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Top 10 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • HORRIFYING Final Moments - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan, rising up
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  Speaker 1: to three thousand, seven hundred and seventy six meters, and
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  Speaker 1: it's actually a volcano.
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  Speaker 2: It's dormant.
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  Speaker 1: The last time it erupted was in seventeen oh seven,
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  Speaker 1: but geologists still.
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  Speaker 2: Classify it as active.
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  Speaker 1: Tourists are allowed to climb Mount Fuji, but only between
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  Speaker 1: July and September because in the winter months the mountain
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  Speaker 1: gets completely treacherous. There's snow and ice and the wind
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  Speaker 1: picks up. It's very, very dangerous, So it's off limits. Now,
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  Speaker 1: thrill seekers, if they really wanted to, they could climb
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  Speaker 1: Mount Fuji in the winter because there isn't a security
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  Speaker 1: guard posted up at the bottom of Mount Fuji checking
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  Speaker 1: people in and out.
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  Speaker 2: It's on you.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to climb it when it's off limits,
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  Speaker 1: well then you're climbing at your own risk.
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  Speaker 2: Because basically it's a terrible idea.
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  Speaker 1: But if you have the right equipment and you have
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  Speaker 1: all the right training, it is doable. One thrill seeker,
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  Speaker 1: a forty seven year old named ted Zu, decided he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to hike Mount Fuji in the winter of twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to live stream his entire journey to the summit. Now,
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  Speaker 1: ted Zu might have been a thrill seeker, but he
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  Speaker 1: certainly wasn't a mountain climber. He did not have the experience,
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  Speaker 1: nor did he have any of the equipment necessary for
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  Speaker 1: a climb up Mount Fuji in the winter, wearing only
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  Speaker 1: street clothes and carrying nothing more than climbing poles and
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  Speaker 1: his smartphone. He turned on his live stream and he
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  Speaker 1: began hiking up the Shubashiri trail. Viewers began tuning in
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  Speaker 1: as ted Zu happily made his way up this ash
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  Speaker 1: covered trail, and then the ash turned into light snow,
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  Speaker 1: and then light snow turned into really heavy snow and
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  Speaker 1: ice and wind, and then ted Zu began complaining about
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  Speaker 1: how cold he was and how he couldn't feel his hands,
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  Speaker 1: and his viewers are egging him on to keep going,
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  Speaker 1: keep pushing through it, and probably because of the pressure
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  Speaker 1: he felt from his viewers, he kept going when really
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  Speaker 1: this would have been the moment to turn around, when
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  Speaker 1: you're realizing that you don't have the right equipment and
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  Speaker 1: it's getting really cold and you're probably not even halfway up,
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  Speaker 1: that's the time.
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  Speaker 2: To turn around, but he didn't. He pressed on.
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  Speaker 1: As he moved up the mountain, the path he was
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  Speaker 1: on continued to narrow and become increasingly more covered in ice,
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  Speaker 1: and the guard fence that straddled the side of this
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  Speaker 1: path was getting to the place where it comes to
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  Speaker 1: a stop signaling the most dangerous section of the.
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  Speaker 2: Hike, which is the last leg up to the summit.
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  Speaker 1: He gets to that point where the fence comes to
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  Speaker 1: an end, and now he's on this narrow stretch where
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  Speaker 1: the wind is just whipping across and it's all ice,
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  Speaker 1: and he's trying to walk across the ice with this
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  Speaker 1: totally inappropriate footwear. He should have had on at least crampons,
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  Speaker 1: the metal spikes that go on the bottom of your
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  Speaker 1: shoe to grip ice. He just had tennis shoes on,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's slipping and sliding as he's walking up
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  Speaker 1: this icy trail, and then he finally staggers and falls,
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  Speaker 1: but he catches himself and you can hear him laughing
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  Speaker 1: on the live stream, joking with his audience how how
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  Speaker 1: dangerous and slippery it is, and his viewers begin to
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  Speaker 1: change their tone a little bit and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you might want to consider turning around now. But ted
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  Speaker 1: Zu is totally focused on getting to the top back up,
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  Speaker 1: and he continues to kind of shuffle his way towards
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  Speaker 1: the summit on this stretch of ice. He finally gets
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  Speaker 1: right up below the summit to where on his livestream,
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  Speaker 1: you can actually see the top of Mount Fuji, and
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  Speaker 1: you can tell that his footwear at this point is
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  Speaker 1: basically not able to handle how slick it is. He's
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  Speaker 1: basically constantly stumbling, and you can see he notices a
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  Speaker 1: little stretch of small rocks that seem to almost make
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  Speaker 1: stepping stones up to the summit, and he begins walking
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  Speaker 1: over very carefully on the ice to try to use
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  Speaker 1: these rocks to get himself up to the top. And
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  Speaker 1: right as he's trying to step for one of these rocks,
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  Speaker 1: he loses his balance and on camera he says, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I'm slipping, and then he falls and begins rocketing down
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  Speaker 1: the side of this mountain. Now, when you fall on
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  Speaker 1: a steep mountain, you have one, maybe two chances to
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  Speaker 1: self arrest. So, for example, if you had an ice
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  Speaker 1: pick and you were like ted Zoo and you start falling,
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  Speaker 1: you would want to roll over and dig the head
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  Speaker 1: of that ice pick into the ground and basically anchor
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  Speaker 1: your knees and elbows and drive everything you can into
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  Speaker 1: the snow to stop yourself from face And so if
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  Speaker 1: you can't do that in one or two attempts, your
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  Speaker 1: momentum will pick up, and you'll be going too fast
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  Speaker 1: and you won't be able to stop yourself, and then
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  Speaker 1: you just got to hope he survived the fall. Ted
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  Speaker 1: Zu did not have a nice pick or any other
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  Speaker 1: tool to help him self the rest, and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the training for what to do in a situation
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  Speaker 1: like this, so he didn't even attempt to roll over
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  Speaker 1: and dig his elbows or knees into the ground to
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  Speaker 1: try to slow down. So he just goes flying down
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. He's on his back, he's not slowing down,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows he's doomed, and he says on camera, well,
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  Speaker 1: it can't be helped, before he flies over the edge
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  Speaker 1: and falls hundreds of meters down to his death. His
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  Speaker 1: viewers who watched this happen alerted authorities, who found his
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  Speaker 1: body the next day, over one thousand meters away from
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  Speaker 1: where he had first fallen. Unfortunately, every year there is
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  Speaker 1: a handful of people that attempt to climb Mount Fuji
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  Speaker 1: in the winter and they meet the same fate. In
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two, Chilino Sanchez was born into a poor
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  Speaker 1: family in the Mexican state of Sineloa.
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  Speaker 2: When he was just fifteen years old, one of his.
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  Speaker 1: Sisters was assaulted by a very rich and powerful man
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  Speaker 1: in their town, and so he never got punished for it.
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  Speaker 1: Two years later, when Chileno was seventeen, he saw this
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  Speaker 1: man at a party and he walked up to him
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  Speaker 1: and shot him in the head, killing him instantly. After
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  Speaker 1: the murder, Chilino fled to Tijuana before ultimately crossing the
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  Speaker 1: US border into Los Angeles, where he stayed with his aunt.
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  Speaker 1: He worked odd jobs like picking vegetables and selling cars
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  Speaker 1: before he ultimately went into business with his brother, who
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  Speaker 1: was back in Mexico, and he worked with him to
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  Speaker 1: smuggle Mexicans into the US, but that operation stopped in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four when his brother was.
