Helicopter Rescue and a Mysterious Hiker

• 🚁 A Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter pilot recounts a rescue operation for a missing hiker near Hayden Peak.
• 🔍 Despite extensive searching, the hiker was found on a remote bluff on Wilson's Peak, miles from his intended route, with no explanation for his presence or condition.
• ❓ The hiker remembered being followed and running, but had amnesia regarding how he reached the bluff or his own name, leading to speculation about what truly happened.

A Dark Secret Revealed on a Hike

• 💔 A woman's planned proposal hike turns into a confession of murder by her boyfriend, Patrick.
• 😨 Patrick admits to sexually assaulting and then accidentally killing a woman at a college party, hiding her body afterward.
• 🏃‍♀️ The narrator, fearing for her life, pretended to accept Patrick's confession to survive, but he fled before authorities could apprehend him.

The Ghost Town of Carson and a Mining Disaster

• 🎸 A rock band touring in Colorado in 1977 visits the abandoned silver mining town of Carson.
• 🩸 The town's unofficial history tells of a violent mine riot where miners and guards were brutally killed, with the mine eventually sealed off.
• 🤯 The narrator researches the event, considering explanations like hydrogen sulfide gas ('stink damp') causing madness and herd mentality, but remains unsettled by the guards' involvement.

Cannibalism in a Rocky Mountain Cave

• 💀 A medical examiner investigates human remains found in a karst cave system in the Rockies.
• 🔪 Evidence suggests the bones were meticulously defleshed and boiled, indicating a ritualistic or desperate act of cannibalism, not survival.
• 🕵️ The victim, likely from the Midwest and dating between 2003-2005, remains unidentified, and the perpetrator, possibly male, is still at large.