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Her NIGHTMARE broke reality. · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: into today's story. One evening in September of eighteen eighty five,
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Speaker 1: a young woman named Mary stepped out of the backseat
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Speaker 1: of a carriage onto a road in rural England. She
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Speaker 1: had traveled one hundred miles from London to the countryside
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Speaker 1: because her husband's aunt had invited her to come visit.
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Speaker 1: Standing on the dirt road, Mary looked up at the
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Speaker 1: big country house. Then she grabbed her suitcase and walked
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Speaker 1: up to the front door and knocked. Then a moment later,
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Speaker 1: the aunt's maid opened the door. She greeted Mary and
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Speaker 1: took her suitcase and brought the suitcase to the guest
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Speaker 1: room while Mary had it straight down the hallway to
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Speaker 1: her aunt's bedroom. When she got there, Mary gently knocked
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Speaker 1: on the door and then opened it up, and when
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Speaker 1: she looked inside, she saw the aunt lying in bed,
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Speaker 1: and you know, the aunt looked up and saw Mary
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Speaker 1: and she smiled. But she was very old and very frail,
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Speaker 1: you know, not doing too well physically, and now that's
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Speaker 1: part of the reason Mary was here to just kind
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Speaker 1: of see her while she still could. But the aunt
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Speaker 1: looked up and saw Mary and recognized her, and so
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Speaker 1: she smiled, and Mary came in and sat down next
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Speaker 1: to her, and for a couple of minutes the two
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Speaker 1: women just had some small talk. You know, Mary talked
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Speaker 1: about her journey from London to know the countryside where
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Speaker 1: she was now, and you know, the aunt talked about
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Speaker 1: what she was up to. It was all just kind of,
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Speaker 1: you know, pleasantries. But at some point the aunt kind
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Speaker 1: of stopped and looked up at Mary, and she had
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Speaker 1: this obvious look of pity on her face, and Mary
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Speaker 1: immediately picked up on it, and she's kind of looking
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Speaker 1: back at the aunt wondering what's going on here, and
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Speaker 1: then the aunt just says to Mary, really, how are
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Speaker 1: you holding up? And immediately Mary, when she heard this,
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Speaker 1: she felt this not in her throat and she had
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Speaker 1: to fight back tears. I mean, she knew exactly what
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Speaker 1: the aunt was talking about. So even though Mary was
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Speaker 1: a young woman, she was already a widow. Her husband
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Speaker 1: had died in an accident about two years earlier, and
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Speaker 1: it had sent Mary into this spiraling, deep depression. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she was still completely grieving the loss of her husband.
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Speaker 1: He had been the love of her life. And you know,
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Speaker 1: her extended family and her husband's extended family were all
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Speaker 1: well aware of how badly Mary had been doing, and
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Speaker 1: so they had been extending her invitations constantly to come
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Speaker 1: visit and basically just not be alone. I mean that
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Speaker 1: was the reason, really why her husband's aunt had invited
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Speaker 1: her here, is because she knew Mary likely wasn't doing well. Now,
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Speaker 1: to Mary, you know, this was nice in a way.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she felt very comforted by the family members
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Speaker 1: and it did seem like people genuinely cared about her.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, she started to get the
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Speaker 1: impression from basically everybody in her and her husband's family
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Speaker 1: that they kind of expected her to, you know, grieve
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Speaker 1: this loss, but ultimately move on, like find somebody else
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Speaker 1: basically you're young, like get remarried, you know, start a
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Speaker 1: new life. But to Mary, she just wanted to be like, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm never going to find anyone like my husband. He
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Speaker 1: was the love of my life and no one will
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Speaker 1: ever match him ever, Like I'm done, I probably will
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Speaker 1: never get married again like he was it for me.
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Speaker 1: And so at that moment, Mary really just wanted to
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Speaker 1: end this conversation with her husband's aunt, like she didn't
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Speaker 1: want to get into how she was feeling about her husband,
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Speaker 1: because it was bad. She felt bad, but instead of
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Speaker 1: saying that to her husband's aunt, she just said, you
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Speaker 1: know what, I'm okay, I'm just totally exhausted from travel
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go to bed. The aunt nodded and
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Speaker 1: told Mary that, you know, we'll have plenty of time
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Speaker 1: to visit tomorrow, so go get some sleep. And so
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Speaker 1: the two women hugged, and then Mary got up. She
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Speaker 1: left the bedroom, headed to the guest room. She found
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Speaker 1: her suitcase, got on some pajamas, and then crawled into bed.
