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Top 3 UNIDENTIFIED life forms living in abandoned buildings · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: In 2017, an electrician named Pete had become accustomed to
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Speaker 1: doing work in basements and sub-basements of older buildings in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Speaker 1: He discovered that many times when he worked in a
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Speaker 1: stretch of older buildings right next to each other, that
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Speaker 1: in the basement or sub-basement, there would be a stretch
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Speaker 1: of tunnel that connected each building to each other, kind
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Speaker 1: of like a common door in a hotel room. One day,
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Speaker 1: Pete was asked to install some new lights in the
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Speaker 1: sub-basements of three very old buildings.
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Speaker 2: That were all right next to each other.
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Speaker 1: Apparently, someone had purchased the entire building complex after they'd
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Speaker 1: sat there abandoned for some time. When Pete arrived, his foreman,
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Speaker 1: whose name was Mike, was waiting for him outside the
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Speaker 1: farthest east building.
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Speaker 2: And so Pete got out, walked up.
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Speaker 1: To the building, and Mike led him down to the
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Speaker 1: basement and then down another flight of stairs into the sub-basement.
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Speaker 1: The first thing Pete did was pull his flashlight out
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Speaker 1: and look around... and see if there was a tunnel
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Speaker 1: connecting to the adjoining buildings, because if there was, it
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Speaker 1: would make his life a lot easier. And sure enough,
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Speaker 1: he shined his light to the west, and there was
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Speaker 1: a tunnel. And so he knew he wouldn't need to
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Speaker 1: lug his gear up and over after he was done
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Speaker 1: with each building. After that, Pete and Mike set up
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Speaker 1: floodlights inside of that first sub-basement they were going to
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Speaker 1: be working in, and then they put their gear on,
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Speaker 1: and they got to work. After a few hours of
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Speaker 1: Pete being really focused on what he was working on,
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Speaker 1: he looked up and realized Mike was gone, and he
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Speaker 1: assumed he must have gone upstairs for a lunch break,
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Speaker 1: And Pete, who had had a really big breakfast, wasn't
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Speaker 1: that hungry, but wanted to take a break. So he
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Speaker 1: decided instead of eating, he would just go explore the
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Speaker 1: other sub-basements. So Pete walked over to that first tunnel
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Speaker 1: that went into the second building.
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Speaker 2: He walked through it.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't very far, maybe five or six feet to
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Speaker 1: get into the next building. Once he got into that
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Speaker 1: second building, it was totally dark because neither he nor
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Speaker 1: Mike had actually gotten in there yet. And so Pete
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Speaker 1: pulled his flashlight out and he scanned around the room
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Speaker 1: and he saw directly on the other side, still going
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Speaker 1: west across the building complex, was yet another tunnel connected
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Speaker 1: to the third and final building. And so Pete walked
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Speaker 1: through the second sub-basement, shining around, looking for anything interesting.
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Speaker 2: There was nothing down there.
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Speaker 1: He got to that tunnel, he walked through, and he
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Speaker 1: entered into the third and final room of the entire
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Speaker 1: building complex. And so he lifted his flashlight up and
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Speaker 1: he scanned around the room, and he was shocked when
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Speaker 1: on the other side, still going west as if there
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Speaker 1: was a fourth building, there was another tunnel. Pete kept
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Speaker 1: his flashlight trained on this tunnel, and he's thinking to himself,
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Speaker 1: did I get something wrong here? Is there really four buildings?
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Speaker 1: Because I'm almost positive there was three. There shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: a tunnel over there because there's no more buildings.
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Speaker 2: And so he's really intrigued.
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Speaker 1: And so he keeps his flashlight up and he starts
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Speaker 1: walking across the room towards this tunnel. And he gets
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Speaker 1: about halfway across this sub-basement when he hears someone's voice
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Speaker 1: come out of this mysterious tunnel.
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Speaker 2: And it sounds an awful lot like Mike's.
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Speaker 1: And Pete would say that his initial reaction to this was, oh,
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Speaker 1: I guess Mike must have had his lunch break and
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Speaker 1: then come back down here and started doing the same
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Speaker 1: thing I'm doing, exploring the other sub-basements. And so he's
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Speaker 1: already checked out this tunnel and he wants to show
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Speaker 1: me what's down there. So Pete walks over to this
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Speaker 1: tunnel and he shines his light inside and right away
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Speaker 1: he can tell it's different than the other two tunnels
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Speaker 1: he's walked through because those went straight across and this
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Speaker 1: tunnel he's looking at goes down and kind of bends
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Speaker 1: off to the right. And so totally unconcerned because he
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Speaker 1: believes Mike is down there already, he starts walking down
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Speaker 1: this winding tunnel. After walking for a couple of minutes
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Speaker 1: just straight down into this tunnel, he finally walks into
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Speaker 1: this huge room with 20 foot high ceilings and he
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Speaker 1: lifts his flashlight up and he looks around and there's
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Speaker 1: no mic and he yells out for him, he doesn't
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Speaker 1: hear him, but he noticed in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: room were all these small animal skeletons that had been
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Speaker 1: arranged in a big triangle on the ground. And as
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Speaker 1: he scanned across the ground with his light, he came
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Speaker 1: to the right side of the room at one of
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Speaker 1: the points of the triangle. And at the top of
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Speaker 1: that point was this large dog-like skeleton lying on the ground.
