The Midnight Society Presents: "A Haunting 911 Call" 😱

Are You Afraid Of The Dark: Vol. 1

On the night of Aug. 8, 2013, Brandon Lawson, 26, father of 4, storms out of the home he shared with his longtime girlfriend, Ladessa Lofton.

Lawson's urgency to flee his home and head towards his father's home in Crowley, Texas, will plague this case until the present day.

A litany of contradictory reports and possible motives will loom over this missing-person case for almost a decade, morphing it into an almost “Urban Legend” of sorts.

At 11:30 pm on August 8th, 2013, Lawson calls his father to let him know he is headed toward his home for the evening.

Lawson lives in San Angelo, Texas, and Crawley is almost three hours away.

Lawson, of course, will never make it to Crawley.

According to one of the many timelines within this case:

Lawson runs out of gas on Route 277 at 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 9.

Brandon calls his brother Kyle Lawson. Kyle is concerned with how panicked his brother sounds. He later tells police that he worried that Lawson was “high and hallucinating.” He kept claiming he was being “chased out of town.”

Lawson had overcome addiction in years past and had called Kyle the night before, on Aug. 7, 2013, to see if he knew where to find the drug. It is not officially confirmed by any sources close to Brandon and the family he had, in fact, relapsed.

Important to note: Lawson was currently working over 60-hour weeks and, in an attempt to stay awake, had sought out methamphetamines to help with his demanding workload, along with accepting an additional job that he would be starting the following week.

I’m going to interject because I can already feel you rolling your eyes at the screen and throwing up your hands and saying,

“Well, this doesn’t sound like much of a mystery. He was back to using.”

Can you do me a small favor before making up your mind:

1)READ THE WHOLE STORY-Details throughout this case, like so many, are nuanced.

Of course, you are allowed to have your own opinion; I’d just prefer it to be an informed one.

2)Think objectively and with a smidge of compassion. Drug/alcohol or addiction of any kind is not always a perfectly linear path when it comes to recovery.

To dismiss a missing person case based on someone's previous or current struggles is simply wrong (cough cough, this goes double for authorities who cherry-pick who’s vanishing and missing person cases should be treated with urgency)

Thanks, that soap box was high, and I had trouble getting off of it-but let’s get back to the night in question.

Brandon did not go home the night of August 7th, which Lofton (Brandon’s long-term girlfriend) claims prompted the fight with Lofton when he returned to their San Angelo, Texas, home that evening of Aug. 8.

Lofton claims that after their fight, Lawson left angrily in his truck just before midnight. Contradictory reports to this day will put into question Lawson’s urgency to leave his home and drive toward his father’s home.

Interestingly enough; before Kyle Lawson receives the first in a series of disturbing calls from his brother; Lofton Brandon’s long-term girlfriend calls Kyle to tell him:

That when Brandon left, she knew that his truck didn’t have a lot of gas.

Lofton says that she phoned her brother-in-law Kyleto tell him [Lawson] was going to run out of gas and put the gas tin on the porch to give to him so he could go get him gas because he was pretty mad at me at the time.” -Inside The Mysterious Disappearance Of Brandon Lawson, Who Vanished From A Highway In Texas

Ok, record scratch. Like you walk into the room, and the music stops. Cue Usher coming in over the speakers:

“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to have to call BS.”

In my opinion: -Lofton offering up this information tells me two things:

-Brandon was out the night before, right? So, how does she even know how much gas is in his truck?

-Ok, following my own advice, let’s say she knows for XYZ reasons the truck’s tank is low;

Why would that concern her?

Hear me out; she fights with him, he takes off, she doesn’t know where he is headed-right? If I were her, I’d assume maybe he’s headed to a bar or a friend’s house-I mean, seems reasonable? In either case, places to fill up on gas would be accessible-right?

Thanks, that soap box was high, and I had trouble getting off of it-but let’s get back to the night in question.