The Unexplainable Disappearance of Dennis Martin - Missing 411

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[DEFxRECON]

It’s pretty cool that Wendi has been playing around with different camera placement styles. It’s almost good at convincing us he’s not just a giant torso. Almost.

[nibblesowo]

We had a kid get killed by a mountain lion out near our farm. The sheriff put out the statement, and two days later retracted it saying the kid fell into a gully and died from the fall. My grandad said it was to stop the folks from loading up their jeeps and killing every mountain lion in The Valley.

[Enclave_Soldier]

How utterly heartbreaking it would be to lose a child on Father’s Day, forever associating a day of happiness with a traumatic loss.

[linriana]

So, something i can add to this story are the weird holes in the ground filled with water/mud.

When hiking with my family as a 6 year old, i stepped onto a patch of moss that looked perfectly normal.
I immediately fell into a hole of water or mud, covered by the moss.
It was extremely deep and the opening was slim.
My grandpa saw me drop in and immediately dragged me out.

My family says after me dropping in, the moss floated back over the water - and covered it completely.

It would explain him not screaming for help, not Being found and vanishing Soon.

[LonkinPork]

even on a hike in the woods, my man's rockin' a dad shirt.
the commitment to his role as a fashion icon really is admirable.

[yueievy]

I can't help but marvel at the incredible self-control that Wendi displayed by calmly uttering the word "Giant".

[justas]

Being with Wendigoon is like the nicest hostage situation ever. Because, by affiliation alone, you're already on the same government lists as Wendigoon.

[kanrafingerguns]

​​When I was 7, I got lost in the woods while playing with other kids.

I live where the woods are overrun by blackberry bushes, so you have to be really careful to not get snagged by thorns. I was so focused on getting through the bushes that I didn't notice the other kids I was playing with were no longer with me—I'd underestimated how far I'd traveled too.

It was only when I slipped and fell that I realized I was alone.

It's entirely possible this boy could have wandered off in a similar manner, only realizing he was lost when it was too late.

Him suddenly disappearing is not crazy to me—it's actually familiar.

[BewilderedAsshat]

To be honest, a lot of these cases under further scrutiny can be narrowed down to the parents not being a trustworthy source of adequate time keeping. What i mean by that is some parents will say " I swear i was just watching him just a minute ago, and it may have even felt like just a second". When in reality, they were not watching/paying attention for a much longer period of time, even 15-20 minutes longer then they thought they maybe did. The mind can play wierd tricks on itself, add survivors guilt, trauma, and the whole shabang, and youve got a perfect case of "time amnesia."

[heavyburnman]

From what we saw in the beginning of this video, while they were exploring the creek, there are "leaf-bed traps" of water and mud along the creek. Dennis' last known location was crossing the creek. If they never found tracks suggesting he successfully fully crossed the creek, then I think it's likely Dennis sunk into a deep patch of mud under one of these "leaf-bed traps" and couldn't get out. His body might be somewhere in the mud along the creek.

[stratosfearful]

I recently described Wendigoon to my family during Thanksgiving when the subject of influencers came up, the best I could do was "a sweet Southern Belle who talks about monstrosities" and I stand by it.

[Badgerbadger]

The Dennis Martin disappearance is not as odd as it seems. The search, while having a lot of people, was handled poorly. This isn't a criticism of the people involved because they didn't know any better. This case was used to establish modern SAR procedure. I'm a SAR volunteer, and this case was covered in my training for that very reason.

[inquisitorowl]

I'm loving this new genre of video that's basically just an excuse for Wendi to go out and have a field trip/play date with his buddies.

[elliottcoleman]

That footprint is the part that really gets me about this. Your child is missing and the dogs seem to be on their trail. Their search ends at a creek where there are child footprints. You're gonna turn around all because the footprints look a little too big? Besides, this is something any ranger in search and rescue should know; footprints very often look bigger than the actual foot of what left it. It's pretty much the first thing they tell you when you're learning how to identify footprints. There's no way they just turned around and looked somewhere else. The special forces were very much looking for something that National Parks thought wasn't within their jurisdiction or skill to handle. They had to have reason to believe that some kind of crime had taken place. Either nothing was ever found or they only released gruesome info privately. This story is so scary in so many real ways.

[gavinpetermichel]

I can't help but wonder if cases like these are results of small holes that open up above cave systems. The thick foliage would hide them decently well

[meowzfever]

23:53 “they don’t keep a list of people who go missing in the parks, except for the list that they keep of people who go missing in the pa-“ *ad plays* perfect cutoff omg

[Hypophreniac]

I find missing cases and situations like this far scarier than any monster or spooky tale

[revenreet]

Whenever I hear wendigoon talk about his grandpa I realize how similar they must’ve been

[seanlodge]

I can't wait for the day when Wendigoon inevitably "goes missing" and someone makes a compilation video of all the times he's thrown heat at the FBI

[kingbuddabudder]

I absolutely love wendigoons laugh, he doesn’t laugh too much when he does his solo videos but I love watching how friendly and charismatic he is with his friends