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This is why you never search for the dead... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share with you three extremely haunting
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Speaker 1: stories about people who witnessed death up close and then
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Speaker 1: how that experience completely altered their entire perspective about what
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Speaker 1: is possible in life. But before we get into those stories,
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Speaker 1: Late one night in eighteen seventy, a Harvard medical student
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Speaker 1: named James Adams walked down a dark street toward the
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Speaker 1: gate of a cemetery in the quiet town of Moulden, Massachusetts,
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Speaker 1: and with him was his classmate William, who was carrying
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Speaker 1: an unlit lantern. Once they reached the gate, they both
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Speaker 1: stopped and looked around to make sure nobody was watching,
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Speaker 1: and then they helped each other climb over the gate,
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Speaker 1: and once they were on the other side.
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Speaker 2: They took off.
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Speaker 1: Running straight down the cemetery path, and eventually, after running
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Speaker 1: for a minute, they got to the other side of
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Speaker 1: the cemetery and they came to a stop outside of
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Speaker 1: a brick mausoleum that contained the remains of a man
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Speaker 1: named e from Gray who had died twenty years earlier.
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Speaker 1: So for years, James and William had been hearing all
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Speaker 1: these rumors about this guy Ephram. In fact, many of
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Speaker 1: their classmates had heard these rumors, and some people really
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Speaker 1: believed they could be true. But tonight James and William
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Speaker 1: had snuck in here to this mausoleum to once and
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Speaker 1: for all prove that those.
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Speaker 2: Rumors were false.
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Speaker 1: According to the rumors, when Ephraim was live so twenty
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Speaker 1: years earlier, he'd been this very reclusive chemist who lived
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Speaker 1: in a big house in the middle of town, and
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Speaker 1: he had this one servant, and anytime people walked past
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Speaker 1: his house, apparently they would always smell this really pungent
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Speaker 1: chemical scent, and people believed that what Ephraim was doing
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Speaker 1: in there to produce that smell was basically trying to
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Speaker 1: come up with a potion that would make him immortal.
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Speaker 1: He was basically running these strange experiments. However, clearly his
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Speaker 1: experiments had not worked, because Ephraim.
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Speaker 2: Had died anyway. But when he died, his.
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Speaker 1: One servant had told the mortician not to embalm him,
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Speaker 1: which was very unusual at the time.
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Speaker 2: This was not a normal request.
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Speaker 1: The servant had said that even though Ephraim's elixir had
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Speaker 1: not actually succeeded in keeping him alive forever, it had
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Speaker 1: been successful at making his physical body immortal. The servant said, Apparently,
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Speaker 1: Ephraim's body would never and so this story had become
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Speaker 1: sort of a local legend, and decades later, lots of
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Speaker 1: people in the area, you know, in particular in Harvard
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Speaker 1: Medical school, students actually believed it might be true, or
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Speaker 1: they at least pretended it could be true. It was
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Speaker 1: fun to believe, but James, like, as much as he
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Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, go along with the story, logically,
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Speaker 1: he felt like, there is simply no.
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Speaker 2: Way there could be any truth to this story.
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Speaker 1: As a medical student, he knew that even the very
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Speaker 1: best embombing techniques would only preserve a dead body for
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Speaker 1: a few weeks at most, So there was no way
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Speaker 1: Ephraim's body, you know that had been dead now for
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Speaker 1: two decades, was not a pile of bones by now,
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Speaker 1: and tonight they were going to go find out. James
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Speaker 1: knelt down in front of the mausoleum where Ephraim was entombed,
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Speaker 1: and William struck a match and lit lantern he had
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Speaker 1: brought with him, and immediately the light from the lantern
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Speaker 1: it illuminated the door that led into the mausoleum, and
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Speaker 1: they saw it was sealed shut with a padlock.
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Speaker 2: So James, who's knelt down right next to.
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Speaker 1: The door, he pulled out a small hammer and a
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Speaker 1: chisel and he began to work on this lock, and.
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Speaker 2: Eventually he popped it open. He took the lock and put.
