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Locations Unknown

The Arvin Nelson Interview

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On August 6th 2014, Arvin Nelson hiked into Big Sur State Park, along California's coast, never to be heard from again.  In episode 5, we discussed the location and his disappearance in detail.  We recommend listening to episode 5 before this interview so you have a better understanding of the case.  Episode 5 can be found here (https://locationsunknown.podbean.com/e/ep-5-arvin-nelson-big-sur-state-park/) or wherever you listen to podcasts. In this interview, Mike discusses the case with two close friends of Arvin, Jay O'Rear & Jason Challas, both of whom have spent many years hiking with Arvin.  Topics ranged from new details about the location where Arvin went missing to a more in depth look at Arvin the person.  Much of what was discussed in this interview hasn't been discussed publicly before and really helps paint a better picture of what happened to Arvin.  While the case remains a mystery to this day, this interview has helped us narrow down possible theories on his disappearance.       Learn about other unsolved missing persons cases in America's wilderness at Locations Unknown. Follow us on Facebook & Instagram.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.

0:12.3

Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.

0:18.9

You are listening to locations unknown.

0:21.6

You are listening to locations unknown. What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.

0:48.3

I am Joe Irado and with me as always is the guy who's more fun than a ball pit big enough for adults,

0:55.3

Mike Vanda Bogart. Thanks for the intro Joe. This isn't one of our normal episodes. We've been

1:00.9

teasing this for several weeks now, but we've finally got the Arvin Nelson interview with his two

1:07.4

close friends, Jay and Jason. So it's about 40 minutes long and it really,

1:14.6

it really gives us some exciting details about Arvin

1:17.6

that we didn't know from the information that's available online.

1:21.6

And Jay and Jason had a lot of great insights on the location,

1:26.6

where he went missing, what they

1:28.4

think happened to him, and just some overall, you know, details on what Arvin was like as

1:34.5

person before he went missing.

1:36.4

So I'm glad we, I'm glad we got this interview set up because I know we, uh, if, and

1:42.9

I'll say right now, if you haven't listened to the

1:44.7

Arvin Nelson episode I would say go back listen to it it's episode five so it's obviously a while

1:51.7

ago took a took a little bit to get this interview together but Mike you get all the credit on

1:55.7

coordinating and actually doing the interview I was not present for it but go listen to the

2:00.1

Arvin Nelson episode and then tune in to the interview because you're

2:04.2

going to hear from two very, very close friends of Arvin's.

2:08.2

One of them was in college with him, roommates?

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