Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain (Pt. 1 of 2)
Unexplained
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4.4 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In June 2021, just outside of Phoenix, Arizona, 24-year-old geologist Daniel Robinson, drove off into the desert and was never seen again.
What exactly happened to him remains one of the most tragic and beguiling mysteries of recent times.
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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| 1:09.5 | The man rolled the window down and gazed out from the driver's seat of his SUV at the wide |
| 1:14.9 | desert vista spread out before him. |
| 1:18.2 | Although it was only just after 9 in the morning, the mercury was already well into the 80s. |
| 1:23.8 | It might even have been hotter, were it not for the scattering of clouds that had brought a recent run of much-needed rain to the area. |
| 1:31.6 | It was June 23, 2021, and the man, Ken Elliott, was waiting for a colleague to join him to inspect a borehole that had just been made for a water well, |
| 1:42.0 | intended to serve a new residential development just |
| 1:44.8 | to the west of the White Tank Mountains near Phoenix, Arizona. All Ken could see for miles ahead |
| 1:51.1 | of him was the bare bleached soil of the vast Sonoran desert and its scattering of pebbles, |
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