Charles McCullar - A Case Re-examined — Myths vs. Facts

Locations Unknown

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Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In 2019, Locations Unknown covered the story of a young photographer bound for winter shots at Crater Lake National Park. The case sparked countless theories—even drawing the attention of the TV series The UnXplained with William Shatner. This week, we return with newly uncovered details in the disappearance of Charles McCullar.

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Who Runs This Park

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0:00.0	Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.
0:11.0	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.
0:18.0	You are listening to locations unknown. What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown. I'm your co-host,
0:57.9	Joe Erotin with me as always as a guy who survived the September 23rd Rapture, Mike Van Gogart.
1:04.2	Wait, that was a thing? Apparently yesterday was supposed to be a rapture. Oh, I was
1:08.6	according to TikTok videos. I was so busy I didn't even notice.
1:11.7	I know, right? Hold on. Wow. Hold on. This could be bad. Okay. Because we're still here. Yeah. Have you
1:18.1	noticed people missing? Nope. Mm. A lot of people have been bugging me. Oh, no. Only we're left.
1:25.6	Oh, no. And it's everybody we know.
1:28.9	Maybe we were raptured.
1:43.2	And we're in a, I don't know. We'll cut all this out. Yeah, no, we won't. I'm just trying to think. I'm like, is this better? No, no, it's not. No, just everybody we know is stuck here too. Wow. Anyway, anyway, wow. That's a good way to start this one off. I know, right.
1:43.9	Well, thank you once again to all of the amazing listeners for tuning in.
1:48.8	Just some announcements before we get going.
1:50.6	So new Patreon shoutouts to Rachel Jones, Rebecca Ray, and Simon Vox, or Vowl.
1:57.9	Thank you so much for supporting the show.
2:00.5	We also have kind of an episode suggestion
2:02.8	shout out. So thank you to Stevie Smith for actually mentioning to us via email that they, after we
2:10.3	recorded our original episode in April of 2019, don't you dare reveal what it is yet.
2:15.8	Well, no, I'm going to reveal the whole purpose of why we're redoing the episode. Well, you can do that after we do the intro. I moved it. Okay. All right. Showbiz, Mike. We'll cut that out too. We're going to cut out like the first five minutes of the intro. We're not cutting out anything. All right. Well, we'll, after the intro toase Joe, I'll tell you why we were redoing the episode on Charles McCuller. Oh, they just blew it again. We'll cut it. Just cut it all. Let's just redo it. Turn it off. No. But thank you to Stevie Smith. If you want to call the show, leave a voicemail or a text message. We actually just did a Patreon episode with a bunch of new voicemails. So make sure to sign up and check that out. You can call 208-39-1-6-9-13. And if you're the Raptor person who I said I was going to call, I promise I'm going to. It's literally on a note I just didn't yet. Yeah, we are going to call you back. We are very interested in to hear about your Raptors, and I was going to call. I promise I'm going to. It's literally on a note. I just didn't yet. Yeah, we are going to call you back. We are very interested in to hear about your raptors.
3:10.7	And I was joking with Joe when he, when your voicemail came up, I was hearing the Jurassic Park
3:17.7	theme in my head. So wrong kind of raptor. Also, we have some great podcasts on our network that you can check out off the trails
3:26.4	who runs this park and crime off the grid.
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