'Missing 411', by David Paulides: Tracking unusual missing persons cases

Timeline of the event from Fox 26 Modesto. đŸ€”

In their final moments, Jonathan Gerrish and Ellen Chung frantically attempted calling and texting for help from a remote and stifling hot Mariposa County trail, telling one would-be rescuer they were out of water and overheating, according to new data pulled from the husband’s cell phone.

Shortly before noon on Aug. 15, with temperatures soaring above 100 degrees and the couple, their infant daughter and dog hiking up steep switchbacks with little shade, someone from the family attempted to send a final text from Gerrish’s cell phone.


“(Name redacted) can you help us,” the text started at 11:56 a.m. “On savage lundy trail heading back to Hites cove trail. No water or ver (over) heating with baby.”

After months of work with an FBI phone forensic team, the sheriff’s office was able to glean the new details from Gerrish’s Google Pixel 4 that was found in the front pocket of his shorts.

“The cell phone data results were the last thing both the family and detectives were waiting on,” Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese said. “The extracted information confirms our initial findings. I am very proud of my team and our partner agencies for all the work they put in. Their dedication has allowed us to close this case and answer lingering questions the family had, bringing them a little peace.”

A woman spotted the family park their vehicle at the Hites Cove trailhead on Aug. 15 around 7:45 a.m. when the temperature was 76 degrees. Within three hours it would soar to 99 degrees, and by the afternoon it would peak at 109. The ground temperature would have been higher, investigators said, particularly since a wildfire had burned off any shade canopy.

In the new phone data, investigators found a photo and video taken at 7:44 a.m. a few yards from the trailhead. Fifteen minutes later, the family snapped another photo of the trail as they dropped down the steep Hites Cove trail.

By 9:05 a.m., the couple snapped a photo of the South Fork of the Merced River. Between 9:35 a.m. and 9:39 a.m. the couple took nine photos of the river and each other from about the halfway point of the 8-mile loop, according to the records.

Between 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., the family took selfies and photos of the river and creek as they made their way to the bottom of the challenging final switchbacks up the Savage Lundy Trail. Those were the final photos taken.

Their situation appeared to become dire shortly before noon when the family attempted to send the rescue text. The couple tried to send the message just slightly below where their bodies were found — only 1.6 miles from the trailhead and their truck.

By 12:09 p.m., the family made the first of five phone calls. The calls went to multiple phone numbers, but not 911, the sheriff’s office said. At 12:25 p.m., a family member took a screenshot of their location on the hiking app. Finally, starting at 12:35 p.m., the family made the final four calls in rapid succession. None of the calls ever connected, investigators said.

The family’s remains were found two days after their hike on Aug. 17.

In Chung’s backpack, investigators recovered a snakebite kit, knife, bug spray, first aid kit, extra diapers, an empty sippy cup with remnants of what appeared to be formula, another empty sippy cup and a teething wafer wrapper.

Chung was also carrying a 2.5 liter Osprey Hydraulics LT water bladder with only a “few remaining drops” of water, which detectives tested. They detected no toxins in the water.

One expert who was familiar with the trail told investigators that for a hike under those conditions, he recommended 320 ounces of water for an adult couple, and 16 ounces each for a baby and dog. Yet the couple apparently carried only 84 ounces of water in total and no water filtration system to gather supplies from the river.

A Modesto doctor who treats extreme heat victims told investigators that once an individual gets heatstroke, they can die within a couple of hours. The moment the family started their hike — with their lack of water and other deficiencies — the “clock was ticking,” the doctor said.
 

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Interesting update. Still doesn’t explain why the dog perished though if they were nearby a creek. Unless that dog was loyal to a fault it would have gone for a drink. I can’t imagine bringing such a small amount of water when it was that hot and you have a baby and dog with you. They were experienced hikers. The whole thing just doesn’t add up.
 
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Also, from Dr. Barry Taff author of ALIENS ABOVE, GHOSTS BELOW

On this episode of Haunted UCLA, we take a closer look at the study of parapsychology, as described by Barry Taff (see previous episode). Find out why the study of paranormal phenomenon is dying out, and why a closer scientific analysis sheds an entirely new light on the source of paranormal experiences. Open your mind to new possibilities, and join us next quarter for a new season of Haunted UCLA!

Bio of Taffs past.
Dr. Barry E. Taff, who holds a doctorate in psychophysiology with a minor in biomedical engineering from UCLA is a world-renowned parapsychologist who worked out of UCLA’s former Parapsychology Laboratory from 1969 through 1978 as a research associate. During his 53-year career, Dr. Taff has investigated more than 4,800 cases of ghosts, hauntings, poltergeists and conducted extensive studies in telepathy and precognition, eventually developing the initial protocols and methodologies for what was later termed “remote viewing”. He also, was himself, investigated as a psychic subject, the results of which were published in Behavioral Neuropsychiatry, “A Laboratory Investigation of Telepathy: The Study of A Psychic”, Vol. 6, Nos. 1-12, April-December 1974-January-March, 1975.

