Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
This Youtuber is Missing - The Elliot Eastman Story
30 Jan 2025
Youtuber Elliot Eastman moves to the Philippines and is kidnapped by locals.
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So this YouTuber really wants to get out of the United States. And unfortunately, he ends up somewhere really dangerous. Now his name's Eastman and Eastman's 26, he's American, but he's not really doing much here. Like he's an Uber driver sometimes. Bro really wants to get out. He wants an adventure. So one day he says, And he leaves and he flies from the US 8,000 miles away to the Philippines.
And there he travels over to the mountains in Zamboanga del Norte. Here's the thing about that area though. It's really nice looking, but some parts of it aren't exactly safe. Some even refer to it as the red zone. Even the State Department warns American tourists to exercise increased caution when considering traveling there.
But whatever, Eastman wanted a little adventure and he seems to like it there. So there he meets a local woman and she speaks decent English and so they start talking and they hit it off and Eastman thinks she is foine and eventually she becomes his girlfriend. So we'll just call her girlfriend.
And so girlfriend takes him to her village to meet her family, and everything seems to be going well, and they end up getting engaged. And eventually, they even get married. And this is actual footage of their Muslim wedding. I guess he converted to Islam for her. Now, Eastman has a YouTube channel, and there he starts documenting living in this new place that few foreigners will ever go to.
What up, you guys? I was just cooking, so that's why I got some charcoal in my face. I burnt my hand a little bit.
Now on this channel, he mostly just does live streams and just talks to his audience. And he also has a TikTok account. And you can see one of his TikToks here is just him and his wife, and they're just like goofing around. Now, Eastman isn't necessarily rich by American standards, but in the Philippines, in that specific area, US dollars go really far. So in pesos, he has a small fortune.
I am renting this apartment here for 3,000 pesos each month.
And so he's renting this little apartment for like $52 a month. And eventually he decides to open a little grocery store right on the beach. And so Eastman, he starts building the store himself with his own two hands and he stocks it and he gets his wifi set up. And soon enough, his business is up and running.
We got this huge store, massive store. I think he spent 43,000 pesos on all of it.
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