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Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • PLACES You Can't Go Edition Vol. 3 - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Valley is a beautiful, remote section of backcountry in Yellowstone
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Speaker 1: National Park in Wyoming. It's meandering meadows and creeks and
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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty degree view of the mountains make
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Speaker 1: it appear like the perfect place to camp out under
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Speaker 1: the stars. But unlike other areas of the park, Pelican
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Speaker 1: Valley requires a special permit if you intend to stay
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Speaker 1: the night, and before Yellowstone Park Rangers give you this permit,
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Speaker 1: they remind you that Pelican Valley is a very dangerous
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Speaker 1: place and in general, you should only be out there.
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Speaker 2: With groups of at least four people.
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Speaker 1: On July twenty eighth, nineteen eighty four, twenty five year
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Speaker 1: old Brigita Fredenhagen, along with her brother Andrea and her
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Speaker 1: sister in law johnco arrived at Yellowstone National Park. That night,
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Speaker 1: they stayed in one of the park's for established campgrounds
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Speaker 1: called Grant Village. The following day, they headed out to
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Speaker 1: one of the park's famous hot springs called.
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Speaker 2: The Norris Geyser.
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Speaker 1: That afternoon, before heading back to their campsite, they made
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Speaker 1: a pit stop at the park rangers office so Brigita
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Speaker 1: could apply for a Pelican Valley permit. Her plan was
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Speaker 1: to spend the following night in the valley. When they
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Speaker 1: went in the office, the rangers believed all three of
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Speaker 1: them were applying for a permit, and so they weren't
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Speaker 1: asking that many questions and they were just kind of
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Speaker 1: going through the routine. And then when Brigita said, no,
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Speaker 1: it's just going to be me applying for a permit,
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Speaker 1: they actually immediately tried to dissuade her and said, this
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Speaker 1: is a really bad idea. Nobody goes into Pelican Valley
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Speaker 1: on their own. But Brigita assured them that she was
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Speaker 1: an experienced camper, she understood the risks, and she still
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Speaker 1: wanted to go on her own. And Andreas and johnco
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Speaker 1: who were standing behind her, kind of echoed that sentiment
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Speaker 1: and said, no, she's really good.
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Speaker 2: She knows what she's doing.
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Speaker 1: The park rangers were not thrilled with her plan, but
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Speaker 1: they ultimately decided, you know what, if she wants to go,
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Speaker 1: she can go. They just asked her to show them
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Speaker 1: on a map where she intended to camp, so if
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Speaker 1: they needed to they could come and check on her
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Speaker 1: and make sure she was okay.
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Speaker 2: And so she pointed to a section.
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Speaker 1: On the map and they handed her her permit, and
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Speaker 1: then she, along with Andreas and Janko, left the office
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Speaker 1: and headed back to their campsite. The next morning, the
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Speaker 1: trio got up early and they hopped in the car
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Speaker 1: and drove to the Pelican Valley trailhead. They parked their car,
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Speaker 1: they got out, and they began walking into Pelican Valley
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Speaker 1: as a group. After a few miles, as planned, the
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Speaker 1: group stopped, at which point Andreas told Burgita that they
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Speaker 1: were going to head back now and that they would
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Speaker 1: meet her tomorrow at the trailhead where they parked the car.
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Speaker 1: They said their goodbyes, and then Andreas and Johnco turned
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Speaker 1: around and started walking back towards the car, and Burgita
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Speaker 1: carried on into the wilderness. The following day, Andreas and
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Speaker 1: Johnco arrived at the trailhead to meet Burgita, but she
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Speaker 1: didn't show up, and after a couple of hours, they
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Speaker 1: grew very concerned, so they called park rangers and asked them, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, have you seen Burgita? And they said no, but
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Speaker 2: we'll go take a look.
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Speaker 1: The area Brigita had told park rangers she was going
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Speaker 1: to be camping was inside of a densely forested area
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Speaker 1: right next to a large meadow, which meant as park
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Speaker 1: rangers came up to check on her, they would not
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Speaker 1: actually be able to see her until they were practically
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Speaker 1: right on top of her. So the park rangers made
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Speaker 1: their way through the meadow and into the forest before
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Speaker 1: they started yelling for.
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Speaker 2: Brigita, but she didn't yell back.
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Speaker 1: And then at some point they reached the area where
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Speaker 1: she had said she was camping, and sure enough they.
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Speaker 2: Found her tent. But it was a very odd scene.
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Speaker 1: When they came up to the tent, they could see
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Speaker 1: there was a big tear in one side. When they
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Speaker 1: poked their heads down and looked inside, all of her
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Speaker 1: belongings in the tent were undisturbed.
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Speaker 2: There was a foam sleeping mat.
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Speaker 1: Right in the middle, and then to the right of
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Speaker 1: the mat was a flashlight that had been turned off.
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Speaker 1: On the left side of the pad was a tape
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Speaker 1: player with headphones that she must have been listening to
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Speaker 1: before bed. It had been left on until the batteries
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Speaker 1: ran out. At the foot of the pad was her backpack,
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Speaker 1: inside of which were all of her clothes that had
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Speaker 1: been neatly packed inside of ziploc bags to mask her scent.
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Speaker 1: Also in the pack was a wilderness survival guide with
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Speaker 1: a page flipped down that was a diagram of how
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Speaker 1: to string your food up into the trees so no.
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Speaker 2: Animals can get to it.
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Speaker 1: The rangers looked around the backside of the tent about
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Speaker 1: two meters away, and they found her sleeping bag perfectly
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Speaker 1: flat on the ground, as if it had been laid
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Speaker 1: out to dry in the sun. But upon closer inspection
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Speaker 1: they found it had two puncture marks, one that was
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Speaker 1: up near the neck of the bag and the other
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Speaker 1: that was near the torso, but there was no blood
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Speaker 1: on the bag. At this point, rangers started to speculate
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Speaker 1: that this could have been an animal attack, but they
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Speaker 1: were confused at the general tidiness of the scene. Typically
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Speaker 1: when an animal attacks a person, it looks like a
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Speaker 1: bomb went off in the area where the attack occurred,
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Speaker 1: and this campsite was very very neat. As the rangers
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Speaker 1: continued to walk around the campsite looking for clues and
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Speaker 1: yelling out for Brigita, they found a barely discernible dragtail
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Speaker 1: a couple of meters away from the sleeping bag that
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Speaker 1: was leading west into the forest and up a hill,
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Speaker 1: and so the rangers started following this trail, and they
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Speaker 1: got about twenty meters away from the camp when they
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Speaker 1: discovered Burgita's cooler lying on the ground on its side,
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Speaker 1: and whatever food had been in there was now gone.
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Speaker 1: There was some string laying next to it, so it
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Speaker 1: looked like it had been strung up in the trees,
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Speaker 1: but someone or something had gotten down from the cooler.