One of the cases Dr. Taff investigated in 1974 gained international fame as the book and motion picture, The Entity, starring Barbara Hershey and Ron Silver, released by Fox in 1983. Dr. Taff served as technical advisor on The Entity as well as being represented in the film by the character “Gene Kraft”. What’s unknown by the media is the fact that, in real life, The Entity followed its female victim for quite some time after our initial investigation, continuing its vociferous nature. Allegedly, Doris Bither died in 1999 of cardiopulmonary failure at the age of 58.

Dr. Taff has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs including Coast to Coast A.M.with George Knapp CBS News, KNBC News, KABC News, Strange Universe, Unsolved Mysteries, The Joan River’s Show, A Current Affair, Hard Copy, Sightings, Judge for Yourself, The Extraordinary, The Montel Williams Show, The Wil Shriner Show, The Suzanne Somers Show, was a recurring guest on NBC’s The Other Side, Haunted History, Mysteries & Scandals, ABC’s World’s Scariest Ghosts Caught On Tape, The Girls Next Door, Sci-Fi Channel’s An Unknown Encounter & California’s Most Haunted (highest rated shows in Sci-Fi’s history) for which Dr. Taff also served as creative consultant and technical advisor. Taff also has recently appeared in the DVD Special Feature sections of The Mentalist (Warner Bros/CBS-TV, 2009) and the feature film, The Haunting in Connecticut “Anatomy Of A Haunting” (2009) and the 20th Anniversary Re-Release Pkg. of Friday The 13th (Paramount Pictures) and most recently, Ghost Lovers on The Travel Channel (Feb. 2011)

He has consulted for government, business, and law enforcement, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Language Institute (DLI), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the FBI, Interpol, LAPD, California Highway Patrol, Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department, and the Westminster Police Department. He has served as a technical advisor or script doctor on the films Logan’s Run, Demon Seed, Altered States, Poltergeist, and The Entity. Dr. Taff has written numerous articles for magazines and journals, and has been featured in many books on paranormal subjects ranging from precognition to UFOs.

In the spring of 2010, Dr. Taff’s, book, Aliens Above, Ghosts Below: Explorations of the Unknown is available aonAmazon and Ebay.

Contact: (310) 270-8034

Email: BarryETaff@gmail.com
 
From the last session Feb 26, 2020:

(Alejo) Are there any other such download portals on the planet?

(L) Yes, we already discussed that. There's one in Israel. Are there any others besides Israel and Ukraine?

A: China, North America, South America.

Q: (Artemis) Is the North America one in Canada or
?

A: Canada.

Q: (Artemis) I knew it!

(L) You knew it? Yes! [laughter]

(Artemis) Yukon.

(L) Oooh, you're right! The Yukon! CREEPY stuff happens in the Yukon. [laughter] It's true.

(Andromeda) Oh, yeah!

No doubt there are many Yukon stories, and David likely has some in his works.

Not from David is this from 2017:

October 27, 2017

The puzzling death of Bart Schleyer in the Yukon Territory of Canada

Yukon Territory Canada, Wilderness deaths, Wilderness Disappearances

BART SCHLEYER, DISAPPEARED SEPTEMBER 14 2004, REMAINS FOUND OCTOBER 3, 2004, REID LAKES, YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA.​

Revised March 2021
Bart Schleyer was a famous outdoorsman, woodsmen hunter as well as a playboy. He was described as a survival expert.
In September 2004, Bart went off for a trip in the Canadian wilderness. His last contact was when a chartered floatplane left him at the larger of the Reid Lakes in Canada's Yukon Territory on September 14. Reid Lakes is on the southern slope of the Selwyn Mountains, about 175 miles north of the town of Whitehorse and the nearest settlement is Stewart Crossing about 15 miles from the lakes, on the road from Whitehorse to Dawson.
He was well-equipped for the trip with three plastic "Action Packer'' crates with enough food for at least 2 weeks, clothing and camp gear such as a tent and an inflatable boat.
When the plane that dropped Bart off, returned two weeks later to collect him and take him back to civilization, the experienced woodsman was gone.
A search by the RCMP that started on September 30, 2004, turned up nothing. Dib Williams, a friend of Schleyer's was sure that he was there and conducted a more thorough search when the RCMP left the scene. He found some remains on October 3, 2004. It looked like a bear had taken him out. But for this man, an expert in bear behavior and a highly experienced hunter, some remain skeptical of this explanation.
Almost everyone who knew Schleyer believe he was simply too good a woodsman, too alert while in the forest, to have a bear catch him by surprise.
Was it really a rogue bear attack or did something else happen out there in the Yukon?

