The Strange Disappearance of Odin Jacobsen

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:05]Hey folks, after covering the disappearance of Matias Bog from Yungi, Sweden some weeks ago now, quite a few of you got in touch to tell me about another with some notable parallels that had taken place just a couple of years earlier and just across the border in Norway. What started out as what was thought to be an ordinary night for a young Norwegian man of just 18 who was out with a group in the town quickly unraveled into something that puzzled investigators and the public at large.

[00:00:34]This is the disappearance of Odin Andre Haggin Yakabson. Odin went missing in the early hours of Sunday the 18th of November 2018 after a night out in the city center of Tronheim.

[00:00:49]Despite one of the most extensive searches the region has ever seen, which is something I found myself saying quite a lot, involving years of both official and civilian investigation, no trace has ever been found. The police formally recommended shelving the case in November of 2022 with the state prosecutor issuing the official disclosure in January of 2023 under the conclusion that no foul play had taken place. And yet for many people who followed this case closely based on my reading, it seems that some details remain that they find difficult to reconcile. Odin was originally from Egg Claver, a small village in Trundle County of Norway. As said, he was 18 years old at the time of his disappearance and by all accounts was somebody who left a real impression on the people around him.

[00:01:44]friends who joined the search effort in the days after he went missing described him as brilliant fun, full of life, very smart. Someone who always had something interesting to say and who was endlessly curious.

[00:01:58]One of his classmates who spoke years later remembered how in the immediate aftermath, everyone half expected him to just walk back through the door as he always did. a bit late, tired, and amling, probably with a coffee in his hand, ready to ask what subject they were on. It's a small detail, but I think it says a lot about the kind of person he was. His father, Dan Ingva Jakobson, later reviewed the CCTV footage and maintained that Odin did not appear to be overwhelmingly intoxicated that night, which is relevant context as we go through the timeline. His mother, Ingen Hagen, later became one of the most vocal public advocates in the search for her son. Physically, Odin was hard to miss. He stood at around 188 cm, which is roughly 6'2, had blonde half-length hair, and on the night in question was wearing a very distinctive mustard yellow down jacket over a burgundy hoodie jumper. He was wearing dark trousers and black skate style shoes.

[00:03:02]He was also carrying a blue gym bag which he'd had with him from earlier in the day after working out. And inside the bag were some of his workout clothes. On Saturday the 17th of November 2018, Odin headed into Tronheim city center with what I initially thought was a group of five friends.

[00:03:22]However, those interpersonal relationships are a little more difficult to discern. Odin had arranged to meet one person that evening, but was not particularly close with most of the others and from what I can gather had barely known some of them at all. He had been dropped off at a gym by his mother earlier that afternoon and from there made his way to studenta where he was due to meet a friend.

[00:03:48]However, when he arrived at the bus stop, he found four other young men there that he had not been expecting.

[00:03:54]And according to multiple witness statements given to police, one of them was a person Odin was afraid of. In the period leading up to that night, Odin had apparently told people that he owed this person money for a substance related purchase. Allegedly around 500 croner. So whether Odin felt pressured into joining them or simply made the best of the situation is not really clear, but Odin did join them. Because there are a lot of allegedly and speculations, it is important to say that the authorities after investigating treated the group as witnesses rather than anything more serious.

[00:04:32]Now, the specifics of where exactly the group went that night, or rather tried to go to that night, is not totally clear. However, one of Odin's friends in a separate group was at a venue within the Midbooan area of the city, and she wanted Odin to join her there.

[00:04:51]Meanwhile, I believe that some members of the group that Odin was with were not quite old enough and were denied entry into whichever venues and parties they were trying to enter.

[00:05:02]So, from what I can gather, instead they were just wandering around the streets drinking together outside.

[00:05:09]At some point, whether it was because some of them couldn't get in any venues anywhere or simply because they decided to call it a night, at around 1:00 a.m.

