Travel YouTuber Adam the Woo has died. He was 51.
The social media star, who was born David Adam Williams, was found dead at his home in Celebration, Fla., on Monday afternoon, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office told People.
“The residence was secured, and no contact was made with the adult male residing there,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said.
“Deputies later responded back to the location for an unattended death at 2:53 p.m.”
Williams was discovered by a friend who had borrowed a ladder and looked through a third-story window, where he saw the popular YouTuber lying motionless on a bed, police said.
“Upon entering the residence with Fire Rescue, the male was pronounced deceased,” the sheriff’s office said, adding that the friend had seen Williams the day before.
An autopsy will be conducted by the medical examiner to determine the cause of death. Police also said Williams’ father was notified.
Williams began his YouTube channel around 2009, exploring abandoned sites and filming locations from well-known movies and TV shows, Fox 4 reported.
He spent his early years of vlogging living out of a van and was supported by donations from his growing audience.
He created a second and most popular channel, “The Daily Woo,” in 2012, where he posted daily vlogs for five years and later documented visits to all 50 states.
He had begun to record his international trips for his channel this year.
A devoted fan of Walt Disney, Williams documented visits to Disneyland and Disney World and explored Disney’s early history in Kansas City, highlighting landmarks such as Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Union Station, and the TWA Moonliner, the outlet reported.
In his final episode, published to his channel on Saturday, Williams took viewers on a tour of Christmas decorations in Celebration, Florida.
At the time of his death, the 51-year-old YouTuber had over 740k subscribers.
Fellow YouTube creator Justin Scarred paid tribute to Williams in a heartbreaking Facebook post after learning of his death.
“This breaks my heart and I want to say nothing right now,” Scarred wrote.
“I don’t have the right photo or the right words. 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.”
“Please pray for his parents Jim and June and his sister Faith,” he added.
“He had so many wonderful friends and knew that he was loved. I don’t know what to do or to say; this comes at horrible time and is most horrible for his family. Please keep THEM in your thoughts and prayers,” Scarred wrote.
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