Adeptus Ridiculous - Lars Mittank Disappearance | Detective Ridiculous

Episode Date: October 31, 2022

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Welcome everybody to another episode of Detective Ridiculous. I am a host, Bricky. There is also a host. His name is D.K., and he is going to tell you all about how real life is just not great. Not always great. Before we get into why real life is just not that great, make sure check us out on Patreon.com slash Dennis Ridiculous, where you can get excellent, excellent options, including joining the Discord. as well as things like posters, bloopers, and many other things,

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I don't think this one really needs any disclaimers. There's some distress and mystery, but there's nothing like super grisly. There's not going to be any, you know, like the last couple episodes. So I think we're going on that front. But we're going to be talking

about the disappearance of Lars Matank, commonly known as the most famous missing person on YouTube. I'm sorry. I want to make this clear. Matank Like Matank M-I-T-A-N-K

Oh, that's not as fun I thought it was M-U-H Dash T-N-A-N-K Matank He's driving Matank Now Kear- That's not here for this episode

Sorry Hey that guy's got a wicked jawline Yeah, he does He does B-J Blascovitz fucking Diamond-Cutting Oh he's German

Shai says he's German. This makes more sense now. Okay. All right. So let's learn a little bit about Lars Matank. Batank. Lars was born on February 9, 1986, in Berlin, Germany. And he spent a lot of his life living in a quiet little town called It's a Ho.

I'm sure you're going to get a little bit like that. Sorry. It's a ho. The Germans are hard to understand. Yeah. When growing up, Lars loved his outdoor activities like fishing, hiking, athletic sports, you know, normal stuff like that. He also had an enormous passion for his favorite football club or soccer club. S. V. Werdruder Bremen or Wurter Bremen. And from everything I've heard about this soccer team, they weren't exactly amazing. They were kind of mid. but Lars was a diehard fan of the green and white of Wurter Bremen.

Lars would also devote himself to his studies, and he would become an engineer that would find work at the Wilhelm-shaven power plant. But that would make him move almost a hundred miles away from his family, who he was very close with, his mother, his father, and I believe he was an only child. But he would keep in close contact with them, and he would still visit them, despite how far away they now were. So early life for Lars is pretty ideal. He's got a great job that he worked really hard to get.

He's got a loving family that, again, he still visits regularly. He's also got a girlfriend, then he loves very much, and, of course, still just absolutely devoted to Werder Bremen. It just loves that white and green. That is until around 2012 when his father suffers a stroke and would need home care in order to recover. And Lars, being the family-oriented, family-loving man that he was, he would actually sacrifice his weekends from work

and drive all the way back home to help his mother, Sandra, take care of their father. Which kind of goes to show sort of the character of Lars, because not everybody is willing to every weekend make a near 100-mile drive back home just so you can care give for your ailing father. So, Laura's a pretty upstanding guy. And this sort of work-life scenario would continue for another two years, and everything was fine, regular, normal. Nothing super interesting or out of the ordinary happened.

But I'm sure all of this was sort of like emotionally and physically piling up on Lars and, you know, it's an exhausting thing. Having to do work, having to drive home, not really having any free time to yourself. So he and some of his school friends decided that they would all vacation out to Varna, Bulgaria. Specifically, they would go to this seaside resort called the Golden Sands. And if you look this place up, it is a real nice resort. Where did you say this was that again? This is Varna Bulgaria.

In Bulgaria? In Bulgaria. That is immense. Holy shit. Stunning, gorgeous, gorgeous waterfront resort. You can't have a bad time there. I don't know how anybody could stay at the gold in the same. and not just be in just like paradise.

That's pretty great. It looks like the good part of like, of some kind of Miami. Well, not Miami. It looks pretty. Just like just really nice coastal resort. Yeah. Yeah.

And not that it really matters, but I've heard and read some conflicting reports about why he took the vacation. Some sources said that Lars felt like he needed the brink. that, you know, he specifically asked his friends and was like, hey, guys, this is just too much, I need a break. And then other sources were like, no, it was his mother that forced him to take this vacation. Like, she saw how much of a toll it took on him.

She saw how stressed he was. And she was like, no, no, you get out of here. I'll handle your dad. You just go and have this wonderful vacation in Varna Bulgaria with your friends. So regardless, he's taken this trip to Varna, Bulgaria. And the trip goes well. They play soccer on the beach. They relax at one of the numerous pools that this resort has.

