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- 0:00Speaker 1: In today's episode, I'm going to tell two stories that
- 0:02Speaker 1: are each about sort of joyful events or celebrations, but
- 0:08Speaker 1: in both cases they take a horrible turn just because
- 0:12Speaker 1: of one small decision. But before we get into today's stories,
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- 0:45Speaker 1: called Peace and Serenity. On the morning of July twenty third,
- 1:07Speaker 1: two thousand and six, a seventy four year old artist
- 1:10Speaker 1: named Maurice Aegis paced back and forth near an art
- 1:13Speaker 1: exhibit in Riverside Park in Chesterless Street, England, and Maurice
- 1:18Speaker 1: was frustrated because this was supposed to be one of
- 1:21Speaker 1: the biggest days of his entire forty year career as
- 1:24Speaker 1: an artist. Right now, his exhibit, his masterpiece should be
- 1:29Speaker 1: full of people, but it wasn't. So Maurice's exhibit was
- 1:33Speaker 1: called dream Space. It was this massive structure about half
- 1:36Speaker 1: the size of a soccer field, and inside of it
- 1:39Speaker 1: was the sprawling network of small, colorful, interconnected rooms. Dream
- 1:44Speaker 1: Space was designed so that visitors could sort of wander
- 1:47Speaker 1: from room to room and be affected by the music
- 1:49Speaker 1: and soothing lighting and have kind of an immersive, serene experience.
- 1:54Speaker 1: And this was by far the largest physical exhibit that
- 1:57Speaker 1: Maurice had ever done, so it had taken a lot
- 2:00Speaker 1: lot of preparation, and naturally there had been some construction hiccups,
- 2:04Speaker 1: but it was all going to be worth it, because
- 2:06Speaker 1: Maurice knew it was about to be seen by a
- 2:09Speaker 1: lot of people since it was located in a really
- 2:11Speaker 1: big public park. However, before they could actually open, there
- 2:16Speaker 1: was still one more hiccup to deal with. This morning,
- 2:18Speaker 1: when Maurice had arrived, he'd realized that part of his
- 2:21Speaker 1: exhibit had not been set up correctly, so he and
- 2:25Speaker 1: his staff had spent the last few hours rushing around
- 2:28Speaker 1: to fix everything and add some finishing touches to the exterior.
- 2:31Speaker 1: And Maurice knew they really needed to hurry here, because
- 2:34Speaker 1: making these changes had already taken up way too much time,
- 2:37Speaker 1: and they were already late in opening the exhibit. Maurice
- 2:41Speaker 1: could see that there were guests who had already purchased
- 2:43Speaker 1: tickets who were lining up at the entrance to get
- 2:46Speaker 1: into dream Space, and they looked confused and sort of
- 2:49Speaker 1: annoyed about why they weren't inside already, and so naturally,
- 2:53Speaker 1: Maurice was afraid that if he didn't wrap this up
- 2:55Speaker 1: soon and start letting people in, these people would just
- 2:58Speaker 1: start leaving. Meant they would not get to see how
- 3:01Speaker 1: amazing his masterpiece was, and that would be just devastating.
- 3:05Speaker 1: So at this point Maurice just stepped back and he
- 3:08Speaker 1: looked at what he and his staff had done so
- 3:10Speaker 1: far in terms of fixes, and he decided that, you know,
- 3:13Speaker 1: things were looking good enough. They'd addressed the major issues
- 3:17Speaker 1: that he had had, and even though Maurice was ultimately
- 3:20Speaker 1: a perfectionist and would have liked to do even more additions,
- 3:24Speaker 1: just getting dream Space open at this point was way
- 3:27Speaker 1: more important. So Maurice told his staff to stop what
- 3:30Speaker 1: they were doing and go to the entrance and start
- 3:33Speaker 1: letting the visitors in a few hours later, around three
- 3:36Speaker 1: fifteen pm, sixty eight year old Elizabeth Collings walked into
- 3:40Speaker 1: Riverside Park with her fourteen year old grandson. They lived
- 3:43Speaker 1: in the area and they had just decided to take
- 3:45Speaker 1: a walk together in the park, and Elizabeth was glad
- 3:48Speaker 1: they had. It was like the perfect summer day. There
- 3:51Speaker 1: was a light breeze, it was very sunny and warm,
- 3:54Speaker 1: and so with the wind rustling her hair and her
- 3:56Speaker 1: grandson happily walking beside her, she felt very at peace.
