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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three progressively more horrifying
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  Speaker 1: stories that at the end of each of them, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to show you the picture or pictures that are
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  Speaker 1: famously associated with that particular story. But before we get
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  Speaker 1: On March twentieth, nineteen eighty, significant volcanic activity begin to
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  Speaker 1: occur all over Mount Saint Helens in Washington State. The
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  Speaker 1: north face of the mountain had begun to visibly shake,
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  Speaker 1: and then by March twenty seventh, there was steam coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the craters and vents all over the north
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  Speaker 1: side of the mountain. That April, scientists began to notice
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  Speaker 1: that there was this massive bulge that was growing on
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  Speaker 1: the north side of this mountain that was about a
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  Speaker 1: mile in diameter, and every day it was growing about
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  Speaker 1: six feet farther and farther up the mountain, and it
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  Speaker 1: was basically this massive undercurrent of magma that was going
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  Speaker 1: towards the top of the mountain getting ready to explode. Initially,
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  Speaker 1: there was some speculation that perhaps this magma bulge is
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  Speaker 1: not nearly as big of a deal as people are
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  Speaker 1: making it out to be, that really, at worst it
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  Speaker 1: could be a small eruption and it would have no
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  Speaker 1: impact on the surrounding areas. But authorities became skittish and
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  Speaker 1: were worried that they could just be caught with their
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  Speaker 1: pants down and this turned into a full blown volcanic eruption.
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  Speaker 1: So they began evacuating the area, and for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: everybody evacuated, with the exception of a few scientists and
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  Speaker 1: some photographers and some really hardcore people that did not
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  Speaker 1: want to leave their homes.
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  Speaker 2: Of those people who had stayed.
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  Speaker 1: Behind was Robert Landsberg, who was a photographer and on
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  Speaker 1: May eighteenth, nineteen eighty he was out hiking about seven
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  Speaker 1: miles away from the summit of Mount Saint Helens, and
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  Speaker 1: he was making his way up to try to find
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  Speaker 1: a good viewpoint of that north face. He wanted to
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  Speaker 1: look at that magma surge that was making its way
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  Speaker 1: up on the north side of the mountain. And so
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  Speaker 1: finally he makes his way up and he gets to
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  Speaker 1: a great spot and he starts taking pictures of that
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  Speaker 1: north face.
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  Speaker 2: While Robert is taking pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Of that side of the mountain, a five point two
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  Speaker 1: magnitude earthquake struck the area, causing that entire north face
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  Speaker 1: of Mount Saint Helens to be sheared off and begin
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  Speaker 1: falling down the side of the mountain. It's this massive landslide.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest that's ever been recorded in
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  Speaker 1: that area. But what it really did is, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, that entire magma surge that had been building
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  Speaker 1: up underneath on the north side making its way up,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly is uncovered and it causes this massive volcanic explosion, shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Fifteen miles straight up into the air.
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  Speaker 1: Along with this massive vertical there was a simultaneous lateral
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  Speaker 1: blast basically pointed directly at Robert, and it sent these
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  Speaker 1: molten debris surging down the mountain side at one hundred
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  Speaker 1: miles an hour or faster. Robert knew he had no
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  Speaker 1: hope of escaping this wall of magma and ash coming
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  Speaker 1: straight at him, so he decides, instead of trying to
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  Speaker 1: save myself, I'm going to take as many pictures as
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  Speaker 1: i can of this volcanic reruption, and then I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to try to protect the film. And so Robert took
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  Speaker 1: as many pictures as he could at this massive volcanic
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  Speaker 1: wall of death coming towards him until the very last
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  Speaker 1: second when he puts his camera into his bag. He
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  Speaker 1: puts that into his backpack and then he holds it
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  Speaker 1: against his chest and lays down on the ground, using
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  Speaker 1: his body as the last protective measure to try to
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  Speaker 1: save this film for posterity. Seventeen days later, they find
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  Speaker 1: Robert Landsberg's body and sure enough, he was able to
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  Speaker 1: protect his film by laying on top of it. And
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  Speaker 1: so they developed the pictures that he took and they're incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Here are the final pictures that Robert Landsberg took before
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  Speaker 1: he was killed by the volcano. On September twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, darsh Patel, who was a twenty two year
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  Speaker 1: old college student, was out hiking in a New Jersey
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  Speaker 1: state park.
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  Speaker 2: Along with five of his college buddies.
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  Speaker 1: As they were about to head down a particular trail
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  Speaker 1: that they had actually gone to this park to go down,
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  Speaker 1: a man and woman come charging up the path towards them,
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  Speaker 1: and so Darsh and his friends stop and they're looking
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  Speaker 1: at these two people who look totally distraught and scared.
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  Speaker 1: And the man and woman immediately say, hey, don't go
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  Speaker 1: down this path. We were just down there and for
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  Speaker 1: the past ten minutes a black bear has been stalking
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  Speaker 1: us in the tree line. We don't know where it went,
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  Speaker 1: but we got up here, we turned around and it
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  Speaker 1: was gone. But we would not suggest going down this path.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not worth it. Darsh and his friends tell
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  Speaker 1: the couple, thank you for giving us the heads up.