Who was Bart Schleyer?​

Bart Schleyer Yukon disappearance

Bart Schleyer was a trained scientist, who worked for the Grizzly Bear Recovery Project in Yellowstone National Park in the 1980s, before moving north to Alaska. He was one of the world's foremost experts at capturing, radio-collaring and tracking Tigers and spent months in Russia working to help save endangered Siberian tigers. He had a Russian girlfriend, Tanya Perova, and they had a son, Artyom.
Bart was born to Dr Otis Schleyer and his wife Lula Rose, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1955. Dr Schleyer, a physician who practised in Cheyenne, loved to hunt. He took Bart along from an early age. Bart’s sister Claudia Downey tells of Bart’s childhood obsession with animals. “He didn’t just like them; he wanted to know everything about them, study where they lived and how they lived! My dad took Bart with him on safari to Mozambique when he was 10 years old. He had a chance to witness an incredible variety of animals that he could otherwise only read about. When he finally got a chance to hunt, he was drawn even closer. Hunting seemed to give purpose to his studies.” Bart would draw pictures of animals and continued to develop as an artist into adulthood.
Bart focused his education on wildlife biology and transferred to Montana State University, where he received his master’s degree in 1979. Professor Don Collins taught an undergraduate class called Man and the Environment for more than 20 years. Dr Collins says, “Out of the 42,000 students who took that class, Bart was a standout! He was knowledgeable in everything wild, from animals and birds to flowers, trees, and shrubs. Bart spent a great deal of time alone in the mountains while working on his thesis, the activity patterns of grizzly bears in Yellowstone. It was as if he prepared his entire life to do this. He was superbly suited for the demands of the job. To conduct these studies, Bart used live capture techniques, and then placed telemetry radio collars on the bears to monitor their activities.”
After college, Bart stayed in Montana where he worked for Fish and Game and the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team. He made vital contributions to a team challenged with determining the reaction grizzly bears demonstrate after encroachment by humans. It was also important to know the habitat requirements and birth and mortality rates of the bears, including those living in the remote Bob Marshall Wilderness. His experiences in backpacking and self-reliance fostered through years of bowhunting made the research work easy for him. He stayed out in the mountains for months at a time. Packing meat for bait and heavy cable for foot snares became routine. He didn’t just endure physical hardship; he enjoyed it.
Schleyer organized his life so that he could spend as much time as possible in the field. and he was about as tough as it gets when he was in the outdoors. He loved using a traditional bow and the arrows he made himself.

The disappearance of Bart Schleyer​

When the plane that dropped Bart off, returned two weeks later to collect him and take him back to civilization, the experienced woodsman was gone.
The pilot thought this was strange as he was no "city slicker", he knew how to handle himself in even the most remote wilderness and could be described as a survival expert.
Bart Schleyer Yukon disappearance

The official search by the RCMP​

Bart was reported missing on September 30, 2004 and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) promptly launched a comprehensive search and found nothing.
According to the RCMP, he had lunch or supper in camp since the remains of a meal were found. Bart had evidently used his boat and paddled it down the lake from camp, and it was found around half a mile from camp.
The Mounties thought there was a possibility Schleyer might have hiked out to the highway and with deteriorating weather they called it a day.

The search by Dib Williams and Wayne Curry​

Dib Williams, a friend of Schleyer's in Whitehorse was dissatisfied with the RCMP efforts and got pilot friend Wayne Curry to fly them to the camp after they had departed.
Reid Lakes in Canada's Yukon Territory

They found Bart’s tent had been knocked down, either by wind or animals but all the equipment was there. They searched the area around the tent and found his backpack, bear spray, a knife, and a VHF radio.
Williams and Curry got increasingly concerned as they didn't buy the story that Schleyer had hiked out when he left such key equipment behind. On the second day of their search, they found his bow near the inflatable boat.
About 60 yards back in the woods from the boat, the bow and arrows in a handmade buckskin quiver were leaned up against a tree next to a dry-bag full of gear on which he'd probably been sitting and this was located on flat ground next to a thicket of black spruce and willows. Curtis, an experienced moose hunter said it looked like the sort of place an archer might set up if trying to call a moose into range. A little further on they found a camouflage face mask with blood and hair on it and at this point, they called the RCMP back to the area.

The official search resumes and more remains located​

On October 3, the Mounties, Yukon conservation officers, and civilian volunteers flew back to the area to begin more detailed grid search. At first, they found little but bear and wolf tracks but then a baseball cap was spotted by the searchers and then camouflage pants, a camera, part of a skull and just a few small bones. All these items were 60 meters or so from the bow and the Spruce tree.
The teeth in the skull allowed the subsequent identification of the remains as being Bart Schleyer. There wasn't much more of his body found.