- 4:00Speaker 1: But just then her grandson stopped and sort of broke
- 4:03Speaker 1: her piece by telling her to, hey, look at this,
- 4:06Speaker 1: And Elizabeth turned and looked, you know, where her grandson
- 4:08Speaker 1: was pointing, and she saw on the other side of
- 4:11Speaker 1: the park there was this sprawling, colorful structure with a
- 4:16Speaker 1: huge line of people out front and soothing music coming
- 4:19Speaker 1: from its open doors. And Elizabeth thought, you know, whatever
- 4:21Speaker 1: that is, it looked really intriguing and not like anything
- 4:25Speaker 1: she had ever seen before. So she was just excited
- 4:28Speaker 1: as her grandson to go check it out, and so
- 4:30Speaker 1: she said, let's go. Just a few minutes later, and
- 4:33Speaker 1: Elizabeth and her grandson had purchased their tickets and actually
- 4:36Speaker 1: stepped inside the exhibit, and Elizabeth knew instantly that this
- 4:41Speaker 1: had been a great idea. The lights were dim inside,
- 4:44Speaker 1: and the colorful walls seemed almost glow as they went
- 4:48Speaker 1: from room to room, and all around them the dreamy,
- 4:51Speaker 1: tranquil music played, and even though it was fairly crowded
- 4:55Speaker 1: and pretty hot inside, it still felt quite peaceful, and
- 4:59Speaker 1: Elizabeth could feel her entire body just sort of relax,
- 5:03Speaker 1: and for the next ten minutes or so, she and
- 5:04Speaker 1: her grandson just wandered around slowly, taking in the atmosphere
- 5:08Speaker 1: and the lights and the music. It was really nice.
- 5:10Speaker 1: At some point they made their way into this room
- 5:13Speaker 1: which had this beautiful blue hue to it. Then there
- 5:16Speaker 1: was some light coming in from the room next to them,
- 5:17Speaker 1: which was sort of brownish, and when the color of
- 5:20Speaker 1: the room they were in and this brownish light combined,
- 5:23Speaker 1: it sort of had this effect of making the room
- 5:25Speaker 1: feel almost green. And then mixed with the music, it
- 5:28Speaker 1: was just this really cool experience, and both Elizabeth and
- 5:31Speaker 1: her grandson were just sort of transfixed, sort of taking
- 5:34Speaker 1: in this really cool exhibit. But as they were taking
- 5:37Speaker 1: this in, all of a sudden, there was this deafening
- 5:41Speaker 1: snapping sound and the moment that snapping sound happened, Elizabeth
- 5:45Speaker 1: suddenly felt dizzy and disoriented, and as she stared at
- 5:49Speaker 1: all the colors around her, the room seemed to almost tilt,
- 5:52Speaker 1: and she found herself stumbling a few steps, like the
- 5:55Speaker 1: room was moving and she was losing her balance. And
- 5:58Speaker 1: at first she wondered if maybe the lights and the
- 6:01Speaker 1: heat were just getting to her, except then she couldn't
- 6:04Speaker 1: help but have this almost floating sensation, like the room
- 6:07Speaker 1: itself was moving away from her, And then she realized
- 6:12Speaker 1: her feet were no longer touching the floor. Have you
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- 7:37Speaker 1: Get your tickets and enter the sweepstakes today. I can't
- 7:40Speaker 1: wait to see you at the show. The creator of Dreamspace, Maurice,
- 7:47Speaker 1: had been outside with the guests who were in line
- 7:50Speaker 1: waiting to get into the exhibit, and so far the
- 7:53Speaker 1: day really had been going great. I mean, he had
- 7:55Speaker 1: done all those last minute changes and fixes to the
- 7:57Speaker 1: exhibit and he had sort of got it done just
