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Speaker 1: Every year, hundreds of people go missing under baffling conditions
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Speaker 1: in the woods of North America. I'm talking about people
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Speaker 1: being right in front of their friends or their loved ones,
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Speaker 1: and then in an instant they're just gone and they're
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Speaker 1: never found again, or they are found again, but they're
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Speaker 1: found in places that are seemingly impossible to get to.
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Speaker 1: One former police detective named David Plaiitis has written a
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Speaker 1: book series called Missing four one one where he investigates
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Speaker 1: these incredibly strange cases. Today, we're going to look at
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Speaker 1: three missing four to one one cases that even amongst
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Speaker 1: strange disappearances, these rank as particularly bizarre. But before we
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Speaker 1: let's get into Today's Stories. On June sixteenth, nineteen forty six,
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Speaker 1: five members of the van Ulst family arrived at the
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Speaker 1: Devil's Den State Park in western Arkansas to spend a
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Speaker 1: week in a cabin they had rented. After getting unpacked,
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Speaker 1: the father along with his daughter, who was eight years
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Speaker 1: old named Catherine, and her two older brothers, they headed
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Speaker 1: down to the swimming area, which was this creek that
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Speaker 1: led up to the side of a dam. Once they
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Speaker 1: arrived at the creek, Catherine and her two brothers jumped
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Speaker 1: in the water and started gooping around, and there were
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Speaker 1: some other kids there that were playing with as well,
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Speaker 1: and their father just sat on the edge to watch. Now,
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Speaker 1: the swimming area had one really deep section that was
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Speaker 1: right up against the damn wall that you were allowed
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Speaker 1: to swim in, but the kids that were not strong
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Speaker 1: swimmers tended to stay away from and Catherine was not
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Speaker 1: a great swimmer, and at one point she kind of
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Speaker 1: drifted into the deep section and her father didn't notice,
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Speaker 1: and her two brothers didn't notice. But a woman who
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Speaker 1: was staying at the campground who the van OL's family
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Speaker 1: didn't know, happened to be standing next to the edge
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Speaker 1: of the water and saw Catherine struggling, and so she
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Speaker 1: reached in and pulled her out, and Catherine was fine,
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Speaker 1: and the woman told her, you got to be more careful.
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Speaker 1: You shouldn't be swimming in the deep end if you're
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Speaker 1: not a strong swimmer, and Catherine said okay. And so
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Speaker 1: as they're talking, Catherine's father hears them and looks over
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Speaker 1: and sees his daughter talking to some stranger, and so
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Speaker 1: he makes a sound and waves in their direction to
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Speaker 1: get this woman's attention, to be like, hey, you know,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing talking to my daughter? And the
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Speaker 1: woman she sees this, and she must have been a
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Speaker 1: mother herself because she picked up on his uncomfortability, and
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Speaker 1: so she turns him and says, oh, no, everything is
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Speaker 1: totally fine. I was just helping your daughter get out.
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Speaker 1: Everything is totally fine. And so Catherine's father turns to
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Speaker 1: his daughter and says, hey, you gotta be more careful.
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Speaker 1: Don't go in the deep end. And Catherine's like okay.
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Speaker 1: And instead of going back into the water, Catherine walks
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Speaker 1: to the backside of the dam. Because this damn it
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Speaker 1: was not a steep drop off on the outflow side.
