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The Worst Family Tradition Ever Documented (MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to cover three strange but true stories.
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  Speaker 1: On the morning of September twenty third, eighteen thirty nine,
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  Speaker 1: an experienced sailor named Captain Brighton stood on the deck
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  Speaker 1: of a ship which was traveling through the Drake Passage,
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  Speaker 1: which is located right along the northern coast of Antarctica.
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  Speaker 1: He and his crew had sailed here because they were
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  Speaker 1: professional whalers and they had heard there was this massive
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  Speaker 1: population of whales in the Drake Passage that basically were
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  Speaker 1: untouched by humanity because basically nobody sailed this far. This
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  Speaker 1: was a freezing cold, very austere part of the world,
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  Speaker 1: kind of a dangerous place to be. But so far
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  Speaker 1: Captain Brighton and his crew had not seen a single whale.
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  Speaker 1: And on top of that, the Drake passage had proven
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  Speaker 1: to be as dangerous as expected. Just the previous night,
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  Speaker 1: the ocean around the ship had literally frozen, basically anchoring.
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  Speaker 2: The ship in place.
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  Speaker 1: And so when this happened, Captain Brighton realized like there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing they could even do about this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they were stuck and.
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  Speaker 3: If this didn't break up soon, they'd be stuck.
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  Speaker 1: Here all winter potentially, and it was unclear if they
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  Speaker 1: could actually survive that. But fortunately, also the previous night,
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  Speaker 1: this massive storm rolled in, which you know, that's dangerous
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  Speaker 1: in and of itself, but the severity of the storm
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  Speaker 1: was actually a good thing because it broke up the
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  Speaker 1: ice around the ship and allowed Captain Brighton to sail away.
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  Speaker 1: And so now you know, that morning the ocean was
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  Speaker 1: again you know, liquid, so they were able to move around.
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  Speaker 2: But Captain Brighton.
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  Speaker 1: Had a very difficult decision to make. You know, again,
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  Speaker 1: so far, they have not caught any whales, and they've
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  Speaker 1: invested a lot of time and money to get out here.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, if he stayed out here much longer,
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  Speaker 1: he knew they could potentially get stranded again, and he
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  Speaker 1: just couldn't let that happen. And so he needed to
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  Speaker 1: decide if he was going to keep on sailing further
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  Speaker 1: into the Drake passage to maybe find a couple whales,
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  Speaker 1: or leave now before it was too late. But as
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  Speaker 1: Captain Brighton weighed his options, he suddenly noticed something over
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  Speaker 1: the horizon. There was this dark shape, and at first
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  Speaker 1: he actually thought he was hallucinating, because really, there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: else out here.
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  Speaker 2: It's just him and ocean and ice. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: But as he continued to stare in the direction of
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  Speaker 1: this dark object, which was actually getting closer to him,
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  Speaker 1: he realized it was a real thing, and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: it was another ship, which was really surprising because again,
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  Speaker 1: nobody really comes out here, and so his instincts were, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this has got to be a rival whale ship. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's the only other people who would come out here.
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  Speaker 1: But as he continued to stare at the ship, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as it got closer, he realized it was not a
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  Speaker 1: whale ship. It was actually a schooner, which is a
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  Speaker 1: ship design for traveling. But as Captain Brighton stared at
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  Speaker 1: the schooner that was getting closer and closer, he saw
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  Speaker 1: it was in pretty rough shape. I mean the hull
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  Speaker 1: and the sails were very tattered. I mean, there was
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  Speaker 1: something off.
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  Speaker 2: About the ship.
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  Speaker 1: But Captain Brighton was thinking, you know, hey, I know
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  Speaker 1: you can get trapped in the ice out here. That
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  Speaker 1: happened to them the night before. Maybe this crew has
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  Speaker 1: gotten trapped in the ice. You know, they've been stuck
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  Speaker 1: out here for who knows how long.
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  Speaker 2: They could be in pretty rough shape.
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  Speaker 1: And Captain Brighton knew they actually did have, at least
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  Speaker 1: at that moment, quite a bit of supplies, at least
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  Speaker 1: some despair, and so he called out to his men
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  Speaker 1: to ready a day and get some supplies because they
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  Speaker 1: were going to go over to this schooner and basically
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  Speaker 1: offer up some extra supplies and also check in on
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  Speaker 1: them and make sure they were okay. And so, once
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  Speaker 1: the supplies were packaged up and put on the dinghy,
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  Speaker 1: Captain Brighton, along with four of their men, hopped in
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  Speaker 1: the dinghy and they began paddling over to the schooner,
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  Speaker 1: and as they got closer, you know, the waves were
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad, and so they're kind of jostling around, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the ship itself, the schooner is also moving
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  Speaker 1: and so that's moving up and down. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: periodically as they got closer, they'd be able to look
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  Speaker 1: into the portholes, which are like windows on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the schooner, and Captain Brighton could clearly see there
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  Speaker 1: were people inside of the schooner.
