The Lost Girls of Panama

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on the morning of the 1st of April 2014 two young women decided to hike up to a popular tourist spot on the famous pianist er trail they were never seen alive again were their deaths the result of a tragic accident or is there more to this mystery than meets the eye what happened to the lost girls of Panama [Music] [Music] it is said that every year in the month of April in those first few weeks when the rains begin to fall over the rolling hills of the Green Mountain Highlands that if you listen very closely you will hear the echoed cries of las chicas hollandaise sauce it is nothing more than a local superstition but for the people of a small town nestled in a valley on the southern flank of the Continental Divide those cries are both clear and ominous the name of this small town is Baca they and it belongs to a region of Panama which has often been described as Little Switzerland it's stunning pine forests crystal-clear lakes and steep pastures a highly reminiscent of those Swiss landscapes presenting an idyllic beauty which seems to reinforce Panama's very distinction of being Central America's safest nation for how could anything bad happen in amongst all that splendor at least that is the impression two young women had when they decided to visit this part of the world lisanna frown and Chris klemish had saved up four months to take the holiday of a lifetime a six-week long tour of the tropical paradise that is the Isthmus of Panama their stay was to be more than a simple vacation as they plan to learn fluent Spanish and partake in volunteer work whilst they were there as they boarded their flight on the 15th of March 2014 they no doubt did so with a feeling of excitement and anticipation oblivious to the tragedy that awaited them two weeks after landing at documen International Airport they would hike up into the heavenly cloud forests of the Green Mountain Highlands and never return it would be months before any trace of them was found and those traces would leave behind a truly haunting mystery which divides opinion to this day found and amongst their recovered belongings was a camera which would provide a tiny window into their final days and leave us wondering was it just a tragic accident or did something far more sinister occur it is not a question we can answer but one we can at least elaborate upon so let us go back to where it all started with two young ladies who would later become known as las chicas hollandaise sauce the Dutch girls lisanna and Chris Lozano frown was born on the 24th of September 1991 standing at 6 feet tall she was described as athletic and adventurous she was a key member of her college volleyball team and had also dabbled in more extreme endeavors such as mountaineering and skydiving Lozano was also highly intelligent having graduated from sac Shan University with a degree in applied psychology during her studies she had developed a passion for amateur photography and had purchased a camera so that she could further indulge in her newfound hobby as she had spent her whole life in Amish fort a municipality new trekked province of the Netherlands she longed to travel the world and it was through this desire that she befriended a young lady named Chris Kramer's Chris was born on the 9th of August 1992 and where lisanna was a bit of an introvert Chris was the exact opposite her outgoing nature was reflected in her love of the Arts she was an amateur actress and was on the verge of graduating in art history at the University of Utrecht friends and relatives spoke highly of her open friendly nature and her great sense of humor she was the kind of person that would do anything for anyone if they were in need Chris met lisanna whilst working part-time at a cafe in Amish fort and the pair bonded quickly due to their mutual interest in travelling as friends they soon became inseparable and they plan to take a trip to Central America as soon as they had saved up enough money but as they were penniless students they had to cut their respective living costs and so moved into an apartment together to help raise those funds within six months they had booked their flight to Panama and kissed their families goodbye with an unspoken promise to return of course they couldn't have known that they would break that promise just as completely as they would break the hearts of those they loved they spent the first two weeks of their holiday sightseeing and taking part in leisure activities before moving on to the real purpose of their trip as mentioned previously they wanted to learn fluent Spanish and had applied for jobs in order to accomplish this quickly it just so happened that a school in the small town of Phuket a in West Panama had been looking for volunteers social workers to help out with the children's studies this had all been arranged when they first booked the holiday and they were under the impression that they were due to start their jobs at the school on the 31st of March 2014 however when they arrived on this date they were told rather bluntly that they were 7 days early now at a loose end and with the whole week to kill they decided to explore the Green Mountain Highlands and volcan baru National Park which were just a stone's throw away from baquette a they had it in mind to hike up to the Continental Divide a point which separates the watersheds that flow into the Pacific Ocean to the south and Caribbean Sea to the north at 1850 meters above sea level the mirador or lookout sits right on the cusp of the Continental Divide and offers stunning 360 degree panorama which