They do a little drink in. They do a little sightseeing. And overall, they have a pretty great time in Bulgaria. Though some of Lars' friends notice that he's not eating a lot. He's just having like soups and salads and stuff like that. But Lars is into like a really healthy lifestyle. He's got like this athletic diet going. and he doesn't really eat terrible foods to you begin with,

so nobody really thinks too much about that. That doesn't seem too out of character for Lars. But the night before they were scheduled to leave, Lars's group decided that they would hang out at the hotel's bar and watch a soccer match, because Lars just loves his soccer. I think it was a World Cup match between Costa Rica and the Netherlands. And of course, Lars shows up because it's all about the soccer,

he shows up wearing his green and white Werder Bremen jersey, even though Werder Bremen was not playing that night. Yeah, yeah, but he's representing. He's repping the white and green of his favorite, his diehard team. He's got to show what's up. And then presumably, after a lot of drinking,

Lars got into a pretty heated disagreement with some other German tourists over who the better soccer team was. No. No fucking way. Are you trying to tell me that Europeans got in an argument over soccer? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Can you believe it? I can't. It's true. It's true. I am shocked. Wow. So Lars obviously sporting his white and green is like, oh, word of Bremen, you know, they're the best. and he got into it with some fans of another German club called Bayern Munich.

And things were getting a little testy and a little out of hand, but cooler heads prevailed, and the night ended on as peaceful a note as it possibly could. There wasn't a huge fight. There was some rabble-rousing, but, you know, it's okay. We're all a little drunk. We're all little tipsy. It's fine.

and when they finally left, Lars's friends decided that they wanted to get some late-night junk food. They want to go get some McDonald's. But like I said before, Lars was big into health and athletics and his diet, and he didn't want anything to do with junk food. So the group splits up. His friends go to get a quick bite at McDonald's, and Lars starts walking back to the hotel. And what happens next is a little up for debate Because apparently on his way home, Lars would be attacked

Most sources believe that the attackers were either Russian or Bulgarian I read a source that said Lars specifically said That it was the upset Bayern Munich fans from the bar That hired some thugs to beat him up Which apparently in Varna is not a difficult thing to do? Wait. Or at least that's what the German fan says.

It's not a difficult thing to do. We can hire some people to beat you up. Did you say that this resort was in Bulgaria or Belgium? Bulgaria. So these would be Bulgarians or Russians. Yes, Bulgarians or Russians. Okay. But regardless of how or why it happened,

Lars was attacked that night on the way home from the bar. Somehow, because I think, there were at least four guys that jumped him. Somehow, Lars manages to get out of this altercation without any really big, super serious injuries. He does have a ruptured eardrum and an injured jaw, but aside from that, he comes out pretty unscathed. But we will kind of circle back to the fight a little bit later on. So the next day, Lars is kind of complaining about his ear being sore, having a hard time hearing after he regroups with his friends, and they finally convinced him to go visit a doctor and get his injuries checked out. As we already said, he was indeed suffering from a ruptured eardrum and a sore jaw.

So he was prescribed 500 milligrams of sephprozil, which is again, something that we will absolutely circle back to later in the episode. He was also told that because of his eardrum injury, he really shouldn't fly back home that day, as he was scheduled to do, because the change in air pressure while flying could really mess up his already injured ear. So, Lars was going to have to stay at least another day in Varna, which, by the way, if you're looking for a little bit of a timeline on when this was this is July 7th, 2014.

So it is fairly recently as far as, you know, that this ridiculous is concerned. Yeah, wow, okay, so only eight years ago, wow. Yep. 2014 was eight years ago. Oh, man, do I? Oh, my, wow, my God. All right, continue.

Anyway, so at this point, Lars's friend group offered to stay the extra day with Lars. But he was insistent that they should return home is scheduled. And they did. They got on the plane and went home without Lars. And maybe this is just because, you know, Heinz... No one stayed with them. No one, they just left him there? Yeah, they just left him there. None of his buddies are going to hang out with your friend and not leave him in a foreign country and... Yeah, none of them stayed. He insisted he was good. He insisted that they go home. They offered to stay, but I was like, no, no, no, no, don't worry. You guys just go home. I'll

catch a plane the next day. But like you, I'm, I'm, I'm shocked that they didn't listen to him. I mean, like, but leaving your friend kind of injured and alone in a foreign country, like, is there no, like, leave no man behind mentality here? Like, if he, if he wasn't injured and taking medication stuff, I probably would not have left him behind. If it was just like a problem with like scheduling. It's different, I guess, but I don't like it. Yeah, I was a little shocked about that too. I feel like if it were me and it's like my friend is,

