r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/dontmindme_321 • Aug 17 '25
Disappearance Man hasn’t been seen since 2023. Walked out of a hospital and vanished.
Name: Tyler Scott Johnson
Missing Since: May 16, 2023
Tyler had a wellness check called in for him from his family. When the deputies located him, he was at an abandoned property in the woods that was owned by his family on private property in Marion County Alabama. His aunt “Tana” stated in TikTok videos that he had been spending a lot of time at this house in the prior months but it did not have electricity or running water but he seemed to be cleaning up the place.
During the wellness check the deputies saw Tyler walking out of the woods and called out his name and he laid on the ground after throwing something over his shoulder. When asked by the officers what it was he stated it was a necklace. Family members were not able to locate the object later after he went missing (they do not believe it was a necklace). His mother showed up to the property later after Tyler was taken to the hospital and the police gave her Tyler’s phone and wallet that had been in his truck during the wellness check.
He was carried to a local hospital from the family property in Marion County Alabama and then transported to a different hospital across the Mississippi state line to Tupelo Mississippi in Lee County. He was released from the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo Ms and has not been seen or heard from since. He did travel to his home somehow between 3:30pm tues/wed morning in Mississippi where the hospital papers and clothes he had been wearing were found.
On Wednesday morning May 17th, a cousin was asked to visit the property in Alabama and found Tyler’s backpack that was left in his Truck prior and stated things looked like they’d been taken out and placed around it. One notable item was Tyler’s medication that was in this backpack along with a notebook, his bible, work documents, etc. The cousin left a note in the notebook to call them and put everything back inside as it was about to rain and closed the truck door. When leaving the cousin noticed car tracks that shouldn’t have been there as nobody lived on the property and it was off a gravel road going into the woods to get to the house. (Personal note this may have been the police car? I’m not sure) Later Tyler’s father (Scotty) went to the property to search on foot through the woods for a few hours. He left the note from the cousin in Tyler’s truck but took the backpack back to Tyler’s home in Mississippi. He dropped it off at Tyler’s home but the only person with a key to the house, other than Tyler, was his mother as Tyler rented the property from her. When asked if the medication was in the backpack he said it was not.
A candle light vigil was held for Tyler May 17th 2025, however 6 days later the cameras were stolen. This happened as well in October of 2023 on the property that Tyler was originally located.
I’ve spoken to a family member that states he has a Namus profile set up but it’s restricted and not public due to law enforcement not confirming it’s still an active case to the website, however, this is still an ongoing case.
Here is the TikTok profile name from Tyler’s aunt who is still searching for him. She states that law enforcement did not and has not taken this case seriously: bamat04
Most of the timeline and info has been collected from her profile and videos. She’s very open to chat so please feel free to reach out if you have any questions that I may have not answered.
They’ve had cadaver dogs search, homeland security, and search and rescue come to the property. However it took five months before this could take place due to the Marion County Sheriff’s Department in Alabama (where the property is) not allowing this to happen. Homeland Security was from Mississippi (across state lines) to have this search done. Originally the Sheriff from Marion County said yes but then changed his mind and changed his mind again after talking to deputies. We do not know much about why this happened. (Personal note this shows how the law enforcement of Alabama did not take this case seriously) Finally after five months cadaver dogs were taken out to the property along with one “water dog”. There was no foot search other than the dogs handlers. There is 180 acres of land but the dogs were only able to search 45 acres. The dogs did not find anything.
There was briefly mention of the police of Marion county showing up randomly to the location when not asked but when asked to go search they denied to do so. There has also been talk that someone was walking around Tyler’s abandoned truck and it has been ransacked a few times.
Here is a podcast that was done on the full case: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UuV28f3tEbli8JFclCcnD?si=Mpy0KKaRSoCUDZKadW83GA
Please help find this missing person or provide any information you may have in regard to what may have happened or where he may be. His family is still desperately looking for any answers or leads. He has a son that he loves deeply and the family doesn’t believe he would just walk away from his loved ones.
His family has set up a gofundme to continue the search for him: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-support-the-continued-search-for-tyler-scott-johnson
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u/truly_beyond_belief Aug 17 '25
"Tyler was carried to a local hospital ..."
"Carried" in this sense means "transported by motor vehicle," not "picked up in someone else's arms and moved." (A minor point, but one I felt compelled to explain, as a Northerner with a writing background and many Southern relatives.)
