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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell three very strange disappearance stories,
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- 0:53Speaker 1: thirty pm on August twentieth, twenty ten, a seventy six
- 0:56Speaker 1: year old man named Jong walk through the streets of
- 0:59Speaker 1: New tie Paces, which is a major city in northern Taiwan.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Jong was on the end of an evening walk and
- 1:04Speaker 1: he was making his way back towards his daughter's apartment,
- 1:07Speaker 1: where he was also staying. And as Jong neared the apartment,
- 1:10Speaker 1: he happened to notice there was a street lamp right
- 1:13Speaker 1: outside with this big poster attached to it that he
- 1:15Speaker 1: hadn't seen before. And as he got closer, he saw
- 1:18Speaker 1: there was also this picture of this middle aged woman
- 1:21Speaker 1: whose name was Chun Yan Chui, and apparently she was missing.
- 1:24Speaker 1: And not only that, she also lived in the same
- 1:27Speaker 1: building that his daughter lived in, except Chun was actually
- 1:30Speaker 1: a dementia patient and she was staying on the fifth
- 1:33Speaker 1: floor of this apartment building complex where there was this
- 1:36Speaker 1: memory care facility, and that's where she was being taken
- 1:38Speaker 1: care of. And about a week earlier, she had gone
- 1:41Speaker 1: out for an evening walk, this is what had said
- 1:43Speaker 1: on the poster, and just not returned. And so since
- 1:46Speaker 1: the week before, police had been out looking for her
- 1:49Speaker 1: and her family and friends. They were putting these posters
- 1:51Speaker 1: up and it was clear, you know, nobody had found
- 1:54Speaker 1: her yet. Now Jung had never met this woman, but
- 1:56Speaker 1: he sort of felt bad for her, and so he
- 1:58Speaker 1: found himself staring at this picture and trying to memorize
- 2:01Speaker 1: her face. You know, in the off chance that he
- 2:03Speaker 1: just saw her somewhere, he could report her to the
- 2:05Speaker 1: authorities and hopefully get her rescued. And so after staring
- 2:08Speaker 1: at the picture, for a little bit longer and sort
- 2:09Speaker 1: of feeling bad for this woman, Jung turned and just
- 2:12Speaker 1: continued inside the apartment building. And once he was in
- 2:15Speaker 1: the apartment building, he made his way over to the elevator.
- 2:18Speaker 1: He hit the up button and he waited, and then
- 2:20Speaker 1: a moment later there was a ding and the doors
- 2:22Speaker 1: opened up. He stepped onto the elevator, he pressed the button,
- 2:26Speaker 1: the doors closed, and then Jung waited as he headed
- 2:29Speaker 1: up to his daughter's apartment on the seventh floor. But
- 2:32Speaker 1: as he was going up, he noticed he had accidentally
- 2:35Speaker 1: hit the sixth floor, not the seventh floor. And right
- 2:39Speaker 1: at that moment he saw that he was reaching the
- 2:41Speaker 1: sixth floor and said the elevator car was slowing down,
- 2:44Speaker 1: and so he just was like, oh whoops, and he
- 2:46Speaker 1: hit floor seven. But by the time he hit floor seven,
- 2:49Speaker 1: the car had come to a stop on floor six
- 2:52Speaker 1: and the doors were opening, like it would need to reset.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Doors open on six, they close, and then he'd go
- 2:57Speaker 1: to seven, like this is no big deal. Jong is
- 3:00Speaker 1: just waiting, you know, for these doors to open shut
- 3:02Speaker 1: and go up one more floor. However, when the door's
- 3:05Speaker 1: opened on floor six, Jong is looking straight out and
- 3:10Speaker 1: he could not believe what he saw, and he just
- 3:13Speaker 1: began to scream. Around the same time this was happening,
- 3:16Speaker 1: Jong's daughter was finishing up her shift at work when
- 3:19Speaker 1: she got a phone call and she saw it was
- 3:20Speaker 1: coming from her dad, and he rarely called her when
- 3:23Speaker 1: she was at work, so this was sort of confusing
- 3:25Speaker 1: and surprising, and so right away she picked it up
- 3:28Speaker 1: and she answered, and immediately she hears her dad screaming incoherently.
- 3:32Speaker 1: He's obviously terrified, and all Jong's daughter can hear is
- 3:36Speaker 1: that her dad is saying he's trapped. He's trapped in
- 3:39Speaker 1: an elevator and he doesn't know what to do. And so,
- 3:42Speaker 1: you know, Jong's daughter is getting scared just based on
- 3:44Speaker 1: what her dad sounds like. She doesn't really know what's
- 3:47Speaker 1: going on, but she told her dad like, okay, okay,
- 3:49Speaker 1: I'll call the building. We'll get you some help, like
- 3:51Speaker 1: stay calm, you're gonna be okay, But her dad just
- 3:54Speaker 1: continued rambling and he was totally incoherent, and eventually, you know,
- 3:58Speaker 1: Jong's daughter just said, okay, Dad, like just hang tight,
- 4:00Speaker 1: I'm going to get you some help, and then she
- 4:02Speaker 1: hung up, and then she immediately called her apartment Buildings
- 4:05Speaker 1: Administration and Emergency Services line and told them, Hey, I
- 4:09Speaker 1: think my dad is stuck on one of your elevator cars.
- 4:11Speaker 1: He's really upset. Can you please help him? And after
- 4:14Speaker 1: getting the emergency services to get spun up into action
- 4:17Speaker 1: to go save her dad, Jong's daughter left work, hopped
- 4:20Speaker 1: in her car, and began rushing home. It would take
- 4:22Speaker 1: Jong's daughter about forty minutes to get back to her apartment,
- 4:25Speaker 1: and by the time she got there, she fully expected
- 4:28Speaker 1: her dad would be safely out of the elevator. I mean,
- 4:30Speaker 1: he was obviously very upset, but she had called the building,
- 4:34Speaker 1: they were on it, they were going to get him out.
- 4:35Speaker 1: But when she went inside the lobby of the apartment building,
- 4:39Speaker 1: she saw a crowd of police officers just standing there.
- 4:42Speaker 1: She didn't see her dad anywhere, and before she could
- 4:44Speaker 1: even ask any questions, she noticed one of the officers
- 4:47Speaker 1: was on the phone and clearly, just based on what
- 4:50Speaker 1: was being said by this officer, he was talking to
- 4:53Speaker 1: her father like he was talking to somebody who was hysterical,
- 4:56Speaker 1: and this officer was doing his best to try to
- 4:58Speaker 1: calm him down and sort of talk him through what
- 5:00Speaker 1: was happening. And so Jong's daughter like immediately walks up
- 5:03Speaker 1: to this officer and says, hey, you know, I'm his daughter,
- 5:05Speaker 1: the guy who's stuck in the elevator, I'm his daughter.
- 5:08Speaker 1: What's going on? I would have figured he'd be out
- 5:10Speaker 1: by now, Like what's happened. At this point, one of
- 5:12Speaker 1: the officers confirms that, you know, this really is this
- 5:15Speaker 1: man's daughter, and he pulls her aside and he explains
- 5:18Speaker 1: to her that, yes, your dad is still in the
- 5:20Speaker 1: elevator because we can't get him out. The reality is
- 5:23Speaker 1: is this is not a normal situation here. He's trapped
- 5:26Speaker 1: in there and really the only way for him to
- 5:29Speaker 1: get out is for him to do something really specific,
- 5:33Speaker 1: Like us and the building staff like we can't do anything.
- 5:37Speaker 1: He has to do this one really specific thing, and
- 5:41Speaker 1: right now he's refusing to do it. He's too panicked,
- 5:44Speaker 1: he's too scared. We're trying to calm him down, but
- 5:47Speaker 1: it's not working. And so Jong's daughter asked this officer,
- 5:50Speaker 1: can you please explain to me what you're talking about, Like,
- 5:53Speaker 1: what is this specific thing you want him to do?
- 5:55Speaker 1: I don't get it. And at that point the officer
- 5:57Speaker 1: kind of composed himself and explained to the daughter, you
- 6:01Speaker 1: know what was really going on inside of that elevator car.
- 6:04Speaker 1: And after Jong's daughter heard it, I mean, she was horrified,
- 6:06Speaker 1: and she immediately understood why her dad was so upset
- 6:10Speaker 1: and unwilling to do this one particular thing that would
- 6:14Speaker 1: save him but would be pretty awful. She got it,
- 6:17Speaker 1: but she knew she would have to hop on the
- 6:18Speaker 1: phone and convince her dad that he had to do it,
- 6:21Speaker 1: like there was no other way, And so she walked
- 6:23Speaker 1: over to the officer who was on the phone with
- 6:25Speaker 1: her dad. She took the phone and she began talking
- 6:28Speaker 1: her dad through you know what he really needed to
- 6:31Speaker 1: do here. She basically gave him a pep talk and said, Dad,
- 6:34Speaker 1: for me, you got to find the strength and do
- 6:36Speaker 1: this thing and get out of there. And sure enough,
- 6:39Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes later, the elevator doors in
- 6:42Speaker 1: the lobby chimed and opened up, and Jong came stumbling out.
- 6:47Speaker 1: He looked horrible, disheveled, but he was okay, and right
- 6:51Speaker 1: away police officers rushed towards him, but they bypassed him
- 6:56Speaker 1: and went into the elevator and immediately surrounded something in
- 7:00Speaker 1: the elevator car. It would turn out that missing woman
- 7:03Speaker 1: Chun Yan Chui, the woman who was on that poster
- 7:05Speaker 1: that Jong saw before he walked into the apartment building. Well,
- 7:09Speaker 1: she really had gone missing a week earlier on her
- 7:11Speaker 1: evening walk. But everybody thought she got lost while she
- 7:15Speaker 1: was on that walk because she was a dementia patient
- 7:17Speaker 1: and so you know she had memory issues. But the
- 7:20Speaker 1: reality was she actually did come back to her apartment. However,
- 7:24Speaker 1: when she got on the elevator, she actually made the
- 7:27Speaker 1: same mistake that John did. Now she was not trying
- 7:30Speaker 1: to get to the seventh floor. She was trying to
- 7:32Speaker 1: get to the fifth floor, but she accidentally pressed the
- 7:35Speaker 1: sixth floor, So up she goes. She gets to the
- 7:38Speaker 1: sixth floor, the doors open up, she steps off the
- 7:42Speaker 1: elevator car, and she's immediately completely confused. And for what
- 7:46Speaker 1: it's worth, it didn't matter that she had dementia. Anybody
- 7:50Speaker 1: who got off on the sixth floor would likely be
- 7:52Speaker 1: confused if you had never been to this building before,
- 7:54Speaker 1: because the sixth floor was actually a private residence and
- 7:58Speaker 1: the person who lived on the floor was so worried
- 8:01Speaker 1: about people breaking into their private residence that they had
- 8:05Speaker 1: installed a metal gate in front of the elevator doors.
- 8:09Speaker 1: And so unless you had the key to get through
- 8:11Speaker 1: this gate, when you got off on the sixth floor,
- 8:14Speaker 1: you basically would step onto a little platform that basically
- 8:17Speaker 1: is the hallway leading into the sixth floor, and then
- 8:19Speaker 1: you'd be hit with the gate. And so that's exactly
- 8:21Speaker 1: what happened to Chun. She got off on the sixth floor,
- 8:24Speaker 1: maybe thinking this is the fifth floor, she stepped onto
- 8:27Speaker 1: that little narrow strip that you could actually stand on
- 8:31Speaker 1: on the sixth floor before you reached the gate. And
- 8:34Speaker 1: then as she was trying to figure out, like, where
- 8:35Speaker 1: am I. This isn't the fifth floor, This doesn't make
- 8:37Speaker 1: any sense. There's a gate in front of me. The
- 8:40Speaker 1: doors to the elevator closed, and she had no way
- 8:43Speaker 1: to open them up again because the buttons to access
- 8:46Speaker 1: the elevator were beyond the gate. And so suddenly Chun
- 8:50Speaker 1: is standing in this narrow space the doors have closed
- 8:53Speaker 1: behind her, and she can't do anything. She's trapped between
- 8:56Speaker 1: the gate and the elevator doors. And even though people
- 8:59Speaker 1: are using this elevator right behind her, the only person
- 9:03Speaker 1: who had come to the sixth floor is the owner
- 9:06Speaker 1: of that residence, and they were on vacation, and so
- 9:09Speaker 1: for days and days, Chun is just trapped basically in
- 9:14Speaker 1: between the gate and the elevator, with no one having
- 9:18Speaker 1: any idea she was there. She's calling out, she's doing
- 9:20Speaker 1: everything she can to get somebody's attention, but nobody can
- 9:23Speaker 1: hear her. And after five days of this, when the
- 9:26Speaker 1: owner of this residence didn't come home because they were
- 9:29Speaker 1: on vacation, she eventually died because she didn't have food
- 9:32Speaker 1: or water or anything. She was just standing there for
- 9:34Speaker 1: five days, and so she dies. And then a couple
- 9:37Speaker 1: of days later, Jong accidentally rides to the sixth floor.
