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  Speaker 1: One night in August of nineteen eighty six, villagers in
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  Speaker 1: a tiny rural town in West Africa heard a loud,
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  Speaker 1: booming sound coming from outside. Most of the villagers thought
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  Speaker 1: this sound was thunder. Others had no idea what it was,
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  Speaker 1: but the noise seemed insignificant. Little did they know that
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  Speaker 1: sound was actually a death sentence.
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  Speaker 2: They just didn't know it yet.
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. Before sunrise, on August twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, a man named Ephraim Jay woke up
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  Speaker 1: feeling groggy and confused as he lay in his bed
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  Speaker 1: inside of his small mud brick house perched up on
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  Speaker 1: a cliff, he tried to remember what happened the night before.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't know why, but he knew something happened last night.
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  Speaker 1: I got to remember it. But as he lay there
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  Speaker 1: kind of jogging his memory, he felt like there were
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  Speaker 1: holes in his memory, like he couldn't quite piece together
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  Speaker 1: what had happened the day.
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  Speaker 2: Or night before.
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  Speaker 1: However, there was one thing he distinctly remembered about the
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  Speaker 1: night before, and that was at some point he had
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  Speaker 1: heard one really loud boom of thunder outside, and Efroim
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  Speaker 1: kind of somewhere in the back of his mind had thought, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to rain tonight, and maybe when I wake
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  Speaker 1: up it'll still be raining. And then Ephraim, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how hard he focused, he couldn't really remember how much
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  Speaker 1: time passed after hearing that booming sound and then getting
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  Speaker 1: in his bed the night before. But at some point
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  Speaker 1: he remembered being in his bed and feeling kind of sick,
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  Speaker 1: and that was it. That was his whole memory of
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  Speaker 1: the night before. And so that morning, August twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: when Ephraim has suddenly woken up feeling confused. He rolled
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  Speaker 1: over and he looked out the window right nearby his bed,
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  Speaker 1: and he looked outside and he saw the sky was
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  Speaker 1: clear and the grass was totally dry. There was no
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  Speaker 1: indication that it had rained anytime recently. And so Ephraim
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  Speaker 1: is thinking to himself, you know, something is definitely off here,
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  Speaker 1: but I just can't get my mind right. And so
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  Speaker 1: finally Ephraim just sits up in his bed. He swings
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  Speaker 1: his legs out of his bed onto the ground. He
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  Speaker 1: stands up and practically falls over once he's on his feet,
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  Speaker 1: but he eventually gets himself back up, kind of steadies himself,
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  Speaker 1: and then he thinks, okay, I need to go check
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  Speaker 1: on my four kids and make sure they're okay. But
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  Speaker 1: the second Ephraim began to move in his house, it
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  Speaker 1: was like his body didn't obey his mind, because moments later,
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  Speaker 1: instead of checking on his kids, Ephram had wandered out
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  Speaker 1: his front door and was just standing out in front
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  Speaker 1: of his house, just kind of staring off into the distance,
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  Speaker 1: having no idea why he walked out there.
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  Speaker 2: The village where Ephram lived was called.
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  Speaker 1: Nios, and Nios is extremely rural. There's no electricity, there's
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  Speaker 1: no running water, and there's no paved roads for miles.
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  Speaker 1: The village is actually split into two parts. There's Upper
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  Speaker 1: Nios and Lower Nios. Ephram lived in Upper Nios, right
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  Speaker 1: near this big beautiful lake called Lake Nios, but the
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  Speaker 1: majority of villagers lived in Lower Nios, which was below
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  Speaker 1: the lake. So that morning, after Ephram kind of found
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  Speaker 1: himself standing outside of his hut for no reason, he
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  Speaker 1: began looking around in hopes that other people would be
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  Speaker 1: out and about in Upper Nios, where he lived, so
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  Speaker 1: he could go talk to them and try to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what was wrong with him or you know, what
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  Speaker 1: was going on generally. But as he scanned around Upper Nios,
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  Speaker 1: he saw there was not another soul anywhere he was
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  Speaker 1: it he was the only person walking around. So without
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  Speaker 1: giving it much thought, Ephraim decided he would just start
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  Speaker 1: walking down towards Lower Nios to try to talk to
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  Speaker 1: someone down there, And so he left his hut and
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  Speaker 1: he began walking down the hill that.
