Ok. Way out there ....

The other day I was asked by a student to look up some mysteries to read. Getting some young people to read is akin to getting a cat to lick mustard. So. While I was perusing the internet for some material I came across a unique site that caught my attention.

Apparently there is the author who wrote a series of books titled Missing 411. It is about missing people who more or less vanished completely, were found dead under very strange circumstances or even some who managed to be rescued but were totally clueless as to what happened.

I know there is much hype regarding this type of thing but it still caught my interest. Ass an example, a German family on holiday rented a mini van and went into Death Valley. They got lost and their disappearance remained a mystery. Someone found the van and some human bones thirteen years later. Park officials credited the tragedy to a series of bad decisions on their part. I think they became overwhelmed with the vast area. Death Valley NP is about the size of the state of Connecticut so it would not be too far fetched to have some disappear like that.

I recall Jim Taylor and Paco Kelly discussing and writing about the Superstition Mountains in Arizona. Apparently some people have gone missing and were never seen again.

What intrigued me was that the author created a map and it appears that there are clusters of disappearances. Apparently there are some in New England. One in the Northwoods of Maine. In fact I have hunted and camped in that area. Another is in central-eastern New Hampshire. I want to say maybe the Ossipee area. Another in Southern Vermont and the Adirondacks are on that map as well.

So. Why am I posting on this site with such a topic?

Well. You have here a great collective of people with centuries of experience in the outdoors, self defense, survival, military experience et al.

What have you experienced, in your opinion, that has been what can be called weird or possibly threatening in the more wild areas of our nation

In all honesty I can't say I have been in such a situation as I have always felt somewhat comfortable in the wilds and being adequately armed helped in that situation.

Thanks for my rambling on this topic.

PS: That is one reason why I have thought of a 1911 in 10 mm or even something like a .460 Rowland.