Nicholas Marion Part 1: Beneath the Surface
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On the morning of June 30, 2024, at around 6:30 AM, 38-year-old Nicholas Marion left a property he was staying at in Youbou, British Columbia, to go for a walk. However, Nick never returned, and his phone was left behind, making it impossible to contact him. Nick, along with his wife Dory, had traveled to Youbou, a peaceful community nestled along the shores of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island, for a music festival. What was supposed to be a weekend of fun quickly turned into a heart-wrenching mystery when Nick disappeared without a trace.
When Nick's family, who live in the U.S., learned of his disappearance, they wasted no time in traveling to the area to join the search. What followed was an intense search effort that lasted for days, but despite their efforts, only a shirt was found, and no other signs of Nick were uncovered. Several eyewitnesses claimed to have seen Nick, but these sightings were ruled out or could not be confirmed.
Now, nearly nine months later, the search is still ongoing. Nick's family remains desperate for any clue or piece of information that could help them understand what happened to him.
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| 0:00.0 | When I found out how the disappearance happened, I knew Nick so well, intuitively, |
| 0:18.5 | instinctively, I said, this is not right. |
| 0:21.7 | Something is not right about this. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm the kind of guy that I like nature. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm the kind of guy that might go walk off and pronounce it. |
| 0:29.0 | Nick was not that kind of guy. |
| 0:31.2 | They set up a search team, SARS, right away within the day, I believe. |
| 0:35.9 | There were several people that said that they thought they saw him, |
| 0:39.9 | but everything was debunked, basically. |
| 0:42.5 | Every sighting was proven not to be him. |
| 0:45.0 | But there's something that's just not sitting right about the whole story. |
| 0:50.1 | Around 6.30 a.m. on June 30th, 2024, |
| 0:54.0 | it's been said that 38-year-old Nicholas Marion left a property |
| 0:57.5 | he was visiting in Ubo, British Columbia to go for a walk. However, Nick never returned, and he left |
| 1:04.0 | his phone behind, making it impossible to contact him. Nick and his wife Dory had traveled to |
| 1:09.6 | Yubo, a small community nestled along |
| 1:11.8 | the shores of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island. Their plan was to attend a music festival. |
| 1:17.9 | What was meant to be a weekend of fun, soon turned into a nightmare when Nick vanished without |
| 1:22.2 | a trace. Once Nick's family, who live in the U.S., learned of his disappearance, they quickly made plans to travel to the area to assist with the search. |
| 1:31.3 | As search efforts ensued, which lasted for days, they found no signs of Nick except for a shirt. |
| 1:37.6 | Several eyewitnesses reported possible sightings of Nick, but none of these have been definitively confirmed. |
| 1:43.7 | Nearly nine months later, the search |
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