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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three stories, and at
- 0:02Speaker 1: the end of each of them, I'm going to show
- 0:04Speaker 1: you the haunting photo or photos that are famously associated
- 0:08Speaker 1: with them.
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- 0:35Speaker 1: today's stories. At ten pm on January thirty first, twenty twelve,
- 0:55Speaker 1: a twenty three year old man named Chen wrong You
- 0:58Speaker 1: walked into an internet cafe in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
- 1:02Speaker 2: The cafe had a.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Front counter where a cashier would check you in and
- 1:05Speaker 1: sell you snacks and drinks. And then from where he
- 1:08Speaker 1: was looking behind the cashier were all these tables, these
- 1:11Speaker 1: long rows of tables with different computer stations at them,
- 1:14Speaker 1: and there was at least about thirty people already sitting
- 1:17Speaker 1: behind each of these terminals, fully engrossed in whatever game
- 1:20Speaker 1: or whatever they were doing on the internet. And not
- 1:22Speaker 1: one of these people even looked up when Chen walked inside.
- 1:25Speaker 1: I mean, nobody was interested in Chen. But for Chen
- 1:29Speaker 1: that was sort of part of the allure of this cafe.
- 1:31Speaker 1: He got to sit down and play his game and
- 1:34Speaker 1: be totally left alone. And so Chen walked up to
- 1:37Speaker 1: the counter and paid for some time. He also bought
- 1:40Speaker 1: a soda, and then he walked around back he found
- 1:42Speaker 1: an empty computer, sat down, and immediately fired up.
- 1:46Speaker 2: His favorite game, League of Legends.
- 1:48Speaker 1: League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena game
- 1:52Speaker 1: that's extremely popular all over the world, and Chen.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Took this game very seriously.
- 1:58Speaker 1: He routinely would spend eight hour long marathon sessions at
- 2:01Speaker 1: this internet cafe just playing League of Legends to try
- 2:04Speaker 1: to level up and move up in the ranking system.
- 2:07Speaker 2: And so today that's what Chen was going to do.
- 2:10Speaker 1: And so after the game was booted up, he immediately
- 2:12Speaker 1: locked in and he was in his first battle, and
- 2:15Speaker 1: then before long hours had gone by and he hadn't
- 2:17Speaker 1: even gotten up. And then eventually, you know, a couple
- 2:19Speaker 1: times he got up to get a soda refill and
- 2:22Speaker 1: to get a snack. But I mean he basically just
- 2:24Speaker 1: all night gamed just NonStop, periodically stopping to literally put
- 2:29Speaker 1: his head down on the table and take a fifteen
- 2:31Speaker 1: minute power nap, only to get right back up and
- 2:33Speaker 1: get back into the game. And so all night he's
- 2:35Speaker 1: just on this game. By a little afternoon on February first,
- 2:39Speaker 1: Chen had been gaming nearly NonStop for fourteen hours, which
- 2:44Speaker 1: was long even by his standards, but he couldn't stop now.
- 2:47Speaker 1: He was exhausted, but he was doing great. This is
- 2:49Speaker 1: like one of the best sessions he had ever had.
- 2:51Speaker 1: And right at that moment, he was in the middle
- 2:53Speaker 1: of this really intense match where his team was about
- 2:56Speaker 1: to get knocked out by this really good opponent, and
- 2:59Speaker 1: if Chen could just lock in, they could pull out
- 3:01Speaker 1: a win. And so Chen was super focused, lean forward,
- 3:04Speaker 1: hands flying across his keyboard mouse and he managed to
- 3:07Speaker 1: dodge an attack and then he geared up for the
- 3:09Speaker 1: big strike.
- 3:10Speaker 2: And right as he did, something went wrong.
