THE MISSING - Most Mysterious Cases

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hello and welcome to another episode of  mysteries with the history where I'll take you on a wild ride into the unknown the  strange and the Mysterious like you I have questions and like you I want answers there's  more to this world than most think or believe Mysteries that stretch back into murky epochs  of time that hint of other Realms other worlds and other intelligences we're on this journey  together with each episode we will peel away the layers to look for the truth hello to  all of you amazing viewers and moderators watching this show live today I am so happy  everyone could make it now in 2021 there were 86 705 unsolved disappearances in the United  States for context that's enough to fill the Wrigley Field Stadium in Chicago twice over in  2021 alone in total last year there were 500 000 521 705 reported cases of people going  missing in the United States of those cases more than 485 thousand four hundred eighty  five hundred thousand were resolved within the year now taking a conservative percentage of  mundane explanations of 98 Lee is us with 1734 individuals who vanish Without a Trace in perhaps  extraordinary circumstances spread this over the last decade of similar figures and the statistics  are sharp and alarming what's going on and what are some of the most bizarre and extraordinary  cases of vanished people in this episode we're going to take a look into this mystery and  to help me do that of course we're going to bring in Puck the puckwaji and Jamie Church  of Fade to Black radio Jimmy how's it going you know I really like this Autumn sweater  that you have on that nice kind of burnt orangey Brown it's very nice give me give me  giving me the the fall Vibes the Autumn Vibes yeah somebody gave me the idea last night  and I wonder who that was you know and see you know I'm kind of weird uh I my closet  is sorted by colors right so I was like I'm going Autumn today I got the idea last night  so there you go it's Autumn it's cold so excited about the show today Christina finally we get to  do the gods of Egypt and it was so important to me uh to to do a full 90 minutes on the gods and  demigods of of ancient Egypt but where do you want to start today well I think we should start on  the strange disappearances of Osiris yes exactly oh man Jimmy Jimmy you're just  you're just Troll and people are listening they're like what is Jimmy going  on about straight trolling straight trolling um this is uh the the point of the show where  I say amazing topic this week I just an amazing topic and uh I have to we we did what one  two three shows on Egypt right right okay three shows on Egypt and then swinging over  to this what happened what were you doing what were you researching that you went off of  Egypt uh to mysterious disappearances of people we have done quite a few shows where the topic  of strange disappearances has kept coming up usually when we do the mysteries of a certain  State there is usually like one or two just really bizarre places and um I've been following  Dave pillidus's work for quite some time now but then also just kind of recently someone just like  poked me with something and I'm like you know what I think that would make a really good topic today  and while we have done strange disappearances and The Disappearance of airplanes and aircraft  I thought let's focus on the individuals I thought it'd be really cool today well yeah uh the  okay I'm just gonna give everybody the heads up um the cases that we are going to cover today  are are so bizarre and and so strange sad okay we're talking about people that have disappeared  and in in most cases uh completely unsolved um some have been found but not alive right  so you have you have that and and and what occurred is is unresolved and very very  strange um it it's very compelling uh to me um last night you and I were uh talking  for those that were watching last night um I this is probably seven years ago or so the  topic had come up um on on fader night and in real time you know as I'm dealing with you know  calls and and stuff um I just happened to punch in to Google how many I didn't know what this  number was and and I I had a number kind of in my mind worldwide you know you know David Pilates  and and things and you know research and I had a number in mind but my number like worldwide was  in the thousands that that's the number that I had and I punched it into Google and I found out  then that in the United States the number was every year you know five hundred thousand six  hundred thousand seven hundred thousand people go missing and you step back and you think about  now globally worldwide that number is astronomical and and those are the reported cases that's  right and it's it's it's a huge huge number now how many get resolved it still leaves hundreds  of thousands unresolved you know just missing and and the the amount like the numbers that you  were just quoting here this is something that um is uh how do I say it's disturbing disturbing's  the right word it's disturbing and then when you filter through and you run the