Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project Podcast , host Tanner Hoskins investigates the mysterious disappearance of Eddie Curtis Hair and Scott Jon Smith , two longtime friends from Beaverton, Oregon , who vanished after heading out on a simple outdoor trip in mid-September 2025. Their red 2005 Jeep Wrangler (Oregon plate 494 QKW) has yet to be found, leavi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we journey deep into the remote wilderness of Alberta, Canada, where four men vanished without a trace. Howard Metacat, Benjamin Laboucan, Gavin Edkins, and William Bereziuk each disappeared under mysterious circumstances—hunting, traveling, or simply moving through the unforgiving northern landscape. Their stories span decades, from the 1970s through the 1990s, y...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore two men who entered the wilderness under very different circumstances—one who fought to live, and one who vanished into the shadows. First, we follow the incredible survival story of Ralph Sawyer , a 52-year-old mountain biker from Gresham, Oregon, who disappeared in Mount Hood National Forest and was missing for six long days. Against the odds, Ralph f...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerful episode of the PNWMPP Podcast, host Tanner Hoskins sits down with his good friend and elite K9 handler Jensen Huffman — owner of Huffman K9 Obedience and Executive Director of CHAIS (Charon Human Advocacy and Intervention Services). With more than 20 years of experience training and deploying working dogs across North America, Jensen shares his journey from tradit...

Send us Fan Mail In this haunting episode of the Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project Podcast , we venture beyond borders into Canada’s vast, untamed wilderness—where stories vanish into the fog, survive against impossible odds, or dissolve in waves. 🔹 Mélanie Ethier – A 15-year-old vanishes after a short walk home in New Liskeard, Ontario. Despite decades of investigation, no trace has ever...

Send us Fan Mail Travis Decker, 32 year old army veteran, wanted for the murder of his three children, Paitlyn, Evelyn, and Olivia. Decker has been on the run for nearly a month in the remote backcountry of Chelan and Kittitas Counties in Washington State. In this episode Tanner informs listeners how to be prepared in the backcountry to human threats, truly the worst possible scenario a hunter, hi...

Send us Fan Mail In this gripping episode, we journey deep into the heart of two baffling disappearances that continue to haunt the American wilderness. First, we head to the rugged mountains of Montana, where experienced hunter Aaron Hedges vanished under mysterious circumstances in the Crazy Mountains in 2014. Despite extensive searches, bizarre clues and puzzling behavior left more questions th...

Send us Fan Mail The Pacific Northwest is a place of mist, mystery, and myth—but beneath the towering trees and winding trails lie stories that never made it home. In this cinematic and chilling episode, host Tanner Hoskins walks you through three of the most haunting unsolved disappearances and murders in Pacific Northwest history: 🔹 The Cowden Family Disappearance – A quiet family camping trip...

Send us Fan Mail On April 26th, 2025, the PNW Bigfoot Search team made a shocking discovery along the White Salmon River near Willard, Washington—a clear, unexplainable track believed to be from a Sasquatch. Join Tanner Hoskins and the team as they document this discovery in real-time, analyze the evidence, and explore what makes this remote section of the Pacific Northwest a hotspot for Bigfoot a...

Send us Fan Mail Release Date: April 16, 2025 Mount Rainier stands as one of America’s most breathtaking — and dangerous — natural landmarks. In this chilling episode, we examine three haunting disappearances that occurred on its icy slopes. First, we dive into the 2010 vanishing of Eric Lewis — a seasoned climber who was roped in with his team, only to vanish near the summit without a sound, a fo...

Send us Fan Mail The Mount Jefferson Wilderness in Oregon is a breathtaking yet unforgiving landscape. In this episode, we examine two disappearances that have haunted the region since 2016. On June 23, 2016, 59-year-old Sanford "Sandy" David Rice, an experienced outdoorsman, set out on a solo hiking trip near Marion Lake. He never returned. Despite extensive search efforts, no trace of...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Description: Mount Hood—a breathtaking yet unforgiving giant—has claimed the lives of many who dared to explore its rugged terrain. In this episode we uncover the chilling disappearances of Fred Frauens and Kenneth "Ken" Budlong, two experienced outdoorsmen who vanished without a trace. What happened to them? Were they victims of the mountain’s deadly conditions,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search Podcast, hosted by Alberto Quinones, Kelly Stolp, and Tanner Hoskins, with special appearances by Mike Palagi, we dive into two perplexing missing persons cases from the rugged wilderness of Priest Lake, Idaho. First, we explore the mysterious disappearance of David Walter Uhl, an experienced outdoorsman who vanished without...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast Episode Description: In this chilling episode we dive into three unsettling disappearances in the remote wilderness of Idaho. Susan Adams , a nature lover, vanished without a trace from the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in 1990, leaving behind only questions and eerie speculation. Gordon White , a seasoned outdoorsman, took his ATV out for a routine ride on his Idaho proper...

