Speaker 1: The story of Lars mitting is one that's baffled investigators
Speaker 1: for years. The last time he was ever seen, he
Speaker 1: was caught on camera, but instead of this helping, it
Speaker 1: only added confusion to his story. Since then, Lars has
Speaker 1: gone on to become the Internet's most famous missing person,
Speaker 1: as the security camera that caught his last known whereabouts
Speaker 1: was in an airport and received several million views on
Speaker 1: YouTube due to the strange events that it witnessed.
Speaker 2: My name's Ben and I'm Nicole, and you're listening to
Speaker 2: Wicked and Grim, a true crime podcast.
Speaker 1: Warning the following podcasts and material for a mature audience listener. Hey,
Speaker 1: that was a good open.
Speaker 2: That actually was That was me?
Speaker 1: That was you? Okay, Well, now here's me. Can I
Speaker 1: do better? I feel like there's pressure on now?
Speaker 2: You always do better.
Speaker 1: Yours was more satisfying. Man was a little bit too quick.
Speaker 1: It was a little premature.
Speaker 2: That's so bad. I'm actually drinking a what is this?
Speaker 2: It's a semi sweet apple cider. It's still less nice.
Speaker 1: I'm drinking some steamworks from Vancouver. So do me a favor.
Speaker 1: Turn your head and look outside. See those yellow leaves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Oh, we do have to talk about it. Yeah, fall
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Speaker 2: Well, I went on a paddleboard excursion thing adventure today,
Speaker 2: adventure like it was wild and yeah, it felt like
Speaker 2: full it literally because it was kind of cold, like
Speaker 2: it was maybe what like eighteen degrees today celsius and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure you say celsius.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it felt like if we commented it out,
Speaker 2: it felt like it was full.
Speaker 1: Yeah. While you were out paddle boarding doing an epicate adventure,
Speaker 1: guess what I was doing working. I was doing a
Speaker 1: little bit of research, not only to finish off this episode,
Speaker 1: but I was looking looking at some other true crime
Speaker 1: cases that I want to cover in the future.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And I went down this rabbit hole on the murderer
Speaker 1: in history who has the highest to kill count ever?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: And I found them, And I'm not saying who I'm
Speaker 1: not saying numbers. All I'm saying is I found them
Speaker 1: and we are doing that case soon and the number
Speaker 1: is absurd.
Speaker 2: Shoot, I feel like we have we talked about this before.
Speaker 1: We've talked about some with some high numbers, and most
Speaker 1: of them are suspected high numbers. Okay, this one is
Speaker 1: apparently recorded as such.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we're gonna talk about this later.
Speaker 1: No, No, you ain't getting nothing.
Speaker 2: I need some more deep.
Speaker 1: No, but I'll give you guys a brief hint at
Speaker 1: the number. It's over five hundred. That's all I'm going
Speaker 1: to say. I'm not going to say how much over
Speaker 1: five hundred because I'm leaving it open here.
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Speaker 1: but not you. Wow.
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Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Okay, does the name Lars mid Tank mean anything to you?
Speaker 2: Slightly? And I know we have chatted about this, but
Speaker 2: I recall zero information at the moment, okay, And I'm
Speaker 2: sure a little bit will come back to me.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Well this is over over across the ponds,
Speaker 1: so if I do apologize about mispronouncing names, it's probably
Speaker 1: going to happen in this episode, but I will be
Speaker 1: doing my best. So to start off with Lars's name,
Speaker 1: it is Lars. I know that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: His last name is mid Tank. I know that. However,
Speaker 1: his middle name, I believe it's Lars. Joke him Midtank
Speaker 1: I think joke him is how you say it. Joke him,
Speaker 1: joke him. I'm not sure, but there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: names things like that that I'm going to do my
Speaker 1: best to get this pronunciation right.
Speaker 2: You always do your best.
Speaker 1: We always do our best here, we always do. Anyways,
Speaker 1: his life began on the ninth of February in nineteen eighty,
Speaker 1: so he was only two years our senior. So within
Speaker 1: the vibrant city of Berlin, Germany is where he was born.
Speaker 1: In Germany, Yep, you bet you so. His roots, however,
Speaker 1: took hold in it so a town nestled in schlitzwig
Speaker 1: Holstein in the slitzwig Holstein region, and this is where
Speaker 1: he spent the entirety of his formative his formative years.
Speaker 1: Growing up, he established connections, cultivated relationships, and formed a
Speaker 1: foundation for his life story. Within this whole area, Lars
Speaker 1: even found himself employed at a local power plant, making
Speaker 1: some pretty decent money. He also began dating a beautiful
Speaker 1: woman and they were looking at their future together as
Speaker 1: their bond continued to grow and grow and grow stronger.
Speaker 1: So he he was doing pretty good for himself in
Speaker 1: his younger age, as he was beginning to actually get
Speaker 1: into the world and you know, be an adult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and actually it sounds like that very much.
Speaker 1: So being an adult isn't easy, which I'm sure we
Speaker 1: can all attest to. So, yeah, he's doing good. He's
Speaker 1: doing good.
Speaker 2: It definitely has its moments.
Speaker 1: Hey, you petcha. So Lars was devoted more than to
Speaker 1: just his girlfriend, though he was a son who frequently
Speaker 1: visited his parents nice. He was a very very good kid,
Speaker 1: particularly after his father had suffered from a stroke. So
Speaker 1: in the wake of this family ordeal, he extended his assistance,
Speaker 1: tending to needs that his parents' household might need, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe doing some lawn work. I don't know exactly the
Speaker 1: extent of his help, but I'm sure some labor around
Speaker 1: the house or helping take care of his father or
Speaker 1: something like that would be part of that. So that's
Speaker 1: what he was doing, lending a hand where he could.
Speaker 2: Wow, I already feel like this guy is freaking awesome.
Speaker 1: Lars is a good dude. Yeah, yeah, many people actually
Speaker 1: really got along with them. To those who actually knew Lars,
Speaker 1: he was more than just an ordinary individual. He was
Speaker 1: someone who consistently liked to make others laugh. He was
Speaker 1: kind of a funny, a happy go lucky type guy.