filters and you  get to the high strangeness part of it it's it's it's a big big number this isn't one or two  fascinating things that catch our attention each year it's it's you know it's a hundred thousand uh  cases of high strangeness and uh so we're going to go through some pretty fascinating cases today  I've got my all-time favorite we'll save that uh for a bit later why okay yeah yeah yeah yeah  yeah I've got you know my all-time favorite and you know it's kind of weird to say an all-time  favorite strange disappearance of somebody that's never been resolved but but it's a it it's a  case that um just for me just won't go away so we'll we'll get to that well I want to hear it  mark tasaka thank you sucker yes that one came out really good thank you um so much and I think  that before we even get into the stories which again there are a good handful let's kind of look  at um some of the patterns and like these figures are just the the ones that you mentioned the ones  that I mentioned are just the reported figures so imagine the amount of unreported vanishings or of  those that people would possibly classify as the that the society doesn't necessarily care about  and that sounds really terrible but that is also a factor that we need to include and those people  that are are that are slipping between the cracks in a sense so these again when I had mentioned  the reported cases that was in quotation marks because there are a lot of people that go  missing that we are not the public is not aware of but there are a few things that I do  want to mention pattern wise before we get into the story so that our listeners and our viewers  can kind of connect the dots themselves and to hear certain things that kind of stand out to them  after we talk about the patterns Jessica thank you so much for the super sticker and supporting the  RV fund so as many people are aware Dave politis is is the one the main researcher that looks  into strange disappearances now he's looked at hundreds of thousands of reports but there's only  maybe a few you know a few 10 20 000 if that that have really stuck out to him and that's only about  one or two percent of these cases where he's like now these are strange and he's made Mansion not a  severe weather event often happens during or soon after a disappearance supper shot thank you so  much for the super sticker as well another thing that he mentioned is that they often happen in the  late afternoon now you would usually assume that if someone goes missing or someone is abducted  right it would happen at night right because the night time is scary but that's not the case Jimmy  actually it happens for the most part from his research it happens in the late afternoon next one  is Bonnies are often found in previously searched areas Jimmy that is a big one and one that we are  that we will cover in a lot of the stories that we'll talk about today is where people hundreds  of people will look usually through forests right they'll bring in their hound dogs they'll bring in  the helicopters they'll look through certain areas multiple times and then a week two weeks a month a  year later the person or their belongings either a lot the person either alive or dead will be found  in the spot where they had searched multiple times and and here's here you know with uh David Pilates  research um and I've said this to David um first off just never go to a national park that's no  we'll just never go but they're so nice number two um traveling in a group doesn't make a  difference you would think you know don't go into the woods alone well okay yeah that's  that's a pretty good uh rule to to live by but being in a group of people doesn't necessarily  uh guarantee safety guarantee safety uh and and so number three if I said this to David if  I'm going everybody gets tied to a string I'm serious everybody if we're gonna go we're gonna  go on this Trail everybody gets tied to a string am I laughing well you could just have a Locator  Beacon instead because of being attached to everyone like if one person falls you're all  Fallen yeah what's that I said what's that iPhone tag thing find your iPhone no the the the thing  you put it in your luggage right it's got the GPS tracker and you can track it with your with  your phone I think it's called the GPS tracker everybody gets a GPS tracker uh but yeah right um uh middle of the day um and in some of these  cases uh that we're gonna go through um I don't know which one you want to start off with first  but when you have uh we have okay hold on I was gonna get into age but ages don't matter either  apparently but what is up with Bennington Vermont Bennington Vermont I'm going to say this I  haven't heard polite he's talking maybe he has Bennington Vermont out of the entire United  States maybe the world has the highest number of strange disappearances of any location and and  and you could you go through the logs everybody just go to Bennington Vermont what's up with  Bennington for you will find these stats oh man uh some one day after another you know and uh  just absolutely bizarre so I don't know where you want to start uh today well there's a