- 9:42Speaker 1: He's like, oh, shoot, I need to go to seven.
- 9:44Speaker 1: He hits seven, but the doors open on six, and
- 9:48Speaker 1: when they do, Chun's body, which had been basically frozen
- 9:52Speaker 1: in the standing position, fell backwards onto him, pinned him
- 9:56Speaker 1: to the ground. He starts screaming and freaking out. He
- 9:59Speaker 1: gets out from underneath her, but her body, which was
- 10:02Speaker 1: in rigor mortis at this point, is stiff, and she
- 10:04Speaker 1: was lying like a board on the ground with her
- 10:06Speaker 1: feet jutting out onto the sixth floor and her upper
- 10:10Speaker 1: half inside of the elevator, and so she was blocking
- 10:13Speaker 1: the doors from closing, and so Jong is freaking out.
- 10:15Speaker 1: He's calling his daughter. He can't believe this, there's this
- 10:18Speaker 1: dead person in here. And eventually police get involved and
- 10:21Speaker 1: they tell Jong, you just got to move the body
- 10:25Speaker 1: so the doors will close. But again, her body is
- 10:28Speaker 1: heavy and it's stiff, and she's obviously deceased. She's starting
- 10:31Speaker 1: to decompose, and Jong basically couldn't handle it, and he
- 10:34Speaker 1: was unwilling to move her body until his daughter hopped
- 10:37Speaker 1: in the phone and said, you gotta do it, at
- 10:39Speaker 1: which point he managed to lift her up, get her
- 10:42Speaker 1: out of the way, and kind of push her off
- 10:44Speaker 1: to the side of the elevator car. He rode down
- 10:46Speaker 1: to the bottom, at which point the police came in
- 10:49Speaker 1: and handled the situation. Now, the owner of the sixth
- 10:51Speaker 1: floor residence was not held criminally responsible despite putting that
- 10:55Speaker 1: gate up that created this trap that killed Chun. However,
- 10:58Speaker 1: despite that, he would end up paying Chun's family about
- 11:01Speaker 1: ninety seven thousand US dollars equivalent just to compensate for
- 11:05Speaker 1: her death. On the morning of August eighteenth, twenty eighteen,
- 11:21Speaker 1: a forty one year old man named Vladimir Kostenko stepped
- 11:24Speaker 1: out of a taxi onto a desolate road in the
- 11:27Speaker 1: middle of the Alaskan wilderness, miles and miles from civilization.
- 11:31Speaker 1: All he had with him or his cell phone, a
- 11:33Speaker 1: solar powered charger for his phone, and a backpack that
- 11:37Speaker 1: contained some clothes and five pounds of oatmeal. Vladimir bent
- 11:40Speaker 1: down and leaned into the taxi to pay the taxi driver.
- 11:43Speaker 1: And as he was doing that, the driver looked up
- 11:45Speaker 1: at him and just said, are you sure you want
- 11:48Speaker 1: to do this? And Vladimir just smiled and nodded and said, yep,
- 11:52Speaker 1: I'm gonna be just fine. Don't worry about me now.
- 11:54Speaker 1: The taxi driver did not really buy this and just
- 11:56Speaker 1: looked at Vladimir like he was completely insane. Butadimir wasn't shocked.
- 12:01Speaker 1: I mean, this is kind of how everybody reacted to
- 12:03Speaker 1: him when he told them about this trip he was
- 12:05Speaker 1: doing into the wilderness. You know, when he had brought
- 12:07Speaker 1: it up to his family the first time, they and
- 12:09Speaker 1: all of their family friends had basically rallied together to
- 12:13Speaker 1: try to stop Vladimir from going on this trip. It
- 12:16Speaker 1: was way too dangerous. But Vladimir said, guys, I'm going like,
- 12:20Speaker 1: you can't stop me. I'm doing this. It's important to me.
- 12:23Speaker 1: And at that point when you know, the family and
- 12:24Speaker 1: friends knew they couldn't change his mind. They shifted and said, well,
- 12:28Speaker 1: at least, you know, bring a gun or bear spray
- 12:31Speaker 1: or something to protect yourself. But Vladimir also refused that too.
- 12:35Speaker 1: He said, nope, I don't need any of that because
- 12:37Speaker 1: the only thing I need is God. God is going
- 12:40Speaker 1: to protect me. So Vladimir was extremely religious. He actually
- 12:45Speaker 1: had left his home country Russia when he was in
- 12:47Speaker 1: his early twenties because he was being persecuted for his
- 12:50Speaker 1: Christian beliefs. And so now in the United States, he
- 12:53Speaker 1: lived out in Washington State and basically lived his life
- 12:57Speaker 1: like a monk. I mean, he spent the majority of
- 12:59Speaker 1: his time, you know, basically praying and meditating and reading
- 13:03Speaker 1: religious books, and he would often go on these multi
- 13:06Speaker 1: day long fasts. He did work part time as a mechanic,
- 13:09Speaker 1: but he rarely charged his clients when he did work,
- 13:12Speaker 1: and then even when he did charge them, he was
- 13:14Speaker 1: working so few hours that the money he was making
- 13:16Speaker 1: was totally unsubstantial. But again, you know, the way Vladimir
- 13:20Speaker 1: looked at this is he didn't need money because ultimately
- 13:23Speaker 1: God would take care of him. But despite all of
- 13:25Speaker 1: his fasting and his praying and you know, his generosity. Lately,
- 13:29Speaker 1: Vladimir had been feeling really lost, like he did feel
- 13:33Speaker 1: deeply spiritual, but at the same time, he didn't really
- 13:36Speaker 1: feel fulfilled, like he felt like he was missing purpose
- 13:39Speaker 1: in his life, and it was really starting to bother him.
- 13:41Speaker 1: And so it was around this time that Vladimir decided
- 13:45Speaker 1: to go on this big trip. One of Vladimir's family
- 13:48Speaker 1: friends was this guy named Dmitri Kudrine, and he owned
- 13:52Speaker 1: this small cabin way out in the middle of the
- 13:54Speaker 1: Alaskan wilderness. Now, Dmitri didn't use this cabin very much,
- 13:58Speaker 1: but he kept it in great shape. It was fully furnished,
- 14:01Speaker 1: there was a wood burning stove inside, and the pantry
- 14:04Speaker 1: was stocked with three years supply of food. And so
- 14:06Speaker 1: at some point when Vladimir and Dmitri were talking and
- 14:10Speaker 1: Vladimir talked about feeling sort of lost and wanting to
- 14:13Speaker 1: reconnect with the spirituality and find his purpose in life, well,
- 14:17Speaker 1: at some point Dmitri said, well, hey, if you want,
- 14:20Speaker 1: you can go use my cabin and sort of disconnect
- 14:23Speaker 1: from society and go retreat out there and sort of
- 14:26Speaker 1: focus on yourself and sort of get right with the world.
