1 | No Place Like Nome
Up and Vanished
Tenderfoot TV
4.5 • 63.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Often Nome, Alaska is claimed to be settled by gold miners, but Alaska Natives have been in the sub-arctic area for thousands of years. It is also unfortunately the site of a disproportionately high number of missing Indigenous and Native Alaskan women. When Up and Vanished host, Payne Lindsey, receives a tip from one of his producers about Florence Okpealuk, an Alaskan native who went missing in 2020, he is drawn to the mystery of her disappearance. As Payne begins his research, he finds an email from Okpeluk's family asking him to cover her case, and is compelled to continue. He will soon learn the difficulty of covering a case in the Land of the Midnight Sun as he begins his journey northward to Nome.
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| 0:00.0 | Up and Vanished in the Midnight Sun is released every Friday and brought to you absolutely free. |
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| 0:35.3 | participating. This podcast also contains subject matter which may not be suitable for everyone. |
| 0:41.3 | Listener discretion is advised. I've been on four different flights in the last 18 hours. Small rickety planes in the remote |
| 1:06.8 | region of Northern Alaska. After a while you get used to the turbulence. |
| 1:14.0 | The plane's engine starts to feel like white noise. |
| 1:19.0 | When I get here, I'm going to have to face the music. |
| 1:25.0 | For about a year now, I've been investigating an unsolved missing person's case, |
| 1:30.0 | and it's all led me to this moment, to this place, a tiny town in remote Alaska. |
| 1:39.3 | I'm minutes away from what is likely the most terrifying encounter of my entire life. |
| 1:46.0 | And there's no escape plan, |
| 1:48.0 | but I've mentally prepared for this moment. |
| 1:51.0 | I know exactly why I'm here. I know why the victim's family wants me |
| 1:56.9 | to come here and I know why the police have never stepped foot here. I'm about to meet the number one suspect in a murder case. I know |
| 2:09.7 | they're dangerous. I know that they're armed. |
| 2:15.0 | There's no time for second thoughts now. |
| 2:18.0 | But what if I'm walking into a trap? |
| 2:21.0 | What if this confrontation goes way south? |
| 2:24.0 | You need to snap out of it. |
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