Mysteries and Missing Binge with Steve Stockton

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Rescue crews are now in the fourth day of searching
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for a 92-year-old hiker missing in Allegheny State Park. As
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News 4's Nalina Shapiro reports, rescuers hope a new description
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of where he was last seen will help their cause.
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Hamilton got lost in the park on Wednesday while hiking
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with his 66-year-old daughter, Rebecca Huffman. When Hamilton was too
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weak to continue, his daughter walked to safety the next
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morning and called for help. On Sunday, she came back
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to the park and handed police this picture she drew
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of a mysterious concrete structure.
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Police say Hamilton was.
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Last seen about 100 feet from this structure. But here's
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the problem. Right now, officials can't find it.
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Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode. This time, we
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invite you to join us as we discuss some of
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the absolute strangest missing person cases that we've ever encountered.
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These stories are beyond strange and mysterious. None have any
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rational or scientific explanation, yet, according to those that experienced them,
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they actually happened. So sit back, relax, and let us
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know what you think in the comments below. Do you
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have theories on any of these? If so, please share.
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We'd love to hear them. missing 92-year-old, and the mysterious
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structure nobody can identify. On November 10, 2010, 66-year-old retired
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nurse Rebecca Huffman and her 92-year-old father, Reverend Thomas Hamilton,
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got lost while hiking in the Allegheny State Park. They
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walked for miles through dark woods, climbed up hills on
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their hands and knees, and were freezing cold. The very
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next day, Rebecca walked to safety and called for help.
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She stated that her father was too weak to continue,
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so she told him to stay put and not move.
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Search and rescue was immediately deployed to the area, and
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there was no sign of her father, Thomas. The next day,
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Rebecca came back to the park and handed police a
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picture she drew of a mysterious concrete structure about six
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feet in width and about 15 to 20 feet wide.
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It was a three-foot-high structure that you can walk into
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and be standing on a rock-like floor. Thomas was last
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seen about 100 feet from the structure. But there was
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a huge problem. Officials were never able to find this
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mysterious structure that his daughter Rebecca described. A massive eight-day
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search conducted by hundreds of volunteers, police officers, firefighters, and
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canine units over 5,000 acres of the park turned up nothing.
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Strangely enough, two years later, his remains were found 500
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feet from where the search and rescue crews started their
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official search. The mysterious structure has never been located. Linda
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Ortega and the People Hiding in the Bushes On September 22, 2012,
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Linda Ortega and her brother Eddie Huff set out for
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a day's hiking in the Arkansas Ozarks. There in which
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they were hiking was an area that they both frequented. However,
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during their hike, Eddie suddenly found himself in an unfamiliar area.
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Eddie looked up through the trees, hoping to find some
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degree of positioning from the mountains around him, and when
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he looked beside him, Linda had simply vanished. When Eddie
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eventually returned home, he seemingly had no memory of what
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had happened in the park. A search party was sent
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into the forest to find Linda, but with winter temperatures
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beginning to set in and having left with barely any
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supplies at all, Hope was fading fast. Linda would reemerge
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from the forest almost a week later. She appeared shocked
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and unnerved by whatever incident had unfolded and led her here.
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She would later claim, although the details were murky at best,
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that she came across people, but when she asked for help,
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they'd act like they didn't hear her. Linda says she
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remembered them looking right at her and not saying a thing.
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These people were hiding in the bushes, she says. They
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were following me but would not help me. In addition,
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Linda stated that dark figures appeared in the forest at dusk.
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They were like silhouettes that moved through the trees. But
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no matter how much she screamed, they couldn't hear her.
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She said they constantly watched her but never acknowledged her
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calls for help. Linda said that she was just glad
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that the forest had finally released her. Casey Hathaway and
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The Bear Three-year-old Casey Hathaway disappeared from his great-grandmother's backyard
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on January 25, 2019. Casey was playing with two other
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relatives in his great-grandmother's backyard the day he went missing.
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When he didn't come inside when the others did, his
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family started searching for him. After 45 minutes passed, his
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grandmother called 911. Hey, what's going on there?
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We lost my two-year-old grandson. He's walking in the woods
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back there and we can't find him. three-year-old grandson okay
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so who's there with them his whole sister are you
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saying three-year-old yeah he's three okay so the girls come
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to the house and left him there and he's walked
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off somewhere and we can't find him okay but you're
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not all you're not there the house now i'm at
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the house yeah Okay, and how long ago do you
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know he walked in there? It's been at least 45 minutes,
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because we've been looking all in the woods for him.
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And it's behind your house?
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Huh?
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Is it directly behind your house?
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Yeah.
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Well, on the side, yeah. Is he a white, black?
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He's white. Do you know what he was wearing? Probably
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a black little coat. A black coat? Yeah.
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Okay. Does he usually do this?
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Huh?
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Does he usually do this? No. Was he wearing his pants? Yeah,
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he had pants. Was it jeans? Yeah, I think so.
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Okay.
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And you said about 45 minutes ago? Yeah.
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Okay.
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All right. Is it a big area of woods behind
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your house? Yeah, it's pretty big. I think you've been
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out there looking for him?
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Yes.
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What is it?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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All right, we got a deputy headed to you, okay?
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You said 45 minutes directly behind your house or something?
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Yeah.
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Okay. If you see him, let us know. We have
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some deputies headed that way, okay? Okay. Thank you.
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He was walking in the woods back there, and we
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can't find him, his great-grandmother told the 911 dispatcher. The
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other ones came through the house but left him there,
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and he walked off somewhere, and we can't find him.
