Appalachia Unsolved: Trenny Gibson
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Why can't I comment? It doesn't have a comment button to be able to comment. I had to click on your comment to be able to wrote anything.
Those candles are so pretty!
Im reading your comment right now
Thank you!
I burn them in my office daily for inspiration as I write stories@@primesspct2
Where the trail ended for the dogs was next to a highway. That really complicates things.
Or does it simplify things??
I think a car picked her up
That’s my exact thought. Could be anywhere from that point 😢
Yeah, I think someone picked her up on the highway. She was surely tired from being lost and accepted a ride from the wrong man/people soon discovering her relief at getting a ride turned to horror. She was a victim of foul play and will never be found. Poor girl.
I think a car picked her up and that person had bad intentions
This old man and grandfather was brought to tears by this story 😢😢😢
Aww. It is very sad and mysterious. I always feel so badly for the family to not have answers and to not have any remains to try to move forward with. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to.😢😢
I remember when this happened. Our school in WNC disbanded our hiking club after she disappeared. Too many parents said that it hit far too close to home for comfort and their children weren't going to be involved in a club such as couldn't keep up with all the kids outdoors.
Another good story. That boy that she was walking with should never have left her by herself. I get the feeling he knows something.
That is a theory folks have James
Certainly stuck out to me.
But her friends saw her later than that point according to the video. What did she look at on the ground? Where were her footprints in soft muddy ground, that they had to wait for bloodhounds in the rain to find her trail?
What kind of person says he wants to look for bears??? BS
Sad she's never been found. It seems very strange that she just disappeared with everyone around her.
I remember this incident. It has always been so easy to get lost in the Smokies. You could go ten feet from the parking lot and lose your sense of direction.
Agree 100%
True. Many people think jungles are all in the tropics, but not so. These woods are as dense as they get.
You created an excellent tribute to her, providing details of her academic and financial success that I had never heard about. I'm from the Knoxville area, born in 1976, and hadn't heard of the case until a year or two ago. My grandmother's maiden name was Gibson and she loved eating at the Morrison's Cafeteria at West Town Mall. A small world. I hope Trenny wasn't abducted, because there are unnecessary fates worse than death, which is inevitable to us all.
Sometimes is just plain luck that some of us made it when we were young. This crap is still going on we just know a bit more & have technology (phone tracking). You basically need a phone to do anything 👀
I am just a little younger than Trenny. Back then, teachers told us to partner up with another student and stay together at all times. The boy's story does not sit well with me.
When my kids were in elementary school in the 80s/90s they always had parents to go and help with the kids. Even tho these were high school kids, there still should have been at least 3 or 4 more adults with assigned groups.
I was an elementary school teacher much more recently. My kids were always teamed up for trips, and were taught to look out for each other… they were responsible to make sure their partner was seen with the group and holler if not. There was always a parent with every five kids too… I know this wouldn’t be necessary in high school but still, the boy going for to look for bears bothers me.
If she was in the middle of the line I can't believe all the kids behind her took theirs eyes off her at the same time and didn't see her leave. There's always 1 kid that's not paying attention and looking around
@@ritadyer9295 I agree with you 100%!
@DaisyA-04 In my school district, in the 70s, they called it the "Buddy System".
My granddaughter and grandson and my granddaughter boyfriend went hiking last Monday in those Appalachian Mountains. Up in the Smokeies .I was worried to death 🥺 about them. Thank God he was watching over them.
amen
Good job J.D. Her story reminds me of the young boy back in the 60,s where he was in eye sight of his family one minute and vanished within a few minutes and they never found him either.....in somewhat same area but towards Sevier county.......ALOT of Mountain range to cover.....sad story for sure.
yup, the mountains are a lot bigger than folks realize when looking for someone
Are you talking about little Dennis Martin? If so, the areas they disappeared from were close together.
I instantly knew you were talking about Dennis. I've heard a tale I'm not sure is true about what happened to him.
Dennis Martin?
@@TheldaWoodyou care to share?