- 3:13Speaker 1: About nine hours later, around nine pm, the cashier at
- 3:17Speaker 1: this internet cafe had just finished giving another soda to
- 3:20Speaker 1: one of the customers and then they looked out and
- 3:22Speaker 1: she noticed there was nobody else in line. Now, the
- 3:25Speaker 1: job of this cashier was not just to check people
- 3:28Speaker 1: in and give them snacks and drinks. It was also
- 3:31Speaker 1: to keep the cafe clean and also critically to periodically
- 3:35Speaker 1: make rounds and kick people out once their time had expired,
- 3:39Speaker 1: because oftentimes a lot of these gamers would get sucked
- 3:41Speaker 1: into their games, lose track of time, and basically end
- 3:44Speaker 1: up playing for longer than they had actually paid for.
- 3:47Speaker 1: So the cashier grabbed her clipboard with all the information
- 3:49Speaker 1: about each of the customers and how long they had
- 3:51Speaker 1: paid for, and then she began making her rounds in
- 3:54Speaker 1: the back. And part of it was she needed to
- 3:57Speaker 1: speak basically to all the people that were there and
- 3:59Speaker 1: kind of firm that they were supposed to be here still.
- 4:02Speaker 1: But as she walked into the back, per usual, nobody
- 4:06Speaker 1: looked up at her.
- 4:06Speaker 2: I mean, all these.
- 4:07Speaker 1: People at all their terminals were heads down, fully focused
- 4:10Speaker 1: on their game, I mean, completely immersed. And so she
- 4:13Speaker 1: began going, you know, one person to the next, being like, hey,
- 4:16Speaker 1: you know, are you good? Did you pay for your time?
- 4:18Speaker 1: You're gonna be here any bit longer, And a lot
- 4:20Speaker 1: of these guys. They you know, they'd finally look up
- 4:22Speaker 1: and be totally shocked she's even standing next to them,
- 4:24Speaker 1: because they weren't paying attention at all. But you know,
- 4:26Speaker 1: one by one she checked each of the monitors, and
- 4:29Speaker 1: eventually she got to Chen. And when she got to Chen,
- 4:32Speaker 1: Chen was focused on this game entirely, to the point
- 4:35Speaker 1: where when she said, hey, you know your time is up.
- 4:38Speaker 1: You've been here for twenty four hours, you paid for
- 4:41Speaker 1: you know, eight or nine or whatever it was, Chen didn't.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Even look up at her.
- 4:44Speaker 1: I mean, nothing she could do could get Chen to
- 4:47Speaker 1: even acknowledge her. He was so focused on the game.
- 4:50Speaker 1: And so eventually the cashier, at of frustration, was like, hey,
- 4:53Speaker 1: and she kind of tapped his shoulder and Chen leaned back,
- 4:56Speaker 1: and when he did and the cashier got a good
- 4:59Speaker 1: look at him, she screamed. It would turn out until
- 5:03Speaker 1: this very moment, Chen had gotten his wish. He had
- 5:07Speaker 1: come to this cafe twenty four hours earlier and been
- 5:10Speaker 1: totally left alone.
- 5:11Speaker 2: He got to exclusively just play his game in his
- 5:14Speaker 2: own world.
- 5:15Speaker 1: In fact, the whole time he was here, no one
- 5:18Speaker 1: had even looked at him, because if they had, they
- 5:22Speaker 1: would have seen something was horribly wrong. It was the
- 5:25Speaker 1: cashier who walked over to him and tapped on his
- 5:28Speaker 1: shoulder who noticed what was wrong. Here's what the cashier saw.
- 5:33Speaker 1: This is a picture of Chen and Chen is in
- 5:35Speaker 1: full rigor mortis because nine hours earlier, when he was
- 5:39Speaker 1: in the middle of that really intense fight with that
- 5:41Speaker 1: opponent who was about to beat Chen and his team.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Chen, you know, he got.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Really excited and he was about to land that big
- 5:47Speaker 1: strike that potentially could have been the blow that would
- 5:50Speaker 1: have won the match. Well, he was so amped up
- 5:53Speaker 1: that Chen had a heart attack and died. And for
- 5:57Speaker 1: the nine hours after he died, when he was still
- 6:00Speaker 1: in the same position he was in playing the game,
- 6:03Speaker 1: nobody noticed. He just sat there appearing to be fully alive,
- 6:07Speaker 1: walked into the game like everybody else, but he was
- 6:10Speaker 1: actually dead. And so it wasn't until the cashier tap
- 6:14Speaker 1: Chin on the shoulder and he rocked backwards, still in
- 6:17Speaker 1: his gaming position, but because he's in rigor mortis, his
- 6:20Speaker 1: hands kind of jutted out in front of him up
- 6:22Speaker 1: into the air.
