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5 STRANGEST disappearances in forests The Missing 411 phenomenon · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Something very strange seems to be going on inside of
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Speaker 1: national parks in North America. Every year, hundreds of people
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Speaker 1: go missing in these parks. But these parks are huge
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Speaker 1: expanses of wilderness, so it's not particularly unusual that people
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Speaker 1: might go missing inside of them. But every year, of
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Speaker 1: those hundreds of people that go missing, there's always a
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Speaker 1: few that go missing under very strange circumstances. Either the
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Speaker 1: way in which they disappeared doesn't really add up. You know,
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Speaker 1: someone will be watching or keeping an eye on someone,
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Speaker 1: they'll turn around and then turn back and that person's
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Speaker 1: missing and there's not a trace of them and they're
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Speaker 1: never found again. Or you'll have instances of someone will
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Speaker 1: go missing, there'll be an extensive search, there's no trace
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Speaker 1: of them, and then they're found like miles and miles
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Speaker 1: away in locations that are almost impossible to get to. Now.
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Speaker 1: One man, David Plaidis, who's a former police detective. He
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Speaker 1: began researching these very strange disappearances inside of national parks.
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Speaker 1: It started when a park ranger actually approached him and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of weird things happening in state parks.
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Speaker 1: You should look into it because you're a former detective,
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Speaker 1: and so after looking into it, he discovered that there
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Speaker 1: were so many oddities around many of these strange disappearances,
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Speaker 1: and he saw there was many overlaps and similarities that
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Speaker 1: he really dove into it, and he's examined thousands of
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Speaker 1: these strange cases. By his count, you know, ten thousand
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Speaker 1: plus hours of research. He's written four books that are
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Speaker 1: all under the name Missing four one one. If you
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Speaker 1: google Missing four one one, you'll find a plethora of
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Speaker 1: information about these cases. He has two documentaries out, and
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Speaker 1: so David, while he doesn't actually take a stance as to,
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Speaker 1: you know, what's causing these strange disappearances, anybody that follows
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Speaker 1: along with the Missing four one one cases is basically
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Speaker 1: led to believe that something is hunting humans in North
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Speaker 1: America inside of national parks. It is fascinating, it is terrifying.
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Speaker 1: And I've picked out five of the most bizarre cases
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Speaker 1: that I've come across inside of Missing four on one
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Speaker 1: Before we get into those five stories, though, if this
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Speaker 1: On Father's Day weekend nineteen sixty nine, six year old
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Speaker 1: Dennis Martin, his brother, his father, and his grandfather headed
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Speaker 1: up to the Smoky Mountains to go camping. This was
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Speaker 1: a family tradition on Father's Day and they were really
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Speaker 1: excited about it. They get to the same campsite they
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Speaker 1: always used, they set up, they have a wonderful first
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Speaker 1: night they camp out, and the next day another camper
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Speaker 1: in the area happened to walk by saw that Dennis
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Speaker 1: and his brother were playing there, and so this camper
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Speaker 1: had kids as well, and he asked Dennis's father, Hey,
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Speaker 1: would it be okay if I brought my kids by.
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Speaker 1: They're the same age as your sons and they can
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Speaker 1: just play together. Dennis's father says, sure, bring him down,
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Speaker 1: and so the man goes gets his kids. They come back,
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Speaker 1: and before long, all the kids are playing hide and seek.
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Speaker 1: Now Dennis's father would say that he had an eye
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Speaker 1: on Dennis the whole time. He was just at a
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Speaker 1: distance but watching his son to make sure he didn't
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Speaker 1: get lost. And so at one point, all the kids
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Speaker 1: are hiding from the parents, and you know, at some
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Speaker 1: point the parents say, okay, show yourselves, and all the
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Speaker 1: kids except for Dennis, show themselves, and Dennis's father has
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Speaker 1: watched Dennis go behind a particular tree. He watched him
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Speaker 1: do it. He was watching the whole time, and so
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Speaker 1: when they said come on out and he didn't come out,
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Speaker 1: he actually wasn't that concerned because he knew exactly where
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Speaker 1: his son was. And then after a few moments, he
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Speaker 1: yelled to his son directly and starts walking over and says, Dennis,
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Speaker 1: come out, Dennis, you're behind the tree. And when he
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Speaker 1: finally got over there, Dennis wasn't there. Dennis's father immediately
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Speaker 1: starts running off into the woods screaming for his son,
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Speaker 1: and he actually ends up running almost two miles up
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Speaker 1: the appalach trail just hollering for his son and he
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Speaker 1: can't find him. And then the rest of the family
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Speaker 1: had broken up and was searching the area because they're thinking,
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Speaker 1: like he couldn't have gone very far. He was literally
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Speaker 1: just here. And Dennis's father had said before, like, I
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Speaker 1: watched him go behind the tree. I watched him. I
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Speaker 1: don't know where he is, but I watched him go
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Speaker 1: behind the tree. And so they're searching everywhere and Dennis
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Speaker 1: is gone. So a huge search, in fact, the biggest
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Speaker 1: search in part history ensues with fifteen hundred searchers that
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Speaker 1: included the Army Green Berets. So the Special Forces got involved.
