Searching for The Five
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2024
- In February of 1978, five men vanish under mysterious circumstances. The subsequent discoveries have left investigators and onlookers bewildered to this day.
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Chapters:
0:00 - The Shones Incident
3:00 - Let's Set the Scene
7:18 - An Enigmatic Detour
8:56 - Sounding the Alarm
10:54 - Follow the Trail
15:22 - Piecing it Together
25:10 - Closure and End Credits
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*Gets car stuck in the snow*
"Oh, man... it doesn't get much worse than that!"
*Has heart attack*
"Okay it got worse"
*Sees 5 people that when he calls for them they dissapear*
"Okay, what the hell?"
*sees 2 more people that dissapear when he calls for them*
"WHAT THE FUCK?!"
A turtle doesn't approve of it getting worse.
Saying "it can't get any worse!" in a sketchy situation is almost always a jinx
Honestly his story just made the other five's story seem that much worse in that he just walked it off out of necessity and they needlessly walked to their deaths.
$20 he said "this day can't get any worse" before having a heart attack.
My mans has a fucking heart attack, recovers from it, and walks eight miles to a lodge after said heart attack
Well, people have strong will to live. They usually do unbelievable things in the circumstances like that.
@@DJ-yh8hm adrenaline rush?
@@UgherzCookies he had a wife back at home with a fatass
Depends on the severity. I once had a heart attack that I confused with a panic attack. It lasted maybe 10 minutes and I felt alright after. Chest just hurt for a while.
@@masterblaster1676 ikr what your situ at home when "scouting a trail" in a car thru a snowstorm up a mountain as the sunsets beats having dinner with your old lady? No wonder his ticker was stressed past the point.
It is possible that Shones' screams for help could have pushed the Five to abandon their car and flee into the woods. It was dark, the men were probably worried and on edge, and throwing in an unknown man yelling at them would probably freak everyone out. With four of them being intellectually disabled and one suffering from schizophrenia, they may not have realized that it was somebody needing help instead of someone who was possibly dangerous.
maybe, but why they would be up there in the first place?
Or Shones is a liar and possibly/probably a killer
Who was the woman woth the baby then? Since it was so dark, how could he have deciphered that it was defintely a woman, definitely with a baby?
@@kbholla That's a good question 🤨🤔
@@kbholla there was no woman and no baby. Believe me.
The depressing part of this to me is that (most likely) at least a few of them stayed alive in that cabin for a few months, long after the authorities had left them for dead. Had the search continued, there was a decent chance they would've been found alive. I fully acknowledge that they were having trouble with the snow, but it's just... *fuck*.
It gets even worse when you realize that, according to the coroner, Ted lived for 13 weeks, dying in early june. His body was found in june, so he was found soon after he had died.
I thought they did a limited, continuous search during the following months. But I generally agree SAR need to reevaluate searches on a case-by-case basis. Because if they expand the search radiuses IMHO many, many more lost hikers/trekkers would be found.
We may never know but I thought they only had evidence of 2 making it to the trailer wieher and Matthias not 3 Cause he was found 1 mile away from the trailer nit the direction Matthias may have went I suppose well never know
@@danmulholland1634may have gone
If the search had continued. the numbers of people missing would have increased.
This is the darkest “Me and the boys” story I’ve heard
Y’all forget Hostel already?!?
Plot twist: They were really Spiderman villains and get pulled into the multiverse for the next Spiderman movie
This happens when you don’t find the beans
@@owo23_62 yeah what? beans
@@warpeace4058 that film scared the fuck out of me.
I thought my internet actually got messed up lmao
Lol same😂
Lol same😂
Kinda shit my pants ngl
@@magicalframe9441 BRUH I LITERALLY JUMPED SORTA
IT'S 3;00 A.M WHEN IT HAPPEND lmao
Same 😂
Considering the untouched food and heating supplies, I think it's more likely that Huet and Mathias left the cabin soon after they arrived, dropping a few things off (including Wire) and assuming they'd return with help within a few hours since the cabin was a mark of civilization in the area. Unfortunately on this treck to go get help they would get lost and die, leaving Wire, who lacked any sense of self preservation, alone for months to starve to death.
It's sad. But why abandon the car? Why end up in that place? Who's the woman with the baby? Why not a single bit of Gary's remains found after all this time? People still search for him because of the mystery.
Weren't they starving for a bit? Refeeding syndrome kill/coma the one. The others assume the food is tainted, the one guy is dead so no need to block the window, no need to stay and wait because under that assumption they're going to die too without help very soon
fcking horror story
@@cantfindmykeys 1. Some theories suggest that they abandoned the car because they were frightened by the cries for help. 2. That house had food and heat 3. Most likely hallucinated and made up family. 4. Mother nature does not leave any nutrient behind so easily.
@@cantfindmykeysbecause they were vegetables
Depending on how bad the schizophrenia was, it’s possible that after they made it to the station, Mathias, off his meds, got the idea that it was a trap or that the food was somehow bad, and convinced the others that this was true.
maybe his friend in Forbestown is also a part of his schizophrenia disease
@@nitsu2947 but he hadn't had an episode for years.
@@cleanerben9636maybe that was only because he was consistently taking his medication, and hadn’t when they went missing. Idk how the medication works tho.
He was on medication at the time of his disappearance so he definitely wouldn’t be having any major episodes
@@dsnever3041 ah makes sense. There was an episode by Wendigoon, which if his interpretation is true, might make the boys' disapperance all the more darker
"They didn't make it back home that night." Oh yeah Nexpo? You think im watching this to hear about some dudes that went home and had a basketball game.
Wait!
You mean they didn't???
@@shuttzi9878 oh sorry. Spoilers
Honestly Nexpo could just make a documentary video about 5 people who enjoyed a basketball game and went home, and I would watch it 4 times
Not gonna lie, this made me cackle.
