Veteran Park Ranger Vanishes in Chiricahua National Monument

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On a quiet afternoon in January 1980, veteran park ranger Paul Fugate set out on a routine patrol in Arizona's Chiricahua National Monument, promising to return shortly. He was never seen again. Despite extensive searches, not a single trace of him was found. Was it a tragic accident in the rugged wilderness, or did something more sinister happen? Join us as we revisit the mysterious disappearance of Paul Fugate. (Episode 114)

We first covered this case back on December 1, 2018. At that time, no other podcasts had covered Paul's case and very few shows were even focusing on wilderness disappearances. Since then, the wilderness disappearances sub-genre has exploded with amazing shows like Park Predators & National Park After Dark. With our 6 year anniversary coming up fast, we thought it would be fun to redo our first episode from the ground up, so we ditched the original show notes and came into the case fresh, with new perspectives on what might have happened. Hope you enjoy the episode and let us know how EP 114 compares with EP1! We can't thank you enough for sticking with us for 6 years and we're looking forward to many more years to come!

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0:00.0	Thousands of people had mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.
0:13.1	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.
0:19.7	You are listening to locations unknown. What's up, everybody.
0:40.3	What's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.
0:59.7	I'm your co-host, Joe E. Rado.
1:01.5	And with me, as always, is a guy who can make a slinky go up the stairs, Mike Van Bogart.
1:06.8	Thank you, Joe.
1:07.8	And thank you once again to all of our amazing listeners for tuning in.
1:11.6	Some new Patreon shoutouts here before we get going. So thank you to Kimberly Barber, Adam Bickford, Summer Shears, and Amanda Weber. So thank you for supporting the show over on Patreon.
1:22.3	Oh, Amanda, finally, I know Amanda Weber. She's a friend of mine through work. And she finally signed. She always says she's a super fan. I'm like, well, you don't
1:30.4	have a Patreon member. Well, shout out to Amanda for signing up. Thank you. We appreciate everyone
1:37.2	that signs up and supports the show. It's why we have the studio now and why we are planning
1:42.2	bigger and better things. Oh, yeah.
1:46.1	And we are back up on YouTube.
1:50.1	So if you want to support us through YouTube, you can go to YouTube subscriptions.
1:52.2	You can also support us through Apple subscriptions.
1:57.4	Someday, Twitter will, or X will approve our application.
2:00.3	I know, you know, Elon's pretty busy right now with SpaceX.
2:03.8	You're like catching buildings from space? All the other crazy stuff he does. So,
2:08.5	uh, just before we get going, we're going to, you know what? I wonder if he does personally just approve each one. That's why it takes it's seven months. It just sounds like he's a
2:13.6	weird guy. Just like, yeah, I personally approve all. approve all probably so just before we get going here
2:18.8	i know people complain that we always take too long but we're gonna well they weren't thinking
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