Legends and Stories from Oregon

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Hello friends. This video was suggested by longtime subscriber and fan,
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Kendall Berg. She writes in the comments section, Please do
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Crater Lake, Oregon. I'm an Oregon native and would love
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to hear stories from my home state. Also, I love
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your channel. Thank you for all the stories. I love them. Well, Kendall,
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thank you for your comment. We appreciate your kind words.
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And we also took your request to heart. So, Kendall
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and everyone, please join us now for five strange disappearances
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and mysteries from Crater Lake, Oregon. Now, some of these
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stories can be found in my latest book, National Park
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Mysteries and Disappearances, Volume 3, The Pacific Northwest, which includes Oregon, Washington,
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and Idaho. It's available from Amazon in Kindle and paperback format,
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and it's also available wherever fine books are sold. There
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is a link in the description. Now, on to Crater Lake. First,
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I feel a little background and history is in order.
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Crater Lake National Park was established in 1902 and is
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located in southern Oregon. In total, the park covers 183,224 acres,
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which includes Crater Lake and the surrounding hills and forests.
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Many years ago, Mount Mazama collapsed, creating a nearly 2,118-foot-deep
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caldera that partially fills Crater Lake. The amount of water
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in the lake is replaced approximately every 250 years by
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rain and snow, which offsets the evaporation. This is the
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deepest lake in the United States, measuring some 1,949 feet.
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For maximum depth, it ranks ninth in the world, while
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for mean-slash-average depth, it ranks third. There are two small
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islands in Crater Lake. Located near the lake's western shore,
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Wizard Island is approximately 316 acres in size, while Phantom Ship,
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a natural rock pillar, is located near its southern shore.
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Because the lake has no inlets or tributaries, its waters
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are some of the purest in the world due to
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the lack of pollutants. There are relatively high levels of
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dissolved salts in the lake as well. Due to its
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high elevation and influence from the Pacific, Crater Lake has
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a subalpine climate. Summers are mild and dry, but winters
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are cold and snowy, with average snowfalls reaching 505 inches
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per year and maximum snow cover of 139 inches or 3.53 meters.
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It usually takes until mid-July for the snow to melt.
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Even into the summer, hard frosts are possible in the
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Crater Lake area. The surface temperature of the lake ranges
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from 33 degrees Fahrenheit to 66 degrees. In the summertime,
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the lake normally fluctuates between 50 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
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As a result of the collapse of Mount Mazama, Crater
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Lake had no fish until a man named William G.
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Steele decided to stock it in 1888 in order to
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allow for fishing. The fish were regularly stocked until 1941,
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when it became evident that the fish could maintain a
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stable population without assistance from the outside. Two fish species
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have survived from the original stocking, cocaine salmon and rainbow trout,
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with the salmon being the most abundant. As part of
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its history, Crater Lake is also known for the Old
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Man of the Lake. a full-sized tree that's been bobbing
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in the water for over a century. As a result
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of the low temperatures of the lake, the decomposition of
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the wood has been slowed considerably. Crater Lake is sacred
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to the Klamath tribe, the Native Americans indigenous to the area.
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Generations ago, they told of it being the crossing point
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between Skel, a spirit from above, and Lau, a spirit
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from below. Andrea Langford, author of Haunted Hikes, Spine-tingling Tales
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and Trails from North America's National Parks writes this of
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Crater Lake. Lau and Skell fought gory battles here. Lau
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ripped Skell's heart from his chest, and Skell retaliated by
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dismembering Lau and throwing the body parts into the lake.
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Hideous monsters gobbled up everything but Lau's head, but the
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lake still holds Lau's spirit. When stirred, he may brew
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up storm clouds. When angered, he may appear in the
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form of a giant crayfish that climbs up out of
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the lake snatches people off the rim of the crater
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that surrounds the lake and drags them down into the water. So,
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now that we know what Crater Lake is, how it
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was formed, and what it represents to the indigenous tribes
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of the area, let us look into the first disappearance,
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that of little Sammy Bulkey. In the early afternoon of
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October 14, 2006, Sammy Bulkey, aged 8, was playing near
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the Cleetwood Cove area in Crater Lake National Park with
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his father, Kenneth Bulkey, 48. Sammy disappeared into the woods
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after running up a cinder slope. Despite his passion for life,
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Sammy was stubborn at times. Also, as a result of
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having a mild form of autism, he was terrified of
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loud noises and bright lights. At the time of his disappearance,
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Sammy stood 4 feet 11 inches tall, weighed 85 pounds,
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and had short brown hair and brown eyes. The last
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time he was seen, he was wearing a long-sleeved black
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and green t-shirt, jeans, a blue coat, and red suede
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slip-on shoes with rubber soles. While the little boy did
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have camping experience, he had no formal wilderness survival training
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given his young age. At around 4 p.m. that day,
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the Bulkey family had pulled over at a pullout 500
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yards east of the Cleetwood Cove parking lot area and
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were walking north along Rim Drive. Sammy and his father
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were playing hide-and-seek on a gravel slope. and Sammy saw
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some yellow that he thought might be gold. Sammy stayed
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on the slope, refusing to come down, and as darkness approached,
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his father walked a short distance to their car to
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return to their Diamond Lake cabin. Kenny Bulkey chased after Sammy,
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but Sammy stayed at least 50 feet ahead, likely considering
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it a game. I never caught up with him, his
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father said, and at that point he disappeared over the
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top somewhere and I lost him. Within a matter of hours,
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more than 200 people were combing an area of about
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6 square miles, or 4,000 acres. Dogs, helicopters, and heat-sensing
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cameras were used to search for the boy for a week,
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but he was never found. Authorities said a helicopter crew
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spotted some tracks, but they turned out to be most
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likely animal tracks. After that, the search continued intermittently despite
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heavy snowfalls in the area. 7,000 feet above sea level,
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the park gets more than 500 inches of snow per year.
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Although it was unlikely Sammy would have fallen into the
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lake because of obstacles on the slope, technical climbing crews
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searched the slopes from the rim of the caldera down
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to the shoreline. Participating in the search were SAR teams
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from Jackson, Klamath, and Deschutes counties, National Park Service searchers,
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and trackers from California, Washington, and Oregon. Mount Hood and
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Mount Rainier rescue teams were also involved, as well as
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volunteers consisting of employees from the Bureau of Land Management
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and the U.S. Forest Service. It seems more than a
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little odd that a boy of Sammy's age who was
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just slightly autistic would run off into the woods without
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any reason at all and continue going until he was
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out of sight and hearing range of his father. Because
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it was cold, his first instinct we would think would
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be to turn around and return to his dad, especially
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if he was calling for him, no matter how long
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he'd been hidden from him. Sadly, no trace was ever found,
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and Sammy remains missing. Next up, we have the strange
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disappearance of Derek Ingebretson. East of the Cascade Range in
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south-central Oregon lies Upper Klamath Lake, a large, shallow freshwater lake.
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Pelican Butte rises over 3,800 feet above the shore of
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Crater Lake and is a steep-sided dormant volcano located 28
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miles south of the crater. Sometime in the afternoon on
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December 5th, 1998, Derek Ingebretson, His father, Robert, and his grandfather, Bob, 64,
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set out for a densely wooded mountainside above Upper Klamath Lake,
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about 30 miles north of Klamath Falls. They planned to
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find a Christmas tree for the holiday season. Derek was
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lost and never seen again. Because of his love of
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the outdoors, Derek was known as Bear Boy, even at
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the age of eight. A week after he was born,
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his mother carried him on a bear hunt in a pack.
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In his youth, he hunted with his father and picked
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mushrooms with his mother's father. On several of his mushroom
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expedition outings, he had visited Pelican Butte in the past.
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The Ingebrigtsen family did not plan to go Christmas tree
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hunting that year in the woods, although Robert looked forward
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to a family Christmas tree hunt every year. It was
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his wife Lori who convinced him to use an artificial
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tree that year. Lori wanted to keep the mess to
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a minimum, but when a disabled neighbor asked for a tree,
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Robert decided to go into the woods. Bob remembers telling
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the group that since it was already 2 p.m., it
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would be dark around 4 p.m. since it was late
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in the year, and he was driving along West Side
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Road in his red Toyota pickup. On his way to
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Rocky Point Resort, Bob pulled into a turnout at milepost 12.
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The three of them climbed up an embankment into a
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pine forest, and Robert helped Derek get into his blue snowsuit.
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Derek walked behind Robert, who told him to stay with
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his grandfathers. Derek nagged his grandfather that he wanted to
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catch up with his dad as he chopped up small
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trees with his hatchet. At some point, the grandfather relented
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and the boy headed off in search of his father.
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With the darkness closing in, Robert and Bob met back
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up and asked each other, Where's Derek? Robert recalls asking.
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Grandpa Bob replied, I thought he was with you. No,
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he was with you. Despite the steady falling of heavy
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wet snow, Robert turned on his heels and went back
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up the hill. He called out to Derek, but no
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response came. Robert then flagged down a man named Fred Hines,
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a motorist who was driving along at about 4.13 p.m.,
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and requested he dial 911 so the authorities could be notified.
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In the resort, two miles away from the area where
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Derek vanished, Hines made the call. Over the course of
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two weeks, hundreds of people searched through several feet of snow,
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using snowmobiles and dogs to search for Derek. Lori slept
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in a donated camper van at the turnout, hoping Derek
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might see the bonfire and come to her. Once, she
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thought she saw Derek waving and smiling at her. However,
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it turned out she was just delirious from lack of sleep.
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Derek's tracks were found by Robert, his dad, and other
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members of the family in the newly fallen snow in
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the hours immediately following his disappearance. Apparently, Derek had laid
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down in a clearing near the road to make a
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snow angel, but his boot prints were spotted near the
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spot where Robert had last seen him. There had been
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a snow plow that came by, and sadly, the tracks
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leading away from the angel were obliterated. There were no
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tracks leading towards the woods from the snow angel. A
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small area of trees near the road was damaged by
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Derek's hatchet cuts. His father was confident that his son
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did not re-enter the woods. Early in the evening, five
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to eight inches of snow had fallen on the point.
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A candy wrapper was found and a makeshift lean-to shelter
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was found made out of branches, but it was unclear
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whether the candy wrapper or the lean-to were the handiwork
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of Derek. Derek's family believed that he had made his
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way to the road and was probably picked up by
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a stranger, although this explanation was, for some reason, dismissed
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by the sheriff. Bob discovered a hole in the ice
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and a child's footprint on the bank during the search.
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The next day, however, divers searched this area and additional
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searches were carried out during the spring thaw. However, nothing
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was found. Lori and Robert were informed, sadly, by the
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Klamath County authorities that their son was most likely deceased.
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eight days after he disappeared. During the next seven days, Robert, Lori,
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and about 100 volunteers stayed on the mountain. Speculation intensified
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that Derek had been kidnapped. When sub-zero temperatures forced the
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Ingebretsons to end their search on December 18, 1998, Robert
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drove straight from his graveyard shift at work to the
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mountain to meet Lori every weekend for the next two years.
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These search areas were marked on a map by the couple.
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It was widely believed that the authorities were too slow
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to arrive at the scene the night Derek disappeared, which
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led to criticism of the search and rescue effort. The
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search did not begin in earnest until nearly five hours
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after the first 911 call because the coordinator was reluctant
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to interrupt a Christmas dinner at Molly's Restaurant for the
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annual award dinner of the Klamath County Search and Rescue
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Team before he was certain a rescue was needed. Despite
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passing polygraphs, Robert and Grandpa Bob remained suspects in Derek's case,
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and at least thought to have been negligent in some way.
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Despite the grandfather's insistence, Robert no longer spoke to him.
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The blame for not finding Derek did indeed go to
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the father, but the father, felt to blame for losing him,
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went to Grandpa Bob. Ingebrigtsen was too overwhelmed with guilt
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to even think of talking about it. Robert took leave
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of work for several weeks, and Derek's family spent thousands
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of dollars looking for him. They even paid for psychics
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and a boat to search Klamath Lake. They eventually went
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bankrupt due to these efforts. The authorities claimed that Derek
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had simply wandered off into the woods and died, and
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his remains had been scattered by animals. However, the Ingebrigtsen
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family never really believed that, especially since no remains, torn clothing,
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nothing was ever found. There was even a witness who
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said he had seen a man and a boy struggling
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on a highway nearby. Then, in 1999, strange graffiti was
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found scrawled on a rest area bathroom near Burns, stating
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that Derek had been killed and buried. It was later
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ruled a cruel hoax by the FBI. A boy named
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Derek was found in Texas under unusual circumstances, and he
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looked a lot like the Ingebretsons' son, but was actually
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a different person. Then, later on in 2000, after several
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days of waiting for confirmation, A bone discovered in Pelican
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Butte was identified as being from a deer. In 2001,
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the family mailbox received a handwritten letter. The letter read,
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I know who took your son. On July 11, 2000,
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Frank J. Milligan, 31-year-old state youth authority worker, approached a
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10-year-old boy at a Dallas park and offered him $ 100
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to mow his lawn. In Milligan's car, the man asked
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the boy, Do you want to live or die? Milligan
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bound the boy's hands with duct tape and then forced
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him to walk down a dirt road where he assaulted him.
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After this vicious assault, Miller left the boy for dead.
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Despite the odds, the boy woke up covered in his
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own blood and got to a road where a passing
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motorist stopped to help him. In this letter to the
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police and the Ingebretsons, admitted that Milligan had confessed to
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doing away with Derek. The letter arrived at the Ingebretson
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home in late 2001. In another letter that arrived at
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the home in 2001, Milligan's cellmate claimed that Milligan had
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admitted to him that he had been the one that
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ended young Derek's life. A detective from the Oregon State
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Police who investigated the Dallas case confronted Milligan. Milligan reportedly
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confessed to the crime and agreed to lead investigators to
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the body. The FBI used ground-penetrating radar to scam for
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bones at Silver Falls State Park southeast of Salem, Oregon,
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where Lori and Robert drove for five hours. There were
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no results after several days of searching. An assistant district
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attorney told the Ingebrigtsen that Milligan had agreed to plead
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guilty to killing the young boy if they spared him
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the death penalty. However, after Milligan was presented with the
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paperwork a few days later, he refused to sign the confession.
