WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:08.240 Hello friends. Today we're going to be discussing something just 2 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.759 a little different now. In recent years, many people have 3 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.839 been coming forward and telling their own personal experiences more 4 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:17.480 and more where they have vanished for some period of time, 5 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:20.920 but then came back, either with a bizarre story to 6 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:23.399 tell or no memory at all of where they had been, 7 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.920 what they had seen or done, etc. Many of these 8 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:31.440 cases happened to children, usually very young children, who, if 9 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:34.039 they told a fantastical story something strange happening to them 10 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.119 in the woods, are forced where they ended up lost. 11 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:39.000 It could easily be chalked up to a wild imagination 12 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:43.600 of a frightened child, although many have noticed a pattern 13 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:46.600 or two here in these particular cases with children, especially 14 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:51.000 What followers are just a few cases where children seemingly 15 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:54.000 vanished into thin air and or under his oarre circumstances, 16 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:57.159 only to come back with a tale equally as or 17 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.920 possibly even more strange and incredible as the disappearance. It's 18 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.519 the earliest report of something like this happening is from 19 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:08.680 August of eighteen ninety seven and takes place in Masardis, Maine, 20 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:12.640 United States. This part of Maine is known for its 21 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.439 extremely dense woods and forests and many lakes and streams, 22 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:20.200 running around and throughout again beyond the lookout for patterns 23 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.400 here or parameters which are familiar to many of our 24 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:25.840 other videos on this channel. I say this because this 25 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.359 whole incident started with a six year old little girl 26 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:31.799 named Lilian Carney, who was out with her mother picking 27 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:36.159 berries blueberries. As a matter of fact, the family wanted 28 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.760 to spend a nice relaxing day together in the woods 29 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:43.560 of Mull and Bog. According to Lillian's parents, the girl 30 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:47.640 had vanished from right under their noses. Now, while exact 31 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:50.159 details aren't very clear this far in the future as 32 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:53.640 to exactly how the girl went missing, her parents simply 33 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.400 said she was seemingly there one minute and gone the 34 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:01.239 very next. What started as a small preliminary search turned 35 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:03.879 into more than three hundred searchers, all calling out for 36 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:06.239 the girl by name and looking through every known edge 37 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.639 of the woods, all to no avail. Lilian was gone 38 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:15.000 for almost two entire days and nights. After scouring and 39 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.360 searching the entire forest and woods, forty six hours after 40 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.240 her parents had reported her as missing, Lilian was found 41 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:23.560 alive just a couple of miles from where she had 42 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:28.240 first disappeared, So in all that time, she hadn't gotten 43 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:31.759 very far. Why hadn't the over three hundred searchers and 44 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:35.280 professional rescue teams found her. I know, in the eighteen 45 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.879 hundreds they didn't have the technology or knowledge of forensics 46 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:41.039 like we have today, but still you'd think they'd have 47 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.360 searched the area where Lilian ended up. She wasn't very 48 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:46.240 mobile in the amount of time that she was missing. 49 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:48.919 It's not as though she were walking around the entire 50 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:52.360 time either. Around ten o'clock in the morning on the 51 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:55.360 second day of the search, a man named Bert Pollard 52 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:00.199 found the missing girl. Despite immediately crying out for her mom. Uh, 53 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:04.120 Lilian seemed healthy, happy, and even content. When Bert found her. 54 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:06.759 She was still holding the berries in her hands she 55 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.960 had picked while in the presence of her family before 56 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.000 she disappeared. Now this is some two days later, almost 57 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:15.919 her father had just gotten done telling her that she 58 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.919 must be careful, for some berries found in the woods 59 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:23.719 could be harmful, even deadly and poisonous. The little girl 60 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:26.719 was scared. Perhaps these fresh blueberries were some of those 61 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:29.400 bad kinds, and while she dared not eat them, she 62 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.800 didn't think to get rid of them for some reason. Yes, 63 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:35.639 that's right. She carried around a handful of blueberries for 64 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.240 forty six hours while lost in the woods and trying 65 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:42.400 to find her way back to her parents. Lilian seemed 66 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:45.719 absolutely fine and didn't have a scratch on her When 67 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:50.159 