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DISTURBING PHOTO of a monster, moments after his EVIL act... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share three stories that each have
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  Speaker 1: a very iconic, disturbing photograph that is tethered to that story,
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  Speaker 1: and at the end of each of these stories, I'll
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  Speaker 1: show you that photo. And some of these photos are
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  Speaker 1: truly astounding. But before we get into those stories, if
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  Speaker 1: morning of October twenty first, nineteen nine, a thirty year
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  Speaker 1: old man named Lee Hunshow and three of his friends
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  Speaker 1: hiked up Beelu Mountain, which is located in northern Taiwan. Now,
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  Speaker 1: by this point, the group had already been hiking for
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  Speaker 1: several hours and so they were quite tired. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Lee's legs absolutely burned, but Lee and the others kept
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  Speaker 1: on pushing until they reached the top of this rocky
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  Speaker 1: rich they all stopped and were able to catch their
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  Speaker 1: breath for a minute. So Lee was a bank manager,
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  Speaker 1: but he was also a very outdoorsy person, and he'd
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  Speaker 1: been wanting to do this hike up Blu Mountain for
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  Speaker 1: a long time because it was sort of like a
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  Speaker 1: rite of passage for hikers in Taiwan. It took an
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  Speaker 1: average of almost eight hours to get to the top
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  Speaker 1: and back down again, and the terrain could be really rough.
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  Speaker 1: As a result, it was considered one of the most
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  Speaker 1: challenging hikes in all of Taiwan. But despite that, it
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  Speaker 1: was also a major tourist destination that was usually really
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  Speaker 1: busy with lots of people attempting to do this hike.
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  Speaker 1: But on this particular day, for whatever reason, the friends
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  Speaker 1: had not seen anybody else on this trail. No one,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean the weather was good, it was a weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there was really no good reason for nobody
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  Speaker 1: to be here. They had the mountain to themselves. So
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  Speaker 1: Lee and his friends they stood on this rocky ridge
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  Speaker 1: and caught their breath. They had some water, they had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of snacks, and then it was onward because
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  Speaker 1: they were not at the summit yet. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: was a beautiful lookout point they were at, but they
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  Speaker 1: still had some pretty difficult climbing ahead, and so on
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  Speaker 1: they went, you know, very excitedly. They're making their way
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  Speaker 1: towards the top. This is something they were all really
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  Speaker 1: excited about. And eventually they reached the section of the
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  Speaker 1: mountain that was sort of famous amongst tourists because it
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  Speaker 1: was a really really steep section where the only way
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  Speaker 1: to get up was actually to climb a rope. There
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  Speaker 1: was a rope anchored into the mountain where you know,
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  Speaker 1: hikers had to grab the rope and walk and pull
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  Speaker 1: themselves up this section. It was like this kind of
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  Speaker 1: cool part that made you feel really rugged. And so
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  Speaker 1: when the men got to the spot, they all wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make sure there was a picture of them navigating
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  Speaker 1: this particular terrain, and so one by one, each of
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  Speaker 1: the men got on the rope and sort of paused
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  Speaker 1: at some point and turned around and made sure to
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  Speaker 1: get a cool picture of themselves making this really difficult
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  Speaker 1: section of the climb. And then once they had all
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  Speaker 1: taken their picture, they actually went to the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the way up the rope and continued all the way
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  Speaker 1: up to the summit, and once they were on the summit,
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  Speaker 1: the friends actually didn't spend a whole lot of time there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, remember it takes almost eight hours to do
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  Speaker 1: this entire round trip, and so you're sort of fighting
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  Speaker 1: against the darkness, you know, you want to get back
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  Speaker 1: down before the sun goes down. And so they were
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  Speaker 1: up there long enough to get a couple of pictures
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  Speaker 1: and again to take stock of the fact that basically
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  Speaker 1: no one is here. In fact, literally nobody is here
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  Speaker 1: but them. It just seems sort of surreal. This is
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  Speaker 1: such a beautiful place, such a popular place. Why is
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  Speaker 1: nobody here? But didn't matter. They got their pictures, they
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  Speaker 1: got their beautiful scenery, They had some more water and snacks,
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  Speaker 1: and then they began making their descent. Now, on the
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  Speaker 1: way up, the friends had all been together. There was
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  Speaker 1: no separation. They were all, you know, one by one,
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  Speaker 1: navigating each part of the terrain and making their way
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  Speaker 1: up together. But on the return trip they got pretty separated,
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  Speaker 1: in part because Lee was really dragging behind. He was
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  Speaker 1: just so tired from the ascent that he sort of
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  Speaker 1: told the others like, hey, go ahead, Like you can
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  Speaker 1: walk ahead. Of me. We all know where we're going.