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  Speaker 2: Murdered in Tijuana.
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  Speaker 1: To commemorate his brother, Chillino, who always loved music, wrote
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  Speaker 1: a song about him, and he formatted the song in
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  Speaker 1: the typical Mexican ballad style called corrito, but his lyrics
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  Speaker 1: were graphic and gritty, something nobody else did when they
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  Speaker 1: wrote a corito. Chillino spoke honestly and openly, not only
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  Speaker 1: about how his brother was killed, but also the struggles
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  Speaker 1: of living around drug trafficking and violence in Mexico. Shortly
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  Speaker 1: after writing the song, Chillino wound up in jail in Tijuana, Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: and while he was there, he would sing the song
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  Speaker 1: he wrote about his brother, and other inmates heard it
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  Speaker 1: and loved it.
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  Speaker 2: They had never heard a corrito.
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  Speaker 1: Sung like that, and so they asked Chillino if he
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  Speaker 1: would write songs about them and their exploits. Soon, Chillino
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  Speaker 1: was being commissioned by all these inmates in the prison
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  Speaker 1: to write their songs in exchange for money and for favors.
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  Speaker 1: When Chillino got out of prison, his unique songwriting abilities
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  Speaker 1: had spread beyond the prison walls to other criminals and
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  Speaker 1: drug traffickers and kingpins in Mexico, and before long, Chillino
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  Speaker 1: was being approached by those people to write their songs.
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  Speaker 1: His corritos pioneered a new subgenre of music called narco
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  Speaker 1: corriedo for their ties to the narcotics industry. Some people
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  Speaker 1: today compared these style and lyrics of the narco couredo
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  Speaker 1: to gangster rap. By nineteen eighty seven, Chillino's music was
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  Speaker 1: not just being shared amongst his paying clients. It had
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  Speaker 1: spread into Los Angeles and all over Mexico and was
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  Speaker 1: becoming very popular, even though it wasn't being played on
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  Speaker 1: the radio because radios thought his lyrics were too graphic,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was spreading largely because of word of
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  Speaker 1: mouth and because Chillino himself would go to car washes
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  Speaker 1: and street corners and he would sell his cassettes to
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  Speaker 1: anybody who would take them.
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  Speaker 2: By nineteen ninety.
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  Speaker 1: One, Chillino was so famous that he actually went on
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  Speaker 1: tour and everywhere he went the venue would be completely
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  Speaker 1: sold out. But given what his narco corridos were about,
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  Speaker 1: largely about drug trafficking and the people that are involved
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  Speaker 1: in that ecosystem, the people that would actually come to
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  Speaker 1: his performances were often rough and dangerous people, or were
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  Speaker 1: at least tied.
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  Speaker 2: To rough and dangerous people.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety two, when Chileino was performing in California,
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  Speaker 1: while he was on stage, this thirty three year old
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  Speaker 1: guy rushed onto stage with him and drew a gun
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  Speaker 1: on him, and Chillino, who was always carrying a weapon himself,
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  Speaker 1: drew his pistol and fired at the guy first, and
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  Speaker 1: then what ensued was this crazy gunfight on stage, practically
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  Speaker 1: point blank between Chilino and this guy, and they both
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  Speaker 1: managed to shoot each other. Chileino got shot in the
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  Speaker 1: lung and this guy got shot in the mouth. They
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  Speaker 1: would both survive, but eight audience members also got shot,
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  Speaker 1: and one of them actually died. This made international headlines
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  Speaker 1: and by all accounts, should have devastated Chillino's career, but
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  Speaker 1: in fact it had the opposite effect. It made him
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  Speaker 1: ten times more famous because Chillino he was representing narco
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  Speaker 1: corrido music, and so in being the face of that,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of represented drug trafficking and criminals and outlaws
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  Speaker 1: all over Mexico and in the United States, and so
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  Speaker 1: he was kind of representing a very tough group of people.
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  Speaker 1: And so for him to have stood his ground on
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  Speaker 1: stage and shot first at this guy coming to attack him,
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  Speaker 1: it made him look brave, It made him look like
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  Speaker 1: a warrior. It validated him as the right person to
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  Speaker 1: be the face of Narco caritas. But Chilino also understood
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  Speaker 1: that this probably was not the last time that someone
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  Speaker 1: was going to try to hurt him, that in virtue
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  Speaker 1: of being the face of narco culture, there's bound to
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  Speaker 1: be people that are very violent that don't like him,
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  Speaker 1: and they might come after him too, And so he
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  Speaker 1: actually told his inner circle that he thought his days
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  Speaker 1: were numbered, that at some point someone was going to
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  Speaker 1: kill him. Four months after the shootout, Chillino was back
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  Speaker 1: home in Sineloa, Mexico, performing at a concert that his
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  Speaker 1: friends had told him he shouldn't do because he had
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  Speaker 1: lots of enemies in his hometown, but Chillino really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do it. He got into the venue, he got
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  Speaker 1: on stage, his band was getting ready, thousands of people
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  Speaker 1: were coming into the audience, and before the show started,
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  Speaker 1: somebody handed him a note, and so Chelino takes the note.
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  Speaker 1: He's smiling, he's kind of looking around at the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: and then he looks down at the note and he
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  Speaker 1: reads it, and right away his expression completely changes.
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  Speaker 2: He looks distressed, He rubs his brow, he frowns, he.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of looks up at the crowd like he's looking
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  Speaker 1: for someone, and then he just goes blank in the
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  Speaker 1: face and he's looking out like he's looking past the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: And it's this long period of time where he's just
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  Speaker 1: blank staring into the audience, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: he just snaps out of it, takes the note, puts
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  Speaker 1: it in his pocket, picks up the microphone and proceeds
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  Speaker 1: to give one of his best life performances to date.
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  Speaker 1: After the concert was over, Chellino made a special effort
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  Speaker 1: to say bye to everybody in his band, and he
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  Speaker 1: said bye to some people in the crowd, and then finally,
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  Speaker 1: after this kind of long drawn out goodbye, he walked
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  Speaker 1: out the back door. Shortly after he was kidnapped, tied up,
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  Speaker 1: and then shot in.
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  Speaker 2: The back of the head execution style.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out that note he received on stage
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  Speaker 1: was from his killers, who we don't know exactly who
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  Speaker 1: they are still to this day. But the note said
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  Speaker 1: after this performance, we're going to kill you. And so
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  Speaker 1: that was the reason Chellino was so distressed, because whoever
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  Speaker 1: it was, he obviously understood it was a credible threat.
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  Speaker 1: But instead of panicking, he just decided he would give
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  Speaker 1: an amazing performance and then face his destiny. And so
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  Speaker 1: when he went outside, he knew he was going to get.
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  Speaker 2: Murdered, and he did.
