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Vanishings In America's National Parks

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I'm gonna file this site under "disreputable".

Gems from the article:

> "Most of those who have disappeared are children ages 20 months to 12 years and the elderly ages 74 to 85. Not one person carrying a firearm(and only one carrying a transponder device) has disappeared."

Also, not one person carrying a pack of condoms has disappeared.

> "in most areas where the disappearances have occurred, huckleberries are almost always in great abundance."

> "Many of the areas that people have disappeared from carry such names as Devil’s Gulch, Devil’s Lookout, Twin Devil Lake and Devil’s Punch Bowl., perhaps named to reflect the evil people have sensed in these places over time."

> "On a recent appearance on the radio show Coast to Coast AM, Paulides listed some ideas, such as sasquatch, large birds and extraterrestrials, but he also mentioned demons as a possible cause"

I consider myself a bit of a skeptic's skeptic, and I am not very fond of the actual article myself but chose to post it rather than the youtube interview I came across. I've read enough on this topic outside this single article at this point and I am pretty convinced that something strange is happening.

Posted here so someone can possibly explain how this strangeness is not strange at all. Unfortunate that I picked a "disreputable" website.

Why does this strange statistic exist?

The problem is that I can't bring myself to believe any of the "facts" the article claims, when in the same breath they talk about bigfoot and demons like they're as real as cars and Obama. Even if I trust the facts are true, I can't trust they aren't cherry-picked.

Do you have another link, preferably one that's not written from a "want to believe" standpoint? (If there aren't any, my conclusion would be that whatever "strangeness" there might be is attributable entirely to coincidence, which is both plentiful in the universe, and fodder for conspiracy theorists.)

As far as a contrarian article, I cannot find one. The NPS wont release any of their numbers for missing persons within their parks, so the only information people have to go on is found in individual cases. Some of these cases date back to the 1800s, why won't the NPS cooperate with any of the research?

Within each disappearance, why the strange similarities? And it isn't small numbers of people, it's a good percentage of people who go missing.

They went missing feet away from their companions. They had no clothes when they were found. Their shoes were never found. They were found miles away from any rational place they should be found, often up a mountain. There is almost never any sign of sexual abuse (I think there was only one body that was raped after the person was dead). The people aren't eaten. The people are often intact, at most some scratches. Why would so many children leave their family, swim across a river, take off their clothes at some point, then hike up a peak within a few hours? Why won't dogs pick up their scents? The people who are found alive are either too feeble or too young to really describe what happened.

It's not like some small percentage of the cases follow this pattern. It's a crazy high percentage, enough to set a trend; however, it's hard to come up with an exact percentage since the NPS won't help with any information.

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