The Strange Disappearance of The Leatherman • Mystery Files

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“That’s when the leading cause of death was January.” Absolute fantastic line by Shane.

"Have you ever wanted to be big? Or even average sized?" Shane kills me.

For the debrief: I used to live along the Leatherman's loop, but I have never heard of this particular folktale before. Curious, I asked my mom and she told me that not only did we apparently live right next to one of his caves, but apparently she read that our house used to be a priest's house and when it was too cold the priest would let the Leatherman come into the house for the night. Long story short, apparently the Leatherman was in my HOUSE. Question for you guys: would you let the Leatherman into your house on a cold winter night?

Love that Ryan spent the whole video refusing to touch Shane’s horrid leather getup but as soon as Shane said it would be for the audio of the hug he did it. Dedicated to his craft.

I love that these townspeople got so hyped about some random guy wearing leather coming to town.

Can you imagine how Leatherman smelled? Imagine a jar of peanut butter. Now, imagine that jar of peanut butter was a homeless French man that walked around New England wearing leather, head to toe, for years. That's how he smelled.

Honestly, the E-zek identity is most believable to me. Someone choosing to wear a heavy and uncomfortable leather outfit and continuously walk a circuitous route, relying on other people's generosity, speaking little, and praying sounds like a biblical penance someone would take on if they knew they were dying and feared the state of their soul. He might have been from French Canada.

I'm an archaeologist and we find outlines of graves with no bones all the time. I've never worked with such a "young" grave but in general, organic materials may deteriorate but things such as nails from the coffin will be left behind. The temperate climate of the area and the presumably acidic soil may have created the ideal conditions for organic material to deteriorate relatively fast. I imagine the coffin wasn't of a high quality either, so I think the first option is very possible.

I like Ryan’s theory that leatherman was distant because he feared infecting people. Dude was probably just lonely and grateful that people cared enough to feed him

How...was grave robbing not a theory? I feel like if people were so obsessed "finding his treasure" in his caves, they'd have no problem robbing his grave

love the idea of using “friend of leatherman” as a phrase. similar to “friend of dorothy” except being a friend of the leatherman just implies that you’re ok with a random man eating food on your porch

You guys should investigate the button man from Victoria in Australia. Apparently he is still around. He is known for sneaking up on campsites and leaving buttons in tents with photos taken of campers sleeping. He has even been rumoured to be involved in the disappearance of 4 hikers. There are still reported sightings of him, it’s really creepy

“Are you telling me the government could be incompetent?” is the most real thing Shane has ever said, I need that on a shirt

Shane: billionaire, philanthropist, professional ghoul boy, puppet master, and also... Leatherman now? There is nothing Shane cannot do.

Shane quoting matt berry’s “neWw YoRk CitAyyyy” makes me so unbelievably giddy with happiness

As a native French speaker, I can tell you that yes, E-zek is very close to how a French speaker pronounces Isaac, so it probably was his real first name (or at the very least a fake real name). 🙂

I find it absolutely hilarious that Shane gets to write off his leather outfit as a work expense.

shane's outfits are getting progressively more insane and i LOVE it

As someone who really hates how invasive we are toward peoples' personal lives, I really appreciate the historian who advocated for us to respect leatherman's wish to be left alone.