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Search and rescue teams from across the state immediately came
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together to brave the treacherous terrain and low temperatures hoping
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to find Casey. Three days later, rescuers were still combing
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the woods when they heard the missing three-year-old boy call
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out for his mother. In the emergency room, Casey started
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talking about what happened in the woods. He said he
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had a friend that was a bear. The bear took
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care of him and kept him warm while he was
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lost in the woods. Casey goes on to say that
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the bear also fed him berries. Now, the local sheriff
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stated that there are bears in the woods of Craven County,
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North Carolina, but there's no evidence to prove one was
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with Casey. He goes on to say, all that matters
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is that something was there to comfort Casey during the
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three days he was missing. Stephen Kubacki, missing for over
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a year. One February morning in 1978 near Lake Michigan,
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student Stephen Kabaki would venture out to indulge in several
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hours of skiing. However, when he still hadn't returned the
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following day, a huge search was put in motion. Strangely
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and ominously, footprints were discovered at a location where the
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student claimed to be heading. And what's more, they stopped
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right at the frozen water's edge. There was no sign
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of any markings on the frozen surface of the water,
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and no signs that the ice had been broken anywhere.
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Later that day, Stephen's skis and backpack were discovered. However,
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no other sign of Stephen came to light, and the
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searches were eventually called off. His family, while not giving
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up hope, were prepared for the worst. Then, over a
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year later, in early May 1979, Stephen would appear out
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of the blue on his parents' doorstep. He had very
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little memory of where he'd been. He had awoken earlier
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that day in a field in Pittsfield, hundreds of miles
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from where he disappeared and around 40 miles from the
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family home. Even stranger, he was wearing clothes that weren't
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his and had a strange bag of maps with him
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that he didn't recognize. Rather than compensate himself financially with
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the many offers from media people for his story, he
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instead retreated from the public, refusing to speak of the
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incident of which he claimed he had no memory, and
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not wishing to undergo such things as hypnotic regression as
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he wasn't experiencing any psychological problems and wished to keep
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it that way. Ambrose Smith, gone for 24 hours. Ambrose
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Smith normally played happily at home in Nuego County, Michigan,
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but on October the 8th, 2013, Ambrose was sitting in
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the lounge with her father, when he briefly left the
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room and upon his return, she was nowhere to be found.
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A massive search involving hundreds of volunteers was immediately activated,
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covering the entire surrounding area. It wasn't until the next
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day that Ambrose was found a few miles from her home. Strangely,
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she was discovered in a location that had been extensively
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searched the previous day. How the little girl had managed
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to traverse such a huge distance and evade the search
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teams who sprang into action so soon after her disappearance
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remains a complete mystery. Xin Rong vanished while piloting an aircraft.
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On March 15, 2016, Xin Rong flew out of Ann
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Arbor in a 1984 Cessna 172P owned by the Michigan Flyers.
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When it was overdue to return, authorities were notified and
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the wreckage was found in a forested area near Manitowage, Ontario,
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northeast of Munising, over Lake Superior. The downed Cessna he
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had been flying was found in a densely wooded area
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in Ontario the same day he rented the aircraft from
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a flying group at the Ann Arbor Airport. But Zinn
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was not at the scene of the crash and there
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were no footprints in the snow to indicate that Zinn
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was in the aircraft at the time it crash-landed. All
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the evidence indicates the aircraft was operating normally and crashed
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because it ran out of fuel. Authorities have theorized that
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at some point prior to the crash, Zen must have
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exited the aircraft while it was in the air. Searches
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around the crash site and along the route that the
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aircraft was known to have traveled were searched and yet
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nothing was found. Another search was conducted in the Petoskey
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area where Zen's cell phone last pinged, but again, nothing
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was found. Zenrong was an experienced pilot who was also
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a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. As of
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this recording in June 2020, his whereabouts are still unknown
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and his case remains a mystery. 5. Man Saved by
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Owl In November 2021, 64-year-old Mike Stevenson shared his incredible
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survival story and wowed the world. when he revealed that
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an owl saved him and led the way home. In 1975,
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Mike had just graduated high school and was looking for
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a more hands-on sort of job. The idea of sitting
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behind a desk didn't appeal to him, so he found
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himself a job in the Flathead National Forest in the
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Big Salmon Creek area trapping wildlife. In the autumn, Stevenson
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was joined by other workers who were out trapping large
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animals such as bears, elk, and deer, but Stevenson had
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been tasked with catching smaller animals like beavers. As the
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autumn drew to a close and winter began to set in,
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the other workers left the camp that had been set
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up at Big Salmon Creek, leaving Stevenson behind. The camp
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had been equipped with a wall tent to keep the
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cold weather out and to preserve the hay and grain,
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and the autumn workers agreed to leave the wall behind
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for Stevenson. According to him, the hay attracted rodents, which
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in turn attracted an owl who would sit on the
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wall and hoot well into the night. The owl stayed
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with the group, waiting each day for its catch before
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taking its position back on the wall. As the autumn
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workers and the hay left the camp, so did the owl,
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or at least Stevenson thought it had left. One cold
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November morning, Stevenson woke up and went about his day
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as normal, heading down to Big Salmon Lake to check
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his traps. As the day went on, the snow continued
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to fall, and soon, Stevenson realized that he had lost
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his way. He told U.S. News, It got to be
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late in the day when I was headed back to camp.
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The storm had dropped over a foot of fresh snow.
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About half a mile to a quarter mile from camp,
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it got too dark to see. I wasn't worried. I
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knew I was close to camp. I dug down in
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my pack for my flashlight, but it wasn't working. It
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was only my second winter back there, and I was
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still a rookie. I didn't have an extra bulb with me.
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I kept going and going, and I could not find
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that camp. I got completely mixed up, completely lost, and
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it was so discouraging because I knew the camp was
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so close. Stevenson continued to walk around, hoping to catch
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a glimpse of his camp, but he saw nothing. He
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kept moving to keep his body temperature up, but the
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cold quickly took over. Desperate, Stevenson prayed to God for help,
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and that's when he heard it. An owl hooting in
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the distance. the same hoot that he had heard hundreds
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of times at his camp. In a last-ditch attempt to
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save himself, he began following the direction of the hoots.
