scary mysteries of strange disappearances such as those involving missing hikers
are reported on a near daily basis and in most of these cases the missing people are found and
returned home safely but there are missing hikers that have still not been found despite weeks and
in some cases months or even years of searching and their fates remain an unsolved mystery
number five
the mysterious disappearance of joel thomason is made all the more baffling
by the fact that he was an army reservist with a good deal of outdoor experience
joel who specializes in civil affairs and has earned his bachelor's degree in history
remains one of the many people who have disappeared in yosemite national park
he planned a solo hike from hetch hetchy reservoir to lake eleanor and back between
the 6th and 9th of september 2021 taking with him a bright red inflatable kayak a yellow and
gray keltie brand backpack a green sleeping bag and blue green hammock and blue zip-off pants on
the 6th of september he was last seen by a park ranger as he reached a steep climb above a dam
when he was reported missing park officials believed that he had decided to prolong his stay
extending his hike to cherry lake or to the grand canyon
when a search was launched however it included crews on the ground
in the air and on the water the path that he had intended to travel through was thoroughly
searched along with the road between cherry lake and the canyon but no sign of joel was found
searchers were baffled by the fact that none of his equipment or clothing could be found
anywhere and due to the very remote nature of the area where he disappeared it's presumed that he
has succumbed to the elements yosemite's search and rescue personnel have since asked anyone who
was in the hetch hetchy area since the 6th of september to contact y-o-s-a-r at 209-238-7046
number 4.
on the 11th of october 2014 jail hamlin from anchorage alaska had been out to dinner with
her roommate kendra estrada before returning home just before 10 pm both women had left their
children with kendra's mother who often babysat for them after reaching home jail stated that she
was thinking of going out again but kendra decided to call it a night and went to bed
that night jail had been rejected by a man who she was interested in and at 1 40 am she texted a male
friend to say that she was upset and wanted to meet with him she also exchanged text messages
with another man just after 3 am and this would be the last time that anyone heard from her
kendra texted her in the morning at 10 32 but got no response and when she went to check
jail's bedroom at around noon she found that her bed was unmade and jail was nowhere to be found
she noticed that her purse and cell phone were missing but that jail's car a 1998 ford expedition
was still parked in the driveway kendra assumed that she had indeed gone out again and hadn't
returned home which was not out of the ordinary she sent two more texts that afternoon but again
got no response and when she tried to call only got jail's voicemail when kendra's phone was
analyzed later it was found that her text messages hadn't been delivered meaning that the phone was
either turned off or the battery had died on the 14th of october jill's mother reported her as mise
and it wasn't until march of the following year that her purse was found buried in snow
along a trail inside were her social security card and her iphone 5. it's believed that the
purse was left there by someone else since jail didn't enjoy hiking and temperatures
were below freezing her case is being treated as a possible homicide due to the suspicious
circumstances surrounding her disappearance multiple searches have been conducted including
one with a trooper helicopter but jail's disappearance remains unsolved to this day
number three
in june of 2020 sandra johnson hughes moved from hawaii to california and she decided
to go on a solo hiking trip partly to escape the possibility of being infected by coven 19.