- 14:28Speaker 1: You know, you're welcome to go out there anytime you want.
- 14:31Speaker 1: You can stay out there as long as you want,
- 14:32Speaker 1: and for free, no problem, and Vladimir had happily accepted.
- 14:37Speaker 1: And now here he was standing on this desolate road
- 14:39Speaker 1: in the Alaskan wilderness, watching as the taxi driver drove away.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Except he wasn't even close to the cabin. I mean,
- 14:46Speaker 1: he was in the middle of nowhere already, but he
- 14:48Speaker 1: still had to go fourteen more miles with no trail
- 14:52Speaker 1: to make his way to this cabin. But Vladimir was
- 14:55Speaker 1: so excited. He really felt like this was the thing
- 14:59Speaker 1: he needed to f figure out his purpose in life,
- 15:01Speaker 1: and so he put his backpack on, took a deep breath,
- 15:05Speaker 1: and began to hike. Three months later, on November third
- 15:08Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, Dmitri, Vladimir's friend who owned this cabin,
- 15:12Speaker 1: found himself in his plane flying over the area roughly
- 15:16Speaker 1: where his cabin was, and Dmitri was feeling very concerned.
- 15:20Speaker 1: So obviously, Dmitri suggested Vladimir go out and use this cabin,
- 15:25Speaker 1: and so he was totally open to the idea of it.
- 15:28Speaker 1: But Dmitri had also told Vladimir that when he went
- 15:31Speaker 1: out there, he really ought to bring a gun with him, or,
- 15:34Speaker 1: if nothing else, at least some bare spray or something
- 15:36Speaker 1: to protect himself, because this is truly the wild. You
- 15:40Speaker 1: are not the top of the food chain anymore, and
- 15:42Speaker 1: you want to be able to protect yourself. But Vladimir
- 15:45Speaker 1: had said no, he would not be going with any
- 15:48Speaker 1: sort of weaponry that you know, God was going to
- 15:50Speaker 1: look after him and he'd be fine. And Dmitri's like,
- 15:53Speaker 1: that's a bad plan, but he just could not convince
- 15:56Speaker 1: Vladimir to change his mind. And so ultimately Dmitri sort
- 15:59Speaker 1: of credit even suggesting this idea because he didn't expect
- 16:03Speaker 1: Vladimir to go unarmed, but he felt like, you know what,
- 16:06Speaker 1: it's already in motion, and so he told Vladimir, Okay, fine,
- 16:10Speaker 1: you know, do your thing, but when you're out there,
- 16:12Speaker 1: I need you to communicate with me regularly so I
- 16:15Speaker 1: know you're okay. And Vladimir promised he would, and at
- 16:18Speaker 1: first that is exactly what happened. Vladimir, you know, made
- 16:22Speaker 1: the fourteen mile hike from where he was dropped by
- 16:24Speaker 1: the taxi. He got to the cabin, he got all
- 16:26Speaker 1: set up and then just about every other day or
- 16:29Speaker 1: every few days, he would hike up this nearby mountain
- 16:32Speaker 1: where there was cell phone service, and he would update Dmitri.
- 16:35Speaker 1: He would tell him that things were going great. He
- 16:37Speaker 1: was spending lots of time meditating and praying, and you know,
- 16:40Speaker 1: he was forging for berries, and there was this pesky
- 16:44Speaker 1: squirrel that kept coming in and stealing his foods. He
- 16:46Speaker 1: was trying to figure out what to do with the squirrel.
- 16:48Speaker 1: But clearly things were going fine and Vladimir appeared to
- 16:52Speaker 1: be safe. However, after six weeks of Vladimir being at
- 16:56Speaker 1: this cabin, those pretty regular updates just abruptly stopped. Now,
- 17:00Speaker 1: at first, Dmitri kind of chalked it up as like, well,
- 17:03Speaker 1: you know, I've been talking to him for weeks. There
- 17:04Speaker 1: didn't appear to be any you know, burgeoning crises or
- 17:08Speaker 1: anything going on in his life that might warrant some concern.
- 17:11Speaker 1: You know, he's a capable guy. You know, maybe because
- 17:14Speaker 1: it's the Alaskan winter, and Alaskan winters are notoriously dark.
- 17:18Speaker 1: There's not a lot of sunlight. You know, maybe his
- 17:20Speaker 1: solar powered charger isn't working. He can't get enough sunlight,
- 17:23Speaker 1: so he can't charge his phone, and so maybe that's
- 17:26Speaker 1: what it is. He just can't contact me because his
- 17:27Speaker 1: phone doesn't turn on. Basically, Dmitri was coming up with
- 17:30Speaker 1: these sort of rationales for why he wasn't hearing from
- 17:33Speaker 1: his friend. But as the days went on and Dmitri
- 17:37Speaker 1: still didn't hear from Vladimir, he couldn't help but start
- 17:40Speaker 1: to feel like something's wrong here. And so finally, in
- 17:44Speaker 1: early November, when Dmitri still had not heard from Vladimir
- 17:47Speaker 1: it's been about a month since those text messages stopped,
- 17:51Speaker 1: Dmitri decided to get into his plane and fly out
- 17:54Speaker 1: over the area where this cabin was and literally look
- 17:57Speaker 1: down and see if his friend was down there in
- 18:00Speaker 1: the cabin. Also, this gave Dmitri the opportunity to put
- 18:03Speaker 1: some supplies on the plane and these big buckets that
- 18:05Speaker 1: he could literally throw out down to Vladimir to also
- 18:09Speaker 1: restock him. So Dmitri is now in his plane and
- 18:12Speaker 1: he's circling around the area where his cabin is. But
- 18:15Speaker 1: this cabin is really small, and it's sort of in
- 18:18Speaker 1: this big sea of trees. I mean, there's nothing else
- 18:21Speaker 1: for miles, and so it's pretty difficult with the naked
- 18:23Speaker 1: eye to actually look out and see his own cabin.
