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Where is Philip Cairns? The Unsolved Disappearance Case - Twisted News

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today we’re looking in to an unsolved mystery of a boy from Ireland who disappeared back in 1986 and has never been found. And then we’re going to upstate New York to learn about the Brighton Axe Murder. Get ready for Scary Mysteries Twisted News.📽 Our Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/scarymysteries🎧 Our Other Podcast - Every Town: https://everytown.buzzsprout.com🎧 EXCLUSIVE PODCAST EPISODES: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1235579/subscribe 💀 Follow Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scarymysteries 💀 Follow Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrew.fitzg👁 Follow Our TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewfitzgerald💥 Follow Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scarymysteriesofficial🗣 Business Inquiries: scarymysteries1@gmail.com Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everyone, welcome to Twisted News, I'm Andrew, and today we're looking into an unsolved

0:07.2

mystery of a boy from Ireland who disappeared back in 86 and has never been found.

0:13.7

After that, we want to upstate New York to learn about the Brightenax murder.

0:19.5

Get rid of the scary mysteries Twisted News.

0:24.9

Number one, the eerie disappearance of Philip Cairns.

0:30.8

On a seemingly ordinary afternoon in South Dublin, Ireland, the unthinkable occurred.

0:37.7

The young schoolboy, Philip Cairns, set off from his belly-roan home and turned him

0:43.2

returning to school after his lunch break.

0:45.6

It was a very short trip, but Philip never reached his destination.

0:51.6

One day, it was October 23, 1986, and it marked the beginning of one of the most chilling

0:57.1

mysteries in recent Irish history.

1:01.6

13-year-old Philip was going on a routine journey for him.

1:05.7

He left Colastiana's secondary school around 12.45 pm, returned home for lunch.

1:12.3

By 1.30, he was on his way back to school, but somewhere in between, in the heart of

1:18.5

Rath from him, he vanished.

1:21.5

There was no trace left behind, none to suggest where he might have gone.

1:26.4

It was as if the earth had swallowed him up, but of course we know that's not what actually

1:31.2

happened.

1:32.2

And the days that followed, rumors spread among the local children in the schoolyard and

1:38.0

in the neighborhoods, whispers of a bad man offering sweets and tasting Philip into a

1:44.6

van.

1:46.4

As theory was fueled by the sheer magnitude of the search operation, his hundreds of officers,

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