Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Steve's talking here with you. Welcome to our
Speaker 1: latest video. Today's episode, we're going to bring you the
Speaker 1: strange vanishing of a filmmaker in the woods. Now, we've
Speaker 1: previously covered this case in one of our compilations, but
Speaker 1: today we're going to do a little deeper dive. Join me.
Speaker 1: Let's take a walk and see. The woods can be
Speaker 1: a beautiful and mystifying place where all sorts of wonder
Speaker 1: and fun seem to call us sometimes, and when we
Speaker 1: hear that call, most of us can't help but heat it.
Speaker 1: What happens though, when it's darkness beckoning to us out
Speaker 1: there in those densely wood and oftentimes civilizationless places, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, we still can't resist the
Speaker 1: urge to go. They say that the hours or even
Speaker 1: days leading up to person's disappearance, we'll give investigators at
Speaker 1: least in inkling as to what could have possibly happened
Speaker 1: to a person. And it's true that in most missing
Speaker 1: person cases, even those without a official ending, they all
Speaker 1: have some sort of order to them, as in, the
Speaker 1: person did this for this reason, and then did that
Speaker 1: for that reason, and then something happened. Every once in
Speaker 1: a while, though we come across something truly bizarre and
Speaker 1: a real life mystery when someone does something baffling and
Speaker 1: unexplainable right before they vanished off the face of the earth,
Speaker 1: never to be seen or heard from again, and leaving
Speaker 1: everyone scratching their heads as to what could have led
Speaker 1: the person to behave in such a strange manner, most
Speaker 1: often completely inconsistent with how they presented themselves day to
Speaker 1: day to the people around them. Folks, here's one of
Speaker 1: those cases. Let's know what you think in the comments below.
Speaker 1: Terence schmil Woods Junior, at just twenty six years old,
Speaker 1: had made quite the name for himself with his quick
Speaker 1: success as a filmmaker. Though educated in England, he was
Speaker 1: a resident of Capitol Heights, Maryland. In the United States.
Speaker 1: He worked on many documentary type films and numerous TV programs,
Speaker 1: some of which had him traveling to and work working
Speaker 1: in exotic places like Turkey and Alaska, and in these
Speaker 1: places he would be even more secluded, sometimes out in
Speaker 1: the field filming in the farthest flung parts of these
Speaker 1: respective places. He was not only used to the great outdoors,
Speaker 1: but also used to working in the streniest conditions They
Speaker 1: often provided and was said to never even break a
Speaker 1: sweat when he would find out the next far out
Speaker 1: of the way place he would be shooting. He loved
Speaker 1: the adventure and the rush of it all. He definitely
Speaker 1: wasn't opposed or a stranger to roughing it out there.
Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen was no exception. Terrence was working for
Speaker 1: the London based production company called Raw TV, who win
Speaker 1: in the States made Know Best for their show on
Speaker 1: the Discovery Channel called gold Rush. In October of that
Speaker 1: same year, he was asked to go out into the
Speaker 1: wilderness of Montana and Idaho for a few weeks to
Speaker 1: work on a documentary for the British show Whitewater. The
Speaker 1: episode he would be filming for was what about a
Speaker 1: place in the heart of north central Idaho in the
Speaker 1: nez pers clear Water National Forest and more specifically a
Speaker 1: sort of well known and somewhat legendary abandoned gold mine
Speaker 1: called Penman Mine. Terrence was one of thirteen crew members,
Speaker 1: including himself, and at first things seemed to be going
Speaker 1: fine and everything was totally normal. He was said to
Speaker 1: be in good spirits and nothing was out of the
Speaker 1: ordinary with him or really at all at first, That
Speaker 1: is it didn't take long, though, for things to take
Speaker 1: a somewhat remarkable term for the bizarre and strange, specifically
Speaker 1: regarding Terrence Woods Junior. On October fifth, twenty eighteen, the
Speaker 1: entire crew was at the Mind filming for the whole day.
Speaker 1: Terrence and other members of the crew were experienced and
Speaker 1: fully equipped to handle the rugged and somewhat treacherous mountainous terrain.
Speaker 1: Most of the crew chalk Terrence's being unusually quiet that
Speaker 1: day to tiredness, as they were all feeling a little
Speaker 1: exhausted after spending the whole day out in this isolated
Speaker 1: and abandoned and somewhat unfamiliar place. But they were done filming,
Speaker 1: and as they began to pack everything up for that day,
Speaker 1: Terrence would suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere do something
Speaker 1: very strange that no one could explain or make any
Speaker 1: sense of. He was having a conversation with one of
Speaker 1: the miners, and according to witness who later came forward
Speaker 1: and gave a statement as to what he had seen transpire,
Speaker 1: Terrence excused himself from that conversation by saying that he
Speaker 1: had to go unanswer the call of nature. Our witness
Speaker 1: watched from a nearby van. And here's what he also reported.
