National Park After Dark
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National Park After Dark
Hosted by two friends who share a passion for the wilderness and a fascination with what can go wrong there, each week hosts Danielle and Cassie explore the darker side of our National Parks and explore these treasured places in a whole new way - because behind the iconic arches and towering trees l...
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328: The Dark History of Mount Rushmore National Monument.
Carved into the granite heart of the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore is one of America’s most recognizable, and most controversial, monuments. Beneath the...
327: Trail Tales 78
Today’s stories include traumatizing rites of passage, calls for help, wedding dress ghosts, missing friends and anonymous letters. Outsiders Only bon...
326: Short Life, Long Legacy. The Vision of George Meléndez Wright.
In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, today’s episode is dedicated to George Meléndez Wright, the first Hispanic person to occupy a professional...
325: Never. Give. Up. Angeles National Forest
When a small Cessna went down in the San Gabriel Mountains in February 1979, eleven-year-old Norman Ollestad was thrust into a fight for his life. Str...
324: Trail Tales 77
Today’s stories include being locked in taxidermy museums, meeting legends, lightning escapes, ghostly hikes and trolling blue butterflies. Outsiders...
323: The Pablo Escobar of Eggs. Matobo National Park.
When Jefferey Lendrum was a boy, he loved birds. What began as a childhood passion volunteering for an ornithology program transformed into a life of...
Introducing: CRIME HOUSE DAILY
Crime doesn’t take a day off. And neither does Crime House Daily. Hosted by self-defense instructor and advocate for victims, Katie Ring, Crime House...
322: National Park After Dark X Heart Starts Pounding
In today’s long awaited collaboration, we team up with Kaelyn Moore of the podcast Heart Starts Pounding. Kaelyn covers all sorts of creepy, strange a...
321: Dying for the Lost City of Z. Xingu National Park.
In 1925, famed British explorer Percy Fawcett set out on his most ambitious journey yet — to find a legendary city hidden deep in the Amazon. At his s...
320: Trail Tales 76
Today’s stories include lightning drama, peeing with friends, and choosing the bear. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subs...
319: Happy Birthday National Park Service, Not Everyone Loves You!
Today marks the NPS’s 109th birthday! In celebration (?) we pulled a few less than enthusiastic 1 star reviews of some of our favorite places. A few a...
318: The Murder of Tomomi Hanamure. Grand Canyon National Park.
On May 8th, 2006 to celebrate her 34th birthday, Tomomi Hanamure laced up her hiking boots, as she had done so many times before, for an adventure. He...
317: Trail Tales 75
Today’s stories include traumatizing children, urns in odd places and a day of the grizzlies. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and A...
316: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight to Protect Cumberland Island National Seashore.
She’s been called the wildest woman in America—and with good reason. Carol Ruckdeschel has wrestled alligators, dissected roadkill in the name of scie...
315: NPAD Goes Lights Out. The Butcher Baker of Alaska.
Today’s episode is a collaboration a long time coming! Our friends Josh and Austin of the Lights Out podcast hosted us in their studio during a recent...
314: Trail Tales 74
Today’s stories include getting schmacked, stinky ghosts, victorian asylums, salty situations and rescues from beyond the grave. Outsiders Only bonus...
313: People Are Food, Too. Kakadu National Park.
Val Plumwood was an Australian philosopher, environmental activist and crocodile attack survivor. During a 1985 trip to Kakadu National park, Val was...
The Mother of Science Fiction: Inventing Frankenstein
This week NPAD is on vacation, but as a special treat, we wanted to share an episode of our other podcast, Watch Her Cook, with you. This episode has...
312: NPAD X Generation Why
In today’s exciting crossover episode we are joined by Aaron Habel from the Generation Why Podcast. We recap four of our most memorable NPAD true crim...
311: The Great Flood of 1889. Johnstown Flood National Memorial.
Editors Note and Content Warning: This episode was recorded in June before the devastating floods that took place in Texas on July 4th. Listeners shou...
310: Our Quarterly Tooth & Claw Collab
Come for the animal stories, stay for the giggles. T&C and NPAD are reunited for another collab episode!
Listen to Tooth &...
309: Trail Tales 73
Today’s stories include small town legends, embarrassing young canoodling, haunted cheese factories, Hidebehinds and visits from the great beyond. Out...
308: The Couple Who Lived and Died for Lions. Meru National Park.
George and Joy Adamson lived for lions. After raising a cub they named Elsa and telling the world about it, they were catapulted into the center of co...
307: Our Weird and Wonderful World with Dylan Thuros Co-Founder of Atlas Obscura
Atlas Obscura began as a website and global community to catalog and celebrate the world's unusual and obscure places, stories and foods. Since 2009,...
306: Trail Tales 72
Today’s stories include debunking aliens, an outdoorsy Maya Rudolph, Hot Springs love, spooky family lore and horny birds. Outsiders Only bonus storie...
305: Stonewall National Monument’s Uprising. Ft. LGBTQ Outdoors.
Today we are joined by the Founder of LGBTQ Outdoors, Justin Yoder, as we tell the story of Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall Uprising. In the earl...
304: America’s Oldest Ghost Tour. Harper’s Ferry National Historical Park.
In the 1970s Shirley Dougherty moved to Harpers Ferry West Virginia and started experiencing strange occurrences. And she wasn’t alone. Residents were...
303: Trail Tales 71
Today’s stories include women in STEM, chirping mountain lions, cabin guardians, simultaneous hauntings, family lore and dead dad signs. Outsiders Onl...
302: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill. White Mountain National Forest.
In the fall of 1961, a couple driving through New Hampshire’s White Mountains encountered something no one could explain. What followed would become t...
301: No More Stolen Sisters. Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month.
In the summer of 2021, the world was captivated by the story of Gabby Petito, a young woman who went missing and was later found murdered in Wyoming....
300: Trail Tales 70
Today’s stories include life saving coolers, Fyre festival honeymoons, ripples in the space/time continuum, laughing lights, weird guys in the woods a...
299: Revenge of the Tiger. Bikin National Park.
In the winter of 1997, a man-eating tiger terrorized a remote village in the Russian Far East. This wasn’t a defensive attack — the tiger was hunting...
298: Robbery Gone Wrong. Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
On October 11th, 1923, deep in Tunnel 13 high in the Siskiyou mountains of Oregon, four men were killed in a train robbery gone wrong. The trio respon...
297: Trail Tales 69
Today’s stories include lighting strikes, protective birbs, family lore, finding yourself, poor planning and a strangely large amount of pet psychics....
296: The Deadliest Avalanche in U.S. History. Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
In 1910, two trains became stranded in Washington’s Cascade Mountains during a record-breaking snowstorm. After six harrowing nights, a massive avalan...
295: The Killing of K’iid K'yaas. Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site.
In 1997, a lifelong Canadian logger had reached the end of his rope. For years Grant Hadwin attempted to sound the alarm to the dangers of the logging...
Introducing: Clues with Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore
Join hosts Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore as they take you deep into the world of the most notorious crimes ever — where a single clue can crack a cas...
294: Trail Tales 68
Today’s stories include paranormal protectors, New Jersey karma, close calls, ghost sailors and slip and slides from hell. Outsiders Only bonus storie...
293: DDT - So Safe You Can Eat It! Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.
Today, more than 1 billion people around the world celebrate Earth Day—but decades before this global movement began, one woman laid the foundation. W...
292: The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him. Part 2.
After over a month of a long, arduous overland journey the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition finally reaches the waters of the River of Doubt. Their trouble...