Latest / Crime and Horror / 3 people TAKEN by forest creature Missing 411 (Part 6)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Every year, hundreds of people go missing inside of national
- 0:03Speaker 1: parks and forests all over North America. Of those hundreds
- 0:07Speaker 1: of missing people, there's always a few that are particularly
- 0:10Speaker 1: strange that there isn't a rational explanation for how they
- 0:14Speaker 1: went missing or where they were discovered. One man named
- 0:18Speaker 1: David Politis, who's a former police detective, made it his
- 0:21Speaker 1: mission to start investigating these strange disappearances, and after spending
- 0:26Speaker 1: thousands of hours researching them, he saw that there were
- 0:29Speaker 1: clusters of areas all over North America where lots of
- 0:33Speaker 1: people were going missing under these strange circumstances, and no
- 0:36Speaker 1: one was any bit closer to figuring out what happened
- 0:39Speaker 1: to these people or why. David Polidis began compiling what
- 0:43Speaker 1: he was finding about all these strange cases and putting
- 0:45Speaker 1: them into a book series that he calls Missing.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Four one one. I went out and purchased all of them.
- 0:51Speaker 1: There's like nine books because I'm totally fascinated by the
- 0:54Speaker 1: Missing four one one phenomenon, and I want to continue
- 0:57Speaker 1: to read through all of the research that he's done
- 1:00Speaker 1: and find some very interesting cases that I can share
- 1:02Speaker 1: with you all on my YouTube channel. Today, I'm going
- 1:05Speaker 1: to focus on three stories that all come out of Colorado,
- 1:08Speaker 1: and in each story, it's as if someone or something
- 1:12Speaker 1: literally picked these people up and moved them great distances
- 1:17Speaker 1: to places that they would not have been able to
- 1:19Speaker 1: access on their own. But before we get into today's
- 1:22Speaker 1: missing four one one stories, if you're a fan of
- 1:25Speaker 1: missing four one one or just everything strange, dark and mysterious,
- 1:30Speaker 1: then you've come to the right channel because that's all
- 1:32Speaker 1: I post about, and I upload three, four, even five
- 1:35Speaker 1: times every week. So if that's of interest to you,
- 1:38Speaker 1: I would encourage you to sneak into the like Buttons
- 1:40Speaker 1: home and replace all of their family photos with pictures
- 1:43Speaker 1: of Steve Buscemi. Also, please subscribe to my channel and
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- 2:04Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, Maurice doc Demetz was an eighty four
- 2:08Speaker 1: year old man living in Colorado. He was a lifelong minister,
- 2:11Speaker 1: had a PhD in theology. He also had a blood
- 2:14Speaker 1: condition and he had arthritis in his knees that made
- 2:16Speaker 1: it almost impossible for him to walk without assistance. He
- 2:20Speaker 1: had always been really passionate about Topaz hunting. He would
- 2:23Speaker 1: go to these sites where you could dig into the
- 2:25Speaker 1: ground and look for these rocks. When you broke them open,
- 2:27Speaker 1: you could potentially find topaz, and he loved doing that.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Because of his knees and because of his blood condition,
- 2:33Speaker 1: he needed someone to go with him, to walk him
- 2:35Speaker 1: around to the different dig sites and to help him
- 2:37Speaker 1: get back into the car and drive him back to
- 2:39Speaker 1: his house.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Doc had a friend named David McSherry.
