As an ER nurse, my first thought when you mentioned his description of his hallucinations was that he was tripping on either mushrooms or acid, neither of which show up on a standard ER tox screen. That would explain all the strangeness of this to me. Also when asked, in my experience, no 20 year old’s mother readily admits that their baby might have taken substances.
Got a point there. The weird curtain as clothing would fit as well. As a retired trauma nurse and paramedic, every case we had involving younger dudes and hallucinagens, hypnotics, and deliriants they are almost always nearly naked and sweating regardless of temperature because it effects the bodies abilities to regulate body temperature. DeHydration is kinda common withbit too though because from personal experience eating and drinking can be problematic. Scope out your trip site. Take a sober friend you trust as a trip sitter, and if you ate inexperienced then please seek the guidence of an experienced user that is calm and collected to help guide you in your trip. And if indoubt of the drugs authenticity, or toxicicity its ok to change your mind before using. P.s. sorry about the educational pamphlet i wrote. But we both know it never hurts to tell people that are gonna use to use some sense and be as safe as possible. Peace and may the mandatory overtime fairy never shit on your department. Lol
@@Hugh-Man0006No, this is all great information. Shame is one of the biggest dangers when it comes to substance use and being able to trust someone who will look out for you if things get weird is super important if you're going to experiment.
You would have to be extremely ballsy to take mushrooms or acid while camping with ur girlfriends family in the 80s. Like that would be ballsy now but even back in the 80s it would be a completely different type of crazy
As a retired senior psychiatric practitioner and prescriber, I agree with my ER colleague. The success or not of detection screening would depend upon the substance taken. You would also have to know what you are looking for - the broader your screening detection, the less chance of success. One reason why certain substances are more popular in prison communities is due to the time they clear the system, This is known for many pharmaceuticals and is called Half-life. Half-life is a number that is divided by two and added together until it disappears - as a simple example - and there are variables and possibilities for other detectable metabolites being present after the usual timescale - diazepam (valium ) has a half-life of 48 hours which means it may be detectable in most simple tests for 10 days after last dose -a related benzo =Lorazepam (ativan) has a half-life of 18 which equates to six days. If this chap had taken any substance it was probable that he did so before he disappeared - this is an easy e;g; and only relevant to this as so - hallucinogenics have their own properties and are often found naturally in variable doses source to source - so taking them is spinning a wheel and hoping I would look to the changes in behavior (leaving camp)as evidence of that as a fact - this is why, especially when an unusual unexplained action has precipitated a distinctive set of follow-up actions - you cannot look at the incident as a single event without considering the person as a whole - you need more info to inform the investigation. You need a comprehensive and truthful assessment of the person and circumstances -first and most importantly - any actions as a snapshot in isolation can be made to seem weird. I would be interested in any studies of the surrounding area that have been made by a mycologist pomologist or botanist - from there you might be able to discover what was around and relate it to the season to see if the characteristics match up to the event - of course, this kid might have just had a tab of acid in his pocket and decided to make a boring trip more interesting by dropping it - We have all done that eh kids? -but it ain't smart or clever
also possible one of his girlfriends many "friends or relatives" might have slipped him something, it was the 80s a little "friendly" hazing would not be frowned on nor particularly unlikely. along the lines of "beckys new boyfriend needs to prove himself, ie win our approval, to be accepted by the group." Nobody is going to volunteer that they used illegal drugs on someone for a prank and now theyre missing. Not in the middle of the just say no era
@@jamesknapp64 I didn't mean it in a bad way, I think it's great. I have ADHD and 9 time out of 10 that is exactly what my train of thought is like, and given that Aidan also has ADHD he would certainly know what that's like as well.
The description of the hallucinations, combined with the weight loss over such a short period, screams Amenata muscaria ingestion to me. Amenata mushrooms, famous for their white-spotted red caps, have historically been taken as a hallucinogenic, with distortions of perceptions of size being one of the trademark characteristics of the hallucinations. In fact, it is thought that these mushrooms are both the inspiration for the Power Shrooms in Super Mario, and the size-changing throughout Alice in Wonderland. This is the kind of thing a 20-year-old kid familiar with the woods might have heard of, but it's likely for a crucial detail to be missed: while the species of amenata that grow in Europe just cause the hallucinations, the ones found in the Americas have the added fun of causing horrible vomiting and diarrhea, which would explain both where Larry's pants went, and how he lost that much weight that fast.
Per Michael Reel himself (interview as an adult) he never hallucinated at all. The story about eating biscuits with his grandfather he was talking about BEFORE he went missing. He said the press got a lot wrong.
Yeah, after a dozen or more years of being fed what the story is, right. - Helping step-grandpa getting utensils from the car, uh? And eating biscuits with him before "disappearing"? I wonder what flavor those biscuits had. Vanilla? Caramel? Strawberry? Has step-grandpa been investigated? Alternatively, maybe, I guess the whole crowd in the Rhododendron park (including his father) was hallucinating seeing him dashing in and out of the bushes. Or maybe he got a lift up and down to expedite his travels. But by whom? Maybe he really did spend some time somewhere with a guy drinking beer and whiskey while he was under the influence of biscuits. Who knows. That nonchalant "hey". Completely out of it.
@@YankeeRebel1348Hey buddy, how much do you remember from when you were 8? And how long after the incident exactly did that interview take place? Your memory, as much as you may want it to be, is not that reliable.
Regarding the hallucinogenics and eating "strange mushrooms", psilocybin only shows up on blood tests for about 12 hours after consumption and isn't included in most standard drug tests. They could also explain everything seeming louder than usual and both time and visual size distortions
As someone who hallucinates due to mental health issues, I also do not recommend hallucinating in the woods. Even a small set of well tended trails becomes a confusing maze when reality isn't lining up quite right. And you may think "oh my hiking/walking companion(s) will stop me," only if they can overpower you and get you before you start running.
@trustworthydan my brother in christ, if we could "take control" and stop hallucinating, we would lol. Antipsychotics aren't a magical elixir that cures mental illness, and it's very common for people who are schizoaffective/schizophrenic/bipolar 1 etc and who do take psych meds to have persistent hallucinations despite taking one or more meds and following treatment plans. Doesn't work like that Chief. Also, hallucinations can be extremely disturbing, scary, alarming, and even re traumatizing as we don't get to choose what our brains cook up. The body and mind have a funny way of compartmentalizing trauma. Have a client (am mental health worker) who has visual and auditory hallucinations of the man who r worded her and it's awful for her, despite taking a high dose of meda and being hospitalized for long periods of time more than once in the psych ward. Unfortunately, the mental illness also causes hallucinations, paranoia and delusions to seem very real and prevents us from being able to tell what is real and what isn't
Not to mention the brutal side effects that psych meds cause (weight gain, extreme fatigue, brain fog, changes in appetite, difficulty focusing, issues with short term memory). Some meds cause permanent mental decline when used long term, and people are usually mentally ill forever not short term. If you haven't lived it and experienced it in its fullest most disregulating capacity, don't give psychiatric advice especially accusing someone of "making excuses". When you struggle with hallucinations, it's pretty indicative someone is doing pretty well all things considered and has "taken conrrol" of their life if they're able to access the internet, communicate clearly and effectively (disorganized speech is a major symptom of schizophrenia and psychosis), and has the insight into their own symptoms and js able to recognize when hallucinations have occurred and what was and wasn't reality. General life advice, don't be a dick ❤ peace and love brother
@@trustworthydanhallucinations cause by mental health issues are due to your brain sending wrong signals, you can’t take control of them bc your brain does it subconsciously
17:15 I’m not sure if you missed it from his interview video but I don’t think that was a hallucination more than a case of poor reporting. He said he told them his grandfather made him eggs before he went missing. Being a small kid and police being how they are, it makes a lot of sense that they misinterpreted what he was saying as him saying that he was doing that while he was missing. There was no hallucination at all. It was just a young kid probably rambling and describing his week how he remembered “eating eggs and bacon with his grandpa and then he was walking in the woods and he found a cabin and and and…” it was just them not understanding what he was saying or the order of what he was saying. Idk how many times that’s happened even to me where it’s like no you’re not understanding what I’m saying.
Yeah the police do a very bad job of understanding statements. I said I punched someone bc they pulled a knife on me and attacked me so they arrested me for admitting I punched him, instead of the other person threatening my life. They’re very ignorant towards the facts of the case most times they just want to come to a “conclusion” and get home
@@Xx_SemenDemon_xX100%. They don't care about the truth, cops care about the path of least resistance, what they can prove the most easily and will give them the least amount of paperwork. Candy Crush goon squad rise up lmao
@@Xx_SemenDemon_xX And this is why people should *never* talk to police. I know you know this, just putting this out for a reminder because many people don't know this. Always exercise your *right* to remain silent.
In the Eastern most mountains, under hot summer sun, twas the early 80s, when Larry D. had his fun. As the day shone bright, the dew on high flowers glistened, but then trees whispered lies, and poor Larry he listened. “Step off the path, there’s wonders just yonder”, in a trance he obeyed, a blank stare as he wandered. “The trap is now set”, the trees giggled and chortled, then vanished poor Larry, through an Appalachian portal.
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Deer actually do leave a type of bed, for when they "bed down" of course, but it's not an actual bed, just a flattened area that usually surrounded by tall grass so it might help keep u warm, if it was still dry of course.
It does take a bunch of different things to really make it happen partly being altitude it is possible however having tried mad honey it's nowhere near strong enough to actually make you hallucinate. especially not letting your body build up a tolerance to the toxins in it the amount you need to hallucinate is very close to the lethal dose.
@@dhelix85It's a very niche thing from places like mountains of Nepal that has to be harvested by climbing cliffs. For actual, good mad honey, you need to visit Nepal and pay the harvesters yourself.
active ingredient in shrooms leaves ur body in 12 hours, he would have got lost while tripping, good chance his gf and friends also dosed and likely was the entire purpose of the outing
@rosesweetcharlotte what kind of degenerate would do that? Lol he did so much shrooms he wandered off lost and nobody noticed how weird he'd be acting?
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Hey Aiden's. Check out the book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. By Stephen King. It is fictional, but the way King takes you through the woods in the eyes of this child who stepped off the trail and got lost is just amazing. There is mild paranormal aspects that present in a way they could just be a child's imagination in the dark at night. But maybe not. 😉 I'd love to hear what you both have to say about it. Relatively short book.
Wow I completely forgot that book existed! I must have read that almost 20 years ago as a teenager. 🤯 thank you for reminding me about this book, I'll have to reread it now!
Pray for Western NC and East Tennessee , I’m about 20 miles from Roan and we just got slammed by Helena. I can’t imagine things are much better in that community right now, especially given how much less connected they are to major highways and infrastructure
As a former EMT that has experienced a box breaking down while patient loaded, that's the part that felt like a gut punch 💔 i have zero problems handing a patient off to a different crew cuz they need a more experienced paramedic or equipment I dont have but a box breakdown is sooooooooooooo embarrassing
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“I once saw a guy shotgun two four locos within 5 minutes” lol so adorable. Also eating mushrooms while camping is incredibly tame, for those of us that can handle such a mildly intense experience that is..
You can always tell when I'm on shrooms. I laugh uncontrollably for 3-4 hours. If I ever get lost, just listen for someone who sounds like she is watching the best stand up comedy ever.
I was born in W. Va. and lived the first part of my life in the Smokies, as my father was a Cherokee from Tennessee. Old timers, (I'm over 70 now), used to tell of the Mak-mak bush. It was a small plant with only 2-3 tiny berries. I've never heard tell of anyone eating them, but the stories say you shouldnt get them on your skin. It seems they aren't hallucinogenic but instead cause something like sleepwalking aimlessly. But these were just old family stories. Back before TV, local socializing was a couple of neghboring, (within 5-6 miles) families getting together singing and telling stories. But this "lost hiker" story did bring that to mind. 👍
Do the berries have little dots on them? That's a mildly toxic native plant and of course I can't remember what it's called. Little clusters of a couple waxy, pale berries with dots.
That sounds like some sound advice, since clean drinking water can be hard to come by and you never know what might be in a stream in the middle of the woods, even if it looks clean you don't know if you'll get sick drinking it. I think there's a type of straw that has a filter in it, that's meant for that, but I can't remember how effective it is.
That’s true, I’d get a grayl tho, lifestraw is garbage and in the eastern US I’d be more afraid of pesticides and fertilizer and chemical runoff rather than viruses
@jerryrocketandthegogogirls3517 fair enough. I live in Canada, but I'm a city person through and through. I've never gone camping really, and so wouldn't know what to do really either way! Still, I would also be worried about that stuff, if I were to be in that situation, so it wouldn't hurt to have it on hand, ya know?
@@trustworthydan reading comprehension is a lost skill, it seems. We're talking about taking something to filter water with you if you ever do go camping or hiking, which would imply that we ARE talking about being prepared if going into the woods.
Cold, hunger, lack of sleep and fear can all lead to altered states of consciousness. That's one way many cultures ensured that certain rites and rituals proceeded as planned, say vision quests for example. You push people hard enough and they start to see things.
Why not include whistle to that list? It's so easy to just hold it in between your lips and let every exhale make you far more noticeable out in the woods. They're light and take up very little space. I remember them being standard in every survival kit when I was a kid, but now I don't see them as often.
Carry a compass that is good advice. My problem with that statement is that most young folk don't know what one is. I went to get one from an outdoor big box store in my town and the child working didn't even know what it was. Even after we told her it tells you north south east and west directions. She had no clue what we were talking about. So sad.
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So, weird quick comment on hallucinating. I'm not saying this is what happened, but two years ago I was sick with Covid and was feverish. While in that state, my mind went crazy thinking I was perpetually doing different tasks like digging a hole. It felt like hallucinating to me and I've never taken mind altering substances.
Another weird addition to this, when I got sick, we were on our way home to Florida from the Gatlinburg Tennessee area. This is only important because when I'd go to the toilet to "purge" myself, I'd come out of the perpetual task and at one point I told my wife that the "Witches in the mountains put a curse on me." Watch out for the mountain witches.
My first thought when how much weight he lost was mentioned, was that maybe he suddenly got hit by some food poisoning or something, had to go to the bathroom, maybe didn't quite make it and soiled his pants, so took them off and left them wherever, and then fever delirium took over from there, all while continuing to be sick and thus losing weight fast. He still may have had some shrooms before it happened, which would have only made the whole thing worse, I imagine.
To add to the illness induced hallucinating, several years ago unknowingly had a bad kidney infection. Hallucinated several Star Trek and Stargate SG-1 story ideas that I scribbled on an old electric bill... Yeah VERY strange 😂
EVERY time I get a Covid booster or get Covid itself, I have a very short extreme fever that makes me delusional and terrified that I'm dying. I cry with the kind of wailing sorrow that someone who throws themselves into their spouses grave does. I am totally inconsolable for around 4 hours, and then suddenly, I'm just over it. Fevers are weird. Side note: my kidneys started just shutting down once and the dehydration made me hallucinate and so delusional that I put all my bedding in the tub, and filled up the tub. Luckily, I think the water woke me a bit and made me realize it was dangerous. Delirium is also very weird.
paulides is cracked, man, he be making connections between nothing and nothing and calling it paranormal i like watching his vids bc it reminds me of my sanity
Hey its Jonathan. The newbie to your channel- strange, dark, and mysterious veteran from a couple weeks ago. Probably don't remember me, haha that's alright. Just wanted to mention this, thought it was kind of funny. I find myself having to prepare for your videos lol. What I mean is usually I throw on a case and just do chores or just let it run in the background from other channels. Not with many of yours. This is due to the brilliant detail you put into your investigative work. I have to sit down and pay close attention to what you have to say lol. It's a good thing. It's what I would prefer in coverage of cases like this. It's a compliment. Thank you for doing a great job.
at 9 minutes 40 odd seconds. In the newspaper picture, I noticed a movie add in the bottom right corner for some rather spicy movies. Porky's is a bit raunchy, but "Debbie Does Dallas"!!!! corn adjacent LOL
I think hikes had become such a mundane human activity at this point that we forget how inherently dangerous of an activity it is. Which is why it kind of baffles me and it kinda don't when people find it hard to understand other going missing while on a hike. I know it's fun to speculate and I know, sometimes there are external factors and even foul play; I'm not saying that doesn't happen, just saying we should remember how easy it is to get lost in the woods. I also don't mind if the videos is shorter, I just want a good concise episode, and I appreciate you not elongating the content to make the video longer when it doesn't need to be :)
all it takes is getting lost once and you start to rethink everything. we used to hike a few miles into the woods to smoke out of a communal hidden bong in the woods and we would get so stupid. there wasnt a paved trail leading up to that point so we coulda got turned around so easily. its not hard to look around for a second and then get totally disoriented in new places
The map of disappearance clusters u show in the beginning of this video also shows every town I have ever lived in....I appreciate your efforts to scare people away from moving here but it's not working!!😢
II just have this weird question. Is there any connection to a rhododendron that can cause psychedelic issues. Like ergot or mushrooms or something that they could have gotten into their system. Which would explain quite a bit of this story in both cases and when you describe the fact that there were airplanes. But dinosaurs and everything look bigger and it was all bizarre. I mean that's a trip.
Look up mad honey - I do think the rhododendron bushes _might_ have a role to play in both of these disappearances. Additionally, consuming mushrooms that produced “strong sensations” suggests to me that something chemical was likely going on (not necessarily psychedelic, but some level of confusion or disassociation) Now, whether that was a disassociative trip (datura experience reports gives a good example of this kinda crazy), or some kind of mental break precipitated by said chemicals, remains to be seen. Side note, appreciate this comment! I was getting ready to comment something very similar.
@@scripter13highly unlikely to be "mad hunny" as how would they consume it unless it had already been harvested? Wild Bees are feisty and typically won't completely abandon a hive
Ergot comes from rye so probably not that. But apparently bees using rhododendron pollen make magical honey that can cause hallucinations. I just think the dude took shrooms or cid or something and started freaking out and took off. Occam's Razor would agree.
as someone who lives in/ is from east tn and the great smokie mountains area, staying put its most definitely typically the better option than trying to find your way out because youre right, that place is HUGE and youll be harder to find, get lost easier, and it can be a really unforgiving wilderness with how rocky it is and how sparce civilization can be.
As a former SAR member, you are right, hallucinations typically don't occur until sever hypothermia, but people behave differently under hypothermia. Some people reach paradoxical undressing at mild hypothermia
People love to hate things. It's a very nagative mindset that a lot of people get locked into. They would rather give their attention to something that they despise than something they actually enjoy. Until, paradoxically, they can only find pleasure in hating
A major part of our development. People hate pain, disease, having to carry stuff for miles, bad water, boring work etc. The people who hated those sort of things ended up with antibiotics, cars, piped water and machinery. Those who were not bothered still drink bad water and suffer easily curable diseases.
"The couple people that loathe us but watch anyway" ❤ Fellas this was the historians most fascinating documentary! I wasnt expecting that huge climax or the twists and turns! Thanks!
Right? I drank two (and at the time I could and did drink a 6’3” guy - a daily drinker - under a table) and holy moly, I first should have been brought to the ER then admitted to psychiatric inpatient. I remember very little from the night but I do distinctly recall feeling rage at one point. WTF was in that stuff (this was 2010, so before it was banned, reformulated, and put back on the market)?
My EDC for hiking. Full bic lighter. Windproof matches. Small mirror. High pitch plastic whistle. Water purifier tablets/ life straw. Durable fix blade knife. Small compass. Forestry map. Small LED flashlight. 20ft of 550 cord. Bandana, usually two... Everything but the knife fits in a little leather satchel on my belt and I have never needed to use any of it in 25+ years of hiking, but I never hike without it.
@@otterbox8434 I lost power for like exactly 3 hours, thankfully I live like 3 hours from Atlanta so Helene was like a tropical storm instead of a hurricane
Aidan I love you're sense of humor with some of your stories. You really Do you're homework on your stories. That's why I watch you're channel. I LOVE IT.
My husband’s best friend, who being a a young man in his mid twenties took magic mushrooms for a hike in nature and ended up falling off a cliff, he is luckily he utilized the buddy system and is still alive. The narrative that he told the first responders, medical professionals that treated him, and his parents was that he was just peeing off the side of the cliff and fell. What he told me and my husband was that he took had some magic mushrooms because he wanted experience nature while tripping when he came upon the cliff he felt compelled to leap without reason, while he was on the ground with extensive injuries unable to move hours while his hiking buddy had left to get help he thought he had actually died and that being a ghost was being stuck in the exact position you had perished in forever.
Prayers for East Tennessee following the storm of Hurricane Helene. As well as all other states affected by it like North Carolina and Florida. These Appalachia stories hit a little closer to home today.
I am not a smoker anymore (one of the reasons being that is's expensive) but charging 100 bucks for literally, as they themselves say, flavored air, is ridiculous
13:40 Michael Reel specifically mentions in his interview, that the house he stayed in had a curtain. He was describing it to prove that he hadn't met a 'grandpa' there as a part of clarifying his story (shame the interviewer didn't properly take him through the whole thing!). Michael is very specific on this curtain, just makes me think the house Larry found must have been the same one Michael was in previously.
By and large this case doesn't seem too confusing or mystifying, at least not compared to most. However, I do think it's unusual that both Michael and Larry, having disappeared and subsequently reappeared within two weeks of each other, both made mentions of having visited a house. Michael thought he was at a white house eating breakfast with his grandfather while watching television and Larry stole a curtain off the wall from a house he visited. While I tend to believe that Michael just entirely imagined his experience at a nonexistent house and Larry just broke into a residence, it still does stand out to me a little bit.
Michael's story about being at a white House with his grandfather was misreported. He was talking about the morning BEFORE he got lost. Michael was in the woods the entire week he was missing, until he last night when he spent the night in an abandoned cabin. He was found the next morning.
This is really common for people who go missing in the woods, people just lose their minds and aren't sure what they're experiencing the entire time they're out there. They hear/see people who aren't there, have weird perceptions of their environments and basically are hallucinating just from what happens to the human brain when you're lost in the wilderness. It's especially true with kids which is why this one thought he was in a house with his grandpa for some of it. It's like that kid who went missing and claimed he was in a cave with his fake grandma who he thought might have been a robot, or the other kid who got lost in the woods and said animals were swarming all over/jumping over him all day and night. People just completely lose it
Hey! You guys may want to look into the unsolved murders in Letcher county KY. Some of the cases are rumored to be connected to corruption within the courthouse there, and I think y’all would do a great job looking into this.
LSD can't b found in human tissue's or blood long after use, plus most drug test won't detect it, it takes some super sensitive equipment that isn't readily available to most doctors, I doubt that they would've been able to find anything. Even cocaine is usually gone after 3 days, especially if u don't have much fat. Hope this helps
Just because you have grown up in the woods hunting, fishing, hiking, etc doesn’t mean you can’t step off the trail because you know you are experienced and get turned around really damn easily - it’s damn easy to do because things start to look identical damn fast. It’s amazing to me people think because they are experienced in the woods they are incapable of getting lost and unless your experienced in being lost, experience in the woods helps but doesn’t negate you from getting royally lost. As far as the delirious state - you walk around 3 days with no water, you’ll come out of the woods talking to yourself
Botany: Rohedendren (spelling???), is known in ethnobotany and is a key ingredient in various psychoactive honeys. It is also poisonous and psychoactive if eaten raw. Roman historians wrote about some enemy tribes poisoning a Roman legion Easily researched. Thanks.
Just wanted to say thank you for giving a thorough second opinion on some of these stories. I accidentally found Missing 411 on Prime trying to find something to watch and was intrigued. The subsequent follow ups were a bit of a let down as I also found Mr. Polides seemed make a leap to the paranormal with his bias showing more than it should. Still love the guy, his heart is in the right place and he shared some interesting stories. Thank you again for going the extra mile.
He is knowingly lying, he is a confirmed liar and clearly a master manipulator. People like you are the only reason he hasn't been exposed, so many have fallen for his emotional manipulation
Psychedelics make a lot of sense. I think that they were taken before he vanished. This is the most open and shut case in this cluster imo. For anyone that's curious, I speak from experience. The woods are overrated for tripping. You are more likely to find the horror in things. And you may get lost. Also, be a good partner and don't do that when you're with their parents. That's just giving me second hand embarrassment.
My experience with "magic" mushrooms... is that some can hit you via skin contact alone. resting your hand on top of a clump of them while filling a canteen might do it.
You've never done hallucinogenic if you think you're likely to just walk off into the woods. Maybe if you dropped a couple thousand microdots or something, but nobody does that on a date with their SO's parents. I think a hallucinogenic answer is cope.
@@marhawkman303That's bullshit, seeing as how psilocybin needs to be ingested in order to have any effect other than smelling like shit. It's the food poisoning that makes you trip, buddy.
@@marhawkman303if your only experience is that one time when you were a teenager, you simply don't have any actual experience. A simple google search could have educated you enough to know that simply can't happen. LSD can activate via skin contact, though, so it's possible somebody dosed him without his knowledge. I have a hard time seeing anyone intentionally trip around their girlfriends family. Maybe their siblings, almost definitely not the whole fuckin family reunion.
Larry Davenport sounds like he was high on something. It might have been dropped into something he drank as a bad joke. The losing his clothes sounds like it might be, I don't see anyone in a normal state of mind running around naked in the brush. It would also explain him not being able to tell what happened,
As someone getting to my 20s if someone was like "bro, let's go to this natural wonder and take some shrooms" I'd be like "damn, sounds cool" so it definitely doesn't seem too far off
So I know I should say something about the excellent comprehensive research, easy to understand and balanced delivery, but really what made me comment was that nod to the Nittany Lions. WE ARE! But for real, love your content!
Love your channel... but Being from NC, hearing you say things like Hickory, Charlotte observer, and things like that is, really .... well, kinda disconcerting. I mean, I know how weird the place is, but funding out others know is kind of odd. Keep up the great work
Lol. “Hot day… it was upper 80s.” I guess that is hot to some people. That’s a break in the heat for where I live. We had a “cool front” come through this weekend and everyone is talking about how great the weather is and it hasn’t dipped below 85. 😂
We went camping out in the mountains in NC and we were often told if we did go out into the woods off trail find water and follow it the best you can is still your best bet. Even if there isn't a civilization nearby there's many camo grounds, fishing boat docks. People who might be driving the boats around that general direction and it's fairly easy to make a quick cane pole from alot of stuff you can find in the mountains so you can fairly easily catch some fish even if it's simple brim or something like that to eat plus most trails attach to the rivers so you can atleast have a better chance of re finding a good trail even if you don't find campgrounds with people or whatever you atleast end up finding a good trail that should have some type of marking to get you back if you do follow water. Obviously ypu don't have unlimited time but follow water long enough you will run into civilization eventually.
As an ER nurse, my first thought when you mentioned his description of his hallucinations was that he was tripping on either mushrooms or acid, neither of which show up on a standard ER tox screen. That would explain all the strangeness of this to me. Also when asked, in my experience, no 20 year old’s mother readily admits that their baby might have taken substances.
Got a point there. The weird curtain as clothing would fit as well. As a retired trauma nurse and paramedic, every case we had involving younger dudes and hallucinagens, hypnotics, and deliriants they are almost always nearly naked and sweating regardless of temperature because it effects the bodies abilities to regulate body temperature. DeHydration is kinda common withbit too though because from personal experience eating and drinking can be problematic. Scope out your trip site. Take a sober friend you trust as a trip sitter, and if you ate inexperienced then please seek the guidence of an experienced user that is calm and collected to help guide you in your trip. And if indoubt of the drugs authenticity, or toxicicity its ok to change your mind before using.
P.s. sorry about the educational pamphlet i wrote. But we both know it never hurts to tell people that are gonna use to use some sense and be as safe as possible. Peace and may the mandatory overtime fairy never shit on your department. Lol
@@Hugh-Man0006No, this is all great information. Shame is one of the biggest dangers when it comes to substance use and being able to trust someone who will look out for you if things get weird is super important if you're going to experiment.
You would have to be extremely ballsy to take mushrooms or acid while camping with ur girlfriends family in the 80s. Like that would be ballsy now but even back in the 80s it would be a completely different type of crazy
As a retired senior psychiatric practitioner and prescriber, I agree with my ER colleague. The success or not of detection screening would depend upon the substance taken. You would also have to know what you are looking for - the broader your screening detection, the less chance of success. One reason why certain substances are more popular in prison communities is due to the time they clear the system, This is known for many pharmaceuticals and is called Half-life.
Half-life is a number that is divided by two and added together until it disappears - as a simple example - and there are variables and possibilities for other detectable metabolites being present after the usual timescale - diazepam (valium ) has a half-life of 48 hours which means it may be detectable in most simple tests for 10 days after last dose -a related benzo =Lorazepam (ativan) has a half-life of 18 which equates to six days. If this chap had taken any substance it was probable that he did so before he disappeared - this is an easy e;g; and only relevant to this as so - hallucinogenics have their own properties and are often found naturally in variable doses source to source - so taking them is spinning a wheel and hoping
I would look to the changes in behavior (leaving camp)as evidence of that as a fact - this is why, especially when an unusual unexplained action has precipitated a distinctive set of follow-up actions - you cannot look at the incident as a single event without considering the person as a whole - you need more info to inform the investigation. You need a comprehensive and truthful assessment of the person and circumstances -first and most importantly - any actions as a snapshot in isolation can be made to seem weird.
I would be interested in any studies of the surrounding area that have been made by a mycologist pomologist or botanist - from there you might be able to discover what was around and relate it to the season to see if the characteristics match up to the event - of course, this kid might have just had a tab of acid in his pocket and decided to make a boring trip more interesting by dropping it - We have all done that eh kids? -but it ain't smart or clever
also possible one of his girlfriends many "friends or relatives" might have slipped him something, it was the 80s a little "friendly" hazing would not be frowned on nor particularly unlikely. along the lines of "beckys new boyfriend needs to prove himself, ie win our approval, to be accepted by the group." Nobody is going to volunteer that they used illegal drugs on someone for a prank and now theyre missing. Not in the middle of the just say no era
Don't do drugs and hike folks, the magical hill folk will take your shorts.
Let's go to candy mountain
I never hike sober
It's fun to commune with nature. The problem isn't tripping in the wilderness, it's not having a sitter. As is the cause of all bad trips.
Lmao this wasn't drugs
@@matthewthomas3413CHARLIEEEEEEE
Man, if I ever go missing, I don't want you to call the cops, I want you to call the lore lodge.
😂
Me too! 😂😂
That ad read transition was like an ADHD train of thought.
Perfect read transition is what I saw.
@@jamesknapp64 I didn't mean it in a bad way, I think it's great. I have ADHD and 9 time out of 10 that is exactly what my train of thought is like, and given that Aidan also has ADHD he would certainly know what that's like as well.
I followed it so easily 😅 neurospicy solidarity
Haha now that you mention it I totally see that
Made me laugh 🤣
The description of the hallucinations, combined with the weight loss over such a short period, screams Amenata muscaria ingestion to me. Amenata mushrooms, famous for their white-spotted red caps, have historically been taken as a hallucinogenic, with distortions of perceptions of size being one of the trademark characteristics of the hallucinations. In fact, it is thought that these mushrooms are both the inspiration for the Power Shrooms in Super Mario, and the size-changing throughout Alice in Wonderland. This is the kind of thing a 20-year-old kid familiar with the woods might have heard of, but it's likely for a crucial detail to be missed: while the species of amenata that grow in Europe just cause the hallucinations, the ones found in the Americas have the added fun of causing horrible vomiting and diarrhea, which would explain both where Larry's pants went, and how he lost that much weight that fast.
This seems the most legit explanation
Amanita. Not amenata.
That all tracks!
Fun fact: some grow in my yard yearly. I leave them alone but they are pretty.
@@nancyheilman876 they’re one of the most beautiful mushrooms.
Per Michael Reel himself (interview as an adult) he never hallucinated at all. The story about eating biscuits with his grandfather he was talking about BEFORE he went missing. He said the press got a lot wrong.
They covered that interview. Last Friday, I think.
Yeah, after a dozen or more years of being fed what the story is, right. - Helping step-grandpa getting utensils from the car, uh? And eating biscuits with him before "disappearing"? I wonder what flavor those biscuits had. Vanilla? Caramel? Strawberry? Has step-grandpa been investigated? Alternatively, maybe, I guess the whole crowd in the Rhododendron park (including his father) was hallucinating seeing him dashing in and out of the bushes. Or maybe he got a lift up and down to expedite his travels. But by whom? Maybe he really did spend some time somewhere with a guy drinking beer and whiskey while he was under the influence of biscuits. Who knows. That nonchalant "hey". Completely out of it.
@annalivia1308 doubtful. I trust the person himself that lived through it and not some random guy on the internet 😂
@@YankeeRebel1348Hey buddy, how much do you remember from when you were 8?
And how long after the incident exactly did that interview take place?
Your memory, as much as you may want it to be, is not that reliable.
Regarding the hallucinogenics and eating "strange mushrooms", psilocybin only shows up on blood tests for about 12 hours after consumption and isn't included in most standard drug tests. They could also explain everything seeming louder than usual and both time and visual size distortions
Neither of shrooms nor LSD last anywhere near 3 days, 12 hours at most and only 3-4 hours is "peaking", so this just doesn't make sense.
More likely just a psychotic break. We don't know anything about this dude's mental health history.
Alice in Wonderland
As someone who hallucinates due to mental health issues, I also do not recommend hallucinating in the woods. Even a small set of well tended trails becomes a confusing maze when reality isn't lining up quite right. And you may think "oh my hiking/walking companion(s) will stop me," only if they can overpower you and get you before you start running.
Stop making excuses and take control of your life.
@@trustworthydan That's not very nice, Dan.
@trustworthydan my brother in christ, if we could "take control" and stop hallucinating, we would lol. Antipsychotics aren't a magical elixir that cures mental illness, and it's very common for people who are schizoaffective/schizophrenic/bipolar 1 etc and who do take psych meds to have persistent hallucinations despite taking one or more meds and following treatment plans. Doesn't work like that Chief. Also, hallucinations can be extremely disturbing, scary, alarming, and even re traumatizing as we don't get to choose what our brains cook up. The body and mind have a funny way of compartmentalizing trauma. Have a client (am mental health worker) who has visual and auditory hallucinations of the man who r worded her and it's awful for her, despite taking a high dose of meda and being hospitalized for long periods of time more than once in the psych ward. Unfortunately, the mental illness also causes hallucinations, paranoia and delusions to seem very real and prevents us from being able to tell what is real and what isn't
Not to mention the brutal side effects that psych meds cause (weight gain, extreme fatigue, brain fog, changes in appetite, difficulty focusing, issues with short term memory). Some meds cause permanent mental decline when used long term, and people are usually mentally ill forever not short term. If you haven't lived it and experienced it in its fullest most disregulating capacity, don't give psychiatric advice especially accusing someone of "making excuses". When you struggle with hallucinations, it's pretty indicative someone is doing pretty well all things considered and has "taken conrrol" of their life if they're able to access the internet, communicate clearly and effectively (disorganized speech is a major symptom of schizophrenia and psychosis), and has the insight into their own symptoms and js able to recognize when hallucinations have occurred and what was and wasn't reality. General life advice, don't be a dick ❤ peace and love brother
@@trustworthydanhallucinations cause by mental health issues are due to your brain sending wrong signals, you can’t take control of them bc your brain does it subconsciously
17:15 I’m not sure if you missed it from his interview video but I don’t think that was a hallucination more than a case of poor reporting. He said he told them his grandfather made him eggs before he went missing. Being a small kid and police being how they are, it makes a lot of sense that they misinterpreted what he was saying as him saying that he was doing that while he was missing. There was no hallucination at all. It was just a young kid probably rambling and describing his week how he remembered “eating eggs and bacon with his grandpa and then he was walking in the woods and he found a cabin and and and…” it was just them not understanding what he was saying or the order of what he was saying. Idk how many times that’s happened even to me where it’s like no you’re not understanding what I’m saying.
I think that’s actually pretty likely, lots of kids tell stories like that especially when they aren’t sure what they should say
Yeah the police do a very bad job of understanding statements. I said I punched someone bc they pulled a knife on me and attacked me so they arrested me for admitting I punched him, instead of the other person threatening my life. They’re very ignorant towards the facts of the case most times they just want to come to a “conclusion” and get home
It's possible this video was filmed and edited before Aiden became aware of the interview video with Michael.
@@Xx_SemenDemon_xX100%. They don't care about the truth, cops care about the path of least resistance, what they can prove the most easily and will give them the least amount of paperwork. Candy Crush goon squad rise up lmao
@@Xx_SemenDemon_xX And this is why people should *never* talk to police. I know you know this, just putting this out for a reminder because many people don't know this. Always exercise your *right* to remain silent.
In the Eastern most mountains, under hot summer sun, twas the early 80s, when Larry D. had his fun.
As the day shone bright, the dew on high flowers glistened, but then trees whispered lies, and poor Larry he listened.
“Step off the path, there’s wonders just yonder”, in a trance he obeyed, a blank stare as he wandered.
“The trap is now set”, the trees giggled and chortled, then vanished poor Larry, through an Appalachian portal.
Nice work
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Firstly, thank you. I genuinely appreciate the compliment.
Secondly, I’m surprised it’s gotten as much attention as it has. I say this because UA-cam LOVES deleting my comments. Especially when I put legitimate time and effort into articulating my thoughts. Whether it be whimsical, poetic, or an in-depth analysis about politics or pollution, etcetera, it gets deleted or buried. I’ve seen people write foul and hateful language aimed at trolling that goes uncensored and gains traction, but I’ve somehow managed to upset The UA-cam Mother for reasons unbeknownst to me. I’ve taken to copying my posts and saving them in my phone’s notes just to see if I can crack the code, but alas, no avail thus far.
So with my rambling diatribe now at an end, I shall once again thank you for your kindness, tip my hat to you, and apologize for using your kindness as an opening to vent my frustrations lol
Love it!!❤
Weird but fun. I hope you keep writing these in his comments 😁
If I had a nickel for every nickel I had, I have twice as many nickels.
I am stealing this. And your nickels.
Nuh uh
Prove it
If you had a nickel for every nickel you got a nickel for, you have triple the nickels. I think
@@fennten8338 or have a recursive and potentially exponential source of nickels. Which would be very concerning, and certainly hazardous.
Deer actually do leave a type of bed, for when they "bed down" of course, but it's not an actual bed, just a flattened area that usually surrounded by tall grass so it might help keep u warm, if it was still dry of course.
Rhododendron flowers are special, when the bees make honey from them, they create a thing called " mad honey" it's hallucinogenic
I'd never heard of mad honey before.
its main effect is on your heart and respiration. it isn’t primarily a hallucinogen.
It does take a bunch of different things to really make it happen partly being altitude it is possible however having tried mad honey it's nowhere near strong enough to actually make you hallucinate. especially not letting your body build up a tolerance to the toxins in it the amount you need to hallucinate is very close to the lethal dose.
@@dhelix85It's a very niche thing from places like mountains of Nepal that has to be harvested by climbing cliffs. For actual, good mad honey, you need to visit Nepal and pay the harvesters yourself.
you can just eat the rhododendrons, mad honey is very rare and the stuff online is almost always bunk as shit.
active ingredient in shrooms leaves ur body in 12 hours, he would have got lost while tripping, good chance his gf and friends also dosed and likely was the entire purpose of the outing
That's actually a really good point.
It wasn’t his friends it was his girlfriend and her whole family
@@DaddiDrakoSo a guy takes drugs before a boring outing with his girlfriend's family
@rosesweetcharlotte what kind of degenerate would do that? Lol he did so much shrooms he wandered off lost and nobody noticed how weird he'd be acting?
Neither shrooms nor LSD last anywhere near 3 days. 12 hours at most, and only 3-4 hours of that is "peaking". This explanation just doesn't fit.
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Hey Aiden's. Check out the book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. By Stephen King.
It is fictional, but the way King takes you through the woods in the eyes of this child who stepped off the trail and got lost is just amazing. There is mild paranormal aspects that present in a way they could just be a child's imagination in the dark at night. But maybe not. 😉
I'd love to hear what you both have to say about it. Relatively short book.
I’ve read only a little King but I’ve always really liked this one!
one of my favorite by King!! I read when I was like 16 and I think it contributed to my interest in missing 411 later on
I am a huge King hater but I read this book for a book report in middle school and it sticks with me still.
That's one of my favorite books of his!
Wow I completely forgot that book existed! I must have read that almost 20 years ago as a teenager. 🤯 thank you for reminding me about this book, I'll have to reread it now!
I heard what Michael really said is that he had breakfast before he went missing that morning with his grandfather and it was misreported.
Local stringers do make mistakes. I've been one.
Pray for Western NC and East Tennessee , I’m about 20 miles from Roan and we just got slammed by Helena. I can’t imagine things are much better in that community right now, especially given how much less connected they are to major highways and infrastructure
I appreciate you guys being "quite chalant"
As a former EMT that has experienced a box breaking down while patient loaded, that's the part that felt like a gut punch 💔 i have zero problems handing a patient off to a different crew cuz they need a more experienced paramedic or equipment I dont have but a box breakdown is sooooooooooooo embarrassing
Love and support from Finland!🤗🖤
Finland? Is that on earth?😮 Wuz up my brudda. Oh wrong accent. Lol. I'm from the US mate but I'm not sure if it on earth but possibly. But I'm a redneck so I must say to you sir, howdy buddy, have youz a goodin😂😂. I don't know what I'm even saying. To much magic 🍄🍄🍄✨✨✨🤤🤤🤤🫥🫥😶🌫️😶🌫️🤯🫨🫨🫨😱😱🫠🫠😐😐🤦......💁🙋🙆🤷🙅 Hey macarena
“I once saw a guy shotgun two four locos within 5 minutes”
lol so adorable. Also eating mushrooms while camping is incredibly tame, for those of us that can handle such a mildly intense experience that is..
You can always tell when I'm on shrooms. I laugh uncontrollably for 3-4 hours. If I ever get lost, just listen for someone who sounds like she is watching the best stand up comedy ever.
I was born in W. Va. and lived the first part of my life in the Smokies, as my father was a Cherokee from Tennessee. Old timers, (I'm over 70 now), used to tell of the Mak-mak bush. It was a small plant with only 2-3 tiny berries.
I've never heard tell of anyone eating them, but the stories say you shouldnt get them on your skin. It seems they aren't hallucinogenic but instead cause something like sleepwalking aimlessly.
But these were just old family stories. Back before TV, local socializing was a couple of neghboring, (within 5-6 miles) families getting together singing and telling stories. But this "lost hiker" story did bring that to mind. 👍
Do the berries have little dots on them? That's a mildly toxic native plant and of course I can't remember what it's called. Little clusters of a couple waxy, pale berries with dots.
you should also consider carrying a water filter during any trip into the woods
That sounds like some sound advice, since clean drinking water can be hard to come by and you never know what might be in a stream in the middle of the woods, even if it looks clean you don't know if you'll get sick drinking it. I think there's a type of straw that has a filter in it, that's meant for that, but I can't remember how effective it is.
That’s true, I’d get a grayl tho, lifestraw is garbage and in the eastern US I’d be more afraid of pesticides and fertilizer and chemical runoff rather than viruses
@jerryrocketandthegogogirls3517 fair enough. I live in Canada, but I'm a city person through and through. I've never gone camping really, and so wouldn't know what to do really either way! Still, I would also be worried about that stuff, if I were to be in that situation, so it wouldn't hurt to have it on hand, ya know?
Or. Hear me out, don't go in the woods unprepared. Common sense is free people.
@@trustworthydan reading comprehension is a lost skill, it seems. We're talking about taking something to filter water with you if you ever do go camping or hiking, which would imply that we ARE talking about being prepared if going into the woods.
i disable my ad blocker when i watch you guys
why it wouldnt work on integrated ads anyways
Might as well just white-list the channel at that point
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Y'all have been killing it lately. Love the frequency of uploads and the quality of the content. Good stuff mate.
Cold, hunger, lack of sleep and fear can all lead to altered states of consciousness. That's one way many cultures ensured that certain rites and rituals proceeded as planned, say vision quests for example. You push people hard enough and they start to see things.
David Paulides looks like a star trek villain
He's with Section 31
Man, you intro fum like I intro photos of my dog
Fuum is very bad for you and shouldn't be used
If you look into it it's mega expensive...
Why not include whistle to that list? It's so easy to just hold it in between your lips and let every exhale make you far more noticeable out in the woods. They're light and take up very little space. I remember them being standard in every survival kit when I was a kid, but now I don't see them as often.
If I had a nickel for every time Aiden says “If I had a nickel…”.
You would have as many nickles as the amount of times Aiden said "if I had a nickel" !!
I am whelmed and gruntled that chalante is now a real word that can be used in conversation.
Taking shrooms on a camping trip with his girlfriends family is 100% something a 20 year old dude would do.
Carry a compass that is good advice. My problem with that statement is that most young folk don't know what one is. I went to get one from an outdoor big box store in my town and the child working didn't even know what it was. Even after we told her it tells you north south east and west directions. She had no clue what we were talking about. So sad.
I think this is the soonest-after-posting I've watched a lore lodge, usually I'm a few weeks late to the party. please, hold your applause
Just letting you know, my husband got the Füm, used it for about 3-5 months and he has quit vaping. He doesn’t even use the Füm anymore. He has been vaping for 7 years. So the Füm very much works!!
So, weird quick comment on hallucinating. I'm not saying this is what happened, but two years ago I was sick with Covid and was feverish. While in that state, my mind went crazy thinking I was perpetually doing different tasks like digging a hole. It felt like hallucinating to me and I've never taken mind altering substances.
Another weird addition to this, when I got sick, we were on our way home to Florida from the Gatlinburg Tennessee area. This is only important because when I'd go to the toilet to "purge" myself, I'd come out of the perpetual task and at one point I told my wife that the "Witches in the mountains put a curse on me."
Watch out for the mountain witches.
My first thought when how much weight he lost was mentioned, was that maybe he suddenly got hit by some food poisoning or something, had to go to the bathroom, maybe didn't quite make it and soiled his pants, so took them off and left them wherever, and then fever delirium took over from there, all while continuing to be sick and thus losing weight fast. He still may have had some shrooms before it happened, which would have only made the whole thing worse, I imagine.