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Speaker 1: It was like a gradual slope of these big boulders
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Speaker 1: that the kids at this campground would climb all over,
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Speaker 1: and their parents would watch them from their positions next
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Speaker 1: to the swimming area. And so Catherine's father was watching
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Speaker 1: his two sons, and then he look over and watch Catherine,
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Speaker 1: and back and forth, he kept his eye on all
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Speaker 1: of his kids. But at some point when he was
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Speaker 1: looking at his sons, he looked back at Catherine and
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Speaker 1: she was gone. And so he stood up and he
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Speaker 1: walked over, thinking maybe she's gone all the way to
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Speaker 1: the bottom and she's just out of sight because she's
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Speaker 1: crouched down or something. But when he got to the
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Speaker 1: edge and looked down, she wasn't down there. And so
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Speaker 1: he's looking all around and he's thinking to himself, this
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Speaker 1: is impossible. I just saw her on the rocks like
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Speaker 1: seconds ago. Where could she have gone? And so he
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Speaker 1: looks at his sons, who are still in the swimming area,
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Speaker 1: and he says, hey, have you seen Catherine? And they're like, no,
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Speaker 1: we haven't seen her. And then he turns to the
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Speaker 1: woman that had previously pulled Catherine out of the water
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Speaker 1: and he says, have you seen my daughter? And she
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Speaker 1: said no, The last I saw her, she was on
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Speaker 1: the rocks. I don't know where she went. And so
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Speaker 1: before long Catherine's father is screaming for Catherine. He's enlisted
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Speaker 1: the help of everybody at this campground that's in the
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Speaker 1: vicinity to go look for his daughter. There are people
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Speaker 1: jumping into the swimming area up top. There are people
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Speaker 1: jumping into the swimming area on the backside of the dam.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the whole area is getting searched, and there's
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Speaker 1: no sign of this girl. And after about any hour
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Speaker 1: of looking, Catherine's father went and got police. After two
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Speaker 1: days of searching the very thick forest that surrounded this
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Speaker 1: dam and finding no trace of Catherine, authorities decided it
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Speaker 1: was far more likely she had drowned either above or
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Speaker 1: below the dam than it was that she wandered off
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Speaker 1: into the woods, considering where she was last seen, and
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Speaker 1: so they shifted focus and began draining these two sections
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Speaker 1: of water to see if her body would be at
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Speaker 1: the bottom. But when they were drained, she wasn't there,
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Speaker 1: and so once again they went back to searching the forest,
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Speaker 1: and so on June twenty second, six days after Catherine
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Speaker 1: went missing, a group of searchers were located seven miles
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Speaker 1: way into the forest. They were walking up this mountain
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Speaker 1: and they're yelling Catherine's name, and as they're walking, they
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Speaker 1: stop when this little girl wearing only a bathing suit,
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Speaker 1: walks out of a cave, looks down at them and
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Speaker 1: just says, here I am. The searchers couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 1: It was Catherine, and besides some scratches on her arms
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Speaker 1: and some bug bites, she seemed like she was perfectly fine.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they would say she was eerily calm. It
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Speaker 1: was like she was waking up from a dream. She
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Speaker 1: was re n with her family, who could not believe
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Speaker 1: she was still alive. They brought her to the hospital
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Speaker 1: and the doctors looked at her and said, yep, besides
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Speaker 1: some superficial cuts and some bug bites, she's fine. And
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Speaker 1: two days later she was discharged. So, this eight year
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Speaker 1: old who's never spent any time in the woods before
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Speaker 1: this is her first exposure, her trip to Devilsden State Park,
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Speaker 1: survives on her own out in the wild for six
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Speaker 1: days and six nights with only a bathing suitan and
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Speaker 1: despite there being no potable water anywhere near her where
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Speaker 1: she was found up on that mountain. She was determined
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Speaker 1: to be relatively well hydrated and had only lost a
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Speaker 1: couple of pounds. Also, you need to understand the staggering
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Speaker 1: distance she covered, because while she was found seven miles
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Speaker 1: away from where she went missing, that's as the crow flies,
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Speaker 1: that's what you see in a map, those seven miles.
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Speaker 1: In the wild, you don't walk perfectly straight lines. There's
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Speaker 1: too many obstructions. There's mountains, there's trees, there's all sorts
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Speaker 1: of reasons that you end up zigging and zagging to
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Speaker 1: wherever you're going. And so rescuers believe the minimum real
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Speaker 1: distance she would have covered to get up to that
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Speaker 1: cave was about thirty miles, and she did it barefoot.
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Speaker 1: Catherine defied every search and rescue model for eight year
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Speaker 1: olds that get lost in the wild. She was way
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Speaker 1: outside the boundaries of what anybody would expect. Basically, she
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Speaker 1: should have died. When authorities asked her, you know, how
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Speaker 1: did you do this, she said, I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: don't remember how I got lost in the first place.