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Using the last of his strength, he followed the hoots
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as they changed direction abruptly, confusing him even more. Eventually,
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Stevenson came across his camp and was able to make
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a fire and get into his tent. The next morning,
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after the snow had settled, Stevenson retraced his steps and
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noticed that the direction of the hoots had changed because
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the owl had taken him around a large drop near
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Big Salmon Creek. Stevenson credits the owl for saving his
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life that night, saying that, without its hoots, he surely
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would have perished in the elements. He also told U.S. News,
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A few years back, I was transferred the right to
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keep a blackfeet pipe. Through the pipe, through ceremony and
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talking with elders, I'm learning a little bit about the
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unseen in the natural world around us. I've learned that
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the Creator will sometimes send us help in unusual ways,
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That night, it came in the form of a medicine aisle.
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Number four. Woman sues California over Bigfoot. Crestline, California resident
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Claudia Ackley made headlines in 2018 when she announced that
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she was suing the state of California and the San
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Bernardino Superior Court for being derelict in their duty to
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acknowledge the existence of Bigfoot. On March 27th, 2017, Claudia
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and her two children were hiking in the San Bernardino
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National Forest near Lake Arrowhead when they came across something bizarre.
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As dusk was rolling in, the trio was making their
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way through the winding paths when suddenly they froze in fear.
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In the distance, amongst the trees, they spotted a large,
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shadowy figure. Claudia was convinced that she and her daughters
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had just run into Bigfoot and ordered one of her
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daughters to pull out her phone and film it. she
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told the press enterprise. He looked like a Neanderthal man,
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with hair all over him. He had solid black eyes.
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He had no expression on his face at all. He
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did not show his teeth. He just stared at the
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three of us. The three made a quick dash for safety,
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and while doing so, Claudia said that two other similar
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creatures ran off into the trees. The three left, and
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Claudia immediately reported what they had seen to the nearest
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forest ranger. The forest rangers insisted that Claudia had seen
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a bear and dismissed her claims. This enraged Claudia, who
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was a Bigfoot researcher and fanatic, so she decided to
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sue the state and claim that they were negligent in
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their duties to keep the public safe. She told the
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press enterprise, People have to be warned about these things.
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They are big. We're totally vulnerable to these things. Claudia
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presented the video she took as evidence, along with a
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plaster mold of a Bigfoot footprint that she obtained from
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Washington State. She also claimed that she planned on presenting
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evidence from wildlife biologists, wilderness experience, and DNA evidence from
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a supposed Bigfoot hair sample. By March of 2018, the
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courts had dismissed Claudia's case after her legal team advised
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her to drop the lawsuit. She told the San Jose
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Mercury News, The attorneys wanted me to stop it and
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then for them to rewrite it. I only get one
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chance and I must do it correctly in order to proceed.
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There have been no further updates and it's unknown whether
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Claudia is going to proceed with her lawsuit in the future,
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but if we hear anything, we'll report it in a
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future episode.
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My daughters were about 10, 20 feet behind me and
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as I turn around, I'm looking straight and I see
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the creature on that tree. So what I do is
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I continue walking closer to try to tell myself, am
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I seeing a shadow at TreeStrom? At that point, I
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see his head turn, so I know that I'm not
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looking at a shadow. And this is where I stop,
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and this is where everything pretty much happened. This is
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where my daughter videotaped from your angle to the tree
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right over here.
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I swear to God.
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Mom?
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I see it. Is it by the tree?
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Yeah.
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On the shoulder?
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Yeah.
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I want to go home now. Did he move?
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Yes.
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He weighed about 800 pounds. He had hair all over him,
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orangutan color. He also did not show his teeth, but
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he had black solid eyes. And this is where he
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was at. My daughter saw two of them running at
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this point, where we have a 13-inch print. in this area,
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and they run back here with the big guy. So
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there was a total of three Sasquatches that day. At
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that point, he started rocking back and forth, and that's
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when I knew it was time for us to go.
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So, okay, so then this is where.
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His body weight was on that limb right there. I
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didn't know my daughter was videotaping the creature as I
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was standing right here, face to face with him.
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Number three, Valley of the Headless Men Hidden deep in
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the the northwestern territories of Canada lies a national park
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that has picked up a disturbing reputation. The Nahanni National
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Park has earned the nickname of the Valley of the
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Headless Men. As amongst its sprawling natural beauty, it's rumored
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that men go missing and are found much later, but
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with their heads missing. The Nahanni National Park is only
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accessible by plane or boat and attracts some of the
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most hardcore hikers and explorers there are out there. The
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park gets its name from the Diné language, a group
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of indigenous people who live in the Northwestern Territories and
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the Arctic regions of Canada. Unfortunately, it has picked up
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another not-so-beautiful name in the last few centuries. The legend
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begins in 1927 with Raymond Patterson, a British explorer who
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received a chilling warning before he embarked on the adventure
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of a lifetime. Patterson was told, Men vanish in that country,
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and down by the river, they say it's a damn
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good country to keep clear of. This warning came after
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Frank and Willie McLeod visited the park for the second
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time in 1905. The first time, they had made it
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out alive, but the second time around, they wouldn't be
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so lucky. When the brothers failed to return home, A
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search party was sent for them, and years later, their
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headless skeletal remains were found. This wouldn't be the last
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time that men would wander into the park, only to
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be found headless years later. Throughout the 20th century, intrepid
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explorers visited the park looking for gold and other resources,
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never to return. When the RCMP investigated their disappearances, they
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found their remains. These events led people to believe that
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the park was haunted. or that something supernatural was at play,
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and further events would solidify this belief. The RCMP were
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able to deduce that those who passed through the park
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likely did so either from exposure or at the hands
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of others, but this hasn't stopped the legend of the
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Valley of the Headless Men from living on. As if
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these incidents weren't enough to make Canadians think that Nahanni
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National Park was haunted, a spate of UFO sightings and
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mysterious plane crashes only added to their fears. The Diné
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people have spoken about the park for many centuries, passing
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down folk stories through the generations of monsters and unexplainable
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things in the park. Despite logical explanations existing for most
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of the bizarre goings-on, the Canadian people are still very
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wary of the park, and parts of the park itself
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have been closed off to the public. The official reasoning?
