Adam the Woo, travel YouTuber, dies at 51
Alan the Woo, real name David Alan Williams, regularly posted about Disney parks on YouTube.
Adam the Woo, travel YouTuber, dies at 51
Alan the Woo, real name David Alan Williams, regularly posted about Disney parks on YouTube.
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David Adam Williams, a.k.a. Adam the Woo. Credit:
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YouTuber David Adam Williams, who was known as Adam the Woo, was found dead Monday at his home in Celebration, Fla., the Osceola County Sheriff's Office confirmed to PEOPLE. He was 51.**
"The residence was secured, and no contact was made with the adult male residing there," a spokesperson for the sheriff's office told PEOPLE in a statement. "Deputies then responded back to the location for an unattended death at 2:53 pm. A friend had borrowed a ladder and looked in the 3rd story window to see a male on a bed that was not moving. Upon entering the residence with Fire Rescue, the male was reported deceased."
According to the sheriff's department, the death remains under investigation. The medical examiner will complete an autopsy to understand the cause.
Following the social media influencer's death, friends mourned him publicly.
"I can't believe I'm typing this," Chris Yon wrote. "I'm absolutely devastated to hear of the sudden passing of my good friend Adam The Woo. I just visited him four days ago in Celebration Florida. We rode around town in his golf cart checking out the decorations, talking about his recent international travel, his excitement for upcoming plans on his YouTube channel, and even a Rays game Adam and I were talking about going to next year. I truly don’t know what to say. I’m in complete shock."
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He concluded, "RIP David Adam Williams."
Friend Justin Scarred asked people to pray for Williams' parents, Jim and June, and for his sister, Faith.
"This breaks my heart and I want to say nothing right now. I don't have the right photo or the right words," he posted. "But with all the rumors, I feel I need to say what I can. The world has lost a giant, and I have lost a friend closer to me than blood."
Scarred added, " loved this man with my whole heart and I don't know what to do or what to say."
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Adam The Woo was a YouTuber.
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Williams shared his last video, a 32-minute look at what he called "Christmas Time Craziness" in Celebration, Fla., on Sunday.
He regularly created content about travel, especially to Disney parks, on the YouTube channel, which has 749,000 subscribers. The account's page also shows that his oldest videos on The Daily Woo are from 13 years ago.
"This is my 2nd channel," Williams wrote in the official description. "Created with the intention of not only documenting my day to day life but also to find something new and exciting to film on a regular basis. For over 5 years I filmed an uploaded a vlog every single day on this channel without missing a day. Since then I have stepped back just a tad and take a few days off here and there and also added live streaming to the mix."**
Williams started a previous YouTube channel around 2009. On that one, he lived in a van, as he visited sites from movies and amusement parks that were no longer open to visitors, per Fox4.**
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