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It took days to find them · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three places you can't
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. Around eleven thirty am on
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Speaker 1: August fourteenth, two thousand and five, two Greek military fighter
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Speaker 1: pilots flew in their jets high above Athens Grease, following
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Speaker 1: behind a Boeing seven thirty seven commercial airplane. This commercial
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Speaker 1: airplane was Helios Airways Flight five two to two. It
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Speaker 1: had left Cyprus at nine am that morning with one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one people on board, and it was
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Speaker 1: scheduled to have landed in Athens forty five minutes earlier,
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Speaker 1: but instead, shortly after takeoff, Flight five to two two's
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Speaker 1: pilots had stopped responding to air traffic control, and now
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Speaker 1: the plane was just circling right over the city. And
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Speaker 1: so at some point the military became concerned that perhaps
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Speaker 1: flight five to two two had been hijacked, and at
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Speaker 1: some point, you know, the hijackers were going to crash
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Speaker 1: the plane into a city, and so in response to that,
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Speaker 1: they had sent up these two fighter pilots to see
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Speaker 1: what was going on.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: When the two fighter pilots arrived on station in the
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Speaker 1: air right behind flight five two to two, at first
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Speaker 1: they couldn't tell what the issue was. There was no
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Speaker 1: fire or visible smoke or any damage to the aircraft.
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Speaker 1: And so the two fighter pilots in tandem flew up
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Speaker 1: alongside the plane so they could look inside the windows.
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Speaker 1: And when they did and they saw inside to the
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Speaker 1: actual fuselage, they saw all the oxygen masks were dropped
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Speaker 1: down in front of the passengers. Then all the passengers
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Speaker 1: had the masks on. However, all the passengers were passed out.
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Speaker 1: They were slumped over with these masks strapped to their faces.
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Speaker 1: Now the fighter pilots had no idea if these passengers
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Speaker 1: were unconscious or dead or some combination. But for right
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Speaker 1: now all they cared about was are the pilots conscious
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Speaker 1: and able to fly this craft. And so the two
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Speaker 1: fighter pilots flew up until they were parallel with the cockpit,
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Speaker 1: and they looked in the window and they saw not
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Speaker 1: the pilots. They saw the oxygen masks drop down, but
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Speaker 1: the pilots were not there. Instead, they saw this one
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Speaker 1: guy who was clearly not a pilot, He was not
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Speaker 1: in a pilot's uniform, looking out the window at them,
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Speaker 1: just waving, just some random guy. And so the two
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Speaker 1: fighter pilots had no idea what to make of this.
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Speaker 1: Before the fighter pilots could even begin to react to
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Speaker 1: whatever was going on here, this random guy in the
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Speaker 1: cockpit looked out at one of the fighter pilots and
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Speaker 1: just began gesturing down with his index finger. And then
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Speaker 1: a moment later, Flight five to two to two began
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Speaker 1: to descend. To fully understand what happens next, we need
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Speaker 1: to go back to just before nine am on the
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Speaker 1: same morning. So nine am was takeoff, and right before
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Speaker 1: the crew of flight five to two to two did
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Speaker 1: their routine safety checks of the aircraft, and they determined
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Speaker 1: that the craft was ready for takeoff. However, they had
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Speaker 1: actually missed one crucial thing there was a knob on
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Speaker 1: this aircraft that was switched to the wrong setting by
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Speaker 1: a maintenance person right before takeoff, and nobody had noticed,
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Speaker 1: so it wasn't put back to where it needed to be,
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Speaker 1: and so flight five two two wound up taking off
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Speaker 1: on schedule, and at first everything was fine, totally normal,
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Speaker 1: But about two minutes into the flight, all these alarms
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Speaker 1: began sounding on the aircraft and then the oxygen masks
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Speaker 1: dropped from the ceiling. And the reason for that is
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Speaker 1: that knob that had been set to the wrong setting
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Speaker 1: controlled how much breathable air was in the aircraft during flight.
