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You can't outrun The Midnight Man... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. And today I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to share three stories that demonstrate that. But before
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into today's stories.
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  Speaker 1: One day in 1785, a woman writhed in pain in
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  Speaker 1: a hospital bed at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. which
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  Speaker 1: was one of the largest and most advanced hospitals in
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  Speaker 1: Scotland at the time. Now, despite this hospital being enormous,
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  Speaker 1: the room this woman was in was very small and
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  Speaker 1: it was very stark too. The walls were blank, the
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  Speaker 1: floors were blank. There was just a single window to
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  Speaker 1: the outside. In fact, the only furniture in this room
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  Speaker 1: was the metal bed that she was lying on. And
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  Speaker 1: this woman, as she was laying on this bed, she
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  Speaker 1: was gripping the bed frame and she was sweating profusely
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  Speaker 1: and she was shrieking in pain like her body was
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  Speaker 1: being ripped in half and surrounding her on all sides
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  Speaker 1: were all these nurses sort of anxiously watching her to
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  Speaker 1: see what was going to happen next. This woman was
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  Speaker 1: in labor, and she'd been in labor for several hours,
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  Speaker 1: and so far, it was not going well. So giving
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  Speaker 1: birth in the 18th century looked a whole lot different
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  Speaker 1: than giving birth today, primarily because there really was very
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  Speaker 1: limited pain management tools at doctors' and nurses' disposal.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there were no epidurals.
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  Speaker 1: They basically had opium they could just give to the women,
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  Speaker 1: along with maybe some alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: Also, giving birth in the 18th century was far more
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  Speaker 1: dangerous to the mother than it is today. I mean, today,
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  Speaker 1: it's practically unheard of, at least in the UK, for
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  Speaker 1: mothers to die giving birth. It's something like 13 out
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  Speaker 1: of every 100,000 mothers dies during childbirth.
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  Speaker 2: So like 0.01% of people.
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  Speaker 1: But In the 18th century, it was like 30 times higher. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: women died at a fairly regular clip delivering babies. The
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  Speaker 1: reason for this was partly just because of bad sanitation.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the 18th century, it wasn't uncommon for doctors
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  Speaker 1: and nurses to not even wash their hands between patients.
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  Speaker 1: And so naturally, the spread of disease and bacteria was
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  Speaker 1: much higher.
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  Speaker 2: And then also, when it came to just complications.
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  Speaker 1: There just weren't that many available solutions. And so when
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  Speaker 1: this woman showed up at this hospital after her water broke,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, naturally, she was terrified. I mean, she obviously
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  Speaker 1: knew she had to come here and deliver this child.
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  Speaker 2: It was inevitable. But she knew the risks. And so
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  Speaker 2: here she is.
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  Speaker 1: She's terrified. But quickly, you know, the staff, they took
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  Speaker 1: her in. They got her to this room.
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  Speaker 2: They laid her down. And it just sort of seemed
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  Speaker 2: like everything was sort of normal. Like, they do this
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  Speaker 2: all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's a risky and dangerous thing, but it just
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  Speaker 1: sort of seemed like, her delivery was going to be
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  Speaker 1: fairly normal. And so for a couple of hours, she's
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  Speaker 1: laying in this bed, the nurses are checking on her,
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  Speaker 1: everything's fine. And then at some point, she begins to
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  Speaker 1: feel contractions. And so at this point, the staff is
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  Speaker 1: in the room with her, and they start encouraging her
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  Speaker 1: to push. And so she's pushing and she's pushing, but
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  Speaker 1: she's not progressing. And eventually, after an examination, the staff
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  Speaker 1: determines that her baby's skull is so big that that
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  Speaker 1: the baby is not able to exit her body. The
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  Speaker 1: baby is stuck in her birth canal. And so by
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  Speaker 1: 18th century delivery standards, this is a huge emergency. This
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  Speaker 1: is a major complication. And so the mother and the
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  Speaker 1: baby's lives are now in danger. So if this happened today,
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  Speaker 1: this woman would just be given an emergency C-section and
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  Speaker 1: very likely she and the baby would be fine. Now,
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  Speaker 1: back in 1785, C-sections did exist, but they were extremely
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  Speaker 1: dangerous to the mother. It was basically a death sentence
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  Speaker 1: for the mother. And so they were only used if
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  Speaker 1: there really was no other option. And basically the mother
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  Speaker 1: was gonna die anyways. And so naturally the staff did
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  Speaker 1: not want to go to C-section at this point. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, the mom, the mother laying there certainly does
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  Speaker 1: not wanna go to a C-section.