UC Davis winning a game is a spooky episode in it of itself
"He was known to have spent over 100 dollars on pencils for no reason" y'all just don't understand 🙄🙄
There was a reason, just one that no one else but him could understand. 😅
My goals are beyond your understanding
Understandable. Have you seen the price of Prismacolors lately?!
Prismacolor be like: 👀
stationary is so fun to splurge on i SWEARRR
Don't forget that Hypothermia causes your brain to start to shut down together with that your body starts to feel hot. This is why people do irrational things and also start to take of their clothes at the end.
That's just a theory. A more common theory is that you physically feel hot as the body, out of complete exhaustion, no longer attempts to horde heat around your vital organs and rereleases it back into the limbs creating a hot flash.
@@Edax_RoyeauxThe question is more they never had to endure hypothermia because they had heating sources from their car and from the service cabin. What made them get to the point of hypothermia? Guy skips over the part were Mathias was breaking a neighbors door window, entering and then waking them up to ask for a ring to give back to Satan...... Dude was next level schizo... Walked 540 miles back to his parents surviving on dog food and porch milk..... And I'm supposed to believe he just died in a part of the woods he was familiar with? Dude was very competent and of all the involved would know how to survive off a service cabin because of military training.
After revisiting this video, I decided to look into the incident more and found a really good podcast called Yuba Country Five by Mopac Audio. After doing so I'm both thoroughly convinced of 2 things:
1. The authorities involved in the search didn't do nearly enough to find these men while claiming that they were doing all they could. A forest service employee stated that he had told them about the trailer at the start of the search which they claimed they checked. Obviously they didn't and they lied to save face.
2. Joseph Shones is full of shit. Multiple people familiar with him claimed he was constantly spinning tall tales and mouthing off insane stories to anyone who'd listen to him while he listed to the sound of his own voice. Almost every time he recounted his story it changed in some way or another to the point where he got his own story wrong when sitting down with the families of the boys. As one of the investigators put it, he was an unreliable narrator.
All in all, this is a really great video and it does get pretty much everything right as far as I can corroborate from the podcast, the best videos on stories like these are the one's that make you dig deeper out of interest.
at this point im convinced that 99% of unsolved cases are only unsolved because of police incompetence
Although you may be right about Joseph Shones, I may cut him some slack. He had a heart attack and with those elements his memory of the incident would probably be hazy anyway (perhaps trying to piece together that night).
@@PaulMacReamoinn yeah but his reaction after the fact is what's important. there's a difference between having hazy memory and acting suspicious and deceptive
@@PaulMacReamoinn I'd give him slack if it wasn't for his reputation with those around him combined with him changing his story every time recounted it in one way or another.
@@PaulMacReamoinnor maybe just the booze going up to his head
commonly known as "the boys." every group of guys ever
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Very generic honestly.
"The boys" are simply whoever you want them to be.
me and the boys looking for beans at 3AM
The boys will be the boys 🤷♂️
“A cold one with the boys” had never had a more sinister meaning before.
Oh man.... seriously.
Accurate*
:(
Bruh moment
The boys
now imagine shones had passed away from that heart attack, and in addition to the 5 missing, there would also be an unexplained dead body just sitting on the same road
While there are a lot of horror content creators out there, Nexpo's videos just hits different.
Real asf
Meballen hits hard too. Both channels are cracked.
Lemmino
bro I should not have watched this before going to sleep 💀
@@poultrypantsme too bro i have a very weak heart 😢😂
you’re telling me this man survived a heart attack and then walked 8 miles in the snow in the middle of the night??
Yes
That’s what I’d do. If I’ve survived a heart attack, I’d feel confident af. No way will a bit of cold kill me if I survived a heart attack
Probably thrombosis at some smaller arteries or something. Heart attacks can be more severe than others
Some people got shit to do in their lives. A heart attack and a 9 mile hike in “freezing temperatures” is just a minor inconvenience. Hell my parents suffered similar on their way to school. Daily
Actually it was early morning when he walked to the lodge. At least that's what several others have stated when the cover this story.
Imagine getting stuck in a forest in winter, getting a heart attack and witnessing people disappear strangely. I would have lost my mind
I have an heart condition, that before getting treated gave me long episodes of arrythmia
I once had one at the beach. I kneeled to the ground (it slows down my heartbeat) and I was clearly unwell, but even tho the area was CROWDED, nobody gave a damn.
Scariest thing ever.
@@TheFuschiaDragonfly Oh damn that's sad. I think that is the bystander effect. How did you recover?
@@Luna-ry8lv yeah it totally was
That one time thank God the arrythmia lasted only a few minutes
Later in life I had two surgeries and I've been taking meds daily for 3+ yrs now
I also exercise and this made my heart stronger
The worst that can happen to me now is my heart beating really fast for like 2 seconds, I lead a normal life now overall :)
@@TheFuschiaDragonfly Okay well glad to hear you're doing better
@@TheFuschiaDragonfly I'm happy that you are well now
I'm sitting in a well lit, pretty busy office at 10am with only one headphone in and your sound design STILL gave me goosebumps. very well done man
Having come up around Marysville, this is almost folklore with the younger generation now, thanks to RUclips. It's a fascinating case, especially when you realize how close Chico and Oroville are to each other, and you wonder how it all went so wrong. Absolutely fascinating case.
My man just casually had a heart attack and recovered in a few hours by himself.
Mans actually built different
Real protagonist
Just got tf over it. Walked that shit off lol
i think if it was someone that did it intentionally, it was him. his story changed multiple times, he pushed through a heart attack in the freezing cold, but also who were the 2 people with the baby, i don’t think this will ever be solved
That actually can happen. My grandad had a heart attack during night time and recovered by himself and told nobody. We knew until the next day when he started to feel unwell, but hours happened before that.