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Speaker 1: It basically hit been switched to off, so there was
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Speaker 1: nothing to breathe in the airplane. And so by the
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Speaker 1: time these masks were dropping down, people on the plane
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Speaker 1: were already passing out, including the pilots. They were passed
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Speaker 1: out pretty much immediately when those masks came down, and
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Speaker 1: so it's absolutely chaos in this plane. Everybody's passing out
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Speaker 1: except for one person, twenty five year old plate attendant
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Speaker 1: Andreas Perdromo, who when the masks came down, he was awake.
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Speaker 1: He was conscious, and instead of grabbing one of those
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Speaker 1: masks from the overhead, he managed to connect himself to
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Speaker 1: one of the emergency oxygen tanks. Now, the reason that's
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Speaker 1: very important is the mask that dropped down on an
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Speaker 1: aircraft have a very limited supply of oxygen. But Andreas,
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Speaker 1: who was actually training to be a pilot, was aware
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Speaker 1: of that, and he put on this emergency oxygen tank,
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Speaker 1: which had way more oxygen to it, and so suddenly
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Speaker 1: he's breathing a much longer air source and he's looking
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Speaker 1: around the plane and everybody's passed out except for him.
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Speaker 1: Now we don't know at what point he learned this,
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Speaker 1: but at some point Andreas would have noticed as he's
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Speaker 1: breathing on this emergency oxygen tank that out the window
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Speaker 1: he would see the plane as just flying in circles,
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Speaker 1: and it would have dawned on him that not only
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Speaker 1: are the passengers out, but very likely so are the pilots,
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Speaker 1: and so literally there's nobody flying this plane. And so
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Speaker 1: he had a decision to make. Either he was going
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Speaker 1: to just sit here until the plane crashed, or he
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Speaker 1: was going to do something like try to fly the plane.
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Speaker 1: And that's what he ultimately decided to do. And so
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Speaker 1: Andreas stood up, he took his oxygen tank, and he
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Speaker 1: headed into the cockpit and after moving aside the unconscious pilots,
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Speaker 1: he attempted to fly this plane. And so the two
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Speaker 1: fighter pilots who flew up alongside the cockpit and looked
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Speaker 1: in and saw that one random guy who was waving
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Speaker 1: to them that was Andreas. And unfortunately, despite the fact
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Speaker 1: that Andreas was training to become a pilot, he was
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Speaker 1: not remotely qualified or skilled enough to fly a big
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Speaker 1: Boeing seven thirty seven. He had no idea how to
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Speaker 1: fly this aircraft. And making the situation even worse is
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Speaker 1: very shortly after Andreas entered the cockpit, the plane ran
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Speaker 1: out of fuel and so it left its automatic holding
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Speaker 1: pattern that it had been in flying in circles, and
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Speaker 1: just automatically began trying to descend. But that required pilot
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Speaker 1: input to land the plane. But Andreas knew he couldn't
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Speaker 1: possibly land this plane successfully, and so as the plane
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Speaker 1: automatically began its descent down towards Athens, this huge city
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Speaker 1: full of people, Andreas did the one thing he could do.
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Speaker 1: He took one last look at one of the fighter
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Speaker 1: pilots outside the window, and he gestured to them that
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Speaker 1: the plane was now beginning to descend, and then Andreas
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Speaker 1: he grabbed the yoke of the aircraft and he intentionally
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Speaker 1: banked it to the left, basically flying the plane away
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Speaker 1: from Athens, and he guided this plane into an unpopulated
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Speaker 1: hillside where it crashed. Andreas and all one hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty people on that plane all died in the crash. However,
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Speaker 1: because of Andreas's heroic final act of steering the plane
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Speaker 1: away from Athens, not a single person on the ground
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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, a thirty two year old man
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Speaker 1: named Luo Jinfa stood in the doorway of his apartment
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Speaker 1: in Taiwan, waiting for his landlord to finish lecture him
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Speaker 1: about being late on his rent. Louo had just moved
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Speaker 1: into this apartment two months earlier, in December, and this
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Speaker 1: was not a very nice apartment. It was a cramped
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Speaker 1: downstairs unit with no air conditioning, so it was really
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Speaker 1: sweaty and awful in there most of the time. But
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Speaker 1: it was all Louo could afford. He wasn't working right
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Speaker 1: now and knew this was the best he was going
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Speaker 1: to get. As the landlord continued to berate Luo about
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Speaker 1: how he was totally within his rights to evict Luo
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Speaker 1: if he didn't pay him, how he'd already given Luo
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Speaker 1: an extension, and you know what's going on here. You
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Speaker 1: got to get your act together. As all that was happening,
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Speaker 1: Luo just was totally quiet and just was waiting for
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Speaker 1: the landlord to be quiet, because at this point, Luo
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Speaker 1: didn't really care about the rent side of this discussion.
