13 Strange Stories of Wilderness Disappearance and Survival

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where people listen to podcasts. Now we're all familiar with cases where people have gone missing

in the forest. Having left no trace and are never seen again. But what are the people who went

missing and have returned? In many instances, these people tend to be unable to remember what

happened during their ordeal. Now this is understandable in the case of small children.

But it's a common situation with adults who've gone missing and returned as well.

Oftentimes though, even those who do remember are reticent to talk about what happened when

they were missing. Now this may sound odd, but when you hear the stories of those who are willing

to talk about it, it starts to make more sense. Presented here are 13 stories of those who have

disappeared, yet lived to return and share their bizarre tales. Let's begin.

Robert singly. Now if you ask the locals in Bennington, Vermont, they'll tell you there's

something very wrong with last and very mountain. That particular stretch of the Appalachian

Trail has caused many investigators into the paranormal to come to some pretty ominous

conclusions because of all the people who have gone missing there, never to be seen again.

Some call it the Bennington Triangle, a reference to the Bermuda Triangle,

where not only people but planes and ships go mysteriously missing, never to be seen again,

with no rhyme, reasonable explanation. There are also tales told of a Bennington monster

to tax humans and abduct them, leaving no trace there ever there.

Others still talk of the Native American stories of rocks that open up and swallow people

hold in this place, as this is where the four wins meet. None of this seemed to be of any concern

though, to 27-year-old UBC music teacher, Robert singly, when he decided to go for a hike once

Sunday afternoon a couple of years ago. Robert hiked the trail often when he lived in Bennington

and never had any strange experiences or problems. He hiked Harbor Road in Woodford Hollow and had

pleasant enough time despite the cold temperature. However, while he made his way back to his car,

he suddenly became very disoriented. He attempted to make a fire once he realized he was lost,

and because darkness was falling, he didn't stand much chance of making it back to his car until

daylight came. However, his attempts were futile because the rain that suddenly started almost

immediately upon Robert losing his way. As his girlfriend at home worried, Robert struggled to

gain an understanding of what happened while he had so suddenly become confused and disoriented.

Robert stated, I still think I got sucked through some sort of space-time continuum.

He often took these long hikes, but on this day fog came out of nowhere, and it was instantly dark,

seemingly much before the time of nightfall. Robert couldn't explain how he managed to just lose

the trail he was so steadily walking on only seconds before. He spent the night underneath the

tree and somehow made his way out the following day. He is one of the lucky ones. This exact spot is

where Paul the Weldon, Bennington College sophomore, was last seen alive 62 years ago.

There's something about random inclement weather in these cases, kind of like mother nature is playing

a game. Seems that in a lot of missing person cases, immediately wants to search starts while

weather comes in. Now what is causing all these seemingly healthy and somewhat experienced hikers

to suddenly and for no apparent reason become disoriented and start wandering through deep woods

instead of sticking to their trails? That's a question we may never have an answer to, but let's move on.

Christopher Staff

Christopher Staff, a 70-year-old man from Dorchester, Massachusetts, went hiking alone in New Hampshire's

white mountains. He decided to embark on the very challenging 31-mile Pemigawastant Loop Trail,

with no problems or concerns. He'd even called his wife the following day and told her he would be

home by that evening. He seemed in good spirits and as though the hike had been going well.

Later that evening, after receiving no further word from Christopher, his wife called the authorities

and reported him missing. A large-scale rescue effort was put in effect with 18 teams,

including nearly 30 officers and volunteers all outscouring the trail and surrounding areas,

looking for any sign of Christopher. Fear for his life and well-being mounted as the days passed by

and no sign was found at Christopher and even been in these woods along this trail.

However, the following Friday, five days after Christopher had initially set out for his hike and

seemingly disappeared without a trace, he was found just sitting on a log, covered in scratches,

blisters and bug bites, and was only able to walk through the rescue vehicles with assistance.

One question about what happened, Christopher stated, I'm still trying to sort it all out.