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  Speaker 2: He called out a few.
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  Speaker 1: Times, but it was windy and sort of loud, and
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't really tell if any of them heard him
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  Speaker 1: or if anybody called back. And so eventually Captain Brighton
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  Speaker 1: and his crew they got to the side of the
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  Speaker 1: schooner and they just climbed up the ladder and boarded
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  Speaker 1: the ship. And once they were on the ship, once
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  Speaker 1: they were on the deck of the schooner, they're looking
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  Speaker 1: around and everything was in working order, albeit sort of
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  Speaker 1: tattered and in rough shape. But the weird thing was
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  Speaker 1: is nobody was out on deck. They had seen people
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  Speaker 1: in the portholes, which was inside the ship, but there
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  Speaker 1: was nobody above deck.
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  Speaker 2: And so Captain Brighton's thinking, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: This is pretty weird here, but we clearly just need
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  Speaker 1: to go inside and talk to someone. And so Captain
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  Speaker 1: Brighton and his men walked across the deck to this
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  Speaker 1: door that led into the ship. It actually led into
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  Speaker 1: the captain's quarters at least, you know, based on basic
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  Speaker 1: ship construction, that's what they expected it to be. And
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  Speaker 1: so Captain Brighton he gets to the door, he knocks
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  Speaker 1: and calls out, you know, announces that they're here with
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  Speaker 1: supplies and just to make sure everybody is okay.
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  Speaker 2: But there's no answer.
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  Speaker 1: All they can hear is the slapping of the water
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  Speaker 1: against the ship. There's no voices, there's nothing. It's silent
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  Speaker 1: on the ship. And so Captain Brighton eventually just opens
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  Speaker 1: up this door, and sure enough he looks into this
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  Speaker 1: dark space and it's the captain's quarters, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: desk towards the back of this room, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: man sitting at the desk with his back to them.
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  Speaker 1: And so Captain Brighton he takes a cautious step into
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  Speaker 1: the captain's quarters and he calls out to this man
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  Speaker 1: who clearly appears to be the captain.
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  Speaker 2: But the man doesn't say or do anything.
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  Speaker 1: He's clearly focused on something at his desk, and so
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  Speaker 1: Captain Brighton exchanged a worried glance with his men and
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  Speaker 1: then just decided he would walk across the room and
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  Speaker 1: go physically interact with this guy and make sure he
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  Speaker 1: was okay and see what was going on here. And
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  Speaker 1: so slowly Captain Brighton began walking across the room, and
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  Speaker 1: as he did, he called out a few more times
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  Speaker 1: to this man who appeared to be the captain, but
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  Speaker 1: he didn't get a response. And then finally he was
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  Speaker 1: right behind the man and he actually looked down and
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  Speaker 1: read what the man had been writing. This is what
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  Speaker 1: it said, Trapped by icebergs. Despite all efforts, the fire
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  Speaker 1: went out last night.
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  Speaker 2: No hope remains.
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  Speaker 1: However, as unsettling as that would be to read for
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  Speaker 1: anybody in this situation, what was the most unsettling part
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  Speaker 1: was actually what was written right above that journal entry,
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  Speaker 1: the date January seventeenth, eighteen twenty three, sixteen years before
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  Speaker 1: that captain and his entire crew were all dead and
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  Speaker 1: had been for sixteen years. They got trapped in the ice,
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  Speaker 1: just like Captain Brighton had, but it didn't break up.
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  Speaker 1: They were stranded and they all froze to death, and
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  Speaker 1: because it was so cold out in that part of
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  Speaker 1: the world, all their bodies were basically preserved in their
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  Speaker 1: final moments, and so the captain of the ship before
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  Speaker 1: he died, was making an entry to say what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And then down below, when Captain Brighton and his men
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  Speaker 1: went to go look, they found people playing cards who
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  Speaker 1: had literally frozen to death. While playing cards. They found
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  Speaker 1: a woman lying in her bed with her dog. That's
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  Speaker 1: how they froze to death. They found people in the
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  Speaker 1: dining hall and they died right where they were sitting.