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Speaker 1: It looked as if the triangle was more like an
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Speaker 1: arrow and it was pointed at this one large dog.
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Speaker 1: Pete went back to looking around the room and he
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Speaker 1: saw right across from him was another tunnel entrance into
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Speaker 1: more unexplored passageway. And for a second he thought about
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Speaker 1: just turning around and leaving because this whole thing was
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Speaker 1: starting to give him the creeps. but then he heard
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Speaker 1: what sounded like Mike's voice again calling from that unexplored tunnel.
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Speaker 1: And so he decided, okay, I'll walk a little bit
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Speaker 1: farther to see what Mike wants. And so Pete carefully
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Speaker 1: walked across this room, being careful not to step on
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Speaker 1: any of the bones. And right before he walked into
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Speaker 1: this new tunnel, he pulled his phone out in case
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Speaker 1: he might have service and he could just call Mike
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Speaker 1: and see what he wanted, but he had no service
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Speaker 1: on his phone. So we entered the new tunnel. Unlike
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Speaker 1: the other tunnel that went down the whole time, this
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Speaker 1: new tunnel was totally flat, but it was a little
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Speaker 1: bit more narrow and And so as he's walking, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of zigging and zagging and it's just getting a
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Speaker 1: little bit tight on.
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Speaker 2: His shoulders as he's moving.
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Speaker 1: And after a couple of minutes of walking and yelling
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Speaker 1: out for Mike and not hearing from him, he just
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Speaker 1: stops and he just thinks, is this a good idea?
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Speaker 1: Should I keep walking down this strange tunnel or should
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Speaker 1: I just go back and meet Mike back up in
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Speaker 1: the sub basement? And as he's standing there facing away
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Speaker 1: from the direction he just came, he thinks he hears
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Speaker 1: something behind him. So Pete turns around and shines his
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Speaker 1: light and there's no one there. He yells out for
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Speaker 1: Mike and Mike doesn't yell back. And then Pete hears
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Speaker 1: the faint clicking sound of something moving on all fours
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Speaker 1: in the chamber he had just come from.
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Speaker 2: And he's thinking to himself, what could have gotten down here?
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Speaker 1: There's only one way in and I've taken the other tunnel.
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Speaker 1: Did I miss some dog that was staying in the
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Speaker 1: middle there?
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Speaker 2: I think I would have seen an animal that was
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Speaker 2: moving around.
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Speaker 1: And so as he's thinking about this, he realizes the
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Speaker 1: clicking sounds have stopped.
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Speaker 2: It's gone completely silent.
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Speaker 1: And so he stops and he's just intently listening. And
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, whatever it is out there
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Speaker 1: starts running at full speed down the tunnel towards Pete.
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Speaker 1: And so Pete immediately turns around and starts sprinting down
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Speaker 1: this unexplored tunnel. All he hears behind him is this
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Speaker 1: animal at full sprint grunting and bouncing into walls as
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Speaker 1: it gains on him. And finally, after what felt like
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Speaker 1: an eternity, but was probably only a few seconds, Pete
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Speaker 1: gets to the end of this tunnel and he sees
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Speaker 1: it's a small flight of stairs to a large metal door.
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Speaker 1: He runs up and he grabs the door and he
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Speaker 1: tries to open it and it opens. He runs outside,
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Speaker 1: pulls it shut, hears it click, and then he sinks
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Speaker 1: down with his back against the door, pressing up against
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Speaker 1: it to ensure it stays shut.
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Speaker 2: And as Pete is sitting there, he hears this thing
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Speaker 2: come barreling into.
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Speaker 1: The room where this door is and it rams into
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Speaker 1: the door and he feels it shake the door forward,
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Speaker 1: but the door holds. And then whatever it was just
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Speaker 1: lost interest, turned around, and left. Even though this animal
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Speaker 1: appeared to be gone and the door appeared to hold,
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Speaker 1: Pete stayed sitting with his back up against the door
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Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes while he composed himself. He
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Speaker 1: really didn't know what to make of what just happened.
