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DEADLY BROADCAST terrorized a whole city · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: first story is about a little known invasion of a
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Speaker 1: South American country in nineteen forty nine that had absolutely insane,
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Speaker 1: unintended consequences. And the second story is about this very
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Speaker 1: strange ritual that typically did not have horrible consequences, but
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Speaker 1: one time in eighteen fifty one, it did. But before
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Speaker 1: On February twelfth, nineteen forty nine, a man in his
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Speaker 1: thirties named Leonardo Payez paced around a radio station in
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Speaker 1: a city called Quito, which is the capital city of Ecuador.
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Speaker 1: It was a Saturday night and Leonardo and all the
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Speaker 1: people around him were working very hard to get ready
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Speaker 1: for an urgent broadcast. So Leonardo was the director of
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Speaker 1: Radio Quito, which was a highly respected news station owned
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Speaker 1: by a popular newspaper called El Comercio. Most people in
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Speaker 1: Ecuador basically got all their news either from this news
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Speaker 1: station or that newspaper, or both, and running a radio
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Speaker 1: station with such a great reputation was really a source
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Speaker 1: of pride for Leonardo, who had grown up in Quito,
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Speaker 1: so he took his job very seriously, which was why
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Speaker 1: tonight was such a big deal for him. He was
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Speaker 1: about to deliver a potentially life changing broadcast to the
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Speaker 1: entire city, and just thinking about the gravity of this
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Speaker 1: moment was making him feel sick and sweaty. In the
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Speaker 1: room with Leonardo was a team of producers and sound technicians,
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Speaker 1: as well as one of the station's top news anchors.
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Speaker 1: Most of the last minute work they were all doing
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Speaker 1: involved organizing stacks of paper that contained instructions about what
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Speaker 1: to say and what to do during this pivotal broadcast.
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Speaker 1: That's what the anchor was double checking right now. He
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Speaker 1: was the one who had written the broadcast script and
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Speaker 1: he would be the one actually reading it on the air.
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Speaker 1: Leonardo looked anxiously over at the clock on the wall.
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Speaker 1: It was already a few minutes after nine pm, and
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Speaker 1: they didn't have a lot of time left. But even
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Speaker 1: though Leonardo desperately wanted to get this broadcast started as
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Speaker 1: soon as possible, he knew he had to give his
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Speaker 1: anchor the space and time to make sure they were
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent ready before they actually went on the air,
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Speaker 1: because they really only had one chance to do this right.
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Speaker 1: So instead of telling the anchor to come on, hurry
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Speaker 1: it up, Leonardo instead bit his lip and just paced
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Speaker 1: around the station, trying to distract himself by listening to
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Speaker 1: the program that was currently being broadcast over the radio
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Speaker 1: station's airwaves. It was a live musical performance from a
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Speaker 1: duo of singers named Benitez and Valencia. These two combined
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Speaker 1: were really famous, sort of like the Taylor Swift of
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Speaker 1: nineteen forties Ecuador, and so when people in Quito knew
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Speaker 1: these particular singers were performing on the radio, basically everybody
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Speaker 1: stopped what they were doing and tuned in to listen.
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Speaker 1: So in Keto in the nineteen forties, nobody had TV,
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Speaker 1: and so radios were like the ultimate form of not
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Speaker 1: just how to get your news, but also of entertainment.
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Speaker 1: It's really where everybody turned. But radios were also very
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Speaker 1: expensive and were sort of a luxury item, so not
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Speaker 1: everybody had one. The people who did have radios would
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Speaker 1: often bring theirs outside to the street so that other
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Speaker 1: people could also hear the programs and the music. And
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Speaker 1: Leonardo knew that all of this meant that at this
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Speaker 1: very moment, all across the city, most of Keito's two
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand residents were gathered aroun and radio,
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Speaker 1: and he needed to get his broadcast on the air
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Speaker 1: while he still had everybody's attention. He turned and saw
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Speaker 1: the anchor finally lean back in his chair, indicating he
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Speaker 1: was ready, and so Leonardo knew it was time to
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Speaker 1: go live. Leonardo turned and nodded to his technicians, who
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Speaker 1: were all sitting at a table covered in broadcasting equipment,
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Speaker 1: and one of them, after seeing Leonardo's cue, leaned forward
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Speaker 1: to adjust several knobs and then hit a button on
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Speaker 1: the control panel, and the instant he did this, the
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Speaker 1: voices of the singing duo cut off, and a large
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Speaker 1: red sign that said on air lit up on the
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Speaker 1: wall right about the table. Basically, they were going to
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Speaker 1: cut off the performance to do this broadcast and catch
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Speaker 1: everybody in Quito off guard. And then the anchor leaned
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Speaker 1: into their microphone and in a very urgent voice, said
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Speaker 1: that they were interrupting this musical program because there was
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Speaker 1: an alarming event happening that everybody in Quito had to
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Speaker 1: hear about. Then he explained the reason for this broadcast,
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Speaker 1: Ecuador being invaded. About half a mile away from the
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Speaker 1: radio station, seventeen year old Jose Antonio stood outside a
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Speaker 1: restaurant with some of his friends. Jose and his friends
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Speaker 1: and all the diners, plus a bunch of people out
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Speaker 1: on the sidewalk, had been gathered around the restaurant owner's
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Speaker 1: radio listening to Benitez and Valencia sing when suddenly the
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Speaker 1: music had cut out and the anchor had come on
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Speaker 1: to say that their country was under attack. And so
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Speaker 1: as Jose in this group is sort of caught off
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Speaker 1: guard and listening to the sudden announcement, the announcer got
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Speaker 1: really emphatic and said, listen, the city of Latacunga has
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Speaker 1: been destroyed. And at that Jose's mouth fell open, and
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Speaker 1: he felt this jolt of fear in his chest. Latacunga
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Speaker 1: was only about sixty miles south of Quito, so Jose,
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Speaker 1: along with everybody else around him, instinctively leaned into the
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Speaker 1: radios they could hear more about what was happening and why.