he's got Sef Prozil, he's got this ear thing, it's country, I feel like I would have stayed with him. You know, anyway. So the doctor that he visited before also recommended that he go to a hospital in Varna just for further examination to better check things. out and just make sure everything is hunky dory. But I've seen some conflicting reports on this too, and I imagine the reason there's so

many conflicting, criss-crossing sources is because this was so widely popular, and this was such a popular case that I feel like there are a lot of sources that are just kind of criss-crossing a lot. But anyway, some sources say that he simply refused to go to the hospital because he either like didn't think it was that serious or he didn't know how to get there. And some sources say that he went, but he felt like the E&T, the ear, nose and throat doctor, was just mocking him by refusing to speak to him in English,

and he just left anyway. So there was a little conflict on if he actually went or not, but it seems like, you know, nothing would have happened even if he went. So regardless, at this point, Lars is alone in Varna with 500 milligrams of Sef Prozil and a ruptured ear drum. On such short notice, Lars would book a room at a cheap hotel called the Hotel Color. And apparently, while the Hotel Color was close to the airport, it was also in maybe not the best part of town.

So once Lars checks into the hotel car, color. He starts acting really, really weird. Like the CCTV footage shows him acting really frantic and paranoid, like he's peeking out the windows, he's pacing up and down the hallways, and even hiding

frightened in elevators. Lars would call his mother and ask her to freeze all of his credit cards because he was worried that the hotel color was doing something shady because they had to make a copy of his credit card. know, like when they do the chchonchong thing and they make like that copy of your credit card.

The little thing that, yeah, like presses over it and makes like an imprint. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he was worried that they were going to do something with that. And he assured his mother that he had enough cash on hand to get back home. And once he was back home, he'd reopen the credit cards and, you know, get new numbers on them and all that stuff. But he was just very worried about that. It should also be noted that Lars was traveling with kind of a chance. cheap travel phone that you had to charge with minutes, so he couldn't really keep in constant

contact with his mother or his girlfriend back home. Lars would go on to make several more really strange and paranoid calls that night. On one call, he would whisper to his mother that there was something very wrong with the hotel, like he could hear voices, which a lot of people a tribute to it being a cheap hotel, so paper-thin wall, so he could kind of hear people in the next room talking, and it just kind of freaked him out. On another call, he would mention that he was being followed and that some people were following him and wanted to kill him. He also mentioned in one of these calls that he couldn't move. Oh, go ahead.

Yeah. No, I was saying, like, wait, wait, in one of the calls, he straight up said people are coming to kill me. Yes, he was worried that people were following him and were going to. going to try to kill him. Okay. That, I mean, the freezing the credit card part is like, I don't really trust this hotel. They're being weird. You know, this is kind of weird.

Like, you can just do that just in case. Like, that's one thing. But like, yeah, yeah, that's not too weird. But, like, I'm going to die is a whole other. He has taken a big dip in his mental health state. Like, he is taking a big, big dip here. He also mentioned that he couldn't move or he might fall from a hill or some high place where he was hiding from his pursuers. And he would also text his mother asking her about what his medication was.

There's some debate on how he spelled his medication, but it was very clear that he misspelled it. It's Sef Prozil, and he asked what Sefzil 500 was, and some sources say he asked what Sefrozoxim 500 was. And his mother, Sandra, recalls that in hindsight, given how he was, she should have been asking way more questions. But since his phone was running out of batteries and minutes, it wasn't really a chance to. So, Lars does manage to survive the night. And he hails a cab the next morning to the airport.

Upon arrival, he text his mother that he made it to the airport, and he's just fine. It should also be noted that Lars is way ahead of schedule. His flight isn't until like 4 p.m. And he's there pretty early in the morning at like 8 or 9 a.m. But Lars would call his mother again and ask her to wire him 500 euros, which was very odd to his mother for two reasons. Because, one, the two of them have never wired money to each other before. Like, legit, Lars had to explain to her how to do it.

And two, Lars had told her before that he had enough money on hand to get home when he had to cancel his credit cards. So it's a little weird, but with Lars' instruction, she does manage to wire 500 euros to his account. Lars also needs to pay a visit to the airport doctor to make sure that everything with his ear injury had cleared up enough for him to fly. So he pays a visit to the airport doctor, a doctor Costa Kostov, Kosta, to get checked out. And after getting checked out, Lars is cleared to fly. Everything looks good, you know.

You can go take your flight and it won't too terribly. it won't negatively affect you. Now, what happens next is, again, I feel like I've said this so many times, is a little up for debate, because Dr. Kostov changed his report like three times about what happened next. At first, he said that Lars asked to go to the bathroom, and that's why he had to leave.

Then he said it was an airport attendant that came looking for him and freaked him out. And then Dr. Costa Kostov said that it was actually a construction worker that came in and freaked him out. Regardless, whatever the reason was, Lars bolts out of that room at a full sprint leaving his bags, his phone, his wallet, his passport, all of his stuff. All of it. Oh, there's a video of it? Yes, the CCTV footage catches Lars sprinting out of the airport, making his way over a nearby fence into a meadow

and disappearing into the direction of a nearby forest. And yeah, you can literally watch the footage of him just bolting out of there like a bad out of hell. Wow, he fucking hauled. He hauls out of there. He was a full sprint, yeah. Mm-hmm. There were, I don't remember if this was, in one of Dr. Costa's reports, but I know I saw online that people were reporting that as he was

sprinting out, he was like, I don't want to die here, I don't want to die here, I got to get out of here. Anyway, so that's literally the last time anybody saw Lars, just running off camera in the direction of the A2 National Highway in his bright yellow shirt and his jean shorts. So that's the final, that is the literal last footage of him ever. He has never been seen again. Never been seen again. That is the last bit of footage. Apparently, Sandra was shown a little more footage, like not all of the footage was released.

And I think she said he was acting very paranoid, like he was trying to elude people. Like he was ducking and weaving between buses, and he was trying to, like, avoid where police were stationed. And he was just very paranoid and really trying to just, like, he was avoiding someone or something. Yeah, he ran past some police officers in a parking lot, just the whole nine. He was just, yeah. That was last he was seen. Last he was seen. Now, like we said earlier, Lars was a bit of an outdoorsy person that enjoyed a lot of physical activities, you know,

fishing, hunting, hiking, soccer, that sort of thing. So people would argue that it is within the realm of possibility that he could fend for himself in the wilds, in the wilds of that forest. Problem is, when Lars went missing, it was in the summer. So the temperatures in the area he fled to would have been in the 90s and up. And even though there was a river near the airport that he could have used for a water source, It's doubtful that he could come buy any food, that he could actually hunt. There wasn't a lot of, like, it's not like there are a bunch of deer's roaming in there. It's not like there's a bunch of fish roaming around in that river.

According to several sources, if he tried to survive just in the woods, then he probably died there. But when authorities come in the forest with, like, drones and all that sort of stuff, no trace of Lars. No trace of a body, just nothing. And there are some kind of outlandish theories out there. There's some theories that Lars was actually a drug pack mule and was getting into some serious trouble

or that he was caught in a human trafficking ring or something like that. And he was just taken away for like forced labor or something. The drug one was put to bed pretty quickly because there were literally no drugs, no traces of illegal substances that were found in his luggage. And the human trafficking one was put to bed because everyone was like, yeah, people aren't really looking to traffic in tourists. You know, German tourists weren't really a thing that human traffickers were necessarily looking for. Also, and it sucks to say, but he's like a dude, which lowers the chance even more. True, true. The chance, that is.

I mean, there's always some, but like, he obviously fucking ran out anyway. Yeah, but people have proposed those theories, and it's like, no, those are just a little out there, and there's very little chance that that's what actually happened to him. Also, he's in, like, a fully packed airport, too. you know like it's I don't know how they're going to haul the way yeah exactly and he's

he's not like a super skinny guy or anything like you know he's he's a pretty in shape guy yeah yeah he also had no history of mental health issues so it probably wasn't something like he just kind of had an episode and just you know

although we will talk a little bit about mental strain um Because, like, again, the question of his mental health state has been brought up because of how erratic and paranoid he'd been acting when calling his mother and obviously his behavior on the CCTV cameras in the hotel and when he just hauled ass out of the airport. Lars's mother, Sandra, believes that it was one of the rare side effects that Seth Prozil can have, where it makes you suddenly. hallucinate and kind of panic and just kind of get into that mood, which would explain why he was acting so strangely and why he believed that he was being chased, and why he thought something was happening to his credit cards, and why he thought someone was out to kill him, and so

the side effects would sort of match up with, like, you know, why he was suddenly, just very suddenly out of nowhere acting so bizarre. though we've got more conflicting sources coming into play unfortunately because as I was looking up stuff for this episode there were sources that said that Lars had taken his medication there were sources that said Lars when he got to the hotel color he got some water and he took his medication but there are other sources that said that according to Dr. cost of not only did he not take the medication he hadn't even filled out the prescription for it yet so i'm not entirely sure which side of this to believe because some people are saying he took it others are saying he didn't even fill out the prescription for it so it's kind of it's kind of hard to figure this out

and this is where like because it's such a high profile popular case there's so many conflicting things it's like this is one of those ones where it's like, did he take it or didn't he? Because that could play a role in it. That would play a massive role, but like, that's the thing though. Even if he did take it,

it's not even the chance that's exactly what happened is he had a mental break because of the medication. He still could not have, it still could have not been a medication thing. If he didn't take it, then it's even more so bizarre.

Yeah. So that's one of those things where I would, I would love it if I get like a definite on it. There was also some speculation that during the fight that he had, the one where he got the ruptured eardrum and the sore jaw, that he actually suffered a concussion. And it took the symptoms maybe like a day or so

to kind of rear their ugly head and cause him all of this, it caused him to have all this erratic and strange behavior the next day. So if you couple like a concussion in with the fact that he's, alone in a foreign country, he's in a shady hotel that he's not comfortable in, and he's already stressed out about the fight he had, maybe it all just compounded into this one catastrophic episode that just sent him running for the hills. However, it should be noted that that concussion theory kind of debunked. Um, because like, okay, sure, his situation is ridiculous. ridiculously stressful for all of the reasons that we've mentioned.

But most concussion specialists would agree that these types of symptoms, like the paranoia, the hallucination, the erratic behavior, they don't usually manifest after a day or two, but instead could take weeks, months, or even years to show up. Lars's mother even hired a private investigator. His name was Andrea's Gute. to try and find any information or any kind of lead on her lost son. And despite handing out flyers, checking medical records for, like, you know, incidents of John Does or unidentified patients and scouring over that CCTV footage for anything, anything.

Even the private investigator couldn't find so much as a hint of what happened on. Lars or where he might be. There is an interesting idea that I saw posed by Dr. Todd Grand that this could have been in part due to something called a first break psychosis episode. And it's sort of the first episode of an undiagnosed problem like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or something like that. And this is just the first time that it is manifesting. It's been undiagnosed.

It hadn't flared up yet, and this is the first time it's sort of breaking. And, I mean, considering all the mental stress that Lars has been under, I mean, it would make sense that this would be the thing that would trigger the first break and just kind of make him act out of sorts when he hadn't been diagnosed with anything in the past. There's a possibility. There's possibilities. You know what I was thinking of in a moment? What's that?

When he ran out of the airport, just fucking, just flying out there. Yeah. He didn't look behind him once. If you're running from pursuers, I would imagine you'd look behind you. If you're running from pursuers and like he runs out of the door and not only does he run out of the door, but like he doesn't really run that fast once he leaves the airport itself, he just kind of gets like a brisk jog. that is true he never does look behind him i believe uh in the footage that sandra saw that wasn't released to anyone he was looking around a little bit more and he was trying to like hide himself but uh yeah so you know he's he's not he's not acting normal right so even though larz has

remain missing to this day. All hope of finding him has not yet been lost. Of course, there have been a few unconfirmed reports of people claiming they've seen Lars Matank. A couple years after a disappearance, there was a truck driver who claimed to pick up a hitchhiker that matched Lars' description. But again, it was completely unconfirmed. In 2016, however, the police in Brazil would tweet out a picture of a man that looked an awful lot like Lars. Like if you had sort of, you know, given Lars sort of the scruffy beard and the scruffy hair from being alone for a long time, it looked a lot, a lot like him. And he was walking barefoot on the highway.

He was homeless and very confused. He didn't know who he was or how he got there. When his photograph started making the rounds, Internet Slus realized that he, who boy, that is a striking resemblance, and that maybe, maybe, Lars Matank had finally been found. When was this, again, these images and stuff?

2016 was when these images were. Okay, so two years, all right. Yeah, yeah, two years. And there you can see, Shai just posted the pictures of him. He looks awful like him. Yeah. An awful lot like him, yep.

