Granddaughter Joins Search for MISSING Papa (Ralph Brown Ep7)

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1. Sending all the love and Light to His family. 💚💚

2. Fantastic beautiful video giving insight into the days where the success is in finding where the missing person isn’t.

3. Thanks to AWP for keeping up the search for Dad. 💜 We are so blessed to have AWP and their followers making suggestions and sending well wishes and prayers. 🙏 Thanks to Megan for representing the family. ❤ Yes, Mom does give the best hugs! 🤗

   1. Prayers for Ralph’s family. It’s awesome that AWP is not giving up on this sad search, way to go AWP. God Bless everyone.

   2. These are a couple things I have been thinking about, 1st maybe he was going home, back to his childhood home because with dementia (I have worked with many dementia patients as a nursing assistant) they tend to go back to their childhood when they are talking. Always yelling out looking for their mom. I work midnights so I just let them know that their mom went home to get some sleep. The 2nd thing popped into my head this afternoon. When I had Allstate car insurance and downloaded their app onto my phone so I can get a discount it tracked the roads you took, your speed, etc. Did your dad have something like that on his phone where maybe the car insurance company could track the actual roads he took? If he did, and you haven’t checked with them, maybe they have records on where the car stopped last.

   3. Was there ever any reason those bday balloons were there, on the bridge? Same case, right?

   4. Hi Laurie my name is Carol, i live on the other side of the world in Christchurch New Zealand please accept my most deepest sympathy and i hope upon hope you will bring your dad home soon. Stay strong and God bless.

   5. Clean your screens

4. Thank you again, AWP for searching and keep Ralph’s name out there. PLUS you rule out so much area. That’s all we can do in cases where someone goes missing in a car— is rule out any possible places that could hide a car. Much love.

5. Love what you all do ! Keep up the good work, sorry to hear Sam is leaving though! Hes a great part of the team and sure whatever happened hope both side continue to do good for these families

   1. Change is the only constant in life isn’t it.

6. Great work search team trying to help out families of lost love ones. Fantastic camera work and editing. Loved hearing from his granddaughter share such precious memories.

7. Thank you for continuing to search for Ralph. After watching your series, I feel like he’s America’s Grandpa.

   1. That’s beautiful. Thank you

   2. He really is! He’s America’s neighbor, Grandpa, Dad, and friend. ❤

8. Josh and Carson, you guys are amazing videographers!

9. I don’t know for sure as I didn’t see his picture till two days later but I tend to have a good memory for faces… I might have seen him the day he went missing. For all I know it could of been someone who looked like him but it felt wrong not to say anything… It was at the McDonalds on Murray and Cornell, sometime between 9 and Midnight…I am only saying this as it might be another place to look. I pray that he is found.

   1. @Kristine Teall true but he was clearly driving like he was lost, if you look at the map of the route he took on the Facebook page you can tell how all over the place his driving was, usually if a person stops for food or petrol then they wouldn’t continue to drive the same route for 4 hours going in circles. So I doubt he actually had enough sense in him to stop for food or petrol etc. Especially the way that the cell phone pings suddenly stopped altogether otherwise they would be able to release cctv footage of him being at xyz building. It is more likely IMO that he didn’t stop until he ran out of petrol or his phone ran out of battery. A guy that is lost wouldn’t just waltz up to order a maccy d’s

   2. @AUTUMNVIBES you’d be surprised what people with dementia will do. My mom would say things like she had a plane to catch back to Montana, and we hadn’t lived there in 30 years. She remembered my brother, but not me. It’s so unpredictable. Maybe he met a friend at McDonald’s for coffee everyday, he may have stopped there thinking they’d be there. I feel so bad for the family, and I hope someone reports a sighting that at least points them in the right direction
      It’s got to be hell for them.

   3. You should call in and let them know just in case, you never know.

   4. @AUTUMNVIBES My dad had dementia and you would be amazed at the things he used to do. He took off on foot one day I was out back hanging clothes at the time. He couldnt have been gone more than 15 mins. Me and some neighbors searched and searched and eventually called 911. At times he could remember everything other times he couldnt remember 5 mins ago but would remember 40 yrs ago. I live in Calif, Him and my mom used to live in W VA. he used to work in a coal mine back there. we didnt find him for about 29 hrs, and when we did he had walked 13 miles down a water canal that ran by the end of my street, some kids heard him hollaring and went and got their dad. He after he was checked out at hospital and released he told me/and police that he thought he was in W VA and was late for work which he used to walk to so he took off down the canal. He (13 miles later) saw a round opening in the side of the canal bank and thought it was the mine, and crawled in, realized it wasnt but he was stuck. At that point his memory returned to normal he said. Luckily other than being a bit dehydrated, hungry, tired, dirty and embarrassed he was ok. I hardly ever took my eyes off him except for bathroom runs after that lol…

   5. @Kristine Teall Dad always thought he had to get to a meeting. Dad is a planner and logistics guy. Making sure details were organized and boxes were checked.

10. Like I said before Jared doesn’t or hasn’t given up on any search he does. I know he’d love to solve all of them but there’s so many cases that only a small talented team can do with what they have to work with.

    1. @Swirvin’ Birds I think the original message was that they don’t *forget* any of those. Not actively searching doesn’t mean that they have quir for good if new leads would come.

    2. @Swirvin’ Birds but there often aren’t many leads they can go on, if he wasn’t in the area they were searching they can’t continue searching for the same case, also it can give other search teams chances to offer their help too. It doesn’t have to be AWP that solves them

    3. @Garbox80 at least they have better leads on Ralph’s case because of the cell phone pings but they could do with a lot more help, I think they want to solve it but it doesn’t have to be them that finds every case or solves every case, they could get help from other search teams in the area too

    4. @Swirvin’ Birds note I believe he said when threats or law enforcement get involved or ask to stop he will pull back.