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  Speaker 1: On September twenty fifth, nineteen seventy eight, a Pacific Southwest
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  Speaker 1: Airlines Boeing seven to twenty seven jet airliner entered San
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  Speaker 1: Diego Airspace. Like all PSA aircraft, Flight one eighty two
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  Speaker 1: had a whimsical black button nose and smiley face painted
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  Speaker 1: underneath the cockpit. These so called grinning birds were synonymous
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  Speaker 1: with the company's self promoting ad campaign about them being
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  Speaker 1: the world's friendliest airline, but the airline was often criticized
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  Speaker 1: for being too friendly with their super low airfares their
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  Speaker 1: kind of comic banter that the captains would employ through
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  Speaker 1: the intercom to passengers and their female flight attendants, who
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  Speaker 1: wore mini skirts and were instructed to make nice with
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  Speaker 1: the male passengers. Because the weather was clear, air traffic
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  Speaker 1: Control directed Captain McFerrin and First Officer Fox to switch
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  Speaker 1: from instrument flight rules to visual flight rules procedures and
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  Speaker 1: to begin their final descent.
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  Speaker 2: Visual flight rules.
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  Speaker 1: Refers to pilots using their eyes to guide the plane.
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  Speaker 1: It's done when they're flying low, the weather's clear and
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  Speaker 1: they can see the ground. At eight fifty nine am
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  Speaker 1: that morning, as PSA Flight one eighty two descended down
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  Speaker 1: to four thousand feet, air traffic Control advised them of
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  Speaker 1: a Cessna, which is a small plane, that was ascending
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  Speaker 1: in their direction. Thoughts responded that they saw the Cessna,
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  Speaker 1: and so air traffic Control came back and said to
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  Speaker 1: maintain visual separation. Maintain visual separation meant that despite ground
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  Speaker 1: radar based controllers who could provide vertical and lateral separation criteria,
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  Speaker 1: the burden for maintaining separation fell solely on Captain McFerrin
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  Speaker 1: and his crew. In layman's terms, air traffic Control was
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  Speaker 1: telling them, don't lose sight of the Cessna. Inside the
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  Speaker 1: Cessna was a flight instructor named Martin Casey and his student,
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  Speaker 1: who was a United States Marine named David Boswell. As
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  Speaker 1: this little plane ascended, air traffic Control informed them that
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  Speaker 1: PSA one eighty two, who was right in front of
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  Speaker 1: them and slightly above them, they were on their descent.
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  Speaker 2: However, they had the Cesna in sight.
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  Speaker 1: As a result, the men inside of the Cesena did
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  Speaker 1: not take it upon themselves to actively begin looking for
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  Speaker 1: this jet. They assumed the pilots of PSA one eighty two,
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  Speaker 1: who had them in sight, would avoid them. Back in
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  Speaker 1: PSA one eighty two, it seemed to be some confusion
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  Speaker 1: in the cockpit. The two pilots were debating whether the
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  Speaker 1: Sesna they were watching fly lower than them past them
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  Speaker 1: on the right was the same Sesna that air traffic
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  Speaker 1: control had told them about. And at some point they agreed, yep,
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  Speaker 1: that's got to be the same sesna, and so they
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  Speaker 1: called in to air traffic control that it looks like
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  Speaker 1: the sesna has passed us.
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  Speaker 2: They've flown past us on the right.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately after this transmission, the black box recorded the two
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  Speaker 1: pilots talking to each other, basically trying to convince the
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  Speaker 1: other that yes, that was definitely the right sesna. But
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  Speaker 1: after a couple of minutes of reassuring themselves, one of
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  Speaker 1: them says, boy, I.
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  Speaker 2: Hope that was the right cessna.
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  Speaker 1: According to later testimony by the air traffic controller who
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  Speaker 1: was in communication with the pilots of PSA one to
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  Speaker 1: eighty two as they were on their final descent, he
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  Speaker 1: would say, when Captain McFerrin came over and said the
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  Speaker 1: sesna has passed him on the right, he believed him
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't think to check to make sure it
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  Speaker 1: was the right one. But in reality, the sesna that
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  Speaker 1: McFerrin and Fox had seen was.
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  Speaker 2: The wrong one.
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  Speaker 1: The real sesna they were supposed to maintain visual step with,
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  Speaker 1: the one containing Kz and Boswell, was still ascending in
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  Speaker 1: the direct flight path of PSA one eighty two. Except
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  Speaker 1: now this Sesna is in one eighty two blind spot
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  Speaker 1: below their nose, so they literally can't see each other.
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  Speaker 1: At nine oh one that morning, air traffic control got
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  Speaker 1: an alarm that PSA one eighty two and this Sesna
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  Speaker 1: are about to collide, but for some reason, the air
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  Speaker 1: traffic controller did not alert both aircraft. Instead, this controller
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  Speaker 1: only contacted the sesna and didn't tell them this was
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  Speaker 1: a dire situation. They said, Hey, there's traffic in your vicinity,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure it's just PSA one eighty two
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  Speaker 1: and they already see you, so you're fine. So Kz
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  Speaker 1: and Boswell inside of the sesna just continued to ascend.
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  Speaker 1: One minute later, at nine o two am, PSA one
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  Speaker 1: eighty two flies directly over the Sesna and strikes them
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  Speaker 1: with their nosewheel. The Sesna gets hooked by the wheel
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  Speaker 1: and flips upside down and gets trapped underneath the right
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  Speaker 1: wing of the jet. Seconds later, the sesna splits in two.
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  Speaker 1: The tail section containing David Boswell plummets to the earth
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  Speaker 1: like a rag doll. The nose section of the cessna
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: that contained Martin Casey stayed trapped underneath the right wing
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: for a few seconds before it detonated inside of PSA
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: one to eight two. This explosion was deafening, and immediately
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: after it, mcfarrian was recorded saying.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Easy baby, easy baby.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Then he asked Fox, what's the damage, and Fox says
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: it's bad.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Man, We're hit.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Despite trying to keep the plane flying level, it lurched
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: forward into an unrecoverable nose dive, and McFerrin, knowing they
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: were doomed, calmly calls out to air traffic Control and
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: says we're going down. Air traffic responded, okay, we'll have
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the equipment ready for you. Then the black box recorded
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the sound of a stall warning inside the cockpit, and
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: as the aircraft streaked at over three hundred miles per
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: hour straight towards the ground, mcferran's last known transmission to
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: air traffic was.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: This is it baby.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Seconds before impact, mcfarrin gave his final command over the intercom,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: which was brace yourselves. And then right before the black
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: box cut out, someone in the cabin yelled, I love you, mom.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: I know three am PSA one eighty two slammed nose
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: first into the ground just outside of downtown San Diego
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: in an area called North Park. The resulting explosion of
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: thousands of gallons of jet fuels sent a shockwave that was.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Registered two miles away.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Almost immediately, firefighters were rushing towards the rising mushroom cloud
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: of black, oily smoke, and many of the first responders
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: that arrived at the crash site in those first few
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: hours were deeply disturbed.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: At what they saw.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: The bodies that had not been destroyed in the explosion
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: had gotten trapped up in the trees. All told, one
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty four people were killed in this accident.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: One hundred and thirty five were from.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: PSA one eighty two, two were from the Cessna, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: seven were just unlucky people that were standing on the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: ground in North Park. Following a one year investigation into
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the Mayer collision, it was determined that the flight crew
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: of PSA one to eighty two was found to be
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: primarily responsible because there was that moment that was picked
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: up in the black box where the two pilots were
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: unsure if the Cesena that passed them was the right one,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: but instead of calling that into air traffic control and
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: getting confirmation, they blew it off. The morning of the crash,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a San Diego photographer was at a press event when
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: he heard the explosion overhead, which was one eighty two
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: colliding with the Cessna, and he began taking pictures and
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: he captured these now two infamous photos of PSA one
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: to eight, two seconds before they hit the ground. Just
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: outside of the popular tourist town of AMaGA in northern
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Colombia lies this thick green jungle And if you know
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: where to look, there is actually a walking path that
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: leads you from AMaGA deep into this jungle, and if
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: you keep going, it will bring you all the way
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to this terrifying, enormous old railroad bridge that spans this
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: huge ravine. Now this bridge is no longer used by trains.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: It's been decommissioned. However, since its decommissioning, there's actually been
