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Locations Unknown

Mike Hearon - Happy Valley - Tennessee

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of August 23, 2008, a local man goes for an ATV ride on his property in Happy Valley, Tennessee, located on the border of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  When he failed to contact his family, the local authorities were notified, and a search kicked off.  Days later, close to the National Park border, his abandoned ATV was found under strange circumstances.  Join us this week as we investigate the puzzling disappearance of Mike Hearon.  (Episode 89)

Correction: We incorrectly stated that the raccoon is the state symbol of Tennessee.  The raccoon is the state's Official Wild Animal.  The state of Tennessee has a number of Official state symbols.  Thank you to supporter Rachel for alerting us to this mistake.    

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.

0:14.0

Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.

0:42.3

You are listening to Locations Unknown. What's up, What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.

1:00.5

I'm your co-host, Joe E. Rodo and with me as always is a man who can sing a song,

1:04.5

two songs at once, Mike Van de Bogart.

1:08.1

Hey, hey.

1:09.3

Thank you, Joe, and thank you once again to all of our loyal listeners for tuning in.

1:14.0

Just a couple of announcements before we get going here.

1:16.6

First, I'd like to thank all of our new wonderful Patreon supporters.

1:20.5

So we got Elise Karim, David Goldman, Mandolin Carlson, Brenda Gissel, Nicole.

1:29.4

I'm going to butcher this one.

1:31.0

Santa Suzo.

1:32.5

Wow, I think you nailed it.

1:33.5

Might have nailed it.

1:34.3

Ashley Wicker and Jessica Randall.

1:36.3

So thank you so much for supporting the show.

1:39.2

They must have heard that patron only episode that we released the public.

1:42.1

I'm like, yeah, where can we get more of that?

1:43.5

Yes.

1:44.0

So welcome aboard.

1:46.7

Also, I also want to just give a huge thank you to just everyone who listens to the show.

1:51.1

We recently hit over a million down rolls.

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