The Red Jacket on a Wall Where No One Can Stand

The Red Jacket on a Wall Where No One Can Stand

A red jacket appears two hundred feet up a sheer basalt wall with no ledge, and the laminated name inside connects it to a man missing eight years-how can something stand where nothing can stand? The photograph spread across three online forums by midnight, leaving a single unresolved question: who placed the jacket, and why did it belong to a man presumed dead eight winters earlier?

In this episode, we follow how a retired postal worker’s photograph, a graduate student’s daily route, and a journalist’s three-week investigation converge on a collapsed shed and a nylon duffel that changed everything-what does the shed’s discovery tell us about the figure on the canyon wall?

Person: Douglas Farrell
Date: November 9, 2017
Location: Aldermoor Pass, eastern Oregon
Person: Teresa Morris
Person: Kevin Marsh

- Farrell pressed the shutter at 7:41 AM on November 9, 2017 from a rocky outcropping above Aldermoor Creek.
- The figure in the red jacket was standing on a basalt wall approximately 200 feet above the canyon floor with no visible ledge or crack.
- Farrell posted the image to three online forums the evening of the shoot and it had widespread attention by midnight.
- Cynthia Richardson visited Teresa Morris’s cabin around November 20 and spent three weeks investigating the site.
- In the collapsed equipment shed Richardson found a nylon duffel containing a commercial red down jacket with a laminated card naming Kevin Marsh, who had been missing since October 2009 and was presumed a fatality by exposure.

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