Hey everybody, I didn’t mean to take such a massive break, we got home from our honeymoon and then a few days later we both got sick 🤦♂. I wanted to cover Brandon’s disappearance as I’ve been asked to do it a lot after covering disappearances that people found to be very similar, which you can find a link to here or in the description: ua-cam.com/video/2TBWvztUxws/v-deo.html (in case you want to open a new tab) What do you think happened to Brandon? Also, I’m back properly now so there will be more frequent videos again. I feel like covering another ranch so I’ll probably do that next week if I can find another weird one. Be safe all
I truly think Gosden was taken to some ranch of some super wealthy pedo. You should do an episode on how many ranches accross America and Canada and the UK are actually used for human trafficking. An episode on that bunker that was found on the concrete companies property in Arizona 10-15 years ago which was used to traffic kids would be a good episode. Shortly after it was discovered it was bulldozed and filled in and forgotten about.
The visuals are incredible. Well done. This case is crazy. I keep coming back to the fame where the search dogs alerted to the scent of human remains on the farm equipment. Apparently it’s perfectly legal for the farmer to stop cooperating *right at that point* and all the cops can do is shrug their shoulders and leave-nothing to see here. But to be fair, this story has been told and retold so many times that it’s hard to know exactly what the true details are. Sometimes the farm equipment incident is mentioned, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes his scent is tracked to an abandoned farm, sometimes not. Sometimes it’s mentioned that he left his glasses in the car, sometimes a pipe is mentioned, sometimes the doors of the car are found locked and other times all the car doors were found WIDE OPEN-sometimes none of those things are mentioned. Like any retelling, the details get looser with each passing year until the truth is shrouded in layers of fluff. I do know this: they should have found him by now. If it was a drowning or a simple case of hyperthermia, he should have been found. And the fact that authorities are no closer to solving this mystery today than they were in 2008 indicates that something went atypically, *unusually* wrong that night.
You can't argue against that. It's always a big mystery when someone just disappears into thin air, though. Someone or something abducted them, or either they fell into a hole in the earth.
@@genevacoan5826 That or an unused well known only by the farmer, hence the reluctance to have intensive searches on his land. I lean towards this. Second comes the aliens abduction.
I completely agree, but he was 19 and clearly not in a good state anyway. Trying to walk cross-country is the sort of decision I'd have made at 19. At 37 right now, I'd choose to wait with the car and simply phoned for proper assistance instead of ringing round my parents and arbitrary friends. The car needs to be recovered anyway and that's not something you can do by yourself.
Especially as a kid in a rural area, I did a lot of partying in the woods, fields, swamps and marshlands, beach areas, etc. Maybe it's because I grew up playing in all those areas before partying in them, or maybe just because I got lucky, but I never had any close calls.
Same here. As a naive teenage girl in the late 90s, I made horrible decisions. Decisions I would not make today!! Especially going places with random dudes we met 10 minutes before....thankfully I had a "guardian angel" with me in those days. I easily could have been trafficked , kidnapped, assaulted, or any other number of horrific things could have occurred.
Growing up an hour north of Marshall, I can tell you one possible place he is. Around that river and in other spots in the area there are wetlands. These are filled with aquatic grasses and look just like prairie land, if you don't know what to look for. But you try and walk in them you will sink in the water and mud and the grasses hide you.
Makes perfect sense as to what probably happened and why no one has found his remains. He should have stayed near the road instead of traveling across land that he knew nothing about.
@anonone8954 it's not easy to find a body in water. Here in Germany where I live, we have a large swimming lake. Parts of this lake are used as a swimming pool, with life guard and a beach. The rest of off limits, but people swim there anyway. A few years ago (2017) an old lady went missing in that very lake where I go swimming in the summer time, too. They only found her cloth on the beach, no one has seen her. A search, including divers, doesn't bring up anything and is eventually stopped, because authorities assumed the old lady just fogot her cloth at the beach and went home (🙄). We'll, 4 years later (!) her body turns up at the very beach where she left her cloth. Turns out, she somehow got trapped under water in a kind of under water mud slide (although this has never been confirmed), that not only sucked her under, but hid her body for years. The body was in a state that it has been clear that it had been under water and not somewhere else. For any Germans here: This happened in Rodgau (Hesse) in 2017 (2021 her body turned up again)
Id def.find that suss, why don't the cops why would anyone strange or not deny police to look around? Specially if has to do w missing person ,a actual reason , that right there is very strange wonder why dog. Stopped , thought the one place was abandoned,o and even if I were police, or parents I'd GO LOOK, when noone was around . Or get warrent if could ,
Now,now the farmer had a right to protect his cattle & livestock & grounds ,he was found after being mutilated by wheat thrasher vehicle. The farmer finding the ghastly remains promptly grounded him up for chili, now,now I thought he was a poacher or cattle rustler, now,now I have a right to protect my farm from criminals. How did I know he wasn,t,huh ?! Lol.Maybe 😮😢😅😂😅😂😅😂.
His remains were found by local farmer, panicked at being potentially accused of murder possibly, had ground him up for chili in the county chili cookoff. Lol.Maybe?! 😅😅😂😂.
KELLY! YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT FARMERS CAN BE SUED FOR HAVING AN ABANDONED WELL, TO THE POINT WHERE THEY CAN LOSE THEIR WHOLE FARM! YOU HAVE TO BLAME YOUR HIGHLY LITIGINOUS COUNTRY FOR THIS! IF BRANDON FELL INTO SUCH A WELL, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THE FARMER OF THE PROPERTY MIGHT BE RELUCTANT TO LET POLICE SEARCH HIS FARM!
the excuse of trampling crops wasn’t even valid if the fields were empty. With how many acres there are they could have herded the cattle off to different sections while the search party looked. I almost promise you they don’t care about spooking their cattle. I’ve worked on three different dairy farms I know how they treat them
That map is covered in farm fields with ditches and culverts. My hyposthesis is he fell in a culvert and the water pinned him under. There are farm fields near me where the ditches are 10-15 ft deep and can fill with water and that water can be moving pretty good. Falling in a river is usually more difficult because there are signs you are approaching it. Lots of land out there someond will probably eventually find his remains.
Those cops should've been reprimanded by the chief. He thought it was important enough to go search for Brandon, yet they didn't? Sounds like they're lazy and incompetent.
This guys disappearance messes with me so much I went to University in North Carolina with a guy who is also known as Brandon Swanson from the same community in MN. Only my Brandon was four years older. My friend told me that most people in the area thought hes drunk and probably drown.
I have a memory that may relate to many of these cases near rivers. Walking extremely close to the water with my mother as a teen, I remember how surprising the mud was. I sunk only a little, but my mom had her shoe sucked clear off in a few seconds. There was tremendous suction. She lost her balance and nearly fell in the water. I think she could have been swept away if I hadn’t grabbed her. We had to dig her shoe out of the mud. I think a person could fall in a similar way, or risk drowning trying to get their shoe back.
This is a very insightful comment and I also have wondered if at times people have disappeared into a mud bog.. sucked in and covered up. Especially after seeing articles of authorities finding bodies in mud bogs hundreds of years later on well traversed farm lands or on well travelled river beds. Your comment is now making me consider this possibility for cases I’ve heard in the past.
I'm a big follower of mysterious disappearances. I heard this story so long ago. But you have brought up so many details I never knew. Thank you for your excellent reporting!
Let's get bizarre! This is by far the best presention of this case I've heard. For me, the most bizarre part is around the lights he saw. Had to be more than one car, or one house with one light on for him to think it was the street lights of a town... Then there's the police response, or lack there of, regarding the locals...no warrants to search, no rounding them up for questioning...who had all those lights on at 3 am...
as someone who grew up on a farm, farms of that size especially tend to have several buildings. At night if people are working it really does look like it’s own tiny town. I think he probably seen someone’s farm; where they process and store the grain/etc
‘Lights’ I suppose we could go with the supernatural and say it’s an unidentified flying object. If it wasn’t lights off rows of houses , it couldn’t have been cars, they wouldn’t be static lights surely? Something startled him that frightened the crap out of him . Then he disappeared…. That incident in Manchester is enough to scare you out of your skin just listening to the story
David Paulides wrote a book about water related disappearances of men. Many were college age. Some were on the phone talking to someone when they suddenly sounded as if they were running from someone or something just like Brandon. Many found drowned in a river, lake, etc. Lots of strangeness in the woods. I have some that age. I would lose my mind. I feel badly for his parents. Well told story.
A theory I have is that the lights he saw were from a farmhouse, he started walking towards it and the farmer came out thinking he was an intruder and shot him. Realizing he was just a kid, he panicked and hid the body, thats why he refused to let the cops look and came up with the lame excuse.
@melissatheminx4710 so people trampling their seasons of crops and costing them their earnings for the year to *maybe* find them. No there is 0 fishy with them not allowing them to search on their land.
Suggestion: he fell in the river, lost his phone, got out, walked to where the scent trail ended, walked back to the river for some reason (looking for his phone?) fell in again and was swept away. This would edxplain all the positive evidence, assuming that the Mud Creek scent was bogus.
I have heard of this story before. You went into greater depth than the other sources. Given that Brandon was taking secondary roads home indicates he was inebriated enough to get a ticket. The alcohol along with extremely dark roads led to the misjudgment of the road and subsequent accident that landed his car in a ditch. I think if he had sustained a head injury, he would have told his parents. His disorientation though, makes me lean towards a combination of booze and a concussion. The lights he reported seeing to his parents were likely a hallucination. So, he is talking and walking and something surprises him, thus the “oh shi*”. No-one heard a splash or even a clunking of the phone hitting the ground. At this point he fell and was unable to talk again, though the phone remained active. He couldn’t reach the phone and it may have fallen into a boggy area. He had a close call with the riverbank, but was able to get out and walk north toward Mud Creek. I believe he fell into an old well and died, likely on a property they wouldn’t allow searching. I believe that the well is close to where the scent trail ended. I doubt that his bones will ever be found. I’m sorry for his parents. Losing a child is a special kind of hell that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Sixteen years is nothing when you’re grieving for your child. I pray that God grants them peace and comfort. ❤
That’s bullshit about the cows being upset!! I was raised on a couple ranches, so I am familiar with cattle & horses. They didn’t want them on their land. Why???
Yea same that's a factoid that's always bothered me about this case. Yea maybe a few cattle will be a little nervous about seeing random guys with dogs on the property, but most will not give a shit. In my experience with cattle, they're more likely to get in the way because they're curious than have a panicked stampede and get themselves killed lmao
Northern ranching is far different from Southern ranching. Down here in Texas, despite people caring about private property and will shoot you if you trespass, most ranchers appreciate law enforcement and are willing to help out. Up north, there is a lot more distrust of Government and police. Plus, they have harsh winters and any small chance of ANYTHING happening, could ruin their livelihood for most smaller farmers and ranchers up North. The risk doesn't equal the reward.
@@danielhicks4826 Wether its their land or not, if Police suspect foul play or simply need to locate a missing person, a landowner should not be allowed to obstruct an investigation or search. Its a stupid law that gives far too much power to land owners.
It seems likely he's on land the cops weren't allowed to search. So many missing people's remains turn up when land changes hands decades later. I get the farmers land-rites and all that but there are ways a discrete search could be carried out accompanied by the farmer. People are weird.
Good job on this. This case is just so baffling. As you pointed out, you would think that if Brandon were being attacked or anything like that, the parents would have heard something. I can't figure it out.
I don't remember who is was but there was missing person who had similar points in disappearing - when he was finally found his body was in an old well that had dried up and had overgrowth all over it, something like that may have happened here. May his parents find peace
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If he was drunk, he would not have wanted to sleep in his car because he was afraid the police would find him and charge him for being intoxicated while driving!
Phones back then were not as clear as they are today. Is it the sound of wind? Water? Static? Who knows. Dropped calls were also way way more common. If he was in a rural area he might have struggled for service.
(12:45): Thank you for highlighting the legislative changes that came about because of this case. It's a powerful reminder of the impact one story can have.
Your uploads just keep getting better, color me impressed. One thing I noticed when looking at the Topo for the area all of the watercourses oxbow, so it would seem unlikely for a body to travel far, lets say a mile or so at most. The area being as flat as it is and under cultivation a satellite look down photo, which was publicly available at the time, would have helped.
I say this could possibly have ended up in a tragic accident with no foul play being unsolved he had already lost control of his car beforehand which may indicate that he might have been under the influence before he disappeared
I absolutely love every video you post. You go into detail and that's a good thing. I've heard this story a number of times and you have introduced a number of things l had never heard before. The fact that you research and bring things to light that others have not shows just how much you try to get the full story out there. So I appreciate the effort you go to. Live Long and Prosper 🕊️
I think all they could have done is stand at the car 24 hours later, and look for the lights. I'm presuming they did this and it led them in the direction of the farm. This is the most insane mystery, and I'd heard of Brandon's case before but it remains one of the biggest and oddest. Just wish he had stayed in his car.
I wonder if they followed his suspected path at night on the same hour that he was on the phone to see if the lights appeared in the same direction that he was talking about.
It's difficult to say why Swanson made his exclamation without knowing the tone; was he resigned, annoyed, angry, or frightened? I believe that he made it when he saw that his mobile was about to run out of power. He'd been on the phone for some time, and it must have been many hours since he had the opportunity to charge it. His father hearing a ringing tone doesn't mean that Brandon's phone was actually ringing; when you call someone the mast generates a ringing tone to let you know that something's happening, and it's only when the mast can't connect that it goes to Voicemail. I also find it unlikely that he fell into the river. I believe he mentioned to his father that he could hear running water, so he'd certainly know that the river was there, particularly if it was in spate, as it would be making a lot of noise. Personally, I believe that he got to the road, saw a car approaching, assumed it was his father, and flagged it down. Unfortunately the driver did him harm and dumped his body a long way away.
Local here. I don't have much to add about the case, but would like to give some insight on a couple things you've mentioned. 1. I have no doubt that he was taking backroads to avoid cops due to drinking. It's very common. I've done it. My father's done it. Also, these small towns here are so small, they do not have local police departments. Cops we get are out of Marshall. Lynd, Porter, Taunton, all too small for their own departments. And at those hours, there's virtually NOBODY out on the roads, but people here do take backroads if they've been drinking. Hwy 68 is a road cops are known to watch. 2. January is offseason for farming. Harvest has been taken in, too cold for the upcoming planting, which would be done in late April, early May. Farmers might've been worried about startling cattle, but there wouldn't have been any crops for searches to destroy. Personally, I suspect he's either in the Yellow Medicine or the creek. If there's lots of scents at the creek, they should probably look there. As for the Yellow Medicine, I live very close to it. There's lots of stuff to get snagged on in those waters if the water's high enough. Lots of fallen trees and rocks and the like that he could've been snagged on, but as the dogs seem to indicate he got out, hopefully he's not there. I'm a fair bit older than he was, but this case haunts me. I hope he's found someday.
What I think many are overlooking is that his father said, after hearing the expletive, the phone cut off. The phone falling on the ground or in the water doesn't explain this. The fact that his father and the authorities were able to call and get multiple rings means that the call was, indeed, finished/ended/hung up. Some way, somehow, whatever Brandon encountered, most likely, ended that call... Edit: Correction. Brandon's call wasn't cut off, he just wasn't responding. His parents attempted to call him back but couldn't get him. However, the cops were able to call and get a ring. No answer.
@DonHavjuan He'd been talking on the phone all night, no problem with a signal. People called him and got through. But he, coincidentally, loses the signal right yelling the expletive... you believe that?
I'd had to re watch,old missing void vids, literally the day before this.I needed the familiar voice and mystery fix .And was wondering when you would upload a new one. et voila! This video appeared yesterday.Yay! Glad you are back .All is good in the world . 👍🏻😁
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Unfortunately, the phone "ringing" doesn't necessarily mean that it was working. Part of the process of a mobile phone "ringing" is the network trying to locate the handset, and if it can't be located then one of the outcomes is the call being sent to voicemail. If the phone abruptly dropped off the network due to a physical reason (and not the graceful logoff you get when it powers down properly) then this would produce the same effect. The same thing was seen in 2014 when people tried to call the MH370 passengers after the aircraft went missing, which unfortunately gave people false hope. My guess is that he tripped and the phone immediately switched off. This could either be due to the battery popping out, or the phone just becoming broken. If it was still switched on and working then the call would have remained connected, the screen or keypad would probably still have been lit up, and he'd be able to find it. He would also have been able to call his father back.
I think him falling into a well or something is the most likely explanation. It was dark, he had poor vision and was disoriented/drunk and he didn't know where he was so it could've easily happened.
The whole "didn't hear a splash" is ridiculous. Drunk people have no equilibrium, they're not good at swimming even in calm water. I believe he could have fallen in a sump hole or old well, especially crossing over farmland. This would certainly explain why he, his remains or clothes/phone were never found as well as why his phone worked for awhile then stopped, as it slid & fell possibly hundreds of feet to the bottom.
I had a relative that had jumped into cold water While Hot from physical exertion which Brandon may have been if he was walking for a while but my relative after hitting that cold water his heart stopped from the shock. And Brandon may have died similarly, And I know finding people Who have died in water is never a guarantee.
I have been blind in my left eye and grew up in a very rural area. I could have been drunk anywhere in the county and still known where I were if you dropped me there. I was young and stupid and driving while intoxicated is fucking stupid
I am not getting notifications for the channel. Very annoying. Anyway, this was a very good video as always. I’ve heard this story before, but this was an excellent re telling. 😊
So, we’re just going to pretend that a high school kid who was legally blind in one eye and attended two parties in one evening was still not impaired enough?
So where did his body go? 30 days of searching. Impaired enough for what? Are you pretending there isn’t anything strange about this case? There are plenty of cases that can’t easily be dismissed with comments like this.
@drewroosevelt6506 I’m sure there are plenty of cases that are very strange, however, this case doesn’t appear to be one of those. As for the missing body, there are multiple theories discussed in the video, all we can do is speculate. Other than that, there are no aliens, cryptids, UFOs, etc., to even consider this case anything other than a tragic accident.
@drewroosevelt6506 I would say there are always predators prowling on the weak, and impaired. At every party or event, you get good people and bad people. Maybe he was abducted by 'people'. Do you know how many people are abducted for and by the 'organ trafficking network's? ... We couldn't know. We can't know if he fell in the water and got sucked under and into the mud, lost, inebriated, with possible concussion(it's amazing the blows the body can take while under the influence of alcohol), partially blind, while distracted and talking on the phone(smart phones also tend to blind your night vision). I'm just saying it's not wise to immediately go 'paranormal' in your conclusion.
Not a trace of Brandon Swanson has ever been found and very possible will not be found . Brandon Swanson was lost and in a very dangerous situation . The next morning a farmer graded a road completely in area Brandon was very possible in . What really did happen to Brandon Swanson and what happened was final and no trace of Brandon Swanson would ever be found .
I don't understand. Usually scent dogs can't track if the person has went through water. The scent is normally lost. Although I could be wrong, maybe not 100% lost every time. I think the lights that Brandon seen could have been a farm. If he wandered onto a farm, a farmer could have easily thought he was an intruder or up to no good and shot him. We'll never know as law enforcement couldn't gain access to any of the properties or land. Another possibility is he was knocked down. I know the parents didn't hear anything like that in the background, but I think it's possible that it can happen so quickly that it could knock the phone or he could drop the phone in shock and it could hang up. Also, this could have been the lights he seen and walked towards then realised too late that it was a car. If someone was drink driving and knocked him down they could have put his body anywhere.
I thought the same thing about a him seeing a farmhouse and the farmer subsequently shooting him thinking he's a thief or something. The farmer could have easily then just buried the body on his land and not allowed a search. Since multiple farmers didn't allow searches of property it wouldn't stand out as weird. He could have seen the farmer with a shotgun pointed at him and that caused him to say oh shit and drop his phone which then hung up and then he was killed.
One time I was making a fire and was gunna roast some hotdogs with my dad it was the beginning winter and the lake nearby didn't freeze over yet and I saw a plane the plane transformed into a triangle of three lights and a bright orange spot light and it was floating around like a dragon fly and it became smaller somehow I got really scared and never go out at night anymore
So.maybe he suddenly came to river and his phone slipped out of hand and fell in the water. Brandon either falls in with phone, or maybe phone falls in and he gets in water to try to find phone. Maybe he finds phone or doesn't, but either way, his phone wpuld probably be useless. He then proceeds to keep walking, now wet, he eventually dies from hypothermia, and maybe he wandered to a location law enforcement weren't allowed tk search, or maybe it was just really remote. That's the simplest explanation I can think of
My husband is from a sparsely populated, rural prairie community. He and his buddies, and then later with me, did our fair share of partying such as described in Brandon's case. Lots of back roads, in the dark. Personally, I lean towards Brandon falling in an old well, septic system or sink hole. I highly doubt there is foul play involved. As for farmers not cooperating? Farming is their business. Just like any other business, it's unlikely a business owner would just let the police come in. People tramping all over their land could cause damage, and result in much more work and expense for the farmer, resulting in the farmer losing their planting window and crop failure. The police were local. They know all the troublemakers. If they suspected the farmer, or the farmer was a repeat offender, a warrant would easily be obtained. It sounds like there was no probably cause, and therefore no warrant could be obtained.
My understanding of the Manchester incident was the lad went straight up elevator road towards the water, after leaving the go karting place and likely just headed one side of the IWM and then over the rail at the side of the ship canal and right into the ship canal - not realising at all where he was and that he was so close to the water. Having grown up in around the ship canal, and thinking back to how it was back then - this was very plausible to me. I didn’t realise he had been walking around the quays for so long, I need to check it out again. Hopefully you’ve done a video as I find these excellent.
People dismiss it so freely, yet congress admits they’re around. I think many missing people have been taken. But….you know most STILL, even with proof and congressional hearings, testimony, they don’t believe it.
Do those towns have the occasional house before you hit the actual town? I could see me seeing a house thinking I’m near the river and assume it’s the start of the town?
Dogs are not actually as reliable as we like to think, and they do sometimes get sidetracked on very faint trails. Bodies take far longer to float in cold water, so it could have been a very long way downstream before his remains could surface, assuming they didn't catch on something underwater. I think his phone landed on the riverbank, while he fell or rolled into the water. The phone could have ended up under something where no one could see it, or washed away as the water rose. Sadly, this all could have been prevented if he had called for a ride from the party instead of getting behind the wheel.
It is possible the phone became unusuable to the user, i.e. the touch screen may have became unworkable but otherwise worked to a limited extent, i.e. it could have received calls but the user would not be able to pick up the call.
There is a published 'missing person' announcement online. Beside the discription of himself, it also lists the clothes he had on that day and the items he usualy had with him. Allegedly his cell phone was an motorola slvr. It had no touch screen. But that could also become unusable when it falls to the ground..so i agree with your conclusion.
You cant hear the splashing of water on the background because the phone mic is canceling it, like background noise whene you talk to someone you dont hear anything just the voice...
Hey everybody, I didn’t mean to take such a massive break, we got home from our honeymoon and then a few days later we both got sick 🤦♂. I wanted to cover Brandon’s disappearance as I’ve been asked to do it a lot after covering disappearances that people found to be very similar, which you can find a link to here or in the description: ua-cam.com/video/2TBWvztUxws/v-deo.html (in case you want to open a new tab)
What do you think happened to Brandon?
Also, I’m back properly now so there will be more frequent videos again. I feel like covering another ranch so I’ll probably do that next week if I can find another weird one.
Be safe all
Ty, & congratulations!! 🎉🎈🍾
Congratulations!
Hey welcome back Adam! Hope you and your family are all well 😁👍❤️❤️
I truly think Gosden was taken to some ranch of some super wealthy pedo. You should do an episode on how many ranches accross America and Canada and the UK are actually used for human trafficking. An episode on that bunker that was found on the concrete companies property in Arizona 10-15 years ago which was used to traffic kids would be a good episode. Shortly after it was discovered it was bulldozed and filled in and forgotten about.
Congratulations!
The visuals are incredible. Well done.
This case is crazy. I keep coming back to the fame where the search dogs alerted to the scent of human remains on the farm equipment. Apparently it’s perfectly legal for the farmer to stop cooperating *right at that point* and all the cops can do is shrug their shoulders and leave-nothing to see here.
But to be fair, this story has been told and retold so many times that it’s hard to know exactly what the true details are. Sometimes the farm equipment incident is mentioned, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes his scent is tracked to an abandoned farm, sometimes not. Sometimes it’s mentioned that he left his glasses in the car, sometimes a pipe is mentioned, sometimes the doors of the car are found locked and other times all the car doors were found WIDE OPEN-sometimes none of those things are mentioned. Like any retelling, the details get looser with each passing year until the truth is shrouded in layers of fluff.
I do know this: they should have found him by now. If it was a drowning or a simple case of hyperthermia, he should have been found. And the fact that authorities are no closer to solving this mystery today than they were in 2008 indicates that something went atypically, *unusually* wrong that night.
You can't argue against that. It's always a big mystery when someone just disappears into thin air, though. Someone or something abducted them, or either they fell into a hole in the earth.
Alien Abduction. What else could it possibly be?
Lights, the broken call, then disappearing instantly?...I just can’t imagine anything else.
@@genevacoan5826 That or an unused well known only by the farmer, hence the reluctance to have intensive searches on his land. I lean towards this. Second comes the aliens abduction.
There’s no reason for this if we’re talking about people with smartphones.
Sharing locations would have been simple
The farmers probably kidnapped him and fed his remains to some animals.
He should have stayed in his car until the sun came up….
Sure. Have you never made a bad choice?
Not trying to be confrontational. This is an odd story nothing makes much sense.
Yeah, and I should've never gotten with my ex...😊
I completely agree, but he was 19 and clearly not in a good state anyway.
Trying to walk cross-country is the sort of decision I'd have made at 19. At 37 right now, I'd choose to wait with the car and simply phoned for proper assistance instead of ringing round my parents and arbitrary friends. The car needs to be recovered anyway and that's not something you can do by yourself.
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When I think about all the stupid partying I did in the late 90s it's a wonder I'm still alive. Poor kid.
Especially as a kid in a rural area, I did a lot of partying in the woods, fields, swamps and marshlands, beach areas, etc.
Maybe it's because I grew up playing in all those areas before partying in them, or maybe just because I got lucky, but I never had any close calls.
@@scottcantdance804 Same here! Rural upstate NY where one dumb move in the woods could end with a bad fall down a long hill into water.
@@scottcantdance804same here. North Ga Appalachian area. So many bad things could've and did happen. Huge wonder I'm still among the living.
Same here. As a naive teenage girl in the late 90s, I made horrible decisions. Decisions I would not make today!! Especially going places with random dudes we met 10 minutes before....thankfully I had a "guardian angel" with me in those days. I easily could have been trafficked , kidnapped, assaulted, or any other number of horrific things could have occurred.
I still behave like it's the 90s.
