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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today I'm
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On the afternoon of June
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth, nineteen thirty four, a thirty seven year old
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  Speaker 1: police officer named Captain Alan Falby pressed the throttle on
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  Speaker 1: his Place East motorcycle and sped down a street in Alpaso, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Falby's motorcycle lights and sirens were on because he
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  Speaker 1: was chasing a speeding pickup truck down the road. But
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  Speaker 1: despite the fact that obviously Captain Falby was in pursuit
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  Speaker 1: of this person, they were not slowing down at all.
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  Speaker 1: So Captain Falby had been a police officer for eleven
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  Speaker 1: years and he loved his job, He loved his motorcycle,
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  Speaker 1: and he hated when suspects got away. So he kept
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  Speaker 1: his hand on the throttle and kept chasing down the suspect.
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  Speaker 2: But suddenly the.
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  Speaker 1: Truck he was going after slammed on its brakes and
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  Speaker 1: swerved hard to the left. Falby tried to slow down,
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  Speaker 1: but it was too late. He slammed into the back
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  Speaker 1: of his truck and then he and his bike went
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  Speaker 1: sliding across the asphalt for a few seconds. And the
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  Speaker 1: whole time Faalby is feeling his body getting totally scraped
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  Speaker 1: against the pavement and the winds getting knocked out of him.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally when he came to a stop, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was splayed out in the middle of the road
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  Speaker 1: and his motorcycle, his beloved motorcycle, was laying on top
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  Speaker 1: of him, pinning his legs under him. And this bike
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  Speaker 1: weighed like five hundred pounds and adding insult to injury here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as Faalby is screaming out in pain because
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  Speaker 1: obviously horrible injuries have been sustained here, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: looks down the road and he sees the truck he
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  Speaker 1: was chasing, who clearly knew he just wrecked behind them.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to stay in help. They just drove off,
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  Speaker 1: protecting themselves. And so pretty quickly Fallby kind of assessed
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  Speaker 1: the situation he was in. You know, he tried for
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  Speaker 1: a second to push this bike off of him, but
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  Speaker 1: not only could he not move it, but every time
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  Speaker 1: he moved it just a little bit, the weight would
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  Speaker 1: kind of come down even harder and a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more pointed on his legs, which were crushed, and he
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  Speaker 1: had this excruciating pain down there, and worse, he's looking
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  Speaker 1: underneath him and he's seeing this growing pool of blood.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly he's sustained potentially life threatening injuries here and he's
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  Speaker 1: all alone, like there's nobody here to help him, and
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  Speaker 1: he's totally stuck. And so even though he began calling
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  Speaker 1: out for help, the reality was, you know, if nobody
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  Speaker 1: came along, soon he was done for.
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  Speaker 2: And he found himself starting to pay. Luckily, though, just.
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  Speaker 1: Then two men from down the road came running up
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  Speaker 1: to Captain Falby. Apparently they had been sort of behind
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  Speaker 1: the captain and were watching him pursuing this truck, and
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  Speaker 1: they had actually seen the accident, and so they had
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  Speaker 1: pulled over and they were now running up to see
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  Speaker 1: if he was okay, and so right away, without even
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  Speaker 1: needing to ask Captain Falby what he needed, these two
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  Speaker 1: men saw the situation. You know, the bike is pinned
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  Speaker 1: on top of the cop and so together these two
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  Speaker 1: men were able to lift this heavy motorcycle off of
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  Speaker 1: the Captain's legs. And as soon as they did, all
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  Speaker 1: three of them looked and they could clearly see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the reason there's all this.
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  Speaker 2: Blood all over the pavement.
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  Speaker 1: There was this huge gash in Captain Falby's leg right
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  Speaker 1: above his knee that.
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  Speaker 2: Was just pouring out blood.
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  Speaker 1: And Captain Falby, you know, he saw that and he
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  Speaker 1: was already starting to feel lightheaded from blood loss, but
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  Speaker 1: just seeing this huge wound was totally disorienting. Fortunately, though,
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  Speaker 1: the two men who had arrived on the scene to
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  Speaker 1: help Captain Falby kept their composure, and one of them
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  Speaker 1: actually noticed that Captain Falby was wearing a necktie.
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  Speaker 2: He had a formal police uniform.
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  Speaker 1: On that had, you know, a necktie as part of it,
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  Speaker 1: and he gently reached over and he told Captain Phalby
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  Speaker 1: to relax, and he undid his necktie. Meanwhile, the other
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  Speaker 1: man he ran over to the side of the road
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  Speaker 1: where this big tree was, and he got.
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  Speaker 2: A stick, a pretty sturdy stick.
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  Speaker 1: And so the guy who undid the necktie, he tied
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  Speaker 1: it around Captain Phalby's leg above the wound, basically cutting
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  Speaker 1: off circulation to that wound.
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  Speaker 2: A tourniquet.
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  Speaker 1: He tied it off, and then the other guy came
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  Speaker 1: back over with the stick and he handed it to
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  Speaker 1: the guy with the necktie, and he took the stick
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  Speaker 1: and threaded it carefully through the necktie that was now
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  Speaker 1: wrapped around the captain's leg, and he began twisting the stick,
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  Speaker 1: wrapping up the fabric as he twisted it, which in
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  Speaker 1: turn mechanically tightened that tournique around the captain's leg much
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  Speaker 1: tighter than you could do, you know, without something mechanical
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  Speaker 1: like this is somebody who clearly knew how to make
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  Speaker 1: a real tourniquet out of sort of everyday materials. And
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  Speaker 1: so they tie off the super tight tournique. They stopped
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  Speaker 1: the bleeding, and it ultimately he saves Captain Falby's life.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, by the.
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  Speaker 1: Time Captain Folby actually got brought to the hospital and
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  Speaker 1: they took off this DIY tourniquet and patched him up
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  Speaker 1: for real. The doctor would tell Captain Fulby that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was about ten minutes away from death from blood loss.
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  Speaker 1: So had it not been for those two guys who
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  Speaker 1: showed up and made that tournique, he very likely would
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  Speaker 1: have died. Four years later, on December twelfth, nineteen thirty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Captain Fhlby was back at work and he had been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, ever since maybe six months after his injury.
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  Speaker 2: He had just gone back to work fully recovered.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he did have some scar tissue on his leg,
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  Speaker 1: but he was basically back to full capacity. And so
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  Speaker 1: on this particular day, Captain Faalby was on patrol like
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  Speaker 1: he normally was in El Paso, when he got a
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  Speaker 1: call over the radio about a bad car accident that
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  Speaker 1: had happened out on Route eighty, which is a major
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  Speaker 1: road in that town. And so Captain Falby races over
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  Speaker 1: to the scene and he sees there's this car that's
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  Speaker 1: clearly veered off the.
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  Speaker 2: Road and smashed into a tree, and the.
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  Speaker 1: Driver or who appears to be the driver, is sitting
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  Speaker 1: still in the driver's seat, and they were unconscious, and
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  Speaker 1: so Fallby was the first on the scene. He pulls over,
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  Speaker 1: he gets off his bike, he rushes over to the car,
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  Speaker 1: and he carefully pulls this unconscious man out of the
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  Speaker 1: car and he lays him on the ground and he
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  Speaker 1: sees this guy has a horrible gash in his leg
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  Speaker 1: and it's bleeding profusely. But because this basically mirrored the
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  Speaker 1: exact same type of injury that Faalby himself had had
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  Speaker 1: four years earlier when he crashed his motorcycle, Falby knew
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  Speaker 1: what to do. He didn't have, you know, a issued
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  Speaker 1: tourniquet on hand, but he knew how to make one.
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  Speaker 2: He had a neck tie, and there were sticks.
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  Speaker 1: On the side of the road, so as quick as
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  Speaker 1: he could, he rushed over, grabbed a sturdy stick, took
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  Speaker 1: off his neck tie, tied it around this man's leg,
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  Speaker 1: used the stick to tighten it up even further, and
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  Speaker 1: he cut off the bleeding.
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  Speaker 2: To that wound.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point, now that Captain Folby has
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  Speaker 1: realized that, okay, you know, this guy appears to be stable. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he's not actively bleeding, he's clearly still breathing, albeit unconscious,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, it seems like he has a fighting
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  Speaker 1: chance here. So he's waiting for paramedics to show up
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  Speaker 1: take this guy to the hospital, and he's just sitting
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  Speaker 1: there sort of, you know, happy he was able to
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  Speaker 1: be here and save this guy. When he sort of
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  Speaker 1: looks at this guy and he realizes something. The man
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  Speaker 1: he had just saved with his DIY tournique was literally
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  Speaker 1: the actual same guy who had saved Captain Falby with
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  Speaker 1: a DIY tournique four years earlier. Captain Falby had never
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  Speaker 1: even gotten the guy's name. They had not stayed in
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  Speaker 1: touch after his accident, they had gone separate ways. But
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  Speaker 1: now he's looking down at this man and he's realizing
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  Speaker 1: it's the same one. The guy's name was Alfred Smith,
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  Speaker 1: and he would make a full recovery, but when he
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  Speaker 1: was rushed to the hospital, they would say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you were within about maybe ten minutes of bleeding to
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  Speaker 1: death had it not been for Captain Falby. So literally,
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  Speaker 1: this DIY tourniquet story played out almost exactly the same way,
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  Speaker 1: with these two guys doing it to each other, but
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  Speaker 1: four years apart. Later on Captain Faalby and Alfred Smith
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  Speaker 1: would give an interview to Ripley's Believe It or Not
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the incredible coincidence that saved both their lives.