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Because parts of this park are important to Indigenous communities,
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but some have postulated with the Park Service is trying
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to keep a lid on the unknown that lurks in
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the shadows of these trees. Number 2. Encounters with the
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Mantis Man In July 2011, an interesting post titled Praying
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Mantis Sighting New Jersey popped up on the website phantomsmonsters.com.
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The author of the post, Lon Strickler, a friend of mine,
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explains how he received an email from a witness who
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claims to have come in contact with a bizarre praying
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mantis-like creature The witness details how they were out fishing
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on the Musconnet Cong River in New Jersey, which is
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part of the National Park Service's wild and scenic river system.
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But out of the corner of their eye, they saw
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something not entirely human. As they waded through the river,
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something to the left of them caught his attention. The
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witness described the creature as humanoid, tall, six feet at least,
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but possibly as tall as six, six to seven feet.
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Triangular head, huge. slanted black eyes, just like a praying mantis.
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Its whole body was gangly, knobby, but you could still
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sense it was powerful. He explains how the creature had
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a grasshopper thigh, but was bent forward like a human.
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In a heart-stopping moment, the creature noticed him, and the
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two stared at each other before the creature slowly began
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to back away. Before the witness had time to react,
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the creature simply evaporated as it was moving away from him.
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Another witness account adding to the same post came from
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a person in Texas who also claimed to have seen
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something very similar. In December 2009, the witness was having
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a family get-together when members of their family came running
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into the room screaming that a plane had crashed into
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a nearby field. The witness and his brother ran to
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the field to see what was going on and it
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was there that they experienced something they will never forget.
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The witness wrote, we didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
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except a strange burning smell that smelled like burning mesquite.
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We didn't think anything of it since it was kind
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of nippy and someone could have been burning wood in
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their fireplace. We told them to show us where they
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saw the plane go down, and as we walked over
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to the place, they showed us. As the witness and
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the group moved closer to the spot, they felt an
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electrical charge in the air, followed by lights peeking through
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the trees. As they got closer to the lights, they
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saw that the lights were emanating from an oval-shaped object
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that was hovering a few feet off the ground. The
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witness wrote, As we stood there in total shock, my
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brother next to me expressing his disbelief, we saw two
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strange-looking men appear from around the object. They at first
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didn't notice us. They were busy running around and gathering
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objects from the ground, from the trees. They didn't seem
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to notice us at first. They looked to be about
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the size of my oldest nephew, about four feet tall.
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But they looked very skinny, like they had no meat
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on their bones. Their heads were large and their arms
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were long, skinny, and hung down around their knees. According
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to the witness, the nephew shouted at them, which startled
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the creatures running around the shiny craft. The witness said,
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That's when the creatures turned and noticed us. The sight
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of these creatures was something that will haunt me till
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the day I die. It turned and looked right at us.
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Its eyes were large, almost like the eyes of a
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praying mantis, except they were jet black and wrapped around
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its head. The two creatures looked at us for about
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seven seconds, not an ounce of movement, before they calmly
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walked around the craft one right after the other. They
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disappeared behind the craft and we never saw them again.
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Other encounters with praying mantis type creatures were also featured
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in the article. However, these two are the most prominent.
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Are these accounts proof of hybrid creatures living amongst us?
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Or is there a scientific explanation for what these witnesses saw? Personally,
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I know a woman out here just across the river
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in Vancouver, Washington, who claims she saw a giant mantis
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standing on the street corner one night while she was
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out having a cigarette. She said it was almost as
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tall as the lamppost it was standing under. When she
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looked again, the creature had simply disappeared. Number 1. Woman
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Killed by Mysterious Animal 77-year-old Brenda Hamilton stepped out of
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her home in Pantago, North Carolina, near Pettigrew State Park
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for what would be the final time. February 15, 2019
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had started out like any other for Brenda. She went
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about her daily routine before leaving to go for a walk.
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Brenda was described as a pillar of the community. She
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was a schoolteacher at the Pongo Christian Academy, having been
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there since 1968. Everyone in Pantago knew her and nobody
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had a bad word to say about her. So when
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she was discovered on the side of Indian Run Road,
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everyone was in shock. According to reports, Brenda was badly
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wounded and had to be transferred to the nearest hospital. Unfortunately,
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her injuries were too severe, and Brenda passed away shortly
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after being admitted.
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We've learned that a teacher attacked this past Friday by
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an animal has died of her injuries. 77-year-old Brenda Hamilton
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of Pantego said, was attacked by an animal on Indian
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Run Road around 5.47 a.m., according to the Beaufort County
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Sheriff's Office. Hamilton is listed as an English teacher at
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Pungo Christian Academy on the school's website. Biologists with the
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North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission performed some preliminary DNA tests
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and have eliminated the possibility that any wild animals indigenous
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to the area were involved in the attack, the sheriff's
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office said. Deputies are continuing to investigate to determine if
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any domestic dogs in the area could have attacked Hamilton.
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News reports quickly sprang up about Brenda's passing, with the
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Beaufort County Sheriff's Office announcing that they were unable to
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determine exactly what animal had caused her wounds. DNA samples
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were taken from Brenda and submitted for testing, but the
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announcement by the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office left local residents fearful.
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Was there a mysterious and unknown animal lurking in the woods?
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Or was there a reasonable explanation behind this? Two long
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years later, the University of Florida, who partnered with the
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Beaufort County Sheriff's Office, announced that DNA testing had finally
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revealed the animal responsible for Brenda's injuries. In a statement
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to WECT Channel 6 News, Anne-Marie Clark of the University
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of Florida Forensic Program said, Evidence suggested that it was
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a domestic dog and there was no indication of gray
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or red wolf, coyote or fox. It also suggests there
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was no bear or large cat, such as a bobcat
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or a panther. Anne-Marie also surmised that multiple dogs had
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attacked Brenda, finally putting to bed the rumors that a
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dangerous and mysterious creature lurked in the woods around Pantago,
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North Carolina. One-ton boulder called Wizard Rock disappears in Prescott
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National Forest, then suddenly reappears. Forest officials in Arizona were
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mystified this past October when local landmark Wizard Rock, a
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one-ton boulder, suddenly vanished from Prescott National Forest. The Wizard Rock,
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a distinctive black boulder marked with striking lines of white quartz,
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is a well-known local landmark along State Route 89 in
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Prescott National Forest near the center of Arizona. In addition
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to being an admired natural monument and stopping point for tourists,
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the Wizard Rock is also a hefty formation, estimated to
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weigh around one ton, so park officials were shocked to
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find it had gone missing. But it gets stranger. Two
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weeks after the Wizard Rock disappeared, it mysteriously reappeared to
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the exact spot and position, almost like it had never moved.
