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  Speaker 1: let's get into tonight's story. Around three thirty pm on
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  Speaker 1: October twenty fifth, nineteen seventy four, a forty one year
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  Speaker 1: old man named Carl Hagden drove his work truck along
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  Speaker 1: a paved in the Medicine Bow National Forest, which is
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  Speaker 1: this huge nature preserve in southern Wyoming. Carl had taken
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  Speaker 1: off early from his job on an oil rig to
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  Speaker 1: go elk hunting in this preserve, and now he was
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  Speaker 1: heading towards this very specific area in the national Forest
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  Speaker 1: called mcmarty Canyon that he had heard was really good
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  Speaker 1: for elk hunting. As Carl drove, he found himself looking
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  Speaker 1: around at the evergreen trees and the snow capped mountains
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  Speaker 1: in the distance, and he just felt this total sense
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  Speaker 1: of calm come over him.
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  Speaker 2: He was a very rugged outdoorsman, and there was.
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  Speaker 1: Really nothing he loved more than spending time out in
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  Speaker 1: nature all alone, and so for a little while he
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  Speaker 1: was just enjoying himself driving along until eventually the paved
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  Speaker 1: road he was on gave way to this long, rocky trail,
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  Speaker 1: and Carl he didn't want to damage the truck he
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  Speaker 1: was driving, since it actually belonged to the company he
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  Speaker 1: worked for, so he wound up pulling over and getting out,
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  Speaker 1: and then he just grabbed all his stuff and continued
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  Speaker 1: walking on the trail by foot. Along This trail was
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  Speaker 1: not only, you know, pretty rocky and rough, but it
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  Speaker 1: was also predominantly uphill, and so it didn't take long
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  Speaker 1: before Carl was having trouble breathing, and not just because
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  Speaker 1: it was physically taxing, but also because when he was
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  Speaker 1: younger he had tuberculosis which had left his lungs really
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  Speaker 1: riddled with scar tissue that did make it harder to breathe,
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  Speaker 1: especially when he was exerting himself. But you know, Carl
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  Speaker 1: continued on and every few minutes he would just stop
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  Speaker 1: and bend over and catch his breath. But after about
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes or so, he had hiked to the point
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  Speaker 1: where the trees had begun to thin out, and then
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  Speaker 1: he found himself standing inside what looked like a big
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  Speaker 1: bowl in the earth. So this was mcmarty Canyon where
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  Speaker 1: he was, you know, intending to go for this elkhund.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the reason it sort of felt like
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  Speaker 1: a bull is because it was mostly just flat with
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  Speaker 1: some shrubs and grass, a few trees, and these tall
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  Speaker 1: hills out on the side, sort of giving this impression
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  Speaker 1: of a bowl.
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  Speaker 2: And so Carl he sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Just stopped and took stock of the area, and wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: you know it, when he looked straight across the canyon
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  Speaker 1: the bowl, he saw a group of just five elk
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  Speaker 1: grazing in the distance, like this was unbelievably lucky. Here
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  Speaker 1: they are right away, And so Carl slowly began walking
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  Speaker 1: towards them, doing his best not to make any noise,
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  Speaker 1: and then when he was within shooting distance, he just stopped,
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  Speaker 1: raised his rifle, and he looked through his sights to
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  Speaker 1: aim at the first elk he saw, and then he
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  Speaker 1: pulled the trigger. But for some reason, when he pulled
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  Speaker 1: the trigger, the gun didn't go off. It didn't fire,
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  Speaker 1: or at least it didn't appear to and certainly there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't any kickback.
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  Speaker 2: It just was like nothing happened.
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  Speaker 1: But then he saw something that just didn't make any
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  Speaker 1: logical sense, and at the same time he's experiencing this
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  Speaker 1: just insane phenomenon. He felt this massive wave of vertigo,
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  Speaker 1: and then he just sort of felt himself falling, and
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  Speaker 1: then he blacked out. The next thing Carl knew he
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  Speaker 1: felt himself being shaken back and forth, and he sort
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  Speaker 1: of slowly began to blink his eyes, feeling very confused
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  Speaker 1: and disoriented.
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  Speaker 2: His head was pounding.
