October 8th, 1976. Knoxville, Tennessee.

16-year-old Trenny Gibson leaves on a high school field trip alongside nearly 40 students

and travels to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The students spend the day hiking on a trail throughout the park,

but after Trenny is last seen turning off the trail at around 3 p.m. she vanishes without explanation.

During a search of the park, dogs would track Trenny's sent to a spot next to the road,

creating speculation that she was abducted, but no trace of Trenny is ever found.

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uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be examining a missing person's case from the Great Smoky Mountains,

the 1976 disappearance of Trenny Gibson. This is a special request from a listener named Laura

who runs a blog devoted to Trenney at Canadian Girl 77.com.

Laura has personally spoken to the victim's family and many of Trinney's former classmates, so she has an extensive knowledge of this case.

Since I don't think it's ever been featured on a podcast before,

I thought it would be an ideal time to cover it on the trail and cold.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which rests on the Tennessee and North Carolina border, is the most visited national park in the United States, and a number of unsolved disappearances have taken place there.

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