The Great Smokies are an old mountain range filled with mysteries. One of those mysteries is precisely what happened to Mike Hearon on August 23rd, 2008. Mike left his property in sleepy Happy Valley, Tennessee at around 11am that morning on his new ATV. He waved to his neighbor, Mr. Grady Whitehead, and then seemingly vanished into thin air. What happened? Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...

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0:00 Intro
1:46 Regional Background
10:34 The Disappearance of Mike Hearon
18:17 The Search
32:46 Theories