Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project
Each year 2,400 people, on average, get lost in the wilderness in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. 90% of those that become lost are found alive, 8 % are located deceased, and the other 2% simply vanish without a trace. Our host Tanner Hoskins, co-Founder of Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search and Executive Director at Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project (PNWMPP) shares the mysterious true stories of adults and children who inexplicably disappeared while recreating in the great outdoors of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Tanner will share the stories of these missing persons as well as our own expeditions into the area these people were last seen or known to be. We hope that by telling these stories we can help foster a community driven in bringing answers and closure to these grieving families. Tanner will also share stories from our organization's own personal expeditions into the wilderness in search of signs of Sasquatch activity and following-up on reports of reported bigfoot activity. Donate to our cause (Donations are tax-deductable): https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7D8GF5RM2V274 or text "PNWMPP" to 44321 PNWMPP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the search for and recovery of missing persons whose cases have gone cold in rural and remote locations of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. If you'd like to contact our team, support our organizations mission, or donate directly to our team please visit our website: www.pnwmpp.org www.pnwbigfootsearch.com
Episodes
In this powerful episode of the PNWMPP Podcast, host Tanner Hoskins sits down with his good friend and elite K9 handler Jensen Huffman — owner of Huffman K9 Obedience and Executive Director of CHAIS (Charon Human Advocacy and Intervention Services). With more than 20 years of experience training and deploying working dogs across North America, Jensen shares his journey from traditional obedience training to leading a ...
In this haunting episode of the Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project Podcast, we venture beyond borders into Canada’s vast, untamed wilderness—where stories vanish into the fog, survive against impossible odds, or dissolve in waves.
🔹 Mélanie Ethier – A 15-year-old vanishes after a short walk home in New Liskeard, Ontario. Despite decades of investigation, no trace has ever been found.
🔹 Sam Benastick – An ...
Travis Decker, 32 year old army veteran, wanted for the murder of his three children, Paitlyn, Evelyn, and Olivia. Decker has been on the run for nearly a month in the remote backcountry of Chelan and Kittitas Counties in Washington State.
In this episode Tanner informs listeners how to be prepared in the backcountry to human threats, truly the worst possible scenario a hunter, hiker, or camper could face in the wilds....
In this gripping episode, we journey deep into the heart of two baffling disappearances that continue to haunt the American wilderness. First, we head to the rugged mountains of Montana, where experienced hunter Aaron Hedges vanished under mysterious circumstances in the Crazy Mountains in 2014. Despite extensive searches, bizarre clues and puzzling behavior left more questions than answers.
Then, we revisit the heartb...
The Pacific Northwest is a place of mist, mystery, and myth—but beneath the towering trees and winding trails lie stories that never made it home.
In this cinematic and chilling episode, host Tanner Hoskins walks you through three of the most haunting unsolved disappearances and murders in Pacific Northwest history:
🔹 The Cowden Family Disappearance – A quiet family camping trip in 1974 ends in tragedy when an entire f...
On April 26th, 2025, the PNW Bigfoot Search team made a shocking discovery along the White Salmon River near Willard, Washington—a clear, unexplainable track believed to be from a Sasquatch.
Join Tanner Hoskins and the team as they document this discovery in real-time, analyze the evidence, and explore what makes this remote section of the Pacific Northwest a hotspot for Bigfoot activity. This may be one of the most co...
Release Date: April 16, 2025
Mount Rainier stands as one of America’s most breathtaking — and dangerous — natural landmarks. In this chilling episode, we examine three haunting disappearances that occurred on its icy slopes.
First, we dive into the 2010 vanishing of Eric Lewis — a seasoned climber who was roped in with his team, only to vanish near the summit without a sound, a footprint, or a trace. What could cause a ...
The Mount Jefferson Wilderness in Oregon is a breathtaking yet unforgiving landscape. In this episode, we examine two disappearances that have haunted the region since 2016.
On June 23, 2016, 59-year-old Sanford "Sandy" David Rice, an experienced outdoorsman, set out on a solo hiking trip near Marion Lake. He never returned. Despite extensive search efforts, no trace of him has ever been found.
Just a month la...
