Latest / Weeknight Mysteries Podcast / Attack of the Loch Ness Croissant (And Other News) & The Murder of Kelly Anne Bates
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Shrouded Hand here, and it's time to look
- 0:03Speaker 1: at some more weird news stories, so let's jump right
- 0:07Speaker 1: into it. Okay, here's some cryptid news, off to a
- 0:10Speaker 1: good start. Loch Ness monster hunters insist huge skeleton found
- 0:15Speaker 1: on Scots Beach must be a relative. You know what,
- 0:17Speaker 1: the writing in these papers, terrible. A Scotswoman made, discovered
- 0:22Speaker 1: a huge washed-up skeleton on a remote beach of South Uist.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Where is this? Let's have a look.
- 0:28Speaker 1: So it's like right over here on the edge of Scotland.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Where's Loch Ness then? Oh, it's a big straight line
- 0:34Speaker 1: thing there through the middle. I didn't know Loch Ness
- 0:37Speaker 1: did that. It's like a straight line all the way
- 0:39Speaker 1: through the middle of Scotland there. Well, you learn something
- 0:42Speaker 1: new every day. So, yeah, Nessie was over here. This
- 0:44Speaker 1: is where the bones were found. And there's the picture
- 0:48Speaker 1: of it. Aviation Authority unable to identify blue UFO that
- 0:54Speaker 1: crashed in Hawaii. She's got the worst camera person. That
- 1:13Speaker 1: is weird looking.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Possibly a balloon.
- 1:17Speaker 1: But why is it glowing like that? Hmm, that's really weird,
- 1:21Speaker 1: but I don't know what it is. Others have suggested
- 1:23Speaker 1: it might simply be an LED kite. Let's look at
- 1:26Speaker 1: a video of an LED kite.
- 1:28Speaker 2: So, who's this? Kidoma. That does look very similar, doesn't it? Yeah.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that might. Well, there we have it.
- 1:43Speaker 1: There's a possible explanation for that. Here's another bloody TikTok one. Right,
- 1:48Speaker 1: let's watch it. You know what? I don't know why
- 1:49Speaker 1: I click on these TikTok ones. I know what they're
- 1:51Speaker 1: going to be.
- 1:51Speaker 2: Yeah, that was very good.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Okay here we go this one should be good woman
- 2:17Speaker 1: convinced she filmed dinosaur running past a house in bizarre
- 2:20Speaker 1: footage let's look at this let's see this.
- 2:26Speaker 2: It looks like a.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Fox maybe it's a fox that's got a tin can
- 2:34Speaker 1: stuck on its head i don't think it's a dinosaur
- 2:39Speaker 1: though somehow Ghosts with see-through legs caught on camera waiting
- 2:44Speaker 1: behind nuns at a bus stop. In the snap, a
- 2:47Speaker 1: lady in a brown coat can be seen waiting behind
- 2:49Speaker 1: the nuns but her legs appear to be so transparent
- 2:52Speaker 1: that the bus stop line is visible through them. Yeah,
- 2:54Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out how that would happen. Yeah,
- 2:56Speaker 1: you can see the lines from here as well. Like
- 2:59Speaker 1: this bit here. But then why can't you see this
- 3:01Speaker 1: person behind them?
- 3:05Speaker 2: That's really weird.
- 3:06Speaker 1: The only possible explanation would be if it was on
- 3:08Speaker 1: a really slow shutter. Maybe he was taking a photograph
- 3:12Speaker 1: at night and then she walked into frame, but that
- 3:14Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be the case. Okay, well, that one
- 3:17Speaker 1: was quite interesting.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Here we go.
- 3:19Speaker 1: This one sounds spooky. Mystery as hundreds of sheep seen
- 3:22Speaker 1: silently standing in unnerving circle formation. That is very crop circle-esque,
- 3:28Speaker 1: isn't it? Hmm. He said, the sheep are usually noisy.
