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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Missing: Braonain McGinnis vanished after leaving his Maryland home. His car was found thousands of miles away in Arizona. Now, his mom wonders if her son was planning on coming back.
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His name is NOT Native American. You can’t get any more Gaelic than Braonain McGinnis
It’s definitely an Irish Gaelic name
There is a fellow that lives 4 miles from me. Who looks like Braonin. A lot. Lives by himself on remote desert. Can’t find a missing person site to look up more info.
namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP115014
Have you reported info to police or researchers?
Ask him who he is, and if he's the one their looking for..And like this other person said, call the police
“Remote desert”?
I’ve never heard of such a thing is he squatting or making a camp in the desert somewhere?
Are you in the area where the car was located?
PLEASE CALL POLICE just to do a wellness visit and maybe identify this man.
DUDE holy shit I went to school with this kid! He had dated a girl I'm friends with and I remember thinking he was a cool dude because he played guitar and was a fellow metalhead. This is bananas.
Not to be pessimistic, and yes I’m aware that things happen where people with internal mental health battles randomly decide to up and leave from their life; but this is so out of left field for someone given the circumstances to just drop everything and travel by car to the opposite side of the country just to leave his vehicle in the desert. What on earth, I could be wrong but it seems like something that would happen in a situation where there’s a car jacking and someone is forcing the person to drive to somewhere, then abandons the car.
@@Greenrocketqueen No telling. He may have unalived himself. He was depressed.
I hope they’ve searched that area where they found the car.
Missing license plate suggest the car being Stolen. Just don't think it's his depression. Call the phone carrier,pressure the police,or get private investigation. I agree things don't add up. I hope this gates solved for him and the family.
@@kathleenwagner3259 I agree that’s exactly what I thought, he was a sweet kid from what I recall, he was pretty quiet. I can’t imagine right before Christmas he’d just decide to leave his family. They seemed to be close from what they’re saying. And Arizona I mean that’s the opposite side of the country from us, it’s just wild and I know they say people who end up offing themselves will typically continue on with business as usual like nothings wrong, but I mean idk, like you said with the tags it just seems really really off.. I really pray for answers here.
My heart goes out to the families of the missing. My prayers are with them. My younger step brother went missing in 2018. They found his truck burnt in the mountains west of Phoenix, Az. He was last seen at a gas station near his home.
Tragic. I pray for your families and others who are in similar circumstances.
Prayers for him
Truly sorry for your loss & that your family is suffering through this😢
His name is Irish and his first name means sorrow which is ironic. May the family find closure.
His Mom said in an interview they named him Braonain because his Dad is Irish and it means "drop of water".
@@crystalw9442 Yes, that is another meaning of his name and there are some other meanings depending upon origin locations and time period. He probably is no longer living and someone knows something. I don't think he committed suic..... Someone knows something. I hope his family finds closure and peace.
@@WayfaringDay Thank you for the information! 😊 And I agree, someone knows something. It's a very odd case, some things aren't making sense...
@@crystalw9442 in Ireland it would be pronounced bray-nawn with the stress on the second syllable. It's the Irish form of Brennan.
I was about to text about this name being very Irish and I see other have already pointed that out too in the comments. I also live in Maryland. I’m going to pray for this young man and his family ❤☘️🇮🇪
If he abandoned his car and walked off into the desert, how far could he have gotten without food and water? It seems like a thorough grid search would yield remains or clothing. Also, were scent dogs used to track him?
Coconino county search and rescue searched the area well, they used drones, dogs, helicopters and had searchers on foot and found nothing.
@@lucasfrasier4814 how far was the vehicle from Navajo Bridge? What was the nearst MM on 89A?
@@rocknroll6396 The FB page flyer says MM570 between House Rock Valley Road and Jacob Lake near the scenic viewpoint on US89A.
Hard to find people missing in the desert, look at Daniel Robinson
Sounds like he ran away just like Chris McCandless. He also wrote a note about his car and took off license plates and left it in the dessert then hitchhiked to California
My thoughts exactly.
So sorry. The: "not knowing " kills a person inside. Especially a mom. We miss our kids when we know where they are. I'm wondering if this has something to do with the missing Indigenous People or the people who keep coming up missing from camping and river areas. I don't know if it's the same person or 2 different serial killers, because the circumstances are so similar in a lot of these cases. The cases happen near reservations and wildlife areas. They always find the car and sometimes it looks like an accident, but it's not. There's over 5,000 missing Indigenous, alone. We have a couple of young people missing from our little town too. It's crazy.