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Speaker 1: But a few hours later, in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 1: Mary suddenly bolted up right in her bed. She was sweating,
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Speaker 1: she was shaking, she was totally disoriented. It took her
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Speaker 1: a few minutes to even remember where she was. But
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Speaker 1: then finally when she did and she realized she was safe,
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Speaker 1: she realized she had just had this awful, visceral nightmare
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Speaker 1: that she really couldn't even make sense of. In this nightmare,
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Speaker 1: she was looking out at this huge open field. It's nighttime,
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Speaker 1: and there's nothing but this field. But oft in the
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Speaker 1: distance there was this broken down, small shed and it
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Speaker 1: was just sitting there, conspicuously, right in the middle of
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Speaker 1: this field. And even though Mary was terrified of the shed,
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Speaker 1: she felt this overwhelming urge to go to the shed
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Speaker 1: and investigate what's like. With every step as she walked
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Speaker 1: through this field, closer and closer to the shed, her
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Speaker 1: fear was rising. And then finally, when she got close
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Speaker 1: to the shed, she began to hear what sounded like
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Speaker 1: somebody moaning inside of the structure. And so now she's
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Speaker 1: really scared, but she keeps walking towards the shed, and
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Speaker 1: then she's right outside. She can't see into the shed,
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Speaker 1: but she can hear the moaning, and she sees her
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Speaker 1: hand just come down and fling the door open, almost
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Speaker 1: like she didn't want to, but her body's acting on autopilot.
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Speaker 1: And then she looks into the shed and there's this
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Speaker 1: figure tucked into the corner, kind of in the shadows,
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Speaker 1: and it's the thing making these moaning sounds. And it
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Speaker 1: turns and Mary sees it's this woman, this emaciated, destroyed
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Speaker 1: looking woman. But her face is the same face as
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Speaker 1: Mary's dead husband, and as soon as she saw that,
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Speaker 1: it jolted her awake. And so that's where she was
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Speaker 1: sitting in her bedroom trying to make sense of what
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Speaker 1: she had just seen. And so after fifteen or twenty
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Speaker 1: minutes of Mary trying and failing to fall back asleep
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Speaker 1: because of this horrible night, Mary finally says, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to go outside, clear my head, go
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Speaker 1: for a walk. I know it's the middle of the night, whatever,
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Speaker 1: you know. I'll bring some brandy along and sip that
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Speaker 1: to calm my nerves and just kind of walk around
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Speaker 1: until I'm calm, and then I'll go back to sleep.
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Speaker 1: So she hopped at a bed, she grabbed her flask
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Speaker 1: About fifteen minutes later, Mary was walking up a hill
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Speaker 1: with the moonlight casting down on her. She was sipping
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Speaker 1: her brandy as she went and was already beginning to
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Speaker 1: calm down. Now, Mary was used to living in the
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Speaker 1: city in London, and so being out here in the
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Speaker 1: countryside was so different. It was so beautiful and peaceful
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Speaker 1: and spaced out that she had kind of just begun
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Speaker 1: walking and not stopped. I mean, she originally thought she
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Speaker 1: would just stay on the aant's property, but already she
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Speaker 1: was well beyond the property lines and was basically just
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Speaker 1: out exploring in the middle of the night, and she
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Speaker 1: was having a nice time. And so up the hill
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Speaker 1: Mary goes. Now, remember Mary has never been to this area.
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Speaker 1: This is basically an all new place. She has no
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Speaker 1: idea what's over here, and she goes up this hill.
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Speaker 1: She crests the top and she gets a look at
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Speaker 1: what's up there for the first time. And when she
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Speaker 1: sees what's up there, she freezes. She's looking out at
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Speaker 1: this huge field basically in all directions, and in the
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Speaker 1: center of this field, maybe a couple hundred yards away,
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Speaker 1: is a single small structure, a broken down wooden shed
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Speaker 1: that looks nearly identical to the shed she had just
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Speaker 1: seen in her nightmare. And as soon as she saw that,
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Speaker 1: she's terrified because she knows it's the same one, or
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Speaker 1: it's eerily similar but worse than that. When she saw it,
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Speaker 1: despite her own fears and trepidations about being up here,
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Speaker 1: she felt herself moving towards the shed. It was like
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Speaker 1: her body went into autopilot, the same way it did
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Speaker 1: in her dream. It was like she had to go
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Speaker 1: to the shed, even though everything inside of her logically
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Speaker 1: is saying don't go. But into the field she goes.
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Speaker 1: She deviates off the path and just starts walking towards
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Speaker 1: the shed. Her heart is beating like mad, and as
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Speaker 1: she's getting closer and closer, she even begins to hear
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Speaker 1: moaning sounds coming from the shed. It's like she's living
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Speaker 1: out the nightmare in real life. She can't make sense
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Speaker 1: of it. She wants to go back either way, but
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Speaker 1: she can't stop herself. She just going towards the shed.