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: ironically more traffic on this bridge, although it is the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: foot traffic variety. People come out to this bridge to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: go bungee jumping. Bungee jumping is a thrill seeking activity
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: where people will leap off of high places like this bridge,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and they'll jump with an elastic rope tied to their ankles.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And so this rope has been very carefully measured so
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: that when it is fully stretched.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: All the way out.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: It ensures whoever has jumped will still not impact the ground.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Back in early July of twenty twenty one, a twenty
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: five year.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Old Columbian lawyer named Yasinia Gomez who lived about an
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: hour north of AMaGA in the larger city of Medeyin.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: She told her boyfriend that she wanted to go bungee jumping.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: This was something Yasinia had talked about for a long time,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: wanting to go bungee jumping, but every time it became
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a real thing and they were actually going.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: To go do it, she would back down because she
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: was just too scared.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, in July of twenty twenty one,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Yasinia had the confidence and the courage to actually see
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: this thing through, and so her boyfriend, when he heard
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: how serious she was, he capitalized on the opportunity because
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he had never bungee jumped before and he really wanted to,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: but he couldn't without his girlfriend, And so now it
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: seemed like she was serious, and so right away he
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: called the AMaGA bungee Jumping Company to book a slot
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: for he and Yasinya to jump off of their bridge.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: So on the day they were supposed to jump, which
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: was Sunday, July eighteenth.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yasinia and her boyfriend.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Hopped in their car and they drove an hour south
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: to AMaGA, and when they got there, they found the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: walking trail and they made their way out to this bridge.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: And when they get out to this bridge, they are
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: amazed at the number of people who were already in line.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: On this bridge waiting to jump off of it.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: They knew this was a popular spot, but perhaps they
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: didn't realize just how popular it was. So Yasinia and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: her boyfriend they get in line behind the nearly one
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: hundred other jumpers ahead of them, and they proceeded to wait,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and over the next several hours, Yasinia and her boyfriend
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: would have front row seats to all of the jumper
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: ahead of them jumping off the bridge. Now it seems
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: like Yasina in her mind believed she would arrive at
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: this bridge and very quickly she and her boyfriend would
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: leap off and it would be great and so much fun.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: But now they've been forced to wait for a really
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: long time, and this whole time they're watching other people jump,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and Yasinia is starting to panic. Suddenly, bungee jumping looked terrifying.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: It did not look like something she wanted to do,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and so she was beginning to second guess her decision.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And so her boyfriend he's trying to calm her down,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and he's telling her, oh, it's totally safe.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Look at all these people who have jumped. They're all fine,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: they're all smiling, they're so happy. You're gonna be so
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: proud of yourself.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: But despite his best efforts to calm his girlfriend down,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yusinia just could not calm down. But she did tell
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: her boyfriend that she's not about to back down.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: She's gonna go through with this.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And so several hours went by, this totally high stress,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: anxious waiting period, and then finally Yasina and her boyfriend
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: reached the front of the line, at which point the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: staff met me, who've been doing this all day long.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: They signaled the two to step forward and get.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Their harnesses on, and so Yasina and her boyfriend they
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: make their way to the edge of the platform, so
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: they're looking out over this ravine and the staff members
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: are putting on their harnesses and getting them ready, and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the whole time, Yasinya she's starting to get tunnel vision
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: her hardest racing. She's totally panicked. She doesn't think this
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: is fun at all. She just wants to get this
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: over with. And then at some point one of the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: staff members finally says, okay, jump, and so Yasinya jumps.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Except it would turn out Yasina had made a mistake.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: That staff member who had said okay, jump was talking
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to her boyfriend, not Yasina. However, Yasinya, in her totally
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: panicked state, had just not understood and had leapt believing
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: they were telling her to jump. However, the staff members
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: had only put her harness on, they had not attached
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the actual elastic rope to her ankles, and so when
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Yasinya jumped, there was nothing stopping her from smashing into
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the ground. And so as soon as she leapt off
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the bridge, her boyfriend ripped off all of his gear
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and he ran down the bridge.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: He leapt over the railingk and he.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Ran down the hillside all the way to the bottom
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of this ravine. But when he finally got to his girlfriend,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: it was already too late.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: She was already gone.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: It would later be determined Yasinia did not die from
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: impacting the ground. She actually died from a heart attack
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: she suffered on the fall down, which means she must
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: have realized after she jumped that she jumped too early,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: that she did not have the bungee cord attached to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: her legs, and so literally the fear of.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: What was about to happen to her killed her.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety eight, fresh A Bakery, which was a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: bread company in Lester, England, was all about profits, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: their employees knew this because all the time corners were
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: being cut for the sake of money, even if it
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: was totallygerous. In May of that year, one of the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: company's industrial ovens needed a minor repair. One of the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: cogs inside the oven had come loose and fallen off,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and someone just needed to pick it up and put
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it back on. To picture this oven in your head,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: think of the scanner you put your luggage through at
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the airport, the X ray machine.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: It was this eighty foot long metal tunnel where there
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: was a conveyor belt that ran through it, and you
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: would put dough on one side and it would run
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: through with the conveyor belt through this oven, and.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Then on the other side it would be fully cooked.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Whenever repairs were needed inside one of these ovens, the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: procedure was to completely turn off the oven, so not
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: just the heat, but the whole operation needed to be
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: completely shut down, and then the oven would sit for
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: almost a full twenty four hours before a mechanic would
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: go in and make the repair. But the mechanic cost money,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and every hour that this bread machine was not operational,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the company would lose fifteen hundred dollars, and so the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: managers of this company thought, you know what, that's too
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: much money to be giving up. If we do the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: repairs ourselves, that saves us on the cost of the mechanic.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: And if we can find a way to make the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: repair while leaving the oven partially running, that will save
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: us a whole bunch of money too. Someone pointed out
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that it was possible to turn the heat all the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: way down in the oven but allow the conveyor belt
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to keep rotating through. They just needed to find a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: way to get in with this conveyor belt moving around.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Them, and so they came up with a plan.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Even though the oven sat flushed to the ground, there
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: was a side panel that could open up and you
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: could crawl underneath the oven, and right above you would
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: be the conveyor belt. And so they thought, well, hey,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: if we just remove a couple of sections of the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: conveyor belt, when that gap in the belt cycles around
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and is right over someone who is standing underneath it,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: they can stand up into that gap and kind of
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: be hunched over and walk along inside of the oven,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: staying in that gap until they come across the cog
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: that's going to be right on the ground.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: They can pick it up, put it right back on,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: and keep walking.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: On, staying in the gap until they reached the other side,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: at which point they could crawl out the exit. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: managers were confident, and so they began walking around the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: factory asking for volunteers, and they were offering extra pay.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Two men, forty four year old Ian Erickson forty seven
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: year old David Mays, volunteered for the job, and their
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: managers told them they would do it the next day
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: because they needed time to turn the heat off on
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the oven and let it cool down first. That night,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: David was out with his friends and he was talking
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: about how he was kind of nervous about getting inside
