He Walked Into a Bar and Never Came Out: The Brian Shaffer Case

The Psychic Case Files with Dallisa Hocking · Oct 1, 2026 · 34m

On the first night of spring break in 2006, 27-year-old Ohio State medical student Brian Randall Shaffer walked into a second-floor campus bar with friends. Security cameras caught him going up the escalator at 1:15 a.m. They caught him again at 1:55 a.m., talking with two young women in the foyer outside the Ugly Tuna Saloona. Then he stepped out of the frame. The cameras never recorded him leaving the building.

Brian had just buried his mother. He had dinner with his father that night. He had plane tickets to Miami two days later, and he was planning to propose. His car was still at his…