- 8:00Speaker 1: in time to open it up. And now all these
- 8:02Speaker 1: people are here and there's at least forty some odd
- 8:05Speaker 1: people in line, with more and more joining and everybody
- 8:07Speaker 1: who comes out of the exhibit is you know, beaming
- 8:10Speaker 1: and talking about what an incredible experience it was. I mean,
- 8:13Speaker 1: the day had been going great for Maurice until he
- 8:18Speaker 1: heard that snapping sound. When that loud snap rang out,
- 8:22Speaker 1: everybody heard it, and then Maurice, who was looking away
- 8:25Speaker 1: from dream Space, he began hearing screams behind him, and
- 8:30Speaker 1: then before he could say or do anything, he just
- 8:32Speaker 1: sort of whipped around and looked, and all he saw
- 8:34Speaker 1: were these shapes just falling from the sky and smashing
- 8:38Speaker 1: into the ground. And at first Maurice and everybody else
- 8:41Speaker 1: around him didn't even know what they were. Then suddenly
- 8:44Speaker 1: Maurice realized those shapes were people. So earlier in the day,
- 8:50Speaker 1: when Maurice and his staff were sort of hustling to
- 8:53Speaker 1: get all those last minute fixes done on this exhibit
- 8:56Speaker 1: so they could open it to the public. Well, Maurice,
- 8:59Speaker 1: who knew that this was going to be his last
- 9:01Speaker 1: big art exhibit, this was like the end of his career.
- 9:03Speaker 1: It was supposed to be the exclamation point on a
- 9:06Speaker 1: storied career. Here he was so worried that if he
- 9:09Speaker 1: didn't get the doors open fast enough that people in
- 9:12Speaker 1: line were going to leave and not even show up,
- 9:14Speaker 1: and it would be this catastrophic failure that he ultimately
- 9:18Speaker 1: basically stopped his staff from finishing all the renovations, all
- 9:22Speaker 1: the fixes he needed to do, in favor of just
- 9:25Speaker 1: getting people in the door. And the way he sort
- 9:27Speaker 1: of rationalized it was, well, you know, I'm a perfectionist,
- 9:30Speaker 1: and I would have liked to have done all the fixes,
- 9:33Speaker 1: but I did enough. Like, you know, it's good enough.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Let's get this place open. Let's send people in. The
- 9:38Speaker 1: problem with that is some of the things that he
- 9:40Speaker 1: overlooked in his haste to open up the front doors
- 9:43Speaker 1: for the public included vital safety precautions. Some of these
- 9:49Speaker 1: missed safety precautions included tying down a series of extra
- 9:54Speaker 1: ropes to anchor the exhibit to the ground. The staff
- 9:57Speaker 1: had ultimately tied down the front of structure, but you know,
- 10:01Speaker 1: because Maurice rushed them to get the place open, they
- 10:05Speaker 1: didn't anchor the back of the exhibit, and this would
- 10:08Speaker 1: turn out to be just a catastrophic oversight. Dream Space
- 10:13Speaker 1: was not a regular permanent art exhibit. It was not
- 10:17Speaker 1: made of walls and concrete with a real foundation. It
- 10:21Speaker 1: was an inflatable exhibit made of plastic sheeting, sort of
- 10:25Speaker 1: like what shower curtains are made of. So even though
- 10:28Speaker 1: there was just a light breeze going through the park
- 10:30Speaker 1: that day, it was enough to sort of suddenly lift
- 10:34Speaker 1: the entire dream Space structure out of the ground because
- 10:38Speaker 1: again there was just a couple of anchors, not a
- 10:40Speaker 1: full set of anchors, and so suddenly the wind yanks
- 10:43Speaker 1: the space out of the ground. That was the snapping sound.
