STRANGEST National Park Disappearances #4

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1:01Welcome to National Park Ministries. Ten more unsolved National Park Disappearances. As we continue this series, we will also include disappearances that are near or just outside National Parks. When we first started this series, we wanted to only focus on disappearances within our National Parks. However, we have noticed a huge amount of disappearances that have happened just outside or near the National Parks as well. In our opinion, these disappearances are just as important and should be included in future episodes. So in the future, when we cover a disappearance that is near or outside of a National Park, we will be sure to note what National Park is closest so there's a frame of reference. With that said, let's get started. Number 10. Janet Castajon. 44-year-old Janet Castajon was last seen on June 19th, 2015, when she vanished from her camping trip in the Chica Hava Mountains in southern Arizona with her parents, Dr. Eduardo and Lydia Castajon, all of Las Cruces. Janet, the oldest of four siblings, suffered a traumatic brain injury in the car accident in 1988 when she was 18 years old, causing memory problems and partial blindness.

2:09At the time of the crash, she had just completed her first semester at New Mexico State University, where she was studying computer science. Janet was last seen outside of Campground Bathroom in Rustle Park. It is a wildflower-carpeted meadow high in the mountains, rimmed with Douglas Fir and Ponderosa Pine. The family arrived at the Rustle Park Campground between 1.32 pm, and when they had finished setting up their camp, Eduardo made a launch of Cassidy as beans and rice for the family around 4 pm. Janet and her mother then walked about a thousand feet from their motorhome down a curved path to the pay station, where Janet deposited the payment envelope. About 300 feet from the pay station, Lydia decided to go to the bathroom, but Janet didn't need the restroom, so she stayed behind. Janet said she was going to wait outside, but when her mother came out of the bathroom, Janet was gone. Lydia estimated that she was in the bathroom only for a few minutes, and soon became worried when she returned to the motorhome and discovered Janet was not there either. Update. At the time we were investigating cases for this episode, Janet was still missing.

3:11However, with heavy hearts, we must report that her remains were found in remote area of Arizona in September of 2019. DNA confirmed the remains were Janet's, and her family was notified immediately. We would like to send their thoughts and prayers to the family. May Janet rest in peace. Number 9 Rachel Lackaduck 28-year-old Rachel Lackaduck was last seen on October 16, 2019, when she left home from an overnight hike to a cabin in Hidden Lake Lookout, in the Mount Bakers, no Kwame National Forest in the state of Washington. On October 17, 2019, the Skaggy County Sheriff's Office started a full-scale search and rescue mission. During the search, Rachel's car was located at the trailhead. In addition, two hikers came forward and said they witnessed Rachel on the trail, leading up to Hidden Lake Lookout. The two hikers also stated that heavy snow began to fall around the same time they witnessed Rachel on the trail. This sighting gave Rachel's family hope that she had made it to the lookout and found shelter in the cabin.

4:13But when search and rescue workers finally searched the lookout, there was no sign or evidence that Rachel had ever made it that far. During the search on October 17, 2019, a search and rescue employee slipped and fell over 100 feet. The search and rescue employee used his axe and plunge to self-rest into the mountainside to save his fall. The employee survived the fall, but fractured his elbow and introduced hip and thigh and ultimately had to be rescued from the mountainside by helicopter. Then, on October 28, 2019, the search and rescue effort transitioned to a recovery effort after searches and the hiker's family gave up all hope of finding her alive. On October 30, 2019, Skagit County Sheriff's Office said the recovery efforts had been put on hold due to snow and weather conditions in the mountains. However, the recovery effort for Rachel resumed in November with air and ground searches. On November 10, the recovery efforts for Rachel were completely called off. The recovery efforts to locate Rachel were resumed in the spring of 2020. The Skagit County Sheriff's Office prohibited any private searches for Rachel due to the hazardous icy conditions and continued inclement weather conditions.

5:16Once the family has the approval from the Sheriff's Office, they will organize their own recovery searches and efforts to find Rachel. If you have any information regarding Rachel's disappearance, please call the Skagit County Sheriff's Office at 360-416-1911. Number 8, Catherine Ann Truitt. 37-year-old Catherine Ann Truitt was last seen by a roommate at their residence in Alameda, California on January 6, 2010. On January 9, her tan 2003 Ford Ranger pickup truck was found by federal park rangers at McClure's Beach at Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County, California. Two of her dogs were inside the truck. The third was leash to a rock nearby. Catherine was an avid hiker and had gone on many day trips to Point Reyes and was very familiar with the area. Catherine is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy and works as a pastorship in various restaurants before she injured her neck on the job and was left disabled. Stoke walks as a way of controlling her chronic pain, took classes in computer graphics and taught art to children.

