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'Signs of life' spook researchers in hunt for Jay Slater as barren ravine is searched


Jay Slater, 19, went missing on June 17 in the remote Rural de Teno area of Tenerife while at a three-day music festival with friends, with his family searching for him

described the scene saying: "Sharp-needled cacti grow higher than a man's head and there's no sound other than the noise of geckos scuttling in the undergrowth and the distant howl of the wind above the ravine." Jay Slater's family organised their own search with the help of local mountain search and rescue specialists (Image: Stan Kujawa) Revealing haunting signs of human life, he continued: "In a sinister twist, the Mail found eerie signs of life in one of two ruined homesteads in the ravine: shoelaces tied with twigs to form haunting symbols like something out of a horror film, empty water bottles, and - most strange of all - a set of clean women's clothes." The punishing Juan Lopez Ravine close to Masca, where Jay's phone had last been located before he went missing (Image: Stan Kujawa)But after the Civil Guard called off their active search, the family have trekked to try and find him.

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