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I've been in the Kamo Mae Snow Disappearance Case before, and in the video of Shin-yin, it is mentioned that the number of missing people around the world can reach millions every year. Some friends left a message saying that the numbers are not mistaken, and millions are too much. According to data provided by the National Crime Information Center, between 2010 and 2016, the cumulative number of people who reported missing across the United States reached 4.58 million, that is, more than 650,000 per year. And that's just the United States. Of course, many of these missing persons were later found, and some were identified as misreports. But the average number of nearly 1,800 people missing per day remains staggering.
David Paulides, a retired U.S. police officer, met an administrator while visiting an American national park. The manager, knowing that Paul had a 20-year career in law enforcement, talked to Paul about multiple disappearances in the park. Paul then analyzed and investigated more than 1,600 mysterious disappearances in various U.S. national parks over the years. And wrote a book "Miss 411" missing 411. After seemingly separate disappearances, Paul discovered that they bore a lot of similarities. Just this year's disappearance of 411 was also made into a documentary, today I will talk to you about a few of the events recorded in the book.
The first national park in U.S. history, Yellowstone National Park was founded in 1872. At that time, Yellowstone National Park was not under the jurisdiction of any state government. Later, in 1916, the National Park Service was created and began to administer all national parks in the United States.
The first case I'm sharing with you today took place in 1928 in Grand Canyon National Park.
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In 1927, Glenn, an ordinary farmer in Idaho, met Betsy on a passenger ship bound for Los Angeles, California. Betsy was about to end her marriage with her husband. Glenn and Betsy quickly fall in love.
On April 10, 1928, the day after Betsy divorced her ex-husband, Glenn and Betsy married. His wife, Betsy, is a romantic artist and poet, while her husband Glenn's hobby is outdoor sports. The two decided on a honeymoon trip like no other when they were newly married. They decided to cross the Colorado River in arizona's Grand Canyon. At that time, the Grand Canyon did not have so much commercial tourism, and most of the people who rafted on the Colorado River were some explorers and outdoor sportsmen. The border between the Colorado River and the Green River is a canyon area in the western United States, and due to special geomorphological and hydrological characteristics, the terrain is extremely different and the water flow is rapid.
Glenn is a veteran of outdoor sports and is looking forward to and excited about this trip. But the trip was extremely challenging for his wife, Betsy. According to media reports at the time, Glenn wanted to create a new speed record for crossing the Grand Canyon. At that time, there were only 40 people who successfully crossed the Grand Canyon. If they succeed, Betsy will also be the first woman to accomplish this feat.
The expedition and honeymoon began on October 20, 1928. In the first month, the couple successfully crossed many of the rapids of the Green River and colorado rivers. In mid-November, the two men walked out of the trail leading to the Grand Canyon, where they made the necessary supplies.
The couple was last seen on Sunday, November 18, 1928, when they met photographer Emery Kolb at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. He also visited Kolb's home on the edge of the canyon. Before returning to the Grand Canyon, the couple also took some photos there.
On December 6, 1928, two men who had arrived in California at the end of November were delayed. Green's father, who was waiting in California, feared that his son and daughter-in-law had an accident and rushed to the police. Police quickly launched a search. On December 19, a search and rescue plane spotted the couple's raft in a section of the Colorado river.
Strangely enough, judging from the state of drifting rafts, it does not look like it is dilapidated after encountering some disaster. The rafting was intact, and supplies and equipment were still strapped to it. The boat had the couple's camera, and the last photo in the camera was taken near the 165-mile stretch of the river, around Nov. 27.
Historians have speculated that the couple most likely encountered a rapids, and the hull of the boat hit a rock protruding from the river, causing the couple to fall into the water. It turns out that there is indeed a lot of underwater granite near the 165-mile stretch of the river. But that doesn't explain why the raft remains intact after the impact.
