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| books about missing persons in national parks: Missing People in America's National Parks Keefe Cheetham, 2017-05-14 There is a sinister side to National Parks; one the Forest Service does not want you to know about...National Parks are a place for family fun, camping, and adventure. Millions of Americans and foreign tourists flock to National Parks around the globe each year. But for some, they go through the entrance, never to come out again.In the last century close to 1100 people have disappeared while on a visit to a National Park, just in the USA. Yet, research into this high rate of missing people associated with various National Parks around America is difficult. The National Park Service does not want anyone to research the missing, according to one ex-officer. Is a conspiracy in the works to ensure millions of visitors still come to the National Parks or is it a case of keeping details of an ongoing investigation quiet? |
| books about missing persons in national parks: The Cold Vanish Jon Billman, 2021-07-06 For readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, the critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's authentic and encyclopedic look at people who vanish in the wilderness without a trace and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them, now in paperback (Roman Dial). These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved ones left behind. The cases that are an embarrassment for park superintendents, rangers and law enforcement charged with Search & Rescue. The ones that baffle the volunteers who comb the mountains, woods and badlands. The stories that should give you pause every time you venture outdoors. Through Jacob Gray's disappearance in Olympic National Park, and his father Randy Gray who left his life to search for him, we will learn about what happens when someone goes missing. Braided around the core will be the stories of the characters who fill the vacuum created by a vanished human being. We'll meet eccentric bloodhound-handler Duff and R.C., his flagship purebred, who began trailing with the family dog after his brother vanished in the San Gabriel Mountains. And there's Michael Neiger North America's foremost backcountry Search & Rescue expert and self-described bushman obsessed with missing persons. And top researcher of persons missing on public wildlands Ex-San Jose, California detective David Paulides who is also one of the world's foremost Bigfoot researchers. It's a tricky thing to write about missing persons because the story is the absence of someone. A void. The person at the heart of the story is thinner than a smoke ring, invisible as someone else's memory. The bones you dig up are most often metaphorical. While much of the book will embrace memory and faulty memory -- history -- The Cold Vanish is at its core a story of now and tomorrow. Someone will vanish in the wild tomorrow. These are the people who will go looking. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Unsolved Disappearances in the Great Smoky Mountains Juanitta Baldwin, Ester Grubb, 1998 Original oral accounts from the unique people who live in the Great Smoky Mountains. They embody their distinct ideals, beliefs, values and life patterns. There is wit, surprise, and, in some cases, wisdom. You will meet real moonshiners, people who have encountered unexplained events in their everyday lives, and tales of true love. The wild isolation of the Smokies nurtured independence, and a caring spirit. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Missing 411-North America and Beyond David Paulides, 2013-02-28 (www.canammissing.com)This is the third Missing 411 book researching facts of people who have vanished in remote locations of the world. Missing 411-North America and Beyond is the first edition that discusses missing people and relevant facts from five countries (Australia, England, France, Iceland and Indonesia) outside of North America and examines the parallels between the cases. The book also includes a multitude of new stories from North America.There is a continuing trend of clusters of missing people in United States National Parks. The National Park Service has continued with their policy of failing to keep ledgers, track or otherwise document lists of missing people inside their parks and monuments. This edition has cases from Florida, Texas, Hawaii and forty other states. There are new clusters of missing people from Sequoia and Mount Rainier National Park, Three Sisters Wilderness (OR) and Adirondacks (NY). Canada has missing cases from six provinces that are documented.This new book brings further clarity to the missing person issue by examining multiple disappearances of people in small-confined areas and exposing the similarities of their case. David Paulides also exposes a series of coed disappearances that date back to the early 1900's, which have unusual facts surrounding their case.Missing 411-North America and Beyond is the largest and most comprehensive of the trilogy, 472 pages. The Missing 411 series builds upon itself. It is recommended that you read Missing 411-Western United States first, then the eastern version and then North America and