There is something magical in a learning knowing that the deepest corners of the world remain unmapped.

From the unknown of the depths of the deepest ocean floors to the corners of the rainforests that have yet to be explored,

or the news of discovery of new islands and ancient ruins, it keeps us excited and wanting to find out more.

While the earth feels so inhabited and known, it still holds so many mysteries that are yet to be explored.

For the most part though, these baffling places feel worlds away.

But when a group of guys discovered one of the world's strangest phenomenon was basically in their own backyard,

they wanted to explore it for themselves, but this exploration came with dire consequences.

Welcome to National Park After Dark.

Is this like a treasure thing?

It's not a treasure one. Oh, okay. It is kind of an ex. It's an adventure exploration episode. Okay. I'm excited where we go in.

We are going to Death Valley. We're revisiting Death Valley for this episode.

This is like the third time I think, which is cool. Yeah. We've each done one, I think.

Yeah, we have. So this will be the third one. And this one is cool because it's technically Death Valley National Park,

but it's actually an outlier of the park. It's a detached portion. So we've never visited the section before. Oh, interesting. Okay.

Yeah. Very interesting. And I have to say that it has been a struggle to research this episode because so when I'm writing this and researching it and everything,

there is a huge storm hitting New England right now. And we are getting dumped on with snow. And my wife is trying to get her into the snow.

And I'm going to have to say that it has been a struggle to research this episode because so when I'm writing this and researching it and everything,

there is a huge storm hitting New England right now. And we are getting dumped on with snow. And my wife and even my cell phone reception has been out all day.

And very luckily for me is I have a book that I'm researching from. So it's called Death Daring and Disasters by Charles R. Butch Farabie Jr.

And then all of the web pages that I got my research from I had opened them all. So I didn't have to like go on the web page to write this. But it's been like for little things and even my cell phone reception isn't working. And I was sitting on my phone for like 20 minutes waiting for like things that I wanted to know to pop up. So it's been it's been an adventure today. I knew something was up before like I knew that it was snow.

Because you kept sending me texts and it would come like you'd be like, I don't know if you're getting this. I don't know if these are coming through. I don't know if these are coming through. And you know when they like come through like all the sudden there's 10 of them of the same thing. I'm like, okay, she is struggling somehow. And I don't know if she's okay. Like I thought maybe you were hiking or something. You know how when you don't get into my house.

In my living room, just not I even had Al text you to. Yeah, I know my phone's network. He didn't text me that guy was like, okay, is anyone getting any of this like hello. His phone. He has a different service provider and his phone is being crazy too. So I don't know what's going on. But either way, well, so mentally we're going somewhere that doesn't have snow, which is nice. Yeah, but it probably doesn't have reception.

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