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  Speaker 2: We were actually going to go down that path, and.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess now we won't, And so the couple
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  Speaker 1: they quickly leave, and Darsh and his friends are sitting
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  Speaker 1: there thinking, well, now what do we do because this
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  Speaker 1: was the trail we were going to go down.
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  Speaker 2: This is why we're here.
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  Speaker 1: As they're standing there, they start talking about, well, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we just go down anyways.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's six of us.
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  Speaker 1: I highly doubt that a bear is going to come
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  Speaker 1: out of the woods and attack six people, especially a
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  Speaker 1: black bear that is not known to attack people. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't we just walk down the ways and if we
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  Speaker 1: see the bear, then we just turn around and leave.
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  Speaker 1: And if we see the bear, might make some good pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just go down there and see what happens. And
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  Speaker 1: they start walking, and sure enough, about ten minutes into
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  Speaker 1: their trip down this trail, they see this massive bear
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  Speaker 1: parked right in the center of the trail, about two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty meters away from where they were.
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  Speaker 2: The bear did not.
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  Speaker 1: Appear to be doing anything. It was just sitting there,
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  Speaker 1: but it was clearly looking at the group of them.
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  Speaker 1: So darsh and his friends are just standing there, not
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  Speaker 1: really sure what to do, so they start taking pictures
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  Speaker 1: and videos. They're not moving any closer, but they just
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  Speaker 1: start documenting what they're seeing. Because this bear was apparently
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  Speaker 1: stalking this couple. It was pretty interesting and they figured, hey,
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  Speaker 1: make some good pictures. So they start taking pictures and
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  Speaker 1: taking some videos of this animal, and the animal starts
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  Speaker 1: walking towards them. Now it's too on hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: meters away. They recognize that this is a dangerous animal
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  Speaker 1: and we don't want to get too close to it,
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  Speaker 1: but they felt relatively safe even if it started moving
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  Speaker 1: towards them. Initially, they still felt safe, but the animal starts.
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  Speaker 2: Jogging towards them.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, the boys put their phones away, turn around,
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  Speaker 1: and they start high tailing it the other way, and
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  Speaker 1: somebody looks back and notices the bear is now sprinting
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  Speaker 1: at them. This causes the group to completely panic. They
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  Speaker 1: start sprinting back towards where their cars were parked, absolute
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  Speaker 1: full panic back up the trail. No one's paying attention
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  Speaker 1: to anybody else. They're just running for their lives, and
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  Speaker 1: as they're turning their heads to look, the bear is
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  Speaker 1: gaining on them and gaining on them. Finally, after about
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes of just running for their lives, they make
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  Speaker 1: it to the parking lot and they turn around. There's
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  Speaker 1: no bear, but they're short one hiker, Darsh Patel.
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  Speaker 2: Is still in the forest somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: The group starts screaming for Darsh. They know there was
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  Speaker 1: this aggressive bear in there chasing them, so they're obviously
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  Speaker 1: worried about him potentially getting attacked, and so they immediately
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  Speaker 1: called nine to one one. The police show up and
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  Speaker 1: park rangers show up, and they go into the forest
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  Speaker 1: to try to find this bear and to find Darsh,
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  Speaker 1: and very quickly they come across this bear in clearing,
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  Speaker 1: this three hundred pound bear all by itself, aggressively pacing
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  Speaker 1: around this lump in the middle of this clearing that
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  Speaker 1: had sticks and branches on it. It wasn't clear what
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  Speaker 1: it was. And this bear is just pacing in a
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  Speaker 1: circle around this thing. And as these two part rangers
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  Speaker 1: get closer, they're armed. The bear looks at them and
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  Speaker 1: makes a move like it's going to charge, and they
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  Speaker 1: elect to shoot and kill this bear. Later, the bear's
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  Speaker 1: remains would be taken to a laboratory, and inside of
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  Speaker 1: the bear's stomach was Darsh Patel. He had been killed
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  Speaker 1: and eaten by this bear. And that lump that was
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  Speaker 1: on the ground that the bear was circling was whatever
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  Speaker 1: was left of Darsh that had not been consumed yet.
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  Speaker 1: When they recovered Darsh Patel's phone, they went into his
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  Speaker 1: images and they found he had taken one final picture.
