He found Giants then the Government Found Him | What really happened to Andrew Dawson?

[Music] Andrew started his Tick Tock account in July of 2021 and he posted all the typical things videos of friends of work his girlfriend his dog and just goofing around but starting in April 2022 his post would take a strange turn and Andrew Dawson would become the center of one of the biggest internet mysteries in years every story I cover on this channel is a suggestion from you and almost every one of them falls into one of a few categories UFOs government cover-ups Men In Black missing persons and Giants well today's episode has all of these this is the strange story of Andrew Dawson foreign ER Dawson going by the handle handicapped was just another guy on Tick Tock although Tick Tock is full of people posting conspiracy videos Andrew wasn't one of them his videos reflected the life of a nice normal guy 34 years old living in British Columbia good job nice friends close relationship with his girlfriend and her kids that's probably why he wasn't prepared for the rabbit hole he was about to go down on April 9th 2022 Andrew was driving with a friend when he spotted something on the ridge of whistler's peak in Alberta Canada what is it person dude no seriously pull over pull over although his friend wasn't convinced Andrew said it was a person but at that Zoom from that distance whatever this is it was way too big to be a person well too big to be a normal sized person standing there no it's not dude if you've seen what I've seen right now that video got millions of views yeah they do keep saying that but you know I don't like cryptage I know you've said right well which is more important what you like or views views well better learn to love stories about Bigfoot chupacabra and the crab kit there's no such thing as a craft be the crab cat thousands of people in Andrew's comments wanted him to get closer to the mountain and try to find out exactly what the object was e r on our way we're gonna go find somewhere closer and I'm gonna set my camera on something so you guys aren't complaining how shaky it is in the truck because yeah internet has no chill I have to agree with Andrew on that one the internet definitely has no chill just look at all the comments on YouTube shorts but that's the mountain we're going to just gonna try to get closer Andrew's friend didn't think it was a giant he just thought it was a tower or some large structure on the ridge but it couldn't have been a tower because when Andrew went back to look for it it was gone okay I'm gonna use this as a tripod to try to keep it steady for you guys and it's not even there anymore too foreign that's where it was yesterday Andrew spoke to a few locals about what he thought was a giant residents told him that something lives in the mountains but it's not always visible I spoke to some locals and it comes and goes apparently I don't know see that's me trying to keep it super steady when something's paranormal do you know how hard it is to keep it steady with zoomed in all the way this area of Canada has had over 200 Bigfoot or Sasquatch sightings going back to the 1800s and native tribes in this area have a legend about Sasquatch that goes back a thousand years in fact the word Sasquatch comes from the Salish word for wild man or hairy man the last Sasquatch sighting was in 2014 when the news reported a bigfoot-like creature walking through the snow near Whistler pretty sure Sasquatch down there I can't really see it very well there's this little black dot walking in the middle of the snow in the middle of nowhere [Music] that is pretty big I can't zoom in anymore this guy's just scampering up snow lands it was no big deal this is Jasper National Park the same area locals gave Andrew directions to the location where he saw whatever it was that he saw but even though he was driving on a public Road in a national park he was stopped by some type of government agent I just got stopped by like some CIA agents he told me to turn around and said I'm trespassing I said it's a public freaking it's a public area like a public park or whatever some local told me to take this path I didn't get it on camera but I'm gonna go again tomorrow and be prepared to be filming right now because he stopped the vehicle his truck was blocking it said some like environmental issues going on I don't know it was he told me to go back and said I was trespassing I don't get it it was awkward but I'm going back again tomorrow to see if he's not there but if he is there I will keep camera I will film because the only angle I could get that that I found today is the one I just posted earlier and it wasn't even anything there but I don't understand why the road's blocked off I I don't know now I've read some debunkers on Reddit that challenge this CIA idea yeah I read it huh what do those Geniuses have to say well they say that the CIA doesn't operate in Canada oh it hurts it hurts me I like gave myself a stitch hey Reddit the CIA operates everywhere they operate everywhere and even if you think the CIA doesn't operate in Canada which is adorable if you believe that Canada's intelligence agency the csis operates everywhere and that's who could have stopped him or did he go back the