- 2:42Speaker 1: He wound up being the primary guy that would go
- 2:45Speaker 1: with Doc anytime he went topaz hunting. On April twenty ninth,
- 2:48Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, Doc decides he wants to go topaz hunting,
- 2:51Speaker 1: so he calls up David and they load up David's
- 2:54Speaker 1: car and they head off to Pike National Forest, which
- 2:57Speaker 1: was a spot they had gone many times before, and
- 2:59Speaker 1: they had this one air that they used to love
- 3:01Speaker 1: going in particular called Devil's Head. Locals in the area
- 3:04Speaker 1: claimed that that spot was actually haunted by evil spirits,
- 3:07Speaker 1: but to Doc and to David, there was no indication
- 3:10Speaker 1: that they bought into any of that, and they went
- 3:12Speaker 1: there all the time. When they got there on April
- 3:14Speaker 1: twenty ninth, at ten am, they got out they went
- 3:17Speaker 1: to their favorite dig sites. David actually walked Doc down
- 3:21Speaker 1: this hill to this one little clearing. Doc had a
- 3:24Speaker 1: backpack with him full of the tools he used to
- 3:26Speaker 1: dig out the different rocks. After David had walked Doc
- 3:29Speaker 1: to this spot, David walked back up the hill towards
- 3:33Speaker 1: their car and went about fifty yards away from where
- 3:36Speaker 1: Doc was to his dig site. And over the next
- 3:39Speaker 1: several hours, the two would work independent of one another,
- 3:42Speaker 1: just digging for topaz. Periodically David would look over and
- 3:46Speaker 1: you'd make sure that he could see Doc and make
- 3:48Speaker 1: sure the Doc was okay. At three forty five in
- 3:51Speaker 1: the afternoon, David decides, all right, it's probably time to
- 3:53Speaker 1: get going soon, and he pokes his head up and
- 3:56Speaker 1: he looks in the direction of where Doc was supposed
- 3:58Speaker 1: to be, and Doc's not there. He had just seen
- 4:01Speaker 1: him about fifteen minutes earlier, so he's not concerned. He
- 4:03Speaker 1: knows it's only been a few minutes. And frankly, Doc
- 4:06Speaker 1: can't really go anywhere, he can barely walk, and so
- 4:08Speaker 1: he just kind of stands up and maybe tries to
- 4:10Speaker 1: get a better look. And he's thinking, okay, maybe Doc
- 4:12Speaker 1: stood up and got behind a tree, to relieve himself,
- 4:15Speaker 1: or maybe he kind of is just out of sight,
- 4:17Speaker 1: and he starts walking down to the area to just
- 4:19Speaker 1: go find Doc. But Doc isn't there, and neither is
- 4:22Speaker 1: his backpack with all of his tools, and David's sitting
- 4:24Speaker 1: there thinking, huh, I guess Doc must have packed up
- 4:28Speaker 1: and headed back to the car. But then David's thinking
- 4:30Speaker 1: to himself, in order to go from this dig site
- 4:33Speaker 1: up to the car, it means walking up a fairly
- 4:35Speaker 1: steep embankment, and there's no way that Doc would have
- 4:38Speaker 1: been able to do that without assistance. So he's looking
- 4:40Speaker 1: around the area thinking, is there any sign of something
- 4:43Speaker 1: bad happening here? There's no blood, there's no sign of
- 4:46Speaker 1: any sort of altercation that would have happened here. David
- 4:48Speaker 1: certainly didn't hear anything going on near him. He didn't
- 4:51Speaker 1: hear an animal attack or anything like that, so he thinks, Okay,
- 4:54Speaker 1: somehow he must have got up to the car.
- 4:57Speaker 2: David walks up the embankment all the way to the car.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Doc's not up there.
- 5:01Speaker 1: David goes in the car and he starts honking the
- 5:03Speaker 1: horn and yelling out for Doc. No response. As he's
- 5:07Speaker 1: honking the horn. Three motorists come down the road. They
- 5:10Speaker 1: see David honking the horn, and so they say, hey,
- 5:12Speaker 1: what's going on. David tells them, Hey, you know, I
- 5:14Speaker 1: got my eighty four year old friend. I don't know
- 5:17Speaker 1: where he went. He can't have gone far. Can you
- 5:19Speaker 1: guys help me look for him. But after David and
- 5:21Speaker 1: these motorists spend a couple of hours looking in this
- 5:24Speaker 1: area and there's no sign of him, they end up
- 5:26Speaker 1: calling the authorities. The police show up, and over the
- 5:29Speaker 1: next week there is this extensive search in this whole
- 5:32Speaker 1: area that includes bloodhounds and hundreds of people. But despite
- 5:36Speaker 1: this massive effort, nothing is ever found of Doc.