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Was Derek Ingebrigtsen abducted by Frank Milligan or someone else,
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as the police believed? Or did he simply die from
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the cold or maybe even an animal attack? This mysterious
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case remains unsolved. Next up, Charles McCuller, the Melting Man
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of Crater Lake. January 7th, 1975. 18-year-old aspiring photographer Charles
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McCuller was a free spirit at heart. He was living
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in Virginia when he decided there was so much to
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explore in national parks across the United States. Charles was
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said to be very reliable and kept in close contact
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with his family, even on the long trips that he
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liked to take. Deciding to put more effort into his
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photography and wanting to visit a friend in Oregon, Charles
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packed a small backpack and left everything else behind, even
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his beloved Volkswagen bus. He would make his way across
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the country with the occasional bus ride, but mostly by hitchhiking.
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He wanted to see all the national parks in the
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United States, and one of those parks, in particular, caught
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his attention. Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. It was
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a convenient place for him to start, as his friend
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lived nearby. Very little facts surround this case, and Charles passed,
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so why he decided to leave at the very moment
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he did is still unclear. What was clear, however, by
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a conversation he had with his father, was that Charles
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wanted something different, and he was going to start his
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search at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Charles McCullough
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would leave Virginia the very next day. Sadly, this would
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be the last time his family would ever see him.
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January 8th, 1975, mostly hitchhiking across the United States, Charles'
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first significant stop was in Yuma, Arizona. Between January 16th
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and the 22nd of that year, he had regular contact
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with his parents, calling often to check in and update
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them on his progress and future plans. On January 29th,
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Charles placed one more call to his parents to let
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them know he had made it to Eugene, Oregon and
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was staying with his friend. This was the last call
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the McCullers would receive from their son. He told his
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friends that he would be staying at Crater Lake for
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two days because he wanted to photograph the area's winter
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landscape and that if he wasn't back by February 1st
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to send help. This was the last contact Charles' friends
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ever had with him. It was reported during the search
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several people saw Charles around the Diamond Lake area on
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the 29th and a man that was cutting trees close
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to the park had picked Charles up and dropped him
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off near the park entrance. Not being from the area,
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Charles wasn't well versed with the terrain he planned to photograph.
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The winter months at Crater Lake can be very and
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unexpectedly harsh for the ill-prepared. In fact, it's not rare
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for the area to see several feet of snow from
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one storm. And at the time of Charles' disappearance, The
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weather report for Crater Lake stated there was 24 to
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90 inches on the ground with snow drifts of over
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20 feet. Temperatures at that time were well below freezing,
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dipping down into the teens at night and just over
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freezing during the day. Wind gusts themselves hampered search and
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rescue efforts, which were compounded and made worse with the
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blowing snow. February 1st had came and went and there
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was no word from Charles. He was reported missing by
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his friends that day. The search for Charles McCullough was
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underway at a rapid pace. The teams knew they had
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to make haste as the weather was already bad and
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was getting worse and wouldn't hold for very long as
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there was a storm forecast for that night which called
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for more heavy snow and gale-force winds up to 60 mph.
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Ground and aerial searches lasted for that day and into
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the night and early morning hours of February 2nd. The
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search was called off around 2 a.m. due to worsening
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weather conditions. The search continued intermittently over the next several days,
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although with a scaled-down number of searchers, again due to
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the weather conditions. Local police didn't contact the McCullers until
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February 10th, to notify them about their son's disappearance. Also
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notified at the same time was the FBI. Both Charles'
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parents and the FBI made their way to the park
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and joined in the search efforts. The efforts were still slow, though,
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as the snowdrifts from the latest storm were 12 feet
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deep or more, making it almost impossible to even find
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where Charles' camp may have been located. The initial search
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lasted for months without any sign of him being found whatsoever.
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Charles' father stayed at Crater Lake, camping by the shoreline
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throughout that spring and summer, tirelessly looking for his son. Sadly,
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he never found anything. A full year and a half later,
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two hikers that were on the Pacific Crest Trail made
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a long turn and ended up 12 miles into a
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remote and boggy area of the park where they came
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upon a thread-bearing backpack that contained, among other things, a
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Volkswagen key. The hikers marked the area with a piece
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of clothing, then made their way to the ranger station
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and informed them of what they had found, showing them
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the area where to go on a map they had marked.
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While going through the contents of the bag, the hikers
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made a remark about the strange-shaped key that had been found.
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A part-time park ranger that had been part of the
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initial search for Charles, named Marion Jack, happened to be
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at the ranger station that day and overheard the conversation.
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His curiosity aroused, he walked over to the men and
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looked at the key. He remembered the flyers that were
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made when Charles went missing and one of the photos
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on the flyer was of the key. It turned out
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to be an important piece of evidence, one they could
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link to Charles McCullough. A new search party was formed
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and from the information given by the hikers, they trekked
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into Sphagnum Bog, an area that was a full 12
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miles off trail of where Charles was supposed to have been.
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The key that was found was later matched to the
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one Charles owned. Further searches would turn up a mysterious
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scene indeed. Charles' remains were found in a state of
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undress and only his lower half was left. His jeans
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were unbuttoned and his belt undone. His legs were broken
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at the shin bones and they were sticking straight up.
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His socks contained his feet bones. The only other part
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of the body that was found was the crown of
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his skull and it was over 10 feet away from
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the other parts of his body. It was as if
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his upper body simply melted away. His camera equipment, along
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with his money, boots, coat, and shirt were all missing
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just as was the rest of him. The creepiest part
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was his jeans were found in a sitting position on
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a falling log. It was as if he had just
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been sitting, staring at the lake when the unthinkable happened.
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Some have speculated that Charles McCullough was suffering from hypothermia,
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which caused a condition known as paradoxical undressing. This condition
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happens when the core body temperature drops below 94 degrees
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Celsius and because of the heat loss, victims begin to
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think they are too hot. They start removing their clothing
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to alleviate the heat, when in reality, they are freezing
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to death all the more faster. This theory would explain
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his missing clothes, but what about the money and the
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camera equipment? And what happened to the other half of
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his remains? How did he get a full 12 miles
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into this bog and snow that was over 100 inches deep?
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And why was the FBI called in to search for Charles?
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In 2016, Stephen McCullough wrote an article on his brother's case.
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It reads, quote, If only those broken shin bones could
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have talked to us. What do you think they would say?
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I bet they'd say something like this. I hitched a
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ride with this creepy guy who stole my camera equipment
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and money and then took my life. Then on a
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clear day in the dead of winter, he hauled my
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body into the remotest part of Crater Lake, took my
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shirt and boots off, and set me up on a
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log and left. figuring the animals would destroy the evidence
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by spring. And hey, I guess it worked, because the
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cops ruled the death to be from natural causes. My
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dad doesn't buy it, though. At the time of this recording,
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there have been no new developments in the sad case
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of Charles McCullough. Next up, a 70-year-old mystery in Crater
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Lake National Park. On July 21st, 1952, while searching for
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missing United Service Motors executives on a beautiful sunny summer's
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day at Crater Lake National Park, a group of part-time
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park workers found the bodies of the two men who
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had been murdered, execution style. Their neckties had been used
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as gags and remained in their mouths. Could this case
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have been solved 70 years ago? First, let's take a
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look at who they were. The men found on the
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trail that day were 53-year-old Charles Patrick Culhaney of Detroit, Michigan,
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and 56-year-old Albert Marston Jones of San Francisco, California. Both
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men were United Service Motor Executives, an ancillary company of
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General Motors. The men were at Crater Lake National Park
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to do some sightseeing and have a relaxing day. They'd
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been in town attending meetings in Klamath Falls for the company.
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Both men wanted to do some fishing at the Union
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Creek area, and had made plans to meet up with
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business associates John Vaughn, Frank Everland, and Everland's 13-year-old son.
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The fishing trip would be later in the day, as
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Vaughn and Everland had to work a half-day before they
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could close the shop. As the local men made their
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way to the fishing spot, they passed the South Park
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entrance around 3 p.m. and saw Albert Jones' car, a
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1951 green Pontiac, sitting on the side of the road
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on Highway 62. This was near the Annie Creek Canyon area.
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Jones and Cohaney weren't in the car, nor around the area.
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As Vaughn and Everland pulled up alongside the car, they
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could see the passenger door ajar, which seemed to be
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off to them. Exiting their vehicle, they called out for
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Jones and Cohaney, but never got an answer. Luggage could
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be seen from the window, as well as a camera
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sitting on the seat and the car keys still hung
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from the ignition. Vaughn touched the hood of the car
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and found it to still be warm. The three men
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stood around talking for a bit, waiting for the others
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to possibly return. Around an hour later, and having searched
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a little in the meted area, two of the three
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men left to go call for help, while the third
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remained with the car just in case they returned. While
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the two men were gone, Eberlin, who was waiting at
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the car, heard another car approaching. He says one car
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came through crunching gravel, then really took off fast. I
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didn't think much about it at the time, but now
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I wonder if that was them, and they were returning
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to the car and saw someone inside it, and adios,
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let's get out of here. Once alerted, rangers started a
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search that day for the missing men. One of the
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searchers that day was a man named Rex Ash, and
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he was the one who found the bodies. We were
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working west from the highway, all spread out about 20
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feet apart, he recalls. I thought, oh lordy, there they are.
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It was a really hot summer day, and they had
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started to bloat. I'd never seen a dead body before.
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Ash alerted the other searchers to the find, and they
469
00:27:42.650 --> 00:27:45.869
all came rushing over. It was a bunch of kids,
470
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and everyone was gathering around to see what was happening,
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Ash went on to say. We might have accidentally destroyed
472
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some of the evidence. We didn't touch anything, but we
473
00:27:54.819 --> 00:27:58.000
tore up the terrain quite a bit. One member of
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the search crew took his camera out and started taking pictures.
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He stepped over Jones and Culhaney and around them and
476
00:28:03.730 --> 00:28:06.910
practically got in their faces. He had plans to sell
477
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these to a true crime magazine and make a fortune.
478
00:28:09.910 --> 00:28:13.509
but fortunately the FBI took them away, recalled John Owings,
479
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another one of the searchers. Owings and Ash were tasked
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with staying with the bodies until officials could arrive. We
481
00:28:20.869 --> 00:28:23.369
were sitting there, scared to death, wondering which one of
482
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us was going to be next, Owings recounted. It was
483
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one of the worst nights of my life. Ash and
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Owings finished out the summer at the park and returned
485
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to their respective homes. On Monday, July 21st, 1952, at 3.27 p.m.,
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An FBI agent and Oregon State Police Private L.W. Herron
487
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arrived at the murder scene and took over the investigation.
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Culhaney was the first to be processed. He was laying
489
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on his back, legs out, and right arm across his chest.
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His dentures were in his shirt pocket. He had been
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shot once in the back of his head. In addition
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to the gunshot wound, his groin area was bruised. Jones'
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fate was similar. He was also on his back. feet
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towards Culhaney, arms by his side, bruised groin, and a
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single gunshot wound to the back of his head. What
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set Jones' injuries apart from Culhaney was his skull was fractured.
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Both men were shoeless, but their socked feet were clean.
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Their ties had been used as gags. Also, both men
499
00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:27.220
had been robbed as their watches and money was missing,
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and one man's pair of shoes were nowhere to be found.
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Few other clues were found at the scene. State Trooper Herron,
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who has since passed away, was, quote, fascinated by the
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00:29:38.140 --> 00:29:41.430
case and worked on it initially. until the FBI took over.
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He talked about it and looked into it for a
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couple of years, end quote. Now that's according to his wife,
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Ruth Herron, now 77 and still living in Klamath Falls.
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Herron had suspected the killers were a couple of men
508
00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:56.779
named John Wesley Cole and Kenneth Moore, both of Chiloquin.
509
00:29:58.180 --> 00:30:01.269
A few years before the Jones-Kulhaney murders, Moore had been
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00:30:01.289 --> 00:30:04.009
convicted of tying up and robbing two trappers in the woods.
511
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A woman came forward with a story saying that Moore
512
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had confessed to the murders and had told her late husband.
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This was according to OSP reports. Justice would come swift
514
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and harsh to Cole and Moore if they were, in fact,
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guilty of the murders. They were both found frozen to
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00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:25.079
death in Klamath County in 1962, however. Aaron had suspected
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00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:27.200
the two men because they were outlaws around that area
518
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at the time that the Culhaney and Jones murders occurred.
519
00:30:31.779 --> 00:30:34.539
Days after the murders, the police talked to over 200
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00:30:34.539 --> 00:30:36.980
park employees and took statements from several people that had
521
00:30:37.009 --> 00:30:40.750
been in the area. One of those people was Lincoln Lenz.
522
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His initial report read he, Lenz, was driving canned goods
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00:30:44.990 --> 00:30:47.069
to the lodge that he drove a truck for on
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July 19, 1952. He says he saw two men wearing
525
00:30:51.410 --> 00:30:54.630
work clothes with two other men that were described as
526
00:30:54.809 --> 00:30:58.269
white-collar types. The men were being led into the woods
527
00:30:58.309 --> 00:31:01.640
where the executives were later found dead. As he continued
528
00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:03.829
down the road toward the lodge, he heard what he
529
00:31:03.869 --> 00:31:08.369
described as two firecracker-type bangs. Later that day, Lenz was
530
00:31:08.450 --> 00:31:12.089
followed and harassed by two scruffy-looking men, who also followed
531
00:31:12.130 --> 00:31:16.009
him the next day. This is what made him surmise
532
00:31:16.029 --> 00:31:18.970
they were the killers. Lenz gave a description of the men.
