The largest bear I ever saw was there, he was huge but fortunately dining on something besides a person. He was about chest high even on all fours.
Undoubtedly that bear could have made a person disappear.
Years ago I heard an interview with an investigator of missing persons who disappeared. He said more people disappear from our National Parks than anywhere else.
Not the first or the last to succumb to the dark, lovely, deep, deadly woods. Push the envelope far enough and you get a Darwin Award.
I assume they check out any new holes in the crust over the many hot springs... every so often someone manages to step off the boardwalk onto “solid” ground and finds out why the boardwalk is there.
Some folks get lost on a stage
I live an hour away from Yellowstone and spend a lot of time in the multi-million acre backcountry that surrounds it. There are many ways to get yourself killed out here. The fast moving snowmelt water will disappear you forever. Die on land by one of the million possible ways and numerous scavengers will quickly dispose of you….. of course there are aliens and skin walkers too.
Easy to confuse the two.
If anyone is stupid enough to go out alone into Yellowstone outback country and disappear, chances are they became dinner for any of a numerous types of hungry critters. Consider the bears, or most likely wolves which have been reintroduced to Yellowstone. Oh and these are not the kind of wolves that were originally native to Yellowstone. NOOOO, these were bigger and more deadly Canadian and Alaska wolves these idiots brought in.
Oh they are found..... and eaten.
Missing hiker found after 10 days alone in Santa Cruz Mountains
"I left with just a pair of pants, and my pair of hiking shoes, and a hat. I had a flashlight, and a pair of folding scissors, like a Leatherman tool. And that was about it," McClish told ABC 7 News.
What's weird is that it is only a 25 mile hike on the Skyline-to-the-Sea / Saratoga Gap trail and, no matter where you are in the park, you are no more than 10 miles from a road.
Sasquatch abductions are real.
Scat.
There are places on this planet where you DON’T just go screw around. Humans might be the apex predator here, but that doesn’t mean that *YOU*, precious snowflake, are equipped for the battle you might encounter.
There are lots of people that go missing in the national parks, but they don’t ever publicize that fact.
David Paulides has been researching this for a quite a while. He’s written “Missing 411” series of books as has a few movies about it on Amazon Prime.
He has a GoogTube channel and discusses these various cases.
Canam Missing Project
https://www.youtube.com/@canammissingproject/videos
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