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- [Simon] Never in my wildest dreams

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did I think when I told Gary
something bad is gonna happen,

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did I think it was gonna be this.

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- [Gal] I can't imagine

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what Gary must have been going through

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and how he must have felt

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being so alone and so far out there.

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- [Beverly] He said
that the longer he stood

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and looked at it,

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the more spooked that he
got the feeling of dread,

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the sixth sense that he
needed to get out of there.

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(thunder roaring)

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(thunder roars)

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(thunder roaring)

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- I first knew something was wrong

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when I was on the phone with my publisher,

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and Simon kept trying to call in.

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And so once I was off the
phone with my publisher,

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I called Simon who's Gary's roommate.

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And he told me that
Gary was two days late.

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That's not Gary,

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you know, Gary,

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would never leave Tuca that long,

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especially knowing that
Simon had to go out of town.

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That's when I knew that
there was something wrong,

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and I needed to get there.

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So I packed up and left Panaca
and headed straight to Ruth.

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I needed to see what was going on

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and make sure that my brother was okay.

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And to take care of Tuca
until he could get back.

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I really thought he would be back.

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- I first met Gary when
they were having an event

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at the Nevada Northern Railway.

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And we both just kind of,
wandered in each other's paths,

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and started talking about trains,

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and, we were both looking
for a place to stay.

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I was trying to find a place for work,

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he was in between places,

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and we kind of just
happened upon this place.

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- The first time I heard
the name, Gary Hinge,

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I believe was when I was working
for the radio station NNN,

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It was um..

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I was an investigative reporter,

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it was my first job right out of the gate,

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and my producer came
to me and he was like,

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we have to cover this,

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I think it's a good
idea for us to do this,

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because the TV stations, the news,

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had stopped recording on it.

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And so this was a way
for us to get exclusives

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and to keep the story going.

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Because according to everyone
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and reporting about it,
it had just gone cold.

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- If you want me to
describe my brother Gary,

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the best way to describe him is,

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if there was a little lady that said,

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can you please watch my purse,

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no matter where they were at,

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Gary would sit there and
he would watch her purse

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and make sure that it was
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That was just the type
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he was trustworthy and amazing.

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Amazing.

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- So Gary loved the outdoors,

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I mean, he was the king of outdoors.

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Let's just say that.

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And I think a lot of people
were really envious of him.

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Like he lived this
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that I think, those who
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stuck behind a desk,

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I think, really admired that about him.

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- Super smart, but definitely private,

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he kind of just kept to himself.

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then he was working on his model railroad.

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yeah, just really kept
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making his videos.

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Super funny, though (chuckles slightly)

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definitely could make you laugh

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with a couple of his one liners.

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- I started to learn
more about who Gary was.

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that he was an extremely
highly intelligent man.

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He's one of those people that was so smart

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that kind of had a hard time
connecting with other people.

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So he mostly just kind
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and yeah, fascinating.

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The more I found out about him,

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the more I wanted to keep
finding out about, who is Gary?

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Gary had found his dream job,

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being such an avid outdoors man,

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he started to work for a startup
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they map out really remote
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So they track wildlife, weather, terrain,

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and I mean, Gary was in heaven doing this.

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- He loved to be by himself
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he loved hiking,

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and being adventurous,

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any train, he was drawn
to, he loved trains.

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- [Gary] Hey guys filming
another little YouTube video,

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at one of my favorite places.

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If I had more time I would
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but this is the Nevada Northern
Railway Museum, here in Ely.

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And it's kind of an old little copper mine

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just preserved and left.

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They do some cool stuff, though,

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like you can sleep in this
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the big copper mine in the area,

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right outside my home in Ruth.

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It's kind of a neat
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they just kind of let you walk around.

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And you know how much I love
trains on top of hiking,

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gotta do something in the winter time

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and you can't be outside as much.

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- So I was really excited
to take on this story,

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seeing that it was my first story.

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And it also took place

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in this tiny little town called Ruth.

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And so I grabbed the phone book,
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And I wanted to talk to
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that would talk to me.

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- I first knew something was off

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when he asked me to watch his dog Tuca

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before he went out on one of his trips.

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And he never leaves Tuca.

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He always takes the dog with him,

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so I thought that was kind of weird.

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And he was acting super stressed out

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even keeping to himself even more.

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When he didn't come back after two days,

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I thought that was really strange.

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I had a flight to catch,

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so I just called Beverly to get the dog.

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- After I got off the phone with Simon,

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I tried Gary, and there was no answer,

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so I hurried and left and
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And it's only a couple hours away,

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so when I got there,

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Simon and Tuca were
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Simon really needed to get
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so I asked him where Gary had gone to,

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and Simon didn't know, his
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he just knew that he was on an expedition.

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To me that wasn't right,

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so I tried Gary a couple of more times,

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and all it did was go to voicemail

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and something was definitely wrong.

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And so I called the police and waited.

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- So I got Beverley's phone number,

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and this is the only time
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And she was pretty angry with me,

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once I told her that I was a reporter.

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And she did not want to
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or our show, which I thought
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because, the news stations,

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they had stopped recording on this,

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and we were the only ones doing anything,

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and I thought this is a way
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I don't understand why

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you don't want to give me the time or day,

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but she didn't, and she quickly hung up.

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And that was the only time
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- Gary became so obsessed
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he would watch the Discovery Channel,

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he would watch YouTube,

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he would study it and find
the most remote places,

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no cell service, no provisions of any kind

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other than what he took.

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And it used to scare
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I mean, I was petrified for him,

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and I would worry so much.

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it was Gary.

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- [Gary] So guys, I'm here hiking around,

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and this is one of the cool secrets

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I have in the wilds in Nevada

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is this cemetery from the
late 1800s old mining camp,

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but I won't disclose the
name for safety reasons.

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Don't want anyone getting lost out here,

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but you can see all these
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unmarked graves with no names now.

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Give you an idea of
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is that mountain way over there

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is my truck's on the other side of it.

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So hiked over that mountain

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and I'm way out this
way now, hiking around.

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- I wouldn't say what
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These were multiple day,
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- In the beginning, what gave me hope

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was the fact that when
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much, much younger, like second grade,

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we all went camping, and Gary
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And we searched for him
and searched for him,

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and we were all so worried, mom
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I was terrified.

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We didn't wanna leave the mountain

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to go and get cell service or anything,

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we just went looking for him.

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And we looked for him all night.

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And the next morning we came
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thinking, we're gonna tell them look,

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keep an eye out for this second grader,

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this second grader that was missing

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and we walk up and there
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playing with the animals.

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He'd known that if he got
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he would be okay,

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that mom and dad would
come and look for him.

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And he was so resilient, it
was in him, second nature.

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- So after speaking to a
bunch of people in Ruth,

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I started to learn a little
bit more about Beverly

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and Beverly's relationship
with Gary in the past.

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So she had a lot of anger towards Gary.

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She really blamed him
for their parents' death.

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And then when their parents did pass away,

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she was stuck, still raising Gary

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and so she held quite a lot
of resentment against him.

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- Well, I was mad at
Gary when mom dad died,

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they were out on a fishing trip

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and mom and dad liked to
do some night fishing.

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And so they went out
and did hang the lantern

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where they could see it,

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so they could get back to shore safely,

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back to camp without hitting any rocks.

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Old Gary decided

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that he was gonna go
hunting frogs and everything

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and so, and he went exploring.

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And while he's out there
he hung the lantern up,

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so that he could see what he was doing.

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Meanwhile, mom and dad

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decided that they were gonna come back in

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and call it a night.

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So they headed for the lantern.

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Not knowing that Gary had
moved it while he was exploring

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and so they followed the light.

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And, it was the wrong spot.

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They didn't make it back
because they hit the rocks,

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and had Gary not hang the
lantern up where he was at

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and left it where it needed to be,

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there wouldn't have been any problems.

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- I just felt super bad for Beverly.

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You know, I could just hear her

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inside Gary's room, sobbing.

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- You know, you're really
making me miss my brother, Gary.

256
00:15:55,936 --> 00:15:57,938
(sentimental music)

257
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- [Gal] Kept hearing people
refer to Gary as a hiker.

258
00:16:14,830 --> 00:16:18,583
And in my opinion, I don't
really think that's correct.

259
00:16:18,583 --> 00:16:22,170
Because, to me, Gary's
more of a survivalist,

260
00:16:22,170 --> 00:16:27,175
he would go out into the
wilderness for a week or two on end

261
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with just a backpack.

262
00:16:29,219 --> 00:16:32,597
He's kind of like the
MacGyver of the wilderness,

263
00:16:32,597 --> 00:16:37,269
just to survive and live off of the land,

264
00:16:37,269 --> 00:16:39,771
and filter his on water.

265
00:16:39,771 --> 00:16:42,065
So, to hear them just be like,

266
00:16:42,065 --> 00:16:44,359
oh, he's just a hiker gone missing.

267
00:16:44,359 --> 00:16:45,485
He's not.

268
00:16:45,485 --> 00:16:47,571
- When Gary and I first
started living together,

269
00:16:47,571 --> 00:16:50,949
I actually went out with
him on one of these things.

270
00:16:50,949 --> 00:16:55,787
And I just kept telling myself
the entire time, never again.

271
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Gary wouldn't let us bring
enough food or water,

272
00:16:59,332 --> 00:17:02,544
and it was the most miserable experience.

273
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The one thing I did like about it

274
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was we kept on finding these 1800's

275
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abandoned mining kind of structures,

276
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which was super cool.

277
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- This wasn't a normal search and rescue.

278
00:17:18,060 --> 00:17:23,064
Because, Gary didn't tell
anybody where he was going

279
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on his excursion.

280
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And he would go really
deep into the wilderness,

281
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and he'd be gone for a week or so,

282
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so no one had any idea
where to even start looking.

