Hello everyone and welcome to Scary Interesting. In this video, we're going to look at two
incredibly creepy cases of people disappearing and some found footage related to each of the cases
that makes things even more disturbing. As always, viewer discretion is strongly advised. [intro music] In 2006, life was going really well for Jennifer Kesse. Three years earlier, she'd graduated with honors
from the University of Central Florida, where she'd been studying for a degree in finance. It wasn't hard for her to find a job after either,
and so almost right away, she landed a position as a financial analyst
for an investment firm. Her personality was a perfect fit for the job. Jennifer always wanted to learn more, and she had a
dynamic energy that could light up any room. At the same time, her parents also instilled
a sense of caution in her. They had been mugged at gunpoint in
New Jersey years earlier, and they wanted their daughter to always be safe. By feeding this combination of energy
and caution into her work, she got promoted twice in two years, quickly earning
enough money to buy a condo at the Mosaic Millenia Condominium
complex in Orlando. And for the most part, this was a great place to live. It was fancy and gated, and was right
in the heart of the city and only a mile down the road from a brand-new mall. When she moved in, a lot of the condos were still
undergoing a conversion from apartments, and because of this, she had to put up with
a lot of construction work and the construction workers that came with it. The daily comments and catcalls obviously
were incredibly annoying, and whenever one of the workers had to go
into her apartment to do anything, she was on the phone with her parents
until they left, just to be safe. But, she thought it was worth it to own such a
prime piece of real estate so young, and the workers would be gone before too long anyway. If it ever got too much, she could always rely
on her boyfriend, Rob, to talk to the workers and get them
to tone things down. Jennifer and Rob met while Rob was visiting Orlando
for a trade show that her firm was exhibiting, and from then on, Rob and Jennifer were
said to be very much in love, even though they chose not to move in together. They both had careers they wanted to focus on,
and because their jobs were about three hours apart, they had to make do with a long-distance relationship
in the meantime. Instead, they made up for lost time every weekend
and called each other and texted each other daily. In 2005, they decided to go on a five-day vacation
together the following January, and flew out to Saint Croix in the
British Virgin Islands. Their return flight landed late in the evening, so Jennifer
decided to spend the night at Rob's, and then drive straight to work the following morning. She had a normal day at work despite being tired. And then at about 6 PM, she left her office
and went home, and called her dad and brother to tell them
how amazing her trip had been. Then after getting home, she called her mother
and her closest friend, and she told them every detail on how the trip
was like something out of a fairy tale. Meanwhile, Rob felt exactly the same way. On the day they returned, his best friend
even joked with him that he was in love with Jennifer,
even if he wouldn't admit it. Sadly for Rob, the last time he spoke to
Jennifer didn't go so well. At 10 PM, she called, and they got into an argument. Rob said that the long-distance relationship was
making things more complicated than they wanted, which was one of the reasons he found it hard to admit
to himself how much he cared about her. The following morning, Rob didn't get the call he usually
got from Jennifer before she left work. He tried calling her, but it went straight to voicemail. And at first, he was worried that she was still upset
with him for the disagreement the night before, but he thought she'd just cool down at work
and then they could talk. So he went to his morning meeting, and after he
came out, he tried to call her again. And again, it went to voicemail. After the next meeting, he tried again,
and the same thing happened. This wasn't normal behavior for Jennifer, and their argument hadn't been that bad,
so Rob started to get worried. At the same time, Jennifer's boss called one of Jennifer
and her parents' mutual friends. Jennifer hadn't turned up to work and hadn't called,
which was extremely unusual. She was the type of person who was
happy to get up at 6 AM and drive 3 hours to make it to the office on time. She would even call the office if she was
only just 5 minutes late. So next, figuring she might be at her parents, the family friend then called to find out if she was
over there, maybe too sick to tell anyone. Her dad took the call in his office, and Jennifer wasn't
there, so he called her cell phone. His call then also went to voicemail, and it never
went to voicemail. The family had one rule: if one of the
parents called, you answer it. When they were a little younger, not answering the phone
meant losing their phone and car privileges, and even though Jennifer was older now,