- 18:26Speaker 1: But Dmitri had this camera on the underside of his
- 18:29Speaker 1: plane that he could maneuver and look all around, and
- 18:31Speaker 1: he had the screen that he could see from the
- 18:33Speaker 1: cockpit that was basically an enhanced view of the ground
- 18:36Speaker 1: down below. It was a lot easier to see, for example,
- 18:39Speaker 1: his cabin. And so as he was circling, he's moving
- 18:42Speaker 1: the camera around and then bam, he sees right in
- 18:45Speaker 1: the middle of his screen is his cabin. And there
- 18:47Speaker 1: doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the cabin. You know,
- 18:50Speaker 1: it all looks good. There's smoke coming up out of
- 18:52Speaker 1: the chimney, and as he's circling, he's thinking, okay, Vladimir
- 18:55Speaker 1: clearly is going to hear me. He's going to come
- 18:57Speaker 1: outside and I'll see that he's okay. Sure enough, As
- 19:00Speaker 1: he's circling around, Dmitri sees on his screen that the
- 19:04Speaker 1: front door of the cabin opens, and his friend Vladimir
- 19:07Speaker 1: walks right outside onto the porch. He puts his hands
- 19:10Speaker 1: on his hips and he looks up and he waves
- 19:12Speaker 1: at Dmitri, and there's this moment of clear recognition, like
- 19:16Speaker 1: obviously Vladimir knows this is Dmitri coming to check on him,
- 19:19Speaker 1: and like, you know, Vladimir's down there kind of gesticulating
- 19:22Speaker 1: that hey, you know, everything's fine. I'm good, you know,
- 19:24Speaker 1: sorry about the phone thing or you know. Dmitri didn't
- 19:26Speaker 1: know what he was doing, but it just sort of
- 19:28Speaker 1: seemed like, okay, there's recognition here that it's been a month,
- 19:31Speaker 1: but everything is fine. And so Dmitri got down nice
- 19:34Speaker 1: and low and continued to circle in. On one of
- 19:36Speaker 1: his passes over the cabin, he pulled a lever, dropped
- 19:39Speaker 1: the supplies, those buckets of supplies they've landed down below.
- 19:43Speaker 1: And then as Dmitri continued to circle, he watched on
- 19:46Speaker 1: the camera as Vladimir walked up and put his hands
- 19:49Speaker 1: on the supplies and waved again to Dmitri, sort of signaling,
- 19:52Speaker 1: you know, thank you for the supplies. And at that point,
- 19:55Speaker 1: Dmitri's thinking, okay, Vladimir's just fine, everything's good. I can
- 19:58Speaker 1: go home, and so that's what he did. Now he
- 20:01Speaker 1: would have landed and gone and seen Vladimir up close,
- 20:04Speaker 1: but you know, there wasn't anywhere to land anywhere nearby,
- 20:07Speaker 1: Like this was the closest he could get to Vladimir,
- 20:09Speaker 1: and so he decided this was enough. So Dmitri he
- 20:12Speaker 1: turned around and he headed home. But about two months later,
- 20:15Speaker 1: on December twenty third, Dmitri was once again in his
- 20:19Speaker 1: plane flying over the area where his cabin was because
- 20:22Speaker 1: over these last two months he continued not to get
- 20:25Speaker 1: any text messages or any communication from Vladimir, which, you know,
- 20:29Speaker 1: that was bad. He sort of expected that given that
- 20:32Speaker 1: Dmitri flew out there before and they clearly recognized like, hey,
- 20:35Speaker 1: you know, are you good. There was sort of a
- 20:37Speaker 1: moment of recognition that Dmitri's checking in on Vladimir because
- 20:41Speaker 1: of the silence. That's what Dmitri's thinking, maybe that would
- 20:44Speaker 1: inspire Vladimir to find a way to send out communications now,
- 20:49Speaker 1: like let Dmitri know he's okay, but he hadn't for
- 20:52Speaker 1: two months, and so Dimitri's thinking, okay, that's bad. Also,
- 20:55Speaker 1: it's now December and the winter in Alaska is full boar,
- 20:59Speaker 1: I mean, tons of snow on the ground, it's frigid temperatures,
- 21:03Speaker 1: it is truly brutal winter conditions. And then lastly, there
- 21:06Speaker 1: had also just been this major earthquake in the area
- 21:10Speaker 1: where Dmitri's cabin was, and so all those things combined
- 21:14Speaker 1: made Dmitri think, okay, I better get out there and
- 21:16Speaker 1: just check on Vladimir again. And so once again, Dmitri
- 21:19Speaker 1: is circling low over the area where his cabin is.
- 21:22Speaker 1: He's got his camera trained towards the ground and he's
- 21:24Speaker 1: moving it around as he's circling, and eventually he finds
- 21:27Speaker 1: his cabin. And this cabin is clearly in one piece,
- 21:30Speaker 1: so the earthquake did not destroy his cabin. But there's
- 21:33Speaker 1: no sign of Vladimir anywhere. But then again, like you know,
- 21:36Speaker 1: this is just the first second he's seen the cabin.
- 21:38Speaker 1: He's only been in the area for a couple of minutes. Now,
- 21:41Speaker 1: maybe Vladimir has not heard the plane yet, and so
- 21:44Speaker 1: you know, Dmitri's not lost hope. And he continues to circle,
- 21:48Speaker 1: and as he's circling, he drops these supply buckets that
- 21:50Speaker 1: land right out in front of the cabin. And at
- 21:52Speaker 1: this point Dimitri's thinking, okay, that's pretty noisy, having these
- 21:55Speaker 1: supply buckets smash into the ground outside. Certainly now Vladimir
- 21:59Speaker 1: is going to come outside to see what's going on.
