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Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is strange within fiction, and today I'm
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Speaker 1: going to share three stories that demonstrate that. But before
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Speaker 1: into today's stories. One day in seventeen eighty five, a
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Speaker 1: woman rides in pain in a hospital bed at the
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Speaker 1: Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, which was one of the largest
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Speaker 1: and most advanced hospitals in Scotland at the time. Now,
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Speaker 1: despite this hospit being enormous, the room this woman was
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Speaker 1: in was very small and it was very stark too.
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Speaker 1: The walls were blank, the floors were blank, there was
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Speaker 1: just a single window to the outside. In fact, the
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Speaker 1: only furniture in this room was the metal bed that
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Speaker 1: she was lying on. And this woman, as she was
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Speaker 1: laying on this bed. She was gripping the bed frame,
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Speaker 1: and she was sweating profusely, and she was shrieking in pain,
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Speaker 1: like her body was being ripped in half, and surrounding
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Speaker 1: her on all sides, where all these nurses sort of
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Speaker 1: anxiously watching her to see what was going to happen next.
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Speaker 1: This woman was in labor, and she'd been in labor
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Speaker 1: for several hours, and so far it was not going well.
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Speaker 1: So giving birth in the eighteenth century looked a whole
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Speaker 1: lot different than giving birth today, primarily because there really
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Speaker 1: was very limited pain management tools at doctors and nurses disposal.
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Speaker 1: I mean there were no epidurals. They basically had opium
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Speaker 1: they could just give to the women, along with maybe
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Speaker 1: some alcohol. That was it. Also, giving birth in the
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Speaker 1: eighteenth century was far more dangerous to the mother than
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Speaker 1: it is today. I mean today it's practically unheard of,
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Speaker 1: at least in the UK, for mothers to die giving birth.
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Speaker 1: It's something like thirteen out of every one hundred thousand
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Speaker 1: mothers dies during childbirth, so like point zero one percent
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Speaker 1: of people. But in the eighteenth century it was like
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Speaker 1: thirty times higher. Basically, women died at a fairly regular
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Speaker 1: clip delivering babies. The reason for this was partly just
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Speaker 1: because of bad sanitation. Back in the eighteenth century, it
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Speaker 1: wasn't uncommon for doctors and nurses to not even wash
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Speaker 1: their hands between patients, and so naturally the spread of
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Speaker 1: disease and bacteria was much higher. And then also when
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Speaker 1: it came to just complications, there just weren't that many
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Speaker 1: available solutions. And so when this woman showed up at
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Speaker 1: this hospital after her water broke, I mean, naturally, she
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Speaker 1: was terrified. I mean, she obviously knew she had to
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Speaker 1: come here and deliver this child. It was inevitable, but
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Speaker 1: she knew the risks, and so here she is. She's terrified,
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Speaker 1: but quickly, you know, the staff, they took her in,
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Speaker 1: they got her to this room, they laid her down,
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Speaker 1: and it just sort of seemed like everything was or
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Speaker 1: to normal, Like they do this all the time. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's a risky and dangerous thing, but it just sort
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Speaker 1: of seemed like her delivery was going to be fairly normal.
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Speaker 1: And so for a couple of hours, she's laying in
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Speaker 1: this bed, the nurses are checking on her, everything's fine,
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Speaker 1: and then at some point she begins to feel contractions,
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Speaker 1: and so at this point the staff is in the
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Speaker 1: room with her and they start encouraging her to push,
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Speaker 1: and so she's pushing and she's pushing, but she's not progressing.
