Hey, Strangers, here's part two of Lost in the Wilderness. Hikers Found Dead,

originally aired January 20th, 2022.

Do you long for solitude and fresh air?

Just you, the sky above, the trail ahead, and no one else around.

Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.

I am a writer and an actor who has said it before and will say it again,

thinks the wilderness is for the birds, literally.

And the bears and scorpions and snakes and tigers and other things that will kill you.

Stay home. Your couch won't kill you. Not on purpose anyway. Besides that, even without all the

animals that want to eat you, there are countless unknown things out there.

Last week we covered vanishing hikers. This week, two stories of people who went into the Great Unknown and died.

And to this day, how they died is also a great unknown.

About 15 years ago, my partner, Kurt Kurt went camping alone at the Hidden Valley Campgrounds at Joshua Tree.

In the middle of the night, he awoke to footsteps approaching his tent.

He listened.

It was definitely walking on two legs.

It was definitely a person.

Kurt called out, hello, and the footsteps stopped.

But after a few moments, they started up again, getting closer to his tent.

Kurt called out again, and again the footsteps stopped, and then started back up, getting closer.

Kurt, naked as a j-bird, scrambled to get his boots on, grabbed his knife, unzipped his tent, and ran out wielding his knife.

In my version, his manhood flaps about as he jumps up and down, whooping and hollering, trying to sound intimidating.

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