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Speaker 1: It on the ground, and then he stood up and
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Speaker 1: he and William were like, all right, here we go,
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Speaker 1: and they pushed the door and.
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Speaker 2: It slowly swung open.
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Speaker 1: James stepped inside first, with William right behind him holding
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Speaker 1: up the lantern, and the space was cold and musty,
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Speaker 1: and it was this kind of claustrophobic, you know, all
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Speaker 1: brick space that was covered in cobwebs. And on each
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Speaker 1: side of the inside of this mausoleum were these big
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Speaker 1: shelves with caskets sitting on each shelf. These were all
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Speaker 1: different relatives of Ephroms, and there were nameplates attached to
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Speaker 1: each of these caskets. And so very quickly James and
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Speaker 1: William they began looking, you know, for the right casket
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Speaker 1: that contained Ephrom, and eventually they found the right one.
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Speaker 1: And they're sort of nervous at this point, but they're like,
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Speaker 1: all right, And they got to either side of this
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Speaker 1: casket and together they pulled it off the shelf put
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Speaker 1: it down on the floor. And so James and William
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Speaker 1: they both went to the same side of the casket.
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Speaker 1: And William he's holding up his lantern, and they look
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Speaker 1: at each other. They're like, all right, here we go.
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Speaker 1: And James reaches down and he opens up the casket
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Speaker 1: and when they see what's inside, I can't believe it.
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Speaker 1: Inside of this casket was definitely Efhram's dead body. But
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Speaker 1: even though Ephram's clothing had clearly decayed into stringy brown mush,
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Speaker 1: from himself did not look like he had been dead
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Speaker 1: for twenty years. His skin was white and smooth, and
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Speaker 1: there were no signs of decomposition on his body whatsoever.
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Speaker 2: He was pristine.
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Speaker 1: In fact, he looked like he was just sleeping, like
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Speaker 1: he could just open his eyes and he'd be just fine.
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Speaker 1: And so James and William are so spooked by this
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Speaker 1: that they just instantly slam shut the casket. They turn
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Speaker 1: and they sprint out of the mausoleum. They flee the cemetery,
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Speaker 1: and they pledge to never talk about this again.
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Speaker 2: However, for the next.
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Speaker 1: Few months, James just could not get at the image
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Speaker 1: of Ephraim's impossibly well preserved body out of his head. Now,
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Speaker 1: he still didn't believe the rumors that somehow, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's because of some potion that Ephraim drank that's made
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Speaker 1: his body, you know, immortal or something. But he read
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Speaker 1: every chemistry book in the Harvard Library and could not
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Speaker 1: find a scientific explanation for what he had seen. At
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Speaker 1: the same time, James had another stress, which was he
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Speaker 1: knew the Maulden police were investigating the break in at
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Speaker 1: the mausoleum, and he was terrified that at some point
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Speaker 1: he and William were going to be found out. Desecrating
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Speaker 1: a grave was a crime, and if James was actually
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Speaker 1: arrested for it, he would get kicked out of medical school.
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Speaker 1: But weeks turned into months, turned into years, and no
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Speaker 1: police showed up at his dorm, so nobody figured out
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Speaker 1: that he or William were involved.
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Speaker 2: In this break in. And also over this time, over these.
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Speaker 1: Many years, he never figured out what actually had caused
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Speaker 1: Ephraim's body to be that well preserved.
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Speaker 2: But eventually they just moved on with their life.
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Speaker 1: Wives, James graduated, he became a doctor, and he really
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Speaker 1: just sort of forgot about the Fhroim thing. He just
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Speaker 1: moved on until thirty years later in nineteen hundred. At
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Speaker 1: that point, James was in his fifties and he was
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Speaker 1: a successful doctor with his own medical practice in Boston,
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Speaker 1: and one day he was sitting in his office catching
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Speaker 1: up on some paperwork when he heard a knock at
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Speaker 1: the door, and so he called for whoever was out
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Speaker 1: there to come in, and when the door opened up,
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Speaker 1: he was very surprised to see a police officer.
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Speaker 2: The officer told James.