it was a habit that had stuck. Right away, her parents seemed to sense that
something terrible had happened, so the whole family jumped in their car
and set off to Orlando. As they drove, her dad called the police, and then
they called the condo office to see if they could check and see
if her car was still there. Someone went down to check, but he couldn't see it,
so even more worried, her parents asked him to check out her condo. A few moments later, after the worker had
found another person to make sure it was legal to enter, the man
from the condo called back. No one was in her apartment, and everything looked fine. When the family arrived, they looked
inside Jennifer's place, and it was just as the guy from the office described it. The T-shirt she'd worn to bed was on the floor,
her makeup was all over her countertop, and the shower and a towel were still wet. It seemed apparent that she'd at least gotten ready
for work and hadn't been gone for long. While they were there, they were met by a
police officer, and her parents explained what was happening and tried to make him
understand that this wasn't normal behavior. Unfortunately, the officer either didn't
get it or didn't care. He told them she probably just went
somewhere to cool off after arguing with her boyfriend,
and then left the scene. So with the police doing nothing, Jennifer's parents
got as many friends and family together as possible and started looking for her themselves. They put up posters, handed out flyers
for their picture, and went everywhere that Jennifer might've gone, which included the mall, her favorite bars,
and her usual route to work. That night when she still hadn't shown up,
the police finally declared her missing. Two days later, a tenant living close by
recognized her car from a news report and let the police know that one just like it had been sitting abandoned outside
her apartment for days. Later, another person claimed to have spotted
Jennifer's car swerving near her condo, with two people struggling to control
the steering wheel inside. However, this crucial piece of information
didn't come forward until much later. When they initially found the car, it was parked
a mile from her place, in another condo complex called
Huntington on the Green. This wasn't the nice block Jennifer lived in, but instead a rougher area known for its high crime rate. They would go on to find one of Jennifer's fingerprints
and a large boot print on the gas pedal. They also found a DNA fragment in the car
that didn't belong to anyone Jennifer knew, but unfortunately, it didn't match anyone already
on the police database either. Maybe the worst though was that all her valuables
were still in the car, suggesting it hadn't been a regular robbery. It also looked as someone had wiped the car down
to remove any evidence they might have left. Weirdly, police also said there didn't seem
to be any sign of a struggle. After her car was thoroughly searched
and no leads were found, police realized that there were plenty
of surveillance cameras pointed in the direction near where the car was parked. The police then checked the cameras and found a single piece of footage
of some time after she disappeared. In the video, a man dressed in workman's clothes
parked Jennifer's car, sat motionless for 30 seconds, and then exited
the vehicle and walked away. Unfortunately, there was no video of Jennifer
in and around the car; just that single clip of the car, and then the car
was abandoned afterward. And unfortunately, no matter what camera angle
they looked at, a fence blocked the man's face, making it
impossible to identify who it was. They tried everything they could to enhance the image, calling in favors from the FBI and NASA,
who also did the best they could. But in the end, all they could really determine
that it was a man between 5'3 and 5'5, with large feet for his height. This wasn't really helpful either
because so many workers who fit that description lived in that building
and the condos close to it. Quite a few of them were also people who worked
on the conversions at Jennifer's own condo and had been given somewhere to stay
while the work continued. So next, the police used a scent dog to see if
they could find any trace of this person. The dog would go on to lead them from her car,
back to her condo complex. So they wondered if whoever it was in the video had returned to her condo parking lot
after abandoning the car. It's possible he wasn't from the area at all and had only left the car to throw the
police off his scent. While the investigation continued,
Jennifer's parents moved into an apartment. They wanted to be as close to the
investigation as possible, and living at the possible crime scene
was as close as they got. But unfortunately, despite the video footage, police began by interviewing anyone close
to Jennifer rather than following what seemed to be such an obvious lead,
which was the man in the video. First, they interviewed her ex-boyfriend, Matt. Jennifer didn't know this, but while she'd been
