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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share three progressively more disturbing stories,
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Speaker 1: and at the end of each of them, I will
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. Just after six pm on
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Speaker 1: December twenty seventh, twenty fifteen, a woman named Sarah Robinson
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Speaker 1: was getting ready inside of her cap been on the
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Speaker 1: seventh floor of a massive cruise ship. She and her
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Speaker 1: boyfriend were going to dinner that night with Sarah's parents
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Speaker 1: in one of the restaurants on board the ship, and
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Speaker 1: in fact, this entire trip, this whole vacation, was actually
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Speaker 1: a big gift from Sarah's parents to Sarah and her boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: and so far the trip had been totally amazing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: all four of them, Sarah, her boyfriend, and Sarah's parents
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Speaker 1: had got to go swimming and drink great drinks and
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Speaker 1: have great food and it was just like a total dream.
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Speaker 1: But now they only had one night left tonight, and
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Speaker 1: they wanted to make the most of it. And their
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Speaker 1: plan was to go to the big buffet that the
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Speaker 1: ship offered and just totally indulge on the amazing food
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Speaker 1: and just have some laughs, share stories, and then the
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Speaker 1: next day they'd wake up in the Florida port that
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Speaker 1: they left from and the trip would be over. But
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Speaker 1: for now they had this one dinner left. And so
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Speaker 1: after Sarah and her boyfriend were already they left their
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Speaker 1: cabin and they met Sarah's parents out in the hallway,
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Speaker 1: and then Sarah led the way towards the stairwell that
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Speaker 1: would bring them up to the tenth floor, where the
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Speaker 1: restaurant was that they were going to. Once they reached
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Speaker 1: tenth floor, Sarah could see right in front of her
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Speaker 1: the entrance to this restaurant, and so she, her boyfriend
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Speaker 1: and her parents all behind her, began walking towards the restaurant,
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Speaker 1: and to get there, they would have to walk past
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Speaker 1: this sort of lobby right in front of the restaurant
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Speaker 1: where there was this elevator bank that would go down
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Speaker 1: to the lobby and all the other floors. And so,
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Speaker 1: you know, Sarah and her family they walked past these elevators,
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Speaker 1: and as they did, Sarah began to hear what sounded
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Speaker 1: like rain hitting the outside of the ship. But that
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Speaker 1: didn't make any sense because that whole day the weather
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Speaker 1: had been beautiful and clear, and Sarah, when she heard
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Speaker 1: this sound, she instinctively kind of looked around the corner
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Speaker 1: out one of the windows, and she looked out into
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Speaker 1: the night, and it was still clear and beautiful out,
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Speaker 1: so this could not be rain. And so Sarah she
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Speaker 1: turned around and she looked at her boyfriend and her
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Speaker 1: parents with the sort of quizzical look, being like, do
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Speaker 1: you hear this? Like what is that sound? And they
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Speaker 1: clearly had heard it too and were looking back at
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Speaker 1: her like, I don't know. But before they could even
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Speaker 1: start to discuss whatever this was, a woman who they
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Speaker 1: didn't know, who was standing near these elevators as well,
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Speaker 1: began to scream. It would turn out just a few
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Speaker 1: minutes before this woman began to scream, the cruise ships
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Speaker 1: chief electrician, sixty six year old Jose sandabal Opazzo, had
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Speaker 1: begun doing routine maintenance on the elevators that were located
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Speaker 1: a few floors below the tenth floor, but still within
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Speaker 1: that same elevator bank that could bring you up to
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Speaker 1: the tenth floor where that restaurant was. And while Jose
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Speaker 1: was performing this very routine and quick maintenance on the elevator,
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Speaker 1: something strange happened. But to understand why this happened, you
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Speaker 1: need to understand a little bit about Jose and the
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Speaker 1: other electricians on board this cruise ship. So there was
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Speaker 1: oftentimes a lot of very quick and easy maintenance that
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Speaker 1: would need to get done on these elevators, which would
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Speaker 1: involve going into the elevator cheft to do it.
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Speaker 2: But again, these are.
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Speaker 1: Very short bursts in and out, very easy to do.