- 6:23Speaker 2: That she realized he was actually dead.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Chen's family would later say that he had pre existing
- 6:28Speaker 1: heart issues that very likely contributed to his fatal heart attack.
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- 8:22Speaker 1: afternoon of October eleventh, twenty twenty three, a forty eight
- 8:25Speaker 1: year old man named Samuel Gomez stood in the lobby
- 8:28Speaker 1: of the Moxie Hotel in Portland, Oregon, talking to the concierge.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Samuel had flown in from Phoenix earlier that morning because
- 8:35Speaker 1: he was speaking at a conference in Portland later that week,
- 8:38Speaker 1: but for now, he was just going to go out
- 8:39Speaker 1: and enjoy the sites, and so he had asked the
- 8:41Speaker 1: concierge to give him some local recommendations. The concierge named
- 8:45Speaker 1: a few cool local places. Samuel thanked him, and then
- 8:48Speaker 1: he headed out the front door onto the road, and
- 8:50Speaker 1: as soon as Samuel was outside, he immediately heard this
- 8:53Speaker 1: loud commotion happening right down the street, and he turned
- 8:56Speaker 1: and looked in the direction, and he saw this kind
- 8:58Speaker 1: of gaggle of people in cars sort of standing in
- 9:01Speaker 1: what looked like a big circle around whatever was happening
- 9:04Speaker 1: over there. Samuel couldn't tell what it was, but people
- 9:07Speaker 1: were honking, and people had their phones out filming sort
- 9:10Speaker 1: of whatever was in the middle of the circle. And
- 9:12Speaker 1: from the looks of it, it appeared there was at
- 9:14Speaker 1: least one police officer in his car sort of beginning
- 9:17Speaker 1: to marshal the scene and block traffic. But you know,
- 9:19Speaker 1: there was just this chaotic scene happening, and Samuel really
- 9:22Speaker 1: had no idea what it was, but naturally, being a human,
- 9:25Speaker 1: he was interested. He wanted to see what was going on,
- 9:28Speaker 1: and so Samuel began walking down the road, and as
- 9:30Speaker 1: he did, he pulled out his phone, opened up his
- 9:32Speaker 1: camera and began filming and taking pictures. And as he
- 9:36Speaker 1: got closer to whatever was going on here, the cacophony
- 9:39Speaker 1: of horns and people yelling and all the chaos just
- 9:42Speaker 1: got louder and louder, and it still wasn't clear at
- 9:45Speaker 1: all to Samuel what the heck this even was, and
- 9:48Speaker 1: so he just continued to take photos and just kind
- 9:50Speaker 1: of be an onlooker. And at some point when Samuel
- 9:53Speaker 1: got right up close and actually was standing right near
- 9:56Speaker 1: that police officer blocking traffic, he happened to turn his
- 9:59Speaker 1: phone and aim his camera at the police officer, and
- 10:04Speaker 1: when he did, he took a photo. Here is the
- 10:07Speaker 1: photo he took. As you can see, the police officer
- 10:10Speaker 1: is aiming his gun directly at Samuel, and that's because
- 10:15Speaker 1: this is not a police officer. Samuel just thought he
- 10:18Speaker 1: was a police officer when he looked down the road
- 10:20Speaker 1: at this crazy scene, he saw this guy in a
- 10:23Speaker 1: car who sort of appeared to be, you know, maybe
- 10:25Speaker 1: an undercover cop sort of you know, in the right
- 10:27Speaker 1: place at the right time, taking charge and handling whatever
- 10:30Speaker 1: this was. When in reality, this man who's in this
- 10:33Speaker 1: photo is a guy named Jeffrey Hammond who had just
- 10:36Speaker 1: been involved in a road rage incident and he shot
- 10:39Speaker 1: and killed a forty seven year old man named Ryan Martin.