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  Speaker 2: And so she's.
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  Speaker 1: Screaming in agony. You know, she's not progressing. It's like
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  Speaker 1: complete chaos in this room. And at some point, one
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  Speaker 1: of the nurses senses like, okay, we need to do
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  Speaker 1: something here. And so she left the room, and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes later, she came back with this gray-haired surgeon.
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  Speaker 1: And he walks over, and he surveys this mad scene
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  Speaker 1: of screaming and yelling, and there's.
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  Speaker 2: Bodily fluids everywhere. I mean, it's absolute madness.
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  Speaker 1: And he looks at the mom, and he just says,
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  Speaker 1: everything's going to be fine, okay? Your pain, this miserable
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  Speaker 1: situation you're in, it's going to be over in a second.
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  Speaker 1: And most importantly, you and your baby are going to
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  Speaker 1: be just fine because I have a brand new piece
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  Speaker 1: of technology that that's gonna save your lives. Dr. John
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  Speaker 1: Aitken was one of the leading doctors at this hospital.
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, he was a pioneer in the field
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  Speaker 1: of childbirth at the time. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: he really focused on was finding ways to make giving
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  Speaker 1: birth not only less painful for the mothers, but also
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  Speaker 1: less dangerous, you know, to lower the fatality rate. And recently,
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  Speaker 1: he had developed himself a new piece of technology specifically
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  Speaker 1: for the emergency that this woman was having when the
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  Speaker 1: baby got stuck in the birth canal. He had come
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  Speaker 1: up with it, and now here was his chance to
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  Speaker 1: put it to use. And so when he kind of
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  Speaker 1: explained this piece of technology to this totally distraught woman
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  Speaker 1: who can barely focus.
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  Speaker 2: You know, all she really heard was, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be okay. I'm going to get rid of your pain.
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  Speaker 2: Your baby's going to be good. You're going to be good.
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  Speaker 2: And she's relieved, and she's like, thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. And then Dr.
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  Speaker 1: John Aiken, he leaves the room, and when he comes back,
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  Speaker 1: he's now carrying this instrument.
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  Speaker 2: And suddenly, the woman, when she sees the instrument... She
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  Speaker 2: goes from being relieved to being downright horrified at the
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  Speaker 2: idea that that is going to be used on her.
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  Speaker 1: But even though she began to panic and literally tried
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  Speaker 1: to leave the bed to get away from this doctor
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  Speaker 1: and this crazy, barbaric-looking tool, the staff literally held her down,
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  Speaker 1: basically strapped her to the bed.
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  Speaker 2: And then Dr.
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  Speaker 1: John Aitken said, okay, here we go. And he turns
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  Speaker 1: on this instrument and this woman, she's already in blinding pain.
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  Speaker 1: She can't believe she's experiencing this much pain. But when
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  Speaker 1: he begins to apply this instrument to her body, the
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  Speaker 1: pain somehow becomes even worse. It's like she begins having
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  Speaker 1: this out of body experience.
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  Speaker 2: The pain is so intense.
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  Speaker 1: And then suddenly when it feels like it literally can't
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  Speaker 1: get any worse than this, that.
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  Speaker 2: She must be dying.
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  Speaker 1: It all kind of fades for a second. And she
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  Speaker 1: hears the sound that she did not expect to hear.