asked what had happened. Had she wandered off why? Here 68 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:53.919 is what the young girl had to say. Lilian, in 69 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.159 a perfectly calm and matter of fact voice, informed everyone 70 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:00.639 she was quote in a place where the sun was 71 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:05.800 constantly shining. This was strange because she was missing for 72 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:09.520 forty six hours. She'd gone missing during the daytime and 73 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.919 was found in the morning as well. Therefore, she would 74 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:17.560 have had to have experienced at least two nightfalls. It's 75 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:20.600 just not possible for the sun to shine the whole time. 76 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.279 Obviously the sun doesn't shine all day, but since eventually, 77 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:29.639 in addition to the sun apparently never sitting in this place, 78 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:32.319 Lilian claimed she was at the entire time she was missing. 79 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:36.439 She also told people there were strange beings the size 80 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.800 of her cat who she would keep away from her 81 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:43.079 by clapping loudly. Allegedly, it would start with the being 82 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.639 and like a cat, it would run away. Some people 83 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.439 wondered how she clapped holding a handful of berries. Perhaps 84 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:52.560 she laid them down picked them back up again. We 85 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:56.199 don't know that part of the story, but that does 86 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.720 make this story even more bizarre. Why had she been 87 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.439 so adamant to keep these fresh berries with her, which 88 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:04.319 she wasn't even sure if they were poisoned or not. 89 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:07.879 It's question no one thought to ask her, and therefore, 90 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:12.079 unfortunately we don't have an answer. While she said the 91 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:14.800 beings she encountered were the size of her cat, and 92 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:17.439 some sources even reported the girl saying the beings even 93 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:22.079 resembled her cats as well. However, that one detail about 94 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:24.879 what the creatures actually look like has never been revealed. 95 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:27.759 She was only six, so some of it must have 96 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:29.920 been hard for her to describe and put words too. 97 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.560 She also said she'd heard the searchers looking for but 98 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.160 hadn't been able to at first clearly hear her name, 99 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:39.519 so she didn't approach and actually hid for fear they 100 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:43.800 were vagrants or strangers. She only heard strangers yelling loudly 101 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:45.839 in the woods, and her six year old mind couldn't 102 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.160 put two and two together to realize they were there 103 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:52.839 to rescue her. It's unknown if William even realized rescuing 104 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.680 was something she was in need of. The girl seemed 105 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:57.600 to be justifying where she was, at least in the 106 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:01.240 first few minutes she was found. Once she finally heard 107 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.240 them shouting her name, though clearly, and was sure of it. 108 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:07.560 Only the end did she show herself. The searchers and 109 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.000 the authorities, of course, searched the area and the surrounding 110 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:13.199 area of where Lilian was eventually found, but they found 111 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.800 no entities or creatures that look like cats, and in 112 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.120 fact nothing strange at all. Night came and went as 113 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:23.079 normally as did the day. Many of the people involved 114 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:26.040 chalk this up to a scared six year old wild imagination, 115 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.399 thinking or perhaps even pretending her pat cat was there 116 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:32.839 with her for comfort, and possibly playing pretend that the 117 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:35.160 sun was still shining so it's not to have to 118 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:38.360 deal with their inherent fear of the dark. This is 119 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:41.000 exactly the point many have been trying to make, not 120 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:43.759 just about Lilian's case, but of all the cases of 121 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:47.040 children who have vanished and returned in this way. Is 122 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:50.639 whatever this is, whatever is happening in the woods, and 123 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.639 who or whatever is responsible? Are they purposely choosing victims 124 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:57.240 who won't be believed simply because of their age or 125 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.000 their intelligence, no matter what it is they have to say, 126 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:04.240 say could be, or so it seems, at least to some. 127 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:08.800 We discussed this in the comments later. Now, the local 128 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:12.000 press reason that the sun Lilian was seeing was actually 129 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.120 the moon, which was full and in the clear country sky, 130 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:19.480 and she thought maybe it was a dimmer sun. Also, 131 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:23.199 they insisted the strange beings she was seeing were rabbits. 