Yosemite National Park: Strange and Unexplained Disappearances 

Heya! Do share your thoughts on the video and the disappearances discussed. Would you like me to cover other national parks? Let me know. And if you're reading this then I hope you have a brilliant weekend. Stay safe 👍

Ive worked in this park, for the department of interior and the park itself. The scariest time was working in the back country cutting brush for trails. If you were left alone for any length of time an erie sense would come over you. Ive lived in big cities, the country, small towns, big towns. Ive never felt that feeling, of being watched but not being able to tell who, where, what, was the creapiest feeling ive ever had. I hope to never feel it again.

I've hiked as part of a group, backpacked with a partner and done day hikes solo. As a female, now middle aged, I've always been aware there might be issues due to other people with bad intent, wild animals or just falling and hurting myself on solos. Sometimes I would get bad feelings about a trail, most times not. One time, pulling into a trailhead I noticed 1 car already there. I started hiking - it was very remote, I saw no other people and a feeling of unease slowly grew in me. I thought I'd keep pushing on, but that feeling kept getting stronger until a voice in my head: 'turn around and leave now!' got louder and louder. At this point I decided I would listen, turned around and booked it out of there as fast as I could, looking around the entire time, sure something was going to come at me from somewhere. I broke out into a run during the last flat portion and couldn't get into my car fast enough. I never saw anyone or anything - that one car was still there - but I listened to the voice.

After studying the 411 series, the thing that disturbs me the most is when the dogs can't find a scent, or worse still they find a scent but then it suddenly ends in the middle of nowhere. Dogs don't lie.

Always always pay attention to your instinct it's a gift, never second guess, no matter what anyone says,it's saved me many times,don't be stupid! That being said stay safe bless you all!

I've backpacked all over the US for 30 years and took my girlfriend for an overnight trip on the Yosemite north rim. We made our own campsite in a remote area miles off the Tioga main road and settled in for the night. We hung the food canisters off a cliff in the opposite direction to keep animals out of our camp. We were totally alone. It's common to hear noises in the forest at night, usually wind moving the trees and the occasional wild animal. That night was clear and a dead calm - until 1am when sounds of large tree branches being picked up, snapped in half, and dragged were heard about 50 yards behind our tent. It repeated several times for 20 minutes. It remained pitch black - no moon, no human voices or lights. Typical forest animals black bear, deer, possum don't make an unholy racket in the middle of the black night. I didn't sleep a wink until dawn. We headed back early morning and that was the last camping in that part of Yosemite. Thank you all for the comments split between known explanations (wild animals), and unexplained phenomena (cryptids). -We were not near any water source. Beavers frequent the valley floor and Merced River, and several of the lakes in southern Yosemite. 3,000' above the valley floor on a dry hillside is way out of beaver territory. -We purposely did not go into Tenaya Canyon because of the long history of lost and disappearing hikers. -The native Ahwahnechee Indians referenced energy fields between the mammoth Granite rock structures and hydrology of the many falls. Legend says the Wendigo spirit and supernatural phenomena work through and around these places

When your gut feeling tells you “DONT DO IT” you should always go with your gut feeling...it’s your sixth sense telling you, a feeling humans have ignored because we’ve become different from early humans who didn’t live in towns and cities

This is gonna sound crazy but I hope there’s someone else who experienced this. I went there to visit last fall 2018 & I decided to take a hike alone. It was around 9am when I started the trail. Along the way I started to feel uneasy then incredibly serene, thoughtless, just peaceful out of no where. A thick fog fell over the path I was walking and as I was walking it seemed to get thick and thicker. I sat for about what I felt was 30-40 mins. & because of the fog it was difficult to see but I’m not first time hiker so I knew my route back. When I got back to the start of the trail ( which was only an hour back) it was 630 PM ! All my calls and texts started to influx at the same time as if I had no service but I expected that.. there was NO WAY I spent that many hours on that hike. To this day I have no idea what happened. If I got delusions or if something unexplainable just happened.

Never go in alone, never go in unarmed and never go in without a locator beacon. You need all 3.

I live 3 hours from Yosemite and have visited and hiked there all my life. I never felt threatened or weird on a trail. I have hiked all over the park alone as a teenager without incident. Lots of fun and good, helpful people on every trail. It's the code of the trail. Some bears at night, but mostly deer; maybe a coyote once in a while. All of them are afraid of people. Never had a problem. I understand that some people come here to commit suicide and just walk off the trails never to be found becasue that's what they want. Human nature is unpredicable. Animal nature is more predictable. Don't be afraid. Go for a hike. Enjoy yourself.

