I was one of the volunteers on this search. I can still hear his father calling out his name when it was dark on the mountain. It echoed and was so heartbreaking the cry of a father for his son.
I grew up with Garrett. I was with them on this scout trip. I was 10 at the time. It was surreal not going home with him, not seeing him at school, or riding the bus home with him. Hopefully one day he can be found.
@@AustinT94 So sorry for your experience. I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but in other places on the internet (specifically, Reddit) it has been stated that no one else actually saw Garrett on that trip. That no one else saw him fishing or heading back to camp, etc. Can you confirm whether or not that's true? When you say, "I was with them on this scout trip," does that mean you actually saw him there? I'd like to share that with the people on Reddit if their information is faulty.
@@madlife3770 Yes, it was our Boy Scout group who had went on that camping trip. But when Garrett and his dad went fishing that morning by themselves I never seen him after that. I was at camp with the rest of the kids that morning.
The absolute agony the boy and his family has suffered is unfathomable. Pure anxiety for any parent to lose a child and never know his fate. God bless them. Prayers. ✝️
I’ve done the same thing. Just this year my 10 year old and I were out on the AT. Had set up camp and played a little while. He asked if he could go to the creek by himself. 100yrds. Straight down the trail. I said sure. Got a little worried and found him sitting on the ground upset (right next to camp). He somehow had gotten lost and was embarrassed. I told him it’s ok. We’ve all gotten lost but at the same time wondered “how?” To myself. Also said don’t be embarrassed but you yell for me if you get lost, I’ll come for you like my hairs on fire buddy. All that to say I see how it can happen
You sound like a great, caring dad! Your son was so smart to stay in one place when he realized he was lost. That’s always rule number 1. Did he learn that from you or is he a simply a young man with good judgment and common sense? Too many have been lost when they get disoriented and start to wonder away and end up far from the location they’re seeking.
@@elizabethcloutman8913 oh he gets the basics from me but he’s way smarter than his dad😂 I’m lucky he enjoys one of my favorite things. We hit the AT for a few days each year around his birthday. We live in dawsonville ga so it’s only 15 min away from us
@@no1fibersplicer525 You’ve got a great son. I know he’ll have a wonderful future. We used to live near Bandolier National Monument, which is near Los Alamos, NM and about 30 miles from Santa Fe. It was less than 10 minutes from our home. Very recently, the Valle Grande Caldera in the Jemez Mountains above Los Alamos, formerly privately owned by Texas ranchers, has become a national recreation area. (Sadly, we moved away in the mid-1980s, but we’d love to go back to visit the Valle Grande.) So I know how wonderful it is to have a great recreational area so close to home! Treasure your time together. Childhood goes by so quickly.
@@elizabethcloutman8913 that sounds like a great place to live! We haven’t been able to travel to other states yet, although I would love it. It’s the AT or nothing for us. But don’t get me wrong I could hit the same Trail multiple time a year and it be a totally different experience each time. We are so lucky to live here. But I’d love to go out west, I’m terrified of grizzlies though. Wouldn’t sleep a wink 😜
I got lost when I was 5 or 6 years old in the neighborhood. A kid had a new bicycle and we all could try it out and make a round the block on it. Very straight forward but somehow I got lost, like a brain fart got disoriented. Maybe because it was getting dark I failed to recognize where I was. Anyways, some people in a street called the cops because they noticed I was lost. I do not really remember the details but it must have been a traumatic experience for me....cant even remember how the cops got in contact with my parents.
What a very sad story. I hope that one day they can find Garrett. My prayers are with his family and friends. Praying for you, Bryan, that you continue to heal.
Hi Bryan, thank you for making this video to spread awareness to Garrett's case. It's so sad this young man hasn't been found yet, I hope his family will be able to get closure some day soon. I continue to pray for you everyday for health and healing! I hope you'll be able to do SAR next year to help the Bardsley family out. I look forward to seeing your next video!
I was a boy scout and I was also in the Army. I have a lot of training and experience being in the woods and even I have been turned around on hikes. Experience helps but the wilderness is just that. 175 yards is a long way, I'm surprised his father allowed him to walk that distance considering he felt he needed to give him directions. That meant that he knew his son was unfamiliar with the path to get to the campsite. I'm not putting blame on the father, this was just a tragic circumstance, but we all need to appreciate the wilderness. Thank you for bringing awareness to this, hopefully someone can learn something, and another tragedy can be prevented.
i thought it was weird he let him go that far unaccompanied. because out in the woods, anything can happen and it's best to always be with at least another person.
I was in both also and it just boggles my mind that at 8 or 9 in the morning, with a troop of scouts helping to look for him, they couldn't find him, leads me to believe either foul play or he fell down a hole or over a cliff and into some big rocks out of sight.
@@drdr76 I agree. It makes no sense. Especially since none of his things were found. If you were scared by am animal you'd most likely drop it. But🤷♂️thank you for watching and your feedback 🙏
Thk you Bryan for bringing this event to our attention. Praying for the family 😪and those involved in the search. 🙏 Praying, Bryan, for your health. You are doing a great work. God bless.
There are so many cases where the lost one has walked way beyond what the searchers thought would be a maximum radius. I think when you are in a panic and have the adrenaline flowing you can do amazing things.
@@sasquatchrosefarts I would think a bear attack would leave evidence in the form of blood, hair, remnants of clothing, a shoe, a hat...something. Search dogs would’ve certainly hit on remains in some form. (Not a SAR-trained individual)
I, too, wondered about foul play as sexual deviants often seek out their child victims in rural and remote areas, as well as small towns, as children aren’t as attuned to crime and possible predators as those in more urban settings and thus are more trusting. Still, since the Scout base camp was so close to Garrett’s fishing spot, I would think either his dad or the Scouts and other adults would have heard him shout out in fear as he were being abducted. Another alternative, one that happens sometimes: that an area may have been searched multiple times, then suddenly, someone spots part of the missing person’s remains in a location or very close to a location which had been searched multiple times by multiple people. I hope Garrett’s family and friends will have an answer very soon.
Wow. I can't even imagine the anxiety and pain of a missing child. You could never rest until you know where they are or what happened. God bless him and his family ❤
my family was camping somewhat in the area that same weekend. i’ll never forget that gut wrenching feeling when we were leaving on Sunday and snowflakes were starting to fall. If he was out there there’s no way he would have survived that night with only a jacket and no camping gear. I’ve since camped in the same basin where he went missing and it is so eerie and just doesn’t make sense to me. It’s pretty dense forest but he went missing in a 200 yd stretch between camp and the lake and search efforts began within like half an hour in a basin that would echo voices. I don’t know what happened but I don’t think he just got lost in that short amount of time. And nearly 20 years later nothing has ever been found
Thank you for sharing this video and giving such a beautiful tribute to Garrett and his family. I remember when this case was making the rounds in the local news. I lived in Bountiful, Utah at the time and some of my neighbors were on the search team. It was a tragic, terrifying, disturbing, and upsetting experience. As an 8 year old boy, knowing that there were boys not much older than I was going missing and dying in the wilderness was a tragic and sobering thing to be faced with. I can only imagine how his family feels. I pray for them often and I hope that someday, they will get closure and find their Garret. Thanks a ton for your good heart, bro. Keep up the good work!!
This case has always baffled me! He had such a short hike back up to the camp on a trail he knew well. It is so hard to understand how this happens but it does and too many times!! I pray they find answers
Great coverage, Bryan! Another one that's more suspicious than mysterious: there's only one logical reason that fishing pole never turned up. Anyone would have dropped it after they felt lost. It was buried with him. As in so many of these cases, there's only 1 person who saw all this wet shoes and walking around the lake nonsense.
It’s easy to get lost for anyone. My adults friend and I went hiking in a well marked park on well mark trails and we got lost for 20 minutes. Don’t underestimate nature!!!! Never ever let a child hike alone, put away your fishing gear and go with the child! Put down your book and go with the child. Do not relax, if you want to relax then don’t take children with you.