- 10:47Speaker 1: And so basically this this big structure turned into like
- 10:49Speaker 1: a giant hot air balloon and everybody inside of it,
- 10:53Speaker 1: the dozens of people, including Elizabeth and her grandson, were
- 10:57Speaker 1: thrown thirty feet into the air, and they're all trapped
- 11:00Speaker 1: inside of this plastic key structure that's contorting in the
- 11:03Speaker 1: wind up at thirty feet and as the wind picked up,
- 11:07Speaker 1: the higher up they went, the dream Space structure as
- 11:09Speaker 1: it contorted, began ejecting all of the people inside of
- 11:13Speaker 1: it out. And so that's why when Maurice looked, he
- 11:16Speaker 1: saw all these people falling to the ground. In the end,
- 11:20Speaker 1: twenty seven people were injured and two were killed, including
- 11:24Speaker 1: Elizabeth Collings. As for Maurice, aegis the creator of dream space.
- 11:29Speaker 1: He was convicted of a health and safety violation and
- 11:32Speaker 1: given a fine, but despite that being a relatively light
- 11:36Speaker 1: punishment relative to what happened, he was so devastated by
- 11:40Speaker 1: the destruction that his creation caused that he never made
- 11:44Speaker 1: anything like it again. This was the last piece of
- 11:47Speaker 1: art he ever did, and in fact, he died just
- 11:50Speaker 1: three years later in two thousand and nine. At five
- 12:07Speaker 1: am on December twenty fourth, eighteen eighty five, thirty year
- 12:11Speaker 1: old Samuel Wardell abruptly sat up in his bed in
- 12:14Speaker 1: New York City, having just been woken up by the
- 12:16Speaker 1: sound of his deafening alarm clock. And just like every
- 12:20Speaker 1: other morning, Samuel immediately got up out of his bed
- 12:24Speaker 1: and he trudged across the floor of his one bedroom
- 12:26Speaker 1: apartment to the shelf where his alarm clock was, and
- 12:30Speaker 1: he reset it. Now, the placing of this alarm clock
- 12:32Speaker 1: was very intentional. Samuel was a very very heavy sleeper,
- 12:38Speaker 1: and so by putting the clock all the way over there,
- 12:40Speaker 1: it forced him to get out of bed walk all
- 12:42Speaker 1: the way across the room to reset it, and then
- 12:45Speaker 1: ideally he just wouldn't go back to bed, and for
- 12:47Speaker 1: the most part he wouldn't Now it can't be overstated
- 12:51Speaker 1: just how heavy a sleeper Samuel actually was. In fact,
- 12:55Speaker 1: he'd actually taken another step to make sure that he
- 12:58Speaker 1: really could not sleep through his alarm. He'd made some
- 13:01Speaker 1: additional alterations to the alarm clock that made it way louder. Now,
- 13:06Speaker 1: this did seem sort of like overkill to most people
- 13:09Speaker 1: who knew about it, but it was hard to argue
- 13:12Speaker 1: with the results. Samuel had not been late to work
- 13:15Speaker 1: in years, and that was really important because Samuel had
- 13:19Speaker 1: a very early morning job that he didn't want to lose.
- 13:23Speaker 1: He was a city lamplighter. In eighteen eighty five, large
- 13:27Speaker 1: parts of New York City still relied on gas burning
- 13:29Speaker 1: street lights when it got dark outside. So the way
- 13:32Speaker 1: it worked is there was a night shift lamplighter, not Samuel.
- 13:36Speaker 1: There's somebody else who would go around the city and
- 13:39Speaker 1: light those lights at dusk, and then in the early
- 13:42Speaker 1: morning hours, the morning lamplighter Samuel would go put them
- 13:47Speaker 1: out again. And so that's why he had to get
- 13:49Speaker 1: up early to go put out the lamps. And even
- 13:52Speaker 1: though Samuel really didn't like getting up this early, the
- 13:56Speaker 1: reality was is he did need the job, and also too,
- 13:59Speaker 1: he had sort of grown fond of the job. He
- 14:02Speaker 1: had a lot of fun doing it. Over the years,
- 14:04Speaker 1: he'd become very friendly with basically everybody on his local route,
- 14:07Speaker 1: and so he didn't mind it. You know, getting up
- 14:10Speaker 1: was painful, but it was worth it. Samuel actually had
- 14:12Speaker 1: become so close with the people on his route that
- 14:16Speaker 1: that night he was going to be throwing this big
- 14:18Speaker 1: Christmas party for all these people. It was like all
- 14:20Speaker 1: his friends from his job were going to come over
- 14:22Speaker 1: and celebrate with him, and he was really excited about it.