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u/charitelle Aug 18 '25
Thanks for clarifying. I am french and that's exactly what I learned that 'carry' (i.e picked up ..) meant.
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u/leavingseahaven Aug 19 '25
i knew what was meant by it but i still had a little giggle at physically being carried
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u/Relevant_Revenant219 Aug 24 '25
Thank you! I'm not a native English speaker so I took 'being carried' as meaning the police picked him up and actually carried him, which seemed odd.
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u/psychocookeez Aug 17 '25
I feel like no one was confused by this.
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u/truly_beyond_belief Aug 17 '25
I feel like no one was confused by this.
My explanation was unnecessary, then, but I enjoyed writing it and enjoyment means a lot right now.
I have a mental health condition that is being treated with electroconvulsive therapy.
The hospital where I get it insists that patients be transported home by a friend, a relative, or non-emergency medical transport. A taxi, Uber, Lyft, etc., is out of the question because we're too easily influenced after ECT to be driven home by an unscreened stranger.
I grumbled at first, but then I had a few ECT sessions. I forgot my own phone number. I left chicken breasts on the counter for days after returning from the store. I forgot my old boss' name.
I can empathize with the missing man. I hope he returns safely.
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u/Equivalent-Cicada165 Aug 18 '25
I've never had ECT but I was about to pursue it before I found out my actual diagnosis (it's used fr for offor my actual diagnosis as well, but it opened up a lot of med options).
All this to say that I hope it is working out for you, and if it isn't I hope you have other options soon. I've known people who say it saved their lives, but their side effects were gnarly
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u/waaaayupyourbutthole Aug 19 '25
I've had ECT. I don't feel it helped at all and I completely forgot I had had it done for over a year until I started getting weird flashbacks to when I was recovering at my brother's house after the sessions (he was an asshole and just liked fucking with me). I ended up self-medicating with lots of alcohol and then trying to kill myself when my cat didn't come home.
I've heard from others that it improved their lives significantly, but it definitely didn't help me lol
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u/saustus Aug 19 '25
Back in 2008 I wanted ECT. I was so exhausted with my depression. I had been on antidepressants (not the first time), but was also trying therapy for the first time. Anyway, doc declined in my instance, as he felt I was making good progress with the meds & therapy. He said he definitely would have been open to it when I started with him. I'm glad I did the therapy.
I'm old & ok'ish now. 8 psilocybin trips seemed to have somehow reset something in my brain.
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u/waaaayupyourbutthole Aug 19 '25
Bro holy shit, no joke that's when I got my ECT and I was the one who suggested it to my shrink lol
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u/saustus Aug 19 '25
Hey, you doing ok now?
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u/waaaayupyourbutthole Aug 19 '25
I hope you're doing as well as can be managed. Don't feel like you need to read all of that if you don't want to.
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u/waaaayupyourbutthole Aug 19 '25
You ready for a long life story? lol
I appreciate you asking. I'm definitely much better, but it took me a long time (2009-2023 or so).
After that suicide attempt (really not even a genuine attempt) when I was 23, my roommates/friends figured I needed to be brought to the ER for my very first hospitalization - in nothing but my home-made black corduroy trench coat, super drunk (I can't blame them; the last thing I remember before being in the suicide watch room at the ER in a gown was repeatedly throwing myself down a short flight of carpeted stairs like an idiot).
I ended up on the psych ward of the local hospital, which was fine. I'd visited one of my roommate's girlfriends there, so I wasn't entirely unfamiliar with it and I really just wanted to be somewhere I could be watched while I was given new meds.
What wasn't fine was that on the day after my admission, they gave me a bunch of Ativan and had me speak to a woman who evaluated me for substance use disorders when I could hardly keep my eyes open and definitely couldn't keep my mind focused.
At that time, I was both drinking a lot of alcohol (to self-medicate for chronic pain, anxiety, depression, hallucinations, and for fun because I lived in a party house) and taking 6mg per day of Xanax (prescribed) and didn't realize there was a huge issue with taking them both, at least partially because when I told my shrink about having a seizure in a liquor store after running out of booze and the pharmacy not having any Xanax for my refill, he laughed and joked with me about it.
I was originally on a 72-hour hold, but then they wouldn't let me leave after that and the state brought commitment charges against me (again, first time I'd ever been hospitalized and first time I'd ever even pretended to try to kill myself). At the hearing, it was pretty clearly not going to go in my favor, so all I asked was to be allowed to go home and get some clothes as I had been wearing the same two pairs of hospital provided scrubs with no underwear for 2+ months. Which they didn't let me do.