Bryan putting the Sound Out Calling ALL experienced hikers to join in your search for Garrett .. ❤🥾🥾 You know your fans are by your side ⛰️🥾🌲🌲🏕️❤ God Bless & continued recovery 🙏👍🏼♥️
At 4 years old I got out of my 12 years old brothers sight inside a grocery store in Avondale, AZ in 1973. We lived in the middle of the desert at that time- only 1 school K-12. I left my brother in the check out line and ran all the way home by myself. I had to cross empty space that included an enormous man made ditch and then even more desert. My dad said I went almost a whole mile home by myself so fast that nobody believed I hadn't been dropped off. But I was not- I ran home because I thought my brother forgot me as he often did. The thing when you're that little is that climbing is so much easier since you're so low to the ground already. I was so small that I'm sure it all seemed way more vast and the ditch more deep but still - I did it out of complete fear. I always wonder if a search shouldn't also include starting at the furthest possible points then to work inward- while others do the usual.
I grew up learning how to camp and hike in the Unita mountains, I grew up in one of the towns right near them. I doubt that Garrett was taken, it is more likely he strayed and fell into a ravine, or rock crevice. If you've gone hiking or recreated at all in the Uintas you know it's very treacherous, lots of boulder fields the higher in elevation you go.
Very sad case. Wonder why the search and rescue officer left his sock there, a bit of a coincidence I would say. Thanks for your work, always well done.
@mehrimazedeh that's at least plausible i suppose. i can't imagine any sane rational person taking off their sock AND leaving it there. especially with no followup info. like, had to take a dump and used it as TP. or, stepped in ants and the sock was a goner. (but then the shoe would be too. and if wet feet, the shoe would remain wet. it's a BIZARRE detail. also, i doubt the kid had massive adult sized feet. can they not tell whos it is by size? :/
Perhaps!! The boy was so cought up s ins his wet clothing's as shoes !! He got offs trails went to fars when looking s ups someone s grabbed hims !! As folks are as well s out here's too s !!
When s your young boys anything s can happen s !! As he was hansomes littles guys toos top it offs !! So sads as toos boots !! Something happened out there's , someone knows what happened toos !!👍👍👍
I live in Utah and my husband and boys camp in the Uintas every year. This is utterly heartbreaking of a story. My child or children going missing is the absolute worst thing that could happen to me. I don’t think I would be able to function. Much love and prayers go out to his family. May they have some sort of closure. Almost 20 years. So so sad.
Hi, Bryan! I feel for you, it has to be hard to immerse yourself in some of these cases. But the good you're doing is immeasurable. Bringing awareness to these situations and now when your health improves you're going to get a search team together and go looking. That's just amazing. Thanks so much for all you do!
Thanks so much for that sad story. I really appreciate all your work. You do great research and put together the facts of what happens in a great form.
Thank you for covering this case I can tell it was hard for you …….it’s unbelievable he could completely disappeared without a trace. I’m with you thinking there is more to this than Garret just wandering off and getting lost. I watched a strange video on you tube of a young woman building hidden dwellings underground to be honest I found it unnerving because you really couldn’t tell anyone was there.
I do not have children but I can imagine that it will be unbearable to leave your missing kid after searching has resulted in nothing behind and go home. What a nightmare..same with that Martin kid.
I'm a scout leader (my son's name is Garrett) and I tell this story to my scouts any time someone whines about getting a buddy to go with them to the bathhouse or anywhere, even if they can see it in the distance. I drill them over and over about what to do if they ever lose the trail or get lost: sit down somewhere safe and don't move, and start whistling. I've taught most of them to whistle with their fingers, it saves your voice from yelling. I've seen videos on several cases of missing scouts, and most of them are before 2007 when new youth protection measures were put in place. In every case, I can immediately see where the adults went wrong, and it almost always involved leaving the kid behind or letting the child go by himself, or only having one adult present. Always have a buddy, always two deep leadership. Before we got to our present troop, one of the leaders told me a story about hiking with the boys up at Philmont Scout ranch and encountering straggling kids coming down Mount Baldy, where their young inexperienced leader had gotten frustrated with hiking stragglers and just *left* them there to come down by themselves. They rounded up all the lone kids, marched them back down the mountain and proceeded to find their scoutmaster and tear him a new one. No one goes by themselves in the wilderness, no children, no adults. My heart just aches for that family, the troop and everyone involved. The other kids must have been so traumatized. I don't know that I would survive losing my son like this.
Bryan, I'm with you on the potential of foul play. I pray that y'all have success with finding real information for his loved ones. I can't imagine the heartache, stress and burdens they carry without any answers.
I also agree about foul play. it was a remote area but there was a group of Boy Scouts camped nearby. tt does not make sense that a stalker would just wander the wilderness looking for kids to kidnap. He would be aware of the group of scouts camping st the lakes..Maybe he was a member of the community and knew when these trips were planned? Just a thought. A stalker was watching and saw a child, Garret, leave his father/guardian & take off alone back to camp. it must have happened very fast, because it was only 20 mins until the father went searching for him. he took him and his fishing pole, without a sound or signs of a struggle. Very creepy., IF it was a man. maybe something supernatural? Sasquatch have been reported to appear and disappear and project a force field that immobilises people and dogs..and that is the stuff of Paulides 411 research. or maybe Garrett got lost and ran, not walked, in panic far out of the seach area. But you would think that search dogs could follow his trail. This is such a tragedy and it has been almost 20 yrs. Hopefully someday someone will find him.hopefully alive, somewhere. There have been cases where the child grows up in captivity and escapes, or is rescued.
Thanks for covering this case. I knew about it but had forgotten. It's just so strange (or whatever word you want to use) how many cases there are of people just disappearing. But this is one of the strangest by far because all he had to do was walk a short walk back to camp. How could he possibly have disappeared? Kidnapping?
Look at some of the old cases where a body was discovered decades later. I don't think people realize how VAST the wilderness is, and people in the pioneer days and earlier would just vanish entirely without a trace. We don't even know how often that happened because it was not often recorded when some Joe Smoe disappeared without a trace
Bryan you are very thorough thoughtful in your coverage it's WHY I like your channel and unfortunately I think that this is foul play I do hope that this gets solved fresh eyes can ALWAYS help 💯 percent 👍👀
When my brother was 15-16 being in boy scouts they had to hike 10, 20, 25 mile hikes, one Saturday he, one other his age and a junior leader 20, went to do a 25 miles hike in the mountains above southern California, they had hiked 10 miles when the leader decides to go off trail to finish the hike, my brother did not want to do this, this leader insisted and after another 5 miles they were lost! They spent the night on the mountain without any camping gear, the authorities were alerted because no one made it back to their car, late Sunday I remember my father's pacing, at about 11 am Monday the call came they had been found because of my brother's sense of direction, against the leader's advice to stay put my brother took off, hiked alone in the dark over 10 miles with nothing but a flashlight until he made it back to alert the authorities, he was actually angry because he knew not to hike off trail but he had to listen to this leader, I rode up with my dad on Monday morning to where the helicopter was bringing them in and this actually made the news.
I tend to think Garrett missed the trail going back, got lost, and kept on going, or he realized he was lost, and started back to where he thought his father was, and popped out on the lake's edge a distance from where his father was, attempted to work his way over to his father, fell in the lake, gear and all. I don't think he made it back to change his clothing, they would have found that right away.
I agree. If you’re on a trail and can’t initially see a bldg to walk towards directly then at a certain moment all there is is trees. If it’s not happened to you in real life then you can never get that a certain point there’s a look left, right, ahead, back…wait which way is forward…it all looks the same. Happened to me as an adult. Freaked me out. Luckily I was close to a road and finally got close to hear. I’ve watched stories on here where children are frightened of the yelling, helicopters and have hid. Later they are found and say they heard ppl yelling but got scared. They’ve found so many ppl 1/4 or 1/2 mile from the trail. Often died from days og going in circles. Finally walk a block away. Try to talk to your friend on the block down. Very hard to hear specifics. Lots a repeating info loudly. Now both of you walk onto ppl’s front lawns with trees and gates between you. You’re a block from each other but now the foliage blocks and absorbs the sound. Essentially you’re not in communication at that moment. Think how many scenarios where people go walk to the other person in about 60 seconds but w the woods blocking sound and the person has to be yelling right towards you to hear. Imagine that friend a block down when you could see one another and the friend turns away and is yelling something. You can barely hear it when looking at them, imagine facing away and not even knowing someone’s over there 👉 looking for me. Yelling. The sound would be faint. Hard to hear specific words…..
