Vanished: Three Disappearances Nobody Can Explain
3/20/202644 min
Gather round for three missing persons cases that investigators, search teams, and forensic experts have never been able to explain.
A medical student disappeared from a packed bar in Columbus, Ohio — a building covered in cameras, with one way in and one way out. Police confirmed he never left. The footage proves he entered.
A family of three vanished from the Oklahoma mountains, leaving behind their dog, their cash, and a piece of security footage that still disturbs everyone who watches it.
A nineteen-year-old called his father from the side of a dark ro...
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First 90 secondsAJ Gentile· Host0:00
[fire crackling] Gather round. This happened in Columbus, Ohio on April 1st, 2006. Brian Shaffer walked into a bar at 1:15 in the morning with two friends. One way in, one way out. The building was covered in cameras. Every exit monitored, every door, all watched, all recorded. Brian was a 27-year-old medical student. The plan was med school, then residency, then marry his girlfriend, Alexis. But that plan would never happen. In a building covered by security cameras, surrounded by 200 witnesses, in a room with one way in and one way out, Brian Shaffer vanished. [intro music] [owl hooting] [suspenseful music] Two weeks earlier, Brian's mother died. Renee Shaffer lost her battle with a rare cancer that destroys bone marrow. She was Brian's anchor, the one who pushed him through undergraduate studies in microbiology, the one who celebrated when he got into Ohio State's medical program. She died in March. Brian was at her bedside holding her hand when she passed. Two weeks later, he carried it everywhere. Friends said he handled it well, kept his grades up. He attended every lecture. But those closest to him noticed the exhaustion, the way he'd stare off during conversations, the forced smile when people asked him how