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Speaker 1: That he was from the Malden Police Department and he
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Speaker 1: was looking into an unsolved break in at the cemetery
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Speaker 1: from thirty years earlier. Immediately, James felt sick to his
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Speaker 1: stomach and he was about to just start lying saying
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Speaker 1: he had nothing to do with it, but before he
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Speaker 1: could say anything, the officer just said, look, multiple people
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Speaker 1: in town have already told us that you and your
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Speaker 1: friend William were responsible for.
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Speaker 2: That break in.
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Speaker 1: At this point, James knew he was caught and there
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Speaker 1: was no point in lying, like, clearly this officer knows
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Speaker 1: what actually happened, and so James just rushed to explain
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Speaker 1: sort of why they did it. He just said, look
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Speaker 1: like there were these rumors that the body of from
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Speaker 1: Gray didn't decompose because he apparently drank some immortality potion,
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Speaker 1: and we thought it was crazy, so we broke in
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Speaker 1: just to look at the body. We just opened the casket,
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Speaker 1: looked at the body, we shut it, we ran out.
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Speaker 2: That was it.
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Speaker 1: But the officer, after hearing this story, just narrowed his
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Speaker 1: eyes and stared at James.
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Speaker 2: Like he didn't believe him.
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Speaker 1: And then when the officer went on to explain exactly
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Speaker 1: why now thirty years later, they were taking another look
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Speaker 1: at this break in when he explained that, James literally just.
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Speaker 2: Could not believe what he was hearing.
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Speaker 1: So it would turn out the Malden Cemetery was in
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Speaker 1: the process of being relocated, so workers were going through
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Speaker 1: and moving every single grave, but when they got to
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Speaker 1: from Gray's casket, they noticed it was unusually light, so.
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Speaker 2: They opened it up and found it was empty.
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Speaker 1: There was no sign that anybody except for James and
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Speaker 2: Ephram's body, but they both swore they didn't do that.
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Speaker 1: They said they just went in, they looked at the body,
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Speaker 1: were shocked that it had not decomposed, and they ran out.
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Speaker 1: saw that nobody else tampered with this casket except for
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Speaker 2: So where did the body go? It was almost like
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Speaker 2: Ephram had simply woken up one day, you know, looking
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth nineteen forty five, an Australian reporter named Robert
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Speaker 1: Cheney sat on a wooden bench inside of a small,
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Speaker 1: was squeezed shoulder to shoulder with several other reporters and
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Speaker 1: a few doctors who were wearing white coats.
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Speaker 2: All the lights were off in this church, and there
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Speaker 2: was this.
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Speaker 1: Religious hymn that was playing on a phonograph, which is
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Speaker 1: like an early record player. And on the other side
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Speaker 1: of the room, standing in front of a heavy locked door,
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Speaker 1: were these two people, these two psychic mediums, who are
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Speaker 1: twisting and groaning as if they were in pain. So
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Speaker 1: the reason that Robert and everybody else, the other reporter,
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Speaker 1: the doctors were gathered here today was because of what
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Speaker 1: was happening inside of that locked room. There was a
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Speaker 1: man in there who was having his appendix removed. Now,
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Speaker 1: usually appendix removal was a routine surgery and it would
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Speaker 1: be performed without an audience and in a hospital instead
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Speaker 1: of a back room in a church. But this operation
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Speaker 1: was being performed by a very very famous surgeon named
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Speaker 1: doctor Louise Gomes, and doctor Gomes had only agreed to
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Speaker 1: do the surgery under a couple of very odd conditions.