THEORY: while getting out to move the car, the boys heard the cries for help and got freaked out and ran into the forest.
this comment is currently underrated, that makes a lot of sense
That might be the unknown force
why would they not go to help tho or atleast see whats up
@@mrtaco0078 I wouldn't help if i heard someone in a forest either
@@aurum316 i mean i can see where you're coming from, but if you were a grown man in a group with 4 other grown men would you not atleast try to see whats happening?
This case breaks my heart. I can’t even imagine what it must have been like for those men, it just makes me so sad for them and their families.
I watch some channels like this, that discuss creepy/scary stuff, but Nexpo is the one that really sets me on edge. It's a combination of his narration, music, and video that is the perfect combination of freaky.
"pointlessly spent one hundred dollars on pencils"
It's not pointless, where do you think the guy from the math problem comes from
Lmao true
so _he's_ the one who's been plaguing my life with confusing numbers...
Definitely wasn't pointless after he went back and bought a pencil sharpener.
it's only pointless if the pencils are broken ;)
do y'all not use mechanical pencils
If I was out In the woods and I hear someone yelling “help” out of the dark, I probably would’ve boogied out of there
No cap
Audible Hallucinations
Them: "helppp..."
Me: 👀....🏃🏾♂️💨
I would stay and hide its free entertainment
That's why they tell you to yell "fire!", because nobody responds to "help!" anymore.
this case is always crazy and it never fails to make me feel very sad and disturbed. may they rest in peace
This is the nexpo I remember subbing to YEARS AGO, you are a pioneer and classic writer on RUclips, an OG for sure! Much love!!
Dude my heart fell out of my ass when you did the glitch thing...
Did it hurt
@@dustinsterling3248 a hahaha I'm dead
@@jayb4243 rip
can confirm i almost went to flight or fight
Did you mean
Dude my heart......
[dramatic pause]
...fell out my ass
Can’t it be that the Boys just got scared when Joseph started calling out for help? Maybe that’s why they turned the headlights off and got quiet, i mean I don’t have any disabilities and i would shit myself if i heard someone started crying out for help in the woods at the middle of the night.
and,,, combine that with schizophrenia and intellectual disabilities
Ye if I heard cries for help in a forest at night in America. That's a serial killer
@@MycatTwinkie
Imagine a person thinking that, and it turns out it was just some guy with a heart attack of whom they left to die in the freezing cold. Couldn’t possibly occur that this person just needed help and safety. Am I right, or am I right ladies and gentlemen?
Edit - This was just meant to be a fun joke about how the guy said it always has to be a serial killer, despite the fact that in this very video it was very not a serial killer. Don't take this too seriously.
but weren't there two cars?
That's what I think happened. You have five special needs men, all with severe mental impairments, it's not a stretch that the paranoid schizophrenic scared the others into thinking the guy calling for help was coming to murder them or something. They don't know where they are, they don't have the mental faculty to make rational decisions; the parents even said flat out that they lacked common sense and couldn't hold down the simplest of jobs. Obviously, they panicked and kept making the worst possible choice at every turn.
When Ted died, they likely got freaked out and ran off, instead of doing the logical thing and placing the body outside while they stayed in where there was warmth and food. I mean, they didn't even board up the window! These men had the minds of children, they should never have been allowed to go out at night unsupervised, let alone been granted driver's licenses!
I come back to this video like every 6 months. Absolutely love the way it's narrated. Sick graphics. Just a well put together video man. More of these would be sick!
Agreed, this was a video that never left my head and lives rent free, I just came back after 8 months and i'm so glad i did.
Sometimes I listen (or relisten) to these at work just for the vibe. The atmosphere of Nexpo videos makes them interesting to watch even if you aren't watching.
The Fact that Shones suffered a heart attack while his car was trapped in snow and still trekked his way till he found help, surprises me because he seems like the one who had the odds stacked against him.
Shones is very lucky to have survived what happened to him. Having a heart attack without the added elements of being stranded on a mountain during a snowstorm is already enough to kill someone. I wonder if he experienced an episode of angina (chest pain caused by physical exertion) vs an actual heart attack? Or perhaps if he did have a heart attack, if his coronary arteries formed what are called "collaterals" or alternated paths to bypass the blockage causing the heart attack.
The others had a trailer full of eating and heating and instead of surviving pissed bored and lonely, telling stories and making up games, they died.
definitely. my grandpa did the same when he had a heart attack although not as far. but i definitely don't blame him for getting details wrong. maybe he did see the five guys i think that sounds most likely, he just got confused on the details
Adrenaline is one hell of a drug
The way she goes.
This guy treks for miles in the snow whilst having a heart attack, what immense balls
Some people are far too stubborn to die.
I can see the headlines "Man to Angry to die"
My back started hurting thinking about how difficult it'd be to carry such balls
He walked 8 miles in a snow storm, that's wild as hell!!
@@eddy7346 Theory time: The nuds carried him.
Ryan, you're channel is becoming my favorite on RUclips. I find myself watching it all the time when I'm not working.
Bro its crazy how professional this is like- fr
man deserves WAYYYYY more subs, so underrated
My phone is ridiculously faulty, so when you did that glitch thing I assumed that it finally gave up after 8 years of service
8 years?!? Damn, what phone are you using? An immortal Nokia?
@@Speedstar779 an iPhone 5
@@thebigfish2420 Wow, impressive.
Nice I have a 50$ phone coming up on 3 years now
@@thebigfish2420 i salute your phone, that's an old friend for sure
I'm only a few minutes in and I'm hooked, you don't get this quality from Netflix
Mtn dewe
@@MtnDew4828 k.
Nexpo and Lemmino are the elite ones.
