This reminded me of an incident at a local chemical plant in the UK in 1994. The company were demolishing a large 30ft x 90ft storage tank that used to contain tolulene that used to give off strong fumes. Whilst doing this, they discovered the body of a teenage boy. Turned out to be a local lad who had snuck in to apparently sniff the fumes before he fell in. He went missing in 1987 and his family thought that he had run away to London. All that time he was only 2 miles from his family home.
I might be thinking of the same thing but there was a body that was found inside a building that had been built into it. It was totally accidental the kid had died, nobody saw him and they ended up building or replacing parts of the building around him so he spent years with just a wall between the body and the people working there. In fairness to the police they did search but obviously they weren't ever going to find him without something to point them in the direction of an under construction building.
This happened locally where a man with known mental illness climbed on to the coal conveyer belt. He waited until morning where it transported him to a silo where he dropped 30ft to a Seperator where he was buried alive. I believe he died on the fall but they found hand marks on the walls near the top where the drop was as if he changed his mind at the last moment. The conveyer belt moved at good speed, one of the workers I talked to said like 15mph or greater. He was discovered when the system got backed up.
I can't help but wonder if he was literally mummified even if only there for a short time before discovery. The coal would dehydrate him, sterilize and preserve him in just a few hours after he was buried.
Being a Diné(Navajo) who does work construction, power plants, refineries, amd solar yards, some of the most chilling isolated areas, which had tragic deaths from accidents or even old Native American burial grounds, and you can find many scary stories all across the U.S. much love from the Western Navajo Nation 🙏🏼🔥
@@rhedosaurus2251why must you make such a ridiculous comment? Obviously you weren't serious however it wasn't even an amusing comment. You see "Navajo" and immediately associate it with skinwalkers.😏
@@rhedosaurus2251 I don't need to lighten up, I promise I'm OK but thanks for your concern. Jokes are supposed to be funny...what exactly is funny about this...I'm seriously asking.
The Bellingham Herald has an excellent article on this from August 13, 2019. There's a video with photos of the corpse lying on the steam pipes. It's little more than a skeleton. The arrangement of the space is simpler than shown in the illustration here. I would call it a heat exchanger unless an engineer told me differently. The boilers I'm familiar with, which supply superheated steam to the turbines in power plants, would incinerate a person instantly. I don't even know how somebody could get inside one. I can only guess that this poor guy fell in when the unit was off, but then it was activated with him inside. This type of heat exchanger would only get about as hot as a domestic oven - hot enough to boil water, but not a veritable blast furnace like the boiler of a power plant. In short, it would not kill you quickly. It would slow-roast you like a turkey. Horrible!
You can find the images online with a simple Google image search with a bit of digging. There's also another video from 6 years ago that has pics of the skeleton and autopsy pics.
I am western US born, raised, I worked at Grand Rapids waste water treatment plant for some time, it has underground tunnel networks, and seriously dangerous vats, blenders, and containers you wanted to be as cautious as can be working around...
Some of those waste water treatment plants have aerated outflows which are absoutely terrifying since there is no buoyancy in the aerated section. You'd just *fall*, albeit slower than through air alone, to the bottom, with no chance of getting back out, and it's often 15-20 ft deep.
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@@hopefulpellinore5490 it is pretty gayish. The strangers candy, takes you where you ought to be. In broken alleys, in the back of every street.. so close your eyes.... You're gay, too.
not nessecarilly, they may have been thinking suicide then got hurt and changed their mind, I recall someone who did rescue of people who jumped of a bridge and survived, they reported that every person they pulled out of the water, who had jumped, stated that they changed their mind on the way down and didn't want to die.
@@AdamKadmon-cg5qs he could've had a change of heart due to the realisation that this would've a rather nasty way to go because surely you would want it to be quick and painless
My biggest question is why no one has tried to do genetic genealogy yet to identify him. I mean it’s likely a relative of his has uploaded a DNA analysis online so investigators can extract DNA from the John Doe and trace the results of the submitted samples to see if the Doe and the samples share a common ancestor. Of course he could have been adopted which means extended family possibly didn’t know of him but still it would be a stepping stone.
Ah yeah, as soon as this started I knew this was the Bellingham case (although the plant looked very different from the drawings). Bellingham is such a weird little town-- we've have 4 known serial killers come through here and all stop at the same bar, and several more suspected. The 1999 Olympic Pipeline disaster rewrote pipeline safety in the US, a apocalyptic cat cult that began here, the deadliest mining accident in America happened at the Blue Canyon mine, eco-terrorists tried to derail an oil train just a few short years ago, and we did have an unexplained derailment that caught fire... just so many quirky, strange little mysteries for a town of about 100,000. As a kid I grew up rubbing shoulders with the DC sniper when he was in town, and his hangout was only a few streets away from the GP plant where this case happened. Where the old mill stood is now a large community area, being slowly developed into mixed high-end condos with low-income apartments. A temporary beer garden village made from shipping containers currently sits where the steam evaporators once did, with an off-road bike track nearby. It's a very popular community space during the short WA summers. GP was right on the waterfront, dominated the skyline from the main streets of Old Town and downtown. It was and iconic part of town, except that it was also leeching mercury and other heavy metals into the bay, slowly poisoning the waters and shoreline. Bellingham began as a timber and coal town, and some of the finest stone for construction around during the turn of the century. A lot of local stone helped rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 disaster. Coal tunnels stretch under a vast majority of the city, with the oldest being unmapped, stretching out under the bay. Every once in a while one of the older streets will collapse into a tunnel to remind us what we're sitting on. I'm so proud of my hometown! Edit: the illustrations later in the video are on point, that's what the east side of the plant looked like.