Christopher was an experienced hiker of more than 40 years and thought he had been well prepared

for most anything that would come up while he completed the hike of a lifetime after turning

seven years old. Christopher was less than five miles from the end of the 31 mile loop when

something went very wrong. He says he suddenly became disoriented on the path and couldn't find

the right way to go. He had lost his backpack which contained water and had to resort to drinking from

the river. Now this may or may not have had to do with him then spending the next three to four

days hallucinating. I didn't know where I was, he says. I thought I came home, I thought I came

to get my wife's car, all kinds of crazy things. Christopher lost 25 pounds and was found less than

five miles away from the road where his car was left. He just couldn't move anymore.

Even mentioned hallucinating while the river that he saw and heard searchers coming to get him

and looking for him, however when he would blink they would be gone. I just kept reliving it,

Christopher says. He knew Friday would be his last day of help hadn't arrived by the end.

He was seemingly traumatized from the event and hasn't really recovered.

Now how does someone end up hallucinating like this suddenly and now the clear blue sky?

Christopher had just turned 70 years old but was in great shape and healthy. So what caused him to

simply give up and sit on a rock when he was so close to help the whole time?

After all the wandering he had done was five miles really that far for him to traverse to get to

the main road. Was whatever made him sick and disoriented somehow stopped and came from going on?

What could possibly cause such vivid hallucinations? Story after story it's the same thing.

Point of separation or going out alone and becoming disoriented into hallucinating.

Here's another one. Michael St. Laurent, 45-year-old construction safety worker and experienced

hiker Michael St. Laurent went missing for nine days in the wilderness of the North Vancouver

Backwoods. He scribbled pertinent information about himself onto his arm. His birthday, name

and social insurance number were sloppy scroll there just in case he didn't make it out of the

woods alive. This all started on November 13th 2011 near the grass mountain sky ride where

while hiking a trail he suddenly without warning became confused and disoriented. Not knowing

where he was, where he's going and what was and was not even real. Michael's account is somewhat

confusing and even contradictory as he states he was hallucinating so badly for most of the time

it was hard for him to recall most of what had occurred during his nine days of hell in the woods.

Michael planned to hike roughly eight hour round trip trail however he was somehow held up

and forced to spend the night in the deep wilderness. Fortunately for him he happened to have not

only a dry change of clothes but a tarp with him and managed to stay at least partially dry and

semi-warm in the frigid Vancouver winter cold. Michael even prepared for a two-day trip though

he expected to only stay one assuming he would be fine and have the game in case anything

unforeseen came up. Unfortunately for him something did it lasted much longer than the two days though.

Michael's mind was so foggy and muddled however that after becoming lost and veering off the

main trail he couldn't even manage to find any kindling there in the woods despite the ability to

make a fire by hand. For the next seven days he wanted aimlessly around the woods to hydrate it

hypothermic and vividly hallucinating non-stop. He said his hallucinations included being at work

driving home and even sitting down for a meal in his favorite restaurant.

After just three days he thought it had been three weeks. Although there were numerous

hikers who passed through the area within view of him Michael was seemingly totally unable to

communicate with him in any way not for lack of trying though as he says he called out for help

and then everything he could to get their attention but to no avail.

It was almost like he was invisible to anyone and everyone who passed him by.

The only thing the searchers believed saved him was his somehow remarkable ability to remember

to cover himself at night with the tarp. At times he had even had to crawl as he developed a

condition from wearing soaked footwear to call trench foot. When speaking to the media after

being rescued Michael told him he had seen and heard the searchers looking for him but was

unable to communicate with him and gained their attention and somehow he claimed they hadn't

been able to see or hear him at all. The search and rescue teams deny ever being anywhere near

the area Michael stated he saw and heard them. What prompted Michael to write down his personal

information on his arm just in case? He said himself it was a regular day and he had the entire

hike planned out. Is it just a coincidence that this is yet another semi-experience hiker who for

one reason or another was separated from his group and ended up lost in the woods?

What is prompting these people to put themselves in harm's way like this?

