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Top 3 UNIDENTIFIED life forms living in abandoned buildings · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: get into today's stories. In twenty seventeen, an electrician named
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Speaker 1: Pete had become accustomed to doing work in basements and
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Speaker 1: sub basements of older buildings in Baltimore, Maryland. He discovered
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Speaker 1: that many times when he worked in a stretch of
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Speaker 1: older buildings right next to each other, that in the
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Speaker 1: base or sub basement there would be a stretch of
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Speaker 1: tunnel that connected each building to each other, kind of
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Speaker 1: like a common door in a hotel room. One day,
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Speaker 1: Pete was asked to install some new lights in the
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Speaker 1: sub basements of three very old buildings that were all
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Speaker 1: right next to each other. Apparently someone had purchased the
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Speaker 1: entire building complex after they had sat there abandoned for
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Speaker 1: some time. When Pete arrived, his foreman, whose name was Mike,
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Speaker 1: was waiting for him outside the farthest east building, and
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Speaker 1: so Pete got out, walked up to the building, and
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Speaker 1: Mike led him down to the basement and then down
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Speaker 1: another flight of stairs into the sub basement. The first
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Speaker 1: thing Pete did was pull his flashlight out and look
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Speaker 1: around and see if there was a tunnel connecting to
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Speaker 1: the adjoining buildings, because if there was, it would make
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Speaker 1: his life a lot easier. And sure enough, he shined
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Speaker 1: his light to the west and there was a tunnel,
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Speaker 1: and so he knew he wouldn't need to lug his
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Speaker 1: gear up and over after he was done with each building.
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Speaker 1: After that, Pete and Mike set up floodlights inside of
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Speaker 1: that first sub basement they were going to be working in,
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Speaker 1: and then they put their gear on and they got
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Speaker 1: to work. After a few hours of Pete being really
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Speaker 1: focused on what he was working on, he looked up
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Speaker 1: and realized Mike was gone, and he assumed he must
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Speaker 1: have gone upstairs for a lunch break, and Pete, who
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Speaker 1: had had a really big breakfast, wasn't that hungry, but
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Speaker 1: wanted to take a break, so he decided instead of eating,
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Speaker 1: he would just go explore the other sub basements. So
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Speaker 1: Pete walked over to that first tunnel that went into
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Speaker 1: the second building. He walked through it. It wasn't very far,
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Speaker 1: maybe five or six feet to get into the next building.
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Speaker 1: Once he got into that second building, it was totally
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Speaker 1: dark because neither he nor Mike had actually gotten in
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Speaker 1: there yet, And so Pete pulled his flashlight out and
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Speaker 1: he scanned around the room, and he saw directly on
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Speaker 1: the other side, still going west across the building complex,
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Speaker 1: was yet another tunnel connected to the third and final building,
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Speaker 1: And so Pete walked through the second sub basement, shining
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Speaker 1: around looking for anything interesting. There was nothing down there.
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Speaker 1: He got to that tunnel, he walked through and he
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Speaker 1: entered into the third and final room of the entire
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Speaker 1: building complex, and so he lifted his flashlight up and
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Speaker 1: he scanned around the room, and he was shocked when
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Speaker 1: on the other side, still going west, as if there
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Speaker 1: was a fourth building, there was another tunnel. Pete kept
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Speaker 1: his flashlight trained on this tunnel, and he's thinking, to himself,
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Speaker 1: did I get one thing wrong here? Is there really
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Speaker 1: four buildings? Because I'm almost positive there was three. There
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be a tunnel over there because there's no more buildings,
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Speaker 1: and so he's really intrigued, and so he keeps his
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Speaker 1: flashlight up and he starts walking across the room towards
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Speaker 1: this tunnel, and he gets about halfway across this sub
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Speaker 1: basement when he hears someone's voice come out of this
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Speaker 1: mysterious tunnel, and it sounds an awful lot like Mike's.
