THE DISTURBING DISAPPERANCE OF BRANDON SWANSON
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Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson (born January 30, 1989) of Marshall, Minnesota, United States, drove his car into a ditch on his way home from celebrating the end of the spring semester with fellow students from Minnesota West Community and Technical College's Canby campus. Uninjured, he got out and called his parents on his cellphone. Unsure of his exact location, he told them he believed he was near Lynd, and they drove out to pick him up; however, they were unable to locate him. Swanson remained on the phone with them until he went silent 47 minutes later after exclaiming "Oh, sh*t!" He has not been seen or heard from since.
People always say in these sorts of things, "oh he was a native, he couldn't get lost" and meanwhile I'm out here pulling up Google Maps in my hometown the minute I turn onto the wrong street. But seriously, something I think goes unappreciated is how easy and dangerous it is to get lost, especially driving at night, exhausted, potentially under the remaining influence of alcohol or drugs from partying. If you've had a couple drinks, you don't just not drive because you might kill someone else in a crash, it's also SO much easier to get lost and drive MILES in the wrong direction down an increasing number of pseudo-familiar roads that look like ones you know.
I was thinking this just a few days ago. I've lived here for 8 years and can't even name the streets around my house :D Always use Waze when I drive anywhere (not cause I don't know where I'm going, but it's just nice for re-routing etc. and I get a nice view on GPS speed too) Integrates with music software nicely too.
some people just have bad sense of direction
Just a thought, the "Oh Shit" before the connection dying could have been him realizing his phone was about to die.
My thought was either that or he dropped it and it broke or the battery came out, and he wouldn’t have been able to find it in the dark to put it back together.
it didnt die, it was able to be rung several times
@@historygeek1991 they specificly said in the video that it wasn't mentioned if the call went through or just went to voicemail.
The connection didn’t die. He just stopped responding, his dad was the one who hung up. The line remained quiet
This is a very good lesson on what NOT to do if you find yourself in this kind of situation.
If you are unsure of where you are, and you can no longer drive for whatever reason, unless the car itself is an immediate threat to your life, stay in or near your car until help arrives.
It is far easier to find a car then it is a body.
Also, if you can help it, stick to the main roads.
@@sloshed-ratI'd go further. Rideshare. Get a cab. Don't take long drives late at night alone, especially after partying.
This channel is criminally underrated.
I’ve driven these roads before. My grandpa’s farm is about an hour straight west of Marshall across the border in SD… driving on these backroads at night without gps and getting even a little lost sounds like a nightmare. It’s so dark, flat, and wide open…
If a drunk driver who was one of those old timers that’s lives alone hit Brandon and just got rid of his body in some personal farm dump… I don’t know how you could ever find him so that is the theory that is sticking out in my mind
One common thing that happens to me me is to get disorientated when it’s dark out and driving. I’ve had multiple instances where I go back somewhere I’ve driven always but get a little nervous driving at night, especially on roads that have little to no lighting whatsoever.
As someone who had to deliver pizza to rular areas at night. The whole "he would not get lost" statement is super wrong. You can literally drive down the wrong road for 5 minutes and find yourself in The Brothers Grim Dark Wood Forest. The first advice I got if I ever got lost, I was to stay in my car until the sun rises. Do not walk anywhere unless you can actually see your destination. The second piece of advice I got is to always keep a gallon of water in the car.
I really love this podcast, the dynamic is great and the topics are brilliant.
As much as it pains me to be in any way negative about someone's work, particularly when I'm not paying for it, the only criticism I could give is that it would really help pacing if Slap could be more considerate of dead air time. There's a lot of times where Slap is silent for seemingly no reason or takes long pauses, leaving DK to have to kick start the conversation again. Perhaps, if that is just Slap's style, it could be fixed in editing though that seems like more work.
Still, keep it up guys, looking forwards to the next one.
Yup, awkwardly long pauses all over
I’m loving this podcast . Very interesting topics
good video 🙂👍
About how time a new episode came out
"His call just drops" "found missing car" Our boy Brandon didn't noclip into the backrooms, HE UNCONSCIOUSLY STARTED THE LEFT RIGHT GAME 😨
Very good episode, Brandon Swanson's case is always so peculiar and while the answer in truth may be simple the lack of any form of evidence makes it hard to believe even the most mundane answer.
Im kinda sad there was a weird call or something during the podcast. This weird "lore like" stuff is kinda fun when it pops up!
there are improvement points but the show is already at a great point anbd I think a lot of these are growing pains. Will for sure keep following.
Being that there is no evidence to back this theory outside of the fact some farmers refused their property searched: I could possibly see that Brendon unknowingly trespassed in the dead of night, maybe looking for help from a local homestead, was confronted, got shot with something like a shotgun, hence the sudden phone call cut off, killed and buried. Only thing I can think of that would remove bodily evidence is if he was put in a fridge (old practice that farmers sometimes just bury fridges they don’t use) or container of some type, sealed , dig deep down. Animals would take care of the bits not picked up. Just a throw away thought.
