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Speaker 2: today's story. One evening in September of eighteen eighty five,
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Speaker 2: a young woman named Mary stepped out of the backseat
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Speaker 2: of a carriage onto a dirt road in rural England.
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Speaker 2: She had traveled one hundred miles from London to the
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Speaker 2: countryside because her husband's aunt had invited her to come visit.
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Speaker 2: Standing on the dirt road, Mary looked up at the
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Speaker 2: big country house. Then she grabbed her suitcase and walked
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Speaker 2: up to the front door and knocked. Then a moment later,
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Speaker 2: the aunt's maid opened the door. She greeted Mary and
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Speaker 2: took her suitcase and brought the suitcase to the guest
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Speaker 2: room while Mary had it straight down the hallway to
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Speaker 2: her aunt's bedroom. When she got there, Mary gently knocked
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Speaker 2: on the door and then opened it up, and when
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Speaker 2: she looked inside, she saw the aunt lying in bed,
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Speaker 2: and you know, the aunt looked up and saw Mary,
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Speaker 2: and she smiled. But she was very old and very frail,
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Speaker 2: you know, not doing too well physically, and now that's
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Speaker 2: part of the reason Mary was here to just kind
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Speaker 2: of see her while she still could. But the aunt
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Speaker 2: looked up and saw Mary and recognized her, and so
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Speaker 2: she smiled, and Mary came in and sat down next
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Speaker 2: to her, and for a couple of minutes the two
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Speaker 2: women just had some small talk.
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Speaker 1: You know, Mary talked.
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Speaker 2: About her journey from London to you know, the countryside
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Speaker 2: where she was now, and you know, the aunt talked
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Speaker 2: about what she was up to. It was all just
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Speaker 2: kind of, you know, pleasantries. But at some point the
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Speaker 2: aunt kind of stopped and looked up at Mary, and
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Speaker 2: she had this obvious look of pity on her face.
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Speaker 1: And Mary immediately picked up on it.
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Speaker 2: And she's kind of looking back at the aunt, wondering
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Speaker 2: what's going on here, and then the aunt just says
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Speaker 2: to Mary, really, how are you holding up? And immediately Mary,
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Speaker 2: when she heard this, she felt this not in her
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Speaker 2: throat and she had to fight back tears. I mean,
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Speaker 2: she knew exactly what the aunt was talking about. So
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Speaker 2: even though Mary was a young woman, she was already
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Speaker 2: a widow. Her husband had died in an accident about
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Speaker 2: two years earlier, and it had sent Mary into the
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Speaker 2: spiraling deep depression. I mean, she was still completely grieving
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Speaker 2: the loss of her husband.
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Speaker 1: He had been the love of her life.
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Speaker 2: And you know, her extended family and her husband's extended
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Speaker 2: family were all well aware of how badly Mary had
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Speaker 2: been doing, and so they had been extending her invitations
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Speaker 2: constantly to come visit and basically just not be alone.
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Speaker 2: I mean that was the reason really why her husband's
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Speaker 2: aunt had invited her here, is because she knew Mary
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Speaker 2: likely wasn't doing well. Now to Mary, you know, this
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Speaker 2: was nice in a way. I mean, she felt very
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Speaker 2: comforted by the family members and it did seem like
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Speaker 2: people genuinely cared about her. But at the same time,
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Speaker 2: she started to get the impression from basically everybody in
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Speaker 2: her and her husband's family that they kind of expected
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Speaker 2: her to, you know, grieve this loss, but ultimately move on,
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Speaker 2: like find somebody else basically you're young, like get remarried,
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Speaker 2: you know, start a new life. But to Mary, she
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Speaker 2: just wanted to be like, no, I'm never going to
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Speaker 2: find anyone like my husband. He was the love of
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Speaker 2: my life and no one will ever match him ever,
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Speaker 2: Like I'm done, I probably will never get married again
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Speaker 2: like he was it for me. And so at that moment,
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Speaker 2: Mary really just wanted to end this conversation with her
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Speaker 2: husband's aunt, like she didn't want to get into how
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Speaker 2: she was feeling about her husband, because it was bad.
