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[Music] um so what's good tmg fam it's your boy l and i'm back with another reaction how y'all feel welcome back to the channel so shout outs to nexpo man we're gonna get into the next video it says it's called searching bro i am so sick of these scam likelys can y'all see that can y'all see it you see it say scam likely i was trying to get y'all a csa scam like i'm so sick of these cam likely calls bro every single day but uh anyway back to what i was saying bro um back with another video this is next post searching for the five it uh it reads in the description in february of 1978 i wasn't born five men vanished under mysterious circumstances the subsequent discoveries have less investigators and onlookers bewildered to this day all right so we're gonna get into this video man if you're new to the channel subscribe button all that here we go friday joseph jones was scouting some back roads in the plumas national forest he spent the better part of the day navigating his volkswagen in hopes of returning with his family the next day however due to harsh weather conditions his venture led to his car becoming stuck around 5 30 pm miles away from help and with dwindling options he hopped out of his car to give it a push in a strikingly unlucky turn of events though this physical exertion would lead to to women during a heart attack at the worst possible place in the worst possible time he returns to the confines of his vehicle enduring the pain and contemplating on what to do a short while later though he'd catch his biggest break two sets of headlights coming from the opposite direction in the shadows of what looked like a woman a baby and a group of guys walking towards him while engaging in conversation after realizing that this could be his ticket home he fumbled out of the car and began calling for help once he started doing so the headlights turned dark and the conversation a couple hours later with his car still running shones would encounter another anomaly flashlights shining in the far distance as expected he'd jump out once more vehemently pleading for one of them to notice him them however this too felt unsuccessful another couple of hours pass and shones his car runs out of gas fortunately though by this point he felt well enough to exit his vehicle and begin a trek up the road towards a lodge roughly eight miles away it was on this walk when he'd witness a 1969 mercury montego with no passengers inside considering the circumstances and having spotted numerous people in the last few hours he didn't think much of it his trek to the mountain lodge took him to the early morning of the next day and there he was able to obtain medical treatment and much needed help to get his car out of there what he failed to realize however was the fact that on this journey he passed the vehicle of five men that would soon become enveloped and one of the strangest unexplained mysteries how we gonna just skip past the fact that he did a eight mile hike bro and what looks like to be like no weather conditions that i could probably survive a eight mile hike in bro like let's not breeze over that fact fam give him his credit i thought he was gonna die i thought he was dead in history [Music] let's set the scene okay february 24th it was on this day when the lives of five long-time friends would converge thirty-year-old jack madruga would make his rounds within yuba city in oroville california to pick up the others for a night out at a chico state basketball game 29 year old william sterling 24 year old jack hewitts 32 year old theodore wire and 25 year old gary mathias made up this close-knit bunch commonly referred to as the boys and they were all eager for a night out before competing in a basketball game of their own the group played for a team called the gateway gators an extracurricular segment of the yuba city gateway program this was a rehabilitative center aimed at helping them learn a trade while overcoming their mild intellectual disabilities and mental health issues it was because of this notion that the group lived with their parents and with this came the expectation that they'd return home later that night jack madruka the owner of his prize 1969 mercury montego was known to have recently worked as a dishwasher at a local fruit company he was keen on handling his finances however due to what family describes as him being slow in thought he found it difficult to maintain a job william sterling was known to be madruga's best friend he was deeply religious and enjoyed spending his free time reading literature to consult patients in mental hospitals ted wire the oldest of the bunch enjoyed confiding in his friends however was known to lack basic common sense according to his brother he was known to have spent over 100 on pencils for no reason we all got a friend like that no judgment no judgment no judgment he was employed for a bit as a janitor and a snack bar clerk but was later urged by his family to quit since they believed he was causing problems jack hewitt was known to be slow to react and typically hung around wire he was taken under his wing so to speak and frequently required his help to perform basic tasks such as dialing phone numbers gary mathias was the most enigmatic of the group he was the only one that lacked an intellectual disability however in its place suffered severe mental health issues the most prominent was his schizophrenia which was the cause of his discharge from his brief time in the army wow both mathias and jack madruka are the only two in the group that possessed a driver's license [Music] and so they embarked a roughly one-hour trip was ahead of them and conversation ensued surrounding sports in the anticipation of a win for themselves the very next day the boys uniforms were already laid out back home by their parents so they were ready to roll things were going good 10 pm chico state's road opponent uc davis takes the win considering the men's favorite team were uc davis it's safe to say that celebratory snacking was in order they hit up a local convenience store by the name of bears where they loaded up on a hostage cherry pie a lemon pie a snickers bar a marathon bar a couple pepsis and a quart of milk it's been noted that the clerk that checked them out that night was trying to close and as a result was mildly annoyed by them being there little do they know that they'd be one of the last ones to ever witness this group alive the boys jump back in the car and embark on their journey back home journey back home they didn't make it back home that night instead of driving south they took a detour east their journey that night encompassed their ride from oroville to chico