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5 STRANGEST disappearances in forests (Part 2) The Missing 411 phenomenon · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Every year, hundreds of people go missing inside of national
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Speaker 1: parks all over North America. But of those hundreds of
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Speaker 1: people every year, a few of them go missing under
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Speaker 1: very strange circumstances. And a man named David Politis, who's
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Speaker 1: a former police detective, has made it his mission to
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Speaker 1: look into just the bizarre disappearances that are occurring all
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Speaker 1: over North America in his series that's called Missing four
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Speaker 1: one one.
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Speaker 2: So there are thousands of these.
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Speaker 1: Strange cases inside of Missing four one one that David
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Speaker 1: Politis has poured tens of thousands of hours of research into,
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Speaker 1: and he puts them into books, into documentaries, and so
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Speaker 1: there's really no shortage of strange cases to look at.
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Speaker 1: But as I begin my own research into Missing four
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Speaker 1: one one and learn about these different cases, I have
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Speaker 1: been pulling groups of stories that stand out to me
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Speaker 1: as being particularly interesting or just fascinating or just strange,
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Speaker 1: and I'm making.
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Speaker 2: Videos to highlight those stories.
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Speaker 1: And so I've already done one video like this where
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Speaker 1: I highlighted five stories that I thought were particularly strange.
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Speaker 1: You can find that in the description. I left a
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Speaker 1: And so today I'm gonna be looking at another five
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Speaker 1: cases from the Missing four to one one project that
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Speaker 1: are just totally, totally weird. But before we get into
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Speaker 1: So this first one really takes the cake for just
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Speaker 1: being strange. You have a family that basically has two
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Speaker 1: experiences that are somewhat connected. You're gonna have to be
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Speaker 1: the judge if they're connected or not, but very strange.
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Speaker 1: On October one of twenty ten, this family, who decided
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Speaker 1: to remain anonymous for the Missing four one one story,
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Speaker 1: they go camping, and it's a three and a half
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Speaker 1: year old boy, his older sister, and then the mom
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Speaker 1: and the dad, and so they go camping at Mount
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Speaker 1: Shasta in California, which is a popular camping site and
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Speaker 1: the family love to go camping there, and so they're
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Speaker 1: all sitting around the campfire, kind of hanging out at
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Speaker 1: the campsite. It's getting late in the evening, maybe five
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Speaker 1: six o'clock, and the sister would say that she was
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Speaker 1: looking at her brother, turned away for a second and
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Speaker 1: then looked back and he was gone. And it was
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Speaker 1: so sudden that she actually went to go look for
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Speaker 1: him and couldn't find him. So she went and told
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Speaker 1: her mom and her dad, and they start calling for
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Speaker 1: their son and they're looking all over their campsite and
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Speaker 1: he's gone. Authorities show up and they launch a full search,
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Speaker 1: and for five hours, they have hundreds of people scouring
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Speaker 1: this area, not only the campsite but the surrounding areas,
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Speaker 1: and there's no trace of this boy. Five hours later,
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Speaker 1: they find him laying in a thicket on a trail
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Speaker 1: that had been searched multiple times. And it wasn't like hidden.
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Speaker 1: The thicket was like right by the side of the trail.
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Speaker 1: So if you've searched this trail, you've found this kid,
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Speaker 1: so meaning he couldn't have been there during the search.
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Speaker 1: He must have arrived and then they found him on
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Speaker 1: this trail. Everybody was so happy that they found this
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Speaker 1: kid and he wasn't physically harmed that no one really
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Speaker 1: looked into the fact that it doesn't make any sense
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Speaker 1: that he is here, How did he get here, Where
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Speaker 1: did he go? Where has he been? No one thought
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Speaker 1: about that. They were like, we got the kid back.
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Speaker 1: We're all happy, the parents are happy, everyone's ready to
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Speaker 1: just move on. And so the kid goes to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: The doctor looks at the kid and says, you know what,
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Speaker 1: he's fine. This is obviously a traumatic situation, but he's fine.
