Jimmys Wish | Internet Mysteries

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

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[@dennycrane4507]

Never show your eyes without makeup ever again........

[@nocontextwhatever]

@@jimmyswish lol stop lying no one cares about your delusion.

[@jimmyswish]

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[@bronzergoth7598]

there's a lot of people with disorders that induce paranoia. and there's a lot of people whose children have tragic accidents/disabilities. it is inevitable that those two scenarios would intersect and i think that's what we're seeing. since there's no giant push for fundraising and it seems more like an "awareness" campaign i cant condemn the dad, its just really really sad

[@Tser]

I agree, and from the translations I've found online of the videos, what they're saying is not what the father is taking from them. I feel this is more a case of mental illness than deliberately lying.

[@violetvalentine999]

agreed. an ongoing traumatic experience like the rapid deterioration of a loved one definitely has potential to trigger an episode that could look a lot like this, especially if said condition is unbeknownst to the person themselves or they aren't receiving treatment for whatever reason reminds me of my manic episodes where i'm convinced the doctors are all in on it, there are always cameras rolling, claiming i have irrefutable evidence to support it all, etc. it is really sad all around. i appreciate the empathy you expressed in this comment so much. thank you for sharing your perspective in such a gentle manner

[@Tser]

I also feel the shifting stories of what happened to be more the type of delusions shifting than of the little inconsistencies typical of someone trying to keep an elaborate lie straight. When someone is suffering from a mental illness that involves psychosis or delusion with anosognosia (lack of insight) their minds protect the delusion by shifting as necessary, and they are generally unaware of the internal inconsistencies, unable to see them even if confronted (which will only cause them frustration and agitation). His writing style and way of speaking are typical of mental illness symptoms as well. The lack of emotional expression on his speech that was commented on is a symptom called blunted affect. Having watched the videos and read some of what he wrote, it seems to me his involvement with shady scams were also the result of his mental illness making him believe these things, rather than setting out to deliberately scam anyone. Unfortunately so many of the conspiracies he's been drawn into are based in bigotry. The whole thing is tragic, and he's obviously in significant distress and I think truly believes people have done these horrible things to his son. I really hope that he can get proper help and treatment.

[@holacola6945]

Yeah, if the kid was disabled, and the father has some sort of "paranoia", with the guilt a parent usually feels when their child is disabled, you have the perfect field for this kind of story.

[@nakedslayer6685]

Thank you for saying this. As someone who suffers from a psychotic disorder I knew the second she read the first description that that was up

[@Macachee]

“Jimmy is called the Emmet Till of the 21st century” Whoa! …okay then. That’s a little spicy…

[@crazydiamond119]

dude, that part made me cringe so hard i got whiplash 😬

[@elenadepanicis8383]

Cringe bro

[@DiMagnolia]

As a disabled and chronically ill person who has fallen into snake oil schemes out of desperation for relief, this comes across as James being so desperate to help his son that he has gotten involved in shady businesses and become paranoid with conspiracy theories. Either way, I hope poor little jimmy is okay :(

[@camcam794]

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case. It’s hard for parents to come to terms with having a disabled child. So falling into these traps wouldn’t be surprising. Especially if they have money and resources

[@ShyAnn291]

I have chronic abdominal pain and before I was diagnosed I remember trying things out of desperation, like acupuncture, bio feedback, hypnosis. They didn’t work but my parents and I were desperate

[@WobblesandBean]

I'm convinced that the opposite is true, he's a scam artist exploiting his son for money. It's obvious the boy has multiple congenital defects, and this guy is hawking snake oil and other woo.

[@MandenTV]

😂

[@MandenTV]

@Rebecca N Aw

[@aleciabrimer6200]

When my dad was dying from cirrhosis, he never seemed to accept it. He always said it was the doctors making him sick. Some people just can't accept reality and need someone to blame.

[@benwinter2420]

Maybe he was speaking the truth . . hospitals & pills pushed not our friend

[@disregardthat]

At the beginning of the video, the rambling text you were reading made me think he was just some very mentally ill and traumatised father who concocted this conspiracy theory as a coping mechanism. However, as you started listing off all the fake companies and links to scam pills, I am convinced he's just a con artist and that his son just has some congenital condition that he's exploiting.

[@nocontextwhatever]

I was suspecting something similar to that as well

[@nakedslayer6685]

Don’t forget how when in a desperate and paranoid state people become *DELUDED*. This means reality and logic becomes foreign to their mind. There is no way he can be expected to execute logical responses when in this state and with this situation.

[@nakedslayer6685]

I will say while this does look shady this stuff does not outlier the theory he could be having a full on episode and is in a deluded state

[@darkestccino5405]

Yeah, but why would he want to be getting the attention of the media if he was a scam artist?

[@gotmybootyout5793]

To me it seems odd that an 11 year old wouldn’t try to rip the bag.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Jimmy's Wish feels like an adult novel by Roald Dahl dealing with a neglectful parent

[@sexygirlmax2019]

roald dahl was hella racist

[@Sensansenkai]

The minute I heard a mention of "adrenochrome" my trust in Jimmy's father's credibility took a nosedive. Maybe he's a grieving father grasping for answers but it sounds like his sense of reality is hugely distorted at best.

[@cinnastag]

He claims to be a stem cell researcher, so him believing in a conspiracy theory chemical is a red flag

[@sheilatakeabow1990]

He’s probably got schizophrenia or some other mental illness given the way he speaks

[@Eddies_Bra-att-ha-grejer]

@@sheilatakeabow1990 It's quite likely that he had dormant schizophrenia that got triggered by the stress of his son's worsening condition.

