What Happened to Sophia Koetsier? Murchison Falls National Park
National Park After Dark
Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian
4.6 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda is beautiful, but it's not safe. |
| 0:06.0 | The landscape is massive and unforgiving. |
| 0:09.0 | The Victoria Nile runs straight through the park, its current strong enough to pull anything under. |
| 0:14.0 | Along the riverbank lives some of the most dangerous wildlife in Africa. |
| 0:18.0 | Their Nile crocodiles have a bite so strong they can easily crush a car. |
| 0:23.2 | Their hippos may look docile, but are responsible for more human deaths than most predators. |
| 0:29.7 | They have lions that move quietly through tall grass and dense woodlands. |
| 0:33.9 | The scale of the park is part of the risk. |
| 0:36.5 | Dense vegetation limit infrastructure. |
| 0:39.2 | There's long distances between people. |
| 0:41.9 | It's easy to underestimate how quickly something can go wrong |
| 0:45.3 | and how difficult it can be to find answers once it does. |
| 0:49.3 | In a place like this, it's easy to assume the environment is responsible. |
| 0:53.6 | The river, the animals, the terrain, |
| 0:55.9 | but sometimes the story is not that simple. In October of 2015, Sophia Coatsier was here and then |
| 1:04.1 | she was gone. The place where she was last seen raised more questions than it answered. The |
| 1:09.8 | environment offered an easy explanation, |
| 1:12.4 | but the scene itself was never properly secured. There were no clear signs of an animal attack, |
| 1:18.1 | personal belongings were left behind, details that did not fit neatly into a single conclusion. |
| 1:24.2 | So the question remains, what really happened to Sophia Coatsier? Welcome to National Park After Dark. I'm Danielle. |
| 1:57.6 | I'm Cassie. |
| 1:58.6 | And this park scarred me for life when you talked about it last time. I know. I was thinking about this last episode. And I actually was looking at it. I was like, what did I title it? And it's an adventure worth dying for. And I told the story of Henry Coatsy. Yes. And the parallels with the... I know. |
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