Hi verified user 👋
@@Juuma985 lemmino dude
It's funny that the "glitch" is the most replayed part.
this video was probably the first one of your vids I ever watched and it got me hooked, and now I patiently await every upload. keep up the great work
One person says "pointlessly spent one hundred dollars on pencils" while another says "amassed an incredible pencil collection for only one hundred dollars".
Im with the latter in normal situations ✨✨
I was looking for this comment 🤣🤣 Currently watching rn, but I would be highly judged for my impulse choices if my homies characterized me w things like "that lunatic once bought a 100 pencils"
The duality of man
Given that 3/5 of them were described as "not smart", I feel like its entirely possible they made dumb mistake after dumb mistake and eventually didnt make it
On top of that Mathias had Schizophrenia. A very very important part Nexpo never elaborates on is his medication. I doubt Mathias kept his medication on him - but if he did - they were still stranded out there for approximately 2 months, possibly 3, before their deaths (And I doubt he was given scripts longer than 30 days). Even long term modern injectables for Schizophrenia only last 30 days before needing another dose. I believe Mathias simply was slowly pulled back into a schizophrenic mindset and while in these delusions, got terribly lost - ultimately passing away.
@@BT-ex7ko Thats a very good point. It definitely would not have helped their situation if Mathias went fully delusional as he was one of the smarter ones.
@@snowcoalRC Copy-pasta as I added more to my thoughts while replying to someone else and it also touches on your addition! "People joke about Schizophrenics being violent, but thats not often the case. It can however make you delusional. I'm certain Mathias simply slipped back into a delusional state while they were lost - leading to himself becoming even moreso - before passing away. Although its stated he didn't have a cognitive disability, depending on how severe his Schizophrenia symptoms were, the meds, and the dosage - it could have also made him similarly cognitively limited. This would explain, why someone who went through basic training and served in the army, however brief, would end up so lost and forget survival skills."
@@snowcoalRC it's worth noting that people off their meds for schizophrena are usually more of a risk to themselves than to others. in this way, its not that mathias would have meant harm, but that he could have accidentally led the boys into it, thinking he was helping. its such a shame : (
or that one of the "smarter" ones manipulated and possibly injured/left the others out in the wilderness
It's nice to hear of places and a story that I actually know for a change, unfortunately it's such a tragic event tho... Good video none the less.
Same, my mom even went to UC Davis
I live near this area and drive down highway 99 all the time. It gives me such a vivid imagining of the story. Love when a story happens in areas near me.
I live in Yuba County, Yuba City to be specific. Anyone under 30-40 has no idea what this is. Thank you for talking and explaining it.
It's crazy how we often assume we're safe with a group, while the man that was alonne having a heart attack is the one that managed to survive.
He had a functioning brain. These 5 dudes were all mentally challenged, except for one who had schizophrenia instead. They all died because they were simply too dumb to think logically, and made all the necessary steps to walk into their deaths. Big F.
He's the protagonist
@@alzhanvoidsansado This is pretty obvious and that's why this case doesn't involve any mystery.
He survived because he wasn't with them.
*alone
That one guy starving to death next to a fridge full of food is pretty brutal.
When I’m binging Netflix but the kitchen is more than five inches away
i think he might’ve been too weak to open the food, or he had no idea he was there
Honestly, I think they brought his body there after he had already died, or was too weak and slowing the group down, it seems very weird the others didn't have cans of food on them when they were found dead, or that they didnt patch the broken window
@@juicybones1696 I know it's not the same, but I have a brother with autism who would probably rather die than take food that didn't belong to him.
@April Callohan but he mentioned there were 10-12 already open cans around, giving me the idea they were able to open some of them
this is easily the best suspense documentary i have ever seen, the graphics were amazing.
this style of content is actually so amazing i've never seen anythin
g like it and i love it
"He spent over $100 on pencils for no reason"
I mean, mood.
Me: well inflation makes it around $400 today....
Also me:... still though, worth it.
Maybe he was just sick of buying pencils every now and then so he did some calculations and bought enough for what he thought would be the rest of his life.
Swear I thought he said "pretzels" and I was like "well, its a little bit extravagant but I mean the home team DID win the basketball game so..."
But these are like, really good pencils.
He's the man from the math equations!
Jack Huett's body discovery is the most horrifying of all four. His father was the one who found the dead, rotting corpse of his own son. I can't imagine the unfathomable pain he must have went through the moment he recognized it was Jack.
If it's any consolation, all they found were scattered bones. Huett's father initially only found the backbone. So he wouldn't have stumbled upon a still decaying corpse, or even known initially that what he had found was his son. Which is possibly marginally less traumatic.
Your absolutely correct. It devastated him each day for the rest of his life.
@@marcasdebarun6879 his sons remains were with his jacket and jeans. He knew it was him from that alone. But pulled out his wallet from his weathered clothes to prove what he already knew to investigators. The dentist had to confirm it was Jackie for investigative purposes.
Could have been better, but it could also have been much worse
This makes no sense it was worse in every way, what if u fckn came across ur child's remains this is very insensitive of u
This right here, is a MASTERPIECE of a video. Thank you.
This is one of the first unexplained missing persons stories that caught my imagination and got me totally engrossed by the subject.
I’ve been really enjoying your new direction lately. Your old library is comfortable to go back and revisit, but your new stuff is really intriguing and exciting.
hi OT!
right?? i love this new turn so much
its nostalgic to see the old videos but the new ones
mwah
nexpo is rlly giving me life
but you do too btw
you and human no 1 are making me very happy :3 thnx
Why hello there
Oh hey man ☺
neat to see you here topic
RUclips is scamming you if they don’t pay you extra for this quality! Maybe you can get a Netflix show or something like that? I’d definitely watch it!
nope they pay for popularity
That would be epic
Nexpo needs a podcast at least
You should make a actual movie! Direct it, edit it :) I would pay to see that! Everyone support Nexpos patreon if you want to see more of his amazing content :) ty Nexpo another great video!