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Speaker 1: They are combing a sixty square mile plot. They're looking
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Speaker 1: everywhere and there's nothing. There's no trace, there's no scent,
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Speaker 1: there is nothing connected to Dennis Martin anywhere. And so
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Speaker 1: they go back to Dennis's father and they're like, you
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Speaker 1: have to tell us what you saw. Again, this doesn't
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Speaker 1: add up. If you were looking at the tree and
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Speaker 1: he was right there, How is it that he has
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Speaker 1: just vanished into thin air? But no one knew that
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Speaker 1: was it. No one knows what happened. There's no closure.
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Speaker 1: He's just gone and they never knew what happened to him.
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Speaker 1: Years later, when David Poliitis was doing his research for
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Speaker 1: Missing four one one and was researching the Dennis Martin case,
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Speaker 1: he interviewed other families that had been at the campground
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Speaker 1: at the same time that Dennis had gone missing, and
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Speaker 1: one of those families was the Key family, and they
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Speaker 1: had asked a park ranger where they could go on
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Speaker 1: the campground where they might be able to see some bears.
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Speaker 1: And so the park ranger obviously said, you know, be careful,
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Speaker 1: but you can go over here to this section of
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Speaker 1: the campground and you might see a bear. And so
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Speaker 1: they head over there and they're looking for bears, and
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Speaker 1: the one of their children hears a scream or things.
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Speaker 1: He hears a scream and kind of directs the family
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Speaker 1: to look in the direction of the scream. And from
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Speaker 1: their vantage point, they could see up onto the side
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Speaker 1: of this mountain where there was call it sparse trees
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Speaker 1: all over the mountains. You could kind of see in
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Speaker 1: between the trees, and they saw what looked like a
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Speaker 1: bear running along the mountain side, but with something slung
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Speaker 1: over its shoulder. Except the interesting thing about this bear
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Speaker 1: was the father was quoted as saying that it didn't
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Speaker 1: really act like a bear. It was acting more like
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Speaker 1: a human. The way it was running. It looked, you know,
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Speaker 1: hairy and like an animal, but it was running and
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Speaker 1: dodging between trees. It was holding this what looked like
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Speaker 1: a child over its shoulder. It had it acted almost
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Speaker 1: like a human. And so you have a bear man
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Speaker 1: that has been spotted by the Key family and they
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Speaker 1: bring this up to the investigators that are looking into
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Speaker 1: the Denis Martin case. And you know, obviously the Dennis
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Speaker 1: Martin investigators, they don't take this seriously. They think that
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Speaker 1: they're just you know, saying some ridiculous thing for attention
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Speaker 1: or whatever it is. So, you know, it never really
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Speaker 1: was entered into the case with Dennis Martin. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: until the Missing four to one one case is it
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Speaker 1: was ever connected. But there really was a family that
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Speaker 1: claims to have seen a bear man carrying a child
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Speaker 1: about an hour after Dennis Martin had gone missing in
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Speaker 1: the same area where Dennis Martin had gone missing. In
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Speaker 1: the spring of nineteen fifty two, two year old Keith
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Speaker 1: Parkins was playing with his siblings outside of his grandfather's
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Speaker 1: ranch in Ritter, Oregon, and when the kids were all
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Speaker 1: called in to have lunch, Keith was nowhere to be found,
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Speaker 1: and so the siblings and the family went out and
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Speaker 1: did a curse research looking for Keith, and when nothing
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Speaker 1: turns up, they call in authorities and a full fledged
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Speaker 1: search is launched for Keith. There's no sign, there's nothing,
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Speaker 1: and four miles away from the ranch, they find, several
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Speaker 1: hours later some footprints that looked like they might belong
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Speaker 1: to a two year old, and they start tracking those
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Speaker 1: footprints and they go on for miles and miles and
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Speaker 1: then they just kind of stop, and it wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: until the next day, twelve miles from the initial from
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Speaker 1: the ranch, but they would ultimately find Keith. Surprisingly, Keith,
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Speaker 1: who had disappeared with not enough clothing to be out
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Speaker 1: in sub zero temperatures, with snow on the ground, and
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Speaker 1: being two years old, he wasn't prepared for a night out.