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Speaker 1: So first it had to be done in this church. Second,
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Speaker 1: no one else could enter the operating room, so that
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Speaker 1: backed locked room while he was working, not even nurses
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Speaker 1: or anesthesiologists, nobody. And third, the only people doctor Gomes
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Speaker 1: would communicate with during this operation were those two psychic
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Speaker 1: mediums standing outside the door. They wouldn't even be in
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Speaker 1: the room with him, they'd be outside. And so, after
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Speaker 1: all these conditions were agreed to before the surgery, the
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Speaker 1: two mediums worked with the doctor to gather all the
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Speaker 1: supplies and made sure they were in the back room,
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Speaker 1: and then also they strapped the patient down to the
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Speaker 1: operating table in the back room, and then they came
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Speaker 1: out again. And then at that point the reporter Robert Cheney,
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Speaker 1: and the other witnesses that were there to see this,
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Speaker 1: the other reporters, the doctors, they helped board up all
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Speaker 1: the windows of this back room of the church, and
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Speaker 1: they also searched for any hidden passageways to make sure
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Speaker 1: nobody could look into or sneak into or out of
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Speaker 1: this back room the operating room. And so eventually everything
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Speaker 1: was ready and doctor Gomes and the patient were the
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Speaker 1: only two people inside of this this back operating room.
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Speaker 2: It was all sealed off and locked.
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Speaker 1: And then the instructions had been given to you know,
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Speaker 1: Robert Cheney and the others to just take your seats
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Speaker 1: in the church and wait, and so that's what Cheney
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Speaker 1: and the others did. They just sat there sort of
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Speaker 1: listening and watching, and nothing was going on.
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Speaker 2: There's just this you.
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Speaker 1: Know, hymn playing from the phonograph, and the mediums are
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Speaker 1: doing like weird stuff in front of the door, apparently communicating.
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Speaker 2: With the doctor.
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Speaker 1: But the whole thing was just sort of absurd, you know,
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Speaker 1: Like honestly, Robert didn't really know what to make of this.
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Speaker 1: But when he had caught wind that there was going
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Speaker 1: to be this totally bizarre procedure done, he had come
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Speaker 1: here not to validate that this was a smart or
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Speaker 1: good way to do a surgery, but rather that this
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Speaker 1: would just make a really wild story that people would
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Speaker 1: be interested to read. But the longer Robert sat there
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Speaker 1: listening and watching this totally bizarre scene unfold, you know,
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Speaker 1: the more he felt like he had sort of bitten
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Speaker 1: off more than he could chew, that this was not
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Speaker 1: really worth the time or energy.
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Speaker 2: This was just really really weird.
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Speaker 1: However, as he's sitting there, you know, sweating in the heat,
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Speaker 1: just sort of waiting for this thing to be over,
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Speaker 1: whatever it was, he overheard a couple of the doctors
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Speaker 1: who were witnesses to this, you know, along the pew
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Speaker 1: with him, talking about doctor Gomes. And what Robert heard
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Speaker 1: is that these doctors are like, there is no way
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Speaker 1: doctor Gomes can perform this surgery. Like he's not capable
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Speaker 1: of performing the surgery.
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Speaker 2: It's not possible.
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Speaker 1: Not to mention, the doctors are also saying that like
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Speaker 1: generally speaking, attempting to perform an appendectomy by yourself with
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Speaker 1: no anesthesia, no nurses, no text to help was also
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Speaker 1: just a terrible idea.
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Speaker 2: Let alone. Again, doctor Gomes can't do this. There's no way.
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Speaker 1: And so Robert, after hearing these doctors talk, he just
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Speaker 1: he started to feel like, oh man, this whole thing's
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Speaker 1: really unsettling.
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Speaker 2: Like now it's just.
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Speaker 1: Creepy, you know, the sound of the hymn and the
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Speaker 1: mediums writhing around, you know, presumably communicating with this famous
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Speaker 1: doctor through the locked door, and it's like, please let
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Speaker 1: this end. This is so awful, And he was just
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Speaker 1: staring over at the mediums and the locked door, and
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Speaker 1: suddenly the mediums just stopped, but Robert just continued to
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Speaker 1: sit there with the other witnesses for over another hour.
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Speaker 2: They've been in there now for like two plus hours,
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Speaker 2: and it's.
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Speaker 1: Just this horrible scene. But eventually this booming voice came
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Speaker 1: out of the back room.
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Speaker 2: The doors weren't open yet. The voice was just coming
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Speaker 2: from from.
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Speaker 1: Inside of that room, and the voice yelled that the
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Speaker 1: operation was now over. Robert at this point looked over
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Speaker 1: at those two doctors who had sort of voiced their
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Speaker 1: own concerns, and they kind of exchanged a look like, what.
