#121a - OUT OF THE WOODS: Missing 411 and the Origins of the National Park System (Part 1) (Patreon)

Dimitri and Khalid take a long, disorienting hike into the David Paleides series “Missing 411” and the origins of the US National Park system, including: the many strange disappearances in national parks, facts that just don’t add up (unless you consider Bigfoot or Dogman or satanic wildmen cults), the “Yosemite Mafia” and rampant corruption in the Park Ranger service, parallels between the National “Parks” and magickal theme parks like Disneyland, Smokey Bear(man) as homuncular mascot, why “preventing” wildfires was a psyop, synchronized grizzly bear maulings at Glacier, genociding coyotes, the early Gustavus Myers history of the National Parks, violent clashes around the federal seizure of the Mammoth cave system in Kentucky, Laurance Rockefeller grabbing public land in the Kennedy administration, and a German trapper telling Teddy Roosevelt about his terrifying Dogman encounter in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.