When u start getting that overwhelming feeling of doom and experience that "silence" it's time to go! A woman said she kept getting drawn to go further diwn a hill when she stopped due to that feeling but that it started drawing her in like inviting and making her feel that was a heavenly beautiful place. She forced herself to turn around and left.

My friends went hiking in The Yunque in Puerto Rico. And they tell of a story that happened while there. About two hours into their hike three of them were ahead while two were behind. The three ahead noticed that the two behind were suddenly very quiet and they didn’t feel or hear them walking anymore. They looked behind them and they didn’t see them. They went back a few yards and they saw the couple just walking around in circles. They began calling out to them for a few minutes and they never stopped to look at them but just kept circling and throwing their arms up in the air like they were swatting flies or bugs or something. The three decided to walk closer to them and reach out to grab their arm and it felt really cold and suddenly they stopped and looked at them. When they asked them what were they doing they said, “ what do you mean, did you not notice all the fog?” Turns out that no one else noticed a very thick fog around them except for the couple. They couldn’t see anything in front of them the fog was so thick and cold. They said they couldn’t see the trees anymore or the three people ahead of them. And all they saw was the thick fog and felt cold. Nothing else around and they were trying to walk away from the fog but couldn’t. Almost as though it was holding them in place. No one else noticed it. When my friend reached out to touch them it all just faded instantly. I don’t know what’s in the wilderness, but I’m in no way trying to find out either. It’s creepy. To me it feels like the forest is alive.

I have lived in Tuolumne County for about 27 years. I am about 20 mins from Yosemite. We are surrounded by Stanislaus National Forest and people go missing without a trace all the time up here! We’ve had five or six deaths and three disappearances just in the last 10 months

I love my annual solo backpacking trips across Yosemite. There’s something humbling about feeling insignificant amongst nature. Yosemite has this feeling when you’re out there for days and don’t see another person, you realize that you’re no longer at the top of the food chain. I think that fear is healthy and something we should all experience

I'm a simple man. When I see Top Mysteries post a new video; i thumbs-up automatically, before I even watch it.

I’m from the UK and in 2018 me and a mate did an amazing road trip of California and visited lots of cool places. When we were in Yosemite we did some mild hiking which was mainly fine, but I do recall visiting one particular part of a forest which just felt dark and cold compared to everywhere else. It was also eerily quiet and I remember feeling a bit uneasy like we were being watched. It was one of those times when you just get goose bumps for no reason. We left and returned to the main trails and felt fine. I was due to do another road trip this August starting in Washington and then heading to Yelllowstone, but it’s been cancelled due to Covid. We were planning on visiting Mt Rainer when in Seattle/Portland but this has put me off a bit ha. I love your NP’s over there though!

All this reminds me of childhood tv show “Land of the Lost” anyone else remember? Portals, wilderness, sleestack, etc and that jr. bigfoot.

Between bears and weirdoes I think it's crazy for anyone to go into the deep woods without a gun...anything could happen...

Been in the backwoods plenty. Scariest experience was in Tetons. Silence comes over you and you feel your skin crawl. I whipped my head around and stood there staring off into the abyss. I felt like that for 3 more miles until we got back to the car. There was nothing there every time I turned around, but I felt like something was there watching me.

i lived in Yosemite Valley for 3 months and solo hiked in the high sierras and generally spent a lot of time alone out there never saw or experienced anything weird but the vibes in that area is just insane, it feels magical

The greatest disappearance in Yosemite is every time I buy something to eat, all my money dissapears.

I had an experience hiking the Appalachian trail. I was hiking alone, coming back from an overnighter. Well it was supposed to be for two nights, but the first night was enough for me. At one point in the middle of the night, I felt like my whole tent was coming down on me, while, even though my tent being green, there was a red tint, something like a red light off a headlamp. It was very sudden and I heard like a grunt and fell right back asleep. I don't know what it was, I just kinda brushed it off the next morning. It was so sudden and everything happen so quickly that it was just like a bad dream. Well, after a morning rain shower while eating my breakfast, I decided to pack up and hike back to my car. When it stopped raining, I got my things together and left. I was about 10 miles away from my car hiking some pretty steep rocky terrain. About half way into it, there was this deep fog that settled in. It just kinda happened. I was standing there engulfed in fog. Now the AT is pretty well marked so I had my bearings straight, but no matter what direction you looked the fog made everything look like it was moving away from you. The intensity of the dense forest slowly moving away from you was a very ominous feeling. However, when I looked back from where I came from, it was clear and welcoming. Drawing me back. On top of that, I kept trying to convince myself to go back. "oh well you didn't see that one waterfall. it's only few miles that way", "did you pack your car keys? If you stop now and turn back you, you can still make back to your car". And these thoughts will fester, so I checked my bag for keys, knowing damn well I packed them..I ignored the thoughts and the ever growing intense fog surrounding me. I hiked on and on, thinking I'm starting to walk in circles, even though I'm walking the beaten path. Finally, as I reach an opening and the fog has lifted. I get a sense of calm back. You made it, I said to myself. I'm not sure if it was just anxiety that had me thinking like that, but I know what I felt and seen. The fog was so intense the direction I needed to go and every step you took, it only looked as though the forest and trail kept getting more distant, but as I looked back the trail was fine and inviting. Very crazy experience to say the least. I hike around that area often, first time I ever had an experience like that. Intense paranoia and hallucinations. lmao! I haven't been to that area since. There is more too, but I'm leaving things like that. For a sense of mystery and to further stop myself from sounding crazier than I already am.

