The Unexplained Disappearance & Death of Philip Taylor Kramer

Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young

Steph Young

History, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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“Chaos is perfect order!” Kramer had announced prior to his disappearance, “I was able to decipher the code – it was heavily encrypted. People are going to want what I’m working on. We have to get off the planet…” that in the days before he disappeared, he had been supposedly working on perfecting a top-secret 30-year-old formula that he and his father believed would disprove Einstein and change the course of history. The formula was based on a theory that linked faster-than-light communications. ‘It was a kind of gravitational vibration wilder than anything seen on Star Trek. It was, he believed, worth billions, and then, one day, he disappeared, leaving behind a web of suspicion, intrigue and conspiracy theories more elaborate than anything since the grassy knoll.’ The Washington post asked; ‘Is Kramer trapped by his own technological wizardry, imprisoned somewhere in cyberspace?’ Many people believe that when Kramer vanished he entered another realm.’ On February 12th, 1995, he’d driven to LA Airport where he was due to pick up a business colleague and his wife. However, after approximately 45 minutes, he got back into his car and left the airport without waiting for his colleague to arrive. He stopped after a while and made a series of strange telephone calls. He called a former band member and good friend, Ron Bushy, and said to him, “I’ll see you on the other side.” Then he called the police and said, “This is Philip Taylor Kramer. I’m going to kill myself. And I want everyone to know O.J Simpson is innocent. THEY did it.” Then he disappeared.

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0:00.0	I came across this strange case, I'd never heard of before, and it involved the disappearance of Philip Taylor Kramer, who disappeared on the 12th of
0:26.2	February 1995, and it is an absolutely fascinating story. His remains were found on May 29, 1999.
0:41.3	Philip Taylor Kramer had once been a bass guitarist for the group Iron Butterfly,
0:47.6	and he'd been missing for four years.
0:51.7	His death is a complete mystery to this day.
0:56.8	His 1993 Ford-Ear-Star van was found at the bottom of a Malibu ravine by hikers in a canyon, about 1.5 miles east of the Pacific Coast Highway.
1:12.7	His remains were found inside his van,
1:16.1	identified through dental records.
1:20.1	His death would ultimately be ruled,
1:22.8	quotation marks, probable suicide.
1:26.6	However, his family and close friends hold strong doubts about this.
1:33.4	His widow told the LA Times, he would never, under any circumstances, for any reason, allow himself
1:40.4	to completely abandon the family he loves more than life itself.
1:47.0	Kramer had been bass player in the psychedelic group,
1:51.0	recording albums with Iron Butterfly in the mid-70s,
1:56.0	but by 1977 he'd decided to give this up and refocus on furthering his education, and he completed a degree in aerospace engineering.
2:09.8	He was a highly intelligent man. At school he got straight A's, and once gaining his degree, he went to work for Northrup, working on the MX missile guidance system as a Department of Defence Contractor.
2:26.8	Some time later, he made a move into the computer industry, where he worked on facial recognition and communications development programmes.
2:38.3	He was quite possibly a computer genius.
2:42.2	On the 12th of February 1995, he'd driven to LA Airport, where he was due to pick up a business
2:50.4	colleague and his wife.
2:53.5	However, he left after approximately 45 minutes,
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