- 5:41Speaker 2: He just vanishes.
- 5:42Speaker 1: And so Doc's wife writes a letter to the governor
- 5:45Speaker 1: of Colorado and just says he can't have done this
- 5:48Speaker 1: on his own. He can't have walked away on his own.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Someone or something lifted him up.
- 5:57Speaker 2: And took him away.
- 5:58Speaker 1: There was no response to this letter, and ultimately Doc's
- 6:01Speaker 1: case was shut down.
- 6:02Speaker 2: They stopped looking for him and assumed he had died.
- 6:04Speaker 1: But when David Poliitis looked into this case and featured
- 6:07Speaker 1: the Doc de Metz case on his documentary, they actually
- 6:11Speaker 1: reopened the case. But as of right now, there's no
- 6:14Speaker 1: new additional details about the whereabouts of Doc de Mets.
- 6:17Speaker 1: To this day, we don't know what happened to him.
- 6:23Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, Jim mcgrogan was a thirty nine year
- 6:26Speaker 1: old medical doctor who was living in Indiana with his
- 6:29Speaker 1: wife and his two kids. He was widely regarded as
- 6:32Speaker 1: a very loving husband and devoted father, and everybody seemed
- 6:36Speaker 1: to just love this guy. Jim was in phenomenal shape.
- 6:39Speaker 1: He had run marathons, triathlons. He loved being in the outdoors, hiking,
- 6:43Speaker 1: rock climbing, snowshoeing, skiing.
- 6:45Speaker 2: That was Jim's happy place.
- 6:47Speaker 1: And so in early March twenty fourteen, Jim decides he
- 6:50Speaker 1: wants to plan a trip with some friends to go
- 6:52Speaker 1: hiking in Colorado, and so he begins planning out where
- 6:55Speaker 1: they're going to go hiking, and he finds this amazing
- 6:57Speaker 1: trail right opposite the very famous Veil Ski resort. Even
- 7:02Speaker 1: though Jim was very competent in the outdoors, he would
- 7:05Speaker 1: take a survival class and an avalanche preparedness class before
- 7:09Speaker 1: he left for Colorado, just to show his wife that
- 7:12Speaker 1: he wasn't taking any chances that he would be well
- 7:15Speaker 1: prepared in case the worst were to happen on this trip.
- 7:18Speaker 1: About two weeks later, he's in Colorado and he heads
- 7:21Speaker 1: to a ski shop where he rents a split snowboard,
- 7:24Speaker 1: as well as loads up on all the supplies that
- 7:26Speaker 1: you might need for being in the outdoors. Early the
- 7:28Speaker 1: next day, Jim and his friends arrive at the trailhead. Jim,
- 7:32Speaker 1: in his backpack, had his cell phone. He also had
- 7:35Speaker 1: an extra cell phone battery. He had a great GPS.
- 7:38Speaker 1: In addition, he had loads of food and water. He
- 7:41Speaker 1: had his split snowboard, he has his avalanche beacon, He's
- 7:45Speaker 1: got extra clothing. I mean, this guy is well outfitted
- 7:48Speaker 1: for this trip. So they start on this hike and
- 7:50Speaker 1: by ten am that morning, the rest of the group
- 7:53Speaker 1: is feeling tired and wants to take a break. Jim
- 7:56Speaker 1: doesn't want to take a break. He's an amazing shape
- 7:58Speaker 1: and he wants to keep going. So he says, hey, guys,
- 8:00Speaker 1: I'm going to walk just a little bit farther up
- 8:01Speaker 1: and I'll meet you at our next plan stop. No
- 8:04Speaker 1: one bats an eye because Jim is like this total stud.
