I learned about this case in one of the Missing 411 movies, a very strange case indeed.
Thomas E. Messick Sr. - American - Male - Horicon, New York - missing since 11/15/2015 - age 82 at the time of disappearance
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Originally Posted by The Charley Project
Messick was last seen hunting with friends and relatives on state land in the Lake George Wild Forest near Brant Lake near Horicon, New York at 10:00 a.m. November 15, 2015. The group separated a short distance off Lily Pond Road, with plans to meet up at an agreed-upon location at 2:00 p.m.
Messick never arrived at the rendezvous point, and his hunting party began searching for him. At 4:30 p.m., after they were unable to find him, they contacted forest rangers. Four rangers searched the area until midnight, and the subsequent volunteer-assisted search lasted weeks, but no sign of Messick was ever located.
According to his wife of over fifty years, Messick is an experienced hunter and woodsman and, if he had gotten lost, he would have cut off a piece of his jacket and tied it to a tree to mark his path. Due to his age and health issues, authorities don't believe he could have gotten very far on his own. His case remains unsolved and his family believes he's deceased.
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Other resources:
https://locationsunknown.org/tom-messick
https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/fi...ust-days-apart
Any tips or information?
Please call the New York State Police, Troop G, Queensbury at 518-745-1035
The weird thing about this case is the circumstances. This guy was with friends on a hunting trip, he was basically sitting down where they parked their vehicles, at the treeline - and waiting for his friends to drive some deer his way. He had no reason to move that we know of, and his friends weren't expecting him to. Keep in mind, this guy is 82 years old, half-deaf and half-blind and not very mobile. And yet, by the time his friends came back, he was gone. No trace of him. One of these friends reported hearing a very strange sound in the woods, like a metallic scraping I believe he described it, something he's never heard before in the woods. No trace of this guy has ever been found, not even his clothes or his gun. If you're interested in this case, I highly recommend watching
Missing 411: The Hunted which goes over it (and other cases like it) in more detail.