They would have searched the lake and those lakes get shallow in the fall and are not very deep. They would have found the body. He almost certainly just kept walking while lost went very, very far from those lakes before succumbing to the cold.
There are a number of lakes in close proximity that could easily confuse an excited/scared mind. There are also a number of crags, ravines with sharp rocks etc. all over the area. He could have easily fallen into one of those. If he got scared and bolted, he easily could have run far outside the search area. As part of the search party, we walked within a few feet of each other, looked up into trees, under tree skirts, in/around rock formations and cliffs. We covered around 10 miles that day. Light snow was falling on us, but not sticking on the ground.
I’m with you on thinking something is wrong here. I believe someone took him as well. And the sock probably does belong to the other person. Prayers for this family.
I live is Salt Lake City, UT. We went camping in the Unitas MT 2 weeks ago. It's very vast. Also, it had snowed there. Please be safe. Prayers to the family.
There was a case back in the 80s where a family was heading back up a well used trail in Delta Park in Oregon aftrr a day of fishing. The youngest daughter needed to go to the bathroom so they told their 12 year old son to go off trail with her so she could relieve herself and then catch up. After waiting at he vehicle for 30 minutes... the rest of the family went back to fetch the two children. The cops treated this as lost kids and expected no foul play, but they found the 2 kids bound with their throats cut the next day. The killer was never found. Their is evil in this world and I feel like evil was present this day for this poor kid.
I live in the UK and the mountain trails in the US are magnificent but when people go missing it's heartbreaking especially children thanks for telling the story of Garrett's disappearance in such a respectful way
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone snatched him. Last time I was up there couple of years ago with my friend and my daughter and while we were hiking back to our car we ran into a very sketchy guy that was on some kind of drug or something. He literally slid down a patch of woods right in front of us on the trail and started walking towards us mumbling gibberish. When we told him to stop he wouldn’t. So we started walking backwards and I told my friend to pick up the sharpest and biggest rock she can find just in case. I grabbed one too and I told him that he better stay back. So he stopped on the spot as we kept backing up. we stood about 15 feet from him while he was LITERALLY STANDING LIKE A STATUE AND STARING AT US. Every single fear flashed in front of my eyes cause I was scared he was gonna hurt my daughter. The trail we were on had a five or six foot drop with river at the bottom so I was worried he’s gonna toss my daughter down and she would drown because the rivers are super high and strong during that time of the year and since we had a lot of snow the year before the river was very strong. We stood there for maybe 20 to 30 minutes that felt like an eternity. Thankfully a couple came down from behind us and I asked them if it’s okay if we go down with them because that creep was following us. Mind you this man looked like he was well over 6’5. He was towering over us like an ogre when he first slid down from the bushes. The couple agreed so we started walking down slowly. I was holding my daughter’s hand so hard that she had to tell me to loosen my grip several times. I have never been so afraid in my life up until that point. When we walked up to where he was standing he tried to get confrontational with the husband of the couple. But luckily the husband was able to get him to move away so we can pass. And once we did he then started walking about ten feet behind us so the husband stopped and let us pass so that he can walk behind. He followed us like that for about a mile until he literally disappeared into the bushes. We thanked the couple so many times and hopped into our car as fast as possible. Literally as we were driving out of our parking spot we saw him in standing and staring at us at the edge of the trail. I HAVE NOT HIKED SINCE THEN. This has never happened before in the ten plus years I’ve hiked all throughout the Unitas and other areas of Utah. I decided that I’ll never go hiking without a gun, taser and a pepper spray. Needless to say people need to be very careful out there cause you never know what may be lurking in the bushes. And something like that could’ve happened to that boy too. Especially if there’s nothing but a shoe left.
Why would he carry the fishing pole if he was just going to change his socks and shoes. And unless he was going to change into rubber boots he’d just get wet again. Very fishy
45 years in the Rockies. I've encountered a couple of things that just weren't part of what most of consider normal. Total "what the hell was that ?" Things. I don't know, the older I get the less I know for sure.
I agree, that struck me as odd. They took off their sock and left it there? Just 1 sock, and didn’t put it in their pocket? Knowingly contaminating the search area? Idk, seems a little off.
Another thing I don't understand is Garrett carrying his fishing pole. He's at the fishing site with his dad, he gets his shoes and socks wet, he wants to go back and get some dry socks to put on, but he takes his fishing pole with him?? that's a bit strange too. I mean if he's gonna go change some clothing with the intent of returning to where his dad is to fish, why would he take his fishing pole?. Why not leave it there? doesn't make any sense
Whoah.. crazy... I was solo camping out there the first week augest 2004 There are 80 miles east to west of road less wilderness. The scariest critters in Utah are people
Man, I just camped 2.5 miles away from Cuberant Lake last weekend. Beautiful area. I worry that at this point, finding gear (without a clear sign of bones) would not be enough to set off red flags cause I would think anything if I saw a "lost" fishing pole or some other gear.
@@bawattsyl Yeah, I have a lot of pictures of the Ibantik lake area, but none from the Cuberant Lake area. The trail we took to Ibantik comes from the southwest and Cuberant is just a couple miles northeast, as the crow flies.
Hi Bryan. You are doing an awesome job on this channel. Thank you. A question...If they were fishing and he got wet and went to change, why would he have his pole with him? It was morning, so in theory he would be going back to fish. Also, why weren't any of the others scouts fishing as well? Usually, scouts 'buddy up' and have an adult with them. (Although, I am a lifetime member of the Girl scouts, so it may be different.) Just curious. Pray for results and closure for this family and the troop members and leaders. Thanks again for your diligent work.
I don't know. I only know the father and son decided to fish that morning. The rest of the troop was camped up lake. I agree it makes no sense. Thank you for watching and your support🙏
@@bawattsyl I don't know the father but as the last person to see his son, was he investigated? There is a high rate of CSA in Utah, especially among Boy Scouts leaders (see recent court case). I would never have sent that child off alone in the woods for nearly half a mile. And were the other leaders looked into? Or he could have gotten lost and met with an accident. Very sad. My condolences to the family.
@@Star-gw2sj yes of course they were all looked at but there was just no way the father could have been involved due to other witnesses accounts..as for the other leaders I don't know but I doubt it. There are many oddities to this case, I agree with that. I do think it's probable that there was someone else involved but I don't think it was any of the group they were with. Their scout leaders all even had the kids go out and look. We don't even know if the sock that was found was his due to the Sar agent that said he took his socks off that were the same. And even if it was his sock, what happened to him, or his fishing pole. They did a huge search on this case. Frankly I don't know what to think. But I personally don't believe the father had anything to do with it. He's done so much to not only search for his son but setup programs to help others. That's just my opinion.
Very sad 🤨 Never leave your kids alone go by themself alone away from camp or bushes mountains or store even in rest room Even in public god knows what happened to this young boy The animals took him away evil in bushes what sad tragedy for this family 🤨
Bryan, I live about an hour away from the Uintas and have gone camping in the area many times. I've always wondered what happened to Garrett. If you do come to Utah to do a search, I'd love to be involved.
I believe it was something supernatural. He didn’t have that far to go to get lost- and he would have been found. There’s so many cases like this- missing 411.
Me too. Nothing else adds up. I've been haunted by this case since I was 8 years old, when it happened. He lived not far from where I was from. Some of my neighbors were on the search team. So sad, and I pray that somehow, someday, someway, his family gets closure.
this is the most asinine assertion ever. Please go outdoors and hike in the mountains and you will quickly learn how easy it is to get lost. Read up on cases where lost people hiked 30-40 miles in 24 hours going way outside of search zones. Read about remains being found years later in search zones because it is so difficult to find anything laying in the forest. That Missing 411 crap is total BS and only people completely unfamiliar with the outdoors believe this stuff.
This incident has always haunted me. I live in Utah too. I remember his missing sign at my daughter's school, she was his same age. I'd really like to know what happened.. I also don't want my son to go out on a teen camp trip. 😢😢😢
Why was he just with his dad if the was a Boy Scout function? They normally had several troops if not a a few packs when they did camping functions. I have always felt he shouldn’t have been sent alone and that it wasn’t animals or terrain. The fishing pole should have been found in those cases . We had a buddy in Girl Scouts or we were with our troop and leaders . So very sad .