she was an experienced outdoors woman as she had trained to be a park ranger while in college
the last time that her family had contact with her was on the 26th of june
the same day as her mysterious disappearance but since then they have not heard from her and she
remains a missing person in sierra national forest a search effort was launched and a
search team came across sandra's campsite in the johnson meadows area of the forest
this was evidenced by personal documents belonging to sandra that were found at the site
later her car was discovered abandoned near a creek and it appeared to have been involved in
an accident police believe that she lost control of the vehicle and hit a tree
another hiker would later tell investigators that they saw sandra near the scene of the accident but
she stated that she was okay and left the area but that's where the trail runs cold and investigators
are at a loss as to what may have happened to her she remains missing however on the 21st of july
2020 jake and victoria gorba from california who were in the same area for a weekend outing with
their three children experienced a strange event that is linked to sandra's strange disappearance
the family had stopped to have lunch when their three-year-old son kaiden started talking to
someone who wasn't there when they asked him what he was doing he pointed to a spot in the meadow
and started describing a woman that he was talking to he stated that she was wearing a black shirt
that she couldn't talk and she was lying face down and needed their help he also stated that she was
deceased both jake and victoria immediately searched the area but couldn't find anyone
though the incident unnerved them so much that they decided to pack up and leave
soon afterward they decided to share the story on facebook and to their surprise they were contacted
by the madera county sheriff's corporal chris williams he had spotted the post and realized
that kaden had described sandra down to the finest detail this included her blue hair
the jeans and shirt that she was wearing as well as the area where she went missing
williams along with jake and cayden drove back up to the area the following day
but they were unable to find any trace of sandra and her case remains an unsolved mystery
number two
the strange unexplained disappearance of sandra lee davis began in the summer of 1974 when she
her husband and two daughters moved from utah to alaska in august of that year her husband told
her that he wanted a divorce and sandra became extremely upset as she was already unhappy with
her life in alaska on the 30th of august she decided to sign the divorce papers and was
given custody of their children however she told her family that she planned to move to california
where she had lived previously and would be leaving the children in the care of their father
at around 7pm she started to cry and left the family's trailer they assumed that she had gone
to a pay phone down the road as she had done the night before on that occasion she stayed away for
about three hours but this time she never returned she had no money identification or extra clothes
with her and when she had still not come home the next day her husband reported her missing
initially he was considered to be a suspect in her disappearance but he agreed to take a polygraph
test which he passed a search was carried out with the use of police dogs and they picked up
her trail leading from the family's trailer to the pay phone but this was of little use as she
walked that route on a frequent basis soon after sandra's husband found a note that she had written
in which she apologized for the failure of their marriage but it was not dated and didn't
give the impression that she planned to take her own life the fact that she still remains
missing also points away from this theory as she would have very likely been found soon after no
further evidence was discovered and investigators remained baffled as to what may have happened
to her sandra's family continues to search for her but at present her fate remains unknown
number one
in june of 2001 thomas nuzzy was staying at a super 8 hotel in alaska he was last seen by his
friends on the 15th of june and on the 18th he was captured on surveillance footage buying cigarettes
two lighters chips and a soda at a convenience store near the hotel on minnesota dry on the
19th of june he failed to show up for work and he was reported missing soon after his disappearance
his jeep cherokee was found with the keys still inside at a ski area 12 miles outside of anchorage
since his bike was found at his storage unit police believed that he was on foot at the time
that he went missing a security guard would later inform police that he had seen a woman and a man
who didn't fit thomas description trying to break into the jeep
at the hotel on the 15th of june he did however recognize the woman as being with
thomas in the surveillance footage that was retrieved from the convenience store
on the 18th people who were living across the street from the hotel contacted staff
to inform them that two people presumed to be the same couple were trying to break into a car
a close friend of thomas's harold has stated that he found it strange that thomas would buy
cigarettes at the store as he isn't a smoker and would never allow anyone to smoke in his car he
also told police that he phoned thomas's room on the 18th of june to find that he needed a ride to
the airport the next day but instead of hearing his friend's voice an unidentified man answered
and passed the phone to a woman who told him that thomas had checked out she then quickly
hung up they eventually made their way in and left with the vehicle but the tail only gets stranger
from there a housekeeper at the hotel told police that she saw a man lying on the floor of thomas's
room on the morning of the 19th of june the same day that thomas was reported missing
she returned to the room at 1pm and saw the same man who wasn't thomas sitting on the bed she asked
him to leave and he complied but neither he nor the woman that he was with have been seen since
police have stated that the two are persons of interest in thomas's disappearance but
they've been unable to identify them the woman is described as being caucasian about five foot two
and very thin with dark hair past her shoulders the man is also described as being very thin
and tall with dark skin and rotting teeth thomas's nephew steven reeves decided to call all
the numbers that had been dialed from thomas's cell phone but they mostly belonged to hotels
and pagers and no one that he spoke to had any information thomas's case still remains unsolved
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