‘A real-life horror movie.’ Woman shares story of helping lost teen get back to sanitarium in 2019

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Published astatine 12:13 pm, July 11, 2024

ISLAND PARK — In 2019, a mislaid teenage woman pinch cuts and bruises wandered into a section Scout campground, and nan female who helped her get backmost to a mysterious spot called nan Valley successful nan Clouds Sanitarium is still worried astir her.

The chilling communicative precocious attracted a batch of attraction aft an aged constabulary log was shared connected societal media.

The constabulary log

According to nan Fremont County Sheriff’s Office constabulary log dated Aug. 6, 2019, and shared by nan Rexburg Standard Journal, a campy head of a section Scout campy said a female who was 17 aliases 18 years aged wandered into nan campground.

The constabulary log explains that she had “lots of cuts connected her arms … seemed mislaid and confused … (and) did not for illustration nan antheral unit from nan campy to interact pinch her.”

“Went to nan gross of nan Valley of nan Clouds Sanatorium,” nan log states. “Did not want them to travel her in. Advised it is northeast from Scout Camp astir a mile. Right-hand move onto Big Sky Road. Gated off.”

The log said nan girl’s sanction was El, and she had short reddish hairsbreadth and was wearing a plaid garment pinch a achromatic tanktop, jeans and Converse aliases Vans shoes.

The constabulary log accusation shared by nan Standard Journal was past shared 3 months agone connected Reddit by personification who said 5 years agone they “came crossed a log successful Rexburg’s newspaper that I haven’t been capable to get my mind disconnected since.”

The Reddit station was shared connected a section Idaho Falls Facebook page astatine nan opening of July, wherever organization members speculated together and commented they wanted to cognize much specifications astir this mystery. The Facebook station has since been removed.

Local female who claims to person talked pinch mislaid woman shares communicative of them meeting

Taylor B. — who asked to not person her full sanction published owed to nan precocious magnitude of liking successful this communicative — was a unpaid and vice president for an arena called Cedar Badge held astatine nan Island Park Scout Camp successful 2019.

Taylor, who was 18 years aged astatine nan time, told EastIdahoNews.com what happened connected Aug. 6, 2019, still haunts her to this day. She remembers 1 of nan antheral volunteers called her connected a power and asked her to travel thief pinch a “weird situation.”

“I spell complete there, and nan first point I announcement is this distraught, confused woman who’s virtually sitting arms crossed, afraid, won’t talk and there’s a bunch of men surrounding her,” Taylor said. “At that point, successful doing assemblage courses, I’m successful criminology, I could instantly spot her assemblage language.”

Taylor asked nan men to time off and springiness her clip unsocial pinch nan girl. She says nan woman had purple bruises and cuts connected her arms and legs but refused getting curen astatine nan first-aid position connected nan campgrounds.

When she asked nan woman — who she believes was 15 to 18 years aged astatine nan clip — what her sanction was, she wouldn’t show Taylor astatine first. The woman yet said her sanction was “El,” but Taylor isn’t convinced that was nan truth.

“She was ace skinny. That was nan first point I noticed. (She was) very ray and fair-skinned was nan different point I noticed, and I deliberation it was noticeable because of really purple nan bruises were,” Taylor said. “Her hairsbreadth looked for illustration it hadn’t been brushed done successful days. It was reddish (and) very poofy. She had really beautiful eyes.”

Taylor said it was difficult for her to talk pinch nan girl. Taylor didn’t cognize if her deficiency of vocabulary and struggles pinch grammar was because she was “distraught and confused” aliases because she didn’t person a precocious IQ aliases a large vocabulary successful nan first place.

“Her apparel weren’t very nice. They had holes successful them and were a small dingy,” Taylor recalled. “Her bike, particularly wherever I travel from nan motorcycle industry, it was a beautiful trashy bike. Nothing nice. No suspension. I was shocked erstwhile she said she’d been riding it done nan woods.”

‘I conscionable walked retired of nan woods’

Taylor ended up taking nan woman complete by nan reservoir connected nan campgrounds wherever she opened up a small bit.

“She’s like, ‘I’m not precisely judge wherever I am. … I conscionable walked retired of nan woods,'” Taylor remembers her saying. “I was like, ‘How agelong person you been successful nan woods for? What happened to you?’ She very overmuch shies distant from that conversation.”

Anytime a man sewage adjacent aliases approached, Taylor said nan woman “got tense and wholly unopen down to nan constituent wherever I had to (tell them) to enactment distant from her and fto her be.”

“(I asked), ‘Were you biking?’ Her full communicative is confusing of really she sewage present (and) really she roamed onto nan Scout place,” Taylor said. “I’m like, ‘How tin we thief you? Can we thrust you to wherever you request to be?'”

Taylor said nan woman quickly replied, “No, you can’t.”

Taylor had her motorcycle pinch her astatine nan campy and asked nan woman if she could thrust backmost pinch her to her home. After building up capable spot pinch nan girl, she agreed to person Taylor thrust her motorcycle pinch her to a circumstantial gate.

The motorcycle ride

The woman told Taylor cipher other could travel connected nan motorcycle ride, but Taylor said she couldn’t spell alone. She told her a man from campy would travel acold down them truthful she could move astir and drawback backmost up pinch him erstwhile Taylor dropped her off. The woman agreed that would beryllium OK.

“It was conscionable her and I. I hopped connected my bike, and that’s wherever everything sewage really nerve-racking to me, and I didn’t want to time off her,” Taylor said.

The woman began to admit wherever she was erstwhile nan 2 of them sewage connected nan main road.

“(I asked) ‘Where’s your house?’ Just trying to fig retired what to expect,” Taylor said. “She said, ‘No, no. You can’t travel to nan location part.’ I said, ‘OK, is location immoderate peculiar logic why?’ She said, ‘It’s not going to beryllium bully if you spell there.'”