283
00:17:35,952 --> 00:17:40,540
And so police decided the best way,

284
00:17:40,540 --> 00:17:41,875
or the only thing they could think of

285
00:17:41,875 --> 00:17:44,961
was to maybe check his cell phone,

286
00:17:44,961 --> 00:17:48,340
and his cell phone pings in which tower.

287
00:17:48,340 --> 00:17:51,635
And it looked to be as he
had turned his cell phone off

288
00:17:51,635 --> 00:17:54,012
shortly after leaving his home.

289
00:17:54,971 --> 00:17:56,973
- When Beverly showed up to get the dog.

290
00:17:58,225 --> 00:18:02,145
Yeah, I regret that now, I
kind of lashed out at her.

291
00:18:04,523 --> 00:18:07,150
- I was so put off when I got to town,

292
00:18:07,150 --> 00:18:11,363
and he was so antsy to get out of there.

293
00:18:11,363 --> 00:18:14,991
And, being my brother's roommate,

294
00:18:14,991 --> 00:18:17,327
not even asking where he was gonna be,

295
00:18:17,327 --> 00:18:19,913
or, if there was gonna,

296
00:18:19,913 --> 00:18:23,166
you know any issue that
might set up a red flag

297
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if he didn't come home.

298
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He had his dog and everything,

299
00:18:26,419 --> 00:18:28,964
and he knew he needed to be out of town.

300
00:18:29,965 --> 00:18:33,093
I just didn't,

301
00:18:33,093 --> 00:18:34,636
I didn't feel right about it,

302
00:18:34,636 --> 00:18:35,846
it just didn't feel right.

303
00:18:35,846 --> 00:18:39,224
And, a week or so before
that, Gary had confided in me

304
00:18:39,224 --> 00:18:42,310
that him and Simon weren't
getting along very well,

305
00:18:42,310 --> 00:18:45,438
and so he wanted to move out.

306
00:18:45,438 --> 00:18:49,776
And so I just,

307
00:18:49,776 --> 00:18:53,655
it just didn't feel right,
so I let the cops know.

308
00:18:53,655 --> 00:18:56,199
You know, I just don't trust him,

309
00:18:56,199 --> 00:19:00,704
there's just something to
not be concerned at all,

310
00:19:00,704 --> 00:19:02,747
where your roommate's gonna be.

311
00:19:02,747 --> 00:19:07,210
And more worried about getting on a plane,

312
00:19:07,210 --> 00:19:11,381
than somebody missing that's
supposed to be your friend,

313
00:19:11,381 --> 00:19:12,549
close to you?

314
00:19:13,925 --> 00:19:14,759
No.

315
00:19:16,428 --> 00:19:17,470
- We never talked about that,

316
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he never told me where
he went hiking, ever,

317
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he never mentioned it.

318
00:19:21,183 --> 00:19:23,143
And even if we did talk about it,

319
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I'm pretty sure he probably
wouldn't have told me, so.

320
00:19:27,397 --> 00:19:29,691
But at the beginning, I understood

321
00:19:29,691 --> 00:19:31,610
she needed someone to point the finger at

322
00:19:31,610 --> 00:19:35,071
and she was super upset, understandably.

323
00:19:35,071 --> 00:19:39,367
But after some time, it
just kind of got old,

324
00:19:39,367 --> 00:19:43,580
so I called her and I now told her that,

325
00:19:43,580 --> 00:19:47,000
there's no way I would have
known and just by the way,

326
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,586
you're his sister, so why didn't you know?

327
00:19:50,921 --> 00:19:53,465
- When I first reported Gary missing,

328
00:19:53,465 --> 00:19:55,508
the police were wonderful,

329
00:19:55,508 --> 00:20:00,138
they were really on top
of it, they did an APB,

330
00:20:00,138 --> 00:20:03,183
be on the lookout for his truck, himself,

331
00:20:04,017 --> 00:20:08,146
Park Rangers, Fish and Game, everything.

332
00:20:08,146 --> 00:20:09,564
You know, we live in a small town,

333
00:20:09,564 --> 00:20:11,650
people don't go missing all the time.

334
00:20:11,650 --> 00:20:14,027
And so this was a big deal,

335
00:20:14,027 --> 00:20:17,364
and they really took it seriously,

336
00:20:17,364 --> 00:20:19,366
they had it everywhere.

337
00:20:21,034 --> 00:20:23,078
I was embarrassed that I didn't know

338
00:20:23,078 --> 00:20:26,665
exactly where he was at,
you know, I'm his sister,

339
00:20:28,208 --> 00:20:29,417
I should have known.

340
00:20:33,380 --> 00:20:34,506
I should have known.

341
00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,762
(sentimental music)

342
00:20:58,071 --> 00:21:02,784
- [Simon] My first thought when
I heard he was missing was,

343
00:21:04,953 --> 00:21:08,999
oh, it'd be near impossible to find him.

344
00:21:10,875 --> 00:21:15,463
Either, he finally just injured himself,

345
00:21:15,463 --> 00:21:18,425
or maybe he had eaten something

346
00:21:19,843 --> 00:21:22,512
that he didn't know was
gonna make him so sick.

347
00:21:26,975 --> 00:21:29,227
- It'd been two days since
I'd reported the missing

348
00:21:29,227 --> 00:21:33,440
and I hadn't slept more than
10 to 15 minutes at a time.

349
00:21:35,191 --> 00:21:38,611
I had people calling and were so concerned

350
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and wanted to know where
to start looking for him.

351
00:21:42,157 --> 00:21:44,242
But not knowing where he was at,

352
00:21:44,242 --> 00:21:46,244
where would I have them look?

353
00:21:48,204 --> 00:21:52,375
And then the phone call came,
they'd found Gary's truck.

354
00:21:53,543 --> 00:21:55,545
(ominous music)

355
00:22:14,689 --> 00:22:17,484
(thunder roaring)

356
00:22:23,323 --> 00:22:25,950
And I got such a sinking feeling,

357
00:22:25,950 --> 00:22:28,286
such a sick to my stomach feeling

358
00:22:28,286 --> 00:22:32,665
that this was now very real.

359
00:22:32,665 --> 00:22:35,335
(thunder roars)

360
00:22:39,756 --> 00:22:41,966
After the cops called in,

361
00:22:42,842 --> 00:22:44,177
and let me know that
they'd found this truck,

362
00:22:44,177 --> 00:22:47,138
they came and picked me
up and took me to it.

363
00:22:47,138 --> 00:22:50,558
It was about 55 miles out of town,

364
00:22:50,558 --> 00:22:53,937
and we got there and seeing his truck,

365
00:22:55,063 --> 00:22:58,316
I was so hopeful, you know, thinking,

366
00:22:59,776 --> 00:23:01,986
he probably fell,

367
00:23:01,986 --> 00:23:04,489
maybe broke an ankle, stuck in a ravine,

368
00:23:04,489 --> 00:23:05,740
can't get himself out.

369
00:23:05,740 --> 00:23:08,743
But I had hope.

370
00:23:08,743 --> 00:23:13,248
I really had hope that we
were gonna find him okay.

371
00:23:13,248 --> 00:23:16,584
- It just wasn't in a place
where Gary would have left it.

372
00:23:17,544 --> 00:23:19,587
Like it wasn't in a spot where he wanted,

373
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which he would wanna go to explore.

374
00:23:24,134 --> 00:23:25,760
- While I was sitting there,

375
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,972
watching them process Gary's
truck, I was looking around,

376
00:23:31,975 --> 00:23:34,811
this wasn't Gary,

377
00:23:35,728 --> 00:23:40,733
he loved to explore vast
forests, rocky hills,

378
00:23:43,111 --> 00:23:48,116
beauty, not just a rolling hill of dirt.

379
00:23:49,033 --> 00:23:53,705
It just, something wasn't right.

380
00:23:53,705 --> 00:23:56,457
(gunshot blasts)

381
00:24:02,172 --> 00:24:04,924
(gunshot blasts)

382
00:24:06,885 --> 00:24:09,846
(car engine roaring)

383
00:24:09,846 --> 00:24:11,848
- I'm a private investigator.

384
00:24:11,848 --> 00:24:15,602
I was hired by Beverly shortly
after Gary's truck was found.

385
00:24:17,687 --> 00:24:20,440
The High Desert as you can see,

386
00:24:24,652 --> 00:24:26,571
it's very beautiful,

387
00:24:26,571 --> 00:24:31,576
it's very majestic, has mountains,
valleys, plains, forests,

388
00:24:32,327 --> 00:24:34,078
it has it all.

389
00:24:34,078 --> 00:24:37,582
But it's also quite dangerous
and very unforgiving.

390
00:24:37,582 --> 00:24:40,168
- So after Gary's truck was found,

391
00:24:41,503 --> 00:24:45,340
a search began and people really rallied.

392
00:24:45,882 --> 00:24:47,884
(upbeat music)

393
00:24:48,843 --> 00:24:49,761
- [Bill] Gary went missing

394
00:24:49,761 --> 00:24:52,263
in the hottest part of the summer.

395
00:24:52,263 --> 00:24:55,975
And what we see most of the
time in disappearance like his

396
00:24:55,975 --> 00:25:00,813
is people suffering from heatstroke,

397
00:25:00,813 --> 00:25:04,359
dehydration, sometimes even injury.

398
00:25:06,819 --> 00:25:08,321
- [Beverly] People started showing up

399
00:25:08,321 --> 00:25:11,199
and then more people started showing up,

400
00:25:11,199 --> 00:25:14,285
and next thing I know,
it's a whole whirlwind,

401
00:25:14,285 --> 00:25:18,915
there were people there
that I didn't know,

402
00:25:20,375 --> 00:25:22,043
that Gary didn't know,

403
00:25:22,043 --> 00:25:24,963
there were people bringing drones,

404
00:25:24,963 --> 00:25:26,714
all kinds of search and rescue.

