Episode 44 // Lost in the Wilderness Part 2: Hikers Found Dead

If a tree falls in the forest –and nobody’s around to hear it– who knows if it killed someone below? The mysterious, fatal instances that occur in nature are hard to piece together. This week, two stories of people who went into the great unknown and died. To this day, how they died is also a great unknown.

SOURCES:

• https://www.jerseyislandholidays.com/50-hiking-statistics

• https://www.outsidepulse.com/how-many-hikers-get-lost-a-year

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/23/mariposa-family-death-mystery/

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Not-one-clue-The-mystery

• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/us/california-yosemite-family-death.html

• https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-family-deaths-sierra-yosemite

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/25/can-toxic-algae-blooms

• https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article254080593.html

• https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/sierra/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD948386

• https://www.mariposagazette.com/articles/still-no-new-leads

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mariposa-County

• https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2019/05/30/colorado-missing-toddler

• https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2020/3/5/jaryd-atadero

• https://www.canammissing.com/jaryd-atadero.html

• https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/6kq1kj/jaryd_atadero/

• https://www.wired.com/story/nameless-hiker-mostly-harmless-internet-mystery/

• https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2021/01/12/dead-big-cypress-national-preserve

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/solving-the-mystery-of-the-appalachian-hiker

TRANSCRIPT: