Strange Deranged Beyond Insane
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Strange Deranged Beyond Insane
Exploring the Unseen: Michigan's Paranormal and True Crime Twists
Could UFOs and mysterious disappearances be intertwined in Michigan's eerie landscapes? Journey with us as we uncover the enigmatic connections between these phenomena, highlighted by the chilling case of Brittany Shank. Our investigation takes us from the rusted campgrounds of Crooked Lake, infamous for the 1966 UFO sighting, to the perplexing disappearance of Brittany. As we sift through spirit box communications and unsettling clues, we explore whether Brittany's fate tied her to these paranormal events or if there's a more earthly explanation. This episode offers a tantalizing blend of paranormal lore and true crime intrigue that will captivate anyone with a taste for mystery.
Join the emotional and perplexing pursuit as we unravel the complex web surrounding Brittany Shank's unsolved case. Through insights from Michigan State Police to the controversial role of Ashley Marie, Brittany's friend, we confront conflicting witness statements and tragic deaths that only deepen the mystery. With theories of foul play, exposure, or drug overdose circulating, this narrative challenges conventional crime-solving boundaries and hints at supernatural elements. Amidst the frustration of Brittany's family seeking closure, we question the forces at play and invite listeners to ponder the fusion of sinister forces with unexplained phenomena.
Hello everyone, welcome back to Strange, strange Beyond, insane, and this is your host, melissa, Alright. So I told you guys that I would do a part 2 to our live investigation from yesterday, which was November 16th, that actually did go into today, the 17th, because we were out pretty late, okay. So when I kept saying that we were getting Britney multiple times and campground and you know, the body not being found and bones and all this other stuff that we got, I randomly had looked at Christina and I said, well, it sounds like we have to go to a campground. Said, well, it sounds like we have to go to a campground. Maybe someone from the cemetery you know died at the campground. Like, let's see what campgrounds are around. So there was quite a few. A lot of them were like KOA, you know, small, no water, oh, they kept saying ridge, and like bodies of water, water, creek, um. So I had finally found a campground that was ironically, um, it was like 20 minutes away. Okay, I screenshot everything. So let me, oh, and it said Centerville twice and Christina got it once on the app, so that kind of led me to.
Speaker 1:Okay, so this is a. This is like I have to break this down for you guys. Okay, so I looked up the one that looked in my mind. What fit? What was being said was Crooked Lake, rusted Campground, and that was in Dexter, michigan.
Speaker 1:Ironically, dexter, michigan, is one of the first known UFO crash sightings that was recorded. Okay, let me get the exact year UFO Dexter, michigan. Okay, 1966. So we have been out there a few times and that was in March of 1966. Something mysterious was seen in the night sky over dexter and hillsdale, michigan. Dexter residents described floating disc in the night sky. Hillsdale college students reported strange lights flying over the dorms. Um, and I believe that there was a crash here too. Ufo crash, dexter.
Speaker 1:Um, so people, this person was saying it was not swamp gas, um, that a UFO had crashed and that, um, basically, the feds pretty much came out and covered it up and I don't know what excuse they had, but I mean, okay, not swamp gas. That's a true story of the 1966 Michigan swamp gas UFO. So they called in for an investigation. After 55 years of secrecy, a senior air force officer and fighter pilot broke his silence to tell the truth about the world famous ufo event, using official government documents, recorded pilot testimony and years of research. Author and retired air force engineer, ray simonowski, blew the lid off the government's highly questionable marsh gas explanation and then replaced it with the truth from the pilot who lived it. Mr Semenovsky believes that pilot testimony that he recorded and official records that he analyzed proved that the Dexter and Hillsdale UFO sightings were not swamp gas but something otherworldly.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I don't want to get too far off topic, but when I seen that, you know, of course I got excited and I said, well, shit, we'll go stop at Speedway, like we usually do, and we'll head over to Dexter. So Speedway was on the way, um, about seven minutes to get there from the cemetery that we were at, which was in Chelsea. About seven minutes to get there from the cemetery that we were at, which was in Chelsea. So we had I don't know like 17, 18 minutes to get over by that campground, also with the UFO sightings in 1966. So when we came out from Speedway we were eating. Of course we needed some snacks, because you do get very, very, very hungry while doing investigations, for you know, hours at a time you're using a lot of energy and the spirits around you are using a lot of energy, right? So I'm just like looking up. I kept looking at the campground and I'm looking at all the screenshots that Christina got and what I got, and I kept saying God, the screenshots that Christina got and what I got. And I kept saying God, that Brittany name. It just doesn't sit right with me. So I looked up, like you know, of course, brittany, oh, and there was the word murdered. Um, just like murdered disappearances can't find body, won't find body bones, can't find body, won't find body bones, just everything grim. Right Now, I am not a true crime podcast.