They are strange things that happen in these mountains that can’t be explained.
That is for sure !
Her father was a funeral director.
Evil spirits at work??
Or maybe I'm just superstitious.
@@redtobertshateshandlesAccording to this video he was a salesman.
That's the Smokies down to a T. Trenney was far from being the only one. I think the most bizarre one was Polly Melton. She and her girlfriends were taking a casual walk on the Deep Creek Trail on the NC side. Polly got a little ahead of the others. She got out of sight when going over the top of a hill. That was the last anyone ever saw Polly.
I've heard a lot of theories about what might have happened to her. This was in 1981. Look it up.
Thank you, JD, for keeping this case alive.
yes ma'am
One of those missing person mysteries which never gets solved, so sad. I was watching a documentary ages ago about some investigators trying to match up unidentified bodies , buried in the sixties/seventies, pre DNA, with missing persons of that era, because there was a case in Australia which matched up a missing girl using this method. Apparently there’s thousands over the decades across the states. Some killers have transported their victims remains through several states before disposing of them out in the sticks. I can’t imagine how I’d cope if a child of mine vanished into thin air…….torture! 🙏🏼✌🏻
I think she hitched a ride with the wrong person. God only knows what really happened to that sweet child.
Nice job as aleays, JB! Thanks!
Close to a highway
I started to get suspicious at “good churches”.
Exactly 💯 @@marianparoo1544
Having been up there many times, I think she fell from a steep spot and landed in a very dense area way below where you’d have to come on her just right to see her. This is not an area you would want to fall in, they’d never find you unless someone saw you fall and even then. It’s sad her family never had closure.
Bloodhounds would have found her
Also, they lost her scent by the highway. It sounds like an abduction.
Agree. The simple explanation is most likely
@@MBB9394 Maybe so and maybe no. She disappeared on a rainy day and the rain continued after she disappeared, which may have acted to wash her scent far off and away from where she actually went. Having been involved with helping train SAR dogs, I know how tough it is to teach dogs to follow the actual trail and not the trail that the handler thinks the victim took. Were all 3 bloodhounds from the same agency or group? Were they independently certified? How often did they run double blind tracks, where the handler did not know the tracklayer or the route the tracklayer took?
Additionally, if she fell off the trail, she may have left a broken trail if she was intermittently airborne and she may have landed in a spot where the local geography and air currents caused a scent puddle--a place where the scent gets sealed in and does not spread out as normal. I saw it happen once with a duck when I was out hunting. The duck fell into a little dip or hollow and the air currents were such that the dog was literally standing over the duck and could not scent him. One of the weirdest things I'd ever seen--when the dog finally looked down, the dog actually grunted in surprise.
@@GrainneDhub-ll6vwlots of great information, thanks for your input
I live in Texas and lost my mom in November. I rented a cabin above pigeon forge for 9 days. I have been a sensitive all my life and it was my first trip there. I think that it's beautiful there but the ENTIRE time I was there I felt a really heavy, uncomfortable energy and I always felt like I was being watched, felt no peace, no relaxation and I actually was counting the last three days down, ready to leave. I have family all over Southeast Kentucky and have spent a lot of time there. It ALWAYS felt like home and I hated to leave. The Gatlinburg area was DEFINITELY not that way
In 2016, a wildfire roared thru the Gatlinburg area, and killed a number of people(14, if I remember right, but I'm not certain about that). Three of my friends fled their mountain rental that night, and barely escaped with their lives. They didn't have time to grab their belongings, and the rental they were in burnt to the ground. I feel negative energy in the area now, but attribute it to my knowledge of what happened there. I have stayed in the Pigeon Forge/Sevierville/Gatlinburg area numerous times, but I don't think I'll ever go back. I do still take day trips into the mountains. I live close enough I can do that, then return home, although it's a three hour drive. It's a beautiful place, but I no longer want to spend the night there.
