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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you a story that has
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Speaker 1: been told many, many times with lots of variations over
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Speaker 1: the past one hundred years or so. But the version
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Speaker 1: of the story that I'm going to tell you is
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Speaker 1: actually the original version that was published in nineteen oh
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Speaker 1: seven in the Chicago Tribute newspaper. Now, since its publication,
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Speaker 1: lots of people have taken this original story and kind
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Speaker 1: of embellished details and made it more spooky. But in
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Speaker 1: my opinion, it's this original version that is by far
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Speaker 1: the most terrifying because it really happened. But before we
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Speaker 1: One evening, in the middle of March of nineteen oh seven,
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Speaker 1: a sailor named Nells Nelson stood at the bow of
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Speaker 1: this big Russian steamboat called the Perier, and he looked
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Speaker 1: out over the Pacific Ocean with a very worried look
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Speaker 1: on his face. The sun was starting to go down,
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Speaker 1: and Nells was afraid of what the night might bring.
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Speaker 1: About a month earlier, the Perier, the boat that Nels
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Speaker 1: was on, had left Hong Kong and begun its long
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Speaker 1: journey to California, where Nells and the rest of the
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Speaker 1: crew would offload all their hemp and machinery. And just
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Speaker 1: that day the Perier had passed by Honolulu, Hawaii, which
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Speaker 1: meant they were nearly to their final destination. Now. Their
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Speaker 1: long voyage thus far had been quiet, but now Nells
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Speaker 1: just couldn't help feeling like their luck was about to
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Speaker 1: run out. Nells had been a sailor his whole life.
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Speaker 1: He was originally from Sweden, but he'd traveled all over
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Speaker 1: the world, and a few years back he had linked
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Speaker 1: up with the Perrier in Hong Kong. And now, other
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Speaker 1: than the captain of the Perier, who was a Russian
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Speaker 1: named Kevinski, Nells was the longest serving member on board
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Speaker 1: the Perier, and what that meant was Nells and the
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Speaker 1: ship's captain were the only two currently on board the
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Speaker 1: Perier who knew the ship's dark secret. Now, Nells and
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Speaker 1: the Captain had not told anyone this secret and didn't
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Speaker 1: intend to. Now, this wasn't something they planned like, they
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Speaker 1: weren't trying to keep it a secret. Instead, it was
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Speaker 1: just kind of this unspoken agreement that we're just never
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Speaker 1: going to talk about this. But at the last port
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Speaker 1: in Hong Kong where the ship was dogged, the previous
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Speaker 1: entire crew of the Perier, minus Nells and the captain,
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Speaker 1: had all deserted because of this secret. And so now
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Speaker 1: Nells and the Captain were left to kind of keep
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Speaker 1: this information to themselves and go out and solicit a
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Speaker 1: new crew to come on board the Perier to go
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Speaker 1: to California. But they did it without telling these people
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Speaker 1: about this dark secret. And they'd managed to do. Nells
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Speaker 1: and the captain had found this kind of ragtag bunch
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Speaker 1: of sailors to come with them on this journey. But
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Speaker 1: as a result of recruiting basically anybody with a pulse
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Speaker 1: who was willing to go on this voyage, the crew
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Speaker 1: they ultimately recruited was kind of an untrustworthy, sketchy bunch.
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Speaker 1: On this night, it was Nells's turn to stand watch,
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Speaker 1: which means basically, you would stay up and kind of
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Speaker 1: patrol the boat and look out for problems or emergencies.
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Speaker 1: It was just a way to make sure the crew
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Speaker 1: was always safe, even when everybody was asleep. And even
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Speaker 1: though Nells was not exactly thrilled to be staying up
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Speaker 1: all night to stand watch, in a way, he actually
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Speaker 1: was kind of relieved to be in charge of this task.