To add to the illness induced hallucinating, several years ago unknowingly had a bad kidney infection. Hallucinated several Star Trek and Stargate SG-1 story ideas that I scribbled on an old electric bill... Yeah VERY strange
😂
EVERY time I get a Covid booster or get Covid itself, I have a very short extreme fever that makes me delusional and terrified that I'm dying. I cry with the kind of wailing sorrow that someone who throws themselves into their spouses grave does. I am totally inconsolable for around 4 hours, and then suddenly, I'm just over it. Fevers are weird.
Side note: my kidneys started just shutting down once and the dehydration made me hallucinate and so delusional that I put all my bedding in the tub, and filled up the tub. Luckily, I think the water woke me a bit and made me realize it was dangerous. Delirium is also very weird.
Excellent transition to your advertisement. I rolled laughing.
paulides is cracked, man, he be making connections between nothing and nothing and calling it paranormal i like watching his vids bc it reminds me of my sanity
Hey its Jonathan. The newbie to your channel- strange, dark, and mysterious veteran from a couple weeks ago. Probably don't remember me, haha that's alright. Just wanted to mention this, thought it was kind of funny. I find myself having to prepare for your videos lol. What I mean is usually I throw on a case and just do chores or just let it run in the background from other channels. Not with many of yours. This is due to the brilliant detail you put into your investigative work. I have to sit down and pay close attention to what you have to say lol. It's a good thing. It's what I would prefer in coverage of cases like this. It's a compliment. Thank you for doing a great job.
at 9 minutes 40 odd seconds. In the newspaper picture, I noticed a movie add in the bottom right corner for some rather spicy movies. Porky's is a bit raunchy, but "Debbie Does Dallas"!!!! corn adjacent LOL
I think hikes had become such a mundane human activity at this point that we forget how inherently dangerous of an activity it is. Which is why it kind of baffles me and it kinda don't when people find it hard to understand other going missing while on a hike. I know it's fun to speculate and I know, sometimes there are external factors and even foul play; I'm not saying that doesn't happen, just saying we should remember how easy it is to get lost in the woods.
I also don't mind if the videos is shorter, I just want a good concise episode, and I appreciate you not elongating the content to make the video longer when it doesn't need to be :)
all it takes is getting lost once and you start to rethink everything. we used to hike a few miles into the woods to smoke out of a communal hidden bong in the woods and we would get so stupid. there wasnt a paved trail leading up to that point so we coulda got turned around so easily. its not hard to look around for a second and then get totally disoriented in new places
After watching this video I gained 30 pounds of lean muscle,completed a marathon with ease and got married to my fiance,thank you lore lodge
The map of disappearance clusters u show in the beginning of this video also shows every town I have ever lived in....I appreciate your efforts to scare people away from moving here but it's not working!!😢
II just have this weird question. Is there any connection to a rhododendron that can cause psychedelic issues. Like ergot or mushrooms or something that they could have gotten into their system. Which would explain quite a bit of this story in both cases and when you describe the fact that there were airplanes. But dinosaurs and everything look bigger and it was all bizarre. I mean that's a trip.
Look up mad honey - I do think the rhododendron bushes _might_ have a role to play in both of these disappearances.
Additionally, consuming mushrooms that produced “strong sensations” suggests to me that something chemical was likely going on (not necessarily psychedelic, but some level of confusion or disassociation)
Now, whether that was a disassociative trip (datura experience reports gives a good example of this kinda crazy), or some kind of mental break precipitated by said chemicals, remains to be seen.
Side note, appreciate this comment! I was getting ready to comment something very similar.
Was thinking similar, but not directly related to the rhodies. Wonder if there could be a bloom or pollen that could cause delirium or similar
Yes. Grayanotoxins. It's an old intoxicant known to ancient civilizations and written stories about.
@@scripter13highly unlikely to be "mad hunny" as how would they consume it unless it had already been harvested? Wild Bees are feisty and typically won't completely abandon a hive
Ergot comes from rye so probably not that. But apparently bees using rhododendron pollen make magical honey that can cause hallucinations.
I just think the dude took shrooms or cid or something and started freaking out and took off. Occam's Razor would agree.
12:50 People can be disgruntled, but rarely are they gruntled.
That was a PEAK transition to the Ad Read
Their BEST transition, bar none.
True poetry
Nah Larry Davenport's odyssey out of reality was a peak transition
as someone who lives in/ is from east tn and the great smokie mountains area, staying put its most definitely typically the better option than trying to find your way out because youre right, that place is HUGE and youll be harder to find, get lost easier, and it can be a really unforgiving wilderness with how rocky it is and how sparce civilization can be.
15:30 Paullides needs to consider that correlation does not equate with causation.
As a former SAR member, you are right, hallucinations typically don't occur until sever hypothermia, but people behave differently under hypothermia. Some people reach paradoxical undressing at mild hypothermia
People love to hate things. It's a very nagative mindset that a lot of people get locked into. They would rather give their attention to something that they despise than something they actually enjoy. Until, paradoxically, they can only find pleasure in hating
A major part of our development. People hate pain, disease, having to carry stuff for miles, bad water, boring work etc.
The people who hated those sort of things ended up with antibiotics, cars, piped water and machinery.
Those who were not bothered still drink bad water and suffer easily curable diseases.
The Elizabethton Star is carrying this channel 😤
"The couple people that loathe us but watch anyway" ❤ Fellas this was the historians most fascinating documentary! I wasnt expecting that huge climax or the twists and turns! Thanks!
20:00 *TWO* 4 Locos? dude we didn't let anyone drink more than 1 Four Loco at at time, This was at Wisconsin (Madison, Grad School). Like did he live?
That shit is dangerous
Right? I drank two (and at the time I could and did drink a 6’3” guy - a daily drinker - under a table) and holy moly, I first should have been brought to the ER then admitted to psychiatric inpatient. I remember very little from the night but I do distinctly recall feeling rage at one point.
WTF was in that stuff (this was 2010, so before it was banned, reformulated, and put back on the market)?
This is just really funny to me since I’m from Madison and I’m apply to UW next year 😂
You wouldn't _let_ anyone drink more than one? My dude, in my teens and twenties, our goal was to drink four of them, because it has four in the name
My bfff and I used to drink 2 at a time np
It was fun
I'm now 7 yrs sober
The “especially if they are sloped” portion of the psychedelics/woods interface sounded like personal experience.
Its a french term and therefore a bad one and we should use spmething else. 😂
Damn zee frrrench
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My EDC for hiking. Full bic lighter. Windproof matches. Small mirror. High pitch plastic whistle. Water purifier tablets/ life straw. Durable fix blade knife. Small compass. Forestry map. Small LED flashlight. 20ft of 550 cord. Bandana, usually two... Everything but the knife fits in a little leather satchel on my belt and I have never needed to use any of it in 25+ years of hiking, but I never hike without it.
lost power due to Helene and now that I got it back I now have a brand new Lodge to watch
U alright? Ive seen some videos that look real bad
@@otterbox8434 I lost power for like exactly 3 hours, thankfully I live like 3 hours from Atlanta so Helene was like a tropical storm instead of a hurricane
Aidan I love you're sense of humor with some of your stories. You really Do you're homework on your stories. That's why I watch you're channel. I LOVE IT.
I really wanna see dave paulides get properly confronted about all the cases he's misleading about
He's great. What's your problem??
My husband’s best friend, who being a a young man in his mid twenties took magic mushrooms for a hike in nature and ended up falling off a cliff, he is luckily he utilized the buddy system and is still alive. The narrative that he told the first responders, medical professionals that treated him, and his parents was that he was just peeing off the side of the cliff and fell. What he told me and my husband was that he took had some magic mushrooms because he wanted experience nature while tripping when he came upon the cliff he felt compelled to leap without reason, while he was on the ground with extensive injuries unable to move hours while his hiking buddy had left to get help he thought he had actually died and that being a ghost was being stuck in the exact position you had perished in forever.
Debbie does Dallas prt2 @9:37 😂
"Skin tight" 😂
Prayers for East Tennessee following the storm of Hurricane Helene. As well as all other states affected by it like North Carolina and Florida. These Appalachia stories hit a little closer to home today.