Imagine being lost in the woods alone, batteries dying, hungry and alone. The only hope of being found is by a search time.. truly horrifying

I have been to quite a few National Parks and I can honestly say hiking through them gives off a Erie feeling. I don’t know how to explain it but it’s like there is a presence that just makes you uneasy. I have had quite a few bizarre experiences.

I hiked to Sunrise one night by myself, totally drunk and stoned, found my friends camp by midnight, I totallly should have ended up a missing person but it wasn't my time I guess, never saw anything too strange in Yosemite, other than the employees

Thank you for your historical research and sharing some of the earliest disappearances in Yosemite. I really enjoy hearing about cases that aren't covered as much on RU-vid. Again, thank you.

I shudder to think what could just 'get' a full grown man and cause him to be erased from our existence. Separate note: the dogs they use to try and find these people absolutely live for tracking and have great fun and enjoyment when doing their 'job'. These dogs are nearly impossible to fool or throw off the trail. It's just so crazy they never found a scent in these cases. It's the very best proof that something highly unusual has happened to these people. I, for one, will never go into this, or any other area like it, by myself. Nope.

Also lived in Yosemite & grew up in the Sierras and never heard of Bigfoot or Dogman. Would not have even thought of Bigfoot if were not for my encounter a year ago in Northern California. An experience that will live with me forever.

My husband got freaked out in the sequoia groves on our last hiking trip. He kept telling me something was out there. He kept seeing a black figure. It started raining hard. Very loud thunder boomed over our heads. He wouldn't stop freaking out until I started singing hymns. Then the rain storm calmed down so we went back to our car. He keep asking me if i was going to leave him there. He wanted to know if they would find his boots. I thought he lost his mind. He saw things the whole way through the park. Once we got into town he was fine.

"You can't handle the truth." How would we know? We never get the truth.

Most people only skirt the very edges of our nation's wilderness area and never venture into the backcountry or wilderness areas where the illusion of safety offered by civilization disappears along with the feeling that you are in control of the events that dictate your survival. In the few pristine wilderness areas left you are at the mercy of the elements and your surroundings. Most humans have separated themselves from nature so completely that they no longer are aware of its secrets and mysteries. This ignorance and hubris leads us to make foolish mistakes and overestimate our abilities in these wild place and we become lost, injured, or a victim of the every day struggle for life that we have separated ourselves from so well.

Yes please, it would be great if you covered more State Park disappearances! These State Park disappearances are as fascinating as they are baffling and creepy. Several channels occasionally cover this topic but I dare say that the Top Mysteries productions are head and shoulders over the others. This channel consistently delivers excellent content and narration. Thanks for all you do. Have a great weekend.

I went to Yosemite on a family trip when I was about 16 years old. I I remember it was a very crowded place, and although many people were there, it felt oddly 'empty' if that even makes sense. I mean it more in a spiritual aspect. Usually, nature brings me peace, calm, a feeling of 'not being alone' and yet I felt quite alone even though my family and I spent the whole trip walking together on the most crowded areas of the park (especially the waterfalls). Don't know how to put it into words, but Yosemite has really weird vibes, and although it is a beautiful place to the eye, I think that maybe that beauty or perhaps more than meets the eye. It is there to draw people in to whatever really is there lurking in woods.