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  Speaker 2: Would take him to Lower Nios.
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  Speaker 1: After Ephram got about halfway down this hill, right when
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  Speaker 1: he was near Lake Nios, he stopped because suddenly he
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  Speaker 1: became totally aware of the fact that the world was
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  Speaker 1: totally silent. Normally, the baboons in the nearby forest would
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  Speaker 1: be barking, and insects would be humming and birds would
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  Speaker 1: be chirping. But now it was just completely totally silent.
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  Speaker 1: Even the mosquitoes that were a totally annoying constant in
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  Speaker 1: Ephram's life were gone.
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  Speaker 2: It was like the entire world had just shut down.
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  Speaker 1: And as Ephram is looking around wondering what is going
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  Speaker 1: on here, he hears off to his right, over near
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  Speaker 1: the lake a woman shrieking at the top of her lungs,
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  Speaker 1: And so Ephram whipped his head in the direction the
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  Speaker 1: screams were coming from, and he saw there was this
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  Speaker 1: woman about one hundred feet away. She was a local,
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  Speaker 1: and she was looking right at Ephraim, and she was
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  Speaker 1: barely dressed, and she was ripping the rest of her
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  Speaker 1: clothes off, and she was just screaming, and so, acting
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  Speaker 1: on instinct, Ephraim immediately turned and just started running towards
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  Speaker 1: this woman. And as he's bounding towards her, getting closer
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  Speaker 1: and closer, he's starting to notice there's these strange shapes
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  Speaker 1: on the ground kind of near this woman. But as
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  Speaker 1: he was staring at them, he just couldn't quite place
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  Speaker 1: what they were. But when he got about twenty feet
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  Speaker 1: away from the shrieking woman, he stopped again because he
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  Speaker 1: realized the shapes on the ground were this woman's entire family.
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  Speaker 2: They were all just laying on the ground as.
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  Speaker 1: If they were sleeping, and near them was all of
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  Speaker 1: their cattle, also just laying on the ground as if
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  Speaker 1: they were sleeping. But as Ephraim stared at each of
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  Speaker 1: these people and each of these animals on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: he saw there was some blood around their noses, in
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  Speaker 1: their mouths.
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  Speaker 2: And he realized no person who's sleeping would be that.
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  Speaker 1: Still, these people are all dead, these animals are all dead,
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  Speaker 1: And so standing there, ephrem turned his attention from the
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  Speaker 1: bodies back to this woman who had dropped to her knees,
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  Speaker 1: and she was grabbing her father's arm and yanking on
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  Speaker 1: it and screaming for him to please wake up.
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  Speaker 2: But Ephraim could tell there was nothing she could do.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was gone, and Ephraim knew somewhere deep down that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's supposed to go over and help this
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  Speaker 1: woman or or console her. But suddenly this wave of
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  Speaker 1: fear came over him. You know, the combination of having
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  Speaker 1: no idea what's going on. His mind really wasn't working still,
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  Speaker 1: and now seeing all these dead people, it was like
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  Speaker 1: he just couldn't handle it.
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  Speaker 2: And so, even though he felt.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible about this, Ephraim took one last look at this
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  Speaker 1: very distraught woman and her deceased family, and he turned
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  Speaker 1: and he ran away. And when he got back to
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  Speaker 1: the main trail, he continued downhill in the direction.
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  Speaker 2: Of Lower Nios.
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  Speaker 2: The villagers in Lower Nios lived in these tiny huts
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  Speaker 2: with tin roofs that were closely grouped together, and usually
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  Speaker 2: even early in the morning, Lower Nios was a very
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  Speaker 2: happy and lively place.
