The Chair on the East Bank: Why Kent Came Back Missing

Horror Stories 24 Hours · Oct 21, 2026 · 20m

The Chair on the East Bank: Why Kent Came Back Missing

A dry folding chair and a flannel shirt sat on the east bank of the Mace River in a photo taken at 7:14 AM - both completely dry though the only access required wading through 43-degree, chest-deep water. That photograph drove four agencies and 41 searchers across 11 square miles and produced a DNA profile with no match; how did Kent vanish from a place with no wet footprints and no witnesses?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the dawn Kent Sharp and his fishing partner arrived at the Elbow to the photograph that became…