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Cliff Hollis

@cliffhollisranger

Language: EnglishCountry: United States51 days old

  • Persona: Cliff Hollis · Retired professional · Senior
  • Sells · $27 guide
  • Park ranger
  • Search and rescue
  • Missing persons
  • National parks
  • Camping safety
  • Budget camping
  • Wilderness mysteries
  • Hiking safety
Subscribers
1.87K
Total views
309K
Videos
32

Stats updated Stats from YouTube

Growth

Subscribers · daily totals we stored, UTC days

Dotted: 1 day without a fresh subscriber total stored in this range. Left out, not filled in.

Show the numbers
Subscribers per UTC day, last 30 days, newest first
Day (UTC)Subscribers
Oct 14, 20261,870
Oct 13, 20261,820
Oct 12, 20261,770
Oct 11, 20261,630
Oct 10, 20261,490
Oct 9, 20261,370
Oct 8, 20261,230
Oct 7, 2026not available
Oct 6, 20261,000
Oct 5, 2026860
Oct 4, 2026745
Oct 3, 2026605
Oct 2, 2026527
Oct 1, 2026464
Sep 30, 2026385
Sep 29, 2026377
Sep 28, 2026334
Sep 27, 2026295

Top videos

Most viewed

What they sell

From the public store pages the channel links to, checked Oct 11, 2026.

How they sell it

  1. 1Video
  2. 2DescriptionSome descriptions open with a pitch for the field guide and a link
  3. 3Landing pagestayfoundbook.com
  4. 4Landing pageGumroad · mrknowmedia.gumroad.com
  5. 5CheckoutGumroad
  • Store link in 25% of recent descriptions
  • Link in descriptions since Sep 18, 2026
  • Entry points: the first line of descriptions, the description body

Since mid-September some descriptions (6 of the 24 most recent) open with a pitch for Stay Found, the persona's field guide, and a link to stayfoundbook.com; many other recent videos carry no product link, and the about section has none. The page presents a 520-page printable PDF at a $27 launch price against a regular $69, with a launch countdown, a 7-day money-back guarantee and a buy button that leads to a Gumroad product page. The page states it is not affiliated with the National Park Service.

Analysis

Our own reading of the channel’s public titles, descriptions and thumbnails, not data from YouTube.

Persona

Cliff Hollis

Retired professional · Senior · Male · Dark forests, campgrounds and mountain trails

Niche

National park mysteries, missing hikers and camping safety from a ranger

Audience

American campers, hikers and fans of outdoor mystery and missing-person stories, especially around national parks and Appalachia (inferred from titles, descriptions, keywords and the about text).

Avatar
  • Realistic avatar
  • A photorealistic older man with white hair and a thick white mustache, in a felt ranger hat and olive field jacket, framed chest-up on the right of forest, campsite and map scenes.
Format

A countdown of documented park incidents, missing-person cases or campsite rules, narrated in the first person by a retired search-and-rescue ranger who opens with a case of his own and shows where each record stops.

Content pillars
  • Disturbing ranger encounters, one national park per video
  • Missing hikers who were found or never found
  • Dangerous campgrounds and places
  • Budget camping tricks
  • Camping rules and where sleeping is legal
Title patterns
  • [N] Disturbing Park Ranger Encounters in [Park] You've Never Heard
  • [N] [Places It's Actually Legal to Sleep Overnight in the Woods] (A Ranger Explains)
  • [N] U.S. [Campgrounds] So DANGEROUS Park Rangers Refuse to [Sleep There After Dark]
  • [N] People Who Vanished in the [Backcountry] - Then [Walked Out With Strange Stories]
  • [N] Poor Man's [Camping] Tricks From 32 Years on Patrol
Thumbnails

The white-mustached ranger on the right, pointing at or staring into the camera, beside a dark forest, campsite or map scene; a 2–4 word bold caption on a white bar or in white and yellow, and a red arrow in 5 of 10.

Their thumbnails, most viewed first

Why it works
  • One series carries the channel: 4 'Disturbing Park Ranger Encounters in [Park]' videos hold 67% of all 110,528 views
  • Case files outperform tips: 7 early camping-tip videos average about 1,200 views, the encounter series about 18,600
  • A detailed backstory (32 seasons as a ranger, 15 running search and rescue) opens the about text and nearly every description
  • The same ranger persona in all 10 thumbnails, a recognisable face beside a short warning caption
  • Recent momentum: 66,520 views and 450 subscribers in the last 7 days, 60% of all views

Where the channel points

Links from the channel’s About page and its video descriptions.

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