What happened to Bart Schleyer?​

Since there was quite a bit of Grizzly scat in the area it fuelled speculation that Schleyer had been unexpectedly killed and eaten by a bear, as happened with the famous Timothy Treadwell, whose death was captured in a documentary by Wener Herzog in 2006 called "Grizzly Man" based on video footage that Treadwell and his girlfriend had been filming.
Amongst some of the bear scat samples there were some bone fragments, but no fabric. In Treadwell's case, not only were human remains were found in the bear's stomach contents that had killer him and his girlfriend, but also large amounts of their clothing. Most of Schleyer's clothes were never found.
But searchers and friends were skeptical it was a bear attack that had taken Bart out. First, there was no sign of a death struggle, no vegetation or ground had been disturbed. The remains were found in a little patch of sparse spruce lying on the moss and if a bear killed him this would be unusual as they usually bury their kills in a cache. The remains of Treadwell and his girlfriend were found in such a cache after they were killed. But there was no cache anywhere in the area that searchers could locate.
The Vancouver pathologist who examined Schleyer's remains found no tooth punctures in his skull nor indications of scratch marks from teeth. When bears attack people, they almost always go for the head.
Even if he started off playing dead, a recommended tactic for surviving a grizzly bear attack, friends said he would have known that if the animal continued the attack the only chance for survival would be to fight back and generally speaking a bear attack is prolonged and violent. A friend said "I think the least likely scenario is some sort of surprise encounter,'' "(But) it's hard for me to imagine having a bear sneak up and get him.''
Almost everyone who knew Schleyer believe he was simply too good a woodsman, too alert while in the forest, to have a bear catch him by surprise. Bart’s hat, for example, was completely undamaged.
If a bear had got him, it's even harder to imagine the animal killing him without leaving signs of a struggle on a site covered with soft, easily disturbed moss. An attack goes on for a long time. The audiotape of Treadwell's death goes on for many minutes, recording the sounds of him and his partner being eaten alive.
The balaclava contained little blood and hair, and his pants even less. If a bear attacks a man it won't remove his pants without them being shredded and soaked in blood. Normally bears grab the end especially when attacking from behind, causing profuse bleeding so why wasn't the balaclava blood-soaked?
Others disagree and say that even for an experienced woodsman, a predatory bear could sneak up and deliver a fatal attack.
The plastic container that held his food there had not been disturbed and bear experts said that if a grizzly had killed Schleyer, it is likely the same bear would have gone to the camp given the proximity and even eaten through canned food. Everything points to the evidence being scavenging related not caused by a violent direct attack.
The circumstances of Bart’s death are very strange, even if experts and searchers disagree with the cause.
Brigittee Parker, a spokeswoman for the Mounties in Whitehorse, said the case remains open, but the organization leans toward the idea Schleyer was attacked and killed by a bear. "Everything at the scene suggested a bear attack and did not suggest ... foul play.''
Read about other bear attacks at The recent shocking deaths caused by bears in the United States and Canada
Apart from a bear attack, potential explanations include:
  • Wolf attack, but these are even rarer than bear attacks and no physical evidence on the ground, and the bag he was sitting on was untouched with no blood
  • Natural death from a heart attack or brain aneurysm with the body later taken apart by scavenging animals. At 49 years of age and at peak physical fitness it seems unlikely but possible.
  • Murdered by the Russian mafia or another assailant

First off, the RCMP did not spend all that much time on site - September 30th to prior to October 3, 2004 when Dib Williams found evidence after the Police and researches had already left.

Can't really say from the basic article, and official reports are far and few between, however bears like this would make a heck of a mess, especially on mossy ground, and that was not the case. Other evidence did not fit either.
 
Another missing 411 case?

PARK CITY, Utah (KSTU) - Connerjack Oswalt, an autistic teenager who went missing in California in 2019, was recently found in Utah.

After years of fearing for his safety, the family is overjoyed.

Connerjack was 16 years old when he was reported missing from Clear Lake, California.

After his disappearance, his family didn’t see or hear from him.

A few weeks ago, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office started receiving reports about a man pushing around a shopping cart. One concerned citizen reported the same man sleeping in front of a store.

Body camera video shows officers approaching Connerjack in front of the store and asking if he would like to sit in the car to warm up after a very cold night.

In the car, Connerjack would not tell the officers his name, but he allowed deputies to scan his finger and with technology, it showed that he had a warrant out of Nevada.

Sheriff Justin Martinez said the officers felt there was something more to his story.

“There’s something more, this individual being resistant, reluctant to communicate,” he said.

[...]

 
Another missing 411 case?

Was trying to find out why he went missing in the first place, and there are further details:


Oswalt's mother, Suzanne Flint, told USA TODAY her son left home because "someone had allegedly told him he can go on a pilgrimage to find himself."

"We're still fitting all the pieces together and we're going off what he'd told us," Flint said.

However it happened, from the first link:

After fearing the worst for nearly two years, his family was finally reunited with Connerjack.

“There wasn’t a dry eye in the room,” Martinez said. “They’ve been reunited with this individual they haven’t seen for three years when he was 16. He’s now 19.”

Nice to see them reunited.

