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Girl lost in woods? Anyone remember this?

posted 12 years ago by lil_twil
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A child of the 80's here. Trying to locate a mystery I watched on television. I watched a lot of Unsolved Mysteries when I was young, so I think it's from there. Please let me know if you have any info. This story has been driving me crazy for years and my google searches lead me nowhere, so I'd appreciate any help!

*Young girl (like, 6-9 years old) is hiking with her parents. I *think* it was a national park like Yosemite or Yellowstone or something. I'm not sure, though.
*Young girl wanders into the woods and gets lost.
*She is found about 5 days later, nearly unconscious, by the side of a river. The man who finds her is riding on horse back.
*The girl is reunited with her family and recovers. She says that while she was lost another young girl, about her same age, kept her company. She says the girl's name (it's like 'Missy' or 'Sara' or something - a pretty basic name). It turns out some little girl with that same name got lost and died in the same wilderness many years before.

Anyone remember anything like that?

[–] Sly_Vaping_Guy 12 years ago

No, never heard of that one. I'm not sure if that would be Unsolved Mysteries or not.

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[–] megafauna005 12 years ago

Sounds eerie! Like to see it!

[–] whatever_it_takes 11 years ago

You can go to the wiki site for the show. It has detailed descriptions of all the episodes and also a search box. You may be able to narrow things down quickly.

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Unsolved_Mysteries_Wiki

[–] lil_twil 11 years ago

Thank you so much for the help. I searched and had no luck. I suppose it was a different paranormal/mystery docudrama show, not Unsolved Mysteries. Maybe Sightings? I don't know. Still looking. Thanks again for trying to help!

[–] mccalvi 11 years ago

Reminds me a little of the girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen king.

[–] superstarlet_04 9 years ago

This sounds like a combination of several cases.

1) Segment called Plateau Vision. An older woman, Millie Macgregor, was missing after a hike in California. A searcher named Randy Spears (on horseback) found her after having a psychic experience.

2) Young girl goes missing during picnic with her family in Montana- Nyleen Kay Marshall

3) Young psychic girl, Heidi Wyrick of Georgia, sees ghosts of dead neighbors and plays with them.

If the story you're describing is not one of these, then it might have been another show besides Unsolved Mysteries.

[–] hilaryjrp 9 years ago

Not on Unsolved Mysteries, but some other 80's show that now is bothering me. Possibly America's Most Wanted, but I don't think so. Anyway, the first time I ever heard of Joshua Tree National Park was while I watched a missing person's show about a very small girl who disappeared (and was never found) on a picnic or camping trip there with her parents. I recall distinctly that the girl was allowed to go to use the restroom by herself, someone later seeing a person waiting behind those "privacy entrances" parks used to have in that time period, and then the girl vanishing.

What other television shows besides Unsolved Mysteries and America's Most Wanted (which I think debuted in 1989) covered stories of missing people? It might have been Dateline: NBC. But I don't think Dateline keeps an archive of stories it has covered.

[–] 4-Kane 9 years ago

What other television shows besides Unsolved Mysteries and America's Most Wanted (which I think debuted in 1989) covered stories of missing people? It might have been Dateline: NBC. But I don't think Dateline keeps an archive of stories it has covered.

Two current shows that cover missing persons cases are Disappeared and Missing. The former is on Investigation Discovery and the latter is in first-run syndication. There was also a show called Missing: Reward, which was hosted by Stacy Keach and ran in first-run syndication from 1989 to 1992. (By the way, AMW debuted in 1988.)

[–] superstarlet_04 9 years ago

The girl missing on a picnic was Nyleen Kay Marshall and it was on Unsolved Mysteries.

[–] hilaryjrp 9 years ago

Thanks. This particular story was widely covered, though; I believe it was on one of those 80's talk shows--Donahue or Geraldo (or both). I assume the little girl was never found. These stories are so sad.

Does anyone know why the poster who calls him/herself Tim Sydal uploaded the series in a disorganized manner? It's impossible to index them or locate a particular story.

[–] superstarlet_04 9 years ago

Yep that case is so sad. Unfortunately she was never found.

I would assume that the user's videos are disorganized to prevent the videos from being found by the UM producers, who flag any videos that come up. It would be a good idea to save the videos because they always get deleted eventually.

[–] bloodontherisers 9 years ago

I seem to recall that the girls mother was raped and murdered years afterward in Mexico. Sad stuff.