Hundreds Have Vanished from National Parks. Is Bigfoot to Blame?

Above, Yosemite National Park has had the largest number of missing persons, about 40
to 45, since  the National Park Service was established in 1916. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

This past summer, I have read many news reports of people getting killed, in one way or another, in our national parks from coast to coast.

One thing we rarely hear about: people who have vanished in our national parks without a trace.

How Stuff Works has an article about how people have visited a national park, but never seen again. Its title: "Hundreds Have Vanished from National Parks. Is Bigfoot to Blame?"

It begins with:

National parks are a source of pride for Americans. They provide beautiful, wild places to explore and reconnect with nature. But unfortunately, sometimes there's a dark side to these historic places. One of those is that since the National Park Service was established in 1916, more than 1,000 visitors have disappeared while visiting a park, often without a trace. And because there is no federal-level database tracking how many people have gone missing from these federal lands, it's very difficult to pin down an exact number of the missing.

To read more, go here.