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Speaker 1: He just wanted his landlord to be quiet so he
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Speaker 1: could ask him a very strange but important question. And finally,
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Speaker 1: after about five minutes of the landlord just ranting, the
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Speaker 1: landlord stopped for a second to try to calculate how
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Speaker 1: much interest he could potentially charge Luo, And as the
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Speaker 1: landlord began scribbling notes on his notepad, Louo saw his
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Speaker 1: opportunity and he said, excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt,
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Speaker 1: but I actually need to ask you something. And the
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Speaker 1: landlord was sort of caught off guard by the way
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Speaker 1: Luo was approaching him. You know, the landlord thought he
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Speaker 1: was intimidating Luo, so the idea that Luo was now
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Speaker 1: going to, you know, interrupt him and go a different
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Speaker 1: direction with this conversation felt sort of disrespectful. But the
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Speaker 1: landlord looked at Luo like, what question could you possibly have?
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Speaker 1: And Luo just said, do you know if anyone's been
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Speaker 1: murdered inside of my apartment? After Luo asked the question,
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Speaker 1: the landlord just stared at Luo like he didn't really
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Speaker 1: know how to process this question at all. But then
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Speaker 1: after a moment, this look of shock disappeared, and once
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Speaker 1: again the landlord was just annoyed with Luo and said,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I know what's wrong with you, but
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Speaker 1: I'll be back in a month and you better have
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Speaker 1: your rent. And then the landlord just turned around and
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Speaker 1: walked away without answering Luo's question. Now, Luo was pretty
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Speaker 1: stressed out about paying the rent. I mean, he had
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Speaker 1: no money and had no idea how he was going
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Speaker 1: to pay his landlord in a month. But the much
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Speaker 1: more pressing issue in Luo's life with the very strange
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Speaker 1: things happening inside of his apartment, which is what prompted
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Speaker 1: him to ask that strange question to his landlord, and
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Speaker 1: so not getting an answer to that question just made
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Speaker 1: this whole situation that much more stressful for Luo. And
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Speaker 1: so after the landlord disappeared down the hall, Louo kind
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Speaker 1: of hesitantly turned back around and went back inside his
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Speaker 1: apartment and shut the door, and immediately he just felt terrified.
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Speaker 1: One month later, on March second, two thousand and nine,
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Speaker 1: a day after the rent was due, Luo's landlord had
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Speaker 1: still not received rent from Luo, and so he spent
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Speaker 1: that entire day March second, calling Louo, trying to get
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Speaker 1: him on the phone to be like, where's my money?
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Speaker 1: But Lui wasn't answering his phone, and so eventually the
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Speaker 1: landlord went to Luo's apartment and knocked on the door. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: when Luo didn't come to the door, the landlord just
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Speaker 1: used his own key to let himself in. Now, the
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Speaker 1: landlord didn't really know what to expect when he walked
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Speaker 1: inside of Louo's apartment. All he knew was that Luo
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Speaker 1: was kind of a weird guy, and he certainly wasn't
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Speaker 1: paying rent, and you know, his general impression of Luo
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Speaker 1: was definitely a bad one, and so he kind of
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Speaker 1: expected the apartment to reflect the negative things he thought
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Speaker 1: about Louo. But when he stepped in there, even the
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Speaker 1: landlord was shocked at what he saw. I mean, the
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Speaker 1: apartment was in total disarray. Furniture was all over the
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Speaker 1: place and stacked up against the walls and weird arrangements,
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Speaker 1: and there were all these bottles of empty alcohol all
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Speaker 1: over the place. There was a freezer that Luo had
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Speaker 1: moved to the middle of the living room floor. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the place just was a total mess and just kind
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Speaker 1: of all over the place. But the thing that really
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Speaker 1: creeped the landlord out the second he walked in there
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Speaker 1: was that all over the walls were these yellow and
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Speaker 1: red pieces of paper with prayers written on them that
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Speaker 1: had been stabbed into the wall with individual knives, like
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Speaker 1: Luo had taken a prayer and stabbed it to the
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Speaker 1: wall over and over and over again, all over the apartment. Now,
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Speaker 1: the landlord had no idea what to make of any
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Speaker 1: of this. He just knew he was done with Louo.