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  Speaker 1: It was the sound of a baby crying. Her baby
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  Speaker 1: had just been successfully extracted from her stomach. Her baby
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  Speaker 1: was okay. And amazingly, she was okay too. Dr. John
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  Speaker 1: Aiken had been right. This instrument, despite how horrifying it was,
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  Speaker 1: really worked. And it literally did save her and her
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  Speaker 1: baby's lives. So the procedure that this woman underwent was
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  Speaker 1: known as a symphysiotomy. And the procedure itself had been
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  Speaker 1: around since, you know, the 17th century. This was a
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  Speaker 1: procedure used when a baby got stuck in the birth canal.
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  Speaker 1: And the way this procedure worked is they would go
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  Speaker 1: in and sever the joint called the pubic symphysis, which
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  Speaker 1: connects the left and right pelvis bones. So imagine, you know,
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of your crotch, them going in
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  Speaker 1: there and cutting through this big thick joint.
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  Speaker 2: To basically open up your birth canal.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a highly invasive and excruciatingly painful procedure.
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  Speaker 2: That is, until Dr.
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  Speaker 1: John Aitken invented this new piece of technology, the thing
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  Speaker 1: he just used on this woman to save her and
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  Speaker 1: her baby's lives. This piece of technology made the symphysiotomy
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  Speaker 1: basically more targeted and more efficient. So it's still totally
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  Speaker 1: invasive and painful and awful, but Smaller incision, much faster,
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  Speaker 1: and a higher success rate. And so despite the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Aitken's invention sort of looked really barbaric, it caught
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  Speaker 1: on very quickly and sort of became the standard for
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  Speaker 1: how these symphysiotomies were done.
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  Speaker 2: They used this tool.
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  Speaker 1: And it would remain that way until about the turn
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  Speaker 1: of the 20th century, which is when C-sections became much safer,
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  Speaker 1: which meant the need for symphysiotomies decreased dramatically, which meant
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  Speaker 1: this tool was sort of no longer needed in hospitals.
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  Speaker 2: And so basically, this tool sort of faded.
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  Speaker 1: Into obscurity until another group, completely unrelated to medicine, found
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  Speaker 1: a very specific use for this instrument. And that group
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  Speaker 1: were lumberjacks. They found that this tool, which had previously
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  Speaker 1: been used to cut open women's bodies and sever these
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  Speaker 1: large joints, was also really good at cutting down trees.
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  Speaker 2: The device that Dr.
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  Speaker 1: John Atkins invented for medicine was actually just a chainsaw.
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  Speaker 1: bed in her second story room in a bed and
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  Speaker 1: breakfast in Chicago, Illinois, except she couldn't sleep.
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  Speaker 2: She couldn't really tell why she couldn't sleep, but.
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  Speaker 1: You know, her stomach was kind of upset from the
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  Speaker 1: mince pie she had eaten earlier. And it was kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, her stomach was rumbling around. And so maybe
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  Speaker 1: that was why. And also, you know, the air in
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  Speaker 1: the room was very stuffy, you know, there wasn't any circulation.
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  Speaker 1: And so she's just laying in silence as her stomach
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  Speaker 1: is growling. And it's just, it was very uncomfortable. And
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  Speaker 1: so eventually Anna felt so frustrated that she was not
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  Speaker 1: able to sleep that finally she just threw the covers off,
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  Speaker 1: hopped out of her bed and walked over to the
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  Speaker 1: window and she opened it up to let in some
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  Speaker 1: fresh air. And even though, you know, her stomach still
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  Speaker 1: felt pretty upset, you know, having the fresh air hit
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  Speaker 1: her and sort of circulate through the room did, even
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  Speaker 1: if it was just by a small percentage, make her
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  Speaker 1: feel a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: And now that she was.
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  Speaker 1: Standing up near the window and sort of realizing how
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  Speaker 1: late it was, she suddenly did feel sort of tired.
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  Speaker 1: And she was like, great, I'll leave the window open
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  Speaker 1: and I'll go back to sleep. So she walked back
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  Speaker 1: to her bed, laid down, pulled the covers up over her.