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Speaker 1: And Pete would say that his initial reaction to this was, oh,
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Speaker 1: I guess Mike must have had his lunch break and
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Speaker 1: then come back down here and started doing the same
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Speaker 1: thing I'm doing, exploring the other sub basements. And so
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Speaker 1: he's already checked out this tunnel, and he wants to
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Speaker 1: show me what's down there. So Pete walks over to
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Speaker 1: this tunnel and he shines his light inside, and right
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Speaker 1: away he can tell it's different than the other two
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Speaker 1: tunnels he's walked through, because those went straight across and
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Speaker 1: this tunnel he's looking at, goes down and kind of
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Speaker 1: bends off to the right, and so totally unconcerned because
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Speaker 1: he believes Mike is down there already, he starts walking
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Speaker 1: down this winding tunnel. After walking for a couple of minutes,
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Speaker 1: just straight down into this tunnel, he finally walks into
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Speaker 1: this huge room with foot high ceilings, and he lifts
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Speaker 1: his flashlight up and he looks around and there's no
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Speaker 1: mic and he yells out for him. He doesn't hear him,
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Speaker 1: but he noticed in the middle of the room where
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Speaker 1: all these small animal skeletons that had been arranged in
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Speaker 1: a big triangle on the ground. And as he scanned
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Speaker 1: across the ground with his light, he came to the
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Speaker 1: right side of the room at one of the points
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Speaker 1: of the triangle, and at the top of that point
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Speaker 1: was this large doglike skeleton lying on the ground. It
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Speaker 1: looked as if the triangle was more like an arrow,
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Speaker 1: and it was pointed at this one large dog. Pete
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Speaker 1: went back to looking around the room and he saw
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Speaker 1: right across from him was another tunnel entrance into more
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Speaker 1: unexplored passageway, and for a second he thought about just
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Speaker 1: turning around and leaving because this whole thing was starting
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Speaker 1: to give him the creeds. But then he heard what
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Speaker 1: sounded like Mike's voice again, calling from that unexplored tunnel,
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Speaker 1: and so he decided, Okay, I'll walk a little bit
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Speaker 1: farther to see what Mike wants. And so Pete carefully
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Speaker 1: walked across this room, being careful not to step on
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Speaker 1: any of the bones, and right before he walked into
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Speaker 1: this new tunnel, he pulled his phone out in case
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Speaker 1: he might have service. He could just call Mike and
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Speaker 1: see what he wanted, but he had no service on
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Speaker 1: his phone. So we entered the new tunnel. Unlike the
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Speaker 1: other tunnel that went down the whole time, this new
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Speaker 1: tunnel was totally flat, but it was a little bit
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Speaker 1: more narrow, and so as he's walking, it's kind of
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Speaker 1: zigging and zagging, and it's just getting a little bit
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Speaker 1: tight on his shoulders as he's moving. And after a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes of walking and yelling out for Mike
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Speaker 1: and not hearing from him, he just stops and he
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Speaker 1: just thinks, is this a good idea? Should I keep
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Speaker 1: walking down this strange tunnel or should I just go
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Speaker 1: back and meet Mike back up in the sub basement,
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Speaker 1: and as he's standing there, facing away from the direction
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Speaker 1: he just came, he thinks he hears something behind him.
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Speaker 1: So Pete turns around and shines his leg and there's
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Speaker 1: no one there. He yells out for Mike, and Mike
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Speaker 1: doesn't yell back, and then Pete hears the faint clicking
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Speaker 1: sound of something moving on all fours in the chamber
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Speaker 1: he had just come from. And he's thinking to himself,
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Speaker 1: what could have gotten down here? There's only one way in,
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Speaker 1: and I've taken the other tunnel. Did I miss some
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Speaker 1: dog that was staying in the middle there? I think
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Speaker 1: I would have seen an animal that was moving around.
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Speaker 1: And so as he's thinking about this, he realizes the
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Speaker 1: clicking sounds have stopped. It's gone completely silent, and so
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Speaker 1: he stops and he's just intently listening, and then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, whatever it is out there, starts running
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Speaker 1: at full speed down the tunnel towards Pete, and so
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Speaker 1: Pete immediately turns around and starts sprinting down this unexplored tunnel.
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Speaker 1: All the years behind him is this animal at full sprint,
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Speaker 1: grunting and bouncing into walls as it gains on him.
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Speaker 1: And finally, after what felt like an eternity but was
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Speaker 1: probably only a few seconds, Pete gets to the end
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Speaker 1: of this tunnel and he sees it's a small flight
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Speaker 1: of stairs to a large metal door. He runs up
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Speaker 1: and he grabs the door and he tries to open it,
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Speaker 1: and it opens. He runs outside, pulls it shut. Here's
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Speaker 1: a click, and then he sinks down with his back
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Speaker 1: against the door, pressing up against it to insure it
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Speaker 1: stays shut. And as Pete is sitting there, he hears
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Speaker 1: this thing come barreling into the room where this door is,
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Speaker 1: and it rams into the door, and he feels it
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Speaker 1: shake the door forward, but the door holds. And then
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Speaker 1: whatever it was just lost interest, turned around and left.