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Speaker 1: Because he's thinking to himself, that animal had to have
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Speaker 1: been huge. It just nearly barreled this door down. I
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Speaker 1: felt the whole door shake. I mean, if that's a dog,
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Speaker 1: that is a huge dog.
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Speaker 2: And also, where's Mike?
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Speaker 1: Mike's the whole reason I went into this tunnel in
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Speaker 1: the first place.
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Speaker 2: He was calling to me, or so I thought he was,
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Speaker 2: and I never saw him.
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Speaker 1: And so Pete's totally confused, and he's traumatized, and he's
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Speaker 1: looking around, and he's finally taking stock of where he is,
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Speaker 1: and he realizes he's under one of the docks of
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Speaker 1: what would turn out to be the Four Seasons Hotel.
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Speaker 1: which meant he was at least about a half mile
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Speaker 1: away from where he had started in the sub-basement of
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Speaker 1: those buildings. Pete stood up and made his way up
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Speaker 1: to the sidewalk where he called Mike. And Mike was
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Speaker 1: very confused at what Pete was telling him because he said,
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Speaker 1: I never went into that tunnel. I never went into
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Speaker 1: the other sub-basements. At my lunch break, I just went
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Speaker 1: upstairs and got a bite to eat. And when I
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Speaker 1: came down, you were gone. And so Pete started talking
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Speaker 1: about the animal he saw. And as he was describing it,
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Speaker 1: he's thinking to himself how crazy he must sound. And
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Speaker 1: he began to realize that it just, it had to
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Speaker 1: be you know, a stray dog got in there and
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Speaker 1: he just must not have seen it.
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Speaker 2: And that was it.
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Speaker 1: And so after they hang up, Pete is left thinking
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Speaker 1: to himself, you know, if that was a stray dog,
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Speaker 1: then what were those bones arranged in that triangle for?
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Speaker 1: And why did they seem to be an arrow pointing
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Speaker 1: at that other bigger dog? And, Also, who was yelling
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Speaker 1: to me inside of the tunnel if it wasn't Mike?
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Speaker 1: But when Pete and Mike got back to those old buildings,
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Speaker 1: they did not do any more exploration. It was like
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Speaker 1: they were just not going to talk about what happened. Instead,
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Speaker 1: they put a fold-up table in front of that tunnel
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Speaker 1: that led down to the room filled with bones and
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Speaker 1: whatever animal was down there, and they rushed the job
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Speaker 1: in all the sub-basements, got all the lights up as
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Speaker 1: fast as they could.
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Speaker 2: The last thing they did was they moved the table
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Speaker 2: back out of the way and then ran up out
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Speaker 2: of the building and never looked back.
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Speaker 1: There is a large abandoned factory on the outskirts of Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: Ohio that used to be a prominent rubber company, but
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Speaker 1: in the late 1970s when they closed down business, nobody
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Speaker 1: else leased the factory space, and so for.
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Speaker 2: Decades it remained untouched.
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Speaker 1: In the 1980s, a boy named Kurt was born in Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: and from a young age he was fascinated by this
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Speaker 1: abandoned factory.
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Speaker 2: He really wanted to see what was inside.
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Speaker 1: But his dad would never take him, saying it was
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Speaker 1: way too dangerous to go in there. And so over
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Speaker 1: the years, Kurt still wanted to see what was inside,
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Speaker 1: but his fascination with it kind of waned because.
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Speaker 2: He was never allowed to go.
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Speaker 1: Then, in the late 1990s, when Kurt was in high school,
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Speaker 1: he happened to be walking by the factory after leaving
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Speaker 1: a friend's house, and he stopped. And he looked at
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Speaker 1: his watch, and it was 8 p.m. He didn't have
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Speaker 1: to be home for about an hour and a half.
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Speaker 1: And he looked up at the crumbling brick building, and
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Speaker 1: he thought to himself.
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 1: It's now or never. I have to see what's inside
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Speaker 1: of there. And so he walks right up to the factory.
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Speaker 1: There's no fences around it to stop him. And he
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Speaker 1: gets up there and he sees that all the doors
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Speaker 1: are sealed shut. And so he's a little bit disheartened
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Speaker 1: and he starts walking around the property. And when he
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Speaker 1: gets to the backside, he sees on one of the
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Speaker 1: corners of the building, the concrete has just fallen off,
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Speaker 1: exposing a fairly large.
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Speaker 2: Hole in the side of the building that he could
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Speaker 2: just walk right through.
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Speaker 1: And so he's slipped through and he looked inside this
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Speaker 1: building that he's been thinking about for years and years
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Speaker 1: and years and he would say it was just so
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Speaker 1: cool there were all these boats that had just been
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Speaker 1: left in storage inside of this factory and then were
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Speaker 1: apparently forgotten about there were all these conveyor belts and
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Speaker 1: big pieces of factory equipment that had just been kind
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Speaker 1: of left out on the floor and No one thought
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Speaker 1: to break them down or even try to sell them.
