{"id":12147,"date":"2024-05-28T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12147"},"modified":"2024-05-28T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:21:42","slug":"family-still-seeking-answers-after-survivalist-mysteriously-vanished-in-valley-of-death-eight-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12147","title":{"rendered":"Family still seeking answers after survivalist mysteriously vanished in \u2018Valley of Death\u2019 eight years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justin Alexander Shetler had been travelling in northern India in 2016 when he went missing<\/h2>\n

The family of a survivalist who went missing in 2016 are still seeking answers after his mysterious disappearance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Justin Alexander Shetler had been travelling in the Parvati Valley – dubbed the ‘Valley of Death’ due to the large number of foreign tourists who have vanished there – in Himachal Pradesh in Northern\u00a0India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When he disappeared, Justin had been carrying just a woollen wrap and a walking stick which he had fashioned into a kind of\u00a0flute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No trace of Justin has ever been found since he disappeared, and his mysterious case is now the subject of the Tenderfoot TV\u00a0podcast<\/a>\u00a0Status: Untraced<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Host Liam Luxon is now trying to figure out what could have happened to Justin, who was known to be a survivalist.<\/p>\n

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\"Luxon<\/div>\n

Luxon hoped the podcast can open up new leads. (Facebook\/Adventures of Justin)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Luxon told Fox News Digital: \u201cJustin is a survival expert, so if somebody was living off the grid, it would be him. He has all the training for it.<\/p>\n

“He knows how to speak bird language, which is crazy. He lived in a cave. He can start a fire from anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there was one part of Justin’s missing person case which has people especially flummoxed.<\/p>\n

That is one of the last things which the survivalist wrote on his\u00a0social media<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n

Luxon said: \u201cIt was weird \u2013 everything was really, really weird.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Justin<\/div>\n

Justin Shetler left a cryptic message on social media before disappearing (Facebook\/Adventures of Justin)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Justin wrote before his disappearance: “I should be back, but if I\u2019m not back by then, don\u2019t come looking for me.”<\/p>\n

While on the journey, they found that Justin had been staying in a cave which was just outside an encampment.<\/p>\n

Luxon said: \u201cIn the last month that we know where he was, he was living in a cave\u2026 which is in a camp in the Himalayas. It\u2019s gorgeous. It looks like this medieval, military town.<\/p>\n

“He was staying just outside this camp, but it was four hours from the nearest road. You have no choice but to hike there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Justin<\/div>\n

Justin frequently documented his travels. (Facebook\/Adventures of Justin)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Luxon is not the only one who has been trying to get answers about what happened to Justin.<\/p>\n

He described how Justin’s mom as well as a friend of his had flown over to India to get more answers about what had happened to him.<\/p>\n

They claimed that people had passed him while he was on the trail, saying that where he was going there was ‘only one path going up and down’.<\/p>\n

Luxon said: “I\u2019ve made the trek now, and it certainly seemed like he would\u2019ve made it back to the camp. And again, this guy is a survival expert.”<\/p>\n

The Parvati Valley is known to be a hotspot for international travellers to go missing, with around two dozen foreign\u00a0visitors<\/a>\u00a0having died or disappeared in the area in the last 25 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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