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  Speaker 1: And when the interviewer at some point congratulated Captain Fahlby
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  Speaker 1: on his heroic efforts, Fallby simply stated, quote, one good
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  Speaker 1: tourniquet deserves another. You see, Alfred Smith was the man
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  Speaker 1: who put the tourniquet around my leg and saved my
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  Speaker 1: life when my motorcycle hit that chuck. After all, one
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  Speaker 1: good tourniquet deserves another.
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  Speaker 1: e evening of December sixteenth, nineteen eighty four, a twenty
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  Speaker 1: four year old electrical engineer named Huh how Ron walked
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  Speaker 1: through the courtyard of a pretty low rent CD apartment
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  Speaker 1: complex in Hong Kong. He held hands with his longtime girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: twenty three year old Jen U. The pair had just
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  Speaker 1: finished having dinner together at Ho Ron's apartment, which was
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  Speaker 1: part of this complex, but now he was walking his
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend across this courtyard to the other side of this
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  Speaker 1: complex where her apartment was located. And so Ho Ron
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  Speaker 1: always walked you home. The pair had been together for
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  Speaker 1: a few years now. They'd actually met in college after
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  Speaker 1: a close mutual friend had introduced them, and ever since
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  Speaker 1: then they had been inseparable. And so how Ron was
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  Speaker 1: just sort of protective of you, and he felt like
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  Speaker 1: their neighborhood was not very safe, and so anytime, especially
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  Speaker 1: at night, when he knew his girlfriend would be sort
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  Speaker 1: of out and about in their neighborhood, he would walk
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  Speaker 1: with her to keep her safe, and so that's what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing tonight. Eventually, the couple reached the front
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  Speaker 1: door of the section of this complex that would lead
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  Speaker 1: up to U's apartment, and so the two walked in
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  Speaker 1: through the front door, and they made the way over
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  Speaker 1: to the building's elevator bank. There were two elevators. How
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  Speaker 1: Ron reached over and pressed the up button, and then
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  Speaker 1: he and You just stood.
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  Speaker 2: There and waited, And as they waited, they.
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  Speaker 1: Began to hear the familiar sound of one of the
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  Speaker 1: old elevator cars clanging its way down the elevator shaft.
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  Speaker 1: These were old and creaky and really kind of sketchy
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  Speaker 1: elevator cars that both how Ron and You hated riding on.
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  Speaker 2: But you lived up on.
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  Speaker 1: The thirteenth floor, and neither of them liked walking up
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  Speaker 1: that many steps, and so it was sort of like
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  Speaker 1: the only other choice is to ride one of these
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  Speaker 1: elevator cars.
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  Speaker 2: And so eventually the car.
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  Speaker 1: Came down, the doors dinged, they opened up, and nobody
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  Speaker 1: was on the car, and so how Ron and You
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  Speaker 1: stepped inside. They pressed thirteen, The doors rattled to a close,
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  Speaker 1: and they slowly began going up. And the whole time
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  Speaker 1: they're going up, neither of them spoke. It was just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like anxious anticipation that, you know, hopefully this
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  Speaker 1: car will make it all the way up to the
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth floor.
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  Speaker 2: And so as they're moving up, you know.
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  Speaker 1: They're hearing the car banging into the walls, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's just so uncomfortable. But eventually they do reach the
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth floor. It dings, the doors open up, and both
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  Speaker 1: of them are so relieved when they step out of
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  Speaker 1: the car onto solid ground and they make their way
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  Speaker 1: over to use apartment, and the two, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: give each other a hug and kiss and say they.
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  Speaker 2: Had a really nice time together.
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  Speaker 1: And then you she retreats into her apartment, and how
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  Speaker 1: Ron goes back down the hallway and presses the down
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  Speaker 1: button to go back down the elevator, and sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of seconds later, how Ron heard the familiar
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  Speaker 1: sound of the elevator car shaking and banging against the
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  Speaker 1: shaft as it made its way up to him. There
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  Speaker 1: was a bell sound, the doors opened up. Nobody was
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  Speaker 1: on the elevator car. How Ron stepped inside, pressed the
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  Speaker 1: lobby button, turned around, and watched as the doors closed,
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  Speaker 1: and then slowly he began to go down. And again
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  Speaker 1: as he's going down, you know, how Ron had that
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  Speaker 1: same sort of nervous energy hoping this elevator didn't come
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  Speaker 1: to a you know, lurching stop or something that it
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  Speaker 1: just got him down to the ground safely.
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  Speaker 2: And so he's going down.
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  Speaker 1: It's floor twelve, ten down, he's going. And then at
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  Speaker 1: floor seven the car came to a stop. But it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of a hard stop, not like emergency status hard,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a fairly hard stop at floor seven.
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  Speaker 1: And so how Ron he's instinctively thinking, okay, well, clearly
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  Speaker 1: someone on the seventh floor has called the elevator and
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  Speaker 1: the doors are going to open any second here, and
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  Speaker 1: you know someone's gonna get on.
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  Speaker 2: But as he's.
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  Speaker 1: Waiting for the doors to open to alleviate this sudden
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  Speaker 1: stress that, oh my god, is something wrong here, the
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  Speaker 1: doors don't open, and instead the elevator suddenly lurches down
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  Speaker 1: another foot. It stops, but clearly this is not normal
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  Speaker 1: elevator behavior. There is something wrong with this elevator. Like
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  Speaker 1: his worst fears are coming true and the doors still
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  Speaker 1: are not opening, And so how Ron's looking around wondering
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  Speaker 1: like what's he gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: Like what can he do?
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's trying to tell himself that everything's okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe the doors still will open up, but
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  Speaker 1: they're not. And then he begins to smell something. It
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  Speaker 1: was almost like a sort of chemical smell. He couldn't
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  Speaker 1: really place what it was, and he's sort of looking
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  Speaker 1: around wondering what's going on here, and his panic is rising,
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  Speaker 1: like this is a bad situation, has no idea what's happening,
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  Speaker 1: but clearly something bad is going on here. And then
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  Speaker 1: this already horrible situation gets a thousand times worse because
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  Speaker 1: he looks down and he sees the floor of the
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  Speaker 1: inside of the elevator is now on fire. And as
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  Speaker 1: he's realizing the floor is on fire and that's what
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  Speaker 1: he was smelling, is like this burning smell, he sees
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  Speaker 1: his own legs are now on fire. And so, in
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  Speaker 1: a completely panicked like fight or flight moment, how Ron
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  Speaker 1: remembered that most elevator cars have an escape patch somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: usually on the ceiling.
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  Speaker 2: And he looked up and he couldn't believe it. There
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 1: There was this escape patch to get out of the car.
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  Speaker 1: And so right away that's what how Ron began trying
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  Speaker 1: to do. He kind of scaled the walls of this car,
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  Speaker 1: he punched open this hatch, and he climbed out out
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  Speaker 1: of the elevator, out of the fire, saving his own life.
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  Speaker 1: And so while all this chaos was happening in the
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  Speaker 1: elevator shaft. Ron's girlfriend, You was in her apartment looking
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  Speaker 1: out the window, and her view was basically the same
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  Speaker 1: courtyard that she and hal Ron had walked across just
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  Speaker 1: you know, five minutes ago to get to her apartment building.
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  Speaker 1: And it was sort of customary that every time he
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  Speaker 1: would drop her off at her apartment, she would look
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  Speaker 1: out the window and wait for him to come out
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  Speaker 1: the front door, and she would watch him walk back
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  Speaker 1: across that same courtyard to his building on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: And so you sort of understood how long it would take,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for how Ron to come down the elevator
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  Speaker 1: and walk out the door. But now it had been
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  Speaker 1: you know, five, six, seven, eight minutes, and he still
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  Speaker 1: hadn't come out the front door, and there really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: any reason for him not to have exited the building
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  Speaker 1: at this point, and she started to get worried. And
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: so given the fact that you, much like how Ron,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: was fearful that those old elevators in this building were
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: eventually going to get stuck while they were on them,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: given she had that fear, she instinctively was like, oh
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: my gosh, maybe he's stuck in the elevator, Like that's
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: why he hasn't left the building yet. And so instinctly
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: she left her apartment and walked down the hallway to
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: the elevator bank and she looked up above the doors
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: and it showed where the respective cars were located, and
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: she saw that one of the cars was stuck at
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: floor seven and it wasn't moving up or down. It
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: didn't matter if she pressed the button. That car would
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: not go up or down. The other car would, but
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: not that car. And so it convinced her that how
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Ron has got to be trapped on that elevator car.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: He's stuck right there. I better call authorities, and so
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: she did. She called the fire department and said, you know, hey,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: my boyfriend, I believe he's trapped in the elevator. And
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: so just a few minutes later, the local fire department
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: showed up to the apartment complex and they walked up
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: to the seventh floor where they believed, you know, this
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: car was stuck. Now, they were not in some crazy,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: you know, emergency mode running down the hall to open
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: up this elevator car, because they're thinking, you know, it's
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: really just an inconvenience getting stuck on an elevator car.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: It's not like life and death.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: And so they just make their way up to the
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: seventh floor by taking the stairs, and then on the
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: seventh floor they go over to the elevator bank where
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the two doors are to the respective elevator cars, and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: on the one that you know shows the car is
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: stuck on floor seven. You know, it says the number
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: right above the door. They use their tools to pry
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: open the doors to see, you know, the car right
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: behind it. And once they pry it open, they do
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: see the trapped elevator car, and it's not exactly where
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be. It's not sitting, you know, right
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: in front of the door. It's actually situated sort of
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: below the seventh floor.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: They can basically only see the.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Top of the elevator car, like this car has actually
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: gotten stuck between the seventh floor and the sixth floor.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: But that in and of itself was not a huge thing.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, they could basically mechanically move this car up
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: and down that they needed to either up to the
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: seventh or down to the sixth to get whoever was
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: on the car out.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: What they noticed right away though, which was the.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Way bigger problem is they smelled and saw smoke and
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: it was coming from this elevator car, the trapped car,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and so the firefighters immediately go into Okay, we've got