David's latest show was posted today, and it is a bit different - no missing, titled Factual News. David starts off by talking about useful things one might need if things go down the drain (he is talking how-to-books) and should the online world go kaput. David switches to people getting terrorized in some areas, wherein there is an increasing situation of criminals stalking the more affluent (based on what they see and what they drive), and being robed (subways too). This all appears to be gang related. Now if one is caught, sadly it is back to the catch and release program indicative of blue states that kicks in. NY and LA are currently big factors in all this, and it may become much more wide spread. David then gets into Hunter Biden laptop stories - reads articles on this corruption at all levels, however the articles mostly tie to certain Chinese individuals and corporations (not Ukraine). Nothing new for people here, however good he is talking about it.

David next briefly cites Dianne Feinstein (turning 89 in June) being no longer fit to serve, all from an article he reads and there are many articles out there after a quick search. David then jumps to Elon Musk and Twitter, then to opioid overdoes deaths (Fentanyl focus) - with a tie to drugs coming from over the southern boarder. Naturally, this brings up Biden ending the current moratorium, while boarder guards are saying things will triple from today's human traffic - and drug trafficking ties into all of this by gangs on both sides of the fence.

David winds his talk up by switching to Covid mask mandates (planes and trains) set to end, however now it is being pushed ahead into May. This then gets into a discussion on illegal aliens crossing into the U.S. with no vaccinations required et cetera, and yet try going into Canada or from Canada into the U.S. - yeah, right, David says. David ends with "it is all that I'm asking" question, and the questing being "has anyone considered natural immunity?" Preaching to the choir here, however David has a good following and he is making his feelings known.

 

Was trying to find out why he went missing in the first place, and there are further details:




However it happened, from the first link:



Nice to see them reunited.

David's latest show was posted today, and it is a bit different - no missing, titled Factual News. David starts off by talking about useful things one might need if things go down the drain (he is talking how-to-books) and should the online world go kaput. David switches to people getting terrorized in some areas, wherein there is an increasing situation of criminals stalking the more affluent (based on what they see and what they drive), and being robed (subways too). This all appears to be gang related. Now if one is caught, sadly it is back to the catch and release program indicative of blue states that kicks in. NY and LA are currently big factors in all this, and it may become much more wide spread. David then gets into Hunter Biden laptop stories - reads articles on this corruption at all levels, however the articles mostly tie to certain Chinese individuals and corporations (not Ukraine). Nothing new for people here, however good he is talking about it.

David next briefly cites Dianne Feinstein (turning 89 in June) being no longer fit to serve, all from an article he reads and there are many articles out there after a quick search. David then jumps to Elon Musk and Twitter, then to opioid overdoes deaths (Fentanyl focus) - with a tie to drugs coming from over the southern boarder. Naturally, this brings up Biden ending the current moratorium, while boarder guards are saying things will triple from today's human traffic - and drug trafficking ties into all of this by gangs on both sides of the fence.

David winds his talk up by switching to Covid mask mandates (planes and trains) set to end, however now it is being pushed ahead into May. This then gets into a discussion on illegal aliens crossing into the U.S. with no vaccinations required et cetera, and yet try going into Canada or from Canada into the U.S. - yeah, right, David says. David ends with "it is all that I'm asking" question, and the questing being "has anyone considered natural immunity?" Preaching to the choir here, however David has a good following and he is making his feelings known.


He’s been doing the factual news segments for a few months now along with missing people. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at what he’s had to say. Somethings I haven’t heard anywhere else, even SOTT.
 
As this missing person in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming , Cian McLaughlin, was born in Dublin and has dual US/Ireland citizenship the story has been followed by the media here. It may be still early to put it into this category but after an intensive search and 38 days later it's beginning to look eerily familiar. "Officials say this case is unusual as it is rare for someone to be missing for so long.
Bold lettering indicates McLaughlin's supposed visual sightings with a Map view.

Published on June 9, 2022, June 9, 2022 By Ellen Fike, Cowboy State Daily
The National Park Service has banned a former Jackson woman from Grand Teton National Park for five years for knowingly providing false information to law enforcement about a missing Irish hiker, officials said Thursday.

The park service said Heather Mycoskie, 40, knowingly provided false information and a false report in the search for missing hiker Cian McLaughlin, who was last seen on June 8, 2021. In addition to her park ban, Mycoskie was ordered to pay $17,600 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Treasury.

An investigation revealed that on June 21, 2021, Mycoskie provided false information to investigators about seeing an individual matching the description of McLaughlin.

As a direct result of Mycoskie’s false report, approximately 532 hours were spent conducting searches, managing search efforts, conducting follow up investigations and completing associated reports.

This wasted valuable time that could have been focused on searching areas of higher probability, according to park officials.

McLaughlin is still missing.

Mycoskie reported she saw McLaughlin in the late afternoon/early evening of June 8, 2021, the day of McLaughlin’s disappearance.

She also told investigators the missing man was hiking on the south side of the Bradley-Taggart moraine in Grand Teton National Park and was headed south towards Taggart Lake where he planned to jump off his favorite rock into the water.

