Hey all, Each individual in this video vanished under strange circumstances and whether found or not, believed that in some fashion, they had been followed / stalked / generally were not alone during the duration of their time spent missing. There are truly some pretty weird ones in here. Be safe all & have a great weekend

It would be funny for behavioural scientists to discover that bears have secret society roles for the forest, like 'the human sweep' patrol that wanders looking for stray humans, only to return them to what they think of as the 'designated drop-off point'. I like to picture some daddy bear on patrol, calling the wife like "yeah, i'mma be late. Gotta pop these kids in the return slot."

If Eddie really thought he saw her safe and sound after you think he'd go talk to her make sure she was doing okay

It’s called third man syndrome. Alpine hikers discovered this decades ago. The voice giving you good advice and encouragement is supposed to be your unconscious mind drawing from places you never actively think about, but that person shows up when you need each other. Like having a gut feeling, but Pixar got a hold on it.

The Missing Enigma channel recently did a long video on the first case where he showed the police interview of the brother. Basically seems like drugs could have been involved and in general the people were just very sketchy

With regards to the first incident... there's a small copse of trees on the edge of my town with a path that leads over the river and towards a neighbourhood on the far side of town. Most people don't use it especially at night. About twenty years ago a friend I knew used to walk that way to and from, at night to visit his then girlfriend. He always used to say that there were people standing among the trees silently watching him. I always thought it was his imagination, One night I went that way to visit a friend and although I never saw anybody, there was a definite sense of a presence or of people watching me. Very uncomfortable. Never went that way by night ever again.

I can vouche for how vivid sleep deprivation hallucinations can be and how easy it is for them to occur. I used to work a night shift and starting off I couldn't adjust so I ended up sleeping maybe 4 or so hours a night. It took a few weeks to hit, but I would see simple shadows as full on people and things like that, its kinda surreal and scared me at first. truck drivers i know often have to work long long hours and sleep deprivation is not uncommon. I'm very happy that the police did as much as they did for the last person, with offering to take him to the hospital and checking for drugs, etc. so many cops would just dismiss him outright.

I live in St Joe Arkansas. This first story is very strange, because there is no way you could get lost here. The park land is very small, and the rest is all cow pastures and farm houses. I've tried to find a camping spot to get away from the sounds of traffic and civilization, but it's virtually impossible. Wouldn't be surprised if substances were involved...

Many of these stories give insight into the workings of the human mind under stress (and/or ellicit substances), which researchers do not fully understand.

Animal behaviorist here! It is true that bears are not known to behave in this way. However there are numerous examples throughout history of wild animals acting entirely out of character when faced with lost human children. There was a case in Uganda where vervet monkeys looked after a small boy for an extended period of time. And another such occurrence which took place in India saw wolves treat a child in this manner. With that said I believe Casey when he says a bear took care of him.

in casey's case, wolves have been known to do this and a 3 yr old might well mistake shaggy wolf for a bear

I live in Arkansas right in the middle of the ozarks. Yes extremely dense woods, hills, and forestry. Having said that, there are no reports of people in the woods at night watching hikers, campers, or anybody else. That was completely fabricated or they were hallucinating.

I really adore the drawings/graphics that accompany your narration of these fascinating mysteries. Thank you and keep up the good work ❤

That is a huge fear of mine, being lost in the middle of the woods with nothing to protect yourself, and seeing and hearing things you can’t explain.

After watching these videos, has anyone else stopped believing anything the friends or family say, especially when they were the last ones to see the missing person? Like... I'm certain all sorts of cases would be mysterious, if we always believed the stories from people involved. "I locked up the store that night, the next morning all the money was gone! It was a ghost robber!"

Hey Adam. This is weird AF. Just after watching a video on a completely different channel which featured THIS Artega case. Then I switch over for my weekly Friyay night episode of Top Mysteries to find the same case. I'd never heard of this case before tonight - thanks for another great episode. Love & support from Glasgow. Johnnie. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳

I just watched the interview/interrogation of the brother in the Ortega case. Totally baffling. He also saw people and trucks that apparently Were not there while with his sister , and while alone. Great video! Thx!

*I have some personal info on Linda and eddy. I saw some comments from people who knew Linda and eddy* . They were an ER nurse in their town and said the whole family was VERY VERY slow and also meth users. They said the three boys in the family would be in the ER constantly because they would fight with eachother over who got to SLEEP with their mom that night. As adults. And not sleep like sleep next to but have sex with. If you watch Eddie’s interofstion he’s high on meth (they likely both were) and he’s very slow already. When you do meth you see shadow people. That’s typical. So without food and water and high on meth for days it’s no surprise Linda thought she saw shit. People see shit in their homes and in bed. But they went into the woods with NO WATER or FOOD and FLIP FLOPS. They had very little survival techniques. But she was able to collect water and eat berries.