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Speaker 1: All the electricians know how to do it, and the
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Speaker 1: procedure was to actually fully shut down that elevator like completely,
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Speaker 1: and then go inside and do the maintenance and then
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Speaker 1: go through the process of starting the elevator all over again.
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Speaker 2: But that was so disruptive to the flow of traffic.
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Speaker 1: On the ship each day, and it was just kind
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Speaker 1: of a hassle, and so Jose and the other electricians
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Speaker 1: had come up with this sort of workaround that didn't
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Speaker 1: require them to shut down the elevator because again, that
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Speaker 1: was just a huge pain and they didn't want.
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Speaker 2: To do it.
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Speaker 1: And so what they would do is they would wait
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Speaker 1: until the elevator car within the shaft they needed to
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Speaker 1: do maintenance on was at some other level, like on
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Speaker 1: floor two, and they would go into the elevator on
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Speaker 1: like floor eight and then quickly do the maintenance on
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Speaker 1: the inside of.
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Speaker 2: The shaft or whatever it is they had to do.
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Speaker 1: Or sometimes they would actually have to do repairs on
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Speaker 1: the elevator car itself, you know, in which case they
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Speaker 1: would just kind of go in real quick, do the repairs,
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Speaker 1: get out again. But all of it was predicated on
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Speaker 1: just kind of knowing where the elevator car was in
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Speaker 1: the shaft and being really quick, you know, in and out.
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Speaker 1: And so Jose and the other electricians had done this
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Speaker 1: many times and there was no issues. But on this day,
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Speaker 1: Jose he got into the elevator shaft to make these
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Speaker 1: simple repairs, and so he actually was ending inside of
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Speaker 1: the shaft on top of the elevator car that was down,
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Speaker 1: you know, a few levels down from ten.
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Speaker 2: And he began making these repairs, and.
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Speaker 1: Suddenly the car lurched into action because a guest unknowingly,
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Speaker 1: had walked into the elevator car and pressed floor ten.
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Speaker 1: And so Jose is on this elevator car that starts moving,
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Speaker 1: and before he can even figure out what's going on,
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Speaker 1: the little opening that he used, the kind of service
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Speaker 1: entrance into the shaft had been covered up by the
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Speaker 1: elevator car, and so his exit was now gone and
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Speaker 1: he was now relatively slowly moving up the shaft. Now
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Speaker 1: Jose would have no idea when this car was going
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Speaker 1: to stop, but if it went to the top, he'd
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Speaker 1: get crushed, and he knew it. And so, in kind
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Speaker 1: of a moment of panic, Jose attempted to step to
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Speaker 1: the side to like somehow go between the wall and
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Speaker 1: the elevator. It was like he had nowhere to go,
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Speaker 1: and he knew it, and he just took that path.
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Speaker 1: But there was like an inch of space between the
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Speaker 1: wall and the car, and so the second he did that,
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Speaker 1: the car kept going and it sucked him down into
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Speaker 1: that space and just destroyed him. And so by the
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Speaker 1: time this elevator car reached its destination the tenth floor,
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Speaker 1: and that guest got off the elevator car. By this point,
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Speaker 1: Jose's body had been totally destroyed and all of his
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Speaker 1: blood was dripping down the elevator shafts, splattering into the
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Speaker 1: walls and hitting the ground, and it sounded like rain
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Speaker 1: hitting the outside of the ship. And so that's what
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Speaker 1: Sarah and her family were hearing. And then the reason
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Speaker 1: that woman started screaming is she was the first one
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Speaker 1: who turned and saw all this blood coming down the
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Speaker 1: front of the elevator doors. Medics would arrive quickly on
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Speaker 1: the scene, but there was nothing they could do.
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Speaker 2: Jose was deceased.
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Speaker 2: At around two pm on.
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Speaker 1: September twenty fourth, twenty seventeen, a seventeen year old college
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Speaker 1: student named Sonjay climbed up onto this boulder that was
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Speaker 1: right off to the side of this hiking trail that
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Speaker 1: he was on. Sonjay was on a day trip with
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Speaker 1: about twenty of his friends from college and they were
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Speaker 1: in this part of southern India that was really fair
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Speaker 1: for its long winding trails and all these boulders that
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Speaker 1: kind of sat off to the side of the trails.
