Welcome to Missing Persons Case Files. A place where they gone? Are not
the forgotten? What's happening in the forest of North America? How are so
many people disappearing only to have the remains found much later, or, in
many cases not at all. Are the predators to blame, giant hair covered
beasts or even more terrifying us as humans? Maybe it's both, Maybe it's
neither. These are just a few of the questions we'll look to uncover here
on the Missing Persons Case Files. Morgan elias Heimer in June of twenty fifteen,
Morgan elias Heimer was twenty two years old and employed as a commercial guide
for Tour West, a renowned rafting company specializing in trips down the Colorado River
within the Grand Canyon. Morgan was a passionate fisherman, kayaker, rafter,
and hiker pretty much anything outdoors he loved. On the sixth of an eight
day tour, things went wrong. He approached the league guide and told him
he was going to take a short break. The league guy turned around to
give attention to a few of the guests for just a moment, and when
he looked back at Morgan, he was completely gone. The guid assumed Morgan
was just exploring nearby area and didn't think much of it, but hours would
pass instill no sign of Morgan. At around seven PM, a concerned member
of the group reported Morgan missing. Two officials, setting into motion an event
that would captivate the entire Grand Canyon when Morgan when it disappeared, he was
dressed for the river, wearing a dark colored flotation device, a blue plaid
shirt, long sleeve shirt, his choco flip flops, and a maroon ballap
Park rangers, in search and rescue teams and concerned colleagues embarked on the extensive
search operation. The Colorado River was searched within a search radius of river miles
to eleven through two twenty five. The area between river miles two eleven and
two fifteen around Pumpkin Springs was thoroughly investigated. Hopes of finding Morgan alive were
beginning to fade. The search efforts would soon expand, taking them to Diamond
Creek, twelve miles west of Pumpkin Springs. The search lasted for six days
before it was concluded that Morgan had drowned. His body was never found,
and there was no evidence that he was still alive. The circumstances behind his
disappearance are baffling, to say the least. How could a young, fit
and very experienced young man such as Morgan just up and vanish without a trace,
especially in such a well traveled and monitored area. This one, obviously,
it's going to be a shorter video because there's just not a whole lot
more to add to it. As far as I know, he wasn't depressed.
I haven't seen anything about him being suicidal in any way. If anyone
knows differently, please let me know. I don't know, guys, this
one is weird. I will never I am never going to understand how it's
possible for a person to just disappear and no trace of them ever be found
again. I mean, there's no there's nothing to indicate that he just moved
on and started a new life somewhere. I mean, how could he if
he was six days in to an eight day trip down the Grand Canyon in
the middle of nowhere. There's no way he could have hiked out of there.
Could he have had somebody there waiting on him? But then, I
mean, what would they have done. I don't know. No clothing was
ever found, no body parts. I mean, could he have gone in,
falling in and drowned even though he was wearing a life jacket? I
mean that right there would suggest that that didn't happen. I would think,
I mean, could he have fallen in and gotten trapped under a limb or
a tree or something, and he's still underwater. I would not think that
that would be the case, because over time, bodies break down, they
decay, and when that happens, pieces of him would break off. As
graphic as that is and horrible as that sounds, that's what would happen,
and you would have body parts floating down the river. You would think some
I mean, something would be found eventually. I don't understand it. Was
it something paranormal? Could it be that? Could it be he stepped into
a portal? These are things in cases like this that even though people wore
all their eyes and I'm usually one of those people, but you gotta start
thinking outside of the box when it comes to stuff like this. First off,
he was talking to the League God turned around and quite literally here one
second, gone the next. I don't know much about portals, but is
it possible that he turned around after his conversation, took a couple of steps
and stepped into something that no one else saw. I don't know. Did
he walk around the corner just to clear his head and step into something?
Was he abducted by aliens? I mean, y'all know, I'm not a
big UFO guy. Certainly believe in them, But I don't think a spaceship
came down and got Morgan. I really don't. I'm also not gonna say
big, but I don't know much about the Grand Canyon, and you know
reports of a faskalatch out there, I don't think anything like that. Are
there other cryptids that are more prevalent in that area? Quite possible. I
mean, that certainly could be the case. I don't know. Are there
people that live off grid in that area, like feral people? Did he
come across something, see something that he wasn't supposed to and someone entered his
life. I feel like that could be a possibility. I don't know.
