Melvin Nadel - Santa Fe National Forest - New Mexico

Locations Unknown

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Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

September 6th, 2009: a 61-year-old fitness instructor, black belt, and seasoned bow hunter leaves his campsite near Elk Mountain in New Mexico's Santa Fe National Forest. He tells his two companions he won't go far and will return by nightfall. When he doesn't return the search begins. Helicopters, volunteers, and K-9 units scour the rugged terrain and find nothing. No body, no gear, no trace. Join us this week as we investigate the strange disappearance of Melvin Nadel

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0:00.0	Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.
0:12.6	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together
0:18.6	what happened.
0:20.2	You are listening to locations unknown. What's up?
0:40.3	Oh, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.
0:59.0	I'm your co-host, Joey Rodo.
1:00.5	Me as always is a guy who can take an actual big bite of an archburger, Mike Van
1:04.9	Bogart.
1:05.4	Wow.
1:06.1	So I saw that video of the CEO of McDonald's just like.
1:09.9	It's so embarrassing. Oh, yuck. This is gross. I don't want's so embarrassed. Like, oh, yuck, this is gross.
1:12.7	I don't want to eat it. Like, oh, wait, I'm running this company. Like, how bad do you have to be
1:19.5	at like a marketing campaign? Yeah. That you can't take one bite out of like the, even if you thought
1:25.6	was the most horrendous thing in the whole world. Yeah.
1:27.7	You're like, I make millions of dollars a year. Like, I'll just go to the best doctors after I eat this burger. Yeah. Like, it's that bad. Everything he did seem like he was going to regret this for the rest of his life. Yeah. Like his body was like, I don't even know how to attack this. I was like, what do you mean?
1:43.7	That's a bad look.
1:44.8	Yeah, he should actually be fired as a result of that.
1:47.9	I don't know. know how to attack this. I was like, what do you mean? Yeah, it's a bad look. Yeah,
1:45.0	like he should actually be fired as a result of that. I don't know. Yeah, that's,
1:48.8	or whoever green lighted, like, I wonder if he watched it and was like, yep, this one's the
1:53.3	best. Just don't make me bite into this thing. Maybe he did like 10 takes and ate like 50 of them.
2:17.5	You know what? If they're going to do anything to save face, that's what they should come out and be like. It was the hundredth take. Yeah. He literally ate like a hundred of them. Yeah. And he was just like, lie to us at this point. Well, uh, thank you. Anyway. Yeah. Besides that. Thank you to all of our loyal listeners for tuning in.
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