I've done alot of land navigation during my time in the Army. When I was a rookie i realized very quickly how easy it is to become disoriented. A few bad thoughts, and anxiety starts to creap in. That's when your decisions just become a little "off". I remember being somewhat deep in a New England forest. It was obvious that the 2 fellow soldiers I was with were relying on me to kind of be the brains of the operation. I didn't feel like the really took where we were seriously so I just started talking out loud about what an extreme effort it would take anyone to get to us if one of us fell and couldn't continue.. (and we were only about 2 miles off the road). Once I made those comments I think they quickly understood how much they underestimated that help was at minimum 8 hours away. It just so happened we hit 3 water points and every one of them was dried up. Just that little water distraction/concern caused them to start talking about taking "short cuts" to the next position. The "short cut" idea was my wake up call to what happens to inexperienced people in the woods. When I pointed out the number of reasons why their idea was not great they were a bit embarassed, but I think they learned first-hand what sadly some experience without a safety net.

David Paulides has written several books on these stories. Called Missing 411. They’re very interesting. After you read them you will never want Togo into any National Parks in the U.S. happening all over the world.

I live about an hour or so from Yosemite, and it is beautiful. Flew over it in a glider once, and the other pilot and I discussed the frequency of missing people and how he had participated in searches. Yosemite is kind of like the "Disneyland" of the Sierras, is really crowded in many places, and one can hear any number of languages in use. Not far away are much less crowded areas and even some that are so remote that there may be no one else within many miles. These areas can be exhilarating, but not for the casual tourist. One should be prepared and at least somewhat wilderness savvy.

A group of friends, my brother and I, loved to hunt in the North Kaibab area of Arizona. We were about 40 miles from the Grand Canyon, hunting in a dense Aspen forest, we had all split up. I have an extremely good sense of direction and was on my way back to the truck, I happened to come across my brother, he was very convinced that the truck was in the opposite direction. I finally convinced him and he came with me, I was right, we walked right out to the truck. The area we were in had very few roads, to this day, I am very thankful that I found him! Most of the stories you read about missing people, consist of someone going off alone. I don’t hunt by myself anymore and always carry a gun and a GPS

I just visited Yosemite a few weeks back. A friend and I camped overnight and the entire time I kind of felt a creepy feeling… On top of that the time zone on our cell phones kept changing which was really strange...

I am being totally serious here, why are there so many RU-vid channels that have screwed up narration with extreme inflection. I’m starting To think this is Ai trying to f#ck with us, because no one really talks like this in the real world. Am I right or am I right?

Poor Staci and her father , God how did he live with himself imagine that agony poor guy wishing every day he had gone with her.

Rainy day + a long video of strange stuff God I love this channel

Lived/worked in Yosemite for ~ 1.5 years including a whole Summer up at Tuolumne Meadows HS camp. Did the Yosemite Falls trail hike too. Had our food stolen by bears on the hike past Vernal/Nevada Falls despite hanging it in a tree. Had to hike 10 hungry miles back to the Valley to buy as much peanut butter as we could. That was my most traumatic experience! Great mystery stories!

*The trick to not experiencing any of this* just stay home and keep your eyes glued to the iPad as god intended.

Never hike alone. Who knows what or who could be hiding behind bushes or deep forest spying on lone walkers

Went to Shasta because my gf (now my wife) was fascinated by the mystery. We felt full on the eeriness and the power of the mountains of Shasta one night. The energy was incredible and we saw something coming at us from the top of the mountain at a high speed. Like 50miles an hour direct at us. We ran towards the car, which was luckily only 15 feet away. We high tailed out of that mountain driving at speed.

I'm in Yosemite right now!

Sometimes I get lost in my own neighborhood.

Very well done!! Yours is one of my favorite RU-vid channels because of the quality.

Dude the false dramatic pauses mid sentence only let me get through like 3 minutes of this. Just TALK FREELY.

Love me some top mysteries. Thanks guys

Definitely make more Yosemite disappearance videos!

Hard to imagine the terror these people went through...I feel safer in Compton

I hope all hikers take heed.

Me and my buddy got lost going up to Clouds Rest and I can truly see how people can just disappear/get lost and never be found. Yosemite is a vast place that just seems to keep going and going. Be careful and always have a group of people and always follow the water to find your way back to the path.

