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Halloween Week: 3 Urban Legends V6 · Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ah, my dear friends, welcome back. Tell me something. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever heard a story so unbelievable, so utterly ridiculous, that.
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  Speaker 2: You simply refuse to believe it could be true?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps it was a tale whispered around a campfire. A
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  Speaker 1: warning passed down from your grandparents. Or some dreadful little
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  Speaker 1: rumor that spread through your town like a disease. You
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  Speaker 1: know the ones I'm talking about, don't you? The killer
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  Speaker 1: hides in the backseat of your car. The unfortunate soul
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  Speaker 1: who wakes up in the bathtub filled with ice and
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  Speaker 1: a missing kidney. Or perhaps the mysterious stranger who vanishes
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  Speaker 1: without a trace. leaving behind nothing more than a chilling memory.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I'm talking about urban legends. Such wonderful little creations,
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  Speaker 1: aren't they? Stories that travel from person to person, growing
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  Speaker 1: more and more elaborate and more terrifying and even more
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable with each and every telling. But here's what I
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  Speaker 1: find so deliciously amusing about them, my friends. Sometimes, they're true.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, you mortals have such extraordinary imaginations, but every
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  Speaker 1: so often, reality manages to dream up something far more
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  Speaker 1: disturbing than anything your minds could possibly invent. And that,
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  Speaker 1: my dear friends, is precisely... what today is about, and
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  Speaker 1: what makes it such a special occasion. Ladies, gentlemen, theys
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  Speaker 1: and thems, my name is Jacko, your master of ceremonies
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  Speaker 1: through these seven wicked days, and it is my absolute
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  Speaker 1: pleasure to welcome you to day four of Wicked and
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  Speaker 1: Grim's Halloween week. And today, we celebrate one of our
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  Speaker 1: most beloved traditions with three Urban legends. Three stories, each
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  Speaker 1: with something sinister lurking beneath the surface, but which are
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  Speaker 1: rooted in reality, and which are nothing more than a
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  Speaker 1: twisted creation of an overactive imagination. Well, my friends, that is...
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  Speaker 1: is for you to discover. So, gather close, as it
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  Speaker 1: gives me tremendous pleasure to welcome the two wonderfully wicked
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  Speaker 1: souls who have prepared today's collection of mysteries. Your storytellers,
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  Speaker 1: your guides through fact and fiction, and my dearest mortal companions,
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  Speaker 1: Ben and Nicole.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for some urban legends.
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  Speaker 3: Fan favorite for sure.
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  Speaker 2: This is one that I every year promise that it
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  Speaker 2: may or may not return because urban legends are extremely
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  Speaker 2: difficult to research because, hey, after all, most of them
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  Speaker 2: aren't real. So it's hard to research something that doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: So I can never promise it will return for next year,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm happy to say here we are in 2026,
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  Speaker 2: our sixth annual and happy. And the urban legends are back.
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  Speaker 3: Urban legends continue.
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  Speaker 2: They're back, baby.
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  Speaker 3: This episode, like this annual episode is fun.
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  Speaker 2: This one is fun. This one's good. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of thinking. So I hope you guys have your thinking
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  Speaker 2: caps ready and are secured to your dome because you're
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  Speaker 2: going to need them today. So is Nicole. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to need it strapped on tight.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Because what we have are three urban legend stories, one
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  Speaker 2: of which is false and two of which Okay. So
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  Speaker 2: how it's going to work is I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: through the three stories. Halfway through this episode, Nicole is
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  Speaker 2: going to make her decisions on which ones she thinks
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  Speaker 2: are true and which one she thinks is false. The
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  Speaker 2: false one, by the way, I may have made up myself.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: She's got some decisions to make. She'll make her decisions,
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  Speaker 2: and then I will reveal... the truth behind each and
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  Speaker 2: every story. So we can see how she did. My
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  Speaker 2: shoulder just popped. I don't know if it came at
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  Speaker 2: the mic, but it like cracked really well. I was
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  Speaker 2: doing this like grandiose gesture above my head and my
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  Speaker 2: shoulder just decided to like make a loud noise.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Decided to be involved in it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like, I've been helping you write enough. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to make my, my position known as.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I got to like stretch it out now.
