WEBVTT 1 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:34.840 Welcome back to the Pathway Chili. I'm Robin, I'm Jules. 2 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:38.280 And I'm Ashley. Let's dive right into this week's case. 3 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:44.920 November fifteenth, nineteen twenty eight, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, 4 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:47.960 twenty nine year old Glen Hyde and his twenty two 5 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:51.200 year old wife Bessie decide to spend their honeymoon taking 6 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:53.880 a rafting trip down the rapids of the Colorado River. 7 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.359 Shortly after stopping at the home of a photographer named 8 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:01.439 Emery Colb, the Hidees vanished without a and their empty 9 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.040 boat is discovered in the river over one month later. 10 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.359 Over the next several decades, there would be a number 11 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:10.239 of twists and turns, including a woman you claimed to 12 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:13.680 be Bessie Hyde, and the discovery of an unidentified male 13 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.480 skeleton in Emery Colb's boat house, but no trace of 14 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:20.799 Glen or Bessie is ever found after that. 15 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.719 The path went Chili, So on this episode we are 16 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.519 going to be traveling back nearly an entire century to 17 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:29.920 cover a mystery which took place in the Grand Canyon, 18 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:34.040 the nineteen twenty eight disappearances of Glenn and Bessie Hyde. Anyway, 19 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:36.680 if you're an unsolved Mysteries fan, you're probably familiar with 20 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:39.079 this story as it was featured on the very first 21 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:42.439 episode of the show, hosted by Robert Stack. Glen and 22 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.959 Bessie Hyde were a newlywed couple who decided to take 23 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.599 a very adventurous honeymoon by embarking on a lengthy whitewater 24 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:51.920 rafting trip through the Grand Canyon along the Colorado River, 25 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.319 and they hoped to find fame by achieving a new 26 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:57.560 speed record, but they would eventually go missing, and even 27 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.439 though the couple's empty boat was found completely into with 28 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.359 all their supplies still on board, Glenn and Bessie had 29 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.359 seemingly vanished into thin air. This story has become a 30 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:10.000 pretty legendary unsolved disappearance with a number of twists and turns, 31 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:13.639 and even contains a compelling mystery within a mystery, as 32 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:16.400 a skeleton initially believed to be Glenn Hyde, would be 33 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:18.719 found on the property of one of the last people 34 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.080 known to have seen the couple alive. Four decades later, 35 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.039 there would also be a woman who popped up on 36 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:26.919 another rafting trip through the Grand Canyon and told a 37 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.039 number of witnesses that she was Bessie Hyde and had 38 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.599 disappeared on her own and started a new life after 39 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:35.520 killing her husband. All we know for certain is that 40 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:37.960 nearly one hundred years have passed since the Hides went 41 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.599 missing and they have still never been found. So I 42 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:42.759 thought it was about time that the path went. Chile 43 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:47.400 tackled the very first Mysterious Legends case featured on Unsolved Mysteries. 44 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:51.319 Can my mouth already be hanging open? Because I need 45 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:53.360 you guys to back up and clarify a couple of 46 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:55.479 things for me. One, how cool that it was on 47 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:58.599 the very first episode of Unsolved Mysteries. But okay, a 48 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.599 body was founded. They believe Eve to be Glenn Hyde 49 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:04.319 with the last known person he was seen with. And 50 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.240 this woman forty years later says, I'm Bessie Hyde and 51 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.759 I disappeared on my own after I killed my husband. 52 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:14.240 Is there any information more about those two incidences and 53 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.639 are we positive that either are either true or false 54 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:18.199 at this time? 55 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:20.800 Oh yeah, we'll definitely talk a lot more about them 56 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:24.120 and talk about whether or not they are credible or not. 57 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:27.159 But I brought up those two twists because I remember 58 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.759 when I watched the Unsolved Mystery segment way back in 59 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.240 like the late nineteen eighties. That that's what they focused on, 60 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.439 the woman claiming to be Bessie and the mysterious skeleton 61 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:37.919 found in the boat house belonging to Emery colp And 62 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.280 I was like, what is going on here? Like? Are 63 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:43.240 these connected to each other? I mean, when you first 64 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:46.280 hear about a couple going missing on a whitewater rafting trip, 65 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:49.879 you're thinking, initially, okay, it's probably obviously drowned. But then 66 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.080 they had all these weird twists and turns come up 67 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.120 in the story several decades later. 