[@mitchlamping530]

Lol adrenochrome is healthy I inject it everyday

[@ashr00m]

I’m not even halfway into the video but I am DEFINITELY going to look into this immediately. I’m ethnically Japanese-Canadian and fluent in the spoken language. My literacy isn’t as good but I have books and apps to assist me on that. Japan is by no means perfect, but “rampant corruption,” “condoning,” Medical malpractice bordering on a hate crime, all of this is EXTREMELY rare in japan. Plus Japan is on good terms with America diplomatically. While something like this is never impossible, I’ll need to see what his evidence is in order to believe this.

[@whocares269]

Commenting in hopes that you'll update this thread if you find anything to add from your own research :)

[@linaboo24]

Commenting for updates if you have any

[@DiMagnolia]

Commenting for updates as well

[@GabeHolm]

You think any of this is bad look into what china is doing

[@l0remipsum]

Consider me part of the "commenting for updates" crowd!

[@axonaxonaxon]

As soon as you mentioned James bringing up adrenochrome, I sighed. Thats just blood libel with a sci-fi coat of paint. I REALLY hope things have gotten better for Jimmy and the family, regardless of what was really happening.

[@drpepper1132]

adrenochrome is very real.....

[@blackheart25]

@@drpepper1132 And very useless. Hunter S. Thompson even admitted that he lied about its effects. You can legally buy it for less than the cost of a pack of cigarettes.

[@axonaxonaxon]

@@drpepper1132 The chemical, sure. The claim that its being harvested by "elites" to get high? Fuck no.

[@t0xcn253]

@@blackheart25 yeah, but I am saving up for a pack of cigarettes so...

[@wolfetteplays8894]

@@blackheart25 that’s not real or fresh adrenochrome

[@Boggythefroggy]

That one part about adrenochrome is a HUGE red flag in this story. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the ties to Qanon specifically because it’s been a huge part in that world of conspiracy. It’s pretty concerning he’s claiming his son was harvested for adrenochrome because it falls into the whole blood libel thing Qanon has going on atm. The thing is though is that disabled kids can definitely be mistreated by the medical system, as any disabled person can be due to so many reasons. I’m in Canada myself and am chronically I’ll and it’s not a walk in the park at all trying to get medical help consistently for my own health conditions. But I don’t know about James’ story since there’s no true evidence and he’s sketchy in general.

[@camcam794]

100% agree. I’m disabled as well. It’s hard for parents to accept that their child has a disability. Maybe that’s apart of it. It’s awful that they are putting their disabled son on the internet for views though

[@courtneyvaldez7903]

Yeah, the second "adrenochrome" comes into play it casts severe doubts on the whole thing. And it's important to point that out because even good faith engagements with this kind of stuff can work to spread misinfo by hyping the story up in an uncritical or skeptical manner. Not that I think she did anything wrong here, per se, certainly not intentionally, just something that sticks out.

[@Viradyn]

Absolutely. I suspect this man suffered from the great personal tragedy of whatever accident happened to his son initially, and then he went down a few internet rabbit holes trying desperately to make sense of it and ended up in very dark places.

[@tamar7065]

Yup, any mention of adrenochrome is a giant neon sign saying "I'M FULL OF SHIT." It's just blood libel 2.

[@drpepper1132]

adrenochrome is a very real thing. Maybe you need to actually do a little bit of research instead of blindly following what the MSM tells you.

[@rosecortes6152]

I've worked with critical patients and think I can explain the plastic bag thing. There are specific types of oxygen masks that are used to provide 100% oxygen when a patient is hypoxic (low on oxygen). It's most often used with burn victims to treat carbon monoxide poisoning and we used them a lot with Covid pneumonia as well as sepsis, which is what I believe was meant when they said it was for an infection. Regardless, 100% O2 treatment is only temporary as there is such a thing as oxygen poisoning. I don't believe treatment would have been as short as 10 minutes, unless Jimmy responded poorly to the treatment, in which case it would have been discontinued very quickly. 3 minutes is also a little short, but not unplausible. The claim that it lasted 30 seconds sounds more like the head doctor was referring to how quickly it takes to switch oxygen masks (though it's usually much, much quicker, so I'm really not sure about this one). Finally, these plastic bags are very thick, single-use (one patient only before being discarded), and are sort of shaped like like an enema bag, meaning they're wayyyyyyyy to small to fit over anyone's head, let alone an 11-year old. There is absolutely no way that this kid would have been suffocated like that, and even if he was placed on a 100% oxygen mask, it would have exactly the opposite effect of suffocation, because it's exactly what it says on the tin: 100% oxygen. This is, of course, if that is what was meant by "plastic bag". I haven't finished the video yet, but I thought I'd share my knowledge before continuing! :)

[@bees.2843]

11:30 as someone who speaks pretty broken Japanese but with decent pronunciation, if James has been living in Japan for so long that he has gotten used to whichever dialect to which he’s grown accustomed, it makes sense for his delivery of English to be deadpan/monotone compared to someone who speaks only English. Japanese overall is not a very “expressive” language in terms of fluctuating pitch/tone (unless in poetry or song), compared to a language like English where we emphasize certain words in our sentences to give different context to the sentence, or in China where there are, like, 8 different inflections to a syllable which can all mean different things. To me, his talking sounded like someone who is used to speaking Japanese speaking in English. That being said, idk anything about his son Jimmy and haven’t formed an opinion on this as a whole b/c this vid is the first I have heard of it.

[@cinnastag]

Problem is that he isn't doing the videos in Japanese, he's doing them in English, reaching out to the USA which has no jurisdiction...so I wonder if he's even in Japan James seems to be American born but Jimmy is definitely not % Caucasian, so I'm just going to assume that he had a child with a Japanese woman and Jimmy is born in Japan, making them a Japanese citizen and not American.