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  Speaker 3: I always actually feel a little bit nervous too. It's just,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just anticipation. It's like, oh, like you
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  Speaker 3: want to get them right, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you do. You do. You really do. And so
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  Speaker 2: what I have today is I have a cryptid. I
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  Speaker 2: have a medical story and I have a, I guess
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  Speaker 2: you could say an unfortunate event. Okay. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go off today. So are you ready, Nicole?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm ready. You ready? I'm ready. Let's rock and roll.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, let's get into this. We're going to start
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  Speaker 2: off with story number one, which is our cryptid. So
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  Speaker 2: along the remote waterways of eastern Australia, there is said
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  Speaker 2: to exist a very unusual creature. For generations, the animal
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  Speaker 2: had inhabited the rivers and streams of the continent, largely
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  Speaker 2: concealed beneath murky waters and within muddy banks where it
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  Speaker 2: made its homes. Although indigenous Australians... had long been familiar
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  Speaker 2: with this creature, European naturalists, encountering these descriptions of it,
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  Speaker 2: struggled to understand exactly what they were dealing with. The
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  Speaker 2: animal was said to be unlike anything they had previously
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  Speaker 2: encountered before. Its body was covered in thick, dark brown fur,
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  Speaker 2: resembling that of maybe a small otter, with a broad,
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  Speaker 2: flattened tail and short limbs with extremely sharp claws. Yet,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps its most disturbing characteristic is its face. It seems
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  Speaker 2: to almost have the face and bill of a duck waterbird,
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  Speaker 2: and an otherwise furry four-legged animal seems to have this
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  Speaker 2: stitched where its typical mammal face would be. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: combination is so bizarre, the description is almost like something
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  Speaker 2: has in fact been stitched together with the remains of
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  Speaker 2: other unrelated animals. In this alleged creature, it doesn't seem
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  Speaker 2: like it should be real, but these are what the
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  Speaker 2: descriptions are. This strange animal is said to be very
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  Speaker 2: much so alive, though. Primarily active during the evening and
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  Speaker 2: nighttime hours, this creature is said to spend much of
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  Speaker 2: its existence moving through the freshwater streams, searching for small
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  Speaker 2: animals concealed beneath the riverbed. Its movements are said to
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  Speaker 2: be remarkably quiet, and its dark coloring makes it difficult
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  Speaker 2: to distinguish from the surrounding waters. When disturbed, it could
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  Speaker 2: disappear beneath the surface, leaving little more than spreading circles
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  Speaker 2: as ripples. Even upon submerging itself in layers of muddy water,
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  Speaker 2: the beast is able to navigate the riverbeds and locate
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  Speaker 2: its prey easy. Now, it may be a small creature,
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  Speaker 2: but it has also been known to attack humans, too.
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  Speaker 2: It is said that rather than relying on sight alone,
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  Speaker 2: this creature can actually detect minute electrical signals produced by
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  Speaker 2: muscular movements of other living organisms. On its feet, it
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  Speaker 2: carries sharp spurs that drip in venom, and perhaps most
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  Speaker 2: peculiar of all were the reports concerning its reproduction. Nests
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  Speaker 2: have been reported to have been found of this creature,
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  Speaker 2: and despite being covered in fur and possessing the characteristics
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  Speaker 2: of a mammal, They lay a leathery textured egg. Then
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  Speaker 2: after hatching, the helpless young remain in the nest to
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  Speaker 2: be nourished by its mother's milk. The furry creature with
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  Speaker 2: a bird-like face and electrical scents, venomous weapons, and lays
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  Speaker 2: eggs is said to roam the Australian wild somewhere beneath
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  Speaker 2: the dark waters in the east. And that is your
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  Speaker 2: first tale.
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  Speaker 3: The Cryptid.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of that one so far?
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  Speaker 3: I think that one seems incredibly false.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 3: But then probably these other two will as well, so
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  Speaker 3: then I have a decision to make.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're urban legends.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So here we go. Okay. You ready for story number two?
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  Speaker 3: I'm very ready.
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  Speaker 2: Well, story number two is your medical story. As this
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  Speaker 2: story goes, in approximately 2015, A young man living in
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  Speaker 2: southern China began experiencing a series of unexplained medical problems
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  Speaker 2: that would eventually consume nearly four years of his life.
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  Speaker 2: Although he was only in his mid-twenties, he was suffering
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  Speaker 2: from reoccurring illnesses that doctors struggled to diagnose, let alone treat. Initially,
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  Speaker 2: the man experienced repeated episodes of inflammation in his lungs,
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  Speaker 2: accompanied by high fevers that left him feeling seriously unwell.
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  Speaker 2: He sought medical attention, received treatment, and occasionally experienced periods
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  Speaker 2: of improvement, in fact. However, his symptoms continued to return.
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  Speaker 2: And as the months passed, it became increasingly apparent that
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  Speaker 2: something was seriously wrong with him. At times, his fever
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  Speaker 2: reportedly climbed as high as 40 degrees Celsius, a dangerously
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  Speaker 2: elevated temperature that raised concerns about a significant underlying infection.
