I agree that a tripped GFI somewhere ahead of what you have is the most likely culprit. The challenge is to find it.

Look behind furniture. Check in the cellar, especially right under or nearly under the bathroom. Look in the garage, including behind stuff. It might even be outside.

When GFIs were new, they were expensive. Fairly often, a single one was daisy-chained to some or all of the other receptacles that the code said had to be protected.

It's not common for a second GFI to be fed from a first, but I don't know of any harm that can cause. As for why it would be, it's possible that a previous owner didn't know the bathroom receptacle had GFI protection upstream (if it does), and added another.

Another possibility is a loose connection on a receptacle that feeds the first dead one. That receptacle itself would still work if one of the downstream terminal screws were loose.

Parenthetical anecdote: one of my rentals is a late 1950s tract house. I lived in it myself for a while, and during that time I did a little electrical work on it. I was astonished to find that on NONE of the original receptacles was the second set of terminal screws used. The electricans who wired the house -- and remember, this was not an expensive custom home -- actually made up soldered and taped connections in each box where there were receptacles downstream.

The soldering was clean, too. No cold joints that I saw.

As DavidR said above, if you are ABSOLUTELY sure there isn't a hidden GFCI, then start opening up the other working boxes on the circuit (starting with the ones that you'd guess were directly upstream of the dead receptacles) and see if there's a loose connection.

This is what I've started doing (checking other connections on the other receptacles/switches)...I'll report back once I find it or I'll report what the electrician finds if I concede defeat...thanks all. :)

Ok, so I finally gave up and called an electrician. Apparently, I was on the right path...I quit when my next connection to check was the ceiling fan above my bed...guess where the loose connection was? I just didn't feel like pulling the ceiling fan to check...that decision cost me $250...live and learn...thanks for the replies here. :)

Glad to hear that you got it figured out. Sorry to hear that it cost you money. :)

Thanks for checking back in and letting us know the outcome

P b-

Thanks for clearing this up.

If it's any comfort to you, years ago I used to spend hours trying to repair major appliances when they failed in my home, often fruitlessly. One day my freezer started getting too warm and cycling on and off, and I finally decided trying to do my own repairs was getting old, so I called the repairman immediately before messing with it. He undid 4 screws to take the back off the freezer and the first thing we saw was a small piece of foam rubber that was above the fan which had fallen and was stopping the blades from rotating. Result: $150 for 5 seconds of work ;-)