Speaker 1:I absolutely adore the true crime podcasters out there and I have a lot of them in my queue and that's pretty much how I got started listening to podcasts. However, we don't do a whole lot of true crime on here, but we do love the true crime in Michigan and this story. I mean, I have just fallen into such a fucking rabbit hole with this. So, anyways, again getting off track. You know how I am. Um, I just start, you know, pulling up Brittany murdered in Michigan. Brittany murdered, you know. Brittany murdered in Chelsea, michigan, can't you know? No remains found, brittany, blah, blah. So the story that it brings me to is the St Joseph County disappearance of Brittany Shank.
Speaker 1:So I start reading on this and you know, of course, reading it out loud and at this point, christina's getting tired because it's probably like three o'clock in the morning and I'm like this there's something about this that's resonating right now with me, with everything, all the evidence that we had gotten tonight. Okay, so Sturgis, michigan, is where this happened, and keep in mind, this is only like an hour and 39 minutes from where we were, and I always I've, never, I don't think I've ever been to Sturgis, maybe I've driven around it or through it, but I always thought Sturgis was like really, really far right, come to find out. It's not because we were about, I don't know, just over an hour away from you, know our homes, I don't know, just over an hour away from you, know our homes, and then, from that point, that we're at right, it was, it would only be, it would be under two hours to get to Sturgis. So this totally fucking makes sense and there's gotta be a reason why it resonated so much and all, like I said, the evidence. Everything has had matched up for me at least Okay, had matched up for me at least okay.
Speaker 1:So saint joseph county sheriff's office has released two pieces of evidence related to the 2018 disappearance of 23 year old britney shank. As they continue their investigation, um shank, a surges mother, went missing november 30th 2018 in the area of fawn river road near workman road in fawn River Township, around 9 pm, according to the deputies. In the 911 call which was received on the day she went missing, shank can be heard speaking with a neighbor whose house she had shown up to asking for help after she had gotten into a car wreck. She was not wearing any socks or shoes. The neighbor told dispatch that she was bleeding from her feet and arms but was having trouble communicating with her as what kind of help she needed from the police. Shank had told the neighbor that she was with her boyfriend at the time of the crash. Shank had told the neighbor that she was with her boyfriend at the time of the crash, but that he had taken the car and left the scene. According to the 911 call, as the neighbor was speaking with the dispatcher, he could be heard telling Shank to come back here before he appeared to lose contact with her. During the call, the neighbor could be heard saying in part In addition to the two pieces of evidence released Monday, the St Joseph County Sheriff's Office also provided a list of things investigators have done towards this case, saying they have utilized every available resource at their disposal.
Speaker 1:They've collaborated with the Michigan State Police. They do have a partnership with Western Michigan University. They're a cold case program. They've organized dozens of searches using both traditional and nontraditional investigative techniques, including ground searches, aerial surveys, ground penetrating radar, cadaver dogs, the sheriff's office mounted division and the Sheriff's Office Dive Rescue Team Dive Rescue Team. So again, we kept getting evidence of water campground. Just, it's just crazy. They encountered challenges, including individuals withholding or providing incorrect, incomplete statements, and some witnesses have passed away. So this story is like again, a true fucking rabbit hole, Like something that you would see on Netflix. There is a documentary. I have not watched all of it. It is on YouTube. They need to make this a Netflix series or Hulu Netflix series or Hulu.
Speaker 1:Channel News 3 spoke to some of Shane's family members in 2023 who, at the time, felt her case should be investigated as a homicide. As of now, the sheriff's office is still investigating the incident as a missing persons case. Okay, so I want to pull up. Um. Okay, so I want to pull up again. This is on um. So new released evidence and the disappearance of Brittany is on YouTube and this is from a month ago. Now I do have to listen to the podcast. Um, again, shout out to you guys hide and seek podcast. Um, this episode alone got a 4.5 rating. I have not had time to do that. That is something that I will be doing, probably in the next day or two, and it will be in the evening when I usually listen to my podcast. So I definitely have to catch up on this. Like I said, this all came about last night, so there will be many more times of trying to communicate, all right.
Speaker 1:So my favorite, you pull up reddit and you said and you say what do you think happened to britney shank? Okay, so this person said my theories in order are or the probability of exposure, that she was high on meth, got in a minor accident and freaked out. Maybe she crashed because she was in a fight with the person in the car with her. She became scared of him and ran. After leaving, she ran into the forest Forest and they kept saying forest, and you guys heard that on the last episode or farmland to get away from the guy that she was with and died of exposure. People in this state can see lights in the distance and think that they are closer than they are. Um a drug overdose or they're obviously saying murder. Um, red bug 831 two years ago said I don't know, and this podcast has really driven home for me and just how awful addiction is. So she obviously had some drug addiction issues. Um, this person souls I don't know how to say their name this was also from two years ago. After listening to the last episode of hide and seek, I think she overdosed and they covered it up.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, britney did not have much of a chance in this world with the people around her. None of the individuals and surges had her back. I wish she was in good rehab right now. Could have and could have cut off her associations and has and have had a second chance. Rip britney also. I would like to recommend a good editor for the next hide and seek season. I do not think I can listen to another season of this. Props to the lie detector guy. This person says this season has been the worst editing of all three seasons. I feel some of the episodes were meaningless. They just required a mention, a phone call to the car rental. Actually, that whole episode was not really anything towards solving the case.