In 1971, 43 years after Glenn and Betsy disappeared. During a commercial rafting trip to the Grand Canyon, a man named George W. Bush. The elderly woman of Georgie Clark told the other visitors that she was Betsy. She said that during the expedition, she once wanted to give up, but her husband Glenn kept forcing herself to continue, and even abused herself. Unable to bear it, he stabbed his abusive husband to death and fled the Grand Canyon. This statement caused a big stir at the time. However, when Clark was interviewed specifically, she denied what she had said. But if she really was Betsy and had killed her husband, she wouldn't have been willing to admit it to the public. But later, an investigator named Dimok said that according to the accounts of people around Glenn, Glenn was a very gentle person, and Ken did not feel like he would have been violent to his wife.
Clark died in May 1992. A lot of strange things were found in her relics. A pistol, a birth certificate with the name bessie deross on it, and Glenn's marriage certificate to Betsy. Could it be that Clark is really Betsy, and is everything she says true? However, the investigation later compared the photos of Betsy and Clark when they were young, and it seemed that they were not the same person at all. So what should be explained for these documents related to Betsy?
In 1976, Kolb, a photographer who met Green and Betsy in the Grand Canyon, died. While the family was sorting out his house on the edge of the Grand Canyon, he found a human skeleton in the boathouse, hidden in his canoe. The head of this skeleton has marks of being hit by a bullet. Many people say that this skeleton is the remains of Glenn, who has been missing for 50 years. Kolb must have murdered the couple. However, a later forensic investigation at the University of Arizona concluded that the skeleton belonged to a man no older than 22 years old and died after 1972, which ruled out the possibility that it was Glenn's remains.
There are many other speculations about the mystery of Betsy and Glenn's disappearance, one of the more romantic ones is that one of the couple unfortunately fell into the water, and the other jumped into the water to rescue them. However, due to the low water temperature, the two did not wear life jackets. Soon lost consciousness in the water.
To this day, nearly 100 years later, the whereabouts of the newlyweds Glenn and Betsy remain unknown.
In February 1978, a 24-year-old student named Steven Kubacki disappeared in the Lake Michigan Triangle.
The Lake Michigan Triangle, located at the junction of the United States and Canada, has the title of Second Bermuda. Many mysterious disappearances have occurred here. Lake Michigan is one of the great lakes in the U.S.-Canada transition region. The waters are deep and wide, like an ocean, and there are often crazy stormy weather. However, the harsh climate can only explain part of the mysterious events. Many more missing are untraceable, and no remains can be found.
In 1891, a sailing ship named Thomas Hume crossed Lake Michigan to cut wood. Then the ship and the 7 crew members on board disappeared together.
On June 24, 1960, Western Airlines Flight 2501 suddenly and mysteriously disappeared over Lake Michigan, and the ground communications department did not receive any alarm signal before the crash. Afterwards, investigators searched the waters near the crash site. Curiously, a passenger's broken clothes were found, but no wreckage was found.
One day in February 1978, Stephen went skiing in the snow near Lake Michigan. A few days later, Stephen, who should have returned long ago, did not return, and his family immediately called the police. Police found his footprints in the snow near the ice surface of Lake Michigan, as well as ski gear. Footprints stretch from the snow to the edge of the ice on the lake. Rescuers flew across the lake in search helicopters. The ice surface is intact, so the possibility that Stephen accidentally fell into a glacial lake was largely ruled out. After a large-scale search, no trace of Stephen was found, and the police and his family believed that he was less murderous.
However, 15 months later, on May 5, 1979, the doorbell of Stephen's father and stepmother's house rang. The father got up to look at the door, and in front of him appeared his son, who had disappeared for 15 months. The family excitedly hugged Stephen and asked him where he had been during this time. However, Stephen even said that he did not remember.
Stephen recalls that he only remembers walking through a snowy patch near Lake Michigan when he suddenly felt tired and then fainted. When he woke up, he found himself lying on a patch of grass, wearing clothes that were not his own. There was also a backpack in the place where he woke up, with a map and eyes, none of which belonged to him.
