Mystery in the Valley: Kyle Brittain’s Disappearance on Hawaii’s Big Island

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On August 30, 2019, an experienced hiker set out along the steep, treacherous Z Trail on Hawaii's Big Island. When he failed to return, massive search efforts were stymied by thick jungles, towering cliffs, and sudden downpours—and no clues were ever found. Was it a tragic fall, or is something far more unsettling at work? Join us this week as we dive into one of Hawai‘i’s most baffling, unsolved missing-person cases: the disappearance of Kyle Brittain.

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0:43.3	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.
0:49.9	You are listening to Locations Unknown. I'm your co-host, Joe Irato, and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.
1:28.9	I'm your co-host Joe Irado and with me as always is a guy who moved out of his parents' house,
1:34.0	toss the keys to his dad and said, now you're the man of the house.
1:37.2	Mike Vannebogart.
1:38.9	That's pretty good.
1:41.1	Oh, thank you, everyone.
1:42.3	We're back.
1:43.1	Feels good.
1:43.9	Joe is finally with us again.
1:45.6	It's only, it's only been like two weeks, right? I know. No, but it feels like a month.
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