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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 all demonstrate that. But
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. Late at night, on October
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth, nineteen sixty eight, a seventy two year old
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  Speaker 1: woman named at Harris was sitting in her living room
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  Speaker 1: in Toledo, Ohio when her phone rang, and the first
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  Speaker 1: thing she did when it rang was looked at the clock.
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  Speaker 1: It was ten thirty pm, like this is not when
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  Speaker 1: people called her and so worried something was wrong. She
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  Speaker 1: got up and she answered the phone and she said hello,
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  Speaker 1: and on the other end of the line somebody said back, hey, Sis,
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  Speaker 1: and ethel immediately knew who this was. It was not
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  Speaker 1: a sibling, despite the greeting, Hey, Sis, it was someone
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  Speaker 1: that was very close with her and her husband Don.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, this person who she was speaking to was
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  Speaker 1: Don's best friend, a fifty nine year old man named
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  Speaker 1: Lee Epps. And for decades, Lee and Ethel and Down
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  Speaker 1: had lived next to each other. They were neighbors and
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  Speaker 1: basically every day they were at each other's houses together.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they were super duper close.
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  Speaker 1: But Lee had eventually moved to another town and so
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  Speaker 1: they didn't see each other as much, but they did
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  Speaker 1: get together a fair amount. And also Lee very regularly
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  Speaker 1: would call the house and just check in, and so
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  Speaker 1: Ethel's thinking, Okay, it's a little bit late, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty at night, but it's Lee, so clearly he's
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  Speaker 1: just calling to check in. But before Ethel could really
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  Speaker 1: even respond to his greeting of asis, because that's what
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  Speaker 1: he called ursis, he just kept on talking. It was
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  Speaker 1: as if, you know, Ethel wasn't even there. He was
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  Speaker 1: just sort of delivering a message. He was like, Hey, sis, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling really bad, like I've never felt this way before,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I really need your husband Don to
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  Speaker 1: get in touch with me the moment he gets back,
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  Speaker 1: and then Lee hung out and ethel after you know,
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  Speaker 1: the phone call died.
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  Speaker 2: She was really.
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  Speaker 1: Confused because one, you know, it seemed like a sort
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  Speaker 1: of normal ketchup call, but he's saying something that sounded
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  Speaker 1: really serious.
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  Speaker 2: That you know, something's going on with him.
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  Speaker 1: But also too, what immediately stood out to her was
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  Speaker 1: how did he know Don wasn't there at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Like he wasn't nearby.
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  Speaker 1: How could he have just guessed that Don wasn't home
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  Speaker 1: right now because Don wasn't He was out, He was
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  Speaker 1: going to be home soon, but he was out at
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  Speaker 1: the time he said it.
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  Speaker 2: It was like he had this.
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  Speaker 1: Knowledge that he was and so it just seemed odd
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  Speaker 1: that he knew that piece of information. And so because
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  Speaker 1: she was sort of confused by this call and worried
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  Speaker 1: about Lee, you know, considering what he said, she tried
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  Speaker 1: calling him back, but Lee didn't answer. She tried several
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  Speaker 1: more times, never heard from Lee, and then eventually her husband, Don,
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  Speaker 1: he came home and she explained to him, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I got this weird call from Lee. You know, he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he wanted you to get in touch with
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  Speaker 1: him as soon as he came back, because he's not
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  Speaker 1: feeling good or something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know, and so Don's like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: that's weird.
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  Speaker 1: So he tries calling Lee and Lee doesn't answer, and
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  Speaker 1: so at this point Don he's like, Ethel, go over
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  Speaker 1: it again, like what exactly did he say?
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  Speaker 2: Like did he sound scared? Did he sound confused?
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  Speaker 1: Like what was he talking about? And Ethel said, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it just he just sort of stated
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  Speaker 1: that he just didn't feel good and he had never
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  Speaker 1: felt this way before, and he just really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you, Don. But again he mentioned you were
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  Speaker 1: out of the house. I don't know how he knew that,
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  Speaker 1: and he said to have you call when you came back.
