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BY WILLIAM KENNEDY/JAN. 2, 2023 10:25 AM EST
When maps of the U.S. National Park System and maps of mysterious or unexplained missing person cases are compared, something unusual emerges, according to an unfounded conspiracy theory that the two may be related, as Snopes reports. Some 600,000 people in the U.S. go missing each year, tens of thousands of whom are never found, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). It’s where some — but not all — of these missing persons cases happen compared to the National Park System, and one geological feature common to them — their cave systems — has led online conspiracy theorists to point out a similarity.