Jay Slater sleuth says ‘that is the place craziness begins’ as he retraces his steps

A Brit on his own hunt for Jay Slater has retraced his steps on camera. A TikTok sleuth has revealed just how “crazy” and huge the area he’s certain Jay got lost in.

The-19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished three weeks ago after leaving a rave in Tenerife with two British men and spending the night at an Airbnb in a rural village.

Despite extensive search efforts, he has not been seen since Monday, June 17, when he was last heard from while trying to return to the tourist town of Los Christianos.

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Now Paul Arnott who films adventurous content under the moniker of ‘Down the Rapids’, has taken viewers of his YouTube channel right into the heart of where he believes Jay wandered on June 17.

Starting his video outside the Masca bus stop and Airbnb that have become synonymous with Jay’s mysterious disappearance that has captivated so many for several weeks now.

In his ‘Searching for Jay (unedited day-vlog 1)‘ video, Paul is keen to reveal the extent of not just the size of the area Jay likely vanished in, but also how difficult it is to walk through.

Having walked up the road of the Airbnb, in the direction of where the 19-year-old’s phone last pinged a GPS signal, Paul exits the safety of tarmac for rougher terrain surrounded by mountains.

He said: “So guys, we’ve just come up to a park where you can kind of see like a really good idea of the area that I’m searching right now. Obviously I’ve been in loads of different areas, I’ve been up in the ridges, in the towns I’ve been to loads of different ravines but it’s this area is the one that’s given so much promise right now.

“I know official people think this is the area as well, I know that for a fact, and have look at how vast it is. Now you can see a tiny bit here, it really is a tiny bit full of cacti, big bushes this is literally the start of it it goes so far back.”

Paul continued to explain hikers use various serious gear to safely navigate the countryside in that region of the Spanish Canary island.

“There’s huge drops and this is where you need ropes,” he says out in the wilderness. “Well if you go on one side of it and you go really far down you need ropes, guys, it’s just such a crazy, crazy area.” In fact it’s so rough that on a previous visit Paul lost his phone and wallet, fortunately the latter was found and returned.

He added: “But yeah big old area guys, big old area now when you understand there was only really two police out here searching and then two people from mountain rescue and myself for the entire time and a few volunteers.

“I guess guys and you understand why it’s impossible to do like a really really good detailed search it’s really, really hard.”

According to Paul, the reason he keeps returning to the area in search for clues is because “there’s so many signs of activity” and the likely onward route Jay would have taken from when his phone last pinged.

Police officers even gave Paul a lift, he claims, as they searched with a dog which he said proved to be not especially effective.

He said: “I just feel like this is the area that jay would have come, it’s as simple as that. If his phone pinged up there, if he was walking down, he followed the path down this is where he would have ended up, and he would have had to come through here, guys. it is such a huge place, such a huge place. It is absolutely massive.

“This is hard. It’s difficult it’s annoying it’s really not good terrain but as soon as you get down here guys, this is where the craziness starts.”

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