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Speaker 1: I only remember sleeping on warm grass the first night,
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Speaker 1: and then her next memory is waking up inside of
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Speaker 1: a cave on day six. She has no idea what
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Speaker 1: happened between day one and day six when she traveled
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Speaker 1: those thirty miles and somehow subsisted on some water source
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Speaker 1: and some food source. While some say this is just
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Speaker 1: a really weird case where she got very, very lucky,
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Speaker 1: others think there was something in the forest that chased
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Speaker 1: her and adrenaline kicked in, forcing her to run the
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Speaker 1: thirty miles to that cave, and because it was so traumatic,
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Speaker 1: she forgot the experience. But like virtually all of the
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Speaker 1: Missing four one one stories, we have a lot more
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Speaker 1: questions than answers. On April twenty ninth, two thousand and one,
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Speaker 1: six year old Hailey Zega was on a hike with
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Speaker 1: their grandparents in a very rural part of Arkansas called
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Speaker 1: the Upper Buffalo Wilderness Area. For an area to be
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Speaker 1: deemed a wilderness area, that means no vehicles of any
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Speaker 1: kind can come through there, making it incredibly remote and
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Speaker 1: incredibly wild, hence the name. They had taken this trail
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Speaker 1: that brought them up to the top of this bluff
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Speaker 1: that was about two hundred feet higher than where they started,
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Speaker 1: and they got to this incredible overlook and they're looking
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Speaker 1: down over this river and at some point at about
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Speaker 1: eleven in the morning, they turn around to head back
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Speaker 1: on the return trip. By about eleven thirty, they're making
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Speaker 1: their way down and Haley spots a waterfall that's off
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Speaker 1: the side of the path and she wants to go
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Speaker 1: to it. Jass her grandparents can go check out this waterfall,
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Speaker 1: and the grandparents kind of scope it out, and it
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Speaker 1: seemed like the only way they could get down to
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Speaker 1: view this waterfall would be by literally climbing a tree
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Speaker 1: and descending over this cliff, and it was something that
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Speaker 1: the grandparents just did not feel comfortable letting their granddaughter do,
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Speaker 1: and so they told Haley, no, we need to keep you.
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna go check out that waterfall. And Haley,
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Speaker 1: being a six year old, she really wanted to see
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Speaker 1: this waterfall and she wanted to get her way, and
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Speaker 1: so she threw a tantrum and she sat down on
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Speaker 1: the trail and she said, well, if you're not gonna
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Speaker 1: take me to the waterfall, I'm not gonna move. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to carry me. And the grandparents were like, no,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to carry you. You need to be
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Speaker 1: a big girl. I need you to stand up and
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Speaker 1: start walking with us. And Haley refused and so her
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Speaker 1: grandparents said, okay, we're gonna leave you, and they turned
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Speaker 1: around and they kept walking down the trail not far
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Speaker 1: and they were still totally in view, and it's broad daylight,
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Speaker 1: and they would turn around expecting their granddaughter to stand
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Speaker 1: up and kind of begrudgingly walk after them, and at
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Speaker 1: some point she did. Haley stood up and she's like, okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, wait for me, and so she starts walking
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Speaker 1: and the grandparents are like, all right, and so they're
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Speaker 1: walking ahead of Haley and as they're walking, Haley would
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Speaker 1: just slow down more and more and more, and her
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Speaker 1: grandparents could tell she was doing this. She was just
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Speaker 1: trying to be frustrating, and she was intentionally trying to
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Speaker 1: take as long as she could, but the grandparents made
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Speaker 1: sure they kept her in their views. They would walk
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Speaker 1: a little ways and turn and she'd be right there.
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Speaker 1: They'd walk a little bit turn and she'd be right there,
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Speaker 1: over and over again. And then at some point when
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Speaker 1: they turned, she wasn't there, and so the grandparents immediately
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Speaker 1: run back up and they're looking around for Haley, thinking
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Speaker 1: she probably darted behind a tree to hide, because she wants,
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Speaker 1: you know, to be a little bit more frustrating for them,
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Speaker 1: and so they're kind of looking for her. They're not
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Speaker 1: that worried yet. They start yelling for her, saying, come on,
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Speaker 1: we do gotta leave, you gotta come out, we gotta go.