[@thriftstorepierrotdoll9851]

@@cinnastag way to miss the entire point of the comment lol. people pick up accents and other linguistic affects when they’re overseas for a long time, and it might affect the way they speak english.

[@hunters6940]

I’m happy for all these new uploads. Especially longform ones like this. These are some of my favorite videos to watch on KZbin just cause they’re so atmospheric and crazy. Can’t wait for more

[@autistictips1161]

My theory was almost the same as your second one, Jimmy was definitely born with some kind of condition and the father easily falls into conspiratorial thinking. He may have accidentally hurt his son trying alternative treatments, but I'm quite certain Jimmy was born with this condition. The difference in my theory is that someone really did try to suffocate him, because of his condition. Some doctors think severely disabled people should not be alive. He could have been "healthy" in the sense that he was at his baseline, went in for a cold (which is probably more serious given his condition), and have been mistreated in the hospital.

[@unsettlingg]

Is there any chance you would ever do a video on the furry that allegedly froze his hands off to have paws? I remember seeing that a long time ago and haven't seen anyone make a video on it. I feel like it would be right up your alley and you would do a great job since you're so good at finding little details I feel like others miss about these stories :)

[@Polygonyall]

i looked into it and it seems to be a hoax based off of a hate campaign

[@UsikuPls]

From what I know that was a complete hoax created by 4chan or the like to essentially mock furries. The poor guy that happened to fell asleep while icing his hands due to pain from his arthritis and because he used dry ice, when he woke up they were incredibly frostbitten and had to be amputated I agree that it could maybe be an interesting situation to cover though to maybe show how out of hand the hoax got and to help fix that misinformation

[@ME-wu9dy]

Omggg???!

[@unsettlingg]

@@UsikuPls I heard that story too but also heard that that was him covering it up because he has tweets from earlier that he deleted or something hinting that he wanted to amputate for paws! Who knows what's true, super sad either way. Would love to see a video on it regardless to see both sides/what conclusions people came to for sure

[@UsikuPls]

@@unsettlingg Oh yeah no he deleted a bunch of stuff cause it was getting misconstrued to further the trolling and the paws thing mostly stemmed from some light hearted tweets from other furries joking about getting paw prosthetics or something There's a whole article from a furry who writes a sorta news blog for the community called Dogpatch Press that I came across and it details the situation in full with receipts from the time. Unfortunately most people probably just heard the story about the crazy furry and didn't care enough to look further and see that it was just a tragic accident

[@WobblesandBean]

I fear for that kid. Not because of the hospital, but because of his paranoiac father.

[@pivotalpancake5454]

This smells already like some kind of fraud scheme. The video of the guy just begging for money with the inappropriately placed music, strange text, his body language etc. Especially your point of the guy telling the story in a quite confusing/gibberish type manner (not explaining when and where did the kid got suffocated etc and what caused it.) God, what if they are literally using footage of a random child in a true dangerous situation and passing it off as their own son.

[@beefbrisket8905]

I'd dint see him asking for money, more spreading "awareness"...

[@Giaphaige]

The mention of adrenochrome (Qanon conspiracy) and his speaking cemented to me that this entire story is BS. His manner of speaking is like an actor that has been paid to speak like an american, and is suppressing an accent. I cant place his exact accent but its there. Im pretty sure this is just a conspiracy theorist who is completely unrelated to this kid, and is using his disability get more attention to themselves. I think the "dad" is either a hired actor or the theorist themselves posing as the dad. The writing also looks like it was written by someone whose second language is english, not their native tongue.

[@violetvalentine999]

@@Giaphaige occam's razor is worth keeping in mind

[@Giaphaige]

@@violetvalentine999 I mean, considering how batshit Q people usually are I dont think its much of a stretch. A bunch of them sunk real time and money to go to Dallas for the "resurrection" of JKF Jr. Hiring an actor on fivver to make a vid, spread the adrenochrome thing, and get other Qanoners to buy their brain pills seems more low effort than that. Also its worth noting none of their pages have updated in about 4 years, if that was legitimately their child why would they just stop posting about it? Also this is one of the first sentences on what seems like the main website-"Jimmy is an American. In terms of pedigree, it is the pedigree of Ireland, France, Jews, Greece, and Spain." Idk about you but that definetly doesnt look like an american english speaker wrote it.

[@eveangel8967]

I've seen a video on the Jimmys Wish facebook of the father in the room with Jimmy and there are plenty of clips/pictures of him with Jimmy in the hospital and in other locations when he was younger/healthier so I rlly don't think it's some random kid

[@direktive4]

adrenochrome = qanon conspiracy theory which basically ripped off monsters inc.

[@necropolistc6357]

the cells that give you the force?, oh wait that's... I can't even begin to spell it lol auto correct keeps thinking I'm thinking of the power house of a cell

[@darknesskingsized8996]

It's older than that actually. The term was being thrown around during the satanic panic.

[@zzevonplant]

Adrenochrome predates Monsters Inc. by a long shot.

