11: Mercy or Murder? Carlsbad Caverns National Park

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Grab your camping gear and make sure you bring plenty of water. This might be a good time to leave your best friend at home. This week we are taking you to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. When two friends from Boston head out on a cross-country road trip to California, they stop at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico to camp for the night. What was supposed to be a one night camping trip ends up being longer than either of them expected and only one of them makes it out alive. Join us this week as we take you down this journey of twists and turns that will make you question your own morals and what you might be capable of doing in dire situations.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to National Park after dark.
0:24.7	I'm your host Cassie and I'm Danielle.
0:27.5	So it's my turn to tell story this week and I just have to say that there are so many
0:31.2	stories to choose from that it was really difficult for me to find a specific one that I wanted.
0:37.0	Researching this has been a lot of fun because there's so many stories.
0:40.2	I wish I could tell them all in this one episode, but this episode would go on for like seven
0:44.6	hours.
0:45.6	So obviously I'm not going to do that, but it was really hard for me to pick this topic
0:49.8	this week because I just found so many.
0:52.0	Do you mean like there were so many different stories within this park or in general because
0:56.8	if it's in general, I totally get what you're saying.
0:59.5	My list is just like ever growing in general just parks everywhere in the US in other countries
1:09.0	everywhere.
1:10.0	There's so many stories and I want to tell all of them basically bottom line.
1:14.7	We are really excited to tell these stories.
1:17.7	Oh, and I was thinking right now would be a good time to tell our listeners that we
1:26.4	have another giveaway coming up.
1:28.8	Oh, yes, we do for anyone who does not know National Park Week is coming up this month
1:33.9	in the month of April.
1:35.4	So it's going to start April 17th and and the 24th.
1:39.4	So for that week, we have a giveaway going on and we'll post more details on it as it
1:45.8	comes, you know, as springs coming more and more parks are opening up again.
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