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  Speaker 1: It was clearly dark outside, and then he realized, sort
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  Speaker 1: of with horror, that somehow he was back inside of
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  Speaker 1: his work truck. But these surroundings outside of the truck
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  Speaker 1: definitely looked different, like the truck was parked in a
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  Speaker 1: different spot than where he left it. He suddenly felt
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  Speaker 1: himself getting shaken again, and then he heard someone say
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  Speaker 1: his name, and he looked up in the darkness, he
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  Speaker 1: saw there were two men that he didn't recognize who
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  Speaker 1: were clearly shaking him, trying to get his attention, and
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  Speaker 1: they tried to ask him, like what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: but Carl's mouth sort of felt numb, and when he
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  Speaker 1: tried to speak, it's like the words came out and
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  Speaker 1: garbled and nonsensical. And so at some point these two
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  Speaker 1: men sort of gave up trying to talk to Carl,
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  Speaker 1: and they just lifted him up, pulled him out of
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  Speaker 1: the truck, and they carried him over to their vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Carl heard them say something about a hospital,
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  Speaker 1: and then before long their car was driving off.
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  Speaker 2: And then Carl blacked.
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  Speaker 1: Out again about thirty minutes later, around midnight on October
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth, so this is eight hours after Carl first
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  Speaker 1: blacked out, his wife, Marjorie, rushed into a hospital room
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  Speaker 1: at the Carbon County Memorial Hospital in Rawlins, Wyoming, and
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  Speaker 1: inside she saw Carl lying on the bed hooked up
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  Speaker 1: to an IV and there were a bunch of monitors
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  Speaker 1: with a nurse standing beside him, and she saw her
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  Speaker 1: husband's eyes were open but clearly unfocused. And then as
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  Speaker 1: Marjorie is just standing there taking in the initial shock
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  Speaker 1: of what she's seeing. The nurse actually pointed at her
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  Speaker 1: at Marjorie and then asked Carl if he knew who
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  Speaker 1: she his wife who she was. But Carl, he turned
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  Speaker 1: and he looked at Marjorie, but he just kind of
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  Speaker 1: stared blankly and then shook his head and said no.
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  Speaker 1: So earlier that evening, Marjorie had been at home waiting
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  Speaker 1: for Carl to come back from his hunting trip, but
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  Speaker 1: when he hadn't shown up on time, she ultimately had
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  Speaker 1: called the sheriff's department and asked them to go to
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  Speaker 1: mc marty Canyon just to check on him. And so
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  Speaker 1: two deputies had gone out there and they found him
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  Speaker 1: and he was unconscious in his truck. So those two
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  Speaker 1: deputies were the ones who obviously shook him awake and
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  Speaker 1: took him to the hospital. But interestingly, you know, beyond
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the deputies had no idea what happened
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  Speaker 1: to him, they reported that his truck had been parked
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  Speaker 1: three miles away from the main road in this muddy bog,
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  Speaker 1: and strangely, there were no tire tracks leading to it.
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  Speaker 1: It was almost like it was just dropped in the
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  Speaker 1: bog with you know, Carl inside of it. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: despite this weirdness, the deputies and Marjorie for that matter,
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  Speaker 1: were not concerned about, you know, the weirdness around the truck.
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  Speaker 2: They were worried about Carl.
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  Speaker 1: Who was just laying here unconscious, and so they had
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  Speaker 1: rushed him to the hospital, and Marjorie had driven there
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  Speaker 1: as fast as she could. A doctor had already explained
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  Speaker 1: to Marjorie that her husband was, you know, clearly very
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  Speaker 1: disoriented and seemed to be suffering from a case of amnesia.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't even remember his own name, let alone you know,
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  Speaker 1: what had happened to him while he was out in
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  Speaker 1: that canyon before the deputies showed up.
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  Speaker 2: And found him passed out in his truck.