And a handful of disappearances outside town towards the Mt Baker national forest, most famous would probably be Leah Roberts back in the spring of 2000
@@Sorrowdusk Right?? I am strongly considering starting a podcast to cover thePNW and it's dark mysteries, because we sure have some bizarrness out here
On the website "The Bellingham Herald - After 30 years, the mystery of the G-P smokestack skeleton continues" is an interesting video about this case including pictures of the remains. Maybe he was some worker who had an accident and so some day he just disappeared but with the bosses hiding all the details to prevent suspicions about the safety of their plant after learning that their missing guy now showed up in one of their boilers. Maybe that guy was an urbexer who liked the thrill of breaking into and climbing around like an ape on the premises of industrial zones at night who accidentally tripped and fell. He might also be a homeless guy looking for a warm place who accidentally fell into that heat exchanger while looking for some warm place to sleep and being completely drunk. No one will ever identify that skeleton, it is even possible it was in there for years... But his death was surely one of the most brutal possible deaths, he was grilled after falling on these hot steam pipes.
I saw the title thinking about the body that was found at the Georgia Pacific paper mill in Bellingham, Washington State where I was born and raised having no idea that the video would be about that actual incident. 😂 Awesome! Thanks for doing this. I wasn't sure if it wasn't just an urban legend in the community. But I have seen references to this in the Bellingham Herald from time to time. Cheers!
I’d say the serial killer bar a few blocks from the paper mill is more of an urban legend And of course the disappearance of Leah Roberts in March 2000. Other people have disappeared out in the mountains like her, but none as mysterious
I worked as a contractor in the late 90's at the Bellingham GP . It was creepy at night, very dark and desolate. Whenever I worked near the boiler house I thought about that poor man.
Given the discounted tools, I think it’s more likely the length of time the body was in there was wrong and that some unfortunate maintenance or construction worker fell in and no one ever thought to check the boiler stack when it was realized he was missing
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Kinda surprised one of theories wasn't the man being homeless or a drifter. Guessing a drifter would assume the plant would be fairly warm shelter inside and decided to take his chances. Could have been hiding near the boilers to keep warm. Possibly in the event of trying to hide from the workers, they climbed into boiler and then broke bones trying to get out and just falling back down. It's obviously a far from perfect theory but surprised it wasn't mentioned
One thing not addressed: What caused the alarm? That a body was found is immaterial, as it had clearly been there for some time causing no problem. And it was not running? So why the alarm at such an odd time of day?
Reminds me of an episode of NCIS where a body was discovered in a boiler chimney and i am sure CSI also did something similar. Like all things in life there are some mysteries that are never going to be solved because the search for the answer pushes us forward to discover more.
This is a very interesting case, and it reminds me of 2 cases from the North American TV show Unsolved Mysteries: The case of Dave Bocks, whose remains were found in an industrial furnace on the NLO grounds in Fernald Ohio, and the case of Brian Stanley Duecker, who attempted jumped onto a moving plane in Paducah Kentucky.
This story reminded me of Fernald and Dave Bocks. I live about 30 minutes from Fernald,but when the incident happened, I was on active duty in the army, stationed in California. It made the headlines on the nightly news out there. I grew up with people whose fathers worked at Fernald, and they all said that there's no way Bock jumped into the furnace. The temperature was so great that you couldn't walk near the hatch if it was open.
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I have my own theories, though if anything this should be a reminder for companies to improve their security measures to prevent unauthorized entry and death
@ But people can still unknowingly get inside for reasons that aren’t clear at first glance. This is why having high awareness of security weaknesses is important. This man whose body was found in the plant could still be alive if security had realized someone unauthorized was in the vicinity.
That and that Guy who Fell on The steam boiler Pit thing in NYC were true horror... The Guy in NYC suffer a Lot, and there were witness and firefighters Just waiting him stop screaming to rescue his remainings
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Have you ever heard of David Bocks? There is an interesting story from Ohio about the pipe fitter falling into an oven there. I forget what the place was called. I'd like to hear your point of view on that. His body remains sealed in a 55 gallon drum, as his remains are too toxic to be buried. Many believe he was murdered for being a potential whistle-blower.
Looking at the Unsolved Mysteries page on the guy right now. I can see why his family suspect he was taken out for being a whistler-blower. If he found out something wrong was going on in the facility, as in he found an error that could be corrected but the company refused to do so because it would cost money and time they didn’t want to waste, and he threatened to alert the government or the local media then he could have been blackballed. And if he continued to do so and the company grew extremely worried about their reputation tanking, then yes he would have a target on his back. If he was a whistle-blower then the company’s efforts at trying to paint a rosy picture ultimately failed because in the end the secret got out and that tanked the respectability of the plant in the eyes of the population. Probably led to a ton of lawsuits as well.