Speaker 1: He says that out of nowhere, he was struggled this
Speaker 1: seemingly random and strange gut feeling to look over to
Speaker 1: the cliff where Terrence had just been standing. That's what
Speaker 1: he says. He noticed that Terrence wasn't there. All that
Speaker 1: was left was the radio that he had been using,
Speaker 1: just left there on the ground. The witness said he
Speaker 1: immediately jumped out of the van and ran over to
Speaker 1: the cliff because he thought Terrence had somehow accidentally fallen
Speaker 1: off of it. He was shocked to discover, though, as
Speaker 1: he stood there looking down over this extremely high cliff,
Speaker 1: that Terrence was already approximately fifteen feet down it. And
Speaker 1: then he he hadn't fallen, but had taken off running.
Speaker 1: He remembered thinking that he had never in his life
Speaker 1: seen anyone run that fast. He turned and yelled to
Speaker 1: some other crew members, telling them all to get into
Speaker 1: a van and drive down to the main road. The
Speaker 1: idea was to cut Terrence off at this road and
Speaker 1: find out what the world was going on. The witness
Speaker 1: took off running after his friend. He was calling out,
Speaker 1: but Terrence didn't even look back. This witness had extensive
Speaker 1: search and rescue training, and stopped his pursuit for fear
Speaker 1: that if Terrence were, for whatever reason scared, chasing after
Speaker 1: him could make him even more fearful. It was a
Speaker 1: very confusing scene. He said that when he had finally
Speaker 1: gotten back up the cliff, the crew who had driven
Speaker 1: to the main road to cut Terrence off hadn't seen him.
Speaker 1: It was as though he had blinked out of existence
Speaker 1: somewhere between where the witness had left him and where
Speaker 1: the main road was. The witness further claims The crew
Speaker 1: then searched, and once they found a house with a telephone,
Speaker 1: they called for help and reported Terrence's missing. Terrence had
Speaker 1: taken his cell phone with him when he goff running.
Speaker 1: He left behind his two way radio and his backpack
Speaker 1: containing all of his belonging. He had no supplies, and
Speaker 1: even though he had his cell phone, there was no
Speaker 1: service out there in the middle of nowhere. By the
Speaker 1: time authority showed up, it was nearly dark and everyone
Speaker 1: was concerned as to how he would survive overnight. A
Speaker 1: preliminary search in the immediate area was conducted, but when
Speaker 1: nothing useful was found due to how dark it was
Speaker 1: out there, the search would be haulted until first light
Speaker 1: in the morning. Overnight that night, a fresh sheet of
Speaker 1: snow had fallen. But during the search, which consisted of helicopters,
Speaker 1: search dogs, and infrared camera technology, not even a footprint
Speaker 1: was found, and no one was any closer to figuring
Speaker 1: out what in the world had happened to Terrence Woods Junior.
Speaker 1: By the end of the first search day, the search
Speaker 1: team member even stated, quote it's as if he had
Speaker 1: never been there at all end quote. After a week,
Speaker 1: the official search was called off, but not without some
Speaker 1: very bizarre clues that would surface fir. It was found
Speaker 1: that though his job called for him to be an
Speaker 1: Idaho until sometime in mid November, Hans had recently sent
Speaker 1: a text message to his father informing him that he
Speaker 1: would be returning home on October tenth. He did not
Speaker 1: elaborate as to why he would be cutting his trip short,
Speaker 1: and Terrence had never before left a job early, regardless
Speaker 1: of circumstances, location, or anything else for that matter. After
Speaker 1: speaking to some of his friends and family, investigators found
Speaker 1: that Terrence had been extremely anxious over this shoot. This
Speaker 1: was something else that never happened before. He loved the outdoors,
Speaker 1: and he loved his job, so he never had any
Speaker 1: problems or issues with getting the work done, regardless of
Speaker 1: what it took. His behavior and anxiety about it was
Speaker 1: enough to raise some eyebrows and make his loved ones
Speaker 1: feel the investigators should know about it after the fact. Indeed,
Speaker 1: in the weeks leading up to the shoot, Terrence had
Speaker 1: told those closest to him that he didn't even want
Speaker 1: to go on the trip, but again, he didn't elaborate
Speaker 1: as to why he felt this way, and everyone just
Speaker 1: let it go and thought nothing more of it until
Speaker 1: after his disappearance. It was extremely strange, all this sudden
Speaker 1: anxiety and being unsure, as the only thing he has
Speaker 1: said to have loved more than his job, with the
Speaker 1: adventures in the places that it often took him, these
Speaker 1: strange and exotic, though oftentimes isolated places. A sister, Charnea Tisdale,
Speaker 1: disagrees with the others narrative, however, and said that she
Speaker 1: spoke to her brother right before he left and he
Speaker 1: seemed absolutely fine to her. She stated that the whole
Speaker 1: situation seemed somehow unusual to her and that since she
Speaker 1: wasn't there and all she had to go on was
Speaker 1: what the other crew who were with him that day
Speaker 1: were saying. She didn't really know what to think. She
Speaker 1: claims she and Terrence spoke often and if they told
Speaker 1: each other basically everything, So if there was something wrong
Speaker 1: or something bothering Terence, he would have certainly mentioned it
Speaker 1: to her and further elaborated on it, she says, though
Speaker 1: he didn't. She disagrees that he was anxious leading up
Speaker 1: to the trip, and also that he was expressing disinterest
Speaker 1: in going at all. She stated, quote, He's traveled around
Speaker 1: the world. He really likes to do TV. He's a
Speaker 1: loving person and caring, an all around good person. End quote.