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  Speaker 1: Doctors had given Carl X ray and brain scans and
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  Speaker 1: run all kinds of tests on him. But not only
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  Speaker 1: did they not find any evidence of some sort of
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  Speaker 1: head injury you know that likely would have caused his amnesia,
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  Speaker 1: but they actually didn't find anything wrong with him at all.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed perfectly fine beyond him just showing up basically
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  Speaker 1: unconscious and disoriented. And so realistically, the staff told Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: that because they couldn't really find anything wrong with him,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't really know how to treat him, and so
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  Speaker 1: for now Carl was just being kept in the hospital
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  Speaker 1: under constant observation, and so Marjorie just took a seat
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  Speaker 1: on the couch next to her husband's bed, sort of
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  Speaker 1: not even sure what to think of this whole situation,
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  Speaker 1: and she was about to ask the nurse a couple
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  Speaker 1: of questions, but then suddenly Carl sort of tensed up
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  Speaker 1: and began frantically looking around the room like he really
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  Speaker 1: had something in mind that he was looking for, and
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  Speaker 1: then he began saying, like, where are my pills? Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: had no idea what pills her husband was talking about,
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  Speaker 1: and it was clear the nurse also didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: he was talking about, and so Marjorie she reached out
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  Speaker 1: and just tried to grab her husband's hand to try
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  Speaker 1: to calm him down. But the moment she did that,
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  Speaker 1: Carl sort of stopped what he was doing and he
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  Speaker 1: yanked his hand away and stared at her like she
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  Speaker 1: was a total stranger. Two days later, Carl still could
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  Speaker 1: not remember what had happened to him when he had
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  Speaker 1: gone hunting, but he had recovered some basic memories like
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  Speaker 1: his own name and also who his wife was. And
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  Speaker 1: so between that and the fact that realistically Carl did
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  Speaker 1: not have any signs of any physical injury, they ultimately
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  Speaker 1: the hospital discharged him and just sent him home with
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  Speaker 1: Marjorie and basically told her that he was probably fine
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  Speaker 1: and that he probably just needed to be in a
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  Speaker 1: familiar place to sort of recover all of his memories
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  Speaker 1: and get back to normal. However, when the couple got
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  Speaker 1: back home, it very quickly became clear to Marjorie that
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  Speaker 1: Carl was not okay and he was not getting better.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part, Carl was just usually quiet at home,
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  Speaker 1: like uncharacteristically quiet, and then when he would speak, it
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  Speaker 1: often was in that frantic, sort of nonsensical way that
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  Speaker 1: he had spoken in the hospital when he was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: looking for his pills, and in fact, when he was
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  Speaker 1: home he did continue to suddenly start looking for his pills,
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  Speaker 1: and then also he began telling Marjorie that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: somebody had stolen his elk. Marjorie would try to ask him,
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  Speaker 1: like what do you mean, Like, what do you mean
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  Speaker 1: your pills? What do you mean somebody took your elk?
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  Speaker 1: Like what are you talking about. But Carl didn't even
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  Speaker 1: seem to know, Like he would have moments of recognizing
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  Speaker 1: that it's so crazy what he's saying, but he just
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the memories to be filled in. It was
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  Speaker 1: like Carl was just as confused by his own vague
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  Speaker 1: memories as his wife was. However, a few days after
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  Speaker 1: they got home from the hospital, Carl suddenly told his
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  Speaker 1: wife that he'd actually remembered something really specific about what
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  Speaker 1: had happened when he was hunting, like a new memory
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  Speaker 1: had popped up in his mind. He told her that
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  Speaker 1: when he was in mcmarty Canyon and he saw those
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  Speaker 1: elk and he raised his rifle and he pulled the trigger,
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  Speaker 1: he said, there was no sound, there was no kick back.
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  Speaker 2: It was like nothing had happened.
