National Parks Week: Yellowstone’s Zone of Death
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:30.6 | ... Yellowstone National Park is this wild rugged place. |
| 0:46.9 | It's got huge, beautiful mountains, lush forests. |
| 0:50.5 | It's got wildlife. |
| 0:51.5 | There are bears and bison just roaming free. So when you hear that there |
| 0:57.8 | is an area of the park known as the zone of death, you might think it means it's a place where you |
| 1:03.8 | could fall off a cliff or get eaten by bears, I don't know, maybe have some kind of Bermuda triangle |
| 1:09.8 | navigation issue. |
| 1:11.5 | It just disappear off the map. |
| 1:14.3 | But here's the thing. |
| 1:15.7 | What you actually have to worry about in the zone of death is someone murdering you and getting |
| 1:22.3 | away with it. |
| 1:25.8 | I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas of Skira, |
| 1:28.8 | a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places, |
| 1:32.0 | and today we are taking you to a 50-square-mile patch of yellowstone in Idaho |
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