in the Virgin Islands with Rob, her brother had invited Matt and another friend
to stay with him at the condo. This actually wasn't all that unusual, since her brother
and Matt were still good friends, but the police were told that Matt had been
upset since they split up and was jealous of her relationship with Rob,
and wanted to get back together with her. Despite this, after the interviews,
there was nothing to suggest that Matt had anything to do with her disappearance. They also quickly ruled out her family, and then Rob too, then they questioned her coworkers, but again,
this was just another dead end. In May of 2007, so several months after she disappeared, Jennifer's company put up a $1M reward for any information that could help find her by July 4th. To claim the money though, she had to be alive. The hope was that if she'd been abducted
for human trafficking the people involved might prefer a quick million dollars
over the hassle of keeping her hidden. Unfortunately, July 4th came and went,
and the money was never claimed. By then, Jennifer's family had had just
about enough of the police who they thought messed up the investigation
from the start. They would go on to spend close to $100,000
on their own investigations and came up with some new and startling information. Not only were they the ones to find the witness
who claimed to have seen the car swerving, but they also found evidence that seemed to suggest that someone was thrown into the trunk of the car. Apparently, there were scratch marks in
and around the trunk of the car that led them to make this conclusion. If they had known this from the beginning,
there might have been more urgency during the initial stages of her disappearance. So, finally in frustration, Jennifer's parents went on
to lobby with another missing woman's family for a bill to force law enforcement to reform
how they react to missing persons. This was passed unanimously in 2008,
but unfortunately, in the meantime, the case was passed from Orlando Police
to the FBI in 2010, and then to Florida's Cold Case Unit in 2022. Today, Jennifer is still considered to be missing
and in danger. For the Jamison family, life in Eufaula, Oklahoma
was anything but quiet. Bobby and recently divorced, Sherilynn, met in 2002, and their summer romance blossomed into
marriage just two years later. The year before they were married,
Bobby was in a bad car accident that caused chronic back pain that would continue
to plague him for the rest of his life. From that point onward, he found it hard to work,
and by the time he was 44, the agony and lack of a job were getting so bad
that it was triggering bouts of depression. Despite their recent love and marriage,
Sherilynn couldn't really care for him either, because frankly, she had her own demons. When she was younger, her sister died after
being stung by a bee, and from that point on, she struggled with her
own deep depression. She had also been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was known to avoid taking the medications
she was prescribed for both. By 2009, so five years into their marriage, she was finding it difficult to look after their
six-year-old daughter, Madyson, her son from her first marriage, Colton,
and Maisie, the family dog. And thus far, their marriage was not a happy one. Bobby and Sherilynn both found life hard, and
sometimes, that caused heated arguments, and any events outside their disabilities
only made things worse. Things really started to escalate when Bobby and Sherilynn became convinced
that their house was haunted. Their pastor even claimed that Bobby had been
trying to exorcise the spirits and bought a copy of The Satanic Bible. After his pastor talked to him about it,
Bobby claimed he was joking, but his pastor got the impression that Bobby
wasn't joking at all. He tried to play it off, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't when he asked if there was some sort of bullet
that he could use to shoot demons. Apparently, Bobby was convinced that two,
or sometimes four, evil spirits were living on his roof, and Sherilynn believed it too. She said that both her and Madyson had even
seen the spirits inside the house. You see, at the time, Madyson had an
imaginary friend named Emily. It's obviously not unusual for 6 year olds
to have imaginary friends, and especially not in a family that keeps to themselves, and whose kids don't have any close friends
because of that. But Sherilynn was convinced that Emily
was an evil spirit. According to their friends and family,
Sherilynn thought Emily was a witch, and she'd hold seances to try to get the
demons away from her daughter. The neighbors for the most part didn't take it
as seriously as Sherilynn, but they did seem to agree that the house was haunted. Sherilynn's best friend, Nikki, claims that
she felt a horrible presence and would leave feeling off and depressed
whenever she went to the house. Whatever the case, weirdly, the Jamisons also
owned a storage container like the type you'd find being loaded