His eyes may look a little bigger, maybe. I don't know. It's images. Unfortunately for his mother, Sandra, upon further investigation by authorities, this missing person was discovered to be a man named Anton Pilpa, who had gone missing in Toronto five years prior. Little side note about Anton, though. Apparently, he literally,

walked from Toronto to Brazil. He walked from Toronto, Chad. On foot over 10,000 kilometers to end up where he was when they finally found him. That's nuts. How do you get through fucking borders? I have no idea. I guess the U.S. doesn't much give a shit if anyone leaves the U.S. to Mexico, so. All right.

True. But even though it's a super bummer that it's like, oh, this isn't Lars, I didn't find my boy, it does at least give some small ray of hope that Lars Matank is out there somewhere, wandering around or backpacking, having lost his memory just waiting to be found. Sort of like, you know, she's hoping that one day what happened to Anton will happen to Lars, where it's like someone will find a homeless man or someone that's just confused. lost his memory, doesn't know how he got there, and she will finally be reunited with her son.

And I think I read that his mother has actually helped find a bunch of missing people because, like, reports, she'll see reports that get sent to her or a rumor about someone who looks maybe a little bit like her son, wandering around, homeless and confused, and she investigates it. And I think she's actually helped her. reunite a bunch of missing people with their families. I mean, that's a little ray of happiness, all things considered, I guess. So there's hope.

There's hope out there that Lars could still be found. And also, I think it should be obvious by this point that because of the CCT footage and how readily available it was, it got posted on YouTube, and the footage has been viewed over 16 million times, making Lars Matank the most famous missing person on YouTube. And that's about all I got for Lars. Unfortunately, he could still be out there.

Maybe he passed away in the forest and it was just in a really overgrown area and they just didn't find his body, or maybe he has been hitchhiking, you know? He could have very easily hitchhiked on that, two highway at some point. You know, and at the time he was hitchhiking, nobody's going to know they're looking for a missing person.

So who knows? Who knows where he could be? But hopefully, hopefully one day Lars is found. You know, I got to admit, I, uh, I got nothing. I got nothing. Yeah, you know, I was, no, no, no, no, no, nothing. My speculation is he had a fucking breakdown, breakdown. I'm going to have a breakdown breakdown.

He's gonna have, he's fucking breakdown. He broke down. That's fucking having a breakdown. That's, like, if he did take, okay, so he had a concussion, right? We don't know for sure if he had a concussion. Okay. We're assuming that maybe he did, because, you know, he got hit in the jaw pretty hard probably. Got hit in the ear probably pretty hard too.

So it is entirely possible that he had a concussion. Like, okay, so like, I don't believe anything to do with the fucking dudes who beat him up. Like, I don't believe anything like that. I don't believe in any of that crap. Because this isn't Brazil versus Germany, all right? It's like, it was random... Oh, that's true. There were some people that thought that maybe the thugs that were chasing him that night were just like, oh, we didn't finish the job.

But, oh, we're going to trail you and all that sort of stuff, too. Yeah, I don't believe that. That sounds silly to me. Especially, like, no, this isn't like the Brazil versus Germany soccer game where it was like, someone's going to die. Like, it's some random soccer game that I don't know about that one. Yeah. The head injury is one thought process. And like the meds to go along with it.

And he's, I mean, he did just get his ass kicked. So yeah, I guess it could be in a foreign country. Sure, be a little paranoid. Yeah. You don't really speak the language. Yeah. But like, he would not need, I don't know what he needs $500 for. I have no idea what he's $500 for.

Absolutely nothing. No fucking clue what he could be $500 for. Like. Maybe he just didn't have. enough money and that's how much he needed to get back home like with a for a ticket although he was already in the airport when he wanted that money so didn't he also say

that he had the money he needed to leave the head anyway oh that's true that's true he did he said that maybe maybe he didn't maybe just trying to I don't know there's the two two of the biggest confusing parts is like okay he could totally have had a mental

breakdown that's totally fine absolutely yeah it is is not unheard of despite having perfectly fine, they always say, oh yeah, perfectly fine mental health before. It's like,

yeah, they always say they seem so happy and then someone killed themselves. Like, I don't, I can't use that as a good basis. Sure. But my other,

like, okay, he gets paranoid in a foreign country, got his ass kicked. He may or may not be having a side effects from drugs. I'm not quite sure.

It all leads up, and he snaps. The problem is like, if he, if he fucking died, They would have found him. Like, bones. People smell.