next day yup did he record it yup hot chilula foreign [Music] left the house early to head back to the mountain to try to find the creature all right I woke up actually today [Music] Rex are we gonna go on an adventure it's currently 5 30 in the morning I'm gonna see if he's there early in the morning and see if I can get up a little bit look at all these mountains I got they are everywhere around here too that's the one all right let's go on Andrew's trip back to the mountain he recorded a couple of more strange events that's that looks like many other UFO sightings in the area but things get even stranger Andrew then spotted this over the mountain solder extracting something out of here there's two helicopters the black helicopters it's happening on Andrew's drive to the mountain within the same hour or two now he looked all over but he couldn't find the Giant in the mountains but later that evening he does find the road where he was stopped previously and just like he said there is an agent there in an unmarked car the agent once again tells Andrew the road's closed the guy's here again yeah it's just this is him what's going on road's closed turn around really yeah man just just turn around please okay okay have a good night man Andrew doesn't argue he turns his car around and heads home oh that was up here he is I'm driving past him again just turned around I don't understand why it's closed off though it's a public park or public road or whatever but whoever that agent was it wouldn't be the last time we see him Andrew didn't post any videos for a few days but soon we would learn why on April 16th he uploaded a video titled being stalked thank you I think that's the same vehicle from hey things just got real they did that looks like the same unmarked Dodge Charger from the last video the mountain is pretty far from Andrew's house so whoever stopped him on the dark Road somehow found out where he lived and was watching him from the street but he can't get some balls to run out there like that he does but like I said Andrew isn't a conspiracy black helicopter men and black believer he probably doesn't understand how dangerous this move was his fans tried to explain this to him after he posted that video people in his comments told him that this was a stupid idea and he needs to be really careful then people got really nervous when Andrew didn't post a follow-up he had been uploading videos pretty consistently everything that's happened so far took place in a single week but then nothing rumors on Tick Tock began running wild people speculated that he was abducted or maybe something worse finally after three weeks Andrew returns with another video but this one is very different than the others it's called official update hey guys I just want to give you an update I'm not dead I have not disappeared I have just been busy with life I couldn't get around to post it and updating you guys so now I'm gonna give you an official update of what's been going on sorry to disappoint you guys but all of the videos that I post all the videos that I posted were scripted they're just fake they were just strictly for an entertainment I sorry to disappoint you guys I just need to give you a quick update and not suspicious at all Andrew is leaning up against the plain wall with his hands in his pockets he never posts like this and in every other video he's posted he records himself but in this video the phone or camera is on a tripod also this video has a slightly different aspect ratio than his other videos which means different phone oh no and look at his eyes doesn't it seem like he's looking at someone else in the room many people pointed out that it looked like Andrew was forced into making this video people continued to speculate about whether or not Andrew was coerced but 10 days later we would learn the truth from Andrew himself you might not see meatballs ever again my videos weren't they weren't fake for the caption of that video Andrew wrote too much has happened and I can't be forced to be silent Andrew was finally ready to tell the world what happened to him the following day he would upload another video Andrew's life had become complicated a story that began as simple curiosity about a tall figure on a mountain descended into a saga where Andrew's being followed and watched by a mysterious agent working for an unnamed agency but he's forced to record a confession retracting everything he said in his videos and then retracts that retraction 10 days later saying the videos were real now clearly whoever forced his confession was following his Tick Tock account but the big question was who well Andrew might have given us a clue when he posted a video the following day titled military what is that that was not there yesterday so we've got a sighting of a humanoid figure or some kind of structure on a local mountain that disappears the following day strange objects in the sky over the mountain helicopters circling and carrying large equipment either in or out of the area and government agents closing public roads then surveilling and possibly abducting people and now an ominous black structure that was literally built overnight in only a month Andrew went from a happy fun regular guy to anxious and paranoid