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Speaker 1: He figured he'd rather be awake and miserable than asleep
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Speaker 1: and vulnerable. Suddenly, another sailor came up to Nells, and
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Speaker 1: Nells hadn't hurt him, and the sailor slapped him on
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Speaker 1: the back and said, hey, how you enjoying your sunset
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Speaker 1: cruise tonight? Nells turned around and saw it was another
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Speaker 1: crew member just kind of pulling his leg, and so
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Speaker 1: Nells attempted to put on a smile and kind of
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Speaker 1: go along with the joke and make it kind of
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Speaker 1: light hearted. But he was really struggling because he was
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Speaker 1: looking off to the horizon and he could see the
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Speaker 1: sun had nearly set. For the next couple of hours,
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Speaker 1: Nells and this other sailor would stand by this railing
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Speaker 1: in the cold night air, and they would just talk about,
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Speaker 1: you know, what they're going to do when they get
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Speaker 1: to California, and you know, what they planned to do
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Speaker 1: with their lives generally, and just kind of small talk,
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Speaker 1: normal stuff, and you know, for a little while, Nells
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Speaker 1: did forget about all this extreme anxiety he was having
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Speaker 1: about nighttime. But at some point, as Nells and this
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Speaker 1: other sailor were just chatting away, there was this warm
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Speaker 1: breeze that kind of came across the deck of the ship. Now,
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Speaker 1: remember it had been very cold all night, and so
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Speaker 1: this warm air really stood out. And the second Nells
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Speaker 1: felt that warm air, he knew his worst fears were
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Speaker 1: about to be realized. And so Nells was so scared
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Speaker 1: about what was about to happen that he just kind
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Speaker 1: of froze. He couldn't even turn and tell his partner
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Speaker 1: what was happening, and his partner was totally oblivious because
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Speaker 1: his partner had never been on the Perrier before and
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Speaker 1: didn't know the ship dark secret. And so this other
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Speaker 1: sailor just kept on blabbering away, totally oblivious. But then
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Speaker 1: as Nells is frozen to the spot with fear from
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Speaker 1: down below in the ship where the crew was all sleeping.
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Speaker 1: They heard this loud, guttural scream like one of the
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Speaker 1: crew members was being tortured or something. And right away,
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Speaker 1: the guy next to Nells, the other sailor who had
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Speaker 1: been with him, he stopped talking because now he knows
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Speaker 1: there's a problem. He doesn't know what it is, but
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Speaker 1: obviously something's wrong. Now Nells was still frozen with fear
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Speaker 1: because he knows what's happening. He knows what's gonna happen,
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Speaker 1: and so he was just standing there and the other
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Speaker 1: sailor is like, Nells, what's going on. We gotta go
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Speaker 1: down there. But it wasn't until more screams began coming
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Speaker 1: out of the berthing area down below that Nells kind
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Speaker 1: of snapped out of it and he was like, all right,
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Speaker 1: come on, we gotta go. And the two of them
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Speaker 1: they went bombing down the steps down into the berthing
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Speaker 1: area and they went into the first compartment where these
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Speaker 1: screams were coming from. And when Nells and his partner
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Speaker 1: walked into this room, they looked and they saw two
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Speaker 1: of their crew members were sitting on one of the bunks,
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Speaker 1: just completely rigid, as if they were totally stiff and
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Speaker 1: the two of them were just screaming as loud as
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Speaker 1: they possibly could in perfect unison, but it was like
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Speaker 1: they weren't there. It's like their eyes were staring off
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Speaker 1: into the distance and they couldn't control their bodies. Now,
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Speaker 1: Nells knew what was going on here, but the partner didn't.
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Speaker 1: And so the partner's looking at Nells like what's going
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Speaker 1: on here? And Nells just turned to him and said, look,
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Speaker 1: I think we can quarantine them, help me move them.
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Speaker 1: And so this partner has no idea what Nells is doing.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't understand what's going on, but he kind of
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Speaker 1: jumped into action with Nells and Nell's in the sky.
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Speaker 1: They grabbed these screaming crew members who were totally stiff,
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Speaker 1: and they remained stiff as Nells and the other sailor
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Speaker 1: dragged them out of the room, down the hall, and
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Speaker 1: they put them in what's called the hold, which is
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Speaker 1: kind of like a jail cell on board a ship.