I used to work at a summer camp every year up until about two years ago when I stopped going for personal reasons. In the wooded area next to the camp, many campers and camp leaders reported a strange presence. There was a friend of mine who went looking for this presence and got knocked over by it when he tried to “confront” it. Another friend said she saw this thing visibly. She said she has the ability to see into other dimensions, auras, spiritual beings, etc. I don’t envy her ability. She said she had seen this presence’s form and she had seen it hover over someone and had seen it follow them into the wooded area where it lived. Another friend of mine said her and her friends went “ghost hunting” in the wooded area off of the trail near the boys cabin area, the same area reported to have the presence. They said it got very quiet the further out they went from the designated trail. They said something felt off, like they shouldn’t be there, but they ignored it and went further out anyways. When they had gone out a good distance from the trail, they said things started getting quiet. No bird chirping, not wind, nothing. Everything seemed to freeze. They said that as they walked during this time, they saw one little bird follow them on the trail. It was the only wildlife they saw. It would walk behind them, or out in front of them, curiously, and very close to their group, only several feet away, so they said, and then would walk off into the bushes, only to reappear as they kept walking from time to time. It didn’t chip or make any noises, and it didn’t act like a normal bird so they said. Suddenly, during one of the instances where the bird would walk out in front of them, it turned around, froze in its tracks, and looked up at them and stared. It didn’t move. It just stared, only feet from their group in front of them. They said, looking back, that the bird was trying to warn them. They said they immediately felt like they shouldn’t be there, that what they were doing was wrong. They left immediately. Later, reportedly, they found the same bird, dead, in the middle of the outdoor arena which was under construction. I had an experience one night on that same trail. My heart is racing as I recall it. I had been sick that day. It was a weird sickness. It felt like a spiritual sickness, not a physical feeling. There was also reported, by several campers and leaders, to be a strong feeling of hopelessness and suicidal depression come over many campers and leaders the day I got sick; like a “spirit of death” as some said. That night, I went into a spare cabin where I could quarantine away from everyone. I had a reoccurring song play in my head as I tried to go to sleep, like in fever dreams, but I could not enter sleep. It felt like sleep was running from me even though I chased it. I remember it felt quiet. I remember it felt eerie. I remember it felt wrong, like something was staring at me from outside my window that I could not see, something evil. I was feeling increasingly nauseous and got up to head to the main hall where I could get water and use the bathroom. I stepped outside my cabin and it was very quiet. I looked around. I felt very alone. I expected for wolves to come and attack me or for something to approach me in the darkness. My heart raced with fear. I looked down the path. It was very dark. I felt an evil feeling down the trail. I felt like something evil was in that wooded area on the trail. My spirit knew something was wrong. I walked slowly toward that wooded area on the trail. I felt a presence. The same presence some had told me about and I had heard about. The closer I got to the wooded area the more fear I felt. Like something invisible, big black, soulless eyes, staring at me, like it wanted my soul. I felt a presence creeping around me, dark, wide, dead and empty eyes staring at me, staring into me, staring right at me, staring right into my eyes... I have never felt such a soul level of fear in all my life as that night in the dark on that path. I felt the presence of something dark and evil. Something very dark... it felt like there the presence was great. The presence felt overwhelming, the feeling of death. This invisible presence seemed to lose its power over me as I whimpered out loud my favorite Psalms that I knew. I quoted psalm 18 from memory: “I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me; the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.” I quoted all the psalms I could think of in the Bible. I was miserable, sobbing, stepping out one foot at a time, each step feeling one step closer to death, one step closer to this darkness around my soul, one step deeper into soulless and eternal darkness. Each step I took seemed to bring me closer to this darkness and death, but while pausing in each step, I would continue to quote all the psalms I knew, especially psalm 18, and as I did, the presence did not seem to leave, but it’s grip it had over me seemed to loosen. As I entered into the most terrifying place on the trail, the place that seemed to have the heaviest presence of them all, I stood, and in between sobs, quoted all the psalms I knew and made it clear to whatever was there that (through my sobs and terror) I knew fully well they had power over me, but not over God, and that he would protect me. As I made my final stand, so it felt, the feeling of death loosened, I felt relaxed and less afraid, the feeling of terror and soul darkness lifted, and finally it turned into a soft eerie feeling, an uncomfortable feeling, like I was trespassing somewhere I did not belong... God bless; the true God, not the phony God many have been introduced to through misleading preachers and phony Christians. May the God of love and grace help you and may you find Him.

All of these trails next to Yosemite's waterfalls are often wet and slippery, and some are steep, like to Upper Yosemite Falls. And there's patches of ice near the top of the falls on trails into April.

My cousin was married to Stacey's brother. Her loss destroyed the family. The file of her search was sealed by the Forestry Service and to this day has not been released , why?