533
00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:22.180
The older one was the most distinctive. He wore a
534
00:31:22.220 --> 00:31:25.220
beaded belt that appeared to spell out Ralph. He had
535
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:27.900
a tattoo of a bikini-clad female on his right forearm,
536
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:31.799
and he was missing a finger. Lentz said the FBI
537
00:31:31.839 --> 00:31:34.880
dismissed the story and called him a smart aleck. If
538
00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:36.589
the FBI had come back to me, I could have
539
00:31:36.630 --> 00:31:38.569
showed them even where the killer's car had been parked
540
00:31:38.609 --> 00:31:41.130
and beer cans that might have had their fingerprints, he recounted.
541
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He was able to remember more details after the initial interview.
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00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:47.700
After the lodge had closed in the fall and I
543
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:50.400
returned to the University of Oregon, I tried to contact
544
00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:53.769
the agent several more times. They never returned my calls,
545
00:31:53.990 --> 00:31:56.029
possibly because they thought it was impossible for me to
546
00:31:56.069 --> 00:31:58.450
see them walking those guys into the forest and hearing
547
00:31:58.470 --> 00:32:00.890
the gunshots, even though the area was a quarter of
548
00:32:00.930 --> 00:32:04.859
a mile off the highway. Two days after the murders,
549
00:32:05.339 --> 00:32:08.759
a man that gave a fake identification, J.D. Harney, that
550
00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:12.420
supposedly lived at 536 Plum Street in Medford, Oregon, made
551
00:32:12.460 --> 00:32:15.539
a long-distance call from a payphone at the Southern Pacific
552
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:19.559
Railroad Depot at 1.15 p.m. He asked the operator to
553
00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:21.809
put the call through the garage, the only one in
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00:32:21.869 --> 00:32:26.109
Fort Klamath, a small community near Crater Lake. The operator
555
00:32:26.150 --> 00:32:29.069
contacted the FBI after hearing of the murders to let
556
00:32:29.089 --> 00:32:31.289
them know about the strange phone call and the even
557
00:32:31.329 --> 00:32:34.630
stranger request made by the caller. She recounted that the
558
00:32:34.650 --> 00:32:37.390
man seemed rather angry, like he wanted to take my
559
00:32:37.430 --> 00:32:39.619
head off, because she wasn't able to put the call
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00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:44.559
through until 1.45 later that afternoon. The business, called Wilmer Garage,
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00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:47.970
was closed until then. When he finally got through to
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00:32:47.990 --> 00:32:50.150
the garage, he told the owners that a friend of
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00:32:50.210 --> 00:32:52.880
his named Jones was in the hospital and needed his
564
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:54.799
car picked up from the park and stored at their
565
00:32:54.819 --> 00:32:57.160
garage until he got out. He said the keys were
566
00:32:57.180 --> 00:33:00.200
in the ignition. The police quickly descended on the area
567
00:33:00.220 --> 00:33:03.400
where the call was placed from, but no one was there. However,
568
00:33:03.500 --> 00:33:05.630
a train depot worker was able to give a description
569
00:33:05.650 --> 00:33:09.289
of the caller. He was around 5'7, sandy-colored hair, slender,
570
00:33:09.710 --> 00:33:11.630
and was wearing a brightly colored shirt that was yellow
571
00:33:11.670 --> 00:33:14.730
and red with short sleeves. The police checked out the
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00:33:14.769 --> 00:33:17.509
name and address the caller gave, but both were fake.
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00:33:18.210 --> 00:33:20.950
Fingerprints were taken from the receiver and the coins inside
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00:33:20.970 --> 00:33:26.200
the phone, however, no one was ever identified. In 1994,
575
00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:27.940
the granddaughter of one of the murdered men had a
576
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:31.019
different take on what happened. While going through her late
577
00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:34.799
mother's belongings, she discovered two letters that were written but unsent.
578
00:33:35.539 --> 00:33:38.019
One stated that she, the daughter, thought it was an
579
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:42.509
organized hit. The letter read, I think they, the Santos gang,
580
00:33:42.950 --> 00:33:45.329
saw the fancy car and it was a case of robbery.
581
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:47.900
even though people say there is more to it than that.
582
00:33:48.579 --> 00:33:51.759
I just don't think so. I think it was Jack Santo,
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00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.539
Emmett Perkins, and Barbara Graham and their gang. Their method
584
00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:59.259
of operation fits, and their motive was always robbery. This
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00:33:59.299 --> 00:34:04.579
particular gang was executed in 1955 for other murders. Retired
586
00:34:04.660 --> 00:34:07.960
Medford police officer Bob Allen said, The FBI swooped in
587
00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:09.829
and took over the case because it happened in a
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00:34:09.869 --> 00:34:13.070
national park. All they could do was speculate about why
589
00:34:13.090 --> 00:34:16.159
and who had committed such a crime. It just doesn't
590
00:34:16.179 --> 00:34:19.610
sound like anyone from around here, Allen said. The town's
591
00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:21.989
worst crime up to that point were safe robbers and
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00:34:22.050 --> 00:34:26.789
bad check writers. Last spring, Cheryl Owsey, 47, was taking
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00:34:26.829 --> 00:34:29.289
class at Rogue Community College when she heard about the
594
00:34:29.309 --> 00:34:31.840
Crater Lake murders and decided to write a paper on them.
595
00:34:32.579 --> 00:34:36.199
She spent over three months investigating the deaths. Her extensive
596
00:34:36.219 --> 00:34:38.380
report is now part of the files of the Southern
597
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:43.510
Oregon Historical Society. Clahaney was a big muckety-muck with the company,
598
00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:46.380
and there were problems with the union back then. It
599
00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:49.530
was a hit. She gave the presentation on the murders
600
00:34:49.590 --> 00:34:53.429
at the Klamath County Museum. A little over 30 seniors
601
00:34:53.530 --> 00:34:56.389
showed up. The last man to walk in was what
602
00:34:56.429 --> 00:34:59.730
was described as a suspicious-looking man in a long shirt,
603
00:34:59.789 --> 00:35:02.989
she said. Pousy's friend noticed the man because the way
604
00:35:03.030 --> 00:35:06.630
he studied the names in the guestbook so intensely, and
605
00:35:06.809 --> 00:35:11.190
he was missing a finger. As of this recording, the
606
00:35:11.210 --> 00:35:16.880
Crater Lake murders remain unsolved. Last up, we have the
607
00:35:16.940 --> 00:35:20.639
legend of the missing prospector. The story of the lost
608
00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:24.250
cabin mine, the cabin, and a prospector known as Set
609
00:35:24.309 --> 00:35:26.610
Em Up is a legend about an area of land
610
00:35:26.670 --> 00:35:28.989
not too far from Crater Lake where it was said
611
00:35:29.050 --> 00:35:32.230
that the man named Set Em Up had successful prospects
612
00:35:32.269 --> 00:35:35.150
of the gold rush that was hitting the area. The legend,
613
00:35:35.590 --> 00:35:38.230
as recited by a group of California prospectors from days
614
00:35:38.250 --> 00:35:42.219
gone by, was told like this. The argument over the
615
00:35:42.260 --> 00:35:44.940
first white man to discover Crater Lake has been disputed
616
00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:48.079
for years. In the 1840s, it was said to have
617
00:35:48.099 --> 00:35:51.000
been discovered by John C. Fremont, while others claim it
618
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:55.440
wasn't until 1853. At that time, Oregon's first major gold
619
00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:58.340
rush had hit the area, and prospectors came from all around,
620
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.940
chomping at the bit to find their riches. Having already
621
00:36:01.980 --> 00:36:05.400
found the Jackson Creek area, new prospectors pushed further into
622
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:09.059
the wilderness looking for a rumored lost cabin mine that
623
00:36:09.099 --> 00:36:11.719
was said to be chock full of gold. A group
624
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:13.659
of men from California owned a plot of land that
625
00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:15.539
said to have a small cabin and a gold mine
626
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:18.599
that produced a lot of gold on it. One day,
627
00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:21.059
the Oregon men that owned the land came under attack
628
00:36:21.099 --> 00:36:23.980
by local natives and to protect their gold, buried a
629
00:36:24.019 --> 00:36:26.090
hoard of it to keep the natives from taking it.
630
00:36:26.860 --> 00:36:29.809
Three of the four men were killed. The lone survivor
631
00:36:29.889 --> 00:36:32.550
was said to have divulged certain landmarks to set him up,
632
00:36:33.130 --> 00:36:37.030
leading to where the cabin and buried treasure were. Soon after,
633
00:36:37.050 --> 00:36:39.690
the man gave the information out and he disappeared as well.
634
00:36:40.469 --> 00:36:42.690
Neither man has ever been found, and the cabin and
635
00:36:42.730 --> 00:36:46.769
mine's whereabouts are still a mystery to this day. Years later,
636
00:36:46.789 --> 00:36:49.690
a group of prospectors, also from California, were relaxing in
637
00:36:49.730 --> 00:36:52.489
a local saloon one night, telling stories of their successes
638
00:36:52.570 --> 00:36:55.250
and drinking their fill of whiskey. One of the men,
639
00:36:55.650 --> 00:36:58.050
having had consumed more than needed to loosen his lips,
640
00:36:58.329 --> 00:37:00.829
was telling his group about the legend of the lost miner,
641
00:37:00.989 --> 00:37:03.610
the cabin and the gold mine, and the riches contained
642
00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:06.360
at the mine as well as the cabin. The miner
643
00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:08.480
was said to return to town with pockets full of
644
00:37:08.539 --> 00:37:12.949
gold from prospecting the area. The miner, only known as Set-Em-Up,
645
00:37:13.309 --> 00:37:15.409
because that was how he always greeted people when he
646
00:37:15.449 --> 00:37:18.409
came into the local saloon, was rumored to have a
647
00:37:18.449 --> 00:37:20.869
cabin with maps of the missing mine and a loot
648
00:37:20.889 --> 00:37:24.150
of gold within. When the old miner would need something,
649
00:37:24.409 --> 00:37:26.219
he would come to town with pockets full of gold
650
00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:30.039
nuggets from his secret mine. The man also spoke about
651
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:34.139
Set-Em-Up having gone missing under strange circumstances. He was headed
652
00:37:34.179 --> 00:37:36.079
off into the woods with a couple of shady characters
653
00:37:36.099 --> 00:37:40.070
from Jacksonville that were known thieves. Sitting not too far
654
00:37:40.130 --> 00:37:43.090
from the California men, a local prospecting group overheard the
655
00:37:43.110 --> 00:37:46.550
man's tale and took notice. Glancing at each other from
656
00:37:46.590 --> 00:37:48.929
around the table as they tossed back a strong shot
657
00:37:48.969 --> 00:37:52.150
of whiskey, the men leaned into each other and quietly
658
00:37:52.230 --> 00:37:55.780
started to devise their plan. They would follow the Californians
659
00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:57.920
to the mine and, hey, if they found the old
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00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:00.840
man along the way, even better. They would be town
661
00:38:00.900 --> 00:38:02.960
heroes and maybe he would tell them where the mine
662
00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:07.289
was for their troubles of searching for him. This search
663
00:38:07.309 --> 00:38:09.360
for the lost mine and cabin would lead to the
664
00:38:09.380 --> 00:38:12.820
discovery of Crater Lake. But for now, both groups of
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00:38:12.860 --> 00:38:15.519
men had gold in their sights. They would look for
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00:38:15.539 --> 00:38:18.260
the missing prospector and his rumored loot, but little did
667
00:38:18.300 --> 00:38:21.099
they know, the journey they were about to embark upon
668
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:25.199
would almost cause them to become missing as well. Now,
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00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:28.800
the lost cabin mine wasn't exactly said to be specifically
670
00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:31.679
in the Crater Lake area. Other sources said it was
671
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:34.809
actually in California. The missing miner would return home to
672
00:38:34.869 --> 00:38:37.650
Jacksonville with his goal to throw off any would-be thieves
673
00:38:37.750 --> 00:38:41.269
or snoopy men looking to find his secret mine. But,
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00:38:41.489 --> 00:38:44.050
being as the California group had prospected all over that
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00:38:44.130 --> 00:38:46.789
state and found nothing that resembled the landscape said to
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00:38:46.849 --> 00:38:49.510
inhabit the lost cabin nor mine, they were convinced it
677
00:38:49.550 --> 00:38:52.630
was in Oregon, and specifically just a few miles from
678
00:38:52.650 --> 00:38:55.369
where they sat. It's said that as soon as the
679
00:38:55.389 --> 00:38:58.969
California group left for their search, the Oregon group collected
680
00:38:59.010 --> 00:39:01.489
provisions and set out hot on their trail to share
681
00:39:01.510 --> 00:39:04.719
in the imagined wealth. The Oregon party had 11 men,
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00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:08.039
and the California party had four. Not long after both
683
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:10.980
parties set out, they discovered each other, and it became
684
00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:14.219
a game of cat and mouse. The California group would
685
00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:16.650
cut through the thick brush, spread out from each other,
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00:39:16.909 --> 00:39:19.989
and then double back to confuse the Oregon group. The
687
00:39:20.030 --> 00:39:22.090
now large group of men had been searching for the
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00:39:22.130 --> 00:39:25.849
cabin and gold for days. Their provisions began to dwindle,
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00:39:26.190 --> 00:39:28.590
so a truce was called, and the men joined each
690
00:39:28.670 --> 00:39:31.960
other in order to survive. Realizing they had wandered off
691
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.619
their objective, but failing to realize just how far they
692
00:39:34.659 --> 00:39:36.760
were past where they wanted to be, they were getting
693
00:39:36.820 --> 00:39:39.880
dangerously close to the Rogue River. It was decided at
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00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:42.360
this point the healthier, stronger men in the group would
695
00:39:42.389 --> 00:39:45.590
forge ahead while the others turned back. When the men
696
00:39:45.610 --> 00:39:47.929
that were continuing left the camp, They had no way
697
00:39:47.969 --> 00:39:49.829
of knowing just how close one of them would come
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00:39:49.869 --> 00:39:52.550
to death that day and would watch another man die.
