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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three stories about places
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- 0:30Speaker 1: into today's stories. Around four forty five pm on February eleventh,
- 0:50Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, a fifty year old man named Eric
- 0:53Speaker 1: Tolitt sat in his office in the furniture factory that
- 0:56Speaker 1: he owned in Northumberland, which is a pretty rural country
- 1:00Speaker 1: northern England. From inside his office, all Eric could hear
- 1:03Speaker 1: outside was the thumping of the rain on the roof.
- 1:06Speaker 1: There was this low pressure system in the area which
- 1:08Speaker 1: was causing a really intense thunderstorm. In fact, the storm
- 1:12Speaker 1: was so bad that Eric had actually decided to close
- 1:14Speaker 1: the factory for the day so while his employees could
- 1:17Speaker 1: stay home during the storm, and Eric was glad that
- 1:19Speaker 1: he could actually afford to give his employees a day
- 1:22Speaker 1: off like this, because it had not always been that way.
- 1:25Speaker 1: He had bought this factory sixteen years earlier, and it
- 1:28Speaker 1: had taken all of his savings and scrap him together,
- 1:31Speaker 1: all of his money to actually make the investment. And
- 1:33Speaker 1: then after he purchased the factory, it required a huge
- 1:37Speaker 1: renovation to make it ready to be a furniture factory
- 1:40Speaker 1: that he could actually sell products out of. But now,
- 1:42Speaker 1: after sixteen years of hard work, you know, his business
- 1:46Speaker 1: was quite successful, and so a daylight today was no
- 1:49Speaker 1: big deal. You know, he wasn't all that concerned about
- 1:51Speaker 1: the lost profits that day. Instead, he was just using
- 1:54Speaker 1: the time to catch up on some admin work and
- 1:57Speaker 1: also spend some time with his family. Eric's girlfriend, whose
- 1:59Speaker 1: name was Leslie, was at the factory with him, hanging
- 2:02Speaker 1: out in the office as well, and also Eric's brother,
- 2:05Speaker 1: whose name was Donald, had taken Leslie's eight year old
- 2:07Speaker 1: son over to the factory's attached garage to go play.
- 2:11Speaker 1: But as Eric, you know, shuffled through his paperwork and
- 2:14Speaker 1: did a few things, and Leslie was over at the
- 2:16Speaker 1: window looking outside. Suddenly the door to his office swung open,
- 2:20Speaker 1: and it was Leslie's eight year old son who came
- 2:22Speaker 1: barging in. There's no Donald. So Eric's Brother's not with him,
- 2:26Speaker 1: and the son he just looked totally panicked, and he
- 2:29Speaker 1: immediately said, before you know, Eric or Leslie could ask
- 2:32Speaker 1: any questions, that Donald had collapsed over in the attached garage. Now,
- 2:38Speaker 1: initially Eric didn't really know what to make of this,
- 2:40Speaker 1: but his first thought was, you know, his brother, Donald
- 2:43Speaker 1: was sixty and he did have some health issues, and
- 2:46Speaker 1: just hearing this kid say that Donald had collapsed, it
- 2:49Speaker 1: signaled to Eric like, oh, my goodness, did Donald have
- 2:52Speaker 1: a heart attack? Or he was also thinking, you know,
- 2:55Speaker 1: this kid's only eight years old. Is he overreacting? You know,
- 2:58Speaker 1: is there actually something totally benign happening? You know, whatever
- 3:01Speaker 1: it was, Eric knew immediately that it was time to
- 3:04Speaker 1: drop everything and run over there and check on Donald.
- 3:08Speaker 1: And so that's what he did. He and Leslie put
- 3:10Speaker 1: their stuff down, they ran with the eight year old,
- 3:12Speaker 1: you know, threw all the way to this attached garage,
- 3:15Speaker 1: which you know, in virtue of it being attached, they
- 3:17Speaker 1: never actually went outside into the storm. They just ran
- 3:20Speaker 1: straight to this garage, and sure enough, when they got there,
- 3:24Speaker 1: there was Donald laying on the ground. And so before
- 3:26Speaker 1: Eric ran over to his brother to assess him to
- 3:29Speaker 1: see what was going on, he just stopped right in
- 3:31Speaker 1: the doorway and turned to Leslie and her son and
- 3:34Speaker 1: he told them go back to my office and call
- 3:37Speaker 1: nine one one. I'll be in there as soon as
- 3:38Speaker 1: I can. So they turned, they left, and then Eric
- 3:42Speaker 1: he turned back around, rushed into the garage and knelt
- 3:45Speaker 1: down next to Donald, and right away he could tell
- 3:48Speaker 1: that his brother was not breathing, and as he's sort
- 3:50Speaker 1: of feeling around for some sign of life, suddenly Eric
- 3:54Speaker 1: began to feel this incredible tightness in his chest and
- 3:57Speaker 1: then before he knew it, he had blacked out and
- 4:00Speaker 1: collapsed right next to his brother. So before Eric purchased
- 4:04Speaker 1: this factory sixteen years earlier, it had been a factory,
- 4:07Speaker 1: but it was not a furniture factory. It was a
- 4:10Speaker 1: coal factory. And in virtue of that, there was a
- 4:13Speaker 1: coal mine that literally was attached to the structure. Basically,
- 4:17Speaker 1: the coal would come up out of the mine and
- 4:20Speaker 1: be processed inside of this big warehouse. Now, when Eric
- 4:24Speaker 1: bought it, he knew that there was this coal mine,
- 4:27Speaker 1: and there was this entrance to the coal mine connected
- 4:29Speaker 1: to the structure, but the coal mine was not in use.