Why would Garrett have his fishing rod with him if he was coming back to resume fishing with his dad? Go back to change his shoes? I mean you are fishing and that happens quite often. Nobody hears anything, and nothing ever found? Highly suspicious. Either there was maybe an accident with the dad ( hate to say that) but it happens, or a kidnapping. I don't believe he just disappeared all on his own. I'm sorry for the family and friends. Prayers.
I agree that someone most likely was involved but not the dad. He's a good man. His whole family is. But I agree that nothing makes sense. It's just a tragedy any way you look at it. Thank you for watching and your feedback🙏
@@bawattsyl You're very welcome and I'm sorry I shouldn't have mentioned the dad. It's just so much that goes on and sometimes we just don't know. Anyway praying especially for the dad and mom.
I don’t want to cause any problems to the family with this statement but in most cases you can kinda see room where a disappearance can be justified but not this time. Looking over all of the maps I could find in relation to the fishing spot and the actual camping spot this disappearance sounds a little strange…kind of like some information is missing from the adults of the camping trip. I will leave it at that.
A good detective would have question why the searcher removed his sox, why he left it littered on the ground, did the sock fit the searcher, did the searcher have a background that might lead to suspicion and did the searcher have an alibi for the time the boy went missing. If the searcher is innocent he would understandably cooperate to even allowing his home and vehicles to being searched.
things dont add up n its sad ........the boy was a scout n i would expect him to know n realize he was lost n would know what to do ...always start with the last one to see him ....very strange case ...sad ..sorry for the family
This is so sad for the family, but I suspect it was a fair amount of trauma for all of the other Scouts as well. I hope it has ruined the outdoors for them.
Children’s cases are the saddest. We go to Uinta every time we visit our kids in Utah. It's hard to think about a tragedy happening in such a beautiful place.
Children can get so distracted. I have 6 children. You can send them to do something and another thing might catch their attention. I wonder if he saw something that made him forget about his shoes and socks being wet. My children are now all grown up and have children of their own. I have a daughter who always reminds the kids to pay attention to their surroundings. This little boy looks precious. I am so sorry for this family. I sure hope and pray one day they will find him. I can’t imagine their pain everyday of knowing that they no longer have their child. I also think about the day he must of got lost and cried out for his family. 😢 Bless you Bryan for wanting to help search to find when people come up missing! You have a gift that the Lord has given you! One thing is never giving up hope and always having hope ! ❤
The camp was down an uneven path of more than a mile away from the road. That's not easy to traverse at 10,000' elevation by yourself let alone trying to take another human against their will. It doesn't match up.
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The Uintah's are dense with greenery. It's easy to get lost. My husband and sons went on Uintah hikes with their scouting troop. My husband would always tell me how easy it was to get lost. This story was absolutely heartbreaking. I can't even imagine the horror the father and mother felt. I hope and pray that God has comforted them and given them peace. Garrett is safe in his heavenly home.
I live in Utah and I've only been to the Uinta mountains once. They are unsettling. It's hard to explain, but I definitely felt like I was being watched the entire time.
Hoop lake in the Unitas is very mysterious ,after dark I have heard noises that were unrecognizable. Personally a for me sleeping with a weapon is the best way to be prepared.
@@88billythekid8 I love hoop lake, I go there every year, but your not wrong there are noises that are unrecognizable. I have backpacked many places but the Uintas are by far the most mysterious among them all, many times i have felt like i was being watched.
This is such a sad and strange case. I know it was hard on you to make this video, so, thank you for your courage. It's been nearly 20 years since this disappearance. It will be difficult to find any trace of him now. But I do hope they do. Given the rocky terrain I can see how remains may be hidden in the cracks between rocks and such. I wonder if they searched the water? You didn't mention it. But it's a possibility. Also a mountain lion could have carried him off. That would have been swift and unnoticed. Mountain Lions rarely attack people but if they do they go for children or attack an adult who is kneeling down or in a position that makes them look smaller and more vulnerable. I would imagine that the authorities have looked into the father. If there had been an accident or drowning or something at the lake he might have covered it up. But if the police have cleared him, then who? It's hard to imagine a stranger going unnoticed kidnapping a 12 yr old in the wilderness with all those boy scouts around. As sad as it is, my bet is that either a Mountain Lion or his father had something to do with it. I hate saying that about his father, but all things need to be considered. RIP young man!
Father or mountain lion are what I keep coming back to in spite of missing fishing pole. In that tangled wilderness area, a fishing pole would be a needle in a haystack.
Bryan. Hit me up, when putting together your team. I (was born/live in) the Four corners area, on the New Mexico side. I’ve traversed the wilderness areas of all four of these states.. I have loads of hours logged… I am an endurance athlete with an education in healing, the human body, inter dimensional physics, chemistry, etc. P.S….. I grew up on a farm and was in 4-H. Boom.
Hi there, thank you! Where are you located out of? You can email me if you don't want to share it in the comments. (My email is in the description) I myself train like crazy and believe endurance training is better than just power lifting. Can you believe this one person said to me that my t levels must be low because I sounded sad in one of my last videos. Smh.. unreal. I told them that any good person would be sad about losing anyone and there's no shame in actually showing your emotions. Definitely email me and we can discuss sar. Sounds like you're a great person and the kind of people that any team would be happy to have. Thanks for reaching out! Keep up that training!
@@heatherhancock2546 wow that's awesome! That's one state I've never been but have always wanted to visit and hike on the CDT. Do you do a lot of hiking in your area?
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I was one of the volunteers on this search. I can still hear his father calling out his name when it was dark on the mountain. It echoed and was so heartbreaking the cry of a father for his son.
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I can’t imagine his guilt topped grief.
I grew up with Garrett. I was with them on this scout trip. I was 10 at the time. It was surreal not going home with him, not seeing him at school, or riding the bus home with him. Hopefully one day he can be found.
@@AustinT94 So sorry for your experience. I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but in other places on the internet (specifically, Reddit) it has been stated that no one else actually saw Garrett on that trip. That no one else saw him fishing or heading back to camp, etc. Can you confirm whether or not that's true? When you say, "I was with them on this scout trip," does that mean you actually saw him there? I'd like to share that with the people on Reddit if their information is faulty.
@@madlife3770 Yes, it was our Boy Scout group who had went on that camping trip. But when Garrett and his dad went fishing that morning by themselves I never seen him after that. I was at camp with the rest of the kids that morning.
The absolute agony the boy and his family has suffered is unfathomable. Pure anxiety for any parent to lose a child and never know his fate. God bless them. Prayers. ✝️
I’ve done the same thing. Just this year my 10 year old and I were out on the AT. Had set up camp and played a little while. He asked if he could go to the creek by himself. 100yrds. Straight down the trail. I said sure. Got a little worried and found him sitting on the ground upset (right next to camp). He somehow had gotten lost and was embarrassed. I told him it’s ok. We’ve all gotten lost but at the same time wondered “how?” To myself. Also said don’t be embarrassed but you yell for me if you get lost, I’ll come for you like my hairs on fire buddy. All that to say I see how it can happen
You sound like a great, caring dad! Your son was so smart to stay in one place when he realized he was lost. That’s always rule number 1. Did he learn that from you or is he a simply a young man with good judgment and common sense? Too many have been lost when they get disoriented and start to wonder away and end up far from the location they’re seeking.
@@elizabethcloutman8913 oh he gets the basics from me but he’s way smarter than his dad😂 I’m lucky he enjoys one of my favorite things. We hit the AT for a few days each year around his birthday. We live in dawsonville ga so it’s only 15 min away from us
@@no1fibersplicer525 You’ve got a great son. I know he’ll have a wonderful future. We used to live near Bandolier National Monument, which is near Los Alamos, NM and about 30 miles from Santa Fe. It was less than 10 minutes from our home. Very recently, the Valle Grande Caldera in the Jemez Mountains above Los Alamos, formerly privately owned by Texas ranchers, has become a national recreation area. (Sadly, we moved away in the mid-1980s, but we’d love to go back to visit the Valle Grande.) So I know how wonderful it is to have a great recreational area so close to home! Treasure your time together. Childhood goes by so quickly.