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Speaker 1: Even though this animal appeared to be gone and the
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Speaker 1: door appeared to hold, Pete stayed sitting with his back
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Speaker 1: up against the door for a couple of minutes while
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Speaker 1: he came posed himself. He really didn't know what to
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Speaker 1: make of what just happened, because he's thinking to himself,
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Speaker 1: that animal had to have been huge. It just nearly
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Speaker 1: barreled this door down. I felt the whole door shake.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if that's a dog, that is a huge dog.
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Speaker 1: And also, where's Mike. Mike's the whole reason I went
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Speaker 1: into this tunnel in the first place. He was calling
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Speaker 1: to me, or so I thought he was, and I
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Speaker 1: never saw him. And so Pete's totally confused, and he's traumatized,
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Speaker 1: and he's looking around, and he's finally taking stock of
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Speaker 1: where he is, and he realizes he's under one of
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Speaker 1: the docks of what would turn out to be the
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Speaker 1: Four Seasons Hotel, which meant he was at least about
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Speaker 1: a half mile away from where he had started in
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Speaker 1: the sub basement of those buildings. Pete stood up and
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Speaker 1: made his way up to the sidewalk, where he called Mike,
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Speaker 1: and Mike was very confused to what Pete was telling him,
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Speaker 1: because he said, I never went into that tunnel. I
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Speaker 1: never went into the other sub basements. At my lunch break,
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Speaker 1: I just went upstairs and got a bite to eat,
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Speaker 1: and when I came down, you were gone. And so
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Speaker 1: Pete started talking about the animal he saw, and as
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Speaker 1: he was describing it, he's thinking to himself how crazy
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Speaker 1: he must sound, and he began to realize that it
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Speaker 1: just it had to be, you know, a stray dog
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Speaker 1: got in there, and he just must not have seen it,
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Speaker 1: and that was it. And so after they hang up,
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Speaker 1: Pete is left thinking to himself, you know, if that
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Speaker 1: was a stray dog, then what were those bones arranged
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Speaker 1: in that triangle for? And why did they seem to
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Speaker 1: be an arrow pointing at that other bigger dog? And
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Speaker 1: also who was yelling to me inside of the tunnel
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Speaker 1: if it wasn't Mike. But when Pete and Mike got
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Speaker 1: back to those old buildings, they did not do any
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Speaker 1: more exploration. It was like they were just not going
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Speaker 1: to talk about what happened. Instead, they put a fold
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Speaker 1: up table in front of that tunnel that led down
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Speaker 1: to the room filled with bones and whatever animal was
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Speaker 1: down there, and they rushed the job and all the
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Speaker 1: sub basements, caught all the lights up as fast as
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Speaker 1: they could. The last thing they did was they moved
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Speaker 1: the table back out of the way and then ran
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Speaker 1: up out of the building and never looked back. There
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Speaker 1: is a large abandoned factory on the outskirts of Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: Ohio that used to be a prominent rubber company, But
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Speaker 1: in the late nineteen seventies when they closed down business,
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Speaker 1: nobody else leased the factory space, and so for decades,
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Speaker 1: it remained untouched. In the nineteen eighties, a boy named
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Speaker 1: Kurt was born in Cleveland, and from a young age,
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Speaker 1: he was fascinated by this abandoned factory. He really wanted
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Speaker 1: to see what was inside, but his dad would never
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Speaker 1: take him, saying it was way too dangerous to go
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Speaker 1: in there. And so over the years, Kurt still wanted
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Speaker 1: to see what was inside, but his fascination with it
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Speaker 1: kind of waned because he was never allowed to go.
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Speaker 1: Then in the late nineteen nineties, when Kurt was in
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Speaker 1: high school, he happened to be walking by the factory
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Speaker 1: after leaving a friend's house, and he stopped and he
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Speaker 1: looked at his watch, and it was eight pm. He
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Speaker 1: didn't have to be home for about an hour and
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Speaker 1: a half, and he looked up at the crumbling brick
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Speaker 1: building and he thought to himself, you know what, it's
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Speaker 1: now or never. I have to see what's inside of there.
