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Hannah Kobayashi has been found safe more than a month after relatives reported she had vanished in Los Angeles, her family announced Wednesday.

“We are incredibly relieved and grateful that Hannah has been found safe,” the family of the 30-year-old from Hawaii said in an attorney-issued statement to local media.

“This past month has been an unimaginable ordeal for our family, and we kindly ask for privacy as we take the time to heal and process everything we have been through.”


  Kobayashi went missing in Los Angeles in early November. Facebook Kobayashi went missing in Los Angeles in early November. Facebook

  Hannah Kobayashi intentionally missed her connecting flight, according to investigators. Courtesy Larie Pidgeon Hannah Kobayashi intentionally missed her connecting flight, according to investigators. Courtesy Larie Pidgeon

  Footage from Customs and Border Protection shows the 30-year-old crossing the southern border on foot near Tijuana around 12:15 p.m. Nov 12. Hannah Kobayashi/ Instagram Footage from Customs and Border Protection shows the 30-year-old crossing the southern border on foot near Tijuana around 12:15 p.m. Nov 12. Hannah Kobayashi/ Instagram

  A flyer with information on Hannah Kobayashi posted in LA late last month. AP A flyer with information on Hannah Kobayashi posted in LA late last month. AP

The announcement came a week after Kobayashi was spotted on camera crossing the border into Mexico, apparently of her own free will.

Her discovery marks the end of a high-profile, weekslong investigation after Kobayashi suddenly broke off contact with her family on Nov. 8 after missing a connecting flight out of Los Angeles to New York.

Before her disappearance, Kobayashi had sent a flurry of bizarre text messages to friends and family talking about a “spiritual awakening” and being “tricked.”


  Kobayashi was a budding photographer heading to New York. Facebook Kobayashi was a budding photographer heading to New York. Facebook

She had also been seen accompanied by an unknown man hours before her last sighting.

Family members — including Kobayashi’s aunt Larie Pidgeon — speculated that she had been kidnapped and possibly trafficked.

Meanwhile, internet sleuths theorized about a psychotic break, alleged cult involvement and a conspiracy involving Kobayashi’s ex-boyfriend, with whom she had traveled to Los Angeles.

And after she was determined to have voluntarily traveled to Mexico, the FBI investigated whether she had been wrapped up in a green card marriage scheme with an Argentine national.

In a tragic twist, Kobayashi’s father, Ryan, took his own life two weeks after traveling to Los Angeles to search for his daughter, potentially pushed over the edge by the harassment and trolling, Pidgeon had told The Post.

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