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National Park After Dark

59: Legend Has It. Nahanni National Park Reserve.

National Park After Dark

Audioboom Studios

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

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Who doesn’t love a good legend? Stories of vanished civilizations, ancient beasts and long-lost gold sink their hooks into us and leaving us wanting more. Legends that allude to things that are lost are exciting because they suggest at one point, they must have been discovered … and could quite possibly be found once again.

This week we are back in Canada, in one of the most beautiful and least visited National Parks in North America to discuss some of the many legends it holds. Is there any truth to them? And who has died trying to find out?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

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0:33.8

Legends. Defined as traditional stories sometimes popularly regarded as historical,

0:40.3

but are unauthenticated, account for large swaths in the fabric of human history.

0:46.7

The fate of the lost colony of Roanoke, the lost city of Atlantis,

0:51.1

and El Dorado, the lost city of gold, are some of the most popular legends amongst historians

0:57.2

and explorers alike. There's just something so thrilling about legends, especially when the

1:03.8

subject of the stories has been lost, because this alludes to the fact that at one point,

1:10.2

they must have been discovered and could quite possibly be found once again.

1:15.0

Deep in the Northwest Territories of Canada lies an area riddled with legends.

1:21.9

Legends of beasts thought to have gone extinct long ago.

1:26.2

Evil spirits dwelling within the forests. Tribes who have vanished without a trace

1:32.1

and lost minds whose walls are cut deep with the veins of glittering gold.

1:37.8

With features named after tragedies including Sunblood Mountain, Broken Skull River,

1:43.4

Hell's Gate Rapids, Headless Valley, Devils Kitchen, and the Funeral Range, this park may have gold,

1:52.3

but it also has danger. If you're willing to go searching for a legend, you better be prepared

1:58.8

to become one, because not all who enter this valley in search of answers come out alive.

2:05.5

Welcome to National Park After Dark.

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