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Speaker 1: And then finally she reaches the shed, and now for
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Speaker 1: sure she can hear moaning coming from in this building,
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Speaker 1: and she sees her hand reached down and she flings
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Speaker 1: open the shed and she looks in and sure enough,
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Speaker 1: there is this dark figure tucked in the corner, clearly moaning,
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Speaker 1: Like this is her nightmare in real life. But when
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Speaker 1: the person inside the shed turned to look at Mary,
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Speaker 1: it was a woman, but they didn't have her dead
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Speaker 1: husband's face. Instead, it was a woman who practically looked
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Speaker 1: like she was dead or close to death. She obviously
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Speaker 1: needed help. Now at this point, Mary was kind of relieved.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this whole situation is terrifying, but she was
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Speaker 1: expecting to, you know, somehow see her dead husband's face
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Speaker 1: on this person in the shed, and so when it wasn't,
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Speaker 1: and it was just like a normal person, albeit in
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Speaker 1: a very strange set of circumstances, it was a relief.
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Speaker 1: But now Mary didn't know what to do. It's like
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Speaker 1: she's standing there looking at this woman, having no idea
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Speaker 1: what to do. She doesn't understand how she could have
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Speaker 1: dreamed this and now basically lived it too, Like nothing's
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Speaker 1: adding up. But again, it was like her body continued
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Speaker 1: to operate in this autopilot mode. She suddenly had this
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Speaker 1: really intense desire to go into the shed and help
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Speaker 1: this woman. She didn't know who she was. This is
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Speaker 1: a total stranger in the middle of a field in
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Speaker 1: a shed who's moaning and looks terrible. She has no
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Speaker 1: idea what's going on. But then she goes and she
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Speaker 1: sits down next to this woman who's now kind of
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Speaker 1: eyeing Mary like what are you doing in here with me?
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Speaker 1: And Mary says to her like, hey, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: How'd you get here? What's wrong? Like what's happening? But
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Speaker 1: the woman, it was clear she wanted to respond to
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Speaker 1: Mary and you know, tell her what was going on,
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Speaker 1: but you know, she was too weak. It was like
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Speaker 1: she really was on death's store here and Mary could
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Speaker 1: clearly see that, like she didn't need to be told
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Speaker 1: this woman is in a very bad way here. Now
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Speaker 1: Mary knew what needed to happen is this woman needs
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Speaker 1: to get to a hospital. But they were nowhere near
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Speaker 1: a hospital and this woman clearly can't get up and walk,
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Speaker 1: and Mary's thinking, I'm not strong enough to carry this
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Speaker 1: woman to the hospital, Like what am I gonna do?
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Speaker 1: And you know, Mary's thinking maybe if I just run
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Speaker 1: and get help and they can come back here. But
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Speaker 1: she's looking at this woman thinking I don't know if
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Speaker 1: she'll survive. You know, she's probably gonna die soon, like
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Speaker 1: this is gonna happen now, And so Mary, again sort
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Speaker 1: of in this weird autopilot mode, decides, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay right here with this woman. She can't
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Speaker 1: even talk, she can't tell me what's going on, but
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Speaker 1: I am gonna be here with her. I'm gonna be
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Speaker 1: present with her, and if she dies, I'll be here
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Speaker 1: to support her. And so Mary just made herself comfortable.
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Speaker 1: She took her jacket off, she put it over this woman,
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Speaker 1: and then she began letting this woman sip from her
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Speaker 1: brandy flask to you know, maybe kind of ease the pain.
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Speaker 1: And all night the two women just kind of sat
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Speaker 1: there and laid together. When the sun finally rose the
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Speaker 1: next morning, Mary looked over at the woman and so
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Speaker 1: she was still alive, and in fact, if anything, she
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Speaker 1: seemed like her condition had maybe improved slightly. She seemed
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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more comfortable. You know, maybe that
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Speaker 1: was from all the brandy, who knows, but the woman
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Speaker 1: seemed like she had stabilized a little bit. Still couldn't
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Speaker 1: talk or really tell Mary anything, but she seemed to
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Speaker 1: be doing a little bit better. And so Mary's thinking, okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, the sun's up now, now I can run
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Speaker 1: out get help and get this woman the care that
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Speaker 1: she needs. But before Mary could even do that, she
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Speaker 1: began hearing a stomping sound somewhere outside of the shed,
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Speaker 1: and she realized it was a horse approaching, and so
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Speaker 1: Mary she bolts out of the shed and she looks
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Speaker 1: over towards the road and there's a horse pulling a
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Speaker 1: covered wagon and going right by. And Mary screams and
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Speaker 1: yells and says she needs help. And a man pops
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Speaker 1: his head out of the wagon and says, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: And Mary runs over to him and explains this weird situation,
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Speaker 1: how there's this strange woman over here and she's clearly dying.