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Speaker 2: And then like any other.
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Speaker 1: Good abandoned building, there was lots of drug paraphernalia scattered
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Speaker 1: all over the ground. And so for the next hour,
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Speaker 1: Kurt just explored the first floor and made his way
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Speaker 1: up to the second floor where the manager's office was.
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Speaker 1: And all in all, it was just a really awesome
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Speaker 1: experience many years.
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Speaker 2: In the making.
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Speaker 1: And at some point, he looked at his watch and
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Speaker 1: it was getting late and he realized he needed to leave.
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Speaker 2: And so as he was getting ready to leave, he
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Speaker 2: could have sworn he heard.
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Speaker 1: The sound of music being played from somewhere in the factory.
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Speaker 1: And so he stopped and he turned around and he
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Speaker 1: just listened for a second to see if he really
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Speaker 1: was hearing music.
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Speaker 2: And he was.
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Speaker 1: It was someone playing the blues somewhere in the factory.
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Speaker 1: Because Kurt had obsessed over this factory for so many years,
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Speaker 1: wondering what was inside, now that there was some mystery
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Speaker 1: about what was in here, he couldn't just leave. He
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Speaker 1: had to go look and see where that music was
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Speaker 1: coming from. And so Kurt began walking across the factory
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Speaker 1: floor in the direction where he thought this music was
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Speaker 1: coming from. And he reached a wall that was covered
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Speaker 1: by a big blue tarp. And that's where it seemed
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Speaker 1: to be coming from, like it was coming from the
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Speaker 1: other side of the wall. And so he went up
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Speaker 1: to put his ear against this wall. And when he did,
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Speaker 1: he almost fell into the tarp because behind the tarp
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Speaker 1: was actually a stairwell that led down into the basement.
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Speaker 1: And so again, because Kurt was so fascinated by this place,
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Speaker 1: he had to see what was down there. And so
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Speaker 1: he grabs the tarp and he pulls it aside and
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Speaker 1: he starts looking downstairs and he can tell there's a
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Speaker 1: light on down there. And so he's telling himself, okay,
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Speaker 1: it's possible someone could be down there.
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Speaker 2: But again, he's going to go down.
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Speaker 1: He's going to have a look. He pulls the tarp
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Speaker 1: completely aside. He steps into the stairwell and he begins
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Speaker 1: walking down. And from his perspective, he would not be
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Speaker 1: able to see any of the basement until he got
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Speaker 1: all the way to the bottom. There was no gaps
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Speaker 1: in the railing. It was basically solid wall all the
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Speaker 1: way down. And when he got to the bottom, he
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Speaker 1: could only turn left. Turning right was just a dead end.
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Speaker 1: left was towards the main section of the basement. And
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Speaker 1: so he goes all the way down the steps. His
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Speaker 1: heart is racing because he's half expecting to see someone
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Speaker 1: come running up to him. And right before he breaks
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Speaker 1: the corner, when he can actually see into the basement,
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Speaker 1: he takes a deep breath and then very slowly he
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Speaker 1: kind of pokes his head around the corner and gets
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Speaker 1: a look inside the basement. It's a very odd scene
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Speaker 1: in there, but there doesn't appear to be any people.
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Speaker 1: And so Kurt took the last couple of steps down
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Speaker 1: to the bottom. He turned the corner and actually got
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Speaker 1: a full look at the basement. And sitting in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the room is a cassette player with the
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Speaker 1: play button pressed down that's playing the music.
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Speaker 2: So he's found the origin of the music.
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Speaker 1: And then he starts looking around and realizes on all
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Speaker 1: of the walls are pieces of paper, hundreds of them,
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Speaker 1: that have all been plastered to the walls that all
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Speaker 1: say the exact same three words.
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Speaker 2: She gotta run. They're everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Then he looks in the back corner and he sees
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Speaker 1: there is this large wooden animal sculpture, although he can't
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Speaker 1: tell what kind of animal it is. But clearly someone
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Speaker 1: has been hacking at it with a hammer or a
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Speaker 1: saw or maybe both.
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Speaker 2: And it's been burned.
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Speaker 1: It looks like someone's been taking a lot of frustration
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Speaker 1: out on it. And then in the other corner, away
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Speaker 1: from this animal sculpture, was this chair that appeared to
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Speaker 1: have been removed from a school desk. And it was
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Speaker 1: angled towards the corner of the room. And then behind
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Speaker 1: it on the ground was this massive stack of VHS tapes.
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Speaker 1: And each of them had a woman's name on it.