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Speaker 2: She felt bad, But instead of saying that to her
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Speaker 2: husband's aunt, she just said, you know what, I'm okay,
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Speaker 2: I'm just totally exhausted from travel and I'm gonna go
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Speaker 2: to bed. The aunt nodded and told Mary that, you know,
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Speaker 2: we'll have plenty of time to visit tomorrow, so go
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Speaker 2: get some sleep, and so the two women hugged, and
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Speaker 2: then Mary got up. She left the bedroom headed to
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Speaker 2: the guest room. She found her suitcase, got on some pajamas,
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Speaker 2: and then crawled into bed, But a few hours later,
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Speaker 2: in the middle of the night, Mary suddenly bolted up
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Speaker 2: right in her bed. She was sweating, she was shaking,
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Speaker 2: she was totally disoriented. It took her a few minutes
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Speaker 2: to even remember where she was. But then finally when
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Speaker 2: she did and she realized she was safe, she realized
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Speaker 2: she had just had this awful, visceral nightmare that she
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Speaker 2: really couldn't even make sense of. In this nightmare, she
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Speaker 2: was looking out at this huge open field. It's nighttime
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Speaker 2: and there's nothing but this field. But oft in the
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Speaker 2: distance there was this broken down, small shed and it
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Speaker 2: was just sitting there, conspicuously, right in the middle of
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Speaker 2: this field. And even though Mary was terrified of the shed,
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Speaker 2: she felt this overwhelming urge to go to the shed
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Speaker 2: and investigate what's like. With every step as she walked
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Speaker 2: through this field, closer and closer to the shed, her
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Speaker 2: fear was rising. And then finally, when she got close
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Speaker 2: to the shed, she began to hear what sounded like
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Speaker 2: somebody moaning inside of the structure. And so now she's
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Speaker 2: really scared, but she keeps walking towards the shed, and
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Speaker 2: then she's right outside. She can't see into the shed,
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Speaker 2: but she can hear the moaning, and she sees her
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Speaker 2: hand just come down and fling the door open, almost
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Speaker 2: like she didn't want to, but her body's acting on autopilot.
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Speaker 2: And then she looks into the shed and there's this
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Speaker 2: figure tucked into the corner, kind of in the shadows,
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Speaker 2: and it's the thing making these moaning sounds. And it
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Speaker 2: turns and Mary sees it's this woman, this emaciated, destroyed
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Speaker 2: looking woman, but her face is the same face as
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Speaker 2: Mary's dead husband, and as.
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Speaker 1: Soon as she saw that, it jolted her awake.
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Speaker 2: And so that's where she was sitting in her bedroom,
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Speaker 2: trying to make sense of what she had just seen.
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Speaker 2: And so after fifteen or twenty minutes of Mary trying
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Speaker 2: and failing to fall back asleep because of this horrible night,
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Speaker 2: Mary finally says, you know what, I'm just going to
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Speaker 2: go outside, clear my head, go for a walk. I
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Speaker 2: know it's the middle of the night, whatever, you know.
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Speaker 2: I'll bring some brandy along and sip that to calm
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Speaker 2: my nerves and just kind of walk around until I'm calm,
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Speaker 2: and then.
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Speaker 1: I'll go back to sleep.
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Speaker 2: back to the story. About fifteen minutes later, Mary was
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Speaker 2: walking up a hill with the moonlight casting down on her.
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Speaker 2: She was sipping her brandy as she went and was
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Speaker 2: already beginning to calm down. Now, Mary was used to
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Speaker 2: living in the city in London, and so being out
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Speaker 2: here in the countryside was so different. It was so
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Speaker 2: beautiful and peaceful and spaced out that she.
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Speaker 1: Had kind of just begun walking and not stopped.
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Speaker 2: I mean, she originally thought she would just stay on
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Speaker 2: the aunt's property, but already she was well beyond the
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Speaker 2: property lines and was basically just out exploring in the
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Speaker 2: middle of the night, and she was having a nice time.
