Robert Fitzgerald - George Washington National Forest - Virginia

Locations Unknown

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Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

November 12th, 2012, a seasoned hiker and devoted runner fails to show up for work after a solo trip to Virginia’s Confederate Breastworks Trail. His car is discovered days later, packed with food and supplies, but no sign of him. Despite a massive five-day search across rugged, fog-shrouded ridges and icy hollows, not a single trace is found. What happened on that cold, windswept mountain? Join us this week as we investigate the mysterious disappearance of Robert “Bobby” Fitzgerald in George Washington National Forest.

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0:00.0	Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.
0:13.0	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.
0:20.0	You are listening to locations unknown. What's up,
0:42.3	What's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown. I'm your co-host, Joe Irrato. And with me, as always, is a guy with the heart, the size of a basketball that's filled with ricotta cheese. Mike Van der Bogart. Oh, thank you, Joe. That's Bill Braskey's good. Bill Braskey. Yes, yes. Legendary Bill Braske. The legendary Bill Braske. Oh, thank you, Joe. That's Bill Braskey's good. Bill Braskey, yes, yes.
1:11.9	Legendary Bill Braske. No, thank you, Joe. And thank you once again to all of our amazing listeners for tuning in this week. Just a few updates before we get going. First, we've got a lot of Patreon shoutouts to get to. so. Ashley Rainer,
1:26.2	Karris, Kara Knootson,
1:29.1	Rihanna-Thomason, Greg,
1:31.3	Gillian, Shoutouts to get too. So Ashley Rainer, Karris, Kara Knutzen, Rihanna Thomason, Greg,
1:31.3	Jillian Lazarene, sorry about that. Grant Ritter, Jill Slazorini. Blasarini, there you go.
1:40.0	Tina Gatewood, Katie Joe Williams, Renee Vorack, Richard Strach, Hoyt McCain, and Susan Soto.
1:48.1	So thank you so much for supporting the show. We're excited, Joe and I, we're getting some new audio equipment in here, hopefully by next episode.
1:57.0	Yeah. Hold it up. You have it right there, ready to go. Right here. We're just looking at it.
2:02.4	New, we got to set it up and program it. New mixer for the table. We've got... Throw it over here.
2:07.4	Yeah, throw it over here. Yeah. We've got some brand new microphones coming in. So...
2:13.6	All the fun toys. All the fun toys. And we wouldn't be able to do it without the amazing support
2:17.7	of all of our patreon supporters and everyone else that listens to the show you want to call the show
2:22.9	and leave a voicemail you can call 208 391 6913 we've got some other interesting podcasts on our
2:30.3	network so off the trails who runs this park off the grid. We've got a couple new
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