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Speaker 1: The rangers continue walking along this drag trail another twenty
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Speaker 1: meters or so up a hill where they discover a
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Speaker 1: woman's sweater on the ground that's been torn up and
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Speaker 1: there's blood on it. So at this point the rangers
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Speaker 1: get their rifles up and they keep walking another forty
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Speaker 1: meters up and over the hill down into this clearing
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Speaker 1: in the woods where they find Burgita, or what was
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Speaker 1: left of her. No one knows exactly what happened to Burgita,
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Speaker 1: but the theory based on physical evidence is this after
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Speaker 1: setting up her campsite, Brigita climbed inside of her tent,
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Speaker 1: got inside of her sleeping bag, and then put her
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Speaker 1: headphones on to listen to music. A little while later,
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Speaker 1: a male grizzly bear discovered Brigita's cooler strung up in
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Speaker 1: the trees. About twenty meters away, and apparently Brigida did
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Speaker 1: not string it high enough because the bear was able
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Speaker 1: to reach up and pull it down. After the bear
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Speaker 1: ate the food inside of the cooler, it was still hungry,
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Speaker 1: so it began looking around the area for more to eat.
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Speaker 1: It's believed this bear was so accustomed to human traffic
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Speaker 1: in the area that when he stumbled across Brigida's tent,
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Speaker 1: he wasn't scared. In fact, he thought, there's food inside it.
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Speaker 1: There there's people I can eat. So this quietly lumbers
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Speaker 1: over to the side of the tent. It reaches up
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Speaker 1: and cuts the nylon with its paw, and then it
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Speaker 1: puts its head inside and bites down on Brigida's skull
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Speaker 1: and begins dragging her away. There was no sign of
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Speaker 1: a struggle in or near the tent, indicating that Brigida
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Speaker 1: was most likely asleep, or maybe she just could not
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Speaker 1: hear the bear because she still had her headphones. Then
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Speaker 1: she was dragged eighty meters by her skull to that
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Speaker 1: clearing where she was consumed. An attack like this is
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Speaker 1: exactly the reason why Pelican Bay is considered so dangerous
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Speaker 1: because it's.
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Speaker 2: Full of grizzly bears.
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Speaker 1: And even though grizzly attacks on humans are incredibly rare,
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Speaker 1: most people do not understand just how horrific they.
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Speaker 2: Are when they do occur. Grizzly bears don't really try
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Speaker 2: to kill their prey before they eat them.
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Speaker 1: Instead, they focus on pinning them down and then getting
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Speaker 1: them under their body weight so they can't go anywhere,
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Speaker 1: at which point.
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Speaker 2: They can eat them at a leisurely pace.
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Speaker 1: Some say grizzlies actually prefer to eat their prey while
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Speaker 1: they're still living, which is why so often in grizzly
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Speaker 1: attacks you see the arms and legs eaten first, and
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Speaker 1: then the head and torso this is a method that
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Speaker 1: keeps the victim alive.
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Speaker 2: A little bit longer.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, there was so little left of Brigida that investigators
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Speaker 1: could not pinpoint a time of death. However, because this
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Speaker 1: bear broke normal behavior and intentionally targeted a human, there's
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Speaker 1: a good chance he savored that meal. On April twenty eighth,
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Speaker 1: two thousand, a twenty four year old named Yurilipski was
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Speaker 1: standing in front of a cafe in Dahab, Egypt, overlooking
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Speaker 1: the Red Sea. He had traveled all the way to
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Speaker 1: the Sinai Peninsula from Moscow in order to film himself
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Speaker 1: swimming through the arch, but now it was looking like
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Speaker 1: that probably wasn't going to happen. The Arch is an
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Speaker 1: eighty five foot long underwater tunnel that connects a massive
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Speaker 1: sinkhole right onto hob shoreline called the Blue Hole.
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Speaker 2: To the Red Sea.
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Speaker 1: To get to the Arch, you need to enter the
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Speaker 1: Blue Hole directly and descend straight down on one hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty one feet, where you'll reach the top of.
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Speaker 2: The tunnel on the northeast side.
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Speaker 1: But there's a catch. If on your descent you happen
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Speaker 1: to miss the ceiling of this arch, which apparently it's
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Speaker 1: pretty easy to do, you run the risk of going
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Speaker 1: too deep. Now, going too deep does not mean you're
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Speaker 1: going to miss the tunnel altogether.
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Speaker 2: The arch actually starts at.
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Speaker 1: One hundred and eighty one feet, but then goes all
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Speaker 1: the way down to three hundred and ninety three feet,
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Speaker 1: so it's a huge, huge opening. The risk of going
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Speaker 1: too deep has to do with how your body responds
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Speaker 1: to the type.
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Speaker 2: Of gas you're breathing.
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Speaker 1: For those who are unfamiliar with diving, generally speaking, you
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Speaker 1: have two types of dives. There's recreational diving, where you
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Speaker 1: breathe the same air that you breathe on the surface.
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Speaker 1: They literally jam air directly into scuba bottles. You breathe
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Speaker 1: that and you go down to one hundred and thirty feet.
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Speaker 1: That's the recommended bottom depth that you would go down
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Speaker 1: breathing regular air. And then there is technical diving, where
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Speaker 1: you breathe a special mixture of gases. Typically it's going
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Speaker 1: to be a mixture of helium, nitrogen, and oxygen that
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Speaker 1: allow you to go below and thirty feet. This type
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Speaker 1: of diving is exponentially more dangerous and requires all sorts
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Speaker 1: of additional training because the minimum depth you would need
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Speaker 1: to go to in order to access the arch is
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty one feet. That puts you well
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Speaker 1: in the technical diving range, which means you should be
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Speaker 1: diving mixed gas and have special training and equipment. But
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Speaker 1: year after year people try to dive down to the
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Speaker 1: arch and go through it on regular air, and year
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Speaker 1: after year people die doing it.
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Speaker 2: When your body.
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Speaker 1: Absorbs too much nitrogen, you can get something called nitrogen narcosis,
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Speaker 1: which is a lot like being drunk, and in extreme cases,
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Speaker 1: divers who get this have been known to remove their
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Speaker 1: mouthpiece and inhale water believing they are actually on the surface.
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Speaker 1: Below one hundred and thirty feet, your body absorbs nitrogen
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Speaker 1: much faster, and regular air is a wopping seventy eight
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Speaker 1: percent nitrogen, so the risk of getting nitrogen narcosis is
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Speaker 1: exponentially higher if you're breathing regular air below one hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty feet also oxygen and can become toxic.
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Speaker 2: The deeper you go in the water column.