Speaker 1: And he was someone who consistently played the role of
Speaker 1: a peacemaker when conversations, you know, became a little bit tense.
Speaker 1: He was always one to like step in and try
Speaker 1: and calm things down and be like, well, guys, it's
Speaker 1: all good. Like I don't know. Kind of brings me
Speaker 1: to this old proverb of like I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's like a proverb, but like a tactic for drinking
Speaker 1: in bars, which I always memorized but I've never needed
Speaker 1: to use because I'm not much of a bar drinker.
Speaker 1: But it's if you ever get in like an altercation
Speaker 1: with an individual and a bar, okay, for example, say,
Speaker 1: for example, if I make eye contact with his girlfriend
Speaker 1: because I simply think she looks familiar to someone who
Speaker 1: went to elementary school with or something whatever reason, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like, Hey, you're looking at my girlfriend, and all
Speaker 1: you have to do is just be nice. You don't
Speaker 1: need to stir up an altercation and offered to buy
Speaker 1: him a drink.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's that easy.
Speaker 1: I mean it's that easy. I mean instead of being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your girl, Can I buy a drink? No,
Speaker 1: it's been like, oh sorry, I was just dazed. Man,
Speaker 1: good on you. She's beautiful here. Can I buy you
Speaker 1: a drink? What's your name?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah. That would turn it around quite a bit,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, oh, good for you, man, You land
Speaker 1: yourself a good one. Can I buy you drink? What
Speaker 1: are you up to?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 1: What's happening? What's your name? You know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: And I think he's kind of the same sort of
Speaker 1: person who would do that. Is that very much so
Speaker 1: peacemaker type individual?
Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I feel like a lot of people wouldn't
Speaker 2: necessarily do something like that. No, Like, if you were
Speaker 2: accused of something like that right away, you'd probably just
Speaker 2: get pissed. I'm not you, per se, but like the
Speaker 2: majority of people, right.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's better. The old proverb that I was
Speaker 1: originally actually talking about is it's better to be a
Speaker 1: warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, say that again.
Speaker 1: It's better to be a warrior in a garden than
Speaker 1: a gardener in a war.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, so you rather know how to fight and
Speaker 1: not have to fight, right then not know how to
Speaker 1: fight and have to fight.
Speaker 2: Jeez, Okay, that's deep. I am like so tired right
Speaker 2: now that I feel like my brain is processed shit
Speaker 2: very slowly.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm dropping some bombs on you with information to day.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, so maybe it's.
Speaker 1: Not a well I mean that like you're getting like
Speaker 1: the oh I see the old Japanese proverb of the
Speaker 1: gardener and the warriors thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I just have to say, you're describing this person
Speaker 2: quite well, Like I already feel like I know, you know,
Speaker 2: like I have a picture in my head.
Speaker 1: Well that's good. Yeah, Well to add to it if
Speaker 1: I may. He had a slender build, slender athletic build.
Speaker 1: He had short brown hair, a little bit of frosted tips,
Speaker 1: and his nice deep brown eyes to go with it.
Speaker 1: Lars was also a very devoted football or soccer for
Speaker 1: North American individuals. He was a very devoted football fan
Speaker 1: and his favorite team was the Worden Bremen team. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: as Lars was living his life and devoting a lot
Speaker 1: of his time to spend with others, the calendar eventually
Speaker 1: would roll into June of twenty fourteen, and this is
Speaker 1: when Lars is at the age of twenty eight. Lars
Speaker 1: would embark in a journey to varn Bulgaria, accompanied by
Speaker 1: four of his closest friends. It was a vacation for
Speaker 1: some downtime and for Lars to just kind of relax
Speaker 1: and focus on himself a little bit more. He's, you know,
Speaker 1: living a life, working hard, helping take care of his
Speaker 1: parents and building a relationship with his girlfriend. Just kind
Speaker 1: of some alone downtime, hang out with the boys kind
Speaker 1: of situation. So the week long escapade was destined for
Speaker 1: the Viva Club hotel within the scenic embrace of the
Speaker 1: Golden Sands Resorts, which is oh oh Sands.
Speaker 2: Oh I was thinking Sandals, Sorry.
Speaker 1: No Golden Sands Resort. This was positioned approximately seventeen kilometers
Speaker 1: north of the bustling heart of Varnaka. Now the Golden Sands,
Speaker 1: not Sandals or anything like that. It's said to have
Speaker 1: rivaled that of the Abiza and it was apparently captivating
Speaker 1: a lot of European tourists for like the whole like sunsets,
Speaker 1: the sunkiss days, the beaches, the shores, and to top
Speaker 1: it all off, a lot of really.
Speaker 2: Cheap okay, yeah sounds lovely, definitely.
Speaker 1: So Lars and his friends made their way there and
Speaker 1: they're having the time of their lives and making memories
Speaker 1: for years to come. Their days were filled with, of course, shenanigans, relaxation,
Speaker 1: and even football, as the World Cup semi finals were
Speaker 1: currently taking place and they were being played across the
Speaker 1: screens of all the local bars and pubs in the area.
Speaker 1: So the beginning of their vacation spanned for the first
Speaker 1: five days and unfolded relatively uneventful. It was just some
Speaker 1: good moments, just fun, just relaxing, just vacation now. One
Speaker 1: of Lars's friends, Paul roman recollected to quote him directly,
Speaker 1: the week went by really fast, kind of like a
Speaker 1: blink and you miss it sort of. Yeah, when you're
Speaker 1: having fun, that tends to happen.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's the shitty thing about vacations is
Speaker 2: you work. Your work week will drag on by your
Speaker 2: vacation week or whatever.
Speaker 1: Just gone or flash exactly so, and it was the
Speaker 1: same situation here. They're just having fun and it's going
Speaker 1: by so fast you need to stop and kind of
Speaker 1: take it in to really enjoy it. Now, however, there
Speaker 1: was a pivotal shift in their vacation that occurred on
Speaker 1: the fifth of July. So on this day, Lars found
Speaker 1: himself in a bit of a disagreement with some fellow
Speaker 1: German tourists and fellow football fans. Oh Now, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: Lars was a supporter of the Werner Brennan team, while
Speaker 1: these other individuals were fans of the Brayer Munich team,
Speaker 1: and they didn't seem to find it too funny when
Speaker 1: Lars made light of rivalries and was changing around team
Speaker 1: flags and some of the tables in the bar.
