All of the people featured in this video disappeared under very unusual circumstances where crucial information was clearly missing, preventing a clear understanding of what happened. Given the remaining circumstances, law enforcement and searchers expressed their confusion regarding the incidents in question. What are your thoughts? Have a great week everyone. Be safe.
It would be cool if you could put the names at least in parenthesis or something next to the words you used to title each story. good stuff as usual though!
We lost some animals on our farm. They just walked around the barn in a fenced area and they just disappeared never to be seen again. After all these videos, I now completely stay away from state parks and general forest areas.
First case with Danny is very similar to what happened to Steven Kubacki.. Out cross country skiing in Michigan and appears to have just seemingly vanished when they find his ski’s and backpack while out searching for him. He’s presumed dead until many months later when his family receives a call from him. He’s been out in California living like some vagabond with allegedly no memory of how he ended up there.
I think Danny heard of Stevens story and tried to copy it in case he wanted to return. Or vice versa, depending on who disappeared first. But who knows, crazier things have happened lol
@@Alexandra_Wolf I’m not sure.. I don’t recall hearing or reading about any details like that, but I could be forgetting or just missed it. I do remember that when he came to/remembered who he was he was wearing a shirt from a Wisconsin marathon. A marathon that took place during the time he was missing, and that he physically felt like he had been doing a lot running.
People tend to think place names with "devil" in them are related to some piece of folklore, but rugged areas are often named similarly. Because to old miners, only the devil would make a mountain that's such a pain to hike. So, of course people tend to go missing in those areas, because they're hard to navigate. Great video!
I went hiking at a place called devils hopyard. I had hiked this since I was 4. Probably 300 times. There are two clear trails. You can’t miss them. I went with my friend from Ireland and we got so lost no trails time missing and came out of the woods 14 MILES AWAY from the park on state owned land and had to walk on the road for another 5 miles to get back into the park. I never believed in fae but the one time I bring a friend from cork on a trail I used to get drunk and high on with kids in high school at night and still never got lost and all of a sudden at 28 I get lost mid day???? It was too weird.
@@Alexandra_Wolf crickey that's mad!the only advice I know is turn your clothes inside out and back to front etc...as it confuses them if you feel you're being played and preyed on for prey,games and/or sinister reasons,but crickey that's ultra freaky going through that.we drove on a local road a few years ago,usually takes 5-7mins,but late one night it went on and on,and I got REALLY unnerved I wanted to bump into a police car...in s.e London...yeh THAT unnerved,but NO cars at all,PROPA worried.the clothes thing obviously wouldn't work here on this situation tho!!!😆
I work in Lake Placid. There aren’t long-haul trucks passing through the Adirondacks. He would have had to take multiple rides to even get out of the state
The second story had me in tears. I love that the man didn’t give up on that boy. He saved his life . We lost my sister to leukemia when she was four, anytime a family is saved from the loss of a sibling or child I’m elated. My sister and I have been robbed of a lifetime together and nothing makes me happier than knowing a family won’t know loss. I’m so happy all of these families didn’t lose a loved one ❤
Whoever vanished Danny really were considerate in giving him a not just a mobile phone but also z hair cut. I mean if you are going to send someone back send them back in style... hay
The person who commented that people believe places with the word hopyard tend to be more mystic etc. this is my bizarre story. I went hiking at a place called devils hopyard. I had hiked this since I was 4. Probably 300 times. There are two clear trails. You can’t miss them. I went with my friend from Ireland and we got so lost no trails time missing and came out of the woods 14 MILES AWAY from the park on state owned land and had to walk on the road for another 5 miles to get back into the park. I never believed in fae but the one time I bring a friend from cork on a trail I used to get drunk and high on with kids in high school at night and still never got lost and all of a sudden at 28 I get lost mid day???? It was too weird.
My 78 yr old grandfather disappeared in 1960, when he was walking in an area he had once farmed. The cops barely investigated, we didnt get any searchers, etc - it's weird to see how some people become enduring mysteries and others are forgotten. He was apparently a real POS and said horrible things about my disabled mom, so...karma... But i feel bad for the hundreds of good people whose stories that do not get told.
Do you know if where you live has natural sink holes, or wells? In a lot of farmland there's unmarked wells and it's a surprisingly common way that people go missing. At least in the Midwest it is. Where I am we don't have lots of sinkholes though, just wells.
This what one person said ... A ranger I'm a park ranger at Mt. Rainier, people keep going missing, and I think I found out why Twenty-five. That is the number of people who have gone missing at the park since the beginning of the year, with nothing being done or said about it. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'll lose my job when they find this posting, but, I have other things to be scared of at this point, and this needs to get out. I'm a wilderness ranger at Mt. Rainier. My job is to walk the hundreds of miles of trail and wilderness in the park looking for problems and helping lost and injured hikers. In the old days, any lost hiker would mean all of us going out together, putting together a search plan, and doing our best to get them home safely. Things are different today, ever since the start of 2022. Whenever a person gets reported as missing the family is assured we are on it and will do our best to find them, and promised that they will dispatch us to look. As soon as the family is gone our bosses tell us that they'll have a search and rescue company take over, and if we know what's best for our jobs we should just focus on checking trail conditions and doing the rest of our jobs. And so it's gone on since 2022. At first, there were just a few people missing here and there all over the park. It didn't seem that unusual other than our rangers not being involved in the search, but we figured it was some new policy and shrugged it off. More people started disappearing as the year went on, making all of us wonder what was going on, and why it had been made clear to us we should keep our mouths shut. Personally, I figured it was just a combination of bad trail conditions from a rough winter, an influx of inexperienced hikers, and the park service trying to avoid looking bad when we needed more funding. Until last Thursday. It was an overcast day and I was walking along the trail up to Ipsut Pass in the Carbon River area, humming quietly to myself to pass the time and wondering how far up I would go before I had to put on crampons, when I saw it. Off to the side of the trail, maybe 50 ft into the forest, there was an odd light on the forest floor. At first, I thought the light was just a reflection off of water or some trash someone had left, but as I moved closer, the light didn't fade or change, it just stayed steady. Maybe it was a lost flashlight? I had walked this trail dozens of times, and never noticed it before. I knelt down, taking my pack off, and saw that the light seemed to be coming from just under the dirt. For some reason I felt uneasy. I looked around to see if anyone else was nearby on the trail, and saw no one. Shrugging, I reached into the dirt to poke at the light and see what it was. Poking around, I found the corner of a slightly open trap door that was at most only a foot wide on each side. It was camouflaged nearly perfectly. If it had not been left just barely ajar with the light exposed, there is no way anyone would have seen it from the trail. I kept opening it, feeling uneasy, but hoping it was some sort of buried seismometer, or at worst maybe some hiker's idea of a good place to cache food and water for a long trek. Instead, I found the opening to what appeared to be a small burrow of sorts with an electric camping torch at the corner. I shoved my head down to look inside The space was small, with enough room for one person if they didn’t mind contorting themselves. On the walls of the burrow were dozens of polaroid photos of people hiking. All of the photos seemed to have been taken very low to the ground. The photos were from all over the park, many dozens or more miles apart. Most of the photos I didn't recognize, but among them I saw a few that I knew for a fact were hikers that had gone missing over the last year. Then my heart stopped. I saw a photo of me hiking along the Ipsut Pass trail, around a half hour ago. *CRACK* I heard a twig snap somewhere around me. I took my head out of the burrow, and started running down the trail the way I came. I didn't look back or stop until I got to the wilderness cabin near Ipsut Campground. I locked and barricaded the door, and waited until another ranger showed up the next morning, not sleeping a wink. I asked him to walk back along the Ipsut Pass trail with me. He was annoyed that I wouldn't say why but agreed. We spent an hour looking, but couldn’t find any sign of the burrow. I asked for some time off right afterwards, and my manager seemed very suspicious and demanded to know why. I made up some excuse about my family, and didn't tell him or anyone else what I saw. For some reason, I knew that telling them would at best end with me losing my job. I don't know who or what made that burrow, but I think it's taking people at Rainier, and for some reason the government is covering it up. I wish that was the end of the story. But it's not. This afternoon, I saw something glinting from within the air vent on the floor of my kitchen. I thought maybe my cat had stuck another toy in it. I took the grating off the vent to take the toy out. Instead of a cat toy, I found a polaroid photo, taken low to the ground, of me making breakfast this morning.
Something that strikes me in a lot of these cases (not just the ones in this video) is that the disappearance happens just before bad weather closes in, dumping large amounts of snow over the area. It makes me wonder whether snowfall is more capable of destroying and/or concealing evidence than people give it credit for. It may be that in at least some of these cases, that had the weather remained clear, a mundane explanation would have been quickly found, and the case would never have appeared as a 'mysterious' disappearance in the first place.
I also think they tend to underestimate how far a person can travel when in these situations. I've listened to a lot of these types of stories and it's very frequent that people/their remains are found absolutely miles from where they were last seen, far outside the search areas. I think it gets forgotten that we are long endurance pursuit predators, our bodies are designed to be able to go far, over days, with minimal food and water. Like the child one - an adult recreating it said it couldn't be done because he had to stop due to lack of visibility - the child would hardly care about visibility, he's literally going to be placing one foot in front of the other, probably in a form of fugue state, not taking sensible breaks or planning a safe route around obstacles etc. literally just constantly marching on one foot in front of the other.
@herstoryanimated Are you a parent? Little kids do not walk long distances without giving up in my experience. I'm not saying it's impossible but it's definitely highly unlikely imo.
Maybe so. On other hand, how come there is no info about that Companion in the first place? We got info about Maurice's age, profession, health problems, we got the names of Sheriff and searchers, so on. But about this guy? nothing but that he is "younger". Something is off here. But yea, he might have been killed and hidden by that companion, much earlier, on different place, and the companion to have simply staged the rest. Thats why on the places they were looking for Maurice, nothing was to be found.
Danny being a firefighter reminds me of one I’ve only ever heard told on Mr. Ballen’s channel and I can’t remember specifics, if anyone can help me out: A fire chief or inspector set off with his son into the wilderness. After getting lost and his son falling ill, the Dad sees headlights at night through the trees. He leaves his son up in a tree with their dog and checks it out. After realizing the wrongness of the situation he returns to find the dog alone. Eventually he finds his way out and although visibly exhausted and distressed, he insisted on aiding in the search since he had vital info. I’d like to research this one myself, does anyone know of it? And the 2yo reminds me of one perhaps even more perplexing where a toddler somehow removed themselves from the car seat they were left napping in (i think). Anyone have more info on this one as well?
Both of these cases are also extremely mysterious and I think this channel also covered them...and also other channels like missing enigma,mysterious missing persons cases... Sad part of the kid that went missing from the car and after few days his body was found near from where he went missing, his father committed suicide at the same spot probably blaming himself and he was his youngest son who couldn't probably open the door and go by himself and then mysteriously nobody found him...May both of them rest in peace
I remember the one you mean,he carried his son until he(the dad) couldn't anymore, something along those lines,but yes,it rings a bell with me too.a 411 case,and they weren't novices either.very,very sad and strange.
Yup he carried his son who had become ill and couldn't walk any further. Dad left his son next to a tree and went to investigate strange lights (in the wilderness) where there were no roads, no people. Lights disappeared, dad went back and his son, who had been unable to walk, was gone. After finding his way back to get help the son was found deceased. MIssing411 the 2nd film told of hunters seeing a strange light "probe" in a very remote wilderness area (no cars allowed) where no one else was around.@@wendymason5493
@@sweetwolf30 yeh,it's got me at it as well!it's nearly 3AM in'sunny'London(😆)and as I'm awake,read your comment,and then others,then thought'oh Simpsons re-runs,then see a reply comment,so prioritized this adventure,so now I've bored a total stranger BUT ONLY IF you've managed to read this far!!😆anyway,Thank You for the time,the channel,the like-minded people around the world,and may the One TRUE GOD bless US,and comfort those who are lost,I TRUELY DO mean that.Amen.🙏
I honestly think he could have quickly and stealthily sat nearby under shade like sitting beneath a stumpy section, warm and snug, fell asleep and was buried under quick, light/bright snowfall
A bit late to the party, but in the first case of *No Remains* Robert Winters clothes were found with other items. The only things missing from the clothes was a boot and a glove. In cases of "Hypothermia" there is a condition called 'Paradoxical Undressing'. The brain misinterprets the extremely cold feelings being felt by the body as overheating, causing the sufferer to remove their clothes in an attempt to cool off. Obviously, this action only results in a faster demise. Mr Winters' remains could have, as reported, been washed away after he fell into the waterway. Good post, thank you.