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Speaker 1: He was evicting him, and so he quickly searched the
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Speaker 1: apartment just to make sure Luo was not really in here,
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Speaker 1: and he wasn't. The apartment was empty, and so after that,
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Speaker 1: the landlord just left the apartment. He locked the apartment.
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Speaker 1: He went and got a new lock at the hardware store,
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Speaker 1: came back, replaced the lock, and was determined to never
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Speaker 1: let Luo ever come back. And in fact, Luo would
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Speaker 1: not come back. The landlord never had to worry about,
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Speaker 1: you know, telling Louo to stay away. He just ever
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Speaker 1: came back, and for months, Luo's old apartment just sat empty.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward seven months after the landlord went inside of
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Speaker 1: Luo's apartment and the landlord's brother approached the landlord and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: can I rent out that apartment? No one's using it,
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Speaker 1: And the landlord said that was fine, but the brother
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Speaker 1: would have to clean up the apartment because nobody had
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Speaker 1: touched it since Luo had lived there. So a couple
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Speaker 1: of days later, on October eighteenth, the landlord's brother, along
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Speaker 1: with the landlord, met at Luo's apartment. They went inside
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Speaker 1: and they totally cleaned it out, basically all the furniture
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Speaker 1: and the lamps and everything in there, some of Luo's
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Speaker 1: old clothes and things he had left behind. They took
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Speaker 1: it all out of the apartment and they loaded it
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Speaker 1: into a truck and they drove to a nearby recycling
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Speaker 1: facility where they sold whatever they could and then dumped
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Speaker 1: the rest and then they left. However, when the workers
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Speaker 1: at the recycling facility began processing some of the junk
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Speaker 1: that had been left behind by the landlord and the brother,
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Speaker 1: they made a discovery that immediately made them stop and
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Speaker 1: contact the police. It would turn out Luo had not
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Speaker 1: actually abandoned his apartment. In fact, he had never left
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Speaker 1: his apartment. So Luo had become totally convinced that his
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Speaker 1: apartment was haunted by a ghost. At night, he would
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Speaker 1: hear walking around above him, even though he knew nobody
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Speaker 1: actually occupied the apartment right above him, and so the
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Speaker 1: footsteps didn't make any sense. And then sometimes he would
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Speaker 1: claim that he would see these shadowy figures wandering around
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Speaker 1: inside of his apartment. Now it's worth noting that Luo
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Speaker 1: did have mental health issues and he was a drug user,
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Speaker 1: but he was absolutely adamant to the people he spoke
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Speaker 1: to that there was something strange happening inside of his apartment,
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Speaker 1: and so he began to wonder, if you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: somebody had been murdered in his apartment and their ghost
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Speaker 1: was now haunting him, hence the question to his landlord.
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Speaker 1: So this haunting or whatever it was, just continued night
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Speaker 1: after night, day after day for Luo, and it was
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Speaker 1: driving him absolutely mad. But Luo discovered there was actually
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Speaker 1: one place he could go in his apartment that would
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Speaker 1: sort of protect him from whatever was happening inside of there.