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  Speaker 1: With kids running around and animals walking in the road
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  Speaker 1: and music playing. But as Ephram came down the hill
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  Speaker 1: and was within earshot of Lower Nios, it was deadly silent,
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  Speaker 1: and so, with panics starting to rise inside of Ephraim,
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  Speaker 1: he began to run at full speed, hoping that when
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  Speaker 1: he turned the corner and looked down the main road
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  Speaker 1: of Lower Nios, he would see the people he was hoping.
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  Speaker 2: He would see.
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  Speaker 1: But when he turned the corner and looked down main street,
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  Speaker 1: all he saw were.
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  Speaker 2: Dead animals everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: They completely covered the streets, the sidewalk, everything, and so
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  Speaker 1: at this point Ephram was so desperate to see another
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  Speaker 1: person that he kept his eyes looking straight ahead so
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  Speaker 1: as not to look at all the dead animals, and
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  Speaker 1: just ran straight into Lower Nios, and he turned towards
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  Speaker 1: the first hut he saw, and he ripped the door
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  Speaker 1: open and he stepped inside, and as soon as he did,
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  Speaker 1: he just stopped because on the ground right in front
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  Speaker 1: of him was a woman who was very clearly deceased.
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  Speaker 2: Just laying in the middle of the floor.
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  Speaker 1: She had a bowl of corn right near her hand,
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  Speaker 1: as if she had been eating, and then just fell dead.
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  Speaker 1: And so Ephraim he's staring at this dead woman, and
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  Speaker 1: then he looks up and he realizes the bedroom is
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  Speaker 1: right in eyesight, and he can see her family in
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  Speaker 1: their beds, And at first Ephraim thought, oh, they're sleeping,
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  Speaker 1: But then as he continued to stare through the doorway
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  Speaker 1: into this room, he saw none of them were moving,
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  Speaker 1: Their chests were not going up and down from breathing.
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  Speaker 2: Her whole family they were dead too.
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  Speaker 1: At this, Ephraim kind of stumbled backwards out of the hut,
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  Speaker 1: and then he turned around to face the road he
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  Speaker 1: had just been on with all the animals. And when
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  Speaker 1: he saw the road again, it was like a piece
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  Speaker 1: of his brain started working properly again because he realized
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  Speaker 1: those weren't animal bodies. All those he saw when he
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  Speaker 1: came in, those were people. Yes, there were some animals,
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  Speaker 1: but most of them were people. He could see people
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  Speaker 1: slumped on top of each other, kind of piled up
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  Speaker 1: in doorways. He saw one person who was on his
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  Speaker 1: motorcycle in the middle of the road, just slumped over
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  Speaker 1: his handlebars, and many of the bodies were either naked
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  Speaker 1: or partially clothed, with piles of clothing next to them,
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  Speaker 1: as if they had been trying to rip their clothes
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  Speaker 1: off as fast as they could, like the woman up
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  Speaker 1: at the lake had been doing. And as Ephraim looked
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  Speaker 1: around in horror, he also realized that there were no
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  Speaker 1: markings or cuts or.
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  Speaker 2: Wounds on any of these people.
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  Speaker 1: It was like they were just going about their lives
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  Speaker 1: when suddenly they died. And so, without anything else to do,
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  Speaker 1: Ephram just continued to walk in the direction he had
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  Speaker 1: come into the village, hoping that if he kept on
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  Speaker 1: going he might run into someone who was alive. And
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  Speaker 1: so he begins walking down the road. He's stepping over bodies.
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  Speaker 1: He has no idea what to make of this, and
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  Speaker 1: then way down the road, up ahead, he sees there
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  Speaker 1: are two people.
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  Speaker 2: Coming towards him.
