{"id":93835,"date":"2025-12-23T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93835\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:23:06","slug":"travel-theme-parks-youtuber-found-dead-in-celebration-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93835\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel, theme parks YouTuber found dead in Celebration home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Adam Williams, a popular theme parks and travel YouTuber known as Adam the Woo, was found dead Monday afternoon in his home in Celebration, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p>Osceola Sheriff\u2019s deputies found Williams, 51, in his upstairs bedroom after a concerned neighbor climbed a ladder to see Williams motionless on his bed, a sheriff\u2019s office spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death is still unknown as of Tuesday morning pending an autopsy .<\/p>\n<p>Williams gained a sizable following on YouTube, where he uploaded videos of himself exploring abandoned filming sites from popular movies and TV shows. He later pivoted to daily vlog content on a channel called \u201cThe Daily Woo\u201d where he documented his travels across the United States living out of a van to an audience of more than 740,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Williams purchased a home in Celebration, saying in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c5gS3aF2fiI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a video<\/a>, \u201cWhat a ride it\u2019s been since I started making videos in my van. \u2026 I always wanted to buy a house by the time I was 50 and happy to say I accomplished my goal. Pretty thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He would often post videos of himself exploring the neighborhood, including one in October entitled, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=GE6FywX6C4k&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI Live in a Halloween Town.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williams uploaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-ZX02oxk0eU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his final video to YouTube on Sunday<\/a>, in which he drove a golf cart with a man dressed as the Grinch through Celebration\u2019s downtown Christmas decorations. Viewers took to the video\u2019s comment section to pay tribute to Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt never felt like you were watching him. It always felt like you were there with him. We will forever be grateful for the journeys you took us on, Adam,\u201d one viewer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Williams also took to social media to post their condolences. Justin Scarred, a theme parks Youtuber who made content with Williams, wrote in a Facebook post late Monday that the news broke his heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world has lost a giant, and I have lost a friend closer to me than blood. We lost Adam. I loved this man with my whole heart and I don\u2019t know what to do or what to say,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Sciretta, another theme parks content creator, wrote on X that he was \u201cdevastated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdam The Woo was a trailblazer, he did his own thing, his way, always. He was a creature of consistency who chased adventure and chaos on a daily basis. He deeply loved what he did so much that he couldn\u2019t stop, even if he wanted to,\u201d Sciretta wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Adam Williams, a popular theme parks and travel YouTuber known as Adam the Woo, was found dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[168,28,114,266,115,139,141,140,1976,109,2411,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-93835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-celebration","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-headlines","15":"tag-orlando-news","16":"tag-osceola-county","17":"tag-social","18":"tag-theme-parks","19":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}