Jeremy Sides
Jeremy Beau Sides, aka "Nug" from the YouTube channel Exploring with Nug, is an American scuba diver and civilian crime investigator who investigates missing person cases and missing items. In 2021, he found the bodies of Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel, who had been missing for 21 years. Personal life Sides is from Acworth, Georgia. He is married and a father of two children. Before diving full-time, Sides was a metal detectorist as a hobby, searching for American Civil War relics and other lost items around his hometown. Career After high school, Sides worked for the United States Navy, in aviation hydraulics. Later he worked in the automotive industry. Diving When Sides started a metal detectorist YouTube channel in 2016, friends at work gave him the nickname Nug, joking that he was looking for gold. It stuck, and he changed the name of his channel to Exploring with Nug as he started exploring more and doing less metal detecting. Sides chooses unsolved missing person cases via the Charley Project online missing persons database, focusing on cases where drivers went missing near bodies of water. Missing person cases In October 2021, Sides assisted the Adventures with Purpose team while they found