[@slitheen3]

First place I ever heard of it was in the book Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. It wasn't derived from children specifically or meant to like... keep the rich and powerful looking young, or hide their lizard skin, or for satanic rituals, or anything. The main characters just used it to get high as one of like, a dozen different drugs during their story long drug binge. So that's what I always think of when I see the word. Raving lunatics driving high in the desert and experiencing severe paranoia in hotel rooms in the middle of the night lol

[@chompchompchangbin]

Just makes me think that the poor boy does have something degenerative and dad doesn't want to admit that his son won’t get better. It also vaguely reminds me of the Hollie Dance situation; She’s a mother whose 12 year old son hanged himself and she’s still fighting for him to be on life support, even though his brain stem is necrotic to the point where it is liquid. The English courts have declared him legally dead, but she swears it was only because the hospitals want to harvest his organs and not because he’s actually dead. She's also stated that they’ve given him sepsis, his neck is broken, medical neglect, etc. I absolutely do not doubt that it's hard for parents to see their children leave the earth, especially so young. As a parent it's expected for you to fight for your child, no matter what, and I can see it in both situations. Denial really warps the perception of the truth. It can be terrifying. (... but I can see this specific case being some weird Munchausen by Proxy case. I think knowing about Unit 731 does give him some vague excuse to blame the Japanese government and doctors.)

[@Valerie-nm1gr]

I was thinking this as well, wasn't familiar with the Dance case but it seems similar to some cases where I live in America, like Jahi McMath and Terri Schiavo. Basically, cases where something went wrong and a person they loved ends up brain dead, but the family doesn't understand that or doesn't want to believe it. Brain dead people are just dead people, they have no higher order brain functioning and everything that made that person "them" is gone, their brains become liquid or calcified over time. But they can be hooked up to life support and appear to keep going, so people who love them and don't want to say goodbye to them keep them in that state. The clip in this video where the father is trying to talk to the son, saying "Jimmy? Jimbo?" is very reminiscent of tapes from Schiavo's case, her family recorded hours and hours of footage of her and then cherry picked a few minutes where she appeared to "respond" to stimuli, looking in their direction when they said her name and so forth, but it's just reflex actions from the brain stem, there is nobody in there to respond to anything. Ironically, after Schiavo was removed from life support and autopsied, it was found that she had been blind for a decade, so there was absolutely no chance she had ever seen any of the things her family claimed her eyes were following in their videos. It's easy to accuse families in these cases of being grifters, and maybe that's true to some extent, but I get why people are so passionate about trying to save and protect their loved ones and refuse to believe that they're gone. Especially in the cases of children like Jimmy or Jahi McMath.

[@WobblesandBean]

I understand that it's difficult to see your child die, but I have no respect for parents like this who force their child to live through unnatural means, even when the brain is long dead. It's just wrong.

[@Topdoggie7]

What that woman is doing to her son is absolutely horrifying, even if there is some life in him that sounds like absolute torture, the idea of being held on life support and kept alive even with a watery brain and possibly just rotting away is the worst thing a parent could ever do. I would not want to live that way and I would not want my vessel to be kept alive that way. And many kids who come out of comas and other states have said that they would not wish to be kept alive if they were brain dead etcetera so I can safely say this is almost abuse of a corpse.

[@Topdoggie7]

@@WobblesandBean exactly I see forcing brain dead people to keep being alive as really nasty and it shouldn't be allowed. If they are confirmed dead you shouldn't be allowed to keep their bodies functioning and alive when there's none of them left it's creepy and it's just wrong. It feels like they're just puppeting around a corpse and if somebody did that with an animal we called the police but if a person does that with another person it's fine?

[@breannathompson9094]

@@Topdoggie7 im not religious but this just feels like you're holding their soul hostage in a body that's dead... idk what comes after this life but its probably better than being trapped in a dead meatsuit

[@eh39292]

I commented on the original reddit post, but I listened to the "evidence" they have and it all seems like sadly, the parents or at least the father are dealing with some sort of delusional episode.

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

When I heard that the father had given Jimmy stem cell therapy, all I could think is one of two things: The "cold" that landed Jimmy in the hospital (who goes to the hospital for a cold? Oh, someone with a compromised immune system) was a direct result of this unregulated therapy that Dad just had to try on his kid - and found out in the worst way that it's not safe yet, due to contamination, or processing issues, or the like. Or, that Dad just can't accept that his therapy didn't work on Jimmy, so anything that happens to Jimmy from here on out is clearly someone else's fault. Perhaps it's a combination of both.

[@allyh7075]

i agree with everything else you said but in regards to the "who goes to the hospital for a cold?" thing, I think it really depends on the country. In the US I know a lot of people won't go to the hospital unless it's life-or-death due to the cost of healthcare, but in South Korea, it's normal to go to the hospital for pretty minor, inconsequential things. i wonder If it's the same elsewhere in South-East Asia?

[@bequinched]

Lots of other channels that cover this type of stuff always seem to tell the same stories I've heard before, but your content is constantly exposing me to new, interesting mysteries. You have a great eye for cool subjects! Thanks for making videos!

[@quitbeingIllusion]

i also don't understand what he means by malnutrition if he has a feding tube that is given by surgry (central venous catheter) they just give enough to live on because the parental feeding has a lot of side effects as infections reduced gastric emptying ect...

[@oreng5791]

I started watching your videos about a year ago, and your voice currently gives me the best tingly feeling of nostalgia, watching you is like a safe hug, I appreciate you and your content so much

[@Gurofluff]

I spent 7 months living with a woman with acute paranoid schizophrenia. She had many misfortunes in her life and due to how acutely mentally ill she was it was impossible to tell which were unfortunate incidents, and which were self induced or murky situations(relationships that weren't consensual, criminal activities she was persecuted for, child custody, etc). She was consistent in only two things, which were: 1. She was always a victim in every circumstance And 2. She was being proactively persecuted by just about every power possible, and nobody was listening to her or trying to help. A lot of what James presents sits dead on with my experience of Carol, and I can't help but think he experiences some shade of the same mental health struggles. Just my two cents.