@@elizabethcloutman8913 that sounds like a great place to live! We haven’t been able to travel to other states yet, although I would love it. It’s the AT or nothing for us. But don’t get me wrong I could hit the same Trail multiple time a year and it be a totally different experience each time. We are so lucky to live here. But I’d love to go out west, I’m terrified of grizzlies though. Wouldn’t sleep a wink 😜
I got lost when I was 5 or 6 years old in the neighborhood. A kid had a new bicycle and we all could try it out and make a round the block on it. Very straight forward but somehow I got lost, like a brain fart got disoriented. Maybe because it was getting dark I failed to recognize where I was. Anyways, some people in a street called the cops because they noticed I was lost. I do not really remember the details but it must have been a traumatic experience for me....cant even remember how the cops got in contact with my parents.
The poor father. I can't imagine how horrible he feels.
I bet he doesn’t feel as bad as his son did in his final moments…
@@mrrob7531perhaps but the fathers agony has never ended.
He should walked backed.all those missing cases.i blame he's father
What a very sad story. I hope that one day they can find Garrett. My prayers are with his family and friends. Praying for you, Bryan, that you continue to heal.
Thank you for your kind words and comment🙏
Hi Bryan, thank you for making this video to spread awareness to Garrett's case. It's so sad this young man hasn't been found yet, I hope his family will be able to get closure some day soon. I continue to pray for you everyday for health and healing! I hope you'll be able to do SAR next year to help the Bardsley family out. I look forward to seeing your next video!
I was a boy scout and I was also in the Army. I have a lot of training and experience being in the woods and even I have been turned around on hikes. Experience helps but the wilderness is just that. 175 yards is a long way, I'm surprised his father allowed him to walk that distance considering he felt he needed to give him directions. That meant that he knew his son was unfamiliar with the path to get to the campsite. I'm not putting blame on the father, this was just a tragic circumstance, but we all need to appreciate the wilderness. Thank you for bringing awareness to this, hopefully someone can learn something, and another tragedy can be prevented.
Too bad we all did have wings then if we got lost or faced danger we could just spread our wings and fly to safety. :(
Thank you for your comment🙏I think like in boy scouts and the army is always prudent to use the " buddy system "
i thought it was weird he let him go that far unaccompanied. because out in the woods, anything can happen and it's best to always be with at least another person.
I was in both also and it just boggles my mind that at 8 or 9 in the morning, with a troop of scouts helping to look for him, they couldn't find him, leads me to believe either foul play or he fell down a hole or over a cliff and into some big rocks out of sight.
@@drdr76 I agree. It makes no sense. Especially since none of his things were found. If you were scared by am animal you'd most likely drop it. But🤷♂️thank you for watching and your feedback 🙏
Thk you Bryan for bringing this event to our attention. Praying for the family 😪and those involved in the search. 🙏 Praying, Bryan, for your health. You are doing a great work. God bless.
Kid could have hiked tens of miles out of the search area in a state of panic. Wonder how the police eliminated foul play?
There are so many cases where the lost one has walked way beyond what the searchers thought would be a maximum radius. I think when you are in a panic and have the adrenaline flowing you can do amazing things.
12 year old kids are usually small. A bear could kill this kid in two seconds and carry him away without dragging, to leave significant tracks.
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I would think a bear attack would leave evidence in the form of blood, hair, remnants of clothing, a shoe, a hat...something.
Search dogs would’ve certainly hit on remains in some form.
(Not a SAR-trained individual)
Not to mention the fishing pole. I don’t see a bear dragging that away with him.
I, too, wondered about foul play as sexual deviants often seek out their child victims in rural and remote areas, as well as small towns, as children aren’t as attuned to crime and possible predators as those in more urban settings and thus are more trusting. Still, since the Scout base camp was so close to Garrett’s fishing spot, I would think either his dad or the Scouts and other adults would have heard him shout out in fear as he were being abducted. Another alternative, one that happens sometimes: that an area may have been searched multiple times, then suddenly, someone spots part of the missing person’s remains in a location or very close to a location which had been searched multiple times by multiple people. I hope Garrett’s family and friends will have an answer very soon.
Wow. I can't even imagine the anxiety and pain of a missing child. You could never rest until you know where they are or what happened. God bless him and his family ❤
my family was camping somewhat in the area that same weekend. i’ll never forget that gut wrenching feeling when we were leaving on Sunday and snowflakes were starting to fall. If he was out there there’s no way he would have survived that night with only a jacket and no camping gear.
I’ve since camped in the same basin where he went missing and it is so eerie and just doesn’t make sense to me. It’s pretty dense forest but he went missing in a 200 yd stretch between camp and the lake and search efforts began within like half an hour in a basin that would echo voices. I don’t know what happened but I don’t think he just got lost in that short amount of time. And nearly 20 years later nothing has ever been found
I've camped there in the summer and even then the nights can sometimes get really damn cold
The High Uintahs are beautiful, this case haunts Utah and the people involved. I hope you make it out here to search.
Thank you for the video.
Thank you for sharing this video and giving such a beautiful tribute to Garrett and his family. I remember when this case was making the rounds in the local news. I lived in Bountiful, Utah at the time and some of my neighbors were on the search team. It was a tragic, terrifying, disturbing, and upsetting experience. As an 8 year old boy, knowing that there were boys not much older than I was going missing and dying in the wilderness was a tragic and sobering thing to be faced with. I can only imagine how his family feels. I pray for them often and I hope that someday, they will get closure and find their Garret. Thanks a ton for your good heart, bro. Keep up the good work!!
Thank you for this one . Please keep us updated if and when you go . ❤❤
This case has always baffled me! He had such a short hike back up to the camp on a trail he knew well. It is so hard to understand how this happens but it does and too many times!! I pray they find answers
Great coverage, Bryan!
Another one that's more suspicious than mysterious: there's only one logical reason that fishing pole never turned up. Anyone would have dropped it after they felt lost. It was buried with him. As in so many of these cases, there's only 1 person who saw all this wet shoes and walking around the lake nonsense.
It’s easy to get lost for anyone. My adults friend and I went hiking in a well marked park on well mark trails and we got lost for 20 minutes. Don’t underestimate nature!!!! Never ever let a child hike alone, put away your fishing gear and go with the child! Put down your book and go with the child. Do not relax, if you want to relax then don’t take children with you.
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absolutely!
Poor family.. I hope they can get some closure.
Full respect to Brian's channel for putting so much effort into his videos..
Thank you for your support and kind words🙏
Bryan putting the Sound Out Calling ALL experienced hikers to join in your search for Garrett .. ❤🥾🥾
You know your fans are by your side ⛰️🥾🌲🌲🏕️❤
God Bless & continued recovery 🙏👍🏼♥️
Thanks Bryan...many have covered this case but your version of it I think is the best and I'm pretty critical.. .
Thank you that's very kind🙏
At 4 years old I got out of my 12 years old brothers sight inside a grocery store in Avondale, AZ in 1973. We lived in the middle of the desert at that time- only 1 school K-12. I left my brother in the check out line and ran all the way home by myself. I had to cross empty space that included an enormous man made ditch and then even more desert. My dad said I went almost a whole mile home by myself so fast that nobody believed I hadn't been dropped off. But I was not- I ran home because I thought my brother forgot me as he often did. The thing when you're that little is that climbing is so much easier since you're so low to the ground already. I was so small that I'm sure it all seemed way more vast and the ditch more deep but still - I did it out of complete fear. I always wonder if a search shouldn't also include starting at the furthest possible points then to work inward- while others do the usual.
I grew up learning how to camp and hike in the Unita mountains, I grew up in one of the towns right near them. I doubt that Garrett was taken, it is more likely he strayed and fell into a ravine, or rock crevice. If you've gone hiking or recreated at all in the Uintas you know it's very treacherous, lots of boulder fields the higher in elevation you go.
Many, many, many natural & man-made holes.
I have heard of this case before i cant imagine how hard it has been for his family i hope they can some day get closure
Very sad case. Wonder why the search and rescue officer left his sock there, a bit of a coincidence I would say. Thanks for your work, always well done.
that seemed really weird, tbh.
@mehrimazedeh that's at least plausible i suppose. i can't imagine any sane rational person taking off their sock AND leaving it there. especially with no followup info. like, had to take a dump and used it as TP. or, stepped in ants and the sock was a goner. (but then the shoe would be too. and if wet feet, the shoe would remain wet. it's a BIZARRE detail. also, i doubt the kid had massive adult sized feet. can they not tell whos it is by size? :/
@@lurklingXcould they not do DNA test on it to see if was the child's?