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  Speaker 1: There's a man and what looks like his son, and
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  Speaker 1: they're jogging down the road, stumbling over bodies running towards Ephram,
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  Speaker 1: and so Ephram stops, expecting these people are going to
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  Speaker 1: stop and talk to him. But as these two people
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  Speaker 1: got closer, Ephram saw both of them, the father and
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  Speaker 1: the son. Their eyes were wide and they were looking
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  Speaker 1: straight ahead with kind of a distant, thousand yards stare,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't stop for a second. For Ephram, it
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  Speaker 1: was like they didn't even see him. They just kept
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  Speaker 1: on running down the road past all the bodies. Ephram
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  Speaker 1: didn't try to stop them, He just watched as they passed,
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  Speaker 1: and then at some point they veered off the road
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  Speaker 1: and ran into the forest and disappeared. And it was
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  Speaker 1: at this moment that another part of Ephram's brain seemed
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  Speaker 1: to kind of fit into place, because as he watched
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  Speaker 1: this father and son disappear, he suddenly had this memory
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  Speaker 1: come flooding back into his mind, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: memory of when he was a kid and his grandfather
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  Speaker 1: told him a story. And the story was about Nios
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  Speaker 1: villagers a long long time ago who decided they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to cross Lake Nios from one side to the other.
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  Speaker 2: So their leader.
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  Speaker 1: Magically parted the waters of Lake Nios, creating a walkway
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  Speaker 1: on the lake bed from one side to the other,
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  Speaker 1: and the villagers began to walk, and then about halfway across,
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  Speaker 1: a mosquito landed on the leader's shoulder, and when he
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  Speaker 1: went to slap the mosquito, he lost control of the
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  Speaker 1: waters and they came crashing.
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  Speaker 2: Down and drowned all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Ephram's grandfather told Ephram that the ghosts of these drowned
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  Speaker 1: villagers now resided between these two big rocks located near
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  Speaker 1: Lower Nios, and so, growing up, Ephram, along with many
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  Speaker 1: other people in this village, believed that because of these ghosts,
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  Speaker 1: Lower Nios must be haunted, and in fact that was
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  Speaker 1: actually why Ephram built his house in Upper Nios, to
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  Speaker 1: avoid these ghosts. And so now as this memory of
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  Speaker 1: hearing this story from his grandfather has come flooding back
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  Speaker 1: to Ephram, he thinks to himself, of course, all of
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  Speaker 1: this is the work of those ghosts, and so, fearing
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  Speaker 1: he would be attacked next, f from turned and just
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  Speaker 1: continued running down the road.
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  Speaker 2: Dodging bodies as he went.
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  Speaker 1: And as he ran along, periodically he would stop at
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  Speaker 1: various tin huts and he would filling the door open
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  Speaker 1: in hopes he would find some survivors, but each time
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  Speaker 1: he went inside, everybody in there would be dead, lying
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  Speaker 1: in their beds, or sitting in chairs, or lying on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. But after running for quite a while, Ephram
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  Speaker 1: turned to go into yet another hut, and right as
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  Speaker 1: he reached for the door, the door opened on its own,
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  Speaker 1: and standing in front of him was the owner of
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  Speaker 1: this hut. His name was Joseph mcquin, and he was
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  Speaker 1: in much worse shape than Ephrom. The night before, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: had been inside of his hut when suddenly outside he
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  Speaker 1: heard that very loud, booming sound that sounded like thunder
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  Speaker 1: to Ephraim. And then after hearing the sound, Joseph heard
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  Speaker 1: his daughter in her bed making this terrible snoring sound,
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  Speaker 1: and so instinctively Joseph turned to walk over to his
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  Speaker 1: daughter to make sure she was okay, but he only
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  Speaker 1: got a few steps before he collapsed to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: He had woken up that.
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  Speaker 1: Morning with cuts all over his arms from where he fell,
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  Speaker 1: and he was also totally exhausted and very confused like Ephraim,
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  Speaker 1: and so he managed to drag himself over to his
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  Speaker 1: daughter's bed, and he pulled himself up onto her bed,
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  Speaker 1: and when he got up there, he realized his.
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  Speaker 2: Daughter was deceased.
