The Saga of Vagrant Holiday

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.

CLASSIFIED

 

Another short experiment.  The first in a series of films which will tell the story of Loïck Gallo, aka "The Rooster", a commander of child soldiers who, aside their robot companions, fight to liberate Earth from an alien race which has secretly occupied the governments and corporations of the world. 

Something like They Live, The Wild Boys, The Iron Giant and The Tripods trilogy thrown into a blender now that I think about it!

I found a random video clip in my "Documents" folder, essentially without any artistic value and challenged myself to see if anything interesting could be done with it.  This is the result. 

Leave a good-looking corpse

Looks like Ke$ha, or at least the director of the video for "Die Young", has taken the bull by the horns and placed a whammy on the "pop-occulture", "Illuminati-in-pop-music" crowd by making a video so over the top it borders on parody. Yet it will still guarantee to offend.  In one scene she and her dancers burst into a what appears to me to be a church and start smashing things up, standing on the dais in front of a pentacle, engaging in sexual debauchery etc.  Triangles fade in, a flashing inverted cross appears as it fades out; Ke$ha herself flashes a ring with an eye in it.  She looks through her fingers splayed in a "V", making an eye in a triangle.  A skull and bones flashes in and out.  Etc.  **Video at the tend of this post**

Actually, this Illuminati-in-the-music business is an old (and obvious) meme and it's obvious why the media would be an obvious player in any well-constructed conspiracy theory.  Especially one involving indoctrinating the masses.  I've long read such theories regarding the music industry, media in general, really.  One actually good but disingenuous writer I refuse to link to is obsessed with the Illuminati symbolism in Lady Gaga videos.  Another (not so good a writer) sees the all-seeing eye in improbable hand configurations, including looking through the "ok" sign.  Hate to learn what he thinks of "got yer nose".  Hip-Hop is suspect (maybe for all the gesticulation) especially Jay-Z and Kanye West.  This other guy seems to have a lot of answers:

The general opinion regarding musicians and their “induction” into the Illuminati is tragically incorrect. These artists themselves aren’t actually IN the Illuminati, they are merely pawns FOR them. The deal is that they sign over particular creative rights in exchange for the publicity and access required to become a sensational star. They sign up with the Illuminati to become famous quickly, because Illuminati members have infiltrated and remain a ubiquitous force in the entertainment industry.

The author seems to think this is all a by-product of Saturn worship.  In his explanation he also manages to implicate the north and south poles, as well as the cube, in this infiltration of Saturn-worshipping Illuminists into all the higher echelons of society.  It reads as though he's grabbed a few half-digested internet conspiracy memes and sort of (barely) lashed them together in a tour de force of syllogism and unsupported statement.  Which is sadly effective, judging from the sheer number of similar websites. 

Personally, I think this video is taking a poke at these theories, all the while going for the easy and obvious provocation.  The dollar sign in Ke$ha's name seems especially apt in this context.  People are still going to take the bait, though.  It's very blatancy will be taken as an even more arrogant ratcheting up of that nebulous "revelation of the method."  She's certainly made the symbology crowd of Illuminati-watchers' work easy for 'em.  Just take the Saturn-worship guy, whose blog, erm, "Illuminati Watcher" makes that very point.    Ke$ha's going to town with the Illuminati thing; the photo stills from a performance of the song on Australia's X Factor are pretty eye-popping:  Weishaupt at Las Vegas.  More like backdrops to a Muppet Show number than ritual props in an alchymical mind-fuck.

She may even take Lady Gaga's place as Illuminati Marionette N° 1 at this rate.

Anyway, echoing Beyoncé's police state chic, this video of Ke$ha and her band of dancing Illuminists, who adore Ke$ha as if she were a saint, are all gunned down in the end by the police.  Shades of Waco.  As all those Davidians might have figgered out between the time the real police machinery launched a gas canister at their home and the fiery death that canister would lead to, we all "die young."

So here's the video.