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Speaker 1: And Kurt, from a distance, could only make out one name,
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Speaker 1: which was Jessica. but he could clearly see there was
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Speaker 1: a bunch of other tapes with different names on them.
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Speaker 1: Kurt suddenly was not feeling brave anymore and wanted to
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Speaker 1: get out of there immediately because at this point he's
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Speaker 1: pretty certain that whoever's down here is not a good person.
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Speaker 1: They got some bad stuff going on down here. And
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Speaker 1: so he turns around and he starts walking up the stairs.
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Speaker 1: He makes his way across the factory floor and he
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Speaker 1: finally gets to the crack in the cement and he
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Speaker 1: makes his way out and he's out to safety again.
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Speaker 1: Even though Kurt was really excited about having finally explored
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Speaker 1: the factory, On his walk home, it dawned on him
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Speaker 1: that while he was there, someone had to have manually
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Speaker 1: pressed the play button on that tape recorder that was
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Speaker 1: playing the music because it wasn't playing when he got there.
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Speaker 1: So either he miraculously avoided ever making contact with this
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Speaker 1: person or group of people inside of this factory while
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Speaker 1: he explored it for over an hour, or the more
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Speaker 1: likely scenario is as soon as Kurt walked inside, this
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Speaker 1: person or group of people knew he was there and
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Speaker 1: were watching him the whole time. And maybe when they
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Speaker 1: hit play on that cassette player and started playing that music,
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Speaker 1: that was just an attempt to lure Kurt down into
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Speaker 1: the basement. Who knows what would have happened if he
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Speaker 1: had stayed even longer. And who knows what's on those
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Speaker 1: VHS tapes. To this day, Kurt and all of his
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Speaker 1: friends are convinced he was in the presence of a
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Speaker 1: serial killer. In 2013, three 12 year olds named Paul, Tim,
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Speaker 1: and Max were living in New Orleans. And even though
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Speaker 1: they were too young to remember Hurricane Katrina from 2005,
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Speaker 1: the devastation it left in its wake was around them
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Speaker 1: every day. Just down the street from their neighborhood was
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Speaker 1: a row of houses that had all been abandoned after
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Speaker 1: they were destroyed by the storm surge. And Paul, who
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Speaker 1: was the ringleader of the group, would routinely drag Tim
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Speaker 1: and Max into that row of houses to look for treasure.
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Speaker 1: but they rarely left with anything more than some old
15:08
Speaker 1: clothes and some broken kitchenware. One day, Paul told Tim
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Speaker 1: and Max that if they wanted to find some real treasure,
15:14
Speaker 1: they would have to.
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Speaker 2: Go looking inside of the abandoned hospital.
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Speaker 1: Despite it being completely boarded up, windows, doors, and a
15:21
Speaker 1: huge fence around it, Paul said he had discovered an
15:24
Speaker 1: entrance in the back of the building. Tim and Max
15:26
Speaker 1: were not nearly as excited as Paul about this idea,
15:29
Speaker 1: because all they had heard about this hospital was.
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Speaker 2: Criminals lived inside of it.
15:33
Speaker 1: They'd also heard that the basement was completely flooded and
15:36
Speaker 1: basically the whole structure was not safe. But Paul was
15:39
Speaker 1: really convincing because he told them they were being babies.
15:42
Speaker 2: And so they said, okay, well, we'll go with you then.
15:45
Speaker 1: So the boys drove their bikes the couple of miles
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Speaker 1: over to where this hospital was and they eventually reached
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Speaker 1: the big chain link fence that surrounded the entire property
15:52
Speaker 1: with no trespassing signs all over it. Behind the fence,
15:55
Speaker 1: they saw this ominous entrance into this underground parking garage
15:59
Speaker 1: that even from the street level you could look down
16:01
Speaker 1: and clearly see it was totally flooded with gross, stagnant,
16:05
Speaker 1: dark water. But the boys carried on and Paul led
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Speaker 1: them to a section of the chain link fence that
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Speaker 1: had been cut open. So the boys parked their bikes
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Speaker 1: and locked them up and then crawled through the gap
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Speaker 1: in the fence and began walking up the small parking
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Speaker 1: lot that led up to the loading dock of the hospital.
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Speaker 1: As they got closer, Paul pointed to a shed that
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Speaker 1: was situated right underneath a broken out window on the
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Speaker 1: second floor. And it was immediately clear that people were
16:27
Speaker 1: using the shed to climb up and through that window.
16:30
Speaker 1: Paul was the first one to climb onto the shed.
16:32
Speaker 1: And then from there, he jumped up and grabbed the
16:34
Speaker 1: ledge of the broken window and hoisted himself up and
16:37
Speaker 1: then very carefully climbed through. Once he got through, he
16:40
Speaker 1: turned around and yelled for the boys to come up.