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Speaker 1: But there was no word from Haley. It was just silence,
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Speaker 1: and she was just totally gone. And for the next
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Speaker 1: ninety minutes, the grandparents just ran all up and down
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Speaker 1: this trail screaming for Haley, and they never found her.
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Speaker 1: And so they ran down and they called police. The
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Speaker 1: largest search and rescue mission in the history of Arkansas
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Speaker 1: was launched for haley' sega. It included hundreds of searchers
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Speaker 1: on the ground, including eight dog teams and helicopters. Overhead,
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Speaker 1: there were firefighters, the National Guard was involved. But after
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Speaker 1: two days, despite this incredible search, really no progress had
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Speaker 1: been made. The only thing that had been found was
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Speaker 1: one of the dog teams had tracked or sent up
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Speaker 1: to a nearby road where the dog stopped meeting. These
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Speaker 1: sent now gone, and unfortunately, what that told investigators is
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Speaker 1: it looks like Haley got picked up by some motorist.
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Speaker 1: But fifty one hours into the ordeal, there were two
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Speaker 1: searchers well outside of the primary search area. They were
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Speaker 1: about two miles away from where she'd gone missing. They
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Speaker 1: spotted her. She was sitting next to this book with
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Speaker 1: her feet dangling in the water, and when she saw them,
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Speaker 1: she kind of waved and they said, are you Haley's Aga,
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Speaker 1: And she said yeah, And she had a couple of
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Speaker 1: scratches on her arm and on her face, but overall
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Speaker 1: she seemed okay. And so Haley was reunited with her family,
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Speaker 1: and then she was brought to the hospital to be observed.
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Speaker 1: After Haley had regained some of her strength, investigators asked her,
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Speaker 1: you know what happened, and she said that she was
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Speaker 1: walking behind her grandparents and that she looked down, and
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Speaker 1: then when she looked up again, not only were her
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Speaker 1: grandparents gone, but she was looking at this wall of
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Speaker 1: trees like she was not on the trail anymore. She
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Speaker 1: didn't know where she was, and since she was only
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Speaker 1: six years old, she didn't stop and look around or yell. Instead,
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Speaker 1: she just kept walking in this direction that she didn't recognize,
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Speaker 1: and she walked and walked and walked, and she never
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Speaker 1: found the trail again. She said. Pretty soon got dark
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Speaker 1: and she slept on top of that bluff and then
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Speaker 1: the next day, when the sun came up, she walked
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Speaker 1: down the bluff and she made it to the river,
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Speaker 1: and then she walked along the river until she found
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Speaker 1: a cave where she slept for the second night, and
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Speaker 1: then the next day when she got up, she was found.
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Speaker 1: After she gave this explanation, investigators had a lot of questions, like,
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Speaker 1: if you were sleeping up on the bluff on that
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Speaker 1: first night, then why couldn't the helicopter see you, Because
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Speaker 1: that's all they were doing was flying over the bluff
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Speaker 1: and they had thermal imaging. They could have very easily
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Speaker 1: picked you up. And so they asked her, you know,
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Speaker 1: are you sure that's where you were, and she said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's where Alicia told me to stay. And they were like,
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Speaker 1: who's Alicia. She said, oh, she's my imaginary friend. I
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Speaker 1: met her on the bluff. And so immediately the investigators
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Speaker 1: and the parents are like, Okay, she's clearly coping with
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Speaker 1: this traumatic event by creating this imaginary friend, and so
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Speaker 1: they don't ask any more questions about the imaginary friend. Instead,
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Speaker 1: they continue to ask questions about basically how she got
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Speaker 1: from where she was lost to where she was found,
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Speaker 1: And they say Okay, Haley, how did you get down
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Speaker 1: the bluffs because there's only one way down and it
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Speaker 1: can be hard to find, especially if you're off the trail.
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Speaker 1: And Hailey said, well, Alicia brought me to a trail
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Speaker 1: and she led me down in the bluffs and she
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Speaker 1: stood in front of me and made sure that I
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Speaker 1: didn't fall forward. And so her parents and the investigators
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Speaker 1: are now starting to think, you know, maybe this isn't
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Speaker 1: an imaginary friend if this person is right in front
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Speaker 1: of her kind of propping her up. And so they asked, Haley,
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Speaker 1: you know, can you describe what Alicia looks like? And
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Speaker 1: Hailey said, sure. She has black hair, brown eyes, she's
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Speaker 1: a little bit shorter than me. She's four years old.