stretch all the way to the horizon the main route leading up to the mirador is known as the peony stir trail which is highly popular with tourists not only for its population of tropical birds and its breathtaking vistas but also because the trail cuts through the region's famous cloud forests these are dense Woodlands most of which are quite literally situated inside the cloud layer due to their altitude which gives them an almost ethereal appearance it is no wonder that this turned out to be Chris and Liz Anna's first port of call unfortunately for them it would also be their last on the morning of the 1st of April they were seen having brunch at around 10 a.m. with two of the men also Dutch nationals whom they had befriended shortly after arriving in baquette a this was the last time anyone decisively recalled seeing them a few people told police that they thought they had seen them on the peony stir trail later that day but these reports were unconfirmed in any case they made a final post on Facebook stating their intention to walk around baquette ewwww and then set off for the mirador as soon as they had finished their meal along the way they were accompanied by a dog named Blu a household pet of the family they were lodging with timestamps on recovered photos when matched by location suggested that they made excellent time and that they had arrived at the Continental Divide by 1 p.m. that afternoon the pictures also indicated that the weather was bright and sunny and views from the mirador were clear and far-reaching what was obvious was that the two women had dress and packs relatively light definitely not intending to take an extended hike the first signs that something was up emerged late that evening when blue returned home by himself Chris and Lozano were nowhere to be seen the next day they failed to show up for a pre booked appointment with a local tour guide which raised further alarm within the community meanwhile back in the Netherlands the girls families had stopped receiving text messages which had been a daily occurrence up until that point on the 3rd of April residents from the town began a ground search for the two young women whilst local authorities made aerial sweeps the participation of local authorities is actually a point of contention amongst investigators whilst official search and rescue teams are adamant that their involvement began on the 3rd many stakeholders including towns folk flatly reject this claim and instead state that they did not get involved until many days later on the 6th coincidentally this is also the date on which police detectives dog teams and the girls families arrived from the Netherlands to assist in the search despite the concerted effort by hundreds of people as well as the offer of a thirty thousand dollar reward by family members nobody found a single trace of the two young women after 10 days the official search came to an end but many townspeople still took it upon themselves to continue looking it was all to no avail Chris and lisanna had seemingly vanished into thin air ten weeks pass by and long after all of the searches had ceased a member of the indigenous ngoba tribe walked into Birkett a carrying Liz Anna's blue backpack and some of the girls or the belongings she handed it in to the local police department saying that she had found it on the bank of a river near her village of Alto Romero it was close to a rice paddy where she had been working and she indicated that it had not been there the day before this suggested it had washed up on the riverbank sometime during the previous evening when authorities check the contents of the backpack they found two pairs of sunglasses a water bottle 83 dollars in cash Liz Anna's passport her camera two pairs of bras and both women's mobile phones everything was dry and the camera and phones were still in working order somewhat contradicting the possibility that the backpack had been washed downstream authorities immediately began an extensive search of the area and located Chris's jean shorts about a mile upstream from where the backpack was discovered some people say that they were found zipped and neatly folded on top of a rock whilst others contend that they were found floating in the river itself one of Chris's empty boots was also located in the same area if the discovery of clothing and apparel had been a reason to panic nothing would prepare the families for what came next over the next two months up to 33 bone fragments were found scattered over a small area including a piece of lizard's pelvis as well as one of her boots with her foot bones still inside fragments of chris's bones were also found relatively close by along with those of three other unidentified individuals this came as something of a shock to those close to the case and suspicions of foul play began to weigh heavily on everyone's minds in the meantime police had been checking the contents of both the phones and the camera it was discovered that between the dates of the 1st and 3rd of April the girls had made a total of seven failed attempts to call emergency services the first call being placed only a few hours after they had reached the mirador on the day of their hike as 1639 in the afternoon after the third of April the phones were only ever powered on to carry out signal checks no further attempts to call emergency services were made it is believed that Liz Anna's phone ran out of battery on the fifth as it was not turned on again after this date on the sixth Chrissy's phone was powered on but the access pin was entered incorrectly for the first time in fact a total of 77 attempts to access the phone