00:00 – Intro
03:43 – Into the Highlands
07:20 – The Long Search
11:16 – The Green Rucksack
15:45 – What The Loch Keeps
On March 25th, 2022, Finn Creaney – co-founder of Wildcat Bushcraft survival school and one of Scotland’s most experienced wilderness instructors – was dropped off at Loch Naver in the Scottish Highlands to begin a planned 40-mile solo hike to Golspie. He was 32 years old, married, the father of a four-year-old daughter, and two weeks removed from learning his wife was pregnant with their son. He left a voicemail for his wife at 12:52 PM. His phone went offline at 1:47 PM. He has not been seen since.

This documentary examines the three-year search for Finn Creaney – from one of the largest Highland rescue operations in recent memory, to his father’s eighteen-month private search across the same terrain, to the discovery of a green rucksack on the banks of Loch Naver in October 2023, sitting near the very point where Finn’s journey began. We trace the investigative theories, the forensic limitations of a case with almost no physical evidence, and what the rucksack’s location suggests about Finn’s final hours – including the cold water crossing that his family now believes claimed his life, and why that conclusion sits uneasily against everything he taught and practiced as a professional survivalist.

As of 2026, Finn Creaney remains officially listed as a missing person. His remains have never been recovered.

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