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Speaker 1: It can lead to blackouts and convulsions that if you
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Speaker 1: don't have someone there to literally physically move you up
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Speaker 1: in the water column, you won't recover from it and
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Speaker 1: you'll die. Regular air contains twenty one percent oxygen, which
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Speaker 1: is a lot of oxygen, so if you're diving regular
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Speaker 1: air below one hundred and thirty feet, you are at
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Speaker 1: an increased risk of developing O two toxicity. Now, to
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Speaker 1: be clear, it is possible on regular air to dive
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Speaker 1: down to one hundred and eighty one feet and make
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Speaker 1: it through the arch and come out the other side
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Speaker 1: and be just fine, but you're realistically at one hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty one feet pushing the absolute boundary of what
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Speaker 1: you can get away with on regular air below two
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Speaker 1: hundred feet, you're probably dead. So if you're attempting to
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Speaker 1: swim through the arch on regular air, you need to
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Speaker 1: be paying very close attention to your depth as you
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Speaker 1: descend so that you don't miss the arch and accidentally
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Speaker 1: drip down below one hundred and eighty one feet to
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Speaker 1: the very deadly two hundred feet and beyond. So earlier
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Speaker 1: in the day, Uri had gone down to the edge
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Speaker 1: of the blue Hole and he had found one of
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Speaker 1: the diving instructors that taught inside the blue Hole. His
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Speaker 1: name was Terrek Omar, and he asked him if he'd
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Speaker 1: be willing to take him down to the arch to
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Speaker 1: help him film himself going through the arch.
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Speaker 2: And Trek said.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but I need to train you for two weeks
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Speaker 1: before you're going to be considered qualified to do that,
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Speaker 1: and you need a special setup with a special gas
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Speaker 1: mixture to do this dive.
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Speaker 2: And Uri was like, well, I'm leaving in.
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Speaker 1: Two days to head back to Moscow, so I need
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Speaker 1: to do this dive now. Is there any way you
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Speaker 1: can do it today or tomorrow even And Trek was like, no,
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Speaker 1: that's not how this works. And Trek understood this more
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Speaker 1: than anybody else because, in addition to teaching diving at
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Speaker 1: the blue Hole, Terrek's job was to dive down to
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Speaker 1: the bottom and retrieve the dead bodies of inexperienced or
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Speaker 1: over confident divers that attempted the archway and didn't make it.
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Speaker 1: Although there is not an official body count of how
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Speaker 1: many people have perished inside of the blue Hole, locals
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Speaker 1: believe it's as high as two hundred people just in
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Speaker 1: the last decade. After Terrek was unwilling to take him
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Speaker 1: without properly training him and outfitting him with the right equipment,
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Speaker 1: Yuri thanked him and went on to a couple different
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Speaker 1: other diving instructors with the same request, will you take
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Speaker 1: me in the next couple of days, and they all
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Speaker 1: said no, we need to train you and you need
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Speaker 1: special equipment, And so finally, after no one was willing
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Speaker 1: to do this, Yuri just left. Later that day, owners
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Speaker 1: of cafes that overlooked the blue Hole remember seeing a
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Speaker 1: young man who was by himself walk to the edge
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Speaker 1: of the blue hole. He puts on all of the
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Speaker 1: scuba gear, he puts on a helmet, and then straps
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Speaker 1: a big camera to the top and ratchets it down
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Speaker 1: and then after he's got all his stuff on, he
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Speaker 1: jumps into the blue hole and he disappears.
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Speaker 2: That man was Yuri.
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Speaker 1: A few days later, Yuri's family back home in Moscow
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Speaker 1: did not see him get off the flight he was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be on, and they reported and missing. Terrek
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Speaker 1: Omar was contacted to go down into the blue hole
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Speaker 1: and see if Yuri was down there.
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Speaker 2: Terrek hopped in the blue hole, he.
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Speaker 1: Went to the bottom, and sure enough, lying face down
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Speaker 1: at the bottom was Uri. When they brought Uri to
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Speaker 1: the surface, they realized his camera had been running the
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Speaker 1: whole time and he had actually filmed his final moments.
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Speaker 1: URI's final video exists online, so you can watch it
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Speaker 1: for yourself, but here is a description of what happens.
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Speaker 1: After situating his camera on his head just the way
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Speaker 1: he wanted it, he hit record, and then he jumped
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Speaker 1: into the water. It was determined later on that Uri
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Speaker 1: was breathing regular air out of his tanks. The camera
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Speaker 1: submerges under the water, and then Yuri begins to sink
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Speaker 1: very quickly into the blue hole. But his breathing seems
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Speaker 1: normal and he's not thrashing around, so it seems like
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Speaker 1: it's a controlled descent, but at some point you hear
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Speaker 1: Yuri trying to activate his buoyancy compensator.
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Speaker 2: Basically, it's this life jacket. To describe it.
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Speaker 1: Simply that sits on your gear, that you have a
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Speaker 1: demand valve where you can inflate and deplate the air
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Speaker 1: into it to neutralize your buoyancy, or in an emergency situation,
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Speaker 1: you can fully inflate it and stop yourself from sinking.
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Speaker 2: In fact, you'll rise to the surface. But he's trying to.
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Speaker 1: Activate his buoyancy compensator to slow down his descent, and
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Speaker 1: the air is escaping his compensator. There's a leak and
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Speaker 1: he can't slow down his descent. Now, Uri was wearing
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Speaker 1: a weight belt, which is very calm and diving. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I don't really know of all that many dives that
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't use a weight belt, And any diver knows
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Speaker 1: that there is a quick release function on your weight belt. Specifically,
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Speaker 1: if you're in an uncontrolled descent or if you're in
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Speaker 1: an emergency situation and need to get to the surface,
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Speaker 1: you can jettison your weight belt and go to the surface.
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Speaker 2: But Yuri was.
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Speaker 1: Panicking and he was fixated on his buoyancy compensator that
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Speaker 1: he was desperately trying to activate and it was failing,
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Speaker 1: and so he's not going for his weight belt, and
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Speaker 1: then he rockets past the entrance to the arch so
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Speaker 1: he goes below one hundred and eighty one feet, he
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Speaker 1: goes blow two hundred feet, and he goes all the
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Speaker 1: way to the bottom, where he hits the bottom at
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Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety two feet, and then he begins
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Speaker 1: to slide because the bottom of the blue hole was
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Speaker 1: actually at an angle, and that archway went all the way.
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Speaker 2: To the bottom of the hole, and if you slipped
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Speaker 2: out of.
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Speaker 1: The blue hole, it was a sheer drop off for
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Speaker 1: thousands of feet. And you see on camera Yuri rolls
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Speaker 1: over and he's desperately clawing into the mud to stop
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Speaker 1: himself from sliding out of the blue hole to definite death.
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Speaker 1: Then he's trying to get himself to stop, and finally
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Speaker 1: he anchors himself in the dirt and it's calm for
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Speaker 1: a second, and he's kind of looking around.
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Speaker 2: It's very clear he's confused, and.
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Speaker 1: Then it goes still, and it's believed at this point
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Speaker 1: he either removed his mouthpiece because of nitrogen narcosis, he
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Speaker 1: pulled it out and inhaled water, or he was dealing
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Speaker 1: with two toxicity and he blacked out and the mouthpiece
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Speaker 1: came out, but either way he drowned. On April twenty fifth,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and three, Ralston takes a trip to Utah,
16:30
Speaker 1: where he plans to explore the Canyon Lands National Park.