Speaker 1: On the first morning of their first day filming, Terrence
Speaker 1: had done something which at the time his father hadn't
Speaker 1: thought anything more of, but in retrospect said it seemed
Speaker 1: rather eerie when all was said and done. It seems
Speaker 1: Terrence had sent him a text message of some video
Speaker 1: footage which was described as creepy of a river flowing
Speaker 1: through the canyon. There was no text or explanation as
Speaker 1: to why I was sending this or what it was
Speaker 1: supposed to mean. It was brought up afterwards that Terrence
Speaker 1: and the production manager weren't seeing eye to eye on
Speaker 1: some things and had been having some disagreements, but it's
Speaker 1: not known if this is or isn't connected to his disappearance.
Speaker 1: The family orchestrated searches, utilizing volunteers, and posted flyers with
Speaker 1: Terence picture all over the region. Hope quickly faded, however,
Speaker 1: that he had made it out of the area alive,
Speaker 1: mainly due to the harsh and heavy snowfall that had
Speaker 1: almost immediately on his vanishing. Rolled through the expanse, his
Speaker 1: family and those closest to him said that Terrence had
Speaker 1: absolutely no history of any sort of middle iless either,
Speaker 1: and everyone was completely baffled as to why he just
Speaker 1: up and ran down the cliff that way, never looking back. Admittedly,
Speaker 1: it would be fairly easy to get lost or turned
Speaker 1: around in this particulary of mountains and treacherous terrain, but
Speaker 1: the question still remains of what in the world made
Speaker 1: him run in the first place. Was he running towards
Speaker 1: something or was he running away from it? If it
Speaker 1: was either of those things, then what exactly was he
Speaker 1: running to or from? Unfortunately, no one knows the answers
Speaker 1: to these questions still to this day, and Terrence Woods
Speaker 1: Junior has never been seen or heard from again, and
Speaker 1: no remains or further evidence or clues have ever surfaced.
Speaker 1: His family have since theorized that perhaps he was either
Speaker 1: fearful of one or more of the crew members there
Speaker 1: with him that day, or fearful due to the actions
Speaker 1: of the same. Authorities have ruled out this theory, though,
Speaker 1: or any theory stating that someone else on the crews involved,
Speaker 1: and have been adamant that there is absolutely no sign
Speaker 1: whatsoever a foul play. They believe that he had suffered
Speaker 1: some sort of random mental breakdown and either just randomly
Speaker 1: up and booked it down the cliff, or that he
Speaker 1: had long been planning to take his own life out
Speaker 1: there where he knew nobody would easily find him. However,
Speaker 1: we would like to point out that none of this
Speaker 1: is in keeping with Terrence's usual personality or mental and
Speaker 1: medical history. The only option left, at least to those
Speaker 1: of us who have seen situations like this before, albeit
Speaker 1: not very often. It's what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once stated,
Speaker 1: when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains,
Speaker 1: however improbable, must be the truth. Could some otherworldly paranormal
Speaker 1: or even extraterrestrial force have been at play here. Could
Speaker 1: he been lured out there into the woods somewhere and
Speaker 1: then possibly passed through a portal of some sort. Obviously
Speaker 1: this is just speculation and there isn't and could be
Speaker 1: no evidence for this one way or the other, but
Speaker 1: it is something we should all consider, given what we
Speaker 1: know in this channel about what's happening all over the
Speaker 1: world in national parks and forested wooded areas. Could Terence
Speaker 1: have been supersensitive of these types of things and perhaps
Speaker 1: saw something that no one else could. Did he see
Speaker 1: something only meant for him to see? We just don't know,
Speaker 1: and Terrence's loved ones still struggle with the details of
Speaker 1: the disappearance and the overall vanishing in general. His father
Speaker 1: has allegedly accused the police of not properly investigating the
Speaker 1: case due to alleged racism. However, the police stand by
Speaker 1: their statement that they did all they could and did
Speaker 1: exactly what they would have done for anyone in the
Speaker 1: same circumstance. We now leave it up to you. What
Speaker 1: do you think happened to Terrence Woods Junior on that
Speaker 1: day back in October twenty eighteen. When he suddenly seemingly
Speaker 1: went from a perfectly normal, rather successful filmmaker to another
Speaker 1: missing person who seemingly vanished into thin air and without
Speaker 1: a trace, under very strange and bizarre circumstances. His world
Speaker 1: and the world of those closest to him changed literally
Speaker 1: in the blink of an eye, and not knowing the
Speaker 1: why or how that has got to be one of
Speaker 1: the most painful and frustrating things in the world. Risk family,
Speaker 1: what do you think was strange vanishing of Terence Woods Junior?
Speaker 1: I look forward to your comments and theories, but please
Speaker 1: keep it friendly and respectful until we meet again. Be
Speaker 1: good to yourselves and each other. Please don't disappear. As
Speaker 1: for me, I'll see a little further on down the trail.
Speaker 1: I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: Be sure and tell your animals I said hi.