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Speaker 2: Are we going to see in there? But they had
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Speaker 2: waited this long they really wanted to see, so they
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Speaker 2: all stood up and they made their way over to
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Speaker 2: the door.
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Speaker 1: When they got to the door, the two mediums stepped
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Speaker 1: out of the way, and then one of the two
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Speaker 1: doctors that was with Robert, they just reached down and
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Speaker 1: tried the door handle and they found it was now unlocked.
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Speaker 1: And so the lights are on at this point inside
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Speaker 1: the church. This is the first time they're going to
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Speaker 1: see what's inside of this magical operating room. And they
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Speaker 1: opened the door and the doctors walk in and Robert
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Speaker 1: follows right behind them, and they look around, and at
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Speaker 1: first it was just really weird, like there was really
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Speaker 1: nothing strange in the room. The patient is right in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the room. He's on an operating table.
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Speaker 1: He has fresh stitches right on his side, suggesting he's
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Speaker 1: just had surgery, and literally next to him on the
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Speaker 1: table is a jar with his appendix sitting inside of it,
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Speaker 1: floating in liquid. The surgery had been a success, the
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Speaker 1: patient was okay. However, there was a catch. The surgeon,
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Speaker 1: the famous surgeon, doctor Gomes, was nowhere to be seen.
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Speaker 1: He was not back here. And the reason was is
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Speaker 1: because doctor Luis Gomes was dead. He died nineteen years earlier.
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Speaker 1: And it was because the surgeon was dead that all
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Speaker 1: these people, Robert, the two doctors, the other reporters, it's
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Speaker 1: why they were brought here to bear witness to this
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Speaker 1: unbelievable thing.
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Speaker 2: Because the people who organized this knew.
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Speaker 1: That if they didn't have witnesses, nobody would ever believe
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Speaker 1: that this had happened. Even though a dozen witnesses, including
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Speaker 1: Robert Cheney, those doctors, the other reporters were there in
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Speaker 1: the church that day, and they swore that no living
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Speaker 1: doctor ever went in that back room. They didn't go
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Speaker 1: in during before after the surgery, nobody can came out.
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Speaker 1: Even though they swore basically that the patient was effectively
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Speaker 1: alone in that room. Despite that, X rays would confirm
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Speaker 1: that the patient had had an appendectomy on that day,
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Speaker 1: that his appendix really was removed, and apparently it was
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Speaker 1: removed by a very highly skilled surgeon, and so this
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Speaker 1: remains the only surgery on record to have been officially
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Speaker 1: performed by a ghost. At five am on the morning
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Speaker 1: of December fifth, nineteen fifty seven, a seventy four year
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Speaker 1: old woman named Francis Bulls woke up in her bedroom
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Speaker 1: near San Francisco, California, and before she opened her eyes,
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Speaker 1: Francis just had this feeling, the sense that somebody else
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Speaker 1: was in the room with her. But she wasn't bothered
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Speaker 1: by this because she knew it had to be her husband. So,
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Speaker 1: Jean was eighty two years old, and he'd been really,
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Speaker 1: really sick for the past couple of years, and recently
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Speaker 1: he'd begun sleeping in their guest bedroom so he wouldn't
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Speaker 1: wake Francis up with all his tossing and turning at night,
19:12
Speaker 1: but then in the mornings he would often come and
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Speaker 1: join her in bed, and so she's assuming that's what's
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Speaker 1: going on. Jeane must have joined me in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night, and he's next to me in bed. However,
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Speaker 1: when Francis did open her eyes, she saw there was
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Speaker 1: someone else in the room, but.
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Speaker 2: It was not Jean.