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Speaker 1: She likes to tell jokes, and she likes to sing songs.
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Speaker 1: And then Hayley began singing songs that she had learned
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Speaker 1: from Alicia and began telling jokes she had learned from Alicia.
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Speaker 1: Even though Haley was giving this vivid description of this
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Speaker 1: four year old girl named Alicia running around the bluffs,
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Speaker 1: it just couldn't be possible. And so Hailey's parents and
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Speaker 1: the investigators went back to treating Alicia as just an
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Speaker 1: imaginary friend, just a simple coping mechanism, and so the
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Speaker 1: investigators went back to just doing their interview with Haley.
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Speaker 1: They got all the information about how she got from
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Speaker 1: the bluffs down to the river as much as they could,
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Speaker 1: and then because Haley was fine, they said, Okay, you're good,
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Speaker 1: see you later. Now, Haley's case was a really big
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Speaker 1: deal and it was all over the news, especially after
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Speaker 1: she was found. And so her interview where she said
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Speaker 1: this imaginary friend named Alicia had assisted her in getting
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Speaker 1: down the bluffs and had basically taken care of her,
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Speaker 1: that was put in print, and after it was published,
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Speaker 1: there were some readers that realized there was another little
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Speaker 1: girl who had gone missing in the exact same spot
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Speaker 1: as Haley twenty three years earlier. She was four years old,
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Speaker 1: she had black hair, brown eyes, her name was Alana,
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Speaker 1: and she had died on those bluffs. After this connection
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Speaker 1: was made, it got national media attention because suddenly news
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Speaker 1: outlets were saying this imaginary friend was actually Alana and
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Speaker 1: that she was Haley's guardian angel. In fact, Haley was
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Speaker 1: brought on Dateline to talk about her imaginary friend this year. Haley,
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Speaker 1: who's now twenty five, years old posted a video to
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Speaker 1: her YouTube channel where she tells her story of what
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Speaker 1: happened over those fifty one hours she was gone. And
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Speaker 1: in the story, she talks about her imagine friend, and
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Speaker 1: she says, you know, before Alicia, I never had an
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Speaker 1: imaginary friend, and afterwards, I never had an imaginary friend.
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Speaker 1: But at the time Alicia was very real to me.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know who or what she was, but
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Speaker 1: she saved my life. In September of twenty twelve, fifty
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Speaker 1: three year old Linda Artega went to visit her brother
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Speaker 1: Eddie Huff in Saint Joe, Arkansas. Saint Joe is a
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Speaker 1: very rural part of Arkansas, and it's about a mile
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Speaker 1: away from the Buffalo River National Park. The park is
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Speaker 1: thickly forested and mountainous, and there's hundreds of small water
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Speaker 1: bodies that are strewn throughout. On Saturday, September twenty second,
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Speaker 1: Linda and Eddie decided to go for a walk in
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Speaker 1: the park because Eddie apparently had heard of some great
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Speaker 1: fishing spot and he wanted to go find it. In
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Speaker 1: searching for the spot, they stepped off of the trail
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Speaker 1: and got turned around. Now they realized they got turned around,
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Speaker 1: but it's broad daylight and they figured, Okay, we'll find
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Speaker 1: the trail soon. But as the sun was setting, they
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Speaker 1: had still not found the trail and they realized they
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Speaker 1: were badly lost. Then some very strange things happened that
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Speaker 1: we only had a marginal understanding of. What we know
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Speaker 1: is the brother and sister were together on that first
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Speaker 1: day they went missing. We know they were together the
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Speaker 1: following day on Sunday, still looking around for a way
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Speaker 1: out of the park, but still at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day were lost. Then the next day, on Monday,
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Speaker 1: we know the pair separated because Eddie re emerged out
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Speaker 1: of the park, hopped in his car like nothing was
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Speaker 1: going on, drove back to his house, walked inside, and
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Speaker 1: his family's like, where have you been. You've been missing.
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Speaker 1: We've been calling you. Where have you been? And where's Linda?