Stop being everywhere
Never have seen a youtube video with this format. It is increadible, truly awesome. Congrats🎉
If you like this video then you would like Lemmino's videos. His videos have similar topics and in a similar style!
THE GLITCH MADE ME JUMP OMFG
i’m sorry but when he said “commonly referred to as The Boys” i laughed so hard. also great video.
I cackled not gonna lie haha they totally look like a group that would go by “the boys”
these are "the boys" the go og ones to be exact lol
The THE BOYZZZZ emoji being so ~icy~ is suddenly very fitting🥶🥶🥶
@@odd.3y3 NOOOO OMG
@@brynn9670 they're iced out🥶
I think that they got stressed and when the car got "stuck" mathias started rushing them maybe because he was having a schizophrenic episode and was convincing them that there was some sort of danger. I also think that this "danger" was later confirmed to the 4 other men when they heard the screams for help of the car guy and so they started panicking.
I think Mathias was probably fine for several days after the initial incident, but his meds wore off after days without them. That's when the trouble would've started. I don't believe Mathias was directly responsible for what initially happened.
I don’t know much about schizophrenia but I would assume just like other mental illnesses that they are triggered by high stress situations..because of everything that was going on it could have triggered and episode along with his medication wearing off could explain why so many questionable decisions where made..and could explain why the others made choices that didn’t really make much sense, they might not have seen one of his schizophrenic episodes and actually believed the things he was telling them, like running off into the woods, not eating much of the food, etc..but that’s just assuming he actually had an episode, and it had some type of effect on everyone’s decision making..everyone assumes what would have been the best decision for them to make but to be honest if I was driving up a mountain in a snow storm and got stuck at night while hearing some man yelling for help im not quite sure what I would do either..I think what’s makes it strange is that they stayed in the cabin with food and heat and didn’t hardly use any of it..I think I would get warm, get some rest, stock up on the food in the cabin and any other supplies and try to walk to the nearest place for help
@@brittanyreed4377 I genuinely think that mathias and the other left ted in the cabin/trailer because of his frostbites and maybe were looking for help for their friend. Ted lacked a lot of common sense and I think he was the one who didn't leave his home when it was on fire because he wanted to get a good sleep for something important tomorrow. By that alone, I don't think he saw opening or using the food as a moral thing to do and may have considered it as stealing. And we can be 100% sure that mathias was in the cabin because of the open cans and because he was the most rational amongst them. I don't think we can judge their decision making because they were all mentally challenged (except for arguably mathias) and lacked common sense though I can see where youre coming from
@@brittanyreed4377 À common symptom of schizophrenia is believing food to be poisoned, so I could definitely see Mathias' meds wearing of and him then convincing the others that the food would kill them and that they need to get help some other way
Mass hysteria is really dangerous if it can’t be shut down quickly. These men, unfortunately, were likely very prone to suggestion, and the panic of being lost and stuck adding more stress. It’s unfortunate, but I’m assuming they waited for help and fell victim to the elements.
This was an incredibly well edited video.
Very impressive Nexpo.
no, but. Huett's own father being the one to discover his remains is so... I can't imagine what he must've felt. his son has been missing for months and now he knows what truly happened to him. i assume he's expected the worse at that point, before finally knowing the truth...
This story is so frustrating, because it FEELS like it should be solvable. Like there is one missing detail that would make all the puzzle pieces fit.
I mean, you are watching this years and years later, with all the info combined.
People were grasping at straws back then for info... no mobile phones, no internet. They only had "my son and his friends were missing" to go from.
The odds weren't also in their favor. They had HOURS to act on it, yet when they were informed of the missing persons, it was already a day.
Having a big search is just impossible in that kind of weather... you can say they were "expected" to be found dead... it just so happened that they lived for a few months before dying.
Always does, but it usually boils down to what you see
Honestly I feel like someone is lying, either Joe isnt telling the truth/ was hallucinating, or the fact that there were two sets of headlights there but only one car when they found it doesn't make sense
@@sharrpshooter1 the headlights were turned off shortly after I think so one of the cars could have got away
Well I still don't get why no one mentions the lady and the baby from the start also the couple flashing lights that appeared after a few hours when the guys left the car
"Spend 100 dollars for pencils,'
Artists: Same bro, same
Laugh in digital artist
@@topsyturvy6516 ain't u spending more than 100 on stylus too bro😭😭
@@cannonfodder-xh7ew Yes we digital artists would sometimes spend a lot of money on a stylus
@@sleepypomskii2153 as someone who spent a shit load of money on a Chromebook to draw on (regretting that), I agree.
@@soontherewillbesnow Damn, I'm sorry dude, but yeah we would go to limits just to draw.
Thanks for doing such a great job on a hometown mystery!
Honestly it’s horrible to think about but it might just be panic and bad decisions. As someone who used to struggle with mental illness and anxiety I totally know the feeling of that “oh god I fucked up, I have to commit, I have to keep going, oh god it’s getting worse” mindset. Missed their exit - distress, panic, don’t know how to turn around on a freeway. Keep going. Get “stuck” when you’re not actually stuck? Panic, don’t push the car but convince yourself you have to go get help on foot. Find shelter with food? Oh god it’s someone else’s property, if we eat this they’ll get us in trouble, etc etc etc. I can absolutely see the decision making here. Even without disabilities, people who are panicking and under pressure are more than capable of losing their common sense and logic.
Excactly
Idk that's to convenient for all of these decisions to be based upon anxiety. When you are starving and freezing to death I'm pretty sure the last thing you would be thinking is I don't want to steal food and heat for my life.
