Missing people in National parks

[stirfry1]

Has anybody read or watched some of David Paulides books on missing people in the National parks in the U.S.

Very fascinating, Just makes you wonder about missing cases in Alberta and surrounding provinces.

[Sooner]

In a park you can walk a long ways and you can get way off the beaten path, then get into real trouble. I don't doubt people go missing in parks across the U.S. and here. Hard to find a needle in a huge haystack.

[Grizzly Adams]

Every once in a while, someone finds a skeleton. It happens, especially with young unattached people, nobody misses them for long periods of time. Trip into the back country, an accident and Presto.

Grizz

[roger]

I fouND a story about a hiker that went missing on a glacier hike in the 70's in jasper. And was found after the glacier flowed/ receded.
Probly fell in a crevasse

[Okotokian]

it's bigfoot that gets them. LOL

I read an interesting/crazy article about bigfoot lately where the author used a perfectly circular argument: "Don't try to use trail cams to capture pictures of bigfoot. They sense and avoid trail cams. There have never been any pictures of bigfoot taken with trail cams." LOL Yes, or maybe.... ;)

sorry for the derail. Just couldn't resist.

[purgatory.sv]

But but but its true?

[Knot Rite]

I believe I was watching National
geographic and they said that about 4,000 people go missing every year in Alaska.
I think I'll take the wife on vacation there next year.

Bobby

[hillbillyreefer]

Kennewick Man?

[Bushrat]

I believe I was watching National
geographic and they said that about 4,000 people go missing every year in Alaska.
I think I'll take the wife on vacation there next year.

Bobby

Alaska is one of the most favoured and easiest places to go off the radar, there are lots of people who just 'disappear' up there.

[IR_mike]

I believe I was watching National
geographic and they said that about 4,000 people go missing every year in Alaska.
I think I'll take the wife on vacation there next year.

Bobby

4000......I think there is a few to many zero's in that number.....that's a heck of a lot of people.

Good luck on the wife thing though.

[JimPS]

Alaska is one of the most favoured and easiest places to go off the radar, there are lots of people who just 'disappear' up there.

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Here's 9 who wouldn't be missed if they disappeared.

[^v^Tinda wolf^v^]

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Here's 9 who wouldn't be missed if they disappeared.

Your wish is granted, turn the channel

[Grizzly Adams]

Alaska is one of the most favoured and easiest places to go off the radar, there are lots of people who just 'disappear' up there.

Alaska even had it's own mass murderer. Took years to figure it out what was happening to so many women because disappearances were so common

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2731559/Alaska-serial-killer-dies-decades-murders.html

Grizz

[beaver hunter]

[QUOTE=IR_mike;3123831]4000......I think there is a few to many zero's in that number.....that's a heck of a lot of people.

The fourth kind....

[Big Bull]

I fouND a story about a hiker that went missing on a glacier hike in the 70's in jasper. And was found after the glacier flowed/ receded.
Probly fell in a crevasse

http://www.fitzhugh.ca/breaking-body-found-in-athabasca-glacier/

[stirfry1]

The disappearances in these cases always have something weird associated with them.

People that have gone missing end up miles from where they were lost in areas that they should or could not get into. Clothes found years later but show no weathering etc.

Kind of creepy

[Jjolg123]

Alaska even had it's own mass murderer. Took years to figure it out what was happening to so many women because disappearances were so common

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2731559/Alaska-serial-killer-dies-decades-murders.html

Grizz

There was a movie released that depicted this case called Frozen Ground, not the best movie but wasn't a low budget film either.

[agentsmith]

I fouND a story about a hiker that went missing on a glacier hike in the 70's in jasper. And was found after the glacier flowed/ receded.
Probly fell in a crevasseImagine future archaeologists finding that body thousands of years from now, like we found the Iceman in the Alps:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi

[Big_Willy]

Unfortunately, it is not that unusual for bodies to turn-up in National Parks.

I can recall two incidences, one in 2014 and another in 2010 where bodies have been discovered by recreational users of the parks. I believe both were in Jasper NP. Both involved lone recreational users who came to their demise out of sight, just off well-travelled routes and subsequently remained mysteries for years.

It is an unspoken truth by residents of the Parks that a off-trail hike could lead to these finds, or if done unwisely, you could become one of the lost.

Scary, eh kids?


-Willy

[Big_Willy]

I forgot to mention...

If you want to be creeped out watch the YouTube video on Japan's Aokigahara Forest. I wont spoil the rest for you....



-Willy

[agentsmith]

I forgot to mention...

If you want to be creeped out watch the YouTube video on Japan's Aokigahara Forest. I wont spoil the rest for you....



-WillyThere's this new documentary coming out about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDs_DYow7xA

[drake]

it's bigfoot that gets them. LOL

I read an interesting/crazy article about bigfoot lately where the author used a perfectly circular argument: "Don't try to use trail cams to capture pictures of bigfoot. They sense and avoid trail cams. There have never been any pictures of bigfoot taken with trail cams." LOL Yes, or maybe.... ;)

sorry for the derail. Just couldn't resist.

what is the current price of tea in china?......