few more  patterns that I want to mention and Linda Lou Who made a great point is something else that is  a part of these strange patterns is that a lot of the people that go missing a part of these strange  disappearances not just not just the missing but that one or two percent they're either disabled  they have a high intellect and those of German origin seem to go missing in strange circumstances  more often why the Germans Jimmy oh we see Germans always see gentlemen I know I know I know it's uh  um and like I said here's the other part though um the age groups the demographic here uh there  there is no pattern right I mean you've got the the very young to the very Age and and all the  way down people that are in shape uh people that are disabled right uh young uh smart it just it  did there there isn't a pattern to it uh and I think when you say connecting the dots and and  seeing the symbol that's one of the similarities that uh is that they're sometimes there aren't  anything to connect right that you can't say it's this group it's it's this reason it's it's  this area no no except for Bennington Vermont um yeah that that place is um whack when I  did the research for it for today's show this location kept coming up and coming up and I'm just  thinking what is going on now I had mentioned it um I mean I have looked into it previously but  for today's show I'm just like what is going on and I know the the the highly intellectual like  many doctors and professors that's me it like it smacked very suspicious right like if there  was some kind of abduction program being done by some secret human group or aliens I mean like  who knows why would you take the super intelligent well okay let's go there for a  second let's go there they're um uh the Breakaway civilization right a term  coined by our good friend Richard Dolan um and and the documentary you know agenda three and and so  forth uh that that ran one time on the BBC and was never seen again you can watch that documentary  about the intellect of this planet being removed and going somewhere else right the Breakaway  civilization and the high number of disappearances uh I've you know and it's a big number that they  are just completely off planet now is that now this is something that Richard has spent a  lot of time uh researching and writing about um is is it a possibility uh the the numbers  would support that you know I know it's a crazy you know it's it's way out there but and we have  to we really do have to consider everything here um there's a lot has been looked into  you know uh Bigfoot UFOs serial killers um uh you know a secret organization abducting  people uh uh human trade and trafficking and and so all of these are possibilities um and  maybe it's a little bit of everything that adds up to these big numbers I'm not sure but  the Breakaway civilization agenda three aspect to this is something that I find very intriguing  and for somebody as smart as Richard Dolan who is very pragmatic is very black and white uh for  him to come out and like I said he coined the term right Breakaway civilization and he still speaks  about this uh um uh how do I he he doesn't want to he doesn't want to sound crazy he doesn't want to  sound like a conspiracy nut he is just looking at the numbers and the facts and saying where did  everybody go so there you go all right let's that's the best way to look at it but I still got  two more things that we have to consider before we even get into the stories that are incredibly  relevant well hold on Jimmy let me just finish it all right Jennifer dogs sniffer dogs cannot  detect a scent when they are looking for certain missing people which is super bizarre another  one is a granite rock is often in the area of a disappearance and people that pick berries  what a high chance of going of yeah of going missing raspberries yeah if you're a berry picker  you better watch out so if you are super smart German and a berry picker oh you're pretty high up  there strawberry strudel will get you a blueberry strudel those are delicious every single time  well you know also also mushroom Pickers as well mushroom picking story in Canada  do you want to hear that is it and it involves Canadian customs and secret  agents in playing clothes following me what's your story uh okay I'll save that for  another time yeah just say but let's let's get into the stories now that we've kind of got a  chunk of some strange patterns and there are more hopefully we'll be able to incorporate them  while we go ahead and tell some of these stories um but Jimmy oh and actually Roger thank you so  much sniffer dogs made me LOL did you override my hides and Long Grass thank you yeah make sure  to hit the like button it really does help the YouTube algorithm okay Jimmy so let's start off  with your favorite case let's go there I want to hear it I want to go with my favorite case first  I want yes okay don't don't save the best for last have dessert before dinner okay mine is outside  it does not involve Bennington Vermont mine I'm already disappointed Jimmy Melbourne Australia  oh okay The Disappearance of Frederick valentich and Frederick valentich