This guy talking about the situation is making far more assumptions than police. This man has no imagination and clearly something has happened in his past to cause him to think like this. Very clear that this kid disappeared himself
Why hasn’t Md police traced his movements here before he left. Most of the places he went have cameras. How about the EZ passes going out that way. Gas stations. There should be cameras all along the way. This is a multi jurisdictional tracing.
B's car was scanned twice the entire trip it made, once in Illinois, and again in Las Vegas on Christmas day, somehow it was not scanned by any other cameras the entire way out there.
It's odd that he would leave two days before Christmas. Was the note in his handwriting? Maybe he picked up an acquaintance, murdered him and took the car. $200 isn't enough unless he had cash stockpiled.
Exactly. I don't know why they're assuming that he just took 200 and decided to run away. You have to critically, think, is there foul play
As the guest mentioned, the $200 he withdrew from the bank would have not been enough for even the gas let alone food and lodging on a cross country trip like that
Doesnt sound like he planned on disappearing if he picked up a prescription first
Important to keep up with normal actions.
There are two encampments in AZ that teens to young adults run to. These are basically self governed communities because they are way out in the desert.
Has anyone ever been to these places to check on the people who are there? It’s not that far fetched and it’s very possible that he had enough of his mundane life and just wanted something else.
I hope he is safe well and happy.
That’s a really great point. I think he may be secreted away money before he left. He may have been planning this. I hope that his family has answers, soon. ❤
God love these precious people and their distraught families. Praying for their safety and return home.❤
They took off the license plate because clearly they were trying to prolong the identification of the car. There is clearer foul play. In this case, you don't go eating chick fil. A and then go missing two thousand miles away. And probably the family hasn't even seen the note.Because you could easily identify if that's his handwriting or not
Visiting the meaningful sights around town, could be showing someone those spots. That is something you do with a visitor. Maybe met up with someone online? Did he take his guitar? That object would mean so much to him, he would have gifted it.
This makes me think of the murder in Harford County Maryland.
I know that there were several women that were murdered here in Maryland.
One being a girl in Maryland at the Ma & Pa walking trail!
Where a illegal alien, that supposedly killed her ended up in Arizona!
How did he get there??
Something that should be looked into?
My brother lives out by there and right around that time there was weird lights in the sky and military going in and out, don't know how they could of missed him.
I'm in Arizona and The Phoenix lights UFO flew over my head in 1997, yes, lots of unusual activity going on above and below ground here.
Or maybe someone took the car from him and his body could be any point from Maryland to AZ. They need to explore every situation. Seems like they are set that he drove to AZ. He may not been the one to drive car there.
I think he just gave up on life gone off to the dessert and let Mother Nature take him. He was sick, mental lillness is worse than we thought here in America. Poor Braonain, nobody helped him. Rest in Peace young man.
Hi, this is the first time I've watched your show, although I've watched many other NN shows and reports and whatnot. I've had a number of questions and thoughts pop into my head regarding this man, Broanian McGillis. How much money did he frequently have on his person as a rule? 0$, !0$, 50 or 100 $$$ ?? A Hyundai Accent gets about 38 mpg on the highway, about 32 mpg combined. 2,000 miles divided by 38 is about 53 gallons approx. would be required. The Mid-West average price per gallon in December 2023 , as best as I can find, was about $3.00 - $3.50. So that would be between $159 - $185 cost for gas to go those 2,000 miles. Oh and let's also assume he had at least a half tank to full tank of gas to start with. So add how much money he potentially had already and the $200 he withdrew from a cash machine, I think he would have likely had the funds to make the trip, get food, enter the Grand Canyon Nat'l Park and continue on his way. An individual can easily drive those 2,000 miles in 4 days and 3 days with some determination. I have a number of other thoughts and observations regarding this matter. I would be happy to expound and hypothesize further if you wish, but will only do so if you respond positively. Best Wishes to All and especially this young man and his Mother and family.
Okay, here's a few questions that probably only the Mother can answer. What clothes was he wearing at the time he went "missing"? Are there any clothes that appear to be missing or unaccounted for? Did he have any "Precious" or "Meaningful" trinkets, memorabilia or "Special" items that meant a lot to him or had good memories associated with a specific item? Are they accounted for or is one or more missing? Did he take one of his guitars with him or did he take an alternative musical instrument that might be smaller and easier to transport than a guitar" Are there any clothes missing, perhaps a favorite pair of pants, a shirt or jacket ? Are all of his clothes accounted for? Has he ever borrowed money from friends or family ?