Like, what did he do? Did he dig his own grave? Like, like, you, he just, just being gone is so weird. Yeah, you would think that by now he would have been found. But unless he passed away, someone did find the body. He had no identification on him. So they just unmarked grave, John Doe. Yeah, but someone would have said some kind of like,

human remains were found X period of time. after the missing, like, these bones are, might seem like they died X time ago, because they can do, like, it's like carbon dating or whatever. Fuck, what is it called? But, like, you know, time of death. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They could do forensics to figure out when it happened, sure. Yeah, like, there's a lot of options there.

And it's just, I don't know, man. It just seems very, like. Yeah. They would have found a fucking body. Yeah, the mental break seems like it's the most plausible. one where it's just like all this stuff happened and all this stuff compounded and maybe he did have a first break because of it and just he just lost it you know it seems like a lot of a lot of compounding factors just jumping on top of each other and making just a horrible perfect storm

honestly out of everything going on I could absolutely understand like the mental break People have mental breaks. Oh, absolutely. For far less. Yeah, yeah, over nothing. Have we seen retail work in America? Like, people have mental breaks over fucking chicken nuggets. Like, it's, but I'm more curious about where the goddamn hell he went.

Where the fuck did he go? Yeah, where did he go? Where does he go? Yeah, I don't understand. Shai says there's things with all these theories, uh, drug trafficking, paranoia, head-in, Med's side effects. All these explained why he left, but not what happened to him.

Did he just wander in the woods and die? Somehow never to be found. Killed by a serial killer hiding somewhere still. It's like we need a combination of two incredibly unlikely things to work out perfectly for him to vanish. Yeah, the planets kind of have to align for him to kind of vanish like this, right? Everything. I guess he could just be unknowingly backpacking somewhere.

He just kind of lost his mind after the break and just didn't know how to get back. and he has no ID, no passport, no nothing, so. Like, they're, on I, like, okay, everything leading up to his disappearance is, is just, or is just uninteresting to me. Like, it's just, this just sounds like a trip. He, like, he has a mental break. He loses his mind.

He runs out. It's, I don't think he's being chased by anyone. I think he's just super paranoid. Like, I don't, I don't, I don't think anybody is actually after him. I think as far as the, the, the, the. the thugs, it ended with that fight, and then it just, his mental just kind of blew up a little bit. Yeah, which, which like, okay, yeah, whatever, but I,

I don't, I have no idea or he could have gone. It's not like he drifted out into the ocean or some crap. Like, he, I mean, that would, I guess I'll explain it, but he, he could just be, I mean, okay, so the homelessness problem in America is, is a, it's a, there are four people whenever I think of like homeless I mean we fuck we live near San Diego and L.A.

Like you know there's a lot and it's getting much worse lately actually but whenever I think of people who are homeless there are four types of people right there are people who are homeless temporarily because they got kicked out or something they normally don't like to be in the public eye

they feel ashamed or embarrassed and they generally don't stay embarrassed they don't stay homeless for long they eventually find like a other member or like you know, service area. Oh, yeah. A friend's house to stay at something, yeah.

Yeah. The second one are people who just don't, they just don't give a shit. They just stay homeless for the sake of it. They just don't care to have a house. They just don't want to. They choose not to. They live on their own. They might be Christopher McAllist or something.

Or they just don't care. And then you've got drug and alcohol addiction and mental health people. Oh, yeah, definitely. And if he had this psych, like psychosis, psychotic break, and he just ended up being, or maybe something schizophrenic based, and he just ended up being mentally unstable for

ever after this, then I imagine he would just be walking around as a homeless man, not understanding anything. Yeah, that seems like the most plausible thing to me, is that it just, he just kind of mentally broke and either because

of, you know, one of these mental health disorders, he's just wandering around, not knowing, you know, who he is, where he's going, or anything like that. And I mean, if I'm being totally honest, I don't know anybody who specifically, like, would walk up to someone who's homeless and maybe talking themselves and doing things and trying to check their face to see if they're a missing person. Yeah. And it's not like there are, it's not like there are tons of flyers around. And maybe these flyers are only, you know, around Bulgaria and maybe there's some in Germany. But what if he's nowhere near those areas?