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  Speaker 1: We're going down and we'll meet at the car, so
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  Speaker 1: just go on ahead. And so Lee's friends had done
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  Speaker 1: just that. They had sort of taken off and gotten
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a lead on Lee. And so, after
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  Speaker 1: a couple of hours of the group sort of broken
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  Speaker 1: up making their way down the mountain, the friends in
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  Speaker 1: the front who had left Lee behind, effectively they stopped
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  Speaker 1: at a certain point and they realized like they were
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  Speaker 1: really huffing it down the mountain, moving really quickly, and
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  Speaker 1: they thought, you know what, Lee was really tired up there.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we ought to just sit here and wait for
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  Speaker 1: a minute and let him catch up, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll make the final stretch together. And so the
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  Speaker 1: friends they stop and again they're sort of looking around,
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  Speaker 1: thinking how weird it is that nobody else is here
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  Speaker 1: but them, Like, still, no one's come up the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: no one's come down the mountain. It's just them. It's
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  Speaker 1: very odd. They're sitting there waiting and they're looking back
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  Speaker 1: up the trail expecting Lee to sh show up any time,
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  Speaker 1: but he doesn't. And so eventually one of the friends says,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, you guys, stay here I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: back up the mountain in a little ways and just
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  Speaker 1: see if I can catch Lee and just walk with
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  Speaker 1: him back down. I'm sure he's just exhausted, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll help him sort of finish up the hike here.
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  Speaker 1: And so this one friend he begins going back up
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  Speaker 1: the trail and for quite a while he's basically hiking
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  Speaker 1: back up the mountain, and the whole time he's expecting
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna run into Lee. He has to. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there were other trails that spidered off on the way down,
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  Speaker 1: so it was possible to take a wrong turn and
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  Speaker 1: sort of accidentally go down the wrong path, but for
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  Speaker 1: the most part it was pretty linear. But as he's
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  Speaker 1: going up, he has not found Lee. And after a
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  Speaker 1: while he's been hiking for like an hour back up
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  Speaker 1: the mountain and still know Lee, and he thinks, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I can't do this. It's getting dark out.
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  Speaker 1: I have to go back and catch up with the
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  Speaker 1: other friends and just go down to the car, because
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  Speaker 1: at this point it seems pretty likely that Lee must
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  Speaker 1: have gotten turned around and he must have taken one
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  Speaker 1: of those other pathways, and now he's probably ahead of me.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably down at the car by this point. And
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  Speaker 1: so this friend who had done the rescue mission, turned around,
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  Speaker 1: went back down, linked up with the other friends that
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  Speaker 1: were still sitting there waiting for him. Together, they walked
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  Speaker 1: all the way down the trail and they got to
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  Speaker 1: the car and when they got there, they're expecting to
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  Speaker 1: see Lee, but he wasn't there. And by now the
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  Speaker 1: sun had basically set, and so the friends realized that, okay,
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  Speaker 1: like we have a real problem here. I mean, clearly
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  Speaker 1: Lee didn't just get lost. He's still in the mountain somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: and like, what are we going to do? It's about
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  Speaker 1: to be nighttime, Like, we can't go out there looking
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  Speaker 1: for him. And so they hopped in their car and
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  Speaker 1: they drove to the nearest police station to tell them
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  Speaker 1: to go look for Lee. And sure enough, there would
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  Speaker 1: be this huge search that was launched for Lee, and
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  Speaker 1: over the coming week, I mean, there were all these
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  Speaker 1: people out scouring the mountain looking for Lee, but they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find him. And after a week of searching, the
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  Speaker 1: police had to call it off. And so these friends
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  Speaker 1: and family were left with this huge question mark, like
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  Speaker 1: where did he go? What happened to him? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: not knowing was in some ways worse than having found
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  Speaker 1: out he had died or something. And so there's this
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  Speaker 1: horrible uncertainty. Nobody really knows how to react to this.