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  Speaker 2: Doctors examined his respiratory system. and considered several possibilities, but
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  Speaker 2: the treatment he received failed to resolve whatever his condition was.
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  Speaker 2: Some physicians reportedly diagnosed him with sepsis, a potentially life-threatening
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  Speaker 2: condition in which the body's response to infection begins damaging
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  Speaker 2: its own tissues and organs. Others raised the possibility of leukemia,
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  Speaker 2: a form of cancer affecting the blood and bone marrow.
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  Speaker 2: Both possibilities were very deeply concerning, particularly for someone so young.
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  Speaker 2: But neither explanation led to a lasting resolution. Now, over
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  Speaker 2: the years, the man continued searching for answers, visiting medical professionals,
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  Speaker 2: and undergoing repeated examinations. And the financial burden became substantial. Yet,
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  Speaker 2: despite the considerable expanse of years of medical attention, his
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  Speaker 2: symptoms just persisted. By the beginning of 2019, the man
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  Speaker 2: was 29 years old and still experiencing episodes of severe illness.
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  Speaker 2: and after another particularly troubling fever, he sought treatment at
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  Speaker 2: the hospital. It was here that doctors finally uncovered evidence
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  Speaker 2: suggesting his condition might be considerably more complicated than anyone
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  Speaker 2: had previously suspected. You see, during his examination, medical imaging
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  Speaker 2: revealed an unusual shadow within his right lung, indicating an
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  Speaker 2: abnormality that required further investigation. However, an even more concerning
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  Speaker 2: discovery appeared when physicians, examined his heart. Inside the right
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  Speaker 2: atrium of his heart, in one of the four chambers,
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  Speaker 2: doctors identified what appeared to be an abnormal growth. The
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  Speaker 2: right atrium is responsible for receiving oxygen-depleted blood returning from
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  Speaker 2: the body before passing it to the right ventricle, where
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  Speaker 2: it is subsequently pumped towards the lungs. And an unexplained
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  Speaker 2: mass in this chamber was therefore particularly concerning, especially given
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  Speaker 2: the man's history of of reoccurring inflammation and serious infections,
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  Speaker 2: the hospital's cardiovascular specialist determined that surgical intervention was necessary.
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  Speaker 2: And in January of 2019, he underwent open heart surgery
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  Speaker 2: with the medical team investigating the abnormal growth. The operation
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  Speaker 2: was extensive to say the least, but once they were
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  Speaker 2: able to inspect the abnormality directly, they encountered something entirely unexpected.
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  Speaker 2: What appeared on medical imaging to be an unusual growth
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  Speaker 2: was instead a foreign object lodged within the man's right atrium.
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  Speaker 2: It was a wooden toothpick. Apparently, it had entered his
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  Speaker 2: system one day, migrated through his body, and ended up
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  Speaker 2: inside his heart. And that is story number two.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what the shit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that one sounds incredibly false as well. Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: We're doomed.
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  Speaker 2: We're doomed.
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  Speaker 3: We're in for it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've got one more.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Where's your head at? What are you thinking?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's only one false, right?
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: So statistically speaking, at least one of those, at least
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  Speaker 2: because both could be true, but at least one of
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  Speaker 2: those has to be true because maybe this next one
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  Speaker 2: I say is also true. But one of those has
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  Speaker 2: to be true, statistically, at least.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, I was like really thinking that I
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  Speaker 3: have invested a lot of time in Grey's Anatomy over
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  Speaker 3: the years. So I'm like, if this wild story would
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  Speaker 3: be an episode on Grey's Anatomy, if it was true.
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  Speaker 2: You think so?
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  Speaker 3: And I don't recall that being an episode. I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 3: But they do take sometimes like bizarre.
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  Speaker 2: Real life tales.
