Hiker Vanished Camping in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
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Hello everyone, in today's video we will be going to Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This is the case of Kevin Robert O'Keefe who disappeared on a two week, hiking/camping adventure in Glacier Bay National Park in September of 1985. Kevin was a very experienced outdoorsman and had taken several wilderness survival classes before flying to Juneau from his home in Sacramento, California on September 20, 1985. This is the story of what happened..
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I knew a guy who's father went to Alaska to hunt. He was experienced in the wilderness, and an experienced hunter. He never returned, and they never found him... All they found was a pack, with some of his belongings, possibly hanging off of a cliff. His family had always suspected bear predation. He was married, with several small beautiful children and a wife... Its so sad when people disappear, and just vanish...
In the past three years something else has moved into the wilds up here.. Some places I wont go anymore..
@@Ivarr.Bergmann.Alaska …care to share a story… just curious
@@gbosearcher-3686 just somebody trying to spread false stories. Unless they can provide sources or facts to back up that they say, dont believe them. There are so many bogus and blatantly made up stories about people missing in Alaska and elsewhere it's insane. Always ask for a source.
@@unropednope4644 You are entitled to your opinion. But, in my family I had a great great uncle who moved to Alaska for the early gold rush. He never married and he would come back to NC every few years and wrote regularly until he didn’t. No one knew what happened to him. It took me until 2017 to find out and trace him. He was a farmer, trapper, gold miner and homesteader He went to Alaska in 1909 and died in 1938, by then most of his siblings had passed away and only the nieces and nephews remembered him. He is buried in Skita, but if I had not found him, all they knew was he went to Alaska and never came back
@@unropednope4644 oh please missing people in Alaska and other places aren't bogus or made up it's happening and it's happening in Africa! Why are you here then? Go elsewhere with your bullying you keyboard warrior!
If the animals were avoiding the campsite there must have been something deterring them. I suspect that had something to do with his disappearance.
i find the wholestory very eerie.....the food being out and no animals coming around his camp site....something odd must have occured...bryan you have done a tremendous job in researching these cases...and your caring and kindness goes along way i my book....
Very odd! Really makes you wonder and feel such deep sadness for the family, friends and the unfortunate people that go missing. And Brian, your concern and caring heart is heard and felt while you tell these stories. Thank you and stay safe everyone.
Carter got treated like he was an idiot for his pushing for more renewable energy use. Now, he looks like a prophet.
Going up against the deep state and military industrial complex is political, and sometimes literal, suicide.
@@Galen-864 How was that a threat to the military-industrial complex? If anything, it would have helped them through making the country more secure from threats by the oil producing countries of the time exercising control over the U.S..
@@christianeaster2776 Of course, it would, but the money, power and control are more important to them. And, the new green deals will go just like the solar businesses Obama threw money at - right in the toilet - and once again, we will be paying for it, especially those who can least afford it. The powers that be have no interest in making us better. They want us completely at their mercy and here we are.
@@christianeaster2776 You're trying to bring in a note of rationality that seems to have no place in TH-cam comments.
@@Galen-864 Spot on. And that's the reason for the forced quacksines as well. Total control.
Glacier Bay is massive and absolutely stunning 😍 Alaska is amazing and a rough place to live if not properly prepared. Even when properly prepared when something goes wrong the dominos fall rapidly into critical conditions.
Thank you President Jimmy Carter.
The fact that his food wasn't eaten by animals is baffling. In my experience, mice seem to be everywhere.
There are lots scarier creatures then bears lurking around in the wilderness. Never go alone in to the wilderness.
Exactly, the Bigfoot stories from up there are nearly always aggressive. I think the cold makes them more 'harsh minded'.
@@Veldtian1 The lack of food makes them aggressive. Elsewhere, like Pacific Northwest, they can forage for food sources everywhere.
@@Veldtian1 bigfoot!!!! Are you trippin ? Myths and legends
I’m so glad all the city slickers think that way. The real scary creature are the ones lurking in the middle of town.
@@gazXspace I don't necessarily believe in bigfoot, but there are humans that move into secluded areas and go feral or form tribes that don't want to be found.
This reminds me of a 411 case, where a young man disappeared while working within a group. The only evidence they found was a pile of loose change and one of his boots in a fence that was over 100 yards away from where he was with the group.
People actually believed he was picked up, turned upside down, then suddenly whisked away before anyone noticed. I believe it was one of the first cases where people started to believe aliens and portals where responsible for the disappearances in the forests.