Try another area in our NC mountains. I felt that way and worse in WV. Eerie
@@TheldaWood my dad took me to Crater Lake in Oregon. Lots of weird stuff happened there. I wasn’t aware of that at the time but I felt so uncomfortable there. Couldn’t wait to leave.
Perhaps a cryptid was around.
Good morning JD, as I'm watching this video another Unsolved Mystery from 1976 has been pulled from a river in Pecatonica Illinois. Two missing senior businessman have been found after almost 50 years. 0:06
Hopefully Trenny will be solved. 🙏
Wow what r some details? Were they found in a vehicle?
wow!
@@karenroot450
Yes, they were found together in a vehicle and they confirmed that the bones belong to the two missing businessmen. Stay safe 🙏
@@bigiron8831 thanks for the info 50 years missing is just insane. E zip But better to be late with closure than to have nothing
This story just hurts to the core for the family. I looked up another background story on the search and they claim her comb was found in the guy's car who walked with her and a girl at her HS ended up with her jewelry. So, unless I am missing something, there is the answer: who gave the girl the jewelry?
I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s. We always used the buddy system. When at camp or on a field trip you were never alone.
OMGosh her stalker re-entered school where she attended?Poor girl. Her poor grieving family. So sad.
I hope answers are eventually found.
First off I love the hand that comes up to post and then remove the small notifications! Great. Unfortunately Trenny will probably never be found. That’s my opinion at least. Too many weird events. Did someone make her detour to The Appalachian Trail? Was she picked up at the highway? I do hope the family can get what people refer to as closure. JD I’m loving this new series on your channel. Good job telling this one. Your voice has an amazing depth to it.
Thank you so much Karen! Im still working out the kinks with this new series as far as what day Im gonna release them each week, probably weds/thursday. But don't you worry, I will still be releasing old fashioned storytelling on Saturdays.
The person who wanted to do her harm couldn’t have picked a better place. God Rest Her Soul 💜
As always excellent story telling.
Thank you Nora!
I recently found this channel. Super interesting. Thank you.
Thank you so glad to have you here my friend
I pray the family can get some closure. This is heart breaking.
The teacher was pathetically irresponsible. He wanted to be the cool teacher, so he didn't cancel the trip. She paid the price. "Hey kids were in a huge national park. Walk in small groups at your own speed. It's ok to roam freely! I mean, what could happen?!"
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Let’s not forget these were juniors in high school in the 70s. Not sure of your age but things were a bit different back then.
@@jennyterrell6354I grew up the the 60’s and 70’s. You’re correct. What they did would have not been unusual. Back in the 70’s we had a school trip to DC. They were building the subway at the time. We’d go out in the evening and walk through some of the tunnel that were near our hotel. Yep, things were a wee bit different back then.
I read that they sued the teacher but I wonder what happened to him?? Is he still alive? I wonder if he felt tormented by guilt.
I was just a couple years older than Trenny Gibson. Back in the 1970s, we went on field trips in junior high school and high school with only one teacher to supervise the whole class and no one thought anything of it. Everyone, teachers, school administration, parents, assumed that we were old enough to know that we should stay with the class and not go straying off. We were expected to be responsible and we were. Heck, forget school trips, I rode hunter/jumpers and was into horse showing. As soon as I got my driver's license at age 16, I started driving to horse shows on my own, up to 350 miles away. Stayed in motels on my own and everything. My parents didn't lecture me but the unspoken expectation was that horse showing was a privilege and that privilege would be revoked if I did not conduct myself responsibly. Since I was the typical horse mad teenage girl, of course I walked the straight and narrow. No problems.
I she was distraught at becoming lost and a bad actor offered her a ride. Most plausible explanation.
A lot of people have disappeared in our forests... some say there are portals to another dimension 😵💫 In any case, it's tragic to have a child go missing.
Great story JD 😎👍
That's something I never thought about- Portals!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller 😏
Big foot, dogman, etc too...