The problem is that if this was a mob "disposal," he would have needed to be bound, carried by two or three guys up to the top of the boiler, unbound, then thrown in. Because remember he was found with strips of cloth over his hands- he was trying to climb out. I doubt the mob would take such a long way round to do a guy in, nor the chance of being discovered. If they want to hurt someone, they use a pair of pliers and a torch in a secluded basement, before shooting them in the head. Seems way more likely this was a lone "ELF" type, (Earth Liberation Front,) that wanted to make a name for himself by destroying machinery at the plant. Though even this seems to not fit 100%, because why would he hop into an open boiler? Likely this was one of the ELF "commando groups" traveling around the USA at the time. They had vowed to kill hunters, blow up factories and generally cause mayhem to US and Canadian industry all over the country. (They once torched every car on a large car dealership, creating far more pollution in the process than if the cars had been left to live out their normal life expectancy.) In the process of maybe preparing to drop a bomb into the boiler, this guy fell in. His friends would have panicked and fled, leaving him to suffer an ignominious and mysterious death. Certainly not a suicide. There are two types of suicides. Those that wish to avoid pain, so why choose a boiler, and those that want to draw attention to themselves in a failed attempt- so why pick a boiler. The point is for everyone to come rushing to your aid and lavish you with concern- so why pick a boiler? This was whack job "Stop Oil" type, not a suicide or murder. Just way to impractical. Or drifter kids playing a game- which he lost.
Here's a question: why did the alarm sound around a week after his death? Why not the day he fell in or the day after? That's bizarre. What triggered the alarm if not his entry?
Both my husband and myself both think it was most likely a protestor. They tried to sabotage the boiler, and it all went horribly wrong. Think Occam's Razor. The rest is just too much convoluted shite.
What was he planning on sabotaging it with, Hulk strength? No tools for sabotage found present. If clothing could survive, tools could survive. Also why keep mum about it for 40 years.
How horrific, made worse knowing he was alive after falling or going in on his own, and then trying to shield himself, his pain would have been unbearable. Much love.
Broken bones, especially long bones in the arms and legs can be broken post mortem when the body is exposed to heat like this. The muscle tissue contracts as it looses moisture to the fire/heat and has the power to even snap femurs.
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Makes me think of the guys that break into factories to explore. They sneak around and try to avoid any workers or security, so maybe they were trying to find someplace to hide.
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Reminds me of a story I recall hearing some years ago. Someone working at a local coal power plant went missing, and they eventually found his body inside one of those big, circular cooling towers. Reckon he'd ran himself to death looking for a corner to sh*t in. ...I'll see myself out.
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Just seems weird and tragic that no missing person could be matched. The man who died in the boiler HAD to have had some family or friends. Even if it was a prank or protest gone wrong, it seems like someone would have reported a missing person around that time.
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Maybe but if he was from a different state the dots may have not been connected.
It is a tragic reality that families often don't care. In Canada, where I'm from and studied criminology in university, there is a huge problem with missing and murdered (disproportionately but not exclusively aboriginal) women. Sometimes it's a serial killer, sometimes, a less TV-worthy fate of a simple drug overdose. The police are often quite unfairly criticized for not knowing exactly what happened, when the families themselves never heard from or tried to contact their daughters for years. There's noble exceptions of course, but all too often, the families only come out of the woodwork years later, when it's in the headlines, and there's opportunities for lawsuit money or getting paid for interviews. A lot of professional activist types in Vancouver and Toronto (and, I am guessing, in various US cities too) are outcasts from their families, living with no fixed address. In both these categories of disappearance/unidentified found bodies, it will be nearly impossible to trace anything. Nobody knows exactly when they were last recorded. Most of their 'friends' and associates are transient, drug addicts, or people who want to hide their activities for various reasons from the authorities, so won't talk, or the booze and drugs have so wasted their minds they are useless as witnesses. They might have lived in ten different addresses, at which none of their original roommates or exes currently reside, in the time between when they last were in regular schooling or employment/living with their families. Heck, the internet has been around pumping out True Crime stories about John and Jane Does for 15+ years on TH-cam, and enough of these people's families still don't bother.
Plus someone had to shut it. One would think "the body" would have complained if he was conscious. No easy answers with this one fellows. As always a good video. Thanks.
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I lived in WA half my life, spent two years of that about an hour outside of Bellingham. I remember hearing about this story at the bar I frequented from an old timer that worked there. Really cool to see that story on here, gruesome as it is.
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Sounds also possibly like mafia victim, someone they wanted to suffer. One or more people on the workforce connected to the mafia would let them onto the premises. Today the asphalt / tar roadworks companies are said to help dispose of bodies due to all parts of the body dissolving in the hot mixtures. So chances are roads are being paved with victems from these mafias
Bodies don't dissolve in ashpault and it's not *that* hot when its made. You need more than 'hot mixtures' to destroy tissue and bone at a molecular level, you need a chemical bath like those soda lakes in Yellowstone, where the heat simply speeds the reaction by lowering the energy requirements for it to take place, which is very different from pitch and gravel, which can literally buckle from a hot summer day. Paving over it with a shadlow pit on a new road, however, is easy and would go undetected for a very long time.