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Speaker 1: And that was to lock himself inside of his bedroom. However,
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Speaker 1: his bedroom was not a real room. His bedroom was
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Speaker 1: that big freezer the landlord found sitting in the middle
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Speaker 1: of his living room. Luo had been climbing in there
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Speaker 1: and shutting it to protect himself from this entity at night,
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Speaker 1: but he would always prop the lid open just enough
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Speaker 1: so that air could come in and out of there
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Speaker 1: because it was air tight. However, shortly after Luo's conversation
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Speaker 1: with his landlord about being laid on rent, Luo had
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Speaker 1: gone back inside his apartment, gotten really drunk, climbed inside
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Speaker 1: of his bedroom, shut the lid, and forgot to prop
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Speaker 1: it open, and so as he lay there, he slowly
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Speaker 1: suffocated to death because there wasn't any circulation, and after
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Speaker 1: he died inside of his freezer, nobody found him. And
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Speaker 1: then seven months later, after Luo's landlord and his brother
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Speaker 1: emptied out Luo's apartment, they brought that freezer, along with
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Speaker 1: everything else, to the recycling facility, where the workers there
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Speaker 1: would open up the freezer and they would find Luo.
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Speaker 1: On August fourth, twenty nineteen, a twenty eight year old
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Speaker 1: man named Sombora left his farm in rural Cambodia and
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Speaker 1: headed off into the jungle. His goal that day was
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Speaker 1: to climb the nearby Chokrye Mountain and try to harvest
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Speaker 1: as much batguano as possible. So batguano is batpoop and
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Speaker 1: it makes excellent fertilizer. And in the jungles of Cambodia,
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Speaker 1: there are all these mountains, including Chalkraie Mountain, that have
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Speaker 1: these cave systems full of bats, so it's a great
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Speaker 1: place to go looking for batguano. And Some and his
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Speaker 1: family they would go out there and harvest as much
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Speaker 1: as they could in order to support their farm. This
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Speaker 1: is kind of like their main business. And so on
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Speaker 1: this particular day, Some was not just going to climb
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Speaker 1: this mountain and go into random caves and hope for
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Speaker 1: the best. Today. His mission was to go to one
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Speaker 1: cave in particular that he knew had a ton of
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Speaker 1: batguano inside of it, mostly because the other people in
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Speaker 1: the area that went out harvesting batquano they wouldn't go
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Speaker 1: into this cave. And the reason for that is the
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Speaker 1: cave was really really narrow and tight and frankly dangerous
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Speaker 1: because of it, and so they didn't go into it.
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Speaker 1: But Suom was a very slight guy with a narrow frame,
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Speaker 1: and so he could basically get himself into tight spaces
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Speaker 1: and reap the benefits of places like this cave. And
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Speaker 1: so after hiking for about an hour through the jungle
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Speaker 1: and then up this mountain, some finally reached the entrance
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Speaker 1: to this particular cave. And it was an opening that
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Speaker 1: was about three feet by three feet and you really
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Speaker 1: couldn't see very far into it, but Suom knew what
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Speaker 1: he was doing and pretty much immediately got down on
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Speaker 1: his stomach, He got his flashlight out, he took his
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Speaker 1: guano bag, which had a long strap coming off of
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Speaker 1: it so we could drag it behind him, and he
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Speaker 1: began wriggling his way into this opening. Now, the way
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Speaker 1: this cave system roughly worked is there was this narrow
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Speaker 1: entrance that went kind of straight ahead like a tunnel,