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  Speaker 1: And sure enough, just a couple of minutes later, she
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  Speaker 1: had fallen asleep. But several hours later, Anna suddenly woke up.
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  Speaker 1: She's laying in her bed, her eyes shoot open. And
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  Speaker 1: for a second as she's laying there, she can't quite
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  Speaker 1: remember where she is.
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  Speaker 2: She's confused, disoriented. And then she remembers, oh yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: in that bed and breakfast. I'm in Chicago. Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going home tomorrow. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But as she's laying there sort of putting together what's happening,
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  Speaker 1: she just has this weird feeling that something just feels
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  Speaker 1: off in the room. She can't quite place it, but
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  Speaker 1: there's something wrong here. And so instinctively, Anna sits up
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  Speaker 1: in her bed and she kind of just surveys this
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  Speaker 1: small room that she's in. And at first, everything seems
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  Speaker 1: totally in order. There's nothing odd here at all. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a late night inside of a bed and breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: It's still, it's quiet. There's nothing going on here. But
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  Speaker 2: then as she scans the room one more time, her.
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  Speaker 1: Eyes stop on the open window because now there is
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  Speaker 1: a man sitting on the windowsill looking into the room
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  Speaker 1: right at her, unflinching, just staring right at her.
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  Speaker 2: And Anna, in an instant.
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  Speaker 1: is looking at the sky and a million thoughts go
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  Speaker 1: through her head. She's thinking, oh my God, he's here
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  Speaker 1: to hurt me. He must have climbed up and he's
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  Speaker 1: about to come in here and attack me.
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  Speaker 2: Like, what's going on here? She doesn't know if she's dreaming.
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  Speaker 2: She's just completely panicked.
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  Speaker 1: And unlike a lot of people who in this situation
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  Speaker 1: might freeze completely or... scream and try to hide or
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  Speaker 1: run away. Anna's fight or flight response was to fight.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was almost like in a fraction of
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  Speaker 1: a second, she had leapt out of the bed to
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  Speaker 1: confront this man, this stranger in her room. But the man,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as she jumped up, he didn't budge. He's
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  Speaker 1: just sitting there staring at her. And then almost like delicately,
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  Speaker 1: he leaned backwards and fell.
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  Speaker 2: Out the window.
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  Speaker 1: And now Anna's thinking, oh my God, is he okay?
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't know who he is, but you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: a serious fall. They're on the second floor. And so
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  Speaker 1: she runs to the window, looking out, expecting to see
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  Speaker 1: this guy, you know, with a broken neck down on
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  Speaker 1: the ground.
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  Speaker 2: But she looks down and there's nobody there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the window's wide open. You know, she left it open before.
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  Speaker 1: And so she's kind of looking around to make sure,
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  Speaker 1: did he really fall out the window?
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  Speaker 2: Did he come into the room? But no, she's all
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  Speaker 2: alone in her room.
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  Speaker 1: And so she's looking down to see if maybe he
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  Speaker 1: kind of, you know, ran up against the side of
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  Speaker 1: the house and maybe he's going.
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  Speaker 2: To show himself, but there's nobody.
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  Speaker 1: And then at some point, she notices there's this long,
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  Speaker 1: dark car that's parked out on.
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  Speaker 2: The street underneath the streetlight.
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  Speaker 1: And she couldn't remember if that car had been parked
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  Speaker 1: there the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: It seems sort of out of place, but... She just
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  Speaker 2: couldn't remember.
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  Speaker 1: And so she's looking at this vehicle and she realizes
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  Speaker 1: there's somebody in the car. And as she's staring at
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  Speaker 1: the car, the driver begins to move. They sort of
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  Speaker 1: position their bodies down low and they look up at Anna.
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  Speaker 2: And Anna realizes it's.
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  Speaker 1: The same guy who was just sitting in her windowsill
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  Speaker 1: and fell out the window a second ago.
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  Speaker 2: He's in this car.
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  Speaker 1: And so Anna, she's just frozen looking at this guy
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  Speaker 1: wondering how could this be happening?