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Speaker 1: She needs our help. And the man agreed to help,
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Speaker 1: and so he went with Mary to the shed. He
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Speaker 1: picked the woman up, he put her inside of his wagon,
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Speaker 1: and then the three of them together in this wagon,
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Speaker 1: drove to Mary's husband's aunt's house. When they got there,
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Speaker 1: the man carried the strange woman inside of the aunt's house,
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Speaker 1: and then Mary told the aunt's maid to go call
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Speaker 1: for the town doctor, and so she said she would.
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Speaker 1: And so at this point Mary was actually completely relieved.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was kind of a wild, very unexpected night.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she doesn't even know who this woman is,
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Speaker 1: but she's definitely happy that she's getting some level of
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Speaker 1: care here, but Mary sort of felt like her role
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Speaker 1: in this was kind of diminished. Now, you know, she's
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Speaker 1: gotten the woman here, and she's feeling so tired and
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Speaker 1: weak from being up all night, and so Mary decided
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Speaker 1: she would just take a nap. I mean, she had
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Speaker 1: been up all night with this woman. She was exhausted,
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Speaker 1: So into her bedroom she went. She climbed into bed.
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Speaker 1: But as she's laying there, she realized she wasn't just tired,
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Speaker 1: she actually felt kind of sick, like ill. And over
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Speaker 1: the next few hours that she kind of tossed and
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Speaker 1: turned in her bed, not really able to sleep. She
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Speaker 1: would develop this horrible fever, and this fea would just
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Speaker 1: get worse and worse and worse, and Mary would become
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Speaker 1: bedridden dealing with this mystery illness for weeks, just drifting
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Speaker 1: in and out of consciousness the whole time. It was
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Speaker 1: October by the time Mary's fever finally broke, and on
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Speaker 1: the day that it did, when Mary opened her eyes
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Speaker 1: in this bed, you know, she was clear headed for
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Speaker 1: the first time. I mean really, it had been a
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Speaker 1: very rough stretch of a few weeks, and so she's
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Speaker 1: looking around the room kind of taking stock of her environment,
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Speaker 1: and she sees there's this strange person sitting in a
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Speaker 1: chair in the corner, and her immediate reaction is, Oh,
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Speaker 1: this must be like a nurse or a doctor or
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Speaker 1: somebody here that's kind of overseeing me. Mary was aware
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Speaker 1: she had been very sick for several weeks, and there
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Speaker 1: were people in and out of the room, but she
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Speaker 1: looked back at this person and realized she actually knew
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Speaker 1: who it was. It was the woman she had rescued
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Speaker 1: from the shed on the night she got sick. It
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Speaker 1: was that woman, but now she wasn't sickly and you know, dying.
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Speaker 1: The woman looked completely healthy and happy, and she was
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Speaker 1: smiling to hear at Mary like this didn't make any sense,
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Speaker 1: like what's going on here? And also Mary just couldn't
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Speaker 1: help but think like, wait a minute, why is this
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Speaker 1: woman still here? It has been weeks since I rescued
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Speaker 1: her from the shed? Why is she still here? Like
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Speaker 1: nothing's adding up. But before Mary could ask any questions,
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Speaker 1: this woman, who clearly was super excited to see that
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Speaker 1: Mary was now fully awake and attentive. This woman just
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Speaker 1: starts talking a mile a minute like she had been
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Speaker 1: waiting to dump all this information on Mary as soon
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Speaker 1: as she was well. Like, clearly, this woman has been
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Speaker 1: waiting diligently for her chance to tell her story. And
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Speaker 1: the story that she dumped on Mary at her first chance,
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Speaker 1: like this day was incredible. The woman told her that
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Speaker 1: a couple of years earlier, she had boarded the ship
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Speaker 1: in England that was bound for Brazil. But about five
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Speaker 1: days into their journey, while they're out on the open sea,
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Speaker 1: the ship caught fire, this horrible fire. Everyone's trying to evacuate,
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Speaker 1: and this woman said she was in her bedroom asleep,
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Speaker 1: she didn't even know what was happening. And while she's
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Speaker 1: laying there and the ship is catching fire and beginning
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Speaker 1: to sink, this stranger comes barreling into the room, literally
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Speaker 1: wakes her up, scoops her up, and takes her to
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Speaker 1: the top deck and gets her into a lifeboat right
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Speaker 1: as the ship sinks. I mean, this stranger completely saved
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Speaker 1: this woman's life. And so this woman, the stranger who
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Speaker 1: had saved her, and a handful of other lucky people
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Speaker 1: who had made it onto this lifeboat just began rowing
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Speaker 1: in a single direction, you know, hoping they'd find land.
