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Allagash River, just north of Boston, a chilling story of a mass abduction. Were all these men taken by aliens? A camping trip for ever altered the lives of four men. Unexplained Mysteries, CBS 2003
If any of them feel any unnatural urges or the desire to do something they shouldn’t, send them straight to me. Carry on Camping 1969 starring Sidney James & Charles Hawtrey & Joan Sims & Kenneth Williams & Terry Scott & Barbara Windsor & Hattie Jacques & Bernard Bresslaw & Peter Butterworth et al, director Gerald Thomas, Dr Soper
Welcome to Paradise! ibid. Joshua Fiddler, owner of campsite
Jacques: I am aware that a man has these uncontrollable urges from time to time ...
Williams: Oh only on Christmas and Bank Holidays.
Jacques: ... Oh I realise of course it was the sight of me in the shower that aroused your slumbering manhood ... ibid.
And fling and in. And fling and in. And fling. [Barbara Windsor’s bra flies off] Oh! Matron, take them away. ibid.
Here, do you want to see what's going on in the next field? Some sort of rave up. Come on, it's going to go on all night. ibid. Windsor
‘I first went into a tent aged three. I could believe it. I just thought it was incredible. It had like a little window in it.’ Britain Goes Camping, woman, BBC 2012
Despite the weather, camping has given us the opportunity to explore the hidden corners of our coastline and countryside, and to celebrate our relationship with the Great British Outdoors. But the story of camping also charts a century of social and cultural change, and our struggle to get away form the rules and regulations of modern life. To replace them if only for a short time with life under canvas. From its earliest days camping for pleasure in Britain flourished because it provided an escape from our industrialised cities. ibid.
‘You’re really up close and personal with Nature.’ ibid. bloke
Camping for pleasure is relatively new in Britain. ibid.
Thomas Horan Holding, a tailor from Shropshire, now regarded as the father of modern camping ... Cycle and Camp: T H Holding. ibid.
From these humble beginnings a mass movement was born. ibid.
Camping’s promise of freedom and good clean air. ibid.
At the heart of a social revolution to improve the health of the nation … The 1936 Public Health Act. ibid.
And pitch their tents in foreign fields. ibid.
The means to a cheap family holiday. ibid.
Camping in Britain was booming. ibid.
British people were also becoming more mobile. ibid.
Economics are at the root of quite a few of the world’s problems. Play for Today: Nuts in May starring Alison Steadman & Roger Sloman, writer Mike Leigh, Keith Pratt, 1976
Everything was peaceful until you came along. ibid. Mr Pratt to fellow camper
I planned to take forty-five minutes along that road and now we’re going to be late. ibid. Mr to Mrs Pratt
If everybody did that, there wouldn’t be any pebbles left. ibid.
I’m going for another walk; do you want to come? ibid.
Excuse me! Do you mind making less noise please! ibid. Keith to fellow campers
You get back to your tenements! ibid.
Rule number one is no open fires. ibid.
Come on! I’ll knock your head off! ibid.
Mom, camping is not a date; it’s an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home. Yvonne Prinz, The Vinyl Princess
My fear of camping: I’m convinced bugs will crawl up my vagina and lay eggs. Isn’t everyone? Kathy Griffin
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. George Carlin
Crazed students on a death-wish. What drove this group of Russian explorers to their graves? … 60 years later it’s still not clear what killed these students. Conspiracies Decoded s1e1: Discovery 2022
January 27th 1959 Dyatlov Pass, USSR: Something killed these students and left them with bizarre injuries … Could infrasound explain why the students left their camp site? … The bizarre deaths of nine Russian students in the wilderness in 1959. ibid.
An infamous Cold War cold case. Nine hikers found mutilated on a remote mountain slope. Their injuries and the facts don’t seem to add up. History’s Greatest Mysteries s3e2: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
The Soviet Union 1959: On February 26th high up in Siberia’s Ural Mountains … three cross-country skiers spot a solitary tent partially collapsed by snow. ibid.
Friends and family remark that the cadavers have an unnaturally orange appearance ... Exactly what are they covering up? ibid.
Supporters of the Yeti theory also point to photos of the bodies that show what appears to be abject terror. ibid.
1959: What happened to a group of grad students in the Soviet wilderness in 1959 was nothing short of a massacre … Some say the students were killed by a Yeti who was stalking the area. Others believe they were murdered after stumbling across a secret government weapons testing area. True Crime Recaps: The Unsolved Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass, Youtube 18.57, 2022
It doesn’t explain why they left the tent in the first place and why their skin was a dark reddish-brown. ibid.
When search parties discovered their bodies … Nikolai’s skull was damaged … Lyudmila and Semyon had been crushed … both their eyes were missing and Lyudmila’s tongue was also gone, so were her lips and part of her cheek and skull bone … Alexander had a strange bruise behind his ear and his neck was twisted and broken … Their clothes … were highly radioactive … Some of the victims were found with their mouths and eyes open, their faces frozen in a terrified expression … and their hair was turning grey … So what happened up there? ibid.
July 2015 Timber Creek Campground, Idaho: DrOrr Kunz jr was only two and a half years old when he vanished into thin air on a camping trip with his family. True Crime Recaps: DrOrr Kunz jr: Toddler Vanishes on Family Camping Trip, Youtube 10.12, 2022
His disappearance remains one of the most baffling missing person’s cases in history. ibid.
Four chilling cases of camping gone wrong. True Crime Recaps: Four Chilling Cases of Camping Gone Wrong! Youtube 9.39, 2022
Newlyweds Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner: Last seen leaving Woody’s tavern in Moab on August 13th 2021 … They got spooked by a weird guy camping near them … Both women had been shot to death. ibid.
Shortly before Kylen and Crystal were last seen, Brian [Laundrie] and Gaby [Petito] were seen fighting before the Moonflower co-op in Moab. That’s where their two stories crossed paths. Kylen worked at the store. ibid.
Their suspected killer had a connected to Crystal’s job, not Kylen’s … Adam Pinkowitz … he killed himself, but not before confiding in a friend. And the details he gave were only the killer would have known. ibid.
One of the most terrifying serial killers of all time – Israel Keyes hunted humans in remote parks, campsites …
Three generations of a family set out for two weeks of hiking, fishing and camping in British Columbia, Canada, in early August 1982: it was grandma and grandpa George and Edit Bentley, their daughter and son-in-law, Jackie and Bob, and their daughters, thirteen-year-old Janet and eleven-year-old Karen … They never made it out of those woods … A hiker stumbled across the burnt-out remains of Bob’s 1979 Plymouth and the charred remains of all four adults were inside; what was left of the children was in the trunk … 24-year-old David Shearing … is still behind bars. ibid.
16-year-old Tricia [Tiede] and 20-year-old Linae were sisters, Kay and Rolf were their parents, and their grandmother Beth Potts was with them … Two ex-cons broke in: Von Lester Taylor and Edward Deli … They saw the family leave and made themselves at home in the cabin … The men attacked … They set the house on fire before they left … The killers led police on a high-speed chase … The girls were rescued and Rolf too escaped with his life. ibid.