Perhaps!! The boy was so cought up s ins his wet clothing's as shoes !! He got offs trails went to fars when looking s ups someone s grabbed hims !! As folks are as well s out here's too s !!
When s your young boys anything s can happen s !! As he was hansomes littles guys toos top it offs !! So sads as toos boots !! Something happened out there's , someone knows what happened toos !!👍👍👍
I live in Utah and my husband and boys camp in the Uintas every year. This is utterly heartbreaking of a story. My child or children going missing is the absolute worst thing that could happen to me. I don’t think I would be able to function. Much love and prayers go out to his family. May they have some sort of closure. Almost 20 years. So so sad.
Hi, Bryan! I feel for you, it has to be hard to immerse yourself in some of these cases. But the good you're doing is immeasurable. Bringing awareness to these situations and now when your health improves you're going to get a search team together and go looking. That's just amazing. Thanks so much for all you do!
Thank you for you kind words and feedback🙏🙏
You are such a good hearted person and your caring really shows.
Thank you I appreciate that and your support🙏
Thanks so much for that sad story. I really appreciate all your work. You do great research and put together the facts of what happens in a great form.
Thank you for covering this case I can tell it was hard for you …….it’s unbelievable he could completely disappeared without a trace. I’m with you thinking there is more to this than Garret just wandering off and getting lost.
I watched a strange video on you tube of a young woman building hidden dwellings underground to be honest I found it unnerving because you really couldn’t tell anyone was there.
Thank you for your support and your comment🙏
Get well soon!
Awesome work!
I do not have children but I can imagine that it will be unbearable to leave your missing kid after searching has resulted in nothing behind and go home. What a nightmare..same with that Martin kid.
I'm a scout leader (my son's name is Garrett) and I tell this story to my scouts any time someone whines about getting a buddy to go with them to the bathhouse or anywhere, even if they can see it in the distance. I drill them over and over about what to do if they ever lose the trail or get lost: sit down somewhere safe and don't move, and start whistling. I've taught most of them to whistle with their fingers, it saves your voice from yelling. I've seen videos on several cases of missing scouts, and most of them are before 2007 when new youth protection measures were put in place. In every case, I can immediately see where the adults went wrong, and it almost always involved leaving the kid behind or letting the child go by himself, or only having one adult present. Always have a buddy, always two deep leadership. Before we got to our present troop, one of the leaders told me a story about hiking with the boys up at Philmont Scout ranch and encountering straggling kids coming down Mount Baldy, where their young inexperienced leader had gotten frustrated with hiking stragglers and just *left* them there to come down by themselves. They rounded up all the lone kids, marched them back down the mountain and proceeded to find their scoutmaster and tear him a new one. No one goes by themselves in the wilderness, no children, no adults. My heart just aches for that family, the troop and everyone involved. The other kids must have been so traumatized. I don't know that I would survive losing my son like this.
thank you for sharing the story and what true leadership involves and what expedition and hiking behavior requires for safety of all involved.
Bryan, I'm with you on the potential of foul play. I pray that y'all have success with finding real information for his loved ones. I can't imagine the heartache, stress and burdens they carry without any answers.
I also agree about foul play. it was a remote area but there was a group of Boy Scouts camped nearby. tt does not make sense that a stalker would just wander the wilderness looking for kids to kidnap. He would be aware of the group of scouts camping st the lakes..Maybe he was a member of the community and knew when these trips were planned? Just a thought. A stalker was watching and saw a child, Garret, leave his father/guardian & take off alone back to camp. it must have happened very fast, because it was only 20 mins until the father went searching for him. he took him and his fishing pole, without a sound or signs of a struggle. Very creepy., IF it was a man. maybe something supernatural? Sasquatch have been reported to appear and disappear and project a force field that immobilises people and dogs..and that is the stuff of Paulides 411 research. or maybe Garrett got lost and ran, not walked, in panic far out of the seach area. But you would think that search dogs could follow his trail. This is such a tragedy and it has been almost 20 yrs. Hopefully someday someone will find him.hopefully alive, somewhere. There have been cases where the child grows up in captivity and escapes, or is rescued.
Thanks for covering this case. I knew about it but had forgotten. It's just so strange (or whatever word you want to use) how many cases there are of people just disappearing. But this is one of the strangest by far because all he had to do was walk a short walk back to camp. How could he possibly have disappeared? Kidnapping?
Look at some of the old cases where a body was discovered decades later. I don't think people realize how VAST the wilderness is, and people in the pioneer days and earlier would just vanish entirely without a trace.
We don't even know how often that happened because it was not often recorded when some Joe Smoe disappeared without a trace
Some non-human entity snatched him and took him at once into another dimension, making his screams of help impossible to hear in the vicinity.
thank you and I hope one way or another he will be found
Many thanks for your informative and compassionate videos. Hope your health improves rapidly
Thank you for doing this video for us. I know you are sick and this means a lot for all of us . I pray you will be healed and feeling good again.
Thank you for your kind words and support🙏 I really appreciate it!
Bryan you are very thorough thoughtful in your coverage it's WHY I like your channel and unfortunately I think that this is foul play I do hope that this gets solved fresh eyes can ALWAYS help 💯 percent 👍👀
Thanks for your amazing channel content.
When my brother was 15-16 being in boy scouts they had to hike 10, 20, 25 mile hikes, one Saturday he, one other his age and a junior leader 20, went to do a 25 miles hike in the mountains above southern California, they had hiked 10 miles when the leader decides to go off trail to finish the hike, my brother did not want to do this, this leader insisted and after another 5 miles they were lost! They spent the night on the mountain without any camping gear, the authorities were alerted because no one made it back to their car, late Sunday I remember my father's pacing, at about 11 am Monday the call came they had been found because of my brother's sense of direction, against the leader's advice to stay put my brother took off, hiked alone in the dark over 10 miles with nothing but a flashlight until he made it back to alert the authorities, he was actually angry because he knew not to hike off trail but he had to listen to this leader, I rode up with my dad on Monday morning to where the helicopter was bringing them in and this actually made the news.
I tend to think Garrett missed the trail going back, got lost, and kept on going, or he realized he was lost, and started back to where he thought his father was, and popped out on the lake's edge a distance from where his father was, attempted to work his way over to his father, fell in the lake, gear and all. I don't think he made it back to change his clothing, they would have found that right away.
I agree. If you’re on a trail and can’t initially see a bldg to walk towards directly then at a certain moment all there is is trees. If it’s not happened to you in real life then you can never get that a certain point there’s a look left, right, ahead, back…wait which way is forward…it all looks the same. Happened to me as an adult. Freaked me out. Luckily I was close to a road and finally got close to hear.
I’ve watched stories on here where children are frightened of the yelling, helicopters and have hid. Later they are found and say they heard ppl yelling but got scared.
They’ve found so many ppl 1/4 or 1/2 mile from the trail. Often died from days og going in circles.
Finally walk a block away. Try to talk to your friend on the block down. Very hard to hear specifics. Lots a repeating info loudly. Now both of you walk onto ppl’s front lawns with trees and gates between you. You’re a block from each other but now the foliage blocks and absorbs the sound. Essentially you’re not in communication at that moment. Think how many scenarios where people go walk to the other person in about 60 seconds but w the woods blocking sound and the person has to be yelling right towards you to hear.
Imagine that friend a block down when you could see one another and the friend turns away and is yelling something. You can barely hear it when looking at them, imagine facing away and not even knowing someone’s
over there 👉 looking for me. Yelling. The sound would be faint. Hard to hear specific words…..
They would have searched the lake and those lakes get shallow in the fall and are not very deep. They would have found the body. He almost certainly just kept walking while lost went very, very far from those lakes before succumbing to the cold.
There are a number of lakes in close proximity that could easily confuse an excited/scared mind. There are also a number of crags, ravines with sharp rocks etc. all over the area. He could have easily fallen into one of those.
If he got scared and bolted, he easily could have run far outside the search area. As part of the search party, we walked within a few feet of each other, looked up into trees, under tree skirts, in/around rock formations and cliffs. We covered around 10 miles that day. Light snow was falling on us, but not sticking on the ground.
@@davidpeterson7850 Thanks for the insight on the terrain, search effort and weather. Much appreciated.
