Backwoods Horror: The Mysterious Disappearances of Amy Bechtel & Polly Melton
2/19/202643 min
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One summer, a 24-year-old runner parked her car on a remote Wyoming road, left behind a to-do list with one uncrossed item "run" and was never seen again. Across the country, another woman was walking with friends on a well-traveled trail in the Great Smoky Mountains, went off ahead of her friends, and vanished without a trace. Today, we're diving into two backwoods disappearances, where the search parties found almost nothing, and the questions still go unanswered.
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First 90 secondsKayla Moore· Host0:00
[gentle music] Welcome back to another episode of Heart Starts Pounding. As always, I'm your morbid guide into our dark curiosity, Kayla Moore. I've asked this question before on this show, but what could cause someone to vanish into thin air? Sometimes I hear from our community when I pose that question, your theories and your thoughts on the episode, and the answers I get range from the logical all the way to the supernatural. People fall into crevices all the time. People run away to start new lives more than you would think. Bigfoot is real, and he's taking people into the fourth dimension. I do get that explanation more than you guys would think. But what I have for you today has really left me scratching my head, and I really am curious to hear what you all think. The first story I have for you is of a woman who goes missing, and a note is found in her car in her own handwriting that reads, "Run." And in the second story, a woman was out on a light walk with friends, turned a corner ahead of them, and was never seen again. Two disappearances, two totally different circumstances, and one central question. What could cause someone to vanish into thin air? Let's get into it. [heartbeat] It's when your heart starts pounding. The morning of July 24th, 1997 was just an average day for 24-year-old Amy Bechtel. She woke up, she made her to-do list, and she joined