a dead body can look extremely different from a living person. its very possible being in the wake of finding out the her son had been horrifically beaten and strangled, the mother may have genuinely thought it was her son. there is no way reason for her not to have believed, especially being presented with a body in bad condition.
@@Gonk i had a similar experience with my mother and sister actually. She was 2 and was ejected from a car seat went through the windshield and hit a tree and when they showed her to my mom before taking her into surgery she was outraged because she was sure the purple and black swollen deformed thing was not her daughter nor my sister. It was a disturbing experience to say the least. My sister did not make a full recovery she is mentally handicapped from the situation but it took over a day to convince her she was in shock from it
Agreed. When my grandmother died at the age of 92 my mother and my aunt went to the morgue. According to my mother she "looked strange, like something was missing" She didn't know what. She kept asking the staff if it really was her and they confirmed it was her.
I'm a scientist and I work with methanol almost every day; hence, I've looked up what kind of taste it has so I know in case I accidentally ever ingest it. It's apparently sweet. That also makes it ideal for slipping into someone's sweet drinks as a poison, allowing it to go unnoticed. If he had accidentally ingested a glass of it, I'm sure he would know he wasn't drinking water or vodka. Methanol burns the skin a bit too, so it likely also burns going down like other alcohols. By diluting it you can get around this burn. After all, they only found 150 mL in his system (though more could have vapourized easily before analysis). The doctor calling this natural seems suspicious to me, as he should know more about methanol poisoning than I do. I think this guy was either murdered or someone placed methanol in a container/place it shouldn't be and there's a cover up of a serious accident going on.
"the two, were innocent" i mean. if you ignore that it was confirmed that they did beat him nearly to death and did strangle him with a towel, just happening to not strangle long enough to finish the job even though they thought they did, by them, and even by the person they tried to kill- yeah sure, innocent, they wouldn't hurt a fly- pretty sure that's still a conspiracy to commit, assault with intent to kill, battery and attempted murder...
Do you understand how law works though? You cant try someone for murder, then the guy shows up alive and turns out the dead body is someone else.. you cant just go, "Ah, well, they're still assholes. They tried to kill a guy, a guys dead.. let's just stick with murder. It all shakes out in the end. Its fine." That's not how it works lol Anyways, the point is the MYSTERY.. which is who was the dude killed, and by whom? Them being being shitbags is not a mystery however, you are right. Would not hire them as babysitters.
to people trying to defend his wording by saying"thats not how the law works" etc. etc. 1: not american laws. Many countries, including ones in those times, use a system that is alot more archaic and technicalities don't automatically get you off for a crime. 2: even the people who "were innocent" thought they fucking killed him until he showed up later on. This isn't a situation of a technicality in which you hear it and get released from prison. 3: again unlike america, where double jeopardy laws exist, they don't use such a law. It's easily something they'd just go back to prison for if let out and most likely would just cause more of a shitshow. This isn't a situation of people being innocent and coerced into a confession to satisfy some quota, yeah they were coerced into a confession. They were also guilty in the first place of it. Yet he's in the video pretending like they were innocent of all wrongdoing because he showed up later on, even though assault, the attempts to kill and the belief that they actually DID kill him still exist. Defend him all you want: guy's got a bad take and should be getting more flak for it now, before he's calling someone like jeffry dahmer a misunderstood individual.
Yeah obviously guilty of attempted murder but can you be charged twice in the same case? Also what if the original victim killed the actual to cover his escape?
Regardless of the state of affairs between countries, I feel like if someone gets murdered in your facility, you should care more about getting justice than petty politics!
@@erockstoenescu6171 Yes, because making petty points is what ruling is all about. Or are you making a point that all rulers have mental issues? I can agree with the second one.
Because there are always chances for innocent people being convicted. The US do this all the time so they're paranoid about it. That's why unless two have trust into each other's justice system, they play by the rule. I think it's a good thing to protect your citizen from being unlawful search or question. But the US should conduct it's own search into the US citizen and match the result with NZ to see what's going on.
I mean, the two a-holes from the first story DID try to kill him, and DID believe they succeeded so I think 10 and 15 years for that would be a light sentence
Thats assuming it wasn't a forced confession, which the beatings imply. Japan was and still is notorious for pinning crimes on random people and forcing them to confess to false crimes. ESPECIALLY in the 30s
Once they admitted to intending the boy harm the police would have just coerced the confession. The problem becomes how much of the confession was real vs coerced.
I'm no doctor, but I feel like if someone starts vomiting blood in a remote research centre, you arrange for an emergency medical evacuation for that person...
Dude yeah I hated it lmao. I know we won’t always have victims’ pictures or pictures of any kind linked to the cases, but I’d soooo much rather photos of victims (before death obviously) or where the cases happened or something. Not stock video of some guy eating noodles idunno
Care should be taken when attributing a case of poisoning to malicious intent, because things aren't always as they seem. There was a well-known case of a woman who was suspected of poisoning two of her children with ethylene glycol (antifreeze). It was discovered later that she was completely innocent, and both of her children had MMA, a medical condition where the body produces a chemical similar to ethylene glycol.
Yes! I just heard that case a few days ago. Terrifying. I couldn't believe they tried to keep her in prison even AFTER her second child was likewise sick and finally diagnosed with MMA. Sad case, that.
Please, please, could you look up the “Restrepo Brothers case” from Ecuador? Is such a dark rabbit hole with ecuadorian police, insurgents and even the president involved back then. To this day it is the greatest mistery from Ecuador and it is still unsolved after 30+ years.
The second case, they identified him based on his wristwatch? Someone needs to dig up his bones and do a more thorough autopsy. The theory about faking his own death is the most believable to me.
@@kristi4113 1. They weren’t in love 2. Their marriage was one of connivence 3. He spent most of his free time with his horse instead of his wife 4. She possibly knows something
@@kristi4113 Well, she still could have been bitter about him liking the horse more than her. Then again, she was the only one who actively tried to get people to look for him.
Sherlock Holmes said "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" Park, possibly fearing for his life, killed a man and placed his body there and when the couple went to prison, he came back home when he felt it was safe.
@@MehdiGamingHQ He couldn't of known that they were going to be free, but I bet he was very uncomfortable when he found out they were being released, whether this was the scenario or not, he was almost killed by them. I would be nervous about them coming back
@@leonpashe8342 I hope you're joking because that clearly a model/actor from out current time. This incident occurred during the time Japan occupied Korea between 1901 and 1945.
I'm pretty sure Rodney passed away due to consuming bad booze from the onsight Still, I don't remember if it was mentioned but I remember it being mentioned in previous investigations. Bad moonshine is one of the most common form of methanol poisonings
This video is at least the second time I've encountered the case, and I've never come across the detail that they had stills on the base. If true, there's still the issue of pathology, because if it was from a group still others consumed the moonshine from, there'd be other cases, even if there were only mild symptoms. He could've been using his own private still that wasn't run so well, but you'd think his fiancee would've known, or certainly that the investigators would've come across it or described it if they were suspicious of it. Method is gonna be the most interesting aspect of a case like this, because means and motive are relatively straightforward. I mean, they're on a somewhat self-sufficient base with facilities like labs and all the items a large team of scientists residing on-site need for half a year, so basically everything. Then of course the guy was known to upset people, so all it would've taken is for someone lacking conscience to have a bad day when they're already stir crazy, disinhibited from the readily available booze, and smart enough to know how to dispatch someone cleanly and that you're operating in what's basically a legal dead zone.
@@WK-47 And 150 mL is no small amount. To get that amount of ethanol from beer it takes about 3 liters. To get it from typical 40% ABV liquor about 375 mL And the taste is different, so if it was accidental, he would need to drink either a large glass of a very high percentage, or a huge amount of adulterated liquor.
"Even when a muscle-bound gentleman from the British Ministry threw his full weight into the airplane door at an altitude of 1000 feet, the door only opened six inches before being slammed shut by the slipstream." Wow, talk about being willing to take one for the team. That man was either dangerously generous, or dangerously stupid... or both.
I'm British: we tend to do weird shit to prove theories - Sir Isaac Newton famously inserted a large needle into his eye socket, so that he could waggle it about, and distort his eyeball to see how it affected his vision. After that, trying an aircraft door in flight seems a minor thing.
@Mister Majestic - Yes. Very strange, but horrifyingly true - he documented the experiment, and the results very thouroghly indeed. A genius, but a weirdo. His most useful invention was the catflap, which he made because he got fed up of having to let his pet cat in and out.
@@brianartillery a genius but a weirdo? Id say he was a genius but also mentally ill. You dont just do something you know will maim you for life just for fun.
The Lowenstein mystery was partly used in the movie "Gilda" to show how easy it was to switch a body in a plane incident. Also it was used by Erle Gardner is his Perry Mason stories a few times.
Case 1- Sort of a happy ending, though we don't know who actually died. Maybe someone heard about the scheme and dumped a body at the scene, assuming that everyone would think the body belonged to the intended victim. Case 2- This feels like a coverup. Case 3- Maybe he was subtly poisoned over the course of a few months until his body finally broke down? The way things are worded it seems like the authorities thought all the poison had been administered at once.