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  Speaker 1: And so now Joseph has opened the door and he's
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  Speaker 1: looking out and there's all these dead people everywhere, and
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  Speaker 1: Ephraim is looking back at him, and Joseph just can't
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  Speaker 1: process anything.
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  Speaker 2: He's just standing there in a total daze.
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  Speaker 1: And Ephraim he wanted to say something, but no words
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  Speaker 1: could come out, and so he too just stood there
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  Speaker 1: looking at Joseph. And the two men just stood there
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  Speaker 1: right on the threshold of this hut, staring at each other,
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  Speaker 1: saying nothing for several minutes, until finally they both just
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  Speaker 1: extended their hands and shook silently. And then Ephram turned
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  Speaker 1: around and ran back into the road, and so Joseph
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  Speaker 1: at first followed Ephraim, kind of out of instinct, but
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  Speaker 1: very quickly he veered off from Ephraim, and Joseph went
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  Speaker 1: into his neighbour's hut to see if they were okay okay.
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  Speaker 1: But when he opened the door and went inside, he
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  Speaker 1: saw all of.
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  Speaker 2: His neighbors were deceased.
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  Speaker 1: But Joseph he barely reacted to this. It was like
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  Speaker 1: he was so numb to what was going on. He
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  Speaker 1: just couldn't process it. But after seeing all of his
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  Speaker 1: neighbors dead, somewhere deep down inside of his consciousness, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: knew he had to go find help.
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  Speaker 2: That was his mission, and so he left his neighbor's hut.
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  Speaker 2: He ran back to his own hut. He climbed onto
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  Speaker 2: his motorcycle and he started to drive.
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  Speaker 1: It took Joseph a long time to drive to the
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  Speaker 1: next closest village, but when he got there, there were
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  Speaker 1: people and they were all alive, and so Joseph tried
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  Speaker 1: to tell them what had happened in his village. But
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Joseph just had such a hard time putting his thoughts
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: together that his sentences just didn't make sense.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: He was kind of incoherent.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: And then when he did make sense, the things he
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: was talking about an entire village just suddenly dying sounded crazy,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: and so nobody at this other village took Joseph seriously.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: And so that day nobody from this other village went
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: to Nios to see what was going on. But the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: next day, people from this other village did go to Nios,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: and when they got there, it was exactly as Joseph
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: had said. The whole village was dead, and as authorities
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: would soon find out, it was not just Nios that
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: was affected by this tragic event. Several villages not far
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: from Nios had also suffered mass casualty events on the
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: morning of August twenty second, nineteen eighty six, and soon
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: news of these strange mass death events in West Africa
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: were making the news all over the world, and so
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: on August twenty fifth, three days after this terrible event,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: an American scientist named Joseph Devine turned on his TV
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and saw the news coming out of West Africa. The
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: newscasters were totally baffled about how this could have happened,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: and no one can figure out what killed these people.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: And Devine is just staring at his TV in shock,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and then he turns runs to his phone and he
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: calls his contact at the US government and told them,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: you got to send me to Nios.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: And because his.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Contact knew Devine's background, he immediately said, yes, I'll get
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: you on a flight as soon as we can. Devin
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: and his scientific partner, Harold or Sigurdson, arrived in Nios
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: two days later, on August twenty seventh. When they got there,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: they saw the military was burying the dead in these
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: huge mass graves, and looking on were the few survivors
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: of this event, like Joseph and Ephraim, along with Ephraim's family.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: They also survived, as well as other villagers who had
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: come to see what happened. And so as Devine and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Sigurdson kind of maneuver their way through this crowd of
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: very solemn people, they heard them talking about what they
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: thought happened to all these people, and the theories ranged
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: from secret governmental experiments, to invisible super weapons to even
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: atomic explosions. Others, like Ephraim, believed this was paranormal, that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: those ghosts from the drowned villagers had attacked the village,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: but Devine and Sigurdson were reasonably sure that none of
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: those theories were correct. They felt like they did know
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: what actually happened because they had actually witnessed a tragedy
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: like this before, but on a much smaller scale. Two
