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Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • WTF HAPPENED Edition - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: let's get into today's five stories. In two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 1: sixty year old Michael Dick was living in Bow East
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Speaker 1: London with his wife and two daughters. While his life
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Speaker 1: was not exactly exciting, it was good. He lived in
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Speaker 1: a quiet and safe neighborhood, and Michael, who used to
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Speaker 1: be a carpenter, was now semi retired and got to
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Speaker 1: spend the bulk of his time with his friends and family.
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Speaker 1: But that year something really started to bother him. Ten
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Speaker 1: years prior, Michael had split up with his first wife,
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Speaker 1: and after their divorce was finalized, his ex wife and
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Speaker 1: the daughter they had together. Her name was Lisa and
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Speaker 1: she was twenty one at the time. Those two stayed
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Speaker 1: in the family home in Sudbury, England, and Michael moved
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Speaker 1: south about an hour and a.
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Speaker 2: Half to Bow, East London.
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Speaker 1: The divorce had been quite messy, and so Michael had
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Speaker 1: not only lost touch with his ex wife, he had
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Speaker 1: also lost touch with Lisa. And so fast forward ten
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Speaker 1: years back to two thousand and seven, and Michael and
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Speaker 1: Lisa had not spoken since the divorce, and Michael found
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Speaker 1: himself suddenly feeling this unbelievable wave of grief over the
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Speaker 1: loss of his relationship with his first child, and so,
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Speaker 1: after speaking with his current wife and his two other daughters,
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Speaker 1: he decided that he had to go find Lisa.
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Speaker 2: He had to be reunited with her.
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Speaker 1: The only problem was he didn't know where Lisa lived,
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Speaker 1: He didn't have her contact information, and he didn't know
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Speaker 1: where his ex wife was, so he couldn't even ask
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Speaker 1: her how to get in touch with Lisa. However, he
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Speaker 1: did have the street address of where they used to
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Speaker 1: live in Sudbury, England, and so he decided that would
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Speaker 1: be his starting point. So in August of that year,
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Speaker 1: Michael and his two other younger daughters, they hopped in
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Speaker 1: the car and they left Bow, East London, and they
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Speaker 1: headed up to Sudbury. And when they got there, Michael
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Speaker 1: navigated to his old street, which had brick houses lining
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Speaker 1: each side of the road, and he drove down until
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Speaker 1: he spotted his old house and he parked right out front,
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Speaker 1: and then he alone hopped out of the car and
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Speaker 1: he walked up to the front door.
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Speaker 2: He took a deep breath and then he knocked on
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Speaker 2: the door.
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Speaker 1: When the door opened, it was not Lisa, It was
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Speaker 1: not his ex wife. It was some other family that
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Speaker 1: he didn't know, and they didn't know Lisa or his
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Speaker 1: ex wife, and so they said, you know, good luck
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Speaker 1: finding your daughter, but we don't have any information for you.
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Speaker 1: So Michael was crushed, but he thanked them and he
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Speaker 1: turned around and he went back to the car and
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Speaker 1: he told his other daughters about what he had just learned,
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Speaker 1: and then from there the trio just kind of began
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Speaker 1: driving around Sudbury, half looking for Lisa out on the streets,
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Speaker 1: although none of them thought they would actually find her,
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Speaker 1: and then also kind of discussing what they were going
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Speaker 1: to do next because now they had nothing. And so
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Speaker 1: as they're driving around the streets of Sudbury, they come
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Speaker 1: to the realization that their best bet at finding Lisa
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Speaker 1: is putting some sort of story in the local newspaper
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Speaker 1: that hopefully she would see and then she would contact Michael.
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Speaker 1: And so they drove to the headquarters of the local paper,
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Speaker 1: the Suffolk Free Press, and they went inside and they
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Speaker 1: managed to speak to a reporter, and after telling the
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Speaker 1: reporter Michael's story about how he's lost touch with Lisa,
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Speaker 1: the reporter thought, you know what, this is actually a
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting story and I'd be happy to do a
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Speaker 1: small feature on you guys. And so the reporter, along
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Speaker 1: with a photographer, brought Michael and his two daughters outside.
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Speaker 1: They took a picture of them, and then they told Michael,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the next edition of the paper that
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Speaker 1: we'll run in a couple of days.
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Speaker 2: We'll run this picture.
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Speaker 1: Along with a little write up about how you're looking
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Speaker 1: for Lisa, and we'll put your contact information in there,
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Speaker 1: and hopefully she sees it and she reaches out to
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Speaker 1: you and you can be reunited and live happily ever after.
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Speaker 1: And so Michael thanked the reporter and the photographer, and
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Speaker 1: then he and his other two daughters hopped in the
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Speaker 1: car and headed back to Bow East London. In two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven, at the same time that Michael was beginning.
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Speaker 2: His search for Lisa, Lisa was actually beginning to think,
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Speaker 2: you know what, I want to go find my dad.
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Speaker 1: Lisa was now thirty one years old, she had three
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Speaker 1: kids of her own, she was married, she had moved
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Speaker 1: out of Sudbury to a neighboring town, and she was thinking,
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Speaker 1: you know, I really want to have a relationship with
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Speaker 1: my dad again so that my kids can have a
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Speaker 1: relationship with him. And so she began speaking with her
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Speaker 1: mother and with friends about how she should go about
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Speaker 1: finding her dad, because, like Michael, she didn't have his
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Speaker 1: contact information, she didn't have a phone number, she didn't
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Speaker 1: know anyone who would and then when she went on
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Speaker 1: social media to look for him. He wasn't on there,
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Speaker 1: and so she was kind of at a loss. Then
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Speaker 1: one day in August, she was at her office and
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Speaker 1: she was in the break room and she saw a
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Speaker 1: copy of the Suffolk Free Press sitting out on the
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Speaker 1: coffee table.
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Speaker 2: So she picked it up and she.
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Speaker 1: Began flipping through the pages, and then suddenly she stopped
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Speaker 1: when she saw a picture of herself. She saw her
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Speaker 1: and her mother walking along the streets of Sudbury. She
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Speaker 1: had been in Sudbridge just a couple of days ago
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Speaker 1: to talk to her mom about finding her dad and
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Speaker 1: kind of strategies for how to.
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Speaker 2: Go about doing that.