- 14:25Speaker 1: But that was not going to be until much later
- 14:27Speaker 1: that night. You know. For now, he just needed to
- 14:30Speaker 1: reset his alarm clock, get dressed, and go out and
- 14:33Speaker 1: put out those lamps. Fast forward to the end of
- 14:43Speaker 1: the night and Samuel now is he's done with his work.
- 14:46Speaker 1: He's back home. All his friends are over, and he's
- 14:48Speaker 1: pouring some ale from this big barrel that his friends
- 14:51Speaker 1: had brought over for this party, and he's just having
- 14:53Speaker 1: a great time. The single room of his tiny apartment
- 14:57Speaker 1: was now packed with about thirty people and they two,
- 15:00Speaker 1: We're all having just a great time. They didn't care
- 15:02Speaker 1: how small it was. This was just like an awesome party.
- 15:05Speaker 1: Now by this point, Samuel and his friends had already
- 15:08Speaker 1: spent the last few hours drinking, and so they were
- 15:11Speaker 1: quite drunk, but they were having a great time, laughing
- 15:14Speaker 1: and eating and everyone's just having so much fun. And
- 15:16Speaker 1: so even though it was definitely getting late and Samuel
- 15:20Speaker 1: did have to work the next day, it just felt
- 15:22Speaker 1: like the party was not about to end anytime soon,
- 15:25Speaker 1: and Samuel was not quite ready to turn it off yet.
- 15:28Speaker 1: He was having too good of a time, and so
- 15:30Speaker 1: when one of his friends randomly stood up and sort
- 15:33Speaker 1: of drunkenly suggested they have an amateur boxing match, Samuel
- 15:38Speaker 1: immediately voiced his approval along with everybody else. They cheered.
- 15:42Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, let's do it. And so Samuel and
- 15:45Speaker 1: the other party guests they cleared the furniture out from
- 15:48Speaker 1: you know, this single room, you know, to set up
- 15:50Speaker 1: the boxing ring, and then Samuel and the others all
- 15:52Speaker 1: stood back and cheered while two of their friends began,
- 15:56Speaker 1: you know, fighting each other in the middle of the apartment.
- 15:58Speaker 1: It was like this totally crazy booze fuel just madness
- 16:02Speaker 1: happening inside of this place, and Samuel was having the
- 16:05Speaker 1: time of his life, not thinking remotely about how absolutely
- 16:09Speaker 1: miserable it was going to be waking up and now
- 16:12Speaker 1: just a few hours when his alarm went off at
- 16:14Speaker 1: five am, he was just doing his best not to
- 16:17Speaker 1: think about it, you know, enjoy the party, that's it.
- 16:19Speaker 1: And so for a while the madness continued until eventually
- 16:23Speaker 1: people did get really tired and began leaving, and before
- 16:26Speaker 1: long it was just Samuel standing in his now totally
- 16:29Speaker 1: destroyed apartment from this party. And so at this point
- 16:32Speaker 1: Samuel he looked at his clock and he saw he had,
- 16:35Speaker 1: you know, barely two hours before he would have to
- 16:37Speaker 1: get up for work. And he's thinking, oh my gosh,
- 16:39Speaker 1: this is going to be so awful. I'm going to
- 16:41Speaker 1: feel so miserable. But it was totally worth it. What
- 16:45Speaker 1: a great party, and so very drunkenly, Samuel kind of
- 16:48Speaker 1: stumbled his way over to his bed. He just fell
- 16:50Speaker 1: right down on top of it and he fell asleep,
- 16:53Speaker 1: and sure enough, you know, just about two hours later,
- 16:56Speaker 1: at five am sharp, his alarm went off. Hours later,
- 17:00Speaker 1: on Christmas afternoon, a local police officer walked up to
- 17:04Speaker 1: Samuel Wardell's front door and knocked. The officer was there
- 17:07Speaker 1: because Samuel's boss had called the station when Samuel had
- 17:11Speaker 1: failed to show up for work that morning, and this
- 17:13Speaker 1: was so out of character for Samuel that right away
- 17:17Speaker 1: his boss contacted the police and said, please, someone needs
- 17:20Speaker 1: to go check on him and make sure he's okay.
