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They discovered pure NIGHTMARE FUEL in the wilderness · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In today's episode, I'm going to tell you two stories.
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  Speaker 1: The first story you're going to hear is about this
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  Speaker 1: village in Africa where people keep turning up dead and
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  Speaker 1: nobody knows why until they do a stakeout. And the
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  Speaker 1: second and final story you'll hear is about this remote
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  Speaker 1: island in the Arctic region of Northern Canada where these
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  Speaker 1: indigenous hunters make a truly disturbing discovery. But before we
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into today's stories.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of the night on March seventh, two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and five, a sixty four year old man named
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  Speaker 1: John Mangean crouched in the bushes in his little village
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  Speaker 1: in Uganda. Several of John's friends and neighbors were also
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  Speaker 1: crouching in bushes nearby, and everyone was being totally silent,
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  Speaker 1: constantly scanning the area looking for movement, but so far
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  Speaker 1: nothing had happened, and everyone was totally exhausted and terrified.
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  Speaker 1: So John had been around for a long time. He
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  Speaker 1: had nine kids, thirty one grandkids, and he remembered a
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  Speaker 1: time that was not even that long ago, when this
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  Speaker 1: village was a happy, bustling place where you know, families
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  Speaker 1: and kids could play in harmony and everyone felt safe.
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  Speaker 1: But that all changed fourteen years earlier, in nineteen ninety one,
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  Speaker 1: because starting in that year, people in this village started dying,
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  Speaker 1: or more specifically, people in this village started getting killed
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  Speaker 1: by something so someone they didn't know. It was like randomly,
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  Speaker 1: people would just go missing and then turn up horribly
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  Speaker 1: mutilated and deceased, or people just vanished and were never
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  Speaker 1: seen again. Over the course of these fourteen years, eighty
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  Speaker 1: three people from this village had been killed and nobody
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  Speaker 1: knew why. And eighty three people, to put this in perspective,
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  Speaker 1: represented ten percent of this entire village's population. This was
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  Speaker 1: so widespread that everybody in John's village personally knew someone
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  Speaker 1: who had been killed by whatever was plaguing this village.
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  Speaker 1: And at some point, you know, the people in this
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  Speaker 1: village began to think that clearly a demon is responsible
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  Speaker 1: for this. I mean, this is this is so pervasive
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  Speaker 1: that this can't be an animal or a person. This
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  Speaker 1: is like, you know, God's will or something, or this
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  Speaker 1: is you know, the devil's will. We don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: it's it's supernatural, Like we can't control this. It just
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  Speaker 1: is a part of living here. And so literally, this village,
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  Speaker 1: the people here had just grown to accept that Yep,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes people just mutilated and dead.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing we can do about it. We just got
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  Speaker 2: to live with it.
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  Speaker 1: But John, I mean he personally knew several people who
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  Speaker 1: had been killed, and he never took the stance of, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's supernatural and we can't do anything about it. John's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: we need to look into this. There's got to be
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  Speaker 1: an actual explanation for what's happening here. And so finally,
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and five, the tipping point was a
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  Speaker 1: little boy went missing in the village one morning.
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  Speaker 2: And for John, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, he has all these grandkids, including a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: little boys. And he saw this little boy go missing,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he was never found again, and he's thinking,
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  Speaker 1: John's thinking, that's just like one of my grandkids. This
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  Speaker 1: has to stop. We got to look now, we have
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  Speaker 1: to look into this now. And so John very forcefully
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  Speaker 1: rounded up some people in the village, his friends and
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  Speaker 1: neighbors and others, and he told them, tonight, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to set up a stake out and stay out
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  Speaker 1: all night if we have to, and wait for this demon,
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  Speaker 1: this creature, this person, whoever it is. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to catch them in the act and put an end
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  Speaker 1: to this thing. And because John was so motivated, so enthusiastic,
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  Speaker 1: and so ready to sort of lead this thing, he
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  Speaker 1: really quickly turned the tide of people's opinions in this village.
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  Speaker 1: It's like they went from being how we can't do
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  Speaker 1: anything about it, to you know what.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's put an end to this thing.
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  Speaker 1: And so sure enough that night, John and all these
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  Speaker 1: people he had got together for this stakeout, they headed
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  Speaker 1: to this area in their village called the Butchery. They
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  Speaker 1: had named it that because the majority of the eighty
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  Speaker 1: three people who had been killed and mutilated and you know,
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  Speaker 1: turned up dead. They were either found roughly in that
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  Speaker 1: area or that's where they were last seen before they vanished.