I thought the same. Likely there are minimal skeletal remains left that would be hard to spot, or are in the river, hence not being found yet. My money is on them being within a couple of miles of those clothes tops.
I don't believe Maurice was ever at the Topaz Pits that day. No one saw him there nor did the dogs ever pick up the sent. The partner had to be guilty.....
i have always thought this. but maybe it wasn't malicious. it may have been an insurance thing that maurice agreed with since insurance often doesn't pay out for suicides. it might have been the companion and maurice and the wife knew nothing.
I've just noticed on the map that there is a possible former mine in that area, do we think he could've fallen down a nearby shaft (these can be almost impossible to spot) and would explain why the dogs couldn't track a trail leading away if it was very near where he was last seen? Just a thought.
Danny’s story = best BS story ever told.😂 Danny took off to another chick then realised that it wasn’t his cuppa tea or he got the boot from her, had bought a new phone, got a hair cut to look a bit more presentable then... nowhere else to go but back home so that where the red truck story came handy......... Pull the other one Danny. 😂😂
The first story is interesting in that the man ends up having a phone with service, which doesn't happen without some record of who signed up for and is paying the bill. I'm not even sure no-contract "pay as you go" phones in the US would even allow an activation without some record of ID. Seems like they could locate who owned the phone before and ask them how this guy ended up with it.
I have straight talk and all they've ever asked is that I buy the prepaid card. If I paid in cash...they'd not know me from Adam. Of course there are other ways to find out that my phone is mine. But only if they knew what phone and number to investigate. Otherwise they couldn't find out my phone belongs to me. They'd have to have a number to look up first. You can hook an iPhone up to Straight Talk too. You just buy the $15 "Bring Your Own Phone" plan.
For the last story: yes it’s absolutely possible he just went dying… suicide rate get really high with age and men in particular. “A man should be strong and there’s only the shadow of me left”. That’s at least what my father did, and he’s no special case. + if you think you would notice the signs: you won’t until it’s too late.
Eagles do prey on primates in South America and Africa, and have been documented to attack children in East Africa. A bald eagle tends to target dead or dying fish though. Condors, the largest birds, eat carrion and wouldn’t bother a live child. A golden eagle might be capable of an attack, but I don’t know it could carry a two-year old away. An eagle can carry around 8-13 lbs. It is extremely unlikely an eagle could lift more than 15 lbs. Maybe a smaller baby. Even if it exceptionally large and could, it would not have carefully set him down on the ground somewhere. If it dropped him, he would have had injuries from a fall. A bird that large would leave other injuries too. Raptor talons are powerful, depending on the species, might break bone. They would definitely tear any skin and leave v-shaped marks like a can opener.
Eagles don't toy with their prey like a cat. They'd immediately crush the air out of his lungs, bite through his neck or drop him from a great height. That theory doesn't hold water. Very, very unlikely a bird of prey could lift an child that heavy. Or would even try.
It's possible that while attempting to ski down a slope the guy in the first story may have wiped out, hit his head and become disoriented. Perhaps he suffered some sort of fugue state, and then went on an unexpected journey.
Seems reasonable but doesn't explain how he got people to drive him around without informing the authorities of his strange behavior (being disoriented, wearing ski clothes while he's not on the mountain etc). I'm so skeptical of these types of stories but I'll happily believe anyone who claims to have seen dogman 😂 so who knows
I believe that a major clue to Danny's disappearance and reappearance has to do with his new cell - phone. Was it registered in his name? If not, whose? Where was it registered? What is the cell carrier company name? If it was registered recently in comparison to when they found him... perhaps there is some CCTV footage from the store that would reveal something?
Guesses: Danny sounds like a head trauma reaction &/or a Manchurian Candidate type scenario. That he stated he felt "compelled" is telling (mission accomplished, then he is compelled to re-join his "normal" life.) The truck driver was likely a part of it. It has that MK Ultra ring to it, doesn't it? (PS: Really love your black and white graphics!)
The story about Maurice has me puzzled as well. When the dogs couldn't catch a scent I was baffled. I have two german shepherds that aren't even trained to find a scent but they can find what or who I send them for. I pray that his poor family does get answers someday. The worse part has to be the not knowing. This one really is bizzare. Great job my friend!
I reckon he probably tried to go to the toilet, thinking he was about to get back in the car. Likely panicked and wandered off, though even with his conditions it's likely surprising how far he managed to get. Edit: as I was looking at a map of this area I realised there's a mine - possibly he fell down a ventilation shaft? These can be very small and almost impossible to see unless you are right on top of them. Whatever happened, a very sad disappearance.
Danny might have had some kind of mental health emergency. If he had become manic, for example, it is possible that he might not have been in control of his actions/would not remember everything he had done while manic.
I have bipolar disorder, and let me tell you that when you are in à manic state, Your mind is so open and clear that you remember everything, even if it s soo much to bear, you remember in details .. I know because I live it..
But still how he got out of that location without anybody noticing is a huge mystery...I think somebody covered that case in much detail and there is no clue how he left that area
@@aliasif8498I think he had it all perfectly planned, but regretted leaving his life so returned. They go to that place every year so he had ample opportunity to plan his failed escape. Selfish and gross. And him putting his ski clothes back on as to what? Make his story more believable? Mate, you made it SO much worse by tryna be sly
The craziest case is the older man in New Jersey who could barely walk a mile he was about 80 and went with his son and brother to the woods to hunt with A RIFLE-A GIANT BOW-A BACKPACK FULL OF FOOD WITH WRAPPERS- and while the family spread out he stood a few hundred YARDS from the truck. The green berets came. Nothing was ever found. Not a wrapper. Not the HUGE BOW. Not the huge rifle. He had health issues and couldn’t walk in the woods he could barely walk a long time on cement and he needed his medicine. The truck was there. He was gone. Not a scrap of clothing or food or bullets or either huge weapons left. The green berets never come. The army game. Dogs came and hit on nothing. I forget his name but this is the case that makes me believe in other worldly things. All I can think is it was an abduction. Please telll me if anyone remembers this case. His wife talked about it on missing 411. And no matter how you cut it it makes no sense. It was one of the biggest search parties for a full grown adult. Only two options. His whole family lied and somehow used a second vehicle to kill and dump him (he was beloved) or he was abducted by a person craft or something else.
@@sunflowerroark5170 No aliens, GOD did not create them. aliens are demons (fallen angels) that's why we have to ask our Lord and Savior for protection every single day!
An alien would want the old man, and everything that he was carrying, is for the same reason that we would, if we were exploring another planet. For our scientists to find out how that other species lived and survived. For our military to know how the other species defended itself.
@@amarillocowboy6709There is noting to it: aliens are demons or sometimes nephilim if they appear in a physical form, Rad my comment above. Born again Christians have nothing to fear because they tremble from the name of our Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST! read my comment above!
I know it was discounted in the video, but in the case of Maurice Damitz, you just have to come back to The Companion as the primary suspect. EVERYTHING the world knows about this case comes from his sole testimony. Once you put a question mark over it, all we really know amounts to "Maurice spent many hours alone with one other person and was never seen again." The fact that the family appears to trust the companion is meaningless, because a) some people can lie convincingly and elicit trust they don't deserve, and b) some or all of the family might have conspired with the Companion to engineer Maurice's disappearance. Again, the fact that the police didn't pursue the Companion is also meaningless. They may (almost certainly DID) have their suspicions, but without a shred of evidence to hang a case on, they couldn't take it any further, and making those unevidenced suspicions public would presumably lay them open, in litigation-happy America, to a defamation case by the Companion. As to why the Companion and/or the family might have engineered the disappearance, we can only speculate without more information. Damitz was a retired doctor, so presumably he'd earned a decent amout of money in his career: was his bank balance and/or his house and possessions worth bumping him off for? You can only judge this if you know both his financial status and that of all the suspects and their families/friends/situations, and this information just isn't public. One counter to this theory might be, "well why make it 'mysterious' then?", i.e. why claim that he disappeared 'by magic' in a 15 minute time window, when the companion had ample time to engineer something more credible like, "he said he wanted to be on his own for a bit so I went further away for two hours"? If Maurice was never at the dig site, then why not take something of his there to leave a scent trail that petered out? Perhaps the answer is that something went wrong. Whatever the original scheme was, it hit a glitch and the 'magic' disappearance was the only way to reconcile the contradictions thus generated. Maybe the idea was for him to die of 'natural causes' and his body be found (no one gets overly suspicious when an 84 year old just drops dead), but he fought back with unexpected vigour, and had to be despatched with violence. The conspirator(s) couldn't then have the body found, so they disposed of it elsewhere and concocted the 'magically vanished' story as the only thing that fit the observable facts, possibly inspired by the whole 'mysterious disappearances' genre. People poo-poo the idea of 'perfect' crimes as near-impossible, but that's a tautology: we don't know how common it is for people to conduct perfect crimes and get away with it because, by definition, if the crime is 'perfect' then we don't know about it and it may not even be recognised as a crime. There's certainly plenty of evidence of clever, disciplined people getting away with crimes for decades (Harold Shipman, the Unibomber) and only getting caught because of one mistake. You only have to be a little bit more clever/lucky to never make that mistake, and perhaps you don't need to be anything like that clever to get away with it just the once...
Good possibility. Thanks for the information and very interesting theory and elementary deduction. "Whatever remains after everything else is eliminated, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
Adam, you always do such an amazing job, full of interesting detail and genuine concern. Yours is my very favorite missing-person channel. Keep it up! And if you're ever in Idaho, USA, I'll buy you a pint!
Haha! Sounds great, I'm excited for the next time I get to travel to the States. Truly a beautiful country. I'm hoping to get around your national parks someday
Exhausted colds hungrys the humans brain shutdown s ,becomes confused as lost !! No reals surprise here's !! There's people's that wills help you !! As this is America!!
A 2 year old child would have way more then scratches if a big cat black bear or large bird of pray packed the child 9 to 12 miles because those animals only use large fangs and razor sharp talons to transport their pray
Was Bigfoot, he wouldn't have hurt the child....I think a female Bigfoot keeps mistaken small kids for baby Bigfoot and so it takes the child to it's cave for safety 😂
Yeah, Danny is full of it. He didn’t walk around Sacramento with his ski gear. He put it back on when he decided he didn’t want this new life after all.
Hi Adam, I'm way late in watching this video, but I enjoyed it. Very unusual and a bit creepy as well. I agree with the first story about Danny's story being similar to Steven Kubacki's disappearance then reappearance not remembering how he ended up where he was. I look forward to your next video! Have a great weekend!
Maybe we do have multiple universes and sometimes people go where they overlap and disappear. Leaving no trace which would explain dogs losing or never picking up on scent. And going through to another universe causes a disruption which leaves the bad weather that follows the missing, when good weather was predicted. As for Robert, maybe he had a heart attack and critters found him too good to resist. So, no remains to be found. I've heard that when big birds grab they tend to rip clothing. But no marks on the two-year old's clothing. So, maybe it wasn't a bird. They can carry off sheep so a small child is conceivable. Stay safe.🤗
I think this is the case. With the CERN machine we’ve learned that gravity and time isn’t what we thought before and the polar locations are moving and time isn’t linear but parallel or looping. I think sometimes especially in the wild where humans don’t occupy the land. Especially state parks are made into state parks for a reason.
native americans have described interdimensional travel. But wtf do we know, we've only been here for 12-14,000 years. Our stories are also backed up by geological discoveries and even find in remains in areas we told them to look. When it comes to humans, researchers trust us. We tell them there's cryptids and were half naked primitives.