He wandered to a nearby town and asked the locals where he was. People told him it was Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Know that this place is more than 700 miles from where he skied. Stephen's father lived in Pittsfield, about 40 miles from where he had woken up. Only then did he come to his father's residence.
Many people are very curious about the 15 months of Steven's disappearance, including himself. But he racked his brains and couldn't recall what had happened during that time. Stephen later went on to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology, hoping to one day solve the mystery of his disappearance.
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June 14, 1969, is Father's Day. William. The William Martin family has an outing every year on Father's Day, and this year is no exception. William took his wife, 9-year-old son Douglas, and his 6-year-old youngest son, Dennis, to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for a vacation. At a campground in the mountains, William's family meets a cartel who is also on vacation. The Carter Martin family. Cartel is a university professor in Alabama, usa, and like William, he came on vacation with his two sons and family. Because the children of the two families were similar in age, they soon became acquainted.
On the second day of vacation, the four little ones wanted to play hide-and-seek on the nearby grass. William agreed. The grown-ups were watching them from a short distance away. At this time, William's eldest son Douglas thought of a prank, saying that everyone would take a detour to hide behind the tree, and then suddenly appear behind their parents to scare them. The kids thought it was a good idea and did it.
Douglas and the other two boys moved in the same direction, but Dennis walked alone in the opposite direction. When everyone jumped out, William did not see the figure of his youngest son Dennis.
William hurriedly got up and ran all the way in the direction where he finally saw Dennis, shouting his son's name as he ran. Ran out for about 2 miles and found no trace of Dennis.
That evening, William's family informed the national park administrators. At 5 a.m. the next morning, the managers launched a comprehensive search. At that time, even many nearby residents were involved in the search and rescue. As of June 21 of that year, more than 1,400 people had joined the search. Search and rescue activities continued from June to early September of that year, but nothing was found.
The strangest thing about this disappearance is that while the children are playing, the adults' eyes barely leave them. From the time they hide behind a tree to the time they jump out, the whole process takes no more than 5 minutes. How far can a 6-year-old run in 5 minutes?
In 2009, a news agency followed up on Dennis Martin's case. They interviewed a man named Harold Key who lives in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. King said that when Dennis disappeared, he heard a child's scream. Kim's children also said they saw a big white furry monster that looked like a bear. This statement also caused a lot of speculation later, and some people even suspected that Dennis was abducted by the Bigfoot Savage. However, Kim later explained that shortly after hearing the screams that day, the grown-ups of the family saw a disheveled white man walking through the nearby forest, onto a road not far from where they lived, and then left in a white car. So the white monster that the Kim children saw was probably this man.
So far, more than 50 years later, little Daenerys has never returned.
Until recent years, people still mysteriously disappeared in the national park.
David Paulides, through nearly 10,000 hours of investigation and research, mapped the geographic locations where 52 disappearances were high.
And these seemingly thousands of miles apart actually have some surprising similarities. For example, police dogs with a keen sense of smell can never smell during the search. Some of the police dogs that smell the smell will suddenly stop somewhere after starting to search, as if the person they are looking for has disappeared out of thin air in that place.
Some of the children who are missing are mostly missing right under the noses of their parents. Later, some of the children were found, but the places where they were found were on some of the higher mountain tops. These places where children are going up on their own is hard. There are also adults who come back after the disappearance who have different degrees of psychological disorders, which prevent them from remembering many key details.
During the search, the items found belonging to the missing persons were neatly arranged.
Some of the missing persons' remains were later found in places that had been searched many times before. Even the remains of the dead appear near trails that climbers often use.
But these similar signs are not enough to solve the case. And the three cases I'm analyzing with you today are just the tip of the iceberg of the bizarre disappearances recorded in the book Missing 411. For so many years, where those who disappeared in American national parks went is still a mystery.