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Speaker 1: You can take him home. And so the kid goes
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Speaker 1: home with his parents and pretty quickly the family went
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Speaker 1: back to normal. They were obviously super grateful that they
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Speaker 1: didn't lose their son. About three weeks after this whole ordeal,
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Speaker 1: the boy is with his grandmother, who he called Cappy,
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Speaker 1: and he looks at Cappy and he goes, I don't
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Speaker 1: like the other cappy and so his grandmother, the real Capy,
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Speaker 1: she looks at him and she was like, what do
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Speaker 1: you mean.
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Speaker 2: Now, Remember this is a three and a half year
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Speaker 2: old boy.
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Speaker 1: Language goes not the best, okay, But this story that
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Speaker 1: he tells his grandmother. He had previously told his father,
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Speaker 1: but the father had written it off as the ramblings
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Speaker 1: of a three and a half year old. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: until their grandmother told the father about the story that
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Speaker 1: he was like, I've heard that story. And so the
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Speaker 1: boy says, you know, while he was camping, he turned
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Speaker 1: and he saw Cappy.
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Speaker 2: Waving to him to come with him, and so he.
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Speaker 1: Loves Cappy and he goes with Cappy and Cappy leads
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Speaker 1: him up a hill to a cape. Now, the whole time,
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Speaker 1: the real Capy who wasn't there, she was not with
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Speaker 1: them camping. She's thinking, oh my god, someone who looks
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Speaker 1: like me abducted this child. So she's listening horrified. He said,
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Speaker 1: you know, she brought me up to a cave. And
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Speaker 1: when we got into the cave, he said, there were
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Speaker 1: spiders and purses like women's purses. And he turned to
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Speaker 1: look at Cappy and he said that her head was glowing.
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Speaker 1: And it was when he realized this is not Cappy,
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Speaker 1: this is the other Cappy. And he said the other
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Speaker 1: Capy kept asking him questions, but he didn't know the answers,
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Speaker 1: and so the other CAPI got frustrated and told him
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Speaker 1: to leave and pushed him out of the cave. And
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Speaker 1: he said that he left the cave and wound up
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Speaker 1: in the thicket and that's when he was found. And
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Speaker 1: so when Capy goes and tells the father, and the
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Speaker 1: father says, I've heard that story, They're like, that's so weird.
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Speaker 1: Do you think there's any truth to this? Is there
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Speaker 1: someone that looked like me, Cappy, that took the boy away?
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Speaker 1: And so as Cappy and the boy's father are talking,
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Speaker 1: Kapy feels compelled to share her own strange story about
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Speaker 1: being on Mount Shasta because prior to this, the family,
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Speaker 1: I think the way they were looking at what happened
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Speaker 1: is the boy wandered off and he returned five hours later.
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Speaker 1: But with the boy's story being kind of corroborated by,
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Speaker 1: you know, the father who heard the same story, Kapy's like,
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Speaker 1: I got to share my story now because I don't
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Speaker 1: know if it's connected. But I had a very strange
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Speaker 1: experience on Mount Shasta as.
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Speaker 2: Well a year ago.
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Speaker 1: You know, she went camping a year earlier with her
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Speaker 1: friend and they go to a campsite on Mount Shasta,
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Speaker 1: the same place the boy disappeared. And apparently saw the
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Speaker 1: other Cappy, And so Cappy says that that night, they're
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Speaker 1: sitting around the campfire and it's dark, and she notices
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Speaker 1: a set of eyes in the woods that were glowing,
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Speaker 1: so glowing red eyes, she says. And you know, Kappy
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Speaker 1: and her friend they go camping all the time, and
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Speaker 1: so they know there could be predators and animals all
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Speaker 1: over the place, and so they grabbed their flashlights and
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Speaker 1: they shine in the direction of the eyes, and the
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Speaker 1: eyes darted away, and they don't think anything of it.
