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Something is HIDING in the Wyoming Mountains Campfire Stories with MrBallen - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: let's get into tonight's story. Around three thirty pm on
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  Speaker 1: October twenty fifth, nineteen seventy four, a forty one year
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  Speaker 1: old man named Carl Hagden drove his work truck along
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  Speaker 1: a paved road in the Medicine Bow National Forest, which
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  Speaker 1: is this huge nature preserve in southern Wyoming. Carl had
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  Speaker 1: taken off early from his job on an oil rig
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  Speaker 1: to go elk hunting in this preserve, and now he
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  Speaker 1: was heading towards this very specific area in the national
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  Speaker 1: Forest called mcmarty Canyon that he had heard was really
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  Speaker 1: good for elk hunting. As Carl drove, he found himself
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  Speaker 1: looking around at the evergreen trees and the snow capped
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  Speaker 1: mountains in the distance, and he just felt this total
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  Speaker 1: sense of calm come over him.
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  Speaker 2: He was a very rugged outdoorsman, and there was.
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  Speaker 1: Really nothing he loved more than spending time out in
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  Speaker 1: nature all alone, and so for a little while he
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  Speaker 1: was just enjoying himself driving along until eventually the paved
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  Speaker 1: road he was on gave way to this long, rocky trail,
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  Speaker 1: and Carl he didn't want to damage the truck he
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  Speaker 1: was driving, since it actually belonged to the company he
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  Speaker 1: worked for, so he wound up pulling over and getting out,
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  Speaker 1: and then he just grabbed all his stuff and continued
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  Speaker 1: walking on the trail by foot. Along This trail was
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  Speaker 1: not only, you know, pretty rocky and rough, but it
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  Speaker 1: was also predominantly uphill, and so it didn't take long
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  Speaker 1: before Carl was having trouble breathing, and not just because
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  Speaker 1: it was physically taxing, but also because when he was
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  Speaker 1: younger he had tuberculosis which had left his lungs really
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  Speaker 1: riddled with scar tissue that did make it harder to breathe,
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  Speaker 1: especially when he was exerting himself. But you know, Carl
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  Speaker 1: continued on and every few minutes he would just stop
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  Speaker 1: and bend over and catch his breath. But after about
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes or so, he had hiked to the point
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  Speaker 1: where the trees had begun to thin out, and then
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  Speaker 1: he found himself standing inside what looked like a big
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  Speaker 1: bowl in the earth. So this was mcmarty Canyon where
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  Speaker 1: he was, you know, intending to go for this elkhund.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the reason it sort of felt like
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  Speaker 1: a bull is because it was mostly just flat with
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  Speaker 1: some shrubs and grass, a few trees, and these tall
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  Speaker 1: hills out on the side, sort of giving this impression
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  Speaker 1: of a bowl.
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  Speaker 2: And so Carl he sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Just stopped and took stock of the area, and wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: you know it, when he looked looked straight across the
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  Speaker 1: canyon the bowl, he saw a group of just five
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  Speaker 1: elk grazing in the distance, like this was unbelievably lucky.
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  Speaker 2: Here they are right away.
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  Speaker 1: And so Carl slowly began walking towards them, doing his
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  Speaker 1: best not to make any noise, and then when he
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  Speaker 1: was within shooting distance, he just stopped raised his rifle
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  Speaker 1: and he looked through his sights to aim at the
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  Speaker 1: first elk he saw, and then he pulled the trigger.
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  Speaker 1: But for some reason, when he pulled the trigger, the
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  Speaker 1: gun didn't go off. It didn't fire, or at least
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  Speaker 1: it didn't appear to and certainly there wasn't any kickback.
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  Speaker 2: It just was like nothing happened.
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  Speaker 1: But then he saw something that just didn't make any
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  Speaker 1: logical sense, and at the same time he's experiencing this
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  Speaker 1: just insane phenomenon.
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  Speaker 2: He felt this massive wave of.