you would think that they'd head straight back down highway 99 in highway 70 but that didn't happen right before arriving in oroville the driver took a detour off of highway 70 and onto the oroville quincy highway a road that runs across lake oroville and up towards the plumas national forest they drove until the road ended and continued their journey up a dirt trail until their vehicle became stuck in the snow drift it's unclear what happened from this point forward but some time after this arrival they'd accept the confines of their car and embark into the night back at the lodge isn't that four people wasn't it five there i'm only seeing unless this is a double person right here can't really tell though joe shone's his medical treatments had gone well he paid no mind to the mercury montego since it wasn't out of the ordinary and by midday he was able to get his car gassed up and headed home concurrently since the boys were nowhere to be found the mothers of ted wire and william sterling were contacting police pleading for help and finding their children it was out of character for every single one of them to be away from home for prolonged periods of time so they believed that the worst had happened to them government officials insist i wonder if they gonna try to say the dude that had the heart attack whose vehicle was probably gonna be spotted out there has something to do with it that's what i'm thinking tuesday a forest ranger scouting the area notices an abandoned turquoise mercury montego it was left on an unpaved road near elk's retreat a staggering two and a half hours from where the basketball game took place the vehicle appeared ordinary it was unlocked the window was down and snack wrappers loaded the seats and the gas tank was more or less a quarter tank of gas by the time it was located it wasn't stuck jarringly considering how rough the terrain of this trail is the vehicle was found with minimal damage yuba county pd began broadcasting the details and photos of the missing men and for the next five days their search team would scour the region this would soon prove difficult however considering the fact that this was in the middle of a harsh winter in the mountains it's been reported that the search team nearly lost people on a couple occasions and by sunday a harsh winter storm would move in dumping nearly nine inches of snow in the area it was because of this the environmental hazards and the fact that tom was running against them that led the police to call off the search until snow melt that spring and how's the case see i was afraid that was gonna happen at that point what do you do you can't really risk your your people that you have you know you can't risk killing them for the search man you just wish mother nature wouldn't be so cruel in these type of situations man and and spare you time you know what i'm saying i didn't know outside of my feet don't know they sat on hold their families were frustrated and the five men were left out there isolated nowhere to be found four months later this ain't good june a group of bikers are out on a weekend ride and head up onto the sites of an abandoned forest service trailer at the daniel zing campground near bucks lake the facility involved a main large trailer in the middle with multiple smaller satellite ones around it when they pulled in they noticed a prominent malodorous smell emanating from the main structure immediately after a broken window they had inside curious on what they've stumbled upon and a body from head to toe or bed sheets concealing their identity and after pulling them off they discovered that it was one of the five men that disappeared four months prior it was ted wire 80 pounds lighter and with a considerable beard lending credence to the possibility that he took refuge here for more or less two months in the bed they discovered his body with his shoes missing with that his feet badly frostbitten it appeared that he passed away due to starvation and exposure to the elements however he strangely could have avoided this fate altogether since he took shelter inside of a forest service trailer he had access to ample heat sources and enough canned food to last all five men months if they chose to stay there while they found 12 open cans scattered throughout the room the vast majority of them were unopened and it also appeared that no effort was taken to block off the window that was broken when they entered the scene bewildering especially considering that it was 19 miles away from where joe shone spotted their abandoned car but all in all it was the jump start investigators needed to get back on this case wow the search continued with mounting public yeah i remember they said they were living with their mom so they didn't really know i would have guessed how to really take care of themselves so getting into that type of predicament just spelled bad for them bro because they couldn't really take care of themselves due to i would guess the mental health issues they have attention and hope for closure search teams prowled the new focus area southeast of bucks lake it would only take a day before they'd catch their next break too on june 8th police discovered the corpses of bill sterling and jack madruga nearly five miles south of where ted wire was found in madruca's pocket his car keys it was noted that he'd been dragged a short distance and was partially eaten by animals for sterling his remains were scattered around the area a few feet away he was nothing but bones since the bodies were discovered closer to the vehicle and on a potential road they could have taken northbound they believed that on their hike the pair couldn't press on any further and met their demise through a combination of the elements and mounting fatigue two days later the father of jack hewitt discovers numerous articles of clothing belonging to him a couple of miles northeast of the service trailer soon after his remains interestingly a short distance wise to their location service blankets and flashlights were discovered lying by the road this discovery led investigators to the belief that he and gary mathias more than likely made it to the trailer with ted wire and lived with him for an undetermined amount of time their reasoning was because of the existence of matthias's tennis shoes left in the room that wire was found in the theories are tenuous but they believed that they spent most of their final weeks alongside ted wire in the trailer after he passed away however they wanted to get away from the corpse and set out towards the northeast to achieve that it was on this hike that the pair would meet their demise spinning their final days exposed to mother nature now it would make perfect sense