were made between the 7th and 10th of April but all were unsuccessful this phone was switched on again on the 11th for a signal check and was left active for just over an hour before being switched off for the final time the phones were not accessed again after this date the most chilling aspect of the entire case however would be the hundred or so photographs that were found on his Anna's camera the first 11 images were ordinary enough taken on the 1st of April they showed the girls walking along the trail taking selfies and generally enjoying the hike but as the afternoon wore on the last few of these images begin to exhibit a different mood pictures taken from behind Chris show her looking back at Lozano with an uncertain expression the camera was not used again from the second to the 7th of April but in the early hours of the 8th between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. in the morning more than 90 photos were taken in complete darkness neither of the women are featured in these images apart from a close-up of Chris's strawberry blonde hair with what looks like dried blood on her skin what they do show are snapshots of the dark jungle interior most of which are aimed at nothing in particular although a few of them do seem to have a purpose in mind some show twigs and reflective materials laid out in deliberate patterns others with plastic bags hooked onto branches one is even believed to have been taken from the top of a ravine looking down upon a body lying at the bottom but it is far too dark to be conclusive even after enhancement all in all the images had a somewhat bizarre element to the case but unfortunately they present far more questions than they do answers so what happened to these two young women during the days after they went missing the most prominent theory is that they took a wrong turn whilst on the Continental Divide and instead of heading back down towards baquette they on the south side they moved into the much deeper wilderness to the north once they realized they had become lost they tried calling emergency services but were unsuccessful they probably continued moving downhill in this direction hoping they would find their way out or stumble upon a settlement but unknown to Chris and lisanna the only thing that awaited them was even more notoriously difficult terrain with a lot of almost impassable ravines it is believed that on the 5th of April Chris suffered a terrible perhaps even fatal accident the fact that the person who tried to access her phone on the 6th did not know the pin suggests that this was probably lisanna Chris must have been either unconscious or dead at this point otherwise she would have been able to just tell her friend what the pin number was there is a possibility that lisanna stayed with the dead or dying Chris for some time not wanting to leave her alone when she at last decided to move on she placed markers indicating where Chrissy's body was located in case she made it out alive and had to guide rescuers back in to retrieve her body and this was believed to be the purpose of the nighttime photos either that or she was using the flash as a light source as she walked through the forest in darkness which would have been highly dangerous in any case lisanna probably survived a few more days this was supported by the fact that Chris's phone was powered on again on the 11th however she must have eventually succumbed to starvation or dehydration soon afterwards or suffered an accident of their own the bones found inside her boot indicated that she had broken her foot at some point suggesting she had suffered a trip or fall the bodies of the two women were then at the mercy of scavengers and their remains were more than likely washed downstream towards Aldo Romero despite being a relatively plausible explanation there are a number of issues with this theory first of all how could the girls have taken a wrong turn whilst on the Continental Divide the north-facing slopes are much steeper than the south and it would have been obvious that this was not the way they had come secondly from the mirador the peony stir trail is easily recognizable and you can even see the town of baquette a lying in the valley below from this altitude so why did they travel in the opposite direction could they have been forced into going this way foul play has never been ruled out of this case and although evidence regarding their phone usage seems to contradict the involvement of a third party there are other possibilities a kidnapper would never have allowed the two women to keep hold of their phones so it is unlikely that they were ever abducted but what if they had been followed according to an article published in 2016 by The Daily Beast there is apparently a tour guide in boquete a who many locals suspect as having something to do with the deaths of the two women he was not named but it is known that he had met with the listener and Chris less than 24 hours before they disappeared he had offered them a full tour package including a guided hike up to the Continental Divide plus an overnight stay at his ranch on the other side of the mountains for reasons known only to themselves the girls declined his offer and decided to walk the peony stir trail alone this particular tour guide has a reputation in the town for being overly friendly towards female tourists in fact even some hikers who have visited the region mentioned on reddit when discussing this case that this same tour guide had behaved inappropriately towards their own girlfriends petting them and touching them could this man have taken Chris and Liz Anna's rejection as a slight