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Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real Part 14 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Apologies in advance for my nasally voice.
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  Speaker 2: I've had some pretty bad allergies over the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of days and it just hasn't cleared up yet. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're going
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  Speaker 2: to look.
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  Speaker 1: At three stories that demonstrate that. But before we get
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  Speaker 1: into today's.
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  Speaker 2: People who live on Andover Street on Detroit, Michigan's East
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  Speaker 2: Side will be the first to tell you that the
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  Speaker 2: area is.
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  Speaker 1: Known for constant drug activity.
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  Speaker 2: On Thursday ninth, twenty seventeen, two Detroit Special Operations police
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  Speaker 2: officers began an operation known as a push off on
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  Speaker 2: Andover Street. A push off is when undercover cops pretend
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  Speaker 2: to be drug dealers, and then when customers come up
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  Speaker 2: to them and try to buy drugs, they arrest them and.
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  Speaker 1: Seize their vehicles.
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  Speaker 2: These particular officers that would be doing this push off
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  Speaker 2: had been undercover for some time in the area, and
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  Speaker 2: so they had a local drug house that used for
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  Speaker 2: these types of operations. At some point that day, two
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  Speaker 2: potential customers came up to the fake drug house. They
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  Speaker 2: knocked on the door and the undercover police officers opened up.
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  Speaker 2: They invited them inside, and then once these customers were inside,
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  Speaker 2: sitting down, they asked the undercover.
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  Speaker 1: Cops if they could buy some drugs.
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  Speaker 2: And as soon as the cops heard this, they whipped
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  Speaker 2: out their badges, they drew their guns, and they ordered
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  Speaker 2: them on the ground. But these potential customers they didn't
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  Speaker 2: get on the ground. Instead, they whipped out their badges
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  Speaker 2: and drew their guns and they said, no, you get
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  Speaker 2: on the ground. Because it would turn out these customers
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  Speaker 2: were actually undercover police officers too, but they were from
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  Speaker 2: a different precinct, and so neither groups had any idea
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  Speaker 2: about the other.
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  Speaker 1: They had no clue that they were both undercover.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, both sets of undercover cops were
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  Speaker 2: so surprised by what was happening that instead of firing
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  Speaker 2: shots at each other, they just stayed in this really
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  Speaker 2: tense standoff, like that famous scene from the Office where
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  Speaker 2: they're all pointing guns at each other and they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure out who the.
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  Speaker 1: Double agent is.
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  Speaker 2: And so the police are doing that periodically, hurling insults
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  Speaker 2: and threats at the other side in an attempt to get.
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  Speaker 1: Them to stand down.
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  Speaker 2: But when neither side stood down, they all just eventually
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  Speaker 2: lowered their guns and then proceeded to beat the living.
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  Speaker 1: Crap out of each other.
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  Speaker 2: After the dust finally settled and all the haymakers had stopped,
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  Speaker 2: the two groups of police realized their mistake and apologized
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  Speaker 2: to each other. Luckily, none of the officers were badly
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  Speaker 2: hurt from this mix up. However, two officers did have
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  Speaker 2: to go to the hospital, but for very minor injuries.
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  Speaker 2: One had a black eye and the other had.
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  Speaker 1: A split lip.
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  Speaker 2: While Detroit's own chief of police and the media and
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  Speaker 2: the public at large have all come out and said
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  Speaker 2: this snapoo was a total embarrassment, others have said the
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  Speaker 2: officers involved might deserve a little bit of credit, because,
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  Speaker 2: after all, their job was to be undercover, and apparently
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  Speaker 2: they were so good at being undercover that they didn't
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  Speaker 2: even know the other group was undercover too, and vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: So perhaps they were just too good at their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be the judge.
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  Speaker 2: The following story was pulled from a nineteen ninety seven
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  Speaker 2: article in the British Medical Journal. The article was written
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  Speaker 2: by the psychiatrist who treated the patient who'll be the
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  Speaker 2: focal point of the story. The only reason I bring
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  Speaker 2: this up is because this story truly sounds made up,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not. One night in the winter of nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty four, a healthy, middle aged woman who will call
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  Speaker 2: Brenda for this story, was at her home in London
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  Speaker 2: reading a book when she suddenly heard a voice in
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  Speaker 2: her head.