699
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:55.699
By riding on a small trail on a sloping mountain,
700
00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:57.800
one of the men soon came upon a rim of
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a lake thought to be Klamath Lake, but it was
702
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:03.519
actually Crater Lake. He was within feet of falling off
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the edge before his mule stopped. I was convinced that
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had I been on a blind mule, I would have
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ridden right over the edge to my death, Tillman stated.
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Each man looked on in wonder at the lake and
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stated how beautiful it was before making their way back
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into the forest. The men returned to camp and contemplated
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what to call the lake they had just found. Two
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names were chosen, Mysterious Lake and Deep Blue Lake, were
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the last of the two names chosen as a final name.
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The men documented their find by writing each of their
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names on a piece of paper and fixing the paper
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to a stick at the rim of the lake. It
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was decided they would return to Jacksonville, as they hadn't
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found the lost miner, the cabin, nor the gold. The
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men returned to Jacksonville the next day. Some were excited
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over the find of the lake, and others just didn't
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seem to care. By the time they had made it back,
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most of the men were so exhausted and famished they
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couldn't even call the direction of the lake. The other
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men just didn't care. A few years later, Hillman would
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return to the area where the lake had been discovered.
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He had agreed to take a group of people to
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see it, as word had spread by then, and people
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had become curious. Legend has it that as Hillman approached
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the edge of Crater Lake, This time his horse lost
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its balance and fell over the side. Hillman and the
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horse died at the scene. The lake had tried to
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claim him the first time he had come and was
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successful this time. A local Native American medicine man was
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quoted as saying, If that lake wants you, it will
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find a way to take you. It's cursed. Well friends,
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there you have it. What do you think of these
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strange true stories from Crater Lake? I look forward to
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your comments, but please keep it friendly and respectful. In
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the meanwhile, be good to yourselves and each other, and
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I'll see you just a little further down the trail.
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I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.
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Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument joined the prestigious ranks
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of national parks in August of 1982. President Ronald Reagan
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understood the importance of preserving the 110,000-acre area Mount St.
743
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Helens is a national park, but unlike most other national parks,
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it's maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
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Preservation of the area was deemed necessary to protect the geologic, ecologic,
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and cultural resources of the monument, allowing geologic forces and
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ecological succession to continue substantially unimpeded, as per the USDA
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Forest Service. Two years prior to the area being protected,
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the 140-year dormant volcano erupted, sending a blast wave that
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traveled at over 300 miles per hour. St. Helens' north
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face was destroyed, along with 200 square miles of forest.
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Fifty-seven people lost their lives. Afterwards, life slowly began to
753
00:42:55.619 --> 00:42:58.460
return to the area, the first thing being spiders and
754
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beetles just weeks after the blast. However, another life form
755
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may have escaped the crater in the form of a
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cryptid called Batsquatch. Yes, you heard correctly, Batsquatch. Soon, there
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would be sightings of the creature, and it would beg
758
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:18.300
the question, where did this thing come from? Batsquatch, which
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is a cross between a bat and Sasquatch, is said
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to reside in or on Mount St. Helens, using the
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thick forest as cover and shelter. Described as being six
762
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to eight feet tall, having a wolf-like snout, blue fur,
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glowing yellow or red eyes, sharp, serrated teeth, bird-like feet
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and bat-like wings spanning up to 50 feet. It's said
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those who've had the misfortune of encountering the beast were
766
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so frightened by the sighting, some refused to return to
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the area where they saw it. People who've had encounters
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with the strange creature equate the May of 1980 eruption
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of Mount St. Helens to the release of bat squats
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from the Earth's core, along with the molten rock that
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00:43:56.010 --> 00:43:59.050
caused devastation to much of the park and left that
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same devastation for hundreds of miles. Even here in St. Helens, Oregon,
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where I live, so named because you can see Mount St. Helens,
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which is across the river in Washington State, I've talked
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to some people that were living here at the time,
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and they told of how they didn't see the sun
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for weeks, and a fine ash covered everything. Now, one
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of the first sightings of this bat-squatch creature was reported
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by Brian Canfield. In the foothills of Mount Rainier, north
780
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of Mount St. Helens, in April of 1994, Brian Canfield
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was driving through Pierce County, Washington, when suddenly his truck died.
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While Canfield sat in his truck, scratching his head and
783
00:44:35.269 --> 00:44:37.570
figuring out how to get it started again, he recalled
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looking up and seeing a large creature land right in
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front of him. It was standing there, staring at me,
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like it was resting, like it didn't know what to think.
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I was scared. It raised the hair on me. I
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didn't feel threatened. I just felt out of place, Canfield recounted.
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He continues, After a few moments, the creature's fingers twitched.
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The wings began to unfold, wings that were as wide
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as the whole road, and it took off in the
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direction of Mount Rainier. The wings were so massive, the
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wind from the turbulence shook Canfield's truck. After a few moments,
794
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Canfield tried to start his truck up again, and it
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roared to life as if there had never been an issue.
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Brian Canfield continued on his way home and for the
797
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remainder of his trip never even stopped for traffic signals.
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Arriving home, Brian quickly grabbed a piece of paper and
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attempted to draw from memory what he could remember the creature.
800
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All the noise he was making woke his sleeping parents
801
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and they inquired as to why he was so wound
802
00:45:34.550 --> 00:45:37.030
up and that's when he told them what happened and
803
00:45:37.070 --> 00:45:40.659
what he saw. They insisted on Brian taking them to
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the area to look for clues as to what the
805
00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:44.789
thing could be and a neighbor even agreed to take
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the family back to the area using directions from Brian.
807
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When they arrived, though, there was no trace of Batsquatch.
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Interviews conducted by C.R. Roberts, the reporter that took the
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initial counts of Brian Canfield, stated he, Canfield, was just
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an average, normal kid. Brian Canfield was 18 years old
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at the time of encounter and not known to give
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in to flights of fancy. Roberts vouched for him after
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listening to the story, and Brian Canfield has what might
814
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be the best documented encounter with Batsquatch. However, there was
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a handful of other reported sightings. In 1998, an unnamed
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00:46:18.750 --> 00:46:22.380
man reported seeing two similar-looking creatures, one of which was
817
00:46:22.460 --> 00:46:24.820
injured after being struck by a logging truck on a
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trail in Mount St. Helens. In 2009, a group of
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hikers near Mount Shasta in California reported seeing a winged
820
00:46:31.900 --> 00:46:34.909
creature with a 50-foot wingspan fly from a crevasse in
821
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the mountain. In 2011, a man out for a walk
822
00:46:38.730 --> 00:46:41.550
with his dog reported seeing a blue-furred animal flying in
823
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the sky around where he was. and watched as it
824
00:46:44.059 --> 00:46:49.260
flew from sight. And perhaps the last known sighting in 2014,
825
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Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron, Ohio, reported an entire
826
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class seeing a giant black mass whip past their window
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with incredible speed. Since 2014, it seems as though there
828
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hadn't been many sightings of the blue-furred monster. Perhaps it
829
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did escape the depths of the ill-fated Mount St. Helens
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when she erupted, giving a chosen few the chance to
831
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see into a realm few will ever have the privilege to. Or, possibly,
832
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Batsquatch simply reveals itself to those it chooses. Whatever set
833
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of circumstances that brought the winged creature to our forest,
834
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one thing is for certain. Those that have seen Batsquatch
835
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will not soon forget the encounter. Another strange area on
836
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Mount St. Helens is Ape Canyon. This area was deeply
837
00:47:34.150 --> 00:47:37.389
affected by the eruption. It's located on the north face
838
00:47:37.409 --> 00:47:39.650
of the mountain, and Ape Canyon is popular with mountain
839
00:47:39.690 --> 00:47:44.070
bikers and hikers alike. Decades after the heavily scarred ground
840
00:47:44.110 --> 00:47:46.909
was able to host visitors, people began flocking to the
841
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area to enjoy the miles of trails Mount St. Helens
842
00:47:49.489 --> 00:47:53.210
has to offer. However, before the eruption that would disrupt
843
00:47:53.269 --> 00:47:56.210
Visitape Canyon once more for a while, there was an
844
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encounter between miners and ape men that caused people to
845
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:06.039
question what really happened. On July 16, 1924, a group
846
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of miners, Gabe Lefevre, Fred Beck, John Peterson, Marion Smith,
847
00:48:10.699 --> 00:48:13.619
and his son, Roy Smith, reported that they came under
848
00:48:13.659 --> 00:48:16.559
attack by a group of what they described as ape men.
849
00:48:17.420 --> 00:48:19.659
The miners told authorities that they came under siege by
850
00:48:19.699 --> 00:48:22.079
the creatures as they were attacked with stones being tossed
851
00:48:22.179 --> 00:48:24.719
at them from atop the mountain down into the gorge
852
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:27.579
where they were taking shelter in an old prospecting cabin.
853
00:48:28.380 --> 00:48:31.079
The men described the ape men as having long, thick,
854
00:48:31.179 --> 00:48:35.409
black fur, elongated ears that stuck straight up, four short,
855
00:48:35.449 --> 00:48:39.050
stubby toes, and walked upright like humans, weighing an estimated
856
00:48:39.050 --> 00:48:42.690
400 pounds plus. Known in the Bigfoot community as the
857
00:48:42.750 --> 00:48:45.960
Ape Canyon Attack, the five miners included a man, as
858
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:49.179
we mentioned, named Fred Beck. They'd gone to Ape Canyon
859
00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:53.139
to do some prospecting for gold. Working from sunup to sundown,
860
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:55.420
the men were forced to collect water from a nearby
861
00:48:55.460 --> 00:48:58.320
spring as it was the only water source. They also
862
00:48:58.449 --> 00:49:01.230
used the same spring for cleaning up and washing their clothing.
863
00:49:02.250 --> 00:49:04.349
One hot evening, the men returned to their cabin and,
864
00:49:04.469 --> 00:49:06.530
needing water, one of them headed to the spring to
865
00:49:06.570 --> 00:49:09.780
collect it. Having arrived at the spring, the man noticed
866
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:12.110
a rather large footprint that at first was thought to
867
00:49:12.130 --> 00:49:15.610
be a human footprint, but upon closer inspection, the man
868
00:49:15.650 --> 00:49:18.800
saw just how large the print was. He measured 19 inches.
869
00:49:20.030 --> 00:49:23.030
much too large to be that of any human. With that,
870
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:25.099
the man made his way back to the cabin and
871
00:49:25.139 --> 00:49:27.039
informed the other men as to what he had discovered
872
00:49:27.099 --> 00:49:29.800
at their only water source. Now, the other men were
873
00:49:29.820 --> 00:49:32.559
a little upset at the blatant disrespect of someone walking
874
00:49:32.579 --> 00:49:35.260
through their waterhole. They thought that, well, maybe their friend
875
00:49:35.300 --> 00:49:37.639
was tired and he'd gotten the measurement of the footprint wrong.
876
00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:41.420
Driven by anger at the encroachment, The men approached the spring,
877
00:49:41.679 --> 00:49:44.800
only to find the 19-inch footprint in the sand, just
878
00:49:44.860 --> 00:49:47.340
as their friend had reported. The men started to talk
879
00:49:47.380 --> 00:49:50.230
about other weird circumstances they had noticed over the last
880
00:49:50.269 --> 00:49:53.269
few days and just hadn't mentioned. Strange noises came from
881
00:49:53.289 --> 00:49:55.989
the mountain above the cabin. The men thought it must
882
00:49:56.050 --> 00:49:58.650
be the sounds of animals, but now the miners were
883
00:49:58.670 --> 00:50:01.980
convinced they were being stalked by something. The footprint that
884
00:50:02.179 --> 00:50:04.260
brought all the other clues over the past few days
885
00:50:04.300 --> 00:50:07.139
together was a single print, as if whatever had left
886
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.420
it had dropped from the sky and went back up,
887
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one miner recounted to the local newspaper. Then came the
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00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:15.679
thumping sounds, as if something was beating on its chest
889
00:50:15.780 --> 00:50:18.199
that the men began to hear. This really set the
890
00:50:18.239 --> 00:50:21.440
miners on edge. After the thumping noises would come what
891
00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:24.139
was described as a shrill whistling that seemed to come
892
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from everywhere. At this point, they were too scared to
893
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fetch water alone. The miners would go in pairs to
894
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venture to the spring. On one occasion, Fred Beck was
895
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asked by Hank, one of the other miners, to accompany
896
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him to the watering hole. Rifle in hand, the two
897
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men made their way to the water and started to
898
00:50:39.449 --> 00:50:43.469
quickly fill canteens. As Hank stood guard, he noticed a
899
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dark figure behind a pine tree. This allegedly hairy bipedal
900
00:50:47.489 --> 00:50:50.190
beast darted off behind a tree before Hank could get
901
00:50:50.230 --> 00:50:53.369
a shot of. But soon after he saw the first creature,
902
00:50:53.550 --> 00:50:57.170
a second one was sighted. This time, Hank raised his weapon, aimed,
903
00:50:57.230 --> 00:51:00.119
and fired. Fred watched bark fly from the tree as
904
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Hank almost hit his mark. The hairy, ape-like beast quickly
905
00:51:03.559 --> 00:51:05.780
slipped back into the cover of the forest within seconds
906
00:51:06.250 --> 00:51:08.349
before the men had another chance to fire upon them.