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Speaker 1: And then at the end of these trails that are
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Speaker 1: in this part of India is this beautiful ancient Hindu
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Speaker 1: temple that a lot of people will go and take
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Speaker 1: pictures in front of and go inside of. And so
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Speaker 1: that was where Sanjay and his friends were ultimately headed,
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Speaker 1: was this temple. And from the boulder that Sanjay had
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Speaker 1: just climbed up on, he looked up the trail and
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Speaker 1: from his view now which was now slightly higher, he
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Speaker 1: could actually see just barely the top of this temple.
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Speaker 1: And so he was really excited about going to see it,
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Speaker 1: and he couldn't believe how close they were. But as
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Speaker 1: he was standing on this boulder staring at the top
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Speaker 1: of the temple, he also realized that kind of off
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Speaker 1: to the side at the temple, basically right next to it,
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Speaker 1: was this beautiful pool of water with a big wall
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Speaker 1: around it and cement steps leading into it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it kind of looked like a swimming pool. And so
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Speaker 1: because Sanjay and his friends had been hiking all day
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Speaker 1: to this point and it was really hot out, Sanjay
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Speaker 1: really liked the idea of going swimming, and so he
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Speaker 1: actually jumped off the boulder and just started running towards
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Speaker 1: the temple and this pool, and he was yelling to
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Speaker 1: his friends as he did, like hey, I'm gonna go swimming,
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Speaker 1: And so he ran not to the temple, but to
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Speaker 1: this random pool of water that was next to it.
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Speaker 1: And he got to the steps, and he immediately took
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Speaker 1: off his shirt, and he pulled his phone out of
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Speaker 1: his pocket and he put it on the steps, and
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Speaker 1: then he walked his way into the water and turned around,
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Speaker 1: hoping to see his friends coming after him. And sure enough,
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Speaker 1: all of his friends were smiling and laughing and running
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Speaker 1: after him, ripping their shirts off, putting their phones down,
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Speaker 1: and jumping into and so pretty soon this very quiet,
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Speaker 1: peaceful pool next to this temple was packed full of
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Speaker 1: very rowdy and crazy college kids. Now, to be clear,
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Speaker 1: this pool of water was not intended to be a
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Speaker 1: swimming area. It was doug about three hundred years earlier
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Speaker 1: for this temple, and many people began to view this
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Speaker 1: pool of water as sacred because they believed it could
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Speaker 1: cure diseases. And so what Sanjay and his friends were
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Speaker 1: doing was totally taboo and not allowed. But I can
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Speaker 1: promise you Sonjay and his friends did not care. They
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Speaker 1: were having a great time. And in fact, Sanjay was
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Speaker 1: having such a great time that when he turned around
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Speaker 1: and looked back up the steps they had all.
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Speaker 2: Charged in on. He saw one of his friends.
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Speaker 1: Whose name was Vishwas, was standing up out of the
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Speaker 1: water reading what looked like a plaque about this pool
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Speaker 1: of water.
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Speaker 2: And Sanjay hated the idea of one of their buddies not.
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Speaker 1: Getting to experience this fun and so Sanjay, a little
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Speaker 1: out of pocket, yelled out to v schwas like, hey.
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Speaker 2: Stop reading that and get in the water. Let's go.
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Speaker 2: What are you doing?
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Speaker 1: And Vishwas was obviously kind of embarrassed to be called
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Speaker 1: out so publicly in front of the you know, nineteen
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Speaker 1: other kids that were there. They're all looking up at
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Speaker 1: him expectantly now like yeah, get in here, man, and
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Speaker 1: Vishwas He's like, okay, fine, and so he took up
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Speaker 1: his shirt, put his phone down as well, and he
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Speaker 1: got in the water with all of them. And very
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Speaker 1: shortly after he did that, Sanjay kind of forgot about
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Speaker 1: him and decided, hey, this would be a great time
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Speaker 1: to take a photo of everybody here, you know, memorialized
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Speaker 1: this amazing trip. And so Sanjay he waded over to
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Speaker 1: the steps, he grabbed his phone, he came back towards
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Speaker 1: the group and you know, he's looking.
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Speaker 2: At this big, rowdy crowd of his friends.
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Speaker 1: So we're totally not paying attention to him, and he's saying, hey, guys,
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Speaker 1: come over here, I want to take your photo. You know,
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Speaker 1: gather up, I'll take a photo of all of us.
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Speaker 1: And so it took a couple of minutes, but eventually,
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Speaker 1: you know, all these kids got in frame and Sanjay,
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Speaker 1: you know, he held the phone out, made sure everybody.
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Speaker 2: Was there, and they all smiled and he took a picture.
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Speaker 1: And then after he took the picture, Sanjay put his
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Speaker 1: phone back on the steps and returned to just splashing
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Speaker 1: and goofing around with his friends. About an hour later,
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Speaker 1: Sonjay and his friends had left the pool and we're
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Speaker 1: now in the temple and we're just walking around exploring.
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Speaker 1: But eventually Sanjay just got tired of looking inside the temple.
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Speaker 1: It was not very interesting to him, and so he
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Speaker 1: eventually just went outside again and sat down on this
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Speaker 1: low wall that was right outside the temple. And because
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Speaker 1: he knew his friends would not be done for at
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Speaker 1: least you know, fifteen or twenty minutes or so, he
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Speaker 1: just pulled out his phone and began kind of scrolling
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Speaker 1: through social media and.
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Speaker 2: You know, doing what we all do on our phones.
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Speaker 1: But eventually Sanjay opened up his photo album to look
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Speaker 1: at all the photos he had taken during the hike
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Speaker 1: in and then also that picture in the pool, and
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Speaker 1: then also some pictures he took inside at the temple.
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Speaker 1: And so he pulls up his pictures and just kind
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Speaker 1: of starts scrolling through him and he eventually reaches the
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Speaker 1: photo that he took selfie style in the pool with
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Speaker 1: all of his friends together, and so he opens that
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Speaker 1: picture up and he looks at it and he smiles
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Speaker 1: because it definitely was the best picture he took. You know,
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Speaker 1: he got all his buddies and frame everybody seemed so happy.
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Speaker 1: But as Sanjay was looking at this photo, he realized
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Speaker 1: there was something odd about it. There was just something
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Speaker 1: in this photo that just seemed like it shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: And as he looked more closely at it, the smile
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Speaker 1: on his face faded and he began to panic just
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Speaker 1: a little bit. He didn't know if what he was
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Speaker 1: looking at was real or not, but he knew he
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Speaker 1: had to go find out. And so Sanjay put his
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Speaker 1: phone away and he looked up and began looking around
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Speaker 1: outside the temple at all the other people who had left.
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Speaker 2: And many of them included.
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Speaker 1: His friends, and they were walking around talking in groups
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Speaker 1: or whatever, and Sanjay he began looking at all of
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Speaker 1: his friends and he would stare at their faces. He
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Speaker 1: was looking for something, but he didn't see what he
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Speaker 1: was looking for. And so after scanning the entire outside
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Speaker 1: and not feeling satisfied, Sanjay got up and speed walked
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Speaker 1: back into the temple and began going into each and
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Speaker 1: every looking at every single person he encountered. And when
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Speaker 1: he would find one of his friends, he would stare
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Speaker 1: at their face, and when he didn't find what he
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Speaker 1: was looking for, he just kept on going to every
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Speaker 1: single room until finally he reached the last room of
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Speaker 1: the temple and he found the last of his friends,
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Speaker 1: and he looked at their faces, and still he did
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Speaker 1: not see what he was looking for. And so now
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Speaker 1: Sanjay is truly panicked. He's actually horrified.
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Speaker 2: At this point.
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Speaker 1: He runs back outside and he finds their college professor
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Speaker 1: who would come along to sort of chaperon the trip.
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Speaker 1: And he ran up to this professor and he pulled
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Speaker 1: out his phone. He opened up that photo of them
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Speaker 1: in the pool, and he showed the professor what he
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Speaker 1: had found and Sanjay pointed out the strange thing about
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Speaker 1: this photo, and so the professor he began looking at
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Speaker 1: the photo too, and right away he also could see
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Speaker 1: this very strange thing that seemed very out of place.