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  Speaker 1: That's really what happened. I don't understand it either, because
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  Speaker 1: Ethelyn down really didn't know what to make of this,
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  Speaker 1: and just given the fact that maybe Lee could be
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  Speaker 1: in trouble, they were like, you know what, let's just
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  Speaker 1: drive over to his house in the other town and
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  Speaker 1: just check on him, just make sure he's okay. So
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  Speaker 1: they hopped in the car, they drive to Lee's house
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  Speaker 1: and Lee's not there, and so even though it was
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  Speaker 1: late at night. Ethel and don really were worried about
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  Speaker 1: their friend, and so they began knocking on neighbors doors
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  Speaker 1: to see if anybody knew where he was. But it
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  Speaker 1: would take a while, but eventually one of the neighbors
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  Speaker 1: said that Lee actually was at the hospital. And at this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Ethel and Donn, it's like their worst fears
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  Speaker 1: are confirmed. Something really is wrong with their friend. And
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  Speaker 1: so they went to the nearest hospital, which is called
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  Speaker 1: Mercy Hospital, and when they got there they learned that yes,
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  Speaker 1: Lee was admitted to the hospital, but unfortunately he was dead.
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  Speaker 1: And this on its face was of course shocking news
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  Speaker 1: for Ethel and Down. I mean, they did not expect
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  Speaker 1: to find out that their friend of many decades was
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  Speaker 1: you know, abruptly and sort of inexplicably dead. But that
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  Speaker 1: was far from the most shocking thing they learned when
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  Speaker 1: they spoke to the medical staff about what actually happened
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  Speaker 1: to Lee. They would eventually tell Ethel and Down that
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  Speaker 1: after some complications, Lee ultimately passed away at precisely ten
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm the previous night. His actual time of death
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  Speaker 1: exactly coincided with the moment Ethel got that phone call
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  Speaker 1: from Lee where he said to her, I just don't
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  Speaker 1: feel right. I've never felt this way before. Please, when
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  Speaker 1: your husband Don gets home, have him call me. Ethel
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  Speaker 1: and Don have no way to prove this, but they
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  Speaker 1: believe that that phone call was actually Lee's spirit, his
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  Speaker 1: soul trying to talk to his best friend one more
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  Speaker 1: thousand and six, a seventy year old man named ma
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  Speaker 1: Ching Mao and several of his family members walked out
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  Speaker 1: of their house in Luohan Village, which was a very
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  Speaker 1: small community in rural China. Luohan Village was known for
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  Speaker 1: being this beautiful historic place, and as Ching Mao and
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  Speaker 1: his family walked along, they passed by these beautiful lush
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  Speaker 1: fields and saw these tall mountains off in the distance.
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  Speaker 1: But they also passed by something that made Ching Mao
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  Speaker 1: and his family all very sad. The charred remains of
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  Speaker 1: dozens of burned out buildings were just littering the landscape.
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  Speaker 1: So Ching Mao had lived in this village his whole life,
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  Speaker 1: and he remembered when it really was this happy, tight
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  Speaker 1: knit community of over one hundred people and it really
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  Speaker 1: was just this picturesque place to live. But three years
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  Speaker 1: ago that had all changed, and life in this village
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  Speaker 1: became one disaster after another. There had been not one,
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  Speaker 1: but two enormous fires which were caused by faulty wiring,
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  Speaker 1: but they had destroyed all these homes and businesses and
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  Speaker 1: all these historic buildings. I mean, it really kind of
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  Speaker 1: like changed the entire face of this town and.
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  Speaker 2: They still hadn't rebuilt it yet.
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  Speaker 1: But as bad as those fires were, it was actually
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  Speaker 1: what happened after the fires stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Burning that really really made this place a nightmare on earth.
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  Speaker 1: And it was that, for whatever reason, the mortality rate
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  Speaker 1: in this little village in China just spiked like mad.
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  Speaker 1: It was like all these people were just dropping dead
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere. And it got to the point where
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  Speaker 1: the villagers were scared that like some illness was plaguing them,
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  Speaker 1: some unseen plague they didn't even know. And it got
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  Speaker 1: so bad, so many people were dying that they brought
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  Speaker 1: in these Centers for Disease Control, the CDC.
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  Speaker 2: They came in.