[00:05:18]they went to a hotel and checked into a room as a group. They stayed there for around 3 and 1/2 hours where they drank some more and according to the group just generally hung out. They said that the atmosphere was good and it also didn't appear that they'd had too much to drink. There very well may be more to this though as after the disappearance the family employed a private investigator who was looking into the case.

[00:05:44]Through that process, it came to light that one of Odin's friends had met someone from the hotel group while they were serving a prison sentence in 2021.

[00:05:54]That person told Odin's friend that he had never seen anyone as stressed and scared as Odin was when he arrived at the hotel that night.

[00:06:03]Sometime around 4:30 a.m. they left the hotel and talked for a little while longer just outside.

[00:06:10]Just as an added note here too, moving forwards, I sometimes refer to the group as friends when really referring to them as just a group would have been more appropriate since Odin only knew one of them well enough to be called a friend.

[00:06:25]The critical moment came in the early hours of Sunday the 18th of November.

[00:06:31]At approximately 4:50 a.m., surveillance cameras captured Odin and his five friends walking together through the city center.

[00:06:40]This was the last time he was ever seen in the company of anyone he knew.

[00:06:45]Shortly after this footage was recorded, the group decided to call it a night and go their separate ways. The other members of the group were all heading to their respective homes, and Odin told them he was going to find a bus stop and make his way home to Ed Claver. The separation was, by all accounts, entirely amicable. From what I can ascertain, the rest of the group were formally cleared by the police of any wrongdoing.

[00:07:11]It seems that the police were interested to understand whether or not there was any conflict among them that night, whether inside or outside the hotel. It seems that some questions arose surrounding substance use, and the police wondered if he had been tricked or pressured that night into meeting the other members of the group. That was denied by everyone. The rest of the group were all questioned at least twice during the investigation. The police checked their alibis through traffic data, phone data, and CCTV.

[00:07:43]And by the looks of it, they seem to be satisfied that none of them were anywhere near the position at which Odin actually disappeared at the relevant time. After the group split up, what Odin may not have realized is that it was now far too late to get a bus, as the one he needed to get back home was just not running at that time on a Sunday morning.

[00:08:04]The next bus to Egg Claver wasn't scheduled to depart until somewhere between 9:00 in the morning and midday.

[00:08:11]That's a wait of at least 4 hours. And here's where things became very difficult for him very quickly. Because at some point that evening, his mobile phone had run out of battery. Without a working phone, he had nowhere to check the bus schedule, nowhere to call his parents and ask to be picked up. It's been suggested that he may have assumed a bus was more imminent than it actually was. But once he was alone and discovered the reality of the schedule, he was truly on his own in freezing November temperatures with nowhere obvious to go and no way of communicating with anyone.

[00:08:46]I suppose one could ask upon realizing this information, why didn't he start making his way back to the hotel? That's a good question and not one that has an answer as far as I can tell. From this point onwards, Odin's trajectory through the city was pieced together using fragmented CCTV footage. And what it shows is a young man moving somewhat erratically through the streets on his own. At around 5:30 in the morning, cameras picked him up on Drawing's gate, heading in a westerly direction.

[00:09:20]By this point, he had been walking alone in the cold for somewhere around 40 minutes. In November in Tronheim, overnight temperatures can drop to or below zero. And when you factor in that it'd likely been drinking, which as we've been through many times on the channel, actually accelerates core heat loss by drawing your body's warmth directly to the surface of your skin.

[00:09:44]So when you factor that in, the environmental conditions that he was navigating were genuinely quite dangerous, even more so than they might usually be. Then, starting from around 5:32 a.m. near the harbor, footage of what is probably the most discussed and scrutinized moment of this entire case was captured. Observers noted that Odin's behavior in this clip was highly unusual.

[00:10:10]He had been walking in what was described as an aimless manner when he suddenly appeared to become agitated and wired, looking sharply over his shoulder before abruptly breaking into a run.