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Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, everything's fine. I dropped Linda off
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Speaker 1: at a relative's house. She's fine too. His family's looking
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Speaker 1: at him like, do you not understand that you've been
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Speaker 1: missing for like three days here? And he was just
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Speaker 1: trying to tell them that everything was fine. But as
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Speaker 1: they asked him more questions about specifically, what were you
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Speaker 1: doing specifically, how did you get lost? Specifically what time
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Speaker 1: did you drop Linda off? Tell us all the details.
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Speaker 1: As they did that, Eddie started to realize that, oh,
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Speaker 1: my goodness, I actually don't know what happened. And so
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Speaker 1: his family called this relative that Eddie had claimed he
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Speaker 1: dropped Linda off at and when the relative picked up,
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Speaker 1: they said, no, we don't have Linda here. I've not
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Speaker 1: spoken to Eddie and I've not spoken to Linda, and
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Speaker 1: so the family turns back to Eddie and they're like,
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Speaker 1: where's Linda, And Eddie just said, I have no idea,
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Speaker 1: And so the family contacts police and a search has
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Speaker 1: launched for Linda, and they look all over this park
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Speaker 1: for days and days and there's no sign of Linda
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Speaker 1: and people are starting to get really worried about her.
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Speaker 1: And then on Thursday, so three days after Eddie had
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Speaker 1: re emerged from the park and five days after they
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Speaker 1: had originally gone missing, some searchers that were on ATVs
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Speaker 1: were about two miles away from the entrance of the
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Speaker 1: park in this very thick area, and they found Linda
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Speaker 1: and she was alive, and initially, just like her brother Eddie,
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Speaker 1: she really had no idea what was going on. She said,
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Speaker 1: she didn't understand how she got where she was, and
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Speaker 1: she was just really confused. And so they brought her
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Speaker 1: back to the hospital and they put her under doctor's
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Speaker 1: care and she ended up being fine. But as she's
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Speaker 1: laying in the hospital, she starts kind of coming to
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Speaker 1: and her memories start flooding back, and she tells this
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Speaker 1: story of what happened to her, and it's unbelievable. She said.
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Speaker 1: She and Eddie went into the park to find that
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Speaker 1: fishing spot and at some point they stepped off the
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Speaker 1: trail thinking they were going to find it, but they didn't.
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Speaker 1: They got turned around, they were lost, and they were
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Speaker 1: confident they were going to find the trail and get
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Speaker 1: out the same day, but they did it, and so
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Speaker 1: the sun went down and they were forced to sleep
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Speaker 1: out in the wild. And so the next morning they
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Speaker 1: get up and they continue to look around. They're yelling
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Speaker 1: for help, and there's no one around there in this
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Speaker 1: very dense part of the forest. And all day again
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Speaker 1: they're looking for this trail and they don't find it,
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Speaker 1: and so that night, again they sleep out in the wild.
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Speaker 1: Linda said her memory starting with the next day, which
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Speaker 1: was Monday, started to get really foggy. She said she
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Speaker 1: woke up, and for some reason, she just got up
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Speaker 1: and started running into the woods. She thinks it's because
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Speaker 1: she thought Eddie was hurt and she was running to
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Speaker 1: get help, and so it must have been around this
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Speaker 1: time that Eddie, in his dazed state, got up and
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Speaker 1: meandered his way successfully out of the park. Meanwhile, Linda
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Speaker 1: said she was just running like a maniac into the
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Speaker 1: middle of the woods, screaming for help from someone, even
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Speaker 1: though she's in the middle of nowhere. And then, miraculously,
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Speaker 1: she says, she saw a group of people way off
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Speaker 1: in the distance. It looked like a group of hikers,
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Speaker 1: and she started yelling for them and waving to them
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Speaker 1: and trying to get their attention, and she said they
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Speaker 1: all stopped and turned to look at her, but they
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Speaker 1: didn't show any sign that they had actually heard her.
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Speaker 1: They were not trying to interact with her. They were
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Speaker 1: just looking at her. Linda said she thought that was
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Speaker 1: pretty odd, but she just kept on running towards them
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Speaker 1: and screaming and yelling and trying to get their attention.