I had the same exact thought about Case #1. There were witnesses that saw those 2 beating the young man. I figured someone took advantage of the situation.
case 2 really does sound like a cover up to me as well, I'm pretty sure the actual exit door was NOT open so he could not have left and closed the door again. if you were to open a door on a plane and not be strapped in, you would be sucked out too quickly to even reach the door if you were to let go and if you were to hold on, you would potentially rip off the door
“As the mothers tears swell the police patted themselves on the back” that made me laugh so hard for no reason. Just the image of a woman crying at her sons body as cops fist bump around her is hysterical🤣
Considering these were Japanese investigators during a time where Japanese xenophobia was at it’s peak something along the lines of this could very well have happened, they’d care more about advancing their careers compared to the foreign mother who lost her son.
I binge watched your channel most of this year and the end of last during online college and now I have to wait for uploads but it's always worth it. Now I get excited when you upload a new video. Keep up the awesome work!!!
Your creativity with these video ideas boggles my brain every time. This channel is such a gift. Thank you for literal YEARS of consistently interesting content, Lazy. Love ya, dude. ❤
In the second story, it seems really hard to believe that they would have used a fake exit door which flew off and then pushed him out of it when he went to go use the bathroom. First of all, how would they know that he would use the bathroom during the flight? Second, wouldn't the people inside the cabin hear the loud rush of air as the fake door flew off and essentially there was now a big hole in the side of the plane?
@@generaleerelativity9524 I wondered if it was possible that he may have fallen into the toilet and out the bottom of the plane, but that's probably not what happened.
@@LazyMasquerade that's probably exactly what happened - there's another video on Lowenstein which mentions that 2 engineers from the aircraft manufacturer (Fokker) managed to open the door mid-flight for long enough to shove something out... and unless they'd tested for it beforehand, a fake door light enough for one guy to open could also be light enough to get yanked off its hinges by the slipstream (and raise a huge racket)
I always figured he was knocked out and stashed on the plane (personnel cabinets etc) and dumped in the ocean later. Stopping at the beach allows them to grab his body while an airport would make that hard/impossible. The height he supposedly fell from makes water like hitting concrete. His entire body would be fractured and finding him in one piece near impossible. That, or his death was staged. Life insurance is a way to launder his money essentially and makes it much harder to trace back to his new identity. Maybe his wife knew and couldn’t convincingly act bereaved, opting to have her miss the funeral instead. Otherwise, if things ever came to a murder investigation, an unfazed widow would be suspect number one. They could even learn he never died at all!
Rodney was murdered, people get sensitive during these isolated times. I can’t imagine a boisterous personality with Tourette’s as well going through their shifts without insulting anyone. Maybe it was an effort of multiple people, also had to be Americans due to the protection from NZ investigators.
@@DeliriousSquid I disagree with almost everything you said. I don’t see a motive for why America would want to protect one of their scientists who killed a another scientist unless the the scientist that killed Rodney was working on something super important to America but I doubt it. Most countries just aren’t good at properly communicating with each other and this case was viewed as so low priority in the American bureaucracy that they sadly just forgot about it. I also don’t see a problem with America not allowing their scientists to be FORCED into an interview, that’s literally just protecting their basic rights. In America, the authorities forced into an interview, you have to choose to do it and even then you can stop the interview whenever you want. Even if you’re under arrest, you have to choose to do an interview and can stop it whenever you want. So yeah, it’s a good thing America protected the rights of their scientists. Also, Rodney went to the doctor 3 times in a period of 36 HOURS not 30 minutes and why do you think Rodney was killed because he was working on some revolutionary technology or whatever. No one has ever claimed he was working on something by his own at the base and I find it shocking that you think scientists can’t also be ignorant c*nts, they’re still human just like you and me. The most likely scenario is that someone who was already a bit messed up in the head beforehand was slowly driven mad after spending months in a frozen wasteland and then one day Rodney said something that upset them and they just lost it.
Lets not overlook that he also had his fiancee there meaning he was one of if not the only person likely to have experienced intimacy in that time. That could be a major source of resentment from peers though if it was a poisoning the MO is more often associated with women which also makes me wonder about the fiancee as you'd imagine that anything your partner did to tick you off would be amplified 10000x in a setting like that
@@jshaw4757 From what I understood of the story, the false confession was to actually murdering him, but when he came back after learning they were arrested he said they had assaulted him, but he lived. Therefore, they'd still be guilty of attempted murder in that case.
The video is lovely overall, but the story about the chess is just a myth that originated in either English or American press. There are no traces of that ever happening in Russian sources whatsoever and chess was never banned in Soviet expeditions, the scientists who actually went there all attest to that. There was even a chess championate between different soviet antarctic stations at one point.
How would you know? Have you been to Antarctica? No cuz the earth is flat!! Spread the truth its plane and simple to see she has no curves on thee! The govt controls radiohead, dredlocks and vider games!
Figured, the test they did never said it was hard to intentionally open the door, they just tested how hard it was to do accidentally. Plus it's a unsafe by modern standards 1920's plane going very slow at only 4000ft. If the man wanted to kill himself, I doubt that door was going to stop him. That's what I think happened, simplest answer. The concept of mental illness was basically unheard of in the 1920's, people always assumed stupid shit like he was rich and "happy", no way he killed himself. No one has any idea how another person truly feels. He was probably just tired of the rat race, looked out at the endless ocean and said "I'm done".
@@utoobisgarbage5210 Yep; Occam's Razor. Depending on the speed, the door could definitely have been opened. The aircraft had just taken off a relatively short time before and had pretty much just reached cruising altitude - those airplanes climbed really slowly, and it wouldn't have risked flying a lot higher than 4000 feet. It's entirely possible they were still speeding up and had barely reached 80 to 100MPH or so (top performing fighters in WWI, just a few years prior, rarely were capable of going faster than that). While that wind would be strong to be sure, it wouldn't preclude opening the door just enough to slip out.
@@utoobisgarbage5210 if you pause it on the plane info sheet it gives speed of about 95 mph. Still might be fast enough to suck him out a bit, especially if he was just expecting it to be the bathroom and not the great beyond, so wouldn't be braced or anything. Might have even started to move forward before he realized what was up.
I've heard the Lowenstien case a few times, and every time I always think of Marge Simpsons whispering "Lowenstien" at the end of the Fear of Flying episode, and I just want to say "My name is Zwieg..."
@@rupexo well there's a caveat to the old Holmes quote. Sherlock Holmes would phrase it in the context of cases with extensive information collected. He'd very carefully choose IF he was to invoke that principle, and only do it when he felt he had collected enough information to banish uncertainties. After all, "whatever remains" might be "I don't know what I'm talking about"
That's actually a logical fallacy, because it implies that those hypotheses chosen are the only possibility. Plus Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't actually a scientifically minded man, he was a mystic who helped a preacher try to introduce false fossils to harm the scientific community actually
The Lordanarts / BrainScratch episode on the Antarctica case is in-depth and good. Mentions that there were a ton of bottles in Rodney’s room, and that he experimented with drug use (if I’m remembering correctly.) Makes you think, maybe it was just an accident, and even he himself didn’t realize what he had done…
It may be important to look more at Rodneys Tourette’s, or more how other people reacted to this. People with that syndrome and other more “extreme” mental illnesses tend to face a lot of violence from others due to the stigma that they are dangerous. One reason I hate a lot of horror content because it tends to play into that stereotype where as if you have something like psychosis, schizophrenia, Tourette’s and other similar things your around 30% more likely to face violence from others than to commit it yourself. We tend to think of scientist of people without biases but sadly that is not always the case. Of course this is just a thought but it could have played into the reason for his death. Edit: Tourette’s is actually a condition with the nervous system disorder, not a mental illness. It’s important to include this distinction to promote awareness for the disorder. And considering that one of the first things that auto fills when googling it is “is Tourette’s contagious” we could use more of that.
Agreed. Though Tourette syndrome isn't a mental illness, it's a nervous system condition. Not that it changes how much stigma those with it face but it matters to those who might be having symptoms to know they need to see a neurologist not a therapist..
"Someone was murdered in a territory we like to pretend is ours. We'll protect our men in that territory just to spit in the faces of the people investigating this murder for claiming it's their land. Petty territory squabbles are more important than figuring out how one of our own was lethally poisoned." Makes sense. >.> Also, my dad worked in Antarctica for a few months…I've never asked him what it was like, only seen some photos of him in the frozen land and been told that he met my mom very shortly before he was set to leave. I'm curious what he'd think of this story…shame I can't exactly talk to him right now…
Two questions.....1.) Why didn't you ask him how it went while he was in Antarctica?!?!? THAT'S CRAZY, that happens to be very intriguing and i would of LOVED to ask a million questions! I have no real father, you know, dead beat asshole, but I did have an uncle whom in my eyes was my father figure growing up and also a stepfather that that saved my life, figuratively. Number 2.) The obvious question that you just leave hanging, just waiting for someone to ask, why can't you ask him, my only 2 thoughts would be that he passed away, which if he did I'm very sorry, or he's in jail or also a deadbeat dad that wants nothing to do with you, like my sperm -donor was and is. He has 2 grandchildren he doesn't even know exist!
@@puntinprincess73431. I think I might have asked him questions when I was really little, but I don't remember his answers all that well. It was just one of those things you kind of take for granted as a kid, you know? 2. That is a VERY personal question you're asking, and the short answer is that I said I can't talk to him "right now", as in I might be able to later; for now, I'm going through a rough patch with my parents, specifically my mom, and he took her side - which I can't begrudge him for, he's been happily married to her for over 40 years, but it does mean he and I can't discuss things at the moment. I will ask him about it when/if things in the family ever settle.
@@puntinprincess7343 I have a deadbeat father as well, so I understand how you feel 💯 he didn't see my son (his only grandson) until he was like... idk 6 months old or something? He hasn't seen him for around 3 ~ 5 years now, I think. Not that it matters but you know... anyways I just wanted to say that I totally understand how you feel, that's all. My grandpa is like my father, he always has been. I'm very lucky to have him, he's a wonderful person 🙂 I'm glad you had your uncle, and I guess your step dad as well right? My step father is basically exactly like my real father, except with a job (and by that I mean he's abusive and controlling and I can't stand him.) My family kinda sucks except for my son and my grandparents (well my grandma is gone now 😔 so it's only my grandpa that's left.) That being said however, I agree with *Wandergirl108* -that is a *very* personal question to randomly ask someone lol. I know you probably didn't mean it offensively or anything like that, but not everyone is so forthcoming- _especially_ when it comes to family, you know what I mean jellybean? 🙃
@@Wandergirl108 For what it's worth, I know exactly how that feels as well (the situation with your parents); it sucks, I know. I hope things get better for you soon!
@@Wandergirl108 i honestly didn't mean to offend you, I just went for the bait when you said you couldn't ask him so I was nosey, but I seriously didn't mean to offend. Im sorry if I was too nosey.
27:06 That beginning of the outro music always make me feel sad cause it means the video is over. I think it's much better that you make the videos without the footage of your face. It feels more dark and immersive.
Oh boy a lazy vid for a Friday night! Cant wait!...please do more of your old school stuff too...love those true scary stories. I always go back and watch those.
What kind of doctor identifies bloody vomit as psychosomatic? (Let alone the rest of the symptoms). Was the doctor an American? As for no Internet, people did pretty well without it for millennia
@@marhawkman303 I think it could be a reference to the movie The Thing? Which has a similar plot (where there's a killer monster among the crew killing them all off) and it takes place in an Antarctic Science Research place thing :]
Decomposition can cause false readings of small amounts of alcohol in a body, so that probably wasn't actually a significant finding in the second case.
This is one of my favorite ones yet. You always dig up the most interesting cases (and if I've heard of them before, I enjoy hearing them again from you!) and these absolutely need to be movies.
The first story, they could have took him to the hills to kill him, beat him up and left him for dead. He actually survived, got scared so killed someone from a near by village beat him so he was unrecogniseable and left him in the spot he was left so when the body was found people would think it was him.
I thought the same thing! Or that he was trying to start anew by staging his own death. He framed his boss or the lady (depending on his relations to them), but the other got roped up with the charges. and couldn’t handle the guilt of them being imprisoned. Maybe at first he thought he wouldn’t care since they mistreated him, but that shit eats at you. Maybe he just missed his mother too much to keep it up.
This is exactly what I thought. Maybe he went to near by village, found someone that was close to same height/looks and killed him to kind of fake his own death. Sometimes people may do even the worse thing to save themselves.
Methanol has a really distinct and overwhelming sweet smell with high vapour pressure. There's no way Rodney wouldn't have realized that what he was drinking wasn't regular alcohol.
yeah i have asnomia (i cant smell almost at all) and i notice the smell every time. even if u dont know what it smells like u would probably notice something off right?? unless thats ur first time drinking but idk...
Methanol and ethanol taste about the same and produce about the same initial intoxicating effect. The only difference is that methanol, once ingested, is metabolized by the liver into formaldehyde and formic acid, chemicals that can damage the optic nerve, leading to blindness, and eventually resulting in death.
There _is_ a film based on the Loewenstein case, albeit a fictionalised version thereof (something which was likely necessitated by the proximity of its release to the actual event). Adapted from Elinor Glyn's novella and released in 1930, _Such Men Are Dangerous_ ( a.k.a. _The Mask of Love_ ) was the final film of director Kenneth Hawks, younger brother of the legendary Howard Hawks. This is due to the fact that Kenneth - who was at the time married to early 'screen queen' Mary Astor - was killed in a midair collision, along with nine others, while filming aerial scenes over the Pacific during the shoot. The two planes which collided, possibly as a result of sun glare, were identical Stinson SM-1F Detroiters. Hawks, who was just 31 years old at the time of his death, was cremated, and his ashes spread over the site of the accident.
My curiosity is instantly going to Arnold 'The Brain' Rothstein. He's a major father of the American mob and some people suspect Lowenstein was working with him with narcotics. He basically started the major illegal narcotics and bootlegging trade in the US and was mentor to Lucky Luciano who was the first boss and organizer of the more modern US Mafia. So this all goes back to the origins of "The War on Drugs"
I think it’s worth mentioning that Lowenstein brought a hefty amount of cash with him on the flight, bringing to light the theory that the people on board wanted to rob him.
@@eternallove4248 sure, they existed, but, were they treated as anything more than a promissory note? You don't even need a check for that. You can just write it on regular paper. The real question is why? Why did he have the cash? Was it out of the ordinary for him? Or just standard practice on long flights?
I know it's not very imaginative but whenever a mystery arises where this is even remotely possible I ask "could they have been sleepwalking?" Like maybe Rodney fell asleep on the job, and because people can perform normal functions while sleepwalking but otherwise behave incoherently, perhaps Rodney drank some methanol from the lab, dreaming that it was a normal beverage: A freak accident sends him to his maker, and we're left scratching our heads about it over twenty years later.
I'm starting to get sketched out by Lazy Masquerade always seeing "Strangled, having the whole life taken out of him" on multiple ocassions. Some dark fantasy maybe?
I think that after surviving the murder attempt, Park Changsu left the area , and found a suitable substitute, either by chance or who he knew of. He murdered this man, put his body in the place that he had been left for dead, in order to prevent his attackers from seeking to finish the job. He then stayed away long enough for the would be killers to be discovered and imprisoned. Upon his return, the confusion that ensued was enough that he was never suspected of the crime, .Since the body went unidentified, it was never linked to him.
For the first one, I believe it was a crime of opportunity. I believe someone left their house angry with someone, saw the two beat up Park. As soon as Park got up and left, the angry person gave a message to the one he was mad at to meet him at that hillside. When they met, the guy beat him up, and choked him with the towel and left it there. I believe the guy who gave the police that bit of information about seeing those two people beating Park is the murder of the other person.
Rodney's case would make an amazing film, if done respectfully. I'm thinking Taylor Sheridan, "Wind River" and Dennis Villeneuve vibes, with a little bit of "The Thing" thrown into the mix. About a group of investigators going to the base, not knowing who's lying, the battle with the "who's jurisdiction" etc. Would make a good crime drama, while also being as respectful and informative as Wind River was in the end.
Definitely thinking about doing so. Currently, I have to wear full headphones 🎧 at night for my sleepy time rain sounds.... As a side sleeper, these buds would likely work much better!
Story 1: I think the kid found out about their plan and fooled another kid with money from another city with similar build as him to take that path. In the dark you can't tell the difference. I think this is what happened because he went back to his village after the other two went to jail. They wouldn't dare to kill him now if acquitted. Story 2: He was definitely murdered by wife and associates. All of these became wealthier after his death including the pilot and the mechanic. They had the money and reason to keep everyone quiet and from going to prison because all of them (mainly the pilot and mechanic) would've gone to prison. Story 3: Nope. No suicide. Someone who wanted to see him suffer a slow agonizing death was at hand. I think it is likely a woman. Being out in a remote area and within close quarters he must have developed a romantic relationship with a coworker no one was aware of. Relationship failed. Love triangles are unprofessional but not uncommon. Definitely the higher ups are covering this up. Someone has a feeling of who might be responsible for sure.
Yeah my first thought was definitely a woman. Poison is the most common means of women murdering, especially a man. She must have tricked him into having a drink and had him drink poison. The fact so many people refused to testify is because they knew about the relationships….I bet you tons of people there cheat on their spouses 🤔
All cases were interesting but that last one ughhhh! Frustrating and sad 😥 like there was a possible murder and the US officials were like " ehhh you don't have to cooperate if you don't want to " you'd think they'd at minimum want to keep " their researchers/ workers " safe by getting to the bottom of this ughhh
In relation to the first case - one theory I have is that the guy was telling the truth but skipped an important detail... That he was the perpetrator. He said he was really afraid they would finish the job if they thought he was alive. He said he went to another village and obviously created a fake identity so nobody knew who he was or his story. Well, maybe he went and lured somebody, committed the crime and ran off in the hope they would convict the people who beat him up so he could come back or start fresh. Maybe he wasn't even planing to come back initially but after finding out nobody suspected him and they perceived him as the victim, he decided there's no reason to continue hiding. I wouldn't be surprised if the mother/family knew about it and helped him, including falsely identifying the body and supplying him with news or food. (After reading and researching about the war in that region I found out a lot of people were trained in basic guerilla/surviving tactics that included communicating through notes and leaving caches of supplies in a certain location.) That would explain the young age of the victim - it's easier to lure and overpower a 16 y/o. It would explain why the perpetrator focused on the face so much. It would explain why they didn't find his identity - the Japanese law enforcement in the victim's village labeled him as a runaway and the law enforcement in the village where the crime happened didn't care to go looking for the victim's identity outside of their turf. I think it's a pretty solid theory, though some of the others are as well.
It may be important to note that Marks had a history of IV drug use, and the base physician stated their were two fresh needle marks on his arm. Pictures of his work space show it was extremely cluttered, and if he were already in quite a state, it is possible he could've drank something without realizing what exactly it was. Also, in the second case, while it was shown that one man alone was unable to open the plane door, it could however, be opened somewhat by two. You may not have a needed a fake door if you spiked Lowenstein's drinks and used a little teamwork.
iirc from an episode of House, methanol binds with ethanol in alcohol (or some alcohols, idk, not a chemist), so mixing the two would actually prevent him from dying of methanol poisoning
Another two cases that should be made into movies: The Murder of Laetitia Toureaux (the Murder on the Metro case). This case has so many theories and twists with connections to spies and secret lovers, etc. The death of Colin Chapman. He founded the Lotus car company, and allegedly died of a heart attack in 1982. Many, however, including famed racing drivers Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti, believe he faked his own death. There are many odd circumstances surrounding his death including the fact that doctor who signed his death certificate disappeared into thin air soon afterwards.
You've obviously read my mind, I've been looking for more of these to watch during my lunch breaks. They only last half an hour so your videos are perfect for me 🥰
The first one is so clear: the boy was beaten and his attackers thought he was dead, but he survived. In order to "stay dead", he kills someone of his same demographic, disfigures their face, and leaves them where he was beaten. Then he tells his mom to go along with it and skips town until his attempted murderers are safely behind bars 🤷
Love these, you always seem to find content that no one else has covered. So good! My one critic with the first story is using stock vids/photos of specific people to imply they are the people in the cases is really weird and off putting. Usually people use stock vids/photos for the actions, emotions and environments in them to help visualize the story being told; not to have the audience picture the stock models as the people in the story.
I get your point! Here was my reasoning: Firstly, there are no photos of any of the people involved. Secondly, for native English speakers, all of the Korean names can make it difficult to keep track of who's who, so I thought a visual cue may be helpful. I though about using pictures of silhouettes, but figured that wasn't engaging. Not saying it turned out perfect, but I thought it was a better alternative to being a confusing listen.
a dead body can look extremely different from a living person. its very possible being in the wake of finding out the her son had been horrifically beaten and strangled, the mother may have genuinely thought it was her son. there is no way reason for her not to have believed, especially being presented with a body in bad condition.
I agree 100%. Exactly what I was thinking. Grief can fuck your mind up
The clothing tho
@@Gonk i had a similar experience with my mother and sister actually. She was 2 and was ejected from a car seat went through the windshield and hit a tree and when they showed her to my mom before taking her into surgery she was outraged because she was sure the purple and black swollen deformed thing was not her daughter nor my sister. It was a disturbing experience to say the least. My sister did not make a full recovery she is mentally handicapped from the situation but it took over a day to convince her she was in shock from it
That's probably it to be honest, sadly
Agreed. When my grandmother died at the age of 92 my mother and my aunt went to the morgue. According to my mother she "looked strange, like something was missing" She didn't know what. She kept asking the staff if it really was her and they confirmed it was her.
I'm a scientist and I work with methanol almost every day; hence, I've looked up what kind of taste it has so I know in case I accidentally ever ingest it. It's apparently sweet. That also makes it ideal for slipping into someone's sweet drinks as a poison, allowing it to go unnoticed. If he had accidentally ingested a glass of it, I'm sure he would know he wasn't drinking water or vodka. Methanol burns the skin a bit too, so it likely also burns going down like other alcohols. By diluting it you can get around this burn. After all, they only found 150 mL in his system (though more could have vapourized easily before analysis). The doctor calling this natural seems suspicious to me, as he should know more about methanol poisoning than I do. I think this guy was either murdered or someone placed methanol in a container/place it shouldn't be and there's a cover up of a serious accident going on.
Other than methanol, why on earth Methadone so addictive??
*this is my first ever , on having a conversation with a scientist* !
I hope he responds!
You solved it! It was the doctor lol! Maybe he did know better.
The doctor is suspicious. Would it have been possible for it to be in the antipsychotics he gave him, would you know?
Very informative Intel. Much appreciated.
Also, love the screen name.
"the two, were innocent" i mean. if you ignore that it was confirmed that they did beat him nearly to death and did strangle him with a towel, just happening to not strangle long enough to finish the job even though they thought they did, by them, and even by the person they tried to kill- yeah sure, innocent, they wouldn't hurt a fly- pretty sure that's still a conspiracy to commit, assault with intent to kill, battery and attempted murder...
Pretty sure he didn't mean they were innocent of the _murder,_ (which they were) not that they were innocent people
Do you understand how law works though? You cant try someone for murder, then the guy shows up alive and turns out the dead body is someone else.. you cant just go, "Ah, well, they're still assholes. They tried to kill a guy, a guys dead.. let's just stick with murder. It all shakes out in the end. Its fine." That's not how it works lol
Anyways, the point is the MYSTERY.. which is who was the dude killed, and by whom?
Them being being shitbags is not a mystery however, you are right. Would not hire them as babysitters.
still the verdict would be different than straight up murder. sarah said it all LAMKDOFI
to people trying to defend his wording by saying"thats not how the law works" etc. etc.
1: not american laws. Many countries, including ones in those times, use a system that is alot more archaic and technicalities don't automatically get you off for a crime.
2: even the people who "were innocent" thought they fucking killed him until he showed up later on. This isn't a situation of a technicality in which you hear it and get released from prison.
3: again unlike america, where double jeopardy laws exist, they don't use such a law. It's easily something they'd just go back to prison for if let out and most likely would just cause more of a shitshow.
This isn't a situation of people being innocent and coerced into a confession to satisfy some quota, yeah they were coerced into a confession. They were also guilty in the first place of it. Yet he's in the video pretending like they were innocent of all wrongdoing because he showed up later on, even though assault, the attempts to kill and the belief that they actually DID kill him still exist.
Defend him all you want: guy's got a bad take and should be getting more flak for it now, before he's calling someone like jeffry dahmer a misunderstood individual.
Yeah obviously guilty of attempted murder but can you be charged twice in the same case?
Also what if the original victim killed the actual to cover his escape?
Regardless of the state of affairs between countries, I feel like if someone gets murdered in your facility, you should care more about getting justice than petty politics!
Humans will be humans.
That’s why you will never run a country or anything of note for that matter
@@erockstoenescu6171 Yes, because making petty points is what ruling is all about. Or are you making a point that all rulers have mental issues? I can agree with the second one.
Because there are always chances for innocent people being convicted. The US do this all the time so they're paranoid about it.
That's why unless two have trust into each other's justice system, they play by the rule.
I think it's a good thing to protect your citizen from being unlawful search or question. But the US should conduct it's own search into the US citizen and match the result with NZ to see what's going on.
That’s where you’re wrong and your opinion is stupid.
Rewatched "Zodiac" recently and thought this might be a fun topic. Great movie.
Thanks for the upload, daddy
Make a video on Ted Cruz
Could you bring back the timestamps? Pls
Definitely is a great movie!🤘
We need a lazy masquerade top 20 horror films of all time. Plz , thenk you
“Is the killer in this photo?”
Unless there was a murderous rogue penguin at large in the area then I’d say it’s pretty much a given.
Do NOT underestimate the penguins.
Did the Norwegians find a dog?
Because it's not a dog...
It’s a bit of a ways from Gotham City, but still...
It is possible not all the workers present during the murder was in the photo. It is also possible someone from another base was involved.
I fancy
a homicidal rogue seal!
I mean, the two a-holes from the first story DID try to kill him, and DID believe they succeeded so I think 10 and 15 years for that would be a light sentence
Thats assuming it wasn't a forced confession, which the beatings imply.
Japan was and still is notorious for pinning crimes on random people and forcing them to confess to false crimes. ESPECIALLY in the 30s
Nah. They were guilty.
Once they admitted to intending the boy harm the police would have just coerced the confession.
The problem becomes how much of the confession was real vs coerced.
EXACTLY THEY WERE STILL GUILTY, how do they know he lived???
@KaSyl_Town but they intended to kill him, how would they have known he wasn't dead when they left him. They wouldn't have. So guilty.
Rodney: -starts vomiting blood-
Doctor: It's all in your head.
That sounds just like my GP
Just walk it off. --You'll be fine.
Yep that's what it is🤣
Seriously some doctors be like this. Was he questioned I wonder 🤔
I'm no doctor, but I feel like if someone starts vomiting blood in a remote research centre, you arrange for an emergency medical evacuation for that person...
