The Phantom Barber

Season 02 : The Deep South
Episode 11 : The Phantom Barber : Pascagoula, MS
Certain crimes possess a readily identifiable motive, such as seeking revenge or pursuing financial, sexual, or opportunistic gains. However, occasionally, a crime emerges that is exceedingly eerie, seemingly devoid of any logical explanation or purpose. In these perplexing cases, devoid of any discernible logic, the chilling nature of the crime becomes all the more pronounced, amplifying the difficulty of unraveling its enigma and bringing the perpetrators to justice. In some cases, hard working detectives can clear the smoke and put the pieces of the puzzle together. Sometimes though, the truth remains shrouded in mystery.
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[@Ms.Brightside77]

I like to read comments while I’m listening to get other people’s thoughts on whatever case I’m listening to. I have NEVER been so early that there were none! 😬😊

[@Finthefish-hr8ky]

I do that too lol

[@ajedogawa1916]

Lmao me too

[@cazc5200]

I find it so funny when people comment about "great, I haven't watched it yet and your comment has spoiled it by telling me what happens" "the top comment told me what happens" ect...

[@tamekaconley9753]

Lol MEEEE TOOOOO

[@zanderisamazing5043]

I can't read and watch something at the same time, I don't understand this

[@stykytte]

My friend has owned and run a unisex barbers and salon for almost 20 years, Feb 2004 he opened and not long after he started working with a charitable foundation that sourced human hair to make wigs for children and young people undergoing chemotherapy. Several times the collection of hair he had ready for sending to them has was stolen straight out of the shop as he kept the hair just bagged up in a container with a sign stating what it was for. The first time it was taken was around 2006 by group of women who came in and pulled a distraction routine, one of them pretending to faint and two pretending to be concerned and get in the way, one baiting my friend to get a glass of water as one held the door open "for air" while the fourth grabbed the box, sprinted outside and jumped into the back of a waiting car with it, the other three feigned ignroance and fled in a second car. He contacted the police but they weren't interested, so he had some better cameras fitted and he figured it was a weird one off and would never happen again. Over the years however there had been 4 obvious thefts of the whole container like that, a couple of people walking in grabbing armfulls and making a run for it, and many more less obvious removals of hair from the box by people stuffing it into bags and pockets while backs were turned. This had my friend questioning why obviously, so he contacted the charity and asked them if they had other sources who had trouble with hair thefts, and they came back to him and said yes, it's not often but does happen, they suggested it was just being stolen to be sold to wig makers, this made sense so he gave in and put the box for hair donations in the back of the shop in the locked store room and he left it at that. The cameras he fitted also recorded many instances of people just straight stealing the rubbish from the back of the shop, he didn't mind this as much as it reduced his waste removal bills. Around 2014 he was established enough to have the money and the staff available that he was able to go off to a barber expo in America where he meets some fellow barbers with similar interests outside of barbering and becomes friends with them, they meet up at other expos since and stay in contact online. One day the topic of the hair thefts comes up in their group chat, one of the older barbers in the group speaks up and says, quote; "If it's not the black magic voodoo or alternative medicine people, it's people selling to the wig makers, and if it's none of those then it's the perverts!". As it turns out he had sold hair to all those groups over the years and said he probably would have gone out of business if not for selling the hair he cuts during harder times. I have to admit I lurk some of the weirder parts of the internet for the giggles, and I have seen "extreme" hair fetish or Trichophilia material a couple of times. There is a kinda infamous picture of an undressed and apparently completely shaved man in a bath tub *full* of long blonde hair with the caption "When you spend 10,000 Euro on your tricho addiction" that I showed to my friend, he said "that explains some things". The world is weird, and I'm pretty sure everyone who watches this content understands there are people out there that are happy to do things others would never even conceive of let alone make a business out of it, like sourcing hair for people to use in "magic" or fill a bath with and writhe around in it. Freakin weird, man.

[@meese9140]

At this point I’m not surprised but I am raising my eyebrows. Mainly because he bought 10,000 euro of human hair. You do you but if you spend that much money on m**turbation you need help 😂 I’ve also heard of people stealing shoe donation bins 😬

[@PoptartParasol]

This comment was a trip from start to finish

[@NuckinFuts_13]

I'm thinking it extremely strange, weird or I almost want to call it ignorant, that he waited until after several "robbery" attempts and confirmation from the contact he was saving the hair for to confirm that "hair thefts" occurred often - before he had the genius idea to just lock the hair up...? Am I the only one realizing this is practically stupidity?

