24 year old German Finnish speaking foreigner missing in Thailand

[webfact]

 

Missing in Thailand!  Tim Pösel landed in Thailand on August 16, 2022.  He had the last contact with his family in Germany on August 20th when he texted with his mom on IG messenger.

 

His whereabout/the domestic location in Thailand since the 20th August (Bangkok) untill NOW (13.9.2022) ARE UNCLEAR. No location is known.

 

HE COULD BE ANYWHERE IN THAILAND. But for obvious reasons we try to track the "usual tourist/traveler routes" with priority.

 

Tim is 24 years old and remarkably tall: 198cm.  His mother tongue is Finnish, but he is also fluent in Standard German.

 

According to the German embassy in Bangkok, he has not been arrested. A missing person report at the ROYAL THAI POLICE is filled.

 

 Questions:

 

 1) Who saw him WHEN and WHERE in Thailand?  Please e-mail any hints to his mother

 m_eloranta[at]yahoo.de

 or directly in Thailand to #supermanbangkok
 WhatsApp +66800704390

 

Please share the search tip and ask at the hostels if you are currently traveling in the south.

 

In Thai:

หายตัวไปในประเทศไทย! 

Tim Pössel เดินทางถึงประเทศไทยเมื่อวันที่ 16 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2565  เขาได้ติดต่อกับครอบครัวที่เยอรมนีครั้งสุดท้ายผ่านอินสตาแกรมกับแม่ของเขาเมื่อวันที่ 20 สิงหาคม

 

      Tim อายุ 24 ปี เป็นคนสูงมากๆ ส่วนสูงของเขาคือ 198 เซนติเมตร เขาพูดภาษาฟินนิชเป็นหลัก แต่สามารถพูดภาษาเยอรมันพื้นฐานได้ดี

 

      ข้อมูลจากทางสถานฑูตเยอรมันในประเทศไทยระบุว่าเขาไม่ได้ถูกจับกุม และได้มีการแจ้งคนหายผ่านทางสำนักงานตำรวจแห่งชาติแล้ว

 

      หากคุณพบเห็นเขา กรุณาให้ข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมว่า "คุณเห็นเขาเมื่อไหร่และที่ไหนในประเทศไทย?" ให้กับแม่ของเขาผ่านทางอีเมล์ [email protected]

 

หรือติดต่อโดยตรงในประเทศไทยมาที่ #supermanbangkok , WhatsApp +66800704390

 

กรุณาแนะนำข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมในการค้นหา และโปรดช่วยสอบถามตามโฮสเทลต่างๆ หากคุณเดินทางอยู่ในภาคใต้

[SAFETY FIRST]

36 minutes ago, webfact said:

tall: 198cm

Should be easy to spot. 

[Skallywag]

He is 24, not a kid. Need some clarification.  Does he normally IG his mom?  That seems odd, why not text or just call.  Did he buy a Thai sim card or use someone else's phone to IG his mom.?  Maybe he wants to go off grid for a month? Has the mother contacted his friends where she is?  Can his bank check his ATM withdrawals? 

 

I remember my first trips to Thailand in the 90's.  No calls, no mobile phones, no internet really available.  Sent a few post cards, most did not arrive until I got back a month later. 

If he is "missing" hope someone has seen him and reports back!  

[garygooner]

Most important info missing:

How long was he planning on staying? How long did he tell his mum he was going to stay & then return home? 

[proton]

selling beads in Pattaya?

[BKKTRAVELER]

1 hour ago, garygooner said:

Most important info missing:

How long was he planning on staying? How long did he tell his mum he was going to stay & then return home? 

Agreed, should start there to see if something really went wrong and he didn't return as scheduled.

[SGD]

2 hours ago, Skallywag said:

He is 24, not a kid. Need some clarification.  Does he normally IG his mom?  That seems odd, why not text or just call.  Did he buy a Thai sim card or use someone else's phone to IG his mom.?  Maybe he wants to go off grid for a month? Has the mother contacted his friends where she is?  Can his bank check his ATM withdrawals? 

 

I remember my first trips to Thailand in the 90's.  No calls, no mobile phones, no internet really available.  Sent a few post cards, most did not arrive until I got back a month later. 

If he is "missing" hope someone has seen him and reports back!  

Kids weren't all woke and useless back then and not scared of a bit of dirt or a gecko climbing the wall and we certainly didn't need a "safe place".

 

If I were 24 I'd go off grid too if I had the money. He's been gone 3 weeks, hardly a lifetime to cover the South Andaman is it.