Beyond. There is a historical aspect to this issue and there are common elements that run through the disappearances. ***********************************************One of the early reviews of Missing 411-North America and Beyond was written by New York Times Best Selling author Whitley Strieber:David Paulides has shined a light onto one of the greatest and most disturbing mysteries of our time: the simple and awful fact that people disappear, especially in our national parks, and little effort is made to find them, let alone inform the public about the danger.Even when massive searches are mounted, and people are found, the events surrounding their loss and recovery are often far beyond logical explanation.This is the most comprehensive and expertly presented series of books on the subject ever written, and the latest volume, which includes stories from five countries, is sobering, chilling and far too well researched to ignore. Essential reading.Whitley StrieberNew York Times Best Selling Author*********************************************** |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Creating the National Park Service Horace M. Albright, Marian Albright Schenck, 1999 Two men played a crucial role in the creation and early history of the National Park Service: Stephen T. Mather, a public relations genius of sweeping vision, and Horace M. Albright, an able lawyer and administrator who helped transform that vision into reality. In Creating the National Park Service, Albright and his daughter, Marian Albright Schenck, reveal the previously untold story of the critical missing years in the history of the service. During this period, 1917 and 1918, Mather's problems with manic depression were kept hidden from public view, and Albright, his able and devoted assistant, served as acting director and assumed Mather's responsibilities. Albright played a decisive part in the passage of the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916; the formulation of principles and policies for management of the parks; the defense of the parks against exploitation by ranchers, lumber companies, and mining interests during World War I; and other issues crucial to the future of the fledgling park system. This authoritative behind-the-scenes history sheds light on the early days of the most popular of all federal agencies while painting a vivid picture of American life in the early twentieth century. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Missing Four One One David Paulides, 2011 (www.canammissing.com) People have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances for centuries. During the last 150 years the media has covered many of these cases and has attempted to put a rational spin on a very unusual event.After 3+ years and 7000 hours of intensive research there is a new paradigm being presented on people missing in the wilds of North America. Missing 411 identifies 28 clusters of missing people who have vanished in remote areas of the continent. The finding is a troubling fact questioning why and how these people have disappeared. Some of the victims are found and tell a very interesting and mind bending story of their experience, others are never found, a fact that confounds searchers and law enforcement.There are many children that have disappeared under highly unusual circumstances. After weeks of searching and failing to find any evidence of the child being in a remote location, many parents and law enforcement draw the conclusion that the victim was kidnapped, yes, taken by someone lurking in remote areas of our national parks, forests, farms and even ranches.There are two editions of this research, Missing 411-Eastern United States and Missing 411-Western United States. The eastern United States copy has a list of every person who is listed in each book as well as a final conclusion to the investigation. You will be shocked by the lack of interest and documentation that many of our governmental bodies have committed to missing people. After reading these books you will never look at our wildlands the same.Chapters;1.Introduction1A. Clusters1B. Unique Factors in Disappearances2. Missing People3. Unique Groups of Missing People3A. Central Ontario3B. Berry Pickers3C. Sheepherders3D. Farmers4. Midwest United States4A. Minnesota4B. Wisconsin4C. Michigan4D. Iowa4E. Illinois4F. Missouri4G. Oklahoma/Arkansas5. Southern States5A. Georgia/Alabama6. Appalachians6A. Great Smoky Mountains6B. Ohio6C. Pennsylvania6D. West Virginia6E. Kentucky7. Northeastern United States7A. New England7B. Vermont7C. New Jersey8. Lists8A. Master List of Children Under 10 Years8B. Analysis8C. Decade Breakdown of All Missing9. Conclusions9A. Gaps in Time9B. Danger in the Woods9C. Screams and Yells9D. Bow Hunters9E. National Park Service9F. The Interview9G. DOI Recommendations9H. FBI Involvement9I. Next Steps10. IndexMajor news organizations do a deplorable job of covering major stories and issues which are deemed too unusual or too far outside the box. Chances are, they will find a way to trivialize or ignore the disturbing evidence accumulated by David Paulides, a former law man turned investigative journalist. The paper trail uncovered by Paulides through sheer doggedness is impressive, the evidence indisputable. People are vanishing without a trace from our national parks and forests, yet government agencies are saying nothing. At a minimum, this story deserves space on the front page of every newspaper in the country, and it warrants a formal high level inquiry by the federal agencies whose files leave little doubt that something very strange is unfolding in our wilderness.George Knapp, Host, Coast to Coast AM |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Death in Yellowstone Lee H. Whittlesey, 2014-01-07 The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly—from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Off the Wall Michael Patrick Ghiglieri, Charles R. Farabee, 2007 Accounts of all known fatal mishaps in Yosemite National Park. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: People Missing in the Woods Steph Young, 2018-12-13 People in the Woods are disappearing.... hikers missing in national parks, people lost to the woods never to return, people taken....never found again... Natural predators can lurk in the wilderness; bears, mountain lions, cougars, and occasionally a hiker will be victim to these wild animals. They feed where they kill or drag their bloody victim to a nearby lair; they leave a trail that is obvious to searchers. However, the victims in this book show no evidence of an animal attack. For these victims, there is no logical explanation.... only cryptic mysteries, enigma and many unanswered questions... Baffling, strange, and cryptic cases. Based on True Stories. Bestselling Author Steph Young has appeared on radio shows including Coast to Coast AM, telling creepy unexplained mysteries of stories that come from her books, and her Podcast; Unexplained Mysteries with Steph Young. PEOPLE MISSING IN THE WOODS: People are disappearing in the Woods. True Stories of Unexplained Disappearances, Unexplained Mysteries. Creepy Unexplained Disappearances. Strange vanishings of people. Missing hikers missing in national parks. Baffling, strange, creepy and cryptic cases. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: The Last Season Eric Blehm, 2009-10-13 As Jon Krakauer did with Into the Wild, Blehm turns a missing-man riddle into an insightful meditation on wilderness and the personal demons and angels that propel us into it alone.” — Outside magazine Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work is a gripping detective story interwoven with the riveting biography of a complicated, original, and wholly fascinating man. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Stuff They Don't Want You to Know Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick, Noel Brown, 2022-10-11 “Interesting...Bowlin's calmly rational approach to the subject of conspiracy theories shows the importance of logic and evidence.”—Booklist A page-turning book to give to someone who believes in pizza pedophilia or that the Illuminati rule the world.—Kirkus Reviews The co-hosts of the hit podcast Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, & Noel Brown, discern conspiracy fact from fiction in this sharp, humorous, compulsively readable, and gorgeously illustrated book. In times of chaos and uncertainty, when trust is low and economic disparity is high, when political institutions are crumbling and cultural animosities are building, conspiracy theories find fertile ground. Many are wild, most are untrue, a few are hard to ignore, but all of them share one vital trait: there’s a seed of truth at their center. That seed carries the sordid, conspiracy-riddled history of our institutions and corporations woven into its DNA. Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick, and Noel Brown host the popular iHeart Media podcast, Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know. They are experts at exploring, explaining, and interrogating today’s emergent conspiracies—from chem trails and biological testing to the secrets of lobbying and the indisputable evidence of UFOs. Written in a smart, witty, and conversational style, elevated with amazing illustrations, Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know is a vital book in understanding the nature of conspiracy and using truth as a powerful weapon against ignorance, misinformation, and lies. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Before They're Gone Michael Lanza, 2012-04-03 A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead: Alaska’s tidewater glaciers are rapidly retreating, and the abundant sea life in their shadow departs with them. Encroaching tides threaten beloved wilderness coasts like Washington’s Olympic and Florida’s Everglades. Less snowfall and hotter summers will diminish Yosemite’s world-famous waterfalls. And it is predicted that Glacier National Park’s 7,000-year-old glaciers will be gone in a decade. To Lanza, it feels like the house he grew up in is being looted. Painfully aware of the ecological—and spiritual—calamity that global warming will bring to our nation’s parks, Lanza sets out to show his children these wonders before they have changed forever. He takes his nine-year-old son, Nate, and seven-year-old daughter, Alex, on an ambitious journey to see as many climate-threatened wild places as he can fit into a year: backpacking in the Grand Canyon, Glacier, the North Cascades, Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain, and along the wild Olympic coast; sea kayaking in Alaska’s Glacier Bay; hiking to Yosemite’s waterfalls; rock climbing in Joshua Tree National Park; cross-country skiing in Yellowstone; and canoeing in the Everglades. Through these poignant and humorous adventures, Lanza shares the beauty of each place and shows how his children connect with nature when given “unscripted” time. Ultimately, he writes, this is more their story than his, for whatever comes of our changing world, they are the ones who will live in it. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Missing Andrew J Clark, 2019-07-22 Cases of missing people that defy explanation! Some missing person cases are more bizarre and mysterious than others. This book reports such cases. We often tend to think that we can easily find the explanation to everything around us, yet there are so many situations where this is not possible. People themselves continue to disappear seemingly without a trace even with all of the technological and scientific advancement that humanity has had. People disappear every single day, but there are a few cases that simply defy explanation. There are those who have walked into forests and never come out. There are people who have disappeared from secure compounds with no explanation, and even individuals who seem to have vanished into thin air right in front of security cameras. As much as we would like to find some mundane explanation for these cases, a persistent percentage of disappearances remain completely mysterious in every sense of the word. Here in this book, we have brought together some of the most mind-boggling of these strange instances of abrupt vanishing on record, including: The Ill-Fated Alien Abductee Anjikuni, the Vanishing Village Abducted by Bigfoot The Fierce Legend of Ambrose Bierce What Happened to Gerry Irwin? The Mysterious Disappearance of a Manic Street Preacher The Troubling Case of Brandon Lawson And many more! Scroll back up and order your copy today! |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Missing Gemma Jade, 2021-09-21 When fairy tales don't have a happy ending. Welcome to the world of the fae, the real fae, not the beautiful creatures of nighttime children's stories or animated movies. In the pages of this book, you won't find tales of fanciful creatures dancing, playing, and singing. Instead, author and researcher, Gemma Jade will present a compelling theory of how these creatures may play a sinister role in the thousands of missing person cases that occur each year in our national parks and other parts of the world's woodlands and forests. So, come and take a walk through the darker world of the fairy tales you once knew. Don't be first or last in line, don't pick the berries, don't wear anything red and keep an open mind for what you'll learn in this book just might save your life. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Missing Allyn Atadero, Arlyn Atadero, 2008 Easily entranced by the surrounding nature, one can easily become misdirected; such is the story of Jaryd Atadero, the three-year-old son of Allyn Atadero. A day celebrating the beauty of God's handiwork turns into a father's worst nightmare as the sun sets on his only son, lost in the Colorado Mountains. A highly publicized search breaks into a national story as reports surfaced concerning Jaryd's whereabouts. Did Jaryd fall prey to a territorial mountain lion? Was he a victim of the elements? Did someone take Jaryd off the mountain? Missing is the personal account of a father's painful search to discover the truth. Accompany author and father Allyn Atadero as he ascends the mountain with hope, wades through grief and sorrow, and, by faith, makes his final descent in Missing: The Jaryd Atadero Story. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Lost in the Wild Cary Griffith, 2008-10-14 True survival odysseys of two wilderness adventurers who entered the woods in search of tranquility-- but found something else entirely--Page 4 of cover. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Vanished in the Woods Steph Young, 2018-12-31 Fan of the hit TV series 'Stranger Things?' Did you think that Strange Unexplained Abductions of Children in the Woods was just sci-fi horror fiction? That Monsters really don't exist? That deep in the Woods lie Secret Military Underground Bases, where children are experimented on for Time-travel, Teleportation, and Mind Control? The Truth really is more frightening than the fiction, in 'Vanished in the Woods,' with true stories of Missing children in the Woods, Supernatural Abductions, Invisible Monsters, and terrible secret Experimentations in Underground Bases. Time travel, teleportation, mind control and Monsters... Did you really think 'Stranger Things' was just fiction? Did you really think it was safe to go in the Woods? As featured on National Radio stations including Coast to Coast Am, the Bestselling Book series; 'Something in The Woods is Taking People.' True stories of Missing children in the Woods, Supernatural Abductions, Invisible Monsters, and terrible secret Experimentations in Underground