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: of a semi operational industrial oven, but he told.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Them the money was good.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: The following day, at nine am, the oven's heat was
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: turned all the way down, and the plan was it
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: would sit like that all day and cool off all day,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and then in the evening Ian and David would get
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: inside and do the job. But Ian and David had
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a really important soccer game they wanted to watch that night,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and so they asked their manager would it be possible
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to go in a little bit earlier. And so the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: manager walked down to the oven and put his hand
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: inside one of the entrances, and there were fans blowing
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: into it, and it had been off for a couple
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: of hours, and he thought, you know what, this is
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: probably fine. You guys can go now. A few sections
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of the conveyor belt were removed. Ian was given a radio,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and the two men opened the side to the oven
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and they crawled in on the far left side of
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the oven, and they waited for the gap to come around.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: When a did, they popped up and they began their
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: journey into the center of the oven.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: About five minutes later, Ian came over the radio and said, hey,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: it's really hot in here, and the manager came back
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and said, don't worry. It's supposed to be a little
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: warm in there, but it's nothing that can hurt you.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And then a couple of seconds later, Ian comes back
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: over the radio and says, no, it's.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Really hot in here. It is unbearably hot in here.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: And so one of the managers ran over and checked
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the temperature gauge, which unbelievably no one had done to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: that point, and the temperature at the center of the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: oven was reading over two hundred degrees fahrenheit. It was
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: hot enough to boil water in the center of this oven,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately, there was nowhere for Ian or David to go.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: The belt could not go in reverse, and the fastest
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: it could move is seventeen minutes start to finish, so
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: agonizingly slow, and they could not crawl up or below
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the conveyor belt in either direction. There wasn't enough clearance
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and they'd get sucked up into the machinery. So they
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: literally had to stay in the gap and slowly walk
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: towards the hottest section of the oven. And so for
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: ten minutes Ian and David slowly they made their way
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: across this oven, screaming out in pain, yelling for help
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: from anyone. Someone but no one could do anything, and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: even if they hit the emergency stop button on the oven,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't help them because the heat inside of the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: oven is not because it's on, it was residual heat,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and by turning off the oven that would just stop
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the conveyor belt, trapping Ian and David in the hottest
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: part of the oven. Workers ran and got their tools
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and did everything they could to try to dismantle portions
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: of the oven to try to get down to Ian
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and David. But by the time they finally pulled off
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: big pieces of the oven, Ian had already made it
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: to the other side and been pulled out, and he
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: was unfortunately deceased. He had been burned alive, and David
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: had collapsed somewhere in the oven and had been crushed
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: by the machinery that went over him. The bakery and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: their management team were all fine for their part in
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: this tragedy. When the earth collapses in on itself, creating
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a hole in the ground that sucks away anything in
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: its wake, that's called a sinkhole. These holes form when
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: water dissolves the rock layer underneath the soil. They range
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: dramatically in size from a barely noticeable depression in the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: ground to massive chasms that are.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Hundreds of meters wide and deep.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: If you're one of the unfortunate few that falls into
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: a large sinkhole, you probably won't get out again because
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the ground inside of a sinkhole after the initial implosion,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: just continues to sink. So if you were standing on
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the ground inside of a sink hole, you would continuously
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: be pulled into the ground as it continued to crumble
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and churn like quicksand below your feet. And even if
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you manage to get to the sides inside of the sinkhole,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you could not climb up again because there wouldn't be
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: any handholds because the soil is all loose and wet. Luckily,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: most sinkholes form slowly and show lots of warning signs,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: allowing people to get away before it opens up, but
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: there are unique circumstances where large sinkholes can appear out
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of nowhere.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: In Russia, hot water is.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Piped into business and residential buildings during the harsh winters.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: On November nineteenth, twenty nineteen, in the Russian city of Penza,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: which is three hundred and forty miles south of Moscow,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: a large hot water pipe burst underground below a car park. Initially,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: nobody knew the pipe had burst, but witnesses would later
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: say they saw steam coming out of the ground near
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the car park, but they didn't think anything of it.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: A few minutes after the steam appeared, forty nine year
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: old Vladimir vaal Jelkin was driving his car through the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: car park. With him was his coworker, fifty three year
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: old Igor Chickisav. They worked together at a furniture store.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: As they made their way towards the exit of this
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: car park, there was another car ahead of them that
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: rolled over that section of pavement that was steaming, and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: they watched as it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Rolled over and drove off, and nothing happened.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And so Vladimir and Igor they drove over that section
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: of pavement and the ground collapsed under them. The burst
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: hot water had injected thousands of gallons of water into
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the soil right under the pavement, and so it caused
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the sinkhole, but not just any sinkhole, a sinkhole that
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: was slowly filling with boiling water. When the ground collapsed
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: under Egor's car, it flipped the car forward and it
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: landed upside down at the bottom of this ten meters
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: deep sinkhole, and it landed just perfectly to where the
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: doors could not open they would hit the sides of
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the sinkhole, which also meant they couldn't roll the windows
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: down and crawl out because they would hit the sides
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: of the sinkhole. The men managed to get their seat
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: belts off and flip themselves around and began kicking on
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the windshield and yelling out for help. At this point,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: onlookers had made it to the edge of the sinkhole,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and when they looked down inside, they realized there was
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: nothing anyone could do.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Jumping in was a death.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Sentence, so they watched in horror as Vladimir and Igor
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: desperately tried to escape, But the scalding water continued to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: fill the hole until it began leaking into the cabin
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of the vehicle, at which point the men went quiet.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: A few moments later, the car completely disappeared from view
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: under the boiling water. Although held criminally responsible, the water
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: company that owned the pipe that burst offered to pay.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Compensation to both families, as.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Well as cover all funeral costs. Yellowstone National Park in
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Wyoming is one of the most remarkable and beautiful places
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: on Earth. Not only is it renowned for its biodiversity,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: which includes some incredibly resilient microbial organisms, it's also home
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to one of the worlds so called supervolcanoes. This supervolcano
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: sits atop one of the world's largest magma bodies, fueled
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: by an upwelling plume of superheated material. This dynamic and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: violent subterranean plumbing means the water bodies at the surface,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the famous Yellowstone Hot Springs are highly acidic and incredibly hot.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: If you were to ignore the countless warnings around these
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: hot springs telling you to stay away, do not go
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: in the hot springs, if you were to ignore those
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and go in one or more accurately fall in one,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: this is what would happen to you. First, your body
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: would register that your skin was bathing in waters exceeding
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: two hundred degrees fahrenheit. This would hurt like nothing you
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: can possibly imagine, but it would only hurt as long
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: as your nervous system was able to register pain, which
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: would only be for about one minute or less. At
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: this temperature, your skin would begin to quickly break down
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and disintegrate, and your blood vessels in your underlying dermis
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: would rupture, causing rapid blood loss. Some underlying skin layers
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: would not break down, but they would lose all of
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: their water and become tough and blackened, and your underlying
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: subcutaneous fat would bubble off as well. All in all,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: this is known as a full thickness burn, and it
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: would occur in about one minute. In these waters, your
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: nervous system would enter a state of shock and become