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wherever you get your podcasts. Lisa Theris. 25-year-old Alabama resident and radiology

student Lisa Theris had a couple strikes against her already as far as anyone finding her when she

became lost in the woods in Midway, Alabama for an entire month in July 2017.

She had severe bipolar disorder and because of the crowd she was recently hanging out with,

most of them never thought she was just trying to get away for a while.

After not being able to reach her doll in five days, her father eventually called the police

and reported her missing. After researching the most obvious places and coming up with no

sign of her, the police then caught up with the last two people known to have been in her company

who were also wanted in connection with the robbery of a hunting lodge.

When the authorities finally did catch up with these two men, one of them claimed the other

killed Lisa in a disposed of her body. This led investigators to bring dogs into the woods behind

a local Walmart where she may or may not have last been seen and where the two men said they had

last seen her. The other man said she was not murdered but had jumped out of the truck and ran

into the woods for no apparent reason the last night they had been with her. Because of the

conflicting stories given by the two men and their shady and criminal reputations,

Lisa decided to go ahead with the cadaver dogs searching the woods and after all,

Lisa had been missing an entire month and the likelihood she could survive out there in the

wilderness for that long was slim. Eventually, Lisa was pronounced dead, even as the police

had still searched her body. Two days after this pronouncement however, Lisa stumbled into the road

in front of a random vehicle that just happened to be driving by at that time. Lisa had collapsed

onto the roadway and an ambulance was called. She was completely naked, covered in sunburns

and bug bites and it was said she wouldn't have lasted another day had she not made her

way somehow to the main road to be found and given medical attention. She had lost 50 pounds

and it was considered miraculous that she had even survived at all. Her condition was barely stable.

When she was finally able to recount her harrowing ordeal, she came in extremely strange and seemingly

nonsensical story about what she had been through. She claimed to have survived from eating wild

mushrooms and berries and drinking muddy and mucky stream water. When asked how she had come to be

in the woods in the first place, Lisa states she believed she was drugged and left there for dead.

There is some question however as to how Lisa could have survived based on her claims.

Number one, she was legally blind and didn't have her glasses.

Number two, the berries she claimed to have eaten didn't grow in that area and thirdly,

mushrooms are made mostly water and have no calories at all. Also, she would have gotten terribly ill

if not dying altogether from drinking the water she claims to have hydrated us up with.

What really happened to Lisa? How could she have eaten berries which didn't grow in the

particular area? Was she making it all up or had she possibly slipped into another dimension or

something? Those are questions to which we may never have the answers. Michael Nupinski,

45-year-old Michael Nupinski of Woodenville, Washington, went on a hike and mount

Renere with a friend on November 7th, 2020. The two decided to separate below the mirror snow field

with Michael snowshoeing the paradise and his friend continuing on skis to camp mirror.

They were going to meet up at a designated time down near paradise, close to where Michael was

heading to. Suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere, Michael reports the weather turned to extreme

wide-out conditions, which prohibited him from being able to see even an inch in front of his face.

Obviously, this made it impossible for him to go any further. He recalls taking very small and

easy steps to get himself slowly down the mountain while still seeing nothing but the wide-out

conditions ahead of him. This is the last thing he remembers before becoming confused about

the next course of events. He says he thinks he fell but can't be sure as he totally blacked out

and has no memory of what actually occurred while he was blindly snowshoeing through the blizzard

conditions. Needless to say, Michael didn't make it back to meet his friend near paradise that evening

and was reported dismissing. Three National Park search teams went out and conducted full searches

of the area throughout the night and because the temperatures being 16 degrees Fahrenheit and the

wide-out causing minimal to no visibility, the searches were called off for the night.

Early Sunday morning, however, the search teams went back out to look for Michael, though everyone's

thoughts were grim and thinking the worst at this point. Because of the cloudy weather, too,

the aerial searches weren't able to be started until late Sunday afternoon. Nearly 24 hours after

Michael had been reported dismissing by his concerned friend. Helicopter searchers finally found

Michael Gnipinski in the Nisqually River drainage and by the time foot searchers got to him about

an hour after he was first sighted, he was unconscious. He had a pulse, though weak as it was,

when he reached the hospital, but went into cardiac arrest very shortly after arriving.

