Any conspiracy theory about people going missing in National Parks is automatically silly to me. Like "Why are National Parks such a hotbed of disappearances???" because they're full of idiots. You've got thousands of people who've never pissed outdoors in their life wandering around the woods/desert/mountain with zero experience and zero gear and zero understanding that this place can kill them. You don't see as many disappearances in wild areas because people don't go to them unless they have some background knowledge. Whereas you get tour buses full of old folks and suburban families shuttling people into National Parks 365 days a year. If you took the same amount of buffoons and dropped them in the actual wilderness the disappearances would be significantly higher than at the parks. Use your brain.
Some fun stuff from the notes:
park ranger who has seen people spread bacon grease on their campsite in the hopes of seeing a bear
British person who is appalled that North American national parks kill people
people who lure bison calves away from their mothers to photograph them
a lot of it involves bison
a LOT of it involves people trying to swim in the yellowstone thermal vents
woman who tried to retrieve her dropped cell phone from a pit toilet and FELL IN
Lots of people reminding me that caves are a problem too. I know, I just try to forget that caves exist because I hate them.
Guys who tried to hike the entire length of Florida in flip flops
Someone who approached a bear cub because they thought it was a raccoon
Someone who works at an unspecified national monument and says dead bodies keep turning up at the picnic area (Hello???)
A few Alaskans laughing at everyone
Scottish person who wishes their parks were as effective at killing tourists as ours are
A few NPS staffmembers saying the NPS is far, far too incompetent to wage any sort of large scale conspiracy about disappearances
Several death threats against David Paulides
People accusing me of being Bigfoot (I plead the fifth)
A group who got on a raft in a river assuming it would loop back around... like at a waterpark
Person recalling a time they saw a hiker "saved by monkeys" but did not elaborate on that
BISON