Thanks for the fascinating, detailed examples here. Nice graphics as well.

A child like Casey may not equate a bear as being big and ferocious but more teddy bear like and therefore through his eyes thought a smaller more docile animal was a bear, maybe they settled down together at night to keep warm, who knows ❤

@TOP MYSTERIES I am a native of eastern North Carolina and to answer one of your questions....NC is home to the black bear, and most of the bears do hibernate (esp females) but their hibernation is much shorter than bears up north. Coastal NC temps do get cold but we dont have weeks and weeks of frigid temps...it fluctuates. We might have a week of freezing temps and then warm up to the 50's for a week so our bears hibernate late Nov to March/April. Whats interesting is, where Casey is from is exactly where the most black bears in NC are located...4 bears per square mile!! The other interesting thing is...the area where Casey was has had plenty of bigfoot and dogman sightings/encounters....and just an interesting bit of info is, Craven county is very old and historical place...founded in 1712 as the capitol of the colony of NC and the very first capitol of what would become the USA!!! Blackbeard the pirate was from nearby Bath, NC so for those who believe in paranormal things this are is well known for its ghost legends mand hauntings. Personally, I would NEVER want to be lost in that swamp!!!

Always find these stories way more interesting because of your voice/accent. I follow david paulides and its nice to hear you giving him credit for some of these. I think It's good to get the word out by different means as long as you keep it straight (as possible). Always look forward to the howl in the beginning. My dogs ears always perk up

So happy you uploaded. I hadn't received any notification from your channel in months. Gotta love yt 🙄 Good thing is, I've got a pile of videos to binge on ❤ Love your channel and it is truely inspiring how kind and genuinely thoughtful you are when discussing these cases. You had me with being so understanding and knowledgeable about Autism as my 11 year old is autistic. Thank you for all your hard work. God bless you and yours 🙏 💕 ❤ -Tina Edited: Btw, I am so ordering that coffee mug in a couple of weeks.. "Let's get bizarre." Can't wait! I hope there's another one that says, "It's about to get weird!" 😊😊

Always enjoy these regular Friday afternoon vids of yours. Unique style. Keep going it's good stuff!

Linda Artega's friend/brother (?) Eddie apparently had a very confusing nonsensical interview with the police when Linda was reported missing. The Missing Enigma just uploaded a video detailing the interview.

Love the content! You deserve way more subscribers than you currently have. Hoping to see you hit that 1million mark in 2024 🤞. Keep up the great stuff!

Hey Adam! Thank you for these strange occurrences...portals springs to my mind..?🤔🤔👏♥️♥️♥️

Glad to see you back with fresh content. Love the graphics at the start/ clearly you are putting time and thought into your content/ very nice...

Awesome as always thanks

The arteaga/huff case is just a bit misrepresented in this presentation - after researching it, I come to the conclusion that this was a case of two tweakers hallucinating on meth, one (huff) a simpleton who basically convinced investigators he murdered his sister because his story made no sense - watching his interrogation was maddeningly confusing

The first story you talked about wasn’t really the way it happened. Eddie never claimed he saw her on the porch. You can hear the interview with police on missing enigma channel

Truly bizarre with Donald.. ty Adam as always great stories and I like the pictures you used..❤

Really enjoyed this, nice work TM

Yes! Love your videos so much x

'Missing in the Arkansas Ozarks...'; sent a chill down my spine.

Im so pumped u uploaded a new video!!🙌🏽 ur channel and content is my absolute favorite on KZfaq. U always do the most interesting, mysterious content🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Another wonderful presentation. Thank you ❤

Always a great video and your voice sounds awesome and clear on narrating the Investigations. You Get Sucked into the stories, plus great fact checking. These situations of kids with unknown entities are so bizarre. Great job.💯🙏🇬🇧

The girl from the Radio men story or whatever, those doughnuts she found was almost definitely a hunter or hikers cache lol. I think drugs play a more common role in these stories than we think. "They wanted to hurt me. I have no reason to believe it and have no evidence it even happened but i used 'deer senses' to magically know the mystery woodsmen were out to hurt me" Yeah man drugs are a real problem in this country. And could probably explain a HUGE amount of unexplained disappearences and deaths.

Bears don't hibernate in North Carolina all winter and in some cases don't hibernate at all in Southern states including North Carolina especially near the coast where Craven County is located.

Linda's case can be one of the most enigmatic ordeals. While being delusional must be considered as part of the lost person's state of mind, the possibility of the events that the person describe, weird as it may be, must not be easily dismissed. Thanks for sharing! 🌻

Thank you Adam, great show as always! ❤

Just love your videos keep up the good work

I love that you include reading from news outlets! I've never seen a channel like this do that like you do. It definitely brings a realistic and human element to these events, which makes them more than just a spooky story. Well done!