@@sitakhet I agree, SOMEBODY in a research center should have some common sense about bloody vomiting
I can't help but laughed on the first story especially when I saw the model eating a noodles while listening to Lazy Masquerade's serious narration. 🤣
Lol
Came to the comments just to make sure I wasn't the only one 😂
Dude yeah I hated it lmao. I know we won’t always have victims’ pictures or pictures of any kind linked to the cases, but I’d soooo much rather photos of victims (before death obviously) or where the cases happened or something. Not stock video of some guy eating noodles idunno
Another BANGER from the GOAT.
DA GOAT
Quite the compliment cooking from a legend such as urself ❤️❤️❤️
@@babycakes904 “cooking?” LOL! Is that new slang?
Yes, indeed.
Hugs swamp dweller! Fancy seeing you here! I listen to you every night, fairly new to your channel though.
Care should be taken when attributing a case of poisoning to malicious intent, because things aren't always as they seem. There was a well-known case of a woman who was suspected of poisoning two of her children with ethylene glycol (antifreeze). It was discovered later that she was completely innocent, and both of her children had MMA, a medical condition where the body produces a chemical similar to ethylene glycol.
Yes! I just heard that case a few days ago. Terrifying. I couldn't believe they tried to keep her in prison even AFTER her second child was likewise sick and finally diagnosed with MMA. Sad case, that.
@@GenXfrom75 Truth really is stranger than fiction
@@tekbarrier this video fails to mention the fact that he was a known alcoholic
Glycol can be poisonous but in great quantity. They use it many things. A well known laxative in 100% ethylene glycol.
I remember hearing about that case!
Please, please, could you look up the “Restrepo Brothers case” from Ecuador? Is such a dark rabbit hole with ecuadorian police, insurgents and even the president involved back then. To this day it is the greatest mistery from Ecuador and it is still unsolved after 30+ years.
Where’s a good place to start a deep dive on this
The second case, they identified him based on his wristwatch? Someone needs to dig up his bones and do a more thorough autopsy. The theory about faking his own death is the most believable to me.
And his wife didn’t attend “his” funeral…three guesses why.
@@kristi4113
1. They weren’t in love
2. Their marriage was one of connivence
3. He spent most of his free time with his horse instead of his wife
4. She possibly knows something
@@aurorasmith745 Duh. Because he is probably not dead, that’s why she didn’t give a crap to show up.
@@kristi4113 Well, she still could have been bitter about him liking the horse more than her. Then again, she was the only one who actively tried to get people to look for him.
@@aurorasmith745 im surprised you didnt list the more likely reason. It was too difficult for her to watch him be lowered into the dirt and buried.
Sherlock Holmes said "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" Park, possibly fearing for his life, killed a man and placed his body there and when the couple went to prison, he came back home when he felt it was safe.
I thought it could have been him as well, as a way to ensure his own safety.
I've always found this to be a slightly eerie quote, because I *know* one day I'm gonna find a mystery where the only answer is some "fallen" shit.
Why return though, knowing the other too will be free once he's back?
@@MehdiGamingHQ He couldn't of known that they were going to be free, but I bet he was very uncomfortable when he found out they were being released, whether this was the scenario or not, he was almost killed by them. I would be nervous about them coming back
That is what I was thinking myself. Or you had the areas first serial killer(s) or atleast attempt at serial killing.
“They found the body of this guy” *zooms in on a man smoldering at the camera* odd, that
lol yeah...
That's Park Chung Sue apparently
@@leonpashe8342 I hope you're joking because that clearly a model/actor from out current time. This incident occurred during the time Japan occupied Korea between 1901 and 1945.
@@bleachedout805 nah, thats park jong soo, i was the photographer
I don’t get that part either
I'm pretty sure Rodney passed away due to consuming bad booze from the onsight Still, I don't remember if it was mentioned but I remember it being mentioned in previous investigations. Bad moonshine is one of the most common form of methanol poisonings
This video is at least the second time I've encountered the case, and I've never come across the detail that they had stills on the base. If true, there's still the issue of pathology, because if it was from a group still others consumed the moonshine from, there'd be other cases, even if there were only mild symptoms. He could've been using his own private still that wasn't run so well, but you'd think his fiancee would've known, or certainly that the investigators would've come across it or described it if they were suspicious of it.
Method is gonna be the most interesting aspect of a case like this, because means and motive are relatively straightforward. I mean, they're on a somewhat self-sufficient base with facilities like labs and all the items a large team of scientists residing on-site need for half a year, so basically everything. Then of course the guy was known to upset people, so all it would've taken is for someone lacking conscience to have a bad day when they're already stir crazy, disinhibited from the readily available booze, and smart enough to know how to dispatch someone cleanly and that you're operating in what's basically a legal dead zone.
@@WK-47 And 150 mL is no small amount. To get that amount of ethanol from beer it takes about 3 liters. To get it from typical 40% ABV liquor about 375 mL
And the taste is different, so if it was accidental, he would need to drink either a large glass of a very high percentage, or a huge amount of adulterated liquor.
"Even when a muscle-bound gentleman from the British Ministry threw his full weight into the airplane door at an altitude of 1000 feet, the door only opened six inches before being slammed shut by the slipstream." Wow, talk about being willing to take one for the team. That man was either dangerously generous, or dangerously stupid... or both.
I *think* they had parachutes at the time, but I'm not sure. If so, it's not so bad. Otherwise, yeah...
@@Veladus I assumed he was like tied to the inside or something but parachute makes more sense
I'm British: we tend to do weird shit to prove theories - Sir Isaac Newton famously inserted a large needle into his eye socket, so that he could waggle it about, and distort his eyeball to see how it affected his vision. After that, trying an aircraft door in flight seems a minor thing.
@Mister Majestic - Yes. Very strange, but horrifyingly true - he documented the experiment, and the results very thouroghly indeed. A genius, but a weirdo. His most useful invention was the catflap, which he made because he got fed up of having to let his pet cat in and out.
@@brianartillery a genius but a weirdo?
Id say he was a genius but also mentally ill. You dont just do something you know will maim you for life just for fun.
When Lazy uploads it feels like Christmas 😁 legit one of the best TH-camrs ever. ❤
The Lowenstein mystery was partly used in the movie "Gilda" to show how easy it was to switch a body in a plane incident. Also it was used by Erle Gardner is his Perry Mason stories a few times.
Case 1- Sort of a happy ending, though we don't know who actually died. Maybe someone heard about the scheme and dumped a body at the scene, assuming that everyone would think the body belonged to the intended victim.
Case 2- This feels like a coverup.
Case 3- Maybe he was subtly poisoned over the course of a few months until his body finally broke down? The way things are worded it seems like the authorities thought all the poison had been administered at once.
Methanol doesn't stay in the body long, so it seems more likely that he drank it.
I had the same exact thought about Case #1. There were witnesses that saw those 2 beating the young man. I figured someone took advantage of the situation.
case 2 really does sound like a cover up to me as well, I'm pretty sure the actual exit door was NOT open so he could not have left and closed the door again. if you were to open a door on a plane and not be strapped in, you would be sucked out too quickly to even reach the door if you were to let go and if you were to hold on, you would potentially rip off the door
@@macaylacayton2915 and the rest of the people in the plane would notice it. Even of the engine noise was loud, there would be some level of draft.
“As the mothers tears swell the police patted themselves on the back” that made me laugh so hard for no reason. Just the image of a woman crying at her sons body as cops fist bump around her is hysterical🤣
I had the same vision lol
Considering these were Japanese investigators during a time where Japanese xenophobia was at it’s peak something along the lines of this could very well have happened, they’d care more about advancing their careers compared to the foreign mother who lost her son.
MrBallen and Lazy Masquerade drop within hours of each other. A fine day indeed. Love the stories brotherman!!!!!
I know right? We getting spoiled!
Two of my top favorite tubers....
The 2 channels that i watch every upload from
Too right. And that must be true because Stone Cold said so.
Don't forget. Mike and his Chanel "that chapter "
I binge watched your channel most of this year and the end of last during online college and now I have to wait for uploads but it's always worth it. Now I get excited when you upload a new video. Keep up the awesome work!!!
Your creativity with these video ideas boggles my brain every time. This channel is such a gift. Thank you for literal YEARS of consistently interesting content, Lazy. Love ya, dude. ❤
In the second story, it seems really hard to believe that they would have used a fake exit door which flew off and then pushed him out of it when he went to go use the bathroom.
First of all, how would they know that he would use the bathroom during the flight? Second, wouldn't the people inside the cabin hear the loud rush of air as the fake door flew off and essentially there was now a big hole in the side of the plane?
I was thinking trapdoor in the bathroom or he never left the plane until they got to the beach.
@@generaleerelativity9524 I wondered if it was possible that he may have fallen into the toilet and out the bottom of the plane, but that's probably not what happened.
I agree it's coincidental. If there was some kind of conspiracy, I think everyone on board would need to be involved.
@@LazyMasquerade that's probably exactly what happened - there's another video on Lowenstein which mentions that 2 engineers from the aircraft manufacturer (Fokker) managed to open the door mid-flight for long enough to shove something out... and unless they'd tested for it beforehand, a fake door light enough for one guy to open could also be light enough to get yanked off its hinges by the slipstream (and raise a huge racket)
I always figured he was knocked out and stashed on the plane (personnel cabinets etc) and dumped in the ocean later. Stopping at the beach allows them to grab his body while an airport would make that hard/impossible. The height he supposedly fell from makes water like hitting concrete. His entire body would be fractured and finding him in one piece near impossible.
