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Disturbing footage NO ONE can explain The Lars Mittank Story · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 2: So today we're going to be covering the disappearance of
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  Speaker 2: Lars Matank.
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  Speaker 1: So this particular case is not new.
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  Speaker 2: It's been covered a ton on YouTube, on Reddit, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's everywhere. But the reason it's so popular, or I
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  Speaker 2: should say it's drawing so much interest, is because there's
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  Speaker 2: this fascinating video that goes with the case. Basically, Lars
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  Speaker 2: who disappears, We see his final moments on a closed
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  Speaker 2: circuit TV camera at an airport, and there's multiple camera angles.
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  Speaker 1: It's right in front of you. It's not hard to
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  Speaker 1: see what he's doing. There's multiple witnesses.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much information around kind of what led up
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  Speaker 2: to this, from doctors, from his friends, and then there's
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  Speaker 2: this video, Like there's just so much information and no
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  Speaker 2: one knows what happened or where he is. So let's
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  Speaker 2: dive in. On June thirtieth, twenty fourteen, Lars Matank and
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  Speaker 2: four of his friends. These guys are all in their twenties.
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  Speaker 2: They left northern Germany, where they were all from.
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  Speaker 1: They lived, they worked there, and made their way to Bulgaria.
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  Speaker 2: They were staying at a very popular seaside resort called
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  Speaker 2: the Golden Sands, and they were just going to have
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  Speaker 2: a nice vacation, a nice week long vacation. They get there,
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  Speaker 2: they check to their hotel and promptly begin to relax,
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  Speaker 2: and everything is going great.
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  Speaker 1: They're, you know, going to the clubs, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: the beach, they're eating good food.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's going the way they had hoped it
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  Speaker 2: would go. Until the end of the trip. So on
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  Speaker 2: one of the last days of their trip. July sixth,
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  Speaker 2: Lars is at a local bar and they're watching a
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  Speaker 2: soccer game and something happens where Lars basically voices his
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  Speaker 2: interest in one team and the locals that were in
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  Speaker 2: the bar they were supporting the other team, and so
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  Speaker 2: they start, you know, arguing, but it escalates really quickly.
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  Speaker 2: It turned into a full blown thing. As friends come
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  Speaker 2: in they pull him out. There was no physical violence
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  Speaker 2: in the bar. It was just an altercation that could
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  Speaker 2: have gone to.
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  Speaker 1: Blows, but it didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Later that night, Lars and his friends there, they're getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to shut it down for the night and they
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  Speaker 2: go to a McDonald's and so Lars doesn't want to
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  Speaker 2: go in, so he stays outside and.
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  Speaker 1: His four friends go in to get some food.
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  Speaker 2: When they come out, Lars is gone, and so they're
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  Speaker 2: sitting around waiting for him, and he's no where we
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  Speaker 2: found and they say, okay, well, maybe you know, he
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  Speaker 2: went back to the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps he just wanted to crash early.
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  Speaker 2: So they go back to the hotel and he's not there,
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  Speaker 2: and so they kind of are faced with this decision
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  Speaker 2: of like, well what do we do? And they're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's an adult. I'm sure he's fine, and
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  Speaker 2: I bet he'll turn up soon. So they ultimately they
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  Speaker 2: just kind of write it up and say Lars will come.
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  Speaker 1: Back, and so they go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: When they get up, Lars had returned, and he had
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  Speaker 2: this kind of bizarre story about why he was missing.
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  Speaker 2: He said that this group of men who he thought
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  Speaker 2: were either Russian or locals, so Bulgarians, had attacked him
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  Speaker 2: and he was convinced that they had been sent after
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  Speaker 2: him by the people he had been fighting with in
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  Speaker 2: the bar over that soccer game that they had kind
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  Speaker 2: of like you know, ordered a hit on Lars, and
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  Speaker 2: that was his whole story. And so I mean, his
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  Speaker 2: friends are looking at him and they're like, why did
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  Speaker 2: you leave? I mean, if you had been fighting with them,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't it have occurred like right outside of the McDonald's
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  Speaker 2: and we would have come out found you, Like you
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  Speaker 2: had to have gone somewhere for this to happen, or
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  Speaker 2: they had to like entice you to go somewhere to
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  Speaker 2: leave the McDonald's. And then like how long did this
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  Speaker 2: attack take? Because this is like, you know, midnight. Let's
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  Speaker 2: say they're at McDonald's.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not back at the hotel for you know,
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  Speaker 1: four or five.