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Speaker 1: And so he walks right up to the factory. There's
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Speaker 1: no fences around it to stop him, and he gets
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Speaker 1: up there and he sees that all the doors are
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Speaker 1: sealed shot. So he's a little bit disheartened, and he
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Speaker 1: starts walking around the property and when he gets to
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Speaker 1: the backside, he sees on one of the corners of
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Speaker 1: the building the concrete has just fallen off, exposing a
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Speaker 1: fairly large hole in the side of the building that
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Speaker 1: he could just walk right through, slipped through. And he
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Speaker 1: looked inside this building that he's been thinking about for
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Speaker 1: years and years and years, and he would say it
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Speaker 1: was just so cool. There were all these boats that
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Speaker 1: had just been left in storage inside of this factory
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Speaker 1: and then were apparently forgotten about. There were all these
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Speaker 1: conveyor belts and big pieces of factory equipment that had
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Speaker 1: just been kind of left out on the floor and
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Speaker 1: no one thought to break them down or even try
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Speaker 1: to sell them. And then, like any other good abandoned building,
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Speaker 1: there was lots of drug paraphernalia scattered all over the ground.
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Speaker 1: And so for the next hour, Kurt just explored the
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Speaker 1: first floor and made his way up to the second
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Speaker 1: floor where the manager's office was, and all in all,
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Speaker 1: it was just a really awesome experience, many years in
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Speaker 1: the making. And at some point he looked at his
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Speaker 1: watch and it was getting late and he realized he
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Speaker 1: needed to leave. And so as he was getting ready
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Speaker 1: to leave, he could have sworn he heard the sound
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Speaker 1: of music being played from somewhere in the factory. So
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Speaker 1: he stopped, and he turned around and he just listened
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Speaker 1: for a second to see if he really was hearing music,
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Speaker 1: and he was. It was someone playing the blues somewhere
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Speaker 1: in the factory. Because Kurt had obsessed over this factory
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Speaker 1: for so many years wondering what was inside, now that
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Speaker 1: there was some mystery about what was in here, he
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Speaker 1: couldn't just leave. He had to go look and see
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Speaker 1: where that music was coming from. And so Kurt began
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Speaker 1: walking across the factory floor in the direction where he
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Speaker 1: thought this music was coming from, and he reached a
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Speaker 1: wall that was covered by a big blue tarp, and
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Speaker 1: that's where it seemed to be coming from, like it
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Speaker 1: was coming from the other side of the wall. And
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Speaker 1: so he went up to put his ear against this wall,
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Speaker 1: and when he did, he almost fell into the tarp,
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Speaker 1: because behind the tarp was actually a stairwell that led
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Speaker 1: down into the basement. And so again, because Kurt was
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Speaker 1: so fascinated by this place, he had to see what
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Speaker 1: was down there. And so he grabs the tarp and
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Speaker 1: he pulls it aside, and he starts looking downstairs, and
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Speaker 1: he can tell there's a light on down there, and
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Speaker 1: so he's telling himself, Okay, it's possible someone could be
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Speaker 1: down there, but again, he's gonna go down. He's going
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Speaker 1: to have a look. He pulls the tarp completely aside,
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Speaker 1: he steps into the stairwell and he begins walking down,
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Speaker 1: and from his perspective, he would not be able to
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Speaker 1: see any of the basement until he got all the
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Speaker 1: way to the bottom. There was no gaps in the railing.
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Speaker 1: It was basically solid wall all the way down. And
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Speaker 1: when he got to the bottom, he could only turn left.
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Speaker 1: Turning right was just a dead end. Left was towards
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Speaker 1: the main section of the basement. And so he goes
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Speaker 1: all the way down the steps as heart as racing
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Speaker 1: because he's half expecting to see someone come running up
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Speaker 1: to him. And right before he breaks the corner, when
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Speaker 1: he actually see into the basement, he takes a deep
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Speaker 1: breath and then very slowly he kind of pokes his
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Speaker 1: head around the corner and gets a look inside the basement.
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Speaker 1: It's a very odd scene in there, but there doesn't
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Speaker 1: appear to be any people. And so Kurt took the
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Speaker 1: last couple of steps down to the bottom. He turned
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Speaker 1: the corner and actually got a full look at the basement,
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Speaker 1: and sitting in the middle of the room is a
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Speaker 1: cassette player with the play button pressed down that's playing
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Speaker 1: the music. So he's found the origin of the music.
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Speaker 1: And then he starts looking around and realizes on all
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Speaker 1: of the walls are pieces of paper, hundreds of them
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Speaker 1: that have all been plastered to the walls, that all
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Speaker 1: say the exact same three words, she got our run.
