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“the bears carried her into the woods, thinking they were protecting her. True or not, that’s a nice way to think of Kay’s end, her bears spiriting her body away into the wild. After half a lifetime of strife, she deserved some peace.”
― The Editors of Outside Magazine, The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild

“The winter was harsh. Kay had been spending days in her trailer hunkered down under piles of blankets—some even say with an older bear named Betty Sue. Her skin was turning gray, which could suggest emphysema, pneumonia, or a pending heart attack. The fact that her outerwear was found untorn could also suggest hypothermia, which sometimes makes victims feel like they’re burning up. Hopkins told me that Kay probably collapsed while walking back to her home. He said it’s even possible that”
― The Editors of Outside Magazine, The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild

“I need to believe that there is more to this world than what we know. I need to believe there is magic out there. I cannot believe these things blindly, though, and maybe that is why I had to do this mission—to prove to myself that we can do things which are bigger than ourselves. I needed to walk through a minefield to feel protected.”
― The Editors of Outside Magazine, The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild

“die doing something you love is not the worst thing in this life. There are no guarantees.”
― The Editors of Outside Magazine, The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild

“I am always alone,” he wrote. “Even in crowds of people I consider friends, I watch myself and them like a spectator. . . . Almost everybody bores me.”
― The Editors of Outside Magazine, The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild

“An Iraq vet can surmise that two of three people he encounters don’t consider his sacrifice worth the trouble. “You come back to this oblivion,” says Reddish, “and people don’t even care that you’re in a bad way, that your friends had to be identified from a dog tag in their boots. They say, ‘You did a great job. Now, how much money do you owe me this month?”
― The Editors of Outside Magazine, The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild