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Speaker 1: talking about three insane disappearances. And let me tell you,
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Speaker 1: some of these are really, really eerie. And it boggles
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Speaker 1: have been missing for centuries. And with modern technology, we
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Speaker 1: still can't locate them. But without further ado, let's unbuckle
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Speaker 1: So the first disappearance we are going to talk about
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Speaker 1: is the Flannan Isle Lighthouse Keepers. So the Flannan Isle
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Speaker 1: Lighthouse was built by David Allen Stevenson from 1895 to 1899.
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Speaker 1: Took a long time. And it was a state-of-the-art lighthouse
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Speaker 1: because it had a small railway specifically designed to supply
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Speaker 1: the lighthouse keepers. Because they would be out there for
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Speaker 1: a really long time. And on December 7th, 1899, the
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Speaker 1: lighthouse was lit. Now imagine this. You're in the year 1900.
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Speaker 1: And you and two other men were tasked with operating
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Speaker 1: a brand new lighthouse with its own personal railroad. Sounds crazy.
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Speaker 1: like a nightmare to be honest. But excitement fills you
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Speaker 1: as you begin a new life journey and all seems well.
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Speaker 1: Unknown to you, the lighthouse had an ominous aura about
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Speaker 1: it and your life was about to completely change. So
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Speaker 1: on December 5th, 1900, 1900 doesn't even sound like a
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Speaker 1: year with me. It sounds like a fake year for
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Speaker 1: some reason. but I know it's not. A ship called
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Speaker 1: the Arctur was passing by the Flannan Isles. And at
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Speaker 1: the time there was a crazy storm that made visibility
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Speaker 1: nearly non-existent. So they looked at their maps and they
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Speaker 1: saw that there should be a lighthouse that could steer
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Speaker 1: them away from the sharp cliffs on the Isles. However,
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Speaker 1: there was no light at all. Captain Holman quickly jotted
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Speaker 1: down this information, and once they reached their destination, reported
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Speaker 1: it to the Northern Lighthouse Board, which was the committee
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Speaker 1: under which the lighthouse operated and reported. And once they
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Speaker 1: were notified, the board sent out a relief ship called
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Speaker 1: the Hesperus, which was set to sail out on December
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Speaker 1: 20th but could not leave until the 26th due to
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Speaker 1: bad weather. So when they arrived at the island, they
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Speaker 1: searched for three men, James Duquette, Thomas Marshall, and Donald MacArthur,
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Speaker 1: who were supposed to be operating the lighthouse. Damn, look
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Speaker 1: at those mustaches. Those are incredible. And on the relief
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Speaker 1: ship was the fourth keep, Joseph Moore, who would occasionally
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Speaker 1: travel to the island to help and swap with someone
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Speaker 1: in case they wanted help. to briefly head back to
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Speaker 1: the mainland, just give him a bit of a break.
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Speaker 1: So Moore was the first person to reach the lighthouse
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Speaker 1: and immediately knew something was wrong. The lighthouse was eerily quiet,
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Speaker 1: except for a canary still alive in its cage. He
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Speaker 1: quote unquote said, I did not take time to search further,
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Speaker 1: for I only too well knew something serious had occurred.
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Speaker 1: What a fun way of speaking. And he also said,
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Speaker 1: supposedly waiting to be used. And laying on the ground
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Speaker 1: next to the table was one chair while the rest
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Speaker 1: was unaltered. So moving to the bedrooms, all the men's
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Speaker 1: beds were made and all of the items were still undisturbed.
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Speaker 1: And the men did take note that two of the
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Speaker 1: three oil skins were missing from the room. And oil
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Speaker 1: skins are waterproof clothing, traditionally made from heavy canvas or
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Speaker 1: cotton treated with oil and waxed. And it was designed
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Speaker 1: to keep sailors and fishermen dry in the harsh weather.
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Speaker 1: They typically include jackets, pants, and hats to repel rain
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Speaker 1: and sea spray. The third one remained in the room.
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Speaker 1: And this shows that protocol was broken because the rules
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Speaker 1: stated that if the conditions outside were stormy, then wearing
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Speaker 1: the oil skins was mandatory. And the light at the
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Speaker 1: top of the structure was clean and still had plenty
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Speaker 1: of fuel, indicating that the last shift was conducted properly
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Speaker 1: before the keepers had vanished. And lastly, and very strangely,
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Speaker 1: all of the clocks in the lighthouse had stopped and
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Speaker 1: were unwound, meaning that the keepers had been gone for
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Speaker 1: some time at this point. And checking the logbook, The
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Speaker 1: crew learned a lot more about the final days of
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Speaker 1: The Missing Men, and Marshall appeared to be the one
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Speaker 1: writing the entries. It would say, December 12th, 1900. Gale
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Speaker 1: north by northwest, sea lashed to fury, storm still raging,
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Speaker 1: windy steady, storm bound, severe winds, the likes of which
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Speaker 1: I have never seen before. And he also recorded that
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Speaker 1: James DeKette, the head keeper, had been very quiet, while
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Speaker 1: Donald MacArthur, known for his tough and resilient nature, had
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Speaker 1: been quiet. Next entry, December 13th, 1900. And this entry
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Speaker 1: implies that the storm has not let up, and it
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Speaker 1: notes an apparent sense of dread among the keepers. And
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Speaker 1: MacArthur is described as praying, which, like his previous emotional outburst,
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Speaker 1: was very unusual for his character. Next entry, December 14th, 1900.
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Speaker 1: No relief, storm still raging, sea rough, prayers all day.
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Speaker 1: And with no break in the storm, the men had
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Speaker 1: felt very trapped, as if something was actively targeting or
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Speaker 1: threatening them. So this paints the picture of an intense,
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Speaker 1: possibly supernatural experience, as the men appeared to be deeply
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Speaker 1: frightened and unsettled. Next entry, December 15th, 1900. Storm ended.
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Speaker 1: Sea calm. God is over all. So the abrupt end
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Speaker 1: of the storm is reported here, yet no one has
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Speaker 1: ever fully explained what followed. And the phrase, God is
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Speaker 1: over all, has led to various interpretations, with some suggesting
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Speaker 1: it indicates a sense of resignation or foreboding. And looking
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Speaker 1: outside the lighthouse on the island, everything appeared to be
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Speaker 1: in order except for the landing platform. on the west
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Speaker 1: side of the island, which was heavily damaged. Iron railings
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Speaker 1: were bent and storage box was torn open and its
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Speaker 1: contents were scattered everywhere. And as the search continued and
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Speaker 1: the waters were combed, no bodies ever turned up. And
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Speaker 1: on December 29th, Robert Murhead, a lighthouse board superintendent and
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Speaker 1: the man who had recruited the three keepers, conducted an
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Speaker 1: official investigation into their disappearances. And based on the clothing
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Speaker 1: that was left behind, he noted that Marshall and Duquette
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Speaker 1: had gone to the western landing and that Marshall had
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Speaker 1: left in a simple shirt during a heavy rain. So
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Speaker 1: Murr had believed that the three men were down at
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Speaker 1: the landing securing a package that maybe went rogue and
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Speaker 1: came up and possibly swept them away. And he was
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Speaker 1: quote-unquote to say, From evidence which I was able to procure,
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Speaker 1: I was satisfied that the men had been on duty
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Speaker 1: up till dinner time on Saturday the 15th of December,
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Speaker 1: that they had gone down to secure a box in
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Speaker 1: which the mooring ropes, landing ropes, etc. were kept and
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Speaker 1: which secured in a crevice in the rock about 110 feet,
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Speaker 1: 34 meters above sea level, and that an extra large
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Speaker 1: sea had rushed up the face of the rock, had
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Speaker 1: gone above them, and coming down with immense force had
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Speaker 1: swept them completely away. So what caused the men to
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Speaker 1: abandon their lighthouse, and where did they go? Because although
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Speaker 1: Murhead claims that this possibly happened, it didn't. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: know for sure. But the first theory is the rogue wave.
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Speaker 1: The most believable theory that is as well. But I
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Speaker 1: don't like believable theories. I like the creepy eerie ones.
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Speaker 1: But again, the most believable theory is the rogue wave
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Speaker 1: came and swept the members while they were working in
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Speaker 1: the storm. And on the west end of the aisle,
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Speaker 1: there are many caves and gullies that which water smashes into.
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Speaker 1: And during massive storms, these caves and gullies act as
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Speaker 1: cannons that shoot out water high into the sky. So
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Speaker 1: what if both Marshall and Duquette rushed out of the
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Speaker 1: lighthouse with their oil skins to strap down some loose
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Speaker 1: cargo and MacArthur stayed behind as is the protocol. And
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Speaker 1: then while working, the two men were swept away. And
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Speaker 1: thinking the other two should be back by now, MacArthur
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Speaker 1: ran to where they were and was also swept away, possibly.
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Speaker 1: And this would explain why there was only one oil
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Speaker 1: skin left and why the bodies were never found. And
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Speaker 1: it would also explain why the west platform was damaged
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Speaker 1: and that the crate was smashed against the rocks. And
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Speaker 1: adding to this theory that MacArthur was known to break
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Speaker 1: fights and get drunk. So some believe that he could
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Speaker 1: have started a fight after being cooped up at the
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Speaker 1: lighthouse for three days straight. So they rushed outside, were fighting,
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Speaker 1: and were inevitably swept away. And the remaining keeper came
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Speaker 1: outside to look for them and was also swept away.
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Speaker 1: But the other theory is the supernatural theory, which I
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Speaker 1: find very interesting. Because it was clear that something must
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Speaker 1: have occurred that abruptly forced the lighthouse keepers out. Some
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Speaker 1: believe that the two men ran outside with their coats
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Speaker 1: and the last one, who feared being left behind, ran
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Speaker 1: out of the lighthouse without his raincoat. Something must have
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Speaker 1: been inside the lighthouse with them and that caused them
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Speaker 1: to flee. And with the massive storm going on outside,
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Speaker 1: they were trapped with whatever was tormenting them at the time.
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Speaker 1: And this would explain why they were praying and crying.
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Speaker 1: They must have seen something unexplainable or something terrifying that
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Speaker 1: must have scared them to death. And Scottish culture has
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Speaker 1: plenty of creatures that roam the oceans that are known
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Speaker 1: to scare and kill humans. The Pythir, Sorry if I'm
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Speaker 1: saying that wrong. The Batyr. The Batyr is a dragon
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Speaker 1: or serpent-like creature believed to bring storms and lightning, often
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Speaker 1: living in caves and feared for its deadly bite. And
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Speaker 1: then there's the Kelpie, which is a water spirit who
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Speaker 1: appears as a beautiful horse by locks and rivers, luring
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Speaker 1: people to their doom by dragging them into the water.
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Speaker 1: And lastly, there's the Selkies. They're shape-shifting seals that shed
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Speaker 1: their skins to become human on land, often marrying humans
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Speaker 1: but ultimately longing for the sea. So could they have
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Speaker 1: seen one of these creatures or had been lured out
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Speaker 1: by one of them? Or could it have been a banshee,
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Speaker 1: otherwise called a washerwoman? In Scottish folklore, there's a ghost
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Speaker 1: called a banshee, which typically depicts a woman wailing or
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Speaker 1: screaming in agony as she washes the clothes of people
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Speaker 1: she's about to kill. which is, that just gave me chills.
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Speaker 1: That's fucking scary. So could they have encountered one of
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Speaker 1: these beings on the island's western end and attempted to
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Speaker 1: hide in the lighthouse until someone got inside? It's hard
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Speaker 1: to tell, but a lot of people believe that something
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Speaker 1: got inside the lighthouse and caused the men to flee
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Speaker 1: in a hurry. And next is Aliens, okay? Stay with me, alright?
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Speaker 1: It is the final theory, but it could be alien abduction.
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Speaker 1: What if, over the course of the storm, an unidentifiable
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Speaker 1: object had either landed or been flying around the lighthouse,
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Speaker 1: making weird noises and flashing lights? Some believe that a
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Speaker 1: UFO abducted the crew after they ran out of the
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Speaker 1: lighthouse to see what it was and tried to escape.
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Speaker 1: And perhaps the damage that was done on the western
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Speaker 1: landing was not done by a wave, but a UFO landing.
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Speaker 1: The damaged railing at the top of the west landing
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Speaker 1: is 110 feet above sea level. And that would take
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Speaker 1: a monstrous wave to reach that high. So if the
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Speaker 1: crew was abducted, it would explain why they were never
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Speaker 1: seen again. But whatever happened on that cold December night
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Speaker 1: will probably remain one of the greatest mysteries on Earth.
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Speaker 1: How could three experienced lighthouse workers just abandon their post
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Speaker 1: and disappear? Something very serious or eerie may have occurred.
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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, only they will ever know. And that brings
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Speaker 1: us to our next mass disappearance, which is the infamous
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Speaker 1: Roanoke Colony. So the lost colony of Roanoke has intrigued
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Speaker 1: both historians and conspiracy theorists alike, like myself. And if
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Speaker 1: you haven't heard of the colony of Roanoke, I'll fill
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Speaker 1: you in with a brief history lesson to give you
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Speaker 1: some context. So in 1524, An Italian explorer by the
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Speaker 1: name of Giovanni de Verrazzano set sail to the New
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Speaker 1: World and sailed along the eastern coast. And believing that
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Speaker 1: the coast of North Carolina, more specifically the Pimlico Sound,
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Speaker 1: was the Pacific Ocean, he was unsure of what he
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Speaker 1: was looking at. And following his expedition, Queen Elizabeth I
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Speaker 1: ordered a charter to Humphrey Gilbert and later, after his death,
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Speaker 1: awarded his brothers, including Sir Walter Rayleigh. And this expedition
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Speaker 1: was one of the earliest attempts by England to colonize
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Speaker 1: the Americas. And once they finished, they reported that the
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Speaker 1: available land looked extremely promising and claimed that the native
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Speaker 1: peoples were very amicable. And Governor Ralph Lane believed to
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Speaker 1: have found a good spot for a colony. So he
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Speaker 1: established and led the Lane colony in 1585. And the
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Speaker 1: colony wouldn't last long as their supplies ran out quickly.
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Speaker 1: And the native peoples, believe it or not, in the
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Speaker 1: area were not too keen on foreigners using their resources
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Speaker 1: and building on their land. So in a desperate effort,
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Speaker 1: Lane led an expedition deeper inland in the hope of
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Speaker 1: finding either a better spot for the colony or some
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Speaker 1: large cash for valuable resources in attempt to find some
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Speaker 1: reason to stay. And ultimately the expedition was a waste.
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Speaker 1: And so in 1586, it was decided that the colony
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Speaker 1: would be abandoned. However, Rayleigh wanted to try again and
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Speaker 1: convince about 115 people to stay and move to Roanoke Island,
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Speaker 1: which was just a few miles off the coast. And
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Speaker 1: I want to preface that Rayleigh never stepped foot in
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Speaker 1: the Americas. He strictly managed the finances basically, and was
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Speaker 1: the land holder for the colony. He knew it wasn't
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Speaker 1: safe to remain on the mainland, but hoped that they
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Speaker 1: would have a better chance if they were off the coast. However,
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Speaker 1: once the colony was actually established, they encountered a new
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Speaker 1: group of people called the Croatans who lived on the
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Speaker 1: south of the island. And compared to the Sakotan tribe
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Speaker 1: on the mainland, the Croatans were much more peaceful and supportive.
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Speaker 1: They had a translator named Manteo, whose mother was the
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Speaker 1: chieftain of the Croatans. And Croatans had attacked colonists a
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Speaker 1: few times. However, Manteo would negotiate with his people and
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Speaker 1: help them to remain peaceful for most of the time.
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Speaker 1: But still needing supplies, John White, the appointed governor of
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Speaker 1: the Roanoke colony, opted to sail back to England on
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Speaker 1: August 27th, 1587 and would arrive in England on November 5th, 1587.
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Speaker 1: And as fate would have it, White would be stuck
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Speaker 1: in England due to the Spanish Armada planning a massive
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Speaker 1: naval attack on London. And the Queen mandated that all
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Speaker 1: ships that had come back to London could not leave
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Speaker 1: in anticipation of the Spanish attack. So it took two
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Speaker 1: years of waiting for White to get the okay to
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Speaker 1: leave and go back to Roanoke. So in 1590, John
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Speaker 1: was able to hop onto a privateering expedition and headed
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Speaker 1: for the Caribbean to raid Spanish outposts. And when they
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Speaker 1: would reach the Americas, eventually two ships, the Hopewell and
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Speaker 1: the Moonlight, would divert from the main group and drop
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Speaker 1: off White with much needed supplies. And the two ships
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Speaker 1: first anchored on Croatan Island on August 12th. And everyone
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Speaker 1: aboard the ships remained on the boats. And on the
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Speaker 1: evening of August 5th, while stationed at the island's northern end,
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Speaker 1: men aboard the ships could see giant billows of smoke
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Speaker 1: rising above Roanoke Island. And wanting to investigate the island
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Speaker 1: because of the smoke, White and his crew tried to
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Speaker 1: cross the Pamlico Sound, but the bad weather would prevent
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Speaker 1: the crew from landing. So on August 17th, White and
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Speaker 1: a small group of men rode to Roanoke after seeing
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Speaker 1: another smokestack on the north part of the island. By
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Speaker 1: the time they had made landfall, the sun had already set,
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Speaker 1: so they decided to stay on their boats not to
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Speaker 1: startle the colonists during the night. And when morning broke,
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Speaker 1: other crew members arrived and they began to search the
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Speaker 1: island altogether. But immediately something was off because nobody greeted
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Speaker 1: them when they arrived. Yet there was fresh footprints in
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Speaker 1: the sand near their boats. And one crew member noticed
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Speaker 1: the letters CRO carved into a tree facing outward towards
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Speaker 1: the bay and moving from the beach to the colony
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Speaker 1: the houses and palisades which were wooden fences meant to
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Speaker 1: surround the town as a protective wall were completely broken
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Speaker 1: apart and near a wall there was a tree with
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Speaker 1: the word croatoan carved into the bark And adding to
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Speaker 1: the overall chaos was the fact that many of the
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Speaker 1: colonists' belongings were scattered everywhere. Trunks of clothing and random
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Speaker 1: belongings lay everywhere, even some of John White's stuff that
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Speaker 1: he had left while on his trip to England. And
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Speaker 1: after searching the entire island, no colonists were ever found.
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Speaker 1: All 115 people completely disappeared. So the plan was to
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Speaker 1: head back to Croatan Island and see if any of
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Speaker 1: the colonists were there. But things would fall apart when
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Speaker 1: the Hopewell's anchor snapped. and the moonlight opted to head
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Speaker 1: back to England. The Hopewell agreed to stay in the
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Speaker 1: Caribbean for the winter so John could be close and
20:05
Speaker 1: continue his investigation. However, they were blown off course, unfortunately,
20:09
Speaker 1: and forced to head back to England. And back in England,
20:12
Speaker 1: Rayleigh was more concerned with maintaining the monopoly of his
20:15
Speaker 1: land charters in Virginia than the well-being of the missing colonists,
20:18
Speaker 1: because we know he's a piece of shit. And for years,
20:21
Speaker 1: he tried to argue that the colonists were still alive,
20:23
Speaker 1: even though he had no proof of that at all.
20:25
Speaker 1: But that way, he could keep his charters. But it
20:28
Speaker 1: wasn't until 1594, when a petition was leveraged against him,
20:32
Speaker 1: that one of the colonists, Ananias Dare, was legally dead.
20:36
Speaker 1: so that John Dare could legally inherit his father's estate.
20:40
Speaker 1: And this pushed Walter to go overseas and look for
20:43
Speaker 1: the missing colony. But then later revealed he was actually
20:46
Speaker 1: looking for the lost city of El Dorado on some
20:49
Speaker 1: defunct information. Shout out to El Dorado. It's one of
20:51
Speaker 1: my favorite movies as a kid. It's an animated movie.
20:53
Speaker 1: You should watch it if you haven't seen it. So
20:55
Speaker 1: eventually he sailed up and down the coast but claimed
20:57
Speaker 1: he never made it to Corotone or Roanoke due to
21:00
Speaker 1: the inclement weather. And his poor efforts allowed for a
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Speaker 1: petition to go through and in 1597 the inheritance was transferred.
21:08
Speaker 1: And later in 1602, Rayleigh would send another expedition to
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Speaker 1: look for the missing colony. And it was later found
21:14
Speaker 1: out through a ship itinerary that Walter sent the voyage
21:17
Speaker 1: not to find the colonists but to harvest as much
21:20
Speaker 1: sassafras as possible and bring it back to England because
21:24
Speaker 1: the price of sassafras skyrocketed in England. He is literally
21:27
Speaker 1: the embodiment of a piece of shit. So it was
21:31
Speaker 1: clear that Sir Walter Raleigh did not intend on finding
21:34
Speaker 1: the missing colonists and only cared about monies and his charters.
21:38
Speaker 1: But thankfully, in 1603, karma would hit this bitch in
21:42
Speaker 1: the back and Walter would be arrested for taking part
21:45
Speaker 1: in the main plot, which is the follow-up to the
21:49
Speaker 1: bi plot. And the bi plot in 1603 was a
21:52
Speaker 1: scheme by a group of Catholic priests to kidnap King
21:55
Speaker 1: James I of England and force him to ease anti-Catholic laws. However,
22:00
Speaker 1: it was quickly discovered and thwarted. Fun word, thwarted. Use
22:05
Speaker 1: it today. And there were other attempts to find the
22:07
Speaker 1: colonists following Rayleigh's arrest. In 1603, a man by the
22:11
Speaker 1: name of Bartholomew Gilbert set sail to the islands in
22:15
Speaker 1: hopes of finding the new evidence. They wanted to arrive
22:18
Speaker 1: at the Chesapeake Bay and sail from there. However, bad
22:21
Speaker 1: weather caused them to land elsewhere and immediately get killed
22:24
Speaker 1: by native people. They didn't like people coming up on
22:27
Speaker 1: the land and taking it. Who would have thunk? You know,
22:29
Speaker 1: who would have thunk? Other inland theories suggest that in 1584,
22:33
Speaker 1: before John White left, Walter Raleigh told the colonists to
22:36
Speaker 1: go to a specific place along the river to harvest sassafras,
22:40
Speaker 1: as we know he loves sassafras. And today, this same
22:43
Speaker 1: area is the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. And found
22:48
Speaker 1: within the refuge were multiple small coffins with Christian imagery.
22:52
Speaker 1: So it is believed that Raleigh forced these people to
22:55
Speaker 1: live and work near alligator infested waters, which I would
22:59
Speaker 1: not put past Rayleigh at this point. And when Rayleigh
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Speaker 1: died in 1618, the rest of the survivors decided to
23:06
Speaker 1: go live with the Croatans. His greed really knows no bounds.
23:11
Speaker 1: So this, I don't know why, but this one is
23:13
Speaker 1: like the most believable for me. There is also the
23:16
Speaker 1: Dare Stone, which is allegedly from John White's daughter, Eleanor Dare,
23:20
Speaker 1: whom he left behind on his resupply trip. And the
23:23
Speaker 1: stone is supposedly a message directly to John from his
23:26
Speaker 1: daughter telling how the colony moved to the Chowan River.
23:30
Speaker 1: And she said that only 24 colonists had survived after
23:33
Speaker 1: two years. And then after an attack from native peoples,
23:36
Speaker 1: the group was down to seven. And the stone matches
23:39
Speaker 1: statements from William Strachey, an English writer from the time
23:43
Speaker 1: period who wrote a group of colonists getting attacked and
23:46
Speaker 1: only seven surviving. But people question the age and authenticity
23:49
Speaker 1: of the stone based on chemical composition tests, but it
23:53
Speaker 1: still offers a new perspective in theory. And then there's
23:56
Speaker 1: the colonists that potentially assimilated with the native people. About
23:59
Speaker 1: two decades after the failure of the Roanoke colony, Jamestown
24:03
Speaker 1: was founded in 1607, permanently establishing the English peoples in
24:07
Speaker 1: the Americas. And well, according to numerous reports from Jamestown residents,
24:12
Speaker 1: they claim to see the lost colony residents working and
24:16
Speaker 1: living in several villages along the Roanoke River. And this
24:19
Speaker 1: theory kind of builds off the last theory that states
24:22
Speaker 1: the colony was massacred on its way inland. Instead of
24:25
Speaker 1: being completely killed off, they were captured or taken in
24:28
Speaker 1: by other local people. And even John Smith, who actually
24:31
Speaker 1: explored the area and helped establish Jamestown, claimed to encounter
24:34
Speaker 1: English-speaking people in surrounding villages. However, take this statement with
24:38
Speaker 1: a grain of salt, because it was well known that
24:41
Speaker 1: John Smith was a bitch. of a liar, mate. Bit
24:44
Speaker 1: of a liar. If the colonists lived among the native groups,
24:48
Speaker 1: they would likely have assimilated to varying degrees, adopting native cultures, clothing,
24:53
Speaker 1: and lifestyle. And this type of integration would have helped
24:55
Speaker 1: them survive by blending into the native community structure. And
24:58
Speaker 1: the settlers' European identity may have been gradually lost as
25:02
Speaker 1: they adapted to the natives' way of life. especially if
25:04
Speaker 1: they formed family units with native individuals over time, which
25:08
Speaker 1: is very, very likely. But in later centuries, some individuals
25:11
Speaker 1: and groups in North Carolina claimed descent from Roanoke settlers
25:15
Speaker 1: with specific native groups, like the Lumbee tribe, pointing to
25:19
Speaker 1: cultural and physical traits that may have been inherited from
25:23
Speaker 1: European ancestry. And there is also the Cora tree theory.
25:27
Speaker 1: The Cora tree is a legend on Hatteras Island that
25:30
Speaker 1: revolves around a mysterious woman named Cora. who arrived in
25:33
Speaker 1: the early 1700s with her baby, sparking local suspicions of
25:38
Speaker 1: witchcraft due to strange occurrences. These are the theories I like.
25:41
Speaker 1: And Captain Eli Brood from Salem, suspecting her as a witch,
25:45
Speaker 1: subjected her to trials which seemed to confirm his suspicions.
25:49
Speaker 1: When locals attempted to burn her at the stake, a
25:53
Speaker 1: storm struck with lightning hitting a tree and Cora disappeared,
25:58
Speaker 1: leaving behind an oak split in half and the word
26:02
Speaker 1: Cora scorched into the bark. I got chills. I got chills.
26:09
Speaker 1: And some people speculated that Cora carved on the tree
26:12
Speaker 1: was actually left by the Roanoke colonists. It was found
26:15
Speaker 1: on Hatteras Island, which was formerly Croatan Island. And tests
26:20
Speaker 1: on the tree show that it was alive in the 1600s.
26:23
Speaker 1: And others believe that the witch had inhabited the island
26:26
Speaker 1: for centuries and was the direct cause of the colony's disappearance.
26:30
Speaker 1: So maybe they traveled to Croatan Island and encountered Cora.
26:34
Speaker 1: upset her and caused her to curse them all or
26:37
Speaker 1: have them killed. And this next theory we're going to
26:39
Speaker 1: talk about involves cannibalism and zombies. Stay with me. And
26:44
Speaker 1: this theory states that the reason why nobody found any
26:46
Speaker 1: of the colonists anywhere is because they got so desperate
26:50
Speaker 1: and devolved into cannibalism. A select group of colonists started
26:54
Speaker 1: to cannibalize people. And since they were eating, they would
26:56
Speaker 1: have been the strongest members of the colony. And this
26:58
Speaker 1: led them to killing and eating the remaining colonists and
27:01
Speaker 1: surviving somewhere in the North Carolina woods. Just going completely feral, mate.
27:07
Speaker 1: They would have likely broken the bones to eat the
27:09
Speaker 1: marrow on the inside, leaving small fragments that have rotted
27:12
Speaker 1: away since then. And with cannibalism comes a lot of
27:15
Speaker 1: very deadly diseases. And this would lead to a zombie
27:18
Speaker 1: virus outbreak, stay with me. Andre Freeman, a researcher from
27:22
Speaker 1: the Zombie Research Society, yes, that is real, suggests a
27:26
Speaker 1: zombie outbreak as a possible explanation. He references Harvard archeologist
27:30
Speaker 1: Lawrence Stager evidence of cannibalism at the site of the
27:33
Speaker 1: local tribal reports of internal conflict. And Freeman theorizes that
27:38
Speaker 1: a sudden zombie plague could have decimated the settlers, leaving
27:42
Speaker 1: no survivors at all. And over time, any remaining colonial
27:45
Speaker 1: zombies would have decayed due to lack of new hosts,
27:49
Speaker 1: leaving no trace. And that brings us to our final
27:52
Speaker 1: mass disappearance, which is the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. So
27:58
Speaker 1: on March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 departed from
28:02
Speaker 1: Kuala Lumpur International Airport and was set to arrive at
28:06
Speaker 1: at Beijing Capital International Airport a few hours later. But
28:10
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to the passengers and the crew on board, their
28:13
Speaker 1: entire flight would disappear almost without trace. So at 12.41 a.m. Saturday,
28:18
Speaker 1: March 8th, 2014, The weather conditions were clear and on
28:24
Speaker 1: their flight plan, which was going north from Malaysia over
28:27
Speaker 1: the Gulf of Thailand, then across Vietnam and onward toward China,
28:31
Speaker 1: there was no sign of any bad weather. 239 passengers
28:36
Speaker 1: and crew were eager to reach their destination as the
28:39
Speaker 1: massive Boeing 777 lifted off the ground. And at 1
28:43
Speaker 1: 07 AM, the last aircraft communications addressing and reporting system
28:47
Speaker 1: messages was sent and then shut off for unknown reasons.
28:52
Speaker 1: And at 1.19 a.m., First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid signs
28:57
Speaker 1: off from Malaysia Air Traffic Control with, Good night, Malaysia 370.
29:01
Speaker 1: Good night. And this would be the last we hear
29:10
Speaker 1: from anyone aboard the plane. And two minutes after that,
29:14
Speaker 1: the aircraft's transponders stopped sending any signals, making it invisible
29:18
Speaker 1: to civilian radar. And Malaysian military radar continues to track
29:22
Speaker 1: the plane as it veers off course. And an hour later,
29:25
Speaker 1: the final radar ping of MH370 is recorded. It was
29:30
Speaker 1: last seen flying over the Indian Ocean near Phuket Island yesterday.
29:34
Speaker 1: in the Strait of Malacca. And expecting MH370 to fly
29:38
Speaker 1: over soon, the people in the control tower monitor the
29:41
Speaker 1: radar and listen to the radio, but no contact ever
29:44
Speaker 1: comes through. And after a few hours of no contact,
29:47
Speaker 1: Malaysia and Vietnam searched for the missing plane to no avail.
29:51
Speaker 1: And on the 9th, the Malaysia military began searching for
29:53
Speaker 1: the plane at its last known location. And with no
29:56
Speaker 1: new evidence, people began to really wonder what happened on
30:00
Speaker 1: that flight. And after a few days, the prime minister
30:02
Speaker 1: of Malaysia announced that through investigation, it was determined that
30:05
Speaker 1: the flight flew for hours after losing contact. So it
30:09
Speaker 1: could literally be anything. anywhere. And on March 24th, the
30:13
Speaker 1: prime minister would speak again, stating that the Malaysia government
30:16
Speaker 1: had presumed that the MH370 had crashed somewhere in the
30:20
Speaker 1: southern Indian ocean and that there is no possibility of
30:23
Speaker 1: finding any survivors.
30:25
Speaker 2: It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I
30:31
Speaker 2: must inform you that according to this new data, like
30:40
Speaker 2: MH370 ended in a Southern Indian Ocean.
30:49
Speaker 1: They would continue to search, hoping to find anything, but
30:53
Speaker 1: ultimately coming up empty-handed. And about a month later, an
30:56
Speaker 1: Australian border patrol ship named Ocean Shield picked up signals
31:01
Speaker 1: from a supposed black box near the Australian coast. And
31:04
Speaker 1: Malaysia would divert as much of the search to where
31:07
Speaker 1: they supposed pings came from, but again, nothing was found.
31:11
Speaker 1: And a year would pass and nothing would show up.
31:14
Speaker 1: And families and friends mourned those who lost their lives
31:17
Speaker 1: in this tragic mystery. And many around the world continued
31:20
Speaker 1: to wonder what happened to Malaysia Flight 370. And then,
31:24
Speaker 1: on the morning of July 15th, a man by the
31:27
Speaker 1: name of Johnny Begay discovered a massive piece of plane
31:31
Speaker 1: the beaches of Reunion, a small island in the southern
31:35
Speaker 1: Indian Ocean. And Johnny claimed that he was just walking
31:37
Speaker 1: on the beach for a lunch break looking for a
31:39
Speaker 1: stone to use as a pestle when he discovered the
31:42
Speaker 1: massive part.
31:46
Speaker 2: And once the piece was picked up, it was later
31:51
Speaker 2: identified as the flaperon. The flaperon? The flaperon?
31:57
Speaker 1: The flaperon. of Malaysia Flight 370. It was identified as
32:18
Speaker 1: MH370 due to a serial number that linked it to
32:21
Speaker 1: the Boeing 777s. And this was the first discovery that
32:24
Speaker 1: would start a chain of discoveries all along the southeast
32:28
Speaker 1: coast of Africa. And the next piece would be found
32:30
Speaker 1: located in the Zhaizhai, Mozambique. Zhaizhai, Zhaizhai, Zhaizhai, I'm sorry.
32:36
Speaker 1: A flat track fairing segment with the letters 676EB was
32:39
Speaker 1: identified as belonging to the MH370, due to the specific
32:45
Speaker 1: font and color only used by Malaysia Airlines. And on
32:47
Speaker 1: February 16th, 2016, the Langkulo Mozambique, a stabilizer from the
32:53
Speaker 1: back of the plane, was identified as belonging to MH370,
32:56
Speaker 1: through the specific stencil font. And from March 2016 to
33:00
Speaker 1: September 2016, most parts appeared in Madagascar, Zanzibar, Meridius, and
33:06
Speaker 1: South Africa. So it was clear that the plane had
33:09
Speaker 1: crashed in the Indian Ocean and was torn to shreds.
33:12
Speaker 1: Now the currents were carrying the drifting wreckage to shore
33:15
Speaker 1: as a haunting reminder of an awful tragedy. And to
33:18
Speaker 1: this day, the location of the main wreckage is unknown
33:21
Speaker 1: despite millions and millions of dollars being poured into underwater
33:26
Speaker 1: exploration of 75,000 square mile area search. So what happened
33:31
Speaker 1: on that day? Why did the pilots turn around after
33:34
Speaker 1: taking off? And how long did the plane fly before
33:38
Speaker 1: crashing down into the cold ocean? So the first theory
33:41
Speaker 1: is the pilot-murder-sluer-slide plot. One of the first things investigated
33:46
Speaker 1: by the Malaysian government was the homes and bank accounts
33:49
Speaker 1: of all 12 crew members aboard the plane. And after
33:52
Speaker 1: an extensive search, no odd transactions had occurred. Still, according
33:56
Speaker 1: to the prime minister of Australia, he heard, that all
33:59
Speaker 1: of the highest government officials believed that it was a
34:03
Speaker 1: murder-slewer-slide plot by the pilots and crew. It would explain
34:07
Speaker 1: the sudden turn off course and the lack of communication.
34:10
Speaker 1: But they purposely did these things for reasons unknown. And
34:13
Speaker 1: if you weren't convinced before, there is one piece of
34:16
Speaker 1: evidence that is pretty damning. In 2016, New York Magazine
34:20
Speaker 1: was able to get classified documents from an investigation conducted
34:23
Speaker 1: by the FBI shortly after the disappearance of MH370. And
34:27
Speaker 1: in these documents, we learned that the captain of the flight,
34:31
Speaker 1: Zahari Shea, had used a flight simulator at home and
34:35
Speaker 1: flew a flight path nearly identical to the one that
34:39
Speaker 1: had occurred on that fateful day, a month before he
34:43
Speaker 1: took off. And as soon as the news broke, people
34:46
Speaker 1: were certain that the captain had purposely broken off from
34:49
Speaker 1: the flight path and flew into the Indian Ocean, just
34:52
Speaker 1: like he had done in the simulation. And even the
34:54
Speaker 1: prime minister of Malaysia claimed early on that he believed
34:57
Speaker 1: that the pilots purposely disabled communications.
35:00
Speaker 2: Based on new satellite communication, we can say with a
35:08
Speaker 2: high degree of certainty that the aircraft communications addressing and
35:18
Speaker 2: reporting systems or aircraft was disabled just before the aircraft
35:29
Speaker 2: reached the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
35:35
Speaker 1: And who knows if the information was circumstantial, but nevertheless,
35:39
Speaker 1: it's incredibly incriminating and ties us to the next theory,
35:43
Speaker 1: which is that it was shot down. So the next
35:45
Speaker 1: theory claims that the United States shot the plane down
35:48
Speaker 1: for getting too close to the U.S. military on the
35:51
Speaker 1: island of Diego Garcia in the Southern Indian Ocean. And
35:54
Speaker 1: this would not be the first time the U.S. shot
35:56
Speaker 1: down a civilian plane, believe it or not. On the
35:59
Speaker 1: 3rd of July, 1998, the US naval destroyer USS Vincennes
36:05
Speaker 1: shot two surface to air missiles at Iran Air Flight 655,
36:09
Speaker 1: hitting and killing all 290 passengers on board. And the U.S.