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Speaker 1: But when they all did that, the broadcast suddenly stopped,
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Speaker 1: just as abruptly as it had come on, and the
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Speaker 1: music program came back on. But the street got really
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Speaker 1: quiet as Jose and the crowd just kind of stood
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Speaker 1: there waiting for something to happen. I mean, really, nobody
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Speaker 1: knew how to react to this. A few people began
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Speaker 1: looking up at the sky, thinking maybe warplanes might be
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Speaker 1: flying overhead, and actually Jose began doing that too, wondering
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Speaker 1: if you know, that's the next step. But there were
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Speaker 1: no planes, and there were no signs of, you know,
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Speaker 1: anything that would indicate that war was happening nearby, or
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Speaker 1: you know, whatever destroyed Latacunga was approaching Quito. All Jose
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Speaker 1: could hear was the echo of other radios around the city,
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Speaker 1: now back to playing this musical program. But as the
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Speaker 1: seconds ticked by and the crowd gradually began talking again
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Speaker 1: and kind of going back to normal, some people began
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Speaker 1: making jokes and suggesting that this broadcast was literally a joke,
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Speaker 1: that that was meant to be a prank. Others just
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Speaker 1: kind of brushed the whole thing off and just went
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Speaker 1: about their evening as if it had never even happened. However,
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Speaker 1: Jose did notice that some of the people at the
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Speaker 1: tables outside the restaurant where he was were still just
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Speaker 1: kind of staring at the radio and shifting around like
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Speaker 1: they were restless or uncomfortable, like clearly that broadcast had
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Speaker 1: struck a nerve. Jose also kept fidgeting around and trading
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Speaker 1: worried looks with his friends and the other people around him,
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Speaker 1: because he wasn't so sure this was a joke. And
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Speaker 1: the reason he wasn't sure was because a sudden invasion
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Speaker 1: of their country had actually happened before. Seven years earlier,
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Speaker 1: in nineteen forty one, when Jose was just a kid,
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Speaker 1: the much larger country of Peru had invaded Ecuador after
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Speaker 1: an argument over land along a shared border. Instead of
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Speaker 1: settling the argument diplomatically, the Peruvian army stormed into the
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Speaker 1: disputed territory in Ecuador and conquered it pretty easily, and
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Speaker 1: the fighting had only lasted for maybe about a month
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Speaker 1: before Ecuador accepted that they had lost and retreated, giving
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Speaker 1: up the land. But even though the fighting back then
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Speaker 1: had never actually reached Quito, it had been a terrifying
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Speaker 1: experience for residents of Quito because it made them realize
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Speaker 1: they were not able to defend themselves against a foreign invader.
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Speaker 1: But just then, as Jose and the others are sitting
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Speaker 1: outside the restaurant kind of grappling with what could be
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Speaker 1: going on here? How real is this? You know, a prank?
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Speaker 1: Just then the music that had come back on again
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Speaker 1: on the radio cut out, and once again the broadcaster's
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Speaker 1: voice came on and they said they had an update.
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Speaker 1: The enemy had landed their aircraft right on the outskirts
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Speaker 1: of Quito, in a northern area called Koto Koyao, which
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Speaker 1: was only eight miles from the center of Quito. And
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Speaker 1: suddenly Jose and the others realized that if the enemy
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Speaker 1: had destroyed Latacunga in the south and now landed in
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Speaker 1: Koto Koyao in the north, then the city of Quito
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Speaker 1: was effectively surrounded. But before Jose could even process this thought,
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Speaker 1: another man's voice came on the radio, and unlike the
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Speaker 1: first voice, which was emphatic, but you know, basically come.
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Speaker 1: This guy was absolutely panicked. He said he was the
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Speaker 1: chief of Quito's newspaper, and then he basically screamed, the
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Speaker 1: air base has been taken over by the enemy and destroyed.
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Speaker 1: They're exterminating everything and everyone. He continued to yell that
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Speaker 1: the enemy was using poisonous gas, and they were using fire,
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Speaker 1: and they were literally killing people and destroying homes and buildings,
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Speaker 1: and then he issued a simple and terrifying warning, they're coming.
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Speaker 1: Jose felt himself led out this yelp that he couldn't
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Speaker 1: even control. He was so suddenly terrified. But he didn't
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Speaker 1: even hear it because all around him, everybody else seemed
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Speaker 1: to react basically the same way, all at once, and
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Speaker 1: the streets erupted and screaming and praying and just absolute chaos.
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Speaker 1: Some people began pointing up to the sky, yelling that
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Speaker 1: they could see the enemy. More and more people suddenly
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Speaker 1: began flooding out onto the streets, crowding around the radios,
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Speaker 1: trying to hear more information. They're all terrified and they
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Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. Jose wanted to begin to
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Speaker 1: tell these new people who were coming outside sort of
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Speaker 1: what he and others had heard so far, but everybody
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Speaker 1: out on the street was sort of talking over each other.
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Speaker 1: It was just complete madness. And then literally on the radio,
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Speaker 1: there's all these different voices coming over because clearly the
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Speaker 1: news station is panicked and they can't even get a
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Speaker 1: cohesive message out over this broadcast. However, despite this madness,
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Speaker 1: the one word that kept coming through on the radio
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Speaker 1: that everybody heard was go hide, Hide from the enemy. Hide,
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Speaker 1: and Jose and some other people around him were thinking
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Speaker 1: about doing just that when finally a new voice took
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Speaker 1: over the broadcast, and this man was louder and more
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Speaker 1: authoritative than the others, and it sort of immediately projected calm,
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Speaker 1: not just clearly calm on the other end on the
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Speaker 1: broadcast side, but it sort of quelled the crowd for
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Speaker 1: a second. This person sounded like an authority figure. And
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Speaker 1: this person introduced himself as the mayor of Quito, and
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Speaker 1: he said that yes, there are cities around Keto that
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Speaker 1: are currently under attack, but he said he had clear
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Speaker 1: direction that he wanted everybody in Keto to follow. But
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Speaker 1: despite this instruction really being the first kind of clear
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Speaker 1: next steps for people to follow, it didn't make Jose
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Speaker 1: feel any better about this because the mayor told the
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Speaker 1: people of Quito that the women and children they had
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Speaker 1: to flee, go hide, go away, go find somewhere safe,
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Speaker 1: but the men had to stay and fight. Jose felt
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Speaker 1: this rush of adrenaline because he's thinking, am I old
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Speaker 1: enough to be considered, you know, one of the men?