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  Speaker 1: And the butchery was actually basically right next to this lake,
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  Speaker 1: this Placid lake that sort of sat right next to
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  Speaker 1: the village. So everybody's scared of this lake in this area.
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  Speaker 1: But tonight's the night they're going to figure out what's
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  Speaker 1: happening in this village.
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  Speaker 2: And so John and the.
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  Speaker 1: Other volunteers they make their way over to the butchery
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  Speaker 1: and they each climb into these tall bushes, these reeds
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  Speaker 1: that are right next to the lake, and they all
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  Speaker 1: couch down, kind of keeping their eyes on the land,
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  Speaker 1: the butchery and also the lake. And there they sat,
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  Speaker 1: all of them constantly looking at each other, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maintaining eye contact.
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  Speaker 2: You know, to stay safe.
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  Speaker 1: And they're looking at each other, they're looking at the water,
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  Speaker 1: the black water that's totally still, and you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing on land, it's still, it's silent, and for hours
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  Speaker 1: they just sat there nervously watching, waiting for something to happen.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't know what it was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know, if you know, one of the volunteers
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  Speaker 1: in the steakout was something going to be ripped away
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  Speaker 1: by this demon or whatever it was. But all night
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  Speaker 1: on this first night of the steakhout, they're waiting and
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  Speaker 1: watching on edge, and nothing happens.
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  Speaker 2: And so John the next morning says, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: do it again.
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  Speaker 1: We got to go back out there and do another
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  Speaker 1: steakhout because we know there's something out there. And so,
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, night two rolls around, and now they have
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  Speaker 1: even more volunteers. They're motivated. They're out there in the bushes, waiting,
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  Speaker 1: watching the lake, watching the land.
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  Speaker 2: But nothing happens again.
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  Speaker 1: And this cycle continues for four more days where nothing happens.
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  Speaker 1: Is rallying people every night to keep going back out there,
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  Speaker 1: but the group is getting more and more tired.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're staying out all night.
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  Speaker 1: It's also sort of deflating to realize that, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like, we don't have control over whatever's happening here,
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  Speaker 1: Like we can't catch this thing.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And so after six days of this where they have
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  Speaker 1: seen nothing, no one's been taken, no one's been killed,
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  Speaker 1: it's been totally quiet in the village, John rallies the
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  Speaker 1: people one more time. He goes one more night, give
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  Speaker 1: me one more I know we're going to catch something.
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  Speaker 1: And so he got the village to kind of agree
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  Speaker 1: to go out for one more night. And this night,
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  Speaker 1: unlike the others, John decided to do something different to
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  Speaker 1: try to sort of entice you know, whatever this creature
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  Speaker 1: or person or whoever it was, whatever it was, to
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  Speaker 1: entice them out of hiding. He and the villagers strung
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  Speaker 1: up all this organ meat in the trees right near
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  Speaker 1: the butchery, you know, believing that you know, whoever was
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  Speaker 1: killing these people was seeking their meat, and so they
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  Speaker 1: put meat up in the trees. And so that night,
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  Speaker 1: the seventh night, John and the others, after putting their
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  Speaker 1: organ meat in the trees, they crouch down in the bushes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, waiting and watching, and it's silent and it's dark,
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  Speaker 1: and at first nothing happens.
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  Speaker 2: And as the night goes on and on, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, people are starting to think, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: another night where nothing's gonna happen, and people are starting
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  Speaker 1: to get restless, and John's telling them, like, be quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Stays still, we gotta wait, we gotta watch see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Hours and hours go by, nothing, but then between four
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  Speaker 1: or five in the morning. It's still dark out, the
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  Speaker 1: water's black, it's still and silent, and people are really
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  Speaker 1: starting to get restless.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, they begin to hear something.
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  Speaker 1: It's like this low, grumbling sound that appears to be
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  Speaker 1: coming from the lake, but it's hard to tell.
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  Speaker 2: The lake was pretty big, and it was still dark out.
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  Speaker 1: They're looking out at the water and it's just dark
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  Speaker 1: and they're right near the water, and so they're hearing
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  Speaker 1: this rumbling sound and everyone's kind of looking out like
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  Speaker 1: this is the first time anything has happened during one
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  Speaker 1: of these steakouts, and Johnny's he's telling them stay down,
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  Speaker 1: stay quiet, and they're looking out at the water and
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  Speaker 1: it's still, but this rumbling, growling sounds starts.
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  Speaker 2: Getting louder and louder and louder.
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  Speaker 1: It's so loud at a certain point that john he
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  Speaker 1: can feel his body literally trembling from the sound. And
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  Speaker 1: as that begins to happen, even with the minimal light,
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  Speaker 1: they're looking out at the black water and they notice
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  Speaker 1: ripples on the surface of the water. Something's moving in
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  Speaker 1: the lake, and so everybody's looking and waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's scared.
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  Speaker 1: John looks over at the other people who are in
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  Speaker 1: the other set of bushes right near him, and he
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  Speaker 1: can see their eyes are wide. They're terrified, but everyone's
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  Speaker 1: looking out at the water. And then eventually, this massive,
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  Speaker 1: dark silhouette emerges from the lake, and this loud growl
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  Speaker 1: fills the air and everyone's frozen.
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  Speaker 2: And then whatever it is charges towards John, but it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't go after John.
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  Speaker 1: This huge creature runs past John and bites down on
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  Speaker 1: the meat dangling from the trees. But the meat they
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  Speaker 1: had placed hooks in the meat like a trap, and
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  Speaker 1: as soon as this thing bit onto the meat, it
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  Speaker 1: got snared in one of the traps.
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  Speaker 2: And it couldn't move.
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  Speaker 1: And who had been waiting for this moment, Even though
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  Speaker 1: he has no idea what's happened here, he knew he
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  Speaker 1: needed back up, and so he got up and sprinted
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  Speaker 1: into the village and began screaming for everyone to come
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  Speaker 1: out here and help us. And so fifty villagers came
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  Speaker 1: poured out of their homes and they all descended on
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  Speaker 1: the tree with all the organ meat and this huge
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  Speaker 1: creature dangling and thrashing from the trap.
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  Speaker 2: And they suddenly realized that what had been plaguing their
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  Speaker 2: village was not a demon. It was instead the.
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  Speaker 1: Largest saltwater crocodile ever found in Uganda. This crocodile was
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  Speaker 1: sixteen feet long over two thousand pounds.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this thing is massive.
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  Speaker 1: And for fourteen years, this crocodile had been sneaking into
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  Speaker 1: the village, grabbing people and dragging them back to the lake,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody had seen it, or more specifically, anyone who
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  Speaker 1: had seen this crocodile.
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  Speaker 2: This beast did not live to tell.
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  Speaker 1: The town authorities were quickly called to the village and
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't allow the villagers to kill this crocodile as
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  Speaker 1: much as they wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, the crocodile was relocated.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, we launched a brand new podcast here at
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  Speaker 1: Ballin Studios called Redacted Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana, and
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  Speaker 1: so far you guys have loved it. And in case
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  Speaker 1: you haven't heard, we also launched a YouTube channel for Redacted,
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  Speaker 1: where you can not only listen to these episodes, but
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  Speaker 1: also watch the beautiful animations we've done for each of
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  Speaker 1: these episodes. That channel already has one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand subscribers and it's growing really quickly. And there are
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  Speaker 1: hours of content available right now for you to bench.
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  Speaker 1: New uploads to this YouTube channel will be every single Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: All you have to do is look up at Redacted
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  Speaker 1: Mysteries on YouTube and I'll also be putting a link
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  Speaker 1: in the description below. Wondery Plus subscribers can also watch
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  Speaker 1: redacted on the wonder app. Okay, back to the stories.
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  Speaker 1: One morning in April of eighteen forty eight, a group
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  Speaker 1: of men were walking towards the coast of King William Island,
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  Speaker 1: which is an island located in the freezing Arctic region
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  Speaker 1: of Northern Canada. These men were members of the Inuit
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  Speaker 1: people who are indigenous to King William Island, and today
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  Speaker 1: they were going hunting. Specifically, they were making their way
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  Speaker 1: towards the coastline to see if they could find any
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  Speaker 1: seals that they could hunt and kill for food and
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  Speaker 1: for clothing. However, even though technically the coastline was right
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  Speaker 1: in front of them, they couldn't actually see the water
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  Speaker 1: because there was this huge icy hill that obstructed their view.
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  Speaker 1: So in order to look down to the water, they
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  Speaker 1: would have to crest that hill and then look down.