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Speaker 2: And so up the hill Mary goes. Now, remember Mary
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Speaker 2: has never been to this area. This is basically an
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Speaker 2: all new place. She has no idea what's over here,
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Speaker 2: and she goes up this hill. She crests the top
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Speaker 2: and she gets a look at what's up there for
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Speaker 2: the first time. And when she sees what's up there,
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Speaker 2: she freezes. She's looking out at this huge field basically
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Speaker 2: in all directions, and in the center of this field,
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Speaker 2: maybe a couple hundred yards away, is a single small structure,
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Speaker 2: a broken down wooden shed that looks nearly identical to
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Speaker 2: the shed.
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Speaker 1: She had just seen in her nightmare.
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Speaker 2: And as soon as she saw that, she's terrified because
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Speaker 2: she knows it's the same one, or it's eerily similar,
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Speaker 2: but worse than that. When she saw it, despite her
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Speaker 2: own fears and trepidations about being up here, she felt
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Speaker 2: herself moving towards the shed. It was like her body
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Speaker 2: went into autopilot, the same way it did in her dream.
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Speaker 2: It was like she had to go to the shed,
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Speaker 2: even though everything inside of her logically is saying don't go.
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Speaker 1: But into the field she goes.
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Speaker 2: She deviates off the path and just starts walking towards
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Speaker 2: the shed. Her heart is beating like mad, and as
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Speaker 2: she's getting closer and closer, she even begins to hear
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Speaker 2: moaning sounds coming from the shed. It's like she's living
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Speaker 2: out the nightmare in real life. She can't make sense
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Speaker 2: of it. She wants to go back thither way, but
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Speaker 2: she can't stop herself. She's just going towards the shed.
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Speaker 2: And then finally she reaches the shed, and now for
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Speaker 2: sure she can hear moaning coming from in this building,
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Speaker 2: and she sees her hand reach down and she flings
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Speaker 2: open the shed and she looks in and sure enough,
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Speaker 2: there is this dark figure tucked in the corner, clearly
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Speaker 2: moaning like.
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Speaker 1: This is her nightmare in real life.
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Speaker 2: But when the person inside the shed turned to look
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Speaker 2: at Mary, it was a woman, but they didn't have
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Speaker 2: her dead husband's face. Instead, it was a woman who
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Speaker 2: practically looked like she was dead or close to death.
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Speaker 2: She obviously needed help. Now at this point, Mary was
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Speaker 2: kind of relieved. I mean, this whole situation is terrifying,
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Speaker 2: but she was expecting to, you know, somehow see her
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Speaker 2: dead husband's face on this person in the shed, and
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Speaker 2: so when it wasn't, and it was just like a
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Speaker 2: normal person, albeit in a very strange set of circumstances,
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Speaker 2: it was a relief. But now Mary didn't know what
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Speaker 2: to do. It's like she's standing there looking at this
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Speaker 2: woman having no idea what to do. She doesn't understand
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Speaker 2: how she could have dreamed this and now basically lived
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Speaker 2: it too.
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Speaker 1: Like nothing's adding up.
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Speaker 2: But again, it was like her body continued to operate
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Speaker 2: in this autopilot mode. She suddenly had this really intense
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Speaker 2: desire to go into the shed and help this woman.
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Speaker 1: She didn't know who she was.
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Speaker 2: This is a total stranger in the middle of a
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Speaker 2: field in a shed who's moaning and looks terrible.
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Speaker 1: She has no idea what's going on?
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Speaker 2: But then she goes and she sits down next to
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Speaker 2: this woman who's now kind of eyeing Mary like what
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Speaker 2: are you doing in.
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Speaker 1: Here with me? And Mary says to her like, hey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? How'd you get here? What's wrong? Like
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Speaker 1: what's happening?
