Haunting last posts by missing teen Pheobe Bishop emerge

West Australian

27-05-2025

Missing teenager Pheobe Bishop's tragic final posts have emerged, 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'.
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.'
The posts have emerged as police continue to search the greater Good Night Scrub National Park and the Gin Gin areas for Pheobe
Some items of interest have been located during the search and will undergo forensic examination.