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  Speaker 3: Real life medical tales. So I was really hoping that
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  Speaker 3: might give me An edge? Yeah, and it didn't.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: So let's just hear number three, and then I'll really
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  Speaker 3: put my thinking cap on here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it. Well, story number three is your
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  Speaker 2: unfortunate event. In September of 2015, a family in a
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  Speaker 2: small Pennsylvania town was preparing to say their final goodbyes
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  Speaker 2: to their 76-year-old father and grandfather, a retired mechanic who
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  Speaker 2: had died peacefully in his sleep after several years of
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  Speaker 2: declining health. He lived in the community for most of
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  Speaker 2: his life, and following his death, his two adult children
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  Speaker 2: arranged for a traditional funeral service, complete with an open
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  Speaker 2: casket viewing. His body was transferred to a local funeral home,
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  Speaker 2: where staff were responsible for preparing for the burial. The
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  Speaker 2: viewing was scheduled for September 19th, and by early afternoon, friends, relatives,
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  Speaker 2: and former co-workers had begun arriving to pay their respects. However,
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  Speaker 2: shortly before the service was set to begin, one of
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  Speaker 2: the man's daughters approached the casket to see her father
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  Speaker 2: for the final time. And almost immediately, she noticed something
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  Speaker 2: was wrong. The man lying inside the casket was not
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  Speaker 2: her father. Although the deceased was approximately the same age
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  Speaker 2: and had a similar build, his facial features were unmistakably different. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the woman initially wondered whether the embalming process had altered
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  Speaker 2: her father's appearance that drastically, but after examining the man's
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  Speaker 2: face more closely, she became convinced that there had been
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  Speaker 2: a mistake. She called over her sister, who immediately agreed
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  Speaker 2: neither sibling recognized the person lying before them. The funeral
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  Speaker 2: director was summoned, and the service was temporarily postponed while
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  Speaker 2: staff attempted to determine what had happened. At first, the
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  Speaker 2: funeral home believed that two deceased individuals had simply been
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  Speaker 2: confused during preparation. Such a mistake, although highly unusual, could
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  Speaker 2: theoretically occur if identification tags or accompanying paperwork were mishandled.
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  Speaker 2: staff began reviewing their records and checking other bodies that were,
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  Speaker 2: you know, currently in their care. But the situation quickly
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  Speaker 2: became considerably more troubling when they were doing so. You see,
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  Speaker 2: according to the funeral home's documentation, their father had been received, identified, embalmed, dressed,
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  Speaker 2: and placed inside the very casket now containing this stranger.
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  Speaker 2: But there was no record of another individual matching the
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  Speaker 2: unidentified man's description being transferred to the facility. And the
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  Speaker 2: father's body while it was now nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 2: Local authorities were contacted, investigators examined the funeral home's intake records,
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  Speaker 2: transcription logs, and preparation schedules. They also contacted nearby hospitals,
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  Speaker 2: medical examiner facilities, and other funeral homes to determine whether
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  Speaker 2: an undocumented exchange had occurred. None reported a missing deceased
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  Speaker 2: person matching this man's description, and no facility could account
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  Speaker 2: for the unidentified man. Even more strangely, the identification bracelet
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  Speaker 2: reportedly attached the stranger's wrist, well, it bore their father's
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  Speaker 2: name and corresponding case number, but it was not him.
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  Speaker 2: This suggested that whoever had prepared the bodies had either
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  Speaker 2: failed to recognize the mistake or had somehow attached this
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  Speaker 2: man's identification tag to a complete stranger. The investigation also
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  Speaker 2: went into whether his remains could have been mistakenly transported elsewhere,
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  Speaker 2: maybe cremated or buried under another person's name, yet no
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  Speaker 2: corresponding paperwork transfer records, or burial documentation was ever discovered.
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  Speaker 2: As the weeks passed, the family continued demanding answers from
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  Speaker 2: the funeral home, which maintained that its records showed no
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  Speaker 2: unexplained transfers or irregularities. The unidentified man remained in the
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  Speaker 2: custody of authorities while investigators attempted to establish who he
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  Speaker 2: was and how he had come to occupy this casket,
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  Speaker 2: but no question was satisfactorily answered. And perhaps most disturbingly,
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  Speaker 2: their missing father was never located. What should have been
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  Speaker 2: an ordinary funeral had instead uncovered two seemingly impossible mysteries.
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  Speaker 2: The disappearance of a deceased man from a supposedly secure
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  Speaker 2: facility and the arrival of another body that nobody could identify.
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  Speaker 2: To this day, the family's final opportunity to say goodbye
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  Speaker 2: to the remains of their father and grandfather have been
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  Speaker 2: tainted with the idea that he is currently buried in
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  Speaker 2: someone else's grave. And that's your third story.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa. Okay, yikes. I would be freaking livid.
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  Speaker 2: Hey?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That is not okay.
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  Speaker 1: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So you got some thinking to do here. Story number one,
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  Speaker 2: we have our mysterious, small, egg-laying, poisonous mammal cryptid.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Story number two, your medical story, where a man somehow
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  Speaker 2: ingests a toothpick and it ends up lodged in his heart.
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  Speaker 2: And story number three, your mystery, where a stranger is
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  Speaker 2: mixed up, two strangers are mixed up, I should say,
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  Speaker 2: at a funeral home, one unidentified and the other gone missing.
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  Speaker 2: what do you think well i know i'm not gonna
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  Speaker 2: give you any information nice try.
