The Secret Vanishings in America’s National Parks. The National Park Service doesn’t keep sufficient records on these vanishings, and in fact, it appears to be hiding this information from the public. Strangely, a big percentage of these disappearances have clues in common: Huckleberries, dogs, swamps and bad weather. Author David Paulides has written the books Missing 4. Western U. S., Missing 4. Eastern U. S. The year 2. Paulides has hit several stone walls on his quest to solve the mystery of the disappearances, including the National Park Service (NPS) and the FBI. The Beginning. Paulides, with a career in law enforcement, first learned of the disappearances from national park employees who confided their concerns to him about the inordinate amount of missing campers from the parks and the mystery surrounding them. When he began digging for information he saw the 2. Yosemite National Park, near San Jose where Paulides had served as a police officer. Strange Similarities Between Disappearances Most of those who have disappeared are children ages 2. Not one person carrying a firearm(and only one carrying a transponder device) has disappeared. The majority of children who have disappeared had dogs with them. In some cases, the dogs returned, but the children never did. Children found alive won’t talk about their experience or say they don’t remember what happened to them. Usually, the children are wearing bright, colorful clothing when they disappear, and even if they are found miles away without the shoes they were wearing, their feet are not scratched or bruised. Yosemite National Park, with 4. 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. In 9. 5 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 9. 8 to 9. 9 percent of the cases, tracking dogs are unable to find a scent or simply refuse to track. Almost 9. 8 percent of the disappearances occur in the afternoon. Searchers have been known to cover an area over 1. On the Trail- Stone Walls. When Paulides first requested information from the NPS under the Freedom of Information Act about the missing persons, he was told they had no records. Mexico's attorney general has ordered the arrest of Jose Luis Abarca, Mayor of the town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing after clashing with police on 26. Jacob Rothschild, chairman of RIT Capital Partners and Advisory Board member of Blackstone. He also serves as Honorary President of the Institute for Jewish Policy. Later, an attorney called Paulides and asked him why he wanted the information. Since Paulides was a published author he was entitled to an exemption from any fees associated with obtaining records from the park service, but the attorney told him that the park service would not abide by that rule, since supposedly, Paulides’ books weren’t in enough libraries. The XPrize contest will require mapping 500 sq km of ocean floor with a resolution of 5 m and at a depth of 4,000 m, and also to produce high resolution photographs. The post this podcast is based on really caused a stir. Today, we give a little more explanation as to the reasons the 11:00 AM worship service is disappearing and. In Order of Disappearance possesses both a striking soulfulness and a sense of beauty. Looking up high above them on a cliff in an area called The Devil’s Nest, they spotted a small boy all alone. Thinking the foolish parents were nearby, the couple moved on and later drove home. As they arrived in the valley below where they had hiked they saw as many as 2. The next morning they saw a photo of the missing child in the newspaper, and recognizing him as the child they had seen, they drove back to the park to tell the searchers but the young boy was never found. A two year- old boy was visiting his grandparents in Ritter, Oregon in 1. He was found unconscious 1. To arrive there, the small toddler would have had to run non- stop 1. Fact: In 9. 5% of ALL missing children cases they are eventually found no further than 2. The FBI refused to give Paulides any information on the disappearance of another small two year- old boy who disappeared in Yosemite in 1. In that case the boy simply vanished as he walked around the perimeter of his family’s camp site. Credit Rahman Roslan/Getty Images. With Kåre Conradi, Huyen Huynh, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Adil Halitaj. The honorable citizen Nils ploughs snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, when his. The house of Tara Grinstead in Ocilla, Ga. The community of Ocilla, where she worked at Irwin. Bloodhounds and hundreds of people searched for him. He apparently climbed 3. He was found dehydrated and suffering from exposure with a tee shirt, no pants, one sock and no shoes. One of the strangest finds by rangers was a missing man who was found leaning against a log, his pants around his ankles. The only parts left of