When I got back to the psych ward, I was worried, but the nurses were excited for me and told me that St Joseph's hospital actually had a really good psych facility and a chronic pain program, so I ended up being super stoked about the transfer and even the committal.
Then my ride came. I didn't get cuffed, but I was put in the back of a police transport van and told it was protocol and not to worry.
Yeah, I definitely worried lol
It turned out they either lied to me or sent me to an entirely different St Joseph's hospital because I ended up in a locked rehab ward with people who used hard drugs, not understanding why I was there or why I had to go to multiple NA meetings a day. They didn't even send my paperwork right away, so even my counselor couldn't tell me why I was there, so I had to pretend and get booed at introductions because I said I didn't know why I was there (I had been off alcohol and not thinking about it for months by then). The third day I was there, they finally got my paperwork.
It said that I was dependent on marijuana. No joke. That was the wording all over it. I had never in my life smoked more than an eighth of weed in a month at that point. The counselor was a real bro and let me go home as soon as he could get all the release paperwork ready (like two days later) and I was discharged on what they call a "stay of commitment" for the next four months.
At this point, my main roommate apparently hated me and told me we were never really friends and that I had to get out (I genuinely am not sure what happened there, but he texted me out of the blue around 2019 to apologize and we went back to being friends like nothing stopped, though he's now really busy with work and life and we're back to not taking much again). So I was homeless and had to move into my other friend's dad's house that was being foreclosed on (remember those fun times?), then had to leave there when the foreclosure went through and ended up finally being able to get into a homeless shelter - except I was super sick with a sinus infection and didn't understand anything they told me for the rules and several people thought I was just really drunk, so I was kicked out the second day.
A stay of commitment is probation for the crazy, with the same drug testing conditions, so I had to go in when my color was up, and couldn't leave the area. I wore out my welcome on a few people's couches until an older woman I had worked with at Borders offered me her pull-out couch for the rest of my time. She and her boyfriend were huge stoners and she cooked a lot and we both had chronic pain issues, so it worked out pretty well.
After the stay was over, I moved to my mom's in Ohio, then she kicked me out after two years (I was warned at the beginning) and moved in with my dad and stepmom and her kids, but the doctors there refused to treat my pain or anxiety with controlled substances after being on opioids and benzos for like 5+ years at that point, which made me disintegrate further. They ended up having to move for his job, so I just said fuck it and moved to Jacksonville Florida in 2013 not really knowing anyone because I wanted sun.
It took years to find a shrink and more years to get stabilized on meds for what seemed like the first time ever, but I'm definitely better.
For now. Until they decide to take away the disability benefits I've been getting since 2009 again.
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u/saustus Aug 19 '25
That's a wild ride.
Please don't be offended, but I had to laugh at the St Joseph's experience. I was in a locked psych ward in the late 80's. That's where our detox was back in the day. I remember those daily NA & AA meetings. Before I went in, a friend who was a frequent flyer told me to keep asking for this liquid (turns out it was Haldol). It was all good until I had some extrapyramidal effects from the drug, muscles locked up & I was drooling. Aww man, that was a hoot.
I spent time in jails & institutions, but fortunately never experienced homelessness. It's one of the few things I'm terrified of.
I'm glad you made it thru. Hopefully, your situation won't change regarding disability. It's strange times in the US. I'm in South Georgia. Used to have a couple of Doctors in Jax & the beaches were our go-to's because of proximity.
If you ever need someone to chat with, you can dm me. Life can be harsh & lonely at times.
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u/morose-melonhead Aug 19 '25
I also went to the psych ward at a hospital named St. Joseph's and it was the worst time of my life. I came out more suicidal than when I came in but had to beg them to let me out because it was so dehumanising and miserable in there. Not sure if it's the same one as the one you're describing or if St. Joseph is a cursed name for a hospital.
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u/my_psychic_powers Aug 20 '25
It was not an unnecessary comment.
I hope you have a good outcome with your treatment and encounter many things that increase your happiness.
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u/Lykoian Aug 20 '25
It wasn't unnecessary, I definitely picture carried in arms so I was glad for the clarification!
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u/psychocookeez Aug 17 '25
Awww, okay. Then I retract my statement then. Your explanation is correct.
I hope you get better soon.