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  Speaker 3: Uh okay i think i have an answer.
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  Speaker 2: You think you have an answer i.
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  Speaker 3: Think i'm gonna go with the first one being.
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  Speaker 2: True okay the cryptid's true.
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  Speaker 3: And then the medical one being false.
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  Speaker 2: The medical's false. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And then the unfortunate situation or whatever you called it.
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  Speaker 1: True.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I like had a brain further.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Two are true, one's false.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. Two are true, one's false.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm going with the middle one being false.
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  Speaker 2: So you're saying the medical story is the false story,
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  Speaker 2: but the other two are the true stories.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Are you locking that in?
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  Speaker 3: I'm locking that in.
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  Speaker 2: You're locking it in. Okay. Officially, it's locked in. You
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  Speaker 2: cannot change your mind. You ready to hear the truth
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  Speaker 2: behind these three urban legends?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Let's get into it. Okay. The cryptid. Story number one.
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  Speaker 2: The strange creature that was lurking beneath the waters of
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  Speaker 2: eastern Australia. It might sound like something straight out of
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  Speaker 2: a cryptozoologist's journal with a bizarre appearance, venomous weapons, seemingly
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  Speaker 2: impossible biology. But in fact, you would be forgiven for
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  Speaker 2: thinking that someone has simply invented the entire thing. But
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  Speaker 2: not only is this creature very real, it is one
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  Speaker 2: of the most common creatures. But it's one of those
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  Speaker 2: creatures that everyone has heard of. Everyone knows this creature.
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee you, Nicole, you know what this creature is.
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  Speaker 2: Because the animal I was describing is none other than
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  Speaker 2: the duck-billed platypus.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So it's true, right?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: It's true. This is a true story.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Do you want to know what helped me with this?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Is I had like a purple platypus TY beanie baby
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: and that like popped in my head for some reason.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: As a kid. And so I'm like, I think that
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: this might be like that or something. Not purple, obviously,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: but like, okay, that helped me.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad it helped you.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: This is good. Okay.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: So believe it or not, when European scientists first encountered
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the duck-billed platypus, they genuinely thought that someone was trying
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: to pull a prank on them. In 1798, a preserved
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: specimen was sent from the British colony of New South
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Wales to England, where it eventually came into the possession
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: of naturalist George Shaw, who worked with the British Museum's
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Natural History Collection. Shaw had examined plenty of unusual animals
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: throughout his career. But this particular specimen was unlike anything
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: he'd ever seen. Its furry body appeared perfectly ordinary, basically,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: until you reach its face, where a broad, duck-like bill
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: seemed to be attached to the head of a completely
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: different animal. In fact, Shaw was so suspicious that he
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: reportedly took a pair of scissors to the specimen, examining
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the area around its bill for evidence that someone had
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: stitched two animals together. But he found no such evidence.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: In 1799, Shaw published the first formal scientific description of
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the creature, naming it platypus anatinus. However, even after accepting
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: that the specimen appeared genuine, the animal continued to generate
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: considerable scientific confusion. And the thing only became more complicated
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: when researchers began investigating how it reproduced. You see, despite
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: possessing fur and producing milk, the platypus doesn't give birth
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: to live young. Instead, females typically lay one to three eggs,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: which they then incubate inside underground nesting chambers. This made
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: absolutely no sense to many 19th century European naturalists who
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: believed that egg laying and milk production belonged to entirely
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: different categories of animals, which for the most part they
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: generally do, but not always. The controversy persisted for decades
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: despite indigenous Australians already possessing knowledge of the animals' reproductive habits.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: It wasn't until 1884 that that zoologist William Caldwell, working
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: with more than 150 Waka Waka Aboriginal people, that they
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: obtained the evidence European scientists finally accepted as confirmation that
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the platypus in fact did lay eggs. Today, we understand
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: that platypuses belong to a group of mammals known as monotremes,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: alongside echidnas. These animals reproduce by laying eggs, while still
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: possessing defining mammal-like characteristics, including the ability to produce milk.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: But their peculiarities don't end there. The strange bill isn't
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: exactly a hard beak like a duck. It's a highly
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: sensitive organ containing specialized receptors capable of detecting tiny electrical
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: signals generated by muscles of underwater prey. And the venomous
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: spurs I mentioned earlier, those are completely real too. Only
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: mature males produce the venom, which is believed to play
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: a role in competition during breeding seasons. Although platypus venom
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: isn't generally considered fatal to humans, it can cause excruciating
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: pain that sometimes persists for weeks, with lingering effects lasting
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: considerably longer. So ultimately, it is a genuine living animal,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: and perhaps the strangest part of the entire story is
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: that the platypus never needed to be transformed into a
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: monster to sound unbelievable. For more than two centuries, its
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: very existence has challenged people's expectations of what an animal
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: should look like and how it should function. Because, well,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: sometimes nature creates something so ridiculous that even the people