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Speaker 1: Over the course of the night, the eyes would keep
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Speaker 1: showing up all around them, and every time they'd shine
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Speaker 1: a light in their direction, they would vanish. Cappy and
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Speaker 1: her friend are unable to get the light on this thing,
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Speaker 1: so they don't know what it is, and so they're
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Speaker 1: very uneasy about it. But they decide, you know what,
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Speaker 1: we're psyching ourselves out. It's just an animal that's interested
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Speaker 1: in us. And so they go to bed and they
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Speaker 1: sleep in their own She slept in a tent and
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Speaker 1: he slept in a camper, and they go to bed,
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Speaker 1: and the next morning, Cappy wakes up and she's laying
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Speaker 1: on the dirt outside of her tent and immediately she
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Speaker 1: has pain in the back of her neck, and so
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Speaker 1: she reaches back and she grabs her neck and she
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Speaker 1: can feel there's a cut on the back of her neck.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't know what it is. And she looks up
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Speaker 1: and her friend is on the ground outside of his camper,
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Speaker 1: face down as well, and so she gets up. She
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Speaker 1: feels horrible, like sick, like violently sick in fact, and
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Speaker 1: she kind of staggers away over to her friend who
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Speaker 1: is laying there, and she can see too that he's
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Speaker 1: got a mark on his neck.
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Speaker 2: He gets up and he's like, what happened?
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Speaker 1: And they assumed that they had been bitten by, you know,
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Speaker 1: a poisonous spider. That's actually what they believed, because it
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Speaker 1: was a little puncture wound on both of their necks,
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Speaker 1: and that it had caused them to be sick and delirious.
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Speaker 1: They'd wandered out of their camper and their tent and
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Speaker 1: they'd wound up on the ground.
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Speaker 2: But now, as Cappy is retelling the story, she.
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Speaker 1: Was like, I don't know how to connect that experience
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Speaker 1: with what happened to the boy, but I just I
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Speaker 1: can't help but feel like something weird's happening on Mount Shasta,
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Speaker 1: and it would turn out that, you know, maybe they
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Speaker 1: weren't wrong, because Mount Shasta is like a hotspot for
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Speaker 1: missing four one one strange disappearances. And in fact, our
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Speaker 1: next story is another Mount Shasta case. In nineteen ninety nine,
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Speaker 1: Carl Landers was a very experienced hiker climber whose passion
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Speaker 1: in life was on the weekends or any chance he
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Speaker 1: got was to go hiking and climbing and camping.
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Speaker 2: That was just what he did. He's in great shape,
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Speaker 2: he was enjoying retirement.
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Speaker 1: That was his happen places being on a mountain somewhere
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Speaker 1: in California, hiking around. And he had two very close
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Speaker 1: friends that he would go hiking with just about every
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Speaker 1: chance he could.
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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety nine, in.
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Speaker 1: The summer, Carl decides he wants to summit Mount Shasta
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Speaker 1: and it's something he had attempted to do before and
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Speaker 1: he had been unsuccessful, and this time he was going
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Speaker 1: to do it. And so Mount Shasta, it's it's high enough,
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Speaker 1: it's about fourteen thousand feet that it's not uncommon for
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Speaker 1: people to stop this point called Lake Helen, where you know,
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Speaker 1: hikers can adjust to the altitude because it's certainly possible
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Speaker 1: to get sick from being at altitude if you don't
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Speaker 1: adjust to it, or if your body doesn't respond well
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Speaker 1: to it. And so their plan was get to Lake Helen,
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Speaker 1: camp out for the night, and then summit the next day.
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Speaker 1: So they head up in May of nineteen ninety nine,
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Speaker 1: the three of them, They get to Lake Helen and
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Speaker 1: they set up their camp.
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Speaker 2: For the night. It was clear that Carl already had.
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Speaker 1: Some sort of altitude sickness, because by the time they
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Speaker 1: reached Lake Helen, he's weak, he's sick, and he figures,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to sleep it off tonight. I'll see
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Speaker 1: how I feel in the morning. And so all night
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Speaker 1: Carl is just super sick. It's a horrible night for him.
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Speaker 1: And so early the next morning, Carl is a real
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Speaker 1: stubborn guy, and he really wanted to climb Mount Shasta.
