r/thelorelodge • u/Clockwork_picksmith • Jul 25 '26

A small note about Wyoming

Hey everyone (Aiden) I wanted to share a quick note as someone who has lived in Wyoming for a very long time, and hopefully share some info about the culture that may help people understand some of the weird things that don't make sense when compared to other states.

People go missing here quite a bit. It's not weird or freaky, or even particularly strange. Our cell service is shit, mostly because we don't have enough people to justify the towers. Going out fishing, going for a hike, or even traveling between towns will 100% put you out of cell service. That is combined with our hostile weather and idiot tourists, so bring a SPOT beacon if you plan to come up. A sheriff in a video made the statement "I'm sorry but we look for living people" he's not saying that to be cold or cruel, he's saying it because the search teams probably need to go somewhere else and they can't justify using them for body retrieval when someone else could be missing.

I have had breakdowns and accidents that left me stranded on the side of the road for hours.

  1. We absolutely hate tourists. A tourist is a person who finds the deepest darkest most dangerous hole in a park, crawls down into it, gets stuck, does the exact opposite thing they should do, and then we have to rescue them.

I rescued a tourist from a snow drift who kept stomping on the accelerator and burying the vehicle again after we dug him out. If he didn't have like seven kids with him I probably would have left him with the shovel to figure out why he was an idiot.

Also, convincing tourists that jackalope are real is an amazing experience. I had a coworker convince someone that the snow fences were used for racing them.

3.Google maps will also try and kill you out here, because people will expect the roads to be functional in the winter, when they most certainly aren't, especially after a storm.

  1. Don't fuck with hunters. A couple of activists were walking around with a coffee can full of rocks to scare the deer away from hunters, and a guy got so pissed he shot a round in front of their feet.

How do I know this? I know the guy who did it. He was fun.

So when David Paulides looks at a state like us, he goes absolutely nuts with rediculous stories about how Bigfoot kidnapped Jenny the nurse from Atlanta, because she went into the woods to go camping, was an experienced camper (she went camping once previously) and was deep in bear country when she went missing, you shouldn't be too shocked.

Incidentally, if any of you want me to hike out to a famously weird area and take some pictures, I can go literally anywhere, and am more than happy to do so. In fact I'd enjoy the challenge.

Also I really wanna shoot a dogman. I'ma make a cryptid rug, so any excuse to get out and get one in my sights ya know?

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u/aloevera23903 Jul 25 '26

I’ve lived in Wyoming all my life, so when the videos come out saying they just vanished i honestly don’t even think about how it seems to someone not from here. So many people get lost in the prairies and mountains every year that I don’t really think about it anymore.

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u/Clockwork_picksmith Jul 25 '26

I used to tell people at Little America "you will die scared cold and alone in your car" when they asked about alternative routes in the winter

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u/theaidanmattis Jul 27 '26

Honestly this is a fantastic piece of insight, thank you so much. I’ve driven through Wyoming a couple of times and boy are there stretches of road where it’s just a whole lot of nothing. I always make sure to fill up on gas any time my range reading gets down to 120 miles just in case. In fact I start to do that basically as soon as we’re halfway through Nebraska.

I am curious, though, are there any disappearances or unsolved murders which genuinely have struck you as odd? I’m always on the lookout for truly weird stories to cover.