 all across the world people go missing every day. In my opinion, this must be one of the most heartbreaking and harrowing experiences for the loved ones left behind. As human beings, a lot of us need closure. We need answers especially when it comes to our loved ones or just people we've loved in our life. And for me if I had to imagine probably one of the most hardest spiritual journeys to go on would be finding closure for the disappearance of a loved one where there was absolutely no evidence or clues as to what happened to that person. Today on Mystery Monday we are going to be talking about a woman who went missing 35 years ago and still to this day no evidence has been revealed to show us what happened to her. But before we go any further you know what to do please hit that subscribe button and give us a like as always a very, very special thank you to all of our patrons and our producers here on Esoteric Atlanta. Without you guys we truly would not be able to do what we do. The battle is real and shadow banning is very real. And so I personally am very, very appreciative of all of you guys who support what I do each and every month. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce and today on Mystery Monday we are going to be talking about the disappearance of Julie Weflin. Julie Weflin disappeared on September 16th of 1987. At the time of her disappearance she was happily married to her second husband and was only 28 years old. Julie Weflin was not a big woman. She was only five, two and around a hundred pounds. My mother is five, two. And so it's interesting to think about Julie Weflin's height and how tiny she was when she went missing. My dad as I've said before the Watson side of my family are really tall. My dad was like six, three, six, four. And especially with her only being about a hundred pounds this was a very easy human being to abduct, which is important to remember as we go into this case. Julie Weflin was originally from Portland, Oregon. She was born on May 3rd of 1959. Now Julie had a very interesting childhood and this was because of an issue that Julie had with her spine. This was a pretty intense issue and when she was 14 years old the doctors had to put her into a full body cast for six months to try to correct her spine. It is said that Julie for these six months could only be in two different positions standing up or lying down. Now many of her family and friends say as a testament to Julie's overall spirit and attitude that during this time she never really complained. She always had a smile on her face but it seems like this incident when she was 14 with this full body cast really affected her life. I mean how could it not? Before this Julie was a huge lover of animals and a lot of her friends and family said that they assumed that she would go on to do something with animals for a living like be a veterinarian or like our friend Catherine Edwards over in the United Kingdom do work with animals on more of a homeopathic level or a spiritual level but that's not what ended up happening. Julie ended up getting married at a very young age and that first marriage or as we call it in today's society the starter marriage did end up in divorce but again both her and her ex-husband were very very young but in June of 1980 at 21 years old Julie met Mike Weflin at a jazz concert in Portland Oregon. The couple hit it off and two years later Julie ended up moving up to Spokane Washington to be with Mike. A year after she moved to Spokane her and Mike were married. Mike Weflin was a pretty successful house painter and at this time his new wife his new bride Julie wanted to have a career of her own and the reason why I brought up her spine situation when she was 14 was because in my opinion the job she ended up picking was a very male dominated active job and it seems like for someone who's only five two and only a hundred pounds who spent a lot of her childhood very much isolated and still because of some health issues she then proceeded into her adult life to want to take an active career in order to use her body and so she decided to get into power and electronics. After she was trained to do this really male dominated hard labor job Julie became the only female in the area to be able to be an energy operator. She ended up getting a job at the Bonneville Power Administration or BPA for short. Now again at this time Julie was the only female and from what I understand when she first started working the issue of her being a female did rub some people the wrong way but over a very short amount of time all of her colleagues and peers ended holding a lot of respect for Julie. Now again the reason why I bring this up is because this will come up later in her disappearance. Around 1 p.m. on September the 16th of 1987 a call came in to BPA saying that the Spring Hill substation was running low on nitrogen. Now this in itself was not an emergency and in fact some of Julie's colleagues remember telling Julie that this was not something she needed to rush off and do on this particular day it could wait a day or two but Julie being a very very very determined young woman who really wanted to make her way in this career in this industry decided to go ahead and go out there and replace the nitrogen. Now again this is 1987 so there are no cell phones there is no GPS tracking devices for the people like myself who lived during a time when there was no cell phones or tracking devices I think we can reach back in our memory and remember what that was like and in Julie's situation because there was no tracking devices because there was no cell phones it would take a couple of hours more than a couple hours for people to actually realize that something was wrong. Julie parked her work issued minivan into a gravel parking lot by the Spring Hill substation near Riverside State Park around 2 p.m. on September the 16th. Her colleagues guessed that she probably finished up her work around 3 45 p.m. but as I just said at 3 45 p.m. on September the 16th of 1987 no one would have known what was happening at that gravel parking lot by the Spring Hill substation in Spokane Washington. Julie's husband Mike had been busy painting a house about 50 miles outside of Spokane that day and it was customary for Mike to call Julie