[@sheilatakeabow1990]

I’ve encountered a lot of people with schizophrenia in my job and the long rambling way the dad types alone is enough to convince me he likely has a mental illness

[@imtorrific]

Why did they take him to a military hospital in the first place, he really seemed to harp on the fact that it was a military hospital. I also find it odd that we're never told a diagnosis/disease of any type, we're just given what happened to Jimmy but not the why it happened.

[@nocontextwhatever]

He says Jimmy was suffocated while already in hospital but James never says why he was in hospital in the first place! Has he ever tried moving him to another hospital?????

[@Rachel.Raquel]

I think it was a cold? I only heard it mentioned once in the first few minutes.

[@nocontextwhatever]

@@Rachel.Raquel I didn't catch that, thx!

[@quitbeingIllusion]

​@@Rachel.Raquel he has sever brain damge and bone malformation disease that can not develop from one hospital stay i think he has a syndrome from birth

[@AleTitan]

8:07 is mentioned that he was staying for a cold

[@nocontextwhatever]

@@AleTitan I missed that, the father was throwing out so much shite 🤷‍♀️

[@luckyystrikerr]

I always love seeing the unique topics you choose and the skepticism and sensitivity with which you approach them. Excellent and chilling video.

[@MissSpaz]

One thing that's very strange to me is that supposed scan of the child's rib cage and spine. It appears that some of his ribs are twisting the wrong way, leaving half of his rib cage absent which is incredibly strange. Like, strange to the point where I don't believe those are real scans or at least, those aren't the scans of the child pictured. I've spent a great deal of my life in hospitals and I've never seen that.

[@sexygirlmax2019]

can you link me to them? i didnt see it i think i missed it. it did say in the video his rib cage was "sinking into his heart and spine" ???

[@TuberoseKisser]

I remember this when it started making the rounds, I always found it suspicious cause why would the government target a random family? Why harm a child instead of immediately killing the entire family. The government would not be this reckless. Like him and his family is not that special to be on the governments radar.

[@el_equidistante]

"immediately killing the entire family" you watch too many movies

[@TuberoseKisser]

@@el_equidistante no, If you wish to kill one person in plain sight of the family, you take out the family or else you get people like him. Of course one could also say that the idea of the government going after a kid is so unhinged no one would believe him anyway, but even with that you would have people who believe him constantly prying. Common sense isn't "too much movies"

[@-tera-3345]

Yeah, as "a threat to stop me from exposing them" it doesn't really make sense, because if anything that would just give him more reason to expose them. But where even is the evidence of the things he was threatening to expose them for? He seems to have completely forgotten about what he originally wanted to expose. If somehow it WAS true, releasing what they wanted to keep covered up would at least corroborate their motive for going after him.

[@ofskittlez]

I enjoy Internet mysteries. And generally disturbing content.

[@dustyyshellz1320]

What about the strange dark and mysterious covered in story format?

[@justinburchette]

_"Let's give it a goo!"_

[@mrpink2824]

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[@e.q.s1137]

Ok

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[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Thank you for the tip! :) Sorry I didn't see it till now 🖤

[@AlexanderWestcott]

@@TheInternetInvestigator its all good!

[@tmamone83]

18:15 Oh hell no, he did not just compare his son to Emmett Till!

[@dolvita]

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[@TheInternetInvestigator]

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[@ABoyNamedCharlotte]

after looking through all this, I think it's probably safe to say that Jimmy has some sort of severe congenital condition and his father is experiencing paranoia and persecutory delusions. I really try to not diagnose strangers on the internet because it's not useful most of the time, but the dates changing and details that don't make any sense really remind me of my encounters with people who are disconnected from reality that I met when I was hospitalized in a psych ward for severe depression. It's the same kind of rambling, vaguely scared, vaguely accusatory, detail shifting talk. The mention of whatever that supposed stuff that comes as a side product of adrenaline is what really sinks this for me. It sounds like the exact kind of Qanon/conspiracy-fueled pseudoscience that, unfortunately, many people who are very mentally ill start getting into. It's all kinds of sad. Like you said, Jimmy does seem to be actually suffering. But I think it's safe to say that his father is completely disconnected from reality. Also, as someone else pointed out in their comment: That supposed skeletal scan of Jimmy's looks more like that of an elderly woman. I can't personally confirm that 100% because I'm not good enough with bones, but I don't think it's Jimmy's. Sad.

[@saturnas]

True. Where I live there was a father who lost a son to true medical malpractice (the boy suffered an accident and had organs removed for "donation" without being brain dead). The doctors involved were punished years later and while I understand justice here is kinda lazy and ineffective (it took more than a decade for the doctors to be punished), the boy's father went totally crazy. He ran away from the country, allegedly persecuted. He started massive conspiracy campaigns against pretty much anything, mainly "the new world order". He became a famous far-right icon in the internet for some time. He must still be around in sites like QAnon.

[@jmgajda8071]

I don't know exactly what's going on with Jimmy but as a biochemist I highly doubt Jimmy received stem cell therapy in 1998. What we think of stem cell therapy today was in its infancy and still very experimental (excluding bone marrow transplants, of course) and I can't believe that a child that young would have qualified for a medical trial. If memory serves, one of the 1st well known trials was stopped because one of the individuals involved developed a form of cancer from the treatment (which makes sense; pluripotent stem cells derived from your own cells require alteration of expression of genes that are known to be involved in cancer). I suspect, looking at the younger pictures of Jimmy that he has cerebral palsy (I can't say 100% that's the case since I'm not a doctor, but I have known children with the condition) and it makes me wonder if some sort of desperate treatment worsened the condition. CP on it's own will not worsen, but other conditions can affect outcomes and life expectancy (such as also having epilepsy). Whatever is going with Jimmy the way his father is approaching the situation feels very off and exploitative to me, and feels borderline abusive. I have to wonder where Jimmy's mother and other relatives are and why they are allowing this to happen. Anyway, I'd never heard of this before today. Thanks for bringing attention to the situation. Hopefully Jimmy is in a safe environment now and being well cared for!