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  Speaker 2: Is this a nightmare? Is this real? She doesn't know.
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  Speaker 1: But as she's looking, this guy who's looking up at her,
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  Speaker 1: he extends his hand out the driver's side window and
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  Speaker 1: begins beckoning to Anna, telling her to come down and
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  Speaker 1: get in the car with him. And so Anna, she's
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  Speaker 1: seeing this and she's also realizing the car he is
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  Speaker 1: in is a hearse. And so she is just beyond terrified.
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  Speaker 1: And instinctively, she just jumps back, slams the window and
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  Speaker 1: And sort of just pretends like this can't be happening.
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  Speaker 1: Like this is not real.
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  Speaker 2: But then after a couple of seconds, she's thinking, I
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  Speaker 2: got to make sure I know where this guy is,
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  Speaker 2: where he's going to go next.
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  Speaker 1: And so she goes right back to the window to
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  Speaker 1: see what he's doing. But now the hearse, the man,
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  Speaker 1: they're gone. And so Anna remained at this window for
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  Speaker 1: quite a while, just looking out the window, just making
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  Speaker 1: sure this guy really was gone. Because again, she just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know anything. Like, was this real? Am I imagining things?
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  Speaker 1: Am I going crazy? Was this a nightmare? Like, she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know. And so she's just standing there waiting, watching. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this guy doesn't reappear. The hearse doesn't reappear.
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  Speaker 1: And so eventually she crawls back in bed. And after
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  Speaker 1: what felt like forever, she drifted off into a fairly
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  Speaker 1: light sleep. And then before long, you know, she opened
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  Speaker 1: her eyes again and sunlight had filled the room.
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  Speaker 2: She had survived the night.
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  Speaker 1: And so now, you know, feeling the comfort and safety
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  Speaker 1: of light in the room and knowing that it's a
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  Speaker 1: new day.
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  Speaker 2: She told herself, wow, like that was crazy. That was terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: That had to have been just a particularly vivid nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's no other reasonable explanation for this.
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  Speaker 2: It had to be a nightmare.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: So Anna got out of bed convinced she was just fine,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: that nothing strange has happened here at all. She got
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: herself together and she left the bed and breakfast and
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: she headed out to this brand new department store that
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: had just opened up in Chicago. She wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: and have a nice day of shopping. And so Anna
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: gets to this department store. and it's so vibrant, and
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  Speaker 1: it's bustling with people, and there's four floors of all
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  Speaker 1: this incredible stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That they're selling.
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  Speaker 1: And for the next several hours, Anna just has a
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: great time walking all around, picking out things she likes,
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  Speaker 1: and just basically enjoying shopping. And then eventually, when she
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: was up on the fourth floor, after she had purchased
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: all the things she was going to buy, she decided
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: it was time to leave. Now, by this point, she
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: had basically completely forgotten about You know, whatever happened the
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: night before, the sky, the hearse, all of it, it
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: was completely out of her mind. She is back to normal.
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  Speaker 1: And so she makes her way over to the elevator
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  Speaker 1: to go down to the first floor.
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  Speaker 2: And so she hits the button and she's waiting and waiting.
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  Speaker 1: And then eventually she hears a noise, a dinging sound,
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  Speaker 1: and the doors open up.
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  Speaker 2: And there's loads of people on this elevator car. It
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: is packed.
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  Speaker 1: And so like most of us would do in this situation,
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  Speaker 1: Anna kind of waved them off and said, I'll take
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  Speaker 1: the next one. And she's expecting that, you know, the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: doors will close and these folks will go down.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, when it comes back up, she'll get on.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that. This is like not a big deal
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  Speaker 2: at all. She's not even thinking about it. Just go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: But the doors don't close. And instead, as she's kind
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: of you know, not really looking over in their direction,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: she hears this voice come out of the elevator car.
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  Speaker 1: And it's this kind of rude tone. It's a man's voice.
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  Speaker 1: And he calls out one more, like demanding that Anna
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: get in there.