16:42
Speaker 1: Once all three of them got inside and they began
16:44
Speaker 1: looking around, they were amazed at what they saw.
16:47
Speaker 2: There was all this medical equipment that had just been
16:49
Speaker 2: left out.
16:49
Speaker 1: Clearly there had not been an attempt at salvaging anything
16:53
Speaker 1: inside of this hospital. There were even blood samples still
16:56
Speaker 1: sitting out on tables. That day, the boys explored the
16:58
Speaker 1: entire floor they came in on, which was the second floor,
17:01
Speaker 1: and by the end of the day, they left with
17:03
Speaker 1: a couple.
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Speaker 2: Of random medical souvenirs.
17:05
Speaker 1: Over the following few months, the boys kept coming back
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Speaker 1: to the hospital and had eventually explored every room on
17:11
Speaker 1: every floor except for one, the basement. They wanted to
17:14
Speaker 1: go down there, but even Paul thought it was a
17:16
Speaker 1: bad idea because it was completely flooded with disgusting standing
17:20
Speaker 1: water and there were no windows that went down into
17:23
Speaker 1: the basement, so it was totally pitch black. But, by
17:26
Speaker 1: the end of the summer, they were getting bored with
17:28
Speaker 1: all the other floors of the hospital. They had seen everything,
17:30
Speaker 1: they had found everything, there was nothing left to explore.
17:33
Speaker 1: And so they decided, we're gonna go in the basement.
17:36
Speaker 1: So one afternoon, they put on some dirty old clothes
17:38
Speaker 1: that they didn't mind ruining, and they made.
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Speaker 2: Their way over to the hospital.
17:41
Speaker 1: They parked their bikes, they snuck through the fence, they
17:43
Speaker 1: made their way up to the shed, they climbed up
17:45
Speaker 1: into the second floor, they walked down the second floor
17:48
Speaker 1: hallway down to the flight of stairs, they went down to.
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Speaker 2: The first floor where the stairs stopped.
17:52
Speaker 1: From there, they walked over to an access door that
17:55
Speaker 1: led to another flight of stairs that just went down
17:57
Speaker 1: into the basement. And so they open that door up,
17:59
Speaker 1: they step inside, and they get their flashlights out because
18:02
Speaker 1: it's pitch black inside of the stairwell, and they shine
18:04
Speaker 1: their lights down the steps. and it was a half
18:06
Speaker 1: flight of stairs that led to a dry landing, and
18:09
Speaker 1: then there was another flight of stairs from the landing
18:11
Speaker 1: going down to the basement floor, and the final steps
18:14
Speaker 1: of that second set of stairs were completely submerged. So
18:17
Speaker 1: with their flashlights up, they walk down the first flight
18:20
Speaker 1: of stairs to the landing, they turn around and they stop,
18:23
Speaker 1: and they shine their light into the basement. And what
18:25
Speaker 1: they see is just deep, dark, murky standing water. And
18:29
Speaker 1: from their perspective, the basement was not some huge, sprawling,
18:32
Speaker 1: open space like you would imagine. Instead, they were looking
18:35
Speaker 1: down at a wall because there was this hallway that
18:38
Speaker 1: ran perpendicular to the stairs. And so it went all
18:40
Speaker 1: the way to the right and all the way to
18:42
Speaker 1: the left, but they couldn't see down either of them.
18:44
Speaker 1: They could only see basically the landing of the stairs.
18:47
Speaker 1: In order to look down the hall, they would need
18:49
Speaker 1: to go into the water and walk.
18:51
Speaker 2: A few feet into the hall.
18:53
Speaker 1: And so as the boys are just scanning their flashlights
18:55
Speaker 1: into this murky water inside of this small segment of
18:58
Speaker 1: the basement that they could see, Paul.
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Speaker 2: Finally says, all right, you know what? Screw it. I'm going.
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Speaker 1: And he slowly walks down that final flight of stairs
19:06
Speaker 1: and he takes his first step into the water. And
19:08
Speaker 1: Tim and Max, they stay up on the landing. They're
19:10
Speaker 1: going to let Paul go on his own first. Paul
19:12
Speaker 1: takes another step and another step. And before long, he
19:15
Speaker 1: says he's reached the basement floor and he's up to
19:17
Speaker 1: his chest in this disgusting water. And so he's keeping
19:20
Speaker 1: his arms high up out of the water. He's still
19:21
Speaker 1: got his flashlight. And he wades out to the point
19:24
Speaker 1: where he can actually look down the hallway in either direction.
19:27
Speaker 2: And so he looks down one way.
