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On Sunday night's program, George Knapp was joined for the full program by researcher and author David Paulides , who shared even more bizarre stories of missing persons in national parks and forests throughout the United States. He expressed concern that, since his research began, reports of mysterious disappearances have seemingly increased. "The numbers have incrementally gone up in the last three years," Paulides revealed, noting that he has now amassed a stunning 1,400 cases. He dismissed the idea that this increase is merely because of additional attention focused on the phenomenon, since archival searches for such events over the last ten years has borne out the troubling trend. "It doesn't seem to make sense, what's happening," he mused about the puzzling rise in disappearances.
Over the course of the evening, Paulides shared a number of baffling disappearance cases that he has amassed via his research. One such story centered around a British man named Jonathan Myles Robinson who was vacationing in a small, isolated community in Switzerland which is only accessible by a railway system that shuts down at midnight. Paulides recounted how Robinson seemingly vanished at around 3 AM while walking to his hotel one night. Despite an exhaustive search of the area, the man's dead body was not discovered until five days later when searchers spied it at the bottom of a cliff in a nearby town. Eerily, cell phone records indicate that Robinson likely fell to his death shortly after 3 AM on the night he disappeared and, Paulides stressed, "there was no way" he could have traveled the distance to where his body was found.
"This is a really, really unusual case," he said about the 2014 disappearance of a woman named Karen Sykes. An avid hiker on Mt. Rainier, Sykes had been dubbed the "guru of the trails" by local newspapers and even wrote a book on hiking safety. On a seemingly routine hike with a friend, she opted to advance a bit further up the trail after her companion became tired and decided to take a rest. Sykes never returned and her body was discovered three days later in a location described by the Parks service as "difficult to access and not commonly traveled" which would have required her to climb 6,200 feet and then halfway down into an adjacent valley. Her death mystified Sykes' friends, who insisted that she was "the last person in the world that would have ever gotten lost on Rainier."
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| | |   | | | True Crime & Bad Cops:
On Saturday night's program, George Knapp welcomed journalist and author David Yonke for a discussion on the brutal slaying of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Yonke, who covered the case for the Toledo Blade, shared details of the ritual killing, and how later, Father Gerald Robinson, who presided over her funeral, was found guilty of the crime. In the latter half, author William Scott discussed his campaign to force police to disclose the true number of people they kill every year, and why bad cops continue to be protected instead of arrested...cont.
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| | |  | | Today in Strangeness:
Husband poisoner Ann Bilansky became the first and only woman hanged by the state of Minnesota on this date in 1860. Mir , the Russian space station, met its fiery end on this day in 2001, as it broke up in the atmosphere before falling into the Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
Tonight's Show, Monday, March 23rd:
First Half: Katherine Albrecht is a consumer privacy expert and VP of Start Page , the world's most private search engine. She'll discuss the breakneck speed that tracking technology is evolving and how the prospect of chipping all humans is rapidly becoming a foregone conclusion unless a movement of resistance is realized.
2nd Half: Child psychiatrist Dr. Jim Tucker directs research into children's reports of past-life memories at the University of Virginia, Division of Personality Studies. He'll report on his latest work focusing primarily on cases in the United States, including Ryan - a boy who believes that he was once a powerful Hollywood agent, and a young golfing prodigy who says he was the famous golfer Bobby Jones.
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