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  Speaker 1: Vertigo, and then he just sort of felt himself falling,
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  Speaker 1: and then he blacked out. The next thing Carl knew
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  Speaker 1: he felt himself being shaken back and forth, and he
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  Speaker 1: sort of slowly began to blink his eyes, feeling very
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  Speaker 1: confused and disoriented.
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  Speaker 2: His head was pounding.
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  Speaker 1: It was clearly dark outside, and then he realized, sort
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  Speaker 1: of with horror, that somehow he was back inside of
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  Speaker 1: his work truck. But these surroundings outside of the truck
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  Speaker 1: definitely looked different, like the truck was parked in a
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  Speaker 1: different spot than where he left it. He suddenly felt
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  Speaker 1: himself getting shaken again, and then he heard someone say
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  Speaker 1: his name, and he looked up in the darkness, he
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  Speaker 1: saw there were two men that he didn't recognize who
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  Speaker 1: were clearly shaking him, trying to get his attention, and
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  Speaker 1: they tried to ask him, like what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: but Carl's mouth sort of felt numb, and when he
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  Speaker 1: tried to speak, it's like the words came out and
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  Speaker 1: garbled and nonsensical. And so at some point these two
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  Speaker 1: men sort of gave up trying to talk to Carl,
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  Speaker 1: and they just lifted him up, pulled him out of
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  Speaker 1: the truck, and they carried him over to their vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Carl heard them say something about a hospital,
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  Speaker 1: and then before long their car was driving off.
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  Speaker 2: And then Carl blacked out again.
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  Speaker 1: About thirty minutes later, around midnight on October twenty sixth,
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  Speaker 1: so this is eight hours after Carl first blacked out,
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  Speaker 1: His wife, Marjorie, rushed into a hospital room at the
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  Speaker 1: Carbon County Memorial Hospital in Rollins, Wyoming, and inside she
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  Speaker 1: saw Carl lying on the bed hooked up to an
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  Speaker 1: IV and there were a bunch of monitors with a
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  Speaker 1: nurse standing beside him, and she saw her husband's eyes
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  Speaker 1: were open but clearly unfocused. And then as Marjorie is
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  Speaker 1: just standing there taking in the initial shock of what
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  Speaker 1: she's seeing. The nurse actually pointed at her, at Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: and then asked Carl if he knew who she his wife.
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  Speaker 2: Who she was.
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  Speaker 1: But Carl, he turned and he looked at Marjorie, but
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  Speaker 1: he just kind of stared blankly and then shook his
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  Speaker 1: head and said no. So earlier that evening, Marjorie had
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  Speaker 1: been at home waiting for Carl to come back from
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  Speaker 1: his hunting trip, but when he hadn't shown up on time,
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  Speaker 1: she ultimately had called the Sheriff's department and asked them
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  Speaker 1: to go to mcmarty Canyon just to check on him.
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  Speaker 1: And so two deputies had gone out there and they
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  Speaker 1: found him and he was unconscious in his truck. So
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  Speaker 1: those two deputies were the ones who obviously shook him
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  Speaker 1: awake and took him to the hospital. But interestingly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: beyond the fact that the deputies had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: happened to him, they reported that his truck had been
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  Speaker 1: parked three miles away from the main road in this
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  Speaker 1: muddy bog, and strangely, there were no tire tracks leading
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  Speaker 1: to it. It was almost like it was just dropped
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  Speaker 1: in the bog with you know, Carl inside of it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, despite this weirdness, the deputies and Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: for that matter, were not concerned about, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: weirdness around the truck. They were worried about Carl, who
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  Speaker 1: was just laying here unconscious, and so they had rushed
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  Speaker 1: him to the hospital, and Marjorie had driven there as fast.
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  Speaker 2: As she could.
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  Speaker 1: A doctor had already explained to Marjorie that her husband was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, clearly very disoriented and seemed to be suffering
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  Speaker 1: from a case of amnesia. He couldn't even remember his
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  Speaker 1: own name, let alone you know, what had happened to
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  Speaker 1: him while he was out in that canyon before the
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  Speaker 1: deputies showed up.
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  Speaker 2: And found him passed out in his truck.