Today's World is All About Surveillance, there are cameras of every type out there in our daily lives. We can't go anywhere anymore without getting recorded somewhere and somehow. The roads that his car took to get all the way to Arizona had to have literally hundreds of cameras take his picture while he was in his car driving. Find him in the archives of those cities and agencies that operate those cameras, first of all. Then once his exact or most probable route is known see if there are an images of him in his car on the roads and see if there is anyone else in the car with him.
If he did indeed go into the Grand Canyon Nat'l Park there are cameras galore, there. Did he meet or interact with anyone while in the Park? I could go much deeper but these are just a few of the things that came immediately to my mind after watching this report. Why is no one in a place to investigate this, like the FBI, doing anything ? This whole thing has a foul smell associated with it and it's not getting any easier to stomach, if you know what I mean. Best Wishes to you Marni, the Mother and Family and all who read this. 😎👍
@@intrepidsoul9871 Patricia (his mom) can answer this more in depth if she sees this, I’ll answer what I can now I’m Braonain’s friend Lucas he was last seen wearing a blue zip up hoodie, blue jeans and black shoes, they believe he has his kiichi jacket with him. Somehow his car was scanned twice the entire distance he traveled, once going West on I-74 in Illinois on Dec 21st around 5:30pm (7:30pm EST), then it was scanned again in Las Vegas on Christmas day, both times it was scanned they could not tell who was driving the car. No footage of him was obtained from the Grand Canyon to know if he interacted with anyone at the park.
You are wonderful to do this breakdown of what may have happened him and also for the family.❤
I have driven to AZ and it took me 3 days to get to my destination from ND.
I have to agree with the points that the first person wrote.
Did he take anything with him?
When our children choose to become estranged, nothing makes sense. Its absolute devastation on many lives. But the pain mothers feel is equal to death.
It is...
The plates being removed means to me there was foul play involved - they didn’t want anyone knowing who that car belonged to or checking into it
Definitely
You can get across the country with about $200, I did the same thing last month. But it's weird he abandoned his car in the desert like that...
Yep! Four tankfulls (approx. 50$ each) will take you 2000 miles on highways with his car! And who says he hadn't been saving cash before or purchased pre-paid cards here and there prior to leaving?
This is the best reporter at the network. And her questions are spot on and the most significant series that they do. We don't have many shows. Unfortunately, that cover missing people and 9 × 510. If someone has suffered depression at 1 point in their life, they're often dismissed if they go missing. Oh, they went and committed suicide, they went and did this. Maura, Murray is a classic example. How many decades has she been missing? And there's clear foul play and for the years, she was dismissed as a student of troubled issues that just walked away in the snowy woods. It's so unfortunate how in this country, if you go missing your family unless have the resources and the time and strength to fight, you probably will never be found unless it's coincidental, very sad
I hate seeing a fellow Marylander go missing. Actually I hate seeing anyone go missing! My Prayers are always with you and I will always Have you all in my thoughts! ❤❤❤❤❤
This wasn't on disappeared and I'm shocked
Plate removal is suspicious, but he could have had more than $200 in his wallet, and this sounds similar to
Chris McCandless story where he leaves his car in the desert and starts hiking.
This is bizarre. If he was suicidal, and didn’t tell anyone, then the $200 could have covered the cost of gas for a one way trip. Depending what kind of gas ⛽️ mileage that car gets. The note 📝 saying take good care of the car, and nothing else explaining why it was being abandoned, doesn’t make any sense. It certainly sounds suspicious. I would think 💭 this is a complete mystery
This reminds me of that movie Open Road. You watch that movie them you will understand why.
Gosh, I really hope he’s ok somewhere and will be found. I’ve been looking at unidentified cases and saw a jacket he possibly had with him but that was before I was aware of his missing case. I can’t find where I saw that unidentified person case and jacket now.
Marley Station Mall is a sketchy place. You need to be aware when you are in the parking lot…. They need to start here and rule out foul play.
I live in MD I guess this is why the case popped up? Anyway, first thoughts are he didn't drive his car there :( I hope he is found safe.
That's so sad about the young man.
What crappy reporting. Sounds like you don't know anything about what investigators or law enforcement have or have not done. Sounds like you are just winging it and guessing and trying to make it look like nobody in law enforcement has asked the questions you're asking. I hope they find this young man, but you all need to do better about reporting what has already been looked into.
Grow up.
So sorry. I hope you get answers.
Did they have scent dogs?!
He could be living in the Phoenix or flagstaff area using a differnt name..
Did they check his social media? He had to have plan...coming that far from home is not a last minute impulsive decision.. he knew what he was doing..
@ 13:15
Abandoned on the side of a road.. not just ANY road (busy)… but a SCENIC ROUTE (slow,less traffic,not busy road)… I think that small detail should be considered.