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Speaker 1: And then Lisa glanced at the caption for this photo
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Speaker 1: and she nearly fell off of her chair. The man
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Speaker 1: and the two girls who were the main focus of
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Speaker 1: this photo that Lisa was in were her father and
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Speaker 1: her two stepsisters. Didn't recognize them. She just saw herself
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Speaker 1: in the back of this photo. So purely by chance,
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Speaker 1: after being a part for over a decade, on the
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Speaker 1: only day that Lisa happened to be in Sudbury talking
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Speaker 1: to her mom about finding her father, she was literally
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Speaker 1: one hundred feet behind her father and her stepsisters as
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Speaker 1: they were looking for her and putting out this ad
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Speaker 1: in the paper to hopefully find her, and this one
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Speaker 1: photo that the photographer took captured all of them in
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Speaker 1: the same frame. Lisa would of course read the article
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Speaker 1: and get her father's contact information. She would reach out,
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Speaker 1: and initially Michael actually thought it was a scam and
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Speaker 1: didn't believe this was actually Lisa calling to say I
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Speaker 1: found myself in the picture of you in Sudbury. But
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Speaker 1: eventually he was convinced and he drove right out to
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Speaker 1: Sudbury and he got a chance to meet his grandkids
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Speaker 1: for the first time, and today he and Lisa are
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Speaker 1: still in touch. In nineteen sixty four, during his final
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Speaker 1: semester of college in Wisconsin, a twenty one year old
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Speaker 1: man named Harry decided to take an acting class.
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Speaker 2: He believed it would be an easy.
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Speaker 1: A and he'd always been pretty shy, and so we
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Speaker 1: figured this class might be able to help him get
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Speaker 1: over that. But this class wound up having a much
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Speaker 1: larger impact on Harry's life than he ever could have imagined.
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Speaker 1: Not only did he meet his future wife in this class,
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Speaker 1: but he also realized he loved acting, something he never
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Speaker 1: thought he would like, and he decided after college that
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Speaker 1: that was the thing he was going to pursue. And
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Speaker 1: so after he graduates later that year, he and his
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Speaker 1: girlfriend get married and then they fly out to Hollywood, California,
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Speaker 1: where Harry auditions for Columbia Pictures New Talent Program, which
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Speaker 1: is basically this program that's designed to help new actors
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Speaker 1: and actresses get parts in Hollywood because it's so hard
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Speaker 1: to do that. And so he's accepted into this program,
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Speaker 1: signs of contract with them that pays him almost nothing,
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Speaker 1: and right away they start shopping him around for different
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Speaker 1: parts in TV shows and movies, but nobody is interested
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Speaker 1: in Harry Nobody.
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Speaker 2: The only roles he was.
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Speaker 1: Getting were incredibly minor and usually non speaking, and so
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Speaker 1: it was really not advancing his career.
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Speaker 2: Then in nineteen sixty six, so.
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Speaker 1: Two years after he and his wife had arrived in Hollywood,
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Speaker 1: Harry received what seemed like his first big break. He
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Speaker 1: was offered a speaking role in a movie, although it
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Speaker 1: was a very minor role. It was a sixty second
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Speaker 1: bit where Harry basically walked on screen in this hotel
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Speaker 1: and he started calling out for a particular guest and
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Speaker 1: when he finds this guest.
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Speaker 2: He walks up and gives him a piece of paper
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Speaker 2: and then he leaves.
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Speaker 1: So it's a forgettable scene, but it's a real scene
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Speaker 1: in a real movie.
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Speaker 2: And so this was a big deal for Harry. And
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Speaker 2: so after Harry goes over to.
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Speaker 1: The studio and he films his whole scene and it's
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Speaker 1: all done, he goes back over to the headquarters of
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Speaker 1: the New Talent Program at Columbia Pictures. And as soon
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Speaker 1: as he goes inside, one of the producers that was
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Speaker 1: in charge of this new Talent program, who had apparently
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Speaker 1: had a chance already to see this sixty second scene
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Speaker 1: in this movie that Harry was in, he calls Harry
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Speaker 1: over and asks him to go.
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Speaker 2: Up to his office for a second. So the pair
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Speaker 2: go up to his office.
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Speaker 1: They both sit down, and the guy looks at him
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Speaker 1: and says, look, I just got to shoot you straight here.
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Speaker 1: You're not gonna make it in Hollywood. You're not gonna
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Speaker 1: be a movie star. When Tony Curtis was told to
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Speaker 1: carry groceries across this room in one of his first movies,
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Speaker 1: everybody knew right away as he's carrying those groceries that
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Speaker 1: that guy he's going to be a movie star. You
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Speaker 1: could see it in the scene, even though all he
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Speaker 1: was doing was carrying groceries. And when you did your
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Speaker 1: scene as the bellhop walking around the hotel, I just
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Speaker 1: didn't see it. You don't have the X factor. You're
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Speaker 1: not gonna be a movie star. For reference, Tony Curtis,
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Speaker 1: the guy this producer was referencing, was a huge movie star.
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Speaker 2: In the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties.
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Speaker 1: And so Harry, after getting this horrible comment made about him,
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Speaker 1: he pauses for a second, and then he leans across
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Speaker 1: the table and looks at this producer and squints his
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Speaker 1: eyes and says, you know, Tony was such a good actor.
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't we have believed he was just a grocery delivery boy,
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Speaker 2: not a movie star.
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Speaker 1: And at this totally smart alec remark, the producer fired
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Speaker 1: Harry on the spot.
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Speaker 2: Harry would go on.
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Speaker 1: To sign a similar new Talent Program deal with Universal Studios,
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Speaker 1: but again he could not get a real part to
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Speaker 1: save his life, and the feedback he finally got was, Harry,
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Speaker 1: you're just not pretty enough and you're not really that talented.
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Speaker 1: By the mid nineteen seventies, Harry was in his mid thirties,
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Speaker 1: and while he still aspired to be an actor and
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Speaker 1: wanted to be an actor, he was making almost no
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Speaker 1: money from acting, and so he decided instead of acting,
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Speaker 1: he was going to become a carpenter. That was going
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Speaker 1: to be his full time job, despite the fact he
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Speaker 1: knew nothing about carpentry, and so he literally, just because
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Speaker 1: he has this interest in carpentry, goes to the library
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Speaker 1: and checks out all these how to be a carpenter books,
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Speaker 1: and over the next couple of weeks he studies these
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Speaker 1: books and does a couple projects around his own house,
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Speaker 1: and then finally he just felt confident enough or he
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Speaker 1: was just desperate enough for money that he began going
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Speaker 1: around to his network and asking people in Hollywood if
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Speaker 1: they needed some woodworking, if they needed help from a carpenter,
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Speaker 1: And surprisingly, lots of people took him up on his
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Speaker 1: offer and they hired him to be their carpenter, and
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Speaker 1: before long, Harry was dubbed the Carpenter to the Stars,
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Speaker 1: which was kind of ironic because he actually was not
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Speaker 1: a very good carpenter and he was regularly seen on
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Speaker 1: the job literally holding a book teaching him how to
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Speaker 1: be a carpenter while doing the carpentry with his other hand.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy six, Harry was a full fledged carpenter
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Speaker 1: and had been for about a year when one of
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Speaker 1: his very close friends named Fred Russ, who was a
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Speaker 1: casting director and film producer, gave him a call and
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Speaker 1: told him he had a very unique opportunity for him. Now,
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Speaker 1: at this point, Harry was not looking for any more
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Speaker 1: acting roles. He kind of figured that that ship has sailed,
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Speaker 1: even though he wishes.
