The Missing Children of Yosemite National Park
Strange circumstances surround the missing children.
The statistics for people that go missing in national parks across the US stands in the thousands. According to NamUs (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System), more than 600,000 persons go missing in the United States every year.
Between 89 per cent to 92 per cent of those missing people are recovered every year, either alive or deceased. However, how many of those disappear in the wild is unclear.
Shockingly, neither the Department of the Interior, which oversees the National Park Service or the Department of Agriculture’s US Forest Service keeps track.
Strangely, the most reliable information on missing people in the wild comes from Bigfoot hunters. In 2011, David Paulides, founder of the North America Bigfoot Search, launched a database of wildland disappearances that occurred under ‘mysterious circumstances.’
From his research, at least 1,600 people are currently missing in the wild somewhere in the United States.
When looking into the disappearance of children and adults, some taken from broad daylight, it is easy to plot clusters of them. Certain areas produce more missing people than others. Yosemite National Park hosts one of these…
