Woman who disappeared from canyon creek campground

[miah66]

I probably reacted as strongly as I did, because I was involved in the search effort, and through that had some contact with friends and family. Hard to imagine what it'd take for someone to put a lot of other people, presumably including a great many loved ones, through all that.

Oh right! I forgot that. Apologies. Yes, I was kind of shocked and angry when I was told about that, due to all the lives disrupted and effort expended, but also still skeptical if it was true, b/c I have no first hand knowledge, and perhaps, not many do. There is precedent however for this kind of thing:

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/20 ... /88282780/

[-Q-]

Water... apologies for my vague post.
Yes, my personal opinion is that in a lot of these scenarios, I think suicide is very often the case. I do hope I am wrong though.

[squidvicious]

There is precedent however for this kind of thing:

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/20 ... /88282780/

Quite the opposite, the fact that you've linked to a story where the person apparently tried to change their appearance and intentionally disappear, yet was still located within days, shows how these tales of people disappearing into the woods to "start a new life" with no one ever the wiser are far more fiction than fact.

That said, there is a recent book relevant to the subject that you might have a look at if you're curious about such things. Only had a skim of it myself so far, but reviews were positive enough to make me pick it up:
https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Dead-Jou ... 1476739331

[miah66]

Well, that and the fact that the girl was 16. Far from an expert in the art of disappearing. Hey, what do I know? I was just stating that it wasn't beyond the realm of possibility, especially after hearing about this exact scenario playing out with a friend of a friend.

However, the book you mentioned looks pretty interesting though.

[200,000']

Heard from whom? Need we make aspersions in such cases rather than let the presumed-dead lie?

Agreed! Corroboration, or it didn't happen.

Fair enough. Just an anecdotal incident and I will remove mention by name. Kind of hard to prove either way though, right?

The local case where that did happen...must have been over ten years ago now. St Helens area guy staged his disappearance by telling his wife he was "going fishing", then leaving his anchored boat in the Columbia during spring Chinook season. It 'appeared" he'd fallen overboard and drowned. More than five years later he turned up out of state, very alive, with a new woman.

His is the exceptional case. I don't think hardly any of these missing hiker/hunter cases can be attributed to people wanting to disappear.

[200,000']

Here's another high profile case that received a lot of attention in the Eugene area due to the victim being a professor:

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/nove ... _11707.php

[backcountryhunter]

For the conspiracy theorists:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135 ... issing-411

[Bosterson]

For the conspiracy theorists:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135 ... issing-411

Didn't Ben Kingsley make a documentary about that?

[Eric Peterson]

How about the trails and woods that have disappeared from a hiker? Seems to be my affliction of late, heh...

[Crusak]

How about the trails and woods that have disappeared from a hiker? Seems to be my affliction of late, heh...

Me too!