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- 0:00Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today I'm
- 0:03Speaker 1: going to share three stories that all demonstrate that.
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- 0:51Speaker 1: One morning in October, very late during World War Two,
- 0:55Speaker 1: a Japanese soldier named Lieutenant hero Onoda crept out of
- 0:58Speaker 1: the jungle on a small island in the Philippines called
- 1:01Speaker 1: Lubom and crouched down at the edge of a huge
- 1:03Speaker 1: rice field. Another soldier named Kazuka came out of the
- 1:07Speaker 1: jungle behind him, and together they carefully crawled toward these
- 1:11Speaker 1: huge bundles of rice that had just been harvested by
- 1:13Speaker 1: the local farmers. And when they reached the first bundle,
- 1:16Speaker 1: Onoda took two torches out of his back. So when
- 1:20Speaker 1: Onoda first arrived in Luban, his mission had been to
- 1:23Speaker 1: destroy the island's airfield, but everything had.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Gone completely wrong.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Allied forces who were the enemy of the Japanese had
- 1:31Speaker 1: attacked the island and the Japanese had evacuated, but by accident,
- 1:36Speaker 1: they had left Onoda and Kozuka behind, and as far
- 1:39Speaker 1: as they knew, there could be others who had been
- 1:41Speaker 1: left behind as well, but as for right now, it
- 1:44Speaker 1: was just those two. But even though these two soldiers
- 1:47Speaker 1: really had no idea if they would survive this, if
- 1:49Speaker 1: they would ever get rescued or not, they still had
- 1:52Speaker 1: a mission to do and that was, you know, to
- 1:54Speaker 1: attack the enemy. And these bundles of rice, they knew
- 1:58Speaker 1: were going to be sent to the other side to
- 2:00Speaker 1: feed their enemy, and so they had to destroy them.
- 2:03Speaker 1: So now Onoda lit the two torches, and then he
- 2:06Speaker 1: and Kozuka set fire to the first bundle of rice,
- 2:10Speaker 1: and then they took off running, stopping every few feet
- 2:13Speaker 1: to set fire to another bundle of rice, until the
- 2:16Speaker 1: entire field.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Was on fire.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Gunshots rang out, and Onoda realized the enemy must have
- 2:22Speaker 1: seen them, so he and Kazuka dropped their torches and
- 2:25Speaker 1: they fled back into the jungle. Now, this pattern of
- 2:28Speaker 1: attacking and sabotaging their enemy and then retreating back to
- 2:31Speaker 1: the jungle where they could hide out was one they
- 2:34Speaker 1: had done many, many times. It was sort of like
- 2:36Speaker 1: the one thing that anchored their existence. They were actively
- 2:40Speaker 1: still fighting the enemy until either they were killed or rescued.
- 2:43Speaker 2: That sort of that was their north star.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Normally they were quite good at this, and they would
- 2:47Speaker 1: be able to escape the enemy.
- 2:49Speaker 2: And get back to the jungle.
- 2:51Speaker 1: But this time, as they were running away and Onoda's
- 2:54Speaker 1: dodging bullets, literally he heard Kozuka yell out behind him and.
- 2:58Speaker 2: Then fall to the ground.
- 3:00Speaker 1: A few weeks later, Onoda was alone and he was
- 3:03Speaker 1: patrolling the north side of the island. Kozuka had been
- 3:06Speaker 1: shot and killed during their rice field sabotage, and so
- 3:09Speaker 1: now Onoda was very likely the only Japanese soldier left
- 3:14Speaker 1: on this island. And while Onoda knew, you know, he
- 3:16Speaker 1: was honor bound to keep on fighting, even by himself,
- 3:19Speaker 1: which was obviously mentally much harder to do. By now,
- 3:22Speaker 1: he was just exhausted and depressed, you know, living off
- 3:26Speaker 1: banana peels and whatever else he could steal from local farmers.