It seems like there would be a difference in size between a 12 year old's sock and an adult's SAR searcher's sock.
I knew Garrett personally. He was a tall 12 YO kid at 5’10”.
Thank you Bryan for another great vid. I hope you can put a team together to go out there and try to get some answers.
I’m with you on thinking something is wrong here. I believe someone took him as well. And the sock probably does belong to the other person. Prayers for this family.
I live is Salt Lake City, UT.
We went camping in the Unitas MT 2 weeks ago.
It's very vast.
Also, it had snowed there.
Please be safe.
Prayers to the family.
Thank you for your comment and feedback🙏
This is a real heartbreaking thing 💔
Thank you Bryan ... I share your questions. Its a most alarming situation.
Reiki love and light for your own recovery too🙏🕉🪶
Gosh. So so sad. I hope you can make the trip. Feel better.
There was a case back in the 80s where a family was heading back up a well used trail in Delta Park in Oregon aftrr a day of fishing. The youngest daughter needed to go to the bathroom so they told their 12 year old son to go off trail with her so she could relieve herself and then catch up. After waiting at he vehicle for 30 minutes... the rest of the family went back to fetch the two children. The cops treated this as lost kids and expected no foul play, but they found the 2 kids bound with their throats cut the next day. The killer was never found. Their is evil in this world and I feel like evil was present this day for this poor kid.
That's awful:( I'm not sure I'm aware of this case. But if you have more info I look into it. Thank you for watching and your support 🙏
I live in the UK and the mountain trails in the US are magnificent but when people go missing it's heartbreaking especially children thanks for telling the story of Garrett's disappearance in such a respectful way
First of all, the police can't rule out anything because they know nothing. My heart goes out to the family. It must be torture for them.
Even the parents can't be ruled out, yet.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone snatched him. Last time I was up there couple of years ago with my friend and my daughter and while we were hiking back to our car we ran into a very sketchy guy that was on some kind of drug or something. He literally slid down a patch of woods right in front of us on the trail and started walking towards us mumbling gibberish. When we told him to stop he wouldn’t. So we started walking backwards and I told my friend to pick up the sharpest and biggest rock she can find just in case. I grabbed one too and I told him that he better stay back. So he stopped on the spot as we kept backing up. we stood about 15 feet from him while he was LITERALLY STANDING LIKE A STATUE AND STARING AT US. Every single fear flashed in front of my eyes cause I was scared he was gonna hurt my daughter. The trail we were on had a five or six foot drop with river at the bottom so I was worried he’s gonna toss my daughter down and she would drown because the rivers are super high and strong during that time of the year and since we had a lot of snow the year before the river was very strong.
We stood there for maybe 20 to 30 minutes that felt like an eternity. Thankfully a couple came down from behind us and I asked them if it’s okay if we go down with them because that creep was following us. Mind you this man looked like he was well over 6’5. He was towering over us like an ogre when he first slid down from the bushes.
The couple agreed so we started walking down slowly. I was holding my daughter’s hand so hard that she had to tell me to loosen my grip several times. I have never been so afraid in my life up until that point.
When we walked up to where he was standing he tried to get confrontational with the husband of the couple. But luckily the husband was able to get him to move away so we can pass. And once we did he then started walking about ten feet behind us so the husband stopped and let us pass so that he can walk behind. He followed us like that for about a mile until he literally disappeared into the bushes. We thanked the couple so many times and hopped into our car as fast as possible. Literally as we were driving out of our parking spot we saw him in standing and staring at us at the edge of the trail. I HAVE NOT HIKED SINCE THEN. This has never happened before in the ten plus years I’ve hiked all throughout the Unitas and other areas of Utah. I decided that I’ll never go hiking without a gun, taser and a pepper spray.
Needless to say people need to be very careful out there cause you never know what may be lurking in the bushes. And something like that could’ve happened to that boy too. Especially if there’s nothing but a shoe left.
We always hike with a gun and pepper spray. There are people out there that are more scary and dangerous than a wild animal.
Why would he carry the fishing pole if he was just going to change his socks and shoes. And unless he was going to change into rubber boots he’d just get wet again. Very fishy
Boulder fields are notorious for missing people.
I remember this. It was so sad. My family has a cabin up there and it is so easy to get lost. He should have never been able to go back to camp alone.
45 years in the Rockies. I've encountered a couple of things that just weren't part of what most of consider normal. Total "what the hell was that ?" Things. I don't know, the older I get the less I know for sure.
One of the search and rescue officers took off one of his socks??!! What....? The exact sock that Garrett was wearing.....that is more than strange
I agree, that struck me as odd. They took off their sock and left it there? Just 1 sock, and didn’t put it in their pocket? Knowingly contaminating the search area? Idk, seems a little off.
It’s like they walk into the unknown and are never seen again. I feel for all their families:(
Another thing I don't understand is Garrett carrying his fishing pole. He's at the fishing site with his dad, he gets his shoes and socks wet, he wants to go back and get some dry socks to put on, but he takes his fishing pole with him?? that's a bit strange too. I mean if he's gonna go change some clothing with the intent of returning to where his dad is to fish, why would he take his fishing pole?. Why not leave it there? doesn't make any sense
Whoah.. crazy... I was solo camping out there the first week augest 2004
There are 80 miles east to west of road less wilderness.
The scariest critters in Utah are people
Man, I just camped 2.5 miles away from Cuberant Lake last weekend. Beautiful area. I worry that at this point, finding gear (without a clear sign of bones) would not be enough to set off red flags cause I would think anything if I saw a "lost" fishing pole or some other gear.
Thank you for your feedback and wow, that's amazing you were there! Do you have any pics? Thank you for watching and your feedback🙏
@@bawattsyl Yeah, I have a lot of pictures of the Ibantik lake area, but none from the Cuberant Lake area. The trail we took to Ibantik comes from the southwest and Cuberant is just a couple miles northeast, as the crow flies.
Hi Bryan. You are doing an awesome job on this channel. Thank you.
A question...If they were fishing and he got wet and went to change, why would he have his pole with him? It was morning, so in theory he would be going back to fish. Also, why weren't any of the others scouts fishing as well? Usually, scouts 'buddy up' and have an adult with them. (Although, I am a lifetime member of the Girl scouts, so it may be different.) Just curious. Pray for results and closure for this family and the troop members and leaders. Thanks again for your diligent work.
I don't know. I only know the father and son decided to fish that morning. The rest of the troop was camped up lake. I agree it makes no sense. Thank you for watching and your support🙏
@@bawattsyl I don't know the father but as the last person to see his son, was he investigated? There is a high rate of CSA in Utah, especially among Boy Scouts leaders (see recent court case). I would never have sent that child off alone in the woods for nearly half a mile. And were the other leaders looked into? Or he could have gotten lost and met with an accident. Very sad. My condolences to the family.
@@Star-gw2sj yes of course they were all looked at but there was just no way the father could have been involved due to other witnesses accounts..as for the other leaders I don't know but I doubt it. There are many oddities to this case, I agree with that. I do think it's probable that there was someone else involved but I don't think it was any of the group they were with. Their scout leaders all even had the kids go out and look. We don't even know if the sock that was found was his due to the Sar agent that said he took his socks off that were the same. And even if it was his sock, what happened to him, or his fishing pole. They did a huge search on this case. Frankly I don't know what to think. But I personally don't believe the father had anything to do with it. He's done so much to not only search for his son but setup programs to help others. That's just my opinion.
I’ll keep him in my prayers ❤ you too brian ❤kelli
This is very sad hope his family finds closer and Peace.
If he was returning to the campsite to change his shoes, why would he take his fishing pole? That doesn't make sense to me.....
I have no idea🤷♂️sorry:( thank you for watching and your feedback🙏
Ive had weirdos stalk me in the mountains here in Washington state, never leave your children unattended and always be armed!
Very sad 🤨
Never leave your kids alone go by themself alone away from camp or bushes mountains or store even in rest room
Even in public god knows what happened to this young boy The animals took him away evil in bushes what sad tragedy for this family 🤨
Bryan, I live about an hour away from the Uintas and have gone camping in the area many times. I've always wondered what happened to Garrett. If you do come to Utah to do a search, I'd love to be involved.