The art work is brilliant

✨ Let's get bizarre✨ You know when he says that, it's gon be good.

It seems that even though a fair few go missing in the woods in the US, there's a fair few that also get looked after too!

I always love your videos ❤️❤️❤️

The last case could have been foul play and remember in late August people that grow Mary Jane are probably guarding there crop and that's a prime place to grow it. But prayers for the family and friends of the missing and thanks for keeping these People's names alive. God bless

My favorite video of yours sir keep up the great work

The best part: let’s get bizarre !

I wonder what it would like to be invisible in these places to know exactly what happened to these people

Thanks Top Mysteries.

I live in the woods I don’t find it creepy because I’ve lived here for a long time but I guess that might be different for others

Yayyy one of my favorite KZfaqrs!!! Day made

Thank you!

Other people who have been lost in the woods also see "weird" people staring at them but not answering them. Its common so its got to be something!

Nice to see the face to go with the voice , great strange stories thanks for sharing 😊

His explanation as to what happened to his hiking partner seemed very fishy to me.

She was clearly hallucinating from lack of sleep. That explains seeing people.

🫶 Stoked for a new video! Thank you for all your hard work!

If children have been looked after by a bear, shouldn't they have bear hair on their clothing? Even if they weren't in direct contact some hair should have been transferred.

Great just whats needed Adam Time 👋👍

The first story. For whatever reason,Linda and Eddie have mental cognitive deficiencies. A recording of Eddie will explain what I'm talking about. He speaks almost childlike. This could explain why Linda could only describe the "People" she saw as "Weird". They clearly were not mentally sound.

these stories were really good

I think Donald might have been sleep deprived or having a mental break. I've seen people have mental breaks before but from what ive seen they usually start with small unrecognized episodes before a trigger sets off a major one. One no one sees coming because they didnt realize what was happening in the beginning. And like Ive said many times before, if we cant get bizzare I dont even want to be involved! 😊

On first story….This is what happens when you take acid in a unfamiliar outdoor environment then have a bad trip.

I love your intro soundtrack!

A momma bear looking after a small child is actually very believable

Hot Tip don't take crack while in a forest

Hey, you are very handsome and I love your accent and the way you deliver your vids. Thank you!

This channel should be named “Let’s Get Bizarre” 😎

Damn that last one is weird isn't it!

Terrifying encounters for sure. There was *something/some0ne* near by. 🙄 Tfsharing~

Who does the paintings in the Gorilla Bear segment? They're very cool.

Eddie saw the people who wouldn't respond too. At one point they were standing on a bluff over a river and could see a pickup truck on the other side with people swimming in the river. The next day they discovered the river was dry. I listened to the police interrogation of Eddie and he seemed to be mentally challenged. The first person to alert the police that there was a situation referred to Eddie and his sisters as crazy people.

If anyone is interested, @MissingEnigma did an in-depth on the Orteaga case.

That's some beautiful scenery you use. It just reinforces the point to me that there's a lot of places that has no human presence.

Mr. Ballen covered this. Loved his take on it.

&Top Mysteries I have heard of reports of strange things happening to ppl within the forest where they crossed some unseen barrier where suddenly it went from daytime to dusk as well as others where ppl were found by search & rescue on places that had already been searched before with the hikers saying that they could see the S&R's, call out to them but they were ignored as if they couldn't be heard or seen. Other hikers watching S&R's walk right by them without noticing. This might explain why some S&R dogs will hunt only to stop & sit down as if they had lost the scent but perhaps the reason these dogs were sitting down was because they found the hiker that was invisible to everyone else. Just imagine it you are the hiker & you tell everyone that you walked right past me, I screamed at you but you ignored me & because the S&R's know that they didn't see or hear you then they would think you've lost it because you're delirious from being lost for several days.

Thanks 👍🇸🇪😘

Eddie interview was uploaded by the missing enigma...he was also hallucinating...strange case altogether

I know that first case pretty well, and I'm glad I've seen this video on it, because I thought it was fairly odd too. There was talk of them being on a meth bender, but that's just a rumour. I think you give it the right amount of the creepy factor 😂 it was very understated in the other videos on it 🤔 seriously though, these videos are excellent, the tempo, the very detailed information and the excellent art etc 👌 Thanks for your efforts! 👍

Can everyone understand that channels like The Missing Enigma, etc...don't even know about most of these cases until they are shown on CanAmMissingProject by David Paulides, Missing 411. So many channels get most of their missing people cases from his research. If it wasn't for David Paulides most of these channels would not even exist. Just saying give credit when it's due. Top Mysteries has mentioned and given credit to Mr. Paulides and this is a good channel.

Im going to spend ten days solo wild camping in the wilds of the Outer Hebrides next week... im worried.