Officials said Mycoskie provided a “very detailed” description of McLaughlin and stated she had a discussion with him in which he shared where he lived, where he was from and his place of employment.

The subsequent investigation revealed Mycoskie never saw anyone matching McLaughlin’s description on June 8, 2021, in Grand Teton National Park. Witnesses reported Mycoskie fabricated the sighting to ensure search efforts continued.

All other reported sightings of McLaughlin were on the trail system that leads towards Garnet Canyon, Surprise and Amphitheater Lakes and Delta Lake, according to NPS officials.

In September 2021, computer forensics revealed McLaughlin had conducted several internet searches focused on Delta Lake just prior to his hike.

Backcountry users in Grand Teton National Park are encouraged to contact the tip line, 888-653-0009, if they locate any of the items that McLaughlin was suspected to have had with him at the time of his disappearance.

These include a red Apple watch, a red iPhone 12 mini, gold wire-rimmed sunglasses, a silver U-shaped pendant and a white t-shirt.

According to an article by the Irish Times, McLaughlin is a Dublin native who works as a snowboard instructor in Jackson. The newspaper also noted his Facebook page said he started working at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in December 2020 and that he previously lived in the French ski resort town of Chamonix.

McLaughlin’s mother visited the park last fall and told an Irish news outlet she was prepared to recover, not rescue, her son.

McLaughlin was the only person who disappeared in the park last summer to not yet be found. Gabby Petito was found in Bridger-Teton National Forest, not far from the park, in mid-September and her death has been ruled a homicide.

Robert Lowery also was last seen in Grand Teton last August, and his body was found in September, as well. His death was ruled a suicide.

By Olivia Kelleher Fri Jun 10 2022 - 11:37
Ms McLaughlin says on this particular trip Cian set out with a bottle of water and was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and a pair of shorts.

“He hadn’t specifically mentioned to anybody that they would go on this trail but [he was] very familiar with this trail and having walked it extensively during the summer and autumn myself it wasn’t a difficult trail at all. It was like the spinc in Glendalough. A very well-marked trail. It was definitely a day hike. Those trails are very doable. You would be up and down in four or five hours. Cian was super-fit and he didn’t have any problem with those trails.”

 

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Kinda old news from end of May, but hadn’t seen this posted anywhere. Thought this thread made the most sense. Apparently “the dead are rising” as Lake Mead’s water line is lowering.

Could the bodies found in Lake Mead be connected to the Chicago mob?

"As we discovered more and more bones and we found a jawbone and we realized this is definitely human, yeah," said Lindsey Melvin.

The other remains were found inside one of the many barrels that have become visible on what used to be the lake bottom.

Investigators said shoes on one skeleton suggest the person, a man, died between the mid-1970s and early 1980s, and had been shot.

Tony Spilotro, the Chicago mob's ruthless emissary to Las Vegas, was killed and buried in an Indiana cornfield during a mob spat more than three decades ago. Now there are questions about whether Spilotro is tied to these mystery bodies.

The body in the barrel was found with a gunshot wound to the head made by a .22 caliber gun.

Seems like the kinda year that Jimmy Hoffa would found, right? đŸ€”

The old saying goes to those who don’t get in line “You’ll be swimming’ with the fishes see
” although the truth rises to the top (or lowered in this case)

Now here’s a recent incident the other day:

Body found at Lake Mead by park rangers | Fox News

The National Park Service (NPS) said Wednesday that a body had been recovered near Lake Mead's Boulder Islands.

An adult woman had gone missing in Nevada's Lake Mead National Recreation Area on June 30, 2022.

Park rangers located and recovered the body with the use of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV).

Later confirmed:


Authorities have confirmed a body recovered at Lake Mead is a Boulder City woman who went missing last week after falling off a jet ski

May not be super-natural but something is rising around Lake Mead it seems😬
 
Also the Kenny Veach story is mentioned. Very unusual... To almost predict your own disappearance _This Man Has Been Missing For Days, But That’s Not The Strangest Part Of This Mystery
A follow-up but with a sad ending of a long-distance hiker Kenny Veach. He vanished on Nov. 10, 2014, on the outskirts of Las Vegas
Nevada in the Mojave Desert while exploring caves, Near Area 51. His experience indicated he was not not your ordinary casual hiker.
hiker. 🧐

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Published October-2019 Occurrence Date November 10, 2014.

Desert hiker goes searching for mysterious cave, leaving more questions than answers.

“That aint nothing. I am a long distance hiker. One time during one of my hikes out by Nellis Air Force Base, I found a hidden cave. The entrance to the cave was shaped like a perfect capital M. I always enter every cave I find, but as I began to enter this particular cave, my whole body began to vibrate. The closer I got to the cave entrance, the worse the vibrating became. Suddenly I became very scared and high-tailed it out of there. That was one of the strangest things that ever happened to me.”

