.

I somehow scooted it up this place, ate some juniper

berries and saw what I thought might be flowers, but

they were all dry, so I wasn't going to eat them,

he said. He continued recording videos and trying to conserve water.

This is the first time I've experienced no saliva, he

said in one of the videos he took. He knew

if he could just hold on long enough, someone would

be looking for him. He mentions having a confidence and

a faith that he was going to survive. The Next day, Friday,

Robert's son Ryan alerted officials of his father's missing status.

He saw on his phone that his dad's last known

location was Joshua Tree. The search and rescue efforts began

searching in earnest for Robert. Knowing the summer heat is

dangerous to be in with only limited water supply, time

was of the essence. Rescue teams searched for hours, but

to no avail. It wasn't until Saturday morning, nearly two

days after Robert had taken his fall, that he finally

heard a rescue copter. The Joshua treat Search and Rescue

team retrieved Robert and brought him to the Desert Regional

Medical Center. Robert had emergency surgery on his leg and

later made a full recovery. In closing things, like we've

covered in this video, they continue to happen daily, with

their national parks being hotspots for all manner strange occurrences,

some of them natural, some of them bordering on the

supernatural and beyond. While there could be any number of

things or a combination of things to blame for these cases,

one thing is certain. We can never be sure something

won't happen to us. It's recommended that everyone who plans

on being with international parks or out of the wilderness.

In general, carry a personal locator beacon at all times.

The speaking transmits a the stress signal with its location

when activated. So what do you think is happening in

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just a little farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton,

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