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Speaker 1: Will I be expected to fight? Or are they going
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Speaker 1: to tell me to go flee with the women and kids? Like?
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Speaker 1: He didn't really know, but he had this calming thought.
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Speaker 1: He's like, you know what, We're at war and I
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Speaker 1: am going to fight. So he signaled to his friends
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Speaker 1: sort of saying, all right, let's go, let's get ready here,
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Speaker 1: and the group came together and they left the restaurant,
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Speaker 1: and at that exact same second, a car came flying
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Speaker 1: past on the street, narrowly missing Jose and his friends,
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Speaker 1: and Jose saw it screech around the corner and out
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Speaker 1: of sight before he heard this loud bang and the
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Speaker 1: crunch of metal against stone. Immediately, some men ran after
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Speaker 1: this car because clearly it gotten into an accident and
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Speaker 1: they need to go if they need help. But other
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Speaker 1: people started running in the opposite direction, and so for Jose,
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Speaker 1: and his friends. It's like, what do we do. Do
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Speaker 1: we go help with the car crash, or do we go,
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Speaker 1: you know, head to the front lines or something. At
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Speaker 1: the same time, women were running by clutching children, and
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Speaker 1: Jose saw a pregnant woman stumble on past, grimacing as
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Speaker 1: she held her stomach. Screams were echoing from all around him,
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Speaker 1: along with the rapid pounding of boots on cobblestones as
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Speaker 1: people basically ran in every direction. Jose was still trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out which way he should go and what
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Speaker 1: he and his friends should actually do here, when he
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Speaker 1: heard a new speaker's voice come on the radio who
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Speaker 1: announced himself as the Minister of Government, which was basically
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Speaker 1: like the person who controls the security of the entire
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Speaker 1: country of Ecuador. And the Minister of Government said to
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Speaker 1: forget about what the mayor had told them about fighting
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Speaker 1: the enemy, because Ecuador's weapons were literally not powerful enough.
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Speaker 1: There was nothing that anyone in Ecuador could do. This
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Speaker 1: is what the minister said. He basically said, we're gonna lose.
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Speaker 1: Just then, another new voice came on the radio. It
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Speaker 1: was this very fast talking man who said he was
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Speaker 1: actually reporting live on the ground in Quito, and he
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Speaker 1: screamed out over the broadcast for everyone to run, and
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Speaker 1: then his feed abruptly cut out, and then the original
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Speaker 1: announcer came back on and his voice shook as he
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Speaker 1: said that reporter who had just said for everybody to
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Speaker 1: run had just been killed. It was nine to twenty
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Speaker 1: one PM. Twenty one minutes had elapsed since this broadcast
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Speaker 1: first went over the air announcing this invasion of Ecuador,
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Speaker 1: and in that time, it was like the country had
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Speaker 1: spiraled into absolute madness. Now, remember, at this point, Jose
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Speaker 1: has gathered with his friends. He's he's sort of begun
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Speaker 1: to leave the restaurant, but so many things have happened
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Speaker 1: all around him that he and his friends are just
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Speaker 1: kind of standing there near the restaurant, not really sure
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Speaker 1: what to do. And as they're standing there, Jose noticed
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Speaker 1: that all these people who previously had just remained seated
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Speaker 1: or remained near radios. It was like everybody all at
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Speaker 1: once just got up and began running in different directions,
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Speaker 1: running to the churches, running to their homes. It was
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Speaker 1: like the entire country truly was just in full blown
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Speaker 1: panic mode. Jose also began to notice families come running
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Speaker 1: out of their homes, dragging suitcases and belongings with them,
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Speaker 1: getting ready to evacuate hopefully, but where could they even go?
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Speaker 1: They're surrounded And just then Jose heard the sound of
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Speaker 1: glass shattering, and he saw a few people over at
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Speaker 1: the restaurant's bar taking liquor from the shelves and pouring
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Speaker 1: themselves drinks before tossing the bottles on the floor. Jose
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Speaker 1: looked and realized his friends had already left him, so
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Speaker 1: he's just standing here all alone. And he knew by
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Speaker 1: this point he can't just keep standing here thinking about
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Speaker 1: what he's going to do. He needs to do something,
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Speaker 1: He needs to act. But just then the radio crackled
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Speaker 1: back to life, and once again there was a voice
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Speaker 1: calling out one final update. But it was so crazy
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Speaker 1: all around them, m Jose couldn't understand what this final
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Speaker 1: update actually was. He just didn't hear it. However, Jose
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Speaker 1: could clearly see other people around him had heard this
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Speaker 1: final update, and they were obviously reacting to it because
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Speaker 1: they stopped. Everybody stopped running around, They put down their suitcases,
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Speaker 1: and everyone just kind of stood there. And then people
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Speaker 1: began going for their guns and knives and torches and
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Speaker 1: then once this huge, now armed crowd came together, they
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Speaker 1: began to move as one, all in the direction of
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Speaker 1: the city center. In the city center, in the Radio
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Speaker 1: Quito station, Leonardo watched as the anchor delivered that final update,
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Speaker 1: the one that Jose had not heard but others had
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Speaker 1: and clearly reacted to. A minute later, Leonardo heard glass
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Speaker 1: shattering somewhere one floor below him, along with a loud
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Speaker 1: crackling sound. Then he smelt smoke, and he noticed the
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Speaker 1: air in front of him inside the studio was getting hazy,
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Speaker 1: and then from outside the building he heard somebody yelling fire.