however to date the remains of gary matthias have never been found as of now his missing person's case remains open leaving questions abound surrounding the motive and the circumstances that late winter night listen bro you dropped me in the wilderness i probably like in those type of conditions don't get me wrong i'm gonna try my best you know but i ain't the most savvy in the wilderness you know how some people can can tell by the way or know a certain direction to go how they can find out what's north south east and west and you know have all that type of background to be able to survive in those situations i don't possess that you know what i mean and maybe i need to do a better job of that but i try not to put myself in those uh situations though but i'm not knocking them at all man you know what i mean i just went dude was like only 19 miles and they found them here like insinuating that they would have been close to certain landmarks to be able to get help or something like that it's just the way he made me feel is the way i respond like that i'm like listen don't knock them because i probably wouldn't even been able to survive that either you know what i mean but man piecing it together without a doubt there are questions about this case the main one though encompasses the following why did they not head home backing up and taking a look at this case presents an anomaly that's frequently brought up gary mathias he had a friend that lived in forbes town a few miles away from oroville and where the car was found this has led many to consider the potential that matthias had more to do with this than someone letting on if we take a look at their route that night mapping it from chico to where they abandoned the car it makes sense the auroville quincy highway is just north of oroville and the potential of gary mathias having driven up there in the past wouldn't be far-fetched so let's entertain the idea that madruga was convinced he drove the car up the oroville quincy highway and missed the turn off to forbes down road as a result of this he kept driving and driving until he eventually became stuck miles up a mountain trail now up to this point the events that night seemed like honest innocent mishaps what led the mother of jack madruga to think otherwise however was the fact that after they were stuck why with five sizable guys that could have rectified the situation with relative ease did they decide to abandon the car and press onwards into the unknown what was restricting them from turning back and undoing the mistake that they'd gotten themselves into according to jack's mother she planned that there was some force that made them go up there they wouldn't have fled off in the woods like a bunch of quail we know good and well that someone made them do it we can't visualize someone getting the upper hand on those five men but we know it must have been considering the circumstances at the time postulating the potential of nefarious activity would it be out of the ordinary the state that jack madruga's car was found in led to even further questions than it did answers according to reports his car was found in immaculate condition something almost unheard of considering the rugged terrain that existed on the road they taken with five moderately sized men packed into an already heavy and low sitting vehicle my question would be how much gas is in it they might have already said i think they did say that earlier i can't remember i might already said that because you're not really abandoning a car that has a lot of gas in it you know what i'm saying try to wait it out because you know you the car is your best bet for getting back on track and getting back home safely and sound you know that's your best bet you walk out into that wilderness bro you don't know what you may encounter weather conditions are already unfavorable so i'm not playing those type of odds undercarriage damage was nearly a guarantee given the fact that jack had never driven up on this road before it seemed weird that he was able to navigate it with such prowess near midnight furthermore when the car was found jack's window was rolled down which his mother claimed was extremely uncharacteristic of them bearing in mind that mathias and madruga were the only two wood drivers licenses suspicion grew regarding the actual driver that night was jack madruga truly at the wheel or did matthias demand the keys while taking them up there considering matthias's numerous run-ins with the law this wouldn't be entirely outside the realm of possibility prior to 1976 he was known to have been unpredictable however straightened out after being prescribed schizophrenia medication it was reported by stepfather that quote he had no notable contact with police during the two years leading up to his disappearance and he hadn't gone haywire in private during that time think i think um think i think the other three like ran or tried to get away from them broke free and ran to that to that little trailer or whatever where they found him at the hide and hide away from them they try to get away y'all think that that's a possibility hmm i don't know the reason i bring this up is because i see it mentioned all the time on various articles and forums however the evidence presented especially considering his own disappearance is relatively insubstantial while this is a notable possibility in my opinion there are others that carry a bit more weight let's talk about joseph jones we can recall that he spent the better part of his friday night stuck around the same area the boys were it's staggering that he spent most of his night under the unluckiest of circumstances however i digress in his testimony he claimed that he witnessed something [Music] a group consisting of a woman a man and a baby all walking within the path of two sets of headlights before assuming that his recollection is correct then this leaves us questioning the identities of the other party involved [Music] ted weir's sister has come forth theorizing on the potential that the men witnessed something nefarious that night sometime after the basketball game perhaps they saw an attack or some sort of signal other domestic or not and decided to follow the family to help i'm not entirely sure how large the distance between shones and the group he witnessed were but hearing the cries of someone in need would surely spark some sort of desire to help instead of shutting up entirely i find it strange that the headlights cut off and the conversations halted in both instances when he saw people while the circumstances don't scream maliciousness they definitely don't drive the situation towards innocence [Music] that is if his recollection was correct you see