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Speaker 1: And eventually, after an examination, the staff determines that her
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Speaker 1: baby's skull is so big that the baby is not
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Speaker 1: able to exit her body. The baby is stuck in
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Speaker 1: her birth canal. And so by eighteenth century delivery standards,
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Speaker 1: this is a huge emergency. This is a major complication,
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Speaker 1: and so the mother and the baby's lives are now
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Speaker 1: in danger. So if this happened today, this woman would
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Speaker 1: just be given an emergency sea section and very likely
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Speaker 1: she and the baby would be fine. Now, back in
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Speaker 1: seventeen eighty five, sea sections did exist, but they were
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Speaker 1: extremely dangerous to the mother. It was basically a death
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Speaker 1: sentence for the mother, and so they were only used
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Speaker 1: if there really was no other option, and basically the
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Speaker 1: mother was going to die anyways, and so naturally the
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Speaker 1: staff did not want to go to sea section at
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Speaker 1: this point. And you know, the mom, the mother laying there,
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Speaker 1: certainly does not want to go to a sea section,
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Speaker 1: and so she's screaming in agony. You know, she's not progressing.
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Speaker 1: It's like complete chaos in this room. And at some
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Speaker 1: point one of the nurse's senses like, Okay, we need
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Speaker 1: to do something here, and so she left the room
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Speaker 1: and a couple of minutes later she came back with
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Speaker 1: this gray haired surgeon and he walks over and he
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Speaker 1: surveys this mad scene of screaming and yelling and there's
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Speaker 1: bodily fluids everywhere. I mean, it's absolute madness. And he
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Speaker 1: looks at the mom and he just says, everything's going
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Speaker 1: to be fine. Okay, you're pained, this miserable situation you're in,
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Speaker 1: It's going to be over in a second. And most importantly,
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Speaker 1: you and your baby are going to be just fine
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Speaker 1: because I have a brand new piece of technology that's
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Speaker 1: going to save your lives. Doctor John Aitken was one
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Speaker 1: of the leading doctors at this hospital. Fact he was
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Speaker 1: a pioneer in the field of childbirth at the time,
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Speaker 1: and one of the things he really focused on was
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Speaker 1: finding ways to make giving birth not only less painful
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Speaker 1: for the mothers, but also less dangerous, you know, to
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Speaker 1: lower the fatality rate. And recently he had developed himself
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Speaker 1: a new piece of technology specifically for the emergency that
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Speaker 1: this woman was having when the baby got stuck in
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Speaker 1: the birth canal. He had come up with it, and
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Speaker 1: now here was his chance to put it to use.
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Speaker 1: And so when he kind of explained this piece of
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Speaker 1: technology to this totally distraught woman who can barely focus,
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Speaker 1: you know, all she really heard was it's gonna be okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get rid of your pain. Your baby's gonna
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Speaker 1: be good. You're gonna be good. And she's relieved, and
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Speaker 1: she's like, thank you, thank you, thank you. And then
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Speaker 1: doctor John aken he leaves the room and when he
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Speaker 1: comes back, he's now carrying this instrument. And suddenly the woman,
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Speaker 1: when she sees the instrument, she goes from being relieved
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Speaker 1: to being downright horrified at the idea that that is
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Speaker 1: going to be used on her. But even though she
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Speaker 1: began to panic and literally tried to leave the bed
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Speaker 1: to get away from this doctor in this crazy, barbaric
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Speaker 1: looking tool, the staff literally held her down, basically strapped
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Speaker 1: her to the bed, and then doctor John Aikin said, okay,
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Speaker 1: here we go, and he turns on this instrument. And
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Speaker 1: this woman, she's already in blinding pain. She can't believe
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Speaker 1: she's experiencing this much pain. But when he begins to
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Speaker 1: apply this instrument to her body, the pain somehow becomes
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Speaker 1: even worse. It's like she begins having this out of
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Speaker 1: body experience. The pain is so intense, and then suddenly,
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Speaker 1: when it feels like it literally can't get any worse
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Speaker 1: than this, that she must be dying, it all kind
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Speaker 1: of fades for a second and she hears this sound
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Speaker 1: that she did not expect to hear. It was the
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Speaker 1: sound of a baby crying. Her baby had just been
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Speaker 1: successfully extracted from her stomach. Her baby was okay, and amazingly,
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Speaker 1: she was okay too. Doctor John Aikin had been right.