Not making camping in my home state very comfortable haha. Oregon forests are scary places sometimes. Can't be scared all the time though, or you'll never leave the house. I live in a town that's in a national Forrest in Oregon and it is very much a place where I don't go alone anywhere in the forest.
The idea of large birds carrying off a small child has always interested me. I discovered there is a breed of bird called The Harpie Eagle which is known as the strongest bird & can carry pretty heavy things & a small child would be no problem. Unless the child struggled alot while being carried, in which the Harpie Eagle may have dropped it or landed in which the child could have escaped, miles from where it was picked up Problem is, are Harpie Eagles native to areas where young children have been taken? Another bird is the Griffon Eagle with an 8 to 10ft wing span. After seeing a short film of this bird, its large & with huge feet & claws & im sure would be capable of picking up & carrying a young child. Thanks Adam, some compelling stories with some interesting comments which are thought provoking indeed! Peace 🇬🇧👧
While watching a nature video I saw a large bird carry a baby goat 🐐 so I definitely believe a bird can carry a small child..This could also explain why dogs cannot get a scent
Main issue with the, "a large bird of prey" theory is even stated in the name...bird of PREY. While it's definitely believable to me that some of the larger and stronger predatory bird species could carry off a child, that would surely only occur if the bird was intending to prey on the child. If you've ever seen any up-close shots of how gnarly the talons are on these birds, it's not crazy to wonder how the child could be scooped up and into the air, with the intent being predation, without taking on substantial slash and scratch wounds Also, these birds are known to fly higher with prey that gives them trouble, and drop them from great heights to incapacitate or kill the prey that way. In which case there'd be signs of impact.
Couple of issues with the bird theory - the harpie eagle doesn't live in the US, they range from Mexico and south from there. In ideal conditions the bald eagle can carry around 8 pounds. The average weight of a healthy 2 year old is 27 pounds. Sorry to bring ants to the picnic.
@@angelicfedora1950 Haha, no problem, thanks for your reply. Yes, i didnt think Harpies were native to North America, i think if any larger Bird of Prey were sighted it would be huge news in the Ornithological world. Unless Pterodactyls are still active which i think is extremely Remote! I still cant get the gut feeling out of myself when kids disappear in the blink of an eye or foot tracks vanish mid stride so to speak. I feel, instead of concentrating on the ground they shouldn't ignore the space above their heads! As in the tree canopy, lower branches and... well im Not sure exactly but there are far more tree dwellers than people would imagine. Cant quite convince my brain its Alien or UFOs or ... Portals? But there is also below ground Id like to bet, should some obscure, out of the way holes or shafts would most likely contain the remains of lost persons Especially & sadly, young ones whos small bodies fall down very small, narrow openings. Dont even want to think about that! I expect the topic will be debated for a long while yet, until something crops up. Stay Safe Peace 🇬🇧👧
The first story makes me think maybe he went off for a new life, and turns out he didn't like it afterall, so he came back. and this was his way of playing it off. How did he know his wife's number? Lol idk really... Nobody will ever actually know.
Exactly what I thought, reminded me of Sherri Papini and that other girl who pretended to disappear recently. Who’s going to give a stranger an iPhone?
Yeah that’s a weird one. Maybe the CIA is involved. Were any world leaders or important people assassinated during those 6 days? Maybe they used him to carry out some dirty work then wiped his memory with a doodad like the Men in Black movie lol. It’s about as logical as any other theory.
If no one saw Danny that day (as the narrator says) then how did they know he was well dressed for the weather? It's hard to believe some of these stories.
Very true, I remember reading a study about this and I believe the dogs had around an 80% success rate, or at least somewhere in that ball park. I believe it was also weather and terrain dependent
I had a really bad concussion as a kid from suffering a head injury on a dirt bike track with no helmet on. According to my family, I was also doing strange things, and couldn’t remember much about my life. My memories of that night are in and out, such as the one time when I was drying myself with a towel in front of my friend and she said “aren’t you going to cover yourself???” because I was standing in front of her completely naked. I 100% believe Danny’s story.
Reminds me the last episode of bedtime stories and even beyond creepy. There are just 'zones' that no clip people out of existence. Perhaps onto other realities dimensions or times. They just be vaporized out of known world
Interesting bc now that I think about it Bob Gymlan also just did a video where a woman describes a brief time slip experience she and her grandfather had when walking onto an island while out fishing. Huge fan of BS and BC myself. That Besieged video a few back was something else!
I went to high school in Lake Placid so i could ski race everyday. Thus, i know Whiteface like the back of my hand. I think the most likely thing to have happened is that he must’ve fallen while skiing and hurt his head somehow. And in that dazed state try to make his way back to his car. There is a section of whiteface that is separated for kids that’s used to be called “kids campus” but is now “bear den learning center”. If you are not familiar with the mountain, and in a confused state, it is very easy to get lost and head to Kids Campus instead of the parking lot. The kids area also closes earlier than the rest of the mountain so if he got there by the time the lodge was closing it would have been near deserted. With the lifts not running the only way he could’ve gotten out is from the service road where he flagged down the truck he recalled. This would explain why they couldn’t find any trace of him once the search on the mountain kicked off, but doesn’t explain why the driver who picked him up never came forward once the story broke national news. Still one of the strangest stories I’ve ever heard of though, kind of crazy that not a single person has come forward, not a trucker, gas station attendant, nothing.
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The story about the old man at the topaz mine as me wondering why we're taking the word of his "friend"? His friends said he was sitting there 🤔 his friend said it was only a few minutes 🤔 his friend could have killed him somewheres else and just set his bag down and said that's where he was sitting and that would be it.
Addition to Mr dametz, I read this earlier on line The carer said h e told mr daMetz to start to pack up at 3pm but he last saw him before this 90 minutes earlier At a round1.30 pm so he saw the gentleman finally at 3pm then left him for around 15 minutes approx (if he's not fibbing) and alerted the police by 11pm, so he was missing before the police were alerted for around at least 8 hours .time 1.30pm-11pm that's if the carer was fibbing , my feeling is the elderly disabled gent needed a pee fell somewhere and possibly passed away, the carer realised he messed up among other things losing contact for 90 minutes , (the 15minutes was a fib ) giving hours for him to well .....make your own mind up
If it was forested he could have fell into false snow. Snow Around the base of a tree, big rock or something. If you ski or snowboard on it you will fall right down to the ground it will absolutely swallow you and you will be stuck and almost impossible to escape....
I’m the only adult i know who carries my ID, some extra cash and a small black sharpie. If I were doing solo skiing I’d have a personal locator beacon. We used to carry emergency-numbers in an inside zippered pocket. Does this seem extreme? It didn’t use to be.
i lost my mini sharpie 😒 so i just carry my regular sharpie and i also have a wide sharpie and 2 one is large and the other is huge lol and numerous colored sharpies including silver and bronze metallic and a glow in the dark mark as well all in a bag that looks like a banana inside my purse
I remember the first one, being it’s only about an hour away from me and go there every winter for the past two decades now. But his story is still talked about each year since then.. Crazy situation tho!!… 🤷🏻♂️
Who’s to say he didn’t have cash stashed somewhere? I mean he was so confused and couldn’t remember how he got there but remembered his wife’s phone number, her name, his name etc. Sounds sketch to me.
I believe that a major clue to Danny's disappearance and reappearance has to do with his new cell - phone. Was it registered in his name? If not, whose? Where was it registered? What is the cell carrier company name? If it was registered recently in comparison to when they found him... perhaps there is some CCTV footage from the store that would reveal something?
Investigators may have looked into this and other things. If there was no crime and no court filing, they had no reason and perhaps no legal authority to release any information.
Guarantee you this was a burner phone he had with him. I’m not sure how they know it was an iPhone. There’s a few details either left out of this video or out of the public reporting in general. I think it’s pretty damn clear he tried to set up shop somewhere else or take some sort of time away from his life. He obviously got food, water, and shelter for 6 days. So he wasn’t unconscious or in a coma lol as he’s trying to suggest he just has a blank spot for a week. That’s literally impossible.
If Danny was from Ontario Canada then the trucker may have taken him to Ontario California. I’ve heard of people doing this by mistake . Good old GPS directions have led many people to the wrong towns and cities. Jeez he was mixed up.
I wonder if they did any blood work or checked for signs of sexual assault from dude from the first case? The most "logical" probable theory I can come up with about the loss of all his memories for a wk, the bad headache he had when he became lucid once again,and the lack of injuries due to his cross country blacked out travels... is that he was possibly "borrowed " (kidnapped)by someone(??) first by being picked out at the ski resort than drugged by food/drink or even blowing powdered drugs in his face. Once dosed i and lowered suseptability to follow any and all "orders" and demands. by drugging him w drugs like either roofies,ether or the most probable due to the duration, and the difficulty in finding it I'm the blood stream would be scolopamine (daturra root and seed pods...called the "zombie drug" that was used in a lot of dayS long robberiess down in south America. ) One small dose will make a larger sized adult blackout for a min of 2- 3 days and also makes them Extremeley susceptible to any and all 'suggestions" from ANYONE around them. Also, Daturra grows in "ditch" areas All over North,Central And South America so it's Free and extremely easy to procure and only needs to be crushed for preperarion . People will "come to" days to weeks later having absolutely no recollection of anything let alone what they did ,where they were/are or what/how many days it was. Also complaints always with a severe "hangover" headache. It would explain A LOT of.his "trip". The no memories until the person he was with was long gone(so they wpuld just stop.druggimg him and still have a day or 2 to get away before he came to...) the severe headache with zero.signs of head/back trauma when once again becoming lucid. How he traveled.2500 miles across country with no $$ or wallet. (& considering there was no mention of his clithes being dirty, ripped or disheveled in any way means theres a good chance they slept im a motel every/most nights.The fact he wasn't starving Or dying from dehydration after a week of no memories. Waking up in a part of the country he didnt know his way around lucid let alone blackedout for almost a week and how he got a hair cut... I seriously.doubt his blackout was from onslaught of a new unknown medical condition or a bad neurological condition,especially.as he has no signs of any diseases or absolutley no injuries after becoming lucid. And the fact if it was from that ge more than imply wouldn't so very vaguely remember being in a truck but he wasn't driving, traveling min 400 miles/day without any $$. And bring taken care of...all these things seem more indicative of drugging and not a neurolgical or addiction illness. Someone drugging him literally makes a lot of things make sense especially with doctors findings... So..the theory someone "borrowed " him. Why the stranger possibly "borrowed" &/or drugged him unfortunately we will/would never know but it would actually also explain A whole LOT of the circumstances found after lucidity. The vague memories of travelling in a truck on average 400 miles/day with Someone and the fact he ended up unharmed, not badly disheveled but still in his ski clothes,fed,watered and with a fresh haircut 2500 miles away, with no money or ID on him is Only possible with a partner. The AL.ost wk long blackout from getting drugged from one of the strongest,longest,most dangerous and poisonous memory wipe narcotic plants in the world (it has to be daturra because both roofies And ether need to be redosed every few yrs to max once or twice a day) pmys they are harder to find,expe sice and leave a trail fro. Seller to buyer. Fi di g a licking parts of a plant almost anywhere on this giant landmass does not leave a trail...also, if it was a shorter acting drug than he more than.likely have a lot more memories,from being in between doses than just of a truck and a person with no detauls to either...As well, someone obvipusly took care of him and left him essentially unharmed in the end But why? A few eg of "uses" I can think of could be....the possibility of a solo traveller that was suffering from mental illness &/or possible drug withdrawal/schizophrenia that needed to travel across the country that felt they wanted_needed a partner to travel with, but couldn't socialize,express themselves normally or at all, OR they couldve been running from a severe crime or warrants... trying to get as far away from the scene of the crime as possible while knowing the cops would be looking for a single person sothe K.N. figures travelling in a couple will keep eyes off them. That reason (running from a crime) also gives a more valid excuse for drugging someone to co.etley blackedout and malleable and also why he was unharmed, had a haircut, and wasnt dirty with torn up clothes. Also why the K.N. took good care of them.(no way to ID the kidnapper and don't want to draw extra attention to yourselves so they try to stay looking as normal and clean cut as possible as a couple. Once the K.N. feels safe they stop drugging the victim,leave and the victim becomes lucid in a day or less and can get back to theor lives not much worse for the wear.. Or, He mightve been taken to be used in human trafficking scheme, fake ID scheme a possible ransom victim, or his fake identity (but face and fingerprints used to take out large loans,open a safety deposit box or even rob a bank.Maybe to be used as a drug mule or a possible organ donor. Or possibly used to make a fake identity that could be used to open large loans,bank accounts or other means of large amounts of $$ through what would appear as a "legal" way with illegal documents. Any of these couldve been the reason he was taken and drugged with a possibility the K.N. found a better victim than him before leaving the cou try so he just got left behind. The kidnapper may have just wanted a 'partner to get across the country u seen but also that they cpuld use as theor sex slave for a while with no possibilty of ever getting caught and moving g on to the next victim(hence wondering if he was checked for any sexual assault). Perhaps his dna/fingerprints/blood/ sperm or hair were unknowingly taken to be used pinning him in a future crime. These are all the reasons I could come up with as to why someone might want to abduct and drug (to the point of 0% recollection for an extended time) a grown man in broad daylight at a busy public space with his family in the vicinity, and than take him to the other side of the country. One of these may be the real reason for the kidnapping or none may even be close. A y of these would make sense as to Why he was so heavily drugged but most of these don't explain why he was unharmed,taken care of and than let go a wk after his disappearance more than halfway across the cou try though. The reason for thisuteralky Might be as simple as his abductor is just insane and derives pleasure/adrenaline high from kidnapping adults from busy public aces with theor loved ones nearby and than having completle control over a random stranger for a certain time, and the abductor lives just travelling around country with his/her new found "friends" and than let's them go once they fi d someone better or they get bored of their "puppet". If that was the case the weirdest part of that wpuld be the fact the abductor DIDNT get off harming theor victims but I stead gets off on the knowledge they and their loved ones will live the rest of their lives never truly k owing what the hell happened....that was long but thats what my weird brain cane up with anyways. Whew!