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Speaker 1: It's where sailors who misbehave get sent to, and so
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Speaker 1: it's a place you can put things and lock the
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Speaker 1: door and they don't come out again. Nells is thinking, was,
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Speaker 1: you know, if we can take these affected crew members
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Speaker 1: and guarantee them in the hold. Maybe, just maybe this
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Speaker 1: won't spread to the rest of the crew. But as
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Speaker 1: soon as Nells had shut and locked those two men
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Speaker 1: inside of the hold, it was like the entire ship
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Speaker 1: erupted with screams as the entire crew, minus Nells and
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Speaker 1: his partner, just began streaming like mad. It was like
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Speaker 1: the ship was total chaos, and so Nells and the
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Speaker 1: crew member they began running down the hall trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out where the screaming was coming from. But before
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Speaker 1: they knew it, the rest of the crew were streaming
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Speaker 1: out of their rooms into the hallway, just screaming and
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Speaker 1: running their way upstairs to the top deck. And so
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Speaker 1: Nells began telling himself, you know, stay calm, it's okay,
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Speaker 1: it's not happening to you yet. But then it felt
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Speaker 1: like someone had reached up inside of Nells's chest and
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Speaker 1: was squeezing as hard as hard as they could. It
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Speaker 1: was like his body was being possessed by something. And
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Speaker 1: then he felt this pressure building up inside of him,
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Speaker 1: and then it was like, without even trying, suddenly the
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Speaker 1: loudest scream that had ever come out of nell came
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Speaker 1: out of his mouth. And he was completely powerless to
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Speaker 1: stop it, and seconds later Nell's screaming at the top
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Speaker 1: of his lung. Along with his partner, who was also screaming,
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Speaker 1: and his partner reached the top deck, as they were
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Speaker 1: screaming and screaming and screaming, Nells looked around and he
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Speaker 1: took stock of what he was seeing. Again, He's literally
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Speaker 1: screaming this entire time and can't stop it, and he's
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Speaker 1: seeing that's what everybody else was dealing with. There were
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Speaker 1: sailors who were clawing at their faces almost like they
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Speaker 1: were trying to stop themselves from screaming, but that wasn't
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Speaker 1: doing anything. Others were holding their throats attempting to stop
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Speaker 1: the screaming. Some others were running into walls and grabbing
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Speaker 1: and fighting with each other. I mean, it was absolutely chaos.
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Speaker 1: And so Nells he's kind of taking stock of this
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Speaker 1: whole situation, still screaming, and then he notices one sailor
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Speaker 1: in particular, and Nells knew exactly what was going to happen.
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Speaker 1: That one sailor who Nells did not know well. He
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Speaker 1: was one of the sketchy crew members who were picked
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Speaker 1: up in Hong Kong. He stopped screaming, and Nells could
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Speaker 1: tell because there was this look of absolute calm over
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Speaker 1: the sailor's face, and he was down on all fours,
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Speaker 1: almost like an animal, right out in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the top deck. And Nels, as he continued to scream,
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Speaker 1: watched as this young, now very quiet sailor started to
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Speaker 1: move across the deck like an animal, and as he did,
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Speaker 1: he got faster and faster like he was galloping on
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Speaker 1: all fours and he was headed straight for the railing
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Speaker 1: of the ship. Now, Nells, in his conscious mind, he
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Speaker 1: knew what was going to happen next, and he wanted
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Speaker 1: to stop it. But just like he couldn't stop his
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Speaker 1: own screaming, he was powerless to stop what was about
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Speaker 1: to happen to this young man. And sure enough, Nells
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Speaker 1: watched in horror as this galloping young sailor went full
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Speaker 1: speed to the railing and then just leaped clear over
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Speaker 1: it and splashed into the water below. And the second
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Speaker 1: he hit the water, it was like everybody on the
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Speaker 1: ship broke out of their trance. The screaming stopped, and
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Speaker 1: it was eerily quiet, and one by one, each of
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Speaker 1: the crew who had kind of broken out of their
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Speaker 1: trans now began looking around, having no idea how they
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Speaker 1: just wound up on the deck and what was even
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Speaker 1: going on. And they looked at each other to try
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Speaker 1: to figure out, like, you know, do you know what
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Speaker 1: just happened? But nobody knew. And then this very tense
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Speaker 1: silence was broken when one of the crew members who
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Speaker 1: had seen that young man gallop and leap over the side.
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Speaker 1: You know, this crew member, he yelled, hey man overboard,
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Speaker 1: someone jumped over, and it was like that was the
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Speaker 1: thing that everybody was going to focus on. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: forget about this absolute craziness that just happened, and we're
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Speaker 1: going to try to rescue this guy. But despite lowering
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Speaker 1: down rowboats and paddling around for nearly an hour and
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Speaker 1: yelling out for this guy and turning their ship around
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Speaker 1: over and over again, they never found him. He never
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Speaker 1: made a single noise, nothing. He just vanished into the
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Speaker 1: night and that was it. And so after about an
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Speaker 1: hour of searching, the search was called off and this
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Speaker 1: sailor who had leapt over the edge was declared dead.