him were part of his tibia in his right pant leg and part of his skull and his scapula bones in one inch by one inch pieces. Young girls also disappear in the national parks. In Yosemite in 1. Sunrise High Sierra Camp. When they stopped to rest, the girl asked if she could go with a 7. The old man sat down on a log, and the girl went to the edge of an elevation to take a photo of a lake down below. She walked down the hill and never came back. The FBI agent told Paulides he would never get the information on this case, that it was none of his business. In another more recent Yosemite case, a young woman was found dead at the bottom of a high cliff from where it seemed she had been flung. It was determined that she had been raped after her fatal fall. In a few cases, Green Berets have surprisingly shown up to join and/or take over searches. This happened in 1. Newcomb, New York when an 8 year- old boy vanished while walking back to a lodge to change his clothes. His scent was lost in a swamp and he was never found. Paulides said the case that really bothers him the most is of a 6 year- old boy who disappeared in 1. Great Smokey Mountains. Two families with the last name of Martin happened upon each other, and their two sons began playing hide and seek in the nearby bushes. When the parents called the boys into camp and one didn’t return, the boy’s father went to find help. A rainstorm began as he ran down the hill. At the same time, further down the hill, another family with the last name of Key heard a sickening scream and looked up to see what they thought at first was a man hiding in the bushes. The boy’s father reached the valley and called the FBI to meet him at the park but the agent told him to meet them at another location, which made no sense. Meanwhile, Mr. Martin stayed in the park two months looking for his son, who was never found. In researching his books, Paulides visited Martin, the father, who told Paulides that when the Key family spotted the man in the bushes, he or it was carrying something on its shoulder; however none of this information the Key family proffered was included in the FBI report. Paulides was told during his investigation of this case that some “wild men” live in the park that the park service had not been able to control. Twelve other people have disappeared in the same area and the FBI agent monitoring those cases allegedly committed suicide. The phenomena is not limited to the U. S., either. In the Philippines, many people have disappeared, most never returning. When visitors go there they’re told that they must not wear colorful clothing into the jungle. The bright colors seem to attract whatever it is that takes the people. This clue is similar to the American children who have disappeared wearing bright clothing. In his books and in interviews Paulides does give some possible reasons for the disappearances. 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, which goes along with the belief in the Philippines that the Jin or demons are responsible for the abductions. The reviews of Paulides’ books on Amazon show that people are glad to have the information to better prepare themselves to take their families into wilderness areas. Some mention how upset they are that the NPS would keep this information to themselves, most likely to protect income from park visits. New York Times bestselling author Whitely Streiber said the books are sobering and chilling and too well- researched to ignore. Update 0. 6. 2. 0. The latest disappearance is of a 3. California firefighter who vanished with his dog on Friday, June 1. Los Padres National Forest in California. He was camping with a friend when he ran off shoeless, chasing his dog downhill toward a stream. His friend searched for hours, then had to hike two days out of the wilderness to find help. The area being searched is two times the size of the Grand Canyon. On June 1. 9, the firefighter’s dog was found alive. Update 0. 6. 3. 0. Mike Herdman, the California firefighter who disappeared two weeks ago chasing his dog during a backpacking trip to the Los Padres National Forest was found dead June 2. Like others who have disappeared into the national forests, Herdman was found at approximately 1. When his remains were discovered authorities were astonished to find him shoeless. Rescue crews spent nearly 5,0. The sheriff stated it was unimaginable that a shoeless person could have traversed so far in such rough terrain. The Disappearance of MH3. An article published in Free Malaysia Today reports that Peter Chong, a close friend and fellow political activist of Captain Zaharie Shah, is now missing. Just days before his disappearance, he complained on Facebook that he was accosted by a motorcyclist and told to be careful as “nowadays a lot of people have suddenly disappeared”. Mr. Chong and the captain were both active in the