405
00:25:26,714 --> 00:25:30,051
It was the most humbling experience

406
00:25:30,051 --> 00:25:35,056
to know that these strangers
were out there helping

407
00:25:35,265 --> 00:25:39,227
to try to find my brother
and bring him home.

408
00:25:40,979 --> 00:25:42,981
(intense music)

409
00:25:52,031 --> 00:25:55,868
- So once Gary's truck
was found, Beverly was,

410
00:25:57,287 --> 00:25:59,080
let's just say she was very vocal

411
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,583
about how the truck seemed to be parked

412
00:26:02,583 --> 00:26:04,294
in a suspicious location,

413
00:26:04,294 --> 00:26:05,628
like she was just convinced

414
00:26:05,628 --> 00:26:08,214
that her brother had not parked it there,

415
00:26:08,214 --> 00:26:10,008
her brother wouldn't park it there,

416
00:26:10,008 --> 00:26:12,802
and she would not stop talking about it.

417
00:26:13,761 --> 00:26:17,974
So the cops eventually looked into this.

418
00:26:17,974 --> 00:26:19,684
- The clock was ticking.

419
00:26:19,684 --> 00:26:22,979
They very much needed to find
Gary as soon as possible.

420
00:26:23,855 --> 00:26:27,900
Beverly, on the other hand,
was very much in their way.

421
00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:32,905
She was in the way, and she
was really messing things up.

422
00:26:33,531 --> 00:26:36,117
- Searching the high desert isn't easy,

423
00:26:36,117 --> 00:26:37,452
I mean, it's not an easy task.

424
00:26:37,452 --> 00:26:38,369
People think it is,

425
00:26:38,369 --> 00:26:40,955
people think you can just get
up in the air in a helicopter

426
00:26:40,955 --> 00:26:45,960
and fly around and look at
the ground and see someone,

427
00:26:46,586 --> 00:26:51,174
but once you're on the ground,
there's abandoned mines,

428
00:26:51,174 --> 00:26:53,676
there's bushes and tree cover.

429
00:26:53,676 --> 00:26:56,262
And it's super difficult.

430
00:26:56,262 --> 00:27:00,141
So finding someone, it's not
easy as people think it is.

431
00:27:01,517 --> 00:27:03,269
- [Gary] Oh my god, sheep.

432
00:27:03,269 --> 00:27:04,103
(sheep bleating)

433
00:27:04,103 --> 00:27:05,647
Hi sheep.

434
00:27:05,647 --> 00:27:06,731
Look at all the sheep.

435
00:27:07,690 --> 00:27:09,400
Sheep are a lot nicer than people.

436
00:27:10,985 --> 00:27:11,819
(sheep bleating)

437
00:27:11,819 --> 00:27:13,154
(feet rustling)

438
00:27:13,154 --> 00:27:14,113
Hey little sheep,

439
00:27:15,698 --> 00:27:16,741
look at all you guys.

440
00:27:17,909 --> 00:27:19,869
(sheep bleating)

441
00:27:19,869 --> 00:27:23,956
Roaming the land, doing
what you need to do.

442
00:27:23,956 --> 00:27:26,793
(ground rustling)

443
00:27:28,628 --> 00:27:30,713
Jeez, they all ran away from me.

444
00:27:30,713 --> 00:27:32,507
Can't even make friends with sheep.

445
00:27:32,507 --> 00:27:35,927
(sheep bleating)

446
00:27:35,927 --> 00:27:40,223
- The officers didn't want me
to participate in the search.

447
00:27:43,017 --> 00:27:46,938
They thought it was best that
I stay home at Gary's place

448
00:27:46,938 --> 00:27:51,943
in case he tried to contact
me, call or show up.

449
00:27:52,902 --> 00:27:56,197
- I was very much familiar
with the lead investigator.

450
00:27:56,197 --> 00:27:57,990
We had worked together before,

451
00:27:57,990 --> 00:28:00,410
and we were definitely
familiar with each other.

452
00:28:01,661 --> 00:28:04,163
I called him to kind of check up on things

453
00:28:04,163 --> 00:28:08,042
and see where the
investigation was headed,

454
00:28:08,042 --> 00:28:10,795
and if they had any new information.

455
00:28:10,795 --> 00:28:13,756
He told me that they had made
a discovery in the truck.

456
00:28:14,257 --> 00:28:16,259
(ominous music)

457
00:28:23,850 --> 00:28:27,353
But since I was not
formally hired by Beverley,

458
00:28:27,353 --> 00:28:30,064
I had to contact her first

459
00:28:30,064 --> 00:28:32,567
before they would discuss
the matter with me.

460
00:28:34,193 --> 00:28:38,406
- I was hopeful that they had good news,

461
00:28:40,366 --> 00:28:45,371
that the officer asked me
if Gary had any enemies,

462
00:28:45,913 --> 00:28:50,042
or if I knew anybody
that may wanna hurt him.

463
00:28:52,628 --> 00:28:54,672
I asked the officer why,

464
00:28:56,215 --> 00:28:57,175
why would he,

465
00:28:58,050 --> 00:28:59,260
why would he ask that.

466
00:28:59,260 --> 00:29:04,265
And in confidence, they told
me that they had evidence

467
00:29:07,852 --> 00:29:12,732
that Gary did not drive
his truck out there.

468
00:29:14,609 --> 00:29:16,611
(droning music)

469
00:29:27,079 --> 00:29:28,706
- So I waited a couple of hours

470
00:29:28,706 --> 00:29:31,751
and went over to Gary's house
where Beverly was staying,

471
00:29:31,751 --> 00:29:34,629
and she was absolutely hysterical.

472
00:29:34,629 --> 00:29:37,423
She told me that the
police had informed her

473
00:29:37,423 --> 00:29:42,011
that in Gary's truck they
had discovered prints

474
00:29:42,887 --> 00:29:47,892
on top of Gary's all over,
on top of the steering wheel,

475
00:29:48,017 --> 00:29:50,728
the dashboard, the gear

476
00:29:50,728 --> 00:29:55,733
and what was most surprising or alarming

477
00:29:56,025 --> 00:30:01,030
was that they discovered
footprints, bare footprints,

478
00:30:01,697 --> 00:30:06,702
and they were scarred and unidentifiable,

479
00:30:07,829 --> 00:30:10,540
which even added more to the mystery.

480
00:30:12,208 --> 00:30:14,210
(mystery music)

481
00:30:18,381 --> 00:30:19,799
- The footprint was,

482
00:30:22,468 --> 00:30:26,514
he said that it was barefoot.

483
00:30:35,189 --> 00:30:40,111
- So someone drove Gary's truck barefoot.

484
00:30:41,654 --> 00:30:44,156
And it just doesn't sit well with me,

485
00:30:44,156 --> 00:30:46,576
because it's like, what happened?

486
00:30:46,576 --> 00:30:49,161
Why was this person not wearing shoes?

487
00:30:50,746 --> 00:30:51,956
What was going on?

488
00:30:51,956 --> 00:30:54,083
Like, it's just odd,

489
00:30:54,083 --> 00:30:56,419
and it's very,

490
00:30:56,419 --> 00:30:59,213
I don't know, it's just,

491
00:31:00,256 --> 00:31:01,966
it made my skin crawl.

492
00:31:01,966 --> 00:31:03,843
(feet rustling)

493
00:31:03,843 --> 00:31:06,304
- [Gary] Oh, look at the little baby deer.

494
00:31:06,304 --> 00:31:09,181
That's kind of cool to see,
you don't see that too often.

495
00:31:21,736 --> 00:31:24,989
(train engine roaring)

496
00:31:30,077 --> 00:31:33,164
(train hooting)

497
00:31:33,164 --> 00:31:36,417
(train engine roaring)

498
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,385
- You know, I hadn't been
sleeping and everything,

499
00:31:46,385 --> 00:31:49,180
and my mind was just reeling,

500
00:31:50,681 --> 00:31:52,350
I had a lot of things
going through my head,

501
00:31:52,350 --> 00:31:53,768
different scenarios.

502
00:31:55,186 --> 00:31:57,146
Maybe he picked up a friend?

503
00:31:58,939 --> 00:32:02,193
Maybe somebody stole his
truck while he was out hiking?

504
00:32:03,152 --> 00:32:06,656
Or maybe he picked up a hitchhiker,

505
00:32:06,656 --> 00:32:11,661
and the hitchhiker had
done something to him.

506
00:32:16,207 --> 00:32:17,500
I don't know, at this point,

507
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:20,086
so many things were just
going through my head,

508
00:32:20,086 --> 00:32:24,215
just over and over again,

509
00:32:24,215 --> 00:32:28,803
which didn't help me try to get any sleep.

510
00:32:28,803 --> 00:32:33,808
(train engine roaring)
(train hooting)

511
00:32:39,855 --> 00:32:43,442
- So Beverly, still
wanted me to vet out Simon

512
00:32:43,442 --> 00:32:47,321
because she still thought
he was very suspicious.

513
00:32:47,321 --> 00:32:48,531
And I did too.

514
00:32:48,531 --> 00:32:49,573
I looked into him again,

515
00:32:49,573 --> 00:32:54,161
and lo and behold, he was
ruled out as a suspect.

516
00:32:55,413 --> 00:32:57,248
But through that process,

517
00:32:57,248 --> 00:33:01,085
I actually learned that
Gary had been talking

518
00:33:01,085 --> 00:33:03,921
to someone that he met on
a Facebook Messenger group.

519
00:33:05,214 --> 00:33:07,425
They had been corresponding
with each other

520
00:33:07,425 --> 00:33:09,969
through a local sellers group,

521
00:33:09,969 --> 00:33:13,347
and I guess they had been
commenting on each other's posts

522
00:33:13,347 --> 00:33:14,515
and one thing led to another

523
00:33:14,515 --> 00:33:18,227
and they became more than friends.