That, or his death was staged. Life insurance is a way to launder his money essentially and makes it much harder to trace back to his new identity. Maybe his wife knew and couldn’t convincingly act bereaved, opting to have her miss the funeral instead. Otherwise, if things ever came to a murder investigation, an unfazed widow would be suspect number one. They could even learn he never died at all!
That Lowenstein one was a head scratcher, and it would make a great mini series but what if style. They could explore all the theories that way
Lazy always finds the best cases to cover. I love learning about these situations and wish the best for the families.
Rodney was murdered, people get sensitive during these isolated times. I can’t imagine a boisterous personality with Tourette’s as well going through their shifts without insulting anyone. Maybe it was an effort of multiple people, also had to be Americans due to the protection from NZ investigators.
@@DeliriousSquid I disagree with almost everything you said. I don’t see a motive for why America would want to protect one of their scientists who killed a another scientist unless the the scientist that killed Rodney was working on something super important to America but I doubt it. Most countries just aren’t good at properly communicating with each other and this case was viewed as so low priority in the American bureaucracy that they sadly just forgot about it. I also don’t see a problem with America not allowing their scientists to be FORCED into an interview, that’s literally just protecting their basic rights. In America, the authorities forced into an interview, you have to choose to do it and even then you can stop the interview whenever you want. Even if you’re under arrest, you have to choose to do an interview and can stop it whenever you want. So yeah, it’s a good thing America protected the rights of their scientists. Also, Rodney went to the doctor 3 times in a period of 36 HOURS not 30 minutes and why do you think Rodney was killed because he was working on some revolutionary technology or whatever. No one has ever claimed he was working on something by his own at the base and I find it shocking that you think scientists can’t also be ignorant c*nts, they’re still human just like you and me. The most likely scenario is that someone who was already a bit messed up in the head beforehand was slowly driven mad after spending months in a frozen wasteland and then one day Rodney said something that upset them and they just lost it.
Lets not overlook that he also had his fiancee there meaning he was one of if not the only person likely to have experienced intimacy in that time.
That could be a major source of resentment from peers though if it was a poisoning the MO is more often associated with women which also makes me wonder about the fiancee as you'd imagine that anything your partner did to tick you off would be amplified 10000x in a setting like that
In the first story, the two may not have killed the young man but they certainly TRIED to. I wouldn't want them released so soon.
Yeah, idk why they were released. I guess the Koreans don’t care so much about attempted murder
Didn't they say it was a false confession though ?...very strange story
@@jshaw4757 From what I understood of the story, the false confession was to actually murdering him, but when he came back after learning they were arrested he said they had assaulted him, but he lived. Therefore, they'd still be guilty of attempted murder in that case.
@@jasonvargas7564 They were ruled by Japanese, and no they didn’t care lol
@@TheLadyLiddell But then why did it take him 6 months to come back to his mom...
So glad you posted! I'm sick with nothing to watch.
Agree :)
get well soon be safe!! same for me too :p
There. I’m your 40th Like. That’ll help. 🙂
Get well soon
@@LazyMasquerade Aww. Thank you so much.
The video is lovely overall, but the story about the chess is just a myth that originated in either English or American press. There are no traces of that ever happening in Russian sources whatsoever and chess was never banned in Soviet expeditions, the scientists who actually went there all attest to that. There was even a chess championate between different soviet antarctic stations at one point.
I was thinking it'd be funny if you were to end your comment with something like "Backgammon, on the other hand..."
@@AnthonySforza or a reference to that episode of Seinfeld where a Ukrainian didn't like the comments they made about his country in a game of Risk.
How would you know? Have you been to Antarctica? No cuz the earth is flat!! Spread the truth its plane and simple to see she has no curves on thee! The govt controls radiohead, dredlocks and vider games!
Pilot in training here, at 4,000 feet, an airplanes exit door isn’t THAT hard to open, especially in a non pressurized cabin.
Figured, the test they did never said it was hard to intentionally open the door, they just tested how hard it was to do accidentally. Plus it's a unsafe by modern standards 1920's plane going very slow at only 4000ft. If the man wanted to kill himself, I doubt that door was going to stop him.
That's what I think happened, simplest answer. The concept of mental illness was basically unheard of in the 1920's, people always assumed stupid shit like he was rich and "happy", no way he killed himself. No one has any idea how another person truly feels. He was probably just tired of the rat race, looked out at the endless ocean and said "I'm done".
@@utoobisgarbage5210 Yep; Occam's Razor. Depending on the speed, the door could definitely have been opened. The aircraft had just taken off a relatively short time before and had pretty much just reached cruising altitude - those airplanes climbed really slowly, and it wouldn't have risked flying a lot higher than 4000 feet. It's entirely possible they were still speeding up and had barely reached 80 to 100MPH or so (top performing fighters in WWI, just a few years prior, rarely were capable of going faster than that). While that wind would be strong to be sure, it wouldn't preclude opening the door just enough to slip out.
@@MrJest2 yeah, that style would be possible, just... it wouldn't be an accident. Possible, does not mean easy.
@@utoobisgarbage5210 if you pause it on the plane info sheet it gives speed of about 95 mph. Still might be fast enough to suck him out a bit, especially if he was just expecting it to be the bathroom and not the great beyond, so wouldn't be braced or anything. Might have even started to move forward before he realized what was up.
In a plane that small everyone would of noticed the door being opened even with the noise prop planes make, that plane is small.
"Relations between the two countries over the issue has always been icy, but now things were really getting heated"
Oh, Lazy!
Super rich guy buried in an unmarked grave? That's shady weird in a weird case.
Yeah really. Why would a wealthy person be buried like that? Sure, some people are eccentric, but it's odd.
The story and background music for the airplane fall death was strangely terrifying. Good song choice.
Started? Most of us never stop listening to horror content.
THIS IS HALLOWEEN! THIS IS HALLOWEEN! halloween. halloween. HALLOWEEN! HALLOWEEN!
I'm wearing Jack slippers right now 🤣
PUMPKINS SCREAM IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT 🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻
I've heard the Lowenstien case a few times, and every time I always think of Marge Simpsons whispering "Lowenstien" at the end of the Fear of Flying episode, and I just want to say "My name is Zwieg..."
(whispering) …Lowenstein.
Oh wow, I always wondered what she was referring to
@@esteemedmortal5917 It's actually a reference to The Prince of Tides.
There are lots of unsolved murders/mysteries that should be made into films but have never been. I can think of at least five.
Name some?
When you rule out the impossible, whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth
you listened to the trail went cold recently then? hahaha
@@rupexo well there's a caveat to the old Holmes quote. Sherlock Holmes would phrase it in the context of cases with extensive information collected. He'd very carefully choose IF he was to invoke that principle, and only do it when he felt he had collected enough information to banish uncertainties. After all, "whatever remains" might be "I don't know what I'm talking about"
That's actually a logical fallacy, because it implies that those hypotheses chosen are the only possibility.
Plus Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't actually a scientifically minded man, he was a mystic who helped a preacher try to introduce false fossils to harm the scientific community actually
The Lordanarts / BrainScratch episode on the Antarctica case is in-depth and good. Mentions that there were a ton of bottles in Rodney’s room, and that he experimented with drug use (if I’m remembering correctly.) Makes you think, maybe it was just an accident, and even he himself didn’t realize what he had done…
It may be important to look more at Rodneys Tourette’s, or more how other people reacted to this. People with that syndrome and other more “extreme” mental illnesses tend to face a lot of violence from others due to the stigma that they are dangerous. One reason I hate a lot of horror content because it tends to play into that stereotype where as if you have something like psychosis, schizophrenia, Tourette’s and other similar things your around 30% more likely to face violence from others than to commit it yourself. We tend to think of scientist of people without biases but sadly that is not always the case. Of course this is just a thought but it could have played into the reason for his death.
Edit: Tourette’s is actually a condition with the nervous system disorder, not a mental illness. It’s important to include this distinction to promote awareness for the disorder. And considering that one of the first things that auto fills when googling it is “is Tourette’s contagious” we could use more of that.
Good point ❤
Agreed. Though Tourette syndrome isn't a mental illness, it's a nervous system condition. Not that it changes how much stigma those with it face but it matters to those who might be having symptoms to know they need to see a neurologist not a therapist..
@@NoadiArt i dont think whoever spiked rodney cared about the distinction
@@NoadiArt thank you, I should have looked that up, and the comment has been edited! Always good to learn more about other people.