Speaker 1:Okay, so supposedly her best friend, I want to say, was Ashley Marie, had made this documentary to try to find um Brittany Shank or her remains, or get any type of coverage on it, you know, for answers. Um, oh, right here. Okay, so here is another. So hide and seek, um, dry bones, dry bones. So, oh wait, is that does that have to do so in this gripping episode? Um, they're trying to uncover the quest, to find the truth behind britney shank's disappearance. So again, there is a lot that you know.
Speaker 1:Basically, this lady, okay, so we were watching this TikTok last night and she was saying that people that were part of her life are now part of the podcast trying to bring Brittany home. They've never found a body. We did get that in our recordings. Um, of our evidence that you know, nobody found find the body. They've never found a body. Still, um, they've never found anything to help bring Brittany home, as Ashley Marie. And this woman is saying she believes that because that's what this woman goes by on Facebook and she claims to be Brittany's best friend in the whole wide world. I'm telling you, this girl is highly suspicious and her estranged husband his name is Eric Eric S. They weren't officially divorced, but they were seeing other people and I think that they just hadn't gotten around to it and it had been a while, and that's all the screenshots that I took. So right now, actually, let me look, because I'm looking at another screen on top, ready or not? Question. So Q&A is with Ashley Marie. This is not your typical true crime podcast.
Speaker 1:Ashley Marie, the woman who was trying to find her missing friend, brittany Wallace Shank. Brittany went missing on November 30th 2018. And the podcaster decided to record 50 or so episodes to help solve her disappearance. What we will do is clear up any misconceptions, the lies, accusations and the witch hunt that was created to paint Ashley Marie as a murderer, and that's pretty much the topic of that. Now there is a video of Ashley Marie saying that Brittany the one that's missing still um asked her to delete Google accounts of hers, and I guess she said that she was like the town um it person, so she did this for Brittany.
Speaker 1:And there's again. I don't have a lot of knowledge on this case, but it is definitely a rabbit hole and there's so much that I need to watch and listen to. I'm just saying what we the evidence that we had gotten, that we had gotten um, and this story again. It just resonated. So I'm going to go back to all these pictures of screenshots, okay, so obviously, let me see. Now I want to. I want to pull up names that we got, because I'm. They are saying that all these you know shithead friends of hers, um, we're not true friends and that they're all suspicious. So again we have people in black robes, black fabric. You are their prey.
Speaker 1:Um, brittany, brittany, brittany, brittany, are you listening? Buy unseen eyes. Um, charles, nightmarish realms. We got John realms, we got john. Camping gear like for camping right. Katherine, four memories creek echoing ruins. Um, arlo, disrupt, I'm near the trees and this was um, so this is, this is on the app. These are words Now on my spirit box. I did have some, um, you know, male voices, but when we got like knees deep into this Brittany check, like Brittany, brittany, brittany that kept coming up and about the forest and all this evilness that happened, it was a that kept coming up and about the forest and all this evilness that happened. It was a female voice coming through my spirit box and it scared the shit out of us because you know, she was like I'm near the trees and before we even like looked up like campgrounds and stuff, we're like, holy shit, was someone like cause on the?
Speaker 1:When you first come into the cemetery like you gotta, you would have to go up and around and then basically to the left there is kind of like the left front there is a very creepy looking like house shed and then there's a whole entire open, very eerie ugly field that we just figured okay, hasn't been used yet by the cemetery. But when we were getting these replies we're thinking, oh my God, did someone? Was someone like buried over there, like by a murderer, I don't know? So yeah, so I'm near the trees, arlo, again nasty at the foot of the bed sleeping bag. So now, knowing like what we looked up and like I said, it had to be fate that we looked this up, you know looking for a dead Brittany. Now I'm wondering like is she? You know, was she left at a campground? Or like, is her remains in a sleeping bag?
Speaker 1:Drunk emotions, dra, drawn to this place, catherine, you know, I got Catherine a couple times and it said Catherine will make noise, john is wounded, jean. And then it says who is John? The black fabric willow, I'm in the house. Goodbye, goodbye, friend. Danger beware, shut down. Um bag is steeped in superstition. Rest home, brittany. Um, this is my resting place. Place Bag radiates unusual vibrations.