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In late 2014, these words were posted to a YouTube video titled “Son of an Area 51 Technician.” The man behind the screen was Las Vegas resident and avid hiker Kenny Veach, using the screenname snakebitmgee. Unbeknownst to him at the time, his comment would set in motion a series of events that would lead to one of Nevada’s most puzzling urban legends.

Kenny’s comment sparked interest like wildfire. After posting his original comment, several YouTube users encouraged hiker Kenny to seek out the cave and enter again, this time documenting his hike, and providing evidence of his strange discovery. He obliged.


He set off to find the mysterious cave for a second time, armed with a 9-millimeter handgun and a video camera. Upon his return, he posted a video of his discoveries. Much to the dismay of those following his claims, he was unable to locate the cave, and his video didn’t seem to reveal any clues to the mysterious M Cave he had discussed in his original comment.

His video was met with much criticism, and YouTube commenters both encouraged and provoked him to try for a third time to seek out the cave. Kenny again obliged, though one comment would stand out among all the others as an ominous foretelling.

It read, “No! Do not go back there. If you find that cave entrance, don’t go in, you won’t get out.”

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PROPHECY

On Nov. 10, 2014, Kenny set off on his last hike. He told his family he was going for a “short, overnight trip,” though he would never return. His disappearance would soon turn up on a Las Vegas news station, and the search was on.

Kenny was not new to desert hiking or spelunking. He claims to have hiked extensively in the area, even leaving several YouTube comments on the Area 51 video detailing his experience.

“I solo hike across mountain tops that most people wouldn’t dare go. I have been in more caves than I can count. I play with rattlesnakes for fun. But this one particular cave was beyond anything I had ever encountered.”

In another comment, he added, “I have been doing this sort of thing for over 20years. I go where no one goes, and I never take anyone with me. I find skulls of all shapes and sizes, and occasionally I find really old animal traps. I hike over mountain top after mountain top and sleep on peaks under the stars. Sometimes I have to scale giant cliffs to get myself out of a jam, but I always make it back. I’m beat up and tired, and my pack is almost always heavier than when I left. I had to be rescued only one time by a helicopter. I had blown out my left leg at the top of the mountain, and I only had a cup of water left to get me 20 miles back to my truck. It was also over 100 degrees out. So I have a very good safety record.”

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Even with his impressive track record, Kenny was at a disadvantage to the elements. He was drunk with internet courage, searching for an elusive cave, in the Mojave Desert—one of the hottest and driest regions on the planet.

BREAKTHROUGH & BREAKDOWN

In the beginning of the “M Cave Hike” video Kenny posted before his disappearance, he is standing by an abandoned mine shaft, narrating some information about the cave he’s seeking out. It was there, that on Nov. 22, 2014, search and rescue volunteers found Kenny’s cell phone, indicating that he had, in fact, gone out searching for the cave again. An article at News 3 Las Vegas details, “We found his cell phone close to a very vertical old mine shaft and we can’t find another trail,” Red Rock Search & Rescue Commander Dave Cummings told News 3. “It doesn’t mean that he’s down the mine shaft, but we have tracked him as far as we can. We are having our other crews come in from the search areas.”

After his cell phone was found, the trail would unfortunately go cold. Kenny was never found, leading to much speculation on how he died. The mysterious circumstances of his death fueled the internet with conspiracy theories of every shape and color. Had Kenny fallen down a mineshaft? Had he discovered a hidden entrance to Area 51? Had he stumbled upon some great military secret? Was the cave connected to aliens? Or had he simply succumbed to the elements?

The trail ran cold for some time, until a woman claiming to be Kenny’s girlfriend posted the following comment on his “M Cave Hike” video:

“I am the girlfriend that Kenny spoke of in the video. There are so many posts. I had no idea until a friend let me know. So many people are wondering what happened and guessing different things. You are heart felt about the sadness around what has happened with Kenny. He has not been found and I feel that he probably will not be found for many, many months, if ever. I want to share what I know and feel about what happened, so that you might bring some closure and understanding in your own lives. Kenny absolutely loved hiking in the desert. It was his very, very favorite thing to do. We hiked and camped together all over the Nevada desert
sometimes 9 hours in a day. We found many abandoned mining towns, usually referred to as “ghost towns” by Nevada hikers. We explored many caves and mine shafts. We were always careful how we explored them, but Kenny was a bit more daring than I was. We wore snake guards, sun protected clothing, used walking sticks, brought enough water and food for the hiking hours and had extra water/food in the car
I want you to know that I do not think Kenny had an accident. I believe he committed suicide. He battled depression for many years and would not take medication or see a doctor. He quit his job a little more than a year before he disappeared
The search for him was started within a couple days of my call. Over 30 search and rescue team members searched three different times on foot. One helicopter fly over was done and there was no trace of Kenny or any of his camping things. They found his car in the area I told them it would be. They did find his cell phone by the mine shaft in the video. The mine shaft was only about a 4-hour hike from his car. It is my feeling he left it behind so that he could not be tracked from the GPS in it. He also did not take his video camera with him on this solo hike. It was left in his home. So, he had no intention of filming anything.”

