Today’s podcast will feature 3 stories about people who vanished without a trace. The audio from all three stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast.Story names, previews & links to original YouTube videos:#3 -- "Not Human" -- Child goes missing on an old logging road (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZCCCxnSMxs)#2 -- "M Cave" -- A vlogger goes looking for a mysterious cave near Area 51 (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOsTCBg4fQ)#1 -- "Mine is Mine" -- A rugged old man heads into the wilderness to do something that many people have died trying (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FvnihQ8dJo)For 100s more stories like these, check out our main YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallenIf you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @mrballenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What stories are featured in this episode of Vanished?
Hey Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. Today's podcast will feature three stories about people who vanished without a trace. The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode.
The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description. The first story you'll hear is called Not Human, and it's about a child who goes missing on an old logging road. The second story you'll hear is called M Cave, and it's about a vlogger who goes looking for a mysterious cave near the infamous Area 51.
And the third and final story you'll hear is called Mine is Mine, and it's about a rugged old man who heads into the wilderness to try to do something that many people before him have died trying to do.
But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.
So if that's of interest to you, please sneak into the Amazon Music Follow Buttons house and replace all of their baby carrots with regular sized carrots. Okay, let's get into our first story called Not Human. On August 2nd, 1963, four-year-old Bobby Panknin, along with his two older brothers and his two parents, headed off to a camping resort on Deep Lake in Washington State.
The following day, Mrs. Panknin, whose name was Edna, decides she wants to take her three sons down a logging road that was right behind their campsite that she had heard fed out to this beautiful little waterfall that she thought her sons would like to see. Edna gets the boys ready. She says bye to Mr. Panknin. and then she and her sons take off down this logging road.
And as soon as she's on the road, it occurs to her that it's totally overgrown, the grass is really high, it's rocky and bumpy, and she's thinking to herself, there's no way any vehicle is getting down this road, and probably there's been no vehicles on this road for a very long time. This is a very isolated place on this campsite.
So they walk for a little ways on this overgrown logging road until they see there's a turnoff that leads down to the water and this little waterfall. And so right away she saw there was all this brush they were going to need to walk through and the ground looked pretty rough. And Bobby, her youngest, the four-year-old, he didn't have shoes on.
He was going through a phase where he refused to wear shoes. And so it hadn't really mattered the entire duration of walking up the road, but it seemed like this might be too much for him to walk on. And so she told Bobby to wait on the road, and she told her other son, Jimmy, the six-year-old, to wait next to him.
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Chapter 2: What happened to Bobby Panknin on the logging road?
He'd only covered about five miles so far, because after all, he was 86 with a bum left foot, and so he moved pretty slowly these days. But even still, only five miles into the journey, he already felt totally cut off from civilization. The Pitt River was about a thousand feet across, and it was surrounded on either side by a thick forest.
Volcanic was hiking parallel with the river, with the water on his right and the trees on his left. It was a stark and isolated setting that would make most people feel small and vulnerable. But after so many years working as a gold prospector, Volcanic was very accustomed to being out in the wilderness all by himself, so this felt normal.
Now, of course, decades had passed since the last time Volcanic was a gold prospector, but even now, at his old age, he still felt like he was the skilled outdoorsman he once was. Volcanic kept on hiking uphill, staying close to the shore's edge, until the sun began to set.
And by that point, the trees on the left had begun to thin out, and Volcanic was finally able to see kind of far out beyond in the direction he was going. And he saw off in the distance, there were all these mountains. And as soon as he could see these mountains, he pulled out his journal, and he flipped the last page, and he studied the page, and then looked at the mountains, and he smiled.
It was going to take weeks to reach the gold mine, but he knew he was going the right way. Because on that last page of his journal was a map. This map was the secret that Volcanic had told the store clerk about. It was the thing that was going to allow Volcanic to reach that gold mine where so many others had not. Volcanic had actually drawn the map himself several years ago.
Back then, he'd been panning for gold in northern British Columbia when he had run into this indigenous woman in the forest. And this woman was deathly ill, and so out of the kindness of his heart, Volcanic had given this woman some healing herbs and then stayed with her for days until she was nursed back to health. And this woman had been so grateful to Volcanic that she had told him a secret.
She told him that the legendary gold mine out near Stave Lake was absolutely real. And she said she knew this because her father was friends with the guy who discovered it. The man's name was Slumac, and she said he would go into the wilderness for days at a time, and then when he came back home, he'd come bearing these huge gold nuggets as big as chicken eggs.
And not only did this woman tell Volcanic about this mine, she gave him directions to it. And so as she did, Volcanic took notes in his journal and then used those directions to construct the map. However, before Volcanic parted ways with this woman, she gave him a warning. Right before he died, she said Slumac put a curse on the mine.
And so now, if anybody tried to reach the mine, the forest itself would stop them. And so now, standing in a clearing beside the Pitt River, Volcanic thought back to that warning.
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