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The Sorcerer Who Died Screaming · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: I want you to picture a room in Cairo. It
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  Speaker 1: is two thousand and three. It's an office, high up,
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  Speaker 1: away from all the noise of the street. But inside
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  Speaker 1: the silence isn't It isn't peaceful at all. It's pressurized, like.
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  Speaker 2: The air right before a storm breaks exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You know that heavy static sensation that just makes the
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  Speaker 1: hair on your arms stand up. That is the exact
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere the police walked into when they breached the door.
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  Speaker 2: And it's worth noting when investigators enter a scene like
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  Speaker 2: that in a busy city, they are usually bracing themselves
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  Speaker 2: for violence. They expect to struggle, maybe a robbery, broken glass,
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  Speaker 2: overturned chairs.
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  Speaker 1: But there was no broken glass here. Everything was completely
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  Speaker 1: in its place, books perfectly lined up on the shelves,
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  Speaker 1: papers organized on the desk, and sitting behind that desk
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  Speaker 1: was a.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Elsai at el Jssini right.
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  Speaker 1: And to a casual observer he might have looked like
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  Speaker 1: he was just taking a nap in his chair, But
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  Speaker 1: as the officers got closer, the illusion just completely shattered.
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  Speaker 2: The police report on this isn't credibly vivid. It was
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  Speaker 2: not the posture of sleep, no, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: His body was rigid, bored, stiff. His skin had turned
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  Speaker 1: this deep, suffocated blue, almost purple in places.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: But it was his face that made seasoned detectors actually
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  Speaker 1: physically step back. His eyes were bulging out of their sockets,
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  Speaker 1: staring fixedly at a specific corner of the ceiling, and
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  Speaker 1: his mouth his mouth was locked wide open in a silent,
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  Speaker 1: frozen scream.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a tableau of absolute terror. The medical examiner
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  Speaker 2: noted that his facial muscles were locked in a state
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  Speaker 2: of cadaveric spasm, which means he didn't just die. He
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  Speaker 2: died seeing something that terrified him to his absolute core.
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  Speaker 1: And this brings us to the actual hook of today's
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  Speaker 1: deep dive. Because l Side l. Hulseani wasn't a man
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  Speaker 1: who scared easily.
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  Speaker 2: He was usually the one doing the scaring.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly across the air world. He was known as a
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  Speaker 1: servant of the Gin, a master sorcerer. This was a
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  Speaker 1: man who claimed to have spent forty years commanding demons,
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  Speaker 1: speaking to the dead, and basically manipulating the invisible world.
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  Speaker 2: Which frames the central mystery of this whole case perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: What exactly walks into a room and scares the master
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  Speaker 2: of fear to death.
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  Speaker 1: So today we are unpacking the life and the incredibly
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  Speaker 1: strange death of El Hoseini. We're looking at police reports,
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  Speaker 1: witness accounts from a disastrous horror movie set in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, and an inventory list from his apartment. That is, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's pure nightmare fuel, it really is.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look past the sensationalism of the crime scene,
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  Speaker 2: this is fundamentally a story about limits. It's a case
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  Speaker 2: study on what happens when a person decides that the
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  Speaker 2: rules of nature and the rules of the supernatural just
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  Speaker 2: don't apply to them anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So let's strip away the myth for a second
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  Speaker 1: and look at the man himself, because diving into the research,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't start out as this terrifying, shadowy figure. He
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  Speaker 1: had a formal education, right, but it wasn't exactly your
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  Speaker 1: standard university degree.
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  Speaker 2: No, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Not.
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  Speaker 2: To understand elis any you have to go back to Cairo.
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  Speaker 2: In the nineteen forties, there was an institution called the
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  Speaker 2: Alpha two Astronomical Institute, right astronomy. Yeah, so if you
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  Speaker 2: walked past it on the street, you'd see the sign
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  Speaker 2: and think, oh, a place to learn about stars, constellations,
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  Speaker 2: planetary orbits.
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  Speaker 1: Completely respectable scientific front, but that.
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  Speaker 2: Was just the cover behind closed doors. Alpha Tut was
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  Speaker 2: effectively a university for the occult. It was the Hogwarts
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  Speaker 2: for black magic in the Middle East, and it was
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  Speaker 2: run by a man named Abdel Fatta Altuqi.