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Speaker 2: He could be an actor.
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Speaker 1: At this point, he had a wife, he had two sons,
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Speaker 1: and so he's thinking, I got to just keep doing
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Speaker 1: this carpentry thing because I got to pay the bills.
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Speaker 1: So he says to Fred, you know, I appreciate the
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Speaker 1: offer of whatever this is, but if it has to
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Speaker 1: do with acting, you know, I'm just not interested. And Fred,
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Speaker 1: who was one of the very few people in Hollywood
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Speaker 1: who fundamentally believed Harry was destined to be a star,
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Speaker 1: told Harry, no, no, no, this is different. This is
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Speaker 1: not a pure go out and try out for the
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Speaker 1: part and hope for the best. This is like put
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Speaker 1: yourself in a good position and maybe somebody will discover
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Speaker 1: your as talented as you really are, and so Harry's like.
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Speaker 2: Okay, tell me about this opportunity. You know, I'm interested.
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Speaker 1: And so Fred explained there was this really talented and
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Speaker 1: eccentric film director who was trying to cast an upcoming movie,
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Speaker 1: and the way he went about casting for movies was
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Speaker 1: a little bit strange. Instead of having each of the
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Speaker 1: actors and actresses show up and individually audition for their parts,
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Speaker 1: he would group batches of actors and actresses and he
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Speaker 1: would have them audition as a group, because that way
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Speaker 1: he could tell if there was chemistry amongst some of
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Speaker 1: the actors and actresses, and he could gauge their individual talent.
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Speaker 1: And so he had all these groups already planned out,
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Speaker 1: but one of the groups was missing one male actor.
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Speaker 1: Somebody had dropped out at the last minute and was
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Speaker 1: not going to be there on the day of the audition.
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Speaker 1: And so when Fred Russ heard through the grapevine that
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Speaker 1: this director was going to be short this one person,
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Speaker 1: he immediately reached out to the director and said, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I got your guy.
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Speaker 2: There's this guy, Harry.
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Speaker 1: He's done a little bit of acting, he's incredibly talented.
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Speaker 1: You got to give him a chance, you know, at
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Speaker 1: the minimum he can come in there and he can
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Speaker 1: at least just read the lines and help you do
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Speaker 1: this audition. But I know he's available that day, and
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Speaker 1: I know he would love to help. And so this
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Speaker 1: director tells Fred, Okay, thank you, I'd love to have
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Speaker 1: him come down. But stressed to him, he is not
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Speaker 1: auditioning for any part in this movie. I'm not bringing
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Speaker 1: in some person and just throwing them in. It takes
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Speaker 1: me a long time to find people that I want
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Speaker 1: to audition, and he is not one of them. He
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Speaker 1: is just there to facilitate the audition. He's just going
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Speaker 1: to read the lines so the other people in his
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Speaker 1: group can do their audition. And so, after Fred stopped
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Speaker 1: explaining this situation, Harry was actually kind of annoyed. He
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Speaker 1: was annoyed that Fred had basically already volunteered him and
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Speaker 1: so he couldn't really even say no without making Fred
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Speaker 1: look bad. And he didn't like the idea that this
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Speaker 1: was basically a waste of his time. He was being
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Speaker 1: asked to go read lines but not even try out,
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Speaker 1: So how is this even an opportunity? But Fred told him, look,
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Speaker 1: worst case scenario, you meet some pretty powerful people in Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: This director's a big deal. The people there are going
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Speaker 1: to be big deals in Hollywood, so you'll meet them
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Speaker 1: and maybe they will recognize your talent, or maybe you
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Speaker 1: get some new clients for your carpentry business. So no
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Speaker 1: matter what, you get something out of it. And so
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Speaker 1: finally Harry says, okay, fine, I'll go do this thing.
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Speaker 1: And so Harry goes to this audition. He's handed the
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Speaker 1: script and he's reminded repeatedly to not attempt to audition,
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Speaker 1: don't try to act, just read the lines.
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Speaker 2: I don't care if you're monotone.
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Speaker 1: You just read these lines because you're not auditioning.
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Speaker 2: Everybody else is You're not. Is that clear? And Harry's like, yes,
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Speaker 2: I get it. I'm just reading the lines.
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Speaker 1: And so Harry sits down and he starts reading the
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Speaker 1: lines and he's trying to do what they told him
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Speaker 1: to do. Oh but the way he was actually feeling
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Speaker 1: and his actual personality began seeping through. He started coming
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Speaker 1: off as this really grumpy and sarcastic guy that just
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Speaker 1: didn't care about anybody there. He was just totally bitter
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Speaker 1: that he was in the situation he was in. And
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Speaker 1: apparently this is exactly what the director was looking for
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Speaker 1: in one of the characters. He was trying to cast
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Speaker 1: that kind of nonchalant, bravado, macho alpha type guy who
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Speaker 1: just didn't care about anybody. And so, over the course
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Speaker 1: of the day, as he's reading the script over and
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Speaker 1: over again, not caring at all about how he's performing,
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Speaker 1: He's just simply reading these lines and just being himself.
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Speaker 1: He was actually doing this amazing job portraying one of
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Speaker 1: the characters. And so they let Harry go. The whole day,
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Speaker 1: no one told him they were looking at him as
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Speaker 1: a potential character. And then at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: when Harry was about to just throw the script in
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Speaker 1: the trash and leave without talking to anyone, the film
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Speaker 1: director better known as George Lucas walks up to Harry
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Speaker 1: better known as Harrison Ford, and so, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: I was wrong. You are perfect for this movie Star Wars.
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Speaker 1: You need to play Hans Solo. And so Harrison Ford said,
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Speaker 1: all right, I'll play Han Solo. And that role as
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Speaker 1: Han Solo propelled Harrison Ford into the megastar that we
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Speaker 1: know him as today. A few years after, Harrison had
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Speaker 1: starred in Star Wars and he was this total aless celebrity.