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Speaker 1: And she said when she got about one hundred meters
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Speaker 1: away from them, instead of them reciprocating waves or making
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Speaker 1: a sound. They all ducked behind trees like they were
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Speaker 1: trying to hide from Linda. Linda said this was the
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Speaker 1: first time she felt really unsettled by what was happening,
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Speaker 1: but she was desperate. She needed help, and so she
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Speaker 1: just kept walking towards them, and she got to about
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Speaker 1: fifty meters away when they all poked their heads out
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Speaker 1: and looked out at her, and then poked their heads
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Speaker 1: back like they were not trying to interact with her,
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Speaker 1: and Linda said she felt really scared and stopped and
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Speaker 1: began backpedaling away from this weird group of people that
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Speaker 1: are hiding behind trees, and so, while keeping her eyes
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Speaker 1: on the general area where she knew they were hiding,
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Speaker 1: she backpedaled all the way back to about one hundred
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Speaker 1: to maybe one hundred and fifty meters away again, and
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Speaker 1: this group came out from behind the trees and continued
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Speaker 1: to stare at Linda. Linda said at this point she
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Speaker 1: was terrified. She didn't know who or what those things were,
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Speaker 1: but they were not there to help her. And then
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Speaker 1: she said her memory got really foggy because all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, Her next memory is her laying on the
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Speaker 1: ground in this pitch black forest. Her brother's not near her,
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Speaker 1: and she's hearing footsteps, and she believes it's this group
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Speaker 1: of people or things that are walking towards her, but
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Speaker 1: it's so dark she can't see anything. And she said
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Speaker 1: all night she heard the sounds of these people or
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Speaker 1: things walking around the perimeter of where she was laying,
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Speaker 1: totally exposed in the middle of the forest. Linda said
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Speaker 1: her memories from this point until she was rescued or
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Speaker 1: all mixed together, but she said she had one memory
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Speaker 1: that really stood out to her because it was so terrifying.
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Speaker 1: She said, on one of the last mornings she was
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Speaker 1: out there, she woke up, she was laying on the ground.
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Speaker 1: She opens her eyes and it was still dark, but
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Speaker 1: the sun was starting to come up, and so there
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Speaker 1: was enough light that she could begin to make out
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Speaker 1: the way out of the forest, and so she sat
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Speaker 1: up and immediately got the sense that she was being watched,
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Speaker 1: But she didn't know by who or from where it
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Speaker 1: was coming. She just had this intuitive sense that she
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Speaker 1: was being watched. And as she's feeling this way, she
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Speaker 1: hears movement coming off to her right, and she turns
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Speaker 1: and standing next to a tree, about maybe twenty meters away,
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Speaker 1: is this dark silhouette of a man who's just staring
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Speaker 1: at her. He's got no features, he's just this shadowy figure,
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Speaker 1: and so she's horrified. And then she realizes there's another one.
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Speaker 1: And she looks at that one and realizes there's another one,
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Speaker 1: and another one and another one. They're all around her.
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Speaker 1: They're all around her, looking in these dark, shadowy figures,
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Speaker 1: and she's so scared. And as she's looking around at
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Speaker 1: all of them, it seems like they registered that she
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Speaker 1: sees them, and at that point they all turned and
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Speaker 1: start running into the forest in all different directions. She
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Speaker 1: said after that she has no idea the sequence of
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Speaker 1: events or what happened. All she knows is that the
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Speaker 1: whole time she was out there, she was scared. She
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Speaker 1: felt that there were people watching her in the woods,
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Speaker 1: and then at some point restorers showed up and she
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Speaker 1: was saved. Linda's totally crazy account of what happened, combined
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Speaker 1: with Eddie's bizarre behavior, totally baffled investigators. They really didn't
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Speaker 1: know what to make of this. How did Eddie find
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Speaker 1: his way out again? And why did he think Linda
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Speaker 1: was at a relative's house, and who are the people
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Speaker 1: Linda was seeing and why can't either of them remember
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Speaker 1: ninety percent of the experience. One theory is they must
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Speaker 1: have eaten berries or some other food item that had
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Speaker 1: hallucinogenic properties and they were literally just hallucinating the whole time. However,
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Speaker 1: go missing in the woods of North America that never
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Speaker 1: ingest any food or any liquid, so there's no hallucinogen
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