[@stykytte]

​@@NuckinFuts_13 He did make efforts before locking it up, he wanted to keep it on display to encourage donations so that was priority to begin with. There were multiple variations on container and location in the shop, some more succesful than others. Honestly losing a moth eared container with a couple of bags of hair in every 5 years average isn't exactly the crime wave of the century, and with how excited he gets talking about it with me now I'm starting to think he enjoyed the battle of defending the hair when it was in the front of shop.

[@NuckinFuts_13]

@@stykytte ok understood, thanks for the explanation! And I'm picturing "hair defender" standing in a pose like Superman, hands on hips, cape waving behind in the wind..... LoL 😂

[@keeshakhan7136]

Another interesting Sinister story.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@CissyBrazil]

Verrrry interestink! I don’t know how you found this mystery, it I’m glad you did! Thanks!

[@Coffeedrinker291]

Crazy story…never heard anything about this one. Keep up the good work

[@alexasmachine]

ROTFLMAO 😆😆😆😆😆 I'D FREAK OUT IF I WOKE UP WITH MY HAIR CUT OFF!!! I LOVE ❤️ THIS CHANNEL.

[@agostinodublino1387]

we love you Jiles!💯💯💯

[@happygoluckyh.t.d.4life.739]

Can you imagine if this happened during the great "Lockdown" some would have welcomed the sneak haircut and he would have been so busy knowing we were all home and have to sleep at some point. Creepy no matter when it happened.

[@dawnboese6613]

Then they shouldn’t read the comments! Problem solved 😅

[@primesspct2]

rofl, as bad as my hair got, I think id still be upset! Though the people that had to look at me may have welcomed it. ! ( I had a friend who sold her hair for wigs, she had beautiful naturally blond hair that grew so fast every 3 years she could get about 300- 400 dollars. )

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[@apriljk6557]

Careful putting your full name and city on the internet. You don't want any weirdos to find you just because they can.

[@ellendolloff9127]

Wow... This one blew my socks off. My entire family comes from Gulfport, MS just west of the shipyard on Hwy 90. The lived there since the early thirties. Never heard of this. Absolutely wonderful work. Thank you.

[@RickRobinCagnaan]

Sweeney Todd ring a bell?

[@brandyrichard6001]

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First off I love both your channels. Secondly, it would be really cool if you could incorporate "Somewhere Sinister" in your intro as you so famously do in your This is Monsters channel 😉

[@sallyh.6362]

What if the little girls tried to cut their own hair and made up a story to avoid being punished by the nuns (my mother went to catholic school in Ireland and she only ever described the nuns as mean people who hit you with rulers) and then it got out of hand and the incident buddy confessed to was the only one he was guilty of?

[@Kari.F.]

That is of course entirely possible, and absolutely understandable, too. It wouldn't explain the other incidents, though.

[@tinak.356]

My brother's wife also went to a Catholic School and when she asked about Buddhism, the nuns hit her head with a ruler.. She hates them..

[@kimwalsh]

Thank you Jiles

[@tonyacharlton5020]

This is my hometown and where I still live today. I enjoyed watching the video. Thank you for the entertaining video and putting our small town on the sinister map!!

[@m.h.jossi.]

hello tony, i am creating video for this case. do you have any details without in this video?

[@nonna_sof5889]

The US blackouts actually weren't for bombers. There are records from German sub captains from before the US entered the war, sitting off the port of NY and commenting on what great targets all the shipping in the harbor would make well backlit by the lights of the city.

[@Kari.F.]

Yes, blackouts and dark window coverings to avoid bombing was a measure to protect European cities. America was only attacked in the air and at sea, and in combats overseas. Not a single bomb was dropped on an American city.

[@lornadecruz259]

Sounds like a good one Thanks Jiles❤

[@m.streicher8286]

The blackouts actually happened to stop ships from being silhouetted by a lit up coastline. They were not worried about bombers as much as uboats

[@jaggybee4704]

Long-time listener (Monsters) here. ❤ absolutely love your new channel and wow is all I can say to this story fantastic never ever heard anything about this keep digging up this old stuff. This was fascinating! Be Well❤

[@sallyviolet13]

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[@davyjones7702]

I am not any Law Enforcement person or Medic, but the problem with Cholform takes quite a while to work. This is not shown in TV shows or Movies.