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Speaker 1: He was at a Hollywood studio in one of their
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Speaker 1: restaurants when one of the waiters walked over to him
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Speaker 1: with the silver tray, and on this silver tray was
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Speaker 1: a single business card. So Harrison reaches over, he grabs
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Speaker 1: the business card. The waiter walks away, and he looks
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Speaker 1: at the card and handwritten on it is the phrase
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Speaker 1: I missed my bet. And he flipped the card over
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Speaker 1: and it was the name of that producer from the
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Speaker 1: New Talent program that had called Harry into his office
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Speaker 1: and said you're never going to make it in Hollywood
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Speaker 1: and you're fired. It was that guy, and he had
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Speaker 1: apparently sent the waiter over to make amends because he
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Speaker 1: was eating lunch in the same restaurant. And so Harrison
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Speaker 1: would later say in interviews that at the time he
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Speaker 1: got this card, and to this day that he was
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Speaker 1: doing this interview, he said, gave him immense pleasure that
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Speaker 1: when he looked up from this business card and he
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Speaker 1: understood the situation, he knows this guy's in the room somewhere.
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Speaker 1: As he looked around the room, he couldn't recognize the
17:13
Speaker 1: guy because he didn't know what he looked like. He
17:15
Speaker 1: was a nobody, and so instead of wasting any more
17:18
Speaker 1: time looking for this producer, he has looked at the card,
17:21
Speaker 1: chucked it and went back dating as lunch. Michael Packard
17:43
Speaker 1: might be the luckiest or unluckiest person alive. In two
17:47
Speaker 1: thousand and one, when Michael was thirty eight years old,
17:50
Speaker 1: he was on a flight over Costa Rica when the
17:52
Speaker 1: small plane he was on crashed. The pilot, copilot, and
17:56
Speaker 1: a passenger were all killed on impact, but Michael and
17:59
Speaker 1: the four other passengers they survived the crash, but they
18:02
Speaker 1: were all left badly injured and stranded in a very
18:05
Speaker 1: remote section of the jungle. The survivors attempted to use
18:08
Speaker 1: the downed planes radio equipment to send out a distress
18:12
Speaker 1: signal to try to get someone to come out and
18:14
Speaker 1: help them, but they had no way of knowing if
18:16
Speaker 1: anybody was receiving their signal, and so all they could
18:19
Speaker 1: do was just send it out and then wait and
18:21
Speaker 1: hope somebody found them.
18:22
Speaker 2: Before they all died.
18:23
Speaker 1: And sure enough, forty eight hours after crashing, rescuers were
18:27
Speaker 1: able to hack their way deep into the jungle where
18:29
Speaker 1: Michael and the other survivors were and they were all saved.
18:32
Speaker 1: While Michael was recovering in the hospital, a doctor told
18:35
Speaker 1: him that, based on his injuries, he would not have
18:38
Speaker 1: survived another night out in that jungle. The chances of
18:41
Speaker 1: even being in a plane crash are astronomically low. The
18:44
Speaker 1: odds are about one in five million, with some places
18:47
Speaker 1: giving odds as low as one.
18:49
Speaker 2: In twenty million.
18:50
Speaker 1: To put that in perspective, Michael was far more likely
18:53
Speaker 1: to have been struck by lightning, which is about a
18:56
Speaker 1: one in one million chance, than he was to have
18:58
Speaker 1: been in that plane crash. But that plane crash would
19:01
Speaker 1: not be the last time that Michael defied the odds
19:04
Speaker 1: and did something totally unbelievable. Over the next couple of decades, Michael,
19:08
Speaker 1: who was a commercial diver by trade, would survive not one,
19:11
Speaker 1: but two significant encounters with great white sharks off the
19:15
Speaker 1: coast of California. Some of Michael's friends would not be
19:18
Speaker 1: so lucky. Michael would get lost at sea, like really lost,
19:22
Speaker 1: like treading out in the middle of the ocean with
19:24
Speaker 1: no land in sight for hours. Lost, but miraculously a
19:28
Speaker 1: boat would find him and save him again, and Michael
19:31
Speaker 1: would discover the body of a longtime missing person hidden
19:35
Speaker 1: underneath the water.
19:36
Speaker 2: About sixty feet down off the coast of Massachusetts.
19:39
Speaker 1: But of all the improbable exploits of Michael's life, none
19:43
Speaker 1: is more unbelievable than what happened to him in twenty
19:45
Speaker 1: twenty one, which experts are saying he had about a
19:49
Speaker 1: one and one trillion chance of experiencing. On the morning
19:53
Speaker 1: of June eleventh, twenty twenty one, Michael, who was fifty
19:56
Speaker 1: seven years old at the time, hopped in a boat
19:58
Speaker 1: with his longtime diving part Josiah. Once they were all
20:01
Speaker 1: situated and they had all their equipment inside of the boat,
20:04
Speaker 1: they took off and headed for the open waters right
20:06
Speaker 1: off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where they planned
20:09
Speaker 1: to do some lobster diving. A popular way to retrieve
20:12
Speaker 1: lobsters is to literally just dive down and buy hand
20:15
Speaker 1: pick them up and bring them back to the surface,
20:18
Speaker 1: and so that day that's what Michael and Josiah planned
20:20
Speaker 1: to do.
20:21
Speaker 2: Once they reached the spot right off the coast.
20:23
Speaker 1: Michael put on all of his scuba diving equipment and
20:25
Speaker 1: hopped in the water. Josiah did not put on any
20:28
Speaker 1: diving equipment because he was not going to be getting
20:30
Speaker 1: in the water for this dive. Instead, he would remain
20:32
Speaker 1: on the boat and help Michael get in and.
20:34
Speaker 2: Out of the water.
20:34
Speaker 1: He'd pull lobsters up onto the boat, and he was
20:37
Speaker 1: also there in case of an.
20:38
Speaker 2: Emergency he could call for help.
20:39
Speaker 1: And so just after six am, once Michael was in
20:42
Speaker 1: the water and signaled he was good to go, he
20:44
Speaker 1: dove down below and after a little while he came
20:46
Speaker 1: back up, but with a relatively small haul of lobsters,
20:49
Speaker 1: and so the two men figured that, well, I guess
20:51
Speaker 1: today is just not a great day for catching lobsters.
20:54
Speaker 1: But regardless, for the next couple of hours, Michael continued
20:57
Speaker 1: to go down and catch as many lobsters as he
20:59
Speaker 1: possible could. By eight am, Michael had captured approximately one
21:03
Speaker 1: hundred pounds of lobsters that were now in the boat,
21:06
Speaker 1: and so Michael and Josiah were actually starting to feel
21:08
Speaker 1: pretty good about this particular trip, and so Michael decided
21:11
Speaker 1: he would go back down one more time and try
21:13
Speaker 1: to get just a few more lobsters before they called
21:15
Speaker 1: it a day. And so Josiah remembers watching Michael, who
21:18
Speaker 1: was in the water. As he put his mouthpiece back in,
21:20
Speaker 1: he signaled up to Josiah that he was good to go,
21:22
Speaker 1: and Josiah watched as he disappeared below the surface.