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Speaker 1: This instrument, despite how horrifying it was, really worked and
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Speaker 1: it literally did save her and her baby's lives. So
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Speaker 1: the procedure that this woman underwent was known as a simphysiotomy,
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Speaker 1: and the procedure itself had been around since, you know,
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Speaker 1: the seventeenth century. This was a procedure used when a
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Speaker 1: baby got stuck in the birth canal. And the way
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Speaker 1: this procedure worked is they would go in and sever
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Speaker 1: the joint called the pubic synthesis which connects the left
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Speaker 1: and right pelvis bons. So imagine, you know, right in
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Speaker 1: the middle of your crotch, them going in there and
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Speaker 1: cutting through this big thick joint to basically open up
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Speaker 1: your birth canal. I mean, this is a highly invasive
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Speaker 1: and excruciatingly painful procedure. That is until doctor John Aitken
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Speaker 1: invented this new piece of technology, the thing he just
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Speaker 1: used on this woman to save her in her baby's lives.
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Speaker 1: This piece of technology made the simphysiotomy basically more targeted
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Speaker 1: and more efficient. So it's still totally invasive and painful
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Speaker 1: and awful, but smolar incision much faster and a higher
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Speaker 1: success rate. And so despite the fact that aitkins invention
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Speaker 1: sort of looked really barbaric, it caught on very quickly
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Speaker 1: and sort of became the standard for how these symphysiotomies
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Speaker 1: were done. They used this tool and it would remain
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Speaker 1: that way until about the turn of the twentieth century,
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Speaker 1: which is when c sections became much safer, which meant
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Speaker 1: the need for symphysiotomies to decrease dramatically, which meant this
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Speaker 1: tool was sort of no longer needed in hospitals, and
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Speaker 1: so basically this tool sort of faded into obscurity until
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Speaker 1: another group completely unrelated to medicine, found a very specific
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Speaker 1: use for this instrument. In that group were lumberjacks. They
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Speaker 1: found that this tool, which had previously been used to
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Speaker 1: cut open women's bodies and sever these large joints, was
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Speaker 1: also really good at cutting down trees. The device that
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Speaker 1: doctor John Aikins invented for medicine was actually just a chainsaw.
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Speaker 1: nineteen oh four, a young woman named Anna Gray was
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Speaker 1: a bed and breakfast in Chicago, Illinois, except she couldn't sleep.
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Speaker 1: she had eaten earlier, and it was kind of you know,
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Speaker 1: very stuffy, you know, there wasn't any circulation, and so
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Speaker 1: she's just laying in silence as her stomach is growling,
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Speaker 1: and it's just it was very uncomfortable, and so eventually
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Speaker 1: Anna felt so frustrated that she was not able to
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Speaker 1: sleep that finally, she just threw the covers off, hopped
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Speaker 1: out of her bed, and walked over to the window,
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Speaker 1: and she opened it up to let in some fresh air.
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Speaker 1: And even though you know, her stomach still felt pretty upset,
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Speaker 1: you know, having the fresh air hit her and sort
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Speaker 1: just by a small percentage, make her feel a little
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Speaker 1: bit better. And now that she was standing up near
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Speaker 1: the window and sort of realizing how late it was,
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Speaker 1: she suddenly did feel sort of tired, and she was like, great,
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Speaker 1: I'll leave the window open and I'll go back to sleep.
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Speaker 1: So she walked back to her bed, laid down, pulled
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Speaker 1: the covers up over her, and sure enough, just a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes later, she had fallen asleep. But several
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Speaker 1: hours later, Anna suddenly woke up. She's laying in her bed.
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Speaker 1: Her eyes shoot open, and for a second, as she's
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Speaker 1: laying there, she she can't quite remember where she is.