I thought about portals too, but her scent was picked up by the dogs in another location off the path. I think she was abducted, and it's likely this was planned. Remember, her scent couldn't be traced when she was close to the highway. It's likely a car took over from there. God bless this girls soul. There's a lot of evil in this story. People just don't disappear in the middle of a group. I think it was planned. The guy with her at some point, decides he's gonna leave her to look for bears??? Yea, right!!! BS!
@@bl8680 you're likely right..🤔
Heart breaking to think what her family went through for the rest of their lives. The whole community too.
I didn’t think I would enjoy these dark tales as I’ve enjoyed your folk tales… yet you’ve once again caught my attention completely… burning your misses candle as speak’n
I burn those candles as I write these
I personally always found this one to be the most baffling 411 missing case. Even with abduction involved and even in the 70's, it was remarkable if that was it. A girl that age snatched in seconds with multiple witnessess that saw nothing. It's insane.
Incredible storytelling!
Thank you Scully
I've always been afraid of the woods. It's so isolating and you never know who is around. I wish she had never gone on the hike.
Happy Thursday!
Hey there Robbie!
I don't ever think I've heard it reported that her scent was tracked to the highway. That leads me to believe that she got a ride with the wrong person. Poor gal! What a horrible situation, all around.
I was in school in the 1970s. Kids could not go on field trips without a permission slip signed by their parents.
Hi JD! Such a sad story, but many possibilities of what happened to her. I feel sorry for her family, such heartache. I’m sure her parents will never give up.
Have a blessed evening!
Thank you Willow! Hope you are having a wonderful week, hope to see you Saturday morning for a new Granny Tollette Story
Parents must be gone by now....
Right off the bat we see a picture of Shoney's Big Boy who always had the best hamburgers, milkshakes and strawberry pie! Yum! Yum! And today is Pi(e) day too. Hahaha
Good to hear your voice JD, too bad it's a sad story tho. Thank you for remembering Trenny and for this video!
Thank you Joanla
Yes I agree with James & the others. Why all of a sudden he decided to leave her alone when he’d been with her since the arrived on the bus?? I hope & pray that at least her remains are found so her family & friends can have peace. ❤️✝️🙏
❤❤❤ the boy who had stalked her could have picked her up around the highway where the trail ended ...the next day. He could have been in school that day she went missing but the next day he went looking for her and then found her and took her. He could have gotten away with it because no one was watching him that weekend at all.
I agree. After, the other kids got back to school, the kid with the grudge would have definately got the word that she was left out there. He could have gone out with some buddies after school to find her. The dad said he thought that kid had something to do with it and I would follow the dads lead because he had a good connection with his kid.
Enjoyed again, JD, sad story anything possible,
I'm thinking she was either abducted from someone traveling the road she was near- her scent ended there. I also remember stories of feral people in the Appalachias. I'm wondering if they found her. I can't imagine what her family went through all the years she's been gone. Another great video dear, stay safe and GOD bless
I'm from the area and think the feral people are just a myth, though homelessness has become an issue over the past year or two. I don't think it was an issue in the mid-'70s.
Good afternoon, JD, and what a pleasant surprise to get your notification! You've spun another good'n friend telling the story in a way that holds one's attention. Saturday morning can't come fast enough and I'll see ya then Brother!
got a good ole fashioned story for you Saturday
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I'll be here, Lord willing and the creek don't rise!
I’m baffled by the part that says she bent over to look at something on the trail, and then just disappeared. How much time went by between her bending over and people noticing she was gone? Why would she walk away from everyone? That doesn’t make sense to me.
That's what I thought. Seems like nobody paid any Attention much.
One obvious possibility would be that she needed to pee.
Love these stories!
Thank you!
Yes, I love this series!
thank you!
Great but sad story, appreciate ya cuz.
Great story 😊😊
Thank you!
Such a sad story. Feel so bad for her family.
amen
Anytime the trail hits the road the case pauses on “Freeze”.
Sad story. Unfortunately stuff like this happens way too much.
Amen
That poor girl. I wonder what happened to her? I doubt she ran away. Her family needs our prayers....