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  Speaker 1: And actually did a full blown investigation of this village
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  Speaker 1: and they included that there is no connection between all
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  Speaker 1: these deaths. All these people that are dying in your
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  Speaker 1: village are dying from common illnesses or old age, like
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  Speaker 1: these are natural deaths. It's just this sort of anomalous
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  Speaker 1: spike in the mortality rate. And it's unfortunately, you know,
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  Speaker 1: following this horrible tragedy, which were these fires. So it's
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  Speaker 1: basically like a tragic set of coincidences that these terrible
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  Speaker 1: things are befalling the village all.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of people, including Ching Mao, didn't buy
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  Speaker 1: that what was happening was natural. Instead, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people began to think that their village was cursed, and
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  Speaker 1: so Ching Mao and his family they walked past all
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  Speaker 1: these burned out buildings and they made their way towards
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  Speaker 1: the center of the village, where there was a temple,
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  Speaker 1: because there was going to be yet another funeral for
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  Speaker 1: another person in their village, a young woman who had
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  Speaker 1: died inexplicably, at least in the eyes of the villagers.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't make sense she had died, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: apparently it's you know, a natural cause according to the CDC.
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  Speaker 1: But they were going to a another funeral, and so
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  Speaker 1: into the temple they went and before long the procession began.
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  Speaker 1: Later that night, Ching Mao stumbled his way through the
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  Speaker 1: dark streets of the village towards his home. Following that funeral,
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  Speaker 1: Ching Mao and his family had gone to the deceased
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  Speaker 1: woman's family home for this big ceremonial dinner that was
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  Speaker 1: typical after these funerals, and Ching Mao's family they had
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  Speaker 1: basically left pretty much right after the meal itself. But
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  Speaker 1: Ching Mao he was feeling kind of down, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like many people in the village, considering their sort of
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  Speaker 1: cursed status as they believed. He had stayed behind, and
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  Speaker 1: he had continued eating and drinking some alcohol and talking
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  Speaker 1: with his neighbors. Now he was finally on his way
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  Speaker 1: back home, but as he walked, he suddenly felt this
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  Speaker 1: really sharp pain in his gut, and it hurt so
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  Speaker 1: bad that it was making it really hard to walk,
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  Speaker 1: and so Ching Mau clutched his stomach and really had
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  Speaker 1: to force himself to keep moving one foot in front
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  Speaker 1: of the other. And then finally when he got to
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  Speaker 1: his home, he opened up the front door, but the
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  Speaker 1: pain was so blinding that he just screamed out for
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  Speaker 1: help and then collapsed onto the ground right inside the house,
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  Speaker 1: and then Ching Mao, as he's laying on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: he began vomiting uncontrollably onto the floor, and then he
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  Speaker 1: just passed away right there, right in front of his
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  Speaker 1: whole family. Now Ching Mao himself was not like a
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  Speaker 1: hugely influential person in this village. He had been there
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  Speaker 1: his whole life, and everybody knew him, of course, but
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  Speaker 1: there was just something about his death that felt really monumental.
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  Speaker 1: It was like everybody in the village felt it that
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  Speaker 1: when he died for no apparent reason, really, it just
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  Speaker 1: felt like enough is enough. There is no way these
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  Speaker 1: deaths that have ravaged our village are natural. It's not possible,
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  Speaker 1: and we will not take that as an answer any longer.
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  Speaker 1: And so the village director, who basically is like the
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  Speaker 1: mayor of the village, he wound up getting in touch
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  Speaker 1: with the provincial Health Department and he told them what
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  Speaker 1: was going on and what the CDC had already communicated
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  Speaker 1: to them, how they didn't buy it. And so this
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  Speaker 1: health department they sent out twenty experts to this village
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  Speaker 1: and they did this big investigation to try to figure out, like,
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  Speaker 1: is there something causing all these deaths, is it linked
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  Speaker 1: to the fires in some way? Like what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in this village? And you know what they came up with.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out it's all natural. There's nothing wrong here. We
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  Speaker 1: believe what the CDC said, there's basically no issues whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: You have nothing to worry about. And the village said, no,
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  Speaker 2: we still don't believe that.
