Ashley Flowers

Our reporter spoke to a woman named Cicely.

She has a lake house near the park, and she was there that same weekend.

She had an interesting story to tell.

She says that about a week after Bubba went missing, she ran into a small crew who was out looking for signs of him.

It was Allie, her daughter Roxanne, and Roxanne's husband, George.

Now, they were driving around asking if anyone had seen Bubba.

And Cicely didn't have any helpful info, but in the conversation, one critical thing came up.

She was asking something like, oh, well, you know, if he walked away to use the bathroom or take a walk or something, like, did he at least have his phone on him?

And that's when Cicely says that they told her Bubba wouldn't have had his phone because they'd found his phone in his tent.

But in the records we have, it's the opposite story.

I mean, we know his phone panged Saturday afternoon at 2.23 p.m.

near the camp area.

But according to all the records and people's official stories, Bubba's phone was never recovered.

Now, Cicely didn't know that at the time.

But even without that knowledge, she told our team that the vibes were just off.

So off that she says she went back inside and told her husband she felt like something bad had happened to this Bubba guy.

Now, we asked Allie about this, and she denies this.

Says no, they never said they found a phone, never had it in their possession.

Roxanne says this had to be a misunderstanding.

Like, maybe they'd been explaining that the police said the phone last pinged near the campsite, so maybe it was still there somewhere, not that they had actually found it themselves.