21:25
Speaker 2: The water was very.
21:26
Speaker 1: Calm, and Josiah's just kind of scanning out across the water,
21:29
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, this eruption of white
21:32
Speaker 1: water came rushing up to the surface right where.
21:34
Speaker 2: Michael had gone down below, and so right.
21:37
Speaker 1: Away Josiah leaned out over the edge of the boat
21:39
Speaker 1: to see if he could look down and see his friend,
21:42
Speaker 1: but he didn't see Michael anywhere. Instead, he saw something
21:45
Speaker 1: massive moving around underneath them. After Michael had broken the
21:49
Speaker 1: surface on this final dive down to get more lobsters,
21:53
Speaker 1: his plan was to sink down to the bottom of
21:55
Speaker 1: the ocean at about sixty feet and then go hunting
21:58
Speaker 1: for lobsters. But when he had descended to about forty
22:00
Speaker 1: five feet, he felt something smash into him from behind
22:04
Speaker 1: that felt like a truck hitting him, and then everything
22:07
Speaker 1: around him went totally pitch black. The impact of whatever
22:10
Speaker 1: it was that hit him had caused his mouthpiece to
22:12
Speaker 1: get blown out of his mouth, so he doesn't have
22:15
Speaker 1: air and he starts fumbling around to find his mouthpiece,
22:17
Speaker 1: but he can't find it, and as he's fumbling around.
22:20
Speaker 1: His hands are making contact with what feels like walls
22:24
Speaker 1: all around him. He was inside of an enclosed space,
22:27
Speaker 1: but when he had touched these walls, they were not
22:29
Speaker 1: normal walls. They were soft, but they were hard at
22:32
Speaker 1: the same time, and they seemed to be moving, like
22:34
Speaker 1: they were pulsating or quivering. The space he was in
22:37
Speaker 1: was fairly large, and it was not completely flooded with water.
22:40
Speaker 1: It was like Michael had slipped into this air pocket.
22:43
Speaker 1: But this air pocket was not stationary. It was moving
22:46
Speaker 1: and pretty fast because the water that was inside of
22:49
Speaker 1: it was violently sloshing all around. Michael could hear it
22:53
Speaker 1: slapping up against the walls. As Michael continued to panic
22:57
Speaker 1: and fumble around for his mouthpiece, he started to notice
23:00
Speaker 1: intense pressure on his legs, but he had no idea
23:03
Speaker 1: what was causing it, and because it's pitch black, he
23:05
Speaker 1: couldn't see what it was. Finally, Michael found the line
23:08
Speaker 1: that was connected to his mouthpiece.
23:10
Speaker 2: He jammed it in his.
23:11
Speaker 1: Mouth and he took a long inhale, and now that
23:13
Speaker 1: he could breathe again, he had this horrifying thought, Have
23:16
Speaker 1: I been swallowed by a shark? He instinctively began feeling
23:19
Speaker 1: around for the shark's teeth, but there were no teeth.
23:23
Speaker 2: Inside of this space.
23:24
Speaker 1: Instead, it was just these walls that continued to shift
23:27
Speaker 1: and move all around him. And that's when it dawned
23:29
Speaker 1: on him he had been swallowed, but not by a shark.
23:32
Speaker 2: He had been swallowed by a whale.
23:34
Speaker 1: For nearly forty five seconds, Michael was trapped inside the
23:38
Speaker 1: closed mouth of.
23:39
Speaker 2: A humpback whale.
23:41
Speaker 1: Despite their enormous size that can be up to sixty
23:44
Speaker 1: feet long and weigh up to seventy thousand pounds, they
23:47
Speaker 1: only eat small fish, so.
23:49
Speaker 2: When this particular whale realized Michael was not a tiny fish, it.
23:53
Speaker 1: Began violently swinging its head side to side to try
23:56
Speaker 1: to dislodge Michael, and that caused that eruption of white
24:00
Speaker 1: water to go to the surface that Josiah saw, and
24:02
Speaker 1: after a few good shakes, Michael.
24:05
Speaker 2: Was spat out of this whale's mouth.
24:06
Speaker 1: Michael remembers suddenly being in the open water with enough
24:10
Speaker 1: light coming down that he could see around him. The
24:12
Speaker 1: water was very turbulent and churning, and he recalled as
24:15
Speaker 1: he made his way to the surface, looking straight down
24:18
Speaker 1: and seeing the tail fin of this enormous whale swimming
24:20
Speaker 1: away from him. Michael made his way to the surface
24:22
Speaker 1: and he flagged down Josiah, who boted over to him.
24:25
Speaker 1: He pulled him back into the boat, and Michael, who
24:27
Speaker 1: was totally traumatized by what happened, could only say to
24:30
Speaker 1: Josiah that he was inside of it and that it
24:34
Speaker 1: tried to eat him. After Josiah brought Michael back to
24:37
Speaker 1: shore and called the authorities, Michael was rushed to a
24:39
Speaker 1: hospital where he was evaluated, and unbelievably, he suffered really
24:43
Speaker 1: no injuries. He had some significant bruising to his legs
24:46
Speaker 1: where the whale had actually clamped down on him.
24:48
Speaker 2: That was the.
24:49
Speaker 1: Pressure he felt in his legs, the mouth of the
24:51
Speaker 1: whale was closing on his legs, But besides that, there
24:54
Speaker 1: really wasn't any other injuries, and so later that day
24:57
Speaker 1: he was discharged. It's believed the whale was a juvenile
25:00
Speaker 1: that had been seen in the area, that was about
25:02
Speaker 1: thirty to thirty five feet long, and that had just
25:05
Speaker 1: accidentally scooped Michael up. The whale was certainly not trying
25:08
Speaker 1: to hurt Michael. Whales, especially humpback whales, are not in
25:11
Speaker 1: the business of hurting people. But in this exchange with Michael, Michael.
25:15
Speaker 2: Could have very easily died.
25:17
Speaker 1: He could have drowned or suffocated inside the mouth of
25:20
Speaker 1: this whale, or he could have just died from blunt
25:22
Speaker 1: forre's trauma. But luckily he didn't. Despite how terrifying this
25:26
Speaker 1: incident sounds, Michael was incredibly casual in all of his
25:30
Speaker 1: interviews about this.
25:31
Speaker 2: He just kind of acted like, man, these things kind
25:33
Speaker 2: of happen.