The area isn’t know for organized crime and the paper mill was literally next to the bay. You could dump a body out in Puget Sound There’s also the issue of multiple shifts of people and the risk that somebody would stumble upon the guy before he had been cooked alive
The possibility that the body was a murder victim whose body was tossed in the boiler stack so it would be unidentifiable was the first that came to my mind.
Reminds me about girl found in a water tankard at the top of Cecil hotel. She was off medication (can't remember if it was scizophrenia or something similar), and she made her way from an emergency exit to the roof and voluntarily climbed into the water tankard where she drowned. I would wonder if this man also suffered some kind of mental illness? Seems odd for him to climb the gates and wander the plant, but if he felt he was being chased by something and was trying to get away, I can see it.
This reminded me of an incident at a local chemical plant in the UK in 1994.
The company were demolishing a large 30ft x 90ft storage tank that used to contain tolulene that used to give off strong fumes.
Whilst doing this, they discovered the body of a teenage boy. Turned out to be a local lad who had snuck in to apparently sniff the fumes before he fell in.
He went missing in 1987 and his family thought that he had run away to London.
All that time he was only 2 miles from his family home.
Poor kid 😔
He died doing what he loved. Getting high. 🤪
My God 😢
I might be thinking of the same thing but there was a body that was found inside a building that had been built into it. It was totally accidental the kid had died, nobody saw him and they ended up building or replacing parts of the building around him so he spent years with just a wall between the body and the people working there. In fairness to the police they did search but obviously they weren't ever going to find him without something to point them in the direction of an under construction building.
My gods that's depressing
This happened locally where a man with known mental illness climbed on to the coal conveyer belt. He waited until morning where it transported him to a silo where he dropped 30ft to a Seperator where he was buried alive. I believe he died on the fall but they found hand marks on the walls near the top where the drop was as if he changed his mind at the last moment. The conveyer belt moved at good speed, one of the workers I talked to said like 15mph or greater. He was discovered when the system got backed up.
That's horrifying and sad.
I can't help but wonder if he was literally mummified even if only there for a short time before discovery. The coal would dehydrate him, sterilize and preserve him in just a few hours after he was buried.
I seriously hope the fall did him in and not the burial in coal.
I’ve always wonder why do crazy people do that, was he told to by their thoughts or they not conscious of their surroundings?
@@Reg_The_Galahhe wanted to die. But changed his mind at the last minute like a lot of people.
Whatever the answer, it was a truly horrific way to die. Poor sod.
Sod off shotgun
This mans fate is pure nightmare fuel.
Its also how the Triads sometimes dispose of people they deem traitors.
Safe to say that he was cooking he's sabotage plans and wait too long.
Being a Diné(Navajo) who does work construction, power plants, refineries, amd solar yards, some of the most chilling isolated areas, which had tragic deaths from accidents or even old Native American burial grounds, and you can find many scary stories all across the U.S. much love from the Western Navajo Nation 🙏🏼🔥
The Skinwalkers did it!
@@rhedosaurus2251why must you make such a ridiculous comment? Obviously you weren't serious however it wasn't even an amusing comment. You see "Navajo" and immediately associate it with skinwalkers.😏
@@PrimateProductions It was a simple joke. Esh...Lighten up.
@@rhedosaurus2251 I don't need to lighten up, I promise I'm OK but thanks for your concern. Jokes are supposed to be funny...what exactly is funny about this...I'm seriously asking.
I think neither of you understand the concept of comedy.
The Bellingham Herald has an excellent article on this from August 13, 2019. There's a video with photos of the corpse lying on the steam pipes. It's little more than a skeleton. The arrangement of the space is simpler than shown in the illustration here. I would call it a heat exchanger unless an engineer told me differently. The boilers I'm familiar with, which supply superheated steam to the turbines in power plants, would incinerate a person instantly. I don't even know how somebody could get inside one. I can only guess that this poor guy fell in when the unit was off, but then it was activated with him inside. This type of heat exchanger would only get about as hot as a domestic oven - hot enough to boil water, but not a veritable blast furnace like the boiler of a power plant. In short, it would not kill you quickly. It would slow-roast you like a turkey. Horrible!
You can find the images online with a simple Google image search with a bit of digging. There's also another video from 6 years ago that has pics of the skeleton and autopsy pics.
I saw the skull!
I am western US born, raised, I worked at Grand Rapids waste water treatment plant for some time, it has underground tunnel networks, and seriously dangerous vats, blenders, and containers you wanted to be as cautious as can be working around...
Some of those waste water treatment plants have aerated outflows which are absoutely terrifying since there is no buoyancy in the aerated section. You'd just *fall*, albeit slower than through air alone, to the bottom, with no chance of getting back out, and it's often 15-20 ft deep.
Jeez be careful!
@@AstraeaJustitiathat would feel so weird! Instincts would make you want to just swim up but then not having any progress upwards would be awful
This one always messes me up when I hear about it. Just the inevitability and pain of that kind of death. Horrible
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The vibes sound lovely! Also I like your name, I'm a Dillinger fan too. Pay no heed to this emotionally stunted cretin that (attempted) to insult you.