Speaker 2: Oh so he was just like, probably had a few
Speaker 2: too many drinks and just kind of playing around having fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Then these people weren't into that.
Speaker 1: No, they weren't having it. And I mean, football fans
Speaker 1: are known worldwide to be a little bit much at times.
Speaker 1: There's riots that breakout and stuff like that. So not
Speaker 1: necessarily that they all are, but tensions tend to get
Speaker 1: high regarding football.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So the group that you know was the Brayern Munich
Speaker 1: fans voiced their opinions and aggravation on this practical joke
Speaker 1: that Lars had just played, and things quickly escalated into
Speaker 1: a full on verbal altercation between them and Lars and
Speaker 1: his group of friends. Okay, so emotions were flaring, tempers
Speaker 1: were high, and after the heated argument had passed, they
Speaker 1: were all left with a rather thick tension lingering in
Speaker 1: the air, which I don't think would make for the
Speaker 1: greatest of drinking atmospheres. Probably not, No, especially in vacation.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and you had said that Lars is kind
Speaker 2: of a peace keeper, right, Yes, so I can't imagine
Speaker 2: this is settling very well with him.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. I think he, in this
Speaker 1: heated argument, was probably trying to like guys, it's just
Speaker 1: a joke sort of thing, but I don't think they
Speaker 1: were having any of it by the sounds of it.
Speaker 1: So Lars and his group of friends collectively decided that
Speaker 1: it was time for them to leave the bar and
Speaker 1: they were going to head somewhere else to grab a
Speaker 1: bite to eat before heading back to the hotel for
Speaker 1: the night. Now their chosen destination was the same choice
Speaker 1: of any other drunken mid twenties individual. McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Okay, I went to fast food, but I was like,
Speaker 2: is it fast food?
Speaker 1: Yeah? They chose to go to McDonald's.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Lars, however, he wasn't too hungry at this time. Maybe
Speaker 1: he was distraughted by you know, the thought of the
Speaker 1: altercation or whatever. But he wasn't going to get anything,
Speaker 1: so he decided to wait outside the restaurant while his
Speaker 1: friends went inside to order their food. So they did
Speaker 1: just that. They went inside, they got the food, came
Speaker 1: back out, and Lars was nowhere to be found. Just gone,
Speaker 1: just gone. Now they were a little perplexed, to say
Speaker 1: the least, but they weren't immediately alarmed. I mean, after all,
Speaker 1: he's he was getting tired too, just like they were.
Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't want to wait, and he just kind
Speaker 1: of wandered back to the hotel, right like, they'll head there, Nah,
Speaker 1: they'll meet him there and that's that.
Speaker 2: But still that does seem a bit odd, right, like
Speaker 2: they were hanging out the whole trip together, and then
Speaker 2: how long does it really take to be getting your McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, exactly, it's odd for sure, but like, well,
Speaker 1: what do you do? Right, he probably just headed back
Speaker 1: to the hotel, So they made their way back to
Speaker 1: the hotel too, and once they arrived there at the room,
Speaker 1: Lars was not there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.
Speaker 1: So they were quite concerned. But again, what do they do.
Speaker 1: It's not like you can report a missing He's an adult,
Speaker 1: he's been out drinking. He's probably just wandering around having fun.
Speaker 1: Maybe he ran into someone and just got pulled off
Speaker 1: to a bar for another drink. Or maybe he saw
Speaker 1: on a TV another soccer game or football, sorry, football game.
Speaker 1: Who knows. There's a million different reasons that he could
Speaker 1: be off doing something else.
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like I would be going back to
Speaker 2: the McDonald's though, because I'd kind of be like, oh, shoot,
Speaker 2: like we left our friend there, like he's probably went
Speaker 2: off somewhere but then came back and now we're not there,
Speaker 2: and well.
Speaker 1: I think they're kind of expecting him to show up
Speaker 1: at the hotel any moment sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, they're just kind of waiting around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're kind of like, well, he's going to show
Speaker 1: up pretty quick, and he's probably going to show up
Speaker 1: with some sort of story explaining what happened, right, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what did occur.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, good.
Speaker 1: Lars not too long later returned back at the hotel
Speaker 1: and he had exactly that a story to tell on
Speaker 1: what happened. So his account detailed another altercation geez, what's
Speaker 1: up with this with four individuals who Lars said were
Speaker 1: either Bulgarian or Russian, and they attacked him when he
Speaker 1: was alone, leaving him to adore the assault and run
Speaker 1: for his life.
Speaker 2: Oh geez.
Speaker 1: So, as he recounted the incident to his friends, Lars
Speaker 1: told them he suspected a link between this attack and
Speaker 1: the altercation they had earlier at the Barbee with the
Speaker 1: group of German tourists. In fact, Lars was convinced that
Speaker 1: those guys had actually hired these four guys to follow
Speaker 1: him and assault him. Okay, so that's what he thought
Speaker 1: was going on.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it does seem pretty weird that there would
Speaker 2: be two altercations like this in one night.
Speaker 1: It does, for sure, So that's kind of what he's thinking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And because I'm also kind of assuming that Lars
Speaker 2: does not have these kind of alter altercations regularly, right.
Speaker 1: No, not as far as I could tell. No, definitely not.
Speaker 1: And I mean his friends were quite worried about the
Speaker 1: situation too, Like, he clearly he got beat up a
Speaker 1: bit here. He's not like busted up lip or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but he's you know, he's been tossed around,
Speaker 1: you could tell that, right. So, despite of this the
Speaker 1: gravity of this story that he was telling, his friends
Speaker 1: were a little bit skeptical. Not against the assault, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, but the idea that someone would be hired
Speaker 1: specifically to target him, especially when they're off on vacation
Speaker 1: over a simple altercation that they had in the bar
Speaker 1: earlier that night. It's kind of a bit of a
Speaker 1: far fetched stretch, really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like had gone too far.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, nonetheless, whether they believed him or not, they
Speaker 1: were just relieved that he was back and he's now safe.