25:33
Speaker 1: You know, Wales come out of nowhere, they're just scooped yeup,
25:36
Speaker 1: you know that happens. And he would tell the incredulous
25:39
Speaker 1: reporters who just could not believe this guy was real
25:41
Speaker 1: that as soon as he was better, he was getting
25:44
Speaker 1: back in the water and going lobster diving. On the
25:57
Speaker 1: evening of January sixth, nineteen eighty two, a man named
26:01
Speaker 1: Harold Bray, who was a sheriff in Jefferson County, Colorado,
26:04
Speaker 1: which is an area just west of Denver, arrived at
26:07
Speaker 1: the Denver Airport. Harold was running late because his commute
26:11
Speaker 1: into the airport had been treacherous because Denver and the
26:14
Speaker 1: surrounding areas were all getting pounded by a snowstorm. After
26:18
Speaker 1: running into the terminal and getting checked in and getting
26:20
Speaker 1: through security. He made it to his gate right as
26:23
Speaker 1: they were boarding the plane. Feeling very relieved, Harold joined
26:27
Speaker 1: the queue of other people that were getting on the
26:29
Speaker 1: ramp to go down into the plane, and then just
26:31
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes later, he stepped on board and
26:34
Speaker 1: he found his seat, which was located at the front
26:36
Speaker 1: right side of the plane. He sat down in a
26:39
Speaker 1: seat he buckled in, and then he grabbed an in
26:41
Speaker 1: flight magazine from the back pocket of the chair in
26:43
Speaker 1: front of him, and he waited for takeoff. Fifteen minutes later,
26:47
Speaker 1: As the plane was rumbling down the runway at full speed,
26:50
Speaker 1: Harold looked out the window so as the plane began
26:53
Speaker 1: to lift off the ground, he watched as the city
26:56
Speaker 1: lights of Denver slowly faded away as they got higher
26:58
Speaker 1: and higher up. But just before their plane entered into
27:02
Speaker 1: the thick cloud that was hovering over that stretch of Colorado,
27:06
Speaker 1: Harold noticed something very odd out of his window. Located
27:10
Speaker 1: just west of Jefferson County, which is where Harold worked,
27:14
Speaker 1: was a twenty two mile stretch of road that cut
27:17
Speaker 1: through the Rocky mountains. It was called the Guinela Pass.
27:20
Speaker 1: And it took motorists up and over this eleven thousand
27:23
Speaker 1: foot mountain pass. Now, this was a beautiful scenic drive
27:27
Speaker 1: that Harold was very familiar with, but this road was
27:31
Speaker 1: not maintained in the wintertime. So if there was snow
27:34
Speaker 1: on the ground, you simply could not get through this pass.
27:37
Speaker 2: It was impossible.
27:38
Speaker 1: Yet, as Harold looked out of his plane window down
27:42
Speaker 1: to Jefferson County below, and he kind of scanned his
27:45
Speaker 1: way west up into the rockies, he saw there were
27:48
Speaker 1: clearly a car's headlights on the Guinela Pass, and so
27:52
Speaker 1: Harold's thinking to himself, why in the world would anyone
27:56
Speaker 1: be on the Guanella Pass in the middle of this
27:58
Speaker 1: huge snowstorm. It didn't make any But as Harold watched
28:02
Speaker 1: this vehicle.
28:03
Speaker 2: He saw what was going on.
28:05
Speaker 1: Whoever was in this vehicle was holding a flashlight out
28:08
Speaker 1: of their window and they were shining the lights straight
28:11
Speaker 1: up into the sky, flashing it on and off, signaling distress.
28:15
Speaker 1: This motorist was trapped. Harold knew the likelihood of another
28:19
Speaker 1: plane happening to fly over this area and looking down
28:23
Speaker 1: and seeing those lights and recognizing them for what they
28:26
Speaker 1: were an emergency were slim to none. So Harold knew
28:30
Speaker 1: if he didn't act quickly, this motorist was doomed, and
28:34
Speaker 1: so Harold quickly got up from his seat, he climbed
28:36
Speaker 1: over the person next to him, he got into the aisle,
28:38
Speaker 1: and he waved down the attendant, and then after the
28:40
Speaker 1: attendant ran over, Harold explained who he was and why.
28:44
Speaker 1: His experience as a sheriff told him that this was
28:47
Speaker 1: an emergency, and so the attendant took him very seriously.
28:50
Speaker 2: They turned around, they.
28:51
Speaker 1: Went into the cockpit, and they told the pilots, and
28:54
Speaker 1: the pilots used their radios to call down to authorities
28:57
Speaker 1: on the ground, and then just a couple of minutes later,
28:59
Speaker 1: the fire department was dispatched to Guenela Pass. Fifteen minutes later,
29:03
Speaker 1: the fire chief, a man named Dave Montoya, who was
29:06
Speaker 1: driving in a four wheel drive suv, arrived at the
29:10
Speaker 1: start of this twenty two mile stretch of Mountain Pass,
29:13
Speaker 1: and as they're driving through the whipping snow, he sees
29:16
Speaker 1: up ahead the headlights of the stranded vehicle, and so
29:19
Speaker 1: he drives right up alongside this vehicle, which was a
29:22
Speaker 1: small pickup truck that had clearly slid off the road
29:25
Speaker 1: and gotten stuck in a big snow bank, and so
29:27
Speaker 1: Davy Parks' suv he hops out and he rushes over
29:30
Speaker 1: to the driver's side window of this vehicle, and inside
29:34
Speaker 1: was a terrified looking thirty year old man named Alan Phillips,
29:37
Speaker 1: who was a mechanic who lived in the Denver area.
29:40
Speaker 2: Now at the time, it was the middle of the night.
29:42
Speaker 1: It's negative twenty two degrees fahrenheit outside, the winds are whipping,
29:46
Speaker 1: the snow is coming down, and Alan only had on
29:49
Speaker 1: a light jacket and some jeans and a small blanket
29:52
Speaker 1: wrapped around him. So, had Harold not spotted his flashlight
29:56
Speaker 1: SOS signal from the plane, it's almost garn that Alan
30:01
Speaker 1: would have died that night from hypothermia. And so when
30:04
Speaker 1: Alan turned and saw Dave standing there his rescuer, Alan
30:08
Speaker 1: began crying tears of joy and thanking God that he
30:12
Speaker 1: was going to survive. When Dave asked Alan what happened, Alan,
30:16
Speaker 1: who was slightly intoxicated, told Dave that he had gone
30:19
Speaker 1: out drinking at a bar and then when it was
30:21
Speaker 1: time to come home, he had stupidly decided to drive
30:25
Speaker 1: through the Guenela Pass back to his home forgetting that
30:28
Speaker 1: this particular stretch of road was not maintained during the winter.
30:32
Speaker 1: When Dave asked Alan how he got this really deep
30:35
Speaker 1: bruise on his cheek, you know, he assumed he got
30:37
Speaker 1: it from crashing off the side of the road. Alan
30:39
Speaker 1: smiled a kind of embarrassed smile and said, no, Actually,
30:43
Speaker 1: after I got stuck, I needed to urinate, and so
30:45
Speaker 1: I got out of the vehicle and I walked a
30:47
Speaker 1: few paces away from my truck, and I went to
30:49
Speaker 1: the bathroom. And then when I turned to walk back,
30:52
Speaker 1: the snow was so blinding I couldn't actually see my truck.