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Speaker 1: And so the professor asked Sanjay a few follow up questions,
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Speaker 1: you know, about like what Sanjay had done since discovering this,
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Speaker 1: and after Sanjay said, you know, I've been.
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Speaker 2: All over the temple, I still can't figure it out.
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Speaker 1: And so the professor knew the police would have to
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Speaker 1: get involved, and so the professor got in touch with police,
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Speaker 1: and so the police came out to the temple not
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Speaker 1: long after that, and the students, so Sanjay and all
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Speaker 1: of his friends had been instructed to stay right by
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Speaker 1: the temple, do not go down to the pool, stay
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Speaker 1: up here, let the police handle it. And so when
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Speaker 1: the police came in, they came running by the group
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Speaker 1: and Sonjay and his friends were just kind of watching anxiously,
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Speaker 1: waiting to see what happens. And then as the officers
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Speaker 1: went down to the pool from where Sanjay and his
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Speaker 1: friends were standing, they actually did not have a clear view.
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Speaker 1: The temple itself blocked their view, so they could not
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Speaker 1: see the pool, but they could hear what the officers
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Speaker 1: were doing. And at first, as Sonjay and his friends
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Speaker 1: are standing there really nervously, they don't hear.
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Speaker 2: Anything down at the pool.
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Speaker 1: But then they hear one of the officers shout something
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Speaker 1: out like he's found something. And then Sanjay and his
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Speaker 1: friends heard all this splashing as clearly officers were jumping.
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Speaker 2: Into the pool.
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Speaker 1: And it was at this moment when Sanjay heard that
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Speaker 1: splashing that he knew the thing he saw in this
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Speaker 1: photo it had to be real. As horrible as that was,
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Speaker 1: it had to be the reason why Sanjay's friend Vishwas
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Speaker 1: was not in the water with everybody else. You know,
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Speaker 1: why he was up reading that plaque about the history
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Speaker 1: of this pool was because Vishwas did not know how
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Speaker 1: to swim, but he didn't tell anyone. Nobody knew this,
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Speaker 1: and so he was probably kind of embarrassed about it,
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Speaker 1: and so maybe he was reading this plaque as sort
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Speaker 1: of a way to, you know, act distracted, like the
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Speaker 1: plaque is the reason he's not swimming. But then when Sanjay,
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Speaker 1: who meant no harm by this, but he yelled out
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Speaker 1: to vishwas, hey, come on, dude, get in here. Come
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Speaker 1: swimming with us, you know, because he did it so
16:31
Speaker 1: publicly in front of all the other friends, it seems
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Speaker 1: like vishuwas felt very pressured into getting into the water,
16:39
Speaker 1: and that's what he did.
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Speaker 2: Instead of telling.
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Speaker 1: Anybody that he could not swim, he just kind of shrugged,
16:43
Speaker 1: took off his shirt, pulled his phone out of his pocket,
16:46
Speaker 1: put it on.
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Speaker 2: The ground, and waded into the water.
16:48
Speaker 1: And as soon as he did, the entire group just
16:50
Speaker 1: kind of went back to gufn around and splashing and
16:53
Speaker 1: being totally chaotic. And then when Sanjay was like, hey,
16:56
Speaker 1: let's take that photo, he really did manage to get
16:59
Speaker 1: all of his friends in frame somehow, except one of
17:03
Speaker 1: them was Vishwas and you can only see the top
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Speaker 1: obviously an hour later, when Sanjay's looking at this photo,
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Speaker 1: he sees the top of Vischwas's head and he's like,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, is he goofing around or is he drowning?
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Speaker 1: And then he ran all around the temple looking for Vschwas.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to prove that he was not in the
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Speaker 1: out of the water, he was already de ceased. Late
17:52
Speaker 1: on the morning of June twenty seventh, nineteen fifty seven,
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Speaker 1: a twenty five year old Austrian mountain climber named Kurt
17:58
Speaker 1: Diemberger plunged ice ax into the deep snow ahead of
18:01
Speaker 1: him and then used the axe.
18:03
Speaker 2: To pull himself up and over a big ice clumb.