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Speaker 1: He says to his two friends, Hey, look, I'm just
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Speaker 1: going to get a head start here. I've been up
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Speaker 1: basically all night. I'm going to just get up the
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Speaker 1: last stretch here some ait this mountain and then come
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Speaker 1: back down and be done with it. And so it's
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Speaker 1: two friends. They didn't like the idea of splitting up.
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Speaker 1: But Carl's an experienced guy, and I mean he's only
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Speaker 1: covering a distance of maybe six hundred and fifty feet,
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Speaker 1: Like this is not some epic distance he's covering.
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Speaker 2: It's basically like a day hike. So Carl leaves on
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Speaker 2: his own.
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Speaker 1: He leaves his backpack at the camp site, and his
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Speaker 1: two friends would watch him as he kind of bent
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Speaker 1: around the mountain and went up towards the summit, and
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Speaker 1: that would be the last time they ever saw him.
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Speaker 1: The two friends would attempt to sum it as well.
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Speaker 1: About thirty minutes later, one of them apparently had gotten
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Speaker 1: sick overnight and said, look, I can't do this, and
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Speaker 1: he stays at the camp. He's like, I'll be here.
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Speaker 1: We've already split up from Carl. Why don't you also
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Speaker 1: go on your own summ at yourself and I'll be here.
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Speaker 1: I'll wait for Carl. I'll wait for you. The friend
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Speaker 1: that does make the summit, he goes up. He follows
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Speaker 1: the same trail the short distance up to the summit,
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Speaker 1: gets to the summit, and he hasn't seen Carl.
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Speaker 2: He's not shocked.
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Speaker 1: It is a little strange that they wouldn't have passed
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Speaker 1: on the way, but he's thinking, you know, anything could happen.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he sat down somewhere, I don't know what it is,
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Speaker 1: and then comes back down expecting to see Carl back
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Speaker 1: at the campsite. So he gets back to the campsite
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Speaker 1: at Lake Helen, where the other sick friend had not left.
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Speaker 1: He was still there, and he says, hey, has Carl
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Speaker 1: come back? And the friend's like, no, no, I didn't
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Speaker 1: you see him on the way up, isn't I mean,
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Speaker 1: did you lap him? Like what's he doing up there?
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Speaker 1: And he's like, no, I went up. I didn't see
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Speaker 1: him on the way up. I didn't see him at
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Speaker 1: the summit, and I didn't see him on the way down.
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Speaker 1: And they're thinking of themselves, like thinking about the trail itself.
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Speaker 1: It's incredibly open. There's there's almost nowhere to like fall,
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Speaker 1: there's no crevass, there's no sheer cliff, there's almost no
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Speaker 1: vegetation really to obscure you. It just didn't make any
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Speaker 1: sense that you could vanish. A huge search is launch.
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Speaker 1: They never found anything. There was also fifty to one
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Speaker 1: hundred people in the area that day, and nobody knew
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Speaker 1: where he went. No one saw him. No one had
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Speaker 1: any idea what happened to him. They interviewed everybody there.
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Speaker 1: No one knows what happened to Carl. The only clue
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Speaker 1: that we have of Carl is the backpack that he
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Speaker 1: left at Lake Helen before he made the summit run.
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Speaker 1: Other than that, for twenty years, we have no clue
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Speaker 1: what happened to him none.
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Speaker 2: So this next story is really creepy.
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Speaker 1: One of the strange phenomenons that you get inside of
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Speaker 1: these missing four one one stories is you have people
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Speaker 1: that go missing really suddenly, like as if they were
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Speaker 1: pulled away at high speed and just ripped off the
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Speaker 1: face of the mountain.
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Speaker 2: And this story is one of those stories.
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Speaker 1: In twenty ten, Eric Lewis was fifty seven years old.
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Speaker 1: He was an extremely experienced mountain climber and he had
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Speaker 1: two very close friends that were also very experienced mountain climbers,
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Speaker 1: and they decided that they wanted to go hike Mountain
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Speaker 1: Rainier in Washington State, which is a huge mountain, and
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Speaker 1: they were doing a climb that was fairly technical and
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Speaker 1: fairly dangerous, and it required the three of them to
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Speaker 1: be tethered together on the same cable and so as
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Speaker 1: they're making this ascent.