- 17:22Speaker 1: And so now the officer waited at the door for Samuel,
- 17:25Speaker 1: but when no one answered, he tried the door handle
- 17:28Speaker 1: and he found it was locked. But this was a
- 17:31Speaker 1: very rickety tiny home, and the officer could tell it
- 17:34Speaker 1: would not take much to basically kick the door in,
- 17:37Speaker 1: and so after calling out for Samuel a few more
- 17:39Speaker 1: times and knocking, you know, pretty loud, and still not
- 17:42Speaker 1: getting a response, the officer just stepped back and then
- 17:45Speaker 1: kicked the door and blasted it open. And so the
- 17:48Speaker 1: officer stepped inside the home and immediately saw Samuel, and
- 17:54Speaker 1: when he did, he understood why he had missed work.
- 17:57Speaker 1: It would turn out when Samuel went to bed after
- 18:00Speaker 1: big party, he forgot to move his bed back into
- 18:03Speaker 1: the position that it normally was in. You know, he
- 18:05Speaker 1: had moved the furniture around for that boxing match and
- 18:07Speaker 1: just didn't put it back, and so instead he wound
- 18:11Speaker 1: up going to sleep with his bed all the way
- 18:14Speaker 1: across the room under the shelf where he kept his
- 18:17Speaker 1: alarm clock. And this was like the worst place for
- 18:20Speaker 1: Samuel to fall asleep, because you know, he had set
- 18:23Speaker 1: his alarm to go off at five am the following morning,
- 18:26Speaker 1: just like he did every day, but his alarm clock
- 18:30Speaker 1: was not a normal alarm clock. Samuel had intentionally altered
- 18:35Speaker 1: his alarm clock to be way louder than a standard
- 18:39Speaker 1: alarm clock. But the way he had done that was
- 18:42Speaker 1: fairly unique. He had run a wire between a normal
- 18:46Speaker 1: alarm clock and this shelf that had hinges. Basically, the
- 18:49Speaker 1: shelf could you know, be situated like this or it
- 18:51Speaker 1: could fold down, basically making it flush to the wall
- 18:54Speaker 1: so it could hold stuff or be flushed to the wall.
- 18:56Speaker 1: And so when his normal wind up alarm clock would
- 18:59Speaker 1: go off in the morning and begin to ring, it
- 19:01Speaker 1: would begin to vibrate and would sort of move across
- 19:04Speaker 1: the shelf, and connected to it was this wire that
- 19:07Speaker 1: ran to the hinges, and at a certain point, when
- 19:09Speaker 1: this alarm sort of got far enough, it would pull
- 19:12Speaker 1: enough to disable the hinges, and the shelf that was
- 19:15Speaker 1: situated like this would suddenly fall. And in order to
- 19:18Speaker 1: make this alarm really really loud, Samuel had put a
- 19:23Speaker 1: ten pound rock on that shelf, so the instant the
- 19:27Speaker 1: hinges dropped, that ten pound rock came crashing down and
- 19:31Speaker 1: smashed into the floor, causing a huge noise that consistently
- 19:35Speaker 1: woke Samuel up. But on the morning after his big party,
- 19:39Speaker 1: because Samuel was sleeping now directly under the shelf because
- 19:42Speaker 1: he didn't move his bed back, that ten pound rock
- 19:46Speaker 1: didn't hit the ground. It fell and smashed directly into
- 19:50Speaker 1: Samuel's head and broke his skull. After being discovered by
- 19:53Speaker 1: that police officer, Samuel was rushed to a local hospital
- 19:57Speaker 1: but later died from his injuries. Hey everyone, just a reminder,
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