Speaker 1: So now, as for the attack, Lars was left a
Speaker 1: little bit injured. He complained of discomfort in his ear
Speaker 1: from a hit that he took to the side of
Speaker 1: the head, and he was actually struggling to hear from
Speaker 1: that ear as well. So it was obvious he needed
Speaker 1: to do what go see a doctor, right, so he
Speaker 1: did that. He went and got checked out. It was
Speaker 1: two days later when he went and got checked out.
Speaker 1: The diagnosis was a ruptured ear drum and an injury
Speaker 1: to his jaw.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, that's like that seems like a
Speaker 2: little bit much.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it was like he got hit right
Speaker 1: on the ear and that ear That air pressure can
Speaker 1: actually go in and rupture an ear drum rather easy.
Speaker 1: They're pretty weak. So if you get hit just right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it can blow out your ear drum.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I don't even know exactly what that means.
Speaker 2: But okay, like I don't know how that how you
Speaker 2: would heal from that or anything.
Speaker 1: I'm not too sure the healing process either. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it depends on how badly it's ruptured.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I feel like maybe it's sounding something like
Speaker 2: that sounds worse than it actually is, But I have
Speaker 2: no idea. Now I want to google it.
Speaker 1: Well, you'll do some googling after I will. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: the doctor did tell Lars, you know, with your ruptured
Speaker 1: ear drum, you can't be flying anywhere as the altitude
Speaker 1: and pressure change could cause or further harm to the
Speaker 1: ear drum and potentially cause irreversible damage.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yes, as soon as you said that, I was like,
Speaker 2: how on earth is like he gonna fly? It did
Speaker 2: pop in my head here, yeah, because and then I
Speaker 2: was like, oh did they fly there? They did fly there?
Speaker 1: They did fly Wow, And he can't be flying home
Speaker 1: right now. Shit, So of course there is a significant problem.
Speaker 1: How is he going to get home? Their flight is
Speaker 1: scheduled for the next day because they're there for a week,
Speaker 1: So it was five days in when they got attacked,
Speaker 1: and now it's been two days, so the next day
Speaker 1: is when they leave. So the doctor did also prescribe
Speaker 1: an antibiotic called CEF brazil five hundred milligrams was prescribed
Speaker 1: to him to combat any potential infection and that's what
Speaker 1: this is, specifically for any sort of potential infection that
Speaker 1: could occur in the ear drum while healing. So take this,
Speaker 1: it'll help prevent that. He also advised that Lars go
Speaker 1: to the hospital and seek surgery, surgery for the ear
Speaker 1: drum as well.
Speaker 2: Shit.
Speaker 1: So Lars now stood at the crossroads of a critical decision. Now,
Speaker 1: first and foremost, he knew right away he wasn't going
Speaker 1: to go seek surgery, but should he risk flying home
Speaker 1: with this injury? That's the second question. In solidarity. His
Speaker 1: friends right away offered to stay behind with him, but
Speaker 1: Lars refused. He didn't want to trouble them. He didn't
Speaker 1: want to make them stay behind or anything. He decided
Speaker 1: he's going to stay behind himself before he flies home,
Speaker 1: so heel up a little bit and fly home.
Speaker 2: Do we know how long that he was supposed to wait?
Speaker 2: Had it said that?
Speaker 1: Well, I think it varies depending how he was healing,
Speaker 1: depending on how he was healing, depending on the severity
Speaker 1: of the injury. By the sounds of it, it's only
Speaker 1: a few days wait, is what would have been expected.
Speaker 1: Because where they are located, and by country, we're not
Speaker 1: talking like Canada North America where it's like crazy distances
Speaker 1: you have to go. No, it's like he could also
Speaker 1: just bust there right Okay, so that's another option, but
Speaker 1: we will be talking about that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But anyways, Lars decided he's going to stay here alone,
Speaker 1: heel up before he flies home. So with all this
Speaker 1: seasonal tourism that was going on at the time, the
Speaker 1: task of securing last minute accommodations wasn't exactly easy, especially
Speaker 1: somewhere close to where he was already familiarized with by
Speaker 1: the nice you know hotels and all these accommodations. It was,
Speaker 1: you know, not fun, especially when you consider it's extra
Speaker 1: costs on top of what.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean the idea of like extending your
Speaker 2: vacations seems kind of awesome, but then I'll lot of
Speaker 2: times at the end, at the end of your vacation
Speaker 2: kind of want to just get home. Yeah, and then
Speaker 2: you don't have stuff pre booked, and budgets are really
Speaker 2: part of it disaster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's kind of what it was for him.
Speaker 1: He was forced to kind of go somewhere where he
Speaker 1: wasn't familiar with because he hasn't been around over in
Speaker 1: this area. He's spending it all the time over here
Speaker 1: sort of thing, so low on budget in an unknown area,
Speaker 1: he was actually forced to look at cheaper and unfamiliar
Speaker 1: alternatives basically, and it would be the hotel Color where
Speaker 1: Lars would book his new room at. And this area
Speaker 1: which the hotel was located was a little more run
Speaker 1: down and rough around the edges. You can say, okay,
Speaker 1: but he could book it, you could afford it. It
Speaker 1: would have to do. So the first night solo in
Speaker 1: his hotel is where things begin to go downhill for Lars.
Speaker 1: At ten thirty pm, he got on the phone with
Speaker 1: his mother, Sandra Mittank. Now, he seemed very shook and
Speaker 1: very nervous when he was talking to her, and he
Speaker 1: asked her if she could cancel his credit and debit
Speaker 1: card for him because he believed they were copied when
Speaker 1: he checked into his hotel, and then he promptly hung up.
Speaker 2: Oh geez, Okay, that's an alarming call for a parent.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: So throughout the night there was multiple phone calls back
Speaker 1: and forth between them, and Sandra spoke on the phone
Speaker 1: with her sons several times. She described the conversations as
Speaker 1: very odd, as her son seemed extremely worried and was paranoid.
Speaker 1: He confided in his mom that he believed he was
Speaker 1: being followed by four men. He would actually even whisper
Speaker 1: in the phone as he talked to her, as though
Speaker 1: he thought someone could be listening in to the conversation.