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  Speaker 1: This is not acceptable, and so they went back to
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  Speaker 1: their village director and they said, you got to do
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  Speaker 1: something else because this is not acceptable, and he agreed,
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  Speaker 1: and so he actually got in touch with the police,
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  Speaker 1: just the local police, and said, hey, you come in,
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  Speaker 1: you investigate this, try to see if there's something anything
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  Speaker 1: that they have missed that could maybe explain why so
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  Speaker 1: many people are dying in this village. And so the
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  Speaker 1: police they come into this village and they do this
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  Speaker 1: broad strokes very why i'd sweeping investigation, and they do
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  Speaker 1: find something, and what they discover completely explains what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in this village. It would turn out the village's doctor,
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  Speaker 1: they're one doctor, was this guy named Ma Fauxman, and
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  Speaker 1: Ma was not really a doctor. He had basically read
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  Speaker 1: a couple of medical books that was the extent of
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  Speaker 1: his training, he was not a doctor, and so he's
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  Speaker 1: the guy they're going to whenever they have any medical issues,
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  Speaker 1: and he has no idea what he's doing, but he
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  Speaker 1: benefited from people getting sick because he's the town doctor.
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  Speaker 1: And so you have this guy who can't help you
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  Speaker 1: pretending to help you, likely making it worse. Who profits
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  Speaker 1: from illness in this village. So that's bad, but it
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  Speaker 1: gets worse. Ma was also the owner of the funeral
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  Speaker 1: home in this village, the one funeral home. So if
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  Speaker 1: his Kroc science, his Kroc medicine didn't save you, or
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't inexplicably get better basically on your.
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  Speaker 2: Own, and you died, he also profited on you.
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  Speaker 1: So basically ma fo Man had a monopoly on suffering
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  Speaker 1: in this village. If you got sick, he made money.
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  Speaker 1: If you died, he made money. The only way he
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  Speaker 1: didn't make money is if you lived. And for a while,
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  Speaker 1: Ma fo Man just kind of allowed this setup to
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  Speaker 1: run as is. He didn't influence it at all. He
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  Speaker 1: just was a fake doctor and was the funeral director.
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  Speaker 1: But in time he wanted more money, and so he
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  Speaker 1: began poisoning the village's water supply with cyanide, because then
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  Speaker 1: you have more people getting sick makes more money, and
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  Speaker 1: more people dying makes more money. But even that still
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  Speaker 1: wasn't enough for Mafo Man. He needed more death and suffering.
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  Speaker 1: And so those fires, that was not faulty wiring, that
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  Speaker 1: was just luck on Mafo Man's part that he wasn't caught.
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  Speaker 2: That was pure arson.
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  Speaker 1: He burned that place down, killing people in the process,
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  Speaker 1: because again he's got this monopoly on death and suffering
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  Speaker 1: in this village. And so in the end, the police
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  Speaker 1: who came in, they did this investigation and they discovered
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  Speaker 1: that those fires were actually arson, and it eventually led back.
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  Speaker 2: To ma fo Man.
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  Speaker 1: In total, ma fou Man killed seventy six people, all
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  Speaker 1: people that he lived with. These are like his friends
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  Speaker 1: and his family. These are his people. He killed seventy
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  Speaker 1: six of them, and so he was ultimately convicted of
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  Speaker 1: murder and he was sentenced to death. One morning in
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  Speaker 1: September of eighteen ninety three, a twenty five year old
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  Speaker 1: man named Paul Marsh sat at a dining room table
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  Speaker 1: inside of his aunt's house in New Haven, Connecticut. He
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  Speaker 1: was there with his mother and his father to visit
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  Speaker 1: his aunt, whose name was Miss Blackwood, and also to
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  Speaker 1: visit his nineteen year old cousin, whose name was Madeline.