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  Speaker 1: It was like all these people had been frozen in
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  Speaker 1: time for nearly two decades, just floating around in Drake's passage,
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  Speaker 1: and basically nobody had found them until Captain Brighton. Thank
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  Speaker 1: On the night of May twentieth, nineteen fifty eight, a
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  Speaker 1: young man named Rom Thoppa walked towards the entrance of
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  Speaker 1: an abandoned airport in eastern India. He was trailing behind
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  Speaker 1: three other men. They were his boss, another employee of
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  Speaker 1: his boss, and then a friend of his boss. It
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  Speaker 1: was pitch black outside and so all four men had flashlights.
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  Speaker 1: But Rom also had something else. He had a huge knife.
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  Speaker 1: So the reason they were there is Rom's boss was considering.
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  Speaker 2: Buying this airport.
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  Speaker 1: However, there were these rumors floating around that this airport
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  Speaker 1: was now haunted ever since being abandoned. In fact, people said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the old hangars and rusted out buildings were
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  Speaker 1: infested with ghosts. Now, Rom totally believed that this place
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  Speaker 1: really was haunted. But Rom's boss wanted to go and
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  Speaker 1: check it out, you know, before he actually considered really
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  Speaker 1: buying this place, and so he had recruited these three
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  Speaker 1: other guys Rom included, to go basically on a ghost hunt.
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  Speaker 1: And so going into this Rom's boss and the two
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  Speaker 1: other men, they're sort of like, okay, this is in truly,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of funny that we're going on this ghost hunt.
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  Speaker 1: But Rom he was terrified. He did not like the
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  Speaker 1: idea of going into this airport, especially at night. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he fully believed there were ghosts out here. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he had brought the knife along to protect himself from ghosts.
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  Speaker 2: But his boss was basically telling him that he had
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 1: And so Rom was there, and so Ram's boss reached
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  Speaker 1: the gate, he unlocked it and pushed it open, and
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  Speaker 1: as it slowly swung open, it made this horrible creaking sound,
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  Speaker 1: and for the first time, all four men are getting
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  Speaker 1: an unobstructed view into the actual property. And it's totally
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  Speaker 1: again pitch black, and they're shining their lights inside and
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  Speaker 1: all they see are just these old hangars and different
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  Speaker 1: big buildings and broken down planes. But there's no movement.
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  Speaker 1: It's totally dark and it's quiet. And so Rom's boss
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  Speaker 1: and the other two men they're walking along and Rom's
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  Speaker 1: in the back and he's so uneasy. He feels practically
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  Speaker 1: sick to his stomach. I mean, everywhere he looked, he
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  Speaker 1: would think that he saw a shadow, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: ghost staring back at him. But he would shine the
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  Speaker 1: light and you know, nothing would be there. And so
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  Speaker 1: this whole time they're walking, he's totally on edge. And
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  Speaker 1: eventually they reached the actual runway and when they got there,
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  Speaker 1: instead of shining their lights kind of straight out in
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  Speaker 1: front of them, because there was basically nothing out ahead
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  Speaker 1: of them. It was just you know, where planes go
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  Speaker 1: to take off and to land, they began shining their
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  Speaker 1: lights predominantly off to the side where there was this
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  Speaker 1: huge hangar and they were all shining their lights in
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  Speaker 1: the different windows to see if you know, anybody was
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  Speaker 1: inside of there, and so they're all kind of focused
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  Speaker 1: off to the side, and Rom the whole time he's
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  Speaker 1: totally terrified here and as you know, his boss and
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  Speaker 1: his friends are kind of shining their lights over here.
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  Speaker 1: Rom takes his flashlight and he aims it straight out
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  Speaker 1: in front of them, and he sees, maybe a couple
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  Speaker 1: hundred meters away, just off to the side of the
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  Speaker 1: runway is what appears to be this floating orb. And
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  Speaker 1: immediately he keeps his light trained on this orb, and
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  Speaker 1: he signals to his boss and the others like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: look at this, and they all turn and they're kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, you know, joking around, and they shine.
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  Speaker 2: Their light and they also see it. They see this
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  Speaker 2: floating orb. It made no sense.
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  Speaker 1: They noticed that there was not just this orb of light,
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  Speaker 1: but there was something below the orb of light, like
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, something was moving. This grayish figure or
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  Speaker 1: multiple figures were kind of like moving around right beneath
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  Speaker 1: this orb. But before any of them could say or
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  Speaker 1: do anything or react really in any way to whatever
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  Speaker 1: it was, they were looking at the dark figures right
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  Speaker 1: below the orb as they're being illuminated by all their flashlights.