18:05
Speaker 1: Kurt was totally physically and mentally exhausted by this point
18:09
Speaker 1: and only wanted to stop for like two seconds just
18:12
Speaker 1: to catch his breath, but he knew that was just
18:15
Speaker 1: not an option. Kurt and his climbing partner, a thirty
18:18
Speaker 1: two year old man named Herman Buel, were climbing one
18:21
Speaker 1: of the tallest mountains in the world called Choe Galisa,
18:24
Speaker 1: which is located in northern Pakistan, and they were doing
18:27
Speaker 1: this climb all alone. It was just those two and
18:30
Speaker 1: they had virtually no safety equipment. Now for reference, this
18:33
Speaker 1: was not normal. Anybody who climbed Choe Galisa did so
18:37
Speaker 1: with sherpas and guides and oxygen masks. I mean, this
18:40
Speaker 1: was a dangerous climb and so serious measures had to
18:43
Speaker 1: be taken to ensure it was safe.
18:45
Speaker 2: But Kurt and.
18:46
Speaker 1: Herman felt like, nah, that takes all the fun out
18:48
Speaker 1: of mountain climbing. You know, there has to be you know,
18:50
Speaker 1: like real risk here for this to be worth doing.
18:53
Speaker 1: And also critically, Kurt and Herman were well aware of
18:56
Speaker 1: the fact that if they successfully climbed Choe Galisa with
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Speaker 1: no safety equipment so what they were planning to do,
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Speaker 1: that would be a new world record because nobody had
19:05
Speaker 1: ever done that before on this mountain, And so that
19:08
Speaker 1: felt like a really cool reason to go for this,
19:11
Speaker 1: And when they began their journey a few days earlier,
19:13
Speaker 1: when they began the climb, it still felt like a
19:16
Speaker 1: great idea because the weather forecast was perfect for the
19:19
Speaker 1: rest of the time they expected to be on the mountain. However,
19:22
Speaker 1: earlier that morning, Kurt had turned around to talk to
19:25
Speaker 1: Herman and he noticed off to the south was a
19:29
Speaker 1: kind of ominous dark cloud making.
19:31
Speaker 2: Its way toward them.
19:32
Speaker 1: Now, obviously, when you're on the ground and you look
19:35
Speaker 1: up and you see a dark cloud, you think, okay,
19:37
Speaker 1: it might storm or it's actively storming. You know, maybe
19:40
Speaker 1: it's rain, maybe it's snow. But you know, it's probably
19:43
Speaker 1: not a big deal unless it's like a tsunami or
19:45
Speaker 1: a hurricane or something. But dark clouds are just not
19:48
Speaker 1: really a big deal. But when you are four miles
19:51
Speaker 1: up one of the most treacherous mountains in the world,
19:54
Speaker 1: you got no other people with you, you got no
19:56
Speaker 1: safety equipment, and you see a dark cloud coming your way, Yeah,
20:00
Speaker 1: that's terrifying. Because storms have been killing mountain climbers basically
20:05
Speaker 1: for as long as mountain climbing has been a thing.
20:07
Speaker 1: And so when Kurt and Herman saw this cloud, even
20:10
Speaker 1: though the weather forecast had been good, they knew that
20:13
Speaker 1: there was a real chance a storm was going to
20:15
Speaker 1: hit them before they reached the summit, and so they
20:18
Speaker 1: had to make a choice aboard the mission now go
20:21
Speaker 1: back to camp and potentially give up on this climb altogether,
20:25
Speaker 1: thereby not getting the world record, or they could risk
20:29
Speaker 1: it and just try to speed their way up to
20:31
Speaker 1: the summit before the storm arrived. And because Kurt and
20:34
Speaker 1: Herman were actually within about one thousand feet to the
20:37
Speaker 1: summit when Kurt noticed this dark cloud, they decided, you
20:41
Speaker 1: know what, let's just risk it. We can get up
20:43
Speaker 1: there to the summit, get this thing done before this
20:45
Speaker 1: cloud ever gets to us. And so that was the
20:47
Speaker 1: decision they made, and it was also why Kurt and
20:50
Speaker 1: Herman knew there was no way they could slow down
20:53
Speaker 1: even for a second, because basically this was a sprint
20:57
Speaker 1: to the top, and if they slowed down they might die.
