Yosemite Park’s thrills and tragedies

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You have probably seen photographs of cars driving right through the giant sequoia trees at Yosemite Park before. The worldwide web is full of them and that’s not so strange. We think we’d stop to make a photograph of our own four-wheeler going right through a tree like this if we came across one. Especially when you are driving a shiny red Porsche 356 together with your lovely girlfriend! This shot was taken in 1960 at the famous Wawona Tunnel Tree by an unknown man, probably the car’s owner and fiancée to today’s Friday Lady.

But the reason why we came up with this particular photograph, is a lot grimmer. And when you know about Yosemite National Park, or travelled it yourself, you may well know its campfire stories, too. Bigfoot, yes, but some of them even scarier. And it was on this day in 1999 that a very gruesome story became reality after three girls were found murdered there. The disappearance of two of them had drawn national attention. When another 26 year-old Yosemite Park worker was found brutally killed and decapitated near her cabin in the park, the investigations lead to Cary Stayner, who confessed to have murdered all three of them and was sentenced to death. You just be careful out there.

(Words editor, picture courtesy Vintage Everyday)

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