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In addition, park services stated that there were no visible
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marks on the ground to suggest it was moved by
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a large piece of equipment. As of December 2019, The
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disappearance and reappearance of the Wizard Rock remains a mystery.
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Serious force snaps hundreds of trees in Washington near Olympic
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National Park. An unexplained incident happened near the forests of
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Olympic National Park on the shores of Washington State, and
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Park Service officials and scientists have been left baffled by
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a lack of definitive explanations. In the early morning hours
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of January 27th, 2018, an extremely powerful force of some
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kind knocked down over 100 trees along the north shore
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of Lake Quinault on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. While high winds
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or some other meteorological phenomenon was immediately assumed to be
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the cause, weather data show that nothing out of the
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meteorological ordinary occurred. So then what exactly happened in the
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woods of Washington that morning? To make matters even stranger,
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on Friday, April 5th, 2019, 26 power poles came crashing
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down in a cascading effect in Tukwila, Washington. The terrifying
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incident was recorded and shows one of the power poles
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crashing through the roof of a passing vehicle. I would
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like to stand here and tell you that I know
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what caused it, but I don't. We've ruled things out,
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but we've not ruled anything in, Seattle City Light CEO
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Debra Smith said. Seattle City Light says they ruled out
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lightning and weather's causes, but as of today, this incident
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also remains a mystery. Lost Boy Larry On 7 August 1973,
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New Mexico CB radio operators heard the disturbing pleas and
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cries for help from a little boy by the name
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of Larry. He said he was trapped in a red
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and white pickup truck with his father who had died,
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possibly of a heart attack. He said he and his
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father had been rabbit hunting when his father collapsed on
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the steering wheel and as a result the truck had
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flipped into a ravine where the doors became jammed, making
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it unable to escape. The messages were reported to the
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local authorities and the police launched a search for the
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little boy in the foothills of New Mexico and near
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the Petroglyph National Monument. Despite the fact that some people
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thought it was a hoax, the police took it seriously.
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It was definitely possible that this child was somewhere in
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the desert. However, Larry had no idea where he was.
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He was struggling to answer questions and became confused easily.
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Some people thought that perhaps he had a head injury.
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He said his legs and knees had been hurt in
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the crash. By the second day, Larry was not transmitting
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regularly Other people joined in the conversation on their CB radios.
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Some of them were concerned citizens who honestly wanted to help.
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Others were hecklers who wanted to make fun of Larry.
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By the third day, Larry's voice was growing weaker. He
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said that his father hadn't moved at all, and searchers
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were sure the man must be dead. On the fourth day,
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Larry's voice was growing very faint, and he said he
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knew he wasn't going to survive. Shortly afterwards, Larry's transmissions
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faded away, and he was never heard from again. The
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signal was heard in Arizona, California, and Wyoming. He was
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switching between channels, desperate for somebody to help him. Those
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that spoke to Larry are adamant that it was not
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a hoax because of the emotion and terror in his voice.
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But others call it a hoax and suggest that after
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40 years, something surely would have been found. Strange Structures
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in Santa Fe National Forest Forest Service officials and park
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rangers in the Santa Fe National Forest have discovered numerous
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mysterious structures, which have them scrambling for explanations. The structures
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range in size, but have all been constructed out of
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fallen trees and limbs, with some reaching over 20 feet
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tall and dozens of feet in diameter. Whoever, or whatever,
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is building the structures seems to be accelerating its efforts,
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as more and more have been found in recent weeks.
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The Forest Service has no idea who is building them
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or why, but their response so far has been to
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dismantle any that are found. Bigfoot's not going to be happy.
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The destruction of these mystery structures is to mitigate the
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forest fire threat they create. National Forest spokesperson Julianne Overton
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says that whatever the structures are for, they are dangerous
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for the park and its visitors. They may have as
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many as a thousand pieces of wood in them. The
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wood is seasoned and dry, and the design is similar
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to a classic kindling pyramid, but on a much larger scale.
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And to exacerbate the obvious fire danger, people appear to
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be using fire rings inside many of the structures. While
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some of the structures appear to be a rudimentary teepee-like shape,
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which could be used for shelter, others appear to be
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a solid cone of wood. No one knows who is
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building these structures or why, but many have suggested they
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are the work of a cult that uses the wooden
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frameworks for ritualistic purposes. Others claim that Bigfoot is responsible
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for the structures, saying that some of these logs are
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so large and heavy that no human could possibly lift
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them alone, or even with the help of others. Secret
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Base for Man-Eating Aliens Being Built in Tonto National Forest
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The United States Department of Agriculture has released a number
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of files about alleged alien and UFO activity on land
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managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The U.S. Forest Service
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data was obtained by John Greenwald, founder of the Black
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Vault website, who obtains and publishes formally confidential official data
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on aliens and UFOs. Records of the service's southwestern regional
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office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, detail a bizarre call from
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an alleged witness to the construction of an alien base
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in the Tonto National Forest near Phoenix, Arizona. An email
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was sent by the department to all rangers on December 30, 2013,
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detailing the extraordinary encounter. The email said, David received a
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call this morning at the front desk from a mail
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caller reporting the construction of a secret government installation upstream
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from the Salt River Canyon past Pinal Creek, upstream from
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Roosevelt Lake. Culler claims to have seen construction cranes coming
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out of the side of the cliffs, miniature stealth planes
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and UFOs, aliens and people working together at the site,
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and aliens eating people. He found a severed head and
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claims to have pictures of some of this stuff. Culler
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reported that he is 60, not crazy, and doesn't do drugs.