19:28
Speaker 1: And then he looks down the other way, and then
19:30
Speaker 1: he turns around to face Tim and Max, who are
19:32
Speaker 1: still back up on the landing, and he says, you
19:34
Speaker 1: can't see down either hallway. There's huge filing cabinets, and
19:37
Speaker 1: there's a generator down there, and I can't see in
19:39
Speaker 1: either direction.
19:40
Speaker 2: We probably can't go very far.
19:42
Speaker 1: At this point, Tim and Max feel compelled to go
19:44
Speaker 1: down there with their friend, and so they walk down
19:46
Speaker 1: that final flight of stairs into the water, and.
19:48
Speaker 2: They wade their way over next to Paul.
19:50
Speaker 1: At which point they shine their lights down the hall
19:52
Speaker 1: and sure enough they basically can't see anything past maybe
19:55
Speaker 1: five or six meters down each hallway. As the boys
19:58
Speaker 1: were standing in the middle of the hallway not making
20:00
Speaker 1: any moves in either direction they suddenly hear something down
20:03
Speaker 1: the far right side of the hallway. And they shine
20:06
Speaker 1: their lights, and they realize their view's completely obstructed, and
20:08
Speaker 1: whatever's made this sound, they can't see it. It's blocked
20:11
Speaker 1: by the generator and the filing cabinet. And as they're
20:14
Speaker 1: shining their lights, they still can't see anything. They hear
20:16
Speaker 1: a massive splash, like someone cannonballed at the far end
20:20
Speaker 1: of the hallway. And the boys do not stick around
20:23
Speaker 1: to try to get a better angle to see it.
20:25
Speaker 1: They immediately turn around and run as fast as they can,
20:28
Speaker 1: or as fast as the water will allow them, back
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Speaker 1: to the steps, back to the landing, back to the
20:32
Speaker 1: first floor, Back to the second floor, down the hall,
20:34
Speaker 1: out the window, and they run all the way back
20:36
Speaker 1: to their bikes. And by the time they're back there,
20:38
Speaker 1: they're panting, they're soaking wet, they haven't spoken yet. It
20:41
Speaker 1: was like intuitive fight or flight, and they were out
20:43
Speaker 1: of there. And they're sitting there heaving, and they look
20:46
Speaker 1: at each other, and they start laughing. It was like
20:48
Speaker 1: this adrenaline rush. It was crazy what they were doing.
20:50
Speaker 1: And they look back up at the hospital, and they're
20:52
Speaker 1: staring at the second floor window, almost half expecting to
20:56
Speaker 1: see whoever it was that made this big splashing sound.
20:59
Speaker 1: to suddenly emerge in the window, but no one ever did.
21:01
Speaker 1: And after about an hour of just staring at the
21:03
Speaker 1: hospital and seeing no activity whatsoever, they convinced themselves that
21:07
Speaker 1: whatever they heard down in that hallway was probably just
21:10
Speaker 1: something falling off a shelf, or maybe there's a bird.
21:13
Speaker 2: Down there, but whatever it was, it was harmless.
21:15
Speaker 1: Eventually, Paul says to Tim and Max that they should
21:17
Speaker 1: totally go back in there and try to figure out
21:20
Speaker 1: what it was that made that sound. And initially, Tim
21:22
Speaker 1: and Max are like, I don't really want to do that,
21:25
Speaker 1: But eventually, after Paul called them babies enough times, they said, okay, fine,
21:29
Speaker 1: we'll go back in the hospital. And so they go
21:31
Speaker 1: back through the fence, they walk up the parking lot,
21:33
Speaker 1: they climb onto the second floor, they walk down the hall,
21:35
Speaker 1: they go down the stairs, they get to that access
21:37
Speaker 1: door that leads down into the basement. And before they
21:40
Speaker 1: just fling it open, Paul gets his flashlight up, he
21:42
Speaker 1: turns the handle, and he opens the door just a
21:44
Speaker 1: little bit and looks inside to see if anybody's in there.
21:47
Speaker 1: And there isn't, so he opens the door the rest
21:49
Speaker 1: of the way. And he, Tim, and Max go inside.
21:51
Speaker 1: Once they're inside, they shine their light down to the
21:53
Speaker 1: landing and they can still see their wet footprints all
21:55
Speaker 1: over the steps. It's silence inside of the basement. They
21:58
Speaker 1: make their way down to the landing. They turn around.
22:00
Speaker 1: They shine the light into the water in the basement itself.
22:03
Speaker 1: And now the water is completely calm again. There's no motion.
22:06
Speaker 1: It's still completely quiet.
22:08
Speaker 2: And as they're standing there looking, it's clear all of
22:10
Speaker 2: them are hesitating.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to go back into chest-deep, murky, stagnant
22:15
Speaker 1: water again. And they also don't know what it was
22:17
Speaker 1: that made that sound. While they were outside, they're really confident.