[@sarag.7156]

we had a case in Italy... that became international. Danilo Restivo was a rich boy that tried to "play" with friends and cousins in such a way: he tied them and asked to close their eyes. As one of them out of curiosity opened the eyes before "the time", he saw Danilo with a knife, he was going to slit his throat. Nothing happened as his parents were rich and well respected. Then, as a teenager, he became fixated with a girl attending the church. One day she had a sort of (non requested, not agreed) "appointment" with him in the church, and she disappeared. For 17 years. No one really investigated against the young man that was supposed to meet her that day, because again: his family was rich. They found her corpse hided in the church, about 20 years later. Nothing happened to him. They sent him to UK, where he was not "famous" for his bad reputation. He started to cut strand of hair to women and girls on the public transport. Then an horrible crime happened: his neighbours, a mother. Found dead in the hallway (so her children could find her back from school). Her breasts amputated. She offered her help to that new neighbour from Italy that knew not so much of the city... At this point the "rich family" could do nothing to protect Danilo in the UK and the local police began to follow him. Arresting him as he was hiding in a bush, in the public park, lurking at female joggers passing by, with a "murder kit" ready to kill again. Finally he was arrested.

[@cdes1776]

I looked him up. The more he figured he could get away with crime, the more he escalated. I'm betting he did more creepy things that no one knows about.

[@sarag.7156]

@@cdes1776 for sure...

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Weird story I'd never heard of 👍

[@bethp902]

Not me swooping in to thumbs up everyone here even though it doesn’t actually matter at all 💚💚

[@eleanorchorao4875]

Wut

[@SurlyHannah]

that one article calling the guy a "tonsorial artist" is wild lmao

[@MightyMezzo]

Swing your scissors high, William! Hold them as you creep! Snip that hair while she’s fast asleep….

[@ASaltyGhost]

Honestly, I'm curious if the German chemist's arrest was related to the war, and he was a political scapegoat as much as a criminal scapegoat.

[@phinhnanthasone1231]

Especially the attack on the couple doesn't look like the work of this phantom

[@randynesbit4497]

Leaving a comment for support of the algorithm. Nicely done episode. Now I’m boarding up the windows as i type this lol

[@LiftingStress]

I so thought this was going to end up being an inspired Sweeney Todd case. So HAPPY the"Phantom Barber" didn't kill any of the victims despite causing PTSD

[@martinashaughnessy1800]

Love your voice new to this channel after seeing your ad looking forward to it 😊

[@fairyqueen520]

Reminds me of "Freaky Fred" from Courage the cowardly dog.

[@7777VANITY]

Such a strange case .

[@MeyerBen27]

Great episode

[@sharonthompson672]

I love the intro, nice work! 👍

[@tiffanysjustcoloring]

“Listen up, men! We’ve got a real sicko on our hands, breaking into houses, stealing locks of hair from our women and girls! I need ideas, actions! What are we going to DO about it?” “Why don’t we put a curfew on the women, Chief?” “Hot damn, Johnson, you’re a genius! Somebody get the paper on the horn, curfew starting tonight, females are not allowed outside their homes after dark… Uh… Say it’s for their own safety or something. That’s good work, Johnson, real good work.”

[@retard_activated]

Good Afternoon, Jiles and Fellow Sinisters! 💖

[@bellababooska4181]

I would be so mad if someone stole my hair, I would find them myself.

[@Nana-Opa]

Creepy!

[@annehersey9895]

FYI-At that time, my mom was a school teacher in Amarillo, Texas. I once asked her how much she made during the war. The answer was about $100.00 a month. So 300.00 reward was pretty darn good in '42.

[@SomewhereSinister]

Oh yeah. The inflation calculator says it would be like $5,500 today.

[@pikeman80]

American Military......isn't that a synonym for paranoid bullies?

[@edgardner8539]

Wow! Great story.

[@cncguy1979]

Why can I still hear you say " this is monsters" at the beginning.

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Ok.Cutie, this is my first try of Somewhere Sinister.Thank you for your hard work!

[@SomewhereSinister]

Hope you like it!

[@volusize]

Good evening Jiles 👋

[@normajeancaballero7959]

Weird Story. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@draper67]

love these videos

[@lyedavide]

The Barber of Seville comes to small two USA!

[@germyw]

Omg. I’m from there!

[@greendragon4058]

1942 sabatour closed businesses for the war?

[@laurametheny1008]

Thank you Jiles. Ugh. So weirdly disturbing. I thought this would be about the MONSTER who was sneaking up and cutting womens hair. The one who escalated far beyond whats known about this guy. Wonder if this one gave him inspiration tho?🤔😳💔

[@youthoughtaboutit6946]

My only question is how good of a job did they do? I mean yeah, on the one hand massive invasion of personal space/privacy/etc, but on the other, free haircut.