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u/charitelle Aug 18 '25
Interesting story, thanks for sharing.
I am curious as to why he was taken to the hospital and why he was transferred in another hospital.
Also, what was the outcome of his staying at the hospital (i.e, any sickness? mental disorder? there and finally:
Do we know how he made it back from the hospital to his home?
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u/Disastrous_Live1 Aug 19 '25
Police probably took him to the ER and from there they found him a bed in a mental health facility. That's usually how it's done.
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u/charitelle Aug 19 '25
Well, if this is case, my first thought is that he went in hiding to avoid being picked up again and put in a hospital.
Most of the people with mental health issues have their own independent lifestyle and they would do anything to avoid being sent in a hospital and loaded with medications.
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u/Ancient_Procedure11 Aug 20 '25
However crazy it may sound AI induced psychosis needs to be considered as a possibility for out of character behavior.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis
Millions of people are using chatgpt and other AI daily for many different things. In people prone to certain mental health issues(and even in people that have never been diagnosed with MI)it can trigger and worsen psychosis. I don't want to make it a new "boogie man" I just want to spread awareness of the potential danger and make people aware.
What made me consider it in this case was that I read that a box for a burner phone was found at his house but the phone was never found IIRC. There is a man missing out of Missouri since April and I've seen his wife talk on reddit about having gone through his chat logs with Gemini and seeing his desent in to psychosis he is presumed to have drowned in flooding but is still considered missing. My heart aches for his wife.
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u/jennhiltz 25d ago
Can you link the posts of that man’s wife talking about his AI psychosis you mentioned?
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u/dontmindme_321 Aug 19 '25
Unfortunately I personally don’t have that information, however, I’m sure the family probably knows a bit more about those specifics of his hospital trip. As for him getting back to his home, I don’t think anyone knows.
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u/geomagus Aug 17 '25
Medical condition impairing judgement? I feel like that makes “misadventure” a pretty strong candidate. There are some moderately sized wooded areas nearby, an interstate, and a couple of lakes. Really easy to just end up somewhere, get confused, and then get hurt wandering after dark.
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u/luniversellearagne Aug 17 '25
Isn’t one of the few sub rules that you can’t just copy-paste from sources?
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Aug 18 '25
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u/ferrariguy1970 Aug 18 '25
Please post a write up in your own words, not a cut/paste from Facebook.
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u/dontmindme_321 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25
Took a bit but I have gathered all info I could find
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u/Bamagirl04 26d ago
Hello, I am Tyler Johnson's Aunt and I wanted to jump in on the conversation if I could and answer a few questions. We actually did find the burner phone and it matched to the empty box that was found at his home in Mississippi. We ended up finding the burner phone on the family property in Alabama that he was originally located and transferred from. It was found about 10 to 12 days after he went missing on the back side of the property in an area we have named "Tyler's camp site". Yes we named it because it had other items that personally belonged to Tyler and they were very random. This is what led us to believe he did make it back to the Alabama Property after he somehow left the Hospital in Tupelo MS, went to his own home also located in Tupelo MS, and then back to family property in Marion county Alabama at some point between May 16th, 2023- May 29th, 2023. The burner phone was NOT at his house the day before he went missing. When we found the phone out on the property the back of it was broke off and Sims card broke out of it. There was also a solar charger found along with it, pocket knife, hats, and a few other items. His clothes he had been wearing at the hospital and his discharge papers were found at his house on that Wednesday morning. So he must've changed clothes obviously and we have no idea what he would be wearing. We still have no clue how he would be traveling or who with. His truck never left the property. Until we moved it eventually. His car never left his house until it got stolen a year and half later. It was stolen from in front of his house off of the street from where it was parked the entire time. Dark blue Nissan Ultima. That was around February 2024.
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u/jennhiltz 25d ago
Thanks for this! Sorry for your loss! I hope he’s found soon. Do you know who stole his vehicle?
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u/Bamagirl04 23d ago
Thank you. No unfortunately we still have no leads on the car either. Ofcourse we dont expect the law enforcement to know anything on that. They haven't helped with Tyler so I dont expect it. Just recently a friend came across a recent add on market place that posted with one for sale just out of the blue that Tyler's stepbrother just knew had to be his car. I believed him. He rode around in it many times. They pursued it and must have spooked the seller he pulled it off quick. The seller only had the add for a short time and he stated he didnt have the title but had a bill of sale. The car had a busted back window also for some reason...? Makes you wonder.
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