At the start of the school year in 1976, 16-year-old Trenny Lynn Gibson disappeared while on a school field trip in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Clingmans Dome. Did she fall? Was she abducted? The only witness to the awful mystery is the Appalachia itself.
Trenny Lynn Gibson
Trenny Lynn Gibson
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Episode Source Material
- “Knoxville Youth Missing in Mts.” by Staff for The Daily News-Journal
- “Searchers Still Find No Trace of Missing Girl” by the Associated Press
- “Still No Trace of Lost Girl” by the Associated Press
- “Search Ends in Park Area” by Statesville Record and Landmark via the Associated Press
- “Search for Girl Who Disappeared in Park Stopped” by Johnson City Press via the Associated Press
- “Three Who Got Lost Decades Ago in the Smokies Never Found” by Bob Hodge for the Associated Press
- “Trenny Lynn Gibson – Strange Disappearances From U.S. National Park” by Strange Outdoors
- “Appalachian Unsolved: Trenny Gibson, Missing in The Smokies” by WBIR Channel 10 News
- “Appalachian Unsolved: Trenny Gibson, Lost in The Smokies” by John North and Leslie Acherson for Channel 10 News
- “Trenny Gibson – 2 Suspect Simpson” Interview with Laura Riste by Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna
- “Missing: Trenny Lynn Gibson” by Unsolved Appalachia
- “Trenny Lynn Gibson” via The Charley Project
- “Case File 425DFTN” The Doe Network
- Clingman’s Dome Info
- “Gone In The Smoky Mountains: Trenny Gibson’s Disappearance” by Laura Riste