- 3:32Speaker 1: I go past them every day, but this day they
- 3:34Speaker 1: were very still and calm. It was so quiet, like
- 3:37Speaker 1: they were in a trance. It was very eerie.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Hmm.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Surely this is some kind of stunt. Surely it'll get
- 3:44Speaker 1: revealed that this is some kind of viral marketing campaign.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Turns out there was a far simpler explanation. The sheep
- 3:50Speaker 1: were merely following the pattern of a sheep snacker, which
- 3:52Speaker 1: had left food in a circular trail. How had it
- 3:55Speaker 1: left it in such a perfectly circular trail, though? It
- 3:58Speaker 1: must have been done on purpose. Okay, well, if that's
- 4:00Speaker 1: the explanation, then I guess it is, but that is
- 4:03Speaker 1: still very odd. Chilling footage captures Spirit haunting Kitchen as
- 4:08Speaker 1: it says, Why can't I die?
- 4:27Speaker 2: Hmm.
- 4:28Speaker 1: So they were using a Wyze camera and disembodied voice says,
- 4:31Speaker 1: why can't I die? Some people think it says, why
- 4:35Speaker 1: can't they die? Another person wrote, a lot of security
- 4:38Speaker 1: cameras have a two-way speaker. Someone could have hacked the
- 4:40Speaker 1: camera and piped in audio to disturb the owners. That's possible,
- 4:44Speaker 1: but I prefer to think it's a disembodied voice of
- 4:47Speaker 1: a ghost. People claim to spot Shadow Demon in TikTok
- 4:55Speaker 1: users' fake nail video. Okay, so I'm going to predict
- 4:59Speaker 1: exactly like the last one we watched. It's just going
- 5:01Speaker 1: to be the vague outline of a person standing behind them.
- 5:10Speaker 2: Yeah, come on.
- 5:12Speaker 1: So that was the worst one yet. Can TikTok users
- 5:14Speaker 1: not come up with something a bit more original? I mean,
- 5:17Speaker 1: you'd think after the millionth spooky shadow demon standing behind
- 5:21Speaker 1: you video that they'd start to think of something slightly
- 5:24Speaker 1: more original to do, but No, it seems that TikTok
- 5:28Speaker 1: is just the place where creativity goes to die. Well,
- 5:32Speaker 1: there we go.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Another one.
- 5:35Speaker 1: Mum terrified after re-watching baby camera to hear voice whispering,
- 5:39Speaker 1: help me. She was initially convinced it was a prank
- 5:42Speaker 1: by someone who hacked the camera, but changed her mind
- 5:45Speaker 1: after raising the volume of the clip. Creepy, even so.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Whatever it is, whether it's a ghost or a hacker,
- 6:06Speaker 1: it's kind of creepy, isn't it? I don't understand why,
- 6:10Speaker 1: when she raised the volume of the clip, she decided
- 6:12Speaker 1: it wasn't someone hacking the camera.
- 6:14Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 6:15Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to make sense. But still, it's a
- 6:17Speaker 1: nice creepy bit of.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Creepy bit of footage, isn't it? Defense Department confirms leaked
- 6:30Speaker 1: video of unidentified aerial phenomena is real. So this is
- 6:39Speaker 1: something captured by the Navy, yeah. There's a pyramid in
- 6:46Speaker 1: the sky. There's something weird going on, and I've said
- 6:51Speaker 1: this in another video, there seems to be a massive
- 6:54Speaker 1: escalation in the amount of UFO sightings and people coming
- 6:59Speaker 1: out saying that aliens exist and things like that. There's
- 7:02Speaker 1: something strange going on. There's another one, look. You are
- 7:05Speaker 1: not alone. UFO reports surged in the pandemic. Yeah, there's
- 7:09Speaker 1: something odd going on. And I feel like, you know,
- 7:11Speaker 1: we're being conditioned somehow, like preconditioned to accept something when
- 7:16Speaker 1: it happens, you know. Did this door cam capture an
- 7:20Speaker 1: alien abduction? Let's have a look then.
- 7:25Speaker 2: It walks out.
- 7:31Speaker 1: Come on, no way.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Who is the man in the video?