Speaker 2: Oh my.
Speaker 1: Lars also asked his mom about the drug his doctor
Speaker 1: had prescribed him in a rather concerned fashion. So he's
Speaker 1: very concerned about this drug that his doctor gave him.
Speaker 2: Huh, you must have to wonder if he got like
Speaker 2: a concussion or something sort of where my head is going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, well we will talk theories at the
Speaker 1: end here, but that is a potential one for sure. Now.
Speaker 1: Surveillance footage of the hotel from that night shows large Lars,
Speaker 1: very agitated, pacing restlessly throughout the lobby. He would repeatedly
Speaker 1: look out the windows over his shoulders and would disappear
Speaker 1: and reappear again and again from the elevator. At around
Speaker 1: one am, Lars ventured outside the hotel premise for about
Speaker 1: an hour, where his whereabouts were completely unaccounted for, before
Speaker 1: he would return to the hotel. Eventually, though, the sun
Speaker 1: would rise on the dawn of July eighth, and Lars's
Speaker 1: paranoia reached a peak. He was in desperate need to
Speaker 1: get home. His mom, Sandra, managed to secure a flight
Speaker 1: for him that afternoon, while also ensuring contingency plan in
Speaker 1: the form of a bus ticket, as I mentioned, because
Speaker 1: in case he can't fly, because it's only been like barely.
Speaker 2: Passah, hardly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, I don't know, maybe thirty six hours. I'm
Speaker 1: going to guess approxy at this point, because I would
Speaker 1: assume it's probably somewhere in the afternoon when he learned
Speaker 1: it from the doctor the next day. The whole day
Speaker 1: has passed hour in the morning, so maybe close to
Speaker 1: forty I guess. Okay, so about forty hours. So he's
Speaker 1: got a plane ticket and a bus ticket booked. Now
Speaker 1: it was set, one way or another, he was going
Speaker 1: to be coming home and escaping whatever troubles that he
Speaker 1: seemed to think he was in. Now Lars also requested
Speaker 1: his mom send him five hundred dollars to his bank
Speaker 1: account now regardless of the reason that five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: would remain in his bank account and would be untouched.
Speaker 1: He then made his way via a taxi ride to
Speaker 1: the Varna Airport. He shared a cab with a young woman,
Speaker 1: and during the ride, this young woman noticed that he
Speaker 1: seemed to be acting very odd and that his eyes
Speaker 1: were very dilated. Whatever was going on with Lars was
Speaker 1: clearly getting worse. Airport security campus show Lars arriving and
Speaker 1: entering the airport carrying a black duffel bag and the
Speaker 1: distinctive red and black backpack. He pushed through the doors
Speaker 1: and immediately headed towards the airport medical facility. Doctor Costa
Speaker 1: cost of was the attending physician and Lars was there
Speaker 1: to get his ear checked to ensure he could actually fly,
Speaker 1: make sure it's safe, you know, the whole kitten kaboodle.
Speaker 1: So doctor Kostev remembers the visit with Lars and his
Speaker 1: behaviors at the time. He was fidgety, nervous, and seemed
Speaker 1: to be shaking. His nerves were clearly getting the best
Speaker 1: of him. Lars was also asking about his previously prescribed medication,
Speaker 1: voicing concerns and confusion about it.
Speaker 2: You almost have to wonder, h like, this is another
Speaker 2: I guess theory I'm putting out there. If he's having
Speaker 2: like some sort of allergic reaction to this medication or something.
Speaker 1: I'm going to let you voice your opinion. Go for it.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to talk theory until the end.
Speaker 1: So if you want to go for it, go for it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I have to get it out of my brain.
Speaker 2: So that's that's just something I needed to put out there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, gotcha. The two talked a bit about the
Speaker 1: medications and the doctor began taking a look at Lars's ear. Now,
Speaker 1: luckily for Lars, he received some good news. He was
Speaker 1: well enough to fly.
Speaker 2: Wow. Okay.
Speaker 1: Upon hearing the news, relief should have rushed over Lars's face,
Speaker 1: but instead a look of fear was in its place.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: Just then, a construction worker walked into the doctor's office,
Speaker 1: and at that moment, Lars, and at the moment Lars
Speaker 1: laid eyes on the man. He panicked. Lars stood up
Speaker 1: and screamed, quote, I don't want to die here. I
Speaker 1: have to get out of here, and he bolted out
Speaker 1: of the doctor's office.
Speaker 2: Hmm. So is it like that he kind of recognized
Speaker 2: the construction worker maybe, or we don't really know, okay,
Speaker 2: or you're just not saying right yet. Okay.
Speaker 1: So once he exited the doctor's office, he bolted down
Speaker 1: the hallway, bolted through the airport, and was seen on
Speaker 1: security footage running out of the front doors, across the
Speaker 1: property and highway into a field, over a two meters
Speaker 1: high fence, then off into the woods.
Speaker 2: Holy shit, this was.
Speaker 1: The last time Lars was ever seen.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Hey, yes, you almost have to feel
Speaker 2: like really fucking bad for him, because some shit is
Speaker 2: going down, you bet you.
Speaker 1: And in his panic, Lars left his backpack, his duffel bag,
Speaker 1: all of his stuff, all of it, his possessions, identification, passport,
Speaker 1: all of it was left in the doctor's office.
Speaker 2: Huh wow. Okay, that's like very alarming for family too.
Speaker 2: Oh you bet you, Like I don't actually think that
Speaker 2: I could be settled with that. I mean, like he's
Speaker 2: still missing, which is so right, Yeah, unsettling. I'm like,
Speaker 2: we do know that, right.
Speaker 1: That's the end of the story. Now we're just into theories.
Speaker 1: That is the story of Lars. There's a couple more
Speaker 1: little tweaks at the end here after the theories. I
Speaker 1: will say that, but that is the basis of the story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't think I would ever be able
Speaker 2: to rest with that, Like that is unreal, yeap, that
Speaker 2: that happens and then all of a sudden he's just gone.
Speaker 2: Do we not know if like this construction worker person
Speaker 2: was recognizable to him? Nope, the construction worker just played
Speaker 2: dumb kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, as far as we know the construction worker.