Like you're not going to know to look for him necessarily. Yeah, and like foreigner going missing in a country is not as big of a deal, I don't think. I don't know. Like if someone in my hometown went missing or close to me right here, I think there'd be a lot more buzz about it. But if someone who doesn't live here goes missing, it's like, I don't know. It doesn't seem like they would care as much. Yeah. So Lars Matank, unless Shai has.

any other little tidbits that she wants to point out, that's the thing. Oh, Shai said, and Bulgaria didn't seem very interested in looking for him or pushing the case. Oh, that's right, because it would look really bad for tourism. And I imagine the Golden Sands gets a lot, a lot of revenue from tourism.

So kind of fucked up, they weren't really pushing the case because it's like, you know what, let's just, yeah, yeah. need the tourist money. Especially if they go with the people beat the hell out of him and try to steal him angle. Yeah. It would be really bad for tourism. Not a good look.

Not a good look at tall. That's so fucking weird. He's just gone. He's just gone. He's just gone. I mean, I guess. Perfect storm of just, hmm. Like, I guess you could have like wandered out into the ocean or something with

this psychotic break and then died out there, but maybe his body would have washed the shore, but like how far could he have gone? Yeah, how far could he really wandered into the ocean, right? Before... If he ran the opposite direction into the forest, like it's not like he could have gone that far. I mean, I guess the other homeless guy trekked down to Brazil.

Yeah, he trekked to Brazil, yeah, mostly barefoot, from what I remember reading. So, who knows? But yeah, he headed away from the water, didn't he? I am genuinely just, I have no clue. I have nothing. I got zip. I think he had a mental break and he ran away and, and fucking aliens took him, dude.

I don't even goddamn know at this point. He's in the walls. I agree with all of that except the aliens. All of that except the aliens. Hopefully he's found though. And, you know, he can safely be brought back to his family and he can get the proper medical treatment and hopefully, you know, he can recover

and everything will be great for him. I don't know. I don't have anything else for this. I'm shocked. I'm just like, I'm just kind of dumbfounded. He's gone. He's just gone. It's not hard to find like a body. Like

true. You would think after a while somebody would have found a body if the worst case scenario happened. Yeah. Like bodies, like people. Often people, like they congregate towards populated areas or like water rivers and shit whenever they're out of it about. And a body takes a while to decompose and it smells. It's a very obvious, sure.

And I don't know. And considering what he was wearing was a bright yellow shirt. Even if he took it off, you know, and he changes clothes or whatever, he's still a Caucasian man, which is much easier to see. know he's who knows who knows it's it's it's been eight years three months and 15 days according to wikipedia he would he was age 28 when he disappeared ah that makes me worried that it's like that makes me worried that it might be one of those situations where like maybe he he pat like what was the wildlife in the area i don't think there was a ton of wildlife

in the area because that was one of the things that people were like, oh yeah, if he fled into the forest, there's not a whole lot to hunt in there in terms of like wildlife. Like, I don't think there were many fish in the river. Well, that's, I don't think there are many fish in the river. I didn't hear anything about there being like anything to hunt or survive on in the woods. As far as I knew, it was just sort of a wooded area that wasn't really, I want to say, survivable.

Like I said, there wasn't, there were experts that were like, yeah, if he went in the woods and he tried to just survive in the woods, he died in there because there's no way. Yeah, because, like, I imagine that that would be one of the ways that you'd actually be able to rationalize why he was just totally missing would be, like, you know, eaten by wildlife or something of that nature. But, uh, yes. Even if he was eaten by wildlife, they, I mean, how often do animals eat every last bit, you know,

there would have been a shoe or a piece of clothing or a skull. or a bone or something hanging out somewhere. He's just gone. Or a bright yellow shirt. Or a bright yellow shirt. Yeah. So it's crazy. Dikes.

You know? I take us home, my friend. Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, everyone, but much like this mystery, you can't always... I should... I should have... Take us home. Oh, my God. As soon as I said, I was like, oh, no.

That's like that joker scene where it's like, let her go, ooh, poor choice of words, drop. And I was like, ah, God, so tasteless. Oh, well, I was, I was going to say, just like this episode, not everything in life could have a satisfying conclusion. Unfortunately not, no. No, I, you got to throw in the missing cases every so often. We don't, we don't always need to know about an entire family being being brained by a pickaxe

and hit under hay. Yeah, that one was, that, oh my God, that one was uncomfortable. That was an uncomfortable revelation for me. Love me some detective ridiculous. Love me some dead kids. Love me some missing people. Love me some TikTok crypto rappers. You got to have a little bit of everything, you know,

a little piece of everything from the buffet. All right, this has fine conclusion. It's not happening here either. Fuck you, goodbye. You know,