[@annie_xo]

I feel like this is a father who’s gone mad from grief over his terminally ill son. All around a very sad situation.

[@TazmilysHero]

Oh I’ve been wanting someone to do a deep dive into this for ages! Can’t wait to watch

[@haileybalmer9722]

Call me paranoid, but I don't think James Ryan is who he says he is. His dialect is very strange. He doesn't sound like he's originally from the United States. He sounds a lot like someone who thinks they've perfected their theatrical American Accent. He may just have a highly affected speech pattern, that's not unheard of, but something about it seems very off to me. Add to it that his name is James Ryan, a name that is so bland that it sounds made up. Something is super off about this dude. Not just his tone, not just his conspiracy theory jargon, but everything about him.

[@Shinji_Dai]

10:55 That is not any American accent I've ever heard.

[@lolal2099]

Interesting you bring this up. Rewatching it, yeah no one pronounces heinous as hee-ne-ous to my knowledge

[@OyVeey]

@@lolal2099 Sounds vaguely South African to me tbh

[@samichgrrl]

Naturalized citizen?

[@someonekool8222]

Scare theatres new video Jimmy’s dad is so mad with you! Stay safe xx

[@zzevonplant]

I think the dad may have paranoid schizophrenia. That would explain his weird, monotone way of speaking, the way he rambles & repeats things, the belief that this was some kind of intentional torture being covered up by the government (which does happen, but I don't think that's likely in this case), etc. It would really make all this make sense.

[@tomokotoma]

I agree with you! The dad writings looked very similar to those who who have paranoid schizophrenia. His wife is Japanese and may not realize how her husband is weird. ( or she may has some problems as well.) I only watched the first video , and listened to the poor doctor had to talk to her explaining the treatment on Jimmy. I think the doctor sounded very normal and generous even though she was very aggressive.

[@angelmorningstarr9504]

I went and looked at Jimmy's page and I have so many questions. Going to watch this now praying some of my questions are answered. PS: I don't see how this is possible. I don't know if a single medical benefit to having your oxygen cut off. And since the Doctor admitted it, wouldn't that be considered attempted murder?

[@MegaSimmaster]

What the hell, did you watch the video? The dad is very unreliable and a lot of the information he offers is just incorrect and inconsistent. I almost guarantee he's suffering from paranoia and grief.

[@TheSarahbee23]

the dad is talking about adrenochrome which is a conspiracy theory, meaning likely everything he says is paranoia and never happened,

[@cinnastag]

@@MegaSimmaster He's also in the comments of this video being very conspiratorial so...yeah, very paranoid

[@MegaSimmaster]

@@cinnastag of course he is. I wish these kinds of people put their energy into anything other than some satinic cult fanfiction.

[@brokenfoxproductions]

Am I the only person who noticed that the "father" doesn't have an American accent despite claiming to be an American citizen in the military? If he is American, he must have lived abroad in his childhood years, when your natural accent develops... It's just not adding up for me, though.

[@leaf6356]

thanks for pointing this out, I haven't seen anyone else yet mention that this is most likely not "Jimmy's" real father. this has to be some sort of scam this man is pulling with this poor child and their real parents or something. it seems so exploitative. edit: I'd like to clarify that by scam, I mean that this man is most likely profiting whatever money they're receiving for Jimmy. you can't fake what conditions he has, that much is very real for me.

[@skyefirenails]

Yes, I noticed that right away. And I wonder if he's the parent or not. If that's his voice in that clip where he asks Jimmy to look at him, if that's not a faked clip, then I wonder if he truly cares about Jimmy at all, or is incredibly ableist. It's likely Jimmy has been like this from birth, so I don't know why he expects him to be able to do certain things.

[@Macachee]

Puerto Ricans are considered Americans.

[@samichgrrl]

He could be a naturalized citizen

[@danadecker4855]

Maybe that's why he is so stilted when he talks. Either he isn't fluent or doesn't want his accent to give it away. He could have been born somewhere else though. It's a red flag not a slam dunk

[@glitteryfaery]

My fav channel uploaded again, lets gooooooo

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Thanks for the tip and sorry I didn't see it till now! 🖤

[@glitteryfaery]

@@TheInternetInvestigator hahaha no problem, I was actually just watching another one of your videos, keep doing what you're doing, I'm really happy to see the channel growing ❤

[@bostonsandatot4948]

Bizarre case. I love how you pronounce "skeletal".

[@shark_kisses5153]

Are there no neighbors, family, friends, teachers…so on…that know this child and family? Someone has to know if Jimmy was or was not born healthy or more about what happened. This is so sad and disturbing.

[@rebeccagibbs4128]

japan is incredibly ableist, and most folks there would deny they even had disabled relatives. i wouldnt be surprised if the lack of intervention medically in this boy's care was lackluster and reluctant. I think the original poster is messed up in many ways, for exploiting his son's medical condition without permission, for thinking it's an america vs japan thing, and well the rest of the way this always ends up going. Very interesting story, once again. Thanks for all the effort you put into these too

[@emilycrewe3794]

If you’re interested in the whole pseudoscience stem cell rabbit hole, Wondery’s podcast Bad Batch delves into the racket that is medically unapproved stem cell treatments, the potential for contamination and complications as a result of such procedures, and some of the shady characters and business practices involved in the industry.

