He was supposed to be home by sunrise. Instead, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson called his parents from a gravel ditch, stranded miles from his hometown, promising to wave them down at a nearby bar. For 47 minutes they guided him over the phone through pitch-black fields—until, suddenly, Brandon screamed, “Oh, s**t,” and the line went dead. When his car was discovered the next morning, paramedics found it intact but empty, his phone gone, and no sign of Brandon. A massive search ensued across Minnesota’s backroads and riverbanks, fuelled by cell-tower pings and hounded by river currents and tall prairie grass. Weeks turned into years with no clue—no footprints, no body, no answers. Was it a tragic slip into the icy water of the Yellow Medicine River? Or something far darker? This episode unravels the full story of Brandon Swanson’s disappearance: the final phone call, the frantic search, the theories—both plausible and paranormal—and the family’s unending hope that the boy who walked into the night might one day be found.
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Source Information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brandon_Swanson
https://www.startribune.com/longtime-search-for-brandon-swanson/511570982/
https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/7900dmn.html
https://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/15/missing.student/
https://www.kare11.com/video/news/local/landmark-search-for-brandon-swanson-part-1/89-540545156
https://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4921020&page=1
https://www.startribune.com/search-for-brandon-swanson-continues/14127539/
https://secure.dps.state.mn.us/CDT/Search.aspx?idx=65174
https://www.postbulletin.com/news/state/search-continues-for-minnesota-student/article_8b3b70b4-b05f-5720-820b-2b47b0793f3c.html
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