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  Speaker 1: As these hunters got closer to the hill, the youngest
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  Speaker 1: of the hunters broke from the group and ran up
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  Speaker 1: the hill to basically get an early look over and
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  Speaker 1: see if he could spot any animals down below. However,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he crested the hill and scan the
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  Speaker 1: coastline again, you got a picture. It's snowy, icy outside.
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  Speaker 1: It's below zero degrees. I mean, you're in the art
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  Speaker 1: Arctic wild here. He's looking down and at first all
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  Speaker 1: he sees is just white, just snow ice.
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  Speaker 2: But he sees something else, and.
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  Speaker 1: As he's looking at it, he can't even understand what
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  Speaker 1: he's seeing, like, it doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: It's not computing.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point, the young hunter kind of
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  Speaker 1: ducked down on this side of the hill, kind of
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  Speaker 1: away and out of view of the ocean, and he
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  Speaker 1: turned and signaled to the other hunters to get up
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  Speaker 1: here and take a look. And so the other hunters,
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  Speaker 1: they don't really understand what's happening here, but they can see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's some urgency coming from this young hunter,
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  Speaker 1: and so they they run up the hill as well,
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  Speaker 1: and all together, all at once, they kind of peer
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  Speaker 1: up and over the hill again and they look down
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  Speaker 1: and for a second they all just stared in horrified
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  Speaker 1: silence down below wandering along the coastline. We're not seals
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  Speaker 1: or walruses or any other animals that these hunters might
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  Speaker 1: have expected.
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  Speaker 2: To see out here. Instead, they saw people.
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  Speaker 1: Specifically, they saw colunot, which is their word for white men.
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  Speaker 1: But these men were not acting like people. They were lumbering,
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  Speaker 1: almost like they weren't in control of their bodies. They
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  Speaker 1: had these strange, jerky movements, and they were all just
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  Speaker 1: kind of staring straight ahead with these vacant expressions.
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  Speaker 2: And their skin it was like black and blue, and.
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  Speaker 1: Their clothes were tattered, and they were just kind of
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  Speaker 1: lumbering along.
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  Speaker 2: About forty of these colunat, these white men.
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  Speaker 1: Now, for these hunters, I mean, they really didn't have
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  Speaker 1: much exposure or experience around colunot, around white men. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: all they really knew at the time and in this
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  Speaker 1: part of the world is that white men were pretty
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  Speaker 1: dangerous to the indigenous people. But they did know there
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  Speaker 1: was a group of Colunat who were staying on a
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  Speaker 1: ship that was off the coast of King William Island,
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  Speaker 1: and they had been living there for the better part
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  Speaker 1: of a year, and it seemed like their ship might
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  Speaker 1: have frozen off the coast and they were just kind
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  Speaker 1: of trapped until the warmer months came around and they
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  Speaker 1: could sail away. But to this point, the Inuit people
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  Speaker 1: really had not seen or interacted with any of those
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  Speaker 1: white people.
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  Speaker 2: They had just kind of kept to themselves and that
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  Speaker 2: was it.
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  Speaker 1: So just to see the collunat the white people on land,
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  Speaker 1: and that alone was really shocking, like what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Why did they leave their ship? Why are they here?
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  Speaker 1: But again, the way they were moving and how they looked,
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  Speaker 1: it just it seemed wrong, like there was something wrong
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  Speaker 1: with these people, like there's more to this story than
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  Speaker 1: the Inuit people understand, and it was sort of terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: And on top of just the way they were moving,
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  Speaker 1: there was something else these colunot were doing. In addition
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  Speaker 1: to these men just kind of lumbering along the coastline.
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  Speaker 2: A few of.
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  Speaker 1: Them were dragging this big sled and there was a
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  Speaker 1: tarp over the sled. Clearly something big or several things
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  Speaker 1: were under this tarp, but the Inuit hunters they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: quite tell what it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was covered up.
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  Speaker 1: And so they're just watching these men in this weird
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  Speaker 1: parade along the coastline with the sled, and they really
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  Speaker 1: were like, we have to get out of here, and
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  Speaker 1: so they ducked their heads below the icy hill to
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  Speaker 1: kind of stay out of view of the colunat, who
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  Speaker 1: to this point it did not seem like they had
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  Speaker 1: spotted the hunters.
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  Speaker 2: And as the.