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Speaker 1: They're everywhere. Then he looks in the back corner and
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Speaker 1: he sees there is this large wooden animal sculpture, although
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Speaker 1: he can't tell what kind of animal it is, but
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Speaker 1: clearly someone has been hacking at it with a hammer
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Speaker 1: or a saw or maybe both, and it's been burned.
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Speaker 1: It looks like someone's been taking a lot of frustration
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Speaker 1: out on it. And then in the other corner, away
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Speaker 1: from this animal sculpture, was this chair that appeared to
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Speaker 1: have been removed from a school desk, and it was
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Speaker 1: angled towards the corner of the room. And then behind
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Speaker 1: it on the ground was this massive stack of VHS tapes,
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Speaker 1: and each of them had a woman's name on it,
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Speaker 1: and Kurt from a distance could only make out one name,
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Speaker 1: which was Jessica, but he could clearly see there was
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Speaker 1: a bunch of other tapes with different names on them.
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Speaker 1: Kurt suddenly was not feeling brave anymore and wanted to
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Speaker 1: get out of there immediately because at this point he's
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Speaker 1: pretty certain that whoever's down here is not a good person.
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Speaker 1: They got some bad stuff going on down here, and
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Speaker 1: so he turns around and he starts walking up the stairs.
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Speaker 1: He makes his way across the factory floor, and he
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Speaker 1: finally gets to the crack in the cement and he
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Speaker 1: makes his way out, and he's out to safety again.
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Speaker 1: Even though Kurt was really excited about having finally explored
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Speaker 1: the factory, on his walk home, it dawned on him
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Speaker 1: that while he was there, someone had to have manually
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Speaker 1: pressed the play button on that tape recorder that was
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Speaker 1: playing the music, because it was it playing when he
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Speaker 1: got there. So either he miraculously avoided ever making contact
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Speaker 1: with this person or group of people inside of this
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Speaker 1: factory while he explored it for over an hour, or
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Speaker 1: the more likely scenario is as soon as Kurt walked inside,
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Speaker 1: this person or group of people knew he was there
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Speaker 1: and were watching him the whole time, and maybe when
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Speaker 1: they hit play on that cassette player and started playing
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Speaker 1: that music, that was just an attempt to lore Kurt
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Speaker 1: down into the basement. Who knows what would have happened
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Speaker 1: if he had stayed even longer, and who knows what's
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Speaker 1: on those VHS tapes. To this day, Kurt and all
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Speaker 1: of his friends are convinced he was in the presence
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Speaker 1: of a serial killer. In twenty thirteen, three twelve year
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Speaker 1: olds named Paul, Tim and Max were living in New Orleans,
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Speaker 1: and even though they were too young to remember Hurricane
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Speaker 1: Katrina from two thousand and five, the devastation left in
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Speaker 1: its wake was around them every day. Just down the
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Speaker 1: street from their neighborhood was a row of houses that
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Speaker 1: had all been abandoned after they were destroyed by the storm.
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Speaker 1: Search and Paul, who was the ring leader of the group,
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Speaker 1: would routinely drag Tim and Max into that row of
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Speaker 1: houses to look for treasure, but they rarely left with
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Speaker 1: anything more than some old clothes and some broken kitchen ware.
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Speaker 1: One day, Paul told Tim and Max that if they
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Speaker 1: wanted to find some real treasure, they would have to
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Speaker 1: go looking inside of the abandoned hospital, despite it being
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Speaker 1: completely boarded up, windows, doors, and a huge fence around it,
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Speaker 1: Paul said he had discovered an entrance in the back
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Speaker 1: of the building. Tim and Max were not nearly as
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Speaker 1: excited as Paul about this idea, because all they had
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Speaker 1: heard about this hospital was criminals lived inside of it,
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Speaker 1: and they had also heard that the basement was completely
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Speaker 1: flooded and basically the whole structure was not safe. But
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Speaker 1: Paul was really convincing because he told them they were
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Speaker 1: being babies, and so they said, okay, well we'll go
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Speaker 1: with you then. So the boys drove their bikes the
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Speaker 1: couple of miles over to where this hospital was, and
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Speaker 1: they eventually reached the big chain link fence that surrounded
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Speaker 1: the entire property with no trespassing signs all over it.