around 5 p.m. on their landline because those were the only lines we had in 1987 to check in with her before making his drive back home. Well that day on September the 16th when Mike called his wife no one picked the phone up. He called multiple times thinking maybe she was outside maybe she was running a little bit late but still he got no answer. Well around the same time there was a onlooker a passerby that had noticed that the white minivan that belonged to BPA that Julie was driving was still sitting in this gravel parking lot and had been sitting there for hours. At that point this stranger this man who noticed the minivan called the police to have them come inspect the car. When the police got to the car they noticed that there were some personal items of Julie's on the outside of the car. This included her hard hat her tool belt a water bottle sunglasses all scattered around the car. They also noticed that there were some tire marks as if a car had just sped off and there were drag marks indicating that someone had dragged Julie away from her minivan and probably most likely put her into another car the car that sped off according to the tire marks in the gravel parking lot. It was also apparent to the police that a struggle had taken place not just because of the drag marks but because the driver's side door had been left open as if Julie was in the process of getting into the car when she was violently yanked out of the car dropping her hard hat her tool belt and her sunglasses and then again be pulled off into this other car. Now investigators noticed that the tire marks from this other car that wasn't on the scene were headed east towards Seven Mile Bridge and so the police very quickly put up a command station by Pine Bluff Road and Seven Mile Bridge. Now for 48 hours the police pretty much went balls to the wall looking for Julie. They brought in search dogs but as soon as the dogs got into the park they lost the scent of Julie. Now I want to pause on this for a minute because if you know anything about Washington State you know that the terrain is very intensely nature if you know what I'm talking about. This is not some skip through a trail. We're talking if we know about Olympia State Park all those book hands on the other side of Washington we're talking hard hard terrain and so what most of us learned in our English literature classes growing up is that man versus nature nature always wins. So the fact that the dogs lost the scent is not shocking. Again man versus nature nature will always win. After the command center was set up the police had her fan taken all the way back to the crime lab to inspect it more. They also brought in more officers originally on the case from the very beginning there were 12 officers but 18 more were brought in to help with the search. They also employed two search helicopters and a Red Cross truck which is very suspicious to me because the Red Cross ain't nothing but trouble. The FBI also sent an investigator from their bureau and yeah you know that might be a bit of a red flag too but it is what it is. Again this was 1987. We also know that Julie's co-workers formed a search party as well with her husband Mike Weflin. Now most people especially if you're a true crime buff would think that oh Mike he must have been the main suspect because most of the time the spouse is the main suspect. However Mike was released as a suspect about a week after the abduction and this was because Mike and Julie did seem to have a very very happy marriage. This is also because Mike had a very solid alibi for the time of his wife's disappearance and Mike would end up giving most of his life to finding his missing wife. Of course now he is remarried and I believe he does have children with his second marriage but for years for years he searched and searched and searched for Julie and all the interviews I listened to all the research I did into this case it does seem that Mike really did love his wife and in this case I really agree with the police officers I actually don't think he had anything to do with her abduction. Now as I just said previously the search for Julie lasted about 48 hours after 48 hours it was completely called off by the police department. There was literally no more evidence to go off off. Now again there weren't many witnesses in this area because this is a very secluded area except for the witness who saw Julie's car sitting there for a while originally called the police and there was another witness or two that noticed a couple of cars in the area. One of these witnesses noticed a white sedan parked by the substation. Now this was very peculiar to this witness I think he figured this person must be lost after all this is by a state park and but as this witness went up to the car to see if this person needed help the driver sped off. Other people in the area saw a brown midi van with Oregon plates. Now again Julie is originally from Oregon her first husband was still in Oregon. The second husband Mike Weflin has now been dismissed as a suspect but the police were very interested to speak to Julie's ex-husband her first husband. Now as I said earlier Julie and her first husband were married very young and then divorced very young. Again nowadays we call this a starter marriage and typically it does not end with one person abducting the other but just to be on the safe side of course the police had to go look into this first husband especially again since a brown van was spotted near the scene with Oregon plates but it just so happens that Julie's first husband was about 300 miles away when this abduction took place and so he too was quickly dismissed as a suspect. We also have to remember that Oregon is the state below Washington. I live in Georgia I see a lot of plates from like Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina all the states that border this state you see other plates. I mean the the oddest plate I think I've seen in the state of Georgia was one from Ontario Canada it's a long drive but but yeah you just get used to seeing plates from other states especially states that are neighboring your state and again this is a national park. So who's to say this wasn't a brown van full of a family going camping at this national park that literally