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Speaker 1: So Frances was lying on her side on the edge
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Speaker 1: of the bed looking outward, and her perspective, you know,
19:35
Speaker 1: from her head, the way she was positioned is she
19:38
Speaker 1: was sort of looking down towards the ground when she
19:40
Speaker 1: first opened her eyes. And the first thing she saw
19:43
Speaker 1: when she was looking off the side of the bed
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Speaker 1: were these very distinctive shoes standing, you know, with somebody's legs,
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Speaker 1: right next to the bed, basically standing facing her. And
19:54
Speaker 1: she sees these old fashioned, polished dress shoes with very
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Speaker 1: thick heels and a piece of gray fabric buttoned over
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Speaker 1: the ankles, like the way men used to wear back
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Speaker 1: in the late eighteen hundreds, Like these are distinctive and
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Speaker 1: old shoes. And it was actually these shoes that immediately
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Speaker 1: gave way that this was not Jean, because Jean did
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Speaker 1: not own a pair of shoes like that Francis would know.
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Speaker 1: And as her eyes traveled up from these strange shoes,
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Speaker 1: she saw this was clearly a man, and he had
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Speaker 1: skinny legs, and he was wearing black and gray striped pants,
20:24
Speaker 1: and he had a very small body overall, and he
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Speaker 1: was wearing a white vest with a long black coat
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Speaker 1: with coat tails. And then as Francis finally reached this
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Speaker 1: man's head, she saw he had these strikingly blue eyes
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Speaker 1: and he was looking right at her, and he had
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Speaker 1: this almost mocking grin on his face. And Francis has
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Speaker 1: no idea who this person is. There is a stranger
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Speaker 1: in her house. She's thinking, he's broken in. What's he
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Speaker 1: gonna do to me? And she just sat up in
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Speaker 1: her bed. Then she looked at this guy and he
20:55
Speaker 1: leaned forward and he just kind of continued to smile,
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Speaker 1: and he said, I'm here for Jean. Francis just began
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Speaker 1: to scream at the top of her lungs. But this man,
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Speaker 1: the strange little man with blue eyes, just began to laugh,
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Speaker 1: and then, to Francis's total.
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Speaker 2: Disbelief, he vanished.
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Speaker 1: A second later, Francis heard footsteps and then the bedroom
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Speaker 1: door flew open and Jean burst in asking what was wrong,
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Speaker 1: and without thinking, Francis blurted out that there had been
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Speaker 1: somebody in her room. But as she told Jeane all
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Speaker 1: about this strange little man and his weird outfit with
21:28
Speaker 1: his blue eyes and how he vanished, she started to
21:33
Speaker 1: realize that what she was saying sounded absurd.
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Speaker 2: And from Jeane's expression, she could tell that he did
21:39
Speaker 2: not believe her.
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Speaker 1: He's thinking, you were having a dream, clearly like, there's
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Speaker 1: no way this happened.
21:43
Speaker 2: And so even though to Francis.
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Speaker 1: The experience she had just had had felt one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent real, by the time she was done telling the
21:51
Speaker 1: story and sort of going over it with Jean, she
21:54
Speaker 1: was starting to think that, you know, maybe she had
21:56
Speaker 1: had like a very lucid, vivid dream. However, to be safe,
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Speaker 1: Francis and Jean spent a few minutes walking all around
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Speaker 1: the house making sure nobody else was here, and also
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Speaker 1: looking for any signs that maybe somebody had broken in,
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Speaker 1: but there were none.
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Speaker 2: However, Jeane did find that.
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Speaker 1: The front door was unlocked, which definitely was not something
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Speaker 1: he did. He remembered locking the door before bed, and
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Speaker 1: Francis said she never unlocked it, so that was sort
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Speaker 1: of a strange thing, but other than that, the house
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Speaker 1: was in normal order. And so Francis and jean they
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Speaker 1: didn't really know.
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Speaker 2: What to do.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they did debate calling the police, but they
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Speaker 1: had no evidence that this actually happened, and they both
22:36
Speaker 1: agreed that the story was just too strange for anyone
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Speaker 1: to believe. And so by seven am that morning, so
22:42
Speaker 1: just a little while after this whole thing happened, Francis
22:45
Speaker 1: felt pretty convinced that there had been no little man
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Speaker 1: in a room with blue eyes, and this really had
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Speaker 1: just been a very lucid, horrible dream. And so the
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Speaker 1: two of them began to go about their normal morning
22:56
Speaker 1: routine when Jeane really started to feel sick. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he was already not doing well in the weeks prior,
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Speaker 1: but he really just started to deteriorate really quickly.