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: irreversibly damaged, which would lead to most, if not all,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of your organs to fail.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: If the heat stress.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Has not already done that to you, you would be
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: dead within two to three minutes. Point the acidity of
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the water would take over. Within a few hours, your body,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: including your skeleton, would be completely dissolved into absolute nothingness.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: And for anyone who falls in but manages to climb
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: out again before being dissolved, they are not out of
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the woods. Many of those people, unfortunately, will die hours, days, months.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Later due to complications from the burns.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: On June seventh, twenty sixteen, Colin Scott and his sister
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Stable went to Yellowstone.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: To see the famous hot springs.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: The siblings were exploring the Norris Guyser basin, which is
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the park's oldest and hottest thermal area. When they decided
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to leave the safety of the boardwalk and walk past
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: all the signs telling them do not leave the boardwalk
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: this is dangerous turn around, they decided to walk past
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: all of those and venture out off the course. They
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: walked approximately two hundred meters away from the path to
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the edge of a hot spring that was not really
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: part of the main tour, and they were just standing
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: there when Colin apparently tripped and fell into the hot spring,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and his sister was just not able to do anything.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: She knew she couldn't go in after him, and he
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: very quickly sunk below the surface and didn't come up again.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: She ran back to try to get help, but by
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: the time they got.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Back to the edge of the hot spring, he was gone,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and in fact, the only thing they would find of Colin.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Scott was his flip flops.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Since eighteen ninety, Colin Scott, along with twenty one other
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: people have died by falling into these hot springs. Despite
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the fact that today there is already tons of shocking
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: content on the Internet, there is still something truly insane
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: about Wu Young Ning's videos In twenty seventeen. Wu was
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: a twenty six year old climbing enthusiast who was dubbed
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: China's first rooftopper. A rooftopper is someone who usually illegally
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: climbs onto rooftops, cranes, smokestacks, began tennis, skyscrapers, or any
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: other really high dangerous location. Almost always, these daredevils are
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: going to these incredibly dangerous locations in order to capture
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: footage of themselves so they can post it to the
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Internet in hopes that it goes viral and they become
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: famous and make a bunch of money. But because there
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: are so many people competing for the Internet's attention, rooftoppers
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: really need to push the envelope if they want to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: stand out and make it big, and Wu yong Ning
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: did just that, and the Internet rewarded him with millions
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: of followers and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Most rooftoppers
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: would go to the tops of these incredible locations and
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: then take selfies of themselves standing there posing at the top.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Wu would do that, but he also did a couple other.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Things that nobody else was doing that kind of became
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: his trademarks. The first one was he would dangle over
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: the edge of the building or the crane or the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: antenna that he was holding on to, and he would
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: do pull ups, but he would keep doing them until
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: he reached muscle failure. Then then would barely be able
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: to pull himself back up to safety. Another trademark move
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: is he would go to the top of these huge
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: buildings and he would get right on the edge and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: he would do a handstand, and then he would pull
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: one arm back so he's doing a one armed handstand,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: and then he would tilt his body as far as
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: he could over the edge until he couldn't do it
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: any farther, and he'd let himself come back over to safety.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: And then perhaps the most difficult to watch trademark was
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: when Wu would basically run up to the edge of
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: buildings and stop just short.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: And he wouldn't just run to the edge.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: He would use a self balancing scooter and go as
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: fast as he could right to the edge of the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: building and stop just short.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: And over and over again, he'd go right to the
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: edge and stop.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Where he's literally an inch away from tumbling off the edge,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: or he'd line himself up where he knew exactly how
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: far he was from the edge, and he would do
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: these really aggressive somersaults forward and he would stop with
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: his legs dangling off the edge of the building.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: And of course all of these trademark moves were done
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: without any safety equipment, and most times Wu did these
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: stunts without anybody there to potentially pull him back up
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: if he gets stuck.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: About three quarters of the way through twenty seventeen, Wu
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: had posted over five hundred videos and live streaming clips
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: to various social media sites, and he was starting to
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: make some real money off of it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: On one video sharing site alone, he had.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Made over eighty thousand dollars just from donations that had
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: come in, and so it was clear this was becoming
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: a career.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: But as the money and the fame were coming.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Into Wu, he started to realize that in order for
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: him to stay on top and keep earning at this level,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: he would need to continuously outperform his last big stunt,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and already he was brushing up against death on virtually
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: every video he took. In early November of that year,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Wu heard about a competition that was offering fifteen thousand
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: dollars to its winner. The details of this competition are
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: hazy at best, but from the sounds of it, it
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: was a viral video competition.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Make the most viral video and you win the prize.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: This competition served as motivation for Wu to finally attempt
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: his craziest stunt yet. He figured if he had the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: footage of this particular stunt, he was sure to win
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: this competition, and with the prize money, he could pay
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: for his wedding and cover his mother's medical expenses. And
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: so on November eighth, Wu traveled to the Huien International
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Center in central China. This massive, sixty two story skyscraper
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: would be the tallest building Wu.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Had ever performed a stunt on.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: The public was only able to get up to the
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: forty fourth floor, and so Wu had to take the
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: elevator up to somewhere between the fortieth and forty fourth floor,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: at which point he climbed out of a window and
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: three climbed his way all the way up to the top,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: so twenty additional.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Floors just climbing the side of a skyscraper.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Once he got to the rooftop, he set up his
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: tripod and his camera and he turned on his live
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: stream and then he walked around and he began preparing
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: himself for the stunt. Livestream viewers that tuned in would
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: see Wu sitting on the edge of the skyscraper and
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: he's meticulously wiping down the edge of this building. It's
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the area he'll be grabbing onto to perform his stunt,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: which was going to be his trademark pull ups.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: And so after several.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Minutes of Wu cleaning this ledge, he begins to lower
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: himself where his arms are still tucked up over the ledge,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: so he's not hanging, He's got his arms kind of
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: anchored on the top. He's like test the edge of
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: this lip and he kind of feels around that he
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: can tell that it's not a good grip, it's not
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: good enough for him to go down to a full extension,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: and so he pulls himself back up and he goes
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: back to wiping down the edge. And from the looks
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: of it, it seems like Wu is actually pretty nervous
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: about the stunt. And normally when you watch Wu's videos,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: he doesn't seem nervous at all, even leading up to
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: his stunt, but this one just seemed different. And so,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: after again wiping down this ledge, as much as he
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: possibly could. He gets himself ready, lowers himself onto his arms,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: he lets his legs drop over the edge of the building,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: and then he goes to full extension, and from there
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: he does two complete pull ups, and then after the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: second pull up, he begins to try to pull himself
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: back up to safety, but he's fatigued and he can't
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: quite get.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Himself up over the edge.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: He starts to use his feet to try to use
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the glass to push himself back up, but he can't
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: get a grip, and for the next fifteen seconds, wu
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: is desperately trying to get himself up and over this ledge.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: He's trying to muscle himself up, but it's obvious he's
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: completely fatigued.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, he did free.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Climb almost twenty stories to get up there, and so