It seems most likely that he just accidentally stumbled into the water in the dark (and likely in an alcohol impaired state) and unfortunately drowned.I think this explains the ‘oh sh*t’ moment and after the phone became water damaged the microphone stopped working so whilst the call was still live until his dad cut it off, he wouldn’t have heard anything from the other end.
Anyone else think he crashed the car, and tried to hitch a ride.. getting in a car of someone who was very dangerous?
There are totally pieces of farm equipment that would dispose of a body without anybody noticing
Thank you for less nonsensical sounds and "immersiveness"
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It's very difficult for me to relate to this story. This is, however, for many reasons that do not apply to the average motorist. I was a proffesional long distance driver for over a decade, and I have enough miles of said experience to drive to the Moon and back 4 times. On top of this I recieved extensive orientation training from many years of Scouting. The few times i have ended up in a ditch or similar (because you dont drive that many miles, and not meet this situation), I either stayed with my vehicle, or moved to a safer, easily recognized landmark/safer area that I can see my vehicle from. I understand I the exception to the general Mentality of a Motorist, but this makes me HAVE to rely entirely on facts, which there simply isn't enough.
The best I have is that he ran afoul of someone sinister, and you simply will never find him in this area.
I might side with death by exposure, but they would have found him by now. This isnt a swamp. This isnt the mountains. Its a "manicured terrain". It's regularly worked by others. It cuts down the number of places to search with a fine tooth comb. He should have popped up by now if he perished from exposure.
Also, Thats a great Recreation of the photo of the car, that Shy illustrated. The perspective is very accurate, and while not terribly detailed, it a very solid peice of artwork.
Respect.
Yeah, sounds like a farmer killed this kid by mistake and just took it to their grave. The farmer probably took him for a trespasser and his phone as a gun. Brandon cut the call because he heard something, "Oh shit." turns, hits the flashlight on his phone, the farmer blows the kid away and buries the body somewhere after realization settles.
It's a common tactic to surprise trespassers with a flashlight at full power to the face. You disorient and take away their night vision. If you're on the receiving end of a bright light and you're assuming the worst to begin with... accidents happen. Coming forward means being arrested, so... again, to the grave with what happened.
I don't think flashlights on phones were common then, were they?
They weren't common but certain models had camera and flashlight capabilities in their toddler steps. I want to say that some phones couldn't access camera/flashlight during a call. Which would make sense if he were to suddenly hang up because a noise or person/animal approaching. If not, there really wasn't a reason to terminate the call outside of fear of being found.
This seems way too common :/
Could you do a video on the disappearance of David Louis Sneddon?
33:29 what was that noise?!? 😂😂😂
It was a bief
(Runs in panting)
Omg I missed an episode
(Turns on tv)
Something to consider for next show: i watch on my TV, and it's hard to read the text on some of the screenshots you put up.
Ok, this one was really confusing to me, maybe it's a cultural thing, but I need some clarification. Because some of this stuff sounds weird as hell.
First of all casually glossing over the fact, that he "May have had a little alcohol at the party." like bro, I've heard about people driving a tractor between villages while buzzed, but a 45 Minute drive sounds insane to me.
And also: just ignoring Cars that you find on the side of the road, in the middle of the night.
Like, his car was VERY obviously in an accident. If I saw something like that at night, of course I would check it out. I'm 90% it's illegal to not do where I live.
And finally, you mentioned that his dad heard cars driving past, while they were on the phone. Now, I don't know of course how far those cars were away, but wouldn't you try to wave one of them down? If not to catch a ride, at least for directions?
I don't know, that all just sounds very weird to me...
Guys should really talk about the bloop, don’t know if it was every truly confirmed what it was but it would be a fun episode
Last I heard it was actually the sound of an ice shelf calving
@@johnoneil9188 It was exactly that. the audio people hear has been heavily modified to make it more inteligable. there is a very good video by 'the octopus lady' that explains the whole thing. bloop is not a creature.
I'm sorry, is anyone else a little frustrated with DK being so laser focused on the idea that someone from the party was hunting this kid down? Like There was absolutely nothing Slap said that lead to that being a possibility and even says multiple times "He was lost, was nowhere near where he thought he was, was walking, getting frustrated cause he didn't understand why no one could find him" and DK keeps going "yeah so like... no one was hunting him for revenge?" idk it's just weird to me that he's so dead set on that being the reason for the disappearance
I don't know if I'd say "frustrated", but that did strike me as weird. Like, I can think of a lot of reasons for someone to say "Oh Shit" and then have a phone die; "someone followed him from the party and jumped him" seemed out there.
@josepholiveira2873 well to me it was him really not letting the idea drop after coming up with it on the fly and slap saying more than once that nothing of note really happened at the party
Like it wouldve been one thing if he was like "so did something happen at the party? Did he get in a fight or something?" But instead he crafts a story of a revenge plot