16:33
Speaker 1: He slept in his truck that night, and the next morning,
16:35
Speaker 1: at about nine to fifteen am, he gets up and
16:38
Speaker 1: it's this beautiful Saturday morning. He hops on his bike
16:41
Speaker 1: and he bikes fifteen miles to Blue John Canyon. The
16:44
Speaker 1: canyon was an eleven mile gorge that at certain places
16:47
Speaker 1: was as narrow as three feet across, and so Aaron
16:50
Speaker 1: locks up his bike and he begins walking through this canyon.
16:52
Speaker 1: About six hours later, at two forty five pm, Aaron
16:56
Speaker 1: is right at this section of the gorge that's getting
16:58
Speaker 1: really really narrow. Below him is about one hundred feet
17:01
Speaker 1: down to the bottom of the desert floor. He was
17:03
Speaker 1: going to walk with both feet on either wall because
17:06
Speaker 1: it was so narrow, and kind of spider man his
17:08
Speaker 1: way through the.
17:09
Speaker 2: Section of the canyon.
17:10
Speaker 1: But as he began that maneuver, a huge eight hundred
17:13
Speaker 1: pound boulder became dislodged above him, and it comes tumbling down.
17:17
Speaker 2: And he barely gets out of the way, but it lands.
17:20
Speaker 1: On his arm and it pins his arm against the
17:23
Speaker 1: wall and he can't move, and he's suspended one hundred
17:25
Speaker 1: feet off the ground, and he's twenty miles away from
17:28
Speaker 1: the nearest paved road. Immediately, he tries to pull his
17:31
Speaker 1: hand free and push the rock off, but it's not
17:33
Speaker 1: going anywhere. And that's when it dawns on him that
17:36
Speaker 1: he didn't tell anybody he was going to be in
17:38
Speaker 1: this gorge. Today, no one knows he's here, and he's
17:41
Speaker 1: so far away from anyone that can help him, and
17:44
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a cell phone, doesn't have a radio.
17:46
Speaker 1: He's got no way to communicate with anyone who could
17:49
Speaker 1: potentially help him. Now, the position he was in was
17:51
Speaker 1: not him dangling by his arm one hundred feet off
17:54
Speaker 1: the ground. He was able to position himself against the
17:57
Speaker 1: rocks where he wasn't dangling. He was able to sit
17:59
Speaker 1: fairly comfortably besides his arm being crushed, and he was
18:02
Speaker 1: able to use the rock that actually had pinned him
18:05
Speaker 1: there as a sort of table or something to lean
18:07
Speaker 1: up against.
18:08
Speaker 2: And after he calms down a little bit up for
18:10
Speaker 2: a few minutes.
18:10
Speaker 1: He reaches back and he pulls his bag out in front,
18:12
Speaker 1: and he starts taking inventory of what he has, and
18:15
Speaker 1: all he had was twelve ounces of water, so just
18:17
Speaker 1: a single water bottle, and he had two burritos and
18:20
Speaker 1: some candy bar crumbs.
18:22
Speaker 2: That's all he had.
18:23
Speaker 1: In terms of tools, all he had was this crumby
18:25
Speaker 1: multi tool, and it did have a little knife that
18:28
Speaker 1: extended off the end. And almost immediately he takes that
18:31
Speaker 1: multi tool and begins chopping away at this boulder to
18:33
Speaker 1: try to see if he can maybe crack it and
18:35
Speaker 1: push half of it off.
18:37
Speaker 2: But he's finding out very.
18:38
Speaker 1: Quickly that it's completely futile. It is not moving. It
18:41
Speaker 1: is an enormous boulder. It's not going anywhere. He cannot
18:44
Speaker 1: possibly break it with this crappy little multi tool. As
18:47
Speaker 1: the sun began to set, Aaron started thinking really seriously
18:50
Speaker 1: about trying to cut his arm off. But again, all
18:53
Speaker 1: he has is this multi tool and this crappy little
18:56
Speaker 1: dull knife, and he's thinking, there's no way I can
18:58
Speaker 1: cut through my arm. There's bone in there. I can't
19:01
Speaker 1: possibly saw through the bone. And so very disheartened, he
19:04
Speaker 1: puts his multitool away, and he begins to nurse the
19:07
Speaker 1: water and slowly eat the food, and thinks, maybe some
19:09
Speaker 1: miracle will happen where over the next couple of days,
19:12
Speaker 1: someone will be with an earshot. I can yell to
19:14
Speaker 1: them and they can come get me, or maybe someone
19:16
Speaker 1: will see me when they're hiking overhead. I can just
19:19
Speaker 1: wait it out. But by the fifth day he had
19:21
Speaker 1: run out of water. He was becoming delirious. He was
19:24
Speaker 1: actually drinking his own urine at this point, and he
19:27
Speaker 1: expected to die overnight. And so with his multitool he
19:31
Speaker 1: etched his name into the rock, and then underneath it
19:33
Speaker 1: he etched the date he expected to die.
19:35
Speaker 2: Which was the next day.
19:37
Speaker 1: And then after that he put his multitool down, and
19:39
Speaker 1: he did have a camera with limited battery, and he
19:41
Speaker 1: pulled that out and selfie style, he filmed goodbyes to
19:44
Speaker 1: his family and.
19:45
Speaker 2: Names alone Ralston. My parents are down on Larry Ralston,
19:51
Speaker 2: the name of the Colorado. Never finds this.
19:54
Speaker 1: Please make an attempt to get them.
20:00
Speaker 2: Be sure of it. I would appreciate it.
20:02
Speaker 1: After he was done filming, he put the camera away
20:05
Speaker 1: and he leaned up against the rock and fully expected
20:07
Speaker 1: to die, but he starts to have this really intense
20:10
Speaker 1: dream where he sees himself playing with a child and
20:13
Speaker 1: he's missing his right arm, and he takes that as
20:16
Speaker 1: a sign that he's supposed to chop his arm off
20:19
Speaker 1: and get out of here alive and go start a family.
20:21
Speaker 2: And so he wakes up from the stream and suddenly.
20:23
Speaker 1: All he wants to do is survive, and he looks
20:26
Speaker 1: at his arm, which is already starting to decompose at
20:28
Speaker 1: this point, and he thinks to himself, I know I
20:31
Speaker 1: can't cut through bone, but what if I'm.
20:32
Speaker 2: Able to break my arm clean through?
20:35
Speaker 1: I can take this blade and cut through the brake
20:38
Speaker 1: in the bone. And so he began testing, using the
20:40
Speaker 1: edge of the rock as a full chrumb to see
20:42
Speaker 1: if he'd be able to break his arm using the
20:44
Speaker 1: torque of pushing it over the edge of the rock.
20:46
Speaker 1: And when he started to sense it was possible, he
20:48
Speaker 1: took a deep breath and then he broke his arm,
20:51
Speaker 1: takes his multitool, and over the next hour he would
20:54
Speaker 1: painstakingly saw through his entire arm.
20:58
Speaker 2: Once his arm was free, he couldn't leave it.