22:20
Speaker 2: It wasn't a big deal.
22:21
Speaker 1: But now that they're in this dark basement, it seemed
22:23
Speaker 1: a little bit more intimidating. And so Tim suggests they
22:26
Speaker 1: throw something into the water to try to get a
22:28
Speaker 1: reaction from whatever this thing is, if it's alive. But
22:31
Speaker 1: they didn't have anything to throw. And then Paul, out
22:34
Speaker 1: of nowhere, takes his flashlight and throws it into the water.
22:36
Speaker 1: And before Tim or Max could react to what he
22:39
Speaker 1: just did, they all just stopped and listened to see
22:41
Speaker 1: if that would cause a reaction from whatever it was
22:44
Speaker 1: down there. And as the flashlight sunk to the bottom
22:46
Speaker 1: and completely out of view because the water was so murky,
22:49
Speaker 1: there was no reaction down there. It was still completely silent.
22:52
Speaker 1: Paul turns to Tim and Max and says, the reason
22:54
Speaker 1: I threw it is now we have to go in
22:56
Speaker 1: because I have to get my flashlight. So Paul, along
22:58
Speaker 1: with Tim and Max, make their way down that final
23:00
Speaker 1: flight of stairs. They start walking into the water. They
23:03
Speaker 1: get all the way up to their chest in water.
23:05
Speaker 1: And they wait out until Paul is directly over the light.
23:08
Speaker 1: He can barely see it through the murky water, but
23:10
Speaker 1: he can clearly see it below him. And since he
23:12
Speaker 1: doesn't want to go under the water, he tried to
23:14
Speaker 1: use his feet to get the light up, but he
23:16
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. And so he looks at Tim and
23:18
Speaker 1: Max and he goes, I'm going under.
23:20
Speaker 2: He takes a deep.
23:21
Speaker 1: Breath and he goes under the water. He immediately hears
23:23
Speaker 1: the muffled screams of Tim and Max up on the surface.
23:26
Speaker 1: And as he's fumbling for his light, he feels one
23:28
Speaker 1: of them yank on his shirt to try to pull
23:30
Speaker 1: him up and out of the water.
23:31
Speaker 2: Paul manages to grab.
23:32
Speaker 1: His flashlight, he comes out of the water, and he
23:34
Speaker 1: turns and he sees Tim and Max booking it for
23:37
Speaker 1: the stairs. And before he can even turn around and
23:39
Speaker 1: run after them, he realizes why they're running in the
23:42
Speaker 1: first place. To his right, he can hear the sound
23:45
Speaker 1: of something huge swimming up the hallway towards him. For
23:49
Speaker 1: a brief second, he raises his flashlight and shines it
23:51
Speaker 1: down the hall, and right at the filing cabinet, this
23:54
Speaker 1: dark silhouette that's in the water, that's lying horizontal in
23:58
Speaker 1: the water, is violently swimming up the hall towards him,
24:01
Speaker 1: so fast there is a wake of water coming off
24:04
Speaker 1: of it. Paul turns and runs towards the stairs, or
24:06
Speaker 1: as fast as he can go, he's trying to wade
24:08
Speaker 1: through this water that's chest deep on him. He gets
24:11
Speaker 1: to the stairs, he runs up to the landing, he
24:13
Speaker 1: can see his friends are up at the door leading
24:15
Speaker 1: out of the basement.
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Speaker 2: Stairwell, and they're yelling for him to hurry up, hurry up!
24:18
Speaker 1: They got the door open. Paul turns the corner and
24:21
Speaker 1: runs up to that door, and right as he's leaving,
24:23
Speaker 1: he can hear whatever it was that was swimming down
24:26
Speaker 1: the hall, has stopped and is now on the stairs.
24:28
Speaker 1: He goes to the access door and he and his
24:30
Speaker 1: buddies run upstairs to the second floor. They run down
24:32
Speaker 1: the hallway, they get into that room, they leap out
24:34
Speaker 1: the window onto the shed, onto the ground, and they
24:36
Speaker 1: run all the way out to the break in the
24:37
Speaker 1: fence where they hop in their bikes and they bike away.
24:40
Speaker 2: And as they're leaving, they turn around to look and
24:42
Speaker 2: there's no one.
24:43
Speaker 1: There's no one in the window, there's no one outside
24:45
Speaker 1: on the property. Whoever or whatever was chasing them is
24:49
Speaker 1: still in the hospital. The boys believe it was an
24:51
Speaker 1: alligator living in the basement of this hospital, but they
24:54
Speaker 1: never found out for sure. While they continued to urban
24:57
Speaker 1: explore around New Orleans, they never went back to that hospital.
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