had nothing to do with this abduction and the only thing they had in common with the abductee Julie was affected maybe they were both originally from Oregon. Now of course at this time the police received so many phone calls from people claiming they had seen Julie at bus stops at camping sites but according to the police this was all mistaken identity. Again Julie was five two a hundred pounds brown hair brown eyes there are a lot of women out there who are five two a hundred pounds brown hair brown eyes especially women in their late 20s especially at camping sites and stuff like that so yes a lot of these tips these phone calls were just brushed off as mistaken identity. Now again Julie's co-workers very much fought to find Julie and for a long time BPA did not seek a replacement for Julie's position all of her colleagues decided to work overtime just on the hope that Julie would one day be found and would have a job to return to. They wanted that to be the case so bad that they even kept her desk intact for a year a whole year after her abduction. Now even though her colleagues and her employer all loved Julie if you remember from the very beginning I said that at first it was hard for Julie because she was taking a job in a very male dominated field and so the police for a little while were a little bit suspect that maybe somebody at her work had it out for her maybe a male chauvinist that doesn't think women can do this job whatever the case may be but that theory again quickly went by the wayside all hope seemed lost until December of 1987 three months after Julie's abduction at this point a suspect was brought to the police's attention. Now the name of this suspect has never been released he was interviewed twice by the police and he took a polygraph test which he failed at that point this suspect lawyered up. Now I'm going to say something about polygraph tests and I've never taken a polygraph test and God I hope I never have to take one because sometimes I fear that I would fail a polygraph test like even if they were asking me simple questions like what's your name I would probably fail that because I would be so damn nervous taking that test and so when I hear of somebody failing polygraph tests it doesn't never really like affects me because it could just be nerves and I know that in the court system they're not admissible because of that reason. Now the reason why this man became a suspect is because he lived very near and close to the substation where Julie had been abducted he also was an acquaintance of a woman named Debbie Swanson and Debbie Swanson was a school teacher who had gone missing as well Debbie Swanson case like Julie Weflin's case still to this day remain unsolved and this suspect was never arrested for the abduction of Julie Weflin or Debbie Swanson. This man was also connected to another abduction this of a woman named Sally Stone once again all three of these cases remain unsolved in 2007 20 years after the abduction of Julie Weflin this suspect was brought back up again in connection to all three of these ladies but unfortunately at this point the man had passed away by 2011 BPA was fed up with not having any answers in Julie Weflin's disappearance no evidence whatsoever nobody nothing that they decided to start their own investigation and the interesting thing that BPA found that was never confirmed or released by the police was that in the area alone 50 women have gone missing and that's a horrifying number for a town like Spokane Washington now yet there are a couple of serial killers that are from Spokane Washington and a lot of people have questioned maybe these women were part of killing sprees done by these notorious serial killers however through my investigation it doesn't it doesn't seem that way because with serial killers they have patterns they have reasons they have purposes and these other abductions don't match the ones that have been attributed to these famous people so if you're a conspiracy minded person like I am where do these 50 women go why is there no evidence left of them 50 women who were daughters sisters mothers best friends women who had names who had smiles who had lives dreams hopes and ambitions and it's one thing to lose someone you love but it's another thing to not know what happened now I don't believe that Julie Weflin is still alive especially 35 years later with no trace and I do hope that wherever Julie is wherever her spirit is her soul is that she is resting in peace and I do hope that her friends and her family and her beloved husband Mike have been able to have some sort of healing all right guys thank you for listening please leave me your thoughts and your opinions down in the comment section below what do you think happened to Julie no I don't think we're going to be doing any card readings on Julie unless one of her family members gives us permission to look into the divination or her I know that sometimes the police officers will use psychics and mediums to help them with cases and that's fine for them but for me is just a content creator on YouTube I really want to be careful about not getting too much onto the entertainment side of these stories because these are human beings and for some reason Julie's case really hit me hard when I was researching her just looking at pictures of her even though when she went missing she was 11 years younger than I am now I just recognized a young woman who who was in love with her husband and had this job she was conquering and I just felt so much pain for her life and her story ending so soon. I felt pain for the children that she never got to have but like I felt pain for her parents and of course for Mike for her husband and so only unless someone from the Weflin family wanted us to pull cards would I do it because I do want to respect that and I don't want to make a mockery out of this case I hope you guys understand where I'm coming from with that. All right with that being said tomorrow is our part nine our final installation on this book Mary Magdalene Revealed that we're covering in the Magdalene series and next week we will be starting the Magdalene manuscript a whole new book on our Magdalene series here on YouTube. Please keep your head held high and know that the best is truly yet to come.