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Speaker 1: And once he was declared dead and the rest of
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Speaker 1: the crew were all back on board, the perriers standing
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Speaker 1: on the top deck looking around like what just happened,
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Speaker 1: Nells and the captain looked at each other and nodded,
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Speaker 1: because they knew they would have to tell the crew
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Speaker 1: what just happened. They would have to share this ship's
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Speaker 1: dark secret. And so Nells and the cap and told
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Speaker 1: the crew the big secret. And the crew was obviously horrified,
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Speaker 1: but considering they had just been through the entire experience,
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Speaker 1: they weren't exactly surprised. They just hoped that this night
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Speaker 1: was the only night this craziness would happen. But the
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Speaker 1: following night, the same thing happened. Everybody screamed, went crazy,
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Speaker 1: ran up to the deck, somebody leapt overboard. The next night,
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Speaker 1: the same thing happened as well the next night, So
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Speaker 1: four nights in a row of this. The captain just
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Speaker 1: could not take it anymore. And when he heard that
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Speaker 1: first scream echo through the ship, the captain grabbed a pistol,
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Speaker 1: put it to his head, and find it. In early April,
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Speaker 1: the Perrier finally reached San Francisco, California, where the crew
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Speaker 1: was supposed to offload their hemp and machinery. By this point,
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Speaker 1: one of the sailors, whose name was Padaman, had assumed
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Speaker 1: command of the ship. But by this point the crew
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Speaker 1: were very close to mutiny. They did not want to
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Speaker 1: be in the ship anymore. They didn't care who was
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Speaker 1: in charge, and in fact, once the Perrier got even
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Speaker 1: just within sight of land, there were nine sailors still
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Speaker 1: on board the Perrier who stole one of the rowboats,
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Speaker 1: lowered it down to the water, and just paddled to
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Speaker 1: land to get away from the Perrier as fast as
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Speaker 1: they could. They didn't even ask to be paid, They
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Speaker 1: just wanted to get away. Nells and the few remaining
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Speaker 1: crew members on board the Perrier docked it in San Francisco, California.
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Speaker 1: They unloaded the hemp, and then the crew actually got
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Speaker 1: back on the Perrier and set sail again and sailed
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Speaker 1: to Santa Monica, California, which was not a very part
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Speaker 1: distance where they would offload the machinery, so the rest
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Speaker 1: of their hall and actually on the morning that they
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Speaker 1: were supposed to actually dock in Santa Monica, the crew's
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Speaker 1: cook leapt overboard to his death at two am, and
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Speaker 1: the crew barely reacted because by this point this was
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Speaker 1: just commonplace on board the Perier, people going crazy and
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Speaker 1: jumping over to their deaths. And so once the Perrier
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Speaker 1: was docked in Santa Monica and all the cargo was offloaded,
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Speaker 1: Nells and the rest of the crew just left it there.
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Speaker 1: They totally abandoned it and just left, and the Parrier
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Speaker 1: would remain totally abandoned in this dock in Santa Monica
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Speaker 1: until a reporter from the Chicago Tribune newspaper found out
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Speaker 1: about what had happened on board this ship, and the
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Speaker 1: fact that now it was totally abandoned, which seemed so creepy,
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Speaker 1: and he decided to dig into this, and ultimately he
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Speaker 1: published the story that I'm telling you right now here
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Speaker 1: is the Perier's dark secret that both Nells and Captain
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Speaker 1: Kevinski knew all too well. Three and a half years earlier,
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Speaker 1: on a night in the fall of nineteen oh three,
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Speaker 1: the Perrier docked in what was then called Bombay but
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Speaker 1: what is now known as Mumbai, India, And on this
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Speaker 1: particular night, some of the crew members of the Perier
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Speaker 1: decided they wanted to leave the boat and go have
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Speaker 1: some fun. So a few sailors and an officer hopped
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Speaker 1: on one of the rowboats on board the Perier. They
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Speaker 1: lowered it down to the water and they paddled to shore.