[@ZdotsZuzy]

Oh dear God i just looked it up for some Research Myself Theres photos of the dad with Jimmy being 23 Years old?! and hes STILL on Life support? im 23, This cannot be right

[@CharlieApples]

“Your signature can bring to light these ‘hee-nee-ous’ crimes…” *It’s **_heinous._** HEYN-ous. Two syllables, Mr. President.*

[@richierottweiler923]

You’ve earned a new subscriber. I’d hate to have had to put this piece together, it has more twists and turns than a drunken rollercoaster. Good work

[@fernfossils]

im so glad to see more uncommon things covered!!! so many channels cover the same thing over and over, so seeing something like this is a breath of fresh air

[@madness_mania]

After watching scare theater I can definitely say you did do a good job covering a basis on everything and weren't disrespectful, it's just weird how he wants to sue you for the same thing scare theater himself said yet was, doing a interview with him so I'm not sure Jimmy's father's logic here💀

[@LIJVHAZ]

exactly what i thought lol

[@snacksizeattila2076]

I hate to say this but it's because she's a woman. He's whole demeanor changed when he's talking about her.

[@madness_mania]

@@snacksizeattila2076 honestly yeah I think I noticed that TOO, anytime a women was brought up "like the redditor trying to debunk his claims was a women" he got very angry at that too, isn't that odd?

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

Giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, and assuming that everything that happened to his son really happened, then I can imagine if something similar happened to one of my kids, I'd also go completely nuts, so... there's a chance that he's just nuts.

[@Idaxasi]

So the only thing I could figure would be that the oxygen mask came in a plastic bag wrapping and that wasn't removed before it was used. That'd be accidental but it could happen. Whether it was a suffocation event or the plastic stopped the flow of oxygen to someone who needs it (also leading to suffocation.) The allegations of starving the kid could come from the family misunderstanding about muscle wasting in people who can't move or move regularly. It can definitely look extremely alarming. If I assume the family is in Japan and he wasn't disabled before this treatments.... I'd go with those and then the family/dad not understanding what's going on. I don't believe it though.

[@Umekopyon]

22:00 Sounds like 子, meant to be "young women," being too-literally translated to "children." Very non-issue unless you have an issue with consenting adults in sex work.

[@poppyseedbagel]

considering sex work is paid rape id hope most people have issues with it

[@minnie_malism]

my first thought too

[@tenshirei]

Came here to post this, thank you for having done so already!

[@richierottweiler923]

Oh, i forgot to mention that there could be one reason for the mark on Jimmy’s neck, it could be that the youngling may have had a tracheotomy at some to point to aid the boy in breathing with the mark being the dressing used to hold the apparatus in place

[@Macachee]

“Youngling” lol! Bruh, just say “kid” or “child” or “boy” like a normal person. 😂

[@AbhNormal]

Oh yeah, I’d heard about this one. Disturbing stuff. Great content as always!

[@rathersleepthanstayawakezzz]

OMG is that big half life

[@trashnyc]

Honestly, as soon as you said he was already sick and bedridden, I assumed the plastic bag was simply attempted murder. In Japan, having severe disabilities is something as a culture (not everyone, please don’t misunderstand me) they are ashamed of. There was a serial killer named Satoshi Uematsu who worked in care facilities for the disabled who covertly murdered them and straight up admitted when he was caught that they were better off and the families would be relieved they were finally no longer burdened with them. I wouldn’t be shocked if some doctor or nurse took it upon themselves to do the same and everyone covered up for them because of this horrible stigma, so as not to be “another Satoshi Uematsu situation”, a PR nightmare for their hospital, especially since it was a military hospital so it would reflect on the country even more poorly

[@boneappleyee8356]

I feel like this could have combined with James having some sort of mental health affliction evidenced by his adrenochrome claims

[@KaguyaHimex]

This feels like a qanoned parent with a vegetative child who can’t accept it. They’re stuck on the denial step of grieving. It can’t be a tragic loss of a child, it has to be a big targeted anti-American conspiracy. I just hope their son isn’t suffering… he’s definitely a victim but not for the reasons OP alleges

[@bloatedcorpse2728]

always so geeked to see a new upload from you ♡

[@SplitSauce2289]

Jimmeh

[@sberky98]

nonono timmeh, jimmeh

[@ZazooEel57]

One thing is certain: that child doesn't look like he is 23kg. My eating disorder eye can't be fooled.

[@douglasfir333]

Thanks again for a great video :) your videos are the best for my bus ride to work!

[@cureropestilence6767]

It’s strange how repetitive his sentences are. He says the same things over and over again and seems to shuffle a same few talking points. Very unlikely theory but if his son had many issues beforehand, and to say his claims about the bag are true, it could have been an attempted mercy killing. The said claims about the doctors and nurses being slow to action could have been related, although this is speculation

[@camcam794]

But to use a bag? They are doctors with access to a lot of different drugs. Suffocation wouldn’t be a mercy killing, it’s an awful way to die

[@jackieattackie101]

Having a child with a disability can cause some people to go through the five stages of grief, and many people get caught in the beginning stages (denial and anger). To me, this looks like his son has a degenerative disease and he is in denial and its easier to blame this on an outside factor. I feel horrible for himself and his son and I hope they find peace. (Source: I used to work with families of children with severe disabilities)

[@MrFlapjackk]

Every American heard Bridezilla in the sponsorship

[@amandamartello6506]

idk if you did inverted it on purpose but I love the black background/white text!!

[@pickled_sausage]

The fact that James is comparing Jimmy to Till..... 🥴

[@shifty1927]

This dude seems like every other person of FB currently. The bigger his audience get the bigger his conspiracies get. Crazy there is an audience. Especially the ones that believe.