Dogs followed her scent to the highway 441...
If I were in charge of a trip like this, everyone there would be issued a partner, and a whistle!
HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!
Sad story! Way to tell it JD! A modern day Loui Lamour you are Sir.
Thank you for the story...I hope one day there are answers 😞
Has anyone looked into searching for Old Water Wells ? I know There's alot that were just covered Up with branches or pieces of old wood...
that's a good point
So heartbreaking I wandered off from my family on mt Mitchell when I was a 2-3 year old. Thankfully someone found me before I got into the woods. If was right about where Elisha Mitchell died.
I was thinking the same thing, an old well or something like that.
It bothers me to no end when I hear of people leaving their friends to go off alone. We go together, we leave together!
@@cameronelliott9709 what the fuck does that mean? Leave your friend on her own in the middle of the woods? 😂 You d probably love that wouldn't you
We're more aware of those safety rules today because of events like this one.
These disappearances are always tragic; family and friends left with no closure. But odds are she fell victim to a stranger somewhere along the way after she left the group. If there was anything we were taught about such things, safety in numbers. And sometimes even that's not enough. As I got older I would indeed sneak off by myself on rare occasion; but it would've brought down the wrath of my parents if I'd been caught doing it too, and rightly so. Kids think only of themselves. No right to do that when others wear their hearts outside their chest bc of us. Nothing in this world compares to losing a child. And news flash for those still too young to have realized this: even if you live to the ripe old middle age, you will STILL be your parents' child of the heart.
You are exactly right. My son was in a bad car wreck a month and half ago, where he hit a tree. It very nearly killed him, and he has a traumatic brain injury that he is having to re learn everything again. I'm just thank God every day that he is breathing. But to the point I call him baby when I speak to him and I can tell some of the younger nurses think that's strange, as I'm his daddy and he's going on 19 years old. But to a parent he will always be my baby. Something they will understand if they ever have kids!
you are so right, my mom still thinks im a teenager and im 50
@@cameronstamey599 - Yeah. I'm glad your precious son survived. Mine didn't. That was when it finally started to sink in what an awful thing I'd said to my own mom when I was maybe 14 or 15. She was justifiably concerned about my penchant for training wild horses, the wilder and deadlier the better in my view. She was fussing at me about it one day and I told her with a lot of stupid arrogance: "Well, Mom, can't you realize that if I die on a horse I'll die happy?" At the time I really thought it weird that my words didn't comfort her.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller - Well, that's the price you pay for being born, JD, and making her live the rest of her life with her heart outside her body. :)
@@frostyfrances4700 I'm so sorry to hear that about your child. I can recall saying some pretty nasty things to my parents as well, as my son did to me shortly before his accident. I having done the same didnt hold it against him.
It was very common to hitchhike in those days. Nobody thought anything of it. One would have had to live it to understand how it was then, and during that time, there were just beginning to be warnings of dangers to hitchhiking.
I think she got turned around in the woods, ended up at the highway, and caught a ride with stranger who harmed her. I doubt she'll ever be found.
Thanks JD❤
Thank you Lana, good to see you and hope you are doing well
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It's unfortunate teachers are paid so much yet dont care enough to supervise children.
She should have stayed on the trail
@@chet9128 blaming children instead of the adult(s) whose job was to care for them really says a lot about you.
Thank you so much for your channel. It is great. I enjoy reading it.
I went to "away" summer camp in that same area in the late 60s, near a town called Marysville. One of the things I remember most strongly was that there was believed to be what we would today call a serial killer who had been active in that part of Tennessee during that summer. I think they simply called him a "bad guy." We were instructed at length, daily, by the camp directors, our counselors (mostly college girls), and by the old man who cared for the grounds, horses, and equipment at our camp to not wander off anywhere alone and to always stay together in groups. It was very disconcerting to me to see the adults around us always looking nervous, glancing over their shoulders, and scouting the property after dark while we all went to our cabins for the night. I never heard if anyone was apprehended or charged for the alleged kidnappings that occurred there in the late 60s, but it makes me nervous to this day.