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  Speaker 1: Madeline was being looked after by Miss Blackwood because her
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  Speaker 1: parents had died for years ago, making her an orphan,
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  Speaker 1: and Miss Blackwood certainly had the means. She was very
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  Speaker 1: wealthy then, so she took Madeline in and so basically
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  Speaker 1: that was her new de facto mother. And so Paul,
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  Speaker 1: his parents, and Madeline they were all having this big,
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  Speaker 1: luxurious breakfast that Miss Blackwood's housemaid had prepared for them,
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  Speaker 1: and they were waiting for Paul's aunt to wake up
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  Speaker 1: and come downstairs and join them. And this was not
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  Speaker 1: just like a formality because it was her house and
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to be respectful. No, actually they loved
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  Speaker 1: Miss Blackwood. I mean, Paul's aunt was awesome. She was
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  Speaker 1: super energetic, and she was really fun, and of course
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  Speaker 1: she was like very wealthy, and her house was awesome,
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  Speaker 1: and so family generally loved to visit with Miss Blackwood,
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  Speaker 1: and so basically everybody's waiting for her to get up
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  Speaker 1: to start the day for real. But after a while,
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  Speaker 1: when Miss Blackwood had not come downstairs, the group just
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  Speaker 1: began eating their breakfast and just figured, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: she's taken her time and we'll catch up.
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  Speaker 2: With her, you know, after breakfast or something.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone's eating their food and just chatting and having
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  Speaker 1: a nice morning, when suddenly the housemaid, who had stepped
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  Speaker 1: away a few minutes earlier, she comes running into the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: She's very upset, and she just yells out that Miss
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  Speaker 1: Blackwood is dead. And for a second, Paul was totally
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  Speaker 1: confused because just the night before his aunt had seemed
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  Speaker 1: completely normal and healthy. There were no signs that she
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  Speaker 1: had any health issues whatsoever. But the family followed the
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  Speaker 1: housemaid up to Miss Blackwood's bedroom and they went inside,
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  Speaker 1: and sure enough, there was Paul's aunt laying in bed.
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  Speaker 1: Cold to the touch, she was definitely dead. Later that morning,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Paul and his very distraught family met with Miss Blackwood's
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: regular doctor in the living room of her house. The
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: doctor had just finished examining her body, and he said that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Miss Blackwood really didn't have any clear signs
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: of illness or injury. But he said, you know, she's seventy,
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  Speaker 1: and she had suffered from heart disease for the last
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  Speaker 1: few years, and so very likely heart disease is what
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  Speaker 1: ultimately killed her.
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  Speaker 2: Now, for the most part, the family.
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  Speaker 1: All reacted with a mix of obviously sadness, but also like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that logically makes sense. And Paul himself he felt the
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: same way. He's like, that's really awful. I can't believe
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  Speaker 1: she's gone. It makes sense, you know, But he also
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: had this weird feeling that he couldn't quite describe. That
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: just he felt like something's off here. He couldn't articulate it,
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  Speaker 1: but he just immediately had this sense that that could
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: not be the story, that something else happened to his aunt.
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  Speaker 1: But Paul didn't say anything to his family. He felt
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: like it was kind of inappropriate to immediately start, you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: suggesting conspiracies about what could have happened to their aunt,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: when again, logically it did make sense what the doctor
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: was saying, and so Paul just kind of kept it
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  Speaker 1: to himself, but he didn't stop thinking about it. Once
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  Speaker 1: the doctor left, Paul and his family decided that they
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: would all just stay in Miss Blackwood's house. You know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: they had a funeral to plan, They had to deal
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  Speaker 1: with her will in her estate. I mean, there was
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: all these things that were left to do, and the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: family had already decided they were going to come here
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and stay for a bit for a visit, so they
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: had already.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Booked off this time.
