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Speaker: Welcome to Beneath the Evergreens, where murder, mysteries, and mayhem lurk in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest. I'm Jess. And I'm Anna. From haunted forests and unsolved disappearances, to true crime cases buried deep in the moss and the mist, we're digging into the dark secrets hiding under the evergreens.
Speaker: Each episode will explore real cases here eerie encounters and the legends that keep the Pacific Northwest up at night. So grab your flashlight, lock your doors, and join us beneath the evergreens.
Speaker: Welcome, everyone. Welcome, welcome. Jess, how's your week going? My week is going fantastic. um I have no complaints at this point, 10 out of 10.
Speaker: How is your week going? It is going. I feel like an old lady for the first time. Like I'm almost 30 and I feel like I'm well into my 30s. I did a ah like a little um softball game. Yeah. these um And I like tweak something in my hip.
Speaker: Oh, no. I'm hobbling around like an elderly woman today. Oh, no. that icy hot you gotta put that on oh my god it's so bad it's so bad oh i'm so sorry only a couple things that make it feel better enough so i'm just like doing like bodyweight squats like oh this feels really nice i'm just gonna do these all day i'm so sorry i hope it gets better soon there's nothing worse than like that phantom pain where you're like what the hell what the hell did i do oh man Yeah, it was a very nice awakening. Like played softball for when I was like a little kid all the time. Yeah.
Speaker: I can't just jump back into it like I used to, which kind of breaks my heart. but You got an extra stretch. Make sure you practice a lot. I think it's the sprinting. I need to maybe i just need to sprint more often.
Speaker: Well, the more important question, did you win? No, we did not win. I'm so sorry. It's OK. I did make a really good catch, which I was happy about. okay good. But we did like modified rules so it wouldn't go on too long. Okay. But opposite of effect, we only did like six innings and we were done in like 45 minutes. It was such a fast game. At least it was fast.
Speaker: felt there was like it was like It just felt like, oh, if we had ah like an extra 15, 20 minutes, we could have come back. like Oh, okay. And we had a lot of people, so like everyone only got was able to bat once, and they just it just really did not feel like.
Speaker: Okay, that's not really fair. I feel like you at least have to bat twice, because the first time you're like a little nervous, you're like figuring out the pitcher. Exactly, exactly. okay that's I got some complaints, but overall it was fun. It was a good time.
Speaker: Good. Well, glad you had fun. I do have a couple of shout outs for this episode. So one, we have a new listener and she's amazing. So Maribel, thank you for listening to our episodes. Thank you for getting hooked and reaching out and saying, know, all the nice things. I really appreciate it. Even listening to our first episode, because I know the sound was crazy. Oh my gosh. Whenever tell someone about our podcast, I will say, you know, the first handful episodes, we were really finding our footing. The audio wasn't the best. If you listen later on, it should be a lot better. It should be good. Yes.
Speaker: um And then my second is just thank you to Jerry for ah giving me inspiration on my first story I'm going to tell you today. um That led me to my second story I'm going to tell you today.
Speaker: Oh, I'm so excited. I love double story. It's a double story time. um So do you want to crack into it? Absolutely. I'm ready. Let's do it. Have you been reading? This is like the first part is the 60 cats of Owens Beach. Have you heard of this?
Speaker: The 60 Cats of Owen Beach? Yes. and Okay. So this is probably one of the strangest maritime stories I've ever heard coming out of anywhere, but it is kind of on brand for Tacoma for me. Okay. So it started on August 6, 2026, when the Tacoma police received a report and apparently an abandoned sailboat was anchored off the coast of Owen Beach at Point Defiance.
Speaker: Okay. Yes. I knew I recognized the name. So the Tacoma Police Department Marine Service Unit went out to check out the boat, just thinking, hey, maybe it's taking on water. Maybe someone just thinks it's abandoned and someone's in there. But just they're thinking it's going to be an ordinary welfare check.
Speaker: Yeah. But as soon as the officers board the approximately 40-foot sailboat, they discovered there wasn't people on board said there were cats. What? Like lots and lots of cats. Yeah.
Speaker: Officers initially counted more than 30 cats and kittens watering around this boat. What? looking like something out of studio ghibli but it wasn't cute it was very crazy the cats were in not the greatest conditions the liver the um litter boxes were overflowing there were you know litter boxes on there litter boxes on there there was also portions of like the interior of the cabin just covered
Speaker: covered in feces. um There was little to no cat food available and there was no water other than the salt water on the side of the ship, which water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
Speaker: And because cats are really, really good at hiding, officers quickly realized that they had no idea how many were actually aboard, but there was definitely more than 30. Oh my god But because this was just a welfare check, they can't actually take the cats at this point.
