He called his parents on his cellular phone at 12:30 a.m. and asked for help. Just before the Oh Shit, Brandon said Not another fence, his Dad heard him climb a fence then seconds Oh Shit the sound of him slipping on rocks was at the same time. Could it be he was lost somewhere else and someone moved the car? Around 91% of all cases are closed within 48 hours, and 99% of cases are solved . They possibly killed 40 young college students. Or for that matter his parents couldve taken upon themselves to contact his carrier and start a trace/ping on his phone. Or did they? The last official search was conducted in October 2011, and age-progressed photos have also been distributed in the hope that somebody may recognise him. Sadly, they may have pulled off the perfect crime. Among the many mysterious vanishings out there, a few of them have left behind very chilling clues that only serve to make them even more ominous and frightening. . During the early morning hours of May 14, 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson disappeared under mysterious circumstances from a rural area northeast of Marshall in southwestern Minnesota. Brandon Victor Swanson was last seen on May 15th 2008 in Canby Minnesota. Brandon told them he couldnt see the lights at all, so he got back into his car and started flashing his own headlights in the hope that maybe they would see him. No one had any idea of where he had gone off to, until at 2 AM Michaels boss got a rather disturbing call from the missing man, in which he says, They are following me. I therefore do not rule out other motives which might be at play here. Wikimedia Commons Brandon Swanson disappeared in the wee hours of May 14, 2008, and his final words to his parents on the phone were a chilling, "Oh s-t!" Facebook gives people the power. Also, how about an abandon well? In the call he tells the operator that he has run out of gas and is in a field. Referenceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brandon_Swansonhttps://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/sessionweekly/art.asp?ls_year=86&storyid=1297https://thetruecrimefiles.com/brandon-swanson-disappearance/https://www.marshallindependent.com/news/local-news/2018/05/swanson-case-still-unsolved/https://charleyproject.org/case/brandon-victor-swansonhttps://medium.com/crimebeat/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-brandon-swanson-49bcb6e9d134https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/missing-persons/brandon-victor-swanson, Your email address will not be published. I very much hope that his parents find out what happened to him, so they can stop wondering. He wasn't injured in the accident. People can easily drown in fast-moving rivers even if they arent very deep, and bodies get stuck, or wash up somewhere & get eaten by animals. Did they locate his car? Brandon Swanson The Disappearance Nineteen year old Brandon Swanson lived in Marshall, Minnesota with his parents. Search teams have worked diligently to cover the 140-square mile area of interest, but some landowners have refused to allow access to search parties working to find Swanson, missing since 2008 . Where did he go and what were the meanings of those last calls? Even a stranger couldnt mix up with those directions, let alone a local who knows the area. If he really dropped it, I feel like it would have been found, especially with how crazy the search was. The series of events leading to his disappearance near Bronte, Texas, appeared wholly contradictory. Its just interesting how no one, at least online, will address ALL the discrepancies because theres a ton. Wouldnt his body have washed up on shore by now if he had fallen into the water? He attended a small gathering at a house, where it is said that there was alcohol, however, Brandon did not appear to be drunk. Brandon Swanson was 19 years old when he went missing from rural roads near Marshall . Yet again, the main problem with these theories is that of evidence or, more specifically, the big fat lack of it. Also, is there access to the SARS report? Theories Some have theorized that Brandon may have gotten horribly lost walking through the wilderness near Porter, and could have fallen into a nearby river, where he would have almost certainly drowned. My dad had said some mean things to me, and I left four 5 years before speaking to them. There are certainly more questions than answers in this case unfortunately. He planned to eventually enroll in a four-year university and have a career in the sciences. The idea that the lights he saw were a drug deal isnt likely. It's believed he died of exposure. Thanks for commenting, and Im glad you found it interesting. Although I suppose there would still be a lot of unanswered questions surrounding the phone call and Brandons exclamation before the line cuts out. As has been asked so many times in this case- why? I wouldnt rule anything out to be honest, as we don;t actually know very much at all at this point. Alternatively, maybe something surprising did happen which explains the oh shit, but which was unrelated to the disappearance, but has now drawn more attention to it? Required fields are marked *. I think there has been discussion about how those last words were actually said, but nothing conclusive has ever been decided unfortunately. That is near freezing, and indeed, anyone soaked through the bone by having fallen into the river would have suffered from . He called his Dad at 1230 and said he was walking towards a lit town (Which he thought was lynd). Given his location, it could have been slightly more likely than my other explanations. Impossible as it may seem, a nineteen year old manseems to have literally disappeared without a trace. Its interesting what you say about the beep that would be emitted by the phone too. The following day, authorities using cellular phone records located Swanson's car one and a half miles north of the Lyon/Lincoln County line, off Highway 68 west of Taunton, Minnesota. 