Missing 411 | Was Mike Hearon Kidnapped in the Great Smokies?

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  @yetimcsomethin3517 · 2 years ago

  I think one of the things I like so much about the Lore Lodge - the history. Dude disappeared in 2008? Let's talk about pre historic native peoples. Love it. Don't change.

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  @cartershort4234 · 2 years ago

  The funniest part of people saying Teddy Roosevelt wanted to hide the wendigo, when we all know he would have hunted the thing for sport.

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  @phoradio1277 · 2 years ago

  Fun Fact Grady Whitehead found a lost plane, crash, that even the government couldn't find because it was so deep in the mountains by looking at the trees. He is a legend in the Smokies.

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  @Bdij5866 · 2 years ago

  Late to the game, but native Appalachian person here. &nbsp; My family has lived in the mountains for as far back as we can trace. <br>100% I can tell you that “mountain men” aren’t thought of as myth or anything like that here. They are thought of as fact, but the story we hear is more grounded in reality than what I’ve read online. <br>My grandmother let us play in the forests and the streets, etc, my entire childhood with little to no supervision. We swam in lakes and streams until dark, and ran and biked all over this area. But we were not allowed to approach the Appalachian trail. The SINGLE time I remember her going anywhere near the actual Appalachian trail, she was all over us. She made everyone hold hands. We even went to the bathroom as a group. Everyone had to sit around and wait for everyone else to be done before we walked out. <br>She was the first of her family to live off a reservation, and she was adamant that the mountain men were absolutely in the area, and would absolutely carry off kids or attack lone adults, and had done it for as long as her family could remember. &nbsp;Apparently that’s what everyone “knew” happened to her great uncle, and they knew it was pointless to go to any form of police about it. <br>Just fyi, for what it’s worth.

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  @GymBow6 · 2 years ago

  If big foot can avoid all American media for decades, he can drive an ATV.

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  @elizabethprater-hughett8021 · 2 years ago

  Mike Hearon is my mother&apos;s first cousin. Mike&apos;s father and my mom&apos;s father are brothers. Our entire family, beginning four generations settled in Happy Valley. It&apos;s very close to a large lake named Chilhowee Lake. I, along with most of our extended family, live in Maryville now. Just because it&apos;s closer to the grocery store, jobs, bank, etc. The condo Mike lived in was only a couple miles from my house. His son&apos;s (my second cousins) spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to find him. They were very close to their dad and were devastated when he disappeared. One thing I do know; Happy Valley people know each other because not that many people live there and the ones that do were born there. My point is if a stranger had come into the valley, someone would have seen them. Our family searched every inch of the area Mike disappeared from. And there was absolutely no trace of him anywhere and hasn&apos;t been since. If Grady Whitehead couldn&apos;t find him, he wasn&apos;t going to be found. Our family still holds out hope that one day we&apos;ll find out what happened to Mike.

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  @Kuhchuk1 · 2 years ago

  All I&apos;m going to say is that most locals in that area will tell you not to go exploring in the woods if it&apos;s not your property and not to stray far from marked trails in the parks. Lotta shady stuff happens in those woods. &nbsp;Best not to stumble upon it.

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  @LuLeMen · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve been binging this channel for about a month now. Don&apos;t know why the algorithm suddenly suggested it, but thrilled it happened.

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  @x-gate-gate-gate · 2 years ago

  I think it is time for another road trip with Wendigoon... Find the cabin!

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  @FrostingTheBirthdayClown · 2 years ago

  Common Misconception, it was actually the Wendigo who created the national parks to imprison Roosevelt, but crafty Teddy reversed the polarity.

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  @voxxy6108 · 2 years ago

  Im an north american precontact archaeologist and i am always impressed with the accuracy of the general details of his explanation of precontact peoples. It is obvious to me he does his research. He would do well in an anthropology/archaeology degree

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  @OZefiroMusica · 2 years ago

  The lore Lodge not only goes through the main story and the lore. They explain the entire worldbuilding for maximum imersion. 10/10

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