Camping Horror Stories Vol. V
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What camping horror stories will be featured in this episode?
Hey Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. Today's podcast will feature two camping horror stories. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description. The first story you'll hear is called Kevin O'Keefe, and it's about a man who goes camping in a totally remote park in Alaska. And the second and final story you'll hear is called The Broken Tent, and it's about four teenagers who go camping in a forest in Finland, but on the first night, someone or something pays them an unwanted visit.
But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. So if that's of interest to you, please offer to change the oil in the Amazon Music Follow Buttons car, but after draining it all out, go ahead and replace it with horse manure. Okay, let's get into our first story called Kevin O'Keefe.
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Who was Kevin O'Keefe and what happened during his Alaska camping trip?
In 1985, Kevin O'Keefe was a 36 year old outdoor enthusiast that lived in Sacramento, California. He loved being out in nature, going hiking and camping. And in fact, he had always wanted to go camping in Alaska. By the summer of 1985, Kevin was actually doing research on areas in Alaska that he could potentially go camping. And he settled on this area called Glacier Bay National Park, which even by Alaskan standards, is particularly wild and totally remote. Kevin planned to go camping on his own. So he decided he would need to take a class on how to survive the Alaskan wilderness because he's going to be out there by himself and he's chosen this place that's incredibly rugged. So he actually enrolled and participated in a class teaching you how to go camping in Alaska. Then on September 20th of 1985, He flew from Sacramento to Juneau, Alaska, where he commuted his way up to Glacier Bay National Park. When he arrived at the park's headquarters, he went up and introduced himself to the park rangers that were working there.
He told them he'd be over near the Wolf Point area, which was an area right against the water. And he said he was going to be here for about three weeks. He planned on leaving on October 10th. So everybody who works there is aware that there's this guy, Kevin O'Keefe, who's going to be by himself for almost three weeks camping near the water. No one in Kevin's family or any of the park rangers heard from Kevin for the next couple of weeks. But the whole point of this trip was basically to escape reality and go live in nature for a few weeks. So no one's raising any red flags.
A few weeks later, on October 8th, which is two days before Kevin said he was planning to leave the park, which he told park rangers and they knew he was there, a couple of park rangers were in a boat patrolling some waterways around Wolf Point, which is the area where Kevin was camping. The rangers decided to take a bit of a detour to get inside of Wolf Point and actually check in on Kevin and just see how he was doing because they knew he was out here by himself. They're making their way down, and as they turn this last corner where they could finally see Kevin's site, immediately they knew something was wrong. The first thing they noticed was Kevin's tent was not in the area that it was supposed to be in. There was kind of a designated spot on the soil where you'd place your tent. but his tent was actually down a few meters on this beach that butted up against his campsite, and some of his gear was outside of his tent. Not strewn everywhere, but outside of his tent, like he had placed it outside.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What camping horror stories will be featured in this episode?
0:00–1:57
2
Who was Kevin O'Keefe and what happened during his Alaska camping trip?
1:57–7:51
3
What mysterious clues were found at Kevin O'Keefe’s campsite?
7:51–11:08
4
Why did the search for Kevin O'Keefe end without answers?
11:08–14:59
5
What is the background of the second story, 'The Broken Tent'?
14:59–18:18
6
What strange encounter did the teenagers have at the snack kiosk?
18:18–25:24
7
How did the teenagers set up their campsite and what was the mood?
25:24–38:02