Speaker 1: Because there are some details that we are going to
Speaker 1: go over in the theories here, Like you talked about
Speaker 1: an allergic reaction. There is a detail that can go
Speaker 1: right along with that that we'll talk about. But as
Speaker 1: far as the construction worker goes, I could find nothing that.
Speaker 2: Would show that they were aware of each other or
Speaker 2: of each other for all we know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was paranoia and he just saw this construction worker,
Speaker 1: and the construction worker is literally just that some random
Speaker 1: construction worker, and Lars panicked because maybe he thought he
Speaker 1: recognized him, or thought maybe he was some other like
Speaker 1: a hitman or something. Who knows.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is bizarre. Okay, let's get into these theories please.
Speaker 1: Okay. Well, there are numerous theories that are circulating around
Speaker 1: the internet, each offering its own interesting thought and perspective.
Speaker 1: One prevalent one explores the idea of someone who is
Speaker 1: after Lars, which raises the question who and why. So
Speaker 1: it is possible that it stems from the whole bar
Speaker 1: fights related to football sort of thing. But it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to think someone like this would or something
Speaker 1: like this would happen over something so trivial, right, But
Speaker 1: then again, as I mentioned, football fans are known be
Speaker 1: rather intense at times, so who knows.
Speaker 2: They take it very seriously.
Speaker 1: Very seriously, and very personal, especially regarding my team versus
Speaker 1: your team or that team sort of thing. It's almost
Speaker 1: religious to a point. Now, an alternate theory proposes that
Speaker 1: Lars might have delved into more shady circles during his
Speaker 1: stay at the Hotel Color, which aligns with another theory
Speaker 1: suggesting that maybe while he was on vacation he was
Speaker 1: involved with drug smuggling as a mule, And it's a
Speaker 1: possibility that he might have actually unknowingly taken part in
Speaker 1: an operation and discovered it while he was already abroad.
Speaker 1: So it's also possible that Lars was under the influence
Speaker 1: of these said drugs, leading to his erratic behavior and paranoia.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm confused by that one. So he before he
Speaker 2: left he was involved in this.
Speaker 1: Well, that's about four different theories, but they all kind
Speaker 1: of play on each other. So basically, he could have
Speaker 1: that the Hotel Color and the kind of shady part
Speaker 1: of town gotten mixed up with some bad people, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Or could have been taken part in drug smuggling as
Speaker 1: a mule. Or he could have unknowingly been a mule.
Speaker 1: One of his friends or someone potentially stuffed drugs in
Speaker 1: his bag and then he found out and was trying
Speaker 1: to refuse or something and then that got him in trouble.
Speaker 1: Or maybe he was on certain drugs that caused the
Speaker 1: paranoia and behaviors. So that's about four different theories that
Speaker 1: play off each other, but could also be all theories
Speaker 1: on their own too.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's really interesting.
Speaker 1: Now, among the more plausible theories is one posing that
Speaker 1: Lar's condition extended beyond mer ruptured ear drum, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: a concussion, right, Yeah, so that's what this idea actually
Speaker 1: talks about. It proposes that he might have experienced a
Speaker 1: minor concussion or another head injury in a shape or
Speaker 1: form which accounted for his erratic conduct and heightened paranoia
Speaker 1: and just all his weird behaviors.
Speaker 2: I feel like that makes a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1: It does, actually, and it could explain the dilated pupils
Speaker 1: and disorientation.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Now, counter to this, his family confirmed that he had
Speaker 1: no prior mental health issues, further deepening the mystery surrounding
Speaker 1: the whole disappearance and behaviors. But a concussion is certainly
Speaker 1: not off the table.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because if he didn't get like tested for
Speaker 2: it or tested properly when he went in and they
Speaker 2: just kind of figured out it's just like the ear drum,
Speaker 2: but there really was something else going on, it would
Speaker 2: almost explain all of this, really, I mean, it doesn't
Speaker 2: necessarily explain where the heck he is at this moment
Speaker 2: in time or what happened to him after that footage,
Speaker 2: but the paranoia and just like not seeming like himself
Speaker 2: and stuff.
Speaker 1: It could if you consider that maybe amnesia was another factor.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you mean by loss of memory? Okay?
Speaker 1: Is where he is?
Speaker 2: Shit? Yeah? But and then I guess too, he could
Speaker 2: have just like even succumbed to his inies or something.
Speaker 2: But then you think that his body would have been.
Speaker 1: Found hard to say.
Speaker 2: Huh, Okay, that one is sticking with me here.
Speaker 1: So all these theories do remain subjects of debate among
Speaker 1: a lot of experts and family members and of course
Speaker 1: internet sleuths. Right though, his mother, along with the Bulgarian,
Speaker 1: German and medical professionals, have considered the possibility that his
Speaker 1: odd behavior might have stemmed from an uncommon side effect
Speaker 1: from the antibiotic he was prescribed, which is called CEF Brazil. Now,
Speaker 1: there is one problem with this. The catch is that
Speaker 1: doctor Costoff contradicts this hypothesis by revealing that Lars when
Speaker 1: he came into the hospital the airport hospital to see
Speaker 1: him and was questioning him about it. Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: the prescription slip. He did not fill the prescription. He
Speaker 1: never took any of that medication.
Speaker 2: Oh seriously, seriously.
Speaker 1: He did not fill his prescription, according to the doctor.
Speaker 1: Oh so, theoretically, unless it was something illegal, he was
Speaker 1: not on any drugs or substances.
Speaker 2: Huh, unless it was a really weird error where he
Speaker 2: maybe got the prescription but then they didn't actually take
Speaker 2: the like the piece of paper.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe maybe there was more to it. Maybe he
Speaker 1: talked to him and he confirmed that he wasn't on
Speaker 1: the medication. But the doctor stands by and says he
Speaker 1: did not fill that prescription.
Speaker 2: Huh. Okay, Can I just point out too how smart
Speaker 2: I am and that two of these theories I have
Speaker 2: already came up with during the podcast. I'm just like
Speaker 2: gonna pat myself on the back.