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  Speaker 1: It was like all of a sudden, whatever they were,
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  Speaker 1: they turned and all these eyes glinted and looked directly
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  Speaker 1: back at Rahm and his colleagues, and it was like
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  Speaker 1: something inside of Rom just clicked.
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  Speaker 2: He was so scared.
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  Speaker 1: He'd been terrified from the moment that got here, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole time he had been so primed to protect
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  Speaker 1: himself if he had to with this knife, and it
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  Speaker 1: was like when he saw these eyes, he didn't have
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  Speaker 1: any idea what.
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  Speaker 2: They were, but he knew they were evil.
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  Speaker 1: And if he didn't act, they were doomed. And so,
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  Speaker 1: without saying anything to his boss or the other two men,
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  Speaker 1: with knife in hand, Rom took off running towards the figures.
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  Speaker 1: A few hours later, Rom and his colleagues were no
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  Speaker 1: longer at the airport. Instead, they were at the police station,
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  Speaker 1: and Rom was in handcuffs. It would turn out those
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  Speaker 1: figures that they spotted that Rom went to go confront
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  Speaker 1: with his knife were.
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  Speaker 2: Not actually ghosts.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, they were three women who had come onto the
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  Speaker 1: airfield as well, but just to pick flowers. That orb
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  Speaker 1: of light that the men had seen was just their lantern.
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  Speaker 1: Rom had been so convinced they were ghosts that he
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  Speaker 1: had taken off and attacked them with his knife, believing
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  Speaker 1: he was not only protecting himself but protecting his boss
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  Speaker 1: and the other two men. However, he had been wrong.
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  Speaker 1: These were just women, and he killed one of them
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  Speaker 1: and severely wounded the other two, and so ultimately he
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  Speaker 1: was charged with murder and assault.
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  Speaker 2: However, when he went on trial, he was actually.
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  Speaker 1: Acquitted of all charges because the jury genuinely believed that
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  Speaker 1: Rom actually thought he was attacking ghosts, not people. On
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  Speaker 1: April ninth, two thousand and five, in Gaussiung City, Taiwan,
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  Speaker 1: a young man was home alone inside of his apartment
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  Speaker 1: watching TV, and as he sat there watching TV, he
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  Speaker 1: heard a loud thumping sound coming from right above him.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he heard it, he muted his TV
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  Speaker 1: and he listened for a second. And a minute later
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  Speaker 1: he heard it again, a loud thump, and then he
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  Speaker 1: heard another one, and another one, and another one, and
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  Speaker 1: before long all he heard was a succession of thumps,
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  Speaker 1: and also what sounded like chanting coming from upstairs. However,
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  Speaker 1: as unusual as these types of sounds might be to
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  Speaker 1: the average person, to this young man, these actually weren't
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  Speaker 1: that weird because the family that lived right above him,
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  Speaker 1: the Wu family, were pretty eccentric. They were very religious
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  Speaker 1: people who often did these ceremonial dances and rituals at
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  Speaker 1: all hours, and a lot of times they involved stomping
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  Speaker 1: around and chanting really loudly, and as annoying as that
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  Speaker 1: could be, this young man never complained. He was very
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  Speaker 1: respectful of the Wu family, and he knew, you know,
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  Speaker 1: these sounds he was hearing were connected to their religion,
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  Speaker 1: and he felt like that was none of his business.
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  Speaker 1: And so like he did basically every other time he
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  Speaker 1: would hear these noises, he simply turned the volume up
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  Speaker 1: on his TV and tried to forget about them.
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  Speaker 2: But after a.
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  Speaker 1: Few minutes, it was like the noises coming from upstairs
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  Speaker 1: just kept getting louder and louder and louder until it
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: was basically impossible to ignore. And then suddenly he heard
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: a scream coming from upstairs that certainly did not feel
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  Speaker 1: attached to a ceremony. It sounded like somebody was in
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  Speaker 1: danger or in trouble or something. And so at that point,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the young man turned the TV off and he stood up,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: and he thought, I need to go up there and
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: like make sure things are okay. I mean, forget being annoyed.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: It sounds like, you know, someone's in trouble or someone's
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  Speaker 1: hurt or something. But as he began making his way
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  Speaker 1: towards his door to go upstairs and check on the
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  Speaker 1: Wu family, all the noises just completely.
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  Speaker 2: Stopped and it was silent upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: And at that point, the young man just stopped where
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: he was, and for a minute he just listened, you know,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: waiting to see if maybe the noises would pick back
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: up again.
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  Speaker 2: But they didn't, and so.