907
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The men took note of how fast the creatures were running,
908
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far too fast to be human. Making haste back to
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00:51:14.449 --> 00:51:16.969
the cabin, the men convened and decided to pack it
910
00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:19.880
in and head home. It was too late in the
911
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.039
evening for them to leave that night, so it was
912
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decided they would wait until morning. The camp consisted of
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a few tents and a log cabin that had just
914
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been erected a few months prior to the men living
915
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semi-permanently at the camp. There wasn't much to their shelter,
916
00:51:33.239 --> 00:51:36.010
but it was not meant to be an indefinite living situation.
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The main structure, the cabin, was a small one-room shelter
918
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where the men could stay dry should inclement weather hit.
919
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As the men discussed the final details of their return trip,
920
00:51:45.610 --> 00:51:48.409
smoking their pipes and maybe sipping some whiskey, it was
921
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agreed they would leave at first light. With the details
922
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planned out, the weird miners turned in for the night
923
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and fell fast asleep. That didn't last long, however. The
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men all woke with a start as something large pummeled
925
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the side of their cabin. The cabin was under attack!
926
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The first hit caused the chinking between two logs to
927
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fall onto the floor. This created a hole in the
928
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wall where they could look out and see what was happening.
929
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Hank was able to see three creatures that looked like
930
00:52:14.179 --> 00:52:15.639
the one he had taken a shot at in the
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forest and they were circling around the structure. Another hit.
932
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This time Hank was able to see what was striking
933
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the cabin. The eight men were using boulders to slam
934
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into the walls, dislodging the chinking in several more places.
935
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Hank and Fred grabbed the only thing they had as
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protection and took aim. Shots rang out through the darkness,
937
00:52:35.050 --> 00:52:38.309
and all fell quiet but for a few moments. Another
938
00:52:38.349 --> 00:52:41.309
rock hit the roof. The creatures were trying to drive
939
00:52:41.349 --> 00:52:42.969
the men out of the shelter and were doing a
940
00:52:42.989 --> 00:52:46.369
good job of scaring them in the process. The two
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00:52:46.389 --> 00:52:48.760
men in charge of firing only did so when rocks
942
00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:51.460
hit the cabin. Their thoughts were that if they only
943
00:52:51.500 --> 00:52:54.260
fired when under active attack, the ape men would stop
944
00:52:54.300 --> 00:52:58.000
the attack and leave them alone. The attacks continued, though,
945
00:52:58.219 --> 00:53:00.199
on the roof of the cabin and from all sides.
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00:53:00.989 --> 00:53:02.690
The miners were doing all they could to hold off
947
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these attackers while making an escape plan. The door began
948
00:53:06.550 --> 00:53:10.030
to rattle. This was their last line of defense. They
949
00:53:10.070 --> 00:53:12.050
knew the door was the weak spot and wouldn't hold
950
00:53:12.110 --> 00:53:15.369
much longer. Another shot rang out and a hole ripped
951
00:53:15.389 --> 00:53:19.070
through the door, and then all fell silent. The men
952
00:53:19.190 --> 00:53:21.929
used this time to try and reinforce the door, and
953
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as they tried to decide their next move, all heads
954
00:53:24.630 --> 00:53:27.010
turned and watched as one of the creatures reached through
955
00:53:27.050 --> 00:53:28.909
a hole in the cabin wall and grabbed an axe.
956
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Fred grabbed the axe and turned the head so that
957
00:53:32.110 --> 00:53:34.679
it wouldn't fit through the hole, then used his weapon
958
00:53:34.699 --> 00:53:37.219
to fire at the ape man. This was the last
959
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:39.800
bold attempt from the would-be intruders to gain access to
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the cabin, although the attack wasn't over. As the night
961
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wore on, the attacks were further apart and shorter, but
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00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:50.099
they continued. A few more rocks were thrown and chests
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00:53:50.139 --> 00:53:54.289
thumping along with growls, followed by the shrill whistles. Exhausted,
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but refusing to give in to the incursion, the men
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held the beasts off until daybreak. As the sun peeked
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over the mountains, the attack stopped altogether. The sun was
967
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all the way up before they felt safe enough to
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00:54:06.019 --> 00:54:09.199
venture outside the cabin. They went outside to see the
969
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rocks littered the ground all around it. The cabin held together,
970
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but just barely. Holes littered the walls and roof. It
971
00:54:16.300 --> 00:54:18.139
looked like a war zone where the rocks had knocked
972
00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:20.780
so many holes in it. There was no sign of
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00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:23.159
the ape men, but Fred and Hank knew what they
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00:54:23.179 --> 00:54:26.449
had observed earlier the day before. These creatures knew how
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to blend into the forest very well. Knowing this, Fred
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00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:32.460
looked up on the mountain and spotted an ape man
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00:54:32.500 --> 00:54:36.800
skulking around the tree line, about 150 yards away. Fred
978
00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:40.000
picked up his weapon and fired several times and apparently
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00:54:40.039 --> 00:54:43.360
hit the target. He saw the beast drop, roll, and
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00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:46.710
fall into the canyon below. Taking only what they had
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in their hands at the moment, the men made haste
982
00:54:48.969 --> 00:54:51.909
and ran for it. Luckily, they made their way to
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00:54:51.949 --> 00:54:55.989
Hank's Ford vehicle and back home to Kelso, Washington. Left
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00:54:56.150 --> 00:54:58.849
shaken and confused about what happened to them, the men
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00:54:58.889 --> 00:55:02.369
reported everything that had occurred. People were shocked at the
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00:55:02.389 --> 00:55:05.869
story and glad the men were able to escape. And
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as many stories where events are unexplainable, the men were
988
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heavily scrutinized by citizens and the media. When news outlets
989
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:15.519
from Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon came to interview the
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00:55:15.559 --> 00:55:18.460
miners and get details of the story, the men agreed
991
00:55:18.480 --> 00:55:20.579
to take the reporters to the area where they'd encountered
992
00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:23.760
the ape men. Upon arrival, they were able to find
993
00:55:23.820 --> 00:55:27.730
visible footprints, and these were photographed as evidence. These helped
994
00:55:27.769 --> 00:55:30.590
make the miners' story more credible. They searched a good
995
00:55:30.630 --> 00:55:32.730
while for the body of the ape man Fred had shot,
996
00:55:33.219 --> 00:55:35.760
but there was no remnants or anything in the gorge.
997
00:55:36.659 --> 00:55:39.920
Called mountain devils in the story, the newspapers ran the
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00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:43.059
miners' accounts of the events they endured that night. Many
999
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:46.000
people saw the story as credible, now that photographic evidence
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00:55:46.039 --> 00:55:49.599
was taken by a reputable source. The story of the
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00:55:49.639 --> 00:55:51.900
ape men of Mount St. Helens and the miners that
1002
00:55:51.940 --> 00:55:55.320
came under attack by them still had its skeptics. But
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00:55:55.340 --> 00:55:58.369
there were also people that believed in it. The men
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00:55:58.510 --> 00:56:02.110
never returned to prospecting Ape Canyon. Now, as a side note,
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00:56:02.329 --> 00:56:04.840
there is a story about a group of Boy Scouts
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00:56:04.860 --> 00:56:07.199
that were supposedly camping on Mount St. Helens at the time.
1007
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:10.539
Many people believe these Boy Scouts were the source of
1008
00:56:10.579 --> 00:56:13.619
the attack. However, that wouldn't account for the hairy arm
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00:56:13.639 --> 00:56:16.400
that reached through and grabbed the axe, or the large
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00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:18.840
figures of the beast that the men observed through the
1011
00:56:18.880 --> 00:56:22.739
cracks in the walls. In 1978, Fred Beck penned a
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00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:25.630
book called I Fought the Ape Men of Mount St. Helens.
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00:56:26.369 --> 00:56:29.170
The book was short, just five chapters long, but was
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00:56:29.250 --> 00:56:32.010
almost word for word what the miners had reported back
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00:56:32.110 --> 00:56:36.110
in 1924. Beck was at that point 78 years old
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00:56:36.469 --> 00:56:38.250
and with not a care in the world about skeptics,
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00:56:38.710 --> 00:56:41.409
and he told the story in his own words. In
1018
00:56:41.449 --> 00:56:44.329
an interview, Beck also explained that he was a clairvoyant
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00:56:44.369 --> 00:56:47.789
since childhood and as an adult had a premonition about
1020
00:56:47.829 --> 00:56:51.590
prospecting Mount St. Helens. In his vision, they were able
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00:56:51.610 --> 00:56:53.500
to find the mine as they were led by Native
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00:56:53.539 --> 00:56:56.070
American spirits and told her to blast a hole for
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00:56:56.090 --> 00:56:58.960
the entrance. The spirit told Beck that they were to
1024
00:56:59.019 --> 00:57:00.940
follow a white arrow, and it would show the men
1025
00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:04.300
exactly where to go. In the book, Beck claimed that
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00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:06.460
all the men saw this vision, and stated that the
1027
00:57:06.500 --> 00:57:09.480
spirit told them, Because you have cursed the spirit leading you,
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00:57:09.820 --> 00:57:12.039
you will be shown where the gold is, but it
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00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:15.159
is not given to you. Beck goes on to explain
1030
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:16.920
the men felt like the mind would let them take
1031
00:57:17.019 --> 00:57:20.280
some gold, but not all of it. And that's exactly
1032
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:23.030
what happened, Beck stated. There is a pocket of gold
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00:57:23.070 --> 00:57:25.409
in that cliff if someone is fortunate enough to find it.
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00:57:25.690 --> 00:57:28.530
We gave up looking for it. When asked why only
1035
00:57:28.570 --> 00:57:32.110
certain people can see otherworldly beings, Beck had this to say.
1036
00:57:32.769 --> 00:57:36.269
When the condition and vibration is at a certain frequency, they,
1037
00:57:36.489 --> 00:57:39.929
the beings, can easily, for a time, appear in a
1038
00:57:39.969 --> 00:57:43.909
very solid body. They are not animal spirits, but also
1039
00:57:43.969 --> 00:57:47.650
lack the intelligence of a human consciousness. They simply exist
1040
00:57:47.730 --> 00:57:50.139
on a different plane than most humans, and some of
1041
00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:52.800
us are more sensitive to those vibrations they exist on.
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Next up, I have the story of Ape Cave, which
1043
00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:02.440
is near Ape Canyon. In 1947, a logger by the
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00:58:02.489 --> 00:58:05.190
name of Lawrence Johnson was driving along in his vehicle
1045
00:58:05.250 --> 00:58:10.050
when a sinkhole swallowed his truck. Thus, Ape Cave was discovered. However,
1046
00:58:10.070 --> 00:58:12.230
the cave wouldn't be explored until three years later by
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00:58:12.250 --> 00:58:15.800
a Boy Scout troop. Made up by lava flow, The
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00:58:15.820 --> 00:58:18.349
cave had never been explored by anyone before the troops
1049
00:58:18.369 --> 00:58:21.710
stepped inside after being lowered over a 17-foot overhang one
1050
00:58:21.750 --> 00:58:24.849
by one. The Boy Scouts would explore the very fragile
1051
00:58:24.909 --> 00:58:26.989
inner workings of the cave system that is about two
1052
00:58:27.030 --> 00:58:29.730
miles long and eventually named it after their sponsor of
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00:58:29.750 --> 00:58:33.480
the exploration and troop, the St. Helens Apes. Tours of
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00:58:33.500 --> 00:58:36.260
the cave are available to the public, but be forewarned.
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00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:39.119
Rumor has it that if you spend overnight in the cave,
1056
00:58:39.460 --> 00:58:44.219
that you will lose your mind. And now let's look
1057
00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:47.239
at some of the missing person cases on Mount St. Helens.
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00:58:49.099 --> 00:58:52.440
In May of 1950, a man named Jim Carter, along
1059
00:58:52.480 --> 00:58:55.260
with a climbing party of 20 people, started the day
1060
00:58:55.400 --> 00:58:58.820
on Mount St. Helens at Ape Canyon, ready to climb, ski,
1061
00:58:58.929 --> 00:59:02.090
and have a day of fun. On the descent, Carter
1062
00:59:02.130 --> 00:59:04.090
left the party at the Dog's Head area to take
1063
00:59:04.150 --> 00:59:06.469
a picture of the larger group as they skied past him.