36:15
Speaker 1: would claim that they thought it was an F-14 Tomcat
36:19
Speaker 1: fighter jet. So when MH370 went missing near a U.S.
36:22
Speaker 1: naval base, many people remembered what they did all those
36:25
Speaker 1: years ago and speculated that they could have done the
36:28
Speaker 1: same thing again. And it is known that Malaysia Flight
36:30
Speaker 1: 370 was carrying roughly 500 pounds of lithium iron batteries,
36:35
Speaker 1: which were being delivered to Motorola Solutions in Tianjin, China.
36:38
Speaker 1: And this would lead some people to believe that there
36:40
Speaker 1: were Chinese computer scientists aboard the plane that was responsible
36:44
Speaker 1: for hacking into the United States Department of Defense servers
36:48
Speaker 1: and that the captain was working with the US to
36:51
Speaker 1: deliver them to the US. And as we mentioned earlier,
36:54
Speaker 1: the captain was practicing flying over the Indian Ocean. But
36:58
Speaker 1: that same report showed that he specifically spent time practicing
37:01
Speaker 1: landing on a small island airstrip in a Boeing 777.
37:06
Speaker 1: So on those islands he practiced landing on was Diego Garcia.
37:10
Speaker 1: But why would the US shoot down the plane if
37:13
Speaker 1: they had a pre-planned arrival? Well, either they mistook another
37:16
Speaker 1: passenger plane and shot it down, or they never planned
37:19
Speaker 1: on letting the plane land at all, and instead tricked
37:22
Speaker 1: the pilot into bringing the plane to them so they
37:25
Speaker 1: could just shoot it down and cause those scientists to
37:27
Speaker 1: fall face off the planet. And there is additional evidence
37:30
Speaker 1: to support this theory, because on March 18th, 2004, 10
37:34
Speaker 1: days after the initial disappearance. An article from the Maldivian
37:38
Speaker 1: newspaper wrote that the residents of the, oh, stay with me, Kudahavadu, Kudahavadu, Kudahavadu,
37:48
Speaker 1: we got there, a small atoll just north of Diego
37:51
Speaker 1: Garcia claimed to see a low-flying jumbo jet with red
37:55
Speaker 1: stripes across its side. And these reports would come at
37:58
Speaker 1: around 8 a.m. on March 8th and claimed that that
38:01
Speaker 1: it was flying southeast towards Diego Garcia. And they also
38:04
Speaker 1: claimed to hear multiple sounds apart from the already loud jet.
38:08
Speaker 1: So if the plane crashed somewhere in the area of
38:11
Speaker 1: the atoll, then it would explain why the debris from
38:14
Speaker 1: the plane is showing up where they are. Ocean current
38:16
Speaker 1: maps show us that if they crashed somewhere in the
38:19
Speaker 1: area of the atoll, then it would have predictably washed
38:22
Speaker 1: up along the coast of Southeast Africa and Madagascar. So
38:25
Speaker 1: could the MH370 have been shot down by the US
38:29
Speaker 1: or any other world It's hard to say and all
38:32
Speaker 1: of the debris that we have seen that has shown
38:34
Speaker 1: up has no signs of bullet holes or fire making
38:37
Speaker 1: it hard to believe that it was shot down. But
38:39
Speaker 1: reports from locals claiming that they saw a jumbo jet
38:43
Speaker 1: flying really low to the ground could point us to
38:46
Speaker 1: the right direction so we can hopefully bring closer to
38:49
Speaker 1: the hundreds of families who lost a loved one on
38:52
Speaker 1: that day. But there are so many theories that could
38:54
Speaker 1: have occurred. during Malaysia Flight 370. Some of the outlandish
38:59
Speaker 1: ones claim that the plane was hit by a meteor
39:02
Speaker 1: or sucked into a black hole. I feel like it's
39:05
Speaker 1: a bit of a stretch. And others claim, naturally, that
39:07
Speaker 1: aliens abducted the plane or that lithium batteries caught fire
39:11
Speaker 1: in the cargo hold and brought the plane down. A
39:14
Speaker 1: little bit more believable. Not the alien thing, but the
39:16
Speaker 1: other thing. But maybe.
39:17
Speaker 2: I don't know.
39:17
Speaker 1: They're saying aliens are in the ocean now, so I
39:19
Speaker 1: have no idea. But the disappearances have caught the attention
39:22
Speaker 1: of millions of onlookers for years. But I'd like to
39:25
Speaker 1: know what you think. For all the stories, what theory
39:29
Speaker 1: do you believe? out of all of them? I'm very
39:31
Speaker 1: curious to know. I love having conversations with you guys
39:34
Speaker 1: down in the comments below. I hope you enjoyed the
39:36
Speaker 1: video and enjoyed learning about these crazy mass disappearances. If
39:41
Speaker 1: you have any other suggestions for videos on crimes, conspiracies, cults,
39:45
Speaker 1: serial killers, or murders, let me know down below. and
39:48
Speaker 1: I will read it and like it. And until then,
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Speaker 1: have a super beautiful face in the next video. All right, bye.