- 3:29Speaker 1: It was a pretty miserable existence. And also, ever since
- 3:33Speaker 1: the Allied forces had killed Kazuka, they had somehow learned
- 3:36Speaker 1: Onoda's name and they'd stepped up their operations targeting him specifically.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Onoda had had to leave the jungle and move into
- 3:44Speaker 1: this underground cave he had found, but even there he
- 3:47Speaker 1: could still hear the sound of fighter jets flying overhead,
- 3:50Speaker 1: clearly looking for him, and sometimes groups of enemy soldiers
- 3:54Speaker 1: would patrol the jungle looking for him, which was near
- 3:57Speaker 1: his cave, and they would call out for him by
- 3:59Speaker 1: name and tell him to stop hiding it and come
- 4:02Speaker 1: on out now. As Onoda continued his patrol, he heard voices,
- 4:07Speaker 1: so naturally he crouched down and hid behind a boulder,
- 4:10Speaker 1: and soon three enemy soldiers came into view, and they
- 4:13Speaker 1: clearly had no idea that Onoda was watching them, because
- 4:16Speaker 1: the rifles were slung over their shoulders and they were
- 4:19Speaker 1: just kind of joking around with each other. But Onoda
- 4:21Speaker 1: still panicked because he knew pretty soon they would notice
- 4:24Speaker 1: his footprints and they would.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Track him to his hiding spot.
- 4:27Speaker 1: So even though there was clearly a part of Onoda
- 4:30Speaker 1: that was very ready to be done fighting this war finally,
- 4:34Speaker 1: even if it meant being captured, really, he still forced
- 4:37Speaker 1: himself to raise his rifle, take aim, and fire.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Months passed by, and Onoda knew it was very.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Likely springtime and it had been weeks since he had
- 4:48Speaker 1: seen any enemy soldiers on his patrols. He was holed
- 4:51Speaker 1: up in his underground cave and he was reading a
- 4:53Speaker 1: letter that he had saved from home, and then he
- 4:55Speaker 1: heard movement overhead, and somebody above ground called name. So instinctively,
- 5:01Speaker 1: Onoda reached for his rifle, but before he could do
- 5:04Speaker 1: anything like pop out of the cave and start shooting,
- 5:07Speaker 1: the person who had called out began to speak, and
- 5:10Speaker 1: Onoda realized he knew this voice and.
- 5:14Speaker 2: It was not an enemy soldier at all.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Onoda crawled out of the cave, and when he saw
- 5:19Speaker 1: the person standing there who was speaking to him, he
- 5:22Speaker 1: just began to weep. It was his commanding officer, who
- 5:25Speaker 1: he had been waiting for all this time, and the
- 5:27Speaker 1: commanding officer was walking toward him with a group of
- 5:30Speaker 1: other soldiers, friendly soldiers. Onoda climbed to his feet and
- 5:34Speaker 1: immediately saluted the officer and asked if he was finally
- 5:37Speaker 1: allowed to go home, and the officer said yes, because
- 5:41Speaker 1: it would turn out that the date was March ninth,
- 5:44Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. World War II had ended twenty nine
- 5:49Speaker 1: years earlier. Onoda had spent almost three decades terrorizing not
- 5:55Speaker 1: enemy soldiers, but Filipino farmers and villagers and police officers
- 5:59Speaker 1: who he had simply mistaken for enemy troops because he
- 6:02Speaker 1: believed they were still.
- 6:03Speaker 2: In this war.
- 6:04Speaker 1: The Japanese government had thought Onoda and Kazuko were dead,
- 6:08Speaker 1: but after Kazuko was killed and his body was recovered,
- 6:12Speaker 1: Japan sent search parties out onto this island looking for Onoda,
- 6:15Speaker 1: and Onoda thought the searchers were basically enemies trying to
- 6:19Speaker 1: capture him, until he heard the voice of his old
- 6:21Speaker 1: commanding officer, and at that point he finally came out
- 6:25Speaker 1: and laid.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Down his arms.