68 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:58.319 Yes, that's where I am too. Are these real? What's happening? 69 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:00.840 This is crazy? So keep telling me more. 70 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.680 Okay. So our story begins in nineteen twenty eight, and 71 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:10.560 our central figures are a newlywed couple from Twin Falls, Idaho, 72 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.479 twenty nine year old Glen Hyde and his twenty two 73 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.720 year old wife, Bessie Hyde. Glenn makes his living as 74 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.360 a farmer, and the circumstances of how he got married 75 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:23.639 to Bessie are pretty unusual, ironically enough, given what eventually 76 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.519 happened to them. The couple first met on a passenger 77 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:30.519 ship traveling from San Francisco to Los Angeles in February 78 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:33.480 of nineteen twenty seven, and they pretty much fell head 79 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.360 over heels in love with each other. The problem was 80 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:39.439 that Bessie was technically still married to another man in 81 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.879 another state at that point. Bessie was born in Maryland 82 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:46.759 and raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia, under the name Bessie Hayley, 83 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:50.079 and was attending Marshall College when she married a man 84 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:53.720 named Earl Helmick in Kentucky in June of nineteen twenty six. 85 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:56.639 Even though Bessie and Earle had known each other for 86 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:00.319 years and attended high school together, their relationship was pretty 87 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.959 much doomed from the start, as Earle was known to 88 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.279 have a violent temper. The couple lived together for less 89 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:09.360 than two months before they separated, and Bessie moved to 90 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.920 San Francisco to study art in poetry at the California 91 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:16.279 School of Fine Arts. It's been reported that while she 92 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:19.360 was living there, Earl sent Bessie money for an operation, 93 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.279 fueling speculation that she'd traveled out West to terminate an 94 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.560 unwonted pregnancy or to secretly give birth to a child 95 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:28.879 that she put up for adoption, but this has never 96 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:32.959 officially been confirmed. Whatever the case, Bessie would meet Glen 97 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.560 several months later and wanted to marry him as soon 98 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.800 as possible, but Earle refused to grant her a divorce. 99 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:43.000 In response, Bessie decided to move to Elko, Nevada, since 100 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:45.560 the state had the most lenient divorce laws in the 101 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.399 country at that time. She lived there for a couple 102 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.800 of months to meet the residency requirements and filed for divorce, 103 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:55.720 which was officially granted on April eleventh, nineteen twenty eight, 104 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.519 when Earle failed to show up in court to contest it. Bessie, 105 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.800 then in meeting, mediately traveled to Twin Falls to meet 106 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:04.120 up with Glenn, and they were married the following day. 107 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:08.120 So when you look at this, are we sure that 108 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.399 there was money actually sent for this quote operation or 109 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:14.000 is that still part of the speculation That. 110 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:16.000 Is part of the speculation. I mean, this was back 111 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.199 during the nineteen twenties, so I don't think we have 112 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:20.720 like any hard records of this, and I think it's 113 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.879 pretty much just gossip and rumors that they suspected that 114 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:26.519 Bessie may become pregnant. And of course this is the 115 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.519 nineteen twenties, when an abortion or giving up a child 116 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:32.560 for adoption with scandalous, so they figured that, well, this 117 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:34.560 is one of those cases where they sent her away 118 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.279 before anyone noticed she was pregnant, and then just she 119 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:41.319 miraculously reappeared after she had either terminated or given birth 120 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:43.639 to the child. But it just kind of shows that 121 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:45.279 Bessie was a woman who was kind of ahead of 122 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:47.759 her time for willing to go through this during the 123 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:50.720 nineteen twenties, and that she was a very independent woman 124 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.000 who probably would not have been happy in a marriage 125 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.920 to a guy like Earle and was much happier meeting 126 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:57.839 up with an adventurous guy like Glenn. 