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Speaker 1: Behind Leonardo, the anchor grabbed the microphone and pleaded on
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Speaker 1: air to anybody who was listening that the radio station
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Speaker 1: was in trouble and to please come help. But there
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Speaker 1: really was no one left to help them. They were
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Speaker 1: on their own, and when Leonardo and his team realized this,
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Speaker 1: they knew they had to get out of the station
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Speaker 1: by themselves, and so they ran together down the stairs
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Speaker 1: to the exit. But before they even got to the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the steps, the smoke from the fire became
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Speaker 1: so thick they couldn't even breathe. Leonardo realized that the
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Speaker 1: whole first floor must be engulfed in flames, and so
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Speaker 1: the only way out was actually to go up, not down.
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Speaker 1: So Leonardo led the group back up the way they came,
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Speaker 1: running back through the second floor office building, the studio
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Speaker 1: space where they had recorded the broadcast, and headed up
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Speaker 1: the stairs to the very top floor. And by the
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Speaker 1: time Leonardo got to the top floor, he could hear
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Speaker 1: screams coming from somewhere below him, and they sounded painful
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Speaker 1: and horrible. He hoped his co workers had been able
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Speaker 1: to follow him up here, but by this point there
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Speaker 1: was so much smoke in the building he really couldn't see,
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Speaker 1: so he didn't know who was here with him and
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Speaker 1: who had been left behind. And also the roar of
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Speaker 1: the fire was getting louder by the minute, and it
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Speaker 1: was so hot that sweat poured from Leonardo's face and
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Speaker 1: it stung his eyes, and so Leonardo instinctively ran away
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Speaker 1: from the smoke towards the windows. And because they're on
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Speaker 1: the top floor, three floors up, you know, looking out,
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Speaker 1: he had a good view of the ground below, and
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Speaker 1: he saw these huge crowds of people in the street.
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Speaker 1: Most of them were holding torches and seemed to be
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Speaker 1: running around and random patterns, while big military tanks rolled
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Speaker 1: in behind them, along with this hazy mist from some
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Speaker 1: kind of gas kind of flowing across the entire crowd.
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Speaker 1: Just then, Leonardo felt the floor under his feet begin
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Speaker 1: to shake, and he frantically began to think, like, how
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Speaker 1: am I going to get out of here? I need
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Speaker 1: to escape, And that's when he saw the roof next door.
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Speaker 1: So the radio station sat next door to a school,
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Speaker 1: which was at this point not yet on fire. Now,
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Speaker 1: the school building was not connected to the radio station,
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Speaker 1: but it was close enough that Leonardo realized that he
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Speaker 1: might be able to open up a window that he's
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Speaker 1: standing right near, get a running start, and literally jump
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Speaker 1: out the window and land on the school roof. Now, obviously,
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Speaker 1: if he undershot this jump, he would fall to the
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Speaker 1: street below and die. But the alternative was stay here
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Speaker 1: and be burned alive. So Leonardo just opened up the window.
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Speaker 1: He backed up, took a deep breath, got a running start,
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Speaker 1: and jumped out the window. He flew into the air,
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Speaker 1: arms flailing as he willed himself to land on the
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Speaker 1: school roof, and after a millisecond in the air, he
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Speaker 1: comes crashing down, slams onto the school building. He had
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Speaker 1: made it. It was painful, but he had escaped. But
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Speaker 1: Leonardo didn't have time to waste here, nor did he
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Speaker 1: really have time to wait to see if others would
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Speaker 1: also make this jump. I mean, he really felt like
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Speaker 1: he's sort of on his own here, and so up
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Speaker 1: he got, and despite the pain from impacting the roof,
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Speaker 1: you know, he was basically okay, and he walked across
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Speaker 1: the school building until he went to the next roof. Basically,
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Speaker 1: the next building butted up against the school building, so
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Speaker 1: he climbs onto that roof and he walks across that
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Speaker 1: roof until he reaches the next building. Again, these buildings
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Speaker 1: are all connected, so there's no more jumping from you know,
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Speaker 1: one building to the next. But he is going roof
19:16
Speaker 1: to roof basically high up above the streets of Keto,
19:20
Speaker 1: and down below he sees, you know, all this madness
19:23
Speaker 1: with the tanks and all these people with torches. He
19:25
Speaker 1: doesn't really know what's going on here. And eventually he
19:28
Speaker 1: reaches a roof, you know, as he makes his way
19:30
Speaker 1: that a family was sitting on and the family they
19:33
Speaker 1: were looking out at the city where the sky was
19:35
Speaker 1: still glowing from the light of the fire Leonardo had
19:37
Speaker 1: just escaped from. And when they saw Leonardo, they told
19:40
Speaker 1: him they had actually been down on the streets in
19:42
Speaker 1: that crowd, but when it became too dangerous, they had
19:45
Speaker 1: come up here to escape. And they asked Leonardo, had
19:48
Speaker 1: he done the same thing? Is that why he was here?
19:50
Speaker 1: Leonardo said no, and then he told them who he
19:53
Speaker 1: was and how he actually arrived here and why, and
19:56
Speaker 1: then he asked them for help. And for a second
19:59
Speaker 1: the family just stared to him and shock. Then they
20:02
Speaker 1: began to talk to each other, and from what Leonardo
20:04
Speaker 1: could hear, and also based on facial expressions, the family
20:08
Speaker 1: seemed mad. But finally the father looked at Leonardo and said, yes,
20:14
Speaker 1: they would help him. However, there was a condition. He
20:17
Speaker 1: told Leonardo that under no circumstances could he Leonardo go
20:22
Speaker 1: down on the street with that crowd. The father said,
20:25
Speaker 1: Leonardo would have to hide out in this family's house,
20:28
Speaker 1: because the father explained that everybody in the city, including
20:33
Speaker 1: all those people down there, wanted Leonardo's head. It would
20:39
Speaker 1: turn out Leonardo's broadcast had actually been wildly successful. It
20:44
Speaker 1: had done exactly what he hoped it would do. It
20:47
Speaker 1: grabbed the attention of basically everybody in Quito, the whole
20:51
Speaker 1: city stopped in its tracks to listen to what the
20:53
Speaker 1: broadcast had to say. However, there was one very important
20:57
Speaker 1: fact that Leonardo had decided not to mention in this
21:00
Speaker 1: broadcast until the very end, when in many ways it
21:04
Speaker 1: was already too late. This fact was the final update,
21:07
Speaker 1: the one Jose had not been able to hear, but
21:10
Speaker 1: that had caused everybody on the street who had heard
21:13
Speaker 1: it to stop running around, stop screaming, and just get
21:16
Speaker 1: their guns, knives and torches and head towards the center
21:20
Speaker 1: of town. The fact that was held off until the
21:22
Speaker 1: very end was this whole broadcast was a farce. The
21:26
Speaker 1: invasion was not real. It was an act, a prank,
21:29
Speaker 1: a joke. The broadcast was like this play. It was
21:32
Speaker 1: an adaptation of a fiction novel called War of the
21:35
Speaker 1: Worlds by H. G. Wells, which is about an alien invasion.
