Joseph Wood Jr - Mount Rainier National Park - Washington

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In July 1999, a 34-year-old book editor from New York set out for a day hike near Comet Falls in Mount Rainier National Park. Despite clear skies, he left the main trail and entered rugged, snow-covered terrain. When he never returned, an extensive search turned up nothing—no gear, no footprints, no clues. Join us this week as we investigate the disappearance of Joseph “Joe” Lee Wood Jr.

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0:00.0	Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.
0:12.0	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.
0:19.0	You are listening to locations unknown. What's up, everybody.
0:58.2	What's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.
1:07.1	I'm your co-host, Joe Irado, and with me as always is a guy who would never hike on mushrooms and call 911 to say a guy died, who is most certainly not dead.
1:08.4	Mike Vanda Bogart.
1:10.5	Wow, that feels very specific. No, it's not. It's just general. Didn't
1:13.0	happen to you. No, there was a, no, it didn't happen to be. No, I would never do mushrooms in the
1:18.2	mountains to enhance the experience significantly. There was a new starty. I actually had a friend
1:24.8	sent to me that this happened, I think, in upstate New York.
1:28.1	I'm going off memory, so it probably was somewhere else.
1:30.3	But there was a group of hikers that were on mushrooms.
1:32.8	Yeah.
1:33.1	And they thought someone had died and called 911 and the guy was just alive.
1:37.7	They were just tripping on mushrooms.
1:39.5	Whoops.
1:39.9	I know, right?
1:41.2	Well, uh, turn yourself in.
1:42.8	Yeah, there you go. Thank you once again to everyone for tuning in to Locations Unknown.
1:47.7	Just a couple of announcements before we get going.
1:50.7	First, some new Patreon shoutouts.
1:52.8	So thank you to now this first name.
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