I believe it was something supernatural. He didn’t have that far to go to get lost- and he would have been found. There’s so many cases like this- missing 411.
Me too. Nothing else adds up. I've been haunted by this case since I was 8 years old, when it happened. He lived not far from where I was from. Some of my neighbors were on the search team. So sad, and I pray that somehow, someday, someway, his family gets closure.
this is the most asinine assertion ever. Please go outdoors and hike in the mountains and you will quickly learn how easy it is to get lost. Read up on cases where lost people hiked 30-40 miles in 24 hours going way outside of search zones. Read about remains being found years later in search zones because it is so difficult to find anything laying in the forest. That Missing 411 crap is total BS and only people completely unfamiliar with the outdoors believe this stuff.
Another example of where a well trained blood hound was desperately needed.
This incident has always haunted me. I live in Utah too. I remember his missing sign at my daughter's school, she was his same age. I'd really like to know what happened..
I also don't want my son to go out on a teen camp trip. 😢😢😢
Why was he just with his dad if the was a Boy Scout function? They normally had several troops if not a a few packs when they did camping functions. I have always felt he shouldn’t have been sent alone and that it wasn’t animals or terrain. The fishing pole should have been found in those cases . We had a buddy in Girl Scouts or we were with our troop and leaders . So very sad .
Why would Garrett have his fishing rod with him if he was coming back to resume fishing with his dad? Go back to change his shoes? I mean you are fishing and that happens quite often. Nobody hears anything, and nothing ever found? Highly suspicious. Either there was maybe an accident with the dad ( hate to say that) but it happens, or a kidnapping. I don't believe he just disappeared all on his own. I'm sorry for the family and friends. Prayers.
I agree that someone most likely was involved but not the dad. He's a good man. His whole family is. But I agree that nothing makes sense. It's just a tragedy any way you look at it. Thank you for watching and your feedback🙏
@@bawattsyl You're very welcome and I'm sorry I shouldn't have mentioned the dad. It's just so much that goes on and sometimes we just don't know. Anyway praying especially for the dad and mom.
I pray for the family and all the best to the family
I don’t want to cause any problems to the family with this statement but in most cases you can kinda see room where a disappearance can be justified but not this time. Looking over all of the maps I could find in relation to the fishing spot and the actual camping spot this disappearance sounds a little strange…kind of like some information is missing from the adults of the camping trip. I will leave it at that.
A good detective would have question why the searcher removed his sox, why he left it littered on the ground, did the sock fit the searcher, did the searcher have a background that might lead to suspicion and did the searcher have an alibi for the time the boy went missing. If the searcher is innocent he would understandably cooperate to even allowing his home and vehicles to being searched.
things dont add up n its sad ........the boy was a scout n i would expect him to know n realize he was lost n would know what to do ...always start with the last one to see him ....very strange case ...sad ..sorry for the family
This is so sad for the family, but I suspect it was a fair amount of trauma for all of the other Scouts as well. I hope it has ruined the outdoors for them.
Why would you hope that? How sad!
@@goatgirl5968, I meant, hasn't, of course.
Children’s cases are the saddest. We go to Uinta every time we visit our kids in Utah. It's hard to think about a tragedy happening in such a beautiful place.
Children can get so distracted. I have 6 children. You can send them to do something and another thing might catch their attention. I wonder if he saw something that made him forget about his shoes and socks being wet. My children are now all grown up and have children of their own. I have a daughter who always reminds the kids to pay attention to their surroundings. This little boy looks precious. I am so sorry for this family. I sure hope and pray one day they will find him. I can’t imagine their pain everyday of knowing that they no longer have their child. I also think about the day he must of got lost and cried out for his family. 😢 Bless you Bryan for wanting to help search to find when people come up missing! You have a gift that the Lord has given you! One thing is never giving up hope and always having hope ! ❤
Thanks for sharing... this is a strange one. Even if an animal got him, where is the fishing pole?
A kidnapping seems the only possibility. Being suddenly grabbed, not being able to scream out, then gone. So awful
The camp was down an uneven path of more than a mile away from the road. That's not easy to traverse at 10,000' elevation by yourself let alone trying to take another human against their will. It doesn't match up.
@@davidpeterson7850 you know what they say about when you got the adrenaline pumping, you get super human strength. Anything is possible..
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Theses cases are so darn sad. Not impossible that he was kidnapped, he could still be alive.
Seems like foul play to me because nothing was ever found
Sad. I hope he will be found one day so there could be closure. I hope you will find him. I agree that someone took him. So scary and sad.
Wow. very suspicious indeed.
What about DNA testing of the sock?
Who takes off 1 sock and leaves it in the woods in the same area that a young man is missing?
Bryan I do follow most missing persons videos and although most of us in UK believe in the Big Guy I think feral people are the culprits. 😢
So tragic. If he got lost seems he would have dropped something. Why hasnt sock been tested for dna? Too odd and sad. 💜🙏
The Uintah's are dense with greenery. It's easy to get lost. My husband and sons went on Uintah hikes with their scouting troop. My husband would always tell me how easy it was to get lost. This story was absolutely heartbreaking. I can't even imagine the horror the father and mother felt. I hope and pray that God has comforted them and given them peace. Garrett is safe in his heavenly home.
I live in Utah and I've only been to the Uinta mountains once. They are unsettling. It's hard to explain, but I definitely felt like I was being watched the entire time.
Hoop lake in the Unitas is very mysterious ,after dark I have heard noises that were unrecognizable. Personally a for me sleeping with a weapon is the best way to be prepared.
@@88billythekid8 I love hoop lake, I go there every year, but your not wrong there are noises that are unrecognizable. I have backpacked many places but the Uintas are by far the most mysterious among them all, many times i have felt like i was being watched.
What a horrible story. I hate to say it but you can never rule out that it could be cryptid related. He should have been found. Prayers to the family.
I remember this because I live in Southwest WY. This reminds me of a missing 411 case.
Get well soon. 🤗
This is such a sad and strange case. I know it was hard on you to make this video, so, thank you for your courage.
It's been nearly 20 years since this disappearance. It will be difficult to find any trace of him now. But I do hope they do. Given the rocky terrain I can see how remains may be hidden in the cracks between rocks and such. I wonder if they searched the water? You didn't mention it. But it's a possibility. Also a mountain lion could have carried him off. That would have been swift and unnoticed. Mountain Lions rarely attack people but if they do they go for children or attack an adult who is kneeling down or in a position that makes them look smaller and more vulnerable.
I would imagine that the authorities have looked into the father. If there had been an accident or drowning or something at the lake he might have covered it up. But if the police have cleared him, then who? It's hard to imagine a stranger going unnoticed kidnapping a 12 yr old in the wilderness with all those boy scouts around.
As sad as it is, my bet is that either a Mountain Lion or his father had something to do with it. I hate saying that about his father, but all things need to be considered. RIP young man!
It's pretty messed up you would suspect his father. There's absolutely no signs of that being the case.
Yes the father was not involved. All he's done for this search there's just no way.
Father or mountain lion are what I keep coming back to in spite of missing fishing pole. In that tangled wilderness area, a fishing pole would be a needle in a haystack.
Bryan. Hit me up, when putting together your team. I (was born/live in) the Four corners area, on the New Mexico side. I’ve traversed the wilderness areas of all four of these states.. I have loads of hours logged… I am an endurance athlete with an education in healing, the human body, inter dimensional physics, chemistry, etc. P.S….. I grew up on a farm and was in 4-H. Boom.
Hi there, thank you! Where are you located out of? You can email me if you don't want to share it in the comments. (My email is in the description) I myself train like crazy and believe endurance training is better than just power lifting. Can you believe this one person said to me that my t levels must be low because I sounded sad in one of my last videos. Smh.. unreal. I told them that any good person would be sad about losing anyone and there's no shame in actually showing your emotions. Definitely email me and we can discuss sar. Sounds like you're a great person and the kind of people that any team would be happy to have. Thanks for reaching out! Keep up that training!
Blanco, NM @@bawattsyl
@@heatherhancock2546 wow that's awesome! That's one state I've never been but have always wanted to visit and hike on the CDT. Do you do a lot of hiking in your area?
for that matter, why would a kid that age even want to change his shoes? I had wet feet for the first 15 years of my life...
just listening to the details, why would he have taken his fishing rod with him to go change shoes?