The doctors began using the most advanced form of artificial life support available,

which included bypassing his heart and lungs. Miraculously, or some say coincidentally,

due to the location where he went missing and all the strangeness surrounding Mount Reneer itself,

Michael was legally deceased for 45 minutes, yet was able to be brought back to life with no

long-term negative effects. Although he remained unconscious for two days after his heart started

beating again, Michael did wake up and come back to life, suffering some frostbite and bruises

and scratches, all which will heal. Is it just a coincidence that this man who had all of the same

bizarre and seemingly random symptoms as so many of the other cases we've talked about here

was miraculously able to return from the dead after 45 minutes? That's not even supposed to be

possible. What is really going on here? Danny Philippides. On February 7, 2018, Danny

Philippides ventured from his home in Toronto, Canada to the life-faced mountains of New York

for a seemingly typical ski trip with some co-workers. The 49-year-old firefighter went missing on

the mountain when he separated from the group to go to his car and retrieve his cell phone,

which he had initially forgotten to bring with him. He went off by himself, figured he would be

right back and go back to having fun with his friends and colleagues. However, that isn't what

happened at all, and despite little bits and pieces that have come out since, we will perhaps

never really know what happened to Danny Philippides. Despite having no memory of what happened after

he started back down the mountain to go to his car for the phone, he believed he took a wrong turn

on a children's ski slope. The doctors would later confirm that he did seem to be suffering from

a head injury, but even that doesn't explain where Danny ended up after leaving his friends to run

the quick and seemingly harmless errand. Once Danny was reported missing, a manhunt of epic

proportions set out to try and find him. At least the six government agencies joined the two

local ski patrols and several volunteers in the search. Eventually, more than 135 volunteers

searched the area he was last seen, and the route he should have taken to his car, which was still

parked in the exact same spot he had left it, with a cell phone inside, or a total of 7,000 hours,

with the no avail. How could they possibly have known that Danny was at that time in a big rig truck

hitchhiking across the country to California? Danny also remembers being dropped off in Sacramento,

still wearing his ski clothes, and with a brand new cell phone, and inexplicably, a haircut.

He was eventually found wandering around the Sacramento Airport Rental Car Facilities parking lot,

yet absolutely no idea or clue as to how he ended up there or why. The authorities found him

got the surprise of a lifetime when they learned he was the subject of a massive manhunt all the

way on the other side of the country. Obviously, it was so to Danny upon learning the same

information. What happened in those six days? Where did Danny get the haircut and the new

iPhone, and what could have possibly led him all the way across a foreign country like that?

More than two years later in these questions still haven't been answered. They may never be either,

as Danny has since chosen to remain quiet about the ordeal, has gone back to working Toronto's

a firefighter. Unfortunately, so many of these people who go missing and are found under extraordinary

circumstances, choose to remain silent about what they encountered, even the ones who remember

very clearly. Is this another symptom caused by who or what is doing this to these people?

The inability to express what happened? Or is it that there are just no words in their vocabulary

to explain what they might have seen or experienced? Amanda Eller. Amanda Eller is a 35-year-old

physical therapist and yoga instructor who wanted to go and explore the macawild forest reserve

on the northern side of Maui, Hawaii, on May 9, 2019. What was supposed to be a three-mile

relaxing hike to help her get closer to nature ended up turning into a three-week ordeal that

had her fighting for her life. Ellen was reported missing when she never showed back up when she

said she would, and when her car was spotted parked near a vast forest reserve in Hawaii, it prompted

thousands of volunteers to come out and start immediately searching the vast jungles and streams

in the surrounding areas. On a Friday afternoon, 17 days after she first headed out on her hike and

less than an hour after her family had announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to her

whereabouts, Ms. Eller was found with sunburned stripes, a torrent ligament in her knee, and a broken leg.