opposition party PKR, which is how they first met. The captain would reportedly spend eight or nine hours a day helping the political campaign when not scheduled to fly. I include the contents of the article below. I hope that Mr. Chong is found quickly and is not harmed. Missing Peter Chong a close Friend of MH3. PETALING JAYA: Peter Chong, the activist who went missing last week after he had narrated an apparent veiled threat against him, is a close friend of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, captain of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH3. Chong had vigorously defended Zaharie against speculations of possible responsibility over the incident in several interviews with international and local media, in the weeks after the plane disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2. He had also attended vigils and other events dedicated to the 2. In one photograph that had gone public, the two are shown together with Zaharie wearing a t- shirt which reads “democracy is dead”. Chong’s family reported to the police on Saturday evening that they had not been able to contact him after he was seen leaving the house on the night of April 5. In a Facebook posting on March 3. Chong, who likes to attend protests and candlelight vigils, had narrated how a motorcyclist accosted him earlier that morning, telling him to be careful as “nowadays a lot of people have suddenly disappeared”. Chong, 5. 4, had told FMT, in an interview published on March 1. Zaharie at a community event in Subang in 2. He joined in as a volunteer and he was there cleaning and arranging the chairs,” Chong recalled.“I realised that I had never met this guy before so I introduced myself. He told me that he worked with MAS and it was only later that I found out he was a captain.”They were both also involved in political activism as Chong was then assistant to PKR’s Subang MP Sivarasa Rasiah, while Zaharie, a life member of PKR, campaigned for the party in the last general election in 2. In the interview, Chong also praised Zaharie, expressing his utmost trust in the pilot, describing him as a man who loves to share with his close friends the joy of flying.“If I were to choose a pilot to fly me in the future I’d still choose Captain Zaharie because he is a responsible and honest guy,” he said. The former Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) councillor had reportedly told The Australian that Zaharie would spend eight or nine hours a day helping in the election campaign when not rostered to fly. Chong added that Zaharie was “angry at corruption and how the courts were being abused” to allegedly push politically motivated charges against PKR de facto head Anwar Ibrahim who is now serving a five- year jail sentence for a sodomy conviction. In another interview with the BBC first broadcasted on March 1. Chong had recalled speaking to Zaharie about a week before MH3. The whole nation and the whole world are waiting for answers,” he had said in the interview.“What I feel cannot compare to what his family and the families of all the other passengers and crew are feeling.”The same can now be said of Chong’s own family who are waiting anxiously for word on his whereabouts. His disappearance comes in the wake of the suspected abductions of Pastor Raymond Koh, Amri Che Mat, Pastor Joshua Hilmy and his wife Ruth since November last year. Clips from CCTV recordings showing Koh being abducted in a professional manner by a group of masked men on a public road in Petaling Jaya in broad daylight on Feb 1. Chong had reportedly attended a recent vigil for Pastor Koh. Electoral watchdog Bersih 2. Inspector- General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar over the mysterious disappearances of the activists. Update 1 on April 1. An article published on BH Online provides more details of the police investigation. I include the article below as translated from Malay to English by Google . Police Investigating the Disappearance of Peter Chong. KUALA LUMPUR: Police looking into the disappearance activist Peter Chong, whether a foul or otherwise, after he was last seen at his residence in Bukit Ceylon here, 6 April. This is because, the main focus of the Kuala Lumpur police contingent at the moment is to see whether the victim actually lost or disappeared for unknown reasons. Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department, Senior Assistant Commissioner Rusdi Mohd Isa, said that at present it is still not able to confirm whether there is a criminal element in the case.“Based on preliminary information we have received, the victim does not receive any element of criminal intimidation before she was reported missing, but there was no threat to him.