21:00
Speaker 1: And so, panting and exhausted with the wind whipping up
21:03
Speaker 1: like mad, Kurt and Herman just kept moving up that
21:06
Speaker 1: mountain as fast as they possibly could. But when they
21:10
Speaker 1: got about maybe five hundred feet away from the summits,
21:13
Speaker 1: they're really close. At this point, something changed. As Kurt
21:16
Speaker 1: was about to bring his axe back down into the
21:18
Speaker 1: snow to you know, pull himself up one more step,
21:21
Speaker 1: he suddenly realized he couldn't see the mountain in front
21:24
Speaker 1: of him, like there was nothing. It was just pure
21:26
Speaker 1: white all around him. He couldn't even see the sky.
21:29
Speaker 1: It was like he was just in this void all
21:30
Speaker 1: of a sudden. And the reason for this is because
21:33
Speaker 1: that dark cloud had.
21:34
Speaker 2: Caught up to them. They were literally inside of the cloud.
21:37
Speaker 1: That's why they couldn't see anything, and so from behind Kurt,
21:40
Speaker 1: even though he can't see anything, he could hear Herman
21:43
Speaker 1: desperately screaming up to him.
21:45
Speaker 2: Hey, we've got to turn around right now.
21:48
Speaker 1: And Kurt obviously knew, Yeah, it's too late. We are
21:50
Speaker 1: not going to make the summit.
21:52
Speaker 2: We gotta go.
21:52
Speaker 1: Kurt knew Herman was right. I mean, this is an
21:54
Speaker 1: absolute crisis. You know, if the storm that's basically brewing
21:58
Speaker 1: all around them didn't care them, certainly the result of
22:02
Speaker 1: the storm would. I mean, all the snow that's going
22:04
Speaker 1: to land is going to fill in their tracks and
22:06
Speaker 1: it would be nearly impossible to find your way back
22:08
Speaker 1: down again. And so this was like, we totally miscalculated.
22:12
Speaker 1: Turn around and get out of here as fast as possible.
22:15
Speaker 1: And so that's what Kurt and Herman began to do.
22:17
Speaker 1: As fast as they could. They began going down the mountain,
22:20
Speaker 1: following along their tracks they had left on the way up,
22:23
Speaker 1: and pretty quickly Kurt and Herman began making serious progress.
22:27
Speaker 1: And so Kurt was starting to feel optimistic that, you know,
22:29
Speaker 1: maybe they had managed to escape this just in time.
22:33
Speaker 1: But right at that moment, the ground underneath Kurt began
22:37
Speaker 1: to vibrate.
22:37
Speaker 2: Then Kurt looked down, and even.
22:39
Speaker 1: Though his visibility was basically nothing, he could tell from
22:43
Speaker 1: his legs that the ground was basically shifting underneath him.
22:48
Speaker 1: And then suddenly Kurt felt this feeling that you get
22:50
Speaker 1: when you're on a carnival ride and you're dropped, that
22:53
Speaker 1: feeling in your stomach that you're falling. He got that
22:56
Speaker 1: because the ground underneath him just gave way. It was
22:59
Speaker 1: an avalanche, and so, in absolute desperation, Kurt, who knows
23:04
Speaker 1: he's about to be sucked into an avalanche, he just
23:07
Speaker 1: jumped like as far away from the mountain as he
23:10
Speaker 1: possibly could, kind of at an angle to the right,
23:13
Speaker 1: like he was leaping up and out of the avalanche
23:15
Speaker 1: and over to the right.
23:17
Speaker 2: But you got to remember, he's on this really steep slope.
23:20
Speaker 1: This is not like jumping on flat ground where you
23:22
Speaker 1: jump up and just return to where you jumped from.
23:25
Speaker 1: He's on a slope. So when he jumped out and
23:28
Speaker 1: to the right, it was like he was jumping off
23:30
Speaker 1: a building. He fell something like thirty or so feet
23:33
Speaker 1: before he hit the ground again. But when Kurt hit
23:36
Speaker 1: the ground, he kind of expected to be gobbled up
23:39
Speaker 1: by the snow and keep being sucked down the mountain,
23:42
Speaker 1: but he wasn't. He hit the ground and didn't move,
23:45
Speaker 1: and then he kind of sat up and he looked
23:47
Speaker 1: around and he realized he had successfully jumped out of
23:50
Speaker 1: the avalanche. He had done it. He saved himself, and
23:53
Speaker 1: so he began looking around. You know, the visibility is
23:55
Speaker 1: still terrible, but it's a little bit better because now
23:58
Speaker 1: the avalanche has basically gone down the mountain. You know,
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Speaker 1: the storm is kind of passing, and so the visibility
24:03
Speaker 1: is decent, and you know, Kurt's looking around screaming out
24:06
Speaker 1: for herman.