60 minutes/5km is 12. The Oh shit could have been for a number of reasons, being attacked, fallingmaybe the location they thought he was at, wasnt where he really was? GPS/Location trackers on cellphones at the time also could have been used, a simple google search would have gave him an option to locate his location. Till this day: Are there any farmers ore civillians who has been interrogated by the FBI or local police?? Im pretty sure his Oh sh comment was made when he came to the realization that he was not where he thought he was, he probably didnt pick up the phone when his father called for the very same reason, justifying that his father would be mad if he found out hed been driving for almost three hours now looking for him in a spot where he wasnt, he tried to make his way home on his own, but being intoxicated with impaired judgement one of two things could have happened: A.) Join MU Plus+ and get exclusive shows and extensions & much more! All of these theories are good, however, but this one makes the most sense to me personally. The Beatles. We know that the phone call kept going until eventually Annette and Brian hung up to try to call Brandon back, would the sound of running water not have been picked up on the call, or the sound of something falling into the water? Just to give the super abridged version, Brandon Swanson went missing after a phone call to his parents cut out. Maybe Brandon is in an entirely different location than we know. The man she had been with, whose identity has been withheld, was questioned and he told authorities that he had stepped out, leaving Brookelyn alone on the proch smoking a cigarette, and that when he had come home at 7AM the living room was on fire. Book Author Jenn is a lawyer-turned-author and true crime writer. Let's take the case of Brandon Swanson. 1.The disappearance of Brandon Swanson. He has never been seen or heard from again, and the lack of evidence in his mysterious vanishing has puzzled family, friends, authorities, and websleuths alike. Mine tends to do that, randomly at times. When authorities arrived they found Matthews abandoned vehicle on the Topanga Tower Motorway right near Rosas Overlook, but there was no sign of the missing man or the woman who had been heard by the hikers. Road signs? Brandon Lawson has not been seen since, and there have been no suspects, no clues, no activity on his bank account or further activity on his cell phone, nothing. Could the dad call Brandons phone and then answer it himself to make it appear as if Brandon answered the call? Hes in the middle of nowhere, sees some lights, which he thought was the town, walks toward it and then realizes its not what he thought it was. you have NO IDEA whos watching you. Read Content. Brandon Swanson is still missing. Brandon left the party around . A little later he got another text message that was alarming in that it said, Please hurry. Whatever the reason for his disappearance, Im very curious to know as of what happened to him from that fateful night he went missing. Maybe his Phone, or Someone else called the parents saying Something worrying. Even if the car would had been moved afterwards, why Brandon would say he is near Lynd?! I had several thoughts. The phone call would sometimes cut off or dip out for a while but they would call again and the conversation would continue.Brandon eventually gave up with this tactic and told his parents he was going to walk towards the lights he could see in the distance, assuming them to be from the small town of Lynd. The oh sh*t is also a bit suspicious. Did someone else move the car to the area it was found at? Police came to break up the fracas, but according to his friends Michael was nowhere to be seen, and at the end of the evening he was still missing. That makes no sense, even if he was lost. He was the one who took his wife home, while he dealt with Brandon. This to me sounds like a fatal accident. Words can cut u too the bone, and are hard to forgive. It can happen. As stated above, Swansons phone records showed he was 25 miles away from where hed told his parents he thought he was. Anything that seemed off? The map below shows the main geographical locations in the timeline outlined. According to witness reports, there was alcohol at the party, and . After parting ways with Melissa, he then apparently drove up to a rural, remote area in the Santa Monica Mountains, called the Malibu Canyons, near Rosas Overlook. As a crime writer, I do a lot of research into real life crimes and unsolved cases. One fairly well-known case that I have covered before but seems worth mentioning here is a case covered by David Paulides in his Missing 411 series of books and revolves around the strange call made by a 19-year-old college student named Brandon Swanson. 14th May 2008Midnight (approx) Swanson left the get-together in Canby shortly after midnight. Whoever Brandon saw with their car lights, they may have been the ones to help him and took him back to wherever they planned to take him as a motive to either harm or rob him. Swanson the Disappearance Nineteen year old Brandon Swanson the Disappearance Nineteen year old to. 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