Two Mysteries, Too Soon (The Disappearances Of Sharon Pretorius And Brandon Swanson)

American Hauntings Podcast

Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

True Crime, Religion & Spirituality, Tv & Film, Spirituality, Film Reviews, History

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This will not be the last episode to feature a missing child – or missing children, in this case, teenagers – this season, but these stories are two of the most heartbreaking, so get ready for another tough one.

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0:00.0	Hey American Haunies listeners, it's Troy.
0:03.0	Need more American Haunies in your life?
0:05.0	You know you do.
0:06.0	So why not check out our other podcast,
0:09.0	the alternate show that we do for our Patreon supporters only.
0:12.0	It comes out every other week opposite this one. that we do for our Patreon supporters only.
0:12.8	It comes out every other week opposite this one,
0:15.2	which means you get our special kind of murder,
0:17.6	mystery, mayhem, and the macabre every single week.
0:21.7	Right now, we're in the middle of a season called Sinister, the true story of
0:25.8	H. H. Holmes, the infamous serial killer linked to the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. But of course that's not all there is to his twisting, turning, and depraved story. So check it out and get that new episode every week and be a part of American hauntings by becoming a Patreon supporter and subscribing at
0:46.0	Patreon.com slash American hauntings.
0:51.8	And now on with the season. Before we begin, I want to set the stage for this one, one of the final episodes of the season,
1:15.3	and acknowledge that this has been a pretty harrowing season of the podcast.
1:20.8	It's been filled with pain and heartache, unsolved mysteries, possible murders, likely deaths, and a very large number of people who simply walked out the door one day and never came back.
1:31.0	They were never seen again, which is what makes these stories so hard to hear, to write,
1:36.4	and to talk about. As I often say in the introduction for each episode, these stories have no conclusion of any kind. But that's not the worst thing about them. The worst thing is that so many of our stories have involved children and teenagers. Walter Collins, Evelyn Hartley, Beverly Potts, Ruth Bompgartner,
1:56.3	Melvin Horst, Bobby Dunbar, Charlie Ross, and a whole bunch of others.
2:01.0	Students, babysitters, poor little kids just playing on the street. I mean, children are the
2:05.3	most vulnerable members of our society. So I guess it should be no surprise to us that they are high on the
2:10.8	list of those who vanish, never to be seen again.
2:15.1	This will not be the last episode to feature a missing child or missing children, in this case
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