132 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:29.160 These rabbits were allegedly what she likened her cats, although 133 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.319 in reality neither of these could possibly be the case. However, 134 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:36.399 because upon further investigation, turns out it was overcast both 135 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.040 nights she was missing, and therefore the moon wouldn't have 136 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.879 been visible to the little girl. The sky would have 137 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.240 actually been much darker than normal because the stars and 138 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.560 moon would have been covered by this overcast state. Also 139 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.240 about the rabbits, Lilian was from the region and knew 140 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:56.079 the difference between cats and rabbits. With all the tension 141 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:58.680 on missing people in the woods in national parks these days, 142 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.439 all these with very little answers and people like us 143 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:04.879 just trying to figure it out, we're bound to come 144 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:08.000 across some strange and bizarre tales of the woods, any woods. 145 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:12.120 These extremely peculiar cases take place all around the world. 146 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.959 Our next case happened in Sweden in nineteen twenty two. 147 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:20.160 An eight year old boy named Austin Ingstram left school 148 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:22.959 with a friend, and instead of going straight home, the 149 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.360 two young boys decided to go to a third friend's house, 150 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:28.000 where there were many of their school mates just playing together, 151 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.519 as eight year olds often do. When Austin had finished 152 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:33.720 playing with his friends, it was around three thirty pm 153 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:35.720 and time for him to take the usual short and 154 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.919 very familiar walk home. It was something he did so frequently. 155 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:41.360 He said later that he could have done it with 156 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:44.360 his eyes closed, and if the walk was any shorter, 157 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:48.080 he just may have been able to. However, by seven 158 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:51.200 thirty pm, four hours after Austin was last seen leaving 159 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:55.080 his friend's house to walk home, his parents started to worry. 160 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:57.440 His mother sent his older brother Gustav to go and 161 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:00.600 find him and bring him home. So I was able 162 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:02.919 to track down some of Austin's classmates who had been 163 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:06.120 with earlier. The children told him they hadn't seen Austin 164 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:08.879 since he had left alone at around three thirty pm. 165 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.320 Just to have walked Austin's entire route home, the same 166 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:15.519 way he knew his brother would have gone, but found 167 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:17.960 no sign at all that he had ever walked this direction. 168 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:22.480 Gustav became very scared and very worried about his brother. 169 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:25.039 He was deciding how he's going to break the news 170 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.799 to his parents, especially his mother, about the fact that 171 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:31.519 he wouldn't be bringing Austin home. He was thinking about 172 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:34.159 this and who knows what else, I'm sure as he 173 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:38.200 walked into the house, he immediately noticed, however, that he 174 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.399 didn't have to be sad or worried after all. His brother, 175 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:43.840 Austin was sitting there on the couch next to his mother, 176 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:47.399 telling an extremely strange story about what had happened to 177 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:50.399 him and where he had been for almost five hours. 178 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.639 Other than shivering due to being extremely cold in temperature, 179 00:09:54.960 --> 00:10:00.480 Austin looked perfectly fine. Terrified, sure, but physically fine. Nothing less. 180 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:02.919 Now here's what eight year old lost And had to 181 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:07.279 say about his almost disappearance. He says he was walking 182 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.759 home when, for some unknown reason, he randomly and for 183 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.320 the first time in his life, decided to take a 184 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:16.559 short cut through the woods. He essentially felt the need 185 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:18.559 to go through the deep woods and forest, instead of 186 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.080 staying on the clear trail which he was so familiar with. 187 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:24.600 He went on to explain that the entire woods had 188 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:27.919 seemingly come alive, in his words, with all kinds of 189 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:31.000 wildlife crawling out of the bushes and trees, just coming 190 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.639 literally almost out of nowhere, to scurry around in front 191 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.960 of him in a seemingly playful manner, just to scamper 192 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.559 off again just as quickly. And he says, the skies 193 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:44.279 grew suddenly dark. The day seemed overcast, but strangely it wasn't, 194 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.120 as the sun was seemingly still shining so brightly down. 195 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.720 It's like some veil had been thrown over the sunny day. 196 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.679 What he described sounds like when storm clouds roll in, 197 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.399 how the sky looks, and how the air starts to feel. 198 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:05.120 It was like that no storm was rolling in that day. Suddenly, 199 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.320 he said, he smelled something very gross and acrid, something 200 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.720 unlike anything he'd ever smelled before, And he later went 201 