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: whose job is to study animals have trouble believing it's
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: real themselves.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Well, what a wildly unique animal.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: No kidding.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: So it makes sense how you kind of described it
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: initially as kind of a monster, right?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And I know there's going to be people out here
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: who are listening to this episode and they knew it
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: was a duck-billed platypus right away. There's no question in
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: their mind. They knew it was real. In fact, they
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: were probably screaming and shouting at you, it's a platypus. Honestly,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I knew there was going to be two different people
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: listening to this. There's going to be those who knew
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: it was real and those who had no idea. And
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: if you knew, I mean, that gives you an edge
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: in today's episode. I'll just say that. But I knew
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: you were out there and I know, I know, I knew.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: You did good.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I did it on purpose. I was really hoping you'd
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: catch it because I'm like, I don't think she's going
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: to know what I'm talking about.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Well, it is quite funny that what you were talking
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: about popped into my brain because of a TY Beanie baby.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm not surprised that's how you kind of figured
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: it out, if I'm honest. Oh, man.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: So that's story number one being true. Story number two,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the medical one with the toothpick. You ready for this one?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very ready. Okay.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: For nearly four years, a 29-year-old Chinese man named Zhao
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: had suffered from an illness that doctors couldn't properly explain.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: He experienced repeated infections, dangerously high fevers, and inflammation in
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: his lungs, only for surgeons to eventually discover something lodged
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: inside his heart. And while it might sound like something
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: from a medical horror movie, not only was Zhao's experience
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: very real, but the object responsible for his suffering was,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: in fact... a completely ordinary wooden toothpick in his heart.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: This is true?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: This is true.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: During the seven-hour operation on January 9th, 2019, surgeons discovered
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: an intact six-centimeter toothpick embedded inside his right atrium of
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: his heart. The discovery was astonishing, particularly because nobody could
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: exactly establish how long the object had even been there
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: or how it had traveled into his heart to begin with.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: But Zhao, well, he had a theory. When speaking with
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: reporters following the operation, he explained that he had developed
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: an unusual habit whenever he went drinking with friends. To
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: distinguish his glass from everyone else's, well, he would often
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: place a wooden toothpick inside his drink. He admitted that
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: he had actually even swallowed one before, and on that occasion,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: he actually managed to get the lodged toothpick out of
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: his throat using his fingers. But He believed that during
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: other drinking sessions, maybe perhaps earlier, he might've accidentally swallowed
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: another toothpick without even realizing it. Now, when Dr. Wen Zahawi,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: deputy director of cardiovascular surgery at the hospital, offered a
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: possible explanation for how it reached his heart, well, it
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: was even more astonishing. See, rather than traveling through his
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: digestive track, doctors suspected that the toothpick had entered his airway,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: then penetrated one of the wall of his lungs, and eventually, slowly,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: it worked its way and pierced into his heart. Although
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: this was considered a plausible explanation, the precise route was
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: never definitively established. Fortunately, surgeons successfully removed the object, and
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Zhao reportedly recovered without major lasting complications. He was discharged
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: from the hospital on January 31, 2019. But here's where
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: the story becomes even more unbelievable. Because Zhao wasn't the
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: first person to experience something like this. In October of 2015,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: doctors in Buenos Aires, Argentina, operated on 42-year-old Horacio Rodriguez Videla,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: who spent months suffering from unexplained fevers, weight loss, coughing
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: up blood, and stabbing chest pains. Doctors initially suspected pneumonia
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: or heart infection. and eventually medical imaging revealed something unusual
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: inside his heart. which physicians believe might have been a
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: catheter left behind during an earlier medical procedure. But when
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: surgeons at the hospital opened up his heart, they discovered
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: a wooden toothpick. Horatio had no recollection of swallowing it,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: although he suspected it might have happened during a New
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Year's Eve celebration when he'd eaten numerous appetizers, some of
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: which were served using toothpicks. The object was removed intact,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: and doctors expected him to recover without lasting complications. And remarkably,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: an even earlier case was documented in Belgium in 1992.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: A 53-year-old man developed breathing difficulties, chest pains, palpitations, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: recurrent inflammation around his heart. His condition eventually required surgery
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: after the protective sac surrounding his heart became abnormally thick.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: And during the procedure, surgeons discovered a three and a
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: half centimeter toothpick embedded in the pericardium, the membrane surrounding
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: the heart. The man later remembered eating fish rolls held
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: together with toothpicks at a barbecue several months earlier. His
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: case was subsequently published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: in 1994, providing medical documentation of the extraordinary incident. So
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: while the idea of someone unknowingly carrying a toothpick inside
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: their heart might sound completely ridiculous, it has happened before.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: In fact, it's happened more than once before in different
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: countries all around the world. And perhaps the most disturbing