This is the best run-down of events I've seen so far
I remember when I was a kid, a bunch of my classmates and I wandered around the neighborhood, and came to an empty house. One of my classmates mentioned seeing a shadow in the house and we were soon all convinced that the house was being robbed. We ran to another house and called the police, who broke into the house to have a look, but found nothing. We had just gamed ourselves into thinking that something sinister was happening. I can easily see a bunch of developmentally challenged men feeding off of each other's fear like that, if they had issues with parsing reality.
@@Jollerygrokes "people who are panicking and under pressure are more than capable of losing their common sense and logic."
I'm not saying that's an answer for every fallacy, but it's the same principle why people take their clothes off after freezing to death. Perhaps they thought whatever was in the cans killed the guy 🤷🏻♂️
As soon as I saw the title of this video, I just knew it would be about the Boys From Yuba City.
What’s your favorite kaiju?
Never heard this story before!
Get your headphones and relax.. it's time for Bedtime Stories!
@@touko_nanami the Trivom Screamer
@@touko_nanami otachi
Your content is so good. I would genuinely pay to watch these videos!
I thought my laptop had gliched at that moment. Woah, you made this with great effort, thanks for sharing this story.
Apparently sometimes a heart attack is just a temporary inconvenience.
It’s not always a death sentence... but still serious. I believe he said in the video he had a procedure done after he made it out of there.
@Jol's Got A SOH I’m sorry to hear that. That’s much too young :(
@Jol's Got A SOH my friend was 19 years old, full bill of good health and turns out it was a thing in his family
Only 40-50% of heart attacks are fatal. Some people survive multiple.
Recent studies suggest period cramps may sometimes be more painful than heart attacks so yeah, they're serious and debilitating but not necessarily to the extent that a person could never power through one in a desperate circumstance.
If Mathias was off his meds for over a month, I doubt he'd be able to function.This might've also expedited urgency to leave the camp for civilzation, and probably impaired his ability to think straight - let alone set up a heater.
But still able to play basketball?
@@noodleboop6093 they mean while he was lost
Nah like science channel or id
Even on his meds anything can trigger PTSD like episodes in some. Hearing someone scream/ scream for help could have panicked him and made him run off, his friends may have chased him and calmed him and then gotten lost. Knowing his friends died and then seeing his third friend laying there dieing in that trailer could have triggered him again. Unable to stay, unable to help, unable to think straight he may have left again... Mental disorders are rough and so unique. And with each guy having their own set of challenges it makes this case quite sad.
@@drinkzcoffee5183 This could make sense but... Then we're talking the other 4 men not being able to identify there was actually a man calling out for help. If we're to say Mathias was unreliable, we can be sure the other 4's realities wouldn't be disturbed. Even so, if more than one heard the call for help, it would be significant enough to say it wasn't a delusion.
Since you've made me think of this...
1. Man calls out for help after seeing headlights
2. Problem is: he also had his headlights on - at least by what the video demostrated. So why couldn't The Boys see him or his car?
3. If we're connecting the two happenings - the man stranded could've called out and mistook hearing a woman - especially when you consider weather conditions.
4. The Boys could've turned their car/ headlights off to see/ hear the cry for help better.
5. Considering conditions and environment, it could be easy to assume that they went out as two seperate groups. A couple staying behind (would explain the window), and the others going to look.
6. Seeing where the first group of friends left, it wouldn't be a jump of logic to assume they followed the same path.
7. It could also be that the headlights/ sound of the car wasn't enough to bring them back, ultimately leaving them lost within the forest.
I'm not disagreeing with you in this response btw. I'm very familiar with mental disorders and live with DID. Though, we're talking quite a jump, especially for someone reported to be clear pf episodes for 2 years. It's an unlikely coindience that these two groups find one another, probably have similar experiences, then Mathias has an episode which causes them all to die in the wilderness.
Shones is too easily overlooked here. A lot of questionable decisions made by “the boys” come from Shones’ word alone.
The odds he was just in his car at such an isolated area during the time they showed up, let alone while he was having a heart attack after his engine dies, seems almost impossible. He walks back to get help, doesn’t try to hotwire or use the other car, and doesn’t find what he witnessed odd enough to be worth reporting initially. He’s the simplest answer, and his testimony has enough coincidental plausible deniability that’s it’s suspicious (explanation for why he was at the crime scene, and time unaccounted).
Yeah, he's sussy for sure. But he passed away a few years back and no one has brought anything up. I don't think it was Joseph alone that did something. Someone else was involved.
Yh its hard to buy that someone who had an heart attack manages to walk 8 miles in snow deep enough to get cars stuck. And him not reporting that he saw 2 cars in the woods that late and that one of them stayed there its crazy
I had that exact same car and it was a TANK. Absolutely terrible in the snow. It had a huge engine and a very light back end, and rear wheel drive. Powerful engine + light back end + rear wheel drive = LOTS of fishtailing, even if you drove as carefully as possible. Needless to say, it ended up in the ditch in a lot of snow storms. I'm amazed that car made it as far as it did under those conditions, in this mystery. Personally, I think someone tried taking advantage of them due to their gullibility and naivete.
When you did that glitch shit that made my heart drop. Scared the shit outta me it’s late at night too.
Ikr!!! That's exactly what happened to me, I was in bed with my earpods watching this at night and that part just made me shit bricks.
I thought my computer was about to die on me lol. I quickly exited the video before coming back and realizing it.
I kinda pulled the screen away under the belief I’d be jumpscared. 👁👄👁💦
Scared the shit outta me 😭 For real thought my phone was getting possessed
@@Aileenie I’m so glad I want the only one 😭 I almost threw my phone
This is sad and ironic at the same time. A man alone in the wood, dark and snow with a heart attack survived the ordeal but the strong 5 men together couldn’t.
Damn. The death can come to both of em but he said why i cant make this more interesting? Rest in peace, boys
And a non running car
@TGDS one was a schizophrenic and the others were lacking the intellectual ability or couldn't do basic tasks. i truly feel so sad for them, people with mental disabilities can lead to a fate worse than death.