Bases. Time travel, teleportation, mind control and monsters... Bestselling Author Steph Young has appeared on radio shows including Coast to Coast AM, telling creepy unexplained mysteries of stories that come from her bestselling Book Series and her Podcast: 'Unexplained Mysteries with Steph Young.' |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Unravelling Canada Sylvia Olsen, 2021-04-17 Author and knitter Sylvia Olsen explore Canada's history, landscape, economy and social issues on a cross-country knitting-themed road trip. In 2015, Sylvia Olsen and her partner, Tex, embarked on a cross-Canada journey from the Salish Sea to the Atlantic Ocean to conduct workshops, exchange experiences with other knitters and, Olsen hoped, discover a fresh appreciation for Canada. Along the way, with stops in over forty destinations, including urban centres as well as smaller communities like Sioux Lookout, ON, and Shelburne, NS, Olsen observed that the knitters of Canada are as diverse as their country’s geography. But their textured and colourful stories about knitting create a common narrative. With themes ranging from personal identity, cultural appropriation, provincial stereotypes and national icons to “boyfriend sweaters” and love stories, Unravelling Canada is both a celebration and a discovery of an ever-changing national landscape. Insightful, optimistic and beautifully written, it is a book that will speak to knitters and would-be knitters alike. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Boar Island Nevada Barr, 2016-05-17 Nevada Barr brings National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon to the wild beauty of Acadia National Park in the New York Times bestseller, Boar Island Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then she calls in the cavalry---her aunt Gwen and her friend Anna Pigeon. While they try to deal with the fragile state of affairs---and find the person behind the harassment---the three adults decide the best thing to do is to remove Elizabeth from the situation. Since Anna is about to start her new post as Acting Chief Ranger at Acadia National Park in Maine, the three will join her and stay at a house on the cliff of a small island near the park, Boar Island. But the move east doesn't solve the problem. The stalker has followed them east. And Heath (a paraplegic) and Elizabeth aren't alone on the otherwise deserted island. At the same time, Anna has barely arrived at Acadia before a brutal murder is committed by a killer uncomfortably close to her. BOAR ISLAND is a brilliant intertwining of past and present, of victims and killers, in a compelling novel that only Nevada Barr could write. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: The Hour of Land Terry Tempest Williams, 2016-05-31 America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Conservation Through Cultural Survival Stanley Stevens, 1997-04 An assessment of efforts to establish parks and protected areas based on partnerships with indigenous peoples. It chronicles new conservation thinking and the establishment of indigenously-inhabited protected areas, provides case-studies, and offers guidelines, models, and recommendations for international action. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Missing 411- Off the Grid David Paulides, 2017-09-16 Missing 411- Off The Grid Missing 411- Off The Grid is the seventh book in the best selling series about missing people. The books are based on actual law enforcement, search and rescue and archived reports of incidents. The author has based the narrative on delivering the facts and not making unsubstantiated claims. Thousands of case files were reviewed and what's presented are incidents that fit narrow criteria of established profile points. According to the Urban Dictionary, Off the Grid means, untraceable through normal means. The individuals that are documented in this seventh book of the Missing 411 series fit this definition to perfection. The disappearances involve physicists, physicians, professors, hikers, hunters, children, and joggers. Cases from thirty states, six Canadian provinces and five countries are included. Each of these stories is new to the Missing 411 series. Disappearances from national parks, forests and open spaces that have never been discussed or compared to similar instances are included. Updated tables from past books assist the reader in understanding the vast numbers of missing that fit the established profile. Early reviewers of this book have called it the most intriguing and thought-provoking of the series. Author David Paulides is an investigative reporter, twenty-year police officer/detective and the director of the Canam Missing Project (www.canammissing.com), the organization behind the search for understanding the missing person issue. He recently released a movie based on the books, Missing 411, which a former LA Magazine and NBC movie critic rated it the best documentary for 2017. He has presented his findings to the most attended annual search and rescue conference in the world, NASAR and has spoken at hundreds of seminars, symposiums, and meetings. Mr. Paulides has a bachelors and masters degree from the University of San Francisco and currently resides in Denver.Missing 411- Off The GridRelease Date: October 24, 2017PaperbackPages: 401Author: David PaulidesAvailable: www.canammissing.comLanguage: English**Our books are not knowingly sold to resellers and are only distributed through our website for $24.99 each. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: The Hoopa Project David Paulides, 2018-12 This astounding work brings professional investigative abilities and forensic artistry to the field of Bigfoot studies. David Paulides, a former police investigator, has applied his skills to questioning Bigfoot witnesses. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Forests for the People Christopher Johnson, David Govatski, 2013-01-25 Forests for the People tells one of the most extraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation’s history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of national forests in the Eastern United States. It offers an insightful and wide-ranging look at the actions leading to the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911—landmark legislation that established a system of well-managed forests in the East, the South, and the Great Lakes region—along with case studies that consider some of the key challenges facing eastern forests today. The book begins by looking at destructive practices widely used by the timber industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including extensive clearcutting followed by forest fire that devastated entire landscapes. The authors explain how this led to the birth of a new conservation movement that began simultaneously in the Southern Appalachians and New England, and describe the subsequent protection of forests in New England (New Hampshire and the White Mountains); the Great Lakes region (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota), and the Southern Appalachians. Following this historical background, the authors offer eight case studies that examine critical issues facing the eastern national forests today, including timber harvesting, the use of fire, wilderness protection, endangered wildlife, oil shale drilling, invasive species, and development surrounding national park borders. Forests for the People is the only book to fully describe the history of the Weeks Act and the creation of the eastern national forests and to use case studies to illustrate current management issues facing these treasured landscapes. It is an important new work for anyone interested in the past or future of forests and forestry in the United States. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: The Weight of Night Christine Carbo, 2017-06-06 In a land sculpted by glaciers, the forest is on fire. Thick smoke chokes the mountain air and casts a twilight glow over the imposing mountains and vistas of Montana's Glacier National Park. When firefighters are called in to dig fuel line breaks near the small town bordering the park, a crewmember is shocked to unearth a shallow grave containing human remains. Park Police Officer Monty Harris is summoned to the site to conduct an excavation. But with a 2,500-degree incendiary monster threatening to barrel through the town and no forensic detective on hand, Monty must work outside protocol-- |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Strange Things in the Woods Steve Stockton, 2021-03-08 A collection of strange and terrifying tales. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Lost in the Valley of Death Harley Rustad, 2022-01-11 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF CBC'S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022 For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, the riveting story of the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India—one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley. For centuries, India has enthralled Westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or, in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wilderness survival, was one such seeker. In his early thirties, Justin quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey—across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal—in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters while documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained him a devoted following who lived vicariously through his adventures. But the ever-restless explorer was driven to seek out ever-greater extremes, and greater risks, in what had become a personal quest—his own hero’s journey. In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a remote and rugged corner of the Indian Himalayas steeped in mystical tradition and shrouded in darkness and danger. There he spent weeks studying under the guidance of a sadhu, an Indian holy man, living and meditating in a cave. At the end of August, accompanied by the sadhu, he set off on a spiritual journey to a holy lake—one from which he would never return. Lost in the Valley of Death is about one man’s search to find himself, in a country where, for many Westerners, the path to spiritual enlightenment can prove fraught, even treacherous. But it is also a story about all of us and the ways, sometimes extreme, we seek fulfillment in life. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Missing 411 LAW David Paulides, 2018-09-30 A non-fiction book about people who are missing by way of land, air and water. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Case Studies in Drowning Forensics Kevin Gannon, D. Lee Gilbertson, 2018-12-07 When a corpse is found in a body of water, authorities generally presume that the manner of death was either an accident or a suicide. They do not treat the recovery site as a potential crime scene or homicide, so many cases remain unsolved. Case Studies in Drowning Forensics investigates the cases of 13 bodies recovered from water in similar circu |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Tribal Bigfoot David Paulides, Harvey Pratt, 2017-11-06 Further research into Middle America bigfoot sightings indicates a strong connection between bigfoot and Native Americans, and witness descriptions show a strong human likeness. The latest research from the author of the groundbreaking The Hoopa Project: Bigfoot Encounters in California named 2008 Bigfoot Book of the Year by Cryptomundo.com. Dave Paulides brings his law-enforcement investigative and analytical skills to an expanded area of research: the counties in Northern California that have reported the greatest numbers of bigfoot occurrences, and beyond to Minnesota and Oklahoma. Gaining access to many people who have never discussed their bigfoot experiences publicly before now, the author obtains intriguing details that broaden our perception of the elusive creature; and his subsequent analysis leads to the discovery of a strong and consistent link between bigfoot and the Native American community. The expert interview and artistic skills of forensic artist Harvey Pratt help to define the creatures described by the witnesses - - once again with astonishing and illuminating results. The presentation of startling new forensic evidence indicates that there truly is an as-yet-unidentified primate living in the wilds of North America, and the author hints at new data on the horizon that will finally provide the tantalizing truth about the existence of bigfoot in North America. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Thin Air Kellie M. Parker, 2024-10-08 Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of teenagers turns deadly in this suspenseful, locked-door YA thriller. Perfect for fans of Diana Urban, Karen McManus, and Jessica Goodman. Now in paperback. Seventeen-year-old Emily Walters has a secret. In fact, she has so many she’s basically lying to everyone around her. Her most shameful secret places her on a jet to Paris along with eleven other teens from private schools across the US to compete for a prestigious scholarship. The cash prize will not only cover tuition to the college of Emily’s choice but also lift her and her mother out of poverty. But almost from the moment she and the other contestants board the plane, things begin to go wrong, and it is clear somebody will do anything to win. Between dealing with her best friend’s flirty boyfriend and hiding her own dark secrets, Emily’s not sure how she’ll survive the contest, much less the flight. Especially when people start dying . . . As loyalties shift and secrets are revealed, Emily must figure out who to trust and who’s trying to kill them all before she becomes the next victim. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Over the Edge Michael Patrick Ghiglieri, Thomas M. Myers, 2001 Gripping accounts of all know fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural wonders. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Stalked in the Woods , 2016-11-22 Don't go in the Woods....You might not come back.....Are you Intrigued by true Creepy Stories in the Woods ? Do you like stories that make the hairs on the back of your neck go up? Stories of Unexplained 'things' in the Woods, Creepy Encounters, Scary Stories that send a shiver down your spine ? In the woods...in the dark...alone....or at least; you thought you were alone... and that's when your heart starts pounding.... Creepy Encounters in the Woods, Horrifying true stories of people being stalked in the woods, by 'something' undefined... Creepy camping stories that will make you never want to go camping again, True cabin in the woods stories, ....Unexplained Mysteries in the woods that defy explanation, Paranormal and Ghost stories, Cryptids, Bigfoot....or....something else. True Stories that make you check your doors are bolted. Alone in the Woods, the sound of branches snapping, the fleeting dark shadow that appears to be coming closer to you.... the dark lonely woods suddenly don't feel so empty.... Do you love Creepy stories?...In these True stories that's exactly what you'll get....There's something in the woods.....And it's coming for you.... Stephen (Steph) Young has appeared on national radio shows and podcasts including Coast to Coast AM, The Unexplained, Where did the road go?, Darkness Radio, and Midnight in the Desert... An independent Researcher addicted to researching all Paranormal, Supernatural, Esoteric & Enigmatic mysteries. Each book Young writes seems to lead to further questions and searches for answers as the mysteries inevitably deepen & develop into ever more complex riddles in