- 10:42Speaker 1: That was the scene that Samuel had walked out to
- 10:45Speaker 1: Jeffrey Hammond shooting and killing Ryan Martin.
- 10:49Speaker 2: That's what everybody was reacting to.
- 10:51Speaker 1: And so as Samuel walked down the road, not knowing
- 10:53Speaker 1: that he inadvertently stood right in front of the shooter,
- 10:56Speaker 1: who was still sort of crazed, aimed his camera at him,
- 11:00Speaker 1: right as Jeffrey Hammond swung his gun around and shot Samuel.
- 11:05Speaker 1: So like literally seconds after this photo was taken, Samuel
- 11:09Speaker 1: got shot.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Luckily, though Samuel would survive the shooting.
- 11:14Speaker 1: As for Jeffrey Hammond, he was arrested and charged with murder,
- 11:17Speaker 1: and as far as we know, he is currently in
- 11:19Speaker 1: jail awaiting trial. On April fifth, twenty eighteen, a young
- 11:35Speaker 1: man named Luis Hernandez sat inside of a small stone
- 11:38Speaker 1: shack with a metal roof on a rural property in
- 11:41Speaker 1: northern Venezuela. Luis was a painter, and for the last
- 11:44Speaker 1: year or so, this shack had doubled us both his
- 11:47Speaker 1: home and his art studio, and it was basically always
- 11:50Speaker 1: a mess.
- 11:51Speaker 2: There was dirty dishes and food everywhere, and all his
- 11:54Speaker 2: paint supplies were scattered all.
- 11:55Speaker 1: Over the ground, but the walls were all adorned with
- 11:59Speaker 1: all of his beautiful and most prize possessions. His artwork,
- 12:02Speaker 1: he mainly painted really dramatic looking portraits in very bold colors.
- 12:06Speaker 1: In fact, when he was actually doing his painting, when
- 12:08Speaker 1: he was in the middle of the floor, right in
- 12:10Speaker 1: the center of his shack, on one wall, there was
- 12:12Speaker 1: this face of.
- 12:13Speaker 2: A man he had done all in red, and then
- 12:15Speaker 2: on the left, on.
- 12:16Speaker 1: The other wall was this woman's face all in blue
- 12:19Speaker 1: but with bright red lips. And these paintings were both
- 12:21Speaker 1: so intense that at times as he was doing his work,
- 12:25Speaker 1: it sort of felt like they were both looking at him.
- 12:27Speaker 1: But on this particular day, as Louise sat in the
- 12:30Speaker 1: middle of a shack working on his latest project, he
- 12:33Speaker 1: put that weird thought out of his mind that, you know,
- 12:35Speaker 1: his paintings were watching him, and just focused instead on.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Getting this done.
- 12:39Speaker 1: You know, he had one more beautiful portrait he was
- 12:41Speaker 1: working on, and he took his paint brush and he
- 12:43Speaker 1: dipped it in the black ink, and he put the
- 12:45Speaker 1: finishing touches on it. And when this portrait was done,
- 12:48Speaker 1: Luis kind of sat back and took it all in
- 12:50Speaker 1: and he couldn't help but feel a bit emotional because
- 12:53Speaker 1: this project, you know, it was different than any other
- 12:55Speaker 1: he had ever done. He wasn't doing it for fun,
- 12:58Speaker 1: he wasn't doing it for pay. He was doing it
- 13:01Speaker 1: as a way to cope with a big crisis in
- 13:03Speaker 1: his life. So this shack where Luis worked and lived,
- 13:06Speaker 1: and also the rural property that it sat on, belonged
- 13:09Speaker 1: to Luis's boyfriend, Lisandro Rosales Garcia. Lysandro and Luis had
- 13:14Speaker 1: met about a year earlier when Luis was really down
- 13:17Speaker 1: on his luck and was actually homeless living out on
- 13:19Speaker 1: the streets. But Lisandro had seen Louise and offered to
- 13:23Speaker 1: let him come live in this shack on his property,
- 13:26Speaker 1: which was out in the middle of nowhere, and Luis,
- 13:28Speaker 1: who's got no other options, is like, awesome, Yes, I'd
- 13:31Speaker 1: love to do that, And so he moves out into
- 13:34Speaker 1: the shack and pretty quickly after moving in, Luis and
- 13:37Speaker 1: Lissandro they formed a more romantic relationship, and Luis was
- 13:41Speaker 1: so happy. He felt like Lisandro was the one person
- 13:44Speaker 1: who really understood him and truly supported his art. But then,
- 13:48Speaker 1: about two months ago, Lisandro had just gone missing. The
- 13:52Speaker 1: police were looking into it, but so far Luise had
- 13:55Speaker 1: not gotten any updates, and so Luis was handling this
- 13:58Speaker 1: huge gap in his life. Now, you know, the only
- 14:01Speaker 1: way he knew how to which was with his art,
- 14:03Speaker 1: and so this latest project he had just finished was
- 14:06Speaker 1: sort of like a tribute to his missing boyfriend. But
- 14:09Speaker 1: as Louise put his brush down and stood up to
- 14:12Speaker 1: admire his work, he suddenly heard voices from outside. Now
- 14:16Speaker 1: this was highly unusual because this property really was very remote.