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  Speaker 3: It said, please don't be afraid. I know this must
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  Speaker 3: be shocking for you to hear me speaking to you
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  Speaker 3: like this, but this was the easiest way I could
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  Speaker 3: think of. My friend and I we used to work
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  Speaker 3: at the children's hospital and we would like to help you.
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  Speaker 1: Brenda couldn't believe what was happening.
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  Speaker 2: She had never heard voices in her head before, and
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  Speaker 2: this voice that was speaking to her it was so clear,
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  Speaker 2: and it did not sound like any voice she had
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  Speaker 2: heard before, and so at first Brenda just sat on
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  Speaker 2: the couch and didn't do anything and just waited, hoping
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  Speaker 2: that maybe she was just imagining this. But the voice
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  Speaker 2: in her head seemed to pick up on her reaction
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  Speaker 2: and said.
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  Speaker 3: Brenda, this is not a hallucination, were real and we
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  Speaker 3: want to help you.
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  Speaker 1: Brenda did not believe it was real.
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  Speaker 2: She believed she had just lost her mind, and so
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of the night she just completely ignored
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  Speaker 2: the voice in her head. And first thing the next morning,
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  Speaker 2: she went to her doctor's office and said, please help me.
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  Speaker 2: The doctor referred her to a psychiatrist, and so she
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  Speaker 2: went over to the psychiatrist's office, and after they performed
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  Speaker 2: an evaluation of Brenda, they said, look, I don't really
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  Speaker 2: know why you're hearing these voices. There's no clear medical
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  Speaker 2: explanation for why. And so Brenda was ultimately diagnosed with
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  Speaker 2: something called functional hallucinatory psychosis, which basically means Brenda was
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  Speaker 2: hallucinating but there was no clear reason why. The psychiatrist
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  Speaker 2: began treating Brenda with an antipsychotic drug as well as
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  Speaker 2: with supportive counseling.
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  Speaker 1: Over the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: As Brenda diligently took her medications and went to her appointments,
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  Speaker 2: the voices eventually stopped, and so Brenda went into her
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  Speaker 2: psychiatrist's office and she said, Doc, you've saved me.
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  Speaker 1: The voices are gone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy, and the psychiatrist would later recall that
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  Speaker 2: Brenda was visibly relieved. It was obvious that she was
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  Speaker 2: not making this up, that she really believed that she
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  Speaker 2: had these voices and now they were gone. And so
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  Speaker 2: after Brenda left the office, she actually went on vacation
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  Speaker 2: with her family outside of London, just to celebrate the
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  Speaker 2: fact that she had not in fact lost her mind.
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  Speaker 2: But while she was away on holiday, she started hearing
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  Speaker 2: the voices again, and this time they told her she
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  Speaker 2: had to get back to London as soon as possible
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  Speaker 2: because there was something terribly wrong with her, and they
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  Speaker 2: gave her a very specific street address that she was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to go to to seek treatment. And so Brenda
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  Speaker 2: is horrified that the voices are back in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: But what she's really scared about is that maybe there's
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  Speaker 2: some truth to what these voices are telling me. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: there is something wrong with her. And so Brenda ran
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  Speaker 2: to her husband and she explained what happened, and he
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  Speaker 2: was very reassuring and said, look, honey, you should just
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  Speaker 2: totally ignore the voices again, there's probably nothing wrong with you.
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  Speaker 2: Just try to relax and have a nice vacation. But
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  Speaker 2: Brenda could not relax, she could not ignore the voices
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  Speaker 2: because they were constantly telling.
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  Speaker 3: Her you need to leave, you need to go back,
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  Speaker 3: there's something wrong with you.
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  Speaker 2: And so finally Brenda convinced her family to end the
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  Speaker 2: vacation early and they headed back to London, and as
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  Speaker 2: soon as they got there, Brenda made her husband come
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  Speaker 2: with her and they drove to these street address the
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  Speaker 2: voices had given her, and when they got to this
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  Speaker 2: very specific location, they found themselves standing in front of
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  Speaker 2: the brain scan unit of a London hospital. Brenda and
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  Speaker 2: her husband were totally shocked, but before they could even
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  Speaker 2: react to what they were looking at, the voices in
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  Speaker 2: Brenda's head came back and they told.