And the BACK license plate was removed.. maybe both..
I believe there IS FOUL PLAY.. and that whoever did this tried to make it look as if HE JUST DECIDED TO DRUVE OFF AND KILL HIMSELF..
Removing the plate could be an attempt to DELAY THE CAR from being scanned… to DELAY from it being found by authorities most of all.. they probably HOPED that this car could be found by a local walking around, maybe a transient type? Or hitch hiker.. that would READ THE NOTE and JUSTIFY to themselves to take the vehicle.. then that drain could have it for a while.. it would also muddle any evidence of the ORIGINAL DRIVER (the abductor?) ..
The car should have been THOROUGHLY investigated inside, collect fingerprints etc etc.. and see if an unknown person was driving.
Why ABANDON the car at almost EMPTY?
Well, if you are on a suicide mission.. driving across country to kill yourself.. you’d drive until the car ran out of gas.. if it’s an ABDUCTOR.. you’d abandon the car just before it stalls because it could stall, run out of gas etc in a busy area.. drawing police attention.. if you LET IT RUN OUT it’s “out of your control where it STOPS”.. if you stop short of running out.. you are CONTROLLING the outcome.
I believe he was abducted.. and then the rest is a just an attempt to make it look like he left on his own accord..
Adults do stuff and I'm going to tell you that it's non of your business unless they want it to be your business. I know people that disappear when they are sick of everything....they show up months later and act like they never left. ⚠️🤔
They found Elijah Vue from Wisconsin went missing found him in a girl scout camping grounds not far from his house parents been arrested as of now
12:10 There is no Forrest in or around Page, AZ. Nor is there an Interstate. Who is this 'investigator' who supposedly is knowledgeable enough to speak on this case who isn't even aware of the surrounding landscape?
He’s got to be out there but not likely alive. How far was he going to get with out food water knowledge of the area and survival skills. It’s now late summer. No way he could be alive.
It is beautiful there scenic route 89a Paige az the Navajo bridge and Vermillion cliffs are out there I hope he finds his way home that is so sad.
co workers? Need video camera from work area parking lot. Was $200 withdrawal a normal thing for him? Was he needing that to buy something? Maybe a facebook market place buy? Lots of scamming done there. Should be able to back track video cameras from Grand Cameras. FBI involved yet? That is a must and ASAP.
He may not have planned on it but people change their mind as time goes on.
Foul play seems obvious to me.
giving things away is a big sue side clue.. cant write that word on youtube or get flagged
It’s possible the last place he was in was his hometown and the vehicle was taken. The plates are off because they were attached to him. Where is the cctv footage ??? Was he the one driving the car out of town ???😮😮😮
Some people know things others won't.
Wow so deep
$200 probably wouldn't cover gas for the trip
Tags get stolen off of vehicles. That's not extremely odd.
I bet he stopped his meds. Got robbed car jacked. Don’t think he ever made it to Arizona.
The first thing I wondered was , where was the last place his phone pinged...
...if the police haven't checked this , then they're not serious about solving this case...
... don't rule out the possibility of police involvement...
He probably walked off in the desert
He left a note in the car is it his handwriting. I don’t think it was stolen and taken to Arizona.
the family has yet to see the note, to confirm handwriting.
Young people underestimate how much money it costs to travel anywhere by car.
Then the is the idea that he may have had cash already save for awhile and was using that.
I sorta feel he is taking a break possibly traveling with a bag
Why just take off the back plate? In Maryland we have front and back so he left the front one on?
He only had the back plate on his car at the time of his disappearance.
would 200.00 taken out of his bank acct been enough to get car 2,000 miles away?
He doesn't look well in my opinion
What's up with his phone records. Can they gps his location or his travel?
The phone has been dead or shut off since the day he disappeared.
His name is Irish. Anyone that knows this will cringe at the man suggesting the Native American theory from his name. Shows he barely studied this poor individual or half heard a conversation and ran with an idea. Taking through his ass! Hope Braonáin’s family get answers soon.
The guy took his registration plates off his car and left a note to disown it. It's not a suicide note but it's pretty close.
If he met someone else, he could have either left the car parked, been towed by the person he met or followed them, it doesn't make sense to abandon his car and take off the plates. That suggests to me he knew he wasn't coming back for it. Nobody else is going to leave a note saying take the car are they, nor describe how well it runs. Sometimes people who are about to commit suicide give away their belongings. It certainly seems like a good area to carry out that intention. And he went to visit his favourite places before he left aswell. Pretty telling.