[00:10:21]This footage has generated an enormous amount of speculation. This behavior is incredibly similar to Matias in some ways and also a few individuals here in the UK that I have covered previously, such as Rory Johnson Hatfield, who very much engaged in the same kind of behavior here in York when he began running away from seemingly nothing. In Odin's case, there has been broadly three ways people have tried to explain it. The first is that he genuinely perceived some kind of threat. By this time, he had been alone in the cold for the best part of an hour. It was the early hours of a Sunday morning, and he was in an area that, while not entirely desolate, would have been very quiet. If he had got a glance of someone that we can't see in the footage, a flight response would be entirely understandable. However, it very much does appear that he was alone. So whether that threat would have been real or imagined is another question entirely.

[00:11:19]The second is that it had nothing to do with a threat at all, but was instead a sudden and disorienting shift in his own state. By this point in the night, the cold, the drinks, the exhaustion from the gym early that day, and the now almost an hour of walking alone would have all been compounding.

[00:11:38]It's entirely possible that he simply lost his bearings. perhaps didn't recognize where he was or became confused about which direction he needed to go and the running was a panicked response to that disorientation rather than to anything external.

[00:11:56]The third is more physiological.

[00:11:58]The early stages of hypothermia can produce effects that look very much like panic or erratic behavior from the outside. As the body's core temperature begins to drop, the brain doesn't receive the fuel it needs to function clearly, and a person can become agitated, unpredictable, and frightened in ways that have no obvious external cause. His father felt he didn't appear to have had too much to drink from the footage, which I agree with, but hypothermia and intoxication can look quite different, and it's possible that by this time the cult may have been doing significant harm.

[00:12:35]I've had to come back to edit this in, but there is arguably a fourth possibility that sits somewhat uncomfortably alongside everything else that we know about that night. We know from witness statements that Odin may have had a substance debt. And we know from the NRK's reporting on the police documents that the original plan for that evening, according to what Odin had told a friend, may have involved taking some kind of substance. The hotel group denied in their interviews that any substances were used that night, but what we can't know with any certainty is what, if anything, Odin may have had on his person and inside that gym bag when he left the hotel. If he was carrying something he shouldn't have been, whether that was substances or something else, then walking alone through the streets of Tronheim at 5 in the morning with no phone battery, no way home, and that kind of weight on him would have been an incredibly anxious experience.

[00:13:33]In that context, the sudden look over the shoulder and the sprint might not have been a response to anything immediately present at all, but rather the behavior of someone who was already on edge, already frightened, and whose nerves finally got the better of him in the early hours.

[00:13:50]It doesn't explain what ultimately happened to him, but it does perhaps add another layer to understanding the state he may have been in during those final recorded moments.

[00:14:01]After Erdin began running, authorities seem to believe that he went over this bridge and in the direction of the Brura Harbor District. It is not fully understood or really understood at all why he was making his way there. After this footage on the 18th of November 2018, Odin was never seen again. Part of the reason that the search didn't begin immediately was down to a dual assumption of safety that unfortunately allowed a significant amount of time to pass before the alarm was raised.

[00:14:36]It seems that the group believed that Odin was going to catch a bus home.

[00:14:40]Meanwhile, his family, not having heard from him by Sunday morning, assumed he was sleeping at a friend's place after the night out. It wasn't until Sunday progressed and it became apparent that he simply wasn't where anyone thought he was that the alarm was finally raised.

[00:14:56]By that point, whatever had happened to Odin that morning, and we still don't know what it was, had already been and gone. On Tuesday, the 20th of November, the police issued a formal public appeal with Odin's photograph, and a detailed description of his height, his build, and that very distinctive mustard yellow jacket.

[00:15:17]The response from authorities was comprehensive. By Thursday and Friday, the 22nd and 23rd of November, a massive multi- agency search had been mobilized.