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Speaker 2: But the woman, it was clear she wanted to respond
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Speaker 2: to Mary and you know, tell her what was going on,
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Speaker 2: but you know, she was too weak. It was like
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Speaker 2: she really was on death's store here and Mary could
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Speaker 2: clearly see that, like she didn't need to be told
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Speaker 2: this woman is in a very bad way here. Now
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Speaker 2: Mary knew what needed to happen is this woman needs
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Speaker 2: to get to a hospital. But they were nowhere near
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Speaker 2: a hospital and this woman clearly can't get up and walk,
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Speaker 2: and Mary's thinking, I'm not strong enough to carry this
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Speaker 2: woman to the hospital, Like what am I gonna do?
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Speaker 2: And you know, Mary's thinking maybe if I just run
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Speaker 2: and get help and they can come back here. But
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Speaker 2: she's looking at this woman thinking I don't know if
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Speaker 2: she'll survive. You know, she's probably gonna die soon, Like
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Speaker 2: this is gonna happen now, And so Mary again sort
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Speaker 2: of in this weird autopilot mode decides, you know what,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay right here with this woman. She can't
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Speaker 2: even talk, she can't tell me what's going on, but
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Speaker 2: I am gonna be here with her. I'm gonna be
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Speaker 2: present with her, and if she dies, I'll be here
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Speaker 2: to support her. And so Mary just made herself comfortable.
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Speaker 1: She took her.
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Speaker 2: Jacket off, she put it over this woman, and then
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Speaker 2: she began letting this woman sip from her brandy flask
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Speaker 2: to you know, maybe kind of ease the pain. And
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Speaker 2: all night the two women just kind of sat there
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Speaker 2: and laid together. When the sun finally rose the next morning,
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Speaker 2: Mary looked over at the woman and she was still alive,
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Speaker 2: and in fact, if anything, she seemed like her condition.
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Speaker 1: Had maybe improved slightly. She seemed maybe a little bit
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Speaker 1: more comfortable.
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Speaker 2: You know, maybe that was from all the brandy, who knows,
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Speaker 2: but the woman seemed like she had stabilized a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Still couldn't talk or really tell Mary anything, but she
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Speaker 2: seemed to be doing a little bit better. And so
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Speaker 2: Mary's thinking, okay, you know, the sun's up now, now
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Speaker 2: I can run out get help and get this woman
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Speaker 2: the care that she needs. But before Mary could even
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Speaker 2: do that. She began hearing a stomping sound somewhere outside
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Speaker 2: of the shed, and she realized it was a horse approaching,
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Speaker 2: and so Mary she bolts out of the shed and
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Speaker 2: she looks over towards the road and there's a horse
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Speaker 2: pulling a covered wagon and going right by. And Mary
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Speaker 2: screams and yells and says she needs help. And the
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Speaker 2: man pops his head out of the wagon and says,
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Speaker 2: what's going on? And Mary runs over to him and
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Speaker 2: explains this weird situation, how there's this strange woman over
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Speaker 2: here and she's clearly dying. She needs our help. And
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Speaker 2: the man agreed to help, and so he went with
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Speaker 2: Mary to the shed. He picked the woman up, he
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Speaker 2: put her inside of his wagon, and then three of
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Speaker 2: them together in this wagon, drove to Mary's husband's aunt's house.
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Speaker 2: When they got there, the man carried the strange woman
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Speaker 2: inside of the aunt's house, and then Mary told the
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Speaker 2: aunt's maid to go call for the town doctor, and
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Speaker 2: so she said she would. And so at this point
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Speaker 2: Mary was actually completely relieved.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was kind of a wild, very unexpected night.
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Speaker 2: I mean, she doesn't even know who this woman is,
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Speaker 2: but she's definitely happy that she's getting some level of
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Speaker 2: care here, but Mary sort of felt like her role.
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Speaker 1: In this was kind of diminished. Now, you know, she's
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Speaker 1: she's gotten the woman here, and she's feeling.
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Speaker 2: So tired and weak from being up all night, and
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Speaker 2: so Mary decided she would just take a nap. I mean,
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Speaker 2: she had been up all night with this woman. She
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Speaker 2: was exhausted, So into her bedroom she went. She climbed
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Speaker 2: into bed, but as she's laying there, she realized she
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Speaker 2: wasn't just tired, she actually felt kind of sick, like ill.