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  Speaker 1: Hunters are sort of trying to figure out what they
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  Speaker 1: should even do, they hear this awful guttural scream coming
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  Speaker 1: from down below where these men are, where these white
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  Speaker 1: men are, and instinctively the huntress they grabbed their spears
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  Speaker 1: and they poked their head up over the hill, almost
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  Speaker 1: thinking maybe they've spotted us, maybe they're gonna attack us,
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  Speaker 1: But no, when they look down below, many of the
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  Speaker 1: colunot were still just kind of lumbering along, but one
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  Speaker 1: of them had stopped and he was kind of wretching
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  Speaker 1: around like there was something wrong with him, and he
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  Speaker 1: continued to scream out and then he just crumpled to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. But the other white men, it was like
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  Speaker 1: they didn't even react to it, except for the men
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  Speaker 1: pulling the sled. They pulled the sled right up alongside
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  Speaker 1: this man who had just fallen to the ground after screaming,
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  Speaker 1: and they just sort of nonchalantly pulled back the tarp,
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  Speaker 1: revealing all sorts of bodies on the sled. They picked
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  Speaker 1: the guy who had just fallen and they threw him
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  Speaker 1: onto the pile. They covered him back up with the tarp,
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  Speaker 1: and then like nothing had happened, the men kept on
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: pulling the sled, and this totally creepy procession continued down
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: the coast. At this point, the Inuit hunters were genuinely terrified,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: and without saying anything, they just scrambled back down the
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: hill and ran.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Back to their village.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: The following day, the Inuit hunters came back to that
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: exact spot, that icy hill that looked down to the
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: ocean below, except this time they had brought along several
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: pounds of seal meat. So the previous day, when these
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: hunters had gone back to their village to tell the
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: others about what they had just seen, oddly enough, the
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: consensus became that, you know, of course, the Colunot are
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: sort of dangerous to us, and we should keep our distance.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: But from what you're describing, it sounds an awful lot
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: like these men.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: These white men must just be starving, like the way
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: they're moving.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: The fact that men are falling down and dying, and
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: they have this you know, sled full of dead bodies.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: You know, they're out here in the Arctic wild. I mean,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: this is a very unforgiving place. And so the consensus
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: was they're starving to death. That's what you're seeing. That's
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: why they're acting the way they are. And so maybe
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the move here is you hunters go back to that
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: same try to find these Colunot and give them some food,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: not only to help them, you know, to be good people,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: good stewards of humanity, but also it's sort of like
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: a peace offering because there was tension between the Inuit
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: people and the Colunot, and so these hunters had agreed
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: they had showed up with the intention of you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: finding these forty some odd white men, giving them some
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: food and maybe even offering some help, you know, if
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: they needed it. And so that day, the Inuit hunters
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: they make it back to their spot, they climb up
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: that icy hill and they look down towards the ocean below,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and there's nobody there.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: It's just complete isolation.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: And so the hunters they go down to the coastline
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: and they see footprints from the day before. They find
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: you know, the tracks from the sled that have been
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: being dragged, and they just start tracking the footprints of
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: these white men. And for hours, these hunters are just
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: following the footprints along this coastline, you know, in the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: snow and the ice, and they're looking up ahead. They
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: don't see anybody, and it's like wow, like these guys,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: they covered a huge amount of ground, Like where did
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: they go? And eventually, after hours of this, the hunters
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: come upon this campsite, but it's totally abandoned.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: It's right on the edge of the water.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: And based on where the campsite was and sort of
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: how fresh it looked, it seemed pretty obvious that at
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: some point, clearly the Colu Knot had been camped out here,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: but they clearly are not here now. But interestingly, the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: people that had been here, presumably the white men, they
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: had left behind quite a few of their supplies, Like
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: there was the remains of a fire, and sitting over
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the fire was this big pot, like a metal pot.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And you would think if you're struggling to survive out here,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: that you would definitely want to keep some of your
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: cooking supplies, but no, that was left behind along with
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: several other tools, and so the Inuit hunters they're looking around, thinking, okay,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: well maybe they just stepped away and they're going to
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: come back. But they searched the vicinity of the campsite,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: but nobody was there. The footprints just kind of picked
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: up and continued off into the distance. And so, feeling
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: pretty puzzled by this, the Inuit hunters decided to just
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: search the campsite and try to get some clue as to.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: What's going on with these white men.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And eventually, after searching through all the different things that
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: had been left behind, they came back to that fire
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and that pot that had a lid over it, that
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: was sitting right there, and one of the hunters walks
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: up to the pot, he grabs the lid, he lifts
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: it off, and when he saw what was inside, he
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: reeled back in horror. Several months later, that same group
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: of Inuit hunters had hiked miles and miles down that
