 In September of 2021, a young 22-year-old girl named Gabby was reported missing by her family. This young girl had been on a road trip with her boyfriend where they were going through all of these national parks and of course they were posting their stories and their adventures on both their social media accounts and their YouTube channel. In mid-September of 2021, Gabby's family reported her missing. On September 19th of 2021, human remains were found at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming and by September 21st of 2021, these human remains were confirmed to be that of Gabby. Now if you've been a part of this community for a while, this global community of those of us who like to investigate the truth, shall we say, you'll know that there's still a lot of mystery around this whole story of Gabby. But did you know that there was another case of a missing person in this same national park near months before the Gabby story hit the headlines? 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My name is Bryce and today on Mystery Monday, we are going to be looking at the vanishing of Kean McLaughlin. Grand Teton National Park was established in 1929. It covers over 300,000 acres of wilderness and is only 31 miles away from Yellowstone National Park. It's also only a 20 minute drive from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming was where our victim was living when he went missing in June of 2021. At the time of his disappearance, Kean McLaughlin was a 27 year old Irishman. He was an Irishman that carried dual citizenship with both the United States and Ireland. He was born in Ireland, but had also spent time in his childhood living with his American families in the United States. And in the summer of 2019, Kean decided that he wanted to actually moved the United States. He moved to Montana first to live with his grandmother, but in early 2020, he got work in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In Jackson Hole, Kean found work as both a ski instructor and a bartender. Honestly, living in a town like Jackson Hole, Wyoming and working as a ski instructor in a bartender, especially when you're in your mid 20s, late 20s, sounds like a fantastic opportunity. In fact, in my late 30s, that sounds like the ideal dream job and is a job that's pretty common here in the United States for young kids in their mid to late 20s. In fact, my sister and her husband, then he was her boyfriend, moved out to Telluride, Colorado after they were finished with college. And they spent a couple of years out there working for the resort and having fun. In fact, it wasn't until they decided to get married that they moved back to Georgia to start their adult lives. So it goes without say that for a young man like Kean, he was probably most likely having the time of his life working in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In fact, all of his friends said that he was a pretty relaxed, happy go lucky type of guy. There didn't seem to be a history of depression or any type of other mental illness that would cause him to vanish on his own. And on June 8th of 2021, the day seemed to be a typical summer day in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Kean decided that he was going to go for a short little hike through Grand Teton National Park. After all, it was pretty much in his backyard. And if I lived near National Park, I would probably be utilizing it a lot too. I love to go hiking. I love to go out into the woods. And we know by a lot of the people who passed Kean and saw him in the park, he wasn't planning on going for this long hike. And he certainly didn't appear to be preparing to camp or stay the night because he didn't really have anything on him. He had on typical hiking clothes, a bottle of water and like sunglasses, no backpack, nothing. And in fact, the camera at the park did pick up Kean entering the park on June 8th. And literally what the camera picked up matches what the eyewitnesses said Kean had on. So here we have this guy that's known to be happy go lucky amongst his friends who is quite the outdoorsman. I mean, he's a ski instructor. This guy is fit. He knows the mountains and it really appeared like he was just going to go for a short little walk, get some exercise, get some fresh air. Not only that, but the day of June 8th, Kean was constantly in communication with his friends through text message. I mean, hello. Again, I'm like over 10 years older than Kean and I'm constantly in communication through text message with my friends as well. This is typical of today. Nothing was amiss. Nothing was out of the ordinary. Well, June 8th came and went. And by June 10th, Kean did not show up for work. Then by June 12th, Kean did not show up for work. At that point, some of his coworkers became concerned. Here was their buddy, their friend who was a hard worker and reliable even though he was laid back, something had to be wrong. And so the coworkers went to the authorities to report Kean missing. The sheriff of Jackson Hole, Wyoming was the first authority to take on this case. And right after Kean's coworkers reported Kean missing, the sheriff did find Kean's car still parked at the trailhead. The sheriff requested that Kean's cell phone company scan his phone to see when it was last used. And his cell phone last pinged on June 8th within the property of Grand Teton National Park. At that point, the sheriff decided that he was going to hand this case over to