[@dm44444]

Biggest red flag right away is the constant discussion of "Japanese military" doctors.

[@Sleepiestsheepy]

Way to release this just in time for a summer thunder storm to begin. Time to get spooky. 👌

[@_Wyzteria_]

no matter hat the answer is, i just hope jimmy turns out ok in the end. all of this seems so suspicious

[@Mytube777]

All I know is if that was my kid I would t let him suffer that way and I would ask to pull the plug to let him go. Anyone know if he is still alive?

[@nrgbunni.]

He said Jimmy also had rickets and I know rickets can cause bone deformities but I don't know if it can get as extreme as the ct scan shows

[@kwarra-an]

Yeah, the ribcage deformities associated with rickets are much less extreme than that! You can get a "pigeon chest". Rickets is also a childhood disease, which doesn't line up with (some of) the father's timeline.

[@madelineatkinson2755]

You always upload when I need it most. Love this channel

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

🖤🖤🖤

[@syntheticcookie]

sadly this isnt entirely unheard of. Many parents of disabled children struggle to accept their child's disability or will outright reject it. Parents who can't cope with their child's disability will often gravitate towards alternative fringe ideologies. I've seen a lot of this kind of thing, it's the same mentality of parents who try to treat their autistic kids by having them drink bleach. Truly sad.

[@vampsarecool]

Poor Jimmy should be let to pass in peace little guy suffering for so long

[@cajunmane7272]

Jimmy's parents are so diluted, its a shame that the boy was born with some kind of genetic disorder, or it may have been some medical accident, and the hospital isn’t being held accountable. I can believe that, but all the conspiracy theories and persecution complex the parents have is so bizarre.

[@jasper4373]

i always love seeing you pop up in my notifications ❤

[@legosilenthill7688]

Love the late night upload

[@coffeecat086]

The grammar is sus to start… Voice inflection is wrong, too. Also, if it was that widespread, there would be an uproar, especially if it were crimes against children. They’re innocent and cannot speak with regards to their treatment. Also, vitamins can be delivered alternatively. Crap like this is horrible. The children who are victims are bypassed because of this kind of stuff. Also, if he’s that invested in his delusions he easily could have caused it himself … a sort of Munchhausen by proxy. The pseudoscience has to do with the Fibonacci sequence/frequency which is a real thing, but ike many things of pseudoscience I’m is based on truth mixed in with a whole bunch of fairy dust.

[@sunnystrathern8396]

Anyone else think the guy sounds more Dutch than American??

[@littelcreatchure506]

personally, I could believe that military doctors would harm a child if it meant protecting their financial/political interests

[@lilithwills812]

I grew up with a very disabled sibling and hung out with a lot of other families of disabled children. Conspiratorial thought is VERY common in these circles. I think that people can’t cope with the fact that such a tragic thing could happen to them, and so they look for a reason. Most of the people I knew whose children had high support needs autism believed that it was because of vaccines or something similar. I can only imagine how a person like James- who was already involved in a lot of pseudoscientific businesses- would react to a sudden severe worsening in his child’s health. This makes perfect sense to me, unfortunately.

[@morgankaya2677]

Can always count on your uploads to cheer me up. Big love lass ❣💯

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

🖤🖤🖤

[@hiroshimiya2728]

Thank you for the new content. I really appreciate your work.

[@derelictfields]

I'd never heard of this situation before watching your video, but what struck me immediately is how the language/wording used by the father coincides with that used by conspiracy theorists (such as emphasizing evidence he presented as being "irrefutable") so I'm naturally inclined to be very skeptical toward him. But whether or not he is lying or delusional, like you pointed out, it's a sad story all around.

[@annabasnatural]

Well I’m 6 minutes in and already know that the background wasn’t written by a native English speaker 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@KingFluffs]

1:27 Alternatively, you could do what one of my teachers did... and just walk out the store with a pack of 6 and drive home. lol

[@rockndave02]

Wow, what an intriguing case to wake up to this morning.

[@eggreedgious5194]

If adrenochrome really does have medical value, chemists would simply synthesize it in a lab as (from scanning the Wikipedia page) it doesn't seem very difficult. Extracting it from children seems like a very inconvenient way of going about it. That's like flying to Antarctica for some ice cubes instead of just using the freezer.

[@b33-d3g]

hmmm let me find something calming to sleep to *this gets posted* hmmm let me find something to keep me up all night

[@steffi1833]

The dads accent isn’t American - sounds like someone from Eastern Europe trying to sound American

[@saradapagediocletian9707]

Let me first say that I don't believe the father's story at all. But Japan does in fact sport an astounding record of human rights violations. Probably more than any other nation.

[@Macachee]

“More than any other nation” Pfffft! 😂

[@teirusureynard9279]

15:00 -- that is probably due to the rickets, not the alleged actions of the doctors

[@AugustQ-p1w]

So... I can absolutely believe that a disabled child was mistreated by doctors. It's sad, but some people, even medical professionals, don't view the disabled as being "worthy of life". There have also been many instances medical professionals or caregivers who killed patients, throughout history. However, nothing else about it really adds up? Like, just for starters, suffocation seems like a really obvious and inelegant way to kill someone in a hospital. I'd expect something like a high dose of morphine or another drug being used to purposely overdose the patient. Add to that the inconsistencies in the story, the claims of adrenochrome harvesting, the weird fake companies... it's safe to say James isn't a reliable narrator here.

[@JennCampbell]

As *shocking* as it is, disabled people are such more likely to suffer abuse and neglect, and substandard care from medical staff.