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Speaker 1: Behind the fence, they saw this ominous entrance into this
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Speaker 1: underground parking garage that even from the street level you
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Speaker 1: could look down and clearly see it was totally flooded
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Speaker 1: with gross, stagnant dark water. But the boys carried on
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Speaker 1: and Paul led them to a section of the chain
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Speaker 1: length fence that had been cut open. So the boys
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Speaker 1: parked their bikes and locked them up and then crawled
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Speaker 1: through the gap in the fence and began walking up
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Speaker 1: the small parking lot that led up to the loading
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Speaker 1: dock of the hospital. As they got closer, Paul pointed
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Speaker 1: to a shed that was situated right underneath a broken
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Speaker 1: out window on the second floor, and it was immediately
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Speaker 1: clear that people were using the shed to climb up
16:29
Speaker 1: and through that window. Paul was the first one to
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Speaker 1: climb onto the shed, and then from there he jumped
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Speaker 1: up and grabbed the ledge of the broken window and
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Speaker 1: hoisted himself up and then very carefully climbed through. Once
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Speaker 1: he got through, he turned around and yelled to the
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Speaker 1: boys to come up. Once all three of them got
16:43
Speaker 1: inside and they began looking around, they were amazed at
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Speaker 1: what they saw. There was all this medical equipment that
16:48
Speaker 1: had just been left out. Clearly there had not been
16:51
Speaker 1: an attempt at salvaging anything inside of this hospital. There
16:54
Speaker 1: were even blood samples still sitting out on tables. That day,
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Speaker 1: the boys explored the entire floor they came on, which
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Speaker 1: was the second floor, and by the end of the
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Speaker 1: day they left with a couple of random medical souvenirs.
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Speaker 1: Over the following few months, the boys kept coming back
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Speaker 1: to the hospital and had eventually explored every room on
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Speaker 1: every floor except for one, the basement. They wanted to
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Speaker 1: go down there, but even Paul thought it was a
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Speaker 1: bad idea because it was completely flooded with disgusting standing
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Speaker 1: water and there were no windows that went down into
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Speaker 1: the basement, so it was totally pitch black. But by
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Speaker 1: the end of the summer they were getting bored with
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Speaker 1: all the other floors of the hospital. They had seen everything,
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Speaker 1: they had found everything, there was nothing left to explore,
17:33
Speaker 1: and so they decided, we're going to go in the basement.
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Speaker 1: So one afternoon they put on some dirty, old clothes
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Speaker 1: that they didn't mind ruining, and they made their way
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Speaker 1: over to the hospital. They parked their bikes, they snucked
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Speaker 1: through the fence, They made their way up to the shed.
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Speaker 1: They climbed up into the second floor. They walked down
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Speaker 1: the second floor hallway down to the flight of stairs.
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Speaker 1: They went down to the first floor where the stairs stopped.
17:52
Speaker 1: From there, they walked over to an access door that
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Speaker 1: led to another flight of stairs that just went down
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Speaker 1: into the basement. And so they opened that door up
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Speaker 1: the step inside and they get their flashlights out because
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Speaker 1: it's pitch black inside of the stairwell, and they shine
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Speaker 1: their lights down the steps, and it was a half
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Speaker 1: flight of stairs that led to a dry landing, and
18:09
Speaker 1: then there was another flight of stairs from the landing
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Speaker 1: going down to the basement floor, and the final steps
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Speaker 1: of that second set of stairs were completely submerged. So,
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Speaker 1: with their flashlights up, they walk down the first flight
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Speaker 1: of stairs to the landing. They turn around and they
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Speaker 1: stop and they shine their light into the basement and
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Speaker 1: what they see is just deep, dark, murky standing water.
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Speaker 1: And from their perspective, the basement was not some huge,
18:32
Speaker 1: sprawling open space like you would imagine. Instead, they were
18:35
Speaker 1: looking down at a wall, because there was this hallway
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Speaker 1: that ran perpendicular to the stairs, and so it went
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Speaker 1: all the way to the right and all the way
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Speaker 1: to the left, but they couldn't see down either of them.
18:44
Speaker 1: They could only see basically the landing of the stairs.
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Speaker 1: In order to look down the hall, they would need
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Speaker 1: to go into the water and walk a few feet
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Speaker 1: into the hall. And so as the boys are just
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Speaker 1: scanning their flashlights into this murky water inside of this
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Speaker 1: small segment of the basement that they could see, Paul
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Speaker 1: finally says all right, you know what, screw it, I'm
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Speaker 1: going And he slowly walks down that final flight of
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Speaker 1: stairs and he takes his first step into the water,
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Speaker 1: and Tim and Max they stay up on the landing.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna let Paul go on his own first. Paul
19:12
Speaker 1: takes another step and another step, and before long he
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Speaker 1: says he's reached the basement floor and he's up to
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Speaker 1: his chest in this disgusting water, and so he's keeping
19:20
Speaker 1: his arms high up out of the water. He's still
19:21
Speaker 1: got his flashlight, and he wades out to the point
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Speaker 1: where he can actually look down the hallway in either direction,
19:27
Speaker 1: and so he looks down one way and then he
19:28
Speaker 1: looks down the other way, and then he turns around
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Speaker 1: to face Tim and Max. We're still back up on
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Speaker 1: the landing, and he says, you can't see down either hallway.