127 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.560 What's also interesting is that divorce would have been scandalous, 128 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.480 and so even if the let's say the pregnancy rumors 129 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:08.120 are false and there was no abortion or adoption, just 130 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:10.879 her fact of saying, like, I'm so much over this 131 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:13.560 other marriage, right, whether she was being abused or just 132 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.800 wasn't happy or whatever was happening, she left her husband 133 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:19.560 so had the confidence to have her own independence, and 134 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.639 then does this whole elaborate scheme to go get residency 135 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:26.759 somewhere else and actually petition for a divorce, risking the 136 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:28.600 fact that he could show up if he ever found 137 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.000 out about it, but really having this confidence that I 138 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:32.639 bet I can beat the system and get away from 139 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:35.399 this man and the very next day go be with 140 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.959 my adventurer. Glenn's pretty pretty bold, especially back in the 141 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:43.600 nineteen twenties, but I mean even today, that's a lot 142 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:45.639 of power that she wielded. 143 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:48.360 And it is kind of relevant to what we're going 144 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:50.639 to talk about later because when we explore the theory 145 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.560 about whether she decided to disappear on her own to 146 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:55.600 get away from Glenn and start a new life, and 147 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.240 you realize, well, she had gone through something like this 148 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.000 before with her previous husband, so it's not impossible she 149 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:04.720 could have attempted something like that again. Anyway, since Glenn 150 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.720 was an avid outdoorsman and an experienced rafter who had 151 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:10.680 run the salmon and snake rivers in Idaho, he came 152 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.519 up with a very unusual idea for a delayed honeymoon. 153 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:17.680 Glenn constructed a two tent. Glenn constructed a two ton, 154 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.360 twenty foot long, five and a half foot wide, flat 155 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.680 bottom wooden sweep scout, which he named Rain in the Face, 156 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.560 and decided that he and Bessie would spend their honeymoon 157 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.720 taking a lengthy whitewater rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. 158 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.720 They would travel to Green River, Utah, and spend the 159 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:35.519 next several weeks in their scou traveling hundreds of miles 160 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:38.519 down the rapids of the Colorado River before they arrived 161 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:42.159 in Needles, California. The Colorado River was considered to be 162 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:44.480 the most dangerous stretch of water in the world at 163 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:47.159 that point, and only forty five people had managed to 164 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.759 travel the full two hundred and seventy seven mile length 165 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:52.720 of the Grand Canyon by river. But Glenn was an 166 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.399 adventurous thrill seeker who wanted to set a brand new 167 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:58.639 all time speed record, and by taking Bessie along, she 168 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.320 would make history by because I mean, the first documented 169 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:04.840 woman to run the canyon. If they succeeded, the couple 170 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.879 would likely become famous, and Glenn hoped that Bessie would 171 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:10.279 use the writing skills to publish a book so they 172 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:14.399 can make money recounting their adventure by touring the lecture circuit. Well, 173 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.639 in spite of Glenn's vast river rapting experience, Bessie was 174 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:19.799 pretty much a complete novice at this sort of thing. 175 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.600 Glenn also made the decision not to carry any life 176 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.360 jackets on board the boat, as apparently using life jackets 177 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:28.679 was just not something that was done in Idaho during 178 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.320 that time period, and they were not even readily available. 179 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:35.279 Okay, let's backtrack to this idea and the description of 180 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:38.679 their craft. Okay, I love when you describe it. Used 181 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.759 it a two ton, twenty foot long, five and a 182 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:45.600 half foot wide, flat bottom wooden sweep scal And after 183 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:47.639 that tongue twister, I went what the heck is that 184 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:52.120 and googled it. Guys, it's basically like a huck Finn raft. Okay, 185 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:55.600 side on it. It looks like you're going to be 186 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:59.519 in an adventure novel. And for someone who's a novice, 187 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:02.840 that's pretty crazy and scary, like my guts, like, uh, 188 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:05.840 they simply had an accident and they drown or something happened. 189 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:08.480 They hit their head on a rock because I would 190 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:12.399 not go down on this sweep scal named rain in 191 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.799 the face, right, it looks incredibly dangerous and they're not 192 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:19.039 going down just some quiet river, they're going whitewater rafting. 193 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:21.919 So if you get a chance, google it. It's crazy. 194 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:25.360 I do see where his adventure side said, we could 195 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:29.519 really make something of this if we survived Asterist Right, 196 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:32.279 if we survived this trip, we would be the talk 197 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:35.679 of the town because this is crazy. You are correct, Glenn, 198 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.600 it's crazy. So I assume that life vests were basically 199 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.919 like seat belts used to be, where they just weren't 200 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.840 part of the narrative and they just weren't very common. 