Megan Foglesong
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a young woman from Illinois returns to the small Kansas town that chewed her up and spit her out once already? Megan Foglesong was a warm and energetic girl raised in a loving two-parent home in Oneida, IL, a small Midwestern town that, with its population of 750, must have felt like a big city compared to Alden, Kansas, population 148. But sometimes its in the small towns people find the biggest problems. In Alden, Megan became BFFs with her biological mother, Pam, who was unsettlingly competitive with her daughter. Together they drank, chased men, and took selfies in the bathroom together. But it wasn't all fun and games, especially once love struck a fearful tone, spurring her hasty return home after discovering those who love you can really hurt you the most. But once the bruises healed and her heart had warmed, Megan began to miss the party down in Bleeding Kansas, so she returned to Alden, to mom, to love... to be loved. Then one day –– and no one knows what day it was –– she was gone. Poof! Lost in the prairie dust and howling wind.
UPDATE- On April 29, 2019, the man Megan had been dating at the time of her disappearance and who had been suspected of having a role in what happened to her, took his own life after he shot the Rice County Sheriff and Undersheriff. He also killed his father before turning the gun on himself.
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| 0:16.0 | When I took her to be with her dad and we met her dad and her sister in the parking lot, when she went up and hugged her dad and her little sister, |
| 0:26.0 | I just, it made me feel so good because I knew she was safe and she was going home where she belonged. |
| 0:33.0 | And I just, that picture is stuck forever in my mind. |
| 0:39.0 | And we stayed in touch, where she was out in the middle of the noise and she seemed to be doing really good. |
| 0:44.0 | And I don't know what made her decide to come back. I don't know. She was young, but she hasn't. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't know. She hasn't experienced life. And I knew that she would go back to him. You know, I could be with an abuser myself. |
| 1:03.0 | You know, it's a statistics show that, you know, you leave a total of eight times before you sign on and leave in a body bag or you make it out. |
| 1:14.0 | The rumor has it has people too scared to talk. |
| 1:19.0 | I know that I think God what if, what if, what if, you know, is she, she's still alive as he dwarfs her nose, you know, I mean, that's enough to just drive her person crazy. |
| 1:36.0 | I know who she was with last. I did my own investigating before the police would even touch it. |
| 1:45.0 | I keep asking why aren't you searching the house? They tell me that just because she was with him last doesn't give him probable cause to search the house. |
| 1:57.0 | Which makes no sense to me at all. |
| 2:01.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 48 of the vanished. |
| 2:08.0 | November 30th, 2015 was the last time that anyone heard from 21 year old Megan Fogelsong. |
| 2:15.0 | She sent a Facebook message to a friend that day saying that she was back at her boyfriend's house in Alden, Kansas. |
| 2:23.0 | No one has heard from her since and no trace of Megan has ever been found. This is Megan's story. |
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| 3:48.0 | And what are obsession with them says about us. |
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