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Locations Unknown

Thelma Polly Melton - Great Smokey Mountains National Park

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On September 25, 1981, a 58-year-old woman mysteriously vanished while hiking a familiar Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains. Moments after walking ahead of her friends, she disappeared without a trace. Strange behaviors leading up to that day—including unusual phone calls and missed commitments—only deepened the mystery. Despite exhaustive searches, her fate remains unknown. Was she lost, abducted, or did she deliberately disappear? Join us this week as we investigate the disappearance of Thelma Polly Melton in Great Smokey Mountains National Park.

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Check out our other shows on the Unknown Media Network:
Crime Off The Grid
Off The Trails
The Peanut Butter and Mountains Podcast
The Weirdos We Know  
Who Runs This Park

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Hosts: Mike Van de Bogert 
Research: Cherish Green

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Look! Next door are having something done.

0:03.0

That lap panel fencing is gorgeous though.

0:05.0

Wait a minute.

0:06.0

Juice and handy bags!

0:08.0

Said she was in landscaping she did.

0:10.0

Said she had too much on a...

0:12.0

Plate compactor. I'll flatten her, the lion little...

0:16.0

Get to Raleigh Fencing from 24 pound a panel

0:19.0

and tool hired two with plate compact patches from just 51 pound a week.

0:23.2

All trade prices X VAT at 20%.

0:25.9

So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses and the Patels.

0:43.3

Thousands of people had mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness. Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.

0:50.3

You are listening to Locations Unknown. I am your solo host

1:32.2

mike van de bogart joe is uh don't know where joe is this week but he celebrated a big

1:38.5

birthday week last week turned the big four oh so he is not with us this week. So I'm going to be giving this a shot solo tonight.

1:46.7

So before we get going, I just want to thank all of our loyal listeners for tuning in.

1:51.8

Got some exciting announcements to get to here before we get going.

1:57.3

So new Patreon shoutouts first.

1:59.5

So John E. Ferris, Jasmina, Voidenkhar, and Amy Friedel.

2:05.8

So thank you so much for supporting the show. We always say this, but we cannot thank you

2:11.8

enough for supporting the show. We've got a lot of exciting stuff coming up this year,

2:16.8

including getting kicked out of our studio. The building we're in exciting stuff coming up this year, including getting kicked out

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