She was malnourished, but she was alive. So what happened to Amanda Eller? How had she become so

lost so quickly on what was seemingly a simple and easy-relaxing trail walk through which she had

gone many times before without any problems? Now it's true the area of the reserve is 2,000 acres

and has such thick vegetation and brush it needs to be hacked with machetes, but Amanda was on a trail.

Here's what she had to say. Amanda claims she was just going on the short trail walk,

which she had done many times before and was really enjoying it. It was just a typical thing on

a typical day. As she went off the path at one point to sit and rest, she became disoriented and confused.

She stated a very strange gut instinct was pulling her into the opposite direction than the one she

was familiar with and knew was right. She decided to go the way towards where she thought her car was,

figuring if she just walked towards there at least she would have a handle on where she was at it.

She ended up hiking from around 10.30 am that morning until midnight that night and a desperate

search for her car. She admits being ready to just give up and stop trying.

Oh claims as soon as she did she would hear a certain very loud and strong insistent voice telling

her that if she wanted to live she needed to keep going. She stated, as soon as I would doubt my

intuition and try to go another way than where it was telling me, something would stop me. A branch

would fall on me. I'd stub my toe or I'd trip so it seems the same gut instinct that seemed to

initially let her stray was in fact now leading her back to where she needed to be back on the right

path. Many people are starting to believe that Amanda had actually been abducted. Her cell phone,

water bottles and wallet were all left behind in her car. On the third day she'd given up looking

for her car and decided to start looking for water instead. However, she fell off a 20 foot cliff

and towards the glig of an inner knee while the very next day she lost her shoes in a flash flood.

She was only wearing a tank top and yoga pants to begin with and the injury and loss of her shoes

slowed her down considerably. At night she covered herself with ferns and branches and leaves.

She even spent one night in a wild boar's den. She survived baiting almost anything she could find,

things that were identifiable and something that weren't. She even ate moss that landed on her body.

She began to crawl instead of walking and was then confronted with a seemingly impossible

steep drop off. Meanwhile, the volunteer searchers were going through their own harrowing ordeals as

the search for Amanda led many of them into fast-moving streams and had them repelling into ravines.

Some even killed aggressive wild boars and searched the dead animals and testants for Amanda's

body parts. At least one searcher was attacked by a wild boar but managed to get away and survive.

Amanda stated later that she had seen and heard multiple helicopters but despite trying her best to

get their attention, they never spotted her until eventually one dead and sent rescue.

How did this woman survive so many days in the wilderness with no shoes and with the injuries

and mother nature seemingly against her every single turn? Could it have been the voice she heard?

Loud and clear telling her she must choose between life and death? If so, who or what was it?

Luckily, Amanda chose life.

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Gia Fuda. 18-year-old Giovanna Fuda, or Gia, as she likes to be called,

decided to go for a drive on July 24th, 2020, and was headed to a town about 70 miles east of Seattle.

The teenager just wanted to go and take a short road trip alone to clear-head relax.

For reasons that's still unknown, however, she ventured much farther than she initially

set out to and ended up far past the city views of Seattle and into the wilderness and

miles of a remote area of Washington State. By 1 a.m. the next morning when her parents had

received no response back from their many phone calls and texts to Gia, and when she herself

had returned home or even checked in, they decided to call the authorities and report their

daughter is missing. At around 10 a.m. the morning she'd left her home and started her trip,

she was seen on video camera in a coffee shop near the town of Index. She bought a big-foot

keychain and left. Three days after disappearance on July 27th, a transportation worker found her

cart nearby that shop and reported it to the police. He said he only noticed the car because of

the awkward way in which it was parked. After running the license plate, the authorities found

that the car was Gia's and had it run out of gas. All the doors were locked and her purse and

other personal items were left inside. At this point, the police started to think foul play was

involved and maybe she'd been forcibly abducted. Search and rescue teams were already out and

looking for as of July 26th, but the area made it impossible to track her by pings because it was

a cell phone dead zone. On August 1st, some of the searchers found Gia's belongings such as her

shoes, Bible, bag, and cell phone. These possessions were found near scenic creek and just a little

while later that same day, Gia was found up a steep ravine sitting on a rock next to the river.