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: part is that none of these men initially realized it
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: even swallowed anything unusual. Scary to think that something as
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: small as an ordinary toothpick can become the cause of
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: a potentially fatal medical emergency.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be watching you with toothpicks now because
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: that is so bizarre. If anyone would have said That
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: someone had a toothpick lodged in their heart and they
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: didn't die? I just, yeah.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: You would think it's false.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: So I completely failed this.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: You did not get that one.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I got one out of three. So that's cool. I
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: am just shocked that a toothpick could actually wander to
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: someone's heart and they survive.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: That is mind-blowing.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: And not only that, it can happen more than once.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: So clearly it might be a medical phenomenon, but it
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: could happen again if it's happened before that many times.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: It's not a one-off.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: The drink one, I guess I can kind of understand
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: how you'd maybe consume that, but like eating it. Oh
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: my gosh. Like, are you not chewing? I just, that's
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: just so bizarre.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, you're going to have to watch me with toothpicks.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I am a toothpick guy. So I often have a toothpick.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: So Yeah, you're going to have to watch me. And
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: if I ever complain of stabbing pains in my heart
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: or something, we'll have to think maybe there's a toothpick there.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Because you also do eat quite quickly.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I can, definitely, yeah. I do inhale my food at times.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Well, this leaves us with one more story. A story
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: of an unusual circumstance and a story that I may
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: have made up myself.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: You made this one up.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Well, to a certain degree. So of our three stories,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: this one might seem the most believable at first. After all,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: funeral homes are responsible for handling thousands of deceased individuals
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: every year. And with so many bodies being transported, prepared,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: and eventually buried or cremated, the possibility of someone making
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: a terrible mistake isn't exactly difficult to imagine. But the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: entire story, that's what was fabricated. But before you dismiss
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: the situation as completely ridiculous, here's something worth considering. Funeral
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: homes have, in fact, genuinely placed wrong people inside the
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: wrong caskets before. That is not false. And in some cases,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: families have discovered their mistakes under circumstances in disturbingly similar
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: situations than the one that I already described. Going to
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: see their loved one at an open casket and the
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: wrong person is there.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I couldn't even imagine.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: For example, in May of this year, 2026, the family
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: of 84-year-old Jose Daniel Diaz Phillips Felipe probably is how
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: you actually say his last name. My apologies. Well, they
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: arrived at the funeral home in New York city, expecting
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: to say goodbye to their father. But when they opened
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: the casket, they discovered another man lying inside dressed in
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: their father's clothing. According to the family, the funeral home
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: employees initially insisted that the stranger was their father, but
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: despite obvious differences in the appearance, I mean, clearly that's
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: not the case. The family later alleged that their father's
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: remains had already been cremated following a mix-up involving two
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: deceased men with similar names. The family subsequently filed a
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: lawsuit seeking millions in damages. And in September of 2026,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: another family experienced something remarkably similar in Detroit, Michigan. The
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: children of 61-year-old Kimberly Moore arrived at Hutchinson's funeral home
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: for their mother's viewing, only to discover an unfamiliar woman
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: dressed in their mother's clothing and wig. According to the family,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: they were informed that Kimberly had apparently been cremated by mistake.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: The funeral home launched an internal investigation while the family
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: of another deceased woman, Sandra Miller, later identified her as
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: the person who had been placed in Kimberly's casket. Both
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: families subsequently pursued legal action. So while our story about
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: a man and the unidentified stranger was entirely fictional, the
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: circumstances surrounding it were unfortunately not impossible. Real families have
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: arrived at funeral homes only to discover that the person
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: inside the casket wasn't their loved one. Others have been
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: informed that their relatives were mistakenly cremated, leaving them without
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: the opportunity to say goodbye. And that's what makes this
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: particular urban legend or story I made up so disturbing. Now, thankfully,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I think for the most part, there is enough documentation
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: in place to prevent the story I created. You know,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: have someone show up never being able to identify them
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: and your loved one go missing, not knowing where they
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: ended up. Thankfully, I think with all the documentation in place,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: with all the backend stuff, with all the legalities behind it,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think you'll ever find a situation where that
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: will ever happen. But for a mix-up, well, it does
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: make for a very plausible story because it does only
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: take one mistake. But perhaps that's the most unsettling part
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: of this story. Sometimes the difference between an urban legend
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: and a real-life nightmare is simply whether or not it
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: has happened to you or someone you know. And those
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: are our three urban legends for 2026. You got one
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: out of three correct.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I think I deserve a half point.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: A half point?