OP should've done further research on the first story of Danny Filippidis; while there are several unanswered questions to this mystery, the authorities did trace down where the cellphone was sold from, but didn't release the info. regarding who sold it to him (if it even was Danny who purchased it or someone else), & during the medical exam, doctors did find several drugs in his blood & urine samples, but IDK exactly what kinds (possibly Roofline, MDNA, PCP, PCPH?). Whatever the case may be, one of the top theories is that it involved drug trafficking or something he was involved with doing a drug trade where something didn't go according to plan. Some think that since he was attending a scheduled retreat that involved other people, it would've been a prefect place for Danny to meet up with some dealers, after telling his skiing friends he'd catch-up to them & return later to the cabin, giving him some much needed "alone time" to meet up with someone, involving narcotics. However, the rest is bizarre, to say the least. Also, for the 3rd story of Dr. Maurice Dametz, AGAIN, OP's getting sloppy! I ALREADY told him who his "friend" was when he 1st posted about this a long time ago, & I'm NOT going to repeat this crap again! OP NEEDS TO DO BETTER RESEARCH!
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@@MissingVoidTV so maybe their was no truck ride? Maybe it was an abduction and he just couldn’t remember how he got so far and just made up the story of the truck ride ?
@@sparrsheilathere was no truck ride. They visit that place every year so he had time to plan and ample opportunity to execute his plan. Unfortunately it sounds like the woman he ran away for ditched him real quick even though he got his hair cut to try impress her and a phone to keep in contact with her. Weird that they didn't track the phone... Or they did and they know exactly what happened to him but it's not public info due to him paying back the search costs etc maybe? Seen a few comments suggesting this
@@Moisterthananoysterhmm,? Sounds plausible. If it were not for the haircut or new phone. I would have thought he was abducted. Would love to know how his wife felt about his story.
The story about Keith reminds me of a recent story about a 4 year old who went missing from his house and was later found in the woods in 2022 summer. I can’t remember his name but he claims he walked all the way by himself. I’m probably missing some details but I haven’t heard of it since june of last year
The doctor one always seems so weird to me. At first I thought maybe he tried to get back to the car himself and just went in the wrong direction but if he knew the area well that doesn't make sense.
Personally I think he walked off, I guess to go die/ end his life. I know statistically that is almost never the case. But with the person being 84 and maybe in failing health that was my first thought. It is hard to account for the lack of scent, but the dogs aren’t the be-all-end-all either. They don’t always hit on a scent for a number of reasons. That is way more likely than someone just popping out of the bushes. And if so, why not take the companion too? I’ll admit 200 searchers is a hell of a lot. However, 2 things stick out to me. One, the guy’s stuff was taken with him. That seems to rule out the 3rd party even more. No one would mess around taking his gardening supplies. It’s not like it would help cover up the crime better. People would notice he is missing either way. You’d have a hard enough time trying to carry? or walk the guy away. Even if it were some kind of Zodiac Killer-type killer at Lake Berryessa, how would they be able to account for the companion not coming back and seeing them? Just seems like too many holes and runs into the same question of why is there no scent? And why are there not two scents? Two, we are told he knows every inch of the area. Wouldn’t it stand to reason then that he would know where to go where he would likely not be found? I don’t think it is that crazy if he has a few minute head start and he just walked as fast as he could in one direction for hours that he’d be far enough away from all searches. Now, in fairness, that brings up the question of why would he care if he gets found or not if he really was going to go off to die? He could’ve gone off and ended his life before the searchers even got there. Perhaps maybe he just wanted to wander around a little without the threat of being found. But I think all in all it isn’t impossible he walked off in that short window and got somewhere far away. The companion spent hours looking for him around their car and path. But again if he just walked straight into the wilderness, that’s miles and miles he could have gotten away from where they were. If you think about it, the companion told him to pack up and they were going home. He probably said I’ll just pack up and I’ll meet you in a few minutes. This guy would then know this would be his last opportunity to walk off if he had decided in his mind he was going to die in those mountains.
When I was 5, I left my home in the city and walked 7 KM through ''rough terrain'' to my family's house at the countryside, cause I knew how to get there, it was over some bridge and some hills, they were shocked to see me. I dunno, I'm just saying, you underestimate how far someone dumb and young could walk.
If dogs didn't pick up Maurices scent it seems to me he may have never been there hunting topaz . Did he meet with foul play/ decide to end his suffering somewhere else?
I’ve given quite some thought to the Dr. Maurice Damitz case over the years. i’m curious as to why his companion never wanted his name made public. I also wonder if there is an eyewitness who could confirm that these two men were together when they headed down that hill that afternoon. also, the wife’s statement of“ The Lord took him and he is with God now.“ also bothers me. I don’t think he was ever there that day. It wouldn’t of been a stretch to use his shoes to make tracks, throw his tools in a hole and make an indentation of an ass in the dirt. Just my opinion.
I was thinking the same thing. And there's that large gap in time from the time his companion "couldn't find him then searched for him then finally found another car" -- could have easily never have been there or some foul play and make it look like he was there. Scary thoughts but people be messed up.
Why have we no information about the companion? Why hasn't he been named? Did Maurice actually go to that area in the first place. Did the tracker dogs track him from the car to the place he disappeared from? I have only just read that he was very wealthy. Who would benifit from his death? Was he 74 or 84 years old? I have read both. So many questions, never to be answered.
You tube hadn't shown me any videos from you for many months, I don't know why cuz I subscribed a year or 2 ago. Also did you change the name of your channel, it seems like it was named something else. Anyways I love your tube & how you present these cases & your voice. 😊
Thank you lotus! Yeah sadly the metrics show that on my end! I'm not sure why they stopped notifying my subs. And yeah I changed the name maybe like 3 or 4 weeks ago now
All of the people featured in this video disappeared under very unusual circumstances where crucial information was clearly missing, preventing a clear understanding of what happened. Given the remaining circumstances, law enforcement and searchers expressed their confusion regarding the incidents in question. What are your thoughts?
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It would be cool if you could put the names at least in parenthesis or something next to the words you used to title each story. good stuff as usual though!
My thoughts? The wrong people disappear.....
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@@dominicseanmccann6300You must be thinking about politics😊
@@tedarndt6254 Well it had crossed my mind; throw in a few 'celebrities' & the job's a good un! 😆
We lost some animals on our farm. They just walked around the barn in a fenced area and they just disappeared never to be seen again. After all these videos, I now completely stay away from state parks and general forest areas.
First case with Danny is very similar to what happened to Steven Kubacki.. Out cross country skiing in Michigan and appears to have just seemingly vanished when they find his ski’s and backpack while out searching for him. He’s presumed dead until many months later when his family receives a call from him. He’s been out in California living like some vagabond with allegedly no memory of how he ended up there.
That's a good comparison actually, they'd definitely fit together in the same video
I think Danny heard of Stevens story and tried to copy it in case he wanted to return. Or vice versa, depending on who disappeared first. But who knows, crazier things have happened lol
Didn’t he also have iv marks on him and bandages like someone had had him Hooke dup long term to an IV bag?
@@Alexandra_Wolf I’m not sure.. I don’t recall hearing or reading about any details like that, but I could be forgetting or just missed it. I do remember that when he came to/remembered who he was he was wearing a shirt from a Wisconsin marathon. A marathon that took place during the time he was missing, and that he physically felt like he had been doing a lot running.
Nick of the Missing Enigma featured this story and recently interviewed Kubacki. If you're interested.
People tend to think place names with "devil" in them are related to some piece of folklore, but rugged areas are often named similarly. Because to old miners, only the devil would make a mountain that's such a pain to hike. So, of course people tend to go missing in those areas, because they're hard to navigate. Great video!
I hadn't heard that before, it makes sense and thank you!
I went hiking at a place called devils hopyard. I had hiked this since I was 4. Probably 300 times. There are two clear trails. You can’t miss them. I went with my friend from Ireland and we got so lost no trails time missing and came out of the woods 14 MILES AWAY from the park on state owned land and had to walk on the road for another 5 miles to get back into the park.
I never believed in fae but the one time I bring a friend from cork on a trail I used to get drunk and high on with kids in high school at night and still never got lost and all of a sudden at 28 I get lost mid day???? It was too weird.
@@Alexandra_Wolf crickey that's mad!the only advice I know is turn your clothes inside out and back to front etc...as it confuses them if you feel you're being played and preyed on for prey,games and/or sinister reasons,but crickey that's ultra freaky going through that.we drove on a local road a few years ago,usually takes 5-7mins,but late one night it went on and on,and I got REALLY unnerved I wanted to bump into a police car...in s.e London...yeh THAT unnerved,but NO cars at all,PROPA worried.the clothes thing obviously wouldn't work here on this situation tho!!!😆
Cracks me up when people get all excited about devil whatever & the site's lore, then it turns out it's just a colonial name given due to red dirt!!!
No Native Americans named most of those devil places and said they were places with bad spirits.
I work in Lake Placid. There aren’t long-haul trucks passing through the Adirondacks. He would have had to take multiple rides to even get out of the state
Truly.
That guy planned his escape. Once his gig was discovered he pretended he was confused😂
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The second story had me in tears. I love that the man didn’t give up on that boy. He saved his life . We lost my sister to leukemia when she was four, anytime a family is saved from the loss of a sibling or child I’m elated. My sister and I have been robbed of a lifetime together and nothing makes me happier than knowing a family won’t know loss. I’m so happy all of these families didn’t lose a loved one ❤
So sorry for your tragic loss.
Whoever vanished Danny really were considerate in giving him a not just a mobile phone but also z hair cut. I mean if you are going to send someone back send them back in style... hay
...hay what?
