Blog-Faith-Sept18,2006

A lot has happened, and it’s all bad. Mike is gone. We were near Taksim Square picking up supplies for the trip and he just disappeared. He didn’t even say anything - I just turned around and he was gone. I thought I might see something in the footage before he vanished, but I must have hit something on the camera and the focus was all off. I was almost sick when I saw it. I can barely see anything in it.

We’ve never travelled before, so I didn’t know if Mike had just taken off. I went right back to the hotel to see if he would meet me there. That’s when I realized that Mike didn’t disappear on his own. The whole room is trashed. Everything is cut open and thrown around like they were looking for something - even Mike’s things. I’m really worried about Mike, it’s not like him to do something like that. Something bad must have happened, and for him not to have contacted me is even worse.

(video - see transcription below)