19: Panthers and Crocodiles and Death, Oh My! Everglades National Park.

National Park After Dark

Audioboom Studios

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

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Fasten your seat belts folks, we are in for a wild ride. Come along if you dare as we wade through Everglades National Park. Walking the line between elegant and eerie, dynamic and deadly this is a Park with danger around every murky corner. The largest wilderness East of the Mississippi has larger than life stories, and we have just barley skimmed the surface.

We love our National Parks and we know you do too but when you're out there, remember to enjoy the view but watch your back. Please take a moment to rate and subscribe from wherever you’re listening to NPAD! Become part of our Outsider family on Patreon to gain access to ad-free episode, bonus content and more. Follow our socials Instagram, Facebook , and Twitter. To share a Trail Tale, suggest a story, access merch and browse our book recommendations - head over to our website.

Sources for this episode: DOI. Muderpedia. Wikipedia. Mysterious Universe. Naples Daily News. Fire Rescue 1. News Press. Ozy. AP News. BAAA.

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0:00.0	Florida is a wild place holding the title of the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River.
0:07.0	This 1.5 million acre wetland preserve on the southern tip of Florida is brimming with life.
0:13.0	Conversely, one could argue it's overflowing with death.
0:18.0	Murder, tragedy, and mystery run as rampant as the wildlife in Everglades National Park.
0:24.0	Walking the line between elegant and eerie, dynamic and deadly, this is a park with two faces.
0:31.0	Sunny, bright, and basking in the Florida sunshine, while also concealing dark secrets,
0:37.0	entangled in the main groves and seagrass, hiding mysteries in the murky water.
0:42.0	This park is not for the faint-hearted.
0:45.0	Welcome to National Park After Dark.
1:08.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to National Park After Dark. My name is Cassie.
1:12.0	And my name is Danielle. Welcome back to another week. Happy Monday. Happy Memorial Day.
1:17.0	We hope you're enjoying the weekend. Long weekend if you're blessed with that.
1:21.0	I know a lot of people don't get Memorial Day off, aka veterinary field.
1:26.0	So yeah. No holidays for any type of medicine.
1:30.0	Before we go in today's story, we're going back out into National Park.
1:33.0	Like we do every Monday. But before we get into it, we just wanted to mention that last week we did post a New Camp Fire Story on Patreon and Taylor.
1:41.0	And Danielle brings us into the petrified forest and talks about some wild curses that are there.
1:48.0	So if you're interested in that, you can go on to our Patreon.
1:51.0	You can visit it through our Instagram on there and click our link.
1:55.0	It'll bring you to our Patreon or you can go on our website npadpodcast.com.
2:00.0	Also, we did mention it a week or two ago, but we did update our link tree on Instagram to include a good reads list.
2:09.0	And we are going to be compiling all of our book suggestions on that site.
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