- 4:33Speaker 1: The entrance to the coal mine had been completely boarded up,
- 4:35Speaker 1: and it really played no role whatsoever. However, over the
- 4:39Speaker 1: decade and a half that he owned this property and
- 4:42Speaker 1: didn't think at all about that coal mine, well, over
- 4:45Speaker 1: that time, this poisonous gas called choke damp began to
- 4:50Speaker 1: develop inside the mine. And then on the day that
- 4:53Speaker 1: you know, Eric and Donald collapse inside the garage, well,
- 4:56Speaker 1: it was because the low pressure storm outside caused those
- 5:00Speaker 1: poisonous gases to rise up and seep out of the
- 5:04Speaker 1: boarded up entrance, and those poisonous choked damp gases built
- 5:09Speaker 1: up inside of that attached garage, basically making that entire
- 5:12Speaker 1: room lethal to anybody inside of there. And so unfortunately,
- 5:17Speaker 1: Donald would die from poisoning Eric when he passed out,
- 5:21Speaker 1: he nearly died, but he was pulled out in time
- 5:24Speaker 1: and ultimately woke up in the hospital and he would survive.
- 5:39Speaker 1: At ten am on September tenth, twenty twenty two, a
- 5:43Speaker 1: sixty eight year old woman named Diana Stewart stood on
- 5:46Speaker 1: the deck of a small boat in the Pacific Ocean,
- 5:48Speaker 1: less than a mile off the eastern coast of New Zealand.
- 5:50Speaker 1: She looked out at the perfectly calm, light blue water
- 5:54Speaker 1: and she saw this albatross bird flying across the sky.
- 5:57Speaker 1: So she lifted up her cameraun took a picture. Diana
- 6:00Speaker 1: was a wildlife photographer and she was also a member
- 6:03Speaker 1: of the Nature Photography Society of New Zealand. And she
- 6:07Speaker 1: along with nine other members of this society, had chartered
- 6:11Speaker 1: this boat for a special bird watching and photography trip.
- 6:14Speaker 1: And so far, you know, the trip had lived up
- 6:16Speaker 1: to the hype. They'd spent two hours sailing around the
- 6:19Speaker 1: water photographing all these beautiful and rare birds and other wildlife,
- 6:24Speaker 1: and thend even been lucky enough to see a couple
- 6:26Speaker 1: of whales, and so this had been really a fantastic trip. Now,
- 6:29Speaker 1: at this point, the group had basically finished up their
- 6:32Speaker 1: trip and they were making their way back towards shore,
- 6:34Speaker 1: and so as they were going, Diana was keeping her
- 6:37Speaker 1: eye out for any last minute picture opportunities. As she
- 6:41Speaker 1: was looking around looking for birds, she noticed something in
- 6:44Speaker 1: the water. There was something huge moving sort of near
- 6:48Speaker 1: the boat that actually looked like it was moving towards
- 6:50Speaker 1: the boat, sort of at an angle, and at first,
- 6:53Speaker 1: you know, she couldn't really tell what it was. But
- 6:55Speaker 1: then suddenly it came into focus that it was an
- 6:58Speaker 1: enormous whale. This huge way is gonna swim basically right
- 7:02Speaker 1: under the boat, and so Diana she pulled out her
- 7:04Speaker 1: camera to take a photo. But then the worst thing
- 7:08Speaker 1: possible happened. This whale, sure enough came towards the boat,
- 7:12Speaker 1: but it didn't go under the boat. It rammed the
- 7:16Speaker 1: side of the boat, and before Diana could do anything,
- 7:19Speaker 1: suddenly the boat was lurching onto its side, and she
- 7:23Speaker 1: and the rest of the crew were thrown off the
- 7:26Speaker 1: boat into the frigid water. And the second she hit
- 7:30Speaker 1: the freezing cold water, her life jacket, which she was wearing,
- 7:34Speaker 1: it automatically inflated. It was one of those auto inflate
- 7:36Speaker 1: life jackets. It inflates and she sort of disoriented. The
- 7:39Speaker 1: water was so shockingly cold. I mean, this is a
- 7:42Speaker 1: completely unbelievable situation to find yourself in. But you know,
- 7:47Speaker 1: as she surfaced and she tried to get her bearings,