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Speaker 1: She's confused, disoriented, and then she remembers, oh, yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: in that bed and breakfast. I'm in Chicago, Okay, I'm
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Speaker 1: going home tomorrow. Okay. But as she's laying there sort
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Speaker 1: of putting together what's happening. She just has this weird
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Speaker 1: feeling that something just feels off in the room. She
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Speaker 1: can't quite place it, but there's something wrong here. And
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Speaker 1: so instinctively, Anna sits up in her bed and she
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Speaker 1: kind of just surveys this small room that she's in,
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Speaker 1: and at first, everything seems totally in order. There's nothing
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Speaker 1: odd here at all. It's just a late night inside
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Speaker 1: of a bed and breakfast. It's still, it's quiet, there's
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Speaker 1: nothing going on here. But then as she scans the
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Speaker 1: room one more time, her eyes stop on the open window,
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Speaker 1: because now there is a man sitting on the windowsill,
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Speaker 1: looking into the room right at her, unflinching, just staring
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Speaker 1: right at her, and Anna, in an instant is looking
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Speaker 1: at the sky. In a million thoughts go through her head.
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Speaker 1: She's thinking, oh my god, he's here to hurt me.
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Speaker 1: He must have climbed up and he's he's about to
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Speaker 1: come in here and attack me. Like what's going on here?
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Speaker 1: She doesn't know if she's dreaming. She's just completely panicked,
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Speaker 1: and unlike a lot of people who in this situation
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Speaker 1: might freeze completely or scream and try to hide or
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Speaker 1: run away. Anna's fight or flight response was to fight,
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Speaker 1: and so it was almost like, in a fraction of
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Speaker 1: a second she had leapt out of the bed to
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Speaker 1: confront this man, this stranger in her room. But the man,
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Speaker 1: as soon as she jumped up, he didn't budch. He's
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Speaker 1: just sitting there staring at her. And then almost like delicately,
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Speaker 1: he leaned backwards and fell out the window. And now
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Speaker 1: Anna's thinking, oh my god, is he okay? She doesn't
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Speaker 1: know who he is, but you know, it's a serious fall.
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Speaker 1: They're on the second floor, and so she runs to
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Speaker 1: the window looking out, expecting to see this guy, you know,
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Speaker 1: with a broken neck down on the ground. But she
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Speaker 1: looks down and there's nobody there. You know, the window's
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Speaker 1: wide open, you know, she left it open before, and
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Speaker 1: so she's kind of looking around to make sure did
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Speaker 1: he really fall out the window? Did he come into
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Speaker 1: the room. But no, she's all alone in her room,
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Speaker 1: and so she's looking down to see if maybe he
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Speaker 1: kind of you know, ran up against the side of
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Speaker 1: the house and maybe he's gonna show himself, but there's nobody.
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Speaker 1: And then at some point she notices there's this long,
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Speaker 1: dark car that's parked out on the street underneath the
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Speaker 1: street light. And she couldn't remember if if that car
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Speaker 1: had been parked there the whole time. It seems sort
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Speaker 1: of out of place, but she just couldn't remember. And
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Speaker 1: so she's looking at this vehicle and she realizes there's
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Speaker 1: somebody in the car, and as she's staring at the car,
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Speaker 1: the driver begins to move the sort of position their
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Speaker 1: bodies down low, and they look up at Anna, and
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Speaker 1: Anna realizes it's the same guy who was just sitting
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Speaker 1: in her windowsill and fell out the window a second ago.
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Speaker 1: He's in this car, and so Anna she's just frozen
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Speaker 1: looking at this guy, wondering, how could this be happening.
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Speaker 1: This is a nightmare? Is this real? She doesn't know.
