In the first two installments of this series, we explored thirteen missing persons cases from the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Last week, looked at some of the native legends surrounding this mysterious region, which cast an eerie light upon the unsolved disappearances that have taken place there.
Whether or not the disturbing native legends surrounding the British Columbia Triangle have any bearing upon the vanishings endemic to the region is a matter of conjecture.
Perhaps the traditions of the Interior Salish hold the key to the secrets of the Middle Fraser Basin, or perhaps the unsolved disappearances that have taken place there all have rational explanations. Whatever the case, people continue to vanish in the region to this very day, and are doing so at an unprecedented rate. Over the past few years, two distinct waves of disappearances have swept through BCs Interior Plateau, one involving only men, and the other involving only women.
The male disappearances are concentrated around the eastern Fraser watershed, in an area roughly 40 miles 64 kilometres southwest of Kamloops. The female disappearances, on the other hand, are concentrated in northern Okanagan Country roughly 55 miles 90 kilometres southeast of Kamloops, at the eastern edge of one of the cluster points identified by David Paulides.
In a month period between and , five women from rural areas around the city of Salmon Arm mysteriously vanished. The first of the ladies to disappear was year-old Caitlin Brandy Potts, who lived in a rural area just east of the tiny city of Enderby, located about 9 miles 15 kilometres southeast of Salmon Arm. Although Caitlin did not necessary disappear from the same tiny corner of British Columbia from which the other four women vanished, her name has become inextricably linked with theirs on account of the fact that her residence was located within the same kilometre radius in which the other disappearances occurred.
