Ashley Flowers

There is this campsite that was two spots south who says that at 12.30 a.m., Bubba walked up to them and asked to borrow a flashlight.

He didn't say why or what he needed it for, but they loaned him one.

And then they watched him continue to walk south along the shoreline of the nearby lake.

But before you go thinking he fell in, let me tell you two things.

The campers who knew Bubba insist that he would never go near the water.

He's not a fan.

Like when they tried getting him to go out on a boat before, he was like, nope, all good right here on dry land.

And number two, even though Bubba started walking south down the shoreline of the lake, those same campers who loaned him the flashlight watched him turn around and head back north toward his own camp.

Now, they say that he seemed drunk or under the influence of something.

But again, everyone says that Bubba doesn't drink or do drugs.

The friends who knew Bubba suggested to Gonzalez that maybe these people just weren't familiar with how Bubba normally spoke.

Another neighboring campsite confirms that they saw the same brief interaction and Bubba walking back toward his own camp.

But then what?

People at the camp were still up.

I mean, it was like peak summer.

Lots of people were still sitting around the campfires, talking, having a good time.

Did Bubba make it back without anyone seeing him?

Or had he just kept wandering off into the pitch black night with his flashlight?

It could be both.

Maybe Daryl had made it back to his tent unnoticed and then gone out for a walk in the morning like they first assumed.