Got few of my accounts deleted for opinions that aren't 'kosher' let's just say.
Growing up an hour north of Marshall, I can tell you one possible place he is. Around that river and in other spots in the area there are wetlands. These are filled with aquatic grasses and look just like prairie land, if you don't know what to look for. But you try and walk in them you will sink in the water and mud and the grasses hide you.
That's terrifying. If that's what happened to Brandon, that's such a tragic, horrible way to go.
Makes perfect sense as to what probably happened and why no one has found his remains.
He should have stayed near the road instead of traveling across land that he knew nothing about.
IMHO most of the 411 cases are solved by the missing being hidden in some body of water.
@friedrichjunzt If we could find some of the missing in water, it would help to back up your idea. Most of the time, water isn't far away.
@anonone8954 it's not easy to find a body in water. Here in Germany where I live, we have a large swimming lake. Parts of this lake are used as a swimming pool, with life guard and a beach. The rest of off limits, but people swim there anyway. A few years ago (2017) an old lady went missing in that very lake where I go swimming in the summer time, too. They only found her cloth on the beach, no one has seen her. A search, including divers, doesn't bring up anything and is eventually stopped, because authorities assumed the old lady just fogot her cloth at the beach and went home (🙄). We'll, 4 years later (!) her body turns up at the very beach where she left her cloth. Turns out, she somehow got trapped under water in a kind of under water mud slide (although this has never been confirmed), that not only sucked her under, but hid her body for years. The body was in a state that it has been clear that it had been under water and not somewhere else. For any Germans here: This happened in Rodgau (Hesse) in 2017 (2021 her body turned up again)
Aww God, I can't imagine feeling like my kid(remains or otherwise) is very possibly on someone's land and they won't let anyone look. 🤬
Id def.find that suss, why don't the cops why would anyone strange or not deny police to look around? Specially if has to do w missing person ,a actual reason , that right there is very strange wonder why dog. Stopped , thought the one place was abandoned,o and even if I were police, or parents I'd GO LOOK, when noone was around . Or get warrent if could ,
Now,now the farmer had a right to protect his cattle & livestock & grounds ,he was found after being mutilated by wheat thrasher vehicle. The farmer finding the ghastly remains promptly grounded him up for chili, now,now I thought he was a poacher or cattle rustler, now,now I have a right to protect my farm from criminals. How did I know he wasn,t,huh ?! Lol.Maybe 😮😢😅😂😅😂😅😂.
His remains were found by local farmer, panicked at being potentially accused of murder possibly, had ground him up for chili in the county chili cookoff. Lol.Maybe?! 😅😅😂😂.
KELLY! YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT FARMERS CAN BE SUED FOR HAVING AN ABANDONED WELL, TO THE POINT WHERE THEY CAN LOSE THEIR WHOLE FARM! YOU HAVE TO BLAME YOUR HIGHLY LITIGINOUS COUNTRY FOR THIS! IF BRANDON FELL INTO SUCH A WELL, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THE FARMER OF THE PROPERTY MIGHT BE RELUCTANT TO LET POLICE SEARCH HIS FARM!
the excuse of trampling crops wasn’t even valid if the fields were empty. With how many acres there are they could have herded the cattle off to different sections while the search party looked. I almost promise you they don’t care about spooking their cattle. I’ve worked on three different dairy farms I know how they treat them
That map is covered in farm fields with ditches and culverts. My hyposthesis is he fell in a culvert and the water pinned him under. There are farm fields near me where the ditches are 10-15 ft deep and can fill with water and that water can be moving pretty good. Falling in a river is usually more difficult because there are signs you are approaching it. Lots of land out there someond will probably eventually find his remains.
You nailed it
Don't forget unmarked wells, but culvert seems to be a good candidate, too.
I believe he got hit by a car while walking it was super dark and the driver(s) probably panicked and took his body
@@KylieNelson1993 but the dad would have heard that on the phone
Those cops should've been reprimanded by the chief. He thought it was important enough to go search for Brandon, yet they didn't? Sounds like they're lazy and incompetent.
This guys disappearance messes with me so much I went to University in North Carolina with a guy who is also known as Brandon Swanson from the same community in MN. Only my Brandon was four years older. My friend told me that most people in the area thought hes drunk and probably drown.
Funny, I dreamt I was chased by a Brandon Swanson, but he was from Utah somewhere.
Cool name!!
I feel so sorry for his poor father. I can't imagine. RIP Brandon, you are missed.
I have a memory that may relate to many of these cases near rivers. Walking extremely close to the water with my mother as a teen, I remember how surprising the mud was. I sunk only a little, but my mom had her shoe sucked clear off in a few seconds. There was tremendous suction. She lost her balance and nearly fell in the water. I think she could have been swept away if I hadn’t grabbed her. We had to dig her shoe out of the mud. I think a person could fall in a similar way, or risk drowning trying to get their shoe back.
This is a very insightful comment and I also have wondered if at times people have disappeared into a mud bog.. sucked in and covered up. Especially after seeing articles of authorities finding bodies in mud bogs hundreds of years later on well traversed farm lands or on well travelled river beds. Your comment is now making me consider this possibility for cases I’ve heard in the past.
Ive definitely had a shoe sucked off my foot by mud as well! Thankfully I was able to escape and not get myself sucked in other than my feet!
I'm a big follower of mysterious disappearances. I heard this story so long ago. But you have brought up so many details I never knew. Thank you for your excellent reporting!
Thank you for going into detail about this story. There are so many details I'd not heard before.
Let's get bizarre! This is by far the best presention of this case I've heard. For me, the most bizarre part is around the lights he saw. Had to be more than one car, or one house with one light on for him to think it was the street lights of a town... Then there's the police response, or lack there of, regarding the locals...no warrants to search, no rounding them up for questioning...who had all those lights on at 3 am...
But where exactly was the light? On a car, on a house, or up in the air?
as someone who grew up on a farm, farms of that size especially tend to have several buildings. At night if people are working it really does look like it’s own tiny town. I think he probably seen someone’s farm; where they process and store the grain/etc
He wandered around in a dark countryside, Who knows what ghostly beings he encountered.
‘Lights’
I suppose we could go with the supernatural and say it’s an unidentified flying object.
If it wasn’t lights off rows of houses , it couldn’t have been cars, they wouldn’t be static lights surely?
Something startled him that frightened the crap out of him .
Then he disappeared….
That incident in Manchester is enough to scare you out of your skin just listening to the story
David Paulides wrote a book about water related disappearances of men. Many were college age. Some were on the phone talking to someone when they suddenly sounded as if they were running from someone or something just like Brandon. Many found drowned in a river, lake, etc. Lots of strangeness in the woods. I have some that age. I would lose my mind. I feel badly for his parents. Well told story.
Sorry but he's a fraud. Look into it he stretched the true storys.to make it seem paranormal.