Gia stated she had panicked when her cart ran out of gas and decided it would cut some of the

walking distance off where she'd cut through the woods to get to a gas station. She said that she

was frightened and didn't know what to do, so she grabbed what she felt was most important

than she could carry and locked the rest of her possessions in her car.

She was found 10 miles away from the nearest gas station. She felt that walking along the highway

was too dangerous, but ended up getting lost and wandering around the forest for nine days.

She thought she was only lost for three days, however, as she lost her sense of time.

When she was first found, Gia just kept repeating, I don't know where I am,

over and over again as if in some sort of trance. She was eventually taken to the hospital though

and managed to get through the ordeal with no long term effects. It didn't go unnoticed though

to many people who investigated or looked front into the case, that Gia had purchased a big foot

keychain right before going through this herring and terrifying ordeal. Go incidents or not.

Carol Kaparski and Ian Irwin

Married couple, Carol Kaparski and Ian Irwin aged 77 and 72 respectively. We're staying in

a cottage while on vacation in the Sea Haven, Inverness, California area. In February of 2020,

when on their checkout date, which was the 15th, came and went without the couple ever returning

home or being seen leaving, they went missing on the 14th and left belongings, including their

wallets and cell phones in their room, and their car was also still parked where it had been the

last time they were seen. Little did they know, their careers would come in handy while trying

to survive eight days lost in the wilderness. Carol was an herbalist and mushroom hunter,

while Ian had a background in mountain airing. When the couple were reported missing,

searchers scoured the area by air, boat and land for days but to no avail.

Finally, on February 20th, officials said their search efforts were now transitioning to

a recovery effort, and usually this means they assume the couple were deceased and the

searchers were looking to recover their bodies. Then, eight days after they were last seen,

the 22nd. The couple were miraculously found alive and mostly well in the dense terrain with

only light hypothermia to recover from. Carol and Ian told authorities that they decided to go

for a simple and romantic hike for Valentine's Day, but got lost in the dark. They couldn't find

their way back and survive by drinking muddy puddle water. The couple was choosing to remain silent

about their ordeal and said they may eventually be able to tell how they survived a terrifying

seven nights in the Inverness wilderness. All we do know is that one point is a bit strange.

Carol willingly took her shoes off, which caused Ian to have to lay down in thick thorns so she could

use his body as a kind of bridge to walk across. One can only imagine what they each could have

been thinking during all this, but it just doesn't seem to make much sense. Why not just keep your shoes

on and walk across? Also, how does someone get so lost even in the dark on such a simple hiking trail

that they end up in such an extremely dangerous and dense brush area? Until the couple decide to

recount their harrowing ordeal, we probably won't know the answers to this one either.

Matty, Papalizio, and Blake Alois.

Matty, Papalizio, and her boyfriend Blake Alois had just reached the top of the second

highest mountain in New York State, the Algonquin, when what they planned to be just a quick day hike

very quickly went all wrong. According to 19 year old Matty, everything was fine around noon that day,

the weather was beautiful, and the couple didn't foresee any trouble at all and thought it was

going to be a regular hike through the beautiful scenery of the area. They couldn't have been more

wrong. All of a sudden and seemingly out of nowhere, a fog so intense, dense, and thick came over

the entire mountain, leaving the two completely blind. They couldn't see an inch in front of them.

Does that sound familiar? Only this case its fog and not the sudden white out of snow from

the previous disappearance. Matty stated, as soon as we got to the top, a massive fog came over

the entire summit. It was so intense I could not see my hand in front of my face.

If I wasn't latched on the Blake, I would have completely lost him.

Then, when a sudden snow storm hit the summit, the couple decided immediately that their best

course of action would be to climb back down the mountain. However, white out conditions from

the fog and snow prevented them from seeing the trail that they had followed up. They linked

arms and decided then to walk towards the clearing they thought might lead to a trail back down.

Unfortunately, as soon as their feet lifted off the rock they were standing on at the summit.