- 14:20Speaker 1: I mean, the only time Luis or Lissandro would see
- 14:23Speaker 1: people here was if they invited them, and Louise had
- 14:26Speaker 1: not invited anyone. But before Louise could even react to,
- 14:29Speaker 1: you know, these strangers on his property, those people outside
- 14:33Speaker 1: began pounding on Luise's front door, and so Louise he
- 14:36Speaker 1: opened up the door and standing there were all these
- 14:38Speaker 1: police officers, and Louise's first reaction was, oh, they must
- 14:42Speaker 1: be here to give me some updates about Lissandro's disappearance.
- 14:45Speaker 1: But these police officers, they didn't give an update. Instead,
- 14:49Speaker 1: they just pushed past Louise into the art studio and
- 14:52Speaker 1: began scooping up all his paints and paint brushes. And
- 14:55Speaker 1: then at some point one of the officers actually looked
- 14:58Speaker 1: down and saw the final project that Luis had been
- 15:02Speaker 1: working on, his tribute to his missing boyfriend. And when
- 15:05Speaker 1: the officer saw that painting, he turned around, ran outside
- 15:09Speaker 1: and vomited. Here is a picture of that tribute. Now,
- 15:13Speaker 1: at first glance, this piece of art is totally unremarkable.
- 15:17Speaker 1: You know, it appears to be some sort of stained
- 15:19Speaker 1: glass with green leaves and some blue and red flowers.
- 15:22Speaker 1: But when you consider the types of supplies that Luis
- 15:27Speaker 1: used to make this particular piece of art, you'll realize
- 15:30Speaker 1: how horrifying this image actually is, and it's what caused
- 15:33Speaker 1: that officer to vomit. It would turn out Louis was
- 15:36Speaker 1: not just a painter. He was also a serial killer,
- 15:40Speaker 1: and what he would do is after he killed his victims,
- 15:43Speaker 1: he would use their blood, their ashes, and their other
- 15:46Speaker 1: body parts to paint all of his paintings. Now, at first,
- 15:50Speaker 1: Luis and Lessandro were actually a happy couple. However, at
- 15:54Speaker 1: some point in February of twenty eighteen, they got into
- 15:56Speaker 1: some kind of fight and Luis killed Lessandro and quickly
- 16:00Speaker 1: began using his body parts to create this tribute to
- 16:04Speaker 1: his boyfriend. If you look again at the tribute painting,
- 16:07Speaker 1: all the red that is used Islessandro's blood, and all
- 16:10Speaker 1: the black that's used Is Lessandro's ashes all told police
- 16:15Speaker 1: would find the remains of at least six people on
- 16:17Speaker 1: that property. They also found evidence that Luis was not
- 16:21Speaker 1: just using their body parts to make art, he was
- 16:23Speaker 1: also cannibalizing his victims. Luis was arrested and made a
- 16:27Speaker 1: full confession. As far as we know, he is currently
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