A theory I have is that the lights he saw were from a farmhouse, he started walking towards it and the farmer came out thinking he was an intruder and shot him. Realizing he was just a kid, he panicked and hid the body, thats why he refused to let the cops look and came up with the lame excuse.
Farmers not allowing dogs to find a missing teen is shady
Spoken like someone who only understands urban living.
@@honkykong610 Spoken like someone who needs to realise that a persons life is worth more than some startled cows.
@melissatheminx4710 so people trampling their seasons of crops and costing them their earnings for the year to *maybe* find them.
No there is 0 fishy with them not allowing them to search on their land.
@@jamesknapp646:39 the crops were empty....
Awesome as always thanks love the art this case is so strange everytime I hear it it creeps me out! Hope his family and friends find closure someday!
A partially blind and intoxicated man in pitch black area with no sense of direction! Bad idea 👎🏻
Suggestion: he fell in the river, lost his phone, got out, walked to where the scent trail ended, walked back to the river for some reason (looking for his phone?) fell in again and was swept away. This would edxplain all the positive evidence, assuming that the Mud Creek scent was bogus.
Totally one of the weirdest stories.
I have heard of this story before. You went into greater depth than the other sources. Given that Brandon was taking secondary roads home indicates he was inebriated enough to get a ticket. The alcohol along with extremely dark roads led to the misjudgment of the road and subsequent accident that landed his car in a ditch. I think if he had sustained a head injury, he would have told his parents. His disorientation though, makes me lean towards a combination of booze and a concussion. The lights he reported seeing to his parents were likely a hallucination. So, he is talking and walking and something surprises him, thus the “oh shi*”. No-one heard a splash or even a clunking of the phone hitting the ground. At this point he fell and was unable to talk again, though the phone remained active. He couldn’t reach the phone and it may have fallen into a boggy area. He had a close call with the riverbank, but was able to get out and walk north toward Mud Creek. I believe he fell into an old well and died, likely on a property they wouldn’t allow searching. I believe that the well is close to where the scent trail ended. I doubt that his bones will ever be found. I’m sorry for his parents. Losing a child is a special kind of hell that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Sixteen years is nothing when you’re grieving for your child. I pray that God grants them peace and comfort. ❤
The light was another town.
That’s bullshit about the cows being upset!! I was raised on a couple ranches, so I am familiar with cattle & horses. They didn’t want them on their land. Why???
Yea same that's a factoid that's always bothered me about this case. Yea maybe a few cattle will be a little nervous about seeing random guys with dogs on the property, but most will not give a shit. In my experience with cattle, they're more likely to get in the way because they're curious than have a panicked stampede and get themselves killed lmao
Northern ranching is far different from Southern ranching.
Down here in Texas, despite people caring about private property and will shoot you if you trespass, most ranchers appreciate law enforcement and are willing to help out.
Up north, there is a lot more distrust of Government and police. Plus, they have harsh winters and any small chance of ANYTHING happening, could ruin their livelihood for most smaller farmers and ranchers up North.
The risk doesn't equal the reward.
Because its there land, could be many reasons, would I have yes, would many yes, but many others wouldnt.
@@danielhicks4826 Wether its their land or not, if Police suspect foul play or simply need to locate a missing person, a landowner should not be allowed to obstruct an investigation or search. Its a stupid law that gives far too much power to land owners.
This has been covered by many channels but I have to say this was one of the best uploads for this disappearance.
It seems likely he's on land the cops weren't allowed to search. So many missing people's remains turn up when land changes hands decades later. I get the farmers land-rites and all that but there are ways a discrete search could be carried out accompanied by the farmer. People are weird.
Love the art in your videos and details you find! This case has always baffled me
Good job on this. This case is just so baffling. As you pointed out, you would think that if Brandon were being attacked or anything like that, the parents would have heard something. I can't figure it out.
I don't remember who is was but there was missing person who had similar points in disappearing - when he was finally found his body was in an old well that had dried up and had overgrowth all over it, something like that may have happened here. May his parents find peace
His poor parents!!!
HECK YES NEW UPLOAD. perfect time for me to tuck into an eerie mystery on a cold, cold night from one of my favorite ever UA-camrs!!!
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I always believed he fell in a hole like an old well or mine shaft.
Same
It was Aliens
This case always gets me. He was just a year younger than me, and i only live a few hours away in Minneapolis.
All he had to do was sleep in his car so frustrating.
If he was drunk, he would not have wanted to sleep in his car because he was afraid the police would find him and charge him for being intoxicated while driving!
Too bad he didn't call the police himself. So sad, those poor parents.
On a lighter note, Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
He probably didn't want to get into trouble or arrested for drink driving.
Phones back then were not as clear as they are today. Is it the sound of wind? Water? Static? Who knows. Dropped calls were also way way more common. If he was in a rural area he might have struggled for service.
(12:45): Thank you for highlighting the legislative changes that came about because of this case. It's a powerful reminder of the impact one story can have.
Your uploads just keep getting better, color me impressed. One thing I noticed when looking at the Topo for the area all of the watercourses oxbow, so it would seem unlikely for a body to travel far, lets say a mile or so at most. The area being as flat as it is and under cultivation a satellite look down photo, which was publicly available at the time, would have helped.
Alcohol and hypothermia though the absence of a body is mystifying.
I say this could possibly have ended up in a tragic accident with no foul play being unsolved he had already lost control of his car beforehand which may indicate that he might have been under the influence before he disappeared
If you don't know where you are, stay put. Why did he leave his only shelter? How shit faced was he?
The rule is *_STOP_*
Stop
Think
Orientate
Plan
It's so scary to know you could just disappear with little trace at any moment.
I absolutely love every video you post. You go into detail and that's a good thing. I've heard this story a number of times and you have introduced a number of things l had never heard before. The fact that you research and bring things to light that others have not shows just how much you try to get the full story out there. So I appreciate the effort you go to. Live Long and Prosper 🕊️
I think all they could have done is stand at the car 24 hours later, and look for the lights. I'm presuming they did this and it led them in the direction of the farm. This is the most insane mystery, and I'd heard of Brandon's case before but it remains one of the biggest and oddest. Just wish he had stayed in his car.
I've been watching this channel since forever and I still love your goofy little "great day, or evening" sign off
I wonder if they followed his suspected path at night on the same hour that he was on the phone to see if the lights appeared in the same direction that he was talking about.
It's difficult to say why Swanson made his exclamation without knowing the tone; was he resigned, annoyed, angry, or frightened? I believe that he made it when he saw that his mobile was about to run out of power. He'd been on the phone for some time, and it must have been many hours since he had the opportunity to charge it. His father hearing a ringing tone doesn't mean that Brandon's phone was actually ringing; when you call someone the mast generates a ringing tone to let you know that something's happening, and it's only when the mast can't connect that it goes to Voicemail.
I also find it unlikely that he fell into the river. I believe he mentioned to his father that he could hear running water, so he'd certainly know that the river was there, particularly if it was in spate, as it would be making a lot of noise.