- 22:01Speaker 1: I mean, there's not much else happening. This clearly is
- 22:05Speaker 1: something that would draw his attention, but no nobody comes
- 22:07Speaker 1: out of the cabin, and so at this point Dimitri
- 22:09Speaker 1: gets as low as he possibly can, and he's got
- 22:12Speaker 1: his camera trained right at the cabin, and as he's
- 22:14Speaker 1: doing another pass, he realizes something. There's no smoke coming
- 22:18Speaker 1: out of the chimney. In fact, the top of the
- 22:21Speaker 1: chimney is covered with snow, which means clearly no fire
- 22:26Speaker 1: has been lit, at least not recently, and so Dimitri
- 22:29Speaker 1: starts to panic, like, if anybody was in that cabin
- 22:32Speaker 1: right now without a fire lit, it would be so
- 22:35Speaker 1: cold they would likely freeze to death really quickly, Like
- 22:39Speaker 1: this is a crisis, what's going on with Vladimir. But
- 22:42Speaker 1: Dmitri couldn't land anywhere nearby, like there was no way
- 22:45Speaker 1: for him to really get down to this cabin, so
- 22:49Speaker 1: he had to fly all the way to the nearest airport,
- 22:52Speaker 1: and then once he touched down, he immediately contacted Alaska
- 22:55Speaker 1: State troopers to report his friend missing, because that was
- 22:57Speaker 1: the only thing he could think to do. However, after
- 23:00Speaker 1: Dmitri made this report, the state troopers didn't launch some
- 23:03Speaker 1: huge search for Vladimir and that's in part because they
- 23:07Speaker 1: weren't actually sure he was missing. They understood that Dmitri,
- 23:10Speaker 1: after flying out over the area, had seen snow on
- 23:13Speaker 1: the chimney cap and you know, it's really cold out,
- 23:16Speaker 1: like nobody could survive without a fire. And also, you know,
- 23:19Speaker 1: he flew over the area dropped supplies and Vladimir didn't
- 23:22Speaker 1: come out of the cabin. How could he not hear
- 23:24Speaker 1: that stuff. They understood that, but they're also thinking, like,
- 23:27Speaker 1: you know, it's possible Vladimir just might not have been
- 23:30Speaker 1: in the area. Maybe he was out hunting or you know,
- 23:32Speaker 1: foraging for food or whatever he was doing, and maybe
- 23:34Speaker 1: he just wasn't in the area, and that's why it
- 23:37Speaker 1: gave you the impression that he was missing. And so
- 23:39Speaker 1: that was one part of it. And the other part
- 23:41Speaker 1: is the weather was atrocious in this part of the world,
- 23:45Speaker 1: and so just sending out a search party into the
- 23:47Speaker 1: terrible weather, out into the wilderness was really risky, and
- 23:51Speaker 1: so the troopers thought it just wasn't worth doing this
- 23:54Speaker 1: big search, and so instead of launching a big search,
- 23:57Speaker 1: the troopers told Dmitri that what they were going to
- 23:59Speaker 1: do instead's just comb through airline records. Local airline records
- 24:04Speaker 1: to see if maybe a Vladimir Kostenko had you know,
- 24:08Speaker 1: taken off and flown out of the area. You know,
- 24:10Speaker 1: maybe he didn't tell Dmitri and he just left. Maybe
- 24:12Speaker 1: that's why he's not there. And this really frustrated Dmitri
- 24:16Speaker 1: and the rest of Vladimir's family because they're all looking
- 24:19Speaker 1: at this as a true emergency, and they're thinking, there's
- 24:22Speaker 1: no way he just hopped on a plane and flew
- 24:24Speaker 1: out of here without telling anyone. And so finally, three
- 24:27Speaker 1: days after filing this missing person report, Dmitri said, enough
- 24:31Speaker 1: is enough. I'm gonna just take it into my own
- 24:32Speaker 1: hands and go out there myself and see what's going
- 24:35Speaker 1: on with Vladimir. So he chartered a private helicopter and
- 24:38Speaker 1: he flew out to the cabin, and when he got there,
- 24:41Speaker 1: he gets off the helicopter and he just scans the
- 24:43Speaker 1: property and he sees, you know, this little cabin and
- 24:46Speaker 1: there's you know, firewood outside stacked up with snow all
- 24:48Speaker 1: over it. There's loads of snow in the cabin, and
- 24:51Speaker 1: there's snow kind of drifted up on the front door,
- 24:53Speaker 1: making it seem like nobody's come in or out of
- 24:55Speaker 1: this cabin for some time, and you know, Dmitri, he's
- 24:58Speaker 1: looking around for Vladimir, but there's no sign of life anywhere.
- 25:02Speaker 1: Dmitri calls out for Vladimir, but there's no response, and so,
- 25:05Speaker 1: with some level of trepidation, Dmitri begins walking out towards
- 25:09Speaker 1: his cabin, and when he gets close enough to the
- 25:11Speaker 1: front door, he notices something weird. He sees that the
- 25:15Speaker 1: front door of this cabin has clearly been boarded up
- 25:18Speaker 1: from the outside. There's this big piece of metal that's
- 25:22Speaker 1: been placed basically blocking the door so nobody could go
- 25:25Speaker 1: inside of it. And so Dimitri's thinking, like, why would
- 25:27Speaker 1: you do this unless you were leaving the cabin, But
- 25:30Speaker 1: why would Vladimir leave the cabin? Like where is he?
- 25:33Speaker 1: I don't understand what's going on here. And so Dmitri
- 25:35Speaker 1: goes up to this piece of metal and pries it
- 25:37Speaker 1: off the front door, and then he swings open the
- 25:40Speaker 1: front door and he looks inside and everything is pristine.
- 25:44Speaker 1: Vladimir is not inside, but the cabin looks immaculate. There's
- 25:48Speaker 1: still firewood, there's still food, there's no sign of chaos,
- 25:52Speaker 1: no sign of any struggle whatsoever. Like everything looks exactly
- 25:55Speaker 1: like it should. And so Dimitri he began walking around
- 25:58Speaker 1: inside of this cabin looking for any clue as to
- 26:01Speaker 1: what happened to Vladimir, but there was nothing until he
- 26:05Speaker 1: got to the firewood. He noticed that clearly Vladimir had
- 26:09Speaker 1: been labeling his firewood. There was one piece of firewood
- 26:13Speaker 1: in particular where the writing was very clear and what
- 26:16Speaker 1: it said was Frankinson's aroma, do not burn. And so
- 26:20Speaker 1: Dmitri's looking at this piece of wood, you know, that's
- 26:22Speaker 1: been labeled as something that he shouldn't be burning, and
- 26:25Speaker 1: he's looking at other pieces of wood that also have
- 26:27Speaker 1: some level of labeling on them, and he's thinking, like,
- 26:30Speaker 1: what does that mean? I don't understand that at all.
- 26:33Speaker 2: But that was it.
