Woman, 38, who vanished a 12 months in the past and left cryptic video is ‘discovered alive in Mexico’
Ukrainian Ganna Kovrizhnykh was 38 when she disappeared from San Diego in the US, while travelling around the North America, although days before she left a series of cryptic notes and videos
Ganna Kovrizhynkh is alive and in Mexico, according to reports (Image: San Diego County Sheriff’s Office)
A woman who seemingly vanished without a trace while on a cross-country road trip has miraculously been found alive. Ukrainian Ganna Kovrizhnykh was 38 when she disappeared from San Diego in the US, while travelling around the North America.
Kovrizhnykh, whose disappearance was shrouded in mystery after she reportedly left a series of cryptic notes and videos, was reportedly discovered staying in Mexico’s Sinaloa state, a year after she first went missing.
Following her disappearance, Kovrizhnykhs reportedly received a photograph of a letter containing a series of cryptic coordinates that lead her to Potrero, a small town just north of the US-Mexico boarder. According to the National Unidentified Persons System, she was able to send her daughter vital supplies using this one link.
Ganna Kovrizhynkh went missing over a year ago (Image: San Diego County Sheriff’s Office)
The day before she went missing, Kovrizhnykh uploaded a creepy Facebook video in which she read Bible verses and declared: “Two commandments. No one escape. Who kill will die forever.”
“There is no way to escape. The punishment is coming.
“The rapture is coming. It is already on the earth. There is only a few years left… I’m a prophet.”
Cops say she has been found in Mexico (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Sergeant Jacob Klepach of the sheriff’s Missing Persons and Cold Case Team issued this post-discovery statement:
“The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office conducted an extensive investigation, exhausting all leads. Sheriff’s investigators believed Kovrizhnykh likely had voluntarily crossed into Mexico.”
Sergeant Jacob Klepach said during the original search: “We believe she was just kind of touring the country and she left her vehicle in Potrero and never came back to her vehicle.
Mexico has a real issue with missing people (Image: NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“We don’t really have any belief one way or another at this point if there is foul play involved or if she just strictly voluntarily left.”
The mysterious disappearance is not the first to make headlines in recent years in Mexico, with the country grappling with a huge missing-persons crisi.
Government figures released in March 2026 showed 132,534 people remained officially missing or unaccounted for. More than 20,000 new cases were recorded during 2025 alone. Officials say organised crime has driven disappearances since 2006, while victims also include migrants and people who leave voluntarily.
Desperate relatives, particularly groups known as “searching mothers”, regularly conduct their own investigations and excavations. Mexico has introduced a national search alert and ordered investigations to begin immediately after reports, but families continue to criticise delays and inadequate resources.