Taylor said nan woman told her location was thing “that was watching you,” truthful Taylor thought that meant their were perchance cameras. She besides said it sounded for illustration from her speech pinch nan woman that 1 main personification was successful complaint who made “a batch of nan calls.”

She couldn’t get nan woman to talk much astir her location life but Taylor said what she understood from what nan woman many times kept saying was if Taylor went to nan doorway aliases past nan gate, “whatever is going to hap wouldn’t beryllium good.”

The Reddit station stated nan woman “asked to beryllium taken backmost to nan ‘Valley of nan Clouds Sanatorium'” but Taylor said nan woman didn’t verbally inquire to spell backmost location — pointing retired she doesn’t judge nan woman could person said nan sanction of nan spot — instead, she showed her really to get there.

Taylor guessed nan motorcycle thrust to nan gross was astir 2 and a half to 3 miles distant from nan camp.

“It was already getting weird with, ‘You can’t travel to nan location pinch me,’ and ‘It’s not going to beryllium OK,’ and arsenic soon arsenic we sewage to nan gate, my bosom dropped and it changed moreover more,” Taylor said. “I tried to get her to hold for police, but she wouldn’t. She was very hesitant. No constabulary could beryllium involved. … She conscionable needed to get backmost to this place.”

Valley successful nan Clouds Sanitarium

When they arrived astatine nan gate, Taylor noticed nan wording disconnected to nan broadside that publication “Valley successful nan Clouds Sanitarium.”

“I retrieve nan ‘S’ was location connected nan gate. That’s nan first point that I saw successful that name,” she said. “I wanted to retrieve it because I wanted them (camp leaders) to look it up erstwhile we sewage back, truthful I mentally saved it and told them.”

Taylor doesn’t retrieve seeing immoderate houses, only trees. East Idaho News has been to this location and tin corroborate location is simply a locked gross pinch nan wording “Valley successful nan Clouds Sanitarium” adjacent to it connected nan stone wall. There’s besides a “private support out” sign, and nan area is fenced off.

There’s a agelong roadworthy that appears to lead backmost to astatine slightest half a twelve cabins aliases buildings, but owed to really galore trees were surrounding nan structures it was difficult to spot precisely really galore buildings aliases what other was backmost there. A flagpole could besides been seen from nan gate.

Taylor asked nan woman really acold successful she’d request to thrust past nan gate. She wouldn’t answer. Taylor didn’t consciousness that letting her spell was nan correct decision, but nan woman would not fto her past nan gate.

“It’s for illustration a image that’s been burned into my mind. It was scary. I saw her riding her motorcycle and past she turned nan area and arsenic soon arsenic she turned nan corner, she disappeared. She was gone forever,” Taylor stated. “I retrieve opinionated location astatine nan gross for astatine slightest 5 minutes aft she turned nan corner, hoping I would perceive something, but it went dormant silent.”

Taylor said a rumor began floating done nan Scout campy that Valley successful nan Clouds Sanitarium was a psych ward successful nan woods.

“She walked into nan mediate of a Scout camp. If you look astatine nan outer view, it’s truthful forested. There’s not very galore roads to get successful that Scout camp. She conscionable walked in,” Taylor said. “It makes maine consciousness for illustration she was moving from something. You wouldn’t spell successful that dense of wood pinch a motorcycle unless you were running. There’s truthful galore unanswered questions.”

East Idaho News reached retired to respective section sources and rule enforcement but nary of them said they’ve ever heard of this place. We besides attempted to telephone aggregate numbers perchance associated pinch nan landowner, Terry Stimson of Nevada, but received nary response, had an incorrect number aliases nan lines were nary longer successful service.

Stimson is listed arsenic nan head of Stimson Island Park LLC, according to nan Idaho Secretary of State’s Office. The Fremont County assessor’s agency said Stimson Enterprises became Stimson Island Park LLC successful July 2002.

It’s not clear what Stimson Island Park LLC is, aliases what is located connected nan sanitarium property.

According to Fremont County Sheriff records which day backmost to 2001, location person only been 3 incidents called successful that were associated pinch nan reside wherever Valley successful nan Clouds Sanitarium is located. All 3 were listed arsenic controlled burns.

‘The wilderness has a batch of secrets’

Taylor said it was for illustration “a real-life scary movie.” She mentioned she’s not a crier but aft she mislaid show of nan girl, she collapsed down crying. The campy head called nan constabulary to study nan incident.

According to nan Fremont County Sheriff incident report, nan lawman assigned checked nan area and did not find anyone matching nan explanation of nan girl.

The lawman said successful nan study he talked to nan campy head and asked “if she was talking astir hurting herself aliases thing for illustration that, and he stated no. I asked if she acted for illustration she was needing help, and again he stated no.”

“He was much worried astir her wellbeing,” nan study states. “I told them that (I) was not capable to conscionable spell connected nan spot without a logic unless we felt for illustration location was thing more.”

Taylor believes because of really young she herself was erstwhile this happened that constabulary didn’t perceive to her broadside of nan communicative for illustration she hoped they would. She expected constabulary to do much of an investigation, and arsenic nan woman rode distant connected her bike, Taylor’s mindset was that constabulary would do a use cheque and find her.

“I deliberation (everything she told me) that is imaginable for an unsafe and toxic household, aliases thing other could beryllium going on. … The woods tin hide a batch of things … The wilderness has a batch of secrets,” Taylor said. “It’s quiet retired there, and tin beryllium lonely retired there. My bosom hopes she is OK and hopes we tin shed ray connected this business and possibly find retired she’s doing OK and is good aliases possibly put a extremity to a problem also.”