21:00
Speaker 1: He actually smiled when he saw his arm still pinned
21:03
Speaker 1: underneath the rock. Because of his sheer will to live
21:05
Speaker 1: at this point, and high on adrenaline, he climbed the
21:08
Speaker 1: sixty five feet out of this canyon with his one arm.
21:12
Speaker 1: He gets to the trail and he runs six miles
21:15
Speaker 1: and he happens to.
21:16
Speaker 2: Run into a group of hikers.
21:18
Speaker 1: They'd give him food and water, and they're totally alarmed
21:20
Speaker 1: by him, but they're happy to help him.
21:22
Speaker 2: They call nine on one and medics arrived and they
21:24
Speaker 2: saved Aaron's life.
21:26
Speaker 1: Following Aaron Ralston's rescue, they went back to retrieve his arm,
21:30
Speaker 1: but in order to move that boulder, they had to
21:32
Speaker 1: bring out thirteen park rangers, a hydraulic jack and a
21:35
Speaker 1: winch and all this heavy equipment.
21:37
Speaker 3: And they were barely able to move it.
21:39
Speaker 1: And they told Aaron, had you still been in place,
21:42
Speaker 1: there's no way we could have placed the equipment without
21:45
Speaker 1: killing you. So basically, you had to cut your arm
21:48
Speaker 1: off in order to get out of there.
21:49
Speaker 2: There was no other way out.
21:50
Speaker 1: And so for Aarin, I'm sure that felt pretty good
21:52
Speaker 1: to feel like you cut.
21:53
Speaker 2: Your arm off, and that was the right decision.
21:55
Speaker 1: They would take his arm and they would cremate it
21:57
Speaker 1: and give the ashes to Aaron, and for having his
22:00
Speaker 1: cremated arm for a couple of days, decided, no, I
22:03
Speaker 1: need to put this where it belongs, and so Aaron
22:05
Speaker 1: went back out to the canyon where he had been
22:07
Speaker 1: trapped and he scattered.
22:08
Speaker 2: His ashes over the boulder that had nearly killed him.
22:11
Speaker 1: In twenty ten, Aaron's Ordeal was turned into a huge
22:14
Speaker 1: blockbuster movie called one hundred and twenty seven Hours where
22:17
Speaker 1: James Franco plays Aaron Ralston in the movie. And it's
22:20
Speaker 1: an incredible movie, albeit it's pretty hard to watch, Aaron
22:24
Speaker 1: Ralston himself said the movie, although it's a drama, is
22:28
Speaker 1: pretty much a documentary because James Franco does an incredible
22:31
Speaker 1: job portraying his emotions and what it was actually like
22:34
Speaker 1: to be trapped underneath this boulder for five days. On
22:48
Speaker 1: the evening of October twenty eighth, two thousand and six,
22:51
Speaker 1: in a Florida city called Port Ritchie, a thirty seven
22:54
Speaker 1: year old woman named Mariica Weber walked in the front
22:57
Speaker 1: door of her home and called out a greeting to
22:59
Speaker 1: her mom. Her mom didn't call back, but Marisa could
23:01
Speaker 1: hear her in the kitchen making dinner, and so Marisa
23:04
Speaker 1: walked over to say hello, but Marisa only got about
23:07
Speaker 1: two feet into the family's very cramped living room when
23:10
Speaker 1: one of their many cats came bombing into the room
23:13
Speaker 1: and nearly knocked Marisa over as it ran past her
23:16
Speaker 1: and ran up to the side of the wall and
23:17
Speaker 1: just stopped and stared at the baseboard of the wall
23:20
Speaker 1: like there was something there. Marisa was totally annoyed by
23:22
Speaker 1: this cat, and as she looked over at it, she
23:25
Speaker 1: knew what it was doing, because lately Marisa had noticed
23:28
Speaker 1: there were clearly rats in her family's home, kind of
23:31
Speaker 1: scurrying around in the ceilings in the walls. Marisa could
23:33
Speaker 1: hear them all the time, and one of their cats
23:36
Speaker 1: was now clearly hunting one of these rats, and this
23:38
Speaker 1: totally stressed Marisa out. She'd actually begun taking anti anxiety
23:42
Speaker 1: and antidepressant medication largely because of this rat infestation, and
23:47
Speaker 1: really just the fact that Marisa hated living at her
23:50
Speaker 1: parents' home, but she didn't really have the means to
23:53
Speaker 1: go out and live in her own place, which she
23:55
Speaker 1: knew would solve the problem, and so she was just
23:57
Speaker 1: kind of stuck here. And so Marisa turned away from
24:00
Speaker 1: the cat and likely the rat behind the wall. And
24:03
Speaker 1: she made her way through the tight little living room
24:05
Speaker 1: into the kitchen, and she gave her mom a quick hug,
24:08
Speaker 1: and she saw her dad was also in the room
24:10
Speaker 1: as well, and he said hello to her. And then
24:12
Speaker 1: Marisa's mom offered her some food, but Marisa said, you
24:15
Speaker 1: know what, I'm not hungry, thank you, I'm just tired.
24:18
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to bed, And so Marissa again
24:20
Speaker 1: gave her mama hug. She said good night to her dad,
24:22
Speaker 1: and then she turned, walked up the stairs and made
24:24
Speaker 1: her way to her bedroom.
24:25
Speaker 2: She went inside and shut the door.
24:27
Speaker 1: The next morning, Marisa's parents got up and they began
24:30
Speaker 1: making breakfast and getting ready for the day, but Marisa
24:33
Speaker 1: did not come downstairs, and so the parents assumed she
24:36
Speaker 1: must have left early for her job.
24:38
Speaker 2: Marisa was a secretary.
24:39
Speaker 1: At a waste disposal company, and so the parents just
24:42
Speaker 1: had their breakfast and they too went out for their jobs.
24:44
Speaker 1: And then in the evening when the parents were back home,
24:47
Speaker 1: Marisa did not come home at the time she normally
24:50
Speaker 1: would after work. But the parents were not actually that
24:53
Speaker 1: concerned right then because they figured, okay, well, maybe she
24:56
Speaker 1: left early and she came home from work early, and
24:59
Speaker 1: so we just kind of missed her on both ends.
25:01
Speaker 1: And that's why her door to were bedroom is shut.
25:03
Speaker 1: She's just come home early and she's in there and
25:05
Speaker 1: she wants to be left alone. After all, she's a
25:07
Speaker 1: thirty seven year old woman.
25:08
Speaker 2: She probably wants her space.