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  Speaker 2: Like, what are you doing? You're holding up the car.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And Anna was kind of taken aback by whoever was
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: kind of barking this order at her. And she turned
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: around and she looked into the elevator car and she
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: couldn't really tell where the voice was coming from. Then
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: eventually she noticed it was coming from the guy who
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: operated the elevator car. The elevator was manual. There was
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: somebody who literally moved the car up and down. And
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: she kind of didn't see the guy's face at first.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: But eventually, when the guy kind of poked his head
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: through and looked at her, confirming that, yeah, I'm talking
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to you, get in the car. She realized the elevator
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: car operator was the man in the hearse that she
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: had seen in her windowsill. It was the same guy.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: And so Anna is so horrified. She gasped out loud.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: And just was like, no, I'm not going in there. No.
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  Speaker 1: And so all the folks that are in the elevator car,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: they do not know what's going on. And they're kind
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: of looking around like what's happening here. And the car
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: operator continues to look out at Anna for a second.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Then he just kind of scoffs at her like, fine.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Then the doors close.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: And the elevator disappears. And for a moment, Anna's telling herself, like,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: what is going on? That can't be the same guy.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: It's just going to be a coincidence, right?
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: But as she's having these thoughts, these crazy thoughts, trying
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: to rationalize something that's not rational, she suddenly heard this
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: loud metallic crunching sound. inside of the elevator shaft, followed
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: by what was obviously people screaming. It would turn out
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: that elevator car that she nearly got into, but didn't
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: because of her fear of this guy that she was
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: seeing again, the same guy from her bedroom the night before,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that elevator car, as it began its descent, it malfunctioned
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and fell four stories, killing two people on board. Now, unfortunately,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: we don't really know much more about What ultimately happened
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: with the elevator operator, if they ever confirmed without a
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: doubt that, you know, that guy is the same one
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Anna saw the night before, or if he even really
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: was on the elevator car. Like, we don't know that.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: But what we do know is Anna.
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  Speaker 1: Did speak to reporters, and they did widely publish the story.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: And that is how we know about it. On the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: morning of July 5th, 2008, a 50-year-old man named David
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Feil walked up to his apartment in Bishopstoke, which is
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a small village in southern England. So this apartment complex
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: was massive. It took up an entire block, and it
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: was comprised of several two-story buildings. When David moved in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: eight years earlier, this apartment complex was sort of bustling
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: and doing quite well.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: There were loads of tenants. It was well-kept. I mean,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: it was a nice place to live.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: But now.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: the place was kind of fallen into disrepair.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: There were weeds everywhere. It was kind of dirty. There
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: was graffiti. I mean, buildings were all boarded up. I mean,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: this place really had fallen on hard times, almost like
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: it was abandoned. And in many regards, it basically was.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: In fact, David was literally the last tenant in the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: entire complex. There were a total of 72 apartments in
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: this complex, but 71 of them were boarded up and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: totally abandoned. It was just this last apartment in that
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: David lived in. And on this day, as David approached
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: his front door, he noticed there was something taped to it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: It was a piece of paper. And so he walked
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: up and he read it and he quickly understood it
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: was an eviction notice. They were kicking him out. And
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: so he angrily ripped it off the door and he
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: went inside his cramped, small apartment.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a full-size billiard table sitting right in
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: his living room and everything was just tight and on
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: top of each other.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: But this was David's home. He loved it here. He
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: did not want to leave.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And so he took this eviction notice and he went
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: over to the kitchen and he just threw it on
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: top of a pile of other papers that were mostly
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: all from the company that owned this complex. The company
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: was called Atlantic Housing. So part of the reason this
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: building had really fallen on hard times here is because
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: two years earlier, Atlantic Housing had decided to tear this
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: place down. And so they had offered to help relocate
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: all the tenants and basically everybody else had agreed to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: leave and, you know, take the assistance from Atlantic Housing,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: but not David.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: He refused to leave. And so eventually, Atlantic Housing got
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: fed up with David because they're offering him money. They're
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: offering him assistance.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're really trying to just get him to
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: leave so they can move forward with their project. And
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: so eventually, when he wouldn't budge, no matter what they