- 26:34Speaker 1: There was no other clues about where Vladimir had gone,
- 26:37Speaker 1: and even the labeling of the wood like that didn't
- 26:39Speaker 1: give him anything. And so the impression that Dmitri got
- 26:42Speaker 1: after seeing this firsthand was that at some point, Vladimir,
- 26:46Speaker 1: for reasons completely unknown, just decided to board up the
- 26:50Speaker 1: cabin and disappear into the Alaskan wilderness with basically no protection,
- 26:56Speaker 1: no clear sign. He even brought food with him. He
- 26:58Speaker 1: just got up and left friends and family, and even
- 27:02Speaker 1: some authorities believe there is a chance he could still
- 27:04Speaker 1: be out there somewhere. In fact, at one point authorities
- 27:07Speaker 1: thought they had found Vladimir in Hawaii, it turned out
- 27:10Speaker 1: not to be him, and then again they thought they
- 27:12Speaker 1: found him in Oregon it turned out not to be
- 27:14Speaker 1: him as well. But the case is still open and
- 27:17Speaker 1: authorities think, at least some do, that he might be
- 27:19Speaker 1: alive somewhere, but nobody knows where, and so at this
- 27:22Speaker 1: point all the family has to go off of is
- 27:25Speaker 1: the final image of Vladimir, which was taken from inside
- 27:28Speaker 1: of Dmitri's plane when he did that first flyover and
- 27:31Speaker 1: he saw Vladimir come out on the porch. That is
- 27:34Speaker 1: the final image of Vladimir that we know of. We
- 27:37Speaker 1: don't know what happened after this image. All we know is,
- 27:40Speaker 1: you know, at some point he began labeling his firewood,
- 27:43Speaker 1: you know, writing down which aroma the wood makes, and
- 27:46Speaker 1: then he boarded his place up and he left.
- 27:49Speaker 2: But where he went next is still a mystery.
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- 28:51Speaker 1: At seven pm on October twenty first, nineteen seventy eight,
- 28:55Speaker 1: a twenty year old pilot named Frederic Fallentech flew his
- 28:58Speaker 1: small plane over a body of water just south of
- 29:01Speaker 1: Australia called the Bass Strait. He'd just taken off from Melbourne, Australia,
- 29:05Speaker 1: and his flight plan was to go sixty miles south
- 29:08Speaker 1: to an island called King Island. And he was really
- 29:11Speaker 1: excited about this flight, not so much about where he
- 29:14Speaker 1: was going, but because this represented the first time he'd
- 29:17Speaker 1: actually be flying by himself. At night. So Frederick had
- 29:21Speaker 1: always dreamed of becoming a pilot, but the journey to
- 29:24Speaker 1: actually becoming one had been really difficult. He had applied
- 29:28Speaker 1: twice actually to the Royal Australian Air Force, but unfortunately
- 29:32Speaker 1: he could not meet their requirements. And then also he
- 29:35Speaker 1: had tried to become a commercial airline pilot, but he
- 29:38Speaker 1: had failed their tests. But luckily for Frederick, his father
- 29:41Speaker 1: had a ton of money and he ultimately swooped in
- 29:44Speaker 1: and funded Frederick to take some private lessons and through
- 29:47Speaker 1: that he was able to ultimately pass the tests and
- 29:50Speaker 1: get his pilot's license. And so as Frederick coasted along,
- 29:53Speaker 1: looking down below at the lights of Melbourne disappearing behind him,
- 29:57Speaker 1: he felt like he was on top of the world.
- 29:59Speaker 1: He was doing It's the one thing he had always
- 30:01Speaker 1: dreamed of, and he was so happy and it was
- 30:03Speaker 1: so cool to be doing it at night by himself.
- 30:06Speaker 1: And so he was just looking out at the sights
- 30:08Speaker 1: and looking ahead at the Bass Strait, which is this
- 30:11Speaker 1: huge dark expanse of water, and it was like everything
- 30:14Speaker 1: was right in the world. He was doing exactly what
- 30:17Speaker 1: he wanted to do. However, only a few minutes into
- 30:20Speaker 1: this flight, at seven oh, six pm. Something strange happened.
- 30:24Speaker 1: As Frederick was flying along, he suddenly became aware of
- 30:27Speaker 1: a light coming from somewhere behind him. Remember it's nighttime,
- 30:31Speaker 1: so it's totally dark where he is, and he's flying
- 30:33Speaker 1: over a body of water, so he's kind of like
- 30:35Speaker 1: in this void of darkness, and so any lights are
- 30:38Speaker 1: really going to illuminate the cockpit. And so he sees
- 30:41Speaker 1: this light, he turns around and maybe three or four
- 30:44Speaker 1: thousand feet behind him, he sees what looks like a
- 30:46Speaker 1: plane that is the source of the light. And right away,
- 30:49Speaker 1: Frederick's thinking that is both surprising and also potentially very problematic,
- 30:54Speaker 1: because he knew from his training that that was far
- 30:56Speaker 1: too close to be to another plane, and so the
- 30:59Speaker 1: only explanation was either that pilot was off course or
- 31:04Speaker 1: Frederick was off course. And Frederick's thinking, you know, if
- 31:07Speaker 1: I'm off course here and I'm flying where I shouldn't be,
- 31:09Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in trouble with air traffic control, and
- 31:12Speaker 1: I might lose my pilot's license, like the one thing
- 31:14Speaker 1: I'd cup it, I might lose it. And so initially
- 31:17Speaker 1: Frederick really didn't know what to do. He was sort
- 31:19Speaker 1: of panicking and just kind of frozen, like I don't
- 31:22Speaker 1: even know what I'm supposed to do right now. And
- 31:24Speaker 1: as this was happening, Frederick kept instinctively looking back at
- 31:27Speaker 1: this light, trying to figure out what this plane was doing.
- 31:30Speaker 1: And every time he would turn around, over the course
- 31:33Speaker 1: of just a few seconds, it was very obvious that
- 31:36Speaker 1: this light, this other plane was gaining on him, and
- 31:39Speaker 1: so Frederick starts to worry, like, this is not just
- 31:41Speaker 1: about maybe getting in trouble or not. This plane might
- 31:44Speaker 1: crash into me. Look how fast they're going, Like what
- 31:46Speaker 1: do I do? And so Frederick at this point he
- 31:49Speaker 1: double checked that he was on course, and based on
- 31:51Speaker 1: his instruments and what he'd been doing, he really felt
- 31:54Speaker 1: like he was on course here, and he just thinks,
- 31:56Speaker 1: you know what, the best thing I can do here
- 31:58Speaker 1: is just call air traffic control. So he grabs the
- 32:00Speaker 1: radio and he gets a hold of Melbourne air Traffic
- 32:03Speaker 1: Control and he says, hey, there's this plane that is
- 32:06Speaker 1: like right behind me. They're gaining on me. I'm worried
- 32:09Speaker 1: they're going to crash into me. Do I need to deviate?