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Speaker 2: This is like, you know, fifteen twenty.
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Speaker 1: Minutes after this little man has popped up in her
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Speaker 1: nightmare or whatever, Jeane starts falling apart, to the point
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Speaker 1: where Francis actually called his doctor and said, you got
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Speaker 1: to come here right now.
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Speaker 2: Something's wrong with Jeanie. He's fallen apart. Here. By eight am,
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Speaker 2: when the doctor showed up.
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Speaker 1: This is now about an hour after you know, Francis
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Speaker 1: has had whatever experience she had. Whether it was a
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Speaker 1: nightmare or real, they don't know, but this is an
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Speaker 1: hour later. The doctor shows up, and by this point
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Speaker 1: Jeane is like wrecked. He's practically on his deathbed. He's
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Speaker 1: falling apart. He gets rushed to the hospital, and.
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Speaker 2: All day that day they're trying to save him. But
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Speaker 2: by the very next morning he had died.
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Speaker 1: And then as time went on, whenever she would think
23:52
Speaker 1: about that strange experience, the little man in her room,
23:56
Speaker 1: she would just rationalize it and tell herself that that
23:59
Speaker 1: was just her own mind's way of working out her
24:02
Speaker 1: growing anxiety over Jean's mortality. I mean, after all, he
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Speaker 1: had died literally within twenty four hours of that vision,
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Speaker 1: and so maybe that was just her.
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Speaker 2: Mind's way of getting ready for Jean's death.
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Speaker 1: However, despite telling herself the story and feeling pretty good
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Speaker 1: about that being what this whole thing was. What she
24:22
Speaker 1: could never quite figure out was how her subconscious had
24:25
Speaker 1: created such a strange character with such a weirdly specific wardrobe.
24:30
Speaker 1: She knew she had never seen anybody like that before
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Speaker 1: in her whole life, so like how did her mind
24:36
Speaker 1: come up with this really vivid character. But she ultimately
24:41
Speaker 1: just pushed this whole thing out of her mind and
24:43
Speaker 1: didn't talk to anybody about this experience. Well, that is
24:49
Speaker 1: until a few months later. Late one night in the
24:51
Speaker 1: spring of nineteen fifty eight, so a few months after
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Speaker 1: Jean's death, Francis and her forty six year old daughter,
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Speaker 1: whose name was Jane, were driving down on a freeway
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Speaker 1: in northern California, coming home from a road trip they
25:03
Speaker 1: had taken as sort of a celebration of Jeane's life.
25:06
Speaker 1: And so as they're driving along, both women are looking
25:09
Speaker 1: out the window. They're not really talking, and the radio
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Speaker 1: wasn't on, and so the only sound was the sound
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Speaker 1: of the.
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Speaker 2: Tires on the road. It was just very quiet.
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Speaker 1: But then, sort of out of nowhere, Jane spoke up
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Speaker 1: and told her mother about something really weird that had
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Speaker 1: happened to her on the morning of Jean's death, and
25:26
Speaker 1: she couldn't stop thinking about it, and it bothered her
25:29
Speaker 1: so much she just had to tell her mom. According
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Speaker 1: to Jane, she had woken up on that morning and
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Speaker 1: standing in her room on the other side was this
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Speaker 1: little man with these strange polished shoes, stripe pants, black
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Speaker 1: coat with coattails, and these bright blue eyes who was
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Speaker 1: looking right at her and grinning. And when Francis heard this,
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Speaker 1: she couldn't believe it, and she blurted out to her
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Speaker 1: daughter that she had never told anybody except for Jean,
25:57
Speaker 1: but on that morning she had seeing the exact same
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Speaker 1: man in her bedroom. And so for the rest of
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Speaker 1: the ride, the mother and daughter just compare notes, talking
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Speaker 1: about the whole experience, exactly what they remember, exactly what
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Speaker 1: he looked like, how they felt like, what they thought
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Speaker 1: it meant.
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Speaker 2: And then at some point towards the.
