Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project

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Each year 2,400 people, on average, get lost in the wilderness in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. 90% of those that become lost are found alive, 8 % are located deceased, and the other 2% simply vanish without a trace. Our host Tanner Hoskins, co-Founder of Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search and Executive Director at Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project (PNWMPP) shares the mysterious true stories of adults and children who inexplicably disappeared while recreating in the great outdoors of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Tanner will share the stories of these missing perso...

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Missing Persons Behavior: Toddlers (1-3 years old) 05.01.2024 18:30

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Tanner takes listeners on a journey into understanding how Toddlers, ages 1-3 years old, that become lost in the wilderness behave. All of the information shared in today's podcast comes from Tanner's own Search and Rescue training accompanied with statistics from the last 50 years of Search and Rescue efforts around the world. This topic is...

Missing Person Behavior: Lost Hikers and Lost Hunters 19.12.2023 14:12

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Tanner takes listeners on a journey into understanding how lost hikers and lost hunters behave in mountainous conditions, according to Search and Rescue training and statistics from the last 50 years. Follow along as Tanner discusses how someone can become turned around in the wilderness without meaning to and at times, without knowing they've be...

The Carroll "Don" Parkins Case (Oregon 2023) 28.11.2023 7:46

Send us Fan Mail Carroll "Don" Parkins, 78 years old at time of his disappearance, took off into the wilderness to "shed hunt" on April 22nd, 2023 and was never seen again. Don, as his friends called him, was an avid-outdoorsman, proficient hunter, and knew the area he was venturing into pretty well. Don parked his vehicle at a private property land entered private timber land...

Maureen "Anu" Kelly - Washington State 27.07.2023 9:39

Send us Fan Mail Maureen "Anu" Kelly vanished on June 9th, 2013 while camping with some friends at the Canyon Creek Campground in Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Maureen had said she wanted to go on a "Spiritual Quest" and at 5pm on June 9th, Maureen stripped completely naked, dawned a fanny pack containing a compass, matches, and a knife before crossing over Canyon Creek, he...

The Sammy Boehlke and Derrick Engebretson case (Oregon) 22.06.2023 13:49

Send us Fan Mail Crater Lake National Park in the State of Oregon, is shrouded in mystery. Known by the indigenous peoples of the area as a sort of no-man's land, where large bipedal "devils" and "stick Indians" roamed and kidnapped people. Often times hurling them into the crater filled with water below. This weeks episode will cover two cases that occurred less than 30...

The Jeromy Childress disappearance (Oregon) 12.06.2023 11:00

Send us Fan Mail Jeromy Childress vanished into the thick vegetation of the Tillamook State Forest on October 16th, 2004 and has never been seen or heard from since. Jeromy was a loving husband to a beautiful wife named Kristen, and two children a three year old daughter and an 8 month old son. Jeromy was an avid-outdoorsman and knew this particular section of the Tillamook State Forest very wel...

The Shawn Higgins case (Oregon) 10.06.2023 8:47

Send us Fan Mail On October 14th, 2016 Shawn Higgins, his son Trevor, and Trevor's uncle Will were hunting in the Siskiyou National Forest in SW Oregon when Shawn vanished. Shawn knew this section of the forest like the back of his hand. He had been in the area many times as a teenager skipping school to hunt turkeys. Searchers spent 11 days looking for Shawn without finding a single piece of...