6:19On January 10, 2003, when Catherine's truck had not moved, rangers called in search and rescue. The search included upwards of 80 people on foot and at sea. Search and rescue teams from various jurisdictions were called in to conduct a search but were unable to locate Catherine. The search at the time Catherine was visiting the area was high and very rough. Catherine's family formerly made a missing persons report with Alameda Police Department on January 11, 2010. There was no indication of foul play in the immediate area of where Catherine's truck was parked. Search and rescue continued to search for Catherine. Then on January 13, 2003, all search efforts were called off. Park officials believe that Catherine got into a mishap while hiking at the park or may have been swept to sea during the high tide and rough seas. How to have fun anytime, anywhere. Step one, go to chumbacaceno.com. Chumbacaceno.com. Got it. Step two, collect your welcome bonus. Come to Papa, welcome bonus. Step three, play hundreds of casino style games for free. That's a lot of games, all for free. Step four, unleash your excitement.

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8:24Number seven, Christopher Chris Sylvia. 28-year-old Chris Sylvia was last heard from on February 16th, 2015. When he spoke with his roommate and asked him to meet him at a Buddhist temple in Warner Springs, California the next day. Chris's roommate went to the designated spot at the agreed upon time, but Chris never showed up. At first, his roommate assembly just decided not to go to the temple after all. But when the roommate had not heard anything from Chris the following day, he reported him missing. Chris left his home on February 13th, 2015, and his goal was to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from As of Arrego in Riverside County, California, South to Campo near the US Mexican border in San Diego County, California. He left on his trip wearing green camouflage pants, a dark fleece jacket, and brown hiking boots. More than 30 volunteers from various agencies gave their time and skills to help in the search. Search crews included people from Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange Counties. Other hikers found his identification, sleeping bag, backpack, and other belongings lying in an open area near the temple.

9:25Chris's mother, Nancy Sylvia, said he isn't experienced outdoorsman, and it will be uncharacteristic for him to go hiking alone or to leave this gear behind. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department said Chris disappearance is not a criminal investigation. Multiple searches of the area turned up no sign of Chris, and he remains missing. If you have any information regarding Christopher Sylvia's disappearance, please contact the San Diego County Sheriff's Department at 858-565-5200. Number 6. Asus Rivera Sr. Asus Rivera Sr. was last seen on March 11, 2019 in Running Springs, California, inside the San Bernardino National Forest. Asus came to Running Springs for a job on Catalina Drive. A car pulled with another worker coming from Victorville. The man working with Asus said he was having a panic attack evening on March 11 and stepped outside for some air. When he did not return a little bit later, the man looked for him and could not find him anywhere. A missing persons report was filed. However, law enforcement said they considered this a voluntary missing person due to his age.

10:30Asus is married with children and does not have a history of leaving for any period of time. His diabetic, though not insulin dependent, and he did not take his medication, cell phone, or his wallet with him that day. His man was smaller stature and speaks primarily Spanish, but does know enough English to get by. If you have any information regarding Asus Rivera Sr. disappearance, please contact the Big Bear Police Department at 909-866-0100 and cite case number 051-900355. Number 5. Colin Gillis 18-year-old Colin Gillis was last seen on March 11, 2012. You've seen walking on state route 3 between Tupper Lake and Piercefield. These locations are in the Adirondacks in New York. After spending time with friends at a house party on Pascongeme Road, Colin left around 1.30am and began walking down a dark highway in a small hometown of Tupper Lake, New York. Colin was last seen walking near the area of setting pole dam road on Route 3.

11:34A passing motorist reported a suspicious person to the Tupper Lake Police Department who fit Colin's description. When police arrived, less than 40 minutes later, a state trooper checked the area and no one was found. When Colin did not come home the next day, his family and friends began searching. State Police in New York State Department of Environmental Conservation were called in that evening around 5.30pm. Before he went missing, he had returned from college while on break. Colin, a pre-med student, was home from studying at SU in my Brockport the night of his disappearance. Searches for Colin were launched by park rangers in the state police. Military helicopters and Fort Drum and more than 1,000 volunteers were also utilized in the search efforts. During these intensive searches, his driver's license and his tobacco pipe were eventually discovered, but no trace of Colin was ever found. If you have any information regarding Colin Gilles' disappearance, please contact the New York State Police at 518-897-2000. When venturing outdoors and into the wilderness, don't forget how important your personal safety is.