You gotta think that given the search the area up there that was searched,
that if it was someone that was living off grid, they would have been
seen, they would have been found at some point, and there are no
reports of that. So kind of leads me to go in a different direction.
I don't know, guys, what do y'all think? The portal thing
is what I keep coming back to. And man, there's so many,
so many cases out there, guys, of people just disappearing and not being
found, or being found in a completely different place to where they should have
been. That that's not the case here. But the only thing I can
think of is portals. You want to think about the more obvious stuff.
I mean, in this case, what would you think obviously happened. I
don't know. I don't know of anything. He's talking to one of his
coworkers, turns around. They don't even see which direction he goes. It
was that quick that he was gone. So I don't know. I'm at
a loss here. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. Everything I've seen.
This dude was twenty two years old, life just starting. He was had
a great job, one that he loved, He loved being outdoors and doing
this stuff. He was living his best life, he really was. I
don't know if he had a girlfriend. I don't know if there was anything
like that going on, any recent breakups or a heartache or death in the
family, anything like that that would lead him to be depressed. Even if
he took his own life, how did he do it in a way that
he would never be found. I don't get that. I mean the people
that make the argument he went up there and killed hisself, Okay, Well,
I mean once you do that, you have no more control. You
can't control what happens to you after you're dead. So I mean, what
did he do he'd bury himself in a hole and then have it covered up.
I don't know no idea with this one, guys. It is a
really, really strange case. If you have any information about this case,
if you have seen him, or just anything at all, anyone out there
can contact the National Park Service tip line at eight six five eight zero zero
zero nine. I would hope if there was anyone out there that had information
that could bring this guy home, that they would think about his family and
do it. We can all just imagine how horrible it would be to have
somebody that we loved just go away, never hear from them again, never
see them again, and not have any idea of what happened. I mean,
a death in the family is terrible. Everyone out here, everyone listening
right now, has dealt with someone close to them dying, and if you
have, you will. We all know what that'slot, we all know the
pain associated with that, but almost all of us we have closure. My
mom passed. Oh it's the toughest time in my life, but I know
where she was. I was there that morning. I know where she's at
right now. I know the cemetery. I go regularly just to sit with
her and talk. I have that closure. If something had happened to my
mom to where she was here one second and gone the next, and I
had no idea where she was at, that would kill me. I just
I can't imagine what his family's going through, what others, especially when it
comes to kids. God bless them. Kids are special, They're awesome.
But could you imagine having a little one and not have any idea where they're
at or what has happened to them? Can you tell me anything that would
be worse than that? Because I can't think of many things that would stay
tuned for more Paranormal Odyssey. Garrett Bardsley born July twenty fourth, nineteen ninety
two, missing August twentieth of two thousand and four at around eight am on
Friday, August twentieth, two thousand and four, twelve year old Garrett Bardsley
and his father, Kevin, got up early while on a boy Scout camping
trip. They headed down to a nearby lake called Kuberant One in the Unita
Mountains in Utah for some fishing. The father and son lived in Elkridge and
were camping with eighteen Scouts and six or seven adults from Thursday, August nineteenth,
and had planned to leave Saturday. Garrett had managed to get his shoes,
pants and socks soaked with water whilst fishing, and he told his dad
he wanted to walk back to change back at camp as he felt uncomfortable in
the wet clothes. He told his father he wouldn't be long and soon back
at the lake to try and lean the fish for breakfast. The rest of
their boy Scout group were camped up the hill at the Cuberant Number four camp
site, a mere one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty feet away.
