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  • 125: Flight 571 - The Price of Survival
    2025/10/29
    It should have been a quick flight, just a few hours across the Andes Mountains from Uruguay to Chile. Onboard were members of a rugby team, and many of their friends, and family. Spirits were high, the mood light. But as they crossed into the mountains cloud cover dropped visibility to almost nothing. What would happen next would end or define the lives of the 45 people on board.

    Victims
    • Gastón Costemalle
    • Alexis Hounié
    • Guido Magri
    • Daniel Shaw
    • Carlos Valeta
    • Dr. Francisco Nicola, Team physician
    • Esther Horta Pérez de Nicola
    • Eugenia Dolgay Diedug de Parrado
    • Fernándo Vázquez
    • Francisco Abal
    • Felipe Maquirriain
    • Julio Martínez-Lamas
    • Graciela Augusto Gumila de Mariani
    • Susana Parrado
    • Daniel Maspons
    • Juan Carlos Menéndez
    • Liliana Navarro Petraglia de Methol
    • Gustavo Nicolich
    • Marcelo Pérez, Captain of rugby team
    • Enrique Platero
    • Diego Storm
    • Arturo Nogueira
    • Rafael Echavarren
    • Numa Turcatti

    Survivors
    • José Pedro Algorta
    • Roberto Canessa
    • Alfredo Delgado
    • Daniel Fernández
    • Roberto Francois
    • Roy Harley
    • José Luis Inciarte
    • Álvaro Mangino
    • Javier Methol
    • Carlos Páez Rodríguez
    • Fernando Parrado
    • Ramón Sabella
    • Adolfo "Fito" Strauch
    • Eduardo Strauch
    • Antonio "Tintin" Vizintín
    • Gustavo Zerbino
    Sources
    Rare Historical Photos Britannica Wikipedia BBC All Thats Interesting Mental Floss ABC News Find a Grave


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  • 123: Sunday Scary - Dark & Forbidden Destinations
    2025/10/20
    Some places create a feeling as soon you step into them. It’s not just the air or the silence, it’s something heavier, like the land is holding something dark. Today, we’re traveling to a few of those places.

    A forest at the base of Mount Fuji where the world falls silent.
    An island in the Philippines where the dead rest beneath the sea.
    A patch of land off Brazil’s coast crawling with deadly snakes.
    A hidden island where a tribe defends their home from the modern world.
    And a tiny stretch of canal south of Mexico City where dolls hang from the trees creating a feeling of being watched.

    These are the places where beauty, history and a feeling of unease can exist side by side.

    Sources
    Wikipedia - Snake Island CNN Global Debauchery Atlas Obscura. Wikipedia - Aokigahara Survival International A-Z Animals Wikipedia - Island of the Dolls Yamanashi-Kankou Vocal Media Guinness World Records

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  • 122: Mystery of the Sarah Joe
    2025/10/14
    In February of 1979 five friends set off in a small fishing boat. The men smiling, laughing, heading out for just another day on the water off the coast of Maui. But no one would return. This is the mystery of the Sarah Joe.

    Sources -
    Wikipedia Travel News FRNWH Medium 1 Medium 2 Hawaii Activities Maui News Unsolved Mysteries Listverse Dusty Track Blog

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  • 121: Sunday Scary - Dark Trails
    2025/10/13
    Sometimes the scariest moments outdoors aren’t about what you see - they’re about what you feel. Today, we’re hearing stories from listeners who’ve crossed paths with the unexplainable, from phantom voices to haunted trails to places that simply didn’t want them there.

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  • 120: Vanished at Crater Lake
    2025/10/07
    Crater Lake–impossibly blue, ancient, and eerily still. It’s a place born from fire, shaped by collapse, and steeped in legend. But in the fall of 2006, this sacred landscape became the backdrop for one of Oregon’s most heartbreaking mysteries–the disappearance of an eight-year-old boy who seemed to vanish into thin air.

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    Episode Sources;
    USA Today, Facebook, Autism Anchoring Dogs, Strange Outdoors, People, More Than Just Parks, YouTube, Travel Medford, NPS, Crater Lake Institute, Crater Lake Institute-2


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  • 119: Sunday Scary - Ghost Ships
    2025/10/05
    The ocean has always been a place of mystery. It gives and it takes, and sometimes, it keeps its secrets. Every so often, a ship is found drifting across open water- its sails torn, the wheel unmanned, meals still sitting on the table- yet no one aboard. From the Mary Celeste in 1872 to modern-day mysteries like the MV Alta, stories of ghost ships have haunted sailors and storytellers for centuries. In today’s episode, we’re setting out to sea to uncover the legends, the facts, and the lingering questions behind some of the eeriest vessels ever found afloat.


    Sources
    YouTube, Smithsonian, Britannica, Listverse, Unilad Tech, History Extra, Britannica 2, NPR, Wikipedia - Kaz_II, Wikipedia - Flying_Dutchman, The Guardian, Strange Outdoors

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  • 118: The Selway-Bitterroot Mystery - The Disappearance of Connie Johnson
    2025/09/30
    In the fall of 2018, deep in the Idaho wilderness, a seasoned outdoorswoman vanished from a remote hunting camp. Connie Johnson had decades of backcountry experience. For her, the wilderness wasn’t just a place to visit- it was her life. But one October morning, when the hunting party she was working with returned to camp, there was no sign of Connie or her dog, Ace. That was the beginning of a mystery that remains unsolved today.

    SelwayBitterroot.org, klewtv, IdahoNews, IdahoCountyFreePress, Reddit, UNH, Medium, ListVerse



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  • 117: Stranded in the Solomon Sea
    2025/09/23
    Imagine setting out on what should have been a routine dive- clear skies, calm seas, everything going exactly to plan. But within hours, you’re stranded twenty miles from shore, drifting further into the vast Pacific Ocean with nothing but your wits, your dive buddy, and a growing list of dangers beneath the surface.Episode Sources:YouTube - I Shouldn't Be Alive, Neemyd, LinkedIn, IMDB, Getty Images, Britannica, Emperor Divers, Travel Zone, NOAA, Smithsonian, A-Z Animals, PBase, How Stuff Works, Snow Brains, Metro, NASA, EYOS, Google MapsSupport us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month, with benefits starting at the $3 tier!Follow us on Instagram at offthetrailspodcastFollow us on Facebook at Off the Trails PodcastIf you have your own outdoor misadventure (or adventure) story that you'd like us to include in a listener episode, send it to us at offthetrailspodcast@gmail.com Please take a moment to rate and review our show, and a big thanks if you already have!**We do our own research and try our best to cross-reference reliable sources to present the most accurate information we can. Please reach out to us if you believe we have mispresented any information during this episode, and we will be happy to correct ourselves in a future episode.
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