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He said he had already called the office at the lake,
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but he didn't know if those people were turning the
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other cheek or maybe those people had been paid off.
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The records do not detail if any action was taken
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in response to the strange tip-off, but the email added,
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Please let me know if there are any talking points
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to be developed. I'm sure the Phoenix media will be
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all over this. P.S. David and I aren't doing drugs either.
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There are long-standing claims by alien conspiracy theorists that there
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are aliens living here on Earth and the government knows
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about it, but it's kept top secret from the public
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for fear of what would happen if they knew. Bizarrely,
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This is not the first reference to there being a
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secret military-slash-alien base in the Tonto National Forest. George A.
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Feiler is a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer who
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claims aliens and UFOs were actually aiding the U.S. during
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the Vietnam War. He is now the director of the
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Eastern Section of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, based
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in the United States, which is the world's largest organization
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dedicated to UFO and alien investigations. In a series of
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online reports known as Filer's Files, a man called Scott
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Heckman spoke of a base being in the National Forest
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where scores of people have also gone missing. He wrote,
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The most major base that I've been able to follow
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the craft towards is located in the Tonto National Forest.
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I discovered this while camping in the Sierra Ancha wilderness.
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The UFOs kept flying down into the basin two minutes apart.
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They flew low, out of the southeast at about 2,000
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feet above the terrain. During the daytime, A-10s use the
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area for training. Refueling practice also occurs here both day
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and night. These areas have also been plagued with several
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unexplained disappearances that have occurred in Cochise County over the
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last 30 years. Cars are abandoned, with people's ID, money,
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and keys left behind. Alleged bases include a huge underground
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one near Daltz, New Mexico, about 250 miles from the
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Tonto National Forest. a base for a species of aliens
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known as Tall Whites within the Nellis Air Force Base
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in Nevada, and also an alien-slash-military base at the top-secret
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Area 51 U.S. Air Force site, also in Nevada. So
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why would the Air Force need such a large area
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of land? Because they gave some of it to aliens
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to build underground bases so they don't accidentally encounter a
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person and kill.
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Them.
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It's not yours.
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Mom!
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Here I am! Up here! Here I am! Up here! Baby!
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Hello friends, and welcome to another episode. This time, we
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invite you to join us as we discuss some of
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the absolute strangest missing person cases that we've ever encountered.
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Do you have theories on any of these? If so,
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please share. We'd love to hear them. Jared Negrete 13-year-old
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Jared Negrete was a Boy Scout who was on his
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first overnight backpacking trip. He was last seen on Friday,
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19 July 1991 at about 6 p.m. when he fell
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behind his fellow Scouts on a hike to the summit
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of the 11,500-foot Mount San Gorgonio in the San Bernardino
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National Forest, Southern California. Another group of hikers spotted Jared
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straggling behind and notified the scout troop leader at the
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mountain summit, but the leader, an experienced hiker, said he
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would pick up Jared on the way down. When the
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leader finally decided to descend the mountain, Jared was nowhere
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to be seen. As soon as the troop leader realized
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that Jared had disappeared, he accompanied his five other scouts
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back to the base camp and then hiked about five
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miles in the dark to get help. San Bernardino County
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Sheriff's deputies, along with search and rescue teams from as
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far away as Sierra Madre and San Dimas, began searching
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a 130-square-mile area of the San Gorgonio Wilderness, a rocky,
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tree-lined terrain. Within three days, their search was focused on
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a six-square-mile area where a footprint believed to match one
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of Jared's high-top tennis shoes was found. Searchers also discovered
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beef jerky and candy wrappers believed to have been dropped
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by the scout, and most importantly, his camera was located.
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On the film roll were 12 pictures. Most of the
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photos were landscape scenes apparently taken before Jared went missing.
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But the final picture on the roll of film was
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a photograph of the scout's eyes and nose, taken with
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the aid of the camera's flash, possibly at night after
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he disappeared. Family members said it appeared Jared had pointed
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the camera at his face and snapped the picture. It
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seemed possible that the boy had lost the camera while
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sliding down a portion of the mountainside. At least 70 officers,
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some of whom were lifted by a helicopter into the forest,
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and horseback riders as well as helicopters with infrared were deployed.
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Over the next two weeks, as many as 3,000 people
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had logged 45,000 hours scouring 50 square miles of the
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San Bernardino National Forest from Angeles Oaks to Whitewater Canyon.
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Almost 30 years later, no other clues to Jared's disappearance
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have surfaced and he remains missing. Casey Hathaway and the
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Bear Three-year-old Casey Hathaway disappeared from his great-grandmother's backyard on
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January 25, 2019. Casey was playing with two other relatives
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in his great-grandmother's backyard the day he went missing. When
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he didn't come inside when the others did, his family
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started searching for him. After 45 minutes passed, his grandmother
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called 911. He was walking in the woods back there
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and we can't find him, his great-grandmother told the 911 dispatcher.
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The other ones came through the house but left him
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there and he walked off somewhere and we can't find him.
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Search and rescue teams from across the state immediately came
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together to brave the treacherous terrain and low temperatures hoping
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to find Casey. Three days later, rescuers were still combing
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the woods when they heard the missing three-year-old boy call
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out for his mother. In the emergency room, Casey started
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talking about what happened in the woods. He said he
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had a friend that was a bear. The bear took
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care of him and kept him warm while he was
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lost in the woods. Casey goes on to say that
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the bear also fed him berries. Now, the local sheriff
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stated that there are bears in the woods of Craven County,
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North Carolina, but there's no evidence to prove one was
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with Casey. He goes on to say, all that matters
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is that something was there to comfort Casey during the
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three days he was missing. Carol Van Holla Three-year-old Carol
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Van Hollen went missing on June 28, 1959, in the
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Dickinson County Picnic Grounds in Michigan. The Van Hollens had
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four daughters and took them to the Dickinson County Picnic
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Grounds at Norwood Lake for an afternoon of outdoor fun.