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Speaker 2: Of Mount Rainier.
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Speaker 1: You have Friend one in the front, Friend Friend two
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Speaker 1: in the middle, and then Eric Lewis is the third
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Speaker 1: guy on the line all the way down.
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Speaker 2: And so the way it worked is the first.
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Speaker 1: Climber, friend number one, if he wanted to rest, the
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Speaker 1: other two climbers would keep climbing up to his position
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Speaker 1: and take a rest with him. So he was kind
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Speaker 1: of in charge of setting the cadence of how quickly
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Speaker 1: they were going to climb this mountain. And so over
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Speaker 1: the course of the day, the first climber would stop periodically,
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Speaker 1: and then the second climber and Eric would make their
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Speaker 1: way up and wait and relax. All day that was happening,
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Speaker 1: and then one time they'd come to a stop and
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Speaker 1: there's been nothing weird happening.
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Speaker 2: Nothing's happened to this point. Everything feels very normal.
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Speaker 1: The first guy stops, the second climber gets up to him,
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Speaker 1: and then Eric doesn't show up, and so they pull
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Speaker 1: on the on the line and it's very light and
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Speaker 1: they pull it up and the rope has been cut,
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Speaker 1: like Eric's gone, and they're like, okay, only in an
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Speaker 1: emergency would you cut the line, And so they just
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Speaker 1: start immediately descending because they're like, well, it just snowed.
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Speaker 1: There's it would be very easy to track his footsteps
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Speaker 1: if he cut the line. He must have had a reason.
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Speaker 1: Let's follow his footsteps to wherever he went. But the
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Speaker 1: only footsteps on the mountain were the ones walking up
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Speaker 1: attached to the rope. Basically, Eric had been walking up,
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Speaker 1: leaving footprints right behind the other two and then the
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Speaker 1: footprints just stopped. There aren't footprints, they'll go back down.
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Speaker 1: It was like he was pulled off of the mountain,
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Speaker 1: and so they start walking down thinking they're gonna run
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Speaker 1: into him, but they don't. The weather gets bad enough
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Speaker 1: that they ultimately abandoned the hike. They go down and
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Speaker 1: they're like geez. They tell the authorities and they're looking
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Speaker 1: everywhere and they can't find him. And then they discovered
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Speaker 1: this creepy cave that's like two hundred feet down and
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Speaker 1: away from where they were hiking. That would have been
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Speaker 1: very hard to get to. Inside of this ice cave
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Speaker 1: is Eric's gear, but no Eric, and they've never found
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Speaker 1: Eric's body. But for that gear to get into the cave,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't just you know, hanging on the edge it
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Speaker 1: was inside the cave, but there's no footprints leading to
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Speaker 1: the cave. There's no footprints anywhere. It was just like inexplicably,
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Speaker 1: Eric's gear winds up deep inside an ice cave two
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Speaker 1: hundred feet away, and Eric's body was never recovered and
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Speaker 1: no one has any idea what happened to him. So
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Speaker 1: the last story is actually really two distinct stories, but
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Speaker 1: they together make up a particular phenomenon that occurs inside
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Speaker 1: some of these missing four to one one cases, and
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Speaker 1: that's when some creature takes a child and.
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Speaker 2: Actually protects them.
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Speaker 1: In eighteen sixty eight, a three year old girl vanished
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Speaker 1: abruptly from her father's camp in northern Michigan. The father
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Speaker 1: noticed the girl was gone, you know, in hysterics. He
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Speaker 1: enlists the help of a couple of professional hunters that
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Speaker 1: were there with him. They go off looking for this girl,
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Speaker 1: and after a couple of hours of looking, they start
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Speaker 1: to hear what sounds like her voice, and she doesn't
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Speaker 1: sound particularly distraught, but it's definitely a child's voice.
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Speaker 2: And so they kind of.