1064
00:59:07.429 --> 00:59:09.889
Being an experienced skier and mountain climber, the others went
1065
00:59:09.909 --> 00:59:11.909
to that he would be the best person to ski
1066
00:59:11.969 --> 00:59:15.730
ahead of the group. Moments later, the larger group witnessed
1067
00:59:15.769 --> 00:59:19.260
Carter skiing at a high rate of speed, jumping crevasses
1068
00:59:19.300 --> 00:59:24.000
and taking chances that were deemed reckless. They said that he, Carter,
1069
00:59:24.340 --> 00:59:27.300
was going like the devil down the slope, seemingly frightened
1070
00:59:27.340 --> 00:59:31.789
of something, a witness stated. It wasn't long before he
1071
00:59:31.829 --> 00:59:34.610
was out of sight of the others. Despite the group
1072
00:59:34.670 --> 00:59:38.170
looking for Carter, he was nowhere to be found. Carter
1073
00:59:38.230 --> 00:59:42.699
was reported missing later that day. The search for 30-year-old
1074
00:59:42.739 --> 00:59:46.739
Jim Carter lasted for weeks. Authorities discovered a discarded film
1075
00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:49.300
box for a roll of camera film, but nothing else
1076
00:59:49.340 --> 00:59:52.590
was ever found. A plane traced Carter's route as he
1077
00:59:52.610 --> 00:59:55.269
had skied right down canyon walls where rangers and search
1078
00:59:55.309 --> 00:59:58.610
teams couldn't reach. The search party thought they would find
1079
00:59:58.650 --> 01:00:00.409
the man at the bottom of the canyon, but his
1080
01:00:00.449 --> 01:00:03.150
tracks went from the walls across Ranger Creek and the
1081
01:00:03.190 --> 01:00:06.929
Ranger Station and into the thick of the forest. Bob Lee,
1082
01:00:07.170 --> 01:00:09.639
an experienced mountaineer and a member of Seattle Mountain Search
1083
01:00:09.679 --> 01:00:12.460
and Rescue, stated, Every time I got cut off from
1084
01:00:12.500 --> 01:00:14.760
the rest of the search team and was alone, I
1085
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:18.000
felt like something was watching me. There was something strange
1086
01:00:18.079 --> 01:00:20.179
on the high slopes of the mountain. It was the
1087
01:00:20.219 --> 01:00:23.239
most eerie experience I've ever had. I could feel the
1088
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:26.929
hair on my neck standing up. It was eerie. I
1089
01:00:26.969 --> 01:00:29.949
was unarmed, except for my ice axe, and believe me,
1090
01:00:29.969 --> 01:00:33.039
I never let go of that. We combed the canyon
1091
01:00:33.380 --> 01:00:36.719
one end to the other for five days. Sometimes, there
1092
01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:39.300
were as many as 75 persons in the search party,
1093
01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:42.539
but no sign of Carter or his equipment was ever found.
1094
01:00:43.380 --> 01:00:45.460
After two weeks, the search was scaled back and then
1095
01:00:45.500 --> 01:00:49.429
called off. Over 70 years has passed since Jim Carter
1096
01:00:49.469 --> 01:00:53.750
went missing under baffling circumstances in 1950. No sign of
1097
01:00:53.789 --> 01:00:57.530
him or his equipment has ever been found. If you'll recall,
1098
01:00:57.639 --> 01:01:00.030
this disappearance was in the same area as the attack
1099
01:01:00.210 --> 01:01:03.090
on the miners in 1924, and one of the theories
1100
01:01:03.130 --> 01:01:05.369
put forth was that he was possibly being chased by
1101
01:01:05.409 --> 01:01:07.769
a Sasquatch that caused him to take such a reckless
1102
01:01:07.789 --> 01:01:13.429
ski run down the mountain. On Saturday, August 11, 2018,
1103
01:01:13.429 --> 01:01:15.429
a gray Subaru was found in the parking area of
1104
01:01:15.449 --> 01:01:18.869
Blue Lake Trail by search and rescue teams after 40-year-old
1105
01:01:18.929 --> 01:01:21.230
Matthew Metheny asked to borrow the car from his friend
1106
01:01:21.269 --> 01:01:23.869
to go for a hike at Mount St. Helens. After
1107
01:01:23.909 --> 01:01:26.670
the man didn't return, he was reported missing. A group
1108
01:01:26.710 --> 01:01:29.530
of some 40 volunteers scoured the mountain looking for the
1109
01:01:29.610 --> 01:01:33.170
Ohio man. On the sixth day Matheny was missing, he
1110
01:01:33.210 --> 01:01:36.530
was spotted on a ledge and rescued. In an interview
1111
01:01:36.550 --> 01:01:39.909
with authorities, he stated, amazingly, that he had survived by
1112
01:01:40.010 --> 01:01:43.550
eating berries and bees. It was reported that Matheny had
1113
01:01:43.570 --> 01:01:45.889
been a Boy Scout when he was younger and used
1114
01:01:45.929 --> 01:01:48.949
his training to help himself while lost. He was in
1115
01:01:48.989 --> 01:01:51.809
surprisingly good condition and was released from the hospital the
1116
01:01:51.869 --> 01:01:55.929
next day. The Sheriff's Department utilized tracking dogs, drones, and
1117
01:01:55.969 --> 01:02:04.550
a helicopter in the search. On July 21, 2021, 25-year-old
1118
01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:07.519
Army First Lieutenant Brian Yang, who had been missing on
1119
01:02:07.579 --> 01:02:10.719
Mount St. Helens, was found deceased. He'd only been missing
1120
01:02:10.760 --> 01:02:13.280
for a couple of days. The last time Yang was
1121
01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:17.940
seen was on the Coldwater Trailhead previous Sunday. Reports state
1122
01:02:17.980 --> 01:02:20.940
that the 25-year-old fell down a steep embankment to his demise.
1123
01:02:21.889 --> 01:02:27.510
No further information is available on this case. And then
1124
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:31.280
arguably the most memorable incident ever to happen on Mount St. Helens.
1125
01:02:32.500 --> 01:02:36.900
On May 18, 1980, 57 people lost their lives after
1126
01:02:36.940 --> 01:02:41.239
Mount St. Helens erupted. Earlier that day, people were evacuated
1127
01:02:41.320 --> 01:02:44.400
and others were warned to leave the area. One of
1128
01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:49.320
the victims, 83-year-old Harry Randall Truman, refused to leave his
1129
01:02:49.340 --> 01:02:52.719
home of over 50 years. Seen as a hero and
1130
01:02:52.739 --> 01:02:54.980
a folk legend due to his bravery for staying and
1131
01:02:55.079 --> 01:02:57.780
trying to defend his property from the monster, this time
1132
01:02:57.800 --> 01:03:01.300
the volcano, about to engulf his home, Truman gave an
1133
01:03:01.340 --> 01:03:04.659
interview to National Geographic just days before the volcano erupted
1134
01:03:05.219 --> 01:03:08.190
where he stated that, I'm going to stay right here
1135
01:03:08.289 --> 01:03:11.429
because I'll tell you why. My home and my expletive
1136
01:03:11.630 --> 01:03:14.949
life's here. My wife and I, we both vowed years
1137
01:03:14.989 --> 01:03:18.250
and years ago that we'd never leave Spirit Lake. We
1138
01:03:18.289 --> 01:03:21.050
loved it. It's a part of me. and I'm a
1139
01:03:21.070 --> 01:03:25.360
part of that expletive mountain. Truman resided at the lodge
1140
01:03:25.400 --> 01:03:27.320
with his late wife that he lost just a few
1141
01:03:27.340 --> 01:03:31.639
years before the eruption and their 16 rescue cats. Sadly,
1142
01:03:31.820 --> 01:03:34.760
Truman and all of his cats perished in the eruption.
1143
01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:39.099
No remains were ever found. Also on the mountain on
1144
01:03:39.139 --> 01:03:43.980
that ill-fated day back in 1980 was 30-year-old volcanologist David A. Johnston.
1145
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:47.269
Johnston was on the mountain monitoring the activity at the
1146
01:03:47.289 --> 01:03:49.570
Coldwater 2 station that was thought to be a safe
1147
01:03:49.670 --> 01:03:54.230
area and away from the destruction path should an eruption happen. Tragically,
1148
01:03:54.489 --> 01:03:57.710
this was not the case, and Johnston perished in the eruption.
1149
01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:02.059
David A. Johnston was employed through the United States Geological Survey,
1150
01:04:02.179 --> 01:04:06.280
the USGS. The last transmission from the Coldwater 2 station
1151
01:04:06.340 --> 01:04:11.780
was from Johnston, who spoke into the microphone, Vancouver, Vancouver,
1152
01:04:12.179 --> 01:04:17.400
this is it. His remains were never found. An observatory
1153
01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:19.980
was erected in the area where Coldwater 2 once stood
1154
01:04:20.139 --> 01:04:23.539
in remembrance of Johnston. He was credited with saving thousands
1155
01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:26.260
of lives after warning the Forestry Service of the dangers
1156
01:04:26.300 --> 01:04:29.579
going on within the volcano weeks before the eruption occurred.
1157
01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:38.309
The Forestry Service took heed and evacuated the park. Hello, friends.
1158
01:04:38.329 --> 01:04:41.550
In this video, we're going to bring you the story
1159
01:04:41.570 --> 01:04:45.360
of a Canby man His daughter and dog were all
1160
01:04:45.489 --> 01:04:50.050
rescued after 48 hours being lost. Now, we're so used
1161
01:04:50.070 --> 01:04:52.090
to hearing stories and accounts of people who go missing
1162
01:04:52.110 --> 01:04:55.210
in the wilderness, somewhere in the world, and they're never
1163
01:04:55.309 --> 01:04:57.969
seen or heard from again. It's almost like it's a
1164
01:04:58.010 --> 01:05:03.409
common occurrence because, basically, it is now. This happens so much,
1165
01:05:03.550 --> 01:05:07.070
and many people don't even realize what's going on. How
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is this possible? Maybe it's because of the lack of
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the reporting. whether by authorities in charge, the news media,
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or perhaps even government entities who are trying to figure
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01:05:16.769 --> 01:05:19.170
out what's going on behind the scenes so as not
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to cause a global panic. Whatever the reason, it seems
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we in this community are still consumed by these occurrences.
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We've been bringing to your attention these cases and so
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much more and will always continue to do so. Today, though,
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we have one of our less common occurrences. We'll be
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01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:39.750
talking about a case of a man, his daughter, and
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their dog who were missing but then rescued alive. Needless
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01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:47.420
to say, it's always a great day when we can
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bring you a story like this as it happens far
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01:05:49.420 --> 01:05:52.449
less often than when someone goes missing and never comes
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01:05:52.510 --> 01:05:57.469
back or is found unfortunately deceased. So here it is.
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A Canby man and his family rescued after being lost
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for a harrowing 48 hours in the wilderness. 37-year-old Peter
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William Monroe, his 7-year-old daughter Layla, and their dog, Buck,
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01:06:11.650 --> 01:06:14.989
were hiking in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest and were
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going to make a family trip of it. Peter's wife, Camille,
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was planning on joining her husband and daughter on this
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trip the day after they left. Camille said she'd arrived
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at the family's Kenzo Lake campsite to join them on
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a camping trip, but when she got there, they were
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01:06:28.619 --> 01:06:31.420
nowhere to be found. She assumed they had gone on
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01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:33.619
a hike, but when they never returned, she set off
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01:06:33.659 --> 01:06:37.780
the next morning to search for them. Camille had no luck.
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and called police after she found Peter's truck at the
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Devil's Peak Trailhead, with his keys and Layla's stuffed animal
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01:06:44.369 --> 01:06:47.369
still inside. I just want to point out here that,
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once again, the name Devil is involved with a place
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01:06:50.690 --> 01:06:54.070
where people have gone missing in the wilderness. It was
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around 2.30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, September 2, 2020,
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when Camille Monroe called 911 from the Devil's Peak Trailhead
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to report that her husband Peter, their daughter Layla, and
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their dog, Buck, had been missing for at least 24 hours.
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Clackamas County Sheriff's Office search and rescue coordinators activated a
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01:07:14.260 --> 01:07:18.969
rescue mission immediately that same afternoon. The search area featured
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01:07:19.050 --> 01:07:22.389
challenging terrain, and the mission would soon involve volunteers from
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01:07:22.429 --> 01:07:28.369
the CCSO SAR Trail Running Rescue Team, search canines, rope teams,
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01:07:28.489 --> 01:07:32.909
and ground teams. This included support from Pacific Northwest Search
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01:07:32.949 --> 01:07:38.539
and Rescue, Arms Reach and Treat Team, Mountain Wave Emergency Communications,
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01:07:39.260 --> 01:07:46.659
Portland Mountain Rescue, Oregon Office of Emergency Management, 304th Rescue Squadron,
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01:07:46.699 --> 01:07:51.099
125th Special Tactics Squadron, Special Forces Unit of the 142nd
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01:07:51.800 --> 01:07:54.880
Fighter Wing of the United States Air National Guard, and
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01:07:54.920 --> 01:07:59.510
the Hood River Sheriff's Office Air Unit. Over 50 searchers
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01:07:59.659 --> 01:08:03.300
ended up participating in the mission. Most of these volunteers
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sprung into action immediately upon being called and were eager
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and willing to help out in any way they could.
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Searchers worked through the night with additional resources from the
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304th Rescue Squadron and the 125th Special Tactics Squadron deploying
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01:08:17.989 --> 01:08:19.850
to the field at about 2 o'clock in the morning
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to assist the tired crews who had worked through the night.
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At approximately 6 a.m. on Thursday, September 3rd, searchers from
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the 304th Rescue Squadron were able to make voice contact
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with Peter. It took at least another hour for them
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01:08:33.689 --> 01:08:36.069
to reach the trio, though, due to the harsh and
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01:08:36.090 --> 01:08:40.649
difficult terrain. Peter, Layla, and Buck were found northwest of
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01:08:40.689 --> 01:08:43.810
the Kinza Lake trailhead in a ravine that was located
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about 1.25 miles and approximately 1,200 feet below where they
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01:08:48.130 --> 01:08:51.390
had first set out for their hike on Tuesday. Peter
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01:08:51.470 --> 01:08:54.649
was injured and unable to walk. Layla and Buck were
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01:08:54.689 --> 01:08:58.710
in good spirits but needed assistance. Crews quickly began to
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assess and provide first aid. They learned Peter had become
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01:09:02.220 --> 01:09:04.439
lost and had been moving downhill to where he thought
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01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:08.810
a trail was located, injuring himself in the process. After
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01:09:08.850 --> 01:09:12.229
stabilizing Peter, crews began the exhausting process of carrying him
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01:09:12.270 --> 01:09:16.720
out of this remote location through the difficult terrain. They
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01:09:16.779 --> 01:09:19.619
reached a waiting medical crew on Still Creek Road, about
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seven miles from Highway 26, near Rhododendron, at about 12.30
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in the afternoon on Thursday, September 3rd. Peter, Layla, and
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01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:31.880
Buck were lost and stuck in the wilderness for over
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48 hours without supplies. This means no water and no food.