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to figure out where this fire is coming from. Is
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: it coming from this elevator car. Is it somewhere down
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: below at the bottom of the elevator shaft like they
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: don't know, but from their perspective outside looking into the shaft,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: they could see that the hatch, the emergency hatch on
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: this stopped elevator car, was open because they can see
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: the roof of this car, and they're thinking, Okay, you know,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: maybe the trap guy is right in there, and we
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: can look down, grab him, pull him out and deal
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: with this fire.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: And so they go in.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: They're yelling out how Ron's name, and they look down
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: into this elevator car. They're literally on top looking through
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: his hatch, and they see the carpet inside of this
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: car is all charred and burned, and there's some smoke
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: sort of sitting inside the car, but there's nobody inside
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: the car.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: It's empty. But they see there's blood all over the.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Inside and up on the walls, and then they realize
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: there's also blood kind of coming up, you know, through
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: this hatch and it's on the top of the elevator car. Clearly,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you know whoever was in this car was badly hurt
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: as they exited out the roof. But now the firefighters
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: are wondering, like, well, where did he go? Did he
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: fall down to the bottom? I mean, because basically there's
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: just these two elevator cars that move up and down
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: inside of the singular shaft, there's basically nothing dividing the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: two shafts that these elevator cars move in. It's kind
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: of like one big shaft. And so to the side
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: of this frozen car is this huge shaft, multi story
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: shaft that goes all the way to the ground.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: And say, look over the edge, and they shine.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Their light down the elevator shaft because you know, the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: car on this side was up top, it was not
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: obstructing their view. And sure enough there is a man
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: maybe one floor down who looks very badly injured. He
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: cuts all over him, He's bleeding, it looked like his
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: ankle was broken, and he was sort of huddled on
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: this very small platform basically one floor below. At every floor,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: when you walk onto the elevator, when those doors open up,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: there's like you know, a one foot long little platform
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: that extends into the shaft just enough that it meets the.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Entrance to the car.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: So when the car opens up, you walk across this
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: little platform into the elevator. The door shut and it
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: goes up or down. But if you're in the elevator shaft,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: each floor basically has that little protrusion, that one foot
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: you know, small platform, and there's the guy, presumably how Ron,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: who is positioned perched on the one right below them,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: on that little platform. And so, of course the firefighters
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: forget the fire because you know, that's a separate issue
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: at this point, and they got to go rescue how Ron.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And so they go down to the sixth floor, they
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: open up the doors, they grab how Ron, they pull
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: him into the hallway where he is safe. You know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: he's obviously in an enormous amount of pain. He's been burned,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: he's got a broken ankle, he's in rough shape, but
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it appears like he's going to survive. And so as
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the firefighters placed how Ron on a stretcher, and he's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: barely talking, you know, he's very shaken up. He's just
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: laying there. And so at this point, you the girlfriend,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: she found out the firefighters had saved her boyfriend and
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: he was on the sixth floor, and so she comes
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: charging down the stairs, runs down the sixth floor hallway
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to be by her boyfriend side, and she looks at
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: how Ron for the first time, and she just freezes
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and she stares at him.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: And she says, that's not my boyfriend.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: It would turn out this whole elevator disaster was highly coordinated,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: because what neither hal Ron nor his girlfriend you knew
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: was that the same mutual friend who had actually introduced
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the two of them deeply regretted it. He himself was
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: in love with you and he couldn't bear to see
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: her with another man. And so this mutual friend, whose
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: name was Leo wen Jong, that night, he had secretly
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: waited until he was sure how Ron had climbed on
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the elevator car by himself, and then he had cut
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: off electricity to that car, freezing it at the seventh floor,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: actually between the seventh and the sixth floor, and then
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: he climbed on top of the elevator car, opened up
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the hatch just enough to pour kerosene into the car
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: with how Ron. That was the smell that how Ron
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: began to talk about and smell inside the shaft, like
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: he clearly knew there was something off, but how Ron
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: didn't realize it was, you know, this friend of his
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: right above him. And then before how Ron could even
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: understand what was happening, Leu lit a match and threw
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: it into the elevator car. That was what caused the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: big fire. But then when haw Ron panicked and climbed
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: up out of the hatch to save himself, Leu was
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: waiting for him, and he stabbed how Ron and then
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: threw him off the roof of this elevator car, where
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: he fell all the way down seven floors to the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: bottom of the shaft where he died. The man that
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: was crouched on that platform, you know, one floor below
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: where this car was, was Leu. And basically what he
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: did is, after murdering how Ron, he leapt onto that
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: platform from the top of this elevator car down onto
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: that platform sort of intentionally to hurt himself to make
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: it seem somehow like you know, he was just trying
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to help Holron. But then you know, basically fell and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: hurt himself too, like he didn't do anything wrong. But