- 7:49Speaker 1: she realized it was pitch black everywhere she looked, and
- 7:52Speaker 1: it was so loud she could barely hear anything but
- 7:56Speaker 1: the sound of the engine of the boat. And that's
- 7:58Speaker 1: when she realized, putting her hands up, that the boat
- 8:02Speaker 1: must have capsized and landed on top of her. But
- 8:06Speaker 1: there's this little bit of air. She's basically in an
- 8:08Speaker 1: air pocket, but she can't hear anything. She just hears
- 8:11Speaker 1: the sound of this engine and it's deafening. And so
- 8:14Speaker 1: she began calling out for help, and she tried to
- 8:16Speaker 1: kind of maneuver out from underneath, you know, this curved
- 8:20Speaker 1: underside of the boat that created this pocket, but she
- 8:22Speaker 1: couldn't find her way out. And this life jacket she
- 8:25Speaker 1: had on was fully inflated. She couldn't, you know, deflate it,
- 8:29Speaker 1: and because of her buoyancy, she couldn't swim down below
- 8:34Speaker 1: and get out from under this boat. And so she's
- 8:36Speaker 1: sort of trapped underneath this boat. It's freezing cold. The
- 8:40Speaker 1: water could easily give you hypothermia in less than thirty minutes.
- 8:44Speaker 1: You know, it's total chaos. It's loud because of the engine,
- 8:47Speaker 1: and so Diana's trying not to panic. And as she's
- 8:50Speaker 1: sort of looking around, fumbling in the dark, you know,
- 8:52Speaker 1: gasping for air, she realized there were other people also
- 8:56Speaker 1: trapped underneath, and so she's grabbing at them and trying
- 8:59Speaker 1: to talk to them, and they're all panicked. She has
- 9:02Speaker 1: no idea, you know, what their state is. Are they hurt?
- 9:04Speaker 1: She doesn't know. And so basically her only option at
- 9:07Speaker 1: this point was just a bang on the underside of
- 9:10Speaker 1: this boat, just trying to get anybody's attention outside, you know,
- 9:15Speaker 1: out from underneath where they were, to know that they
- 9:17Speaker 1: were trapped under here they needed help. And in fact,
- 9:20Speaker 1: when she began knocking, there were people outside the boat
- 9:24Speaker 1: basically who had been thrown off the boat. Everybody had
- 9:26Speaker 1: been thrown off the boat. There was eleven people. Six
- 9:29Speaker 1: people were not trapped under the boat. Five including Diana,
- 9:33Speaker 1: were trapped underneath. And so as Diana is pounding the
- 9:36Speaker 1: underside of the boat, the skipper of the boat, a
- 9:39Speaker 1: guy named Mark. He was one of the six who
- 9:41Speaker 1: were outside, and he clearly heard the knocking sound and
- 9:44Speaker 1: so he's obviously in a bad situation too, same as
- 9:47Speaker 1: everybody else in the water, but he was in a
- 9:50Speaker 1: markedly better situation because he's not trapped under this boat,
- 9:54Speaker 1: and so he quickly understood that, okay, he needs to
- 9:56Speaker 1: gather the six people he's with kind of make sure
- 9:59Speaker 1: they're okay and then figure out how they're gonna get
- 10:01Speaker 1: these people trapped under the boat out And so his
- 10:05Speaker 1: first instinct was just a bang back on the side
- 10:07Speaker 1: of the boat, you know, to let them know, hey,
- 10:09Speaker 1: we hear you. But again, you gotta picture the scene.
- 10:12Speaker 1: They are suddenly in the water because a whale flipped
- 10:16Speaker 1: their boat. They have no idea if this boat's gonna
- 10:18Speaker 1: sink any second. Here, the engine is currently running, so
- 10:22Speaker 1: it's super loud, the water is freezing cold. They're out
- 10:25Speaker 1: in the middle of the ocean like this is a
- 10:27Speaker 1: true life or death situation here. But Mark, you know,
- 10:30Speaker 1: he does his best to stay calm. He's he's hitting
- 10:32Speaker 1: the boat back to let the folks know down underneath
- 10:35Speaker 1: the boat that they're okay, we'll get you out of there.
