- [Joshua] Hi YouTube, it's Joshua Miles, and welcome back
to my channel.
I have a quick announcement for you, which I don't think
anyone's going to be too bothered about, but I am canceling
slash stopping the 12 Days of Christmystery series.
Just because, at the moment, it feels like I'm putting
out videos for the sake of putting out videos and they're
not to the standard of quality that I want to be uploading,
if that makes sense.
My goal is to be uploading much
longer, longer, longer videos.
More in-depth, complex cases, instead of doing these
five minute videos and uploading them just because I said
that I have to everyday for the 12 days of Christmas.
We're gonna try again, probably later this year, with a
different series, like this, but for now the 12 days of
Christmas is ove-- 12 Days of Christmystery is over and
we're gonna go into this case today, which is a, as you can
tell, a longer video.
I hope nobodies too upset by that, I don't think anyone
really is going to be.
Don't forget, I am still uploading on my usual schedule now,
so I'll be uploading a video on Sunday and then have a
conspiracy theory next Wednesday, and then Sunday again for
your True Crime video.
It just gives me more time to work on the videos, and to
give more attention, and research, into the cases than I
already do.
Because I really wanna be making much, much longer videos,
more in-depth, like I've said, I feel like making
five minute videos is, even though it's going over some
of the cases, it's not going into enough depth, it's not
going into enough anything.
I just feel like it's a waste of time if we're not gonna
go into depth, you know?
I'd just like to point out, this video is not being made to
disrespect, or anything like that, it's just being made
to spread the word about this case by compiling information
from various public sources on the internet.
Now, with all that being said, let's delve into this video
and have a look at this Curious Case episode.
This is the curious case of Patricia Meehan.
Thursday, April 20th, 1989, Peggy Bueller and her father
were traveling westbound on Montana Highway 200, when they
saw a vehicle driving towards them on the wrong side
of the road.
Fortunately, Peggy managed to swerve her car in the
nick of time, onto the shoulder, avoiding a
head-on collision.
However, just a few moments later, the car that was driving
the wrong way crashes the vehicle behind Peggy's.
Once the initial shock wore off, an off-duty police officer,
called Carol Heitz, emerged from the car that was traveling
behind Peggy's.
Fortunately for Carol, she emerged completely unharmed.
That is when the driver of the vehicle that was going the
wrong direction got out of the car and walked over to Carol.
According to Carol, the mysterious woman just stood there,
and stared at her.
It was as if the woman was staring straight through her.
The woman did not speak.
Peggy Bueller quickly took her car and drove up to the scene
of the crash, to see what she could do to help.
Then she noticed a blonde woman climb a fence into a field
and then watch the scene, as if they were observing her.
- [Peggy] As I looked out across the accident, I noticed
someone on the other side of the fence, standing there,
like a spectator.
Not like it had happened to her.
- [Joshua] Peggy watched as the mysterious woman stood there
for a few moments before them, and turn around, and walked
away into the empty field, vanishing into the night.
Peggy immediately drove in to the nearest town to call for
the emergency services, while her father stayed with Carol
at the scene of the accident.
When police arrived at the scene, the unidentified
female driver of the vehicle driving the wrong way down the
highway, was nowhere to be found.
Using the number plates of the woman's car, police were able
to identify the mysterious woman.
This woman was revealed to be 37-year-old Patricia Meehan.
Patricia Meehan had been born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
to Thomas, and Dolly, Meehan.
Patricia then went on to attend college in Oklahoma,
and studied early child development as she wanted to pursue
a career in daycare.
However, in 1985 she actually gave up on that path.
Then, she decided to move to Bozeland, Montana, where she
worked as a ranch hand.
She told her family and friends that her love for animals
was the reason for the sudden career change.
Patricia had also been working a few odd jobs, to be able to
support herself financially.
The last person to see Patricia, before the accident, was
actually her landlord.
Who noted that she seemed very out of the ordinary and was
overly hyper.