[00:15:28]Given the nature of Tronheim with the Nidela River running directly through the commercial and residential districts and the deep industrial waters of the Britura Harbor Basin sitting to the north, the search was heavily weighed towards a water recovery right from the very beginning. The Trundle Fire Department deployed specialist dive teams while the Norwegian Red Cross mobilized significant volunteer contingents to conduct sweeps within the bodies of water and searches along the embankments and industrial zones. Odin's mother put out a plea through local media outlets urging residents to check their own properties. She specifically asked people to look through basement, garages, gardens, and such, holding on to the very real hope that he might have sought shelter somewhere and was simply waiting to be found. The family also authorized a reward of 50,000 Norwegian croner for any actionable information leading to his recovery.

[00:16:28]Despite all of this, the initial searches yielded nothing. No sign of Odin anywhere. Then came the first major development, and it's one that introduced more questions than it answered. On Friday, the 30th of November, 12 days after Odin had disappeared, a civilian passerby made a discovery in the Brura area. A woman found Odin's passport, mobile phone, bank card, and bus card neatly stacked against a wall near a Shell station at the harbor. Later that same afternoon, a police officer and his dog found a plastic bag tucked between some pallets nearby, which contained Odin's workout clothes. The items were not all found at once. They were spread across the area.

[00:17:14]Notably, the blue gym bag that Odin had been carrying throughout the entire evening was not among the recovered items and has never been found to this day. Now, the arrangement of these items raised some very difficult questions for investigators pretty much right out of the gate. If you think about an accidental fall into the water, people's immediate personal items almost always go in with them. You don't typically stop, remove your passport, your bank card, your phone, stack them neatly against a wall, and then fall in. The level of organization seems to have confused a great many people that have talked about this incident.

[00:17:51]The scene didn't seem to fit a foul play scenario either because in such scenarios, the phone and the bank card are usually the first things to be taken. Here, the high value items, so to speak, were left perfectly intact. As you might imagine, this caused some to draw the uncomfortable parallel that you might see in a situation in which a person wanted to disappear in this manner.

[00:18:15]Odin's family firmly push back against this. His mother, Ingen, who is a professor of psychology at NTNU. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology based right there in Tronheim, specifically challenged the way the police had characterized Odin's mental state, saying they showed a lack of insight in how they presented it.

[00:18:39]Coming from someone with her professional background, that is not a throwaway comment. The family's consistent and unwavering position throughout has been that something involving foul play happened to Odin that morning, and they appealed the shelving of the case all the way to the attorney general in pursuit of answers.

[00:18:58]I can certainly see why they staunchly hold that position. As far as they were concerned, the idea that he would have chosen to do this simply did not reflect the son that they knew. A differing view is simply that Odin was at that exact spot at some point and set his belongings down, whether he was resting, sheltering, or something along those lines and then something untoward happened. Or if he was already in a state where he was no longer making fully reasoned decisions, nobody can say with certainty.

[00:19:31]It is worth considering that by this point, hypothermia may have already begun to take hold. The medical threshold for this to really take effect is lower than many people think. As we've discussed before on the channel, once hypothermia progresses through its stages, cognitive decline becomes so pronounced that a person is no longer really making rational decisions in any meaningful sense. The body begins to override the mind and near a body of freezing water in the dark. In that state, the consequences of that could be devastating. There was one additional detail that to me at least is the single strangest element in all of this. In the days that followed the initial discovery, further searches of the area turned up one of Odin's shoes found on a pallet not far from where the documents had been recovered 2 days after the passport and phone were first found.

[00:20:25]Some have suggested that could point towards the idea of a struggle taking place. Though I also suppose that could have been a remnant left behind after chaotic involuntary movements you sometimes see in the final stages of hypothermia.

[00:20:40]At such a point massive confusion is onset and the body can behave in very unpredictable ways.

[00:20:48]I say the body instead of the person because at a certain point of hypothermia, very primal instincts kick in and it's no longer you making active reason decisions. Rather, it's the body reacting to the environment.

[00:21:02]While the reasoning abilities that we have are completely shut down and those are only ideas I've seen put forwards, it's not definitively known what the situation was that ended in that result.

