Joshua Simiskey Part 2: Stranger than Fiction

The Vanished Podcast

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Last week, we shared Part 1 of Joshua Simiskey's story. 41-year-old Joshua Simiskey vanished under bizarre circumstances in October of 2019. He had given all his belongings to a woman he had recently met. She claimed that he had offered the items for her hand in marriage while on a spiritual journey. But then, Josh was picked up by park rangers inside Olympic National Park, walking barefoot early one morning. They dropped him off at a general store and watched him walk away on foot. That is the last official, confirmed sighting of Joshua Simiskey. However, there were other unconfirmed sightings of Josh that seemed to point to a voluntary disappearance. Others believed that Josh was in a vulnerable mental state and was possibly coerced into giving his valuables away. Four years have gone by, and Josh Simiskey has never surfaced. What is known about the circumstances leading up to Josh's disappearance has left his loved ones with more questions than answers. Today, you will hear from two of the women in Josh's life when he went missing, one who claims to have seen him disappear right before her eyes.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon music.
0:04.1	Download the app today. So I'm in investigating a missing person report. This gentleman, his name is Joshua Pimenti, he's 41 years old.
0:27.0	He was last seen by a Park Ranger for the National Park at about 730 that morning and he was walking in the area of Shadow Mountain with no shoes on and barefoot from what I understand is that he's got some mental health issues, I'm not sure what exactly.
0:45.0	But we haven't been able to locate him since the last contact anybody has had with him, his family included.
0:52.0	And what I'm looking to is to get historical GPS data for his
0:57.3	Verizon cell phone from the day he was last seen so that we can try to locate him to check his welfare and make sure he's okay.
1:07.0	So I am willing to grant that search warrant.
1:11.0	41 year old Joshua Simisi vanished under bizarre circumstances in October of 2019.
1:18.0	He had given all of his belongings away to a woman he had recently met.
1:21.8	She claimed that he had offered the items up for her hand in
1:24.4	marriage while on some sort of spiritual journey. But then Josh was picked up by Park Rangers
1:30.0	inside Olympic National Park, walking barefoot early one morning.
1:34.7	They dropped him off at a general store and watched him walk away on foot.
1:38.6	This is the last official confirmed sighting of Joshua Simiski. However, there were other unconfirmed sightings of
1:45.1	Josh that seemed to point to a voluntary disappearance. While others believe that
1:49.8	Josh was in a vulnerable mental state and possibly coerced into giving his valuables away.
1:55.4	Since that time, four years have gone by, and Josh Simiski has never surfaced.
2:00.8	What's known about the circumstances leading up to Josh's disappearance has left his loved
2:05.0	ones with more questions than answers.
2:07.0	I'm Marissa and from Wundery, this is episode 414 of The Vanished, part 2 of Joshua Simiske's story, Stranger Than Fiction. Last week you learned all about Josh's puzzling disappearance. It can be difficult to make sense of it all.
2:37.6	What in the world was going on? Today we're going to take a closer look at Josh's time in Port Angeles, how he ended up meeting
2:44.9	Susan Brown and ultimately disappearing.
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