How many of these cases have been investigated as human trafficking? Straight answers please.
I’m praying they find him and alive. 🙏🙏🙏🥱
His name is Irish, spelled the way they used to spell it.
Did they take fingerprints in the car? He seemed happy and normal to his friend and his mother before he disappeared. It doesn't sound like he would have left. And he picked up a prescription, so he had meds.
They took fingerprints from his car but B’s are not in the system to know if they are his, and the prescription he picked up was only vitamin D so it is strange to me it wasn’t like it was a life saving medication, why pick it up if you were planing on leaving.
Just saying maryland is not enough.....where in maryland??
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2:07 oh he did it!
$200! That’s a lot to me! 3:53
Aliens got him
😄
Well either left it there himself and disappeared. Or he was a victim of foul play. Pick one.
The family " should be" anxious to do also. Since you are assigning tasks to everyone but yourself.
Have they tracked the vehicle? Car gps? Toll roads?
Weird the pinging of the phone ended the day off. Odd there’s no more info about the phone pings. Are they not relevant? Where did they end?
How peculiar how vague this is.
B's car was scanned twice the entire trip it made, once in Illinois, and again in Las Vegas on Christmas day, somehow it was not scanned by any other cameras the entire way out there. The phone's location stopped at a back entrance of Marley station mall in Maryland on the night he disappeared, and the phone has not been turned on since.
@@lucasfrasier4814VERY odd to ONLY be seen by those toll cams. I live in Illinois, there are cameras on dam near every single light/light pole everywhere in this state ffs lol. No way he's NOT on cam more. Are they not looking hard enough or what
@@cail171 a tag reader pinged his car going west on i-74 in Illinois on Friday December 21st, my personal opinion is more could definitely be done.
I hate to say I've been through El Paso Arizona and everything else and rest area is the rest area the most weirdest thing it is is men wearing green pants but they're not they're people hurting people and attacking people old woman and old man like they was beating them like they was immigration police and that was May 13th of this year the 31st of May and then I seen their car missing and they was missing people we got a lot of bad people in this world hurting people and law enforcement and everything else you can't trust nobody
Funny they say he had made Google Searches to find answers to questions when I have never gotten a straight answer from a Google Search. I once tried to find the listings of dentist offices near me and all it showed me were pages of deceased dentist's. Pages and pages of answers but just not answers to the question.
May he left the car in Maryland with that note. Someone took it, removed the plate and headed west? Not likely but possible
Has his family even seen the note yet?
Chat logs
I hope they dusted for fresh prints that don't match his. Maybe find bits of material and hair left in the car for later DNA just incase foul play was involved. One never knows when the little thing can prove clues.
That bald fella is good at saying so little with so much..
It seems to me, going on the removed liscence plate, no proof he wrote that note, he didn't take that vehicle there. There is a similar case, where the lad went to a storage unit, near his home, got computer things, then they found his car in the middle of a forest 100s of miles away. completely burnt out, and his belongings strewn about. I think something happened to him way back at the storage unit. Same with this lad.
I hope the police are talking to his weed dealer because $200 won’t get you to AZ but it will get you a half ounce.
He didn’t smoke.
I believe there's a connection between the $200 cash withdrawal and his cellphone being turned off. He used the money to purchase another cellphone, in another name. That presents more problems because of not knowing what name he used, but it could give law enforcement a new clue to research.
Ruben not for Arizona. Kari Lake for sanity on the border
It could be, making xmas trees with pipe cleaners was, an eye opening as to just how far down his life had spiraled.
Braonain = pronounced as Brennen ?? How.
Is it a Scottish name / pronunciation?
It is Irish
Irish has a very... interesting way of pronuncing things😅 like 'Niahm' (a girl's name) is pronunced 'Neev'...
Getting a family trying to build a story vibe
The spelling of his name looks Irish or Scottish to me. ?? So sorry for all the missing & their loved ones! 💜💙💚
I bet they didn't fingerprint the car because if someone took the number plate of the back chances are they tried to take the front one also but it couldn't unscrew plus someone else could have been driving the car and left the note
The front plate was never on the car only the back one was.
If this had been a female, would Law Enforcement give the same attention to this case?
Sounds like he was copying into the wild...
What was his prescription?
Was he on drugs?
It was vitamin D
Braonain could have maybe join a cult group.🤔
Baby bird has left the nest, and flew westward for the winter. Life is beautiful. ❤
UAP - Unidentified Another Person - if the topic involves something unknown, must somehow involve a government / military/ CIA coverup of little green alien activity in flying saucers
Braonain committed suicide.....DUUUHHH! 😕😒