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.879 on to explained quote, I looked up and noticed three 202 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:19.960 gray objects hovering silently above me. They were so close 203 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.320 I could have thrown a stone at them. The objects 204 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:26.279 were pulsating, as if they were breathing, and I saw 205 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.200 two dark lines on them. A bit further away over 206 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:34.399 the woods, another two objects were floating. They were bigger 207 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:38.200 and darker than the ones above me end quote. He 208 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.679 apparently blacked out or passed out after he saw these 209 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:44.240 pulsating objects both above him and in the distance. He 210 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:46.399 claims the next thing he remembered was lying on the 211 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.279 road in the pitch dark of night, not too far 212 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:53.919 from his home. He was freezing cold and disoriented. When 213 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:56.080 he relayed all this to his parents, they attributed his 214 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:00.720 claim to his wild imagination. Ghostops swore he had thoroughly 215 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.679 searched the road and the exact spot even where Austin 216 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:06.519 claimed to have been when he came to between the 217 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.320 time he left his friend's house at three point thirty 218 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.240 until he wandered home around four to four and a 219 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:12.960 half hours later. Other than the objects he saw in 220 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:19.000 the sky, Austin had absolutely no memory at all. Years later, 221 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:22.120 Austin would be interviewed by some UFO researchers from Sweden, 222 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.000 and here's what he explained to them all these years later, 223 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:30.720 quoting here where was I during those hours? I estimate 224 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:32.720 hiving been gone for around four to four and a 225 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:36.639 half hours. When I arrived home, I almost got beaten 226 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:39.720 because they thought it was lying. They sent me to bed, 227 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.200 and I was bedridden for four days. Probably I'd got 228 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:47.480 a cold. While lying in the road. It looked as 229 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:50.879 if the objects were pulsing simultaneously, all three of them, 230 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.480 just like octopus functioning. They take in water and move 231 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:58.519 by blowing it out. It looked like the objects use 232 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:02.000 the same technique. They moved in a very elegant way, 233 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:05.720 changed direction and appeared to steer it with this postsetting. 234 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:10.399 Where was I Gustav cycled this way while I was 235 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:15.279 lying there without seeing me. I've pondered this so many times. 236 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:16.960 Now. 237 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:19.080 There's still no word as to what happened to Gustav. 238 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:22.480 He went to his grave never knowing the answers. We 239 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:25.039 know that, most likely since the beginning of time, the 240 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.879 woods and forests of this earth have attracted countless legends 241 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:31.600 and myths, creatures of old and beyond. The thing is, 242 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.200 we can never really tell what's true and what isn't 243 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.840 even those of us like myself who have experienced strange 244 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:40.480 things in the woods. What is the reality of what 245 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:42.759 we saw and what was our minds that's filling in 246 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:44.879 to help us seize the shock and possible tear we 247 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.919 just witnessed. Are these tales based from reality or has 248 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:55.320 reality created these tales of necessity or whatever else. As 249 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:59.080 I've mentioned previously, these types of phenomena take place throughout 250 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:02.600 every country in a cross to every culture. A next 251 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.120 alleged true tale takes place in Ethiopia in the nineteen sixties. 252 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:08.879 There was a nine year old boy who is unknown, 253 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:12.399 so we'll just call him Joe. Joe for Ethiopia, I know, 254 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:15.840 I know, so anyways, Joe and a friend of his 255 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.759 named Gabriel were playing in the backyard of his home. 256 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:22.159 It's worth mentioning here that the whole yard was fenced in. 257 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.039 As the boys were talking around and doing whatever little 258 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:29.159 boys do, Joe says he turned for a split second 259 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.720 to show away a fly, and when he turned back 260 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:36.200 to Gabriel, he was gone. Alledgedly though, and let me 261 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.240 set the scene for you. Joe and Gabriel belonged to 262 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.360 the one percent of Ethiopians at the time who were 263 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:46.200 the ruling elite, the one percent who were wealthy. Joe's 264 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.399 father was the Minister of the Interior and Gabriel's dad 265 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:53.879 was supposedly a four star general in the Ethiopian Army. Allegedly, 266 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:57.039 the backyard from which Gabriel disappeared from was surrounded by 267 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:01.600 brick walls. They were ten feet tall. Guards patrolled outside 268 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.600 of these walls and the fence as well. So where 269 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:09.840 did Gabriel go? This was big news, the disappearance of 270 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:12.240 a high ranking general's kid, especially in a place like 271 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:15.799 Ethiopia in the nineteen sixties. Everyone thought it was going 272 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:19.360 to end up being a political kidnapping. Remember, both kids' 273 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.879 parents were very high ranking, wealthy, and important members of society. 