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Locations Unknown

Fern Baird Vanishes on Day Hike in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On October 19, 2020, Fern Baird, a seasoned hiker exploring Idaho briefly, embarked on a day hike in the Prairie Creek region within Sawtooth National Forest. Signing the trail log with her name and the phrase 'To the lake and back,' Fern commenced her trek. Unfortunately, after several days passed without her return to the hotel, she was declared missing, initiating a search. Join us this week as we delve into the mysterious disappearance of Fern Baird in the picturesque Sawtooth National Forest.  (Episode 96)

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0:00.0

Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.

0:12.0

Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.

0:19.0

You are listening to Locations Unknown.

0:55.9

The What's up, everybody. Oh, what's up, everybody?

0:59.0

And welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.

1:00.8

I'm your co-host, Joe Irado.

1:07.8

And with me, as always, is the guy who invented Elf on the Shelf and Snoop on a Stoop, Mike Vanda Bogart.

1:08.9

Oh, thank you, Joe.

1:12.7

And thank you once again to all of our amazing listeners for tuning in.

1:15.9

Joe and I sound a lot better or feel better from the last episode.

1:20.0

Just a couple quick announcements here before we get going.

1:31.7

As always, if you want to call the show and leave a voicemail, you can call 208-391-6-9-13. We'd also like to give uh some new patreon shoutouts to pamela g shelley hall tera yorck and cindy kramer thank you so much for supporting the show

1:38.4

and finally joe this is our fifth end of our fifth year doing the show, which is crazy.

1:45.5

It doesn't feel like five years. It doesn't feel like five years. But, and it's the end of

1:50.6

2023 and 20203 was one of the best years for the show yet. And I just wanted to give everyone

1:58.7

listening a little inside baseball so you can understand how much we thank you for tuning in every episode.

2:05.1

Oh, yeah. Give them all the numbers.

2:07.1

So this year, we had over 660,000 downloads up 94% from the previous year.

2:13.7

We're at almost 23,000 subscribers.

2:21.1

71% of our listeners discovered us in 2023, which is pretty cool. Um, we're, so if you're an OG listener, yes, you should feel

2:26.6

real special because you knew about us before we were big. You're the hipster listeners. Yeah,

2:30.5

uh, we were streamed in over 68 countries. We have over a thousand ratings and at an

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