Dennis Martin them Trennie Gibson. I remember both.
President Carter wasn’t in office in 1981.
President ordered the search in 1981
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Reagan did?
@@ninedaysjane2466He must have. But I heard Carter did. Must have been Carter, a year or two earlier.
Yes, he was. 1977-1981. Given he left office in early 1981, chances are search was called in 1980.
Blood hounds led searchers right to the highway. I’m thinking she attempted to catch a ride back to school or home & got picked up by a creep and sadly she met her demise. Hounds are sharp and their noses don’t lie. Just makes most sense out of story you described. Good job of telling it btw. Thank you
ps - I was born in 60 so was close to her age and can relate to those times. Fun times but also dangerous times.
I read about them finding beer cans and cigarette butts at the spot where the dogs lost the scent at the side of the road.
@@TomHoffman-uw7pf
That’s a good lead and it’s possible DNA evidence in today’s world anyway. I’m sure they collected cans for fingerprints which led them know nowhere unfortunately. Not sure if cigarette butts were good evidence or not back then and even if anyone had the wherewithal to hold onto that kind of evidence considering it was knowledge in the mid to late seventies, that kind of information was in the development stages and a real possibility ten or so years into the future. 🤷🏻♂️
Interesting story. It appears that several people have gone missing in the Smoky Mountains. In fact I private messaged you one of those cases a few minutes ago.
Thanks Joe, Ill take a look at that
If you dont know where you are nobody else does eather its easy to disapear in the mountians wrong step into a Crack your gone nobody will find you
One of the boys on the trip
Maybe they had smoked some weed together secretly and then he had to go bathroom so he left her and thats when she lost the trail cause she got stoned.
She walked out to the road and was picked up by a predator. One can only hope the end was swift.
This sounds like a Missing 411 event.
I think a stranger may be involved after she made a wrong turn on the path , great story
you might be right
I've been following Trinnys story since I first learned to use a computer. I fear we will never know what really happened to Trinny.
Could have been someone lying in wait for a opportunity and took her to a car. What a nightmare for her family.
Any kid living in Knoxville wouldn't give a dam about seeing a freaking common black bear. Especially in 40° rain when bears are hibernating in mid October.
That is one phony story, dude must of went off to get high and listen to more Jethro Tull on his Ronco portable 8-track player.
And that trail aint narrow its wide as the 405 fwy from all the tourists hiking it in their polyester lesiure suits
Well the dogs tracked her to where the trail crossed a road.
It seems likely to me she likely stopped a car and explained she was lost and asked for help. Whoever it was abducted her and likely murdered her and disposed of her in a way she’d never be found.
It is tragic.
The Appalachian Trail can be dangerous. I live not far from a section of the trail in southeastern PA.
Creepy people on that trail. Murder and other crimes happen there. Ive hiked a small portion of it in what the local townsfolk call the big woods, or the deep woods.
It is beautiful. All the same i felt wary.
What a sad story.
Since the dogs led to the road i think she got picked up by the wrong person. If she got lost she had no other choice . The thing i don't understand is why she didn't turn around and go back the path she came on but probably it was not a very distinct path. Probably someone picked her up, assualted and unalived her. If she had lived she would have contacted her parents. I am from tha NC mountains and you have the perfect voice for ths channel.
People are saying those paths are hard to follow there and once you get off on another path, your best bet is probably just to head for a road.
It is challenging and arduous to search in that area, been there many times camping and the fall has so many colored leaves from above…the underbrush is grueling at points to search as well.
Trenny would be my age now... My first job was also at Morrison's Cafeteria. My boss sexually harassed me bad. But I couldn't tell my dad because I knew he would go to jail.... So I quit and went to Western Sizzlin...
Western Sizzlin... I always thought we were living high on the hog when my dad let me order the cheapest steak on the menu. In my mind, We ate like Kings!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Right?! Me too!