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  Speaker 1: Do you grieve his loss now or do you hold
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  Speaker 1: out hope that maybe he's still alive. Well, the friends
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  Speaker 1: and family kind of did the latter. They kind of
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  Speaker 1: held out hope that, you know, maybe maybe he's out
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  Speaker 1: there somewhere. And weeks turned into months, and eventually four
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  Speaker 1: months went by, and it was at that point that
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  Speaker 1: other hikers who were making their way up the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: they went off the trail on purpose. They were sort
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  Speaker 1: of off the trail for a bit, and they came
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  Speaker 1: across Lee's body. Now, the immediate reaction was obviously devastation
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  Speaker 1: for Lee's family and friends, but at least it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like they were going to get closure about what actually
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  Speaker 1: happened to Lee. However, when police began to investigate what
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  Speaker 1: actually killed Lee and why, they ran into a lot
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  Speaker 1: of anomalies. Number One, they did an autopsy and they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't figure out what killed him. There was no clear
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  Speaker 1: cause of death. Number Two, where he was found, he
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  Speaker 1: was just kind of sitting there, you know, with his
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  Speaker 1: back against the mountain, His pack was right next to him.
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  Speaker 1: It almost seemed like he just sat down and then
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  Speaker 1: just died in place. But again, there's no clear cause
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  Speaker 1: of death. There was no obvious, you know, trauma he sustained.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly didn't seem like he fell. He didn't appear
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  Speaker 1: to have any obvious injuries. He just stopped at some
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  Speaker 1: point on the mountain and died. And on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: remember Lee is like a seasoned climber. He had supplies
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  Speaker 1: in his bag that could at least last him for
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  Speaker 1: some time. He had a flashlight, he had a compass,
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  Speaker 1: He knew where he needed to go, you know, down
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  Speaker 1: the mountain to the car. Why is he stopping again,
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  Speaker 1: no injuries, no clear injuries. Why is he stopping right
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  Speaker 1: there until he dies? It just didn't add up. But
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  Speaker 1: then there was another very strange development that sort of
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  Speaker 1: took the story in a totally new direction. One of
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  Speaker 1: the friends who was with Lee on that doom tike,
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  Speaker 1: the one who had the camera that took pictures of
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  Speaker 1: all of them climbing up that rope and took pictures
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  Speaker 1: up on the summit. He went and got his pictures developed.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly after Lee had been found dead, and when he
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  Speaker 1: went through the photos from their trip, he could not
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  Speaker 1: believe what he found. Here is the photo of Lee
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  Speaker 1: posing with that rope. And if you notice at the
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  Speaker 1: top of this segment, there's a person clearly up there
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  Speaker 1: looking down at Lee and his friends. But remember they
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  Speaker 1: didn't see anybody else on the mountain the entire time
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  Speaker 1: they were there, and they certainly did not see that
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  Speaker 1: appears to be a young girl in a red jacket,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right at the top of the segment they
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  Speaker 1: were in when they were taking those photos. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: see her. They would have absolutely communicated with her, but
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  Speaker 1: they didn't see her. And so they have this photo
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  Speaker 1: of this girl in Lee's picture, but she wasn't in
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  Speaker 1: any of the other photos. She was just in Lee's.
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  Speaker 1: And making this even stranger is there was this myth
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  Speaker 1: about this mountain that there were these spirits on this
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  Speaker 1: mountain that would sometimes target hiker and lead them astray
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  Speaker 1: away from their friends, off the trail, where effectively they
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  Speaker 1: would die. And wouldn't you know it, it seemed an
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  Speaker 1: awful lot like Lee was led astray and just sort
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  Speaker 1: of sat down and died on the mountain. Shortly after
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  Speaker 1: that picture captured this girl in red looking down at him.