Personally, I believe that he got to the road, saw a car approaching, assumed it was his father, and flagged it down. Unfortunately the driver did him harm and dumped his body a long way away.
Local here. I don't have much to add about the case, but would like to give some insight on a couple things you've mentioned.
1. I have no doubt that he was taking backroads to avoid cops due to drinking. It's very common. I've done it. My father's done it. Also, these small towns here are so small, they do not have local police departments. Cops we get are out of Marshall. Lynd, Porter, Taunton, all too small for their own departments. And at those hours, there's virtually NOBODY out on the roads, but people here do take backroads if they've been drinking. Hwy 68 is a road cops are known to watch.
2. January is offseason for farming. Harvest has been taken in, too cold for the upcoming planting, which would be done in late April, early May. Farmers might've been worried about startling cattle, but there wouldn't have been any crops for searches to destroy.
Personally, I suspect he's either in the Yellow Medicine or the creek. If there's lots of scents at the creek, they should probably look there. As for the Yellow Medicine, I live very close to it. There's lots of stuff to get snagged on in those waters if the water's high enough. Lots of fallen trees and rocks and the like that he could've been snagged on, but as the dogs seem to indicate he got out, hopefully he's not there. I'm a fair bit older than he was, but this case haunts me. I hope he's found someday.
What about the Aliens 👽
A golf course feels WAYYYY different than an uncultivated field lol he couldn’t be that dense
Ugh, this case has lived rent free in the back of my mind ever since I heard it first time. Thanks for covering it ❤❤
You did a really good job on this. I’m so confused. So I cannot imagine trying to make a video on this.
This is my favorite missing person case. I actually live in Marshall, Minnesota ❤
What I think many are overlooking is that his father said, after hearing the expletive, the phone cut off. The phone falling on the ground or in the water doesn't explain this. The fact that his father and the authorities were able to call and get multiple rings means that the call was, indeed, finished/ended/hung up. Some way, somehow, whatever Brandon encountered, most likely, ended that call...
Edit: Correction. Brandon's call wasn't cut off, he just wasn't responding. His parents attempted to call him back but couldn't get him. However, the cops were able to call and get a ring. No answer.
Nah he dropped it and it lost signal.
@DonHavjuan He'd been talking on the phone all night, no problem with a signal. People called him and got through. But he, coincidentally, loses the signal right yelling the expletive... you believe that?
@qiiii19 You're correct. However, the cops did, later, call his number and got a ring. No answer.
I'd had to re watch,old missing void vids, literally the day before this.I needed the familiar voice and mystery fix .And was wondering when you would upload a new one.
et voila! This video appeared yesterday.Yay!
Glad you are back .All is good in the world . 👍🏻😁
Thank you 🎉🎉
A lot of disaster stories start out with " I was drunk, and...."
It's really easy to get very lost, even when sober.
He fell in an old abandoned well long forgotten by decades of farming.
How on earth is it legal to have gaping holes in fields?
@@jamessones4044it's common.
You can say the word shit. It's vital to this story.
If it was up to me, there would be no policy on profanity
He can also not say it and get the point across exactly how he did it.
@@MissingVoidTVThere are plenty of channels much bigger that use the word “shit” in excess.
Exactly he's being a jobsworth it doesn't stop other channels from saying it
I AM FUCKING SICK OF PEOPLE SCARED SHITLESS OF USING PROFANITY ON YOU -TUBE! ARE PEOPLE AFRAID OF GOING TO SOME MYTHICAL HELL FOR DOING THIS, YOU DUMB BASTARDS?!👹👺😈
Unfortunately, the phone "ringing" doesn't necessarily mean that it was working. Part of the process of a mobile phone "ringing" is the network trying to locate the handset, and if it can't be located then one of the outcomes is the call being sent to voicemail. If the phone abruptly dropped off the network due to a physical reason (and not the graceful logoff you get when it powers down properly) then this would produce the same effect. The same thing was seen in 2014 when people tried to call the MH370 passengers after the aircraft went missing, which unfortunately gave people false hope.
My guess is that he tripped and the phone immediately switched off. This could either be due to the battery popping out, or the phone just becoming broken. If it was still switched on and working then the call would have remained connected, the screen or keypad would probably still have been lit up, and he'd be able to find it. He would also have been able to call his father back.
I think the call did remain connected. It said they hung up and called back.
I think him falling into a well or something is the most likely explanation. It was dark, he had poor vision and was disoriented/drunk and he didn't know where he was so it could've easily happened.
Absolute shame on the creepy farmers who didn't allow their land searched for a missing boy. Really hope they feel the wrath of God for that one. Wow.
BOY 😂 you mean young man
Stop eating their food. You want them to lose a year’s income to have their screwed up in a search.
@@agricolaregs hopefully you never need someone to rescue and look for you and they won't do it.
Did anyone check that abandon barn??
The whole "didn't hear a splash" is ridiculous. Drunk people have no equilibrium, they're not good at swimming even in calm water.
I believe he could have fallen in a sump hole or old well, especially crossing over farmland. This would certainly explain why he, his remains or clothes/phone were never found as well as why his phone worked for awhile then stopped, as it slid & fell possibly hundreds of feet to the bottom.
I was born in 1988 and graduated in 2007.... spooked!
I had a relative that had jumped into cold water While Hot from physical exertion which Brandon may have been if he was walking for a while but my relative after hitting that cold water his heart stopped from the shock. And Brandon may have died similarly, And I know finding people Who have died in water is never a guarantee.
Law enforcement solves less than half of crime and we can all see why.
I have been blind in my left eye and grew up in a very rural area. I could have been drunk anywhere in the county and still known where I were if you dropped me there. I was young and stupid and driving while intoxicated is fucking stupid
This case is eerily similar to the Brandon Lawson case and their names are even similar
WOW!
Except it’s all but certain that Lawson’s body has been found.
Lore Lodge just brought it up in their Brandon Lawson video from last week
I am not getting notifications for the channel. Very annoying.
Anyway, this was a very good video as always. I’ve heard this story before, but this was an excellent re telling. 😊
So, we’re just going to pretend that a high school kid who was legally blind in one eye and attended two parties in one evening was still not impaired enough?
He crashes his car and also fell down while walking around and lost. Pretty impaired
@ Yup, but I heard more than once in the story someone claiming the opposite, like “he was fine”
So where did his body go? 30 days of searching. Impaired enough for what? Are you pretending there isn’t anything strange about this case? There are plenty of cases that can’t easily be dismissed with comments like this.
@drewroosevelt6506 I’m sure there are plenty of cases that are very strange, however, this case doesn’t appear to be one of those. As for the missing body, there are multiple theories discussed in the video, all we can do is speculate. Other than that, there are no aliens, cryptids, UFOs, etc., to even consider this case anything other than a tragic accident.