Speaker 1:Elizabeth, take another look. Oh, centralists and homicide Five. A trace of what was First door on the right. Again, brittany, again, it's where I belong, but centralist. Okay, so that's what I? That was the word. Sorry, I'm going back and forth.
Speaker 1:I just found it weird that Centerville I believe it's Centerville is around. Excuse me, it's not the county, it's Sturgis. That's the thing about Centerville, I know was part of this. Yeah, centerville, michigan, the family of a woman who yep right here. Okay, centerville, michigan, the family of a woman who vanished near Sturgis six years ago is calling on the St Joseph County Sheriff's Office to hand the case over to Michigan State Police. So she, six years, and she still has not been found. Her remains, no one has heard from her, no one has seen her, and she's got kids Going back to. Oh, several children is another. Um, okay, let me go through these pictures. I just kind of want to like.
Speaker 1:It resonates so much for me that I want to make sure that you guys understand how this got brought up. I mean I did not know anything about this girl's case. Dark soul, a diabolic person, is near, so evil, be cautious of strangers. So that could mean, like they were saying on Reddit, like she may have walked off. She got scared, she got nervous, she thought she was going to get in trouble. Maybe she had hitched a ride by strangers. Stop them. Septus, dark soul, weirdo. I mean candlelight. I mean I'm sure they've had candlelights, um candlelight, like celebrations in her life, because at this point I I mean I hate to say it, but she's probably not alive.
Speaker 1:And then this was really weird time-lapse photography um, afternoon, what time did they say this was Okay. What time did she come to this house? Shank told the neighbor 911 call. Hmm, so it was a Monday, okay, it doesn't show what time. So it was Monday. Yep, they don't show the time, but, like I said, it says afternoon. Richard was another name scratched, and that neighbor said that her arms were scratched and her legs, they were bleeding. She had no shoes on, no coat. She's bleeding down her feet and her arms. So, oh, protectors of the forest, they kept saying forest, ridge water.
Speaker 1:I mean I have so many, but yeah, so I truly believe that this is very, very possible that this is who we were in contact with, again where we were in Michigan last night actually this morning it was 2.30, 3 o'clock in the morning where this disappearance happened was only about an hour and let's just say either an hour 35 or about an hour 40 minutes depending on traffic away from the spot we were at. So this is very possible. Like Christina said, she may have known somebody in Chelsea or Dexter around that area Somewhere. Somehow we were linked up. I was linked up to another issue last night that happened, someone that is deceased. That again, excuse me, I do believe is not crossed over and was miserable living and obviously miserable dead too. So I just think that negative energy had brought all this on because we kept getting like dark replies, like there was a lot of dark shit, you know, like um cloaks, dark robes, um, everything kind of screamed. At first I thought ritual, but now it's, you know it turned into be more like homicide murder.
Speaker 1:So for all my true crime junkies out there and I know you guys have a lot of podcasts that you listen to and again, I love listening to those two we don't do a whole lot of that on here, you know we have a mixed match of topics, but if you guys have any information and or want to share something, please get a hold of us. Again, this is for entertainment purposes. I don't know if this is who we were talking to. For me it resonates again entertainment purposes. This is not like, hey, we're trying to solve a crime or anything.
Speaker 1:But I have often said that the times that we're out there doing what we do, eventually we are going to come across something that we don't want to right. I always joke and say, oh, one day we're going to find a body in the cemetery or someone you know, we're going to be walking down a haunted trail and either hear or see a murder. I mean, it's very likely when you're out at all hours of the morning. So we do know the dangers of it, we respect it, we do try to be safe and hopefully we don't ever come across that. If we do, obviously we would report it right away.
Speaker 1:But we can't just go on audio because you know a lot of people out there would be like, yeah, that's crazy or that's just you know, you, you're thinking too much into it, you know. So you kind of got to be careful. It's a fine line and even though we talk about whatever we want on the podcast, I do again want to say entertainment purposes only. I don't know how linked this is. If it is interlocked, like I may be having this may. This may be the wrong person, it just I knew nothing about this and the way that it linked in together and made sense, I'm going to roll with it. I do have to listen to more evidence and I do need to do a lot of research on this and again, I do need to watch all the YouTube stuff and the podcast. I need to listen.
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Speaker 1:I always say this, but I will continue, just Just because people still ask me on social media hey, how do I listen to your podcast? Any main platform that you listen to your podcast, you can listen to this one Strange, strange, beyond and Sink. We are pretty much across the board. Buzzsprout does an awesome job at advertising that, so thank God I chose Buzzsprout. I'm very happy with them, very, very happy with this website. I really haven't had any issues. You know you can find us on TikTok, facebook and you know. Again, I would love to know some other theories about this. Anyone else that's really invested into this rabbit hole of this missing woman? Please contact us, please tell us your thoughts and, again, if you ever want to come on and talk as a guest speaker, we'd love to have you on. All right, you guys. Thanks for listening. Tune in for some more.