- 32:11Speaker 1: Like what's going on here? And the air traffic controller
- 32:14Speaker 1: very calmly says, okay, let me check the radar, let
- 32:16Speaker 1: me check the schedules. And so Frederick the whole time
- 32:18Speaker 1: he's waiting for a response, he's looking over his shoulder,
- 32:21Speaker 1: and still this light is gaining on him. It's getting
- 32:23Speaker 1: closer and closer. And then finally the controller gets back
- 32:26Speaker 1: on the radio and they tell Frederick there is no
- 32:29Speaker 1: other aircraft anywhere near you, like, there's nothing over the
- 32:34Speaker 1: bass straight you are completely alone. But Frederick couldn't believe
- 32:38Speaker 1: this because by now the light, the aircraft that was
- 32:42Speaker 1: right behind him, has gotten right behind his It's basically
- 32:46Speaker 1: right on his tail. And Frederick is now completely panicked,
- 32:49Speaker 1: and he's getting ready to try to explain, like no,
- 32:51Speaker 1: wait a minute, like there's got to be a better
- 32:53Speaker 1: explanation here, there's something right here. But at that very moment,
- 32:57Speaker 1: it becomes very clear to Frederick that this is not
- 33:01Speaker 1: some ordinary aircraft, because it began doing something when it
- 33:04Speaker 1: got right up behind his aircraft that no normal aircraft
- 33:08Speaker 1: could do. This light suddenly began orbiting Frederick's aircraft. Frederick
- 33:14Speaker 1: is traveling forward and this ball of light is basically
- 33:18Speaker 1: whipping around his aircraft as fast as can be he
- 33:21Speaker 1: can barely make it out. He's starting to panic, and
- 33:24Speaker 1: at the same time, Frederick begins to hear the sound
- 33:27Speaker 1: of his engine starting to fail, and there was no
- 33:29Speaker 1: reason for it. His craft was fine when he took off,
- 33:32Speaker 1: but now it's clearly sputtering and failing, and so all
- 33:35Speaker 1: Frederick could do in this totally intense, panicked moment that
- 33:38Speaker 1: just grabbed the radio and begin talking to air traffic
- 33:41Speaker 1: control about what he was seeing. The person Frederick actually
- 33:44Speaker 1: spoke to on the ground in this moment was an
- 33:47Speaker 1: air traffic controller in Melbourne named Steve Roby, and Frederick
- 33:51Speaker 1: would come off to Steve like he was totally crazy
- 33:54Speaker 1: and unhinged, and Steve would say that he couldn't really
- 33:56Speaker 1: understand what he was talking about. But at some point
- 33:59Speaker 1: Frederick clearly began talking about some sort of craft orbiting
- 34:04Speaker 1: his own and that his engine was starting to fail
- 34:06Speaker 1: and he didn't know what was going to happen and
- 34:08Speaker 1: he couldn't make an emergency landing. He was over water.
- 34:11Speaker 1: And then suddenly Steve remembers hearing this grinding, metallic sound
- 34:15Speaker 1: come over the radio that basically washed out whatever Frederick
- 34:18Speaker 1: was saying, and then it just goes deadly silent, and
- 34:22Speaker 1: after that Frederick disappeared. They searched the area where they
- 34:26Speaker 1: knew he was before he disappeared, but they never found
- 34:28Speaker 1: his plane. There was no sign of a crash. He
- 34:31Speaker 1: never landed at King Island or went back to Melbourne.
- 34:34Speaker 1: He was just gone. All they have is that final
- 34:37Speaker 1: recording of him describing something orbiting him, then this grinding
- 34:41Speaker 1: metallic sound and then silence, and recently that audio recording
- 34:45Speaker 1: was made public. Now before I actually play a clip
- 34:48Speaker 1: from that audio, here's the official explanation for what happened
- 34:52Speaker 1: to Frederick. As he was flying over the Bass Strait.
- 34:55Speaker 1: It was so dark and there were no lights really
- 34:57Speaker 1: anywhere that at some point, because he's an inexperienced pilot,
- 35:01Speaker 1: I suppose he flipped his plane upside down without realizing it,
- 35:06Speaker 1: and the light that he was seeing was actually just
- 35:08Speaker 1: a reflection off the water below of his own plane,
- 35:11Speaker 1: and eventually, from flying upside down, his engine began to
- 35:14Speaker 1: fail and he crashed into the Bas Strait. However, not
- 35:18Speaker 1: everybody believes this explanation, because one, it seems sort of
- 35:22Speaker 1: preposterous to imagine that Frederick would not have realized he
- 35:25Speaker 1: had flipped the plane upside down and was flying for
- 35:28Speaker 1: so long inverted, like how could you not notice that?
- 35:31Speaker 1: And two, this would not be the first time that
- 35:34Speaker 1: somebody reported unexplained phenomena over the Bass Strait. In fact,
- 35:38Speaker 1: over the years leading up to this incident with Frederick,
- 35:41Speaker 1: there had been so many reports of UFOs flying over
- 35:45Speaker 1: the Bass Straight and also unexplained disappearances that they've dubbed
- 35:49Speaker 1: the Bass Straight the Bass Straight Triangle after the Bermuda Triangle. Basically,
- 35:54Speaker 1: it's a part of the world where a disproportionate number
- 35:57Speaker 1: of unexplained phenomena occur. To this day, Frederick's disappearance remains
- 36:02Speaker 1: a mystery. All we have is his final call for help.
- 36:10Speaker 3: Tell us from aircraft, is it okay?
- 36:50Speaker 4: That was deleted from the press accounts for some reason?
- 37:03Speaker 4: Tell us Serra Julia and cancer you cannot identify the aircraft?
- 37:08Speaker 4: Sell via Seria Roger, stand by, can you describe the.
- 37:21Speaker 3: Uh aircraft.
- 37:26Speaker 2: Right?
- 37:33Speaker 5: Tell us Heerra Juliet Roger, how large with the with
- 37:36Speaker 5: the per object then tell us Hero Juliet. Oh, tell
- 38:08Speaker 5: us Sierra Julia, persly your aircraft just then?
- 38:12Speaker 2: Anywind?
- 38:14Speaker 5: Tell the Sierra Julia, is the aircraft still with you.
- 38:22Speaker 3: Yeah what uh?
- 38:29Speaker 1: Fall players, when you call it anything.
- 38:33Speaker 5: Call me about tell the Serra Julia Rogers, what are
- 38:37Speaker 5: your intentions are?
- 38:40Speaker 1: Uh uh?
- 38:45Speaker 3: Holdup, guys.
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