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  Speaker 1: Doctors had given Carl X ray and brain scans and
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  Speaker 1: run all kinds of tests on him. But not only
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  Speaker 1: did they not find any evidence of some sort of
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  Speaker 1: head injury you know that likely would have caused his amnesia,
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  Speaker 1: but they actually didn't find anything wrong with him at all.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed perfectly fine beyond him just showing up basically
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  Speaker 1: unconscious and disoriented. And so realistically, the staff told Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: that because they couldn't really find anything wrong with him,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't really know how to treat him, and so
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  Speaker 1: for now Carl was just being kept in the hospital
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  Speaker 1: under constant observation, and so Marjorie just took a seat
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  Speaker 1: on the couch next to her husband's bed, sort of
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  Speaker 1: not even sure what to think of this whole situation,
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  Speaker 1: and she was about to ask the nurse a couple
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  Speaker 1: of questions, but then suddenly Carl sort of tensed up
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  Speaker 1: and began frantically looking around the room like he really
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  Speaker 1: had something in mind that he was looking for, and
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  Speaker 1: then he began saying, like, where are my pills?
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  Speaker 2: Marjorie had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: What pills her husband was talking about, and it was
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  Speaker 1: clear the nurse also didn't know what he was talking
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  Speaker 1: aout about, and so Marjorie she reached out and just
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  Speaker 1: tried to grab her husband's hand to try to calm
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  Speaker 1: him down. But the moment she did that, Carl sort
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  Speaker 1: of stopped what he was doing and he yanked his
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  Speaker 1: hand away.
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  Speaker 2: And stared at her like she was a total stranger.
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  Speaker 1: Two days later, Carl still could not remember what had
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  Speaker 1: happened to him when he had gone hunting, but he
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  Speaker 1: had recovered some basic memories like his own name and
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  Speaker 1: also who his wife was, and so between that and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that realistically Carl did not have any signs
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  Speaker 1: of any physical injury, they ultimately the hospital discharged him
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  Speaker 1: and just sent him home with Marjorie and basically told
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  Speaker 1: her that he was probably fine and that he probably
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  Speaker 1: just needed to be in a familiar place to to
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  Speaker 1: sort of recover all of his memories and get back
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  Speaker 1: to normal. However, when the couple got back home, it
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  Speaker 1: very quickly became clear to Marjorie that Carl was not
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  Speaker 1: okay and he was not getting better. For the most part,
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  Speaker 1: Carl was just usually quiet at home, like uncharacteristically quiet,
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  Speaker 1: and then when he would speak, it often was in
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  Speaker 1: that frantic, sort of nonsensical way that he had spoken
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital when he was, you know, looking for
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  Speaker 1: his pills, and in fact, when he was home he
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  Speaker 1: did continue to suddenly start looking for his pills, and
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  Speaker 1: then also he began telling Marjorie that, you know, somebody
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  Speaker 1: had stolen his elk. Marjorie would try to ask him
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  Speaker 1: like what do you mean, Like, what do you mean
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  Speaker 1: your pills? What do you mean somebody took your elk, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? But Carl didn't even seem
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  Speaker 1: to know, Like he would have moments of recognizing that
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  Speaker 1: it's so crazy what he's saying, but he just didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the memories to be filled in.
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  Speaker 2: It was like Carl was just.
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  Speaker 1: As confused by his own vague memories as his wife was. However,
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  Speaker 1: a few days after they got home from the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: Carl suddenly told his wife that he'd actually remembered something
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  Speaker 1: really specific about what had happened when he was hunting,
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  Speaker 1: like a new memory had popped up in his mind.
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  Speaker 1: He told her that when he was in mc marty
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  Speaker 1: Canyon and he saw those elk, and he raised his
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  Speaker 1: rifle and he pulled the trigger, he said, there was
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  Speaker 1: no sound, there was no kick back.
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  Speaker 2: It was like nothing had happened.
