Retro Rabbit - The Collins Elite: Freedom Fighters Or Soul Stealers?
May 8, 2026
AI Summary
5 min readA young man on a school field trip and a gym-goer watching an alley from a window each stumbled into small, unresolved encounters that later became linked, in online discussion, to a larger claim about a secretive government group studying UFOs as demonic activity.
A Weighted Sleeping Bag
In 2016 or 2017, a teenager identified online as Robert was completing a geography assignment on river bedload in Durham, England. While wading in an obscure stretch of river, he located a heavy object that proved to be bricks packed inside a sleeping bag. The bag had rested long enough for sediment to accumulate, and Robert concluded the bricks had been added deliberately to keep it submerged. When he called his teacher over and began to pull the bag ashore, the instructor ordered him to drop it and threatened suspension if he opened it. Robert complied. Years later he still wondered what the bag contained, noting that any remains inside would likely have been skeletal and that reporting the find would have required extended police involvement on a school trip.
An Offer in the Alley
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:02) **River Field Trip Discovery** - Teen on GCSE geography trip finds a brick-weighted sleeping bag at the bottom of an obscure Durham river
- 2 (07:47) **Mystery Speculation** - Online discussion on r/NonMurderMysteries debates whether the bag contained a body and why the teacher refused to look
- 3 (10:30) **Body Disposal Creepypasta** - Host recounts an old online guide that recommends yogurt, a sleeping bag, rocks, and a fake pet grave
- 4 (15:45) **Transition to Second Story** - Episode shifts from the river mystery to an alleged Collins Elite encounter in San Francisco
- 5 (16:05) **Gym Window Sighting** - Max Crestwood watches a man in black approach two homeless people from a government-plated car
- 6 (19:34) **Rapid Departure and Fear** - Homeless couple flees; witness is overcome by sudden fear then anger and chases the man
- 7 (20:58) **Attribution to Collins Elite** - Witness concludes the event was an attempt by the Collins Elite to steal souls
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Show Notes
Original Air Date: Aug 10, 2021
Today we find a sleeping bag, learn why you should be suspicious of people with lots of yogurt, and then we investigate the bizarre saga of the Collins Elite!
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