19:35
Speaker 1: There's huge filing cabinets and there's a generator down there,
19:38
Speaker 1: and I can't see in either direction. We probably can't
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Speaker 1: go very far. At this point, Tim and Max feel
19:43
Speaker 1: compelled to go down there with their friend, and so
19:45
Speaker 1: they walk down that final flight of stairs into the
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Speaker 1: water and they wade their way over next to Paul,
19:50
Speaker 1: at which point, they shine their lights down the hall
19:52
Speaker 1: and sure enough, they basically can't see anything past maybe
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Speaker 1: five or six meters down each hallway. As the boys
19:58
Speaker 1: were standing in the middle of the hallway, not making
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Speaker 1: any moves in either direction, they suddenly hear something down
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Speaker 1: the far right side of the hallway, and they shine
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Speaker 1: their lights and they realize their views completely obstructed, and
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Speaker 1: whatever's made this sound, they can't see it. It's blocked
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Speaker 1: by the generator in the filing cabinet. And as they're
20:14
Speaker 1: shining their lights they still can't see anything. They hear
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Speaker 1: a massive splash like someone cannon ball at the far
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Speaker 1: end of the hallway, and the boys do not stick
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Speaker 1: around to try to get a better angle to see it.
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Speaker 1: They immediately turn around and run as fast as they can,
20:28
Speaker 1: or as fast as the water will allow them, back
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Speaker 1: to the steps, back to the landing, back to the
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Speaker 1: first floor, back to the second floor, down the hall,
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Speaker 1: out the window, and they run all the way back
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Speaker 1: to their bikes. And by the time they're back there,
20:38
Speaker 1: they're panting, they're soaking wet. They haven't spoken yet. It
20:41
Speaker 1: was like intuitive fight or flight, and they were out
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Speaker 1: of there, and they're sitting there heaving, and they look
20:46
Speaker 1: at each other and they start laughing. It was like
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Speaker 1: this adrenaline rush. It was crazy what they were doing.
20:50
Speaker 1: And they look back up at the hospital and they're
20:52
Speaker 1: staring at the second floor window, almost half expecting to
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Speaker 1: see whoever it was that made this big splashing sound
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Speaker 1: to suddenly emerge in the window, but no one ever did.
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Speaker 1: And after about an hour of just staring at the
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Speaker 1: hospital and seeing no activity whatsoever, they convince themselves that
21:07
Speaker 1: whatever they heard down in that hallway was probably just
21:10
Speaker 1: something falling off a shelf, or maybe there's a bird
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Speaker 1: down there, but whatever it was, it was harmless. Eventually,
21:16
Speaker 1: Paul says to Tim and Max that they should totally
21:18
Speaker 1: go back in there and try to figure out what
21:20
Speaker 1: it was that made that sound. And initially Tim and
21:23
Speaker 1: Max are like, I don't really want to do that,
21:25
Speaker 1: But eventually, after Paul called them babies enough times, they said, okay, fine,
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Speaker 1: we'll go back in the hospital. And so they go
21:31
Speaker 1: back to the fence. They walk up the parking lot,
21:33
Speaker 1: they climb onto the second floor, they walk down the hall,
21:35
Speaker 1: they go down the stairs, they get to that access
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Speaker 1: door that leads down into the basement, and before they
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Speaker 1: just spling it open. Paul gets his flashlight up. He
21:42
Speaker 1: turns the handle and he opens the door just a
21:44
Speaker 1: little bit and looks inside to see if anybody's in there,
21:47
Speaker 1: and there isn't, so he opens the door the rest of
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Speaker 1: the way and he, Tim and Max go inside. Once
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Speaker 1: they're inside, they shine their light down to the landing
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Speaker 1: and they can still see their wet footprints all over
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Speaker 1: the steps. It's silence inside of the basement. They make
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Speaker 1: their way down to the land they turn around. They
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Speaker 1: shine the light into the water in the basement itself,
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Speaker 1: and now the water is completely calm again. There's no motion.