They had walked the trail several times before, so Kevin let his son
head back to camp while he continued fishing. He thought it was no big
deal. Just in case, Kevin kept his eyes on Garrett as he walked
around the lake, and even shouted directions reminding Garrett which path would lead him
straight back to camp. Then, after twenty minutes, Kevin wondered what was
taking his son so long to return. He returned to the camp to see
what had happened, and Garrett was nowhere to be seen. None of the
other boy scouts had seen him at the camp. A huge search of the
area with hundreds of official and unofficial searchers turned up nothing apart from one of
Garrett's Nike socks. The ice fishing pole he had with him was also never
located. What happened to Garrett? Did he get lost? Was it an
abduction, an animal tack or something more serious. The camp site was less
than a quarter mile from the lake, on a well established path connected with
a road another quarter mile away. A family friend said the distance to camp
from where they had been fishing was no more than one hundred and fifty paces.
More than two hundred volunteers and search and rescue team members searched into the
night on Sunday, August twenty first for Garrett, who was wearing a hooded
black sweatshirt and reversible black and red sweatpants and white Converse tennis shoes. Additional
search and rescue teams from Cachet County joined teams from Utah, Salt Lake,
was Satch, and Duschane Counties. He had no provisions or backpack, but
was carrying a short black crime ice fishing pole when he vanished. Hundreds of
Summit County Sheriff's Office volunteers and personnels searched on foot, horseback, and with
dogs. This effort was scaled back to more than fifty professional search and rescue
personnel working on foot. After this, the only evidence that searchers found was
Garrett's Nike sock as z eer appoint five miles from where he disappeared in a
granite boulder field. Summit County's Sheriff Dave Edmunds said the sock appears that it
was taking off of a wet foot wadded up, very consistent with what we
knew about Garrett. Because of where the sock was found, edmund said it
would be in line with the assumption that he sought shelter in the cold weather,
maybe by going into the boulder field for a crevass or outcropping something to
try to get out of the weather. The mountainous terrain meant the temperature drop
to around eighteen degrees the night that Gerrett disappeared. The official search for Garrett
was called off after nine days. A three mile radius in the rugged mountains
from where he was last seen was thoroughly searched. After the official search,
the family, many dedicated friends and volunteers continued search efforts, returning at least
two or three times each week until October. Further searches happened after the winter
of two thousand and four, but yet turned up nothing. Kevin Barsley said,
we know that it is often discouraging at the end of the day when
we haven't found him or any signs of him, But we want you to
know that every area that we search just gets us that much closer to finding
him. I've speculated and speculated. I don't know where he is. No
other sign of Garrett was found in the area. Did he wander from the
area and get lost? Was he abducted? Did a grizzly bear or a
mountain lion kill him? No sign of an attack was found, and strangely,
even his fishing rod was never found. Perhaps his remains lie in some
hidden crevice. So I want to switch up some here. I know when
we are researching these missing person cases, we often fall down many many rabbit
holes, but this one is very pertinent to this case. This article says
in two thousand and nine. Now this is five years after Garrett Bardsley went
missing, which would put him at roughly seventeen years old at the time.
Detectives say they are investigating a possible sighting in Nevada of Garrett Barsley, the
boy scout who disappeared in the Unita Mountains when he was twelve years old.
Nobody has reported seeing Bardsley's since the Utah County boy left his father's side to
retrieve a dry pair of shoes while fishing near the Mirror Lake Highway in August
two thousand and four. But August third, two thousand and nine, the
Summit County Sheriff's office received a tip from the America's Most Wanted television program that
Barsley was spotted with two men at a grocery store in Nevada. At the
end of July, a female in Elko, Nevada, explained that she was
twenty percent sure that she saw Garrett Bardsley and a Smith's in Elko. Summit
County Sheriff's Office Detective Rombridge said in a telephone interview Monday, we receive a
lot of tips like this, but this one actually came through America's Most Wanted,
so it was a little different for us. The Sheriff's office sent an
investigator this month to retrieve video footage from security cameras at Smith's Food and Drug
Center and Elko. Bridge. He said, we have seen the Smith's footage
from their security cameras. It is not one hundred percent clear, but the
possibility of it being Garrett Bardsley is very, very slim. He said.
The men officers are trying to identify also walked by a security camera inside a
bank at the store. Bridge explained, we are still in the process of
subpoenaing shopping records and bank video footage at Elko. Bridge said that Summit County
investigator met with the store director at Smith's and local law enforcement officials. We
spoke with him about the people who are in the film, trying to get
any information on them from a local law enforcement standpoint, but nobody knew them.
