Search for missing teen Pheobe Bishop suspended after haunting last posts emerge

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The search for missing teenager Pheobe Bishop in Good Night Scrub National Park has been suspended after five days.
The teen was last seen on May 15, travelling towards Bundaberg airport, however, she failed to board the plane and has not been seen since.
Police begam their seach of the national park on May 23, and expanded the operation after they found evidence may have been moved from the Good Night Scrub area prior to their arrival.
Some items of interest have been located during the search and will undergo forensic examination.
Police said on Wednesday the investigation was 'ongoing' and that 'police are continuing to run out several lines of enquiry'.
'In addition to investigative work, physical searches will continue as needed and as information is provided,' a spokesman said.
'The greater Gin Gin area remains the focus of the investigation.'
More to come.
Haunting last posts emerge
Pheobe's tragic final posts emerged this week, revealing she had decided to not return to her family home.
A post on missing Gin Gin teenager Pheobe Bishop's TikTok has given insight into the 17-year-old's outlook on life before she disappeared.
In a post timestamped March 31 – just two weeks before the teenager mysteriously vanished – Pheobe revealed that she had been 'in and out' of home for years, but 'this time we're not going back'.
Pheobe was living with two housemates at a property in Gin Gin before her disappearance.
Her post was part of a wider trend dubbed 'coffee with my younger self', where people shared a hypothetical conversation between their current and younger self to demonstrate personal growth and development.
In the post, she references that she had an estranged relationship with her mother, writing that 'we don't see nor talk to her but it's better like this'.
She wrote that she was a proud sibling and aunty but felt she had to leave home to prioritise herself.
'Baby we will always need them, but we need to find us more then (sic) anything or anyone,' she wrote
The long text concludes with the line, 'I really hope I meet my younger self for coffee again soon', while Adele's Hometown Glory plays in the background.
The post has been flooded with comments from concerned friends and followers, with many writing that they are praying that Pheobe returns home safe.
The account also shows that Pheobe recently reposted a video published by a different user captioned 'my roman empire is how people who go 'missing' are still somewhere here on this earth, and just no one knows where'.
Pheobe spoke candidly about her experiences and challenges on her TikTok account, including alluding to a break-up.
Police said the teen had been booked to travel to Western Australia via Brisbane to visit her boyfriend, but she never checked in for the flight.
She posted a video to the song The Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script in December 2024, captioned 'i miss seeing ur face, and i miss seeing you in random places'.
'I'm not built for this town, these aren't my people. So b4 [before] you try n get close to me jus (sic) don't. I refuse to rot,' she wrote in a separate post on March 25.
In another TikTok, she wrote 'life teaching me a lot right now'.
Mum's tragic plea to Pheobe
Pheobe's mother Kylie Johnson wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday that the family was waiting for her daughter to come home.
'Finding it hard to get out of bed today. To find the strength to put one foot in front of the other and know what to do, what to think or what to say,' she wrote.
'People have judgements, accusations and continue say untruths. I'm not going to correct you or be investing what little strength I have to be correcting these statements or people.
'We as a family are just trying to go through the motions of waiting for Phee to come home.'