- 6:26Speaker 1: When Onoda finally returned to Japan, he received a hero's welcome,
- 6:30Speaker 1: but it was sort of tainted because, you know, innocent
- 6:33Speaker 1: lives were lost when he was on this island believing
- 6:36Speaker 1: he was fighting a war. You know, in many ways
- 6:38Speaker 1: he was sort of terrorizing innocent people. He just didn't
- 6:41Speaker 1: know it, and so the whole event was very sensitive
- 6:44Speaker 1: and ultimately Onoda went on to write an autobiography called
- 6:48Speaker 1: No Surrender, and he would become a rancher and move
- 6:51Speaker 1: to Brazil, where he would live until twenty fourteen, where
- 6:54Speaker 1: he would die from heart failure. Betterhelp is the paid
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- 8:19Speaker 1: eleven PM on April nineteenth, nineteen fifty eight, a twenty
- 8:22Speaker 1: two year old man named Frank Isco drove along a
- 8:26Speaker 1: coastal road in Santa Cruz, California, with two of his
- 8:28Speaker 1: friends inside of his pickup truck. The road they were
- 8:31Speaker 1: on was called West Cliff Drive, and it was this
- 8:34Speaker 1: beautiful scenic street that went along a cliff right next
- 8:37Speaker 1: to the ocean, so it's got this amazing view. However,
- 8:40Speaker 1: as Frank drove, he really couldn't see very much because
- 8:43Speaker 1: it was nighttime and the road didn't have any street lights,
- 8:46Speaker 1: so you know, the view was kind of lost on him.
- 8:48Speaker 1: Frank glanced over at his friends, but they were both
- 8:51Speaker 1: half asleep, and Frank himself was also pretty close to
- 8:54Speaker 1: nodding off. So all three of the guys were completely
- 8:57Speaker 1: exhausted because that morning they'd driven fifty miles from their
- 9:01Speaker 1: hometown to Santa Cruz, and then they'd spent all day
- 9:04Speaker 1: outside of the beach. Now they were all anxious to
- 9:07Speaker 1: get home and just go to bed. Frank was especially
- 9:10Speaker 1: ready to get home because his wife, Margaret always waited
- 9:13Speaker 1: up for him, and right now she was pregnant with
- 9:15Speaker 1: their first child, so he really didn't want to keep
- 9:18Speaker 1: her up all night. So Frank pressed his foot harder
- 9:20Speaker 1: on the gas pedal and he zoomed along and enjoying
- 9:23Speaker 1: the ocean view as much as he could see it,
- 9:24Speaker 1: and also listening to the sound of the waves, and
- 9:27Speaker 1: began thinking about his wife. But as he drove along,
- 9:30Speaker 1: he came up on this sharp curve in the road
- 9:33Speaker 1: that he just hadn't seen because it was so dark out,
- 9:35Speaker 1: and he was going so fast that when he hit
- 9:38Speaker 1: the brakes, even though he began to slow down, he
- 9:41Speaker 1: wasn't slowing down fast enough, and so he jerked his
- 9:43Speaker 1: wheel trying to avoid what was going to happen here,
- 9:45Speaker 1: but the truck it spun out of control. Frank heard
- 9:48Speaker 1: his friends wake up and start screaming, and Frank's desperately
- 9:51Speaker 1: trying to will the car away from the edge of
- 9:55Speaker 1: this road because there's a cliff down to the ocean,
- 9:57Speaker 1: but it's like he just couldn't do it. The truck
- 9:59Speaker 1: was spin and the last second, he looked out his
- 10:02Speaker 1: window and saw his headlights were beaming off the metal
- 10:05Speaker 1: barrier that kept you from going off the cliff, and
- 10:08Speaker 1: he knew there was nothing he could do, and they
- 10:10Speaker 1: slammed into the barrier, and then he felt the truck
- 10:13Speaker 1: lurch past the barrier, and all of a sudden, it's
- 10:15Speaker 1: like they're weightless as he and his friends are falling
- 10:19Speaker 1: off the cliff down.
- 10:20Speaker 2: To the ocean.
- 10:21Speaker 1: In this split second, as they're literally falling off a cliff,
- 10:25Speaker 1: Frank squeezed his eyes shut and just screamed along with
- 10:28Speaker 1: his friends, and he expected at any moment that his
- 10:31Speaker 1: truck was going to fall into the water and water
- 10:34Speaker 1: would pour in through the windows and they would all
- 10:37Speaker 1: just sink and drown. There'd be nothing they could do.
