of possible sightings and how legitimate are those? a lot of people are thinking they re seeing this in a lot of different places. yeah. absolutely, anderson and why i called sheriff lynn hagman to find out how legitimate these are. he said they are getting some reports of alleged sightings of brian laundrie in that area. they re monitoring social media posts where people are posting about allegedly seeing brian laundrie in that area, and to give you an idea of where this county is it s 25 miles from the appalachian trail and there is this mountain to sea trial that runs right through watauka county and they were in boone, north carolina and long this mountain to sea trail. he s not putting much stock in these sightings and it is a popular area for camping and hiking which brian laundrie apparently likes to do, but he is taking it seriously still and he has his social media expert and threat assessment specialist