[00:21:13]Following the discovery of the belongings, the Trundle police immediately resumed focus searches of the Brata Basin, dive teams went back into the freezing water on Saturday the 1st of December, while Red Cross volunteers scoured the surrounding docks and infrastructure. Again, nothing was found. On the 23rd of February 2019, something quite striking happened in Tronheim that I think is worth mentioning because it says a lot about how deeply this case affected the people there. A large torch-like procession known in Norway as a facult, I believe, was held in the streets of the city. It was a vigil for Odin and a show of solidarity with his family. But in some sense, it was also a direct pointed request aimed at investigative authorities.

[00:22:04]The marchers were wanting the police to strengthen their efforts, to allocate more resources, and that the media maintain high visibility coverage of the incident so that it didn't quickly recede into the background. That sadly happens quite a lot in some of these disappearances where the press at some point just kind of move on to the next thing and it leaves some families in a situation where there is not a lot of publicity being generated to keep the spotlight on what has happened. On the 14th of April 2019, almost 5 months after Odin disappeared, there was a discovery that completely shattered the working hypothesis that investigators had been operating under that entire time. Deep in the rural outskirts of Tronheim, a member of the public came across the remnants of a bonfire. The moment this person understood what they were looking at, they contacted the police straight away. The problem with this discovery was enormous. The bonfire site was located approximately 15 km away from the city center or roughly 9 mi out into the rural landscape beyond Tronheim. This caused a lot of confusion. If the working assumption had been that Odin had accidentally fallen into the water at the Brura Harbor on the morning of the 18th, then how on earth did his belongings end up in a bonfire in a field 15 km away 5 months later? After all, a body of water doesn't carry things over land and spontaneously combust them in a rural area. This discovery meant one of two things. Either Odin did not pass away at the harbor and then he made it out of the city somehow and ended up in that rural area or a third party had deliberately moved and destroyed his possessions.

[00:23:49]Neither option was particularly easy to sit with. This shift towards the rural outskirts was further complicated by a witness account that when it eventually came to light raised some very difficult questions about the timeline. On the 19th of November 2018, at around 8:15 a.m., a local farmer was standing beside a gravel road in the area surrounding Yunvatner.

[00:24:14]A large lake situated to the east of Tronheim, loading wood into his trailer.

[00:24:20]He spotted a man wearing a yellow jacket walking towards him along the road, head down, looking at the ground the whole time. As the man passed him, he briefly looked up, smiled before dropping his gaze again, and continued on his way.

[00:24:34]The farmer noted that this person was not dressed appropriately for hiking in that kind of terrain. And it was precisely that detail that lodged the observation in his memory. Around an hour and a half later, once he'd finished loading, the farmer set off in his tractor in the same direction that the man had been heading, fully expecting to catch up with him after a few kilometers.

[00:24:58]He never saw him again.

[00:25:01]His conclusion was that the man must have turned off the road at some point, though he couldn't say where or when.

[00:25:08]What makes this particularly notable is that the 19th of November would have been approximately 26 hours after Odin was last observed at the pier at Breura.

[00:25:18]And the description, the long hair, the yellow jacket was consistent with him.

[00:25:23]And yet, for reasons that were never fully explained, the police did not act on this tip at the time, and no search of the area was ever initiated in response to it. It wasn't until June of 2020, nearly 2 years later, that the police publicly announced that they were considering search operations in that rural sector. They did eventually follow through and by September of 2020, the search had been completed, covering the area using personnel, dogs, and drones.

[00:25:54]Unfortunately, as had been the case with every other search conducted in connection with this case, nothing was found. And then in August and September of 2020, the investigation took another turn. The Trundle police arrested a man in his 40s.

[00:26:11]Now, the charges were not in relation to foul play in the physical sense, as in having done something to Odin. Rather, the man was charged with perjury and the deliberate destruction of evidence in an active investigation.