- 10:39Speaker 1: But amazingly, Frank felt the truck slam into something that
- 10:43Speaker 1: was unexpectedly hard.
- 10:45Speaker 2: It clearly was not water, and suddenly.
- 10:47Speaker 1: They weren't falling anymore, and there was no water pouring
- 10:50Speaker 1: into the truck. Frank was obviously disoriented from the impact
- 10:54Speaker 1: and the darkness and all the confusion, and he really
- 10:57Speaker 1: couldn't see what was going on, but he kind of
- 10:59Speaker 1: checked himself and he could tell like he was okay,
- 11:01Speaker 1: and he looked over at his friends and they too
- 11:03Speaker 1: are completely shaken up, but alive. Everybody's okay, at least physically,
- 11:08Speaker 1: and so Frank kind of frantically asked them before they
- 11:10Speaker 1: even figured out what was going on here, like, hey,
- 11:12Speaker 1: are you guys good, And his friends are like, yeah, yeah,
- 11:15Speaker 1: we're good. And then instinctively, one of his friends, who
- 11:17Speaker 1: was sitting on the passenger side of the car, opened
- 11:20Speaker 1: up the passenger side door and kind of carefully looked
- 11:24Speaker 1: out to see what was going on here, and the
- 11:26Speaker 1: friends sort of looked at the other two and just said,
- 11:29Speaker 1: we're stuck.
- 11:30Speaker 2: On a ledge.
- 11:30Speaker 1: We got caught on a ledge. For a second, all
- 11:33Speaker 1: three of the friends just froze. It was almost like
- 11:35Speaker 1: if we moved too much, maybe the car will rock
- 11:37Speaker 1: off the ledge and fall the rest.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Of the way down.
- 11:40Speaker 1: But the friend kind of looked out again, and it
- 11:42Speaker 1: seemed like they were actually stable on this ledge. Basically,
- 11:46Speaker 1: by some miracle, they had only fallen maybe twenty feet down.
- 11:50Speaker 1: This cliff hit this ledge and stopped instead of careening
- 11:53Speaker 1: all the way down to the ocean, which you know,
- 11:54Speaker 1: would have likely been death. Frank was so relieved and
- 11:58Speaker 1: was so just amazed at their turn of luck in
- 12:01Speaker 1: some ways, that they had landed miraculously right here, that
- 12:04Speaker 1: he just started to laugh because all they'd have to
- 12:06Speaker 1: do now is just carefully climb out and flag down
- 12:09Speaker 1: a motorist.
- 12:10Speaker 2: You know, the road was like twenty feet above them.
- 12:12Speaker 1: They could definitely get to the road or at least
- 12:14Speaker 1: signal somebody on the road and they'd be okay. And
- 12:17Speaker 1: so Frank's two friends they climbed fully out of the
- 12:20Speaker 1: truck and actually stood on the rocky ledge on the
- 12:23Speaker 1: passenger side.
- 12:24Speaker 2: They get out, they're standing there.
- 12:25Speaker 1: They're kind of surveying the ocean, you know, thanking their
- 12:28Speaker 1: lucky stars that they've survived. And Frank he wants to
- 12:31Speaker 1: get out too, to join them, but he decides to
- 12:33Speaker 1: go out his door, you know, open up his door
- 12:35Speaker 1: and get out on the ledge that way. But as
- 12:37Speaker 1: soon as he tried to open his door, he found
- 12:39Speaker 1: it was stuck, and so instead he just began rolling
- 12:42Speaker 1: down his window and began climbing out. At the same
- 12:45Speaker 1: time Frank was doing this, Frank's friends, who were standing
- 12:49Speaker 1: out on the ledge, they turned around to just look
- 12:52Speaker 1: at him to see what he was doing. They could
- 12:54Speaker 1: really only see, you know, through the car, the shadowy
- 12:56Speaker 1: shape of him in the darkness. But they watched as
- 12:58Speaker 1: he clearly was climbing out his window to presumably get
- 13:01Speaker 1: out on the ledge and join them. But the instant
- 13:04Speaker 1: he climbed out on the other side of the car,
- 13:06Speaker 1: even though it was dark, they could sort of see him.
