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Welcome to Tales to Terrify. Good evening, Children of the Night.

Thank you for joining us on our first stop on our drive south.

We'll find our way back to the cabin after a bit of a vacation. We'll have some fiction tonight,

but what about the parts around here? There are two things that I've enjoyed in my life that come

into play here. Remember that show Unsolved Mysteries

with Robert Stack? I'd watch that growing up and know that much later in life than when I should

have known better, it kept me awake. Sometimes it was the alien abductions or monster sightings,

but the regular pieces on someone, usually a man, breaking into a home and killing someone or the

entire family, was what really kept me from my sleep for nights on end. The other is hiking,

which I have to admit I haven't got nearly as much as I would have liked to in this year.

A primary appreciation for hiking is that of solitude, which can also be one of its dangers.

On some of the less popular trails, a broken ankle could possibly lead to death.

Becoming lost also could lead to death.

Fortunately, these things are rare, but they have happened before, and they'll happen again.

A mix of these two things came about in the real story that I'll share part of.

Practically in her cabin's backyard in 1996, two Appalachian Trail hikers were found, bound,

and killed. The couple, Miss Winnens and Miss Williams, had been hiking with their dog, Tage,

and when they had failed to report in with family and friends, a search was

...