Speaker 1: Good job. Yeah, you better patch yourself hard enough that
Speaker 1: everybody can hear it. Right now, There you go, that
Speaker 1: was a good pat. So, despite the extensive efforts by police,
Speaker 1: Lars Midank's fate remains completely unknown. His mother, Sandra Uh,
Speaker 1: did all she could help her son. Shanelisted services of
Speaker 1: a private investigator, one named Andreas gutig So. Andreas explored
Speaker 1: hospital records in his search to try and find unidentified
Speaker 1: patients who might match Large's descriptions.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't remember who the fuck he is and
Speaker 2: he has no identification exactly, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: But it yielded no results.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that is very unsettling. Okay, he left all
Speaker 2: the doctor's office, so awful. Yeah, his poor, poor mother,
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: So if he doesn't know who he is, there is
Speaker 1: no way of him finding.
Speaker 2: Out right, and it's just like kind of in hope
Speaker 2: that he gets recognized or something. But like he's in
Speaker 2: a for like a country that he's not from.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Like if this happened to you when you were like
Speaker 2: in your home city or whatever, you.
Speaker 1: Know, but even still depending on the population of your city.
Speaker 1: In our city's one thing, but if you go to
Speaker 1: like Toronto or Vancouver or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was more so thinking our city.
Speaker 1: But yeah, big cities is a little different. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's wild.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I am like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, you also did touch on the idea on his
Speaker 1: survival rate. Now, he did have a background in actor
Speaker 1: activities like hunting and fishing, but survival of the harsh
Speaker 1: summer conditions, compounded by limited access to food, made his
Speaker 1: survival rate rather slim. His mom does still hold on
Speaker 1: to hope, though, believing that maybe he is just suffering
Speaker 1: with memory loss and that that's the only reason why
Speaker 1: he hasn't come home yet.
Speaker 2: But this was twenty fourteen, Hey you bet you so,
Speaker 2: nine years ago?
Speaker 1: Jeez. Now. There have been numerous alleged sightings of Lars
Speaker 1: in various countries that have emerged. None, however, have turned
Speaker 1: up anything. A notable sighting was in twenty fifteen and
Speaker 1: involved a German truck driver offering a lift to a hitchhiker.
Speaker 1: The hitchhiker apparently bore a resemblance to a little bit
Speaker 1: of a more weathered Lars, sporting long hair and a beard,
Speaker 1: appearing fatigued and with prominent cheekbones. The driver reported it
Speaker 1: weeks after the encounter, and he reported it weeks after
Speaker 1: only because he had learned of Lars's case after picking
Speaker 1: up the hitchhiker, and once he figured out the case
Speaker 1: and saw the resemblance, then reported it.
Speaker 2: Oh so, it's like if only he had known of
Speaker 2: this case before.
Speaker 1: Hey, you bet you so he picked up this individual
Speaker 1: in Dresden and took them to Schlidoh in, I'm really
Speaker 1: going to butcher this pronunciation Brandenburg and Brandenburg's over Havel
Speaker 1: County just north of Berlin. Good work, but nothing has
Speaker 1: come out of that sighting or any others since.
Speaker 2: Wow, I I this one has gotten me here. Holy.
Speaker 1: So mom, Lars's mom still holds onto hope. She continues
Speaker 1: to post on social media about her missing son and
Speaker 1: puts flyers up when she can. She knows the chances
Speaker 1: of him being found, let alone alive, are slim, but
Speaker 1: still holds out hope that he will be found and
Speaker 1: can return home.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean also like hopefully those posters and stuff
Speaker 2: that she's putting up has him looking like you had
Speaker 2: referred to it, more weathered or whatever. Right, I'm sure
Speaker 2: that's like.
Speaker 1: Putting up probably both actual photos of him and then
Speaker 1: maybe pause at sketches or something.
Speaker 2: They potentially actually look like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So for everyone's information out there, especially if you
Speaker 1: are in the area. Lars Jokim Mittank was last seen
Speaker 1: wearing a yellow T shirt, blue jean shorts, and white shoes.
Speaker 1: He stands about one hundred and eighty centimeters or five
Speaker 1: foot nine tall, and weighed around eighty five kilograms or
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty five to one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: seven pounds. He could be injured, disoriented, or have memory loss.
Speaker 1: He has brown eyes and a scar on his left forearm.
Speaker 1: If you have any information on Lars, you are urged
Speaker 1: to call authorities in Germany at four nine one five
Speaker 1: seven seven eight three zero zero eight nine six. You
Speaker 1: can also send an email to findet underscore Lars at
Speaker 1: web dot d that's fi n d e T underscore
Speaker 1: l A r s at w e B dot d E.
Speaker 1: And that is the story of Lars Midtank.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: So that being said, you need to watch the security footage.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm like, I don't know if I can like
Speaker 2: process anything more this. I don't know. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: this story is unbelievable to me, the fact that like
Speaker 2: his poor mom, I can't I just can't stop thinking
Speaker 2: about that. Could you imagine someone the story that someone
Speaker 2: like your son or like loved one literally just runs
Speaker 2: off and disappears and like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing, and it's it's so haunting if you watch
Speaker 1: the actual sign.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I even want to.
Speaker 1: So the security the clip here is fifty five seconds long.
Speaker 1: In between him entering and exiting the airport, it was
Speaker 1: approximately forty five minutes that he was in the doctor's
Speaker 1: office for So just heads up on that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So that shows him walking in with the yellow T
Speaker 1: shirt and his two bags. Okay, so just watch and
Speaker 1: we'll leave a link down below so you guys can
Speaker 1: watch this video as well. If you haven't checked it
Speaker 1: out just yet, we urge you too. It's like I said, haunting,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that is a man running for his life.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that one shot there didn't he didn't seem like
Speaker 2: he looked all that panicked. Really, you don't think so,
Speaker 2: I don't know, gosh, this is hard to tell. Some footage,
Speaker 2: some footage it kind of seems like he does, but
Speaker 2: then others it seems like he just is kind of
Speaker 2: like going for a stroll like that. He's not really
Speaker 2: in a super panic.
Speaker 1: Okay, I disagree with you there. I got to take
Speaker 1: a look again then, Okay, you see, because it looked
Speaker 1: to me like, no, he's just bold.