25:10
Speaker 1: But later that night, when still the parents had not
25:12
Speaker 1: even heard their daughter moving around up there, the mother
25:15
Speaker 1: went upstairs and knocked on Marisa's bedroom door, but there
25:19
Speaker 1: was no answer, and so finally Marisa's mom opened the
25:22
Speaker 1: door and the room was totally empty. Now at this point,
25:25
Speaker 1: the parents did start to get concerned because they're thinking, Okay,
25:28
Speaker 1: well we didn't see her this morning, we haven't seen
25:30
Speaker 1: her now, we don't know where she is. But again,
25:33
Speaker 1: their daughter is thirty seven years old, and if she
25:35
Speaker 1: wanted to go do something out of the house by
25:37
Speaker 1: herself and not tell anyone, she was kind of entitled
25:40
Speaker 1: to do that. And so the parents ultimately decided that
25:43
Speaker 1: they would just let this go for now, and in
25:45
Speaker 1: the morning they were sure to see her. But the
25:48
Speaker 1: next morning, the parents still had not heard from Marisa.
25:51
Speaker 1: She had not come home, and now they were officially
25:53
Speaker 1: starting to panic. In particular, the mother was worried that
25:56
Speaker 1: Marisa might have been kidnapped or something going to or
25:59
Speaker 1: coming back from work, because Marisa was only five foot
26:02
Speaker 1: three inches tall and maybe one hundred pounds, so she
26:05
Speaker 1: was really small. And so Marisa's mom called her other daughter, Gina,
26:09
Speaker 1: in a total panic, saying, you know, your sister she's missing.
26:12
Speaker 1: We don't know where she is. She might have gotten kidnapped,
26:14
Speaker 1: you know, come over and help us figure out what's
26:16
Speaker 1: going on. And so Gina came over to the house
26:19
Speaker 1: and when she came inside, she told her parents, you know,
26:21
Speaker 1: let's stay calm here, Marisa. She's thirty seven. I'm sure
26:24
Speaker 1: she's fine. Let's search the house and see if there's
26:27
Speaker 1: some note or something from Marisa explaining where she is
26:31
Speaker 1: and what she's doing. And so the family searched the
26:33
Speaker 1: whole house, starting with Marisa's room, but they couldn't find
26:37
Speaker 1: anything that gave them any clues about what happened to Marisa.
26:40
Speaker 1: But they did eventually find Marisa's purse that was still
26:44
Speaker 1: in her room, and when they opened it up, they
26:46
Speaker 1: saw her wallet was still inside, and so that sent
26:49
Speaker 1: up a huge red flag for the family. You know,
26:51
Speaker 1: they're thinking, why would Marisa go anywhere for an extended
26:54
Speaker 1: period of time without her wallet?
26:56
Speaker 2: That made no sense.
26:57
Speaker 1: And so at this point the family did call the
26:59
Speaker 1: police and they reported Marisa missing.
27:02
Speaker 2: But the police got nowhere on the case.
27:04
Speaker 1: And so on November ninth, so twelve days after Marisa
27:08
Speaker 1: had said good night to her parents, gone up to
27:10
Speaker 1: her room, and then vanished.
27:12
Speaker 2: The family was at a total loss for what to do.
27:14
Speaker 1: But Gina, Marisa's sister, had begun to think to herself,
27:18
Speaker 1: you know, hey, it's possible that Marisa, who was not
27:20
Speaker 1: doing well mentally, you know, she was very unhappy. She
27:23
Speaker 1: was totally stressed out about this rat infestation, which really
27:27
Speaker 1: highlighted the fact that she was stuck at home with
27:29
Speaker 1: her parents at thirty seven years old. You know, Gina's
27:32
Speaker 1: thinking that it was totally possible that Marisa had just
27:35
Speaker 1: abruptly run away, or.
27:37
Speaker 2: Worse, maybe she had harmed herself.
27:39
Speaker 1: And so on November ninth, Gina decided she would take
27:42
Speaker 1: one more pass through the family home and just to
27:44
Speaker 1: see if she could find any little indication that would
27:47
Speaker 1: give away what was going through Marisa's mind before she vanished.
27:52
Speaker 1: And where Gina started was in Marisa's room. And so
27:55
Speaker 1: Marisa she went upstairs down the hall, she opened up
27:57
Speaker 1: her sister's bedroom and she walked in se and you
28:00
Speaker 1: got to picture this space.
28:02
Speaker 2: It was totally cluttered, almost like a hoarder's space.
28:05
Speaker 1: There were piles of clothes that were taller than a
28:07
Speaker 1: human person. I mean, this room is totally packed with stuff.
28:11
Speaker 1: But Gina, she took her time kind of walking through
28:13
Speaker 1: the room, looking everywhere, kind of sifting through all the
28:16
Speaker 1: piles of junkin clothes and everything in the room, and
28:19
Speaker 1: she couldn't find anything. But then at some point her
28:21
Speaker 1: attention was drawn to her sister's bookshelf. Then she looked
28:25
Speaker 1: over at it and she thought she saw something odd
28:27
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the shelf. Now Gina had
28:30
Speaker 1: a flashlight with her, and even though the light was
28:32
Speaker 1: on in the room, she still lifted up the flashlight
28:34
Speaker 1: and turned it on and shined it at this thing
28:37
Speaker 1: in the middle of the bookcase, and when she saw it,
28:40
Speaker 1: she screamed. Based on Gina's discovery, here is what happened
28:43
Speaker 1: to Marisa Webber on October twenty eighth, two thousand and six,
28:47
Speaker 1: the night she disappeared. That night, Marisa had come home.
28:50
Speaker 1: She saw her mom and dad in the kitchen.
28:52
Speaker 2: She was offered food. She turned it down and said,
28:54
Speaker 2: I'm tired. I'm going to bed. She went upstairs.
28:57
Speaker 1: She went into her room, closed the door, and sat
28:59
Speaker 1: down on her bed. Then Marisa grabbed a pill bottle
29:02
Speaker 1: next to her bed, which contained morphine and codeine, which
29:06
Speaker 1: are two very powerful painkillers. They're opiates, so highly addictive.
29:10
Speaker 1: She popped a few of those, and then she rolled
29:12
Speaker 1: a marijuana joint and smoked that. And then she grabbed
29:15
Speaker 1: the TV remote and sat back on her bed, getting
29:18
Speaker 1: ready to sewn out. But when she tried to turn
29:20
Speaker 1: on the TV, which was sitting on this bureau on
29:23
Speaker 1: the other side of the room, it didn't turn on,
29:25
Speaker 1: and right away Marissa knew that the TV likely had
29:28
Speaker 1: become unplugged. This was something that happened periodically. The room
29:31
Speaker 1: was so packed with stuff that sometimes when Marissa was
29:34
Speaker 1: just navigating through her room, the stuff would bump into
29:37
Speaker 1: the bureau and that would in turn jostle loose the
29:40
Speaker 1: plug from the TV. But the TV was actually not
29:43
Speaker 1: plugged in right behind where this bureau was. The TV
29:47
Speaker 1: was sitting on the bureau, but the plug ran down
29:50
Speaker 1: and kind of to the side of the bureau, behind
29:52
Speaker 1: this huge bookcase that was pressed right up against the bureau.
29:56
Speaker 1: But this bookcase was so loaded down with books and
29:59
Speaker 1: things that Marissa had collected over the years that not
30:02
Speaker 1: only could you not really reach through the bookcase to
30:04
Speaker 1: the wall, but it was too heavy.