The person who commented that people believe places with the word hopyard tend to be more mystic etc. this is my bizarre story. I went hiking at a place called devils hopyard. I had hiked this since I was 4. Probably 300 times. There are two clear trails. You can’t miss them. I went with my friend from Ireland and we got so lost no trails time missing and came out of the woods 14 MILES AWAY from the park on state owned land and had to walk on the road for another 5 miles to get back into the park.
I never believed in fae but the one time I bring a friend from cork on a trail I used to get drunk and high on with kids in high school at night and still never got lost and all of a sudden at 28 I get lost mid day???? It was too weird.
Maybe you stepped through a time portal... Or into another dimension. That's what I think happens to some of the missing 411
all those drugs killed the few brain cells you had, thus you got lost.
Or extraterrestrial intervention
I find it odd everyone assumed the doctor was ever there in the first place.
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My 78 yr old grandfather disappeared in 1960, when he was walking in an area he had once farmed. The cops barely investigated, we didnt get any searchers, etc - it's weird to see how some people become enduring mysteries and others are forgotten. He was apparently a real POS and said horrible things about my disabled mom, so...karma... But i feel bad for the hundreds of good people whose stories that do not get told.
I wouldn’t say too much on here, you could get your mom in trouble.
@@DennisTheMenace-1999based on what he described I HIGHLY DOUBT his mother heck anyone would be charged for his disappearance, that was 60 years ago
Do you know if where you live has natural sink holes, or wells? In a lot of farmland there's unmarked wells and it's a surprisingly common way that people go missing. At least in the Midwest it is. Where I am we don't have lots of sinkholes though, just wells.
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This what one person said ... A ranger
I'm a park ranger at Mt. Rainier, people keep going missing, and I think I found out why
Twenty-five. That is the number of people who have gone missing at the park since the beginning of the year, with nothing being done or said about it. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'll lose my job when they find this posting, but, I have other things to be scared of at this point, and this needs to get out.
I'm a wilderness ranger at Mt. Rainier. My job is to walk the hundreds of miles of trail and wilderness in the park looking for problems and helping lost and injured hikers. In the old days, any lost hiker would mean all of us going out together, putting together a search plan, and doing our best to get them home safely. Things are different today, ever since the start of 2022.
Whenever a person gets reported as missing the family is assured we are on it and will do our best to find them, and promised that they will dispatch us to look. As soon as the family is gone our bosses tell us that they'll have a search and rescue company take over, and if we know what's best for our jobs we should just focus on checking trail conditions and doing the rest of our jobs.
And so it's gone on since 2022. At first, there were just a few people missing here and there all over the park. It didn't seem that unusual other than our rangers not being involved in the search, but we figured it was some new policy and shrugged it off. More people started disappearing as the year went on, making all of us wonder what was going on, and why it had been made clear to us we should keep our mouths shut.
Personally, I figured it was just a combination of bad trail conditions from a rough winter, an influx of inexperienced hikers, and the park service trying to avoid looking bad when we needed more funding.
Until last Thursday.
It was an overcast day and I was walking along the trail up to Ipsut Pass in the Carbon River area, humming quietly to myself to pass the time and wondering how far up I would go before I had to put on crampons, when I saw it. Off to the side of the trail, maybe 50 ft into the forest, there was an odd light on the forest floor.
At first, I thought the light was just a reflection off of water or some trash someone had left, but as I moved closer, the light didn't fade or change, it just stayed steady. Maybe it was a lost flashlight? I had walked this trail dozens of times, and never noticed it before.
I knelt down, taking my pack off, and saw that the light seemed to be coming from just under the dirt. For some reason I felt uneasy. I looked around to see if anyone else was nearby on the trail, and saw no one. Shrugging, I reached into the dirt to poke at the light and see what it was.
Poking around, I found the corner of a slightly open trap door that was at most only a foot wide on each side. It was camouflaged nearly perfectly. If it had not been left just barely ajar with the light exposed, there is no way anyone would have seen it from the trail.
I kept opening it, feeling uneasy, but hoping it was some sort of buried seismometer, or at worst maybe some hiker's idea of a good place to cache food and water for a long trek. Instead, I found the opening to what appeared to be a small burrow of sorts with an electric camping torch at the corner. I shoved my head down to look inside
The space was small, with enough room for one person if they didn’t mind contorting themselves. On the walls of the burrow were dozens of polaroid photos of people hiking. All of the photos seemed to have been taken very low to the ground. The photos were from all over the park, many dozens or more miles apart. Most of the photos I didn't recognize, but among them I saw a few that I knew for a fact were hikers that had gone missing over the last year.
Then my heart stopped. I saw a photo of me hiking along the Ipsut Pass trail, around a half hour ago.
*CRACK*
I heard a twig snap somewhere around me. I took my head out of the burrow, and started running down the trail the way I came. I didn't look back or stop until I got to the wilderness cabin near Ipsut Campground. I locked and barricaded the door, and waited until another ranger showed up the next morning, not sleeping a wink. I asked him to walk back along the Ipsut Pass trail with me. He was annoyed that I wouldn't say why but agreed. We spent an hour looking, but couldn’t find any sign of the burrow.
I asked for some time off right afterwards, and my manager seemed very suspicious and demanded to know why. I made up some excuse about my family, and didn't tell him or anyone else what I saw. For some reason, I knew that telling them would at best end with me losing my job.
I don't know who or what made that burrow, but I think it's taking people at Rainier, and for some reason the government is covering it up.
I wish that was the end of the story. But it's not.
This afternoon, I saw something glinting from within the air vent on the floor of my kitchen. I thought maybe my cat had stuck another toy in it. I took the grating off the vent to take the toy out. Instead of a cat toy, I found a polaroid photo, taken low to the ground, of me making breakfast this morning.
Something that strikes me in a lot of these cases (not just the ones in this video) is that the disappearance happens just before bad weather closes in, dumping large amounts of snow over the area. It makes me wonder whether snowfall is more capable of destroying and/or concealing evidence than people give it credit for. It may be that in at least some of these cases, that had the weather remained clear, a mundane explanation would have been quickly found, and the case would never have appeared as a 'mysterious' disappearance in the first place.
Highly likely and very interesting.
I also think they tend to underestimate how far a person can travel when in these situations. I've listened to a lot of these types of stories and it's very frequent that people/their remains are found absolutely miles from where they were last seen, far outside the search areas. I think it gets forgotten that we are long endurance pursuit predators, our bodies are designed to be able to go far, over days, with minimal food and water.
Like the child one - an adult recreating it said it couldn't be done because he had to stop due to lack of visibility - the child would hardly care about visibility, he's literally going to be placing one foot in front of the other, probably in a form of fugue state, not taking sensible breaks or planning a safe route around obstacles etc. literally just constantly marching on one foot in front of the other.
@herstoryanimated Are you a parent? Little kids do not walk long distances without giving up in my experience. I'm not saying it's impossible but it's definitely highly unlikely imo.
Does anyone think Maurice didn't even get to the dig sites in the first place?
Yep, something happened between him and the other person before they even got to the trail
I agree
Maybe so. On other hand, how come there is no info about that Companion in the first place? We got info about Maurice's age, profession, health problems, we got the names of Sheriff and searchers, so on. But about this guy? nothing but that he is "younger".
Something is off here.
But yea, he might have been killed and hidden by that companion, much earlier, on different place, and the companion to have simply staged the rest. Thats why on the places they were looking for Maurice, nothing was to be found.
Short of alien abduction, this is the only plausible scenario.
Always well researched and well spoken good man. Thank you.
Danny being a firefighter reminds me of one I’ve only ever heard told on Mr. Ballen’s channel and I can’t remember specifics, if anyone can help me out: A fire chief or inspector set off with his son into the wilderness. After getting lost and his son falling ill, the Dad sees headlights at night through the trees. He leaves his son up in a tree with their dog and checks it out. After realizing the wrongness of the situation he returns to find the dog alone. Eventually he finds his way out and although visibly exhausted and distressed, he insisted on aiding in the search since he had vital info. I’d like to research this one myself, does anyone know of it?
And the 2yo reminds me of one perhaps even more perplexing where a toddler somehow removed themselves from the car seat they were left napping in (i think). Anyone have more info on this one as well?
Both of these cases are also extremely mysterious and I think this channel also covered them...and also other channels like missing enigma,mysterious missing persons cases...
Sad part of the kid that went missing from the car and after few days his body was found near from where he went missing, his father committed suicide at the same spot probably blaming himself and he was his youngest son who couldn't probably open the door and go by himself and then mysteriously nobody found him...May both of them rest in peace
I remember the one you mean,he carried his son until he(the dad) couldn't anymore, something along those lines,but yes,it rings a bell with me too.a 411 case,and they weren't novices either.very,very sad and strange.
Yup he carried his son who had become ill and couldn't walk any further. Dad left his son next to a tree and went to investigate strange lights (in the wilderness) where there were no roads, no people. Lights disappeared, dad went back and his son, who had been unable to walk, was gone. After finding his way back to get help the son was found deceased. MIssing411 the 2nd film told of hunters seeing a strange light "probe" in a very remote wilderness area (no cars allowed) where no one else was around.@@wendymason5493
I remember both those, I haven't heard anyone other than Mr. Ballen tell those stories but now you got me wanting to look into them too 😂
@@sweetwolf30 yeh,it's got me at it as well!it's nearly 3AM in'sunny'London(😆)and as I'm awake,read your comment,and then others,then thought'oh Simpsons re-runs,then see a reply comment,so prioritized this adventure,so now I've bored a total stranger BUT ONLY IF you've managed to read this far!!😆anyway,Thank You for the time,the channel,the like-minded people around the world,and may the One TRUE GOD bless US,and comfort those who are lost,I TRUELY DO mean that.Amen.🙏
I honestly think he could have quickly and stealthily sat nearby under shade like sitting beneath a stumpy section, warm and snug, fell asleep and was buried under quick, light/bright snowfall
A bit late to the party, but in the first case of *No Remains* Robert Winters clothes were found with other items. The only things missing from the clothes was a boot and a glove. In cases of "Hypothermia" there is a condition called 'Paradoxical Undressing'. The brain misinterprets the extremely cold feelings being felt by the body as overheating, causing the sufferer to remove their clothes in an attempt to cool off. Obviously, this action only results in a faster demise. Mr Winters' remains could have, as reported, been washed away after he fell into the waterway. Good post, thank you.
I thought the same. Likely there are minimal skeletal remains left that would be hard to spot, or are in the river, hence not being found yet. My money is on them being within a couple of miles of those clothes tops.
I don't believe Maurice was ever at the Topaz Pits that day. No one saw him there nor did the dogs ever pick up the sent. The partner had to be guilty.....
i have always thought this. but maybe it wasn't malicious. it may have been an insurance thing that maurice agreed with since insurance often doesn't pay out for suicides. it might have been the companion and maurice and the wife knew nothing.
I was going to write the same thing that he was never there.
I've just noticed on the map that there is a possible former mine in that area, do we think he could've fallen down a nearby shaft (these can be almost impossible to spot) and would explain why the dogs couldn't track a trail leading away if it was very near where he was last seen? Just a thought.
Bless you for your videos. Keep up the great work and stay safe!
Danny’s story = best BS story ever told.😂
Danny took off to another chick then realised that it wasn’t his cuppa tea or he got the boot from her, had bought a new phone, got a hair cut to look a bit more presentable then... nowhere else to go but back home so that where the red truck story came handy.........
Pull the other one Danny. 😂😂
So good to hear from you!
The first story is interesting in that the man ends up having a phone with service, which doesn't happen without some record of who signed up for and is paying the bill. I'm not even sure no-contract "pay as you go" phones in the US would even allow an activation without some record of ID. Seems like they could locate who owned the phone before and ask them how this guy ended up with it.
No, you can get a prepaid phone. They're called burners and are used extensively by criminals.
@Hookah_Horns It wasn't a cheap Walmart burner phone. As was stated in the narrative, it was an iPhone; definitely able to be owner identified.
@@sandtatsunlocked Iphones can be used with prepaid plans
Yea, with pay as you go in the states you can do it easily with no id.
