By Cheri Sicard
The internet has been ablaze for the past few years over the topic of feral people in national parks. If you have ever searched for information about national parks on YouTube, your feed, like mine, has inevitably been filled with video after video about mysterious feral people living in our national parks.
Some of the descriptions of these wild and sometimes cannibalistic people come from park visitors sharing their alleged personal experiences. Others are conspiracy theorists trying to tie these tales to those of missing persons who disappeared in national parks through the years (and there are, in fact, many of these).
The team from Drivin’ and Vibin’ wanted to know how all this started and if there was any truth to the claims. So they set out to investigate.
How did the feral people rumors start?
The stories started exploding in late January and early February of 2021, beginning with a viral TikTok video about an experience one woman and her family had while camping in Texas’ Big Bend National Park.
While sitting around the campfire one night, they say they heard multiple people screaming off in the distance. She then heard a woman’s voice scream, “We’re going to die.” More screaming followed until she was able to make out the words, “Just know that I love you.”
Creepy as the story is, they immediately called the police and a park ranger, who found nothing. Even stranger when she asked about it the next day, none of the employees or rangers claimed to know what she was talking about.
After posting the video about the experience on TikTok, other viewers began to share their own experiences.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park seems to have the most feral people sightings.
As so many people have gone missing through the years, conspiracy theorists have started linking the missing people stories to the feral people stories. However, it must be noted no actual evidence of feral people exists and the missing people more than likely can be attributed to under-prepared hikers who got lost, or who had an unfortunate encounter with wildlife.
So what do you think? Are cannibalistic feral people living in America’s national parks, or is this just one more ridiculous conspiracy theory?
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Well that’s a worthless video. He most definitely did not get to the “bottom of it”. All he did is further perpetuate the rumors.
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A group of teenagers punking the older people.
We take our Jeep deep into the backroads of the Mojave and it is becoming increasingly more common to encounter full time car campers.
It’s always a debate to stop and ensure they’re not stranded (as most of their cars shouldn’t be out there) but to the flip side, some aren’t there because they like people or want conversation.
Summarily, we have discovered some very “unique” social isolationists out there and yes, “Feral” is a very accurate description of the ones that hiss and flip you off for checking on them…LOL
Over the years we have encountered many people out in the middle of nowhere camping in their cars, trucks or vans. We stopped one time, and never again. The person definitely did not want any contact with us, and it was a bit scary. Now we drive on by. I figure if someone needs help, they will flag us down.
I feel this is more hype then real. With that said, I camp off the beaten path and I’m always armed in case it’s more real than hype.
Thank you, Cheri, for calling attention to the video by Drivin’ and Vibin’. This certainly raises the question, but there are so many instances that it makes no attempt to provide specific answers. The general answer of ill-prepared hikers largely being the missing certainly seems plausible. Have a great week and safe, well-prepared travels!
We see feral people in the Chiricahua’s, east of Apache Junction, and just about every BLM we go. Just leave them alone and you’ll be fine.
If we want to avoid danger, we’ll just stay in our home and die an early death.
There are “feral people” most everywhere you go now…they mostly hang out in busy places holding cardboard signs.
oh, you meant satanists…