onto trucks from ships. One morning, the neighbors noticed that Sherilynn
had graffitied all across the side of it. According to Sherilynn, a neighbor had
poisoned her black cats, so to warn whoever she thought was doing it, she wrote, "Three cats killed to date
by people in this area... Witches don't like their black cat killed." And this was written in letters big enough
for everyone to see. Unfortunately, supposed malevolent spirits
weren't the only issues the family had. In July of 2009, Sherilynn lost a custody battle with her
ex-husband over her son, Colton. During the hearing, Colton, who was 12, apparently
even said that he wanted to live with his father. He didn't like how weird his mom acted
or how she was constantly depressed. Then, in addition to losing custody of Colton,
the family was having issues with someone they were letting stay at their house;
a man named Kenneth Bellows. He was a handyman and a friend of the family,
and he lived with them for a short while so the Jamisons could get a little bit of
extra income by renting a room. This was also to help Bobby with things he couldn't do because of his back, like lifting heavy objects. This was going well at first, but unfortunately,
according to Nikki, Sherilynn told her that one night when Bobby was out,
there had been an incident. Apparently, Kenneth sat uncomfortably
close to her on the couch, got in her face, and told her he thought
she was disgusting. He knew that she was part Native American, and he wanted her to know that he couldn't
stand the sight of her. Sherilynn then stood up, went to another room, took out the family's .22 caliber pistol,
and pointed it at Kenneth's head. She then told him to get out and never come back, but Kenneth called her bluff and said he
knew she wasn't going to shoot him. So instead, she shot at the floor just in front of his feet. This got Kenneth moving, and he walked out
with a gun pointed at his back and never stayed at their house again. But, unfortunately, without the extra income
from the room, this only exacerbated the money problems
they'd been having. They constantly argued as they struggled to pay bills or cover the lawyer fees for Sherilynn's custody battle. It didn't help that they were also suing Madyson's
school after pulling her out of class. Making things worse still, if rumors are to believed, around the same time,
Bobby had taken his father to court over the ownership of the family
gas station in Oklahoma City. Bobby claimed that his father had agreed
to give him half a stake in the business in return for some work he did for him. What his father was really doing, he said, was
tricking him into working for nothing. According to Bobby, when he asked
his father for his fair share, his father threatened to kill him and
his family more than once. He would even call his father a dangerous man
who believed himself to be above the law. All of this is to say that basically, the family just
seemed to run into problem after problem, either with the people they knew or
from their own issues. And this would all finally blow up in September of 2009. Sherilynn, finding it impossible to take the
strain of her depression, her son being taken away, the arguments with Bobby, and the overwhelming sense of paranoia
she was feeling, had to be rushed to the hospital after
doing something drastic. This was a big turning point, and the family
decided they needed a change. So they came up with a plan to buy some land,
take their storage container, and live inside of it, off-grid, away from the
stresses of the world, whether they were demons or ex-husbands.
And this was a plan they kept secret. None of their friends or family, including Colton, had
any idea they'd even been planning to leave. On October 7th, they set off on a 50-mile drive
to the city of Red Oak in the San Bois mountain range to visit a realtor to see
a 40-acre plot on the Panola Mountain. This is an area in the eastern part of Oklahoma
close to the Arkansas border. The family thought that this plot of land might be the
perfect place to put their container and start a new life that would solve
all of their problems. Unfortunately, this wasn't smooth either,
and on the way there, they got lost and had to abandon their plans and
ask for directions home. The next day, something really strange happened. Video surveillance captured Bobby and Sherilynn
walking backwards and forwards from their truck. In the footage, they made more than a dozen trips, but weirdly, sometimes they packed
something into their truck. Other times, they walked up to it with
nothing in their hands. Every now and then, they just stood still,
their faces emotionless, as if they were in some sort of trance. On one of the trips, they loaded a brown case
into the vehicle, and sometime later, Sherilynn
dyed Madyson's hair blonde. Sometime after that, they attempted to get
to Red Oak again. This time, they found their way there with the help
of a GPS, and met with the realtor. Bobby then asked the realtor if they could see the land
alone and asked for the GPS coordinates. This didn't seem too unusual.