21:39
Speaker 1: And so what Leonardo did is he orchestrated this broadcast
21:43
Speaker 1: to sound and feel like a real breaking news broadcast
21:48
Speaker 1: about an alien invasion. The exact same thing had actually
21:52
Speaker 1: been done in the United States a few years earlier,
21:54
Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty eight, but in the American version the
21:58
Speaker 1: listeners had been warned at the beginning of the broadcast
22:02
Speaker 1: that it was not real, and it still caused mass
22:05
Speaker 1: panic even though they had been warned. And so during
22:09
Speaker 1: Leonardo's broadcast when he finally revealed the truth at the
22:12
Speaker 1: very end, the listeners were not soothed. They were not like,
22:16
Speaker 1: oh boy, what a great prank. They were furious, so
22:21
Speaker 1: furious in fact, that they went to the radio station
22:24
Speaker 1: in the city center where Leonardo and his broadcast crew
22:27
Speaker 1: were and they lit it on fire. And so between
22:31
Speaker 1: the radio station fire and also between all the people
22:34
Speaker 1: who took their own lives preemptively believing aliens were going
22:38
Speaker 1: to be here any minute to kill them, torture them,
22:41
Speaker 1: abduct them. The death toll from this night, from this
22:45
Speaker 1: farce was between six and twenty people, and a whole
22:49
Speaker 1: lot more people were also injured in the chaos. As
22:52
Speaker 1: for seventeen year old Jose Antonio, he would survive and
22:56
Speaker 1: later in life he would actually give a tell all
22:58
Speaker 1: interview about his experience during the so called alien invasion.
23:03
Speaker 1: As for Leonardo, he didn't face any criminal charges, no
23:06
Speaker 1: jail time, nothing, but this whole incident really destroyed his
23:10
Speaker 1: credibility and it made people not trust him an Ecuador,
23:14
Speaker 1: so it was basically impossible to get work, and so
23:17
Speaker 1: eventually he had to move to Venezuela. And then as
23:19
Speaker 1: for Radio Quito, the at one point very influential, very
23:23
Speaker 1: important news broadcast, they wouldn't make another broadcast for two
23:28
Speaker 1: whole years after this incident. On the evening of Sunday,
23:44
Speaker 1: January twenty sixth, eighteen fifty one, a twenty three year
23:47
Speaker 1: old man named Bailey's Staples hurried up the walkway of
23:50
Speaker 1: a home in Fall River, Massachusetts. It was so cold
23:53
Speaker 1: that Bailey's could see his breath, but despite the weather,
23:57
Speaker 1: he could not stop smiling. And that was because he
24:00
Speaker 1: was about to do something that he loved to do
24:02
Speaker 1: that made him a lot of money. And it was
24:04
Speaker 1: actually the third time that day that he was even
24:07
Speaker 1: doing it. I mean, this was awesome. Bailey's was a
24:10
Speaker 1: psychic medium and he was about to perform a seance.
24:14
Speaker 1: So at this point in America in eighteen fifty one,
24:17
Speaker 1: there was this phenomenon going on called the spiritualist movement. Basically,
24:21
Speaker 1: huge numbers of people began to believe that the living
24:25
Speaker 1: and the dead could actually communicate with each other through
24:28
Speaker 1: mediums like Bailey's, and at this time, there was a
24:32
Speaker 1: very specific way that mediums like Bailey's conducted their seances.
24:36
Speaker 1: They would sit at a round table along with all
24:38
Speaker 1: their guests that were going to participate, and they would
24:41
Speaker 1: summon spirits and what would happen is the participants in
24:45
Speaker 1: these seances could literally tell when it was that the
24:49
Speaker 1: spirit actually made contact with the medium, because the round
24:53
Speaker 1: table they were all sitting at would shake or move.
24:56
Speaker 1: Sometimes the table would thump so violently that one of
24:59
Speaker 1: the legs of the t table would break off, and
25:01
Speaker 1: a broken table at a seance was considered a huge success.
25:06
Speaker 1: So seances were craze all over the country, and many
25:10
Speaker 1: people did genuinely believe that, you know, people like Bailey's
25:14
Speaker 1: mediums could talk to ghosts in these seances. But there
25:17
Speaker 1: were lots of people also who didn't believe any of it,
25:21
Speaker 1: thought it was completely made up. But they would still
25:23
Speaker 1: hire people like Bailey's to have these seances at parties
25:28
Speaker 1: and other functions as sort of a form of entertainment,
25:31
Speaker 1: kind of like how you might hire a band or
25:33
Speaker 1: a magician. And in Fall River, Massachusetts, there really was
25:38
Speaker 1: a big appetite for these seances both, you know, because
25:41
Speaker 1: people believed they were true and lots of people who
25:43
Speaker 1: thought they were fake. And it's in part because there
25:46
Speaker 1: were lots of homes in Fall River, Massachusetts at the
25:48
Speaker 1: time that sort of had some history about being haunted,
25:52
Speaker 1: and so there was sort of groundwork laid for both
25:55
Speaker 1: believers and non believers to contract people like Bailey's. Now,
25:58
Speaker 1: to be clear, Bailey's whole seance act was a blatant fake.