Send us Fan Mail Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search is following-up on leads brought to us by logging crews in the Tillamook State Forest regarding strange bare footprints, vocalizations, and sightings of upright, hair-covered bipeds roaming an area known as Giveout Mountain and Round Top near the rugged Salmonberry River in northwest Oregon. This week's episode Tanner shares some of the report...

Send us Fan Mail Everett Ruess a 20 year old adventurer, poet, and artist known for his solo-expeditions throughout the High Sierra Mountain Range, the Coast of California, and the American southwest departed for a two month trip into the remote and rugged Utah desert never to be seen again.  Vilate Young, a 15 month old girl vanished from a picnic at the Newell Steed Ranch near Bryce Canyon Utah...

Send us Fan Mail Tanner shares updates from the Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search (PNW Bigfoot Search) research team, including two documentaries we have in the works!  One documentary will be released in December of 2025 and another will be debuting in February or March of 2026, stay tuned for that!  Our expeditions are in full-swing and in this week's podcast Tanner discusses our research ef...

Send us Fan Mail Kyron Horman was a loving and intelligent 2nd grader when he vanished from Skyline Elementary School in rural Washington County, Oregon on June 2nd, 2010. Kyron's disappearance would kickoff the largest and most expensive Search and Rescue mission in Oregon State history.  Fourteen years later, not a single item belonging to Kyron has ever been located and no definitive sight...

Send us Fan Mail Known as the Bermuda Triangle of Utah, the Mirror Lake Highway and adjacent wilderness is a beautiful location full of high-strangeness and mystery. The area is full of dense vegetation, beautiful clear running water, and boulder fields. What could cause a seasoned outdoorsmen and a boy scout to vanish in the region? This area is well traversed and very well known by the Summit Co...

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Mitchell (2015) an Alaska Native vanished in September of 2015 after driving south of Girdwood, Alaska and going on a hike. KEVIN SOURCES: https://www.adn.com/anchorage/article/eve-their-anniversary-anchorage-woman-searches-missing-husband/2015/09/25/ https://www.adn.com/anchorage/article/missing-anchorage-mans-truck-found-south-girdwood/2015/09/26/ https://www.peninsulaclar...

Send us Fan Mail Yosemite National Park and its 748,000 acres of land and 750 miles of hiking trails is shrouded in mystery, with well over 1,300 people who have died within the park boundaries since 1890 and more than 30 missing persons cases from 2003 to 2023. In this week's episode we share the stories of three individuals who vanished without a trace Kieran Burke SOURCES: https://www.namu...

Send us Fan Mail First case: Lisa Brost, is a 55 year old caucasian female, standing at about 5’3” tall, weighing about 140 pounds with blonde hair, brown eyes. Lisa left her residence in Ellensburg on March 15th, 2024 in her 2002 Red Toyota Tacoma pickup truck with Washington License Plate: C06224H. It’s believed that Lisa Brost was likely suffering from a mental health episode at the time of her...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s podcast has to do with the strange, spooky, and true life horror stories that have been shared with our team via email from individuals who wanted to tell their hair-raising stories of either becoming lost and how they self-rescued or of strange things they witnessed and experienced while recreating in the great outdoors.  This podcast episode is part one of two, and i...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s podcast has to do with the strange, spooky, and true life horror stories that have been shared with our team via email from individuals who wanted to tell their hair-raising stories of either becoming lost and how they self-rescued or of strange things they witnessed and experienced while recreating in the great outdoors.  This podcast episode is part two of two, and i...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode Tanner fills you in on the poor record keeping from the United State's largest law enforcement agency the National Park Service. Tanner also shares the stories of three individuals, two adults and one child, that vanished in the wilderness without a trace, all within very close proximity to Yellowstone National Park.  These are just three cases, of...