/x/ - Paranormal

>>19797

>>19794

I found one, this case is also mentioned in the Missing 411 books.

It was late in the afternoon on June 14,1969, when six year old Dennis Martin ducked behind a bush during a game of "hide n seek" on Spence Field; a boulder strewn and windswept field high up in Great Smokey Mountain National Park.

Dennis, His father, grandfather and brother were on Spence Field enjoying the day. Another family walks up and introduces themselves as the Martin family (same last name) and they ask if the kids can play together and Dennis' dad said sure. So the adults sit down and conversate while the kids start playing hide n seek. Dennis father was watching Dennis the whole time they were playing, he saw Dennis hide behind a bush for no longer than a minute or two. When the game was over and Dennis didn't come out from hiding his father stood up and went to go get him from behind the bush. When he realized Dennis wasn't there he started on a dead run down the trail screaming his name while looking for him for about 2 miles. When he got back to Spence Field he told Dennis Grandfather to go get the park service.

His father, grandfather, brother, and the other family had lost sight of him for no more than 2 minutes before the search for him began. Within an hour the mountain was crawling with rangers. In a string of bad luck the sky opened up that evening and dumped two/a half inches of rain on the park. The torrential downpours would continue on and off for rest of the week, dropping three more inches making it difficult to search.

Park rangers, dog teams, firefighters and police, students, boy scouts and hunters, all worked side by side with military personnel. By June 21 about 1,400 people were scouring that park on their hands and knees desperately seeking signs of little “Denny”.

About a week later, they were joined by a contingent of 60 battle-hardened Green Berets, seemingly pulled right out of the jungles of southeast Asia. Special Forces. choppered in to search for a lost child?

Dwight McCarter (head tracker for the park) remarked about how strange the arrival on the scene of the Green Berets was. They just showed up in choppers about a week into it, carrying their own equipment and their own communication systems. Gun shots were also heard during that period but no one could confirm where it came from.

The Green Berets searched on their own even though they had no knowledge of the area, they also refused a supervising rangers request that they work with the other emergency service personnel. They stayed for four or five days searching but never coordinating their efforts with the rescue workers.

When the search officially ended in September, over 13,000 hours had been logged and helicopters had spent almost two hundred hours in the air looking for Dennis. But a washed out footprint half way down the Tennessee side of the mountain,found in the early stage of the search but ignored, is all that would ever be found of Dennis Martin.

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>>19816

Late in the afternoon of Martin’s disappearance, The Key family were hiking in a region of the park called Cades Cove which is about 3100 feet below Spence Fields elevation and approximately six miles to the northwest of Spence Field where Dennis was and were unaware of the growing search for the lost boy. The Key family was there looking for wildlife. All of a sudden one of the sons says "daddy look look there's a bear in the trees hiding from us!" The father look towards the hill and immediately noticed that it definitely wasn't a bear, he sees something that was bi-pedal darting in between the trees as if it was trying to not be seen. At the same time this was happening the Key family reported hearing the "loudest shriek they had ever heard" coming from the hill where the thing was spotted, the familys attention was drawn to the hill due to the scream and saw something bipedal moving stealthily along the trees. Then it melted back into the darkness ofthe forest.

The family reported the incident the next day and the Key family were immediately called by the FBI to set up an interview. They were interviewed by a park service agent and an FBI agent. It was then arbitrarily dismissed with the FBI saying there was no way a man could carry a child and cover the distance from Spence Field to the Keys sighting from the time of Denny’s disappearance

When Dennis father asked the FBI why they didn't tell him about the Key family sighting he was told by the FBI agent that the distance was too great and the time too short to travel correlate with the time Dennis disappeared. Putting the agents reasoning to the test Dwight McCarter (tracker) and Dennis father walked from where the boy disappeared to where the Key sighting had occurred with plenty of time to spare, proving the FBI wrong and proving that the Key family sighting was definitely possible.