um was I'm saying was  a 20 year old pilot and he took off uh while on a training flight uh at an airport right next  to Melbourne 125 mile uh flight heading south over the Bass Strait uh heading towards an  island on the evening of October 21st 1978. and he was in a Cessna 182 182l to be specific  and then on on this during this flight he radios uh Melbourne Air Traffic Control and  says that he was accompanied by another aircraft one thousand feet above him and he wanted to  know you know it's pretty close what's going on right he's calling air traffic control and  and they're they're like what are you talking about and at that time during the radio uh which  has been studied and documented uh over the years um the Melbourne Air Traffic  Control hears his plane start freaking out like the engine making noise  um uh you know engines running roughly and uh uh that there was something like a metal scraping  sound and then he says it's not an aircraft all right that was the last thing he said  his transmission was interrupted by more unidentifiable noise that has been described  on the tape as metallic scraping sounds um and at that point all contact  was lost fell off of radar he disappeared and never found never seen  again his plane gone uh photos that were taken um now here's Australia right the bottom part  of Australia and here's Melbourne and he's going south down at the to the southernmost tip of uh  Australia um heading south out of Melbourne is a lighthouse and the lighthouse is called the cape  Otway Lighthouse it's in the southern uh southern end of Victoria Australia and you can look up  the Otway lighthouse on on Google Maps and you can see where it is you can see pictures  of it a plumber uh and his name uh was um Escapes Me and anyway a plumber was taking  pictures of the ocean and of the lighthouse and he caught there's like five images  this object coming out of the water at the same time as Frederick's disappearance  that's right and now is any of this connected don't know what we do know is that  uh uh Frederick Frederick valentich disappeared was never seen again he was  20 years old his plane was never found um like 20 years later 10 years later a piece of  uh a cowling from the front part of the airplane uh not necessarily his washed up on shore on an  island uh hundreds of miles away that was turned in um and they only had a partial serial number on  it and the partial serial number matched hundreds of planes and one of the planes that fell in the  hundreds number was his but we don't know if this peace was from his plane his body was never found  they searched they did everything but but that's it and uh it's it's my favorite case is it a UFO  was it an abduction did he get shot down through a portal I mean the possibilities are endless  with that story it is it is a famous one it is one that is super intriguing and you know what I'm  kind of happy that we started there I think it's starting off with Jimmy's favorite story um is  fantastic now let's talk about Keith Parkins okay um Keith Parkins now I'll let you  okay I I I I I this case this case um what what happened we went dark oh oh oh nicely played why thank you nicely  played um two years old two years old this case um I'll let you do the background and then  I'm going to go into my Fantastical part of this because uh this let's see I want everybody  to wrap their mind around uh the facts of the case as as as you hear them go ahead Christina  so two-year-old Keith Parkins also of missing 4-1-1 Fame who in 1952 was visiting Ritter Oregon  to stay at his grandfather's rural remote Ranch the area was surrounded by Forest but Keith was  allowed to play out in the yard and on this day that is where he was his grandfather constantly  checked up on him at one point the grandfather looked outside expecting to see the boy playing  as he had been just a few minutes before but he was nowhere to be seen like in the other cases  that we will be looking into and there was a massive search one that was launched and it  made all the more urgent because there was frigid bad weather set to hit that evening  right which would be almost impossible for this little two-year-old boy to survive now  when Nightfall came team Keith had still not been found and it was considered puzzling that  he could have gotten so far so quickly without a trace the search went on the entire night  and when the morning came they finally located The Boy Alive lying face down on a frozen pond  about eight miles through the rough wilderness okay this is where the story is weird and there's  quite a few like this one where you're dealing with very very small children walking extensive  lengths usually going through pretty treacherous terrain treacherous like forested areas that would  be practically impossible for these little kids to do and the fact that this boy walked eight miles  in just through through the night when it was these extreme weather conditions that is almost  impossible but here's the weird thing he had taken off his jacket despite the intense cold and his  clothes were ripped though there were no signs of physical injury this is another reoccurring