The store director in Elco would not comment about the case when reached Tuesday
by the Park Record. When a person is lost, we literally have hunter's
phone calls into our dispatch center giving us tips. Some people get them from
sources that are unorthodox, such as their pet, and some people claiming that
they are newly converted psychics. Still, we investigate every tip. For this
particular incident, there is video footage. Therefore, we are going to track
that down until it is exhausted, Bridge said. Bridge wouldn't say whether the
missing boy's father, Kevin Bardsley, has viewed security footage taken from the store.
We are constantly in contact with mister Bardsley, Bridge said, but what
we talk to mister Bardsley about is simply between law enforcement and mister Bardsley.
Again venturing down another rabbit trail that I have found in connection with this case,
well, I don't want to say in connection per se. It's in
the same area and happened less than a year after Garrett Bardsley went missing.
An eleven year old boy who vanished from a boy scout camp was found alive
and in good condition Tuesday after spending four days lost in the rugged utile wilderness.
Sheriff David Edmonds said Brennan Hawkins was a little dehydrated, a little weak,
but other than that he was in very good health. After downing bottles
of water and eating all the granola bars carried by a group of volunteer searchers,
the boy asked to play a video game on one rescuer's cell phone.
Sheriff said authorities planned to take the youngster to a hospital to be checked out.
Thousands of searchers, many of them volunteers, had scoured the area for
the boy, using long poles to probe a swollen river. The youngster,
from the Salt Lake City suburb of but of Bountiful, was found just before
noon near Lily Lake, about five miles from his camp in the Unita Mountains
where he was last seen. He was reunited with his parents and their four
other children. Brennan carried no food or water, and his family had said
he did not have a good sense of direction, but the sheriff said that
the knights had been warm, with tempters falling only into the fifties. The
area is about one hundred miles northeast of Salt Lake City. It was not
immediately clear how he survived or whether he tried to find his way back to
camp. He didn't really talk much at all, He just wanted something to
eat. Edmund said investigators will wait until the boy has had time to recover
before questioning him. Kay Godfrey, a spokeswoman for the Boy Scout's Great Salt
Lake Council, pronounced the boy's rescue a modern day miracle. Volunteer Forrest Nunley,
a forty three year old house painter from Salt Lake City, said he
found Brennan standing in the middle of the trail. He was all muddy and
wet. The boy saw some volunteer searchers on horseback, but he didn't want
to come out. He was too scared. He was a little delirious.
I sat him down and gave him a little food. Nonely said. During
the search, rescuers had feared the boy had fallen into a river that was
swollen by heavy snow melt. The east fork of the Bear River is within
one hundred yards of the road where the boy was believed to have been walking.
Deep water rescue teams searched the river while others combed the rugged area around
it. On Monday, rescuers found three socks and a sandal in the river,
but none belonged to Brennan. The boy's parents also sifted fruitlessly through enough
clothing collected from the mountains to fill the bed of the pick up. Among
the volunteer searchers was Kevin Barsley, whose twelve year old son Garrett, vanished
last August while camping at a nearby lake. Bardsley was never found despite a
week long search. Kevin is noted in saying, when we came off this
mountain in the winter, my friends and I decided right then if anyone came
back missing, we would be there immediately. So this brings in a lot
of questions for me comparing these two cases, and I did look into it.
The area where Brendan Hawkins was found, they were able to get ATV's
in there. The area where Garrett Bardsley went missing was more rugged, had
more boulder fields. Getting an ATV in there was absolutely ridiculous. There's just
no way that that would have been able to happen. The difference I see
between the two cases as well is in the Bardsley case. And I'm not
saying it's you do what you do when a child is missing. You're not
thinking straight as a parent and your only goal is finding your missing child.
But they searched a three mile radius. Now an I granted that's I agree
that that's a lot of area to cover, But I'm wondering if the outcome
would have been different if they would have searched a little bit farther. Now,
again, I'm not there. I wasn't there. I'm not saying what
they did was wrong. I'm just wondering because, in the comparison of these
two cases, this little boy Brennan traveled five miles away from his camp.