I have straight talk and all they've ever asked is that I buy the prepaid card. If I paid in cash...they'd not know me from Adam. Of course there are other ways to find out that my phone is mine. But only if they knew what phone and number to investigate. Otherwise they couldn't find out my phone belongs to me. They'd have to have a number to look up first. You can hook an iPhone up to Straight Talk too. You just buy the $15 "Bring Your Own Phone" plan.
For the last story: yes it’s absolutely possible he just went dying… suicide rate get really high with age and men in particular. “A man should be strong and there’s only the shadow of me left”. That’s at least what my father did, and he’s no special case. + if you think you would notice the signs: you won’t until it’s too late.
Eagles do prey on primates in South America and Africa, and have been documented to attack children in East Africa. A bald eagle tends to target dead or dying fish though. Condors, the largest birds, eat carrion and wouldn’t bother a live child. A golden eagle might be capable of an attack, but I don’t know it could carry a two-year old away. An eagle can carry around 8-13 lbs. It is extremely unlikely an eagle could lift more than 15 lbs. Maybe a smaller baby. Even if it exceptionally large and could, it would not have carefully set him down on the ground somewhere. If it dropped him, he would have had injuries from a fall. A bird that large would leave other injuries too. Raptor talons are powerful, depending on the species, might break bone. They would definitely tear any skin and leave v-shaped marks like a can opener.
Eagles don't toy with their prey like a cat. They'd immediately crush the air out of his lungs, bite through his neck or drop him from a great height. That theory doesn't hold water. Very, very unlikely a bird of prey could lift an child that heavy. Or would even try.
It's possible that while attempting to ski down a slope the guy in the first story may have wiped out, hit his head and become disoriented. Perhaps he suffered some sort of fugue state, and then went on an unexpected journey.
Seems reasonable but doesn't explain how he got people to drive him around without informing the authorities of his strange behavior (being disoriented, wearing ski clothes while he's not on the mountain etc). I'm so skeptical of these types of stories but I'll happily believe anyone who claims to have seen dogman 😂 so who knows
@@MoisterthananoysterLMFAOOOOOO 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Could be.👍
@@MoisterthananoysterYour comment.😂😂😂😂"Anyone who claims to have seen Dogman". I love it.😅
I believe that a major clue to Danny's disappearance and reappearance has to do with his new cell - phone. Was it registered in his name? If not, whose? Where was it registered? What is the cell carrier company name? If it was registered recently in comparison to when they found him... perhaps there is some CCTV footage from the store that would reveal something?
Guesses: Danny sounds like a head trauma reaction &/or a Manchurian Candidate type scenario. That he stated he felt "compelled" is telling (mission accomplished, then he is compelled to re-join his "normal" life.) The truck driver was likely a part of it. It has that MK Ultra ring to it, doesn't it? (PS: Really love your black and white graphics!)
Good afternoon Adam ❤
The most important thing is that the dogs didn't pick up any tracks... that means Maurice didn't go anywhere on his own
no it means the dogs didnt pick up the tracks
Fabulous video and frightening subject. Great cases, Adam. Thank you 😅
The story about Maurice has me puzzled as well. When the dogs couldn't catch a scent I was baffled. I have two german shepherds that aren't even trained to find a scent but they can find what or who I send them for. I pray that his poor family does get answers someday. The worse part has to be the not knowing. This one really is bizzare. Great job my friend!
I reckon he probably tried to go to the toilet, thinking he was about to get back in the car. Likely panicked and wandered off, though even with his conditions it's likely surprising how far he managed to get.
Edit: as I was looking at a map of this area I realised there's a mine - possibly he fell down a ventilation shaft? These can be very small and almost impossible to see unless you are right on top of them.
Whatever happened, a very sad disappearance.
Danny might have had some kind of mental health emergency. If he had become manic, for example, it is possible that he might not have been in control of his actions/would not remember everything he had done while manic.
I have bipolar disorder, and let me tell you that when you are in à manic state,
Your mind is so open and clear that you remember everything, even if it s soo much to bear, you remember in details ..
I know because I live it..
It sounds like a textbook case of dissociative fugue.
But still how he got out of that location without anybody noticing is a huge mystery...I think somebody covered that case in much detail and there is no clue how he left that area
@@aliasif8498 Somebody must've seen him, but maybe they didn't recorgnize him as someone they were supposed to be looking for?
@@aliasif8498I think he had it all perfectly planned, but regretted leaving his life so returned. They go to that place every year so he had ample opportunity to plan his failed escape. Selfish and gross. And him putting his ski clothes back on as to what? Make his story more believable? Mate, you made it SO much worse by tryna be sly
I love the artwork in your videos. Thank you. Really interesting cases.
The craziest case is the older man in New Jersey who could barely walk a mile he was about 80 and went with his son and brother to the woods to hunt with A RIFLE-A GIANT BOW-A BACKPACK FULL OF FOOD WITH WRAPPERS- and while the family spread out he stood a few hundred YARDS from the truck. The green berets came. Nothing was ever found. Not a wrapper. Not the HUGE BOW. Not the huge rifle. He had health issues and couldn’t walk in the woods he could barely walk a long time on cement and he needed his medicine. The truck was there. He was gone. Not a scrap of clothing or food or bullets or either huge weapons left. The green berets never come. The army game. Dogs came and hit on nothing. I forget his name but this is the case that makes me believe in other worldly things. All I can think is it was an abduction.
Please telll me if anyone remembers this case. His wife talked about it on missing 411. And no matter how you cut it it makes no sense. It was one of the biggest search parties for a full grown adult.
Only two options. His whole family lied and somehow used a second vehicle to kill and dump him (he was beloved) or he was abducted by a person craft or something else.
I thought it was in Colorado on a mountain. I am wondering why an alien would want an old disabled man?
@@sunflowerroark5170 No aliens, GOD did not create them. aliens are demons (fallen angels) that's why we have to ask our Lord and Savior for protection every single day!
An alien would want the old man, and everything that he was carrying, is for the same reason that we would, if we were exploring another planet.
For our scientists to find out how that other species lived and survived.
For our military to know how the other species defended itself.
@@amarillocowboy6709There is noting to it: aliens are demons or sometimes nephilim if they appear in a physical form, Rad my comment above. Born again Christians have nothing to fear because they tremble from the name of our Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST! read my comment above!
Parallel universe
Very incredible case, impossible for the child to walked all the way with that terrible weather, this is very clear a paranormal case
I know it was discounted in the video, but in the case of Maurice Damitz, you just have to come back to The Companion as the primary suspect. EVERYTHING the world knows about this case comes from his sole testimony. Once you put a question mark over it, all we really know amounts to "Maurice spent many hours alone with one other person and was never seen again." The fact that the family appears to trust the companion is meaningless, because a) some people can lie convincingly and elicit trust they don't deserve, and b) some or all of the family might have conspired with the Companion to engineer Maurice's disappearance. Again, the fact that the police didn't pursue the Companion is also meaningless. They may (almost certainly DID) have their suspicions, but without a shred of evidence to hang a case on, they couldn't take it any further, and making those unevidenced suspicions public would presumably lay them open, in litigation-happy America, to a defamation case by the Companion.
As to why the Companion and/or the family might have engineered the disappearance, we can only speculate without more information. Damitz was a retired doctor, so presumably he'd earned a decent amout of money in his career: was his bank balance and/or his house and possessions worth bumping him off for? You can only judge this if you know both his financial status and that of all the suspects and their families/friends/situations, and this information just isn't public. One counter to this theory might be, "well why make it 'mysterious' then?", i.e. why claim that he disappeared 'by magic' in a 15 minute time window, when the companion had ample time to engineer something more credible like, "he said he wanted to be on his own for a bit so I went further away for two hours"? If Maurice was never at the dig site, then why not take something of his there to leave a scent trail that petered out?
Perhaps the answer is that something went wrong. Whatever the original scheme was, it hit a glitch and the 'magic' disappearance was the only way to reconcile the contradictions thus generated. Maybe the idea was for him to die of 'natural causes' and his body be found (no one gets overly suspicious when an 84 year old just drops dead), but he fought back with unexpected vigour, and had to be despatched with violence. The conspirator(s) couldn't then have the body found, so they disposed of it elsewhere and concocted the 'magically vanished' story as the only thing that fit the observable facts, possibly inspired by the whole 'mysterious disappearances' genre. People poo-poo the idea of 'perfect' crimes as near-impossible, but that's a tautology: we don't know how common it is for people to conduct perfect crimes and get away with it because, by definition, if the crime is 'perfect' then we don't know about it and it may not even be recognised as a crime. There's certainly plenty of evidence of clever, disciplined people getting away with crimes for decades (Harold Shipman, the Unibomber) and only getting caught because of one mistake. You only have to be a little bit more clever/lucky to never make that mistake, and perhaps you don't need to be anything like that clever to get away with it just the once...
😳 Novel much????
like Holy Hell man
You have a valid viewpoint. It's definitely a possibility that needs to be investigated.
You have a valid viewpoint. It's definitely a possibility that needs to be investigated.
You have a valid viewpoint. It's definitely a possibility that needs to be investigated.❤
Good possibility. Thanks for the information and very interesting theory and elementary deduction. "Whatever remains after everything else is eliminated, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
Adam, you always do such an amazing job, full of interesting detail and genuine concern. Yours is my very favorite missing-person channel. Keep it up! And if you're ever in Idaho, USA, I'll buy you a pint!
Haha! Sounds great, I'm excited for the next time I get to travel to the States. Truly a beautiful country. I'm hoping to get around your national parks someday
Exhausted colds hungrys the humans brain shutdown s ,becomes confused as lost !! No reals surprise here's !! There's people's that wills help you !! As this is America!!
A 2 year old child would have way more then scratches if a big cat black bear or large bird of pray packed the child 9 to 12 miles because those animals only use large fangs and razor sharp talons to transport their pray
Was Bigfoot, he wouldn't have hurt the child....I think a female Bigfoot keeps mistaken small kids for baby Bigfoot and so it takes the child to it's cave for safety 😂
Yeah, Danny is full of it. He didn’t walk around Sacramento with his ski gear. He put it back on when he decided he didn’t want this new life after all.
Could be fugue state
That’s what I wondered !
Hi Adam, I'm way late in watching this video, but I enjoyed it. Very unusual and a bit creepy as well. I agree with the first story about Danny's story being similar to Steven Kubacki's disappearance then reappearance not remembering how he ended up where he was. I look forward to your next video! Have a great weekend!
Awesome as always thanks
Brilliant channel
Keep up the great work
Fascinating topics 😮
Maybe we do have multiple universes and sometimes people go where they overlap and disappear. Leaving no trace which would explain dogs losing or never picking up on scent. And going through to another universe causes a disruption which leaves the bad weather that follows the missing, when good weather was predicted. As for Robert, maybe he had a heart attack and critters found him too good to resist. So, no remains to be found. I've heard that when big birds grab they tend to rip clothing. But no marks on the two-year old's clothing. So, maybe it wasn't a bird. They can carry off sheep so a small child is conceivable. Stay safe.🤗
I think this is the case. With the CERN machine we’ve learned that gravity and time isn’t what we thought before and the polar locations are moving and time isn’t linear but parallel or looping. I think sometimes especially in the wild where humans don’t occupy the land. Especially state parks are made into state parks for a reason.
That's what I think happens to some of the missing 411.... that or parallel time line
Portals
native americans have described interdimensional travel. But wtf do we know, we've only been here for 12-14,000 years. Our stories are also backed up by geological discoveries and even find in remains in areas we told them to look. When it comes to humans, researchers trust us. We tell them there's cryptids and were half naked primitives.
39:31 I'm sorry, but I keep hearing the name Dametz prounounced like "DUMB@$$"
Not making camping in my home state very comfortable haha. Oregon forests are scary places sometimes. Can't be scared all the time though, or you'll never leave the house. I live in a town that's in a national Forrest in Oregon and it is very much a place where I don't go alone anywhere in the forest.
