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National Park After Dark
Hosted by two friends who share a passion for public lands and a fascination with what can go wrong there, each week hosts Danielle and Cassie explore the darker side of our National Parks. But it isn’t always chills and thrills. By sharing inspiring tales and their desire for protecting our planet’...
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A Sit Down With a Psychic
Today’s episode is unlike any other we have done before! We will be speaking to Alissa Smith Moore, an evidential medium and spiritual intuitive. She...
Trail Tales 89
Today’s stories include survival of the fittest, mistaken identities, mythical rangers, badass advocates and legendary names. Outsiders Only bonus sto...
Killed for a Kiss: Appalachian Trail
In May of 1988 a young couple set out for a weekend of alone time in the woods, but only one would make it out alive. After being viciously gunned dow...
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Welcome to National Park After Dark. Join us every week as we explore the dark side of our beloved National Parks.
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358: Abandoned in the Arctic: Northeast Greenland National Park
In the early 1900s, explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen and a young mechanic named Iver Iversen traveled to northeast Greenland. Their mission? To recover the lo...
357: Trail Tales 88 ft. Creeps and Crimes
Today’s stories include haunted cabins, fake moose, symbolic dragonflies, probable alien abductions and a whole lot of yapping. Outsiders Only bonus s...
356: Haunted Highway: Route 66
Established in 1926 as one of America’s OG highways, Route 66 linked over 2,000 miles of the country from Illinois to California. Although long since...
355: What Happened to Sophia Koetsier? Murchison Falls National Park
In October of 2015, 21 year old Dutch medical student Sophia Koetsier vanished inside Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda, a place with strong riv...
354: Trail Tales 87
Today’s stories include drug smuggling, lightning trauma, beaver attacks, childhood confessions and dirtbag dads. Outsiders Only bonus stories availab...
353: Access to Adventure: Accessibility in National Parks
We hear “the outdoors are for everyone” a lot, and while that is true, accessibility to the outdoors is not always created equal. Today’s episode is d...
352: The National Forest Serial Killer
In the mid-2000s, hikers began disappearing from national forests across the southeastern United States, with their bodies later found in remote areas...
351: Trail Tales 86
Today’s stories include almost abductions, cemetery shenanigans, shared trauma and men saving (and ruining) the day. Outsiders Only bonus stories avai...
350: Cheers to Five NPAD Years
Take a stroll down memory lane as we reflect on the last five years of NPAD. Come laugh with us (and at us) while we look back on some of the memorabl...
349: Into the Wild Truth: What You Didn’t Know About the McCandless Story
Ever since September of 1992, when Chris McCandless was found deceased inside a bus in remote Alaska, the story of why he chose to walk into wildernes...
Introducing Valley of Shadows: The Devil’s Punchbowl
Valley of Shadows is a new true crime podcast that digs into a nearly 30-year old secret buried in the California desert. On June 11, 1998, Los Angele...
348: Trail Tales 85
Today’s stories include prank fails, questionable evidence, bear saviors, damned girls trips, and mountain flavored Disneyworlds. Outsiders Only bonus...
347: The Cost of Survival: The Cordillera Huayhuash Reserved Zone (Part 2)
In the previous episode, a catastrophic fall high on Siula Grande forced an impossible decision. With Joe badly injured and hanging in space, Simon cu...
346: The Cost of Survival: The Cordillera Huayhuash Reserved Zone (Part 1)
High in the Cordillera Huayhuash Reserve of the Peruvian Andes, two British climbers attempt the first ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande. The mo...
345: Trail Tales 84
Today’s stories include pizza in Zion, getting stalked, mule saviors, mysterious trapezoids, and pooping lake water. Outsiders Only bonus stories avai...
344: Willing to Risk Death Daily: Pony Express National Historic Trail
Not many of us would accept a job that risked life and limb, but for a brief moment in time, young men did just that - just to carry the mail. It may...
343: Murder or Kidnapping in a Gateway Town: New River Gorge National Park.
Fayetteville, West Virginia sits on the edge of the New River Gorge, a small Appalachian town now known as a gateway to one of America’s newest nation...
342: Trail Tales 83
Today’s stories include snubbing trail magic, spider inflicted injuries, railroad watchers and unexplained orbs. Outsiders Only bonus stories availabl...
341: Death on a Painted Lake: Algonquin Provincial Park
In July of 1917 a pioneering landscape painter paddled out onto Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park and never returned. His death was initially ru...
340: Death-Defying Dreams: Grand Canyon’s Most Daring (and Foolish) Stunts
The Grand Canyon has always been a magnet for the bold, the reckless, and the people who look at a mile-deep chasm and think... yeah, I can take that....
339: Trail Tales 82
Trail Tales 82 - Today’s stories include cemetery tales, childhood tubing trauma almost felonies and ghostly protectors. Outsiders Only bonus stories...
338: Your Leg or Your Life: Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park
In November of 2024, 65 year-old Valdas Bieliauskas was on a rafting trip with a group of friends in the wilds of Tasmania when he did something we al...
337: The Fight for Native Lands: The Leonard Peltier Story. Badlands National Park
In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, we venture into Badlands National Park, where a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation left...
336: Trail Tales 78
Today’s stories include rites of passage, veiled threats, small town legends, and mysterious melodies. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patr...
335: Broken Promises, Broken Hearts: Nez Perce National Historical Park
In June of 1877, 800 people were faced with an impossible choice - leave their home or be forcibly removed from it. What resulted was a 126 day 1,500...
334: Lost & Found: The Miraculous Survival of Truman C. Everts. Yellowstone National Park.
Truman Everts, a 54-year-old bureaucrat, joined the 1870 Washburn Expedition to explore Yellowstone. After becoming separated from the group, he lost...
333: Trail Tales 80
Today’s stories include wilderness tripping, formative moments, interrupting crimes and protective spirits. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for...
333: The Forgotten Winchester: Great Basin National Park
Topping every “America’s Most Haunted” list sits The Winchester Mystery House. It’s story has been told time and time again, but do we really know the...
332: The Morbidly Curious Book Club x NPAD
We have a special Halloween episode for you this month to celebrate spooky season. We’ve decided to release what would have been a subscribers only ep...
331: The Death of Folklorist Robert Kirk. Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park.
Do you believe in goblins and fairies? Do you believe in their the magic? Well, the Fairy Minister Reverend Robert Kirk did. In 1691 he published "The...
330: Trail Tales 79
Today’s stories include haunted government housing, mystery hair, almost animal attacks, breaking the (leash) law, family trauma bonding and bad shipw...
Introducing: CRIMES OF...
Power. Fame. Obsession. Betrayal. These are more than headlines. They are the forces behind some of the most unforgettable crimes in history. Crimes O...
329: Cemeteries: Our First Public Parks
Graveyards are often portrayed as eerie, haunted places. Today, they’re depicted as places of fear and sorrow, where the living rarely go. But histori...
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 controversial) monuments. Beneath the towe...
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...