Woman discovers online date is in prison – so joins school trip to visit him

A woman who was ghosted by an online date later discovered he had been sent to prison – so she joined a school trip to the institution so she could visit him.

Julia Kassel shared the story on her TikTok page about how she went ‘above and beyond’ to get the man’s attention after he ghosted her.

She said they had been getting on well before all communication stopped, and she refused to let it go so messaged all his friends and she was shocked when they said they hadn’t heard from him either.

After some super sleuthing, Julia discovered the man was in prison so she hatched a plan to go see him – which saw her join her school’s law society to go on a trip to the institution in the hope that she’d find him.

Sharing the story with her 408k followers, Julia said: “Tell me about a time you went above and beyond, and I mean above and beyond, to get someone’s attention – I’ll go first.

“When I was in high school I was talking to this boy for like three months and then one day I hear nothing, like completely ghosted.

“And I’m was like, ‘no baby, this isn’t about to happen’, so I messaged all his friends and I’m like, ‘where did he go?’.

“They said the same thing surprisingly, they were like, ‘I don’t know, we haven’t heard from him in a few days’ and I was like, ‘wait a minute – is this mother trucker in jail? Is he in jail?'”

“Turns out he was, and I was in high school during this time. Like, I know I’m stupid, but I heard the law club was going to take a field trip to the local county jail.

“Yes, I did exactly what you’re thinking. I joined the law club, went to every single meet, participated in every single event just so at the end of the semester I could go to the local jail for on a field trip.”

Julia’s post, which was viewed more than 1.2m times, received a flurry of questions about how the visit went – so she posted a follow up explaining what happened on the trip.

She said: “So we get to the jail and I’m ready to see my man.

“We get inside and they’re like alright we’re going to separate you, one group is going to go to the women’s side and the other to the mans side.

“I’m like no, and they put me on the women’s side.

“I’m like, ‘no – teacher listen to me, I need to go to the man’s side – please don’t do me like this’.

“And she’s like, ‘why Julia, why do you need to go the mans side’. And I’m like, ‘because I just do’.

“And she’s like ‘first of all love we’re having all the girls go with the women because we don’t want overage men seeing younger girls’, because it was like beyond scared straight where you went on an actual tour and they actually talk to you.

“So in the end I did all of that and I didn’t even get to see him. So moral of the story, never chase a man – especially one who is in jail because you know he’s no good for you, especially when you’re in high school.”