Teen finds SECRET room on college campus

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#3 -- "Boilermakers" -- 0:41 -- College freshman finds an off-limits door on campus
#2 -- "Death Valley" -- 16:16 -- If you don't respect the environment here, it will kill you
#1 -- "Ruahine Range" -- 24:49 -- Mystery disappearance solved 15 years later

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[rebecculousrk]

It’s really hard to understand how a person who had barely escaped that situation with his life days earlier, would immediately turn around and put himself back in the same desperate situation. I think if I had found myself in that situation, I would write the van off as a loss…And thank my stars that I was found that first time!

[tjbailey]

How can a missing person investigation not involve searching every inch of a room that the person's shoe was found. Mind blowing

[reginaphalange]

I can't imagine how traumatizing it was for the maintenance guy to find a corpse that's been getting electrocuted for months, and still is, and it's making that crunching noise.... What a nightmare for him, and especially the victim's loved ones.

[bokesnmokes]

As a building maintenance guy for 22 years now, I find it astounding to hear that an electrical vault is not checked at least once a day. There are so many bad things that can happen to transformers and switch gear.

[Thumbsdwn]

I know it wouldn’t have mattered either way, but the fact that the police found Wade’s shoe in that pit and yet still didn’t find him for 2 months is insane. You would think that they would have concentrated search efforts around the one piece of evidence they had…

[codynate]

Please, if you are ever offered a deal with any network, Netflix, A&E, Discovery, Travel, etc. Please don't let them change how you tell stories. The way you explain and your whole setup is absolutely perfect as is.

[sajuarosam]

As a lifelong desert rat, I have to confess that the guy in Story 2 made me quite angry with his enormous stupidity. His biggest two mistakes were: 1) going into an unknown area without an experienced guide and 2) going BACK into an unknown area at night.

[daka_uri]

i love the context of, "oh theres the shoe of the victim, lets go search literally anywhere else"

[tak]

As an electrical engineer, I can say that there are at least 2 reasons why Perdue is responsible for Wade's death (though as a child of an alcoholic, I don't want to entirely dismiss his own personal responsibility). The room should not only have been locked, but by code requirements, that sort of electrical room requires a light switch at any entrance for just this reason. even a professional with a flashlight could enter a room like this, trip over a cable and find themselves in contact with a live wire. to be fair, I don't know the code requirements at the time the room was built but... in modern day, that would have been a big deal.

[joeanderson]

Wow, I thought Wade was going to find a really cool secret room that nobody knew about, where he could go and hang out and have fun with a few of his closest friends. But as the story was unfolding I remembered who was telling it, and realized that this probably wasn't going to happen.

[largedoggo]

i feel like your “top 3” style has always been your best and is certainly my favorite.

[stefaniadangila]

The first story reminds me so much of something that happened in a university of Thessaloniki in Greece some years ago. After a student party that was taking place in the university grounds came to an end, the people that organized the party waited long enough and shouted loud to make sure everyone was gone before locking the exit doors of the uni hall that was provided to them to throw the party.

But little did they know that they was a student that fell asleep in one of the rooms that were connected to this hall, he was lying on a couch that was covered with stuff and jackets so nobody noticed him or saw him when they quickly swiped through the rooms.

And then the tragic happen. They locked him inside.

But this was not that bad because if he waited till the morning someone would have heard him and would have probably come to open the doors. Also he had a phone with him so if he kept his calm, he would have been able to call somebody in the morning with a clear state of mind to let them know where he was and to ask them to come and open the doors.

But instead of keeping calm, when he woke up later in the night, being still drunk and disoriented, he started desperately to search for a way out, he called his friends on their phone but it was early morning hours and everyone was sleeping so nobody picked up. At that point he was full-blown scared and he let the panic take over him.

Then he took a literally deadly decision. He though I am gonna jump from the window to a wall top that was standing under the window of the room he was at. But being drunk he miscalculated his steps and the jump and he just fell from the window right down to the floor near the entrance of the uni.. It was a tragic accident.

But his friends and co-students that were with him that night felt terribly bad and kind or responsible they left him inside the building and didn't search for him hard enough believing he just got tired and left the party. Because this decision has cost them their friends life. But ultimately it was the poor judgement of this guy that lead to his own death.

[denniswrobleski]

Just imagine the thoughts of the guy in the second story while he found himself once again lost in death valley after a day before being rescued from the same desert. He must have been absolutely sick with his own stupidity.

[thundercatlola]

My dad and his brothers (my 2 uncles) mistook their trail while backpacking in Death Valley and nearly died from dehydration over the course of a 3-day wander. Nearly 30 years since that trip and none of them have ever chosen to return. It’s absolutely crazy to me that Robert would willingly go back to the desert only a few DAYS after his close-up with death.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Imagine the horror that the maintenance worker experience when he walked around and just found Wade’s body frying there

[thejayman]

Find it pretty crazy that there were NO visible high voltage signs outside that fenced-off door. Usually, anywhere there's a significant voltage, signs are posted everywhere. Even on doors that most people shouldn't be accessing. I would've sued the school for even more due to negligence of both the signage and of proper locking of that door. Insane.

[mchevre]

So I understand the student was killed instantly and finding him sooner would not have saved him - but I don't understand how the cops could find a shoe in front of a weird maintenance door pit that no one is supposed to be in, and then choose NOT to go through that door and thoroughly search the whole room. It was their one lead, and they basically shrugged it off. Sure he was already dead.. *but they didn't know that*

[Redman]

Definition of insanity is the 2nd story. You nearly died the first time, and you were pretty well-prepared water wise. Second time you didn't even bring water with you and that happens. It's like Cahill's Crossing in Australia. One of THE most dangerous bodies of water in the country, with signs, warnings, etc and people still get empty headed and end up saltwater croc food.

[mudshovel]

my dad and I didn't talk for a year and it turns out we had both been binging your videos the whole time. thanks for facilitating this odd bond we have unknowingly shared. 🙂

[thetherrannative]

The way you tell these stories, they feel so much longer than they are. It might only take you fifteen minutes to tell a story, but the way you describe them makes them feel so _full_ that there's no way they're really that short. That's the sign of a truly excellent storyteller.