the National Park Services. I don't know how I feel about this. Now, we know that there are good cops and there are bad cops. With the last case we covered on Mystery Monday, which I will place in the description box below. If you missed that, I was obviously very suspicious of the sheriff in that case. But in this case, the sheriff seems to be trying to do the right thing. This is this is the National Park property. Obviously, the authority at the National Park knows the park knows where the dangers are. And it just seemed like he probably thought it was the best thing to hand the case over to people who were actually authorities of the park in an authoritative position, if that makes sense. But of course, I'm a little distrustful of some of these authority figures in these National Parks, because we're not actually sure at this point what these National Parks are. What is in these parks? What are they hiding? And why do so many people go missing from these parks? After the National Park Service took over, they sent about 45 helicopters into the area to do a search. They also brought in dogs. And they also did an infrared scan of the park early in the morning before anybody was allowed on the park to see if they could pick up a body. They also used this technology where supposedly they would be able to pick up on any chips. So we know by this point, Ken's phone was probably like long lost its charge, right? Like it was just not even if if Ken and his phone were still in the park. His phone obviously hadn't been charged, so it just be dead now, right? But there's apparently some technology where you can scan the area to pick up on a chip that would be in the phone. And allegedly they used this technology to try to find Ken's phone because if they can find his phone, then most likely they will find a Ken, but it did not work. Now, does this mean his phone isn't on the property? No. Does it mean that? I mean, these are the Rocky Mountains. There's many, many things that could have happened and gone wrong here on this property, but it is quite suspicious that they thought that they would be able to locate the phone, but like couldn't. But obviously, I'm not an expert in this type of technology, so if you know more about how they can scan and look for like SIM cards and chips and phones and how this would actually work, then do let me know down in the comment section below. After about two weeks of intense searching, the search unit decided to take a more tactical approach. I don't really know what this means. It seems like they basically just gave up looking for Ken. On the 23rd of June, they did receive a pretty reliable tip and someone did turn in some glasses that looked a lot like Ken's glasses. However, again, this is not hard evidence because sunglasses are a dime, a dozen, and I'm sure there's many sunglasses that are left over in national parks from campers, things fall out of bags. So it's not 100% certain that these sunglasses were actually that of Ken's. However, if the sunglasses were Ken's to this day, this is the only personal item of Ken's that has yet to be found. Now, the authorities did look on Ken's computer and they saw that he had googled Delta Lake before he left for his hike that day. So logical conclusion was that he was trying to hike to Delta Lake. Apparently this hike is not the easiest hike, but again, Ken was very athletic. He was a ski instructor. He utilized the park a lot. So I do think that he was probably prepared for a pretty intense hike that day. However, at this point, the case goes cold. And of course, a few months later, the case of Gabby would hit the newsstand, basically silencing the case of Ken McLaughlin. His family still continually searches for Ken. They've put up missing posters all over the town and even have a hashtag find Ken. Now with all missing persons cases, there are so many different rabbit holes we could go down. Could it just be a horrible accident that happened? And now his body is nowhere to be found because of the elements of nature and because of how many hiding spots and caves there are in the Rocky Mountains? Could it be that he was abducted by another human being that's just not a good person? Or could it be that he was actually abducted by other people that are more strategic with these national park cases? I don't know. But I do find it very fascinating that his case was put on the back burner in order to highlight the Gabby case because as I said in the beginning, there's still a lot of mystery and suspicion around her case. Now again, this case happened in June of 2021. It hasn't even been a year yet since Ken went missing. And my thoughts and my prayers do go out to his family. I can't imagine what this must feel like to actually lose someone in your family and not have any clue what happened to them. Of course, I've lost family members before, but I know what happened to them. I have closure. We have a death certificate with cause of death on the certificate. I can't imagine not knowing and especially for a family member such as a 27 year old that's so young and has so much life ahead of him. I do hope that whatever happened to Ken, the family will get closure soon and that wherever Ken is, he is happy and he is at peace. With that being said, please leave me your thoughts and your opinions down in the comment section below. I hope you guys are having a fantastic day and a fantastic start to your new year. Lots of love and I will talk to you soon. Bye.