The 5 men were handicapped so...
@benji they were challenged mentally but they were physically strong, but I'd say you're exactly what you say they were (I'd call you that directly, but youtube keeps censoring me)
That “journey back home” gave me goosebump while watching alone at midnight.
i mistaken your video with a lemmino video because of the quality of it. really a good job, keep it up. you just earned a subscriber.
It's kind of depressing to think about how the three men in the trailer were still alive when people stopped looking for them.
That's what I was thinking. It's so sad they weren't found earlier when they were still alive.
What an awful way to die😢
Its because they stopped the search altogether; and also isn't it sensible to check-in the trailer a few hours away if the weather is that bad to not continue?
@@yogitapurbia6704 that's what i was thinking, why wouldn't they check all the nearby structures like first thing? Like if you're a person stuck in a place like that, you seek shelter right? so why don't they check any type of shelter first. Unless they didn't know where the car was found at the time of searching, i forgot that part of the timeline.
its typical for the cops to give up on innocent lives, though.
What if they stopped, got out to look around, then heard someone screaming at them. Got scared and ran. With Mathias having schizophrenia and the rest of the boys being developmentally delayed, Mathias was convinced the screaming was aggressive and lead the boys further to go to the building they had mapped out.
That makes the most sense, which is why nobody will believe it.
@@watamatafoyu wha
This, plus the fact that someone else after them came to the same spot could've scared them even more.
doesn't really explain the foods that were unopened and broken window that they didn't try to fix though :/ But what you said about the scream and they got scared is plausible.
@@ImKarl Its pretty easy to assume they broke into the building via the window. The door could have been locked, frozen or even blocked which was then fixed when they entered via the window.
that "journey back home" and "countless unknowns" made my heart drop I got so scared
Dude this video was insane! Love the story and animations 💯
I think it's highly possible that they got scared when Joseph called for help because it was dark, snowing in the middle of nowhere then someone shouts for help. If that was the case, then that explains why they suddenly stopped talking after hearing Joseph's cry for help. Since they were mentally handicapped and one is suffering from schizophrenia, they may have been either too afraid or paranoid to heed the call of a stranger especially out there in the dark woods.
I personally would've shut myself. Have you ever gone hiking at night? Hearing that shit makes you feel like you're next
@@latenightthinker4737 Exact reason i don't go hiking at night shits scary
Would explain why the ditched the car as well. Scared shitless + schizofrenia from their "leader".
but there was a baby and woman in that group. Don't think Joseph ran into them.
I think they might have tried to help a woman with a baby, protected her from a pyscho bf?? Idk. But remember, the old man
said he saw a lady with a baby, if he wasent hallucinating them, maybe they got threatened and ran from their car and his and were too afraid to go off in the car and to use the heat and lights at the trailer.
This is straight up better than Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries
@obvliv._. It actually was as well.
Forensic files is really good
yup
Go check out Lemmino. That's the guy Nexpo is trying to model his latest videos after, so if you like this, you'll really love Lemmino
@@WobblesandBean Ive seen them
Here's my theory - they got out to check the car and some of them went to check the road, the old man who had a heart attack started yelling and they panicked and turned out the light
they were supposed to go home after the game, and they thought the old man was yelling at them because they did something wrong - they weren't sure what to do and were scared to stay there, which is why they left
but why were they up the mountain road in the first place?
I have been fascinated by this case for a few years, love your theories
It’s honestly insanely depressing knowing they could’ve prevented their deaths by a few simple actions.
Agreed. This story makes me extremely sad.
Its weird to me that nobody considers the fact that they, due to their medical profiles, didnt act in a way that someonr with common sense would. They simply made the worst choices and it ended up that way
They were in a horror movie.
@@djordjerasic7482 as someone that lived around special needs children aswell as adults, it’s extremely plausible.
Looking back on events always showed how a few choices could save millions of lives... ww1 is a good example of it.. but that’s 21st century insight they didn’t have-
Here’s the thing...every time I see this story featured and theories presented, it’s always a in a neurotypical way. You can’t apply neurotypical behavior to people with developmental disabilities.
Here’s my thoughts:
Schons allegedly suffered a heart attack, right? Well a symptom of heart attacks include blurry or DOUBLE VISION. He didn’t see two cars, his brain just thought he did because of oxygen deprivation.
Then the boys:
I think the trip to Forbestown seems reasonable as does the missing the turnoff. However it goes off the rails when when they get stuck. I believe this triggered a Schizophrenic episode in Matthias. He convinced the other guys that someone was going to hurt them. That would explain why they got out of the car and wanted to get away quickly thereby not moving the car. That would also explain why they turned the lights and everything off when Schons called out to them.
As for the not eating the food or using the heat source, it is likely that these guys had been told repeatedly their whole lives not to touch sharp things or fire so they only ate the food they could get into easily. The thought of using a can opener (if they had one) or lighting a fire probably terrified them.
Those are my thoughts anyway as a mom with almost 30 years of dealing with developmental
Disabilities.
So the best way to summarize this entire story is that they were just ¨dumb¨ makes sense.
@videoluver7 definitely Matthias. I totally. See that.
@@Saucequatchfilmz developmentally disabled doesn’t mean dumb.
This is exactly what I think. Every point you made makes sense, and I think this explains a lot about it
@videoluver7 I'm not sure of exactly how the timeline has been figured out, but is it possible that one of them (likely Matthias) was opening the cans and stuff, then left with the other person, and then afterwards the remaining one didn't want to open them for the reason given in the original comment and died of starvation/exposure?
Beautiful documentary, as always. I hope the families find peace and justice. Eventually.
7:04 man i swear when people do this it ALWAYS scares the shit out of me, insane editing and video btw man!