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  Speaker 3: Her you need to go inside and you need to
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  Speaker 3: request a brain scan for two reasons. One there's a
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  Speaker 3: tumor in your brain and two this tumor is causing
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  Speaker 3: your brain stem to swell.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, Brenda was so scared that this information
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  Speaker 2: might actually be true that, despite what her husband was saying,
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  Speaker 2: she went right inside the brain scan unit and she
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  Speaker 2: requested this scan. And when they asked her, you know,
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  Speaker 2: who's the doctor that referred you over here, she said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have one, and then she ultimately told them that, well,
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  Speaker 2: there are voices in my head that told me to
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  Speaker 2: come over here and get this scan. Now, the doctors
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  Speaker 2: at the brain scan facility, we're not totally like get
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  Speaker 2: out of here, but instead they said, look, this is
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  Speaker 2: a very expensive scan. We can't just let you in
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  Speaker 2: here and get a scan because the voice has told
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  Speaker 2: you to. We need a clinical reason to do it.
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  Speaker 2: We need a doctor's note saying you need this scan.
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  Speaker 2: And so they turned Brenda away, and Brenda now is
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  Speaker 2: just complete wreck. She ends up calling her psychiatrist and
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  Speaker 2: she explains the situation about getting this address and being
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  Speaker 2: told to get this brain scan, and after a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes of hearing her story, her psychiatrist says, okay, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, I will call over and I will get
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  Speaker 2: you an appointment to get a brain scan because I
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  Speaker 2: want you to be at ease.
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  Speaker 1: And it seems like this is probably the only way
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And so after this conversation, the psychiatrists got in touch
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  Speaker 2: with this hospital and he requested.
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  Speaker 1: The brain scan for Brenda. And about a month later
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  Speaker 1: Brenda went in.
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  Speaker 2: She had this scan done, and sure enough, she had
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  Speaker 2: a brain tumor and her brain stem was swollen. The
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  Speaker 2: doctors couldn't believe it because Brenda was showing absolutely no
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  Speaker 2: signs of having this condition, and so they told her that, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can just wait and see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: This might not have any effect on you, and so
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  Speaker 2: you can just wait to see if you get symptoms eventually,
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  Speaker 2: or we can go in and do the surgery and
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  Speaker 2: remove this tumor. But of course doing brain surgery comes
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  Speaker 2: with some very significant risks. After thinking it over with
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  Speaker 2: her family, Brenda is to go with immediate surgery, and
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  Speaker 2: after telling her doctors as much, the voices in her
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  Speaker 2: head told her that she had made the right decision.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of days later, Brenda went in and her
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  Speaker 2: surgery was a huge success. After she regained consciousness in
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  Speaker 2: the recovery room, the voices spoke to her.
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  Speaker 1: They said, we are pleased to have helped you.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: After that, Brenda never heard the voices ever again, and
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  Speaker 2: she never had any complications from the surgery or from
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  Speaker 2: the tumor, And to this day, the medical community still
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  Speaker 2: has no idea who those voices in her head really were.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Packard might be the luckiest or unluckiest person alive.
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  Speaker 2: In two thousand and one, when Michael was thirty eight
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  Speaker 2: years old, he was on a flight over Costa Rica
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  Speaker 2: when the small plane he was un crashed. The pilot, copilot,
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  Speaker 2: and a passenger were all killed on impact, but Michael
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  Speaker 2: and the four other passengers they survived the crash, but
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  Speaker 2: they were all left badly injured and stranded in a
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  Speaker 2: very remote s of the jungle. The survivors attempted to
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  Speaker 2: use the downed planes radio equipment to send out a
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  Speaker 2: distress signal to try to get someone to come out
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  Speaker 2: and help them, but they had no way of knowing
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  Speaker 2: if anybody was receiving their signal, and so all they
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  Speaker 2: could do was just send it out and then wait
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  Speaker 2: and hope somebody found them before they all died, And
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  Speaker 2: sure enough, forty eight hours after crashing, rescuers were able
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  Speaker 2: to hack their way deep into the jungle where Michael
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  Speaker 2: and the other survivors were, and they were all saved.