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: when they looked at how Ron inside the shaft. He
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: was clearly stabbed. Then also they knew this fire had
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: been started on purpose. It was clearly arson. And so
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: once all this evidence had piled up and it was
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: pretty obvious that Leu had done it, he did confess
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and he was ultimately sentenced to life in prison. One
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: evening in February of nineteen sixty six, a thirty four
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: year old man named Jose Louise Panna walked down a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: staircase inside of a cafe in Madrid, Spain. At the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: bottom of the stairs was the sort of basement seating area.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: It was pretty quiet, only a few people were down there,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: but Jose Louise, as soon as he was down there,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: he saw his friend Fernando Seesma had already found a
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: booth on the other end of the seating area, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: he was beckoning Jose Louise over, and so Jose Louise,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: who had come here to meet Fernando, eagerly walked over
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: towards him. And then before he even sat down, Fernando,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: who was grinning ear to ear, he held up this
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: envelope and showed Jose Luiz, like, I got to tell
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you about this. So Jose Luiz and Fernando were both
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: members of a small club called Ballna Allegri, which means
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: happy whale in Spanish, and their meetings were all about
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: aliens and UFOs. Now, Fernando was actually a post office
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: employee during the day, but at night he was the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: de facto leader of this club, and he'd always been
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: fascinated by aliens. As for Jose Luise, he actually was
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: much more of a skeptic. He actually kind of actively
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: did not believe in aliens, UFOs or anything paranormal. But
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: about a month prior he'd had this sort of inexplicable
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: UFO sighting or he didn't even know what it was.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: He was driving along and thought he saw something in
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the sky that didn't necessarily make him a believer, but
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: he didn't know who to talk to about this thing
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: he had seen.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: He couldn't make sense of it, and so that's how
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: he had found his way into this group.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It was just because it was an outlet to talk
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: about this weird thing he had been through. And to
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: be honest, he didn't know if he'd be staying any
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: longer than maybe the next couple of weeks.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: He was just here for now.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: But regardless, you know, Jose Luiz and Fernando had made
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: plans to meet up in this cafe tonight to sort
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: of catch up on all things about the club before
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: their actual club meeting that was gonna happen maybe thirty
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: minutes from when they were actually meeting. But as Jose
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Louise is sitting down, Fernando's got this envelope that he's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: really excited about. And once Jose Luiz sits down, Fernando
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: puts it in front of him and he's like, look, look,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: there's no return address, and he points there's like this
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: strange symbol on the outside of this envelope and it
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: just looks sort of foreign. Like Jose Luise didn't really
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: even know what he was looking at.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: But Fernando, who again is a full believer.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: He says to Jose Luiz, He's like, I just got
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: this letter and I'm going to show it to the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: club tonight because I think it's from an alien. Now,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: when Jose Luise heard this, you know, he was open
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to the idea of UFOs being a thing, because again,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: he couldn't explain what happened to him, but he just
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: felt like, give me a bring, like what an alien
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: sent you a letter? Why why would they send you
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: a letter? And he sort of said as much to Fernando.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: But Fernando he was ready for this, like he knew
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Jose Luiz was a skeptic, and he knew he would.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Cut this letter apart.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: But Fernando he took the envelope back, you know, before
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Jose Luiz could say anything more about how fake this was,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and he pulled out the letter inside and the letter
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it was typed out, so it wasn't by hand, it
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: was by typewriter. And the writer wrote that they were
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: literally from an alien race called the Umites, and they'd
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: come from a planet called Uma, and they said that,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: you know, the Umites had very advanced technology and they'd
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: actually already been living on Earth for the last sixteen years. However,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: humans didn't recognize them because they sort of looked like
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: normal people. And so this alien writer said, for all
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: these years they had been searching for, you know, a
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: true believer to share this secret with, and apparently the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: believer they had found was Fernando. Now Jose Luiz could
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: tell that Fernando was really excited, and so he sort
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: of throttled back how much he sort of rained on
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: his parade here, and he just let him have his
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: moment and said, wow, you know, that's really interesting. And
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: then before long the other members of their club came
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: into this basement seating area inside this cafe, and as
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: soon as they were all assembled, Fernando got up to
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the front of the room and he held.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Up this envelope and he said, you won't believe it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I got this letter.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: It's from an alien race. They want to talk to me, like,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: can you believe this? We finally have proof, you know,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the aliens are here. And unbelievably, as he says this,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Jose Louise is looking out to get the reaction of
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the other folks in the club, to see how invested
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: they are, you know, in this new revelation. And Jose
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Louise can't believe it when others in this club began
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: reaching into their bags and pulling out identical looking envelopes
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: with these strange symbols on them, and they're like, we
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: got these letters too, We just got them last night.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: We brought him here for this meeting, can you believe it?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And so the whole meeting was completely dominated by, you know,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: talks of the the umit alien race and how you
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: know these letters have got to be legitimate, Like this
