Emerson Red Carbaugh, 64, was last seen on November 11, 1985, when he and his brother-in-law, Ralph Issett, went turkey hunting off Route 913 about two miles south of Robertsdale in Huntingdon County. The two separated around 2:00 p.m. with plans to meet back at Carbaugh’s truck; Issett emerged alone as dusk fell and, after calling and firing his gun into the air, found no sign of Carbaugh.

Carbaugh was dressed in a camouflage coat with a green back, brown duck hunting pants, a gray wool sweater, black rubber boots, and a blue baseball cap, and carrying a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun. He took medication for high blood pressure and had distinctive facial scarring from a rare skin disease.

A massive search—at times more than 1,800 volunteers and officials—scoured about 12 square miles of Broad Top Mountain for nearly two weeks using search teams, dogs, scuba divers and a helicopter with heat-seeking equipment, but nothing belonging to Carbaugh was found. He was declared dead in 1992. In 2004 someone told Carbaugh’s wife Ida that he had been buried on a local farm and provided a small bone fragment; testing could not yield usable DNA and that tip remained unconfirmed.

Did anyone hunt or camp on Broad Top Mountain that November who might remember seeing Carbaugh or his truck?