A few years back I was scoping out stuff on YouTube and some random video popped up by a user called Vagrant Holiday.His channel: (YouTube | Bitchute )
The "Vagrant" is a young guy, and his videos are like an FPS video game. He wanders around Europe with his camera in hand, and in a kind of deadpan tone comments on what he sees. He is cynical, sarcastic, and swears like a sailor. What really was unusual is that he slept, as the title would suggest, like a vagrant, finding a place to stash his gear during his peripatetic day, then returning at night to sleep under bushes in parks, in abandoned buildings, or in wooded urban areas. In one video his gear is stolen and he sleeps in a university building bathroom (Salamanca) or under the stairs in a hotel (Porto).
Part of his charm was his cavalier attitude towards trespassing and vagrancy, just no fear. He hops fences and manages to scale cathedrals under renovation, a cloud-shrouded castle in Heidelberg, wherever. He walks through abandoned train yards. He eats free breakfast in hotel buffets. He definitely has some decent hobo survival skills.
In his final video, he reports being robbed in Mexico. Many said it was inevitable given his methods, but I don't think one needs to travel the way he did to have that happen. Getting robbed is just a fact of life in Central America and Mexico. In 5 months there my truck was broken into twice. His one fuck-up I saw was fooling around with drug dealers in Lisbon, pretending his baking soda was coke. Later, approached by yet another dealer, instead of just saying "go away" he engages with the guy and tries to secretly film him. I've been to Lisbon, those guys are generally harmless, but you don't try to film them. Just ignore them.
I've been an addict on and off for years. I've scored in cities and countries worldwide and never had trouble. You don't film dealers. Or else you get sucker punched.
In another video he train hops and for a long time is out in the desert and gets dangerously low on water. Definitely under-prepared. But he does make it out alive and avoids being caught, so he has that going for him.
So I found out about this at the end of 2023.
It all came to end this year where he posted a rather scathing update on his bio:
I'm done with videos. No more will be posted here. Vagrant Holiday was a side project done purely for fun and not profit. http://www.bitchute.com/vagrantholiday
No need to read further if you're sane.
Do not try to find or contact me for any reason. I owe nothing to anyone. I'm not your friend. I have no idea who you are. If you claim I've saved your life, no I didn't. You don't need to know what I'm doing. It's not your business. If someone not posting to the internet on a regular basis is upsetting or the most mysterious thing you've experienced, I can't help you with your problem.
Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
There's nowhere else I'll be posting to. Rumors surrounding this channel are likely made up by attention seekers. If it sounds dumb, it probably is. If it doesn't, you might be the one who's dumb.
Go outside.
P.S. To those asking if I'm dead, the answer is yes. Funeral was last week. You weren't invited.
So I guess I'm not sane! A lot of people were angered by this. Especially these guys at Hardpoint. These guys were onto VH about 2 months before he quit. They got hold of video from the Seattle riots and there is a guy in a scene which VH had filmed, and there he is, all in black, wearing the backpack VH carries in his videos. They seem to think he does owe people something, that he did change lives, and that they might have pushed him to post the renunciation above.
I figure it's his right. A lot of people were trying to figure out who he is. And he basically shows himself breaking the law. In one video, Forbidden Island, he kayaks over to an island which is a maximum security prison for sex offenders and wanders through an abandoned prison.
Another video, Riot Holiday, ended up being used to identify a man who took a rifle from a burnt out cop car during the 2020 Seattle riots (DOJ PDF). That man, from this article, was convicted and sentenced to 16 months in prison. That would make me nervous. My guess is that getting robbed in Mexico, having his video used to put a man in prison, and the possibility of getting doxxed after having filmed himself trespassing and train-hopping might have contributed to his departure and the harsh "goodbye".
His videos are really well done. They probably took a while to produce. Maybe he just got bored with it. I'm thinking he was starting to get spooked by the dots being connected, that he was found in another video, the DOJ had used his film. If anyone could, the DOJ could probably find him, if they wanted.
Vagrant is almost certainly also a guy known as Surveillance Camera Man (Bitchute). Same snarky comments, same FPS-style camera work. Both from Seattle. In this video (9:50), Vagrant explains why he always wears black. In this SCM video he films a man who at 19:50 goes on about how SCM is dressed all in black. From the FP glimpses we see in both users' videos, there are similar clothes and builds. The concepts are different, but the style of the video is essentially the same
This is especially true of
this "lost footage" video Vagrant took at the Seattle CHAZ. About three minutes in he starts filming people, not backing down when they confront him. He just films and says nothing. It's exactly like SCM footage.
Another potential piece of evidence is a video he posted as Elevator Man. Similar content, although not always FP. The guy is all in black, too. There's no question Elevator Man is Vagrant, because in his third video (54:20) he posts an excerpt from the Elevator Man video.
Elevator Man. Surveillance Camera Man. Could be a coincidence. But with the build, the clothes, the style of video, the voice and the snark they are surely the same guy. And if Elevator Man is SCM, then VH is also the same man
So, that is what we know about Vagrant Holiday. I hesitated to publish this, because I did't want him to be unmasked, but nothing here isn't already online. I may have brought it all together, but it was just a matter of a few Google searches.
I admire the guy. He's wily, smart, funny, and maybe not always wise, but pretty courageous. He reminds me of some of the things I got up to as a young feller. I didn't want to invade his privacy as he's clear he wants people to leave him alone. And for good reason. He's broke a host of petty laws and maybe even bigger ones when he toured Forbidden Island and hopped several trains. One video helped put a guy in prison. All good reasons to keep a low profile.
So, people might rightly say I'm not respecting that. Well, all of this information is already online, a lot of it together. I may have assembled a fuller picture but it's far from complete. It's just my mania for being a completist and organizing my thoughts in public.
I'd document my own vagabond experiences, but to be honest, I wouldn't want people like me writing about it. If you truly want to be left alone, don't leave a permanent record accessible by hundreds of thousands of people. And certainly don't whinge about it. People can't resist solving a mystery. Dressing and acting like a ninja and making enjoyable art in a mask invites people to look underneath.
If you really want to be left alone, don't publish videos on multiple platforms, eh?
I just came across
this article from a Seattle weekly which I'm sure is about Vagrant:
Is the Creepy Cameraman Hanging out on Capitol Hill?
Yesterday evening, around 5:20pm, my friends and I were accosted by this guy aggressively recording us at the bus stop on Madison between 13th and 12th. When asked to stop politely, he would simply step closer. Attempting to dissuade him from continuing we moved, trying to keep him at our backs; he responded by remaining silent and moving around to try and get our faces on camera, getting really up close and aggressive. While one of us contacted SPD, my friend snapped a picture, attached. Finally, still silent, he decided to leave, putting away the camera and walking up Madison, turning on 13th.
Reading this, I wonder if VH is entitled to his privacy. This behavior is unsettling and upsetting to people. VH/SCM had no qualms about putting that online.
So, I figure if you're willing to freak people out by getting in their faces, filming them, and posting it online, a bit of turnabout is fair play.
Sorry Vagrant.