@hopefulpellinore5490 watch them turn her scab- covered skin into....stone. I like Dillinger too. I'm still an asshole. It was a gay comment
@@hopefulpellinore5490 it is pretty gayish. The strangers candy, takes you where you ought to be. In broken alleys, in the back of every street.. so close your eyes....
You're gay, too.
14:45 - Suicide is unlikely, based on the fact that he used parts of his clothing to treat his wounds. You only do that when you want to survive.
I'll bet he was actually an "Enviro Warrior"
Well, at least he ended happy knowing he did it all for MOTHER GAIA, AL GORE, and GRETA THUNBERG.
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I assume you get called an ignorant c until most days of your life.
not nessecarilly, they may have been thinking suicide then got hurt and changed their mind, I recall someone who did rescue of people who jumped of a bridge and survived, they reported that every person they pulled out of the water, who had jumped, stated that they changed their mind on the way down and didn't want to die.
@@AdamKadmon-cg5qs he could've had a change of heart due to the realisation that this would've a rather nasty way to go because surely you would want it to be quick and painless
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The scariest thing is that this poor guy died...and know one seems to know how or why, or even his identity! Thanks for for bringing this to light.
My biggest question is why no one has tried to do genetic genealogy yet to identify him. I mean it’s likely a relative of his has uploaded a DNA analysis online so investigators can extract DNA from the John Doe and trace the results of the submitted samples to see if the Doe and the samples share a common ancestor. Of course he could have been adopted which means extended family possibly didn’t know of him but still it would be a stepping stone.
@@mirandagoldstine8548 They mentioned in the video that DNA couldn't be taken. Presumably it was destroyed by the high temperatures.
@ That would explain a lot. I would need to double check if it’s possible of course.
Ah yeah, as soon as this started I knew this was the Bellingham case (although the plant looked very different from the drawings). Bellingham is such a weird little town-- we've have 4 known serial killers come through here and all stop at the same bar, and several more suspected. The 1999 Olympic Pipeline disaster rewrote pipeline safety in the US, a apocalyptic cat cult that began here, the deadliest mining accident in America happened at the Blue Canyon mine, eco-terrorists tried to derail an oil train just a few short years ago, and we did have an unexplained derailment that caught fire... just so many quirky, strange little mysteries for a town of about 100,000. As a kid I grew up rubbing shoulders with the DC sniper when he was in town, and his hangout was only a few streets away from the GP plant where this case happened. Where the old mill stood is now a large community area, being slowly developed into mixed high-end condos with low-income apartments. A temporary beer garden village made from shipping containers currently sits where the steam evaporators once did, with an off-road bike track nearby. It's a very popular community space during the short WA summers.
GP was right on the waterfront, dominated the skyline from the main streets of Old Town and downtown. It was and iconic part of town, except that it was also leeching mercury and other heavy metals into the bay, slowly poisoning the waters and shoreline. Bellingham began as a timber and coal town, and some of the finest stone for construction around during the turn of the century. A lot of local stone helped rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 disaster. Coal tunnels stretch under a vast majority of the city, with the oldest being unmapped, stretching out under the bay. Every once in a while one of the older streets will collapse into a tunnel to remind us what we're sitting on.
I'm so proud of my hometown!
Edit: the illustrations later in the video are on point, that's what the east side of the plant looked like.
And a handful of disappearances outside town towards the Mt Baker national forest, most famous would probably be Leah Roberts back in the spring of 2000
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I want to read more about the catocalypse cult. Eva's Eden (Sheryl Ruthven)
@@Sorrowdusk Right?? I am strongly considering starting a podcast to cover thePNW and it's dark mysteries, because we sure have some bizarrness out here
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RIP to the poor soul, and congrats to BTS hitting the 1 million subscriber mark.
On the website "The Bellingham Herald - After 30 years, the mystery of the G-P smokestack skeleton continues" is an interesting video about this case including pictures of the remains. Maybe he was some worker who had an accident and so some day he just disappeared but with the bosses hiding all the details to prevent suspicions about the safety of their plant after learning that their missing guy now showed up in one of their boilers. Maybe that guy was an urbexer who liked the thrill of breaking into and climbing around like an ape on the premises of industrial zones at night who accidentally tripped and fell. He might also be a homeless guy looking for a warm place who accidentally fell into that heat exchanger while looking for some warm place to sleep and being completely drunk. No one will ever identify that skeleton, it is even possible it was in there for years... But his death was surely one of the most brutal possible deaths, he was grilled after falling on these hot steam pipes.
Well, shit.
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It always seems like whenever I’m feeling it’s been awhile since the last upload, Bedtime Stories manages to upload on the same day every time.
I saw the title thinking about the body that was found at the Georgia Pacific paper mill in Bellingham, Washington State where I was born and raised having no idea that the video would be about that actual incident. 😂 Awesome! Thanks for doing this. I wasn't sure if it wasn't just an urban legend in the community. But I have seen references to this in the Bellingham Herald from time to time. Cheers!
Thanks for confirming it was in Washington.
I’d say the serial killer bar a few blocks from the paper mill is more of an urban legend
And of course the disappearance of Leah Roberts in March 2000. Other people have disappeared out in the mountains like her, but none as mysterious
I worked as a contractor in the late 90's at the Bellingham GP . It was creepy at night, very dark and desolate. Whenever I worked near the boiler house I thought about that poor man.