201 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.200 And so not shaming him for not having life jackets, 202 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.399 but my god, he was definitely taking a knowing risk 203 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:55.559 putting her on this sweep scal because, like I said, 204 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:59.279 I just picture, you know, these two main characters with 205 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.559 a piece of wood shoving themselves off the you know, 206 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.879 side of a slow river. That's not what's happening here. 207 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.200 They're going whitewater rafting on this basically flat piece of wood. 208 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:13.320 I picture Bessie, who has gone through this arduous process 209 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.559 of getting this divorce from her husband with the violent temper, 210 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:19.759 and then she meets Glenn, you know, she falls in love, 211 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:22.720 they get married, they're going on this honeymoon and then 212 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.200 he's like, hey, babe, I've made this scow like on 213 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.279 of wood, and guess what, We're going to go down 214 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:32.480 a river and we don't have any flotation devices, so 215 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:35.120 we're just taking our life in our hands. Yes, we've 216 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.799 found love and we will be legends if we make 217 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.240 it all the way through, but who knows, we may 218 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:41.440 not escape with our lives. 219 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:43.840 It's a big if, right, And I almost see her 220 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.440 like an Amelia Earhart character, Like she's got this scarf 221 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.559 flapping in the wind, and she's got her goggles on 222 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:49.120 and she's. 223 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:49.480 Ready to go. 224 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.919 But that's that's probably not what it looked like. 225 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:54.919 Yeah, And that's one of the big mysteries of this story, 226 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.879 because I've heard different narratives where some sources say that 227 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:01.080 Bessie was terrified of the idea, but some other sources 228 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:04.000 say she was enthusiastic. But most women when they hear 229 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:06.279 this story have this reaction saying, not only would I 230 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.120 not want to do this, but I certainly want to 231 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.200 wouldn't want to do this on my honeymoon to a 232 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.039 guy I just married, Because even though Glenn's added like 233 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:15.799 an adventurous guy, going down two hundred and seventy seven 234 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.519 miles in like a piece of wood is my idea 235 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:19.519 of a good time. 236 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.000 And like, would she have been as aware of the 237 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.879 safety risks as we are today? Like, I'm pretty sure 238 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:29.360 that's a big no, because they don't have access to 239 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:33.799 the internet, and if there are accidents doing something similar, like, 240 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:36.480 are you really going to hear about it? So you 241 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:39.120 really are going in blind in a way that we 242 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:40.000 wouldn't today. 243 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.679 Yeah, because they said forty five people made this trip 244 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.159 successfully at that point, but I guess they didn't hear 245 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:49.840 the statistics on how many people did nick successfully and 246 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:51.639 drowned who didn't live to. 247 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:53.960 Tell the tell, right, It's absolutely true. 248 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:57.759 It's like an old timey version of like doing K 249 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:03.120 two or something. The Hides began their trip in Green 250 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:06.759 River on October twentieth, and the legend has it that 251 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:10.360 an experienced river rafter who saw glens scow described it 252 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:14.000 as a quote Wooden Coffin, and he expressed his belief 253 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:15.480 that it's not safe enough. 254 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:16.240 For the sort of trip. 255 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.600 Regardless, the Hides managed to complete the first leg of 256 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.240 their journey and made it to the Grand Canyon National 257 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:25.399 Park in record time. The two hundred and seventy seven 258 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:28.559 mile trip through the canyon on the Colorado River could 259 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.559 easily be documented by the mile markers, which were placed 260 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.720 at various locations, and on November fifteen, the couple arrived 261 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.279 at the Phantom Ranch near River mile eighty eight. They 262 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:42.320 then proceeded to hike up the Bright Angel Trail until 263 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:45.519 they arrived at the home of a photographer named Emery Colb. 264 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:49.960 Emory and his brother, Ellsworth Colb had become legendary figures 265 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:53.840 in the Grand Canyon by successfully navigating the Colorado River 266 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:58.440 and filming the entire experience. Emory's home also doubled as 267 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:02.000 a photography studio named