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  Speaker 2: Before he was attacked.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is the bear was not malnourished, it was
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  Speaker 1: not diseased. It just decided it wanted to stalk, kill,
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  Speaker 1: and eat a human. Vladimir Komarov was a Soviet astronaut
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  Speaker 1: who in nineteen sixty seven was scheduled to orbit the
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  Speaker 1: Earth in the first manned flight of a particular Soviet
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  Speaker 1: spacecraft called the Soyas. Kmorov would be flying this mission solo,
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  Speaker 1: and so he needed a backup in case for some
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  Speaker 1: reason he couldn't go, and his backup was Yuri Gagarin,
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  Speaker 1: who was actually Kmarov's best friend. This mission was very
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  Speaker 1: important to the Soviet Union more from a political standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: but nonetheless the pressure was on Kmarov to successfully complete
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  Speaker 1: this mission, and so he, along with his backup Yuri,
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  Speaker 1: had to train extra hard and make sure they did
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  Speaker 1: not screw this up. But it turns out the fail
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  Speaker 1: point for this mission was almost certainly not going to
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  Speaker 1: be Comarov or Gagerin if he ended up going instead
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  Speaker 1: of Kamarov, it was going to be the spaceship itself. Gagerran,
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  Speaker 1: along with a host of engineers, did a full blown
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  Speaker 1: inspection of the Soyez and found two hundred and three
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  Speaker 1: significant structural problems, and they all recommended postponement of this mission,
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  Speaker 1: but their recommendation was ignored because again, this mission was
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  Speaker 1: so politically important to the Soviet Union that they were
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  Speaker 1: effectively ready to risk their astronauts to make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: When Kamarov found out about all these structural issues and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the powers that be were not even
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  Speaker 1: listening and we're basically saying we don't care you're doing
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  Speaker 1: this mission anyways, he was crushed and he told a
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  Speaker 1: KGB agent that he was certain he was going to die,
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  Speaker 1: and this KGB agent would later say that he asked Comarov, well,
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  Speaker 1: then why don't you refuse the mission? And Kamarov said,
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  Speaker 1: if I refuse the mission, they're going to make my
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  Speaker 1: best friend go and he'll die up there, so I
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  Speaker 1: have to go. Gagaran pleaded with Kamorov to relinquish the role,
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  Speaker 1: let Gagarin go instead of him, but Kamarov was staunched.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I've been given this mission.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to stay here. But what Kamarov did, which
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  Speaker 1: is so legendary, is he made sure his funeral, if
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  Speaker 1: he were to die in the course of this mission,
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  Speaker 1: would be open casket, because he knew if he came
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  Speaker 1: back to Earth it was probably going to be because
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  Speaker 1: the spaceship has crashed and he wanted the Soviet leadership
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  Speaker 1: to see what they had done. So sure enough, Kamarov
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  Speaker 1: gets Nasoyas on launch day, he takes off, and the problems.
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  Speaker 2: Began almost immediately.
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  Speaker 1: They had very little power, they had limited communications with
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and the craft itself was spinning uncontrollably. Seeing
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  Speaker 1: how badly it was going already, Soviet leadership on the
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  Speaker 1: ground instructed Kamarov to nix the mission and just try
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  Speaker 1: to come back to Earth. For five hours, Kamrav circled
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  Speaker 1: Earth and attempted to re enter Earth's atmosphere, but his ship,
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  Speaker 1: because of all of those structural problems, didn't work. And
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  Speaker 1: so eighteen times he attempts to re enter Earth's atmosphere,
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  Speaker 1: but each time it fails. And it was around this
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  Speaker 1: time that American intelligence recorded a conversation between a high
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  Speaker 1: ranking Soviet leader on the ground and Comrav, and the
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  Speaker 1: leader on the ground is basically crying and saying they're
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  Speaker 1: so sorry to Comraf and that he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a hero.
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  Speaker 2: They got his wife to come on and his wife
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  Speaker 2: is talking to.
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  Speaker 1: Kamrav and Kamarov's telling her you know what to do
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  Speaker 1: with the kids, what to do with his estate. He's
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  Speaker 1: perfectly fine and healthy, but the craft is doomed and
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  Speaker 1: everybody knows it. Then that call ends, and Comorov, on
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  Speaker 1: his nineteenth attempt, is able to re enter Earth's atmosphere,
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  Speaker 1: which everyone was pretty surprised he could even do that,
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  Speaker 1: but his parachutes failed. As Comorov is plunging to his
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  Speaker 1: death over the radio, he's cursing the Soviet leadership that
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  Speaker 1: doomed him by putting him in a botched spaceship. And
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  Speaker 1: so sure enough, on April twenty fourth, around seven am,
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  Speaker 1: Comarov's craft smashes into the ground, killing Comrav. And when
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  Speaker 1: they open it up, it's clear what happened to him.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't die on impact. He basically burned alive inside
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  Speaker 1: of this capsule as that was careening down towards the Earth,
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  Speaker 1: and so all that's left of him is this charred pile.
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  Speaker 1: But because Comorov explicitly stated that they had to have
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  Speaker 1: an open casket funeral, specifically because he wanted the Soviet
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  Speaker 1: leadership to see what they had done to him, they
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  Speaker 1: had to hold an open casket funeral with.
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  Speaker 2: Just these charred remains.
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  Speaker 1: And here is the famous picture of Kamarov's funeral where
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  Speaker 1: the actual Soviet leaders that put him in that space
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  Speaker 1: ship that was doomed. Here they are viewing his open
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