- 7:34Speaker 1: Surely he'd be able to confirm whether or not he
- 7:36Speaker 1: was abducted by aliens. Quite a few people have sent
- 7:43Speaker 1: me this. So apologies if you've sent me this and
- 7:45Speaker 1: I'm not shouting you out here. It's just loads of
- 7:48Speaker 1: people sent me it.
- 7:48Speaker 2: So.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Animal welfare officers received a report of an unusual animal
- 7:53Speaker 1: lurking in a tree in the Polish city of Krakow.
- 7:56Speaker 1: People aren't opening their windows because they're afraid it will
- 7:59Speaker 1: go into their house, a woman reportedly said. I would
- 8:02Speaker 1: be afraid, honestly. So it turned out to be a croissant.
- 8:06Speaker 1: I guess someone had just thrown it into a tree,
- 8:08Speaker 1: thrown it off their balcony maybe, feeding the birds. Okay,
- 8:39Speaker 1: here's a slightly unnerving one. Bizarre masked character frightening people
- 8:44Speaker 1: in South Carolina neighborhood after dark. Someone's been involved in
- 8:48Speaker 1: suspicious activity in Meadowcroft subdivision. I would be kind of
- 8:52Speaker 1: creeped out if that was going around my neighborhood. Okay,
- 8:56Speaker 1: so we can end the video. We're going to circle
- 8:59Speaker 1: back around to another Loch Ness Monster sighting. Loch Ness
- 9:03Speaker 1: Monster caught on camera as dark shapes spotted above surface
- 9:06Speaker 1: of water. Loch Ness Monster has reportedly been spotted for
- 9:10Speaker 1: the fifth time this year. Bloody hell, I didn't know
- 9:12Speaker 1: it got spotted that often. Let's watch this person's YouTube
- 9:15Speaker 1: video here. Okay, dark shape will appear. Okay, there's the creature.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Nicely pointed out as well. Well, this is This is
- 9:32Speaker 1: very slow, isn't it? I think what I'll do in
- 9:33Speaker 1: editing is watch this thing in very fast motion to
- 9:37Speaker 1: see if it looks like anything. Because sometimes when you
- 9:39Speaker 1: play things at a different speed, you get a different
- 9:42Speaker 1: impression of them, so... Freeze there.
- 9:46Speaker 2: Times ten.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Enhance, then forward, frame by frame.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Alright. What do you think it is?
- 9:58Speaker 1: Croissant? Yeah, okay, so that'll do, I think. I hope
- 10:01Speaker 1: you enjoyed this episode. And leave a comment below. Let
- 10:05Speaker 1: me know what you think. Okay, thanks for watching. Until
- 10:09Speaker 1: next time, goodbye.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Hello, everybody. Shrouded Hand here. Today we're looking at a
- 10:15Speaker 2: crime so brutal that a pathologist described the injuries as
- 10:19Speaker 2: the worst he'd ever seen. This is the horrific murder
- 10:24Speaker 2: of Kelly Ann Bates. James Patterson Smith and Kelly Ann
- 10:38Speaker 2: Bates were an unlikely couple. James a divorcee in his
- 10:43Speaker 2: mid-forties and Kelly a 16-year-old girl fresh out of high school.
- 10:48Speaker 2: He'd met her two years earlier in 1993 when she
- 10:52Speaker 2: babysat for a friend and he offered to walk her home.
- 10:56Speaker 2: From that point onwards he began to groom Kelly Ann,
- 11:00Speaker 2: contacting her in secret behind her parents' back. Two years later,
- 11:04Speaker 2: when she left school, he had enough control over her
- 11:07Speaker 2: to convince her to move into his house in Ferneville Road, Gorton.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Kelly initially kept James' age a secret, and it was
- 11:16Speaker 2: only a long time after the relationship started that they
- 11:19Speaker 2: were actually allowed to meet him. Kelly's mother, Margaret Bates,
- 11:24Speaker 2: says that when she first met James, the hairs on
- 11:27Speaker 2: the back of her neck stood up, and she tried
- 11:30Speaker 2: everything she could to get Kelly Ann away from him.