it's not paranoia If people really are following you that's true on May 13th Tony Merkel host of the confessionals podcast reached out to Andrew on Instagram about a possible interview Tony didn't hear back but a little over a month later on June 23rd Andrew responded Tony asked Andrew if the videos were real or a prank Andrew said all fake everything's fake it's fake then Andrew asked why what did you see Tony posted a link to Andrew's confession Andrew wrote back that he can't say anything about it and that it didn't happen Andrew didn't tells Tony he shouldn't be talking to him and to be safe the video of the structure on the mountain was Andrew's last tick tock video but he kept posting on Facebook Andrew's Facebook posts were mostly pictures of family and friends jokes and random positive thoughts he was excited about a trip to Mexico that he just booked it seemed like Andrew Dawson was ready to put the entire Mountain Mystery behind him and get on with his life unfortunately that wouldn't be possible Andrew's followers fell into one of two camps one the people who wanted him to keep digging for more answers to keep posting videos of what he found and the other Camp people telling Andrew that he stumbled into a very dangerous situation and by posting these videos which were being seen by millions of people he could be putting his life in danger his fans urged him stop posting videos about whatever this was they told him to hire a lawyer and go to the media they felt the only way Andrew could protect himself was to get his story Into the news but even though Andrew said he wouldn't remain silent that's exactly what he did he didn't post any more videos he declined interview requests he didn't say another word about this but he did show up in the local newspaper about a week later oh he went to the media huh good idea nope he didn't go to the medium what was in the paper Andrews obituary oh no on July 1st about six weeks after Andrew's final Tick Tock video his obituary appeared in the Campbell River mirror speculation online went wild was his death a coincidence or is this yet another example of a whistleblower suddenly disappearing and what was it that Andrew saw on the mountain if anyone was looking for closure on these Mysteries they weren't going to get it Andrew Dawson passed away on July 1st 2022 he was only 34 years old Andrew Dawson's story was one of the biggest internet Mysteries of the year but is it true well let's take it step by step the video that started all this was the Giant on the ridge now I've seen this mountain reported as Whistler Peak but it's not that Ridge is actually canoe Mountain Andrew took this video while driving South on bc5 or Yellowhead Highway we know this because at the very beginning of his video we see the sign for a cedarside Regional Park now if we follow Andrew's route and grab images that aren't overcast you can see this is the right mountain and if we zoom into that Peak we can see the object what Andrew thought looked like a giant was just the top of a cell phone tower but the reason the tower disappeared in a later video is because he was recording a little further down the highway where the road veers to the West that puts the tower out of you the UFO video was taken over a different mountain now while this could be a UFO it's probably just contrails the reason it looks bright orange is because the video was taken while the sun was coming up now the helicopter video is fun lots of stories we cover seem to have black helicopters circling around but that's not what's Happening Here what Andrew saw is called hella logging this is when helicopters are brought in to remove trees from inaccessible areas and that building that Andrew saw that was actually the Jasper Sky tram even how did he build that overnight they didn't it was built in 1964. so was Andrew hoaxing or did he really not know about the SkyTrain Ram he's from the area so it's safe to say that he knew about it and I'm sure that wasn't the first time he saw a helicopter carrying logs so far Andrew's story isn't panning out but things do get a little more complicated when it comes to the CIA agent or whoever that was it was definitely the same car that was on the Mountain Road and that tore away from his house but was this guy a government agent it's hard to tell from the footage there are a few frames where we see him fairly close up but if he's a man in Black he's the first one I've seen to wear stretchy pants tucked into Timberlands well maybe Canadian Men In Black outdoorsy and fashionable could be but I'll leave that up to you to decide but the agent doesn't sound like law enforcement roads closed turn around really yeah man just just turn around please yeah man just just turn around please kind of casual ever been pulled over and initially the officer is standoffish and kind of robotic that's not them being a jerk police are trained to establish Authority at the beginning of an encounter this guy doesn't sound like a cop to me and definitely not like a Fed yeah man just just turn around please now the quote unquote agent was driving a 2015 Dodge Charger we know that some Canadian law enforcement agencies use that vehicle but if it's a government vehicle why does it have an aftermarket exhaust