[fishstix]

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Here's 9 who wouldn't be missed if they disappeared.
Ha ha ha ha....too funny. Ha ha ha...throw Todd and Jack Hoffman in there as well.

[xxclaro]

Has anybody read or watched some of David Paulides books on missing people in the National parks in the U.S.

Very fascinating, Just makes you wonder about missing cases in Alberta and surrounding provinces.

I did watch a show with him, and found it very interesting. I'd heard about it before, and I just figured it was people getting lost in the wilderness and thats about it. Hearing the circumstances of some of these stories has changed my mind on that, certainly some strange things have happened. What that might be, I don't know.

[IR_mike]

There's this new documentary coming out about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDs_DYow7xA

That's not a "documentary".

[HunterDave]

Every once in a while, someone finds a skeleton. It happens, especially with young unattached people, nobody misses them for long periods of time. Trip into the back country, an accident and Presto.

Grizz

If they are finding bones you aren't digging the hole deep enough. :tongue0017:

[birdee]

lost hunter near fox creek
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/20148223?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com

[thetruth]

I've looked at much of David Paulides' work and find the guy quite convincing and seemingly genuine. He always stops short, however, of coming out and stating a definitive opinion of what he honestly believes is going on and it sure seems like there may well be something taking place that is inexplicable using conventional rationale. Who knows....

But it is kinda fun to suspend disbelief for a time and consider that maybe, just maybe, something out there is taking people and the Government knows it and is covering it up.....:scared0015:

[Grizzly Adams]

lost hunter near fox creek
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/20148223?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com

Don't think they ever found the three rodeo riders that crashed near there somewhere either.

http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=96134

Grizz

[260 Rem]

Many years ago an American cousin living in the LA area was married to a guy that worked on a baggage shuttle at the Orange County Airport. One weekend he went hiking in wilderness park with a couple of guys who reported him missing after they "got separated and he failed to show at the agreed departure point". In spite of extensive searches including with the use of heat imaging equipment, he was never found. Cousin hired a private detective who theorized that the buddies had killed him and hidden the body. It was suspected the disappearance was drug related and had something to do with his work at the airport...that he was either involved with, or had seen. She had to continue paying his life in insurance policy for seven years before he was declared officially dead ...

[agentsmith]

That's not a "documentary".The hell you say.

[Hagalaz]

Has anybody read or watched some of David Paulides books on missing people in the National parks in the U.S.

Very fascinating, Just makes you wonder about missing cases in Alberta and surrounding provinces.

I have his first three books, they are a good read.

[Ishpah]

or how about this one in your backyard?
http://www.hintonparklander.com/2013/08/29/20000-reward-still-offered-for-information-to-solve-stewart-case

[Silvercreek]

Don't think they ever found the three rodeo riders that crashed near there somewhere either.

http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=96134

Grizz

There were 5 of them and they were all truck drivers working for Darryl Trottier Trucking out of Fox creek.
They were:
Daryl Trottier
Brian Trottier
Larry Anderson
Rick Gascon
George Maurer

All of them were from the Fox Creek / Little Smoky / Valleyview area.

Darryl Trottier was the pilot and the rodeo connection was that Dale Trottier, Daryl and Brians brother and a well known bronc rider was instrumental in the search and organizing various other searches through his rodeo connections.
Dale Trottier searched for the plane in the spring and fall for years afterwards but the plane has never been found.

I worked for Darryl Trottier for a while when I was much younger as a swamper and went to school with Rick Gascon as well as knowing all of them.
They were on their way to Prince George to look at some trucks to buy and just disappeared.

[BGSH]

Has anybody read or watched some of David Paulides books on missing people in the National parks in the U.S.

Very fascinating, Just makes you wonder about missing cases in Alberta and surrounding provinces.

Very interesting stuff. Missing 411. Enjoy his missing persons cases from national parks.

[moosemad]

Those posting comments who haven't listened to him don't know what you are talking about. He only investigates certain cases that have very strange details. You should give him a listen, very interesting head scratching details. Heres an interview with Dave Pauladies if anyone is interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMrsdHw6iXs

[.257Weatherby]

http://www.missinginspatsizi.com/

And more info/updates here on a BC Hunting web site....

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?54768-Still-Missing-in-Spatsizi

People go missing for many reasons some nefarious and some just plain strange circumstances.

Rob

[jstubbs]

I once read a few threads where an American Search and Rescue officer told a ton of absolutely bizarre instances and stories out in the bush while trying to help/find people. I’ll try to find the link. Not sure how much of it was real and not embellishesd, but some fun spooky and head scratching stories regardless.

[Mountain Guy]

Old thread but.. surprised that the well known fact that people go to national parks to "disappear" hasn't been mentioned.

[58thecat]

Well sometimes you just gotta not make bad deals with the devil....you go missing....funny though sometimes that's a good thing.