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Speaker 1: and then periodically, as it continued along, there'd be these
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Speaker 1: kind of like pockets, these openings where it would get
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Speaker 1: big enough where some could actually get up onto his
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Speaker 1: hands and knees and kind of move around a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And it was inside of these pockets, these caverns where
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Speaker 1: all the bats would be. And that's where most of
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Speaker 1: their poop was. And so all Sum was trying to
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Speaker 1: do as soon as he went inside this cave is
18:27
Speaker 1: get to these caverns and then do his harvesting. And
18:30
Speaker 1: so some he wriggled his way forward. He got through
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Speaker 1: that first tunnel section and he entered the first cavern,
18:35
Speaker 1: and sure enough, there were quite a few bats on
18:37
Speaker 1: the ceiling, and there was all this baquano, about a
18:40
Speaker 1: pound of baquano, and so he scooped it all up,
18:43
Speaker 1: he put it into his bag, and then he kept
18:45
Speaker 1: on moving through the tunnel into the next cavern. And
18:48
Speaker 1: as he was making his way down that second stretch
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Speaker 1: of tunnel, shining his light ahead, he saw what looked
18:53
Speaker 1: like the walls moving up ahead when he was looking
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Speaker 1: into the next cavern. But he knew that was not
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Speaker 1: actually the wall moving. There was a whole bunch of
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Speaker 1: bats in this next cavern, and so from his perspective
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Speaker 1: it seemed like there were way more bats in that
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Speaker 1: cavern than this one. And so in theory, this next
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Speaker 1: cavern was gonna have a ton of batguano, potentially all
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Speaker 1: he would need for this entire journey. He could just
19:14
Speaker 1: pack his bag and leave after this next cavern. However,
19:18
Speaker 1: there was a small problem. Now. Some had come to
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Speaker 1: the spot many times before, and he knew that going
19:24
Speaker 1: from the first cavern to the next cavern had a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a hiccup on the ground. As you
19:29
Speaker 1: crossed the threshold into this second cavern, was a crack
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Speaker 1: in the ground that basically ran perpendicular to the way
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Speaker 1: this tunnel ran. Now, the crack was only about six
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Speaker 1: inches wide, but when you were over it, shining a
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Speaker 1: light down into this crack, it was like it went
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Speaker 1: on forever. It was like this unending hole in the earth.
19:49
Speaker 1: And so some always just got creeped out climbing over
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Speaker 1: this crack because there was really no way to go
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Speaker 1: around it. You really had to go right over the
19:56
Speaker 1: top of it. Because all he was thinking about is like,
19:58
Speaker 1: what's down inside of this deep hole in this cave.
20:02
Speaker 1: It's reminiscent of how people are scared of really deep oceans,
20:05
Speaker 1: like the lasophobia, that's fear of what's down there. And
20:09
Speaker 1: so some just really didn't like it. But again, he
20:11
Speaker 1: knew there was going to be a ton of batpoop
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Speaker 1: if he could just cross over that crack, and so
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Speaker 1: it was worth it. And so some he wriggled his
20:17
Speaker 1: way through the tunnel, he reached the crack, he kind
20:20
Speaker 1: of shined his light down and again saw just this
20:22
Speaker 1: never ending pit that just shot straight down into the earth.
20:25
Speaker 1: But Someom took a deep breath and he wriggled over
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Speaker 1: the top of it successfully. And after he crossed it
20:31
Speaker 1: and he was about to enter into the cavern to
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Speaker 1: get this huge bat guano payload, he felt something tugging
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Speaker 1: on him and immediately he was terrified, and he whipped
20:39
Speaker 1: his head around wondering what could possibly be grabbing him.
20:42
Speaker 1: When he realized nothing was grabbing him. It was his
20:45
Speaker 1: guano bag that he dragged behind him with that big strap.
20:48
Speaker 1: It had gotten stuck on the crack itself. Some was
20:51
Speaker 1: immediately relieved because he had really hyped up the idea
20:54
Speaker 1: that maybe there was some monster behind him or something,
20:57
Speaker 1: but there wasn't, and so he just kind of grabbed
20:58
Speaker 1: his strap and kind of jimmied bag out of the crack.
21:01
Speaker 1: But as he did, he lost his flashlight. So he's
21:04
Speaker 1: moving the bag and he kind of fumbles the flashlight
21:07
Speaker 1: and the flashlight rolled backwards into the crack. And as
21:11
Speaker 1: soon as this happened, some is watching with horror as
21:14
Speaker 1: he's seeing the light kind of jostling around as it
21:16
Speaker 1: tumbles down into the crack. But then it comes to
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Speaker 1: a stop, like it didn't just fall endlessly into the earth.