As did everyone else who recently covered the story,Paulides (the author) interviewed renowned tracker Dwight McCarter who participated in the search as a young park ranger. But Paulides is the only investigative journalist ever to get an interview with Bill Martin, Dennis Martin’s father. Bill Martin has stead fastly refused all attempts by the media to talk to him since the time of the incident. He blames them for helping to cover up his son’s abduction.

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>>19829

Do you know about Missing 411? I'm assuming you do but if you don't you should look into it, its a series of books that documents cases of odd disappearances. I have links to interviews with the author if you want them, he talks about really odd cases. Anyways heres another case, its more of a kidnapping than disappearance but its just unsettling.

John David "Johnny" Gosch (born November 12, 1969) he was a 12-year-old paperboy in West Des Moines, Iowa, when he disappeared on September 5, 1982 and was presumed kidnapped.

On Sunday, September 5, 1982, in the suburb of West Des Moines, Johnny Gosch left home before dawn to begin his paper route. Though it was customary for Johnny to awaken his father to help with the route, the boy took only the family's dachshund, Gretchen, with him that morning. Other paper carriers for The Des Moines Register would later report having seen Gosch at the paper drop, picking up his newspapers. It was the last sighting of Gosch that can be corroborated by multiple witnesses.

A neighbor named Mike reported that he observed Gosch talking to a stocky man in a blue two-toned Ford Fairlane with Nebraska plates; Mike didn't know what was discussed because he was observing from his bedroom window. As Gosch headed home, Mike noticed another man following Gosch. John and Noreen Gosch, Johnny's parents, began receiving phone calls from customers along their son's route, complaining of undelivered papers. John performed a cursory search of the neighborhood around 6 a.m. He immediately found Johnny's wagon full of newspapers two blocks from their home.

The Gosches immediately contacted the West Des Moines police department, and reported Johnny's disappearance. Noreen, in her public statements and her book Why Johnny Can't Come Home, has been critical of what she perceives as a slow reaction time from authorities, and of the then-current policy that Gosch could not be classified as a missing person until 72 hours had passed.By her estimation, the police did not arrive to take her report for a full 45 minutes. Police came to believe that Gosch was kidnapped, but they were unable to establish a viable motive. They turned up little evidence and arrested no suspects in connection with the case.

Almost 20 years later his mother Noreen found a packet of photographs left on the doorstep of her home, the photos were of her son Johnny gagged and tied. Since then multiple photos have been found of her son on online pedophile websites. Police came to believe that Gosch was kidnapped, but they were unable to establish a viable motive. They turned up little evidence and arrested no suspects in connection with the case.

>>19832

Katie Flynn went missing in 1868 around here fathers lumber camp

3 year old daughter Katie rode down the hill many many times when the horses hauled the lumber/logs down the hill. Dad went back up to the top of the hill, Katie was not there. As the dad is searching and yelling her name he comes across a couple of hunters and they join in the search for Katie. As they're searchingthey hear what was described as a "feeble cry" inside dense, dense brush, miles from where they were, as they walk up on where the cry was coming from, they see what looked like a huge bear. As they approached, the 'bear' looking creature jumped into the river nearby and "fly through the river and disappear."

Mr Flynn asked Katie "When we were calling you, why wouldn't you come back to us?

Katie "It wouldn't let me."

Flynn: "What you you mean it wouldn't let you?"

Katie "Mr Wolf wouldn't let me."

Flynn: What do you mean Mr Wolf wouldn't let you? What happened to your hat?

Katie: The Wolf ate it.

Flynn: What do you mean the wolf ate it?

Katie: He took it off my head and ate it in front of me.

Flynn: Did you get anything to eat?

Katie: Yeah. The Wolf got some berries for me and put them in it's paw and handed them to me.

Flynn was a smart guy and realized a wolf couldn't hold berries in its hand. But she was pretty adamant that it was a wolf

"a big dog came and took me in his arms and walked away with me." . . . laid down with me and kept me warm. "

Interestingly enough (and a coincidence) Michigan has been know as Dogman country for many many many years.