The idea of large birds carrying off a small child has always interested me.
I discovered there is a breed of bird called The Harpie Eagle which is known as the strongest bird & can carry pretty heavy things & a small child would be no problem.
Unless the child struggled alot while being carried, in which the Harpie Eagle may have dropped it or landed in which the child could have escaped, miles from where it was picked up
Problem is, are Harpie Eagles native to areas where young children have been taken?
Another bird is the Griffon Eagle with an 8 to 10ft wing span.
After seeing a short film of this bird, its large & with huge feet & claws & im sure would be capable of picking up & carrying a young child.
Thanks Adam, some compelling stories with some interesting comments which are thought provoking indeed!
Peace
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While watching a nature video I saw a large bird carry a baby goat 🐐 so I definitely believe a bird can carry a small child..This could also explain why dogs cannot get a scent
Main issue with the, "a large bird of prey" theory is even stated in the name...bird of PREY.
While it's definitely believable to me that some of the larger and stronger predatory bird species could carry off a child, that would surely only occur if the bird was intending to prey on the child.
If you've ever seen any up-close shots of how gnarly the talons are on these birds, it's not crazy to wonder how the child could be scooped up and into the air, with the intent being predation, without taking on substantial slash and scratch wounds
Also, these birds are known to fly higher with prey that gives them trouble, and drop them from great heights to incapacitate or kill the prey that way. In which case there'd be signs of impact.
Couple of issues with the bird theory - the harpie eagle doesn't live in the US, they range from Mexico and south from there. In ideal conditions the bald eagle can carry around 8 pounds. The average weight of a healthy 2 year old is 27 pounds. Sorry to bring ants to the picnic.
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Haha, no problem, thanks for your reply.
Yes, i didnt think Harpies were native to North America, i think if any larger Bird of Prey were sighted it would be huge news in the Ornithological world.
Unless Pterodactyls are still active which i think is extremely
Remote!
I still cant get the gut feeling out of myself when kids disappear in the blink of an eye or foot tracks vanish mid stride so to speak.
I feel, instead of concentrating on the ground they shouldn't ignore the space above their heads! As in the tree canopy, lower branches and... well im
Not sure exactly but there are far more tree dwellers than people would imagine.
Cant quite convince my brain its
Alien or UFOs or ... Portals?
But there is also below ground
Id like to bet, should some obscure, out of the way holes or shafts would most likely contain the remains of lost persons
Especially & sadly, young ones whos small bodies fall down very small, narrow openings.
Dont even want to think about that!
I expect the topic will be debated for a long while yet, until something crops up.
Stay Safe
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Animals have been known to take care of lost children, giving them berries to eat. When I heard #2 I thought it must be Sasquatch.😮
The first story makes me think maybe he went off for a new life, and turns out he didn't like it afterall, so he came back. and this was his way of playing it off. How did he know his wife's number? Lol idk really... Nobody will ever actually know.
Exactly what I thought, reminded me of Sherri Papini and that other girl who pretended to disappear recently. Who’s going to give a stranger an iPhone?
Yeah it's interesting because he's still adamant about his original story
And how did he get an iPhone without his wallet? Unless he had his license and a credit card ticket in a pocket… Very odd.
Yeah that’s a weird one. Maybe the CIA is involved. Were any world leaders or important people assassinated during those 6 days? Maybe they used him to carry out some dirty work then wiped his memory with a doodad like the Men in Black movie lol. It’s about as logical as any other theory.
Oh, man. That's not something I'd ever wish on anyone, having a spouse do that. 😢 Either way, creepy.
If no one saw Danny that day (as the narrator says) then how did they know he was well dressed for the weather? It's hard to believe some of these stories.
The weirdest part, for me, is when the search dogs, can't find the scent. I mean, it's not a perfect science, but... Still.
Very true, I remember reading a study about this and I believe the dogs had around an 80% success rate, or at least somewhere in that ball park. I believe it was also weather and terrain dependent
It's not science at all. Even drug sniffer dogs are mostly for show.
Oh my gosh, where have you been? I'm subscribed with notifications on but your videos haven't been showing up. I've missed them :(
Sadly that is all too familiar! Welcome back
Looking forward to this one 😍🇬🇧
Your voice is more potent than melatonin, I’m on my third watch because I haven’t made it past the first story😅
Danny cheated on his wife and made up a bogus story to his wife. Everyone fell for it.🤷♂️😂
A few minutes used to mean anywhere between 5 to 15 minutes. Just FYI. It wasn't literally 3 minutes.
I had a really bad concussion as a kid from suffering a head injury on a dirt bike track with no helmet on. According to my family, I was also doing strange things, and couldn’t remember much about my life. My memories of that night are in and out, such as the one time when I was drying myself with a towel in front of my friend and she said “aren’t you going to cover yourself???” because I was standing in front of her completely naked. I 100% believe Danny’s story.
When you eliminate the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth. - Sherlock holmes
Reminds me the last episode of bedtime stories and even beyond creepy. There are just 'zones' that no clip people out of existence. Perhaps onto other realities dimensions or times. They just be vaporized out of known world
Love beyond creepy!
Interesting bc now that I think about it Bob Gymlan also just did a video where a woman describes a brief time slip experience she and her grandfather had when walking onto an island while out fishing. Huge fan of BS and BC myself. That Besieged video a few back was something else!
@@lestersmith7 exactly it reminds me the primeval tv series it was all about the time slips
It’s funny to hear other people follow the same channels I do haha.
Yup, don't ever walk towards a spot that's glimmering or shimmering weirdly to check it out. No matter how strong the impulse is that draws you in.
I went to high school in Lake Placid so i could ski race everyday. Thus, i know Whiteface like the back of my hand. I think the most likely thing to have happened is that he must’ve fallen while skiing and hurt his head somehow. And in that dazed state try to make his way back to his car. There is a section of whiteface that is separated for kids that’s used to be called “kids campus” but is now “bear den learning center”. If you are not familiar with the mountain, and in a confused state, it is very easy to get lost and head to Kids Campus instead of the parking lot. The kids area also closes earlier than the rest of the mountain so if he got there by the time the lodge was closing it would have been near deserted. With the lifts not running the only way he could’ve gotten out is from the service road where he flagged down the truck he recalled. This would explain why they couldn’t find any trace of him once the search on the mountain kicked off, but doesn’t explain why the driver who picked him up never came forward once the story broke national news. Still one of the strangest stories I’ve ever heard of though, kind of crazy that not a single person has come forward, not a trucker, gas station attendant, nothing.
I don't buy the eagle theory. No way an eagle picked him up with those razor sharp talons and not injure the boy .
Great story telling 👏 😊
New game: take a shot every time Top Mysteries says "I believe"
(I'm just joking haha, love the channel)
Haha that's not going to end well
When you find a place with a demonic name and no one seems to know why ... Well there was a reason someone thought it was appropriate. Be Aware.
Sensibilities and cultural and pseudo religious Christian doctrine have altered the origins of pagan sites and christenised them or labelled them as devilish or demonic places. If you research the origins of paganism you will discover parallels with modern religions suggesting a borrowing of seasonal dates, customs and religious practices. The imagery of horned deities an sibilant idolatry were indicative of learning, wisdom and higher intelligence. Nowadays these symbols are regarded as associatung with demons, thanks to the Catholic church whose aim is to control the masses and stop humanity questioning.
The story about the old man at the topaz mine as me wondering why we're taking the word of his "friend"? His friends said he was sitting there 🤔 his friend said it was only a few minutes 🤔 his friend could have killed him somewheres else and just set his bag down and said that's where he was sitting and that would be it.
Love the artwork - perfect for the channel.
Danny done a breaking bad just forgot to take his clothes off
Addition to Mr dametz, I read this earlier on line
The carer said h e told mr daMetz to start to pack up at 3pm but he last saw him before this 90 minutes earlier
At a round1.30 pm so he saw the gentleman finally at 3pm then left him for around 15 minutes approx (if he's not fibbing) and alerted the police by 11pm, so he was missing before the police were alerted for around at least 8 hours .time 1.30pm-11pm that's if the carer was fibbing , my feeling is the elderly disabled gent needed a pee fell somewhere and possibly passed away, the carer realised he messed up among other things losing contact for 90 minutes , (the 15minutes was a fib ) giving hours for him to well .....make your own mind up
If it was forested he could have fell into false snow. Snow Around the base of a tree, big rock or something. If you ski or snowboard on it you will fall right down to the ground it will absolutely swallow you and you will be stuck and almost impossible to escape....
Good stuff sir
These affair cover ups are getting crazier and crazier. Looking at you Danny.
I’m the only adult i know who carries my ID, some extra cash and a small black sharpie. If I were doing solo skiing I’d have a personal locator beacon. We used to carry emergency-numbers in an inside zippered pocket. Does this seem extreme? It didn’t use to be.
i lost my mini sharpie 😒 so i just carry my regular sharpie and i also have a wide sharpie and 2 one is large and the other is huge lol and numerous colored sharpies including silver and bronze metallic and a glow in the dark mark as well all in a bag that looks like a banana inside my purse
Great stuff thank you Adam! The mind boggles...🤔🤔😞♥️♥️
You mean "bottles". The mind bottles 🤭
That first story is unbelievable
I remember the first one, being it’s only about an hour away from me and go there every winter for the past two decades now. But his story is still talked about each year since then.. Crazy situation tho!!… 🤷🏻♂️
I think Danny was planning an escape to another "life" and changed his mind a few days in.
With literally no money? And doesn't get a change of clothes?
Who’s to say he didn’t have cash stashed somewhere? I mean he was so confused and couldn’t remember how he got there but remembered his wife’s phone number, her name, his name etc. Sounds sketch to me.
I believe that a major clue to Danny's disappearance and reappearance has to do with his new cell - phone. Was it registered in his name? If not, whose? Where was it registered? What is the cell carrier company name? If it was registered recently in comparison to when they found him... perhaps there is some CCTV footage from the store that would reveal something?
Investigators may have looked into this and other things. If there was no crime and no court filing, they had no reason and perhaps no legal authority to release any information.
Guarantee you this was a burner phone he had with him. I’m not sure how they know it was an iPhone. There’s a few details either left out of this video or out of the public reporting in general. I think it’s pretty damn clear he tried to set up shop somewhere else or take some sort of time away from his life. He obviously got food, water, and shelter for 6 days. So he wasn’t unconscious or in a coma lol as he’s trying to suggest he just has a blank spot for a week. That’s literally impossible.
@@WestwoodPizzaCo. - Possibly. The whole phone acquisition transaction should be investigated....
he got a haircut with no money and a phone??? bullshit
If Danny was from Ontario Canada then the trucker may have taken him to Ontario California.
I’ve heard of people doing this by mistake .
Good old GPS directions have led many people to the wrong towns and cities. Jeez he was mixed up.
How that "Then" Boy survived is unfathomable
I wonder if they did any blood work or checked for signs of sexual assault from dude from the first case? The most "logical" probable theory I can come up with about the loss of all his memories for a wk, the bad headache he had when he became lucid once again,and the lack of injuries due to his cross country blacked out travels... is that he was possibly "borrowed " (kidnapped)by someone(??) first by being picked out at the ski resort than drugged by food/drink or even blowing powdered drugs in his face. Once dosed i and lowered suseptability to follow any and all "orders" and demands. by drugging him w drugs like either roofies,ether or the most probable due to the duration, and the difficulty in finding it I'm the blood stream would be scolopamine (daturra root and seed pods...called the "zombie drug" that was used in a lot of dayS long robberiess down in south America. ) One small dose will make a larger sized adult blackout for a min of 2- 3 days and also makes them Extremeley susceptible to any and all 'suggestions" from ANYONE around them. Also, Daturra grows in "ditch" areas All over North,Central And South America so it's Free and extremely easy to procure and only needs to be crushed for preperarion
. People will "come to" days to weeks later having absolutely no recollection of anything let alone what they did ,where they were/are or what/how many days it was. Also complaints always with a severe "hangover" headache. It would explain A LOT of.his "trip". The no memories until the person he was with was long gone(so they wpuld just stop.druggimg him and still have a day or 2 to get away before he came to...) the severe headache with zero.signs of head/back trauma when once again becoming lucid. How he traveled.2500 miles across country with no $$ or wallet. (& considering there was no mention of his clithes being dirty, ripped or disheveled in any way means theres a good chance they slept im a motel every/most nights.The fact he wasn't starving Or dying from dehydration after a week of no memories. Waking up in a part of the country he didnt know his way around lucid let alone blackedout for almost a week and how he got a hair cut... I seriously.doubt his blackout was from onslaught of a new unknown medical condition or a bad neurological condition,especially.as he has no signs of any diseases or absolutley no injuries after becoming lucid. And the fact if it was from that ge more than imply wouldn't so very vaguely remember being in a truck but he wasn't driving, traveling min 400 miles/day without any $$. And bring taken care of...all these things seem more indicative of drugging and not a neurolgical or addiction illness. Someone drugging him literally makes a lot of things make sense especially with doctors findings...