In the case of Mr O'Keefe, it's a shame they didn't test the area for radiation or the presence of "another". According to Native American lore, animals stay clear of areas that a Sasquatch/Bigfoot wondered through.
Saying "people" and implying many have offered this theory is incorrect. The only person who made the theory that he was picked up by something and pulled away was paulides. I was a huge fan of paulides and his research/work for many years and constantly defended him until I started researching his cases on my own. I found that he consistently leaves out relevant information that might make his cases less mysterious and twists facts to suit his narrative. For example, on the case your referring to of Christopher thompkins, his boss stated that he had been acting very strange before he vanished. His mother stated that she felt his coworkers had something to do with his death and one of them even hired an attorney a week later. These bits of information opens up alot of possibilities about his disappearance besides supernatural. Paulides also loves to make wild and absolutely crazy assumptions about the victims he profiles as evidenced in his recent video on his channel posted on Friday of last week. He literally stated it was impossible for a missing rancher to have had an accident on his horse since he was so experienced. This is an outrageous assumption and very irresponsible to make. He has also blown off theories of a hiker having an accident in the woods and doesnt even explore the possibility because the hiker was very experienced in outdoors. I'm not saying all his cases are BS but I can't stress enough that you need to check the stories he profiles yourself and not blatantly believe everything he says.
Americans scared of bigfoot but not grizzly bears. A curious lot.
@@unropednope4644
Mr. Paulides never implies with certainty...ever. He implies with questions.
@@unropednope4644
I must ask...what did the attorney the family hired find out?
Do you know more about this case than Mr. Paulides does?
If you do, Sir. Please let the attorney the family hired know of your knew found informaton.
Maybe you can find this young man...
@@unropednope4644 Good info. Thank you!
Wow it really is like he vanished into thin air!
Hi Brian
Very 411ish
Chilling
Thk u as always
Definitely, absolute condolences to the family, so sorry for their loss,x
If animals are staying away from an area with food that would lead me to believe that something else is out there- not to mention finding a boot. No one leaves a boot behind. He seemed to have experience, knowledge, and common sense so it's extremely puzzling as to what happened to him. Thank you uploading this and I do hope that he's found one day.
As out there as it sounds I believe he was taken by aliens and its my belief Eisenhower agreed a certain amount of victims 🤔
@@elainebines6803 Eisenhower had no choice but to agree , aliens will do as they wish.
@@elainebines6803 He sat down and negotiated with aliens, then...?
@@alancorrea9161 Wrong. They can't do as they wish. They have to get our permission first. Or they will answer to God. "Aliens" are fallen angels and demonic hybrids.
Something like Big Foot ,that other animals are afraid of.Smell his presence, stay away ,find our food elsewhere !
I've left a cracker in the cup holder with my car door open while I set up my tent and 5 mins later I had a FAMILY of chipmunks living in the car for the next month. So wild no animals ran up in his campsite... so many animals in Alaska
Anytime your near water, you have consider it as where the person ends up.
Unfortunately even 1 mistake in the backcountry can be fatal an even a super trained and experienced hiker/mountaineer will go missing. Weather and other nature like bears can also be things hard to figure out how they factor in to a disappearance.
It’s so weird no animals got to his food. It’s like their afraid of something🤷🏻♀️It’s so sad so many of these people just want to get out and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors. God bless all their families🙏🏻
Hi Bryan, I'm not a language expert, but I live in Alaska, and you hear Tlingit most commonly pronounced. "Kling-kit". That's pretty close for a non-native speaker and easier to say!
Sounds like whatever it was got him in the ravine. Very sad for his family to never know.
My parents lived in Alaska when my dad was in the Army. My dad loved that place, but my mom hated it because jobs were not that great. The Alaska wilderness is such a beautiful place.
Not just a peanut farmer, also the president of the United States and a tireless booster of Habitat for Humanity.
Yes, turned out to be a stellar human being, I'd say.
Nuclear physicist
Until he stuck his nose in Iran and deposed the Shah. Put that nation back in the dark ages. Ayatollah took all the freedoms away.
@@harleyanne3720 Kind of like Ayatollah Obiden is doing now...
@@reesedaniel5835 👍🏻
Stunning landscapes
Thank you for another great Video!
Great Story. Never Travel unarmed or Alone !
It’s beyond foolish, it’s dangerous.
So bizarre that the animals avoided his food and campsite. I hope his family has been able to find peace.