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Speaker 1: He was found alive, face down, twelve miles away. His
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Speaker 1: jacket and his hat had been stacked neatly next to him,
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Speaker 1: and he had scratch marks all over his face, but
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Speaker 1: he was unhurt. When asked, you know what happened? You know,
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Speaker 1: he's two years old, he had said a cat scratched him.
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Speaker 1: And he kept repeating that a cat had scratched him.
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Speaker 1: That was the only thing that he could articulate. No
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Speaker 1: one knew how a two year old in the span
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Speaker 1: of twenty hours, could have moved in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night twelve miles away. Les Stroud, who's a very
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Speaker 1: accomplished outdoorsman, he's the star, he is survivor man. He actually,
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Speaker 1: because of this case, went out and tried to actually
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Speaker 1: cover the distance in the allotted time. He had twenty
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Speaker 1: hours to cover this twelve miles and he couldn't do it.
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Speaker 1: And he even said, like, it's not possible for a
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Speaker 1: two year old to have covered this distance, let alone
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Speaker 1: survived the exposure to the elements in the time that
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Speaker 1: he was out there. But somehow he did. And you know,
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Speaker 1: years and years later, Keith was interviewed, because now he's
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Speaker 1: a grown man, he was interviewed about what happened, and
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Speaker 1: he has no idea, he has no memory of it.
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Speaker 1: At the end of nineteen seventy three, nineteen year old
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Speaker 1: Charles mccullor, who was an amateur photographer, had been doing
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Speaker 1: a West coast tour of the United States, going to
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Speaker 1: all the different national parks to photograph beautiful scenery, and
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Speaker 1: by January of nineteen seventy four, he was in Oregon
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Speaker 1: and wanted to go to Crater Lake where he wanted
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Speaker 1: to take pictures of Crater Lake. So he asked his friend,
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Speaker 1: who had an alterrain vehicle, to take him out to
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Speaker 1: Crater Lake because his van, which was this VW beat
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Speaker 1: up old van, it couldn't have made it out that far.
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Speaker 1: And as his friend is driving him out to Crater Lane,
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Speaker 1: Charles says to him kind of jokingly, yeah, if you
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Speaker 1: don't hear from me in a couple of days, file
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Speaker 1: a missing person report. Sure enough, a couple of days later,
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Speaker 1: when Charles doesn't show up, that friend does file a
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Speaker 1: missing person report and an extensive search is conducted at
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Speaker 1: Crater Lake to find Charles. There's no sign of Charles.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing, there's no anything about Charles. And his father
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Speaker 1: actually flew out there and stayed for several months just
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Speaker 1: constantly searching the area found nothing. So nothing is found.