30:06
Speaker 2: You couldn't move the bookcase.
30:07
Speaker 1: And so the only way to access this plug from
30:10
Speaker 1: the TV was to climb on top of the bureau
30:13
Speaker 1: where the TV was and kind of reach back and
30:17
Speaker 1: grab the plug behind the bookcase and plug it back in.
30:20
Speaker 1: And so Marissa, who was likely beginning to feel the
30:22
Speaker 1: effects of all the drugs she had taken, climbed on
30:25
Speaker 1: top of this bureau and she reached back behind the
30:28
Speaker 1: six foot tall bookcase, and she began trying to grab the.
30:31
Speaker 4: Plug, but it was just out of reach, and so
30:33
Speaker 4: she leaned farther and farther and farther until she finally
30:36
Speaker 4: grabbed the plug. But when she managed to plug it
30:39
Speaker 4: back into the wall, she slipped forward and fell headfirst
30:43
Speaker 4: into this tiny space behind the bookshelf and the wall,
30:47
Speaker 4: and she got pinned upside down. Now we don't know
30:50
Speaker 4: why Marisa didn't begin calling out for help. Perhaps she
30:54
Speaker 4: was so under the influence of these drugs that she
30:56
Speaker 4: couldn't really process the situation and didn't know what she
30:59
Speaker 4: should do, or maybe she was embarrassed about the fact
31:02
Speaker 4: that she had somehow gotten trapped upside down behind your bookcase.
31:06
Speaker 1: But either way, she didn't call out for help right away.
31:10
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, what happens when a human body is trapped
31:13
Speaker 1: upside down long enough is all the blood rushes to
31:16
Speaker 1: the upper part of your body. It causes your eyes
31:19
Speaker 1: eventually to pop out of your head. It feels like
31:21
Speaker 1: your head's gonna explode. But the real problem is all
31:23
Speaker 1: that blood pulls around your lungs and restricts your lungs and.
31:27
Speaker 2: Makes it really hard to breathe.
31:29
Speaker 1: And critically, if you can't take a big breath in,
31:32
Speaker 1: you can't project your voice loud enough to call out
31:35
Speaker 1: for help.
31:36
Speaker 2: And so Marisa did.
31:37
Speaker 1: Not call out for help during those first critical few
31:40
Speaker 1: moments she was trapped behind the bookcase, and then when
31:43
Speaker 1: she realized she absolutely couldn't move, she didn't have the
31:46
Speaker 1: lung capacity to call out for help, and so likely
31:49
Speaker 1: for one or maybe even two days, Marisa remained upside
31:53
Speaker 1: down behind this bookshelf and likely was aware of her
31:56
Speaker 1: family coming in and out of her bedroom looking for her,
31:59
Speaker 1: but she was not able to vocalize.
32:02
Speaker 2: She could not get their attention, and so eventually she died.
32:05
Speaker 1: Marisa's family would say when they were looking for Marisa
32:09
Speaker 1: in her bedroom while she was dying behind the bookcase,
32:13
Speaker 1: they said they did hear sounds, but it sounded like
32:15
Speaker 1: the rats that were running all over their house, and
32:18
Speaker 1: so they didn't know it was actually likely Marisa moving
32:21
Speaker 1: around behind the bookcase trying to get their attention because
32:23
Speaker 1: she can't use her voice. And then after Marisa died,
32:26
Speaker 1: her family did continue to go back into her room
32:29
Speaker 1: to look for her, and they began to smell something funny,
32:31
Speaker 1: which was Marisa decomposing, but the family didn't know that,
32:35
Speaker 1: and they chalked it up to the fact that the
32:36
Speaker 1: room was really messy and again, there are rats in
32:39
Speaker 1: this house. I mean, this was not a clean space,
32:41
Speaker 1: and so they kind of thought, Okay, you know, the
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Speaker 1: smell can't be anything serious. It wasn't until November ninth,
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Speaker 1: when Marisa's sister Gina, was back in Maria's bedroom and
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Speaker 1: she looked over at the bookcase and she saw something strange.
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Speaker 1: What she saw was her sister's foot right behind the bookcase.
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Speaker 1: Gina couldn't really process it, so she got her flashlight out.
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Speaker 1: She shined it on foot, and when she scanned from
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Speaker 1: the foot down she realized it was her sister. On
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Speaker 1: the morning of June twenty fifth, two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old man named Mike Barnett woke
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Speaker 1: up to the sound of pounding rain on the roof
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Speaker 1: of his home, which was located in Hull, which is a.
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Speaker 2: City in northern England.
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Speaker 1: Mike groaned as he rolled out of bed. It had
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Speaker 1: been raining like this for the past month and he
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the people in Hull were just
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Speaker 1: totally over it. But another reason he groaned is he
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Speaker 1: knew that he would have to go to his job
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Speaker 1: at a tropical fish store, even though he was not scheduled.
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Speaker 2: To work that day.
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Speaker 1: There was a street right behind the tropical fish store
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Speaker 1: that always completely flooded out from all these debris getting
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Speaker 1: clogged in the drain, and the owner of the tropical
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Speaker 1: fish store, so Mike's boss, who was an elderly guy,
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Speaker 1: he would always go out and try to clear the
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Speaker 1: debris himself. And Mike just knew, you know, he really
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Speaker 1: need help, and today he knew his boss would be
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Speaker 1: out there, and so he just felt like it was
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Speaker 1: his responsibility to go in and help him clear out
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Speaker 1: the debris. So Mike got dressed, he had some breakfast,
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Speaker 1: and then as quietly as he could.
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Speaker 2: He slipped out the front door.
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Speaker 1: Mike was careful not to make too much noise because
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Speaker 1: he didn't want to wake his dad, who he lived with.
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Speaker 1: Mike and his dad had always been very close, but
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Speaker 1: after the death of Mike's mother, he and his father
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Speaker 1: had become even closer, and so they actually really enjoyed
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Speaker 1: living together. But Mike also knew that his dad was
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Speaker 1: very protective of him and very likely would not like
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Speaker 1: the idea of Mike going out in this horrible storm
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Speaker 1: to go try to clear debris in a flooded out street.
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Speaker 1: It just was too dangerous and Mike just didn't want
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Speaker 1: to deal with that right now, and so he was
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Speaker 1: able to slip out without waking up his dad. Mike
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Speaker 1: hopped in his car and he drove to the fish store,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as he got there, he hopped out.
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Speaker 1: He went around to the backside of the shop and
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Speaker 1: sure enough, the entire street out back was totally flooded.
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Speaker 1: Clearly debris had blocked the train system. Now, Mike's boss
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Speaker 1: was not out there yet, Mike could see him inside
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Speaker 1: the shop kind of going about his morning, and so Mike,
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Speaker 1: without even going inside, just began wading into the water.
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Speaker 2: To begin clearing debris.