The more I hear about such cases, the more I question whether or not we're alone 🤔 Very odd that the animals seemed to purposely steer clear of the site.
We have tigers and sasquatch up here. They've disappeared 68k people in Alaska.
@@christinerohn1971 Wild.
I find it amazing that anything, or anybody can be found in the vastness of these park…once someone has vanished..
Someone or something snatched him.
Probably not good to do this alone . Sad story 😞
I feel for all that are missing someone. Cannot imagine the hopelessness that must be felt.
I can't imagine that he's alive. That would include him just walking away, nah. Something bad happened.
So strange!
I love how you explain that we are in America...growing up in SE AK my entire life and working in retail you wouldn't believe how many times I've been asked if we "take American money here?" 🤔 🤦🏻♀️
Question #1: are these real photos? (The ones of his tent on the shoreline?)
I've read the whole incident report multiple times&the most compelling piece of evidence is the food being left as is. There's so many small ground animals that would have eaten that food(mink, marten, ravens are notorious scavengers around here for example) much less a bear...it truly is strange...but at the same time I try n keep opened minded that this IS rough terrain, no matter how prepared, things can happen.....but really, I think its super strange for sure 🙃
Thanks for keeping these cases alive..I can hear in your voice that you really care about these cases.
May the blessings be
Alien abduction? Is this why the animals stayed away?
If you have read Ingo Swanns "Penetration" book, a true story, where he observed a fog coming out of the Alaskan lake , and out of this fog materialized a triangle craft with coloured beams and some of the beans blastered the pines as it had found a heat signal there.... you may perhaps imagine that such a craft appeared out of that lake where Kevin was sitting in a tent and he fled for sure, but then was perhaps taken or blasted away.... very eerie story to read free as pdf. And the food was somehow contaminated...?
Don’t forget Sasquatch, Dogmen and Nahanni!
That sounds really really weird that the animals avoided his campsite. I’m getting a paranormal feeling about this case.
Except for the fact that the only reason they knew the animals avoided the site was because they were there, wild animals don't gather around groups of humans.
@@JohnSmith-pn1vv There were no people there for at least 2 days after they first found his campsite. And before that he would have been the only one there except when out hiking
@@reesedaniel5835 two days is nothing, I lived in a tent in 6 rivers nat forest northern California for 6 months it crawling with wildlife. I was well aware when my tent was tampered with, it wasn't weekly. Another reason animals might avoid the area is that they can still smell the bear that likely took the hiker.
@@JohnSmith-pn1vv They would have found evidence of that near where they found boot and hat. Bear or Wolves would have also tore into his tent to get that food. They didn’t, everything was there. I suppose he could have been taking away against his will by another human. I’m assuming he had some kind of firearm with him out there.
Also there is more and more talk about these portals that our government has been studying. He could have walked into one. Hard to believe I know.
@@westall1966 they would have found evidence every time? You don't even believe this but you start your logic train off here 😆
Keep saying experienced but family said just day hikes then he’s from California an just wants to get away in some of the most rugged country in the world he just got swallowed up by nature gone missing they call it up there
Could have been preparing for an overnighter and fell in the water and drown the very day the rangers showed up. If they were doing searches they obviously were around his campsite which could have kept animals away.
Who knows what is out in theses parks,anything’s possible.
There are lots of park rangers giving innocent tourists speeding tickets.
I left my gun in a leather holster on the shoreline Anvik river tributary off the Yukon in Alaska very remote went back to the spot next day and the wolves devoured the leather and the gun was covered in sand and slobber so it doesn’t take long for the animals to find any type of food this has something very creepy about this spot maybe a porthole animals sense that or a Sasquatch high probability
When will people stop going camping and hiking ALONE?
Even doing everything right in the wilderness it don’t make you safe , I’ve spent a lot of time in the woods , but I had my dog with me ,
Wow that is strange. Did anyone else find this odd. I've never heard anything like this before for sure. Too me it sounds like something from not of this world. Does anyone else think that. Yeah trust me I won't be ever going to Alaska for anything. My wife and I have talked about it before moving to Alaska but now I don't think so.
T.V. show last night said out of all the states in the U.S. Alaska was the state that people go missing more than any other state! The show was on the channel called Oxygen.
I won't be going either and I travel a lot! A lot of non human entities there as well as other places.
@@journeysalkebulan
I believe you were watching the Alaska Triangle series. It's very good (interesting).