@@TheAppalachianStorytellereven cheap steaks were grass fed beef back then.
They were good.
I really miss those steak house restaurants back in the 80's .excellent salad bar and the steaks were pretty damn good . I miss thse years.
Gary Busey narrates!
hahaha! you're the second person to say that over the years
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller LOL! You do sound a lot like him! He is a great actor so it's a compliment! 🙂
Great story, JD! I don't believe she left on her own. I think she was abducted by someone. Such a sad story for her family.
It took a toll on her parents, they eventually divorced
Anything could of happened to Treenny, & all the others that went missing in yhe Great Smoky Mountains.
I live in the Great Smoky mountains,
And i am scared to Hike on the Great Smoky Mountains, or any where theres woods & trails.
You never know what may happen to you.
I say,... just Stay Out of them Woods & Trails,... Be Safe
Not Sorry !!!!!
Hopefully her blue sapphire ring will be a clue to her eventual location and identification.
I can’t imagine that she would run away and if she fell, I’m sure people would have heard a scream. Poor girl.
I feel like while she was lost on the App trail, someone offered to help her find the class, but ended up taking her to their vehicle on 441 and took her away.
that's a good theory, could be...
I remember this case.
I believe that it's very possible that she could've fallen into a hidden crevice or sinkhole. That entire area is littered with them. That's what I also believe may have most like happened to Dennis Martin several years earlier in the park.
I read some of the comments, I didn`t see where it said how many chaperones went with them, you go into the forest, you need 1 for every 5, at the least 1 for 7!
There are things in the forest that can`t be explained, I know we look at people first, because people don`t want to believe there`s things in this world that can`t be explained and many live in the forest`s of the world. thank you
I don't understand why people think another kid can hide her body so good, even bloodhounds can't find her. The teacher is suspicious imo, setting up a secret field trip, not telling anyone where they were going, plus not canceling even though it was bad weather, and the fact her scent disappeared near the interstate. All weird coincidences that could've been a plan to kidnap one of the students, by the teacher and an accomplice. Idk, we'll probably never know.
Dang! She must have worked a lot of hours! $2K in 1976 is equivalent to $11,053 and change today! That's a lot for a teenager to earn at a summer job.
Hard worker
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Most definitely! I hope her loved ones get answers someday... 💔💔💔
I think she came out of the woods onto the road, where she hitched a ride with the wrong person. I don’t think the classmate had anything to do with it.
I have ALOT of questions. I’ve been to clingmans done a lot. And the home does not have drop offs anywhere but the parking lot. Also teacher seems a liiiiitle suspicious.
Sounds like an abduction.....was she set up? Did it involve the stalker and the student who left her alone on the trail? Or was it the Appalachian Trail killer? Or did she just get lost somehow and then get snatched on the highway? Too many unanswered questions.....
Sad story. If the dogs trail ended to highway, then it's a big possibility someone picked her up.
Sounds like to me someone placed something in the path to catch a child's eye. Then they just snached her up.
maybe so
Thats what I thought. The distraction was planned to hold her back and then she could have been walked to the highway from there.
Highway 441 is the key. The rain may have washed away the scent off the road but it's very likely she hitched a ride with some awful person. Her friend should never have left her but if she was in the middle of the line, how could she get lost in a single file line.
How did she manage to circle the observation tower? Was that a different place from where they were all to meet up?
This whole story doesn't make sense.
They were to meet up in the parking lot with is a ways from the observation tower.
I hope the FBI interviewed every single student on that bus and interviewed the teacher, bus driver, parents, siblings and the boy that threatened her, was it just on record that he was there or did they have eye witnesses? They probably did all of that but maybe new eyes need to look at this case.
@@sherylpruitt9785 My first thought was, how did they know her stalker was actually at school all day? Did the cops interview every one of his teachers on his schedule and did they actually see him in class?
@@lemorab1 But also, he would have heard the news that she was lost at school after the other kids got back and he could have gone out there at that point.