Speaker: So they have to leave and go get like a search warrant to legally seize these animals. And that once the warrant was detained ah obtained, the Tacoma Animal Control police officers and Marine Service personnel try to work together to get these cats and it was not easy um it sounds like it was a they had to like break cabinets up like off they had to like take off counters they had to go into compartment spaces that are super super little like the cats were like burrowing down into the depths of this ship oh my boat could they not bring the boat on land
Speaker: I guess not. I guess the search warrant was only for oh the cats and not the boat itself. um At this point, I think now they've legally seized it because of some criminal charges. But...
Speaker: So by on Friday, August 7th, happy birthday to a certain someone. You know who you are. Rescuers removed approximately 31 cats from the boat. The animals were transported to the Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County. um But the rescuers knew they didn't get all the cats because they could still hear meowing coming from the depths of this boat. And they they were there for like 12 hours trying to get all of the cats. Yes. And it's only 40-foot sailboat.
Speaker: isn't that crazy and and so they were trying to estimate how many cats they thought were still left so they were thinking there's probably like 20 ish more ah which is kind of insane so at one point the cats actually became so scared because they were getting rounded up that they started like jumping into the water no And here's where I shout out two individuals that saved some cats that tried to take to the high seas. So a Tacoma man named Jesse Makona was running near Owen Beach with his friend Ashton Everts when they noticed a cat kind of swimming near the boat. So the...
Speaker: Cat jumped off and it's like swimming around. And they did something that most people wouldn't do, especially when you're like in your running gear. But they jumped into the sound. They swam out to the cat. And as they're coming back in, because it's pretty far out, they're like passing the cat back and forth.
Speaker: While they're like coming in, like once they get tired with one arm, they pass it to the friend and then they like keep going and then they pass it. So the cat was freaking the hell out. They've like sustained scratches everywhere, but they did get the cat on shore and then they took it to the humane society and they applied care because the cat was not in the best way.
Speaker: But I'm worried about these two. I'm like, did you get cat scratch fever? Because it sounds like they're the cat the the cats were not in a clean environment at all. Yeah. oh hu And then I introduced to the story the cat trapper. So Camille Sutherland, she is a private cat trapper who has years of experience rescuing feral cats and kittens. And hearing about the boat, she wanted to help. So get this.
Speaker: She took a paddleboard out to the vessel carrying 15 pounds of cat food, 30 bottles of water, seven carriers, and two traps.
Speaker: How big was this paddleboard? That's what I'm saying. i'm Like, did you have a trailer on your paddleboard? Like, what in the world? um but I'm just, like, fascinated. Like, could you imagine just standing on Owens Beach and seeing this paddleboard with just, like...
Speaker: all this i'm i need to see this in person like how how did she do this i don't know but she got so when she finally got a board and i'm like jury's still out did she actually have a search warrant like was she invited to do this or did she just get on the paddleboard hear about the story and she's like i'm going so she gets aboard and she said the conditions were horrifying she described cat feces covering the floor at a depth of approximately two inches o Oh my That's so gross. Litter boxes were full, empty food bowls, almost no personal belongings. um
Speaker: it ah especially Essentially, she was saying that this boat became a floating cat colony. What? And yes, she believed the cats were in immediate danger. So um she just kept she just kept grabbing the cats. And by the time she was done and the police came back, they ended up with 60 cats coming off the sailboat.
Speaker: 60 cats. Wow. So I want to know how the hell and why were there 60 cats on this boat? I'm not... I mean, one cat, I guess.
Speaker: But like... And also, why are like why are you ruining a sailboat with 60 cats on it? That's kind of where I'm at. Like, what is going on here? So according to the Seattle Times, the boat's owner was a 62-year-old man. I'm going to leave their name off of this because...
Speaker: You can find it if you really want to, but I think there might be some like mental health stuff going on here. But so he he said he had been living on the sailboat and he wasn't intentionally like abandoning the cats there.
Speaker: he And he didn't intentionally have this many cats. He said that the population just got out of control. So we're going go back to COVID-19. And he, he the man who owned the boat, was getting pretty lonely.