 

Has his bank been used, does he have money, is he alright in the head etc. ? Shacked up with some Thai bird getting <deleted> / stoned is my bet and perhaps exactly what he should be doing, not checking in with mama as a grown man.

[Reigntax]

If I was introduced to Thailand when I was 24, I would still be missing and that would be for a few decades.

 

he will appear when the money runs out!!!

[0815]

On my second holidays in Thailand I met a girl in Hua Hin and was off to her village in the North for a month.
Didn't even think about somebody could be missing me.
Back home after 2 months my parents welcomed me with: Ah, you are still alive. Looks like you had a good time as you didn't call us a single time.
OK, this was 25 years ago ...

[ed strong]

Hopefully he will be found, with all the ways of getting in contatc these days, it would be hard not to be able to.

 

I had a guy i knew go missing in Thailand for about a month. He was a mate of a mate but had met him as he wanted to hear about Thailand.

 

He went to pattaya, met a teacher and then went back to Surin with her to her families place, at first he was sleeping with her but also with her 3 kids. Then after 1 day contact dissapeared and then nothing for the next 4 weeks but his whatsapp was being used but no replies to us, also approx £200 was being removed from his account every day.

 

He finally showed up back in UK, very pale and not exactly transparent about what happened.

Basically he was held hostage whilst they nicked all his money, when the money stopped they let him go.

[DualSportBiker]

I moved here aged 22 - had my moments! Still here and I have all my fingers and toes despite riding here!

 

I don't get the 'when I was 24' comments. Times have changed, the ease of instant communications embeds expectations. If one interacts with a 24 year old child via social media daily or every couple of days then that stops. Who wouldn't be concerned? More so when that kid is in a country with a justifiable reputation for large numbers of accidents with, and deaths of tourists.

 

I wrote to my parents less than once a month when I first lived here, I think we spoke by phone 4-5 times a year. Then, when my parents got on Skype, we chatted weekly. We all felt an uneasiness if we had not chatted in three weeks - we never felt any concern when there was a two month gap between letters.

 

I hope he is off the grid and having great time. If you are reading this Tim, call your mother!

 

 

36 minutes ago, Reigntax said:

If I was introduced to Thailand when I was 24, I would still be missing and that would be for a few decades.

 

he will appear when the money runs out!!!

[SAFETY FIRST]

10 minutes ago, ed strong said:

I had a guy i knew go missing in Thailand for about a month. He was a mate of a mate but had met him as he wanted to hear about Thailand.

 

He went to pattaya, met a teacher and then went back to Surin with her to her families place, at first he was sleeping with her but also with her 3 kids. Then after 1 day contact dissapeared and then nothing for the next 4 weeks but his whatsapp was being used but no replies to us, also approx £200 was being removed from his account every day.

 

He finally showed up back in UK, very pale and not exactly transparent about what happened.

Basically he was held hostage whilst they nicked all his money, when the money stopped they let him go.

Too bad they've removed the negative emoji's, I reckon it would win an award for the most received. 

 

This story is an attraction for confused reactions. 

 

Edited September 14, 2022 by SAFETY FIRST

[Robbkk]

2 hours ago, SGD said:

If I were 24 I'd go off grid too if I had the money

24 year olds these days can't stay away from their phones for 5 minutes. No way he's been ignoring his mother's desperate texts for a month. I fear he is probably dead.

[Dogmatix]

1 hour ago, ed strong said:

Hopefully he will be found, with all the ways of getting in contatc these days, it would be hard not to be able to.

 

I had a guy i knew go missing in Thailand for about a month. He was a mate of a mate but had met him as he wanted to hear about Thailand.

 

He went to pattaya, met a teacher and then went back to Surin with her to her families place, at first he was sleeping with her but also with her 3 kids. Then after 1 day contact dissapeared and then nothing for the next 4 weeks but his whatsapp was being used but no replies to us, also approx £200 was being removed from his account every day.

 

He finally showed up back in UK, very pale and not exactly transparent about what happened.

Basically he was held hostage whilst they nicked all his money, when the money stopped they let him go.

 

What kind of teacher did he meet in Pattaya? Did he check her teaching credentials?

 

[GinBoy2]

1 hour ago, DualSportBiker said:

I moved here aged 22 - had my moments! Still here and I have all my fingers and toes despite riding here!

 

I don't get the 'when I was 24' comments. Times have changed, the ease of instant communications embeds expectations. If one interacts with a 24 year old child via social media daily or every couple of days then that stops. Who wouldn't be concerned? More so when that kid is in a country with a justifiable reputation for large numbers of accidents with, and deaths of tourists.