    5. @Swirvin’ Birds also to be fair you don’t know if he’s working with other search teams that are still going to continue searching.

11. He has gone to a childhood “sitting” spot, or some other “thinking place”, where he knows he can’t be seen or bothered. My husband’s grandfather always wandered back to his farm to see the animals (even though the farm had been closed down for many years prior)

    1. Legend

    2. @Adventures with Purpose I love the channel guys are awesome what u guys do but Jared depression is really hard to deal with every day I deal with this man my phone is always on hit me up in here plz

    3. Very true. My mother had cancer and towards the end as the end grew closer she went back to her childhood. She no longer knew who i was and even asked why i kept calling her mommy. She said she didnt know who i am but knew she loved me. Lol she was hallucinating and reverted back to a childhood home. Her brother n law figured that one out for me when things wasnt making since to me. Then it all made since. I knew she was acting more like a kid at times but wasnt putting together why she saw some of what she saw. Ive paid more attention since then and most cancer patients seem to do that at the end . Yes i know its not just cancer patients that do this. Its sad for them all cancer or not. I just hope he is found so this family can have thier closure in knowing what happened and where.

    4. Did he have specific hobbies that are second nature to him. That phone call is probably what caused him to go somewhere. What was the conversation about?

    5. @Sarah Beth’s Stitching He asked if we were looking for him. He said he was in the bushes, literally in the bushes. I asked if he was near ‘the’ golf course. He said I think so. I told him to stay with the car and to answer the next person to call would be Daryle, my brother. (Context: I was calling from WV. My brother lives 10 min from my parents.) He didn’t pick up thr phone after that.

12. This is so heartbreaking, I pray Ralph is found🙏🏻sending prayers to the family🙏🏻

13. This must of been so hard for the family and the young woman to discuss her grandfather and you handled the discussion exceptionally well and respectful.

    1. AWP has been nothing but amazing to our family. They are knowledgeable about what they do, but they never pushed passed our comfort level. Jared and team are great at explaining (repeatedly) the facts and dispelling misinformation. My Dad would have been the first to jump at the chance to be interviewed. I am so proud of Megan. She is a very strong woman who represents the family well. We are hopeful and realistic. 💜 Dementia coupled with pandemic isolation sucks!

       Huge thanks to AWP for what they do for families to find answers! 🤗

14. *Cannot say how outstanding you all are and the amazing heart and endless efforts you do* 🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

15. This is such a really sad situation and I don’t know what I would do if one of my family members were missing. Thank you so much AWP for all the hard work you do to help these families. I pray that Ralph is found so that his family will finally have closure. God bless you all and stay safe. 🙏

    1. I have a cousin that has been missing for 30 years. They found his pickup truck shortly after he went missing. They think he walked into the desert never to be seen again.

    2. @Sylvia Wright thank you so much for your reply. My heart goes out to you sweetie. It must be really hard on your family to wonder what happened, and where he might be. God bless you and your loved ones and my thoughts and prayers go out to you.🙏

16. Really liking the way the past couple videos have been edited and put together! Awesome job to the editor(s). Thank you ALL for EVERYTHING you guys do. God bless you and keep you.

17. Her love is so powerful for her grandfather, sending her huge hugs, love, & prayers for answers. I’d do this for my grandparents, my grandkids, they would do this for me, this really means so much. I pray there’s answers, I absolutely know her grandfather would be so proud of her for all this love & determination!! So much love to her & their family. He’d be so proud🦋

    1. Thank you so much for your kind words! I would do anything for Papa Ralph. He did everything for me. ❤

18. Something you may want to consider, as I am taking this from my many years in being with different search and recovery teams. Many national ground search and rescue teams use the book “”Lost Person Behavior”” as a sort of Bible where they begin their searches from. It too states that most persons with dementia, are found within miles of their residence. In watching this episode, something that comes to my mind, is that if he does have dementia he may have regressed to a middle age self or possibly younger. With that said, the point I would like to get across is he may have traveled towards an old house that he used to live in or an old friend that he used to visit often or someplace he went often as a younger self. With your team, you may want to look at any bodies of water that are near those routes of travel, and clear those as well. His past information should be able to get from the family or possibly his physician if he had one.. I wish you and the team best of luck in bringing this gentleman home. As always, if you are near the middle of Michigan, my home and any of my equipment (boat, dive gear, sonar etc) is always open to you all.

    1. Agreed… If he said that he was going to his “other home”, it is most likely somewhere that he lived previously.

    2. I was about to type the same, I’ve worked in dementia support for over 20yrs and alot of the time past memories are clearer to even a trigger can make the memories believe that his parents are still alive and this can happen even in the early stages of dementia… I truly hope you find him

    3. @ButtercupcreationArt My uncle did the same ,he turned up at his brothers house that used to belong to their parents ,he said to his wife he was going home.

    4. @susan french im glad he arrived safely at his brothers house. here in the uk it happens alot too, where they have just popped down the road to a local shop which they have done many times before then something small happens, the next thing its on the news. sadly with dementia the search span has to go wider and into areas known to him. my heart goes out to his family

    5. @ButtercupcreationArt My Uncle only moved a few streets away form his parents /Brothers house,he was in his PJ’s as well.It was the house he was born in 76 years ago.I now live in Australia but this was in the UK only two years ago

19. I continue to be amazed at the effort you guys put into your mission .Meggan was a star and a credit to the family in the way she held it together .I wish you all well with your efforts in this Mission.To you All keep well stay safe &Keep em posted (Old grumps in the UK. )

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