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: can't be a prank the way Jose Louise said it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: could be a prank, like this has got to be real.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Who would want to prank us?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Where does this little group that you know investigates the paranormal?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Like why would anyone care about pranking us? And Jose
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Luiz said to them, that's why, because you believe in
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the paranormal and they're playing into that, like you're the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: perfect target to be pranked.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: That's why this is likely happening.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: But pretty much the entire club disagreed with Jose Louise
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and they.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Reminded him, Fernando in particular.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: That he should recall the club's motto, which was to
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: believe everything until proven otherwise. Basically, the whole group was
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: demanding that Jose Luise keep an open mind because this
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: might be the exact moment most of them were all
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: waiting for a little over a year later, in June
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty seven, and Jose Luise was back inside
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: at that basement seating area of that cafe in Madrid, Spain.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: To this point, Jose Luiz had continued attending these meetings
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: of the Blena Allegria. You know, he had thought about
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: leaving a couple of times, especially as this whole Umite
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: fervor had really took hold inside the club. He just
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: he didn't buy it, but he had stuck it out
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and continued attending meetings. But on this particular day he
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: was here for a very specific reason.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: It was because he had seen an.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Article in the local newspaper that he knew the club
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: would be really eager to see. So at this point
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Fernando actually was writing a weekly column in the newspaper
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: about the Umites because shortly after getting that first letter
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and all the other members of the club getting those letters,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: he had written to the news they had been really
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: interested and asked for weekly updates, and sure enough, over
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the past year, the club continued receiving these letters Fernando included,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you know, from the Umites, whoever they were, and he
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: would write these update columns. And really, by this point
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a year later, that column had become really popular in Madrid,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and so people of Madrid were pretty invested in the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Umites and you know, whatever was happening with them. And
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: also adding to the intrigue. These letters were no longer
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: just arriving on the doorsteps of Blena Alegri members. They
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: were arriving in front of random people's homes all over Madrid,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: like random people were being contacted by you know, this
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: alien race. Now, Jose Luiz still very much believed that
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: there is no way this could be real, like this
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: can't actually be Aliens. But the Omites had basically become
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the only conversation topic in the club every time they met,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: like it was all they ever talked about, and it
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: increasingly felt like it was a lot of what Madrid
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: talked about. I mean, this was a big deal at
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the time, but today the reason Jose Louise had brought
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the newspaper to bring to the group was actually because,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you know, they had published something that, even to Jose Luiz,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: was pretty unbelievable. You know, it wasn't an article that
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Fernando had published. It was not you know, another recounting
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: of another letter showing up. It was actually you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: this newspaper themselves, covering what appeared to be a local
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: UFO sighting, and apparently somebody had captured a photo of this,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you know, presumed UFO. Oh and that photo had been
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: published in the news and wouldn't you know, on the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: outside of this alien craft was that same strange symbol
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that adorned the front of all the Umte letters that
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Fernando and the club members and all people of Madrid were.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Getting from these Umtes.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: It was the same symbol, and so it sort of
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: felt like for the first time it was not just you.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Know, letters that could be fabricated and sent to the masses.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: It was like this vehicle that had shown up in
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Madrid that had that same symbol, like it had to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: be the Omtes. Also, remember it's nineteen sixty seven, and
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: so faking photographs was very hard to do, at least,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: you know, making something look convincing, and so that's why
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Jose Luise, you know, he had brought this newspaper in
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: to show the other members of this club to be like,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you know what, I got to say, this is pretty unbelievable,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and you know, the reaction from.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: The club was equally amazed. They had all already seen
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: this photo.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, they are completely locked in on all things Omtes,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and so this photo was sort of like the centerpiece
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: of that day's discussion, and Jose Luise found himself sort
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: of admitting that, you know, this is pretty unbelievable and
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: But by the end of the meeting, Jose Louise.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Still caution the group like, look, you know, I know
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: this looks so real and it feels so real. I mean,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I'm bringing this to you. I think this is pretty unbelievable.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: But there's just got to be an angle here. Somebody
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: has to be faking this, Like there isn't a way
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that some alien species is doing this. This just doesn't
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: feel real to me. But at this point it was
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: like everybody shut him down. They're like, hey, you brought
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: this to us today. You're the one saying this is
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: hard to deny, like this makes it feel real, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: so at this point, you know, forget your dissenting opinion.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: What we need to do as a group is take
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the news of the Uemites in this photograph and all
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the letters and not just show it to the rest
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: of Spain, but we need to show it to the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: whole world. And so sure enough, after that, Fernando began
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: going on TV and insisting the Umites were real, which
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: actually did cause mass panic across all of Spain. People
