Lost in the Wilderness Part 1: Hikers Gone Missing

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We walk into nature to confront the unknown, but returning home isn’t a guarantee. From the desert of Nevada to the mountainous forest of Vermont, secrets of missing people are embedded across the landscapes they once traversed. This week, we stray from the trailhead with two stories of hikers who seemingly disappeared into thin air.

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0:00.0	Hey, strangers, here's the first part of a two-part classic episode. Lost in the Wilderness,
0:06.1	Hikers Gone Missing, originally aired January 13th, 2022. Enjoy.
0:15.7	Do you like roughing it? Are you the adventurous type? Do you have a preferred shoppers card at REI? Do you enjoy
0:23.5	testing your wit and instincts by stepping out of the comfort of your home and into the inhospitable
0:28.4	wilderness? Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I'm a writer and an actor who
0:34.8	wishes they could disappear, but only for like a week at a time.
0:39.1	And my loved ones would know where I was, so they wouldn't worry.
0:42.5	They just wouldn't be able to reach me.
0:44.7	What's that? That's called a vacation?
0:47.3	I don't know what that is.
0:49.9	At any rate, one of the things about a vacation is, you come back at the end of it.
0:55.6	This week, I'll bring you two stories of people who went for a walk and seemingly popped right out of existence.
1:18.0	My 79-year-old father recently went on a solo hiking-slash camping trip in the Adirondacks.
1:22.4	My dad had been a fairly experienced hiker and camper in his younger years.
1:26.9	We went on several treks together, and these weren't casual walks in the woods.
1:28.4	These were week-long tracks over miles miles of mountains carrying all our gear on our backs, sometimes hauling an entire canoe.
1:35.2	On this particular trip a few months ago, my father lost the trail. As the sun began to dip below
1:41.0	the trees, my nearly 80-year-old father was like, uh, this could get really bad.
1:46.9	So he called the Rangers for help. The only reason they were able to find him was because my
1:52.4	stepmother, in all her type A personality wisdom, insisted he bring a GPS. Otherwise, I might be
1:59.2	stomping around the woods near Lake Placid, New York,
2:02.2	yelling my father's name and muttering, he couldn't be content taking a morning constitutional
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