![]() The biggest obstacle to getting any information about missing people in the wild, according to Paulides, is National Park Service red tape. (During the last stages of hypothermia, people often feel hot and remove their clothing.) Children are sometimes found at improbably far distances from where they went missing. Bodies are often found in previously searched areas, and often without clothing or footwear, even when hypothermia has been ruled out. Most people, according to his data, disappear in the late afternoon and during or just before severe weather. Jon Billman (foreground) and Randy Gray search for Jacob Gray in Olympic National Park. In 2011, David Paulides, founder of the North America Bigfoot Search, launched a database of wildland disappearances that occurred under “mysterious circumstances.” From his research, there are at least 1,600 people, give or take, currently missing in the wild somewhere in the United States. Strangely, the most reliable info on missing people in the wild comes from Bigfoot hunters. Neither the Department of the Interior, which oversees the National Park Service, or the Department of Agriculture’s US Forest Service keeps track. But how many of those disappear in the wild is unclear. Anywhere between 89 percent to 92 percent of those missing people are recovered every year, either alive or deceased. the proverbial vanish-without-a-trace incidents, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks.”Īccording to NamUs (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System), more than 600,000 persons go missing in the United States every year. but Billman has long been fascinated by cases that “defy conventional logic. As he writes in “The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands” (Grand Central Publishing), out Tuesday, most disappearances are easy to explain - hypothermia, falls, avalanches, eaten by a mountain lion, etc. The mystery caught the attention of journalist Jon Billman, who has been investigating “missing persons in wild places” since the late ’90s. Several months of search-and-rescue missions uncovered nothing. The 22-year-old’s bike and camping gear were discovered near the Sol Duc River, but otherwise there was no trace of him. ![]() ![]() ![]() In April 2017, Jacob Gray rode his bicycle during a rainstorm into Washington state’s Olympic National Park and vanished. ![]()
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