26:03
Speaker 1: In fact, many of the people who hired Bailey's knew
26:06
Speaker 1: in advance that it was all an act. That Bailey's
26:09
Speaker 1: really was more of a performer than a psychic medium.
26:12
Speaker 1: But Baile's was really good at faking it, and so
26:16
Speaker 1: he had become kind of like the go to medium,
26:19
Speaker 1: certainly in Fall River, which meant for him to maintain
26:22
Speaker 1: this flow of business, he really had to put full
26:25
Speaker 1: energy into every performance to keep getting people to call
26:29
Speaker 1: on him. So on this day, as Bailey's is sitting
26:31
Speaker 1: there getting ready to start his third seance of the day,
26:35
Speaker 1: he was tired. I mean, it's pretty exhausting to do
26:37
Speaker 1: these performances, but he knew he just had to get
26:40
Speaker 1: that second wind and just push through and do as
26:43
Speaker 1: good of a job as he possibly could, And so
26:46
Speaker 1: as the homeowner of this third seance opened up the
26:48
Speaker 1: door and let him inside, Bailey's was sure this was
26:52
Speaker 1: going to be at least as good, if not better,
26:55
Speaker 1: than the other performances of the day. Moments later, the homeowner,
26:58
Speaker 1: John Gardner, led Bailes into the living room where several
27:02
Speaker 1: other guests were already gathered. Bailey's immediately snapped into character.
27:06
Speaker 1: He swooshed his cape as he walked in, and he
27:08
Speaker 1: waved his hand around the room to command their attention,
27:11
Speaker 1: and when everyone turned to look at him, he said,
27:14
Speaker 1: I have broken two tables today, and now I've come
27:18
Speaker 1: to break yours. The guests all cheered and clapped, and
27:21
Speaker 1: Bailies could tell they were going to be a very
27:23
Speaker 1: enthusiastic audience, which always made these seances much more fun.
27:27
Speaker 1: So into the parlor they all went, and they all
27:30
Speaker 1: took a seat around this big circular table in the
27:32
Speaker 1: middle of the room, and then Bailey's dimmed the lights
27:35
Speaker 1: and walked around the table giving his instructions. He then
27:38
Speaker 1: told them to all hover their hands over the table
27:41
Speaker 1: with their palms down and their fingers spread, and that
27:44
Speaker 1: each of them would have to touch the hands of
27:46
Speaker 1: the person sitting next to them. He told them that
27:48
Speaker 1: once they were all touching, it would create a circuit
27:51
Speaker 1: that was more inviting to the spirits. And so once
27:54
Speaker 1: all of his guests got into position with their hands,
27:56
Speaker 1: Baileies took his seat and did the same thing with
27:59
Speaker 1: his own hands, creating a full circuit all the way
28:01
Speaker 1: around the table. And at that point everybody was ready,
28:05
Speaker 1: and so he nodded, and in a commanding voice, he
28:07
Speaker 1: said that now he was going to speak to the spirits,
28:11
Speaker 1: and if the spirits in the room felt like answering,
28:15
Speaker 1: they would move this table. The room got deadly quiet
28:18
Speaker 1: as everyone waited to see what Bailey's would do. But
28:21
Speaker 1: Bailey's just let the tension grow because he knew that
28:24
Speaker 1: the longer he waited, the more anticipation would build. This
28:28
Speaker 1: was actually Bailey's favorite part of the performance, and he
28:30
Speaker 1: could feel his own heart begin to race. I mean,
28:32
Speaker 1: this really was exciting. But then finally he broke the
28:35
Speaker 1: silence and called out to the spirits in the room
28:38
Speaker 1: and demanded that if there were a ghost here, to
28:40
Speaker 1: make itself known. And at this everyone immediately began to
28:44
Speaker 1: look around excitedly which created the quick distraction that Bailey's
28:48
Speaker 1: actually needed to perform his first trick. So mediums used
28:52
Speaker 1: a few different tools to help them fake communication from
28:55
Speaker 1: these ghosts, and one of those tools were these special
28:57
Speaker 1: hooks that they actually attached to their wrists and they
29:01
Speaker 1: hid them under their sleeves, and then when they put
29:03
Speaker 1: their hands palm down hovering over the table like they
29:06
Speaker 1: told everybody else to do, those hooks would actually go
29:09
Speaker 1: below the table and grip on, so the medium could,
29:12
Speaker 1: without looking like they're actually touching the table, literally lift
29:15
Speaker 1: the table up and rattle it around, you know, again
29:18
Speaker 1: without appearing to actually touch it. Now, it actually took
29:21
Speaker 1: a lot of strength to do this, I mean, imagine
29:23
Speaker 1: moving a huge table around just like with your arms
29:25
Speaker 1: kind of hovering over the table. But Bailey's was getting
29:28
Speaker 1: really good at it, and so as his guests were
29:31
Speaker 1: all looking around, you know, looking out for ghosts, Bailey's
29:34
Speaker 1: masterfully hooked his hooks right under the table and began
29:38
Speaker 1: moving his wrists around, which caused the table to thump.
29:41
Speaker 1: And as soon as this happened, a woman on the
29:43
Speaker 1: other side of the table screamed, and the other guests
29:45
Speaker 1: began laughing and getting really excited, but Bailey's was only
29:49
Speaker 1: just getting started. He called out to the spirit again,
29:52
Speaker 1: much more forcefully this time, and as he did, he
29:55
Speaker 1: literally made the table rise off the floor as all
29:58
Speaker 1: the guests gasped. One man asked how Bailey's was even
30:01
Speaker 1: doing this. I mean, he knew this was fake, but like,
30:03
Speaker 1: how are you lifting the table up because his hands
30:06
Speaker 1: are over the table. Remember it's just these secret hooks underneath.