So..the theory someone "borrowed " him. Why the stranger possibly "borrowed" &/or drugged him unfortunately we will/would never know but it would actually also explain A whole LOT of the circumstances found after lucidity. The vague memories of travelling in a truck on average 400 miles/day with Someone and the fact he ended up unharmed, not badly disheveled but still in his ski clothes,fed,watered and with a fresh haircut 2500 miles away, with no money or ID on him is Only possible with a partner. The AL.ost wk long blackout from getting drugged from one of the strongest,longest,most dangerous and poisonous memory wipe narcotic plants in the world (it has to be daturra because both roofies And ether need to be redosed every few yrs to max once or twice a day) pmys they are harder to find,expe sice and leave a trail fro. Seller to buyer. Fi di g a licking parts of a plant almost anywhere on this giant landmass does not leave a trail...also, if it was a shorter acting drug than he more than.likely have a lot more memories,from being in between doses than just of a truck and a person with no detauls to either...As well, someone obvipusly took care of him and left him essentially unharmed in the end But why? A few eg of "uses" I can think of could be....the possibility of a solo traveller that was suffering from mental illness &/or possible drug withdrawal/schizophrenia that needed to travel across the country that felt they wanted_needed a partner to travel with, but couldn't socialize,express themselves normally or at all, OR they couldve been running from a severe crime or warrants... trying to get as far away from the scene of the crime as possible while knowing the cops would be looking for a single person sothe K.N. figures travelling in a couple will keep eyes off them. That reason (running from a crime) also gives a more valid excuse for drugging someone to co.etley blackedout and malleable and also why he was unharmed, had a haircut, and wasnt dirty with torn up clothes. Also why the K.N. took good care of them.(no way to ID the kidnapper and don't want to draw extra attention to yourselves so they try to stay looking as normal and clean cut as possible as a couple. Once the K.N. feels safe they stop drugging the victim,leave and the victim becomes lucid in a day or less and can get back to theor lives not much worse for the wear.. Or, He mightve been taken to be used in human trafficking scheme, fake ID scheme a possible ransom victim, or his fake identity (but face and fingerprints used to take out large loans,open a safety deposit box or even rob a bank.Maybe to be used as a drug mule or a possible organ donor. Or possibly used to make a fake identity that could be used to open large loans,bank accounts or other means of large amounts of $$ through what would appear as a "legal" way with illegal documents. Any of these couldve been the reason he was taken and drugged with a possibility the K.N. found a better victim than him before leaving the cou try so he just got left behind. The kidnapper may have just wanted a 'partner to get across the country u seen but also that they cpuld use as theor sex slave for a while with no possibilty of ever getting caught and moving g on to the next victim(hence wondering if he was checked for any sexual assault). Perhaps his dna/fingerprints/blood/ sperm or hair were unknowingly taken to be used pinning him in a future crime.
These are all the reasons I could come up with as to why someone might want to abduct and drug (to the point of 0% recollection for an extended time) a grown man in broad daylight at a busy public space with his family in the vicinity, and than take him to the other side of the country. One of these may be the real reason for the kidnapping or none may even be close. A y of these would make sense as to Why he was so heavily drugged but most of these don't explain why he was unharmed,taken care of and than let go a wk after his disappearance more than halfway across the cou try though. The reason for thisuteralky Might be as simple as his abductor is just insane and derives pleasure/adrenaline high from kidnapping adults from busy public aces with theor loved ones nearby and than having completle control over a random stranger for a certain time, and the abductor lives just travelling around country with his/her new found "friends" and than let's them go once they fi d someone better or they get bored of their "puppet". If that was the case the weirdest part of that wpuld be the fact the abductor DIDNT get off harming theor victims but I stead gets off on the knowledge they and their loved ones will live the rest of their lives never truly k owing what the hell happened....that was long but thats what my weird brain cane up with anyways. Whew!
That was a wild ride on your brain waves there dude. Thanks!
Thank you for the roller coaster ride.
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Great information!
OP should've done further research on the first story of Danny Filippidis; while there are several unanswered questions to this mystery, the authorities did trace down where the cellphone was sold from, but didn't release the info. regarding who sold it to him (if it even was Danny who purchased it or someone else), & during the medical exam, doctors did find several drugs in his blood & urine samples, but IDK exactly what kinds (possibly Roofline, MDNA, PCP, PCPH?).
Whatever the case may be, one of the top theories is that it involved drug trafficking or something he was involved with doing a drug trade where something didn't go according to plan. Some think that since he was attending a scheduled retreat that involved other people, it would've been a prefect place for Danny to meet up with some dealers, after telling his skiing friends he'd catch-up to them & return later to the cabin, giving him some much needed "alone time" to meet up with someone, involving narcotics. However, the rest is bizarre, to say the least.
Also, for the 3rd story of Dr. Maurice Dametz, AGAIN, OP's getting sloppy! I ALREADY told him who his "friend" was when he 1st posted about this a long time ago, & I'm NOT going to repeat this crap again! OP NEEDS TO DO BETTER RESEARCH!
Danny obviously suffered a major head injury if he bought an iPhone. No one in their right mind does that.
Love this comment. (Says an iPhone user🤪
😂. If he had had a major head injury, he would have bought a Samsung! 😂😂😂😂
But now they have titanium... ooowwwwww. Titanium ( the claw voice)
Buying Apple products should be considered a mental disorder.
I KNOW, RIGHT!!!!😂😂😂Apple sucks so baaaad!!!!
Im so glad i found your excellent channel tonight thank you ! ❤ I totally subscribed emedietly . It doesn't sound like ai voice - so I'm thinking this is really a human voice - and I appreciate this very much !
Such a great story teller !
That first story is extremely interesting.
I haven't seen any of your videos in ages.
Welcome back!
@@MissingVoidTV thanks Adam!
I was walking with my friend at the shop. He disappeared without a sight. We never heard about him again...
You would think the truck driver would h e herd bout this story and give his side of it. Or maybe he did?
He never came forward and law enforcement had no idea who it was
@@MissingVoidTV so maybe their was no truck ride? Maybe it was an abduction and he just couldn’t remember how he got so far and just made up the story of the truck ride ?
@@sparrsheilathere was no truck ride. They visit that place every year so he had time to plan and ample opportunity to execute his plan. Unfortunately it sounds like the woman he ran away for ditched him real quick even though he got his hair cut to try impress her and a phone to keep in contact with her. Weird that they didn't track the phone... Or they did and they know exactly what happened to him but it's not public info due to him paying back the search costs etc maybe? Seen a few comments suggesting this
@@Moisterthananoysterhmm,? Sounds plausible. If it were not for the haircut or new phone. I would have thought he was abducted. Would love to know how his wife felt about his story.
The story about Keith reminds me of a recent story about a 4 year old who went missing from his house and was later found in the woods in 2022 summer. I can’t remember his name but he claims he walked all the way by himself. I’m probably missing some details but I haven’t heard of it since june of last year
The doctor one always seems so weird to me. At first I thought maybe he tried to get back to the car himself and just went in the wrong direction but if he knew the area well that doesn't make sense.
Personally I think he walked off, I guess to go die/ end his life. I know statistically that is almost never the case. But with the person being 84 and maybe in failing health that was my first thought.
It is hard to account for the lack of scent, but the dogs aren’t the be-all-end-all either. They don’t always hit on a scent for a number of reasons. That is way more likely than someone just popping out of the bushes. And if so, why not take the companion too?
I’ll admit 200 searchers is a hell of a lot. However, 2 things stick out to me. One, the guy’s stuff was taken with him. That seems to rule out the 3rd party even more. No one would mess around taking his gardening supplies. It’s not like it would help cover up the crime better. People would notice he is missing either way. You’d have a hard enough time trying to carry? or walk the guy away. Even if it were some kind of Zodiac Killer-type killer at Lake Berryessa, how would they be able to account for the companion not coming back and seeing them? Just seems like too many holes and runs into the same question of why is there no scent? And why are there not two scents?
Two, we are told he knows every inch of the area. Wouldn’t it stand to reason then that he would know where to go where he would likely not be found? I don’t think it is that crazy if he has a few minute head start and he just walked as fast as he could in one direction for hours that he’d be far enough away from all searches. Now, in fairness, that brings up the question of why would he care if he gets found or not if he really was going to go off to die? He could’ve gone off and ended his life before the searchers even got there.
Perhaps maybe he just wanted to wander around a little without the threat of being found. But I think all in all it isn’t impossible he walked off in that short window and got somewhere far away. The companion spent hours looking for him around their car and path. But again if he just walked straight into the wilderness, that’s miles and miles he could have gotten away from where they were. If you think about it, the companion told him to pack up and they were going home. He probably said I’ll just pack up and I’ll meet you in a few minutes. This guy would then know this would be his last opportunity to walk off if he had decided in his mind he was going to die in those mountains.
When I was 5, I left my home in the city and walked 7 KM through ''rough terrain'' to my family's house at the countryside, cause I knew how to get there, it was over some bridge and some hills, they were shocked to see me. I dunno, I'm just saying, you underestimate how far someone dumb and young could walk.
I bet there were wild wolved hanging around hoping to get the new calf but got Baby Keith.
If dogs didn't pick up Maurices scent it seems to me he may have never been there hunting topaz . Did he meet with foul play/ decide to end his suffering somewhere else?
I’ve given quite some thought to the Dr. Maurice Damitz case over the years. i’m curious as to why his companion never wanted his name made public. I also wonder if there is an eyewitness who could confirm that these two men were together when they headed down that hill that afternoon. also, the wife’s statement of“ The Lord took him and he is with God now.“ also bothers me. I don’t think he was ever there that day. It wouldn’t of been a stretch to use his shoes to make tracks, throw his tools in a hole and make an indentation of an ass in the dirt. Just my opinion.
I was thinking the same thing. And there's that large gap in time from the time his companion "couldn't find him then searched for him then finally found another car" -- could have easily never have been there or some foul play and make it look like he was there. Scary thoughts but people be messed up.
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I think Maurice either walked in the wrong direction and fell down a crevasse or slid down a hill under bushes. It sounded like a very rugged terrain.
Bro went "skiing" but ended up on a week long bender.....pretends to not remember.... haha
Great job on this video.
Thank you!
Even if the last story of events really did happen, it's absolutely bizarre what could have happened to that elderly man 😮
Why have we no information about the companion? Why hasn't he been named? Did Maurice actually go to that area in the first place. Did the tracker dogs track him from the car to the place he disappeared from?
I have only just read that he was very wealthy.
Who would benifit from his death?
Was he 74 or 84 years old? I have read both.
So many questions, never to be answered.
You tube hadn't shown me any videos from you for many months, I don't know why cuz I subscribed a year or 2 ago. Also did you change the name of your channel, it seems like it was named something else. Anyways I love your tube & how you present these cases & your voice. 😊
Thank you lotus! Yeah sadly the metrics show that on my end! I'm not sure why they stopped notifying my subs. And yeah I changed the name maybe like 3 or 4 weeks ago now