@drewroosevelt6506 I would say there are always predators prowling on the weak, and impaired. At every party or event, you get good people and bad people. Maybe he was abducted by 'people'. Do you know how many people are abducted for and by the 'organ trafficking network's? ... We couldn't know. We can't know if he fell in the water and got sucked under and into the mud, lost, inebriated, with possible concussion(it's amazing the blows the body can take while under the influence of alcohol), partially blind, while distracted and talking on the phone(smart phones also tend to blind your night vision). I'm just saying it's not wise to immediately go 'paranormal' in your conclusion.
Not a trace of Brandon Swanson has ever been found and very possible will not be found . Brandon Swanson was lost and in a very dangerous situation . The next morning a farmer graded a road completely in area Brandon was very possible in . What really did happen to Brandon Swanson and what happened was final and no trace of Brandon Swanson would ever be found .
I don't understand. Usually scent dogs can't track if the person has went through water. The scent is normally lost. Although I could be wrong, maybe not 100% lost every time.
I think the lights that Brandon seen could have been a farm. If he wandered onto a farm, a farmer could have easily thought he was an intruder or up to no good and shot him. We'll never know as law enforcement couldn't gain access to any of the properties or land.
Another possibility is he was knocked down. I know the parents didn't hear anything like that in the background, but I think it's possible that it can happen so quickly that it could knock the phone or he could drop the phone in shock and it could hang up. Also, this could have been the lights he seen and walked towards then realised too late that it was a car.
If someone was drink driving and knocked him down they could have put his body anywhere.
I thought the same thing about a him seeing a farmhouse and the farmer subsequently shooting him thinking he's a thief or something. The farmer could have easily then just buried the body on his land and not allowed a search. Since multiple farmers didn't allow searches of property it wouldn't stand out as weird.
He could have seen the farmer with a shotgun pointed at him and that caused him to say oh shit and drop his phone which then hung up and then he was killed.
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Missed you!!! 🥰
It was aliens
You are so right it hurts!
_"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_
One time I was making a fire and was gunna roast some hotdogs with my dad it was the beginning winter and the lake nearby didn't freeze over yet and I saw a plane the plane transformed into a triangle of three lights and a bright orange spot light and it was floating around like a dragon fly and it became smaller somehow I got really scared and never go out at night anymore
Try debunking that lol
It is infuriating not to have a resolution to this mystery.
First rule of life when in trouble anywhere.
Stay put.
Just stay
Hmm, wonder if anyone checked the well or septic at the old abandoned farm.
Exactly!!
More private farmland needs searching
Fell ina hole farmer knows about it later maybe cos goes often around his land
Good idea and easy to overlook when not thinking foulplay
So.maybe he suddenly came to river and his phone slipped out of hand and fell in the water. Brandon either falls in with phone, or maybe phone falls in and he gets in water to try to find phone. Maybe he finds phone or doesn't, but either way, his phone wpuld probably be useless. He then proceeds to keep walking, now wet, he eventually dies from hypothermia, and maybe he wandered to a location law enforcement weren't allowed tk search, or maybe it was just really remote. That's the simplest explanation I can think of
I wonder if his drink was spiked. He didn't appear to drink a lot before he headed out, right? This disappearance is very creepy.
He did have multiple drinks, and we have no idea how strong they were.
Its simple,nothing was ever found cause he was taken! Ppl wanna go out of there way to ignore the simple things!
99% of us believe he was Drunk...
Bro... how small does your small town have to be for a community college in IOWA to feel like moving to the big city
My husband is from a sparsely populated, rural prairie community. He and his buddies, and then later with me, did our fair share of partying such as described in Brandon's case. Lots of back roads, in the dark.
Personally, I lean towards Brandon falling in an old well, septic system or sink hole. I highly doubt there is foul play involved.
As for farmers not cooperating? Farming is their business. Just like any other business, it's unlikely a business owner would just let the police come in. People tramping all over their land could cause damage, and result in much more work and expense for the farmer, resulting in the farmer losing their planting window and crop failure. The police were local. They know all the troublemakers. If they suspected the farmer, or the farmer was a repeat offender, a warrant would easily be obtained. It sounds like there was no probably cause, and therefore no warrant could be obtained.
My understanding of the Manchester incident was the lad went straight up elevator road towards the water, after leaving the go karting place and likely just headed one side of the IWM and then over the rail at the side of the ship canal and right into the ship canal - not realising at all where he was and that he was so close to the water.
Having grown up in around the ship canal, and thinking back to how it was back then - this was very plausible to me.
I didn’t realise he had been walking around the quays for so long, I need to check it out again. Hopefully you’ve done a video as I find these excellent.
Michigan is dogman central, anyone would shout an expletive seeing a werewolf
A kid dies and you make jokes.😢
He should've just stayed in his car and got his head down till daylight but I still think he was taken by👽
It’s the aliens 👽
If he saw lights? It may of been a UFO?
People dismiss it so freely, yet congress admits they’re around. I think many missing people have been taken. But….you know most STILL, even with proof and congressional hearings, testimony, they don’t believe it.
Tell your kids that if your car breaks down or in an accident to STAY WHERE YOU ARE! And if you do get out and start walking, STAY ON A ROAD!
100% aliens 👽
Were was his phone found
I like the hour long specials.
If he slipped and he dropped his phone in the water, would the other person on the other end of the phone hear a splash necessarily?
My guess is something paranormal honestly, sounds dumb to some but what other answers make sense?
These days, I've been thinking a lot about alien abductions and the possibility of those. Sounds crazy I know. But a lot of crazy things happen.
So if we believe he wanted to get out of the cold, and his scent was traced to an abandoned farm building… was that abandoned building ever searched?
Do those towns have the occasional house before you hit the actual town? I could see me seeing a house thinking I’m near the river and assume it’s the start of the town?
Those farmers have stuff to hide.
Dogs are not actually as reliable as we like to think, and they do sometimes get sidetracked on very faint trails. Bodies take far longer to float in cold water, so it could have been a very long way downstream before his remains could surface, assuming they didn't catch on something underwater. I think his phone landed on the riverbank, while he fell or rolled into the water. The phone could have ended up under something where no one could see it, or washed away as the water rose. Sadly, this all could have been prevented if he had called for a ride from the party instead of getting behind the wheel.
It is possible the phone became unusuable to the user, i.e. the touch screen may have became unworkable but otherwise worked to a limited extent, i.e. it could have received calls but the user would not be able to pick up the call.
There is a published 'missing person' announcement online. Beside the discription of himself, it also lists the clothes he had on that day and the items he usualy had with him.
Allegedly his cell phone was an
motorola slvr.
It had no touch screen.
But that could also become unusable when it falls to the ground..so i agree with your conclusion.
I think he fell in the water personally, but its quite strange how they didnt find his body if that was the case.
You cant hear the splashing of water on the background because the phone mic is canceling it, like background noise whene you talk to someone you dont hear anything just the voice...