274 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.480 Gabriel was gone without a trace for six whole months. 275 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:32.639 The investigation of his disappearance turned up nothing that entire time, 276 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:37.080 and literally never went anywhere. What kind of leads could 277 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:38.879 you possibly have with a kid who was there one 278 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:43.159 second and gone the next. Joe stuck to his story 279 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.440 because he alleged it was the truth, and we all know, 280 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.480 especially in this community, the truth doesn't change a little. 281 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.480 After the six month mark of the day Gabriel simply disappeared, 282 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:58.240 he returned. Actually, he returned just as quickly and seemingly 283 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.639 out of nowhere as he had originally been one day. 284 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:05.559 He was just there. He was simply standing in almost 285 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:07.799 the same exact spot in the backyard from which he 286 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:12.159 had vanished that day while playing with Joe. Upon reappearing, 287 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:16.919 Gabriel was dazed and confused. Once that it was confirmed 288 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:20.240 that he was physically okay and unharmed, everyone started asking 289 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:23.080 where he'd been and what had really happened to him. 290 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:25.919 This is where the whole thing gets so much more 291 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:29.440 unbelievable and a bit fantastical, at least to some people. 292 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:34.000 Gabriel claimed he had been taken on a trip by 293 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:37.200 some nice men. He stated he was in a bright, 294 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:40.639 all white room with hundreds of other kids, all playing 295 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:44.200 and talking it sightedly, just as confused as Gabriel was 296 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.000 about where they were and most likely how they got there. 297 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:51.360 He said there were so many children, all from different countries. 298 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:54.799 The nice men, who, according to Gabriel, had been the 299 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:57.720 ones to take him on this trip, had been Caucasian. 300 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:01.960 Explained how surprised he was when he realized they spoke 301 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:05.599 Ethiopia assolutely as he did. He also said he could 302 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:08.279 understand the other children, even though they appeared to be 303 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:13.519 different nationalities. It was like although nobody spoke the same language. 304 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:18.200 They could still all understand each other. Somehow. The light, 305 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:20.480 glowing room he was brought to and kept in had 306 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:23.119 no windows, and the door seemed to blend into the walls. 307 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.319 Essentially there was no way out. There were buttons on 308 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.240 the walls for all different things. If he pressed the 309 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:32.400 button for a bed, a bed would come right down 310 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:35.000 out of the wall for him to sleep on. He 311 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:37.200 told him how one moment he was in this white room, 312 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:38.920 and the next he was standing in the center of 313 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:41.880 a huge city. He had no clue how it had 314 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.880 ended up there, kind of like how he ended up 315 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:47.599 being transported somehow from the backyard to the room in 316 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.680 the first place, He said, the city was glowing and sparkling, 317 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.799 immaculately clean. There were other people there who looked strange 318 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:00.559 like us, but different, he says, us meaning humans. I 319 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:04.680 suppose one of the nice Caucasian men stayed with him 320 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:06.920 and took him to a very tall building, where he 321 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:10.519 had to stay in another room for a while. However, 322 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:13.759 Gabriel stated that that room was fun. It was an 323 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:16.200 entertainment room, which had the same buttons in the first 324 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:19.599 room he was teleported to allegedly, but these buttons allowed 325 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:23.640 him to travel to other places. Example, one button brought 326 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.680 him to a beach, the other a desert, yet another 327 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.279 a mountain. Though he was always alone and always contained 328 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:35.319 in the room, while somehow simultaneously traveling to these places. Again, 329 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:38.160 he instinctively knew he couldn't leave if he'd wanted to. 330 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:42.680 He claimed the room could even fly. After staying in 331 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:44.720 this room for what he thought was only a few hours, 332 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:49.599 he was back in Joe's backyard in Ethiopia again. And 333 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.000 here it is once again. I thought it worth mentioning 334 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:55.759 when the person doesn't realize how long they've been gone. 335 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.400 Gabriel was gone for six whole months and thought it 336 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:03.000 had only been a few hours. Of course, nobody believed 337 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.960 Gabriel's story, Keeping in mind here how religious the country 338 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:09.799 Ethiopia was at the time, most thought him to be 339 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:12.880 possessed by the devil. He was even forced to see 340 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.279 some local priests to help rid them of these demons. 