Speaker: He didn't really have a lot of people to talk to. So one of his friends gave him a cat named Missy. ah Well, unfortunately, Missy was pregnant and had kittens. Ah. The guy eventually spayed her and was able to spay two of the kittens as well, but couldn't afford to do, there were like, for the remaining to get spayed or neutered.
Speaker: Unfortunately, cats reproduce pretty quickly so this problem became unmanageable they just kept getting pregnant and he still couldn't afford to spare neuter the animals so that is how it got so out of control he just couldn't afford it i guess and so he just let them keep procreating why did he keep all the kitten like i feel like the humane society you drop them off somewhat like I think that's where this mental illness portion comes in because he too is living on this boat with these cats. If there truly is two inches of feces on the ground, like I'm, I'm guessing that there's some sort of like embarrassment or I'm not sure what it is, but I think there's something going on there where he was lonely. He got this cat and now he's like, well, all of these are my friends now. I can't just like,
Speaker: I don't know. I'm reading too much into it. But I agree there must be something wrong because if I am an owner of a cat who has kittens, yeah i'm I'm able to get three spayed and I want to keep those three. Cool. If I can't do the rest, I'm trying to get rid of those. Or maybe I do keep them all, but then once they start procreating, I'm getting rid of... Yeah.
Speaker: Like, I don't have enough space for them to even be comfortable in this boat. like Exactly, yeah. Anyway, so he is saying that he essentially... It just got out of hand. He didn't know what to do. And they just kept procreating. um And essentially he was working as a rigger and he was doing so much overtime just to pay for the boat insurance, the cat food and his own basic needs. So he's working overtime just to do these three things because he's spending so much on cat food. Isn't that...
Speaker: Again, I'm not going to, don't want to be said anymore, but like, I feel like that's a sign that you don't need that many cats. That's what I'm saying too. I'm like, there's, there's clearly, there's gotta be something wrong. i don't know.
Speaker: I don't know. So why did he disappear? This is another thing. Like, why did you abandon the boat so long? Cause you've been having these cats for years now since 2020. Yeah. And you're just now getting this abandoned boat call. Well, he said that one of the cats bit him.
Speaker: And after the cat bit him, his hand got so swollen that he needed antibiotics. So he took his dinghy to a dinghy is a little boat that you touch to a sailboat.
Speaker: I just want to make sure and just in case someone doesn't know. But he got bit by ah cat. It started to swell. So he takes his smaller boat and he goes to the hospital. And I'm sure there's more to that than that, but he goes to the hospital where he's admitted and given antibiotics. So he can't physically come back to the boat for a couple of weeks. And this is when the cats are like showing themselves, start jumping into the water, et cetera. And people are getting scared and calling ah to the cops.
Speaker: So, All of the cats were rescued, were removed off the boat. They're now at the um Tacoma and Pierce County Humane Societies. There's also a lot that are being um put into the foster care system. So this is kind of my plea to you guys of, hey, if you are looking for a cat right now, is the perfect time to get one because they are the Tacoma Humane Society are like,
Speaker: we're at capacity. Like if you would like a cat, please come and get one. They will be spayed or neutered. Yeah.
Speaker: oh Another thing that I thought was really funny is like on August 11th is when they approximately got all of the cats off, the 60 cats, and the Tacoma police announced on social media saying the final cat is off the boat for real this time. But instead of putting four, it was F-U-R for real this time.
Speaker: thought that was kind of funny. ah I love that. So, uh, yeah, again, shout out if you, if you need a cat, there's, there's lots available. And if you have some extra cash, maybe donate to some of those, uh, spay and neuter clinics that are for underprivileged individuals so that we can all enjoy cats and not end up in a 60 plus cat environment.
Speaker: Yeah, absolutely. Do you think he named all the cats? I bet he had like three names because I bet all the cats, because also these cats are so inbred, right? Because they're not, they're on a boat.
Speaker: So I'm guessing they all looked very, very similar. Do you think we got like interesting, like genetic information? I would imagine. Well, i yeah, I would imagine. If only if it's enough generations, I guess.
Speaker: Well, it started from one female cat who had like six kittens. Yeah. And the of the six kittens, two were spades. So it's only four.
Speaker: options. Four options. many? i love to see ah I'd love to see a... Like a pundit square of this? Like a family's tree. yeah like Yeah. How did this happen? What is going on here? Yes.
Speaker: It was like the Habsburg job but like in a cat. That's what I'm like. i Yes. I want to know the cycle ah psychology of keeping these 60 cats in the conditions that you were living in because it wasn't healthy for you or the cats. Yeah.