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Speaker 1: End of this sort of revelation they're both having where
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Speaker 1: they're both realizing they've had this shared experience, Francis says
26:23
Speaker 1: something that catches Jane's attention. Francis says, yeah, and then
26:28
Speaker 1: you know, right before he vanished, he told me he
26:31
Speaker 1: was here for Jane. And then you know, your dad
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Speaker 1: died twenty four hours later. And Jane she kind of
26:37
Speaker 1: when she heard this, she goes quiet, and she looks
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Speaker 1: at her mom and she's like, that's not what he
26:42
Speaker 1: said to me. And Francis is like, what do you mean,
26:45
Speaker 1: what did he say to you and Jane. You know,
26:48
Speaker 1: she's just looking straight ahead, she's driving, and she goes
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Speaker 1: he said, I'm here for Jane.
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Speaker 2: He was here for me.
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Speaker 1: For a moment, the car just went totally quiet, and
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Speaker 1: neither woman knew what to say. But then Francis was like, well,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, I know the little man.
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Speaker 2: Said to me, I'm here for Jean.
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Speaker 1: And then twenty four hours later, your dad died, Jeane died,
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Speaker 1: and so it sort of seemed like they were connected.
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Speaker 1: And you're saying that the same thing happened to you.
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Speaker 1: You've had the exact same experience as me on the
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Speaker 1: same morning, the same timeframe that I know he said
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Speaker 1: I'm here for Jean, and you think he said I'm
27:24
Speaker 1: here for Jane, but you're still.
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Speaker 2: Alive, and that was months ago. You must have just
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Speaker 2: misheard him.
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Speaker 1: He must have said I'm here for Jeane, same as me,
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Speaker 1: and you just thought he said Jane. And so pretty
27:36
Speaker 1: quickly both women agreed that that had to have.
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Speaker 2: Been what happened.
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Speaker 1: They had the exact same experience, and in both cases,
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Speaker 1: this guy has said he's here.
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Speaker 2: For Gene has to be what happened.
27:48
Speaker 1: However, Francis would be wrong because On December seventh, nineteen
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Speaker 1: fifty eight, exactly a year and one day after Jeane died,
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Speaker 1: Francis's daughter, Jane died as well.
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Speaker 2: It would turn out she had not.
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Speaker 1: Been perfectly healthy as she and her mother believed when
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Speaker 1: she saw this little man and the strange outfit with
28:09
Speaker 1: the blue eyes. She had had cancer that likely had
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Speaker 1: just cropped up but had gone undetected, and now by
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Speaker 1: the time doctors were realizing she had it, it was
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Speaker 1: too late.
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Speaker 2: It had spread to the point where there was nothing
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Speaker 2: they could do.
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Speaker 1: Following her daughter's death, Francis was so overcome with grief
28:27
Speaker 1: that she poured her energy into basically just telling everyone
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Speaker 1: she could about this little man that she had seen
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Speaker 1: before her husband's death and her daughter had claimed to
28:36
Speaker 1: have seen before she died. It just felt like we
28:39
Speaker 1: got to tell people about this, like what happened, and
28:41
Speaker 1: she even ended up writing to a journalist to try
28:43
Speaker 1: to get this story out there, to.
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Speaker 2: Try to figure out what the heck that was.
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Speaker 1: However, nobody came forward with any sort of meaningful explanation
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Speaker 1: about what this experience was, what it meant, how real
28:56
Speaker 1: it was.
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Speaker 2: No one knew what to make of it.
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Speaker 1: After getting the story out there and describing in agonizing
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Speaker 1: detail every little thing that she remembered. From this experience,
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Speaker 1: Francis did learn one piece of information that does.
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Speaker 2: Seem to begin to explain who this little man was.
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Speaker 1: That man's outfit, the old fashioned dress, shoes, the striped pants,
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Speaker 1: the white vest, the black coattails, is actually the uniform
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Speaker 1: of a very specific profession.
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Speaker 2: The little man with the blue eyes was.
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Speaker 1: Dressed exactly like a nineteenth century undertaker. Thank you so
29:42
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29:44
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