This channel is one of the few I have notifications turned on for and it has never let me down.
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Same brother, the ONLY channel for me
Oh it’s the Best even better than Mr Ballen
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Given the discounted tools, I think it’s more likely the length of time the body was in there was wrong and that some unfortunate maintenance or construction worker fell in and no one ever thought to check the boiler stack when it was realized he was missing
Its raining and this feels perfect to watch
Yeah same here, rained all day long
I’ve watched every single BedtimeStories videos, some multiple times. I wish they increased production while maintaining interesting video ideas/topics.. ofc that’s the hardest part of this TH-cam category, but there’s more out there just hard to find
You all may or may not share my sentiment but as I've gotten older I've come to love rainy days. Relaxing
Same here in California
Has been here in Madrid too. Bloody cold out and all. Perfect viewing x
Same here 😂 love listening to this walking home after work in the rain with my AirPods
Kinda surprised one of theories wasn't the man being homeless or a drifter. Guessing a drifter would assume the plant would be fairly warm shelter inside and decided to take his chances. Could have been hiding near the boilers to keep warm. Possibly in the event of trying to hide from the workers, they climbed into boiler and then broke bones trying to get out and just falling back down. It's obviously a far from perfect theory but surprised it wasn't mentioned
One thing not addressed: What caused the alarm? That a body was found is immaterial, as it had clearly been there for some time causing no problem. And it was not running? So why the alarm at such an odd time of day?
Good queston. Some sort of malfunction or there was no alarm at all and we got guy who found him and suspect in one person.
This case and the death of Dave Bocks, are two mysterious deaths that have just never left the back of my mind. Always nice to see either pop up.
Just when I was wondering when a new episode would drop. You guys never cease to amaze!
Reminds me of an episode of NCIS where a body was discovered in a boiler chimney and i am sure CSI also did something similar. Like all things in life there are some mysteries that are never going to be solved because the search for the answer pushes us forward to discover more.
This is a very interesting case, and it reminds me of 2 cases from the North American TV show Unsolved Mysteries: The case of Dave Bocks, whose remains were found in an industrial furnace on the NLO grounds in Fernald Ohio, and the case of Brian Stanley Duecker, who attempted jumped onto a moving plane in Paducah Kentucky.
This story reminded me of Fernald and Dave Bocks. I live about 30 minutes from Fernald,but when the incident happened, I was on active duty in the army, stationed in California. It made the headlines on the nightly news out there.
I grew up with people whose fathers worked at Fernald, and they all said that there's no way Bock jumped into the furnace. The temperature was so great that you couldn't walk near the hatch if it was open.
i'd would wager a lot that Unsolved Mysteries had quite a bit of influence on the folks who run this channel. that's still one of my fave shows.
I was watching old ghoul boys videos from Buzzfeed unsolved because I’m feeling nostalgic and then I saw this video come up in my notifications and I said out loud “ok!!” And clicked so fast
I’m feeling pretty sick right now so this is a huge comfort, thank you 🙏🏻
I may be an internet stranger, but I hope you feel better soon :)
Congrats on 1 Million subs!!! I have been here for about 5 years and love your channel. The stories, narration and art work are always top notch! So happy for the team at Bedtime Stories!!! You all deserve it!! Thanks so much for all your work!
I have my own theories, though if anything this should be a reminder for companies to improve their security measures to prevent unauthorized entry and death
Agreed. This could have been prevented if stricter protection protocols were in place.
It is a Water plant ..not Fort Knox ..
@ But people can still unknowingly get inside for reasons that aren’t clear at first glance. This is why having high awareness of security weaknesses is important. This man whose body was found in the plant could still be alive if security had realized someone unauthorized was in the vicinity.
You should start selling the thumbnails of your videos as posters.
I would love some Bedtime stories art of my favorite episodes 🥰 awesome ide
Or t-shirts! 👍🏻
@ they already have shirts
That's a great idea
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That and that Guy who Fell on The steam boiler Pit thing in NYC were true horror... The Guy in NYC suffer a Lot, and there were witness and firefighters Just waiting him stop screaming to rescue his remainings
This channel is the best never disappoints, I love it even More than Mr.Ballens! Hell even Mr Ballen himself is a huge fan of this channel!! It’s so Good!
Have you ever heard of David Bocks? There is an interesting story from Ohio about the pipe fitter falling into an oven there. I forget what the place was called. I'd like to hear your point of view on that. His body remains sealed in a 55 gallon drum, as his remains are too toxic to be buried. Many believe he was murdered for being a potential whistle-blower.
Looking at the Unsolved Mysteries page on the guy right now. I can see why his family suspect he was taken out for being a whistler-blower. If he found out something wrong was going on in the facility, as in he found an error that could be corrected but the company refused to do so because it would cost money and time they didn’t want to waste, and he threatened to alert the government or the local media then he could have been blackballed. And if he continued to do so and the company grew extremely worried about their reputation tanking, then yes he would have a target on his back. If he was a whistle-blower then the company’s efforts at trying to paint a rosy picture ultimately failed because in the end the secret got out and that tanked the respectability of the plant in the eyes of the population. Probably led to a ton of lawsuits as well.
By the way, the name of the facility was NLO.