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Speaker 1: But as she's looking this guy who's looking up at her,
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Speaker 1: he extends his hand out the driver's side window and
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Speaker 1: begins beckoning to Anna, telling her to come down and
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Speaker 1: get in the car with him. And so Anna, she's
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Speaker 1: seeing this, and she's also realizing the car he is
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Speaker 1: in is a hearse and so she is just beyond terrified,
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Speaker 1: and instinctively she just jumps back, slams the window and
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Speaker 1: sort of just pretends like this can't be happening, like
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Speaker 1: this is not real. But then after a couple of seconds,
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Speaker 1: she's thinking, I gotta make sure I know where this
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Speaker 1: guy is, where he's gonna go next, And so she
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Speaker 1: goes right back to the window to see what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: But now the hearse, the man, they're gone. And so
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Speaker 1: Anna remained at this window for quite a while, just
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Speaker 1: looking out the window, just making sure this guy really
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Speaker 1: was gone, because again she just doesn't know, like, was
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Speaker 1: this real? Am I imagining things? Am I going crazy?
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Speaker 1: Was this a nightmare? Like? She doesn't know? And so
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Speaker 1: she's just standing there waiting, watching, but you know, this
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Speaker 1: guy doesn't reappear, The hearse doesn't reappear, and so eventually
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Speaker 1: she crawls back in bed, and after what felt like forever,
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Speaker 1: she drifted off into a fairly light sleep. And then
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Speaker 1: before long, you know, she opened her eyes again and
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Speaker 1: sunlight had filled the room. She had survived the night,
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Speaker 1: and so now, you know, feeling the comfort and safety
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Speaker 1: of light in the room and knowing that it's a
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Speaker 1: new day. She told herself, Wow, like that was crazy,
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Speaker 1: that was terrifying. That had to have been just a
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Speaker 1: particularly vivid nightmare, Like, there's no other reasonable explanation for this,
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Speaker 1: it had to be a nightmare. So Anna got out
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Speaker 1: of bed, convinced she was just fine, that nothing strange
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Speaker 1: has happened here at all. She got herself together and
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Speaker 1: she left the bed and breakfast and she headed out
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Speaker 1: to this brand new department store that had just opened
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Speaker 1: up in Chicago. She wanted to go and have a
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Speaker 1: nice day of shopping. And so Anna gets to this
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Speaker 1: department store and it's so vibrant, and it's bustling with people,
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Speaker 1: and there's four floors of all this incredible stuff that
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Speaker 1: they're selling. And for the next several hours, Anna just
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Speaker 1: has a great time walking all around, picking out things
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Speaker 1: she likes and just basically enjoying shopping. And then eventually,
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Speaker 1: when she was up on the fourth floor, after she
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Speaker 1: had purchased all the things she was gonna buy, she
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Speaker 1: decided it was time to leave. Now by this point,
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Speaker 1: she had basically completely forgotten about, you know, whatever happened
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Speaker 1: the night before. This guy the hears all of it,
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Speaker 1: It was completely out of her mind. She is back
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Speaker 1: to normal, and so she makes her way over to
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Speaker 1: the elevator to go down to the first floor, and
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Speaker 1: so she hits the button and she's waiting and waiting,
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Speaker 1: and then eventually she hears a noise of dinging sound
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Speaker 1: and the doors open up and there's loads of people
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Speaker 1: on this elevator car. It is packed, and so, like
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Speaker 1: most of us would do in this situation, Anna kind
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Speaker 1: of waved them off and said, I'll take the next one.
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Speaker 1: And she's expecting that, you know, the doors will close
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Speaker 1: and these folks will go down and you know, when
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Speaker 1: it comes back up, she'll get on. And that's that.
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Speaker 1: This is like not a big deal at all. She's
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Speaker 1: not even thinking about it, just go ahead. But the
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Speaker 1: doors don't close, and instead, as she's kind of you know,
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Speaker 1: not really looking over in their direction, she hears this
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Speaker 1: voice come out of the elevator car, and it's this
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Speaker 1: kind of rude tone. It's a man's voice, and he
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Speaker 1: calls out one more like demanding that Anna get in there,
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Speaker 1: Like what do you do when you're holding up the car?
