Strange disappearance In the morning of October 21, 1996, Death Valley National Park (DVNP) Ranger Dave Brenner was aboard a military helicopter somewhere in the skies over the southerly part of Death Valley. He was part of a routine aerial…
At the time, the case was big news, made bigger by Kubacki’s unwillingness to grant interviews or give any hints as to where he might have been for the missing 15 months. Time passed and the story took on a…
In 2011, Timmothy Pitzen, a 5-year-old boy from Aurora, Illinois, went on a three-day road trip with his mother, Amy Pitzen. He was never seen again. Timmothy, a typical happy-go-lucky kid, hopped out of his father’s jeep on May…
Prabhdeep Srawn was a 25-year-old Canadian army reservist who disappeared from Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park, located in the southeastern state of New South Wales. Srawn was studying abroad in Australia in May 2013, when he decided to take…
There’s an area in Green Mountain National Forest near Glastenbury Mountain and Vermont’s Long Trail that believers in the paranormal call Bennington Triangle. The area got this name because of a handful of mysterious disappearances which occurred between 1945 and…
In 1946, Katherine Van Alst, an eight-year-old girl who was with her family at Devil’s Den State Park, disappeared from their camp and got lost. Six days later, she was found sitting in a cave approximately 48 kilometers (30 mi)…
Bessie and Glen Hyde were honeymooning in northern Arizona at the Grand Canyon when they vanished. The couple had first met in 1927 on a passenger ship traveling to Los Angeles, California, and married April 10, 1928, the day after Bessie’s…
The phenomenon of missing persons near National Parks in the U.S. is becoming more prominent of an issue as unexplained disappearances of children and adults increase in numbers. For decades, a big number of people have gone missing around the…
Mysterious disappearances Brought to the main stream by David Paulides, the massive number of mysterious disappearances from National Parks and rural locations is just staggering. These strange and unexplained vanishings have been dubbed “Missing 411” 411 Case: DeOrr Kunz Jr.…
A tragic loss September 17, 1988 was set to be one of the happiest days in the brief life of Stephen McKerron. The five-year-old from Hamilton, Scotland was on a week’s holiday in Ayr at the home of his aunt…
The Smoky Mountains sit along the Tennessee and North Carolina border, with the national park covering over 187,000 acres of land. The site has been known for many disappearances over the years. Perhaps the strangest was the case of Dennis…
For Mike and Patty Bradbury, Joshua Tree National Park was a haven where they could get away from the rest of the world. On October 18, 1984, as they set up their camp, their three children—Travis, Laura, and Emily—played close…