“Imma walk out” took to seriously.
I am not a smoker anymore (one of the reasons being that is's expensive) but charging 100 bucks for literally, as they themselves say, flavored air, is ridiculous
Sounds like he was drugged they said he just got up and walked away from lunch😮WHAT!!!
13:40 Michael Reel specifically mentions in his interview, that the house he stayed in had a curtain. He was describing it to prove that he hadn't met a 'grandpa' there as a part of clarifying his story (shame the interviewer didn't properly take him through the whole thing!). Michael is very specific on this curtain, just makes me think the house Larry found must have been the same one Michael was in previously.
By and large this case doesn't seem too confusing or mystifying, at least not compared to most. However, I do think it's unusual that both Michael and Larry, having disappeared and subsequently reappeared within two weeks of each other, both made mentions of having visited a house. Michael thought he was at a white house eating breakfast with his grandfather while watching television and Larry stole a curtain off the wall from a house he visited. While I tend to believe that Michael just entirely imagined his experience at a nonexistent house and Larry just broke into a residence, it still does stand out to me a little bit.
Michael's story about being at a white House with his grandfather was misreported. He was talking about the morning BEFORE he got lost. Michael was in the woods the entire week he was missing, until he last night when he spent the night in an abandoned cabin. He was found the next morning.
This is really common for people who go missing in the woods, people just lose their minds and aren't sure what they're experiencing the entire time they're out there. They hear/see people who aren't there, have weird perceptions of their environments and basically are hallucinating just from what happens to the human brain when you're lost in the wilderness. It's especially true with kids which is why this one thought he was in a house with his grandpa for some of it. It's like that kid who went missing and claimed he was in a cave with his fake grandma who he thought might have been a robot, or the other kid who got lost in the woods and said animals were swarming all over/jumping over him all day and night. People just completely lose it
Sounds like he was bored, took something to get him through a boring picnic with his girlfriend's family, then it hit him too hard
The absolute most convoluted segue for the channel. I love it
If people use chalant enough and in a "pretty standard way" then it will become a "real" word.
Hey! You guys may want to look into the unsolved murders in Letcher county KY. Some of the cases are rumored to be connected to corruption within the courthouse there, and I think y’all would do a great job looking into this.
I will forgive the mention of breakfast with grandpa since you guys already apologized in the livestream
That transition was Megatron level nasty!!! 🏆🏆🏆
LSD can't b found in human tissue's or blood long after use, plus most drug test won't detect it, it takes some super sensitive equipment that isn't readily available to most doctors, I doubt that they would've been able to find anything. Even cocaine is usually gone after 3 days, especially if u don't have much fat.
Hope this helps
Just because you have grown up in the woods hunting, fishing, hiking, etc doesn’t mean you can’t step off the trail because you know you are experienced and get turned around really damn easily - it’s damn easy to do because things start to look identical damn fast. It’s amazing to me people think because they are experienced in the woods they are incapable of getting lost and unless your experienced in being lost, experience in the woods helps but doesn’t negate you from getting royally lost. As far as the delirious state - you walk around 3 days with no water, you’ll come out of the woods talking to yourself
tbh tripping on mushrooms for 2 days doesnt sound right for having one dose, even if it was a large amount.... 2 days???? that wasnt just mushrooms
feel called out since i’ve seen every single video
Botany: Rohedendren (spelling???), is known in ethnobotany and is a key ingredient in various psychoactive honeys. It is also poisonous and psychoactive if eaten raw. Roman historians wrote about some enemy tribes poisoning a Roman legion Easily researched. Thanks.
Just wanted to say thank you for giving a thorough second opinion on some of these stories. I accidentally found Missing 411 on Prime trying to find something to watch and was intrigued. The subsequent follow ups were a bit of a let down as I also found Mr. Polides seemed make a leap to the paranormal with his bias showing more than it should. Still love the guy, his heart is in the right place and he shared some interesting stories. Thank you again for going the extra mile.
He is knowingly lying, he is a confirmed liar and clearly a master manipulator. People like you are the only reason he hasn't been exposed, so many have fallen for his emotional manipulation
Psychedelics make a lot of sense. I think that they were taken before he vanished. This is the most open and shut case in this cluster imo.
For anyone that's curious, I speak from experience. The woods are overrated for tripping. You are more likely to find the horror in things. And you may get lost.
Also, be a good partner and don't do that when you're with their parents. That's just giving me second hand embarrassment.
My experience with "magic" mushrooms... is that some can hit you via skin contact alone. resting your hand on top of a clump of them while filling a canteen might do it.
You've never done hallucinogenic if you think you're likely to just walk off into the woods. Maybe if you dropped a couple thousand microdots or something, but nobody does that on a date with their SO's parents. I think a hallucinogenic answer is cope.
@@marhawkman303That's bullshit, seeing as how psilocybin needs to be ingested in order to have any effect other than smelling like shit.
It's the food poisoning that makes you trip, buddy.
@@marhawkman303if your only experience is that one time when you were a teenager, you simply don't have any actual experience. A simple google search could have educated you enough to know that simply can't happen. LSD can activate via skin contact, though, so it's possible somebody dosed him without his knowledge. I have a hard time seeing anyone intentionally trip around their girlfriends family. Maybe their siblings, almost definitely not the whole fuckin family reunion.
@@ThrowAway-ji1cf Enh, that's if it's solely hallucinogenic. Some things mix hallucinogens with other effects.
That transition is pure gold!!
Larry Davenport sounds like he was high on something. It might have been dropped into something he drank as a bad joke. The losing his clothes sounds like it might be, I don't see anyone in a normal state of mind running around naked in the brush. It would also explain him not being able to tell what happened,
Druids?
Any time getting lost in the woods is mentioned all I think about is yellowjackets. It has nothing to do with this. It won't leave my head
As someone getting to my 20s if someone was like "bro, let's go to this natural wonder and take some shrooms" I'd be like "damn, sounds cool" so it definitely doesn't seem too far off
As someone who is 20? Me too.
Another great video, guys, and on my 41st birthday(September 27th)!
He will never respond... I will make a small steel sculpture. I am designing it right now.
So I know I should say something about the excellent comprehensive research, easy to understand and balanced delivery, but really what made me comment was that nod to the Nittany Lions. WE ARE!
But for real, love your content!
This just had to start in the last 5 minutes of my break 😡
omg me too im on my 15 with only 5min left to watch this vid😢
Something to look forward to after and no stress you gotta go back after..
"strong sensations in the rugged wilderness" is my new favorite double entendre.
I had a bad acid trip at my little sister's basketball game..... not fun.
What a horrific time to drop lol
Your videos help me get through my work days thank you for everything you and our team does ❤️😊
21:21 something you would like to share with us aidan?
I really like that you footnote your sources, feels new, but then again might have just missed it
Love your channel... but
Being from NC, hearing you say things like Hickory, Charlotte observer, and things like that is, really .... well, kinda disconcerting.
I mean, I know how weird the place is, but funding out others know is kind of odd.
Keep up the great work
Lol. “Hot day… it was upper 80s.” I guess that is hot to some people. That’s a break in the heat for where I live. We had a “cool front” come through this weekend and everyone is talking about how great the weather is and it hasn’t dipped below 85. 😂
Look into " mad honey"
We went camping out in the mountains in NC and we were often told if we did go out into the woods off trail find water and follow it the best you can is still your best bet. Even if there isn't a civilization nearby there's many camo grounds, fishing boat docks. People who might be driving the boats around that general direction and it's fairly easy to make a quick cane pole from alot of stuff you can find in the mountains so you can fairly easily catch some fish even if it's simple brim or something like that to eat plus most trails attach to the rivers so you can atleast have a better chance of re finding a good trail even if you don't find campgrounds with people or whatever you atleast end up finding a good trail that should have some type of marking to get you back if you do follow water. Obviously ypu don't have unlimited time but follow water long enough you will run into civilization eventually.