524
00:33:19,311 --> 00:33:24,275
When I confronted this person,
he was very much terrified,

525
00:33:24,650 --> 00:33:25,735
didn't wanna talk to me,

526
00:33:25,735 --> 00:33:27,111
didn't wanna have anything to do with me

527
00:33:27,111 --> 00:33:28,112
or the investigation.

528
00:33:28,112 --> 00:33:29,864
And I told him, if you don't talk to me,

529
00:33:29,864 --> 00:33:31,490
you're gonna have to talk to the cops,

530
00:33:31,490 --> 00:33:33,492
and they're gonna really bust your ass.

531
00:33:33,492 --> 00:33:35,327
And I think he was terrified

532
00:33:35,327 --> 00:33:37,038
of being outed in this community,

533
00:33:38,247 --> 00:33:42,960
because it's such a small
town, not a lot of gay people.

534
00:33:43,836 --> 00:33:46,881
And so he did talk to me, he told me that,

535
00:33:46,881 --> 00:33:50,009
he didn't have anything to
do with Gary's disappearance.

536
00:33:50,009 --> 00:33:54,555
He was sad and upset that
Gary had disappeared,

537
00:33:54,555 --> 00:33:57,099
he didn't know what happened to him.

538
00:33:57,099 --> 00:33:58,559
I guess I did believe him.

539
00:33:59,769 --> 00:34:01,604
He really didn't wanna discuss it,

540
00:34:01,604 --> 00:34:04,398
but ultimately, when I
did check out his alibi,

541
00:34:04,398 --> 00:34:07,234
he was cleared as a suspect.

542
00:34:07,234 --> 00:34:08,527
(sheep bleating)

543
00:34:08,527 --> 00:34:11,363
(ground rustling)

544
00:34:12,740 --> 00:34:15,659
- Hey guys, now that I'm
done chasing sheep around

545
00:34:15,659 --> 00:34:17,745
like a crazy person in the mountains.

546
00:34:18,788 --> 00:34:21,248
I've seen a lot out here, mining camps,

547
00:34:21,248 --> 00:34:26,253
mines, abandoned towns,
buildings, remnants of the past,

548
00:34:26,712 --> 00:34:29,256
but the coolest and my
favorite personally,

549
00:34:29,256 --> 00:34:31,759
is all the Native American remnants,

550
00:34:31,759 --> 00:34:33,427
I love finding arrowheads

551
00:34:33,427 --> 00:34:36,764
and seeing petroglyphs on mountain sides.

552
00:34:36,764 --> 00:34:39,558
Just old writing from the native people

553
00:34:39,558 --> 00:34:43,145
who lived here long before
any settlers moved in.

554
00:34:43,145 --> 00:34:45,272
To me, that's the coolest stuff to see.

555
00:34:45,272 --> 00:34:47,525
But it's getting dark
now, the sun's setting

556
00:34:47,525 --> 00:34:50,444
I think I'm gonna call it
a night and get settled in,

557
00:34:50,444 --> 00:34:51,403
in my camp.

558
00:34:51,403 --> 00:34:53,280
(ground rustling)

559
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,659
- They were still processing
the crime scene and everything

560
00:34:56,659 --> 00:35:01,664
and they came across an
envelope in his center console,

561
00:35:02,790 --> 00:35:04,792
it had a (muffled speaking) money in it.

562
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,965
To me that said that whoever he was with,

563
00:35:11,590 --> 00:35:15,177
wasn't there to take his money

564
00:35:15,177 --> 00:35:17,805
or anything that he might have had.

565
00:35:21,267 --> 00:35:23,269
(sentimental music)

566
00:35:35,698 --> 00:35:39,869
I woke to the police
officers knocking on my door.

567
00:35:43,914 --> 00:35:47,001
And they were informing me that
they called off the search.

568
00:35:48,252 --> 00:35:50,713
And while they're explaining things to me,

569
00:35:52,047 --> 00:35:53,424
I'm seeing them talking,

570
00:35:56,385 --> 00:35:58,178
I'm not comprehending any of the it,

571
00:36:01,140 --> 00:36:03,309
everything was just kind of flashing.

572
00:36:03,309 --> 00:36:07,897
And, I'm seeing their faces,
and I'm seeing their lips move,

573
00:36:07,897 --> 00:36:10,774
and then they're looking
at me like I'm crazy.

574
00:36:11,901 --> 00:36:15,654
And next thing I know, I'm on a stretcher.

575
00:36:15,654 --> 00:36:20,618
(heart throbbing)
(beep sounds)

576
00:36:22,995 --> 00:36:28,000
And taken to the ER where
they had to give me hydration

577
00:36:29,251 --> 00:36:34,256
and IV with fluids and
medicine that helped me sleep,

578
00:36:36,383 --> 00:36:40,804
and for the first time
since all of this started,

579
00:36:41,722 --> 00:36:43,807
I got 10 hours of sleep.

580
00:36:44,683 --> 00:36:47,478
- This was the largest search and rescue

581
00:36:47,478 --> 00:36:49,605
that Nevada had ever seen.

582
00:36:49,605 --> 00:36:53,609
And when they finally called it off,

583
00:36:53,609 --> 00:36:55,986
everyone was just so shocked.

584
00:36:55,986 --> 00:36:59,865
But, you mean, you can't search
the entire state of Nevada,

585
00:36:59,865 --> 00:37:02,201
it's just too vast, it's too broad,

586
00:37:02,201 --> 00:37:07,164
and it had been so long that
the chances of finding him

587
00:37:07,164 --> 00:37:11,293
and finding him alive were slim to none.

588
00:37:11,293 --> 00:37:13,587
- The investigation was dead in the water,

589
00:37:13,587 --> 00:37:15,589
we didn't have any leads,

590
00:37:15,589 --> 00:37:18,592
the fingerprints in the truck
didn't match any database,

591
00:37:18,592 --> 00:37:20,844
so we didn't know what to do.

592
00:37:20,844 --> 00:37:21,679
But then.

593
00:37:22,721 --> 00:37:24,723
(intense music)

594
00:37:28,936 --> 00:37:30,688
Gary's followers started calling.

595
00:37:35,943 --> 00:37:38,320
And this whole thing
was turned on its head.

596
00:37:40,781 --> 00:37:42,074
- So I'm at my desk,

597
00:37:42,074 --> 00:37:44,159
and I'm going through the show notes,

598
00:37:44,159 --> 00:37:45,494
I'm getting ready to go on air

599
00:37:45,494 --> 00:37:47,621
and my producer comes through
my door, and he's like,

600
00:37:47,621 --> 00:37:50,958
you have a phone call, you
have to take this phone call.

601
00:37:50,958 --> 00:37:54,795
And I get on the phone, and
it's one of our listeners.

602
00:37:54,795 --> 00:37:59,341
And he's telling me that I
have to look into Gary's blog.

603
00:37:59,341 --> 00:38:03,804
He's going on and on about
this crazy story about Gary,

604
00:38:03,804 --> 00:38:08,058
and he's telling me that he
thinks he knows where he is,

605
00:38:08,058 --> 00:38:11,270
he thinks he knows what happened to him.

606
00:38:11,270 --> 00:38:15,733
And that I have to go and
look at this blog right now.

607
00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:18,360
- My friend Monica calls me

608
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,530
and tells me that it's all over the news

609
00:38:21,530 --> 00:38:26,535
that all these people are
calling into the radio station.

610
00:38:26,910 --> 00:38:31,123
And she tells me that they're
talking about Gary's blog

611
00:38:31,123 --> 00:38:34,001
and the fact that it needs to be read

612
00:38:34,001 --> 00:38:35,961
and that there's comments and everything.

613
00:38:35,961 --> 00:38:40,174
And so once I got discharged,

614
00:38:40,174 --> 00:38:41,675
I went straight to Gary's house,

615
00:38:41,675 --> 00:38:45,179
so I could read the blog
and see what all this was

616
00:38:45,179 --> 00:38:47,181
that they were talking about.

617
00:38:47,181 --> 00:38:49,725
- Unfortunately, Beverly
found out about Gary's blog

618
00:38:49,725 --> 00:38:53,270
hours before we did, and
she went right over there,

619
00:38:53,270 --> 00:38:55,439
and really messed things up.

620
00:38:55,439 --> 00:38:57,983
- Hey guys, it's me again.

621
00:38:57,983 --> 00:38:59,818
A lot of people have
been following the blog

622
00:38:59,818 --> 00:39:01,695
and new to the blog and been saying,

623
00:39:01,695 --> 00:39:04,782
I'm just trying to copy
"Naked and Afraid".

624
00:39:04,782 --> 00:39:08,369
And as you can tell, I'm not
naked or afraid out here,

625
00:39:08,369 --> 00:39:10,537
so I'm not trying to copy the show and,

626
00:39:11,663 --> 00:39:14,875
also my ex loved that
show, so I'm sick of it,

627
00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:17,669
there's a reason why
people are called exes.

628
00:39:17,669 --> 00:39:20,381
- So while I'm trying to
navigate through everything

629
00:39:20,381 --> 00:39:22,424
on his blog,

630
00:39:22,424 --> 00:39:24,802
going through the operator
stuff and everything

631
00:39:24,802 --> 00:39:31,183
and I finally get in there
and I realize he has 50,000,

632
00:39:32,726 --> 00:39:34,394
50,000 viewers.

633
00:39:37,147 --> 00:39:39,066
I was shocked.

634
00:39:39,066 --> 00:39:42,653
- Not a single person in Gary's
life knew about his blog,

635
00:39:42,653 --> 00:39:44,071
which was really shocking

636
00:39:44,071 --> 00:39:47,032
considering the fact that
he had 50,000 followers.

637
00:39:48,951 --> 00:39:51,453
That really says something,
if you think about it.

