Bryan Skilinski - Great Sand Dunes National Park - Colorado

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

February 11th, 2017, a 40-year-old man from New York, deep in a mid-life crisis, vanishes into a brutal winter storm at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Miraculously he is rescued after five freezing nights, calling it his “mission to the stars.” Just three months later, he returns alone to the same vast Colorado wilderness—and disappears a second time with no trace. What drove him back to the dunes that nearly killed him the first time? Join us this week as we investigate the strange repeat vanishing of Bryan Skilinski.

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1:00.0	Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.
1:13.6	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.
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1:30.3	The Oh, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.
1:59.9	I'm your co-host, Joe Iradone. With me as always is the
2:02.5	guy who would never steal fizzylifting drinks. Mike Van de Bogart. Thank you, Joe. And thank you to all
2:09.6	of our amazing listeners for tuning in. Just a couple of announcements before we get going. We've got
2:14.8	a couple new shows joining our network. So Joe, why don't you fill
2:18.8	the audience in? So we have the hike and seek podcast. So Kelly has been doing Instagram posts
2:26.9	for us for a while and her and her boyfriend Corbyn have been hitting national parks like
2:31.4	crazy and they are starting a show about hiking, traveling, relationships all the things so that'll be very interesting show their instagram
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