They plummeted down 100 feet. This unfortunate turn of events led to them on the opposite

side of the summit from which they'd originally climbed up. Luckily, the couple landed on bent

snow covered trees and with their snow shoes, trying to climb back up the side of the mountain

to get back up to the summit and reassess the situation. This didn't seem to be working,

however, despite wearing the snow shoes, the couple were called, even with the snow shoes,

we were just falling through massive amounts of snow. Terrified to know where to go,

the couple returned to the more secure spot they had fallen to on top of the trees.

Then they built a wall of snow to try and block the wind and light ends back back on fire

with a fire-starting kit they had with them. The intense winds and heavy snow prevented any

fire heat from being made or generated though, and the couple feared they weren't going to make

it out of this situation alive. Their phones had no power or service and they spent the first

days screaming at the top of their lungs for help, assuming they would be rescued by nightfall.

However, that wasn't the case. They spent two more days this way,

huddled together, keeping each other as warm as they could with body heat and each trying to keep

the other sane. When they were finally rescued, they were located about 265 feet southeast of the

mountain summit. Round crews eventually came upon them, still on top of the bent and snow covered

trees. The couple told of how, on the first night, Maddie couldn't feel their toes because

the freezing cold snow, and in an attempt to keep her warm, Blake emptied out his backpack and

zipped it up around her feet and legs. Within minutes, she regained feeling in her toes,

but useful supplies such as their knife, rechargeable crank life, and 90% of their food were lost

forever in the deep snow. There were multiple times where Maddie had fallen into snow which covered

over the top of her head, and Blake lost his gloves pulling her out to save her life. Luckily,

the couple didn't sustain any long term injuries or effects from their strange and terrifying

ordeal. Why is it that blinding weather, always comes along in the blink of an eye and makes

hikers unable to see and therefore puts them at risk for major injury and incapacitation?

It's the same thing over and over again, and completely defies any logical explanation.

Some may say mother nature is just a fickle woman and changes her mind on a whim,

but there are others, those of us that don't believe in so much coincidence who wonder,

is there something else at play here?

Cheryl Powell, 60-year-old Cheryl Powell from Huntington Beach, California,

went missing for four days in their remote wilderness of the White Mountains near the Nevada border.

She claims a knife-wielding maniac chased her into the backcountry.

Cheryl reported that, as her husband set up their campsite, she decided to take their dog for

short walk. This is when she says the man accosted her. All of a sudden, some guy pops out from

behind a tree or something, she said, as she described the incidents which led their disappearance.

It was scary. I was really nervous about the fact he was threatening to do my dog harm.

Though she admittedly bolted right away, Cheryl says she didn't feel safe that she was alone in

the woods until at least a full 24 hours later. Her disappearance kicked off an intense four-day

search by the Inno County Sheriff's Department. They interviewed other campers in the area,

Cheryl's husband of course, and they even used a loud speaker to call out to the couple's dog

Miley. Search and rescue also calm the area searching on foot with dogs and conducting

arrow searches as well, but all to no avail. The strange part is, though, that aside from not

finding any evidence of Cheryl or her dog being anywhere in the area, there were also no reports of

a suspicious person or vehicle either. Where had this man described by Cheryl as big,

burly, bald, and tan come from? Where'd he gone? Cheryl's family very quickly started urging

the authorities to start working under the assumption that she had been abducted.

Eventually, it was Miley the dog's marking that alerted the authorities to Cheryl's whereabouts.

Aside from being very scared and extremely exhausted, Cheryl was found alive and safe.

As for the knife-wielding attacker who initially chased Cheryl into the woods,

there have been no reports at all besides her initial description of any suspicious person's

vehicles or activities that day. Who or what wasn't that chased Cheryl?

Could this be yet another reason for some of the many disappearances across the country and

even the world? I had to bet no other reports at all about a suspicious looking man.

Will Cheryl somehow the only one who could see him? Even if so, what did he want and why

hadn't he given Chase when Cheryl initially took off? Very odd indeed that he just let her run

off and didn't give Chase. Could he have been trying to lure her into the woods for another reason?

Perhaps for some one or something other than himself? Or now, we just don't have any answers.

