'TikTok Psychics and Disturbing Sleuths Are Shattering My Family with Gruesome Rumors About Our Missing Son'

TRAUMATISED over their son’s mystifying disappearance, the family of Allan Bryant have a raft of disturbing questions. Was he murdered on a night out? Did he have a run-in with a criminal gang?

But as his , they today reveal a dark new turn in the tragic case – explaining how callous TikTok sleuths and ‘psychics’ have destroyed their lives with gruesome theories, which astonishingly have even been investigated by police without the family’s knowledge.

Allan Bryant Jr disappeared in November 2013 aged 23Credit: Andrew Barr Parents Allan Bryant Snr and Marie Degan are desperate to learn what happened to their sonCredit: Andrew Barr A sick note sent to Allan’s family last yearCredit: Facebook

Allan Jr , aged just 23, and was last seen on CCTV leaving Styx nightclub in Glenrothes, , at 2am on November 3, 2013.

His mum, Marie Dugan, and dad, Allan Snr, are after allegedly going to a house party after the club – and say the same names have often cropped up over the years, though no one has ever been convicted, and no remains ever found.

Mr Bryant – who fears his son may have made contact with a crime gang before his death – has himself passed thousands of tip-offs to Police Scotland during the investigation – and at one stage, cops even searched a house in the town, though nothing came of it.

He is therefore angry detectives failed to reveal they had followed up on a bogus tip-off of their own last year that Allan Jr’s remains were buried on a farm – with the family only finding out by chance a couple of weeks ago.

It was another example of what he believes was simply a “psychic” claiming to be in the know, providing the police with unverified details out of the blue and bogging down the investigation.

The family are regularly sent social media DMs, including “sick images”, and letters, and even get tagged in videos by people claiming they have had psychic visions about what’s happened.

It follows the rise of TikTok’s controversial ‘CrimeTok’ community, which sees true crime enthusiasts and amateur sleuths pore over the details of cold cases and missing person riddles – often with little regard for the real-life families affected by the stories.

Mr Bryant said his family have been “hounded by psychics, mediums and clairvoyants” for 12 years and they’ve “had enough”.

He told The Sun this week: “Some of them go into gruesome detail they don’t have to go into.

“Saying what’s happened to Allan, that he’s been chopped up. You read it and it gets you upset and angry.

“We need facts, we don’t need this. We need things the police can work on, they’re not going to work on anything a psychic says.”

One video sees a clairvoyant going over a drawing they’ve made of an obscure location and says: “I have seen a male person with a lot of scars on his face – and he’s very witchy with long dark hair.”

She goes on to describe ruins and a leaking sewage pipe, as well as a cliff.

But there are others who are far more sinister, including one troll who wrote: “This hunt is going to be fun, your son is in bits.”

The Bryant family are sadly no strange to the toxic world of online abuse.

Creep Stewart McInroy was jailed twice for trolling offences against the Bryant family, in 2014 and 2018.

In 2016 Troll Hunters, he admitted he was “addicted” to causing controversy online.

In a Facebook group set up to find Allan, he had posted: “I am the killer of Allan Bryant.”

He later claimed to have abducted Allan, held him hostage and tortured him before killing him and dumping the body.

Bogus farm tip off

Mr Bryant says the recent flood of baseless tip-offs from sleuths is causing further pain for his tormented family.

The bogus farm tip-off saw an person claiming they believed Allan’s remains had been in a pond on a farm in Fife for two years before being moved, and had sent Map images of the location to .

Mr Bryant, who wasn’t told about the letter at the time, told The Sun: “The police went up and looked at it, but the farmer told them there’s no pond there.

“It said in the letter the pond dries up in the and cattle were stamping on his remains and so he was moved and dumped on another part of the farm.”

He believes the farm tipster is “just a psychic” who is not familiar with the area, and clearly doesn’t understand how big Fife is.

A TikTok psychic goes over a drawing she’s made, including visions of where Allan Jr is buriedCredit: TikTok Another anonymous note to Alan’s family, claiming to know where his body isCredit: Facebook Allan Sr and Marie are desperate for answers – but say they’re fed up with trolls and ‘psychics’Credit: Alan MacGregor Ewing

Mr Bryant said he had to delete at least five unsolicited Facebook messages last week alone from either people claiming to have psychic gifts or know clairvoyants who he should speak to.

He said: “For years and years I’ve received pictures and maps saying ‘Allan’s here’ or ‘Allan’s here’.

“They don’t realise how big Fife is. How far he’d have had to have walked. It’s different towns – I get comments and messages all the time saying ‘you should try this psychic’… sometimes they send a number and say ‘contact me, I’m a psychic, I’ll give you a reading’.

“I’ve had enough, after all this carry on – my family don’t need this. To me they are just trolls.

“We’re not interested, you don’t have these gifts. You’re just preying on my family, and preying on the families of people who have lost loved ones.

“They shouldn’t be allowed to do it – there should be a to stop it.”

He added: “It’s not just letters and messages, they make TikTok videos saying ‘we think this has happened to him, I’ve got a feeling’. It’s a load of crap.”

Mr Bryant added: “I understand why people go and see them, if they’ve lost family and want a reading, I understand it.

“But to troll a family who’ve been through that just so they can post things for likes and views. To me they’re just trolls, they don’t have special gifts.

“Go back to the 18th or 19th century.”

Psychic rambles

Mr Bryant’s wife Marie had previously agreed to speak to a couple of psychics early in the .

One claimed their son was in a park that had already been scoured multiple times by cops, while a second psychic, a professor from a university, came to the house.

“He was going over to the chairs, it was like something out of f***ing Poltergeist,” said Mr Bryant.

“I’ve got a feeling’, I’m looking at him going ‘this c***’s not right in the head, I’m ready to tell him to f*** off’.

“He went to the nightclub, it’s seven miles away. He felt the door knob and came back and said ‘two guys, two girls were there, they’ve killed Allan’.

“We said ‘who are they then?’ He said ‘I can’t tell you, I’ll have to talk to the police’.

CCTV shows Allan Jr leaving Styx nightclub Stewart McInroy trolled the Bryants about their missing son before being jailed for 10 monthsCredit: Facebook Allan’s youngest sister Sophie, 20, previously told The Sun her family just wants closureCredit: Sophie Bryant

“It’s like, what do you mean you’ve got to tell the police? You came into my house. It’s just a lot of nonsense.

“There’s not one police force that uses them.”

Tip-off shock

Mr Bryant only found out about the farm tip-off when his local paper also received the same letter in recent weeks.

He said: “This is what annoyed me the most – the police were contacted and they received a letter and they should have told us about it.

“I’m still angry with them, just let us know and otherwise this wouldn’t have happened.”

He added: “We basically know what’s going on in Allan’s investigation.

“Police come out and ask me about certain things so I know they’re receiving certain information and I’ll say ‘it doesn’t ring a bell’ or whatever.

“A lot of the information we get always points to the same individuals. We know something happened to Allan that night, somebody killed him.

“We know just based on the information we’ve received over the years. Just trying to prove it is the hard part.”

Detective Inspector Steven McLean told The Sun: “Our aim remains to find answers for Allan’s family and officers continue to support and regularly update them with relevant information.

“This information was previously passed to police, and extensive enquiries were conducted, with officers attending and assessing the area described. As a result this latest information is not deemed credible at this time.

“If you have information that could help and have not already spoken to us then please get in touch. Any information, no matter how small, could prove to be vital.

“Allan remains a missing person and officers continue to make enquiries to trace him. Any new information will be assessed and anyone who can assist should call Police Scotland on 101, or email OperationToner@scotland.police.uk if you can help.”