21:21
Speaker 1: It got wedged at some point, and the light from
21:24
Speaker 1: the flashlight was actually shining straight up, so it was
21:27
Speaker 1: pretty near the surface. And so Some's thinking to himself, Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's bad. I can't lose my flashlight. I have to
21:33
Speaker 1: be able to see to get the batpoop and to
21:35
Speaker 1: get out of here. But let me just turn around
21:38
Speaker 1: and I'll reach into that horrible crack and I'll get
21:40
Speaker 1: my flashlight and everything will be okay. And so some
21:43
Speaker 1: carefully backed back down across the crack, and when he
21:46
Speaker 1: was looking straight down into the crack, he could see
21:49
Speaker 1: the flashlight and it was wedged pointing straight up, maybe
21:52
Speaker 1: a foot and a half or two feet down. Now,
21:54
Speaker 1: Some did not want to reach his arm into this
21:56
Speaker 1: crack for all the reasons. He was scared of the crack,
21:58
Speaker 1: like he doesn't know what's to do there, but he
22:00
Speaker 1: really needs his flashlight. And so some kind of backed
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Speaker 1: himself up and mentally prepared himself and then reached into
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Speaker 1: the crack and began blindly reaching down, hoping to grab
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Speaker 1: this flashlight and yank it out as fast as he could.
22:13
Speaker 1: But as he reached he couldn't quite get to the flashlight,
22:17
Speaker 1: and so he began turning and twisting his body and
22:19
Speaker 1: forcing his shoulder deeper and deeper until finally he could
22:23
Speaker 1: touch the flashlight. And then finally, right as he grabbed
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Speaker 1: the flashlight, something happened that night. Some did not return
22:30
Speaker 1: to his farm. Now, his family was not actually that
22:32
Speaker 1: worried about it, because it was not uncommon for Some
22:35
Speaker 1: to go out on these guano foraging adventures and beg
22:38
Speaker 1: gone for you know, a couple days at a time. However,
22:41
Speaker 1: after another two days went by and still Some had
22:44
Speaker 1: not returned, his family started to get worried, and so
22:47
Speaker 1: ultimately Sum's brother decided to go out and look for him.
22:50
Speaker 1: Sum's brother had often collected guano with Some in the past,
22:53
Speaker 1: and so he knew roughly where some light to go,
22:56
Speaker 1: including Some's favorite spot that cave up in the mountain,
23:00
Speaker 1: And so when the brother went out looking for him,
23:02
Speaker 1: pretty quickly he found himself in that favorite spot. Now,
23:05
Speaker 1: Sum's brother was about the same size as Some, and
23:08
Speaker 1: so he too could navigate this very tight tunnel, and
23:11
Speaker 1: so that's what he did. He got down in his stomach.
23:13
Speaker 1: He had his flashlight out and he yelled into the
23:16
Speaker 1: cave for some, but there was no answer, and so
23:18
Speaker 1: he eventually made his way to that first cavern. He
23:21
Speaker 1: didn't find some, he kept going, and right as he
23:23
Speaker 1: was about to hit that second cavern, as he shined
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Speaker 1: his light ahead, he saw there was a bag on
23:29
Speaker 1: the ground and it was his brother's guano bag, and
23:31
Speaker 1: so he knew his brother had to have come here,
23:34
Speaker 1: and he began yelling out for his brother, but there
23:36
Speaker 1: was no answer. And then right as the brother paused
23:39
Speaker 1: for a second just to listen, he heard a faint cry,
23:42
Speaker 1: a human cry, and he called out, like, is that
23:44
Speaker 1: use some? And again he heard another cry, but he's
23:47
Speaker 1: looking around and he can't see some anywhere, and so
23:50
Speaker 1: the brother just continues shimming his way towards that second cavern,
23:54
Speaker 1: and right as he begins to cross over that crack,
23:57
Speaker 1: he hears the cry again, and it's come out from
24:00
Speaker 1: right below him. It's coming from the crack, and the
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Speaker 1: brother takes his flashlight and shines it straight down into
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Speaker 1: that crack, and there in the crack was some. He
24:11
Speaker 1: was wedged all the way inside of the crack. It
24:14
Speaker 1: would turn out a few days earlier, when Some was
24:17
Speaker 1: in this cave reaching for his flashlight, he couldn't quite
24:20
Speaker 1: get his fingers around the flashlight, and so he kept
24:23
Speaker 1: turning his body more and more until his body was
24:27
Speaker 1: parallel with the crack itself. And then finally, right as
24:30
Speaker 1: he's leaning down and he gets his hands in the flashlight,
24:33
Speaker 1: he rolled and fell into the crack. His whole body
24:37
Speaker 1: basically perfectly fit into the crack, and down he went
24:41
Speaker 1: several feet where he wedged into the crack, and then
24:44
Speaker 1: once he was wedged down there, there was nowhere to go.