The problem is that if this was a mob "disposal," he would have needed to be bound, carried by two or three guys up to the top of the boiler, unbound, then thrown in. Because remember he was found with strips of cloth over his hands- he was trying to climb out. I doubt the mob would take such a long way round to do a guy in, nor the chance of being discovered. If they want to hurt someone, they use a pair of pliers and a torch in a secluded basement, before shooting them in the head.
Seems way more likely this was a lone "ELF" type, (Earth Liberation Front,) that wanted to make a name for himself by destroying machinery at the plant. Though even this seems to not fit 100%, because why would he hop into an open boiler? Likely this was one of the ELF "commando groups" traveling around the USA at the time. They had vowed to kill hunters, blow up factories and generally cause mayhem to US and Canadian industry all over the country. (They once torched every car on a large car dealership, creating far more pollution in the process than if the cars had been left to live out their normal life expectancy.)
In the process of maybe preparing to drop a bomb into the boiler, this guy fell in. His friends would have panicked and fled, leaving him to suffer an ignominious and mysterious death.
Certainly not a suicide. There are two types of suicides. Those that wish to avoid pain, so why choose a boiler, and those that want to draw attention to themselves in a failed attempt- so why pick a boiler. The point is for everyone to come rushing to your aid and lavish you with concern- so why pick a boiler?
This was whack job "Stop Oil" type, not a suicide or murder. Just way to impractical. Or drifter kids playing a game- which he lost.
And nobody smelt the aroma of a human charbroiling into a Hannibal delicacy thru the steam lines?!?
He was proly vegan
They have great taste
As always great graphics please keep it. My heart goes out to the friends and family of this person
Hey! One million subscribers! Very well deserved. I’ve been following this channel for years now and I love it. 😊
Here's a question: why did the alarm sound around a week after his death? Why not the day he fell in or the day after? That's bizarre. What triggered the alarm if not his entry?
Both my husband and myself both think it was most likely a protestor. They tried to sabotage the boiler, and it all went horribly wrong. Think Occam's Razor. The rest is just too much convoluted shite.
You got two husbands?
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If it was, it's rather comforting.
Yeah, he tried sabotaging the boiler while in it, and then it turned on.
What was he planning on sabotaging it with, Hulk strength? No tools for sabotage found present. If clothing could survive, tools could survive. Also why keep mum about it for 40 years.
This is one of my favorite mysteries and there are so few videos/podcasts about it.
impeccable timing. right when I needed something to distract me from a terrible migraine! thank you 😊
Get well!
@karaamundson3964 thank you, that's very kind 🥰
How horrific, made worse knowing he was alive after falling or going in on his own, and then trying to shield himself, his pain would have been unbearable. Much love.
Congratulations on the 1 million !! 👏
Every new episode is still eagerly awaited! I love when you cover less well known stories.
This channel and wartime stories are the best channels on yt hands down, no comparison, I just wish you made longer videos.
Have u seen all the channels on TH-cam?
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Broken bones, especially long bones in the arms and legs can be broken post mortem when the body is exposed to heat like this. The muscle tissue contracts as it looses moisture to the fire/heat and has the power to even snap femurs.
Being a boiler operator, this story is super interesting! Thank you for a great video as always
Another excellent Bedtime Story; long may this channel continue!
Holy shit bedtime stories!!!! Hit that MIL!. I've been watching y'all's TH-cam for like 5 years or more. I feel like y'all only had like 300,000 subscribers at the time. Congrats! Y'all deserve it
I'm sure teaming up with Mr. Ballen did hurt. That's why I'm here😂
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A more supernatural theory;
Urban Explorer phases through time tunnel and arrives in the boiler in 1987 whilst its active.
What a slam dunk of a way to end my night at work. This was an intriguing one!!!
Love you channel my friend! Many thanks for your hard work to produce videos of this quality!
Makes me think of the guys that break into factories to explore. They sneak around and try to avoid any workers or security, so maybe they were trying to find someplace to hide.
Sometimes I forget you aren't just a disembodied voice who narrates stories
I have an oddly strong instinct telling me this was a homicide. Also it reminds me of the case of Elisa Lam, only a little less gross.
So much for listening while I try to fall asleep. The therapy push in the middle of the story just killed the whole dang thing. Bummer.
You guys are brilliant, the production quality, the art work and the brilliant narration ( perfect voice and tempo) the whole thing is honestly better and more entertaining than most multi million dollar films out there . Honestly i get more out of watching your guys 20 minute TH-cam video than almost every multi million dollar film made today .
No body is ready for Bedtime Stories.
Please do the unsolved murder of Charles Walton on Valentine's Day 1945
Reminds me of a story I recall hearing some years ago. Someone working at a local coal power plant went missing, and they eventually found his body inside one of those big, circular cooling towers.
Reckon he'd ran himself to death looking for a corner to sh*t in.
...I'll see myself out.
I’m from Bellingham and this story always creeps me out. What an awful way to go…
He didn't get in there by himself, or how would he have shut the trapdoor after he got in?!!
Good morning from Germany,
nice to hear a good night Story in Bed .
One million subs! Your videos are always interesting and well researched, with great artwork. I've been following you since I came back to the UK 7 years ago and discovered you then, it's great to see you go from strength to strength.