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: same coastline of King William Island until they saw off
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: in the distance, right off the coast, this big wooden ship.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: And these hunters knew this ship belonged to the colonat
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and today their plan was to break into the ship
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and raid it because just recently, these hunters had finally
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: kind of solved the mystery of what happened to those
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: you know, forty some odd white men they had seen,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: because they came across this mass grave site, you know,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of like thirty plus white men, all dead in the snow,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and clearly they had starved to death and died from exposure,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and so it just sort of seemed like this unfortunate
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: thing that these guys had hiked and hiked and hiked
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and just kind of.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Fell down and died.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: But now that the Inuit hunters knew that all these
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: white men were dead, they're like, well, there's a ship
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: sitting right out there that you know, no one's gonna claim,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: so why don't we take whatever's inside of it? And
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: so the Inuit hunters walked out onto the ocean, which
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: was completely frozen. So the ship, you know, it's off
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the coast, but it's basically a pathway of ice right
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: up to the ship. And so the hunters they walked
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: on this ice all the way out to the ship,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and when they got there, unsurprisingly, it was totally vacant.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: It's silent, it's still clearly there's nobody in the ship.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: As the Inuit hunters climbed the side of the ship
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and got ready to go inside, they all had set
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: their expectations to be like, okay, you know, clearly the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: men who had inhabited this ship at one point, the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: white men they call it not you know, they obviously
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: abandoned the ship and you know, tried their luck on
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: land unsuccessfully. So clearly something must have happened out here,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: like they ran out of food, or there was a
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: leak in the ship, or some sort of chaos ensued
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: here that caused them to abandon their shelter and you know,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: head towards the Arctic wilds. Right. But once they got
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: on board the ship and looked around, they quickly realized
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the ship was in pristine condition. I mean, there was
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: no damage to the ship. It was practically brand new,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: preserved out in the ice here.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: When they went down below, they.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Discovered there were all these bedrooms with these incredibly comfortable
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: looking beds, and there was bunk beds and hammocks with
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: linens and pillows.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: There was a library with hundreds of books. There were games,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: There was all this cutlery and.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Fine china and just off the kitchen in their pantry
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: was this massive food storage room full of food, canned goods,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: all still good, that apparently had just been left behind.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And so the Inuit hunters they're thinking, like, how is
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: this possible?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: What caused these white men.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: To abandon their ship which presumably was perfect, pristine, provided
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: much better shelter, and also they abandoned all their food
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: like they clearly weren't starving.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: So what happened?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: What caused them to go on land and die horrible deaths? Well,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the reason for this would not fully make sense for
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: another one hundred and thirty years, because it was in
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties when researchers actually began to analyze the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: remains of these white men, those thirty forty white men
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: who were found dead on King William Island. It would
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: turn out those men were explorers who had been sent
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: out to the Arctic by the British government, and they
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: had been well outfitted when they were sent out on
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: their journey. I mean, they were given that incredible ship,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and they were given all these supplies, including a whole
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: bunch of canned food items. However, what these explorers didn't
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: know is that their canned food had become tainted with lead,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and so as they slowly were eating all these canned
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: food items, they were slowly poisoning themselves.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And one of the side effects of lead.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Poisoning, in addition to feeling nauseous and horribly sick, is
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: it drives you crazy. It basically gives you these wild
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: mood swings. And so like the whole ship, all these
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: men and are undergoing these totally insane mood swings and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: basically falling into actual mental hysteria out on the ship.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: And so in their hysterics, all these men decide to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: abandon their ship and head into the Arctic wild to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: forage for food. And who knows what I mean. They
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: literally were out of their minds. And when they got
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to land into the wilderness, they didn't find food, they
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: didn't find shelter.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: They found death and misery.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: And as they devolved into insanity and men began falling
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: down and dying because they were starving to death, they
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: began eating their brothers. They began eating the dead men.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: That sled they were dragging along was not to preserve
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the bodies to give them a proper burial down the road.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: It was like their mobile refrigeration unit. They were dragging
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: those bodies along and then eating them. And so the
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: reason those Inuit hunters were so horrified when they discovered
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: that campsite and they looked inside of that pot, well
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: it's because inside the pot was clearly a human skull,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and that skull had been cracked open, as if whoever
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: was tending this pot had literally been scooping in and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: basically eating this person's brain. To this day, bones of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the crew members of that failed expedition are still being
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: found on King William Island. Thank you so much for watching.
• 24:28
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