I used to do some group hiking on college. I live in South East Asia, and many hiking group here must have sort of a leader who responsible for all the member, s/he usually walk at the back of the line, checking each and every one of the members. No one is allowed go by themselves to take a pic, or left anyone behind to take some rest or something like that.. They even sometimes got too cautious as far as tying rope to each person in one line to prevent anyone got seperated.. Solo hikers quite rare here, and even if there are any, they will get the most attention from other hikers, and many passerby hikers will offer themselves to accompany.. Each trail is consist of several posts which have park rangers in it. All hikers must report to these posts.. But still people dissappearances are sadly inevitable everywhere 😢

I had a friend from high school I didn't see so often. He had two young sons. I visited him and his family in the very woodsy beautiful rural area of northern California he lived in. It was obvious his two young boys spent a lot of time around the woods there and were very much at home with the forest. We were having a BBQ and the boys were in and out of the woods but they came out and said something like.." we were visiting the dimension portal in the woods again..one is that way..and there's another one." These were like 8 and 10-year-olds. The older one talking and the younger one nodding..they said it like they were describing a hill or special big tree..like something that was interesting but they knew pretty well. The adults all laughed. But the two boys got angry and sad...and sat on the steps to cry. I went over to them and they said to me.."you don't belive us." I told them adults sometimes laugh because they think it's cool not because they don't believe you. That seemed to make them feel much better and that was it.

Thats crazy. My fam just went and im gonna go. Will be sure to travel in a group at all times!

The Sierra mountains are as beautiful as they are deadly, I moved out here two years ago an hour from Yosemite and 30 min from santislaus and it’s very easy to disappear in the wilderness

About 4 yrs ago before I moved, sometimes in the mornings when it was first getting light, I would go onto the national park webcams to see if I could see any wildlife. I've seen wolves and buffalo on the Yellowstone geyser one, and wild turkeys on top of the mesa verde canyon house at dawn, anyways, I was on the Yosemite one, I think its the one they call the valley floor or something, it has a big meadow, and then to the left it has the big dome rock, not the waterfall one, I think its half dome, anyways Im looking at it, and theres this big red beam hitting right on that big rock about halfway up, from the sky. I dont know what it was, but it was pretty bright red. It wasn't a sunbeam, it was more like laser character type thing. It was there for several minutes, I kept checking back, and then it was gone. and Ive gone back a few times and never saw it since. Anyways, I saw that red beam...so theres that.....

It baffles the mind. It doesn't make sense does it! Hope one day they can be found! Thanks as always 💚 🦊 👍🏻

I always share my location with a family member or the group I’m with when hiking in a big park like this , I’ve been here before last winter and stayed at the top , for 2 days in a beautiful cabin , but there was no wifi no phone service or any type of communication from outside and just to get to a convenient store it took a 2 hour drive back alll the way down the mountain to the nearest town , felt Strange and ere sometimes , but since I was with a group of family I did t think much of it my sister said she heard someone talking in the room she was staying in and heard noises late in the night , kind of creeped me out , but it’s so easy to get lost here if ur alone or new to the trails and don’t know what to expect . Always stay within the group and close by never wonder off alone unless ur an expert in the area and know the trails and weather conditions by heart . But man it’s so much a beautiful place , breathtaking , especially during winter ❄️, super cold , I even got to see a pack of deer 🦌 🦌🦌🦌 . There’s not much cell phone service tho so it could be scary if your lost and can’t get ahold of help . I’m a firm believer that something lurks in this park tho , idk what it is but the most beautiful places usually have the strangest and weirdest disappearances .I hope and pray they find there way home or are safe in gods kingdom ❤️

What I don't understand and should be a Top Mystery in itself is this: how does ANYONE put a dislike/thumbs down on this story? This was very well done, and I love how you went back to the 1st disappearances and noted the more unusual ones thereafter. Thank you for an informative video, I love to hear these strange and mysterious National Park disappearance videos, especially since I live 30 minutes away from Yosemite.👟👟🤪😱

I've been so blessed to spend most of my life camping and back packing in Yosemite. I've climbed Half Dome and El Capitan. It's a purely magical place. It's sad to hear of all the people that mysteriously disappear.

I have been watching a lot of videos of this area, those who make it out describe and eerie sense of being watched. Even in Holmbolt county, CA. I also read a comment on one such video where he was describing friends who had gone mountain biking and one friend rode off ahead. He suddenly felt weird, disoriented and stopped riding. He then felt an inner burning sensation and began taking clothes off. Then one of the riders came up on him and asked him what he was doing. I don’t think it’s just Bigfoot or people getting lost. Something is definitely going on and it causes disorientation.

I saw "yosemite park" and i clicked immediately, i am a spiritualist and have some type of connection with the spirit world. I have been told to visit yosemite park by mysterious creatures, I was even told the name of a cave there that i had no idea existed. One day i downloaded a pdf book about faeries that said that yosemite park is the only place where a species of fae and dwarf spirit exists, these spirits are known to take people into their world and never to be seen again...

Just noticed that big area of fragmented rock. Extremely dangerous, and incredibly difficult to climb. Wouldn't go anywhere near those rocks.

