300: Trail Tales 70

National Park After Dark

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

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today’s stories include life saving coolers, Fyre festival honeymoons, ripples in the space/time continuum, laughing lights, weird guys in the woods and a wilderness medicine origin story. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome back to National Park After Dark. I'm Danielle. And I'm Cassie, and you're listening to Trail Tales. If you're new here, this is our Thursday episodes where we come on here and we read stories that you have all submitted to us. And usually they take place in the outdoors or something creepy, paranormal in a weird house.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:39.6	That's been the vibe.
0:40.5	I did ask for family lore last time or the time before something.
0:44.5	And I saw people wrote in.
0:46.0	Yeah.
0:46.5	But there's none in this episode.
0:48.3	Oh.
0:48.6	I'm sorry.
0:49.3	Well.
0:50.8	Just something to look forward to.
0:52.3	Keep a look out for that.
0:52.9	If you have some family lore, you want to add into our trail tales edition. Cool. Do you want to go first? How did you know? Is it because you heard me start to say that? I'll go first today. Okay. Go ahead. Tell me a story. This story is titled Weird Guy in the Woods. Perfect. Before I jump into my trail, I just wanted to start with a big thank you.
1:13.8	My wife and I have been longtime fans of this podcast.
1:16.7	We've been meaning to share this story for a while now.
1:19.3	We really appreciate the way you highlight women's voices and advocate for representation.
1:23.8	It hits home for me, especially, being the dad of a four-year-old daughter.
1:28.0	Back in our early 20s, my wife and I were living the van life dream.
1:31.7	We traveled all over the U.S. and Canada, visiting nearly every national park along the way.
1:36.4	These days, we're a little more settled down, but we love reliving those adventures through your podcast.
1:41.7	You help keep that spark alive for us.
1:45.3	So, with that said,
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