What Made an Indie Filmmaker Drop Everything and Run
Oct 16, 2019 5:50:37 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Oct 16, 2019 5:50:37 GMT
Since last year I've been following the strange disappearance of Terrence Woods Jr, a talented young documentary filmmaker who was in the woods of Idaho filming abandoned gold mines for the Discovery Channel with an eleven-person crew, including a couple of locals, on a cold damp fall day (there's some discrepancy in whether Terrence, who had previous filming credits, was on that day one of the filmmakers, or one of the crew.) They had just finished shooting and were wrapping up for the day when Terrence, who according to the others had been unusually silent for a few hours, approached a ridge of land a little way from the group that dropped steeply away down a hillside to the forest below.
He stood there for a moment, then to everyone's shock, without a word he dropped the two-way crew radio he was holding and took off running at top speed. He went hurtling over the ridge, down the hill, and still at a breakneck pace raced into the thick woods at the bottom and disappeared. It happened so fast the rest of the crew didn't pull themselves together and react until Terrence was out of sight in the trees.
At first they thought it was a joke and called for him, then when he didn't come back, they went looking for him. But it was getting dark and starting to freeze. They thought maybe he had come out on the main road on the other side of the woods, and the group drove it looking for him. When there was no sign of Terrence anywhere they reported him missing and a search was instituted and then called off later that night when the weather worsened.
Since that day there hasn't been a trace of Terrence Woods. Searching hasn't found anything, although the woods he ran through are large and there's no guarantee he ran straight for the road, he could have veered off in any direction and there is a lot of territory that could hide his remains. No one can be found who had a motive to hurt him. No one can explain what made him take off running. The police don't have any leads at all.
Terrence's family, who are very close-knit, insist that he was fine the last time he communicated with them the morning of the shoot, that he was a disciplined young man not given to impulse with no history of mental illness, and that he would never leave a budding career he loved and a family who loved him just as much. Terrence's father thinks that someone, for some reason, has kidnapped his son, or that something fatal happened to him that day that the other members of the film crew are covering up.
David Paulides thinks Bigfoot got him. (edit: this is a joke)
Terrence Woods Jr would have been 28 a few days ago. The last update to the gofundme his family set up to search for him is from July, and one from his devastated father, Terrence Woods Sr.
Yesterday, March 5, 2019, made it exactly 5 months since my son Terrence went missing. My heart is so broken. I'm continuing to plead, if you have any information regarding my son's disappearance, please, please, contact.
After a year, there's no more clues, no new information, and no one is any closer to solving the mystery of his disappearance than the day it happened.
Links, because I know this sounds like one of those terrible fake-real movie promos and it isn't.
idahonews.com/news/local/terrence-woods-sister-says-actions-led-up-to-disappearance-completely-out-of-ordinary
www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-father-makes-plea-after-son-goes-missing-in-idaho
www.eastidahonews.com/2018/10/search-for-missing-man-in-idaho-county-stops-after-no-leads-found-in-search-effort
klewtv.com/news/local/id-county-sheriff-says-one-missing-persons-case-isnt-an-accident
idahonews.com/news/local/terrence-woods-family-hires-private-investigator-says-disappearance-is-suspicious
blavity.com/family-left-with-more-questions-than-answers-after-a-young-filmmaker-son-disappears-without-a-trace?category1=news
He stood there for a moment, then to everyone's shock, without a word he dropped the two-way crew radio he was holding and took off running at top speed. He went hurtling over the ridge, down the hill, and still at a breakneck pace raced into the thick woods at the bottom and disappeared. It happened so fast the rest of the crew didn't pull themselves together and react until Terrence was out of sight in the trees.
At first they thought it was a joke and called for him, then when he didn't come back, they went looking for him. But it was getting dark and starting to freeze. They thought maybe he had come out on the main road on the other side of the woods, and the group drove it looking for him. When there was no sign of Terrence anywhere they reported him missing and a search was instituted and then called off later that night when the weather worsened.
Since that day there hasn't been a trace of Terrence Woods. Searching hasn't found anything, although the woods he ran through are large and there's no guarantee he ran straight for the road, he could have veered off in any direction and there is a lot of territory that could hide his remains. No one can be found who had a motive to hurt him. No one can explain what made him take off running. The police don't have any leads at all.
Terrence's family, who are very close-knit, insist that he was fine the last time he communicated with them the morning of the shoot, that he was a disciplined young man not given to impulse with no history of mental illness, and that he would never leave a budding career he loved and a family who loved him just as much. Terrence's father thinks that someone, for some reason, has kidnapped his son, or that something fatal happened to him that day that the other members of the film crew are covering up.
David Paulides thinks Bigfoot got him. (edit: this is a joke)
Terrence Woods Jr would have been 28 a few days ago. The last update to the gofundme his family set up to search for him is from July, and one from his devastated father, Terrence Woods Sr.
Yesterday, March 5, 2019, made it exactly 5 months since my son Terrence went missing. My heart is so broken. I'm continuing to plead, if you have any information regarding my son's disappearance, please, please, contact.
After a year, there's no more clues, no new information, and no one is any closer to solving the mystery of his disappearance than the day it happened.
Links, because I know this sounds like one of those terrible fake-real movie promos and it isn't.
idahonews.com/news/local/terrence-woods-sister-says-actions-led-up-to-disappearance-completely-out-of-ordinary
www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-father-makes-plea-after-son-goes-missing-in-idaho
www.eastidahonews.com/2018/10/search-for-missing-man-in-idaho-county-stops-after-no-leads-found-in-search-effort
klewtv.com/news/local/id-county-sheriff-says-one-missing-persons-case-isnt-an-accident
idahonews.com/news/local/terrence-woods-family-hires-private-investigator-says-disappearance-is-suspicious
blavity.com/family-left-with-more-questions-than-answers-after-a-young-filmmaker-son-disappears-without-a-trace?category1=news