The Disappearance of Kenny Veach

Bedtime Stories

Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In the great deserts of the American Southwest, people vanish with unsettling regularity. Some leave behind traces that hint at what happened. Others seem to step out of the world entirely, swallowed by a landscape vast enough to hide anything and quiet enough that no one hears it happen. But every so often, a disappearance leaves behind more questions than answers. A hiker known for pushing his limits. A cave he insisted held something unusual. A final journey that should have ended like all the others, yet never did. This is the story of Kenny Veach, and the place he never came back from. MUSIC Tracks used by kind permission of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Tracks used by kind permission of CO.AG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.9	In the great deserts of the American Southwest, people vanish with unsettling regularity. Some leave behind traces
0:39.7	that hint at what happened, others seem to step out of the world entirely, swallowed by a
0:45.0	landscape vast enough to hide anything and quiet enough that no one hears it happen.
0:51.3	But every so often, a disappearance leaves behind more questions than answers. A hiker known for
0:57.3	pushing his limits, a cave he insisted held something unusual, a final journey that should have
1:03.3	ended like all the others, yet never did. This is the story of Kenny Veach and the place he never came back from. I'm I'm I'm
1:28.3	The In the vast and unforgiving deserts of southern Nevada, there are countless places where a person can walk for miles without ever seeing another living soul.
2:01.0	The landscape seems almost designed to swallow sound, distance and memory,
2:06.4	leaving only the hard truth of rock, sand and heat.
2:11.0	It was into this environment that a man named Kenny Veach ventured time and again,
2:16.5	drawn not by recklessness or bravado, but by a profound
2:20.0	love of solitude and exploration. For Veach, the Mojave was not a hostile frontier, but a place
2:27.9	where he felt most alive. Kenny was a 47-year-old avid hiker and minimalist adventurer from Las Vegas.
2:36.0	Friends and family described him as restless, curious and unusually capable in the wilderness.
2:44.0	He was known for setting out alone with little more than a lightweight rucksack, a handheld camcorder, and the bare essentials for survival.
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