- 13:08Speaker 1: The second he climbed out, it was like Frank just
- 13:12Speaker 1: vanished for a second. His friends were like, Frank, where'd
- 13:15Speaker 1: you go? Like where are you? But there was no response,
- 13:18Speaker 1: and so carefully the friends kind of walked around the
- 13:20Speaker 1: truck to see what Frank was doing.
- 13:23Speaker 2: And when they saw.
- 13:24Speaker 1: What was on the other side of the truck where
- 13:26Speaker 1: Frank presumably landed when he jumped out of the truck,
- 13:30Speaker 1: they were horrified. It would turn out the ledge that
- 13:33Speaker 1: Frank and his friends had landed on, the one that
- 13:35Speaker 1: had saved their lives, was not an entirely solid surface,
- 13:39Speaker 1: or more specifically, it was porous. In particular, there was
- 13:44Speaker 1: one hole big enough for a person to fit through,
- 13:48Speaker 1: and that hole was on the immediate outside of the
- 13:52Speaker 1: driver's side at the truck, and that hole that Frank
- 13:55Speaker 1: didn't see when he jumped out of the window and
- 13:58Speaker 1: he fell into that hole was the entrance to an
- 14:01Speaker 1: underwater cave. And Frank, who survived the fall, is now
- 14:06Speaker 1: in this dark cave. He has no idea what's happened,
- 14:10Speaker 1: and he starts trying to figure out a way out,
- 14:12Speaker 1: and there's all these tunnels going everywhere. There's a little
- 14:14Speaker 1: bit of water in there, but it's not very deep,
- 14:16Speaker 1: and he got lost inside of this cave and his
- 14:19Speaker 1: friends are calling out to him. Rescuers showed up, but
- 14:22Speaker 1: by the time the tide came in a couple hours later,
- 14:25Speaker 1: Frank was nowhere near the entrance to the hall, so
- 14:27Speaker 1: he couldn't let the water rise him.
- 14:30Speaker 2: Up to the exit. He just had to wait for
- 14:32Speaker 2: the water to fill in the space he was in
- 14:35Speaker 2: and he drowned.
- 14:50Speaker 1: On the afternoon of December nineteenth, nineteen sixty six, a
- 14:53Speaker 1: fifty nine year old man named doctor Mohammed Ibrahim sat
- 14:57Speaker 1: in a conference room inside of a government building and Kyro, Egypt.
- 15:00Speaker 1: He was there as an employee of the Egyptian government
- 15:03Speaker 1: and he was sitting across from two governmental representatives from France.
- 15:07Speaker 2: He felt very nervous because.
- 15:09Speaker 1: He'd been meeting with these same two men and trying
- 15:11Speaker 1: to come to an agreement with them about a very
- 15:13Speaker 1: important diplomatic decision for the last four months, but so
- 15:18Speaker 1: far they had not been able to make a deal,
- 15:20Speaker 1: and that was because these French representatives wanted Mohammed, who
- 15:24Speaker 1: was the director General of Egyptian Antigues, to help them
- 15:27Speaker 1: put together an exhibition in Paris that was all about
- 15:30Speaker 1: ancient Egypt, and they specifically wanted Mohammed to loan them
- 15:34Speaker 1: a collection of artifacts from an ancient Egyptian pharaoh's tomb.
- 15:37Speaker 1: But Mohammed was afraid to loan these artifacts out because
- 15:41Speaker 1: he and many other people in his world believed that
- 15:45Speaker 1: these particular artifacts were sacred and should not be transported
- 15:49Speaker 1: outside of Egypt because it was disrespectful.
- 15:52Speaker 2: To the pharaoh himself.