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  Speaker 1: But then he said something happened that like truly just
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  Speaker 1: didn't make logical sense. He said, he realized the gun
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  Speaker 1: had fired, but it was like the world had slowed
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  Speaker 1: down and he could actually literally see the bullet leaving
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  Speaker 1: the rifle, but like in slow motion, like this bullet
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  Speaker 1: is trickling out of the gun and slowly making its way,
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  Speaker 1: you know, across the canyon, and he's just staring at
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  Speaker 1: this bullet, and then the bullet seemed to strike like
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  Speaker 1: an invisible wall of sorts, at which point the bullet
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  Speaker 1: actually stopped and almost like flipped inside out and sort
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  Speaker 1: of flattened and then fell to the ground. And then
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  Speaker 1: also as the flattened inside out bullet fell to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: Carl said, he too fell to the ground and he
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  Speaker 1: blacked out. Now, when Marjorie heard this, you know, her
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  Speaker 1: first thought was like, this is nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is not real. This is something maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Carl's mind has created to fill in the gaps of
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  Speaker 1: his memory, because it's got to be really frustrating for
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  Speaker 1: him that he's got all these like fragments that he
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  Speaker 1: can't put together, and so maybe this is just his
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  Speaker 1: mind filling in the gaps with this really specific and
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  Speaker 1: weird imagery. But not long after hearing this story, Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: was doing the laundry and she was finally washing the
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  Speaker 1: clothes her husband had on when this whole thing happened
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  Speaker 1: out in the canyon, And when she reached into the
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  Speaker 1: pockets of his jacket to make sure they were empty
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  Speaker 1: before you know, washing the jacket, she felt something metallic
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  Speaker 1: and she pulled out this this round like flat disc,
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  Speaker 1: this metal disc, and at first she just had no
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  Speaker 1: idea what it was. But then she thought about what
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  Speaker 1: her husband had said about the bullet from his rifle,
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  Speaker 1: you know, flipping inside out and flattening and falling to
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  Speaker 1: the ground.
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  Speaker 2: She couldn't help but.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like, this metallic disc that she's holding in her hand,
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  Speaker 1: that was in her husband's jacket looks an awful lot
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  Speaker 1: like a bullet that has been flipped inside out and flattened.
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  Speaker 2: Like she couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Not long after this discovery of the alleged bullet, Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: sat next to her husband on a couch inside of
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  Speaker 1: an office at the University of Wisconsin. They were both
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  Speaker 1: sitting across from a psychology professor named doctor Leo Sprinkle.
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  Speaker 1: Now Marjorie knew this meeting was sort of a long shot,
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  Speaker 1: but she.
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  Speaker 2: Was hopeful that, you know, maybe they would learn something valuable.
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  Speaker 1: So by this point, Carl had not recovered any other
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  Speaker 1: memories from his hunting trip. But after you know, recovering
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  Speaker 1: the supposed flattened bullet in her husband's jacket, Marjorie became
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  Speaker 1: convinced that something truly strange had happened.
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  Speaker 2: To her husband.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she obviously knew something happened out in the canyon,
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  Speaker 1: but now it just seemed like, I don't even have
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  Speaker 1: any theories for what could have happened.
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  Speaker 2: But something really weird must have happened.
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  Speaker 1: And so she and Carl were both very determined to
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  Speaker 1: try to figure out what happened, and so that that's
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  Speaker 1: how they ended up in doctor Sprinkle's office. Doctor Sprinkle
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  Speaker 1: was not your average psychologist. He was a really big
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  Speaker 1: believer in hypnosis. He practiced hypnosis, and specifically he believed
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  Speaker 1: that hypnosis could potentially allow people to access repressed memories,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly what Marjorie and doctor Sprinkle, and Carl
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  Speaker 1: for that matter, believed was going on with Carl that
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  Speaker 1: he had experienced something that was being repressed, but it
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  Speaker 1: was in there, you just need to find a.
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  Speaker 2: Way to access it. So that day in the Professor's.
