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A Hike That Never Returned In the early morning hours of March 17, 2012, 24-year-old Derek Joseph Lueking checked out of his hotel in Cherokee,

The Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina hold their fair share of beauty, but also more than a few mysteries. One of the most enduring

The Great Smoky Mountains are a place of breathtaking beauty, where rolling valleys give way to towering ridges, and the mist clings to the peaks

In October of 1976, the Great Smoky Mountains became the stage for one of Tennessee’s most enduring mysteries—the sudden and unexplained disappearance of a 16-year-old

On a warm September afternoon in 1981, Thelma Pauline “Polly” Melton set off on a familiar hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She

A Father’s Day Trip Turned Tragic In June of 1969, six-year-old Dennis Martin set out with his family for a Father’s Day camping trip in