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  Speaker 1: I have his nickname here in the files, the Air
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  Speaker 1: of Ebliss. Yeah, with Ebless being the theological equivalent of
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  Speaker 1: Satan or Lucifer. That is a very heavy title to
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  Speaker 1: carry around.
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  Speaker 2: And he didn't shy away from it at all. Altuki
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  Speaker 2: was a massive celebrity in the underground. People traveled from
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  Speaker 2: South Africa, from the Gulf, from all over North Africa
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  Speaker 2: just to study under him.
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  Speaker 1: And they weren't there to look through telescopes.
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  Speaker 2: No, they were there to learn the actual mechanics of
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  Speaker 2: sorcery and Elhosini he was the.
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  Speaker 1: Star pupil ledictorian of the Devil School.
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  Speaker 2: Essentially. Yeah. The institute was eventually nationalized and shut down
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty one, but by then Elisani had learned everything.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the key distinction for anyone trying to understand
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  Speaker 2: this guy. He wasn't some kind of witch doctor hiding
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  Speaker 2: in a hut mixing herbs. Right.
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  Speaker 1: He's a professional, so he wore.
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  Speaker 2: Sharp suits, he carried a briefcase. He attended international spiritual conferences.
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  Speaker 1: That's the part that really stood out to me in
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  Speaker 1: the documentation. He treated sorcery like a white collar career.
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  Speaker 1: He was constantly recruiting wealthy clients, consulting for the elite.
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  Speaker 1: He essentially commercialized the dark arts.
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  Speaker 2: He mainstreamed it. But his specialty, the thing that made
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  Speaker 2: him truly infamous, was black magic. And this confidence he
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  Speaker 2: built up, this unwavering belief that he was a supreme
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  Speaker 2: scholar of the invisible. It led to a massive ego, an.
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  Speaker 1: Ego that triggered a very specific, verified incident in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the movie set.
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  Speaker 1: I find this part fascinating because it's not just folklore.
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  Speaker 1: We have accounts from crew members who are actually there.
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  Speaker 1: So set the scene for us. It's nineteen eighty eight.
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  Speaker 1: The famous director yasin Ismail Yassen is filming a horror
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  Speaker 1: movie called Adel Jan de Kel or eight L moves right,
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  Speaker 1: and the script calls for a seance scene, a spiritual
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  Speaker 1: gathering to sum in a presence.
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  Speaker 2: Now, usually in cinema, you know, you get an actor,
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  Speaker 2: you throw some dry ice on the floor and you
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  Speaker 2: have them mumblesome nonsense syllables. But the director wants authenticity,
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  Speaker 2: he wants absolute realism, so he hires el Hosini to
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  Speaker 2: come on set, which.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly feels like hiring a professional hit man to play
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  Speaker 1: a hit man in a movie. It's just a little
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  Speaker 1: too real.
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  Speaker 2: It's very risky, and the director isn't stupid. He knows
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  Speaker 2: el Hosani's reputation, so he gives him a very specific,
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  Speaker 2: strict instruction. He says, I want you to do the motions.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to look the part, but do not
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  Speaker 2: say the real words.
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  Speaker 1: He explicitly tells him to fake the incantations exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's a safety protocol. You don't load live ammunition on
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  Speaker 2: a movie set.
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  Speaker 1: But el Hosini, his arrogance just kicks in. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: cameras start rolling, the lights are on him, and he
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  Speaker 1: decides to completely go off script on camera. He starts
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  Speaker 1: reciting the Bergatier incantation.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And for those who might not know, the Bretaya
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  Speaker 2: isn't just your run of the mill spell. In these circles,
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  Speaker 2: it's described as an ancient oath.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I dug into this to understand the gravity of it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's basically the nuclear option of Middle Eastern occultism.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great way to put it. It contains twenty
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  Speaker 2: eight names. Some scholars say they are ancient hidden names
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  Speaker 2: of God, while others argue they are the names of
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  Speaker 2: powerful demon kings.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: But the core belief is that these names are in
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  Speaker 2: a language that compels the gin to obey. It is
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  Speaker 2: not a request, It is a spiritual subpoena. No king
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  Speaker 2: or gin can disobey it.
