The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson | The 47-Minute Phone Call

Kat Has Questions: True Crime and Unsolved Mysteries · Apr 8, 2026 · 23m

On May 14, 2008, nineteen-year-old Brandon Swanson called his parents after his car went into a ditch on a rural Minnesota road.He believed he was just outside the town of Lynd and asked them to come pick him up.For the next 47 minutes, Brandon stayed on the phone with them while he walked through the dark toward what he thought were the lights of town.Then suddenly, in the middle of the conversation, Brandon said two words:“Oh, shit.”And the line went dead.Despite extensive searches, Brandon Swanson was never found.In this episode of Kat Has Questions, we reconstruct the final phone call…