system hey [Music] morning and that was not professional surveillance you don't park right in front of the target's house with the motor running and the lights on as far as tradecraft goes that's a huge fail and highly suspicious now Andrew's forced confession was definitely odd but it doesn't feel right to me when Andrew looks off camera it looks forced like he's over acting Andrew was an aspiring musician and was excited about all the views he was getting on Tick Tock we know he liked performing for the camera we could be watching a performance here but I could be wrong maybe he's being sincere but if he really was forced into making this video I think it's strange that the image he used for the thumbnail was of him looking away like he's calling attention to it you think whoever forced him to make the video would have prevented him from using that frame and calling attention to it oh maybe he was giving us a signal that someone was in the room with him maybe but if a government would go to the trouble and take the risk of abducting a person and forcing them to post a tick tock video that government could just as easily force him to remove all the videos about the mountain or force him to delete his account or just delete the person who owns the account which they did right Andrew's death is the strangest part of this whole story and still there are a few details that don't add up we've been able to explain just about every one of Andrew's videos I think we've solved everything he saw on or around the mountains or at least we've made pretty strong cases for a hoax but Andrew's death is not so easy to solve there are aspects of it that feel like a hoax but there are aspects that make me think he might actually be gone Andrew's obituary did show up in the local paper on July 1st but anyone can post on that newspaper's website without a death certificate looking at the source code of the page we can see that his obituary was first published on July 1st at 7am but he died on July 1st so did he pass away very early in the morning and then someone submitted an obituary to the paper just a few hours later that's odd to me now there have been at least two people who have confirmed Andrew's death they allegedly said he was depressed and took his own life now could they be part of the hoax in covering sure but faking your own death isn't easy his Facebook page has been changed to a remembering page that attracts a lot of attention Andrew's girlfriend created a couple of videos after his passing that looked pretty sincere well most of them do now I don't love the idea of posting tick tocks about your partner's death that seems weird to me why put something so painful and personal online you're such a boomer yeah I know I've been told that this is not that unusual for tick-tockers to me it feels a little unseemly but everyone processes grief in their own way by the way I'm not going to link to her social media if you really want to find her it's easy enough to do but please don't comment on her posts or reach out to her just leave her alone every comment she gets is what happened to Andrew and if he really is gone then all those comments have to be torture now some other things are strange there's very little information about Andrew online I couldn't find birth records death records residences phone numbers what schools he went to employment history arrest records or really records of any kind the only background information I could find comes from his Facebook page but I could find members of his family I found his grandfather who Andrews named after I found his mother I found his siblings I thought it was strange that his sister posted nothing about the passing of her brother on her social media and she posts every day now if he really is gone his family has my condolences but if he's alive then he has my congratulations if this is a hoax it's a good one if it's not a hoax it's really really sad [Music] with me foreign yeah I really hope this is a hoax and at some point Andrew reappears maybe he posts a tick tock video explaining everything and how difficult it was to keep the secret for so many months then he could live his life raise his kids and when they grow up tell them the story about how daddy fooled everyone on the internet something tells me he's never going to get that chance [Music] foreign thank you so much for hanging out with me today my name is AJ that's hecklefish this has been the Y files if you had fun or learned anything do me a favor like subscribe comment share that stuff really helps the channel and like most topics we cover on this channel today's topic was recommended by you so if there's a story you'd like to see or learn more about go to the yfiles.com tips a special thanks to our patrons who made this channel possible without you guys there'd be no channel so thanks for everything that you do and if you'd like to support the channel consider becoming a member on patreon or grab something from the Wi-Fi store fight people surveyed say coffee tastes better coming out of a lizard people mug four out of five huh hey it's just science you say so 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Length: 25min 21sec (1521 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 27 2023