EP# 38 The Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley and The Camarillo State Hospital Encounters

The Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley

J dives into one of the most unsettling missing persons cases to ever occur aboard a cruise ship. In 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley vanished without a trace just as her ship docked in Curaçao. Her shoes, passport, and ID were left behind. The search was delayed. The window closed.

What followed was a decades-long spiral of sightings, false leads, maritime loopholes, and devastating silence. From questions of cruise safety and accountability to theories of foul play, trafficking, and an inside job, this case exposes how fragile “closed systems” really are. More than twenty years later, Amy is still missing, and her family is still waiting.

Camarillo State Mental Hospital

Then the episode shifts from the open sea to a place where the past refuses to stay buried. Sam recounts her time attending college on a campus built on the former grounds of the Camarillo State Mental Hospital, a long-shuttered psychiatric institution with a heavy history.

Shadowy figures, strange presences, and moments that felt watched rather than imagined raise questions about what lingers when institutions close but memories do not. Sam reflects on how grief, spirituality, and place intersect, and how some encounters feel less like hauntings and more like echoes asking to be remembered.