Speaker 2: It didn't seem like he was full out running like
Speaker 2: as fast as he could or anything. He's not looking
Speaker 2: behind him or anything.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he ain't looking back, He's just gone.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like if I was afraid
Speaker 2: for my life though, i'd be looking back. But maybe
Speaker 2: that's just me.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think what you're watching is Oh, I guess
Speaker 1: once he exits the building, he looks a little more
Speaker 1: casual for sure. Yeah, but inside the building he's definitely
Speaker 1: he's sprinting through the building. But outside yet yeah, right,
Speaker 1: it's more.
Speaker 2: Of a Inside the building he did seem like he
Speaker 2: was a bit more shook, but then outside it didn't
Speaker 2: seem like it as much.
Speaker 1: But then also, if he's not in a like, if
Speaker 1: he wasn't panicked, why would he go out across the
Speaker 1: highway into a field fence, into the woods.
Speaker 2: Without any of his shit? I don't know that That
Speaker 2: didn't help me in any way with thinking this story
Speaker 2: is really fucked, Like I have no other words just
Speaker 2: to describe this. Wow, I would love, love love for
Speaker 2: him to be found.
Speaker 1: Oh definitely. Yeah. And the internet has gone over every
Speaker 1: frame of that footage, every ounce of his story, you
Speaker 1: name it. He is, as I mentioned, he's the most
Speaker 1: famous missing person.
Speaker 2: So do you actually think that his face and his
Speaker 2: name and everything is really all that. Like it's a
Speaker 2: big like most people are aware of it.
Speaker 1: Most people are aware of the man who went missing
Speaker 1: and ran from the airport. Most people know that his
Speaker 1: name or his story appearance, but like they know the clip.
Speaker 1: They know that, but maybe, like Alisa Lamb, her name
Speaker 1: and stories a little more prevalent. I think, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that clip is easily the most famous as far as
Speaker 1: missing people go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, but then how many people I mean,
Speaker 2: if they were walking past this person on the street
Speaker 2: or seeing them in person, would they be able to
Speaker 2: tell or would it clue in their brain that, oh,
Speaker 2: my gosh, this could be him.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think it has to be
Speaker 1: someone who's actively looking at the photos, actively searching or researching. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet you if I in a week time walk back, Actually,
Speaker 1: I bet you tomorrow, if I walked by a weathered
Speaker 1: yeah Mars, I probably wouldn't recognize him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: And I spent the last like two days researching this case.
Speaker 2: Yikes, So it almost just seems like it's just this
Speaker 2: this oh, this haunting feeling of just like like feeling
Speaker 2: so helpless for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really, yeah, that's exactly it help us for him
Speaker 1: and help us for his family.
Speaker 2: Because technically, okay, technically, say he did survive and that
Speaker 2: was him who the truck driver had picked up, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: But then at this point something else has happened or something,
Speaker 2: or he's passed away and like no, like his body
Speaker 2: would not have been identified. Correct, Oh my god. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is just too much.
Speaker 1: Unless someone had the know about to search to cross
Speaker 1: reference maybe his dental records and missing persons reports and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, yeah, which I do hope would occur.
Speaker 2: But sometimes hopefully, hopefully, I don't know. Shit like that
Speaker 2: just naturally occurs, though, when they have an an identified body.
Speaker 1: Hard to say. I think it's going to depend on
Speaker 1: the situation, because, unfortunately, I think if it becomes if
Speaker 1: we're talking homeless population, I think the likelihood of them
Speaker 1: cross referencing is probably lessened. And that's very sad to say.
Speaker 1: But if they just come across just hey, a random
Speaker 1: dead person that doesn't seem homeless or anything, then maybe
Speaker 1: maybe so wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, this story is something else. Oh my goodness, Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness.
Speaker 1: You were all kinds of just wrapped up in your head, right,
Speaker 1: now I really am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm literally about to eat snacks right now because
Speaker 2: I think I'm about to stress eat. But it's like,
Speaker 2: can I eat snacks while we're talking?
Speaker 1: So my goodness, your eyes are just darting back and
Speaker 1: forth like you're they are.
Speaker 2: This one is very This is kind of probably one
Speaker 2: of the most disturbing ones that I have listened to,
Speaker 2: really because I kind of have a bit of OCD.
Speaker 1: Right, yes, we would know that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if any everyone on here would know that.
Speaker 1: I can confirm that.
Speaker 2: It's like I could not fucking imagine that being someone
Speaker 2: I knew, and and this this is just this like
Speaker 2: I just don't think that I could go on living
Speaker 2: my life like not having a clue.
Speaker 1: Well, and I think that's why he is the most
Speaker 1: famous missing person, because the idea of him running from
Speaker 1: the fucking airport and just gone gone is so baffling
Speaker 1: and just so strange and just awe struck. Yeah that's
Speaker 1: even a word, but jaw dropping, I guess I think
Speaker 1: that is a word.
Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, holy moly, Okay.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's the story of Lars Mittank.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Nicole is gonna be paralyzed in thought for the
Speaker 1: rest of the night. So this is gonna be funny.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it is. I mean I could
Speaker 2: see some like Internet sluice just spending some serious time
Speaker 2: on this. He people have, Yeah, because I would be
Speaker 2: so freaking pumped if like he was found like that
Speaker 2: would and like then was able to kind of like
Speaker 2: get the help or whatever that he needed if he
Speaker 2: had like memory loss or whatever like that would just
Speaker 2: be a freaking miracle and so amazing.
Speaker 1: Yep, you bet.
Speaker 2: Youah, Okay, well there you go.
Speaker 1: Well, hopefully you guys are not as distraught as Nicole
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Speaker 1: us a rating two. That means a lot. Basically, just
Speaker 1: thank you. You guys are wicked. Couldn't be doing this
Speaker 1: without you, so thank you.
Speaker 2: And just because I'm distraught doesn't mean I didn't enjoy
Speaker 2: the show. I just need to point that out, I know,
Speaker 2: But anyway, Ditto to everything Ben said, Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for being here.
Speaker 1: We really do appreciate waiting to take Easy Street.
Speaker 2: Ditto, ditto, and until next week, stay Wicked.