Speaker 1: Hey, listeners, this is Matt Frederick from iHeart Podcasts. Have
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Speaker 1: team behind Up and Vanished. It's a brand new series
Speaker 1: called Status Untraced. What if, while traveling abroad, your friend
Speaker 1: simply vanished? Who would you call? What would you do?
Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, that's what the friends of Justin Alexander
Speaker 1: were faced with. An adventurer and world traveler, Justin disappeared
Speaker 1: on a trek in the Himalayan Mountains. His friends and
Speaker 1: family took action. They flew to India to organize searches.
Speaker 1: They found evidence and an arrest was made, but shortly
Speaker 1: after the main suspect was found dead in his cell.
Speaker 1: The case was called for years until now. Dive deep
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Speaker 2: He went missing for thirty years, Why he was hiding himself,
Speaker 2: why he disappeared?
Speaker 1: Nobody knows.
Speaker 2: At the northern edge of India, attracting thousands of tourists
Speaker 2: every year is the Parvati Valley. Many come for the
Speaker 2: beauty of the Himalayas. Others to party, but then there
Speaker 2: are some drawn in search of enlightenment and this place
Speaker 2: changes them. There are stories from that part of the
Speaker 2: world where they'll say, like, oh, the person didn't come
Speaker 2: back because they didn't want to come back, just to
Speaker 2: create the story and the scene through all this stuff
Speaker 2: along the river, and then he just vanished. The phenomenon
Speaker 2: called India syndrome could be choked up to the valley
Speaker 2: spiritual allure. But something else is going on here. There's
Speaker 2: a string of disappearances, many foreigners, and nearly all of
Speaker 2: the cases unsolved. A Polish national is missing, Odeta Houton
Speaker 2: at twenty four from Camp.
Speaker 1: We merctlessly beaten to set hate, befriended a baba shortly after,
Speaker 1: and disappeared.
Speaker 2: That valley is beautiful and enchanting, but it's very dangerous.
Speaker 2: Nefarious things happened there. I fell upon one of these
Speaker 2: cases of an American world traveler gone missing. The circumstances
Speaker 2: of his disappearance were suspicious, so I flew halfway around
Speaker 2: the world in search of answers, and what I found
Speaker 2: I could have never imagined.
Speaker 1: You could read his posts about the guru.
Speaker 2: He knew this guy was bad news.
Speaker 1: The guy getting hung out of nowhere makes you go,
Speaker 1: there's something else you think.
Speaker 2: He's like drobbing them in and taking the stuff. He's
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