The blink of an eye, in a split second, the snap of your fingers, in a flash.

That's how quickly something can change or can go wrong.

Here one moment, gone the next is exactly how many witnesses describe missing people.

Those who last see those who go missing report that they seem to have up and evaporated,

especially when the person is last seen in the forest. In these cases, every possibility becomes a

possibility. Every cliff and cave become suspects, predators are pursued, and the weather becomes an enemy.

As days become weeks, that turn into months,

that bleed into years, after decades of combing for clues with no results, considering the impossible is tempting, but people don't just vanish, do they?

Welcome to National Park After Dark. If you're watching on YouTube right now, then you know that I am wearing a matching bird shirt and a matching bird hat.

You look like a bird or through and through. You're ready to just go look at birds. Yeah. Yeah.

You are a bird right now. I am a bird pretty much. This is my Halloween costume. Yeah. We figured it out.

Well, yeah. I mean, this is coming out after Halloween, but it's before Halloween when we're recording it.

Yeah, I bought, I went to a local market and there was this woman there, I guess she's out in New York City and she was selling these bluebird shirts.

And she was like, they're a symbol of hope and they're supposed to be good luck.

And I was like, oh, I love that.

And it's really soft.

So I bought it.

And then today I was at a coffee shop and they had these hats with birds on them. And they went to

bird conservation and mine has a loon on it. So I thought that it was very fitting if I wore my entire

bird ensemble. It's just, I mean, we aren't matching literally at all, but blue is just not my

color usually. I don't usually wear blue. And I own maybe one or two things that are blue. But today,

I decided to wear, this looks kind of bluish gray in this lighting, but it is more a true blue

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