309: Trail Tales 73

National Park After Dark

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

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Today’s stories include small town legends, embarrassing young canoodling, haunted cheese factories, Hidebehinds and visits from the great beyond. 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 Trail Tales Edition.
0:24.4	I'm Cassie.
0:25.3	And I'm Danielle, and we have six stories for you today.
0:28.8	We sure do.
0:30.1	Special.
0:31.1	Eight, if you're an outsider on either Apple subscriptions or Patreon, which we do a lot of extra bonus content and we do bonus monthly
0:38.7	stories. And if you're on Patreon, we have live streams, book clubs, you name it. You name
0:44.7	it. Exclusive, exclusive access to some of our trips. It's a great place to be. Just saying.
0:51.0	But okay, this was a good, I will just shout out our audience. You guys have been giving really good stories lately, good variety and ones that are just like really capturing my attention. So you're getting creative. So would you like to go first?
1:08.5	I would because the title of mine is really interesting. Yeah,
1:12.7	what did I say? I'm like, they're doing really good. Yeah. So the title of my first one is
1:17.3	Family lore, how my family accidentally started a Bear Attack legend. Go for it. That's family
1:24.2	lore right there. Hi guys, I wanted to start by saying how much I appreciate your
1:28.0	podcast. Like so many other listeners, apparently, I'm in the car alone for work a lot. It gets pretty
1:33.5	boring and lonely, but listening to you guys makes me feel like I have some other nature-loving friends
1:38.3	along for the drive with me. I honestly can't remember what episode it was, but in the end,
1:42.8	you asked us to write in stories about family lore.
1:45.5	It immediately reminded me of my family's claim to fame in my hometown.
1:49.6	It's actually mostly my mom's story.
1:51.5	I was there, but I was also just a little kid.
1:54.1	Most of this, I've heard secondhand from her, up until recently when it gets brought up in conversation with people who have heard the rumor.
2:01.6	To say my mom was always an avid hiker would be an understatement.
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