I have tourettes, thank you for not being uneducated about it, there's so much we need to learn about all these disorders
"Someone was murdered in a territory we like to pretend is ours. We'll protect our men in that territory just to spit in the faces of the people investigating this murder for claiming it's their land. Petty territory squabbles are more important than figuring out how one of our own was lethally poisoned." Makes sense. >.> Also, my dad worked in Antarctica for a few months…I've never asked him what it was like, only seen some photos of him in the frozen land and been told that he met my mom very shortly before he was set to leave. I'm curious what he'd think of this story…shame I can't exactly talk to him right now…
Two questions.....1.) Why didn't you ask him how it went while he was in Antarctica?!?!? THAT'S CRAZY, that happens to be very intriguing and i would of LOVED to ask a million questions! I have no real father, you know, dead beat asshole, but I did have an uncle whom in my eyes was my father figure growing up and also a stepfather that that saved my life, figuratively. Number 2.) The obvious question that you just leave hanging, just waiting for someone to ask, why can't you ask him, my only 2 thoughts would be that he passed away, which if he did I'm very sorry, or he's in jail or also a deadbeat dad that wants nothing to do with you, like my sperm -donor was and is. He has 2 grandchildren he doesn't even know exist!
@@puntinprincess73431. I think I might have asked him questions when I was really little, but I don't remember his answers all that well. It was just one of those things you kind of take for granted as a kid, you know? 2. That is a VERY personal question you're asking, and the short answer is that I said I can't talk to him "right now", as in I might be able to later; for now, I'm going through a rough patch with my parents, specifically my mom, and he took her side - which I can't begrudge him for, he's been happily married to her for over 40 years, but it does mean he and I can't discuss things at the moment. I will ask him about it when/if things in the family ever settle.
@@puntinprincess7343 I have a deadbeat father as well, so I understand how you feel 💯 he didn't see my son (his only grandson) until he was like... idk 6 months old or something? He hasn't seen him for around 3 ~ 5 years now, I think. Not that it matters but you know... anyways I just wanted to say that I totally understand how you feel, that's all.
My grandpa is like my father, he always has been. I'm very lucky to have him, he's a wonderful person 🙂 I'm glad you had your uncle, and I guess your step dad as well right? My step father is basically exactly like my real father, except with a job (and by that I mean he's abusive and controlling and I can't stand him.) My family kinda sucks except for my son and my grandparents (well my grandma is gone now 😔 so it's only my grandpa that's left.)
That being said however, I agree with *Wandergirl108* -that is a *very* personal question to randomly ask someone lol. I know you probably didn't mean it offensively or anything like that, but not everyone is so forthcoming- _especially_ when it comes to family, you know what I mean jellybean? 🙃
@@Wandergirl108 For what it's worth, I know exactly how that feels as well (the situation with your parents); it sucks, I know. I hope things get better for you soon!
@@Wandergirl108 i honestly didn't mean to offend you, I just went for the bait when you said you couldn't ask him so I was nosey, but I seriously didn't mean to offend. Im sorry if I was too nosey.
glidus, coldmirror, lazy masquerade, this friday just keeps on giving!
27:06 That beginning of the outro music always make me feel sad cause it means the video is over.
I think it's much better that you make the videos without the footage of your face. It feels more dark and immersive.
kanka sen baya tuhaflaşmışsın bak manyak olursun ha jahdhfhhd
Oh boy a lazy vid for a Friday night! Cant wait!...please do more of your old school stuff too...love those true scary stories. I always go back and watch those.
“Relations between the two countries has always been icy. But now it’s starting to get really heated,” great puns about among us in Antartica.
The last story felt like something straight outta The Thing
What kind of doctor identifies bloody vomit as psychosomatic? (Let alone the rest of the symptoms). Was the doctor an American?
As for no Internet, people did pretty well without it for millennia
Was that a slam on American doctors?
@@missylev No, the Americans did not participate in the investigation.
yeah people seem to overestimate how much we "need" the internet.
@@xoxtoddxox yeah, the case reeks of coverup.... the question is WHAT... and we can merely guess. :/
@@missylev It should be. oh ho ho ho!
“There’s a killer amongst the people in a remote base”
Hehe, amogus
i was just thinking that
@@wastoid138 is it a coincidence that one of the Among Us stages is a research base on an icy planet?
@@marhawkman303 I think it could be a reference to the movie The Thing? Which has a similar plot (where there's a killer monster among the crew killing them all off) and it takes place in an Antarctic Science Research place thing :]
@@honeyquartz2116 Well yes, but also, why only one inspiration?
It's blue, stop always voting red, people!
Thanks for the birthday present, Lazy! You're the GOAT!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday !!
Only the horror community could be so kind ;) Thanks creepers!
@@apb672 happy birthday lil daddy
Perfect timing! Today is my 20th birthday! (And also the 20th anniversary of Silent Hill 2).
Happy birthday!
Rodney's story makes me crazy because (IIRC) if the machine needed to save him had been properly maintained, he might have been able to be saved.
Decomposition can cause false readings of small amounts of alcohol in a body, so that probably wasn't actually a significant finding in the second case.
This is one of my favorite ones yet. You always dig up the most interesting cases (and if I've heard of them before, I enjoy hearing them again from you!) and these absolutely need to be movies.
At work, best believe this is being saved later and watched as soon as I get home. Cheers Lazy!
Did you make it through the work and got to watch it? If not, hope your workday goes well!
I am always pleased when a new video is posted. Thank you for your time. Your stories and voice are a pleasure to hear😀
The first story, they could have took him to the hills to kill him, beat him up and left him for dead. He actually survived, got scared so killed someone from a near by village beat him so he was unrecogniseable and left him in the spot he was left so when the body was found people would think it was him.
To me, that sounds like the most likely solution to the mystery 😐 👍
Now, this is a theory that makes sense. I agree.
I thought the same thing! Or that he was trying to start anew by staging his own death. He framed his boss or the lady (depending on his relations to them), but the other got roped up with the charges. and couldn’t handle the guilt of them being imprisoned.
Maybe at first he thought he wouldn’t care since they mistreated him, but that shit eats at you. Maybe he just missed his mother too much to keep it up.
That was my guess
This is exactly what I thought. Maybe he went to near by village, found someone that was close to same height/looks and killed him to kind of fake his own death. Sometimes people may do even the worse thing to save themselves.
Methanol has a really distinct and overwhelming sweet smell with high vapour pressure. There's no way Rodney wouldn't have realized that what he was drinking wasn't regular alcohol.
Even if it's mixed? And what kind of alcohol would it be mostly confused for if that was the case?
@@stinger822 that's a frequent issue with homemade booze. 150mL in a glass though would have been pretty obvious...
yeah i have asnomia (i cant smell almost at all) and i notice the smell every time. even if u dont know what it smells like u would probably notice something off right?? unless thats ur first time drinking but idk...
Methanol and ethanol taste about the same and produce about the same initial intoxicating effect. The only difference is that methanol, once ingested, is metabolized by the liver into formaldehyde and formic acid, chemicals that can damage the optic nerve, leading to blindness, and eventually resulting in death.
It has resulted in hundreds of death due to occuring in moonshine when fermentation doesn't go right.
There _is_ a film based on the Loewenstein case, albeit a fictionalised version thereof (something which was likely necessitated by the proximity of its release to the actual event). Adapted from Elinor Glyn's novella and released in 1930, _Such Men Are Dangerous_ ( a.k.a. _The Mask of Love_ ) was the final film of director Kenneth Hawks, younger brother of the legendary Howard Hawks. This is due to the fact that Kenneth - who was at the time married to early 'screen queen' Mary Astor - was killed in a midair collision, along with nine others, while filming aerial scenes over the Pacific during the shoot. The two planes which collided, possibly as a result of sun glare, were identical Stinson SM-1F Detroiters. Hawks, who was just 31 years old at the time of his death, was cremated, and his ashes spread over the site of the accident.
Excellent insight, thank you for this comment!
@@lanceupperrcut My pleasure.
Wow. Great factoid.
I'll check this out
My curiosity is instantly going to Arnold 'The Brain' Rothstein.
He's a major father of the American mob and some people suspect Lowenstein was working with him with narcotics. He basically started the major illegal narcotics and bootlegging trade in the US and was mentor to Lucky Luciano who was the first boss and organizer of the more modern US Mafia. So this all goes back to the origins of "The War on Drugs"
I think it’s worth mentioning that Lowenstein brought a hefty amount of cash with him on the flight, bringing to light the theory that the people on board wanted to rob him.
Ah yes, this was the era in which you NEEDED to bring cash because other options didn't exist.
@@marhawkman303 I’m pretty sure checks existed in the 1920s
@@eternallove4248 sure, they existed, but, were they treated as anything more than a promissory note? You don't even need a check for that. You can just write it on regular paper.
The real question is why? Why did he have the cash? Was it out of the ordinary for him? Or just standard practice on long flights?
Greetings from Iceland. Great job as always
ICELAND?!?
@@ABCDuwachui ....yes? 🤨
"Its always been icey" great pun there dude
Perfect for listening to on a dark Friday night. Hey Lazy Masquerade from the UK 🇬🇧
That transition from ragtime music to total mystery was lowkey flawless
I know it's not very imaginative but whenever a mystery arises where this is even remotely possible I ask "could they have been sleepwalking?"
Like maybe Rodney fell asleep on the job, and because people can perform normal functions while sleepwalking but otherwise behave incoherently, perhaps Rodney drank some methanol from the lab, dreaming that it was a normal beverage: A freak accident sends him to his maker, and we're left scratching our heads about it over twenty years later.
Nah
@@JohnSmith-j2j Yarp
There is Internet down in Antarctica now. A few of the researchers are on Tik Tok and regularly post!