[00:26:24]what he admitted to under questioning had some implications to the entire situation that had been unfolding over that entire time. The man had been present at the Tronheim Harbor on the very same morning that Odin disappeared approximately 6 hours after Odin was last seen there. He found Odin's belongings, took possession of them, transported them 15 km out of the city, and then at some point set them a light in that forested area near the lake. I don't believe that this person set them a light on the same day. What I think happened was that at first he wasn't aware that these items belong to someone who had just disappeared in this bizarre manner. What I am led to believe is that upon learning about Odin's disappearance sometime after the actual disappearance and after it gained a lot of traction in the press. Then he panicked and tried to get rid of the items.

[00:27:19]He then withheld this information from the police throughout the entire critical early phase of the search. In doing so, he had completely and irreversibly contaminated the primary evidence scene.

[00:27:33]Every conclusion that had been drawn from that neatly stacked arrangement of documents and the single shoe suddenly had to be reassessed.

[00:27:41]Were the items actually arranged by Odin himself or had this man rummage through them and then restacked them? Did Odin lose his shoe in an accident? Or did this man interact with the footwear and leave one behind? It unraveled everything that was thought to be understood. The NRK's investigation into the police documents later revealed that what the man had admitted to taking included electronics and other items of little obvious value, including by his own admission upon being shown a photograph the blue gym bag that Odin had been carrying that night, which he said that he burned at the bonfire using petrol. When investigators examined the bonfire site, among the charred remains, they found a shoe and a pair of earphones.

[00:28:27]It is important to say that the police could find no evidence of the bag's presence despite using search dogs, and it has never been found. The image you're looking at now is a comparison between the shoe found at the harbor and the other shoe found at the bonfire.

[00:28:43]It's not 100% confirmed, as far as I can ascertain, that it was Odin's other shoe, although the sole looks very similar indeed.

[00:28:52]I'm having to come back to edit this in, but it seems like it must have been Odin's other shoe because it appears as though this very strange guy said he took it from the harbor. He also could not explain why he took the shoe. A towel and a bar of soap. The towel, incidentally, he burned in his own fireplace at home. The rest he set a light in the forest. I genuinely don't even know what to say about that. I'm not sure anyone does. I'm also not sure why he wouldn't have taken the other shoe unless he just couldn't find it or something. I really don't understand what was going on there. When the man was identified and arrested, speculation naturally ran wild. Here was someone who had been at that exact spot where Odin was last seen just hours after he was last seen there, had taken his belongings, burned them 15 km away in a rural forest, and then lied to police about it for the best part of 2 years.

[00:29:48]For many people following this case, that combination of facts felt deeply suspicious, and the theories about what it might mean multiplied quickly online.

[00:29:57]That said, the Norwegian investigation thoroughly looked into the man's background, movements, and communications, and police attorney Hans Vang issued a definitive statement. He said that the investigation had provided no evidence that the accused had anything to do with Odin's actual disappearance.

[00:30:18]He strongly and rightfully condemned the man's actions, describing it as very serious that he had not come forward with the information sooner, and noted that the charges could be extended to include the destruction of evidence in an investigation.

[00:30:32]But crucially, he also concluded that this discovery meant that the suspicion of the disappearance being caused by a criminal act was, in his words, significantly weakened. His behavior, as awful and damaging as it was, aligned more with an opportunistic scavenger who panicked once he realized the scale of what he'd stumbled into. So, where does that leave us in terms of what actually might have happened? There are broadly four hypotheses that have been widely considered. The first is a voluntary disappearance.

[00:31:05]The idea that Odin chose to walk away from his life and start fresh somewhere else. I find this one difficult to accept. A successful long-term voluntary disappearance requires money, planning, and documentation.

[00:31:20]Odin left his passport, his bank card, and his phone neatly stacked at the harbor. At least it's believe Odin left those things there, but either way, you can't really build a new life without them. And his family were equally adamant that there was no reason on earth he would have wanted to have disappeared in such a manner. The second is the uncomfortable thought that Odin could have purposefully wanted to have been gone forever in this manner.

[00:31:45]The staging of the belongings at the water's edge is, as I mentioned, a pattern that does appear in such circumstances. However, there is just no evidence whatsoever that this was his intention. And as said, his family completely and vehemently rejected this idea at every turn and never wavered from that position. And of course, we also now know that the scene itself could have been contaminated by another person. So, it seems as though it's not possible to know with 100% certainty as to whether or not the arrangement was Odin's own doing. The third is a foul play scenario. The earlier footage did show Odin start to run. There was this bonfire 15 km away and also the man who contaminated the scene, which are all details that kept this idea alive in people's minds.

[00:32:35]But investigators and the Creepuse, which is Noah's National Criminal Investigation Service, found zero physical evidence of a struggle. There was nothing at the scene to suggest it, and they were unable to link anyone to such an act. It remains theoretically possible that another person entirely was there and did something, but as of now, it is unsubstantiated.

[00:32:58]The fourth idea, which seems to have always been the official position, as far as I can tell, is that this was accidental.

[00:33:06]Odin was alone, potentially fatigued with a phone that had no battery left.

[00:33:11]And he had no means of shelter or communication. Hypothermia is a genuinely brutal condition. As said, it degrades cognitive function progressively, meaning that as it takes hold, your ability to make good decisions or respond normally becomes increasingly compromised.

[00:33:29]A sudden accidental fall into freezing harbor water in that condition is plausible.

[00:33:36]The fact that no body has ever been recovered, even after exhaustive searches, is the most significant counterargument to this idea, though it's not necessarily conclusive. Deep industrial harbor waters and strong river currents are unforgiving. And not every person who enters them is recovered. In November of 2022, nearly 4 years after Odin walked into the Tronheim cold and never came back, the Trundle police formally recommended shelving the case. Police attorney Hans Vang addressed this publicly, saying that it had been a very comprehensive investigation spanning several years, but that it had not produced any concrete evidence that the disappearance was due to a foul play scenario. He also said in what I thought was a genuinely moving statement that he wished that he could provide the family with an answer with two lines under it, a definitive conclusion, but that ultimately he believed that they had done everything that they could. The Trundle State Prosecutor's Office reviewed the case and ratified the recommendation. It is also worth noting that Odin's parents, Dan and Ingen, were deeply unhappy with the decision to close the case. They appealed it all the way to the attorney general and hired a former creepus detective to independently review the investigation.

[00:34:55]Their position has been consistent throughout. They believe Odin was the victim of foul play and they feel that certain people involved that night may not have told the whole truth. As of 2025, the case remains officially closed. But the family continue to receive tips and have not given up hope of one day getting an answer. There are a handful of things that people have found difficult to reconcile, even accepting the official conclusion. The bonfire 15 km away is probably the most frequently raised. Even if the man found at the scene was simply an opportunistic scavenger, the decision to drive that far out of the city to burn the remaining items is an awful lot of effort. And it's a detail that has nagged at people, though I suppose based on the police investigation, it didn't necessarily amount to anything more than very strange behavior from a panicked individual. There's also the footage near to the harbor. Whatever caused Odin to look over his shoulder and break into a run, if something happened after that, then we simply don't have a record of what it was. And we probably never will unless there are individuals out there who know more that could shed some light on it. And if such a person or persons do know more, then they should come forward and share what they know. In the end, what happened to Odin on that cold November morning in 2018 remains unknown and the case is officially closed. A young man of just 18 who by all accounts was kind, funny, and full of life found himself alone in a freezing city in the early hours with no phone battery, no way home, and if the witness statements are to be believed, possibly carrying the weight of a situation that had been frightening him for some time. Whether something foul play related happened to him, whether the cult took him, or whether there is an answer somewhere out there that nobody has been yet to find, I genuinely don't know. And I think that uncertainty is part of what makes this case so difficult for people to walk away from. His parents have never stopped fighting for answers, and I think that deserves to be said. That unfortunately brings us to the end of this. I'd just like to thank you for taking the time to watch and a really big thank you to the patrons who've been running around on the screen. Be safe all.