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It's an absolute miracle they survived relatively unharmed. Peter was
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01:09:42.310 --> 01:09:45.470
transported to an area hospital for his injuries. Buck and
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01:09:45.489 --> 01:09:47.869
Layla were reunited with the rest of the family and
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01:09:47.890 --> 01:09:52.430
were getting some much-needed rest. After his rescue and hospitalization,
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01:09:52.689 --> 01:09:55.250
Peter spoke to reporters from the Backwood Ambulance and made
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01:09:55.289 --> 01:09:58.260
this statement. I just want to thank all the first
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01:09:58.310 --> 01:10:00.579
responders and everybody else that helped get me out of
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01:10:00.619 --> 01:10:03.380
that hole. I don't think I would have made it out,
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01:10:03.560 --> 01:10:06.479
especially without any other adults, so I owe you guys
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01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:10.479
my life. Thank you. Search crews want to offer special
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01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:13.100
thanks to a nearby construction crew working on the Still
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01:10:13.140 --> 01:10:17.029
Creek Bridge repair project. The construction crew sped up the
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01:10:17.069 --> 01:10:19.770
rescue operation by using a crane to hoist the Special
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01:10:19.789 --> 01:10:25.210
Forces vehicles over the river. Authorities mentioned that without this help,
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01:10:25.409 --> 01:10:28.149
it would have taken an estimated additional four hours to
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01:10:28.189 --> 01:10:31.800
take the longer route to reach the location. This was
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01:10:31.899 --> 01:10:35.359
definitely a dramatic and dangerous rescue operation, and the crews
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01:10:35.420 --> 01:10:39.869
and volunteers who participated are true heroes. We're glad to
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01:10:39.909 --> 01:10:42.449
report that Peter, Layla, and even Buck are all fine
1258
01:10:42.510 --> 01:10:46.020
and have suffered no long-term injuries or lasting effects from
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01:10:46.039 --> 01:10:49.060
this terrifying ordeal they endured when out for a simple
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01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:52.739
family hike. It just goes to show you, please be
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01:10:52.779 --> 01:10:55.649
careful out there. Whether alone or with a group or
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01:10:55.770 --> 01:10:58.350
even with your pet, no one is immune to the
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01:10:58.390 --> 01:11:02.170
rough and tumble ways of Mother Nature. Always be prepared.
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Peter and his family were extremely lucky and have survived
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01:11:06.310 --> 01:11:10.960
and been rescued. Well friends, there you have it. What
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01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:14.529
do you think about this amazing story? Please be careful
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01:11:14.609 --> 01:11:18.069
out there. I look forward to your comments, but please
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01:11:18.250 --> 01:11:22.670
keep it friendly and respectful. In the meantime, be good
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01:11:22.689 --> 01:11:25.340
to yourselves and each other, and I'll see you just
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01:11:25.380 --> 01:11:29.500
a little farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton,
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01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:38.229
and I'll talk to you next time. Hello friends. Welcome
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to our latest video. Today we bring you the strange
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01:11:42.069 --> 01:11:47.119
tale of the mysterious skeletons of Crater Lake. Join us.
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01:11:50.119 --> 01:11:52.399
Crater Lake is the only national park in the state
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01:11:52.420 --> 01:11:55.819
of Oregon. Just like all the other national parks throughout
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01:11:55.840 --> 01:11:58.920
the United States, this one is known worldwide for its
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01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:03.409
breathtaking landscapes and stunning scenic views. This is certainly a
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01:12:03.430 --> 01:12:06.449
well-deserved reputation, as if you've ever been there, you would
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01:12:06.520 --> 01:12:09.020
know how absolutely gorgeous the park is as a whole.
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It's a humbling experience when you're out there in nature,
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01:12:12.619 --> 01:12:16.340
and it's so incredibly awe-inspiring, yet eerie all at the
1282
01:12:16.380 --> 01:12:20.500
same time. Crater Lake is special. It stands out from
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01:12:20.619 --> 01:12:23.579
other parks for a few reasons. The one we're going
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01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:27.739
to discuss today is perhaps the most bizarre. This interesting
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01:12:27.760 --> 01:12:31.470
characteristic isn't widely known, and has mostly gone undiscovered by
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01:12:31.489 --> 01:12:33.609
the millions of people who flock there from all over
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01:12:33.649 --> 01:12:37.640
the world every single year. Park officials and whoever's in
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01:12:37.699 --> 01:12:41.760
charge definitely want it to stay a secret as well, because, well,
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01:12:41.939 --> 01:12:46.039
it's a lethal secret, quite literally. Most of us in
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01:12:46.079 --> 01:12:49.500
this community know it's not unheard of for people visiting
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01:12:49.539 --> 01:12:52.119
national parks to accidentally take a deadly plunge off of
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01:12:52.159 --> 01:12:54.949
a cliff or get stuck and possibly freeze to death
1293
01:12:55.010 --> 01:12:57.949
in the common blizzard conditions, depending on the season of course,
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01:12:58.189 --> 01:13:02.449
or even to crash their cars into ravines. Besides airplanes
1295
01:13:02.510 --> 01:13:05.369
and helicopters falling out of the sky as well, believe
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01:13:05.390 --> 01:13:07.859
it or not, there have even been far more homicides
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01:13:07.960 --> 01:13:10.659
than one could possibly imagine out there under the clear
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01:13:10.680 --> 01:13:14.340
blue skies and beautiful starry nights. While many of those
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01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:17.460
wonderful topics would make interesting discussion in one of our
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01:13:17.479 --> 01:13:20.529
videos and perhaps may come very soon, Today we're going
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01:13:20.550 --> 01:13:24.060
to discuss the tragedies that have left some things behind,
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01:13:25.039 --> 01:13:27.039
and it seems to be happening in Crater Lake far
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01:13:27.100 --> 01:13:30.800
more often than anywhere else. Today we're going to talk
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01:13:30.859 --> 01:13:35.710
about the skeletons of Crater Lake Park. Let's start with
1305
01:13:35.750 --> 01:13:38.789
what's known as the case of the Phantom Flyer. In
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01:13:38.810 --> 01:13:42.109
the summer of 1970, Dave Panabaker took a job as
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01:13:42.149 --> 01:13:45.800
a seasonal ranger in Crater Lake National Park. During that
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01:13:45.859 --> 01:13:49.000
first summer there, Dave kept hearing talk about a lesser-known
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01:13:49.039 --> 01:13:53.159
site in the park, one that interested him greatly. Apparently,
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01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:56.960
there was a dark blue Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter that
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01:13:56.979 --> 01:13:59.180
had crashed a month or two after World War II,
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01:13:59.460 --> 01:14:01.729
and it remained in the park as it was unable
1313
01:14:01.739 --> 01:14:04.829
to be recovered and moved out. The Hellcat took a
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01:14:04.890 --> 01:14:07.329
fast and hard landing, with only a short hike's distance
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01:14:07.369 --> 01:14:09.159
to cover in order to be able to see it.
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01:14:09.869 --> 01:14:11.869
Dave decided he just had to go out there and
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01:14:11.909 --> 01:14:15.000
check it out. One of its machine guns was even
1318
01:14:15.079 --> 01:14:17.659
embedded in a cliff face, and the blue wing with
1319
01:14:17.699 --> 01:14:21.100
its white star insignia was clearly visible through the underbrush.
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Everyone simply assumed that the pilot had perished immediately upon impact,
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01:14:25.930 --> 01:14:30.510
or perhaps even while parachuting out. Either way, Dave decided
1322
01:14:30.550 --> 01:14:32.229
to go for the hike on his day off to
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01:14:32.270 --> 01:14:36.850
the cliff where this aircraft was supposedly located. However, it
1324
01:14:36.930 --> 01:14:40.319
wasn't long before the seasonal ranger found himself lost while
1325
01:14:40.380 --> 01:14:44.050
trying to locate the wreckage. Now, we see this all
1326
01:14:44.090 --> 01:14:46.470
the time. Someone goes out on a hike in the
1327
01:14:46.510 --> 01:14:49.329
deep wilderness, even during the day, and once they get
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01:14:49.369 --> 01:14:52.560
turned around, they continue on and just hope for the best.
1329
01:14:53.279 --> 01:14:56.760
Dave Panabaker, however, was no fool, and had heard too
1330
01:14:56.800 --> 01:14:59.260
many horror stories to keep on going before he got
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01:14:59.300 --> 01:15:02.880
his bearings on where exactly he was and where he
1332
01:15:02.920 --> 01:15:06.159
was going. He remembered some advice given to him on
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01:15:06.199 --> 01:15:08.930
his first day. and decided to follow it, lest he
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01:15:08.970 --> 01:15:11.550
become another victim of the park itself, and perhaps end
1335
01:15:11.609 --> 01:15:14.489
up a subject in one of our videos. He remembered
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01:15:14.550 --> 01:15:17.180
a man named Herman Walk's voice, and could clearly hear
1337
01:15:17.189 --> 01:15:19.579
it in his head, saying, When in danger or doubt,
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01:15:19.960 --> 01:15:23.600
run in circles, scream and shout. So, he sat down
1339
01:15:23.659 --> 01:15:25.539
on a nearby log, and thought about how he was
1340
01:15:25.560 --> 01:15:28.579
going to get himself out of this predicament. He still
1341
01:15:28.619 --> 01:15:30.779
wanted to see the plane wreckage, but didn't want to
1342
01:15:30.819 --> 01:15:34.920
become another park statistic. He thought long and hard about
1343
01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:37.760
his options and how he could get himself back to civilization,
1344
01:15:38.300 --> 01:15:41.439
perhaps to try another time when he was possibly more
1345
01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:45.579
well prepared. As he sat and thought, though, he suddenly
1346
01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:48.649
felt like he was no longer alone. He got the
1347
01:15:48.710 --> 01:15:53.710
distinct feeling that someone, or something, was watching him. He
1348
01:15:53.750 --> 01:15:57.430
looked up and immediately locked eyes with the culprit. Rather,
1349
01:15:57.529 --> 01:15:59.949
he locked eye sockets with it, as it was not
1350
01:15:59.989 --> 01:16:03.159
a human being, at least not anymore. but a skeleton
1351
01:16:03.380 --> 01:16:06.239
that was lying underneath a nearby log and staring straight
1352
01:16:06.340 --> 01:16:09.340
at him. Now there is no complete description of what
1353
01:16:09.399 --> 01:16:12.100
the reaction of this young and fairly new seasonal ranger
1354
01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:14.680
was when he found what turned out to be the
1355
01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:17.770
skeletal remains of a long lost World War II pilot.
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01:16:18.729 --> 01:16:21.270
I can only imagine he was terrified and possibly in
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01:16:21.350 --> 01:16:24.529
shock even as his own mortality kicked into high gear
1358
01:16:24.569 --> 01:16:28.329
in his mind. He was, as previously stated, fairly new
1359
01:16:28.350 --> 01:16:30.590
to his job and might have realized that he was
1360
01:16:30.710 --> 01:16:34.130
almost in the same predicament as his long-lost deceased friend
1361
01:16:34.289 --> 01:16:37.569
there under the log staring at him. Both were lost
1362
01:16:37.670 --> 01:16:40.800
and nobody knew who they were. Did he panic and
1363
01:16:40.939 --> 01:16:43.979
realize that if nobody could find the pilot then, perhaps
1364
01:16:44.239 --> 01:16:47.699
nobody could find him either? He was already fighting the
1365
01:16:47.760 --> 01:16:50.899
urge to panic as it was. We can only speculate,
1366
01:16:51.100 --> 01:16:53.920
but as you would imagine, it was most likely quite
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01:16:53.939 --> 01:16:58.100
the dramatic scene. Sometime later, during an oral history review,
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01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:01.439
David remembered, The chief ranger wasn't too happy with me
1369
01:17:01.500 --> 01:17:03.340
when I talked to him in his office and pulled
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01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:04.840
the skull out of my pack and put it on
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01:17:04.859 --> 01:17:08.520
his desk. A Whidbey Island Naval investigative team came to
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01:17:08.539 --> 01:17:11.699
the park a few days later. The Navy authorities were
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01:17:11.739 --> 01:17:13.960
able to make a positive ID of the skull using
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01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:18.739
dental records. The skeleton belonged to Ensign Frank Lupo from
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01:17:18.779 --> 01:17:22.510
New Jersey. Ensign Lupo had been part of a squadron
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01:17:22.550 --> 01:17:26.399
of seven Hellcats. flying from Redmond to Red Bluff, California,
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01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:30.319
in December of 1945. All seven of them had been
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01:17:30.359 --> 01:17:32.699
struggling with some of the weather, and the cloud ceiling
1379
01:17:32.720 --> 01:17:36.279
was at about 6,000 feet, less than 2,000 feet above
1380
01:17:36.300 --> 01:17:40.300
the rugged terrain they were overflying. The ceiling steadily lowered
1381
01:17:40.350 --> 01:17:42.970
until the planes were at 500 feet above the treetops.
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The snow and mist had closed in, and the pilots
1383
01:17:46.210 --> 01:17:49.689
could no longer see the ground. They were flying purely
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01:17:49.770 --> 01:17:53.390
on instruments now. When they emerged from the fog, however,
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01:17:53.899 --> 01:17:58.199
There were only six of them. The Navy returned the
1386
01:17:58.239 --> 01:18:01.880
skull to Frank's mother, who finally, after waiting 25 years
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01:18:01.920 --> 01:18:04.399
to find out what had happened to her son, was
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01:18:04.500 --> 01:18:11.319
able to lay him to rest. Rest in peace, Ensign Lupo. Then,
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01:18:11.590 --> 01:18:16.270
on February 26, 1975, a woman named Jean Nunn dropped
1390
01:18:16.310 --> 01:18:19.890
off her husband Dave, their daughter and grandchild, at the airport,
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01:18:20.329 --> 01:18:24.250
now called the Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport. order for Dave
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01:18:24.289 --> 01:18:26.890
to fly them back home to Salem in his private plane.
