Journal in a Locked Campground: How the Wilderness Hid Her Alive

Horror Stories 24 Hours · Sep 30, 2026 · 21m

Journal in a Locked Campground: How the Wilderness Hid Her Alive

Something was sitting on top of a vault toilet waste pile in a locked campground: a dry, clean spiral-bound journal belonging to a 62-year-old woman missing for eight days. Search teams had combed the opposite side of the ridge with dogs and foot teams - so how did Kimberly Schmidt’s journal end up eight and a half road miles from where she started, past a locked gate, in a place no one thought to check?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Kimberly’s signed departure at Cobb Creek Trailhead to the discovery in…