Boot and glove found away from camp? That could have been carried there by smaller animals that might not leave tracks. But at that time of year there could have had a freeze and a bear might not leave tracks ether. They said they didn't find animal tracks but what about human tracks? Is there a possibility the stuff was discarded by another camper? If it was discarded by another camper then he most likely walked down the shoreline and met a bear or fell in somewhere else.
Why would animals carry away his boot and glove and leave all the open food behind?
@@reesedaniel5835 food was in a tent zipped up his body might have been in the open after being snacked on by a bear. Tents can be amazing keep someone from danger and pests
@@reesedaniel5835 it was first stated everything was in his pack in the tent then he said everywhere so take your pick
I think its also important to note that depending on the terrain in AK, not every type of ground cover is going to hold animal tracks past the next rain...which will be here by the next day! Seriously though, we have a great percentage of ground that is covered in moss. It springs back into its original shape immediately. Obviously, if there were a predation recently, the moss would probably show activity for at least a few days, but that stuff grows constantly. Then, we have lots of fallen and rotten leaf coverage that is constantly being replaced. If a beach is covered by anything besides rocks, its an anomaly almost, and the rocks don't show foot prints. Obviously, there are types of ground that would show tracks for a short while, and I am sure there are some good scouts that could track things other people couldn't, but if they just put a bunch of ground pounders out there, it would just really depend on the terrain he was in. Living in AK, I personally find the fact that the food was left alone indefinitely the most curious factoid here. That is VERY strange! I certainly wouldn't go camping alone here! I probably wouldn't even go with anything short of armed wilderness guides, Coast Guard and some very faithful believers who know the stories from the weird side of things and are not afraid of them. When we came in from my back yard in the morning, Id be taking a hot bath and giving thanks to the Almighty for safety. Also, I do have a Mama bear w 2 cubs and one really huge male bear that make about a month long stay in my immediate area every summer....they definitely come from the creek area in the back yard, so...I wouldn't be camping in my back yard during summer. That leaves winter. ... I think I am traveling out of state to a nice hotel!!
He put his things in order then took the walk
hi new to your channel. These "PARKS" are starting to sound like they're more than what we're told. : - )
I am new here, loving the content, thank you for these short to the point videos Bryan!
Something strange went down at that campsite! Sounds like a David Paulides creepy woo-woo mystery! UFO, Sasquatch, time portal creepers, something this way came…
That is what happens with these bizarre cases, everything left behind, no predation, bad weather comes during search..on and on…boots left..say what..you leave your boots…vanished…
Definitely fits all the criteria of a missing 411 case. I think Mr.Paulides wrote about it 🤔. I love the cases like this
The time he disappeared was mutch later than they thought, probably that morning,,,,NOT weeks earlier, or else the animals would have found it, OBVIOUSLY !!!!!
A worthy reminder of a true mistery .
Weird!😱
This one is definitely a spooky case! Brian, did you finish the fanny pack giveaway?
I firmly believe that there is more out there then the human eye can see, but they however can see us
You sound a bit muffled there on the Mic my friend! Bit of compression but don't loose that 'top end'
Any UFO sightings around that time? Aliens took him.
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@@susanh1292 Gillibrand amendment 😘
Clearly something marked his area the same way dogs do.
Sasquatch are known to do that. And when they do, nothing will go near the marked area.
Its got to be taken serious but dont park rangers make good cereal killers, strange but true.
When the animals don't come near the site you know something strange is going on.
Something or someone took them he was taken from above
That fact that animals won't go near that site means there afraid to.
Friend was out bow hunting alone for elk. Didn’t feel too well and went to a hospital were they diagnosed dehydration. He had no idea. Perhaps something like that happened. Very odd.
How does dehydration make you vanish completely??
Bro do you have anything else going on with your life? Wow you are putting great videos every day it seems..don't burn out on us..
I think maybe one good video per week might be a possibility for this channel's future. Research it solidly & obtain relevant photographs with which to accompany the storyline. Only my opinion, of course.
Makes more money. Can't blame him, as long as he can maintain quality.
Don’t do these trips alone! I know it’s no guarantee of safety…but it broadens the chance of staying safe.
Goes to show sadly, you just never know. Seems he did everything correctly. Did he have a transponder/personal location beacon?
Looks like “Foot” got him!
1,000 people go missing, every year, in Alaska...
The animal's could probably smell and sense the danger
Thank you Brian.
I would like to give a donation now and then, how can that be done? I’m probably too far for postage of merch. New Zealand.