I've hiked there many times in Yosemite. Always with other people. The first time was back in 1981 about a month before the last victim, a girl, was described. Back then, there was not a lot of people on the trail around April of that year. I knew, as a 15 year kid, how dangerous it was. I don't think I would go by myself on a hike when I was young. There are bears there. But, there are also snakes and coyotes etc, and terrain that if you're not careful can make your life miserable if you get lost or injured. Can you survive by yourself? Sure you can, and you can intuitively get out of a bad situation...unless something really bad happens and skies the limit there. Long story short, don't be stupid and travel alone. When I was 26 and more stupid, I hiked out alone and regretted it. A bear was stocking me over a couple of days. It ruined my experience, and I called it quits indefinitely for hiking alone. Was I safe? Probably. But, it just was not worth it. On the flip side, if you want to disappear, nature can really make you disappear, and you would be integrated into it permanently. This sure sounds a hell of a lot better than dying slowly from cancer or some other degenerative disease. 😀

You Sir, are an Awesome narrator! Your research & presentation is excellent! I and I’m sure others truly appreciate your efforts & delivery of the content you supply us! The choice of background music is perfect for this video! Thank you so much! Your channel Rocks!! Hell of a kick ass job!

We used to go to the back country in Yosemite in the dead of winter back in the 70's. Snow camping and it was awesome. Used to always go with three of my friends and never had a bad experience. Nothing like a huge roaring fire all night long surrounded by nothing but 10 feet of snow and dead quiet. I've backpacked the Pacific Coast trail and all over the Cascades and Blue mountains. Seen tons of wildlife and fished great pristine high country lakes. Never once have I felt threatened. Of course I always carry a loaded .357 or similar handgun, anyone who goes out in the wilderness alone and unprepared is just asking for trouble. Had to fire a warning shot about five feet in front of a mountain lion that was probably just curious (but could have been stalking us) once, but I don't consider that a problem as we were prepared. The outdoor author 'Jim Kjelgaard' had a great quote in a book I read when I was 10 years old that always stuck with me: 'Don't go out there without what you're prepared for". Great advice and something I've always heeded.

It is in part of the Nevada Triangle. I lived 50 miles from Fresno CA for 50 years so heard a lot of strange stories..

Maybe there are other reasons the government set aside certain areas calling them national parks.

There is such a thing among hikers as “Hike your own hike”... but if I’m going into the park with a friend I’ll hike with that friend.

Growing up I’ve gone off trails and hiking with my parents a lot but there was this one particular trail near a frequent place we go to that never sat right with me and it always gave me a unsettling feeling

13:25 mike freaked out 20 mins after she went for a hike while he birdwatched. I'm thinking minimum you'd want to birdwatch for like an hour or so...... Wonder if Mike killed gennie? Edit. Oh so I'm not the only one who thought that

*is casually listening to the video* *gets to the part about minotaur sacrifices* "...Wait, what the _precise_ hell?"

Imagine people getting lost in a huge wilderness. Wow.

Very well-researched and presented. It is so important that sources are cited. You do excellent work. Thank you!

Soooo Jeanies body was found in an area that was totally inaccessible to anyone but Mountain and Rock Climbers. Even the trackers couldn't get to the body and had to use a helicopter to reach it. If true then how the hell did the fisherman get there?

I love Yosemite. It’s my favorite place on earth. I’ve been there twice.

The Minotaur is a 1 / 2 bull 1 / 2 human Greek mythological creature that lives on the island of Crete and every 9 years a group of kids ( 50 / 50 split between boys and girls) is sent to Crete from Athens to be fed to the beast...

@24:20 Lesson learned... never split up...The most obvious conclusions is that these parks have surveillance that’s not supposed to be found by anyone, yet they can see people who are alone... and that’s the only time they strike...

Why does the narrator say every sentence in the exact same way? Unbearable.

What about other countries that have the same thing happening. It would be interesting to find out how many people go missing under the same circumstances around the world. LOVE your posts! Before I hit play, I go ahead and hit the like button...when you know you KNOW!! Keep doing what your doing!

"The earliest recorded mysterious disappearance..."? I've always heard they didn't keep records of missing people in any National Park, let alone Yosemite. How about some pics of the more recent missing people, just in case someone recognizes one of them. And most definitely do more disappearances in National Parks.

As someone who was born and raised around the Sierra Nevada Mountains and as a Nevadan, the narrator gets bonus points for actually saying Nevada correctly.

This is one of my favorite yt channels. Thank you for the time you take to produce such interesting and entertaining content.

It's amazing how fast the weather can change.

