Dennis Martin - Vanished Without A Trace

In 1969, six-year-old Dennis Martin was on a hiking trip with his family and friends in the Great Smoky Mountains. One afternoon, he stepped away from his family for a few minutes...and was never seen again. In the two weeks that followed, the largest search ever conducted in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park took place. Over 1,400 people searched for Dennis, covering a 50-mile radius, but they never found a trace of him. The search teams included members of the National Guard, and, somewhat strangely, a team of US Army Special Forces (Green Berets). A significant amount of military equipment was brought in to be used in the search, and even the President of the US himself (Nixon at the time) was said to be monitoring the situation...which is pretty unusual for a case of one person lost in the woods. 

So what happened to Dennis? And why was the US Government so interested in finding him? And what connection is there, if any, between Dennis and a strange man spotted by tourists a few miles away? Craig & Doug cover all this and more in this episode!