He swam with friends and drowned: youtuber found the memory card with his last moments

Richard Ragland, 22, died while swimming with friends at Foster Falls National Park 2 years ago. And since then, his family could not close this tragic story because he did not know what had happened to him. The boy, who was a National Guard soldier, was a good swimmer and his father was particularly surprised by the tragic event. According to information available to the family, a friend reportedly tried to save Ragland by noticing that he had not come out of the water.

The truth is that Rich Aloha, a youtuber plunged into the Tennessee waterfall (USA) where Ragland filmed himself saying he intended to conduct a "treasure hunt" in the water, discovered the memory card containing this key material to elucidate the young man's death. Aloha was hoping to find a drone or an iPhone, but nothing was found: he hit, without knowing it, the GoPro containing the last moments of the former owner.

The youtuber told WSB-TV that the rangers at Foster Falls National Park told him to be aware of everything that could have belonged to the young man who drowned there. a few years in this region. While Aloha was filming swimming and diving, he found and unearthed the GoPro, which was covered with mud, so that only part of the gadget was coming off. To his surprise, the card inside the device was fully functional. "I was watching the pictures and I said:" Oh my God, that's the guy, "he said. he said.

"I firmly believe that God took me on this GoPro because all I saw was the tip of the screw and all the rest was covered with mud," said Aloha after finding the Camera. Subsequently, he focused on finding Ragland's parents, Robin and Gary McCrear, to whom he delivered the undamaged SD. Robin told WSB-TV that seeing his son's pictures was like an "out-of-body experience".

The parents told the TV channel that they still had several questions about what had actually happened before their son's drowning, since he was a good swimmer and could not explain that. which had happened. In addition, Ragland's parents mentioned that they planned to one day see the last moments of their son to better understand what had happened to him.