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Because I think that last one is kind of true-ish.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Because my logic was... Like human error. Like that could
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: happen for sure.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: So I think that I should have one and a half.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Well, because the thing is urban legends often are based
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: off true stories and it's what's the true story behind
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the urban legend. So that's why I kind of picked
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: a true story and embellished it and went further.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Because, well, the embellishment really was that they couldn't figure
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: it out in the end.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: And in all these other cases, they have been able
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: to figure out where the person went. Exactly. Exactly.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Their loved one, the mysterious stranger, that's not true. Who
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: is this guy? They were never able to find out.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Where's our grandfather, our father? We don't know. That's never happened.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: But a mix-up has happened. The mix-up is the first
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: step in the urban legend story. The rest of the
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: urban legend, or the story I made up, goes even farther.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. See, that, I can't... To think, too, that they
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: got it mixed up and then they cremated the body
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: that wasn't supposed to be. Holy Hannah, this is like
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: a fear unlock that I didn't really know I had.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Well, you're welcome.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you. So anyway, yeah, those are some bizarre, wild stories.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I am glad I changed my mind and did get
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: that first one right. I would have been more embarrassed
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: not getting that one right.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the one I thought I was going to
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: catch you on.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to get the medical one right,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: and I thought you were going to think the urban legend,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: the cryptid was false and then automatically go the medical
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: story true.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Or sorry, the, the mystery, the mix up funeral home
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: one true. Because I thought if, if you're describing a cryptid, well, it's,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: it's a cryptid. How can a cryptid be true? I
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: didn't think you were going to think the fact that
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: a cryptid could actually just be a regular animal.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: I see. I still am sitting here like kind of
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: not believing the toothpick thing.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to lie. That one, that one is
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: messing with me.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to get that. I thought
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: you were going to pick that one out. No problem.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Seriously.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I still can't comprehend how that can happen in the
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: person be alive. Yeah.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it comes down to the fact that
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: the toothpick is, it's so like, don't get me wrong.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: It's a toothpick is hefty, but it's like a needle.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: It gets stuck in your esophagus and then it sits
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: there and then slowly it pierces the wall. And slowly
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: it pushes into the next tissue and the next tissue.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: And as you breathe and flex and move, it slowly
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: moves and wiggles and finds its way into the next organ. So,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, thinking about it, it makes sense, but doesn't
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: mean it's not unbelievable.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: It makes sense, I guess. I don't know. But yeah,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, the person was uncomfortable too for years on end. Yep.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: All of them were. In fact, that was only three tails.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I'm sure if I did more research, I could have
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: even found more.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: There was inflammation and stuff. Like your body was Their
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: body was trying to discard of this.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: But it just couldn't. Where does it go?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Huh?
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Damn.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: It goes on to the next organ and the next
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: organ and eventually finding its way piercing a heart.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: I feel like Grey's Anatomy let me down.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: You should write him a letter. Get all upset.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: I know they should have done an episode on this.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: They should have. Well, I'm curious as to how you
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: guys did. Nicole got one out of three. I'm happy
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I fooled her. I'm wondering if I fooled you guys.
• 40:18
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• 40:29
  Speaker 2: what you thought. And I'm particularly curious if you caught
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: on and if you knew that I was talking about
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: a platypus that whole time. That's one I'm really curious about.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I'm sure if you live in Australia, you probably knew instantly.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: That's probably one automatic given right then and there.
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  Speaker 3: They had an edge.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: They definitely did. But anyways, thank you so much. This
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: has been the three urban legends for day four of
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Halloween week. I know this is one of the most
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: anticipated episodes of the entire year. Hopefully it was worthwhile.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Hopefully you enjoyed it. And hopefully you got some of
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: those right. And before we go. I'm going to catch
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Nicole off guard again and tell her she needs to
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: say the daily number. She's frantically looking up at her
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: phone and she's panicking at the moment because she completely
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: forgot once again.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. I feel like I sit here with
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: one job and I can't even do it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: You get really distracted by hearing the story.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: I do. I do. I have it in my brain
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: at the beginning. And then by the time the end,
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: we should be doing this at the beginning. Okay. So
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  Speaker 3: today's number is six.
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  Speaker 2: Six.
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  Speaker 3: There's only three more numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Three more numbers. All right. Well, thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 2: And until tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Stay wicked.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you.