155 episodes

Host Payne Lindsey heads to the edge of the arctic circle to investigate a mysterious disappearance from Nome, Alaska. Up and Vanished investigates mysterious cold case disappearances with each new season of the hit true crime franchise. Season 1: The case of missing South Georgia teacher, Tara Grinstead, led to two arrests. Season 2: The disappearance of Kristal Reisinger, a young mother who disappeared from a remote Colorado mountain town. Season 3: The North West Montana disappearance of Ashley Loring HeavyRunner, an indigenous woman who went missing from the Blackfeet Nation Indian Reservation. Season 4: The case of missing Alaska Native, Florence Okpealuk.

Up and Vanished Tenderfoot TV

    • True Crime
    • 4.5 • 60.5K Ratings

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Host Payne Lindsey heads to the edge of the arctic circle to investigate a mysterious disappearance from Nome, Alaska. Up and Vanished investigates mysterious cold case disappearances with each new season of the hit true crime franchise. Season 1: The case of missing South Georgia teacher, Tara Grinstead, led to two arrests. Season 2: The disappearance of Kristal Reisinger, a young mother who disappeared from a remote Colorado mountain town. Season 3: The North West Montana disappearance of Ashley Loring HeavyRunner, an indigenous woman who went missing from the Blackfeet Nation Indian Reservation. Season 4: The case of missing Alaska Native, Florence Okpealuk.

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    S4E1: No Place Like Nome

    S4E1: No Place Like Nome

    Often Nome, Alaska is claimed to be settled by gold miners, but Alaska Natives have been in the sub-arctic area for thousands of years. It is also unfortunately the site of a disproportionately high number of missing Indigenous and Native Alaskan women. When Up and Vanished host, Payne Lindsey, receives a tip from one of his producers about Florence Okpealuk, an Alaskan native who went missing in 2020, he is drawn to the mystery of her disappearance. As Payne begins his research, he finds an email from Okpeluk's family asking him to cover her case, and is compelled to continue. He will soon learn the difficulty of covering a case in the Land of the Midnight Sun as he begins his journey northward to Nome.

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    • 56 min
    S4E2: Man On West Beach

    S4E2: Man On West Beach

    Florence Okpealuk is not the first Alaska Native to go missing from Nome. Seventeen years prior, Sonya Ivanoff was reported missing by her roommates and was found murdered. The crime has forever left a mark on the relationship between the community and the local police department. Payne arrives in Nome and learns that not much has changed since Ivanoff's tragic end. He connects with journalist and Alaska Native, Alice Qannik Glenn, who shares how the story inspired her journalism and changed the way she viewed the world.

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    • 48 min
    S4E3: Oregon Jon

    S4E3: Oregon Jon

    Talking with locals in Nome, Payne begins to make some progress in finding out who one of the last people to have seen Florence alive is. New accounts of interactions with the miner living on West Beach have led to the uncovering of a man with a nickname that a lot of the town have heard about.

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    • 44 min
    S4E4: Fact or Rumor?

    S4E4: Fact or Rumor?

    A tip received from a local Nomite sends Payne down the rabbit hole to uncover the sender of texts which claim to know exactly what happened to Florence Okpealuk in a tent on West Beach.

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    • 41 min
    S4E5: Finding Jon

    S4E5: Finding Jon

    Payne and his producers beginning planning the best way to get closer to Oregon Jon, with internet sleuthing they eventually discover a trail to go down uncovering hints at how to get close enough to talk to him.

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    • 44 min
    S4E6: Two Truths and a Lie

    S4E6: Two Truths and a Lie

    After messaging him from a fake Facebook account, Payne sets up to meet with the person he wants to talk with the most; Oregon Jon. Deciding to bring along a few of his producers, Payne sets up as many recording devices around the bar as he can in order to covertly capture the full encounter. Can Payne keep up the ruse or will Oregon Jon catch on?

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    • 45 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
60.5K Ratings

60.5K Ratings

Golden Boy444 ,

A lot of bashing the “Gold Miners”

Sad how the gold miners are bashed so hard. The only reason nome is nome is because of the gold miners… kinda funny listening to the drunk natives.

Yorkl12 ,

Season 4

Frustrating. I feel that on episode 7 I have no more information than I did at episode 1. Episode 7 was a waste IMO.

Krys173 ,

This show is amazing!

This podcast deserves more than a 4.5 rating. Since season one I have been absolutely hooked. The storytelling is amazing and it’s so well done. Your heart goes out to these victims in a way that I can’t explain. You will not be disappointed if you give this a try. I would give it more stars if I could!!!

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