Cold Studio, which had been in 268 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:05.200 business for nearly twenty five years. At this point, Glenn 269 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:08.279 knew that Colb was pretty much the area's foremost expert 270 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:11.279 on the Colorado River, which is why he and Bessie 271 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.279 paid him a visit, and while there, the Hides asked 272 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:16.639 Colb to take a photograph of them posing by the 273 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:21.279 canyon's rim. However, during their interactions, Cold noticed that Bessie 274 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:23.600 seemed to have grown tired of the trip and appeared 275 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:26.440 apprehensive because they were about to embark on the most 276 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:29.759 dangerous stretch of the river. Earlier on their journey, while 277 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:33.320 traveling through the rapids of the Cataract Canyon, Bessie, who 278 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.159 was only five feet tall and weighed ninety pounds, was 279 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:39.080 knocked into the water, but Glenn managed to grab her 280 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.320 ankle and pull her back into the boat. Glunnad also 281 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:45.360 apparently fallen out of the scal on two separate occasions 282 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.559 before Bessie managed to get a rope to him. Since 283 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:51.000 the Hides were going to be facing cold winter weather, 284 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:54.320 Cold proposed the idea of them staying with him for 285 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:58.399 a while until the weather improved, but Glenn refused. Colb 286 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.519 also offered to let the hides boils his life jackets 287 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.559 or some inner tubes, but Glenn turned this down as well, 288 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:09.320 referring to the items as quote artificial aids and assuring 289 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:12.200 Cold but he and Bessie were both very strong swimmers. 290 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.759 Before the Hides left, Cold's young daughter said goodbye to them, 291 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.240 and Bessie looked at the shoes the girl was wearing 292 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:21.039 and said, quote, I wonder if I shall ever wear 293 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:25.679 pretty shoes again. End quote. The Hides then hiked back 294 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:28.679 down right Angel trail, climb back into their boat, and 295 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:30.240 continued their trip down the river. 296 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:34.240 Let's all think boat in quotes. Okay, because again this 297 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.320 is such a bizarre craft that they're going to travel 298 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.840 this really treacherous track on, and you listen to the 299 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.159 way that Glenn is actually given lifelines, and people who 300 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:47.600 are very familiar with the area are saying like, Hey. 301 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:48.879 Have you thought about this? 302 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.320 Do you want us to give you this? And it's 303 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.159 almost as though Glenn says, I don't want any of 304 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:58.440 those quote artificial aids because he so desperately wants that story. 305 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.360 We did it without this, We did it better than 306 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.240 the forty five people before us, right, he wants this 307 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:09.000 grand adventure story. And even in the face of seeing 308 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:13.720 Bessie's struggle, having people warn him about dangers, offering these 309 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:16.720 lifelines to him, seeing that Bessie's kind of getting worn out, 310 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.440 and knowing that they've already had close calls on the 311 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:23.240 easier part of the trip, it almost just seems like 312 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.840 arrogance and kind of ignorance on his part. 313 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.039 I just mentioned K two again. It reminds me of 314 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:31.000 people who are like, I want to hike to the 315 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:33.919 summit of either like Anna Perna or K two or 316 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:38.080 Everest without any oxygen, and it's like this badge of honors. 317 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:40.080 You'd be like, I made it to the top without 318 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:43.960 the oxygen, even though it's far safer to bring that 319 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.200 oxygen along with you and just use it. 320 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:48.159 If you need it, Yep, at the end, you made 321 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:48.600 it anyway. 322 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:49.360 It's like giving birth. 323 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.200 I'm like, give me all the medicine because I'm gonna 324 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:51.960 have a baby too. 325 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.159 Let's just do it. Yeah. I think it was just 326 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.480 a cultural thing at that time where Glenn grew up 327 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.240 in Idaho, just thinking you just don't wear life jackets 328 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:02.919 because if you take a trip like that and you 329 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.720 wear a quote unquote artificial aid the entire time, then 330 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:09.000 to totally invalidates your accomplishment. So I think that's why 331 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.359 he stubbornly refused to take them. 332 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:16.240 But it kind of feels like he's being rather reckless 333 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.039 and disregarding the safety of his wife, Like he would 334 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.079 rather have this badge of honor to be able to 335 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:23.920 make it without an artificial aid than