Yosemite is a place people go to disappear into nature. Granite walls, endless forests, and trails that seem to stretch forever. But for some, disappearing quickly changes to missing. And in September of 2016, that’s what happened to one hiker. A remote campground. A solo hike. And no answers. This is the story of Peter Fancher Jackson.

Sources:
NamUs, NPS, Charley Project, Your Central Valley, Reddit, Medium, More Than Just Parks, YouTube - Northern Crimes, YouTube - The Missing Enigma

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One minute, you’ve just picked up dinner and you’re on your way home. The next, the road ahead of you is completely obscured by snow. No matter how well your vehicle handles in snow or how close to home you might be, no one can drive in zero visibility.

Sources:
Remembering Inspire More Reader's Digest CBC 

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There are moments at sea where experience, preparation, and even luck mean nothing. Where a single sound in the dark can turn a lifetime of knowledge into pure instinct. Tonight’s story is one of those moments. A family, four children, a dream years in the making—and a reef that should not have been there. This is the story of John Silverwood, the Emerald Jane, and the night everything changed.

Sources:
CBS News, Coronado Times, Dr. Akuna Kumar, Godswell Sailing, YouTube - National Safe Boating Council, YouTube - CBS, The Week, Black Wave, Risen Magazine

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There’s something appealing and romantic about foraging and there’s a special kind of calm that comes from working in your yard or garden.  But when plant encounters go wrong, you don’t just get a bad taste in your mouth, it could be your last meal.

Sources:
CDC, News.com, KSBW, NIH, BBC, MDA State, Food Safety, Bon Appetit, Poison Control Utah, Local 12

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Imagine this - you're standing on a mountain ridge almost four miles above sea level. The wind is howling, and screaming, and you’re barely able to stay standing. The world around you is white in every direction. You’re cold and you know that there will be no rescue tonight. You’re experiencing a fierce storm on Denali. A place that can be deadly when the weather turns . Luckily you’re only imagining this scenario but in the summer of 1967, twelve men walked straight into one of the worst storms the mountain had seen in decades. Only five returned.

Sources:
Outside Online, Explorers Web, Britannica, Wikipedia, AAC Publications, UAA

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Some people spend their lives searching for treasure. For mushroom hunters, that treasure grows quietly in the shadows. But sometimes, unknown dangers can also be lurking in those same shadows.

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NamUs, Seattle Times, Facebook, Reddit, Your Source One, YouTube - The Missing Enigma

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In a small mining town in the Colorado Rockies, a man and his dog walked into the mountains and never returned. Less than a year later, another man working in the exact same location took interest in the disappearance from the year before. Soon he would follow the same trail and he too would vanish.  One mountain, two men, countless theories.



Sources

FRNWH Unsolved Strange Outdoors CBSNEWS Chicago Tribune Historic Mysteries Colorado.gov MRA.org

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It was supposed to be a peaceful setting—an artist setting up his easel by the roadside, surrounded by the wild, glacier-cut beauty of Washington’s North Cascades. But for days, his car would sit abandoned. His canvas, unfinished. And the man himself—gone. What happened to Alexander Pisch?

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Go Skagit, NPS, Fox13 Seattle, KATV, Reddit, Facebook, Websleuths, Strange Outdoors, More Than Just Parks, Instagram

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Some trails are just trails, a good workout, fresh air, a chance to clear your head, and  maybe a nice view. And then there are the other ones. The ones that feel… different. Maybe it’s the way the trees seem to close in around you. Or how the silence gets heavier the farther you go. Sometimes, it’s the way the hair on the back of your neck stands up when you catch a shadow. In this episode these are trails that are beautiful by day and eerie by night.


jahernandez.com Portland Ghosts Willhiteweb Find a Grave Blue Ridge Country.com Lexington Virginia Outside Online Maine Trail Finder News Center Maine

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It should have been a quick flight, just a few hours across the Andes Mountains from Uruguay to Chile. Onboard were members of a rugby team, and many of their friends, and family. Spirits were high, the mood light. But as they crossed into the mountains cloud cover dropped visibility to almost nothing. What would happen next would end or define the lives of the 45 people on board.

Victims 

• Gastón Costemalle
• Alexis Hounié
• Guido Magri
• Daniel Shaw
• Carlos Valeta
• Dr. Francisco Nicola, Team physician
• Esther Horta Pérez de Nicola
• Eugenia Dolgay Diedug de Parrado
• Fernándo Vázquez
• Francisco Abal
• Felipe Maquirriain
• Julio Martínez-Lamas
• Graciela Augusto Gumila de Mariani
• Susana Parrado
• Daniel Maspons
• Juan Carlos Menéndez
• Liliana Navarro Petraglia de Methol
• Gustavo Nicolich
• Marcelo Pérez, Captain of rugby team
• Enrique Platero
• Diego Storm
• Arturo Nogueira
• Rafael Echavarren
• Numa Turcatti

Survivors

• José Pedro Algorta
• Roberto Canessa
• Alfredo Delgado
• Daniel Fernández
• Roberto Francois
• Roy Harley
• José Luis Inciarte
• Álvaro Mangino
• Javier Methol
• Carlos Páez Rodríguez
• Fernando Parrado
• Ramón Sabella
• Adolfo "Fito" Strauch
• Eduardo Strauch
• Antonio "Tintin" Vizintín
• Gustavo Zerbino

Sources 
Rare Historical Photos Britannica Wikipedia BBC All Thats Interesting Mental Floss ABC News Find a Grave


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