 

I wrote to my parents less than once a month when I first lived here, I think we spoke by phone 4-5 times a year. Then, when my parents got on Skype, we chatted weekly. We all felt an uneasiness if we had not chatted in three weeks - we never felt any concern when there was a two month gap between letters.

 

I hope he is off the grid and having great time. If you are reading this Tim, call your mother!

 

 

I think thats all very true.

 

Back in the 70/80's I would send my parents a letter telling them how I was doing, a phone call every week or so, but I could go weeks without talking.

That was normal.

 

In todays world if I don't hear from my kids within a week and they won't return my calls I'm worried.

That is today's normal

[Muzzique]

I wouldn't put my head up if I was him. I'd go underground too. Nice guy like him will be with a few bargirls in a perpetual sex party. selling beads to pay for it.

 

 

[Mansell]

Back in 1969 I was surfing in Morocco and living on the beach’s. My mother sent my tax return to a Maroc bank. I would visit it weekly, and each time they said there wasn’t any money…..of course they were keeping it to get more interest…..imagine a few thousand accounts like this and the interest would rack up. Eventually I just gave up, and after a few months the money was returned to England. Of course my mother had no idea what was going on and contacted the local newspaper. They wrote an article with the headline, “Local tripper lost in Morocco.” (My American friends thought tripper meant taking LSD.) The article inside explained about the money/bank etc, and said I was in Morocco to improve my surfing style. (My surfing friends laughed at that, and said, “That didn’t work out to well with all your wipeouts.”

Of course I didn’t find all this out until three months later.

[JeffersLos]

Either dead, or due to extreme testicle drainage, almost dead. 

[damo1967]

6 hours ago, proton said:

selling beads in Pattaya?

He was under-cutting the other dude...  0.75 thb for a bead

[ed strong]

1 hour ago, Dogmatix said:

 

What kind of teacher did he meet in Pattaya? Did he check her teaching credentials?

 

Exactly apparently she was a teacher during the day and at night worked as a greeter for her friends bars, never went with customers though!!

[ed strong]

2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Too bad they've removed the negative emoji's, I reckon it would win an award for the most received. 

 

This story is an attraction for confused reactions. 

 

Most of the posts on this forum seem to go straight over your head, or you just confuse yourself trying to interpret them

 

Its really not that complicated.

[riverhigh]

Another question I would be asking is he on meds. Has he a history of mental illness or mental disorders? It is not uncommon in Europe for individuals who are not suitable for travel to be granted a passport based on their human rights. If this is the case then his embassy is morally obligated to get involved and disclose all information. Governsments issuing passports to the mentally ill must be held responsible for their actions.

[kidneyw]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Tim is 24 years old and remarkably tall: 198cm

Check out the basketball courts.

[Pierre Hanot]

9 hours ago, Skallywag said:

He is 24, not a kid. Need some clarification.  Does he normally IG his mom?  That seems odd, why not text or just call.  Did he buy a Thai sim card or use someone else's phone to IG his mom.?  Maybe he wants to go off grid for a month? Has the mother contacted his friends where she is?  Can his bank check his ATM withdrawals? 

 

I remember my first trips to Thailand in the 90's.  No calls, no mobile phones, no internet really available.  Sent a few post cards, most did not arrive until I got back a month later. 

If he is "missing" hope someone has seen him and reports back!  

What " friends " are you talking about  ?

[BangkokReady]

4 hours ago, DualSportBiker said:

I don't get the 'when I was 24' comments. Times have changed, the ease of instant communications embeds expectations.

Aren't those comments actually reflecting on how times have changed?

[NorthernRyland]

2 hours ago, riverhigh said:

t is not uncommon in Europe for individuals who are not suitable for travel to be granted a passport based on their human rights

"individuals who are not suitable for travel"? What does this mean exactly? I'm an American and I would consider it a violation of my rights if the government decided where I could and could not go based on their own subjection opinion. I would expect this from North Korea but from Europe??

[Liverpool Lou]

10 hours ago, Skallywag said:

Can his bank check his ATM withdrawals? 

Yes, but it's confidential information, details of other people's bank transactions will not be disclosed to third parties.  

[Liverpool Lou]

7 hours ago, SGD said:

Has his bank been used,

Only he will get that information, unless a police investigation is instigated.

[BTB1977]

I moved to Chile back in 1980. Would call my folks every couple months just to let them know I was alive. Guessing 24 year olds are still sucking from their moms breast nowadays.   

[geisha]

4 hours ago, Pierre Hanot said:

What " friends " are you talking about  ?

I think he means the boys friends at home in Finland. Yes, lots of questions, of course his mum is worried! But checking his banks  at home/ card use etc is first stop. Hope he gets found alive and well.