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Speaker 1: And luckily they did. They found this deserted island, and
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Speaker 1: so they landed there and for a year, this woman
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Speaker 1: and the stranger and those few people subsisted on this island,
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Speaker 1: you know, barely clinging to life, you know, praying for rescue.
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Speaker 1: And amazingly, after a year of being shipwrecked, they flagged
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Speaker 1: down a ship that did rescue them and brought them
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Speaker 1: to England. However, when they actually got to England, things
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Speaker 1: weren't that good. The stranger who had saved this woman
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Speaker 1: had basically lost his mind from living on this island,
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Speaker 1: you know, not expecting to be rescued. Even though they
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Speaker 1: got rescued, it was like he wasn't coherent anymore. He
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Speaker 1: had lost it. Not to mention, he was really ill
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Speaker 1: from the way they were living on this island, you know,
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Speaker 1: scavenging things that weren't necessarily edible, but just to survive,
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Speaker 1: they were eating whatever they could. I mean, it was
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Speaker 1: a very rough lifestyle and this man he just hadn't
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Speaker 1: really handled it well, and so he got thrown in
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Speaker 1: a hospital and placed in a particular ward for people
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Speaker 1: that were mentally unwell, and he was basically forgotten about. However,
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Speaker 1: the woman would tell Mary that, you know, when this happened,
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Speaker 1: she felt awful because she felt like this stranger had
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Speaker 1: saved her life and she kind of owed him a debt,
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Speaker 1: and so she decided it would be her mission to
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Speaker 1: find the stranger's family and let them know where he was.
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Speaker 1: And so the woman said she did some research and
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Speaker 1: she figured out where one of his relatives lived. It
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Speaker 1: was really far away, on the other side of England,
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Speaker 1: and so she spent all her money, using every vehicle
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Speaker 1: she possibly could, every ride she could take, getting as
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Speaker 1: close to this location as she possibly could. And then
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Speaker 1: when she ran out of money, she just kept on
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Speaker 1: walking towards this destination and she kept going until she
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Speaker 1: literally ran out of food and water. But she wasn't
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Speaker 1: quite there yet. She knew she was getting close, and
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Speaker 1: she's just walking and she's basically falling apart, you know.
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Speaker 1: So hell bent on finding this family member for this stranger,
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Speaker 1: but she can't quite make it. She can't quite get
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Speaker 1: to the family member's house, and that's when she finds
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Speaker 1: this shed out in the middle of the field, where
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Speaker 1: she just collapses, thinking, Okay, this is where I'm going
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Speaker 1: to die. And so back in the guest room, Mary
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Speaker 1: is listening to this woman tell this unbelievable story. And
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Speaker 1: at some point, the woman just kind of stops when
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Speaker 1: she gets to the shed scene, and Mary's looking at
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Speaker 1: her like, I don't I don't really understand where you're
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Speaker 1: going with this. I don't understand why you're here telling
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Speaker 1: me this, and the woman she just starts to laugh,
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Speaker 1: like this joyous laughter, just non stop laughter, and then
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Speaker 1: she goes, don't you get it? And then seconds later,
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Speaker 1: Mary hears footsteps and a man walks into the bedroom
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Speaker 1: and it's Mary's husband. He was the stranger who rescued
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Speaker 1: that woman. He didn't die in an accident two years ago,
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Speaker 1: like they thought. He was in a shipwreck, but he survived.
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Speaker 1: He was the man who got thrown in the hospital
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Speaker 1: and forgotten about. And it was this woman who was
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Speaker 1: making the journey to his aunt's house to tell her
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Speaker 1: that he was still alive. And it was only because
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Speaker 1: Mary had that totally bizarre nightmare that sort of led
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Speaker 1: her to that shed that she found this woman who
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Speaker 1: would have died in that shed and never quite got
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Speaker 1: into the aunt's house and so never could have told
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Speaker 1: the family, never could have told Mary that her husband's
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Speaker 1: still alive. It was because of that dream, that fate
20:50
Speaker 1: aligned and now her husband was back. Mary and her
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Speaker 1: husband's story wound up being published in newspapers all over
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Speaker 1: the world. I mean, people really could not get another
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Speaker 1: nobody was ever able to come up with a logical
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Speaker 1: explanation for how so many coincidences and this crazy dream
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