ensure that Betsy 336 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:26.440 is safe. If you don't want the life jacket or 337 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:28.400 the inner two, cool, but like, why don't you ask 338 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:30.079 Betsy what she wants to do? 339 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.519 So the following day, the hide stop at a tourist 340 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.079 facility and bumped into a tourist named Adolf Gilbert Sutro, 341 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:40.079 whose grandfather had been mayor of San Francisco during the 342 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.559 late nineteenth century. In exchange for some supplies, the Hides 343 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:45.440 agreed to allow suit Or to hitch a ride on 344 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:47.400 their boat with them for the next couple of miles 345 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:51.559 while they traveled downstream to Hermit Camp. Sutro took one 346 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.079 final photograph of Glenn and Bessie before they went their 347 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:56.960 separate ways, but after this there would be no more 348 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:59.960 confirmed sightings of the Hides. They failed to arrive at 349 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.279 the Needles, California at their schedule time, and when Glenn's father, 350 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.079 Our Sea Hide, did not hear from them by December 351 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:09.240 to sixth, he organized a search effort involving the National 352 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:13.839 Park Service and several volunteers. Arcia had previously lost two 353 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.640 sons when they were children, and was so dedicated to 354 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:19.640 finding Glenn that he pretty much drove himself into poverty 355 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:23.559 by financing multiple searches over the next few years. At 356 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:26.279 one point during their journey, the Hides across passed with 357 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:28.920 a reporter from the Denver Post and shared their story, 358 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.759 which soon garnered some coverage in the press, and by 359 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:34.119 the time the couple went missing, the search for them 360 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.400 became national news. In fact, the story got so much 361 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.039 attention that it even wound up reaching President Calvin Coolidge, 362 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:44.039 who ordered his Secretary of War to authorize an air 363 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:47.480 search of Grand Canyon National Park with an army plane. 364 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:50.599 While on December the nineteenth, the plane finally spotted the 365 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:53.359 Hyde skow, which appeared to be trapped in some rocks 366 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:55.680 in the middle of the water near river mile two 367 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:58.960 thirty seven. Even though the boat seemed to be intact, 368 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.039 Glen and Bessie were not inside. It would not be 369 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:05.559 until Christmas Day when a search party which included Emery 370 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:09.119 and Ellsworth Cob made it to this location and located 371 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:11.839 the scow. Much like when it was spotted from the 372 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.079 search plane, the boat was fully intact, with no noticeable 373 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.240 signs of damage, and was fully stocked with supplies and 374 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:22.000 the hide's personal possession, including their clothing and hiking boots, 375 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:25.240 Glenn's rifle, and a diary that Betsy had been using 376 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:28.440 to chronicle their journey. The only thing which appeared to 377 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:32.079 be missing was the hides themselves. Forty two notches were 378 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:35.119 found carved in the boat's gunwale, which seemed to represent 379 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:38.200 each day of the trip. If the count was accurate, 380 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:40.640 then this meant that the last notch had been carved 381 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.720 on November thirtieth, which coincided with the date of the 382 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:47.920 final entry in Bessie's diary. The scow's bowline stretched from 383 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:49.960 the front of the boat into the river and appeared 384 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.160 to be fastened into crevice in one of the rocks 385 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.720 and had caught on something underwater. Since the Coal brothers 386 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:58.559 had no success with their attempts to dislodge the bowline, 387 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:01.640 they decided to cut it. In spite of this discovery, 388 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:06.200 subsequent search efforts turned up no trace of Glenn or Bessie. 389 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:08.480 Am I right to think that it sounds as if 390 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:11.920 the scal gets there almost like it floated down river 391 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:15.440 without someone on it and gets lodged in this place, 392 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:18.400 And that rope was not officially tied off, it was 393 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:20.960 actually jammed in somewhere and kind of caught up on stuff. 394 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:24.079 Yeah, that's what some people think. And there's even speculation 395 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:26.279 that it could have been attached to maybe Glenn or 396 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:29.000 Bessie's body, and that maybe the cold has made a 397 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:31.319 mistake by cutting the bowline, because if they had pulled 398 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:33.480 up on it, they might have found the couple. But 399 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:35.319 this has never been conclusively proven. 400 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:38.039 Ooh, even if one of them was trying to save 401 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:41.200