30:09
Speaker 1: But Bailey's just kind of ignored the man and smiled,
30:12
Speaker 1: and then he said to the spirit that if you're
30:14
Speaker 1: willing to communicate with us, wrap on this table one time.
30:18
Speaker 1: And then Bailey's used the hook you know, underneath the
30:21
Speaker 1: table to make a knocking sound. And as he did this,
30:24
Speaker 1: the woman who had first screamed on the other side
30:26
Speaker 1: of the table, she jumped. She was so scared, and
30:29
Speaker 1: it actually caused Bailey's to have the surge of adrenaline,
30:32
Speaker 1: like he was really doing a good job. And so
30:34
Speaker 1: Bailey's actually kind of leaned into this and rattled the
30:37
Speaker 1: table a bit more for dramatic effect. And in doing this,
30:39
Speaker 1: I mean, Bailey's was really exerting himself. He's trying not
30:42
Speaker 1: to give off the vibe that he's moving this table around,
30:45
Speaker 1: but he really is, and so he's like sweating bullets,
30:48
Speaker 1: and he's also yelling out to the spirit demanding them
30:51
Speaker 1: to come forward and talk to us. But then as
30:54
Speaker 1: Bailey's is doing this this big act here that he
30:56
Speaker 1: in no way suspects is going to actually call spirit
31:00
Speaker 1: into the room, he suddenly felt the room turn icy cold,
31:04
Speaker 1: and he had this weird tingling sensation flowing through him.
31:07
Speaker 1: He blinked and then his vision got hazy. This had
31:10
Speaker 1: never happened to him during any of his seances, and
31:12
Speaker 1: clearly it was having an effect on him because he
31:15
Speaker 1: no longer was trying to communicate with the dead. He
31:17
Speaker 1: was just kind of standing there, very uneasy, like this
31:20
Speaker 1: seance was actually doing something that there really might be
31:23
Speaker 1: spirits in the room. Now Bailees can tell he's getting
31:26
Speaker 1: stared at, and he doesn't want to destroy his business here,
31:29
Speaker 1: like he needs to maintain the act. He can't just
31:32
Speaker 1: spook himself out and stop the seance. But at the
31:35
Speaker 1: same time, he couldn't break out of this weird feeling
31:38
Speaker 1: he had. The room felt so cold, I mean, something
31:40
Speaker 1: was off here. And then he tried to move and
31:43
Speaker 1: it was like he couldn't he was frozen. Now. At
31:46
Speaker 1: the same time Bailey's is experiencing this. Across the table,
31:50
Speaker 1: the homeowner and host, John Gardner is just sitting there
31:53
Speaker 1: staring at Bailey's trying to figure out what's actually happening here.
31:57
Speaker 1: And from his perspective, he watched as baby Ley's went
32:00
Speaker 1: from sort of standing there awkwardly unable to move, it
32:03
Speaker 1: looked like, to then sitting down in his chair and
32:05
Speaker 1: sort of lurching back in this awkward position. And then
32:08
Speaker 1: Bailey's eyes began darting all over the room, and also
32:11
Speaker 1: his breathing got really ragged and heavy, and John couldn't
32:15
Speaker 1: help but feel like, it looks like Bailey's is possessed
32:19
Speaker 1: for real. And then Bailey's began to speak, and his
32:22
Speaker 1: voice sort of cracked as he did, and he began
32:24
Speaker 1: mumbling something that John and the others couldn't understand. I mean, John,
32:29
Speaker 1: he really couldn't help, but he felt sort of spooked
32:31
Speaker 1: by this. I mean, this was really convincing. John actually
32:34
Speaker 1: wanted to applaud I mean, Bailey's acting was so good here,
32:39
Speaker 1: but he also didn't want to destroy the act and
32:41
Speaker 1: sort of break his character, you know, like Bailey's. John
32:45
Speaker 1: and most of his guests did not believe seances were
32:48
Speaker 1: real at all. But I mean, Bailey's performance was really
32:51
Speaker 1: turning out to be way better than any of them
32:53
Speaker 1: had expected. But just then Bailey's shot up out of
32:57
Speaker 1: his chair and the whole table thumped again and sho
33:00
Speaker 1: and then Bailey's let out this almost ghostly sounding moan.
33:04
Speaker 1: And then one of John's guests asked if the ghost
33:07
Speaker 1: was speaking through Bailey's but instead of answering, Bailey's eyes
33:11
Speaker 1: rolled all the way back in his head, so only
33:13
Speaker 1: the whites were visible. John and the others were transfixed.
33:16
Speaker 1: I mean, this was just incredible, like really kind of
33:19
Speaker 1: scary stuff here. But then Bailey's led out another moan
33:23
Speaker 1: and then fell backwards hard onto the ground. And for
33:26
Speaker 1: a second there was just confused silence because if this
33:30
Speaker 1: is an act, I mean, that was a violent fall.
33:33
Speaker 1: This looks really legitimate. How is Bailees able to do
33:37
Speaker 1: this over and over again? This seems real? And it
33:40
Speaker 1: was in that moment of realizing that something is off
33:44
Speaker 1: here some of the guests began to scream and they
33:47
Speaker 1: began to run out of the room. A few minutes later,
33:51
Speaker 1: a local physician named doctor Hopper ran into the parlor
33:55
Speaker 1: of John Gardner's home. He'd been summoned by one of
33:57
Speaker 1: the guests who had panicked and actually ran out and
33:59
Speaker 1: got m But that guest had been rambling about a
34:02
Speaker 1: ghost and a possession, so doctor Harper really wasn't sure
34:06
Speaker 1: what kind of problem he was actually responding to. But
34:08
Speaker 1: now he could see there was a group of people
34:10
Speaker 1: dressed for a party gathered around what appeared to be
34:13
Speaker 1: a seance table, pointing to the floor where there was
34:16
Speaker 1: this young man lying in a crumpled heap. Doctor Harper
34:19
Speaker 1: went to the young man and reached out and felt
34:22
Speaker 1: the man's neck, but there was no pulse, and so
34:25
Speaker 1: the doctor turned and looked at the group and said
34:28
Speaker 1: he's dead. And before the group could really even react,
34:31
Speaker 1: the doctor said, now hold on, someone needs to slowly
34:35
Speaker 1: and clearly explain what happened here. John Gardner stepped forward
34:39
Speaker 1: and now, in a very shaking voice, explained that this
34:43
Speaker 1: young man was a medium whose name was Bailey's Staples,
34:46
Speaker 1: and he had been doing a seance and he had
34:49
Speaker 1: demanded a ghost talk to the group, and then a
34:52
Speaker 1: moment later he was thrashing around, apparently possessed by this ghost,
34:56
Speaker 1: and then he fell to the ground dead. John said,
34:59
Speaker 1: they had all I thought this sance was a fake.