- 11:33Speaker 2: She says she had the strange urge to pick up
- 11:36Speaker 2: a bread knife from her kitchen counter and plunge it
- 11:39Speaker 2: into his back to stop him from taking her daughter away.
- 11:42Speaker 2: I find this detail interesting. There's been some studies to
- 11:47Speaker 2: suggest that psychopathic criminals give off a kind of intangible
- 11:52Speaker 2: creepy vibe. Often after meeting psychopaths, people will report that
- 11:57Speaker 2: they made their skin crawl, even when they were being
- 12:00Speaker 2: perfectly friendly. some of us seem to have evolved a
- 12:04Speaker 2: deep-rooted instinct to identify predatory people. Without knowing anything about
- 12:10Speaker 2: James Smith, Margaret Bates knew that she was encountering evil.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Unbeknownst to Kellyanne and her parents, James Patterson Smith had
- 12:21Speaker 2: a long history of abusing the women in his life.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Thirteen years before meeting Kellyanne, His then-wife divorced him because
- 12:31Speaker 2: of his abusive behaviour towards her. He then began to
- 12:34Speaker 2: date 20-year-old Tina Watson, who he used as a human
- 12:38Speaker 2: punching bag, even when she was pregnant with his child.
- 12:42Speaker 2: The relationship ended after Smith attempted to drown Watson while
- 12:46Speaker 2: she was in the bath. After they broke up, James
- 12:50Speaker 2: Smith began seeing a 15-year-old girl named Wendy Motteshead. Again,
- 12:55Speaker 2: he was violently abusive towards her. at one point attempting
- 12:59Speaker 2: to drown her by holding her head underwater in a
- 13:02Speaker 2: kitchen sink. As horrific as these stories are, it seems
- 13:07Speaker 2: that James Smith's exes got away lightly, because what he
- 13:11Speaker 2: was going to do to Kellyanne Bates was much, much worse.
- 13:16Speaker 2: Within weeks of Kellyanne moving in with James Smith, it
- 13:20Speaker 2: was clear that something was wrong. They would fight a lot,
- 13:24Speaker 2: often splitting up temporarily, during which time Kellyanne would move
- 13:28Speaker 2: back in with her parents. They noticed that she seemed
- 13:33Speaker 2: increasingly withdrawn and untalkative. Her clothes were unkempt and her
- 13:38Speaker 2: hair unwashed. She would sit in a corner with her
- 13:41Speaker 2: head down, seeming depressed. Sometimes she would turn up with
- 13:46Speaker 2: bruises or bite marks on her body. She always managed
- 13:50Speaker 2: to explain it away, or simply told her parents not
- 13:53Speaker 2: to worry about it. Increasingly worried, her parents contacted the authorities,
- 13:59Speaker 2: but the police were unable to intervene because Kelly was
- 14:02Speaker 2: over the age of 16, which is the age of
- 14:04Speaker 2: consent in the UK. Unbeknownst to them, James Smith was
- 14:11Speaker 2: using their concern against them. Their attempts to help Kellyanne
- 14:14Speaker 2: were twisted to make it seem like they were interfering
- 14:17Speaker 2: and overbearing. He used this to further distance her from
- 14:21Speaker 2: her parents, until one day she moved out, never to
- 14:25Speaker 2: see them again. This was in November 1995, and from
- 14:29Speaker 2: that day onwards, she only spoke to her parents on
- 14:32Speaker 2: the phone, and those calls became increasingly infrequent. On birthdays
- 14:38Speaker 2: and anniversaries, Kelly's parents would receive cards from her, but
- 14:42Speaker 2: they noticed the handwriting on the card wasn't hers. It
- 14:46Speaker 2: seemed that James was sending the cards on her behalf.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Sensing that something was wrong, Kelly's brother visited the house
- 14:55Speaker 2: on Furniful Road and asked to see her, but he
- 14:57Speaker 2: was told that she wasn't home. On another occasion, a
- 15:01Speaker 2: concerned neighbour asked how Kelly was doing, but was only
- 15:05Speaker 2: allowed to see her briefly in an upstairs window. The
- 15:11Speaker 2: last time Kelly Ann's parents spoke to her was a
- 15:14Speaker 2: phone call on the 10th of March 1996. On April 16th,
- 15:17Speaker 2: James Smith walked into a local police station and calmly
- 15:24Speaker 2: told them, Kelly has drowned in the bath. Upon investigating
- 15:29Speaker 2: the scene, it was clear to police officers that this
- 15:32Speaker 2: was no simple drowning. There was blood in every room
- 15:36Speaker 2: of the house and Kelly Ann's body was covered in
- 15:39Speaker 2: horrific injuries. Smith was taken into custody. When the police
- 15:45Speaker 2: arrived at Kelly Ann's parents' house, the first thing Margaret
- 15:48Speaker 2: Bates said was, he's killed her. The exact timeline of
- 15:53Speaker 2: events leading up to Kellyanne's death are unknown. It's only
- 15:57Speaker 2: through an examination of her injuries that we're able to
- 16:00Speaker 2: get some idea of the ordeal that she went through.
