Joe Rogan Experience #2543 - MrBallen · Aired Aug 20, 2026
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May Laferty went missing during a hunting trip in the Nahani Valley in 1926.
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A woman with a similar name really did vanish from a hunting party in the Nahanni region in 1926, but most retellings of the story give her name as Annie or Anne Laferte, not May Laferty. The year and the basic circumstances hold up; the first name is the part that doesn't match.
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Is it true that May Laferty went missing during a hunting trip in the Nahani Valley in 1926?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. A woman with a similar name really did vanish from a hunting party in the Nahanni region in 1926, but most retellings of the story give her name as Annie or Anne Laferte, not May Laferty. The year and the basic circumstances hold up; the first name is the part that doesn't match. MrBallen said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2543 - MrBallen, aired Aug 20, 2026, at 1:50:04. The supporting source is hookandbarrel.com, linked below.
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