In the search that immediately followed the crash, police
found a trail of tennis shoe footprints, in a field
0.75 miles away from the scene of the crash.
Police followed the tracks, and due to the size of the
shoe impression, they believed it to be the tracks
of Patricia.
They continued to follow the tracks, until about 3 a.m.
on April 21st, before finding that the tracks eventually
just disappeared into the terrain.
The search was then suspended until the following morning.
Patricia's family quickly traveled to Montana, shortly after
her disappearance, when they got there they handed out
over 2,000 missing persons flyers throughout the
Pacific Northwest.
Scores of local volunteers searched, and scoured, the local
mountains, and fields, for any sign of Patricia.
They searched by foot, by horse, ATV, and even by air.
Abandoned coal mines in the area, and also cave systems,
were also searched, however, to no avail.
No traces of Patricia were discovered.
Strangely enough, the place were Patricia had crashed
her car, was actually 400 miles away from her home
in Bozeman, and neither her family, or her friends, could
explain why she had made a journey all the way out there
and why she was in the area.
Now, let's get into a few of the police theories
and speculation.
The police initially theorized that Patricia had actually
hitchhiked, because they were on a highway, after walking
away from the scene of the crash, into a nearby city.
Or she stowed away on a nearby hay truck, that had been
parked about half a mile away from the scene of the crash.
However, there is no evidence or sightings to support
either of those theories.
Patricia's mother claimed that Patricia had been
experiencing depression, and that she had been seeing
a psychiatrist.
Oddly enough, Patricia had scheduled an appointment for
the morning of April 21st with her psychiatrist, which
is the day after that she had the car crash and then
disappeared.
In her car, the police found a number of her belongings.
Amongst those belongings, was a camera.
Patricia's family rushed to have the film developed,
and when they got it back, they found a photo on the camera,
which is truly haunting.
It is a photo that is a self-portrait of Patricia, that she
took in the mirror.
The last known photo of Patricia, alive.
This image is very, very eerie.
From very early on in the case, police believed
Patricia to have experienced some kind of amnesia.
And this amnesia theory is actually the lead theory,
and the running theory, in this case.
Shockingly, there's been over 5,000 reported sightings
of Patricia, in the Pacific Northwest, since her
disappearance.
Most notably was on May 4th, 1989, just 13 or 14 days
after she disappeared.
A police officer in Luverne, Minnesota had claimed
to have seen Patricia, in a local restaurant.
According to this police officer, she sat inside
the restaurant drinking water for five hours, until the
restaurant closed down.
And then after that, she went to a nearby 24-hour diner.
The next day, on May 5th, 1989, there were two reported
sightings of Patricia.
The first was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
I'm sorry if I'm butchering the names of these places.
In South Dakota, a waitress claims to have seen Patricia
dining inside of her truck stop diner, drinking coffee from
about midnight to 11:30 a.m.
The second sighting of Patricia was in Murdo, South Dakota.
A waitress, at a restaurant there, claimed to have seen
Patricia between the hours of 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on that
same day.
And according to the waitress, she was actually
in the company of 30 to 40 year-old male.
14 days after that sighting, Patricia was then seen,
reportedly, by another waitress.
But this time, at a restaurant near Patricia's home
in Bozeman.
The waitress claims that Patricia came into the restaurant,
in a hurry, ordered food in a hurry, and ate it down
in a hurry, claiming that she had to be going shopping
at 9 a.m., and it was urgent that she had to be there
at 9 a.m.
Another waitress, at the same diner, claims that Patricia
seemed very, very disoriented, and that she was even talking
to herself.
That same week, there was an unconfirmed sighting
of Patricia at a horse auction in Billings, Montana.
Over two weeks later, on May 30th, 1989, a woman that
resembled Patricia was seen by a passing truck driver,
on Interstate 90, in rural Washington.
The truck driver offered Patricia a ride, but she declined.