Concerning Kevin, I think a bear got him, and dragged him away after he was killed. Bears can be very unpredictable, and there might be some other explanation for why there was no tracks found. He just didn't disappear into thin air.
Poor Kevin. I wonder what happened to him.
I wonder how many people go to Alaska to “disappear “? I know someone who did that….
i wonder if they checked in the water around his tent. maybe he went for a swim, had a cramp.
Rather a disrespectful remark for President Carter. When you have accomplished as much as he has then you can comment.
Holly-Olsen-Pierce. I totally agree!!
He could have committed? Or maybe the bears were full bc they ate him that they weren't hungry for the food?
It is for some reason common on these types of cases globally, that shoes/boots are found a mile or something away. There are dozens and dozens of cases like this. What is this thing with boots always? Shoes/boots so often found some distance away when somebody disappears. If you try to reason it with cynicism, boots are propably only thing animals will not want to eat. I dunno.
To go alone is crazy
I appreciate your work. Venmo. It's pronounced Ven-mo. Like Ben and Moe.
How often do you hear about these missing people that are never found , but they’ll find footwear , that is the thing that always strikes me as really odd , because the last thing anybody would do is to take off their shoes if they were in trouble
Aliens
If his family said he only took day hikes but this time he said he would be gone 2 weeks, maybe he planned to leave for a new life? He would have at least 2 weeks head start before anyone thought to look for him.
I wonder if he could have been swept out by the tide, maybe he slipped and fell in somewhere it wasn't easy to get out, and got hypothermia. glacier bay is cold cold water. The tides in Alaska are extreme.
As far as missing/vanished people go, Alaska seems to be one of the MOST deadliest and dangerous places on the planet for people being killed, abducted, vanished, and/or disappearances.
Just a little trivia. Alaska is the serial killer capital of the world. I'm not saying that these cases are related to serial killers. I just thought it was an interesting fact.
Hey Bryan, I messaged you about survival kits.... Any left?
Missing 411.
I wonder if Paulides did a report on this one.
With all due respect a apex predator swiftly vanished @ high speed with him in their clutch
It amazes me that people still go into the deep wilderness alone. That is just begging for trouble.
Aliens??
In October its not unusual for bears to be heading to higher ground to den.
Maybe he was shot accidentally or deliberately by a poacher who decided to hide the body instead of facing the consequences.
Maybe he knows of some sort of spray that keeps the animals out
He took the walk in the woods . Or a grizzly got him
Could you show the calendar on one of your shows.
Poem titled, "His Memory Began." (Rev.)
His memory began the day I heard,
For my mission began where he left off,
No way to know which way to look,
Little remained on trail or tree.
For he loved to trek & dream his time away.
From the colored fields & standing pines.
From the misty mountains that keep the air.
This is what can live or die,
It whispers in the air.
But I'm here now to coax a way,
From some wandering soul, put to test,
From the dusty tract that keeps & claims,
Some message, here & there, in the mountain air.
I go on to view these things,
Till strength all drained & slowing feet,
Closer to some edge of unknown void,
To feel my blood & some danger too,
Nearer to his test & waiting time,
Seen in a far horizon with moaning air,
Here he'd vanished, where I'd dare not go.
He'd gone missing in the mountain air.
Beautiful ❤️
I think it was paranormal and not the first one some are theses accurances leave nothing. I wish that we could find out soon what happened . Portal ,cryptic , alien , or supernatural etc.
He's camping alone in grizzly country and you suspect E.T.
God bless America 🇺🇸
He got got by a bear
No animals touched his stuff so god bless people who are more open to something else dweeb
@@JohnSmith-pn1vv not your America free speech and speculation are allowed condescending comments aren’t needed
@@nickyblue4866 not clever and not a bear
Maybe Aliens got him.
why did you say he was experienced when he only does short day hikes.this guy was a fool to go out there alone in october.if your experienced you hike with a garmen and a locater device.
I really enjoy listening to you, even though I'm not a hiker. In truth I'm not even really much of an outdoors person. I was wondering though if you are someone that subscribes to these David Paulides theories?
8:44 He couldve been abducted by aliens which would've explained why the area near his camp site was avoided by the local wild life. Also would've explained why his gear was abandoned. Animals are more attuned to Geographic and atmospheric changes to their environment and after a Flying Saucer touches down it always leaves traces of magnetic or radioactive material sometimes even hydrophobic matter too in the area. So the animals wouldn't of liked that much.