Replay: Kevin Graves - There All Along
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This episode originally aired on March 10, 2019.
On July 1, 2018, 28-year-old Kevin Graves vanished while attending the Electric Forest Music Festival in Rothbury, Michigan. Kevin had traveled to the festival with his girlfriend and friends, but during the weekend, he disappeared after reportedly walking away from the group while agitated and distressed.
When Kevin failed to return home, his loved ones immediately knew something was wrong. Extensive search efforts began almost immediately across the festival grounds and surrounding wooded areas. But despite years of searching, no trace of Kevin was found.
Then, more than six years later, human remains discovered near the festival grounds were identified as Kevin Graves. In 2025, the medical examiner ruled his cause of death undetermined, stating there was no evidence of trauma and no clear indication of what happened in the hours after Kevin disappeared.
This replay revisits Kevin’s case and includes an update at the end of the episode on the discovery of his remains and the status of the investigation today.
The original episode was co-researched and written by Marissa Jones and Erika Gwynn. To find more of Erika's work, please check out her podcast at https://www.apexandabyss.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode originally aired on March 10th, 2019. At the time, Kevin Graves had been missing for |
| 0:07.0 | less than a year. Kevin vanished during the 2018 Electric Forest Music Festival. Despite |
| 0:13.1 | extensive searches, no trace of Kevin was found. For years, his family continued searching for |
| 0:18.4 | answers. Then, at the end of 2024, there was a major development in Kevin's case. |
| 0:24.4 | Please stay tuned until the very end to learn more. |
| 0:40.3 | Thank you. I just don't believe that he could just walk away like this. It just don't believe that he could just walk away like this. |
| 0:57.4 | It just don't make sense. |
| 0:59.3 | They were supposed to come home on Monday, the second. |
| 1:04.0 | And it never happened. |
| 1:07.8 | So our searches started out looking for a body, and then we would think differently, oh, maybe he just wandered off with these people that go to these festivals and just hop trains and go to the next festival, and that's how they live. |
| 1:24.4 | I cannot believe that Kevin would do something like this because he was so close with us. |
| 1:30.7 | Kevin was very loved. I guess the best way to describe his soul, he was just a kind and gentle soul. |
| 1:37.9 | But when he got sad, it broke your heart because he's so sweet. |
| 1:45.4 | On July 1st, 2018, 28-year-old Kevin Graves went missing while spending the weekend at the |
| 1:52.9 | Electric Forest Music Festival in Oceana County, Michigan. Kevin was attending the music festival |
| 1:58.7 | with his girlfriend Kayla and their friends, |
| 2:01.3 | when an alleged argument broke out between the couple. |
| 2:04.5 | According to those with Kevin that day, |
| 2:06.8 | he stormed off while acting erratic and he was never seen or heard from again. |
| 2:12.0 | Kevin and the belongings he had with him at the moment he walked off, |
| 2:15.5 | such as his wallet and cell phone, were never found. |
| 2:19.0 | Kevin's girlfriend notified the police that he was missing, and she told his family that she |
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