ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — Rangers are investigating the death of a Bar Harbor man whose body was found Sunday in a brook underneath a bridge.
The body of Christian Emigh-Doyle, who was in his 20s, was found in Duck Brook late Sunday afternoon by hikers, Ranger Bill Weidner said Tuesday. The body was in the shallow brook directly underneath a stone bridge where Paradise Hill Road passes overhead. Paradise Hill Road is a paved two-way road that connects the park’s Visitors Center in Hulls Cove with the Park Loop Road.
Park officials said the top of the bridge is about 90 feet above the brook. Though Emigh-Doyle appears to have fallen from the bridge, the cause of death remains under investigation, Weidner said.
“We have no reason to suspect foul play,” Weidner said.
Weidner declined to speculate on whether Emigh-Doyle may have fallen by accident.
Members of Mount Desert Island Search and Rescue assisted park rangers in recovering Emigh-Doyle’s body from the deep ravine under the bridge, the ranger said.
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