12:36Always have a plan for survival and always tell someone where you're going and when you plan to return. If you're leaving for a day's hike, take enough food and water for three days. And don't forget to bring something warm to change into an event you become lost. Remember that even though temperatures can reach well beyond 100 degrees during the day in some areas, at night time, these temperatures can easily drop below freezing. Number 4. Michael Fickery 51-year-old Michael Fickery was reported missing when he did not return home from a four-day hike. On June 15, 2005, Michael, an avid experienced hiker and backpacker, visited the north side of the Hedge Hedge Reservoir in Yosemite National Park for solo hike. It planned this hike to take him to Rancheria Falls, Tiltel Mountain, Lake Vernon, and then through Bi before returning back to the Hedge Hedge Reservoir. At some point during the day, he decided to begin walking to the north up to the Pacific Crest Trail towards Tiltel Mountain. His family became concerned when he did not return to June 19, four days after Mike went on his hike and when his wilderness permit expired.

13:40On June 21, they called the park service and an intensive search of the area around the Reservoir and Pacific Crest Trail was launched. However, all that was found was a backpack near Tiltel Mountain just off the trail, containing a topographical map, a camera, and a bottle of water. A search and rescue operation involved personnel from five counties with aircraft and tracker dogs. Apart from the pack, nothing else was found. Nearly 15 years later, Michael remains missing. If you have information regarding the disappearance of Michael Fickery, please contact Hedge E. Ranger Station at 209-379-1928. Number 3. George Pinka. 30-year-old George Pinka disappeared on July 17, 2011, while hiking at the Upper Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park. George was from Hawthorne, California, and with visiting the National Park with his church group of 80 people, which around 20 people were walking the Upper Yosemite Falls Trail that day. The group separated at the top with the hikers going back down at their own pace.

14:41George likely fell behind the main group. George's friends assumed he had hiked back to the Yosemite Valley floor earlier and didn't report him missing until 9 p.m. George completely vanished off the trail. He was last seen wearing gray sweatpants with white stripes, a black t-shirt that says DNB across the chest, or a black tank top and gray blue running shoes. He was carrying a blue cloth bag and some limited food and water. Initial search efforts began that same evening and a full-scale search and rescue operation was initiated on Saturday morning June 18. Around 105 search and rescue personnel from around the state were deployed, along with helicopters and six search dogs including Yosemite National Park search and rescue, Inyo County, Mono County, Mariposa County, Marin County, Fresno County, Illumina County, China Lake, Los Angeles County, Vodka County, Sierra Madre, Yosemite Search and Rescue Dog Teams, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and California Explorer Search and Rescue. On June 23, 2011, search efforts transitioned to limited continuous search.

15:42After nearly one week of extensive searching, park rangers did not find any clues as to George's whereabouts. In nearly nine years since George vanished, none of his belongings have turned up and George remains missing. If you have any information regarding George Pink's disappearance, please contact the National Park Service at 888-653-0009. Number two, Stuart Isaac. Forty-eight-year-old Stuart Isaac was last seen in mid-September, 2010, when he parked his black 2009 Lexus IS-250 sedan at Craig Pass. Eight miles east of the old faithful geyser on Yellowstone National Parks Grand Loop Road in Wyoming. Craig Pass is an elevation of 8,262-5. Looking for excitement? Chamba Casino is here. Play any time, play anywhere. Play on the train, play at the store, play at home, play when you're bored. Play today for your chance to win and get daily bonuses when you log in. So why are you waiting for or don't delay? Chamba Casino is free to play.

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17:45to Yellowstone was kind of odd. I was kind of surprised to hear from him because he seldom made calls. We text each other and we do email. Now I know that he's missing, but why would he call me two days before something happened? Stuart was not an experienced hiker or outdoorsman. Why did he decide to go to Yellowstone National Park that day in September 2010? A hike that went wrong or something more sinister? Unfortunately, there was little coverage of this missing person's case in the media and Isaac remains missing. If you have any information regarding Stuart Isaac's disappearance, please contact Yellowstone National Park's 24-hour communications center, at 307-344-7381. Number 1, Thomas Sebold. 31-year-old Thomas Sebold went missing in the Alaska wilderness during a solo adventure near the end of September in 2012. Thomas traveled to Alaska in June 2012 to put years of survival's training into practice in the state's backcountry. A native of Germany, Thomas had spent the previous six years teaching and training