theme  when it comes to these very strange disappearances Now Keith was very lucky to be found but it's  not always the case in a bunch of other stories jackets are left on the side shoes boots things  like this articles of clothing even when the temperatures are so extremely cold you will find  jackets and boots on the floor and if those bodies are found they're not going to have too many  pieces of clothing on them and for this little boy again two years old to walk eight miles in extreme  weather with no jackets okay so that makes sense this is how bizarre this case is he was out uh by  the barn with his two brothers it's lunch time you get the yell out the window let's eat right and  so they they go the brothers uh leave him behind at the barn thought that he was going to come up  to the house he doesn't come up to the house they start eating lunch you know uh where's Keith oh he  was just with us they immediately go out he's gone and uh and that was at about 12 noon at  lunchtime um at 7 00 a.m the next day uh they found his body and the Searcher that  found him they found him in skull Canyon it was um Eight Miles Away by  map but he had walked 12 miles okay it was eight miles on a map if you draw a  straight line but the path that he took was 12 miles he's two years old little two-year-old legs  in the sub freezing winter in Ritter Oregon walks 12 miles when they find him he's face down in  the snow his jacket is is lying next to him um like you said his clothes were  ripped he had scratches on his face um the they suspected maybe a mountain lion  you know he might have got a two-year-old right got I I guess got the best of a  mountain lion because he wasn't eaten um and he was found alive uh the the question  is How could a two-year-old travel that far in sub-freezing temperatures overnight I it's just  incredible I'm so lucky that he was found alive and really with no extreme damage on him to the  point where the being attacked by an animal was not an option for him there was like a barbed  wire fence uh between him and where his body was and where his Footprints were and and and  so they thought well maybe but how did he get over the fence right they did that was like you  know so she's two years old he's this big just an absolute incredible story with a happy ending  I might add but a very perplexing uh to to walk 12 miles in in the car as an adult with boots and  clothes and gloves and and things 12 miles and some he would have a hard time getting it done let  alone two years old it's just an incredible story there is another one about Catherine van Arts who  was only eight years old when she went missing now there is that I couldn't find an image of her  online and I was pretty disappointed so instead I'm just going to put a picture up for a visual  aid here we go Jimmy do you want to tell this story well um this uh this happened in Arkansas  okay and uh Devil's Den uh State Park which is a 2500 acre Park and uh they went uh the family  uh uh went to go fishing and at some point uh you know they're fishing there's a creek there and  she just vanishes and uh to hear the accounts from the family she was there then she was just gone  they started to look around for couldn't find her um and to cut to uh the family's search First and  and they couldn't find anything they call the the Rangers the Rangers get involved the next thing  you know you've got hundreds of people involved in this search this search went on for six days  six days a team of volunteers uh who were in The Forest passed by a cave after six days and  she comes out of the cave and says what's up I'm over here and they come over and uh  she was literally waving at them casually like this and um now this was um seven miles  away uh 600 feet higher in elevation where the than where the place was that she was uh had  originally disappeared but this is the thing seven miles with a straight line on the map  just like uh Keith Parkins she walked they followed her footprint 30 miles that's right 30  miles and uh on the zigzagging course um all in harsh steep treacherous insane wilderness are  you ready in her bathing suit and bare feet yeah yeah and what's there's quite a few factors that  are very interesting about this story one of them being obviously when she was found by  people looking for her they asked her like how did you survive six days what did you eat  she's like I just ate some berries here here's the question there were berries all over that  location some poisonous and some not how is she able to decipher which ones were which when she  didn't really have from my understanding doing the research for today's show she didn't have  a good grasp on the outdoors and survival and knowing what type of berries to eat at the age  of eight she wasn't upset she wasn't hungry she wasn't freaking out she wasn't crying um you know  you would think you would have been dehydrated uh a lack of water food sleep warmth every all of  that she was in her bathing suit and bare feet for six days and and somehow made it to a cave  and walked 30 miles and then just said literally I'm over here well the the girl also supposedly  made some pretty