- 8:06Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing, and they're like, all right,
- 8:08Speaker 1: go ahead, we'll see you up there. Once the group
- 8:10Speaker 1: is well rested, they stand back up and they keep walking.
- 8:13Speaker 1: They get to that first stop and Jim's not there.
- 8:15Speaker 1: They think, okay, you know, we were sitting there for
- 8:17Speaker 1: a little while. I'm sure he just went to the
- 8:19Speaker 1: next planned stop, because they had plan stops all along the.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Route the trail they were on.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Because it had snowed significantly that winter and lots of
- 8:27Speaker 1: people had been on this trail, the trail itself was
- 8:30Speaker 1: totally packed down to the dirt, so it's very easy
- 8:33Speaker 1: to identify this trail. Anywhere there wasn't trail was covered
- 8:36Speaker 1: in snow, and so if you were walking this trail,
- 8:39Speaker 1: it would be really easy to stay on it. Also,
- 8:43Speaker 1: if you were to deviate from the trail and start
- 8:45Speaker 1: walking away, it would be really obvious because people would
- 8:49Speaker 1: see your footprints leaving the trail. But as Jim's friends
- 8:51Speaker 1: are making their way up this trail and not seeing
- 8:54Speaker 1: Jim at each of these subsequent stops, they don't see
- 8:57Speaker 1: any footprints leaving the trail, so they just figure he
- 9:00Speaker 1: must have gone all the way to the end.
- 9:01Speaker 2: He's just way ahead of us.
- 9:03Speaker 1: But by five pm, when they made it all the
- 9:05Speaker 1: way up to the top where they planned on stopping
- 9:07Speaker 1: and turning around. Jim wasn't there, and they hadn't passed
- 9:10Speaker 1: him on the way up, and they hadn't seen any
- 9:12Speaker 1: footprints or any ski tracks or anything to indicate that
- 9:16Speaker 1: someone had left the path, and so very worried about Jim,
- 9:18Speaker 1: they called the authorities. Over the next five days, a
- 9:22Speaker 1: massive search is launched in this area, including three helicopters
- 9:25Speaker 1: that scoured an eighteen mile square radius.
- 9:29Speaker 2: They had sent snipping dogs out there.
- 9:31Speaker 1: They had all these very experienced mountaineers combing the area,
- 9:34Speaker 1: but they couldn't find any sign of him. And again
- 9:36Speaker 1: because of all the snow outside of that trail they
- 9:39Speaker 1: were on. The helicopter just searched up and down that
- 9:42Speaker 1: trail looking for indications that someone had left the trail,
- 9:46Speaker 1: looking for those footprints or ski tracks just off that
- 9:49Speaker 1: trail they were on, and there weren't any. There was
- 9:52Speaker 1: no sign that anyone had left the trail at any
- 9:55Speaker 1: point yet Jim was gone.
- 9:57Speaker 2: The authorities, friends, family, ever, he's baffled.
- 10:01Speaker 1: But they're thinking to themselves, you know, Jim's are really
- 10:03Speaker 1: competent outdoorsman. He has a working GPS and they checked
- 10:08Speaker 1: their cell phones. That whole area they were in they
- 10:10Speaker 1: had cell phone reception, so they're thinking to themselves, we
- 10:13Speaker 1: don't know what's going on, but I'm.
- 10:15Speaker 2: Sure he's going to turn up at some point.
- 10:16Speaker 1: Twenty days after Jim went missing, his body is discovered
- 10:19Speaker 1: by two hikers seven kilometers away from the trail he
- 10:23Speaker 1: had been on when he went missing. He had died
- 10:25Speaker 1: from significant head trauma as well as a broken femur.
- 10:29Speaker 1: It looked like he had fallen from a really great height,
- 10:31Speaker 1: but it wasn't entirely clear where he had actually fallen from.