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Speaker 1: It's still completely quiet, and as they're standing there looking
22:09
Speaker 1: it's clear all of them are hesitating. They don't want
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Speaker 1: to go back into chest deep, murky, stagnant water, and
22:16
Speaker 1: they also don't know what it was that made that sound.
22:18
Speaker 1: While they were outside, they're really confident it wasn't a
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Speaker 1: big deal, but now that they're in this dark basement,
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Speaker 1: it seemed a little bit more intimidating, and so Tim
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Speaker 1: suggests they throw something into the water to try to
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Speaker 1: get a reaction from whatever this thing is, if it's alive.
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Speaker 1: But they didn't have anything to throw, and then Paul,
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere, takes this flashlight and throws it into
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Speaker 1: the water. And before Tim or Max could react to
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Speaker 1: what he just did, they all just stopped and listen
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Speaker 1: to see if that would cause a reaction from whatever
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Speaker 1: it was down there. And as the flashlight sunk to
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Speaker 1: the bottom and completely out of view because the water
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Speaker 1: was so murky, there was no reaction down there. It
22:51
Speaker 1: was still completely silent. Paul turns to Tim and Max
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Speaker 1: and says, the reason I threw it is now we
22:55
Speaker 1: have to go in because I have to get my flashlight.
22:57
Speaker 1: So Paul, along with Tim and Max make their down
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Speaker 1: that final flight of stairs and they start walking into
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Speaker 1: the water. They get all the way up to their
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Speaker 1: chest and water and they wade out until Paul is
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Speaker 1: directly over the light. He can barely see it to
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Speaker 1: the murky water, but he can clearly see it below him.
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Speaker 1: And since he doesn't want to go under the water,
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Speaker 1: he tried to use his feet to get the light up,
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Speaker 1: but he couldn't do it, and so he looks at
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Speaker 1: Tim and Max and he goes, I'm going under. He
23:20
Speaker 1: takes a deep breath and he goes under the water.
23:22
Speaker 1: He immediately hears the muffled screams of Tim and Max
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Speaker 1: up on the surface, and as he's fumbling for his light,
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Speaker 1: he feels one of them yank on his shirt to
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Speaker 1: try to pull him up and out of the water.
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Speaker 1: Paul manages to grab his flashlight. He comes out of
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Speaker 1: the water, and he turns and he sees Tim and
23:36
Speaker 1: Max booking it for the stairs, And before he can
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Speaker 1: even turn around and run after them, he realizes why
23:42
Speaker 1: they're running in the first place. To his right, he
23:44
Speaker 1: can hear the sound of something huge swimming up the
23:47
Speaker 1: hallway towards him. For a brief second, he raises his
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Speaker 1: flashlight and shines it down the hall and right at
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Speaker 1: the filing cabinet, this dark silhouette that's in the water,
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Speaker 1: that's lying horizontal in the water, is violently swim up
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Speaker 1: the hall towards them so fast there is a wake
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Speaker 1: of water coming off of it. Paul turns and runs
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Speaker 1: towards the stairs, or as fast as he can go.
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Speaker 1: He's trying to wave through this water that's chest deep
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Speaker 1: on him. He gets to the stairs, he runs up
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Speaker 1: to the landing. He can see his friends are up
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Speaker 1: at the door leading out of the basement stairwell, and
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Speaker 1: they're yelling for him to hurry up, hurry up. They
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Speaker 1: got the door open. Paul turns the corner and runs
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Speaker 1: up to that door, and right as he's leaving, he
24:23
Speaker 1: can hear whatever it was that was swimming down the
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Speaker 1: hall has stopped and is now on the stairs. He
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Speaker 1: goes through the access door and he and his buddies
24:30
Speaker 1: run upstairs the second floor. They run down the hallway,
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Speaker 1: they get into that room, they leap out the window,
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Speaker 1: onto the shed, onto the ground, and they run all
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Speaker 1: the way out to the breaking the fence where they
24:38
Speaker 1: hop in their bikes and they bike away. And as
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Speaker 1: they're leaving, they turn around to look. Man, there's no one.
24:43
Speaker 1: There's no one in the window, there's no one outside
24:45
Speaker 1: on the property. Whoever or whatever was chasing them is
24:49
Speaker 1: still in the hospital. The boys believe it was an
24:51
Speaker 1: alligator living in the basement of this hospital, but they
24:54
Speaker 1: never found out for sure. While they continued to urban
24:57
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