Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Dillia Diambra. And the case I'm going to tell you about today

is a unique one. It involves a missing person who disappeared from the Appalachian Trail, one of the

most well-known and well-hiked trails in the continental United States. In fact, visit main.com and

Appalachian Trail.com state that the AT is the longest hiking-only footpath on the planet at nearly 2,200 miles.

It crosses through 14 different states on the east coast of the U.S. and attracts roughly 3 million visitors every year.

I've covered other cases on this show involving the AT, but none have the bizarre details

that this one has. The story takes place in the summer of 2013, when an avid hiker traversing the

trail through Maine vanished without a trace. She was walking along the 282 miles of the AT that

cut through Maine, which Visit Main.com reports as one of the 282 miles of the AT that cut through Maine, which visit

main.com reports as one of the most challenging sections of the trail.

And that's because a lot of the mileage hikers cover is in remote areas or mountainous terrain.

Only an unwise or inexperienced person would dare to walk the AT there without the right

kind of gear, plans, and preparations.

In this story, though, none of those things seemed to be an issue, which is why at the outset of

this case, so many questions cropped up about what exactly happened that fateful summer in Maine.

Did the hiker lose her bearings, or was it something more sinister that sent her off the trail?

In the end, what was determined for sure is that perhaps the most fickle predator we face in the wilderness

is the wilderness itself.

This is Park Predators.

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I'm Around 7.15 in the morning, on Monday, July 22nd, 2013, George Large looked at his phone and saw that his wife, 66-year-old Geraldine Large, had texted him to let him know that she was on

the move and would see him soon.

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