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Hi, Lassie and listeners, it's Kelly Horan.

We'll have more for you in the new year.

But until then, I wanted to share a different great mystery with you.

It's an episode of another WBUR podcast, Endless Thread.

I don't want to give too much away, but this story focuses on a young man who was last seen in 1995.

Ben Brock Johnson and Emory Seavertsen, the hosts of Endless Thread, will take it from here.

This is a story about a young man named Jason.

But you're never going to hear from Jason.

You're just going to hear from people who knew him, or thought they knew him.

The first person you're going to hear from who knew Jason, or thought that he knew Jason, is a guy named Isaac Hensley.

He's a nurse.

Also a dad, I should include that.

I'm a dad that takes up as much time as the nursing part.

Isaac's a dad now.

But in the summer of 1994, he was a teenager growing up in Champagne, Illinois, who had just started to dip his toe into partying,

which meant that his dad, who was an evangelical pastor, wanted Isaac to spend his summer break somewhere else, doing something productive.

That somewhere else was a Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, and that something productive was a youth leadership program with some other young energetic Christian teenage boys.

I was not very into the church, so I went out there to kind of cool off of the summer, and none of these other young people that went out there for this church leadership thing.

We're two into partying, and so I spent a lot of time with the beach.

One day while teenage Isaac was escaping the religious agenda of his summer vacation by walking down the beach, he ran into another kid walking the other way.

My assumption is that one of the other of us was smoking a cigarette, and the other one probably asked for a cigarette.

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