Anyone up for reading some weird missing persons cases? An user made one of these threads a while ago and it peaked my interest, now i have a good amount of odd cases.
A few of these are from Missing 411, a book that has compiled odd cases that have similar occurrences. The rest are either odd or just plain fucked up cases
Anyways this case is probably the weirdest of them all (at least the ones i've read) if you all like it i'll post more.
Dennis Martin, 1969 - 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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