I used to gig at Yosemite regularly and it was a bread and butter gig - we got 2-3 nights in a row with food and cabins included. Mid week for the employees to party - we relied on it for income as music was all I did for a living at the time. I started getting so uncomfortable going there that I quit taking the gigs. This was a big deal as I had an entire band that I wanted to keep working - if you don't, they find other bands and people who will keep them working 5-7 nights a week, to support their families. They couldn't understand why I would quit taking those gigs since they were "so much fun, paid well and we got so many perks". I just said I'd find someplace else for us to gig on those nights, and I did. I just was too uncomfortable going there, something felt truly creepy there.

Such beautiful Parks can attract many good people, & the criminally intent sometimes. As people get captivated by the incredible scenery, they may easily forget that they, as tourists, are possible targets. People predators can blend into cities, towns, & outdoor tourist environments. Campgrounds may sometimes be potential predator territory. Most people are not initially concerned that they are being targeted? Park Service & Law Enforcement cannot always see every crime develop. Some crimes are more likely going to happen in the remote areas. Small groups are naturally much safer than lone individuals! Situational vulnerability is always lurking on narrow trails, forests, rocky outcroppings, & minimum visibility areas! Not just wild animal predators, but potential criminals may crouch in the shadows, bushes, & brushy places.Yosemite Valley is itself an untold mystery!

When you think about the olden days when a prisoner would escape from jail, their main fear was the bloodhound. The bloodhounds ALWAYS found them unless they traveled through water. And these dogs could smell the trail very good at least two days later, then fairly well for up to a few days after that.

I remember experiencing a heavily foggy hike up to senital dome. When thinking about it now it definitely was an unwise and risky decision. Senital dome has a very vague trail path since most of it is just rock and very little dirt. There were times where I had to stop in search of signs of people trekking through an unmarked path. When recalling the experience at the time I was throughly enjoying the hike. The fog for some unknown reason seemed very alluring. It was so thick that I couldn’t see 5 feet in front of me but for some reason it kept pulling me in. Honestly, I seemed like a man possessed, I was walking into an unknown path, where I could basically see nothing, in a deathly silent mountain top. I had every reason to be scared and turn back but I continued right until the very top of senital dome. What I experienced on top of senital dome that day is something I will never forget. Reaching a familiar look out point with fond memories of its glorious views, it was strange to be unable to see anything. When on top of senital dome the fog had seemed to thicken up even more and it had surrounded me. From every direction there was only a vast and empty white space. It seemed like I was in a space that I could only label as being “in between” something. It was an unknown feeling that swelled in chest that I can still remember vividly.That’s when it hit me. A painful chill went up my spine and I remember feeling as if I was being watched. I know it was irrational but my brain had created the thought that someone or something was there, deep in the fog. Fear had set in and I made my descent back to my car. I hiked quickly and tried to stay calm but I had a feeling of being chased and I couldn’t shake it off. I was extremely scared of looking back, I was afraid of what I would see so I just trudged on. I had eventually made it to the half way marker, a small creek in the center of a small forest. When crossing the bridge over the creek the water helped calm me. The fog seemed less dense around the creek and the sound of my hiking boots bouncing on the bridge wood relaxed me . I took a second to breath and look at the water. I realized I was acting a little foolish and laughed to myself. Brushing my self off and letting out a big sigh I turned to continue on my way, but I froze. Before I could take a step I heard the sound of the bouncing bridge wood. Someone had catched up to me, it had finally reached me. I could only remember feeling an extreme amount of despair because I was unable to think. In a last act of bravery I forced myself to turn around and face my attacker. There he was, AN IRON HOOK WEDGED IN THE CAR DOOR HANDLE!!! Haha no I was lucky enough to be with a hiking buddy that day. But seriously thinking about it now, after watching this video, I could only image how dangerous a situation like that could have been if I was alone. Never hike alone guys!!

I love his voice. That accent! After listening to him who else feels tempted to try talking like that just for fun? The music is very mesmerizing as well

I went here and I found a purple sock next to tree.It was weird cause it was snowing and I got goosebumps,Then I remembered the Yosemite national park killer I got even more scared

Done many hikes in Yosemite,never experienced anything other than the amazing beauty of the place,can't wait to return

Stayed in a large house in Yosemite, in back under window was a teepee not made by man, footprints, and creepy feelings right a few miles from town, they are living close to people, don’t kid yourself, perfect for them, be careful folks

I just can't wrap my head around the dogs not being able to find a trail. Its like the missing are just picked straight up off the ground, GONE. Could there be something in the trees? Probably a stupid idea but how is there no scent . . . crazy scary stuff

One time when I was camping as a child I thought I saw Sasquatch but it was just my uncle without a shirt on