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  Speaker 1: But then he said, something happened that like truly just
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  Speaker 1: didn't make logical sense. He said, he realized the gun
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  Speaker 1: had fired, but it was like the world had slowed
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  Speaker 1: down and he could actually literally see the bullet leaving
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  Speaker 1: the rifle, but like in slow motion, like this bullet
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  Speaker 1: is trickling out of the gun and slowly making its way,
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  Speaker 1: you know, across the canyon, and he's just staring at
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  Speaker 1: this bullet, and then the bullet seemed to strike like
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  Speaker 1: an invisible wall of sorts, at which point the bullet
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  Speaker 1: actually stopped and almost like flipped inside out and sort
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  Speaker 1: of flattened and then fell to the ground. And then
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  Speaker 1: also as the flattened, inside out bullet fell to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: Carl said, he too fell to the ground and he
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  Speaker 1: blacked out.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when Marjorie heard this, you know, her first thought
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  Speaker 2: was like, this is nonsense. You know, this is not real.
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  Speaker 2: This is something maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Carl's mind has created to fill in the gaps of
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  Speaker 1: his memory, because it's got to be really frustrating for
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  Speaker 1: him that he's got all these like fragments that he
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  Speaker 1: can't put together, and so maybe this is just his
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  Speaker 1: mind filling in the gaps with this really specific and
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  Speaker 1: weird imagery. But not long after hearing this story, Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: was doing the laundry and she was finally washing the
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  Speaker 1: clothes her husband had on when this whole thing happened
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  Speaker 1: out in the canyon, and when she reached into the
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  Speaker 1: pockets of his jacket to make sure they were empty
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  Speaker 1: before you know, washing the jacket, she felt something metallic
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  Speaker 1: and she pulled out this this round like flat disk,
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  Speaker 1: this metal disc, and at first she just had no
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  Speaker 1: idea what it was. But then she thought about what
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  Speaker 1: her husband had said about the bullet from his rifle,
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  Speaker 1: you know, flipping inside out and flattening and falling to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. She couldn't help but feel like, this metallic
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  Speaker 1: disc that she's holding in her hand, that was in
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  Speaker 1: her husband's jacket looks an awful lot like a bullet
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  Speaker 1: that has been flipped inside out and flattened.
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  Speaker 2: Like she couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Not long after this discovery of the alleged bullet, Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: sat next to her husband on a couch inside of
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  Speaker 1: an office.
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  Speaker 2: At the University of Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: They were both sitting across from a psychology professor named
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  Speaker 1: doctor Leo Sprinkle. Now Marjorie knew this meeting was sort
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  Speaker 1: of a long shot, but she was hopeful that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe they would learn something valuable.
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  Speaker 1: So by this point, Carl had not recovered any other
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  Speaker 1: memories from his hunting trip. But after you know, recovering
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  Speaker 1: the supposed flattened bullet in her husband's jacket, Marjorie became
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  Speaker 1: convinced that something truly strange had happened to her husband.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she obviously knew something happened out in the canyon,
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  Speaker 1: but now it just seemed like, I don't even have
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  Speaker 1: any theories for what could have happened, but something really weird.
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  Speaker 2: Must have happened.
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  Speaker 1: And so she and Carl were both very determined to
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  Speaker 1: try to figure out what happened, and so that that's
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  Speaker 1: how they ended up in doctor Sprinkle's office. Doctor Sprinkle
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  Speaker 1: was not your average psychologist. He was a really big
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  Speaker 1: believer in hypnosis. He practiced hypnosis, and specifically he believed
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  Speaker 1: that hypnosis could potentially allow people to access repressed memories,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly what Marjorie and doctor Sprinkle and Carl
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  Speaker 1: for that matter, believed was going on with Carl that
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  Speaker 1: he had experienced something that was being repressed, but it
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  Speaker 1: was in there, you just need to find.
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  Speaker 2: A way to access it.
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  Speaker 1: So that day in the Professor's office, Marjorie stayed very
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  Speaker 1: quiet and just observed while doctor Sprinkle told Carl to
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  Speaker 1: close his eyes, to relax, his head down towards his chest,
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  Speaker 1: and just focus on.