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Speaker 1: The drain that was clogged by all this debris was
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Speaker 1: located just off to the side of the sidewalk. It
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Speaker 1: was down in a covert, and so Mike very carefully
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Speaker 1: walked off that sidewalk into this very cold, muddy water,
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Speaker 1: and he began moving in the direction of where he
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Speaker 1: knew the drain was. And so as he's walking, you know,
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Speaker 1: the water is down to his ankles, maybe up to
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Speaker 1: his knees at some point. But he gets closer and
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Speaker 1: closer to where he knows this drainage is down in
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Speaker 1: this covert, and suddenly Mike begins feeling this unbelievable suction
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Speaker 1: at his feet that began pulling him basically straight down.
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Speaker 1: Mike tried to move, but his feet were anchored to
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Speaker 1: the ground, and then before long he began getting pulled
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Speaker 1: forward towards this drain, and then down he went, and
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Speaker 1: as he went all the way down to his neck
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Speaker 1: in the water, he felt this unbelievable pain in his thigh.
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Speaker 1: Mike didn't know it, but his leg had been sucked
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Speaker 1: through the drainage gate that was all blocked up. There
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Speaker 1: was still some holes in it, and so his leg
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Speaker 1: had gone through one of those holes, and it had
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Speaker 1: pulled him all the way up to the top of
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Speaker 1: the thigh and brutally snapped his leg in the process.
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Speaker 3: And so Mike is in blinding pain from his leg
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Speaker 3: being shattered and run through this grate, and he's literally
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Speaker 3: up to his neck in this frigid water, and the
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Speaker 3: wind's blowing and it's raining, and the water's.
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Speaker 2: Going in his mouth, and so Mike begins to panic.
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Speaker 1: And he's trying to pull himself out he can't, and
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Speaker 1: then he begins screaming for help. And at that moment,
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Speaker 1: the owner of the fish store, who was still inside
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Speaker 1: the store, looked out the window. Then he saw Mike
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Speaker 1: flailing around, and instinctively the owner could tell, just from
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Speaker 1: the panicked look on Mike's face that whatever was happening
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Speaker 1: to him was an emergency, and so the owner just
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Speaker 1: picked up the phone called the police, and after telling
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Speaker 1: them what was happening, the owner ran out to Mike.
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Speaker 1: When the first police officers arrived on the scene, Mike
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Speaker 1: was still in the water up to his neck and
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Speaker 1: the shop owner was right next to him, and the
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Speaker 1: police officers, you know, they assessed the situation in front
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Speaker 1: of them, and they thought, okay, you know, clearly this guy,
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Speaker 1: Mike is trapped in the water. This is serious, but
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Speaker 1: we can pull him out, you know, that's the obvious
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Speaker 1: solution here. And so the two officers walked up to Mike.
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Speaker 2: They waded through the water and got on either.
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Speaker 1: Side of him, kind of pushing the shop owner out
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Speaker 1: of the way, and then the two officers grabbed Mike's shoulders.
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Speaker 1: You know, these are strong police officers, and they began
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Speaker 1: pulling on Mike, and as soon as they did, Mike
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Speaker 1: let out this unbelievably loud scream of just pure agony,
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Speaker 1: and in fact, his scream was so guttural that the
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Speaker 1: two officers let go and we're kind of startled by it,
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Speaker 1: and very quickly these officers realized this situation is far
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Speaker 1: worse than it appears, because not only is this guy
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Speaker 1: totally stuck and he can't be moved, but you know,
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Speaker 1: they're looking around and the rain is still coming down,
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Speaker 1: and it's clear the water is still slowly rising, and
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Speaker 1: because Mike's body was situated over the grate, he himself
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Speaker 1: was causing even more blockage, increasing how much this street
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Speaker 1: was flooding, Meaning the officers knew they had to get
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Speaker 1: Mike out as soon as possible or he would drown.
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Speaker 1: But over the next several hours, more police officers, firefighters,
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Speaker 1: EMT's good Samaritans, I mean, everybody showed up on the scene,
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Speaker 1: and there were so many attempts to get Mike out
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Speaker 1: of the water, ranging from trying to cut the grate,
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Speaker 1: but the water was too muddy so nobody could see
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Speaker 1: through it, and the water was so strong that nobody
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Speaker 1: could set the bolt cutters on the actual grate, and
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Speaker 1: that at one point they even tied a winch around
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Speaker 1: Mike and tried to pull him out with a land rover,
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Speaker 1: but every intervention failed. The rushing water that was pinning
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Speaker 1: Mike to this grate was so strong, and Mike's pain
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Speaker 1: in his leg was so high it made it nearly
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Speaker 1: impossible to move him, and so finally at the four
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Speaker 1: hour mark that Mike has been trapped in this water.
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Speaker 1: The decision was made amongst all the first responders to amputate,
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Speaker 1: so the police called a doctor who was willing to
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Speaker 1: perform the leg amputation, and then.
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Speaker 2: After doing it, Mike could sense something was up.
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Speaker 1: You know, clearly, it's not going well, and he began
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Speaker 1: frantically asking the police and all the first responders, when
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Speaker 1: are you going to get me out of here? When
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Speaker 1: are you going to get me out of here? And
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Speaker 1: they just kept telling him soon soon, Mike, hold on,
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be okay. Meanwhile, the owner of the shop
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Speaker 1: at this point had called Mike's dad to tell him
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Speaker 1: what was going on. And so as all these people
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Speaker 1: are waiting for this doctor to show up to cut
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Speaker 1: Mike's leg off, Mike's father shows up and basically barrels
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Speaker 1: through the crowd and starts screaming, I'll get my son
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Speaker 1: out of here. But as soon as he saw his son,
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Speaker 1: he was totally taken aback.
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Speaker 2: Mike was up to his chin in water.
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Speaker 1: There was a diver behind him in the water with
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Speaker 1: him holding him up, barely keeping his head above the water.
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Speaker 1: Mike's face was totally pale and his eyes were totally unfocused,
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Speaker 1: and he had this weird, blank expression like he wasn't
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Speaker 1: even there. And then a second later, a whole wall
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Speaker 1: of police came running up to Mike's dad to stop
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Speaker 1: him from getting any closer, and they told Mike's father
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Speaker 1: they were doing everything they could to try to get
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Speaker 1: his son out, and for now, they told him he
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Speaker 1: just needed.
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Speaker 2: To go home.
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Speaker 1: And so, even though Mike's dad did not want to
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Speaker 1: abandon his son, he could tell with all these police
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Speaker 1: standing there in front of him there was no way
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Speaker 1: he was going to be able to go up there
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Speaker 1: with a son, and so he would turn around and
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Speaker 1: head back home without even speaking to his son.
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Speaker 2: And then when Mike's dad got home, he turned on
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Speaker 2: the news and.
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Speaker 1: The news was showing live coverage of his son trapped
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Speaker 1: in that grate, and just a couple of minutes later,
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Speaker 1: Mike's dad would watch his son die on the news.
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Speaker 1: By the time that doctor arrived with that special saw
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Speaker 1: to cut off Mike's leg, it was already too late.
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Speaker 1: Mike had passed away from hypothermia.
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