638
00:39:55,833 --> 00:39:59,336
- Of course, I immediately
jump on my computer

639
00:39:59,336 --> 00:40:03,841
and I go to his blog, and
I'll never forget the title,

640
00:40:03,841 --> 00:40:05,676
because I actually thought
it was really clever.

641
00:40:05,676 --> 00:40:09,304
It was called "Don't
Hike With Headphones".

642
00:40:09,304 --> 00:40:11,348
- Hey guys up here at
the top of the mountain,

643
00:40:11,348 --> 00:40:15,394
as you can see, there's
the great view behind me.

644
00:40:16,687 --> 00:40:19,982
One of the questions I've got
asked on the blog a lot was,

645
00:40:19,982 --> 00:40:21,942
what dangers (muffled speaking),

646
00:40:21,942 --> 00:40:24,027
are there any threatening animals

647
00:40:24,027 --> 00:40:25,863
like rattlesnakes and mountain lions?

648
00:40:25,863 --> 00:40:29,658
And, yeah, there're rattlesnakes
at the lower elevations,

649
00:40:29,658 --> 00:40:31,910
you might have noticed I
don't hike with headphones

650
00:40:31,910 --> 00:40:34,454
or anything on so I can listen for them.

651
00:40:34,454 --> 00:40:37,875
- And it's your basic,
survivalist type blog,

652
00:40:37,875 --> 00:40:41,253
you know, how to build a
fire, how to filter water,

653
00:40:41,253 --> 00:40:43,130
and I just start scrolling through

654
00:40:43,130 --> 00:40:45,090
and I scroll and scroll
all the way to the,

655
00:40:45,090 --> 00:40:47,885
like the latest videos that he had posted.

656
00:40:47,885 --> 00:40:49,428
- I'm trying to navigate

657
00:40:49,428 --> 00:40:52,639
to find out where these
notifications are coming from

658
00:40:52,639 --> 00:40:56,101
because he is getting
notification after notification,

659
00:40:56,101 --> 00:40:59,563
I mean, it's ding, ding, ding, ding.

660
00:40:59,563 --> 00:41:02,858
- So I was driving when I
found out Gary had a blog,

661
00:41:02,858 --> 00:41:06,820
I pulled over and looked
for it on my phone.

662
00:41:06,820 --> 00:41:09,031
And the first thing that I noticed

663
00:41:09,031 --> 00:41:10,824
was that he didn't go by his real name,

664
00:41:10,824 --> 00:41:13,285
he went by Scorpion Sam.

665
00:41:13,285 --> 00:41:15,537
- My biggest thing I've ever ran into

666
00:41:15,537 --> 00:41:18,123
was I got stung by a scorpion,

667
00:41:18,123 --> 00:41:20,626
kicking over a rock once,

668
00:41:20,626 --> 00:41:25,214
had to go to the hospital
once I got back to my truck,

669
00:41:25,214 --> 00:41:27,799
that was the day I hiked
with a swelling up hand.

670
00:41:29,426 --> 00:41:32,179
- I'm finally able to
get to the notifications

671
00:41:32,179 --> 00:41:34,431
and this notification pops up

672
00:41:34,431 --> 00:41:37,893
and they're saying, I bet he found it,

673
00:41:41,063 --> 00:41:42,648
and that something bad happened,

674
00:41:42,648 --> 00:41:47,653
and I'm thinking, they're
saying he found it?

675
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,030
And something bad happened?

676
00:41:50,030 --> 00:41:51,406
Found what?

677
00:41:52,366 --> 00:41:55,869
- And then came Gary's
now infamous video post.

678
00:41:57,079 --> 00:42:00,332
I have worked a lot of
strange cases in my career,

679
00:42:00,332 --> 00:42:05,045
and Gary's by far was the most unusual,

680
00:42:05,963 --> 00:42:08,882
just the way that he described
what he was looking at,

681
00:42:08,882 --> 00:42:13,011
what he saw, how terrified he was,

682
00:42:13,011 --> 00:42:18,016
it just really scares me.

683
00:42:20,978 --> 00:42:24,690
- So I started watching
the second to last video

684
00:42:24,690 --> 00:42:25,941
on Gary's blog.

685
00:42:25,941 --> 00:42:28,694
And he's at his home
and he's sitting there

686
00:42:28,694 --> 00:42:31,113
and he's telling his viewers

687
00:42:33,573 --> 00:42:37,327
basically what he came across
on his last expedition.

688
00:42:37,327 --> 00:42:39,997
- I saw his last three videos

689
00:42:39,997 --> 00:42:40,872
and,

690
00:42:43,667 --> 00:42:44,835
what I saw,

691
00:42:47,921 --> 00:42:50,591
changed everything.

692
00:42:52,259 --> 00:42:54,261
(ominous music)

693
00:43:00,684 --> 00:43:03,395
- He's pretty worked up in this video,

694
00:43:03,395 --> 00:43:06,565
you can tell he's nervous, he's scared.

695
00:43:06,565 --> 00:43:08,734
- As soon as his video started,

696
00:43:11,194 --> 00:43:15,907
I could tell he was troubled by something,

697
00:43:15,907 --> 00:43:18,493
something had him so unnerved.

698
00:43:19,870 --> 00:43:22,873
He was three days into his expedition,

699
00:43:22,873 --> 00:43:27,294
and he started to smell smoke and that,

700
00:43:27,294 --> 00:43:29,379
and he was out in the middle of nowhere.

701
00:43:29,379 --> 00:43:34,301
So he got curious and
started to look around.

702
00:43:35,177 --> 00:43:37,012
- He comes across this cabin,

703
00:43:37,012 --> 00:43:40,974
and it's not like a nice cabin,
it's like a makeshift cabin,

704
00:43:40,974 --> 00:43:45,979
almost kind of like a
homeless type of structure,

705
00:43:46,188 --> 00:43:47,522
sticks and twigs,

706
00:43:47,522 --> 00:43:50,901
and there's smoke coming
out of the chimney.

707
00:43:52,235 --> 00:43:56,782
And Gary's not someone to
be scared of someone else,

708
00:43:56,782 --> 00:43:57,783
out in the wilderness,

709
00:43:57,783 --> 00:44:02,788
but he said he was just
like frozen in his tracks,

710
00:44:03,288 --> 00:44:07,000
and he just felt this like sixth sense

711
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,128
of basically impending doom.

712
00:44:11,004 --> 00:44:15,842
- It was the look on his
face, that really got to me,

713
00:44:15,842 --> 00:44:19,137
when he described this
cabin out in Nevada.

714
00:44:21,765 --> 00:44:25,352
- He said that the longer
he stood and looked at it

715
00:44:27,396 --> 00:44:31,650
the more spooked that he
got the feeling of dread,

716
00:44:31,650 --> 00:44:34,986
the sixth sense that he
needed to get out of there.

717
00:44:34,986 --> 00:44:38,865
- And he wanted nothing
to do with that place.

718
00:44:38,865 --> 00:44:42,369
And so, he hightails it out of there

719
00:44:42,369 --> 00:44:46,540
and he goes to sleep in his tent,

720
00:44:46,540 --> 00:44:51,128
I remember this because he talks
about how he was so scared,

721
00:44:51,128 --> 00:44:54,047
he slept with his shoes on all night.

722
00:44:54,047 --> 00:44:55,590
You know, he didn't bring his firearms,

723
00:44:55,590 --> 00:45:00,595
so he was totally just vulnerable
out there and terrified.

724
00:45:02,806 --> 00:45:07,811
And he wakes up the next
morning, and there's footprints,

725
00:45:08,228 --> 00:45:11,273
and they're barefoot footprints.

726
00:45:11,273 --> 00:45:13,483
- These two things are now connected,

727
00:45:13,483 --> 00:45:14,776
we had something to go on.

728
00:45:16,361 --> 00:45:18,363
(ominous music)

729
00:45:24,953 --> 00:45:26,913
- [Beverly] The hike back to his track,

730
00:45:26,913 --> 00:45:28,790
which took three days,

731
00:45:28,790 --> 00:45:32,210
he felt like somebody was following him.

732
00:45:32,586 --> 00:45:34,588
(ominous music)

733
00:45:35,172 --> 00:45:39,009
- So this was a really sad story to me,

734
00:45:39,009 --> 00:45:42,179
to see Gary's followers turn on him,

735
00:45:42,179 --> 00:45:44,931
that blog was everything to him.

736
00:45:44,931 --> 00:45:49,936
He really admired them,
and their comments,

737
00:45:52,522 --> 00:45:54,858
it was something really special to him.

738
00:45:54,858 --> 00:45:59,863
And to see them go from
loving him to bullying him,

739
00:46:00,530 --> 00:46:03,658
calling him a loser, a liar,

740
00:46:03,658 --> 00:46:07,579
and putting him down, it
was really sad to see.

741
00:46:09,915 --> 00:46:12,250
- And the comments are like,

742
00:46:12,250 --> 00:46:15,921
everyone's kind of just
like, well, go back,

743
00:46:16,755 --> 00:46:18,423
take video, show us this place,

744
00:46:18,423 --> 00:46:21,218
does this place even
exist, is this even real?

745
00:46:21,218 --> 00:46:23,845
And he's getting like
really hit by his followers,

746
00:46:23,845 --> 00:46:26,807
basically, they're kind of bullying him,

747
00:46:27,682 --> 00:46:30,352
they don't believe that
he came across this,

748
00:46:30,352 --> 00:46:33,855
they go to his blog for a reason,

749
00:46:33,855 --> 00:46:35,690
and now they feel like he's just

750
00:46:35,690 --> 00:46:38,610
getting into ghost stories or something.