18:47at Three Rivers Drum Outdoor School, a survival school that teaches Native American values along with weather forecasting, shelter building, and primitive hunting and gathering techniques. He spent much of his time under the tutelage of the school's founder, Tamarack Song, who described Sebold as a very experienced outdoorsman and a wandering spirit. To make the trip to the Arctic, Sebold had taken a six-month leave of absence from the outdoor school. Thomas began his trip at an Alaskan native fish camp in the south-eastern part of the state, and from there traveled north along the Tanana River near Fairbanks, all while living on the land. By September 2012, Thomas had arrived in the northwest Alaska Village of Ambler. From there, he trekked about 30 miles up the Ambler River to the cabin home of a woman and her 13-year-old son, whom his mentor at the outdoor school had put him in touch with. On September 27th, Thomas said goodbye and headed off into the gates of the Arctic. That was the last time he was ever seen. He was expected to be back in touch between the end of October and the beginning of November with November 10th being the cut-off date to catch his flight back to Wisconsin on November 15th.

19:50It is clear that something happened which prevented Thomas from following his plans of tracking 30 miles to the town of Kobuk, where he would have taken his plane back to Fairbanks and then onto Wisconsin. Alaska State Police were alerted on November 11th, 2012, when he failed to show for the flight and they quickly focused their search near the confluence of the Ambler River and Ulaniak Creek, where they believed Seabold may have built a base camp. Searchers immediately launched a search and were initially confident in finding him as he had camped alone in extreme northern wintertime climates before, including reindeer hunts in Norway and minus 25 below Fahrenheit temperatures. Thomas was highly trained in primitive survival skills, including building snow shelters, ice safety, making fire and orientering without mapper compass. Troopers found Thomas's diary in the cabin in the last entry was October 7th, where he stated he was preparing to go on a several day exploration. The Troopers found no evidence of being at the cabin after that approximate date. In the diary, he described his hiking and camping high rep in the mountains exploring for a potential campsite.

20:50He also talked about cleaning and preparing wood for the cabin for the colder weather ahead, what suggested he was planning to return to the cabin. Search and rescue team inspected the cabin and found that he had taken most of his gear, including at least 22 caliber rifle and enough meat and provisions to last him for a while, but found no sign to guide them to his whereabouts. Due to the severe weather conditions, minus 23 degrees Fahrenheit, the short daylight hours and remoteness of the area, the search faced logistical issues in getting planes to the target areas. Snowball bills were not able to be used in the search area because there were only three inches of snow on the mountainous terrain at that time. On November 20th, the Alaska State Troopers put everything into one last effort to find Thomas. Up until then, they had been flying a two-seater supercub, a slow-flying plane which was ideal for the valleys, but it had trouble negotiating the winds in the Highlands, which is where Thomas was drawn to. They used a piper Navajo, a six-seater, so they can put four or five spotters up in the air. After three days of searching, one plane found a circle drawn on a gravel bar for up the Amble River,

21:52eight miles north of Ullaniac Creek. They landed and checked out whether it could be the O from SOS, yet found no indication that the circle was connected to sea bowl. Thomas could have made the sign for himself to mark a place where he left provisions. Because the circle has such strong meaning to Thomas, it seems more than possible that he etched the sign. The plane returned to the site a day later to explore the surrounding area for more clues and to take photos. After six flights over 13 days, the Troopers suspended their search on November 24th, as temperatures hit minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit. But the task was taken up by family and friends after they had read about successful rescues of others who survived in Arctic conditions for up to 49 days without food, equipment, or training, and Thomas had at least some of all three. The family and friends contracted privately with two of the bush pilots previously employed by the Troopers. If you have any information regarding Thomas sea bowl's disappearance, please contact Alaska State Troopers Katzebou Office at 907-442-3222.

22:53So there are ten more unsolved National Park disappearances. As we continue this series, we will be sure to update you on these cases if and when updates are available. If you have a case you would like to see featured, please email us at disappearanceofatgmail.com. And we ask that when discussing these cases in the comments, please treat each case and the opinions of others with respect. Until next time, take care of yourself and each other. And those daily boosts, next level, even my free time feels like foul-hollow. So when life feels like a battle, kick up your feet, have some fun, and let's chumba. No purchase necessary, VGW Group Boyd were prohibited by law CTs and Cs, 21 Plus, sponsored by Chumba Cassino.