Speaker: And then two, I want to know, okay, since this did happen, yeah, what are the repercussions of this? Is it because we caught it soon enough in the bloodline?
Speaker: There weren't those deformities or is it something that's like actually someone's jaws a little recessed or, yeah, they're like missing part of it.
Speaker: um Okay, so because of this story, ah it kind of got me thinking, are there other maritime stories in Washington State that I've, like, never heard of?
Speaker: And I actually did find one that is about like less than two miles from where this cat boat was found. Where 1971, seven college students got on a boat thinking they're just going to do, like, a 90-minute tour, and then they never came back.
Speaker: Oh. whoa yes so we're gonna go from a quirky story to a not very happy one but i feel like it's it's kind of interesting and also like a a warning of like hey night sailing make sure you're prepared yeah i just have to apologize uh my dogs are crazed beasts this morning i'm not sure what the hell they ate but god they will not shut up today um Usually it's like, you know, and a little bit in the morning they'll bark, but since 430 this morning, it's been nothing but like... 430?
Speaker: fourth Like playful barks, but then all of a sudden we'll turn into like, I'm going to murder everything in the world barks. And I just don't understand what's... I'm like trying to look around, nothing. Huh. Both of them? Both of them. Yes.
Speaker: Is one like egging eggging the other on? Oh, for sure. The little asshole? Probably the little asshole. Um... And then Misty takes it too far because her bark is like a sonic boom.
Speaker: It's like not a quiet thing. Every time she does it, you're like jarring. I don't know. if Can you still hear them? No, I can't hear now. Okay, good. Because I'm behind two doors. So if you can hear them still, it's like I give up. I don't know what else to do.
Speaker: Okay. So sorry. So heading back. It's April 1947. That not the date. That is not the date. That is not. the date that is not
Speaker: What the fuck? Okay. It's April 1971, which is not 1947. Spring has arrived in Washington. and Specifically in Seattle, it's a very cool time, especially in the 70s. Lots of stuff is going on. And there is a convention of college students across the Northwest that are gathering for an annual convention of the Intercollegiate Nights.
Speaker: Oh, this convention is happening at the Edgewater Hotel. Have you ever been to that Edgewater? Yes. um We they had a Christmas themed bar a couple of years ago. So we checked it out and it was a little chaotic, it was very fun.
Speaker: It was very pretty. Yeah. so it's being the, this convention is specifically in the ballroom, which is I'm guessing where this holiday party was, but it's got these like panoramic views of Elliott Bay.
Speaker: Yeah. It looks pretty fantastic. So who are the intercollegiate nights? That's what I need to know. Cause it sounds like some weird order of the KKK and I'm still not, Oh, nevermind. I'm just gonna leave that to the side, but The intercollegiate nights were an American college honorary service organization. it's kind of like a fraternity with chapters at different universities kind of a situation is what I'm gathering. There's only one chapter from what I saw in Kentucky, I believe.
Speaker: Could be wrong about that, but there's only one. It's either at BYU or Kentucky. And their motto, ah so their organization was built around service to the university, loyalty to the institution, leadership and preserving college traditions.
Speaker: Okay. I tried to deep dive on what this traditions part meant, yeah but I wasn't able to find anything on on what that actually meant. But their motto was service, sacrifice and loyalty.
Speaker: okay So this fraternity came about in 1919 with an honorary service group called the Knights of the Hook. And that was formed at the University of Washington, Seattle campus. Oh, OK.
Speaker: Their purpose was, again, to serve and promote the traditions of the university. I'm not sure what those traditions technically mean, but they also saw themselves as... Not only like a fraternity of it of now, but like the traditions piece had a heavy connection to the Renaissance and like actually being a knight.
Speaker: Oh. The president was called the royal king and the vice president was called the royal duke. Oh. It's very like, very like... like old monarchy kind of focus. was interesting.
Speaker: Old monarchy focus. There's also some other times when I hear the Duke, the Royal Duke and the Royal King, which was why I'm like, did this start out with bedsheets?
Speaker: Tell me why my mind went to Bridgerton. yeah This is why we're the people we are. ah Okay. So the convention was being held in Seattle again. ah I've already highlighted that, but the first couple days were all about, you know, ah organized planning meetings, convention meetings,
Speaker: Conventional programming, ceremonies, networking, discussions about what the future intercollegiate nights were doing. There were also some transitions of positions within other chapters. um Essentially, was kind of ah networking event. it was super fun. and at the the And during the day, it was all about business. At night, it turns into, you know, what do college kids do best?
