00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:30,This is a true story. It happened
right here in my town two years ago.
00:00:31,580 --> 00:00:35,A lot of people die in a lot of
really weird ways in this story.
00:00:35,690 --> 00:00:38,But you're not gonna find it in
the news or anywhere like that.
00:00:38,990 --> 00:00:43,Because the police and the top people
in this town were like so embarrassed
00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,that they weren't able to solve it
that they covered everything all up.
00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,But if you come here
and ask anyone, they'll all
00:00:50,730 --> 00:00:53,tell you the same thing
that I'm gonna tell you now.
00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,This story starts in my school.
00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,Maybrook Elementary is
kindergarten through fifth grade.
00:01:04,340 --> 00:01:08,So this one Wednesday is like a
normal day for the whole school.
00:01:09,230 --> 00:01:12,And they had this teacher who was new.
00:01:13,450 --> 00:01:15,Her name was Justine Gandy.
00:01:17,150 --> 00:01:21,And on this day, she was going to
her classroom just like every morning.
00:01:22,350 --> 00:01:24,But today was different.
00:01:25,670 --> 00:01:28,Today, none of her kids were there.
00:01:29,730 --> 00:01:32,Every other class at that
school had all their kids.
00:01:33,190 --> 00:01:36,Even the other third grade Mrs.
Belt taught was full.
00:01:37,750 --> 00:01:40,But Mrs. Gandy's room was totally empty.
00:01:42,730 --> 00:01:44,Well, not totally.
00:01:46,550 --> 00:01:50,There was one boy there
and his name was Alex Lilly.
00:01:52,010 --> 00:01:56,And he was the only kid in the class
of 18 that came to school that day.
00:01:58,230 --> 00:01:59,And do you know why?
00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,He was the only one there.
00:02:03,060 --> 00:02:06,Because the night before,
at 2.17 in the morning,
00:02:07,090 --> 00:02:11,every other kid woke up, g***t out of bed,
00:02:13,010 --> 00:02:17,walked downstairs, opened the front door,
00:02:18,230 --> 00:02:21,walked across the front
yard and into the dark.
00:02:21,251 --> 00:02:25,And they never came back.
00:02:25,511 --> 00:02:26,And they never came back.
00:03:34,370 --> 00:03:42,And they never came back.
00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,All the parents and people at the
school were really sad and upset.
00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:15,The police could tell
that the kids left at 2.
00:04:16,385 --> 00:04:20,because like half the houses had alarms
that g***t tripped when they walked outside.
00:04:24,195 --> 00:04:27,Some of the kids even g***t videoed
by the houses that had cameras.
00:04:29,530 --> 00:04:32,But the cameras only showed the
kids walking out into the darkness.
00:04:35,350 --> 00:04:37,They didn't show where
they went after that.
00:04:40,390 --> 00:04:42,The police talked to Alex a lot.
00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:46,They asked him why his
classmates did what they did,
00:04:47,305 --> 00:04:48,but he told them he didn't know.
00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,They asked him if there was a plan,
00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,but he said if there
was, he never heard it.
00:04:55,530 --> 00:04:59,They asked him if there was a TV
show where someone ran away like that.
00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:02,But he said if there was, he never saw it.
00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:06,They also talked to Miss
Gandy a whole bunch,
00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,but she also didn't know
anything and couldn't help them.
00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,For almost a whole month, they kept the
school closed for their big investigation.
00:05:17,895 --> 00:05:20,But after a while, they had
to open everything back up,
00:05:21,190 --> 00:05:23,so that the kids that didn't
disappear could learn again.
00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,One night before they did, they
had a big meeting at the school.
00:05:30,890 --> 00:05:33,There was a bunch of
counselors and people like that
00:05:33,660 --> 00:05:38,to help everybody figure out how
to feel and be sad together, I guess.
00:05:41,030 --> 00:05:42,This is where the story really starts.
00:05:49,130 --> 00:05:51,What's important is that
we don't judge our grief.
00:05:52,450 --> 00:05:54,We might experience emotions we don't like.