474: Vanished in Paradise: The Untold Story

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In the chaos surrounding the back-to-back hurricanes Irma and Maria that hit the Caribbean in 2017, schoolteacher Hannah Upp disappears from the US Virgin Islands. Even more mysteriously, this is the third time she has disappeared. Is it possible that she is in fugue state, and doesn't even know who she is?

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0:00.0	I'm going to St. Thomas. It's our once a year vacation right after Christmas. I'm going to find her.
0:04.9	Wow. That's crazy. I didn't know that. Wow. I know. I'm going. All right. I will.
0:11.9	Hi, Julie Madsvalli. Hello, Patrick Hines. Fam, join the Facebook group. It's the true
0:20.3	I'm obsessed podcast discussion group on Facebook. there's like 60,000 people in it.
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0:37.9	What's the other thing?
0:38.8	Patreon.
0:39.4	Oh, my God.
0:40.1	We've got a Patreon over 500. be in a highly moderated, super fun, very safe place to, like, be cool on the internet.
0:37.9	What's the other thing? Patreon. Oh, my God. We've got a Patreon over 500 full bonus episodes ad free. Right now, what are we doing? We're doing the devil in the desert. We're doing stalking Samantha. We're just a devil in the desert. We're doing the Ellen Greenberg thing. We're doing trophy wife. We're doing the Philly Mafia.
0:55.3	I mean, we're all over the place. It's everything that has multiple episodes on like Netflix, Hulu, Max, all that stuff. So we go episode by episode. It is wild. It's fun. It's amazing. And it's also ad-free versions of these episodes. Yes, correct. And we'll do drag bingo and we have that calendar that we do at the end of the year, depending on the tier you're on.
1:13.3	So we got a lot going on.
1:14.2	If you're a hero. of these episodes. Yes, correct. And then we'll do drag bingo, and we have that calendar that we do at the end of the year,
1:12.0	depending on the tier you're on. So we got a lot going on. If you're a hero bell, we just saw all of the sketches for the annual calendar. They're so good. I love it. All right, girl, what are we talking about today? All right, this is on Hulu and I think Amazon Prime. It's called Vanished in Paradise, the Untold Story.
1:29.8	The newspapers call a Jason Bornson. All right, this is on Hulu and I think Amazon Prime. It's called Vanished in Paradise, The Untold Story.
1:29.8	Most papers call it Jason Bourne syndrome.
1:31.9	My daughter had been pulled out of the water in New York car room.
1:34.7	She didn't know who she was.
1:36.2	This is the staff of movies.
1:39.4	All three times Hannah disappeared, it was just as the school year started.
1:53.4	Someone could go offline from their own personality. Sometimes it can be for years. Everybody assumed that I was aware of her past disappearances and I wasn't.
2:02.0	Elizabeth Vargas is our host. I love her. Yeah. We are in St. Thomas, which you will be soon. Yeah. America's Paradise is called. Yeah. Lots of tourists.
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