Speaker: Yeah. A little drinky. And so it's now the last day. Okay. April fourteenth And things are going out with a bang. And you know there's a huge party. Again, they're drinking, there's dancing, there's flirting. You're also in this beautiful ballroom. Everyone's dressed to the nines. And so as the night is going to is winding down, some of the students are like, we don't really want to go. like But the the ballroom's like, you don't have to stay here, but you got get you got to go somewhere else. like You don't have to let the party stop, but you got to go somewhere else. Yeah.
Speaker: uh what you said you don't have to stay here but you can
Speaker: you know i'm not my line is a beautiful place you should visit sometime oh my god what is the what am i trying to say you don't have to go home but you can't stay here that's what i wanted to say I'm going to cut that over my voice in the episode.
Speaker: Oh my God. Okay. So hundreds of students, they're all immersed in the Beverly Ginos. The hotel is like, Hey, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
Speaker: Exactly. Thank you, Anna, for being my other half of my brain. Yeah. And so there were a couple kids who are actually from the Tacoma Seattle area. And one of those persons was Brian Williams. And he has a boat or his family has a boat.
Speaker: The boat itself was later described with white and blue trim. It has no name on the whole itself, which is kind of unusual. Yeah. and Usually most have names and it had no whole number, which I think is illegal.
Speaker: was it like Was it a new boat? Had they not gotten that yet? or like It must have been, or maybe it was like, i thought all boats had to have at least the whole number. like I thought that was like mandatory, but I don't know They didn't have it.
Speaker: But the sale of the boat itself did have a number, 192. That becomes important later. So who are these seven students? There's Brian Williams, who's 24, and he's the owner of the boat, the skipper, if you will. There is Gary Oman, 19 of Pullman, James Dickinson, 19 of Albion, Brian Wilson, 20 of Loon Lake, Robert Sherwood, 20 of Topanish, Dennis Newton, 19 of Polatch, Polatch, Polatch, Polatch.
Speaker: Okay. And Barbara Kormarek, 23 of Seattle. Okay, and these were all Wazoo students? five of Five are from Washington State University. Dennis attended Lewis Clark State College in Idaho. Okay.
Speaker: And then Barbara was a student at the Columbia Basin College in Pasco and was also a registered nurse, which is interesting. Oh, okay. Yeah. All seven had been attending the Intercollegiate Night Convention in Seattle, and now late they're, you know,
Speaker: Late in the evening on April 14th, they arrive in Tacoma around 9.30 Okay. They go to the marina, board the boat at 9.30, and they head out towards... they don't know which No one knows which way they were going, but they head out to the seas. That night was described as clear skies, glassy ocean,
Speaker: and Maybe there was a 10 to 12 knot wind, but no nothing no weather event that was super dangerous that was on the sound. Gotcha. Approximately an hour after the boat departed, something strange did happen.
Speaker: a Tacoma man reportedly saw what appeared to be flashing distress signals near Dash Point. Oh, okay. He attempted to contact the Coast Guard, but the telephone line was busy.
Speaker: That's not a good look. Which is not great. um So instead he contacted the fire department hoping the message would be relayed to the Coast Guard, but the Coast Guard never received the original message. message And this is, I feel like this is like one of the most haunting pieces of this case because maybe they were in trouble and like trying to flag somebody down. And the one person that did actually see this help signal tried to get them help. And then the people that were supposed to help never relayed messages.
Speaker: Oh my God. Yeah. Which is not great. So the next morning comes and, you know, they're all supposed to be going back to their home colleges, but the seven never returned.
Speaker: People were looking in other people's rooms and they just never showed up. So people weren't super alarmed at first because, you know, we're college students. Sometimes we do dumb things and we don't show up when we're supposed to in the morning, but as the day went on and they were supposed to be, you know, here,
Speaker: it became clear that something was wrong. So the Coast Guard was notified at this point, and this is when the search began. So Coast Guard boat goes out, aircrafts start searching from above, people are searching beaches, um students and friends join the effort. And ah according to the WSU University records, the search included approximately 35 boats and five aircraft.
Speaker: And that continued for six days. Six days. Oh my God. And so what they were looking for, they were pretty much looking for anything, a sail, a life jacket, floating debris, a piece of the whole, anything that might tell them where this boat had gone. But unfortunately they found, they couldn't find anything, nothing, no bodies, no life jackets, no debris. There was just, there was nothing, which makes this like a little more stranger. Cause you would think eventually you would find at least something.