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  Speaker 2: Six hours, like the time didn't make any sense. But
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  Speaker 2: ultimately they kind of decided that, you know what, Lars
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  Speaker 2: just had a weird night. He's back now, he is safe,
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  Speaker 2: so let's just write it off. He was attacked, but
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  Speaker 2: we're leaving here today. Anyways, Lars said that he got
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  Speaker 2: hit in the ear during the scuffle with these four assailants,
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  Speaker 2: and so just to be safe, they said, Lars, you
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  Speaker 2: should go to the doctor and you should just get
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  Speaker 2: looked at before we fly home.
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  Speaker 1: So Lars goes to a doctor who examines him.
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  Speaker 2: And he looks in his ear, and it turns out
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  Speaker 2: Lars has a perforated ear drum. And you know, at
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  Speaker 2: first the doctor actually suggested surgery, which Lars refused. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to do surgery in Bulgaria. If he was
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  Speaker 2: going to do surgery, he would have done it back
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  Speaker 2: home in Germany. And he instead goes for the antibiotic
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  Speaker 2: that this doctor prescribes him, which is called uh ceffaroxeme sefaroxim.
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  Speaker 1: So here's an image of it, you can see it
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  Speaker 1: for yourself. So he gets this.
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  Speaker 2: Antibiotic and the doctor tells him that, you know, flying,
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  Speaker 2: because he was scheduled to fly home with his friends
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  Speaker 2: back to Germany. That night flying could be problematic for
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  Speaker 2: someone with a perforated ear drum, because the change in
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  Speaker 2: air pressure as you're flying could potentially make the damage.
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  Speaker 1: To your ear worse.
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  Speaker 2: And so the doctor suggested that you don't fly home
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  Speaker 2: with your friends tonight. Instead, you delay your trip home
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days, and you just kind of let
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  Speaker 2: your ear, I guess, recover a little bit before you
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  Speaker 2: fly home. So Lars goes back and he tells his
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  Speaker 2: friends what's going on with his ear, what the doctor said,
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  Speaker 2: and their first thought is, well, we'll stay with you.
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  Speaker 2: We'll stay here with you, we'll all delay our flights
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  Speaker 2: and we'll fly home together in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: But Lars was adamant. Maybe he was just trying to
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  Speaker 2: be a good friend and not make them worry. He
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  Speaker 2: just said, look, I'm going to be totally fine. You
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  Speaker 2: guys take your scheduled flight tonight, go home.
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  Speaker 1: I'm fine. I'll get a cheap hotel, I'll stay here
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of days, and then I'll make my
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  Speaker 1: way home. It's not a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: So Lars and his four friends, they take off for
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  Speaker 2: the airport. His friends go into the airport and fly
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  Speaker 2: home to Germany, and Lars goes to look for a
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  Speaker 2: hotel near the airport because he's only going to be
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  Speaker 2: delaying his trip a couple of days and he'd rather
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  Speaker 2: just be close to the airport. So he finds this
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  Speaker 2: cheap hotel called the Hotel Color.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is really where.
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  Speaker 2: Lars's behavior starts becoming totally bizarre. So around midnight, Lars
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  Speaker 2: calls his mother and he tells her that she needs
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  Speaker 2: to turn off all of his bank cards, like shut
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  Speaker 2: off my credit cards, shut off my debit card, turn
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  Speaker 2: them all off. And she's confused, right, like she's trying
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  Speaker 2: to make sense of what he's saying, but there wasn't
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  Speaker 2: really a good reason for why.
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  Speaker 1: He was saying this.
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  Speaker 2: And then he hangs up, and so she's kind of
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  Speaker 2: left with what's going on. Then at three am, so
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  Speaker 2: a few hours later, he calls her back and now
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  Speaker 2: he's whispering and he's clearly terrified. In fact, Sandra Mattank,
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  Speaker 2: his mother, would later in an interview, after this whole
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  Speaker 2: case really blew up, I would say to a German
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  Speaker 2: TV station that through the phone. She could tell that
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  Speaker 2: her son was terrified.