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  Speaker 2: While Michael was recovering in the hospital, a doctor told
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  Speaker 2: him that, based on his injuries, he would not have
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  Speaker 2: survived another night out in that jungle. The chances of
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  Speaker 2: even being in a plane crash are astronomically low. The
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  Speaker 2: odds are about one in five million, with some places
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  Speaker 2: giving odds as low as one in twenty million. To
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  Speaker 2: put that in perspective, Michael was far more likely to
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  Speaker 2: have been struck by lightning, which is about a one
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  Speaker 2: in one million chance, than he was to have been
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  Speaker 2: in that plane crash. But that plane crash would not
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  Speaker 2: be the last time that Michael defied the odds and
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  Speaker 2: did something totally unbelievable. Over the next couple of decades, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: who was a commercial diver by trade, would survive not one,
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  Speaker 2: but two significant encounters with great white sharks off the
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  Speaker 2: coast of California. Some of Michael's friends would not be
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  Speaker 2: so lucky. Michael would get lost at sea, like really lost,
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  Speaker 2: like treading out in the middle of the ocean with
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  Speaker 2: no land in sight for hours. Lost, but miraculously a
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  Speaker 2: boat would find him and save him again, and Michael
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  Speaker 2: would discover the body of a longtime missing person hidden
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  Speaker 2: underneath the water about sixty feet down off the coast
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  Speaker 2: of Massachusetts. But of all the improbable exploits of Michael's life,
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  Speaker 2: none is more unbelievable than what happened to him in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, which experts are saying he had about
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  Speaker 2: a one and one trillion chance of experiencing. On the
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  Speaker 2: morning of June eleventh, twenty twenty one, Michael, who was
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  Speaker 2: fifty seven years old at the time, hopped in a
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  Speaker 2: boat with his longtime diving partner Josiah. Once they were
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  Speaker 2: all situated and they had all their equipment inside of
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  Speaker 2: the boat, they took off and headed for the open
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  Speaker 2: water right off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where
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  Speaker 2: they planned.
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  Speaker 1: To do some lobster diving.
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  Speaker 2: A popular way to retrieve lobsters is to literally just
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  Speaker 2: dive down and buy hand pick them up and bring
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  Speaker 2: them back to the surface, and so that day that's
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  Speaker 2: what Michael and Josiah planned to do.
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  Speaker 1: Once they reached the spot right off the coast.
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  Speaker 2: Michael put on all of his scuba diving equipment and
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  Speaker 2: hopped in the water. Josiah did not put on any
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  Speaker 2: diving equipment because he was not going to be getting
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  Speaker 2: in the water for this dive. Instead, he would remain
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  Speaker 2: on the boat and help Michael get in and out
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  Speaker 2: of the water. He'd pull lobsters up onto the boat,
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  Speaker 2: and he was also there in case of an emergency
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  Speaker 2: he could call for help. And so just after six am,
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  Speaker 2: once Michael was in the water and signaled he was
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  Speaker 2: good to go, he dove down below and after a
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  Speaker 2: little while he came back up, but with a relatively
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  Speaker 2: small haul of lobsters, and so the two men figured that, well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess today's just not a great day for catching lobsters.
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  Speaker 2: But regardless, for the next couple of hours, Michael continued
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  Speaker 2: to go down and catch as many.
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  Speaker 1: Lobsters as he possibly could.
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  Speaker 2: By eight am, Michael had captured approximately one hundred pounds
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  Speaker 2: of lobsters that.
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  Speaker 1: Were now in the boat.
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  Speaker 2: So Michael and Josiah were actually starting to feel pretty
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  Speaker 2: good about this particular trip, and so Michael decided he
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  Speaker 2: would go back down one more time and try to
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  Speaker 2: get just a few more.
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  Speaker 1: Lobsters before they called it a day.
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  Speaker 2: And so Josiah remembers watching Michael, who was in the
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  Speaker 2: water as he put his mouthpiece back in. He signaled
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  Speaker 2: up to Josiah that he was good to go, and
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  Speaker 2: Josiah watched as he disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: Below the surface.
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  Speaker 2: The water was very calm, and Josiah's just kind of
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  Speaker 2: scanning out across the water, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: this eruption of white water came rushing up to the
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  Speaker 2: surface right where Michael had gone down below, and so
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  Speaker 2: right away Josiah leaned out over the edge of the
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  Speaker 2: boat to see if he could look down and see
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  Speaker 2: his friend, but he didn't see Michael anywhere. Instead, he
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  Speaker 2: saw something massive moving around underneath them. After Michael had
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  Speaker 2: broken the surface. On this final dive down to get
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  Speaker 2: more lobsters, his plan was to sink down to the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the ocean at about sixty feet and then
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  Speaker 2: go hunting for lobsters. But when he had descended to
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  Speaker 2: about forty five feet, he felt something smash into him
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  Speaker 2: from behind that felt like a truck hitting him, and
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  Speaker 2: then everything around him went totally pitch black. The impact
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  Speaker 2: of whatever it was that hit him had caused his
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  Speaker 2: mouthpiece to get blown out of his mouth, so he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have air and he starts fumbling around to find
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  Speaker 2: his mouthpiece, but he can't find it, and as he's
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  Speaker 2: fumbling around, his hands are making contact with what feels
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  Speaker 2: like walls all around him. He was inside of an
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  Speaker 2: enclosed space, but when he had touched these.