24:47
Speaker 1: He was absolutely trapped, and so sum laid in this
24:51
Speaker 1: crack for days, having no expectation he was going to
24:55
Speaker 1: get out. He was totally wedged, no food, no water.
24:59
Speaker 1: He was going to die, and he knew it. In fact,
25:01
Speaker 1: he actively wished he had a knife on hand so
25:04
Speaker 1: he could take his own life. But luckily, for Some,
25:07
Speaker 1: his brother would find him. His brother would go and
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Speaker 1: get help, and on the fourth day of Some being
25:13
Speaker 1: trapped inside of this crack, rescuers were able to pull
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Speaker 1: him out and he would make a full recovery. I'm
25:25
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25:30
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25:37
Speaker 2: Sometimes colleges invite me to give their students lectures on
25:41
Speaker 2: writing or horror or whatever else it is. I pretend
25:45
Speaker 2: to be an expert on they're fun gigs. I fly out,
25:50
Speaker 2: stay in a hotel on their dime, and inspire the
25:53
Speaker 2: next generation of creatives. It's good for the soul usually,
25:59
Speaker 2: but last morning, a trip to the University of Kansas
26:02
Speaker 2: left my soul feeling deeply troubled. It was late when
26:06
Speaker 2: I landed, and a sophomore who worked at the student
26:09
Speaker 2: union gave me a ride from the airport. Christine was quiet,
26:13
Speaker 2: and she didn't seem to be a horror fan, just
26:16
Speaker 2: a young woman doing her job.
26:19
Speaker 1: At least I thought so.
26:21
Speaker 2: Until she took a detour and pulled over by a cemetery.
26:25
Speaker 2: It was lit by moonlight and surrounded by a barbed
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Speaker 2: wire fence to keep people out or maybe to keep
26:33
Speaker 2: something terrible in. Yeah, my horror brain was kicking into gear,
26:42
Speaker 2: I asked why we'd stopped. Christine told me this was
26:46
Speaker 2: Stole Cemetery, the most haunted place in all of Kansas.
26:50
Speaker 2: She wanted me to check it out. I told her
26:53
Speaker 2: kindly that I'd rather not go ghost hunting. I was tired,
26:58
Speaker 2: and in my line of work, you've seen one haunted cemetery,
27:02
Speaker 2: you've kind of seen them all. I thought she'd laugh,
27:05
Speaker 2: but Christine told me this one was different. Then she
27:11
Speaker 2: gripped the wheel and asked if I was religious. Something
27:15
Speaker 2: was off about this girl. She wasn't dangerous exactly, but
27:19
Speaker 2: there was a pathetic need radiating off of her. So
27:24
Speaker 2: I said, sure, I was a believer. I believed in
27:27
Speaker 2: a higher power and right and wrong, but I wasn't
27:31
Speaker 2: a scripture fanatic. Maybe that's why, in my wilder years,
27:35
Speaker 2: a few of my execs has said I was going
27:37
Speaker 2: to Hell. Now. Christine laughed bitterly. She told me I
27:42
Speaker 2: didn't want to go there. She knew for a fact
27:46
Speaker 2: it was worse than I could ever imagine. My eyes
27:49
Speaker 2: went wide as Christine told me that's why she'd brought
27:52
Speaker 2: me here, Because deep within this cemetery, in the ruins
27:56
Speaker 2: of a Chapel. There was a stairway