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Speaker 1: And apparently this group of guys had a great time
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Speaker 1: on shore, but at some point the officer apparently killed
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Speaker 1: a guy on land. Who knows what it was about.
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Speaker 1: Nobody knows. The reporter from the Chicago Tribune couldn't figure
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Speaker 1: it out, but the rumor goes the officer officer killed
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Speaker 1: someone and when they came back to the ship, that night,
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Speaker 1: the officer was bragging about killing this person and even
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Speaker 1: making jokes about it. Now, we don't know if this
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Speaker 1: story actually happened, and we also don't really know if
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Speaker 1: this is the seminal event that prompted what would become
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Speaker 1: the Dark Secret of the Perier. But very shortly after
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Speaker 1: that officer had killed someone, the Perier had left Mumbai
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Speaker 1: and they were out at sea and it was very cold.
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Speaker 1: But then suddenly the crew remembered this warm air wafting
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Speaker 1: over the boat, and then screams rang out from inside
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Speaker 1: as the crew began going totally crazy. This was the
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Speaker 1: first appearance of the Perier's Dark Secret, which sailors on
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Speaker 1: board the Perier actually just referred to as the Thing.
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Speaker 1: Nobody ever saw the thing, or felt the thing, or
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Speaker 1: heard the thing. The only thing they experienced before all
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Speaker 1: hell broke loose is a warm breeze would come across
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Speaker 1: the ship, and then seconds later it was absolute pandemonium
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Speaker 1: until one of the crew members died. And usually it
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Speaker 1: was like the thing inhabited one of the sailors, like
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Speaker 1: that young man who ran like an animal and leapt
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Speaker 1: over the edge, and this thing would basically inhabit these
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Speaker 1: sailors and cause them to take their own lives. Over
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Speaker 1: the next few years, more crews would join the Perrier
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Speaker 1: and go out to sea, and over and over and
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Speaker 1: over again, this thing, the dark Secret, would take over
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Speaker 1: and many of the crew would end up dying, and
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Speaker 1: so by the time the crew had come to port,
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Speaker 1: the crew would totally mutiny and disappear. Nobody wanted to
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Speaker 1: be anywhere near this ship. That was why Nells and
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Speaker 1: Captain Gavinski were the longest serving members on board the Perier,
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Speaker 1: because they were the only ones who were willing to
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Speaker 1: come back. All told, the thing or the dark Secret
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Speaker 1: of the Perrier claimed the lives of twenty three sailors.
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Speaker 1: Twenty of them after screaming like maniacs, suddenly just went
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Speaker 1: quiet and leapt over the railing into the ocean and drowned.
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Speaker 1: And the three others that passed away were the ship's captains,
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Speaker 1: who all killed themselves. After the Perier was abandoned in
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Speaker 1: Santa Monica, California. It's unclear what actually happened to it,
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Speaker 1: but we know it never sailed commercially again. One night,
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Speaker 1: in a cemetery in Alabama, this woman was visiting her
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Speaker 1: sister's grave site, and her sister had passed away when
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Speaker 1: she was only six years old, and so this woman
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Speaker 1: had really never gotten over that. And so as she's
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Speaker 1: sitting by the grave site, she begins to hear what
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Speaker 1: sounds like kids laughing and playing and singing songs. But
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Speaker 1: it's the middle of the night and she's in a cemetery,
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Speaker 1: and so she was very confused by this, and so
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Speaker 1: she decided to go investigate. So she got up and
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Speaker 1: began walking through the cemetery towards the sound of these voices,
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Speaker 1: and sure enough, on the other side of the cemetery
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Speaker 1: was a kid's playground, and it was full of kids
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Speaker 1: playing and singing and laughing, and this woman is like,
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Speaker 1: what are these kids doing here? It's the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night. But before she could figure out what was
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Speaker 1: even going on, she heard a scream behind her. She
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Speaker 1: turned her and saw nothing, but then when she turned
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Speaker 1: back around, all the kids were gone, and so this
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Speaker 1: woman is totally horrified. She fled the cemetery. And then
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Speaker 1: that night, when she was laying in bed, kind of
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Speaker 1: going over what happened, at the foot of her bed,
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Speaker 1: she thinks she sees something moving, and so she looks
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Speaker 1: down her bed, and slowly, the head of a child
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