Antarctica has the internet now, and mine still sucks in the US.
@@DragynryderMW Where do you live exactly?
Oh I've been waiting for this! Thanks for saving my friday, Lazy!
I'm starting to get sketched out by Lazy Masquerade always seeing "Strangled, having the whole life taken out of him" on multiple ocassions. Some dark fantasy maybe?
I think that after surviving the murder attempt, Park Changsu left the area , and found a suitable substitute, either by chance or who he knew of. He murdered this man, put his body in the place that he had been left for dead, in order to prevent his attackers from seeking to finish the job. He then stayed away long enough for the would be killers to be discovered and imprisoned. Upon his return, the confusion that ensued was enough that he was never suspected of the crime, .Since the body went unidentified, it was never linked to him.
For the first one, I believe it was a crime of opportunity. I believe someone left their house angry with someone, saw the two beat up Park.
As soon as Park got up and left, the angry person gave a message to the one he was mad at to meet him at that hillside.
When they met, the guy beat him up, and choked him with the towel and left it there.
I believe the guy who gave the police that bit of information about seeing those two people beating Park is the murder of the other person.
I was thinking that same thing 👏🏻
Rodney's case would make an amazing film, if done respectfully. I'm thinking Taylor Sheridan, "Wind River" and Dennis Villeneuve vibes, with a little bit of "The Thing" thrown into the mix. About a group of investigators going to the base, not knowing who's lying, the battle with the "who's jurisdiction" etc. Would make a good crime drama, while also being as respectful and informative as Wind River was in the end.
Just wanna say; I'm also a Raycon user so if you can support Papa Lazy and pick up a pair, go for it, they are really good.
Hoping to bag a pair next month when I get paid.
@@tnsmom OK I SEE YEW BUDGET
Definitely thinking about doing so. Currently, I have to wear full headphones 🎧 at night for my sleepy time rain sounds.... As a side sleeper, these buds would likely work much better!
*”The spooky season is upon us…”*
What? _The spooky season_ starts in august in this household!! 🎃 👻
@2girls 1cup 2girls1cup? 😆
@@glorygloryholeallelujah Both your user names are way out there lol!
@@ladysuda3807 I guess Lazy’s milkshake brings all the weirdos to the yard?
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@@glorygloryholeallelujah Damn right they do lol!! 😎👍
Story 1: I think the kid found out about their plan and fooled another kid with money from another city with similar build as him to take that path. In the dark you can't tell the difference. I think this is what happened because he went back to his village after the other two went to jail. They wouldn't dare to kill him now if acquitted.
Story 2: He was definitely murdered by wife and associates. All of these became wealthier after his death including the pilot and the mechanic. They had the money and reason to keep everyone quiet and from going to prison because all of them (mainly the pilot and mechanic) would've gone to prison.
Story 3: Nope. No suicide. Someone who wanted to see him suffer a slow agonizing death was at hand. I think it is likely a woman. Being out in a remote area and within close quarters he must have developed a romantic relationship with a coworker no one was aware of. Relationship failed. Love triangles are unprofessional but not uncommon. Definitely the higher ups are covering this up. Someone has a feeling of who might be responsible for sure.
All plausible answers
Yeah my first thought was definitely a woman. Poison is the most common means of women murdering, especially a man. She must have tricked him into having a drink and had him drink poison. The fact so many people refused to testify is because they knew about the relationships….I bet you tons of people there cheat on their spouses 🤔
Story 1: I actually laughed at the Armin Tamzarian version. Mom needed a son, figured why not, this one will do. I like him better anyhow.
I thought of that exact same thing, about the "real" Seymour Skinner 😂
I swear to god you and LEMMINO, are legitimately the goats of documentaries on TH-cam. It would be awesome for you to make a collab with him someday.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy this channel but LEMMINO is unrivalled. His videos are miles ahead of any of his peers
@@Scarrowscant agreed.. lemmino is on a whole other level
Aperture does great works too
@@fallzero7304 just subbed looks good
man, if you had a podcast, that would be what i'd be bangin like 90% of the time
This this is the stuff that makes me happy… My guy lazy has a new video.
All cases were interesting but that last one ughhhh! Frustrating and sad 😥 like there was a possible murder and the US officials were like " ehhh you don't have to cooperate if you don't want to " you'd think they'd at minimum want to keep " their researchers/ workers " safe by getting to the bottom of this ughhh
Politics innit.
Everyone talks about how shit China and Russia and shit are but fuck me the US are shit as well let's face it.
This channel just keeps getting better and better and better.
Oh wow, I'm so used to having to catch up on the older Lazy vids, I just realised this was new!
Well git yew honey chil’!
Thank you for uploading lazy!!! Needed this !!
Damn I lived in Yeongcheon for 5 years but this is the first time hearing of thulis. Tiny town now but worth a visit.
Missed you buddy. Glad to hear your voice. Hope all is well across the pond.
Cool temps, falling leaves and Lazy. It must be near Halloween!🎃
Yes!! 🎃💀🙌 On October 1, our front yard becomes transformed into a spooky, foggy graveyard until November 1!!
Starting the morning so well. Thanks masco,
YAY!!!! LAZY, I JUST LOVE YOU! I so look forward to your videos each week, makes me a happy happy girl!!! 😊
Everytime you put up a new vid it feels like Christmas! ☺️
YEW MEAN HANUKKAH
In relation to the first case - one theory I have is that the guy was telling the truth but skipped an important detail... That he was the perpetrator.
He said he was really afraid they would finish the job if they thought he was alive. He said he went to another village and obviously created a fake identity so nobody knew who he was or his story.
Well, maybe he went and lured somebody, committed the crime and ran off in the hope they would convict the people who beat him up so he could come back or start fresh.
Maybe he wasn't even planing to come back initially but after finding out nobody suspected him and they perceived him as the victim, he decided there's no reason to continue hiding.
I wouldn't be surprised if the mother/family knew about it and helped him, including falsely identifying the body and supplying him with news or food.
(After reading and researching about the war in that region I found out a lot of people were trained in basic guerilla/surviving tactics that included communicating through notes and leaving caches of supplies in a certain location.)
That would explain the young age of the victim - it's easier to lure and overpower a 16 y/o.
It would explain why the perpetrator focused on the face so much.
It would explain why they didn't find his identity - the Japanese law enforcement in the victim's village labeled him as a runaway and the law enforcement in the village where the crime happened didn't care to go looking for the victim's identity outside of their turf.
I think it's a pretty solid theory, though some of the others are as well.
Do people not at least glance at the comments before writing the exact same thing dozens of people already have?
This is one of your best!
It may be important to note that Marks had a history of IV drug use, and the base physician stated their were two fresh needle marks on his arm. Pictures of his work space show it was extremely cluttered, and if he were already in quite a state, it is possible he could've drank something without realizing what exactly it was.
Also, in the second case, while it was shown that one man alone was unable to open the plane door, it could however, be opened somewhat by two. You may not have a needed a fake door if you spiked Lowenstein's drinks and used a little teamwork.
iirc from an episode of House, methanol binds with ethanol in alcohol (or some alcohols, idk, not a chemist), so mixing the two would actually prevent him from dying of methanol poisoning
it would delay it yes
Yes, ethanol is an antidote to methanol poisoning.
So, giving him a few beers would stop him from dying? Interesting.
Another two cases that should be made into movies:
The Murder of Laetitia Toureaux (the Murder on the Metro case). This case has so many theories and twists with connections to spies and secret lovers, etc.
The death of Colin Chapman. He founded the Lotus car company, and allegedly died of a heart attack in 1982. Many, however, including famed racing drivers Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti, believe he faked his own death. There are many odd circumstances surrounding his death including the fact that doctor who signed his death certificate disappeared into thin air soon afterwards.
Love this video. Historical mysteries like these are fascinating.
Oh thank you Lazy!
You were just what my awesome morning needed 💕
Hi Lazy! There are few content creators that get me happy when they upload. Thanks a bunch for your content!
You've obviously read my mind, I've been looking for more of these to watch during my lunch breaks. They only last half an hour so your videos are perfect for me 🥰
The first one is so clear: the boy was beaten and his attackers thought he was dead, but he survived. In order to "stay dead", he kills someone of his same demographic, disfigures their face, and leaves them where he was beaten. Then he tells his mom to go along with it and skips town until his attempted murderers are safely behind bars 🤷
That would make him an evil piece of shit too.
Love these, you always seem to find content that no one else has covered. So good!
My one critic with the first story is using stock vids/photos of specific people to imply they are the people in the cases is really weird and off putting. Usually people use stock vids/photos for the actions, emotions and environments in them to help visualize the story being told; not to have the audience picture the stock models as the people in the story.
I get your point! Here was my reasoning: Firstly, there are no photos of any of the people involved. Secondly, for native English speakers, all of the Korean names can make it difficult to keep track of who's who, so I thought a visual cue may be helpful. I though about using pictures of silhouettes, but figured that wasn't engaging. Not saying it turned out perfect, but I thought it was a better alternative to being a confusing listen.
The kid they found inside a chimney in the forest still messes with me
He was smokin’!!! 🥁
Santa got him the wrong socks & he was just trying to fight him but got stuck & Santa fled 😳