751
00:46:38,610 --> 00:46:39,444
And so they,

752
00:46:40,487 --> 00:46:45,283
I really feel like he fell
into a bit of cyber bullying

753
00:46:45,283 --> 00:46:50,163
and the fact that they were not gonna be

754
00:46:50,163 --> 00:46:51,873
his faithful followers anymore,

755
00:46:51,873 --> 00:46:56,503
unless he goes back and
proves that he saw this,

756
00:46:56,503 --> 00:46:58,421
he experienced this.

757
00:46:58,421 --> 00:47:01,091
(air whooshing)

758
00:47:04,094 --> 00:47:07,639
- You know, it broke my
heart to read the comments

759
00:47:07,639 --> 00:47:12,644
that said that he was
nothing but a lonely loser,

760
00:47:12,852 --> 00:47:16,439
and that all he was doing

761
00:47:16,439 --> 00:47:20,735
was trying to get
attention by making shit up

762
00:47:20,735 --> 00:47:23,822
and that they didn't believe him.

763
00:47:25,615 --> 00:47:27,784
- I actually didn't know about the blog,

764
00:47:28,618 --> 00:47:31,371
but I knew he was doing something

765
00:47:31,371 --> 00:47:36,251
because he was always in
the backyard making videos,

766
00:47:36,251 --> 00:47:38,461
telling the camera how to make a campfire,

767
00:47:39,921 --> 00:47:41,631
or I always heard him in his room

768
00:47:41,631 --> 00:47:43,717
like giving survival tips and things.

769
00:47:44,551 --> 00:47:47,262
- [Gary] Hey, guys, just
walking through the woods here.

770
00:47:48,138 --> 00:47:50,765
It's a beautiful day in
the backwoods in Nevada.

771
00:47:50,765 --> 00:47:52,684
But a lot of people asked what I would do

772
00:47:52,684 --> 00:47:54,102
if I got lost back here,

773
00:47:55,270 --> 00:47:59,524
I had to spends several
more days than I planned on,

774
00:47:59,524 --> 00:48:00,859
I guess first thing I would do

775
00:48:00,859 --> 00:48:04,696
would be find a nice nutritious cow patty,

776
00:48:05,614 --> 00:48:07,782
because there're so yummy.

777
00:48:07,782 --> 00:48:11,077
I'm just kidding, you
don't wanna eat cow shit.

778
00:48:11,077 --> 00:48:11,995
That will be bad.

779
00:48:12,829 --> 00:48:15,916
But there are ways you can
scavenger for food out here.

780
00:48:17,334 --> 00:48:20,295
(train engine roaring)

781
00:48:20,295 --> 00:48:23,506
(train hooting)

782
00:48:23,506 --> 00:48:26,217
- I'm so upset by everything and,

783
00:48:27,135 --> 00:48:31,806
I wanted to download this

784
00:48:31,806 --> 00:48:35,518
and do what I could so that
I could take it to the cops,

785
00:48:35,518 --> 00:48:40,523
and during all the frustration
and the upset and everything,

786
00:48:42,817 --> 00:48:45,028
I accidentally deleted it.

787
00:48:47,656 --> 00:48:51,034
- Beverly really beat herself
up about deleting the video,

788
00:48:51,034 --> 00:48:53,995
and I felt bad for her.

789
00:48:53,995 --> 00:48:57,707
I didn't wanna press it because
I knew she felt terrible,

790
00:48:57,707 --> 00:48:59,959
her brother was missing.

791
00:48:59,959 --> 00:49:04,172
But it was a missed
opportunity definitely,

792
00:49:04,172 --> 00:49:05,840
and a definite disappointment.

793
00:49:06,841 --> 00:49:11,805
- The last video of Gary on that blog,

794
00:49:11,930 --> 00:49:16,601
is him basically telling his followers,

795
00:49:16,601 --> 00:49:19,938
okay, here I go, I'll go back.

796
00:49:20,939 --> 00:49:22,607
And he doesn't look okay about it.

797
00:49:23,566 --> 00:49:27,988
- Gary's final video is truly haunting.

798
00:49:27,988 --> 00:49:32,450
And it is really the
beginning of a bigger mystery.

799
00:49:35,286 --> 00:49:39,749
- Gary's last video that
he posted to his blog

800
00:49:39,749 --> 00:49:43,753
said that he was gonna go back out

801
00:49:46,339 --> 00:49:50,969
and record everything
and prove to everyone

802
00:49:50,969 --> 00:49:55,181
that this was real, that
this really existed.

803
00:50:00,937 --> 00:50:04,983
It's the last time that
he ever posted anything

804
00:50:04,983 --> 00:50:06,609
or anybody heard from him.

805
00:50:08,236 --> 00:50:10,238
(ominous music)

806
00:50:18,163 --> 00:50:20,832
(air whooshing)

807
00:50:29,424 --> 00:50:31,593
- Hey guys, I'm back.

808
00:50:31,593 --> 00:50:32,635
Wanted to make a video

809
00:50:32,635 --> 00:50:36,014
about the different comments
people left on my last video.

810
00:50:38,057 --> 00:50:40,977
A lot of you were coming up
with some crazy theories,

811
00:50:40,977 --> 00:50:44,314
what was out there,
what I saw in the woods.

812
00:50:45,398 --> 00:50:47,484
Some of you don't believe it,

813
00:50:47,484 --> 00:50:49,360
some of you are asking for the location

814
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,071
and wanna find it yourself.

815
00:50:52,071 --> 00:50:53,782
I'm really against people going out

816
00:50:53,782 --> 00:50:57,035
in the backwoods in
Nevada without experience,

817
00:50:57,035 --> 00:50:58,745
there's a lot dangers out there,

818
00:50:58,745 --> 00:51:02,207
from old mines to just random people

819
00:51:02,207 --> 00:51:04,459
and you can get lost easily,

820
00:51:04,459 --> 00:51:06,753
the scenery looks a lot the same,

821
00:51:06,753 --> 00:51:08,797
and if there's no trails,

822
00:51:08,797 --> 00:51:12,300
you can get lost and turn around
and be out there for days.

823
00:51:12,300 --> 00:51:14,469
And if you don't bring
enough food or water,

824
00:51:14,469 --> 00:51:15,553
you're in real danger.

825
00:51:17,430 --> 00:51:19,140
So I don't wanna give out the location

826
00:51:19,140 --> 00:51:23,102
and just be the one that
causes a whole bunch of people

827
00:51:23,102 --> 00:51:25,063
to go out in the backwoods in Nevada.

828
00:51:26,147 --> 00:51:29,192
I'll go out there, find the shelter again.

829
00:51:29,192 --> 00:51:32,153
This time, I'll bring
my camera and firearm,

830
00:51:32,153 --> 00:51:33,863
I have to do some work first,

831
00:51:33,863 --> 00:51:36,574
but I plan on leaving on the 22nd,

832
00:51:36,574 --> 00:51:39,410
and I'll need a good six
days to be out there again.

833
00:51:40,453 --> 00:51:43,289
It's a good three days
in, and three days back,

834
00:51:43,289 --> 00:51:45,708
but we're gonna find out what this is,

835
00:51:45,708 --> 00:51:49,587
and look forward to another video,

836
00:51:49,587 --> 00:51:51,256
once we finally get out there,

837
00:51:52,298 --> 00:51:54,300
I'll have something for you guys posted.

838
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,682
(ominous music)

839
00:52:01,349 --> 00:52:03,268
- He goes and that's it.

840
00:52:03,268 --> 00:52:04,561
And that's the last,

841
00:52:05,603 --> 00:52:08,064
that's the last video of Gary.

842
00:52:08,064 --> 00:52:11,568
And no one knows where he was going.

843
00:52:12,777 --> 00:52:17,198
So the search is so
vast and Nevada is huge,

844
00:52:17,198 --> 00:52:20,451
and he could be anywhere.

845
00:52:21,744 --> 00:52:23,746
(ominous music)

846
00:52:34,883 --> 00:52:37,302
This place that he talks
about could be anywhere.

847
00:52:41,890 --> 00:52:43,308
- This became a perfect storm

848
00:52:43,308 --> 00:52:46,895
because now we knew what Gary was doing,

849
00:52:46,895 --> 00:52:48,646
we just had no idea where.

850
00:52:49,898 --> 00:52:54,903
- I had no idea that he
had this whole other life,

851
00:52:55,028 --> 00:52:57,989
this blog, all these
followers and everything

852
00:52:57,989 --> 00:52:59,198
had I known that,

853
00:53:00,074 --> 00:53:04,621
I would have never, ever,
let him go back out there.

854
00:53:05,914 --> 00:53:09,042
- This whole case turned
from a missing persons

855
00:53:09,876 --> 00:53:12,921
to a huge mystery.

856
00:53:12,921 --> 00:53:14,422
Whose cabin was this?

857
00:53:14,422 --> 00:53:16,257
I mean, who lives out there?

858
00:53:16,257 --> 00:53:17,425
Where is this cabin?

859
00:53:17,425 --> 00:53:19,928
I mean, if it's in the middle of nowhere,

860
00:53:19,928 --> 00:53:23,348
what type of person lives
in the middle of nowhere?

861
00:53:23,348 --> 00:53:27,268
And if you're about to
go find that person,

862
00:53:27,268 --> 00:53:29,729
I don't know if they're gonna
be too happy to be found.

863
00:53:29,729 --> 00:53:32,190
I mean, if they're out there that far,

864
00:53:32,190 --> 00:53:34,192
they're out there that far for a reason.

865
00:53:34,901 --> 00:53:36,903
(ominous music)

866
00:53:40,448 --> 00:53:43,868
- Once the radio station
broadcasts about it,

867
00:53:43,868 --> 00:53:45,703
his blog and everything,

868
00:53:45,703 --> 00:53:47,956
everybody just went crazy

869
00:53:47,956 --> 00:53:50,291
before the cops could even take it down.