- 15:54Speaker 1: So on this particular day, Mohammad just said to these
- 15:57Speaker 1: French representatives that like guys, were never going to reach
- 16:00Speaker 1: a deal because I'm just not willing to loan these out.
- 16:04Speaker 2: It feels disrespectful to this pharaoh.
- 16:06Speaker 1: And he knew this sounded kind of crazy because the
- 16:08Speaker 1: pharaoh has been dead for thousands of years, but that's
- 16:11Speaker 1: how Mohammad felt, and he really wanted them to understand
- 16:13Speaker 1: that this was not something he could change.
- 16:16Speaker 2: This is how he felt. That's how it is now.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Up until this point, Mohammed again had been trying to
- 16:21Speaker 1: make a deal with them, but it never really come out,
- 16:23Speaker 1: and said that ultimately his main sticking point is this
- 16:26Speaker 1: disrespect of the pharaoh, and so this is the first
- 16:29Speaker 1: time the French representatives are hearing this, and from Mohammad's perspective,
- 16:33Speaker 1: when he said this to them, it looked like they
- 16:35Speaker 1: almost wanted to laugh, like are you kidding? But when
- 16:38Speaker 1: they realized Mohammed was being completely serious here, they sort
- 16:42Speaker 1: of shifted and had these looks of almost sympathy come
- 16:44Speaker 1: across their faces, and then they promised Mohammed that, you know,
- 16:48Speaker 1: if you loan us these artifacts, that's not going to
- 16:50Speaker 1: be disrespectful. In fact, if anything, it would actually honor
- 16:54Speaker 1: the pharaoh because it would allow people all over France
- 16:57Speaker 1: to see and appreciate the artifacts from his tomb. Mohammed
- 17:01Speaker 1: and the French representatives went back and forth on this
- 17:04Speaker 1: topic for hours, and eventually Mohammed did start to see
- 17:09Speaker 1: their side of things. It did make sense to him
- 17:11Speaker 1: that maybe, you know, allowing France to display the artifacts
- 17:15Speaker 1: was a way of not disrespecting the pharaoh, but honoring
- 17:18Speaker 1: the pharaoh, and so, finally, perhaps against his better judgment,
- 17:22Speaker 1: Mohammed officially agreed to loan out.
- 17:25Speaker 2: The artifacts, and then the meeting adjourned.
- 17:27Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Mohammed walked out of the government
- 17:30Speaker 1: building onto the busy sidewalk outside, and he felt lighter
- 17:33Speaker 1: than he had months. The deal was done and he
- 17:36Speaker 1: didn't have to think about it anymore. This was great now.
- 17:38Speaker 1: All Mohammed wanted to do was just go home, and
- 17:41Speaker 1: so he began walking towards the parking lot where his
- 17:44Speaker 1: car was, and as he was heading across the street,
- 17:47Speaker 1: looking straight ahead, he heard a loud, blaring noise in
- 17:51Speaker 1: a screeching sound.
- 17:53Speaker 2: And then everything went black.
- 17:55Speaker 1: It would turn out those artifacts Mohammed had just agreed
- 17:57Speaker 1: to loan out were from the tomb of the ancient
- 18:00Speaker 1: Egyptian pharaoh King Tutan. Common and Mohammed, along with many
- 18:04Speaker 1: many others, believed that these artifacts were not just sacred,
- 18:09Speaker 1: but were also cursed. And that was because over the years,
- 18:13Speaker 1: at least eleven people who had a connection to these
- 18:17Speaker 1: artifacts had died, and it was believed that anybody who
- 18:21Speaker 1: disrespected the artifacts would face King Tut's wrath, and just
- 18:26Speaker 1: minutes after Mohammed convinced himself to agree to loan out
- 18:30Speaker 1: these artifacts to France, he walked out of the government
- 18:33Speaker 1: building in Cairo and he was hit and killed by
- 18:36Speaker 1: a truck. His death made headlines all over the world
- 18:40Speaker 1: because to this day, you know, some people say this
- 18:42Speaker 1: was just a horrible accident, but others insist he was
- 18:46Speaker 1: yet another victim.
- 18:48Speaker 2: Of King Tut's curse.
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