35:01
Speaker 1: I mean when they hired Bailey's they literally thought this
35:04
Speaker 1: was just going to be a performance, nothing real. But now,
35:07
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't know what to think. This looked
35:09
Speaker 1: very real. Doctor Hopper shook his head, not really sure
35:12
Speaker 1: what to make of this explanation. He certainly did not
35:15
Speaker 1: believe in ghosts, but after a quick examination of Bailey's
35:19
Speaker 1: he really couldn't see any obvious cause for the medium's death.
35:23
Speaker 1: So doctor Hopper got to his feet and told the
35:25
Speaker 1: dinner guests that whatever killed Bailey Staples was not a ghost,
35:30
Speaker 1: but he didn't know what it was yet. However, he
35:32
Speaker 1: would get to the bottom of it. However, by the
35:35
Speaker 1: next morning, news of Bailey's death had spread all over
35:39
Speaker 1: Fall River and beyond, and it made the immediate autopsy
35:43
Speaker 1: that doctor Hopper wanted to do to figure out what
35:45
Speaker 1: happened to him basically impossible. Now, the reason it was
35:49
Speaker 1: impossible is because some people were claiming that this was
35:53
Speaker 1: a ghost that possessed Bailey's but it didn't actually kill him.
35:58
Speaker 1: The ghost must have put ba Bailes into a trance
36:01
Speaker 1: where he appears dead but is not actually dead. But
36:05
Speaker 1: if doctor Hopper performs the autopsy on him, the autopsy
36:10
Speaker 1: will kill Bailey's so you can't do that. And so
36:13
Speaker 1: pretty quickly you have all these people that are showing
36:15
Speaker 1: up at doctor Hopper's clinic and the local police station
36:18
Speaker 1: demanding authorities give them Bailey's body to prevent the doctor
36:23
Speaker 1: from killing him by doing an autopsy on him. And
36:26
Speaker 1: so it's this whole scene. And at the same time,
36:29
Speaker 1: keep in mind, you know, the country as a whole
36:32
Speaker 1: has been taken with seances. That was already something that
36:35
Speaker 1: was sort of happening everywhere, but this story, which sort
36:39
Speaker 1: of legitimized the idea that ghosts could be real and
36:42
Speaker 1: ghosts can also be dangerous. Given what happened to Bailey's,
36:46
Speaker 1: this story is spreading like wildfire all over the country.
36:50
Speaker 1: And so at a time where people in America were
36:52
Speaker 1: already big on seances, this pretty much dumped gasoline on that,
36:57
Speaker 1: and seances became even more popular, but now because they
37:01
Speaker 1: felt real, not because they were entertainment. On January twenty eighth,
37:06
Speaker 1: so two days after Bailey's was pronounced dead. Doctor Hopper
37:10
Speaker 1: stood in the basement of the local morgue holding a scalpel.
37:13
Speaker 1: He had finally gotten the approval to go ahead and
37:16
Speaker 1: conduct his autopsy, but he knew that a lot of
37:18
Speaker 1: people were not happy about it, and now he was
37:21
Speaker 1: looking down at Bailey's body, realizing that, to his own surprise,
37:25
Speaker 1: he was sort of nervous about this, like the idea
37:28
Speaker 1: that what if this guy's actually still alive and I'm
37:30
Speaker 1: about to kill him with this autopsy. Now, logically, the
37:34
Speaker 1: doctor did not think Bailey's was in a trance, but
37:37
Speaker 1: it was unsettling how physically healthy Bailey's body looked. He
37:41
Speaker 1: was young and strong, with no history of illness, and
37:44
Speaker 1: there wasn't a mark on his body anywhere to explain
37:47
Speaker 1: why he was dead. The only blemishes on his skin
37:50
Speaker 1: were these slight bruises around his wrists, which doctor Hopper
37:53
Speaker 1: understood were from these special hooks he had been wearing
37:56
Speaker 1: when he died to lift up the table. But doctor
37:59
Speaker 1: Hopper shook off the nerves and moved a scalpel towards
38:01
Speaker 1: the skin of Bailey's chest and made his first incision,
38:05
Speaker 1: opening up the chest cavity, and that was when doctor
38:09
Speaker 1: Hopper saw it, it would turn out. On the day
38:12
Speaker 1: Bailey's Staples died, he was at his absolute performative peak
38:17
Speaker 1: as he lifted John Gardner's table up off the ground
38:20
Speaker 1: and made the seance guest scream and laugh. But what
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Speaker 1: Bailey's didn't know, and what doctor Hopper found when he
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Speaker 1: performed the autopsy, was that Bailey's had a pre existing
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Speaker 1: heart condition, and his passionate performance, coupled with the physical
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Speaker 1: exertion it took to lift up that heavy parlor table
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Speaker 1: with just his wrists, and the fact that Bailey's had
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Speaker 1: also already given two other similar performances that day, caused
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Speaker 1: his weak heart to swell and develop an aneurysm, which
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Speaker 1: ruptured and caused fatal internal bleeding. Bailey Staples had basically
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Speaker 1: put on the absolute best seance performance of his life.
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Speaker 1: It was so good, in fact, that it killed him
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Speaker 1: and also accidentally convinced an entire house full of dinner
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Speaker 1: guests and many people all across the country that ghosts
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