30:56
Speaker 1: And I ran to go find it again because I
30:58
Speaker 1: didn't want to be trapped out in the snow. And
31:00
Speaker 1: I ran into the truck face first, and so my
31:02
Speaker 1: cheek hit the door of the truck, and so Dave
31:05
Speaker 1: he just smiled and said, Alan, you are one lucky man.
31:09
Speaker 1: Over the next few days, local newspapers in Colorado and
31:12
Speaker 1: some national newspapers ran headlines about the miracle at Guinela Pass. However,
31:18
Speaker 1: as it would turn out, that headline would not age well.
31:22
Speaker 1: Thirty eight years later, in twenty twenty, it was discovered
31:26
Speaker 1: that Alan had lied to Dave about why he was
31:30
Speaker 1: in Guinela Pass. The truth was earlier in the evening
31:33
Speaker 1: that Alan would eventually get stuck. He had murdered two
31:37
Speaker 1: hitchhikers near Breckenridge, Colorado, roughly fifty miles from the Guinela Pass.
31:43
Speaker 1: Both of these murders had gone cold, but in late
31:46
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, DNA evidence connected Alan to both cases. Several
31:52
Speaker 1: hours before Alan got rescued, he picked up twenty two
31:55
Speaker 1: year old Annette Schne who was hitchhiking, and after she
31:58
Speaker 1: got into his truck, it's believed he held her at
32:01
Speaker 1: gunpoint and then put zip Ti handcuffs on her wrists,
32:04
Speaker 1: and then we don't really know what happened next, but
32:07
Speaker 1: at some point that night, Annette was taken out of
32:10
Speaker 1: the vehicle and led into the woods and she was
32:12
Speaker 1: shot in the back and she was left face down
32:15
Speaker 1: in a stream. A couple of hours after he killed Annett,
32:18
Speaker 1: Alan picked up another hitchhiker, twenty nine year old Barbara
32:21
Speaker 1: Overholtz her and when she got into his truck, it's
32:24
Speaker 1: believed he did the same thing. He held her at
32:26
Speaker 1: gunpoint and put her in zip Ti handcuffs. However, Barbara
32:30
Speaker 1: was able to break out of her restraints. It's believed
32:34
Speaker 1: she struck Alan in the cheek, which is why he
32:36
Speaker 1: got that deep bruise on his cheek, and then she
32:39
Speaker 1: leaped out of his car and started running, but Alan
32:42
Speaker 1: got out, chased her down and shot her in the chest,
32:45
Speaker 1: killing her, and then he dumped her body off the
32:47
Speaker 1: side of this cliff down into the snow bank below.
32:50
Speaker 1: So the only reason Alan got stuck in Guenela Pass
32:54
Speaker 1: is because he was attempting to flee the area where
32:58
Speaker 1: he committed these murders, and Heikelely just didn't understand how
33:01
Speaker 1: dangerous this pass was, and so shortly after turning onto it,
33:05
Speaker 1: his truck slid up the road and he got stuck.
33:07
Speaker 1: In February of twenty twenty one, Alan, who was seventy
33:11
Speaker 1: years old at the time and still living in the
33:13
Speaker 1: Denver area, was finally arrested for these two murders and
33:17
Speaker 1: he is currently awaiting trial.
33:19
Speaker 2: Assuming he did it.
33:20
Speaker 1: That Alan killed these two women, we don't know what
33:23
Speaker 1: his motivations were.
33:24
Speaker 2: It's not clear.
33:25
Speaker 1: He hasn't said, and we also don't know if there
33:28
Speaker 1: are potentially other victims. Just after midnight on June twenty second,
33:47
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, Charles Holden was on his way home
33:50
Speaker 1: from work when he decided to stop at a fast
33:52
Speaker 1: food restaurant near his house in Harrington, Delaware. After grabbing
33:55
Speaker 1: a quick bite to eat, Charles left the store and
33:57
Speaker 1: got back in his truck.
33:58
Speaker 2: He turned it on and he was about to drive
34:00
Speaker 2: out of the lot when.
34:01
Speaker 1: He stopped because there was this man running towards him, waving,
34:04
Speaker 1: trying to flag him down. So Charles put his truck
34:06
Speaker 1: back in park and he rolled his window down to
34:08
Speaker 1: see what this guy wanted. And when this stranger got
34:10
Speaker 1: close enough, he told Charles that his sister was having
34:13
Speaker 1: a baby and he needed a ride to the hospital, which.
34:15
Speaker 2: Was about twenty minutes away.
34:17
Speaker 1: Charles couldn't tell that this guy was lying. It was
34:19
Speaker 1: super late. He didn't know this guy, and he said
34:21
Speaker 1: a bad feeling about him, and so he told him, no,
34:24
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's too late. I got to get home.
34:26
Speaker 1: It's too far out of the way. The stranger immediately
34:28
Speaker 1: looked dejected and turned around and started walking away, and
34:31
Speaker 1: as Charles was watching him go, he felt bad and said,
34:34
Speaker 1: you know what, hey, come back here.
34:35
Speaker 2: I'll give you a ride part of the way.
34:37
Speaker 1: There, and so the stranger smiled, hopped in his passenger seat,
34:39
Speaker 1: and they took off.
34:40
Speaker 2: Charles drove him approximately.
34:42
Speaker 1: Three miles in the direction he had asked to go,
34:44
Speaker 1: before pulling over on the side of the road and
34:46
Speaker 1: telling him this is as far as I'm going to
34:47
Speaker 1: take you. Charles lived only about a block away and
34:50
Speaker 1: he didn't want to drive too far away from home
34:52
Speaker 1: so late at night.
34:53
Speaker 2: But the stranger, upon hearing he was being.
34:55
Speaker 1: Let out so soon, suddenly became angry and began fumbling
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Speaker 1: in his pocket like he was going to get an
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Speaker 1: for some sort of weapon, and he starts screaming at Charles,
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Speaker 1: hand over your keys, hand over your walle or I'm
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Speaker 1: going to kill you. Charles meanwhile, was on edge just
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Speaker 1: being in the car with this guy because he had
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Speaker 1: a bad feeling about him, and so he immediately jumped
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Speaker 1: into action. He turned off his truck, he ripped the
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Speaker 1: keys out of the ignition, and he leapt out of
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Speaker 1: his truck and started running. Charles saw way off in
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Speaker 1: the distance was a convenience store, and he figured he
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Speaker 1: could run to there and get some help. But as
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Speaker 1: he's running, he turns around and sees the stranger has
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Speaker 1: also leapt out of the car and was now sprinting
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Speaker 1: up to him with a screwdriver in his hand. And
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Speaker 1: this stranger was running really fast. He was gaining on Charles,
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Speaker 1: and soon Charles realized he wasn't going to make it
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Speaker 1: to the convenience store before this guy caught up to him.