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  Speaker 1: On the morning of August eighth, twenty twenty four, a
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  Speaker 1: forty eight year old Russian woman named Ludmila las Renco
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  Speaker 1: sat on the floor of a bungalow deep in the
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  Speaker 1: Amazon rainforest in Peru. The bungalow was small and mostly
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  Speaker 1: just for sleeping, but it was connected to a communal
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  Speaker 1: kitchen and dining space. Ludmilla sat right in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the bungalow on the floor, with her eyes closed
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  Speaker 1: and her legs crossed, and she was trying to meditate.
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  Speaker 1: But the sounds of the birds and the insects outside
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  Speaker 1: and the rainforest, plus the sound of her friend Ivan Kuzman,
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  Speaker 1: who was moving around in the attached kitchen, were making
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  Speaker 1: it hard for her to concentrate, and so Ludmila finally
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  Speaker 1: gave up on meditating for right now, and she opened
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  Speaker 1: her eyes and she looked out towards the kitchen and
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  Speaker 1: she saw her friend Ivan, who was thirty eight years
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  Speaker 1: old and from Ukraine, and he was busy brewing some tea.
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  Speaker 1: So Ludmila and Ivan genuinely were just platonic friends. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: Ludmila she was married and had two kids, but she
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  Speaker 1: was out here alone. She and Ivan were actually part
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  Speaker 1: of what was a retreat out in the Amazonian rainforest
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  Speaker 1: with other people from all over the world who had
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  Speaker 1: come out here to meditate in nature and do some
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  Speaker 1: soul searching and hopefully come back to their regular lives
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  Speaker 1: with some additional perspective. Now, Ludmila and Ivan had been
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  Speaker 1: going to retreats like this for the better part of
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  Speaker 1: two years, and that was actually how the two had
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  Speaker 1: met each other, and so they were just friends. They
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  Speaker 1: had this similar interest in going to retreats like this one.
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  Speaker 1: But there was one aspect of these retreats that really
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  Speaker 1: is the thing that drew Ludmila and Ivan out to
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  Speaker 1: the rainforest. It was not just to sit in nature
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  Speaker 1: and just hope for the best. They would go to
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  Speaker 1: these ayahuasca retreats where basically they were led through this
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  Speaker 1: meditative process where they would drink this very special tea
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  Speaker 1: that would sort of affect you in different ways, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, some people believed it sort of led you
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  Speaker 1: on this spiritual journey where you know, it's just this
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  Speaker 1: very powerful, you know, soul searching event where you come
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  Speaker 1: you know, post traumatic stress, or maybe you have trauma
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  Speaker 1: in your life that you're not even aware of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going through this style of retreat, these ayahuasca retreats, people
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  Speaker 1: have said has been very powerful and transformative. And Ludemila,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she lived a pretty typical life back home.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she's a very busy mom and a wife,
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  Speaker 1: and she found doing these retreats really offered her a
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  Speaker 1: big reset. You know, she felt like it was the
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  Speaker 1: one chance for her to kind of disconnect from responsibility
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  Speaker 1: and just be at peace. And I've in for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, felt very much the same way. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he came to these retreats for similar reasons for his
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  Speaker 1: own life. And so here they are, they're out in
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  Speaker 1: the rainforest, and you know, they're brewing up some tea,
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  Speaker 1: some ayahuasca tea, and they're in this bungalow and they're
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to have this sort of meditative journey. But
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  Speaker 1: they were about to break a very important rule. So
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  Speaker 1: the man who ran this particular retreat out in this
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  Speaker 1: part of the rainforest, he made it explicitly clear to
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  Speaker 1: everybody who came out there that no matter how many
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  Speaker 1: times you've come to these retreats or similar retreats, you
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  Speaker 1: never ever drink the ayahuasca without a shaman present, basically,
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  Speaker 1: without somebody else there to sort of help guide you
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  Speaker 1: through this process. If you were to do it on
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  Speaker 1: your own, who knows what could happen. And so everybody
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  Speaker 1: knew you cannot do this on your own. But Ludmila
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  Speaker 1: and Ivan they felt like, you know what, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: You know we're not supposed to do that. We know that,
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  Speaker 1: but we've done this so many times and we know
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing. So let's just brew up some ayahuasca
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  Speaker 1: of our own, and we'll stain our bungalow and we'll
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  Speaker 1: drink it ourselves. We'll have our own experience. Nobody will
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  Speaker 1: even know and so that's what Ivan was doing in
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen. He was making ayahuasca tea and when he
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  Speaker 1: was done, he grabbed two mugs of this tea. He
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  Speaker 1: walked back over to Ludmila, who was in the bungalow section.