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  Speaker 1: Office, Marjorie stayed very quiet and just observed while doctor
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  Speaker 1: Sprinkle told Carl to close his eyes, to relax, his
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  Speaker 1: head down towards his chest, and just focus on his
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  Speaker 1: breathing in and out, in and out. And after several
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  Speaker 1: minutes of this, doctor Sprinkle told Carl to slowly lift
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  Speaker 1: his head back up, and Carl did, but when he
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  Speaker 1: looked up, his eyes were actually still closed. And at
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  Speaker 1: this point doctor Sprinkle asked Carl to tell him what
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  Speaker 1: happened on October twenty fifth when he went elk hunting
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  Speaker 1: and mcmarty canyon, and Carl, with his eyes still shut,
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  Speaker 1: began to speak really fluently, and he began telling just
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  Speaker 1: the most insane story Marjorie or Doctor Sprinkle for that matter,
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  Speaker 1: had ever heard. Carl said, again under hypnosis here that
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  Speaker 1: after he had watched that bullet leave his rifle in
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  Speaker 1: slow motion and hit this invisible wall and flip inside
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  Speaker 1: out and fall to the ground, he said that he
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  Speaker 1: too had fallen basically at the same speed as this
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  Speaker 1: bullet onto the ground, and basically he passed out, but
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  Speaker 1: he only blacked out for like a second, and when
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  Speaker 1: he opened his eyes, he said he was still lying
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  Speaker 1: on the grass in the middle of this canyon, except
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  Speaker 1: now standing over him was this tall, dark figure that
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  Speaker 1: was wearing almost like a very tight fitting bodysuit, almost
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  Speaker 1: like what a scuba diver would wear. And Carl said
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  Speaker 1: this figure was vaguely, you know, human shaped, but it
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  Speaker 1: had very yellowish skin, and very small eyes and no
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  Speaker 1: ears and no lips, and there were two antennas sticking
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  Speaker 1: out of, you know, its forehead, and one of its
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  Speaker 1: arms extended into this this flat stump, but the other
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  Speaker 1: arm seemed to have almost like a prosthetic attachment at
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  Speaker 1: the end of it that almost.
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  Speaker 2: Looked like a power drill.
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  Speaker 1: And then, in perfect English, this figure sort of looked
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  Speaker 1: down at Carl and just said, how are you? And
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  Speaker 1: Carl said he was so stunned by this thing speaking
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  Speaker 1: to him in perfect English that Carl just sort of
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  Speaker 1: blurted out, ah, pretty good, pretty good. And the figure
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  Speaker 1: seemed satisfied with this answer, and it went on to
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  Speaker 1: quickly explain that its name was OsO One, and it
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  Speaker 1: came from a planet one hundred and sixty three thousand
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  Speaker 1: light years away from Earth, and it said it had
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  Speaker 1: no intention of hurting Carl. In fact, it said it
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  Speaker 1: wanted to help Carl. Then, with the hand that sort
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  Speaker 1: of resembled a power drill, it reached into what looked
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  Speaker 1: like a pocket on its body suit, and it pulled
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  Speaker 1: out this small packet containing four pills, and it told
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  Speaker 1: Carl that these pills would heal him. And then this
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  Speaker 1: thing offered Carl one of these pills, and Carl, for
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  Speaker 1: reasons he couldn't explain, just immediately took the pill and
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  Speaker 1: swallowed it. And then after that, Carl said that OSSO
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  Speaker 1: one asked him if he wanted to go for a ride,
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  Speaker 1: and Carl just said sure, so OSSO one helped Carl
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  Speaker 1: off the ground, and then as soon as Karl was
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  Speaker 1: standing back up again, he saw there was this cube
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  Speaker 1: shaped vehicle not far away, and a split second later,
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  Speaker 1: Carl said he was somehow inside of this vehicle, along
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  Speaker 1: with OSSO one and also two other vaguely humanoid figures
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  Speaker 1: and the five Elk that he'd been out here hunting.
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  Speaker 1: They were behind this clear wall like a containment pen
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  Speaker 1: within the vehicle, and Carl was seated in a chair,
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  Speaker 1: as was OSSO one and the two other humanoids.
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  Speaker 2: They were all just sort of sitting there.
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  Speaker 1: Then Carl said he felt this powerful force push against
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  Speaker 1: his body, like the vehicle was moving so fast that
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  Speaker 1: it basically pushed him back.
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  Speaker 2: Into his seat. But less than a minute later, the
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  Speaker 2: vehicle just stopped and also One said we're home.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Carl was just suddenly standing outside of
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle and he said, it felt very cold, and
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  Speaker 1: the sky was jet black. And then around Carl the
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  Speaker 1: landscape was very different from Planet Earth. It was very
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  Speaker 1: rocky and desolate, without any trees or grass or really
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  Speaker 1: any organic looking life anywhere. And then in front of Carl,
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  Speaker 1: he said, he saw this massive, metallic looking tower that
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  Speaker 1: sort of reminded him of the Seattle space Needle, and
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  Speaker 1: there was this light on the top of it that
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  Speaker 1: was actually so bright that Carl said when he looked
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  Speaker 1: at it, it sort of hurt his eyes. And so Ozo
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  Speaker 1: One led Carl, the two other humanoid figures, and the
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  Speaker 1: Elk to a door on the outside of this tower,
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  Speaker 1: and once they were standing outside of it, Carl said,
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  Speaker 1: the door slid open, but instead of it sort of
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  Speaker 1: leading into the tower, it just led to what reminded
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  Speaker 1: Carl of the inside of a large elevator, and the
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  Speaker 1: whole group just got on board and began riding up.