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Speaker 1: So a year later, a couple of backpackers were hiking
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Speaker 1: the area around Crater Lake and they get lost. They
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Speaker 1: take a wrong turn and they're well off the trailhead
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Speaker 1: and they discover a backpack. In the backpack, they found
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Speaker 1: a strange looking Volkswagen key that anyone that knew Charles
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Speaker 1: mccullor knew that he had this strange key, and so
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Speaker 1: when they found it, it was a distinctive key, and so
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Speaker 1: when they gave it to police, it turned out that
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Speaker 1: it was Charles mccullor's backpack. So investigators went out and
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Speaker 1: started looking in the area that this backpack was found,
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Speaker 1: which was twelve miles off the trailheads. This is well
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Speaker 1: off the trailhead and near the backpack they find what
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Speaker 1: remained of Charles mccullor. So they found his pants unbuttoned
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Speaker 1: and on a log as if he was sitting on
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Speaker 1: the log and then just disappeared into the ground, but
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Speaker 1: his pants were still there. Sticking out of the pants
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Speaker 1: were his socks, no shoes, and in the socks were
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Speaker 1: his feet bones. There was no jacket, there was no
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Speaker 1: upper portion of his skeleton. Twelve feet away they find
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Speaker 1: a portion of his skull, and that is the last
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Speaker 1: thing they find of Charles mccullor, And ultimately it was
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Speaker 1: determined that he died of natural causes. His family was
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Speaker 1: not prepared to accept that. However, when you look at
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Speaker 1: some of the circumstances, he's missing his jacket, he's missing
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Speaker 1: his boots, he's missing his photography, equipment. His head is
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Speaker 1: attached from his body. He was also twelve miles off
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Speaker 1: the trailhead, and when he went missing, there had been
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Speaker 1: a approximately to seven feet of snow that had dumped
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Speaker 1: in the area. So how did he move twelve miles
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Speaker 1: off the trailhead and seven feet of snow, especially when
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Speaker 1: you consider he was not an outdoorsy type, and even
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Speaker 1: when he got dropped off by his friend that drove
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Speaker 1: him out there. He even said later on that he
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Speaker 1: felt like Charles was very ill equipped for the environment
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Speaker 1: he was going into. But at the end of the
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Speaker 1: day it was left as sorry he went missing and
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Speaker 1: he died of natural causes, and that was that. Bart
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Speaker 1: Schleier was a famous outdoorsman and hunter. He was just
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Speaker 1: one of those people that you could drop into any
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Speaker 1: environment and he's not only going to survive, he's going
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Speaker 1: to thrive. A testament to that would be he spent
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Speaker 1: months in Siberia tracking and catching Siberian tigers. He was
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Speaker 1: like a world renowned tiger tracker. He's just like the
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Speaker 1: super rugged, super competent outdoorsman. In September of two thousand
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Speaker 1: and four, Bart books a floatplane to take him one
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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five miles north into the Yukon Territory
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Speaker 1: in Canada for him to go hunt moose on his
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Speaker 1: own for three weeks. He had all the right equipment,
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Speaker 1: he was obviously extremely capable, and no one thought twice
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Speaker 1: about it. When he got dropped off, he told the
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Speaker 1: pilot meet me back here in three weeks, and so
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Speaker 1: off he went. The plane leaves and comes back three
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Speaker 1: weeks later, and there's no Bart. Now the pilot knew
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Speaker 1: Bart was like a god in the wilderness, and so
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Speaker 1: he wasn't really concerned. But he went over to where
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Speaker 1: he had been told his campsite would be, and he
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Speaker 1: found the campsite and it looked like someone was still
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Speaker 1: living there. It didn't look like it had been destroyed
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Speaker 1: at all. And then near his campsite he found a
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Speaker 1: dry bag which looked like it had an indent on
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Speaker 1: it where someone might have been sitting on it up
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Speaker 1: against a tree. And then next to the tree was
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Speaker 1: his bow and some arrows, and it looked like an
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Speaker 1: area where a hunter might have been sitting to call
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Speaker 1: in moose, but there was no Bart. Near the dry
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Speaker 1: bag and the bow and arrow they found Bart's and
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Speaker 1: a couple of shards of bone. Initially, the thought is, well,
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Speaker 1: a large predator must have snuck up on Bart and
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Speaker 1: eaten him, except that a couple of huge problems with
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Speaker 1: that theory. One Bart his friends at least, would say,
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Speaker 1: and people that knew him would say, he would never
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Speaker 1: get snuck up on by a large predator. He was
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Speaker 1: so accomplished in the wilderness, like he was always a
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Speaker 1: step ahead of everything around him, So the idea that
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Speaker 1: he would just be sitting there one day and a
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Speaker 1: bear would just happen to sneak up on him is
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Speaker 1: pretty far fetched. Also, in the area where his teeth
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Speaker 1: and some of his bones were found, there was no
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Speaker 1: sign of what they call a death struggle, where you're
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Speaker 1: fighting for your life, you're smashing into everything. There's none
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Speaker 1: of that. There's no marking on the ground or in
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Speaker 1: the surrounding areas that a large predator had attacked him. Also,
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Speaker 1: his camp had food out in the open, and if
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Speaker 1: a large predator had come through like a bear after
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Speaker 1: it finished with Bart, it would have rated the campsite,
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Speaker 1: and it didn't. And so the way this was left
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Speaker 1: was he was attacked and eaten by a predator, but
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Speaker 1: nobody believes that because that wouldn't happen to Bart and
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Speaker 1: the circumstances around his campsite didn't really add up. In
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Speaker 1: two thousand and two, Christopher Tompkins was working as a
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Speaker 1: surveyor and he was assigned to this four man's survey
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Speaker 1: crew that was working in Harris County, Georgia, and they
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Speaker 1: were walking along this road, spaced about fifty feet apart,
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Speaker 1: all four of them, and Chris was the last one
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Speaker 1: in line, and the third one in line would later
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Speaker 1: tell investigators and police that as they were walking along
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Speaker 1: the road, he would periodically turn around to just for
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Speaker 1: a quick second make sure Chris was still there. And
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Speaker 1: as they're walking along with no sound or any indication
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Speaker 1: that anything's happened, he turned around stack Chris kept walking.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, turned around and Chris is gone.