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  Speaker 1: So the decision was they would just stay and try
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: to sort of help get through this transition process. Fast
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: forward five weeks and Paul and his family are still
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: staying in Miss Blackwood's house, largely because it was proving
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: to be very difficult to sort of manage her estate.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: She was quite wealthy, and going through her will and everything,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it was just a huge mess. And so they were
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: still there and they were still trying to figure things out.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: And by this point Paul really.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Didn't have a big role in any of that. He
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: was just kind of there really to support his parents
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: as they dealt with the estate. But Paul had kind
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: of taken up his own mission secretly. He hadn't told
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: people about his suspicions that something else must have killed
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: his aunt. He didn't want to tell people that he
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: felt like he was kind of crazy for thinking it,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: because he had no reason to think it other than
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a gut feeling. But he had begun sort of investigating,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and his investigation had led him to begin sleeping in
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: his aunt's bedroom, because he had this belief that maybe
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: his aunt's ghost would visit him in her bedroom and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: she would tell him or signal to him in some
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: way what really happened to her. Now, for the past
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: several days and weeks that he'd been in here, he
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: had not seen his aunt's ghost, but he was not
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: about to give up, at least not yet. So on
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: this particular night, this is again five weeks after his
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: aunt has passed away, Paul is in his aunt's bedroom.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: He's in her bed, and he's laying there and he's
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: getting ready to fall asleep. As he's laying there, he
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: begins to hear a strange sound over to the side
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of the room. Sounded almost like scratching noises. And the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: room is very dark. It's late at night. There's a window,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: but there's not much light coming in from the moon.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: It's just kind of dark in this room. And he
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: opens his eyes and he rolls over and he looks
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: over in the direction of the scratching sound, and he
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: can't see anything at first, but then as his eyes
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: kind of adjusted to the darkness, he realizes he sees
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: something that he can't believe. I mean, even though in
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: some ways. He was hoping to see this, but he
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: sees a hand, like a disembodied hand, actually a whole
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: arm is basically reaching out of the wall in his direction.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: And for Paul, he's obviously never seen anything like this before.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Then he should be terrified. I mean, he's basically seeing
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: a ghost, but he's not scared.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: He's thinking, this is it. My plan is working. My
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: aunt is signaling to me.
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  Speaker 1: She's gonna tell me in some way, shape or form
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: here what really happened to her.
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  Speaker 2: It's finally happening.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: And so, with really no fear, Paul gets out of
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: his bed, walks over to the disembodied arm reaching out
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: of the wall, and he grabs it. After Paul grabbed
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the ghost arm, screams filled the whole house, woke everybody up,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and Paul's father came running down the hall. He burst
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: into the aunt's bedroom and he sees his son and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: he sees what his son is grabbing, and he really
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: can't even begin to process it. It would turn out
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: there really was an arm reaching through the wall, but
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a ghost arm. It was not you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: miss Blackwood's ghost coming back to tell Paul about what
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: happened to her. But this arm did absolutely have something
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to do with what killed Miss Blackwood, because she did
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: not die of heart disease. When Miss Blackwood was still alive,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the person who lived in the room next to her
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: where they slept, they drilled a hole in the wall
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: big enough for their arm to fit through, and they
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: reached through that hole at night while Miss Blackwood was asleep,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: and they poured poison into the water she kept by
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: her bedside. They poisoned her to death, and then after
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: she died from being poisoned, you know, it was determined
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that she had died from cardiac arrest, and pretty much
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: everybody accepted that except for Paul.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: The killer was aware.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Even though Paul was keeping it to himself that he
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: was on to something.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: He was sleeping in Miss Blackwood's bedroom.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It seemed like he was trying to figure out if
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: there was more to the story than what everybody else
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: seemed to believe, which was heart disease. And when it
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: seemed to the killer like Paul really was getting close
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to figure in something out, the killer waited for Paul
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to be in the same bed, and he had a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: water next to his bed as well. The killer reached
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: through and tried to do the same thing to Paul
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that they had done to Miss Blackwood. They tried to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: pour poison into his drink to kill him, but Paul
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: was looking for a ghost in the room. He heard
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the sound of the arm coming through and he grabbed
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the arm, thinking it's his aunt's arm, but he really
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: actually was stopping the arm from putting poison in his drink,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and the streams were the sound of the killer realizing
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: they've been caught, and the killer was none other than
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Paul's own cousin, the nineteen year old Madeline. After her
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: parents died, Miss Blackwood took her in like her own child,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and because she adopted.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Madeline, she put Madeline on her will.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: She was going to inherit miss Blackwood's wealth, and Madeline
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: just couldn't stand waiting for Miss Blackwood to die in
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: order to get that wealth, and.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: So she decided she would kill her.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: After Madeline was caught, she quickly confessed to Paul and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: his parents that yes, she had done it, and so
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Paul and his parents sent for the police to come
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: out here and arrest Madeline for murder and also attempted
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: murder of Paul. But before the police could even get there,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Madeline suddenly began bleeding heavily from her mouth, and then.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: She collapsed and died.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: It's not clear what actually killed her, but it's entirely possible,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: if not likely, that she actually used the same poison
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: she had used to kill her aunt on herself.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: To avoid facing justice. Thank you so much for watching.
• 24:56
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• 24:58
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