Bombay Beach
Census-designated place in CaliforniaWikipedia
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Oct 15, 2026
Doug BensonHOST
Mm.
Yourgo ArtsitasGUEST
And then I went to, um, s- the Salton Sea, uh, where, out on Bombay Beach in the Salton Sea.
Yourgo ArtsitasGUEST
They have these gorgeous, gorgeous, uh, art pieces there.
Yourgo ArtsitasGUEST
Uh, and I went there, and it was like 110 and close to the water and under sea level, and it was absolutely, absolutely miserable.
Aaron JacoboHOST
Then everything changed.
Aaron JacoboHOST
He was sent to live in Bombay Beach, a remote town along the Salton Sea, known for its decaying infrastructure, abandoned homes, and one of the most polluted bodies of water in the country.
Malaki RodriguezHOST
It's the kind of place that can feel forgotten, isolated, harsh.
Malaki RodriguezHOST
Cedrick has described arriving at night and feeling like he had stepped into something out of a horror movie.
Cedric ThompsonGUEST
And then I went, I moved to p- uh, a city called Palmdale my freshman year, and that's when I kinda really got in my first experience of, you know, getting in trouble and like fighting and doing stuff like that.
Cedric ThompsonGUEST
Because I didn't have my dad, I decided to go with my mom.
Cedric ThompsonGUEST
After that, I moved-- [laughs] Uh, my mom made me leave from, uh, Palmdale to go move to Bombay Beach.
Cedric ThompsonGUEST
Uh, that's where my dad lived.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
She then joined her friend Cody Orrel on a road trip cross-country.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
She joined this trip with the intention of running a food truck once they arrived at their final destination, Bombay Beach, California.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
By June 2021, Elle was working as the private chef for an Airbnb property called The Hole owned by Tao Ruspoli.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The property is located between Yucca and Morongo valleys outside of Joshua Tree National Park.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Despite these efforts, no evidence of her whereabouts came to light.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Cody and some of Elle's other friends tried bringing awareness to her disappearance by using social media platforms.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
They also posted flyers all around the Bombay Beach area, but nothing came of it.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
No one came forward claiming to have seen Elle.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
You know, I think the history of California characters is one of outlaws and misfits and pioneers and very badly behaved people.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
So a big community that I was in touch with while I was on the road was the community around the Salton Sea in the desert south of Los Angeles and Bombay Beach.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The Bombay Beach Biennale is a sort of art fair that happens on the shores of what is very much a dying lake.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
And it's an art fair that happens on the edge of a kind of apocalyptic scenario.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The founder, Taurus Pulley, who had an idea of recreating on the shores of a dying lake the same sense of ruin that he had perceived in ancient Rome.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
You know, I think the history of California characters is one of outlaws and misfits and pioneers and very badly behaved people.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
So a big community that I was in touch with while I was on the road was the community around the Salton Sea in the desert south of Los Angeles and Bombay Beach.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The Bombay Beach Biennale is a sort of art fair that happens on the shores of what is very much a dying lake, and it's an art fair that happens on the edge of a kind of apocalyptic scenario.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The founder, Taurus Pauli, who had an idea of recreating on the shores of a dying lake the same sense of ruin that he had perceived in ancient Rome when we walked along the shores and felt these pebbles under our feet, and he told me, "It's not sand, it's actually fish bones." So that connection with death was such a constant during the entire trip.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
It was like dead fish, dead people, dead misfits.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
and expecting to encounter some of them along the way.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
So a big community that I was in touch with while I was on the road was the community around the Salton Sea in the desert south of Los Angeles and Bombay Beach.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The Bombay Beach Biennale is a sort of art fair that happens on the shores of what is very much a dying lake.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
And it's an art fair that happens on the edge of a kind of apocalyptic scenario.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
And the people that are involved with it, mainly the founder, Taurus Pulley, who I obviously have things in common with because we're both Italians and had strangely relocated to California during unsuspectable times.
21 MINS LATER
Mia FunkHOST
But I mean, it's a collective delusion.
Mia FunkHOST
It's a beautiful madness.
Virginia MoschettiHOST
Reflecting on the connections between art, water, and ruin, I found myself constantly returning to Chiara Barzini's description of the Salton Sea at Bombay Beach.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
and expecting to encounter some of them along the way.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
So a big community that I was in touch with while I was on the road was the community around the Salton Sea in the desert south of Los Angeles and Bombay Beach.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The Bombay Beach Biennale is a sort of art fair that happens on the shores of what is very much a dying lake.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
And it's an art fair that happens on the edge of a kind of apocalyptic scenario.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
And the people that are involved with it, mainly the founder, Taurus Pulley, who I obviously have things in common with because we're both Italians and had strangely relocated to California during unsuspectable times.
21 MINS LATER
Mia FunkHOST
But I mean, it's a collective delusion.
Mia FunkHOST
It's a beautiful madness.
Virginia MoschettiHOST
Reflecting on the connections between art, water, and ruin, I found myself constantly returning to Chiara Barzini's description of the Salton Sea at Bombay Beach.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
So I was obviously curious and expecting to encounter some of them along the way.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
So a big community that I was in touch with while I was on the road was the community around the Salton Sea in the desert south of Los Angeles and Bombay Beach.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The Bombay Beach Biennale is a sort of art fair that happens on the shores of what is very much a dying lake, and it's an art fair that happens on the edge of a kind of apocalyptic scenario.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
And the people that are involved with it, mainly the founder, Tau Ruzpuli, who I obviously have things in common with because we're both Italians and had strangely relocated to California during unsuspectable times.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
He had an idea of recreating on the shores of a dying lake the same sense of ruin that he had perceived in ancient Rome, and, you know, it was really interesting when we walked along the shores and felt these pebbles under our feet, and you could think, "I'm really walking along on this sandy California morning.
21 MINS LATER
Mia FunkHOST
It's a beautiful madness.
Mia FunkHOST
[gentle music]
Virginia MoschettiHOST
Reflecting on the connections between art, water, and ruin, I found myself constantly returning to Chiara Barzini's description of the Salton Sea at Bombay Beach.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
You know, I think the history of California characters is one of outlaws and misfits and pioneers and very badly behaved people.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
So a big community that I was in touch with while I was on the road was the community around the Salton Sea in the desert south of Los Angeles and Bombay Beach.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The Bombay Beach Biennale is a sort of art fair that happens on the shores of what is very much a dying lake.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
And it's an art fair that happens on the edge of a kind of apocalyptic scenario.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
The founder, Taurus Pulley, who had an idea of recreating on the shores of a dying lake the same sense of ruin that he had perceived in ancient Rome.
AndyHOST
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
AshesGUEST
Yeah, and, uh, by Bombay Beach.
AndyHOST
Yeah.
AshesGUEST
Um, another huge art- artistic community.
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