MISSING: Brian Shaffer

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Not Your Mom Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are discussing one of the most perplexing missing persons cases of the 2000s—the disappearance of Brian Shaffer. On April 1, 2006, Brian, a 27-year-old Ohio State medical student, was last seen entering the Ugly Tuna Saloona bar in Columbus, Ohio. But here’s where it gets strange: while there’s surveillance footage of him walking in, there’s no footage or evidence of him ever leaving. Despite numerous theories and a massive search, Brian has never been found, and his disappearance remains unsolved to this day. Tune in as we explore the mystery surrounding Brian's case and why it’s still one of the most baffling disappearances in modern history.

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0:00.0	On April 1st, 2006, one of the most perplexing missing persons cases in modern history began to unfold when 27-year-old Ohio State medical student Brian Schaefer vanished without a trace.
0:13.5	Surveillance footage showed Brian entering the Ugly Tuna Saluna Bar, but there is no footage or evidence of him ever leaving, and he was never seen again.
0:24.0	Despite numerous theories about his disappearance, no evidence has ever surfaced and Brian remains
0:29.3	missing to this day. His disappearance remains one of the most baffling mysteries of the 2000s.
0:48.7	Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself,
0:50.3	Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.
0:51.0	Hi, Melissa.
0:51.9	Hi, Mandy.
0:52.4	How are you? I am doing great, enjoying all the April showers and
0:56.6	hoping for Mayflowers. I saw caterpillars yesterday. There's so many. There's so many. It's been on,
1:04.6	like, yes, they're poisonous. Well, they're, are they poisonous? Or they just, I don't know. I remember
1:10.3	we both told our kids that they were poisonous at one time and I just kept going with it. I think they are. And they're, are they poisonous? Or they just? I don't know. I remember we both told our kids that they were poisonous at one time and I just kept going with it.
1:14.1	I think they are.
1:14.7	And they're in new sense.
1:15.7	And I've seen lots of people posting in like gardening groups.
1:19.2	I'm such an old lady now.
1:21.1	Seriously.
1:22.0	About these caterpillars that are everywhere.
1:24.4	But it is springtime.
1:25.8	So I guess you got to just deal with it.
1:30.2	Okay. Well, that wasn't how I wanted to do this. There are Facebook groups for everything. My mom told me, she was like, I learned on my plantar fasciitis group. I was like, ma'am.
1:40.3	There's a group for that. Multiple. She said she just found the one that seemed to have the most old people in it within that one. That one's good for her. Mandy, we have a lot going on this month. We just had a debrief that almost sent us both into a spiral. But there are lots of exciting things going on, good things. Pay attention to this space. We're doing it. We're really doing it. Pay attention to what space. There's, we're doing it. We're really doing it.
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