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01:18:27.789 --> 01:18:31.699
It was a blue Cessna 182. Two 17 year old
1394
01:18:31.739 --> 01:18:34.680
student pilots named Jim Pryor and Matt Perkins were also
1395
01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:36.359
in the plane so as to get some more flight
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hours to put towards their eventual pilot's license. The plane
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01:18:40.840 --> 01:18:43.609
landed in Salem without a hitch and after saying their
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01:18:43.630 --> 01:18:46.850
goodbyes the passengers got off and Dave and the two
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01:18:46.890 --> 01:18:49.829
students strapped back in for the return trip. A short
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01:18:49.850 --> 01:18:53.869
flight back to Klamath Falls. Jean wasn't feeling well that
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01:18:53.949 --> 01:18:57.310
night and decided to turn into bed early. She later
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01:18:57.329 --> 01:19:00.189
said she awoke too early and with a bad feeling.
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01:19:01.369 --> 01:19:04.630
She was quoted as saying, I woke up at 9.30 p.m.
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01:19:04.930 --> 01:19:07.479
with the sensation of a hand on my leg. she
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01:19:07.520 --> 01:19:10.159
recalled in a 2000 interview with Lee Beach of the
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01:19:10.180 --> 01:19:14.920
Klamath Falls Herald and News. She continues, I looked at
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01:19:14.960 --> 01:19:18.590
the clock. I knew. I called the airport and told
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01:19:18.600 --> 01:19:21.409
them the plane had gone down at 9.20 p.m. and
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01:19:21.430 --> 01:19:25.109
that he had died at 9.30. They confirmed that they
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01:19:25.130 --> 01:19:28.590
had lost the plane off the radar at 9.20 at 11,000 feet.
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01:19:30.359 --> 01:19:32.439
Jean knew from the start her husband had made it
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01:19:32.520 --> 01:19:36.479
out alive. Now that creepy yet peaceful feeling of that
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01:19:36.520 --> 01:19:39.020
hand on her leg that night didn't stop the search
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01:19:39.039 --> 01:19:41.680
parties from going out and looking for Dave, Matt, and Jim.
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01:19:42.800 --> 01:19:45.439
It was all in vain, though, as indeed not a
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01:19:45.500 --> 01:19:47.720
single shred of evidence as to where the three ended
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01:19:47.819 --> 01:19:52.140
up could be found. Most speculated that they had ended
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01:19:52.199 --> 01:19:55.100
up in the lake and were far beyond anyone's help anyway.
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01:19:56.520 --> 01:19:59.369
It wasn't until seven years later that a hiker who
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01:19:59.409 --> 01:20:01.829
was traveling just outside of the park's boundary near a
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01:20:01.850 --> 01:20:05.390
Huckleberry campground spotted what looked to be a severely mangled
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01:20:05.409 --> 01:20:09.560
small aircraft wreckage. The hiker approached the wreck cautiously and
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01:20:09.640 --> 01:20:13.319
indeed found three skeletons slumped over and still inside the cabin.
1424
01:20:14.460 --> 01:20:17.199
Though Jean had been right all along, it was a
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01:20:17.220 --> 01:20:19.279
sure relief that her husband and his students were now
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01:20:19.350 --> 01:20:23.350
found and could be put to a proper burial. Identification
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01:20:23.489 --> 01:20:26.310
of the three skeletons was easy enough. All three had
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01:20:26.350 --> 01:20:29.720
their identifications in their wallets. And perhaps the most tragic
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01:20:29.739 --> 01:20:32.079
of all was a small folded piece of paper Dave
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01:20:32.119 --> 01:20:35.840
had in his wallet that said, Lose not thine airspeed,
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01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:42.119
lest the ground rise up and smite thee. Indeed. Decades later,
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01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:44.859
Jean published a book about her spiritual journey through the
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01:20:44.899 --> 01:20:48.520
trauma of losing her husband. It's titled, We Fly Away.
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01:20:51.159 --> 01:20:56.029
Yet another strange occurrence in the park. In 1974, 19-year-old
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01:20:56.090 --> 01:20:59.609
Virginia resident Charles McCullough ordered a bus in his home state,
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01:20:59.710 --> 01:21:02.829
and decided to take an extended vacation. He would be
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01:21:02.869 --> 01:21:06.590
taking buses and also hitchhiking across and throughout the country.
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01:21:07.430 --> 01:21:11.260
He left behind his beloved Volkswagen, but being a dedicated
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01:21:11.319 --> 01:21:14.619
and very talented amateur photographer, he took his camera equipment
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01:21:14.760 --> 01:21:20.460
and set off on his adventure. In late January 1975,
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01:21:20.460 --> 01:21:23.100
Charles was staying with a friend in Eugene, Oregon, but
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01:21:23.140 --> 01:21:24.920
left to go on what was only meant to be
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01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:28.789
a short excursion. hitchhiking to Crater Lake to take winter photos.
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01:21:29.649 --> 01:21:31.489
He told his friend he planned to be back in
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01:21:31.560 --> 01:21:34.500
two days, but he never returned and was in fact
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01:21:34.539 --> 01:21:38.359
never seen or heard from alive again. Once the friend
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01:21:38.460 --> 01:21:41.699
reported him missing, the FBI got involved, and Charles' father
1448
01:21:41.739 --> 01:21:44.359
dropped everything and hopped on a plane, took a flight
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01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:47.109
to the west coast. He spent the entire summer at
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01:21:47.149 --> 01:21:50.689
Crater Lake searching for his son to no avail. There
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01:21:50.710 --> 01:21:53.130
was no trace of Charles until a full year after
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01:21:53.149 --> 01:21:56.579
he'd gone missing. At the end of the season, almost
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01:21:56.659 --> 01:21:59.880
exactly one full year later, two hikers just happened to
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01:21:59.920 --> 01:22:02.920
have taken a wrong turn. They ended up in a
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01:22:02.979 --> 01:22:05.460
little travel canyon where they came upon a dirty old
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01:22:05.560 --> 01:22:07.920
ripped backpack with a car key in one of the
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01:22:07.960 --> 01:22:11.670
side pockets. It was the key to Charles' beloved Volkswagen
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01:22:11.689 --> 01:22:13.750
he had left home at the start of his journey west.
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01:22:15.170 --> 01:22:18.050
Immediately upon the discovery of the pack being reported, Mark
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01:22:18.130 --> 01:22:21.510
Ranger started a search effort. A horse patrol took only
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01:22:21.529 --> 01:22:25.390
a couple of hours to locate Charles' remains. Now here's
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01:22:25.409 --> 01:22:28.109
where this particular story takes a turn for the worse,
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01:22:28.250 --> 01:22:30.310
if you can believe that. And a little on the
1464
01:22:30.329 --> 01:22:33.909
sinister and bizarre side too, if we're being honest. Charles'
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01:22:33.970 --> 01:22:37.960
body was found 12 miles away from the trailhead. And
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01:22:38.020 --> 01:22:43.699
on the day he disappeared, there were 102, yes that's 102,
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01:22:43.699 --> 01:22:46.300
inches of new snow on the ground at Crater Lake.
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01:22:47.380 --> 01:22:51.039
How did a 19-year-old kid, totally inexperienced in dealing with
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01:22:51.060 --> 01:22:53.649
the rough and rugged terrain of the wilderness, let alone
1470
01:22:53.810 --> 01:22:56.250
the seven and a half feet of fresh snow on
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01:22:56.270 --> 01:23:00.930
the ground at those 102 inches equal, it's simply not possible.
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01:23:01.689 --> 01:23:04.050
And that's according to many professionals who have claimed even
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01:23:04.090 --> 01:23:06.529
they couldn't do it, especially not with the lack of
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01:23:06.569 --> 01:23:10.550
skill and gear that Charles had. The condition of the
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01:23:10.590 --> 01:23:14.220
skeleton itself is another thing that left everyone scratching their heads.
1476
01:23:15.319 --> 01:23:18.300
While his foot bones were in his socks, which is common,
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01:23:18.840 --> 01:23:22.340
his jeans were completely empty of leg bones, except where
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01:23:22.380 --> 01:23:24.840
the broken off ends of his shin bones were sticking up.
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01:23:25.920 --> 01:23:28.380
His jeans were unbuttoned, but the rest of Charles was
1480
01:23:28.420 --> 01:23:30.899
completely gone, as if the rest of him had simply
1481
01:23:31.000 --> 01:23:35.859
vanished or melted away. Again, this doesn't seem possible. The
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01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:38.420
only other thing ever found was the crown of his skull,
1483
01:23:38.979 --> 01:23:43.020
about 12 feet away from the rest of him. His shirt, coat,
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01:23:43.100 --> 01:23:46.199
and boots were also never found. The empty pair of
1485
01:23:46.220 --> 01:23:49.359
pants was sitting on a log quite eerily, with nothing
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01:23:49.420 --> 01:23:53.300
but socks and foot bones inside. Some have speculated that
1487
01:23:53.340 --> 01:23:56.140
perhaps he was hypothermic, and we have heard about people
1488
01:23:56.159 --> 01:24:00.060
doing strange things when dealing with that particular condition. This
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01:24:00.100 --> 01:24:02.680
made perfect sense, as the stripping off of clothing in
1490
01:24:02.720 --> 01:24:07.229
a disoriented and confused state is extremely common. Also, it's
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01:24:07.289 --> 01:24:10.409
the Cascades in the wintertime, so most likely more than
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01:24:10.449 --> 01:24:13.170
a few foxes came along and helped the feet detach
1493
01:24:13.189 --> 01:24:16.989
from the body, and probably more. So, what makes this
1494
01:24:17.029 --> 01:24:20.899
so strange? Well, the location of the body, for one.
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01:24:21.880 --> 01:24:27.079
as previously mentioned, missing boots and socks. Charles had some
1496
01:24:27.119 --> 01:24:31.060
rather expensive equipment with him to take the winter photographs. Well,
1497
01:24:31.420 --> 01:24:34.939
none of that was ever found either. The reigning theory
1498
01:24:35.199 --> 01:24:38.050
is that perhaps Charles hitched a ride with the wrong person,
1499
01:24:38.510 --> 01:24:41.529
who stole all of this expensive camera equipment, took a chance,
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01:24:41.930 --> 01:24:44.949
and did away with him. And most likely, stole his
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01:24:45.010 --> 01:24:48.329
money too. This alleged killer then hauled the body to
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01:24:48.350 --> 01:24:50.869
the most remote part of Crater Lake and left it
1503
01:24:50.930 --> 01:24:54.039
sitting on a log. figuring between the elements and the animals,
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01:24:54.479 --> 01:24:56.500
there would be nothing left of poor Charles by the
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01:24:56.539 --> 01:24:59.220
time spring came and most of the hikers and visitors
1506
01:24:59.260 --> 01:25:03.640
were back around. Despite all the evidence pointing to the contrary,
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01:25:04.100 --> 01:25:08.750
the police ruled Charles had died of natural causes. His
1508
01:25:08.810 --> 01:25:11.250
father never did believe this, that the cause of his
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01:25:11.270 --> 01:25:14.770
son's death was natural, and though he wasn't the only
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01:25:14.949 --> 01:25:18.630
one and so many questions remained, there was never any
1511
01:25:18.689 --> 01:25:21.399
proof to be found one way or the other. And
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01:25:21.520 --> 01:25:25.350
once again, the park kept her secrets closed, eerily quiet,
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01:25:26.109 --> 01:25:30.850
throughout all these years. Is it so hard to believe
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01:25:30.890 --> 01:25:32.989
that with all of the millions of acres of land
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01:25:33.029 --> 01:25:35.409
across the United States and all over the world where
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01:25:35.430 --> 01:25:37.569
people go to to visit for whatever reason or another,
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01:25:38.109 --> 01:25:40.850
you would think that there would be more skeletal remains
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01:25:40.909 --> 01:25:45.800
left behind from some accident or incident or something? No.
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01:25:46.600 --> 01:25:49.439
Do murders happen and do bodies get dumped in precisely
1520
01:25:49.500 --> 01:25:53.229
these types of environments? Yes. Will we ever have all
1521
01:25:53.250 --> 01:25:58.010
the answers? Resoundingly, no. But I'm sure at least most
1522
01:25:58.050 --> 01:26:00.649
of us could agree on one thing. Being as we
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01:26:00.729 --> 01:26:03.090
only spoke of a few of the old skeletons found
1524
01:26:03.130 --> 01:26:06.050
in this one particular park and area of land, it
1525
01:26:06.149 --> 01:26:08.189
is a bit strange that they were all found in
1526
01:26:08.229 --> 01:26:11.590
this one particular what amounts to a small area in
1527
01:26:11.609 --> 01:26:15.390
the grand scheme of things. Again, considering the vastness of
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01:26:15.409 --> 01:26:21.310
the great woods and outdoors across the world. Well, folks,
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01:26:21.329 --> 01:26:24.329
there you have it. What do you think of these
1530
01:26:24.369 --> 01:26:28.340
strange cases from Crater Lake? I look forward to your comments,
1531
01:26:28.449 --> 01:26:32.619
but please keep it friendly and respectful. In the meanwhile,
1532
01:26:32.880 --> 01:26:36.239
be good to yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there.
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01:26:36.500 --> 01:26:37.699
I don't want to have to make one of these
1534
01:26:37.760 --> 01:26:41.359
videos about you. As for me, I'll see you a
1535
01:26:41.359 --> 01:26:45.430
little farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, and
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01:26:45.449 --> 01:26:46.510
I'll talk to you next time.