Strange Disappearances in the Woods
Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young
Steph Young
4.3 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to look at some really strange and mysterious disappearances. |
| 0:04.0 | Richard Hasbell was described by his friends and family as a quiet and shy man, who because |
| 0:09.0 | of his mental disability, liked to take off on his own for long bike rides and hikes, |
| 0:14.0 | it was said to have been his way of coping with his illness. |
| 0:17.0 | Although he suffered with this illness, his brother and other members of his family |
| 0:21.1 | said that he was always good at reporting back to them and he had always been able |
| 0:25.0 | to look after himself, and he'd never come to any harm. His brother did add, however, that |
| 0:29.8 | he had not gone quite so far into the wilderness on his own before. It was July the 10th |
| 0:35.0 | in 2005 when he arrived at Denali National Park in Alaska. |
| 0:39.9 | When he registered and applied for his camping permit, he said he would be returning by the 18th. |
| 0:45.1 | He took the shuttle bus, provided at the park, to Wanda Lake. |
| 0:48.9 | He never returned. |
| 0:50.4 | A search began for him, including both ground and air search efforts, in a landscape of rugged wilderness. |
| 0:56.7 | Two days into the search, a pilot saw his tent near the peak at an elevation of just over |
| 1:01.6 | 4,000 feet, five miles northeast of the lake. The pilot had been outlooking for a plane that |
| 1:07.3 | had crashed. The following day, the rangers flew to the spot where his tent had been |
| 1:11.9 | seen. It was confirmed to have been his, along with the bear-resistant food canister. There was no |
| 1:17.5 | sign that the camp had been disturbed by bears or any other predators. There were still food |
| 1:22.4 | inside the bear-proof canister, some of which had been eaten, but there were a plentiful amount |
| 1:27.2 | left. |
| 1:27.8 | His tent also appeared not to have been tampered with, or suffering from any damage. |
| 1:33.2 | They knew this was the missing man's provisions, because they had also found a journal with |
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