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Speaker 1: And so at some point Charles just stops. He turns
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Speaker 1: around and he puts his hands up and he says, okay, okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll give you a ride wherever you want to go,
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Speaker 1: and then you can have my keys, my wallet, you
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Speaker 1: can have anything you want. And so the stranger runs
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Speaker 1: right up to Charles and he stops and he smiles
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Speaker 1: because he's very pleased with this result, and he pokes
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Speaker 1: him with the screwdriver and kind of gestures for him
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Speaker 1: to go back to the truck.
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Speaker 2: So Charles walks back to the truck with the.
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Speaker 1: Stranger right behind him, with the screwdriver periodically poking him
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Speaker 1: in the back. They finally get to the vehicle and
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Speaker 1: the stranger tells Charles to get in the car and
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Speaker 1: then wait. But as soon as Charles sat down, he
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Speaker 1: fired up his truck and sped off before the stranger
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Speaker 1: could hop in the passenger side door, and so Charles.
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Speaker 2: Is lying away from the guy.
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Speaker 1: He looks in his rear view mirror and he can
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Speaker 1: see the guy is chasing after him with a screwdriver
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Speaker 1: held over his head, but he sees the stranger at
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Speaker 1: some point just stops, turns around, and walks away. Charles
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Speaker 1: was totally relieved that he had escaped this horrible encounter,
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Speaker 1: and he was thinking about calling the police, but ultimately
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Speaker 1: decided he wouldn't because it was his decision to allow
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Speaker 1: some stranger to get in his car in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night, and so Charles kind of blamed himself
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Speaker 1: for the whole ordeal. What Charles was concerned about, though,
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Speaker 1: was where he had ditched. The stranger was not far
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Speaker 1: from his house, and he was worried if he just
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Speaker 1: turned around and drove right back to his house, that
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Speaker 1: this guy could recognize the truck and then follow him
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Speaker 1: to his house, and then who knows what could happen.
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Speaker 1: And so Charles decides he's just going to stay outside
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Speaker 1: of town and drive around for a while to make
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Speaker 1: sure this stranger is long gone by the time he
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Speaker 1: comes back. So after about an hour of doing just that,
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Speaker 1: driving around outside of town. Charles goes back into Harrington, Delaware,
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Speaker 1: and he gets on his street and he's shocked when
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Speaker 1: he sees the stranger who had just tried to kill
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Speaker 1: him is walking down the road right in front of him.
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Speaker 1: But luckily, the stranger did not hear or see Charles
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Speaker 1: pull onto his street, and so Charles immediately throws it
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Speaker 1: in reverse and he gets out of there and he
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Speaker 1: drives off. At this point, Charles decides he needs to
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Speaker 1: tell police because he doesn't know if this stranger actually
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Speaker 1: knows him, and that maybe he's targeting him and he's
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Speaker 1: waiting for him at its property, and so he calls
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Speaker 1: nine one one and he tells the dispatcher about what
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Speaker 1: had happened earlier and how this guy is now lurking
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Speaker 1: around his property, and the dispatcher tells him they'll send
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Speaker 1: an officer out to him, and so a few minutes later,
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Speaker 1: an officer showed up at the pay phone where Charles
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Speaker 1: was and they told Charles they would escort him back
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Speaker 1: to his property and if this stranger was still out
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Speaker 1: in the area, they would arrest him, and so the
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Speaker 1: two of them.
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Speaker 2: Made their way back to Charles's property.
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Speaker 1: They get there, the stranger's long gone, and then Charles
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Speaker 1: goes into his house. There's no sign of a break in,
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Speaker 1: there's no sign that anyone was near his property, and
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Speaker 1: so Charles thanks the officer. He feels totally relieved, but
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Speaker 1: before the officer leaves, he asks him if he wouldn't
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Speaker 1: mind doing a quick sweep of his mother's property. She
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Speaker 1: lived right behind Charles, on the other side of some bushes.
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Speaker 2: He told the officer. Her name was Dorothy.
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Speaker 1: She was seventy years old and she lived alone, and
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Speaker 1: he just wanted to make sure nothing happened to her.
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Speaker 2: So the officer said, no problem, I'll go check in
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Speaker 2: on her.
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Speaker 1: So the officer leaves Charles and goes across his backyard
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Speaker 1: through those bushes into Dorothy's backyard, and right away he
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Speaker 1: can see the back window on the back door has
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Speaker 1: been smashed, and the door itself is slightly ajar and
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Speaker 1: so the officer draws their pistol and they go up
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Speaker 1: and they enter the house and they look inside. They're
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Speaker 1: yelling for Dorothy, but there's no answer. It's totally dark
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Speaker 1: in the house, it's totally silent, and so after searching
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Speaker 1: the first floor and finding nothing, they make their way
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Speaker 1: up the flight of stairs and they find blood at
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Speaker 1: the top of the landing, and they follow this trail
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Speaker 1: of blood and it brings them into one of the
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Speaker 1: bedrooms where a woman is sprawled out on a bed.
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Speaker 2: She had been stabbed to death.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out, after Charles had ditched the stranger
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Speaker 1: and sped off without him, the stranger, whose name was
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Speaker 1: Gilbert Cannon, began looking for a place to sleep, and
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Speaker 1: the house he ultimately selected just happened to be Charles's
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Speaker 1: mother's house. After Gilbert broke in through her back door,
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Speaker 1: he saw Dorothy coming down the steps to confront him,
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Speaker 1: and because he was worried she'd be able to identify him,
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Speaker 1: he attacked her with a screwdriver. Gilbert would later tell
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Speaker 1: police that the attack on Charles was completely random. He
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Speaker 1: was just at this fast food restaurant. He saw Charles
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Speaker 1: get into his truck and he thought to himself, if
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Speaker 1: I can get in that guy's truck, I bet I
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Speaker 1: can rob him. And then after this failed robbery, when
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Speaker 1: Gilbert is out looking for a place to sleep and
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Speaker 1: he breaks into this house and this woman comes down
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Speaker 1: the stairs that he attacks and kills. He has no
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Speaker 1: idea that this woman Dorothy is Charles's mother. The entire
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Speaker 1: night was one big, horrible coincidence. Gilbert would plead guilty
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Speaker 1: to the murder and would be sentenced to life in
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Speaker 1: prison without the possibility of parole.
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