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  Speaker 1: And looking at their ritual rules for this, you don't
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  Speaker 1: just say this casually. The text say it requires a
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  Speaker 1: strict seven day cycle. You recited seven times on day one,
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  Speaker 1: escalating all the way to forty nine times on day seven.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and you have to fast. You have to isolate yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You're slowly building this immense energy bridge.
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  Speaker 1: But El Hulsini, he rips through the entire incantation in
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  Speaker 1: one take there under the studio lights. He skipped the
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  Speaker 1: seven days. He's skipped the fasting. He just forcefully kicked
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  Speaker 1: the door open because he truly believed he was powerful
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  Speaker 1: enough to handle whatever came through.
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  Speaker 2: And the reaction on set was immediate, specifically from the
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  Speaker 2: director of photography, the cameraman.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most chilling detail in the accounts.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. The cameraman starts panicking mid take. He
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  Speaker 2: pulls his eye away from the viewfinder, looks at the
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  Speaker 2: physical set and sees nothing, just the actors. But he
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  Speaker 2: puts his eye back to the lens and he starts screaming.
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  Speaker 1: Because he's seeing things through the camera that aren't there
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  Speaker 1: in the room.
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  Speaker 2: Correct He claimed he could see shapes, shadows, phantoms basically
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  Speaker 2: swarming around El Hooseini, converging on him from the dark
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  Speaker 2: corners of the sound stage and the rest of the crew.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of the crew just thought, wow, the lighting
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  Speaker 2: is really weird today. Or a man, This guy's a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic actor. They had no idea that Eli Sani had
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  Speaker 2: briefly opened a real gateway right in front of them.
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  Speaker 1: It perfectly establishes his psychological state. Though he thought he
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  Speaker 1: was completely untouchable, He thought, I don't need the seven days.
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  Speaker 1: I can command these entities whenever I want.
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  Speaker 2: That is the ultimate hubris, and he got away with
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  Speaker 2: it that time. The movie wrapped, he got paid and
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  Speaker 2: he went home. But fast forward fifteen years to two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and three, and it seems that bill finally came due,
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  Speaker 2: So let's go back.
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  Speaker 1: To the office. In two thousand and three. The body
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  Speaker 1: is found, the blue face, the screaming mouth. The police
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  Speaker 1: treat it as a homicide. Naturally, of course, you don't
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  Speaker 1: see a body locked in a cadaveric spasm and think, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he just passed away peacefully in his sleep.
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  Speaker 2: And they had a prime suspect almost immediately. His wife Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the octics were terrible for her. She was thirty
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  Speaker 1: five years younger than him. Neighbors had been reporting violent
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  Speaker 1: screaming matches that shook the walls, and she had abruptly
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  Speaker 1: left the house multiple times in the days leading up
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  Speaker 1: to his death.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a detective looking at that scene, you are
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  Speaker 2: thinking poison.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's clean, it's quiet, it leaves no visible wounds.
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  Speaker 1: It fits the domestic dispute profile perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: But it's perfectly until the autopsy results actually come back.
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  Speaker 1: This is where the police just hit a massive brick wall.
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  Speaker 1: They were on a full toxicology screen. They test for
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  Speaker 1: arsenic cyanide, heavy metals, obscure plant.
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  Speaker 2: Toxes, negative on all counts, so they look.
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  Speaker 1: For natural causes. A massive heart attack.
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  Speaker 2: His heart was completely healthy, a.
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  Speaker 1: Stroke, aneurysm, some kind of sudden blood clot.
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  Speaker 2: The brain was pristine, The vascular system was perfectly fine.
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  Speaker 2: Medically speaking, Elisani was a healthy man who just ceased
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  Speaker 2: to exist. There was absolutely no physiological reason for him
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  Speaker 2: to be dead.
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  Speaker 1: The only evidence that something violently traumatic happened was the
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  Speaker 1: physical expression of horror, permanently frozen on his face.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So the authorities are forced to drop the charges
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  Speaker 2: against Rashoa. You simply cannot prosecute a murder if science
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  Speaker 2: says no murder occurred.
