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From day one, something I knew, somebody's done something to her.

Her cat that she had at her house, that was her family.

She would have never left her cat like this. She doesn't have the money to stay under the radar like that.

It makes me very sad because it's hard to mourn my friend without a body, without laying her dress.

It's just like everything's just up in the air. She was too good of a person for her to just be deemed messing and everybody shut the case and that's it.

These people need to be looked at more. I've tried to play out a million scenarios in my head trying to figure things out.

But if Teresa put her foot down about something, she wasn't gonna but something bad happened to her at all I know.

In recent years, 66-year-old Teresa Hartley, a Florida native who lived in St. Augustine, was learning to live life on her own after her husband passed away several years earlier.

In March of 2023, Teresa vanished, supposedly in the company of a friend, looking for Firewood in the Ocala National Forest on March 11th.

But when she was reported missing to police on March 15th by another friend, the details didn't seem to add up.

Even police couldn't pinpoint the exact date, time, and location that Teresa vanished.

But their own investigation places her disappearance on or around March 11th.

In a real-life horror story filled with shady characters with a history of defrauding people, to others with a long criminal record of violent offenses,

Teresa was a vulnerable woman who was a perfect target for predators and she vanished not into thin air.

But among people who can't answer questions, have laid claims to her assets and never once searched for her, is it because they know where she is?

This is a story you won't want to miss. I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 415 of The Vanished, Teresa Hartley's story.

Ghosts aren't real. At least as a journalist, that's what I've always believed. Sure, odd things happen in my childhood bedroom. But ultimately, I shrugged it all off.

That is, until a couple of years ago, when I discovered that every subsequent occupant of that house is convinced they've experienced something inexplicable too, including the most recent inhabitant who says she was visited at night by the ghost of a faceless woman.

And it gets even stranger. It just so happens that the alleged ghost haunted my childhood room might just be my wife's great-grandmother, who was murdered in the house next door by two gunshots to the face.

From Wondery and Pineapple Street Studios comes Ghost Story, a podcast about family secrets, overwhelming coincidence, and the things that come back to haunt us.

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