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Speaker 1: And Anna was kind of taking it back by whoever
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Speaker 1: was kind of barking this order at her, and she
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Speaker 1: turned around and she looked into the elevator car and
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Speaker 1: she couldn't really tell where the voice was coming from.
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Speaker 1: Then eventually she noticed it was coming from the guy
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Speaker 1: who operated the elevator car. The elevator was manual, there
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Speaker 1: was somebody who literally moved the car up and down,
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Speaker 1: and she kind of didn't see the guy's face at first,
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Speaker 1: but eventually when the guy kind of poked his head
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Speaker 1: through and looked at her confirming that yeah, I'm talking
17:55
Speaker 1: to you, get in the car, she realized the elevator
17:58
Speaker 1: car operator was the man in the hearse that she
18:01
Speaker 1: had seen in her windowsill. It was the same guy,
18:05
Speaker 1: and so Anna is so horrified. She gasped out loud
18:08
Speaker 1: and just was like, no, I'm not going in there. No.
18:11
Speaker 1: It so all the folks that are in the elevator
18:13
Speaker 1: car they do not know what's going on, and they're
18:15
Speaker 1: kind of looking around like what's happening here, And the
18:17
Speaker 1: car operator continues to look out at Anna for a second,
18:21
Speaker 1: and then he just kind of scoffs at her like fine.
18:23
Speaker 1: Then the doors close and the elevator disappears, and for
18:27
Speaker 1: a moment, Anna's telling herself like, what is going on.
18:30
Speaker 1: That can't be the same guy. It's just gonna be
18:32
Speaker 1: a coincidence, right, But as she's having these thoughts, these
18:35
Speaker 1: crazy thoughts, trying to rationalize something that's not rational. She
18:39
Speaker 1: suddenly heard this loud, metallic crunching sound inside of the
18:43
Speaker 1: elevator shaft, followed by what was obviously people screaming. It
18:47
Speaker 1: would turn out that elevator car that she nearly got
18:50
Speaker 1: into but didn't because of her fear of this guy
18:54
Speaker 1: that she was seeing again, the same guy from her
18:56
Speaker 1: bedroom the night before, that elevator car. As it began dissent,
19:01
Speaker 1: it malfunctioned and fell four stories, killing two people on board. Now, unfortunately,
19:07
Speaker 1: we don't really know much more about what ultimately happened
19:11
Speaker 1: with the elevator operator, if they ever confirmed without a
19:14
Speaker 1: doubt that you know, that guy is the same one
19:17
Speaker 1: Anna saw the night before, or if he even really
19:20
Speaker 1: was on the elevator car, like, we don't know that.
19:22
Speaker 1: But what we do know is Anna did speak to
19:25
Speaker 1: reporters and they did widely publish the story, and that
19:29
Speaker 1: is how we know about it. On the morning of
19:47
Speaker 1: July fifth, two thousand and eight, a fifty year old
19:50
Speaker 1: man named David File walked up to his apartment in Bishopstoke,
19:54
Speaker 1: which is a small village in southern England. So this
19:56
Speaker 1: apartment complex was massive. It took up an entire and
20:00
Speaker 1: it was comprised of several two story buildings. When David
20:03
Speaker 1: moved in eight years earlier, this apartment complex was sort
20:07
Speaker 1: of bustling and doing quite well. There were loads of tenants.