341 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:18.759 That's all we could find on Gabriel's story, besides that 342 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:21.440 he is extremely intelligent and had a really smart career 343 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:24.720 and ended up working in Holland. So, as we talked 344 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:27.960 about in the last video, not only kids but adults 345 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.079 as well who seemed to vanish into thin air and 346 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:34.359 without a trace involuntarily, only your return days, hours, or 347 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:37.319 even weeks or months later, with bizarre stories to tell. 348 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:40.720 This is a phenomenon that has been happening basically for 349 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:42.480 as long as things like this have been able to 350 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:46.640 be documented, and actually probably much further before that, since 351 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:49.640 the beginning of time. Perhaps we like to call this 352 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.720 phenomenon almost vanished, because that's pretty much exactly what happens 353 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:56.720 many times when the person is missing for so long, 354 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:58.799 their mode one kind of gives up hope, and even 355 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:00.920 in some cases the person will come back and find 356 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:04.200 they've been deemed legally dead. I think it would be 357 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:06.440 prudent of us to take a closer look into these 358 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:08.880 cases of almost vanishings and see if we can find 359 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.559 some kind of connection, maybe end up with at least 360 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:14.240 a theory or two on what exactly is going on here. 361 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:14.839 Now. 362 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.920 The problem is, there is no real commonality between these 363 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:20.920 except the almost vanishing. As you'll see if you watch 364 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:25.240 the first almost vanished video. It spans across generations and 365 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:28.440 cultures all around the world, and it doesn't discriminate at 366 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:31.240 all as to who it chooses or whatever it is 367 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:35.720 in any of these specific situations. With all that being said, 368 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:40.920 let's begin now. This first encounter is pretty vague on details, 369 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:44.240 but it was added because not everyone is as comfortable 370 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:48.200 as coming forward with their experiences, their abductions, if you will, 371 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:52.119 and we feel everyone has the right to be heard, considered, 372 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:54.920 and at least taken seriously until there's an actual reason 373 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:59.240 to dismiss or not believe the person. This account takes 374 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:01.920 place somewhere in the Middle East. That's all we know 375 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:04.960 is a person doesn't use any real names and also 376 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.720 has fictitious names for where the events are occurring. He 377 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:11.759 says it happened in a country he is calling topia, 378 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:14.240 just to protect the integrity of his hometown, as many 379 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:16.519 people there don't believe in such things and would be 380 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:19.880 horrified if they heard something like this was happening. Who 381 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:22.240 knows the danger this person could be putting themselves in 382 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:26.200 just for daring to mention anything like this, especially publicly 383 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:29.480 in an online community based forum for the entire world 384 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:33.240 to possibly see. In here, so here he is in Topia, 385 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.720 and this is a village that's so small everyone knows 386 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:40.160 not only everyone else, but their business as well. Sounds 387 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:43.720 familiar to places I've lived. There was a boy who 388 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:46.039 I'm going to call Jason just for the purpose of 389 00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:49.160 this story. Jason was around the age of twelve when 390 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.880 this happened, and he was from a typical middle class family, 391 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:54.400 the same as every other boy his age and family 392 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:58.000 in this small village he lived in. Jason's father worked 393 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.799 as a nurse, and his mother stayed home and care 394 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:03.599 for the home and the children, a homemaker. The thing is, though, 395 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:06.960 Jason was an actual genius, a child prodigy who wasn't 396 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:09.039 anything at all like the other kids in this village. 397 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:12.440 He was especially smart and science and math, and he 398 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:15.720 even made the teachers a bit uncomfortable because nobody could 399 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.200 understand where a boy liked Jason, who came from a 400 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.039 well liked but very average family, could be top of 401 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:24.440