The Missing Enigma did a couple of great videos on the first story. Popular opinion from most viewers including myself is that they were both strung out on meth,both had learning disabilities and that together leads to disaster. You can listen to Eddie's entire interview. It's really weird.

You should google the 3 year old boy in Montana's before and after pictures. He was lost too.

Okay here's my question. This is deep in the wilderness in the Ozarks. At night time it's pitch fucking black, like so black you can't see your hand in front of your face so how could she have been able to see the ppl and the other way around? I am not seeing she's lying not by any means I'm just wondering how she was able to determine these things we're looking at her.? He would have had to have been really close to her fuck the idea of that completely freaks me out. Thank Christ I don't live in the Ozarks!!! Greg in Vancouver Canada

Leaving your back back behind, with all the trappings needed for your survival, just to gain a step or two on perceived pursuers, doesn't seem to me behavior exhibited by a rationally thinking person. But Ms.Lindsay's story about finding stale donuts hidden in a tree in the middle of the woods seems like a temporary break from reality to me...

I can report that a starvation induced psychosis may bring on hallucinations, auditory or visual. It happened to me. I was eventually rescued by helicoptor by the Park Service. When I got back home and in my appartment I was still hearing things. A psychiatrist said she believed my hallucianations were because I ran out of food, thus a starvation induced psychosis.

The FBI will get involved in missing children’s cases for kids under 12 even if a crime isn’t suspected. The local agency will call for help because the FBI has better resources. Also, as the agent said, if a disappearance happens on federal land. A crime isn’t always required.

With the first story. What happened is he seemed to fall asleep and she could not wake him. And so she went off to “find help” but he woke up and she was gone and he did not fully remember falling asleep hence his confusion of that circumstance. And no I think they saw the spirits. And the spirits mostly ignored them. And so they didn’t know what to make of it. The spirits of the earth are absolutely real. Visible does not always necessarily mean physical or material. And if you peer into the darkness of our forests you will certainly not find yourself entirely alone. And I am not referring to the inevitable animals one finds generally outdoors almost anywhere on earth. I’m referring to something just as ancient nevertheless. Only a fool would say that they do not exist. Even while simultaneously being surrounded by them every day of their physical lives. Who here is negligent. I would say the one that denies the truth. I have seen and so I know for certain. Although many have not. Does not change the facts. With the bear story I am with the sheriff and the family. I would say that it was an angel in the form of a bear so that the child might understand without fully understanding. Makes excellent and perfect sense to me. An angel is just a super powered spirit. That is all. And will harm no one. But the forest spirits? Do not trust them. For what it’s worth these people told the truth. They saw exactly what they said they saw. I think that we should believe them. These events were entirely isolated one from another. Yet they all say the exact same things in various ways. P.S. There are also other things in our woods beside the spirits. But of those I am not certain. They are wary. And intelligent. And can cover vast distances in short time. Therefore be wary when entering any wood. Especially now. I am sure our friendly federal agents would in fact agree.

When my friends and I used to play games in the local forest at night I once saw figures in the shadows near the bush and call out to them though they didn't move or react. They looked like people but I couldn't be sure. I got disturbed by this and ran along and told my friends when I'd actually found them.

Listening various missing stories. - one story (KZfaq: the leaf) about park ranger. He mentioned, number of higher rank rangers entered to search a hiker. He noticed one man with a clipboard stayed away from other searchers. He tried to talk to clipboard man. At one point he heard clipboard man standing behind him, and said - cougar. To the ranger. Ranger turned around wondering where did the clipboard man go. But few yards away ranger saw a large cougar…. As ranger was staying fire lookout tower, unusual and weird things happened. Makes me wonder when FBI appears to missing searches. Are they acting like normal people or avoiding contact, questions and staying away from others?

well that was extra creepy

I disappeared once while someone was following me. He was baffled.

For the second story with Casey I think it's impossible to claim a be wouldn't do that (it's not like we test these things and just abandon kids in the woods to check how bears react to them and get enough data to say what their norm is). It also may have been a younger bear, maybe an orphan, but still would be large compared to Casey. Or even a man who chose to live off the grid and just took care of him as best he could until he found an area to drop him off where he'd be likely to be found by the rescue workers, but still wants to stay alone in the woods. The reason I lean more towards an actual bear is the fact he did have minor injuries, like the frostbite on the tips of his fingers, and it took so long to find him. I think even a hermit would know the area well enough to plop the kid down on an access trail and wait until people were about to come rather than just wandering around aimlessly. And no, I don't entertain supernatural ideas, I do not believe in aliens (as conspiracy people think of them) or bigfoot or those kinds of things.

You left out a crucial piece of evidence in Story 1 - the brother and sister were fairly heavy meth-users.

I've heard different versions of the first story. They suspected the brother because he didn't report her missing until three days later. I'm pretty sure it's the same case.

The woman in the radio men story is just crazy.