She has a very distinct way of messaging,” Ursua said, noting Kobayashi would typically end messages with heart emojis, stars, butterflies, waves, rainbows, and the like.
“I personally have always felt like I can rely on her — she’s genuinely one of the most caring people I know.
On Nov. 9, Kobayashi was then seen at a bookshop an hour away from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Texts messages from Nov. 11 sent from her phone to friends and family have also surfaced.
Kobayashi’s former roommate, Allisa Peterson, 29, who lived with her for three months in 2022 in Maui, also told The Post that she’s suspicious of the text messages.
The final series of text messages that Hannah Kobayashi’s family and friends received from the photographer’s cell phone are deemed suspicious by her friends because they “didn’t sound like her.” Kobayashi is a missing woman from Hawaii. “.”.
“The ones on those screenshots don’t feel like her, and I had text messages with her,” 30-year-old freelancer Ariana Ursua of Hawaii told The Post. While working at the Whole Foods on Maui in 2017, she got to know Kobayashi.
There are emojis in every text message I exchange with her. “She has a very distinct way of messaging,” Ursua remarked, adding that Kobayashi would frequently use heart emojis, stars, butterflies, waves, rainbows, and similar symbols to conclude messages.
Although Kobayashi is a “genuine, free spirit,” she added, he is not someone who should be carelessly vanished.
Personally, I’ve always trusted her because she’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever met. Had she gone missing voluntarily, she would have disclosed it. Ursua claimed that she last spoke to her friend on October 17 and that she would have disclosed that she was texting.
“I don’t think she should worry people. She wouldn’t suddenly stop showing up. She usually makes sure to bid her friend farewell at parties,” she continued.
She was actually messaging me about next year’s Burning Man 2025. In October, when she was traveling to New York in November, she was actually posting about it. She enjoyed both dreaming and realizing her dreams. “”.
Kobayashi took a plane to Los Angeles in November from Maui. 8 and was scheduled to board a subsequent flight to New York City, to visit her aunt, forty-two minutes later.
Sydni Kobayashi, Kobayashi’s sister, told CNN last week that she and her ex-boyfriend were scheduled on the same flights but were supposed to split up after they got to New York.
Kobayashi, however, did not make the second flight.
On Nov. 9. After that, Kobayashi was spotted at a bookstore an hour from LAX, Los Angeles International Airport.
The investigation found that her missing her connecting flight was “intentional,” according to LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, as reported by The Sun.
On Nov. 10. A video from YouTube that showed Kobayashi at the LeBron XXII Trial event at the Nike store in The Grove, Los Angeles, broke the internet. On her Instagram, Kobayashi posted a picture of the occasion.
On Nov. 11. Not having reached New York, Kobayashi texted her mother. November text messages. 11, which she sent to friends and family on her phone, have also come to light.
A friend received a text message that read, “Deep Hackers have had me on a mind f—k since Friday, wiped my identity, and stole all of my funds.”.
“I was essentially duped into giving away all of my money … For someone I believed I loved,” another said. “.”.
Another reads, “I’m just really afraid, love, and the redwoods are calling me. I know I’m supposed to be there, and I’m being led there, just like you have previously. If this doesn’t work out for me, sweetie, I risk losing my freedom.”. “”.
She also texted her aunt Pidgeon in New York, who replied, “I just finished a very intense spiritual awakening.”.
According to reports, the unnamed ex-boyfriend arrived in New York.
The 29-year-old Allisa Peterson, Kobayashi’s former roommate who shared a Maui apartment with her for three months in 2022, also expressed her suspicions about the text messages to The Post.
The use of the word “hun” was the most worrisome. “She does say loving words like that, but her message felt kind of cryptic,” said Peterson, who last spoke to Kobayashi on October 5 and once worked with her in a floral design company.
Since the last time we heard from Hannah was in November. 11. Her whereabouts have been the subject of internet speculation, with some claiming that she was blackmailed by African hackers or brainwashed by a cult.
On Sunday, November, her father, Ryan Kobayashi, 58, passed away from what appeared to be a suicide. 24 days after the disappearance of his daughter. On Monday, the medical examiners for Los Angeles County verified that he had jumped from a parking garage at LAX while searching for his daughter, who had gone missing.
“Considering how uncryptic Hannah is, it feels really strange how cryptic [the messages] are. Ursua remarked, “At least the Hannah I know.”. I hope she is still living. “.”.