- 10:35Speaker 1: He was found with just leggings and a shirt on,
- 10:38Speaker 1: no jacket, and no boots, and his boots were nowhere
- 10:41Speaker 1: to be found. His backpack was next to him, and
- 10:43Speaker 1: inside of it was his GPS that worked and his
- 10:46Speaker 1: cell phone that worked. He even had an extra battery
- 10:50Speaker 1: for a cell phone, yet at no point had he
- 10:52Speaker 1: tried to use his cell phone over the duration of
- 10:54Speaker 1: the time he had been out there. He also had
- 10:56Speaker 1: lots of food and water and additional clothing. He had
- 10:59Speaker 1: ten but it looked like none of it had been
- 11:02Speaker 1: touched since he packed it originally, and then strangest of
- 11:04Speaker 1: all is there were no footprints or ski tracks leading
- 11:08Speaker 1: up to either where he was or any of the
- 11:11Speaker 1: surrounding areas. There were no tracks to show how he
- 11:14Speaker 1: actually got where he got. It's as if he had
- 11:17Speaker 1: been lifted off the trail seven kilometers away and dropped
- 11:21Speaker 1: where he was. When the exact location of where he
- 11:23Speaker 1: was found was communicated back to the authorities, the helicopter
- 11:27Speaker 1: pilots who had been involved in that initial five day
- 11:30Speaker 1: search said that we looked at that area multiple times
- 11:33Speaker 1: and he wasn't there. So at some point after those
- 11:36Speaker 1: five days, Jim had found a way to land seven
- 11:40Speaker 1: kilometers away in this random place where there's no footprints
- 11:43Speaker 1: that lead to it, no tracks, no anything. We know
- 11:46Speaker 1: he had a working cell phone and a working GPS,
- 11:49Speaker 1: and we know that he didn't make it to this
- 11:51Speaker 1: spot where he ultimately was found in the first five days.
- 11:54Speaker 1: So at a minimum, what was he doing in those
- 11:56Speaker 1: first five days? Why wasn't he using his cell phone
- 11:58Speaker 1: to communicate what was going on on? Why wasn't he
- 12:01Speaker 1: using his GPS to get back to safety. Why didn't
- 12:04Speaker 1: he use the supplies in his backpack to save his life?
- 12:07Speaker 1: Why did he take his boots off and then how
- 12:09Speaker 1: did he wind up in the location he was in
- 12:11Speaker 1: because there was no tracks that would have led to
- 12:13Speaker 1: that spot. In nineteen fifty eight, Bobby buys Up was
- 12:20Speaker 1: a ten year old living in Colorado. He was almost
- 12:23Speaker 1: completely deaf, so we wore a hearing aid, and he
- 12:25Speaker 1: came from a family that was devoutly Catholic. That summer,
- 12:29Speaker 1: Bobby's family decided to send him to a Catholic camp
- 12:32Speaker 1: for boys. It was located at the Saint Mellow Church
- 12:34Speaker 1: inside of Rocky Mountain National Park. The camp itself was
- 12:37Speaker 1: situated at the base of Mount Meeker. Anytime the boys
- 12:40Speaker 1: were up to the mountain, which was pretty steep, they
- 12:42Speaker 1: could always look down and see this camp. In addition,
- 12:45Speaker 1: there was this stream that fed right by the camp,
- 12:48Speaker 1: so if they could just get to the stream anytime
- 12:51Speaker 1: they were up in the mountain, they could follow it
- 12:53Speaker 1: all the way down and get back to the camp.