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: years earlier, and sixty miles south of Nios, in an
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: area called Lake Manoon, thirty seven people suddenly dropped dead,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and Devine and Sigurdson had been sent out there to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: try to figure out what happened to these people, and
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: after lots of experimentation, they came up with a theory
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: that explained what happened, and they called it unknown unnatural hazard.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: They tried to warn people in the area that this
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: could happen again, and in fact, Sigurdson had written an
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: entire scientific paper about this theory and submitted it to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a prestigious science journal, but nobody took Devine or Sigredson seriously.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: What they were proposing sounded made up, It sounded preposterous.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But now in Nios it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Looked very much like their unknown unnatural hazard had happened again.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Divine and Sigurdson would leave the group of people watching
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: this mass burying take place and they would make their
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: way up the hill to Lake Nios, where they would
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: immediately get to work taking water samples from deep inside
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a lake. And after capping these samples, the lids began
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: popping off, and that was the moment that Devine and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Sigurdson knew their unknown unnatural hazard theory had to be correct.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Lake Nios is not your typical lake. It is a
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: crater lake, which means it sits inside of a volcanic crater,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: which is a big, deep bowl like pit that was
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: formed from a past volcanic explosion. And because of this
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: volcanic activity, there is carbon dioxide in Lake Nios, a
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: lot of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide or CO two for short,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: is an odorless, invisible gas that we actually breathe out
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: when we exhale. Now, if you inhale a little bit
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: of CO two, that won't hurt you. If you inhale
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a little bit more like a medium amount of CO two,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: you could feel dizzy and nauseous. Your skin will start
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: to feel like it's on fire. You'll have rapid breathing.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: It'll be horrible, but you'll most likely survive if you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: stop breathing CO two. And if you breathe in a
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: ton of CO two, you're dead. The CO two in
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Lake Nios had been trapped at the bottom of the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: lake for as long as anyone knew, but on the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: night of August twenty first, nineteen eighty six, something happened
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: that caused that trapped gas to be released. Now, remember
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: on that night August twenty first, Afterum recalled hearing what
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he thought was thunder outside, and also Joseph would recall
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: hearing a loud, booming sound that night.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Now, we don't know exactly what that sound.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Was, but it's safe to say that that noise, whatever
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: it was, was connected to releasing the gas. Maybe it
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: was the sound of a rockslide and big rocks plummeted
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: into the lake and hit the lake bottom and freed
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the gas that way, Or maybe it was just an
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: actual volcanic.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Eruption inside of the lake.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Whatever it was, When the CO two was freed, it
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: bubbled to the top like it bubbled and popped off
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the lids of their sample tubes. And when it reached
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the top of the water, it kind of formed a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: cloud above the lake. Now we can't see the cloud,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: but you can imagine a big cloud. And then this
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: toxic CO two cloud kind of rolled its way down
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the hill towards Lower Nios and other villages in the area.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And when this big toxic cloud began coming in contact
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: with people with animals and insects, virtually.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: All of them died.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: As for the few who survived, like Ephraim and his
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: family and Joseph, they were left feeling horribly confused, disoriented, nauseous,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: totally dizzy from CO two poisoning. But when they finally
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: were able to get away from Nios and breathe fresh air,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the effects of CO two poisoning wore off.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: They were okay.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: This deadly CO two phenomenon was exactly what happened on
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a much smaller scale two years earlier at Lake Manoon.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: It was the unknown unnatural hazard that Devine and Sigurdson
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: had tried to warn people about.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: The official death toll of the Lake.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Nios disaster was more than seventeen hundred people and more
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: than thirty five hundred livestock, although exact numbers will likely
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: never be known. Today, people have moved back into Upper
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and Lower Nios, including Aphroim, despite the fact that authorities
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: have said that lake is still very dangerous and another
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: unknown unnatural hazard aka a CO two disaster could absolutely
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: happen again.
• 23:49
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