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  Speaker 2: His breathing in and out, in and out.
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  Speaker 1: And after several minutes of this, Doctor Sprinkle told Carl
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  Speaker 1: to slowly lift his head back up, and Carl did,
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  Speaker 1: but when he looked up, his eyes were actually still closed.
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  Speaker 1: And at this point doctor Sprinkle asked Carl Carl to
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  Speaker 1: tell him what happened on October twenty fifth when he
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  Speaker 1: went elk hunting and mcmarty canyon, and Carl, with his
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  Speaker 1: eyes still shut, began to speak really fluently, and he
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  Speaker 1: began telling just the most insane story Marjorie or doctor
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  Speaker 1: Sprinkle for that matter, had ever heard. Carl said, again
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  Speaker 1: under hypnosis here that after he had watched that bullet
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  Speaker 1: leave his rifle in slow motion and hit this invisible
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  Speaker 1: wall and flip inside out and fall to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: he said that he too had fallen basically at the
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  Speaker 1: same speed as this bullet onto the ground, and basically
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  Speaker 1: he passed out, but he only blacked out for like
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  Speaker 1: a second, and when he opened his eyes, he said
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  Speaker 1: he was still lying on the grass in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of this canyon, except now standing over him was this tall,
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  Speaker 1: dark figure that was wearing almost like a very tight
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  Speaker 1: fitting body suit, almost like what a scuba diver would wear.
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  Speaker 1: And Carl said this figure was vaguely, you know, human shaped,
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  Speaker 1: but it had very yellowish skin and very small eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and no ears and no lips, and there were two
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  Speaker 1: antennas sticking out of, you know, its forehead, and one
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  Speaker 1: of its arms extended into this this flat stump, but
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  Speaker 1: the other arm seemed to have almost like a prosthetic
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  Speaker 1: attachment at the end of it that almost.
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  Speaker 2: Looked like a power drill.
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  Speaker 1: And then, in perfect English, this figure sort of looked
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  Speaker 1: down at Carl and just said, how are you? And
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  Speaker 1: Carl said he was so stunned by this thing speaking
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  Speaker 1: to him in perfect English that Carl just sort of blurted.
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  Speaker 2: Out, oh, pretty good, pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And the figure seemed satisfied with this answer, and it
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  Speaker 1: went on to quickly explain that its name was OsO One,
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  Speaker 1: and it came from a planet one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: three thousand light years away from Earth, and it said
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  Speaker 1: it had no intention of hurting Carl.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, it said it wanted to help Carl.
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  Speaker 1: Then, with the hand that sort of resembled a power drill,
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  Speaker 1: it reached into what looked like a pocket on its
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  Speaker 1: body suit and it pulled out this small packet containing
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  Speaker 1: four pills, and it told Carl that these pills would
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  Speaker 1: heal him.
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  Speaker 2: And then this thing offered.
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  Speaker 1: Carl one of these pills, and Carl, for reasons he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't explain, just immediately took the pill and swallowed it.
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  Speaker 1: And then after that, Carl said that OSSO one asked
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  Speaker 1: him if he wanted to go for a ride, and
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  Speaker 1: Carl just said sure, so OSSO one helped Carl off
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and then as soon as Carl was standing
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  Speaker 1: back up again, he saw there was this cube shaped
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  Speaker 1: vehicle not far away, and a split second later, Carl
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  Speaker 1: said he was somehow inside of this vehicle, along with
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  Speaker 1: OSSO one and also two other vaguely humanoid figures and
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  Speaker 1: the five Elk that he'd been out here hunting. They
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  Speaker 1: were behind this clear wall like a containment pen within
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle, and Carl was seated in a chair, as
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  Speaker 1: was also One and the two other humanoids.
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  Speaker 2: They were all just sort of sitting there.
