The Secret Vanishings in America's National Parks

There's a lot of silliness in this article, but I'll focus on one glaring example because I'm on mobile.

"In 95 percent of the cases, bad weather strangely follows a disappearance, washing out footprints and other clues and making it impossible to carry on a search until the weather clears. In 98 to 99 percent of the cases, tracking dogs are unable to find a scent or simply refuse to track."

There's nothing remotely sinister about this. It just means that when those things don't happen, the people get found. Tracking dog failure is a necessary condition for human disappearance. No great shock that it's found to be true whenever someone disappears mysteriously.

Likewise with the missing people being found weeks later, miles from where they were last seen. The "missing people" who stick close to where they were get found pretty quickly. It's the wanderers who are difficult to find in time, and so show up in these statistics.

Only open this if you like paranoid conspiracy theories (children not remembering where they were), paranormal possibilities (so many Devil names) and lack of critical thinking (no links for most claims), and if you like supporting political fringe websites. Oh and it's 2014.

I feel like this is a daily critical thinking exercise for the commenters here to process.

> Strangely, a big percentage of these disappearances have clues in common: Huckleberries, dogs, ...

All clues point to Huckleberry Hound, known associate of Jellystone denizen Yogi Bear.

I thought this was going to be an article about Parks closing.

Easy to laugh now at home with the lights on but when the sun goes down on your campsite in the Olympic National Park and the fog rolls in you'll be feeling differently.