24:06
Speaker 2: He doesn't see him.
24:07
Speaker 1: And then it's like suddenly the visibility just opened up,
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Speaker 1: and Kurt was able to look to his left where
24:13
Speaker 1: the avalanche had gone, and as he was looking, he
24:16
Speaker 1: saw what looked impossible. Basically, the land where they had
24:20
Speaker 1: been walking down this mountain was gone. It was like
24:23
Speaker 1: the avalanche had removed that part of the mountain. And
24:26
Speaker 1: so Kurt is basically laying in the snow on the
24:29
Speaker 1: edge of a new cliff where the avalanche had basically
24:32
Speaker 1: broken away the mountain, and so he's looking into this
24:35
Speaker 1: crevasse where the avalanche went and thinking, I can't believe
24:39
Speaker 1: how lucky I am, but I got.
24:40
Speaker 2: To go find Herman.
24:41
Speaker 1: And so Kurt stands up and he's pretty battered from
24:44
Speaker 1: this thirty foot fall, but he's got adrenaline pumping through him,
24:47
Speaker 1: so he feels pretty good.
24:48
Speaker 2: And he scrambles his.
24:49
Speaker 1: Way thirty feet back up the mountain to this ridge
24:52
Speaker 1: line where he originally jumped out of the avalanche, you know,
24:55
Speaker 1: hoping when he got up there that he might find
24:58
Speaker 1: some sign of where Herman went to. They were pretty
25:00
Speaker 1: close together when the avalanche started, but when he got
25:03
Speaker 1: up there, there was no sign of Herman. And you know,
25:05
Speaker 1: he turned around and looked back down the mountain and
25:08
Speaker 1: he couldn't see Herman anywhere. But when he turned back around,
25:11
Speaker 1: looking now back up the mountain, so in the direction
25:14
Speaker 1: of where they had originally intended to hike, and then
25:17
Speaker 1: where they had to come back down from when they
25:19
Speaker 1: were in the cloud, he noticed that he could see
25:22
Speaker 1: very easily their tracks, he and Herman's tracks, and so
25:25
Speaker 1: with his eyes he just kind of tracked these tracks
25:28
Speaker 1: all the way down the mountain to where he was.
25:30
Speaker 1: And as he did this, he noticed something. At first,
25:34
Speaker 1: it was like his brain couldn't compute what he was seeing,
25:37
Speaker 1: but after a moment he knew here is a photo
25:40
Speaker 1: of what Kurt would have seen. However, keep in mind
25:43
Speaker 1: this was not a photo Kurt took, and it's also
25:45
Speaker 1: from a slightly farther away perspective. But conceptually, this really
25:50
Speaker 1: is what Kurt saw that told him what happened to Herman.
25:53
Speaker 1: So in this photo you can see the mountain and
25:55
Speaker 1: the summits at the top, and there's a trail that
25:57
Speaker 1: goes straight down and then appears too divert where there's
26:00
Speaker 1: tracks that go to the left from our perspective, the
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Speaker 1: viewer's perspective, they go to the left around that cliff line,
26:06
Speaker 1: and the other set of footprints that disappear off the cliff. Well,
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Speaker 1: if you haven't figured it out yet, the footprints that
26:12
Speaker 1: go to the left.
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Speaker 2: Are Kurt's footprints.
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Speaker 1: He just magically jumped and landed on the absolute edge
26:18
Speaker 1: of where this avalanche was going to happen. And Herman
26:21
Speaker 1: is the other set of prints. And so when that
26:24
Speaker 1: avalanche started, there was nowhere for Herman to go, and
26:27
Speaker 1: he was sucked into that avalanche and dragged over one
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