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  Speaker 1: Walls, they were not normal walls. They were soft, but
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  Speaker 1: they were hard at.
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  Speaker 2: The same time, and they seemed to be moving, like
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  Speaker 2: they were pulsating or quivering. The space he was in
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  Speaker 2: was fairly large, and it was not completely flooded with water.
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  Speaker 2: It was like Michael had slipped into this air pocket.
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  Speaker 2: But this air pocket was not stationary. It was moving
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  Speaker 2: and pretty fast because the water that was inside of
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  Speaker 2: it was violently sloshing all around. Michael could hear it
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  Speaker 2: slapping up against the walls. As Michael continued to panic
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  Speaker 2: and fumble around for his mouthpiece, he started to notice
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  Speaker 2: intense pressure on his legs, but he had no idea
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  Speaker 2: what was causing it, and because it's pitch black, he
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  Speaker 2: couldn't see what it was. Finally, Michael found the line that.
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  Speaker 1: Was connected to his mouthpiece. He jammed it in his
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  Speaker 1: mouth and he took a long inhale, and now that
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  Speaker 1: he could breathe.
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  Speaker 2: Again, he had this horrifying thought have I been swallowed
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  Speaker 2: by a shark? He instinctively began feeling around for the
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  Speaker 2: shark's teeth, but there were no teeth inside of this space. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: it was just these walls that continued to shift and
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  Speaker 2: move all around him, and that's when it dawned on
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  Speaker 2: him he had been swallowed, but not by a shark.
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  Speaker 2: He had been swallowed by a whale.
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  Speaker 1: For nearly forty.
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  Speaker 2: Five seconds, Michael was trapped inside the closed mouth of.
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  Speaker 1: A humpback whale. Despite their enormous.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Size that can be up to sixty feet long and
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: weigh up to seventy thousand pounds, they only eat small fish,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: so when this particular whale realized Michael was not a
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: tiny fish, it began violently swinging its head side to
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: side to try to dislodge Michael, and that caused that
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: eruption of white water to go to the surface that
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Josiah saw, and after a few good shakes, Michael was
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: spat out of this whale's mouth. Michael remembers suddenly being
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: in the open water with enough light coming down that
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: he could see around him. The water was very turbulent
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: and churning, and he recalled as he made his way
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: to the surface, looking straight down and seeing the tail
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: fin of this enormous whale swimming away from him. Michael
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: made his way to the surface and he flagged down Josiah,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: who boted over to him. He pulled him back into
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the boat, and Michael, who was totally traumatized by what happened,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: could only say to Josiah that he was inside of
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: it and that it tried to eat him. After Josiah
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: brought Michael back to shore and called the authorities, Michael
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: was rushed to a hospital where he was evaluated, and unbelievably,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: he suffered really no injuries.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: He had some significant bruising to his legs where the
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: whale had actually clamped down on him. That was the
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: pressure he felt in his.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Legs the mouth of the whale was closing on his legs,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: But besides that, there really wasn't any other injuries, and
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: so later.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: That day he was discharged.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: It's believed the whale was a juvenile that had been
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: seen in the area that was about thirty to thirty
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: five feet long, and it had just accidentally scooped to
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Michael up. The whale was certainly not trying to hurt Michael. Whales,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: especially humpback whales, are not in the business of hurting people.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: But in this exchange with Michael, Michael could have very
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: easily died. He could have drowned or suffocated inside the
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: mouth of this whale, or he could have just died
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: from blunt for's trauma. But luckily he didn't. Despite how
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: terrifying this incident sounds, Michael was incredibly casual in all
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: of his interviews about this.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: He just kind of acted like, mah, these things kind
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: of happen.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: You know, Whales come out of nowhere, they just scoop
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: you up.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: You know that happens.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: And he would tell the incredulous reporters who just could
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: not believe this guy was real that as soon as
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: he was better, he was getting back in the water
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: and going lobster diving.
• 17:40
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