since this testimony came out shone's story had slightly changed each time he shared it all this of course could be a simple case of memory distortion the notion that he changed it at all ultimately weakens his story altogether according to sources conversing with jones after the fact was admittedly frustrating he would claim that he was very ill during the moments he believed he witnessed the others and essentially admitted that he could have hallucinated some of the details bearing in mind that the other party stopped dead in their tracks both times he called out for them could have easily been a figment of his imagination but what if it wasn't that's just it the nature of word-of-mouth testimonies weakened by the circumstances of their situations ultimately leave them up for debates and shrouded in uncertainty while nefarious situation is plausible we can't discount the potential that the boy's predicament at night was all one big accident gone wrong let's put gary mathias in the spotlight once more entertain this the men are at the game all is going well and they leave that night without a shoe they hit up bears to grab some snacks before hitting the road back home they're driving down highway 99 towards oroville and somewhere on the way mathias convinced the others to visit his friend in nearby forbes town jack agrees and they detour right before oroville onto the oroville quincy highway where they eventually missed the turn off on the fordstown road the oroville quincy highway is incredibly dark at that time of night so it would make sense hesitant to turn around since the highway tightly winds through the backcountry the others suggested alternate turn-offs that were supposedly ahead alternate turn-offs that as we know they never took before they know it they're up a mountain road lost in the darkness before becoming stuck now while they could have dislodged the car and turn around we can't rule out the possibility that they simply didn't think to do so in this situation on top of this it was reported that a day prior to their dilemma a snowplow had cleared a path along the road that they got stuck on potentially instilling a sense of optimism as some external party would soon be back to help a party that never came and so they roughly map out the nearest spot to get help jump out of the car and start a track towards their destination since the service trailer was a whopping 19 miles away it's safe to assume that surviving a track of this magnitude against harsh weather is more or less a death sentence as we know the only ones that made it to the trailer were matthias hewitt and wire an undetermined amount of time later hewitt and matthias would either leave to go get help for wire or abandon his corpse and embark on yet another last-ditch effort to get themselves out of isolation and it's on their way out that both hewitt and matthias both succumb to the elements drawing a predicament to its unfortunate end if you ask me i think mathias pressed on northeast trying to make his way towards the meadow valley area what he likely didn't realize however was the fact that it was roughly 21 miles away if he were with wire someone that shed in nearly half his body weight then we can assume that matthias mirrored this to some magnitude leaving him weaker than when he initially arrived there [Music] i believe mathias dined somewhere around the meadow valley regen and wildlife got to him before search teams could ever make it out there but that is just my postulation the case of the boys from yuba county is by all accounts one that doesn't make sense in details that support one theory ultimately weaken the other it seems that we have the segments in front of us and they're mostly put together without the whereabouts of matthias ever materializing however that's really all that we can do like how was the car unscathed through rocky terrain why didn't they react to the cries of joe schoens someone they could have seen as their beacon for help why was the heat source in food that could have lasted them months untouched it's cases like this that engulf me with fascination even though there are still countless questions countless loose ends countless [Music] unknowns the boys embarked on that brisk friday night to what was supposed to be a night of sports a night of laughter and a night that they'd never forget what transpired in reality or events that the world around them have been trying to piece together because it's all of us i can't forget them [Music] wow yeah i i've already drawn and formulated a few more things in my head bro you know what i mean like the one was they they could have escaped from him one they could have been taken hostage that's why you saw he he possibly to do with the heart attack saw two separate sets of people you know what i mean could have could have came and got them and came back to the car to double back to make sure they got everybody you know took them had him uh in that that trailer uh you know what i'm saying um yeah or like you said that guy and i don't know why he would be setting them up or they ran into somebody went leaving the gas station they seen something they followed it or i don't know it's it's weird it's it is that was very very very weird um prayers for the families man who who simply just want closure you know and then there's a guy who's still missing to this day um yeah man this is this is scary this is why i like i don't like the weather man i was caught in that crazy atlanta storm a few years back i was driving an old honda man didn't have heat that good in the car and the storm it was was something we wasn't used to here hit us by by surprise had atlanta all backed up it took me what almost five hours to drive a few miles um i had to stand at a store gas station man because the roads were shutting down people were wrecking everywhere again i didn't have heat in the car so my feet are getting colder because when i came out of the job the snow was there man and like i said i'm gonna tell y'all about that story one day but it was brutal for me man super brutal so these weather conditions man i just need not play with i don't play with them you know and if you're not familiar with the wilderness bro it's a scary i can imagine this it's a scary sight man and i feel for them being out there all alone um and and and just trying to survive man scary sight scary thought y'all get at me in the comment section man let me know what y'all think shout outs to nexpo man for a great well written and produced uh um um story of the searching for the five man well well done shout out to him until the next reaction i'm go y'all stay solid hey

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Published: Tue Jun 22 2021