- 10:37Speaker 1: But underneath, you know, Diana and the others, they're starting
- 10:40Speaker 1: to panic. It's hard to breathe down there. I mean,
- 10:42Speaker 1: there's really not much air. The water's choppy because they're
- 10:45Speaker 1: moving around. It's they're gulping down water as they're doing
- 10:48Speaker 1: their best to survive down there. But they just keep
- 10:50Speaker 1: hitting the boat back, saying come on, you gotta get
- 10:52Speaker 1: us out of here. But periodically they'd still try to
- 10:55Speaker 1: force themselves out from underneath, but again, their life jacket
- 10:59Speaker 1: just made it imp possible, Like they didn't have a
- 11:01Speaker 1: way out unless they ditched their life jacket. But then
- 11:05Speaker 1: that's another problem. Are you really prepared to ditch your
- 11:07Speaker 1: life jacket? You don't know if there's obstacles when you
- 11:10Speaker 1: swim out from under. You don't know if you're even
- 11:13Speaker 1: strong enough to make the swim. What happens if you
- 11:15Speaker 1: get stuck down below. Like there's all these factors that
- 11:18Speaker 1: sort of forced the group under the boat to do
- 11:20Speaker 1: nothing in wait and just bang the underside of the boat.
- 11:23Speaker 1: And so Mark out on the outside with his group
- 11:26Speaker 1: of six people, including himself, They actually climbed on top
- 11:30Speaker 1: of the flipped upside down boat. The boat was big
- 11:33Speaker 1: enough that he knew their extra weight would not cause
- 11:35Speaker 1: it to sink any further or create a worse problem
- 11:38Speaker 1: for those under the water. He just knew he had
- 11:40Speaker 1: to get those people out of the water to avoid hypothermia.
- 11:43Speaker 1: And then once they were all up there, Mark found
- 11:46Speaker 1: one of the people he was with their cell phone,
- 11:49Speaker 1: despite being submerged, was still working and so Mark took
- 11:53Speaker 1: the phone. He called authorities and said, you got to
- 11:55Speaker 1: send somebody out here right now. We have people trapped
- 11:58Speaker 1: in the water. We need your help. Authorities said they
- 12:00Speaker 1: would be out there as soon as possible, and sure enough,
- 12:04Speaker 1: authorities were able to get out to the boat fairly quickly,
- 12:07Speaker 1: and they were able to get Mark and the five
- 12:09Speaker 1: others that were trapped on top of the capsized vessel
- 12:13Speaker 1: to safety, and then divers were sent into the water
- 12:16Speaker 1: and they went underneath the boat, and sure enough the
- 12:19Speaker 1: five others you know, Diana included, they were all still there.
- 12:23Speaker 1: But unfortunately all five were deceased. However, those five didn't
- 12:29Speaker 1: die from hypothermia, they didn't die from drowning. When the
- 12:32Speaker 1: boat was actually hit by the whale and capsized, it
- 12:36Speaker 1: caused some of the gasoline lines to rupture, and so
- 12:38Speaker 1: there was this leak in the gasoline lines, and when
- 12:41Speaker 1: the boat was upside down, that leak was basically pouring
- 12:45Speaker 1: into the air pocket. The dark, freezing, cold, loud, awful
- 12:49Speaker 1: air pocket they were in was basically filling with toxic
- 12:53Speaker 1: gasoline fumes, and ultimately, seventeen minutes after capsizing, all five
- 12:59Speaker 1: died from gasoline poisoning. On Sunday, November sixth, twenty twenty two,
- 13:15Speaker 1: a twenty one year old man named Yevgenny Titov walked
- 13:18Speaker 1: out of his home in a small city called Jugulovsk,
- 13:21Speaker 1: which is in western Russia. Ye have Genny got into
- 13:24Speaker 1: his car and then he drove about an hour and
- 13:26Speaker 1: a half north to this parking lot where he parked,
- 13:28Speaker 1: and then he got out and walked a few blocks
- 13:30Speaker 1: to a nearby train station. When he got there, he
- 13:34Speaker 1: asked the person behind the counter when the next train
- 13:36Speaker 1: was going to Saint Petersburg, and they told him there
- 13:38Speaker 1: was one leaving soon. He bought a ticket, and then
- 13:41Speaker 1: ye have Ganny sat and he waited, and then eventually
- 13:43Speaker 1: his train rolled through. He climbed on board, took his seat,
- 13:48Speaker 1: and for the next forty three hours, because Saint Petersburg
- 13:52Speaker 1: was one thousand miles away, ye Genny just sat there
- 13:56Speaker 1: basically doing nothing for nearly two days. Anything with him.