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Mount Hood—a breathtaking yet unforgiving giant—has claimed the lives of many who dared to explore its rugged terrain. In this episode we uncover the chilling disappearances of Fred Frauens and Kenneth "Ken" Budlong, two experienced outdoorsmen who vanished without a trace. What happened to them? Were they victims of the mountain’s deadly conditions, or is there something more sinis...
In this episode of the Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search Podcast, hosted by Alberto Quinones, Kelly Stolp, and Tanner Hoskins, with special appearances by Mike Palagi, we dive into two perplexing missing persons cases from the rugged wilderness of Priest Lake, Idaho.
First, we explore the mysterious disappearance of David Walter Uhl, an experienced outdoorsman who vanished without a trace in 2010. His truck was found ab...
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In this chilling episode we dive into three unsettling disappearances in the remote wilderness of Idaho. Susan Adams, a nature lover, vanished without a trace from the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in 1990, leaving behind only questions and eerie speculation. Gordon White, a seasoned outdoorsman, took his ATV out for a routine ride on his Idaho property in 2020—only for searchers to find his...
Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search is following-up on leads brought to us by logging crews in the Tillamook State Forest regarding strange bare footprints, vocalizations, and sightings of upright, hair-covered bipeds roaming an area known as Giveout Mountain and Round Top near the rugged Salmonberry River in northwest Oregon.
This week's episode Tanner shares some of the reports we have personally received, lea...
Everett Ruess a 20 year old adventurer, poet, and artist known for his solo-expeditions throughout the High Sierra Mountain Range, the Coast of California, and the American southwest departed for a two month trip into the remote and rugged Utah desert never to be seen again.
Vilate Young, a 15 month old girl vanished from a picnic at the Newell Steed Ranch near Bryce Canyon Utah in 1953. One minute she was w...
Tanner shares updates from the Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search (PNW Bigfoot Search) research team, including two documentaries we have in the works!
One documentary will be released in December of 2025 and another will be debuting in February or March of 2026, stay tuned for that!
Our expeditions are in full-swing and in this week's podcast Tanner discusses our research efforts in the Mount Hood N...
Kyron Horman was a loving and intelligent 2nd grader when he vanished from Skyline Elementary School in rural Washington County, Oregon on June 2nd, 2010.
Kyron's disappearance would kickoff the largest and most expensive Search and Rescue mission in Oregon State history.
Fourteen years later, not a single item belonging to Kyron has ever been located and no definitive sightings have ever been made....
Known as the Bermuda Triangle of Utah, the Mirror Lake Highway and adjacent wilderness is a beautiful location full of high-strangeness and mystery.
The area is full of dense vegetation, beautiful clear running water, and boulder fields.
What could cause a seasoned outdoorsmen and a boy scout to vanish in the region? This area is well traversed and very well known by the Summit County Search and Rescue (SAR)...
Kevin Mitchell (2015) an Alaska Native vanished in September of 2015 after driving south of Girdwood, Alaska and going on a hike.
KEVIN SOURCES:
https://www.adn.com/anchorage/article/eve-their-anniversary-anchorage-woman-searches-missing-husband/2015/09/25/
https://www.adn.com/anchorage/article/missing-anchorage-mans-truck-found-south-girdwood/2015/09/26/
Yosemite National Park and its 748,000 acres of land and 750 miles of hiking trails is shrouded in mystery, with well over 1,300 people who have died within the park boundaries since 1890 and more than 30 missing persons cases from 2003 to 2023.
In this week's episode we share the stories of three individuals who vanished without a trace
Kieran Burke
SOURCES:
https://www.namus.gov/MissingP...
This week’s podcast has to do with the strange, spooky, and true life horror stories that have been shared with our team via email from individuals who wanted to tell their hair-raising stories of either becoming lost and how they self-rescued or of strange things they witnessed and experienced while recreating in the great outdoors.
This podcast episode is part one of two, and is shared in a campfire story format uti...
This week’s podcast has to do with the strange, spooky, and true life horror stories that have been shared with our team via email from individuals who wanted to tell their hair-raising stories of either becoming lost and how they self-rescued or of strange things they witnessed and experienced while recreating in the great outdoors.
This podcast episode is part two of two, and is shared in a campfire story format uti...
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