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: couldn't explain the thousands of letters and that UFO photo,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and so belief in the Umites really caught on, and
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: wal Fernando and seemingly the entire general public of Spain
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: became increasingly radicalized. Jose Luise grew more isolated from his
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: friends in Bolena Allegri, and soon he quit attending meetings altogether.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: And then shortly after that he began going on TV,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: but not to advocate for the belief in the Omites,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: but the opposite, to say, stop believing in this. There's
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: no way this is real. But nobody really listened to him.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: You know, the Oumite story had really taken on a
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: life of its own and it was sort of beginning
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to spin out of control. A few years after the
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Umite letters began showing up and making headlines, two men
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: had lied down on railroad tracks and basically taken their
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: own lives by letting the train run them over. And
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: police actually found notes in these men's pockets that just
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: said the aliens call us, and given the timing of
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: you know, their deaths, it seemed like it had to
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: be connected to the Omites. Then two Spanish sisters died
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: in a murder suicide, and police discovered they had been
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: receiving omit letters that.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Might have contributed to this crime.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: By the nineteen seventies, there were also multiple umite related
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: cults operating in Spain, and one of those cults targeted
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: young boys, and in the early nineteen seventies, when Jose
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Louise's own son was seven years old, that child was
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: targeted by one of these cults to be brought in
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: because of his father, Like, they were trying to bring
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: this child in to be exposed to who knows what,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: just because of Jose Luise's public stature as it related
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to the Omites. Now, Jose Luise's son would not be
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: pulled into that cult.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: He would be just fine. But for Jose Luiz, like this.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Was pretty eye opening and terrifying. You know, the idea
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: that his family could be targeted because of this omite
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: stuff was crazy. And so around that same time, Jose
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Louise stopped trying to tell people to not believe in
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: this stuff and instead retreated from the public eye and
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: just tried to live a quiet, isolated life. Over the
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: next several decades, people all over Spain continued receiving Ohmite
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: letters and.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Nobody knew why.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: And these cults that you know, sort of focused on
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the Omites continued to flourish and continued to believe that
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: absolutely the Omites are real. As for Jose Luise, he
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: really did try to live a private life away from
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: all this craziness, but it was hard to escape it.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I mean he would see Fernando on the news all
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the time talking about the Omtes, and he even.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Published a book about it. I mean, it was kind
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: of everywhere.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: But everything changed in nineteen ninety six, thirty years after
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the first Omite.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Letter was received.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: One night in nineteen ninety six, people all over Spain
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: gathered in front of their TVs very expectantly as there
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: was going to be this special report about the Umites.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: And when the guest of honor, who was going to
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: be a big part of the special report, came on
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: screen and began talking about the Omites, it truly shot
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the entire country. This person explained that in their own
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: lives they had recently had a near death experience and
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: that experience had made them realize it was finally time
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: to admit to the world that they had made the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: whole Amite thing up.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: It really was a hoax.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: They said they had written those first Uhmite letters and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: sent them to Blena Allegri because they believed they would
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: be susceptible to believing in the hoax. And they also
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: said they really did fake that photograph that was put
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: in the newspaper of the UFO with a strange symbol
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: that matched the symbol on all those letters. But the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: person said, you know, after that, they sort of had
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: no intention to.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Keep up the hoax.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: However, the story kind of took off and all these
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: copycats began sending their own umite letters to random people
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: all over Spain, and then the news picked it up.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Then it was everywhere, and even though this person was
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: trying so hard to literally tell the world.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: That they faked this thing, nobody listened. The hoaxter was
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: none other than Jose Luise.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: He literally had done this just to show the Blena
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Allegri how easy it was to get people to believe
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: in aliens and conspiracies, because that's what people want. He
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: basically wanted to show them that he was skeptical and
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: he had this UFO experience and he was trying to
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: get to the bottom of it. But everyone's like, oh,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: it's got to be aliens, and it's like, no, let's
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: step back and be rational. He was trying to prove
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a point that look, I faked aliens writing to you
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and you all believed it, Like how are we going
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: to actually figure out what's real and what's not? But
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: he wasn't expecting it to take on a life of
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: its own. However, Jose Luiz's confession never actually reached Fernando
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: because Fernando died years before Jose Luiz admitted this really
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: was a hoax, and so he died absolutely still believing
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: that umites were real. And despite the fact there were
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: at least four deaths linked to this WUMO craze, and
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: also there were all these cults that were doing who
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: knows what probably sit in illegal things also tied to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the IMO hoax. Despite all that, Jose Luise never faced
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: any criminal charges. He died in twenty fourteen. Thank you
• 38:15
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• 38:17
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• 38:21
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• 38:32
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