- 12:55Speaker 1: This was something that they told all of the boys
- 12:57Speaker 1: in case they got lost up in the mountain. On
- 12:59Speaker 1: August tenth, around six pm, Bobby was a little ways
- 13:03Speaker 1: up from the camp fishing along that river, and one
- 13:06Speaker 1: of the camp counselors was making his way up to
- 13:08Speaker 1: try to get all the boys to come back down
- 13:09Speaker 1: for dinner. This camp counselor would say that he clearly
- 13:12Speaker 1: saw Bobby recognize that it was time to come back down,
- 13:15Speaker 1: it was time for dinner. He clearly saw Bobby turn
- 13:17Speaker 1: and start walking down towards the camp, at which point
- 13:20Speaker 1: the councilor turned his back on Bobby and he too
- 13:23Speaker 1: began walking down towards the camp, which was not very
- 13:26Speaker 1: far away. When the councilor got to the camp and
- 13:28Speaker 1: turned back around, though, Bobby was gone, and so the
- 13:31Speaker 1: counselor starts immediately tracing his steps back to try to
- 13:33Speaker 1: find Bobby, but he can't find him anywhere. The counselor
- 13:36Speaker 1: goes and gets a number of the other counselors to
- 13:38Speaker 1: come help him find Bobby. After about thirty minutes, no
- 13:41Speaker 1: sign of Bobby.
- 13:41Speaker 2: He's just gone.
- 13:42Speaker 1: The camp counselors are looking around thinking, how is this possible?
- 13:46Speaker 1: He was literally right there, he started walking, He was
- 13:49Speaker 1: right behind me. How could he have gotten lost in
- 13:52Speaker 1: such a short amount of time and in an area
- 13:54Speaker 1: where he could literally see the camp and was actually
- 13:57Speaker 1: on the river that leads right back to the camp.
- 14:00Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense. The councilors alerted authorities and
- 14:03Speaker 1: this massive search is launched to find Bobby. Over three
- 14:07Speaker 1: hundred people come out, including people from the military. It's
- 14:10Speaker 1: this huge search, and nothing is found of this boy.
- 14:13Speaker 1: He's completely gone. Ten days after he went missing, they
- 14:17Speaker 1: had to call off the search because there was absolutely
- 14:19Speaker 1: no sign of this child. Even after the search ended,
- 14:22Speaker 1: many of the camp counselors continued to in their off time,
- 14:25Speaker 1: scour the area around the camp to look for Bobby,
- 14:28Speaker 1: and a year later, three camp councilors would actually find him.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Three camp counselors decided to go to it very hard
- 14:35Speaker 1: to access area that had been searched previously, but they
- 14:38Speaker 1: felt like it was the one spot that needed a
- 14:40Speaker 1: little bit more attention, and it was five kilometers west
- 14:43Speaker 1: of the camp and almost eight hundred yards up a
- 14:46Speaker 1: fairly steep incline. This is hard to access area, but
- 14:49Speaker 1: they climbed their way up there, and sure enough, even
- 14:52Speaker 1: though this area had been searched before, they found Bobby's
- 14:55Speaker 1: hearing aid, bits of his clothing and some of his bones.
- 14:58Speaker 1: They didn't find any more of his remains, and no
- 15:00Speaker 1: one knows what actually happened to him, but it really
- 15:03Speaker 1: makes you wonder what happened after the camp counselor turned
- 15:06Speaker 1: us back on Bobby. It's as if someone scooped him
- 15:09Speaker 1: up and flew him away, And even if he had
- 15:12Speaker 1: intentionally run away, it would have been very difficult for
- 15:15Speaker 1: a ten year old to get to that particular location.
- 15:18Speaker 2: Where he was found, and to what end? Why would
- 15:20Speaker 2: he have wanted to get up there?
- 15:22Speaker 1: And so, like many of the other missing four to
- 15:24Speaker 1: one one cases, we are left with a series of
- 15:26Speaker 1: questions and very few answers. So I'd love to get
- 15:29Speaker 1: your theories as to what's causing these strange disappearances, and
- 15:33Speaker 1: I'll do my best to get back to as many
- 15:34Speaker 1: people as I can. So if you enjoyed today's stories,
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- 16:25Speaker 2: Guys,