Cannibals? Great Smoky Mountains National Par...

Across California, incarcerated women are sent to the frontlines of wildfires, risking their lives for a chance at reduced sentences and a small paycheck. On Malibu 13-3, an all-women fire crew, the work was brutal, the stakes were high, and the bond between crew members ran deep ...  Show more

Today we are joined by Aylish and Annaliese from the National Park Trust! They speak to us about all the wonderful programs the NPT facilitates while also helping us share trail tales that include thieving bears, grandpa lore, wise 5th graders, bison close encounters and the heal ...  Show more

The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 million years old, and visitors to the park often take a little piece home with them as a souvenir. But stealing the wood has serious conse ...  Show more

In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking for two missing wolves. “They’re just gone. And that’s implausible because wolves don’t just disappear.” Thomas McNamee’s book is The Killing of Wolf Number Ten. This episode was or ...  Show more

In February 1999 a woman and two teenagers disappeared while on a sightseeing trip at the majestic Yosemite Park. A massive search ended four weeks later when their burned out car was discovered by a hiker.Police tracked down several suspects and put them behind bars on unrelated ...  Show more

June 14th: Dennis Martin Goes Missing (1969) Hearing story after story, crime after crime, it’s hard not to fear what happens deep in the woods. On June 14th 1969 a young boy joining his family on a camping trip disappeared in a case that, unfortunately, has so little information ...  Show more