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  Speaker 1: This was not an act.
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  Speaker 2: This was like, he is terrified, he's fearing for his life.
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  Speaker 2: But he calls her at three and he's like, there
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  Speaker 2: is a group of men trying to attack me. They're
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  Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna kill me, and he was one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent convinced of it. She Sandra would later say that
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  Speaker 2: she wished, she wished that she had asked more questions
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  Speaker 2: of her son, but this behavior was so uncharacteristic of
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  Speaker 2: him that I think his mother just kind of was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna get through the night. I'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to my son tomorrow. He's coming home tomorrow anyways. But
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  Speaker 2: that didn't happen. So finally, after that that phone call
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  Speaker 2: at three, he texts his mother a little bit after that,
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  Speaker 2: asking her about the antibiotic he's been prescribed, and he's
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  Speaker 2: asking her what it is. He's listing the name, which
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  Speaker 2: again and his stepfour ox seme seferox seem five hundred
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  Speaker 2: and he's asking her about it, like he has no
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  Speaker 2: idea what it is, and she's like, that's a very
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  Speaker 2: commonly prescribed antibiotic that lots of people prescribed, they gave
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  Speaker 2: it to Investigators would later speak to staff at the
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  Speaker 2: hotel and they would review the hotel's footage, their CCTV footage,
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  Speaker 2: And between the first phone call to his mother at
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  Speaker 2: midnight and the phone call at three am, Lars had
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  Speaker 2: actually been pacing the halls. At around one am, he'd
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  Speaker 2: been pacing up and down the halls and he was
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  Speaker 2: ducking into an elevator and hiding, and then at some
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  Speaker 2: point he had left for about an hour and.
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  Speaker 1: Then came back and no one knows where he went.
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  Speaker 2: At six am, Lars was dropped off at the airport
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  Speaker 2: via a taxi, and investigators would speak to the person
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  Speaker 2: who rode that taxi with Lars, and they would say
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  Speaker 2: that he seemed a bit off. They said that his
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  Speaker 2: pupils were very dilated. He gets to the airport.
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  Speaker 1: And tech his mother that he's arrived at the terminal.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, his mother confirmed that his flight had
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  Speaker 2: been booked, and she suggested to him that he should
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  Speaker 2: go talk to the airport doctor and just get his
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  Speaker 2: ear looked at one more time before he flies home.
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  Speaker 1: And I think on some.
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  Speaker 2: Levels, she just wanted a health professional to see her
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  Speaker 2: son just because the behavior he had shown over the past,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve hours was just totally out of character.
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  Speaker 2: The CCTV cameras capture Lars walking into the airport seeing
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  Speaker 2: this doctor, and then I'll get into what actually happens
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  Speaker 2: so on camera and you're going to see it in
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  Speaker 2: a minute. Lars goes into the airport, so his mother's
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  Speaker 2: told him that he needs to go see a doctor,
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  Speaker 2: and he does that. He walks over to where the
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  Speaker 2: doctor is and he goes inside.
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  Speaker 1: Everything seems totally normal.
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  Speaker 2: That doctor would say that, you know, he was pleasant,
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  Speaker 2: but as he was being examined, the doctor looked in
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  Speaker 2: his ear and said, yep, everything looks okay.
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  Speaker 1: You can fly home.
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  Speaker 2: But the doctor would say that it was that Lars, see,
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  Speaker 2: he was paranoid about something. The doctor didn't know what
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  Speaker 2: it was, but he has no context, but he could
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  Speaker 2: tell that something was going on. He was fidgety, he
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  Speaker 2: was a little bit nervous. And then when a construction
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  Speaker 2: worker came into the to the doctor's office, he had
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  Speaker 2: on a construction you know, bright you know, reflective vest.
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  Speaker 2: They were doing some renovations inside of the airport. So
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  Speaker 2: this is fairly normal and apparently this guy, this construction
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  Speaker 2: worker was actually working on the doctor's office and he
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  Speaker 2: stepped in to maybe ask a quick question. Lars sees
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  Speaker 2: this construction worker and this is actually I think this
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  Speaker 2: is off camera. You see that he's in the office,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't see this interaction. And something happens where
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  Speaker 2: you know, this guy triggers a full fledged flight response
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  Speaker 2: where Lars drops everything he has, leaves his luggage and starts.