20:10
Speaker 1: It was well kept. I mean, it was a nice
20:12
Speaker 1: place to live. But now the place was kind of
20:14
Speaker 1: fallen into disrepair. There were weeds everywhere, it was kind
20:17
Speaker 1: of dirty, there was graffiti. I mean, buildings were all
20:20
Speaker 1: boarded up. I mean, this place really had fallen on
20:22
Speaker 1: hard times, almost like it was abandoned, and in many
20:25
Speaker 1: regards it basically was. In fact, David was literally the
20:30
Speaker 1: last tenant in the entire complex. There were a total
20:34
Speaker 1: of seventy two apartments in this complex, but seventy one
20:38
Speaker 1: of them were boarded up and totally abandoned. It was
20:42
Speaker 1: just this last apartment that David lived in. And on
20:45
Speaker 1: this day, as David approached his front door, he noticed
20:48
Speaker 1: there was something taped to it. It was a piece
20:50
Speaker 1: of paper. So he walked up and he read it,
20:52
Speaker 1: and he quickly understood it was an eviction notice. They
20:55
Speaker 1: were kicking him out, and so he angrily ripped it
20:57
Speaker 1: off the door and he went inside as cramped small apartment.
21:01
Speaker 1: You know, there's a full sized billiard table sitting right
21:03
Speaker 1: in his living room, and everything was just tight and
21:05
Speaker 1: on top of each other. But this was David's home.
21:08
Speaker 1: He loved it here. He did not want to leave,
21:10
Speaker 1: and so he took this eviction notice and he went
21:12
Speaker 1: over to the kitchen and he just threw it on
21:14
Speaker 1: top of a pile of other papers that were mostly
21:16
Speaker 1: all from the company that owned this complex. The company
21:20
Speaker 1: was called Atlantic Housing. So part of the reason this
21:22
Speaker 1: building had really fallen on hard times here is because
21:25
Speaker 1: two years earlier, Atlantic Housing had decided to tear this
21:29
Speaker 1: place down, and so they had offered to help relocate
21:32
Speaker 1: all the tenants and basically everybody else had agreed to
21:36
Speaker 1: leave and you know, take the assistance from Atlantic Housing,
21:39
Speaker 1: but not David. He refused to leave. And so eventually
21:42
Speaker 1: Atlantic Housing got fed up with David because they're offering
21:45
Speaker 1: him money, they're offering him assistance. I mean, they're really
21:47
Speaker 1: trying to just get him to leave so they can
21:49
Speaker 1: move forward with their project. And so eventually, when he
21:52
Speaker 1: wouldn't budge no matter what they offered him, they just
21:55
Speaker 1: sued him and it took two years, but eventually a
21:58
Speaker 1: court ruled that, okay, Atlantic Housing, you can kick him
22:02
Speaker 1: out of your building. And so David, you're being evicted.
22:05
Speaker 1: And so David knew this was coming. He knew he
22:07
Speaker 1: was going to be evicted, but he just simply could
22:10
Speaker 1: not accept the ruling. He's looking around at his cramped,
22:13
Speaker 1: little apartment that he had called home for eight years.
22:16
Speaker 1: He just loved it here. He didn't want to leave,
22:19
Speaker 1: and so he thought to himself, you know what, they
22:21
Speaker 1: can try to evict me, but I'm not leaving. And
22:24
Speaker 1: so David decides he's got a protest, but not some
22:28
Speaker 1: little protest. He's going to do something that is so big,
22:32
Speaker 1: so extreme, that it will guarantee people will pay attention
22:36
Speaker 1: and recognize that this ruling is wrong. And David knew
22:41
Speaker 1: exactly how he was going to do that. And so
22:43
Speaker 1: later that afternoon, David made his way over to his
22:46
Speaker 1: storage closet and he pulled out some rope, an electric
22:50
Speaker 1: timer and a power tool, and he brought these supplies
22:52
Speaker 1: over to his living room and there David ranked up
22:55
Speaker 1: this elaborate trap that he was designing specifically so that
23:00
Speaker 1: when Atlanta Housing or the police or whoever it was
23:03
Speaker 1: that showed up to a victim that when they opened
23:06
Speaker 1: his door they would have to be confronted by this trap.
23:10
Speaker 1: And for David, he felt like this was his last
23:13
Speaker 1: ditch effort to prove once and for all that this
23:17
Speaker 1: eviction was wrong. A few hours later, two police officers,
23:21
Speaker 1: along with David's very worried parents, stood outside of David's apartment.
