Hi Park enthusiasts, I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra.

And the story I have for you today is about a man and his dog who literally vanished into

thin air in Yellowstone National Park and have remained missing for more than three decades.

It's the kind of story where so many theories are out there that your head starts to spin.

Yellowstone is one of the most iconic national parks in the world.

And according to the National Park Service, Yellowstone spans over 2.2 million acres.

The majority of it is in Wyoming, but it stretches into southern Montana and even has a small

sliver of its boundary in Idaho.

I traveled there last summer and I'm pretty sure we hit up all three of those states

in the two days we hiked and drove around.

The thing that's widely known about Yellowstone though is that when it snows, it snows, like

a lot. Ice and fresh powder remain on trails inside the park until late May and sometimes

even into June.

Rivers that can be over 20 feet wide and 6 feet deep stay frozen for months and only

thought out when temperatures start to rise.

In the winters, the landscape definitely transforms.

Long gone are the crowds of tourists everywhere.

Instead, natural wildlife survives in the park.

Black bears, grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and mountain lions are just a few of the staple

predators in big game that live in Yellowstone.

But the park is also home to an abundance of wild elk, which attract hunters looking

to illegally profit off their shed antlers.

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