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: it makes sense his arms would be tired.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: But there's nobody up there to help pull him up.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: And so after a while he goes back to full
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: extension because he can't do anything, and he looks down
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: as if he's sizing up if he can survive this fall,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: which he obviously can't, and then the camera picks up
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: a sort of whimpering sound that appears to come from Wu,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and then he loses his grip and he falls to
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: his death.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: In the early.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Nineteen seventies, a man named Marshall Applewhite was fired from
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: his music teaching job for having an inappropriate relationship with
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: a male student.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Shortly after, he.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Admitted himself into a psychiatric institution where he met a
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: nurse who worked there named Bonnie Nettles. Both had a
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: deep interest in biblical prophecy, and Applewhite, at meeting Nettles,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: was convinced they had met in a previous life. Nettles
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: agreed and took it a step further, saying extraterrestrials had
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: come to her and preordained that she would someday meet
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: apple White. The two did not have a romantic relationship
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: at all. It was strictly platonic. They bonded over a
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: desire to ascend to a higher level of existence and
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: ultimately reached the kingdom of Heaven. Apple White began calling
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: himself Bow and Nettles became Peep, and together they would
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: start an infamous cult known as Heaven's Gate. The premise
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: of Heaven's Gate was that an alien spacecraft that they
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: simply called the UFO was going to come to Earth
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: and whisk away Heaven's Gate cult members, elevating them to
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: a new world and a better life that they referred
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to as Tella, or the evolutionary level above human. There
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: was a catch, though, anybody on Earth who did not
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: get on the UFO whenever it got here would be recycled,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: i e. Destroyed along with everybody else on Earth. And
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: then at some point a new human population would grow
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and another UFO would come, and whoever got on that
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: would be saved, over and over and over again.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: That was just how it worked.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: And Bo and Peepe were telling everyone they talked to
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: about Heaven's Gate that were already in end times.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Apparently there were signs that this.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: UFO is going to be here any day, and so
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: now is the time to join the cult. And so
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: by nineteen seventy five, Bow and Peepe had recruited twenty
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: people to be a part of their cult, which meant
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: they gave up their families, they gave up their possessions,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: They basically gave up everything in their life and moved
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: to Colorado to live in total poverty as they waited
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: for this UFO to arrive. For ten years, cult members
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: waited and waited for this UFO that never showed up,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: and Bo and Peepe are aggressively reminding people that this
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: is the path.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: You just got to stay the path.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: And then Peep unexpectedly died of cancer in nineteen eighty five,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: which really screwed things up for the cult. In their doctrine,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: it was destiny that Bo and Peepe would get on
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: that UFO and make their way to Tella, the evolutionary
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: level above human. That was their destiny. And now Peepe
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: has died on planet Earth. She did not get on
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the UFO. She did not ascend to Tella. She will
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: not get to Heaven's Gate. Bo was devastated and horribly depressed,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't really clear what was going to happen
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to Heaven's Gate. But he composed himself and he began
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: to tweak his messaging a little bit.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Bo began telling his.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Followers that Peep had in fact ascended to Tella. Yes,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: she did not get on the UFO, However, the aliens
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: must have given her a signal that if she leaves
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: behind this human body, this mere vessel, you'll still ascend
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: to Tella. Basically, he was preaching to them, if you
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: just end your own life at the right moment, you
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: can go to Tella too. But Bo didn't really know
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: what the right moment was. He didn't know what the
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: trigger was going to be until nineteen ninety five when
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: astronomers discovered the hail Bop comment was going to be
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: passing by Earth two years later in nineteen ninety seven,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and Bo Bo saw this as the trigger. The UFO
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: was going to be hiding behind the trail of this comet,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: and for sure Peep was riding on that UFO and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: as soon as it passes by Earth, we need to ascend.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: And so fast forward to March twenty sixth, nineteen ninety seven.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: As the hail Bop comet passed by Earth, thirty nine
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: of the Heaven's Gate cult members, including Bow, they began
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: their journey. Bo told them they would be exiting the
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Earth in three groups, and so on March twenty sixth,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Group one entered their San Diego mansion and consumed apple
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: sauce mixed with barbituates, followed it up with a whole
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: bunch of vodka, and then put a bag over their
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: head and waited for death. Then on March twenty seventh,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Group two entered the San Diego mansion, knowing full well
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: what they were walking into. They all had specific jobs
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: of how they were going to clean up the mess
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: left from Group one.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: They cleaned it up.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Then they picked up the Group one members and placed
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: them in beds and put a purple cloth over their face.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Before they Group two consumed their own apple sauce mixed
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: with barbituates and put.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: A bag over their head and waited for death. On
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: March twenty.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Eighth, the third group entered the San Diego mansion and
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: this included Bow and they did the same cleanup as
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Group two. They put the Group two deceased members in
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: bed as well, and then they consumed apple sauce and barbituates,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: followed it up with vodka, bag over their.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Head waited for death.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Bo had given special instructions to two of the members
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: that were within that third group to wait until he
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: had exited Earth and take special care to put him
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: in a specific bed, organize a certain way, and then
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: when they consumed their own apple sauce and barbituates, followed
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: up with vodka. They should do that in their bed.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Because they're the last two. There's nobody else to move them.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: When a former cult member stopped by the San Diego
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: mansion to check in on the cult, they went inside,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: not knowing what they were up to, and found all
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: thirty nine cult members deceased laying in bunk beds with
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: identical black and white Nike running shoes on their feet,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: with purple shrouds over their bodies, and they were all
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: wearing matching armbands that read Heaven's gate Away Team. Just
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: hours before they exited the earth, each of the groups
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: would perform exit interviews, where they would record themselves talking
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: about why they were doing this, why it was important,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: and what they expected. On the other side, they are
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: remarkably cheerful and happy considering what they all know they
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: are about to do.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Here are some highlights from those exit interviews.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, we have thirsdy with this and a belief that
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: he chose the name their SODI because.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: You want to your minded him, your thirst for next
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: level knowledge.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: J Zach Right, that's right. My vehicles are this vehicle
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: that I'm wearing. You know, pretty nervous, pretty scared. Some
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: may say, well, what, it's quite a very versatile step.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: This isn't a troubling circumstance.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Don't take it as that it's just his gateway, just drawing.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you are you're going to find this old,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: crummy vehicle in a bunk someplace that I'll be going.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: I'll probably beat when you check it out.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: And observe your responses and your reaction when you look
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: at these vehicles and there are nothing but containers that
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: we've used and board for the short amount of time.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: People in the world too, thought that I had completely
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: lost my marbles. They're not right.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: In the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties, Reverend Jim
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Jones was known for his charitable works and his efforts
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: towards desegregating Indiana. This earned him a devoted loyal following,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: in particular from the African American community. In nineteen fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: he purchased a church in Indiana, and he named it
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  Speaker 1: the People's Temple, and all of his loyal followers went
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  Speaker 1: there and joined his congregation. During his fiery sermons, Jones
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: emphasized helping the poor and lifting up the on trodden,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: but despite his best efforts, raising money was proving to
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  Speaker 1: be a big challenge for him.
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  Speaker 2: Jones knew he was an amazing performer and he was really.