23:25
Speaker 1: Earlier that afternoon, David's parents had tried to get in
23:29
Speaker 1: touch with David and they had called him repeatedly, but
23:31
Speaker 1: he hadn't answered, and so at some point they had
23:34
Speaker 1: driven over to his apartment and they had pounded on
23:36
Speaker 1: the door and tried to get his attention, but he
23:39
Speaker 1: hadn't come to the door. However, they had heard this
23:42
Speaker 1: strange sound coming from inside the apartment and it was
23:46
Speaker 1: unsettling enough, and considering the whole circumstance of not being
23:49
Speaker 1: able to get in touch with their son, that they
23:52
Speaker 1: decided to call the police. And so when they got there,
23:54
Speaker 1: you know, the police, they're knocking on the door, yelling
23:56
Speaker 1: out for David, but still no answer, and the police
23:59
Speaker 1: too so they can clearly hear this strange sound which
24:03
Speaker 1: almost sounded like a mechanical worrying sound or something. They
24:06
Speaker 1: couldn't quite place it, but there definitely was something odd
24:09
Speaker 1: happening in this apartment. And so given the fact that
24:12
Speaker 1: you know, there's real concern around what's going on with David,
24:15
Speaker 1: the police decide to kick in the door and see
24:18
Speaker 1: what's going on. And so they get out of the
24:19
Speaker 1: way and one of the officers steps back, kicks the
24:22
Speaker 1: door down, and as soon as the door flies open,
24:25
Speaker 1: that loud mechanical worring sound becomes way louder, so loud,
24:30
Speaker 1: and they suddenly get a complete view into the apartment
24:33
Speaker 1: and all of them just froze and gasped. So the
24:37
Speaker 1: trap that David had built had functioned exactly as he
24:40
Speaker 1: intended it to. Basically, the authorities were going to come
24:43
Speaker 1: in the front door and be horrified by what they saw,
24:46
Speaker 1: because this trap really was not for them as much
24:48
Speaker 1: as it was for David. He was sort of putting
24:50
Speaker 1: himself into a trap as a display of his protest
24:54
Speaker 1: that you can't pull me out of here. And now
24:57
Speaker 1: authorities have arrived and they've seen the results of this trap.
25:00
Speaker 1: What the trap was was a power tool that was
25:03
Speaker 1: on that was the mechanical whirring sound they heard. And
25:06
Speaker 1: it had been tied by David to one of the
25:08
Speaker 1: legs of his billiard table, like an arm jutting off
25:11
Speaker 1: the side of this billiard table. And then the tool
25:13
Speaker 1: had this electric timer that he had written to it
25:15
Speaker 1: so that when it went off it would start the tool.
25:18
Speaker 1: And what was this tool? It was a chainsaw. And
25:22
Speaker 1: what did David do. He intentionally positioned his neck right
25:26
Speaker 1: up against the teeth of this chainsaw, set the timer
25:30
Speaker 1: and then waited, and he basically timed it so that
25:33
Speaker 1: shortly after getting in position, the timer would go off,
25:36
Speaker 1: it would cut his head off. And then presumably authorities
25:40
Speaker 1: would look inside the apartment and see what, in David's
25:43
Speaker 1: mind they were responsible for his death. And sure enough,
25:47
Speaker 1: when the police and the parents looked in, they saw
25:50
Speaker 1: the trap, they heard the saw buzzing, and they saw
25:54
Speaker 1: David's severed head on the ground. Despite David's final protest
25:57
Speaker 1: really having a lot of the effect that he was
25:59
Speaker 1: hoping for, I mean, it did make headlines all over
26:02
Speaker 1: the UK. A lot of people heard about this and
26:04
Speaker 1: they were horrified by it. Despite all that, shortly after
26:08
Speaker 1: his death, the apartment complex was demolished, thank you so
26:19
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