Feb 22

Grand Canyon National Park: Strange and Unexplained Disappearances

The Grand Canyon National Park… Often described as a breath-taking and awe-inspiring place was the 15th site in the United States of America to have been granted the National Park status ([1.] Wikipedia.org). The Parks most notable feature, as the name might suggest is the Grand Canyon itself, a gorge of the Colorado River which is considered one of the Wonders of the World.

8 Responses to “Grand Canyon National Park: Strange and Unexplained Disappearances”

  1. Matthew W

    The last three were suicides. The one guy they did the autopsy on was definitely a suicide. The results were not released at the request of the family and in deference for his service in the Navy. The husband and wife went into the river in the winter with no life jackets. The cold high water brought their bodies to the next state or further.

  2. Christopher A

    If you want to disappear or get suicided in the canyon, try to get past the feds into that off limits area that been erased from maps and the no fly zone prevents pics, to create routes. Every “adventurist or enthusiast” even with permission to be on the native land up to the off limit zone was intercepted by feds or folks authorized by the feds to uphold the off limit area, have no comment about their trip, as in zero. Won’t say a word other then it’s a federal crime to trespass in a restricted area and not worth the risk.
    Anything thing can happen to you out there, if you have some willing to peruse what happened to you after a visit , you’re lucky but it won’t bring you back and why put them through any risk. It would be best to just respect the restricted areas for public safety.

  3. Nathan E

    I’m not too surprised here. Get off the usual tourist sites and the Grand Canyon turns dangerous very fast. I recently watched a PBS documentary about two journalists who hiked the length of the canyon. Despite doing the trip in a series of planned hikes, they encountered great difficulty due to altitude, dangerous footing, disorientation, some cliffs where a careless move meant instant death, and dehydration due to a lack of potable water. Serious hikers created caches of supplies for emergency use by all comers, but it still wore them down at times. Some of those places are difficult to access by foot, let alone by motor vehicle of any kind. Taking a wrong turn could lead to a person disappearing and then turning up years later as a skeleton, provided the bones were ever found.

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