I've seen this story many times, and they just talk about how they think the men stopped because the one had a schizophrenic episode. You told the story with compassion and good points about each man like help they love to read to people in a mental home. You made each man a personal identity, and thank you for that.
As a schizophrenic I think he did have a psychotic episode and convinced the others they were followed as paranoia is very common in schizophrenics. I have no trouble seeing myself do that. I've done my fair share of incredibly stupid things while under delusions and paranoia.
@@informitas0117 And keep in mind that all others were of sub par intelligence... and then on top of that in a middle of a night in a blizzard a guy is screaming for help who is very ill ( and you can imagine how he sounded like while he was having a heart attack ... i mean you can be of completely sound mind and get spooked and scared by something like that ...
actually nexpo had strange screaming sounds, probably from mountain lion, in one of his reddit mysteries video... add something like that to the mix as well and the situation is clear... heh.. maybe there was mountain lion screaming near the car so they got spooked and diched it... ).
Probably all a cascade of misfortunate events and coincidences...
@@DreamskyDance yeah the setting and (if he was psychotic) him, their friend, being 1000% sure this was the right move - must have been very convincing for them. When you are psychotic you have no doubt in your ill mind that you could be wrong or that this extremely dangerous move isn't warranted.
A very tragic situation, might have been that all the schizophrenic wanted was to keep his friends safe from the horrors in his head.
The others must have been so afraid.
@@DreamskyDance You are both right.I'm surprised he didn't mentioned at all their mental problems.Even as a sane person, if I was in their situation and heard an ill guy screaming, at first I'd be scared shitless too.I think it was just an unlucky coincidence that Mathias had a schizophrenic episode when that guy needed help
@@DreamskyDance Absolutely agree with you guys. Such a sad and tragic situation. The food and heat sources being near is mysterious. Basic survival instincts would overcome eventually, or at least one would think. It's such an extremely frustrating case to think about. So many "what-if's" shrouded in utter sadness.
I have a theory: after a series of bad judgement calls due to their combined lack of expertise in these circumstances, the first two men die of exposure while the other three make it to the cabin alright. They stay there for awhile and are doing alright, but at some point Gary’s schizophrenia medication wears off and with no additional doses on hand, he experiences a mental break and runs off into the woods. Jack tries to chase after him, but gets lost in the snow and neither men make it back to the cabin. Ted, now alone, and suffering from a “lack of common sense” doesn’t know how to react or carry on, so he wraps himself up in blankets and waits for the friends who aren’t coming back. In this way he eventually gives up and succumbs to starvation.
I honestly think that your summary of events is likely the closest to what happened. In one interview with Ted Weihers family they mentioned that he once didn't leave his bed despite there being a fire because he needed to "get a goodnight sleep because he had work in the morning". He was definitely extremely reliant on the other men and I believe he was left alone and very well could have been the last to pass away
Bro if that's right then that's just an awful way to go.
2 sets of headlight's = 2 cars & 2 Flashlights in the beginning.
Maybe he didn’t use any of the supplies for himself so he could have some food and other supplies left for when his friends would come back but they never did :[
Maybe he was also sick in cabin due to cold and couldn't really get up cause of fever and passed away....
Bro the editing is amazing I be watching this and just be lost in the voice and visual feel like I’m there
nobody talking about how calming this dudes voice is? could honestly listen to him for hours
The strangest part for me is the unopened food and unused heating.
A lot of learning disabled people have a thing with avoiding getting in trouble, if I had to bet, they didnt eat the food because it wasnt theres and the only cans opened were when they were unbearably starving, or by the two who left after the guy died. The one who died in bed was the one with the worst disorder, he probably convinced the others not to eat it... died and they ate and left.
@@andrewfornes5458 they were coherent enough to play basketball on a team and drive. there is no way anyone could have convinced them not to eat the food in front of them. they are not potatoes, that is survival instinct. the question is how did they make it 19 miles without dying?
@@BerserkerVision they got that wetard strength that’s how
@@hanslanda8303 ok
@@hanslanda8303 lmao wow
THIS is what I'm looking for someone who covers mysteries and horror. Netflix doesn't do it for me, they usually dramatize it WAY too much and are too extra about it, but this guys just telling us the story, giving us the facts, and builds up the suspense much better
They stretched the Elisa Lam story out to almost 4 hours... extra indeed
@@austins.2495 RIGHT??? It took them 53 minutes to get to the elevator footage...
When horror is done right and they don’t overuse jump-scares it can just get under your skin striking that nerve just right
Cayleigh Elise's true crime content was also well done like Nexpo's, I miss her so much.
@@Killertiger2000 that sounds really interesting. im going to try looking for it please let me know if your able to remember what it was
Just found your vid. Very well done. I was familiar with the subject but this is the best iteration. Thank you for your quality work.
The visual were incredible. Really helped get a good idea of what happened!
I'm just glad that one guy survived his heart attack
@ItsAnOddMan my guy why would people talk about how to tell if you're having a heart attack... if they were just a death sentence? lmfao
@ItsAnOddMan my grandma has had four.
@ItsAnOddMan trust me I was right there with you
@ItsAnOddMan they work on a scale of severity. A 1 would be someone having chest pain and a change in beats/rhythm but who isn't at deaths door. A 10 is someone who has a major artery blockage, has already suffered cardiac arrest and needs immediate surgery to save their life
@@generichuman2044 what a scary way to go out :/
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My theory would be that Matthias had not been taking his medication (or it stopped working for him) and had been having thoughts that his friends were out to harm him in some way, which seems to be a common schizophrenic belief for the severely ailed. Very possible in my opinion that he was having an intense mental break and lured them all out there with the intention of hurting his friends first before they could get to him. Or maybe he got spooked and ran and his friends chased after him and they all got lost
Loved it. More mysterious cases Nexpo please !