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  Speaker 1: But the police didn't stop there. They wanted answers. They
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  Speaker 1: knew something happened in that room, so they got a
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  Speaker 1: warrant and went to his private apartment in Fasal to
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  Speaker 1: look for clues.
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  Speaker 2: And if the office was eerie, this apartment was a
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  Speaker 2: literal house of horror.
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  Speaker 1: I have the police inventory list right here, and the
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  Speaker 1: details are deeply disturbing. The atmosphere wasn't just spooky, it
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  Speaker 1: was foul. The place was filthy. They found sixteen tissues
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  Speaker 1: containing minstrel blood. Yeah, and they were specifically kept and preserved.
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  Speaker 1: They found tissues containing semen. They found huge quantities of
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  Speaker 1: empty milk bottles, just hoarded in the corners.
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  Speaker 2: This is a crucial detail for understanding the exact nature
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  Speaker 2: of what he was practicing. In black magic, specifically the lower,
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  Speaker 2: more malignant forms of it. Biological fluids are used as
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  Speaker 2: binding agents.
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  Speaker 1: To tie a skal to a physical person.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, it's highly transgressive. It's meant to be deeply impure
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  Speaker 2: because the specific entities he was dealing with, according to
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  Speaker 2: the occult lore, are attracted to that kind of filth
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  Speaker 2: and impurity.
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  Speaker 1: And then there were the photos.
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  Speaker 2: Stacks of photos.
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  Speaker 1: Piles of them, pictures of famous soccer players, celebrities, actors,
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  Speaker 1: Gulf royalty.
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  Speaker 2: And the backs of these photos were completely covered in
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  Speaker 2: intricate talismans and strange symbols drawn in red ink.
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  Speaker 1: They also found a black agenda book packed with the
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  Speaker 1: private direct phone numbers of these elite individuals, which immediately
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  Speaker 1: raises a huge question. Were these people the victims of
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  Speaker 1: his magic? Was he cursing a striker to miss a
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  Speaker 1: crucial goal, or were these people his high paying clients.
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  Speaker 2: It's very likely a mix of both, or perhaps he
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  Speaker 2: was fortifying his clients using that biological material to bind
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  Speaker 2: protective spells to them. But what it definitively proves is
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  Speaker 2: that he was operating at the absolute highest levels of society.
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  Speaker 2: He had incredible access.
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  Speaker 1: He was deeply embedded in the lives of the rich
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  Speaker 1: and powerful.
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  Speaker 2: He was. But among all the filth, the bodily fluids,
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  Speaker 2: the disturbing photos, the police found one specific item that
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  Speaker 2: really stood out. And it wasn't a skull or a
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  Speaker 2: ceremonial dagger. It was a simple physical padlock at all
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  Speaker 2: allK Yes, they found a piece of paper that had
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  Speaker 2: the names of very specific gin written on it. This
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  Speaker 2: papal was folded up tightly, pierced right through the middle
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  Speaker 2: by the metal shackle of the path, and then locked shut.
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  Speaker 1: So for you listening, why does that matter? Is a
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  Speaker 1: locked piece of paper a standard type of spell?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not standard at all. This is deeply aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: Spiritual experts in Islamic esotericism who reviewed the case evidence
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  Speaker 2: interpreted this padlock as a binding or stopping of state.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what does that mean? In practice?
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  Speaker 2: It means Elisani wasn't just asking these entities for favors.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't negotiating with them. Or making packs. He was
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  Speaker 2: actively enslaving them.
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  Speaker 1: He was putting them in a spiritual jail cell.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, if a gin disobeyed his commands or if they
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  Speaker 2: didn't deliver the exact result his wealthy clients paid for,
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  Speaker 2: he would use this ritual to essentially freeze or torture
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  Speaker 2: the entity. It's a severe punishment mechanism.
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  Speaker 1: That creates such a terrifying dynamic. He wasn't a partner
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  Speaker 1: to these spirits. He was a tyrant. He was holding
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  Speaker 1: ancient beings hostage.
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  Speaker 2: And that mindset the sheer audacity to think that you
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  Speaker 2: can torture a creature made of smokeless fire, that you
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  Speaker 2: can safely enslave something that predates humanity. That is the
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  Speaker 2: pinnacle of arrogance. And it leads us directly into the
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  Speaker 2: theories about his final moments, because.