After that, another motorist offered to give her a lift.
However, she declined theirs also and said that her car had
broken down, and that she was walking into town to find
and use a phone.
The next week, there was another reported sighting
of Patricia in Tacoma, Washington.
A Port of Tacoma employee claimed to have seen Patricia
at a truck stop, on Interstate 5, asking for directions
to Aberdeen.
This is the Aberdeen in Washington, not the Aberdeen
in Scotland.
By June of 1989, over 25 sightings of Patricia had been
reported, however only three of them have been confirmed
by the police.
Many other reported sightings of Patricia were made
throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Primarily at truck stops, between Montana and Seattle.
Due to the reported sightings, Patricia's family actually
traveled over 8,000 miles in the search for Patricia.
They traveled all over Northwest America, in the hopes they
might find her.
But, sadly, and unfortunately, to no avail.
On June 27th, 1989, there was another alleged sighting of
Patricia in Great Falls, Montana, just one week after she
was reportedly seen in Washington.
However, this sighting was later confirmed to have actually
been a sighting of a woman who was a truck driver that
looked very similar to Patricia.
On August 30th, 1990, a woman who was described to be
transient, was arrested by the police for littering.
The woman bore an uncanny resemblance to Patricia, and due
to this uncanny resemblance, the arresting officer
arrested her, thinking that she was, in fact, Patricia.
On September 1st, 1990, the woman appeared in court.
While she claimed she was actually a missionary who was
traveling between Washington and Montana.
The woman was then further confirmed to have not been
Patricia, through the use of fingerprint analysis.
The police told media that the woman looked very, very,
very, very similar to Patricia, and her voice even sounded
like Patricia's.
Now, let's talk about a few other theories in this case.
One theory states that the car crash was some kind of
attempted suicide, and the reason that she stared at the
drivers so weirdly, and strangely, was because it was
her way of processing that she was still alive.
She then walked away, and committed suicide some other way,
or simply succumbed to her environments.
And all the other sightings were just because she had very
generic, and common, facial features and facial structure.
Meaning her facial structure was average.
Another theory is that after the crash she did actually
hitchhike to another city, where she assimilated into the
homeless population.
It is then suggested that she could have been taken
advantage of, which is very possible considering she would
be called a high-risk case, due to her transient state
and bad mental health.
According to this theory, it is extremely likely that she
is actually an unidentified Jane Doe case.
Patricia Meehan would 66 years old, today.
We can only hope that she is alive, and well.
And maybe one day reunites with her family, or that, for her
family, closure is found.
Thank you so much for watching this episode,
this final episode, of my 12 Days of Christmystery series,
and doing like, I don't even know what day it is.
I am uploading again on Sunday, which has been my normal
Curious Case episode, which, hopefully, will be a lot
longer, and really, really trying to get, at least,
10, 15 minutes long, if not longer.
Hopefully aiming for longer videos, again, I'm sorry that
I had to end this series so soon.
I just would rather put more time and resources
into researching and, you know, making the videos,
then having to put out a new video every single day.
It's, I mean, not only other videos not coming out
top quality, or anything like that.
It's very, very draining on me, as well.
After this video we're turning back to my usual schedule,
which is two videos a week, one on Wednesdays, and one on
Sundays, the Sunday video is my usual True Crime video,
which I'm hoping to be, at least, 10 to 15 minutes at a
minimum, and then, as long as I can, I wanna go really
in-depth, like I've said, and then Wednesday videos
I started off doing conspiracy theory videos, but it might
just turn out to be anything, it's just whatever I feel like
doing on a Wednesday, I guess.
So, that means there will be a new video on Sunday for you,
at 8 p.m. UK time.
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Now, with all that being said, the series' over, let's all
chill out, and just get a cup of tea, and get ready for
Sunday's case, because it is gonna be a big one.
I'll see you in the next video.
(mysterious music)
On September 1st, 1990, the woman --
(something falls)
Rude.