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Even with his impressive track record, Kenny was at a disadvantage to the elements. He was drunk with internet courage, searching for an elusive cave, in the Mojave Desert—one of the hottest and driest regions on the planet.

She added:

“I share this with you for two reasons. First, so that you have more of an understanding who Kenny was and to bring some peace or understanding to the situation. Secondly, if any of you do decide to go out into our desert to look for him or the M Cave, be careful and bring enough water and food. Walking sticks are a good idea and not doing a solo hike. Bring a GPS and make sure that you have let family or friends know that you are heading out for the hike and where and when you will be returning. A search really can’t be on a one day hike. You would be repeating much of the same hike
.just getting up the mountain and then be left with not many hours in the day to do the search. You would need 2 or 3 days at a time and in the summer, or even late spring, this can not be done because of the heat of our desert. You would not be able to carry enough water. So, please, please be careful. I had many wonderful experience with Kenny and will always remember them and have a place of love in my heart for him and the wonderful things we did together. I am healing from my loss and look forward to new experiences with desert hiking, camping and taking beautiful pictures of our desert. Enjoy your adventures of life and thank you for the kind loving comments sent my way.”

CLOSURE?

Was that it? Had the mystery of Kenny Veach been solved? Speculation abounds across internet circles. The story has been scrutinized and investigated time and time again, and so far no conclusion has been reached. Some venture to guess that Kenny had, in fact, taken his life, and the woman claiming to be his girlfriend was telling the truth. Others insist that Kenny had gone back and found M Cave again, discovering a dark and dangerous secret that lies within.

You decide.

Update on the M Cave entrance by EAMUP.

A Curious New Development at the M Cave of Kenny Veach
May 17, 2022 Exploring Abandoned Mines and Unusual Places

Something strange and anomalous is going on. My original M Cave video that I published 11 months ago in June 2021 currently has over 916,000 views. Wow! Older M Cave videos from other channels devoted exclusively to researching Kenny Veach and the M Cave mystery all seem to have considerably less views than my single M Cave video. Why is that? My Air Force buddy Don thinks the increased views on my M Cave video are partly the result of government officials, top military brass, and other concerned authorities and agencies becoming very “interested” in my video and what it revealed. While I can’t disclose where I was when I filmed that video 11 months ago, I can report that it was filmed in an area that other M Cave explorers most likely do NOT have access to for one reason or another. Rest assured that I have not yet received any legal threats or inquiries from any law-enforcement department or Department of Defense agency about my video – at least not yet.

So why am I posting a second video? Don went back out there to the M Cave sector this past spring and observed some new developments at what we are certain is the M Cave that Kenny Veach inadvertently stumbled upon. How Kenny made it all the way to this particular geographical location without being detected or accosted by military authorities still baffles Don and me. Kenny truly was a hard-core, elusive hiker! Once I heard about these new developments that Don observed at the cave, I needed to see them for myself and make a video record of them. With Don‘s help, I managed to get back out there to Kenny’s M Cave and observe what has changed since my last visit almost a year ago. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get close to the cave like I did the last time due to reasons that will be shown and explained in this brief video update.

I want to give a big shout out and thank you to Don who has been putting himself and his career on the line by escorting me to the M Cave location. He will continue to monitor the situation, and I'll post updates as they are warranted. Enjoy this follow-up video!ïżŒ

If you haven't yet seen my initial video from a year ago where I entered the M Cave, it's here: https://youtu.be/xv4PsEfXL1E

Here is a link to Kenny Veach's final video in 2014 that he posted right before he disappeared. In this video, he talks about the M Cave and what he experienced there: https://youtu.be/EfdrY-2sROQ

For even more in-depth coverage, review, and analysis of the mystery surrounding Kenny Veach and the M Cave, visit Warlike Wrath's YouTube channel located here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClJb...
 
It appears that the making of this documentary was very difficult. Paulides says in the "background video" (see above post), that "it's like the forces of the world were against this movie coming out, and I don't say it lightly, I mean it seriously".

Sounds very familiar: "something" doesn't want these things to be researched, as we know from e.g. John Keel's experiences, and also many of us forumites have felt "hindrances" (becoming unnaturally tired, etc.) when trying to read and research UFO/paranormal related issues.

It's a heavy (but interesting) subject matter, so I'll end on a lighter note: Dave's dog "Huck" (in the video) is very cute and rather steals the show! đŸ¶:-)
 
It appears that the making of this documentary was very difficult. Paulides says in the "background video" (see above post), that "it's like the forces of the world were against this movie coming out, and I don't say it lightly, I mean it seriously".

Yeah, and halfway between his son took his life. Without further words needed during this particular painful period of production, he then said covid came along, lockdowns et al. - indeed, "forces of the world."

Look forward to watching the whole of it.

Thanks Dave for all you do!
 
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