Member-only story
Silent Deaths in Yosemite
The more I learn the creepier it gets…
Last week, Highway 140 coming into Yosemite was closed due to a massive rockfall that came down onto the road. Not much information was released but we knew it was a big deal since it closed the road down for several days.
What we didn’t know for several days was that 2 people had been killed in that rockfall, crushed in their car as they got pushed into the river.
I was shocked when I found this out… Highway 140 is a road I’ve been driving on once a week or so for the whole year! That couple could have been me and my boyfriend!! Nuts!!!
I thought maybe I hadn’t heard the news until that day but I looked back through different articles and found that they had in fact released the news of these deaths a full 3 days after they happened. Typically a big mudslide in So Cal where I’m from that killed people would be on the news that day, cameras on the scene constantly. Bizarre…
I brought it up to a co-worker today and the plot thickened. “Oh yeah, the park service keeps all the deaths very hush-hush here,” he said. “Barely any information actually surfaces even though these things happen all the time. It probably only got out because of a good reporter.”