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  Speaker 1: The young man just turned around, walked back to his seat,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and turned the TV back on. Two days later, on
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: April eleventh, that same young man was back home all alone,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: watching TV yet again, when once again he heard a
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: loud pounding sound, except this time it was not coming
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: from upstairs. It was coming from his front door. Somebody
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: was hammering on his front door trying to get his attention,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and so the young man turned off the TV.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: He got up, and he went over to his door.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: He opened it up, and standing there on the landing
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  Speaker 1: was this middle aged man named Wu Shan who was
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the patriarch of the Wu family upstairs. And Wu Shan
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: looked absolutely horrible, all in black head to toe, but
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: he was pale and skinny and very gaunt, and he
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: was covered in what looked like filth like food and ash,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and he smelled unbelievably horrible, and the young man he
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: asked Wushan, like, hey, is everything okay? And remember the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: young man's thinking about that crazy loud ceremony they had
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: just two days earlier, you know, wondering, you know, whatever
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: happened with that that was so loud. But Wu Shan
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: just looked back at the young man with this kind
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: of vacant expression, and he just said, call an ambulance,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and then without saying anything else, Wu Shan turned ran
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: down the steps and disappeared.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Out into the street.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And so at this point, the young man is left
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: just standing there having no idea what to think. I mean,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Wu Shan did not look well and he's now run away.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And again this young man is thinking about that bizarre
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: ritual he overheard a couple of days ago that just
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: kind of stopped abruptly after screams were heard. Now he's
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: being told to call an ambulance, and so he's thinking,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I better go upstairs and make sure things are okay
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: before I do anything else. And so the young man
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: left his apartment, went upstairs to the Wu family's apartment
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and the door was shut. But even standing outside the door,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: he began to smell that same absolutely horrible smell that
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: he smelled on Wu Shan. So he knocks on the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Wo family's door. He's kind of covering his nose, but
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: he doesn't get a response. Nobody comes to the door,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: and so after looking around, he just tried the doorknob
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and he found it was unlocked, so, you know, pretty apprehensively,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: but knowing he needed to see what was going on here,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: he opened up the door and right away he sit
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: with another wave of just this disgusting smell. He can
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: barely breathe, but nonetheless, he steps into the house and
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: he calls out to anybody, you know, anyone come over
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: here and tell me what's going on. But nobody called back.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And he kind of looked around the family's apartment and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: it was totally filthy.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: There was just this grime all over everything.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: And he made his way all the way into the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: living room, and there he stopped because in the middle
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: of the living room, on the floor, he saw something
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that he just simply couldn't believe. It would turn out,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the Wu family had performed a ritual two days earlier.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: That was the sounds that the neighbor downstairs had been
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: hearing those louds stomping and screaming. All that stuff was
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a ceremony like the family was known to do. However,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that ceremony got totally out of hand. So in the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: weeks leading up to that ceremony, one of the Wu
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: family's daughters came down with an illness, and because the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: family didn't have a lot of money, they couldn't send
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: her to the doctor, and after a couple of days,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: when she didn't get better, the family decided that okay, well,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: she must not be physically sick, she must be spiritually sick,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: meaning she was possessed by a demon. And so at
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: first they tried some ceremonies to ward off this demon,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't really working, and then before long the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: rest of the members of the family began complaining that
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: maybe they too were also possessed by the same demon,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and before long that was the belief that the entire
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Wu family shared, that they all were possessed by demons.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And so on the day the downstairs neighbor heard all
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: that stomping and chanting and screaming, that was the day
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: that the Wu family performed a big group exorcism to
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: try to get rid of these demons once and for all,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: from all of them. But the way they did this
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: exorcism was truly horrifying. They believed that the one thing
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: demons were afraid of was filth, and so they decided
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: that if they filled their bodies with enough filth, the
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: demons would leave.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: And so the Wu family, as they chanted and stopped
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: around and screamed, began consuming their own feces, and when
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: they would vomit it back up again, they would just
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: swallow it right back down for hours and hours and hours.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: What the downstairs neighbor actually discovered inside the living room
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: of the Wu family's apartment was the daughter, the one
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: who originally had gotten sick, and she was laying on
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the ground and was deceased, and during the autopsy, they
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: would discover that her airway was totally blocked by feces
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and vomit. By the time the downstairs neighbor made this discovery,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the entire Wu family had fled the apartment. You know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Wu Shan had disappeared after saying calling an ambulance, and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the rest of the family too had kind of run off.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: But the police would ultimately.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Track down all the remaining Wu family members and they
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: would all be arrested.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: However, a court ultimately.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Decided that the Wu family was suffering from something known
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: as mass hysteria and as a result of that, they
• 22:37
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