Just seems weird and tragic that no missing person could be matched. The man who died in the boiler HAD to have had some family or friends. Even if it was a prank or protest gone wrong, it seems like someone would have reported a missing person around that time.
Maybe but if he was from a different state the dots may have not been connected.
That,or he may have been disowned by his family and they don't care if he's alive or not.
It is a tragic reality that families often don't care. In Canada, where I'm from and studied criminology in university, there is a huge problem with missing and murdered (disproportionately but not exclusively aboriginal) women. Sometimes it's a serial killer, sometimes, a less TV-worthy fate of a simple drug overdose. The police are often quite unfairly criticized for not knowing exactly what happened, when the families themselves never heard from or tried to contact their daughters for years. There's noble exceptions of course, but all too often, the families only come out of the woodwork years later, when it's in the headlines, and there's opportunities for lawsuit money or getting paid for interviews. A lot of professional activist types in Vancouver and Toronto (and, I am guessing, in various US cities too) are outcasts from their families, living with no fixed address. In both these categories of disappearance/unidentified found bodies, it will be nearly impossible to trace anything. Nobody knows exactly when they were last recorded. Most of their 'friends' and associates are transient, drug addicts, or people who want to hide their activities for various reasons from the authorities, so won't talk, or the booze and drugs have so wasted their minds they are useless as witnesses. They might have lived in ten different addresses, at which none of their original roommates or exes currently reside, in the time between when they last were in regular schooling or employment/living with their families. Heck, the internet has been around pumping out True Crime stories about John and Jane Does for 15+ years on TH-cam, and enough of these people's families still don't bother.
First heard this story on the channel Curious World. Glad to see it get more coverage.
I already heard this story on your podcast, but I still watched the whole video just to see the artwork. Amazing as always!
Waiting weeks to see something pop up and as always worth it wartime n bedtime are my 2 favorite channels
Dude Beyond Creepy and BedTime Stories same day drop ! Omg!!!! Heck yeah!!!!
Plus someone had to shut it. One would think "the body" would have complained if he was conscious. No easy answers with this one fellows. As always a good video. Thanks.
Thank you for the story 👻
Horrible way to go.
Completely agree
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It's not yall.
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I see it all of the time by people trying to be something their not.
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If not, it's harder to explain.
If you are American then you should know.
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Fascinating... And sad.
For a few seconds there I thought you were doing a promo right from the outset! Lol
Bedtime Stories! Yay! Congrats on reaching one million subscribers. You deserve it!
Awesome as always thanks ❤️
"Inside Number 9" new season spoilers
Thanks for the overall video
Literally love these stories
Love you and appreciate your hard work ❤ yay to 1 million subs
I lived in WA half my life, spent two years of that about an hour outside of Bellingham. I remember hearing about this story at the bar I frequented from an old timer that worked there. Really cool to see that story on here, gruesome as it is.
The must unbelievable part is that a board operator actually went and looked into it that close to relief.
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That "1 million" subs looks nice.
Hope it turns to 2 soon.
Love this channel 🎉
Sounds also possibly like mafia victim, someone they wanted to suffer. One or more people on the workforce connected to the mafia would let them onto the premises. Today the asphalt / tar roadworks companies are said to help dispose of bodies due to all parts of the body dissolving in the hot mixtures. So chances are roads are being paved with victems from these mafias
Organized crime really does seem the most likely explanation here.
@@micheljavert5923really? Because it kinda just seems like a Monday at work
That’s what I was thinking. Thrown in with broken legs
Bodies don't dissolve in ashpault and it's not *that* hot when its made. You need more than 'hot mixtures' to destroy tissue and bone at a molecular level, you need a chemical bath like those soda lakes in Yellowstone, where the heat simply speeds the reaction by lowering the energy requirements for it to take place, which is very different from pitch and gravel, which can literally buckle from a hot summer day. Paving over it with a shadlow pit on a new road, however, is easy and would go undetected for a very long time.
The area isn’t know for organized crime and the paper mill was literally next to the bay. You could dump a body out in Puget Sound
There’s also the issue of multiple shifts of people and the risk that somebody would stumble upon the guy before he had been cooked alive
This sounds so familiar but I'm not sure why.
That dead woman that was found in a hotel water tank?
A dead man's body was found on top of a pile of coal in the uk many years ago his skin had turned green and I don't think he was identified.
The possibility that the body was a murder victim whose body was tossed in the boiler stack so it would be unidentifiable was the first that came to my mind.
16:04 Epic prank gone wrong in the hood (cops called)
Well done on your 1 million subs 😎👍
I remember listening to this on the podcast a while back. Chilling to see it now illustrated
Reminds me about girl found in a water tankard at the top of Cecil hotel. She was off medication (can't remember if it was scizophrenia or something similar), and she made her way from an emergency exit to the roof and voluntarily climbed into the water tankard where she drowned. I would wonder if this man also suffered some kind of mental illness? Seems odd for him to climb the gates and wander the plant, but if he felt he was being chased by something and was trying to get away, I can see it.
Hell yeah! It seems so long since you guys put out a new video. I’m stoked about this one though.
Congrats on a million subs been here since 15k, onwards to 2 mil great channel keep it up