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Speaker 2: And over the next few hours that she kind of
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Speaker 2: tossed and turned in her.
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Speaker 1: Bed, not really able to sleep.
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Speaker 2: She would develop this horrible fever, and this fe would
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Speaker 2: just get worse and worse and worse, and Mary would
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Speaker 2: become bedridden, dealing with this mystery illness for weeks, just
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Speaker 2: drifting in and out of consciousness the whole time. It
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Speaker 2: was October by the time Mary's fever finally broke, and
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Speaker 2: on the day that it did, when Mary opened her
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Speaker 2: eyes in this bed, you know, she was clear headed
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Speaker 2: for the first time. I mean really, it had been
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Speaker 2: a very rough stretch of a few weeks, and so
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Speaker 2: she's looking around the room, kind of taking stock of
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Speaker 2: her environment, and she sees there's this strange person sitting
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Speaker 2: in a chair in the corner, and her immediate reaction is, Oh,
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Speaker 2: this must be like a nurse or a doctor or
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Speaker 2: somebody here that's kind of overseeing me. Mary was aware
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Speaker 2: she had been very sick for several.
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Speaker 1: Weeks, and there were people in and out of the room.
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Speaker 2: But she looked back at this person and realized she
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Speaker 2: actually knew who it was. It was the woman she
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Speaker 2: had rescued from the shed on the night she got sick.
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Speaker 2: It was that woman, but now she wasn't sickly and
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Speaker 2: you know, dying. The woman looked completely healthy and happy,
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Speaker 2: and she was smiling to hear at Mary like this
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Speaker 2: didn't make any sense, like what's going on here? And
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Speaker 2: also Mary just couldn't help but think like, wait a minute,
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Speaker 2: why is this woman still here? It has been weeks
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Speaker 2: since I rescued her from the shed? Why is she
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Speaker 2: still here? Like nothing's adding up. But before Mary could
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Speaker 2: ask any questions, this woman, who clearly was super excited
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Speaker 2: to see that Mary was now fully awake and attentive.
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Speaker 2: This woman just starts talking a mile a minute like
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Speaker 2: she had been waiting to dump all this information on
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Speaker 2: Mary as soon as she was well. Like, clearly, this
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Speaker 2: woman has been waiting diligently for her chance to tell
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Speaker 2: her story. And the story that she dumped on Mary
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Speaker 2: at her first chance, like this day was incredible. The
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Speaker 2: woman told her that a couple of years earlier, she
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Speaker 2: had boarded the ship in England that was bound for Brazil.
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Speaker 2: But about five days into their journey, while they're out
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Speaker 2: on the open sea, the ship caught fire, this horrible fire.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's trying to evacuate, and this woman said she was
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Speaker 2: in her bedroom asleep, she didn't even know what was happening.
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Speaker 2: And while she's laying there and the ship is catching
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Speaker 2: fire and beginning to sink, this stranger comes barreling into
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Speaker 2: the room, literally wakes her up, scoops her up, and
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Speaker 2: takes her to the top deck and gets her into
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Speaker 2: a lifeboat right as the ship sinks. I mean, this
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Speaker 2: stranger completely saved this woman's life. And so this woman,
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Speaker 2: the stranger who had saved her, and a handful of
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Speaker 2: other lucky people who had made it onto this lifeboat
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Speaker 2: just began rowing in a single direction, you know, hoping
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Speaker 2: they'd find land.
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Speaker 1: And luckily they did.
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Speaker 2: They found this deserted island, and so they landed there
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Speaker 2: and for a year, this woman and the stranger and
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Speaker 2: those few people subsisted on this island, you know, barely
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Speaker 2: clinging to life, you know, praying for rescue. And amazingly,
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Speaker 2: after a year of being shipwrecked, they flagged down a
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Speaker 2: ship that did rescue them and brought them to England. However,
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Speaker 2: when they actually got to England, things weren't that good.
