Paul Elliott Part 1: Somewhere Between Alliance and Alaska
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
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Summary
On a summer day in 2007, 50-year-old Paul Elliott left the duplex he shared with family in Alliance and rode away on his bicycle.
According to his brother-in-law, Paul left after learning that police had been called about tools stolen from the property. There's no indication that Paul had taken the tools. In fact, his brother-in-law reportedly believed someone else was responsible. But those close to Paul say he was deeply uncomfortable around law enforcement because of something that had happened years earlier, so when he heard police were coming, he left before they arrived.
Paul had a remote trailer outside of town where he sometimes went to be alone and clear his head. Everyone assumed he headed there and would be back within a few days, but Paul never came home.
As time passed, a strange story began to spread. People said Paul had gone to Alaska. No one seemed to know exactly where the rumor started, but somehow it took hold. At first, it gave his loved ones hope that Paul had simply walked away to start over somewhere else.
The explanation that Paul went to Alaska didn't seem to hold up under closer scrutiny. Paul had left behind his wallet, phone, identification, and everything he would've needed to build a new life. He was also excited for his son’s upcoming wedding, a day those closest to him insist he never would have missed.
Then, several years later, Paul’s son made a discovery that changed everything. Hidden inside a locked building he found Paul’s bicycle, the very bicycle he was said to have ridden away the day he vanished. It had been tucked out of sight, almost as though someone wanted to make sure it wouldn't be found.
More than 18 years later, Paul Elliott is still missing, and the questions surrounding what happened to him remain unanswered.
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| 0:00.0 | Even if I may not know exactly what's happened, I know the kind of man that he was and the man that he raised me to be. |
| 0:19.0 | And I know he was a good person. Why people are trying to |
| 0:24.2 | throw me and us off the trail, that's what we're trying to find out. And that's what I want to |
| 0:29.7 | find out. And there's all these coincidences with people. It's just frustrating. I feel like there's a lot of questions still to be |
| 0:39.9 | answered. I've had these suspicions because I've been dealing with this for almost 20 years now. |
| 0:47.2 | You're giving me new information and I can kind of maybe see things from a different lens almost. But the things that you're telling me |
| 0:58.0 | and this information, yeah, I've had this piece of the puzzle, but I didn't have this one. So it |
| 1:05.4 | kind of connects it a little bit better. During the summer of 2007, 50-year-old Paul Elliott was living in a |
| 1:15.0 | duplex in Alliance, Ohio, and his sister and brother-in-law occupied the other unit. On August 22nd, |
| 1:22.1 | Paul reportedly left the residence on his bicycle. After his brother-in-law contacted police |
| 1:27.2 | to report that tools have |
| 1:28.4 | been stolen from a shed on the property, it was believed that the theft may have been committed |
| 1:32.7 | by someone who had been working for Paul's brother-in-law. Paul left before officers arrived, |
| 1:38.2 | which was something that was close to him, say, was consistent with his discomfort around law |
| 1:42.2 | enforcement, stemming from a prior experience years |
| 1:45.1 | earlier. Paul had a place he would go to from time to time when he needed space. It was a remote |
| 1:51.0 | property not far from alliance, where he could stay for a few days and be on his own. At first, |
| 1:57.1 | that's where everyone assumed Paul had gone, probably to clear his head and that he would |
| 2:01.7 | return when he wanted to. But the days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months, |
| 2:06.5 | and no one ever saw or heard from Paul again. Then a story began to circulate that Paul had |
| 2:12.2 | gone to Alaska. It was oddly specific, not just that he had left, but that he had gone somewhere so far away from home. |
| 2:20.6 | No one seemed to know exactly where that story originated. And yet, it spread, and people seemed to |
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