Almatonman Almatonman was an eagle scout and experienced camper when he seemed to have

vanished in the thin air while on a camping outing on Antelope Island. Antelope Island,

with an area of 42 square miles, is the largest of 10 islands located within the Great Salt Lake,

Utah. Almaton was dropped off on the island on Tuesday, April 29, 1998 and was scheduled to be

picked up by his brother that Friday, May 1. When his brother returned to pick him up, he waited

several hours. As Almatonman was scantying and backpack were missing, his brother assumed he had

gone on a hike. Eventually though, when his brother hadn't returned, Almatonman's brother became

very concerned he'd gotten lost or possibly injured while out hiking. Searches of the island and

surrounding waters were done by boat, helicopter and ground crews of up to 50 people.

Logs were also deployed to search, but no trace of Almatonman was found. There were reports of him

cashing a check at a local Walmart after he'd been reported missing, and also surveillance footage

of someone matching his description at a 7-11 in Syracuse. However, none of these sightings could be

definitively confirmed as Almaton, and something investigation went on. The strangeness of this case

has a total human element to it, with it later coming out that Almatonman actually did disappear

on purpose to get out of moving to Italy that June and getting married. Seems Almatonman had a

case of the wedding jitters from Cole Feet, which has kind of been an extreme measure to disappear

yourself for those reasons. Needless to say, Almatonman was found alive and well a few days later,

and eventually admitting it had all been an elaborate route to get out of the move in the marriage.

Holly Cortier 38-year-old California mom Holly Cortier went missing in one of America's

most beloved and most treacherous frontiers for two whole weeks without being found. Despite the

media frenzy her disappearance eventually caused, nobody is really sure how Holly ended up where she

did. It's speculation she was having some sort of mental breakdown as she left her house in the

middle of the night without telling anyone where she was going. She later stated she was seeking a

total disconnect from the world and wanted to be completely alone by herself for a while. However,

Holly seemed to have gotten more than she bargained for as, while she certainly got some time alone,

the injuries she ended up suffering were strange enough, but her story doesn't make months

in either. Here's what we know about what happened to Holly Cortier at Zion State Park,

and what she said when she was found on October 18th, 2020. She was visibly exhausted,

famished, dehydrated, and lost 15 pounds and was found to have a concussion. What was supposed

to be a brief spiritual pilgrimage turned into a fight for her life? Her disappearance is different

because the widespread panic on the internet and the massive amounts of police were helping

finding Holly and police from her family turned into conspiracies and hate messages,

so many that the family had to cancel off social media accounts and even change their phone numbers.

So what caused all this vitriol towards a woman who simply wanted to disconnect for a little

while and raise her spiritual vibration? What caused Holly to seemingly out of nowhere,

yet up in sneak off like a thief in the night to simply go for a hike. According to her family,

Holly is an experienced hiker who knows Zion National Park very well and is capable of surviving

the extreme and rugged conditions. Holly hit her head on the sharp edge of a tree she'd had her

hammock died too, and this happened very shortly after arriving and starting up the first trail.

This knock on the head caused extreme disorientation. After this blow to the head,

she didn't have the energy to move around anymore. Despite being close to river, Holly refused

to drink the water because of concerns about toxicity. When found two weeks later, Holly was so

dehydrated she couldn't open her mouth. Luckily, Holly was found alive and didn't have any long-term

injuries. Their kidneys were barely functioning and she had an extreme lack of potassium. She did

make a full recovery. One unanswered question looms, though, in both skeptics and believers of

Holly's story alike, why, when she could hear the searchers close and calling her name,

when she called back to them they never heard or saw her there. They were within feet of Holly.

She was too weak to approach them and they never noticed her yells nor her person sitting

literally praying she would make it out of this ordeal alive.

Well there you have it friends, what do you think of these unusual cases where people

did survive only to tell very strange and weird tales of their encounters? Let me know what

you think in the comments below. We do ask that you discuss these cases with the utmost respect

to those not only in the stories but to the other people in the comments as well.

In the meanwhile, be good to yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you

next time.

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