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Speaker 2: The stranger who had saved this woman had basically lost
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Speaker 2: his mind from living on this island, you know, not
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Speaker 2: expecting to be rescued. Even though they got rescued, it
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Speaker 2: was like he wasn't coherent anymore.
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Speaker 1: He had lost it.
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Speaker 2: Not to mention, he was really ill from the way
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Speaker 2: they were living on this island, you know, scavenging things
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Speaker 2: that weren't necessarily edible, but just to survive, they were.
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Speaker 1: Eating whatever they could.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was a very rough lifestyle and this
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Speaker 2: man he just hadn't really handled it well, and so
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Speaker 2: he got thrown in a hospital and placed in a
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Speaker 2: particular ward for people that were mentally unwell, and he
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Speaker 2: was basically forgotten about. However, the woman would tell Mary that,
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Speaker 2: you know, when this happened, she felt awful because she
18:37
Speaker 2: felt like this stranger had saved her life and she
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Speaker 2: kind of owed him a debt, and so she decided
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Speaker 2: it would be her mission to find the stranger's family
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Speaker 2: and let them know where he was. And so the
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Speaker 2: woman said she did some research and she figured out
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Speaker 2: where one of his relatives lived. It was really far away,
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Speaker 2: on the other side of England. And so she spent
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Speaker 2: all her money, using every vehicle she possibly could, every
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Speaker 2: ride she could take, getting as close to this location
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Speaker 2: as she possibly could.
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Speaker 1: And then when she.
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Speaker 2: Ran out of money, she just kept on walking towards
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Speaker 2: this destination and she kept going until she literally ran
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Speaker 2: out of food and water.
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Speaker 1: But she wasn't quite there yet.
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Speaker 2: She knew she was getting close, and she's just walking
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Speaker 2: and she's basically falling apart, you know. So hell bent
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Speaker 2: on finding this family member for this stranger, but she
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Speaker 2: can't quite make it. She can't quite get to the
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Speaker 2: family member's house. And that's when she finds this shed
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Speaker 2: out in the middle of the field, where she just collapses, thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 2: this is where I'm gonna die. And so back in
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Speaker 2: the guest room, Mary is listening to this woman tell
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Speaker 2: this unbelievable story, and at some point, the woman just
19:43
Speaker 2: kind of stops when she gets to the shed scene,
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Speaker 2: and Mary's looking at her like, I don't really understand
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Speaker 2: where you're going with this. I don't understand why you're
19:52
Speaker 2: here telling me this, and the woman she just starts
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Speaker 2: to laugh, like this joyous laughter, just non stop laughter,
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Speaker 2: and then she goes, don't you get it? And then
20:02
Speaker 2: seconds later, Mary hears footsteps and a man walks into
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Speaker 2: the bedroom and it's Mary's husband. He was the stranger
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Speaker 2: who rescued that woman. He didn't die in an accident
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Speaker 2: two years ago, like they thought. He was in a shipwreck,
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Speaker 2: but he survived. He was the man who got thrown
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Speaker 2: in the hospital and forgotten about. And it was this
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Speaker 2: woman who was making the journey to his aunt's house
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Speaker 2: to tell her that he was still alive. And it
20:31
Speaker 2: was only because Mary had that totally bizarre nightmare that
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Speaker 2: sort of led her to that shed that she found
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Speaker 2: this woman who would have died in that shed and
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Speaker 2: never quite got into the aunt's house and so never
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Speaker 2: could have told the family, never could have told Mary
20:46
Speaker 2: that her husband's still alive. It was because of that
20:49
Speaker 2: dream that fate aligned and now her husband was back.
20:53
Speaker 2: Mary and her husband's story wound up being published in newspapers.
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Speaker 1: All over the world. I mean, people really could not
20:59
Speaker 1: get another of this story.
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Speaker 2: But despite how far reaching this story became, nobody was
21:05
Speaker 2: ever able to come up with a logical explanation for
21:08
Speaker 2: how so many coincidences and this crazy dream Mary had,
21:12
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