Speaker: Yes. But um so again, approximately on April 20th, 1971, approximately six days later, the Coast Guard calls off the search and the seven people are just missing.
Speaker: um Some some started to hypothesize at this point that the sailboat, you know, maybe came in contact with a large freighter. It's also really dark at night. Maybe the lighting of the boat wasn't great.
Speaker: That is a pretty, like that channel is pretty well used by like really big boats too. Yeah. Tankers and all the other kind of stuff. And if the boat doesn't have a whole number, I'm guessing it's not necessarily prepared for night sails. Yeah. And just night sailing in general, when you're a small boat, it's, it's kind of scary. You can lose your way a little bit. It's not like there's streetlights to guide you home. You know what i mean?
Speaker: yeah You have to be really on it. And then I'm also wondering, okay, if there was drinking involved, which maybe there wasn't, maybe I'm, you know, just thinking there was, that can also cause some issues. So, but there's also this other theory of like, okay, if they did hit a a large ship, where is the debris? Where's the bodies? Like that would have come up.
Speaker: um One sailor interviewed at the time suggested that perhaps the seven people were simply too many for a boat that size. The theory was that um essentially water started entering the cockpit and it just shank, shank, it sank too fast and no one could get out in time. And so they're like essentially vacuum sealed, like it flipped over and they vacuum sealed to the bottom, which is not great. Yeah.
Speaker: So in May 22, 1971, approximately 200 people gathered at the WSU campus for what was described as a service of reflection and hope, um saying, hey, if you if you have any information or or or just were hoping that maybe something did happen, someone was able to get off the boat, you know, please help. A $1,000 reward was renewed for information that could lead to the discovery of the wreckage and the whereabouts of these missing people, but nothing came.
Speaker: Nine years passed, and in December of 1979, a fishing vessel called the Albany, operating out of Gig Harbor, was working off Vashon Island. Its net snagged on something, and so the crew began pulling it up, and whatever was caught in the net started to come upwards. But it was coming with like a lot of, it was like bending the boat, essentially.
Speaker: ohak shit. So approximately 10 feet from the surface, they started to see a boat coming up. And the crew essentially like pulls it up.
Speaker: They're able to see in the murky, they're pulling it up a little bit and they're able to see some, some parts of the ship, but they weren't able to see the full thing. And so they think they saw a one 92 on the mast sail, but then unfortunately the boat detached itself from the fishing nets and sank back into the ocean. And we haven't been able to find it since.
Speaker: that's crazy to me isn't that crazy like the ocean is just so like in my mind i feel like my gut is always like well it's there like why can't we just find it like use like radar you like dive down there but like i often forget just how vast the ocean actually is the Well, will that and we're not even on the open ocean. Like we're in the Puget Sound. It's pretty it's not like there's these vast expanses. There's you can see one shore to the other. And for us not to even to be able to find something in that somewhat isolated space. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker: It is. It's kind of alarming. So the location of this was Colvos Passage, just west of Vashon Island near the Gig Harbor area. um This could have been, i mean, this could have been exactly where they went.
Speaker: Yeah. um And so they're thinking that, you know, the missing sailboat could have been that Catalina 192. And they just think that, you know, unfortunately some tragic accident that we'll never know happened. And these seven students, unfortunately, will not come come home.
Speaker: And that is my very sad story for you. Yeah. Oh my God. That's crazy. out It is crazy. Also so sad that if someone had, if like that distress signal had been reported to the Coast Guard or like they had, their line hadn't been busy and they had answered the call, like how this could have been such a different story, you know? That's what I'm thinking. And like,
Speaker: it is It also is so unfortunate because I remember like when I was in of college age and doing like conventions or something like that, you do sometimes do reckless things, but... ah you always, you never think that you're not going to come home. And so I'm guessing that Brian, you know, goes out on his boat all the time. thinking that him and his friends are going to have like this unique adventure. And then all of a sudden it goes awry and it's just points to how fast the ocean is dangerous and how fast it can really go from bad to unspeakable.
Speaker: Well, that's it for today's dive into the dark corners of the Pacific Northwest. If you love the stories or shivered a little, be sure to subscribe and follow so you don't miss what's lurking beneath the evergreens next time. Thanks for joining us on Beneath the Evergreens. We appreciate you diving into the mysteries with us.
Speaker: Until next time, keep your eyes open and your door is locked.