- 16:05Speaker 2: We know that she was being abused from the very
- 16:07Speaker 2: early days of the relationship. Sometime in December 1995 she
- 16:13Speaker 2: quit her part-time job and it was around this time
- 16:17Speaker 2: that she stopped contacting her family apart from the occasional
- 16:20Speaker 2: phone call. It seems that Smith was keeping her captive
- 16:24Speaker 2: from that point onwards, and it's safe to assume that
- 16:27Speaker 2: the physical abuse was slowly ramped up over this period.
- 16:31Speaker 2: The worst of the abuse, though, seems to have been
- 16:34Speaker 2: carried out over a period of about four weeks leading
- 16:37Speaker 2: up to her death. Her body had over 150 separate
- 16:42Speaker 2: injuries in various states of healing, showing that she'd been
- 16:46Speaker 2: continuously tortured over the four-week period. Her eyebrows, lips, nose,
- 16:53Speaker 2: ears and genitals were horribly mutilated. There were stab wounds
- 16:58Speaker 2: to the inside of her mouth. Her body was covered
- 17:01Speaker 2: in stab wounds from knives, scissors and forks. There were
- 17:06Speaker 2: also deep wounds caused by a garden spade and pruning shears.
- 17:11Speaker 2: There was scalding to her buttocks and left leg, most
- 17:14Speaker 2: likely from boiling water. There was also a large burn
- 17:18Speaker 2: from a clothing iron on her thigh. Part of her
- 17:21Speaker 2: scalp had been torn away. She had been starved, losing
- 17:25Speaker 2: 44 pounds in weight in those final three weeks. She
- 17:29Speaker 2: also hadn't been given water for several days before her death.
- 17:34Speaker 2: Her kneecaps and the bones in her hand had been
- 17:37Speaker 2: shattered with a blunt object. Her arm had also been fractured.
- 17:41Speaker 2: This would have rendered her completely immobile and unable to
- 17:45Speaker 2: defend herself. Despite this, he still kept her restrained. either
- 17:49Speaker 2: by tying her to a radiator with her own hair
- 17:53Speaker 2: or keeping her in a hole underneath the floorboards. Worst
- 17:58Speaker 2: of all, though, he'd gouged out both her eyes. It's
- 18:02Speaker 2: not known exactly how far into the ordeal that this happened,
- 18:06Speaker 2: but forensic examiners say that it happened at least five
- 18:09Speaker 2: days before her death and it could have been three
- 18:12Speaker 2: weeks beforehand. To make matters worse, There were stab wounds
- 18:17Speaker 2: inside the sockets that occurred sometime after the eyeballs were removed.
- 18:23Speaker 2: This was probably the worst part of the ordeal. If
- 18:27Speaker 2: you think about how bad it hurts just to get
- 18:29Speaker 2: a speck of dust in your eye, it's not hard
- 18:31Speaker 2: to imagine how getting your eyes gouged out is one
- 18:34Speaker 2: of the most painful things a person can endure. Afterwards,
- 18:38Speaker 2: the empty sockets are painful open wounds full of exposed nerves.