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Speaker 1: The third guy hails the other two and they go
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Speaker 1: and they're like, where did Chris go. They're looking down
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Speaker 1: the road like maybe he stopped, maybe he stepped off
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Speaker 1: the trail, but they can't see him. And they go
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Speaker 1: back to they start walking down the road towards where
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Speaker 1: he would have been, and they find on the ground
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Speaker 1: a pile of loose change and some of his tools
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Speaker 1: that would have been in his pockets, and then they
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Speaker 1: see one of his boots stuck in the barbed wire,
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Speaker 1: because there's a little barbed wire fence that was running
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Speaker 1: a length of this road. One of his boots was
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Speaker 1: stuck in the barbed wire, and there was nothing else.
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Speaker 1: They searched the area, they're looking everywhere. There's no sign
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Speaker 1: of him, and it didn't make any sense to the
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Speaker 1: people in the survey crew, especially the guy who was
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Speaker 1: third in line, who was like, I literally saw him
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Speaker 1: a minute ago, and there's no way he could have
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Speaker 1: gotten away without me hearing or seeing some indication of
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Speaker 1: where he was. But there was no sign of him
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Speaker 1: and he was gone. So after this huge investigation, they
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Speaker 1: don't find any sign of him, and that's it. They're
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Speaker 1: just like, yeah, he's gone. They did find nine months later,
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Speaker 1: they found his other boot near a swamp nine hundred
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Speaker 1: yards away, but it didn't provide any more clarity into
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Speaker 1: what happened to him. However, if you look at the
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Speaker 1: pile of loose change and things that were in his
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Speaker 1: pockets that were on the road, it indicates that at
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Speaker 1: some point he may have been turned upside down and
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Speaker 1: if you think about the entirety of all of these
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Speaker 1: strange stories where the idea of being someone could be
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Speaker 1: hunting humans, just picturing your head Chris Tompkins walking along
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Speaker 1: and something flipping him upside down, dumping the contents out,
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Speaker 1: and then being gone in a matter of a minute
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Speaker 1: where no one can see where they went. These five
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Speaker 1: stories are just a fraction of the literal thousands of
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Speaker 1: others that are covered in the Missing four to one
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Speaker 1: one series. And while many people believe that all of
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Speaker 1: the cases in Missing four one one and any others
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Speaker 1: that ultimately are considered strange inside of these national parks
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Speaker 1: have a rational explanation, even if we don't know what
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Speaker 1: it is, where As another group believes that this missing
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Speaker 1: four one one phenomenon is an indication that something is
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Speaker 1: hunting humans in the national parks across North America. Some
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Speaker 1: say bigfoot, some say aliens, some say something else, But
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Speaker 1: paranormal is certainly the other camp in terms of trying
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Speaker 1: to explain away what these strange disappearances are from or
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Speaker 1: what's causing them. Whether or not we ever find a
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Speaker 1: definitive conclusion remains to be seen, but I would love
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Speaker 1: to hear what you think is going on inside of
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Speaker 1: these strange cases of missing four one one, whether it's
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Speaker 1: a rational explanation or maybe something paranormal or some other option.
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Speaker 1: is John Balin four one six. Also, I'm very active
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Speaker 1: on TikTok and my username is mister Ballin over there
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Speaker 1: as well. And that's going to do it, guys. Until
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Speaker 1: next time, take care,