It just seemed like they wanted to explore the place independently
and get their bearings. So they took their GPS unit and walked for about
15 minutes to the spot on the mountain. It was a quiet and secluded patch of forest,
rarely touched by hikers or hunters. They spent a little while looking over
what could be their new home, imagining what life might be like once they moved there,
and then they returned to their truck. little while after leaving,
down a road northwest of Redo. they got out of the truck and locked the doors. Then on October 12th, so four days after they went
to visit the land, one of their phones called someone. The call went to voicemail, but the family
didn't leave a message. And after that unanswered phone call,
there was just no sign of the Jamisons. With that said, because they were very private, the family was actually known to disappear
for long periods of time. Sometimes it would be weeks before
any family or friends heard from them. So at first, nobody suspected anything. In the mountains, a few people even passed
the Jamisons' abandoned truck. No one thought much of it and just thought
they were another set of hikers who had driven up the trail a bit so they
didn't have to walk as far. On October 17th, so over a week since
the family was last seen, two hunters passed by on dirt bikes and thought
they heard something coming from the truck. When they turned back to check it out,
they found the family's dog, Maisie, whimpering in the backseat, and she was
so thin you could see her ribs. It was clear she'd been there for days,
so the hunters decided to call the police. At first, local sheriffs thought the truck might have been
stolen and had only been there for a short while, but one of the hunters said he'd seen it there for days. Maisie, also being so malnourished, confirmed this. Before doing a thorough search, they checked to see
if the truck might have broken down, but they would find that the truck had gas and didn't seem to have been in any sort
of accident, and ran just fine. Next they thoroughly searched inside and
found a bunch of the family's stuff, including their coats, Bobby's wallet, Sherilynn's purse,
cell phones, the GPS unit, and maps. There are also a couple of strange items in the truck. The first was a nasty 11-page hate letter
that Sherilynn had written to Bobby. In it, she called him a loner and a hermit,
and listed everything she hated about him. She even wrote that she wanted a divorce. Maybe even more unusual than the letter though, was the $32,000 in cash they'd stuffed
under the driver's seat. Neither Bobby nor Sherilynn was working, so it was
weird for them to be carrying so much money. It's also worth noting that there was no sign
of the brown case that they had put in their truck in the video footage. There also didn't seem to be any sign
of a struggle around the truck, but weirdly, it had stopped in the middle of the road
rather than being pulled over in part, which made it look like someone or something
might have forced them to stop in that spot. But otherwise, there wasn't anything you'd expect
that the family had been violently abducted, like traces of blood, broken glass,
or any other signs of a struggle. There was also a lot of garbage scattered on the truck as if they decide to throw everything out of it
when they stopped. The whole scene was just very strange. The police decide to use their GPS and cell phones to see if they could trace the family's last movements. Eventually, they got to where the Jamisons
had stopped the truck and realized that the last picture on one of the phones was Madyson standing in front of a rock
right where they were. There has been a lot of speculation about this picture. Madyson is standing, wearing a short pink top, her usually brown hair is dyed blonde,
and her arms are folded. It's also a bit hard to read her facial expression. Some people think she looks uncomfortable,
maybe even upset, while others think she's about to start laughing as her eyes and mouth are narrowed
in a sort of smile. Other than this picture, the police were at a bit
of a dead end in terms of leads, so they decided to begin a massive search
of the area the following day. They used dogs, helicopters, and over a hundred police
and volunteers, but the search wasn't easy. The weather was terrible, the terrain was rugged, and hunting season had begun
so they had to be extra careful. Before long, the search was called off,
and no trace of the family was found. That was until four years later. For a long time, the most popular theory
about their disappearance was that they'd run away for some reason. That might explain why Sherilynn had dyed Madyson's hair
and that there was no trace of them. It didn't explain why the money was left behind or why it looked like someone had stopped the truck, but it gave hope to their friends and family