870
00:53:50,291 --> 00:53:55,296
The conspiracy theories
were just everywhere,

871
00:53:55,505 --> 00:54:00,510
from witches to aliens,
area 51, you name it.

872
00:54:02,345 --> 00:54:04,472
- People started coming
out of the woodwork

873
00:54:04,472 --> 00:54:06,474
and everyone had a theory

874
00:54:06,474 --> 00:54:11,479
as to who the cabin belonged
to, what was in the cabin.

875
00:54:12,522 --> 00:54:16,985
There were some comments about
Gary had discovered a witch,

876
00:54:16,985 --> 00:54:19,696
and she was making secret potions

877
00:54:19,696 --> 00:54:22,073
and somehow he had gotten involved,

878
00:54:22,073 --> 00:54:26,244
and I mean it was crazy.

879
00:54:26,244 --> 00:54:28,079
Other people thought it was just a hermit,

880
00:54:28,079 --> 00:54:30,581
you know someone who just
wanted to be left alone.

881
00:54:32,291 --> 00:54:34,711
People thought that maybe
it was a government,

882
00:54:35,670 --> 00:54:39,132
secret government operation, aliens.

883
00:54:41,592 --> 00:54:42,760
I mean it's,

884
00:54:43,803 --> 00:54:44,971
I could go on and on

885
00:54:44,971 --> 00:54:47,557
about the many theories
that people thought.

886
00:54:47,557 --> 00:54:49,976
- The only reasonable
explanation I could come up with

887
00:54:49,976 --> 00:54:53,021
was maybe, Gary had stumbled upon

888
00:54:53,021 --> 00:54:56,107
an illegal marijuana growing operation

889
00:54:56,107 --> 00:54:58,318
out there in the middle
of nowhere in Nevada

890
00:54:59,277 --> 00:55:03,072
and they killed him for
it, it has happened before.

891
00:55:04,323 --> 00:55:05,158
But,

892
00:55:07,744 --> 00:55:08,828
I was wrong.

893
00:55:12,874 --> 00:55:17,879
- I just couldn't shake
this sickening feeling.

894
00:55:19,422 --> 00:55:21,424
(ominous music)

895
00:55:28,431 --> 00:55:30,266
Before I knew it, the cops showed up

896
00:55:30,266 --> 00:55:32,643
and they had known all about his blog

897
00:55:32,643 --> 00:55:36,105
and I was actually on the
computer when they got there.

898
00:55:36,105 --> 00:55:40,651
And they gathered everything
up, seized everything,

899
00:55:40,651 --> 00:55:43,071
including his hard drives.

900
00:55:43,071 --> 00:55:44,697
- [Gary] Guys,

901
00:55:44,697 --> 00:55:46,157
another model train video here,

902
00:55:46,157 --> 00:55:48,785
I just got back from a flea market,

903
00:55:48,785 --> 00:55:51,120
and look what I picked up today.

904
00:55:52,622 --> 00:55:57,502
Got a nice little HO diesel locomotive,

905
00:55:57,502 --> 00:55:59,587
lettered for one of my favorite railroads,

906
00:55:59,587 --> 00:56:01,672
it's called the California Western,

907
00:56:02,757 --> 00:56:04,759
out of Northern California.

908
00:56:04,759 --> 00:56:07,762
(plastic train rattling)

909
00:56:07,762 --> 00:56:09,972
Set that down.

910
00:56:09,972 --> 00:56:14,977
Then got this brand new steam
engine for the Santa Fe.

911
00:56:15,895 --> 00:56:17,897
(ominous music)

912
00:56:24,487 --> 00:56:27,698
- My private investigator
called and said that,

913
00:56:27,698 --> 00:56:32,703
the detectives on the case
wanted to meet with me.

914
00:56:32,745 --> 00:56:36,624
So I ended up going down
to the precinct and,

915
00:56:39,585 --> 00:56:42,630
they kept asking me, is
there anything you need?

916
00:56:42,630 --> 00:56:44,215
Have you eaten today?

917
00:56:45,341 --> 00:56:47,760
Just beating around the bush

918
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:52,765
and I finally asked
them, what is going on?

919
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:55,434
- [Man] It's back on.

920
00:56:55,434 --> 00:56:58,271
(dramatic chase music)

921
00:56:58,271 --> 00:57:00,106
- We are back with a break in the case

922
00:57:00,106 --> 00:57:02,275
of missing hiker, Gary Hinge.

923
00:57:02,275 --> 00:57:04,277
Was made yesterday when his backpack

924
00:57:04,277 --> 00:57:08,406
was discovered by a couple
camping in White Pine County.

925
00:57:08,406 --> 00:57:09,866
When they woke up in the morning,

926
00:57:09,866 --> 00:57:10,992
they found the backpack

927
00:57:10,992 --> 00:57:14,120
had been intentionally
placed in their campsite.

928
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,663
What they found inside

929
00:57:15,663 --> 00:57:19,208
has sent a shockwave
through the state of Nevada.

930
00:57:19,208 --> 00:57:23,254
Hinge's truck was found parked
in Eureka earlier this month.

931
00:57:23,254 --> 00:57:25,465
But police now say they have evidence

932
00:57:25,465 --> 00:57:26,841
that it was parked there,

933
00:57:26,841 --> 00:57:29,844
to throw off investigators
searching for him.

934
00:57:29,844 --> 00:57:34,223
- They woke up to find Gary's backpack

935
00:57:37,518 --> 00:57:40,188
draped on a shovel that they had there.

936
00:57:42,857 --> 00:57:44,358
And when they opened it,

937
00:57:46,861 --> 00:57:49,197
Gary's belongings were in there,

938
00:57:50,865 --> 00:57:52,867
(ominous music)

939
00:57:56,871 --> 00:57:58,873
as well as a severed hand,

940
00:58:01,292 --> 00:58:02,126
Gary's hand.

941
00:58:03,085 --> 00:58:06,005
(ominous music)

942
00:58:22,897 --> 00:58:25,274
- [Bill] The way that his hand was severed

943
00:58:25,274 --> 00:58:28,194
was incredibly violent.

944
00:58:28,194 --> 00:58:32,406
The way that it was chopped
off, was just gruesome.

945
00:58:32,406 --> 00:58:34,200
- It was deliberately placed there,

946
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:38,579
because someone wanted it to be found.

947
00:58:38,579 --> 00:58:40,081
- The forensic showed,

948
00:58:41,374 --> 00:58:45,002
that his hand had been severed,

949
00:58:46,837 --> 00:58:49,674
for more than five weeks.

950
00:58:49,674 --> 00:58:52,927
- And it was still
clutching a video camera.

951
00:58:53,803 --> 00:58:56,597
And what's even more crazy was,

952
00:58:58,349 --> 00:59:01,561
the hand wasn't like torn off from a body,

953
00:59:01,561 --> 00:59:03,980
it was a clean cut.

954
00:59:03,980 --> 00:59:05,273
- I was gutted,

955
00:59:07,817 --> 00:59:10,736
by the fact that he had suffered.

956
00:59:11,737 --> 00:59:13,739
- Once the camera was discovered,

957
00:59:13,739 --> 00:59:17,326
everybody wanted to know, is there a tape?

958
00:59:18,536 --> 00:59:20,288
And does the tape work?

959
00:59:20,288 --> 00:59:22,873
And what's on the tape?

960
00:59:22,873 --> 00:59:24,959
(camera shuttering)

961
00:59:24,959 --> 00:59:27,670
- We were very anxious for the crime lab

962
00:59:27,670 --> 00:59:29,171
to process the evidence.

963
00:59:29,171 --> 00:59:30,131
(camera shutters)

964
00:59:30,131 --> 00:59:33,801
And sure enough, when they did,

965
00:59:33,801 --> 00:59:36,095
the memory chip was still in the camera.

966
00:59:37,263 --> 00:59:40,099
(camera shutters)

967
00:59:40,891 --> 00:59:45,104
(ominous music intensifies)

968
00:59:52,653 --> 00:59:56,073
It was truly terrifying to watch

969
00:59:56,073 --> 01:00:01,078
and I can't even imagine the true horror

970
01:00:01,495 --> 01:00:03,164
that he faced out there.

971
01:00:04,332 --> 01:00:08,753
- Bill calls me and the
forensic investigators

972
01:00:08,753 --> 01:00:13,716
have video of Gary's final moments

973
01:00:14,008 --> 01:00:17,803
and so they take us into a room.

974
01:00:19,263 --> 01:00:20,723
- The team thought it would be best

975
01:00:20,723 --> 01:00:25,102
if I sat down with Beverly and
watched the videos with her,

976
01:00:25,102 --> 01:00:28,856
because I had a relationship with her

977
01:00:28,856 --> 01:00:31,609
and I had a kind of a special rapport.

978
01:00:31,609 --> 01:00:33,194
So they thought it would probably be best

979
01:00:33,194 --> 01:00:34,945
if maybe I sat down with her first.

980
01:00:36,989 --> 01:00:38,866
- Bill started the first video

981
01:00:38,866 --> 01:00:45,498
and there was Gary shining his
light around, saying hello.

982
01:00:47,833 --> 01:00:52,004
And the innocence in his voice,

983
01:00:54,757 --> 01:00:56,550
I just,

984
01:00:58,636 --> 01:00:59,804
I couldn't do it.

985
01:01:00,930 --> 01:01:02,014
I

986
01:01:03,557 --> 01:01:04,767
I had to stop.

987
01:01:08,020 --> 01:01:11,482
And then Bill finished watching.

988
01:01:16,654 --> 01:01:18,656
(ominous music)

989
01:01:27,331 --> 01:01:29,917
- [Bill] The clips begin
like all the other clips,

990
01:01:31,210 --> 01:01:32,753
Gary's even smiling,

991
01:01:33,963 --> 01:01:36,882
but he has no idea what's about to happen.

992
01:01:39,343 --> 01:01:41,762
- Hey guys, a little video update.

