Episodios

  • 318: The Murder of Tomomi Hanamure. Grand Canyon National Park.

    318: The Murder of Tomomi Hanamure. Grand Canyon National Park.
    Aug 18 2025
    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. Her return journey to the Grand Canyon was a way to mark another year around the sun, to a place she felt so personally drawn to. Tragically, the date that marked her entrance into this world would also be the day someone violently ripped her out of it.

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    Sources:

    Book: Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earth

    Articles: High Country News, Backpacker

    Web Pages: National Parks Service

    Podcast: Park Predators

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    1 h y 7 m
  • 317: Trail Tales 75

    317: Trail Tales 75
    Aug 14 2025
    Today’s stories include traumatizing children, urns in odd places and a day of the grizzlies. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

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    46 m
  • 316: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight to Protect Cumberland Island National Seashore.

    316: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight to Protect Cumberland Island National Seashore.
    Aug 11 2025
    She’s been called the wildest woman in America—and with good reason. Carol Ruckdeschel has wrestled alligators, dissected roadkill in the name of science, and lived off the grid in the wilderness she vowed to defend. But behind the sensational headlines is a sharp, fearless conservationist whose tireless efforts helped protect one of the last truly wild places in the Southeast: Cumberland Island National Seashore. Taking on powerful families and even the National Park Service, Carol waged a relentless fight to preserve the island’s fragile ecosystems—and she won, but the fight isn’t over.

    SOURCES:
    “Wild Woman Carol Ruckdeschel, the ‘Jane Goodall of sea turtles’ and more,” by Maria Dintino (Nasty Women Writers, 2025).
    “Last Stop on the Way to the Cosmos? No Thanks,” by Alexandra Marvar (The New York Times, 2021).
    Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island, by Will Harlan (2014).
    “Travels in Georgia,” by John McPhee (The New Yorker, 1973).

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    1 h y 8 m
  • 315: NPAD Goes Lights Out. The Butcher Baker of Alaska.

    315: NPAD Goes Lights Out. The Butcher Baker of Alaska.
    Aug 4 2025
    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 trip to Denver to discuss the extremely disturbing case of Robert Hansen aka The Butcher Baker.

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    2 h y 48 m
  • 314: Trail Tales 74

    314: Trail Tales 74
    Jul 31 2025
    Today’s stories include getting schmacked, stinky ghosts, victorian asylums, salty situations and rescues from beyond the grave. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

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    48 m
  • 313: People Are Food, Too. Kakadu National Park.

    313: People Are Food, Too. Kakadu National Park.
    Jul 28 2025
    Val Plumwood was an Australian philosopher, environmental activist and crocodile attack survivor. During a 1985 trip to Kakadu National park, Val was attacked repeatedly by a crocodile but miraculously survived. The experience completely reshaped her life and her perspective of her role within it.

    Sources:

    Book: The Eye of the Crocodile

    Documentaries: Kakadu: Land of the Crocodile

    Articles: The Guardian, National Museum of Australia,

    Websites: Val Plumwood, Remembering Val Plumwood, Kakadu National Park, Sightseeing Tours Australia, PBS

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    1 h y 9 m
  • The Mother of Science Fiction: Inventing Frankenstein

    The Mother of Science Fiction: Inventing Frankenstein
    Jul 21 2025
    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 a few surprising NPAD tie ins, and we are so excited to share it with you all. We will be back to our regularly scheduled National Parks programing next week! - Cassie and Danielle

    What began as a vivid dream on a stormy night during the “Year Without a Summer,” after a round of German ghost stories by the fire, would go on to spark the birth of science fiction. In this episode, we will explore Mary Shelley’s journey from her childhood to becoming the author of Frankenstein, and how her imagination–and pain–brought a creature to life that still resonates with us so deeply today.

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    Sources:
    • ⁠Time: Did a Real-Life Alchemist Inspire Frankenstein?⁠
    • ⁠Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus⁠
    • ⁠Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- Poetry Foundation⁠
    • ⁠JStore: Mary Shelleys obsession with the cemetery⁠
    • ⁠Artificial intelligence and Frankenstein- comparative analysis ⁠
    • ⁠Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus: Issues in biomedical science⁠
    • ⁠Frankenstein at 200: Why hasn’t Mary Shelley been given the respect she deserves?⁠
    • ⁠Mary Shelley Biography⁠
    • ⁠This day in history: Frankenstein published ⁠
    • ⁠Smithsonian Magazine- Breaking auction records⁠

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    55 m
  • 312: NPAD X Generation Why

    312: NPAD X Generation Why
    Jul 17 2025
    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 crime and mysterious disappearance cases, provide some updates and discuss what makes them so intriguing. Aaron also brings us a story we have never covered that remains one of the most puzzling cases to ever come out of Yosemite.

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    53 m