the spectrum of the Unknown. She loves to write about, and hear about, Scary stories in the Woods...Creepy Real-life True Stories of Scary things in the Woods, Horrifying Encounters in the woods, Scary hiking stories, Spooky hunting stories, true ghost stories, tales of the paranormal and supernatural, true hauntings, true creepy stories from the outdoors, encounters with Bigfoot and other cryptids, true 'in the Forest' Stories, cryptic unexplained mysteries, missing persons and unexplained disappearances, conspiracies that go deep, unexplained phenomenon, haunted houses stories, stories of demonic possession, Creepy true stories from the woods of Ghosts Ghouls Unidentified creatures and more unknown entities, the creepiest things found in the woods, scary camping stories, even cabin in the woods stories.. Things can get weird when you're alone in the woods.....missing hikers, unexplained disappearances, park rangers share their stories, campers describe the strangest things that happened to them in the woods, hunters disappearing without a trace in national parks, national park visitors who vanish without trace, bigfoot sightings, governments secret projects and underground bases stranger things, demonic possession and demonic manifestation, the most baffling unexplained mysteries, the most famous missing persons cases and other cases few people know of, encounters with the unknown, time travel, secret societies, Stranger things, and so much more.... Creepy woods stories, creepiest things in the woods, creepy stories that will make you afraid to go to sleep, Steph Young writes as Stephen Young. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Something in the Woods Is Taking People - FIVE Book Series Professor Strathclyde Business School Stephen Young, Stephen Young, 2015-11-19 Five Book Collection of the Bestselling Books. Five Book Series, 675 pages, featuring; Something in the Woods is Taking People, Hunted in the Woods, Predators in the Woods, Taken in the Woods, Mysterious things in the Woods. SOMETHING IN THE WOODS IS TAKING PEOPLE. Something unknown that we cannot define; something that others have had the misfortune to encounter. People snatched soundlessly, never to be seen again. Or returned; dead. A strange and highly unusual predator. Highly intelligent. Very successful. And able to overpower someone in an instant. This is a puzzle. An often deadly one. Here follows some very troubling and disturbing accounts. Something in the Woods is taking people.... Unexplained disappearances, missing people, and the things that have Taken them...missing in national parks, woods and forests. Mysterious vanishings... Terrifying True Accounts. Missing in national parks, forests, and woods. Missing people, taken, hunted, vanished.... unexplained mysteries missing and disappearing people. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Disappearances Mystery Stories Elaine Frankum, 2021-07-02 Missing person cases attached to national parks are difficult to research even with the online databases of today. The problem is many of these cases are classified as cold, meaning they are still open and unsolved. The incident reports are not public knowledge and unless you have a warrant you cannot access the details. Even family members have a hard time getting all the information in some of the cases. It leads to numerous questions for those who happen upon any one of the missing person's cases mentioned in the following chapters. What you will also discover within these pages is the high rate of missing person's cases within certain national parks. This is not where the talk of Bigfoot and other supposed creatures of the forest are going to be labeled as the killers as in other books. Rather, there are various reasons for people to come up missing, while their camping and other equipment is left behind, as well as their clothes. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Olmsted and Yosemite Rolf Diamant, Ethan Carr, 2022-02 Both Central Park in New York and Yosemite Valley in California became public parks during the tumultuous years before and during the Civil War. Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr demonstrate how anti-slavery activism, war, and the remaking of the federal government gave rise to the American public park and concept of national parks. The authors closely examine Frederick Law Olmsted's 1865 Yosemite Report--the key document that expresses the aspirational vision of making great public parks keystone institutions of a renewed liberal democracy. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Banff and Lake Louise , 2007 Featuring breathtaking full-colour photographs from nature photographer John E. Marriott, Banff and Lake Louise: Images of Banff National Park highlights the extraordinary natural beauty found in Canada?s oldest and most celebrated national park.From wild animals and backcountry gems to classics such as Lake Louise and Moraine Lake, Marriott presents 80 awe-inspiring images of the park in all seasons and varying moods, vividly portraying one of the world?s most beautiful areas. |
| books about missing persons in national parks: Lost Souls Evan Grant, 2024-06-14 |
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