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Carol's mother was raiding the group for dinner when she
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noticed Carol was missing. After a quick search, law enforcement
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was notified. A large-scale search was conducted using 500 searchers,
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a helicopter, and canines. Although the canines picked up on
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her scent, they would then lose it. About 13 hours
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into the search, the search and rescue team could hear
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a faint cry from a child. In an area heavy
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and laden with swamp and underbrush, authorities found Carol. The
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previous September, a four-year-old boy had vanished under similar circumstances,
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but he was found dead of exposure four days after
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he went missing. Carol was taken to the hospital with
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scratches and signs of exposure. David Gonzalez David Gonzalez disappeared
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while camping with his family in Fondskind, California on July 31, 2004.
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David asked his mother if he could have the truck keys.
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There was a box of cookies in the truck and
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he wanted a treat. The vehicle is only 50 yards,
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46 meters, away. and his mother watched him as he
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walked to the parking lot near the Big Bear Lake
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campsite in Northern California's San Bernardino National Forest. She turned
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her back for a second, and when she looked around again,
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David was gone. David's mother reported that she heard no
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sound at all while her back was turned, though she
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did see a beige truck speeding out of the campground
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around the time that her son went missing. Since there
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were no signs of abduction, Authorities did not pursue that lead.
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The cookies that David went to get were still in
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his family's locked vehicle, so he never made it to
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the truck. Rescue teams in San Bernardino County scoured the
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woods for David. They found no signs of struggle or
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of the boy. The search went on for nine days,
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but rescuers never found him alive. In 2015, hikers stumbled
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upon David's remains about a mile from his family's campsite.
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Authorities chalked this up to a mountain lion attack, but
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how could a mountain lion have silently dragged a nine-year-old
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boy a mile without leaving any blood or signs of struggle?
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Surely David would have screamed or cried out, but nobody
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at the campground, including his mother, reported hearing or seeing anything.
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Ambrose Smith, Gone for 24 Hours Ambrose Smith normally played
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happily at home in Nuego County, Michigan. But on October 8, 2013,
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Ambrose was sitting in the lounge with her father when
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he briefly left the room, and upon his return, she
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was nowhere to be found. A massive search involving hundreds
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of volunteers was immediately activated, covering the entire surrounding area.
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It wasn't until the next day that Ambrose was found
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a few miles from her home. Strangely, she was discovered
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in a location that had been extensively searched the previous day.
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How the little girl had managed to traverse such a
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huge distance and evade the search teams who sprang into
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action so soon after her disappearance remains a complete mystery.
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Catherine Van Alst Eight-year-old Catherine Van Alst disappeared from Devil's
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Den State Park near Arkansas' Ozark National Forest when she
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and her family were camping. Catherine apparently was playing with
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her brothers when she wandered off and got lost. What
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makes Catherine's disappearance remarkable is she was found six days later.
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When found, she was wandering the woods and was eerily calm.
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University of Arkansas student Porter Chadwick was part of the
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search party that found Catherine. He told the Pittsburgh Press
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that when he found her, she walked stoically out of
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a cave and just said, Here I am. Many other
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hikers have gotten lost in that part of the Ozarks
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and haven't been as lucky as Catherine. A grown woman
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was lost there for 17 days and died just 50
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yards from the road. How did Catherine survive in the
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woods for six days? Did someone take her only to
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return her six days later? Or is there an explanation
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00:47:44.469 --> 00:47:48.849
to this story that we simply can't comprehend? Either way,
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someone or something might just be lurking in Devil's Den.
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Larry Jeffrey In 1966, a young boy by the name
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of Larry Jeffrey disappeared near the peak of 12,000-foot Mount
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Charleston in the Humboldt-Toyabe National Forest, just a short drive
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from Las Vegas. The search began immediately after Jeffrey wandered
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away from his brothers, and within days, the National Guard
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and a team of bloodhounds had joined the search. When
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Jeffrey disappeared, he was wearing light clothing, and authorities were
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doubtful that he could survive the cold temperatures of the
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desert at night. Searchers found and lost the trail a
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few times, and they discovered evidence that Jeffrey had been
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eating insects and forged berries along the way. Overall, around 1,000
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people searched for 16 days, but never found him. One
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searcher said it was as though Jeffrey had just walked
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into oblivion. Douglas Legg On July 10, 1971, eight-year-old Douglas
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Legg was on a hike in the Adirondack Forest's Santononi
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Preserve when his uncle spotted poison ivy and told Douglas
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to put on long pants to protect himself. Douglas quickly
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headed back towards the family's cabin, which was a straight
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and short distance away, but he never returned. Unlike a
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lot of the kids who have gone missing in the
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national parks, Douglas was very familiar with these woods. His
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family owned the cabin where they were staying and described
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Douglas as a mini-woodsman because they all hiked there together
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so often. Douglas' disappearance sparked one of the Southern Adirondacks'
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largest search and rescue missions with more than 600 people
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searching the woods. But like David Gonzales, Douglas left no trail.
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Unlike in the Gonzales case though, rescuers used dogs in
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their search. Some accounts describe dogs following Douglas sent over
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a 30 mile trail through difficult terrain. How could a
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young child, even one experienced in the woods, have traveled
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alone for such a distance? The family became so desperate
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to find Douglas that they began suspecting each other and
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even close friends of abducting Douglas. But investigators were certain
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that Douglas had simply gotten lost. It's been nearly 50
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years and Douglas has never been found. Alfred Billharts Five-year-old
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Alfred Billharts is the first recorded drowning in Colorado's Rocky
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Mountain National Park. Though whether Alfred actually drowned is controversial.
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On July 2nd, 1938, Alfred had gone on a fishing
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trip with his parents and 10 older siblings for the
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Independence Day weekend. Alfred was with his family on a
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trail near Fall River when he fell behind the rest
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of them and vanished. A search began immediately and expanded
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to more than 100 Civilian Conservation Corps members within 45 minutes.