- 14:00Speaker 1: He had his wallet, that was it. He just sat there,
- 14:04Speaker 1: just waiting to get to Saint Petersburg. When they got
- 14:06Speaker 1: to Saint Petersburg late on the night of Tuesday, November eighth,
- 14:11Speaker 1: if Genny commis could be stood up, left the train
- 14:14Speaker 1: and then somehow, possibly by another train or by bus
- 14:18Speaker 1: or on foot, or maybe somebody gave him a ride.
- 14:20Speaker 1: We don't really know, but he traveled about fifteen miles
- 14:24Speaker 1: south of that train station to Polkulva Airport in Saint Petersburg.
- 14:29Speaker 1: But when he got to the airport, he didn't, you know,
- 14:32Speaker 1: board a plane like one would do at an airport. Instead,
- 14:36Speaker 1: he found his way to this one very specific parking
- 14:40Speaker 1: lot that was outside of the airport. Several hours later,
- 14:43Speaker 1: in the early morning hours of Wednesday, November ninth, a
- 14:46Speaker 1: random person was on their way through that same parking
- 14:49Speaker 1: lot on the way to the airport when they started
- 14:52Speaker 1: to hear something. It actually sounded like muffled screaming, and
- 14:56Speaker 1: at first they sort of chalked it up to, you know,
- 14:58Speaker 1: lots of people making their way to the airport, maybe
- 15:00Speaker 1: it's a kid, maybe it's you know, someone goofing around
- 15:02Speaker 1: like it didn't seem serious. But as they walked towards
- 15:06Speaker 1: this open man hole cover, they realized that the screaming
- 15:10Speaker 1: they were hearing was actually coming from inside of this
- 15:13Speaker 1: hole in the ground. The screams were from ye have
- 15:16Speaker 1: genny for reasons that we still do not fully understand.
- 15:20Speaker 1: You have Genny, you know, after taking the manhole cover off,
- 15:23Speaker 1: climbed down into this manhole, so he goes deep underground.
- 15:27Speaker 1: And then when he reached the bottom of the manhole,
- 15:29Speaker 1: which was you know, relatively wide all the way around
- 15:31Speaker 1: you could stand inside of it. There were these different
- 15:34Speaker 1: offshoots of pipes that basically traveled underground, and ye have
- 15:38Speaker 1: Genny got down and chose one of these pipes that
- 15:41Speaker 1: was only a foot in diameter wide. It's like this
- 15:44Speaker 1: pitch black, you know, never ending seeming tunnel and headfirst,
- 15:49Speaker 1: he began crawling in this tunnel, and he crawled nearly
- 15:53Speaker 1: forty feet before he finally just couldn't move any further.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Keep in mind, every inch he was taking, he's basically
- 16:01Speaker 1: wedging himself deeper and deeper into this pipe. It isn't
- 16:04Speaker 1: like it was big and then got narrow. No, it's
- 16:07Speaker 1: this narrow pipe that he forced himself through until he
- 16:10Speaker 1: just could not move any farther. And it was at
- 16:13Speaker 1: that point in the wee hours of Wednesday, November ninth,
- 16:17Speaker 1: that Yevgeny began to scream, and that's when the person
- 16:20Speaker 1: found him and authorities would go down inside the manhole,
- 16:24Speaker 1: and somehow or another, after many hours and all the
- 16:26Speaker 1: specialized equipment, they actually would somewhat unbelievably pull Yevgenny out
- 16:32Speaker 1: of the pipe and he would survive. Yevgeny would have
- 16:35Speaker 1: to actually be hospitalized because he sustained very severe skin
- 16:39Speaker 1: damage from basically thrusting himself deeper and deeper into this rusty,
- 16:43Speaker 1: awful pipe. He also sustained gas poisoning and hypothermia, but
- 16:48Speaker 1: again he did live. Following this ordeal, authorities would launch
- 16:52Speaker 1: an investigation into what exactly happened here because there was
- 16:56Speaker 1: no clear reason why Yevgeny would have traveled all this
- 16:59Speaker 1: way to go into this pipe. But when they spoke
- 17:03Speaker 1: to you of Genny after he made his recovery, you know,
- 17:05Speaker 1: after he was back to normal, he would just say
- 17:08Speaker 1: he has absolutely no memory of doing any of it.
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