that the three were still alive somewhere. Then, on November 16th, 2013, deer hunters
came across some skeletal remains in a remote area of Panola Mountain, just over two miles
from where the Jamisons were last seen. These remains were the badly decomposing bodies
of two adults and one child, and were found arranged next to each other in a line. All that was left were three skulls, some of their bones,
shoes, and some scraps of clothing. These were the remains of the Jamisons. Because of the advanced decomposition, it was impossible
to work out what caused their death, but there was a small hole in Bobby's skull. The hunters who found them were sure that this was
a bullet hole, and at first the police agreed. But after closer investigation, they realized there was
just no way to know what caused the injury. The local sheriff's department and the FBI then spent
months on a thorough investigation about how they might have died and
possible leads or suspects. But for a while, there was still nothing. They investigated Bobby's father, who had died just
two months after his son's family disappeared, and was determined that it couldn't have been him. He was already unwell and living in a nursing home
when they vanished. The FBI also traced Kenneth, the man who was living
with them, and quickly ruled him out. It was briefly entertained that maybe he had hired
someone in retaliation for being threatened, but the police and FBI thought this was
a bit of a stretch. This left them with two more theories
that they wanted to follow up on. First, they had to explain the $32,000 and the weird behavior on the day the Jamisons
left Red Oak. Some people have speculated that the trance-like state, the missing brown case, and the cash
point to a drug deal gone wrong. It's an area well known for mobile meth labs, which are sometimes hidden along these
small trails in the forest. Given the Jamisons' odd behavior in the lead
up to their disappearance, with $30,000 and the region's known link to drugs, it's not a huge stretch to think that they might
have been on something. The problem with this theory is that the police found
no sign of drug use at their home. On top of that, Bobby seemed to be strongly
against abusing drugs. He'd even once reported a meth lab to the police
anonymously, according to the people who knew him. It seems unlikely that he would get involved
in something he found distasteful, or that might also implicate him if he was using. The second theory explored by authorities is the darkest. They figured maybe a disturbed Sherilynn
or an angry Bobby had taken their .22 caliber pistol,
marched the family up the mountain, and then shot all of them before turning
the barrel on themselves. This seems to explain the weird behavior, the hate letter,
and the small hole in Bobby's skull. But there are a lot of problems with this theory as well. First, there was no gun found at the site, and they found no evidence around the bodies
that anyone even fired a gun. It would have also been difficult for whoever fired last to have lined themselves up so perfectly
with the other victims, let alone the fact that there's no way they could
have gotten rid of the gun after the fact. So for the police, the case was a dead end
and has remained a cold case ever since. There are still some other theories however. People have speculated that the family
didn't take that last photograph at all, but instead it was someone who either followed them
or they encountered in the woods. People point to Madyson's folded arms
and hard to read expression as proof she was scared when that last picture was taken. So maybe something more sinister happened to the family. And finally, it's also possible that they just decided
to go for a walk through the woods near what would soon be their new home,
got lost, and died from exposure. Maybe it was colder than they realized,
and they went too far and got lost, and then eventually laid down where they were found. In any case, it seems that the family's end was
as chaotic as the rest of their story. This is one of those cases that just seems
to have more questions than answers, so I'm curious to hear what all of you think. Let me know down in the comments
if you have any ideas. If you made it this far, thank you so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed this set of stories. Just a reminder, we now have a Scary Interesting podcast where you'll find more stories just like this,
released every Friday at 11 AM Eastern. The link for the podcast is in the description. If you have a story suggestion, feel free to send it
to me using the email in the description. And once again, thank you so much for watching,
and hopefully, I will see you in the next one.