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Speaker 1: Cut through this big thicket and out burst this massive
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Speaker 1: bear looking thing that runs away from them, and they
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Speaker 1: didn't they didn't shoot it or anything. They just saw
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Speaker 1: this huge animal run away, and they're thinking the worst
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Speaker 1: because they're hearing this child and now they're seeing this
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Speaker 1: huge animal that looks like a bear running away, and
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Speaker 1: you know, they kind of they go through the thicket
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Speaker 1: and they find this girl who's totally unharmed, who was
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Speaker 1: in this kind of clearing within the thicket where clearly
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Speaker 1: this this bear creature had been with her.
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Speaker 2: And you know, the father's he lated.
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Speaker 1: He scoops up the child, and the child seems unhurt,
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Speaker 1: and he asks her, like, where have you been?
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Speaker 2: What happened?
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Speaker 1: And she says, oh, mister wolf took me here, and
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Speaker 1: mister wolf was feeding me berries and mister Wolfe was
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Speaker 1: playing with me. Maybe it was a bear or a
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Speaker 1: wolf or something, but some animal had taken her, brought
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Speaker 1: her into a thicket and had not harmed her. And
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Speaker 1: so the other instance occurred in nineteen fifty five when
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Speaker 1: a family that was made up of mother, father, and
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Speaker 1: their eight kids were staying in this camp in Montana
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Speaker 1: and they had all these different tents set up for
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Speaker 1: older kids, and some of the older kids were staying
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Speaker 1: in one of the tents with their two year old
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Speaker 1: sister item May, while the parents were working and the
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Speaker 1: kids were doing whatever they were doing. And so these
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Speaker 1: older kids were sitting deep inside the tent and near
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Speaker 1: the entrance to the tent is where Item A, the
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Speaker 1: two year old, is sitting, and the tent is open,
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Speaker 1: like the flap is open to the tent. And as
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Speaker 1: they're sitting there, the older kids would later say that
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Speaker 1: a bear wandered past, reached in, grabbed I to May,
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Speaker 1: and scooped her up.
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Speaker 2: Into its arm.
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Speaker 1: Now a bear does not do this with its arm,
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Speaker 1: but they described it like this. The bear was holding
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Speaker 1: I to like this and ran away on three legs
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Speaker 1: instead of four. And so the kids are freaked out
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Speaker 1: because they just saw a bear take their two year
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Speaker 1: old away. They're basically hysterical. They sprint up to their
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Speaker 1: mom and dad. They tell them what happened, and the
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Speaker 1: parents just have no idea how to react to this.
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Speaker 2: They obviously get in touch with authorities.
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Speaker 1: They launched the search, and as they're doing the search,
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Speaker 1: you know, police are asking the kids like, describe to
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Speaker 1: us again what you saw, and they're like, it was
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Speaker 1: a bear that was like holding our sister like this,
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Speaker 1: And they were like, you've got to be more descriptive
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Speaker 1: because bears can't do that.
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Speaker 2: Was a person?
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Speaker 1: Was it a hairy person? And the police just didn't
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Speaker 1: buy that it was a bear. And so two days
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Speaker 1: go by and they haven't found this child, and so
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Speaker 1: the family obviously is thinking the worst. They're absolutely grief stricken.
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Speaker 1: And then one of the searchers finds the girl and
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Speaker 1: they find her about three hundred yards away from the camp.
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Speaker 1: She was inside of a very intentionally built structure. It
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Speaker 1: was like a crudely built fort right against the river bed,
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Speaker 1: and inside it was like a den. And she was
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Speaker 1: in there and she was totally unharmed and she was
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Speaker 1: perfectly fune.
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Speaker 2: And they take her out and they ask her, like,
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Speaker 2: you know what happened?
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Speaker 1: And she's two, but she says, mister bear fed me berries,
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Speaker 1: mister bear kept me here, mister bear cuddled me.
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Speaker 2: That's all we have.
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Speaker 1: We don't know what this creature was, what bear is
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Speaker 1: able to pull its arm.
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Speaker 2: In like this, but she felt totally unthreatened by it.
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Speaker 1: And to this day we don't really know if that
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Speaker 1: was a bear or something else, but whatever it was,
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Speaker 1: it didn't harm Ida, and Ida never felt threatened by it.
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