So, hypothetically speaking, if Garrett had traveled five miles away from his camp
and got was lost, would he had been found within those other two miles
or three miles or four miles? So in the article that I had read
concerning Garrett, he wasn't that far away from this lake. He was three
hundred and ninety three feet away from where he and his dad were fishing.
When he was making his way back to camp to change his shoes and his
socks, there was a Nike sock found that was wet and waited up.
And if you research this case, you will find that one of the volunteer
searchers claimed that sock, saying that it was his, that he had taken
it off. But in my opinion, that were my sock as a searcher,
and I had taken it off, I wouldn't have left it laying in
the ground in similar places that this little boy had his socks. And when
they showed the mom the sock that was found, she was one hundred percent
sure that that was Garrett's sock. Also, you have a grown man foot
compared to a twelve year old boy, there's going to be a size difference,
and I promise you that a grown man will not be able to fit
his foot into this child's sock. He had no provisions or backpack. He
still had his fishing pole, which you know he's not found. I mean,
he's gonna come right back, right, Why would I you know,
hyphazardly, he's just in his hand when he takes off walking. I don't
think there's anything too suspicious about that that a lot of people do. But
that's again, it's just my opinion. I really think, in my heart
of hearts, with his dad having to yell out directions to him to get
back to camp to make sure he was one hundred percent correct about how to
get back to camp. I really think that on the way there he got
sidetracked. He got distracted in half a second. The woods can they all
look the same, and you can get turned around in no time flat.
And I really think, in my heart of hearts, that that is what
it would happen to Garrett. And if you look at pictures of the area
surrounding his camp and the Boulder fields, I really think that he had fallen
into one of the crevices there and they were unable to find him. It's
been twenty years this year this August, it'll be twenty years. There's never
been any sign of him. There's never been any clothing, his fishing pole
is it hasn't turned up. It's a very bizarre case, it is.
And we say it all the time. We say it all the time.
Here one minute, gone the next, And I really I don't think that
he was abducted. I know within the other article that I read where this
lady called and said, you know, I'm about twenty percent sure. You
got to figure the timeline. This is five years from his previous picture.
In his previous picture, he has a gap in his front teeth. He
is seeing with braces. If somebody abducted him and then brought him out into
the public five years later, he would have to have new clothing, you
know, with the races, I'm not sure how that would work. I
really don't feel that that was Garrett Barnsley, unfortunately. I just I really
don't think that that's what it was. Now, in this particular area,
there are no paranormal happenings. And as the case that you guys just heard
from Wayne about Morgan, they're one second and gone the next. So it's
like it happens, and it happens everywhere with no explanation. I'm researching more
cases today and they are mind boggling. Twenty five and thirty year old men
walk into these areas and they vanish. So within a three mile radius,
this little boy was looked for by over two hundred people, but he is
just gone. It doesn't make any sense to me, do I not always
jumped to the conclusion of well, this was strange, this was paranormal,
this was bigfoot, this was he just disappeared. It's like he walked into
a portal and was gone, and he's been gone. It's it's got wrenching,
but I don't really know how else to explain it except he fell and
he lost his life that way, or something paranormal happened. But you have
to make that decision. I would love to hear your comments about this.
If you have any suggestions for more cases for us to look up, absolutely
send them our way Wayne at Paranormal World Productions dot com or me Tiffany at
Paranormal World Productions dot com. These happen everywhere every day, So when you
go out on a hike, use your brain. Do not leave the trail
with your children. Please hold their hand because in an instant they could be
gone. I understand that this little boy was twelve and he was coming into
his own and his dad's probably thinking that way. However, when it comes
to even being a mere three hundred and ninety three feet away, he's gone.
So please do take care of yourselves when you go out into the woods
hiking. I know that that is a very popular pastime, and I think
that it can be done safely, and I think it could be done the
right way, and sometimes even done the right way, you disappear. It's
just you have to be on guard everywhere you go. But until we talk
again, please take care of yourselves and watch out for those little babies.
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