“However, the focus of our investigation and the investigating his disappearance done from various angles based on the information available,” he said when contacted BH, just now. He said it was too early to say that Peter was abducted by certain parties but did not rule out the possibility he was hiding.“We can not disclose any details for fear that can interfere with the investigation by a special team set up involving contingent Kuala Lumpur Dang Wangi police,” he said. Rusdi said he is confident the loss of Peter does not have any connection with the disappearance of Father Raymond Koh, who was kidnapped by a group of men in Petaling Jaya on 1. February. So, the Kuala Lumpur police have already stated that there was no criminal intimidation, despite Mr. Chong’s Facebook post in which he complained that a motorcyclist had warned him to be careful because others have disappeared. And the police are already confident that his disappearance has nothing to do with the disappearance of other political activists. Hopefully the Malaysian police investigation is thorough and honest and not a whitewashing of the facts. Update 2 on April 1. Peter Chong reportedly had recently attended a vigil for Pastor Raymond Koh, a socialist activist who was recently abducted. This chilling video shows the abduction of Pastor Koh, which involved seven vehicles and at least 1. The video shows just how well- orchestrated and professional the operation was. In a related development, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, says the investigation into Pastor Koh’s disappearance is deadlocked because of the publicity surrounding the case, including the candle- light vigils. He angrily declares, “So once again I urge the media, individuals, and NGOs that want to get involved in kidnap cases, to shut your bloody mouths.”Update 3 on April 1. In a bizarre twist of events, in an article from the Malay Mail Online, the IGP is now claiming that Peter Chong was not abducted, and was photographed crossing the border into Thailand. The IGP threatened to take action against Mr. Chong if he staged his disappearance to appear as if he was abducted. The IGP also proposed that Mr. Chong might have fled the country to avoid debt. However, the IGP produced no evidence that Mr. Chong crossed the border, had staged his disappearance, or tried to avoid debt. Perhaps the evidence will eventually be released. Here is the article in full: IGP: . There is no record showing that he has returned to the country,” said Inspector- General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar. He was speaking to reporters after attending the police monthly assembly hosted by the Criminal Investigation Department. Khalid said police are working with its Thai counterparts to investigate Chong’s motive for leaving.“We do not know what was his intention in showing as if he was abducted. But if his motive was to create panic in the country, police will take action against him.“I hope he will contact his family to inform them of his condition.”Khalid also clarified that police only investigated one out of five activists who were said to have been abducted, under Section 3. Only the Raymond Koh case is being investigated under abduction. The other four, including Chong, were classified as missing person cases as there was no proof that they were abducted,” he said, adding there is no update on Koh’s disappearance. Koh, 6. 2, was abducted after a group of men stopped his silver Honda Accord along Jalan SS4. B/1. 0 in Petaling Jaya. CCTV footage of Koh’s abduction went viral on social media, showing a professionally executed abduction involving more than 1. SUVs. Before Khalid’s statement, questions had been raised on Chong’s disappearance as well. Chong had also posted a cryptic message on his Facebook page shortly before his disappearance. Update 4 on April 1. In article from the New Straits Times, we learn that Peter Chong claims that he traveled to Thailand to learn more about the abduction of Pastor Koh, was himself abducted, and later released. Thankfully, he is now safe and unharmed in Malaysia. It will be interesting to see how Mr Chong’s story squares with the scenario proposed by the IGP, in which Mr Chong staged his own disappearance and fled the country to avoid debt. Here is the article: KUALA LUMPUR: Peter Chong, the former Petaling Jaya councillor who re- emerged today after disappearing 1. Hat Yai, Thailand, where he had been all this time. He told police that he had gone to Hat Yai to meet a source claiming to have information on the whereabouts of Pastor Raymond Koh Keng Joo, who was allegedly abducted in Petaling Jaya, on Feb 1. However, upon reaching the southern Thai city, Chong claims he was abducted and taken north, to Pattaya. He said he was abruptly released in Pattaya, where he contacted his son, Darryl, who arranged for him to fly home to Malaysia. The identity of his abductor and the motive for his alleged kidnapping is unknown.
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