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  Speaker 1: And then when this elevator of sorts came to a
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  Speaker 1: stop and the door opened again, Carl saw this small
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  Speaker 1: room with metal walls and a handful of what looked
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  Speaker 1: like platforms on the floor. Ozzo One led the Elk
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  Speaker 1: onto one of those platforms, and told Carl to get
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  Speaker 1: on one too, and so Carl just did as he
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  Speaker 1: was told and stood on one of these platforms, and
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  Speaker 1: then out of nowhere, some kind of high tech device
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  Speaker 1: emerged from these metallic walls and began sort of circling
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  Speaker 1: around Carl. It went from his head all the way
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  Speaker 1: to his toes, basically like scanning him. Carl was vaguely
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: aware of the same process taking place to the Elk
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  Speaker 1: as well. And then when this scanner was done, it
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  Speaker 1: made a beeping sound, and then Ozzo One looked over
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  Speaker 1: at Carl and told him, well, the Elk are what
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  Speaker 1: we need, but you're not, so we're going to take
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  Speaker 1: you back to Earth now. And then Carl said the
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  Speaker 1: next thing he knew, he was just magically back inside
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  Speaker 1: of his work truck, like he had somehow been transported
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  Speaker 1: there instantaneously, and he was being shaken awake.
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  Speaker 2: By those two sheriff's deputies.
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  Speaker 1: And so back in doctor Sprinkle's office, Marjorie is listening,
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  Speaker 1: just completely shocked by what her husband is saying, not
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  Speaker 1: even sure what to make of it.
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  Speaker 2: And then doctor Sprinkle.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of Carl's story, when he got to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the point where he's being shaken awake by the deputies,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Sprinkle snapped his finger and Carl kind of came to.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: He opened his eyes and sort of refocused clearly out
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of hypnosis, and then they all just kind of sat there,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: like in total silence, really unsure what to say to
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: each other. But as crazy as Carl's story sounded, there
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: were several very strange facts about Carl's case that up
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to this point nobody had been able to explain, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the story that Carl told while under hypnosis technically accounted
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  Speaker 1: for all of them. The first fact that this story
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: explained was that when Carl woke up in his work truck,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: like magically just appeared in his work truck, it was
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: not just three miles away from the main road. It
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: was actually three miles away from where he had originally
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  Speaker 1: parked it. And this truck was just sitting in a
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  Speaker 1: muddy bog with no tire tracks leading up to it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: So it was just totally unclear how it got there.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: And so if you follow along with Carl's story, you know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: perhaps when he was transported back to Earth, they you know,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: this other creature and the other humanoids maneuvered the truck
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: with Carl in it into this bog The second strange
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: fact is that when Marjorie had ballistics experts analyzed that flattened,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: presumed bullet that she had found in Carl's jacket, they
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: were just as baffled as she was, like they could
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: not come up with any earthly explanation for how a
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: bullet could be flattened and turned inside out, like this
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: was not possible, and so again, if you follow Carl's story,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: perhaps this being is the one that flipped the bullet
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: inside out. And the third and perhaps strangest fact is
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: that when hospital doctors gave Carl X rays, they found
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: something that should have been medically impossible. All of the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: tuberculosis scar tissue in Carl's lungs that had plagued him
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: for decades, that had made it so hard to be
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: physical and exercise, they had somehow disappeared. It was as
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: if someone or something had healed him. Despite how unbelievable
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Carl's story sounded, and despite the fact that hundreds of
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: people have spent decades trying to disprove it, no one
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: has ever found a better explanation for the moving truck,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the impossible bullet, and Carl's disappearing scar tissue. Because of that,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: some researchers believe that Carl Higden's account could be one
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: of the most credible alien abduction stories ever recorded. All Right,
• 21:56
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