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  • 343: Murder or Kidnapping in a Gateway Town: New River Gorge National Park.

    343: Murder or Kidnapping in a Gateway Town: New River Gorge National Park.
    2025/12/22
    Fayetteville, West Virginia sits on the edge of the New River Gorge, a small Appalachian town now known as a gateway to one of America’s newest national parks. But on Christmas Eve in 1945, it became the setting for one of the most haunting unsolved mysteries in American history. After a house fire destroyed the home of George and Jennie Sodder, five of their children vanished without a trace, leaving behind conflicting investigations, reported sightings, unsettling clues, and a decades-long search for answers.

    Sources:

    What Happened to the Sodder Children, the Siblings Who Went Up in Smoke in a West Virginia House Fire?

    The Sodders thought they lost their children in a house fire. But they found only mystery in the ashes

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  • 342: Trail Tales 83

    342: Trail Tales 83
    2025/12/18
    Today’s stories include snubbing trail magic, spider inflicted injuries, railroad watchers and unexplained orbs. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

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  • 341: Death on a Painted Lake: Algonquin Provincial Park

    341: Death on a Painted Lake: Algonquin Provincial Park
    2025/12/15

    In July of 1917 a pioneering landscape painter paddled out onto Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park and never returned. His death was initially ruled an accident, but in the following decades peculiar “evidence” and claims from the locals raised a lot of questions. Theories began to arise that maybe it wasn’t an accident after all. Tom Thomson’s death may have happened nearly 100 years ago, but it remains one of Canada’s most enduring mysteries.

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    1 時間 30 分
  • 340: Death-Defying Dreams: Grand Canyon’s Most Daring (and Foolish) Stunts

    340: Death-Defying Dreams: Grand Canyon’s Most Daring (and Foolish) Stunts
    2025/12/08
    The Grand Canyon has always been a magnet for the bold, the reckless, and the people who look at a mile-deep chasm and think... yeah, I can take that. In this episode, we race through a century of jaw-dropping stunts, from a 1922 biplane pilot who somehow landed inside the park’s early boundaries to Nik Wallenda balancing across tribal land on a high-wire without a harness. Along the way we unravel how thrill-seekers dodged rules, rewrote them, or ignored them entirely in a quest to outdo nature itself.

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  • 339: Trail Tales 82

    339: Trail Tales 82
    2025/12/04
    Trail Tales 82 - Today’s stories include cemetery tales, childhood tubing trauma almost felonies and ghostly protectors. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

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  • 338: Your Leg or Your Life: Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park

    338: Your Leg or Your Life: Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park
    2025/12/01
    In November of 2024, 65 year-old Valdas Bieliauskas was on a rafting trip with a group of friends in the wilds of Tasmania when he did something we all have - he stumbled. But that trip landed him in an impossible situation. With his leg pinned between boulders in fast moving cold water, options were running out. A decision had to be made - a limb or his life.

    Sources:

    River Rescue Documentary

    Franklin River Documentary

    ABC News

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  • 337: The Fight for Native Lands: The Leonard Peltier Story. Badlands National Park

    337: The Fight for Native Lands: The Leonard Peltier Story. Badlands National Park
    2025/11/24
    In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, we venture into Badlands National Park, where a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation left two FBI agents and an activist dead. Leonard Peltier, convicted on questionable evidence and finally released after 49 years, insists his only crime was “being an Indian.” This is a story of defiance, injustice, and the complex fight for Native lands and sovereignty.

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  • 336: Trail Tales 81

    336: Trail Tales 81
    2025/11/20
    Today’s stories include rites of passage, veiled threats, small town legends, and mysterious melodies. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

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