[HN Gopher] M Cave and the Unexplained Disappearance of Kenny Ve...
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       M Cave and the Unexplained Disappearance of Kenny Veach (2019)
        
       Author : rossant
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-12-17 09:21 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | chrisfosterelli wrote:
       | Man goes regularly hiking for days at a time on unmarked trails
       | by himself into the desert with no emergency beacon. Occam's
       | razor would suggest that him going missing and his youtube
       | comments from a couple months prior are just unrelated.
        
         | RajT88 wrote:
         | Someone claiming to be his girlfriend showed up in the comments
         | as well saying he was suicidal. Probably the most elegant
         | explanation.
         | 
         | As far as the M Cave weirdness - people say all sorts of stuff
         | on social media for attention. As they say, "Pics, or it didn't
         | happen".
        
           | rbanffy wrote:
           | I was expecting that someone found the cave and had an
           | explanation for the vibration he felt - such as sound waves
           | from wind going through the opening.
        
             | convery wrote:
             | IIRC There was some followup hikers that explored and found
             | a cave/entrance near a military area which sort of looked
             | like the described one, only that it had been caved in
             | (which they couldn't judge if natural or man-made). Not
             | sure about the 'validity' or if they just wanted to
             | contribute to the story.
        
       | galaxyLogic wrote:
       | A Horse With No Name? Carlos Castaneda had some weird trips in
       | the desert
        
       | geocrasher wrote:
       | One thing to keep in mind if thinking it should be easy to find
       | this guy: The desert is _big_ , looks a _lot_ alike, and is more
       | dynamic than people give it credit for. Earthquakes, floods, and
       | other natural things can alter the landscape in subtle ways. Many
       | high yield prospects were lost when prospectors could never find
       | them again for such reasons, leading to many legends of  "lost"
       | mines.
       | 
       | I also think it's most likely that the man didn't want to be
       | found, sadly. He wouldn't be the first.
        
       | thereticent wrote:
       | This must have taken off as widely known YouTube lore, because
       | within 5 seconds of the caver's greeting in the M Cave video, my
       | 8 year old said, "Oh, are you looking up Kenny Veach?" My
       | 12-year-old didn't know the name and came to look at the video,
       | and he said, "Ahh, you mean snakebit McGee. Yeah, he's super
       | interesting"
       | 
       | Sorry for the aside. Hope it's relatable.
        
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