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It's inconceivable that he would go and be putting his family and friends through all this

If he had the wherewithal to even realize it was doing it

You know, it could be living out a role in some type of movie adventure that is only within his own mind.

I could find a lot of people that say they saw him, believe they saw him, so forth, and I discount about 90% of them.

He had never gone more than two, three days without contacting me and me him.

I thought it was strange when I sent him a happy New Year's text and he didn't answer if I fear he was just parring with friends.

Hello and welcome to episode 66 of The Vanished. On December 30th, 2016, 21-year-old Mark Bacodic went to a nightclub in New Orleans with several of his friends.

In the early morning hours of the 31st, he became incoherent, no longer recognized his friends and wasn't even able to remember his own address.

He told several people that he felt that he and his friends were going to die.

He ran away from his friends at night and disappeared into the darkness.

His friends and family have spent the past couple of months searching for him on the streets of New Orleans.

There have been many sightings of Mark, some very credible and others not so much.

They always seem to be just a few steps behind him in their searches.

What happened to Mark on the evening of December 30th, 2016?

What goes on in the human mind is often mystery.

It's scary to think that you could be fine one moment and then all of a sudden, not know who you are or where you belong.

This is Mark's story.

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.

In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

And that's just a few.

We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

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