Blair Witch-Style Film About Missing NV Hiker Based On Real Case

People go missing in the deserts of the western United States all the time. One case that authorities began investigating a decade ago in southern Nevada spawned a 2022 fictional documentary and has been compared to the most popular "found footage" flick ever made.

Kenny Veach disappeared while filming his expedition to find a mysterious cave said to be shaped like the letter "M."

I make a habit of never going hiking alone; it's just not smart. Some people are built differently and require solitude and frequent disconnect from society, and the desert sometimes calls to them.

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I visited Joshua Tree National Park for the first time in 2021. The trip completely changed my perspective on desert life. A group of us hiked large rock mounds, weaved through trails surrounded by cacti, dunked in hot springs under the stars, and sat in the desert sun sipping beer from the back of my friend's truck. We went back and did it again the next weekend.

One man went missing near Nellis Airforce Base in the fall of 2014 and has still never been located. The base is 10 miles northeast of Las Vegas, and to one hiker it was an area he had explored repeatedly.

Kenny Veach disappeared while filming his expedition to find a mysterious cave said to be shaped like the letter "M." He believed the cave to have some sort of energy emitting from it, and on November 11, 2014, he was never heard from again.

The 2022 fictional, "lost footage-style" documentary called Horror in the High Desert is said to be inspired by the case of Kenny Veach. The film, whose main character who goes missing is named Gary Thomas Hinge, has inspired a large following of Internet sleuths who continue to provide updates from the Blair Witch Project-style film from 1999.

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