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National Park After Dark

Trail Tales 95: Ghost Grandpas, Faking Injuries & Spooky Flavored Lore

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

True Crime, Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today’s stories include ghost grandpas, tent crushes, trail angels and spooky flavored lore. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers! For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials: Instagram: @‌nationalparkafterdarkTikTok: @‌nationalparkafterdark Support the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page! Thank you to this week’s partners! Ollie: Ollie. Feed the Obsession. Go to Ollie: Healthier, Human-Grade Dog Food Delivery and use code npad to get 70% off your first box!Jones Road Beauty: Use code NPAD at Jones Road Beauty - Clean No-Makeup Makeup to get a Free Gift with your first purchase!#JonesRoadBeauty #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone back to National Park After Dark. I'm Cassie. I'm Danielle. And you're listening to Trail Tales where you guys send us in stories and will you read them? I want to go first. Okay. If I may. Yes, please. Take the stage. Okay. My first story is titled Faking an Injury Got Me Haunted.

0:39.5

Do you see now why I wanted to go for it? It just feels like we got to set the tone.

0:43.6

Don't fake your injuries. Make them real.

0:46.5

Yeah. Okay. Hey, gals. Longtime listener and fellow outdoor enthusiast here. I've been a wilderness

0:52.7

guide for over a decade now,

0:54.4

and I've got tons of wild stories, as you can probably guess.

0:57.5

But the one I'm about to tell you takes the cake.

1:00.6

New Zealand, Mount Aspiring National Park,

1:03.4

a really fast ghost, an angry hut warden and humor.

1:07.6

So buckle up.

1:08.7

I'm excited.

1:09.9

New Zealand is really high on my list right now. is not and that is the question actually you have okay you have norway norway is very very high new zealand new zealand new zealand yeah are you still doing where is it that all the icebergs break up and then go down the river uh newfoundland so that's up there too yeah and that's

1:30.9

in may it's in may and early june and every year i say i'm going to make it and every year i don't uh they have

1:37.0

iceberg alley and i still haven't made it yet but next year well just really start planning now

1:43.9

yeah i'm going to make sure that we have no

1:46.7

plans unless they're going to this location good luck because i feel like we already have plans

1:52.6

i think we already do okay in 2023 i took my first solo international trip to my dream destination

2:00.3

new zealand otherwise known as Middle Earth to us nerds.

2:03.9

If you know, you know.

2:05.2

I think that's a Lord of the Rings reference, but I couldn't be sure.

2:09.0

I don't know.

2:10.5

I'm not one of the ones who know you know.

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