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  Speaker 1: Good on stage, and so instead of trying to do
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  Speaker 1: all the old school church fundraising techniques, he decided to
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  Speaker 1: do something a little more new school that played to
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  Speaker 1: his strengths, which was performance. And so what he started
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  Speaker 1: doing is advertising that he could perform miracles, live miracles
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  Speaker 1: on stage. And specifically, what he said he could do
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  Speaker 1: is he could pull cancer out of people. And he
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: had this magic trick where he would go up to
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  Speaker 1: somebody that had cancer and he would appear to be
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  Speaker 1: pulling on them, and then he would pull out what
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  Speaker 1: looked like meat from this person, and it was meat,
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  Speaker 1: it was chicken meat, and he made it seem like
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  Speaker 1: he had removed the cancer. And people loved it, and
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  Speaker 1: his congregations swelled immediately and money was pouring in. And
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: it was around this time that Jones began to realize
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  Speaker 1: the power of his own influence. He could make his
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  Speaker 1: followers believe anything he wanted. This power trip, though, over time,
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  Speaker 1: would caused Jones to lose his grip on reality, and
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  Speaker 1: so when he began espousing fairly radical views, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have anybody that was going to stand up and say
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know if you're right about that.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, he had a mass of people that basically blindly
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  Speaker 1: agreed with him. But when his social goals became so
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  Speaker 1: radical that they attracted Marxist leaders and violent leftist groups
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  Speaker 1: to the People's Temple, it was the one time that
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  Speaker 1: his followers said Okay, enough is enough, and there was
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  Speaker 1: a mass defection out of the People's Temple.
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  Speaker 2: And some of these.
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  Speaker 1: Defectors when they left and had a chance to kind
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  Speaker 1: of look at the People's Temple for what it was,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: they realized it was more like a cult, and that
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  Speaker 1: they had been brainwashed, and that Jim Jones was a
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  Speaker 1: lunatic and anybody who followed him could potentially be in danger.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: And so they went to the media and told them
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: about this. The media converges on the People's Temple and
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's this huge scandal that Jim
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Jones is the leader of a cult. And as stories
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  Speaker 1: started to break about Jim Jones being this awful person
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  Speaker 1: who was stealing from his member and abusing them and
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  Speaker 1: brainwashing them, he up and leaves for South America with
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: hundreds of his most loyal followers and they resettle in
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  Speaker 1: an area called Guyana that would eventually be called Jonestown.
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  Speaker 1: Life on the Jonestown compound was very grim.
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  Speaker 2: Not only did they have.
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  Speaker 1: Ten hour workdays every day of the week, but food
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  Speaker 1: and water were extremely limited because they were so cut
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  Speaker 1: off from modern society that the only way they could
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  Speaker 1: get any sort of resources was through haggling over a
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  Speaker 1: short wave radio that usually didn't even work, so they're
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: totally cut off. They had very few supplies, and then
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: at the end of their ten hour workday, it was
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  Speaker 1: mandatory for all members to come into this main area
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  Speaker 1: underneath this big scaffolding, where Jim Jones would get up
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  Speaker 1: on stage and he would rant and rave about various
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: government conspiracies that were going to befall them. He would
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  Speaker 1: excoriate defectors and talk about how they needed to round
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: them up and make examples of them. And if you
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: stepped out of line, even just a little bit, you
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: could find yourself locked inside out of a coffin or
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: trapped at the bottom of a well as a form
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  Speaker 1: of punishment. Jones was already spiraling out of control, but
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: some health issues led him to take a daily near
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  Speaker 1: lethal dose of amphetamines and sedatives that made him a
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: total lunatic. Suddenly his nighttime speeches just weren't enough, and
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  Speaker 1: he began pumping these crazy speeches twenty four to seven
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  Speaker 1: over loudspeakers all over the camp. One defector said the
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  Speaker 1: speeches were centered on this idea that back in the
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  Speaker 1: United States, the government was systematically rounding up African Americans
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  Speaker 1: and sending them to concentration camps, and it was only
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a matter of time before they came here and took
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: any of the African Americans here into captivity. And since
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the majority of the People's Temple were of African.
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  Speaker 2: American descent, this was terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: US Congressman Leo Ryan had been keeping close tabs on
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: the People's Temple ever since the news broke about Jim
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  Speaker 1: Jones kind of being a hack and a maniac, and
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: when they went to South America, he just felt like,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: no one's really checking in on them, and I'm concerned
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: for the well being of the people that are there,
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  Speaker 1: And so on November eighteenth, nineteen seventy eight, Ryan, along
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: with eighteen other people, flew to Guyana to talk to
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Jim Jones and to make sure that everything was okay.
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  Speaker 1: When he arrived, he was expecting it to be kind
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  Speaker 1: of in disrepair and be this chaotic scene.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: The camp was maintained, people were well dressed, polite. It
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: seemed like a happy and healthy community with a few
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: hundred people there. And he actually went to Jim Jones
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: and says, you know, it looks like he got a
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: good thing going here. But Jones, in his totally delusional state,
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  Speaker 1: believed Ryan was being sent by the US government to
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: round up the members and to ship them into concentration camps.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: And so as soon as the congressman left the camp
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  Speaker 1: and was headed back to the airport, Jones sent a
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: security team after them, and they shot and killed Leo
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Ryan along with four others. While that massacre is going on,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Jones goes over to the middle of the camp where
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: he normally gives his nighttime speeches, and he calls all
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: nine hundred plus members to the middle of the camp
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  Speaker 1: to listen to him. He turns on a recording device,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: he picks up his microphone, and he delivers a speech
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: that would come to be known as the Death Tape.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: His famous first line of this speech is, I've tried
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  Speaker 1: my best to give you a good life and you
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: can hear the crowd erupt with cheers as he says this.
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  Speaker 1: And what listeners of this tape can't see is what's
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: being unveiled at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: Right next to Jim Jones is this sober cauldron of
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: the sickly purple liquid.
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  Speaker 1: And next to it are about nine hundred cups. The
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: next day, authorities are outside the gate of Jonestown and
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: they're getting ready to head into Jonestown to confront Jim
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Jones about his connection to the murder of Congressman Ryan
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: and the four others, and they're loading their guns. They're
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: getting ready for what's bound to be massive resistance from
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: this crazy cult leader and his followers. And as they're
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: making their way down the road and the camp comes
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: into view, they notice that it's eerily quiet and they
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: don't see anybody moving around.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: And as they're walking through.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Some of the high grass, someone trips and falls and
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: they think they've stepped.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: On a log.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: When they stand up and look down, they notice that
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: it's a dead person. Then they scream out, and then
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: everyone's looking around and they notice that all over the
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: ground in front of them are hundreds and hundreds of
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: dead bodies. There's more bodies than they can possibly count.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: The previous night, that purple liquid that was revealed to
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the crowd after Jim Jones begins his speech was kool
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: aid mixed with cyanide, and over the course of several hours,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: and it's all recorded on the depth tape. He encourages
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: his members to come up and die with dignity and
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: drink the kool aid. However, if you didn't drink the
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: kool aid, or didn't want to drink the kool aid,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: like many of the three hundred children, their parents would
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: make them or the armed guards would come over and
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: they would inject them with it. And after everybody's died,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: Jim Jones doesn't even drink from the kool aid.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: He ends up shooting himself.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: I've decided to only include a very small portion of
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: the debt tape because so much of it is just
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: it's heartbreaking, it's distressing, and it should be something that
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: you decide you want to listen to.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: It should not be thrust upon you.
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  Speaker 4: How very much I've tried, my bed could give you.
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  Speaker 2: Life.
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  Speaker 4: M It was that by the greatest of prophets from
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: time immemorial. No man laid it takes my life for me,
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: I lay my life down. If we can't live in peace,
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: then let's die in peace. And been a sow betrayed,
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: may have been so terribly betrayed. Take the portion like
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: they used to take in ancient Greece and step over quietly,
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: because we are not committing suicide. It's a revolutionary act.
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: We can't go back. They won't leave us alone. They're
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: now going back to tell more lies, which means more Congressman,
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: and there's no way, no way, we can survive.
• 56:58
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