I’ve been on the AT in NJ and the lower part in NY, and don’t see these types; it may just be too cold (even in the summer, the nights get chilly in our mountains). Friends who have hiked other parts describe “Have you seen me?” signs posted along the AT - very creepy...
“Friends who have hiked other parts describe “Have you seen me?” signs posted along the AT - very creepy...”
Not as creepy as you think. Check out the 411 book series. The author started looking into those types of disappearances, and found they clustered, and even weirder, a *lot* of them had strange circumstances, like the person was there is full view one second, and in a moment vanished completely, and then was found in a strange place not easily accessible, too far from where they disappeared to have gotten there on foot.
He claimed some Rangers would only say off the record there was a coverup of the disappearances, and he felt there was some pseudo-paranormal explanation for it, like UFO’s, or some high-tech government thing. He found so many he had to begin doing sequels.
There have been strange cases too where the person was found, disoriented, and not remembering what happened. The guy who created the biggest discovery in DNA science, Kary Mullis, and his daughter both had separate experiences like that. He may have found something out, because he had cryptically said of the event, something like, “It was anthropology, of a scale we can not begin to imagine.” He wouldn’t say anything else.
Very few ever see the full world from their cubicle. It could be a lot weirder than we know.