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  Speaker 1: He sat down next to her. They drank their tea
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  Speaker 1: and they both laid down on the ground and closed
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  Speaker 1: their eyes. A couple of hours later, the director of
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  Speaker 1: this retreat, who at the time was directing some group
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  Speaker 1: meditation not very far away from the bungalow where Ivan
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  Speaker 1: and Ludmila were. He was doing this group meditation when
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  Speaker 1: he heard a loud scream and it was coming from
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  Speaker 1: somewhere near the bungalows, and instinctively he got up. He
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  Speaker 1: abandoned the group he was with and he ran to
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  Speaker 1: the scream and he saw one of the staff members.
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  Speaker 1: She was the one who screamed, and she was standing
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  Speaker 1: looking into the bungalow where Ivan and Ludmilla were. And
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  Speaker 1: so the director rushes over and gets right next to
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  Speaker 1: this woman and he looks into the bungalow and immediately
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  Speaker 1: he knew two things. One he knew for a fact,
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  Speaker 1: these two Ivan and Ludmila had broken the rule. They
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  Speaker 1: had taken ayahuasca without a shaman present, and two they
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  Speaker 1: had paid a horrible, horrible price. So ayahuasca is not
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  Speaker 1: just some herbal tea. It is a very powerful hallucinogen,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the whole point. People go out into the
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  Speaker 1: rainforest for these retreats and drink this hallucinogen in order
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  Speaker 1: to basically have perspective on their lives that you can
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  Speaker 1: only get by, you know, introducing this chemical and causing
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  Speaker 1: yourself to hallucinate. People talk about almost seeing themselves from
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  Speaker 1: the outside looking in and like having this deeply spiritual
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  Speaker 1: event where you come out of your trip. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it's called feeling like, oh my goodness, I know myself
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  Speaker 1: better now because of the hallucinations I just went through.
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  Speaker 1: But critically, the reason you have to have a shaman
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  Speaker 1: present in these retreats is really for safety, because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you take ayahuasca, you have a bad trip where
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  Speaker 1: you have all these hallucinations but they're of horrible, terrifying things,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't differentiate them from reality, and so you're
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  Speaker 1: living in a nightmare. And a lot of times these
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  Speaker 1: bad trips, it feels like something's gonna happen to you.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna get hurt in some way, or somebody else
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  Speaker 1: is gonna get hurt unless you act. But again, you're
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  Speaker 1: sort of out of your mind, and so you have
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  Speaker 1: these shamans present to protect you from yourself. But Ivan
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  Speaker 1: and Ludmila didn't have a shaman present, and so when
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  Speaker 1: they entered their trip, Ludmila was having a good trip.
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  Speaker 1: Ivan was not. He had a horrible trip. And in
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: his trip, he believed that Ludmilla had become possessed by
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  Speaker 1: evil spirits and he needed to save her soul. And
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  Speaker 1: how is he gonna save her? Well, he took a
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  Speaker 1: metal bottle and beat her savagely, and then he went
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  Speaker 1: and got a knife from the communal kitchen and he
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to dismember her. That staff member who walked over
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  Speaker 1: and screamed, they looked in and saw Ivan looking at them, smiling,
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  Speaker 1: totally insane, looking still high on ayahuasca. And there are
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: pieces of Ludmilla all over the bungalow. Here is a
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  Speaker 1: picture that was taken of Ivan very shortly after that
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  Speaker 1: staff member discovered this bloodbath. Inside of the bungalow. Ivan
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  Speaker 1: is literally sitting on the ground feet away from pieces
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  Speaker 1: of ludmilla. He's just murdered her savagely, and he's still
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: absolutely tripping on ayahuasca. He looks like an absolute madman.
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  Speaker 1: Ivan would come down from his ayahuasca trip and when
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: he did, he immediately confessed to what he had done
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  Speaker 1: and he was a rest stood for murder and he's
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  Speaker 1: currently serving time in prison in Peru. Around four pm
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  Speaker 1: on August twentieth, nineteen seventy five, an eighteen year old
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  Speaker 1: boy named Michael McQuilkin hiked up a massive granite rock
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  Speaker 1: called Moro Rock, which is in Sequoia National Park in California.