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  Speaker 1: When you have a dead sorcerer, a face frozen in
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  Speaker 1: an absolute terror, and zero medical cause of death, the
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  Speaker 1: theories are going to get supernatural very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: They do. There are two main theories that the spiritual
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  Speaker 2: and investigative communities eventually settled on. The first one is
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  Speaker 2: known as the rebellion.
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  Speaker 1: Meaning the prisoners finally rioted yes.
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  Speaker 2: The idea here is that the metaphysical padlock finally broke.
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  Speaker 2: Either he tried to summon a great entity, a demon
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  Speaker 2: that was just vastly too powerful for him to control,
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  Speaker 2: or the lesser spirits he had been tormenting for decades
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  Speaker 2: finally found a loophole in his bindings.
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  Speaker 1: They broke his control.
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  Speaker 2: They broke it, and because he had been so ruthless
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  Speaker 2: and cruel to them for forty years, their retaliation was
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  Speaker 2: instantaneous and absolute.
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  Speaker 1: So under this theory, he didn't just die of natural causes.
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  Speaker 1: He was literally scared to death by the very things
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  Speaker 1: he thought he owned.
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  Speaker 2: Right, he looked up from his desk into the corner
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  Speaker 2: of the room and saw his slaves coming for him.
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  Speaker 1: God. That's dark and the second theory.
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  Speaker 2: The second theory is much more religious in nature. It's
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  Speaker 2: often called the divine sight.
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  Speaker 1: This is the one that suggests he didn't see a
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  Speaker 1: demon at all, but rather the angel of death.
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  Speaker 2: Correct the theorey proposes that because of the sheer weight
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  Speaker 2: of his life's work, the impurity, the dark magic, the
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  Speaker 2: manipulation of free will, essentially playing God, he was not
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  Speaker 2: granted a peaceful or normal transition out of this life.
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  Speaker 1: So when the Angel of Death arrived in that office,
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  Speaker 1: it appeared in its most terrifying, punishing form.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, it manifested as a reflection of his own darkness.
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  Speaker 1: So the look of pure horror on his face wasn't
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  Speaker 1: from seeing a monster. It was from seeing his final judgment.
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  Speaker 2: That he saw his eternal fate in that one split second,
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  Speaker 2: and the sheer spiritual shock of that revelation forcefully severed
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  Speaker 2: his soul from his body. That's what caused the instantaneous
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  Speaker 2: rigor mortis, the blue skin, the gaping scream.
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  Speaker 1: It really brings an entirely new heavy weight to the
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  Speaker 1: phrase scared to death.
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  Speaker 2: It does it implies a terror so profound, so absolute,
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  Speaker 2: that human biology just shuts off.
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  Speaker 1: You know, looking back at all the documentation for this
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  Speaker 1: deep dive, the disastrous movie set, the astronomical Institute, the
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  Speaker 1: gruesome apartment, the padlock, it really feels like a story
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  Speaker 1: about a man who just completely forgot he was human.
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  Speaker 1: He spends so much time manipulating the invisible world that
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  Speaker 1: he became convinced he was immune to it.
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  Speaker 2: He thought he was the undisputed master. But there is
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  Speaker 2: a very old saying in occult circles. The magic always
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  Speaker 2: turns on the magician.
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  Speaker 1: You can juggle fire for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: But eventually you are going to get burned. El Lusseini
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  Speaker 2: thought he could just padlock the fire and bend it
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  Speaker 2: to his will, but.
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  Speaker 1: The fire had other plans.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly did.
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  Speaker 1: It really leaves you with this haunting final image to
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  Speaker 1: chew on. A man sitting completely alone in his quiet
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  Speaker 1: Higher Eyes office. He's surrounded by his books, his wealth,
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  Speaker 1: his assumed power, feeling totally untouchable, and then the air
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: pressure drops, the silence gets incredibly loud and except from.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: His desk, and for the very first time in his life,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: he realizes he is not the one in control.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: That image is going to stick with me for a
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: long time. Who too, Thanks for joining us on this
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: deep dive.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Catch you on the next one
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: And until then, maybe keep the lights on tonight.