- 18:43Speaker 2: Any further trauma to this area can be even more
- 18:46Speaker 2: painful than the eye removal itself. There's an eerily similar
- 18:52Speaker 2: case of a woman named Tina Nash who was severely
- 18:55Speaker 2: assaulted by her boyfriend. He choked her unconscious and then
- 18:59Speaker 2: gouged out her eyes. He then threw her into a
- 19:02Speaker 2: bath and shoved her head underwater. She describes the pain
- 19:07Speaker 2: of the cold water hitting her empty eye sockets as
- 19:10Speaker 2: if someone was shoving red hot pokers in there. If
- 19:15Speaker 2: cold water can cause that much pain, imagine how sadistic
- 19:19Speaker 2: a person has to be to repeatedly stab someone in
- 19:22Speaker 2: their empty eye sockets. That person was James Smith, a
- 19:27Speaker 2: true psychopathic sadist who relished in the prolonged abuse of
- 19:31Speaker 2: a defenseless girl. During his trial, the prosecutor said, It
- 19:37Speaker 2: was as if he was deliberately disfiguring her, causing her
- 19:41Speaker 2: the utmost pain, distress and degradation. The injuries were not
- 19:46Speaker 2: the result of one sudden eruption of violence. they must
- 19:50Speaker 2: have been caused over a long period. The injuries were
- 19:54Speaker 2: so extensive and so terrible that the defendant must have
- 19:57Speaker 2: deliberately and systematically tortured the girl. It was enough to
- 20:01Speaker 2: cause anguish and torment to the point of mental breakdown
- 20:05Speaker 2: and collapse. Her final moments, although brutal, must have come
- 20:11Speaker 2: as a blessed relief. Smith dragged Kelly Ann into the
- 20:16Speaker 2: bathroom and smashed her round head with the shower attachment
- 20:19Speaker 2: until she fell unconscious into the bath where she drowned. Amazingly,
- 20:26Speaker 2: during his trial, James Smith tried to claim that most
- 20:29Speaker 2: of her injuries were self-inflicted. He said that she would
- 20:32Speaker 2: goad him into hurting her, then she would injure herself
- 20:35Speaker 2: further to make the wounds seem worse than they were.
- 20:39Speaker 2: When asked why he'd removed her eyes, he said that
- 20:41Speaker 2: she dared him to do it, mocking his dead mother
- 20:44Speaker 2: to send him into a fit of rage. It took
- 20:49Speaker 2: the jury less than one hour to find him guilty
- 20:52Speaker 2: of the torture and murder of Kellyanne Bates. Despite the
- 20:57Speaker 2: speed of the sentencing, the pictures shown in court of
- 21:00Speaker 2: Kellyanne's injuries were so disturbing that every member of the
- 21:04Speaker 2: jury required counselling afterwards. James Patterson Smith was sentenced to
- 21:11Speaker 2: a minimum of 20 years behind bars with the recommendation
- 21:14Speaker 2: that he never be released. Psychologists diagnosed him as a
- 21:18Speaker 2: sadistic psychopath with a paranoid personality disorder who would always
- 21:23Speaker 2: be a danger to women. Luckily, he's still languishing in
- 21:27Speaker 2: jail to this day. So that's the end of the
- 21:32Speaker 2: video and I hope you found it informative. Massive thanks
- 21:35Speaker 2: to everyone supporting the channel. Hopefully it doesn't seem in
- 21:39Speaker 2: bad taste to thank patrons at the end of a
- 21:41Speaker 2: video like this, but then I wouldn't be able to
- 21:43Speaker 2: cover these sort of topics if I had to try
- 21:45Speaker 2: and be advertiser friendly, so I can't really go without
- 21:48Speaker 2: showing my appreciation in some way. Thank you for watching
- 21:52Speaker 2: and until next time, goodbye.