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  Speaker 1: Yelling, I don't want to die. I don't want to die,
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  Speaker 1: and sprints out of the airport. This is all camera.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna see it in a second. And he leaves
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  Speaker 2: the airport. He's he's just kind of looking around. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't really know what he's doing, and he kind of
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  Speaker 2: like jogs his way across the parking lot and he
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  Speaker 2: gets to a big barbed wire fence instantly scales it.
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  Speaker 2: The barbed wires don't seem to affect him, and he
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  Speaker 2: disappears into the woods, never.
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  Speaker 1: To be seen again.
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  Speaker 2: So since his disappearance, there's only been one unvalidated sighting
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  Speaker 2: of him. It was a year later by a trucker
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  Speaker 2: who really didn't have much information about him. He just
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  Speaker 2: said that he picked up a guy that was like
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  Speaker 2: barefoot walking on the road who later on this truck
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  Speaker 2: driver would look at the news or something and would say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that looks like Laris Mattank. But that's unconfirmed. Other than that,
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  Speaker 2: we have no idea what happened to him. A couple
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  Speaker 2: theories about what might have happened. The first one is
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  Speaker 2: that perhaps there was a side effect of this antibiotic
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  Speaker 2: that he was given by this doctor in Bulgaria. But
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple huge issues with this, the first one
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  Speaker 2: being Lars never filled his prescription. The doctor when he
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  Speaker 2: went to the airport was able to see his records
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  Speaker 2: and he had not filled it, so he didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the antibiotic. But even if he had, this is one
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  Speaker 2: of the most commonly prescrip antibiotics that you know, the
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  Speaker 2: percentage of people that have any sort of side effect
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  Speaker 2: is as it's like less than one percent, so it's possible,
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  Speaker 2: but he never filled his prescription, so that that seems
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  Speaker 2: like that's kind of out the window. The other is,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you look at the midri assets that he
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  Speaker 2: was experiencing in the taxicab with the highly dilated pupils,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the hit to the head. This ruptured ear
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  Speaker 2: drum that perhaps he suffered like a traumatic brain injury,
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  Speaker 2: a concussion that was leading to somewhat erratic behavior. And
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  Speaker 2: that's I'm by no means claim to be a medical professional,
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  Speaker 2: but typically if you see side effects of a head injury,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't present itself immediately, and like super aggressively, it's
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  Speaker 2: usually over the course of time your behavior changes, or
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  Speaker 2: at least a couple of days later they present. It's
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  Speaker 2: very rare that you would be struck on the head
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  Speaker 2: and be a totally different.
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  Speaker 1: Person, but it is possible.
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  Speaker 2: Another theory is that even though Lars did not have
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  Speaker 2: a history of mental health issues, and neither did anybody
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  Speaker 2: else in his family, that the you know, the fight
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  Speaker 2: he got into where he was attacked, could have triggered
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  Speaker 2: some sort of psychotic break that was so stressful that
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  Speaker 2: he lost his mind. That is certainly possible too. So
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  Speaker 2: weeks turned into months turned into years. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: despite the unvalidated sighting, I mean, no one has any
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  Speaker 2: idea where Lars is. You know, he was an outdoor enthusiast.
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  Speaker 2: He was definitely competent in the outdoors, not like a
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  Speaker 2: survivalist or something, but he definitely was not, you know,
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  Speaker 2: out of his element out in the wilderness, and so
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  Speaker 2: some thought perhaps he just wanted to start a new
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  Speaker 2: life and he ran off into the woods and you know,
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  Speaker 2: is living it out out there. But they the family,
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  Speaker 2: the me Tank family, they hired a private investigator.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they pulled out all the stops to scour
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  Speaker 1: the area and look for him.
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  Speaker 2: But there's no signs that anybody is, like living in
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  Speaker 2: the immediate proximity to the airport in the wilderness there
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  Speaker 2: and there's no body, there's no anything.
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  Speaker 1: He's just gone.
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  Speaker 2: I hope one day they're able to find Lars, for
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  Speaker 2: better or worse, just closure for his family.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your theories in the comments about
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  Speaker 2: what happened to Lars and where you think he might be.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think might have caused this? Please let
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  Speaker 1: me know.
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