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Missing Persons Mysteries — A Bizarre Disappearance in Grand Teton National Park. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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missing in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. 16-year-old Fauna Jackson was last seen Thursday morning and late last night. Searchers found her hiking boot. But investigators don't think she was wearing it when she disappeared. The Northside girl was doing a trail work with a group called Groundwork USA. Jackson went on a bathroom break and never returned. Since then, more than 100 people, dogs, helicopters, and planes with infrared imaging have been looking for her. At this point, no one knows for sure what caused her disappearance. All I can tell you is that we're very concerned for her welfare. We're concerned about her family. And we hope that she's found as soon as possible and that she's done the best of health. Jackson, who's the 10th grader at Clark Montessori High School, was one of three teens from this area chosen to take part in the program at the Grand Teton. We're all just so relieved that she's okay. The search tonight is over for a missing Cincinnati teen
who was gone at the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. But the impact of her disappearance made on those who were with her will not be forgotten. Hello, friends. Today, we'll be discussing the disappearance of fauna Jackson. As we've come to know by now, if we've been following the case of people who go missing and disappear in our world's forests and deep woodland areas, it's always her leaf when someone is found safe and relatively unharmed. We all know how quickly something can go wrong and how being found at all, that alone unharmed and unhingered, is somewhat of a miraculous event in and of itself. This case has a lot of unanswered questions, but we decided to bring you all the information we can find on it. Well, because it's still an absolute mystery as to not only why this young woman was found the way she was, but also, by such extreme and drastic measures were taken by the authorities involved to protect her after she was found.
Here is the case of the strange disappearance of fauna Jackson and the aftermath. 16-year-old fauna Jackson is from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. She was a member of the Cincinnati Children's Choir and attended Clark Montessori High School in Cincinnati. She was on a volunteer mission in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming with a group of about 20 other young people who were working for the non-profit organization called GroundworkUSA, which focuses on environmental and civic projects, which are mainly geared towards working with marginalized groups in local communities. GroundworkUSA teams are formed to work on environmental issues, improve their career skills, and take part in conservation and restoration projects. Bono was a member of the Cincinnati Mill Creek chapter of the organization, and she and her group were working on what's only being described as a trail project by the media. This is where she was and what she was doing on the morning of Thursday, August 4th, 2016,
when she excused herself to go to the bathroom but then never returned back to the group. Of course, she was afforded as missing right away and a search began immediately. After all, this area is known as Bear Country, and everyone was worried about what would happen to the young woman had she been forced to spend the night outside in the dark woods. The local wildlife wasn't the only worry either as the temperatures had begun dropping to freezing or below overnight in the park. The search began for the girl in earnest, growing into a group of 60 people, then later on Friday, more than 100 searchers coming the area for any signover. The FBI became involved and fears were heightened when a single hiking boot was found by discovering the National Park Service reported on Friday evening. The puzzle of fauna's disappearance only deepened when official reported that she was not believed to have been wearing hiking boots when she left the volunteer group the day before.
Concern was mounting as each minute ticked by about the shape she would be in if she was eventually found. A severe thunder lightning storm had moved over the area the first night it's been missing out there. This on top of the aforementioned freezing or below temperatures and the large bear population were terrifying and left some feeling very dismayed about a positive outcome. Rangers searched the area and when they couldn't find her they called in search crews, a helicopter, log search teams, and other authorities also took part in the two-day search that resumed early Saturday. Missing person notices were posted in the area where she disappeared. Robin co-ratheres, executive director of Groundwork Cincinnati, said Jackson was excited about going to Wyoming to work on the project and there were no indications of any problems. She did great work. She loved working outside and demonstrated leadership potential. This was unexpected and there were no warning, she said. This statement came hot on the heels of
being found alive and well and safe on Sunday morning, just a little more than 48 hours after she had first been reported as missing. The Wyoming Civil Air Patrol conducted flights over the park in search of her at a combination of their surveillance and some reported sightings on the ground led to Jackson being found. A strange part of this whole situation though is not only half-bottles found but her strange reaction to the search and rescue teams who actually found her. It's all a very bizarre story. You see, Robin was unharmed, yes, but it seems she had altered her own appearance. Though no one was able to describe what a photo was wearing when she was found, reports were confirmed that from the point of her disappearance to when she was found, she cut her hair, dyed in a different color, and was wearing different clothing. The teenager had a pack with her, but it was not yet known how she spent the two nights while she was missing. She was found in an area of open sagebrush close to the hills in the
Grand Teton National Park. However, she was not found on the slopes of the well-known mountains in the park where search and rescue services were often called to help hikers or climbers in the stress. She was located only about three or four miles from where she disappeared on a spot called the Snake River Overlook. She was a little less than a mile from a highway that leads to Yellowstone National Park. When approached by three rangers and a sheriff's deputy, Lana actually fled on foot. She took off running from them and tried to get even deeper into the forest so as to avoid detection and being located again, other very people who were there to help her. The numerous agencies and volunteers who had gone out there to search for and the very same people who were praying for her safe return, she was running away from. After fleeing, however, same three rangers and one deputy gave chase and managed to catch up from the teenager very quickly. When they did reach her, they had to physically restrain her. She was kicking and fighting and trying
to get out of their grasp and run away again. Obviously, she did not want to be found or return to her parents or life before she went missing. But why? Well, that's the thing. We still, to this day, have no answers on that. The authorities placed Lana in protective custody and notified family members who immediately set out to go and collect her. I did take in these family members for the two days to get the tea times when their loved one, who was very young, I might add, had gone missing, apparently by choice and with a well-prepared plan, no less. Were they notified right away? Why was Lana immediately squirreled away and placed in protective custody, instead of just being detained as a regular runaway would have been? Why all the extreme secrecy and seemingly cloak and dagger practices on law enforcement and part personnel? Why did smoking mirrors essentially? If this was just your run of the mill teenage runaway, looking to
start fresh without thinking it through as fauna obviously hadn't been, then why was there nothing more ever reported about any of it? How had she been able to so drastically change your parents and actually how do we even know it was she who did this? What was the motivation behind fallen as disappearance and why she gone so far as to cut and die her own hair? These are all questions that still remain unanswered as of the release of this video. While we are well aware of all the rumor and speculations surrounding this particular case and its aftermath, you can find folks that we are dedicated to reporting to you the facts and the best of our ability to collect them and don't worry about much of all the unsubstantiated gossip involving any of the missing person cases we cover here on this channel. We hope the fauna is doing well as she is now in her 20s and still hasn't spoken publicly about the incident. Well there you have it. What do you think of this strange case? I look forward to your comments on this video but please keep it friendly and respectful.
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