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  Speaker 1: Michael's twelve year old brother Sean and his fifteen year
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  Speaker 1: old sister Mary were also on this hike with him,
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  Speaker 1: but currently they were lagging way behind, and he could
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  Speaker 1: just tell it was because they were tired. Now, the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: hike to the summit of Moro Rock was only a
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  Speaker 1: quarter of a mile, like, this is a pretty short hike,
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  Speaker 1: but it was really steep and Michael, despite only being eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: was sort of a pretty seasoned climber. I mean, he
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: had just hiked two hundred miles through the Sierra and
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  Speaker 1: about a mountain range all by himself, and so for
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: him this terrain was no big deal. But you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: he knows his siblings are not big mountaineers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: nor are they pretending to be. And so he thought, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll wait, I'll let them catch up. But as Michael waited,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: he started to notice that the sky was getting pretty dark. Now,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: he had checked the weather before coming out here, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: there was not supposed to be a storm, but it
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: was sort of undeniable that something's happening. This is not normal.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting pretty dark and windy. But Michael told himself that,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, maybe there's just a little pocket of
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: weather and it'll pass. This can't be a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And then eventually his siblings finally caught up to him,
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  Speaker 1: and then together, just a couple of minutes later, they
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  Speaker 1: were right at the summit. Now by the time they
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: were on the summit, they're looking out and the view
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  Speaker 1: is spectacular. But now it's becoming increasingly apparent to all
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: three of them that this weather system, whatever's rolling in here,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: is pretty big and pretty bad. This is not some
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: passing little thing. The sky is like pitch black at
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: this point. But before they left they just wanted to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: take a quick picture, and so because they didn't have
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a tripod or anything, they actually had Mary just take
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: a picture of Michael and Sean. It was the best
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: they were going to do. They couldn't really get a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: group shot, and so Mary snaps a photo the two
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  Speaker 1: brothers and then after taking this photo, they put the
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  Speaker 1: camera away and they're about to begin their descent when suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: all around them everything turns bright white and there's this loud,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: cracking sound, and then Michael is thrown to the ground,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and before he has any idea what's going on, he's
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: looking over and he sees his brothers on the ground,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: his sisters on the ground, and in fact, he sees
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: smoke coming off of Sean's back, and that's when he
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: realized they had just been struck by lightning. Now Michael
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: didn't really know if he was badly hurt or not,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: but he was able to jump right to his feet
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  Speaker 1: and he felt like he was basically okay. And his
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: sister also she was able to stand up, and they're
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: obviously both disoriented and shocked. But Sean, I mean, he's
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: in a heap on the ground and is literally smoking
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it seemed like he really took the brunt of this
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: lightning strike. And so Michael and his sister they scoop
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Shawn up and together they hustled down the mountain. They
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: got in the car, and they rushed to the hospital,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and somewhat unbelievably, despite taking effectively a near direct from
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: a lightning bolt, Sewn survived. I mean, he was covered
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: in burns, but he and Michael and Mary all lived
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  Speaker 1: through this strike. But the reason we know about this
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: lightning strike is not just because they survived. That's great,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: but that's not why we still talk about it today.
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  Speaker 1: The reason we still talk about it today is because
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of that picture that Mary took of Michael and Sean
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  Speaker 1: standing on the summit of this mountain. If you look
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: at this picture, you can see that the two brothers
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: their hair is sticking up in all directions, and they
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: noticed at the time that their hair was standing up,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: but they didn't know why. They thought it was kind
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: of funny, that's why they're smiling in the picture. But
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: what they didn't realize they were capturing in this photo
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: is the very scary phenomenon that occurs when you're basically
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: right about to be struck by lightning. The air around you,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: especially if you're in a very exposed spot like the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: summit of a mountain, gets electrically charged and your hair
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: stands up right before you're hit by the bolt. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: so now this picture is now used by the National
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Service to show people what to be aware of when
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: you're out hiking on these mountains. If your hair starts
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to stand up, you better move. Thank you so much
• 23:14
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• 23:16
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