strange remarks and she explained that when she had gone missing that she had simply  been unable to find her campsite or her father and brothers despite being right near them and she  would also claim that on several occasions she had shouted out to people searching for her but  that they had apparently not been able to hear her or see her she also stated that she had seen  the tracker dogs but had been too afraid of them to attempt and approach these dogs so according  to politis she made the strange mention of how she had slept in quotes warm grass on the first  night she went missing without really in a lot like without really elaborating on this  very cryptic statement on on what it meant and that portion isn't usually talked about when  it comes to this case because it sounds incredibly outlandish does it not the whole the whole thing  is is is just nuts six days in a bathing suit and bare feet uh no food um and back to your point  the campsite where the family was gathered was 100 feet from the creek that was it so that's that's  how far of a distance and and so you can see it you know and and how uh uh again it's  back to my point traveling in a group doesn't necessarily mean that you know you're  safe tie a string everybody gets a string everybody gets a string this is a heartbreaking  case this this rips um uh one time and one time only I was in a Toys R Us with my daughter  Nicole she's like three or four years old we're literally in the Barbie section right big  aisle she's right next to me I look she's gone two seconds I had a heart attack she was standing  behind me but I to my right and she's not there I head off that way I free I turn around and she was  standing behind me but it takes that long right that little break of concentration and and I told  her I told you ever stand behind me what what you know and and and I freaked out and it tie a string  you know you just never know and uh so anyway um the uh the distance between the creek  and the family a hundred feet many family members were there they turned around  blinked and she's gone and disappears for six days and as a parent that just  freaks me out I had a good ending but wow yeah six six days of panic and not not  every parent is that lucky when it comes to to this to these situations such as David Gonzalez  in 2004. and this one is also a really wild story I do have a picture of him and I'm going to share  my screen when it feels like working but here is an image of David Gonzalez yeah I went I I went  through this case um this was you know here in Southern California and this was a big case I  saw this this picture every night on the news uh for for quite a long time and uh heartbreaking  just heartbreaking go ahead I'll let you finish so this took place at about 8 A. M in July in 2004  and David Gonzalez asked his mother if he could have the car keys there was a delicious box of  cookies in the car and the nine-year-old wanted a treat now this car was only about 50 yards about  46 meters away and his mother watched him as he walked to the parking lot near the Big Bear Lake  campsite uh right in Northern California and she turned for a second just the same way you did  Jimmy and when she looked again to find her son he was gone so his mother had reported that she  heard no sound at all when when um she turned back around and the only thing that she could remember  was that she saw a beige truck speeding out of the campground around the time that her son went  missing but since there were no signs of abduction authorities didn't pursue that specific lead now  the cookies that David wanted to get were still in the family's locked van so David never even made  it to the car so rescue teams did a an eight-mile search around the woods attempting to look for  him but they found no signs of struggle or of the boy and the search went on for nine days but The  Rescuers never found him alive almost a year later hikers stumbled upon the boy's remains about  a mile from his family's campsite authorities initially chalked this up to a mountain lion  attack because there was one spotted during the time of his disappearance but how could have a  mountain lion silently dragged a nine-year-old boy a mile away without leaving any blood or signs of  struggle right if you were to hear if you were to get bitten or chewed up by a mountain lion you or  David anyone else would be screaming for his life but there were no signs of blood no signs of  struggle and the autopsy determined that any marks made were only done by Scavenging animals  nothing more yeah yeah no no evidence of a mountain lion attack and there were no mountain  lions seen there and certainly everything that you just indicated there would have been a blood  trail that would have been signs of a struggle uh and Witnesses would have seen a mountain lion  running in and out that part of this um uh that theory just uh has never held up and the other  part is the this area he was found a mile away they searched this area extensively I mean this  was a big big case here in Southern California um you know just 50 miles uh you know uh you  know Big Bear San Bruno Bernardino just right at the r