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but there was barely any sign of Alfred anywhere. The
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authorities originally believed Alfred had fallen into the river. They
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dammed it up and dragged it for six miles, but
852
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didn't find any sign of him. Bloodhounds tracked Alfred's scent
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500 feet uphill before they reached a fork in the
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trail and lost the scent. A couple hiking in another
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part of the park, six miles away and 2,500 to 3,000
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feet higher in elevation than the spot Alfred disappeared from,
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reported hearing a cry and seeing a small boy resembling
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Alfred on a high ridge in a treacherous area called
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the Devil's Nest near the top of Mount Chaplin. By
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the time investigators arrived there a day later, the boy
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was gone. An extensive 10-day search involving 150 volunteers turned
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up no indication of the child's whereabouts. Due to the
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passage of time since Alfred's disappearance, his case is no
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longer being investigated. He was never found. John Doe and
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His Robot Grandma On October 1, 2010, three-and-a-half-year-old John Doe,
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as he's being reported, and his relatives were camping by
867
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a popular fly-fishing location near Mount Shasta. Around 6 p.m.,
868
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the child's parents realized their son had suddenly gone missing.
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According to Mr. Doe, his youngster was there one second
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and gone the next. They scoured the area he had
871
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:42.809
last been seen in complete panic-stricken horror. After hours of
872
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feverishly searching, the little boy still had not turned up.
873
00:52:46.969 --> 00:52:50.610
Now desperate, the distraught father decided to call local police
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deputies and United States Forest Service officers. Rescue personnel combed
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the forest well into the night, yet there was no
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sign of the toddler. Five hours after John had disappeared,
877
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authorities found him laid down on the brush directly next
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to a trail that had been previously searched. He appeared
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to be in a dazed, semi-conscious state. Mr. and Mrs.
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Doe attributed this to exhaustion and were simply grateful their
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little one returned physically unharmed. Medical staff gave full clearance
882
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so the freshly reunited family were permitted to return home.
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Everyone's lives quickly went back to normal, yet only a
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few weeks later the small boy would share a disturbing
885
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tale about his terrifying ordeal. One day, little John's grandmother Kathy,
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who he called Cappy, was playing with him. Suddenly, he
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looked towards her and said that he didn't like the
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other Grandma Cappy. Confused, she asked him what exactly he meant.
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Little John explained that while he was lost in the woods,
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he'd been taken deep inside a mountainside cave by a
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woman he thought was Grandma Cappy. She led him into
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a cool, dark, spider-infested room filled with motionless humanoid robots.
893
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Scattered across the floor were dusty purses, guns, and other
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various types of weapons. As John anxiously faced his grandmother,
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he noticed an eerie light radiating from her head. In
896
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this moment, he realized she was not his real granny.
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Grandma Cappy firmly instructed the boy to defecate on a
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piece of paper. When he refused, she became increasingly agitated
899
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and repeatedly requested him to do so. Eventually, the grandma
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look-alike succumbed to frustration and moved on to a different topic. Allegedly,
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she informed Little John that he had been planted in
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his mother's womb and was actually from outer space. Shortly
903
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after this extraordinary account, she took the boy back outside
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to the thicket and advised him to wait for help.
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Upon hearing this disturbing story from her grandson, an outraged
906
00:55:00.909 --> 00:55:04.119
Grandma Kathy called her son and demanded to know what
907
00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:08.380
he was lying her grandchildren to watch on television. Mr.
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Dole lamented that he had heard an identical recollection only
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00:55:11.340 --> 00:55:14.860
a few days prior. Initially, the two chalked it up
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to an overactive imagination. Yet the more Grandma Kathy thought
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about it, the more Little John's story perplexed her. What
912
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kind of TV show would feature some of the ludicrous
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topics that the boy was describing? Even more chilling was
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the idea that she might have some kind of doppelganger
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assuming her identity in order to abduct innocent victims. With
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those particular thoughts in mind, Kathy decided to share a
917
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haunting experience of her own. Only a year before, she
918
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had gone on a camping trip within close proximity to
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where Little John's ordeal occurred. In the morning, she awoke
920
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face down in the dirt. Somehow, she had been inexplicably
921
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removed from the sleeping bag within her tent and transferred
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a short distance away. Upon rousing, she felt an intense
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pain at the base of her neck. Two puncture wounds
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were present and the surrounding skin was red and inflamed.
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Another friend who accompanied her on the excursion suffered a
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matching affliction. The pair originally attributed these injuries to a
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possible spider bite. Both Kathy and her travel companion became
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violently ill. In fact, she was so sick that she
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could not even muster the strength to pack her things.
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Her mind raced as she desperately tried to recall what
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happened mere hours ago. Only one thing surfaced. Glowing red eyes.
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While she was drifting into slumber, she remembered seeing several
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creatures gazing through the darkness. At the time, she assumed
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they were produced by a herd of deer. Following this
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traumatizing outing, Kathy felt completely drained of her creativity and emotions.
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Several months would pass before she felt like her old
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self again. Admittedly, Grandma Kathy would have dismissed her episode
938
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had Little John not come forward with his first-hand encounter. Now,
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listeners to this channel are no doubt familiar with the
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legends and lore pertaining to Mount Shasta that have existed
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throughout the centuries. We've done a video about it. The
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00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:18.699
indigenous peoples of the area chronicled a fallen race of
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prehistoric giants that were said to inhabit the region. Others
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claim beings known as Lemurians used local caves as entrances
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to an underground crystalline city called Telos. Some allege a
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large energy vortex is present within the territory. In modern times,
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there are many UFO and Bigfoot sightings reported. Each year, though, 26,000
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visitors flock to this revered mountain from countries across the globe.
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There have been an alarmingly high number of curious missing
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person cases within this picturesque terrain. While Little John Doe's
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incident seems unbelievable, it's important to consider the odd history
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and happenings afflicting this area. An open mind may be
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the only thing that will finally resolve this age-old mystery.
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Well folks, there you have it. What do you think
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of these cases? Make sure you let us know in
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the comments below. Also, if you enjoyed this video, please
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we meet again, take care of yourselves and each other.
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