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  Speaker 1: Then Carl said he felt this powerful force push against
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: his body, like the vehicle was moving so fast that
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: it basically pushed him back into his seat. But less
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: than a minute later, the vehicle just stopped and also One.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Said we're home.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Carl was just suddenly standing outside of
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the vehicle, and he said it felt very cold, and
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the sky was jet black. And then around Carl the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: landscape was very different from planet Earth. It was very
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: rocky and desolate, without any trees or grass or really
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: any organic looking life anywhere. And then in front of Carl,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: he said, he saw this massive, metallic looking tower that
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: sort of reminded him of the Seattle space Needle, and
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: there was this light on the top of it that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: was actually so bright that Carl said when he looked
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: at it, it sort of hurt his eyes. And so Ozo
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: One led Carl, the two other humanoid figures, and the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Elk to a door on the outside of this tower,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and once they were standing outside of it, Carl said,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the door slid open, but instead of it sort of
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: leading into the tower, it just led to what reminded
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Carl of the inside of a large elevator, and the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: whole group just got on board and began riding up.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And then when this elevator of sorts came to a
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: stop and the door opened again, Carl saw this small
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: room with metal walls and a handful of what looked
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: like platforms on the floor. Ozzo One led the Elk
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: onto one of those platforms and told Carl to get
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: on one too, And so Carl just did as he
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: was told and stood on one of these platforms, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: then out of nowhere, some kind of high tech device
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: emerged from these metallic walls and began sort of circling
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: around Carl. It went from his head all the way
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to his toes, basically like scanning him. Carl was vaguely
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: aware of the same process taking place to the Elk
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: as well. And then when this scanner was done, it
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: made a beeping sound, and then Ozzo One looked over
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: at Carl and told him, well, the Elk are what
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: we but you're not, so we're going to take you
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: back to Earth now. And then Carl said the next
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: thing he knew, he was just magically back inside of
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: his work truck, like he had somehow been transported there instantaneously,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and he was being shaken awake by those two sheriff's deputies.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: And so back in doctor Sprinkle's office, Marjorie is listening,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: just completely shocked by what her husband is saying, not
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: even sure what to make of it. And then doctor Sprinkle,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: at the end of Carl's story, when he got to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the point where he's being shaken awake by the deputies,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Doctor Sprinkle snapped his finger and Carl kind of came to.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: He opened his eyes and sort of refocused clearly out
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of hypnosis, and then they all just kind of sat
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: there like in total silence, really unsure what to say
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to each other. But as crazy as Carl's story sounded,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: there were several very strange facts about Carl's case that
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: up to this point nobody had been able to explain,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and the story that Carl told while under hypnosis technically
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: accounted for all of them.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: The first fact that this story.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Explained was that when Carl woke up in his work truck,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: like magically just appeared in his work truck, it was
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: not just three miles away from the main road. It
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: was actually three miles away from where he had originally
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: parked it. And this truck was just sitting in a
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: muddy bog with no tire tracks leading up to it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: So it was just totally unclear how it got there.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: And so if you follow along with Carl's story, you know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: perhaps when he was transported back to Earth, they you know,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: this other creature and the other humanoids maneuvered the truck
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: with Carl in it into this bog. The second strange
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: fact is that when Marjorie had ballistics experts analyzed that flattened,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: presumed bullet that she had found in Carl's jacket, they
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: were just as baffled as she was, like they could
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: not come up with any earthly explanation for how a
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: bullet could be flattened and turned inside out, like this
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: was not possible, and so again, if you follow Carl's story,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: perhaps this being is the one that flipped the bullet
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: inside out. And the third and perhaps strangest fact is
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: that when hospital doctors gave Carl X rays, they found
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: something that should have been medically impossible. All of the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: tuberculosis scar tissue in Carl's lungs that had plagued him
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: for decades, that had made it so hard to be
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: physical and exercise, they had somehow disappeared. It was as
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: if someone or something had healed him. Despite how unbelievable
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Carl's story sounded, and despite the fact that hundreds of
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: people have spent decades trying to disprove it, no one
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: has ever found a better explanation for the moving truck.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: The impossible bullet and Carl's disappearing scar tissue. Because of that,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: some researchers believe that Carl Higden's account could be one
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: of the most credible alien abduction stories ever recorded. All Right,
• 21:56
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