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: offered him, they just sued him. And it took two years.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But eventually, a court ruled that, OK, Atlantic Housing, you
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: can kick him out of your building. And so David,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: you're being evicted. And so David knew this was coming.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: He knew he was going to be evicted. But he
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: just simply could not accept the ruling. He's looking around
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: at his cramped little apartment that he had called home
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: for eight years. And he just loved it here.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: He didn't want to leave. And so he thought to himself,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you know what?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: They can try to evict me, but I'm not leaving.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: And so David decides... he's going to protest, but not
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: some little protest. He's going to do something that is
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: so big, so extreme, that it will guarantee people will
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: pay attention and recognize that this ruling is wrong.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: And David knew exactly how he was going to do that.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And so later that afternoon, David made his way over
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to his storage closet, and he pulled out some rope,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: an electric timer, and a power tool, and he brought
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: these supplies over to his living room. And there, David
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: rigged up this elaborate trap that he was designing specifically
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: So that when Atlantic Housing or the police or whoever
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it was that showed up to evict him, that when
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: they opened his door, they would have to be confronted
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: by this trap. And for David, he felt like this
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: was his last ditch effort to prove once and for
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: all that this eviction was wrong. A few hours later,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: two police officers, along with David's very worried parents, stood
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: outside of David's apartment. Earlier that afternoon, David's parents had
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: tried to get in touch with David and they had
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: called him repeatedly, but he hadn't answered. And so at
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: some point they had driven over to his apartment and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: they had pounded on the door and tried to get
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: his attention, but he hadn't come to the door. However,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: they had heard this strange sound coming from inside the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: apartment and it was unsettling enough. And considering the whole
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: circumstance of not being able to get in touch with
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: their son, that they decided to call the police.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And so when they got there, you know, the police,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: they're knocking on the door, yelling out for David, but
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: still no answer.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: And the police too, they can clearly hear this strange sound,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: which almost sounded like a mechanical whirring sound or something.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: They couldn't quite place it, but there definitely was something
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: odd happening in this apartment. And so given the fact that,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you know, there's real concern around what's going on with David,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the police decide to kick in the door and see
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: what's going on. And so they get out of the way,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and one of the officers steps back, kicks the door down,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and as soon as the door flies open... that loud
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: mechanical warning sound becomes way louder, so loud, and they
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: suddenly get a complete view into the apartment, and all
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: of them just froze and gasped. So the trap that
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: David had built had functioned exactly as he intended it to. Basically,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the authorities were going to come in the front door
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and be horrified by what they saw, because this trap
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: really was not for them as much as it was
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: for David. He was sort of putting himself into a
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: trap as a display of his protest that you can't
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: pull me out of here. And now authorities have arrived
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and they've seen the results of this trap. What the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: trap was, was a power tool that was on. That
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: was the mechanical warning sound they heard. And it had
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: been tied by David to one of the legs of
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: his billiard table, like an arm jutting off the side
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: of this billiard table. And then the tool had this
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: electric timer that he had rigged to it so that
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: when it went off, it would start the tool.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: What was this tool? It was a chainsaw. And what
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: did David do? He intentionally positioned his neck right up
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: against the teeth of this chainsaw, set the timer, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: then waited. And he basically timed it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So that shortly after getting in position, the timer would
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: go off, it would cut his head off, and then
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: presumably authorities would look inside the apartment and see what,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: in David's mind, they were responsible for, his death. And
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: sure enough, when the police and the parents looked in,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: they saw the trap, they heard the saw.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Buzzing, and they saw David's severed head on the ground.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Despite David's final protest really having a lot of the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: effect that he was hoping for, I mean, it did
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: make headlines all over the UK.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: A lot of people heard about this and they were
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: horrified by it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Despite all that, shortly after his death, the apartment complex
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: was demolished.
• 26:18
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• 26:20
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• 26:22
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• 26:25
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• 26:34
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• 26:36
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