993
01:01:41,762 --> 01:01:43,139
I am.

994
01:01:43,139 --> 01:01:43,973
(thunder roars)

995
01:01:43,973 --> 01:01:44,974
Oh, there's thunder.

996
01:01:45,808 --> 01:01:48,602
Storm's coming in, I
gotta make this quick.

997
01:01:48,602 --> 01:01:50,271
Got a whole nother ridge line to climb

998
01:01:50,271 --> 01:01:53,649
before I get to the spot
where I saw that shelter

999
01:01:53,649 --> 01:01:57,111
but I'm about halfway
there, a day and a half in.

1000
01:01:59,530 --> 01:02:00,865
We'll see what we find.

1001
01:02:02,116 --> 01:02:05,578
Climbed over one mountain range
already, got one more to go.

1002
01:02:06,662 --> 01:02:08,122
And, better make it quick,

1003
01:02:08,122 --> 01:02:11,375
because that storm's coming in fast.

1004
01:02:11,375 --> 01:02:13,127
We'll see what's on the other side.

1005
01:02:14,044 --> 01:02:14,962
I got (muffled speaking) ways to go,

1006
01:02:14,962 --> 01:02:16,130
but, weird thing is,

1007
01:02:16,130 --> 01:02:19,550
I'm already distinctly smelling the smoke,

1008
01:02:19,550 --> 01:02:21,385
like I smelled last time.

1009
01:02:21,385 --> 01:02:24,388
There's no fires around, there
shouldn't be anyone out here,

1010
01:02:25,389 --> 01:02:28,267
but it's very faint but very
distinct smell of smoke.

1011
01:02:29,643 --> 01:02:30,686
Kind of getting creeped out

1012
01:02:30,686 --> 01:02:33,647
but not as much as I was last time yet.

1013
01:02:33,647 --> 01:02:35,399
We'll see what happens.

1014
01:02:35,399 --> 01:02:37,401
Look for another video update soon.

1015
01:02:57,755 --> 01:02:59,340
(beep sound)

1016
01:02:59,340 --> 01:03:02,009
(air whooshing)

1017
01:03:36,794 --> 01:03:38,295
(beep sound)

1018
01:03:38,295 --> 01:03:40,214
(air whooshing)

1019
01:03:40,214 --> 01:03:43,050
(rattling sounds)

1020
01:03:44,260 --> 01:03:47,096
(rattling sounds)

1021
01:04:04,780 --> 01:04:07,575
(camera rattling)

1022
01:04:09,326 --> 01:04:10,786
(beep sound)

1023
01:04:10,786 --> 01:04:13,455
(air whooshing)

1024
01:04:18,627 --> 01:04:21,463
(camera rattling)

1025
01:04:23,549 --> 01:04:25,050
(beep sound)

1026
01:04:25,050 --> 01:04:27,720
(air whooshing)

1027
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:50,910
(air whooshing)

1028
01:04:58,667 --> 01:05:01,587
(gravel crunching)

1029
01:05:03,756 --> 01:05:06,383
(air whooshing)

1030
01:05:14,767 --> 01:05:16,310
(beep sound)

1031
01:05:16,310 --> 01:05:18,979
(air whooshing)

1032
01:05:29,281 --> 01:05:32,201
All right, here's the final marker.

1033
01:05:39,583 --> 01:05:43,170
(indistinct music playing)

1034
01:05:59,645 --> 01:06:03,232
(indistinct ominous music)

1035
01:06:34,888 --> 01:06:38,767
(gravel crunching sounds)

1036
01:06:38,767 --> 01:06:42,354
(indistinct ominous music)

1037
01:07:20,225 --> 01:07:21,059
(beep sound)

1038
01:07:21,059 --> 01:07:23,729
(air whooshing)

1039
01:07:29,234 --> 01:07:32,070
(rattling sounds)

1040
01:07:32,946 --> 01:07:33,781
(beep sound)

1041
01:07:33,781 --> 01:07:36,450
(air whooshing)

1042
01:07:42,664 --> 01:07:44,541
(rattling sounds)

1043
01:07:54,802 --> 01:07:57,471
(air whooshing)

1044
01:08:24,331 --> 01:08:27,167
(camera rattling)

1045
01:08:37,344 --> 01:08:40,097
(ominous sounds)

1046
01:08:49,356 --> 01:08:52,943
(indistinct ominous music)

1047
01:09:19,303 --> 01:09:22,181
(camera rattling)

1048
01:09:22,181 --> 01:09:25,767
(indistinct ominous music)

1049
01:09:33,525 --> 01:09:36,445
(fluttering sound)

1050
01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:13,398
(gravel crunching)

1051
01:10:17,235 --> 01:10:20,530
(ticking sound)

1052
01:10:20,530 --> 01:10:23,450
(gravel crunching)

1053
01:10:49,643 --> 01:10:52,062
(beep sound)

1054
01:10:55,482 --> 01:10:58,151
(ticking sound)

1055
01:11:05,075 --> 01:11:07,369
(rattling sounds)

1056
01:11:07,369 --> 01:11:10,122
(gunshot blasts)

1057
01:11:13,625 --> 01:11:16,294
(ticking sound)

1058
01:11:17,754 --> 01:11:18,672
(groaning sounds)

1059
01:11:18,672 --> 01:11:22,259
(gunshot blasts)

1060
01:11:22,259 --> 01:11:25,012
(gunshot blasts)

1061
01:11:38,900 --> 01:11:40,152
(beep sound)

1062
01:11:40,152 --> 01:11:42,529
(gunshot blasts)

1063
01:11:42,529 --> 01:11:45,282
(gunshot blasts)

1064
01:11:52,164 --> 01:11:54,374
(air whooshing)

1065
01:11:54,374 --> 01:11:56,626
(beep sound)

1066
01:11:56,626 --> 01:11:59,379
(ticking sounds)

1067
01:12:07,679 --> 01:12:10,057
(beep sound)

1068
01:12:16,146 --> 01:12:18,732
(camera rattling)

1069
01:12:18,732 --> 01:12:21,485
(ticking sounds)

1070
01:12:29,034 --> 01:12:31,870
(camera rattling)

1071
01:12:47,511 --> 01:12:48,512
(beep sound)

1072
01:12:48,512 --> 01:12:50,764
(rattling sounds)

1073
01:12:50,764 --> 01:12:53,391
(ticking sound)

1074
01:12:54,935 --> 01:12:57,604
(air whooshing)

1075
01:13:03,902 --> 01:13:06,822
(stones crunching)

1076
01:13:33,265 --> 01:13:36,101
(camera rattling)

1077
01:13:43,984 --> 01:13:46,820
(camera rattling)

1078
01:13:53,827 --> 01:13:56,746
(crunching sounds)

1079
01:14:01,042 --> 01:14:04,129
(insects fluttering)

1080
01:14:57,307 --> 01:14:59,726
(Gary gasps)

1081
01:15:14,032 --> 01:15:16,701
(air whooshing)

1082
01:15:24,084 --> 01:15:27,546
- [Gal] From what you do see
from the person in the video,

1083
01:15:27,546 --> 01:15:31,174
you can tell that they have a
lot of physical deformities.

1084
01:15:31,174 --> 01:15:34,052
And it's probably one of the main reasons

1085
01:15:34,052 --> 01:15:38,932
why they chose to live where they lived,

1086
01:15:38,932 --> 01:15:42,227
they felt shunned by society.

1087
01:15:45,063 --> 01:15:48,566
- [Simon] When we found
out what actually happened,

1088
01:15:51,069 --> 01:15:53,363
it was like this weight

1089
01:15:53,363 --> 01:15:57,784
had been taken off of
Beverly and I's relationship.

1090
01:15:57,784 --> 01:16:02,080
And now we're actually really close.

1091
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:05,000
And I actually consider
her kind of a big sister.

1092
01:16:06,710 --> 01:16:08,712
(sentimental music)

1093
01:16:17,429 --> 01:16:18,263
(stones crunching)

1094
01:16:18,263 --> 01:16:22,434
- [Gary] I'm just hiking
along, almost to the top.

1095
01:16:24,394 --> 01:16:25,812
Over that mountain side.

1096
01:16:29,357 --> 01:16:31,860
Still some thunder in the distance.

1097
01:16:31,860 --> 01:16:34,321
(ground crunching)

1098
01:16:34,321 --> 01:16:36,197
Amazing how far you can hike

1099
01:16:36,197 --> 01:16:39,534
and only seeing a couple of deer,

1100
01:16:39,534 --> 01:16:42,620
how much wildlife that I've seen,

1101
01:16:42,620 --> 01:16:45,165
I'm sure they see me, stay hidden.

1102
01:16:47,709 --> 01:16:52,714
But just a lot of sagebrush
and trees and peaceful desert,

1103
01:16:56,635 --> 01:16:58,219
to walk.

1104
01:16:58,219 --> 01:17:01,931
The great thing about
Nevada, wide open spaces.

1105
01:17:05,352 --> 01:17:08,563
- Everybody immediately
wants to go and search

1106
01:17:08,563 --> 01:17:09,397
for the one thing

1107
01:17:09,397 --> 01:17:12,525
that they've been told
not to go search for.

1108
01:17:12,525 --> 01:17:15,945
And so now there's this
whole band of influencers

1109
01:17:15,945 --> 01:17:20,950
who are out there wanting
to find this person

1110
01:17:22,994 --> 01:17:25,497
and post about it and blog about it

1111
01:17:25,497 --> 01:17:27,874
and make a video about it.

1112
01:17:27,874 --> 01:17:28,667
And,

1113
01:17:31,002 --> 01:17:32,128
to me that's,

1114
01:17:34,089 --> 01:17:35,590
I mean, that's terrifying.

1115
01:17:38,343 --> 01:17:40,345
(ominous music)