could he have followed them up the peony stir trail and have scared them into seeking another route down after all he was the one who first discovered their remains and what's more they were located less than half a mile from his ranch and suspicions regarding a third party do not end there when forensics examined Liz Anna's backpack they discovered more than 30 sets of fingerprints on it whilst it is possible that the lady who found the bag may have passed it around her village before handing it in to police this was never confirmed another unusual aspect is the lack of grease on the backpack and items of recovered clothing as a body decomposes grease evacuates the soft tissues and soaks into whatever the cadaver is wearing and one would expect this to have been found on the girls apparel if they had died as the result of an accident there were also questions raised over the condition of some of the remains chris's bones looked as if they had been bleached which was not in accordance with the rate of decay and seemed unlikely given the covering of the forest canopy however this depends entirely on where her bones were located if they had been washed up on the bank of River for instance which received more sunlight it is not incomprehensible for them to have been bleached in the intense rays over a period of months on the other hand there were no markings on the bones whatsoever if the bodies had fallen victim to scavengers after death teeth marks and other miniscule abrasions would have been detected under a microscope but there were none the lack of any big bones is also troubling for many investigators why didn't they find any significant remains as one of the most prominent guides in baquette a was quoted as saying there are no animals up there that would eat a skull so where are the rest of Chris and Liz Anna's bodies all the pertinent questions regarding the deletion of a picture on the camera also points to the possibility of something more sinister image 509 which sits in between the final daytime photo taken on the first and the first nighttime photo taken on the 8th seem to be missing but it's unclear whether this was deleted by one of the girls or another party later on perhaps to hide something it should come as no surprise that many people in the town suspect to cover up as tourism accounts for almost 4 billion dollars a year 18% of Panama's GDP residents insists that the accident scenario has been overly pushed by local authorities rather than one involving foul play in order to protect that income especially since the deaths of Chris and Liz Anna it is now believed that there may be a serial killer at large in the area there have been up to 25 deaths and disappearances in the region which remain unsolved two-thirds of which have occurred over the last three years this makes one wonder who the other three individuals were whose remains were found along with the girls but authorities simply explain this by saying that the terrain on that side of the divide is very dangerous even the indigenous peoples are wary of traversing that part of the region and many have died crossing the monkey bridges which crisscross the ravines there are many more theories out there of course some believe the girls were eaten by pygmy cannibals or killed for their organs by traffickers some even favored a supernatural explanation and have noted similarities with missing for 1:1 cases but as it stands the deaths of Chris Kramer SH and Miss Anna frown were more than likely a tragic accident although it seems that there are far too many questions hanging over this case to conclude this with any certainty too many bizarre elements such as Wireless Anna took those photos at night and not in the daytime what was she trying to tell us was she simply trying to find her way in the dark or possibly even scare off wild animals was she so sleep-deprived and dehydrated by this time that she was possibly hallucinating and was it even her who took the photographs at all unfortunately we'll probably never know why Chris and lisanna decided to pass over to the other side of the divide maybe they took a wrong turn maybe they were forced or maybe they just felt overconfident and wanted to explore further simply put what we have here is a case of two young women getting lost in the jungle desperately needing assistance and never receiving any one can only imagine the fear and inner turmoil they must have felt wandering through the untamed lands of a foreign country in the dead of night starving and dehydrated and panicking at every sound and that is terrifying enough the world has lost two more bright and beautiful human beings in Chris Kramer's and Liz Anna frown we can only wonder what they might be doing now what they might have achieved in their lives if only they had turned back towards baquette a on that fateful afternoon our hearts go out to their families may they forever rest in peace [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Channel: Bedtime Stories

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Keywords: lisanne froon, kris kremers, panama, dutch girls, missing, disappearance, bones, boot, boquete, camera, images, pianista, hikers, death, paranormal, supernatural, ghosts, hauntings, aliens, ufos, conspitacies, cryptids, mysteries, strange deaths, other dimensions, time slips, true crime, murder, demons, witchcraft, the occult, horror stories, scary stories, creepy stories, bedtime stories

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Length: 25min 28sec (1528 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 30 2018

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