[@audreyjames9111]

Are we just gonna graze on by the fact that he somehow came upon a corpse to throw in the river & fake his own death?? WHOSE body was that?! Where is their family? Why are they not asking questions? Was it a transient? If so did he kill them too?

[@JohnRiversOfficial]

this reminds me of my ex best boyfriend's girlfriend-in-law.

[@MsPopeye65]

😂😂😂😂??....❤

[@user-hi3xr6rq3y]

Maybe the barber was named Harry & maybe it was a hairy situation. Did he have hairy balls?

[@landang7906]

0:03 Why is there a whole page of script at the beginning?

[@SomewhereSinister]

You're going to have to elaborate because I'm not seeing any problem when I watch the video.

[@landang7906]

@@SomewhereSinisterOn my computer, from the beginning (I stopped at 0.03 ) I see a black screen with white prints: "certain crimes possess a readily identifiable motive such as seeking revenge, or pursuing financial, sexual or opportunistic gains. [...] the regulations saw locals be forced to turn out their lights at night in order to make it difficult for potential enemy bombers to know where.... "

[@SomewhereSinister]

Are you referring to the closed captions? Again, I have no knowledge of what you’re seeing, so continuing to be vague is not helping. What happens after 3 seconds? That seems like an awfully short time to watch. Maybe it goes away after a little bit. I seriously would need far more details to try and troubleshoot. When I watch the video, there were no problems, so I have no idea what is happening for you.

[@landang7906]

@@SomewhereSinister NOOOO it's not the closed captions. I'm not that dumb. Its a black screen - the whole screen with your whole script (what you read) in white fonts.. My friends, my neighbours see it everybody in my household see it. [ I put [...] on the previous omment because it's a whole screen and I didn't want to retype all that May be you can try on another browser. Oh never mind. I thought I was helping. If you have an email I can send you a print screen so you can see. But never mind. I'll stop.

[@SomewhereSinister]

I don't know. I can't get it to do it. It seems to just be KZbin being its usual glitchy self. Sorry I couldn't do more.

[@mayamccray6491]

That barber would certainly have struggle in some areas of the country trying to clip a lock of hair might better direct him to a dresser draw or closet in which case he would be welcomed too!😂😂😂😂 But back then I am sure the pickings were good.

[@cicchiamichael]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍

[@OneSon744]

I h8 most Dr.s dentist's and barbers. who do people think they are?

[@monique8433]

❤❤❤💯💯💯💯

[@tjmarx]

The barber incidents didn't stop when Dolan was jailed. They stopped before his attack even occurred. There were very clearly 3 different people. Person 1 was the barber. He exclusively cut the hair of little girls and did not match the description of Dolan at all. We're talking about a paedophile here, someone who saw the girls involved on a regular basis and watched them from afar. The hair made him feel closer to them. Dolan was a chancer who exploited the fear and confusion of the situation to go ahead and get his revenge, he thought without consequence. The final was a copy cat who thought infamy sounded close enough to fame but chickened out after his first attack. Three very different men with very different body types and very different motives. That this was 3 different people is as plain as those nose on your face. This isn't a progression arc, people don't go from snipping little girls hair as a compulsion, then beat some old people with an iron bar and take no hair then just for giggles start using anaesthesia on adult women. It doesn't line up at all. They sure as heck don't cop to the only charge that could bring any real prison time but claim innocence on those where no one was harmed. The first guy got off on the fact the girls could wake at any moment. He took his time and drew them in. That's nothing like the other two crimes.

[@kittikat2318]

At first, this reminded me of the “Mad Gasser of Mattoon.” Except here, it seems like the attacks are more corroborated rather than *possibly* totally made up. Both super weird though!

[@ellencnixon]

💜💜

[@777MAG]

Thank god the curse all my life of bad hair due to being a bw , I wouldn’t have to worry about it wanting a lock of my Afro..😂the good side to being undesirable….

[@alexpeters1080]

There's nothing wrong with your hair. From a white guy in England x

[@777MAG]

@@alexpeters1080 Thank you 😊 white guy from England. I appreciate your kindness. From a black American girl. 🥲bless u.

[@alexpeters1080]

@@777MAG thanks for the blessings. That's very sweet of u. Hope u havin an good day over there.

[@alyssstout8112]

Oh no! I’m sure you are beautiful and don’t know it…❤️ Sending hugs to you from the west coast. 🤗